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, 4 ~ ' ~mmM?H'iuii lie wirilir 1. fW .ya'-.*- * '.?T^*\ , ", ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNEB. \ ^ - -* *N ., ? BY HUGH WILSON AND H. T. WARDLAW. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 1882. NO. 2. VOLUME XXVII. s ' I * A Kiss for Sister. She was a very little girl, An>l as I bout ami kissed her, "There, that is for yourself," I said, " And this is for your sister." Last night I ca.Ld in friendly way ; Some gay girl friends were there, And laugh and jest went aravlv rouni To banish weary care. The little girl came rompiug in Ami unto me said she? " thatjtiss. to sizzer Boll, 'On leit for her wiz me. 'issed me lots o' times an' said, When folkses 'ouldn't see, I might dive 'em to "ou?du9t wait 'Till 'ou'e alone wiz me !" I blushed, and so did fister Boll, The gay girl friend*, ah mo ! I wished the horri 1 things A thousand miles at sea! FROM NATURE'S LIPS, j I.?WHAT THE KIGHT SAID. i John French leaned b.ick in his seat i in the dimlj-lighted car and thought. It was an uacommon thing for John French to think much, and either the thinking itself or the subject of which he was thinking was far from pleasant For there was a frown upon his face which made it darker even than either nature or the shadows of the night could have done. It did not make the face less handsome, perhaps, but it made it Je; s lovabla ; it changed it from a face that would have else been called good to one which could only be callel strong. A man across the aisle from John French was studying him. Too full of the cares of business to sleep, he, nevertheless, was honestly trying to banish 1 he thoughts of business by studying intently the face of a man whom he had T1 uaaii .? r? i ?-? K a 1 \ r\ *-\ nf firtn/v kl ta CUJ?>1 C, ill l/UU VI UAlUh, upon tlie nature and character of a man *ho would probably never cross his path again. "This man has seenaj'.^at deal of life." paid the gray-ha'red student of human nature to himself, " and has either found much evil in those around him or has bad evil iD his own heart which he has no? found out yet. Tne world is not in harmony with him nor he with lhe world." And the "observer was right. " Ha is a man with tastes beyond his means; he has the courage of a man who believes he can trifle with evil habits and escape their natural results; he is noble in man* things?mean in some; ho drinks, while he takes a pride in never beiug under the influence of liquor; he has grand possibilities in his nature, Dut i wouian t trust Dim. , And the looker on was right again. But he knew as little of it all as we generally know of those whom we merely meet in the bustle of life. He would never havo giiessed that John French was on his way to a wedding, and that wedding his own, but so it was. And with every mile the frown was growing deeper. The young man pressed his face against the window, shaded the glass from the li.^ht cf tho car and looked out into the ni^ht. A farmhouse, with a wooded hill behind it, dim and dreamlike m the uncertainty of the night of mist and rain, shot, like a scene in a panorama, back into the obscurity, and the man who was flying with the wings of steam toward the woman who was to bo his wife in less than twenty-four hours, followed the scene backward with hungry eyes, and, envied the humble happiness which he pictured as the lot of those who lived there. He ooveted a place in that humble home, with all tbat might fall to his lot because of it. "Life couldn't be worse," he muttered, and then shut his teeth closer together with a sound that was half-way between a oroan and a curse. A cool, dark lake, with little ridges of white rolling over its blackness, tirred his heart. It seemed to whisper of peace. The tnought of suicide, which comes sometimes to every man, however sane, stole through his mind. .Not death by any of the means he had at hand ; not in any of the ways he might readily command ; no, not that; but a thought that when life had become more unbearable than now, when heart and brain and nerves had grown wearier, he would seek out this little lake?seek it out in the night?find it with the white waves just breaking its surface, , and lie down under it to rest and dream j lor ever. Long reaches of plowed land and pasture land succeeded, andl.he wondered, with a dull pain at his heart, how those who gained a living there could bear to live so, toiling early and late, summer aod winter, for the little they could get. Then his own pain came back again, and his head sank more heavily and wearily against the pane. Perhaps he slept a little then; but if he did the drip of the rain against his window seemed^like tears shed by the night for him. And later, when he surely slept, the monotonous sound of the train was changed by his dream into the beat of a hammer, forging a chain which he knew was for him. The whole night seemed saying to him some of the sternest thincH which nflfcnra ran rrv tn man ?some of the most fearful things which truth cm say to falsehood. For John French?poor John French ! ?poor in every sense of the word, had engaged himself a year ago to one of the loveliest and noblest of women, and had known, without feeling, the goodness and trath of her nature. She was heiress to an enormous fortune when he won her, and with the unselfish trust of her sixteen years had given her love to him unreservedly. Had she been older or wiser thin story wonld never have been written, for she would have laid aside her bridal robes, made sacred by her tears, and proved herself a heroine; while he won'd have accepted freedom from her hands and proved himself a coward and a villain a week ago. < But, not because of the love she had for him, but because of that which she was so sure he had for her, Geraldine Royal had not offered him his freedom. And John French was hurrying to his wedding with a woman he did not love, lovely and noble though she was?a woman whom he had never pretended to his inner self to love?and over his heart her last letter to him laid like a lnmp of lead. For it told him that the fortune she had once enjoyed was gone; that her fathtr would have nothing whatever left when all his debts were paid.gAnd pb he struggled slowly back to painful consciousness from scarcely less painful sleep, the beat of the hoofs of the magic steei of the rails was thundering in bis tears: "You cannot escape 1 Ton cannot escape! You cannot, escape 1" And the frown which had slowly deepened as he slept darkened into a fierce scowl as he said, between his set teeth: " No, I cannot escape! It is poverty ?life-long poverty, toil, drudgery, for evermore!" As he settled back into his seat to . get a little more of that physical comfort which men always instinctively seek, whatever their mental pain3 may be, there was a crash. The car was torn and twis'ed and crushed; men and women and children went from the unconsciousness of sleep down into the unconsciousness of death. Others, lesR fortunatu, ware prisoned in the wrtck which took firo almost at once. As the car went over on its side the old man who had watched and studied John French fell across the aisle against him?fell wi:h his head asrainst a corner of tho seat and was dead almost instantly. Bat in the ono moment in which tlio spirit held the body in its control before giving it up forever the hand of the wtranger had clutched the handle of John's valise with such a grip as might havo been expected had life depended on his getting and keep ing it. French was unhurt. The man behind and tho woman in front were killed instantly, anu Frcnch, who had thought | with pleasure of a grave in the lak< i nmong the hills, had not even a scratch | Ho aided those others who weie no i disabled, and those who came fion Outside, in the rescue. Most of thosi no*, killed at once were saved. Bu when the dead were dragged from th; burning car, after the living had boei aided, no friend could have identiliec Imm Tiio man vulu lu<1 mwlfl ,T ohl ! French his study might have beei youDR or old for all that one could sai j when it was all over, ami he lay amonf the ruins of the disaster, still clutch j ing the remains of the valise. French was thoughtful of the womai ho was to marry?thoughtful despit< the lack of love, and ho wrote a tele gram to send to the station a milo am a half away. It was as follows : " Terrible accident. I eacapcd unhurt. Jobs Fkench." As he went to hand tho message t< the train hand < ho was td> go to th? station with messages for help, he passec the man who had died at his side. The accident had happened in the dawn ; the clouds were going away witL the night. The