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V \ V JL__ n _ _ WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1885. '? ? ?jam^???I???? ?A * A "Woman's "Way. My lady knew that her face was fair. She knew that the ariist was lamed anu 3^ ^reat. So for many a clay she came at his call. And in his stuifio posed in state. 1 Iu a robe of violet velvet drest. Dressed in laces filmy and fine. Whiie a shawl of marvelous texture trailed ' Oil'from her ?l'*,,i'ders?shape divine. . Fair and fairer tl>. <cturc grew, / Day by day "neat h the artist's hand. Soft and softer the light of the eyes, X Of my lady's eye*, as the weeks were spanned. } _ ^ She gazed on th<? -list all the day, 'Jagg. Watching the touch of his majric hand. E'e thought of the picture as so much?paint; "'Qfr She thought but of him?you understand. ? When the picture was done she went her way, I>ut she carried a dream to the end of life; When the picture was done?he forget her name > And entered the picture us Somebody's Wife. The same old story, you've heard it oft, j The ways of fate are a trifle stern? And when one enters on love's domain jc :s naru xo preaici now i;*_- iuu^ return. < . > But I almost envy her the dream, ' So sw<-et, so subtle, so slow to fade, To love is better than *o possess. Ajd-? we love so lonfe .vben by fate betmyed. Hattie Tyng Grii^ old. THE iriVAL WIDOWS. She was a very pretty little widow, fU/Mi/yk -f/Wt-T* ivjfh O r*^TY> ttliu, UCUUT ivikj, v. N/v^. plercion as fresh as though she had been lifteen years younger, and hair of a lovely golden yeliow, disposed about v her liead in a series of curls, which > was simply ravishing, t. . Sin; was evidently vain of it" for she * never passed a mirror without glancing at it. and if tiiere happened to be any disorder or unbecomingness, she would hasten to her room to remedy it. At least so Mrs. Lanijlcy said: but i then, some of the ladies whispered .7^ among themselves"that Mrs. Langley, 18bB? the tall, handsome brunette widow, |?pi> was jealous of Mrs. Bolton. nTf There were lut two or three unmarricd m -i: at the "Lake Hotel" of an nrrn i-nifi.r? tr? f-liv WlllnWS. flTK? Of them the major was by far the most important. t' T'-me and again had he appeared _ ^ smitten with the charms of some fair tP-~. ^ lady, and time and again drawn back just as the fact was becoming patent to the lookers on. This time, however, the major was i undeniably smitten. Some said that he was in love with the golden locks of the blonde widow, while others insisted that the dark eyes of Mrs. Langley 9 had won him captive. The major himself was evidently un> tho CM Vnlininfr ol ? ,.-^ternateiy in attendance on one or the J other. , And so the two ladies, beneath asnrfface of extreme politeness, were at t * daggers drawn with each other. The brunette widow was certain that, had she the field to herself, she could bring the major to her feet with little trouble. So she was thinking, as with her little pet dog beside her, she reclined up?? on her lounge at the time of the after noon's siesta. SLrfjrfj"* The day was warm,, and the doors Ipy ' of ail the ladies' apartments opening WW upon the corridor were ajar. 3dost of the fair inmates were tnking their v beauty-sleep. p * .a. "Lie still. Piiftir " slrr; ssiid. ns ^^9 silky Lttlp spaniel awoke from his nap and became x-est less. ?' -- Puck submitted lor a few minutes, a and then "i;WCTc??rriloor, slipped out into the passage and sought amusement in his own way. It was not live minutes after this that HP?. Puck's mistress aroused from the be^ ginning of iior nap. t , It was the dog that woke her. There he was living round and round the room, dragging after him what looked like, yes, most decidedly like,?the _ f head of Mrs. Belton! '* Mr^ Langley sprang up, for no other lady at the hotel had precisely that shade and color of hair. It was?good heavens! It was a wig! . Here was a discovery, indeed! And a light of mingled surprise,amusement, and triumph sparkled in the eyes o\ IP? the handsome brunette, as she surveyed the unexpected prize. Then, with the wig in her hand, she softly glided into the passage, paused 1/ ' outside Mrs. Belton's door, and took 3 cautious peep within. L There reclined the fair, plump, little ^ 1 ?t:ti l?A?i Bgsjfc YV1U.UW UUidCU, 1UU tuuu^u 1x^1 n snowy com plcxion and delicate features W "were set off'fey only a thin mist of short golden hair, which, if twisted all together, would not have made a strand as large as her little finger. V Mrs. Laagley gently tossed the ruin ed wig upon the floor, and retiring to v- her own room, closed the door securely ||iS|| on Pack. HP Mrs. Belton did not come down to tea, though her aunt did. The old lady seemed considerably upset, and jr glanced suspiciously round upon the " faces of the ladies. But all looked so innocent, and all? Vi especially Mrs. Langley?inquired so I naturally as to the cause of her niece's absence, that her doubts were quieted. They could know nothing about it. ^ It was a lovely moonlight night, and there was music and dancing in the saloon, and promenading on the lake tcrrace. Mrs. Bclton, listening to the music, iprew tired of staying in her own room. She could not possibly show herself in ' public for a day or two, in which time sne might nave her wig restored to its v normII condition. ^ Why, therefore, should* she not take ft ^ advantage of the moonlight obscurity 9k* to enjoy herself as she might be per!?& mitted? Y Mrs. Langley. stared, and the major brightened, as they saw her step upon <" the terrace. Her face was shaded by the folds of a silk scarf, which, falling k ' to her shoulders, entirely concealed her head. Thus, she said, she must pro.ec: ncrseu irom tnc uews ana tiie |?