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iH ow much tho hoart may hoar and yet no
break,
How much the flesh may Buflor and not iVM
1 question much if afiy fain or Belie
Ol soul or body brings our end more nigh.
Death chosos his own time, till that has come
All evils may be borne.
We shrink and shudder at the surgeon's knife
iuum nerve recoiling Irom the cruel steel
W hoao edge seems searching for the quivering
lile;
Yet to our &enfto the bitter pangs reveal
That still, although the trembling flesh be
torn,
i lias, also, can be borne.
We see a sorrow rising in our way,
And try to floe Irom the approaching ill ;
We seek sonio small escapo, we weep and
pray,
Hut when tho blow lalls, thon our hearts
are still
Not that the pnin isol its sharpness shorn,
Hut yet it can ho borne.
We wind Qur lite a!out another lilo;
We hold it closer, dearer than our own
Anon it fuiuta and tails in deadly strife,
Lonving ns stunned, and stricken anda'ono;
Hut, oh, we do not die with those we mourn;
This, also can be lorne.
Dchold, we live through all things, dunino,
thirst,
Boreavemont, pain, all grid and miwory,
All woe and sorrow; life inflicts its worst
On sould and body, hut we cannot die,
Though' wo he sick and tired and faint and
woi n ;
Lo, all things can be borne.
Elizabeth Akert Allen.
THE SECRET.
I with I
I could t
could tell
I hate to have a secret;
it bums.
like money in my pocket
Ib'a nn unnatural thing, anyway. "One
.wants e nipathy ; if it' a gloomy secret,
Bonn body to be gloom v with ; and if it's
a irlad one. somibodv to be clad with:
somebody to talk it over with, to make
much or littie" of it with, to conjecture
concerning it, its beginning and its end,
to A well upon ty and gloat over it; how
in the world Is one going to enjoy any
thing all by one's self! If I'm eating a
peach, I want somebody to have part of
it, to Know now luscious it is; ana i
w6uldn't nive a sixpence for a coach and
' four unless there were somebody by to
see me riding. So I say to myself, what's
the use ot knowing it it you re not t
speak or look, or wink, if you're to be
no wise .hwr'tier people, and let no
body see that you areP " And as for me,
I am always blushing, and my tongue is
tripping, and I'm sure to bo on the
point of betraying the whole thing by
something I say, and clapping my Lund
, on my mouth hke a silly child.
." Still, although it's nervous and anx
'ious work, I can keep a secret if I try,
or else whm h I mean she at least I
mean I shouldn't have been trusted with
' it if I couldn't. Some people are so-im-;portant
witli a secret, and go about as
f it they knew erough to hang the rest of
; tire world. Rut I never am ; I only long
." to tell it; and I do sownnttotell you
this one. But there I promised I
wouldn't breathe it, and a promise is a
, promise, you know.
