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ABBEVILLE PRESS -AND BMJHSI BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1883. NO. 51. VOLUME XXVl?^||^ "THE WOODS THAT BRING THE SUNSF.T NEAR." The wind from out the West is blowing, The homeward-wandering cows are lowing; ' Dark grow the pine woods, dark and drear? The woods that bring the sunset near. When o'er wide seas the snn declines, Far off its fading glory shines; Far off, sublime, and full of fear? The pine woods bring the sunset near. This house that looks to east, to west, This, dear one, is our home, our rest; Yonder the stormy sea, and here The woods that bring the sunset near. ~-Richard W. Gilder, in the Century. MISS HILDRETii. BY HARRIET PRESCOTT SrOFFORD. " I must have a pea ock, John," said j Miss Hildreth, as she met her man-1 servant on the lawn. " lie would look j so finely on the balustrade, with his : feathers sprea 1 or trailing them over 11 the green sward. I really must have j i one, John." j i "They bean awful nuisance, inarm,*' j i demurred .John. " They'd never stick i to the balustrade. Tliey be as hard to j ] manage as children, an' that's a fac\ " j j ? "They keeps up an awful squalling,j ] miss," j)ut in Jane, the maid, when the ; ] ' matter reached her ears. " They'll be j i worse than Mi<s .N ores' gmnea-hens i and Miss Dunn's parrot, or them I ] children of l'ar.<on Miller's?I never j > did see such neglected plagues as they j I be," she added, irrelevantly. "I h wonder their mother don't rise in her ] < grave, lint the poor man?what doe-1; he know of the care of babies, with : I i his sermons and his prayer-meetings, < \ anil his parochial visits and his poor? ] > lie's oft to this wt dding or that fu- ; nersil, or he's reading the word to the < \ sick and blind. It's a shame there's i \ no women folks, but hired help, to look I after 'em. I se; him myself one day s a-tidying of them up, and pinning oa 1 their clean collars wrong side out and < upside down. ' 1 "I wish him joy of them," said Miss ; Priiflpnpo " T nrpfnr the neaenck." < The first night after the peacock's arrival, however, Miss Prudence never closed her eye , or the bird his mouth, so to speak; but when he pranced across the lawn in the morning light Miss Prue thought she would rather lose her sleep than the sight of so much beauty. Miss Dunn says she'll have to lay in a sto.,k of chloral and bromide, if you're going to keep the peacock."Jane reported; and Mrs. Noyes herself dropped in to suggest that he could be killed and stuffed. " He'll be quite as decorative," said she, * without disturbing the neighbors."' \ Every two or three days a small urchin would appear with the bird in tow, and remark, demurely: "Your peacock strayed over to Dickens', and I've fetched him along home," for which civility sundry pieces of small | change would be disbursed. | "And who are you?" she asked.! l when the same ycungster had per-j ji forme 1 the same h? nevolent service i I some half-do/.en ti.i.ei. | ( "I? Oh, I'm Par.-on Miller's boy." } "His son?" "Why, yes 'urn?I reckon so." < I "I shall have to shut him up," said ; Miss Pr :e. "His traveling expenses s will rain me *' $ By this time the poor bird had lost d most of his fine tal feathers in the a process of being run down by the i Miller brothers and their conteinpo- f raries, and presented a ragged appear- t ance which went to its owner's heart, j So he was shut up in a temporary pen till he should learn better ways; but l Miss Prudence, going to look after him ;i one afternoon, found the two Millers c inside the pen, chasing him about to \ display his plumage while their little t sister stood out?i le and clapped her f hands, and a crowd of other children stood peeping between the slats. j "What are you doing, children?" she cried. "Oh, we've been reading about peacocks, and they need exercise," vouch- . safed the eldest Miller. * j * It seems tome that you need a : stick," said Miss True. " Falhi r don't approve of whipping," J chirruped the youngest; "do you, ?j father?" A And Miss Prue lifted her eyes and 1 met those of the liev. Austin Miller, 1 which wore a startled, perplexed ex- J' I: ession, while the color palpitated across his pale face. j ^ Mv children have annoved you," j ? he said, with the hesitating tone which begged to be gainsaid. ( " TI.ey have only annoyed the pea- s fook," a.iswered Mi<s Prue, dropping her gaze, and flushing rosy red in her j turn. " I came in search of these rogues," j ho went on. "Bridget was sure they . were in some mischief?1 did not expect to find you." ( ' No, of cours.e not," said Miss True, , in a voice studiously matter-of-fact. ; | " 1 have read somewhere." the Rev. 1 Mr. Miller pursued, "that the only \ r re;d happiness which ever arrives to s us springs up quite unexpectedly in J} our path?it is not the result of search, j ( I dropped the thread of my sermon, I j against my will, at a critical point to f pick up these little folks. I have my ; i reward." i " You are very easily satisfied," re- j ^ turned Miss Prue, in the same remote ! ^ voice. She was hardening her heart : j, against the persuasive tones which had i j r once b^en like the music of the spheres ?, to her. " I "No, lam not easily satisfied. I ' have never been satisfied with mys :-lf? with some hasty a tions of my own, I should say. Miss Prudence, you have r never forgiven me'r" he spok* half- j questioningly, as if he would fain be r contradicted. ^ _ "I never thought of it as anything B"^to forgive," she said, and her voice f melted and broke a little in spite of |r herself. " It was so long ago," a little j Jproudly, as if she would not let him suppose that it signifie d " I see now 1 that fate or Providence was kinder to 1 us than I believed. I don't think I 1 was intended for a domestic life," as \ her eyes fell upon the three harum- 1 Bcarum children in their torn frocks and mischief?the children who might i 1 have been her own but for theirmotn- j' er's double-dealing. If Deacon 13rickett could have seen jJ the manuscript of Mr. Miller's sermon 1 as he reflected in his study that even- (J ing, he would have supposed that 'the ' words, " Come again, dear dream," j scrawled on the margin, referred be-; < yond a doubt to the dream of Jacob i when he saw the angels of God as-1 ^ ccnding and descending. j < * * * * * * " Them there Miller boys be enough |! io drive you to glory, an' no mistake," ! declared Jane, a few weeks later. " I i wouldn't be their mother?no, not if i' you'd give 'em to me." I! "They're not mine to give," said j1 Miss Prue. "What have they done now ?" ' "Done? They've gone and broke : i the peahen's eggs, to see the little pea-!. cocks, sure's your alive. They expected i; . to find 'em full-tledged, long tail and j all. Amv's gone home crying." - * - ' 1 on ! ; "And where are me do^si"Mr. Miller, he's going to send 'em : < to bed without their supper, and serve 1 < 'em right. Their mother's shiiked al!' * the bother of 'em, sure enough!" I < v-* "Without their supper?poor' things!" cried Miss Prue. "Why, its! only 3 o'clock of a summer's day. I ( remember when I used to be sent to bed by daylight when I was little and naughty, and it always seemed to me a horrible injustice. Jane, run over to f. - the parsonage, and tell Mr. Miller he j will do me a favor if he will?" " Baste 'em soundly," put in Jane. "Jane! how inhuman! ife will do - : a . ' ***? J ; ... me a favor if ho will let them off thi time." "Now, Miss True, if you'd write 1 yourself?sure's you live?excuse im miss?but I ain t got the face to carr that there message." And it so hsq pened that the Hev. Au-tin .Milk found himself dreaming over a pu fumed note, in his study, while hi sermon on " The Mistakes of Christian " lay forgotten before himdreaming of the lirst note he had evi received from .Miss I'rue, lit teen year or so ago, the words of wlii h starte out from some hidden corner of hi brain where they ha I b. e.i sleepin unknown to him ; dreaming of th dewy evenings in the rose garden o the old parsonage, where lie studie Divinity and she taught the childre: tluir A B C's; of moonlight night on the river together, and sprin, mornings in the woods hunting fo the first wild flower; of Sundays, whe; Ihey sang together in