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imm nin/f in; ; ' ^. ; ' / '> V^-v /;. :??. l -al l/ {,' *) 5J ? ''? I ":': :' ;V ' ' ' . ^\>i'.-.'- - -' ^ " v . ABBEVILLE PRESS & B AOT1SS1Jf V .. "' '.jjiTf! <.,?,.') ?' 'J .' -'f ffc-.-j ;, !? $f ?<>.? ' ; " ** . ? ' *: ' ' ' i. ?' = # . f''_ j^iiuVy j -. ^ ,-k .~ y i . ' ,- - yt-JA}}/---}' : '* ? ;i ': ' fcirt ;YJ,W , - ' r" . * - , ' -ft ' 0',:,- -; ,;,,, V. > \ - ; &f % BY HUGH WILSON AND W. C. BENET. ABBEVILLE, S. 0., WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1879. NO. 6. VOLUME ^V. - - | The Mowing. The olock has jtruck six, And the morning is fair; While the east m red splendor is glowing There's a dew on the grass, and a song in air? Let as up and be off to the mowing. Wtraldst know why I wait Ere the sunlight has crept O'er the fields where the daisies are growii Why all night I've kept my own vigils, i ^ slept? Tis to-day is the (lay ol the mowing. This day and this hour Maud has promised to tell What the blush on her chock was h showing. i\ II she waits at the lane, I'm to know all wdl, And there'll be a good time at the mowinj Maud's mother has said, And I'll never deny, That a girl's heart there can bo no knowii Alt T AS WA A IITTA arirl 1 iHitlint* fl VU) JL VOID UV/W IV U??J BUU 4 KUtlVl "VIIUU U If Mand does not come to the mowing. What ia it I see ? Tifl a sheen of brown hair la the lane where the poppies arc blowing Thank God! it ia Maud?she is waiting i there, And there'll be a good time at the mowing Six years have passed by, And I freely declare That I scarcely have noticed their going; weet Mand is my wife, with her sheer brown hair, A ni) ytta V?o A o rwwl timn of tV?f? mAUMnff ?S. H. M. Byert, in Harper't Aljgazi UjL ABOUT LEAD VILL] t Succinct History of the Wonderful TSt Mini 11K Town. The mining districts of our great W< are famous for cities that, mushrooi like, have grown up almost in a nigh Leadville, m Colorado, is one of t most remarkable of these urban miraeh Two years ago the place was not in exii ence. On the 1st of August, 1877, the were six buildings upon the present sil On the first of January, 1878, the popu) tion was estimated at 300. A year bit the town organization was perfected, ai Leadville now presents the amazii spectacle of a town containing 20,000 i habitants, located in the heart of mountainous district where a few mont ago there was naught but barren so tudes. / . -? The first discovery of carbon.-ite or was made on the south side of Californ Gulch, about one and a half miles abo Leadville, in 1876, in what is now knov as the Rock mine. The ore was foui in great abuiflance, but of low grad carrying a large percentage of lead wi a comparatively small amount of silvc Soon after this, prospecting began in line running north, and resulted in t! discovery of the Adelaide, Camp Bi and Iron mines, together with the Wo stone in Strayhorse Gulch. Otheriuin were also opened from time to time, u til the district became one of the mc actively worked in the whole countr Leadville's earliest settler was oi Mr. Harris, whose first experiences < the now populous town were of a d pressing kina. A contemporary tells u "Two y*ars ago, the 9th of May, the came to JLeadviiie a man wun a smrc < his back and fifteen cents in his pock< He came on foot, by the way of Mo quito Pass, and slept the first night Leadville behind a log. On this nig . ^ two years ago the lonely footman foui r a few piles of brush, a lot of stumps ai f half-burned trees, but not a lium? | besides himself slept that night in wh is now known as the city of Leadvill It was as lonely as a wilderness stunted mountain pines shot up from cold barren soil, between ugly bowlde and craggy rocks, could well be m:ul The name of that lonely traveler wl slept that night in this loneljr wilderne was Mr. George Albert Harris. He w the first settler. His wife was the fir white woman in Leadville." The first public-house in Leadville w begun on the 15th of June, 1877, and w finished and thrown open to the pub) of the Fourth of Julv, nineteen da; later. The builder was Mr. Harris, wh as the founder of the town, was also i great public benefactor. He perform! all the labor, of constructing his ne house of entertainment, from trie found tion to the roof. The dimensions of tl building were ten feet in width by twel1 in length, the height a story and a ha! The first floor served as aining-roor office, kitchen, baggage-room, parlor, r ception-room, etc., and the second, i attic, was used principally for lodgii purposes. It offered accommodation f eight sleepers at a time. For the co venience of guests the day was divid< into three sleeping periods of eigl hours each. In this way the first hot in Leadville afforded sleeping accomm ' ' " * * f nations ior tweniy-iour euesi?, uiviut into three companies, each of which o cupied the attic for the time mentione The name of this hotel was The Cit *nd its site is now covered by the Grar Hotel, on Chestnut street. Mr. Han kept this hotel until the Fourth July, 1878, when he opened the Gran which had been built around and ov the little City. The Grand was kept 1 Mr. Harris until the 14th of last Decer ber, when he sold it to Messrs. Walsh Co., the present proprietors, for $14,12 cash. Tliissura was the net result * Mr. Harris1s first eighteen months' ha] lab?r in Leadviile, beginning on a caf talof fifteen cents. Not long afro a reporter of the Lea yrvr>V/?7o \fi* Worria trrv V liiv V/?W W/??V?'V T 1J1W-U vJ>i 4 W " * the view of learning all tlmt heiuig about the early settlement of Leadvil! From his account much of the forego:] information has been obtained. In i ply to a pertinent question in reeard the men who had made fortunes by d: covering mines, Mr. Harris answered loilows:' "Oh, yes, I know them a There was August Rische; he came fro Fairplay, and was the worst played-o man I ever met. He was a shoemali * by trade, but never did anything abo this camp but dig for carbonates. E entire wealth consisted of pick and spa and a faithful old dog, the latter bei his only companion. The two lived I gether in a dug-out about a mile up Ca fornia Gulch. The dog and August wt sure to show up us often as once a we for bacon, etc. Although hard up, ^ seemed to have friends. It was bu few days before he made the discovc of the Little Pittsburgh that I was ta] ing with him, and he said it was migfc thin forage. He yrould keep digging 1 he struck it. ifit took till the enaof tin He did, and today is worth, at the lei calculation, $300,000. But he is the sai old Aug. Tom Hook was another shi m?vker. He to# came in camp de broke. He sold out a little too soon, a if now obliged to live on the interest $150,000 worth of government bon And there was Pete Finnerty, who d J T TT covered xne IjIimu mint', xiuca in camp with a mule team, paid for a wholly his own. He kept a little boa: ing-house in a log shanty near the gui during the winter of 1877. But thii went slow with him, and he went < prospecting. It was about seven men1 ago that he struck t' c Little Chief, a is worth to-day abo c half a million, round numftjers. 1 le Dillon boys w prospecting partne tofFinnerty. T1 are not worth to-ciay but a little o' $ 100,000 each. Hallock and Cooper c covered the Carbonate mine in Octoh 1877. They were laborers, and had 1 come'accustomed to a rough life. N< they are worth $300,000 each. A n byjthe namerof Woods?an old mil from Lake Superior?discovered the I mine. In fact, he wae^the man vi made the first discovery of carbonates in ' this camp. But he aid not know the value of nis discovery, and sold out to ' Leiter, of Chicago, for $50,000." The progress of Leadville prior to De tho cember 1, 1878, was surprising, but its ' wonderful advance in every possible di- ' rection since that date is simply amazing. ' j It seemed then that the city might pos- ( I sibly reach a population of ten or twelve i thousand in a twelvemonth, but no one \ afrj I could have foretold that within four J 30r months, and those the most unfavorable 1 of the year, the number of its inhabit- ' ants would be augmented by at least ( four thousand. A steadily increasing ( stream of fortune-hunters poured in ( through all the avenues of approach, 1 defying the storms of winter, and adding 1 all their capital, enterprise and energy to J the restless activities of the camp. The ia rapid growth and the increasing pros- t perity of Leadville naturally gave birth * to active speculation. During Decern- ( berand January merchants command- A ing large capital, in their eagerness to se- r i cure eligible locations, paid large pi*ices s for lots on upper Chestnut street and ? Harrison avenue. This gave impulse to a real estate mania which soon affect- '> ed the whole