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Cfl)
At the Tastare Bars.
Keturning lonely from the flolil
She met mo nt the pasturo bnrs;
The moon wus like a goldon shield,
Hie Armament was lit with star.
As morning dawn her laco was mild,
As cvoning, co hor limpid eyesj
Hod novor gave a sweeter child
For weary man to idolise.
So winsome seemed her artless mirth,
Hor solt enrosi and nrdont kits,
I thought ol ull dt-light ot earth
The angels suicly covet this.
I know they mean to do no ill,
Hut whom they love they lure away;
Good ungels love her as you will,
Nut leave her with mo while I stay.
Just as she is, for I would set
The haad ol timo hohind an hour,
It that would stay a little yet
The bud lrom blowing to tho flower.
And when at length we homeward went
Tho fragrant azure shone so clear,
The groat lamiliar firmament
I thought had never seemed so near.
So near, the moon above the trees
An airy globe of silver swung,
And in the dewy tops ot theso
The stars in mellow clusters hung.
So near that I could scdroo forego
The thought that one who longing waits
Might hear thorn singing sweet and low
Across the golden portalod gUes.
J. P. Irtint.
THE WIFE'S WAGES.
"Well, Nettie, what do you wantP"
said Mr. J irvia to hU wife, who stood
looking lather anxiously at him after
he had paid the factory hands their
week's wages
" Why, Donald," iai 1 she, " Ithougbt
as 1 hid worked lor you all the week I
would coiuo lor my wages, tool You
pay Jane two dollars a week, surely I
cam that, and I would like very much
to hive it a my own ''.
"Pshaw, Nettie, how ridiculously
you talk t Yiu know that all I have
rolrmgt to you and Uw children and
don't I furnish the house and every
thing? What under t he sun would you
do wiib monev if yrxu hid HP'1
I kn'ow, Donald, that you buy the
necihs irifs for us al and I am willing
that you should do so still, but I should
like a lit le money ol my vefy own. We
have benn married fifteen years, and in
all Hi it time I do not seem to have
earned a dollar. As far as money is con
cerned I might as well bo a slave. I
cannot buy a quaro of berries, nor a
book, without asking you lor the
money, and I should like to be a little
more independent."
Mr. Jarvis, proprietor of Jarvis mills,
wortii thousands of dollars, laughed de
risively. " You're a fine one to talk of inde
ponience," lie said. "If you should
start out to makeyourown living, you'd
fetch up in the pooihouse soon enough,
for what could you do to earn a living ?
The girls in the factory know how to
do their work, nnd they earn their
waire. When I have paid them my
duty is done, but I have to board and
clothe vou. and take care of you when
vou are sick. If I had to do that for the
girls, they would have precious little
monev left. 1 can tell you."
"Djnald, I gave up a good trade
when I married you. lor live years I
had supported myself by it, and many a
time since have I envied myself the
nurse of those days. As for my not
earning anything now, I leave it to you
to say whetffer it would be possible to
hire another to take my place : and how
muoh do you suppose it would cost you
to do without nio a year r i know tlie
girls have but little left after paving
their expenses, but they enjoy that little
so much. A mo watson supports ner
elf and her mother with her wages, and
they both dress better than I do. Jennie
Hart is helping her father pay off the
mortgage on his larm, ana sue is so
happy that she can do so. Even Jane,
the kitchen girl, has more freedom than
I, for out of her own money she is lay
ing bv presents for her relatives, and
will send them Christmas, as much to
her own pleasure as theirs. Yesterday
an Indian woman was at the hou e with
such handsome bead work to cell, and,
although I wanted some money so much,
I Lad not a dollar! I felt like crying
when Jane brought in her week's wages
and bought half a dozen articles that I
wanted so much. You often say that
all vou have is mine, but five dollars
would have given mo more pleasure yes
terday than your hundreds of t housands
ol dollars worm oi property am."
