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ra ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER.] BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. MAY* 23, 1883. NO. 49. VOLUME XXVII. ^jjf . ? ? ==?=- ? TRY AGAIN. When the equinoctial blast Taars the canvas from the mast, Does the sailor stand aghast To complain ? Nay; rather through the storm Yov can mark his manly formTry again. When the night-clouds overtake The hunter in the brake, Where the wild wolf and snake Have domain, Does he fling him down to weep, Like a sluggard in his sleep, Or with fearless heart and leap, Try .again ? If friends or fate should prove An overmatch for love, And we vainly try to move Their disdain, Oh! who would then lie down, Though frinnrif. or fnto should frown? Who would not, for his own, Try again ? THE NEW .MINISTER. Scragg End suddenly awoke to the knowledge that it was a village, i Hitherto it had clung to the skirts of j > Ponkapawket, and had never thought i of the possibility of a separate exist- j ence. The soil was pe o.- in that part J of the town, and it had been a hard . struggle to wring a living from it; the ! place was unhealthily, too. and "asj pindlin' as a S^-ragg-Enderwas a houst-hold saying in Ponkapawket. j Nobody had seemed to prosper or to j have much ambition. They were not! accused of being "slack" or shiftless ?they were hard-working peoplebut they "never seemed to get ahead." Some people thought there was a depressing influence in the name, and , had made a move to change it; there seemed to be n<> especial propriety in retaining it, now that the Scragg , family, for whom it wr.s named, and ( who were the first setthrs, had all died off, except "Bueny Visty," the ( sea captain's daughter, who was mar- , tiq/I /?nt iif tlm rmmo 1' 11 f- ctill tlip name clung to the place. . Thev ha 1 a school at Scragg End at j j certain seasons or the year, becausei Ponkapawket built them a school- J house, and appropriated to the ir use a ( certain part of the school money, but they did all their shopping in Ponka- j pawket, and relied upon that village , for those servants of society generally ; regarded as indispensable, the doctor, j the lawyer and the minister. Rather strangeiv, it was the want of the lastmentioned cf ti e e servants that awoke Scragg End to a sense of its rights. 1 Old Mis' Crichett, who had been in j v ill health for seve ral months, suddenly ' discovered that she had a spine in litr back, and was not long for this world, 1 and wanted Gospel privileges before ( she died. Miss Angeiia Lawton, who ? was held in high esteem because her father had been the minister of Ponka- 1 pawket, declared that she didn't think \ Mr. Ericscn, the present minister of ' Ponkapawket, who no v and then 1 preached in the Scragg End schoolhouse on a Sunday aftem: on or even- ( ing, was "spiritual," because he wore 1 - ? u: . r. .1,r ft Ullg uu u&a tui^ci, mm suu uiuu t i feel to sit under him" anymore. And j * good old Mrs. Simmons, who walked all j 1 the way to Ponkapawket to church |1 every pleasant Sunday, sa'd she had a!- j ' ways known that "until it was watered !t by the droppings of the sanctuary, j\ Scragg End would not prosper." " i1 And Scragg End suddenly decided that instead of occasional preaching a by the Ponkapawket minister it was .s entitled to " a stated supply." f Adoniram Hewitt, who-e fatiier had < been a deacon, was deputed to make i application to the proper authorities in | s that denomination to which Scragg j End almost universally belonged for a | > minister to supply the Scragg End pul- j > pit, or rather the school desk until a 11 church should be built. s Adoniram Hewitt received an en- 1 couraging answer to his application, t A very earnest and talented young ! preacher, lately graduated from a theo- j f logical seminary, would at once be t sent to Scragg End. 11 Some of the older people demurre 1 a ; < little; they "did't think much of 'pren- .s ^ tice hands:-' but the people generally !(| thought a young minister was much j 1 more interesting. j r Interest and curiosity were at their j s height in Scragg End on the day when n Lysar.der Hewitt, Adoniram's son, j drove over to Ponkapawket station to j j bring back the new minister, in-j numerable guesses had been made: \ among the younger portion of the, li community con.-craing the appearance; e of the new parson. It was generally j c agreed upon by the young ladies that \ he would be slender, with dark eyes, a t melodious voice, and verv white hands. 1 and they e.nbroidered several very j t ~ handsome bookmarks for the Bible j t and hymn book which were purchased j k for the desk?Mr. Ericson had been ' r obliged to bring his own?and an ele- 1 gant satin cushion to rest them on. j \ The minister >vas to board at c Adonirain Hewitts, the Hewitts being ' li well-to-do beyond the majority of' <1 Scragg End people, and being regarde 1 j as possessing book-learning, which ii would make them congenial compan- li ions for a minister, for Adoniram ha I; t in his youthful days been sent to an j; academy where Latin was taught, and , Lysander, his son, had fitted himself I for college, and only been prevented j from working his way through bv t the illness of his father, which' c made it necessary for him to! I remain on the farm. Moreover,11 the Hewitts kept a "hired girl"?aid very unusual luxury at Scragg End; and both Mrs. Hewitt and Roxy, the j: girl, were famous cooks, and ministers I S were but men in the matter of eating, j o however spiritually minded they might d be; indeed, Mrs. liepsy Jackson, who h ^ was greatly given to attending county a conferences, had observed that "the ' a <nieor tliov w ore tlu? miifp thf?V iitp " li ? ? j iBut this was generally regarded as l sacrilegious, and it was remembered n that MissIIepsy was not "a professor," j ' though she had such zeal in the mat- ; 3 ter of county conferences. ; e Adonirain Hewitt's house presented j l a holiday appearance on that summer r aft<rnoon when Lysander drove over 1. to Ponkapawket s'ati( n to brin.; back ! s the minister. The brst room was j \ thrown open, there were flowers11< everywhere. Mrs. Hewitt had on her j s best cap, and the pantry shelves were r lined with good things to eat, in such I s quantities ;is to lead one to the belief ! that Miss Hepsy Jackson's words had 'J had their weight. All ?cragg End I was at its windows and doors. Mrs. i c Hewitt stood on her door-steps, her cup j strings fluttering in the breeze. c "I do hope Lysander hadn't forgot- j ten to get a new box of blacking. Of t course the minister will want liis j 1 boots very shiny," she said to herself, j fc Just at that moment Lysander s drove up?with only a girl beside him. ;1 What could be the reason that the [ minister had not come ? The young ! t lady was a stranger. She had probably ! ;i come to visit somebody at Scragg End, r and as there was nobody to meet her j J at the station, Lysander had brought) her over. But he was helping her to ; a alight at their own gate. She was j walking up the path. Mr3. Hewitt j adjusted her glasses, and satisfied her-; ? self that the face was unfamiliar. \ i She was a grave and dignified young t woman, with a self-possessed manner, s but with a bright flush on her face.1 n Why didn't Lysander come up and in- j t troduce her, instead of attending to the horse? t "I suppose you were expecting me," said the young lady, extending her ; 1 hand in a friendly way. "I am the i new minister?Miss Barton." t As Mrs. Hewitt afterward declared, ] "you could have knocked her down vrith a feather." And her oyerwhelu -1 i tag astonishment was so plainly ! shown that the new minister became very much embarrassed. "Of course you knew?certainly i you oug'it to have been told that?that i I was a woman," she said. " We didn't know. Why, we never thought of such a thing. They didn't say a word about it," exclaimed .Mrs. Hewitt, and in her astonishment and dismay she utterly ignored the outstretched hand. The young lady had a strong and resolute face, but Mrs. Hewitt suddenly became aware that the corners of her mouth were droooping, and j there was a hurt as well as a weary look in her eyes, and all her motherly compassion was aroused. "hut it don't make any difference, child?I mean ma'am. I've no doubt - 11 1. -1 ? 