camp. Lots held at only J 350 to $100 last fall suddenly jumped to ' $1,000, $2,000 and even $4,000 each. c Many sales were made at these figures. v r. Real estate throughout the town felt the s no | influence, and buying and selling be- j; came the order ol ttie day. neai estate agents are now almost as numerous as v lawyers. Lot jumping, or, more proper- c 1y, lot squatting, outside the placer- ' claim limits, became a regular occupa- v tion with many small operators. Long streets of foundations an <1 skeleton frames ^ ' o j sprang up in a night. The whole slope o lying between upper Chestnut street * proper and Fryer hill is now covered s ne with foundations, frames and buildings tv in all stages of growth. It became tacitly understood that the actual con- c struction of a building should give an j1 E undisputed title to a lot. This gave iro-,,'' petus to cabin-building, and log-houses > sprang up like Jonah's gourd. As fast as completed they were sold or rented at c :w most remunerative figures. Meantime t the utmost building activity prevailed ^ in every other direction. The only ? limit was the supply of lumber, which, '< n* as the demand intensified, jumped from * ?25 to ?30, thence to $40, and finally to 11 'ie 350 per thousand. As a necessity, hewn P >s- logs were substituted for boards in the s walls of many pretentious buildings, d re even on business streets. East, west, s -e- and north the town spread like a prairie rv* tire. - 0 At present Leadville is fully equipped 11 id -with all the social, educational ana re- n ligious advantages that can be found ' n- anywhere in a town of its size. It has R three daily newspapers, one good school v hs building, two cliurch edifices, Metho- ? h- dist, Presbyterian, Baptist, Episcopal j.1 and Catholic organizations, a city hall fj f3 and jail, a fire company, two theaters, 1 ,ft fourteen hotels, ten restaurants, five :l ve general merchants, four dry goods, ten r clothing, eleven grocery, three drug, :l j>d four jewelry, six boot and shoe, one le, commission, three fruit and confection- J; th ery, two furniture, five feed and grain, ?' T. two hardware and two book and I a stationery merchants, twelve meat mar- >< ''6 kets, three si<m painters, two bath- v rd houses, six barber shops, three bakeries, If- ten blacksmith shops, one machine v es shnn. three wsuroii sIiods. one auction t' n* house, one luirness shop, thirty-two :i 'St lawyers, twelve physicians, two dentists, ti y- one photographer, three banks, one *! ae knitting factory, six steam sawmills, ' one planing mill, one shingle and lath t( e* mill, five smeltine-works (including one c s ' each at Malta ana Adelaide), and three Sl re sampling-works. There is the usual number "of saloons and gambling hells. ^ it. :ind even dance-houses, to rob the un- 1 s-. wary of money and health and honor. & fD The simple enumeration of business ^ ?t houses conveys but a faint idea of the ? *d volume of business transacted. Many ? Jd of the merchants carry stocks which si ^n would be considered preposterously ? at large in towns ol similar size at the 11 e- East. 11 of And Leadvilie's future progress prom- M a ises to be as brilliant as its past. Be- tl rs fore long it will eryoythe* luxuries of :l e- pure water and gas. The water-works s] io fire so far completed that the mains tl ss have been laid, the hydrants put i n place P as nlong several streets, and the water let tl st in. Gas has been authorized hy a nearly < unanimous vote of the citizens, and an V as efficient lire department, with one hook h as and ladder and two hose companies, has t< ic been organized. Leadville's present tel- ? ys egraph facilities are to be doubled by the tl o. use of a duplex machine. A two-wire b ts line from Pueblo is in process of con- r ?d struction, and was to have been com- b w pleted by the first of June. The growth I a- of the postoffice is an index of the rapid n progress of the town. One year ago the b fG f>eailville postoffice occupied a seven-bv- f< nine corner in a small building on Chest- k n, nut street. In the single delivery win- '' ?- dow stood a call-bell, at whose warning t' sr some clerk would enter from an ad- j' ig joining store to wait on the expectant h or citizen. There was no money-order de- }' n" partment. To-day the office occupies h -d one of the largest rooms in the city, and s; lit requires the unremitting attention of ti el ten clerks. It has its separated ladies', L o- stamp, and money-order departments, s; -'d Long lines of men may be seen at all u <5* hours of the day standing at the four t' d- general delivery windows, impatiently v y. "waiting their turn." And all this id has* been accomplished within two o 'is yea*rs. As one of the.citizens of Lead- t of ville writes: It is simply magical, this d, creation of a city in the heart of the s er Rocky mountains, two miles above the v sea, in a twelvemonth.?Harper's Weekly. '' Q- n & t !0, Bismarck as an Orator. <? of "Hush! Bismarck is speaking!" With t rd these words you are ushered into the s >i- Reichstag. And it is so. Before even :> , hearing a word you can tell by the'as- c d- pect of the Chamber that it is tne chan- t th cellor who is speaking. With their ( ht bodies stretched out and ears wide open, s le. everybody leans forward to listen. The ' ac j pencils of the short-hand writers fly over 1 e- the paper with tlie rapidity 01 ngntnmg ' to and you hold vour breath involuntarily ! is- that you may near better. From below s as is heard a feeble voice?one of those ( 11. feeble voices which, by its nervous tone, 1 >m , suggests excess of intellectual work The i ut j words come by jerks, each sentence being [ :er i laboriously formed. The orator is some- i ut I times hurried, sometimes hesitating in i lis | his speech. He recalls each sentence. ? de | twists it and turns it about, until he has j t ng ; eliminated all the points which an ad- 11 to- Versary might attack. It is then only j i li- that he abandons it to the House. In is ;re listening to him you experience a strange i ek excitement, for while this strong man t he continues his speech you are momentari- i ta ly feeling that he will suddenly stop shore < sry in the middle of his discourse. Not that, ] Ik- ideas are likely to be wanting, but one ,' itv fears lest the weakly voice which issues j ill | so laboriously from the chancellor's ro- 11 ie. | bust frame may (ail in the midst of a per- ;: wt, oration without the possibility in the (s mp I r\f n!r>lr5r>r? nn flm V?tY?lron tlirfV)H>J ' 1 j Vi v... ~~. | ( | The chancellor himself looks ill at east 11 :ad | while speaking, his thin white hands ; 1 nd fidgeting now with one, now with an- ; 1 of | other of the buttons ot his modest dark j! r|s. j blue cuirassier's uniform. Then _ they 11 u?- carcn ieverisiuy at wie lung puui-us au j me ; much talked about; seel; refuge on the I < nd table, and at last rest on the glass of water 11 rd- which stands on thetribune. You might |. Ich fancy that it was only this resting place j lgs tliat was wanting, for presently his j jut speech gi*ows firmer, more severe; words ; ths flow from his lips with greater clearness; ' .nd his thick eyebrows are lowered still more ! in upon the gray eyes which seem to pene-1 ere trate the ranks of the deputies. It is now ley evident that the orator is approaching j rer the end of his speech; the sentences be- j lis- come shorter and more vigorous. And >er. then the chancellor draws himself up to be- his full height; the voice, so weak at j ow first, gains a clear, hard ring, and liu . lan throws his last sentence like a bomb into aer the midst of the chamber, resuming his ron seat amid the loud applause of his friends, 'ho -^Berlin Tagblatt, TWENTY-TWO DATS ON A WREC rhe Pitiful Story of the Sole SnrvlT of the Crew. The San Francisco AUa Bays: Vi xirino Lopez, the sole survivor of t wTeck of the Ellen J. McKinnon, te ;he following narrative of the liardshi mdured. lie says: "Six days after a sailed from San Francisco we were ove ;aken by a gale which was of such vi ence tnat it strained the vessel ve: nuch and caused her to lurch so lieavi ;hat I thought several times she wou ;apsize On the morning of the six lay I was at the wheel from two to foi )'clock. The captain, whose name lever learned, came along and orden ;he first mate, O'Brien, to reef the sail o heave to and keep her head well o: rhis was done, and then the mate toe lie wheel from me and lashed it ar Old nit' CU Still SUWIU UJ. Abuuuuu -v >'clock I was still standing at my pos vith the wheel lashed, when the vesst i flat-bottomed one, sheered, and befo he could right again she was struck t i wave aft and keeled right over. 1 hat time, O'Brien,!the mate, George at Tohnny, ol the] port