The Test of Lova. Oh. I think fallins in love is a mere i matter of convenience, a matter that j can be uerfectly well controlled as th lartii concerned desire." Mabel's clear blue eyes clouded over as she earnestly listened to her cousin Agnes's words, and she said with a tremor in her voice: "Then there is no such thing as fal ling in love at all? Do you truly believe I can love any one I choose, tliat I need not love one I do not choose?" Agnes Iloyd's clear, sensible eyes looked tenderly and firmly into those of her sweet little cousin. "Xow, Mabel Stearns you have cracked the ice of your reserve and I am going to bteak it. I know perfectly well that Frank Gauss is in love with you; I know you are in love with him; I know, too, that you both Know this, or I should not have sjioken. Of course, I do not approve f the match at all. I c'o not think you m your reason ap prove of it, and I want you to assert that reason and lay the whole matter aside. I do truly believe just what 1 have said that there is no sense in fal ling in love. I am M years old and I have not falU-n in love. I have not chosen to." "Agnes Hoyd, stop! I will not hear you talk so! You started by asking mo to tell you the whole story, and I w ill tinish by doing it. I da love Frank Gauss Oh, 1 love him with all my heart and soul!' "He hasn't a cent in the world, and if a man is ever going to have anything lie ought to have made a fair lieginniug at liis age. I-et him go, and marry some richer man, and be a happier woman." "Apnes, I am ashamed of you or I bhould be if I did not feel sure you are so ninth better than you admit Come, it is time to dress for Mrs. Town's diu iut. What do you wear?"' Mabel showed a determination in thus ending the conversation that sur prised Agnes. Hising from the cozy fireside where they had Leeu sitting, she went to the wardrobe and took out a liandsttuie silk, saying as she laid it on the bed: "Never! 1 shall never fall in love until 1 have deliberately made up no mind. 1 am going to wear my garnet; I suppose you wear blue. Who are to be there?" "Onlv a small party, two gentlemen from New York and a lady from 15os ton, with a lion or two, 1 suppose. I think Mrs. Town's lions are cubs; how ever, they serve the purpose." An hour later a gay party of ten were seated in the handsomely appointed dining-room, at a table affording every delicacy, presided over by Mr. and Mis. Town. Agnes looked if gal and was appear ing her very best, talking in a most in terested manner to Mr. Young, her neighbor, one of the strange gentlemen from ew York. Mr. Landon, the other stranger, sitting on her right, gradually fell into the conversation, as Mabel sined strangely fascinated by a certain Mr. Gauss, who sat next her on the other side. As Frank escorted them to their carriage she whiiered, Bay'"' It's all right. Kemember!" The next morning a characteristic note, received from Mrs. Town, ran thus: My lHar Girls: Such a conquest as vou made last evenii.g! It takes my breath away to think uf it. I really feel I ought to tell you. that you may be prewired for the worst. Both of my charming guests captivated in one evening! I suppose you know Mr. I-iu-don is nothing more than a millionaire, and Paul Young nothing less than a poor young lawyer, with nothing be hind liim aud all the world before him. A few weeks after Mrs. Town's din ner the girls attended a gay party in an excursion up the river; dinner at a sub urban hoteL Mr. Landon was persist ent enough in his attentions to keep Mr. Young at a distance most of the time up to the hour of dinner, after which lie proposed a walk to some prefy rocks, and would not be put off by Agnes's plea tliat she was too tired. "Miss Hoyd," said Landon, impulsively, "letters received oblige me to start for New York immediately, and from there I sail for Europe in August on a prolonged business trip. I beg you will not let me leave without a w ord of hope that I may come back for you before I sail. lear Miss Agnes, say anything that will give me hope." "Mr. Landon, stop! 1 never meant it should come to this, indeed I didn't! 1 have flirted with you until I am asliamed of myself. I liave tried my very best to live up to my favorite tbeoiy and love the man whom fortune told me I might marry, but I cannot, oh. I cannot! Don't tempt me further!"' Agnes entirely lost her self-control, and her baffled lover looked in despair, offered his arm, and silently escorted her back to the house. When at List she and her friend were safely in their room she throws herself on the floor at Maliel's feet and poured forth the whole story, closing with: "Mv mberahle theorv has leu the ruin of me! What shall"! do?" Mabel was a little puzzled at the de spairing wail, and attempted comfort with: "My dear, don't, don't feel so badly! This is not so serious: this is nt the matter of a lifetime. "Oh, but it is, it is! I was so obsti nate in my idea. 1 snubbed Paul Young because 1 wanted to marry money; I have told him to go. 1 never can forgive myself! What shall I do?" But what could le done? So praet i t al plan presented itself, l'aul had re turned to New York with his friend. Mrs. Town had gone to the seaslmre. Agnes and MaU-1 were arranging for an "outing" in the mountains. An "out ing" both needed. Agues seemed to have lost all her sereuity and elasticity. Mabel, too, had not seemed quite the same since that dreadful evening. At the close of a busy day of prepara tion, they were seated on the porch when the post-master handed Agnes two letters. "Only some invitation and a drop note," she said in answer to MaWs inquiring look. "Mr. Young is in town, and will call this eveuing if we care to see him." "We!" exclaimed Mabel. "Well, of course!" Later, in the privacy of tlicir room, Agnes seized Mabel, and smothering her in kisses she exclaimed: "I never dreamed I could be so happy." "Oh, please forgive me, Agnes," said Mabel, "I deceived you and led others to. Mr. Y'oung is not a poor lawyer, but an immensely wealthy one." For one moment Agnes Hoyd looked a very Nemesis; then she softened and said: "My dear, it was a fearful thing for you to do, but I tliank you for it from my inmost heart I sliall marry the man I love." Great Interest is felt throughout Italy In the condition of a man named Succi, who lives at Forli, in the Ito magna, and who asserts that he has