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But when they wuz first married Fidelia made a Molok of him, and burnt incense be fore him day and night, buruiu' up on that altar all her own perferences and desires, all ber chances of recreation and rest, all her own ideals, her own lovev Never tryiu' to lift herself up and look abroad iuto the sunlight, and fuller it outdoors iuto happiness 110; the jest t crouched before that altar till her eyes got dim with the muokeof her sacrifice aud she couldn't etraight en up. And the cloud of incense she wuz offeriu' up to him fnm day today wuz so heavy between 'em that he'd lost sight of ber; aud bein' at bis feet, instead of by his side where she be longed, he couldn't see her very well, and she seemed to be quite a distance away from him. Bbe bad made over bysuchdoin'a his naterally generous disposition into a selfish, overbearin' one. He wuz about as innocent as a babe of the way it wus done, and she too. But, take it all in all, she had made about the worst botch of married life that I hal ever seen made, and she all the time jest as conscientious and religious as old Job or Zeklel or any of 'em; and be too thought that he wuz jest as good as Obadiah or Jonah or Enoch. And, what made it seem still worse to me, she wuz bringin' up her g rl in the same way. Elinor wuz goiu' on twenty-one, and had a bo, Louis Arnold by n uue. Her ma bad told me about it tbe year before and I had noticed that Elinor looked real nwy and sweet. That wuz in the first Jay 8 of courtship, and I could see that the peil wuz upon her. Tbe earth wus glorified; the heavens bent down clost to her; she aud Louis wuz a walk in' through Eden. But tbe next time I see Elinor sbe looked considerable faded and anxious eyed: for all the world her eyes looked like ber ma's loviu' and faithful a a dog's and as anxious Iookin' as a -dog's when it has been doin' sunthiu' and expects a wbippin'. I had beam from a neigh bor tbat Louis was of late growin' cool tn bis attentions to Elinor. And I felt bad, for I mistrusted how it was done. Bbe had sot him up on such a bite tbat he looked down on her. Good land! with her potter, he had to look down if he her at all. Tbe neighbor said that it waz's posed tbat Elinor wuz goiu' iuto a decline, and sez she: "Tbat Louis Arnold is a viiliao. He paid her attention for a yeur and won her love, and wuz as good as engaged to her, and she doin' everything under tbe sun to keep bis love, and then he grew cool and drawed olt He Is a villian!" she repeated. 'Well, mebby there Is blame on both sides." And agin she s z, "Elinor did every thing to hold him, and duz yet, for sbe still hopes to keep him." And I sez, "Mebby she did too much.' And tbe neighbor glared at me, and bjz, coldly, "I don't understand you." And I sez, "No, I s'poze not." And I didn't explain furder, nor she didn't And this neighbor, bein' a sharp- eyed-and-nosed woman, who evidently laved scandal, sed, "Have you hearn anything more abjut Fidelia's trou bles?" And I sez, "No." And she sez, "Poor creeter! she is passin' through tbe waters." And Isti: "What waters? Has she fell into the creek, or has her sutler overflowed?" And then she sez, right out, "Her hired girl gits more of ber husband's attention tban sbe dux. hoiks talks sight !" sez sbe. And I sez cooly, "They generally do; tbey mostly make out nut to lose tbe use of their tongues by tyin' 'em to tbeir teeth." Aud I wouldn't ask a woid more; but she went on: "Everybody tez Maud acts more like the mistress of the house tban Fidelia duz, dressed up and loiteriu' round; though tbey do say that she is faithful and honest; but Fidelia duz the hardest of tbe work herself, and folks say that Maud eata with tbem, aud if anything is wanttd Fidelia gits up and gits it, and Maud sits like a lady." Well," sez I, "most probable that is Fidelia's fault. Bbe wouldn't do it unless sbe wuz a fool!" sez I. 'And some one told me," sez the neighbor, "tbat hearn it from one that wuz knowin' to it, that Alcander bad been known to pay Maud compliments oa ber good looks and pretty drestee aud find fault with Fidelia." 'Wei!," tz I "tbat la notbin' but human man-uater; tbey will always find fautt w ith tbeir wives in prefer ence to other witnmen; they're built in est tbat way, and mebby tbey can't belp iL I s'poze mebby tbey think tbat they're compiimentiu' 'em, payin' attention to 'em; men are so queer." And again she looked real meanin', and sez, "Well, folks talk a sight." And I sezagiu, "They most generally do." Well, Fidelia Pogram wuz dretful glad to see me, and so wuz Elinor. Alcander, owin' to tbe course of treat ment he bad bad, acted some hauty, bein' I wuz a woman Fidelia's fault, every mite on'U Alcander wuz warm hearted when he wuz married, and liked wimmea jest as well aa be did men and better, too, bis wife beiu' a woman. Well, I see in a minute that Elinor looked bad, boiler-eyed, pale, wan, and some stoopin' in tbe should ers (but of that more anon.) Well, tbey hurried round and got a good supper. Fidelia la a splendid cook and due all the cookiu', for Alcander like ber cook in' better than he dux at y body lae'i; aud Fidelia, bein' so