watch (I don'l kno hem by any other names), the one I b ongcd to, were Ion the deck. Th< lung to the rigging. I hung to tl vheel, and noticed that the forwai cuttle had floated away, and I kne hat the water must have run into tl orecastle and prevented the men wt ?ere asleep there from making their e ape. The sliding scuttle on the cabi lad not been removed, so I made m ray forward and pulled it away, an ailed to the captain to com<> ou lanuel, the second mate, first came ot if the cabin, and was immediately fo nwed by the captain, who was in h hirt and drawers. He asked who; yatch it was, and O'Brien repliec Mine,' and she upset. The captai lambered to the siae of the vessel an tunc there. The sea was running vei ligli at the time, and one wave, wine eemed to be much higher than any lad seen before, caught the captain an arried him away. I heard him hallc wice, but it was impossible to rend< iim any assistance. That was the la saw of him. Then I took a rope an istened it around my waist, attach in lie other end to the vessel. The oth< ,ien did the same. We remained in thf osition waiting for daylight, which eemed to me would never come. A aybreak approached the wind caime omewhat, and the sea went down. '"When light again dawned, and ould once more see about me, I too ly sheath-knife, and, after runniri long the side ot the vessel, cut awa lie main and forward rigging an iraces. This allowed the masts to swa nth the motion of the vessel, and in hort the mainmast snapped off and fe lto the sea, and, some time after, tl: >rward mast also went by the boart 'his lightened the vessel considerabl; nd allowed her to get into a more uj ight position, lying after this at a ngle of about forty-tive degrees, whic llowed us more deck-room, at least s liat we could, with care, move arourn lv this time the pangs of hunger an i a. ?? "J wl??1o m\r nnmnor mrsi came uh, iiuu, ? MiK. nxj rns were giving way to despair, an fere not making any efforts to hel liemselves, I thought of procuring pr< isions if possible. I made my way t lie cabin, and found a key of whisk nd a box of fruit, and also a bag of pc itoes. These I secured, and lasne liem to the forward part of the wrecl V'e took the mainjib and made a sort < int of it, and five of us got under th; over?the first and secona mate and tw nilors, besides myself. " As the day wore on the wind moc rated, and wc floated with the tid< 'he provisions which I had secured 10k charge of, and dealt out sparing^ Ye kept watch and watch, in the hor f seeing a sail, but every night as dart ess came on the despairing cry ot4 N lil in sisfht'was uttered. At the en f the third day the second mate die< nd we pitched him overboard. I ha lanaged to secure a small cask of syru] fhich I gave to the men mixed wit lie liquor. That night I fell asleej nd slept more soundly than at any tin; ince the wreck, and on awaking I foun :iat the men had gone to the liquor an rovisions that we had and unlashe lem and let them fall overboard, thi ?aving us without anything to ea Vith a pole I managed to get into tl. old an'1 draw up another sack of pot? ies. V* e ate them raw. and subsiste n them alone to the ninth day aft* lie wreck. On that day I could see tli odies of the dead men in the forecast! ight under us. My companions wer ecoming weary., ana I knew that unlei got some food for them they woul ot long survive; so I had to do tli est I could. I fished in the foreast n* some cans of fruits and meats new to be there. I got a piece < on and made a hook and lashed it t lie end of a pole, and commenced fisl ig. I got hold of something an auled it up, and found it was tl odv of one of the other watch. II ad* evidently been jammed betwee ome boxes, which hud held him s ight that he could not get out. I pi lie hook down again and hauled up iick of potatoes, and after that I brougl p a box of butter. This was all I ha o cat. Fresh water, we naa none, an /ere forced to drink salt water. " From this I cannot give any accour f the days, sis I could not keep track < hem. "We came in sight of a large nun >er of birds and sea-gulls, whidi wei wimraing by, and with a piece of woe vhich I hurled at them I killed one. . ioated toward the wreck, and I took ip and greedily suckcd the blood, an hen tore the flesh in pieces and ga\ ach of my companions a small piece, hen made a hook and baited it wit ome of the flesh, and with that mai ged to cateh some lish, which I a agerly, and it tasted to me as if it wi he finest turkey. > One of the me: ieorge, was becoming very faint, and aw he was going to die. I told him 1 nust try to keep up, but he replied til le did not think he would live vei ong. I asked him if he thought he Wi :oing to God, and he said 4 Yes.' I tin aid: 4 George, when you get to whe iod is, tell Ilim to send us some watei le told me lie would, and then begg< no not totnrow mmuvuruuiiruua ou<_ is he died. lie became insensible, ar n a short time died. I let his body r nain under the cover one whole da md then put it in the sea I belie1 hat lie kept his promise, for soon aft le .died a small squall came on and tl ain fell in torrents. I held out n lou'wester until it was full, and trea ired the water. The other man lanpi he water from the side of the vesselju is dogs do. The first mate had becor razy from the effects of drinking sr .vater, and he died soon after Georp That left me and Johnny on the wreel Johnny was getting very weak, and ihought I would make one more effc ind see if I could not get some pi !erves, in order to sustain his lil With a piece of iron I cut away a he in the deck, and fished where I km [ reserves had been stored in the hoi but I was unable to get any at a Sometime after that Johnny aied. must have been about ten o'clock r.;?hf t i-nnt- him with me until tv s'clock in tiie morning, and then roll tiim over into the sea. "Then I was left alone on the vess< T said to myself: 'Now my turn is coi ing, and I am left a'one; butasmynai is written on my arm in India ink, 1 lash myself to the vessel, and if ever t vessel is picked up I shall be knowi I had become so weak that I coi scarcely stand; my tongue had becoi parchea and dried, my hps were swoll and my body emaciated so that the was nothing but the skin to cover t ribs. It was afternoon, and I though would take a last look from under t cover. It was then I caught sight o vessel which was tacking about a going from the wreck. I tried to hall< or I did halloo, but my voice waa r heard. As I paw the vessel going aw K. from rue my heart seemed to cease beating, and I thought that the last hope or was gone; but I managed to get strength enough to raise my sou'wester and shake ii .c~ it over my head. Some one on the vesie sel seemed to get the signal, for the ves'J3 sel hove to, and then I saw the small Ps bpat come toward the wreck. This is n ve 1 the last I recollect, five days afterir" ward, as I was informed by the captain CI ?" of the Otago, I came to my senses, when u fy he told me that my signal had been no- p, g ticed and he put off three men to rescue me, but they came back saying it was u tla too rough to approach the wreck; that ^ u? he then called for three other volunteers, H * and the first mate and two other seamen P went and took me off the -wreck. He told me that from that time until I came Sj - . .1 ? _ i i. LI " to 1 was constantly raving auuui uemu , in Monterey. I don't know what I dia "J say, for I have no recollection of any- p thing whatever. Calculating the time V I?' from the day the vessel capsized to the fl( !l? day the Otago picked me up, I was 0 rc twenty-two days floating on the wreck, P1 'y and, according to then captain'sZstate- C(*ji ment, the schooner must have drifted RJ about 100 miles west from the point "t w where she capsized. The Otago landed e" me at Port Townsend, where I was P,1 -y taken into the hospital and received the " J? best treatment, and at the expiration of w "d six weeks was sufficiently restored to P1 w leave for San Francisco, and on my way P( ie down I received great care and attention A. 10 fmm tho nonfnin nnH officers of the Citv . s" of Chester." in Lopes is a Portuguese, forty-six years I S: iy of aire and unmarried. id , ^ The Bashful Poet and the Knowing g? 1_ Yo'nng Newspaper Man. tv Anybody could tell what he had. Ev|e ery man in the sanctum knew him in a [:l minute. The timid knock at the door {1! gave him clear away at the very start. h( " No man or woman ever knocks at a 7 sanctum door unless he comes on that se h fatal errand. Tlien he came inside and re J took off liis hat and bowed all round the ?s d room, when overy man on the staff }n 10 roared out, in terrible chorus, " Come '1( in!" Then he asked for the editor, and j" 3fc when the underlings, with a fine mine" ling of truth and grammar, pointed to m ? the youngest and the newest man in the se ->r office and yelled, "That's him!" he .lt walked up to the young gentleman do signated, and before he could unroll his }" manuscript we knew the s-ubject of it, J?