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VOL. XXIX.
MIFFLINTWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA.. JANUARY 5, 1876.
NO. 52.
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RELICS.
bt wiiajaw nim
Tbs Tio!eU that yon nva are JJ
TUej could not bear tbe Ion of yon ;
The spirit of the rtM baa fled-j-It
lored yon. and its love was true ;
Hack to your lip that spirit flliea.
To bank beneath your radianf eyes.
Only Uie ashes bide with me
Tbe ashes of tbe rained flowtn -.
Types of a rapture not to be ;
Sad relics of bewildered boon ;
root, frail, forlorn, and piteous show
Of errant passion's wastd woes.
He grandly loves who lores in Tain !
These withered flowers that lesson teach:
They suffered ; they did not complain :
Their life wis lore too great for speech ;
In aileut pride their fate they bora :
They loved, they grieved, they died no mora.
Far off the purple banners Bare,
Beneath the golden morning apread ;
I know what queen is worshipped there.
What laurels wreath her lovely bead.
Iter name be aarred in my thought.
And aaered be the gnef sua brought.
For, since I saw that glorious face.
And heard the music of that voice,
Morh beauty's fallen to disgrace
' That used to make my heart rejoice ;
And rose and violet ne'er can be
The same that once they were to me.
IJaimsy.
Uncle Seth's Cooking
Match. BT JURY MORRISON. -. .
Uncle Seth was was. Uncle Seth!
He was a character by himself. There
was never anybody "like him, and lie
was not like anybody.
lie was an oM bachelor, but he took
care of so inauy loor widows and father
less children that he seemed more
fatherly and husbandly than my papa,
who had only mam ma. Jtob and me.
He was very rich, but he lived in such
a plaiu house and wore such simple
clothes, all out of fashion, that nobody
would ever have known how his gold
was piled up in the hank.
Uncle Seth always thinking; but
he never told lib plans until he sur
prised us ail by something splendid
none of us had ever dreamed of. But
he never wanted any thanks, only he
liked to sic and look at us, and rub his
hands as he saw hw we enioyed it.
"They said" Uncle Seth was disap
pointed when he was young. That he
loved a pretty, gay young girl, but be
lore he asked her to marry him, he
thought he would go to sea a second
time, and "make his crown a pound."
But she, with all her love and romance,
without a thought for the practical part
of life what a bother that is, anyway
thought he did not care for her; and
that she might get rid of her disap
pointment the quicker, married his
friend who staid at home. -'They
said" that the widow Xelson, who had
lately came to Riverbanks to live, with
her daughter, was the very one; but
Uncle Seth said nothing aliout it. He
did not know they were poor and took
in sewing. But we did not dare to ask
any questions, and I don't think he hail
heard of it.
We hail just lcen having a spelling
match and were discussing it when
Uncle Seth came in.
"Hurrah I Bob," he said. "So you
heat all the hoys in the High School
and Acadi'inv iti siielling. 1 congratii
late you. .
"Yes," said Bob, complacently ; but
1 had to fall at last."
"What was the word that brought
you down?"
"Ziuziberaceotis," he answered smil
ing. '
"Enough to nriiiw auylody down, I
should think," said Uncle Seth, synijia
thlzinglv. "Does it mean thecoiidilion
of things in the ark?"
"Xo, it means ertaining to ginger.
So Smart says, in Welster."
."The maii must be smart who invents
such words as that," said Uncle Seth.
"But Pollie," said he, turning to me,
"why don't you girls get up Some kind
of match? I thought girls were fond
of making matches."
"1K you siiiMe we could ever have
courage to spell in the Town Hall,
Uncle Seth? I believe I should forget
how to spell dog."
"What is the use of having a selling
match? We have had a spell of spelling,
until every one is sick of the sound of
the word. Excuse me, Bob; I mean
all but the heroes of the occasion. But
1'ollie, I projiose a cooking-match."
"Good," said papa.
"Capital!" cried Bob. 111 lie on the
tasting committee !"
"We'll give you the zinziberaeeoiis
articles to try,""said Uncle Seth, laugh
ing. "What istherest of your plan, Seth"
asked mother.
"I propose to give a prize of five dol
lars for the best cake, twenty for the
best bread, and live for the best fancy
tea-dish. 1 projiose that we give this
notice nublielv. and that the articles
for competition all be sent In to the
Town Hall two weeks from to-day at
eight o'clock; and that a committee of
three ladies there's iuck in oiia num
bers, you know be apointed as judges,
I propose that we have music and read
ings, and at the end announce the prizes
aud pass around the cake, and I will
provide lemonade. '
"But," said Bob, "you have made no
provision for tickets. " Is it to be free?"
"'o. We will have a limited number
of tickets at a dollar apiece, and the
surplus money shall buy flour for the
noor widows of the town."
I clapped my hands and kissed Uncle
Seth, and tola nun ne was tne most
splendid ancle that ever was made, but
that two weeks was too short a time for
me to practice.
Bob lauched at this, and expressed
Ids desire that I would not give the
family the benefits of my experiments
in the meantime, as he had too fresh
recollection of asking for bread and
receiving a stone, once upon a time.
That was only too true; but he played
lu lull with the biscuit and won the
game for the first time, so be had no
right to complain.
Then mamma dear practical mamma
reminded Uncle Seth that he had not
limited the age, and asked if she was to
be permitted to try tor tne prize.
"There! I did forget that," he said
"it shall he own to girls under twenty
I think it would be rather discouraging
to the younger ones to see, proofs of
skill like yours piaceu iu companion
with thirA-
And this was the way that our cook
ing match was planned.
The long-wished lor evening came at
last, and only oue addition had been
made to Uncle Seth's plan, and that
was that those who sent Iu contriDU-
tions should be admitted Tree.
The hall was beautifully trimmed
with evergreens and mayflowcrs; the
tables were covered with snowy white
cloths, and each had a pretty center
piece of flowers; the place for the band
was among the green cedars ajd flags
in the gallery ; and the platform was
arranged with red, white and blue
drapery, evergreens and candles. There
were seats in the center for the judge
and committee of award, and the steps
where the successful aspirants were to
go up for their nrizes Vln carnptj!
u-ltl. LI... i i i , ... V
w aim uoruereu witn pots or
geraniums.: me gins tnera-
svives, ail with white aprons and jauntv
muslin caps, were to wait uixm the
opie and pass the lemonade and cake
air the prizes had been given.
