University of South Carolina Libraries
V . * - y . ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER^ BY HUGH WILSON AND H. T. WARDLAW. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1881. NO. 26. VOLUME XXVI. || ? ????? ?.? jii The Night Before Thanksgiving. Gently, Boreas, gently throw, O'er the earth her robe of snow ; Cease thy rigors for a while, Wreathe thy wrinkles with a smile : Change thy warlike notes t<? praise, Heralding this "Fcarl of days!" Banish every lingering trace Of thy frowns from Luna's face ; See! she throws upon the white, Mystic tracery of night; Penciled there, with artist's care, Forest wondcis, gaunt and bare; Fleecy clm'.ds that flock the blue, With her soft light streaming through ; Shadows flitting o'er the plain, As her face is hid again ; Waves of softer light between, Emblems of our hi.pes, I ween! Newer hopes tlio morn shall greet; uramuue ?iiu love snaa meet, Sisters twain, wish earnest sense Of our God's munificence, Blending words of praise and prayer For the Fasher's loving care. Would there were no sound of pain Mingled with the glad refrain, No dark tracery of night O'er the spirit's virgin white ; Would thai thrilling deeds of crime Never soiled the page of Time Would there were no shroud, no bier, Nevermore the sob, the tear; Woiild that friendship's tmst might ho Change less as eternity ; Would?ah, me ! such blessings given, Earth would not be earth, but heaven ! ?Mra. J. Oliver Smith. That Wife of Mine. "Arc you sick?" It was the soft voice of a young girl asked this, and as I heard the word?, half in a dream, I opened my heavy eyes, and looked up to what seemed for a moment a glimpse of Paradise. There were the darkgreen leaves of the low bnshes, among which I dimly remembered dragging myself, tired and faint, it seemed a year ago, and tlure, thrown upon their darkbackground, a girl's face, with soft sunny hair and great earnest eyes. "Was she handsome?'' you ask. No, I suppose not. I don't think there was a singular regular feature in her whole face, still it always seemed lovely to me, and that morning, as I looked up at 'it, her face was as an angel's. I was as nearly worn out a3 man could well be, and everything looked black and dreary enough, even in that bright summer time. I was onlya tramp then?not a ragged, dirty tramp, such as you drovo out ot your yard yesterday, perhaps, but a tramp nevertheless, and a kind word and a pitying face were now strange i- ~ - T I fcJUlUga IU IJ1U* X liixvi ucvu uuai) iuuua j God, I am to day, a lawyer with?for a young man?a good practice back in my Eastern home, but a love for drink? yet not altogether drink, but with it a reckless expenditure of money, of running into debt?bad brought me down. . I remember the day that the final crash came, and how hard I tried to avert it, not waking to a realization of j my situatiou until it was all too late. It seemed to me impossible that I, always so favored, should be, could be, penniless, and if not absolutely a beggar, stih certainly in a beggar's friend- j lees position. Unable to remain where I was known, for fear of my creditors, I struck off into now regions, and begged ?yes, that's the word?begged for j work, any honest work, and begged for ! it in vain. I did get odd jobs, here and ( there, but nothing lasting, only just |; enough for me to live along from hand to mouth?and sometimes it was poorly , enough, even at that; , The night before, with a fever burning in my veins, I had left Ridgefield? left without 6upper or money?and all j the long night had trudged onward, | down tlie great, white country road. Sick, with the hot fever coursing i through ray veins and parch- | ing my tongue; faint with hunger, footsore and weary from long travel, disheartened, and caring but little whether I lived or died, just as the sun came up I sank into the low, cool-look- j ing bushes by the roadside, and lost all, consciousness. "Are you sick, Bir?" The question was repeated with even I more earnestness than before. ." I fear I ?m," I said, pressing my j hand to my throbbing temples to stiil the pain. " Where are your friends, poor' man ?" trno o IaaIt n f TYlf TT in flirt tin I AJacxc; n?.i u Avva v* , great, earnest eyes, that, if I should live ; forever, I could not forget. "Friends!" I echoed; the words! sounded almost liko a mockery to me. ' " Did you ever know such men as I to : have friends ?" " Why, what have you done?are you a criminal ?" It was said with the action of a startled fawn, and I hastened to answer: " A criminal? Yes, of the worst kind, | bo people seem to think. I am 'guilty' j of being poor." " Oh, is that all." "What a relief thero was in her voice ; sick as I was I noticed | it. " "We are poor, too, mother and I; I but still we have friends, and will; never leave any one sick at our door , without help. Can you walk at all.sir!" j " I will see," I taid, faintly ; and in-j spired by a new courage, with a hold j on the thick bushes, I managed to gain j my feet, and staggered, rather than i walked, out into the road; but when ; ft1 locf T rrnf r\n r>c% mnro inta flm cnn. ligV* he old dizzy faintness came over me, and in a swoon I foil forward in the dust For days following I was conscious of nothing but pain?a throbbing and aching of tho head, a feeling throughout the body of hunger and suffering. I had closed my heavy eyes in the heat i and dust, and even as I lay there, day <?fter day, I seemed to be breathiDg the ! same dusty air, suffering with hunger burning with the fever, and without water to quench my thirst. When at | last I opened them I saw a cool, white | curtain swaying to and fro before an open window, and now and then 1 | could feel a breath of fresh air upon my cheek, and out beyond I could see, where tho curtain was caught up, raindrops dropping and glistening among the leaves. I felt as if in fairyland as I handled the clean, white coverlet laid over me, and I looked about at tho fewcheap pictures and the neat, simple a r i 1 sweeujeso ui tuo ruuiu. "Where am IT' Unconsciously I spoke, in my surprise and wonder, I aloud. A curtain hanging at the head of the i bed was suddenly lifted, which gave me a slight glimpse of another room, | enat as my own. A young gitl entered i and quickly camc forward to the side : of my bed. It was the face of my ! strangle friend by the roadside ; her j sunny hair and earnest eyes had been i with me, as something intangible, misty as a pleasant dream, all through i my sickness, and I remembered it now ?the promised aid and swooning in the dujt. " Soyou are at last awake," she said, laying her cool, moist hands on my temples?" awake, and the fe7er all gone. You must feel much better." I could only look "Yes" with my eyes. "Now, I don't want you to talk. You are my patient, and you must mind me." II But where am IV" In spite of all orders I must ask that | question, for fear the vision might fade. , " You're safe enongh in our house? | mr?flion/? mirtn T fnlrl rnn xv& ream i poor, but you would faint right before I our door." "I'm very sorry," I said, penitently. " Hum! That don't help. Do you ; know how sick you've been ?" I protested my entire ignorance. " Well, you've had a fever, and been wild sometimes," she informed me. " But now lie stiil until I get you something to eat." As she said this she got up from the Itttle rocking-chair in which she had Xeen aitting. <r "No, don't go i" I caught her by the sleeve. " I don't want anything to eat, and I do want you I" She sat down again with a little! I laugh. "I'm afiaid you don't know just what i you do want," she said, pleasantly. " Yes I do; I want you. You won't j ! go, will you?" My voice sounded very j anxious in its weakness. " Not without mother call3 mo. Now, j go to sleep." She settled the white coverlet about me very carefully, "How did you get me here?" I - -1- ~ J1 AlJl ttMvt'U, 1 V. "Oh, one of the station men helped ! me; and von were terribly heavy, if you | hadn't anything to ca4." I lay back on my pillow, and watched her silting there in the stillness of the room. It was a picture sweet enough for any man?moro than that to me, for I had scarcely spoken to a woman for a long year, excepting to receive harsh answers. The sun that came streaming intotha open window, piercing here and there the network of vines, went slowly down, casting long shadows across the floor, and I fell asleep. How those two women did watch over and care for mo during the days that followed?days in which I got better very slowly?the old gray-headed, matronly mother and the little