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^ , ' ' ' ABBEMIJ E PRESS AND BANNER. 1 BY HUGH WILSON AND H. T. WARDLAW. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1881. NO. 9. VOLUME XXVI. Advice. "I must do as you do'/"?your way, I own xs a very good way; and stiii There are s.nuictimcj two straight nuds to town? Ouo over, one under the hill. Von arc treading the sale and well-won: way That the prudent choose each time, And you think me reckless and rash to-day Because 1 prefer to climb. Your path is the right one, and so is mine, Tr? i;i.? i! u tfci o uui iiac pvao 111 a Compelled to lie iu a certain line Or else be scattered abroad. Twere a dull world, methinks, niv friend, If wo all went just one way, Vet our paths will meet 110 doubt at the end, Though they lead apart to-day. You like the shade and I like the sun: You like an even pace; I like to mis with the throng and run, Aud then rest after the race. I like danger and storm and strife; You like a peaceful time, I like passion and surge of life; You like its gentle rhyme. You like buttercups, dewy feweet, And crocuses, framed in snow; I like the roses, born of the heat, And the red carnations' glow. I must live my life, not yours, my friend, For so it was written down. We must follow our given path to the end, But I trudt we shall meet?in town. GRACES DESK. Margaret looked up from Iier sewic machine for a minute to glance aero; the room at the quiet little figure si ting at the window?a round, gracefi little figure, whose attitude of though ful gravity was full of suggestion. And then Margaret, always more c less crusty, but kind-hearted, gave a impatient sigh and increased the spec of her machine by a savage motion c her slippered feet", and compressed he lips and puckered her fc rehead all u in a perfect nest of wrinkles; whil Grace, unconscious of it, sat lookin out of the window at the gloomy prof pect?half-melted, dirty, slushy-brow snow that was rapidly growing slushie and more melted under the drizzlin rain that was falling ; and, of coursi thinking about Laurie Marcellus. For several months Grace had nc thought of much else but him, and ye there had not been an hour or a mc ment of that time that she had not trie not to think of him and grieve for hiir It had been very similar to the sam old story. Laurie "Marcellus, handsome elegant, aristocratic, fairly vrell-to-do i: ^'> Anii?wA^A?% Af vinliao l->n, liiu wunu a CdlUUUliuu \jx uwuoo, uui been Grace Warrener's most devoted fo several months, until by one of thos venomous waves of fortune's wand socia position and wealfh had suddenly van ished, and the Warrener girls foum themselves obliged to take in dress making for a living. Friends who had always been friends . who redeemed the dear name, who kne\ them for what they were worth, did no desert them ; but first and foremost ii the ranks of those who so convenient!; preferred to dispense with tlie societ; of the two dressmakers who lived ii Appledore row was Mr. Laurie Marcel Iub. He had dropped out of Grace's life a; ' a brilliant comet disappears from thi sky. He had called one evening, th< same as ever, with the sweet, caressing tenderness in his voice?the glad, eage] light in liis nanasome eyes?mat macu the girl's heart spring within her; anc ?she had never seen him since no] heard from him. That very next day the crash came, throngh which the great spice honse oJ "Warrener <fc Gray suspended; and ? month later Caleb Warrener died with apoplexy, and as soon as decency per mitted the splendid mansion and furniture, the horses and carriages, the silver and jewels, all were sold under tht red flag. Margaret came grandly to the fore ir those dark days, when her keenest griei was to witness little Grace's dismay and astonishment and suffering at Laurie Marcellus' defection; and yet her word.1 were usually more bitter and sarcastic than gentle?it was Margaret Warrener's way to use heroic treatment. " He's not worth the everlasting fuss you make about him, Grace." I'*ac ashamed of you?downright ashamed and he not yonrbetrothed, either!" That, was true. ko far as formal word? went. Laurie Marceljus had nevei asked Grace Warrener to be his wife he hid never in so many words told hei he'loved her; bnt he had known ju^t as well as he had known ho was alive hov? the girl's, heart was till his own?how she loved him dearly find truly, for all her sweet reserve. Grace smiled faintly when Margarel spoke of the "fuss" she made about him. She knew well enough that the "fuss" was only her grave, sad face her quiet ways, her listless manner that she tried desperately hard to con quer, and in all the months that hac passed had not succeeded, and seemet no nearer succeeding than in the be ginning?so nearly hopeless a task is il for a woman to conquer thoughts anc heartsick longings for the man sh< loves. Pride and shame may do valiani f ?? ??? VT* on/ UUIL1U 1U1 111U UCIU1J, l^liUV ULiC shame are baby foes in comparison wit! the giant they oppose?woman's strong enduring love for her chosen beloved And 60 the dreary time went on foi Grace, and by steady, persistent effort she disallowed herself to be dull oj complaining, or a kill-joy. She reso lately determined to at least be cheerful and patient outwardly, no mnttei what the inward commotion. And today?this cheerless January day?slit had only given a momentary rein to hei thoughts, enough to make her lay do we her sewing and lean her head againsi the window, ami wish she might novel have known 'the sweetness of Laurie Marcellus' love. Until the unusual whirring of the sewing machine wheel made her aware that Margaret had observed her and wa? displeased. So, with a little, desperate effort, she forced herself back to the basting of tho satin fold in her work. "I was thinking about that auctior sale at Dempsey's to-night," Margaret said; almost crossly. "You want ? desk, you said, and Maggie Rich says there's a very good one to be sold there I'll go and bid on it for you, I think, i. I ever under tho sun get these band: stitched on! It seems to me that those Rich girls are not happy unless theii dresses are absolutely loaded with trim ming." Grace looked up, with such sweet sweet eyes?it was no wonder handsomi Marcelius had liked to look into tin pure brown wells of limpid light. "You are so good, Margaret! I d< want a desk, if you are sure you cai afford it." "You needn't say if I can afford it (trace. You have as much right to th< money as I have. I'm going to bu; myself a cashmere polonaise?yon cai have the desk if it is reasonable ii price." So that was how MissWarrener cam* to be at the auction sale at the bij house on the hill that evening?Demp sey's grand mausion, whose prince hat taken a whim to sell out and spend i few years abroad. And the next day tho desk was deliv ered at the cottage in Appledore rcn and Grace put it in her room?a small beautiful Rrticle, standing nicely in cozy corner, and just the very thing fo Grace's few books and her stationery. It was very handsome, and Grac cried a little over it, because it brougli back so many thoughts of the dear ol days when she was surrounded by jus such elegancies of furniture, and whe ?everything seemed, somehow, to lea to that one pivotal thought?when La: rie Marcellus had been her friend. So the months went on, and the tw sister* led their, busy life, and Grace wi growing sweeter and paler, and moi putiently thoughtful, with every da .that widened the distance between hi and her memories. New friends gathered around themtrne friends?and there was more tha one opportunity for Grace to ha1 f accepted n lover, only she hail no love ' to give, no heart to win. | Her happiest and her saddest hours 1 (i j were spent at her desk, or it seemed to I her that it was like a link to the past; ' and one windy, wildly-stormy night, ! five years after she had taken up her 1 cross, for Laurie Marcellus' sake, she , 1 was sitting before her desk making ( j out a score of bills to the "Misses f I Warrener, artist dressmakers,"andgoing ( ' back to one other stormy, snowy night, j j j when she had said the good-night that. ( . mean good-bye, although she had not ] j known it. i. She was leaning her head on her ( j hands, her elbow resting on the slaut of f her desk, when, with a little crushing ^ noise, it broke, revealing a shallow} aperture, of whose existence she had not s " 1* 1 I 1? 1 C iLie sngutest kuuh Sho looked in, and all the blood in r her body seemed to rnsh madly to her brain; for there, lying in the little j secret place, fresh and clean, as though ^ laid there an hour before, was a letter, stamped for mailing, and directed c plainly to herself?"Grace Warrcner, , c The Willows," and?in Laurie Mar- 8 cellus' handwriting. r She dared not touch it for a minute. ; , She feared she was in the midst of some -j I improbable dream ; she wondered if it v wfre nossiblo she had gone suddenly c j daft. 1 ~ " i j Was it a letter?to lier?from liim?