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VOL. XX. NO. 16.
TIONESTA, PA., AVEDXESDAY, AUG. 17, 1887.
Sl.oO PER AXXUM.
9
This country hns about 10,000,000
more people than trn years ago, while wo
nrc using more than doublo tho number
of cal tic being mnrkctctl then.
"When tho next decennial census is
taken, three years hence, it is computed
that New York city will hnvo a popula
tion of two millions and Brooklyn of ono
million.
Jefferson Davis. Simon Cameron, Han
b.tl Hamlin, and A. P. Kennedy sro
Raid to be tho only men living who were
members of the United States Scnato
when tho war began.
' Theaverngc time of first-class steamers
between New York nnd Qucenstown is
about seven days. Tho fastest record
was made by the Elruria, five days,
twenty-three hours, the distance covered
being 3,250 statute miles.
About a million dollars 1ms already
been subscribed to tho fund for the erec
tion of tho six-million-dollar Protestant
Episcopal Cathedral in New York. John
Jacob Astor, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and
D. Willis James gave ono hundred thou
sand dollars each. Bishop Potter thinks
that the entire amount asked for will bo
subscribed in due time.
i Food adulteration is by no means con
fined to this country. Statistics just
published by tho Prefecture of tho Seine
show that during tho year 188(1 the offi
cial chemists of Paris ordcred-tko de
struction of 1,147 articles of food and
prosecuted 4,000 persons for ndultcrut
, tion. It is interesting to noto how tho
yld struggle between good and evil is
begetting new battles in the field of mod
, crn science.
John Willard Young is tho youngest
on of the lato llrigham Young's first
wife. He is about forty-three years of
age and has ten sons and ten daughters.
Ho says his father left an estate worth
about $2,500,000. He willed $22,000 to
ct'eh of his children. Brigham Young
has as yet no monument. Ho lies 'Juried
near what was called " tho iron house,"
in Salt Luke City, and his family have
. not been nblc to decide on a fitting design
to mark his grave.
Accordirg to some astronomers the
earth, through the sun's attraction and
tho friction of tho tides, is losing time
in other words, revolving more slowly
. upon its axis. This, if true, need not,
however, cause any serious dissarrangc
ment of clocks and watches, as tho al
leged loss of time is only half a second
in a century of years. If men would
come up to their engagements ns prompt
ly as tho earth does, there would bo
much less cause of complaint -on the
ground of tardiness.
' Tho Sultan of Turkey is still continu
ally haunted by tho fear of assassination,
and his morbid disposition has of late
been increased by an incident in the
harem which has affected him very
strongly. Abdul Hamid, it appears, had
been attracted by tho graces of a young
Circassian girl; but tho Prince Solhn,
his eldest son, who had tho right of
entry into the harem, nbductcd tho fair
young tg-Nri, and thus violated the
. sacred cliuruWr of the harem. Since
this occurance Princo Selim has been
placed under arrest. All his tutors have
licen changed, and a strict surveillance
has been established over every one
entering tho pnlaco.
! The myth of tho "Great American Dcs-
crt" has finally disappeared from con
temporaneous history. Its last refuge
was in tho noblo Territory of Montana;
but the rapiil development of that region
uhows conclusively that there is no desert
there. On the contrary, to use tho words
of the Sail Francisco ClironUle, "Montana,
enthroned among the mountains like a
iuecn, beckons tho advancing pioneer
nd smiles welcome to all who with in
dustry and energy and honest purpose
will demand from her the treasure which
alio has hidden in her bosom. The en
chanted princess has slept for many a
year, but now the new prince, tho hardy
American son of toil, has come to lay his
. kiss upon her lips and bid her waken to
the realization of a new life and a new
Lop6." '
"A statement was made to-day," say
tho. Washington Critic, "by a gentleman
who was a prominent member of the Con
federate Congress, to the effect that
there was never any Supreme Court of
the Confederate States. Ho says a bill
passed the Confederate House providing
for tho establishment of such a court,
but when it reached the Senate it wus
defeated by Mr. Yancey of Alabama, who
took the ground thut such a tribunal was
antagonistic to tho confederate idea ol
the sovereignity of tho several States to
maintain which principle they had
seceded from the I'nion. Mr. Yancey's
views were acquiesced in, but the
necessity for such a final arbiter of dis
butes between States came up some time
afterward, when the courts of oue State
declared that Confederate bonds could
be taxed for State revenues, and the
courts of another State decided just the
contrury. The early collapse of the
Confederacy prevented fnrther conflict
ing complications of the State-right doc
trine as advocated by Mr. Yancey and
tlicrs."
SYMPATHY.
IJhold It a Rift rare and half divine,
TtiiB ready feeling for a follow's woes
Which from onn nature to another goos
In comprehensive intuition fine;
Tin said tliat certain charmed witchhazel
wnnda
Will straightway tell of treasures hidden
fast
In tho earth's heart, and softened shadows
cast
Vpon the simt; when held In rightful hands;
Bo sympathy, a rod of tender grace.
