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in ' " """'" '???^-'^ ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER.! v -.'I /? - Z i ."33 BY HUGH WILSON AND H. T. WARDLAW. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1882. NO. 13. VOLUME XXVII. ;|j ! * ' ' ' - i rt I J The Weather Yane. 1 to what shall I compare The vetrinq mind I bear? Yon minion of the air, ! Yon gilded shalt, my chosen emblem I declare I turn about, about; i Controlled by every rout 1 That trains with Hope or Doubt; Who smiles, I smile agaiD. or answer flout with flout. ( ^ ithin the draft I'm caneht i Of all prevailing tnought; By many masters taught, Their varying precepts I confuse and bring to caught. A changeling me they call; I have no stay, in all ? No shield, no rampart-wall; pafely drift about?let others stand or fall! I beni, I do not break; I light obeisance make To scourging storms that rake T he harvest from the field and shattered forests take. Since nothing here I see Save mutability, With it I will agree; Y oa, I on Change's cap the nodding plume will be 1 Some good remains behind; The c!ear-perceiving mind 8 In me, at lea*t, shall find 6 An index true of all the tempers of the wind ! ? Edith M. Tfiomas, in August Atlantic. ? MARY'S BLUNDERS. \ " Dear me ! Aunt Sadie, is Mr. Co- J vert ill ? Yes ? Then I cannot take my music lesson to-day." F " You i-e*?m to feel happy for that relief." "Oh, dear, no! I rather prefer tak- j1 ing my lesson." . Aunt Sadie glanced sharply at her niece, bnt tint yonng lady's face was calm enough. "It strikes me," observed the old p lady, "that you do not dislike Mr. Co- ? vert as much as you seem to." :( " I never expressed any aversion to ( him,"replied Carrie, demurely. "In S( fact," she added as she molded the bis- ^ cuits she was making with deft fingers' _ "I think I like Mr. Covert very much.', S "HumphI" hniffed Aunt Sadie, contemptuously. " He is only a poor musio 81 teacher, and you cannot afford to marry ^ a poor man with no prospeots." n "Well, I declare!" flared Carrie. 11 "Do you think it follows as a conse- . quence that I must marry a man I like? Aunt Sadie, I am surprised at you I" And Carrie took up the pan contain- P ing the, dozen little round balls of dough and pushed it into the oven n with such a bang that the old lady , dropped her knitting and almost fell , from her chair by the range. Then Carrie flonnced out of the room indig- ^ nantly and went upstairs to dress. Ten n minutes later she came flyina: back to the kitchen, and her pretty little face d wore a look of great consternation. s< "Lmd sakes alive 1 What's the w matter, child?" cried Aunt Sidie. h " I have lost my garnet ring, Aunt Sadie." " Perhaps you left it on the table be- 81 fore kntwling your biscuit dough," f* rvl.l la/lw h ou^^miru uuc viu iouj. ? "No," tearfully replied the unhappy a: little cook, " I atn sure I did not; and I * Lave searched all over my room. It was a present from papa when he pot 1* the pastorate of his new charch; and I am doubly anxious to find it because p Mr. Covert wished it on my finger?" i' "There, now, you are going off at a fi tan pent about that man again!" ex- s< claimed Aunt Sadie, in an impatient n tone. a " I don't caro; he's real nice, and he g is good, and he is handsome, and I like him, and you are adverse to him, Aunt e Sadie, because you thought he was f< ooming here to carry away your daughter p Mamie for his wife, and he undeceived d you." fi " There, there! That will do, miss!" a cried the old lady, starting up angrily. ? " I vow, this is nice talk for a min:ster's n daughter! You should respect your n elders." "I am sorry," retorted Carrie, "that o poor papa's teaching does not make a v deeper impression on yonr mind?at least enough so to teach your conscience g the fault ol looking down on Mr. (Jovert n because of your disappointment." d " Well!" gasped Aunt Sadie, with an ti incredulous stare at Carrie over the s tops of her spectacles, "I'd always a heard that as a general thing ministers' tl wives and daughters ain't the most ex- v, emplary of mortals; and now I believe it. The very idea of you?you, Carrie 11 Ray, talking to me in this way I It beats anything I ever heard of before! s What my religious principles are is g none of your business?do you under t stand? and when my sister Sally?your k mother?married Parson Ray, I kinder t suspected some such goings on as this s here, twenty years ago I" s The ring was forgotten now, but the <3 biscuits in the oven began to burn, and a scenting them, with a scream of dismay \ Carrie turned from her angry aunt, opened the oven door and toot out the f pan. There were a dozen beautifully t browned biscuits in it?one or two i siignuy scorcnea, out noi enougn so to spoil them. i " I s'pose those things are for your father's snpper ?' c " Half are," returned Carrie, "the balance for Mr. Covert." t " Good land sakes alive !" commenced c Aunt Sadie. " Eere, Mary," called Carrie to the ( servant in the dining-room, "take these half dozen biscuits I have wrapped up 3 in a napkin to Mr. Covert, down the s street, number fifty-four." " Yes, ma'am ; an' will I say who c they're from, ma'am?" 1 "Leave word,'' whispered Carrie, e "that they are from Aunt Sadie Hall." t " All right, ma'am!" rejoined Mary, ( who'Mispected a joke. And taking the 1 biscaits off she went. " I feel so sorry I quarreled wi*h Aunt S?die," thought Carrie, shortly ] afterward, 4i for she is good and kind 1 to mo, and h ?s almost taken the place mamma held in my heart before she < died. But her prejudice against Mr. | Covert is sadly misplaced. Poor fellow ] ?I must a9k papa to call on him. And ^ oh, won't ho be surprised when be re- { ceives those biscuits, with the message ' they are from Aunt Badie? I will not 1 say anything about it to any one, and 1 when he is well enough to call there 1 I will be such fun 1" I Yes, there was to be fnn, but a differ- i ent kird from that which Carrie e* | pected. That evening she asked her ] father to call on Lannce Covert, explain- 1 ing that he was ill. i " Hnm ! Number fifty-four did you say 7* asked the stout minister. " That 1 is right on my way, as I was about to i drop in cn our new neighbor." I " In number forty-five?" asked Carrie. "Yes, my dear, an old bachelor, I think," replied her father. '' I saw him in my church Sunday night, aDd I think I have seen him somewhere before, too, but where I oanDot recall to mind." When her father had left the room, Aunt Sadie entered. "I hope," she said, frigidly, "youare a little lese combative to-night, Carrie;" and she sat down in a chair and stared at the girl in a most uncomfortable manner. " Oh, Aant Sadie, forgive my rudeness this morning," cried Carrie, repentantly, as she sat on a low ottoman at her aunt's feet, "for I was very angry " "You should learn to control your temper," replied the old lady, severely; " but we will forget it, dear." She kissed her niece fondly. The door buret open at this junoture, and in rushed Mamie Hall, her daughter, quite out of breath from running. She was a tall, angular girl yet in her teens, and had a somewhat pretty face and charming manners. "My gracious, what's the matter?" cried Aunt Sadie. "Oh, dear me!'' panted Mamie. " The funniest thing happened to me just now! 1 was returning from Ada Gray's house, and passing No. 46 ol this street, a tall, thin gentleman in a long white duster ran out after me, waving his arms frantically, and called for roe to stop. He looked so stranpre that I became frightened and ran, and, wculd yon believe it ? the wretch had mdacity enough to chase me. I passed [Jncle Benjamin, who was going by on the other side of the street, but as I iid not wish to implicate him in any trouble I did not stop him. And now ?hark! what is that? Some one at the door ! Oh, good gracious ! I really 3o behave that old monster is there I" There came the sonnd of a vigorous " bang I" at the door, and then the vehement voice of Mary in stormy alternation with Fome one. Then they heard i tremendous crash, and with simultaleous shrieks of terror the three Darted. Carrie dove under the bed, \unt Sadie bounced into a closet and dosed the door, while Mamie sought efuge in flight upstairs. ' It's a lunatic!" was Aunt Sadie's igonized thought, while horrid visions >f dire tragedies floated through Car ie's mind. They heard noises below stairs which riainly indicated a scuffle of some sort; hen shortly after there sounded footsteps on the stairs " He has killed Mary, and is coming lp here to butcher us!" thought the rembling old lady, as she crouched urther tack in the darkest corner of he closet, while Carrie kept very quiet, ilthough she was on the verge of