11 e Sumerset Herald. I ESTA3USHED 1827. xms ot Publication. j-j every Wednesday morn lug UKW L run, If !-J 1J Irani ; othcrwii f 2 M A.-A1. 7 be caaatd. htcni 'Juu w be d.H'OuUitaed u-Ui ail t pud a p. pcurM,.r ogirtlm j'y tu when ubreriben do not take act their ' w,il be lieid r(niiub; ft the nubacrlp- i ir-iben rrmtrrtm me postoffies to - tf ib present oo. Addrea Tb Sohmwkt Hxeald, I Somerset, Pi- fA. dekkky.. rr. Pa. n ft! J Fellows' Bu-M'.r.K. RVFY M BKRKl.FA fh AmXNEY-AT-LAV. 1 oMibirr. fa. wlthF. J. Koomn.&q. I r HOLRKRT. aumerset. Pa. it witi John E. UbL t n'w. BIF5FCKEL, f Arroa-Ntv at law. i pwim"ix't, Pa. t -5 n Prtctiiif Houe Eow, oj poaii. Court 4T r.iRGE R- sH'LL, . J su.menet. Pa. ; J. ii. (A. LA. ?. o"-T. 4 TT A fHil.F., M.MIKSIT, Pa. r-oinerset. Pa. I t r.FR. .,- "Sonerset and .ljiiiiiag conn- W. H. RVTPEL. AtluOlUA.-...". "-?7.:. ien.m - . J I r H K " NTZ, 1 AlluKNkY.AT.LAW. All.Nhi-ATLAW. ..t, in A.: ..!t; W.tn. t, hlr i ,.j iirt.-i.iv. ou MFUIT.H. ! f.Ti1-i Ji:t- Kill U'AT lAV- ATTOKNEYs-AT-LAW tnmt.-nct. I A. nturt'-d to wir cre wui . ,,,'i.fiii.v .nrw!! to. -..:m11. il.r iml f!!lilHiiy A ,u i.rr.ynaiiii OKiveyu lug doiie n r- ie terms. E.NKY. F. K'liKLU AITUK.NEY-AT LAW. fcumemet, rs- l aij and Pension Afreet. Office m Muitmotii 'ALF.NTIXF H AY, Dealer in P.el F.tte. Will i b.lcillj-. idiN h. rin AT1UKSEY-AT LAW. Somerset, ra. 11 rrornKlv atfn.1 to all hnsitii-w entrusted :n M . v'a-lvMiKtsi on coiiecuoas, 4tc of- .ii Muiutfiili him k. V. F. SUAFI'KR. I11Y-H IAN AM' .-' K'.tn.V .(n--i Hii-l i-:uiiy mx-i tlwr to inTt iiti Hitrl. w. rARrTHKns. m. p. I'tlVsK 1.VN AM' rt'JH.K"iV. S.Mt KsfT. TA. M:r. Mnt. rejt d'ur u Lutheran U. N.itltt oati." alwttice. R. II. S. K I MM ELL, f i.!.-nt his pnf.nsioniil services Ut the citirens mi.'r-l ui VKinitv. I'nl." p.if.-liw"ti'iT . .-rrf be i u t-c louad At nis olliue oa MAin c. (i 1'iAli.UiiU. ,K. J. M. 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'aintiEg Done on Short Time. f work tn.1e o;it ..f Tuwtghly Srtr4 Wood, i uti lb it J ntwf ."few, -.titwutntiikilf armiutsl u give SaUitlM- uuti. r;ritir of All Kinds !n Vt Line Itone on auurt Notice. Pile. h.kJ.-soiABLJ, and m Work Warranted. (ill r(J Fiamine hit Pvirk. and Learn PrVes aibto work, and furnish sVivos for Wind I A Krmemljer the place, and call In. CURTIS K. GHOVE. (East of Court House) SOMERSET. PA (rANTKI):- miTE LUMBER, OT Ti) OUPKll. .-lr-.s W. C. WHITE LUMBER CO., No. ' Baltimore St.. Cunilvrland. JTd. SAW MILLS. twr vaata... .aicTioti ana acuT rtio. KAV l.N.,i , HAY l'l!rS.K MUN'.l.K M!I.T,. l"!:rnr.K ,uiT vu.tA T!Ij:I-.HIVi; u At HI KS Jrn. l-nd f,- luustraied ( '.nalotne. A. li. FAlWl HAUCo-, York, r VOL. XXXIX. NO. 7. B. B. A SHORT ADVERTISEMENT On the Subject of WASH FABRICS. 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The people if this county seem to know this, and have given us a large share of their patronage, and we shall still continue tegire I them the very best (roods for their money. ! On not f. i-.-ef thai we tout a siiecialtv of FITTIXO TRUSSES. We guarantee satisfaction, and, if you have had trouble in this direction, give us a calL SPECTACLES AND EYE-GLASSES in great variety ; A full set of Test Lensea. Come in and have your eyes examined. No charge for examination, and we are confident we can suit you. Come and see ns. Respectfully, JOHN N. SNYDER. DOWN, DOWN THEY GO! THE PRICES ox BLACK ASTRACHAN, AND Persiana Capes! On ail sixes, W to 41 We have not many to sell, m if too w ant A BARGAIN, Come uon. When a lad v buys a Persiana or ia Astrakhan Cape, ait in nmilnf a WISE PURCHASE. A the nrnt ii boaTi1 to Un ftr twti thrv MMti, mi Ufwc Tlirr rw a wami cfnf(M-iaM vncnt, mllr put on and taken tt. anl a uitaltvart.i-! for all Ui- Tt-ar artvuixi r. ju-n t fih jtiti in fiHnif a in tall.aud ne r cwti emtig in iho mmmer. TEN JAP. ( SCREENS, To come dnwit In prte, well at down fn the t shell, wliere liter ara iww aiattd- iH.es ! H. ones u H .'jO, St, 'rf). .n.- to Sfi Two Fire Sw reena, M to A. Other banraio T1 can are when you came. 1 & TLTTH AVE.. pmSBCHaH.l'A. HORNE WARD SWOBS Oil, Cures HURTS, CUTS, SPRAINS. BRUISES. RHEUMATISM. WW.0??.!! TRADE 1 MARK FOK HUSUMATiSU. Safforcd Nearly Thirty Tear. 1S7 N. Chester Pt BslTlTftore, Md. Forne.r!r 30 years I aurlen-d with rhennta tlrain arm ao-t i.hftuMer. eonld net lift in? arm. L taaa two Louies il M. Jactoii cured mc W. II. U EES05. l.Z CHARLES A. VOGELER CO.. Raltinwrt. lid. 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" Kor years I have lieen subject to consti pation and nervous headaches, caused by le nunrrntent of the liver. After taking various remedies, I have become convinced that Ayer's I'lils are Ute best. They have never filled to relieve my bilious attacks in a short time; uul am sure my system returns its tone longer after tlte use of these PIlLs. than has heeu the raw with any other medicine I have tried." II. S. Mcdge, Weimar. Texas. Ayer's Pills, rnr.rABED ar Ir. J. C. AYES A CO., Lowell, Mass. N-id by all Dealers in Medicine. -THE- first National bank - OF Somerset, Penn'a. o OEOSITS RECCIVCOIN LARGE ANDSMAIL AMOUNTS. PAYABLE ON DEMAND. ACCOUNTS MERCHANTS, FARMERS. STOCK DEALERS. AND OTHERS SOLICITED. DISCOUNTS DAILY. BOARD OF DIRECTORS'. LaRi a M. Hick. W. H. Miotm James L. Pi-h, Hts. H. Fisher, Jons R Sx)tt, (lao. R. S vll, KUEI) V. litCiRTKER. EntvAcn Ptll, : Vai.estisk If.tv, : : : Fufxioest Vice Pkkside.nt : : : Camhiak. 