When held ill loving hearts will gently find
The hid. Ion heights or depths of humankind
And hold their treasures in a fond embrace.
Hut all! each magic waid to wield its art
Must holden be in honest hand or heart.
Aiiijttata le iiubna.
LAUREL CAMP.
"Oh, bovn, how I wish I were going
with you:" nnd dainty Hess Fleming
perched herself disconsolately on the arm
of the lounge in what her brothers called
their "boudoir," and gazed with big,
wistful gray eyes on the .animated scene
before her.
The festive prciarntions nre indeed al
most enough to make one w ish one had
been born a boy. Floor, chairs and
table are covered with a choice but
varied collection of hunting boots, fish
ing tackle, entomologists' paraphernalia
of waxen headed pins, chloroform bot
tles, and butterfly nets', favorite authors,
hammocks, and other evidences of a
"right royal good time." The masculine
occupants of the room were nil so very
deeply engrossed, that their envious sis
ter's plaintive wish fell on almost un
heeding cars.
Hal saut'ered: "W-wish vou could!"
Tom gazed at her through the micro-scope-glass
he was polishing, ilh an eye
enormously enlarged thereby, nnd smiled
in conscious masculine superiority ; nnd
only good-natured Steenie paused' in his
struggles with his knapsack (which
seemingly declined to nciommod ite his
blanket, a work on anatomy, a gossamer
coat and a dismembered gun) sutliciently
long to say with genuine brotherly good
will :
"And you should go in a minute, pop
ptty it would be worth ten seaside sea
sons to you if it were not for Yal
tlrnhiun."
"Yul Graham! Who is hef Let him
stay at koine, then. To make coffee in
a dear little kettlo swung on threesticks,
to sleep in a hammock, and be out doors
all summer I" cries Miss Fleming, en
thusiastically. "Oh, I will go! W hat's
the matter with Mr. (Iridium; Is he one
of your fossilized professors who would
petrify a simple maiden? I don't care
what he is, you need not imagine I would
find time even to look nf him. I" (mag
nanimously "won't mind him a bit."
"Hut, b-b-bless you, my child," ejacu
lated Hal, energetically, "it'snot a ipics
tion of whether you would mind Val.
The boot is on the other leg. It's Val
would mind you. There's some romantic
stoiv about his licing brought tip by an
uucU. who had been cruelly treated by
some lovely llirt. Youthful affections
trampled on, nnd nil that kind of thing.
Takes to the life of a hermit, and edu
cates tho ingenuous Valentine to regard
with horror the whole female sex. Val
would sooner face a 'wenomous wicr'
than a woman, and I am confident that,
if he suspected we meditateil such treason
ns tho introduction of the dreaded ele
ment, ho would tlee to the uttermost
parts of the earth rather than go with us;
and he the prime suggester of the camp
ing scheme, too! Lastly, and finally, how
could such a luxurious'little lady "rough
it with a lot of bovs among the jungles
of New York State J It's impossible."
"Oh, you can say impossible; but I
could go, and you would take me, if it
were not for that odious creature! How
I hate him !" cries Hess, stormily.
"A letter for you, Mr. Stephen," and
the dignified butler steps solemnly over
the debris, and looks with stern disap
proval at the disordered room.
"From Val himself, is it not, Steenie?-'
asked Tom.
"Yes. Too bad, he can't go, after all
attack of mularial fever knows you
will have a jolly time. 'Almost despeiate
when I think of your starting without
me, "J reads Steenie, disjointedly.
"Now I nin going!" and Hess starts up
impetuously.
" How cun you f "
" You'll see. I'll take Martha to take
care of me. I ll be ready in an hour, Mar
tha and her budgets included," ami Hess
vanished like a small whirlwind, leaving
the trio too much astonished to do au"ht
butstare at each other in silence..
Did she accomplish it; of covrse;
what other result wus possible to so
much energy nnd spirit 1 Hy the time
the others had finished their remarkable
masculiue packing, Hess, bubbling over
with merry anticipation, was soothing
the dnzed Martha, who was vibrating
between a feeling of gipsyish delight at
what seemed to her a mad escapade
and gloomy presentiments of inevitable
rheumatism.
The scene shift to tho w ilds of the
Empire State and a camp established in
their depths. This is no mere fashionable
tabernacle in the wilderness, but a real
camp, with amateur cooks, with spicy
hemlock beds, anil with a smoKe black
ened kettle swinging over a snapping tire,
the smoke of w hich curls la.ily upward,
making misty the delicate tracery of the
waving trees against the soft summer sky,
and hammocks swinging like huge co
coons between the trees, inviting to
drowsy repose.