anx ioui to please bitn, mite; and he thluks dux it all, every that Fidelia duz omer SOMERSET, PA., op his shirt bosoms better and so sbe irons all the fine clothes; aud Alcander finds a sight of fault if the bouse hain't kep' jest so; and Maud not bein' a nateral housekeeper, Fidelia jest slaves round all tbe time, cleanin' and pickiu' up, and looks fagged out and tired and worn all the time, and the hired girl pert and rosy; and Alcander paid her a compliment on her good looks, and wished right before me tbat Fidelia could look more like Maud, and Maud brid ed op and looked tickled, and Fidelia's bead drooped like a droopin dove's. And I don't know when have been madder, both as a friend and as a woman. And I spoke right up, and sez, "Meb by if Maud had been in the kitchen over a hot stove, and br'iled tbe steak and creamed the potatoes aud made tbe coffee, and if Fidelia had been out on the piazza part of tbe time, mebby sbe would have looked more fresh I had seen Maud there half of the time she wuz a-aettiu' the table, a-leanin' over tbe railin', actiu' lazy and uppish "But," sez Alcander, coolly, "Fidelia prefers to do thecooklii'." "Yes," sez Fidelia, faintly for she wuz wore out "yes, I prefer." "Well," sez I, "If you do, it la tbe least we can do, who enjoys your de licious supper, to be thankful to you, and sorry tbat you have wore yourself out for our enjoyment." Fidelia's cheeks flushed and ber eyes brightened at the unusual thing of a word of praise beln'gi'n to her; and the hired girl looked mad and black; and Alcander looked on with perfect wonder at the turn things had took, and spoke quite soft to Fidelia, and she brightened up still more. Bez he, "Nobody can cook a steak equal to Fidelia." And my Josiah looked real temper- some, and as if be wuz a-golu' in to combat for my rights as a stak'idt. But I spoke right up and sez: "Tbat la so, Alcander. Fidelia is one of the most splendid cooks in tbe coun ty, and you must be proud of ber, and do all you can to make her rest and recreate between meals, jest out grati tude to tbe one that furnishes such de licious food." He looked kinder cheap; and Fidelia looked troubled, for sbe mistrusted tbat there wuz a shadder of blame bein' cast onto Alcander; but I changed tbe sub ject, like a good mistress of ticktacks. I s'poze, Elinor, you have read tbe last great book of ?" aud I named a book very upliftiu', and beloved by young wimmen. "No," she said; she hadn't much time for readin', ebe wuz so busy mak in' Christmas gifts. Sez Fidelia, proudly, "Elinor has hemstiched tweuty-two fine linen handkerchiefs for her aunts and cousins on both side, and made home-made lace to trim them with out of one hundred -and twenty thread." And I sez, "I didn't know that there wuz any thread so fine." Yea," aex Fidelia; "it looks like a cab web; and out of that same threat she has made twenty yards of that lace to trim under-clothea for ber two sister-in-laws." "Isn't it bad for her eyes, Fidelia?" sez I iookin' at tbe worn, red eyelids of Elinor. "Yes," sez Fidelia, "it wuz very hard on her; but she wanted to do it, for she thought they would prize 'em higher; and then," sz Fidelia, "sbe has made two dozen dollies for Louis's mother out of tbatsbme thread." "How long did it take you to do it?" sez I dryly. "Oh," sez she, "I bad them for work all summer; I begun 'em tbe 1st of June, so I could be sure to get tbem done for Christmas. I think tbat I could have done tbem in two months if I had worked all the time." And I sez to myself, all these long golden summer hours, aweet with bird song, fragraut with flowers and beau ty, she bad sot over her one bund red -and twenty thread patiently weavin' cobwebs, hopin' mebby to ketch Hap. pinessin it; but 'tennyrate doin' this slow work, utitch by stitch, and lettin' all the beauty aud glory of summer and life go by. For I begun to see plainer than ever why Louis Ar nold wuz a defaulter in the bank of Ive. "Oh," sez Fidelia, "I want you to see the slippers she has embroidered for Lniia I never see the beat of it; they are so fine you can't tell where tbe stitches are put; each one look her three weeks of stiddy work; they are a design of pink roses on a sky-blue ground." Bez I, "She could have bought a pair fr five dollars tbat would have done jest as well, and I wou'd have loved to have seen some of the pink roses on her cheeks, and some of the bright sky-blue In ber eyes. Tbey used to look like bits of the sky peeping out of rosy clouds." (Them wuz her cheeks in metafur.) "But they look faded now, Fidelia," sez I "dretful faded aud wore out." "Yes," sez, she, "she has injured her eyesight this summer injured it a sight, Bbe has sot up till midnight, night after night, workin', for fear she wouldn't git 'em done In time. And then," sex sbe, bustin' out into a con fi lentlal tone, "she has cried a good deal. Ob, Bamantba," sez she, "you don't know bow much that girl Is a aurTerin'. There she Is, jest the same aa engaged, and ahe jest aa faithful aa tbe north star to tbe pole, and he growin' cool all tbe time and indifferent." "Well," sez I, 'the stiddy faithfulness of tbe star can't be changed, Fidelia, mr the coldness of the north pole, for It la the nater of that pole to be frigid, aad we can't di anything to warm it up. But," sex I, "as for this matter of Elinor and Louis Arnold, I believe my soul that I coull make a change in their doin's if I had my way." "Oa, dear Samantha! Could you, oou'.d you?" sex Fidelia, awipin'up h?r tears and Iookin' some brighter. "But," sez I, a sort of Iookin off meatally some distance, "it hain't no ways likely that she would do what I would want her do." "Oh, sbe would r sex Fidelia. "I would, I would!" cried Elinor, ad vanclc' from behind tbe porchchair. "Forgive me; I wux behind the curtain a-catchln' tbe la t daylight on tbe slip pers, and I overheard you talk. I will do jest as you say, for my heart Is set ESTABLISHED 1827. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15. 1899. breakin', a .... a c 11 . ts nrtt . . mey always auntiea and uncled ua, our children did, Fidelia's and mine. "I will do jest what you tell me to," sez sbe, standin' before me, tears streaming down her white cheeks, her work-box in one hand, and tbe oncom- pleted slipper a-danfUn' in the other. "Well," sez I, "the first thing to do s to put them aside," sex I, a-mo'.ionin' o the slippers, two-thirds of which wus not done; "and them too," sex I, p'lnt- in' to the delicate cobweb-work baogin' over the sides of ber work-basket. "Lay them aside!" sez she, in won derin, horror-struck axents; "these Christmas gifts ?" And I leaned back in my chair and looked indifferent, and sex I, "I knew you wouldn't do what I wanted you to." "Oh, I will, I will!" sez she. "I will do it." And she went to a side table and laid the work-basket on it and throwedascarf over it. I see she meant bizness, and sbe oome back and sot down on a low stool at my feet and leaned her pretty head against my knee, and I smoothed down the cl lis ted n' curls on her pale forward and went on. ;now," sez I, "the first thing you do, you go to the book store and buy a handsome copy of 'Is Marriage a Fail ure?' for Louis Arnold, and some other nice book or piece of useful silverware for bis mother. Wrop these oncom pleted gifts up in silk paper and put tbem in tbe draw; and as you shet that draw up, abet up in it all your cares and anxieties for Christmas; keep in your mind only the beauty and blessed ness of the day, and its holy and hal lowed meanin'. Keep this cobweb- work you have done for yourself as a motto that means 'I will never do it agin,' and buy of some poor girl tbat wants tbe money some of this hem stitch in' and tattin' and drawwork you want for your relations, and do them up, ready to send away, and put tbem in draws; and when you shet them draws, shet up all anxieties for them. Then," sez I, "all this off your mind, bathe your wore-out eyes and pale face in some good pure water, go to bed at nine, and get up in the early mornio', fresh aud vigorous and go into the sun light and drink down tbe sweet air like a heal in' cordial." The weather wux wonderful for Oc tober; Injun summer had made the ountry beautiful; the roads wus bard and smooth as summer roads. Sez I, Forgit all your cares, put on the pretty dress you wuz makin' tbe last time I saw you, and go out for a long ride." Oh," sez she, "I don't ride tbe wheel any more." "Why?" sez I, wooderin'iy. "Oh, Louis dou't like to have me. He thinks it's unladylike and unwom anly." "Don't he ride?" sex I. "Ob. yes he baa to for his nerves. He thinks that ridin' a wheel has al most cured him. He used to be dretful nervous and weak. He can't bear bein' shut up in the house all the time." Well," sez I, "didn't you think that it helped you to ride? Your ma told me that you felt like a new creature after you had had your wheel for a month.' "Oh yes," Aunt Samantha," sex she, it did, belp me more tban I can tell, and you don't know how I have miss ed it; I have felt that it would have been such a belp to me while I was makiu' these Christmas gifts." "Well, why under the sun and moon, to say nothin' of the stars and meteors, haven't you kept on with what you knew helped you so?" "Oh, Louis doesn't approve of my ridin', and he wuz bitterly opposed to my wearin' short skirts; be considered it immodest, and I had Jest about as soon not go at all as to go In my long skirts. Tbe last time I rode, to please Louis I wore my long dress, and right in the middle of the village my dress wound round the wheel, and it wound my dress nigh up offen me, and I fell over onto my head." "I suppose he C3usidered that more modest?" sez I, dry as a chip. He is dretful opposed to short skirts," s x she; he talked awful to me about 'em." Why don't you insist on his wearin' hij bath-robe on his wheel? Let him try it once and then see. Why didn't you say tbat you wuz shocked at tbe sight of bis long limbs, and favored the Eastern garb for men? Your dress wuz modest and mejum, it come to the tops of your shoes, and you wore a divided skirt of tbe same cloth; you can tell him, from me, your dress wuz jest twice as modest as his'n." "Oh," sez she, "I wouldn't think of criticisin' his dress." "Why not, as long as he criticises yours? But as for your dress and bis'n, they're both all right And now do you, within the next fifteen minutes, don that garb, and go out on tbat wheel, and take a good long ride." 