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The Standard Oil Company, of Pirtsbarrh, Pa., maces a pecialtv of maimiaeiunna- tor in Uomenuc trade Ue 4 it eat brands of Illuminating & Lubricating Oils Naphtha and Gasoline, T&at can be made from Petroleum. We challenge conporuon with every known PRODUCT OF PETROLEUM. If yon wish the most uniformly Satisfactory Oils " IN THE American Xarketj Ask for ours. Trade for Somerset an vicinity .applied by ; V COOH BEKRITS AST fKLtSItK'KfrER, sept2s-'9-lrr- ttoMKasir, Pa. Pennsylvania College women. Situated in a bean ti fill part, on a eomraandinir plauiui. in tu. .tsbiirb of Hitusbury, away fnME city as and das. U nsurpassed fcir beau tv ami liealibfultiees. tutii.m asgiiitlcs fiflhe axnity of NaHiral ietee. Classics and M.ltte matics to h every department Weil equip ped sVaaon opens September 10, SO. Early ap pliiHHion is desirable. For eat!oue and fur M,F,.rm1i,.ti annlvto Miss llll.r.s C. FluJS- 3 tBAti,lreidul, KitAburKncLast tad-. Pa. ft i inl - -Trvow. n V3rJ rL TEA A.V WW' VM SPA 7L 1 :w Somerset SOItfERSET, PA., WEDNIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1890. A VOICE IN THE TWILIGHT. I was sitting alone in the twilight, With spirits troubled and vexed. With thoughts that were morbid and gloomy And faith that was sadly perplexed. Some bomety work I was doing For the child of oty love and care, Same stitches half-weari'y setting, In tbe endless need of repair. But my thoughts were about tbe "buildings," The work some day to be tried. And that only the gold and silver And the precious stones should abide. And remembering my own poor efforts. The wretched work I bad done, And even wuen trying moet truly, The meagre success I bad won. " It is nothing but wood , bay and stubble," I said ; " it will ail be burned This useless frnit of the talents One day to be returned, " And I have so longed to serve him. And sometimes I know I have tried, But Iarii sure wluo be sees such building He will never let it abide." Just then, as I turned the garment, That no rent should be left behind. My eye caught an odd little bundle Of mending and patchwork combined. My heart grew suddenly tender, And something blinded my eyes, With one of those sweet intuitions That sometimes make us so wise. Dear child, she wanted to help me ; I know 'twas the best she could do ; But, oh, what a botch she has made of it- The gray mismatching the blue. And yet can yon understand it ? With a tender smile and a tear. With a haif-comia?sionate yearning, I felt she hail grown more dear. Then a sweet voice broke the silence. And tbe dear Lord said to me, "' Art thou tenderer for the little child Than I am tenderer for thee ?" Then straightway I knew his meaning. So full of comssion and love. And my faith came back to its "Refuge," Like the glad returning dove. For I thought, when the Master Builder Comes down Ills temple to view. To see what rents must be mended And what must be builded anew. Pirh ijs. as be lookso'er the building. He will bring my work to the light, And. seeing the marring and bungling. And how far it is all from right. He will feel as I felt for my darling, And will say. as I said to her, " Dear child, she wanted to help me. And love lor me was the spur. " And for the true love that is in it, The work shall seeTi perfect as mine, And because it was w iling service, I will crown it with plaudits divine." And there, in the deepening twilight, I seemed to be clasping a hand, And to feel a great love constraining me, - Stronger than any command. So my thonghts are never more gloomy, My taith no longer dim ; Rut my heart is strong and restful, And aiy eyes are unto Jlim. DAISY'S FARM. Iaisy was engaged, and her betrothed was receiving the merry congratulations of the family, consisting of her uncle, her aunt, and nearly a round dozen of cousins. Wharton Hill, a young lawyer, slowly winning name and fame in his profession was being vigorously hand-shaken, a?d noisyly welcomed by the Truemans, as Net! cried : " Perhaps you don't know Daisy was an heiress, Wharton ?" ' Ned dont !" said Daisy, reproach fully. ' A landed proprietress, cried Totn. " I do not refer to the paltry six hundred a year she draws front her father's estate, but to her own property." " Her farm, in fact ."' said Sue. " Yes, her lann I" echoed Ned, coming to the front once more. " When you are tired of law you can start gentleman far ming npon your country seat !" After they were all gone, having jested a long time on this subject, Wharton was surprised to see tears in Daisy's soft brown eyes. " What is it, darling V he asked. "They don't)raean to hurt my feelings," Daisy said, gently, "but they will jest about my farm, and and I don't like it" " But do you really own a farm ?" " It is not a valuable possession, as you will see when I tell you about it. When I was a baby, soon after mamma died, I was very ill, and the doctors advised my father to send me to the country for a change of air. There was an old servant of father's family, who had married a farmer, and was left s widow with a small farm. Such a farm, Wharton! The house has only three rooms, and looks as if a high wind would utterly demolish it ; the land