"No doubt of that, Mrs. Jarvis. You
have no idea of the value of monev. and
would have enjoyed buying a lot of bead
trash that wouldn't be worth a cent to
anybody. Jane needs a guardian if she
fools away her money like that. She
will be in the poorhouse yet if she don't
look out. It's lucky that men do hold
the money, for there's not one woman in
a hundred who knows hrw touseiti'
- '"For shimc, Donala Jarvis! You
know better 1 Look at Jerry and Milly
Creg. will you, and say that he makes
the best use of his money. She is at
home with her parents every night
making her wag&' go as far as possible
toward making tliu comfort Me, while
he is carousing inithe villa, wasting
his time and money, and making a brute
of himselt besides. Ana why aoes Mrs,
Sarton come to receive her husband i
wages herself; simply because he can
not get by the saloon with money in his
pocket, and if the did not get the money
they would all go hungry to bed the day
after his wages are paid. And I belie v
that every woman who earns money
here spends it us wisely ustheaverag
of men, and I have yet to hear of one of
them being in debt.
Mr. Jarvi knew that he could cot
gainsay a word his
they were all true,
of Jane.
wife had said, for
Luckily he thought
"Well, how much do you suppose
Jane will have left when New Year
comesP If she should get sick how Ions
could she pay for care such as you
haveP"
"It is not likely she will lay ud many
dollars out of a hundred a year; but she
is laying up something better, I think.
Last winter she sent hcrmothT a warm
shawl and a pair of shoes, and to her
brother and sister money to buy new
school books, and the warm, loving let
ters they send her do her more good
than twice the amount of money in the
an k would. This year she is laying by
number of useful and pretty things for
them, and if-any misfortune should hap
pen to Jane they would only be too glad
to help her."
" Well, who do you suppose would
help you if you needed help?" said Mr.
Jarvis, for want of a better question.
Mrs. Jarvis' eyes sparkled angrily as s le
answered :
"Nobody. If you should lose your
property to-day I should bo a beggar,
without a claim on any one for help.
You have al wavs held vour purse strings
so tightly that it has been hard enough
to ask ir my own necessities, leaving
others out altogether. Many a time a
dollar or two would have enabled me to
do some poor man or woman untold
good, but although you have always
said that all your property was mine, I
never could and cannot now command a
dollar of it."
"Lucky you couldn't, if you wanted
to spend it on beggars."
"Donald, you know that I would
spei:d money as wisely as you do. Who
was it that, only last week, gave a poor
lame beggar five dollars to pay his fare
to Burton, and then saw him Ithrow his
crutches aside and make for the nearest
saloon P Your wife could not do worse
if trusted with a few dillars. You say
that the money is all mine, yet you
pend it as you please, while 1 cannot
pend a dollar without asking you for
it, and telling what I want it for. Any
beggar can get it the same way ! Christ
mas you bought presents for us and ex
pected us to bo very grate! ul lor them.
A shawi lor me ol the very color that I
cannot wear, a set of furs for Lucyttuat
she did not need, a drum for Robin that
has been a nuisance ever since, and a
lot of worthless toys that were all
broken up in a week. There was forty
or fifty dollars of my money just the
same as thrown away, y3t when I ask
you to trust me with two dollars a week
you cannot imagine what use I have for
it, nnd lcar it will be wasted. .1 am
sure I could not spend fifty dollars more
foolishly if I tried to."
" We'l," snapped the proprietor, "I
guess it is ray own money, and l can
pend it as l please. I guess you'll know
it. too, when you get another present."
"Oh. it is your money then. I under
stood you to say it was all mine, and in
tended to protest against your spending it
so foolishly. If it is your own, of courset
ycu have a right to spend it as you
please, but it teems to me that a woman
who left parents and brothers and sis
ters, and all her friends, to make a home
for you among strangers, a woman who
has given ner whole lite to you lor nt-
tccn years, might be looked upon, with
as much favor as you give to beggars.
who arc very likely to be impostors. I
know that you seldom turn them off
without help. Perhaps I would be
more successful if I appealed to you as
a beggar. I might say, kind sir. please
allow to me out of vour abundant
means a small pittance for my comfort
It is true that I have enough to eat, al
though I work for my master from
morning till night, and u his children
happen to be sick, from night until
morning again, yet he does not pay me
as much as he does his cook, and I am
olten greatly aistresaea for want oi a
trifling sum which he would not mind
giving to a perfect stranger! The other
day while he was from liome, I had to
go to the next station to see a dear
friend who was ill, and, not having a
dollar of my own, I was obliged to bor
row the money from his cook. I was so
mortified ! And not long since the berry
woman came with such nice berries to
sell, and mv little girl, who was not
well, wanted some very badly, but I had
not even five cents to pay for a handful
for her. Yesterday a lriend came to ask
me to assist in a work of charity. It
was a worthy object, and 1 longed so
much to give her a little money for so
good a purpose, but though the wife of
a rich man x bad no money, ui course
might ask my husband lor money
and if I told him all about what I
wanted with it, and he aucroved of my
purpose, and was in a good humor, he
would give it to me; but, sir, it is ter
ribly slavish to have to do so, even if I
could run to him every time I wanted
anything. People say I am a fortunate
woman because my husband is rich, but
often envy the factory girls their
ability to earn and spend their own
money. And sometimes I get so wild
thinking about my helplessness that if it
was not for my children 1 think I should
just drop into the river and end it all."
