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*?? - I I, - ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER. i ? - ___ ____?_________________ ___ - _ BY HUGH WILSON AND H? T. WAKDLAW, ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1882. " NO. 6. VOLUME XXVII. Back-Bone. When you ace a fellow mortal Without fixed and fearless views, Hanging on the skirts of others, Walking in their tast-off shoes, Slowing low to wealth or favor, With abject, Uncovered head, Steady to retvact or waver, Willing to be drove or led ; Walk, yourself, with firmer bearing, T'lirow your moral shoulders back, Show your spine has nervo and marrow? Just the things which liis must lack. A stronger word Was never heard In sense or tone, ^ Than this: Back-bone. When you see a theologiau Hugging close some ugly crccd, Fearing to reject or question Dogmas which his priest may read, Holding back all noble feeliug, Oboking down each manly view, Caring more for forms and symbols Than to know the good and true ; Walk, yourself, with firmer bearing, Throw your moral shoulders back, Slow your spine has nerve and marrowJust the things which his must lack. A stronger word Was never heard In sense or tone, Than this : Back-bone. When you see a politician Crawling through contracted holes, Begtor some fat position, In the ring or at the polls, With no sterling manhood in him, Nothing stable, broad or sound, Destitute of pluck or ballast, Double-sided, all around; Walk, yourself, with firmer bearing, Throw your moral shoulders back. Show your spine has plnck and marrow ? JuMt the things wbich his must lack. A stronger word Was never heard In sense or tone, Than this: Back-bouo. _* A modest song, and plainly told? The text ia worth a mine of gold; For many men most sadly lack A noble stiffness in the back. WHOJWAS IT? We had just finished breakfast. Ton laid down th'a egg-8poon he had beei playing with and looked across a mother. " Annt Artrip T tViinlr T'll futo a irnfc 1 he said, exactly as bo might have said "I thunk I'll take another cup of cox lea" tK Tate a wife?" repeated mother, b; liO means rectiving the information a tmnnqilly as it had l>een given. "Wha iet-r "Wtll, I don't know,"answeredTom thcnpl tfuliy "It's a notion I've goti] my head Km?how." " AII nomenf*!" said rfioml* ? ??-i/ij "Do you think bo?' 6aid Tom, ap parently doubtful, but not in. fche leas put out. ' Think so? I know it "What ii the world can you want -of a wife After all these years we h? ve lived si comfortably together, to bring homi somebody to tnrn the b ou6e tipsid< down. And then what is to becom< o : that poor ohild ?" The ' poor child "--that was I?red dening at beinp brought into the argu ment in this way was about to speal for herself, when Tom interpose?, waimly: .< T> ? % T . ... guic ma; j-^uuwo a wouxu neve have any wife who would make 'it less i home for hei?don't you, Ma*y? ' "Of course," laid I. " And I'm sur e she kr^ows nothinj of the sort," persisted mother, "no ycu either, Torji Dearn. How can yoi answer for whaA &, w\fe may take it int< her head to do* wCj y0u get her fixec here ? T on ?uA expect her to forget as you d .o, that May has no real clain on you." " Th' it I h& .ve no real claim on her, suppoi ie you mean, ma'am," Tom put ii for the secc ndtime, just as I was getting thoro' Jffh'.v nn<>nmfftrf#hlo ? Tinf all th jit, I intend to keep her?that is,' add< xi 'fonj, with one of bis shortsighted bliD .fcr, Bidewajs at m?, "as loDg as she'l ptaT with me, eb, May ? And whoeve hp A anything to say against that arrange E iout will have to go out of my hous< ? 6ay it?not that I'm afraid of any sucl *esnlt in this case?and, on the whole Aunt Anne, I should like to try the ex jjeriment." Mother smiled grimly, but Tom wa ;so evidently bent on his " experiment,' as he called it, that she gave up thi argument. "You can dance if you aro ready t< pay the piper," she said, shortly. *And i>ray, how soon do you mean to bi Tom's face fell a little at this question. "Well," said ho, "I oau't say exact ly. I supposo we will have to be en gaged first." 41 What I'' said mother, opening he eyes; "why, you never mean to say Tom, you haven't spoken to her yet r" " Not yet," answered Tom, cheerfully "Time enough for that, you know after I had spoken t,o you." " Well," she said, " if it was anybody else I should say he was cracked; bn you were never like other people, ant never will be, Tom De-m. But, at least you have fixed on the lady V" "Oh, yes," answered Tom; "buti you will excuse rue, Aunt Anne, I wonk rattier not F&y anything about her jus yet; forif?anything t-hould happei it wouldn't be pleacant for either party you kr.ov." With which veiled allusioi to hU possible rejection Tom took his ha'c and left the room. Oar household was rath6r queerJ] jput together. There is no particulai ' -'reason why I should have been of it a' all, for I was not really related to Tom nor even to " mother." as I called hpr though I am sure we were as dear t< each other as any mother and daufthtei could h<\ She was the second wife o my father, who, like most ministers, had been richer in grace than in goods and left us at his death with very little ;to live on. Then it was that Ton Dean had como forward and insistec on giving a home to his aunt and t< me, whom he had scarcely seen a dozei times in his life before. That was ex actlyflike Tom?"queerTom Dean," ai his friends were fond of saying, " whe never did anything like anybody else.' I suppose, in spite of his clear head fo: business, there is no denying that h< was whimsioal; but I am sure, when ! think of his unfailing generosity am delicacy, I can't help wishing then were a few more such whimsica people in the world. Naturally a the time I am speaking of, my opinio] had not been asked; all I had to do wa to go where mother went, and, whilesb gave her energies to the housekeeping gjive mine to growing up, which by thi time I had pretty well accomplished But perhaps for that very reason?fo one sees with different eyes at t^relvi and eighteen?my position in th house had already begun to seen unsatisfactory to me; and the morn ing's words put it in a clearer light since it had been used as an argumen against Tom's marrying. I knew tha mother bad spoken honestly, bo lieviDg that such a ste p would not b for his happiness; but was he not th beet judge of that? I knew him, if re flection should bring him round t her opinion, to be perfectly capabl of quietly sacrificing his owi wishes for my sake, who hai not the shadow of a claim on him; s it must be on my part to prevent hi own kindness beinj? turned again6 him now. Still, it was not so easy t see how I was to provide for mveelf i: case it should become advisable. "Wha could I do ? Draw and sing and pla tolerably, but not in a manner to com pete with the hosts that would be i; the field against me. Literature? had read so many stories whose here Iines, with a turn of the peD, dashei into wealth and fame. Tbat would b very nioe, only?I was not the least bi literary; I had never even kept a joui nal, which is saying a great deal for girl in her teens. The "fine arts, then, being out of the question for m( what remained ? There was 6om clerkship, or a place in *ome family and?and there was Will Broomley 1 i i?r j" ? * That may seem like going away f: the point, but it was not. It was mat of-fact, butloould see well enough* was going on right under my eyeB, I had a pretty clear idea of w-hat bringing WilMo the honse so oftei he had taken to coming lately. Tt wa8 a fVmrv th?tnrnnlrt i me the home-life I liked best> and myself best suited for; but~Wouli answer in other respects? lover the long seam I Was sewing twice o' I was so busy trying to make up ; mind whether I liked "Will Brooa j well enough to pass my whole life * him; and even then I had not come any decision when I was called do stairs to Letty Walters. Letty was the pretties1,1 think, of my friende, and certainly the liveli Tom called her the " tonic/' and u to laugh heartily at her bright speect I suppose it was this that made mot j fix ou Letty as hi? Choice. Whei came into the ?itting-room I foun 1 J _ * . i i kiuu ui crow-examinauon going on. ; was abusing to any body in the Bee: | as I was, tc watch mother's artful \ \ of continually bringing the conver i tion round, as if by ohance <x> bear i wbat she wanted to know. But it amounted to nothing, either beca Letty was too good & fencer or beca she reully had nothing to betray. J when Tom came home mother t( care to mention that Letty had call "What, the tonic?''said Tom. " 1 bad I missed her.'' " But for your choice being alret made.'' said mother with a rnv?rt ho tiny of his face, "I dare Bay you mi( have as much of the tonic a8 you like _ '"But I go on the homeopathic pi ciple, you know," answered Tom, w a twinkle in his eye. After that mother's belief in Lett guiltiness wavered. Her suspici* were transferred from one to another our acquaintances; bat always with 1 same unsatisfactory result. "It passes my comprehension," ? Baid to me, despairingly, one day. am positive I could tell the right c by Tom's face in a minute, and yel have mentioned everybody we know. "Perhaps it is somebody we do know," I suggested; "somefriend of. we have never seen." wnau a periecc strangerr si 2 mother, sharply. "Never talk to r 1 child; Tom's not capable of that!" t 1 was silent, for I did not want i worry her; but that wbb my opinion " I the Fame. , The same evening?it was rati !