4-1. ~ you can prea?n a> wen ;i? n<iu uitmen. We know what is going on in the world, if we do live a goal ways out of it; only there never <!i 1 happen to be a woman preacher anywhere atttut here, so it took me l>y surprise. We believe in giving women a fair chance, here in Scragg End. I can te'l you." "I was afraid you might have objections,** sai I tii- young lady, a smile chasing the weariness out of hvr face. " Oli, we shall think everything of you, I've no doubt?after a while. You don't know what it is to be without regular preaching as long as we have. Come right in and g.'t rested, and have a (up of tea, f??r I expect you've had a hard journey." Before escorting her guest to her < room Mrs. Hewitt managed t<> slip upsta:rs and slyly abstract Lysander's : new shaving set from the toilet table, I where she had placed it for the con- : venience of the new minister. It is undeniaMe that at th" first receipt of the news a general dismay .< overspread Scragg End. The older 1 people were dispose.! to consider that ;i trick had been played upon them, ? nnd were angry accordingly, some { even going so far as to wish to have ( Miss Barton told that her services ? could be dispensed with. But nobody ; seemed willing to tell her, and there t was a grtai uiun?sic> iu iic<?i nu t preach. There were a few courageous t spirits who openly avowed that they j saw no reason why a woman should s not preach, and were gla l to have one a For a minister. Many complained of g Miss Barton's youth, but acknowh dged ( that they would not have objected on :hat score to a young man of twenty- i >ix or twenty-seven, which was her i ige. " \ There were some who thought she r ivas to;> handsome for a minister, and others who thought that sin? e she was a ?oing to set herself up for everybody a :o look at, it was a pity that she i' ivas not handsomer; some who thought * vomen ought not to preach at all, ami c >thers who thought some women i< night be allowed to, but that Miss i [iarton was not of the right kind. It f vas tacitly agreed that she should be n liven a hearing, but a woman minister t is a stated supply was not what w;is wanted. li But in two Sundays Miss Barton v onquered Scragg End, except a few ^ >f the most prejudiced, who would s lever own themselves conquered, a >he was so simple, so earnest, so sym- ii >athetic. There weie no long words, * 10 far-fetc'ied analogies, such as Mr. :Cr:cson us(d; thero was no rattling of il lie dry bones of theology; she touched s; he chords that vibrated in their every- v lay life. tl " She comes right home to you, that's s' i fact," said Joshua King. "She's v 1 4. oKo, .vol-oc V ^UlipiUUliU) IU", <U1V4 one utunuo ?*.-? eelin' a prayer as ever I heard. I lon't, like to see a woman in the ptil- _ )it, and 1 ain't a gcin' to say I do, but s,( lie's edifyin', and no mistake." "I never went to meetin' before " vhen 1 didn't have terrible hard ' vork to keep from noddin', but some- ^ :ow her talk is kind of plain and senil?lo, and keeps nie awake," said Luke " 'ettingill, who was wont to disturb ^ he congregation by audible breithing. People flocked to Scragg End l'rom *' ar and near to hear the new minis- " er, at first with much the same curi- 11 >sitv that they would have shown to ;ee a white elephant, but soon for the ^ ake of the preaching. Nobody could I1 I uite explain Miss Barton's pjpularity. 11 'erhaps old Mrs. Simmons came as " lear to the truth as anybody when she 1 aid " she wasn't any smarter than n inybody else, but someway she seemed n ust like own folks. And she knew ust how folks felt without being told." " Ponkapawket was scandalized. It *c vas a di^graca to the whole town to J1 lave a woman preacher holding forth ' on' Sinndnv :inrl flr:i\vin<r such rowds? drawing half the congregation vay from the Ponkapawket church, oo! The deacons requested Mr. ? Cricson to preach a sermon from the jt! ext, "Let your women keep silence in \ he churches." Mr. Ericson was jc' mown to hold the woman's rights i P novement in contempt; but he had ? iften twice to hear Miss Barton preach, t: vhen there were no services in his own ^ hurch, and lie had also called upon ier several times, and when the a leucons conferred with him about ? reaching that sermon they found it inpossible to obtain any satisfaction ; ie was very polite, anil he did not say & hat he would not, but " ho smiling 11 nit the question by." One day lie surprised Miss Barton j v y inviting her to an exchange of j Cl I7?r tlio fnllmvin<r Siirwlav but I uiflv.J .v/. v..y, n _ j _ hat was in harvest-time, and she hail I ome to Scragg End in June. Even i 'onkapawket hail become accustomed , o the idea of a woman preaclier, if it! ^ lid not approve of it. !j1. lie had found her sitting on the! tia/.za on a warm afternoon in late j M September. She had a large basketful ^ f stockings beside her, and was laming them diligently. Some were ier own, some were Adoniram Hewitt's nd Lvsander's, for Roxy had gone s' way on a visit, and Mrs. Hewitt's )! lands were more than full. She 1 Doked as housewifely as if she had , S1 lever aimed at any wider sphere. , rhe shadow of a smile flickered about .1 r. Eric-*:on's mouth as he observed her . mployment. Although Miss Barton ~ ooked up only as inucli us politeness equired, she saw the smile, anil it (._ rought a flush to her cheek. Though '' lie looked so strong and resolute, it v vas evident that Miss Harton was :eenly sensitive. He sat down beide h^r, and immediately proffered his equest, p.'rliaps as an antidote to the 3 mile. v it Vahi? I !? A V/ltl |VV/V|;1V/ H vu>u wiivi/nvMi jj rhey don't approve of me," said Mis-s j ;i :arton. "And I shouldn't have the ; [ ton rage." ! a 41 never suspected you of any want v ?f courage," said Mr. Eric-son. t (j " I am a dreadful coward. I don't i hink I fully realized it when I began, j '(f I had been sent anywhere but to ? >cragg End, I don't know what I i , ihould liave done. Here they are I ^ lumble-minded people, without strosg j? irejudices, and 1 do seem to have found ho way t> their hearts. But I am I j" ifraid I should never dare to enter 11 mother pulpit?certainly not yours at | r 'onkapawket." I ^ " You would soon conquer there as , ou have conquered here," sa d Mr. | {] Sricson. "I can't endure their unfriendly! ;aze. I should display all my woman- j shness. I should blush, I should i * rernble, I might faint. I should be a ,tumbling-block to the women who, )j ire following in the same pathway. 1 lon't mean to be that. My work in ! ( ?crapg End suffices me, and I am so hankl'ul for it." " I am sorry you feel so about Ponkapawket, because I have a proposition I n my mind much more audacious j i han the one that I made," said Mr. | i Sricson. c Miss Barton raissd her eyes inquir- t ngly, and dropped them again in- i itantly under the minister's gaze. 1 ( " I thought we might unit:; the churches." Mr. Ericson's voice trembled a little, as if he were afraid. " I don't see how it could be done," said Miss Barton, frigidly. " Of course there is but one way," said Mr. Ericson, quietly. "I dared not ask you to be my wife without suggesting to you the fast that your work need not be given up." The girl rose to her feet. Lvsander's stocking fell from her hand, and was blown away by the wind unheeded. " I don't know what I have done to deserve this?this insult. I thought that at least you respected me, and I thought my calling made me sacred from such?such attacks altogether." "I am sorry that you should think it an insult. 