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ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER! BY HUGH WILSON. . ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1883. NO. 35. VOLUME XXVILjjlffl St. Valentine. Mid-win'er's time of storci find stinging cold, While scnnty days are dim with arctic gloom;*. And people seek their joy in cozy rooms, Still hr-s a brilliant pleasure to unfold. \ ^ For now that famous friend ot young and old. Whose genial inspiration never fails To vocalize the world with merry tales, Comes in cur midst, his carnival to hold. And with St. Valentine to urge us on, ( We keep the letter folks at work from morn Till night, as picture presents come and uo: Sometimes expressing naught but rudest fun, And SOlllpHriiPs hv tlin Vnlontinn is mm A rich possession, sweet as earth can show. ?Addison F. Browne. "A Walentine Done It." "I hadn't never oughter been a lone woman; I warn't cut out for one," remarked Miss Parminter, who kept- a little stationery shop, to Jane Miller, the dressmaker, who rented the second lloor back. It was .February 1, the valentines had just come in. and it being evening Jane had time to step downstairs and help in sorting them . according to price and according to sentiment. "Walentines always takes a holt of me," Miss Parminter went on. "Dear! dear ! now, Jane, where ever is them ten-cent ones? Put 'em in a pile to the left. Now them five cent lace papers. So. Why, there's somebody comin' in. Sure's I live it's?. Now, Jane, them lace papers is all muddled up. Sure's I live it's .Mr. Eugene Brackett!" The bustling old maul nurriea to ine front of the shop and gave a friendly greeting to the landlord's son, Mr. Brackett, a very good-looking young man. His skin was clear, his eyes were dark, his hair was black and curly, his eyebrows were cleanly marked, his noise straight, and every hair of his mustache twisted in a proper twirl right or left. Is it any wonder that a little dressmaker, who had seen the world only from the rickety windows of the second floor back in a mean city neighborhood, should lind her ideal in such coloring and such curves? Not at all, and Jane Miller's heart was filled with love and reverence as Mr. Brackett leaned on his walking-stick in a pose that made him look somewhat askew, but that was to Jane so bewilderingly graceful that Miss Parminter had to call out sharply: " Now, you air a-muddlin' up them lace papers. Do take care." "What's new in valentines?" asked the young gentleman presently, lounging toward Jane, and after touching his hat, settling it perilously aslant over his left ear. "Xothin' much," she answered, with a poor attempt at being unembarrassed. Miss Parminter, following him closely, suggested : "We thought you might have droppedfin with some message from your father, about rent or suthin', though dear knows me and Jane is paid up square." "Oh, no," he drawled out; "I just called in a friendly way." "Did you? Really! If we'd 'a known that we'd a been dressed up for you," she answered, with that distribution of emphasis entirely her own, ana capaui^ oi conveying uie most subtle shades of sarcasm or sussuspicion independently of the normal meaning of her words. "Oh, I don't care for dress," said Mr. Eugeae, watching Jane's homely little face, framed in its pale hair, and not looking at all pretty even with her evident emotion. " Dress is nothing, beyond"?here he pointedly surveyed the poor girl's washed and turned and much made over brown merino?" beyond neatness." Jane flushed, and hid her face in a large box valentine, that, like a prophecy, represented a young man in full swallow-tail regimentals leading a veiled paragon of loveliness toward a most hymeneal-looking piece of architecture. "\f ir+rm T)n wm t rt f 4"/% llHOT* Kai?_ Ia>ll?to A Uiliimtci irci$ciax vv/ vuoj iiviself spreading certain lengths of cotton cloth to preserve the 44 stock " from dust; and now and then she nervously fingered the wisps of gray hair cultivated by the side of her face, and called by courtesy curls. This was a habit she had when disturbed in mind. Then she muttered to herself at intervals, "What is he up to, I wonder?" end by dint of keeping one eye and one tar on the young people, just jis Eugene rose to go, she heard him say: "JThe 'Paramount' will return in twelve months at least twenty times the investment." "Is it?is it a silver mine?" asked Jane. " Yes, in Nevada; im?mense." " Could?could as little as five hundred dollars' worth be bought?" Jane ventured, very timidly. "Well," answered Eugene, with good-natured condescension, " we are only buying large blocks?a hundred ? - ? 1 -.11 ? ? 1,?nvv IUlUUStlllU UUJirtlS ill/ a time 1U1 iunt; capitalists; but," lie added, in a low and tender tone, " I'll get you the live hundred dollars' worth, and you shall make your twenty thousand or more, my little Jeannette, with the best of them." "IIow good you are!" exclaimed the dressmaker, looking up into his face with her large gray eyes. All this plain little woman's life was in those weary, honest eyes. They old of a poor, pinched childhood in heir unsatisfied eagerness, of an early orphanage in their confirmed sadness, of hard work in their lack of luster ' -< and the premature lines about them, Since her tenth year?a ad she was twenty-six now?Jane had been bat wiuu pwvcitj, duotaiucu uiuj her industry, thrift, ancl a romantic longing after something more genial nd more lovely than life had yet shown. By suffering positive privation she had contrived to put away five hundred dollars?blood money every penny of it, wrung from a natural young heart that renounced every little dearly prized luxury before the dread of coming sickness or want. Brackett bent low over her slight, stooping form, saw the grateful tears on her cheeks, pressed for an instant the thin fingers, pricked and hardened by the needle, then whispered, softly: "I'll see you again soon. Good-night, # little Jeannette." Passing out, he jostled in the doorway against a great form that seemed little inclined to make way for him, I ana as x.ugene wiiiKea aown me sireci the form came into the shop, and Miss Parminter greeted it with, "Hello, Josiah! real glad to see yer." Josiah Jackson, plumber, owned those heavy shoulders, and owned the spare, square, low-browed face that looked out above them. It was a workman's face and it was a workman's form. Plumber was written .all over him, from his dusty matted hair to his stained hands and flattened thumbs that showed Josiah's " days off" were very few. He was skilled in his trade, and often railed in I as an expert in difficult jobs. Even now he was returning from some work of this sort. "You're late, Josiah," said Miss Parminter. 44 Yes," he answered, in rather a surly way. "I've been puttin' in extry time on one of Brackett's houses. By the way, what's his son doin' ; here?" 44 JTothin' much. Fust off I thought it was some message from the old man about collectin' rent, but turned out 'twarn't so." 441 guess not," said Josiah, eon emptuously, andloud enough for Jane *#ar. 44 The oldma^wouldn't trust him with money. I've heard the two quarrelin' more than once. The father always says: You're a big- rascal, Eugene, and you sha'n't touch a dollar of mine. You're got your villainous broker's ollice, so play your tricks outside of my business.' He's a cheating scamp, that fellow." .lane rose quickly and came forward. Two bright spots of color burned on her pale cheeks. Her eyes were Hashing, and she said, facing Josiah indignantly, "Mr. IJraekett's ;i gentleman, t Josiah Jackson, and that's more than you are." "Jane," the plumber answered, his voice shaking with anger, and yet with an appeal in it?"Jane, 1 don't pre tend to he. J m only an nonest man, and that feJlow ain't. That's all I've got to say." "That's more than you have any right to say," the girl retorted. "Haven't .1 no right," exclaimed Josiah, "lo warn you for your own good when I see things is wrong?" "You've got nothin' to do with me at all," answered .lane; and like a shabby little queen with a weak voice, much out of keeping with the might of her scorn, she walked to the stairway at the back and passed up to her own room. Josiah looked after her; then pushing hack his old hat with one. rough hand that trembled strangely, he turned to Miss Parminter, who was very busy with the wispy curls, and said: X , T _ .1. t T?. ~ Tnnn " JUOOK. iutu?? >?; uet'u vuui tiu nuic for more'n a year. Slie's give me a kind of a half promise more'n once, and now?now, within six weeks, since that Brackett's been loafin' round, she treats me that way. 