spirit of the darkne6i seemed to say : "Sorrow may endur( for a night, but joy cometh in the morn ing." The strength of day, which grow; out of the weakness of night, was coming into the lives of the men who haa escaped, and that, too, despite the ghastly record night had made. The blush npon the eastern sky deepened as John paused?it brightened and strengthened?the sun rose as brightlj as though there were no care nor sorrow in the world. The voices of the night were dumb ; day reigned again. And a man stooping over the body ol the dead said : " We can identify this one. See, the name is deeply engraved on the plate which still remains on hie valise. His name is John French." ' bo it happened mat ueraiuine xiuyaj read, a dozen hours later, how her lover had died. S:> it happened that John French lived to prove himself a scoundrel, and to widow the heart of the woman who loved him by the use of the weapon which death had put in his hand. He did not send the message. II.?WHAT THE DAT TOLD. Unless bad men prospered for a time there would be no bad men. If their prosperity never ended there would be a dearth of good ones. The prosperity of the bad does not belong in romance; it is an inevitable conclusion of logic. Nature is truth; and so John French prospered. Or, rather, since "John French" had been carved on a white slab in the churchyard at iiome, ana written in tears on the heart of a frail young girl, left desolate by worse than death on her wedding-day, let us say that John Arlington prospered. For John Arlington was !ho namn he cho6e in that new life which accident had offered him, and which he was not brave enough to refuse. John French (or Arlington) had no father nor mother, sisternor brother to mourn for him. But to cut himself off entirely from those he had known and loved was hard enough, even though there were no lies of kindred to bind him to them. John Arlington went among strangers; he allowed his beard to grow; he welcomed the ruddy tint which travel and exposure gave to his faoe; he visited various countries; he tried many ways toward wealth and he succeeded in them all. So the strong jjian who took steamer for America ten years after the night when John French died and John Arlington first appeared among men WiW a 1JUU) U CUm IUUI(.U) UAUAVOVM J man. He had acquired bis possessions by honest toil?by mental thought and endeuv jr; no one could say that any act of his had bsen aa act of fraud; so far as business went ho was the soul of honor. Arlington never touched liquors; he had no bad habits; his life would have been to him the straightforward, honest, open, manly one which it seemed to ether men, bat for the blot he had placed upon it when he found a woman with a loving heart needing tenderness and mercy, and deliberately resolved to give her neither. The passage was a stormy one. Most nt fho noooororflM bortfr. t.rt t.llftir mnmB for dajB at a time. Bat Arlington was too mujli used to travel to mind a rough sea. He staid on deck many hours each day. John French had failed to love a most beautiful and worthy girl when he was a young man; and John Arlington, now in the bright dajs of a strong manhood, sometimes sought to excuse it to himself by the plea that.he had no capacity for loving; in all his wanderings he had never seen a woman who had claimed his serious second thought or look even. 80 it is not to be wondered at that ho smiled a little contemptuously to himself when he found, as he did one day, that he was getting in the habit of listening anxiously for the voice of a woman, in a room not far from bis own, who read for long hours at a time in a fall rich voice, evidently unconscious of any listener. She never went on deck, and Arlington found hia room becoming more attractive than the storm outside He wondered what it meant. He felt he would be a fool to fall in love with a voice when he had passed fair faces untouched by love. He found out that the woman only read by day, and he took to spending the evening hours outside, while in the daytime he waited and listened. He found out early in the long voyage, made longer by adverse winds, that, read what she might and as long as she might, she always read one poem after a while, and then read no longer. And John Arlington used to go up to the deck in the gathering darkness and look away over the storm-tossed waves while thinking of his past, and beginning to dream a little of his future?of a future for even him?with the words of Jean Ingelow ringing in bis ears : "We ehall part ho more in the win 1 and the rain, Where thy.last farewell was said; But perhaps I shall meet thee and know thee again, When the sea gives np lier dead." He never doubted that the poem was a favorite with the woman because of some bereavement in ber past life; the sadness in the tones told him that. He believed that the verso btood in her mind as a finality, the end of some heart history; the woman read as though waiting for something that could only come into her life when death indeed gave up its own. He wondered if he would find her face as fascinating at her voice. He found himself trying how he might plan some way to see her, She seemed to baflle him. But waitiug for anything always brings it. Not alwayo as wo wish it not always to be a possession of th( life, but across the path which we wait the thiDgwe long to see and know will pass. John Arlington listened to th< voice and waited for the woman. The time was coming. j It had been a terrible night, but wai a more terrible day. Tho voices of th< day were speaking of the iufinito powei of nature, and as officers and sailor listened to them as they shouted an< raged around the vessel they weri learning the lesson of human weaknes and human despair. At noon tho e.iptain called the pas senders together. The boats were frai in tho eyes of the women and childrei who looked at them. But ho had don his best, and in half an hour the boat must s>aijd between them and eternity He could not save tho ship, Etern discipline held control there tho boats were loaded rapidly and wit! oare; the men went last, and the captaii last of all. No braver man among th passengers helped the captain in hi control of a brute foroe which coul< havo crushed all physical opposition but could not dare a contest with tin moral might of will-power, than dii John Arlington. Eo was no cowari now whatever his past had been. A woman camo slowly across the dec jnst as the last boat-load was almos ready to go. Th^re was no four in he eyes as she looked on tho waves an the storm. But one would have guesse tuat she cared but little for life by th look on her face as she came to th boat. Sho evidently hat! no faith i the boat saving them; she looked upo death aa inevitable; and the words Eh 3 muttered were almost the words of a . praver this tinu: t "Perhaps I shall moot theo and kuow theo ; 1 again, ! ? When the soa gives up licr dead." | il t John Arlington heard the words and j m 2 turned toward her. More beautiful in : m i womanhood than girlhood had prom- b 1 ised, more beautiful than he had ever d i dreamed was possible, *his woman ai i stood before him. In her eyes he saw t that h love she had not long veara ago ti a liati never faltered for an ins! ant: but; - it was a love for dead John French. | g' She neither knew nor noticed living j is i John Arlington. And he stepped into n; 3 the boat by her side, knowing that ho bi - must be saved with or die with Geral- m 1 dine Royal; kuowiug that the voice ** from out the past had done its full n work ; knowing thai; he loved her with ai the full strength of his life, and that he V always should, feeliDg that death on ai ' the wild sea with her would bw better, si | much better, than life unywhere without her. s i ai t Itr.?WHAT THE STOBM SAID. nj 3 Had Geraldine Royal been earlier *1 * when the ship was sinking she and John ' Arlington would havo gone in different ct 5 boats, and the story of either would * have been a fragment. Only one boat- T 1 load of passengers was 6aved ; but the 8* ' boat which left the ship last was the i n.