'Ob, I don't feel aa though I should go right against his wishes. 1 nave done everything I could to hold his love." You have done too much," sex I, coolly. "And now, Elinor Pogram, do you brace up and have a little gump tion. Get right onto your wheel and go out into the sweet air and sunlight; and if you meet Louis Arnold, jest nod at him as cool aa a cowcuniber, and go right on and fuller It up next a ay and next, or as long as good weather lasts. I believe you rusted and tired out your faculties a-bendin' over yovr fine work from day to day, and be didn't find your companionship exhilaratin' and ioepirin' at alL He la a bright chap," sex I, "you know, and he will seek bright inspirin' company." She looked up gratefully as I abused ber and excused Louis, In a real wom anly way, and left the room to put on ber abort bicycle rig. It was dark blue, braided with white, and a coquettish little white cap braided with black, and some black feathers stuck up real cute on one aide, and she looked as pretty as a pink a white pink and real cuu Din' as she sot off. Well, she come back Iookin' perter considerable; she hadn't met Louis, but she had met the sunshine and soft autumn air, and they had invigorated her. Tbe next moruin' I went with her, at ber request, to git the books and pres-! ents I had named, and, at my requests, they wuz locked up at 12 m., and back aches and eye-smarts and fevered an ietles and pricked finger-ends with 'em. And at 3 p. m. ahe sot off agin on ber wheeL This time she come back look in' considerable white around her li, but her eyes bright and cheeks rosy, after all; she had met Louis and done what I told her, and left him in such a state of complete stupeflcation she wuz alarmed about him. Bez she, anxious ly, "His looks wus so wonder struck and alarmed that I fear for his safety; I fear that he may be led to extreme lengths," sex she. "Wus he on his wheel?" sez I. "lea," she replied, "be wux on his wheel, and the picture cf health and strength." -Ana so win you De," sex l, "now you have laid aside your eye-harro win', nerve-destroying' needle-work; and when I say this understand distinctly that I might applaud, though I pitied, your work If it earned yon your liveli hood. But in your case it is needless, and so I have said lay it aside; there ia no fear but that you will perform all the domestic duties you ort to, for it is in your nater, and you will resoomyour music and books, fur you will want to get brightness from them; but be out. care free, under the blue heavens all you can. lies pec t yourself, and insist on bein' respected. Be thoughtful of Louis's rights, and insist on his being thoughtful of yours; respect his opin ions so fur as you can consistently; but for his selfishness and whims, gi onto your wheel and ride right through em. If you are to walk through life together, stand up straight by his side; don't crouch at his feet doin' drawn- work and tattin' all your days; he will like you enough sight better. If you find him worthy, and you are to be his wife, make his home tbe most delight ful place on earth a clean, sweet rest in' place from tbe toils of life and a shelter from its storms; but don't, don't burn up your own individuality as in cense before him; keep it to make his home more cbarmin' than any other. Make him love you for your sweet love and care fur bim; make him admire you for your thought and care for your self; use a lot of c mmon sense In tbe re ceipt of married life, and mejumness, use tbat lavish, and you'll git alonz first rate." Well, they urged me to stay a week or so; and Josiah iiavin' bizness to 'tend to right there, we gin consent. Elinor kep' on jest as I had planned, and, stimulated by the example of plain common sense right before ber eyes, Fidelia braced up and began to use com mon sense and some mejumness her self. Bbe spoke out of ber own accord oue afternoon, and sez sbe: "I have three of the night-shirts dune, and I am not goiu to make any more of tbem for Christmas; and you, Maud," sez she, tiirnin' to the pert-faced domestic, "you may wash them and do tbem up tbe next time you wash." Why," sez Maud, "I can't do the washin' and ironin' as well as you can, Mis' Pogram. Mr. Pogram won't like my iron In' I am sure." Well, be will have to stand it," sez Fidelia, Iookin' some pale, but real de cided; "and when you broil the steak for supper, Maud, be sure you don't burn it; have a hot platter ready for it, and put on the butter and pepper and salt even, and bring it to the table pi- pin' hot" Tbe girl's haughty feathers seemed to droop, and sbe spoke more respect ful to Fidelia than I had hearn her speak, and sez she, "I will do my best, mom." And sez Fidelia, "If Mr. Pogram comes here before we do, tell bim tbat Josiah Allen's wife and I have gone out fur a long drive." In my inmost heart I said "Bravo, Fidelia! bravo!" But outside I only said, "I shall be real glad to have a good long drive with you, Fidelia; it will put me in mind of old times." Bo Fidelia ordered her pony and low phaeton brought to