- more than a week since Tom bad hurl that thunderbolt of his at t?s?mot! y began about it openly. s " When are you going to introdt t your wife to us, Tom ? I suppose y have come to an understanding by tl } time." a " Oh, there's no hurfy," Tom said, he had said before; but this time c . not speak" quite so cheerfully. " T fact is," he continued, with a little hi t itation, " there?theffe's a rival in t case." a "A rival 1" repeated mother, wi ? unfeeling briskness. 3 " Yes, a young fellow?younger by 3 good deal than I am," and Tom's fa 3 assumed an absurdly doleful look. "] 2 i8 always there now. I confess I do: see my way clear; I'm waitiDg for t . to make up ner mind." " And she's waiting, most likely, 1 i yon to make up yours," said J^uth f ' forgetting in her property to rij matters that sb?. -was playing t r enemy's game. j ? Tbc.re'6 something in that that ne1 i occurred to me, said Tom, his fs | brightening. Mother saw her mista g; and made a couDtermove at once. r i " Bat the ways of my time are o 11 fashioned now ; young ladies nowadt 51 take matters into their own hands. 1' she cared for you you may be pre f j sure she wouldn't have waited till tl | j time to let you know it?that is, I jud i by the'girls I am in.the habit of seein [ : but if this one is a stranger to mei1 (here mctlu'r riveted her eyes on Tor j j lace; oh, dear, my unfortunate word; r " if she is an entire stranger I cam " pretend to form any opinion of her, I course." 1 "Of course," repeated Tom,absent r "Not that I have any such idea," . Burned mother, growing warmer. 3 ; nave said ana 1 say again that to bn 1 \ a perfect stranger under thiB roof is i , my opinion of yon, Tom." I felt mother's words like so ma pins and needles; for Tom was loc 3 ing meditatively across at me, at " though that waB just a way of his, 9 seemed dow if he was reading in i face that the opinion was mine and tl 3 I bad been meddling m whet did i concern me. I felt myself' for v? a vexation getting redder every mome; till it grew intolerable. "It is so warm here," I said, for excuse, turning toward the Fren r window. "I am going to get a bres I of air." I I went out into our little strip of g r 1 den ground; Tom followed. I thong I I should Dever have a better opporti I ity to say what I had in my mind ; i say, so I waited foi him'by the ben i under tho old pear tree. "Sit do ' | here, Tom," I eaid, "I've something t I say to you." t { " Have you ?" said Tom; " that's oc j ' for 1?well, never mind that just y > | What is it. May ?" j "Tom," I said, still surer now f had misjudged me, and more resoh j!to set him right, " I want a place." 11 "A place ?" repeated Tom, puzzli !! as well he might be by this sudd ' and indefinite announcement; " wl i kind of a place ?" i I "I don't know," I said, for, inde< : my ideas were ol the vaguest. 7 j thought you might, being in the way r those things. Now pray, Torn," I w< t i on quickly, " don't fancy I am disci , j tented, or?or anything of that sc , I the truth is ever since I left off schi >! I have wanted something to do, and 1 p! it in my mind to speak to you about j f With this I looked at Tom, feari , he might be vexed; but he did not lc , vexed; only preoccupied. 3 "I do know of a place, as it hi i pens," he said after a while, "only] 1 not sure how it wonld suit you." > That's soon seen," said I. "W1 i is it like?" "Well, it's a sort of?of general u 3 lnlneps?" > " Why, it must be to run errand ' raid I, laughing. "And where is r Tom ?" a " Well," said Tom, hesitating aga [ " it's with me." 1 "How very nice!" I exclaimed. "H 0 soon can I have it ?" 1 "The sooner the better, so far a t am concerned," said Tom, and with tl a he turned and looked at me, and dire s ly I met his eyes I knew somehow, e in a moment, what it was he meant; e I knew, too, both that J could not hi s passed all my life with Will Brooml . I and why 1 could not. r j I am sure Letty Walters, who int B ! ruptedus jast then, must have thoui e my wits were wandering that evenii a ' and indeed they were; for I was cc - ! pletely dazed with this sudden ti , ! things had taken. But Tom, who 1 t j the advantage of me there, took it qn 11 coolly, and laughed and talked w - J Letty just the same as ever till i e ! went away. e It was pretty late when we went I- j Mother sat where we had left her, ki o ting in the twilight. e j " Wasn't that Letty Walters w d ; you a while ago ?' she said, as we oa a up. o "Yes," said I, with a confased ft s ; ing of an explanation of something be: t necessary; '-she just came to bn o the new crochet pattern she promii a me." ,t j " H'm I" said mother, as much as y | Hay she had her own ideas as to w i- j Letty camo for. Tom had been wandering about 11 room in an absent sort of fashion, tak >. | up and putting down in the wrc d places all the small objtots that fell e his way. He camo up end took a b it by mother. I became of a sud( - very busy with the plants in the v a Uow; for I knew he wa3 going to i " her. ), "Wish me joy, Aunt Anne," said o | "it's all settled." r, " Setlled, is it?" said mother, in a i thing but a joyful tone. ?rSo it's t \ \ 1 ' rom suspected all along. Well, you have ter my best wishes, Tom ; perhaps you may 'hat be happv together after all, lvm Bure I and hope so/' was This wasnvt a very encouraging sort t)f q m congratulation, and Tom seemed rather lere taken aback by $ive "I'm sorty you are not pleased," he fait said, after a pause; " I had an idea i it somehow you would be." cast "I did not knory from what you rer, ju^gedv Bttt, there, it's no use of my cryibg over spilt milk. You'll be il$y married directly, I presume ; I must ?ith be looking out for a house," and mother > to stroked her nose reflectively . with a wn- Knitting needle. " What for?'1 Baid Tom ; " I thought all of kefepihg on Ijere all the same." est. ??I never supposed otherwise," said sed mother. "Of course I did not expect ies. to turn you out of your own house." her " But what is the need looking out i I for another, then ?" A a "Why, for myself." It " For yourself 1" repeated Totn-, in a ret, tine of ukter amazement. "Going to vay leave us^-just now? Why, Aunt Anne, 8a- L never heard of such a thing !'' on "Now, Tom," said mother, speaking all very fast, und making her needles fly urc m concert, we miguc as wen come 10 use an understanding at once on tbi-? subBut ject. I am fully sensible of your past >ok kindness?now just let me finish?I say ed. I appreciate it, and have tried to do my Foo duty by you in return, as I hope I should be always ready to do. I wipli idy all good to you and your wife, and shall ru- be glad to help her if I can, but to live ?ht in the same "house with her is what d-" would turn out pleasantly for neither of "in- us, and, once for all, I can't do it." ith "Aunt Anne," said Tom, pushing back his chair and staring in mother's J's excited face, " either you or I must be ans out of our wits." of ' It's not me, then, at any rate," rethe torted mother, getting nettled. Amusement and a certain embarrassihe ment had kept me a silent listener so "1 far, but there was no standing this; I me tried to speak, but could not, for laught I iug. " "I think you are all out of your wits n't together," said mother, turning sharply, his " What ails the child ? It's no laughing matter." lid " lou don't understand each other." ae, I gasped; "oh, r'earl it's not Lettv - j oh?oh, dear !' and relapsed again, to "Not Letty?'' repeated mother, turnall ing to Tom. "Then why did you tell me so ?" ler " I never told you so," said Tom. [ed "Why, yes, you did," persisted ler mother. " You came in and told me you were going to be married." ice "Yea, so I am," said Tom, still at on cross-purposes. bis " Now, Tom Dean," said mother, ria ing and confronting him, "what do you as mean? who is going to bo your