( * one. _ j j11 (ieraldme Koyal iaad imd a nara lite, i ivj [ One year before she had a little money | ar left her; not a great fortune, but enough tr to give her a year of travel in the Old ki ' World and allow her to settle in comfort P' . in the New. John Arlington followed or her. He had money to spend freely. a 1 He found out where her home was to be *a made, and he bought a large estate, ' with a great house, a quarter of a mile th from the cottage she had rented. Ho Pi ; journeyed to it one day, over the road a he had gone so long before toward the cc wedding which had never taken place. as He was glad she had not gone as far as WJ ; the place (vhere the accident had been. se Ho never wanted to see that place fr< again. He found the home ho had pur- jn chased to be all that the agent had said it was. A large roomy houso stood in ro the midst of a broad green park, sur- *e: rounded by great trees. Beyond the be park was a lake, all his own ; further I13 away, hidden from sight of the house, but not from sound, by the noble trees, was the railroad. Not far away in the j other direction was the house where! Geraldine Royal lived with a hired com-1 411 panion. Around all were the eternal' hills. |J>a Miss Koyal had received some lavors from the man who had been saved with her. She liked him. She was pleased ?f to find that he had settled near her. e1' Time hud aged the man, and hur loy- [e alty to tho past left hor no thought of the possibility of this man loving her. She enjoyed the society of this genial Pe neighbor of hers, and that was all. But Arlington never looked in the great P? rooms in his house without thinking " how much she would brighten them P and his life if he conld win her. He did not try in one year; he did ?? not try in two; but one hot August af- e1' ternoon he stood with a letter from her an in his hand. He remembered burning n?1 a Jialf hundred letters she had sent to el( John French; this was the first one she c? had ever written to John Arlington; P1 His servant had carried her a letter tell- aD ing his love; her companion had brought him a letter which he almost . feared to open. He removed the n- jDl veiope after a while. The letter was . very brief. She respected him, but she |n had loved a man, John French by name, who had died while coming to marry her; her heart held his memory sacred; Bhe had no room for other love; she "a should always love John French; she wa hoped to lind him and know him and on love him when the weary earth-life se( should be done; she kindly, but firmly m? and beyond appeal, declined the offer on which John A rlington had staked his pv future happiness. JaI John Arlington stood with a "white,stern Iai face and fought the most terrible battle we with himself that he had ever fought. UP It was the battle of a man mad with Pu despair. Should respected John Arling- cu ton live and try to live content without vrc that which loved John French might * * have had? Or should living John French go to the woman he had wronged, tell her his shameful secret an/1 florn HIP WftWtfc? th1 He made a coward's choice for a second time in his life, and went. The wind was rising and the big drops of rain were beginning to fall as he trt knocked at the door. The woman re- j ?? ceived him kindly; she liked him yet. Bat they both stood, and the face of | each was whiter and sterner than nsnal. 181 " Is there no hope?" P11 " I am sorry, but there is none. 1 loved John French too truly to ever tei marry another." W? " Miss Royal?Geraldine?I am John fn French!" -J? For a long minute she stood looking at him, her face growing older and P? whiter and more sad as she looked. ot Then she sank into a chair with a sob. "Why is all this as it ie?" bhe ?moaned. ?? He lold it all; he did not try to sparo himself; he saw it would be useless before he had gone far with the dread- 1BI ful story, fcihe heard it all in silence. He did not ask for her love when he 0 had finished. It would do no good. aj: She slowly rose to her feet. " If it is possible for a woman to love m| a man and to despise him utterly at the ea same time, I do it. I did love you?to P? my shame I say it. To my deeper shame I say I love you yet. Bat in all the universe I can conceive of no more nc hideous crime than you have done. I 013 despise you as much as I love you. Go I I never want to 6ee you or know you or hear of you again, in this world or P? any other. Go ! Go forever!" J. - - ? ? . . ... Ana John U'rencu. went out witn " bowed head into the rain and storm, Pc gnd no one has ever heard of him or of John Arlington since. They dragged the lake next day, but they found nothing. They might have .. used more care it they had known of the eyes that watched its white waves *a , with longing twelve years before. But they mieht have found nothing even nc then. Ho went away; he has never re- ?5 i turned; he never will; that is all that L can be said. .. All that was over found that might [ have served as a clew was a little scrap r, of paper with a few lines written on it , wbich might mean much or little. They r were these only: M "Forever is a Ion# word. I Lope to ?,s outlive her forever." . , And on the other side; w< ( ' The storm is abroad. It speaks to *jc 5 me. It tells that terrible truth: 'What soever a man sovreth that shall he also [ reap." j ! 3 Mistakes of Life. }j( Somebody hus condensed the mis3 takes of life and arrived at the conclu- lv J sion,thiit thero aro fourteen of lliem. r Mont people would say, if they told the cl 3 truth, that there was no litqit to the w 1 mistakes of life; that they were like 0 the drops in the ocean or sands on the cc s f-hore in number, but it is well to be bi accnrato. Hero, then, aro fourteen - great, mistakes: tv 1 It is a great mistake to set up our a standard of right and wrong, and judge e people accordingly; to expect uniforms lty of epinicnin this world; to meas- J uro the onjovmentof others by our own; to lock for judgment and experience in i; youtb; to endeavor to mold all dispo- jV i bitions alike; not to yield to immaterial a trifles; to look for perfection in our n< e own articles; to worry ourselves and s others with what cmnot bo remedied; -k 1 not to alleviate the sufferings of all that * ' i, need alleviation, as far as lies in our U1 b power; not to make allowances for the il infirmities of others; to consider every- ol I thing impossible that wo cannot per- oi form; to believe only what our finite ti k minds can grasp; to be able to under- S( t stand everything. The greatest of misr takes is to live only for time, when any a' d moment may launch us into eternity. S d ? ft e A European firm has patented a news- o e paper printing press which, it is claimed, n prints in four or five different colors at fi n the samo lime. It is somewhat similar to i a e presses used in printing wall paper. -! a THE FARM AM) HOUSEHOLD A Gardrncr'n Sccret. Pater Henderson, the veteran { ener, made a very significant s!i tent before the convention of i.are< ian orwl 'Tin*a efafnmGnf. ( odiea the remarkable fnct that if g en seeds, when planted in the epri re firmly pressed when under nth by the ball of the foot, at me thS gardeners are putting tl ito the ground, fliey will invaria row, drought or no drought; and w still more important, they willspr p earlier and grow faster and mat Btter than any of their kind which h ot been subject to this discipline. ' itae rule of pressure he holds true >gard to transplanting trees, shr id plants. This is an item of gi radical value to many of our peoj id especially those who live in lburbs.? Cleveland. Herald. Bones tor Trees. Plant food is concentrated in boi ad most gardeners who make a bi ess in raising fruits and vegetal jpreciate their value. In tree pit ig they are almost indispensable. Tl m be had of village boys generally sout twenty-five to fifty centa a bar hey pick them up about the stre< irdens and slaughter houses, the re 1 ? ? I ??1 A &UCS U4. UUWJOXD Lucau OU1U IU AC* ?s. This kind of bone is fine enoi ' be put into borders for grapevi id fruit trees, and to bury under ees without any preparation, ishel of these. bones to a ne' lanted tree is none too much, and i ie may safely plant five bushels unc bearing appla tree or grapevine, rge results will not follow immc ely from these coarso pieces as fr e ground article or from superph lates. Bnt there will be in the i snpply of food for many years ime, and the roots will appropriate they have need. The fine rootl ill seek the bones as eagerly as tl ? i im 1 "*rr. t_ eK water ma nie arain. we m gquently taken np grapevines plan this way and found the whole m bone one solid, penetrated with f ots. We donbt if any investment rtilizers pays better than in thi mes from batohers' meat, which i lite plentiful in villages.? Agric rial. EtiMilnsre Experience. Testimony of a Chenango farmer e Country Gentleman : During 1 mmer [ built a silo in the buy oi .sement barn, ten ana a half enty-two feet clear, and sixteen f depth. One side and the ends wi stone up to the sills of the ba ?ht feet, plastered with cement; I mainder was made of inch p: iards, two thicknesses, nailed to t ten inch studding, with tarred pa] tween to make it air tight. 