I I suppose I wouldn't care half so
much to tell if it were only a comnion
.. place affair, if there were no romance
about it all. Rut there is. Some people
are so fond of romance our llomaine
is; and I don't believe that anything
could have pleased her half so much
that happened in the regular, expected
. ; way. Our Romaine always was so full
of fancies and idea s, and when there's
anything romantic going, it always falls
to iter 101. lion i you ininK sue s a
beauty? I do; so tall, so beautifully
made, so gracious, such hair such soft
fragrant hair such eyes like jewels,
and her skin so like a tea rose ! I don't
' believe any of those funious beauties
that you rend about can hold a candle to
her that I don't! I always wondered
why she didn't take some one of her
lovers, although 1 knew, too, or thought
I did; lor she was just as lovely ten
years ago, when she came home from
school at seventeen the very day those
dreadtnl soliders came, you recollect
as Hhe is to-dny. She had been gone so
Jong four ye irs that everything about
the place was just as swe.'t and strange
, to her as if it were a kingdom she had
just come into; and she was going
round, looking at this and exclaiming
at that, caressing the creatures which
knew her, every one of them, even to
the parrots just ivjoieing in every
thing; aud I, a little six-year-old wor
shiper, was following her in adora-
tion, with tho peacock following me:
; when all at once the lawn was crowded
with soldiers, and the ya"d was full of
foragers, and the horses, llomaine's
own (iulnare, and mamma's, were
bung led away, and all the cows
were lowing, and the pigs were squeal
' ing, and the fowl were cackling, as
those wretches took possession; and
some were buildiDg fires in the yard,
and the rest were swarming into the
house. And they were in the china
closet, ravaging the store-room, were
in the bedrooms, in the wardrobes, and
a parcel of them had roor mamma in a
corner, and had torn away her shawl,
and one was nourishing her cap on the
point of his bayonet, and Romaine Lad
sprung into the midst of them, threaten
ing them with a wild airy, when sud
denly a voice rang over tho uproar, a
terrible commanding voice, somebody
strode through the throng, and seizing
by the shoulder tirsl one and then an
other of the men who had cornered
mamma anit lv.muune. Hung them on
thi-? side and on that, and in one ino
incnt silence fell, and man by man they
t.lmik away, and presently they were
down thu tsUira, and xnarch-
In out of the hall by Mies ; and the offi- right to hold yourselt so inaccessible." most an old maid, and as silly as that!
ccr who had wrought the change-a tall, said mamma to her one day, as the wind- Now I'll tell you what, if you don t turn
Blender yoUne fellowof whom one could ing up of a U11 king-to thnt sent Romaine a short corner, 1 U see what I can do
see little but the eyes blazing like wild- out of the room crying. " What is there myself: and when it's too late lor you,
fire, for the torn and dronnitiff ViRor of about vou that no man in America, or you'll be eating your heart out with
his cap, and for the brown beard cover
ing his brown face, and the smears of
smoke and powder put mamma's sliawi
about her shoulders, bowed low to
llomaine, and took me in his arms a mo
ment and looked at me, and set me down
again, andvas passing out, when Ro
maine rarfwrward and caught his liana.
and began to pour out a torrent of
thanks. He turned and smiled. " I de
serve no thanks," he said. And
then, half hesitating a single in-
stnnf
he raised Romaine s hand, that
still foriretfullv held his. and Dressed it
to his lips, nd was gone. And a curi-
ous old silver-set diamond on his hand.
whose stone3 made a tiry crest, took my
baby eye, so tliat I always ajembered
it. But as I turned to Ilormaine oh,
how she loosed then! I've never seen
anything so beautiful since, she blushed
such a rosy red, and her eyes lighted,
and her smile grew dazzling, and I've
thought, as I remembered it, that just
so Eve might have looked when she
woke and looked upon the world before
her. And lie turned in the door and
saw ner, ana men ne ran uown tne
stairs, and mounted his horse; and pres
ently we heard the lastot them trooping
over the hill. They took Gulnare and
All with them, though, for all of the
young officer; but the very next day
Gulnare came into the yard by herself.
and neighed for her oats.
Well, now, do you know, I believe
that from that very moment Romaine
made that voung oiheer her hero and
her ideal. She didn't know his name,
she didn't know hia regiment, she didn't
know his rank, she had hardly seen his
face; but, for all that, she just resolved
very likely without putting it in so many
words to herself that if she couldn t
marry him, she would never marry any
body, and she would keep herself and ali
her thoughts sacred to this hero. And
she did. And that is what hts given her
this air of remoteness, almost as it she be
longed to a superior race, you know. She
didn't know whether her hero was alive
or dead; there were skirmishes in
the neighborhood, and beforelong
a great battle farther off; but there
were no nleans of learning anything, of
course, and he never came back.
Somehow I think she felt that if he
were alive he would, and I think she
began to look upon him ns dead, and
herself as well, don't you laugh as
something like a widow; at any rate,
as vowed to him. She was only seven
teen then, you know. Oh, yes, I know
I'm only sixteen myself, and a terrible
chatterbox too, Paul says; but I know
that things get fixed in one' mind at
seventeen that even seventeen more
years won't undo, and Romaine has
only ten years more. But Romaine has
the poetical temperament..