discovered, in the course of his travels through a great part of Africa, a sort of liquor extracted from various herbs, which has the effect of "mummifying" the body, so to speak, and rendering it Insensible to any kind of want, such as hunger or thirst; while it will also ad mit of a person taking any poison, how ever violent, without feeling its Ul ef fects. A committee of the inhabitants of Torli has been formed, at his request, to natch the experiments which be Is making upon himself and several doc tors who examined him have stated that the case is a very curious one, and that they cannot detect any fraud. STORIES OF THE COBRA. of! Vat-tow Unpleasant Erprricnoc English Families In India. , ,, While at home on a f nrlough from India a short time ago 1 was niuch amused at finding a very general m- pression smong my friends tuai wwme across a cobra was an everyday kind of occurrence in India. How erroneous this idea is may be gathered from the fact that not many days ago a brother officer told me that although he had been about ten years in India he had never yet seen a cobra in a wild state. His is, it is true, probably an excep tionable case; but still it shows that an Englishman may pass considerable time in India without coming across one of these venomous reptiles. Cob ras, however, are met with mite often enough, and sometimes in very curious and uncomfortable places. For instance, a voung lady who had just returned from a ball in a small station in South ern India, noticed, as she was on me point of getting into bed, that the pillow looked disarranged, and on taking it up to smooth it out she discovered a cobra coiled up underneath it. She called out for a-ssistauce, and her father, coming to the rescue, speedily uisjau nea me ou noxious intruder with u stick. I lian rened to mention this circumstance to an oflicer one day. and he informed me. tliat the very same thing had hapiened to himse'f soon after his first arrival in the country, and that, in consequence, he never got into bed until he had examin ed the pillows. In the ear IS i. J, w nue quanereu ai Ik;llary, on going into the drawing-room of the Bungalow, which at tuai ume 1 sliared with a friend. I discovered a cobra curled up on the sofa-cushion. I has tened out of the room to fetch a stick; but in doing so I must, I suppose, have made some noise, as on utuniing the snake had disappeared. A few even ings later, however, just as my chum" was leaving the house to go out to din ner, he called out to me that there was j a simkn crawlinir m the steps of the ! veranda in front of Uie drawiug-nxjin. I ran out with a i stick and succeeded in killing the unwelcome visitor. It turned out to b a fairly large cobra, and was in all probability the one which 1 had seen a few days previously on the sofa. It is. however, in the bath-rooms of an Indian bungalow that cobras, when met with within doors, are most frequently encountered, as they come in pursuit of the frogs which delight to take up their quarters there; for froggy is an article of diet to which Hie cobra is very par tial. An oflicer of the Madras cavalry, since deceased, told nie that when quar tered at Arcot, he one day olserved in lils bat h-room, emerging from the waste water pi-e, the head of a cobra, which was holding in his mouth a frog. The . ...!...: - i. pipe was too narrow 10 auimmi me snake's withdrawing his head unless he released his victim; this, however, from unwillingness to forego his meal, he would not do, and in consequence, .aid the penalty for his gluttony with his life. One day mv wife's ayah tame run- i ning into our bedroom saying there was a large snaKe in me oaiu-ioi'iii. -fuming mvself as usual with a stick, I went into the Kith-room just in time to see the snake disappear into the waste-water pile, which ran under a another small room to the back of the house, where the water found its outlet The servants stationed themselves at the outlet, while I endeavored to drive the reptile out from the rear, first w ith my stick, and afterward by pouring the contents of a kettle of boiling water down the pipe. Both attempts to dis lodge the intruder from his position proving ineffectual. I commenced a vig orous assault on him by thrusting a bamboo about five feet along down the pipe, and this time success rewarJed my efforts, and tho snake, driveu from his refuge, was killed by uie servants oui side. This cobra measured about five feet six inches in length, and was the largest I have ever seen killed. I may here mention that the ordinary ideas about the size attained by this species of snake are greatly exaggerated. Some years ago a Surgeon-Major serving in the Madras Presidency, w ith whom I was acquainted, took a great iuterest in this matter, and offered a considerable reward to any one who wotild bring him a cobra six feet in length; but. if my memory serves me right, the reward was never gained, although a very large number of cobras were produced for his insiection. Once I witnessed a wonderful eseai from the almost invariably fatal effects of a cobra bite. I was inarching w ith some native troops in the cold weather, and halted for the night at a place called Ma kur, where, instead of having our tents pitched, my w ife and I preferred occupying a small bungalow belonging to the Department of l'ublie Works, which was situated opposite the encamp-ing-grouud. Sitting outside the bunga low after dinner, I had occasion to call my bead servant to give him some or ders for the next morning. A3 lie ran up I saw him kick something off his left foot, and at the same time he called out: "Samp, sahib, samp!"' ("A snake, sir, a snake.') There was a bright wood lire burning close by, and 1 saw by iis light the snake with its head up. It was immediately killed by sonic of the camp followers and was brought to mo, and proved to be a small cobra. On exam ining my servant's foot I found one tiny puncture on the ankle, on which was a single drop of blood. The man was at once taken to the hospital tent and at tended to by the hospital assistant in medical charge of the troop.