The committee bad their room back
of the hall ; and after the commen-e-met
of the entertainment, when every
dish had been seen first bv th andum
they were carried to the committee to
'e inspected. There were seats in the
hall but the neon! nronuMoulx! a rl,o
band played; and when the reading
rre given out, tney sat down and lis-
wneu. By-tne-way, Bob was not put
on the tasting committee, and he savs
he shall not forgive him as long as fie
lives. I know he will before Christmas,
though. Boh never nicks un a auarrel
with any of us during the mouth of
iecemier.
Just here I must tell you a hit of con
versation I heard between Uncle Seth
and mother the night before the cook
ing-match.
"I think you have planned a capita
thiiiir, Seth, to interest the eirls in
cooking. There has not been such an
excitement in Kiverbanks for months:
and that is a branch of housewifery
mey an neglect, at least nearlr all. 1
heard a young lady say the other dav
that she was going to housekeeping In a
wees ani uo neroitn work, out she had
never cooked anvthing in her life but
chocolate caramels."
"les." said Seth. "and the worst
feature of it is, they boast of their ig
norance. '
"They won't do that in Kiverbanks
now for vou have made it the fashion to
cook. But why did you add fancy tea
uisnesr i
"Bcause so few women understand
cooking them, ami, a savory bit at tea is
always appreciates. Something beside
pies and cakes, or instead of them
something with ailiiaracter to it. Brains
can be nscd in cooling as well as any
ining else." ,
"Calf brains aind pluck?" asked
mamma, laughing.
"Xo; Xew EmrUnd briins and Xew
England pluck, which all our girls
have if tliev wmildlonlv use them. Bv-
the way, Maria, ilo, you reuieuiher that
lurkiMi j-illntn (pronounced vel-ikf. a
decoction of rice bailed In rich mutton-
uroui aim umaio-m aier, auu a great
favorite in Turkey)! Helen used to make
from the receipt I 'brought from Con
stantinople? Xo of le else could everdo
it so well as the pew pie In the Eat, ex
cept Helen my Helen, you remember,
.11 aria r - - t i - ,
I had been wondc riner who this Helen
could lie, whom 1 hail never before
heard of; but wheir he sMke In a lower
tone and said "my I Ielen," then 1 knew.
hue the peopht were listening to
tne music, i supiieot into the back room
to see Uncle Seth. '1'he committee were
buzzing like three great bumble-bees,
and Uncle Seth was' looking on quietly,
rubbing his hands ud smiling, when.
suildeiilv. the three
(women all stopped
stuttering and held
up t:ieir hands in
At last one of them
the world is this
horror and wonder.
Si oke: "What in
mess?"
Then the third sas: "It is colored
salmon." As if tltat in itself were
enough to condemn It.
J hen the third, as if a new idea had
occurred to her, proposed to taste it.
i on may, saiiii uie iirst, l lion t
want to. It's something from the shan
ties, I know." !
Then Uncle Seth came forward and
looked. You ought to have seen his
fai-e, first he turned red, and then white
and then went li.nl to his chair.
What could it be? Whatever it was,
only oue woman da-ed to taste it, and
by universal consent it was put aside.
Then I went round hy Uncle Seth and
said sofuly : . ;
"What do you suppose it Is? A kind
of witch compound
. . - Kys of lMnrt ssd tr of fro-.
W hA tf bat aud wi4'ii win.
Kim of 1 srk sad Tartar's Lip. V
"It would take the nose of Turk to
know it. or else mill'." said he. Bring
it here, i'ollie. Iet nie try it. I don't
want any of the girlt to lie disappointed.
So 1 brought it, and he tasted it, and
said:
"Yes, it is pilliiir, just hat I thought.
It deserves a prize aad shall have it."
I was so curious so diflerent from
girls generally, that I could not resist
the temptation of asking: "Who do
you supHse made it?''
I had gone a step too far. I always
am doing that. Unci; Seth looked solier
aud turned away without answering me.
But just then the hand began to play
"The Watch on the Rhine," and I for
got all aliout the pillctc ami went back
info the hall. s
The time of triumph for some of ns
had come. The judge had taken his
seat In the large chair on the platform.
How I did hoe my bread would get the
prize, just to stop Bob's tongue! But
boys are so aggravating, and bread is so
contrary. I knew it wouldn't get the
prize, for I was sure it did not raise
quite enough. .Mother says her spirits
always rise and fall with the bread. I
was pondering on tle trials of life in
this misanthropic way when suddenly
I was called back to what was going on
aliout me by the announcement of the
first prize: . . "
"Miss Mary Lawton, twenty dollars
for the liest bread."
On! what a thrill she must have felt
a she went upthrough the flowers with
her eyes sparkling and her blue ribbons
wavin". How glad I was that she had
got it- To be sure, I but never mind
'Missliettie Smith nd Miss I'ollie
Webster; five dollars each for the best
cake; Doth equally good.
And now I was to go up among the
flowers ! I was to have a prize ! It was
lovely to see the others, but to Tiave a
priite one's own self! It is rather nice,
isn't It? Especially when one hasn't
become sancti tied and I can't be that
before Bob goes away to college, if ever.
"Mis Martha Felstsne; five dollars
for the best fancy tea Ish."
Then Uncle Seth aid: "There is
another prize I should like to give for
the best fancy tea dish, but I am told it
is left without a name. It is the Turk
ishgx'Mt which Is maJe to perfection,
and is as good as I hve ever seen In
Constantinople. If the young girl who
has made this is In the hall, 1 shall be
glad to give the last prize to her."
Xo one moved. The Committee looked
at each other and at Uncle Seth in a
bewildered way. I should have been
convinced that it was the "witches
work" but for Uncle Seth's conversa
tion with mamma.
"I do beliM-ef" I whispered to Bob,
"that we are on the edge of a love
story." Bob look.il at me as If I were an
idiot ; so I didn't tell him vhat I guessed.