wile?'' lid " Why, May, of course," answered he Tom. as- "May!" and then, after a paase of he inexpressible astonishment, it was mother's tnrn to laugh. "Do yon mean ith to say, Tom, it was that child you were thinking of all the while." a " Why, who else could it be ?" said, ice Tom, simply. Se "Well," Baid mothe^ j onRht to n't have remember^ never did do ! ler anything ';Ke anybody else. But, still, ! ,a the World did yon go to work in ! such a roundabout way ?' er, "I wanted to see how you took to my j ;ht idea?" said Tom. ;he "And how do you suppose wo were to j guess your idea "meant May?" mother j rer asked. ice " Who else could it be ?" repeated ike Tom, falling back on what he evidently found unanswerable argument. It was Id- no use talking to him. Mother gave it lys up with a shake of the head. If " And you won't want another house tty then, Aunt Anne?'' said Tom, suddenly, bis That set mother off again; Tom joined Ige with her, and altogether I don't think g ; wo ever passed a merrier evening than ?" the one that made us acquainted with n's Tom's wife.?Kate. Putnam Osgood. sH I lot A Blind Shot. of Ail English traveler in Southwestern Africa, Mr. Frederick Green, relates ly. how by a marvelous shot in the d*rk re- he put out of the way two dreaded lions "I that bad long haunted the Bushman ng village of Otjituo and devoured more lot than a hundred human beings. These brutes would paes by whole droves o* ny cattle, and go directly through flocks >k- of sheep without touching ono,in order to id. find and pounce upon a human victim, it They were mates, and the death of one uf ny them (identified as the other's provider), mt in consequence of Mr. Green's lucky LOt bhnf. fho rhfliai* otpqtt on fViaf ! iry he did not return. This is the hunter's ! at, story: It was 3 o'clock iu tho morning; the , an moon had sunk below the horizon, and | ch it was quite dark, when the humor took | bth me fco have a night ramble. Seizing my double-barreled gun and my revolving ar- rifle, I stood for some minutes a silent ;ht and solitary listener to the terrific roarin ings of two lions, who after a while to passed along the bank of tho river opch poBite to that on which we were enwn camped. to Suddenly halting again, they commenced another duet in as loud a strain Id, as their lungu could pour forth. I waB by et. this time joined by John Mortar, Bonfield and two of my native servants, all in he readiness with their guns, like mjsslf, 'ed iu case the brutes should attempt to attaok us. I now advanced a few paces -d) from the wagon toward the river, and 'en raising my double-barreled gtw, called sat to my Damara, Gakub (for from deafness in one ear I cannot distinguish ad, accurately the direction ot sound), to " 1 point ab near as he could to the quarter of whence he heard the lions. This done, ar.t I placed the gun on an elevation o f about jn- 300 yards, the distance, as i supposed, irt; of tbe animate, and fired. .No sooner ool had the explosion taken place than one lad of the lions abruptly ceased roaring, t." tittering at the same a startling growl, ing snch as always announces the receipt of >ok a gunshot wound by these brutes. The "clap"of tbe bullet against the beast's ap- hide, so well known to sportsmen, was ['m not to be mistaken, and the bystanders simultaneously shouted: bat "The lion is struck 1" 1 Btood amazed, scarcely able to se- credit the fact, and might, perhaps, have thought that my hearing had des," ceived me, had not Mortar, Bonfleld and it, others present declared with one voice that the lion mu3t unquestionably have .in, been hit. After describing tho discovery and ow dispatch of the wounded beast when daylight came, and his thrilling ens I counter with its mate, when his revolvtiat ing rifle twice missed fire, Mr. Green ict- say8: all On examining the dead lion I was ind muoh surprised to find that my night ive shot had hit him close behind the left ey, shoulder. ... I had the skin of the animal carefully removed, and intend to er keep it as a reminiscence of one of the ;ht most extraordinary incidents of my ag, hunting experience. im lr? An Iron Mountain, lad Thg Iron Mountain at Durango, Mexl?^ ico, is described by Mr. John BirkbineB ^ of Philadelphia, engineer of the com he pany formed to develop its riches, as a hill one mile long, a third of a mile wide, and from four to six hundred llfc* feet in height above the plateau. The eurface of the mountain exposing ore so as to be classified as good mining land me aggregates over 10,000,000 square feet. There are indications that the deposit . extends beneath the level of tbe pla|Q8 teau. Mr. Birkbine says that he ln? spent considerable time in examining Be<* the mountain; and though most of the surface shows ore he does not agree *? with those who pronounce the mountain a Bolid masB of ore. Ho is rather inclined to think that the mountain is j-h0 formed of one or mora immense veins in8 of speoular iron ore, standing nearly vertical, the fragments of which have, m by tbe action of the elements for ages. 'ea^ been thrown down to form tbe slopes of *.en the mountain as a talus; but the extent of this detrital ore is too great to perte" mit of locating any foot or hanging , walls. he, ? Justioo exists indep&ndent of tho law ny- and no statute can modify its prinoiplcs is I although it may effect its attainment. THK FAltM A Jit) HOME* Fish Culture AdvUnbtp; Fish culture might be made a sotirt of profit ob many farfaas. tonds, broofc and small streams througl the land might be made alive witbor multitudes of ftsh. EVery farmed wh has a small pond, brook or spring c never failing water might easily arrang to raise abundance of fish for the use ( his family and have a surplus for skl< A stock of fresh fish near at iiahd wherfe they cbtild be made availabl Wh'eht>ver such an article was wante J for the table, would be a great oonver 1_ :_ii_ 11. - *. leuue, especially 111 IUH uuuutrjr, wuoi I supplies of fresh fish are difficult to b I obtained at)d where fresh meat of an; | kind is noteasyto find during t!ne Warr | weather of summer.. The maU who hft< a stock of fish in a pond or a broo! I near by could supply his table wheneve he wished With the best and freshbi of fish directly from the water. A fisl cooled within an hour from the time i comes from the water is delicious com pared with one which has been out o the water twenty four hours befor cooking. With a little care almost an; man having water facilities could easil; raise five hundred or a thousand pound ' of fish to sell yearly. Tbe cost of pro | duction would be far leBS than the cos of raising an equal weight cf beef, porl or mutton, nnd would sell for highe j prices.?Christian. Union. Cleaning Dairy Stttbleh. rni,:? ?w ik; | Aiiia 10 tt YYuixx CVCJJ uttiijrujau IU uui latitude who does anything like jut>tic( to hia herd has daily to perform. Th( manner in which be does it modiflei the rest of his business If done in i slovenl', slipshod Bort of a way, hi herd may go along all winter withou becoming fatally Bick, or losing ftllthei strength, and a stupid herdsman neve: notices that there is anything wronj about them; but an observing dairymai will readily discern the differenct between keeping cows ih a fon and an odorless stable. In telligent horsemen appreciate the dif ference, and take great pains in keep ing their stables clean and free fron offensive odors, and they And that i pays in the increased health and rigo: of their horseB, and in the COsi o their keeping?food being always bet ter digested and appropriated b; healthy than by sickly animals. Cowi o m o a mnnK n Vvtt li a n re Uio t*0 UiUVU HUOUIOU V J lUCIi 6table8 clean or foul as horses, thougl they are less demonstrative in manifest ing it. Breathing the stenoh from th< stable affects them all over, a (t elck ens and weakens them> When an ox ii taken from a filthy stall in which h< has been confined for a time to fatten and slaughtered at once npon his re moval from it, every pound of his flesl and fat will be flavored by the stall, afcc betray something of its odor> Whon al animal's flesh ?md whole body are thui saturated with efflavia, what else conic be expected than general debility and i loss of flesh, as well as a loss of vigor an'l at least a teudency to disease, if i is juot positively produced ??Naliona Live Stock Journal. Gcrne on the Fnrm. In answer to inquiries from severa subscribers in regard to the care an< treatment of geese the NeW York Hey aid publishes the following excel)en article from an English p.