[ j, I But how?liow could it have got there, i a ! when the desk had been locked, in her ! c" room, for years? j Then she touched it, half expecting | to see it vanish before her eyes. But 2 i it did not vanish; it was all true? t ? : a letter, for her, from him, and it had n laid there all these years, so near, so R t- far! it: She sank trembling on the chair and v opened it?Lanrio Marcellus' proposal *n of marriage; his avowal of love; his a >r manly sympa'hy and pitiful tenderness 0 n J because of her father's financial trou- j ^ (| ble ; his caressing pleading to be al- f( ,? lowed to comfort and protect her as his \ c ,r wife should be comforted and protected ^ and cherished. Ho begged for an im-1 ^ q mediate answer, and he would come to j a ^ j her at once if she_loved him and did 1 g ? i not say him nay. iJnt it?it tnere was ? _ j no such blessed answer for liim?if he a ,r j had been presumptuously mistaken? 0 ? j her greatest kindness would be not to ^ answer him at all. '*! And she had just received it, after jj j five years. ^ a. ,f J Poor little Grace! Whito and trem- j? j. | bling, amazed and bewildered, she sat n (] i there long after Margaret bad gone to p . ; her own room, so unconscious of the h ^ drama enacting so near ber. a , i He bad loved ber?be bad loved her al q : after all ; and Grace's heart thrilled at 0 c]! that thought, slender though the cou- C( t' solation was e | She thought of it all, keeping virgil \ ~ 11 with her thoughts that night. How the g( _ ; letter had ever come in that desk she a] j : had bought at Dcmpsey's, she dared not pl . I imagine. Grace only realized that some ^ i tremendous fate had discovered ittolica. eJ , j She kept her strange, sweet, pitiful r? y I secret in her own heart for days, wont! dering with every hour if she could dare m j : take a step in the matter. i ^ 7' And then, one day, the auctioneer m ~ i who bad sold the desk to Margaret War- j1( 1 j lener went to her and told her that a (jj . I gentleman wiio baa just returnea irom 0I 1 Europe desired to regain possession of m s 1 the desk sold at Mr. Dempsey's cnotion, 31 as it had been a gift to Mr. Dempsey m j {from himself, on the eve of his depart- ^ r I ure abroad, live years before. And w r J Grace listened with dilating eyes and ; i throbbing heart, whose beats almost (|, j' choked her utterance. J "Tell the gentleman to call hero and j, ! he may have his property." And that evening, when she went to st [ j the door at the sound of the bell, and j0 11 ojiened it, with her face slightly paler w . ' than usual, Laurie Marcellus stood n* . | there. JJ .! "I expected you?come in,"she said, ^ . j gently, while amazed and bewildered he c0 ?! could" only bow and obey. ; Then she explained : then he remem- re 11 beied leaving the letter in the desk, and w] p J understood now, i>y accident?imy, uy jK [ ' grim fate?the slant was not fastened fc } ' and the letter bad slipped into its living ^ j! grave to be resurrected after all these {.0 ' | years. j . ;! "I do not know tbat I should tell ! you even now," she said, bravely, "for . 11 do not know whether you are?are the J same or not. But," and she looked up \is grand face, " I want you to know G1, ' 11 did love you." vt }: He stepped up to her, quietly enough i p( .! for the minute. "And now?" SE ! J "I am Grace Warrener still." pa . ! And then he snatched her in his arms, or , | held her to his heart, kissed her sweet, r | paie nice. u I! "I never Lave once thought of another ^ j woman, my darling. When no answer jn . | camo I was crushed to the very eaath, I; and got myself away as well as I could ur ^ So you are my darling yet, Grace ?" And then Margaret came in, half an ^.( ' hour afterward, in surprise that the gen- n( [ tleman required so much time to make ^ j a bargain for the desk. ^ 1 i ? ???? te Learn a Trade. t 1 Si I , One of tho many false notions which fu } j the rapid increase of civilization iu our t country has given rise to is the mistaken [ i idea, so prevalent among our boys and t : young men, that to learn a trade is bej neath the dignity of a gentleman. 1 [ heard a young man the other day ex- O r 1 pressing his views on the subject to au O: I; elder. He was the son of a dry goods m , clerk in moderate circumstances, and M .1 he had no means of accumulating wealth w] . other than by his own efforts. The Iv . elder was one of Pittsburg's wealthiest in . j iron merchants ; a man who had risen lo . i to his present position from tho anvil (w of a Muck smith, in the mill which he m | now controls. w! ; "Mr. Blank," said theyounir man, l,I dc wish to present au application for a po- fu (I sition as clerk in your ollice." or ' "Well. Mr. Smith," replied the mer- w! ; chant, "I have no vacancies in my ollice of I' at present, but I can offer you a situa- j zo , tion ;is apprentice in our machine shop nt }; if you wish to accept it.'" sn > The young man's nose was elevated a th i trifle as he replied in a t upercilious ar ,,tone: hi j i "I would not feel that I was doing to jj myself justice in learning a trade, as I T1 } I hope to make my way up the ladder by bi _ J mental abilities, ratlier than by pliysi- a j1 cal exertions." ' Jc ^ The merchant dismissed him without ui j! further ado, and tumiug to me, said : "1 r "When will the average boy learn hi .! that a trade is worth more to him than sc | all the clerkships in Christendom ?" w Returning home in the evening I se a ; pondered over his words. I was but a b< 3 j clerk myself. Was his remark really G i true? I looked around me; I had a tl 3 1 comfortable house, but the house which n< 1 '< I occupied was a rented one, and cost a m i large percentage of my salary as rental, m i Thinking over some few of my old w p j friends, I made the following memor- b] ,,; anduhi: One of my schoolmates had, 2 i on leaving school fifteen years before, j ! learned 6hoemaking. He now owns his ' own home, besides being proprietor of e a shoe store in which another school- ^ ? mate (who was too proud to learn a p . trade) clerks at a salary of S500 a year. ^ 1 I My own employer and myself had ... a i gone over our arithmetic and algebra | together, and I was considered the w j smarter of the two; but he learned a , | trade, and I urn now his clerk, at a sala- ^ I* j ry which is a small percentage of his r? a own earnings. r Boys, give up your false pride in this ? matter. You are standing in your own js e light. None of your acquaintances will lt think less of you if you come home with j d sooty hands and face from honest toil. ! No one will think less of you for earnn ing your wages at the blacksmith's fire I1 d or the carpenter's bench than they would were you a clerk in a bank, and v 1 spent all your money on your clothes. a ,Q But, if you are determined to be a clerk, 5 lP learn a trade first, and learn it well, for fj ro the time may come when you will need i f it badly.? Wavsrly Magazine. ?r " ; h The Dallas Herald estimates that j j ? there are in Texas 6,000,000 head of s m cattle, 2,000,000 head of horses and' c re 4,000,000 head of sheep. i j ? L TRICKS SMUGGLERS 1'LAY. [>Inmoiitlx lllil In Diiii'Ii CIicct, nnil r-IIIix , in llali'N of IIuph?SiisccplibU" CiimIoiiih ' Inspector* who ^ icl?I lo AViiiihui'n Wilrtt ((iipit K?TcptiicU-H (or S hi it u c led C'imi rt ?A C'Iiiim' attrr n Cofliu. " There is no end to the menus smugglers employ in their business," one of lie oldest custom house inspectors ;aid. "I have known them to bring liamonds from Holland nicely packed j n tlie center 01 me ceieunueu nn-t-nu >f that country, and silverware, silks, j aces and diamonds from England jacked in bales of hops. Laces and liamonds have also been brought into his country tightly packed in thecencr of iron tubing. " What poods can be most easily ; imuggled ?" "Laces and diamonds. There is j lothing that occupies less space than hey do. They can easily be concealed , 11 ifulso shoe soles and heels and in ' vigs. Notice of the sailing of smug-j jlers from the other side is often re- i eived here. Tn such cases they seldom ; ivade having their stuff confiscated on , .rriving here. Tlie professional, as a ule, has a confederate, who is ready to j ump aboard at the first opporhmifcy. I The two meet, go to the stateroom, and j rhile they are to all appearances eil'u-! ' ively showing their gladness at meet-1 ng each other again, one is passing j aces or diamonds to the ether. Jt is s often done while surrounded by a ; rowd." j 1 " Who are the best smugglers?" " Women as a general thing. Why? i : Jecause the manner in which they clothe j 1 hemselves enables them to conceal i ! aany things from the most Argus-eyed i1 oovfhor hopnimp tlipv pan call tears to i heir aid at will, and tears, as perhaps ! ' ou know, are a mighty powerful argu- 1 lent with men, and, for that matter, J( Iso with women ; because they are frill |! f blandishments