A few yards away an unseen mountain
brook tumbles its ice cold water into
the rocky river, and the two sing to
gether in low monotone, telling of fern
fringed pools and gliding trout. Through
archways cut in the glossy laurel thicket
can be seen tho paths that the feet of the
straying campers have already worn to
the woodland haunts beyond.
lint the glory of the camp is the struc
ture variously known as tho "house,"
"shanty," or "I-nurel Lodge." Ituilt
against a little knoll, its supports living
trees, its roof of slabs (w hich the busy
ittlo river obligingly strews along its
banks from lumber regions further north)
s1ojk-s almost to the ground at the back,
lis sides are a thickly woven unit of hem
lock boughs, held in place by horizontal
boards, The facade of tho building pre
sents a portal of innguifi .it proportions
from w hich tho portiere oi gorgeous ipiill
(early l,uglisli) u looped aide,dicloiig
t
a floor of slabs, the knapsacks and stores
and odorous regions beyond. The dining-
room is a leafy roof under which a table is
made with the smooth side of the
tibiiiiitous slab uppermost, the supports
being trees sawed oil at the needed
height. Along the sides of the table seats
nre arranged, nnd occupying these seats
just nt present nrc the campers, finishing
the noonday meal nnd discussing with
absorbing interest plans for securiiifj a
great store of logs nnd planks which
Steenie had discovered in a bend of tho
river, wedged in among tne rocks. To
raft them down nnd firing them in, to
ndd to the large pile already drying a
few feet from the tire (protected by slop
ing slabs) against the proverbial rainy
day, would bo nn afternoon's work for
the boys. Careful Martha, pail iu hand,
has started for the blackberry patch, a
few rods away.
Left to her own sweet company. Miss
Fleming proceeded to enjoy herself in
her own way. With nn armful of books
within re icli.she ensc meed herself in her
own particular hammock, with Czar
(who was evidently overburdened with a
sense of his responsibility in this unusual
state of affairs i, very wide awake, lying
on the ground at her side.
Dipping here and there, now into one
book, then into another, and varying the
monotony by occasionally slipping out to
replenish the fire, she finally became en
nmored of "Hiawatha," nnd read it
steadily to the end. Folding her idle
little hands under her fanciful little head,
she was soon lost in a waking dream, in
a repose that was almost sleep. The lofty
trees were the forest primeval, the "lodge"
n wigwam, and she herself a dusky maiden
awaiting the return of tho stately red
skinned warriors from the chase.
She was roused from her reverie by a
low growl from the watchful Czar; in the
one moment she heard a crackling of
twigs, nnd the next saw, with startled
eyes, a masculine figure emerge from one
of the side paths, and heard a surprised
"I beg your pardon, madam, but I have
been w andering in this infer this beastly
laurel thicket the greater part of the day.
Can you direct me to the"'
l!y this time, Bess, fully awakened,
had decided with womanly intuition that
the intruder was a gentleman in the full
est sense of the word, and noting the
weariness in the quiet words and tho
steady brown eyes, she rose quickly,
with hospitable purpose intent; but with
her thoughts still tinged with "Hiawa
tha," she said, whimsically:
"If the pale-faced stranger tarry by
this camp-tire until the warriors return,
they will guide him through the forest
to the wigwam he seeks."
"I think I will not trouble you " be
gan the other, uneasily; but the brave
daughter of the forest, made as usual
more determined by opposition, said,
firmly:
"Hut the child of the bald-headed
eagle will be obeyed," and, seconded by
Czar, who was plainly divided between
the conflicting desire to swear eternal
friendship to the newcomer or to spring
upon him with fell intent, she motioned
him to the hammock she had just left.
Hess watched him with puzzled eyesns
he (lung himself upon her cushions. See
ing the pallor about the firm mouth that
told of physical suffering, an inspiration,
born of her experience as the sister of
three brothers, came to the rescue, and
with hopeful face she said: "Watch him,
Czar," and moved quickly away.
In a few minutes the fragrant odor of
coffee was wafted to the straggler with
such reviving effect that he opened
widely his nearly closed eyes and gazed
witluieep interest on the busy figure at the
fire before him. Aside from her occupa
tion, so pleasing to the manly contempla
tion, the figure itself was well worthy of
study. The slim, lithe young form was
clothed in a dark-green fianncl, without
furbelows or snarls of any kind to per
plex the eye. The rebellious dark hair
hung in a heavy braid behind, nnd es
caped in wnvy locks on the smooth fore
head. The tire had flushed the sweet
face thut was brooding with such an ab
sorbed expression over the coffee-pot.
In a second more the coffee-pot was
steaming on ti hot stone by the tire, and
Miss Fleming disappeared iu the direc
tion of the murmuring river, to reappear
with some bright little tin pails dripping
with cool water. From one of these some
trout were gayly sputtering over the cool
fire; then from a mysterious chest ap
peared fresh bread, and from other pails
golden butter, cream and blackberries,
and our traveler was soon partaking of a
most appetizing little repast, under
which reviving influence he forgot the em
barrassment that had nearly consumed
him. Soon a responsive chord was struck
by tw o nature-loving hearts,and they were
chatting like old friends. Hess pro
dined a curious bug that puzzled her
natural history, and the brown hair nnd
the dark lent over it. At this thrilling
moment the raftsmen, each with an arm
ful of planks, arrived on the scene. The
biologists turn.