girl! What delightful, dainty little meals they cocked me with their own hands! And then one would fan and talk with rue in the long, hot summer afternoon. One day, when the mother was out, I told my little nurse my whole history, concealing nothing, and watching the changing emotions of her face. "You have told me everything but your name," she said, when I finished. "That is simple enough,"I replied. I was sitting up now, in the great, oldfashioned rocking-chair. "It is George Gray. And yours?" "Florence O'Neil. My father was killed on the railroad several years ago, and the company gave us this little house, and we watch to 'flag* the trains if the bridge should not be safe; the , water in the river rises very high some- ! times." She said it all very simply, as if such a life was old and common enongh to her. Tho daughter of a railroad laborer, and I loved her ? and I was only a ' tramp? "Not very elevated," you think, ( Perhaps not in the social scale, but , our hearts might bo as true, our love as ( great. In the days which followed, and , under their tender care, 1 grew rapidly better, until at last I could frame no ex- ( cuse for remaining longer. But notli- i ing could now tear me away from the J girl who had saved my life?whom I , knew but too well 1 loved. j I never said one word of love to her, ( for I was only a tramp, and my love was . too honest, too sincere, to give its ob- , ject needless pain. , Deep in my heart I had resolved to ( work up to something more worthy of , her, more vrorthv myself. But, mean- j while, I could not altogether leave her, : and, finally, through their influence ( with men upon the road, men who had , worked with O'Neil before he was killed, ] I received a position. It was only that ( of a brakeman upon tho night express. ( Not much, you think. Perhaps not to . you, my scofiing friend, with your credit { at the bank, but it was everything to f me. It was the first chance the world ( had given me. It was my first step upward. and I believe I was prouder in : ? that brakeman's cap than I ever was in j my first gold and black law sign in the ] old days of my profligacy and my pro- . fession. I ran on that road?it was the P. D. j and G.?for nearly two months, making every night the trip between Plattsmouth and Delaver, rain or shino. Now and then of a Sunday I would go down to the little cottage of the O'Neils, 1 and thus spend many a pleasant after- ] noon in talking over the events of my i sickness with the mother, or wandering s down by the river with Florence, my ; little love. I began to dream that she 1 loved me, and it made me a better man. J One night, I think it was of a Wednes- i day, wo made up our train, an unusu- i ally large one, and left Plattsmouth i just before dark. It had been storming 1 hard for two days, and it bid fair to be ] a dark, tempestuous night. A special 1 freight train left an hour ahead of us, j ?? ?? i?? W111UU WC ?CIC LU parjD UU UUUlCiCCU. Tho night, as it grew later, proved to be one of the roughest I had ever experienced; the wind blew a perfect hurricane from the north, the glare of the lightning was incessant, and the heavy peals of thunder rolled along the whole sky. " "Watch sharp for a red light at ' Bridge No. 2,'" I heard the train master say to tbe engineer of tho freight as his heavy tram pulled out of the yard. " Bridge No. 2" was the one close by O'Neil's?the long one over the river was just this side, and known as "No. 1"?their little cottage was nestled in : the thick woods between the two. Just how it happened I suppose no one exactly knows, but it seemed that " Bridge No. 2" had been swept away by the fury of the storm, and the red lantern, tat'ely placed by careful hands . to stop tho advancing "train, had gone out in the tenitic gaie. Tbe heavy! freight, propelled down the steep grade I betweeu the two bridges by its own j weight, rushed with a stream by tho little cottagc and took tho terrible plunge into the air, down iifty feet to the rocks below. When I saw it, early tho following \ morning, the wreck was complete, with : tho dead, mangled bodies of tho train- < fnpn .TTfifiircd into tha water and crashed i i down by the heavy timbers. < "And our train?" you ask. Well, I'll tell you about that as it was 1 told to me. Florence and her mother were about ' retiring to rest, believing the lantern to 1 be safely burning, when they heard the 1 shrill whistle of the freight, and a mo- j < inent later the fearful crash. Realizing i in a moment what had happened, Flor- j ence grasped a lantern, and, amid the j: hurricane of wind, the deluge of water, | : the incessant glare of the lightning, jmd 11 peal upon peal of thunder, left the cot-!! tage and started for the wreck. 11 Her light soon went out in the wind, I i but she bravely felt her way through | : the woods and falling timbers to the j very edge of the rushing waters that t ; covered the crushed and drowned men. : She could hear no sound to tell her that any one yet lived to relate the story i of that horrible leap to death. She knew that the long night-express, with its aF conn rmyo mi cj nftuvlr /I n n nn/1 ikjh\x \Ji nao uc?iij uuvj cwAit j noria to warn them of tli?ir danger ; a lantern would uot burn in tho increased !, fury of the gale. The telegraph office at Somerset or Matland was the only place where the \ officers could be notified and the catas- i trophe averted. To Somerset was five [ miles, over hills and through the woods, , and long before she could reach there j it would be too l?itn?the express would 1 have gone down. Matland was only a j mile, but between her and Matland was tho river, ten or fifteen feet above its natural height, and to pass this she must cross over Bridge, No. 1, fifty feet above the roaring, rushing water. She must cross this bridge four hundred feet long, with nothing but the ties and rails for support, the wind blowing a gale, and the foaming, seething, muddy waters below I Not one ? - il -1 1- ? 1. 1J 1 I man in a mousmiu uuu wuuiu nave shrunk from such a task; not ono man in live hundred 'would hare gone over at any price or under any considerations. But my brave, noble girl, "witli the nerve of a giant, never hesitated, never stopped to fear. Gathering up her flowing skirts, imd on hands and knees, she crawled over the long bridge. Slowly tie after tie was passed. It was already time for our train to come dashing over the bridge and hurl her down to death amid the dark and muddy water of the rushing river. The blood from the lacerated knees had stained her dress, but she does not falter; her long hair is blown out from her net by the fury of the wind, but she must not stop. Afc last she reached the shore, and almost flew up the track to the office, where our train was just ready to start. Breathless and in broken accents she told her sad, fearful tale, and then, faint and weak from her excitement, fell back into my eager, waiting arms. Half-unconscious, I carried her into the dry, warm ollice, and as I put her down, her great, earnest eyes opened wearily, for a moment, to meet mine and read the love in them, and her white lips smiled. "You are saved!" she murmured, very low, " Ob, George, I never could have done it, but I knew it was your train," and I clasped the bravejitfcle heroine close in my wet arms, never more, please God, to let her go. The sun of the next morning as it came up clear and bright, glistening on the min<1rrms and neerincr over into the rocky chasm, where the wreck and the dead men lay, seemed like the sun of my new life! rising to look down in pity upon tlio wreck and ruin of my past. "How am I now 1" did you ask. That little cottage on the hill yonder is mine, and I am back in my old profession, working hard to keep my position, but happy as I never dreamed to bo, and I owe it all to that brave little wife of mine.? George R. Purrish. Thanksgiving Day. Thanksgiving day was instituted by the "Pilgrim Fathers" at Plymouth, as a day for devout public services of prayer and thanksgiving for tho bountiful crops gathered at their first harvest in 1621. They had landed on the bleak shores of Plymouth bay in tho December previous, and had passed a winter of extraordinary suffering. In poverty, in a strange land, homeless, friendless, except that One cared for tbem, they struggled manfully through that first terrible winter, and when spring smiled upon them, trusting in God, they put their first seed into the ground. Most of this seed was Indian corn, which they discovered buried in the sand?enough to plant twenty