-, who applied ammonia and did all that was in his jHiwer. I was very anxious about the man, but he awoke me at the hour for marching next morning as if noth ing had happened, and for some time apparently experienced no inconveni ence. Some weeks Liter, however, after we had reached our destination, his left leg swelled very much, and he suffered great pain for a considerable time; but he eventually recovered. The snake was seen by eight or ten different per sons besides myself, and was beyond doubt a cobra; and the only possible ex planation of the man's escape seems to be that the reptile must have bitten something else very shortly before, and so to a great extent exhausted the dead ly poison in its fangs. One of our children liad a narrow escape, though of a different kind, when quite a baby. My wife picked hiin up ore day from the fliior, where lie was lying enjoying himself ia baby fashion. She had hardly done so, when a cobra fell from the roof on the very spot on which the little one had been disporting himself the moment before. On one occasion a curious native su perstition with regard to the subject of these notes came to my notice. A cobra which had lieen killed in the hut of one of the men was brought up to be shown to me, when a havildar(nativesergeant) called my attention to the fact that the end of his tail was bluul, saying in Hin dustani: "Look, sahib; this is a down right villain; lie has bitten some man, and so lost the tip of his tail." On my making further inquiries I was confi dentially assured that whenever a cobra bites a man the tip of his tail invariably becomes blunted! The worst that can happen to me, will be a tired pilgrim and a sweet welcome homel litcs are said to have such an antipa thy to dark-colored objects that black chickens have been stung to death while the white ones of the same brood were untouched and a man in a black plug bat is rarely stung on account of tne attention the bees give to the hat 1 Housxeoiix Okk of the most adhesive and dur auie or. cemcuta iur uu"" fare ii fnnnd to be the oiiae or iron j itself. With this a Joint can be made i fwt and wund tURfc the iron will , break before the cement will part. Afl lutration of this statement the : fact ta clted tntti in removing the cast- iron Dipe of a buge-pump rrom a snip that bad made four Atlantic voyages. it was fonnd necessary to take the sec tions apart the flanges bad been past ed with a cement of cast-iron drillings and fillings mixed with sulphur and sal ammoniac mois'ened with water; then the nuts three in each flange.were set upon the bolts, and the union was completed. The four voyages occu pied nearly a year, and on the separa tion of the parts being attempted even the cold chisel failed to make a division between the solid castings and the cem ent that intervened. Omelette with Jelly. Put a small quantity of lard or oil Into the pan; let it simmer a few minutes and romnva if win the nan drv with a ; gn(i put in a little fresh oil, in . wujCU the omelette may be fried. Care should be taken that the oil does not bum. which would spoil the color ot the omelette. Break three eggs separ ately; put the in into a bowl aud whisk them thorouehlv with a fork. The iorjger they are beaten the lighter will the omelette be. Heat una teaspoon f ul of milk with the eggs, and continue to beat until the la3t moment berore pouring into the pan. which should be over a hot fire. As soon as the on e'.- ; ette get remove the pan from the hot- 1 te3ti nart of the lire. Slip a knife under it to prevent slicking to the pan. When the centre is almost firm, slant the pan, work the omelette in shape to fold; just before folding add a tablespoouful or currant jelly; turn It out on a hot dish; dust a little powdered sugar over It and serve. This recipe is from the "Cook," and has been amply tested. Veal I'illau.- This is a savor v and ' . . . - Drel)aririf, veal. , , , cut from the neck and shoulders beina used. The other materials needed are a cupful or rice, three tablespoonfuls of butter or a quarter of a pound of salt pork, an on ion, three large tablespoonfuls of salt, half a strained tomato and four cupluls of boiling water. Cut the veal iuto small pieces and season well with salt; chop the onion line, and put it iuto a stovvpan with the butter; stir until the onion turns a light straw color; then add the veal, and stir until that is browned a litttle, being cireful not to burn the onion; add the tomato and a cupful of water; and simmer gently for an hour and a half; now add the other three cupfuls of boiling water, the salt. pepper and the rice, after washing the latter carefully in three waterspieat the mixture to the boiling point, then cover closely and set back, where it will cook slowly for an hour. The rice will absorb nearly all the liquid and be tender, yet every grain should be dis tinct Turn the pillau out upon a plat ter and garnish. A rnETTY Dressing Table. A deal table is the foundation, which must be covered with colored glazed cambric Over this is a cover of linen, ornamented with designs in cross stitch wosked with cie vel or embroidery silk; the spaces between the designs have the threads ilrawn to form an insertion. The border corresponds, and is edged with a handsome fringe. The drapery is arranged in plaits, with a cross-stitch design cn each. A pretty circular cushion Is placed in front of the glass; this is of cambric, the color of the lin ing of table cover, ornamented at the top with an applique design, edged with a flounce of lace; finished by a ruche ot satin ribbon. The balr-pin cushion a very necessary article of a lady's toilet table is a little basket filled by a cushion covered with knit ting and ornamented by a drape o' em broidered cloth. This same design for a table can be carried out in cretonne. It looks exceedingly pretty at a trifling cost The cover can then be edged with a box plaited quilting instead of fringe if desired. TO l'ICKLE MUSlIROOMS WHITE. Take the small button mushrooms,clean and rub them with a flannel, then put them in cold vinegar and ajlow them to come to a boll very slowly; drain and lay in a cloth until cold, then put them into fresh vinegar. If very small they should not be allowed to boil, as It might break them; it will therefore be sufficient to warm them, and w h?n dried they may ba again put into the vinegar in which they were in before afier it has been cooled; a little mace will improve the flavor, but no pepper should be used. Ant gold jewelry that an immersion in water will not injure can be beauti fully cleaned by shaking it well in a bottle nearly half