But no on claimed the prise, and
after refreshments the ?oking-niatch
was over, aud such a gav evening we
had, never before had huen in Kiver
banks. -
What I told Bob, or what I intended
to tell him, was true, and we were not
only on the edge of a iove-tory, but
right in the midst of it
Uncle Seth found the girl who made
the pillaw at last, but Instead of giving
her the five dollars, he gave her mother
"mv Helen" his own splendid self
and all he had. And now the plain
house will bloom all over with roses.
and Uncle Seth will buy a new hat
people always do when they get mar
ried, anu ne will nave a chance to eat
pillato to his heart s content.
By the way, Uncle Seth langhed so
the other night, just after the wedding,
when I asked him soberly, if he didn't
believe in cooking matches. He looked
at "my Helen." sitting by his side, and
said, rubbiug his bauds: "Yes, Pollie,
it was a very good match, wasn't it?
fever lafreUsMa.
of science speak of epidemic
waves, and of scarlet fever being com
municated by the few drops of milk
which yon poor into your tea, or cream
diffused in a dish of etrawlterries. On
a late occasion, at a fashionable dinner-party
in Loudon, as many as eight
or ten guests, and seven members of
the household, took scarlet fever. Ob
viously, the infection mast have been
caught at the dinner-party ; but Aoic
was the puzzling matter of inquiry,
for no one in tbe family of the host
was known to have been affected with
the disorder. Was the disease brought
to Uie house by a waiter T Was it con
veyed in the table-linen from the
washerwoman T Was it somehow in
corporated in the cream that bad been
used in tbe dessert f An investiga
tion on these and other points, as we
understand, was made, bat not with
any satisfactory result- The cream was
thought to be most likely the vehicle
ot infection ; bnt bow could any one be
certain on the point f The cream em
ployed in fashionable dessert in Lon
don is possibly made np of half a dozen
creams from as many dairies and in
quiry ends only in vagne conjecture.
Rather a hazardous thing, one woaid
say, going oat to dinner where you
may ran the chance of being killed in
a manner so very mysterious. I'eople,
in their innocence, are not aware of
the manner in which contagions dis
eases may be communicated by public
conveyances, by articles of dress, by
dwellings, by the very atmosphere.
We have just heard an instance of the
communication of scarlet fever by
means of a "kist," the name usually
given in Scotland to a servant's trnnk.
A servant girl in Morayshire fell all
with scarlet fever, and died. Her kist,
a painted wooden box, containing all
her worldly goods, her later clothing
included, was sent home to her rela
tions, and lay for some weeks at a sta
tion on the Speyside Railway before
an opportunity occurred for removing
it by a cart to her mother's cottage
among the hills. During this interval
the station-master's children, in romp
ing aliout, conducted their gambols on
tbe kist, which was a repository of
contagion, and in due course were
struck down with scarlet fever. At
length, the fatal kist was conveyed to
its destinatian, and the contents were
dispersed among friends and neigh
bors. The donations were kindly
meant, bnt they proved fatal. Xo
precautions had been taken to disin
fect the articles, the result being that
wherever the clothes of the deceased
girt were taken in, scarlet fever found
its victims. For several months the
fever raged, until the wave of its in
fection was expended. Xow ensued a
remarkable - event. The outbreak
proved to be an opposing barrier to
tbe spread of a more virulent type of
scarlatina advancing from another
quarter at a later period of the year.
On reaching the former scene of tbe
disease, it was arrested for waut of
material to feed upon ; a second attack
being very nnusuak Chamberg Jour
nal. The Ha
eas S rave.
In all the past ages the lnxlies of the
Masonic dead have beed laid in graves
dug east and west, with their faces
toward the east. The practice has been
tiorrowed and adopted by others until
it has become nearly universal. It im
plies that when the'final day shall come
and he who is death's conqueror shall
give the signal, His ineffable light shall
lirst be seen in the east; that from the
east he will make his glorious approach ;
w ill stand at the eastern margin of
these graves, and with His mighty
power, that grasp irresistibly strong
which shall prevail, will raise the bodies
which are therein. We shall long lie
buried, long decayed. Friends, yea
nearest and dearest, will have to re
memlier where they laid us. The broad
earth will have undergone wondrous
changes, mountains be leveled, valleys
filled. The seasons will have chased
each other in many a fruitful round.
Ocean lashed into "fury by the gales to
day, will to-morrow have sunk like a
sjioiled child to her sluinlior. Broad
trees with broader roots, will have in
terlocked them aliove our ashes, as if to
cVmi-eal the fact of our having lived ;
and then after centuries of life, they
too, will have followed our examples of
mortality, and long struggling with
decay, at last will have toppled down
their remains with ours, thus oblitera
ting the last poor testimony that man
has ever lain here. But tbe eye of God
nevertheless, will mark the spot, green
with the everlasting verdure of faith,
and when the trumiiet's blast shall
shake the hills to their very basis, our
astonished bodies will rise, impelled
upward by an irresistible impulse, and
we shall stand face to face with our Re
deemer. st I act atf Wamles tfee Approach
f
Sperm whales have a means of com
municating with each other at long dis
tances how Ions has never been deter
mined; but certainly at distances as
great as are commanded by the eye from
the mast-head of a ship, or in a radius
of six or seven miles. The means are
a mystery, but every whaleman has ob
served the tact, ana nas nasea nis opera
tions In the chase upon it. It has been
suggested that, as water is so good a con
ductor of sound, it may be ny sound;
but the distances are too great for any
sound which the whale is capable of
making to penetrate, and it is observed
that the telegraph is as perfect as ever in
high winds when a thousand waves are
hn akinir. Dart an iron into a he-whale
or gallic him by going on his eye, and
almost simultaneously with his cutting
flukes in tne air tne wnoie scnooi win
show alarm by running and cutting
their flukes, or by disappearing from
the surface, and coming op miles to
windward and running head out.
If it be a female that is struck, the
male are arrested in flight, and are apt
to gather about her, and offer chances
for more than a single whale. Again
when a school of cows and calves are
frightened to windward and a calf be
struck, the whole school will "bring to,"
and rather closely around tbe wounded
vouug, sometimes so closely packed that
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ine eucioseu uuu v ui no umc m use
the lance; and they will thus remain as
long as the calf is alive or the iron holds.
But should the iron draw or the calf die,
the whole school will Instantly scatter.