|L. breozcs|pk They were all seated in a group when r Mrs. Langley said,? "Did you ever see the Indian scarfdance. Mrs. Gaylord?" * Mrs. Gaylord had cot; and the major " > begged a description of it. I would show it to you if I had a ggwi scarf, or if Mrs. Beitoa would be good tf, enough to lend- my hers for a ^moment." T>7nr?r^n widmr rnlmv?'1 ir> t.Ua moonlight, and murmured something nbout lakins cold. "You could not possibly take cold in this summer air, aa.d you ?hall have my zephyr." "said Mrs. Langley, with her sweetest and most persuasive / ^ smile. What could Mrs. Beiton do? How could she refuse, with the eyes oi all upon her, and especially the major's ? eyes, who already looked a .little sur^ prised at her hesitancy. \ Suddenly a thought Hashed upon her. jf She raised her eyes and looked steadily at her rival. Sne saw it ail in s. mn rsc-nt; her secrei had been discovered, and to-morrow, without doubt.it would be For an instant her heart failed her; j but then she nerved hersolf to a brave ! resolve. j "I am very sorry that I cannot let i you have the scarf," she said, in a voice which faltered despite herself. "Why?" persisted her mercilcss tor! mentor, with an air of innocent sur prise. "Because"?it was hard to say, after all?"because I have not my wig "Flora!" gasped Mrs. Gay lord. "I shall have to make a clean breast of it," she said, with a little laugh. "One of the ladies' pet dogs?was it I not yours, Mrs. Langley??got hold of j ly spoiied it." | The major turned his eyes upon her i with a sudden and glad surprise. "So you wear a wig, madam! So do I. How rejoiced I am to iind a lady | who happens to be in the same predicament as myself! Why, I would have married long ago but for the haunting fear of shocking my bride with the knowledge of my bald head." Then there was a tableau! Mrs. VI OVkil O /vlo/1 j UUUUU U1U3UCU O-IiN-L *?, ^1UU I ! smile; the major looked delighted, and I Mrs. Langley's face was white as she : i turned a walk "I lost my hair in a severe illness, ! | and it has never grown again," Mrs. i j Bolton explained. "1 had it made up I into a wig. So you see it is my own j hair, after all." " When the company broke up at the "Lake Hotel," it was perfectly well j known to everybody that the major j and Mrs. Belton were engaged. j And it was all Puck's doing. Roraima. I T'?:e top of Roraima, perhaps the ! most remarkable mountain in the world, has at last been reached by Mr. Edward F. im Thurn, who was sent to South America last October by three of the leading societies of Great Britain, to study the famous mountain and its wonderful surroundings, and to "learn if its summit was really inaccessible, as other travelers had reported. A j telegram from him announcing that he has reached the top has just been received in England. Hum joldt once said that no rock sixteen hundred feet in perpendicular height had been found in the Swiss Alps. Koraimi lifts above its siopmg sides a solid block of red sandstone about two thousand feet high, some ol which, according to Sir Robert Schomburgh, are '*as perpendicular as if erected with a plumb-line." It is the highest and most wonderful of a group of table-topped mountains situated in an almost inaccessible part of British Guiana. Its flat top was believed to be about seven miles square, but Mr. im Thurn's dispatches say the neariy level summit is twelve miles long, and that it is covered with vegetation. The mountain's sides are sloping and wooded to a height of 7,750 feet above the sea. Then rise the vertical walls of the vast sandstone formation. Cascades pour over the edge, the water falling 2,000 feet to the forests bclovv, forming the sources of rtvers that, starting from the same place, separate widely and How to the Orinoco, the Essequibo, anil the Amazon. Other cascades break out frorii the sides of j the mountain a little way below its ! I summit. In tiie rainy season some of j I the streams thus formed arc iwniwi. LJU2LL XU.lt.-IL'OID. LLS-<tFOWB surround Koraima with a perpetually moist atmosphere, which explains in part the remarkable development of its llora. The three botanists who have visited the mountain found many plants there that were new to science. Of about two hundred species of ferns growing on the slopes of Roraima, nearly one-half are pcculiarto it. From 1835 to \SS'J seven white travelers visited the mountain. All of them left it, owing to lack of provisions, before they hud surveyed it on all sides. All bur two pronounced its summit unattainable. Whitely said perhaps it was accessible from the west side, which he Lad not seen. Another visitor refrained from expressing an opinion. Only McTurk and Boddam Wetham ever saw the west side of the mountain. They caught a glimpse of it, and thought in was a repetition of the other faces, it was this side that "MV ?rv? Tknrn Tinnur? to flmiiah ??Aij-*. ? **?*** "vrv" -^o" he thought tbe north side would, perhaps, oiler means of ascent. lie said he would not employ a balloon in his attempt to reach the top. It would be highly interesting to learn how he gained the goal luat crowned his labors with perfect success, and to get the results of his scientilic studies on the isolated, but verdure-crowned table-top, and on the slopes below, which his latest dispatch says are "a very garden of orchids afcd most beautiful and strange plants."?New York Sun. She Found One. A pretty young mamma, with a little girl by her side nearly as pretty as herself, was being entertained by a male stranger, who had struck upon an acquaintance through the usual and always convenient mediumship of the little girl. The stranger did all the talking. He was one of those, men who think they know everything, but only rarely get a good chance to tell it. The lady answered only in monosyllables. The little girl listened patiently and demurely for a time, and then began to fidget around in her scat. Finally, as the stranger stopped for breath, she said: "Mamma, you've found one, ain't you?" "What, my dear?" "Why, don't you remember what you told papa wheo he said youd be lonesome on tii3 cars? You said you'd find some bore to talk you to sleep." Mamma looked out of the window and the stranger suddenly thought ho had better go into the smoking-car to find his friend.?Chicago Herald. Grass Widows in Zion. The* ntTifvr r??iv nip r>r ?hr> f.'iithfnl of Zion was in town with produce, and he took the trouble to inform us that now it is that the golden opportunity presents itself to go out into Utah and "strike it rich.7' He said tiie whole country was filled with grass widows, who possessed good ranchus. and that a man from this country could go out there and pick up a giri widow who has been well broken in to both field and house-work, willi a good ranch, just for the trip. "Kick a sage brush in that country," said the old man, . "and a grass widow is pretty certain 1 I to be started up." The cr.tse of so i j mnny grass widows bcisnv in the coun- j I try is that they are the* wive- of polyg- | j ainists, who, becoming aianr.evt at the ' | way in which the poly^a.-siisis have ! been arrested, lied the ? cu:;iry and permitted their plural wives to take j care of themselves. T .is is indeed a ! golden opportunity for men out of cmj ploymcnt who wish to to ranching, i ?rioche Record. WOMAN GOSSIP. A Substitute for i'lain, Old-Fashioned Calling?Two Sides of the Question of Woman's Wrongs. The Malady of Accummulfttion of Fat and the Cause?The Limits of a Lady's Neck. "WOMAN'S WROXGS. Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher, in an article in the Brooklyn Magazine, discuss ing tne reason ior uiscomencmeni among women, says: We think dissatisfied vjjfcen have been affected with tiy^se pernicious doctrines which have led on to the most ridiculous outcry about ' woman',s wrongs"?woman defrauded of her rights, her cruel subjugation, and doctrines with which we have less and less patience, because we see daily more clearly mistakes and mischiefs which have sprung up, and will continue to flourish through those doc- > trines unless the plague is stayed. We are well aware that there are many overtaxed, broken-down women, who by kindness and just appreciation might have been saved and been alto getlier lovely and replied, making their homos like a Paradise before the fall. But we can usually liud two sides to every question. So, on the other hand, we know of many broken-down nJen. dispirited, tired of life, because ruined by the frivolity, irritability, and extravagance of their wives, who they hoped would be their helpmeet through life, men whom a refined, sensible, loving woman would have redeemed from a life of shame and misery, making them happy, nobie, godlike. If weighed in a just scale, we imagine therights and wrongs are about equaily divided on either side. The direetfulncss of the human, left to roam wild aud unffoverned, never seeking the peace and happiness of the partner they have chosen, but their own selfish gratification, lias changed many a man whose youth gave promise of nobility into a reckless, unprincipled husband or an arbitrary, harsh, domestic tyrant On the other hand. the sime selfish indulgence ami unregulated passions have also changed many a woman capable oi' shining in her appropriate sphere as a helpmeet?Gotl's .best gift to man?as a mother? a home refiner, into a irritable, fault-finding, unsatisfied. fireside torment. But this is partially wandering from tin; main point. Vv'u believe many are injured ami much dissatisfaction aud unhappiness occasioned on both sides by the growing disposition to travel, roaming each year away from home and too frequently without the companionship which would naturally be secured, v Keep together while you can. Death will sever the bond all too soon, or sickness compel absence full of tears and sa'- forebodings. If possible, never allow either to feel that they are not dependent, necessary?one to the other. Yoa can not be separated, even for a few weeks, without noting soir * little change on their return. We all have some peculiarities of character or disposition which are not altogether angelical. But if married young, before habits and peculiar traits are fixed past change, all these little infelicities are softened and lost sight of in the daily communion man and wife assimilate, and, if happily, grow more of one heart and one mind. But let .separations. They learn that they are not absolutely necessary to each other as at first supposed. All the natural dissimilarities, which constant association have held" dormant, make up and are less and less easily lulled to sleep, after each separation. EARLY CALLING. T* U nrivl nr of Inocf o -L11V, laouiuuuuiv, s"*" ?*w ?? ?? ? ? ct good many of her, has concluded, writes Clara Belle, that there is not enough of the evening for all that needs to be done in it. Plain, oldfashioned calling by fellows has just about become obsolete in this big city. So numerous are the receptions, card parties, and balls, and so incessant the nnpr.i :i nri theater-<roin<r. that it is a ~JT ~~ " o ' I rare thing for a girl "in society" to be found alone and unengaged at home after dark. This is a vast pity, too, for the most unsophisticated of us" know that more genuine, marrying sort of love is generated in an hour's quiet interchange of sentiments, from the two ends of a not too long sofa, than in a whole night of waltzing in a crowded ball-room. We have all felt the loss of such intercourse, bu'. it was not until lately that anybody invented a remedy for the evil. I "don't know who she was, but if I did I'd go straightway and hug her, for she has done a noble service for the marriageable maidens of this metropolis. She announced to some of her male friends that she was always at home to receive calls at 5 o'clock in the afternoon. That device, don't you see, solves the enure riddle. Most of the fellows whom one would like to have visit her are either done with their day's work by that time, or are not laborers at all, and, therefore, can drop in on their way up-town, spend an hour agreeably (the other' conditions being right), and still get home in time to dinner, with the evening left clear for the usual entertainments The custom has spread with wonderful rapidity. It is only a month since I first heard of it, and now most of my friends have fallen into the fashion. It is something of a bother, of course, to make a toilet an hour earlier than dinner time, but I rather think it is worth while. n-hof T'm nrin fr C]]fLV& Belle, dear," remarked my ntimate chum, Helena, "is that the fellows ought to make a little more preparation, too." "Indeed," I responded, "my callers have shown, it seems to me, all the elaboration of dress that could be expected, for you must bear in mind that they come direct from business." "Ah, but they don't come direct," she insisted. "They stop at bars on the way, and a girl can't tell for the life of her whether it's whisky, ale, champagne, or only the cloves that they've been swallowing. What on earth are you grinning at? The modern narlor isn't a baronial hall spa eious^enough to escape the breath of a caller, no'inatter how hard one may try." LILLIAN KUSSELL'S FAT. Speaking of accumulation, writes a correspondent of the Philadelphia News, Lillian Russell has more than she wishes of it in the way of fat. She 1 *-" ~ f rlorKnnp /vf USCU L(J UJU duu utuiiu- Vi the callow fellows wiio worship beautiful .".dresses, and the envy and admiration of her own sex. That was before she ran away from her husband with another chap to London. She has come back heavier by forty pounds than when she departed, and we won't have her in that condition. "When I was in Germany," she says, "I heard of a new and sure way 1 r?r\r\A nnm? +s\ 10 UULU, UUU A. IUUA. uv/ xj.U\A. J out all about it. Let rae explain." And the explanation ought to be clipped out by every woman who de- 1 sires to reduce her weight, and kept until Lillian makes her reappearance in opera, when its value or wortlilessness ] will be