th;; choir; o their stroll home through green, sweet scented lanes. The thousand and on Llear hours they had spent in eac other's company pissed before hi mind's eye like some beaut.ful pane ranjfi. lie wondered if, indeed, h was the hero of those dreams, if h Ilad ever been so happy. The firs parting, the first estrangement, wrunj [lis heart anew, as if they had hap pened only yesterday. "What a foolis! :liing their little quarrel looked lik t > day, *e?n by the light of years am knowledge?such a trifie, but witl such large results! Vet he had beei die lirst to make an overture to wan reconciliation, thank (iod! If she accepted his overture she was to writi md say so. but no word had come to Itiin in* reply. What days and hour )f dark suspense lifted their shadow: jefore him; how the whole world hat eemed ble.ik and unprofitable with )Ut her ! And in a season of w? ak less, when his wounded heart couli jear no more, he had accepted tin sympathy and comfort nearest a lijnd, and had finally marrie I Lett' Jarew, because she 16ved him, only t< kvake up one day to find that lie owe< ill his unhappiness to her. Miss lid lreth hal indeed answered him, hai >iven Letty the letter to mail?thei lad been intimate friends in thosf lays, intrusted with each other's heart jeats?and Kelty had detained tin ni-sive that woul l h ive healed tin reach. How (lid he know this' i'ears after it tumbled out of a drawe ;f old letters, and confronted him witl ts familiar address. Mis; Carev honorht she had yecured herself for al o ;ime by burning Prue's letter, but shi lad tossed the wrong envelope into tin jrate. Austin Miller had lived hi; t >rrow over again after this discovery le had wa';ed w ith it and wre t!ec ,vith it without getting nearer happi less, and hal long ago made up hi nind to do without it. But he hat ;hought it due to Prudence Ilildretl e send her word that by an accidenl ler letter hal come to hand about flv< ears too late; he said nothing oi jetty's ,-h:ire in the matter, but i'ru lence understood all. These memorie. iad been revived by Prue's hasty not< isking him to forgive the children foi treaking up the pea-hen's ne;t! Ilei ihildren, too ! He looked at the clock le had been idle two whole hours ' Of what was he thinking?" he ;is'.e limself; "where was he drifting? a: mointed priest, the example and conn .elor of sinnersV"'At least, lie conn ;o and thank Prue with a clear con cience; as for the children, they vere already in bed. technically speakr.cr, and having such a capital pillow i-ght that they agreed to get into misiliief every day of their lives, and bt mnished. After that Mr. Miller often found limself dropping in, on one pretext 01 mother, at Th<j Elms. Sometimes lit :ame bring:ng th* s 5 unruly infants vith their brown Lands fu'li of pea :ock feathers and t icir little heart? all of impenitence. "Those children might as well livt lere," said.J.m?. "And. their fa'her, tOL>," added lohn. "Xot a bit of sweetbread can I keej n the 1 irder ; and wh n thi*y tear? heir frocks they goes straight to Miss 'rue, and one mends them befon iiridiret sc<dds 'em, just as if they'c je her very own." " A fine stepmother she'd b< nuking," observed John. " They d )e saving in the village that it'; ler cap she is setting for the parson.' "That's just the way of the gossips [f a man takes to a woman it's alway; she that is a-setting of her cap for him riie parson ought to ask 'em t) picl )ut a wife for him and su't their selves." "And then there's others who says it's ler money," pers:sted John, who, lik< i fair historian, was bound to stats joth sides; " an' that he come her< i-purpos.? to marry her." " A gr. at deal they knows about it,' ;ried.lane. "I Iieered him tell her vith my own blessed ears, that when le was called to this 'ere parish h< ie\er dreamed that she lived here Phey must hev knowed each other, yoi ;ee, when tlu-v w.is young, afore Mis 'rue came into her great-uncle's prop rty, and came to live at The Kims; foi hear 'em talking now and again ot bl<s that don't belong hereabouts \.nd she says, 'Do you remember th< lay w>; weni mtaer ana uie uity wt vent yon V' And he says, 'Iremem>er, I remember,' and lnoks away from u;r fac *. I thinks, myself, lie must lave been an old beau of lieis. I s?es em together a heap, you know, brining in the tea things, and the lamps, uid pottering 'round?" "At thekeyhole," liughed John. "And I've n?ver found 'em loveuaking onct, though I steps quiet-like, folin. as you know, and it isn't like pening a door to push the portiere iside." It was toward night, one ,sumner day, that Miss Prue, looking out >11 the lawn, where the shadows of the eaves were dancing, saw Mr. Miller? 10 unusual sight?coming toward her l ior. He had been out of town ; .vhole week on business; Iiridget hat onfided to Jane that he had "gon< iway suddin', after a telegraph in ; aller wrapper come tor him;" but hi lad been at home several dayswithoul larkening, or, to express her feeling: jetter, illuminating Miss Prue's door N'aturally, she wondered what his er and hal been; if he had had a call t< leave the parish; and at that though :ier heart stood still. " You have been away," she said ifter the first greeting. "Yes. I hope you did not sulTe from an invasion of young Miller luring my absence." " We met, but we missed you,'1 5he admitted. " I hope your vacatioi was a rest and recreation to you." " Mv iournev was not a nleasur J J * trip, Prue," lie said. "My wife diei suddenly at the asylum on the oth o the month?"' "Your wife!" gasped Miss Pr?( "Your wife?died?011 the oth of th month! I thought?Austin?Mi Miller?I thought she ha 1 been dea years and years !" " I thought you knew," he returned "I supposed everybody had heard 0 it; it was too sad a story to rehears often or needlessly. It was in all th dailies at the time. You must hav been abroad then. Amy was in hr cradle when Letty left me?elope with her music teacher. Two year ago she went to the asylum?mad a Hamlet. Prue, Prue," he cried, " d you think I have hidden anythin from you? Is not the loss of lifVe years of happiness enough ? Sha'l ht ghost divide us still V " And I have been loving anot.hf woman's husband all this time," si: said, moving away from him. lira <e only knows how far her Puritan 101 -i, . _ * .V s ! sen nee would liavo carried, her bU\ | just then Jane burst in the room, ;t crying: >, " It's little Tom Miller?the peacock y fell into tlio river, and Tom jumped i ). in to save him?and the bird's sale? j r! but Tom?the cramp took him?John's : j brought him up the bank?" s And then .Jane laintea away, it a was hoars bef\ re consciousness re_ turned to Master Tom, and weeks ber ; fore the roof of The Kims could lie s : exchanged for that of the parsonage, d owinsr to a fever which succeeded. Mr. s Miller and Miss Prue pawed many a ir! watchful night at his bedside, and e I many a day of sickening dread; but it if was a year and belt-r before Miss d llildreth could forgive herself for n having loved another woman's bus-: s band and before a wedding which had j ? been belated fifteen years took place I r at The Elms.?The Continent. f Poisonous Plants and Flowers. > There are many plants whose leaves, c (lowers and seed contain virulent ii poisons, which everyone should know, s so as to avoid them and keep children > from them. e liuttercups possess a poisonous prope erty which disappears when the t (lowers are dried in hay ; no cow will ? feed upon them while in blossom. So - caustic are the petals that they will h sometimes inilame the skin of tender e I lingers. Every child should be cau11 tionei against eating them ; indeed, i I :< tnmntinn fliiMrPVl alinilt, * It 13 IICOIIUUIV WVUUW4V4* V4.(.M.v i tasting the petals of any llower, or J putting leaves into their mouths, - except those known to be harmless. t? The oleander contains a deadly J poison in its leaves, and is said to be a s dangerous plant for the parlor or s dining-room. The flower and berries I of the wild briony possess a powerful - purgative ; and the red berries, which - attract children, have poved fatal 1 The seeds of the laburnum and catalpa 2 tree3 should be kept from children; t and there is a poisonous property in f their bark. The seeds of the yellow ) and of the rough-podded vetches 1 will produce nausea and severe head ache. 1 Fool's parsley has tuberous roots ' which have been mistaken for turnips 1 and produce a fatal effect an hour after - they were eaten. 