Whaling captains have taken pains to
observe from the masthead, when a boat
was going on to a whale to leeward, the
effect on the school miles to windward ;
and soon as the eye could turn from one
spot to the other, the alarm of the struck
whale to leeward would be communi
cated to those to windward. -
sWretarv Chandler is worth 12.000-
000, made in the dry roods trade.
The Llvis
BT CLAREXCE COOK.
Let ns begin with the frcnk abandon
ment of any formal parlor, but, taking
the largest and pleasautest and most ac
cessible room in the house, let us give
it up to the wife and children in the
daytime, and to the meeting of the
wnoie family wnen evening comes.
There is not much need at the present
time to emphasize this suggestion, for it
is one which experience and necessity
have already made to a good many peo
ple; and now that the problem, "How
to get a dwelling at a rent within
moderate means" is being solved by the
I ncrease of "flats" and apartment houses,
the "parlor" must be given up, there
being no provision made for it in the
common plans. But it is by no means
my notion that the living-room should
be a homely, matter-of-fact apartment,
consecrated to the utilities, while the
Muses and Graces are left to kick their
heels in the hall. On the contrary, we
waut in the living.room, for a founda
tion, that the furniture shall be the
best designed and best made that we can
afford, and all of It intended to be used
and necessary to our comfort; not an
article to be allowed that doesn't earn
its living, and cannot prove its right to
be there. These wants being provided
for first, then we will admit the orna
ments oi life casts,pictures,engravings,
bronzes, books, chief uourishers in life's
feast; but in the beginning these are to
be few, aud of the choicest, and the
greatest care is to be taken in admitting
a new-comer. The room, from the very
first, ought to represent the culture of
the family, what is their taste, what
feeliug they have for art ; it sltould re
present themselves, and not other peo
ple; and the troublesome fact Is, that it
will and must represent these, whether
its owners would let it or no. If young
eople, after they have secured the few
pieces of furniture that must be had.
and made sure that they are what they
ought to be, have some money lelt to
get a picture, an engraving, or a cast,
they ought to go to work to supply this
want as seriously as they would the
other, which seems the more necessary,
but in reality is not a bit more neces
sary. I look upon this ideal living
room of mine as an important agent in
the education of life; it will make a
great difference to the children who
stow np in it, and to all whose experi
ence is associated with it, whether it be
a beautiful aud cheerful room, or only
a homely and hare one, or a merely
formal and conventional one. ins re
lation of these things to education is all
that gives any dignity or poetry to the
subject, or makes it allowable for a
reasonable in in to give much thought
to it. But it has a real vital relation to
life, and plavs an important part in
education, and deserves to be thought
about a great deal more than it is. It is
therefore no trifling matter whether we
hang poor pictures on our walls or goou
ones, whether we select a fine cast or a
second-rate one. 'We might almost as
well say it makes no difference whether
he people we live with are nrst-rate or
sei-ond-rate. Nrimer.
The Uersaaa rhristaaas.
It is strange that Christ's mass should
be the great festival of the year in
Prostestant Germanv. In Catholic
countries Xew Year's day is the grand
fete when visits and congratulations
are exchange!', and bonlionsaiid rtrmnr$
tl v about as at carnival times. With us
Christmas meansgood cheer, full houses,
blankets, coal aud clothing clubs; plum
puildings dance while "greasy Joan
doth keel the pot;" gardens are robbed
of their greenery ; fair damsels decorate
the churches; there is feasting iu the
hut aud flirting in the hall; full
services, ' neighborly greetings, peace
and good will all around the parish.
The holly, the yew, the Ivy, and the
rosemary, climn up the pillars or tne
sanctuary; the jolly mistletoe hangs
in the halls; uo matter II "coughing
down the parson's saw," he cuts his
sermons short without any scruples at
defrauding religion, and sends them all
home to their pluin-pinliliugs. it Is
Christmas, aud the people want to lie
happy in their homes.
Kilt a German Christmas' differs
widely from ours. There is more senti
ment (as we have seen) altout,aud less
solid hospitality. More hustle, mystery.
:inl preparation, ' but less religious
fervor. The churches are hare and
empty the or owe less to the Itounty
of the rich. It is more a domestic festi
val, celebrated in each household for its
own special members, than a stretching
forth of the arms of brotherly love, of
tenderness, of charity, of loving kind
ness, which would fain embrace the
whole world and greet all humanity
anew. Xo, the nitiire of rejoicing that
greets the nativity iu rational Germany
quite loses sight of the great origin of
the popular festival and it is only In
fanciful utterances that the child learns
something of the Christ whose mass it
is. It may be that the lonely legends
with which the balie is fed sow the
seeds of unbelief in his mind, and that,
later on, he finds, with dismay, that the
religion of his childhood can never' be
tbe religion of his rijier years; that
all the fanciful fiction, and sweet, grace
ful stories which made him worship
with the magi, and tremble at the
manger, are but so many foolish fables
with which his innocence has been
cheated. It has been said by a great
divine that a child should lie drawn np
to Heaven, not Heaven brought down
to him : and. looking at the outcome of
German Protestantism, one is not in
clined to dispute the assertion.
Tralalaa (aa Box.
Have vou a bov from five to eight
rears old? If so, it is a matter of the
greatest importance that you train him
up right. Teach him from the start
that he can't run across the floor.
whoop, chase around the back yard or
use up a few nails and boards to make
carts or boats. If yon let him chase
around he'll wear out shoes and clothes,
and nails and boards cost money.
Train him to control his appetite.
Give him the smallest piece of pie; the
bone end of the steak ; the small potato,
and keep the butter dish out of his
reach. By teaching him to curb his
apetite - you can keep him in good
humor. Boys are always good humorea
when hunger gnaws at their stomachs.
If be happens to break a disb,thrash him
for it; that will mend the dish and
teach him a lesson at the same time.
If you happen to notice that vour
boy's shoes are wearing out, take down
the rod and give bitn a peeling. These
shoes were purchased only ten months
ago, and though you have worn out two
pairs of boots during that time, the noy
has no business to be hard on shoes. By
giving him a sound thrashing yon will
prevent the shoes from wearing out.