demonstrated. A Prof. Epstein, belonging to the Berlin university, is thn ontVinr r>f thft fivefpm. His thoorv is that corpulence is invariably caused by overfeeding, but he denies that fat , makes fat On the contrary, he holds , that fatty food protects the albumen | and prevents its forming fat flesh. His j plan of treatment, therefore, consists . in moderating the quantify of food, ] and while cutting off all vegetable car- , bo-hydrates, such as sugar and starch, , He allows a gooo. quantity ot xai> n> oe eaten. He advises that the diet be monotonous, greasy, and succulent, so as to cause satiety rapidly. The daily ^eding of the fair but no longer airy ;t id fairy Lillian is as follows: For breakfast, an ample cup of black tea, without sugar, and a quarter to a third of a pound of toasted and buttered white or brown bread. For dinner, a plate of soup?not vegetable?as much roasteu or boiled meat as the appetite 1 craves, a moderate amount of almost ' any vegetable except potatoes and tur- , nips, some fresh fruit, a salad, and a < cup of black tea without sngar. x or. ; supper, the tea a<r:un with an egg, a < little fat meat of any. kind, salt or 1 fresh, or some smoked or fried fish or < sausage, with a small quantity of j cheese, fruit, or buttered bread. In < this city the general Custom is to lunch J at noon and dine at 6 o'clock, and 1 therefore the supper which I have de- < scribed is Lillian s luncheon, while the i dinner is eaten at the time when most < people sup; but that does not alter the conditions and you can wait for the re- ] suit She expects to lose twenty ? 1_ .u poULlUS m tut; pi utcss. THE LIMITS OF A LADY'S NECIC. That it is awful for a lady to wear a i low-necked dress at a ball is conceded, says the Xew York Tribune; but it has \ long been felt that an authoritative . deunition of the limits of the territory . known as the neck is needed. How ] far does the feminine neck extend, and ; precisely where it become merged in ( the contiguous territories of the back and bosom? Men, of course, know j nothing as to this matter, and women ; seem to know very little more. Some- i thing in the nature of a boundary com- ( mission, with power to makts au cx haustive survey, is clearly-needed, . At last we are about to have this important boundary question settled' by a , judicial decision. A young lady wear ing. a low-necked, dress was recently j expelled from a bali'by the" managers, , on the ground that her dress was too 1 low. She appealed at once to a court j for redress, and the courts-will have to decide how low a low-necked dress | may be worn, or, in other words, what are the precise limits of the feminine neck. With the methods by which the court will arrive at its decision we have no con'-cni. It is evident, however, that the court will have to appoint a commission of experts, whowill make a survey and lix a boundary which, in their opinion, should be adopted as the southerly boundary of neck. Such a report, properly illustrated with a topographical map, would give the court sullicient data on which to base a decision. Ai any rate., g a. ? !< < -priori will bo mrnio. rind \vc shall soon-know thc~Trne~cxtcnt of neck; and shall be able to decide at a glance whether any given low-nocked dress ' keeps within the territorial limits, or 1 wiictner it uniawiuny encroacnes upon i 1 territory not appertaining to neck. ' A BUSINESS WOMAN. I have twice written something about ^ the women wiio have held or are hold- ] ing positions in the employ of tiie Mani- 1 toba railroad company, says a writer ! in the Woman's Journal, but I lind I 1 had not known it all. The first woman ' mentioned was Miss Carey, who some ( years ago was left with three sisters 1 and "a brother to support She learned 1 to be a telegraph operator, and. wher- ' ever she wont, took her family with ! her and supported them. She taught two sisters and a*brother the business, and was appointed agent at Wayzata, where she had charge of all the business, which in summer, with short-line trains and steamers on Lake Minnetonka, is very heavy. After a time she was allowed to have her brother to help, and one sister was appointed train-dispatcher on the same road. Think of it! A woman, who used to be considered so helpless and impractical, and generally useless and incompetent, given the control of all the life and property involved in the management of the numerous trains on that busy road. And what do they think of her? "I tried again and again," said the superintendent, "to ca'tch that woman off duty before I gave her the place, on Sundays and all sorts of odd hours, and I never once succeeded." Farms on the Baltic. A more beautiful farming country does not exist than that along the southern shore of the Baltic. No fenc- I es mark the boundaries of the fertile farms which stretch away over the rolling hills to the distant hoi*izon, all aglow with yellow grain. At intervals , a clump of trees, often seen intensely dark against toe ripe grain, snows where a farm-houso stanus, and giant windmills swing their sails on the highest hill-tops. The highway, a finely built chaussee, leads straight across the country, only curving to pass through some village. Mountain ash, birch, and cherry trees border the road in an unbroken rauk. In the ditches and by the road grow countless varieties of wild flowers?a perfect paradise for the botanist. From the highest hill the eye meets to the south a succession of grain fields. To the north, beyond the soft undulations of the cultivated hills, the Baltic shimmers in the strong sunlight, a narrow line, sharp at the horizon. The dimension* of the brick barns prove the accustomed magnitude of the harvest; the luxury of the farmers' houses tells of inherited success.?Harpers Magazine. Mr. F. Tuppers letter on his emDarassments, which is printed in the Brooklyn'Magazine, contains the following: "The simple truth (which with perfect propriety you ;:sk for and with plain candor I here supply) is this: "1 never naa any aouuuauce 01 riches, though I always lived honestly and liberally, and for the matter of actual poverty I undoubtedly decline to plead it while everybody else is suffering from the hardness of the times. However, it is true that I have lost for- , tune and am vexed by debt, incurred : not by my own fault, though I do not care to accuse others specilically. Of course, I have to complain that a life ! of some useful labor lias come to 75 years without adequate reward, but after all God provides for every day, and I trust in Him to do so to the end, here and hereafter." -b ? ? FARM TOPICS. Dsiful Hints in Regard to the Pasturing gof Cattle and Horses.?Grass Seed in the Pockets. Plants for Beautifying the Windows.?How to Make Ouick-Selling and Highl'riced Uutter. | TURNING TO PASTURE. Ithc depth to which the frost has entered the ground, or, the cu?