and taking little ways, j ( hich, particularly if they are pretty, a i ' 2llow with any kind of a soft heart I 1 an't resist. Now, just you take a 1 andsome woman, handsomely dressed, J ( ith fascinating conversational powers 1 1 nd manners. By Jove! if she doesn't j 1 et the best of a male inspector I'll ! * ive it up. She'll first deny she has 1 ny contraband goods, and play sweet f n him. If he proves obdurate, and, f >r example, insists on examining her ; 1 :unks, she'll begin to cry, assert her 11 inocence of anything at all underhand, J 1 nd tell him how* distressing it is for a j f uly to be subjected to such an indig- j * ity. What does ho do ? It all de- j ( ends upon the man. If ho is hard- j ( earted and insensible to the charms of :f woman lie will proceed with his ex- ! f mination of her luggage, and turn hor ' ( rer to a female searchor. If he is sus- 1 * ;ptible the fair one will gain her point. ,N "Cigar smugglers are troublesome. A 1 reat deal of ingenuity was displayed , >me ten years ago by some profession- j 1 ? T mnnflrred to catch. One day what I ( urported to bo a dead body was re-;1 loved from one of tlie Havana steam- j E s. It was stated that the dead man's ; * datives were Americans, and desiring 1 * > have him buried here, had gone to j ( uch expense in having the body i * rought to this country. This state- jr ent was made by one of two men who ' I id the body in charge. I have a splen- j ; id memory for faces, and I recognized 1 n ie of the two?or thought I did?as a j 1 an I had caught smuggling cigars ; ^ )out live years before. At any rate, i ? y suspicions were aroused. I came to j * ie conclusion there was something (* rong about tho body. When an un- < * jrtaker'a wagon containing the body , v ove away from the wharf I jumped ; to a cab and followed it, directing the I * iver to keep it in sight, but to drive ' ght past it when it came to a final j fl op. The cabman had dono such work I c r me before, and knew just what was I * mted of him. Tho wagon pulled up fi a house in Greenwich street. The ! " >dy was taken into tho house, and 1! a ove down to the custom house. Ac- R nipanied by two inspectors, I returned j s the house within two hours. Wo first: ? presented ourselves as health officers, i * jo had heard there was a man in the 0 >use whe had died in Havana of yellow I a ver. They said it was untrue, that no . c id died of h art disease, and refused ' s. allow us to examine the body. Then ' y told the two smugglers that we were jf vernment officials, showing my badge, , id that I believed the coffin was {jacked 1: 11 of cigars. They finally caved in , "Another ingenious ruse was discov- o ed a few years ago. As I presume ? >u know, cedar is quite largely im-1 i< jrted from Cuba. Small-sized logs I s this wood were procured by the I rj augglers, which they sawed, or had ; n wed, into boards, leaving, however, j d ie end of the logs uncut, so that the 1t! anks were carefully removed, leaving n hollow space. Thi3 space was filled f] ith the finest kinds of cigars packed b boxes, and the logs then carefully n ?d together, giving them the appear- t ice usual to cigar-box lumber sawed j n rn?n nnturn of this rrdnr I n tLf piauiva. JLJJV, *??**? >. ?? *_, Dulcl not have been discovered had it i p )t been that while being removed from j n o vessel here one of tho logs was ; b rown heavily on the pier and its con-1 1] nts dislodged. If I remember cor- I n ctly there were lifty such packages, j lj nee then inspectors have always care- j b ] Iy examined Cuban cedar imported i n such a shape."?2VW York Huu. [ n ? - ; ii A Mistake of St. Matthew. , e A correspondent of the Cincinnati! F man ercoil says: In looking over the! 1 sford edition of the revised New Testa- ! ,, ent, I see that in the Book of St. j , attliew it reads that Jonah was in the j halo's belly, etc*. The same is in the ! ing James' version, which says also, | , the Book of Jonah, that he was swal-; wed bv a great lisli. Webster says | ' hat we all knowj that a whalo is a j 'I arine animal, and notatish. Besides, i ? liales do not live in that latitude, and ! ) not swallow their food alive, like a j >h. The Berline whalo subsists chiefly , , i a small jelly iish, or red substance, iiich floats 011 the surface of the waters ' the northern portion of the frigid ' iue, and cannot swallow the smallest ; x >h alive, but if obliged to subsist 011 i nail fish iills its capacious mouth with j em and retains them there till tliev e jellified, when he swallows them at ! ? s leisure. The sperm whale, I am ! v Id, chews its food like a wolf or bear. : ^ lie miracles were all performed, I lieve, through natural agencies, and ! j whale could not swallow a man. ! )cali says he was swallowed by a lisli, ; j, id he ought to have known, for he i jad been there." Prof. Stowo says in j s writings that in tho original manu-: , ript of the whole Bible there is no ^ ord that can be translated whale, con-! j iquently Matthew could not have j ?en mistaken, as he spoke the word of od, and the mistake must have been in j j le'translation. If the translators for the } 2W version of the New Testament are j ' istaken?and if they have mado one ? istake they must have made more? ' hy is the new version any more jelia- 0 le than the King James' version ? " i \ Is Horseshoeing Useless.' : ? A recent issue of J'raw's Magazine \ fl mlains an article by Sir George \V. ! I1 ox, in which he estimates that the ' nglish custom of horseshoeing costs . 1 le nation annually as much as $45,000,-1 )0, which might be saved if the horses ere allowed to go unshod. He quotes ithorities from Xenophon,who marche " is horses unshod from Cunaxa over the * rmenia Highlands to the walls of 1 rebizond, down to tho " free lanciers " i * f the present day, and contends that it 1 i safer, cheaper and better to let the I ' orses go unshod over the hardest roads, ' d especially in the slippery streets in , iondon. He estimates that over twelve i lillion dollars would bo saved in the !l. irriers' bills alone; and he calculates j irther that the working life of a horse ' . ould be trebled by the change, so that horse whic is dow worn out at twelve ! ears would live to twenty-six. The igures seem somewhat startling and 1 lave hardly been sufficiently proved to 1 >6 trustworthy. Meanwhile, it is said ' hat a medical man in Waterbury, Conn., 1 las not put shoes on his horses for two ears, driving them winter, summer, pring and autumn with bare feet with- i >ut any tronble. The doctor's theory ! 8 that nature has provided for the' horse ; that a horse can travel over all kinds of roads ; that the hoof will be moist, and that the frog coming to the ground keeps the hoof properly spread, and free from founder and other disease Texas Pasture Fields. A correspondent in the Baltimore American, who is visiting tho immense caltle pastures, describes a visit to the one of these, the Fulton and Coleman Companies' grazing lands in Texas. "We left Fulton after an early breakfast, on the morning of the 31st of May, ami were soon out on tho open prairie, approaching the lands of tho Peninsula Pasture Company, which are but a short distance from liockport. There were but six in our party, four of whom were ladies, with Col. George W. Fnlton as pilot. Fiiffht miles from lioekport wo passed through tho gates of tho Big Pasture of the Coleman-Fulton Pasture Company, and entered on its broad domain of 1(JS,000 acros, or 20(j square miles, of what, is regarded as the veiy best pasture land in Texas. "We were to stop at the ranch, the herdsmen's headquarters, ten miles from the gate, for dinner, and to rest horses, and afterwards to continue our journey to Mr. Coleman's mansion, eleven miles further on?making twenty-one miles from the gate to (he house. " "When fairly on our journey inside of tho Big Pasture, on casting the eye around, the horizon was seen to be as sharply defined in even* direction as it is at sea. There Mere a few small motts t)f live-oak trees, and some scattered rattle browsing on the plain, but nothing else, not even fences, obstructed the new. By tho nnpracticed eye there ! was really 110 road to be seen, out uuring this and subsequent drives both \ olonel Fulton and Mr. Coleman seemed to know every cowpath. These ! lowpaths are made by the cattle going i 'o the lakes for water, as on such occa-' ;ions they always walk in single tile, j md pursue the same course day after lay. This was the case before ^he new | pasture system was adopted, when an instinct seemed to guide the cattle in j he pursuit of water. Then there were j 10 artificial lakes, with tho winter rains | stored in them for the use of the cattle, is is now the case, and it often hap-j iened that the distance between water ind tho grazing grounds was twenty I niles or more. In a dry season thou-! >ands of them would die from burning hirst, and leave their bones along the ; ?ow-tracks, or, on reaching the water, Irink to such excess that death was j lure to follow. Now there are five or j six of these lakes on this gfreat pasture, j >ne of them three miles in length and j rom fifty to five hundred yards in width, vhile the Chiltopin river forms its, lorthern boundary. "Tho Coleman-Fulton Pasture Com-, lany's lands are by careful estimate 'nrvnlila nf snstnininrr n.t, nil seasons of he year about 35,000 bead of cattle incl horses, though at the present time \ hero is not more than half this number i here. During the past year the stock )f cattle was reduced to about one-half he full complement, and the grass i illowed to renew itself by seeding. The lastures are consequently now covered rith a heavy coat of niesquito grass, ind tho company are filling up the . matures with cattle purchased from Pexas and largely from Mexico. During mr sojourn a lot of 2,000 head arrived rom Mexico, and a despatch announced hat 4.000 head more, purchased by heir agents at $6, $9 and $12 per he:id, rere on their way, this price including heir delivery in good order in the pasure. When they arrive the beeves will >e fattened, and shipped to New Orleans .s soon as in condition for market, the ows will be driven to the Bararla lms ure of 39,000 acres, used for breeding ] graded stock, and the male yearlings Iriven to the Big Pasture of 105,000 ores, which is devoted to beeves and 1 took for the market. The sorting and eparating of the cattle requiro experinco and good judgment, and a vast ore? of men and horses. The prospects f the company were never so good as t present, they having just declared a ash dividend of -t per cent, for the past ix months, while they are veiy confi- . !ent of increasing it to 12 per cent, per , nr.nm. tig Water on the Mississippi in 1S44. , The following is taken from an artic le n the " Levees of the Mississippi," in j Icribner: Lifu in the Mississippi swamp i unique, but perhaps never so much j 0 as during that memorable summer, .'he shallowest water, for indefinite 1;? llllfil ill tuiui;tiuii) c>*^ icou eep, the nearest land, the " Hills of | be Arkansaw," thirty miles away. Tlie lules wero quartered on the uppsr j ;oorof the gin-liouse; the cattle had een all drowned long ago; planter, egroes and overseer were confined in heir respective domiciles; the gristlill was under water, and there was no , iea^s?f preparing corn for culinary lurposes except a wooden hominy- : lortar. Tho hog-ani-liominy diet (so lighly extolled by some people who ave never lived on it) was adopted of1 ecessity, the former being represented y mess pork, Salter than tongue can 1 nil. There were no visitors, except ow and then a sociable snake, which o doubt bored by swimming around indefinitely in the overflow, and craving ven human companionship, would , ;lide up on tho gallery cf some of the ; louses. There was no means of loco- ' notion except the skiff and the humble mt ever-serviceable dug-out?nowhere o go and nobody within a day's jour- j iey otherwise or more comfortably sit- j lated. The only sense of sympathy i rom without was had from remote and ! nfrequent glimpses of the gallant1 teamer J. M. White, which, leaping ; rom point to point, mado better time rom New Orleans to St. Louis thau was verroade before or many years after. That year nineteen plantations out of wenty failed to produce a single pound f cotton or a single bushel of coru, and >hen the flood was over and the stvamp MJilllO UttUlU *.*UU \JX Kii.ii i j rks, they were, to say the least, :tual- i ontent. They were not mined, of ourse, Init they had Inst a whole year's j jross income. Moreover, the prestige if the swamp as a cotton country was ! rofully diminished. The planters in ho " hills," as the uplands aro de-1 lominated, began to hold up their i leads, no longer overcrowded by the ex- < raordinary crops alleged to have be< n leretofore produced in the swamp. The swamp planters set to work to i edeem the disaster, and to provide, as j ar 'is possible, against its recurrence. 1 Vith the purpose of retrieving their inancial fortunes they took some unique aeasures. There is a tradition that, at , public meeting held in Greenville, tliss., in October, 1841, among other i nore commonplace resolutions, one was jravely and unanimously adopted to he ell'ect that a demand of payment vithin twelve months from that date of I ny debt, great or small, upon any >lanter who had been overflowed that 'ear, should be considered distinctly ' personal' ?a clear caso for pistols ;ud coffee. The code was certainly i curious institution, but probably -his ! s the only instance in which it was exacted to do duty as a stay-law. Chinese merchants in other lands than Jhina seldom figure among bankrupts. : Phe recent failure of Hop Ili k Co., a; irm in New South Wales, with liabili- : ies of over fifty thousand dollars, there- j ore occasioned much surprise in trade lircles there. To American ears the irm name suggests the firm's present :ondition, it being a sort of equivah-nt or the commercial phrase " going up." | flie information at hand does not afford in answer to the question whether the Jhineso in Australia ha\o yet learned low to become wealthy through financial failures. If the men were as silent about, their iges as the women we shouldn't hear so tuany army reminiscences as we now do. ! The ladies aro worthy of being patterned after in this regard. A lady resident of Buckingham Co.,Va., gave birth to twins,.one of whom was born with a full set of teeth?both upper and lower. t - HOW TO LIVE IN SUMMER. a j Some Jiidicioun Advice from nn Authority p It is as yet a point of dispute whether p cotton stuffs art; the best wear, many tl approving of light woolens. For women, c nothing is sweater in summer than a h linen dress: it is n pity wo do not pat- e ronize linens more for adults; for 'I children, cottons; for workingmen, n worsteds. The heavy suits of men are d we ighing them down iu summer, and ti clothes of serge are far preferable to 1) thoso of thick woolen cloth. Very thin h silk is a cool wear. The heavily laden tl skirts of women impede the free action tl of movement much, and should be sim- si plified as much as possible for summer, tl So also the headgear. b Infants, if at all delicate, should not be allowed to go with bare feet; it often | produces diarrhea, and they sbonl 1 always wear a flannel band round the v | stomach. Another important matter is tl the changing of night and day linen *1 among the poorer classes. It is teirible n to think that a workingman should lie w down in the shirt in which he has per- f( spired all day at his hot work. Let men accustom themselves to good washes B every evening before they sit down to their meals, and to changes at night. that they may take up a dry shirt when n going to their hard day's work. tl J Frequent changes of linen is abso; lutely necessary?anyhow, a night and S day change. This change alone would ?; help to stay mortalitv among children, ^ " - " 11 1 lll._ Pi if accompanied wun omer ueuuuy measures, such as sponging the body " with a littlo salt and water. Where tenements are very close wet sheets placed against walls will aid to revivify " the air and absorb bad vapor in rooms. n All children's hair should be cut short; & boys' hair may bo cropped, and girls' 11 hair so arranged by nets or plaits that Pj air passes freely round the neck. * Light head coverings are essential in summer, for the head must be kept cool. The most serviceable dress is jf" that which allows air to pass f *eelj lC oround your limbs and stops neither the evaporation of the body nor the circula- 111 tion of the refreshing atmosphere. In summer you must breathe freely and *u lightly; you cannot do so with your " stomach full of undigested food, your blood full of overheated alcohol, your lungs full of vitiated air, your smell " disgusted with nauseous scents, your je system unable to carry out the natural jG process of digestion. All the sanitary ta arrangements in the world will do no P' good if we eat and drink in such a fashion that we are constantly putting, on fuel where it is not needed, and stuft- r? nig up our bodily drar ght, as we would 8* tbat of ft heating app liance. Our ignonmce and our bad habits spoil the j summer, that delightful season of the 1 year?nothing else. j Activity, rest and recreation are weighty matters in influencing our Wl health in summer. We are not so well inclined for activity, and yet nothing will so much assist us us a healthy employment of our energies, without over- ei exertion. Pity those who must exert y( themselves to the utmost in this horrid P{ weather, and feel gratified if you njeed only moderately use your strength. m Activity keeps the system going, the i w blood in healthy circulation, the digest- j c? ive process fiee from costiveness, the ; n| skin open for evaporation, and prevents j all clogging of the