"Nettie! Nettie Jarvis! What are
you saying r" cnea the startled bus
band at last, for the far away look in
her eyes as if she did not see him, but
was looking to some higher power to
help her, touched his pride, if it did not
his heart, for he had a good deal of
pride in a selfish sort of way. He was
proud to be able to support his family
as well as he did. He was proud to
think he did it himself. Ho was proud
that when his children needed new shoes
he cjuld tell his wife to take them to
Crispin's and get what t':ey needed
He did it with a flourish. He was not
one of the stinyy kind he liked to spend
money; and when Nettie, who was once
the most spirited young laay ot his ac
quaintance, came meekly to mm lor a
dress or cloak, he was some times tempted
to refuse her money just to show her
how helpless she was without him.
Yes, ho was proud of hi3 family, and
wanted them to feel how much they
depended upon him. He would have
felt aggravated if any one had left hii
wild a legacy, thus allowing her to bs
independent of his purse. The idea of
her earning money, as his other work-
folks did, never entered his mind. He
supported her." that was his idea of
their iclations! He never had happened
to think that it was very good of her to
take Ins money and spend it tor the
?;ood of himself and children . He never
lad thought that any other woman
would have wished big pay for doing it.
lie bad even thought hiniseir very
generous for allowing her money to get
things to make the family comfortable.
Things began to look differently to him
just now. Could it be that he was not
generous, not even just to his wile!
llad he paid her so poorly for her fifteen
years of faithful labor for him that if
she had been obliged to begin the world
for herself that day it would have been
as a penniless woman, notwithstanding
the houses, the lands and mills that he
had so often told her were all hers; lor
he knew, as every one else did, that not
one dollar of all he had would the law
allow her to call her own.
How fast he thought, standing there
at tho office window looking down at
the little houses where the mill hands
lived. Could it be possible that his
wife envied them anything P Could it
be that he was not as good a man as he
thought? He had feltdeerjlv the wrongs
of the slaves, whose labors had been ap
propriated by their masters, and when
a negro, who had worked twenty years
for his master before the emancipation
freed him, came to Jarvis mills, friend
less and penniless, the heart of the pro
prietor swelled with indignation at such
injustice. He was eloquent on the sub
ject, at home and abroad, and won
dered how any one could be so cruel and
selfish as to commit such an outrage
against justice. Ho had called him a
robber many a time, but now Donald
Jarvis looked to himself very much like
the old slaveholders ! Massa Brown
had taken the proceefs of Cuffee s labor
for his own without a " thank you " for
it. True, whe l Cuffee eat he had given
him food, when he was sick he had
given him medicine, and he had clothed
him, too, just as he himself thought
best. Mr. Jarvis had married a loving,
conscientious woman, and for fifteen
years had appropriated her labors. Her
recompense had been food and clothes,
such as he thought best lor her. A lit
tle better than Cu (Tee's, perhaps, but the
similarity of the cases did not please
him. He had expected his wife to be
very grateful for what he had done for
her, but n ;w lie wondered tnat sue had
not 'rebelled long ago. llad bis me
been a mistakeP Had his wife no more
money or liberty than Cuffee had in
oondage. Was Donald Jarvis no better
than Massa Brown P
His brain seemed to be in a muddle,
and lie looked so strangely that his wife,
anxious to break tue spell, tootc nts
arm. saying " Let us go homo, dear, tea
must be waiting for us." He took off
his hat in a dreamy way and they walked
home in silence. The children ran joy
ously to meet them. Tho yard was so
fresh and green, and tue nowers so
many and bright, that he wondered he
had never thanked Nettie for them all.