( d and a deep groan echoed around the 'e T room. 51 1 ?Dnotpu vnnnnr rrnin ?" asked the b( , ?. V"-" J ) J o , K editor. S "Yes, sir," said the poet; "a couple I-,i ? of triolets and a sonnet on the marriage sri " of my sister with an old college friend?' n{ y "Old college friend male or female, * young man ?.asked the editor, severely. fr 11 " Male, sir," said the young man. "i 'e He said "sir" every time, and every m * time he said it all the young gentlemen di 7' of the staff, save tl?e young gentleman 5" who personated the governor, snickered. ?' J1 lie looked severe. al " " Anything more, young man ?" he !.lt .? asked. '? "Yes, sir,"replied the infant Tennyd son; " a kind of an idyl, an ode inscribed m ?: To My Lost Love.1" Pi d "Love been lost very long, young fr P man ?" asked the journalist, very criti- A >" callv. se ? "well.it's immaterial, that is," stam- v?' y mered the young man; '"it's indefinite? "i it's?" d " Ever advertised for it?" asked the r ?? ?l- ? a tMiff fnr til reporter, wjio vma nuuug <* ^uu ?* Slab's tombstones, but he was instantly ?J 1S frowned down. w 0 " Anything more ?" aslwd the princi- \ . pal interlocutor, " anything more, young ?1 man ?" ty !i " Yes, sir," was the hopeful response, si; * "a threnody in memory of my departed in brother." cc'e "Brother dead, young man, or only F" gone to Sagetown ?" su ? " Dead, sir." n* " Your own brother ?" , \? "No,sir. I never had a real brother; gr d it's only imaginary." |n ? " Can't take this, then, young man," 155 " was the chilling reply. " Poetry, to find m acceptance with the Hawkeye, must be P( ie T-T.iT'n tn roWt-. this threnody: not ?t jj because it is not very beautiful, lJut be- SJ cause it is not true. Now, how much of d do you want for these others ?" And he !.ir |s lingered them over like a man buying in ^ mink skins. " ie Tlie poet really didn't Know. He had er 'C never published before; he had hardly ^ dared nope to have his verses published w 5r at all. A few copies of the paper con- or [e taining them, he was sure? in ;e " Oh, no," the editor broke in, " oh, y no, no, sir, can't do that; we don't do fr '? business that way; if a poem or sketch tli d is worth publishing, it is worth paying A ie for Would lifteen dollars pay you for fr l? these ?" A, The poet blushed to the floor with sn " gratitude, and the young journalist 0 grandly wrote out an order and handed G it to the poet. b? a "Take that to the court-house," he ci \e said, " and the auditor's clerk will give P< 'e you the money." ie 'n | The poet bowed and withdrew, and si with great merriment tiie journalists " burned his poems and resumed their cc 'J work. to That wasn't the funny part of it, how- sc '9 ever. The next day the simple-minded ? d poet presented his order to the clerk W ilcsignjited. And it was so that the a< l? clerk owed the paper eighteen dollars for " subscription and advertising, and lie ol 1_ promptly cashed the order ana turned it si r? in when his bill was presented, and the in L? manager just charged it to the salary ac- se count of the smart young journalist who pi ^ signed the order, and the happiest man a ;.nd the maddest man in America w are living in Burlington. One of to } them is a happy, green, unsophis11 ticated young machine-poet, and the al other is a wide-awake, up-to-snuff, p! know-the-world, get-up-and-dust young w is irtiimaliat-. whr? is jilreadv a riv.il of dl n> Horace Greeiey in some of the verbal ai 1 departments of journalism.?Burlington l<r Ilawkcye. e< at ? ? le ^ A Desperate Struggle for I ile. ;n Mr. William Butler, an employe at re Stoddard's rake factory, in Dayton, Ohio, fo, li:is had a narrow escape from a horrible C1 ?d death. As he stood on a ladder shifting sj ?n a bolt from a pulley, a set-screw in the jr id shaft caught in his clothes, and began to 0| e- wind them up. The shaft is within two a] y, feet of the ceiling of the room and is ten [x p-e feet from the floor. As the clothes or wound up, pulling him to the shaft, he n \x braced his feet against the wall with all C1 iy his power, and held himself there until w ?s- his clothes tore off liira. The collar-band jr 2d of his shirt was so strong that it very C1 st near choked him before it tore. He was C( oe drawn so close that the shaft rasped the tj ilt skin from his breast. When the clothes jg -e. tore off he dropped to the floor. He never j, ic; littered a cry, and none of the other men ^ I in the shop knew of his danger until the ^ irt struggle was over, though he w:is sepa e- rated irom tnem dy oniy a unn ihhuu fe. partition. He was carried to his home ^ ile and his numerous bruises dressed. The e, iw shook to his nervous system left him as p d, weak as an infant. Jj ll, ? ti it A good story is told in Edinburgh ci at about that genial Grecian, Professor a Blae.kie. One day, shortly before the p e? dose of tlie late session, tne professor o being through some cause prevented si from locturing, there was posted on the h Greek class-room door a notice to this p ne pffect: "Professor Blackie regrets he is " unable to-day to meet his classes." A si he waggish student, spying this, scraped "V n out the initial letter of the last word of b dd the sentence, and made it nppear as if t( the professor was retretfui at his inabil- a en ity to meet those fair specimens of hu- d >r<? I fomiliorlv l-nnwn nilNifln tbft ~ | MIUUIVJ inmiiimy ?-?' ? ? lie college quadrangle as the " lasses." But 1 H who can joke with Blackie? The keen- n he eyed old man, noticing the prank that ii f a had been played on him, quietly erased a nd another letter, and left the following t< ii 50, be read by whom it might concern: p lot Profeasor Blackie regreta he is unable t ay ! Q>day to meet hie asfcil" t SUGAR BEET CULTURE. nterc?tin? Information about this New Industry for Farmer*. The agricultural editor of the Balti lore American says: The increased deland for seed of the sugar beet shows lat this industry has taken a strong hold pon the farmers of this country, and the robahilities are that the capital neces- j fnr flip mannfant.urin? of sucar will ! b forthcoming by the time the Tanners I ill have raised the necessary supply of le raw material. We see it announced laL already some fourteen companies ave been formed in the States and anadafor the manufacture ofsugar, and le demand for the seed has been so great lat although several tons of tha seed ere import?d early in the spring from ermany, by Mr. E. T. Gennert, tor or2rs for New Brunswick, Delaware and tlicr parties, other firms had also imDrted of German and French seed very jnsiderable quantities for this years lanting. Yet, as we learn from the oston Cultivator, with this large aggreite of seed, the demand was not satis2d, large supplies being still required. rell-known seed merchants of Boston, 4-^. nvwl oAnn cnltroH t.llO ! CTtJ HppilCU tU uuu ouvii oviivv* vi.v roblem, through the aid of their Eurojan correspondents. On the fourth of pril they cabled t? France lorthree tons : beet seed, which was immediately I, lipped, arriving in this country May { h. This lot was secured for the Maine | eet Sugar Company. Again, April j 1th, the Boston seed merchants cabled r an additional lot of three tons of beet ed. which arrived May 12th, or in eenty-four days from the date of the i der. This last importation was for rmers in the Connecticut valley, who ive manifested a deep interest in sugar ;et culture this year. Thus it will be seen that many tons of | ed have been planted this year, and the , suit will be watched with great intert by American farmers. Heretofore the , iportations of beet seed by the seed * juses have been on a limitecf scale, and most exclusively lor use in raising ( ?ets as cattle food. Another year the arket will be well supplied with beet < ed for the sugar industry. , Letters lately received from successful let growers in France, while speaking )pefully of the prospects of the sugar ( Jet industry here, yet state that they , ar disappointment among American , * * ? ^ 1 o t*rra I 1 OWCrS II Lilt! JjiiiuUIV^VJ ui giuiTiu^ itugv j ?ets (as is reported to have been follow- i I in certain sections) generally prevails. 1 irge roots are not as rich in sugar as nail ones. French growers advise that 1 )t less than eight to ten roots be grown < ?on a square yard, and that roots of ( om two to three pounds each will yield ; le most sugar and prove the most reunerative to those concerned in the in- t istry. Small roots lessen the extract- < g expenses by reason of the less amount i water in their composition. Good i ithority asserts that six pounds of fresh ] id genuine sugar beet seed is sufficient r seeding an acre of land. At the sugar convention held at El- i Votit Ynvlr in Mav a nilirihpr nf ii it, nun A. viit) ?u ?.