2 side course was of planed ancl matcl ards. I should match both cour building another of wood. I i anted th6 bottom two courses, i \ three acres of corn on the 2d and September, the cora being Sti jbt-rowed jellow, Stowell's evergrf d Western white, mixed when put iking very rich fodder. It was ab< sven feet in depth when all in. vered it with inch pine boari aned and notched in sections thi d a quarter feet wide, letting cle tend out so as to stiffen the joints e sections. I covered this with tv sh planks and upward of twee a of stone. It settled to eight fi depth, and weighs out fifty pouc tbe solid foot. I think I did i imple it enough. It was put in qn pidly, ta!;;ng two men ndle and feed the corn cutter. s a poor season fcr corn, and I 1] ly half to two-thirds of a crop. 1 ad did not come good. The silo t< ikes about fifteen tons to the acre, i confident that I can grow twen e to thirty tons in a good season ?e white Southern corn on the sai id. Some stalks of Western cc re 12J feet high, measured after c i in the field. We were two da tting it in, using a No. 2 Commit tter, which is too light for the raj: irk necessary to save expense. Abe oot in the bottom was .cut oDe in length, the remainder one-half in< ilf an acre of the State corn v avily eared and glazed. We cut 0 watch a load of 1,500 pounds (ee tted) in six minutes; twenty-two loa the forenoon and seventeen in t ;ernoon o?the same day. The cut rabled us somewhat, and the barn v situated that we had considerable ( 7 between loads. With silo and bt ichinery properly arranged I am e led that 1 can, with the same he it m forty tons in one day. I used o--hor88 railway tread-power, and t ?ms to draw from the field. The cc is in drill?, cut np with corn-knr d laid in gravels suitable for handli advantage. I employed twelve irteen men, all being done at an i nse of about 820 per day. The c the silo ard putting in the corn \ out three dollars per ton, exclus: cost of raising the corn, counti ithing for laud and manuro used, worth about three dollars per ton now stands in the silo, as I have e led myself by tests in feeding, me out br??ht, with strong alcoho or and quite acid. It was brig d sonnd next to the board cover [ parts of the silo. I have been fee g four weeks sixty pounds per c r?Vi in tlia mws at; t.wn fp.prlq nf thil lunds morning and night, with t [arts of ground oats and corn meal j y, with dried cornstalks or hay : ion feed. The milk increased ab( efourth in quality after I co anced feeding with ensilaj takes twenty-two and a auar innds of milk to make cne pou butter, as ascertained by churni parately the cream from fifty-fc >unds of milk. The butter is fine pearance. The cows are eager : is food and if we have the stable do< ten the men have to tight them iep them out of the stable. T1 ;k out the mangers as though it \ It. I had some doubts at first as >w the cattle would timve on it. t iw their coats shine, they are taki i flesh and kick up their heels a laso each other about the lot as thon ey feel well. I shall, if possible, ( lapre 200 tons the following suwm aving in view a winter dairy, I inte ensilage in June next five acres e which was sowed last fall for soilii y calves, six in number, eeem to fond of this food as the cows, eati greedily from the first and doi :-ll on it. The ensilage is much mi ;id than I anticipated. Still, if cc > well on it, where is the harm ? Poultry Hint*. Do not fatten your breeding fowls Treatment of diseases of poultry m :jrin with the first symptoms. Meal must be mixt d dry and crur . since it causes illness when too w Glass fronts for coops for you lickens are of great service in cold indy weather. Gather March eggs before they >ine cold, and save them from be oken in the nest by freezing. Try and set your hens so as to hi vo iiatch out at the same time, s ve the broods to one hen. Good care, under all circumstan id at all times, is a prime necess i success in breeding fowls. Care must be taken that chickens ; 3t brooded on cold, damp ground, ? io bed, whatever it be, must be 2wed when soiled. A constant dropping will wear art eep dropping your advertisements le public, and they will soon m ider it like rock salt. Do not try to keep too many bre f fowls. You will succeed better w ne or two varieties, with good att on, than by trying to keep a do; )rts and neglecting them. It is estimated that 45,000,000 e re consumed every day ill the Uni tates, and yet there are people v >ar that the poultry business will verdone. Old breeders declare that chick om the eggs laid earliest in the sea re the most likely to live and thi ffcer hatching. It is claimed thatc tinuous laying enfeebles the liens' systems to such an extent that the later eggs in the spring litters are not so jar- well endowed with vigor. ite- "When soft ecrgs are laid by fowls they ?I7- intimate usually that the egg organs are !U1~ inflamed. This state is occasioned by ar~ the birds being overfed or too fat. Spare n?i diet and plenty of green food, espethe cially lettuce leaves in summer or cabJ r * i j. i'us nape in winter, is me uesi ueutLueiit lem for fowls in such condition. Poultry need far more care during Fat damp, rainy or wet weather than dur1D2 jng the dry, warm weather of summer ure or the clear cold of winter, for dampave ness engenders numerous disorders, many of which are difficult to cure; iQ therefore it is always better to apply Qb3 the preventive than to administer a reat supposed cure. ^.e' Feeding pens that will admit little tlje chickens and restrain grown fowls will be found very useful and convenient after a while. Why not take advantage of a leisure hour and make one? A ie?? bundle of ceiling lath, a few roofing a,91" lath,some nails, a saw,hammer,square, . 1 In J a nine ingenuity anu eiuow grease,tiuu ^nt' it is done^ Many times beginners wonder why , their little chickens, who seem to be as lively as crickets when they are a few ' days old, begin to droop and generally >mf" drop off one by one till they are all dead. Look on the top of the head and '811 under the throat and the cause will soon n? j be discovered?lice. Prevention in this ol? is far better than cure. . A firm in Reading, Pa., which uses mv y?lks thousands of eggs in tanler ning k;d, has put in operation a steam So eSn"beitter having a capacity of 20,000 ?. eggs. Tho tank,"made of cedar, is two i" and a half feet in diameter and two and om a half feet in height, and contains two ;c?j revolving rakes, bevel wheels and p;.nions running in opposite directions. For young stock corn and oatmeal is t best, with vegetables added. But cooked food two-thirds of the time is iva better than a largo proportion of dry fcJd (?ra'ns *n any description. Those who nave never tried this mode of feeding .a8s fowls will quickly discover the difference . between this and the old plan of throw10 ing whole corn and oats to their flocks 03e continually. ire __ _ J ,, , yf Hens do mucti better wnen anowea a free range outdoors than when confined. Darwin saj's: "In Europe close confinement has marked effect on the ferin tility of the fowl; in France it has been agj. found that with-fowls allowed considerj able freedom twenty per cent, only of l their eggs fail to hatch; with less freea dom, forty per cent, failed; and in close confinement sixty per cent, were not hatched." These facts should be borne in mind by breeders of fowls. 'ne UeclDrs. Hoe-cake.?Scald one quarter of corn with just enough hot water to make a j thick batter; &tir in two large spoonfals of butter; beat this a little before mixing it with the butter bo it rise rapidT ly; add a half a teaspoonful of salt, on This should be baked at least threet quarters of au hour; butter the tins well in which it is baked; ser7e hot. ' This is decidedly economical, and it is >ut veI7 nourishing. j Cbackek Pudding.?Cracker pudding is made by taking six milk crackers ree and rollirig them very fine. Let them a;;8 soaK ia two teaiupiuis 01 water ; men 0f add the grated rind and the juice of two ?0. large lemons, and two and a half cups Lty of sugar. Make some nice puff paste get with which to line the pudding dish. !ds Bake for half an hour. This may be 10t eaten with or without sauce. If with ite sauce make that in this way : Beat one to a little water, thicken it with It cornstarch, sweeten to taste. Reserve iad a little of the lemon rind for flavoring, ho Let it just come to a boil. ast Brown Stew.?Tako three pounds of I good round of beef, cut it in small ty- squares, brown them in a stewpan in of two tablespoonfals of butter; add two me tablespoonfuls of flour, sifting it graduirn ally in and stirring till the flour is sut brown; cut a carrot small, peel