machine. If not j forced to work in some wav or other ; bo active anyhow; occupy your miml ; cc and exercise your limbs. Stagnation j C] will bring about lethargy and allow the i d* atmosphere greater influence upon you. ar On the other hand, full rest is as "] necessary. The exhausted frame wants ^ more re operation, the brain less strain, the system more gentle treatment. Wi Things look often darker in hot w' weatlier; heat weighs upon the upper aE portion cf the head, communicating itself to the perceptive powers, and influences the senses. We see pictures 01 before us, and fancy we have not the power to combat difliculties. It is said ; that more suicides are committed in j W( hot than cold weatlier. A healthy Jc sleep in this hot season is worth a great deal to us; try to court it, and never play with your life and health by willfully neglecting it. And what shall we say of that precious, w' and, as yet, so little understood phase j d* of lifo, our recreation ? If there is one ! ^ thing more than another to be encou- j 01 raged in summer, it is reasonable recre-1 w' ation ; that exercise between body and j lwJnnra o1*?rvnf l^ormnnr ! between both ; that periodical abstain-1 k* ing from incessant labor which renders us fresher for it; that intercourse with beautiful Mother Earth which leads us to value natural aspirations. Never pass a day in summer without ,se some calm half-hour for quiet and enjoy- , ment; life has only so mnny years, and ? during; their space we should live, not ( vegetate. The time will come when j ? sanitary measures and means for enjoying a l.igher phase of life will be thought W1 of more than laying up things that rust. We cannot here enter upon the meaning of recreation in a wider sense; but ro it is not recreation to rush out of town oc and stop at some placo to drink beer ev and smoke all the time ; it is not recreation to push on in crowds for excitement out of doors ; it is not recreation to overheat yourself and feel more t fatigued the day afte:: than the day! mi before. For recrcation you want leisure, | ai moderate movement, happy thoughts, kindly company, some pleasant talk, cheerful music, refreshing food and drink, and, above all, a thankful heart that you are able to enjoy these ; then a j no one could say fhat such recreation I m' would be against the highest religious j rules of living. Food, drink, dwelling, j clothing, activity, rest and recreation, j all are modified by the social ciroum-1 n ' stances under which wo are living? 1 r< Food and Health. _ , an 8e Modified by Circumstances, pC There is no doubt that the early riser , accomplishes more work than does his j in loss energetic neighbor ; for as the old j hi proverb has it, tho morning hour has ; us gold in its mouth. Still it is one of ! th those things which by common consent I 1>1 are set very high in the list of desirablo ! Wl virtues, and yet which are open to cer-1 to tain doubts and objections. Earlv lis- ' nl ing, unless preceded by early bed-time j and sound sleep, may bo anhealthful. bt Delicato children should never bo j wakened till they have fully had their ! hj sleep out, and nature will then awaken I vi them. Wo do not underestimate tho 1 ha pleasure and propriety of having the j Fi family all seated at once nt tho break- . fast table, but in many homes an elastic j he breakfast hour would bo a boon. If one j or two people in the house, by reason of j engagements, must sally forth very ' early, it is often better to lot them have : their morning meal by themselves, while ; ur others vise and breakfast lc.ter. Many a ' bi worn and ailing mother, whose sleep is ' ox disturbed by the cares of hor nursery, ; an owes it to herself and to hor family to , take her morning nap. and to make up j bo the arrears of repose by la'.e rising. No j su one who regards his health'will sit up j so till midnight and riso at dawn. Over- j s\f wcirk is slow suicide. It is better to riso : tei at eight o'clock in the freshness of rtn- pa ovated powers, than to riso at live, st? jaded, aching, and half asleep, to drag j de wearily through the first quarter of the j ne day, doing nothing well, and oxasper-! 0r ating one's friends by fretfulness and ' tai fault-finding. If you wish to indulge in j ati tho luxury of early rising, go to bed j lSp early, thut your rest may bo sufficient' Jm for your strength. i cf ?. : ]KI Care of the Far. hr People who are inclined to deafness I should live apart from the loud noises ! ,x, of railroads, factories, iron mills, etc.! jt They should avoid with great care ex- i ^ posure to cold and damp, and especially j kc should not wear thin shoes in walking 1 on denip ground or saturated brick j pavements. Children ought never to j be struck on the ear with the palm of a tho hand, even in sport; sudden deaf- th ness results sometimes from boxing the gi ears, as well as the rupture of tho tym- p( panum. Often the sudden jar or shock B with the concussion of air on the ear sr drives in the stapes or inner bone, des- cc ; troying its function and diminishing oi i the sensibility of the nerves. A snow- sc ' ball thrown with force on the ear, or an ti yfosa; j ccidential blow with a ball or bat, may asily cause deafness. As a cold inreases deafness, it should be avoided if lossible. Delicate persons should avoid draughts on the ears, sitting in wet lothes, sudden changes from the eated atmosphere of crowded rooms to old winds, and other similar exposures, 'obacco smoke is injurious to sensitive erves and sometimes induces a peculiar leased condition of the eustachian nbe. Smoking in the open air should e especially avoided by persons whose earing i3 impaired, as it injuries the iiroat, and the opening between tho uroat and ear. No instruments lionld be introduced into the ear, as le delicate lining membrane is apt to ecorne irritated. A Village of Terrors, A Detroiter who had business in a illage in Washtenaw county drove out lere in a buggy, and of course went to je inn for his dinner. The landlord lade no inquiries until after the meal as eaten and paid for and he then >und opportunity to inquire : "Were you going out to 'Squire rown's place ?" "No." " I didn't know but you were a lighting-rod man, and I was going to say lat the 'Squire had threatened to loot tho next one on sight. Wo don't o much on them fellers around hero, ad I'm glad you are somebody else, [aybe you are going over to Judge [ardy's to sell him some fruit trees for til setting V" " No." " Well, that's lucky. Only yesterday le judge was remarking to mo that the ext fruit-tree agent who entered his ate would want a coffin. Fact is, I yself have got to do some kicking to iv for being swindled on grapo vines, oil are not a patent-right man, eh V" "No." " Well, that's a narrow escape for du. We've been swindled here on hay irks, cultivators, gates, pumps, churns id a dozen other things, and I'm keepig sixteen dozen bad eggs for use i. _.j. 1. ?1 lien tue next puieiib-n^Ubci Diiuna mo ,ce in this town. Perhaps you are a icturerV" " Oh, no." "Well, you haven't lost anything. Te never turn out very strong here to a cture. The last man who struck us dured on " Oui Currency," but didn't ,ke in enough to pay me for his supir. You are not a book-canvasser ?" "No." "That's another escape. We've been id out here so often that if an agent lould offer to sell a 820 Bible for fifty >nts we'd suspect a trick to beat us. trikes me now you mav be a lawyer." "No." " Good 'nuff. Last one who settled ;re had to leave town at midnight, and e don't want any more. Say, what are >u, anyway?" "A politician," replied the Detroiter. "A politician ! Then git! For heavi's sake! don't stand around here if m value your life! We've just imjaclied our pound-master for embezing the public money, and the exciteent is so intense that the Democrats ill ride you on a rail or the Republics duck you in the <vater trough. Git 5lit up and scoot!"