Hue Namth
Cpori the silver shining sand.
A maiden wrote, with foVtiig hand,
fVws same- no more.
The waves crept up with steady aim.
And washed away the liltle name,
Far from the shore.
Then, with s pen of finer art,
Kibe wrote again dorp is lire heart
One name -no more.
But Pear, and doubt, and wousdsd pride,
Boon drowned within the crimson tidu
The word she bore.
'fat." said the maM. " through grief and pain
Still I write on my Uving brain
Otic name no more.*
Itut want, and .-are, and added yens,
Burns! in depths of hitter tears
The tgu.aho w,re.
Tbci cried the maul in wild dostwir,
"Is thorn no safe place anywhere.
By sea or shore.
In twain or heart V Tho answer came.
Oodktopsth safe thy true love* name
Forevermore,
Olivia.
Wlat are the lone waves singing, so mournfully,
evcrnioo ?
"What see Okjv singing so mournfully, as they
woop on the sandy above ?
•*Olivia, O Oh* is! what vise call it seem to ls>?
Olivia, lost Olh is. e ill never rdnrn to Pus-!
OhvTa. what els.- cau the sad song
Wrap and mourn, she will not Mom, she can
not return to thee!"
Amt strange it is, when the low wind sight, and
strange, wlnn the loud winds tdow.
In the ruatlc of trees, in Ux roar of the storm,
in the sleepiest ..tnamlrt's i->w.
Forever, from >vcan or river, ariseth the eame
sad moan
*' tihe sleeps- let her sleep - srake her not -it
were host sin- should rent and atone."
Fore ver the same sad requiem come* up from
the rartvwftil sea,
■Few the lov.-ly, the lost OHvis, wbo cannot
Mum to me 1
Alas! 1 fear 'tis not in the air. or the sea, or
the free*. that strain ;
1 fear "Us a wrung heart aching, and the throb
of a tortured brain.
And the shivering whispsr of startled leaves,
and the sob of the w ave* as they roll,
I fwr they are only the echo of the aotig of a
suffering soul
Are otUy the passionless echo of the voice that
is ever with me—
* The lovely, the hat ttlivia, will never return
to thee !"*
I stand, in the dim, gray morning, where once
I stood, to mark,
tHiding away, along the hay, tike a turvl, her
white wing'd hark;
And when through the UoUeU lisle the sunset
radiance rlk-d,
Ami the is It mast* n< Hefts thinnest threads
in the plowing have of gol.t.
1 said ; "To thine arms I give her, 0 kind aud
shining sea!
Aud in owe long moon front this June eve you
shall let her return to me.*
But the wind front the far spice islands eame
back, and it sang with a sigh:
• The ooran is rich with tnasttr. it hts hidden
from yon snd the skv."
Ami when- smid r< ks and the gr-en sea-weed
lb.- storm ami the tide were at war.
The night-sought waste was sttli vacant, when
1 looked to the elotnl and the star;
And soon the sad wind and dark ocean unceas
ingly snag unto me:
"The icveJv. tlir lost Utivia wfil never return
to Uni*."
Pirn and still the Undarape bee. but shadowless
a* heaven.
Far the growing morn and the low west moon
on evervthing shine even ;
The ghost* of the lost have departed, that no
thing nut ever redeem.
And nature. in light, sweet slumber, is dream
ing her morning dream.
Tis morn, and our Lord has awakened, and the
nulls of the blessed are free ;
Oh! come from the rave* of the ocean! Olivia,
return unto mel
What thrills me? what comes near me ? Po I
stand on the sward alone ?
Wa that a light wind, or a whisper?—a touch,
or the puis-' of a tone ?
Olivia: whose spells from thy slumber my
broken heart sway and control.
At length hring'st thoo"death to me, ilearcat, or
reel to my suffering tool ?
Ne sonad bnt the peahti of the ocean!—bow
down to tba solemn decree
" The Vorclv, the lost Olivia, will never return
to thee!"
And still are the tone wave* singing so moorn
ftilly evermore:
Hull are they sleeping so mournfully, as they
weep on the sandy shore
*• Olivia!- kwt (priai"—-ao ever 'tis doomed to
be;
"Ohvia!—Uwt Ofevial—will never return to
thee."
*'Olivia!—lost fibrin! "—what else could the
sad song ho 2
*' Weep and mourn, she will not return —she
cannot n turn t thee J*
- —i i.
GARBIEB AWAY BY THE tTBBENT.
If you will believe it, I am engaged ; no
nonsense, but really, truly, and pusitively
engaged to be married ; and between our
selves, lam not quite sure I like it. It is
not Clara's fault; she is a line girl, and I
am proud to think she ha* accepted me;
and if we would be married at once it
would t all right, I suppose. But then
is a pnrftssion to be nettled npon, and get
fixed in; far, though i shall inherit a little
property when 1 come of see, my guardian
nays that it will not be sufficient without
wine addition, and by tbc time 1 am ready
to keep a wifV* Clara will be so much elder.
Bssid& all which, now that the novelty
bas worn offi and I am able to think se
riously a bent "the matter, 1 am not so surb
that 1 want .to be married at all; not till
I am quite an elderly nun—that is to say,
thirty or so. It m not that lam unro
maatic: on the contrary. 1 think romance
ia capital—in a bonk; but in real life ro
mance does not look so romantic, after the
first; at least, so it seems to me.
I went to stay with Aunt Bouwick, at
Carfax, a rising watering place on the
Yorkshire coast, last summer. Aunt Bon
wick is a gay old ladv, and cannot bear to
be without plenty of people about her, so
she lives principally at hoarding-bouses,
and it was at Carleton Mansion tbat I
visited her.
I liked it; the feeding was very good,
better than wbat you get in lodgings,
where one has to dine so often off cold
meat or bash ; ami tbo people were great
fun. Each was so anxious to let the rest
know that be or she was a swell, or con
nected with a swell; some of them made
little speeches about themselves and their
belongings, quite like the heroes in Homer
" I am so-and-so, the son of so-and-so."
But still the bow was not always beat,
and we were social enough at times. We
played at Pope Joan for counters, at three
pence a dozen, and one old lady would not
cut in because she thought intrigue between
the queen and krave not only imfwoper,
but savoring of democratic scandal. So
we changed the game to vingt-et-un to
please ber, and I will take in affidavit that
she cheated.
Clara was staying at the boarding-house
all by herself. She lived with two elder
sisters generally, bat they had a shindy,
and sbe thought it better to leave them
for a while. I bad always been terribly
shy and uncomfortable with ladies, but
she came and talked to ine, and set me at
ease the first evening. She told me about
ber sisters, snd asked my advice. It was
tbc first time any one bad treated me so j
decidedly as a man, and no doubt ahc- ]
thought me older than I was; for I was
, six feet high, and had undoubted whiskers,
for ag my hair is black they showed. Of
course she was a good deal my senior, or
she would not be allowed to go about the
world alone like that; but she was the
pleasantest girl I had ever met, arid we got
on together capitally. We spent the morn
ings on the beach, sat next each other at
dinner, went partners at cards. When
you are with most people, you know, you
are at a loss sometimes what to say next.
Well, we never felt that; however long
we were at it, our conversation did not
flag. I suppose that may have been partly j
because we talked so much about ourselves;
but the result was that I liked her society
uncommonly, awl when she flirted with
an old half-pay officer, who had dyed, not
for his country, but for his vanity, I
longed to ounch his painted head.
Aunt Bonwick quizzed me, and told me
to mind what I was about; that boarding
houses were terrible places for man-traps,
and 1 might get snapped up before I was
aware. I replied there was no danger, for
I was sure that Clara would not have time
if I asked he.
"Very good," replied my aunt; "but
for gracious sake, my dear George, don't
put it to the proof!"
Aunt Bonwick's head was always run
ning on marriages and the gossip connected
with the subject—she was a first-rate part
ner to divide the Time* with, for give her
the supplement and you might have all the
rest. So I laughed at the alisurdity of ber
seeing a match in such an ordinary bit of
acquaintanceship; and yet, somehow, when
I next met Clara I felt more awkward
than I had done hitherto; and just as I
was getting over this shyness, the bathing
woman patronised by Clara inf#rpied us
that we made as handsome a couple as ever
she see—a compliment which was wofully
confusing.