-j , ? ? ? 'ominent agriculturists were present i om different sections of the country, mong others, Mr. Englehardt prented an exhaustive report on the cultiition of the beet, in which he presented ie following views: i " The German beet growers cultivate j ost extensively the white Silesian beet, < ie so-called ' Ashard beet,' but not to : j te exclusion of the Audinburg variety, | hich requires the richest soil. The 1 ilmorine beet, a French variety, is cul- < vated for its large percentage of sugar i it usually worKea before it freezes, ( nee it looses considerable of its sugar < the pits- A good suear beet should j intain at least twelve per cent, of sugar ipable of crystallization, but a very na.ll per centage of saline substances; j id while the latter have no injurious i feet on the formation of sugar in the owing beets, they are vej7 objectionable j the process of separating and crystal- ; ing the sugar, increasing the yield in ; olasses and the manufacturing ex- i ;nses. Nitrogenous substances on the , her liand exert their influences in the < owing beets. They reduce the yield sugar, and we find, therefore, the nountof sugar in the beet eorrespondgto the amount of nitrogenous subances. The more of the latter are prosit the less of the former we will find. For seed beets we must select healthy, I . ell-shaped beet roots, of from one and i le-half to two pounds weight, show- ; g the most rings of leafmarfes. More- , rer. seed beets must never be taken nm the first product of the soil, and iey should be grown by themselves, i n acre of seed oeets usually produce nm 12,000 to 25,000 pounds of seeds. I find it stated that a mellow, deep, i .ndy loam, provided it possesses a free id permeable subsoil?a soil named by erman agriculturists a rich, first-class irley soil?is best adapted to beet-root llture. Whenever the subsoil is not ?rfcetly free we must remedy this de- j ctby a proper drainage. The soil lould be deep and loose, more limey lan sandy, rich in humus or'well-de>mposed organic matter. Stony soils 10 coarse, gravelly soils, or thin surface >;ia urStli trrnvnl n.siihsnil. or. finallv. soil with too much undecaycd vegetale matter, are considered not well iapted to beet raising. In regard to ayish soils I may state that they are yectionable during a rainy summer, nee they produce watery beets, wantg in saccharine matter, while in a dry iason they become hard and so comict as to interfere very materially with proper development of the roots, liich is more the case when from time i time the heavy showers occur." We now send from this country annuly sixty to eighty millions of dollars to ly for sugar, syrup and molasses, all of nich can be saved by the general introiictionofthe manufacture of the beet id sorghum sugar. The effect of beet root culture on the moral prosperity of a country may be arned from the following facts: " An inquiry by the French governient in 1850, for the purpose of ascerlining if an increased production of eets would cause a proportionate de ease in that of cereals and meat, lowed that the district of Valenciennes i 1813 produced about twenty bushels f wheat per acre. In 1833 it produced bout thirty bushels. Before beet cullre was established the entire producon of wheat wjis 710,000 bushels. It ise in 1833 to 1,492,000 bushels?an inrease of over fifty per cent. In 1822 the hole district fed400 oxen; nine years iter, in 1831, it fattened 10,784, or an in;ease of over twenty-five to one. Acirding to another official document of le French government, of 1873, there exits in the north of France a certain numer of districts which have obtained the laximum of agricultural production, hus in favorable seasons these localies produce an average to the acre of >rty bushels of wheat, forty-five tons of eefand350to 400 bushels of potatoes, tc. What causes this prodigious proserity ? In some parts it is due to the se of Flemish manure, which sigricullrists from the North have utilized for enturies; in others where human feces re n"t collected it is entirely due to the roduction of beets. It has been repeated i n all sidfs and it cannot be too much J lid of the cultivation of beets that it as contributed much to agricultural rogress." The same is true in regard to the beet nfrinrm?mv on/1 Rftlfriilm Ut'<IL UIOUIVW 'U VIVtrnnMJ i?uu^vi^.u.?i. vhile we in Amcrica produce eleven ushels of wheat per acre, they produce, a say the least, double, and so it is with lmost every other crop of farm prouce. The Portland (Me.) Transcript says: 'he experiment which a company is j laking in the production of beet sugar J 5 one of general importance. Last year, s our readers are well aware, the experment was tried on a small scale and roved satisfactory. The farmers along lie lines of the railroads found that the nets at the prices paid would pay moderately, and the company at Por land found no difficulty in making goo sugar from them. This year the con pany has entered upon the enterprk with vigor. Fairly in the seasorf a suff cient number of acres of the root wei arranged for to run the works at Porl land to their fullest capacity. Seed ho been planted in three States,* Maine, Nei Hampshire and Massachusetts. It i stated that the return of the business ws so promising that a better price for th rvinfnr?o I ?o noirl fliio iroor fhon 1 a a1 Those who have ^ven most attention t the matter in Maine are confident of sue cess, and confidently predict that th production of beet sugar is an industr which will eive agriculture in New Enc land a new impetus and open a new fiel for profitable investment. TIMELY TOPICS. A remarkable; occurrence with refei ence to the photographing of a churci weathercock at Tenby is reported by th London Lancct. At the time nothin was observed by the artist but the objec upon which he was engaged; but on th development of the plate the outline of boat, with colors flying fore and aft, wa distinctly visible about two-thirds u the spire?in a reverse position. Til photograph was taken at quarter pas six, and about that time the gunboat were launched at Pembroke dock. It i thought that it is a mirage of one of th gunboats soon after launching. Pittsburgh is one of the blackest c cities by reason of the smoke from it manufactories, but a plan is being teste' that promises to make it clean. Th proposition is to wash the smoke, an< the way of doing it thus described "The washing is done by passing th smoke through the spray caused by pad dlewheels revolving in a tank of wate holding soda ash in solution. The tan! and wheels are placed in the flue, be twcen the furnace and chimney, and the wheels being made to revolve in th direction of the chimney, the draught i increased." The smoke after being thu treated will not soil a white handkei chief. A rich widow, lacking only two year of half a cestury and dressing her hai six times a day, in Elizabethtown, Ky. fell in love with a youth of nineteen wu liad been working on her farm. He two step-sons ordered him to leave th town, and threatened to use a shotgu if ho should ever attempt to return riie widow took the lad to town, put chased for him a new suit of clothes am charged him to get a license. The youn man did as he wjis told, and when the -?