2 Meadow hemlock is said to be the ' hemlock which Socrates drank; it kills ? by its intense action upon the nerves, r producing complete insensibility, and i palsy of the arms and legs, and is a ' most dangerous drug, except in skill1 fill han s. In August it is found in : every Held, by seashore and near moun? tain tops, in full bloom, and ladies and 5 children gather its large clusters of ; tiny white llowers in quantities, with1 out the least idea of their poisonous - qualities. The water hemlock, or cowi bane, resembles parsnip, and has been 1 eaten for tlie:n with deadly effects. i r.Che water-drop wort resembles celery t when not in llower and its roots are J also similar to those of the parsnip, but f they contain a virulent poison, pro ducing convulsions whieh end in death } in a short time. The fine-leaved i water-dropwort and the common drop* wort are also dangerous weeds. r The bulbs of the daffodil were once ; mistaken for leeks and boiled in soup, . with very disastrous effects, making I the whole household intensely naui seated, and the children did not recover - from their effects for several days.? I Country Get,tit-man. Remarkable Surgery. "We have referred to the wonderful success of surgery, within these later years, in operations the most skilled ' would not have dared attempt a generation ago. Such are the removal of 1 the larynx (vocal box), supplying its " place with a metallic substitute; cut! ting out the larger portion of the , stomach and bringing the divided parts successfully together; the same with 5 several feet of intestines; the saving of a hand for service, most of the ; ! ones of which had been crushed beneath a huge trip hammer. [ These and kindred la.-ti are of interest, not simply a* illustrating the , advance made in surgical skill and j daring, but as suggesting the amazing ; resources of the physical system for . the repair of injury. [ Internal ailments once thought to be inevitably fatal, and large abscesses a formerly diilicult of cure, can now? " especially with the aid of disinfectants , ?be handled with comparative ease, ' ether or some other ana sthetic coni tributing to the success of the opera; t'.on by giving the operator a more absolute control of his subject. These facts encou:age the unfor" tunate an 1 their friends to hope for the best in the most trying circumstances; and they condemn those phy5 sicians who hastily .advise the sacrifice i of an important part of the body. We ' nave no aou >t mat uniov miu wic i out of the war maimed might have saved their lost limbs. ' The following remarkable c;iS3 oc, curred about three ye irs ago in .North i Carolina. A white, delicate girl hal ; her hand completely severed from the . arm by an aw The physician, not i being in a condition to amputate the 5 arm above the wrist, replaced the hand, securing it with silver stitches and adhesive planter, and having bound both arm and hand to a broad . splint, ordered them to be kept warm 5 with hot (lannel cloth. The third day ? pulsation could be plainly felt in the hand, which had also changed its i color. Says the physician in charge: " I removed the sutures on the four-. ; teenth day, and afterward she carricd the hand in a sling, .and is now?three , months after the accident?able to extend the fingers and grasp with nearly the usual strength." The joint retained its free motion.? Youth's Com, }>anion. i Preparing: Rice for the Market. The following is an account of the in ft ho l of iniiiin.tr rice, or nrenarinsr it ; J'or market: The rough grain isnotun. like a grain of wheat, with this excep. tion, that the husk is tough, fits more . closely, and is not detached by the t thrashing process. On iti arrival at 1 the mill it is "backed in" by njgroos . and thrown into a hopper from which t it is elevated to one of the upper 2 stories and stowed away to await its I due course of milling. When this time s arrives the grain is fed on to the stones. These consist of two horizon. tal stones, the upper one stationary, 3 the lower one be.ng run with great vet, locity, causing the grain to end up, | when it is caught between the "upper I I and noiher millstones," and the husk ' | split off. As can be easily seen the i setting of these stones is a matter ' of great nice'y, for if they are set ' ; too close the grain would he ?j crushed ; on the contrary, if too far ' apart, the rough kernel would slip j through unhulled. The chart is then Q i blown off and the grain conveyed to \ j the mortars. These are iron i>ois, egg^ shaped, through the bottom of which the roil of the mounted pestle is operated up and down. The friction of " the pestle, and of the rice on itself, in e a few minutes wears away the inner | skin, after which it is screened in ' order to cleanse it from the meal. The grain then passes into the final avt of dressing, to wit, through the f polisher. This is a round, horizontal! e screen, inside of which is a closely9 ; fitting drum covered with basil skin?, e which is rapidly revolved and gives to i the grain the glossy polish peculiar to ! ^ j American rice. From this the grain j s 1 goes over the screen, which separates 13 : the broken kernel*, while the whole 0 comes forth bright and beautiful, " pleasant to the eye and good foi n food." r j A Western poet who has a freckled?r face sweetheart, in an ode to his lady io 1 *ve calls the freckles " brown-eyec n daisies slumbering in a jUttf l- cream." THE FARM AXD HOUSEHOLD. Taking Cure of Ilotfi. In hog raising the opinion is widely held that hogs need less care than any other kind of live stock. It is a common opinion that any kind of water is good enough for hogs, and that anything they eat will increase their growth. \Vith this idea many intelligent farmers adopt or act on the principle that corn is the best feed that hogs, young or old, can have ; led with plenty of corn all the time they need no other ktn>l ot feed ; out experiment has upset this theory. It is well known that hogs need as much variety in the way of food as any other kind of farm animals, and no farmer can make the best attainable result in hog production unless he uses the strictest care in feeding his pigs and young hogs in a regular way with several articles ot' food beside corn. Corn is good in its place and should not be dispensed with where it can be had easily, but in addition to the corn all young hogs should have a certain amount of grass, roots, potatoes, artichokes, and beets can be fed to young hogs in a sparing way, mixing a certain amount of bran or ground oats in with them. Any of these articles can be advantageously used to ease down the overfeeding with corn. Probably the most common failure to give good care to swine is in the matter of sleeping places. The hog is very sensitive to cold, and will try to keep warm by burrowing into his litter, or when in large numbers crowding close together or upon each other. Either of these is directly opposed to receiving a supply of pure air, and the hog needs this as much as other domestic animals.? Rural Messenger. The Plnntinjr ofTrees. A Rochester firm gives the following directions: Cut off smoothly all bruised or broken root* up to the sound wood. This prevents their decaying and hastens the emission of new roots and fibers. Cut back the top and side branch s in such a way as to correspond with the more or less mutilated roots, as follows: Trees, with brandling heads, should have the small branches cut clean out, and the | larger ones, intended for the frame- j work of the tree, cut back till within i two or three buds of their base. In j cases where there is an abundant root, | and small top or few branches, the pruning need be very light, but where the roots are small and the top heavy, covoro nnmincr will Iih necessarv. X D These remarks are applicable to all deciduous trees and shrubs. Evergreens seldom require pruning, but ar'. or vit;e and other evergreens planted in hedge rows may be advantageously shorn immediately after planting. In planting dig holes, in the first place, large enough to admit the roots of the tree to be spread out in their natural position. Then, having the tree pruned as above directed, let one person hold the tree in an upright position, and the other shovel in the earth, carefully putting in the finest and the I.e. t from the surface in among the roots, fdling every interstice and brings every root in I conta t with the soil. When the earth is nearly all filled in, a pail of water may be thrown on to settle and wash in the earth around the roots; then lill in the remainder, and tread I with tlio fnnh fJ-n:irrl Jicminst, gvuiv " "o planting too deep. The trees, after the ground settles, should stand in this respect as they did in the nursery. In very dry, gravely ground, the holes should he dug twice the usual size and depth, and filled in with good loamy soil. No manure should lie used around the ro ?ts at the time of plant ing, only good surface soil. The manure can l>e applied on the surface afterward. If the tre.