When you want your boy to go on an
errand yon should state it, and add :
"Xow go as quick as you can, and if
you are gone over five minutes I'll cut
the hide off of your back."
He will recognize the necessity of
baste and will hurry up. You could
not do the errand yourself inside of
fifteen minutes, but be is not to know
that. If you want him to pile wood,
the way to address him Is thusly :
"Xow, see here, Harry, I waut every
stick of that wood piled up before noon.
If I come home and find you haven't
done it, I'll lick you till you cau't stand
np!"
It is more than a boy of life size ought
to do In a whole day, but you are not to
blame that he Is not thirteen years old
Instead of eight. ' ,
If you hear that any one In the neigh
borhood lias broken a window, stolen
fruit or unhinged a gate, be sure that it
was your boy. If he denies it, take
down the rod and tell him that you will
thrash him to death if he doesn't "own
op," bat that yon will spare him if he
does. He will own up to a lie to get rid
of a thrashing, and then you can talk to
him about the fate of liars and bad boys,
and end up by saying:
"Go to bed now, and in tbe morning
I'll attend to your case."
If you take him to church anil he
looks around, kicks the seat or smiles at
some boy acquaintance, thrash him the
moment you get home. He ought to
have been listening to the sermon. If
he sees all the other boys going to the
circus, and wants fifteen cents to take
him in, tell him what awful wicked
thingscircusesare: how they demoralize
boys; how he ought to be thrashed for
ever seeing the procession go by ; aud
then when he's sound asleep do you
sneak off, pay half a dollar to go In, and
come home astonished at the menagerie
and pleased with the wonderful gymnas
tic feats.
Keep your boy steady at school, have
work for him every holiday: thrash
him if he wants to go fishing or hunt
ing; restrain his desire for skates.
kites and marbles; rout him out at day
light, cold or hot, cuff his ears for ask
ing questions; make his clothes out of
your cast off garments, and you 11 have
iuc Bnii&iacuoii, wnen uiu auu gray
headed, of knowing that you would
have trained up a useful member of
society had he not died lust as lie was
getting well broken in. .If. V""(.
A Keaalalseeae r Secretary Staatsa.
In the third year of the war, when
flags were being placed over churches
in Baltimore, Washington, ami in many
cities West and South, whose members
were supposed to be disloyal, a house
erected hy Southern Methodists iu
v ashington was dedicated. A minister
of another denomination alone could be
found to accept the service. As he ap
proached the porch tne nag was seen
draped over the door. He deemed it
his duty to maintain the principle of
entire separation of church and state.
Turning to the company assembled, he
stated that duty forbade his officiating
on the occasion ; and bis reasons would
be given to the Secretary of War. Amid
great excitement both of the suspected
church and of army officials present, he
returned home, and addressed a note to
the Secretary, stating three reasons for
his postponing the services: first, that
neither the church members nor the
excited crowd were in a frame of mind
to dedicate a sanctuary to God ; second,
that there was a place to test loyalty,
but that the sanctuary was not the place,
since he who mistook patriotism for
piety might mistake self-interest for
patriotism ; and third, that the suspicion
expressed by the flag was a stain on
Christian character, tested for years,
which must be- removed before they
could be recognized bv a minister of
another denomination. With his char
acteristic vehemence the Secretary ex
claimed, as the note was read to lii.u
"He is in the right." The flag was
down before 2 o'clock, and no flag from
that day was allowed to lie put over a
church. n'lilrhnuin and RtAecWr.
A Tratafal Hheteh.
Let a man fail in business, what an
effect it has on his former creditors!
Men who have taken him by the arm.
langhed and chatted with him by the
hour, shrug their shoulders and pass
on with a cold "How do you do f
Every trifle of a bill is hnnted up
and presented that would not have
seen the light for months to come, but
for the misfortunes of the debtor. If
it is paid, well and good : if not the
scowl of the sheriff, perhaps, meets
him at the corner. A man that has
never failed knows bnt little of human
nature.
In prosperity he sails along gently,
wafted by favorite smiles and kind
words from everybody. He prides
himself npon his name and siotless
character, and makes his boast that he
has not an enemy in the world. Alas !
the change. He looks at the world in a
diflerent light when reverses come npon
him. He reads suspicion on every
brow. He hardly knows how to move
or to do, this thing or the other; there
are spies about him, a writ is ready for
his back. To know what kind of stuff
the world is made of, a person must
lie unfortunate, and, stop paying once
in a life time. If he has kind friends
then they are made manifest. A fail
ure is a moral seive, it brings ont the
wheat and shows the chaff. A man
thus learns that words and pretended
good will are not and do not constitute
real friendship.
The I'se er Paper.
Of the 1,300,000,000 of human beings
inhabiting the globe, 370,01 Hl,0IO have
no writing material of any kind; 600,-
(M)0,000of the Mongolian race use a paper
made from the stalks and leaves of
plants; 10,000,000 use for graphic pur
lioses tablets of wood ; 130,(M0,(m0 the
Persians, Hindoos, Armenians and Syri
ans have paper made from cotton,
while the remaining aoo.ouUHH) use the
ordinary staple. The annual consump
tion by this latter number is estimated
at 1,800,1X10,000 pounds, an average of
six pounds to the person, which has in
creased from two and a half pounds
during the last fifty years. To produce
this amount of paper, 'iou.tmo.noo pounds
of woolen rags, 800,000,000 pounds of
cotton rags, besides great quantities of
linen rags, straw, wood, and other mate
rials are yearly consumed. The paper
is manufactured in 3,900 mills, employ
ing 90,000 male and 180,000 female
laborers. Tbe proportionate amounts
manufactured of the different kinds of
paper are stated to be of writing paiier,
300,000,000 pounds; of printing paper,
drj0,000,000 pounds; of wall par,
400,000,000 pounds, and 200,000,000
pounds of cartoons, blotting paper, Ac.
A Paaalar Fallacy 1'aaeeralaa; Over
work. The subject of overwork, then, is oue
of the greatest importance to study, and
has to be discussed daily by all of ns.
aiy own opinion nas already been ex
pressed, that the evils attending it on
tbe community at large are vastly over
estimated ; and, judging from my own
experience, the persons with unstrung
nerves wno apply to the doctor are, not
tbe prime minister, tbe bishops, judges,
and hard-working professional men,
but merchants and stockbrokers retired
from business, government clerks who
work from ten to four, women whose
domestic duties and bad servants are
driving them to the grave, young ladies
whose visits to the village school or
Sunday performance on the organ are
undermining their health, and so on.