'Tain't right, Miss Parrninter, 'tain't right." His smudged and toil-worn face quivered and grew pale. "Well," answered the spinster, making new tangles of the curls, "you see, Josiah, Mr. Brackett's smoothspoken and handsome, and, moreover, girls is girls. They like a little?well, what 1 call poetry ways and soft speeches; and girls likes it to be always walentine-tiine, so to speak." "{But 'tain't always valentine-time, and soft talk won't keep the pot a-b'ilin'," said the practical Josiah, the words losing half their coarseness in ,ll/?nlfv /if liits cni^nrnocoil on/1 tiiu Ul?lilVJ Ui. liiO UlAVl genuine suffering, " Ah," Miss Parminter replied, " but the sensiblest of women has got a longin' after nonsense. We like being made much of in some way out o* the common. AVe like playin' we're queens or angels. 'Tain't no harm, but sometimes it costs us dear. "Why, Josiah, just for a few nice words and a way of looking out of a pair of handsome eyes, I throvred over a fellow as good as you, for a chap that jilted me after all * And here I'm a lone woman, and hadn't never oughter been." She cried quite hysterically for a moment, then said : " Go home, and I'll manage your love making. (Jo home." Josiah very meekly obeyed, and Miss Parminter closed the shop and went up to Jane's room. Those red indig? .4-,. ^ fi.A i:++isv 11(111 b BjJULa Dllll l.'Unit'U KJll Li HJ iU LlU dressmaker's cheeks, and to the abrupt question, "l)o you mean to give Josiah up V" she replied, sharply, "You can't give up what you never had." "But you were getting fond of him," Miss Parrninter persisted. "Does Mr. Brackett come to see you often ?" "That's nobody's business." "'Tain't, except in so fur as I'm fond of you, Janey. and I'd like to sea you turn out well." "I expect to turn out well. [I'm going to invest my money, and in a year from now, you dear old friend?for you are a dear old friend, and I do love you." exclaimed Jane, glad to lind an excuse for tears?"I shall be worth twenty thousand dollars, and we'll go shopping. Shopping! Think of it!" "Look-a-here, Jane, what are you go~ 4-^ mg tu uu witu >uiu uiuucj r "Put it in the Paramount silver mine. Eugene?I mean Mr. Brackett ?will take care of it." "Eugene! Air you going to marry him ?" "Yes; that is, n?no. Oil, Miss Parminter!"?and Jane looked almost pretty and girlish as she kneeled down and hid her face against the angular 1) t sympathetic shoulder?" oh, I think ?I do think something's coming of it. He's been here three times, and he's asked me to rail him Eugene, and lie calls me little Jeannette in a gentle way that's just?just lovely." " Humph ! And how about Josiah?" " I'm sorry "?and she began to cry softly?" very sorry; but think of him beside Eugene!" " I do, and he's a heap sight more manly-looking." " lie calls me 4 Jane,' and sent me a stuff dress at Christmas; Eugene calls me 'little J eannette,' and see"?she pulled up her sleeve, and showed, secretly worn? a small turquoise bracelet?"lie sent me this." "Yes," snapped Miss Farm inter, ' and it's worth about five dollars. That dress was all pure wool, and cost every cent of twenty." " It ain't cost so much," said Jane, twisting the bracelet about her arm; ".it's?it's?" " It's bosh !" Miss Parminter finished the phrase for her. "Oh, Jane, I know. All women crave bosh." Then the judicious uld person quietly rose and went to her own room, where she sat for a long time fingering the curls and thinking. In the morning she came to Jane in great distress and confusion, and begged her to take care of the shop, she being obliged to go out on business. Miss Parminter was gone all day long. She carried her spare face and her bright bonnet and those wisps of curls in and out of a great many down town (fflo .s, and on coining home at night walked straight through the shop and sat down, very sad and dejected, by the stove in the back. She looked most unhappy, and buried her face in her hands. Jane hurried the closing up to find out the cause of so much sadness. When they were at last alone, the poor old woman moaned and rocked to and fro, exclaiming : I "Such trouble, Jane! such trouble ! I shall be ruined." Jane manifested affectionate sympathy, but she only cried out: "Go away. I've got no friends. There's nobody to help a lone woman ?nobody." Jane, quite distracted at the sight of her sorrow, protested: "AVhy, I'd do anything for you?anything." " My dear, I need money?a great deal of money. I want it for a few" days only, but if I don't have it I'm ruined?ruined." " IIow much?" asked Jane. " At least five hundred dollars." "Oh, take my money, dear, take tninn Dnn't. rrr? on so. Kiifpne can wait a few days fur the investment. Take mine." " Bless you!" sobbed out Miss Parminter?"bless rvou! I will. It will be perfectly safe, and I promise faithfully to give it back. You've saved me from a lifetime of misery." The two friends embraced, and the very next day the trusting dressmaker brought five crisp hundied-dollar bills ?Iw.r wlmlo fnrtiini'?from tlin s;vvinors ?O" bank and laid them in Miss Parniinter's claw-like hand, which closed on them sharply. Then there were more embracing and tears, after which Jane wont to her work, while the shrewd old maid snapped the money into a safe leather px-ketbook and muttered: " Little fool! I'll fix her." The night after that, when Eugene called, Miss Parminter listened on the stairs. The visit was short, and as he went out he said : " Well, Jeannette, you've done an imprudent thing, but I suppose the old cat will give it back. " You suppose the old cat will give it back, do you?" repeated the lady so pleasantly designated, as she closed the shop door just out of Mr. Eugene's ear-shot. A week later Eugene came again, and the guilty debtor, from that convenient stairway, heard Jane sob and say, "Oh, Eugene, I couldn't help it? indeed 1 couldn't; she's been such a kind friend, anil she was in such trouble ! Only wait; I'm sure she will give it back soon." *' Old grillln!" exclaimed the young man; then added fiercely; "Look here, you get that money back at once, do you hear? (let it back!" and he went out, noisily slamming the door. Jane, rushed down to Miss Par minter, and fried: "Oh, dear friond, do give me my money! Eugene is so angry because I shall lose the chance of making my fortune! Do srive it back." The old maid sadly shook her head, shed tears copiously, sobbed aloud, and declared she'd have hysterics. She couldn't return the money yet. She was in great trouble, an?oh! oh! oh! Jane drew a cup of tea for comfort. Neither could swallow any; so with more tears they parted, Jane to cry all night long and the other to recover cheerfulness at once. A few evenings after this, as Josiah, according to his wont, was humbly skulking about to catch some word of comfort, his heart leaped up to meet a smile on Miss Parminter's fac?i and a gesture that brought him toward her. I she earned 111m ueninu me counter, and after a curt explanation, a changing of money and the doing up of a parcel, Josiah remarked: " I don't grudge the price, but it's iust trash that won't be no use to Jane." "Now," eried the intriguing old person, indignantly, "you're a-givin' your opinion again. "Who's amanagin' thiscourtin' affair?" "You," Josiah answered, meekly, and went home, docile and subdued. Presently Jane slipped downstairs, and asked, with an attempt at dignity that consorted ill with her tear-stained, quivering face: "Please would you meet Mr. Brackett in my room about noon to-morrow V" " Certainly," responded Miss Parminterj " I ain't itshamed nor afraid to see Mr. Eugene Braekett any time or anywheres." rPV?