? Detroit Free Press. Tlic Iletling Young Man. We had on board, as a matter of iurse, tlio betting young man from - J?1 _ 1 M "1_ _ A mcago. IN o steamer ever saueu mail (1 not have this young fellow aboard, | id there are enough of them to last I e Atlantic for a great many years. He lew everything that everybody thinks ey know, but do not, and his delight is to propound a query, and then lien you had answered it, to very coolly id exasperatjngly remark: ' "Bet yer bottle of wine you're wrong." The matter would be so simple and 10 of so common repute that immediely you accepted the wager only to I id that in some minuto particular you 1 src wrong, and that the knowing 1 rath had won. 1 For instance: 1 " riiompsou, cio yuu kuuw ijuw muujr < ;ates there are in the Union?" ( Now any citizen of the United States ' lio votes, and is eligible to the prcsi- 1 sncy, ought to know how many Spates ' iere are in his beloved country with- ' it thinking, but how many are there ! no can say, ofl'-hand? And ao poor-' liompson answered: ( "What a question! Of course I * low." '* ' "Bet yer bottle ye don't." " Done." I > "There are?" An/1 tlion Thnmr,snn~wnilbl find llim- I ' If figuring tho very important prob-1 ^ m as to whether Colorado had been | ^ imitted, aud Nevada, and Oregon, and s would decide that ono had and the ( her hadn't, and finally state the uutn- 1 sr, with great certainty that it was J ong. Tho Chicago man's crowning bet oc- J rred tho last day out. The smoking < om was tolerably full, as were the cupants, and everybody was bored as 1 erybodv is on the last day. Tho Chi- J go man had been silent for an hour, len suddenly he broke out: "Gentlemen?" " Oh, no more bets," was tho excla- 1 ition of tho entire party. " Give us est." "I don't want to bet, but I can show j < iu somethiug curious." ' ' * " Well V" 411 say it and mean it. I can drink glass of water without its going down y throat." I " And get it into Your stomach ?" I "Certainly." * < Th -re was a silence of considerably ore 'ban a minute. Every man in tlie om bail been victimized by this .tlierer up of inconsiderable trifles, id there was a general disposition to ;t the better of him in some way if >ssible. Here was the opportunity, ow could a man get a glass of water to his stomach without it going down sthroat? Impossible! And so the nal bottle of wine was wagered, and e Chicago man proceeded to accomish the supposed impossible feat. It is very easily done. All he did was stand upon his head on the seat that ns around the room and swallow a ass of water. It went to his stomach, it it did not go down his thoat. It i jut tip his throat. And so bis last iumph was greater than all lii3 preens ones, for every man in the room id been eager to accept his wager, om that time out had he offered to lger that ho would swallow his own 'ad ho would have got no takers.? rrrespondence Toledo lihtde. The Mustang of Australia. The mustang of the American conti* nt has its counterpart in the "brumr" of Australia, large herds of which ist in the interior parts of Queensland d New South Wales. These animals c so numerous that they have often en destroyed and boiled down for the ke of their tallow and hides ; and in me of the newly-settled districts they arm in such numbers that the sipiatrs have to protect themselves anil the sturage against thir inroads. BrumbieUking is a recognized pastime, the struction of the wild horses being as j eessary as the destruction of kangaroos rabbits. The sport of capturing and j 1 ining these animals, however, has tractcd a good many adventurous , irits, who adopt tactics somewhat sirnir to those adopted by the inhabitants Mexico and South America. The rdiness and size and strength of these umbies are remarkable, and when lined they are of considerable value. K'ir progeny, when crossed with Eurotan horses, possess excellent qualities, is recorded that in one year no less an seven thousand wild hor.^es have en shot on a single station in New >uth Wales. M. .T. B. Humbry of New Hope, Va., graduate of the Staunton institute for e blind, was born blind, but lias been ven sight by a successful operation >rformed by a Baltimore surgeon. The altimore (fuzette says lie can now read aall type by sight, while formerly he >uld read only by passing his fingers ,'er raised letters. His delight upon teing his aged mother for the first me was naturally very great. THE FARM ANI) HOUSEHOLD. Improving Srcdn. A gentleman experimented with pe in this way: He saved at the time picking all the early, full pods as th ripened, and planted the seeds savi from these pods year after year, f three years, and the fourth year hi peas of the same name that were mo than two weeks earlier tliau the seed the same name purchased in the stor Seeds of cabbage, lettuce, tomato, c cumber, peas, corn and many others ci be much improved by the same care. Cut Worm*. Says the liural Neio Yorker : It is good plan to tie about tomato and ca bage plants pieces of cardboard to pr vent the cut worm from severing tl stem near the soil. It is easily don and is better protection than mounds earth, which, it has been said, cut worn cannot climb up This idea is a mi take. We last season placed twenty-fi1 cut worms in a hole about eight inch deep, the sides of which were near perpendicular. "We watched them intervals during two hours, and four that, though many attempts to esca] wero ineffectual, some were successful Outside TrccH In Orchard*. Mr. "William Saunders, the horticu turist in charge of the public gardei and grounds in Washington city, ol serves that outside rows of trees in a orchard alwayo grow more thrifty tha the interior rows. He attributes th to the cultivation of the soil in tl fields alongside of the orchard, giviri room for the ramification of the rooi in cultivated soil. He thereupon su| gests that trees bo set in two row twenty-five to thirty feet apart, then ojjuueui ?iuw icct ui iiiuru, auu twu uiu' rows of trees, ana so on over the groun< the intervening 300 feet of ground 1 be cultivated in such crops as may 1 desired, and the space between tl vows of trees to bo put in grass as soc as they begin to bear. He thinks tl cultivation of the ground would ke? the treee healthy and conduce to the bearing fruit. Mr. Saunders thinl double rowB of trees would shelter tl crops between, and be beneficial in thi way. TIloli r?? Villi Large yields of milk, says the Lr Stock Journal, must necessarily bo tl result of a large quantity of food co: sumed, for ?he cow cannot create mil out of nothing. She is not a mirac worker. But does it follow that a lar{ product of i< ilk costs more in propo tion to quantity than a medium yielc Now, the cow must bo supported b fore alie gives any milk. After th food of support all the food she cor sumes must go to the production < milk or flesh, and if the cow is a goc milker ifc all goes to milk?in oth< words, after the food of support, the e: tra food all goes to profit?that is, eith< to milk or flesh. And it is equally clei that all the food consumed to suppo the system of the animal is lost unt the point of production is reache< After the producing point is reache the more the animal can eat, properJ digest and assimilate above this, tl greater the profit. 80, if you desire I produce milk at the least cost, yc must select cows with the capacity 1 turn the largest amount of food int milk?the larger the amount the roi cheaply will the milk be produced. C course the best cow is tbe one that cn digest and assimilate the most food an turn the extra food into milk, instead* laying on flesh and fat. It is the bus nessof r sliillfal dairyman to select sue cows, and then make full nse of the machinery to secrete milk by full feec ing. Tlie l'en. This hardy and excellent vegetab] may be planted successively up to the tin af July. They produce best ou light, ric and well-tilled soil. The soil for tli first crop should be prepared as early ? possible in spring after the frost is ou af tho ground, and the peas put in a loon thereafter as possible. Other sow ings may be made at intervals of two c :hree weeks, if a succession of crops i lesired. Peas, when grown in sma] quantities for private use, may as we] be sown in double rows six or eight ir )h^s'"ap3?tjWith. a space between c ibout threeteek.in order to give root to bush the taller-gro wing varieties, an plenty of space to pass between the row n gathering the crop. Early Varieties.?Philadelphia is th earliest of all, and close upon it come Ear,lv Kent, Daniel O'Rourke. Laxton' ilpl..V Carter's "First Chop," Kentis! [nvicl\)nd Tom Thumb. The last vs yty ca* "be raised with least trouble an na;y Lb iMo said to produce least, as i jrows bu!%\lf a foot high. Early?McLean's Advancer, Laxton' Proliiic Long Pod and McLean's Liltl 3em are good e;irly varieties. Medium.?Champion of England, Laj :on's Marvel, McLean's Premier an Eugenie. Late.?British Queen, Black-Eye< Marrowfat, Tall Sugar and McLean1 Best of All. Champion of England fc i main crop is still considered tlie besi This grows five feet high ; the pods ar arge and well filled. For an early pe :here is none better than McLean's Li! :le Gem. Wliat lireed of l'lga to Ralac. It is impossible to answer the ques ;ion, "Which is the most profitabl L>reed of pigs to raise?" Very muc lepends upon tho system of managt nent, nearness to market, individm :aste or fancy, etc. But there are som general facts which should bo undei itood in deciding what kind of pig t ^row in any particular case. Pig farn :ng may be profitable or a source c loss. A few pigs of almost any bree .'an be grown on a dairy farm with profii jut when tho number is increased tli uggerr may becomo an expense. It i jlearlvdeteimined by a long experienc :hat pig pork is tho pork that pays I'oung hogs marketed when a year ol tro much more profitable than olde )nes. This being true?and it i especially .so in .the older States? ireed should be selected that mature jarly and fattens quickly. Tho bet iig has tho least amount of offal i iressing; is compact in its parts, an ts flesh is of the very best quality. 