full of warm soap suds, to which a little prepared chalk has been added, and afterward rinsing in clear cold water and wiping it dry. Shrimp Omei.kt. l'ut half a pint of fresh or canned shrimps Into a pan with a little hot butter, and .toss them about for a moment or two. Season them with a little salt and pepper and a teaspoon ful of tomato sauce. Just be fore folding the omelet place the shrimps upon it A Delicate Souffle. Dissolve a quarter of a pound of chocolate in luke warm water; add the yelks of four eggs and a cupful of powdered sugar, and mix well together until you have a smooth, frothy paste. Beat up the four whites to a stiff froth and add them to the mixture. Tour all into a baking dish; leave it for twenty minutes In the oven and serve. Dried Aitle Cake. Two cupfuls of sweet dried apples, soak over night and chop; two cupfuls of molasses, and let it simmer over two hours; when cold add one cupful of sugar, two eggs, one half cupful of sour cream, sour.milk and butter, two teaspoonfuls of soda, four cupfuls of flour, four teaspoonfuls of cinnamon, one teaspoonful of cloves and one nutmeg. To cure a felon, fill a tumbler with equal parti of fine salt and ice; mix well. Sink the finger to the centre, al low it to remain until it is nearly frozen and numb, then withdraw it, and when sensation is restored renew the oper ation four or five times, when it will be found the disease is destroyed. This must be done before pus is formed. Oyster "Plant. Instead of grating the oyster plant after boiling, split each piece in half lengthwise, steep them for quarter of an hour in tarragon vin egar with pepper and salt, then drain, dip them in batter aud fry them In hot lard, o'l or olive butter. Serve with fried parsley. The Romans knew the syphon and its use, but in their ignorance of metallurgy they were unable to use it as an eco nomical means of crossing valleys when the volume of water was consid erable. They did not make use of cast iron, but employed lead pipes of a crude character, as also clay pipes; and they knew bow to prepare solder. The builders of their aqueducts had some acquaintance with the mode of level ing, the instrument they used being a sort of foreshadowing of the modern leveL Still they knew that the means they adopted might lead them into error, and they preferred to err on the safe side, giving then-aqueducts a great falL from one in 600 to one in 750. FARM NOTES. (storing Milk. There is much talk in English papers, says Agriculture about the necessity for discovering some method of storing milk so that tho nhnnrtant mi mil v of one month mav be made to bridge over the scant supply of another. Just bow this is to be done is now puzzling the experts, it is tne twin conundrum of how to deliver milk without the present delay and expense that now attends it Milk is one of those fearfully pei ishable commodities that often causes its price to run far above its Intrinsic value as a food. No nna fan ovpn 'store" it unless Some better method than is now known is dis covered. If kept very cold for a few days it will not sour, but still the cream all comes to the top and the milk gets an old taste. IX the cream is stirred back into the milk it win pre serve a lumpy consistency which makes it ntra TJia nnlv fnntlifld of DrO- viding against droughts now-a-days is to nave an association oi iarmers who own a creamery within a reasonable riifttnnra r.f a. riir. A certain amount of milk is furnished the milk trade ev ery (day, but the creamery gets more than the trade wants, as a ruie, anu this excess is worked up into butter or cheese, but when the milk supply be gins to fall the creamery makes less butter or cheese, and all the mlpx that is needed is sent to the city. This sys tem has been at work in Orange county, New York, for many years, and we believe with success. Make Good Butter. reople who make butter to sell should know that only fine butter,mad by the best known rules and butter dealers know the dif ference at sight brings Uie top prices This kind of goods occupies a place in the market by itself. Ordinary farm butter made by the old style ways is glassed with bogus butter and sells for a mixed grease price. The market calls for a fresh-made, sweet-flavored butter, and will have it The way to produce that sort is to bnild a creamery in a convenient and suitable place in eadh neighborhood where butter making Is a considerable industry, equip it with the best apparatus, and abutter maker who understands his business, and have him manufacture for all the neighborhood a uniform and a high quality article, such as an occasional prima farm butter maker produces. Oil tiie Woodwork. Oil and paint are such wonderful perservatives of wood that their use is said to cost nothing. If wagon tires are loose it will be better to tighten them with boil lug oil than to take them to the black smith. Clean the woodwork and apply boiling hot oil to the felloes, spokes and hubs until they refuse to absorb it The dry wood will expand the tire fit and all be made solid, and it will be a long time before those wheels will need another dose. A coat of paint after the oil will do no hurt The some kind of treat ment will do all kinds of machinery good and will make farm tools last twice as long. Selecting Fotato Seed. The time to select potato seed is when dig ging the crop. That like produces like all admit, and it is only reasonable to infer that those hills which are the ful lest of desirable potatoes are the ones to save. When the right hill is found save every tuber that is large enough for seed. This method gives the best chance for not only keeping up but improving the quality of the crop. Breeding from the best is a much more reasonable and promising method than a random selection from the pile at sorting time. The best hills are discovered only at harvest time, and then is the only time they can4j selected for seed. Surplus Fruit. If there is likely to be a surplus of fruit a good lot ot it should be prepared by canning and evaporating for use at home. With an assured home supply the grower may find it possible to experiment in the direction of making the markets and dried fruit take a fancy to each other. Good arples and pears properly dried make a nseful article of food. A Good Investment. If there is laud on the farm that needs under draining no