acres; and when the summer was over they found that God had abundantly rewarded the first labor of their hands. After they had finished the work of the harvest, and the hunters had secured a large supply of wild fowl and deer for the feast, these sober, God-fearing men, with their wives and little ones, gathered to give thanks for and rejoice in the fruit of their labors. Thus, in the expression of gratitude to God, and in the exercise of kindness and hospitality, n-as passed the first Thanksgiving day : ?the harvest-festival of New England. . Occasional days of thanksgiving were : held from then until 1G80, when it was ] wade the annual custom in Massachusetts, and early became the most prom- i inent holiday in Now England. It was ] Dccasionally observed in the other colo- i aies, at different seasons, and for various . reasons, as for tho safe arrival of ships < ifter a dangerous voyage, or for victory aver the Indians." Thanksgiving day svas a national institution throughout i the Revolutionary war; but there was 1 qo national appointment after the gen- J 3ral thanksgiving for peace in 1781, i intil President Washington recommended one in 1789, for the adoption 1 jf the constitution. There was also an i official appointment for national thanks- i jiving in 1795 for the suppression of i m insurrection, and in 1815 for the j successful termination of the war with ] 3reat Britain. But the day did not becomo one of i mnual national observance until necr ;ho close of tho war, wh- n President Lincoln issued proclamations for days )f special thanksgiving for victories, md recommended the annual observ- j' mco of tho dav.?ExcJianffc. \ Perfumery in Ancient E^ypt. The consumption of essences must : lave been enormous at the highest tide of Egyptian splendor, for the people were ictually enjoined to perfume themselves on Fridays; corpses were inointed with aromatic essences ; sherbets and sweetmeats were flavored with Eine vegetable extracts ; perfumes tilled :he air in every well-to-do house, and saturated the letters and presents which vers constantly being exchanged. Tho adies bathed in perfumed water, the iien uaed scented oils for tho hair, and both made use of red, yellow and green ;oap. During great festivals incense was Durned in all the streets, so that even ;he poorest might be regaled by the nero act of breathing. Nor was there my lack of narcotics. The mode of Dreparing opium, introduced from Jyoot, in Upper Egypt, was well inown, and the Sultan Beybars promulgated several edicts prohibiting the ise of hasheesh, a stupefying and inr.virtolinrr *\wir\oroHnn Ttirlion linmr* Ln spite of the prophet's prohibition, ( ;he juice of the grape continued to be j ndulged in. Alcohol (as its name in- ( licates) is an Arab discovery, and beer ; ?the favorite beverage of the ancient t Egyptians? was also brewed and drank ( mder the caliphs. i Many a jovial song in praise of wine j was sung by Arab poets, and in early ( imes many Arabs would by no means ( idmit that the prophet had forbidden ts use. In an old MS. copy of Tha'dibi it is said: "The prophet?may 3od bless him and accept him ? pernitted wine, and mercifully allows us < .0 strengthen ourselves with it at our ( neals, and to lift l-e veil of our cares ( ind sorrows.'* i ? i Debris of Old Buildings. The varied materials collected from Did buildings in course of demolition j form enormous accumulations in some ] af the upper wards of New York city, < where one can purchase anything in the building line from a piece of lead pipe i to a magnilicent French plate glass. ] Timber of a!l sort, from giant cross- j beams to little joist posts, can be had in ] these yards, where there are also wim i ilow eashee, window weights, doors^ j shutters, iron and wooden staircases, i window frames, doorposts, flooring, lath iug, tiling, wainscoting, bricks, brown : stone fronts, granite steps, gianito col- i amns, iron girders and iron fronts, iron < stair-frames, and, iu fact, anything and everything that bus ever been used in ? house. Door-knobs, bell-handles, i iron iaiJiijqs and balconies, not to mention the cornices, ore there in profusion < and confusion. The profits of !his busi- i ness are said to be great, and whilo it frequently happens that large figures ; are paid for some houses, tho ]>rofits are correspondingly great. Recently some ; houses on Twenty-third street wore taken down, and us they were finished in hard wood, ornamented with mirrors ; and great, spacious liroplaoes, tho price demanded was very large, but, the old ' brass work and glais alone paid the pur- i chaser fur what ho had invested, and tho wood, stone and brick of the house i was ail clear profit. Tlie two firms who do the largcht truflic of tho kind carry ; to their yards about fifty trusi:-) tads of material a day. Then there are dozens ; of othe:"3 in the trade who do a much more modest business. ? Ii'dustnal World. ? A Sea Serpent Slory. A good sea serpent, story comes from Madras in the eliape of reminiscences of Captain Taylor, when lying at anchor at Table bay some years ago. One day an "enormous monster,"about 1U0 foot in length, was seen advancing with snake-Jiko motion round Green point into the harbor. The head appeared to bo crowned with long hair, and the keener-sighted among the observers j coma see iue eyes una uisuuyiusu me features of the monster. The military were called out, and, after peppering the object at a distance of 500 yards, and making several palpable hits, it was observed to become quito still, the boats ventured off to complete tho destruction. Tho " sea serpent" proved to be a mass of gigantic seaweed, which had been undulated by the ground swell, and had become quiescent when it reached tho still walers of tho bay. Probably if mariners would attack the " monster" in the same manner, whenever it is seen, we should hear little more oi the sea serpent. FACTS AND COMMENTS. Senator Morrill, of Vermont, now seventy-one years of nge, is the senior member of the United States Senate, and the youngest is Senator Aldrich of Rhode Island, now forty years of age. Mohammed Tewfik, tho khedivo of Egypt, has regular features, and is not at all bad-looking. Ho is only twentynine years old, but looks older, and is rather portly. While his bearing is dignified he is shy iu the presence of strangers, but a keen observer. Eis tastes aro simple, he hates parade, loves his home and is au excellent husband and futher. Some one has taken tho troublo o collect statistics of tho existing pawnbrokers in the United British Kingdom. Their total number is 4,a/z, anuaurmg a single year they take in, it is estimated, some 200,000,000 pledges. Returns made by 731 pawnbrokers represent a business of 32,500,000 pledges, and the total of 200,000,000 is calculated for these returns. In order to mako marching easier for tho German soldiers, their feet are wrapped in linon soaked with lard. But on the march, espocially where the boots are too big, tho sticky mud will pull tho boots off. During a parade j before tho emperor, not long since, the boots came off by the hundreds, and a fatigue party had to be sent out to pick | up tho footgear. A New York man has a bee farm on the top of his house, within a few rods of the postoflice. The bees have to fly to Central park to get at the blossoms to collect their honey. Thoy como straight home to their hives, and know j the spot where they are placed. It is I said that the bees being so much abo?e J the streets aro not disturbed by tho j noises of the city. Mrs. Campbell, tho wife of Alexander Campbell, founder of the Christian church, of whichjPresident Garfield was a member, is a striking-looking woman * ? TT 1- _ 11. .1. or eigntv years. xier uaxr is us oiacs, her eyes as bright as in her youth, and her mental activity is remarkable. She reads and writes often until past midnight, and is now engaged upon a volnme of reminiscences of her husband. Mr. Whittier's days at home in Auaes- j bury- Mass., aro devoted to h's books, with the exception of one hour in this forenoon and one hour in the afternoon. During these intervals he is always to bo found at the postoftice or reading the Boston papers in a book store, tho' townspeople watching with real rever-1 E?nco the tall, slender, white-liairecl I poet. Ho occupies two furnished rooms ! in a pleasant homo on Friend street, j Amesbury, and his life therein is that i of a student?simple and hardworking, i There recently died in Oregon a mule ; that has a history that would fill a smal ; book. He was forty-six years