>.per : "Ii certain parts of France geese constituti tho principal food of the population Is there any reason why the poore: English classes should not be able t< consume them in the same way and t( procure a savory dinner for much lesi lhan would be paid for the same quan tifcy of butcher's meat? If once thi praotioe were introduced c? selling i gooso in quarters or even Bmallet* por tions, as is done by the French poul terers, ifc wouid probably be found 8( convenient that it would be very generally adopted, as also that other thrift; plan of precervical geese and ducks ii various ways for winter consumption There are, however, many pointi to be specially uttencled to b] the person who wishes to succeed ii this industry. We are supposing tha it is a farmer who turns his attention t< > it, and that he has either a good mar 1 ket in his immediate neighborhood o is sufficiently near to a railway statioi to make the transmission of his product a paying concern. Let him then pro cure birds of the very best breeds. Fo: our own part we recommend, althougl more expensive in the first infctarce, th< Toulouse variety, as being not onl; much larger, but also more prolific thai the common goose. A Toulouse goo?o if not allowed to sit, will lay ftom fifti to sixty eggs in a season, and the younj ones are very easily reared. It is sai< in France thfct when the eggs &r< hatched by the goose, the goslihgi come forth three or foul- days soone than they do when a hen is the mother and if this is true it ti probably becausi of the greater warmth engenderet by the larger bird. The delay is, how :ver, not worth considering, as it is ver; iesirable to prolong the time of laying Moreover, the goose has the bad propen j sity of abandoning the rest of her egg : as soon as the first gosling makes ite ap j pearance ui.'us the littleoreatureis im I J*-Yt Via* Tf io fVlflltfl I LUfUlUlUAV tnacu lium uc1| jlu ir\ vuuu j foro, extremely necessary to be ttpoi the watch when phe is allowed to sit ] and to have a basket warmly lined wit] ; flann*1. in which to place the gosling until the whole number being hatchei they can be given back to their inothei In the first stage Of their existence th little birds must on no account be place* in the puoBhine, nor should they b allowed out for the first six or eevei days. The greatest precaution mus also be afterward taken to avU.d thei | getting wet; rain is, in fact-, thei j greatest enemy, and it is i^Uite i j frequent occurrence in France fo whole flocks of goslings to be killed oi by being caught in unexpected thunder storms, for if the down with which the, are covered becomes matted uothini can save them. After the first fev days' regime of chopped eggs and net ties young goslings may be given mixture of potatoes, meal and gtpel vegetables cut up very finely; th nettle, however, suits them better thai any other green food, as the juice o that plant seems especially favorable t their digestion, which is so rapid tha young geeee must be fed five or si times a day. With them, aB with al other young animals, it is necessary t pive abundant nourishment from th< ! very first. Later on they will eat bee I root, either raw or cooked, and mon j kinds of green vegetables, aB well a any sort of grain, and are especiall fond of fruit. The Toulouse goose has rather inconvenient habit of seekin her own provender, and if sho has an chance of doing so will dig up and coc | sume any amount of crocuses and oihe I bulbs. It is not, however, to be sup j posed that they will be given the entre i of our gardenB. Whoever wishes to hav success with geese must be careful t give them a house which is large ani airy enough, and plenty of clean bed ding. The abominable practice of lei ting ducks and geese sleep in the hen house cannot be sufficiently repre hended. The goose in particular is bird which likes cleanliness and whicb indeed, can never thrive properly wher this is wanting. That much water i not absolutely necessaiy to geese i proved by the fact of their being large ly kept in places where it is extremel deficient; still it is certain that thes fowls thrive better in the neighborhooi j of streams or on marshy ground. An; i coarse meadow suits them well, bu ' it will not do to give '.hem th j run of grasses which have not beei I sown long enongh to be firmly rooted j as otherwise they will pull them up I Around Toulouse many people find i I more profitable to turn their land int pasture for geese than to use it for roc crops or cereals, but they always tak care to change the runs frequently. A with us, geese are also turned into th stubbles, and not upon the landwhenc the hay crop has been taken. But nh most economical plan is to send lavg flocks to browse upon the commons, c bv the sides of roads or streamlets. I Westphalia, where the people are ej tremely poor, all the different animal of a village or hamlet?cows, pigs, gpiti geese, etc.?are seat off in this manne every mornitog ih charge of some sichl; boy or old man incapable of harde !e labor The dreatnrea know and obe; ;s the ebtlnd of his horn, afad nothing i i- moi-e ciirious than to see then it trirh of their bwh accori o into their respective horhes, wheb ij )f the evening he brin s them back to thi e village. In this way tithe bb well a )f food is economized, and the few cent, 3. paid every iiionth by each villager t< 1, i the poor herd make npon the whole i e very fair living. The fattening of geesi d is usually a separate industry in France i- the subjects being bought from thi e peasants by dealers, who sell them t< e those whose business it is toprepari y the birds for the markets. With as 11 hoWeVef, it is m(jre the fariher's int&rea d to attend to this busintess hiniBfelf, ai k he tiah utilise ih this way mucn jjrodub) r that would otheWise be wasted, afcid at it we do not require our birds to be b brought to that state of fatness?ii it reality a state of disease?which th< ? French consider necessary, they can bt f made perfectly ready for the marke e without being subjected to any kind ol y cruelty. Besides supplying the wanti y of its own population, France expoiti s to Germany, Belginm, Holland, Swedci - imd Denmark large quantities of salfcec t tnd smoked geese for winter provision.' k r Pnfm rtnd Mnrilcu Jldtcn; T?he " little btlgs " that yoil think art (In Hir iindArfti'lfi nf vnnr fern leavei f^re seeds ; rub them off and raise som< 8 ferns. s Plants of crape myrtle ought not to b( 3 shifted after they have commenced tc 8 set their flowerbuds. They will tak< a no harm if they fill the pots with root; a after that timo. t Cabbages respond quiokly to frf quen^ r hoeing. It is on9 of the crops npor r which too mnch labor cannot be be ; stowed. They should be cultivated i often* ?veh whBL there are no weed* s among them. 1 Common grafting wax is made bj takinc one narfc of tallow, three of becB * wax and four of rosin, and melting them - together over a Blow Are.- Melt the 1 rosin first and put in the other ingtedr en to after, BtirHiig wfeli together, r In Girder to test the value of a fertil* izer it must be used on a poor soil, where * even a small crop could not be pro P duoed without manure. When the 3 ground is already rioh the special effecl r of the fertilizer canncf be aocuratelj 1 determined. A writer In the tftmea'tead says: " ] 3 ^6 hbt believe there is anything like il ?so handy and effectual?to dispose e 3 young heifer to keep her hind feet still 3 at the first lesson of being milked as s ' small rope tied around the body, cIofc back of the forelegs, and twisted tigli! | with a short stick;"' j Many breeders of mutton sheep pre 3 fer a thick neck, as it is usually found j in connection with: a capaoious chesl j and a vigorous constitution and thici flesh along the baeki The uppGr lint I of the nebk shotild be well up to th? I line of the chine and loin, as a droop ing neck is an indication of poor feed ing quality. The Guinea fowl is very destructive I to insects, and will feed on some thai 1 the hens will Hot toD6h. They ah i gtfeat fot-agets, active, and go over e - whole field in a short time. There is an t other point in their favor not gunerallj i known, which is that they are nol 3 scratchera and d) but little harm tc . I plants. r The tuberose may be started b<r being J put in pots or boxes of earth, wherebj 5 the bulbs get a good growth before il 8 would be even safe to set the bulbs lr the ground. Then when the season be 3 come3 sufficiently warm, 'if desired, * they may be *et in the ground carefully, or remain in the boxes, according to the preference of the grower. If ett in the 3 ground before the weather become: sufficiently warm, the crowns of the 7 flowering bulbu are liktly ?o become 1 oViillAd. whtp.lt. if it rlnPR