You will think that I spent my whole
time in dangling, but that was not the
FRKD. KURTZ, Kditor uid Pwjriotor.
VOL. IV.
ease. The coast at t'arfav i* iwkr, atul in
a little cove about halt a tittle from the
Pantile I had a boat, in which I was in the
habit of rowing or Bailing daily; and high
uo on the tteach there was a hut a mk t
of dctaciied'lugh aud dry cabin belonging
to the lawt and let with it, where the uarv
etc., were kept—and here I used sometime*
to read and practice smoking—a luxury
which I had not an yet learned to eujoy
thoroughly.
One very hot afternoon 1 went down to
this lank, with the intention of |iaddling
out a little way, and then having a bathe;
but after dragging the boat down to the
water' edge, 1 found tliat I had left the
key id the hut liehind ine, and without the
key 1 could not get the oar*. The sailor
' who owned the three boats which formed
the Carfax pleasure tleet had gone out
with a party, so that I could not get his
key ; and being too hot and laiv to go
!ack for my own, I got into the lioat,
made myself comfortable in the bows under
the sail, which covered uie over like a tent,
! pulled a bk'k out of mv pocket, and began
to read. Whether it was the fault at the
author or not, 1 cannot say, but I fell
aale.fi, and very sound 1 nur>t have been,
| for on waking i could not tell at the mo
ment where I was. When tuy faculties
returned a little, however. 1 looked at my
watch, and fouud that I had ln#?i asleep
four hours, and it was time to go home and
get ready for dinner. So I struggled out
of the folds of the sail, and saw water,
water all muhkl ! The shore was a good
mile off, and the boat was drifting further
aud further away every minute. 1 also
discovered that I was uot alone; a female
figure revised in the stern, the head con
cealed bv a large sunshade, but the dress
seemed familiar. 1 approached: it was
Clara, fast a-leep, just as 1 had Ix-eu, and
overpowered bv a similar soporific, for a
book had talleu from her hand aud lay ou
ber lap.
" By Jove f I cried aloud, in my con
sternation, and the exclamation startled
her.
" What is it ? Where atn I ?" she asked,
opening her eyes and sitting up. "Why
we are at sea ! Oh, what a shameful trick !
What will the people say ? Put me on
shore at once."
I protested and explained, she followed
suit. She had taken a walk, been over
come with heat, and sought rest in the
boat, of course not knowing that it was
mine, or that any man was in it, as I was
completely hidden by the sail. The rest
was easily imagined: the tide had cotne up
and flttated the boat, which had I teen car
ried off by a tremendous current, which
renders that part of the coast most danger
ous for incaut*ous bathers.
u I am afraid that we shall hardly get
back in time for dinner,'' said Clara.
"1 am afraid not." replied 1.
14 But please begin rowing at once,"
pleaded she.
*• There are no oars," said I.
44 Oh dear! oh dear! Then sail."
I stepped the mast and hoisted the sail,
to look like trying, but as there was not
a breath ol wind, of course it was all of no
use, except that it temporarily and par
tially pacified my companion, whose no
tions of navigation were vague. At the
end of half an hour, however, she could not
help perceiving that our distance from Par
fax wa quite doubled, and I had to own
that ililess a breeze sprang up we were
helpless, though at the same time I assured
her that directly the boat-keeper returned
he would find out that I was awav with
out oars; and when we were missed at the
boarding-house, and inquiries made, he
would know what had happened, and that
we were certain to be rescued.
"Oh," she cried, "if it were only that!
But people won't believe—people will
think—people will say—ob. dear ! I had
almost sooner be drowned than eo back !"
She altered her opinion on this point,
however, when night fell, and there were
no signs of rescue. 1 did not fee! comfor
table myself, in spite of my confident talk.
No doubt boats "were put out in search of
us, but the sea is big, and so small a craft
l as ours soon gets out of sight ; and where
I that plaguy current might carry us to
Neptune only knew—Neptune or l)a.y
Jones, proprietor of the Ixickcr. The pos
sibility of cruising about in this way with
: Clara, till I wanted to eat her, was trying;
the tceling that I was alone with her under
such very solitary circumstances was, after
the remarks of my aunt and the bathing
woman, still more distressing to tl.e nerves.
To keep a better countenance, I tried to
i treat the situation from a jwasc point of
view. What did people au in open !>oats
after shipwreck ? I asked, and remember
ed that sometimes they canght boobies
and noddies. Boobies (present rni|ny
excepted) were not visible, but I might
catch fisn. I had a little locker in the
boat, containing a bachelor's kettle, rcsined
firewood, a few bifcuit-s, a stone jar of fresh
water, a sardine-box with two sardines
left in it, and some fishing lines. A sar
dine made bait, and I fished. After book
ing three dog-fish and a conger eel, I
caught a nondescript who looked eatable.
Then, giving him a humane time to die in,
I lit a square of firewood under the kettle,
which was filled with salt water (a dodge
I bad learned). While it was ladling I
performed the happy despatch upon poor
nondescript, and then crammed him into
the kettle. All this diverted and reassured
iny companion, who condescended to taste
nondescript with biscuit ; and really he
was very good. I know we made a skele
ton of him between us.
But all this little excitement and forced
spirits died away as the night advanced,
and the situation became inexpressible.
Clara did awful things; ahc burst out
laughing in the middle of crying, so that 1
thought she was having n game with me;
but then she shed actual tears, and said
bits of her prayers so that could hardly be.
I did all I could think of to console her,
but it was a long time before I aucceded ;;
what I thought waa, '"Well Master George,
you have gone and nailed yourself no*-,
and no mistake P'
We were engaged.
At two o'clock in the morning a light
lireeze sprang up, and I knew we were all
! right. The lignts of Upper Carfax were
! still visible, and formed a sure beacon to
steer by.
I beached the boat at eleven o'clock,
while the band was playing as nual on
the pier, and all the people listening to it,
and we excited much interest. I was rather
anxious to keep our engagement a secret
for the present, but Clara explained that
under the circumstances that could not
be, and all Carleton Mansion knew it by
luncheon time.
Aunt Bonwick laughed at first, and then
got very angry. She called me an idiotic
cub, and was very rude to Clara. The
next day I bad to go home to my guardian,
who was very satirical; and all this scold
ing and sneering made me stick up for
Clara the tnore heartily. But I was glad
when the time came for me to go back to
my private tutor, and escape from the per
petual unpleasantness. I have oniy seen
Clara once since, at the Royal Academy;
but she writes to me every week, and I
answer her letters, though not quite regu
larly, I am afraid. I thought she looked
rather older when I saw her at the Acade
my ; not that that has anything to do
with it, but—l am only nineteen now, and
it seems so absurd, you know.
A CENSUS ITEM.—A Marshal in Ohio
makes the following indorsement on one
of his iwturns, the names only being fic
titious : "John Thomas, County,
Ohio. Age 96. I found this man to-day
in his field cutting wheat. He told me
he was now living with his third wife,
and he thought it would take another
besides this to take him through.
CENTRE HALL REPORTER.
Hew* of Practical Holler-Maker*.
The Steam llotler-Mitkera" Heuevulent
! Association held it special meeting in
New.York to inquire into the cause
of explosions. John Meltride t 'hair
man. characterised the present v
teut of boiler-making and inspection
unwise and uttaafe. No ui*u should be
a boiler-iuapeotor who is not a practical
boiler-maker. The- durability aud
strength of the material ordered iu lk>il
ers are tai often mu'ritli-ol to cheapness.
He himself had often seen it so laid that
he thought it was wrong to put audi a
sheet in, but he could say nothing. The
boiler of the Wee til eld was uot tit to run.
|it was so old. Then tin system of test
ing by hydrostatic pressure is injurious,
for every year tliat it is done it
strains the iron to its utmost limit, low
' the seams apart, and then, if it com
mences to leak, they put ilia short patch,
perhaps an eighth of an meh thick,
which stops the leak, and does not iu
I the least stieugtheii the boiler.