-? ' ? ?i *a liim Katyio orv WUI C Ulilli ICU 911C c<ungu mm uvuiu <?n asked her step-sons what they meant t do about it. The answer which th 3tep-sons made is not recorded; but i they are allowed to remain in tha liouse harmony is not likely to prevail Dr. Schmidt of the New Orlean Charity Hospital has had numerous op portunities for investigating the natur i)f the yellow fever poison. He takes decided stand against the germ theorj Maiming it to be a disease depending like bmail-pox, scarlet fever and measles upon a specilic poison of animal origin [i product of the diseased human or nanism itself. The fact that in the cas i)f putrefaction the poison increases ii intensity with each individual througl whom it passes explains the fatality c the disease, which increases as the epi domic advances. The prevention of th disease involves the interesting questio: r>f quarantine, and the perfect isolatio af the first cases would appear to be th most important samuiiy measure. The New York Graphic affirms thn from March 21 to September 21 there i about one-quarter more hekt dispense by the sun at the North Pole than at an given point on the Arctic circle, inaj much as the sun shines constantly dui ing the six months at the Pole at a average altitude of lli} degrees,while an given point on the circle, with the sam daily average altitude of the sun, woul be one-quarter of the whole time in til night shadow of the earth, not receivin but losing heat. While, other thing being equal, the North Pole is, of coursi the very coldest spot on the earth dui ing the northern winter, there is no les doubt that during the acme of the nortl ern summer it may be the warmest spo at least, within the north forty-five d< grees of northern latitude. The New York Hcbrty Leader, dii cussing the pernicious litelature that to often linds its way into the hands c children, thinks that parents should r< ceive censure for some of the harm tin is done, and says: " They should hav had an eye upon the books and new; papers their children were reading. The should have done this quietly, witbot any attempt at restraint, but very e: fectually. Open opposition sometime has a bad influence. But if parents wi remove evil papers and books, an quietly substitute those that are gooc they will generally And no trouble wit the reading of their children. In thes days there is an abundance of good liter; ture available, and it can be bougl: r.lmnnlv Thorn is nn fixp.lisfi for a cllll having to go outside of his own horn in search of reading matter. Food fc the mind is quite as necessary as food fc the body, uid it is as much the duty < parents to provide the former as the la ter. Then there will be no temptatioi and no harm can be done to the youtl ful mind." Hints on Archcry. Hundreds and thousands of youn ladies in Detroit have set up a target an drawn the bow, and dozens ana scon of doctors have pulled down their sigr and moved to Toledo since this health out-door amusement was inauguratet Here unci there an arcjier or an arcnei ess obtains printed rules and instructior to guide the came, but the great majorit string up the bow, hang up the targi and whang away without intelligent! The following rules will apply to all an every locality: Don't attempt to hold the bow in hot hands when you shoot. If yotf shoot over the tai get Tower i If you shoot under it have it elevated. When vou miss the target and plow furrow along a boy's scalp tally two, or for the scalp and one for the boy. Either close both eyes or keep bot open when you shoot. Some favor or method some the oilier, but odds is tl difference as long as your father employ a glazier by the month. Don't attempt a curve shot. Tl arrow is as apt to come down on tl baby's head as elsewhere. Some girls squint up one eye and linn out their tongue when they pull the bov This is not absolutely necessary to a lie shot, though it does look romantic. There is no particular distance to 1 observed, but the nearer the target vo stand the more chance Vou have of hi ting some one across the street in tl eye.. A center shot is caJed a "duffer: missin" the target is termed a "lor handhitting the liorse-barn is know as a "phoopee;" missing the barn an shooting your aunt's spectacles off hi nose is called a "Tom-tom;" shootir across a young man's shouider is know as "snuffles:" sitting down and shoo ing backwards over your head is know as "bluffing the game," and holding spy-glass up to get a line shot is calk " mashing the mark."?Detroit Fr< Press. A conccited student in Brown Unive sity once told Dr. Francis Wayland, tl president, that he thought it would 1 easy to make proverbs like those of So omon. The reply of Dr. Wayland wi simply, " Make a few." Penaacola. Fla., Is boasting of ripe fi/ seven and a half inches in ciroumfereno t- He Went Shooting. d At this period of the year the i l- boy is permeated with a violent i |e tion to go gunning. In the aut l- when the trees are robed in scarle 'e gold, and everything is hazy and p the small boy has the samp amb 13 But it is sweeter now to him to in * in shooting, inasmuch as it is unla 18 This, of course, intensifies it. 13 Mr. Barton lias a boy, and his e most name is John. He would r k- go gunning than be president of an i ? ance company. He determined last Saturday, and made all the r 0 sary preparations for a good day's : y In order that his father couldn't >- him home to do odd jobs aroun* d place, he determined to arise uefon one else should awake. He woke up on Saturday mornii five o'clock and commenced to dress self as noiselessly as possible. Aft had got his things on, he moved thr , the hallway on tip-toe, His sho carried in his hand to avoid makin/ sound. Finally, he worked his down .the creaky steps and reachei ? closet in the hall. This was the ars I The old Queen Anne musket lay b( ,e some rolls of oilcloth and zinc and s pipes. It was an awful task to erad ? it without crea ting considerable ra P Every time he would lift it an inch stovepipes would show sympton * rolling around and falling. * At length he had if out, and his S lillliy ajJttllVJLCU. rv 1LI1 u^ll^uv. AAV . cd over to the window, got out 1 thief, and put on his shoes. Th< dodged behind tree, and crawled i * behind the stone wall until he was f a respectable distance from the h p He was about as happy a boy as i f be found when he became satisfied . he was free to do as he pleased fo * balance of the day. " Ah, won't dad be wild," he " menced, as he skipped along towai 7 woods, with a merry twinkle in his * " won't dad be wild when he gets U] I finds I'm gone, and he can't blow n ' either, because be didn't tell me to I home." j* The latter reflection braced Jol ; uj) with the hope that nothing w*u said to him, as he had not been gui! disobedience. He was now two miles from 1] and it must be seven o'clock, brea time, and Johnny thought of th< '' coffee and biscuits with a wat ? mouth. At this moment a robin lit on i ? close by him. In an instant, the mi was leveled at it, and when he p , the trigger he first became aware o j fact that the piece was not los ? Down went his hand into his po ? and up it came empty. He had fo ? ten his ammunition. The look " came over him would bother a cam< ? catch and embalm. He was two i r from home, and his prospects of ge f any breakfast were decidedly slim, j despondency walked up into his fno placed its colors in his soul as lie si marched home. On his arrival h ceived a soul-withering rebuke !o' ' matutinal actions, and then he was ? pelled, on a cold breakfast, to aisii , father in planting potatoes, lie * mentally sick all day, and shoul.l j* shooting surreptitiously again it is ' reasonable to conclude that lie will ',1 ammunition along, even if he loi i>ei ~ gun.?New York Star. n li Sermons by Telephone. f Invalids can remain in their - rooms and hear their favorite mini) e sermon?by telephone. In a chur n Richmond, Va., a transmitter wasp n upon one of the pillars of the puip e most entirely hidden from sign small insulated wire ran down insid pulpit rail and across the angle t stair, up the wainscotting ana i s under the top rail out through a g d hole in the window frame, and tc y top of the parsonage, passing < !- through the ventilator into the cna > of the invalid young lady where ii n attached to the ordinary hand telep y Imperceptibly to all around the e instrument did its work, conveyi d the ear of the patient sufferer the s< e of the well-known voice in the pull S the first time in long years. Of e ;s the reverend doctor was anxioas d ?. the morning sermon, as his thougli > verted to the distant listener, to S3 if she heard, and his pleasure m; i- imagined when he learned that tli t, vice, sermon, prayers, hymns, orga -- singing had been audible to the p for whose comfort the arrangemen been planned. 