Hitherto he had looked upon them as
his, but now he felt that his interest in
them was only a few dollars, that
would not have amounted to anything
without his wife's care. Ilia children
were tidv and sweet, and everything
around and in th 3 house had that cheery
look that rested him so after the hard,
dull day at the mill. They sat again at
the table, which had been a source rf
comfort and pleasure to him bo many
ears, and be wondered now ue could
have enjoyed it so long without even
thanking the woman who had provided
it. True she had used his money in
bringing it all about, but how else could
his monev be of use to himP Who else
could have turned it intojust what he
needed day alter day for years r And he
began to have an undefined feeling that
it took more than money to make a
home, He glanced at his wife's face as
he buttered his last slice of bread.
It was not that of the fair, rosy bride
whom he had brought to the mills years
before, but at that moment he realized
that it was far dearer to him, for he
knew that she had given the bloom and
freshness of her youth to make ms
home what it was. His daughters had
her rose-leaf cheeks, his sons her youth
ful vitality, all had her cueerlul, win
some ways, and oomtortea mm now as
she had in those days when, hardly
knowing what care meant, she had
lived for him alone.
And a new thought came to him
Who was comforting her now when
she had so much careP" Was not that
what he promised to do when he
brought her from her old homeP He
sighed as he thought how far he had
drifted from her while holding her in a
bondage equal to Cuflee's. Nay, he felt
that her claims were far more binding
than nny which had ever held the
negro, and that his obligations to her
were so much the greater.
Something called the children out
doors, and Mr. Jarvis took his easy
chair. His wife came and blood beside
him. "I fear you are not well, Donald,
or are vou displeased with meP"
He drew her into his arms and told
her how her words had showed him
what manner of man he was, and there
were words spoken that need not be
written, but from that day forth a dif
ferent man was the proprietor of the
Jarvis mills, and there was a brighter
light in Mrs. Jarvis' eyes, for at last she
had something of her own, nor has she
regretted that she " applied for wages."
The German 82U lptor, Muller, whose
magnificent statue of "Prometheus
Bound " has just been bought for sixty
thousand marks by the government and
placed in the Berlin national gallery,
was. when a poor boy. a cook in a Mu
nich hotel.
Some twenty stallions and six or eight
mare colts have been shipped from Nor
mandy to Bloomington, 111. Three of
the horses weighed 2.01b pounds eacb,
and the r jst averaged about 1.W00. They
are to be brooded with common Wf stern
stock.
Tronble With the Obelisk.
Commander Gorrlnge, in charge of
the vessel which brought Cleopatra's
needle from Alexandria, Egypt, to New
York, had considerable trouble in get
ting away with the khedive's present:
1 would rather." e said, when pressed
for a description of the fight he was
compelled to make at Alexandria before
and after the removal of the monolith
from its long occupied site, "drop a
curtain over that entire affair. I hate
to think that there are in this world so
many picayune and disagreeable people
as those who opposed my work in Alex
andria. I desire, however," he added.
to give to the American consular agent
at Alexandria Constantine M. Salvago,
Greek merchant of that city the
credit and praise that is due to him for
his share in toe enterprise, jbuc lor ms
influence among the merchants of Al
exandria, which was constantly ex
erted in my behalf, I fear we would
have had mucti more serious trouble
than befell us."
" What was the nature or form of the
opposition t ) your removal ol the obe
lisk r" asked the reporter.
" Oh, it took a dozen different forms,"
replied the lieutenant. "The Egyp
tians themselves were, i thuiK, wen
pleased with the gift of the khedive to
the great country of the United States,
for which country they have unquali
fied and unbounded respect and admira
tion, but the population of Alexandria
consists in a very limited degree of Egyp
tians. It is made up of Greeks and Eng
lishmen. Italians and Frenchmen, and
Syrian Jews. The latter were most bit
ter in their objection to the removal of
the needle."
"For what reason P' asked the reporter.
" Ah," replied Commander Gorringe,
that is just what I would like to know.
For no reason apparently beyond the
reason entertained by the famous dog
who made a resting-place in the manger.
I really do not know why it was, but
there was certainly at first a very gen
eral opposition on the part of the for
eigners at Alexandria (who, by the way,
pay no taxes, being under consular
jurisdiction) to any disturbance of the
obelisk. All ot a sudden thev were
seized with the deepest and liveMst in
terest in the ancient monument, which
for years had stood neglected in the out
skirts oi the cny near the Kamleh depot.