Mr. Sullivan, an old boUsr-makqy
from MttseachUßcttaand Maine, had often
been told by engineers, when he went to
rejuiir a Uiiler in a sliip, that he need
only patch it enough to last them that
> one trip, especially if they lunl a pros
peruus trip in prospect, alter which au
otinr patch would have to be put on.
It was reasonable to suppose that the
iron on both sides of the fracture must
lip bud. He had looked at the Isiilwr of
the Westfield, and believed that it ex
ploded, not from want of water, but on
I mvouut of its age. The iron appeared
, to have been, w hen first manufactured
> for the sheet, bent over where it was
! burst out, and did uot crack as it would
have doue had the iron been defective.
A boiler-maker ami repairer present
intorjaieod tluit it is sometimes OH much
the fault of incapable engineers, as boil
er inspectors, as a general tiling, were
not conversant with all the parts of a
boiler, so as to know where to look for
the weak points, lu regard to the West
field, he believed the strongest part of
the boiler blew up. When a boiler has
been in use eight or nine years, it is the
inside lining that first giveaway, usually,
but he found in this case it was the
lutek head of the boiler which gave wav
and ton* the inside lining. He consid
ered the aocident, therefore, the fault of
the operators.
Michael Donohue also thought a boil*
er iniH*.*tor should be a tioilcr-maker,
and not merely an engineer or machinist.
Tin* talk aliout patches w;m all nonn*iise.
The boiler is wade up of patches. You
sorely would not rip up a ship's deck hi
put iu a new boiler every time it needed
strengthening. It must la* repuimlwith
patches. Any good boiler-maker can
examine a lauler and with his hammer
detect its weak points with less difficulty
and less detrim<*ut to the Iwiler tliiui by
hydrostatic pressure.
Peter H. Donohue of Brooklyn, dis
agreed flatly with the views of all the
cxjierts in the Westfield boiler examin
ation. They all suv it blew out at the
side. I behove, said he, that the boiler
gave way iu the braces at the lwck end,
or tap bolts, la-cause it blew out in a
horizontal line' at the front of the boat.
The cous*quejiee of these braces giving
way wis that there was not enough
strength on the frout in the tap liolt*
to sustain that flat surface on the liock
end of the boiler. In one place iu
that boiler there is a space of 98
square inches without a brace! 1
never saw so much space in my life, said
he, betw*en braces on a lnuler, as I saw
on tlmt I*nit. 1 don't blame the engi
neer. Mr. Matthews is colled a first
class engineer, but he is not a first-claas
boiler inspector. Neither he nor any
other (toiler inspector ever goes right
into the man-hole to see when* the ltoil
er has corroded and is weak, for it is the
interior of the Itoiler that is first affect
ed. In this inquest they will find out
that it was the fault of the boiler-maker.
Then* an* pins run through the braces
to hold them which ought always to be
split at the end, so that it can l*e fon*ed
apart after lieiug driven in, and hold
the brace finnly, and now I have seen a
pin in the boiler of the \V*stfiell that
never wrus split. No boiler insjieetor if
he did his duty, would allow this. The
boiler again was too old to ln*ar a pres
sun* of 4<> jHiumls.
The meeting adjourned, after a rcso
lutiou that boiler-makers alone could
properly test a boiler.
How they Telegraph Chinese,
The managers of the China Submarine
Telegraph Comjauiy have solved the
somewhat difficult problem of how to
transmit telegraphic messaged in Chi
nese. At first sight the difficulty of tele
graphing in a language which is destitute
of an alphaliet, and is made up of nliout
fifty thousand distinct characters, ap
|>ears almost insurmountable, but the
obstacle lias lwen overcome, and A-fat at
Hong Kong encounters no more difficul
ty in communicating by telegraph with
A-chutn at Shanghai than does Brown
and Jones under similar circumstances.
The plan adopted is this : Some few
thousand of the more c:romon Chinese
characters are cut on wooden blocks after
the manner of typo. nnd on the reverse
and of each is a numlier cut in the same
way. Now A-fat having handed in his
message written in Chinese, the native
clerk selects in order the corres|>otiding
blocks from the case and prints off the
numbers on their reverse. This he hands
to his English colleague, who telegraphs
the numiiers to the destination desired.
Here the reverse process is gone through,
nnd the numbers, having been taken
from the case* the characters ore stamp
ed on pfljier, and thus A-clium is nut IU
possession of the cherished wisiiea of
A-fat through the medium of his native
language.
HEALTHY CHILDREN.—To mine healthy
children give them an abundance of out
door exercise, fun and frolic ; make them
regulnr in their bahitn, and feed them on
plain, nourishing food. But keep them
overtasked in school, confined closely to
the house the rest of the time, frowning
down every attempt at play ; feed them
upon rich or high seasoned food, can
dies, nuts, Ac., allow them to eat Ixv
tween uieals and late in the evening, and
von need not expect them to lie healthy.
Don't cram them with food when they
don't want, or have no appetite for it—
such a connie is slow murder. If they
have no appetites, encourage, and, if need
be, command them to take exercise in
the open air. Do not allow them to
stndy too much, and especially keep
them from reading the exciting light lit
erature which so much altouuds in our
book stores and circulating libraries.
A SUDDEN SHOCK.—An Illinois man
has been in the Jacksonville Insane
Asylum for about two years tinder treat
ment, but a few days ago he wns pro
nounced hopelessly incurable, and sent
home. On arriving, he spoke to his girls
and said, " Well, girls, von are keeping
house alone, are you ?" When his wife
entered the room, he started as if from a
dream, throwing both hands to his head
fressing it, exclaiming, "My God, Jane,
thought you were dead ; is it indeed
you?" and seemed completely overcome
by his emotions. The shock did more
for him than medical aid could do. He
recovered his reason entirely and thus
far retains it.
A man in Portsmouth, N. H., named
his two children Ebenezer and Flora,
and always spoke of them as "Eb" and
"Flo."
('ENTHE HALL, CENTRE' CO., HA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1871.
To Voting Men Lite Honestly.
Every young man, as he enters iijmiii
life, sluaiid Like an tuvotuil with him-
M-lf, it ml divide iu his own iiiiml Upoll
the course which he will pursue. Ho
should ask himself, " Wdl I entei upon
a course in which 1 can render a fair
equivalent for everything that I obtain ?
or will 1 enter upou a course iu which,
for the things that I receive, 1 shall
render an equivalent where 1 must, and
palm offempty spiearuucis where 1 cau?"
It is a glorious nuibitiou, a manly pur
pose, wtlh which a person Itegius life,
when he goes forth saying, '• 1 meau to
make my fortune, to be sure, ami to
pluck honor from the highest lsmghs of
the tree of life ; but 1 am determined
not to go one step in honor or wealth or
istwer that is not a real stop. What I
tave, I will pay for. I will not take any
thing without giviug a fair equivalent
for it" Ami what a contrast thorn is
Isitwoeu this aud thw ambition and pur
po-v of those who nut out in life with a
determination to make their fort uue and
gain honor at all luurardx, by whatever
means it may bo necessary to employ,
and without regard to whether they
rerder an equivalent for that which tliwy
receive no not ?
A young man, delicately reaml, is sent
into life, ami he goes into a shop where
he finds many companions, and where,
unfortunately, the strongest-minded men
are not tho sweetest-hearted. And all
around about him the conversation is
low ; the allusions are coarse, the expres
sions are vulgar. The things tliat in
home life he never dared to *ha;>c into
words, or hiut* even, ire freely handled
for the purpose of exciting laughter.