was so poor that it was slow starvation to cultivate it. But it was all the home Margaret had. You may judge that she was very glad to receive the liberal price father paid for me, and my own mother could not have given me more loving care. Every year father came to take me away, and every year was persuaded to leave me, until I was eight years old, and a marvel of rugged health and perfect ignorance. Then I was put in boarding-school, but I still spent my summer vacations with old Margaret, and my trunk was always half filled with comforts for her. Having no one in the world who claimed kindred with her, no one else but me to love, Margarent loved me with her whole bear:, fis yearn ago, after father died and I came to live with Uncle Tom, Margaret died and left me her farm. It has been a joke in the family ever since. The place is so uttarly valueless that we can neither sell it nor rent it, and it rep resents only the love of an old woman for her nurseling." " Some time we will visit it You have not told me its locality." "It is in Pennsylvania, nine miles from anywhere, father used to say, because it is nine miles off the railroad. But you can always hire a wagon or carriage at G to go over to Corn's Mill ; and my farm is very near Corn's Mill." After thia explanation, Wharton bore the jesting about Daisy' real estate with perfect good nature, and declared his in tention of erecting a palatial country seat npon the place, when he became a mil lionaire, and Judge of the Supreme people of modest desires, and having an income of about six hundred dollars apiece, Wharton and Daisy sw ESTABUSIEE 1827. no reason to delay the! wetding, and were married, with a late anemblage of true friends around then Xiey want to housekeeping in a little oue, modestly furcUhed, and were fai specimens of " love in a cottage." But Wharton Hill was mb lions. Hav ing studied his professn mder great ditGcalties, often going iuKry to buy needful books, often long his night's rest to pore over knotty port's, he was both fond and proud of hilife work and strove to win a good poctiot therein. His love for Daisy, true.hcoestlove, was never allowed to interfre witt his pur suit of fame in his pross.on, and after he was married he attrked lis studies with fresh ardor, spelling bs time in his ollice, when not anally engaged in the court room. Little Daisy, whose le va affection, found time often hangig havily npon her hands as Wharton era tie more and more popular, and the nmier of his cli ents increased. But se was always ready with loving welcoiewhen he did come to his home, andtle knew that much of bis ambition an ardor was for her sake. The third year of heriarried life was nearly over, and her jly child, Tom Trueman Hill, was eigfeen months old, when Wharton, ever bty and full of en ergy, began to complaii of racking pain in his head and loss omemory, ; often in the midst of an arj-ment the thread of his speech slipped fin his mind, and cost a great mental niggle to be re sumed. He fought the symptns bravely, but Daisy was f ill of terrotat the change in him. He grsw haggaraad restless, op pressed with vague feat of loss of reason and really suffering vs great physical pain. At last, much against U will, he allow ed Daisy to call in thetmily physician, whose advice was siule but strongly urged, consisting of to words only : " Perfect rest." "The brain is overorked," he ex plained ; " no medicioewill avail while he persists in stud and practice. (Jet him away, if you ca. H'm thia is May, a god time fota country trip. Take him to the countr Mrs. Hill." Wharton rebelled. It as ruin to leave his orfice, where cases oauportanee were in his hands. He niui work, or they might all starve. , He would decline some of the practice offed him ; would take little trips during tesummer, and would, in short, tempori. And then Ihiisy lil, brown-eyed Daisy whose voice was a soft as a flute, who was scarcely largf than a well grown child of twelvt"put her foot down." Such a mite (a foot! It was absurd to imagine it ha any weight in the world's machinery ; -ut it was down and Daisy kept it there. Tom was a law yer, and Tom could takeVharton's cases for the summer months. There was her farm a poor place, to se sure, but at least a house, and with stue furniture in it, and surrounded by beatiful scenery, possessing the purest of ir and water. With six hundred a year tfcy would not starve, and there was a net-egg in bank in case of emergency. Wharton pshawed ! Whrton fumeL All in vain. Resolute littUDaisy packed trunks, arranged her houseold, engaged a half-grown girl to accompny the party as childa nurse, and enlistd the entire Trueman family on her sidt And Wharton, finding tb queer feel ings in his head increasic;, the dizzy spells becoming more freaent, finally submitted to fate, in the peson of Daisy, explained the various poire at issue to Tom Trueman, and accomjtnied by his w ife, child and nurse, too np his jour ney to Corn's Mill. It ws early morn ing when a rickety old wagn containing the party and baggage enteed an enclos ure that had once been a ince, and the family to Daisy's farm. The prospect was not enouraging. The house had not improved irvears of emp tiness and neglect, and evecDaisy 's heart sank at the broken roof, the tumble down doors, the shaky winows. But, as