creaming. Patter, patter, patter, sounded the ipproaching footsteps, nearer eaoh monent; then there was a pause, and they listinctly heard heavy, labored breathng. The suspense was becoming inolerable to the two ladies, and dim honghts crossed Mrs. Hall's mind of reaking from her concealment, of ushing valiantly out, confronting the otruder with a poker, or some other mplement of self-defense, and by starQg at him dauntlessly drive him from he room; she had heard maniacs could >e subdued by unflinching courage, and stare as unwavering and giant-like as hat of an owl. But before she could UA*. rvvoofi/ia fKo Ulr UCi IUCUIJ 1U?.V piuuiivu vuw mwv* pened; then Aunt Sadie sprang out, a )w cry escaped her lips, and she sank ;ebly bacK into a chair. For the peron in the room was Mary. That female 'as in a stormy frame of mind, and iere was a vicious look on her generally ood-humored face." " Och, ma'm I" she cried, " I've had ach a ruction wid the aould feller az ot thim biscuits this very blessed lornin', down at the dhure, that I'm early dead now, so I am!" " What does all this mean?" demanded .unt Sadie. "Sbure, ma'am," returned Mary, in ervlexity, " I don't know meself. "Whin tuk him Miss Carrie's biscuits this lornin' wid your compliments?" " With my compliments?" echoed the ewildered old lady. " Why, vou are ereft of your senses, girl! Who did ou give biscuits to this morning with ly compliments?" " Why, the aould man az kem to the hure jist now, axin' for your blessed jlf an' Miss Mamie, shure. Faith, he as that wild I wouldn't let the likes av im in, an' bedad we had a tussle which ime ended in meself givin' him ther at an' landin' him in the airy, whin I jhlammed the dhure in his onmannerly ice, so I did, or yez moight arl 'ave eenkilt! If he'd a kem dacintly an' ied ter see yez, gracious only knows hat 'ud a happined I" " Who was that man ?' asked the old ?'ltT iw l-*ATTri 1 rl f "I don't know, ma'am, for he's on'y loved into this strate; he lives beyant a ihat fcllegant house, numb3r fortyve, an' a more deceivin' man I never 9e. It's moightv qnare he is, for this jornin' he was all schmoiles an' graces, n' this avening he saamed to be clane am in his upper story." At tbis interesting juncture Carrie merged from her retreat, looking very oolish. That Maiy had carried her 'resent to the wrong honse she had no oubt. Number forty-five and number fty four are numbers widely different, nd by not paying attention to wbat was aid the girl evidently had gotten the umbers transposed in her mind, and so iade the blunder. " Well, I declare!" exclaimed the Id lady. " I am at a loes to understand hut this all means." "Aunt Sadie," interposed Carrie, ently, "it is partly mv fault. This lorning I sent Mary with that halfozen of my bitcuits to Mr. Covert, and old her to say they were from you; but he carried them to the wrong house, nd the man who followed Mamie was be recipient of them, and probably rished to ask her why they were sent." " Well, I never!" gasped the old lady. 1 That accounts for it." Though Bhe said nothing about it, be appreciated her niece's kind act in aying she had sent the biscuits; alhough, coupled with this intended ;indness, Carrie had intended perperating a joke. The explanation seemed atisfactory enough, too, but tee littl hadow of mystery surrounding that lay's doings was onl? just developing, ad the following day they were to be ery much more surprised. " It's odd your father has not returned or tea," observed Aunt Sadie, after all he dishes, save one for the absent minster, had been cleared away. "He said ho was going to make seveal calls," replied Carrie. " He is always late," grumbled the >ld lady. "Aunt Sadie," said Carrie, "what is lie mauer wnu juu lu-uujr?juu are bu >ut of temper?'' For answer, her aunt burst into tears. 3arrie looked at her in surprise. " Dear Aunt Sadie, have I offended rou?" she asked with a troubled look, is she kissed her affectionately. " No, Carre, that is not it. I know I im a burdensome old creature, but I lave been harassed by so many doubts ind fears since my husband went away hat I have often wished for the peace >f heaven. You don't know what I nean?" " No, I do not," replied Carrie. "Why, mamma," said Mamie, "is Dapa not dead. You always led me to "iflliarA en" "No?that is, I do not know," said :he old lady. " He left me to travel for ;he firm he was connected wiih in busiiess, aDd went ont West. A month jfter ho hud gone I received iotelii ?ence that he was thought to be dead. They said he was in a train which had seen wrecked by falliDg through a bridge. It was a frightful accident, and ;he papers were full of the news at the lime. Mamie was a little child then, ibout three years o'd. They did not find his body, nor have I ever heard From him since, and it was supposed that his corpse was carried away by the river. To day was the fifteenth anniversary cf the frightful event, and bearing on my mind so all day it has made me exceedingly peevish and disagreeable.'' It was late that night when the Rev, Benjamin Ray returned home, and ht runhed off to his library in great hajto, and sat there nearly the whole nighl through, smiling benignly, and polish ing his bald head with his handkerchie until it shone again. No one in th< house knew the occasion of his joy, noi did he divulge it until the succeedinj day. "Carrie," said he, at the breakfas table, "didyou send Mr. Covert a nap kinful of biscuits yesterday?' The girl blushi^gly admitted that shi had done so. " Well, my dear,'' said the old gentle man, "I am glad yru did, for it has al most cured him of his illness, and he i coming here to-day to thank yon fo them; yon know I called on him." Carrie looked at, Aunt Sadie in per plexitv, and the old lady returned her glance of the same sort. "But, papa," she stammered, "Mar delivered them to some one else, an< the old madman who got them chasei Mamie last night, giving us all such scare that we did not know what t do." "Eh?" said her father, g'ancingove his spectacles at her. "The wron party got them, did he? Oh, I guet not I" Carrie and Aunt Sadie gazed at bin more bewildered now than before. "But Mary said so," began Carrie. Before she finished speaking thei came a "bang!" at the door; it flew ' back on its hinges,#and in rushed the old fellow who had pursued Mamie. A They all started to their feet and the 1 ladies would have fled had he not j ^ barred their exit by standing in the ? doorway. Then there sauntered other j j( footsteps in the hall, and before Aunt Sadie could resist the stranger had her in his arms and was crying: 'Sadie 1 Sadie! At last I have you Sf again!" tl "My husband!" she cried. "Oh, F thank God!" c. Yes, it was Aunt Sadie's hosband,and _ the old lady clang to him, weeping for joy. n " And, William, here is your little Mamie." " There was no fear of the supposed madman now, and Mamie found herself ^ clasped in a loving pair of arms and y felt her father's tender kisses with happiness indescribable, while Carrie | looktd on in astonishment. j " So you thouffht me dead, eh?" said 11 Mr. Hail. " Well, it was all a mistake. w I received severe injuries in that rail, J road accident, but soon recoveredowiDg to the good care I received at the j J hands of the miners' wives to whom I C? was carried. They persuaded me to cc stake out a claim in their mining re- aj gions, and I did so. 1 was not rich, jj? yon know, Sadie, and 1 saw prospects of sudden wealth in mining, and my hope was realized after years of work. nj Once the gold fever was on mn I could j not leave there until I accomplished gc what I meant to do. I would have written you, but resolved not to dc so ^ until I could return and say 'lamrich,' ^ or ' I am a beggar.' The surprise to you now is more ueugnuuj, lsn i it. mv dear?' . CC " Bat the suspense you kept me in ?" jj, she remonstrated. "I thought that, too?but I knew you would not remarry during my absence." ai "But that isn't what I mean," she jQ expostulated. 