Now, umler such circiimstaucos, a man
may lose sensibility to these things. At
first he is shocked ami sick. 1 hare
known js-notts of an orgnnixntiou so
delicate that this violence doue to their
moral and social feelings amounted to
alvtolute sickness of lxtdy. Rut that
can uot continue. In the course of a
mouth a young man will get tua*l to
olmeeuity in one of two ways. If he
seta his heart against it; if he calls tho
memory of all tliat he loves to his help ;
if his w hole conscience War* witness ; if
he makes a covenant with his li|t*, and
sets his heart to watch over its issues,
then little bv little ho will come to a
state iu which he w ill hear obscene talk
as though lie did not hear it. Aud he
comes out better than he went in,
although he suffer* U*-j by tho outward
contact of corruption than iu the Uigin
ning. He has carried himself in such a
way with reference to it, tliat it ha*
worked out in moral purity.
I was called once to a consultation in
reference to a young man belonging to a
large establishment, who wa* detected in
some criminal act; and in a confidential
interview tliat 1 had with hiui, he told
me that it was not because ho a as ill need
that ho viclded to the U-mptatiou, but
liecatue Vie wanted property. Hi* dis
honesty was simply the result of avarice.
And if n young man abuses his trust snd
is dishonest, there is not a word to Iw
said in his justification.
There are temptations to dishonesty,
then, that spring from extravagance.
Our society is very vicious in its whole
structure in this regard. We make uo
provision for the ivsjwctabiiity of people
who are in hunilile circumstance*. We
hold out inducements to them to live Ite
voud their means.
Young people want to lie gin further
along than they arc able to. They want
to keep house as twenty years of succ-m
ful auil fruitful industry have enabled
other men to do it. They measure every
thing on the pattern of somebody elae.
There are many young men who have
enough to support them ; but that is not
all that they want. They have bad com
panions with whom tliey associate. These
companions are not very temperate.
They smoke; and so, of course, thov
drink. I do not mean that among ail
men that smoke, drinking is a handmaid
vice; but 1 say that smoking leads, or
tends to lead, to the other vice. And
smoking and drinking are very expen
sive.
Young men are very apt to reason the
question of dishonesty with themselves,
and to justify themselves by tho examples
which they see around about them of
men who stand eminent, trusted, and of
good reputation, and who yet do dis
honest things. A voting man is apt to
say, "It is no worse for me to follow
such and such courses, than it is for
others; and many that do follow tln-in
stand high, and are prospered and re
spected-"
I will admit that there are many men
who stand high, and for a time have a
certain kind of resjxH-tability and jros
iierity, though tliey do dishonest things ;
but I say this : You cannot afford to lie
like them. There is nothing else in this
world tluit is of so much consequence to
yon, as that you should keep jieace with
your own self. Blessed be the man that
can say, as the apostle did, " I trust that
I have a good conscience." Blessed l>e
the man that has lived till he is thirty
years of age, and can say, "1 hrfVe a good
conscience that is "I never willingly
do anything that violates iny eonseienoe.
God knows that it is my purpose to live
at peace with my conscience."
A man cannot afford to throw nwny
the blessing of a good conscience. And
it makes no difference that your neigh
lior is prospering by dishonesty, and
jieople have not found him out. If you
are dishonest you know it yourself, and
that i* enough. And there ought to lie
a principle of honor with every young
man that should lead him to any, " Even
if God could not see me when I did
wrong, I should see myself, and self
respi-et and manhood require that I
should do right."— Henri/ Wart! Hcrchrr.
LIBERTY OR DEATH.— StiII the evi
dences multiply that birds nnd I toasts
show in many instances the vices ami
wenkneswa of humnn nature. We have
Itoen told before that scorpions would
commit suicide if thev found themselves
hemmed in with trouble and affliction in
the shape of a blazing fire ; and now
we are given to understand that even
the pretty, innocent birds will, on occa
sion, commit the abominable crime of
infanticide. The story is told of a fine
brood of goldfinches in the garden of a
rectory in Bedfordshire, Englnnd, which
was taken captive, and confined in a cage
while atill in the nest. The parent birds
still supplied food for their young, and
they were thriving well until they were
nearly ready to fly. The old birds find
ing tfien that they were not to lie allowed
to get out of the cage, brought them poi
sonous seeds, and the whole brood died
in a single night.
HEAI.INO PROPERTY OP Hons.—Under
the nnme of oil of eggs a preparation is
prescribed in aome parts of Englaml and
on the continent of Europe as an emol
lient for sore nipples ami excoriations,
and it is sometimes called for in this
country. It may be prepared by gently
heating yolks of eggs until they coagu
late and the moisture evaporates ; then
breaking into fragment*, digesting in
bgiling alcohol, filtering while hot, and
evaporating. A dozen eggs yield about
an ounce. It is in general use among colo
nist* of South Russia as a means of cur
ing cut*, bruises and scratches. The
white of an egg has proved of late most
efflca ious in curing burns. Seven or
eight applications of this substance
soothes pain and eflectuallv excludes
the air from the burn. Tliis simple
remedy seems preferable to collodion.
Marriage With a Unerased Wife's Slsler,
The following extracts are from a letter
nldrmrJ by the Rev. Mr. l'ttushou to
n member of tho Hytiod of Torouto.who
at its late sesaiou opposed a resolution
deprecating marriage with a decuoaad
; wife's sistwr
When 1 married iu ItWH. my deceased
wife's sister, I did so advisedly, from
no impulse of |m.vdoii, but from tt de
liberate, wtdl-eonsidervd prayerful oon
vietion of duty.
I thought out the whole Heriptnral
[fegumeut ou the question as long ago
us ItCsS, when I hmi no idist that it couhl
ever apply to myw-lf, and Isx-ame then
firmly persuudod that such mnrringea
were as Bcripturally lawful as they are
i in many eusos sH-nilly exjH-liutt.
This is a prohibition of bigtunv, a*
the margin reads, "one wife to another."
I submit this cannot be, Ixe-nuse we
know for a fact that bigamy was prac
ticed to a much later i>eriod by those
who were tsmud by tliv lajvitical laws
—and also in Deuteronomy, chapter
twouty-oue, fifteenth verse - part of the
mvouil giving of the law—aud therefore
later bigamy is recognised ** existing,
and for a certain contingency growing
out of it, and surely that would not be
actually legislated fur which, had I wen
but a short time before positively for
bidden.
Then, it is said, that in tits eighteenth
chapter of Leviticus ami sixteenth verse,
marriage with a brother's wife is forbid
den, and by '* parity of reasoning " (a
wonderful phrase) the same relationship
is included on the other side.
They do uot see the dilemma iu which
this places them. In the twentieth
chapter of Leviticus aud twenty-fifth
verse, the peiiulty is denounced against
the taking of the brother's wife, vix.,
childlasaueas. If the prohibition ap
plies, the |M-ualty must apply also. N.fod
1 do more than remind voa of instances
i within your own knowledge (say • •
* and "also • * *•} where *uch |K-n
--ulty followed. Either then Hcnptun- is
broken and its threotcn its gw a <trad letter,
or Uie prohibition doc* not apply. '
Again, take the Apottle'a worils iu Ro
mans, ktxth cliapb-r, aud second verwe,
which apiieors to mo significant: " She
is freed from the law of h.-r lmsbaud—
not frog* her hugtiand—but from all the
obligations of the relationship into
which her relationship with him brought
her. It appear*, aud always lia* up
1 wared to me, that the doctrine of this
paasagc is that the relationship of affin
ity. created by Inw, ceaaes when the law
ii-isw. See where the converse of this
woald land yon. If death ha* uo effect
to abrogate the " law of tlie husband "
I —if my wife's sister is still my wife's
sister, then logically my wife is still tny
wife, aud • far from restricting my lib
erty to marry her own relations, ber
death, as it doe* not alter my relaUons
to her—doe* not leave me at liberty to
marry at all
Yours very truly.
W. MI>IU:T IYSSHO*.
ToJ. llodgkins, Esq., LL.D.,
Toronto.
A Massacre of Butchers in India.