The "young bloods, swore that the
obelisk should not be removed. I was
told by a friend that a sort of society
had been formed for the purpose of op
posing tho removal by force. I imagine,
however, that there was never very
much backbone to that society. At all
events, I told my informant that in my
humble opinion it would bo poor policy
and exceedingly dangerous for those.
young gentlemen of Alexandria to at
tempt force, and they, on reflection.
seemed to arrive at the same conclu
eiou."
" Were there any threats ot personal
violence against yourself?" asked the
reporter.
Commander Gorringe shrugged his
shoulders and answered with a doubtful
sort of a " no." He admitted, how
ever, that while walking in the
" bourse " one morning he was loudly
hissed.
" What did you doP" asked the re
porter.
"l deliberately retraced my steps,"
was tuo reply, "ana tue hissing
stopped."
A lorcibie detention ot the obelisk
having been decided to be at too
great a risk, the foreign population of
Alexandria next attempted to clog his
work with legal barriers. All sorts of
injunctions and stop papers were issued
bv the mixed courts ot the city, une
man made affidavit or whatever is the
Egyptian equivalent of that process
that the removal of the obelisk would
seriously endanger the stability of his
house, it being shown that the gentle
man's house was not nearer than 212
yards from the base of the monument,
his complaint was thrown out of court
The next step taken to impede the pro
gress of the removal came in the form
of a sort of combination which seemed
to have been formed for the sole and
express purpose of cheating the Ameri
can commander. It was with the ut
most difficulty that he could make the
slightest purchase without being cheated
and defrauded. " I really do not know,"
said Commander Gorringe, " why I am
rehearsing all this that is past and gone,
I assure you I would much sooner for
get all about it."
"But the opposition to your work
did not continue to the last, did it P"
asked the reporter.
"In some quarters yea," was the re
ply, " but not as a common thing."
" When you farst removed the stone
from the perpendicular, was there any
demonstration ot disapproval!"'
"There was an immense crowd as
sembled, but the intense and universal
curiosity with which the process was
regarded seemed to preclude ail other
feelings. You remember we made the
first attempt to lower the obeiisk on De
cember 3, two days before it actually
was lowered. W ell, on that occasion
the Russian admiral sent a guard of sol
diers to see that the work was not inter
fered with. Hence, you see, he feared
trouble if nobody else did."
Why He Wouldn't Oo Fishing.
Billy Manning could tell the funniest
thing in the world, and never "crack a
smile." On one occasion lie overtook
the writer on Fourth street, St. Louis.
I hadn't seen him for two years, but he
came up and began to talk just as if wo
had been in company together ten min
utes before. Said he: "Some of the
boys want me to go a-fisbing. I told
them I couldn't go, as 1 die n't know
anything about fishing, and besides I
had no tackle. You needn't take any
tackle, they said. 'But how will you
catt'h fish without tackle P' 1 asked.
Nothing easier,' they replied. "Kero
sene oil.' How are you going to catch
fish with kerosene oil?' 'Go out in a
boat ; pour kerosene oil on tho water;
the fish come up and swallow it; it
makes them sick; they go ushoro to
throw it up, and you hit 'em in the head
with a club.'" Sun I'rancisco Aryu
FARM, HARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD,
liBt on Dairy Farms.
A dairyman writes that he finds there
is no more profitable stock to keep on
a dairy farm than good pigs. He keeps
two pure Berkshire brood sows and one
boar, and raises four litters each year.
The litters average eight each, and the
pigs are sold when they are between
four and five months old to make room
for the new litters. They then weigh
from 120 to 150 pounds dressed, and sell
for seven cents a pound. Last year his
pies brought him in over $250. and they
did not cost $50 ouUide of the skimmed
milk and the buttermilk which they
consumed. He has tried several kinds,
Chester Whites, Yorkshires, Suffolks,
grade Berkshires, and pure ones, and
finds the pure Berkshire and the hair
breed of this breed and Chester White
the best feeders. The meat of these
two kinds will sell more readily than
any others, being lean ana iat mixea,
while Essex, bunolk and lorKshire are
all too fat for sale in the summer time.
He cures the hams and the Bides for
bacon, and finds it is more profitable
than selling the carcasses. He don't
think anything on a dairy farm pays
so well as good pigs properly managed.
How to Have Chickens Fit to Eat.
Don't imagine that it makes no dif
ference how your chickens have been
brought up. Don't suppose that they
will bo good anyhow. Chickens have
been carefully dressed, deliciously
stuffed, and yet they were not fit to eat.