-s are tall and ! much exposed to winds, a stake | should be planted with the tree, to i which it should be tied in such a manner as to prevent cha'ing. A piece of matting or cloth may be put j hetwoen the tree and the stake, j When the tree is planted throw around ! it as far as the roots extend, and a foot beyond, four or six inches deep of rough manure or litter. This is particularly necessary in dry ground, and ii highly advantageous everywh; re, 1 oth in spring and fall planting. It prevents the ground from bilking or cracking, and maintains an ev n temperature a' oat the root*. The grass >h juM n t be allowed to \ grow around young trees after being planted, as it stunts their growtli and utterly ruins them. The ground should l>e kept clean and loose around \ them until they are well established Knriu mill (<ardrn Notes. Burn the corn cobs and use the ashes for a fertilizer. % The harrow is an excellent implement for finding manure that lias been sown broadcast as a top dressing. There is no cure for a horse with conlirmed heaves; climate, fan | and care will do much for its alleviation. Plant your corn in bills unless you can make your drills so straight th.it the cultivator can work close up to the stalks. In answer to inquiries why hens lay soft cg^s, it may be stated that the difficulty is caused by a lack of lime. Pounded oysters shells should be within easy reach of the fowls at all j times. Put a couple of bushels of well! rotted stable manure about the trunk ! of each tree, scatter a little grain upon ! it and turn in th^ poultry. They will j scratch among the manure, making J line ana mixing it wnn uie so.i, ;um will destroy multitudes of destructive insects. Pigs need a run at grass. An or- j chard is a line place for swine ; it affords good grazing for the pigs, while the trees are benefited by the destruc- j tion of insect pests. Young pigs may j b? fed milk at an early age with profit, j Much depends upon the early start! t'.at an animal gets. The term hybrid is quite loosely used by many horticulturists and farmers. If two varieties of one specimen arc united or crossed, we get a varietyhybrid ; if two species of one genus j are crossed we get a species-hybrid ;i if two species of different genera are! crossed, w,* get a genus-hybrid. Pemember when setting out plants of any description to spread the roots 1 out in their natural position, not cover j them when cramped or doubled up. i Be careful not to cover the crowns of! strawberry plants with earth ; set them just level with the surface, and press the earth firmly about them. The detached leaf buds of some! plants are capable, under favorable: conditions, of forming new plants. The ends of the shoots of brambles take root when b *nt down to the ground. In rare instances buds form on the roots and may be used for purposes of propagation, as in the Japan quince. The squash vine root borer is one of our worst insect pests, as one grub will destroy a whole vine. A simple way of saving vines from his depredations is to cover each joint of the plant with earth. At each of these places new roots will be formed, and if the borer destroys the main root the vine will still grow and perfect its fruit. To prevent the hair falling off a horse's mane and to restore the growth rub the skin or the part with the following mixture, viz.: One pint of alcohol and one dram of tincture of cantharides. Give the horse a dose of salts (twelve ounces) and feed some wheat bran, which will allay the irritation of the skin, to which the loss of hair is due. Top-dressing, unless very fine manure, says a writer, is of doubtful advantage with the clover plant. The clow Aft easily smothered by anything ? j covering its leaves. It may, howevei ! pay if tlie clover Is to be turned unde J early for a corn or potato crop thl ; Season. The best time to manure i | before the seed is sown. A very ligh I top-dressing then will secure a heav growth. i farmers should teacli those pre i tenders who propose to cure mooi ' blindness in horses by knocking ou . the so-called wolf teeth that they can i not be played upon in that absur i manner. It is easily seen that thes | teeth have nothing to do with sue! ! blindness. That is a disease ot th J eye, of a constitutional nature, and i ; is barbarous to pretend to associate th ! breaking out of the animal's teeth wit] the cure of the diseased eye.?Nationa Agriculturist. A successful English gardener give the followingexperience with thegoose berry. It prefers a loose holding soil which readily imbibes, but does not re ! tain, much moisture. The plant i I propagated by cuttings and should b I transplanted early in autumn, the tree j bp5,ig ranged in lines. The trees shoul< ; bo formed with single stems a foo j high, and the suckers, if any spring uj ! from the roots, should be carefully rt | moved. The ground on which th | bushes stand should be forked ove once a year, but only sngnuy, so as no to disturb the roots. Manure shouli be applied either as a top-dressing o in a liquid form. Powdered whit hellebore is the only certain remed, for the caterpillars which attack th plant. ItccipcN. Good Common Cake.?A good com mon cake is made thus: Half a cup o butter, one cup of sugar, half a cup o sour milk, one teaspoonful of soda, on egg and two cups of (lour; to this adi one cup of stoned and chopped raisins one teaspoonful of cloves, one of cin namon. Let one cup of dried apple soak over night in a little water, am in tho morning chop very fine, am boil them in the water in which the] were soaitea; wneii ui-ar^ icuuoi, aw in one cup of molasses; when soft, mi: with the raisins and spice, and stir ii thoroughly with the cake dough, liak in a slow oven for an hour. Bacon Sandwiches.?Obtain fron any grocer what they call "parings, which are really the outer slices o bacon, and, though equally as good a the remainder, are often of a darke color. For this reason these are oftei sold at sixpence a pound. Place then between very thin layers of bread, and having previou ly prepared a thin bat ter of one egg to a gill of milk, im merse the sandwiches into the mixture then place them into a pan of boiling lard, fat or dripping and fry to a rid golden-brown, when the bacon will b< sufficiently cooked. These, if trimmet niceiy ana serveu on ;i uiijmiu, uiuui resemble a thin pancake. Tomato Pancakes. ? Slice fou: large tomatoes of firm substance; thei may be peeled or use 1 with the skir on,"but the potatoes must be firm an: the slices cut perfectly even and ubou half an inch thick. Make a frying batter as follows: .Sift together a cup ful of fiour antl one teaspoonful eaol of sugar, salt and baking powder"; hav< ready a frying-kettle halt' full of fat .set over the lire, and \vh?n the fat be gin? to grow hot beat two eggs quick ly, mix them with a pint of milk, am then stir in the Hour; work as fast a; possible, so that the batter may be use. while it is light with the gas which ii generated when the baking powder i: wet; season the slices of tomato witl .salt and pepper, dip them into the bat ter and drop them into the fat when ii begins to smoke; fry them goldei brown, thea take them from the fai with a skimmer, lay them foramomenl on" 1 rown paper to free them from grease, and serve them hot. Ilonai'Iiold Hint*. Fine Japan cement, made witl ground rice and cold water stirred to ; thi :k paste, and then thinned witl lw-itltrwr ivifnr cf-.irrfld qmnnMllv. !in boile 1 a little more than one minute hardly two, will make a clear, wliiti paste, almost transparent, which is ; strong cement for glass and paper. After the dust has been thoroughly beaten out of carpets and they an ta ked down again they can be bright ened'very much by scattering corr meal mixed with coarse salt over them and then sweeping it all off. Mix th< salt and meal in e jual proportions. A good way to use up bits of cob turkey or chicken is to cut them ir pieces, of uniform size if possible make a batter of milk and Hour an< an egg, sprinkle pepper and salt ovei the cold fowl, and mix with the batter fry as you do any kind of fritters ii hot lard; drain well; serve hot. Thi is a goo.1 breakfast dish. HEALTH HINTS. Blessed be he who invented sleej ?but thrice blessed the man who wii invent a cure for thinking. It is stated by Dr. Foote's Healt) Monthly "that Dr. Thomas Taylor, o Washington, accuses Hies of being car /.f />..Tit>)>ri>in in thn fnrm nf fli* ease germs, and he thinks l.e has fact: to prove it." The London Lancet thinks that i children would wear woolen next tin s!