A IJUKM* pajxT rv|Kirts a shocking
outbreak of fanaticism at Uinritsur, in
the I'unjaub. " For wiu# time tin*
Hindoos hare Wn agitating agaiust the
butcher* of Umritsur to obtain a de
cree forbidding tho (daughter of cattle
and tho sale of beef in the citj. Their
efforts failed ch tolly through the firm
noss of tho ComtnisMoner and the
strength of the English and Muasulman
part? in tho Committee. Early one
morning, alsrnt one or two o'clock, a
party of armed Hindoo* assembled and
made a deacont upon I'mritaur slaugh
ter-house and attacked the butchera
sleeping outside. The murderers were
nrqprd witli ■word* and broad-axes, and
the butchers boiitg unnmud and asleep,
were unable to aare themselves. Four
butchera were literally hacked to pieces,
and two others were o fearfully cut up
that one has since died and the other *
life is despaired of. The night was a
vsry dark one, and it will be difficult to
recognize the murderer*. Accounts
vary as to the *oct they belonged to.
From some indications found on the
scene of the massacre, it is suspected
that the murderers belong to the Nihnng
aeot. But another account state* that
the Akalies were suspected. The Aka
lies are a sort of fanatic Sikhs, a somi
saccrdotal claas attached to the temples.
Thsy are the trucculent-looking fellow*
who wear conical os]>s about a yard high
corered with small weapons, and tboae
stoel chuckers or sharp ring* which they
can hurl with such terrible precision and
effect. TIICT arc respected and consid
erable feared. The Nihungs, again, are
associated with all that is reckless and
Bohomian. Their name, indeed, is a
common expression in the I'uujaub to
represent these tpialilie*. The affair, as
may l>c anticipated, has caused some ex
citement. as it ia expected tluit the mat
ter will not eud hero. Had passions on
both aide* have been aroused, and tho
natives are already whispering that other
inerol>era of the butcher fraternity have
beeu marked out tor destruction.
Watering-Place Miseries.
Tonkins, who hss lieen staying at a
seaside watering-place, was asked the
other day, says a Boston paper, by a
friend who thought he lookod rather
enisty, if anything was amiss at the
hotel.
" Yes, about everything ia a Miss at
this confounded trap," said P., mop
ping hia face.
" Everything amiss 1 How so ? "
" Well, in the first place the accom
modations are mis-represented ; the ser
vants are mis-governed : a man ia mis
led in coming here, and mis-taken in
thinking to enjoy himself; his time is
mis-spent; his confidence in the land
lords, bods, butter nnd rooms mis-placed;
n ninn lias his mis-givings the first day
after "hia arrival; the servant mis-lay
hia hair-brush, boot-jack, slippers, anil
contributes to his mis-comfort ; the com
jinny is mis-orffaneous; wvrral old Misses
are mis-chief making and mis-conntru
ing your polite qourtesy into mis-con
duct, and, to crown the whole, the waiter
mis-pronounecs mv name, and the bar
kcejter always mokes a mis-count in
making change."
"Good gracious ! Any more misses ?"
"Yes, plenty of 'em— mis-quotes."
BROKE I)owl*.--A Milwaukee woman
lntoly got on a "rampage," and wna
scolding her neighbors, a hired girl, and
everything in general, when her hus
band entered and interposed a mild word.
This added fuel to her tonqter, and she
opened her mouth for an angry reply ;
but a spasm contracted her cheek, hor
lower jaw fell, and she could neither
sjteak nor shut her mouth, but remained
in that condition ; her tongue hung out
and her eyes nearly started out of their
socket*. Oil examination Wing made,
it was found that she hail dislocated her
jnwbono in her violent effort to make a
stinging reply to her husband.
A STRONG LAW.— According to the De
troit Tribune, the liquor law of Michi
gan ia the most stringent state law on
that subject which has yet been enacted.
The Tribune says : " It should be borne
in mind, by those who drink, that under
the amended liquor-law of the state, now
in force, any person who is found drink
ing in any saloon,tavern or public place,
or in the streets, is liable to a fine of $3
nnd cost*, or imprisonment for not more
than twenty days."
True History of Hohinson ("rsm.
Robinson Crusoe w as bom witfT an ar
dent hmging for the sea. Home might
rail it a notion of bia, toil it wan an
ocean he wna a longtime in getting over,
if lie ever did get over it etitimly. Thu
longing for the *-i uiuiiiieatod itself at a
very tender age, though it i. hard to
think of Robinson as Iviug very tender
at any age, his ean-<-r was so tough.
Wheu tliey uttompU*! to tern-h his in
fant lips to pronounce the letters of tlie
ulpluibi-t they could never get liim be
yond tlio letter C. A aud If went well
euough, but when lie got on the C there
he stuck, a strangely prophetic indica
tion of what hia future life was to he.
When bo cried it was on the C sharp,
and when he got a cold his bark was on
the C.
As he grew older he yearned con
stantly to lie on the water, to the great
disgust of hut father, who was ou the
whiskey. He used to ait for hours at a
time on a canal bridge mar his father's
door, aud a* the boats passed under
imagine lie was plowing the mighty
deep. It was so much easier than plow
ing out corn. He hadn't any mast to
climb, but in the absence of a mast he
would "climb" a younger brother, or
any neighbor's boy who wasn't quite his
aise.
But he sighed for other climbs. He
was imsistiblv inclined to rainble, so
much so tliat he rambled in his speech,
his ideas being all ahead. When at
last he announced his determination to
go for a sailor, his father endmvored to
dissuade luro from iL " Why," said the
old man with tears in his eves and a
choking voice—"why go tor a sailor
when there are so many other people to
go for who have money ? "
Then he pointed out ihe disadvantage*
of a life upon tho ocean—hew ba could
uot lw in earlv nights, nr take long
walks over the hills break fast , or
go buggy-riding with the girls (unless
he could borrow the captain's gig), or to
jfo to the beer gardens Sunday nights,
or come in when it rains, or go sqtiirrel
huuting, or attend ward meeting*, or
vote, unless he h*npened tube at one or
v-th<ofthe "Poles," or raeaiv* a lino
from anv of his frienda, with tho aoli
arv exception of the EqMWobal line.
Ho tn.il to sliow bow much bettor off
he would be to pursue some stesdy em
ployment at home, if it wasn't anything
mora than steadying himself by a lamp
poat. He (Miiuted out the jw-nl* of the
*ea —told of the "old salta'' who had
lieen drowsd in it. pnsluciug its salty
flavor, and of the difficulty a green hand
encounter* in*, wailing ashore when a
storm arise*.
He cited as a warning the cwwe of
another aim, wbo against his father's
warnings and expostulations, ran away
and enlisted as a soldier in the Mexican
war, where he was killed by falling from
the mast head while charging gallantly
at a I wittcry.
Young t'ruaoe was so deeply affected,
by his father's words, that he marie op
his little bundle thst very night, and nui
awn v to sea- bow it was itself.
He met with numerous adventure*
and disasters before he succeeded in
getting himself sufficiently shipwrecked
to mslu* out a narrative for general eir
cnlatioß.
He was washed ashore, after tuning
pretty thoroughly washed on the sea.
and as soon s* the waves snlwided he
built a raft and brought sway from the
wreck a few necessaries.
Cnnoe was greatly alarmed one day
by nedng the print f a human foot in
the saixl. It measured aomcihitig over
fourteen inches to the foot. Ha cou
cwled himself, and quickly saw a boot
Usui of cannibals, ami with a prisoner
in their imdst, a geutleman by the nam*'
of Friday, whom they prepared to roast
for dinner. Oroaoe neing nonspien
onsly opposed to eating m<-at on Friday,
interfered and roamed him from the
cannibals, Ho from that day be became
Robinson Crusoe's man Friday, doing
his chorea, and blacking his boots, and
voting at every election as Crusoe direct
ed him.
After years s|ent on this lonely island
a ship touched there for water, there he
ing nothing elae to touch there for, and
took Robinson Crusoe to England.
Hobinaon. from hi* boyhood uj>, hail
a habit of crowing when surprised or
delighted. Years after his delivery,
when speaking of the first gliinjiee he
caught of that ship, he used to say,
never was there a period in his life when
Robinson Crusoe.
When Robinson died lie imagined he
was surrounded by enemies, for his last
words were—" De Foe ! l>e Foe 1"
A Chinese Letter.