tink entirnlv i blast the blossomP; very greatly injure} thBir beauty. It-clpm. 1 AprLE Dumplings.?Apple dumplingt are much better if the flower is scalded after robbing it in a little lard and Milt; pour on sufficient boiling water to make i a stiff dough; let it cool a little, and j then flour your hands and wt)rb a piecfc of the doueh Uhtil it is large enough to cover the apple; drop in boiling watei; eat with butter, cream and 31 sugar. {i Ego Toast.?Beat an egg smooth 1 I -UU 1..1I. IA f.'siV. n.itir yvjlu uau u inauup ui uvu ujua? xsi). ' slices of stale bread in this and fry e nice brown in bntter. If for "tht | meD," add a piaeh of pepper and tiall ? to tb* egg. For children omit these g ahcl give them honey or syrup with it It agrees equally well with meat or fish and fills the place of potatoes when yoti 1 , wish a chaDge. \ Milk Toast.?Got your bread rathei . thick, about three-quarter of an iDCh, y allowicg a slice for each person; toast i< qnickly before a bright fire to a rict . brown; dip lightly into boiling water, B butter each slice and pile it in the bowi . it is to be served in; for five pBreOne . take a auatt of fflilk? boil with a tea . BpoobfUlof salt, and when at the fnli ! add a heaping teaspoonful of butter, creamed with a light one of flour; stii ^ thft milk nntil it is as thick as cream 1 ? ? ?t 8 pour OTet the toast and serve lmmedi i at8ly. A Good Salad ?An appetizing salac 6 can be made of asparagus, and th( * dressing will help to make it enjoyed 6 after one is tired of having it Cooked ir a the tuiual way. To the comtry house t j wife this will seem an unlikely *tate ol r thlngsjfor a lohg time to iome. Make * | a dressing of hard boiled eggs, mus n I j J il j _ u.-i - iaruf pepper, Bait hliu vinegar, a uiu uj r butter or a very little oil. Boil tho an^ paragus until it is tender, drain it thor* oughlj or the water will spoil tho flavoi J of tfco dressing, then pour the diessing ? over it, or you may pnt the dressing ir v a salad bowl, and allow each one to add to the asparagus to suit his own taste. a ?ifeto rovtc Post Q How to Cook Asparagus. -The Ca 0 terer says; The proper method is rare Q ly followed. Asparagus of the stoutei sort, always when of the "giant" varie 0 ty, should be cut of exactly equal ^ i lengths, and boiled, standing heads up x i ward, in a deep saucepan.' Nearly twc 1' inches of the heads should be out oi 0 | the water?the steam sufficing to cooh \ j them, as they form tho tenderest pari I of the plant, while the hard, stalkj I part i? rendered soft and succulent bj 9 | the longer boiling which this plau per 7 mits. Instead of tbe orthodox twenty minutes allotted to average asparagui * lying horizontally, which half-cookE 7 i the stalk and over cooks the head, di l* ' minishing its flaver and consistence, i r | period of thirty or forty minutes, oi > j the plan recommended, will rende: 6 ! fully a third more of the stalk delicious e while the head will be cookod by the 0 steam alone. d ? ? I* Burdette on Home. Home is more to a woman than to i l~ ' raan. It is her temple. She is iti goddess, its priestess?but oftener ib a janitor. A man doesn't look so long '? ingly back at the old home, though i e never costs him a cent, bought all hii 8 clothes and sent him to college. ? 8 man likes his home when he gets ac " quainted in it, because there his stu? I pidity passes for the profoundest wis | dom. His jokes are all laughed a l3' (though it needs only a glossary ; to get fit their meaning) i fc i he only indicates the laughinf 6 | place. When a man dies he is wept fo: ? | at home, but the cold world movei '? along as if nothing had happened; font !* lover3 come to his graveyard even, wea l' his tombstone smooth sitting on it, con 0 traofc 1 ad poetry and worse rheumatism and barden the air wit h labial confec e tionery. I have heard that there wer 8 skeletons m many homes. They neve e get there unless they are brought.6 Robert J. Burdette. e ?? e The lakes and ponds of Galifornifi ir according to a recent census bulletic n cover an acre of 1,600 square mile! c- Tulare lake is tho largest body of wate Is lying wholly within the limits of th i, I Uaited States. t FACTS AlfD COMMENTS, t Diving for black pearls employs a y large number of men and boats off the b co&at of lower Oalifoi-Dia: T'ttders a eiipply the vessels and diving appatatns ^ i upon the stipulation that the pearls i that arb found are to be sold to them at _ ft r\nnJ flh/1 TKhoo IflTTTnla n*a A# K y OpCl/lUCTU 1 OLCD. XMOTO JOHOJID BID | s inuoh bedtity and highly prisied, A P' b year's prodiiotioh is wori h oil an aterj age from ?500,000 to $1,000,000. i C t 3 Krnpp's works at Essen, Germany, g( ' employ 456 steam engines, aggrega0 ting 18,500 horse power; eighty-two 5 steam hammers of weight varying from P1 3 200 pounds to fifty tons; twenty-one Irj f rolling mills j 1,050 furnaces} tirenty' five locomotives; and so forth, pro- A 8 dntiing afcnnally 900,t)00 tops of steel 3 and 26,000 tons of iron. The present ^ J poptllation of his workingmeh's kitf is f i 5 oyer 15,700. ti 1 C( i j The story is told of Lena Sherman, ; _ 1.1.1 _ ?"wl _f T~?? . I SC I t? iopumuio K1IA Ui 1UyYa I UUIiUCi 1UYC1 f proved to be a horse thief, and was " s sent to the penitentiary. His counsel w 3 thought that a new trial might be ob- 8 J tained by appealing, but there was no 1 money to meet the expense. So Lena di stole a horse in a neighboring county, i ci sold it, and devoted tne money to the I se appeal. The convict gained his liberty, 5 but tbfe girl tfent tt> ptfsch Governor tti 3 Sherman has pardoned her. 3 0 Colonel George Washington Jcnes, 01 J Greenback member of Congress from ni > Texas, is the tallest man in the Hoase sa i of Representatives. He wears blue i flannel of cheeked gingham ghirtu, without collar or Cuffs, coatse boots t and homespun clothes. He lives in w i Washington in a half-farttished, un painted> ilnfiarpBted and iinswept back la 1 attifc room, lighted only bjr a gas jet iti bi j the hall. While his colleagues feast b< daintily in the capitol cafe, he takes his w r lunch of apples and gingerbread at his P . desk. But this crude, harsh life is in, vested with pathos and nobility by the ti , fact that its sacrifices are made for the (J . sake of needy and suffering relatives at pi home. 01 s It may not be generally known to *a landsmen, but all sailors are aware that, w i with a strong and steady favoring wind, t it is possible for a sail ng vessel to 0 ' equal the speed, of an Atlantic steam- pt ship. Mr. Benjamin, in his Article Ob iD [ " Tho Evolution of the American ir t Yicht" in the Century, compares the jo \ time made by some sailing ships twenty ca I and thirty years ago with tha; of the m \ fastest steamers of to-day. In one of the m > rodent "lastest passages ever made" Jo ; by. the Alaska, het greatest fun Was b< 419 miles in twenty four hours. Before -w, . 1850, the ship James Haines, built by af i Donald McKay, ran 420 miles in twen [ ty-four hoars. The ship Red Jacket, ^ . built at Rookland, Me., ran 2,280 miles , J in 6even days, or 825 miles per diem , } for a week. The Flying Cloud, Mc' Kay's most celebrated ship, once made . 374 knots, or 433 miles, in twenty-four hours and twenty-fivo minutos, equal to / 17.17 miles per hour. The difficulty j, [ sailing vessels experience in competing ' with craft whose motive power is steam ! lies, tds in the ability of thedhip, but 1 in the fact that the wind is unsteady. ^ ti s The Yacht America. ' One of the most brilliant successes of the clipper era was the ytfcht ' A marina Hnilf. in 1R/51 bv .Tnmfls ti,. ftnrl J. * George Steers for John 0. Stevens and t several other gentlemen, who desired to . i secure a Vessel which wotild win the * Qaeen's Gap at the annual regatta of . the London Royal Yacht Club. She n< i co-t abont 823,000, and her builders > we re to have a large bonus in case she V( > won. After a sail of twenty-two days ? and four hours, during five days of > which che was so becalmed as to make ? ) only six miles a day, she reached the ' neighborhood of fiavre. her pott 01 ' of destination, and was met by a Channel pilot-boat, which at ea once showed the French flag, and >t: was supposed, of course, to carry | a French pilot. As soon as the pilot st, 1 ntanriod nn hnnrd. .TvtmPR "R. Steers said I wi ! to bfs own pilot, Richard Browu. who ' > had brought the yacht from New York, ' "t)ick, that fellow is no Frenchman." ! W( > immediately Dick walked up to the i 1 stranger, and shouted, in most cm-! | phatic tones: "I tell you wl at, ray ; BI ' friend, if you let this yacht scrape bottom, I'll throw you overboard." Dick