/* rw?vf /lor of ns\r\i\ olta jliiv; ucai/ vicvj , uv Jiuwa,,ni^ entered .lane's room, saying: "This bein' ^Valentine's day, there's a pretty brisk business. Some folks puts olT buyin' till the last minute. Come, now, what do you want of me, .lane?" The answer was a rap at the door and in came Mr. Brackett. lie paid no heed to Jane's greetings, hut turned, with a business-like air, directly to Miss Parminter, and said: I have to ask you for the return of the five hundred dollars loaned to you by Miss Miller some two weeks ago." "You have to ask it! And what have you to do with her money?" " I take an interest in her and don't propose she shall be cheated by any appeal to her feelings." "You don't say!" responded Mrs. Parminter, with her own dignified and scathing sarcasm?"you don't say! Well, Mr. Eugene Brackett, that money won't be returned. Miss Miller has nothing to show for it; there wasn't even a witness to the transaction. Now, then?" Jane burst into tears and sobbed out, " How can you be so wicked??howcan you ?" Mr. Braekett made his eyes very small and his action very large as he exclaimed: " I shall have you arrested, old woman, for swindling." He moved to the door. She was there before him. " Softly, Mr. Eugene. Ease up a bit. I've got a letter here that's of interest to you. I spent a whole day downtown a-findin' out how to get at the news that's into it. Come, now," and she opened a letter that she had drawn from her pocket?"come, now, look over witli inn :ith1 Wft'l) llPfllSfi it, tonrpflier friendly and pleasant. Come." Then she read aloud: There is no mine in Nevada known as the Paramount. The so-called prospectus is a cheat, and so is the man called Eugene Brackett, who, presuming on his father's honest name, has been in many fraudulent schemes for obtaining money.' It's signed by two leading men of Nevada. Now, young man, what's that glib tongue of yours got to say V" Eugene stood silent and very white for a moment; then Jane rushed to him, threw her arms about his neck and cried out, "I don't believe it, I don't believe it, my poor Eugene." With some impatient muttering! he threw her from him. "Eugene, Eugene," she sobbed, "I say I don't believe it." He turned toward the door. "Are you going to leave me?" "Oh, you little fool, yea." " But you'll come back?" " Xo," thundered the dainty Eugene, and with an oath went quickly downstairs and out of the house. Jane shrieked wildly. Miss Parminter caught her as she fell fainting and carried her to bed. There the judicious friend left her to "cry it out." j By evening she paid her a short call and remarked, cheerfully: | "My dear, you see that man ain't worth your tears. He only wanted that hard-earned money, lie didn't care for you." "I|know it," answered Jane?"J know it." '* Well, as you're quite safe now, we'll talk about that money." She drew out and unstrapped a leather poeketbook, and, counting out live bills, said, quietly: "Two, four, five hundred. There it is just as you gave it to me." " What!" " Oh, yes. I suspected that young A.X.9 - * - 1 T i. L ? 1.^*14. iniei, uiiu i jusu gut it nuit ui ^uiu money and kept it safe. There, there, don't cry; 'tain't nothin'. <io to sleep ?so." The soft-hearted spinster sobbed, and said to .lane: "You've got some sentiment and nonsense about yer, but I believe your own good heart's a-coinin' back again. Sich foolery as yours s])'iled my life, but it sha'n't yours, because I'll keep an eye to you." That night, when the tempest of her grief had passed, Jane received a pretty box, directed in Josiah's stiff handwriting. She opened it. wondering, and found a little wax eupid holding out a lovely scroll from a mass of fresh-cut tiowers?tne prettiest, costliest valentine she had ever seen. She comforted her hot, tea-stained cheeks upon the bed of roses, and couldn't help, after all, a gentle thought for the poor discarded lover. It is easy to see the end. One happy day Jane announced, with a blush: ".Josiah and I are going to be married; and in spite of all?all, you know, that happened last winter, I love him true." "She does," Josiah proudly confirmed, "and I believe it." .Miss Parininter kissed them both, and cried out: "Josiah got that walentine in jist at the turnin'-p'int, jist wh/m a Httlr? scntiinpTit. was a real com fort. A walentine done it! A valentine done it!"?Harper's Bazar. Lincoln is said to have once replied to a question early in the war as to how the Union reverses affected him, by the remark: "I feel very much like a great stalwart Illinois neighbor of mine who was out logging in his bare feet. A log roiled over and crushed one of his big toes before he could escape. All drawn up with pain, he replied to a question of how he was with: Well, I'm too big to cry, but it hurts FOR THE FARM AM) HOME. Save the Aalics. Ashes are valuable as a fertilizer, and should be stored in a secure place as they accumulate in the winter. To throw them out on the snow or earth is both wasteful and untidy. The feet of passing children and ??lder persons will track the scattered ashes into the house and i increase the labor of the housewife, a ; barrel in a fence corner is better than ] nothing, but an ash pit of brick or stone ; is the safest and cheapest. Disastrous j lircs often originate from a careless ' handling of ashes. A smoke-house. < that is, an ash pit, with a room above, j for holding meat while being smoked, is ; a convenient, if not essential, outbuild- ; ing on every well-regulated farm.? Ay- t rimlturist. t t Trcninictit of Tlirnsli. The disease of the horse's foot t known as thrush consists of inflammation of the secreting membrane of the frog, and appears as a fetid discharge from the clel't of the frog, with lameness when the frog touches the ground, as in going on a soft road or over pebbles. The treatment is to (-pen the discharging cleft as much as possible ) and inject into it a solution of sulphate 1 of zinc; then dip some tow in the so- t lution and fill the crack. Do this ii twice a day, cleansing the foot each t time. Give the horse one pound of j epsom salts. Care is to be taken that the j animal stands upon a clean floor. To pre- t vent lameness when upon soft ground use a bar shoe or a sole-leather sole stuffed with tow. c i: OilinK Wnifon Wheel*. i: The following experience, which a ^ writer sends to an exchange, will be r found of value to farmers as saving j1 both time and money: "I have a a wagon of which six years ago the fel- 11 Iocs shrunk so the tires became loose. ? I gave it a good coat of hot oil, and * every year since it has had a coat of } oil or paint, sometimes both. The tires] * .1.