1 can hardly ses how a man could give you a better proof of his respect than to ask you to become his wife." " But I?I am a woman," said Miss Barton, sitting down again, and covering her face with her hands. " The more reason why you should be married," said Mr. Ericson, calmly. " You need a protector." "I am perfectly sufficient for myself. And I shall never care for anybody?anything?but my work." Mr. Ericson arose. " I am sorry to have troubled you," he said, gently. " I love you, and 1 have never known what it was to love a woman before ; that is all my excuse." Miss Barton watched him as he went down the road, with the yellow leaves falling upon him. .She observed, as die had never done before, how finely liis head was set upon his broad shoulders, what a manly grace there was about his strong, well-knit figure. "But he has no business to love me," <he said, drawing her brows into a ;ight frown. Then suddenly she remembered Lysander's stocking, and went down in ;lie grass to look for it. It had blown >ver the fenre into the field. She itretched her arm between the slats ind drew it back. As she did so she aught sight of Lysander. lie was gathering squashes and pumpkins on he little south hill; she saw his figure n silhouette against the sky. He tarted to come toward the house, and lie waited for him?waited until a Hidden thought sent a llame of color >vcr her face. " It can't be?" she said, half aloud, nquiringly. "I will keep that out of ny life." I won't be a failure! I von't be!" And she rushed up to her ooni and locked herself in. She came down as calm and grave ts ever when the tea bell rang, and ! .Iter tea she and Lysander read their 1 laily quantity of Greek, for Lysander vas pursuing his studies witn retewed avidity since lie had a companr>n to help him, and had not yet given tp his long-cherished hope of studying or the ministry, though there seemed 10 prospect of his being able to leave he farm. After that day Miss Barton devoted if rself more zealously than ever to her rork. .she darned no more stockings. Vhen she was n -t writing her sermons, he was visiting the sick and the poor, nd making, or suggesting and induerig others to make, improvements, ;anitary and moral, as well as religious. ' She was as practical and ellicient as f she was not a woman," many people iiid; and old Jeremy Grimes, who had fished to tell her when she came that hey didn't want a woman preacher, iiid: "They couldn't have had such rornen in St. Paul's time, or he never rould have written what he did." But Mrs. Hewitt had a grievance, liss Barton didn't seern to make herelf one of the family as she used to. he was shut up in her own room allost all the time now, and she and .ysander didn't seem to get along ;>gether as they used to. She never nine into the kitciien ana wanteu 10 elp make cake now, or sat with them round the fire in the even ?g while ivsander re:ul aloud. She "didn't "cm to have anything against them, ut she wasn't tree i.nd sociable any lore." Lysander was teaching school this inter and attending to the farm work 1 his leisure time. His habit of studvlg with Miss J Jar ton had gradually ied out. To his mother's persistent lustionings Lysander replied that either of the:n had any time for it ow. Mrs. Hewitt could not make it out. Pa," who prided himself upon being )ng-headed, hinted that he could, but e would not say outright what he i ?>n*l Viic wifo rfifTfir/ltuI lncs I ll'ttgllb, ints with lofty scorn. One afternoon, after school hours, ,ysander went down to the woods hack f the house to superintend the operaons of some men who were cutting inber. Just at dusk Miss Barton, Dining home from a visit to a sick arishioner, encountered four men iirrying on an improvised stretcher .ysander's apparently lifeless body, [e was lying white and rigid, and lere were scarlet spots upon the snow 11 the way that he had come. Down n her knees in the snow fell Miss liarjn, and threw her arms around him. "Oh, my love! my love! have you one so far away that you cannot hear ie say I do love you?"' she cried. " I ras cold and hard because I thought it as my duty, but if you could only ome back?" And then they had to raise Miss larton and carry her into the house, _>r she had fainted. " That's just what I could have told i M r \ 1 1 1 ? ou a goou wane ai^o 11 i nun intu <i iind to," said "Pa," as he rehearsed lie scene to his wife an hour afterard. "She's a terrible sight like a oman if >he is a minister. And .ysander ?well, I calculate he won't umplain of having his foot cut, if it oes lay him up for a while. I can't iy whether she'll let him do tlie reaching, or whether they'll both do , but you'll see them married before limner." " I don't want anybody to think it's ecause Pm a woman," said Miss larton, rather inconse'picntly, when ,vsander led her, blushing and teariil, to his mother's arms. " Hut I idn't seem al>le to help it. And Lyinder says I needn't give up my rork."? ilazar. Eats >otliiner but Vegetables. A vegetarian reports to the British fediral Journal the result of his ear's experience without meat. At rst he iound the vegetables insipid, mi had to use sauces and pickles to get hem down. As soon as he became ccustome 1 to the diet all condiments rere put aside except a little salt. The csire for tobacco and alcohol left him pontaneously. Then a'l his digestive unctions bscam:: regular, and he ouml himself wholly free from head,ches and bilious attacks. After three nonths a troublesome rheumatism left liiu, and at the end of a year he had ;ain?l eight pounds in weight. lie lelieves he can do more mental labor lian before, and that all his senses are nore acute. For breakfast he has >ro\vn bread, apples and coffee; dinner ovists of two vegetables, brown bread mil pie or pudding; for tea he rejoices n bread and jam. with milk and vater, and for supper bread, jam, cold Kidding, and, as a luxury, boiled nions. Eggs, milk, butter and cheese ire used only in very small quantities, rhe dietist. is a doctor, and his statenent is drawing out many similar mes from medical mpn Out of a total population of about >0,000,000 in this country, there were n 1830 a little over 250,000 people nsane, idiotic, blind and deaf and luinb. In every 1,000,000 of popula,ion there were 1,834 victims of nsanity, 1,563 idiots, 076 blind and >75 deaf and dumb. AMONG TIIE WOODCUTTERS IKTEBESTIHQ PHASES OP LIFE 1ST THE LOGGING CAMPS. How the Hnrdy Woodmen Live nnd Work.. The Wny 1" Which Vnrloun Trees arc Cut?A Free and Healthful Life. At the midwinter season the pine-1 ries, stave-timbers and cypress, swaraps of the country are full of I choppers; and there they remain until { the blue-bird and the bud chase them j from the woods. The logging "crews" ; of the great Northwest are picked up in the lake cities and adjacent lumber towns during September and October and shipped in squads to the woods, frequently hundreds of miles away. These crews are made up of "swampers," teamsters, "sawyers" and choppers. The "swamper" is a general utility man, helping the other loggers < in divers ways, but more often in 1 "swamping" or cutting out logg'ig roads. The teamsters do their work usually with oxen, as they are by far the best animals for the woods. They haul with either " bobs " or "go-devils." "Where it is practicable to use "bobs," from live t> e'ght logs are piled up for a load and taken to the "bank." The "go-devil," which is a sled made from the crotch of a tree > irwl rncomlilinrr flin ** u i^lullAnP 99 f)f J! I goose, is used in "swamping" or "gnlching," where it would he difficult to handle "hobs." The "sawyers," either singly or in pairs, follow after the choppers unci cut the felled trees into saw-logs. The chopper generally works by himself, and is paid, sometimes by " stumpage" (number of trees cut), sometimes " by the foot" (amount of timber he fells), but generally at specified wages by the month. A good ax man can always command from to $50 per month, and is "found." The others make from $15 to $25 per month. The men working in the pines are gathered from nearly all civilized countries, with the exception of the Latin races. Excepting the French-Canadians the Latins have an insurmountable aversion to the ax. " Shanty" life in the woods is as original as can well be imagined. The "shanties'' are put up entirely by the ax, of unhewn logs, covered with guttered troughs made from stems of smaller trees. A short distance away stand the stables, similarly constructed. The logger's