"Hovs, this gentleman " began
Hess.
"Val Graham!" exclaimed the three, in
startled chorus.
"Who? Not Val Graham?" cried
Hess, w ith horror-filled eyes and paling
check; but, reading confirmation in the
faces before her, she drops hastily tiie
precious bug, flashes an angry glance at
the owner of that name, and turning,
runs swiftly into the woods.
"What have 1 done; Who is she," he
asks, with a pcplexed look.
"Why, it's our Hess, and she knows
you hate girls, and won't w ant her here.
How did you happen to come? Thought
you were sick;'' questioned the boys, al
together. "So I was, but I am better; only I
lost myself in this maze and nearly
tramped myself to denth--if it hadn't
been for her coffee," he continues, aw k
wardly. "How could I hate to have
her here?" he adds, so enthusiastically,
that Hal retires suddenly behind the
house and remurks: "Well, I'll b-b-blest !"
to his boots.
How can the days that follow be de
scribed? tiolden, sunshiny days, filled
with simple ple asures. Hut, as a reliable
chronicler, 1 um very sorry that 1 cannot
say Miss Fleiiiing'stcmper was all serene.
Toward the unoffending VaWuline she
bore an enmity that neither time nor fa
miliarity seemed to soften. Occasionally
she would unbend so far as to allow Unit
gentleman to assist in her investigations
into the Dura of the region of country iu
which they were.
Can you guest what a revelation this
sweet, tantalizing girl was to a young
man who had uever kuown a wotuuu's
lore? Day after day to watch her merry
petting of thoso big brothers, and then
to recall his lonely childhood and youth!
Is not the fate of this poor Val easily sur
mised J
Trumping alone bv the riverside, Val
nt last discovers nnd acknowledges to
himself the cause of the vague wretched
ness of the past weeks acknowledges
with a sickening realization that his hap
piness for life is in the hands of n girl
who tins only an unreasoning hatred ; or,
at best, a supreme indifference, to
give him; and he grinds his boot-heel
into the soft turf ns he goes slowly to
ward the camp.
A sudden turn around a clump of
fringe-hung bitches, and Mr. Graham be
holds a spectacle which drives away from
him all thoughts of his own troubles.
I'pon a gnnrly old tree, leaning far out
over the river, sits Miss Hess, plainly dis
consolate. In the pool below her, her
.lint is slowly sailing around like a gon
dola of new design. At the sound of
footsteps she raises her head; but ns her
eyes meet his, the welcoming gleam of
hope in them gives wny to a flash of ire,
and she says, petulantly:
"Oh, I hoped you were Steenie."
"I'm sorry," he says, gently, "but
Steenie would not help you more gladly
than I would, were it in my power."
After a pause, during v Inch the girl's
tears puzzle him, he continued quietly:
"J.et us go home to the boys and our
camp-fire. It is getting lnte. You will
take cold there; aud you have lost your
hat, too.
"Not at all," returns Hess. "I am
only leaving it there till I come down. I
am waiting for the sunset, but you need
not wait too."
"Hut I should like to,"
A long pause ensues. Miss Fleming
apparently gives rapt attention to some
soft, fluffy little clouds flushed to a rose
pink by tho setting sun. Mr. Graham as
intently gives his whole mind, aided by
his good right arm, to the recovery of
the truant hat, which eludes his im
promptu fishing-pole with nn ngility
which seems to prove it endowed with
the spirit of its wilful owner.
"I wish you would come down now,"
he breaks forth, landing as he speaks his
dripping and somewhat dilapidated
prize. "You don't look comfortable up
there."
"Well, I'm not," she replied, with unlooked-for
energy nnd n hysterical min
gling of tears nnd laughter. "The branch
that helped me up here broke off, nnd
then floated down the river. Every time
I have tried to get down I have nearly
pitched into the water, sol have sat here
for hours like a graven image, and my
two feet fast asleep. I'd have jumped in
long ago, before you found me sitting
here like an idiot," she concludes, vehe
mently, "only it looks so deep down
there."
As she finishes he has found a firm
footing among tho roots of her tree,
and with n gravity which causes Bess to
regard him with suspicion, says, in a
business-like way:
"If you will lean forward a trifle, I
will place you on terra firnin nnd we will
go."
But Miss Fleming has resumed her con
templation of the sky, and without
glancing nt linn, says, willfully:
"I told you before that I intended stay
here to see the sunset. You arc so evi
dently in haste, you may go. But bo
sure and tell Steenie I want him."
Valentine's arms fall, his face whitens
and his voice rings with passionate anger :
"So I may not even touch your hand,
and I would give my life for you! You
have nothing but undeserved contempt
for me, and I I love you !"