<in, and wear longer clothing, sus pending it from the shoulders, wi would hear more of boisterous healtl and l?ss of backaches and pains. A correspondent in Smryna, Turkey sends the following cure fur lumbago and states that it is reliable: Take ? piece of oilskin cloili, such as we us< to cover t a'ties, but of a soft, pliant kinil.sulliciently large to cover the loins place it over thcdannelsbirtand band age yourself with a llannel bandage profuse | erspiration will ensue on tin loins, and you are quickly rid o this wearisome complaint.?Scientiju A mcriun. A Deaf anil Dumb Lawyer. A "Washington letter says: One o the most remarkable displays of th' triumph of brain and will over cir cumstanccs is embodied in the form o1 .J. (i. l'arkinson, who has been ad mitted to practice in the United State; supreme court. This gentleman, wh< is a linii-looking, dark complected, wel formed brunette of about thirty, i: deaf and dumb. He can hear abso lately nothing, and he can only tall sign system. Still he is one of th< best patent lawyers in Washington arul is noted as an expert in al branches of patent law. He come: originally from Cincinnati, and wa once a clerk in the patent ollice. Nov ; he has a lucrative law practice whicl j he carries on by means of writing an< ! signs. He is well known here both ii the courts and in the interior depart j ment, and is in fact one of the won I tiers of Washington. The Care of Pens. j A writer in a German p.iper state ! that it is a custom in oflices in tha | country to have a slice ! potato in th I desk in commercial houses. He doc I not state whether the esculent si" il ; 1 e raw or not, but the probability i that it is not boile:!. The nse of th potato is to clean steel pens, and gen erally act as a pen-wiper. It remove | all ink crust, and gives a pecul.arl I smooth flow to the ink. lie also state that the Hamburg clerks pass nev ' pens two or three times through gas flame, and then the ink will flo\ freely. Postponed, " Postponed on account of th | wethor," as the timid city man sai , when he didn't go through a shee . pasture, with a belligerent ram holdin 1 the fort.?Drummer. r + : [.* A METROPOLITAN PROTEGE. < r ?i. . 3 THE STORY OP Z.1TTLE MISS FOSTER, ? ? THE CRIPPLED ARTIST. * s a t Becoming a Society l'ci unit Earning Tier \ y Own lilvclilion<i In .Si>itc of Much buttering t, ' ?IIow She I In* Been Helpml. ^ A New York correspondent, accompanied by a friend, a comedian, called 11 on a lady who has become well known v ' in metropolitan artistic and social cir- a l" cles. They were ushered into a long , 11 apartment which was in great artistic ;; e disorder. Pictures, colored photographs, placquea, hand-painted vases, stray n " SKeicnes, easeis wmi naii-nmsneu pictares oa tliem and masses of natural ? flowers were scattered around, but no- j? ^ body was visible. Then, the correspond- ? ' ent says, my friend, the comedian, 1 raised his voice and yelled: s " Good-afternoon." i- A moment later a shrill little voice " I, said: v (- " Is that you ?" There was a rustle, > a portiere was thrust aside and a queer e little creature, with a wealth of wavy * s brown hair flying in every direction, " J came wheeling out in an invalid chair t and sped toward us like a locomotive [> at full speed. As she neared us she 1 !- slacked up, and came to a full stop just e in front of my friend, whose hand she r seized and patted gently. Then I was t presented, and found that her name i was Marian Foster. The name was c r not unfamiliar, but for a moment I e was unable to place it. Then I re- " y membered that she was a little cripple e who had come from Cincinnati to earn her living in the great metropolis. She had beautiful dark brown eyes, and v her hair was really remarkable. She h were it long and it fell almost to the f flo)r, flowing over her shoulders and t- down over the sides and back or the . e invalid chair. This chair was very ^ cleverly constructed. She worked it d , with two little levers at the side, and ' went wheeling over the room, as she , showed us her art treasures, with more (' j celerity than we could follow. The I dexterity with which she rounded " j table-corners and shot in and out r among chairs was vastly more intcrK esting and amusing to me than any of 1 the pictures or placque.s which she ex0 hibited with great pride. I glance.1 .it a few of them, and found they were rather mediocre. .She has fair abilities as j) a painter, but ner talent is by no means pronounced. I can easily pick out a * dozen girls among my acquaintances 3 who can do as well. She is a queer k' little lady?as bright as a cricket, and ^ 1 perpetually on the move. Her face had 1 a peculiar pathetic look, and was very l? attractive, though far from pretty ac" cording to the general idea of pretti* ness. She chatted incessantly, and as I the com-rdian cannot draw breath six > consecutive time.s without speaking, 1 the din in the room was quite frighte ful; so I sat still and listened, while * both of them related at the top of their w 1 voices the history of Marian Foster. Between the jumble of words, the ^ r blithe giggle of the happy little cripple, P / and the genial and sympathetic " llsi, |( i ha" of my professional friend, I " 1 learned that she was discovered by t Fanny Davenport. Miss Davenport is j a large-hearted woman, and when her _ - attention wa* called to the crippled ^ 1 artist, who was bravely ;ind cheerfully ? 3 enrning her own livelihood, and sup- j , porting an invalid mother beside, the ^ - sympathies .of Miss Davenport were L - fully enlisted. Fanny Davenport's 0 I sister had l>een cured of a severe spinal 3 atlliction by Dr. Sayre, of New York, J I and, after talking with little Miss 3 Foster, Miss Davenport found that i she was suffering from the same dis- ?, l ease. Therefore, Miss Davenport in- ^ - siated upon the little cripple coming w t to New York. There . seemed no j: i chance of this, as the girl's means j.j t were very slim, and she could barely t keep her mother and herself in board. ^ i So Miss Davenport brought her on herself, and put her under Dr. Say re's jj treatment. I 'nder the physician's care u she improved rapidly, and wa* able to j , walk around the room unaide.1, when g) j the doctor went olf fur a European ^ j trip; but she slipped one day, wrenched I her spine, and her limbs became paralyzed again. She suffered intensely for ,j3 a time, but stuck to her painting. h x I)r. Sayre has now returned, 1 am glad to say, and he has .already effected a n great improvement in her physical con^ dition; but she is still a sufferer. Ever j e since Miss Foster has been here, she has been the special pet of professional 1 and society women. Miss Davenport's t] ' aid was invaluable. S'.ie enlisted the ^ 3 sympathies of dozens ol women of the j stage who were generous, both in giv- ^ I ing the little cripple orders for pictures Q I .in,l vin'mia /louiirnu nrul in a.q.qtat ing her pecuniarily. Then Miss 1 Davenport wcni among the society c r women here, and told them of the case _ 5 of poor little Marian Foster, and the j i result was, before long Mrs. Astor ^ 9 regularly sent the little cripple flowers, p anil Mrs. Belmont sent her victoria ^ around to take her for a drive three ^ days in the week. A great many painters viiit her, and the result of it g1 all is that now she has more orders ? than she can Jill, and numbers among ^ her friends people who are constantly striving to help her. j.j f Colonel Dudley's Telephone. ri A Washington letter says: C.oIoljI - Dudley, the commissioner of pensions, 3 is at the head of perhaps the busiest bureau in the government. lie has a j f soldier's impatience with slow pro3 cesses, and no fondness for following , . reii tape through all its convolutions. 