shanty is long and narrow, with a few square holes cut through the 'ogs for windows and fitted with panes of glass. In the front, on either side, are ranged the j "bunks." two tiers high. Next comes i onfmrf-rnAvn lfc f.WH anil then the kitchen. Sometimes, having relatives in the camp, women do the cooking; but generally the camp is without the gentler sex, men performing all kinds of work. The shanties are warm and comfortable, for it is rarely very cold in the woods, however far north. The trees break the wind and their evergreen heads seem to form a roof to k<ep the natural heat of the earth from iscaping. The men rarely work j with coats on, Indeed, the a< will | not permit of a coat. The feet are the members of the body rejuiiing the J greatest attention. Though boots are ( worn, the preference is for that peculiar j article (found and used exclusively in j f.ie timbers), the " bootpack." It is similar to an Esquimaux boot and is made of untacned skin,sewed together with sinews or hide, and very large. They are loosely tilled with hay, and the foot, covered with from one to; three pairs of woolen stockings, thrust j 4-U IV niMnin/* /.nmrc Hw? I llltu iiiuiu it urii t > tmii^ vvhu-.j v* v# | stockings will be wet with sweat and , are hung up by their owners along the ! roof of the shanty to dry. The "grub" ; is always gocd and substantial, for! men would "jump " a camp where it1 was otherwise. There is plenty of " pickled " meat, beans and potatoes, > generally enough fresh b?ef and pork. ; and often venison and bear. Excellent | bread and butter, with coffee and tea i ad libitum, always garnish the board, j Dried apples and" peaches, with "plum | duff," form theluxuries. The " crew " j of a shanty will number from twenty J to t-ixty. The mail and the outside | world rarely intrude upon them from j the opening of theseasonin November j to its close in April. It is easy to j comprehend, then, that when the j " logger " gets back to civilization in the s[ r'ng with his unspent season's wages in his pocket, he is a hurricane, and " makes fur lly." Life in camp is made up of cheerful monotony. A song, a story and loaling hours smothered in tobacco smoke, comprise ; it. The chopper passes his time in tinkering" with his ax, or contemplating its virtues. When not hurling its head against the pines, he is generally engaged in grinding, whetting, re- i hanging, scraping or polishing it. j There is as much diversity of opinion I amoner them ; s to what should eonsti-1 tute a good ax, and how it should be I hung, as there is among society belli s j relative to hairdressing. One wants his ax heavy and broad-bitted, an- j other, light, long and narrow; some j prefer thick bits, some thin; others re- j quire a soft, easily whetted blale, and j others a hard, lasting one. In helves, j from the extreme crook to the perfectly straight, the whims are as various as j the owners. A good chopper always ] likes to make his own handle, and the | ax that one swings in graceful dexter-j ity another throws away as useless. ; White pine, in fact all pines used! for lumber, are cut from the ground, i leaving usually a stump of about three feet. Other American evergreen tim- j lmf tlio r-vnrf><? :ind red wood. "t? v..v, , . are generally cut at a distance up the trunk high enough to overcome the | bulbous nature of the base. In regiir.l to the temperature in the timbers it is I a curious fact that, while a chopper would hardly ever think of building a lire near his work to keep him warm, he frequently builds one to keep his 1 ax warm. A gold, frost-filled ax-1 head has a positive dislike for entering wood that can only be overcome by coaxing and keeping the frost out of it. The dexterity and precision with which a lirst-class chopper handles nis ax are remarkable. Trees , three feet in diameterare oft<n cut en- i tirely through and still retain their per-! ptndi'-ular position until a breeze or! some slight shock topples them over, i The two gaps on either side meet in a straight line. To the novice there are ' many strange things within the prov-1 ince of an ax. In clearing a piece of farm land it is frequently a stipulation j that the chopper shall "bucket" his stumps to hold a pail of wait r; in other words, leave a concave bowl on their tops to catch rainwater and rot them. Jn the pineries the ax is used for nearly every purpose for wh'ch a cutting tool is required. With it the chopper trims his ' b iotpacks," cuts lacing thongs, "buckets" , horse and cattle feed-bo.ua, pins up' his sheds, shanties and out-houses. constructs his bobs and "go-devils," and even whittles his toothpicks. lie gutters chips ior drinking cups, fixes tobacco for his pipe, throws flying bridges over winter streams, whittles out the checkers for his evening's. amusement, and carves the checker-: heard. In a word, it is a part and parcel of himself, and its song is the music of life to his ear. After leaving the pineries the ax has a long ramble to a new life upon the Pacific slope. In California, on the coast range, it enters the famous redwoods. The"e noble trees, the Goliath3 of the forests, are fast disappearing. But their gigantic stumps still remain to tell of their departed greatness. And enormous stumps they truly are. So much so indeed that the ax has lo climb in the world to overcome them, and the chopper assumes a positipa j which he is not compelled to attentat anywhere else. To surmount enormous swell at the base of the tog and commence ope/ations where the average diameter of the trunk may bo said to begin, lie builds a platform made of stakes with cross-piece* of rails, sometimes six or ten feet high, around his victim, and chops from | that, cutting above the bulbous swell. Or, if an expert, he will simply "bucket" a hole in the trunk, an J driving a stout stake into it, stand perched upon that slender foothold as he dexterously swings his blade. The size of the redwood giants is worldfamous, and it is a legend of the coast that a woodsman having chopped for a week on < ne side of a tree, walked j arcurul it and found another chopper who had been at work for a month on the other side. But it is not until the cypress swamps of the southland are reached that the ax takes the water. In those dark-shadowed and moss-draped lngoons the chopper becomes amphibious, and performs his work while skillfully balanced in one of the most treacherous of all aquatic contrivances, a dug-out. Of the ax in the oak-lands of the Southwest, where it labors for France and Spain, sending them annuallv thousands of dollars' worth of staves, and also of its desultory existence in cordwood chopping, "grubbing," charcoal-stacking, hooppole-cutting and kindred industries little nsed be said, save that it does its share of the work honestly, and has a settled policy that no man shall hold intercourse with it with his coat on. This deference it exacts from all with whom it enters into business relations, whether among the icelocked lakes and rivers of the white pine, the laurel-scented canons of the ('oast Range or the magnolia-haunted lagoons of the mournful, moss-draped cypress. There is no healthier, cleaner and more enjoyable exercise in the world than swinging an ax. The "Why" in Vegetable Cookery. Why should beans never be put into cold water to soak, as is often recommended? Because all the nutritious portion of the bean is extracted by the process. They should be washed in warm water, then in cold, be tied I osely in a cloth, be put into boiling water, with a spoonful of dripping and a little salt in it, and be kept boiling for four hours. They are then excellent if served with gravy, and not with melted butt er. The}* serve as garnish around roast mutton or beef, and are excellent eating served whole or as a puree. To make the latter, when the beans are done thiow them instantly into cold water, when the skins will slip o!T. Jtub the beans through a colander, and mix a lump of butter with them. A little stock, or imiK, or cream is excellent mixed in. Why should plenty of fast boiling water be used in boiling vegetables, potatoes