There was a flavor about them that no
soda rinsings could cleanse and no sea
soning conceal. These were chickens
that had picked up tneir living around
pig styes and other unolean places A
chicken may be spoiled in dressing it to
cook. If killed with a full crop, and
allowed to ue lor hours betore it is
" drawn " or relieved of its internal
organs, it gets an unpleasant flavor.
Fowls should be caught and shut up
without food for twelve hours before
they are beheaded. Then the crop and
intestines will be empty, and the task of
picking and dressing it will be greatly
lessened. Old fowls are not necessarily
tough only cook them long enough.
They are more tendr twenty-lour hours
alter tuey are kilted tuan it eaten imme
diatcly.
Transplanting by N I a lit.
A gentleman anxious to ascertain the
effect of transplanting by night instead
of by day, made an experiment, with
the following result: He transplanted
ten cherry trees while in bloom.com
mencing at lour o clock in the after
noon. Those transplanted during day
light shed their blossoms, producing
little or no lruit, while those trans
planted in the dark maintained their
condition fully. He did the same with
ten dwarf trees after the fruit was one
third grown. Those transplanted dur
ing the day shed their fruit ; those trans
planted during the night perfected the
crop and showed no injury from having
been removed. With each of these
trees ho removed some earth with the
roots. The incident is fully vouched
for. and if a few similar experiments
produce a like result, it will be a strong
argument to horticulturists, etc., to do
much work at night.
Propitiating lfoses.
It is always very desirable, with
those who have a very few choice roses,
to have some extra ones, either to give
a friend or to enlarge the flower garden.
To do this, select ripened shoots, well
branched, near the ground (preferring
those limbs that, if cut off, would make
a nico bushy plant), and with a sharp
knife hack or notch the under side,
so that, when bent, it will come in con
tact with the soil. These notche
should be five or six in number, through
to the heart or pitch. Now bend the
limb down, and with the knife slit the
limbs one and one-half inch up toward
the end of the top, just below the
notches, and be careful not to break the
limb. Cover two inches in the sandy
soil and lay a brick or stone over it to
keep it down. Keep the soil moist,
and by spring the roots will have
formed, often lour and five inches long,
when it can be easily removed. The
most difficult roses root easily this way.
Amcricm Cultivator.
ltecipea.
Lemon Pudding The peels of two
largo lemons grated on sugar, or boiled
and beaten in a mortar, half a pound of
sugar, the juice of a large lemon, half a
pound of butter, ten eggs, leaving out
half of the whites. Beat all together,
and putting a putt" paste In the bottom
of your plato, bake it.
GixtiEititHKAD Nuts. One quart of
molasses, three pints of flour, one pint
corn meal, one pound of butter, half a
pound of coane hrown sugar, an ounce
of allspice, a teaspoonful of cloves, a
taspoonful of cinnamon, and two ounces
of ginger. Put the molasses in a mug.
then add to it the butter and sugar;
have on the lire a saucepan of boiling
water, in which set tho mug and its
contents. Let it stand until the butter
and sugar are dissolved. In tho mean
time mix the spices, all pounded, with
the flour and meal. Afterward knead
the whole together, and cut into cakes
not larger in circumference than a silver
halt dollar. Bake them about a quarter
of an hour, but be careful not to let
them burn.
Uoli-S. One cup of warm milk, one
teacup yeast, one and a half quarts
flour, when this sponge is light, work
in a well-beaten egg, two tablcspoon
fuls of molted butler, one teaspoonful
of salt, half a teacupful of soda dis
solved in hot water, one tablespoonlul
of white sugar, flour t make a solt
dough ; let it rise four or five hours be
fore putting on the baking pan.
Tomato Jam. Take nice ripe toina
tres, pare and slice, and to one pound
of tomatoes after they are cooked down
considerable add one-half pound of
brown sugar, one teaspoon! il ol ground
cloves, two tablespoonluls of allspice,
one pint of strong vinegar, and stew two
hours. It is considerably better than
BDy catsup with corned beef.
A Harvest Song.
With beauty crowned, thebcardei! grain
Basks in the harvest sua;
The nurture nee Jed for its growth
From countless sources won.
Tbo cool winli kisi the goMon hea'ls,
i he skies bend soil and blue;
And while men sleep, coleslial hands
Shake down tho balmy dew.
And day by day, in rain and shino.