kept hold of the tiller himself, and would not give it up. As the yacht approached the lights of Havre the pilot bI confessed bis inability to take her in. He left her, and hurried in his own bj^at M to Cowes, with the news that "the "Yan- dc kee is the fastest vessel going." The in Englishmen always spoke of the Amer- ue ica as the "Yankee " So it came to pass that when the : of Steers brothers and the rest of the party i m Crossed the Channel and offered to back ; at their yachts with wagers, they discov- ar i ered that they Had been oetrayea, ( There was nobody to take their bets, fa [ So confident of success were they that ct j they had brought $4,000 each to invest cc . ih that way; while Pick Brown had ar [ manifested his faith by mortgaging his sb own pilot-boat in New York to John C. r Stevens for $2,000, every cent of which jj j he intended to stake upon the race. I 8e . But the " French" pilot, who had been a(j employed by somebody to get on board the America and learn her sailing qaal- ^ ' ities, had destroyed their chance of m 5 winning a dollar. Moreover, at 11 1 o'clock of the night preceding the long- , 1 anticipated regatta, the Messrs. Steers J11 " were informed that their yacht, which ' they bad brought three thousand n.iles . * to sail, Was ruled out of the race. Why ? ^ ' Because it wits " a tale of the club" that ?r ' erery competing yacht should be owned ' by but one owner. Now the Amerha ' was owned by several owners. bi The next day, however, August 21, ti' > 1851, the America sailed from Cowes i ns ' at the moment the regatta yachts sailed ' from Ryde, and beat them handsome- ^ ' ly, although the distance traversed by Sj her Was nine miles longer than that " traversed by the other yachts. The ex- I fo ' citement was tremendous, bat over the j tb r victory of the "Yankee" the twenty se ' thousand spectators were mute T1 1 as oysters. Queen Victoria, Prince at " Albert and young Albert Edward, how- th ! over, paid a visit of compliment to the bt [ Winning yacht that did not get the | priee. Her majesty was dressed in re" publican simplicity; the one thing that r one of her hosts best remembers to this . 7 day'is that she wore a plain calico " gown. The tastes of her maids ol ! honor were leas severe. On leaving 01 1 the yacht the queen asked how many 5,. 1 men there were in the crew, and, on be- A ' ing told the number, drew from her 1 pocket a purse, from which she 1 counted an equal number of guineas, r laying them one by one upon a plate jn 1 that had contained some "ginger- J? 3 snaps" brought for her refreshment. With a request that the steward cs distribute the guineas, and with a po- " lite invitation to the yachtsmen to visit ? her at Osborne, she took her leave. m s The neit thing the Steers brothers 9 heard from her was that she had given dl * them another "Queen's Cup," a pre- %{ t cise duplicate of the Qaeen's Cup for J1 8 which they had not been allowed to ^ compete. That is the cup which was 111 - brought home by them, and deposited 9 by Mr. John C. Stevens and his friends 1 - in the hands of the New York Yacht 0 t Club, where it still lies safe, in spite of u 7 the repeated efforts of foreign yachts to w f capture it. The visit to Osborne was I duly made and greatly onjoyed.? , r Harper. ^ * The Chinese in San Francisco are rer potted to be directing their attention to type setting, and strange to say, c * English type setting, some of their j, ' number having learned the compositor's .. 0 vooation in the printing offices of Eng- ? r lish journals published at Canton and j Hong Kong. 1 ? - c k, The aggregate losses in the fishing i i, business from Gloucester, Mass, from t i. 183 J, when the George's fishery began, t ir up to April 1, 1882, have been 2 351 t e lives and 428 vessels, valued at S1.8G2,- j 710. i i LADIES' DEPARTMENT. New* ami Note* for Women. President Barnard is in favor of t 5v? motement for admitting girls olambia eoll^gfei jVlies Lena Miller is proprietor of i osevelt house, Ohio street, Indians plis, and manages it with mark bancial skill* Miss tiillie 0. Durbt, the editor ol iroleville (C>hio) paper, WtUiehossIl irnate delegate to the Republic tate convention. Mrs. Mrra Bradshaw commenced t nblication of the Chicago Legal Ne. t October, 1868. It has become a f the , foremost legal newspapers tnnfind Mrs. flaWortli, of Thorntown, In I dne koto's time, secured 106 can \ womfen wto watt tfci Vote, in ad on to the ftfrty-two names Sent to t invention. Mrs. Smith, of Jersey City, has : >me time been eDgaged in redaci le cfnde language of the Tnscaroras riting, and in furnishing it witl rammar and dictionary. Mrs. Mary A. Livermore, in an i ress at the meeting of the Boston fe ety of Universaliets, deprecates t snding away to foreign missions of t jalotts and accomplished women, w re Ed mnch needed in home missio: Mrs. Porter, a wealthy lady hicago, has founded a hospital for I ire of poor children over three a uder thirteen years of a?6; It icred to the memory of her lost bj dj and is named the Manrice Por capitalIt is pleasant to record that a la ho has been out of the country for I >ars or more, engaged in missioni bor, returning for a visit- and re is seen nothing that so mnch surpri as the increased earnestness of 1 omen in the wofk of the church. rcsbyterian. The Women's Silk Calture assoc on of the United States, at 11 bestnnt street, Philadelphia, he fered ten premiums, aggregati 300, to be given to the silk calturi ! the oountry who produce the 1 rgest amounts of cocoons. Qaal ill also be one of the conditions. Two young women of Kentucky a hio, respectively, have received itent for a nan to be sunk in an ire g board, for the reoeption of the fl on when not in nse. The fracture ints, burns and o+her casualit: insed.by flat-irons will be known ore. This devise is a simple ir old, one inch deep, eight incb ng and five wide, to be fitted to t jard, and yet for this patent the you omen were offered 85,000 the d ter receiving their papers. The informal Sunday meetings at t roman's Educational and Indi ial Union, Boston, which have b aid by Pr. Olisby since the regn lason closed, have been well attecd id have elicited much earnest 'disot on on the topics ohosen?Faith, Ch y, Imagination, and Individual niversal Life of the Spfo't. It * le wiBh of those prestu*' who fi ley reoeivfld so much help from t lougnis given on inese vjim queanu. lat the meetings might be ccntinu irongh the summer. , Fashion Note*. Neck chains are worn only for f :els. Chatelaine watches are the corr yle for ladles. Shonlder oapes are a feature on ms 3W spring 6uits. Tailor made jersey jackets are the jrite spring wrap for young ladies. The old-fashioned watch fobs of < andfathers are attain in fashion. Beaded collars in solid jet embroidi 1 black Brussels net are very stylisl Small jeweled lace pins, matching I .rriogs, are used for fastening bom rings. Monsquataire gloves are, the favor: yle, and appear in Lisle thread arm weather. Dainty little smelliug botths in t iape of jeweled Greek amphorie i Dm on chatelaines. Jninboisthe latest craza in deco 3D, and Jumbo charms and orname; e fhown by the hundred. Among the rapidly appearing ecci icities in fancy jewelry is an ornami r millinery in the shape of six ti rds transfixed on a gild d spit. The Alpine peasant hat, called t ontagnard, with broad brim b< )wn over the eyep, is to be an excei gly popular head covering for seasi ie. Pare wool-mixed cheviots with ads Cayenne red in the wocf will nch employed for traveling dresi 1 summer. The facings and cordic e of red satin. Pompadour silks figure among n brios for evening wear. These t liefly in detached flowers in natu ilors scattered over a light groui id are combined with plain silks lades to match. Black openwork chenille wraps in t rectoire shape are mnch worn t aaon. They form a rich and elegi Idition to promenade costumes oire, foulard or satin, and have ,e becoming effect of a black vel' antle. A great deal of ficelle is used on str its. Some wide-brimmed shade h ive the brims entirely covered w i;s lace, held by numbers of smi lt-headed pins. A garland of flow 1 ?i-?