excepted? Because the greater the body of boiling water t'ie heat. If only a little water be used, the whole affair soon cools, and the vegetable* bpcoine tough, so much so that no length of time in boiling the:n will render them otherwise. lirorcoli sprouts in April, if properly cooked by boiling tliein for eight minutes in boiling water, will be tender as marrow; but, if not properly done, hours will not cook them. Why should onions be always cut in round and very thin ring*? L'e-ause the fiber is thus cut across, and in so cutting them, whether for frying or for making sauce, they are rendered very tender when cooked. With turnips and carrots it is just the same ; neither of the three should be split or cut in any other way. Why should parsley never be boiled with toda?only boiling water and salt? Because parsley, having no oil in it, would be spoiled* with soda and all tlavor would be extracted. All parsley should be picked free from the stem, be put into plenty of boiling water with salt and in summer be boiled only one minute, and in winter two minutes, and be strained and chopped on the back of a plate. If only a little water is used in boiling it, the water becomes brown, and the tiurulov fnnrrli nnH ill flavored. 1"" ""V '""P" """ ? , Why should vinegar for pickling with never he boil.'d? Because boiling takes all the strength from it. Whatever vegetables are to be pickled should first be made soft with boiling water strong with salt and then be well drained and the vinegar poured over. Why should two ounces of salt and a bit of washing soda always be put in the water to boil greens in? .Because the salt crisps the gre.'ns and llavors them, and the soda extracts the oil, which is greatly injurious to the J igestion.?Germ a n town Telegraph. Coffee Beans Manufactured to Order. "Give me your opinion of these, young man," said the cast side grocer, us he spread before the reporter a handful of coffee beans. " Tliev aren't very regular in size, are they? Now compare them with thesand tell me which you tlink are the better." The grocer placed a se?ond handful alongside of the others. The two lots were of the same dark brown color, and at a little distance away presented no very marked difference. Closer inspection showed that while the coffee beans first shown were not all of the | same size, the second handful were of extraordinary regularity, the beans being very plump and large. "I know what you are g< ing to tell me, and at first glance any one would say so. Your opinion is that the last lot is the be>t, isn't it? Well, the difference between the two britches is that those which 1.showed you lirstare a fair lot of cofTee beans, while the others aren't coffee at all, and never grew on a coffee bush." " What kind of a bush did they grow on V" " No bush at all. They are a manufactured article. You need not look as if you didn't believe it, for it's a fact ( n which you may safely risk your last dime. They are nothing more or less than imitations, made out of dough, and browned up to resemble the true coffee. They are made in molds and baked afterward. Each one is almost perfect in shape, and all are alike. You won't lind genuine coffee beans to have such regularity." " They look all right, but it strikes me that no one would mistake the beverage made from them for coffee." ' You are wrong again, young man. No ieipectable groc er wouid be foolish tnough to^ive any customer who buys a pound of cnfe.'a pound of the imitation. Xo, indeed. They mix it in . tlie proportion of four or live of coffee I to one of the imitation, rsouooy examines each bean. You hear person? complaining of bad coffee all the time. ' I'm sun.! I can't tell how it is,'says the housekeeper; ' I buy the coffee in the bean and grind it myself. I am sure it is not adulterated.' " You see, the grocer can mix /?*ii/v?rv wiMi irrnund coffer1, but when J r> ? coffee is bought in the bran something's got to be clone. Some brilliant mind got over the difficulty by making coffee beans to order.'?New York Sun. .Many Words In Little Space. A man in Humboldt county has put 161 words into the spa re occupied by a nickel. lie has also put 1,150 words on the face of a postal card, which conta:ns log square inches. lie has written the Lord's Prayer on a space covered by one side of an old-fashioned three-rent piece, and says he can put thirty thousand letters upon one side of t, postal card with a steel prn without the aid of a glass.?Iowa S ata Register. -Six of - the largest grape-sugar manufactories of the United Statej have THE FARM AHD HOUSEHOLD. Feed for Covr?. Dr. Sturtevant, of the agricultural experimental station at Geneva, says of experiments made with feed for j cows: 1. The effect of shorts was very favorable to the richness of the milk and the amount of butter obtained therefrom. 2. The effect of meal was neither favorable to rich milk nor the economy of manufacture of butter therefrom, but was favorable to the quantity of milk yielded. 3. The effect of ensilage was unfavorable to richness of milk, but rather favorable to the obtaining of the butter from the milk. Watering Sliecp. A writer urges more careful study of pure water and of drinks in general, on the economy of animals. The privation of water tells more rapidly on health than abstinence from food. in every Kinu 01 ueverage, me part efficacious in assuaging thirst is the water. The quantity of water required by an animal varies with the air's temperature and humidity. A sheep requires least and a pig mcst water, horses and cattle come between. In the case of sheep, much water thins the blood. They ought never to be deprived of water, nor at the f ame time allowed to fully slake their thirst. The latter observation applies also to horses. The sheep and horses are, of domestic animal*, the most sensitive to impure water. For draught animals and sheep warm drinks are enervating. Corn I'lnntinR. Every farmer must know, says the Farming World, that to produce the heaviest possible crop a certain number of stalks must be upon the ground. It is often observed that the great sin of American agriculture is too thin sowing. Grass is nearly always sowed too thin, and the same is true of small grain. In England they sow four and five, and sometimes six, bushels of oats to the acre; in this country generally not more than a bushel or a bushel and a half. Hence in England they yield three or four times as heavy as in this country; while in this country we never hear of an extraordinary crop where less than three or four bushels to the acre were sown. Now, we venture to affirm that no very large corn crop was ever grown unless it was planted more than usually thick. In the crop of George AV. Williams, of Bourbon county, Kv.t the corn was planted in rows two feet apart, with a stalk every foot in the ro\vs. This crop produced 167 bushels to the acre. But there is another ad vantage of close planting. The corn very soon becomes so dense that the ground is shaded, V?n nP fho rrrncjQ i? "nrp illlll WAO jJlUHVi: v* v.axy v vented and the moisture retained in the soil. By this method of cultivation no grass is ever allowed to absorb the moisture from the earth, or to take up the nutritious gases which ought to be appropriated exclusively to the corn. The Plow Criticised. At the annual meeting of the Xew York State Agricultural society, Mr. James L. Ingalsbe read an interesting paper on the need of a perfect plow. The plow of the present day, he said, is too slow. The horsci ordinarily used are too light, and heavy horses and oxen are slow. A plow-point costs considerable money, and only one-twentieth can be used; the rest is sold tor scrap iron. A good plow should cultivate a width of twelve to twenty inches, carrying the rider and automatically parsing obstacles. Weeds are now turned under?put into a silo for preservation?inste;ul of being left at the surface to decay. Nature puts all fertilizing matter on the surface, and plants all seed just under the surface. "We, with the plow, turn all manures under and cover them with the subsoil. An implement is