5 So there runs over his desk an ugly , metal elbow, and on the end, within [?. easy distance, is the telephone. The " commissioner is on the second floor of vv ' the building. That floor is full of | elerks, and there are four flo.rs more ft a of clerks above him. Two blocks away si ^ on the avenue is a large building also p . full of clerks, and there are-others? a ' i npurlv 1.(500 in all. The telephone * commands the entire army. The com- w I mbsioner wants to give a direction. ai ? lie signals the operator, "(Jive mo c< ? Smith." Smith is probably on the S1 tlurd floor ot' the building two blocks away, but lie has a telephone on his ^ desk also, and he answers almost as y f quickly a* if he were talking to the ]e ? commissioner across the table. The jE . direction is given in an instant, and v f the commissioner turns to the next p( . matter. Space has been annihlated i and red tape is nowhere. A congressj man asks for information of the status j of the claim of the needy mother of a s boy who was shot dead at Altanta. w . 11 (Jive me (Jibbs," remarked the com- , c misslonerto the telephone. (Jibbs is , T, promptly bestowed upon him. " Tell , ' me the status of claim 2,030,001, Mary j)( j S. Brown, mother of 1'aul Brown. '' j Twentieth New York Volunteers." s (Jibbs wants to know if any V ; "additional" evidence has been filed? ' x that is, evidence supplying points I which were wanting in the evidence ^ first submitted. There has been, but _ when the congressman does not know. . "(Jive me Peters," says the commis| sioner, turning away, and in a moment ^ IVters is busy JooK.ng up tne rccorn. i A moment's t.ilk, the bell sounds, the S! commissioner listens, unci then tells % s tin; congressman that the case needs 1 1 letter evidence oC the mother's de- ^ c pendence on the son, and cannot be s' 3 passed until tliat is furnished. And '' so on. The whole cost of the tele- *! 3 phone service is $ J00 a year, less than ' e is paid to one messenger, but doing j' * the wcrk of many. The amount of tl 3 business transacted l?y this bureau is J'1 y enormous. Its monthly mail is as 3 large as a city of 20,000 inhabitants. * v ? n: a Every man doing business must ad- w v vertise if he woul i be successful. Nut he must advertise good goods. If a man has his store filled with goods and 01 doesn't advertise "them he can't sell ri e them. If he has genuis he will save a d money by advertising; but a man has p got to place his occupation before the g people, and then keep good goods and be will get along.?P. T. Barnum. ^ i totting Information Under Difficulty " I do not see any peculiarity aboi our people," said an English judgi .ddressing his traveling companion, veil-known Arkansas lawyer. " lave traveled quite extensively in thi itate and I have not, as yet, foun hat eccentricity of action and pri arication of reply that has ofte ,mused me in the newspapers." "You have done most of you raveling by rail," the lawyer repliet This is your first trip away from th aain roads, is it not ?" " Yes." " Well, I'll show you some of ou :enuine natives. Yonder is a liousi !all the landlord and hold a convers* ion with him." "Hallo !" called the judge. "P.Amin' fliA man rnnliorl VV/AUA1* f VI1V ?"m* * W|/44V/Uj UV|/VW4< ag a child in the doorway and ac ancing. " How's all the folks ?" " Children's hearty; wife's not wel Lin't what you might cad b:d-.ic' at jest sorter stretchy." " Got anything to eat in the house? " Ef I had it anywhar, I'd have it i he house." " IIow many children have you?" " Many a 11 want." " How many did you want?" " Wa'n't hankerin' arter a powerfi hance, but I'm satisfied." "How Ion? htvve you been livin ere?" " Too long." "IIow many years?" "Been here ever since my oldest be ras bora." " What year was he born ?" " The year I came here." "How old is your boy?" " Ef lie had lived, he would hai een the oldest until yit; but, as 1 ied, Jim's the oldest." " How old is Jim." "He ain't as old as the one th; ied." " Well, how old was the one thj ied?" "He was older than Jim." "What do you do here for a living: "Eat." " How do you get anything to eat 5 " The best way we kin." " How do you spend your Sundays r " Like the week days." "How do you spend them?" "Like Sundays." "Is that your daughter, yonder?" "No, sir^ she ain't my daughtt onder, nor nowhar' else." "Is shea relative of yours?" " No, sir; no k!n." "Kin to your wife, I suppose." " No kin to my wife, but she's ki o my children." " How do you make that out?" "She's my wife." " How far is it to the next house: " It's called three miles, but the ma -hat calls it that is a liar. "I've got enough," said the juug irning to the lawyer. " Drive on. ity the man who depends on this ma )r information."?Arkansaw Trace 'r. An Eccentric Millionaire. The death of Baron Wertheim, tli reatest Austrian manufacturer ( on sates, has deprived Vienna of ery popular figure. Some peopJ uiglied at him, to his very face, an 11 who were not so successL'ul as li ad been envied him. Of uncertai rigin, he began his career as an a] rentice, and managed to attai realtli, fame, and even a title, withon enius or even much talent. Whe oung he became acquainted with on Tiese, who, having long served i imerican iron-safe establishments, wf ,' 11 versed in this branch of industr[e confided to "Wertheim the secret c lie American safe-lock, and the latte ersuaded some friends to invest mall capital in a manufactory of iro xi'es. He died worHi about 0,000,03 orins. Wertheim had a very effec al manner of advertising his safe; n almost every town of Europe, Cor tantinople not except _'d, he subjects fiem publicly to the action of fir 'hey were ill ways found to be intac rhen the fire was extinguishe< 'he surprised spectators of cours filned to snread the lame of the ir ention far and wide. It was in thl lanner that Wertheim ultimately su< eeded in commanding almost exclt ively the Eastern market. lie set very potentate, great and small, lagnificent safe as a preSent, and b his means obtained forty-one decon ions, sjmc of them of the highest 01 er. Among them, it should b3 s tit here is not a Prussian nor a Britis ne. lie wore these decorations o very possible o. casion, and the stand it supporters of honors of this kin oukl not have refrained from a smil t sight of the wizen little man when h ad all his crosses and stars pinned o :> the front of his old-fashioned froc oat. He was never so happy as whe e could enter a ballrooui dressed i liis fashion, and everybody had a no f recognition from him. But, wit trained ears, be listened whether tli od was followed by "Good-eveninj laron." If the title were omitted h tared, looked at the offender severel tirough a gold eyeglass, and did nc atnrn flip, salute. WISE WORDS. Prosperity is a great teacher, adve ty is a greater, possession pampei le mind: privation trains an trengthens it. F;Use friends are like our shadow eeping close to us while we walk i le sunshine, but h aving us the instan e cro>s into the shade. A book, however valuable, purchase >r the admiration of others and on gned to its shelf, is the most lifeles iece of furniture to which we can giv place. We are on a perilous margin whe: e begin to look at our future selve tid seo our own figures lead, with da msent, into insipid misdoing an labby achievement. To think clearly and well is the firs ;vp to knowing anything, and, unt; lat has been taken, all others areus( ss. Equally in the work we perforn l tiie business wj manage, in tli arious duties of domestic, so ial an olitieal lift*, and in the knowle Ige w :iin or the opinions we liold, is th rt of thinking well essential. Earn your own bread, and see hoi yeet it will be ! Work, and see hoi ell you will be! Work, and see hoi leert'ul you will be ! Work, and se ow independent you will be! Worl [id see how happy your family \\i b! Work, and sea how religious yo ill b?'