0I He laughed and kissed her, saying he ja knew it was not. , " I was at the gate of my new house, ^ and was making up my mind to come ( after you," he continued; "for I learned ac your place of residence by seeing Ben ^ here at his church, and inviting him to j( call on me, and he not knowing me the f | while, either, when Mamie passed by. I knew who she was, despite her growth ^ | in young ladyhood while I was away? ^ for she is the imcge of you?and I ran f after her?with what result you know." a0 At this juncture Mr. Covert walked ^ ' j in. Ho was young and handsome, but ^ somewhat pale. r "Ah! Covert," cried Mr. Ray, "you are up ?" "Yes, Carrie's biscuits half cured me," he said, laughing. "This, then is the gentleman," said Mr. Hall, "for whom the biscuits were ( i intended? You see, sir, your name was written in pencil on the napkin, with ^ onrl T onw t.VlArfl WA.R A . blunder on the servant's part in delivering them to me. And when Mr. Hall ^ I came to my house I showed it to him and he took the parcel to you; so it h-i went all right, after all." . " Then Mary must have told him they as were from me," thought Carrie. But half an hour later she was undeceived; cr, on finding herself alone in the parlor with Mr. Covert, that gentle- ng man explained the mystery by handing , her a little paroel. It contained the ' rine she had missed when making the ^ biscuits. j, "I found it in one of the biscuits, . where it must have slipped from your . finger," explained he; then taking it, he added: "And will you let me re- ^ place it on your finger to bind the ac- ^ ceptance of my love for you, Carrie ?" . She did not say no, for she had . learned that she loved him; and Mamie suffered nothing, for Aunt Sadie was . mistaken in supposing sho cared for . Mr nnmrf on ftnnt.hflr man snon after made her his bride. m ds Rules for Riding. m In mounting:, face the near side of in the horse. The near side is the side m nearest yourself. If you stand on the right side of the horse, which is the ol wrong side, when you mount, you will le face the crupper. Then everybody will co know that your name is Johann Gottlieb ol Ernsigefolger. wi If you cannot mount from the D: ground, lead the horse to a high fence, an climb up on the fence, say "whoa" two mi or three times, and jump over the or horse's ears. You will light some- tb where on his neck, and will have plenty tic of tima to adjust yourself while the ye horse is running away. Another method dc of mounting, laigely practiced by of young gentlemen from the city, is to tic lmlonnn vauvdoI f rvr? nno rm fVio Yll1 UOAOUW VA* s.^0 fence, and point the other leg at the pr horse in the general direction of the na saddle, saying "whoa" all tbe time, ig The horse, after this gesture has been Ci repeated a few times, backs away, pulls the alleged rider off the fence and walks up and down the lane with him at a rapid gallop. This gives the rider in about ten minutes all the exercise he m wants for a week. If by some miracle you manage to fc0 get into the saddle, hold on with both hands, and say "whoa." The faster nc the horse goes the tighter you must hold on, and the louder vou must tb "holler." If you are from New York or Phila- bT delpbia you will shorten tbe stirrups until your Lnees are on a level with . your chin. Then as you ride you will 13 rise to your feet and stand in the atti tnde of a man peering over a fence to ht 1 l t- * - -3 ?J il -U 1 ? 1 1 IOOK lor HIS uog, uuu iueu euuueui) mil in the saddle like a man who has stepped h( on a bananji peel. Thi3 is the English school. It is hard on the horse, but is m considered very graceful. A man fcj cannot wear false teeth, however, and ride in this manner.?Burlington fV Haukeye. , a In the Dolman Country. ' The Breton men look like overgrown tc boys, with their short waistcoats -and V( shorter jackets, ornamented with nu- cl merous rows of pearl bnttons. Tho cloak trousers are full, and the univer- ai sal sabots complete one end of the os- tl tnme- At the other end is a wide n bnmmed low felt or straw hat, on which it is indispensable to wear black velvet p trimming, with two long black velvet w tails hanging behind. Leather boots c; are kept for Sundays and fetes, and the tt smartness on these occasions appear to h ran mostly into the waiscoat, the ool- v ored braiding on which is almost eastern in its gorgeousness. The skirts of the e women's dresses are gathered into a ^ baoad band at the waist, a kerchief or j 1 shawl being worn over the shoulders. e The hair is plnited into a broad band, j] i which is doubled on itself; and the i muslin cap has two long lappets, crears 0 which are folded back on the head, 0 forming large loops. As for the peas- D ants themselves, the majority of j( > whom farm their own small ^ . domains, they bear a toil-worn 0 t stamp very markedly, especially the ^ women. The bare-legged women and f girls seem to take their share, or rather i more than their share, in the hardest r field labor, and their lot is very far re- j J moved from what an English eye would ^ like to see. Many features of the conn- c t try life remind one of Ireland, but the e ingrained idea of the French peasant r to put by francs seems to carry them j ^ bravely through the sternest circum- i stances. Still, with all their moiling, i they must be very poor. The houses j in the out-of-the-way villages are little j 0 better than hovels, in which the cows i frequently get the lion's sbare of the | accommodation, with floors of beaten I ' earth and old open hearths, picturesque, < a perhaps, but very smoky. The one ar- ] tide of lurniture in which luxury is ] Y displayed is the bedstead, which is gen- i 1 erally a piece of ornamental woodwork, i i reaching from floor to ceiling, with the : a bed five feet from the floor, inclosed by i ? curtains or sliding shutters. As the i family grows richer a substantial ward ir robe cupboard is added to match the 8 bed.?London Societv. is _____ An alligator recently killed at Monl, tezuma, Ga., was found on being opened < to contain a flint arrowhead and an ancient piece of pottery?a plate covered i re with curious hieroglyphios. AMON'lt THE LEPERS. Ghniitiy S!i:ht lo br WltncHNeil In the Simchvlch IslandM. A correspondent writes from Honoilu, Sandwich Islands : I went with a >r. Fitch to the branch settlement for e ;pers. It is an inclosure of several ? ires on what is called Fishermen's oint, on Honolulu bay. Scattered ? ver the gronnds are scores of cottages, 11 ime connected, others detached, and ? ie offices and buildings used by Dr. j1 itch's assistants. Imagine, if yon in, a settlement of Anglo-Saxons, or T eople of any other highly civilized ?ii ?< *i, ?aii-.n a iuc, ail ui iiiuui auiiut'-u nmi, au . tore or less deformed, by an incurable f id horrible disease - knowing it to be a icnrable, and seeing themselves and v ich other dropping to pieces from its 0 read effects. I cannot imagine ench a ^ ictnre, becanse I honestly believe that J licide would make a settlement im- J ossible among any other than a people ill barbarians, or else in the childDod of civilization. Such was the ? ittlement I visited. There were men. J1 omen and children living in a world f< >art from ours, having nothing worth 0 ring for save mere existence, a sue- c sssion of days, marked only by slow v msummation of the death that had j? ready seized npon their bodies, and id already deprived them of portions," ? bich were already returned to diet. : There were in that strange and j3 inatural community marriages, births, 1 ;atbs. I would not attempt to deribe in detail the unrelieved ghastii)ss of the sights there, yet not one of e inmates who helped to makeup the isolnte dreadfulness of the scene o iled to greet us with a smile and v irdial aloha. v That only served to emphasize the n irkness of the picture. I Baid noi; one; 1< it there was one. On a bed in a little o ttage room, whose open door faced li e dark, cool canons back of the city, si id whose window looked oat npon the ti vely bay and let in the lazy murmur w waves breaking over the coral reefs, * y a native woman, dying. Nearly all tl her right hand had dropped oft but it the remnants of her fingers she held o feather fan, which she faintly waved n ross her distorted face, to cool the 1< >t, aching eyes that had not been a: oeed for months, the palsied muscles u her eyelids refusing their duty. a As the doctor spoke pleasantly to her 8 e turned her glaring eyes toward us,\ d it did not speak. "Her mouth is af- bi 3ted, too," the doctor said. We stood a: ide from her door to admit a cooling t< eath of air that just then came down tl )m the mountains. The swollen face ci 3ted and the feebly moving hand fell, b gratitude for tho mountain breeze, o: t, when it died away the hand did not 5vo again; it was her last moment. :e mountain's gentle breath had comrfed hnr. and wlion it rlied awav her eathing ceased, too. b In one cottage we saw a little girl g lose fingers had been drawn up nntil ai r hand was half closed. She bad ex- 1 rimented with a novel cure by calmly 0 ipping on the bent fingers nntil she 0 d straightened them out. She ex- g, bited the result with pride; four i( igers straight and stiff, and as useful b so many wooden pegs would have p en. h Out on what is called the playground ' p iresome boys playing ball, one with a tl eless band, another with a palsied u another witli a foot partly gone, b (1 others with swollen, senseless ti ses. On the veranda of a cottage sat i o