needed which will line and pulverize the surface without inverting it, leaving all manural matters at the surface where the elements can disintegrate them and prepare thein for plant food. Instiad of turning down the seed of the weeds to be turned up again after several years, perhaps then to germinate and give trouble, the proper way is to let them germinate quickly and the young plants can all be destroyed at once. The best plows nnw offered to the farmers of our State are only polished relics of barbarism. Plenty of improvements have been made in details, but no radical change of principles. With great capacity of inventions and application, men have sadly failed in this direction. Lnw for Fanner*?Cattle in the Blgh<rn)'. Mr. H. A. Haigh, LL. U., of Detroit, gives a resume of the laws on the above subject, in the American Agriculturist, from which we extract the following: It is a general doctrine of law in this country that the land in the highway belongs to the owners of land lying along each side. With a few exceptions, the American farm extends to the middle of the roa-.l, and the public has only the right to pass and repass there in an orderly manner, and the r.'ght to keep the way in repair. Every other use of the highway which does not interfere with this public right, belongs to the farmer ? - ?1 1 TT? owning tne adjacent i<inu. mowns the soil, grass, trees, stones anil gravel, and everything else upon the surface or under it, and may use them all in any way that does not affect the public right of passage; and the law will protect his ownership in them just as much as though they were inside his fence. No other person has any more right to pastuie his stock there than in inclosed lands; nor can he hitch his horse to a tree there without being liable for the trespass, especially if the horse should gnaw the tree or do other damage; he can, in fact, only pass orderly along. As to road fences, the laws do not, with the possible exception of those of New York, impose any obligation and the farmer may, if he chooses, remove j such fences without impairing his I right of action against the owners of ! any domestic animals that enter and 1 do damage by that means. If a person lets his cattle go in the ' highway, he is liable lor the trespass ' they commit by simply being there un- j lawfully; for the ijrass they consume,! for the injury they occasion to the sod, or by barking the trees, and for any other damage they may do. If, while there, they hook, or kick, or bite any person lawfully using the way, he would be liable for the injury. A man once turned his horse into a public place where children were playing, one of whom began switching the horse, which turned and kicked j and killed the child. He was convicted of manslaughter. Notwithstanding the fact that the j fanner owns the land of the road, he j cannot use it himself for any purpose ! which at all interferes with the public rights there. lie cannot put his woo !pile, wagons or pig-pens there ; and if \ he does, and the traveler runs into j them in the night and is injured, lie ! would not only be liable for the private J damages sustained (Lindsley vs. Hush-! nell, 15 Conn. 225), but he may be in-, dieted for obstructing a public way, j IteclpeM. Cream Sauce.?Heat one table- j spoonful of butter in a skillet, add a teaspoonful of flour, and stir until perfectly smooth ; then add gradually one cupful of cold milk, let it boil up I oncT, season to taste with salt sud peeper, and serve. fEytfa Podding.?Grate tU:ce-' r fourths of a pound of bread, tnreo* fourths of a pound of suet, threefourths of a pound of apples, threefourths of a pound of currants, four eggs, and the peel of a lemon grated. Put into shape and boil three hours. Serve with sauce. Potato Puffs.?Take any outside slices of cold meat, chop and season with pepper, salt and cut pickles. Mash potatoes, making them into paste with an egg. lioli out with a dust of Hour. Cut round wit'i a saucer. Put your seasoned meat 0.1 one-half and fold likn a puff. Fry a light brown. Bkown Bread.?Sift together one pint of corn meal, one pint of rye flour, one tablespoonful of brown sugar, one teaspoonful of salt and two of baking powder. Rub into the mix ture one taoiespoonrui oi jaru auu add three-fourths of a pint of milk. Mix into a batter like cake and bake one hour. Protect it with brown paper if it should brown t^u fait at lirst. Household Hints. Ceilings that have been smoked by a kerosene lamp should be washed off with soda water. Hellebore sprinkled on the floor at I night destroys cockroaches; they eat it and are poisoned. A tablespoonful of turpentine boiled with your white clothes will greatly aid the whitening process. Paste for labels is made by soaking glue in strong vinegar,' then heating it to boiling and adding Hour. Good fires should be kept up during house-cleaning time, even though the doors and windows be kept open. A piece of stearine candle, spermaceti or white wax as large as a robin's egg will give a nice gloss. A teaspoon of salt to each pint of starch prevents sticking. When silk has lost its gloss and become limpsy it may be restored by sponging with a solution of half an ounce of gum tragacanth in a pint of hot water. Painted woodwork is washed with soap and water, or a little ammonia and water on white paint. On grai"?'l work cold tea is sometimes used. Very little if any soap should be used on varnished work. In washing woodwork do not use so much water that it runs down and streaks the wood, and wipe thoroughly dry. Before repapering a wall it is best to remove the old paper. This is a troublesome operation. Moisten a portion of the wall at a time to soften the paper and paste and then scrape it olf. When it is desired to paper over a whitewashed surface, first scrape off the loose lime, fill cracks with plaster of paris and apply with a brush a sizing made by adding eight ounces of dissolved glue to a pailful of hot water. Hard-finished walls may be washeJ with soap and water and wiped dry. Grease spots on wall-paper can some- 1 times be removed by applying a thick paste of boiling hot starch spread thickly on the spot, then allowed to dry and rubbed olf with a soft cloth. Other stains may be cut out with a sharp knife and a piece of clean paper matched on. SELECT SIFJHNGS. February ;ind January were added to the calendar bv Numa about 713 15. C. A Kentucky farmer lias a duck which lavs eggs that have shells nearly black. Darwin says that hornets were not invented untill the world was 500,000 years old. Optic nerves were discovered about 1538 by X. Varole, a I3olognese physician and surgeon. Four barrels of water from the Great Salt Lake, after evaporation, will leave a barrel of salt. A French investigator finds that, in proportion to its size, a bee can pull thirty times as much weight as a horse. In Algodones, Xew Mexico, lives a I'ueblo Indian over 100 years old, and he earns his own living by working on a loom 20U years old. The diamond mines of Brazil were first opened in 1727. It is estimated that since that time they have produced at least two tons of diamonds. The sacred black stone of the C;iaba was venerated by the Arabs long before the Christian era. Mohammed defeated its guardians, the tribe of Korish, and abolished its worship. A iJanish tradition makes the moon a cheese, formed of the milk that has run together out of the Milky Way! In the Pyrenees a hailstorm may be averted by frightening a black cloud with the sight of its own face in a mirror held up to it. It is said that the ostriches '.