half a ys dozen small onions, and put with the igs beef; season with half a dozen cloves, )id as many allspiece, a half saltspoonful rat of black pepper, a pinch of cayenne, a ch tableepoonful of mixed herbs, thyme, jh. sago and majoram; cover with boiling ras water und let it -fiitumer steadily for by thioe hours; just before serving a gill iti- of tomato catchup can be added. ;ds Cranberry Jelly.?Cranberry jelly he that is pleasing to the eye as well as to ter the taste is made in this way: Disms solve one ounce of gelatine in a very J0- little water, and to this add one pint im any a half of cranberry juice, strained at* so that it is perfectly'clear. While you lp> are straining it let the gelatine and a water boil until it is thick, then stir in wo the juico and half a pound of sugar; >ra let this come to a boil; have jelly 7es boards at hand and strain the jelly Qg through a muslin cloth into them, to IIoUHehold Hints. ost A red-hot iron will soften old putty ?a9 so that it can bo easily removed. n_ To remove milkdew soap tbe spots, and while vet wet cover them with fine chalk well rubbed in. at. To remove the iron taste from new Xt bottles boil a handful of hay in them and lie repeat the process if necessary. Hay jht water is a great Bweetener of tin, wooden in and iron ware. In Irish dairies every,(]. tbiDg used for milk is scalded with hay lay water. rty Kerosene'oil will soften boots or shoes wo which have been hardened by water and )er render them as pliable as new, but it is for very sure to injure the leather at the rat same time. Castor oil is the best thing m- in the world to use on boots and shoes. te* Jim Fisk's Slayer. ? Speaking of business men, says a New ? Yo:*k correspondent, let me mention one . who is also quite as well known to the . public as Judge Hilton, but through or very diflerentoircumstaoces from those 5fl that have surrounded the latter. 1 refer to " Ned" Stokes, " the man who 10 killed Jim Fisk," as everybody Eays who points him out. The public have t ? heard that Stokes is now a partner of Mr. Read, tbe proprietor of tho Hoff man houao on Broadway, just above the j famous Fifth Avenue hotel. The HoffB man has long been noted for the excelBQ" lence of its breakfasts. They vie with e*j Delmonico's and the Brunswick's. The intJ latest attraction has been tho magniticent barroom of the establishment, D,^' the finest in New York, if not in the . world. The walls are fairly covered !D? with beautiful pictures?high-priced mg ones, too?including one that cost $10, 0re 000. The whole room witb. its lobbies ,W8 and entries is littered with costly brica-brac, statuary and expensive rarities. Stokes is to be seen at any hour quietly walking about the place, plainly dressed, 'US{. rather retiring, and apparently earnestly devoted to his business. Time nl> and trouble have left their marks upon et him. His hair is whitened by the lllf^ "frosts that never molt," and his clear 0r cut face begins to show a few inroads of care. Yet for one who has been k through so much trouble Stokes is fell tog preserved. A Romance of the Unitcaii Trial. IV 6 m(-j The Washington Slar sajs: During the Guiteau tnal the newspaper correspondents and others who made daily c.?s visits to the court room became much y interested in a young lady with a pretty face who eat during the trial at a table beside Mrs. tn" Scoville. It was an oasis of beauty in a re" desert of bald heads and unromantic pencil-drivers, immediately in front of 3Ck the judge's stand. This young lady was 011 the daughter of Dr. Bice, of Murton, ielt Wisconsin, Mr. Scoville's family physician, who declared Guiteau to be eds insane, and became so much interested rith in tho proceedings that he remained en- here through nearly tho whole trial, zen atr. Rice and his daughter May stopped at the Tremont house, and there Mius $rs Rice became acquainted with Mr. Fred ted Cowie, the son of Mr. George Cowie. vho Since the trial ended Mr. Cowie has be found mysterious business that has taken bim out to Wisconsin once or ens twice. On the last trip, however, he son settled the business and returned to nve Washington with Dr. Rice's daughter, x>n? who now bears the name of Cowie. WISE WORDS. We can refate assertions, but who can refute silence. An obstiDate man does not hold j opinions; they hold him. He who waits to do a great deal at ( once will never do anything. Surmises are not facts. Suspicions i which may be unjust need not be ' stated. Idleness is hard work to those who < | are not used to it, and dull work for ^ those who are. Pleasure is the mere accident of our 1 being and work its natural and most holy necessity. ' ; More helpful than all wisdom is one ' draught of simple human pity that will : not forBake us. The most brilliant qualities become ' useless when they are not sustained by force of character. Imitate time. It destroys slowly. It ! undermines, wears, loosens, separates. J It does not uproot. Poetry is the blossom and tho fra- , grance of all human knowledge, human 1 thoughts, human passions, emotion, , language. Victory is not lor tne weaK, tne cowardly, the vacillating. The roar of the ( battle may deafen us, the smoke of the ( conflict dim our sight, but if oar feet are firm upon thq rocks of resolution, i our .hearts filled with divine aspiration ?i for all that is pure and true, if our ] hands be the willing servants of oui hearts, victory will be ours. Defeat is . impossible, as God views victory and . defeat. ( Penurious Miss Burr. ] The -will of Miss Sarah Burr, who 1 died in New York recently, and who gave thousands to charitable institu- 1 tions, was before Surrogate Rollins, an effort being made to prevent its pro- i bate. The examination of James Mc- ] Cabe, formerly a servant of the late Miss j Burr, was held before Surrogate Rol- i 1 ns He said that Mies Barr'a memory : vas very bad. When a question was ] asked her she forgot it before she could I answer it. She told him to get her i medicines at any place where the; could i be got " without m^ney or price." He I was obliged to tell her that the medi- < cines were obtained for nothing r.t the Bellevae hospital, because otherwise Bhe woald not let him go for them. He bought everything which was < used in the house.. She always j hought everything he bonght ( costly, and ho always told her that ( things cost less than they did; for in- | stance, he told her that a steak coot ( twelve cents when it cost thirty-five I cents. Miss Burr spent almost all her } I timft in the kitchen, lvincr on three , cbairs opposite the range; abont all sbe J did was to eat and Bleep. Miss Burr never allowed a fire to be madein any | part of the honse except the kitchen. The gas was only lighted in the kitchen ' and sometimes in the hall. She died in i the kitchen on a sofa. The only pereons present were witness and his mother and the doctor. The only dresses wbioh she had were bronghfc into court. They were of very common material, very dirtv, aud fad^d and worn. The table which the nsed in the kitchen is a tmall pine one, which never was pa-'nted; it is covered with a heavy coatiog of dirt. Miss Burr's coffee was made in an iron saucepan, which is badly burnt acd battered. Four spoons used by hrr were al>o in conrt. They are appirently of pewter or lead, and look a?if their size hud been greatly rednced by long use. Tt kDivee r?hich she used looked as if they had been made ont of an old iron hoop. j The description which McCabe gave , or Mis3 Unrr's habits was hardly credible. The witness faid $bat Mies Burr did not know the day of the week or of the month. Once when the son was shining she asked him whether it was raining. Miss Bnrr was careful in mending things. She once mended aporons plaster. _ A Boatman's Inadvertency.. The man was remarkably cool and quiet under exciting conditions?a perfect specimen of self control. Puleg| matic in temperment his tranquillity j could not be disturbed by anything short of an earthquake, and in that [ even he would be the last man to lose his self-possession. My friend's boatman was directly the opposite of this. He was small, thin, unfleshy, nervy, quite tonguey, and, when in his judgment occasion warranted it, muoh given to the use of savory adjectives and scriptural misquotations. Returning home toward evening, when within a mile of the hotel, my friend hooked a large muskallonge. Ge had out close to a 100 feet of line, when the fellow struck with a force that had the effect of an electric shock. The dominie gathered himself up f)r the contest, for it was manifest from the start that the ; fish meant fight, and fight he did most nobly. He would rise, break the surface and then dive down, down, deaeper down, until the line stood nearer a perpendicular than a horizontal; then, rising again, he would surge to the right and then to the left. Meantime, hand over hand, the dominie was shortening the distance between himself and the fish, till only about twenty feet remained, when the strugglo was renewed with increased desperation. At this juncture the little nervy boatman lost his self-control, and i seizing the line he tried his skill at pre- i venting the fish from going under the y boat; but, no use! under the boat h& , went, and rapidly rising, he soon broke , the surface on the other side, displayed ? bi8full length above the water, dex- ( teronsly tnrew tne spoon a roa away, ana j bowing a long farewell to bis woald-be j captor's be returned to tbe deep to enjoy j bis well-earned freedom. Tho little boatman dropped tbe limp line, aud, i standing erect, gesticulated with both j arms violently, swore vociferously, an 1 relieving himself /or a few moments y thus, be stopped suddenly as if struck j by a thunderbolt, and apologized for his inadvertency, telling my friend that, | " for the time being, he forgot that be ; was a minister."