Well, in a year or two Uncle Taul
died, and left mamma a comfortable
fortune. As the farm really belonged
to Paul, when he reached home mamma
decided to come to tho city for our win
ters, and to build this, little villa lor the
summers, and sometimes Paul comes to
us, and sometimes we go to him. A
year ago nearly 1 camo back irom
aehool, Mamma said I was very
pretty, but very unformed, and she
wondered what my teachers naa oeen
about to leave all this trouble for her,
and she doubted what sort of a match I
would make. I said how could 1 make
any with . Romaine still hanging
on uer nanas r wnereupon mamma
said Romaine was the most pre
posterous girl alive; 6he had just
let millions slip through her hn
gers, and she didn't believe the
Archanele Michael would make any ini
proesion on her. So 1 began to watch
Romaine. and I found an old brass but
ton was one ot ner treasures, and L
learned what sort of people it was in
in wnoni sue ipii an mieresi; l oo-
served the care she took of Gulnare. al
tho 'gh Gulnare was twenty years old;
and 1 discovered, by accident again.
nut away with a lock ot Mrs. Brown
mg's hair and a leaf from Shelley's
tomb, that brass button and an old torn
visor of a soldier's cap. Again, once
when we were all recounting old times,
and mamma was telling of the fright
she had when tho soldier was flourish'
inar her cap on a bayonet, and the grati
tude she felt to her deliverer, who, she
always did feel, came straight from
heaven to help her. and, for all she knew.
went straight back again, I happened
to be looking at Romaine in the glass,
whereupon she turned as red as a red rose,
then all at once grew white as a white
rose, was faint, and had to get out of
the room. I m ide up my mind about
Romaine.
I wits sorrv. too: for some of Paul's
people who used to come mooning round
her were mighty nice. There was Col
onel Rice -I don't know what he was
colonel of. some fancy-fair or sidewalk
regiment I'm sure he'd never smclled
powder except when shooting pigeons;
but he had the littlest loot and band, una
oceans of money, and a drag. And lie
did send llomaine such flowers! and it
she had but thrown her handkerchief,
there was nothing he wouldn t have
given her cashmere bhawls to walk on,
and diamonds bright enough to read by.
And there was an English earl's son-
just back from bullalo hunting, who
would have made a countess oi tier, onjy
give him time enough; and goodness
knows how many more of Paul's chums,
and Senator Catchpenny, and the regu
lation swells, and Cousin Nicholas.
And Ramaine disdained them all
every one of Paul's chums of course, and
Cousin Nicholas on account of the old
family leud that had always kept us
apart; he was a hundred-thousandth
ousinorso. And when the English
man was round she justout-Aoiericaned
the Americans: and nothing but the
dread of a scene with mamma could get
her behind Colonel Rice s horses, al
though I should have been glad ot the
chance; and that is the way it had been
with one or another for nine or ten
vears. mamma said; and Romaine was
do btedly a fixture.
" 1 dou i know about your Having thu
Europe either, that I can see, is fit to
marrv vou. i suou a like to Knowr
Romaine was dancing that night with
Cousin Nicholra.at Mrs. Glance's ball.
The delicious waltz music made my feet
just tingle. Mamma let me go to a ball
now an d then, to show people what she
had in reserve. Romaine said. iut
there was Romaine. so listless, so lovely,
so indifferent, and Nicholas looking
down at her so eaeer. so intent, and then
leiding her out into the moonlight, as n
lie would take her away irom an mcse
people, and into another world.
- it s
when
no use, Cousin Nicholas, I said,
he happened to thin k of me, half an hour
afterward, and brought me an ice;
' she wouldn't rnarry you if you were
made of gold. She wouldn't marry any
body but a soldier anyway (an at once
Nicholas' face lighted up), "and him
only if he had been nearly shot to
pieces; and only one soldier out of all
of them, I do believe," I made haste to
add, for I didn't want to encourage
him.