- ?I. AAmnlafua 4 ft iODg usinuii iotiiucj. WUJ^JWVW) t imming. On 3 of the prettiest and new :rthas for the summer is of viol Qted mull, upon which are appliqr Ltural-sized heartsease blossom h )ld and purple velvet. The edge e bertha is bordered with violet-tinl panich lace. A comfortable band for tying the h r braiding may be made of silk elas readed through a shoe button, a wed into a loop of six inches or be button must be fastened at one ei td when the band is wrapped arou ,e hair the opposite end of the lo lttons over it. The Proper Time for Work. The habit of writing and reading If the day and far into the ni^ht, sa ie Lancet, for tbe sake of qniet, le of the most mischievous to whi man of mind can addict himse he feeling of tranquillity which com rer the busy and active man abc ):30 or 11 o'clcck ought not to be i irded as an incentive to work. It i fact the effect; of a lowering of ,lity consequent on the exhaustion ie physical sense. Nature wants a ills for physiological rest. Instead implying with her reasonable dema ie niyht-worker hails the feeling ental quiescence, mistakes it for cle: 2ss and acnteness, and whips the t:d organism with the will until Des on working. What is the resul nmediately, the accomplishment ol isk fairly well, but not half so well it had been performed with the vif f a refreshed brain working in hea om proper sleep. Remotely, or la , comes the penalty to be paid I nnatural exertion?that is, enei rung from exhausted or weary n:jr enters under pressure. This penh ikes the form of nervousness, perhi leeplessness, almost certainly sot )ss or depreciation of function in ( r more of the great organs conceri a nutrition. To relieve these malad -springing from this nnexpec ause?the brain-workers very lik iave recour.-e M the use of stimulat lossibly alcoholic, or it may be sim ea or coffee. The sequel need not ollowed. Night work during stud ife and in after years is the fruit lause of mr.cb nnexplflin* d, though io means inexplicable suffering, vhich it is dillicult, if not impossible imi a remedy. Surely morning is ;imo for work, when the whole bod refr.ted, the brain relievod from its I lion, and mind power at its best. RELIGIOUS READING. Serrnonic Result*. A sermon that ia to aocomplish an ?e end, and to be worth listening to, to to embody real thoughts, thoughts t hate some connection with the interests the and issues of life, and must be instinct ip- with the living convictions of the ed preaoher. To be such a sermon, it must come from the preacher's mind | a ttLd heart, warm with the very lifeal blood of his soul at the very moment of ifln hlfl delivery. But how a preacher can stand Up before an audience and prohe ceed to read as a message to living men a sermon wmcn ne wrote inirry, iweniy ine I or even ten years ago, I cannot underjn stand. "When written the sermon, donbtless, was a real transcript , of the writer's thoughts, con victions and emotions. But during the 'e.8 rush of intervening years, what chanpes, 2 if there has been a soul within him, have passed over his spirit ? To write that settaofc now would be simply impossible, for An(j yet he tries to put himself into it, D8 and in that guise he presents himself to t? an audience of thinking people. All 1 a old coat that he wore twenty years ago ( might be aired and the dust whipped id- out of it, and he present himself in it !o- with much more propriety than in that he old sermon. No treatment of the scr;he mon can relieve it of its smell of age. ho Like an old bouquet of flowers, its once as. delicate fragrance has sunk into a sick 0f ening odor.?President Robinson. ;he ?? j Religions New* and Xatrs. g There are over 6,000,000 children in b America still oatside of any direotSunday-school influence. Over 100,000 Bibles were given to ,jy emigrants during the past year upon ar[en riving in this country by the American 'iTy Bible society. Bt, The Presbyterian and Congregational se? churches of'Strongsville, Ohio, have ;ho united under the name of the First Oongregational Church of Strongsville. Bishop Payne, of the Methodist Epis,ia Copal ohurch South, is very old, and in 528 the Christian 'ministry sixty-five years, . ive thirty-six of which he has been a bishop, ng The National Baptist says that the ; sts man who complains of paying -ten dol- ] .en jura ior nis cnurcn pew went to ine ity circus last week, taking his wife, and five children, and paying a dollar apiece lor n(j reserved seats. He la going to take a a cheaper pew next year, and to advo m. cate a reduction in the salary of the j pastor. King John, the monarch who rules , je8 Abyssinia with a rod of iron, is severely no opposed to missionaries. He bas banon ished a party of tbem who recently are8 rived at Massowah. These missionaries jje had distributed some Bibles to the na0 tives, bat, under the influence of the 1 ay native priests, King John caused search : 3 to be made for these in the houses and i huts. In cases where copies of the ;"e Bible were found the owners were 1 chained and Otherwise treated with jen great cruelty. ; The Dankards have a different way of 1 . holding their great ecclesiastical gather- 1 *" ings from that pursued by any of the j ^ other denominations. They go in mass, ,a8 and crowd in immense numbers. They w have been holding their national con- ! i ferenco at Arnold, near Wabash, lad. QB Abont 20,000 of them were present. . j They are very plain, both in their dress and their manners, bat are conspicuously thrifty, and many of them are pos- 1 sessed of great wealth. They do not invest in costly clothing or jewelry, but despise everything in the way of personal adornment and luxury. They are, however, very fond of good eat601 ing. They settle all their dispute) in a friendly manner, and nevsr go to law uy against each other. The following figures are from the fa- general summary of the statistics of the United Presbyterian church for 1882: m]? Synods, 9; presbyteries, 60; pastors and I stated supplies, 541; witnout cnarge, I 179; total ministers, 1,799; ministers or,3r^ | dained, 32; ministers installed, 52; ministers released, 35; licentiates, 39; ;"e students of theology, 50; congregations with pastors and stated supplies, 661; congregations vacant, 165; total con?rei te gations, 826; congregations oi ganized, 16; for mission stations, 96; sew stations daring the year, 20; houses cf worship erected, he 37; average cost, 83.087. Total memire hers reported, 84,673; adults baptized, 629; infants baptized, 3,720; total numra. ber of Sabbath-schools reported, 8(>9; at8 officers and teachers, 8 647; scholars reported, 72 956; contributions by Sunday-schools, $36,147. Contributions x for congregational purposes, $930,125? an advance of S76.584 over the preced1 ^ intr" year; for missionary objects, 817,898? The average contribution per "6 member was 811.40. The average salary m} of pastors was 8868. 3d de i ue vu|i iuuii vimisi There is,- perhaps, no beverage the b? world over eo popalar as the cap of Je8 tea, eo potent to brace the nerves, so '88 conducive to domestic comfort pnd cheerful, innocent gossip. If one has ew a headache, is chilled or weary, theoup ire of tea revitalizes and kindles the exral hansted Same of energy and spirits ; it id, is the small currency of hospitality. Is in it not the gentle tea leaf which brings kindred spirits together? Has ,he not one of the most important and bis social meals of the day taken its mt name from that insinuating plant ? of What is home without a cup all of tea ? And wben would the 5 o'clock ret tea have found favor or votaries under any other name? Is it not the moving aw spirit of the sewing-circle? and who ats ever heard of a .fortune being told from coffee grounds or chocolate dregs ? Is any cordial more delicious than iced erg tea on a scorching July day? In jjg fcJouthey'd division of his day's work it was tea which ushered in poetry, while Dr. Johnson may have flavored maDy e? an essay with the effusion, and who can ft*,' tell but we owe "Rasaelas" to its exhilaratintf effects, "when with lea he | ?