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TOO TOO" RURA4 AND TBULI RURAL. ph I Isn't the country just lovely? lo Iteceful and quiet unit all that; It seems like a dream or an opera. Of course dear, your new Watteau hat, The one that ou wore as Maud Muller, When to Cambrina, the artist, you sat. Yes, we'll stroll for awhile amid Nature, And visit each wild woodland nook; Cull daisies anJ other sweet fiowerets, On the banks of some clear, purling brook. A pink sash?*No; blue is more rural. No glovesl Why how odd you will look. No doubt, dear, we'll meet with a shepherd, With oures, and a crook, and a lute hat h'ply like a very A pollo, Andi be dressid In a greno ve vet suit. H Is eyes will be big, sad and tender Oh I bother! Please button this boot. Just think of the brave, handsome inowers, Who mnerrily warble their lay, At live o'clock in the miorning, To milkmaid.i, whose work is but play. I've seen them so often in " Martha" That-No, I won't writ-, that letter to-day. And when, coming home through the gloam ing, We meet with the soft-lowing kine, We'll deek them with ribbons and garlands, With flowors their mock brows we '1 entwino. I ktiow. for I've road, how they do It When coming from pastures Alpine. So these simple city maidens, Who knew ooutiiry ways so well, 1 aving learned from books and opera Mon than ever rustlos tell trolled abroad through ficid and meadow. Met w ith snakes In woodlind nooks, Gathered disies, with them bramblos, Got their foot wet In the brooks. Found a flock of shep, and with thom Eitiv a shepherd, it is trito; hut tin opera shopbord he was No moro like than I or yoti. Ho wis ragged mitl barufooted, ''en years oldl. andl brown with tan; Instead ot timing lutes, be shouted: "That ram'll butt ver. of he can." They heart no brave and gallant mowers, Wirbling lays to inilkmila as coy; Biut Faw a nimonter dr.kwn by horses, Driven by a freckled boy, Laying low the tender grasses, With a horrild crash tid din, And foundt tho boy hid other fancies Than a milkmaid's smmile to win. Going homeward through the gloaming 1- the saddest to rce- I4: For they in-t the lowing cattle Merely tnet, mmnd that w.is all. Now, when askkd about the country, They%, reply. wIth S1niio som samge, That you know they've learned the dif 'rence 'Twixt reality atid the stage. -Kit* Munroc. in N. Y. IndependCut. Harmony in Hunman ifre. Our surroundings should be harmoni ous with our life. It is not necessar'y to sound the same notes to produce harmony. The word implies blending, but it almost forbids repetition. Nat ure is the great teacher. 1Her Imeans and ends are consistent'wit h eah other. Nature underslands too -well tihe art. of harmony t o attemil)t impossibilitioes. Sh is ilw. sup to the mark, but she does not overstep hterself. WhJere the soil will not grow lilies and ro(ses, she con tenls herself with daisies, lbut left to he(rsolf, she will ualwaiys cover umn's mistakes wvith a (en- efuilly spun shroud. It is 1o learn this lesson miore perfectilv that in Iter life we are drawn awa~y fromn ma~nkind to live with Na ure. A fuller growthi takes p'at'e when we feel outrselives ini tolisin w,'ith all ue C see, anid wheni iter'tcourse with nat uire restores in us the balance that human conutlict. has destroyed. Life in great cities is in Imical tolharmiony. lThe i:-ls of int erests, is to" lierce, aind those who live tumuch in great centercis of hutmatmn eflor't cann1 fot. 81us a i th 501nse of hamrmnony, ulessi~5 they come away for a t imte. TIhe form and mannier of, modern s 'itetv inctreas'j the dilliculty. The nmultitutde of ac quaintnces, and the little time vie to each, m-ike intercourse necess~ariiy broken and unbarmnonious. (Conversa tion take~s the form of epigraim, and1( each sentence must he east into such a form as not necessarily to demand a second for its completion. By degrees, our thouights follow our word-(s. anmd each opinion beonmes rownlded and linished oil' to (it into eatch quest ion that may arise. Nothing can Ee viewed as a whole-we are too near to its de tails. So neair are ie in great cities that it is almost imyossible not to tak~e eaich detail for the whole. Thein ar'ises irritation, from the sense of the uni fitness of each separLIate opinion ex. prlessed1 to bear tihe structure of our whole line of thouwht. We have uttered an epigram, Tmt we3 have not sitatedl our judlgmuent as it really is. To do that requires time and opportunit y, which society, neglect ful of thle ini dividual in its care for the whole. can not affordl to any one of its miemubers. The utterance, unfar:ther'ed and without olfs pring, miust stnd or fall b~y itself, while we mray be thamnkful if we are not through it labeledl and laced1 in a pigeon-hole to which we are as foreigrn as~ a (love to a hawk's nest. 'Then it is that we faill hack for consolation upon ourselvyes as a whole.