He folds his arms upon the tree nnd
drops his head upon them, as if the end
of nil things had indeed conic.
Bessie's eyes are looking far away, and
within them a new sweet light of self
revelation grows and deepens.
The liltlelouds arc growing gray; the
cool twilight seems to creep closer, with
its soft, cool languor and its blurring
shadows. The wind sighs through the
trees in low, sad whispers; the murmur
of the river sounds clear and loud. A
saucy bird, very near, suddenly gives a
shrill, startling cry, and Bess stirs un
easily, nnd with her eyes dropped to the
helpless little boots, says, nervously, with
an argumentative air:
" This out-of-door life is very health
ful, don't you think?"
At this apparently irrelevant remark
Valentine raises his head and looks at
her in great amazement.
"I have grown so very stout and
heavy," she continues, bravely, "that I
do not think you could lift me down."
"lain quite willing to try," he says,
with eager sarcasm ; and with i!is color
flushing her sweet fife, she leans toward
him with outstretched hands.
I cannot tell you anything more, ex
cept that, as they came into camp arm in
arm, with a new light in their faces,
Hal's boots received an especial bene
diction; Martha knocked over the coffee
pot in u fit of bewilderment; Cznr upset
Steenie in the exuberance of his joy;
while Tom, iu an aside, asked: "What
will Uncle Halph sayi" Frank LetlieU.
A Great Magician's Tricks.
The late Professor Herrman, the ma
gieiau, was a capital dentist and the
most dextrous and accomplished pick
pocket, lie would remove a gentleman's
watch, slip a ring on tlie chain and re
place the watch while engaged in con
versation. Or he w ould undertake a hut
trick before he hud been five minutes iu
a roomful of people, and would turnout
of it, with the most laughable address,
something belonging to each persou pres
ent. He made a huudred fortunes and
lost them, for he was an inveterate and
unfortunate speculator. The prettiest
trick I ever saw, says a London StamlurU
writer, was done by Herrmann w hile ut
lunch with a brother conjuror in the
hotel of Montevideo. Five people were
seated at the 'able (not his own be it ob
served), and there was apparently an en
tire absence of any possible preparation.
Taking a ar from the dish he told us
to mark it. One h it four punctures from
his fork in it, auoiiicr dropped a spot of
ink on the rind ; I pushed an American
three-cent niece into the soft substance
of the fruit until it was buried; next, a '
large slice was cut out and eaten, llerr-
muiiti then took it and tossed it toward 1
the lofty ceiling. "Catch it yourselves,"
he cried, as i he pear was whirling iu
mid-air. It fell into my outstretched
hand, prong-marked, ink-spotted, and
with the rhree-cent bit still bedded iu
its tissue but whole. -
HINTS FOR HOT WEATHER.
TIMELY SUGGESTIONS FOR OLD
AND YOUNQ.
The Change from the Heat Produc
ing Solids How to Care Tor the
Children.
" Oh, that we could take off our flesh
and sit in our bones," is the constant re
frain of perspiring humnnity, now that
the mercury is visiting among the nine
ties. Still by a careful diet and the pro
per Kind ol food, we can ameliorate our
condition considerably. Plenty of veg
tnblcsand fruit", and good strong bouillon
should take the place of meats on our
table. Nourishment, of course, is nec
essary, but it should not be of the kind
that heats the blood and renders us unfit
for any exertion whatsoever. Hominy
and cold rice should take the place of
oatmeal, and the matutinal beefsteak
give way to berries or fruit of some de
scription or even marmalade. Even na
ture pities the housekeeper at this
period and destroys all appetite for
too, too solid food. Let your heaviest
orders be given to grocer and fruiterer;
give the butcher a holiday and you will
find that a hot wave can be met with
equanimity, nnd that the summer is not
such a bad season of the year after all,
and that those poor mortals whourecom-
Eclled to spend it in the city need not
avo too much compassion wasted on
them.
Mothers at this time of the yenr need
a large stock of patience. The children
are rather trying, for the poor little things
r (in I i 7,i !,. k,, 1 -1 1 '11...
reason why is of course to them an unex
pluinuble fact, but as many children of a
larger growth cannot bear the heat with
out protesting, why should we expect
those poor little morsels of humanity to
suffer with talmncss the ills that we are
constantly inveighing against. Their
diet needs careful attention; milk should
be given to them as often as they demand
it. If there is any danger of its disagree
ing with them, mix with it a little lime
water. Bread and butter aud crackers
should never be denied them, but cake
thnt is any way rich should be scrupu
lously banished from their table. Thor
oughly ripo fruit during the middle of
the day is very good for children. It is
not necessary to give them us mu -h as they
desire, because some children are very
greedy and do not know when they have
enough. When the stomach is overloaded
it must be relieved and thnt is the reason '
so many children become sick after eat- 1
ing fruit. It is not the fruit that makes I
them sick, anything else eaten in such
excess would produce the same effect. A
child's stomnch is very small and its di
gestive n ppnrat us is of tho same size. A
little at a time and frequently is a very
safa plan with many children. If they
drink milk in any quantity, you need not
worry because they do not eat solid food.