old natives, both with useless legs, ai it neither of whom showed any trace v lt-prosy, in face or bands. As I a] itched them one of them began b .anting a hulu liulu. accompanying it Cj ith appropriate movements of his h D?nniV\ltr nl>onVtT1 V* rt fVlO lrtftlr 1,1 mutt. iuooiw;, uudwuur VUV. iwu l, astonishment on my face, the old b an's companion, with a meaning wink f, me, joined in the chant, and soon tl >th the old lepers were obanting and tl iving their hands in the sensuous n easnres of the hnlu huln. It was a c, ince of death, indeed; Punchinello's b ask over a molding skull; a rollick- g g revelry in a charnel house ; life ti ocking a paping tomb. g The medical profession here in Hon- e nlu is in terrific dispute about what p prosy is (!) and whether or not it is n ntagious. This, of course, is an old, p d dispute, but it has been revived ^ th great violence by the assertion of t] r. Pitch that it is, if not curable, g aenable in a large degree to treat- n ent, and that it is not contagious from g dinary contact, such as would demand ^ o transportation of lepers into isola- s >n. Dr. Fitch has been here two ^ ars, and naturally bis youthful but n igmatical contradiction of the theories ti the old and and experienced practi- tl >ners has raised a discussion of a j] ther warm nature. However, his 8 actice appeals to the sympathies of M tives, and he has a large, if rather y uorant, following.?S-m Francisco M lU _____ fl WISE WORDS. ? What makes life decay is the want of ? olive. 11 The first and worst of all frauds is a cheat one's self. J Vouch f?r vour neighbor's honesty, C{ )t for pa., ment of his debts. The manners of nature make a man ; e manners of art unmake him. There's not a string uttuned to mirth I it hath its chord in melancholy. f Everywhere in life tho trne question not what we gain but what we dc. a Have you a beautiful home ? If you ^ ive, keep it so ; if not, make it so. ^ Much of the charity that begins at t jme is too feeble to get out of doors. I There are few occasions when core- p ony may not be dispensed with; I Indness never. e The talent of success is nothing more i ian doing what yon can well without 1 thought of fame. c In seeking converts it is always well J i make sure that they are worth consrting. A cause may bo injured by the J laracter of its adherents. i Pope said that narrow-sonled people ( ad narrow-ceck9d bottles are alike, for j le less they hive in them the more T oisethey make in pouring it out. { Whether perfect happiness would bo < roeured by perfect goodness this world < ill never afford an opportunity of de- 1 iding, but this, at least, may be main- ] lined, that we d>) not always find visible ] appiness in proportion to visible 1 irtue. < Forget the evil. Why dwell on the < vil side of life ? It is the good that i hould bo emphasized and portrayed. ] n all our poetry and art, in all our litrature, let the best and highest 1 Noughts and imaginations be brought 1 o the front, and the inferior bo dropped ut of sight. In all our business, in all ur social intercourse, in all our amuselents, let the good be made prominent, ot heroic deeds and generous lives be nown and admired, and those of an pposite kind bo buried in the silence hey deserve. ? 1 Men at Church Fairs. i The lords of creation make the s.p- i )ropriations and run the church. But : eait till the interest day comes, or the i >ld church needs a now roof, or the : teeple blows down, or the furnace flues leed treatment, and see how they come i mrring around the ladies, gently hintng, "Hadn't we better have a fair?" ind how they promise ! They would >ut to shame an insurance agent. Oh, res, they will attend to everything, fix lp the tables, twine I he decorations, ?et the tickets printed. But, como to ;he pinch, the lazy fellows can't be ?oaxed to even bring sawdnst to stuff a pin cushion. Men attend to fairs! Pshaw 1 Why, they won't come to a sewing circle, unless it is to eat up the refreshments. They turn up their noses if you ask them to do so simple a thing as to take a day from business to match a shado of worsted, when they know that the sofa pillow for the fancy table is unfinished; and 60 far as tending tables is ooncemed, they are always nibbling the high-priced caramels, giving overweight to the young ladies; don't know a pillow sham from a slipper caae, and are not competent to superintend a grab bag.?Chapin. Home Advocate. THE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. * rr Hoot Pruning. f( The experiments were made on the N ,pple and pear. A vigorous apple tree, q light or ten years old, which had jt carcely made any fruit buds, has done 1( ?est when about half the roots were fc lit in ono season, and half three yoars rr ater, by going half way around on lc pposito sides in one year and finish- ir ag at tho next pruning, working two n eet underneath to sever downward H oota. It has always answered well also ir o cut from such trees all the larger p: nd longer roots abont two and a half a eet from the Btem, leaving the smaller w nd weaker on?* longer, and going half ir ray around, as already stated. The hi peration was repented three or four tt ears later by extending the cut circle pi foot or two further away from the tl ree. By this operation unproductive e< ruit trees became thickly studded with sc ruit spurs and afterward bore pro- tl nsely. This shortening of the roots la as been continued in these experiments st ar twenty years with much success, the st irele of roots remaining greatly ai ircamscribed. The best time for the tc ?ork han been found to be in the latter 0 art of August and beginning of Sep- pi ember, when growth has nearly ceased pi nd while the leaves are yet on the e-\ rees, causing greater increaso of bloom tl uds the following year than when per- hi armed after the leaves have fallen.? ei ,ondcn Garden. (JtUlizlns CnrcftHHcn. A cheap lot' of manure may be made tj. f an old carcass of a horse or cow, etc., rhich are often drawn away to fhe fv roods to pollute the atmosphere. Do , ot do this, but put down four or five ' Dads of muck or sod, roll the carcass ^ ver it, and sprinkle it over with quick ^ ime, covering over immediately wnu od or mold sufficient to make, with bat already beneath, twenty good-sized 'agon loads, and yon will have $25 ^ rorth of the best of fertilizers in lees ^ ban a year, and no fear need be felt i applying to any crop. One beauty ^ f this plan is, the animals need not be ^ loved far away, there being not the 5ast stench. All animals which you , re unfortunate enough to lose can be tilized in this way, and be made to go great way toward replacing them, j, mailer animals, such as sheep, calves, ogs and cats, can be treated in the , nme manner, with about the average . ' mount of sod or muck proportionate . 3 their size. When possible, place iree or four in one pile, as the labor of . Qveriug would be proportionately less; ut it is not muoh work to make a heap * 1 1 1 - t any ammai, uowever largo it omuii. - Turf , bield, and Farm. Ah out Herrlcn. 1)1 Every odb who hus gathered wild m lackberries is aware that the stems si row to the height of six or eight feet, ad bend gracefully over at the top. w lie lower part of the cane bears little tl; r no fruit, it being nearly all at the top p, f the bnsh. The same happens on a pj . nailer scale with the raspberry when aI ;ft to itself. While we cultivate the lackbarry for better fruit than the wild p| lants usually afford, we should also w avo more of it, and more conveniently n] laced on the bushes. From questions ij. lat aro asked, it is evident that all are ^ ot ftwiirn that the stems of the black erry and raspberry (at lease tbose culvated for frait) are only biennial. | be plunt throws np from tbe root, often c t some distance from the old stems, 1 igorous shoots, which grow rapidly, ? ad by antnmn will become ripe and a.