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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
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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
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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. (
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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
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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