>pon ar-1 riving at the corrals in Anaheim, Cai., i manifested their joy by indulging in the most ludicrous antics. For over half ;m hour they kept up an incessant waltz around the corral, and in other ways exhibited their delight at escaping from their pent-up quarters in the car. Professor Tread well, of Massachusetts, found that a half-grown American robin in confinement ate in one day sixty-eight worms, weighing together one ounce and a half as much as the bird himself, and another had previously starved upon a daily allowance of eight or ten worms, or about twenty per cent, of his own weight. WISE WORDS. Have no friends you dare not bring home. Men fear old age without being sure of reaching it. lie who tries to prove too much proves nothing. Work, play, study, whatever it is, take hold at once and finish it. A man without ambition is like d?ugh without leaven in it to make it rise. There cannot he greater treachery than lirst to raise a confidence and then deceive it. The man whose soul is in his work linds his best reward in the work itself. The joy of achievement is vastly beyond the joy of reward. Man's character is an element of his wealth, and you cannot make him rich in what he has except as you teach him to be rich in what he is. True politeness scorns deception; it lias a kind and honest nearc snown in kind and honest speech and conduct. Hence if thou will be truly polite, lirst, feel kindly; secondly, act kindly. Respect goodness, find it where you may. Honor talent wherever you behold it unassociated with vice; but honor it most when accompanied with exertion, and especially when exerted in the cause of truth and justice It needs wise and patient effort to make the home the most attractive place of all?and it should never be ltss than that. The womanly arts which by the skillful touch lend beauty and grace to the plainest things, and from being homely make them to be home-like, are all needed to this end. Many a husband too prone to stray might be kept by his own fireside by no more art or subtler skill than this. West Point, Miss., with two thousand inhabitants, has recently raised $.r>0,000 for a national bank, $50,000 for a cottonseed oil mill, increased its ad valorem tax list $100,000 in one year, established a cotton exchange, voted $0,000 to a railroad, and is talking of a $60,000 cotton factory. THE BAD BOY ALLBROKEUP BADLY WEECKED BY 1'OOH.VG WITH AN OLD FACBB. Ife llrlTon a Mlnlaler to n Funernl?The Henull ofSnylna "Ye-np" to n Former "Bo? oi' the lioiul," "Well, what's the matter with you. now?" said the grocery man to the bad boy, as he came in to the grocery on crutches, with one arm in a sling one eye blackened, and a strip of courl plaster across one side of his face "Where was the explosion, or hav( you been in a light?'' "Oh, there's not much the matt.1! with me," said the boy, in a voice that sounded all broke up, as he took a big apple oil a basket, and began peeling it with his upper front teet h. " If you think I am a wreck vou oucht to see the minister. They lial to carry him home in installment?, tne way they buy moving machines. I am all right, but they have got to stop him up with oakum and tar before he will ever hold water again." " Good gracious, you have not had a fight with the minister, have you? Well, I have said all the time, and I stick to it, that you would commit a crime yet, and go to State prison. "What was the fuss aboul?" and the grocery man laid the hatchet out of the boy's reach for fear he would get excited and kill him. " Oh, it was no fuss. It was in the way of business. You see the livery man that I was working for promoted me. He let me drive a horse to <haul sawdust for bedding, first, and when he found I was real careful he let me drive an express wagon to haul trunks. Day before yesterday there was a funeral, and our stable furnbhed the outfit. It was only a common eleven-dollar funeral, so they let me go to drive the horse for the minister?you know, the buggy that goes ahead of the hearse. They gave me an old horse that is thirty years old, that has not been off a walk since nine years ago, and they told me to give % Iaaua MAin nrtil uuii a iwac i ciuy auu ug nv/um gw along all right. It's the same old horse that used to pace so fast on the avenue, years ago, but I didn't know it. Well, I wan't to blame. I just let hira walk along as though he was hauling sawdust, and gave him a loose rein. When we got off of the pavement the fellow that drives the hearse, he was in a hurry, 'cause his folks was going to have ducks for dinner, and he wanted to get back, so he kept driving alongside of my buggy, telling me to hurry up. I wouldn't do it, 'cause the livery man told me to walk the horse. Then the minister, he got nervous, and said he didn't know as there was any use of going so slow, because he wanted to get bacli in time to get his lunch and go to a ministers' meeting in the afternoon but I told him we would all get in tht cemetery soon enough if we took i1 cool, and as for me I wasn't ii no sweat. Then one of the driven that was driving the mourners he came up and said he h?d to get back in time to run a wedding down to "the 1 o'clock train, and for me to pull out a little. I have seen enough of disobeying orders, and I told him a funeral in the hand wjis worth two weddings in the hush, and as far as I wai pnnpprnurl flip fnnprni was coinc to be conducted in a decorus manner, if we diin't get back tiil the next day. "Well, the minister said in his ngular Sunday-school way, 'My litt'.e man, let me take hold of the lines,' and like a blame fool I gave them to him. He'slapped the old horse cn the crupper with the lines and then jerked up, and the old horse stuck up his off car, and then the hearse-driver told the minister to pull hard and saw on the bit a little and the old horse would wake up. The hearse-driver used to drive the old pacer on the track, and he knew what he wanted. The minister took off his black kid gloves and j ut his umbrella down between us and pulled his hat down over his head and began to pull and saw on the bit. The old cripple began to move along sort of sideways, like a hog going to war, and the "minister pulled some more, and the hearse driver, who wits right behind, he said so you could hear him clear to Waukesha,4 Yee-up,' and the old horse kept going faster, then the minister thought the procession was getting too quick, and he pulled harder, and yelled who-a,' and that made the old horse worse, and I looked through the little window in the buggy top behind, and the hearse was about two blocks behind, and the driver was laughing, ami the minister he got pal ami said, ' My little man, I guess you better chive,* and I said, 'Not much, Mary Ann; yo:i wouldn't let me run this funeral the way I wanted to. and now you can boss it, if you will lef me get out,' but there was a street car ahead and all of a sudden there was an earthquake, and when 1 come to there were about six hundred people pouring water down my neck, and the hearse was hitched to the fence, and thft hearse driver was asking if my leg was broke, and r. police:u-m fanning the minister with a plug hat that looked as though it had been struck by a pile-driver, and some people wenhauling our buggy into the gutter, and some men were trying to take the old pacer out of the windows of the street car, and then I gues> I fainted away agin. Oh, it was worse than telescoping a train loadtd with cattle." "Well. I swan," said the grocery man as lie put some eggs in a funnel-1 shaped brown papc r for a servant girl, j " What did the minister say when he come to?" "Say! What could he say? He just yelled 'whoa,' and kept sawing with his hands, as though he was driving. I heard that the policeman was going to pull him for fast driving till he found it was an a-cident. They told me. when they carried me home i in a hack, that it was a wc.nder everybody was not killed, and when I got home pa was going to sass me, until the hearse driver told him it was the minister that was to blame. I want I to find out if they got the minister's umbrella back. The last I see of it the; umbrella was running up his trousers j leg, and the point come out by the j 1 small of his back. lint. I am all right,: and shall go to work to-morrow, 'cause j the livery man says I was the only one | in the crowd that had any sense. 11 understand the mini.