[ ard ce,nes, like the old ones. The old ines, which have given a crop of frait, ave completed their work, and, thongh 8C ley may remain alive for awhile, will P' e all dead by next spring. When the nit has been gathered, it is best to cut ae canes entirely away, to give room to ^ ae new ones. These shonld have tore attention than they usually reeive; if left to themselves they will Pf ecome jr.st like the wild plants, strag- (T? ling, and with their fruit all at the T jp. Not only on account of the m reater quantity of frnit, but for the w ase in picking it, should the canes be tT Mnoq nlinnld b] 1 ulicu? xjinv/uuvi \ j vmuwu ever grow over five feet and many B1 refer to keep them at three feet high, fi Whenever the green shoot has reached aI he desired height, remove the top, or 111 rowing point, which, being tender, lay be pinched off with the thumb and 88 nger. Soon after this in done branches m rill start along the stem, and these c' honld also be pinched, the lower ones T rhen eighteen inches long and the m pper twelve itiOhes. By a little at- ee antion, once a week or oftener, giving m No noosed ninrihirio. t.hfi hlftfikberrv. istead of being a long straggling m hmb, catching at the clothing of all oi rho approach it, may be brought into pi he form of a neat pyramidal bush, ol rbich, the next season, will be loaded w rem bottom to lop. The same treat- tt lent may be followed with raspberries, g< ?hich are usually kept shorter One hi f the greatest pleasures in gard. :ng ai 3 found in training and shaping plants rc nd making them grow as we wish, and el ffects of this are strikingly shown in pi he blackberry and raspberry.?Amcri- e< in Agriculturist. a] p] C'uttlnit and CnrliiK liar. p The following article from the St. pi jouis Journal of Agriculture is, with rc ew exceptions, of general application: oi farmers in the latitude of St. Louis ti re (or at least should be) in the midst h f haymakine. It is even a little late tl or the cutting and curing of clover tt Mover should be cut as soon is about a ei bird of the heads begin to look brown, le t should then be cured as lapidly as n >racticable and honsed as soo:i as cured. A n enring clover should be spread ivenly over the ground as so an as cut ( 4-V.o rlnrtr ia nff and frho mn*nfrAntionf. y it ie turned the better, until it be :ome8 so dry that the leaven begin to D srackle and break off, when it should be c! eft u touched until cured. When it is ri efficiently cured may be determined 16 >y taking a wisp of it and wringing it n the hands. If no sap exudes from " he stalk when wringing it should be ? loused at once, and can be with safety, p 10 matter how large the quantity stowed 11 iway in the mow or loft. If four qnarts K )f salt be scattered over each ton of w jlover hay as moved it will be all the 0 Detter, though this is not ubsolntely h necessary to secure first-class hay. We h iiave more than once seen a large mow tilled fifteen feet deep with clover hay, 8 jured in the manner indicated, in three ^ ir four consecutive days, and come out " in the winter and spring following as V rich and sweet as coald be desired b When so cured clover makes the best nf bay for milch cows, young cattle and 0 sheep. Nothing equal? it as a butter n producing hay. Clover should never ^ be put in stacks if this can be avuided, v foi the reason tbat the crooked form of 0 the vines or stalks prtveuts it from ^ shedding rain freely. Besides, its leaves and stalks are very porous ^ and absorb and renin water very ^ readily. If stacked at all the a npp?ir and outer pari of the stack * should be formed out of coarse hay of ? 3omf> kind, or straw that will shed rain ' fe^ly. Timothy for hay should be cut, 8 commencinR when the stalks are in the 9 highest stage of bloom, and continued as rapidly as practicable until the entire crop is cut, cured and housed or I stacked. It is a mistaken notion to * allow timothy, intended for hay, to I stand until the seeds begin to ripen or even to form. We know that many 1 persons, especially in the Western States, maintain a different theory, and f practiceUt by letting it stand until the c seeds are po ripe that they grow road- * ily. Nevertheless the most intelligent 1 and skilled farmers and all the chemists ' agree that timothy cat in the bloom and ? properly cured contains more nutriment, c more fat and flesh-producing elements, \ than at anv other period of its growth. ' And all the horses, cattle and sheep give their testimony that it is preferable as food. Trae, more weight of hay may i be obtained by letting timothy stand j until the seeds become well formed or j begin to ripen. But this is always at. \ the expense of its nutritions qualities. ] The stalk fiber will have become woody, ' the leaves will have lost a large propor- 1 t.ion of their starch and sugar, and the t seeds being eo very small and Bome- t 'hat hard are necessarily imperfectly lasticated, and consequently impersctly digested, or not digested at all. or will stock eat it in large uantities. Late fall timothy makes ist the hay conscienceless lard>rd8 and livery stable keepers desire )r their patrons' horses, bnt they always tanage to buv it of the producer at a >w price per ton. It is never quoted i the markets as extra or choice, no latter how well cured and preserved, .'ay of whatever kind should be housed istead of being stacked or ricked, if raoticable. If stacked, it pays to give skilled or expert hand in stacking large ages to do the work, instead of intrustig this to the hands of a novice, as the ay saved, and its better condition when >e time comes for feeding it out, is retty certain to save more than double le wages usually paid a good stacker, ren in favorable seasons. If the sea>n should be unusually wet so much le worse. If hay must be stacked for ,ck of barn room, it should never be acked on the ground. Instead a subantial "stack bottom" should be built, id that high enough from the ground ) admit a current of air beneath it. rdinary farm rails laid upon a range of Dies will answer pretty well for this nrpoae. But parties who stack hay 7ery year would do well to out poles of le proper length and keep them on and for this purpose. But in any rent never stack hay on the ground. Hex of Ecras. A correspondent of the London Jouril of Horticulture says in reference to liu question: Last winter an old oultry keeper told mo he conld dis nguish the sex in eggs. I lauehed at im, and was none the less skeptical hen he told me the following seoret: gRS with the air bladder on the center I the crown of the egg will produce Dokerels; those with the bladder on ae side will produce pullets. The old ian was so certain of the truth of this Dgma, and hie poultry yard so far conrmed it that I determined to make cperiments upon it this year. I have one so, carefully registering the egg ladder vertical or bladder on one side, (jecting every one in which it was not ecidedly one or the other, as in seme is only very slightly out of the inter. The following is the result: ifty-eight ohickens wore hatched, three edead, eleven are yet too young to scide upon their sex. Of the remaining rty-four every one Has turned oat true ?the old man's theory. This, of course, ay be an accidental coincidence, but 1 lall try the experiment again. Rcclpes. Apple Pudding.?Take one quart of ewed apples, a quarter of a pound of utter, four eggs, some grated bread, a at meg, and sweeten to taste; bake in a ow oven. Candied Obange.?This is a delicaoy hich is easily made. Peel and quarter ie oranges; make a syrup in the proDrtion of one pound of sugar to one int of water; then take it from the fire id dip the quarters of orange in the rrup; let them drain on a fine sieve, laced over a platter, so that the syrup iK not be wasted; let them drain thus atil cool, when the sugar will crystalze. These are nice served with the last rarse of dinner. Cup Puddings.?Make half a pint o ilk hot and stir into it two ounces of arified dripping; let it cool, and then Id two ounces of powdered sugar, two mces of flour, the yolks of three eggs id the whites of two (whisked separely); flavor with a little grated lemon ;el and beat the mixture well. Grease >me small tins or cups, fill them three irts full, bake half an hour, aud serve ith sweet sauce. Sauce?Put a small jt of red currant jelly into a btewpan ith a gill of water; boil and pour round le pudding. Soups.?To make nutritious and ilatable soup, with flavors well mingled, quires study, practice and good taste, be best basis for soup is lean uncooked eat, a pound of meat to a quart of ater, to which may be added chicken, irkey, beef or mutton bones well rok en up; a mixture of beef, mutton id veal, with a bit of ham bone, all cut ne, makes a higher flavored eoup than ly single meat; the legs of all meats e rich in gelatine, an important conituent of soup. The best herbs are ige, thyme, sweet marjoram, tarragon, int, sweet basil, parsley, bay leaves, oves, mace, celery seed and onions, he best seasoning is that which is ado up of the smallest quantity from ich of many spices. The good soupaker must be a skillful taster. Smell op Paikt.?To get rid of this ost objectionable odor in a chamber a living room, slice a few onions and at them in a pail of water in the center I the room; close the doors, leave the indow open a little, and in a few hours le disagreeable smell will have almost 3ne. Another method is to plunge a andful of hay into a pailful of water id let it stand in the newly painted >om over a night; this plan is also Tectual. The foregoing have the imortant