' How much must a man do to earn
his cnseP" said Nicholas, in his slow
lanquid way, which always did seem to
make him taller and morebroad-shoul d
ered than ever. He was a handome fel
low, with his fresh color, his white
orehead, his grizzled curling hair in
tight rings like that of an old Greek
head, his teeth gleaming from under
the dark mustache when he smiled. I
didn't. po bnw she cnnld heln hnintr at
tracted to him, being being in love
with him. von know. " How .many scars
must he showP" he drawled. "Does
she want you to wear your uniform and
your bandages all the timer" And men
his eyes flashed, he thrust his fingers
through tne gray rings, and i saw
where a bullet had plowed its way
among them. " That was my ticket to
four months of unconsciousness in a
hospital," he cried. And then he pulled
up the cun Irom his right wrist, ami
drew his tincrers across an indentation
there. " That lost me my sword-arm,"
he said. "What more does she wantf
Shall I tell her a ball made this dimple
in mv chinP that I carry the five
wounds about me? I suppose if I took
off both arms and both legsvery nignt,
she would have me out of hand."
No. she wouldn't." I said. "She
wouldn't have you unless you were a tall
slender fellow whose eyelashes were
burned off. whose face was covered to
the eyes by a torn visor above and by
a brown beard below, who kissed her
hand, and wore nn odd silver-set uia
mond crest on his I saw it and whom
she has set up in her shrine for ever and
ever. Why, (Jousin jNictioias, wnat is
the matter with you ?" i or he had sud
denly burst into the gayest and mot t
uproarious laufru. "You had better
tell me, so that I can laugh too," I said,
feeling as though l ought to he angry,
but decidinz that I could not be vexed
with Cousin Nicholas. "I've no doubt
she'll think better of you when I tell her
about j'our scars," 1 said.
"When you tell her about my scais!"
he exclaimed, so that I started and
trembled. " Open your lips to her about
them, you blessed little chatterbox, and
I'll kill you! It sue won t care ior me
without scars, she sha'n't care for me
at all!"
" Well. I declare, I never" I began
Just take me to mamma, if you please.
If Paul heard you speaking so to his
" Ilanar Paul ! Hush ! hush !" he said.
drawing my hand through his arm and
holding it. "louhave made me nap.
ninr tr.nl trhfc fiinn von over can airain."
hnrltt hns trrinfi crnzv!"
I Kr aH Anrl inn inatenrl nt lis tnk-
ins me to mamma, uousin miciioias
arm slid round my waist, anu ne was
whir line me round the room to themad-
dening waltz music in a way that
mamma asserted alterward was utterly
inexcusable, and that llomaine declared
took her breath away. " 1 should never
have thoueht it of vou." she said.
"Dear me!" I answered ; "youoont
suppose he's going to go sighing like a
lurrrace lor you lorever, wnen you
"When I what!"'
"Have refused him twenty times."
" I've never had the chance to refuse
him once. I don't want to have it "
" You're afraid you'd accept him,
miss," I exclaimed.
" I don't want to accept him."
" You'd accept him quickly enough if
be was a slender vounir ollieer wiih a
face hidden bv a bright brown beard
and smooches and smirches of powder
driving his soldiers out of the house
the first man thatever kissed jour hand,
Miss Romaine.wim an old silver-aet dia
mond rins on his. You needn't think I
hadn't an v eves, if I wasn't but six years
old, or any memory, or any faculty of
outtina two and two together
" Oh. how can you be so cruel!" she
cried, hiding her face in her hands
"I'm not cruel," I said. "It s you
that are cruel, and sillv too Cousin
Nicholas is worth a dozen of that fel
low that you Bet up lor yourse.f to bow
down to. Don't you suppose Cousin
Nicholas would havedriven the soldiers
out, and have kissed your hand too?"