Milk is very nutritious, and there is no
danger of their becoming very weak if
they indulge in plenty of the lacteal
fluid.
A sponge bath every night just before
they go to bed will make them sleep
much more comfortably nnd for a longer
period. Some mothers think the morn
ing bath is enough, but after a hot day
nothing is more refreshing than n bntli
We take it ourselves, then why not give 1
n to i ne onoy; i no exhausting power
of heat docs not depend on the number
of feet we measure, or tho number of
pounds we weigh; it is a matter of fact
that thin people often suffer more from
the heat than those whose adipose tissue
may be a subject of remark.
Water drinking in summer is a neces
sity for both children and grown folks.
The system requires it at every season of
the year, but more particularly at the
present time. Children perspire very
freely, and unless the moisture thus lost
to the system is restored they are more
than npt to feel uncomfortable. Many
people suffer from nervousness when thev
retire, tho limbs twitch, the hands and
feet move despite their efforts to keep
them still, and it seems almost impossi
ble to remain in bed ; a copious draught
of wuter will quiet those nerves generally,
and teach them better manners. Very
few, though, ever try the water
cure. It is generally some patent
medicine or nerve tonic they have
recourse to, and the consequence is that
in a short timo the nervous system is
completely upset. No sensible mother
or nurse would give ico water to children, !
and, indeed, it is not safe for anyone to J
drink it. Put the water in bottles and
put it on the ice. The water so chilled i
will be found much more agreeable than j
if it had ice melted in it. Hcfering to
tho tendency to excessive drinking of w a
ter and other beverages in warm w eather, '
the London Liniret says: "Do not abstain
from drinking, but drink slowly, so as to '
allow time for the voice of nature to
cry enough. There is no drink so good '
as pure water. For the sake of flavor and
because the vegetable acids are useful a j
dash of lemon juice may be added with
advantage. Anything with much alcohol
iu it should be avoided if we want to '
keep cool, It is stimulating for the time I
being, but when the feeling of exhilara
tion has imsscd we are inclined to regret
our iudulgeucc."
Wear the lightest clothes possible a
little wool in the underclothing is not a
bad idea. Iteligotisly banish any topic
of conversation or any thought that may
worry or excite you. Indulge iu plenty
of the good things nature is so generous
with just now, and when the mercury
sours aloft you can greet it with a smilo
that would be both childlike and bland.
llrvuklyn C'iturn.
The Bishop's Advice.
"And don't keep telling about your
last appointment," says Bishop Fowler,
to Methodist ministers. "I knew a minis
ter who was always telling how the peo
ple treated him at Brownsville. It was
Brownsville here ami Brownsville there
everything was Brownsville. This
went on until everybody got thoroughly
tired of hearing Brownsville. One night
a good old lady urose in the weekly j
prayer-meeting to give in her testimony.
She was a dear, good soul one of the
saints ou earth. She said she had hail a
hard week. 'My soul,' she said, 'has '
leeu greatly depressed all the week. I
find my fuitb, very weak and my hope
very dim. I can no longer see my w ay
to reaching heaven. I may hold out till
I get to Brownsville, but I can't go a
step further. I here was no more lieai d
of lkowUBVille tu Uiat cuarge alter luai.
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
Preserving Fruit Without Cans.
A. simple process of preserving fruit
without the uso of cans Is now discussed
by the farmers at the agricultural fairs
and quietly considered by the fanners in
the intervals between the receipt ol suc
cessive orders for shipments. The whole
process of leeping fruit in bowls and
other open-top vessels is comprised in
the simple covering of tho vessel with
ungluzed cotton, such as is purchased in
the stores rolled in blue paper. The fol
lowing are the directions: I'sc crocka,
stone butter jars, or any other convenient
dishes. Prepare and cook the fruit pre
cisely ns for canning in glass jars, fill your
dishes with the fruit while it is yet hot,
and immediately cover with cotton bat
ting securely tied on. Heniember that
all putrefaction is caused by the invisi
ble creatures in the air. Cooking the
fruit expels all these, and ns they cannot
pass through cotton batting the fruit
thus protected will keep for an indefinite
period. It is said that berries, cherries,
plums, nnd many other kinds of fruit
have been kept in this way for several
year. t'tiatj( jYetM.
Heclpes.
JoitNN ycakk. One cup of comnicnl,
two cups of flour, ono cup of milk, one
half cup each of butter and sugar, three
eggs, three teaspoonfuls of baking
powder.
Yeai, FitiTTKits. Chop fine two
pounds of veal ; ndd half pound of
rolled crackers, three beaten eggs, with
salt and pepper sufficient to season ; fry
slowly iu hot lard.
Fit ik u Potatoes. Peel nnd slice the
potatoes nnd let stand in cold water one
hour; drain off the water, season with
pepper nnd salt; add one tenspootitiil of
flour and mix well. Fry in hot butter
twenty minutes.