Its story sweet is to'.d
Of Him whose tender love and care '
The helple;s world inlold.
For the old Jadenn miracle
Each year is wrought agaiu ;
With His own hand tho Master gives
Bread to the sons ot men.
And never, while the rainbow spans
The storm-cloud's misty trail,
Shall seed-time with its promise cease,
Nor harve9t-blcssing fail!
Mary E. Sleight.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Over $10,000,000 a year are expended
in private horticulture in Great Brila'n
and Ireland.
There is not much danger wlen it
rains "cats and dogs," but when it
Spitz dogs, look out.
A Russian physicist maintains that
the quantity of water on the earth's
surface is diminishing.
Enormous natural caverns, one. f00
feet long, have lately been found near
Wells, Somerset, England.
Mrs. Betsy Rice, of Lower Saucon
township, Pa., is 107 years of age. She
does not U9e spectacles, nnd is remarka
bly active.
A young Lady suggested to her father
the other day that they save all their
old ice and give it to the poor. Xcw
York Ecrahl.
Of 100 patents issued from the govern
ment office in Washington ninety-eight
never pay back the amount of the fee to
the owners.
A bad little Philadelphia boy made
his mother's hair rise the other day.
He stole her switch for kite bob3.
thilaielf hia Chronicle.
"If you feel like sneezing," says an
English physician, "throw yourself fiat
on your back." And yet there are peo
ple who say that they can sneeze just as
well standing up.
A man in Fannin county, Texas, re
cently caught a deer in a fish net. It
appears that the animal was chased by
dogs and, jumping into the net, became
entangled in it and was captured.
The Astor library at New York sends
its books to be bouud in England, for
economy. The price of binding an or
dinary thick octavo volume in half
morocco in New York is $1.50; in Lon
don about $1.
The suburban who talks most elo
quently of crops, flocks or herds, is he
who has lived all his days between the
pent-up walls ol a city until week be
fore last. Fresh knowledge is what
gives a man the itch.
" You see," said a lively oli bachelor,
on being advised to get married, " you
see I can't do it, because I could not
marry a woman I didn't respect, and it
would be impossible for mo to respect a
woman that would consent to marry
me."
A remarkable occurrence lately took
place on the northern coast of California.
A fore-and-aft schooner, while lying in
a safe harbor, as was supposed, and hav
ing no crew on board on account of the
salety of the position, was boarded by
rats in such numbers that they ate away
all her standing rigging, including head
stays, and alio the jibs, foresail and
mainsail. All were destroyed beyond
the possibility of repair.
Story of a Wonderful Cure.
The papers have been commenting on
the " summer stories " published in dif
ferent parts of the country, but the fol
lowing from the Calliolic Mirror, pub
lished at Baltimore, ccip3es nny tiling
that has yet appeared : Mr. James Pat
terson, of tliis city, has a little daughter
Katie, who is now nearly ten years old.
Some five years ago she began to have a
slight occasional pain in one ot her
knees, which became a trifle enlarged,
and her parents took her to one of the
leading physicians of Baltimore, who
mado light of the trouble, and gave
some medicines that did the child no
good. The enlargement increased, and
when the father look her to another
doctor, who also stands high in his pro
fession, he pronounced it a case of white
swelling, and he treated her for it. But
he did not succeed in curing her.
Finally, she was placed in the care of an
eminent surgeon, who has since died,
lie, too, failed. The swelling re
mained, and the tendons of the leg
got drawn up bo that the child
could not put her foot down flat
on the ground. Her father had givat
faith in tho apparition at Knock. He
wrote to Ireland to s :iue frieuds for some
of the mortar from the chapel there, but
before it arrived an acquaintance gave
him about a tablespoonlul of water id
which some of the mortar had been
dissolved. That was abot two months
ago. Tho same evening he took the
child in his lap, rubbed somo of tho
water on her knee in the sign of tho
cross, saying some prayers at the saruo
time, and then gave her the rest of the
water to drink. He then went to his
work as a watchman, and when he re
turned homo the next morning ho was
met by his daughter, who erected him
with the words: "Papa, my knoa is as
well as ever it was." And sure enough
the swelling had disappeared, the sinews
had grown soft, and tho little girl could
walk Hi well with ono foot as with the
other. Tho cure is perfect. Since that
day there has been no pain, andit is
p- w in'oossibl to tell wl knee was
affected.