the door and we sot off. It wuz a very comfortable carriagp. cushioned with blue. I see tbat Al cander did his part by Fidelia in fur- nlsbin' comforts and luxuries for her, only, bein' so much engaged in incense burnln' and drawn-work, she couldn't take advantage of 'em. As I lay back on tbe soft cushions my mind roved off on the strange turn things had took, and I wondered if it wux tte atmos phere of my strong desire and good will to help her tbat had stimulated Fidelia to use a little common sense; for I bad not said a word to ber about her affairs and Alcanderses. I knew that high clear mountain air would do wonders for sick folks iu a short time, and I knew that my will to help her towered up perfectly mountainous and high, and I s'poze mebby it braced her up. we mortals are sucn strange cree- ters anyway that we can't really under stand bow things be thus and so. But, tennyrate, as we rolled along the pleasant country roads, under trees or ange and scarlet and gold - colored, sweet with the birds' late songs, out into sunny stretches of open country roads, sun-glorified, and further embel lished on either side by cozy home steads and loftier mansions, and anon long green meadows stretchin' away to green woods and tree-covered hills. with a tender baze bangin' about 'em as our phaeton rolled noiselessly on through tbe soft, sweet Injun-summer air, Fidelia's cheek got to Iookin' con siderable pink, and ber faded eyes brightened up considerable, and ber faculties seemed to sort o wake up, and she acted brighter than I had seen her act for upwards of ten years. Well, supper wuz all ready when we got home. Fidelia bad only jest time to go to ber room and pin a pink bow onto tbe bosom of her dress, but I don't know when I have seen ber look so welL Alcander noticed it in a minute. He looked quite admirin' at her; and though the beefsteak might not have been so deliwious aa Fidelia's, yet her directions bad beeu carried out, and it wuz good enough. 'Tennyrate, Alcan der seemed to enj y his supper the best tbat ever wux, for be and Fidelia wux talkiu' together in a way I hadn't hearn 'em for years. And take Fide lia when she wusu't so wore out burn in' incense, and br'ilin' steaks and chops and chickens, and drawln' threads out of fine linen and workin' He 'em in agin, she wuz a smart woman and very agreeable companion. Maud, 1 noticed, bad retired more into tbe background, as it were; she waited on the table with a different air, less as if she wux the mistress of ceremonies, and more as If sbe wuz tbe helper Instead of tbe giver of the feast Well, it wuz on the fifth day, as Al cander and Fidelia and I wuz a drivin' along through the soft air in tbe luxu rious easy carriage, behind two prancin' horses, real happy and contented, and talk in good naturedly, who should we meet but two young folks on bicycles? The young man wuz bendin' fondly over tbe young woman, so engrossed in conversation that they didn't notice our presence till we got almost up to them. Then they looked up, and we see that it was Elinor and Louis Ar nold. But wuz it Elinor? Yes, it wuz. But what a change from tbe pale, hollow-eyed drawn -work stitcher! Her cheeks were pink, and happiness spark led in her soft blue eyes like two bright stars becalmed in tbe June heavens. Tbey bad made up, and Louis Arnold looked handsome and happy and con tented. Well, I told Fidelia, the next day. that aa Josiah had got bis business done, I guessed I wouldn't stay any longer, and she bust right out a-cryin' onto my shoulder (it wuz a gray outin' cloth, and I knew tbat it would wash. so I didn't care.) And sez she, "My preserver, bow can I have you go?" And Elinor, who wuz in tbe room, throwed herself onto my other shoul der, and ber tears drizzled down onto ray shoulder-blade (but agin the thought calmed me that the colors were fast) Bez Elinor: "You have preserved nay happiness; you have dragged me back from the very brinks of ruin." "And me too!" sez Fidelia. And I sez, gently, extricatin' myself from the four encirclin' arms: "Oh, pshaw! you have preserved yourselves, aud d'awed yourselves bark by the cords of common sense and mejum ness. And now," sez I, in confidence. ere we part, let me adjure you to cling to them two strings, and cling hard. Use common sense day by day, be good and true to them you love, and be good and true to yourselves; brace up, have gumption, and may Heaven bless you!" sez I, and I turned away and begun to pack my nightgown and barred-mus- n nightcap into my satchel bag. Josiah and I wus invited to Elinor's weddin,' which occurred New Year's day. That book, "Is Marriage a Fail ure?" presented by hs fiewimty, had skairt Louis most to death. His love came back, sent by tbe great shock as a wave that washed all barriers in front of it They had to hurry up the wed din' to phase him, aud Elinor consent ed, after considerable urgin'. Girls of this day are so smart that they can fit into any rolL Well, we couldn't go to the weddin'. owin' to a crick in my back, but I sent her a handsome book, "How to be Happy Though Married," and Josiah sent her a brilliant silk ban kerchief, which he picked out himself. By Josi ah