* ..?.i n i .. ? I ? a <ur Ligut %>in, ciiui iiti'v iitivu nut ihtii set for eight or nine years. Many farm- e ers think that as soon as their wagon s felloes begin to shrink they must go at ? once to a blacksmith shop and get the. ' tires set. Instead of doing that which is often a damage to the wheels, causing v them to 'dish,' if they will get some t linseed oil and heat it boiling hot, and c give the felloes all the oil they can take, v it will till them up to their usual size f anil tighten the tire. After the oil a s coat of paint is a good tiling to keep t them from shrinking and also to keep v out the water. If you do not wish to n go to the trouble of mixing paint you r can heat the oil and tie a rag to a stick it and swab them over as long as they i> will take oil. A brush is more con- p venient to use, but a swab will answer c if you do not wish to buy a brush. It M is nnitn :i siivmer of t.imr> nrifl nmripv to V look after the woodwork of farm ma- t: chincry. Alternate wetting and dry- ti ing injures and causes the best wood v to decay and lose its strength unless kept well painted. It pays to keep a little oil on hand, to oil fork handles, neck yokes, whifiietrees and any of the h small tools on the farm that are more n or less exposed." s k IIow to Kill Cnbbngc Wornm. j] The ravages of the caterpillars of c the cabbage butterfly caused a good deal of trouble last summer at the ? State agricultural experiment sta- j] tion, Geneva, X. Y., particularly those fj of the second or August brood. In order to test the efiicacy of various re- j, puted remedies for the cabbage worm, v the director applied them to special collections of worms, and noted the v effects. One specimen confined for j| three hours in a bottle partly tilled g with black pepper crawled away discolored by the powder, but apparently c unharmed. The second, repeatedly im-. ^ mersed in a solution of saltpeter, and a third in one of boracic acid, exhib- Q ited little indications of inconven- j lCHUC. JJlDUljUllUC UJL VUl&JUli jllW ^ duced instant death when applied to ^ the worm, though its fumes wore not fl effectual. The fumes of benzine as ^ well as the liquid caused almost in- jj stant death, but when applied to the fcabbages small whitish excresences j appeared on the leaves. Hot "water t applied to the cabbage destroyed a ^ portion of the wormi, causing also the leaves to turn yellow. One ounce of saltpeter and two pounds common 11 salt dissolved in three gallons of water s formed an application which was partly ^ efficient. The most satisfactory ^ remedy tested, however, consisted of a : mixture of half pound each of hard !; soap and kerosene oil in three gallons j of water. This was applied August G; an examination the following day I1 showed many, if not all, the worms de- ^ stroyed. The growing cabbage presents such a mass of leaves in which the cater- ( pillars may be concealed that it is ^ hardly possible to roach all the worms at one application. It is of importance, therefore, to repeat the use of any ! remedy at frequent intervals.?Scantitle American. ( s Fnrm rui<l Cinrilcn Not oh. " Paint and repair all tools and farm 1 implements. ' j" Corn burnt on the cob is greedily \ eaten by fowls and is good for them. s With water-tight floors and an p abundance of bedding all the liquid t manure in stables can be saved. j It is easier to keep flesh on animals t now than to put it on later. Do not c spare feed, but do not waste any. :i Perfect cleanliness in the stables will aid greatly in the manufacture of good butter; in fact, it is impossible to make line butter from filthily kept s cows. r The main causes of roup in fowls '? are due to bad management, divided * thus: 1. Had breeding; 2. iJad sani- J' tary conditions; 3. Hereditary trans- (mission; 4. Atmospheric vicissitudes; 5. Infection or contagion. s William Pomeroy writes to the ( Poult rn Monthly: 1 cured a valuable h rose-comb brown Leghorn eliick, four 1 weeks old, that was crop-bound, siin- ' ply liy pinching the erop a little and < gave a half tiaspoonful of castor oil. 1 Took it from the hen, put it in a small box one day and night; in the morn- 1 ing it was all right. 1 A correspondent in Fruit lieconler 1 in;*kes the statement that one of the * neighbors planted some cabbage plants 1 among his corn where the corn missed, andthebutterlliesdidnotlindthem. lit; has therefore come to the conclusion i that if the cabbage patch were in the ' middle of the eorn-lield the butterflies t would not lind them, as they ily low 1 and like plain sailing. f A dusting shed should In; in every ' poultry yard. It may be a few feet * square, according to the number of ' birds, with no sides, but a good water-'! proof roof. A heap of dry ashes should lie put under this, and it will soon be : seen how much the fowls appreciate it. No fowl will thrive if covered with insects, and the dust bath alone will keep ' them away. Dry ashes should he used; J | wet material is no good. * As a rule, it may be stated that!, moisture and lilth are the prevailing causes of foot-rot in sheep. All de- ( caved and detached horn should be cut away, without wounding the vital , parts or drawing blood. Applications of tincture of iron may then be made once daily. The sheep should be kept on a dry floor and supplied with clean, dry straw bedding. Until a cure is established, the animals should be kept from damp or wet pastures or grounds. Before an animal can lay on fat, the claim made by the body to be kept warm must be met. .In proportion to i the degree or warmt$ afforded to the a surplus of the food given which can go to increase the fat deposit. An eminent authority, I)r. Playfair, said: "The food is fuel, the excrements are the ashes, and the gases expired from the mouth are of the same composition us those which tly up the chimney of a furnace." The surest way to ascertain the age cif sheep is by their front teeth. They lire eight in number and appear the lirst year all of one size. The next vear the two middle teeth fall out and in their stead grow two large ones, f he third year a smaller tooth appears >n each side of the two larger ones. During the next (or fourth) year there ire six large teeth. In the lifth year ill of the front teeth are large. After hat the only way to determine the age ?f sheep is by the worn appearance of lie teeth. Cuttings from geraniums can be ;aken at any time. The best plan is to I lit t lie branches about three-quarters >1T during the latter part of the sumuer, bend iheni down, and they will ;oon callous and form roots, when they an be taken off and potied. Begoiias can also be propogated at any eason of the year when the plant has 'oung and suitable branches. The tex varieties can be propogated from he leaves. At ?anv time when they ire fully developed a small section of he leaf alone is necessary to produce a ilant; cut in such a manner that the unction of two ribs forms the base of lie cutting. One of the largest silos in Europe 3 said to he in France, on the property r M. v icompie Airuur ue wieseues, 11 the department of the Oise. In this ? deposited the produce of 170 acres. ?he silo is described as an oblong shed, oofed with tiles seventy-two yards in ength, six and a half yards and four nd a half yards high, forming an admirable Dutch barn, under which a ;reat portion of the cereal produce of he farm is stored at time of harvest. ?he lloor, instead of being level with lie ground, is sunk about twelve feet nd is paved and drained. In this ;reat pit or reservoir is stored the enilage. Prom this simple description ur American farmers may receive a lint or two. A farmer who has used a wagon nth broad tires on wheels long enough o ascertain their relative value as omparal with the narrow tires, rrites in the Farmers Review: "A our-inch tire will carry two tons over oft ground with greater ease to the pain than a two-and-a-half-inch tire rill carry one ton. The wheels are ot so much strained by stones and ough tracks on the road, and t he road s not cut up, but, on the contrary, is acked down and keeps smooth. The revalent idea that the draft is inreased by widening the tire is altoether baseless; on the contrary, a ride tire reduces the draft. The exr;i cost of the tire is repaid many iines over every year in the extra rork that can be done by a team." ltCCi|>L'.H. IIeumit Cakes.?A cupful and a alf of sugar, ii half cupful of butter, ve tablespoonfuls of sweet milk, atea|ioonftd of soda, a teaspoonful of all inds (if spices, a cupful of currants, our to roll out, cut and bake like uokies. Kick Fkitteus.?I5:?il some rice ntil it is soft, then roll it in your hands i cakes, dip them in beaten eggs and lien in Indian meal; see that they are overed with the meal. Then fry them 1 a little very hot lard. I f to be served k ith meat lay them around the edge of lie platter; if for dessert, make a sauce nth butter, sugar and Hour, and tlavor t with a very little grated, nutmeg, erve warm. 13reaj> Sauce.?Dry and roll cue up of fttale breadcrumbs; then sift hem. Boil the fine crumbs, which wi !1 neasure about one-third of a cup, with ne pint of milk and one tablespoonulof chopped onion for fifteen minites. Add one tablespoonful of buter, one-half a teaspoonful of salt and ne-half a saltspoonful of pepper. Fry he coarse crumbs in a tablespoonful of ict browned butter, stirring with a ork until thev absorb all moisture. 