she said, covering her diniay with brave smile, " there they w?re, and they must make the best of it !" : f Jennse, the ; nurse, prove! a treasure, and the women were soon iusy putting to rights," while Wharton ok Tom on an exploring expedition oer tbe estate. There was a queer glancein his eyes as he came back in time fordnner, but be only said : " I can't quite trust my ovn head, yet, Daisy, but ia there a postcTi ce at Corn's Mill?" " Yes ; the mail goes out twice a week." " Give me a sheet of papr and an en velope ; that's a dear." " Now, Wharton, that is not resting." , I'll only write a dozen ines, dear." . The dozen lines being witten and pos ted, Wharton seemed to fin an unfailing source of amusement rovng about the farm, poking holes in the ground with a short cane, often kneeling bwn to exam ine the earth so turned over. Daisy hinted at planting so tut vegetables, though she said, despondency ; " I don't suppose they wll grow if we do." " Never mind beans anl peas now, love. Wait till we have an answer to my letter." A week later, when June was young, the answer came iu the praon of two men, one white-haired and absent mind ed, the other young and emphatically business like. Wnarton gsve them cor dial welcome, and after pirUking-of a substantial lunch en tbe tht?e started out npon the farm. Little Daisy, intensely tappy in the knowledge that Wharton :iad not bad one dizzy turn since their a'rival on the farm, that he had theappette of a plow boy, and was busy baking a batch of pies when the three gentlemea returned to the house. She could sea tlem from, the kitchen window as they ctme over the neglected path, and saw thtt Wharton's eyes were full of excFation, his face Hushed, hia carriage erect He looked like some one newly laden with good ti dings, and all three were Ulking eagerly and earnestly. Daisy wondered a littie, and scorched one of her pies. While she carefully pared the burnt edge of crost the kitch en door opened, ud Wharton, heedless of her calico apron and bare arms, usher ed in the strangers. " Mrs. Hill," ht id, bowing with great deference, "accept my congratulations npon your great good fortune.' "In scorching my pies?" laughed Daisy. " In owning fifteen acres of cool land." " I dont understand," Daisy faltered. u The farm, my dear, yonr legacy from your old nurse, is one solid bed of coal, and there is no mine within nine miles of it. Nobody knows how much lies be yond yonr fences in tbe vacant land about us, but in my minds eyes I see in this a colony of mines." "Are you sure, Wharton ?" " I sn? pec ted it the first day we came, but having no experience, I wrote to one of my clients in Pottsyille to send me an experienced hand to test my suspi cion. These gentlemen confirm my opinion." " There is no doubt about the coal, ma'am," said the old gentleman, " nor any about its lying so near the surface that it can soon be available." "The question is," said the younger stranger, "whether you will sell out, or open the mine yourselves. I am author ized to make an offer if you wish to dis pose of the property." "Time enough for that," said Wharton. "I will return with you to Pottsville." "Wharton no business !" "Don't fear, Daisy ; this kind ofbusi newj will not injure me. You will let me decide iu the matter?" "Certainly !" And the decision, after Wharton had spent a month in PotUville, was to sell out to a company who were already buy ing up the vacant land surrounding tbe farm. The young lawyer knew nothing of mining,. and had no desire to learn, but he was no fool, and he made satis factory terms for the sale of the "estate," and Daisy returned home a wealthy wo man. A European trip restored the health of the young lawyer, and he resumed practice a year after sards, with every hope of one day realizing his vision of fame, while little Daisy, still rather dazed at her new fortune, entered npon domes tic duties in a grand house, with servants, carriage, horses, plate and jewels. "It is like a fairy tale, Wharton," she said, "to think of that miserable place being so valuable. Poor Margaret little realized the fortune she was bestowing upon me when she left me al! she own ed her farm," The Trueman cousins, sharing in all generous Daisy's gifts and entertain ments, no longer jest derisively, but speak in the most respectful terms of that pre cious legacy, "Daisy's farm." Cloves by the Ton. The man who goes out between acts and comes back with c clove between his teeth, the St. Louis Clobt-Drmuctat says, Bhould be interested in knowing where his disinfectant comes from Zanz ibar anl the neighboring island of Pemba furnish the world with the bulk of the supply, about 13,000,000 pounds a year. Consul Pratt, in a report just re cei veil at the State Department, says the clove tree was first introduced into Zan zibar by Sulton Seyed Said bin Sultan, about the year lSiO, since which time its cultivation has gradually extended, until it ia now the chief industry of'he ialan.l-i. The industry received a check in 1372, the date of the great hurricane. At least nine-tenths of the trees were destroyed at that time, so tbe larger part of those now standing are of new growth. A peculiarity of the clove tree is that every part is aromatic, but the greatest strength is found in the bud, which is the "clove'' of comuierce. The