=c of deep sndws, has tended to keep vegetation iormant, and the saturation of the soil from the continual melting of the snow ind ice acts also to retard plowing in the North. One effect of untoward* iveather is to cause those who do not study closely the practical, to turn stock out to pasture before there is sufficient growth to give animals a bite. The constant effect of this is that stock refus'3 hay and at the same time injure the pasture by gnawing down to the roots.; Another source of injury is the poaelung of-meadows by the feet before the sward becomes firm. The threefold efibct is the wasting of the stock, permanent injury tojhe grass,.-and dis-abilitv'of the soil from tirt of. poaohiog.-?ThOre is no economy in turning 5tQcfc, especially cattle and horses, upon pasture until the grass is up so as to afford a full bite. When the blades first spring up they induce root action? ic tlin onrmil rnntc irp intr> ^rowih and thus furnish strong growth in the tops. If fed close early in the spring this root growth is checked, and lience the burden of grass is lessened, the poaching of soil kills or checks growth also, and this, together with the gnawing of stock down into the grass-roots, where persisted in, may [essea the crop fully one-half. For Liorses grass should have made a ?? v. f TT'/\ in/ltlAO V?A_ ?iUWkll VI jliuu LLUIU i vyy k/Mfore it is pastured, and'not then if wet iveatlier renders the ground soft. Those, on the other hand, who keep their ?tock from pasture until the grass is flush, although they may increase the annual outcome, do so nevertheless, at a loss to their herds. Cattle, sheep, and horses 'are subject to bloat from too greedy feeding, and also to scouring from a too sudden change from dry to green food. Cattle shou>i be turned upon grass when it is of such a hight that they can comfortably fill themselves in half a day's grazing, and the same rule will apply to sheep. Of course, the soil being firm, sheep tvill find good picking where cattle would starve. Horses bite much closer than cattle and fully as closely as sheep. Their stomachs ai*e small compared to those of cattie and digestion is continuous. They may be turned on a firm "pasture, when they can satisfy themselves by pretty industrious grazing during the day. ? -i?r_ x 4-^ ?*. AS a rum, .Lilljuucia ate UIIAIUUO their stock upon grass as early in the spring as possible, and stock are as eager for the grass as their masters are anxioas to intermit the foddering. Every person must draw the line for lilmself and decide according to the circumstances governing his particular L-:i.se. The practical^working, however, will be found as we'have stated, unless in exceptional cases, such as scarcity of fodtter or such an abundance of pastur?Hm*the stock cannot consume it ^Anra TKa romo^v fiArva LIS) 1 US WviLO 10 AUU 4Vixiuuy? "V4V isioJ|te?asc the stock.?Chicago IS l'OCKETS. There should be 110 time lost in the seeding of meadows and pastures in the spring. If there is any indication of freezing out, throw ou a little grass seed over the weak or trhiu places, and always of varieties suited to the situation. An old man famous for his ,4lnck" in grass, being asked for ids secret, replied, "Always carry your coat-pockets full of seed in the spring, and don't be LlJLl illU. tU U3U . t iiuii wu ax 14vi ?b uuit \jl thin spot." Timothy is especially apt to kill. This is from two principal causes. It forms a bulb just at the surface of the ground late in the season, this is the storehouse for the next season's growth. Hogs, sheep, and horses ire fond of this, and, in close grazing, are apt to destroy it. Tramping also injures it. Hence while one of the best meadow grasses it is one of th" worst for close-fed pastures. Clover is apt to freeze out by the gradual lifting of the crown through successive freezing and + Hunnfi linnn coil< linhlp S* liU,IV'v wi'vw '*" to heave Alsike sliouid take its place. White clover also does well on moist soils, but not on one permanently wet Orchard grass is one of the best pasture grasses, starting early in the season and springing quickly after being grazed. It likes a good loam or even a sandy soil if rich. Red-top is excellent grass for moist situations and re tains its hold on the soil for a long time. In fact we have too few pasture grasses, or rather farmers are not sufficiently awake to the importance of variety in pasture grasses. "WINDOW PLANTS. There is a great rush just now for the annual purchase of plants to beautify the windows arvl .-.ubsequently do duty in the little the city and village. They will uo nicely in the windows if the pots are protected from drying out in me usually ury xieui ui iiviu^-iuuijua. They also require plenty of fresh air. This is easily managed, for plenty Qf fresh air is required by the household? more, indeed, than many get. One good way to protect flower-pots from undue drying at the sides is to inclose them in paraiBne paper. If within this is placed a little spagnum moss the very best condition of moisture is secured. Do not water too often, and especially never allow the saucers to hold water permanently. Let the soil of the pots become rather dry before watering. Not to such a degree as to cause wilting, varying, of course, according to the nature of the plants. When you water do so thoroughly. If the water runs quickly through into the saucer something is wrong. Earth-worms or something of that nature must be looked after. Or the earth may have become hardened and shrunk away r ? J-L. ?. - J - rrk A 11*0111 lau HlblUU VL LUC puis. AUi; puuio and balls of earth may be readily jarred from the pots for examination by placing the fingers over the soil and about the stem of the plant, inverting the whole and tapping the top of the pot gently on the edge of a table. When giving a thorough watering continue until the water gathers in the saucer. If you do this gradually the earth is probablv all ri<?ht. At the end of half an hour "empty"" what water is not reabsorbed and there will be little danger of water-soaking, unless you are continually watering. Strong, young and vigorous plants require more water for their size than okier ^ .1 ?1 i.