-London Syptcta( Chinese Tnfanticlde. We have all hoed the Chinsse charged with infantioide. WVe helievej that crime to be less prevalent with t hem than it is with us. I f child ren vre over exposed, as has been seen on a wayside st ar near Hlonam, we believe that bitt er want and a hope that charity would provide for the child better than the mother could have been the movi ng causes. As a govneral rule, self-interest acts as the strongest~ bar' to this vice. That the life of the male child ren~ should1 be preserved is most implortant, as the Chinese law wvill compel the sons to maintain their parents, and in the event of all the sons dying no one would be able to offer that worship at the tomb of the father and mother' on which their happines< iln another state is supposed to depend. .With the girls preservation is almost as important, and they are a marketable commodit1y either as wives or as servants. Indeed, it is no very rare thing to see a basketful of babies sent down from Canton to Hong Kong~ for sale at prices ranging from $2 to $.5. These are all girl". In denying the ex istence of infanticide it is necessary to make one exception. This is among the Tan-kia, or boat population. These are a race of people of dlifferent descent and rellgion from the Chinese, governed by their own mnagistrates, aln so looked down upon by the other classes that no child of a boat-woman can compete in the literary examinations, or, whatever his ability may be, become an aspirant for office. This class is excessIvely su perstitions, and we have heard it stated by missionaries that when a child be -longing to people of this class suffers from any lingering malady, and recovery becomes hopeless, they will put it to death with circumstances of groat oruel ty, believing it not to be their child but a obangeling, and fancy that a demon hai taken thie place of their offspring for the purpose of ent' sling on them expense and trouble for" hich they could sever get any return.-- femnla Rar. The Plano. The old idea was that a piano was bought and brought to the house with much bruising of its beautiful legs and much mutUed profanity on the part of the draymen, to be played on. What superlative nonsense! What a stale and preposterous suggestiont Vhat a relic of barbaric ignorance! A piano to be played on! Go to. 'fhank the stars the days of such stu pidity are over, and the true, sole and natural use of a piano is becoming generally inderstood. A piano i put into a house for these simple pur poses and none other. Its top is do signed as a place for a photograph al bum, a brilliant lamp-mat anda vase of flowers. Its rack is intended as a rest for an open book-an open book cov ered with pictures of farm, and fene's, upion which are perched innumerable black birds. Its stool is placed thero for the nervous young nman in company to sit on and whirl, and writhe and wriggle. Its richly carve I legs are sprawled out for near-sighted and awk 'ward people to run against, and upon being solicitously asked by the hostess if they are hurt, to reply, with the hot tears of anguish gusling into their eyes: "Not in the least; only just grazed Such are the legitimate uses of an able bodied and well-linbed piano in its various parts and proportions. As a whole the piaio serves two other and nobler pulrpo)es. The one is it imparts charLacter, stateliness and an air of ailu011ec to a Iioushoold establishielit. The proud-spir*ted host points to the rosewood in-lnitieiit and see(ms to sav to his assembled ruests: "You beholi t hat. ma11jes..ti( instrument. It is grant, s9iare and upright. Is it not symbolic of its owner--is Ie not grand. square and iiprighit?" Of course nobody can pl:y on it--not. one of his quariet of daughters--but it is to be remembered that it was not, put there to phfly oil, and wh'll4o would ask its owner to prt it to per verse use? But after all the real mission of a piano in the house is this-a place for a young hlyd to sit and idly tuiri ho leaves ot a blckbird book, and a soinJe thiing for a yo':lir gitlemn:in to hanr Over a.fll Imow :111<1 then ibr:ithe softly in tow l ollng IiIY'.5 car to It't her Ino\V th:it. 10 is growin weak. but he still live-s. It, is anl affecting sight to observe a . oun11g n111111 haig over a pI~hm1o. Few young men know how to h1an over a pEi:no0 in g od fori. One mu-4t not beiil too low, as if lie were looking for a lost. sleevte biutton or a nickel. n1or vet be too ririd and intlexib C, lilIe a woo)d en1 soldier on a ve:i oher % :iw. A comn pro'1lse ofth a1Ic ittitule- vith alittle ob liue leaiig toward thw Stool and its oc('cupant k about, the Correct t hinug in p)ianol hangimg. N(ow andit then by way of no' e'.tv :m iltt emijt. is in tl oi(4'')1l !2-r:uind 5O('i al ('4 (n-5 Sion)! toI ac't ualhly 1)1h:y thI e pin. A d's imal' .onug man: i le:n Is an ex hau st i \ young lady to the piano. An awful hience peJ4rvadels thle 41raw in g room. he somiI!' r ounlg iian slowlh lift s lihe lid. as if he wa; aibiut to view the re ma1:ins of thle last. relative lie hadl on eart bi. The young lidy* willy runs her t ingers over lhe keys -thler'ie is a sob, a wail, ia v0ciferiatjin of violent, gief, a cry of (comfn ort less despair amni alli over. Te younglady sink el au ne'arest sofa. Thei . iun man lowerii thle lid, ie.:'ns away his head and1( is sen no ;;ore. Verily, thle day of suiperlst ition and mlhit:tken illeas is overi. antI piano plav ii lias vassed aiwitv wilt I the ilny fo)l ie's and foibbes of' our purblind an'd un cuitusred aincestry'. -Ke Nci.omlon T'cie. Beans as Foodl. The nutritiv'e value of beans is ver grea~nt gre:uer than almost ainy othi'r arth-nle of food in common use. 