finest quality of cloves are dark brown in color with full, perfect heads, free from moisture. In the cultivation of the clove the first thing to be done is the starting of the shoot. The seeds are placed in long trenches, and are kept well watered un til after sprouting. In the course of forty days the shoots appear above ground. They are carefully watered and looked afUr for the space of two years, when they should be about three feet in height. They are then transplanted, being set about thirty feet apart, and kept watered until they become well rooted. From this time on the young trees require only ordinary care, though the best results are obtained when the ground about the trees is well worked over and kept free from weeds. Tbe growth of the tree is very slow, and five or six years are required for it to come into bearing, at which time it is about the size of an ordinary pear tree, and is usually very shapely. It is a pretty sight to see a young plantation just corning into bearing. The leaves of various suades of green tinged with red, clove buds. As soon as the buds are fully formed and assumed this reddish color the harvesting commences, and is prosecuted for fully six months at inter vals, since the buds do not form simul taneously, but at odd times, throughout the period. The limbs of the trees being very brittle,-a peculiar four-sided ladder is brought into requisition, and the har vesting proceeds apace. As fast as collected the buds are spread out in the sun until they assume a brown ish color, when they are put in the store house and are ready for market, A ten-year-old plantation should produce an average of twenty pounds of cloves to a tree. Trees of twenty years frequently produce upwards of 100 pounds each, worth 10c. a pound. The Stiltan derives ito inconsiderable portion of his revenue from this source, the duty levied placing to the Sultan's credit for the present year tearly, if not quite, $100,000. A Delicious Desert. A delicate batter pudding served with any fresh fruit is a welcome summer des ert. The puddings made wita soar cream are among the best and least expensive of these dishes. Take a cup of sour cream and set it aside. Stir a quarter of a teaspoonful of soda into two caps of sweet milk, and two cups of flour in which two teaspoonfuls of baking pow der have been mixed, add two eggs, half a teaspoon ful of salt and the soar cream and another scant cup of flour. Beat the batter vigorously, and when it is full of blisters add a pint of nnstoned cherries. Bake the pudding for three-quarters of aa hour in a moderately quick oven and serve it with foaming sauce. It should be baked in a round tin baking dish. X V. Tribune. Electricity ia a very dangerous fluid, but yet we make light of it. Repentance is often a matter of circumstances. era Working a Hog:. When I entered the village, situated in among the hills of New York, at 10 o'clock in th morning, all was peaceful and serene, and the pocket of every man had chink in it When I left, 1p.ni, an excited mob had possession of the main street, and every other man was dead broke. About noon a man arrived from the north in a buggy. He said he was a dro ver, and looking for hogs. Ha bought half a dozen before he ate dinner, an a it was astonishing how closely he guessed at their live weight IU was within two pounds on four of them, antl only a half pound more on the others. These had been an attraction for a crowd of idlers, and the general verdict was that the l ro ver was as sharp as a barber razor. Soon after dinner a farm looking boy drove a hog into town, and staked him out in front of the tavern. As he wanted to sell and the drover wanted to buy, they soon came together. "Might take him at a pinch, but he's only a nubbin," said the drover as he sized the porker np. "Nubbin ! Why that pig goes over 200 pounds!" exclaimed the owner. "Can't stuff me, boy. I've been in the business twenty years." "No one wants to stuff. That Vrehog goes to 210." "He does, eh ? Wish your father had come in. I'd like to mado a bet with him. Boy, you ought to have belter judgment That hog won't poll down ISO." "Guess you are way off, too," remarked a stranger who had quietly riddon up in a buggy. I've raised hogs all my life, and that boy hain't fire pounds out of his guess." "Ain't he? Raised hegs have you? Ever raise any money T' "A little." "IVrhapa you'J like to let on that bog?" "Perhaps," "Have you got $20 as says he goes 200 ?' "I have fifty a hundred !" "Then let's chalk. Anybody can blow.' It was a chance to make a dollar, and the citizens improved it. The man in the buggy was an accommodating chap, and somehow or other Lite farmer boy managed to fish np about a hundred dol lars from the hind pocket of his overalls. The citizens stuck by the drover, having abundart proofs of bis judgment, and when every man in that town who had a loose dollar or could borrow one had made his bet the liog was driven to the scales ard weighed. "Gentlemen," said the irover just be fore the weighing. "I was never de ceived in my life. Thia hog won't go VM lbs." "I'll take even bets that he goes over 200," replied the man in the buggy. This bluff raked out the last n icicle in the crowd, and the hog was driven upon the scales. The record was 21 1 pounds. He was weighed and reweighed, but the