'lit the white sauce in the platter with he grouse or other birds and sprinkle he brown crumbs over all. Goosi: An old goose is as learly good lor nothing as it is posible for anything which was once alnable and is not now absolutely poilod to be. The best use to put it o is to make it into a pie in the followng manner: Put on the ancient early n the morning, in cold water enough o cover it, unsalted, having out it to lieoes at every joint. Warm it up rradually and let it stew, not boil lard, for four or live hours. Should he water need replenishing let it be [one from the boiling kettle. Parboil , beef's tongue (smoked), cut into lices nearly half an inch thick; also lice six hard boiled eirirs. Line a leep pudding dish with a good paste; :iv in the pieces of goose, giblets hopped, sliced tongue and eggs in conecutive layers; season with pepper, alt and hits of butter, and proceed in his order until the dish is full. If the ;oose is large, cut the meat from the tones after stewing, and leave out the utter entirely. Intersperse with trips of pasto and fill up with the ;ravy in which the goose was stewed, hieken with Hour. Cover with a thick taste, and when it is done brush over he top with beaten white of egg. In old weather this pie will keep a week, nd is very good.?Marion Ilarland. TlnUMPltnlil Hints. An excellent shampoo is made of alts of tartar, white eastile soap, bay inn and lukewarm water. The salts vill remove all dandruff, the soap will often the hair and elean it thoroughly, ind the bay rum will prevent taking old. To wash oil-cloth take a pail of clean, .oft lukewarm water, a nice soft piece if ilannel, and wash your oil-cloths ; vipe them very dry so that no drop of vatcr is left to soak in and rot the fairic, and you will have little cause to oinplain that they wear out fast, provided you select one of good make. Vftcr washing and drying, it a cloth is ivrung out of a dish of skim-milk and ,vater and the oil-cloth is rubbed over ivith this and then again well dried, lie freshness and luster of the cloth tvill well repay the extra labor. Dust will accumulate in closets, will ?ift in through and under the doors, ifter one has done all she knows how ! o prevent it. If a woman can afford o have a regular chest of drawers of lie exact length of her dress skirts she should be counted as one of the nippy; if not, she can shield her black iilk and velvet dresses in this way: :ake two breadths of wide cambric, sew them together, hem all around Doth ends and run in-strings to draw :hein together, or pieces of elastic cord, [n this slip the dress skirt. Ilave two loops on the hand of the skirt and let them come through the top of the bag to hang it by. The object in having lioth ends open is so that the dress may be slipped out at either end and iilso may lie arranged so that it will not wrinkle. There should be a loop on the bag also by which it may lie left twinging in the closet after the skirt is taken out.?New York Pont. A carpet manufacturing firm of Glasgow, .Scotland, are making a carpet for the White House at Washington. Some time since they made one for the king of Siam, measuring 100 feet by 34, its center being a threeheaded white elephant. One which represented a : whole menagerie was FACTS AND COMMENTS Those who think of our Alaska as a small field covered with snowdrifts will be surprised to hear that it lias one river, the Yukon, navigable for 1,500 miles, and so wide along its lower course that one bank cannot be seen from the other. The distance across its five mouths and intervening deltas is seventy miles. The Jin-riki-sha is the street-car of the Japanese cities and was invented by the Hev. Mr. Goble, a Baptist missionary, who went from this country to Christianize the Japs. So great has been the- favor which his invention has found that there arc now in Tokio fifty thousand of these vehicles, each giving occupation to one man. The income from each is about a dollar and a half a day. The growing influence of Mormonism outside Utah, as well as in that Territory, was freshly illustrated in the Idaho legislature a short time ago. A resolution was introduced providing that every member should be required to take oath that he was not a bigamist or polygamist, and has no sympathy with the Mormon concubinage system; but the Mormons and their sympathizers proved numerous enough to defeat it. It appears from the German imperial i 1 i n.-t "M_r T>: OllUgL'L lllill 1T1UUU JJlSUliVlUK, U3 cellor of tho empire, receives an annual salary of $14,000, with the free use of his official residence and $0,000 a year for maintaining it. The ambassadors in St. Petersburg and London receive $37,000 a year each; those in Paris, Vienna1 and Constantinople $30,000 each, and the ambassador in Ilon.e $25,000; and every ambassador has a free house. The largest salary paid to any state functionary is $45,000, which the governor of Alsace-Lorraine receives. Antananarivo, the capital of Mada gascar, which France wants to get pos session of, is a beautiful city, inhabited by 80,000 people, and ornamented with massive public buildings, says an Englishman who lived there many years and recently told a London audience about it. The prime minister, who is the queen's husband, is a man of marked intelligence and culture. He understands the capacity and the needs of the people thoroughly, has abolished idol worship and other superstitious practices of the Malagassy race, and stopped the importation of slaves from Africa. The estimated cotton crop in the cotton-growing States and Indian Territory for the year 1882 is as follows: Bales. North Carolina 431,000 South Carolina 01:5,000 Georgia 845,000 Florida f>!>,000 Alabama 705,000 Mississippi i)78,000 Louisiana 47f>,000 Texas 1,311,000 i i l?4f? A/V\ /Vl'KHUMltt w.ivj Tennessee :5Of>,OO0 Virginia, Missouri and Indian Territory r4,000 C,4^8,000 As compared with the crop of 1S8?Ih31 there is a falling off of 118,000 bales. Manuel Blasos, commonly called "Old Mazes," is a New Mexican gambler, with a portable hell on wheels. This is a car; something H?'e those used by traveling photogropliers, but is as bright and gay ns a circus band wagon, and is drawn by si* handsome horses. The interior contains a faro table, a roulette wheel, and other fixtures for gaining. Manuel has several assistants, and goes from place to place according to the outlook for profitable business. Thus he is sure to appear at every large, fair within 200 miles of the Mexican border on either side. A new and prosperous mining camp oilers inducements, too, and lately he established himself close to a Texas campmeeting. He has the reputation of running square games, and his party (min ?i? well nrmi'il Hint thev defv robbers. Joaquin. Miller, the poet of the Sierras, has become a prosy worker in New York city. He writes cleverly as ever, in and out of rhyme, but walks Broadway with hair and collar so commonplace that he passes simply for one man in a crowd. Miller married into the hotel-keeping family of Leland two years ago, after getting a divorce from his Pacific coast wife. He had accumulated a moderate fortune from his books, so that by writing about as much as he felt inclined to his income was .sufficient for fairly luxurious living; but he boarded at one and another of the Leland hotels, and alwavs more or less anioncr stock gamblers. lie caught the fever and carried the money from the bank to "Wall street, where, of