better investment can be made than money put into tiles in good drains. It may require some economiz ing to pay for them just now, but such wonderful pay will be got back in time as will make a man glad be had the pluck to make this improvement, even though it may appear to be a hard Job. The leisure time now wasted on some farms can well be employed in making good underdrains. Tiie age of a cow has much to do with her value as a milker. A cow with her first calf never milks as well as with her third or fourth one. and for a dairy animal, as a rule, is unprofitable. For this reason care should be taken In buying cows for the dairy to obtain those with their second or third calves, not with their first one. Corn meal is the least profitable meal to buy to make manare. A ton of wheat middlings will pay nearly half Its cost in the manurial elements left in the excrement after it is eaten. These elements are the nitrogen, potash and phosphoric acid in the meal and other elements not absorbed by the animal but voided in the manure. Tiie best remedy for roup, which is indicated by a discharge from the nos trils, hoarse breathing, and a refusal of food on the part of the fowls, is to inject in each nostril, with a syringe or sewing machine can, two drops of a vnlvlurA af nnA f.altTaarwitifitl r.n Al. I lard and crude petroleum, to which ten arors oi carbonc acid have been added. The liquid manure from hogs Is very valuable and they should be supplied with a large quantity of dry dirt. This affords a convenient mode of saving both liquids and solids, aud assists in preventing disease. Where a large number of hogs are kept togeth er fine dirt will do valuable service in keeping their beds clean if the pens are kept in proper condition. The value of hen manure from a single bird for one year has been quoted at 15 cents. This is, we think, a very ww estimate, ana yet, even at this rate the total of the manure from all the poultry in the country in 1880 would be Chickens should never bnaiinmxi to roost until ten or twelve weeks old. If allowed to perch, their breasts often get crooked and their growth and ap pearance at table are spoiled. Occas sionally we see an otherwise fine turkey most unsightly from this cause. I Vie best examples of the eagre or bore, the phenomenon in which the tide moves all at once, are said to be furnished by the mouths of the Rivers Amazon, Hoogly and Tsientang. in the case of the last mentioned river in China, the wave plunges on like an ad vancing cataract four or five miles in breadth and thirty feet high, and thus passes up the stream to a distance of eighty miles at the rate of twenty-five miles an hour. The change from ebb to flood tide is almost instantaneous. In tie Amazon the whole tide passes up the stream m five or six waves fol lowing each other in rapid succession and each twelve to fifteen feet high, , 'j-iL;.t ji.inn fa Bruxelles reports that lady who bad previously taken with violent -colic., whxh, al though very rtvere, passed away, and the next day an consulted a I'ansmn physician, who diagnosed lead colic. No possible source of the lead could be suspected, however, until the lady L:a tt.at tiia duv before the attack she had eaten an apple in which she bad found, on eating, a sum. p It was then concluded that this pellet, in combination with malic acd of the apple, was the cause of the attack. The story allows, at any rate, what ex pert thols Parisian as well as other phy sicians sometimes are at a diagnosis. Researchet In Germany by Professor Wollm have shown that both soil and crops have a great influence upon the proiiortion of moisture in the atmos phere. Other things being equal the atmospheric moisture is greatest over tiimma asiila lo!s AVer SAIldS. aild take! an intermediate position over clays. The air over nai anu coucvu a mnltlur than that OVPr kdiaCeUt slopes, while easterly and westerly in clines take an intermediate p.ace. no moisture is greater over a plant-covered tract than over a bare soil, and increases with the density of the vegetation. Among ordinary crops meadows impart most moisture to the air; then follow perennial fodder plants, such as clover and lucern; then summer crops which have a prolonged vegetation, such as turnips, maize, oats, beans and pota toes; then those of briefer growth, as flax, rye, barley and peas nd lastly winter wheat Jur. Hamas irardfc. of Leek, En gland, has been to India aud examined the cultivation of the silk-worm and the means still in use for reeling the silk there, with a view to suggestin; means for improving them. Although the reputation for Indian silk has greatly decl:ned during the last twenty five years, he is satisfied that its fibre Is quite equal to that of Italian silk, and that improvement in methods is all that is required. The Italian threads, are, however, four times as long as those of the Indian cocoons. The profitable ness of the silk growing business is shown by the fact that the zemindars derive their very highest rents from lands devoted to it Up to the present all mirrors manu factured in the United States have been from Imported glass. The quality or the glass to retain the silvering and give a perfect production of the object must be or the best This quality Pittsburg has never been able to pro duce until natural gas came into me. Now, by its aid, the fineness of the glass produced rivals that of the im ported article. The entire absence of impurity, the perfect fusing of the in gredients, the rapidity of the melting, and the pure, intense flame for reheat ing or working are the principal advan tages. "Thai's very good cheese of yours for some purposes." "I thought you would like it It's lively, isn't it?" "Yes; why don't you enter it for a walking match." Important. Wbca voa tMI or can New Yort CRT, ura bar (sec expreauge mail $ carnage Uira, and v iUie (irmad t nloa lloiel, uppuaiia uricl Ces tui Dcpoh euo agant room. luJ op at a to t on AiUiloa doliafa, (1 aaJ npmrilf per day. European puo. E:eauc Hetuuraat (applied wan IM beat. Horn ca'M, atairai au 1 Caratel nliroad to aa depoia, Famliea caa i better for teaa money at th uraaii I aloa U jui Utanalaai sum arMelaaa kutei In IM ait. Eternity is cry In g out to you louder and louder as you near its brink. Uise, be goingl Count your rescourses; learn what you are fit for. and give ud wish ing