figure stood. "Well, it's my first error in a hog," said the drover, and all bets were at once handed over. The farmer slipped out the two men drove off in the buggy, and half an hour had elapsed before a church deacon, who had laid his ten with the drover and lost, suddenly declared that it was a put-up joi to skin the town. "Durn my buttons if it hain't !" yelled two hundred men in chorus, but it was too late. The town had been skinned, and the trio had escaped. All the mob could do was to tern loose and wreck an old vinegar factory and pass a resolution to the effect that liberty was a sham and a delusion. A Story of Joseph Jefferson. Joseph Jefferson, the well known actor. relates in the July Ctnturn the following amusing experience which he had while in London : "My approaching appearance was the important dramatic event of my life. I had been five years from America and was on my way home, and I felt i atiftied that if this new version of "Rii Van Winkle" succeeded in London my way was quite clear when I returned to the United States. "On Sunday evening, being alone in my lodgings, I got out for my own ad miration my new wig and beard, the pride of my heart, and which I w is to nsa in the last act I cculd not resist try ing them on for the twentieth ti.ne, I think ; so I got in front of the gut's) and adjusted them to my perfect satisfa rtion. I soon became enthused, and begatt. act ing and posing in front of the mirro r. In about 20 minutes there came a kneck at the door. "Who's there V said I. " 'It's me, if you please," said th ; ntle but agitated voice of the chambermaid. " 'Certainly not,' I replied ; for I had no desire to be seen in my present make up. "'Is there anything wrong in the room, sir T said she. , " 'Nothing at all, I replied. 'Go away.' "'Well, sir,' she continued, H ere's policeman at the door, and he my as 'ow there's a crazy old man in your rtom, a flinging of his 'ands about and a-goin' on bawful, and there's a en wd of people across th street a-blockin' np the way.' "I turned towards the trindow, and to ay horror I found that I bad kr otten to pull down the curtain, and, as it jteem ed to me, the entire population of Lon don was taking in my firs night 1 had been unconsciously acting with the) lights full up, to an astonished audieme, who had not Daid for their admission. As I tore off my wig and beard a shcut vent up. Quickly pulling down the cartiin, I threw myself in a chair, overcome with mortification at the occurrence. La few minutes the comical side of the pic ture presented itself, and I muxt have laughed fWr an hour. I had been suffer ing from an attack of nervoun dyspepsia, consequent upon the excitement of the past week, and I firmly believe that this continuous fit of laughter cured ame.' The Great Bsneflt Which people in a run dowxt state of health derive from Hood's S.rsatparilla, conclusively proves that this medicine " makes the weak strong." It does not act Like a stimulant, imparting fictitious strength, but Hood's Saraa par ilia, bid Ids op in a perfectly natural way all of the weakened parts, parifiea the blood, and assists to healthy action those import ant organs, the kidneys aad liver. LL O whole no. am Miss Pry All of Fanny Mattack's letters from school w ere filled with the praises of her friend, ML Jayne. ' Clara is so amiable, so gentle. Clara's family is one of tbe most prominent and cultured in New York. t'Ura's manners are faultless. She never is ill-at-ease or embarrassed." When she asked leave, thereforeto bring her friend home with her in va cation, her mother gave a pleasant assent Miss Jayne arrived. She as pretty, gay and cordial, and the Mttack family gae her a delighted welcome. "A charming little girl f said Mrs. Mattack. "We w ill make her one of the family at once." When they sat down to luncheon, however, Fanny observed that her friend glanced sharply at the citarse napkins and plain goblets, and wished that her mother had used the damask and cut glass to-day. "Mr. Mattack does not come home for luncheon?" gently queried the little guest, "t ient'enien are abvays so driven by their business. What ' Mr. Mattack's business ?" Mrs. Mattack replied, with a little sur prise at the rude mistake ; but Clara was young, and would doubtless not so err aain. In a few minutes, when Fanny'selder brother left the table, she asked if Dr. Mattack was engaged, and when Fanny told her that he was, proceeded to iniiuiie as to the lady's name, age, and the occu pation of hef father. There could be no doubt ot Clara's beauty, or of her desire t make herself agreeable. She had a kinoly good humor and a vivacity which attracted everyone at first ; but when Mrs. Mattack observed daring the day fiat she did not pass a single picture , or piece of bric-a-brac without asking the prit, and that she felt the texture of the parlor curtains to detect cotton in them, she began to have a secret dread of this Ux olever visitor. Doctor Mattack's jiauiyt called upon Miss Jayne the next morning, and the girls chatted merrily toother ; but as they were parting Clara said, sweetly, "Do excuse me, but b.3ve you not Jewish blood ; your nose indieaU-s it" "Really, Fanny," said her brother to her mat niht, "your f-iend should go out as an explorer. She would soon diag out the secrets of Africa or the pole. She