?"//a," Outing. J The Monks or St. Vincent. < Tho abbey of St. Vinccnt, near La- j trobe, Pa., is the oldest monastery in America, having been founded in the ' latter part of the eighteenth century, , and the college now connected with it is attended by 316 students, receiving instructions from a faculty ot thirty- j three monks. Tho lay brothers cnlti- . vate a farm of 500 acres, aud there is a brewery attached, which, besides sup- j plying the beverage to the community attached to , the monastery, the surplus is sold to the neighboiing cities. c The barn on tho farm is ilOO feet J by nine y-eight, and tbe brothers have . a printing office and bindery, where all the books used in tho college are pr.nted and bound. They put up all their own machinery, build their own wagons, rhoo their horses, mako thoir c own clothing, raise and cook their owu H food, and slaughter tho cattle raised on j their own pasturage. The founder was 1 Theodore Browors, a pious Franciscan 1 from the Danish West Indies, nnd on his * death bed he Je t a will providing that J the prigst who rdiouhl succeed him should r have the use of the small faim for ^ life; tbe only condition being that the * priest shouid each year say four masses ^ for the soul of the tfstator on the an- 1 niversary of hi* death and the three ^ succeeding days. In 1791 Franciscns Fromm, a German priest and mission- 1 ary, took possession of tbe farm under c tho will without the consent of Bishop N Carroll, ot" Baltimore. He was ousted E from the farm in 1798, and since then it c has been a trust of the church, and the stumpy, partly-cleared ft'.rra has become the site of the flourishing abbey of St. Vincent. _ i Hugging sorrow is not the way to f lessen it, though, like tho nettle, 1 trouble stings less when it is firmly 1 grasped an 1 not feared. Frequent dis- a appointments teach us to mistrust onr r own inclinations and shrink even from ] I vows our heartb may prompt. t SCIENTIFIC NOIES. A frozen plant may be sometimes preserved if plentifully drenched with ;old water, because the application of the liquid produces a neutral thaw. A healthy frog will remain alivo for 3ays after the whole of its blood has been withdrawn from the vessels and replaced by a solution of common salt. Une may become so accustomed to opium as to be able to drink daily a litre of laudanum, twenty drops of which would be a strong medicinal dose for a non-habituated person. From observations made during many rears in Senegal and other intertropi3al regions in Afiica,' Dr. A. Corre is inclined to believe that the African blacks are destined in coarse of time to disappear and be supplanted by European emigrants. An Antwerp firm has patented a means of automatically playing musical instruments by pneumatic and electro magnetic appliances. The pneumatic arrangements are for sounding reeds, and a Lheet of card, perforated according to the tune, makes and breaks electric contact as it travels. A French chemist is said to have obtained a dense, black gum from the outer lavers of the birch tree baik by distillation, possessing all the ordinary properties of gutta percha, and having the additional merit of resisting the deteriorating influence of air and the corrosive action of acids. Tn aoatin a tnr a finViqt.anflA which would destroy the microscopio animals in water without injaring it for drinking purposes, Dr. Langlelt found that citr.'e acid (one-half gramme to every litre of the water) hilled all the living organisms, except cyclops and those with thick epidermis, within two minutes. For the photography of birds in their different positions in flying Marey employs an instrument like a rifle in sbape, giving twelve successive images per *ecoDd, each image being taken in the 1-700 part of a Becond. In bright sunlight the time of exposure is reduced to the 1-1500 of a second. These views Furnish an analysis of the motion of birds in flight which could not be obtained before the perfection of the processes of instantaneous photography. 1> Diutlnn All .Mlintutc A writer in tbe Atlantic Monthly says: rhe northern zone of the Sooth, em* bracing Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Eentncky and Tennessee, with :he northern portions of Georgia, Alabama and Arkansas, is a region of vast extent, an-lhas great interest for North5rn people accustomed to farming who may draire to emigrate to a county suited to this industry. There is much excellent laud here, with soils idapted to the cultivation of most of the imp )rtant farm products of the region lying between New York and Pennsylvania, oa the east tide, and Eowa rind Kansas on the west, as well is to tho:e of the south. The climate is favorable, not being to different fiom ;hat of the States north of it as to cause emigrants from them any considerable inconvenience or discomfort. In the ailly portions of this zone thero is cold 3nou?h for Northern people, while the n i n f AH nnH ito V*T?inf l?0_ iiHUUCOO VI wxic niuiui nuu tio uiiviuum;ioD render farming and stock-raining more profitable than they are farther lorth, as the shelter and feeding of actuals require comparatively small expenditure. The Bnmmers are of coarse uuch longer than in New York or Iowa, 3ut the heat is not usually bo great as t is in New Hampshire. With proper ittention tc sanitary conditions ind requirements this is a very aealthy region, the proportion of mala-iou3 diseases for tha uplands being less ;han in some of the fineBt portions of Sew England. There is much beauti:al country, with pleasant scenery. In Northern Alabama I observed a close resemblanoe to the appearance of the sill regions of Southern and Central Sew Hampshire. By "attention to the selection of teed )f the most suitable varitties, and to ne.hods of cultivation, some of the vegetable products of regions farther lotth, which are supposed to be unsaited ? ^ L . CAMIU <%<*?* l-?n 1\1T? VIA In ltln u tliucuuiiij, uau jjiuuaujj uc pivuvauio ,iircugliout the zone now under coneidjration. Such acolimation of esculent? rom other portions of the country ivould be a great benefit, and is especially desirable for emigrants from tbe tfoith, who are apt to be impressed by the ack of variety in the bill of fare at the ;ables of the planters as well as at Southern hotels But many vegetables md fruits which belong to the South ire rarely found on the table, or are in ise but for a brief portion of the jear, imply because people do not caie o take the pains to produce them. "It's too much trouble to raise 'em," is he usual answer, when I inquire aboub ;hem. Little attention is given to gardening on most Southern plantations. It in regarded as a trivial emdov ? O" * v nent for the lime and labor of men; en:irely unimportant in comparison with the "crop," which is usually cottoD, toaacco, sugar or rice. "We like a few messes of green things in the spring," ;he people say, "but for summer work ive need something more substantial, jrive us the old stand-bys." These are ;ommouly bread, bacon and greens, as ;he ordinary fare for laborers. Uucle Hyatt's Smart Dog The Covington (Ky.) Enterprise says: Uncle Sanders Hyatt says that about 11 ty years ago he owned a dog whose jark he became so well acquainted yith that he could tell in a moment vhut kind of an animal it was running, ind whether it was male or female. Dne day he heard her open upon a male 'ox squirrel's track not far from the louse, so he picked up his gun and fol,owed her. She soon reached