Frik.d Eo Plant. Peel the egg
plant and cut in slices one-half inch
thick; pepper and salt; lay one slice upon
the other and let them stand ten or
twelve hours; drain off the liquor, dip in
flour and fry brown.
Chocolate Jei.i.y. Take seven spoon
fuls of grated chocolate, tho same of
white sugar, one cup of sweet cream;
mix together nnd set over the fire nnd let
come to a boil. Pour it over cornstarch
pudding, or put between Inycrs of cake.
Quince Buead. Allow ono apple for
every six quinces. Boil the quinces nnd
apples in water until they are soft; then
peel them, remove the cores and press tho
pulp through a sieve. To every pound
of pulp nllow one pound of sugar.
Clarify tho tugar and then put in the
pulp, adding a little finely grated lemon
peel. Boil until perfectly stiff, stirring
constantly. Then put the mass in molds
or paper cases and dry in a cool oven.
The " bread " must be stiff enough to
cut iu slices.
Baked Tciimi's. Pare nnd slice, a
quarter of an inch thick, some new
turnips, and boil until tender in salted
boiling water. Drain them, lay in a pie
dish and pour over them tho following
sauce : Stir over the tire one ounce each
of butter and flour until they aro per
fectly smooth; add slowly a cup of rich
milk that has been brought to the boiling
point, and season with white pepper and
salt. Sprinkle them with two table
spoonfuls of grated cheese, and over all
dust bread crumbs thickly, and brown in
a quick oven.
rueful hi nt a.
Salt sprinkled over anything that is
burning on the stovcjw ill prevent any dis
agreeable odor.
Lard for pastry should be used ns hard
ns it can be cut with a knife. It should
bo cut through the flour, not rubbed.
Wash Valenciennes lace iu luke-wnrm
water with tine soap, ami iron over sev
eral thicknesses of flannel to bring out
the pattern.
The surest an! most practical way of
not having milk scorched is to scald it iu
a double boiler, or a till that sits in u
keltic of boiling water. The wetting of
n kettle w ith eidd water and allowing it
to remain a few minutes before putting
the milk iuwiil lessen the danger of
scorching the milk.
A pair of boots or shoes thoroughly
soaked are not easy to dry without being
left iu an uncomfortably stiff, if not
shrunken condition. A very simple de
vice wilt make the drying process com
paratively safe. The wet shoes should
be thoroughly stuffed with paper, which
serves not only to keep them iu shape,
but hastens their drying by absorbing
the moitture.
A good cleansing mixture may be made
with two ounces liquid ammonia, two
ounces bar soap, finely shaved, and two
teaspoonfuls powdered saltpetre. Put
these ingredients into a large, open
mouthed bottle ami add 1 pints warm
water. It will be ready for use iu two
or three days. It is well adapted for
washing delicate colored nrticles, also to
ndd to the water for shampooing the
head. Mixed with water and sprayed
upon plants it will kill any insects in
festing them, and also act as a fertilizer.
Ancient Jubilees.
In connection with the question of
jubilees, a correspondent iu London Sulet
mid (Juniet, calls to mind the first thirty
years' jubilee of Ameiihctep ill., or, as
w rilti'ii by the Greek i, Ameiiophis ill.,
Pharaoh of Egypt, which occurred in the
thirtieth year id his reign, in or about the
year 1 ITU n. -. The King, it is recorded,
sat upon his throne to receive the list of
the tributes from the north ami south,
according to the taxing of the full Nilcut
the festival of the thirtieth year. We find
that Pharaoh did not only receive trib
litis ami gifts, but that he rewarded
those subjects who had faithfully paid
their taxes with a necklace, an equivalent
ut the present day to receiving a decora
tion at the hands of the sovereign. It is
ulso stated that the people gave more
taxes than they were obliged, and th -n
departed to their homes, well contented
that the King had shown himself upon
his throne, and the taxpayers of thesouth
and north had been rewarded. We also
find that Barneses II. celebrated a thirty
years' jubilee with great festivities
throughout his dominions. His second
jubilee touk place ill the thirty-fourth
year, the Uii.d iu the thirty-seventh year,
aud tin.' fourth in the fortieth year of his
reign. Thotmes 111. anl many other
Egyptian kings had long reigns, but 1 am
not aware iiiui u is rccoiucu wi.n iiicj
celebrated their thirty yaaiV jubilee.
i
THE ROSE AND THE PEARU
I know a thing of purity,
A flower;
It grows within the heart df m
Each hour.
A heart that blossoms as the rose
Is mine,
Because a flow'ret in It blows,
Divine.
Down in this gladsoajte heart is placed
A pearl:
Fit emblem of an angel faced
Sweet girL
A precious peirl within my heart
Deep set;
A lovely rose with heaven's own dew
Is wet
What hallowed joy is mine when o'er
My soul,
The perfume of that thought, so pure,
Doth roll t
.Maii and Erpreu.