asked me what was the probable income of a physician irt good practice in this tow n, and when I told her. said, 'Isop potse you are in good practice '." " Before Clara's visit came to an end, the Mattack family, in spite of her kind heart and amiability, found her intolerable. When she drove from the door, Mrs. Mattack breathed a sigh of relief. "I feel as if a burglar had been ran sacking my mind and life and thjuhts," she said. "Never let Die see her here again. I would rather a thief would break into my house than into my most private affairs." . Yet Clara went happily on her inquir ihg way, unconscious that she was doing any wrong in gratifying her interest in her neighbors. Do any of our readers see 'hemsetves reflected in this nimble-Wi.ted young lady ? YmiOC Cmoimm.i. The Compost Heap the "Sav ings Bank' of the Farm. There is quite a difference between a comport heap and a manure heap. When manure is thrown on a heap, left undis turbed, and exposed to all kinds of weather, it suffers loss of fertilizing mat ter in many different ways ; but the com post heap is a veritable manufactory of fertilizer, and is more valuable for all purposes than manure from the stable. While the food ami the management f the manure gives its value, th j farmer is limited to such a-noar.t as may be voided by bis animals ; but the compost heap opens a wider field for hi operations ly enabling him to make nore manure than he could secure from bis animals. The filling of the pij;-pen with Urge quantities of dirt, leaves or other litter does not really make manure, for the pig cannot make something out of nothing. He works ana roots in tbe Litter, mixing it with the manure, and at the end of the year tbe farmer hauls away several loads of what he considers t.rst-cla.-s manure, but he has secured no more real manure than the pig would have produced under any circumstances, wbfther he had litter or not, and the mass is nothing more nor less than compost, bet it will show as good results as any other kind of manure because it is composed of absorbent ma terial that has preserved tbe manure and prevent.! loss. of value. The making of compost is the accumulation of any and everything that can be added to the manure, all liquiils entering into the heap, and nothing warted. Tbe compost heap is really thj "sav ings bank" of the farm, for it induces the farmer not only to accumulate, but to save. The wees Is, feathers, blood from slaughtered animals, soapsuds, night soil, and even earth are thrown on the heap, to tbe advantage of ridding tbe farm of many unsightly objects, while the ma nure from the stable, which becomes a part of the compost heap, is better pre served and its value increased. As all the materials of a con ipoet heap are fine the farmer can more easily haul and spread the compost and the plants will find it more available aa food. Tlte com post heap, however, should receive atten tion. It should be d nder cover, and oc casionally forked over. Thought suffi cient heat will be generated to decom pose the coarse materials, yet there is lew risk of "tire fang1 ng" than with ma nure, anil more plant food can be col lected in this manner than from any other mode. A Matter of ract Hearer. "Fellow citizens," thundered the im passioned orator, bringing his fist down hard on the table, "what, I ask again, is our country coming to? And echo an swers 'what T" "Pardon me, sir," interposed a mild looking man in the audience, rising to his feet, "slid I understand your question to be, 'What is our country coming to? "Yea, sir." "And you say echo answers 'what ? "That is what'I said, ttr." "Then there s something wrong with the acoustics of this building," said the miM looking man, thaking hia head in perplexed way and sitting down again. Cliiciigo Tribune. Nettle's Vacation. Nettle had studied faithfully jlnricg all the weeks of the school year.ajJ co;fi that vacation had come she telt like tak- ing a rest. For a week after school c!.'-! site was permitted to lis; in bed in the morning as late aa he t:b-j. provi led that she was ia bed by iin o'c'ok the night before. Hot Nettie found that when ' she went to b-J eariy she wait ready to get up early, and it was far plea.-anter to eat a hot breakfast with the rest of the family th-in to pick up a cold break ftt and eat it by herself. She eonld take a siesta after dinner out in the hanmKtck under the trees and a nap if she chose, and by doing this she did not find it necessary to break into her habit of eariy rising. While in school she had had no time for needle-work of any sort, and a girl of fourteen ought certainly to know how to mend her own clothes neally, and to make some of them as well. So it was arranges! that for two hours in the day Nettie should occupy herself with the needle or the sewing muchine, which she hat I learned to use quite well. Her mother showed her how to cut out some articles of underwear, letting Nettie use the shears, and how to put them bv'tbrt and finish them neatly, and bow to crochet suitable edging to trim them with. Nettie's mother was abundantly able to buy her underwear ready-made, and to buy all the trimmings, but how in that ca-w would Nettie ever learn b sew ? Beside ail this, Nettie's mother knew very well what a consolation needle work is in many hours of pain and per