The Chinese are gradually making
progress, nud will in time, no doubt,
overcame the complicated difficultiea of
tho English language. Choy Aw all ia a
lironiisiug pupil in a Sunday school at
Washington, nnd has lately exercised his
talents by making a translation of a well
known jmrable, to lie found in the twen
ty-fifth chapter of Matthew. The story
is Englished after the following fashion :
"The kingdom like ten girbi; never
marry ; they bring some lanterns ; come
out tin some new married man come that
way. Have got five wise and five foolish.
Five hold lanterns with no oil. Hmart
five all have oil inside. The new mar
ried man com® late ; they sleep. By
and bv thev all say, ' New married man
come. All go out to him. Five makey
nice lanterns. Five foolish say, 'You
give my oil; my lamp no oil, you give
my some. * The smart say, *I no give
von ; I not enough ; yon go market buy.'
Foolish go market to buy. The new
innrricd man come. All come in to din
ner. Shut the door. By and by the
foolish come and say ' Rosa, Buss, open
door.' He say, *I no likey you ; you no
my.' Must Vie smart, no understand the
day."
HINTS TO LADlES. —Buyers for the
wholesale houses, having returned from
Europe, s|toak with authority of next
season's styles. Neutral tints, quiet and
distinguished look, and the dark cloth
color* that are scarcely removed from
black will prevail. Black will be more
worn than ever, as half Paris and Ber
lin are in mourning. Three shades of a
single color will np]tcar In manv cos
tumes. The preference for soft flexible
fabrics has incited manufacturers to
bring out new goods that will drape
gracefully, and prominent among these
is faille rash mere, r. combination of silk
ami very fine wool, mode as soft, aa
twilled cashmere, but richly repped like
velours. This is for over-dresses, man
tles and trimming. Strijtes are not so
popular abroad na lwld checks and blocks,
especially of Mack ami white together.
Kolid colors are preferred above every
thing.
A FANCY DRRRH. —At the fancy dress
kill at White Sulphur Springs recently,
Miss Preston, of Lexington, KV., repre
sented " Arctic Moonlight." tier dress
was a succession of full illusion skirt*
dotted with swans' down and sparkling
with oxidized glass, and silver hands
glistening beneath the tulle and a silver
crescent looped the overdress on one
side ; a crown of pine cones and slender
vines, frosted with gold and spangled
with oxidized glass rested on her head,
and a veil dotted writh swans' down span
fled with the glass fell from her head to
er feet at the back. Her ntckkce was
pearls, with diamond pendant*.
It has been ascertained that the man
who held on to the last was a shoemaker.
Perils if fotndon HtrwU.
Tim Loudon Zfcr*/y .Vrsw say* : 'Die
battle of the itrwti ragm on from year
fO year with searaely varying fortune.
In the ronlid between unarmed foot
passengers and the doubly armed driv
er*, tin- weaker eomliatanta are ridden
down without taw. Counting up the
bastes in killed and wouuited last year in
the street* which lie outside tin) city, ww
arrive at the terrible aggregate of 2,043.
This i* an average of thirty-nine deatiia
•-very week, or six |*?r*ou* a day fur the
nil miay days of tiie week and throe for
each Htm lay. Of these 2,043 victim*.
124 WO(W killed, au.l 1,919 wounded. A
to the engines of warfare by which their
detraction wiut aorunuhshud. the return
Ixibliahed by the Chief CouuniaMoner of j
'olioo gives aoine statistics which carry 1
out the impression which LoudoMm d>-1
ritwjb.iu observation. The cabs do a i
tjototfaual of damage, but they are not
tint wrtpt offender*. They killed 11 pme
oh ami wounded 429 during laat year.
The omnibuses killed 17 and hurt 35;
while carriage* and brougham* killed 2
uuil injured 243. Heavy carta, wagon*
and van* killed 6*l and wounded 402.
Hut the worst offender* of all are the j
1 light carta driven by ttadearaen'a bojra j
and shopmen. Tlteac e irta ran oyer 486
people during the year, of whom 27 won*
kdh*l. Neum one-thinl of the ao-t-alkxli
accidents in the utieuh are, therefore,
dne to these carta
Thoac terrible figure* do not include
the mo-t deuaely crowded jjert* of Lon
don. The city haa ita owu catalogue of
accident*, which do noun-thing to swell
th- aggregate, though the effj- ft per
lia|M the aafcet part of Lrnnhm-*'' * l ia
surely time that something Via done to
■top thia fearful havoc. If foHinmauid
people fall every year in not and insur
rection the whole world would be horri
fied ; hut more than two thousand fall
in the chronic strife of overhearing driv
ers with weak, or feeble, or careless
walkers, and we take it as a thing of
.-ours.* Suppose the Itusman plan were
introduced, and a cart wltfi-li injumi a
foot-passenger was forfeifM, wonki the
figures of street itoeideUti long tell so
terrible a story ? , .
Hew u Extrude the Eld ef IVk,
To aid such as desire information on
this poiut we insert the following from I
no article written by one of our moat
eaccetsafnl enlturist*:
"Take out the trout in the race with
a net, and place them in baskets stand
ing in the water in auma convenient
place to handle them. Take a jxin or a
I ail with three or four inches of water
in it from the spring, and plane it naar
the baskets containing the trout. The
< gg* must be quickly extruded and the
trout replaced in the water. Ibis oper
ation must not consume more than one
minute, if possible. All thing* being j
ready, a female trout taken out of the
Iwaket with one baud, with the other
i gently rub the abdomen from the gills
downward, and the spawn will flow in a
continuous stream into the vessel Con
tinue the rubbing until the spawn ia
wholly extruded, then quickly ivptasii
the front in the race, or in a separate
basket . One aide of the egg has a small,
white speck ; here is where the impreg
nation lakes plaoe. Thia side of tlx- egg
Mftiiinn the lightest it always fall* this
side up, ready to receive the milt Now,
take a male trout from the basket, and,
in like manner, or by the thumb and
fingers on each si.le of the abdomen,
which requires rather more pleasure,
<-xude the mill. The milt fails upon the
water snd setth* u|xm the egg*. It
usually takes from two to four males to
impregnate from 2,000 to 3,000 spawn.
In like mauner I serve all the trout in
the baskets, I then place the spawn and
milt in shallow vessels, and put these in
the spring water, where I alio* th.m to
remain from one to twenty-four hours.
lVobably una hour is sufficient to insure
impregnation. I took from 300 to 10,-
spawn daily from November 3 to
January 10, malting in all about 130,000
spawn, attended with perfect success.'
Tax Hooaxr Tckxeu— A oorrespon
dent ears: The western end of the
Hikmmc 'Tnnnel is down the valley a mile
or two south of the town. The total
length when completed will be 25,(131
foet, or 4] miles. The distance penetrat -
ed July 1. 1871, was, on the east side, 8,-
882 feet, of which 6,282 feet is full sire.
24 foet wide and 3D feet high ; on the
west aide 6,880 of which over 4. 400 feet
ia full aiic. About midway of the tun
nel, in a valley between the east and
west summit of the mountain, the cen
tral shaft ia sunk to the depth of 1,028
feet. Headings have been opened about
2IK) feet each war from the thaft, and
will Ve carried forward until they meet
the headings from the east and was!
cutis. Betwten 750 and 800 men are at
work night aud day, and tie work ia
rapidly advancing, and will be complet
ed according to contract. May 1, 1874.
The first 1,730 feci eastward from the
western portal ia supported by a brick
arch 2 feet to 2 feet 8 iuches in thick
ness, which will lie constructed 300 or
400 feet further eastward, or until the
rock is found hard enough to support
itself. The blasting is done by electri
city, and the explosive, uitro-glyoenne,
ts manufactured at tho factory of IVot
George M. Mowbray, about 75 rods
from the west shaft
G human SiraitwfiKWw.—A correspon
dent of the London New* was told by a
(term oil naval officer. wiUi whom he was
lunching in a Berlin restaurant not long
ago, some injialatable new*. " Upon
iay word," remarked the Teuton, " I
know the ships of vour fleet better than
vour own yonhg officers." After stating
that every German ship was provided
with accurate charts of the naval jxirte
of the world, the officer remarked:—
" L'Orient is a very difficult port to
make ; 1 would not hke to try that with
out a pilot Plymouth ! there is not a
lieuteuant in the German army who could
not take a ship into Plymouth in the
night time." Tno correspondent learned
further, much to hia astonishment, that
" every ship in the German aervice, even
the smallest gnnlmat, ia provided with
detailed drawings and sections of every
foreign war ship. It* weak jioints are
specifically stated, and details givsn as
to the spots to be aimed at with moat
likelihood of disabling the machinery."