for it, learn what you can do, and do it wrth the energy ot a man. Am Undoubted Mleaalne. About thirty year ago a prominent phy sician by the name of Dr. WiUUm I ill discovered, or produced after long experi mental research, a remedy for disevtei of the throat, cheat and lung, which waa of ucu wonderful efficacy that it soon gained a wide reputation in this country. The name of the madiclne UDB. WM. HALL'S BALSAM FOE THE LUNGS, and may be safely relied on aji a speedy anj positive care for congta, colds, sore throat, &3. Ellen Terry is said to have been very young when she first appeared on the stage. Noticing Ellen care fully one can discover traces of the Greek style of acting. ir Tom fed as tiungti water wat gathering around the heart Cieart-dropsj) or hare hear rneamatiam, palpitation of tne heart with aalTx-a-Uon, srnrpaUetlc Heart trouble Dr. Kllmu's Ocum-Wud resalatea, correct and cures. "What will the world say!" What will it say? Why probably the world will say nothing about you, as it cares nothing about you. What is the world pray? To thoroughly cure scrofula. It is necesury to Unit directly at the root of tne evil. Tola Is ex actly what Hood's Sareaparula does, by acting a poo the blood, uoroogmy cleansing it ot all Im purities, and leaving not cvea a taint of scr fula in the vital fluid. What a temptation there is to find our religion in our circumstances! Who can realize the profound truth that to live is better than to have? Women, as a rule, are not inventive. They have no desire for new wrinkles, unless using Carboline the New petro leum Hair producer, can be classified as a new wrinkle; all handsome ladies use it When you have given yourself to Christ leave yourself there and go about your business as a child in his house hold. The purest, aweetrst an 1 best C'o I Liver Oil lu the world, minulactured from fresi, healthy liv ers upon the seashore. It Is alMolutely pure an I tweet. I'mienta who have oaue uken It prefer It to all others. Physicians have decided it supen le say of the other oils in market. Ma le by Cas well, Hazard Co.. New York. CnrrDBD, fase, pimples aa I roajri akin cured by using Juniper l ar Sup, nude 0 Cav well, Hazard a lix. New York. Some people think of the petition: "Thy will be done," as coming Into their prayers and lives only when they have trouble or losses. Fraser Asia Creaae. The Frazer Axle Grease is the very best. A trial will prove we are right Received first premium at North Carolina State Fair, Centennial, and Paris Exposition. Russia (to England) "Come on. You're afraid. Ton darsen't fight." England (to Russia) "You just wait till I catch you after school." ST. BERNARD VEGETABLE PILLS. -TXTNTA Tbe tost cm forLtnr and Bilioaa l f ''oaupiaunW. jMttTtnMa. Hradachtv C- Dizxinw- and DrnpeiMrim. An Mlood PariiWr and Livar RrtJ lator. j nv stv tqau. io V ami 17 it thnuld b without a bos of hm St, rwiiiti v rtai.e ruii m in boom. Prira 2 ermta at Dnicriata, or by mail. Katmiila)- tMlt rp.kV. ArlHiaa P. A U8TAEDT KSL t CO.. UMemr bu. Sow York, COCKLE'S ANTI-BILIOUS PILLS, THE GREAT ENGLISH REMEDY For IJver. Bll. Ind:(?mtloii. eu. Free from Mev cury: owtaln. only Pur vMr-table Inrreiieni, AKeut: C. . CUl TTKNTO.N, New Vera. 40 WANTED A WOMAN f THrr7 tor boBinow la her tocaJirr. Salary SQB Beware of Scrofula gsrofuU H probably more gmunl than any ether disease. It ta Insidious to character Had manUesU ltseif In ruantaf sorts, pasttUiT emotions, Boll, ""' nlre 11,,1S extwls U trace of scrofula from the Wood, leaving Is pure, enriched, and healthy. -I was severely afflicted with scrofnla, and for over a year had two on my neck. Took t. bottle, of Hood BarsaparlUa, and eoosldei myssU cured, a B. tOTXJOT, Lowell. Msss- a A. Arnold. Arnold. Me, bad tores for sew ywnwtaian! Uaoit garsoparUla cured him. Salt Rheum I. one of tie most dlafreeabie diseases eansed by impure Wood. Ills readliy cared by Uood'a Sarssparilla, tte great blood parlOer. vnasm Spies. Eyna, O, nierl greatly from erysipelas and salt rheum, eansed by LaSbaceo. At times hU hand, would rack open and bleed. He tried various prep S?wUbot aid ; anally took Hood'. Bar. aparilla, and now say:"Iam entirely well. "Jttsoa had salt rneum on 1U. hands and on to. calves of Ms leE H-took Hood t BarsaparUla and to nurely eared.- 3. C SiAXTOX, Ut. Vernon, Ohio. Hood's Sarsaparilla Bold by .a drnrHsts. ttjaUtorti Made Wily by 0. L HOOD ft CO, Lowell, Mass. lQQDosea One Dollar. Westerner "Yes, siree; it's true, too. The jrround on which Virginia City stands has moved thirty inches since "75." Stranger ""Well, I suppose it's all right, but it doesn't seem possible." Of course it's all right I've got the measurements to prove it." "How do you account for the phen omenon?" "Well, I don't know. It always was a go-ahead place." Editor "I bave a few vacancies on my bUff, yes. You are a newspaper man?" inniirani T tiava written Doems and essays for some of the leading magazines or tne country ami uiiv writing a novel; am also at work on a new pocket encyclopedia." "You never worked on a news paper?" "Well, no." kt T ao Well wrn need a new police reporter, aud I'll give you a trial." "Uood-morxixo, Elder Henpeck, you have been away?" "Yes. I just returned from Aus tralia," "How is your family?" "Alas, I found my poor wifo dead on my return." "You don't tell me!" 'Yes, poor soul, she died six weeks ago, and i didn't hear of it until I got home yesterday." "The sad news must have well-nigh hrnVn vnnr hpart" "o, not so bad as that. You sre time is a great healer or the nurtan heart. She has been dead six weeks, you know." A well-known banister at the rimltiul bar who iirldpa himself UDOl) his ekill la cross-examining a witness bad an odd looking genius upon wnoui to operate. "You say, sir. that the prisoner is a thier?" "Yes, sir 'cause why, sheconfeael it." "And you al so Kvuftr aha hound shoes for vou subse quent to the confession?" "I do, sir." Then," giving a sagacious look at the rnurr " m ara tn nndnrstand thatTOU employ dishonest people to work for you, even after their rascalities are k no u?' "Of course I How else could I get assistanoalroni laatyarV'.' Marin down," cried the barrister. Father "My son, you are now laying the foundation for your future career. 1 hope you wa study hard ana make your mark in the world." Son "Yes, father, that Is my inten tion. In a frw years my name will be known to all civilized nations. 