'Nicholas, where bullets were, uy-
ing!"
"Yes, where bullets were flying, and
riddled with them, besides. And you
don't deserve him, that you don't, it
you are beautiful. But, oh! I do de
clare, Roinaine, when you are so per
fectly lovely, and he does love you so,
for you to"
"How do you know he loves me so?
He never said it."
"As if there were no other speech
than just so many words ! I can't ste
how you can be so unleeling."
" I never said I was unleeling."
"What? ltyally, llomaine? Are you
in earnest? Do you really care for him,
just a little?"
" I I I mean I could maybe.
But but then, you know, dear, I 1
can't talk about it. I feel as if I were
pledged as if I were breaking a
bond-"
"To that other fellow? Fiddlesticks'
md! You, tweuty-Huveu yearn old, !-
envy and rage. There he comes now,
and I'm croine out to see him and be
gin;" and so I ran down the lawn to
meet him as ne gave nis norse to me
groom it was only the next day after
Mrs. Glance s ball.
I've something to tell you," I said,
taking his arm and holding it in a way
to drive vexation to nomaine s nearr,
for I knew she was looking at U3 behind
a curtain somewhere
And I've something to show you.
mv dear child." he answered, and he
fumbled in a pocket a moment, and then,
opening his hand just a jittle way, let
me see a gleam oi sometning spanning
diamonds silver-set.
"Nicholas!" I cried. And I stood
open-mouthed, looking him over from
head to foot.
" ' Ton years make great alterations,' "
he hummed.
" But, Nicholas"
"Hush! hush!" he said. "Do you
believe she has suspected F"
'Oh, never! Oti, make nastes uu,
do go in! She's in the music-room.
look mot out behind the curtain." And
1 never was so impatient with anybody
in my life as with the slow, careless
gait at which he went up the lawn and
inr.n The house.
I ran in. half an hour afterward, to
cet mv .Tananese work. They had gone
out on the balcony, and were leaning
over the rail together, looking at tne sea ;
and as I just glanced at them there was a
color in Romaine's cheek and alory in
her eye that almost made my heart stop
beating. And suddenly 1 made a dart
at her, and caught her hand and held it
up. And they both seized me with one
accord that moment, and swore me to
secrecv. And I promised; and a
promise is a promise, you Know, anu
althniiffh I'm dtinff to tell you, wild
. , . , .
horses won t get it away from me, and
I never, never shall tell you what it
was I saw on Romaine's finger
Harper's Bazar.
How to be Independent of Dry Weather,
We have lived in the Arkansas val
ley for nearly nine years. From the
hrst we have been of the opinion that
this country will, eventually, support
m abundant prosperity a dense popula
tion, who will produce from the soil
crops not excelled for yield or certainty
in any part of the world. The soil is
nt surprising lertihty, the lay ol the
land is admirable and the temperature
is of the mean between the cold of the
North and the heat of the South
most favorable for grains and fruits
The only thing wanting i3 regularity in
the supply ot moisture.
home expect that this will correct it
self, and when a good rain comes assert
that the seasons are changing, growing
more rainy. Ihe experience ot last year
and this have almost dissipated this
theory.
W hat then is the remedy lor drouth
There is abundance of water atashor
distance below the surface. The wind
is willing to work for nothing and to
raise to the surface an unlimited amount
of it. It remains for the ingenuity and
skill of man to harness the wind to the
work, and toapply the water judiciously
to the soil, borne say this will be lm
practicable and expensive. Expensive
it mav be. but it is not impracticable
In Holland they have emptied lake3
and even a sea in order to cultivate the
soil at their bottom. Constant vigilance
is necessary to ken the water out, let
all IS done at profit,
expensive will 11 ue iu imitate
""'""fi ""u yis VLl
lakes and seas of Holland. The lakes of
Holland were not dried in a day, neither
will the Arkansas valley be irrigated in
a day, but ny preparation beiorenand
and the accumulation of a supply o
water on the surface to be in constant
readiness when needed, the long dry
spells will bo deprived of their power to
rum mo prosperity ot the country.