-. ones, uauas ana au inai ciass tu yiauta require a large amount of water; all this class should have the pots protected from drying out through the pores of the pots. The same is true of all soft-leaved plants, as geraniums, cofeus, etc. All the cactii and spined plants generally require very little wa ter exccpt during the season of growth. HOW HE MADE "GILT-EDGED1' BUTTEK. A Berkshire County (Massachusetts) fanner writes the Scientific American how he makes quick-selling and highpriced butter. It has coramonsense truths in it. He says: My object has always been to make fi.n l./xt hntfor?not the most Drofitable t necessarily, but the best. Having this object in view, I have been compelled to discard oil meal, and thus reduce the quantity of my butter and the value of the manure. I have been obliged to take the cows out of all basement cellars, uud have consequently received less butter for a given :uuount of food. ! I have been forced, instead of dropping the manure into a convenient cellar below the cows, to give up this cellar and wheel manure into a shed. I have been obliged to discard deep setting and to eon lent myself with the open, shallow method, which is more expensive, and requires more attention, and returns less buttyr. I have been obliged to reject all feeds except, corn, i beets, tind carrots, lhavd beeu obliged to give up using the milk of cows that have calved too recently or too remotely. I have for a dozen years carefully and faithfully tried to make good butter?as good as it could be made. This has always beea tke first consideration"; profitableness hfts always been secondary. The result has been for many years this butter has brought a higher price than auy butter in the County of Berkshire, where so much good butter is made, aj?d it has takan the iWt prize over the county. It has beeii in such constant demand at ?ixtv-hv? cents a pound the year though that when making 100 pounds a week there have been unfilled orders for twenty-five to thirty pounds more." A Mexican City. A newspaper correspondent describes the approach to the city of Chihuahua, as follows: At a turn of the road the city itself came in sight, nestled at the foot of the hills, the two tall campanile of the great cathedral dominating the landscape, and the low, white, fiatroofed houses lying upon the terra cotta surface of the ground with a most Oriental eliect. Indeed, everything about the spot is distinctly Eastern. Aeross the plains as we rode from the station to the ground, the gay serapes of the horsemen recall at once the burnous of the Arab- The magnificent horsemanship, as they fiy across the open country, is another point of resemblance. Dressed in a short jacket, with wide, llowing trousers, feet thrust into immense hanging stirrups of ornamented leather, deeply fringed; a fantastic broad-brimmed hat; a bril_ liant blanket, tossed somewhere across the man or the animal, and an air of well-bred ease about the lithe, easy figure, these people are wonderfully pjctui-esque adjuncts to the setting which nature gives him. You meet a woman, on her bead an earthen jar of water from the spring; another washing soiled clothes by the border of the brook and spreading them on Hat stones to dry; a group of Indians mounted aoove a neap 01 rags on the long-suffering burros; an ox team, drawn by two yoke of steers in clumsy, but effective trappings, and with wheels cut from a single round_of. solid wood, the blank wall "of some white-washed adobe dwelling, with a pink flush of peach blossoms falling across an angle, and the shining eyes of a dark-skinned muchacho watching you from the arched doorway. Nearer still, after entering the city streets, the long cloisters inclosed under Moorish arches, which form eolonnades out ? i j /v Side 01 every nouse ana oner graieiui shelter from the noonday sun; the mosque-like domes of the churches, with graceful open campaniles -beside the colored frescoes on the outer walls, bright blue, yellow or red, accentuating the prevalent tints of white and palebrick color?all are Oriental. So are the women creeping noiselessly through the dark alcoves with the grateful shawl thrown over the head and covering all the face but the dark eyes; so are the little children, with one single thin cotton garment for covering; so arc the draped silent figures standing at street corners or huddled around the fountains in the plazas. Broad stone seats with high backs, like those we see in Alma Tadema's pictures, line the principal streets under the soft shadows of the fan-like trees; 4. _! a grout (J l U UJ p 5 ui i'JLC.^iua.u oujo auu prickly cactus hedge the roadways, where the high mud walls give a glimpse behind; streams of sparkling water run through the narrow ditches of red clay, fashioned by the highway; the very fiat plain itself and background of low mountains repeat the landscape of the Holy Land. -mm > Destiny in Warts. The fate of nations and men often turn on the merest trifles. It would be indeed curious if the destiny of England and Egyp* was to be materially attectea oy tne presence or two waris on the cheek of a Khartoum ship's carpenter. The occurrence of such a contingency, seems, however, to be quite within the bounds of possibility. In his address to the Soudanese, Mohammed Ahmed wrote: "Has not God Himself given me the sig:is of my mission?the two warts on the left cheek which are spoken of in His book?" This cogent reasoning would seem to have had its effect, for the officers of the Kordpfan army who joined his standard exhorted their companions to follow their example. declaring that the medhi "is al JT ' tj ways smiling, and his countenance is beaming as the fall moon. On his right cheek is a wart, and other signs which are written in the books of the law." There is, it is true, a grave discrepancy as to the position of the warts; but it^might nevertheless have been better for the peace of the world if Mohammed Ahmed had been born ! without any warts at alL?London \ World. A Baltimore Man. Baltimore has a recluse in the person of William H. Israel, ODce mem-1 ber of a prominent conveyancer's firm, who lives in the family mansion alone. For fifteen years he has allowed no one to visit him but his lawyer and a colored man, who every day brings him a loaf of bread and a pitcher of j water. The handsome furniture of the house is going to decay and is cov-1 ered with dust. No clothing covers or* /-vl ^ fotfanA/i s |;u; juu uaiv ou v*u blanket around his shoulders, a few rags dangling about his loins, and an old hat?all as old as his hermitage. To make up for the deficiency of clothing, nature has stepped in and provided an abundant growth of hair, which covers bis entire bodj. His hair and beard are long and unkempt, reaching fully to his waist, while his finger nails are as long as the fingers themselves. Israel is belie vs.'