0 mch are the Essex and Suffolk, an some other allied "small breeds." (Jn :an " go further and faro worse" tha o select tho Essex for the pigger bat is to make profitable return.' There is some prejudice against blac jigs, but it should be remembered tlui he color is less than skin deep, and th slackest pig makes as white drosse jork as any other. There is money i jigs if a good breed is chosen an jroperly managed. The value of full looded pigs over the "grade" i itrikingly shown when a pair of th ormer is taken into a neighborhood .vhere only tho "common hog" wa jefore. In a few years the whole cour ry round about lias had its swine im iroved, and its pork interests greatl ?nhanced. Grow young pigs rapidl ind market them ns pigs rather tha ceep them until they aro old hogs. Pi; )ork pays. Itccivr*. PifKLKO White Cahhage.?Cut th labbage into thin slices, put it into a: artlien pan, sprinkle with fait, and le t lay for two days; then drain an tpread it before the fire for some hours jilt it in a stone jar and add sullicien vhite vinegar to cover, with a littl nace and a few wliitt pepper corns. Minute Pudding.?Boil one pint o iweet milk, and while boiling stir ii wo eggs and four tablespoonfuls o lour well beaten together. Servo wit] ream and sugar. Ice Cheam Cake.?Threo eggs, on :oflee cup of sugar, two teaspoon fuls o mkiug powder, two tahlepoonfuls o vater, one one cup of flour ; bake ii elly tins and let them cool. Take on )int of thick sweet cream and beat i -ill it looks like ice cream ; sweeten an* Savor with vanilla; put very tliicl between each layer of cake. Ari'le Cjream Cake. -Rub on ; ounce of butter into three-quari ters of a pound of flour, an'l take i half a pint of sour cream; dissolve a as ' teaspoonful of carbonate of scda in a i ; teaspoon of boiling water, add it to the ey sour cr?am and stir it until it froths e" ! well. If the cream is very sour it may i or require a little more soda. Bo careful i *d ! that it is frothy, or else paste will 1 rc | not bo light. Stir tl.c inching cream ? into the flour, enough to make a soft 1 e- , paste ; line a greased plate with a thin 1 u"1 layer of paste ; have ready some stewed xn j apples, sweetened and perfectly cold, 1 ; g ated lemon peel mixed in before they i ! are put into the cake, and as little juice i from the apples as possible, or the crust < a ! will be soddened. Spread the stewed 1 b- [ apples over the paste, leaving a narrow e- j margin for the top crust to adhere to ie the bottom, roll out the top crust an j e, | inch thick; pinch the edges well to- ( of i gether to make it a little ornamented , as round the edge, and bake it in a quick , s- oven. This quantity of paste should , make two good sized cakes, the Bize of ] es a dinner plate ; a tin plate is best to j l.V bake them on; they are equally good ( at cold or hot, and are eaten with sugar ( id j and cream. t ">a i j Indian* Fritters.?Three tablespoon- ] i fuls of flour, boiling water, the yolks of i I four eggs, the whites of two, hot lard i ! or clarified dripping, jam. Put the 1 *" | flour into a basin and pour over it sufli- j J? j cient boiling water to make it into a j stiff paste, taking care to stir and beat itl I :i ii j. - 1 i ju weu 10 prevent it getting lumpy. l.n Leave it a little while to cool and then 13 break into it (without beating them ie first) the eggs, and stir and beat all well l2> together. Have ready some boiling lard ts or butter; drop a dessertspoonful of ?' batter in at a time, and fry the fritters a s> light brown. They should rise so as to a be almost like balls. Serve on a dish with a spoonful of preserve or marma *? lade dropped in between each fritter. ? I This is an excellent dish for a hasty 1 )e | addition for dinner, it is bo easily and , 16 | quickly made. j ltJ sp ODDITIES. ir * *8 The idea of fertilizing land witli salt 1 ie was conceived by John Napier in 1598. ( Archimedes, born in Sicily 287 B. C., was the anthor of over forty mechanical ! inventions. i It has been estimated that there are ' ve only about 2,400 disorders to which the 1 16 human frame is liable. Q- -4 [jj Bees were cultivated in the very early je days of man's existence. A bee-hive is J found upon an ancient tomb in Thebes. f r- The only existing mannscript of , 1? Cardmon, the first Anglo-Saxon poet, ( e- who died in 680, is in the Bodleian ? is library at Oxford. 1 | Coal gas, for the purposes of light- i of j ing, was known ages ago to the Chinese. \ ^ In 1845 the planet Neptune was dis-^ * sr covered, by which the solar system was' ' extended 1,000,000,000 miles beyond its ? 5r former limits. 1 According to common accounts tea f 121 was first brought into England from > j j Holland in 16GG, and a pound then sold ? j for sixty shillings. .. [j ' The Arabs established in Bagdad, in t ie! the eighth century, the first public ^ o 1 Apothecaries' hall, and i;i the ninth j m | century the first legal dispensaries. 8 :o ' Home was captured four times in six- o o ; teen years and during that time 15,000,- J :e | 000 human beings perished by sword, )f j pestilence and famine. ? i The idea of the kaleidoscope first oc- j j curred to David Brewster in 1814, when t: he was engaged in experiments on the ( j* I polarization of light by reflection from g !l. plates of glass. - j ? j In 1791 Fabroni formed floating ti " i bricks from a siliceous earth in Tuscany t | which were such bad conductors of heat ^ that they could be held in the hand by a i one end while the other end was red- a , hot. ti ^ ! In the time of Herodotus there was on j the iEgean ?>ea a community of " lake 8 e ! dwellers" who lived upon piles driven j1 j into the bottom of the lake, and con- J3 nected only by a narrow bridge with the J! *! land. * ,r ! Over 3,000 victims were executed for . H | witchcraft during the reign of the Long j" [\ j parliament. Barrington gives the t [] j whole number of those put to death in q ' England on this charge as not less than (f j 3?,000. _ _____ d d | SCIENTIFIC NOTES. J 3! i ' q I Pure silver is the best conductor of ? e | heat and electricty known. t] s ' One drop of prussic acid is sufficient t] s i to instantly arrest life. ti k i The density of the waters of the Dead a l' | sea increases with its depth. ? The experiment of freezing mercury was first accomplished by M. Braum in It s 1759* 2 e People have been knoWnto"ltear 400 Cl du^es of vapor heat without mtifi^ in- 0 . convenience. ^ tl The earth's temperature increases one degree Fahrenheit for every fifteen yards cl of descent. a s r< When a person is struck by lightning d ' buckets of water should be poured upon ii ' the head. \ e a The amount of work a man can do in a t-1 a day has been estimated to be equal to ? I a force, which, if properly applied, lf j would raise the weight of bin own body ? I one mile. , fi !" j A curious fact, and one bearing on t: e j the value of submarine cables, was men- g h : tioned by Mr. Pender, January 27, in' y 5* j presiding at the half-yearly meeting of ? d j the Eabtern Telegraph company. It t e j was that the company had been able, c r* j for $50,000, to pick up from a depth of c 0 | '2,000 fathoms one of their cables which had been ten years in the water. The { >f i establishment of the fact that it was t d | possible to raise a cable from such a p ; depth of course gives an additional fc e i value to all telegrapliic property. t g 1 Much was expected from the discov- * . I cry made by Professor Boll that the | images of objects remained on the ,r j reiina of animals after death. It was s ! thoug it, for example, that the last j. ^ scene of a mysterious murder would be j 8 found by properly examining the eyes ^ .j. j of the victim. Actual tests have shown v ? ! that the optogram can be of no use in fl | detecting crime. Dr. Ayres made more f j than a thousand experiments in the ^ (] laboratory of Professsr Kuhne, at Heide ! elberg, and met with but poor success. n | The best result was obtained by expos_ I ing the eye of a living rabbit, which had j * ! been dosed with atropine, to a photo-1 v ? ; graphic negative, and even in this case ! t lt j the optogram was imperfect, indistinct J e i and evanescent. j d' ; t " , WISE WORDS. f .1| t llette:* a soft heart and an iron hand I s j than an iron heart and a soft hand. 1 ' The power of eloquence is sometimes ^ '* superior to military forco. * ^ j Suspicions among thoughts are like F i bats among birds?they ever lly bv I j i twilight. " * I J y ! Every man must work at something, i The moment he stops working for him- j, g self the devil employs him. v If you wish success in life make per- c severance your bosom friend, experience t your wise counselor, caution your elder v e brother, and hope your guardian. <] n Tlie best people need alllictions for J" t trial of their virtue. How can we exer- ^ il cise tho grace of contentment, if all F s; things succeed well; or that of forgive- 0 t i ness, if we have no enemies. 