3- A telephone has beer placed i o Congregational church at Mans f 0'iio, the wires leading to the hou J- several aged and invalid persons. A it temporary in descrilnng it says i e mounts a floral decomtion on the 5- in front of the open platform, when y hardly seen. The speaker pays i it tention whatever to it, yet every f- uttered in the auditorium is easily s in the rooms of the dwellings Mrliic h wires reach. The first message fro d minister was from Scripture: I. word is nigh unto thee;" " His h runneth very swiftly." le _ ft Sabbath ,'Singing at Seaside II d Tea over and the week-day macl: 10 cleared away from the parlors and ,r zas in all the houses, the piano is op r the Cannina Sacra pot out, and 1 " hour or two the whole villnge is with the sober strains of "Haml and " Mear," or the lilting inspirat: "Hold the Fort" and "Pull fo Shore." As music it doesn't touc highest artistic mark, certainly, bul soothing and sympathetic. Thoug missed and stalwart young swells ? for six days a week know little m f but " Conosci il suol" or " Madam 38 got," feel the gentle infection, and 13 who came to sneer remain to y Quaint, isn't it, to sec young Bicep< * arrived with all his blushing Sprm r" honors thick upon him, roaring IS like a sturdy, red-faced, six-foot su 'J dove, and rasping his manly larynx Jt an intractable chromatic, as "he over the book with sweet Nelly i " the daintiest little devotee who eve , ried a poor fellow's thoughts sky wn 11 the wings of earthly sentiment? there is nothing like proximity. I t< won't be the worse for a little vie: devotion; and if Nelly can make a available in "convertible" (or c 10 bonds, why shouldn't she? So n< , your scoftun#, you icsthethic hen n If you don't like the music or the 1(; of it, light your cigarette and t ie stroll down the promenade. By the fS you get back the sjnging will be and tllC crowueil in liiui ie same tide of unsanctified gossif 1C flirtation as on ordinary cvonii Charles Carroll, in Ilarjicr's May >S _____ IT. n Emperor William and His Wi The Empress of Germany wa Emperor William's first love, tli u mands of royalty compelling him t< t- up his attachment for a lovely cou ifi It is commonly believed that the riage has not been in all respects a 1 i" one to the parties most intimately cerned, and that the king and quoei n ferred living apart. The wife d< d herself to the cultivation of art a philanthropic works, and the liu 'g to his state duties. But they havi n happy in their two children, an t- emperor has never followed the n kingly example and insulted his w a making a public parade of his fav< 'd And certainly the devout message ec by William from the field to his during his last and greatest cam gave evidence that at that distan * - TV !. l_ aiietinun wivssnuny. j/uiiiif;iLTnii ie whatever differences may Tiave e: )e have been removed, Knd the re 1- couple hjve lived happily togeth< 13 joying most of all the society of children and grandchildren. Thf press was sixteeen when she whs lb riod, and Is seventeen vearo th< e. peror's iunior.?Bpringfield Union, FARM, GARDEN, AND HOUSEHOI small . imbi- . umn, CfeLEBT Salt.?Save the root of t fc and celery plant, dry and grate it, mixing oetic, with one-third as mucn salt. Keep u ition, bottle well corked, and it. is delicious J duke soups, oysters, gravies or hashes. Dover Cake.?Ono pound of Hot f one of sugar: one-half pound of buttf !?re* six eggs; a glass of sweet milk; one U atner ap00nful 0f soda; two teaspoonfuls nsur- cream tartar; add a little nutmeg. ieces? Lemon Beer.?Put into a keg one g 3tart Ion of water, two sliced lemons, o kee ' tablespoonful of ginger, a scant pint . . " trnnil avinn and nnR half-Dint of vea: ? 'nv twonty-four hours it will be ready! y use. If bottled, the corks must bo ti at down* i?jm_ Apple Fritters.?One pint of sw< pr | " milk, six eggs, flour enough to form ouch stiff" batter, a pinch of salt, half a ti es he 8Poon^ul ?* saleratus, a teaspoonful v cr(!am tartar; then slice some good so 6' * apples rather thin and mix in the batfc i the ^ry *n ^ot 'ar^ browning them nicely lenal ^oth sides. Sauce?a little cream a: 'hind suSar- They are nice made of raisins tove- currant9 instead of apples. Delicious licate ma(*e canned peaches, and the juice a j the peaches well sweetened and pour , tjjg over them when served, for sauce, is of Tongue Soup.?Put a smail tong into a stewpaa, with trimmings of ai eyes bones of fowl or veal, and stew for fo valk hours, removing the scum; take out t ike a tongue, skin ana clean it, and leave it ;n he cooh put back the trimmings and t ilong ro?t. with a carrot, a turnip, a head quite celery and an onion, half a teaspoonf ouse. cayenne, and stew one hour mor :ould then strain the soup, and when cool i that move the fat, and set it ?n to heat, wi r ti.o a turnip and carrot cut in square?, ai two tablespoonfuls of grated tongu com, let it simmer slowly for an hour, ai dthe serve boiled rice. A useful ai , eye> cheap soup. [>and Canned Corn.?To every six quai le up of corn take one ounce of tartaric aci i stay dissolved in boiling water; cut the co from the cob, and put in sufficient wat inny to cook; put the acid in while the co Id be is cooking; when done seal in glass can Ity of to prepare for the table, pour off t! sour water and save it; put enough fre iOme, water to the corn to cook it; for eve kfrust quart of corn add one small tenspoonf ; hot of saleratus, and let it stand a few mi ering utes before cooking; while cooking p in a teaspoonful of sugar; if the co: i tree turns yellow, too much saleratus h usket been used; pour back some of the so ullod water till it turns white again; seas< f the with salt, cream, butter and peppe ided. same as fresh corn. cket, Sour Beef and String Beaks. rgofe- xake six pounds of beef, the brisket i-* * i - al - 1 a. prni.- _ Liiivt ooier, or pin Done is uie neat. lxhc p 3rato bone is the piece which is cut off fii miles before what is known in New York Ming the flatrbone steaks are cut.] Put tl "is in a close stewpan with halt a peck s and string beans, cutting the beans m thr owly pieces;*add half a tumbler of wate e re- season with salt and pepper and dred r his Well with flour; when the beef is h; com- cooked add one-third of a tumbler 3t his vinegar and a tablespoonful of brov was sugar; stir it well, so that the ingra He go ents are well mixed; cook for thr only hours or more very slowly, coveri: take well the stewpan. The art in cookij ts the this dish, as in all boiling or stewin is not to allow it to cook too fast. Shou it boil too rapidly move it to a cool portipn of the range. It should simm sick- al1 theti 7 _ # w The Currant Worm. eh at Mr. M. Hays, Franklin Co., Peni laced Grants to know how to get rid of a gard it, al- enemy whose appearanee at work lie <3 t. A scribes as follows: e the A green worm, size from one in of a down, first came last season, strippii ilong the leaves clean, and this spring tho imlet stripped stalks were dead, root ai > the branch. Another lot not touched Is wmir urn nnw hv t.llPm also t auvrix ? * vy ?? ~r r, mber gooseberries. Tried carbolic soaD su( t was and to-day tried slaked lime, dusting t lione. bushes effectively; can see no differen little aayet. ng to Doubtless the imported currant won mnds (Nematus ventricDsus). It was inti lit for duced, or rather first began to attrf ourse attention in 1857, around Rochester, ! uring Y., though there is good evidence of its re- having been spreading further and ft know ther West ever since, at the rate of abc ly bo twenty-five miles a year, colonizi e ser- wherever it goes, and frequently str n and ping the leaves of the currant and ev erson of the gooseberry in midsummer. T t had parent flies have four transparent winj the lemale being yellowish and the mi n the black. The eggs are attached in ro jfield, along the principal veins on the unc scs of side of the leaves. There are from ti . con- to three broods of the worm annual t sur- the Inst brood passing the winter. I table the most part, in the cocoon which t 5 it is worm spins, on or Deneatn tne suriace io at- the ground. word Much can be done to prevent the i heard juries of this worm by watching for t :li the first leaves that are riddled with hoi m the as when the worms first hatch many "The them remain together on a single le word and may thus be gathered and destroy with ease. The most satisfactory re edv, when the worm has been allowed . . grow, and when hand-picking becom oteis. t00 troublesome and expensive, is to f linery ply white hellebore. Oare should piuz- taken to obtain a pure article, and tened, stand to the Y/indward while dusting for an over the bushes, so as to avoid too mu vocal sneezing, which the inhalation of t Durg" powder is apt to produce. A bag ion of muslin tied to the end of a stick answ< r the very Avell as a duster. The powder mi .?. *1.0 linwnver. be iust as effectually syrine t it is or sprinkled by mixing it with water htless proportions ot one pound of the powc , who to twenty or twenty-five gallons of wat elody The quantity named should not cost mc e An- than half a dollar, and will keep any < those dinary garden clean for a season if th sing, used in solution .? New York Tribune. 5, just Uooseberrlei and CnrrnnU. gfield There is no reason why both tin away very useful fruits should not be fou eking abundantly in every garden. They i with no trouble to raise. They grow read looks from cuttings. Take the wood of 1; 5 , ye.ir, from six to ten inches in lengl r car- prepare the bed or place where they s trd on to stand permanently; force them it But the ground not less than four inch liceps press the dirt firmly around them, mul 1 ' ' '? l T/? _ l irious tliem. and let tnem aione. n :i urusu i him desired let the buds on the cuttings >ther) main; hut if a tree or single stem )ne of preferred,remove all the buds that woi .then! go beneath the surface. Let them sta spirit about three feet in the row; and if th ike a is more than one row, let the rows ! time four feet apart. over In the spring the dead wood of tx h the the gooseberries and currants should i and cut out. and the new growth should igs.? thinned whei e there is too much, a* tizinc. will interfere with the product. 