old, and j had been in the service of the govern- j ment for tho past thirty-six years. He , n-as known all over the coast as " Old ! Tom," and lias been at different timee | stationed nt almost every garrison on j the coast. His funeral was attended by | the quartermaster's department in force, ! ind his body interred with a feeling of profound sorrow at tho loss of this oldtimer. A monument has been erected j over his grave. The agricultural bureau estimates tho , nlieat crop of tho United States for the ! current year will be 381,179,200 bush-! els. The yield of 1879 was 458,000,000 ' bushels; that of 1880 is now set at 498,- j 500,000 bushels. Tho decrease this j rear from last is therefore 117,000,000 bushels. On an examination of the table by States it appears that there was i loss, as compared with 1879, in every Western State from Ohio to Colorado, excepting Texas. Oregon and the Ter- j ritories alone show any considerable in-1 crease. Farmers will get moro for their j jrain, but consumers will have to pay | more for their flour. It would astonish people in the country to know to what an extent fortunetelling is carried on in New York city. A. fortune-teller, calling herself Madam De London, was arrested a short time igo for swindling, for the business is ' contrary to a law which is seldom en-1 Forced. It is estimated that between i fifty and a hundred of these adventur?sse?, for most of them are women, get i living by that business in New York. A.nd most of the fools who allow these ; liarpies to swindle tl'em are women, says the Christian at Work, and many ire women who dress well, too, and move in a pretty fair sort of social circle. They can hardly be set down as j ignorant, for they keep up with the j iimes, so far as reading goes, at least. But they believo in fortune-teiling just is firmly as the hopelessly ignorant, and iro duped in exactlj the f>ame way. kside from the objections to it as a fraud and imposture, the whole business jf fortune-telling is an agent of immorality that ought to be sternly suppressed. The Wrong Girl. His name was Augustus Smythe; ho ivas a cleric in a dry goods store, and j lidn't earn enough to starve decently j Dn, but with that sublime assurance I which distinguishes the la-de-dah young j man of the ilay, he wa3 paying attention to the prettiest girl in Detroit. He managed bv not paying his washerwoman and tailor to take her to operas md theaters, but as times were getting hard he concluded to marry her and save the expense of boarding. By some process of mental arithmetic known to the genus he decided that what was not enough for one was enough for two, md forthwith he concluded to pop. Ho knew tbat his persistent visits had kept ill the other young men away, so he bad no fears of a trial. When the time came and ho found himself in the company of his Laura in l?cr papa's comfoi table pa' lor. ho leiburcly seated himself by lie) on Le eofa, took her little | dimpled hand t-ed only to tinklo the piano with, and said in a bronze voice: j "Dear Miss Laura, I have concluded i to marry." Laura started, as he intended she j 3liould. Then he resumed, grandilo- | quently: " I want a dear lifctlo girl about; your size, with a great big heart, just j like yours, to share my lot." "Is it on .Tellerson avenuo?" mur- j mured Laura. " No, deare3t, it is on Croghau street, ! but what ure localities to hearts that: love? I want a girl who is good-tem-' pered, smart, economical, and who i loves me! Darling, do you know of j such a one ?" Laura, faintly: " Yes, oh yes, I am sure I do." I "One who would rather live with me j in poverty than dwell with some other I man in riches ? Who would esteem it i a pleasure to servo me, cook my met is, | keep the house tidy, ami listen for my footsteps? who would rise early and Bit xip late for my sake?" "Oh, how beautiful," murmured Laura; " justliko a dear, 3elf-sacrilieing man 1" "Do you know such a ono, my angel ?" " Yes, I do," responded Laura, fervently; " but you must not call mo your angel, for she might not like it; she's in the kitchen now washing dishes, and she told mother tilts morning she'd just as leave get murried this winter as live out, if she only felt able to support a husband. She's just the girl you want, and she'll love you within an inch of your life " But Augustus Smytho had fled into the outer darkness; the too muchness cf tho occasion overcame him like a summer cloud.?Detroit Post. " Do you think thore is any danger in my going to Blankvillel" asked Rrnwn "flior Vrnvn fhft Rmfillnnx them. they Bay." " As I never know you to refrain from taking anything within yonr reaoh," replied Fogg, "I think you had better keep away lrom BlankYille." HEALTH HINTS. Try popcorn for nausea. Tit cranberries for malaifa. Try a sunbath for rheumatism. Try ginger ale for stomach cramps. Try clam broth for a weak stomach. Try cranberry poultice for erysipelas Try eating fresh radishes and yellow turnips for gravel. Try swallowing saliva when troubled with sour stomach. Try a wet towel to the back of 'the neck when sleepless. Try buttermilk for removal of freck es, tan and butternut stains. Try eating onions and horseradish to relieve dropsical swellings. Try to cultivate an eqnable temper and don't borrow trouble ahead. Try taking your codliver oil in i;omato catsup, if you want to make it palatable. Try breathing the fumes of turpentine or carbolic acid to relievo whooping cough. Try taking a nap in the afterr.oon if you are going to be out late in the evening. Try a cloth wrung out from cold water put about the neck at ni|;ht for sore throat.?Dr. Foote's Health Monthly. The Earliest Pens. As long as people wrote on tables covered with wai they were obliged to nse a style or bodkin, made of bone, metal, or some other hard substance; but when they began to write with colored liquic.s^they nsed a reed ; after which quills and feathers (plumes as is sometimes said) came into fashion, these finally giving way to motals? steel, not only from its adaptability, but from its cheapness, being the speciality for this purpose. The earliest pens, euch as were used for writing on papyrus with a fluid, appear to have been made of reedu. In our translation of the Old and New Testaments (not tho revised editior.) the word pen refers to an iron stylus used on wax tablets, or a reed, quills not having been introduced earlier than the fifth century. It is not certain what particular kind of reed was us 2d for making pens, but it is described as a small, hard, round cane, about tns size of a large Bwan quill. The supply of these reeds wc.s obtained from Egypt, Cairo, Asia Minor and Armenia. Chardrin and Tourapfort describe a kind of reed used for pens in Persia. These reeds are collected near the shores of the Persian Gulf, whenco they are tent to various parts of the East. After being cu'; they are deposited for some months in stable manure, when they assume a mixed black and yellow color, acquire a fine polish und ?-? nvo"kin Annvnt\ rvf liarrlnceG onrl U WiiOlUU. the pith dries up into a mem'orane which is easily removed. Keed pens are still in use, as they suit the Arabic character better than quill or metal pens. Tho Arab, in writing, places the paper upon hif, knee, or upon the palm of his left hand, or upon a dozen or more pieces of paper attached together at the corners and resembling a thin book, which he rests on his knee. The ink used by the Arab is very thick and gummy. Although the quills used for pens were chiefly from the goose, those from the swan and crow wero much esteemed; and besides these, the ostrich, turkey and other birds occasionally contributed to the supply. Most of the manufactured goose quills were from the Netherlands, Germany, Russia and Poland. Before the general, introduction of motallic pens, as many as 27,000,000 of quills had been received in Great Britain from St. Petersburg in a single year. Some idea of the number of geese required to keep up such a supply may be judged from the fact that each wing produces about five good quills, and that by careful manngomoat a goose may afford ten quills during a year. While quill pens wero in vogue the occupation of a pen cutter or maker was one of considerable importance; no t one in five of those who used pens could make one, and scarcely half a century has elapsed .since a certain hous:e in Shoe lane, Loudon, disposed of over six million quill pens per annum.. It was also quite common at ihat time to cut the barrels of quills into several pens, each being affixed to handles when used, as