How 13 this to be doner
We should say, select the highest
point on the land sought to be watered;
with plow and scraper make a neavy
dirt wall around a large basin ; keep it
wet with a windmill and water eleva
tor; feed your hogs in this pen for a few
weeks and let them wallow the entire
surface so as to make it hold water;
plant cotton-wood cuttings all over the
dirt wall, then let you windmills devote
the winter and spring to filling up this
bas n. By the time the water is needed
for the crops in the spring, the water
will be warm and tit to apply. As
these supplies of surface water are in
creased a greater amount of moisture
will be found to exist at all times in the
air. Slcriina (Kan.) Gazette.
How Drinking Causes Apoplexy.
It is the essential nature ot all wines
and spirits to send an increased amount
of blood to the brain. The first ell'oct
of taking a glass of wine or stronger
form of alcohol is to send the blood there
faster than common, hence the circula
tion that gives the red face. It in
creases the activity of the brain, and
it workE faster, and so does the tongue.
But as the blood goes faster to the brain
than common, it returns faster, and no
immediate harm may result. But sup
pose a man keeps on drinking the
blood is sent to the brain so fast in
large quantities, that in order to make
room for it the arteries have to charge
themselves; they increase in Bize, and
in doing so they press against the more
yielding flaccid veins which carry the
blood out of the brain and thus dimin
ish the size of their pores, the result
being that the blood is not only carried
to the arteries of the brain taster than
is natural or healthful, but il is pre
vented from leaving it as fast as usual ;
hence a double set of causes of death
are in operation, llenec a man maj
drink enough of brandy or other spirits
in a few hours, or even minutes, to
biiii on a fatal attack of apoplexy.
This is bimally bi:in dead drunk.
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD
Ulrdllna Trees and Vines.
There are many things about plant
erowth that we cannot know ; vet, by
careful study and experiments, we may
learn much that is botn interesting ana
useful. Many of the popular notions in
regard to plants have been proved to be
incorrect, it is commonly supposeu,
for example, that the growth of a tree
is upward from the ground ; but it has
been demonstrated that the growth is
really from the top downward. The
sap passes up through the wood of the
tree to the leaves, where it meets with
the tYint.pri al irathered from the air. In
this laboratory of the leaves, vegetables
matter, is formed, which is then con
veyed downward not between ine
bark and the wood, : s has been claimed
hut in the inside layer of the bark,
fiom which it is thrown off to become
a new layer of wood.
A girdled tree may continue to grow
fihnpp the o rdle. but never below. A
girdled tree, in onejsense, does not die
because ot tne girdle, dui Decause tue
denuded wood dries up so as to prevent
the nan from passim? up to tne leaves.
If the denuded part can be bo proiecieu
from the sun and air as to keep it from
drying, the life of the tree may be pre
served. I knew a pine tree to live and
grow for eight years after being girdled ;
r I ' ' j
but the growth, was oniy aoove me gu-
dle. ....
Farmers are alwaVS anXlOUS tO knOW
a thing if they can make a dollar out of
it. Now, if the growth of thetree is from
the top downward, a knowledge of this
taot mnv he nt prcat value w lruiu-
growers. It we can Keep me vegeiaoie French government to aecioe as 10 me
matter formed in the leaf in the top of disposition to be made of the Tuileries
the tree, it will t nd to increase the pro- has agreed to restore the palace and con
duction of fruit. That this is a fact has vert it into a museum. .
been sufficiently proven by numerous
experiments. Girdle the canes ot a grape-
vine and it ripens rs iruu iwo or u is
weks earlier than a vine not girdled.
he same is true of the apple and all
fruit-bearing trees. This fact is ot es
pecial importance in the culture of
grapes, as in this way we can ripen va
rieties of this fruit for which our seasons
are ordinarily, with the usual treat
ment, too short. The reason that 'gird
ling has not been generally pracuseu uy
fmit-irrnwers. is because it has been
commonly supposed that a vine or tree
cannot be girdled without killing it.