31 y fame shall be spread throughout the land and I will be classed among the great men of the country." Father "A noble ambition, my son, But what profession have you chosen that will so soon lead to all this great ness?" Son "I shall become a pugilist." "I will put your picture in the win dow but I must insist that you paint your name on it In large, plain letters,' said the proprietor of an Austin book store to a local amateur artist. "Why should I do that?" asked the artist, quite surprised. "Because I am conscientious about this matter. I don't want an unjust suspicion to fall on some Innocent per son." Mrs. Kilckaix Tidgeon, of Austin m very conscientious in the discharge of her religious duties. One day at breakfast, Mr. l'idgeon, who was read ing the morning paper, remarked: "That was a horrible affair in Faris. Day before yesterday a lion tamer was eaten up by the lions." "W-h-atl" exclaimed Mrs. Pulgeon, "Itj Lent?" "Nellie, let's you and I play Inven tor 7" "How shall we do it Tommy?.' "Why, you be the inventor and go in and get some cookies out of the box. and 1 11 be the capitalist and come along and eat themali." "But wh it will I get out of it?" "Why, you'll get all the fame. I'll tell mamma, it was you who took the cookies." George Kiddle of Carroll county, Mo., has twenty-two daughters, lie lives just on the outskirts of civlliza tioo9 and whenever a dressmaker lo cates within twenty-five miles he moves further into the woods. Sue (who is literary) "Of late 1 have been enjoying the 'Lay of the Last Minstrel- How do you like it?" Country Cousin "Well, Sue, to give It to you real straight, I a n't taking in much of them minstrel business since old Dan Bryant eloped into future Uiss." A new paper in the South is called the Epidemic Tne editor probably thinks," observes the New York Jour nal, "that everybody will take it" But he has apparently lost sight of the fact that an epidemic generally dies within a year. FITS: AH Fits stoppal tree. Treatise aaj $3 trial botileof Dr. Kline's tireat Nerve Restorer, free t 1 11 case, fcenuto lr. hUine.lBl Arcs st, PSUa., Pa. Mamma (dining out) '-It Isn't po lite, Bobby, to smack your lips when eating. You never do that at home." Bobby '"Cause we never have any thing worth smacking over." WriEX you get your boots and shoe, straightened use Lyon'. Heel Softeners; they will rare you money, give you com fort and keep them straight. Home is the one thing sweet on earth. But home is not built of stone tint nt hearts. If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp son's Eye-water. Drug-gists soU at 25c. per bottle Creed is meant to tell on conduct Character Is the last outcome and test of doctrine. Bronchitis ia rnre.1 he ftunnt .m.n doses of Piso's Core for Consumption. He member that stock needs an occas sional relish ot salt. sroARrxo seasov. A Cliarminz Sketch of a Quaint Fc--t i val oft ho Wilds ot Vermont. Speaking of boiling s ip the sngann? season Is at iU height in Vermont now. The trees are all tapped, and "ru ming" nicely, except in the almost inaccessible depths of the wooIs on the long nor thern slope of the hills, where the snow lies way into May, and the resolute patient roots that seek among the rocks for the frozen earth's hidden sweetness have as yet felt no summons from a warm sun to do their work. The- row of maples by the sunny roadside in front of the "house began to yield their burden first, and the swift pattering of their drops upon the bottoms of tiie tin palls that bave taken the place of the old wooden buckets made inun'e altogether sweet to the ear of th passer-by. Then the old trees dot ted over Uie pasture began all at once to do their duty; and the farmer with his traverse luid lively work keep ing the buckets along the roalsida from running over while he gathered iuto barrels and empt:ed at the siuar hou-e the product of the widely scat tered trees in the pasture. But now the trees down in the piece of wo..-dj with the southern exposure, just below the meadow have begun to "run," and the work of the farmers team and traverse has become like an artillery drill, only Just with loading and un loading of barrels instead of unlimber ing puns, while old Bill and Flora charge as wildly up and down the fields and through the thickets a? if they were answering the shouts of the cap tains in battle, instead of threshing down the saulings umhl the "whoas!" and the "get-ups," of Vie farmer aud bis hired men, in a arl effort to cet the sap to the su jar house In gooi shane and amr-le season. And last of all the giants in the deep cold woods will come forward wlin their bonne bouche their dessert for the feast. Aud the sap will De boiled in the moat approved style at the oil sugar house, where the long limbs have been drying all summer and winter to make a roaring Cre under the vats. The syrup, will be gathered into cane for the market, and as much of it will be "sugared off" as the farmer cares to turn into sujar. And on Fait Day there will be a sugar party, and a m r aculous quantity of wood sweets will be eaten, interspersed with pickles aud cheese to prevent the suar from cloy ing. It is a great season, this sugaring time in Vermont, and nobody who has ever once seen it wul forget it, to say nothing of the favored people who were born to its scenes. A Doctor advertised "a wonderful discovery for preserving the scalp." We don't know how it is made, but our prescription is to slay East where there are no Indians. A recent article is entitled "A I'oet on an Editor." We cannot ex actly understand this, but perhaps he grabbed him while his back was turned. Xothino in this world better repre sents suffering and anguish than a mi gratory dog chained to a tree when his owner is starting off for a walk. Buckingham's Dye for the Whisker pro duces in one application, a permanent color. We have used Ayer's Agio Care, and have found it in vol liable in malarial troubles Jinks "Yes, Tom was a smart boy. and I thought he would ba a smart man, but since he's been educated he's aregu'ar fool. What do you suppose is the s Jatt-r?"' Mluks "Alma mater." It is only f.e woman who Is giren away in marriage. The man will give himself away before the honey-moon is over. Irofe3sor E. M. Shilton sayi that thirty loads of manure applied to oue acre