is now done with metallic pens. The first notice that wo find of steel pens for writing is in 1S03, when a Mr. Wise, of London, constructed "barrel pens " of that metal, mounted on bone handles. These pens were expensive and not very successful; they, howeiver, served a good purpose, as the forerunner of a better article.?Paper World. Artificially Drying: Crops. Tho deterioration of tho last British wheat crop, by reason of the beavy rains that fell just as the farmers were about to harvest it, brings into prominent notice an important invention for securing all agricultural products from the effects of dampness. This invention is the matured result of elaborate experiments by W. A. Gibbs, of Essex, England, and is known as the "Gilwell Dryer." Its essential :ieaturo is that hot air and the products of the combustion of coke or anthracite, as coming from a portable furnace, are driven by means of a fan right over and through the hay, wheat or other products to be dried. Under this process the hay retains its fall natural odor and savor, and is eagerly eaten by the most fastidious cows and horses; and in practical working no disaster from tiro or any other cause has ever i ci t. t occurred. oucu uu jiivuunuu is juvrluablo, if, as a high scientific authority asserts, over thirty tons of wet hay can bo dried by it ia twenty-four hours at a cost of less than four dollars, and that it is efficacious in saving grain, seed and all other products. The immense loss of British agriculturists from the saturation of their harvests by their proverbially torrential harvest raius have terribly crippled them, for several years, so that somo process for drying grain is a prime necessity. The increasingly inferior condition in which English wheat is reaching tho market is clearly shown by a comparison of the commercial statistics published during the month of September (the price falling from about iifty-five shillings a quarter on tho 3d of tho month, to about fortyeight at its close), aud August was a month when tho means of artilicinl drying would have been worth millions to British farmers. The value of the machines might also bo of incalculable benefit to American districts when visited by wet weather at harvest time. 'J he Xew Schoolmaster. The old man approached the new schoolmaster with a bulldog glaro in his eyes. " You got after my boy yesterday because ho left a live hornet glued to your chair?" " I did." "You licked him bo bo thought the world was coming to an end." " That was the impression I intended to convey to him." " I am his father, and I've como to tell you what I think of your proceedings!" Then they clinched. Hair and blood flew into the air, likewise dust and fragments. Then it quieted down a little, and tho old man implored him to let him up, stop choking, and take his teeth from that oar. "What do you think about my warming your boy?" asked the school-teacher. "I think you did just right, and when I go home I'll give him a tanning that'll teach him to come to me with his complaints that the schoolmastor ?i. l> cuu L They parted, and the schoolmaster murmured : "I (lid right to tackle the son of the worst fighting man in the district. None of the others will pester ? _ ii ? me. The vast region of Siberia has a population of only 1,885,000 souls, l . r. x . < -JSrvftj . ... . _ I't'-'y vVw THE FAKM AM> HOUSEHOLD. Fnrm nnd Harden Notes. Buttermilk poured over the back of a scurvy pig will remove the scurf. Oats grown on clay land makes the best meal, keeps longest and bring the highest price. If salt and charcoal be fed to pigs every week it will greatly benefit them by preserving their health. The sooner milk is cooled after milking the greater the amount of butter obtained?so the creameries report. It is claiifled that poke weed is highly poisonous and destructive to apple trees within the influence of its growth. Tho shipping of gTeen fruits in carbonized bran has proved such a great success that it will likely revolutionize this kind of trade in n year or two. TU*? -a1?a r\ f 1 t?v?T*n r/1 worinra /In. XJJU VUiUU ui uumjuiu uimuu4U W pends upon the potash, phosphoric acid and nitrogen which it contains and the mechanical effect it has upon the soil. One gTeat mistake made in pig breeding is in having the breeding stock too young?in breeding the sows too young before they have become well-grown . and matured, and also in buying young breeding sows instead of full-grown' ones. Save lameness and coughs by an immediate covering of the horse after a drive, if only stopping for a few minutc-s. : Do not cover the horse with blankets when he is in exercise, not even in a litorm, but rub thoroughly and cover after the horse has found shelter. Scrape dead bark from trunks and large branches of trees and in dry weather wash with this compound: Boil down in an iron vessel a pound of sal fiodu and dissolvo in a gallon of rain water. Two applications a year of this will keep trees clean and free from borers. Clover not only provides an abunds.nce of nitrogenous food, but delivers this food in a readily available form, as nitrates, more gradually and continuously, and with more certainty of a g;ood result than if such food be applied to the land under the form of nitrogenous spring topdressing. Orchards should be planted on hillsides, or hillsides should be planted with orchards?take either born ot tne dilemma you please. There is an eternal fitness of things in putting the t?ee and the locality together. Orchards may do well in other places, but they nearly always produce satisfactory results on hillsides. Experience has proved board floors for poultry houses to bo injurious to the fowls. No amount of cleaning can keep tuera free from vermin and bad odors. Clean, dry earth, is the proper flooring for hen-houses. It should have an under strata of solid, packed earth. This should be scraped at least once a week and again sprinkled with road dust mixed with air-slacked lime. The oilcakes and bran are the foods richest in phosphoric acid; straw and meadow hay are the foods poorest in this constituent. Lim 2 is most abundant ir: clover hay, bean straw and turnips, I mid occurs in least quantity in the I ciireal grains aud in potatoes. Potash j is abundant in roots, hay, bean straw, bran and oilcake, and is found in smallest quantity in the cereal grains. Collect a few barrels of dry earth, road dust, fine dry dirt in the cornfield or potato patch, or anywhere that is most convenient. This is a handy thing to have in tno fall and winter for sprinkling under the roosts and on the floor of the poultry-house. It absorbs ammonia, keeps down smell and keeps things shipshape. It will pay to attend to this now when it can bo so easily done. It costs but little, and a a real advantage. When the pigs are two weeks old i hey should havo a pen and trough ad- j joining that of the sow, so arranged that "bey may pass from ono to the other at pleasure, and should bo fed on milk at lirst, and as they grow older the food iiLould bo mado more nourishing by ncalding shipstuiT, allowing it to cool, aud feeding it with milk. Caro should be taken not to scorch tho food. The milk should never bo cookod, as it would bo liable to causg scours. Grnbs in the head of fcheep are believed to bo caused by the gad-fly, which deposits its eggs in the nostrils of tho sheep during the summer and sutumn; although they cause much pain, tney are not usually laiai. xo i prevent them, apply tar to the noses of | tlip sheep occasionally during Jnly or August, or smear the feeding-troughs I \7itb tar. To cure the sheep when the grub are once hatched, blow tobacco smoke up the nostrils, or syringe the nose with a decoction of tobacco. American farmers for the most part have yet to leurn the valne of a covered yard for their stock. There are many days in the year when cattlo could be turned into such a jard, when they would otherwise be condemned, on account of the weather, to stand ail day in the stable. The roof would prevent all waste of manure from washing, and would make the yard so cleanly and comfortable that the animals conld lie down. In thi3 country, where wood is so cheap, and almost every man sufficiently handy to bo his own carpenter, wo are convinced that farmers have only to see the advantage? of such yards to adopt them at once. Recipes. Velvet Cream.?Whites of four eggs beaten to a stiff froth; two teaspoonfiila each of sugar, currant jelly and raspberry jam. Beat all together briskly. Servo with or without cream. With cake it is a delicious dish