. fo be worth a handsome fortune. J MARK TWAIN'S BOYHOOD. An Interview "With Mrs. Jane Clemens, Mother of the Famous Humorist. la an unpretentious two-story brick dwelling, at the intersection of High and Seventh streets, Keokuk, Iowa, lives Orion Clemens and his wife. The former is the eldest brother of the famous "Mark Twain," and is a lawyer by profession. He is the personage who was the "Governor's Secretary" ? A?XTAW AM/1 WIia <XKi V^aidV/U, auu nuv W)V4. t ^ . the subordinate position which resulted, with its attendant experiences, in the production of probably the most thrilling realistic portrayal of frontier life ever given to the world?the book "Roughing It." Mr. Orion Clemens now lives a very quiet and secluded life, being much given to literary pursuits, in which he is assisted by his graceful and accomplished wife. They have no children. With them resides Mr. Clemens' mother who will be 82 years of age next June. The writer, being strandecTin Keokuk for a few hours, improved the opportunity to make a call upon the venerable old lady, and in the course of an hour's conversation, which followed, received from her lips MANY ANECDOTES. concerning her most noted son, which will be new to the generality of readers. "Sam was always a good-hearted boy," said Mrs. Ctemens, "but he was a very wild and mischievous one, and do what we would we could never make him go to school. This used to trouble his father and me dreadfully, 3 ?? 4-V? rt f KA TTAtlM li.UU VYtJ WCk." uuu)uu;?u wan iiv, nvuiu never amount to as much in the world as his brothers, because he was not near so steady and sober-minded as they were." "I suppose Mrs. Clemens that your son in his boyhood days somewhat resembled his own 'Tom Sawyer,' and that a fellow feeling is what made him so kind to the many hair-breadth escapades of that celebrated youth?" :'Ah, no," replied the old lady with a merry twinkle in her eye, 4'he was more like 'Huckleberry Finn1 than Tom Sawyer.' Often his father would start him off to school and in a little while would follow him to ascertain his whereabouts. There was a large stump on the way to the school house, and Sam would take his position behind that and as his father went past would gradually circle around it in such a way as to keep out of sight Finally his father and the teacher both said it was of do use to try to teach Sam anything, because he was determined not to learn. But I never gave up. He was always a great boy foe histokt and could never get tired of that kind of reading, but tie hadn't any use lor school houses snd text-books?" "It must have been a great trial to you?" 'Indeed it was," rejoined the mother, "and when Sam's fatherdied, which occurred when he was 11 years of age, I thought then, if ever, was the proper time to make a lasting impression on the boy and work a change in him, so I took him by the hand and went into the room where the coffin was and in which the father lay, and with it between Sam and me I said to him that here in this presence I had some serious .requests to make ot.liim, and that i "knew his word once given was never "broken. For Sam never told a * falsehood. He turned his streaming eves on me and cried out, "Oh mother, I will do anything, anything you ask of me except to go to school; I can't do that!" That was the very request I was going to make. Well, we afterward had a sober taik, and I concluded to let him go into a printing office to learn the trade, as I couldn't have him running wild. He did so, and has gradually picked up enough education to enable him to do about as well as lilUSi; vvliu >vcn; rnuiv; oiuuiuu^ iu izalij life. He was about 20 years old when he went OK THE MISSISSIPPI AS A PILOT. I gavo him up then, for I always thought steam boating was a wicked business, and was sure he would meet bad associates. I asked him if he would promise me on the Bible not to touch intoxicating liquors, nor swear, and he said, "Yes, mother, I will." He repeated the words after me, with my hand and his clasped on the holy book, and I believe he always kept that promise. But Sam has a good wife now who would soon bring him back if he was inclined to stray away from the right He obtained for his brother Henry a place on the same boat as clerk^ and soon after Sam left the river Henry was blown up with the boat by or* flvnlAcmn onrl l?il IrtH UUU UilAVVO The dear old lady gave me the last reminiscences in a "trembling voice and with eyes tilled with tears, but in a moment recovered her wonted serenity of expression and told many more incidents and interesting stories of the then embryo humorist of which my o Artnroto I ixicixivijr ?Y tio uvc cuai^ivu wjr UVVU*M.?-V to enable me to reliably reproduce, though tiie general idea will always remain in my mind ai an indelible photograph of Mark Twai.i, not as the world* knows him, bin :is in? wa.? and is to the mother whose he evidently is, and whose STRONG GOOD SE.W K * and wise counsel in his xo-iih undoubtedly has contributed lar.e y to his success. Mrs. Clemens, aside" from a deafness, which neee.jsit:.tos the use of an ear trumpet, is well preserved and sprightly for her years. Mark Twain inheritctl the humor and the talents which have made him famous from his motli-r.*' stated the younger Mrs. Clemens. -He is ;.ll Lampton,' and resembles her as strnnorlv in nerson as in mind. Tom Sawyer's Aunt Polly and Mrs. Hawkins, in 'Gilded Age,1 are ifirect portraits of his mother." Mrs. Clemens was Miss Jane Lampton before her marriage, and was a native of Kentucky. Mr. Clemens was of the F. F. V.'s of Virginia. They did not accumulate property, and the father left thefamily nothing at his death but,in Mark's own words, "a sumptuous stock of pride and a good old name," which, it will be allowed, has proved in thi9 case at least a sufficient inheritance. The principal of a New York school for teaching deaf mute children to talk ?rtr} i-irnlorsf^nH wlmt is saiH tn thorn by watching the lips of the speaker in a recent lecture delivered to show to what perfection the system has been carried had the lights lowered and had a deaf boy interpret his utterances by watching the shadows made on the wall by his lips. "Mamma," said Freddy Popinjay, "do sounds ever get drunk?" "What a silly question," replied his mother. f f Vi*) A U.VU VU* V) WUJ " J VliVU Freddy. "I heard our minister say tbe other day that the sound was 'dissipated in th? air,' and if dissipated don't mean drunk, I'd like to know what it does mean."