is equal to forty loads spread over twice the surface. WOftJEiM Kwtwtr nwwfw erfre --. a. r mm9rr frm laAramlUca awaiiar ta tati mx, akaaM try Thto .a4iciiM eotabtn Ima with par wva-Ufca tonuai aad a tovahiabla fr Win a pacuitar i Waart and ail who bad v-rls-ntary liva. It Kb rirhra atvl Pari ft r. th BIimmI, -Ikmalalra tha ApMtits MrrBithfoi tn .lanrlra ao4 Nfrte-4n tart, tttorfcjchlr I oviif oratra. CL-iara tha cxnptexion. aad rrakev Lb skin DVtoth. It ! no bin -ken toa t-tti, eaoaa haadacaa, at pvndncv enastipatmo orhrr hnm wkiew Mm. W H. Woods, Lbtrit4ia. Pa., amy: I awed Hrown'a In an Bitter frkawo4 trnrta trm Dununx a vtrnrxaf. btulthj habj. 1 cookl n do my work a ltbnot Uua vaiuabla tunic, and ounliaLy iw-x-MWDead H. Mk L Dans. Xinth 8t.. Lywchbur. Va.. tar: Mr wifa baa auflfd fa-m iMnaJa w-sakceaa lor ynara; baa rectiTil ih benwnt fnn doctnra. and baa tned avary availba pTvparatna. ansnecoesfulij IVTWfr. antii -un tided BiMwu'a Ima Bitteta. I itj butUaa raaturad bar to perfect health' Gen nine baa abovaTrmda Mark and cr-M-d red lines on wrapper Tnkr noeinrr. Madtouljbj HkOM N I Ht MK AK t- I Tl.UOIla&a " WELL DRILLING warfctoery for W.i la of any depth, frtm tn S.flflS trri, or Wator. I '1 ! or bu Vur M.-unWl Sna Drlllinc and 'Oftabta Bora Power ttarhineaart to aura in 90 nun .I-. Guaranteed to drill fataeraad ana lea power tbaa ay OUjer. Spertalljr adapted to drilling Wells In earth cr rorktol.afeet. Fnnrnil mhenarentaktnc ." So 4S er day with our marhiaerv and to!. BrlenJid bostaeae for winter or Summer. We ara th oldeet nn-1 larreat Manafartarars lit tha badaaaa. Head 4 aeau U wtampaforillustrateilCatakjtrua H. iP:ty ricrca iVell Excavator Co., Sew York. '""llTeVTl inntiwal Ha- e at one-: no Tknhiwl (v il.iiat-J fruiu uu-U'..--. lealf-i l .u MkMiiai of car Office :rt ArftioLWIi. Horm m:a V-M. to 4 KI.,H i t IS. Hh SI. to 9 P. M . k SuuJ.y morning a to 11 a. M AGENTS Fruit jnOrr!anJnti TBEFS f).wl .- ...I ... Waabuitftau tit. S uracr.ea. UCSEVi, v PENSIMS& lo 1 lir llalr. Send irtvnp Mtc..ira u JU U Bl i . Mt t. Wltlnthi IX J naTJ-Mannfart-rrinT . , ' -r"Jt .wuciiaird dix-ii; imply m.H.t-a Mot sod sm4y to srrUs. Reap, an MT mttlc Sl:smii bl.x ant tartu:u ara. 10,-. Nn cantui eqoired A. O. Si.il II J.N J. Wareino, Ma. , - ' . i i u naiuoi ant niiriiaiiiwi I'll KLT 41 REI by ells' III! B-ritl.WjUUFlUii.i KK 'f .W,1-f"l,V. EtrlwMlonanirt it- nmniaia iBft AiMraw. O. fiuxk. l&l Uroalwar. N. V. .STOPPED FREE Mviuj sweet ss. l Insane Persons Restored Dr. KLINE S GREAT Nerve REATonrit 1 atVBBAnr&Nniva Ui&kasks. On.y sur Curt - A'.r-I- jlffrrtxom A sVVw rw. -r IIwvalliblS i t-.'iea a dieted. Ai has mfter ,fTtt1?s use. TrratiM aUkl $2 trill bottle free tr Fitmtieats. thrrm-nutr nDTri t Sanre- am Nn w hr I received. Jrrv1 njmri, f. o. and ci.xrs addis nf afflicted top" KLINE.oit Arch St..Wtlle!Dhta.Pa. KIPPER S PASTILLES. rtA br mail. Kt.L. at CUL THMTOFSpCTOTHPOTO Keeping Tcrth Prrfrrt nnd Kama Healthy. Qlair'e Will1 "'S" ww -n- Uldll S lIllS Rheumatic R.medv. al Ha. I .; r.ra1, SO eta. d-QELECTRIC BELT for KIDNEYS, Pals, Narvoos ft 3ak. Bookfrta. f LnCHER.Ca.Clsvcland.O. turn, tiadtvaaara. L--J U BE5T TONIC ill: II Hint 0SS1 pDE. BlDWifi fm Fortheenraorau iiiwi UlLS f"we:a. t-uea, r.. ii der.;JL "i '' DYSPEP 4 D3. RADWirs Piiie?'! store stremrt!! to tte to, I rm .u luivtin. Tn.TT- -'ei.. tuminpinir t -vit:lA, w a a - . , -l I iJfTk n x -rnr A Derive care f ,r s,- . '"''-'I. RADWAY & CO.. NY Cream Balm llSASRH . 71 i nuvbr'ui holt lftk:k r.",j, Crtn, mi i, u MpA ml cured m, Imf'rrd fr,n -,.,. tvme and hm (. , inr.A i t t j Consumatmn r -L - no mm . - ?8ufea: un. i m in ii mi i i i mi ' jiif, K3 LCY 13 ft rALLY BEAUTIFUL Without a Clear. Whits Com;lgiioa .BBanasssmBWwBBwa. ' anOTca 2. "i iTT- 'L,0 f rTJ . a wauK ba aba rw"f ffliY I Toa:pfi:cow at M. ft ,iSs- I rj lis tn rtt at aft.innu,ia ttita. Itjsott&a r P"lft ua i a vi. is. ot lae a.sa f.B3.ttitlat rrw.j vet ju Txnai. diamtn da 'iO'Mca'0in ;u tes.:k. al cm M if ' nans I a ua aur.t a!-a iunbaro, t'.ii oel liavl aJl Fe, B.rri IttS. e.c It Irf-s h r-s. . rU2X i n-'w of tM 'B tnm me :.'i :n ia tit w ol rows and coinetle wa-e-i.vjnuiariar-liiwxwu-t bao:inr t .e imj. e v a it tiut apiitst. S''rt sdJ juot.if ji a; ?ra-.ia:- neil.) afw oM-i;d tya.i ct.i-r m-.&i. Itl-com-e -aw ie, Bot-encs .o tn-ari wrte vtittl ia trtrtae m a.d rvr pro u . et Fjt U & Uru.-j in.) Fts7ft-wiyias Svtt-I ik Cirmira w.:a Tau4iJ M im XUui Ficture, tree. IV. M. SC OTT & f 0, l'iil;.ADr. HiV M. MEDIC.lLOl-nCESi'WS.fE'-'O'i-Strwt. I'-ir. i.i.-.t- a, f-nu:r;r DRS. I H. A J. B. H03ENSACK. jearj for the c-r-.' oi a.: Irenes IsJstW eoc;e,KesiiI of Youi&M US5rlia,U x aactl, aa J a:: B'.o a. .-ii.a aa I Nerv 3 call or wr. an 1 Oi ct? 1 I'i.alirv Jt-ff-lMKi M-t-. O .: '' B ? H i ro,f. Hoara- A. -i. 1 1 1 i'.S, .':oetl uatiiys. ii v ii.; rrrr. u. all r L4K "-J- ' '- !"1' f VCi?i ... a a ,! GREASE BEST 1T THE ' opium"; Habit Cured. T.-catxnitBtontral MANS KtJIIt'I C.lai; Ko Ron. fo Cut C I i. jrs m c-!r.r -i'Eci.ti,K nii.ria . ..I rhihi.k t amain? j. ba li .iH'd 1T atir lior- Sai? M ilt-r to nnj pt-t i-.f I'. S. fr-". rvwlptof s .1 I lrai!Sil !r H inl "arc an i H.ra-. lwi--a .porlai dimt to Ct .r-le SccJ for 1'rte- Ll't j. i.iijii rn:r-E. Kock.irr. N. . S5 . . , B Til it. a opt. . , - - l M Lia- b4 cn,l-r tte b.ow '"vv2"!; AFFLICTED AND UXFOI!Tl""Ai DR. LOB3. 320 N. Uth St., below IM'-31. -. . ... ....... u it i-ir tMrV Kxrrin.-. Ail. 'k' -' a B.iemia:. irvaiinriii "t till 1 P. M. anil ? to 10 i-veciax. BUFFALO GI.AI' CTiuninn I. M 5 1 W Ev IS AWARDED FIRST PKESi: JIT TUX vTCHLJ a .XrOi T IO. ' (Four Oold JNedals. , h '"'J :,'.''t'. rw.-j 1ST WlBf far TOM mil- ii . UFfAlD SCALE CCBPAHY.BUFFUOilL BOOK AGWTS WAWCJ W aIJVL'.OTKrrUSrt!tMEAIA!' - " .tin. M hiiaicr aS jaoa 'Vk To -l.iift.WT ani Mar. ' t"' ITU''1.', BOTT. ltM. ' w'5.3.v-'5 J (ir. av-r. r- .-.I '5xl2'?n-arti-.l a. lATENTS', mm mm ntfurd.r.,.,.. lJAVTrrTS A rnrilc ,,, , ,."- 'aaf&rt WM- II H L L 0 ronrrnE a - . ' LUNGS.BALSAM arwa raa-amn.... r,t ran.... t "'a. Hraa.iiln, WaJuIiKil ll.rw A.ifc.J era!? i7"'U" aje. anal prr.r la" mat? Ibuu.b ar I. on, nilJ".,.'"' ' ID si w.um ivji ii iiv k n& rx sh -s as D n tjri ra aa BftaliDKLlCSlaila vtr-r't. -r-4-n.rwrf, as4 will JTmmJ tw m roiiMi. him iLi-ii ib a rw,'"B, r I1!ati-tl rulo(M iW A- J. T-rr, awarf ItwltaUssTama. 9oQ9Ttiam ..". m. Jawina