In short, in my experience I see more
ailments arise from want of occupation
than from overwork, and taking the
various kinds of nervous and dyspeptic
ailments which we arc constantly treat
ing, I find at least six due to idleness to
one from overwork.
la
As to physical preferences, I confess
that I have' felt sufficient interest In the
subject to ask a score of short men tbe
Kind of stature tbey most admired In
women, when they made the following
replies: two for medium size, two for
small, thirteen for tall, and three for
very tall. But, as may be observed,
twenty is hardly a sufficient number on
which to base a theory; stilt, it is
enough to Indicate that there are proba
bilities In favor of it, and in the absence
of more extended tests I am inclined to
believe that, where there are sixteen for
and only four agaiust, the small man
preiers. the large woman.
In such a matter the rough sex is more
outspoken. Indeed, it is a common topic
among meu to give a description of the
woman they admire, while the modesty
which belongs to women usually keeps
them from entering into details after
the masculine manner. It is only iu
moments of corner expansion that the
woman confides to a friend that she has
a marked preference, in which ease she
is more enthusiastic in heir admiration
than the man, aud invests her type with
the attriDiites of heroism.
If the affairs of civilized life permitted
selection, unbiassed by any other con
sideration than that of natural attraction.
guided as it would lie by human iutelli
gence, the race would of course reach a
degree of perfection which It is far from
possessing at present. Genius and
learning would walk hand iu hand with
the Venus of Miio and the Apollo Belvi-
dere. In this age the obstacles to such
a nice amelioration appear to be greater
than ever for the most important con
siderations now entertained in the union
of man and woman have but little to do
with their mental, moral, and physical
improvement. Ouiaxg.
ialaa; Haaae.
It was scarcely more than an hour's
drive along a quiet country road. For a
mile or twa the reluctant village strag
gled after. Then we passed solitary
farmhouses and laborers' cottages, a
vineyard, an old graveyard, and the
ragged sides of a rocky hill. - And
then a little belt of wooded swamp
lands stretched oat its arms ot fir, and
pine, and hemlock, full of spicy odors,
and merry little birds, and squirrel
and gray rabbits, all tbe summer long,
la the winter this was the place where
the fairies bang out their washings,
and sometimes their pearls and dia
monds. Beyond, the road grew rougher
and narrower,, winding up hill and
down hill, over tumbling brooks and
a noisy river.
But every roil of the' way was as fa
miliar as oar father's house. We knew
where and when to look for the waxen
cups of shining laurel, forpink azaleas,
for the earliust May flowers, and the
latest trails of clematis and swinging
son them moss. We knew, too. when
a meadow fence had been built, or
mended, and saw, with ready interest,
every patch of new shingles on a way
side house or barn. We noted whose
haying was coming on earliest, whose
woodpHe was largest, and whose corn
promised best ; while every face we
met was the face of a friend. So with
many a nod and a smile, and word of
neighborly greeting, we drove at last
faster, as we came to the end of our
journey, up to our father's door.
They had heard from within the
sound of our coming wheels, and there,
on the threshold, stood oar mother,
smiling, and stretching oat her hands.
Presently, from across the street, and
across tne gardens, one and auother of
our friends came in, always so glad to
see ns. Glad to see us for ourselves,
and glad for tbe ripple of outside life
we brought to the quiet neigliliorhood.
The table was laid with the choicest of
farm and dairy; the little family trou
bles were brought out for considera
tion and sympathy as well as the fam
ily joys ; and for our brief stay we were
the centre of tbe household aud neigh
borhood. But of all the pleasures of the wel
come home, the smiling mother with
the outstretched hands is the dearest
symbol now. It is eight years since
the eager hands were folded for their
rest nuder the grass on the hillside.
Folded forever ! We go and come- aud
come and go, but ther beckon never
more. We see the white headstone
that says so little, and yet so much,
from the windows of the room that
was here, but we see nothing besides.
Has that loving heart forgotten theof
Are the bands to lie stretched ont to
as never again t Are the swift feet
stayed forever in their coming f Xo !
No ! It is only that our journey home
is not yet accomplished. This empty,
hungry, aching "mother-want"' will lie
some day satisfied.
We are on our journey, np bill and
down hill, and in all sorts of weather.
Along familiar scenes, and among
friendly faces. Nearer and nearer,
faster and faster. Already tbey, with
in the veil, may have heard the sound
of onr coming, and be pressing to meet
ns with nut-streching welcome. The
things which God hath prepared have
not entered into tbe heart of a man.
but we have each oar own thought and
expectation of heaven. And for me,
my heaven is as a going home. And
as the heavens are higher than the
earth, so will be the joy of that home
coming higher than the joy of this.
Baaae Aarlealtaral Iteara.
Pumpkins can be raised npon trees by
simply placing a few of them uuder the
trees during the blossoming season.
Scrape your seeds before planting.
and tbey will grow trees that will bear
fruit without any peelings on them.
Bend the limbs of your young trees
down aud cover their tops with earth,
and when they have taken root, cut
them from the tree and grow them
wrong end up, and they will bear fruit
without seeds.
To keep worms from your trees, draw
a line on the ground around them, and
shoot all the worms that cross the line
i shot gun is best, as it takes a good
shoot ist to draw a bead on a worm with
a rifle.
White beans should be raised on the
south side of the barn, sheltered from
the north wind.
Onions can be raised without any
unpleasant smell to them, by grafting
them on to parsley or summer savory.
It is best to raise beefsteak: aud ouious
together.
rish balls can be raised by enriching
your lands with codfish This I did not
believe myseir until 1 had tried It.
Salt your land to raise watermelons.
it makes them thirsty. Grandfather
raised one in this way that he had to tap
it for the dropsy.
In planting corn, it is best to put a
charge of powder in each hill, and if
your corn does not come hp promptly,
yon can blow it np. Any quantity of
corn can be raised in this way, no matter
how poor the land is.
Brown bread is best raised from the
seed, but some prefer to buy it raised
from the yeast at the baker's.