course, he lost it. So the poet, with a wife and baby to be housed and fed, has no time for posing or picturesque eccentricities, but works hard and manfully at such compositions as will sell best. Rats and Cats and Puppies for Pies. In Canton, writes ;i traveling minister, we visited a restaurant where cats, rats and" dogs were served for food. Dog steak, fried rat or cat stew were to be had at any hour. It has been often denied, and many affirm that it is only one of the old Peter Parley's stories, that the Chinese eat these things. But it is true. "We saw a whole puppy stewing in a large kettle. We saw a table full of men satisfying 4-K. S? ti'ifK thxrr tvioof on?l fhftr tin 11 JIUIIgUA ? ill* UV^ unit Vitv. I ate with :i hearty relish. We saw cats and pups in cages for sale, and rats hung up waiting for purehiusers. The dishes looked savory, and the price of a meal was "dog-cheap," but we did not indulge in any "bow-wow" soup, or feline steak, or rodent pot-pie, We weren't hungry just then. The Celestials will tell you "rat number f?ne good eatee," and show you rats skinned, rats salted, rats dried, rats hung up by the tails, and rats strung on strings. If you doubt the genuineness of the article the proprietor will*sliow you the meat wicn the nair and tail attached for identification. Cat meat is said to be a line tonic, and rat. is good for bald-headed men. Puppies and kittens arc generally preferred; old dogs and torn cats are apt to be rather tough, lllack cats are supposed to lm more nutritious than white ones, hence the following advertisement seen in the shop window : " Black cats served hot at all hours, also snakes, rats and dogs." A recent case of suspended animating closely resembling death, aroused much interest in Washington. A Mrs. Ueagan was on her way to atrnd early mass at St. Aloysius' church when she suddenly became too faint to proceed. She turned hack and just succeeded in reaching her home, where she fell insensible on the lloor. Her family thought that she was dead and so did ;i priest who was instantly summoned, but the doctor supposed it to be a case of suspended animation and sent out i\... ?i?j?nr.it!v/.o 'Pill, lirifxf-. u'nnt tn the church where, after mass, lie spoke of the woman's sudden death and offered prayers for the rejio.se of her soul. Meantime she had revived and described her sensations. She said that she was conscious of voices at her bedside and knew that the priest had pronounced her dead. In an agony of apprehension she strove to move or speak but her muscles would not obey her will. "When the restoratives had been forced down her throat she made what seemed to her a gigantic effort, SELECT SIFTINGS. In olden times lord inavors were a. ~11 % a *11 _ r? not Hiiuweii 10 go more tnan nve miles from London. The albatross?the great sea-bird of the Southern ocean and North Pacific ?seldom, if ever, (lops his wings in flying. In the South Kensington museum at London is a small watch about 100 years old, representing an apple, the golden case ornamented with grains of pearl. An old law in Holland condemned criminals to be wholly deprived of salt as the severest punishment in that moist' country. The effect was that they were a prey "to internal parasites. It is stated that a short time ago while getting out stone in his quarry a - ? Tr^i r i _ mm; ftuimi ui JMIK.UIUO, nui., ;i man split a massive slab anil found imbedded in the solid rock a lizard of a light color, alive and active. An enormous crab has lately come into the possession of the British museum. Its habitat is Japan. It measures ten feet between the tips of the claws, but has a comparatively small body of a triangular shape. The claws, including the pinchers, are six feet in length. T' ere is a colored girl in Holmes county, Miss., who is half white and half black. Her nose, ears, eyes and parts of the chin are white and the rest of her face black. Iler hands are small and shapely, like those of a white woman. The girl is twelve years old, and it is said the white is spreading. Her mother, a pure negro, has four other children, all of whom are black. Ilaroitn al Raschid, the principal hero of "The Arabian Nights Entertainments," sent to Charlemagne, in the eighth century, a water-dock, in the dial of which a door opened at each hour, and when at noon the twelve doors were thrown open, as many knights on horseback issued out, paraded round the dial, and then, returning, shut themselves in again. Among some of the tribes in Africa, if two babies come to a family at the same time they think it a dreadful thing. Nobody except tho family can go into the hut where they were born, nor even use any of the things in it. The twins cannot play with other children and the mother cannot talk to any one outside of the family. This-is kept up for six years. If the babies live to be six years old, the restrictions are removed and they are treated .'ike other children. There is a curious clock in Japan. This clock, in a frame three feet high and five feet long, represented a noon landscape of great loveliness. In the foreground were plum and cherry trees in full bloom, in the rear a hill gradual in descent, from which flowed a cascade admirably imitated in crystal. From this plant a thread-like stream glided along, encircling in its windings rocks and tiny islands, but presently losing itself in a far-ofE stretch of woodland. In the sky turned a golden sun, indicating as it passed the striking hours, wluch were all marked upon the frame below, where a slowly-creeping tortoise served as a hand. A bird of exquisite plumage, resting by its wings, proclaimed the expiration of each houij, Wh on flip cnnir a mniicp enr.'imr " "V" """fe .. .,t g, from a grotto near by, and, running over the hill, hastily disappeared. Farm Implements. At a late meeting of the Massachusetts board of agriculture, Mr. James S. Grinnell contributed a paper on the progress of agricultural machinery from the days when the plow was a crooked stick to the present, when man has partly learned how to change implements of war to those which contribute to the welfare and happiness of the race. For long ages the cultivation of the soil was the rude work oi servants and slaves. j>ui many men of skill in mechanics were among the lirst settlers of America, and although compelled at the outset to look alone to the soil for subsistence, they soon began to make for themselves the useful articles of clothing and furniture needed in their plain homes, and to build ships for bringing comforts and luxuries from the old country and carrying agricultural products with which to pay for the imported goods. Among the earliest patents was one for making scythes by welding a back of iron to the cutting edge of steel, a torm which is practically unchanged. The Ames shovel was also an early invention which has retained its form and general character. The plow began to lie improved early in the present century. Jethro "Wood in 1819 invented an iron plow in parts which drove all the older patterns out of use, but Thomas Jefferson was the maker of the first plow that was ever constructed on true mechanical principles, a combination of two wedges acting in different directions. The next step may be the introduction of steam for tillage and the invention of implements for lifting and pulverizing the soil ready l'or the seed at one operation. The disk harrows and smoothing harrows are a great blessing to our present farmers, and many thousands are made anil sold every year. The reaper and mower was invented in 1828, but was slow in coming into use till improved by Ilussev and McCormick. There were 170,000 made last year. The twine-binding reaper is the most perfect agricultural implement yet given to the world. The Americans excel the English in the construction of agricultural tools; ours are lighter, cheaper and more effective. The cotton gin has worked a revolution in the culture and