!?for, before you know wher an are, instead of repining at l'rovi ence, you will lind yourself offerin p thanks for all the numerous bless igs you enjoy. The Turning: Tower. One of the most curious and r< larkable structures reared by man i ic Turning Tower of China. It i 1 1.u'nrHi tli till ujr uuacncio n uu nwuu i u isit and careful examination of ever nitli unl carpenter in the world. I . a circular tower consisting of lil'tee: ories, each eighteen feet h'g!i, tliu :akingthe entire height of toe struc ire two liundreil and seventy feet lie circumference of the edifice i lirtv l'ef.t. The most noticeable fen ire of the tower is that it is s-uj Drted by a metal axis, upon which i lrns round with the greatest eas< here is scarcely more difllculty ii loving it than there would be if i ere designed for a child's toy. Often " ho who runs may read," bu ftener he is not able to read whil inning. Put your advertisement i newspaper rather than on a fence. The desertions from the ttritis! ;my in 1882 were 0,942, against 7,5-J< 11881, and 9,299 in 1880. rrL, - * . i. SELECT SIETIXGS. o it ?) A Mexican woman residing In St. a John, Apache county, Arizona, is said T I to be 115 years old. is In the ninth century horses were d only shod in time of frost. William H j- the Norman introduced the fashion n into England. A teamster in Maine conquers balky ai ir horse3 by taking them out of the tl shafts and making them go round and 6 round in a circle. a] The dance called the hornpipe is r< supposed to have been so named from ti a its having been performed to the Welsh pib-corn, that is horn-pipe, about s< * 1300. * , T The powpr of the town of Halifax p ^ to put to death all criminals who stole a anything worth more than thirteen 1* pence halfpenny was used as late as b 1650. P I. The hurricane in 1865 blew over Jj numueness cocoanut irees in me ua- " hama islands. Instead of dying, each 11 prostrate tree sent up an upright P n shoot from the tip. . n The eucalyptus or blue gum tree gfows so fast that a forest may be j. formed in twenty years. It is some- , times 300 feet high and has a trunk 100 feet in circumference. sj The first wedd'ng ceremony ever ^ lo performed in Ameri.a by a lady took place at Columbus, Ohio, re3ently, ^ where Mrs. Lydia G. llomick, tho 0. evangelist, married Charle3 Pim, of W Damascus, to Miss Emma Bryant. }, The largest piece of granite claimed si to have been auarried since the time lr of Solomon was lately exhumed at y, re Thomaston, Me. It measured sixty e' ie feet in length and seven feet square at d> the base. Its weight was estimated at 01 150 tons. ir it A Danish sailor, in a ship sailing off ir Cape Lewin, West Aintralia, went tl it aloft with a can of oil and was pitched h overboard. The oil left such a trail on li the sea that the man was traced and f< >" picked up more than an hour after the vi - accident. w A Frenchman has recently gone sl deeply down into statistics in regard * 8 to matches. His figures show that an n Englishman burns eight matches a w day, a Swede nine, a German eleven P and a Frenchman fifteen. The num- ? ber of matches consumed in Europe P} jr every year amounts to two thousand ^ millions. Nobody is likely to dispute f1 these figures. ' t 11 An Illinois farmer has employed ants for very useful work, as he reports. n He says he is too lazy to pick potato T beetles from the vines, and he does not f, like to use paris green." In this di? }emma he bethought himself of the ^ pugnacious character of ants, so he ? n carried into his potato field old pieces ^ of wood, in which ants had established j' their homes, and left them to do tne work. Last year the ants domiciled , in two old fence posts, he says, cleaned u all the beetles from a quarter of an acre, although their number was legion. ^ ^ The Camphor Tre? P a The tree which prci^voi the be3t *1 ie oumphor is indigenous to Sumatra. j* j The camphor tree propagates itself in ie the mountains of Sumatra, without " n trouble or labor to the natives, as it 11 grows without any cultivation in the 01 n forests contiguous to the sea-coast, on ^ [t the north side of the island. It is not " n found native to the south of the line, a nor yet further than the third degree n of latitude. European Explorers have " not as yet been able to find out the veritable name of the tree, that is, in " ? any of the native languages but there P ,r i.s no apparent re i- on to doubt that its ' propagation is completely confined to n the two islands of Sumatra and Borneo. ^ ^ The camphor tree in girth and height " t_ equals the biggest timber tree, often ar- * " riving at the enormous size of over fifteen feet in circumference. The {J ^ trunk is arboreous, and its bark is of a f1 brownish tint. Its leaves grow on short petioles, the larger ones being P; 2 alternate, the smaller opposite; they a ' average from three to four inches in w length and an inch broad. Their form 111 i" is elliptic, ending in an extraordinarily Pj . long and slender point. The fibers are P1 J* straignt, ancl run parallel to each *? other. Places where the camphor tree grows in abundance are generally considered * f unhealthy, the reason probably being tl1 r' the nature of the soil, and the peculiar "j /??rwlitinn? nflr>p_qqarv for the Dr03Der0HS jj stnte of that tree. . ra n The camphor of Sumatra is so much superior to that of .Japan that the ^ Chinese easily distinguish between the *CI e two, and reserve the former for their "l ' own use at an exorbitant price, and ro Q export the latter as a thing they do aF ^ not think much of. The Sumatra n< n camphor never by any chance reaches n this country, because it is so much es- J j teemed by the Chinese and other na Ij tives in the East that its price, coiji- a" pared to that of the Japanese article, P.! ' is in the ratio of twenty to one, which fclt 'g may be attributed rather to the super ' stitious virtues imputed to it than to of \ any intrinsic difference in its real ?? ,fc value. stc Camphor is procurable from the tree ta; by two modes: the first by inflicting lie wounds in the bark, from whence it ex,r udes; the second by help of fire. The laj s drug procured by the iirst method is (I considered much supprior in quality. . The most no'ticeable difference in the Q11 r qualities of the three kinds of cam- ,u jj plior consists in their volatility. Japan ev t camphor, procured by a process of ?n boiling the wood, will " volatilize com, pletely away when exposed to the action of the air; but that procured 00 naturally in Japan does in some meas- m 3 ure lose its weight under the satnecir- Pa -- . QV o'imstanees, while it is asserted that - the kind from Sumatra hardly dimin- at n isiies at all in quantity by being kept. * Camphor produces an oil which is a , valuable medicine, ancl is much used bti ^ by the natives of Sumatra for rheu- ^ matics, sprains and swellings.?Bazar. T' it ? oo il No Place Like Home. Jj? 5" "You seem in a bad fix," said a j0 ' philanthropist to a man sitting on the I f0 !: curbstone looking much depressed in J ^ d spirits. of 6 "Not so awful bad as I might be/' n, e was the reply. j/, " Have you no home?" lV " Oh, yes; I've got one." .()] v " Why don't you go there then?" ^ ,v "Because I don't.want to." c "But you should, for the poet says, V(J c> 'be it ever so humble, there's no place II like home.'" U " And right the poet was, too. I was ! ? at home not an hour ago, and the 1 fl(J '* house was turned upside down, all the ! S beds out of the windows, and the fur- m< >- niture in the corners, and my wife with ! ' a dish rug around her neau, juiu mu children so dusty you couldn't clean . 'em with a feather brush, and the hired J- girl raising Sam Ilill, and four men s br-ating carpets, and the paperhangers , f0< s at work, and a window cleaner with a n'1 " j hose turned on, and no dinner and no ? y prospects of any, and the deuce to pay j. t generally?oh, you and the poet are f n shoutin', and you're mighty right too, |('e s there's no place like home."