for dessert. Soft Ginger Cake.?One enp of molasses, one enp of sugar, one cup of sweet milk, half a enp of butter, one egg, two teaspoonfnls of bakinr powdor; ginger and raisins to suit the taste. Stir in Hour enough to make a soft batter, not as thick as ordinary cake. Bake slowly. Parsley Sauce.?Wash a bunch of parsley in cold water, then boil it for six or seven minutes in halt and water; i - - ?l 1 11,,. i arum It, CUt mu iua> tra Hum tuu Di'imva and chop them line. Have ready some incited butter and stir iii the parsley: allow two small lablespoonfuls of leaves to one half pint of butter. Serve with fish, and with boiled fowls. a lmon'd Cake.?Take half a pound of butter, one pound of ugar, one pound of Hour, one cup of sweet milk, nix eggs, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder (when so many eggs are used do not heap the baking powder in tho spoons), ono cup of blanched and chopped almonds, one cup of seedless raisins (also chopped), ono cup of citron cut in small pieces; stir the almonds, raisins and citron in with tho ilour. This is a very rich cake, bat it has tho merit of keeping well. Pi/om Tddding.?Half a pound of seede d and cut raisins, tho same quantity of currants, well washed and dried; half pound (scant weight) of beef suet, shredded and cut tine; two ounces each of white sugar and flour, half pound of bread-crumbs, one dozen almonds (half I ftt'Anf nn/1 l?olF nlintvnn/1 D"1'1" /1 , little more than balf a grated nutmeg', four ounces of citron cut line; mix these well together overnight; the next morning add six eggs, stirring all together well, antl nearly cne gill of rich milk, sweetening it first; after it is well mixed, put it into the cloth mold and boil three hours. Ligiit, Wiiolksome Bread.?Put in mixing-pan one tablespoonful of sugar and one of shortening, one teaspoonful - .n jt 01 can, ouo-uu.ii uhao ui i;uijipic-s?t;ii yoast and three pints of cold water. Stir ir enough flour to make quite stiff, dredge flour thickly over the top, cover well and place where it will not he too warm for the night. In tho morning flour your board, thrn tho dough upon it and knead ono-half hour, cut across with a knife every few minutes. (Kneading is stretching it over and over toward you with doubled-up fists, with only enough flour on the board to prevent sticking.) This recipe makes three loaves and twenty-four biscuits. When I I tho loaves have risen to top of pans, bake one bonr in a moderate oven. The biscuits require much less time and a hot oven. My pans are nine and onehalf inches long, five inches wide and three inches deep I have used this recipe nearly ten years, and think that t those who vcill follow the directions ex- . actlv will be satisfied with the result.? A Nc>d England Woman, The Longevity of the Ancients. Can man reach and pass the age of a hundred years? is a question concerning which physiologists have different opinions. 'Buffon was the first one in France to raise the question of the oxtreme limit of human life. In his opinion, man, becoming adult at sixteen, ought to live to Bix times that age, or to ninety-six years. Having been called ' upon to account for the phenomenal I ages attributed by the Bible to the patviornka lia rialrrtrl tliA fnllnxrinc JIS All < explanation: "Before the flood the earth was less solid, less compact than it is now. The law of gravitation bad acted for only a little time; tho productions of the globe had less consistency, and the body of man, being more supple, was more susceptible of extension. Being, able to grow for a longer time, it Bhould, in consequence, live for a'longer time than now." The German Eeualer has suggested on the same point that the ancients did not divide time as we do. Previous to the age of Abraham the year, among 1 some people of the East, was only three months, or a season ; so that they had a * year of spring, one of summer, one of ! fall and one (if winter. The year was 1 extended so as to consist of eight months ] after Abraham and twelve months after ' Joseph. Voltaire rejected tho longevity assigned to the patriarchs of the Bible, 1 butjaccepted without question the stories < of the great ages attained by some men I in India, where, ho says, " it is not rare 1 to see old men of one hundred and : twenty years." Th^ eminent French 1 physiologist, Flourens, fixing the complete development of man at twenty years, teaches that he should live five times as long as it takes him to become an adult. According to this author the < moment of a completed development i may be recognized by the fact of the junction of the bones with their apophy- i ees. This junction takes place in horses at five years, and the horse does not live beyond twenty-five years; with the ox at four years, and it does not live over twenty years; with the cat at eighteen months, and that animal rarely lives over ten years. With man it is effected at twenty years, unci he only exceptionally lives beyond one hundred years. The same physiologist admits, however, that human life maybe exceptionally prolonged under certain conditions of con.tort, sobriety, freedom from euro, regularity of habits and observance of the rules of hygiene, and ho terminates hia interesting study of the last point ("De la Longevite Humaine ") with the 1 aphorism, "Man kills himself rather 1 than dies."?Popular Science Monthly. { A Third Set of Tcetli. Concerning the growth of a third set j of teeth Professor Owen says: Tec-th ' are organs that, as a rule, have a term of existence more limited than that of the organism of which thoy form apart. In many of the lower vertebrates they are shed very soon after they are com- 1 pleted and in use, aud are as quickly J replaced by othws. In the mammalia, ! however, there i? but one succession of teeth naturaliy shed, but though !be :! successors of the so-called " milk 1 teeth" last long enough to acquire ' [ the title of " permanent," they are rarely retained to an advanced ! I mi _ t.? ? 1 uxiit'iu la, jiuhuu'Ij a ucuci i entertained by many of the occasional | acquisition of u third set in human cen- ' tenariun.'i. Thus, it is recorded of the Countess of Desmond, in "FynG's Mori- 1 son's Itinerary (1017), that, not many ! years before her death, which is said 1 to have occurred at tbe age of 140 years, 1 "she had all her teeth renewed." I was |' led to a discussion on this point by a j worthy clergyman at the house of p. friend whom I was visitiug, und to my ' skepticism as to the alleged aga and ! third set of teeth of tho old countess, he ] replied that there then lived in his parish : an old woman alleged to have passed her j! hundredth year, who was then actually I' cutting her third set of teeth. I re- ' joicnd at this instance. I had long been convinced that actual phenomena had ' suggested the statement, but that the , nature of these had been misinterpreted, 1 and I deemed rnvseF most fortunate in having an opportunity of testing tho ' matter. The following morning I was ' driven to the old woman's cabin. It was J in the north of Ireland, and she was sitting crouched over her peat fire, a typi- 1 cal example of liuman decay. To tho ! shouts of her pastor tho deaf old crone replied by pulling down her skinny lip ' and exposing the side of her lower jaw, 1 from which there projected through the I gum tho blackened stump of a tooth, the crown of which had crone manv vears 1 before. The absorption of the gums 1 consequent on the edentulous state of ( tho jaw iu senility, had brought to light ( a romuant of a loug-lost tooth. Other ? stumps of teeth, of which the loss of the ? decayed crown had been forgotten, c might, in like manner, appear through tho shrinkage and absorption of the senile jaw. And this I take to be the true ground of the allegations as to the acquisition in the extreme old age of a j third set of veritable teeth. p ? I Threatened Famine in Asia Minor. x Asia Minor is threatened with a r?pe- c tition of the terrible famine of 1873-1. Locnsts, drought, depopulation, mis- j Pfovernment, have wrought their effects. a This year's crops have almost universally v failed. The district of Angora again ap- j pears to have suffered the most severely, 0 aud the unfortunate inhabitants arc al- s ready beginning to. emigrate en masse { in search of food, lest winter snows and j. swollen streams should cut off their j| communication with tho outer world, and they should again llnd themselves pent up in their mountain homes, with- t out a chance of escape, and reduced to tho same feartul ] ;ighfc which seven v years ago