Allen's Wife, in Harper's Bazar. Toads and Bats. As a result of experiments with toads and bats, it has been demonstrated that a house, or even a community, can b rid of various troublesome insects, in cluding flies and moequi'oes. These experiments were made by Prof. Clin ton F. Hodge, of Clark Uuiversity, Worcester, Mass. Professor Hodge's first experiment was with the toad. "I constructed a small pen in my garden," he said, "and in it, in a pan of water, installed a male and female toad. To attract food for tbem I placed within tbe inclosure bits of meat and bone. Tbe results were as satisfactory as they were unexpected. The toads spent most of the time sitting within reach ing distance of the bait and killing tbe (lies attracted by it I watched one toad snap up eighty-six house flies in less than ten minutes. 'One day I gathered a quantity of rose bugs in a tin box and began to feed the bugs to a toad. At first I did not count, but, finding bis appetite so good, I started to count When I bad count ed over eighty bugs and tbe toad show ed no signs of wishing to conclude his meal, I picked him up. Previous to my beginning to count he had taken anywhere from ten to twenty bugs. I found' the toad equally greedy for rose beetles, canker worms, ants, caterpil lars, moths, June bugs, weevils, snails and many other insects. So, too, in a house, a room may be cleared of cock roaches by leaving a toad iu it over night A single toad may destroy over two thousand worms during the months of May, June and July, and one of these harmless creatures may well do a gar dener service to the amount of f 19 KS each season, and yet he can raise (J0,000 worth of toads at an expense of not more than 20 cents. Farmers in England buy them, pay ing as high as 2 a thousand, for use in tbeir flower beds and gardens, ror household purposes a small number of toads could be given homes in an aqua rium. At night the toads could be let loose to kill bugs, while in the day they could kill flies. I have built a sort of cage or wire screen a foot wideaod two feet long, tbe top of which is kept open. It is only necessary to put in two or three toads, provide tbem with shelter. with a dish of water in one corner, and then keep them supplied with bits if raw meat and any other refuse matter calculated to attract bico." In speaking of tbe bat, Professor Hodge said: "We have no animal mora interesting, and probably none more valuable, and certainly none less understood and more abused than the bat Tbey are easily tamed, absolutely harmless when gently handled, and make pets as funny as tiny monkeys. As destroyers of many of our most pes tiferous night-flying insects like mos quitoes, the bat is almost our sole de pendence, and, as he is known to hunt insects afoot, aa well as on the wing, he is also of some value for larvae that do not fly. My attention was turned to the bat through the codlln moth, the insect to blame for most worm-eaten apples. In an orchard near my home I found nine l WHOLE NO. 2520. of the grubs of this insect in one min ute. Chancing to go to another orch ard, hardly a mile away, I found only four of tbe grubs in an hour's search. There ia an old barn near by, in which live a colony of between seventy-five and one hundred bats. The owner in formed me that bis apples were always free from worms." Bangor Industrial Record. Avoid all dryiug inhalants ao use that which cleanses and heals th mem brane. Ely's Cream Balm ia such a remedy aud enns Catarrh easily and pleasantly. Cold iu the bead vanishes quickly. Price 50 cents at druggists or by mail. Catarrh caused difficulty in speaking and to a great loss of hearing. By the use of Ely's Crem Balm dropping of mucus has ceased, voice and bearing have greatly improved. J. W. David- sou, Attorney at Law, Monmouth, III. Flour From Potatoes. Potato M'Hir is much used in Austria, where it is cheaper tliau wheat flour. The natives use it for all sorts of baking, and it makes beautiful white bread and cake. The met bod of mak ingtbeflour is to wash and peel tbe potatoes, and then cut them up into small pieces. These pieces are next crushed so tbat the starch Is separated from the cells. Water is freely added to carry away the starch during the process. Tbe pota toes are then dried and pulverized, wheu the flour is ready for using. "After paying over $o00 for useless doctors' service I waa cured of a com plicated stomach, head and spine trouble by Wheeler's Nerve Vitalizer," so writes W. Swallow, Ridgeway, Ohio. Tbe superior merits of Brant's Cough Balsam are cur quickest, and larg est 25 cent bottle. Fur sale at Uarman's Drug Store, Berlin, Pa., and Moun tain A Son's Drug 3ture, Confluence, Pa. He Was Deceived. "A rather queer incident occurred on my train the other day," said the trav eling man. "We were coming along through Eastern Ohio. We were going directly toward a very heavy, black cloud, a thunder-storm, doubtless. It was fearfully dense and black. You kno how such clouds look. Every body noticed it" "Yes," replied the listener, "but what was there peculiar about this one?" "Why, the brakeman saw it, and went through the cars calling out 'Pitta burg.' "New York