?Drummer ^ An A Man Aged at Eighteen. B s There is in Schuyler county, Mo., a gjj I young-old man, who, without apparent As cause, living plainly on a farm, has in V eighteen years passed through the \?v ' physical changes of fourscore. At the nv age of six he had all the development Bs of strength and muscle usually in a 1 lad of fifteen. At twelve his beard Oe was grown and gray hairs appeared. 1 Xow, at eighteen, he is as decrepit as e | any old man of eighty, and seems ;ic rrravp 11 tottering on uwviigc vi >i>u6>?.v. tl: A new way of applying (I. ral trim- jri li niings on bonnets is to sew single 40 D blooms on in a double raw outside th? lie brim, so as to make a flat bordering. tj - ACHED WHITE ELEPHANTS. KB BOTAL BEASTS OP BUM AMU BUBHAZ. : " JM off the Royal Captives ore notised and v Cared For?IIoina?e Paid to Them by H the King and People. , Professor Henry A. "Ward has given 1 i interesting account of his visit to - 1 .~ o: 9~ A. ?AlUMfA?' /S? leoiituiese luug a uruoauiea, a? . am Ills five famous white elephttts re in a long block of buildings at the jj ?ar of the arsenal. Each has an en- .^il re distinct stable appointed to its use, | rith- the sleeping apartments of its ' J lore of grooms and feeders in one end. %g5| he stable is a large, high hall, with lain floor and walls, and at one end is Jagpjj] sm ill seated Buddhaimage with little. imjis burning in front. The great east stands on a handsomely buift edestal, raised about it foot from the, ; oor, with its top just large enough to y- '|?B old him. On one side of this? near -^J? " ie front am! r.v.r, ar* two higi>, stout ; osts, gilded anu otherwise gaudily or- i ate. To these the royal captive is liained with velvet-covered ropes by no fore and one hind ley. ' ^ eepers are verv attentive, an*. tantly deal out to him dainty louthfuls of banana?, pineapples,; tiort sticks of sugar-cane and little undies of sweet, fresh grass from a uge pile of these which is heaped near y. Every one of his wants is assidu- ^ 11 ly attended to; when he is seen to ; ch in any part of his bo3y his royal 'iM ide is promptly scratched with a nail iron rake-like instrument with a ' ' inghandle; his eyes are reverently * ip'ed and he has a codI sponge-bath /ery hour or two of day and night , ^ uring the hot seasons. Over the door P each stable is a large richly orna- ' , tented sign of gold letters, giving the IffiB tmate's full regal name and title. This le guide reads to you in reverently ushed breath; indeed, these names, ke that of the king, it is not proper yg >r any Siamese to speak aloud. Time >n a ltrlian fknoa lirtofffa /lltlu -* '?3 no nucu uuuoc uuuuj nc&g uu>^ orshiped by king and people ; their ables were palaces; they were fed from olden dishes, and wore heavy gold ngs upon their tusks and yerefetterei ith golden chains. Even no^r the ' -'M opuiace fall with their heads to the K round as they are led out richly ca- , fl arisoned on state occasions, while' le royal officers and even the king . 1 imself always make them obesiance 1 passing. The finder of a white ley v>. - . hant is loaded with honors and emol- ;/ ments, taking his place at one step mong the nobles of the kingdom. . hey come from the Laos territory ir to the north and are brought down. le river on rafts magnificently . ;"-|B ecked out, and accompanied by uards of honor and bands of music. " fl .t Agutliia, sixty jniles up the river, "I ley are met by the king with his en- I re royal retinue, who in the grandly 'I lorned state barges follow the noble I east to its future home, with great jflk arade and rejoicing. | The present lord white elephant * I [andalay, according to an accom- \ lished writer on Burmanaffa'rs, is not | kfro/?Hti-n in AnnparnnnA hfl VPTV :g; but notwithstanding the care - .-I tk en of him he is remarkably lean and B ollow sided. His tusks, howevpr, ara lagnificent? white, smooth and ' iirving forward in front of his trunk ' > ? j that they almost meet. He is very a ad tempered, and his attendants . M re much afraid of him. He has to -I 3tablishment of thirty men to wait on^ fl im. among whom-is a minister of bate who manages his affairs and ]| >oks after the revenues of the rovince that is assigned to him to eat while within the inner M ;ockade he has a " palace " to himself. i) one occasion he killed a man who ad ventured too near; and there was . good deal of trouble and noise be* )re the body could be got away from ini. The king?Theebau's father? eardthe noise and inquired what-was ' ie matter. When he was told he exressed great concern, and not a little larm for the future state of the lord liite elephant, with the stain of '.;2, mrder on him blotting out hosts of . '.^5 revious good deeds. But the eleiant's minister calmed his mind and : [4 istored him to equanimity by saying, V Pray do not be disturbed, Payah ; it as not a man, only a foreigner." robablv because he is so -vicious, " IB ie lord white elephant has never I !en ridden- No one but the king mself could do so; and his late I ajestv, Mindohn Min, was fat and eble/and Theebau's nerves are not I rong enough. The Sinpyoo Dau is J ng of elephants, and therefore none it a king may mount him. *His . n yal trappings are kept in the palace id are very magnificent. Bands of 9 )h red cloth run from the headstall -E the back and thence to the tail, I nging in curves over the body. 9 ley are ricldy studded with rubles I d emeralds. On the forehead is a 9 ate of gold recording his majesty's ^ P les, such as is worn by every man of ; 1 nk in the country, up to the arbiter. - -9 existence himself. Bosses of pure J. 9 Id and clusters of precious fl inua oftupr fhft hpadstall and ir^lden I jsels hang about the head. When. I goes forth to take the air he is B aded by golden and white umbrel- I i. He and the king share all the I lite ubibrellas in the coimtry.be- I een them. The king of men lias r ne,*the king of elephants has two, t he has also four golden ones. Nofc en the heir-apparent, when there is e, has a rfght to use the white umella. He has only eight golden ones, > it the use of even an ordinary white^ vered umbrella would be regarded a declaration of rebellion on his -rl irt and would lead to his immediate ecution. No wonder, then, that the tendants and visitors take off their oes when they enter tffe Sinpyoo jus palace, and that the people . ^ iw down low and do humble obeisance hen he passes through* the streets. f le lord white elephant's suite acunt for his irritable temper by the id treatment which he met with in M s early days. The royal coffers were 9 wand the English were clamoring 9 r the last installments of the Yanda- ^ 9 o indemnity money. So theTrents the elephant ivere appropriated to ly off the troublesome foreigners, very care was taken to soften the dignity. 4'iie king himself wrote a ng address on a palm-leaf requesting e 1; r.l "white elephant not to take amiss that his revenues were deted to the payment of the barbaris. In any cas9 he would notsuffer, r the whole should be refunded in 'o months' time. The circumstances, wever, seemed to have preyed on his nd, for the body-guard say that his ijasty (the elephant) has never been e same since. Carried According to Shakespeare. A Tennessee lawyer, in a law bo?k ?m.iiii'ehori in fhftt. State, recom jfjllij ^U./iW.VV? ... ? ? r ;nds l'or solemnizing marriage the use the form to be found in Shakecare's " The Tempest," and declares to b3 perfectly legal* The lines gin: l contract of true love we celebrate; ly yoi find that she will outstrip all praise, (1 ir.ake it halt behind her; and may yoa youd all limit of all else in the world rever love, praise and honor her. ;f r-. e, with a heart as willing bondage e'er of freedom, gives her hana? id your wife, in plain, holy innocence perfect and so peerless?shall not wish iy companion in the world but yon? >r iu imagination for a shape sides yourself to like of." After this follows the benediction stowed upon Miranda by l'rospero. i A man's sign offers a mute invita>n to those only who pass his place business; his circular can only reach noronnal offconHnri {a (JSC W UV?,UV1VU vcn; but his card in a Newspaper e< into the highways and byways, .ding customers anil compelling them consider his arguments.