?Burlington Free Press. <;?.r WfVQS. It is said there are only about half a dozen wooden houses in London. The timber-work of the domes of the Church of St. Mark, at Venice, is more than 840 years old, and is still in a good state. Mrs. Julian James, the (vealthy widow whom it is rumored ex-Presi dent Arthur will soon marry, nas xne dark beauty and pronounced features that betray her Jewish origin. She spent the last season in Washington, and assisted to receive at most of the White House levees. One of the greatest astronomical works of the ccntury, a catalogue dealins: with 75.000 stars in the Southern Hemisphere, has just been issued in London. Five persons were engaged in the work for a pcr'ou of fourteen years. Ben Butler has * done another shrewd thing. He has rented his house on Capitol Hill in Washington to the ^ senate for the use of its committees. "" / ni The rent paid i9^L5,000 a year. Those* who arc familiar witi the cost of building such a houfcj ^nd its present value in the real-estate market say . that this rent represents exactly 21 per cent upon the original investment. A Georgia individual, who is well versed in regard to cattle, says that after the sap rises in the spring cattle driven from north to south, a distance of thirty miles or more are sure to die, and those driven from south to north will not die, but the cattle they come in contact with will die. Driving them east and west has no effect upon them. Recently one of Barnum's elephants was found to be in danger of becoming blind. A surgeon who examined the huge animal declared that the eyes could be saved if the elephant could be induced to submit to an operation. ^ Accordingly the poor animal was tied down and some caustic fluid was dropped into one of his eyes- Ho roared with pain, for the treatment was severe. On the following day the eye that had been treated was much better, but the surgeon thought he was going to have a terrible time in operating on the other eye. Fancy his surprise to find that as soon as the great beast heard his voice he stretched himself on the ground and peacefully submitted to the painful oraeaL The elephant had simply recognized, the skill and friendly purpose of his benefactor. There are three zones, three climates, within the -limits of Venezuela, from cold too intense to be endured by man to the greatest degree of heat known on the earth's surface. The Alpine zone lies to the west among the snowclad summits of the Andes, where are plains swept by blasts which chill the blood. The next zone is from 5,000 to 8,000 feet above the sea, covered with ' forests of timber and nutritious grasses. The third zone is the tropical, where fruits of all sorts are produced in the greatest abundance. The Venezuelans claim that theirs is the only land where coffee and corn, sugar and apples, bananas and wheat grow in the same soil. An American ladv who visited the store of a dog. modiste in Paris declares that she never before had seen such amusing sights. The place was "not eo mnch a store as-Tin'establishment with halls and rooms richly furnished. Ladies tripped in and out. all day long, most of the visitors having with them pugs and terriers. The pet dogs were scattered through the rooms, each awaiting its turn. Many small mats and rugs were around the waxed floors, and every bit of carpeting of the kind was occupied by some pretty little creature. These dogs have various dresses. The robe used in the morning - a. J 1. "L.! T.j. *_ is a garment ui uarx-uiue uiuiii. it lx called a paletot, and is lined with red flannel. From a leather collar little bells jingle as its wearer walks along. Sometimes a bunch of violets is fastened on the left shoulder of the dog. On very cold days the pet is clad m sealskin of the same pattern, the col? lar being in fur mounted in silver. A Prevailing Malady. Hundreds of women all over the country are suffering from neuralgia to such an extent, in many cases, as to find life a burden. The following extract from the British Medical Review gives one solution as to the cause: "There is no recognized reason why, of late years, neuralgia of the face and scalp should have increased so much in the female sex as compared with our own. There is no doubt that it is one of the most common female maladies? one of the most painful and difficult of treatment. It is also a cause of much mental depression, and leads more often to habits of intemperance than any other. This growing prevalence of neuralgia may to some extent be referred to the effect of cold upon the terminal branches of the nerves dis4.1.^ . ?A ItlUUlCU LU IUV j UUU. LUC why men ai-e less subject to it than women may, to a great extent,-1 think, be explained by the much greater protection afforded by the mode in which the former cover their heads when they are in the open air. It may bo observed that the surface of the head which is actually covered in man is at least three times that which fashion allows to a woman; indeed, the points of contact between the hat or bonnet and the head are so irregular as practically ' to destroy any protection which might otherwise be afforded. If I were to report io the journals a case of facial neuralgia cured on the principle of protecting the lateral and frontal surface of the face as well as the superior part of the scalp, it might excite a certain amount of ridicule. I can assure you, however, that my patient considers that her case ought to be reported; for she says that, if we can not do mn/>V> fnf nnn'roleria witVl nnr nroc/TITY. r?wv?r tions, we ought to oppose fashion when we lind it prejudicial to health and productive of suffering." Burdette on "Home." The son^ of home grew out of a homeless life, as Milton sang of light when he was blind and Bunyan wrote of the pilgrim's progress when manacled in a prison. There is no place' like home. People who live in boardcin<v if TA /vV? iiUUCV/O IV* O.A buv uau^u?vi Vt a Methodist minister remembers the home of her childhood, her memory must be a polyglot. Home is woman's temple. There she is goddess and votary both. She is also usually janitor. A man loves his home because it is a refuge. He also loves it because there he is a great man; there he is governor. or as lease ne is lieutenant-governor. And anyhow he is certain to be secre? tary of the treasure The world fos> gets us when we pass away, but th? home love forgets our vices; exaggerates our virtues, until they outnumber the stars in the heavens, and hands our names down, as long as the estate holds out. %