-ter is going tci take a vacation on account of his liver ' *? r :i I i iinu nervous proamnion. i tvuuiu u i ,1 was him. I never saw a man thatj hail nervous prostration any more than J lie did when we fished him out of the' barbed wire fence, after w e struck the streetcar. Hut that settles the minister j business with me. 1 don't drive witli no more preachers. What I want is a quiet party that wants t > go on a i walk," and the boy got up and hopped j on one foot toward his crutches, j filling his pistol pocket with Jigs as lie hobbled along. The next time I drive a minister! to a fun-nil, he will walk," and tin i boy hobble ! out and hung out a sigrj in front, of the grocery. "Smoked dog-! fish at halibut prices, good enough for1 company." How It Was Made. An old lady in the country had s dandy from the city to dine witii her on a certain occasion. For dessert j there happened to lie an enormou>, apple pie. "La, ma'am !"' said he, "how do yoi | manage to handle such a pie?" " Easy enough," was the reply: "w | make the crust up in a wheelliarro-.v j wheel it under the apple tree, and ther shake the fruit down into it." _?_i? i The American hog is forbidden tc enter (Jermany. That shuts out tht man who trie* to occupy four seats in a railway car.?Kawkeye. LOVE, DRINK AND DEBT ; iC. ; Son of mine ! th? world before yoa , * ? ' -Jfl Spreads a thousand secret snares i Pound the feet of every mortal /J Who through life's long highway fartt? -.Jj| Three especial, lot ine warn you, Are by every traveler mot; : Three to try your heart of virtue?f;' They are love, and drink and debt l Love, my boy, there's no escaping-* 0 j&9 'Tis the common fate of men; 'ffgjmgKteia Father had it; I have had it; ! />?#| But for love you had not been. ' Take your chances, but be cautions| ' lk|?| Know a squab is not a dove ; j . Be the upright man of honor; All deceit doth murder love. A A fawnflH As for drink, avoid it wholly; j*?J Like an adder it will sting,; ; .-,'4 : .ys Crash the earliest temptation; Handle not the dangerous thing. VSj See the wrecks of men aronnd us? , .J Once as fair and pure as you? -c'sB Mark the warning! Shun the pathw . - Si And the hell they're tottering through, N ?32 Yet though love be pure and gentle And from drink you may be free, With a yearning heart I warn you 'Gainst the worst of all the three. Many a demon in his journey Banyan's Christian pilgrim met; They were lambs, e'en old Apollyon, To the awful demon debt. With quaking heart and face abashed The wretched debtor go33; He starts at shadows lest they be . ~<j-3 The shades of men he owes. ran Down silent streets he slyly steals, The face of man to shun, He shivers at the postman's ring, And fears the awfal dun. Beware of debt! Once in you'll be A slave forerermore; If credit tempt you, thunder " No 1" . And show it to the door. sSla Cold water and a crost of bread May be the best you'll get; Accept them like a man, and swear? " I'll never run in debt!" ; HUMOR OF THE DAY. The appropriate coior xor imauia jm this season will be yeller.?Springfield (0.) News. When the man in the clock fumblis in his pocket for the "one dollar and costs," is it a case of fine feeling?? Boston Bulletin. liens may be a little backward on eggs, but they never fail to come to the scratch when flower beds are concerned.?Picayune. "What was your observation, Mr. "'??8 Brown?" "Oh, nothing, madatne. f simply said the butter ranked well." ?Boston Transcript. " Say, Mrs. Bunson," said a little girl to a lady visitor, " do you belong to a . brass band?'' "No, my dear." "I thought you did." " Why did you, my child ?" " " Because, mamma said you >|| was a."ways blowing your own horn, and 1 thought you must belong to the band."?Dmmmer. V'IImI Some manufacturer of fishing tackle has invented a bait with a luminous S arrangement, of phosphorus, or some tiling or mat Kind, i > ngut uie iuu toward the hook. When it gets so a fellow has to hold a lantern so a fish H can see to bite, half the fun of fishing :'#a| will be gone.?Peck. TO LET. A youth went out to serenade The lady whom he loved beat. And passed beneath the mansion's shale Where erst her chamber u?ei to rest ^-3mB He warbled till the morning light Came dancing o'er the hilltops' rim, But no fair maiden blest his sight, vCS And all seemed dark and drear to him. Witn heart aglow and eyes ablaze, He draw much nearer than before, When to his horror and amaze, >*0 He saw "To Let" upDn the door. ?Youth's Companion. '. " Pa, I wish you would buy me a little pony," said Johnny. "I hann't ant nnv money to buv a nonv. my S'. n. You should go to school regularly, my son, study hard and become a smart man, and some of these days, when you grow up, you will have money ; enough of your own to buy ponies with." "Then I suppose, pa, you didn't study much when you were a little boy like me, or else you wo'ild '' have money now to buy ponies with, jgj jjg wouldn't you, pa?"?S'iftings. A "fashion" item says: "Thelozenge shape is the most fashionable for pills, ' whicli should be coated with silver, and Hr>i3S look very inviting." This appears to *'?.$? be a new depirture in fashion intelligence, and next it will be in order to describe whetlief the new shape in JW>2|jS porous plasters is octagon or oblong, and if they are trimmed with gimp braid nr iruinure lace, and we may HBill told that the most fashionable tints in ^ '^3 castor oil are terra-cotta and fawn color, and that liver-pads are cut in the ^|[H form of a heart, with scalloped edges and lined with ciel-blue satin.?Norristown Herald. A Naval Officer's Prantr. The secretary cf the navy lately sent a note to naval oilicers asking them for suggestions as to a change of uniform. This puts some old-timers in mind of -, ? a similar request made by Jefferson Davis, when secretary ol' war under Franklin Pierce. Lieutenant Derby, alias Jolin Phoenix, the lirst great American joker, was so fortunate as to get one. in repiy jib sent a prupuaition for having a two-inch iron ring appended by a stout piece of leather to the seat of each enlisted man's trousers. Long and formal specifications demonstrated the utility ot' this ring, the use of which would inontestably place our army at th'> head of the milltary bodies of the world. Kach oflicer, instead of a sword, was to carry a long white ash pole, with a hook at one end. By hooking this pple into the trousers-ring of the private he could be held in line of battle, or caught when lie tried to run away. Men in the artillery s:*rvic3 could, by means of the ring, be used for draught purposes and in the cavalry could be locked to otlur ling.s in the saddle and kept from falling oif. Lieutenant l.'erby was a flood draughtsman, and he iliustrat d liis propo itimi. Ollicers were pictured i:itfhiny infantry strairtriers and fore ing them into tlie ranks, dragoons as - 4 padlocked to their saddles and artillerymen with <annon-prolongs hitched to thtiir rings and drawing huge pieces up stoop heights. This extraordinary proposition caused considerable fun an o:ig the war department (1 *r!cs. It finally reached Secretary Davis, who regarded it as an insult. At his instance charges a (1 specifications wer drawn up and a court martial was ordered. Tlien Marcy, se; retary of s-tate, heard of the ma'ter and advised Secretary Davis to let it drop. Mr. Davis :a\v the wisdom of the advice and Derby did not have to sufi' r for his joke. Iiis "proposition and specifications for a change of uniform" arc yet among the archives of the war department.?sprinyjield Republican. TH' Country's Quarries. J The compendium of the tenth census, recently is>ueil, contains some figures whi' h will serve to give ;in idea of the magnitude of the quarrying interests oi (lie country, which in 18S0 gave employment to 39,723 men, 8,059 horses and <*">1 mules ; had 339 machines for quarrying, <>,290 machines for hoisting, J ,^US machines for dressing, and used $192,175 wo: t!i of explosives. The capital invest e I ii given at ^25.414,497, and the valin <if the pro luct in the c -nsus year a* :?ltv*">6,05", tln re being 1,525 qua ries in all. Marble and limestone lea I the list with 65,523,965 cubic feet, followed by the sandstone quarries with 24,776,930 cubic feet; crsytalline silicious rooks, with 5,118,998 cubic feet; and slate with 457,267 sqi ares/ j or 4,572,670 cubic feet. A