1 best red currant is the Dutch; and f best gooseberries are Downing's Prol and Houghton's Seedling.?Portk -s not Transcript. ie de- ? ntcss. The Serenade. ; m:ir- Young Skinner plays the guitar a tiappy sings songs of his own composition. 1 r con- other evening he visited his lady love n pre- Cottage Hill, and standing beneath vr Jvotes he supposed to be the window, sang: nd to Como, love, come, 9band The moon shines bright; - 1 n S UITI1 V/umoj xv>*wiMv, d the Be my queen ol night! usual T. . . . ifobv List to my ky, iritos " As Bottl>*'8,nK5 ; List to me, prny, ? S(7j^ Love's gift I bring! paicn The window above was softly opei ce his ant^ a ^C?P ^ss voice sang: ; years Clour out, clear, xisted The moon siines bright; vered Gir- foo,? Kil> Oi we'll hare a flrjht. ?r, en- n their List to my lay, ! fm- And flon't stop to sing, mar- Or I'll lot loose the dog, ! em- And thn shotgun bring. i "Oil CVy Dtrricl iD Footsteps at the Door. As we know familiar roioes, Every iiear and dear one's call, he 1 Coming through the silent chamber , it ,< Waking echoes in the hall; So with instinct all unerring, Ever strengthening, more and more. |r. We can read the varied language !r.' Of the footsteps at the door! ^ Grandpa's ialtering tread, now hearj With the weight of frnillnl years, "N'Aftn'ncr vonder crolden eity? ne . Almost through this vale of tears: of Steadiast lent that never loitered, St. Bravely going on Wore; By-ond-bye we'll miss their mnsioPrecious ioot#tep?ittho door. I JCt Then the patter of the children, a Happy darlings! oat and in, '* T.fke the butterflies and sunbeams, jjj. With no though* of ctoe or?ia! jr. Little lect thaf need sure guiding . * on Past the pit&IW on the shore, ; tld Lest tbey turn aside to miaohipl: , .. Blessed looteteps at the door! of Then the matron; glad toil olioery, .,7 . f_ ed Heara her good man drawing nigh ; 17 And the children hear the mother ,, ue As her bnay footsteps fly; ^ Household mosic! We all hear it! |je While we love it more and more, to And we hope to welcome with it he Angel footsteps at the door! Of ' ? ITEMS OF IMPREST.""^ ! . e. ' American women eat more candy than 3(1 all the other women in the world. e. "Sweets to the sweet." ? Chicago 1(j Journal. ad Gen. Walker, who is to superintend the United States census of 1880, esti ts mate^that the population will be t?. d, tween forty-sixandfortY-seven million*, rn i General Ewing was private secretazy er to President Tyler at the same tim? his rn father, Thomas lowing, Sr, was JSecres; tary of the Traisury. Another member he of Congress, Whlttnorne, of Tcnneaaet, sh was private secretary to President Polk ry tub mosquito. ,. ul Baz-z-z-z-zip! Buz-buz-z-z-zip! n- Then we chase aroand the room, nt Bark onr shins up in tho (doom . ! rn To build that insect's tomb as With a loaded pQlow.sIip. UT Bnt how vain is our endeavor, More uncertain than the weather, r. For we hit him " hardly ever" ' ' ' (Forgive as), K J And back he comes npon oar blood to sip^: ' ?Wheeling Leader. Talk of the bravery of the sterner sgx! Do you remember the first time yob * r: asked her, "Will you take my aim?" While you trembled all over like the < narrative of a stump-tail dog and experiee enced the sensation of having swallowed your Adam's apple, what did she doP ' Why, she took your ann as coolly ias she ? f would eat a pickle.?Boston Transcript of There is a story?first told at^nub^c rn dinner of English horticulturists?of a , ii- gentleman who had such "floral zeal, ee that, though he stumbled and broke u ag leg in alighting from his carriage^ a ng show to which he was a contributor, he g. not only petsisted in superintending the Id staging 01 his flowers, but afterward tier mamea in the vicinity of the building r for tliree hours, without consulting a doctor, until the judges' awards were known. 4' Here,'1 as Victor Hugo wouli say, " was heroism enough to gfld a cen* ? ury."' P. S.?It was a wooden leg. en _ r" ' A Painful Scene. cli Yesterday morning while seven oi a~ eight old and reliable citizens were hold,Se ing down chairs and boxes in a MickiQd gan avenue grocerv and umurimoualy wt agreeing that this was the greatest cquu* he try on earth, a stranger entered and saiu: jSj " Gentlemen, 1 suppose you are l&uiuIje iar with politics?" ce " We are," they replied in chorus. " And you know all about the fundam mental principles of liberty?11 ? "We do." :;;t: tct " Well, I'm glad on it, for I've made a NT. bet with a feller back here as to how the its reading of the Constitution begins. One ir- of you just write me down the first ten )Ut words. ng While he felt for a stub of a pencil, ip. every man began scratching his. head and en cautiously eyeing his neighbor. One lie began muttering: "Now I lay me?tn rg. and a second said something about ile " Resolved," and a third wrote on the too of a cracker box: " On motion, it |er was voted tliht?that?" There was a )V0 great deal of coughing and sneezing and lv nose blowing, when a boy came in and for said that the stranger's horse had run j,c away. He rushed out, and seven faces 0f brightened up and smiled, and seven men. took fresh chews of tobacco and jn. tried not to look too important when the l,e grocer said: ex, "The Constitution? Why, every one of of you can repeat it by heart with your ;vf. eyes shut?of course you can."?Detroit ed Fre* Press. i ' ^ A Plague of Loensts. lCo The Georgian town of Jelizawetpol, near Tiflis.has suffered a plague of locusts be | almost as bad as that which afflicted to Egypt in the days of Moses. The insects it invaded the town in such numbers that / ch the merchants had to shut up their.shops, lie ."ind walking about the street was exeeedof ingly difficult. The Russian authorities ?vs ordered the inhabitants to make a united iy, effort to kill the pests, but the generous ed people refused, believing it a sin to de in stroy a locust, until the authorities lor threatened to punish every householder er. who failed to deliver daily a given weight " fk/? nnnolo worn HIipH Wlf.ll )re 1USWW>? X UC uuiuia. iv*v .. )r_ locusts, so that water tor drinking and *' us washingcould only be obtained by strain-' 7^ ing. The houses swarmed with the creatures, and many fami lies went a week * cse without bread because their ovens were n(j literally filled with them. They tried ire in vain to drive the locusts away by j]y lighting holy candles and burning Incense. The Arminian priests regarded jj. the plague as a visitation of God, and irg brought from a neighboring town the lto bones of Jacob, which they carried es through the streets of the afflicted city [c]j in procession, fairly wading through 1 jg masses of dead and living locusts as they re_ marched along with the relics of the t jg patriarch. The energetic measures taken by the police finally abated the evil, but ncj not until the gardens, orchards and vincere yards had been stripped bare, an*1 th t,e people had suffered for more tli:Mi a week. ^ The Position of Agricnltarc. be In his essay on "Farming," Emerson , writes: "The glory of the farmer is jjp thift, in the division of labors, it is his the P^rtto create. All trade rests at last on ;gc his primitive activity. He stands close l}Ul to nature. He obtains from the earth * the bread and the meat. The food which was not, he causes to be. The first ? ^ n k: . farmer was tlie nrst man; ann nu motoric nobility rests on possession and ,nd uee of land. Men do not like hard work, ?he but every man has an exceptional respert on for tillage, and a feeling that this is the hat original calling of his race?that he himself is only excused from it by some circumstances which made him delegate; it for a time to other hands. If he have not some skill which recommends him to the farmer, some product for which the farmer will give him corn, he must himself return into his due place among the planters. And the profession has in all eyes its ancient charm, :is standing nean stto God, the first cause." If agri" * lAtt letl culture reany occupies um amongthe industries, how important it is for the farmer to show proper respect for his calling, by doing his work in the best manner, by employing the best methods, by making use of all that science and experience teach, in orth.-r that he may reap the greatest possible results, and thereby compel people in other callings to believe wliat Eairtuon In ' ays of tbl? one. " ' * 1 i