plexity and waiting. The shining needle has knit and crochet ed and sewed up many a gaping wound in one's heart Facility with the needle once acquired is never lout, ami no effort ' required to set one's self to work with et'lciency and en joyment By the end of her vacation Nettie hail become quite accotnplisht.d, or rather had got in the way of becoming , iu plain sewing, by hand or machine, in crocheting, ami in some of the simpler kinds of embroidery. She had embroid ered a little table-cover with daisies in Kensington stitch, she had hemstitched a cake-cloth, and done something in out lining; aud she had plenty of time f.r long walks and rides, and for rambles in the wood and by the seashore CV..im .I'f.OCCtV. Fruit Preserving. Maria Parloa, m '7'w.f lli-k"i'wj, gives some timely hints regarding pre serving and putting up fruits. To can fruit is to preserve it, yet there its a great da lie. rent) between canned and preserved fruit as it is understood by the housekeeper. "Preserves"' are what most housekeepers term the fruit that is put up pound for pound or nearly that with sugar. "Canned" fruit, as it is gen erally understood, can be put up without any sugar ; or it may have added to it a small or large amount as one's taste may dictate. Some fruits are much better when canned than when preserved, and, on the contrary, others are not 5t to use if canned with only a small quautity of sugar. Strawberries are, of all the fruits, the most unsatisfactory when canned, but when properly preserve.!, the m t de licious. Raspberries when preserved are delicious, and useful for many kinds of desert ; yet they are quite as desirable eanued. Indeed, I know of no fruit that retains its freshness and flavor in can ning like the raspberry. Pears are in sipid if preserved, but when canned in a very light syrup are delicious. Qiiinres are not good canned. To develop the perfect flavor they sheuld lie preserved with at least half a ponml of sujarto a pound of fruit ; better three-quarters of a pound. These are only a few examples of the difference in fruit3 in regard to the neces sity of more or less sugar to develoo flavor and texture. Of course, in select ing yonr fruit and the method of putt;rg it np, you ma- take into consideration how you are going to use it Should yon, as many people do. use the preserved fruits and cereals in lanre otiantities, rather than use animal food, then the amount of su-ar added to the fruit must be only enough to give it the required flavor. ' When this is the case the fniiw that require the least su-ar should le selected ; on no account try strawberries. Kresh Agricultural Jottings. It should not be overlooked that the plants are enemies to each other, as there b a struggle for existence when they are crowded together. Al! plants above the cumber required are weeds, and do more injury than foreign weeds, as plants of the same kind desire the same kind of food. Hence if four stalks of corn ia a hill do not thrive well pull up one-half of them. The plant food in the soil will be more serviceable for a limited number of plants than for too many. The food is simply raw material to be manufactured by the animals into milk, beef, butter, wool or pork, and by n,in the proper proportion of food tne ,::.er- ent products may be reguiauM. m. shows the necessity of education in ail matters pertaining to farming and stoca- growing as well as in other occupations. Cottonseed meal, at -D per ton, is being used as a fertilizer on vegetables. A mixture of cottonseed meal and bran is one of tbe best fertilizer that can ap plied, if cost be vonsidered. It is best, hoever, if it can be done, to feed the mixture and use it after it has passed through the animals. The peach-bores cannot damage the tree where the bark is tough, and, con sequently, the eggs ar deposited below the surface, where the bark is tender. Their attacks may be prevented toa certain extent by banking the earth around the tiee from April to fictclser. When beets, carrots or parsnips do aot apoear to grow, though given every op portunity by manure ami cultivation. the slow growth may be due to the'pian ts being too close in the rows. Tuimiin'i out the plants just after a rain will be of ail vantage. There is never too much good butter on the market, but tk-ere is always; a lare supply of inferior butter. The prices are not reyilated by the tjuantity so much as by the quality, t mjo-I butter sells at a high price at alt seasons of the year. The price of the cow does not indicate her value as a producer. Gilt-edged butter is something that depends on how it is made. The cow gives the milk, but upon the management of the milk, cream and butter depends the finality. It does not pay to pot the best fruit or vegetables on top antl have the pun baser find something not so g"xd when he reaches the bottom, as it makes him S'is picious, the consequence being that the sale of good fruit is injured. The popularity of the Merino sheep i. largely due to the fact that it is an ac tive forager and that a larger nimber can be kept together than of any other breed. "Well, doctor, how did you enjoy yonr African journey ? How did you like the savages?" "Oh, they are very kind-hearted pie; they wanted to keep me there for dinner." T IT
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