caused fathers and mothers to ! ^ sell their children for a handful of corn. 1 e The government is, of course, too much ; n engrossed with Egyptian intrigues to j j~. tuko any useful measures agaiust the ! r" impending calamity. All that has been r dor.e hitherto is to suspend the export j k of grain from the famino districts. As I ^ the population is too poor to buy, the ' {.i merchauts are obliged to sell at ruocli! j prices to the authorities, who lock up ! r, tho grain in the government storehouses Ij," until they tiud some opportunity of tj diivinga good bargain "it is au ill 1 ri wind which blows nobody luck, and a j famine is not without its redeeming 0 points in tho eyes of Turkish function- p aries.?Pall Mall (iaztfie. s m The Five Tenors. f( A story is told in mo.st Parisian green h rooms of " The Manager and the Five C Tenors." The manager had engaged a ! d French operetta troupe to perform in a j i< city of South America. Ho was the j u most polite aud generous of managers, j tie ottered high terms, promised his i proteges a benefit apiece, made the I best arrangements for tluir comfort on I tl the voyage out, and at last had the sat- j g isfactiou of steaming ofl'Avith them all. c Tbe day when they started was a line j ? one, and as soon as the shores of Franco 1 0 had faded out of sight tho company, to 0 keep up their spirits, began to sing ou m deck. But very soon they stopped, and c livo gentlemen were seen to staro at f< one another with consternation. They tl were all tivo tenors. "Why, how is n thisr" cried one. " I was engaged as ? the only tenor." " That is my case, | L too," chimed in another, and so said t they all. Tho manager had slunk down . v into the cabin during this altercation, o but he was called up again, aud was re- t nfnrniuli nrnlariallfiriCi "flillm ( Hlicn.ui . your minds," lie said, in a cheerful tone; L "yon are five tenors now, bnfc I calcn- j late that fonr of yon will bo carried off \ by tho vomito negro as soon as wo land, 1 and I promise that tho ono whosnrvives shall be my only tenor."?London Daily Ntvcs. ? : - SUNDAY READING. Thnnkanlvlne Hymn. In pleasant lands liavo fallen tho linea That bound our goodly heritage, And safe beneath our sheltering vines Our youth is blest, and soothe'd our age. What thanks, Oh, God, to Thee aro duo, That Thou didst plant our fathers here, And watch and guard them as they grew, A vineyard to tho planter dear. The toils they lx>re, our ease have wrought; They sowed in tears, in joy we reap; Tho birthright they so dearly bought We'll guard till wo with them shall sleep. Thy kindness to oui fathers shown, In weal or woo, through all the past, Their grateful sons, Oh, God, shall own, While here tlieir name ana race anan laei. Religious Sewn and Kotos. Iowa is erecting Methodist churohea it the rate of one per fortnight. The State membership is 80,000. The total expenditure upon industrial schools in England amounts to $1,580,300. There are now about 15,000 of iliese schools. The New York Swedish Lutheran conference six years ago had but two churches. Now it numbers sixteen. It lias appointed a traveling missionary for the State of Connecticut. The new Protestant Episcopal diocese [^Washington Territory includes seven clergymen, eight chnrches and chapels, four parsonages and a girls' boarding school, with five teachers and sixty pupils. A passage in a speech recently delivsred by the pope has once more put in circulation the report of his approach ing departure froa Rome. The Patrie profesees to know that Leo XIII. will ;ransfer the Holy See to Salzberg. A Presbyterian evangelist who re- . cently visited three of the mountain :ounties in East Tennesseo reports that he held several services in a place where there had been no preaching cr religious service of any kind for more khan a year. There is a church in California composed entirely of women?seven in all ?and their contributions for home work last year amounted to ?100. One or two men in that church would not stand much chance of ruling it. "Who the pastor is and how he likes it is not stated. The Rev. H. N. Ellacombe, of England, is writing a series of letters to prove that Shakespeare was an ardent fisherman. He says that there is little doubt that the great bard enjoyed many a day's fishing in the Warwickshire and Gloucestershire streams. He also quotes many sayings from Shakespeare bearing upon angling. In tho last ten years the number of churches in Chicago has increased from 156 to 218. The following denominations have made gains in the number of churches us indicated: Metnodist, 17, Evangelical Lutheran, 17; Roman Catholic, Reformed Episcopal, Jewish find Independent, 6 each, and Baptist, 1. Tho Presbyterian, Episcopal and Congregational denominations have lost rrne church each. The number of Christian and unclassified church?fl?four ind fifteen respectively?remains the same as in 1S71. The First Si?u of Consumption. It is not as extensively known as it rraght to be that, in the large majority af cases, consumption begins with a slight congh in the morniDg on getting np. After a while it is perceived at ai^hton going to bed; next, there is ^occasional ''coughing spell" somo timo during the night; by this time thero is a difficulty of breathing on any slightly unusual exercise, or in ascending a hill. Even before this, persons begin to feel weak, while there is an almost imperceptible thinning in flesh, and a gradual diminution in weight?harassing cough, loose bowels, difficult breathing, swollen extremities, daily fever md a miserable death. Miserable, bemuse it is tedious, painful and inevitlble. How much it ia to be wished ihat the symptoms of this hatefnl disease were more generally studied and understood, that it might be detected in its first insidious appproaches, and ipplicafcicn be made at once for its arrest and total eradication; for certain it is that, in very many instances; it ?ould be accomplished. It must bo remembered that cough is not an invariable attendant of consumption of the lungs, inasmuch as persons have died, and on examination a large portion of the lungs were found to have decayed away, and yet these tame per50ns were never noticed to have had a :ough, or observed it themselves, until within a few davo of death. But such inat-.-inrtoa oro rnvo on/! a. hnhif.Tiftl nnnirh UiHIWUWCU MEW *M?V| M O Dn getting tip and on going to bed may b3 safely eet down as indicating consumption begnn. Cough, as just stated, is originally a curative process, the neans which nature uses to rid the body of that which offends, of that >vhich is foreign to the system and >ught to be out of it; hence the folly )f using medicines to keep down the :ough, as all cough remedies sold in the ihops merely do, without taking means it the same time for removing that state >f things which make cough necessary. ?Hull's Journal of Health. Rcsloriug Solomon's Temple, Reuf Pasha, the Turkish governor of J Jerusalem, Las recenily receivad imjerative orders from Sultan Abdul 1 lamid to resume tho work of restoraion of Solomon's temple, commenced mder the reign of Abdul Aziz; but dis lontinued some five years ago. The ] lasha has also besn instructed to clear j be great square fronting the temple of < 11 the rubbish and rank vegetation ( ritli which it, is at present incumbered; i u this squuro stands the famous mosque i f Omar, which derives a revenue of 3 omo 875,000 a year from pilgrim con- j ributions and other sources. Hitherto ? bo greater portion of this sum found ] is way unnually toStamboul. Thesul- j an, however, has decreed that bence- ] orth it shall bo applied to defraying ] be expenses of tbo works above alluded j o, the jirerjcnt resumption of which, as j rell as their original inception, is due [ n *eality to suggestions made at differ- < ufc timca to the Ottoman authorities by j lembers of tbo Austrian imperial < nuily. Tbo restoration of tbe temple ] nius >rns begun at the instance of ] 'ranois Joseph duriug his visit to the j oly land, shortly after the accession of j .bdul Aziz io the throne; and it was ] ho recent pilgrimage of the Archduke j Undolph to -Tudea that imparted a i rosli impulse to tbo interrupted enter- j rise. Not only has tbe commander of j he faithful signified it to be his sove- j i>ifj;n will that tbe works should be car- , ied out without further delay, but two ] ilieials of the sublime porte, Serid and i iuif Effendtn, havo already left Con- ( Lauti'.iople for Jerusalem with instruc- ( ions to take measures, on their arrival, ] jr insuring tbe literal fulfillment of < is majesty's decrees. The gratitude of ] liiristians and Jews aliko is due to Ab- . ul Humid for lending his high author- J ;y to so generous and enlightened an < ndertakiug.?Loudon Telegraph. I Nuggets of bold. The San Francisco Sl<;c\: Report has j lie following: "The first piece of ( old found in California weighed fifty j i-uts, and tbo second livo dollars. < lince that time one nugget worth ?43,- ] 00, two $21,000, one 810;000, two ?8,- | 00, oiv 80,500, four ?5,000, twelve i rorfch i'rora ?2,000 to ?4,000, and eight- 1 en from SI,000 to ?2,000 have been ' mind and recorded in tho history of lie state. Ia addition to the above, uraberless nuggets worth from S100 to 500 ure mentioned in the annah of !aliforuia gold mining during tho last hirty years. Tbe two lirsfc referred to fere exchanged for bread, and all trace f them were lost. The tinder of cs.f of be ?8,000 pieces becamo insane the ollo&ing day, and was confined at the lospital at Stockton. A carefully csdi>ilcd history of gold hunters in 185.)