Egg-plants can be raised best with a
little hatch it.
The hardiest chickens are those hatched
from porcelain door-knobs, but few hens
have perseverance enough for the busi
ness. These are a few of the Ideas on which
I have successfully farmed for years.
J'jtl Sloper.
Prsfe
Terras' cetris.
The Slramlfd Ship. "Poor ship!"
said Frank, as he looked at a vessel
stranded on the beach, with the waves
dashing over her. "Is she lost, papat :
"1 am afraid so. She has been driven
far in by a storm upon a sanilj shore,
andean never begot oS'agaari. . II
tbe people have lelt her. Day alter
day and night after . night the great
waves rolliug in from the ocean will
strike against her sides, and dash over
her decks, and break her at last to
pieces. In a few months only scarcely
a trace of her will be found.
! wonder if tbe captain was asleep.'
said r rank. "when ne let his ship come
in upon the shore V
"That is something we can not know,'
replied his rather.
' .MaylM," said Frank, dropping his
voice a little, "he was like Captain
Lake, when he lost his shin." '
"How was that t Who told you any
thing auout LHUtain linker'
"1 heard you say it to mamma one
day." .
"Say what f
"That Captain Lnke hail been drink
ing too much honor, and lost his own
reckoning Ik-fore he lost the ship's.
hat is reckoning, papal '
"A rantaiu's reckoning is his knowl
edge of where his ship should lie. This
every captain knows each day from
what are called observations, i tien
he looks at his chart or maps, aud
they tell him if he is near a dangerous
shore or a sunken riK-k, or auything
that makes care and vigilance neeUlul.
When a shin is driven on to a coast or
shore, like the one in the picture, it
most always happens that the captain
is in fault, and too many of them in
fault just as Captain Luke was when
he lost his shin. Drinking liuuor is
certain to confuse the mind ; and when
the captain of a vessel drinks, you can
never be sure of his ship.
Oh. I wish people wouldn't drink
the dreadful stuff" said Frank. "We're
all the while hearing about awful
things being done by drunken men."
1 ts very sail and very dreadful.
said papa, "and I don't see how it is
to be cured, unless all the little boys
in the hind undertake to do it; and
then it will take a great many years."
Oh. papa: How can the little boys
do it f asked Frank.
If all the little boys in the land re
solve that they will never taste a drop
of strong drink as long as they live.
and stick to their resolution, then we've
only got to wait until all the drinking
men uieott. when the evil will be cured.
Don't you see "
"Why, yes, papa! That's so!" ex
claimed Frank, his face brightening.
"And I'm going to be one of the little
boys."
"That's right," said papa. "And I
went yon to tell every little boy you
know just what yon're goiug to do, and
get as many as yon can to follow your
example. And now that I think of it,
Frank, suppose we send word about
to all the little boys and ask them to do
as yon're going to do P
"Oh.do, papal That will be splen
did," returned Frank, clapping his
hands. And now, dear little readers,
resolve each one of you with
Frank that yon will neither touch,
taste, nor handle the "accursed thing,"
but grow up to lie good and tern iterate
men. So yon will become agents in
the greatest and most needed reform
the world has seen, and the world be
tietter and happier because you have
liven ui it.
A Shrrtetl Farmrr. Here is a letter
that will amuse the chicks who have
been prying into cows' mo iths of late ;
though I hope they will not admire the
cute farmer too much. There are some
kinds of shrewdness which Jack doesn't
by any means hold up as good exam
ples: Dear Jack: Your Item concerning
"Cows' 1'pper Teeth,'' reminds me of
an incident which occurred in an ad
joining town.
A city gentleman who hail just pur
chased a farm in the country, wished
to bny wui'ie cattle with which to stcck
it. lie therefore attended an auction
where cows acre to h sold. Oue of
them, a remarkably fine animal, soon
attracted his atteniiou, and he bought
her at a fair price. He was examining
his purchase, when a farmer, who un
fortunately had arrived too late to buy
the cow himself as he had intendwd.
drove up, and thus accosted him :
"I say, friend, did yon bid off that
cow T"
"1 did," was the reply.
"Well, did you know that she had
no front teeth in the upper jaw f
"No," replied the gentleman, indig
nantly. "Is that sof
"Vou can see for yourself."
The gentleman examined the mouth
of the cow, and finding no upper teeth,
immediately went to the auctioneer
and reqnested him to sell the cow
again.
"What's the trouble T" asked the
auctioneer.
"She hasn't any upper front teeth."
was the reply.
"Very well," replied the auctioneer
with a smile, "I'll put her np once
more."
He did so, and the shrewd farmer
who bail given the information to the
city gentleman, bid her oil' at the same
price. St. Su hohi.
The British Jiroad Arroie. What a
world this is! Hearing some persons
mention the British Broad Arrow, I
naturallly inquired of the birds about
it, knowing that they are specially in
terested, poor things ! in arrows and
in all sorts of weapons.
Now, what do yon think they told
met
Why. tbe English Broad Arrow is
not an arrow at all. That is, it's not an
arrow that yon can fire from a Imw at
a mark, hut it is a mark itself. Yet
not a mark to be fired at. It is a mark
stamped or rut npon wood and iron
and certain other materials which be
long to the British Government and
are nsed about its naval ships or dock
yards. The Broad Arrow looks very
little like an arrow, and very much like
the print which a ben's foot leaves in
tbe mad. tit. Skholae.
Betpeel Yomr Teaehrr. "Respect yonr
teachers, boys," said Deacon Green to
two smart young fellows from town
who were just now walking "across
lots" with him. "Respect yonr teachers.
I don't mean only that you should treat
them with outward deference.bat I want
you to truly honor them. If yon try
to do it and can't why. go to another
school. Honor tbe man who teaches
yon, who preaches you, who reaches
yon, say I."
The boys laaglied at the deacon's
funny rhyming, but I noticed that they
straightened up as he spoke, and, from
the bright look in their eyes, it was ev
ident that tbey took his idea. St. .Yi'ra
olat. A Marhlaa a Write Itti Ssskta
sra
A machine. It is said, has been in
vented by a M. II. Huppinger for writing
spoken words. According to the Rrrue
lwttutrielle, this Instrument, which is
about the size of the hand, is xit in con
nection with Uie vocal organs, and
records their movements upon a moving
band of paper in dots and dashes of the
same sort as those employed in tele
graphic writing. The person using M.