It is my purpose to ten you now uow
you can girdle your vines and trees with
out iniurine them. I have girdled the
same grapevine five yearsin succession,
anu wauuuiiujuimgium u.ii..."
proper time to girdle a vine is when the
grapes are about the size of a pea. The
operation may be performed with a sharp
penknife, cutting a clean chasm around
the bearing canes, about one-sixteenth
of an inch in width. This chasm, while
of too small extent to iDjure the vine,
will vet be sufficient to check for a few
weeks the descent of the sap, and conse
quently the growth of the vine below,
throwing the whole of the nutriment
absorbed by the vine int o the tops of
the canes and the fruit. Ihe ellect will
be to greatly advance and improve tho
fruit. The girdle will, in a little while,
readily heal over, aod the circulation
of the vine resume its normal cours).
Tho branches of ali fruit-bearing trees
may be treated in the same way, and
with like results. Any one can suc
cessfully perform the operation if they
are only sufficiently careful not to make
t lie cut in .he bark too wide. Professor
Rockbridge .
Cleanliness In Milking.
To keep ,milk clean while in the act
of drawing it, the cow must be clean,
her bag and teat? washed and wiped be
fore commencing to milk her, and the
milkman's hands be then washed. After
straining and setting, see that no foul
air can come from any quarter to taint
the milk ; and for this we must be careiui,
for such is often borne on a Btrong breeze
fully a mile off or more from the place
whore it originated. It is, of course,
presupposed that all vessels used lor
holding the milk are kept clean and en
tirely clear of every sort of odors. We
have often seen the dairy house placed
close to the cattle yard, poultry house,
and, what is foulest of all, a dirty pig
pen. No wonder where this is the case
an miion butter and cheese are sent to
market not fit to be eaten.
Beclues.
To Bake Potatoes Quickly. To
bake potatoes quickly, pour water on
and let them stand a minute or two be
fore putting them into the oven.
To Cook Veal. Roll the slices in
beaten eggs and then in rolled crackers.
Melt a little butter in the frying pan,
and place the veal in it; cover tightly
and let it stew lor an hour.
Vmv.n Potatoes. Potatoes sliced
very thin should be cooked in a deep
skillet; the lard or butter must be bon
ing hot. If placed in a wire sieve much
time is saved and trouble spared.
Celeky Salt. Save the root of the
ceiery plant, dry and grate it, mixing it
with one-third as much salt. Keep it
in a bottle well corked, and it is de
licious for oysters, soups, gravies or
hashes.
Pie Cuist. Take boiled potatoes,
cold or hot, and knead into them a small
piece of dripping, salt, and sufficient
flour to make a paste. No water or milk
should be used. Good for a meat pie,
and is best eaten hot.
AUTIIICIAL CltEAM FOlt COEEEE.
Beat one egg to a foam, add a table
spoon of white sugar, aud pour a pint of
boiling milk into it, stirring briskly as
it is poured on the egg. Prepare at
night for the morning.
A man was struck down by paralysis
in a Michigan sawmill. He fell across
a log which was being sawed, and was
carried with it slowly but surely to the
saw. He was conscious, but utterly,
helpless. The saw had cut half way
through his arm when his awlul pre
dicament was discovered.
Tho boy who was kept after school
for bad orthography said he wa upell-
l bound. LowM tun.
Listen.
We borrow
In onr sorrow
From the Bun ot some to-morrow
Hall the light that gilds to-day
And the splendor
Flashes tender,
O'er hope footsteps, to defend her.
From the tears that haunt the way.
We never
Here can sever
Any now from the forever,
Intei-clasping near and far!
For each minute
Holds witbin it
All the hours of the Infinite,
As one sky holds every star.
ITEMS OF INTEREST,
The quantity of cotton consumed in
1878 was fifty:four times greater than
1778.