advantage of being simple rem3ies, as the necessary materials are [ways easily obtainable. Yet another Inn, but it is rather more complicated, lace c, grate of lighted charcoal on a iece of flag or slate in the center of the mm and throw on it a handful or two i juniper berries; shut out all ventilaon from the room for twenty-four ours. The doors and windows can len be opened, when it will be found >at the nasty, sickly smeu of paint tias itirely gone. The furniture may be sft in the room during the process, and one of it will be injured.?California rchitect. That Beautiful Gift. Oae of our young clerks last Sunday ight bought a cut-glass bottle of :)lcgne, with a glass stopper and pink bbon, to present to a young lady he i keeping company with; but, on aching the house he felt a little emivrrassed for fear there were members L' the faaiily present, and so left the oautiful gift on the stoop and passed :t. The movement was perceived bj a iraceiess uroioor 01 me young may, -ho appropriated the cologne for his wn use and refilled the bottle with artshorn from the family jar, and then ung around to observe the result. In a little while the young man lipped out to the stoop, and, securing tie splendid gift, slipped back again ato the parlor, where, with a few apropriate words, he pressed it upon the lushing girl. Like the good and lithful daughter that she was, she at nee ht.rried into the presence of h?r aothor, and the old lady was charmed. ?hey d dn't put up scent stuff like that ,'hen she was a girl; it was kept in u hina teacup, and it wus held together >y samples of the family's hair. She was very much pleased with it. the drew out the stopper, laid the leautiful petals of her nostrils over the .perture, and fetched a pull at the conen ts that fairly made them bubble, [ hen ehe laid the bottle down, and pickDg up a brass mounted fire shovel intead, Baid as soon as she could say .nything: "Where is that miserable brat ?" He, all unconscious of what had hap>ened, was in front of a mirror adjustng bis necktie and smiling at himself, lere she found him, and said to him: "Oh, you are laughing at the trick on in old woman, are you ?" And then she gave him one on the >ar. Acd he, being by nature more iloquent with his legs than his tongue, lastenid from thence, howling "like uad," and accompanied to the gate by hat brass mounted shovel. He save ic would give everything on earth if he :ould shako off ihe impression that a nistake had been made.?Boston Courer. ^ " I hardly think we shall remain nore than a week at Newport, as the udgo is partial to mountain air." "The udge?" queried Mra. Slursling; "I vas not aware, my dear madame, that rour husband had adorned the bench." 'Oh dear, yes?" smilingly chirruped ittle Mrs. Scantwit; "why, he's been hree times judge of ou town alec. ,ion 1" i FACTS AND COMMENTS. The Methodists have made arrangi merits to celebrate the one hundred1 anniversary of the organization of the first conference by a general conferen in Baltimore in December, 1884. ] honor of the occasion they will raise fnnd of 82,000,000 to be applied eqnal to ohurch eitensioD, education ar foreign missions. The ohances are that America wi have to snpply the whole of the Egyj tian deficiency in cotton. The oi ntofik of oofcton is verv licht in Gte; Britain, while East India cotton cann come into the English market befoi the end of January, even should tl Suez canal remain open. "When tl East India cotton does come, it requin an admixture of sixty per cent. < American cotton to be made availab for the English maohim ry. Altogethe the outlook is very promising for r munerative prices for the American co ton orop of the current year. The silk association of America r ports the products of the year endir June 30, which amounted in valne t about $35,00u,000, are triple the valt ot the products of the factories te years ago. Since 1870 the product ai the productive capacity of the indust; have very greatly increased. Withi the decade the number of factories er gaged in silk manufacture has inorease from eighty-six to 388, while the loon increased from 1,500 to 8,000, and tl hands employed from 6,600 to 31,30 The wages paid rose in ten years fro 82,000,000 to 89,000.000, and many ne States not previously engaged in tl industry began to manufacture silk ai now have factories at work. Thei States are Maine, Rhode Island, Oa] fornia, Illinois, Kansas and Missouri. The 13th day of next December wi be the fiftieth annivarsary of the fir election of Mr. Gladstone. England prime minister, to parliament, ai some of the more enthusiastic admire of " the grand old man" propose to ho a jubilee on that occasion. Mr. Glac stone was then as rabid a tory as he now an uncompromising liberal. E address to the electors was dated fro the Olinton Arms, Newark, on the 9 of October, 1832, and the nominatic took place on the following 11th December. Two days afterward M Gladstone was returned at the head the poll, and from that day to this i parliament has met in which he has n had a seat. It was in 1845 that ] changed his politios, at the time of tl corn laws. The liberals wish to ma1 the celebration a national affair, oi enthusiast describing Mr. Gladstone the member for " all England." The salmon fisheries of the Unit) States have increased more than twen fold within ten years, and last yeai prodnct was nearly a million case worth five million dollars. But tl result of this vast business is that t] southerly and more accessible rivers a becoming fished out, as the greed the fishermen has extended to the ca ture of the salmon which are on t] way to their spawning places. Tl Sacra&ento and even the seemingly i exhaustible Columbia are suff rit from this cause. The more dista: waters of British Columbia and Alas] are still bountiful, but they will 1 rained in their turn by suoh methods fishing. The experience of the Atlant c ast should teach the Pacific 1 guard its treasures by appropriate lai regulating the time and manner of fis! ing, lest it be oompelled to go throuf the process of restocking. In the Revue dAnthropologic Dr. B renger-Ferand describes in a pap entitled "Les Griots" those peculi itinerant musicians who wander all ovi Central Africa from Bhore to shor They belong to different low caste but are under one chief of great powe who takes what he needs from the ge eial receipts. "Griots" is a Fren< corruption of the Ouolove woi 4'Gwewonal." This guild is both fear< and hated by the natives. Themembe of it are considered impure. The bodi of the dead are thought to moke steri the land in which they may be interre But it seems these people are skilled composing without previous study, ai in piaying on the guitar and the violi The least gifted among them beat tl iam-tam or operate on some other ru< instrument. They carry news fro place to place, and it is said they al exoite wars. But whether there peace or war in a locality, they ha the peculiar privilege of coming ai going as tney please. A prentleman who has recently tak< up his residence in Salt Lake City writ of one of the means employed by t! Mormons to recruit their ranks wi emigrants from Europe. He says: T had quite a sight here last week?9 emigrants from Denmark and Swedi arriving in one day. I went to "tl office" to see them. Those who ha friends are cared for, but those havi none stay in "the office" until they fir employment. They know nothing abo polygamy until they get here, and c made to believe that if they will cor and be good Mormons they will healed, phyeically as well as spiritual) There are a great many cripples amoi them, but I have not seen any "heale physically yet. There is one poor ft low among their number who is min a leg. They told him in the old count they could give him another good 1 if be would just come to Salt Lake ; he came full of hope. Now that he here, they tell him they can give hi another sound limb, but if they do will have three legs in the next worl and as he cannot live very long in ti world would it not be best for him continue as he is, rather than go stnm ing around paradise with an extra liml The Chinese colony of Boston p< formed a strange and elaborate funei ceremony over the body of Mov Di I Gam, who died of ..pneumonia. Thii I or forty mourners clad in full nati costume and wearing the white si aprons of tho Chinese Masonic ord< with a band of music at their hen marched through the principal stree to Ashburton place?a quiet and retir locality. There on two stools in t middle of the street was placed t coffin, and at each end of it was a tal covered with a white cloth. On oi table were a roafit pig and the carc? of a sheep and a bowl of rice containii a number of small lighted torches, ai on the other a