manufacture of the Southern staple, changing the amount of day's work for a man from a few pounds to a thousand pounds. The improvement in dairy implements has recently been crreat. and is work ing much benefit to dairymen. Corn huskers are now so improved that 45,000 were made last year. Another valuable invention is the manure spreader. No other nation puts drivers' seats on farm implements; we put them on almost everything. The use of modern agricultural machinery has given us the opportunity to accomplish that which has put us a nation in the front ranks of civilization. How to Make Good Coffee. Jokes never die, they are simply ' translated. We frequently find the witticisms of (ireere and Home togged out in American slang. For the good story now going the rounds about M. (irevv we can lind a counterpart on this continent. One day the French nrcsidcnt, who is an epicure in coffee,! was out hunting and entered a roadside wine-house. "Have you any chickory?" he asked. " Yes, sir." " IJring ine some." The man of the house returned with a small can of chickory. Ms that all you have?" 4 "We have a little more." " Bring me the rest." Having thus secured all that was in 1 the house, the president said: " Very well, now go and make me a cup of coffee." j Its American counterpart relates1 that a careful housewife approached a dealer in fowl, and telling him she kept a hoarding-house, asked him to pick out all the tough chickens. The man having done so, tin; careful caterer bought the balance!--Toronto Mail The tde records of the government surveyors of British India, covering a period of'.twenty-three years, indicate Bismarck. "When, during the Austrian war, the German generals desired to push on and invade Hungary, Bismarck strenuously opposed the project; but his are guments were in vain. Chagrined at his failure to convince them, he suddenly left the room, went into the next, threw himself up m the bed, and wept and groaned aloud. "After a while," he says, "there was silence in the other room, and then the plan was abandoned." Ilis tears had conquered where his arguments had failed. Ilis mode of life is peculiar. Being often sleepless, his usual hour of rising is 10 in the morning. His breakfast is simple, consisting generally of a cup of tea, two eggs and a piece of bread. At dinner lie pjif. nnd drinks like a true Pomeranian, copiously and freely. Ilis princely appetite, indeed, is described lis being truly voracious. Ilis table groans with a sup rabundance of rich and indigestible food, and dizzy concoctions of champagne and porter, sherry and tea. " Tho German people," said he on one occasion, alluding to the many hampers of his known favorite meats, fish and fruits sent him from .ill quarters, " are resolved to have a fat chancellor." Sometimes, like lesser folk, Bismarck has fits of the blues and of brooding; which can scarcely be wondered at when we consider his self-indulgence at the table. On these occasions he distresses those around him by the most forlorn reflections. Once he declared that he had made nobody happy by his public acts?neither himself, nor his family, nor his country "I have had," he went on, gloomily, "little or no pleasure out of all I have done?on the contrary, much annoy unce, care and trouble." In brighter moods, he takes all this back, and revels, with almost boyish exultation, in the splendor of his state strokes, and the new face he has put upon the world's events. "Where is my dog ?" was Bismarck's first exclamation when, on his last visit to Vienna, he alighted from the railway train. Never did a man cherish a fonder affection for the brute creation than this king-maker and worldmover. He watched by the side of his dying Sultan as he might have done over a favorite child, and begged to be left alone with him in the final hour. "When the faithful old friend gasped his hist breath, Bismarck, with tears in his eyes, turned to his son and said: "Our German forefathers had a kind belief that, after death, they would ?. !_ I- knntlnn lUCCb ill WIG uciiratirtl uuumug grounds, all the good dogs that had been their faithful companions in life. I wish I could believe that I" For children Bismarck has an ardent fondness, and his bright little grandchildren are the very joy of his old age. On every occasion be seems to take delight in Iramoring and pleasing the young. Curiously commingled in his largenature are sentiment and satire, kindliness and humor. There can be no doubt of Bismarck's sturdy personal coun?ge. One striking incident in his career has proved that | a- ..ii j.: r\ -i i.. IOCG 1.? to mi uuitr. uuy in iouu, ao iic was returning from the palace through the Unter den Linden, he was shot1 from behind by an assassin. He turned short, seized the miscreant, and, though feeling himself wounded, held the man with iron grasp until some soldiers came up. He then walked rapidly home, sat down with his family and ate a hearty dinner. After the meal was over he walked up to his wife and said: " You see I am quite well," adding," you must not be anxious, my child. * Somebody has iired at me; but it is nothing, as you seo." It was the first intimation she had of the attempted tragedy.?Brooklyn Earjle. Antiquity of the Umbrella. Long before the llomana the Etrurians employed the sunshade, and the people of the Eternal City were not slow, when once the individval umbrella had been introduced to shelter the spectator at the circus on days when it was too windy to permit of the use of the velarium, in making it serve them in their walks at the baths. The two slaves who carried the fan and the parasol were de rigueur in the train attendant upon the noble Roman matron whene'er she took her walk abroad upon the Appian Way. The Roman's umbrella for protection iuminsf. rain seems to have been a simple piece of leather. Pliny gives an elaborate account of the materials employed in the manufacture of parasols, beginning with palm-leaves and osiers and going on to silks and stuffs and gold and silver, with ornaments of ivory and precious stones. We even read of umbrellas of women's hair, or at least of an umbrellacoiffure which would compare favorably with the most elaborate triumphs of hairdressing in Africa at this time or in France or England during the last century. Juvenal records the gift to a friend of an umbrella and a quantity of yellow umber?more by token, profound commentators bid the student rellect that the adjective "green" does not refer to the umbrella, but to the spring time. In more modern days the umbrella was adopted in nn o nf ulo^'ofo/l rflTlt -llillj' iVSUll IH.I.LMU1 t v/t lit. > itui,u > ? and by the church in its festivals. The Doge of Venice had his famous umbrella so long ago as 1176. a wonderful structure of golden brocade, sur- i mounted from the close of the thirteenth century by a golden statuette of the Annunciation, and in the Basilican churches at Home an umbrella of state was suspended from the roof and other limlinill-iawnro r??rr!o<? nvpr tJ ft llPJlds of the titular cardinals. "While there have been attempts made by dramatists and historians to show that under Henry II. and Henry III. the fair ladies who followed the chase shielded their faces from the too rude kisses of the sun with sunshades fringed with gold and enriched with pearls, M. Uzanne rejects these stories as impossible, on the ground that though the parasol is mentioned in the "Description de l'lsle des Hermaphrodites," it was very rarely used and then had to be carried by a strong servant, so great was its weight. The lady's parasol, hp. thinks, was carried into France from Italy, like the fun, and he quotes from one of the " Dialogues" of Henri Kstienne, printed in 1578, to show that at so late a time as the last quarter of the sixteenth century the parasol was but little known among the French. In the Italian "mysteries " of the two preceding centuries, by the way, there seems to be little doubt that in