a swamp ind seemed to be baying something. CVhilo ho know it was a male fox equir el, be could not understand why she ibould biy it. She eoon had the varninfc, however, again on the run still 'urther in the swamp. When she bayed igain he soon reached a cluster of joshes at which she seemed to be barkng, and there he saw a huge rattlesnake in its coil. With a sharp eye and a steady nerve. >n which lie prided himself in those lays, he quickly sent a bullet through lis snakeship's head. Ho then apjroached, and noticing the snake looked incommonly large iu the middle of its jocly. lio cat it open with his knife, vhen out jumped the foxsqnirrol and nade for the nearest tree. A bill from lis rifle soon brought the squirrel to he ground, and it made him a good linner. He savs that the squirrel mast iave run too closo to the snake while ^tempting to get away from the dog, ind was in consequence caught and wallowed, while the dog was not to bd ooled cut of bis ^ame ; hence the folowing of the track of the snake. A Shower of Stones, The storm at Bedford, Ind , on a reient night was a strange one. The trangest thing that took pi we vas at he farm of Abraham Smith, who lives onr miles south of Bedford, where a eal, genuine shower of stones fell, oixed with what seems to be plastering. Cho stones are of various sizes, some ea'ly ?s largo as a man's fist, while tliera are quite small. The most of hern aro white flint, u stone that is not ound in that part of Indiana. Many of tlr. Smith's windows were broken &nd everal shingles knocked off his roof, u the immediate vicinity of the house aero than a barrel of these stones lould be gathered. A great many per- i oris have visited the Smith farm to ; atisfy themselves in regard to the i natter. , Recalled Houie. Agernon Branningford quarreled with 1 lis brother in England in 1850, came to 1 America, went to San Francieco, and j gradually sunk in the social scale until j le became a noted j>est. " Old Asf' ias now been recalled to his home by j l rarttpenger who reached San Francisco mtifyirg him ot the death of bis father, Lord Branningford, and of hia succeaion to a couple of ailliout;. The Center of Population. What statisticians understand by the term center of population, it may be A well to explain, is the point at which ? equilibrium would be reached were the country taken as a plane surface with- El out weight, but capable of sustaining Al weight, and the inhabitants distributed W over it in number and position as they are fonnd at the period under consideration, each inhabitant being sapposed _ to be oftqaal weight, and consequently to exert pressure on the pivotal point Sb in direct proportion to his distance therefrom. The first cenRns of the Tt Uuited States, taken ill 1790, showed the center of population to be .on the eastern shore of Maryland, about twenty-two miles from Baltimore, and near the thirty-ninth parallel of latilude, From that point it has moved westward at the average rate of about lifty-one miles in a dacade, never devi . ating as much as a degree to the north Oi oouth of the thirty-ninth parallel. In 1880 the center was near the vil- * lage of Tayiorsville, Kv., about eight miles west by south of Cincinnati, the m westward progress being fifty-eight miles, and the deflection to the south w about eight. The census of 1890 will V? probably discover it in Jennings county, in Southeastern Indiana. If there is no ^ great change in the rate of Western movement of population, the central ^ point, still traveling, as it doubtless w will, on a line closely corresponding to the thirty-ninth parallel, of latitude, will not cross the Mississippi river until 1950, when it will be found not far from the mouth of the Missouri. It is not improbable, however, that it will never reach mat stream, bat will remain nearly stationary somewhere in Southern Illinois. There are large areas of cdtmtry in the far West unfit for habitation, save where deposits di of Jthe precious metals are ai found, and other considerable m areas where grazing,which supports but ai a scanty population, will always be the chief industry. The increase of popu- q lation in the trans-Mississippi region 7( may not, therefrre, much more than n< counterbala ace the inorease in the older ec settled portion of the country after the close of the present century. In estimating the changes and progress of the . future we must not forget that, marvel- , ous as is the growth of- the new West, . it is only a little more rapid than that . of the great middle region between the Hudson and the Mississippi. The State of New York, it must be remembered v added 700,000 to her population be- ^ tween 1870 and 1880. Pennsylvania J* 460,000, and Ohic 632 010. The increase ill each of thdse old States would bl made a Western State as populous as w Nebraska.?New York Tribune. ?1 Opium In the United States. ^ Except China, it is said, the United ti Ctates suffers mere than any other from m the curse of opium. Its ravages are ft chiefly among women. But neither sex ai is wholly free from the power of the of ami Tn VifKinnintv />irr nf fillmiM t 4.U VUO UUfci I J JU4M111M, N. Y., which when the census of 1880 was taken had 20,541 population, it has been ascertained that there are 150 confirmed opium eaters, and fifty to n! 1U0 more persona who use morphine frequently and are likely to become 01 habitual users of the drug. The status tics were obtained by a reporter of the 0 Elmira Advertiser, who questioned the rc drngfcist of the town. They are not P1 exactly correct of course, but are 61 more likely to underrate the 01 number of persons in Elmira who w. have formed or are forming the opium ? habit. But if tney are used as a bapis ?c upon which to reckon the extent of the opium evil in the United States, it *e would be necessary to reokon ten opium 9* eaters to every 1,000 of population. n! This reckoning would give in round PJ numbers 500,000 as the number of persons who use the drug, threefourths of them regularly and the 5,' other rourth frequently. And the curse seems all the more terrible when it ie w remembered that most of these victims w are women. The wretched opium dopes 8t would make a city as large as Chicago if gathered together from all parts of ^ the country. It is evident that reform- fr. era are needed to work against the use of opium in the United States almost *a if not quite as much as against the use ? of strong drink. Ri T Equivalents of Measnres. pi The following statement of the equi v- w alents of foreign standard measures of Ai wheat will undoubtedly be "of interest h< to many. A quarter of California wheat Id weighs 500 pounds; of American, Coil- st ian or Danubian wheat, 480 pounds; of tli South Russian wheat. 165 pounds. A in sack of flour weighs 280 pounds, nearly Jc equal to a barrel and a half. A Ruewian chetwert of wheat equals about 354 pounds. An Egyptian ardeb of wheat is 300 pounds. A French kilogramme di equals 2 1-4 tons. A German last of y< wheat equals 3 tons?200 pounds. A m Smyrna kilo equals ono bushel. A la Malta salma equals about 450 pounds, vt A. Spanish fanego equals 99 pounds. A tr Chilian fanego equals 32 pounds. An oi | Austrian staga eaaals 137 pounds. A tfc maund of Indiun wheat equals 80 vi pounds. A Portuguese alquire ot wheat tt equals 24 pounds. A Barcelona eras b< equals 1,92-3 bushels. A Norway mailer bi is 10 mas or 4, V26 bushels. A German ie mailer is 12 scheffelri, or 18,145 bush- b< els. A Vienna metzen equals 1710 ns bushels. A German centner is about fc 100 pounds. A French quintel is 2200 tt pounds. ei ? Q( The Earliest Plowman. ai The steel or iron plowshare is one of ^ the most valuble of modern inventions, and has both lightened the fanner's m labors and added largely to his wealth. *c Bat Mr. Darwin has proved that worms do in a quiet but effective way the same work tbat the plow does on a larger ri scale. Tliey break up the solid crust and enrich the surface by bringing the most va'nable constituents from the sub-soil and forming a rich vegetable mold. The " -e Pf little piles leu at sue moum ui men. boles are full of nutrition, and of the }? highest value for the growth of plants ju and vegetables. 'r The worms fill an important piece among agricultural labors. The smooth- " ,ness of benutiful lawns and meadows, Mr. Darwin says, is "mainly due to all ra the inequalities having been slowly tb leveled oy worms." The improvements which their industry effects are constant and progressive. The whole of the superficial mold over any expanse has c? passed, abd wi.'l pass again, every fe<v a years through the bodies of worms.'' si These despised articulates ought to be e* reckoned by the farmer among hismost valuable allies. sr ? di Made a Mistake. E An insurance agent called into an I tl establishment the other day with a lurge account-book under his arm. a Walking up to the proprietor in a busi- ct ness Hurt of way, he inquired : cs How's business?how's Htock ?'