large bowl of rice ai several small cups with chopsticks, t Chinese priests appeared and chant prayors ?nd the tables were loaded wi other viands. The prayers were th resumed, and lasted nearly half hour. Afterward the company, two ] two, knelt and bowed their heads the ground several times. The prncf sion then marched to Mount Ho cemetery, where the burial took pla( The grave was covered with the vian used at the funeral ami with counllt slips of paper containing prayers J the dead. Lawyer John H. B. Latrobe, Jr., Baltimore, was drowned in the Pataps river recently. He was scarcely thirt Ave years old, but his career has be a romantic one, and it recalls an intc esting performance of Grant's admin tration. Soon after graduating frr 1 the University of Maryland, in 181 Latrobe went with A. B. Steinberger < that famous expedition to the Samo 1 or Navigator's Islands in the Sou Pacific ocean, intending to consolids 1 the islands into one government, und 1 the protectorate of this country. Soi 1 sanction had been given to the schei at Washington. Each island was rul by a single chief, and they all wi corned the expedition and agreed i the plans. Latrobe had drafted i constitution and code of laws un t i voyage, and they were at once adopt< The government was reorganized, wi the chief who had the largest followi ' as kinp. He was crowned Hiwaii i king of the Samoan Islands, and ma< i Steinberger prime minister and you Latrobe minister of war in command the army, whioh was soon uniformed c: / ;S 1 ". ' J* *3i i?. y . white pants, blue coats ana gooa rmea, while Latrobe far outshone the king in > e- the splendor of his raiment. The king th was made a mere figure-head, being . iir unable to sanction a law or enforce an , ce order without his prime minister's conEn sent, while Latrobe controlled the a treasury. ThingB went on smoothly I ly until Sir Edward Thornton, id British minister to the United i States, had a little correspondence with j his noine government, and as a result a 11 British man-of-war anchored one day g. off the Samoan group, landed a boat, id load of men and assumed control of afat fairs. Steinberger put the captain in nfc irons, but when, a few hours later, a re second man-of-war sailed up, the prime ie minister saw that he had been rather ie hasty and accordingly surrendered, t ?8 Latrobe was finally sent back to the t of United States, and Steinberger was left, le against his will, on one of the many t r( islands of the South Pacific. So ended ? e- the kingdom of Samoa, which was t- making too much progress to suit the j government of England, and Latrobe } returned to the practice of law in his 1 e. native city. '8 Apples as Food. t ' From the earliest ages apples have ' been in use for the table as a dessert, 1 , says the Country Gentleman. The historian Pliny tells us that the Romans 1 ? cultivated twenty-one varieties of the i apple. In these latter days we probably 1 T possess over 2,000. As an article of food they rank with the potato, and on | account of the variety of ways in which ] q they may be served they are far prefer- ? " able to the taste of many persons; and if families would only substitute ripe, y ' luscious apples for piec, cakes, candies , and preserved fruit, there would be , much less sickness among the children, and the saving of this one item aione would purchase many barrels of apples. They have one excellent effect upon 1 the whole physical system, feeding the ! w brain as well as adding to the flesh and 3 keeping the blood pure; also preventing 1 ' ? constipation and correcting a tendency 1 ^ to acidity, whioh produces rheumatiflm ' r8 and neuralgia. They will cool off the I" feverish condition of the system; in fact, 1 V* they are far belter for these purposes i .Is than the many nostrums which are hig b ? i8 ly praised in the advertisements and are 1 m so constantly purchased by sufierers. 1 to A ripe raw apple is digested in an hour I )D and a half, while a boiled potato takes < twice the time. 1 r* While apples can be purchased at 1 ?* cheap rates, every family should keep 10 a dish of them in the dining-room | whore the children can have access to < ho an<i eat aii they please of them. They < ie will rarely receive any injury from ( k? them, if they are thoroughly masti- ] ae cated. Baked apples should be as con- ; as stant a dish upon the table as potatoes, i Every breakfast and tea table should j have a plate of them. Baked sweet t apples are a very pleasant addition to ] ty a saucer or oatmeal pudding, and when r'8 served with sweet cream they are very !8> appetizing. 36 They are not so commonly used as k hey should be, as they will supply as v ro u 1 J ....... .....u ?? 1 LL1UUL1 UiUBUUlltr UUU 11CIVUUO OU{lUUIU <K9 ?f dishes of meat and vegetables. ThouP* sands of bushels of soar apples are ae user! for pien and puddings in hundreds ie of families, where well-ba?ed sweet n apples would prove more nourishing *8 food and muoL more economical. They are also good food for old people, and are usualiy greatly relished by them. 36 In my own family they are always, wheu in season, a part of the meals of '*c the day, and are as commonly used aa a slice of bread. V8 ?? Martin Van linren. * Probably no character in our history is so hard to analyze as that of Martin Van Buren. The secret of his power * seems to have died with him. He was not renowned as an orator, and yet must have possessed great powers as an advocate. He is not usually credited ' with having devised any great publio 'r' measures, yet, during the most impor' tant epoch of his party's history, every V measure to which it owed success not only required his approval, but showed J(j his shaping or modifying touch. He was not eminent in debate, but was always a eg leader of bis party in legislation. He is , paid to have been personally calm, self, poised and unoonfiding. He heard every ' one's opinion, but took no one's advice. 1(j He was accounted shrewd and cunning, but never was accused of personal ' treachery. He was cautions to the very j verge of timidity, and at the same time, confident to the verge of rashness. He _ never exulted over victory nor whim pered at defeat. He had few personal yg ineEUH, UUl li LI UUIU^IUU [JUjJUini luuun- I 1(j ing. In theory he was the broadest of j democrats ; iu practice the most exclu- | sive of aristocrats. None of bis asso- . JQ ciates seem to have regarded him with ^ e8 affection, and few of his opponents k looked upon him with animosity. Per- , haps no political life in onr history shows so few mistakes. In no single qq instance did he fail to make the best of the occasion, viewing it from his ' ^ own standpoint; unless it were the last ( VQ and greatest of his life?the opportunity to lead the movement that even tu1(j ally transformed the nation. He seems ] to have had all men's regard, but to ^ have given none his trust By his upQe ponents he was called cunning ; by his followers sagacious. More justly than almost anv other politician he may be |Y * M. , ' Raid to have achieved his own successes. Living, he was the envy of all who I would succeed ; dead, he has been the | ~ model of unnumbered failures. Few 1 statesmen would covet his fame ; fewer j * still do not envy his success. Be is the ? Sphinx of our history -the bidden hand in many great events?a man in whom the elements were so deftly mixed that k no friend knew his heart and no enemy j eve? came within his guard.?Our ' Continent. 11S The Freezing: Cure. jP" By means of freezing parts may be b' rendered wholly insensible to pain, so that slight surgical operations may be ?r* I easilv oerformed. When the freezing ^ is lon^ continued the frozen parts may lose their vitality entirely, which will v cause them to slough away. By this ye means excrescences, as warts, wens and polypi, fibrous and sebaceous tumors, 3^j and oven malignant tumors, as cancers, may be successfully removed. Small j cancers may sometimes be cured by repeated and long continued freezing. 6 Their growth may certainly be imptded "e by this means. A convenient mode ol '*e application in cancer of the breast is to suspend from the neck a rubber bag l8!1 filled with powdered ice, allowing it to QR lie against the cancerous organ. Freezing may be accomplished by applying a spray of ether, by means of an atomizer, or by a freezing mixture composed e" of equal parts of pounded ice and salt. Mix quickly, put into a gauze bag, and or apply it to "the parts frozen. In three au to six minutes the skiu will become W white and glistening, then the bag '? should be removed. Freezing should !8* not be continued longer than sixminl,e ntes at a time, as the tissues may be harmed, thou h usually no harm results from repeated freezing, if some care is ;33 used in thawing the frozen part. It or should be kept immereed in cool water, or covered with cloths kept cool by fre, qnent wetting with cold water, until ?