the scene o? the Deluge" the "Creator" came on the stage with his umbrella up. Even late in the seventeenth century, w?i are told, the parasol was but little used | save bv a few ladies at court, while men let their finery be rained upon un{complainingly, or at least without having recourse to the shelter of the parapluie. M'l.n* So f lt uuv ia vuiii; i Printer?A place to hold typo. Express Agent?Two dozen of beer. Lawyer?Every suit that I have. Doctor?That patient of mine. J 'readier? K very sinner 1 see. (Irammarian?The relation of nouns. Merchant?The place to show goods. Librarian?Some shelves for books. Architect?The-face of a house. Undertaker?The place for your corpse. And a hard case is the man who takes a paper live or six years and then orj ders it discontinued without paying | for it. This exhausts our knowledge on cnseology, or the science of cases.? Page Courier. Gladstone has &}?i|ti^?lary ; the k * Manitoba. Oh, neighbors, neighbors, rouse you! Quick My hearth is empty and forlorn, My heart is empty, faint and sick, For John came dragging home at morn ' Two frozen limbs, and oh! and oh! My boy left buried in the snow! Nay, blame not John. The day was wild ^ With driving snow that drowned hia fac? The hidden sleigh now holds my child, The horse standi frozen in the place. Come, neighbors, quick! Be not so slow My boy lies buried in the snow. The snow is frozen ; follow me! Like ice this gleaming sea of snow, < And far across the frozt i sea The mound where he is lying low. Oh, like to gold his hair; his eyes Were bits of yonder bluest skies. I clad my boy as best I had. The sleigh sped ringing toward the mill My boy! my poor, lost farmer lad! Oh, that I had you with me still! Why, I would give these snowy lands To knit two mittens for his hands. But, neighbors, neighbors, here! Behold [ ' $ This mound of snow, this broken place! A sweet face in a sheen of gold! Two bine eyes laughing in my face! My boy, my boy, safe, sound and well, Breaks like some chicken from his shell! ?Joaquin Miller. llUMOR OF THE DAY. An international air?Tlio wind. Always bent on shooting?A bow., Hatters are the people oftenest ' ^ caught napping. . .> '-jg "Tales for the Marines" are now published sea-rially. Barber?"IIow will you have your $5 hair cut, sir?" Man in chair?"In -M silence."?Boston Transcript. He that is in trade is wise all his .^9 goods to advertise, for that is the rea- 53S son why half the people come and buy. M Xantucket has a girl pilot only seven- ? teen years old.?Boston Advertiser. % And we'll wager that she is familiar with every buoy on the sound.?Brethr -j? inrtdge News. An editor wrote a headline," AHorwiMa Pliin/^ar " fn crf\ f\\rav a railttrav V$ 11U1C UlUUUti , IV VlVf U 4 -.yaccident, but thought it was the print- '<] er's fault that it got over the account , J of a wedding. . '/.."jf As matters are going in this country just now, we think seriously of ob- $ taining pensions for the chairs of oiir ^$1 office, as many of them have lost a leg Jf in the service.?Lowell Citizen, A new club in New York is called " The Growlers." It is supposed to be 1 composed of married men- who have a to wait five minutes when they go J| home for dinner.?Norristown Herald, A*peddler may understand euchre and whist, And for handling the cards have a knack; But, pray, do not think him a gambler be- ffl cause . .v He is found at all times with n pack. ?Statesman. *9 At a restaurant. Diner?"Here, $.*? waiter, I say, confound it, this game is too much so!" Waiter, blandly?' " Beg pardon, sir, but you're mistaken, sir. Jt's the other gentleman's fish at the next table, sir."?Quiz. Inexperienced shootist?"Dear me! ^ I made sure I'd killed at least one of* those birds, yet see, yonder, away they soar." Keeper?" I doan't think they . be sore, zur, for they doan't look as if yew'd wounded of 'em much."?London Fun. ' \ "What idiot has carried oflt. my '.:i pen ?" exclaimed an Austin lawyer, angTily, during the trial of a case in the district court. " Colonel,. you have got it behind your car," remarked one of the lawyers. "Just where I thought it was."?Texas Siftings. v " You say your wife gets mad and raises a row ?" " I ^hould say she did. .. ? She makes enough fuss to run a freight train forty miles an hour." " But il " olm n"io in tho hnlilt. nf crflt JKt u IV JUCW one 11 UO 1U V. Q ting mad, why did you marry her?" " Because if I had held back she would * have got madder than ever." If a man desires to express himself logically, he must not allow himself tc become'flurried. as was the case with ' an Austin man, who was very much annoyed by frequent callers, and who finally exclaimed: "There is no miri- ' ute in the day that I can have a quiet half hour to myself."?Riflings. \ The Iowa Falls Sentinel says: "There is not a single woman or. the platform of female suffrage who has a happy family of husband and children?not one." Well, we should say not. When the editor of the Sentinel can explain ^ how other "single women" have happy families of "husband and children," people will be ready to listen to hia I vlmvc nn n-nninn ??iilTr;>rrf>nxif1 its'ttlPJlS ureless horrors.?Burlington Hawluye. Next to the Arabian, who comes ^ clown to us through the lines of clumsy ' 4 verse, the Arkansaw uan entertains ^ the highest regard for his horse. The other night a gentleman ran in great haste for a doctor, and, gaining audience with the physician, said: "My wife is mighty sick, and my horse, too, is powerful bad off. *IIo\v much do you charge a visit"Two dollars." "Wall, I ain't got but three dollars. Reckon you'd better go and see the horse."?Arkinsaw Traveler. HEALTH HINTS. For sore lips, take a piece of common brown paper, fold three or four double and burn on the boiffoin of a cold flat iron, raising as the steam gathers on the iron. Ilub it on the sore lip. Two applications are enough if well done.?Farming World. A physician who has had large experience in tho care of children, assert^^^ that asses' milk is the best snbstitaM^H for mothers' milk when that can^^^^^H had. Even goats' milk is bette^HJHH cows' milk, but the asses' milkJ^|^^^B UClliciriV list'i ui niicic stomach or intestinal irritatiol^|H|^B Foote's Health Monthly. For burns and scalds the white oHN an egg bound over the wound will b<^^| found soothing. It is contact witfi the air which produces the discomfort experienced from ordinary burns or scalds, and anything that excludes air and prevents inflam- rtfy mation is the correct application. ^ Collodion, when at hand, is an excel- jjg? lent application. Plunging the part burned into flour is also a good plan. Whatever application is made, it should ' - be kept on the wound until the smarting sensation has ceased. A correspondent of the I)e troitFree j$3j Press who is traveling through Japan, says: The more one sees of the coun- p?s try and learns of its history, the more he is impressed with the fact that it belongs to a wonderful people?a people courteous in the extreme, the very beggars saluting one another with the most profound politeness i when they meet; with a language con- ''~ji taining no stronger term than "You M are a beast"; a people industrious, intelligent and possessed of tiie most j<??| vivid imaginations?a nation of artists, whether working in metal, wood, ; ?:il. .v.../iAloi'n /ir IVUrV, MIA, jllllllllUU ... ?M,V..,V , sheli. A people, also, moral and ^v' modest, according to their own stand- 1 ards, but, judged-by Western standards, immoral and licentious in the extreme; and yet withal a kindly people, childlike in their eager curiosity and the ease with which they are amused, .higglers and dancing girls travel from one end of the country to the other. Every city has its theatres to which the people will go early in the morning and remain till late at night. So ,111 any violets are grown at Xice, Jm Italy, to supply the demand for perturnery factories that the air for mila^^M round the city is heavy