-83 rould be interesting reading in atter days." Idleness is the refuge of weak mind ind the holiday of fools. The Frog and the Lily. >>J8 L n arching woods of pine and oak, Through which tho cheerful sunlight broke, A pond long lay, by soft winds swept, And on its bosom lilies slept. A story of this pond I'll Tell, Of homely frog and lily-bell. n. % 'Twas in the summer month of Juno, When robin chirped his merry tune. That lily spoke to l'rog so free: "Oh, could I only leap like theo* But here I am so still and lone, j And dull as any old white stone. 1 The frog then said to lily fair: | "Juat see me jump so high in air;" I But down he camo into tho flood, . Jal And stopped not till ho rcached the mud. j The day wm flue, the sky serene; ] A boat upon the lake was seen. I A man caught froggy by the throat, j And threw him in the fatal boat. j The Illy plockod by maiden fair, Was placed upon her golden hair. j Moral. ^ j|| The richest man may loee hlfl gain, j J.AJU JJWACI3V WUW AUt?j i-y ?M4uv* ^ #i< , Be not puffed np with aelf-dcceit, The boaster always courts defeat; ,. fgfil Nor proudly say what you can do, But be modest, gentle, pure and true. - Ma HUMOR OF THE DAT. j A man, being tormented witK corns, kicked bis" foot through a window, and j the pano was gone instantly. i A little heat that can't be beat, the ,;! window ?pen wide; a little breeze, a ,v<|l little sneeze, and you're the doctor"# '.||j The Commercial Bulletin says the ^ i who does not advertise has it done for ";l him finally, under the head of " failures ' J3 in business." Yassar college has one small girl who j will in the hereafter be heard of in the '' |9 woman's rights societies. She de- ?s! scribed " straw*' as being a hollow thing ' with a ten-cent man on one end of it '' || and a twenty-cent drink on the other "You can't add different things together," said a school-teacher. "if -j*g you add a sheep and a cow together, It -Jl does not make two 6heep or two cows.' ig A little boy, the son of a milkman, held - I--"- ^ A ,1 ??i.1 . IIT-lU-4 up III"3 llttuu. UiiU OOiU JLl.'UU *UC?J uv r/:aB with Bheep and cows, but if you add a quart of water it makes two quarts of milk. I've seen it tried." A young gentleman who i? very par- '-J| ticular about tho getting up of his linen " ?? wrote a note to his laundress, and at tile same time sent one to tho object of his affections. Unfortunately, ho put . SS the wrong address on the envelopes and posted them. Tho woman was guz- ~ zled, but not in the least offended; but when the young lady read, " If you rumple up my shirt-bosoms and drag the buttons off the collar any more, as you did last time, I shall have to go somewhere else," she cried all the even- :JM ing and declared she would never speak ' . /M to him again. Reserved Power. It is not wise to work constantly up to the rate of which we are capable. If -jMB tho engineer of the railroad were to keep the speed of his train up to the highest rate he conld obtain with his | engine, it would soon be used up. If a .'Si 4a of. tV?<* ^An nf lllfl finAAli HBH UL/XOC JLO Ulif UU w>w wuv/ w* ^ for any length of timoTae is rained. It .;)? is well enough to try the power occa- :^|]S sionaliy of a horso or engine by putting '*? on all the motion it will bear, but not $9 continuously. Ali machinists construct v-$j their machines so there shall be a reserve force. If the power required is a four-horse, then they make a six- ^^3 horse power. In this case it works easily and lasts long. A man who^^l has strength enough to do twelve hon-. . '.{M est hours of labor in twenty-four, and %rm no more, should (]o but nine or ten hours' work. The reserve power keeps tho body in repair. It rounds out the frame to fnll proportions. It keeps the mind cheerful, hopeful, happy. The J person with no reserve forco is always ^jl incapable of taking on any more re- "ffijaj 8possibility than he already has. A little exertion puts him out of breath. ;|S|j He cannot increase his work for an hour vga without the danger of an explosion. Jjjm Such are generally pal?, bloodless, y&fQ nervous, irritable, despondent, gloomy. Wo all pity them. The great source *? of power in the individual is the ,^| blood. It runs the machinery of life, and upon it depends our health and strength. A mill on the l.V .?> stream whero water is scanty, can be worked but a portion of the time. So a : man with little good blood can do but little work. Tho reserve power must be stored up in this fluid. It is an old saying among stock-raisers* that ...-^j "blood tells." It is equally true that '*> blood tell3 in the sense in which we use the word. If it is only good blood, then the more of it the better. When the reserve power of an individual runs low, it is an indication that a change ?f ict Kncf fn cfnn 13 Ueuecaury, uju^ mau -u 10 wqv oxpending and go to accumulating, jnskas the miller, does when the water ?et j low in tho pond. Such a course would save many a person from physical bankruptcy. A Colorado Sunset. .??j Standing upon the margin of a lovely lake in the bosom of the nestling moun- '; Jains above the beautiful village of Georgetown, in Colorado, one can see a aunset more brilliant and beautiful than ivas ever looked upon in tho East, and which is only equaled by the virgin each of reddeniug light which mellows nto twilight shadows on the plains. I saw it on a summer evening when all iatur-3 was hushed in stillness. The ireiiies shot through the growing dusk ike sparkling louries in Egyptian light. Overhanging forest and swart ind blackened crag were relieved n the green waters of the lake. The sun hovered, as in a fascinated jpell, above the mountain tops, while ays of golden light, flushed with crimson peak and turret on nature's battlenents. It seemed to glow and expand ike an opening rose, until it became 'ull-blown, and cast its arrowy pencilng3 for miles across the sky like a nighty flame. Then, as if ashamed of ts boidness, it drew a veil oi grayish nist about its face and blushed beneath t. The mist changed into a cloud ihaped like a crescent, with ragged ringes flecked with gold, aud in its , vonderful aspect recalled tho legends of Mohammed's banner, red and lurid beleath Asian skies. Even as 1 looked it ihanged. The darkening scarlet was transformed to ruby brilliancy. Long lines of pallor whitened on the particolored surface, side by side with p old eh lances, which seemed to flash from tho flowing oib like dissolving rays. The i-numored sky for one feverish instant jaught and mirrored all the c bio tho rainbow. Then again it darkened? ^ [lushed and paled?and drawing the Covering draperies of tbe nigh: about ir, sank out of sight. The stars came silt. Tho night-hawk poised on swooping pinion, shrieked above the forest solitude. The leafy munnnr of the moaning pines took up the refain and awoke the spellbound senses i; to life ind action. The charm was gone, but the beauty lingered on the latcy liko a beautiful memory.?Omaha Herafrl. Food is an agent of tremendous power. Feed mankind with the same science that birds, kine and horses are fed?to wit, on their natural looa? ana then we may look for the healthy results obtained with these auimals. Dairymen know how to feed for health and milk. Hostlers ^now how to feed their horses and b.diea their canaries. They all seek to give the gorinaJ, natural food of the animal uuder their care. Now, if man would treat his own race as he treats his animals, we think human nervous svstems would not J show such sipns of weakness.?J)r, '-ya^