* tL " Oh, busines-s is very dull," replied A the tradesman. "'Poumyword, sir, 1 E haven't got $900 in the house. Terri- h ble dull !'' and lie paused and looked P1 ioqniringlv at the visitor. it: " Only ?900 1" said the insurance man, d< in surprise. he "'Pon my soul, sir, I don't believe A there is a dollar more?look for tout- tb self," and the man looked very sad and sighed. "Then, sir," said the insurance man, in with a good deal of warmth, "how does it come that your stock is insured in our company lor Si 500, eh V' " Oh ! all 1 beg your pardon I" ex- Li claimed the dealer, in confusion, jr " Thought you was the taxraan 1 I M was Bure you was the tax-gatherer, or. hi 'pou mv soul, I would not have said tr that, when, in fact, my stock is worth er full 88,000. Look for yourself, sir." ai _ ---- - ? ? | cr Wr. George Catlin, in his history of w1 the North American Indians, says that i h< he never met one that breathed through J ej the mouth, nor one that was deaf, i is unless born so. T'-ie habit of breathing w naturally through the oose would there- m fore appear topreseive a healthy state of j yc the air-passages leading from the bsck ! af of the throat to the middle ear on ; m each eido.?Dr, Foctt's Health Monthly, ' rii Oh, Angel Sleep. b, angel, on whoso drcwy head poppy-wreath hauga heavy an l red, >mo when the night's black shadowa creep, And fold yonr white wing*' ru.stliug sweep, iter ray room whh aoowllake tread, jd hover near my weary bed, here, since I know my love was dead, The wholo night long 1 toaa and weep. Oh, Angel SU ep, ider your pinions wide ourspread ielter me, till my sonl is led Down through that valley dartc and deep, irongh whose dim shade his spirit fled, That I with him sweor. try:t may keep, Oh, Angel Sleep. HUMOR OF T!IE DAT. The biggest thing on ice?The profit Garden easa?Scolding over the back cue. How to make a dull scholar smart? log him. Men and watches don't amount to uchwlien they are ran do urn. It is not safe to call a woman a eathercoci because she is a little ine. . An Albany paper tells of a woman in tat city who woke her husband during storm the other night and said : " I 5 wish you would stop snoring, for I ant to hear it thunder." lie bad a violet In his coat, And in his hand a rote; But these were quite inferior to '1 he " blossom" on his note. Transparent 1 at tier is now being ade in Germany, and it is likely that te pedestrian of the future will be able > fep his neighboi'd corn growing.? e<e Turk Commercial. Nothing elevates a man no muoh as isinterested good-will. We, for ex nple, most heartily wish that every an in the world had half a million id we ourselves a million. It is now reported that the eggwhioh olumbns made stand on end was of a ?ry inferior quality, and that it was 3t the feat *hat surprised the men gi lience so much as the odor of the egg. Now that the tile-painting is a little it of fashion, and there is no demand -r thin fnmfnnlfirv in art. i:s adeotfl are I in the country painting the virtues ! various patent medicines on barns, :nces and rotfkfl. "Yes," said the doctor, 'Tm retched; absolutely miserable. Whatis is matter? Why, I predicted that albgber couldn't lire anyway, and 9re he's gone and got well. No, I iven't any personal feeling that I ant Gallagher to die, but thereV my mutation ruined." "Mamma," said a wee pet,""they ing -'I want to be an angel' ia Sunday* shoo! this morning. and I sung with tern." " Wby, Nellie!" exclaimed amma, "could you keep time with te restV "I gnesaI couldproudly iswered little Nellie; "I kept ahead : them most all the way through" ^ Losing a Snbscriber. The editors of a deservedly popular awspaper in this city have not been >le to understand wby Mr. Dobson, le of their oldest subscribers, and a an of great respectability and almost ital baldnet-s* came into tbe oountingiom tbe other day and ordered his iper stopped. It has transpired, howre r, that tbe Ligbt before Mr Dobson, 1 taking up his piper, after tea, as as bis custom, observed a paragraph )0Ut two eclipses 01 tne eun wmcn were i occur this year, and began to read it i his family. The article was very investing, and Mr. D >bson, finding the ?ys of his youth recalled b> it, when a had seen numerous such celestial henotoena, laid down his paper when e had read half-way through the ;count, and bagan to tell the children dw they would arrange for the displ y. he children were m?ch elated, of )ur8e, and then Mr. Dobson got some indow glass and showed them bow to noke it over, the lamp, and the iucgsters got smut all over their noses i they looked through the obscured agments, and Mr. Dobson, himself, iistered his finder and thumb by king up a red-hot piece by mistake r a cool one. After ha;f an hour of lis sort of recreation attention was ven to the conclusion of the article, ben Mr. Dobson read that the only aces where one could see the eclipse ? _ * i-J ere ui'uuiuu iu louium ocuuuua v> si a and Afrioi. Thereupon he said ) would not take each a paper any tiger, and the very next morning be oppedjhis subscription. Which shows at a newspaper cinnot be too careful the arrangement of its facts.? Boston \urnal. ' A Level-H- aded Engineer. A dinner was eiven in Paris a few iys ago to M. Grisel, now ?xty-nine ;ars of age, who ha3 teen all his life a odel workman. In 1857 be particarly distinguished himself. On Nosmber 23 in that year be was driving a ain from Clermont to Brioude, when, 1 arriving at Vic le Comte, he heard le river Allier rushing with unwonted olence. The night was horribly dark, le rain was pouring in torrent*, and iing well acquainted with the Vio idge he felt sure tbat it would opt sist the inundation tbat was already ^ginning. The station-master rigUed to him to proceed, but Grisel re ised point blaca to move on, on which 16 official flew into a rage, bat the jgine-driver declared that lie would at stir nnt.il the bridge had Iwen exnined. His apprehensions were des-. ned to receive a striking confirmation. t the very moment when the station- / ..* laster wa9 telegraphing to Olermont r instructions the bridge was carried ray with a terriblo noise, and the paajngers, who had got out of their carages in much alarm, not quite underanding the cause of the extraordinary jlay, rushed up to Grisel and overheimed him with expressions of grat de. On that memorable night the illant engine-driver had, at the risk of sing his situation, been instrumental saving no less thaa 125 persons cm, as the event proved, certain v iath. It was at the instigation of M. dmbetta that M. R+ynal, his minister ! public works, iec?gnized Grise'.'s ,re merit bv makins; hiai a knight of ie Legion of Honor. Circa-sian Cavalry. In a letter just published the Amerind minieter at Constantinople describe? wonderful exhibition of horeemaniip which he recently witnessed. Gen ul Wallace says : > I was invited a few days ago by the iltan to go with him and witness a ; rill of his household troops. The old leventh could beat his infantry, bat . " ie } erformance of his Circassian cavry was something extraordina>y. As simple: Four companies magniflmtly mounted were in lin \ A bngle ill, nml the right company dashed trough to the f ont at fnil speed. u- ther call, there was a beant fnl feat, ich man reached ont with his light ir d, caught the rein close to the bit, illed haul, and th ew his horse daton s left side, dwrountng ss it went )wn. r\ hen, < n the ground behind the > se, he began fbing as a skirmisher. third c 11, the company r< se up with .e r hor.'es, and te'ieated at fall -pee formin i as they went. As I had never en heard of such a ihing, you can lagine my astonishment. The PJioiogmiih Gun. The last invention of scietoe, gays a Dndon letter, is a machine to take >ur likeness b_v photography unawares, r. Teunyson and other celebrities who ivfi an objection to having their poruits taken will no longer be able to joy the sunshine, but must take the r at night only. The apparatus is 'iitained in an ordinary opera glass, in hiiih "matched lenses" and "dry plate >hlers" are substitute I for the usual e pieces. "The dark chamber used a cyjir.d*r of black cloth like a mutT, uicli lits tightly ah .at the w ist by eans of clastic bauds." One look at >u, and the thing is done. This will Ford an opportunity f.<r jokers to imortalizfa their friends iu the most Jiculo'ia pcoiiions. (