3 e | Profanity never did any man the least r good. Mo man is the richer, happier, if or wiser for it. It commends no one in !i | society; it is disgusting to reliued peo- ^ f | })le and abominable to the good, i | il Q | Many of the saddest instances of men- 8 1 tal and moral failures can be traced with a o | unerring precision to continued over- A f work, and, as it has been clearly demon- c f I strated, of intemperance also. tl 11 Let tho soul be turned as strenuously tl * ; toward good as it usually is toward evil, e ? ; and you will tind that the simple love of it * goodness will give incredible resources w * to the spirit in tho search after truth. Love, with intellect, will perform mirae cle<?. o FACTS AND COMMENTS. The Europe of Biusf>ells publishes |gj some curious statistics of suicides attrib- ?J uted to unhappy marriages. According 3 to this statement, in Sweden, out of ' 3 every 1,000 suicides, those of 16 men ind 24 women wore said to have resulted - -ri from matrimonial mismuhrstandings Dr incompatibility of temper. In Nor- - ,<3 way tho ti^ires were 21 men and 18 women; in Prussia, 48 men and 61 3* women; in Saxony, 26 men and 29 women; in Itally, 75 men and 76 women; '4_ in France, 138 men and 164 women. It 'I4 is remarked that the largest number ol ? these suicides occur in France and Italy; ~0;i where divorce doest not exist. ' It is stated that 100,000 baffalo hides | liave been sent out of the Yellowstone /. country alone this season. Last year the output only reached 35,000, the '- 'j usual average. Many of the present' ij| pield of skins were doubtless taken fronr the carcasses of the dead animals frozen * '3 in the last terrible winter; but the N daughter of the herds has increased svery year with the irruption of settlers : s into the valleys. They are shot 'down iike sheep, out of pure wantonness, in nost instances left to rot untouched where they fall, the dollar or two which the hide would bring not being worth ;he trouble or time of removing it. . Thomas Salter was carefully reared ?v 3y his wealthy parents at Montreal, but : iad not sufficient pride to keep a place imong respectable people, nor honor jnough to be trusted among thieves He vent into a scheme with som'e burglars ^ ;o rob a jewelrv store, and then betraved ii? companions to justice. But ill testi- >> fying against them, though he carued ^ , J ;heir conviction, he lied so much thiii&fafc ie -was sent to prison for perjury. Thtia ' * ae found himself a convict in the Sfc" ^ Vincent de Paul penitentitiary with meii vho were his revengeful foes. One of 3-S ;hese was Dan Everett, who deliberatelyresolved to throw away his life in order ;o kill the traitor. He stabbed Salter < n death, and then, knowing that other- . -.2 vise he would surely be hanged, he ;ommittcd suicide on the spot. . k . General Henry A. Barnum suffers to C'3 ;his day from a gunshot wound not unike that of President Garfield, received v ^ nineteen ago at the battle of An;ietam. He was shot entirely throngh he right side of the body, and so des- 5 aerate was his condition that he could jot be removed from the field, the phy- ? iician declaring that an attempt to renove him would be fatal. But he rejovered after a few weeks treatment in ". '\A i field hospital, and is to-day well tnd jrfB iearty. His great annoyance is that he s compelled to wear a seton to keep the round open, and the carefnl washing of he wound is a part of his daily toilet* ^ '.n his case, however, the liver was prpbibly not lacerated. The late General -'3 jovell H. Ro6i-'eau. of- Kentucky, was t ihot in 185G by Dr. Standifoid, for some > imo President of the Louisville and 3 sashville railroad. The ball entered gt he abdomen just above the navel and v odged in the back. It was never ye- % $ noved. He was in a dangerous co&diion for several weeks after, but finaUy < jfe tcovered, and lived until 1869, dyfcg uldenly while apparently in the l-ost * 'i neaiiD, irora wnat uis puynomns ax ^ Tew Orleaus called " knotted bowels." The different kinds of criminals in ? few Mexico and Arizona are given difl- is iuguishing names. "Rustlers" are ' hieves who steal cattle on the United j Itates side of the line, run them into lexico, sell them there, and then load hemselves with Mexicap plunder for V lie return trip. '-Cowboys" are those ' rho earn an honest living by herding,,. nd behave well enough when at work, lthough when in the towns fora holiday ~ ^ hey commit all manner of outrag(03~for ; an. "Card jerkers" are professional * amblers who cheat those with whom hey play. " Dinglers" are stage rob- ' , era. " Nofcbers" aro men who wan- /-,: Dnly tak? human life, apparency with he solo object of gaining reputaticnsaa esperadces. Tliey are the terror of he border, and little is ever done to ring them to punishment, except by he sudden resentment of a mob. Silver 7\ !ity, however, is an exception in this " espect among border towns, for it lias a istrict attorney who prosecutes vigo- '0 ously, and a sheriff who does not let is prisoners escape. The trials are % ueer, the jurors often being unable to nderstaud anything but Spanish, while * no speaking is done is English ; but j liat does not seem to hinder convMflfi?#-* ions, for sixteen condemned murJereis k re now in the jail under death sentences. - 'V.y.y* The census of Ireland shows a popuition of 5,159,849, being a decrease of 4'< 52,538 since 1871. The population is , umposedof 2,522,804 males and 2 637,- / 35 females. The decline of the laitV^s years was spi ead over all the cotafc* *' 'iip except three. The counties which *. id^pot, decline were Antrim, Dublin, ad KSrry, one oPtB3*pQ.orest and most ^mo'te localities. In all the "fltfagig the ecrease went on varying from l(>^or^-^ i round numbers 11 per cent, ,i& . ^ lonaphan, to 10 1 per cent, in Tipperry, 10 exactly in Carlow, 3.2 in Gal- - > av, 1.7 in Cork: and 0.7 in Mayo. It' i remarkable rhat Carlow, the garden -\ f Ireland, and all the other riohest ri -v2 racts of soil should have suffered most '| rom depopulation. The religious disribution of the population was?3,051,88 Roman Catholics, 635,670 connected nth the church of Ireland, 485,503 'resbyterun?, 47,669 Methodists, and he balance was made up of other de- # nominations. The decrease of the Roaan Cutholics in tfie ten years was 198,79, of the Protest,Hnts 32,328, and of the - *j 'resbyterians 12,145. During tie last en years dwelling houses have disap- ;' j leared to the number of 48,619, while mildings used as accessories to farms lad for business pursuits in towns have ' ncreased to the number of 15,228. s ' '"5* ? n Whilst no British monarch has died >v the assassin's hand, prime ministers lave been less fortunate. Mr. Spencer 3erceval was shot, in the lobby of the louse of commons, by one Bellingham, * rho had claims against the treasury, .ml had worked himself into a frenzy luder a sense of supposed injustice. y ^ The man was undoubtedly more or lees & mid, but was tried, condemned and ex- ' fcuted while popular indignation was ed hot. The killing of the prime minster gave rise to apprehension that ft > ^4 ride-spread conspiracy was afloat, and he mails were all stopped that night, >ending the preparation of dispatches o the authorities throughout the cotrnry. Sir Robert Peel, also, would have alien but for his secretary (a near rela- -isB| ive of the present secretary of the Jritish legation at Washington) having ieen murdered by mistake for him. Ifter a miscreant struck ut Queen Vic- /, $ oria, some twenty years ago, an act was ?-\ assed rendering any kind of assault on he sovereign punishable by severe -'f. drippings. Since then only one such *. iffence has been commiited, and that iy a youth whose clearly proved weak utellect saved him from stripes. Oxford, ?ho shot at the queen early in her arecr, got off on a plea of insanity, hough the genuineness of the plea ttas ery much, and with good reasons, inestioned. He was, consequently, elegated to Bedlam, and, greatly to " lis disgust, kept there for life. This irobably exercised a deterrent effect 1 n many others of that miserable order f beings who will do anything for notoiety. A London paper, treating on artiflial aid to the toilet, says: "We are told iow womanhood is nowadays a delusion nd a snare; and the poet who wrote ft onnet to an evebrow would only be ddressinga few touches of Indian ink.' ipropos of this eyebrow subject it is 1) urions fact that nature alwavs makes lie eyebrow in proportionate length to he rest of the features. Thicken an yebrow if you like, but never lengthen It always gives a look as if there as a cast in the eye. Pennsylvania has 3,907 blind persons, f whom 968 live in Philadelphia.