World. "I owe my whole life to Burdock Blood Bitters. Scrofulous sores cover ed uiy body. I seenied beyond cure. B. IX. B. has mada ma a perfectly well woiuan." Mrs. Chas. Hutton, Berville, Mich. Tu brighten and clean windows, put a teacup ful of ammuuia to every pail ful of tepid water, wash well with a spouge or soft rag, then dry with a clean cloth, and polish with a leather or au old silk handkerchief. "Rjb Peter to pay Paul." This is what tbey do who take stimulants for weak nerves. Hood's Barsaparilla gives true nerve strength. Csadeased Iaformatioa About African Dutch. tat South Johannesburg is a boom town, but, un like moat cities of like character, it ia solidly an J permanently kullt, many of tbe residence being veritable palaces f granite and marble, that would do credit to any of our American cities. The Transvaal is probably the richest 0 u n try in the world so far as minerals are concerned. The Boera can muster nearly I8,0iiO men armed with M tuser rides of the pat tern used by tbe Spanish in tbe late war. The.artillery and cavalry horses of the Bjers have all been inoculated against 1 he "tsetse fly'' and rhinderpest, both of which are apt to play havoc with green horses in this district Basin cms in South Africa, including Cape Town, Is absolutely stagnant Food stulfs have doubled in price, and thou sands are without work or money to buy the necewitiea of life. The Southern part of Africa U ot vol eanio origin aud the land in the neighbor hood of Kiinberly is so sulphurous tbat even ants cannot exist In it Pretoria, the capital of the South Afri cin Republic, is thirty miles north of lh "City of Oold," and lies 4300 feet above sea level. The dividends paid by the gold miaes of the Witwatersland in 1H amounted to nearly fJI.003,0001 Tbey ranged all the way from 15 per cent, tbe lowest to 3J0 per cent, and in the case of tbe Johannesburg Pioneer to 673 per cent Tbe Kimberley diamond mines pay flO.000,000 a year profit on a nominal capital of double that iuu. In 1577 England annexed the Trans vaal, and evacuated it in 1881. In Kagland conquered and an- texed the Orange Free State, and evacu ated it six years later. A household necessity. Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil. Heals burns, cuts, wounds of any sort; cures sore throat, croup, catartb, asthma; never fails. Catarrh Can Be Cored By eradicating from the blood tbe scrofulous taints which cause it Hood's Baraapsrilla cures catarrh, promptly and permanently, because it strikes at the roil of the trouble. The rich, pure blood which it makes, circulating through the delicate paa satt of the mucous membrane, soothes and rebuilds the tissues, giving tbem a tendeucy to health instead of disease aad ultimately curing tbe affection. At tbe same time Hood'aSxraaparilla iresgtL""", !2T:guratr and energizes the whole system and makes tbe de bilitated victim of catarrh feel tbat new life bas been Imparted. Do cot dally with snuffs, inhalants or other local application, but take Hood's Barsaparilla and cure catarrh absolutely aud surely by removing the causes which produce it The fellow who begins by lending an ear to blandishment Is apt to end by losing bis bead completely. Wife "Doo't you feel better now tbat you've stopped drinking? Don't you find that your friends have more respett f.r you?" Husband "No, I don't. Tbey all say I'm getting stingy-" THE CAPTAIN'S STORY. B. Sptaa m Vara Ab.at a W.ad.rfal KfCTerr ShlUardU A little group bad been spinning yams in the rotunda of the Walton for an hour or more when a bronze visaged. middle aged man joined tbe party. Several of the group recognized Lint as the captain cf one of the big tramp steamers wblcb ply between Philadelphia and foreign ports, and a place in the circle waa at once made for him. "We've been killing time telling sto ries." some one explained. "Suppose you turn in your contribution." The captain thought a moment and then smiled. "I was thinking of something that happened on my last voyage." be final ly aaid. "We had oa board as a cook a big colored feilow, whose principal companion waa a little yellow cur dog. One day while the cook was preparing some beef for dinner h let the beaTy cleaver with which he waa doing the chopping slip from his grasp. "It fell to the floor with a thud, and the cook emitted a howl of anguish that was heard all over tbe ahlp. The cleaver bad struck one of his bar feet and sliced tbe big toe off as neatly as a surgeon could have done It Here tvas a chance for the yellow dog. and lie seized It Making a dive for tbe levered toe, he swallowed It In ooe gulp and then made a bee Une for the fleck. "This was more than the cook, cras fid with pain, could stand, and be hurl ed the cleaver at the dog. H!a aim proved true, and bis eurshlp passed out of existence then and there. At this Juncture tbe ship's doctor came up to ftud out what all the row was about When he learned the truth, he laughed. " 'I'll fix that for you.' he exclaimed lo the cook, wait till I get my Instru ment case.' "Within fire minutes he had held a jtost mortem on tbe dog and recovered tbe lost toe. Washing It with antisep tics, be skillfully stitched It back