A MORAL..— A Syrian convert W Chris
tianity. as the story goes, was urged by
his employer to work on Sunday, but he
declined. " But," says the master,
" docs not yonr bible say that if a man
has an ox or an ass that falls into a pit
on the Sabbath day he may pull him
oat?" "Yea," answered' Hanyon ;
" but if the ass lias a habit of falling
into the same pit every Sunday, then
the wan should either fill up that pit or
sell that ass." The story has a sort of
"moral" which will fit a graat many
disputed pointa in these days.
Do daily and hourly vour duty ; do it
patiently and thoroughly. Do it as it
present* itself; do it at the moment,
and let it be ita own reward. Never
mind whether it ia known and acknowl
edged or not, but do not fail to do it.
The port of Liverpool has 'JO large
, docks. The total water area is 300 acres,
with a river front of five mi\ea. £12,-
000,000 ($60,000,006 in goldj, was spent
in building these docks.
TKRMB : Two Dollar* a Year, in Advance.
NO. 33.
fanning Fruits.
Many housekeeper may not know that
waxed cotton covering* are a* desirable
for preserving fruit as many of tin j* ton I
covers, particularly when the difference
l ia price is considered, fn our house
! bold we use one-quart gbuw jars, with
two-inch openings and broad bps—such
its wera aaed to the hospital by tbe United
State* army during the late war. Many
are now in tbe market, at SI. 7.1 pur
•luaen. By fastening securely threw
waxed rlotha, the jars oan be made posi
tively air-light. Use strong, closely
woven, unbleached cotton cloth, cut in
square*, about three inches wider than
|diameter of jar; have them ready ia
time, with a good supply of strong wine;
H!M, have the wax prepared in advance,
urn follows ; Equal proportions in bulk
of two*wax, tallow and resin, melted
together. (We keep au iron naunqpaa,
with • lip, always on hand fur this rem-
I pound.) *
After rinsing the jars in hot water,
: pile them in the range-oven, having them
to become thoroughly heated while the
fruit is cooking. Each jar. while being
filled, should stand uo t tot plate; a
wide-mouthed funnel, just the SUM of the
opening of the jar, is found matt useful
With tbe* tbiiig> oouvsaienily near tbe
I wiling htttto. fill the hot jar fuU, and
then place ub the top of the content* a
round piece wf white writing-paper, pre
viously cut of the exact size of tue open
ing-
The melted wax ready, take the four
corner* of muslin in your finger*, and dip
the center in the wax, turning it * little j
each way, to cover a sufficiently large
Htnface.' From it instantly on the jr,
waned tide down, and drawing down the 1
tide* well over the jar, tie the doth
cl<>*cly below the rim with the twine,
meantime pressing the cloth firmly
around the edge, when all the jars are*
filled and covered, then drop over the
surface of each stoth a fresh covering of
wax, to insure perfect eraUag, Tbe sur !
faoe will soon afterward become coneffre,'
if these direction* are followed, pwrtieo-'
larly if the cotton cloth is closely woven
won strung, and the hot fruit baa I wen *
inatantiy covered. Two wofkere are bet-1
tor than one fbr fllfing the jars.
Tbe aame cloth*, if carefully removed, j
en be need the following yshr by akgbtly ,
warming timn oa a heated uk*w of tin ;
indeed, they aw improved by uae. We .
find it an advantage to rover pickles with (
wax cloth*.
We have nsed three covers and jars j
vuccesafuHr with all the small fruit*, and j
1 where various proportions of sugar were !
used. A king-handled ladle ia useful for j
twstrinfi the hot preserves into the jar*. |
We make an improve*! jam of raspbemai j
by adding current juice at toe rate at a j
pint of currant juice to one of raspberries, j
allowing an extra pound of sagar for each ,
pint of currant iuiee. Crush the ripe ]
fruit with a wooden ladle ; sprinkle fine
sugar upon it, in the proportion of cae
pound of sugar to four en fruit; let it
Ktand in a fieep dish, thus covered with ]
the sngwr, over night, or at treat for a
few hour*. Add the currant juice when |
the fruit and soger are poured into the j
prweerving-ktttie and boil twenty min- 1
otCfo
Home young housekeepers become dis
couraged when canning fruit, tweauae |
they undertake to prepare too Luge a |
quantity at a time. If more than two <
gallon*" are to be boiled it ia best to
divide the quantity and have two "bail- j
WBSSM #F
Utgfo , ,
Currants make a delirious marmalade j
M wall a* jelly, using three quarters of a j
pound of sugar to one pound of fruit, i
Allow the fruit to be jxirtly crushtd,
and stew slowly before toe sugar ia ad- <
tied ; then stir in sngwr, and boil until
it thicken*. Less sugar may be used if
sealed carefully with waxed cloth*- This
marmalade makes delirious pie*.
The juice for currant jelly should be
boiled twenty minute*, and skimmed
while boiling*; then throw in the sugar,
crashed fine ; stir well and take off tbe
fire inatantiy.
It is more expeditious to have two
porcelain kettles in use at one time, it a
large quantity of fruit is to be preserved,
alternating (wtween the two, so that
neither will be kept on the fire too long.
—Hearth ami Home.
Cast of Living .thread.
A correspondent of the Philadelphia
Prrtt write* as follows:
" Allow me to suggest for the benefit
of those in moderate means who have a
desire to are the beauties of the rid
world, but are afraid to venture so far
away from home lest their expenaea
should exceed their incomes, that some
one of the many travellers who write
letters from Europe should devote a few
lines in them to the expense of living
abroad compared with those of this
ponutrr.
> " The deacripriaa of ruin*, splendid
tMtildings, And beautiful oninUK* w*
vary charming, bill only tontalizr, when
one fear* that they y neTpr ** tb . m
owing to the .great cxpeose of rmuaiing
t hem. Xjany persnuß of moderate moms
travel in Europe, but no one overtoil*
bow much it rocb to Itw abroad. If
the prices of living in European coun
tries were more familiar to ua, there arv
many families who have incomes, ssy of
KMO per year, who would gw abroad
for a vaar at least, and derive great liene
fit ana enjoyment by so doing. Hesse
suggest to some of your European oor
roj-pendents a hint of this kind, and you
will greatly oblige."
Another correspondent says:
" I nm most charmingly fixed in apart
ments in a quiet family in the very cen
tre of the moat beautiful part of London,
near Russell square, ami if I were to tell
you the price I pgr for four elegant
rooms overlooking a pretty square, and
for meals of just what we choose and
when v you would be astonished. Suffice
it to say that my wife and I are living
here in' an elegant manner for has money
per week than I, as a bachelor, spent in
my one room in Philadelphia."
MUUXU STOCXISOS. —People there are,
who, although they see stocking* every
day, have no idea whatever of what they
cost, wholesale and retail. And yet it is
generally held true that the manufac
turer rarely realises more than ten cent*
f roflt on a" doren of the pairs produced.
11 the following calculation the "sock "
—or male stocking—is not, of course,
considered ; neither are the various com
plications of legs which result from
drinking too muck, taken into account.
Before a stooking is ready for sale it has
to undergo alxmt twenty different pro
cesses, made known to the general pub
lic as follows: spinning the yarn, winding
the yarn, knitting, cutting, and ravel
ling. footing, sewing and hand-seaming,
rough mending, trimming, bleaching,
dyeing, boarding, welting, finished
mending, tacking, mating, folding,
pressing, stamping, boxing, und casing,
vndoubtedly this most complicated way
in which stockings and socks have to be
made accounts, or would account, all
things being taken into consideration,
for the most intricate walking that a man
can do.