It is estimated the St. Gothard tunnel
will augment trade between Germany
and. Italy tenfold.
Our market reporter informs us that
" there is a remarkable downward ten
dency in lamp-wicks on Sunday night."
Marathon Independent.
It is illegal in England to sell crabs
measuring less than four and one-half
inches across the back, and persons sell
ing them have lately been punished.
A commission appointed by the
TOan who undertakes anything and
tg 1(?ft ftt hig own me catcnca a tar-
The boy who ciimbs to the top
. ,f . th doe8 80 with tho ex
pectation of catching a tart or two.
"Anxious Engineer" asks us how he
may " learn to write well." Write it
w-e-1-1, my son. There may be those
who write it with one 1; but the best
authors double the final consonant.
Grip.
A PRUDENT LOVER.
The thrush in the thicket is singing,
The lark is abroad on the lea,
And over the garden gate swinging
A maiden is waiting tor me.
She will wait till Tshe's weary, I'm thinking,
Though eagor I am tor the tryst j
She will wait till the bright stars are blinking,
And sigh for the kisses she miss'd.
But her lather is watchful and wary,
A very ill-tempered old chnrl,
And I am not the sort of canary
To be kicked lor the love of a girl.
Andrew? Bazar
A teacher asked a bright little girl:
"What country is opposite us on the
globeP" "Don't know, sir,'' was the
answer. " Well, now," pursued the
teacher, "if I were to bore a holo
through the earth, and you were to go
in at this end, where would you come
out?" "Out of tho hole, sir." replied
the pupil, with an air of triumph.
A party that moved last Saturday
hung a Brussels carpet on the clothe
line for an airing, and a goat came
along and ate a couple of yards of it be
fore he made the discovery that its
flowers were not natural. The re
marks of the owner on making the dis
covery are not printable. Bunnyside
Press.
A down-town man went fishing the
other day, and returned with three
small trout. He carried them through
the street boldly, and when asked if
those were all he caught, frankly ad
mitted that they were. The neighbors
gave him a pleasanf surprise last night, -and
presented him with the beauti
fully carved motto, " An hor.est fisher
man is the noblest work of God."
New Haven Register
Changes of Life.
Change is the common feature of so
ciety of all life.
The world is like a magic lanter, or
the shifting scenes of a panorama. Ten
years convert the population of schools
into men and women, the young into
fathers and matrons, make and mar for
tunes, and bury the last generation but
one. ,
Twenty years convert infants Into
lovers, fathers and mothers, decide
men's fortunes and distinctions, convert
active men and women into crawling
drivelers, and bury all preceding gen
erations. Thirty years raise an active genera
tion from nonentity, change fascinating
beauties into unbearable old women,
convert lovers into grandfathers, and
bury the active generation, or reduce
them to decrepitude and imbecility.
Forty years, alas! change the face of
nil unciptv. Infants are growing old.
Ihe bloom of youth and beauty has
passed away, two active generations
have been swept from the stage of lite;
names once cherished are forgotten,
unsuspected candidates for fame have
started from the exhaustless womb of
nature. .
And in fifty years- mature, ripe fifty
years a half century what treniep
dou3 changes occur. How time writes
her sublime wrinkles everywhere, in
rock, river, forest, cities, villages, ham
lets, in the nature oi man and the des
tinies and aspects of all civilized so-
cletv- ...
Let us pass on to eighty years and
what do we see in the world to comfort
us? Our parents are gone; our children
have passed away from us into all parts
of the world to tight, the grim and des
perate battle of life. Our old friends
where are they? We behold a world
ot which we knownothing and to which
we are unknown. e weep iui
generations long gone by for loverf,
for p arents, for children, for friends m
the grave. Wo see evcrjthine turned
upbide down by the fickle hand of for
tuue and the absolute despotism of
time. In a word we behold the vanity
of life, und are quite ready to lay down
the poor burden and bo noua.