In place again, and the cook hobbled back lo his quarters minus his dog. but with as many toes as he had ever bad. That'a about the only story I recall Just now. gentlemen. It bas the merit of being true, however, and If you don't believe It come down to the ahlp any time aud I'll show you the cleaver. The cook bas quit the sea. and t don't l.now his present addreaa." Philadel phia Inquirer. HAYDN AND THE LADIES. Waaderfal Saac.ptlalllty f Great CayaMr. When Haydn came to England, be aucc'nibed. says the writer of an arti cle on "Music and Matrimony" la tbe t'omh!!! Magazine, to the charms of a certain Mrs. Shaw, who figures In bis diary as the most beautiful woman be had ever met. Aa a matter of fact, Haydu was always meeting the "most beautiful" woman. . "The loveliest woman I ever saw" was at one time a Mrs. Hodges, while at another time the widow of a musi cian named Schroeter so fascinated him that he kept her letters for many years and declared that If It were not for the existence of Anna Maria be would have married her. Certainly Mrs. Schroeter's letters were pleasant enough. "Every moment of your com pany," she wrote from Buckingham Gate In 1792. "la more and more pre cious to me now that your departure is so near. 1 feel for you the fondest end tenderest affection the human heart is capable of. I ever am. with the most Inviolable attachment my dearest and most beloved Haydn, most faithfully and most affectionately yours." What would the absent Frau Doc- tortn Haydn have said had she known of It? The composer also got mixed up In a little affair with the beautiful Mrs. Dillington. Sir Joshua Reynolds was painting her portrait for him and had rvprvoented ber aa St Cecilia listen ing to celestial music. "What do you think of tbe charming Bllllngton's pic ture?" said the artist to Haydn when the work was finished. "It la Indeed a beautiful picture." replied Haydn. It la Just like her. but there Is a strange mistake. You have painted her listening to the angels when you ought to have painted the angels listening to her." If Haydn paid compliments like this all round, we can easily understand how be attained such fame as a Lon don society man. Jtot Very Pallte. John Clerk, afterward known as Lord Eld I a. was limping down the High street of Edinburgh one day when be heard a young lady remark to her companion, "That Is the famous John Clerk, the lame lawyer." He turned round and aaid. w ith bis "not unwonted coarseness:" "Too He, ma'am! 1 am a Lime man. but not a lame lawyer." Lord Justice Rraxfield. too. appears to have failed In ceurtesy to the fab sex. for. when told that a brother Judge would not sit tbat day, on ac count of having Just lost his wife. he. who was fitted with a Xantippe. re plied: "Has be? That Is a gade excuse Indeed. I wish we bad a' the same." LONGFELLOW'S ADVICE. Klada.a. TVaa tae Keya.a. at the I'Mt'i Caaract.. Mme. le Navarro gives some charm ing pictures of Longfellow in."A Few Memories." She aays that every con versation with bim led to some good result His first advice to ber was: See some good picture In nature If possible, or on canvas bear a page of the best music or read a great peeui dally. You will always find a free half hour for on? or the ether, and at tbe end of tbe year yeur mind will shine with such sn accumulation of Jewel aa to astonish even" youraerf." The poet waa fond of a good, amas- Ing story and had many to ten ont ol bis owu experience. He waa particu larly delighted at the Ingenuity ef an enterprising vender of patent medicine who. vaunting the "marvelous effects f bis drug, no doubt la the hope of In spiring the poet Invited him to write a verse for' the label, promising him a percentage on each bottle and a free use of the medicine for hlmseir ana family. On oue of his birthdays he was as tonished at seeing a wagon containing a piano drive op to his bouse, followed by a strange young lady In a carriage. The young lady Informed the house keeper that she wished the piano to be pnt In a room where It-would "sound well." ss she had composed a piece of music In honor of the poet's birthday and meant to play It to him on ber own InstrtHiif nt Longfellow was a great lover f mu sic, aud Wagner appealed to him strongly. We heard several operas to gether In Boston after my engagement there. He generally arrived before bs. armed with flowers and full ef delight ful anticipations On one of these ecca aions some one sent a magnificent bou quet to our box. K Vnowing the do nor. I !d not take it up. Be lssiatsd on ray doing so. "Put down my simple ones." be said, "and take up these beautiful flowers. It will gratify tbe glTer. who Is no doubt in the house. Try aever to m!s an opportunity of giving pleasure. It will make you happier and better." Kindness was the keynote of his character. Ne Inconvenience te him self was too great If a good turn to any one waa at the end of It John Bnlwer. a quaint writer of tne seventeenth century. rrID" following three dinner rules: Btrtoor deevlum. sileotlum. rumor gen tium, which baa been humorously Slated. "Work for the lent pause, frequent ha baa, -Waa. a Eat
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