| amused the evening, with tea solaced the midnight, and with tea 'ed welcomed the morning?" Like woman's rights and other eternal verities, it had ajr a battle to fight before acqairing its. tic present position in the world. It was nd proscribed by physicians, denounced by B0- the essayists, sneered at by the wits and 1 poets. It was supposed to provoke ad scandal, and even to this day the susop picioD is Dot obsolete. Yet a present of tea Wdb thought to bo suitable for royalty to receive, since in 1(164 we are told ' I that the East India company sent the ' f. queen two pounds! It wtis doubtless re- ' 1 served for high days and holidays in early 1 times, and was not poured out for poor 1 , relations, nor sent into the kitchen; 1 ,f but familiarity, instead of damaging its [ 1 ' reputation, lias recommended it to |nt greater favor; and the poor working re people who allow themselves no lux^ uries regard the cup of tea as a friend j and necessity. "I am glad I was not born before tea," said Sydney Smith, D(j one of whose recipes against melancholy is a kettle singing on n(j the hob. As there is a rieht o) way to boil an egg, so there ar. is a right way to prepare the stimulating beverage. In China the wealrhv make it by pouring boiling water into a cup in which some of the tea leaves have ^ a been placed, and it would, perhaps, be M well if we followed their example, incor stead of allowing it, as many do. to boil, as if the whole object was to extract the bitter tannin. We do injusrQr tice to the genial herb?whose native country is wrapped in mystery, although it is found wild in India?by making jry ea before the tea bell riaes. -fiaz ir. ip 1 ~ Le Two Cabinets. >ne Tho following cabinets make a conied trast bntween the two elements or facies tiotis of the Republican party that will ted be studied with interest: ely Garfield. secretary of state. Arthur, its, James G. Blaine. | F. T. Frelinghuvaen. ply secretary of the treasury. be William Windom. | Charles J. Folgcr. ent secretary of war. Robert T. Lincoln. | Robert 1\ Lincoln. by secretary of the navy. for Hunt. | William E. Chandler. , f. secretary of the interior. '. Samuel J. Kirkwo d. | Henrv M. Toiler. the attorney general. J Wayne MacVeagli. | Benj. Harris Brewster e)1" | postmaster general. I Thornae L. James. J Timothy 0. Howe. Invocation (o Summer liain. Oh gi ntle, gentle summer rata, Let not the silver lily pine, % The drooping lily pine in vain To feel that dewy touch of thine? To drink thy freshness once again, Ob gentle, gentle summer rain f In heat the landscape quivering lies; The cattle pant beneath the tree ; 2 Through parching air and purple skies The earth lo^rfs up in vain, for theo; For thee?for nee, it looks in vain, Oh gentle, entle summer rain. Come then and brim the meadow streams, And soften all the hills with mut, Oh fullinr* rlftrr t frnm hiivninnr /lrp&mfl By thee shall herb and flower bo kissed, And earth shall bless theo yet again, Oh gentle, gentle anoimer rain. ? Ben >ietL HUMOR OP THE DAT. It is estimated by tho census of 1880 that there is an average of five and ? qisrter persons to each family. An exchange nnfeelinglv adds : "In many of them the husband is the quarter." When a man says he is a miserable sinnei. if you take him at hid wor.l and tell bim you agree with him he will? . < well, it's on the whole better not to do it till jou get on the other side of the fence. A medical journal devotes a whole column to explaining what caused cold perspiration. Any one who has gone up a dark alley and stepped on a dog would be wasting valuable time in read mg it. ?Puck. Now tho airv lady-killer* Getteth off hia wild iuvecTive when doth the caterpillar, Tumble down his ueck From a limb * In the woodland cool and dim. ?Puck. President Arthur's eon tells the follow, tag story of his father's man-servant, Aleck: Some one asked him: "Well' Aleck, how do you like Washington?' to which Aleck responded dramatically: " Ob, I'd rather be a yaler ga^ lamp in New York than the brightest eleotrio light in Washington." It is claimed that the author of the popular melody, "Over the Garden Wall," caught his inspiration while investigating a melon patch at the buai> nets end of a ferocious bulldog. A garden wall studied under such circumstances is apt to leave a lasting impres sion on the average mind.? Toledo Americ ?n. ^nt One Continuous Harvest. The earth brings forth its harvest ' during the wholo year, and while resting in one section it is bringing forth its frnit in another. January sees harvest ended in most districts of Australia, and shipments made of the new crop, while in New Zealand, Chili and some other of the South American republics harvest begins. February, March.?Upper Egypt and India begin and continue haivest throughout these months: April enlarges the number with harvest in Syria, Cyprus, coast of Egypt, Mexico, Cuba, Pernia and Asia Miner. May is a busv time in Central Asia, Persia, Asia Minor, Algeria, Syria, Morocco,- Texas, Florida, China and japan. Jane calls forth tbo horvestmen in California, Oregon, the Middle and Southern United States, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Hungary, Roumelia, Turkey, South Russia, Danubian States, south of France, Greece, Sicily, and in Ken tuoky, Kansas, Colorado, etc. July usually sees harvest begin in l-iio* southern, eastern and midland English counties ; in Oregon, Nebiaska, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohin New Encrland. New York, Vii ginia and Upper Canada; in France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland,' Hungary and Poland August continues the gathering in th9 United Kingdom, France, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Manitoba, Lo\ver Canada, Denmark and Poland. < September rules Scotland, parts of England, America, Sweden, North It.is sia ; and in France buckwheat is b.ur vested. October sees wheat, oats, etc., gn h- s ered in Scotland, and corn in Amcriok November.?Harvest time begins ia South Africa, Peru and Norih Austral a; and in December the Argentine Repnb ic Chili and South Australia begin to reap their harvest. 'Tis always harvest somewhere in the world; "Ti* unwearied sun ne'er pauses in his vork; His rising an<l his setting's but the blush I hat mautles on the cheek of passing earth In the bright levee-presence ot her king. The husbaudman who t-eede his English land lu dark November sows it whilst strong wheat Grows ripe in Great Britain's austral plains, Where Christmas-tide's the time tor harvesthomes. All days are "golden, and the whole year bat "strings On which the master-harper of the world, The sun, is ever making harvest-eon^s. ?London Graphic. OnriltnlilL In Hamerton's book, "Round My House," giving an account of several years' residence in the Burgundy dintrict of France, there are some notes of a conversation with one of the captains in the army corps which Garibaldi led to the aid of the French iepnb!ic against the German invasion in 1870-71, that illustrates the kind of sway which the powerful personality of the old Italian hero exerted over his followers. Garibaldi had just arrived with his command, in inclement winter weather, at the city near which Mr. Hamerton was liviDg. His wretchrj ? health prevented him from exercising mnch immediate supervision over hi* troops. Ho wan rarely visible, anl, when he appeared, was obliged to move about in a carriage. Soldier.* and officers spoke of him as "oar father," and not as the general. A captain said to Hamerton: "We have no discipline whatever ; bat it is oar affection for c ur father, Garibaldi, tlmt binds us together. It was not for the French republic th.it we came here, but our father came and we followed him. Look at those men on that straw. Where will the? be in a week? In the grave perhaps or in the hospital. Some of those fellows are well-to-do; others have not a halfpenny; the richer ones share with their poorer brethren; bat whatf-ver may be the differences of social station or military rank, all the Garibaldiids feel themselves equal in the presence of their father, and all are equally cared for and loved by him. Yes," he continued, "there has been no snob influence exercised over the wills of men since Jusns of Nazareth wss followed by His disciples. Thero has been other great military leaders, but they were worldly men, and their fellow is were actuated by worldly motive-". But our poor, dear father, Garibaldi, pioy what has he to offer? The liberty to follow him?the delight of knowing that we are near him, and shall see hij face occasionally, and hear the tone of bis voice calling tts children?the pride of being his own, his chosen, who havj shared in all his perils, and have never deserted him to the last?these are the only rewards that the belo ed father offers, or rhat his devoted father offers, or that his devoted children care for." John Hancock's Equipage. Those who shake their heads at the love of display in '-these degenerate times," and sigh for " the Puritan simplify of our ancestors," will please read the following authentic description of the simple habits of tbo famous president of the Continental Congress: "His eqaipage was splendid and maguificent. Huch as at pr^ert is unknown in America. His apparel was sumptuously embroidered with gold and silver lace, and all the othei decorations fasbiouable amongst men of fortune of that day; he rode, especiallv upon public occasions, with six beautiful bays, and ?ir.h servants in livery. He wasgractfui an-i prepossessing in manners, and very passionately addicted to what were then termed the elegant pleasures of life; to dancing, music, concerts, routs, j assemblies, card parties, rich 'wines, I social dinners and festivities." ^