* the natural feeling is restored. Felons 00 may be cured, especially when they first begin, by freezing two or three times en Lnmbago and sciatica, as well as other >r forms of neuralgia, are sometimes al1S" most instantly relieved by freezing of the skin immediately above the painful part. on aD As to the reduction of the production cost of wheat Dr. H. Jjulie recommetds lte the substitution of good for inferior er varieties, sowing by drill instead of ne broadcast, greater care in the destruction of weeds, reaping in suitable e" weather, thrashing by machinery to e*" prevent the waste of grain, deep cultivation in order to secure the plants a from droughts or excess of moiscure, and, finaliv, the judicious management of manures, th ng Corsage bouquets of natural flowers I., are worn high on the left side and as de large as ever. Roses remain the favorite ng flower?several fcindsin various shades of of color forming the most admired in ' bouquets. nuiiiuiei uiiu Auiuiiiii* The hot midsummer, the bright midsummer Reigns in her glory now; rhe earth is scorched with a golden firo, rhere are berries, dead ripe, on every brier, And fruits on every bough. But the autumn days, so sober and calm, Stooped in a dreamy haze, iVhen the uplands all with harvest flhine, ind we drink tho wind like a flue cool wine? Ali, those are the best of days I -R U. Stoddard. IIUHOK OF THE DAY. Sons of toil handle tons of soil. It is terrible come down for a man o lall out of a balloon and be obliged ;o walkhome. A man generally dislikes a girl baby it two years, just tolerates her at tep, ind worships her at eighteen. Smiles is the longest word in the English ianguage. Between the begin* ling and the end of it there is just a nile. Logic is logio, and it does not folio v ;hat Noah brewed beer in the ark because the kangaroo went on boari with hops. Wedding cake done up in horseshoe t }oxes is the latest thing. The boxes :l n whice the eaters are done up are of ;be old fashioned style. In Missouri they are just beginning ;o break themselves of the habit cz loldmg up their hands every time a stranger enters the car. The story about a man in Georgia ivho could yell so as to be heard five miles will hardly be credited by those j ixrVm tinva trior! tn mat a a Vl driver hear at a distance of four rods. An exchange says: "Anew fashion which has been set at Newpoii, and dtight to become popular everywhere, is the abolition of the check rein." To which another editor remarks: " We '"-i ilways thought all the fashion at Newiort was due to the check reign." A young city gent, dressed in a faultless snit and a pair of shoes which ' Capered to a point in the most modern style, was visiting in a rural district. A bright little four-year-old boy looked him all over until his eyes rested on those shoea. He looked at his own jhubby feet and then at his visitor, and * (hen looking up said: "Mister, is your toes all cutted off but one ?" Fogg has a neat way now and then of burning a compliment. Seeing the elderly Miss Pangley in the street the )ther day he tried to avoid her, but lid not succeed. When they met, said Miss Pangley: "Oh, you nau?hty man I ion wanted to cue me. ivapiiea cogg, ilandlv: "I should be cutting a pretty ^ igure, shouldn't I?" Mies Pangley * :-t-5 ells her friend, Miss Sageg een, that Sir. Fogg is a perfect gentleman. A Week in a Chinese House-Boat. To the uninitiated it may be said that a Shanghai house boat is very muoh nore of a home than are the craft called )y the same name which are met with )ccasionally upon the Thames; and the < bosses " of the great banks and merjantile houses vie with each other in :he lavish decoration and luxurious :omfort of their honse-boats. Many of ihem are, in fact, little floating drawing rooms, ablaze with mirrors and ?ilding, and very much better adapted _ Fnr ?? lnofino" nnrnrtRPH and entertain o r~'L ment-s tban for shooting expeditions and sther rough work. Tbe bout in which we made onr trip up the river was comfortabie and convenient enough; bnt it was a practical and not an ornamental house-boat. It was late summer when we itaried; for although a house-boat is generally tolerable during tbe hot season, when nothing else is, we were sot much given to lounging and the rejeption of company. All told we were lix on board?including the "lowdah" )r captain, the cook, and two coolies to :ow or work the boat. Scenery there is Done near Shanghai; and at the first jtarcing, amidst the crowd of boats, unks and sampans which block up the ?rflpk below bridcre. the only sense titil ated to any extraordinary degree was ,hat of smelt. It was very slow work, jnt we kept in the boat, and passed the ^ ime aproeably if not profitably, in est* 3* % ng, drinking and smoking, and listenng to the old lowdah's tales of bio pirate ife. The cook did Irs duty manfally, md varied our meals with the talent pemliar to Frenchmen and Ohinamen. Until we passed Sicawei, which may bo ;ermed the boundary of the foreign dominion, the coolies oarod the buat in ;heir peculiar fashion, thp lowdah steer- ' nc?wih his feet when his hands were busy with his "chow" or his pipe. svhen we got into the open country thd^ScSeF tow rope was fastened, and the coolies got out on the bant. It was a cariousv srojage. Only one thing annoyed us, and it ^ was inevitable, it had to be borne?the naoooioss AttAntion * t>aid to us bv the native dogs. Chinese dogs -in faot all Chinese animals?possess i.n extraordinary faculty of scenting out a foreigner, and the former invariably announce their discovery by howlings and bark- ; ings, which only cease with the complete disappearance of the obnoxious intruder. Sometimes in the country these dogs?which, like those of Constantinople, are the public scavengers, and are protected from harm by public edict as well as by popular prejudioe'? arc positively dangerous ; for although singly they are arrant cowards, and run off at the mere action of picking up a etone, in groups they are apt to be aggressive, especially if the foreigner be alone. We could always tell when we were approaching a village, when the high banks hid it from view, by the ex element amongst the dogs ; and when we anchored for the night?always in mid-stream?their inces*ant barking ? banished all notions of sleep. Another aunoyance was the mosqaitoes; but at night the curtains kept them out. ^ Everywhere we could see traces of the horrible work of pillage and devastation 'w: carried on during the Taiping rebellion, and, strange to say, in spite of the more generous ideas of civilization M which are beginning to assert themr!hinn nfl it. is nnhodv's hnfli- "" ness to rempdy the appearance of matters, the bare and desolate character of the country still remains. "We must have passed during our week's trip at 4least twenty villages utterly wrecked '''- Xand deserted, nor to speak of magnificent porcelain bridges ruined, pagodas tottering to their full, roofless temples and even desecrated graveyards. Every evening we anchored in midstream and jumped overboard for a. swim; and upon one occasion, wheor the spot chosen was not far off from a town rejoicing in the euphonious name of Sin Ka Kok, as we were espied jumping overboard and striking out, the whole population swaimed out to witness the sight, the bn Jge was a mass of human heads, and the banks were lined with a crowd of both sexes. Not far from here are the only hills anywhere near Shanghai, and being hills, they are a favorite pilgrimage of foreigners weary of the monotonous grave-studded flatness of the conntry round the European settlement. They are buf mounds; but there are actually some picturesque ' ! copses at their base which are greatly resorted to by picnic parties. We ascended the hills, as in duty bonnd, and then turned the prow of our boat homeward?a proceeding which seemed to please our coolies mightily, for they took us back in half the time they cocupied in bringing us. The queen of Madagascar has ordered the framing of a prohibitory law in her dominions "forbidding the manufacture or importation into her territories of alcoholic liquors. A breach of this ordinance will entail the forfeiture of ten oxen and ten dollars fine. If the penalty cannot be paid by any offender, it must be worked out at the rate of ninepence per day." The extraordinary advance of what has developed into the human race is shown in the faot that Darwin left an estate valued at $73,000. Eighteen millions of years ago no monkey then extant was worth naif that number of chestnuts. * i I