Huppiuger's invention simply repeats
the words of the speaker after him in
audibly, aud the same words are then
faithfully written out on the moving
uanu. iMjia mm.
KW3 EI BRUT.
Princeton has 483 students this
year.
Toledo, Ohio, has a Chinese femile
physician practicing there.
At East Aurora, X. Y., the other
day, a man of 78 married a girl 73 years
oIiL . .
: A fretful porcupine has been killed
at Hudson, Mich. a rare auiinu in
those parts.
Tennessee has now six "universi
ties" already organized or about to be
established.
The Delaware Peninsula dries 2i4
tons of peaches aud cans 3,224,000 three
pound caus. . ,
Fifteen thousand eight hundred
and seventy-five survivors of the war
of 1812 are oa the pension 1UL. .... ;
All the Virginia City saloons are in
running order again. The reiiqie ra
ti ve energy of whisky is bard to beat.
Mr. W. W.Corcoran of Washington
is said to be contemplating the erection
of a studio building for the artists of the
city.
A Swedish school house, for exhi
bition at the Centennial, has been
shipped from that country to Philadel
phia. The saw mills in MiuneapoHs.Minn.
have manufactured aliout 1:15,000,000
feet of lumber during the season just
closing.
Postmaster General Jewell Is said
to favor a return to the old rate of
nswspaper postage one cent for every
two ounces.
The Chinese residents of Los Ange
les. Cal have clubbed together raised
$3,0i0 and purchased three gods. They
now are happy.
It is estimated from such census re
turns as have been published this year
that the population of the Union is
about 4;,2-"0,00O.
The air-ship which Mr. Shroeder is
building at Baltimore, and in which he
expects to cross the Atlantic in forty
hours, is nearly completed.
Treasurer Xew savs Uncle Sam h:ts
sent fifteen millions less this year than
last year, n e are glad the festive old
chap is economizing a little.
Carl Schnrz has written a letter to
a friend in Washington, in which he
states that he has divided to reside per
manently in Xew York city.
The manufacture of peat for the
San Francisco market is a new industry
just started in the vicinity of Stockton,
with good promise of success.
The colored Methodist Episcopal
church in America has now four
bishops and a membership of 200,000 in
the southern and western states.
Wni. I.. Mopwell, of X'eenah, Wis..
has an apple tree which has liorne two
crops of fruit this year, and Is now
blossomed out for the third time !
The length of deep-sea cable laid
iu the world is TO.timi miles. The world
telegraphic lines extend over 400,000
miles, and there are 160,000 miles of
railroad.
Captain Cook, of the Yale navy.
has already begun to train his crew for
next year's regatta by giving them an
informal row of aliout five miles every
afternoon.
The new Shite constitution of Ne
braska contains a provision that the
United States Senators for that State
shall hereafter be elected by direct vote
of the eople. ,
Ex-Gov. C. C. Washburn, of Wis
consin, Is said to own the largest flour
mill in America. It U seven stories
high, cost $300,000 and turns out l.UOO
barrels of flour a day.
East year the pearl fisheries of the
Gulf of California yielded about $100,
000 worth of pearls ami $200,000 worth
of shells. The oierations of this year
will oarely pay exMnses.
The San Francisco naiiers are jubi
lant over the near completion of the
first ship ever built at that port. The
vessel will be 1.000 tons measurement.
and constructed wholly of fir.
Mrs. I.ivermore estimates that in
Massachusetts there are 70,000 mar
riageable women who are likely to re
main single, because there are not men
enough in the State to go round.
There are IJlOO pupils in the the
IHihlic school of Sandusky who are
learning the German language. Of this
number HI are of American parentage,
the balance being of German parentage.
The proprietor of the Union town
(Ky.) Local refills to receive the
amount of subscriptions In wild plums.
lie says he must draw the line some
where, and he draws il at w ild plums.
A rifle club known as the "Boston
Rifle t :lub" is belnr formed In Boston,
and they will ' secure a permanent
range near Boston, where shooting
tournaments a la Creediuore will be
held.
Between this time and Jannary 1
there are to be twenty-three men
hanged in various parts of the country.
Tli is accounts for the recent rapid rise
in the price of clothes lines ami bed-
cords.
Dr. David Creel, probably the onlv
surviving member of the Jury which
tried Aaron Burr Tor treason, is at
present a resident of Chillicothe, Ohio,
and enjoys exi-ellent health, though
over 00 years old.
Talk aliout the crooked streets of
Boston ! The Traveler nnbliishingly
publishes a list of I7H names of streets
which are duplicated in that city, 48
which are triplicated. l-" which occur
in four localities and five which occur
in six.
The old Episcopal church in Bur
lington, X. J. Is to lie restored. It was
built one hundred and seventy years
ago. Beneath the venerable pile re
pose the remains or the non-juring
bishop Talbot, the first in Episcopal
orders in this country.
Of the 5,000,000 Jews estimated to
be on the face of tne globe, 120,000 are
assigned to America, 40.000 to France,
300 to Ireland, 25 to Norway. One out
of every seven inhabitants of Toland
and one out of every 25 of Hamburg,
Komanla and Austria are Hebrews.
The Fall River manufacturers have
voted a further reduction of 10 per cent
in wages and salaries of all employes,
from the superintendent down, to take
effect December 1st. A committee Is
appointed to visit England and arrange
tor the exportation or rail Kiver rab
rics. Prints have fallen nearly one
cant per yard since September.
A Bengal editor suspended his
paper two weeks on the arrival of the
Prince of Wales. What a live Yankee
editor would have done, according to
the New iork Express, would have
been to publish extras, interview the
Prince and every member of his suite,
and probably give away achromoof tbe
royal visitor to new subscribers.
The Cook Excursion Company, of
England, have made arrangements on
a colossal scale for English people
alone. They have chartered seven
steamers to bring the exeursionists to
America, and have made arrangements
to leave them a certain time at the Cen
tennial, after which they will divhle
into two routes, one to proceed through
the country to San Francisco and the
other to New Orleans.
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