HUMOR OF THE DAT.
Never comes amiss A married woman.
Dansrille Urcete.
A man's funny bono, wo presume, en
ables him to laugh in his sleeve. Slatct
mnn. The skeleton in tho closet is often in
the shape of u long-necked bottle.
Judije,
The livery horso is not so much of a
charger us the chap that runs the stable.
Yunkert Uazette.
The population of Chicago is now in
creasing at the rate of 21,000 hogs a day.
St. Lotiii Republican.
When you put your fingers into some
body else's pie you must expect to get
tart rejoinders. Burlingtcn Free Pre.
No mnn can bo cnllcd a good baseball
player until he can pitch a ball that will
curve the umpire. Ncitman Independent.
You can get more wind out of a ten
cent fan than you can from a $00 one.
It's the same way with a ten-cent man.
tftutetman.
The mnn wdio's on the oeeaa
And sea sick in his berth
Amidst tho storm's commotion,
Is the man who wants the earth.
boston Courier.
"Save the young men," says theSomcr
ville Journal. All right, but if the
Journal has no objections we should pre
fer to have a few young women saved as
well. Fall Jlicrr Advance.
There was once a fair maid in South Vernon,
Who'd a hat with a big buneh of fern on;
The crown stood up ttraifrht,
Two (Miunds was iu weight.
With a brim that an engine could turn on,
Jfnrper't Bazar.
Mrs. Jones "I have, been making a
change in the household, and you cannot
imagine how relieved I feel. It really
seems as if I hnd nothing to do." Mrs.
Brown "Have you engaged more ser
vants?" Mrs. Jones "No; I have dis
charged them all." Binghamton Repub
lican. "Theodore, I don't believe you rove
me any more," said a K street girl, plain
tively, as her best young mnu, a Post
olliee Department clerk, pulled her past
an ice-cream saloon. "Uh. don't
that, de:'e," fiilX. -TPpToachfullfr
"Why, I named fourteen postollices after
vou last week." Wathinalon Critic.
An Eastern firm got hold of a new
drummer who was very highly recom
mended by some friends of theirs. They
gave him a case of samples and $500 aud
scut him off. Ho was gone a couple of
weeks, and they heard nothing from him.
They finally got on his track, and tele
graphed him. His answer wus brief and
worthy of his profession. It was: "Send
me another 300. I am still vith you.'
Utin Franciteo Chronicle. "
Minnesota peoplo hnvo found a new
way to test the freshness of eggs. Wipe
the large end of an ogg, they say, quite
clean, aud then touch tho tip of the
tongue to the central part of this big
end. If the egg is good there will be a
little warm spot inside the egg which
will be plainly pcrceptibto to the tongue.
This is uu improvement on the Umaha
market plan of holding one ear to the
egg and listening for a squeak. Omaha
World.
Mexican Bells.
Iu the largo tower of Morclla hangs .
the monster bell, which is rarely sounded,
but there are many others of moderate
size which ure coutinually chiming. All
these bulls, and indeed nearly all tho
bells iu the licpublic, aro remarkable for
sweetness and softuess of tone. It is
very rarely that oue hears a harsh bell.
They ure exceedingly melodious and
pleasing. It is sometimes explained that
this is due to the mixture of silver in the
bell metal, aud that the new bells are
east from old metal. I believe that the
chief reason w hy tho Mexican bells arc so
much more musical than ours is that
Mexican bells are artistically made,
shaped with refereneo to tone, thin at
the edge, each one a work of urt intel
lig. ntly manipulated, not mccbuiiically
cast without reference to tho sound it
shall produce. The great bells are struck
with a clapper, and uot swung. There
would be much less objection to the use
of church bells iu the L'nited Stutes the
harsh and barbarous jangle which shocks
the Sunday stillness if our bells hail any
of the musical quality of the Mexican.
JlitrjHi 't M'i'j'tiine.
A (Question Answered.
C.majiu Man "Are those pug dogs in
telligent;" Omulia Lady (proud owner of a pug)
"Oh, their intelligence is almost liuman."
"1 am surprised to hear that."
"I can't begin to tell you how much
the dear little fellows know. Mercy me!
Jine! Jane! Where are you '("
Jane (a servant) "Here, uiuin."
"Him out as fast as you can and bring
the dog iu. It's ruining." Omaha
World.
The Worst Fate or AIL
Th'Miihilist, doomed in Kiberiau wast
To live in his exile gloom,
May iMKisihly think he is luted U Uuta
The cup of bllt4rst doom !
The slave who mm Is for another's gain,
The captive lieU by Ins foe.
The siilleier rucked on bis bed of paiu,
And the Isvar ii) wunt and wo;
The grief oi ad turn men combined,
t'au llcv l amount to tile sum
Of tin aw Hit ki 'ief. "condensed, refilled,
Of the limit w.tlk'a imi-ieul chum'.