Too OanxFUL.—A very discreet young
Boston clergyman, while out sailing the
other day, was saluted by two ladies in
a dory, who waved their handkerchiefs
at him. Being near enough to see that
they were strangers to him, he straight
way sailed away. Subsequently he
learned from the friends of the ladies
that they had beoome too tired to row
further, and wished to obtain assistance
from him.
The Editor** tried Angel.
hi*
- moor y. hoc# :
1 abut down lendta' it 'to him, end Hunt eoaxsd
' Um to try it * |**r.
And hero I* * few Hilt Item* that happen**!
I*t wrei In nnt tow*;
I thought h.j -l look Hood fcw tint fOfwr, and
•o I just jottai cm down.
And bar* i* * basket ofebcrrtoi my wifc picked
■ Mpr< •MIW foe jycm
And • "trull tanrh of towers frvwi JetM*—h*
th<mirht *hf MUII PINI IHIIIOIHNI*, TM,
You're datn' the potttew bwijr. M Ml t our
fowHy *res;
J tut keep yemr old K.**wiaia toppri* and
■he 'ret a tfcxx! OIK f..t mc
Ami now yun are chock full of badness, and I
won't bo takiu' your time;
I>* thing* of my own I mud trod 10-food
day, air, I b'liere 1 will climb."
The Editor MU in bis MiMtnm and brought
down bl* flat wtth a thump;
"Ood Itlvwa that old former," be matured,
" bo'a a regular Joßy add Mump."
And 't> teas wltb our ari* pc -f.■., and
ifiUt It will r,T be Mill :
Thar* are SMM h appeal* i* labor, and
i mum who perhaps never will.
, Uwt in U great tuna that I* coming, who*
OaMiir* trumpet shall aottod,
Audtbry who bare labored and r< •' I *ball
row* from the qalrerittg ground ;
When thy who bar* sinvce nod rotored to
leach mid aiianhh lb# itM,
Khali march at the front of the ootumn, each
ooc in hi* 004-gi*t place,
A* tker march throouh tk( gala* of IV (Sty
with prond and fit arlnua tread,
lb* adikCgfliukt, iad devil, will travd not
Parts aad Fancfe*.
M i nnmtota baa ten railroad* In proem
of mmMrueUoa.
To lump water out am pitch, to keep
water in use a pitcher.
The ebb-kens in lowa are dying by
i b niKlmi* of an jateriooa ißmme,
A good sermon k libeki* It re
<ptirt hat tiro Imda and npptirotioa.
The principal w bonis in a gold watrh
arc nob! at throe hundred per cent profit.
They bntha now in tbe Chicago riror,
few tbe first time in the history of the
city.
What gentleman with any mom of
propriety can nak a fat woman to lean
on ilia arm.
In tbe pabtie wrhowh <>f Munich, fler
maay, gymnaetiea hare been intraductal
as an obligatory bMtraotoan.
A e'noreb in Benton (Vuraty, Iml.. t
--peUed five of its members recently be
canae tboy were Freemason*.
Tiina far tbl year the Clikmgo stork
varda base contained SH,Mt cattle, 1,-
CUH,lfif* bug* and bep.
A man ebmbiag a liberty pole at Fort
Lwtcoipofth fut bitehud near the top,
aiid it was atx hour* before they gut him
*HML''
rtjirtt tHreaWT euili tor tbe bead of
a eitir belle, Tho barber begin* at 10 in
tor morn utg, andgtta through about 5>
at night-
If you want to eat sock a podding aa
your mother made when you were a boy,
you must somehow revive a boy's *ppe
tile and palate.
Newer apeak ill of any one who may
be of the slightest marrim to ymt, no
matter bow much you may dislike him.
He might hear of it
One of tbe rules of a new croquette
dub is that •♦children, dogs and mnok
> ing are not allowed within the binita wf
| the croquet-ground.
j When a lady baa on a eery elegant
! 1 mil diem toe always picks out toe taß
mt man to danor with, in otdor to toow
it off to the best advantage
! In an old farm-house of Duxbory,
I Mas*., now standing- ebrweu daughter*
I were born to the former inmates All
the girls were married hi the room in
i which they weoa bora.
A good man and i wiae man may at
j times be angry with toe world, at times
I grieved for it"; but be sure that no man
j was ewer dturoutonted with toe world
who did his duty in it.
One-half til Mormon population of
1 Utah were bom 'these. About one-third
of toe remainder wet* bora in other
jmrte of tbe United States, and two
think in foreign countries.
A new member arum to make bis first
speech, and in bis embarrassment com
menced to aeratob ba head. Weh,"
exclaimed Shcsidaa. "be baa got mmm
thing in hie head after aIL "
Her* a* the first free low* ww aa ftral
llw adopted : "We promise to lowe each
other, and to lit* in the aame brown
stone front till we are tired of anrh other
and see aotne one w* like better.** ■
! After rolling all night in your berth
at aea. till you are miamhiy tick, it ia m
lmtstmg to hawe a steward open your
door ia the morning and ask if sou snH
not haw* a Insto raff for breakfast.
A wail baa gone up, and an now Haw
cling with great rapidity around the
tested, at the prima charged at the fash
ionable watering-placet. A gerernl and
immediate reduction ia the clamorous
! cry.
*A correspondent of aa agricultural pa- -
B-r asks : " Where can wool be profite
w grown r We are of the optnion
that there ia no piece where it can more
profitably be grown than ou the beck of
a sheep.
A little bit of a thing hed iuM got
back from a party, and was asked by her
mamma bow eW had enjoyed herself.
"O, mamma!"she said, "I'm so toll
of happm<ws-I couldn't be happier
without I was bigger."
The paper* of Chicago appear to have
muscular men in the chair editorial. One
of tliem says be was never no happy as
, lie was the other day, when be knocked
down a rowdy who iutraded into bis
*anotum, and then threw him down
: stair*.
After many wears of ohoerwatiau, the
RepolwHtm has discovered that, as a rule,
woman is expected to be found fault with
and adored ; courted, married, quarreled
with, deserted, divorced ; played with,
plagued, and only really venerated when
she becomes a mother and goes to heaven.
A correspondent comes to the defense
of women against the current notion
that thev aye peculiarly addicted to gos
sip, alleging that in a country grocerr
store, among Imrrels of molasses and
piles of salt fish, more gossip is talked
by men in one evening than in all the
houses in the town.
-_--9-re==s=se--= =
A RBOTHEB AND TWO Snrrnw DBOWKKD
IN EACH OTHKK'S AMIS.—Mr. Crittenden
Hallock, who lived in Richland, La., was
drowned, with his two sisters, in Bosuff
river, near Oiranl. Mr. Hallock was
returning in a carriage from Mount Le
banon, where his sisters had been at
school. He had driven his mules on,the
flat at Girard ferry, when the flat got
looae and shot out into the river. The
carriage dropped into tbe water beh.nl,
and <1 ragged the mules with it. Mr.
Hallock got out, and freed his Bisters al
so, The water was deep, but grasping
his *i*ters, one with each hand the broth
er undertook to save their lives. The
effort was fruitless, and the three per
ished clasped in each other's arms, in
which position their bodies were found
half an hour afterward.
A CoßNKfc—Chief of Police Savage, of
Boston, invited the proprietors of all
the noted gambling-houses in the city
to call at his office, a few days ago-
When tiry assembled he told them that
he doubted the expediency of breaking
into their establishments and seizing
aud destroying property ; that he want
ed to treat them fairly, and that he re
quested them to close their places and
give up the business. Finally, be as
sured them that he would use all means
at his command to aid them in the ac
complishment of nn object so much to
be desired. It it asserted that on the
following evening there was not a gam
bling house open in the city.
One of the Indian agents informs us
that the translations of children's hymns
which have been circulated anions the
Indiana, are exceedingly popular. Even
the most savage Indians sing them when
on toe war-path.
A German father in Vermont attempt
ed to punish a little son few some trifling
' offence, and injured him so badly that
' he lived but a few hours.