'onsiti L'r'.ng thieir r'ic'hniess they are probably le epes t food4 we haveo but sonic W-hat ditlliult, of dligestioni, probably igto the f:i(et t hat we rately cook heiin enough and mas.-tienate thiemi in utli':,iitly-. In preparing~ beans for the bl.hey 'lhould tirst be0 welcl suoakedl .1 col water and then thrown into boil n v ater and cooked until of a medimn ''nitstec'y - bet wceen a fluid andi a oIlid - nesit her too th ick nor too t hiin. he-y r'e.,ire somei ac'id onl them when i't'-n, and~ a sutlicient -imount of salt to rendeir them palat able. They may heo i.w en wit hi pot atoes or other vege't ables wh iich centil ain mior'e starch and less altbui men rathlen than withI too much bread or ment, In Germany there is a prloce'ss patented, by wh Iich beans and1( all legia mliinous si'edts arec ireduiced to a very line itours and rendered capable of being used as foo d by the most dlelicate e Sons. We have samplles of t his t'ouri, which eiual in fineness the best wheat Ilour, and it. is used extensis clv I or nm.e kin soup11 for invalidos. These 'soups5 ire wor'ith a hiuindr.d tinms as muioh :.s heef te~a. Therei'o is a tontuine awti A.: b'anus as perfect as thIi Ilouir fr'omi Ger many. Bean soup. rightly mla~h;, is ex reinugly deli chius and o wh oleson e, aind (Jnglt to) beI used' more ext' nsively than Wanted to Move Slowly. Last fall, when one of the small towns out West got the manufacturing fever, the citizens held a meeting to see what induicements should1( be held out for cap-. italists to conme there and invest. One speaker said they could afford to donate ten acres of ground for a factory. An other said the townl couhld adld '500,000 brick. A third moved that the citizens turn out and give 100 days' work oin the building. A fourth said hie could piromi ise a house for the superintendent t.o live in, and a fifth wvould start a sub scription pa per to buy the machinery and boilers for the factory. D~uring a break in the p)opular enthusiasm an old tanner arose and solemnly said: "Ge'n tlemuen, I think the eat~srpitse of our town will build the chair factory, fu nish houses. rent free. for all the oper atives, and buy a year's supply of lum ber to wo'rk on, but when we go beyond thbat let's move slowlv. We don't 'want to promise to buy the foremnan any hair oil or hair dye until we know wfhiet her he is bald-headed or not!"- Wall Street News. A Chase rotr a Baby. There was a funny chase for a baby at Plainville, Conn., on Wednesday morning. A woman step)pedl from a train a moment to question the asent, and the train pulled out suddenly with out her, carrying o!l' her baby. Her frenzy moved the good ticket agent to telegraph to Bristol and order thme bahy returned. The train dropped the infant at Forestville, and a good man footed it thither and lugged the baby back to Plainv'ille. The mother, meantime crown impatient. had Ona tn In,.c Hats Off. A grandee of Spain is privileged to wear his hat in his sovereign's presence for a certain time, carefully graduated according to his rank. John de Courcy, the conqueror of Ulster, won the same boon from King John by frightening the knights seni by Philip of P rance to call John to account for the murder of Arthur, out of the field, and then giving a taste of his quality by plajug his helmet on a post and cleaving it through with his sword, the weapon defying anyone but its owner to draw it out of the post again. This stalwart champion's descendants were wont to assert their privilege by keeping their heads covered for a moment or so in the royal presence; but at one of George the rhird's drawing-rooms, the then Lord of Kinsale chose to wear his head-gear so long that the old King's attention was drawn to his unmannerly bravado. "Tie gentleman," said ho, "has a right to be covered before me, out even King .John could give hini no right to be covered before ladies." At the trial of Mrs. Turner as an ac. cessory to the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury, Sir Edward Coke ordered the prisoner to remove her hat, saying: "'A woman may be covered in Ihurlich, but not when arraigned in a court of jus tice." The accused tartly commenting on the singularity that she might wear her hat in the presence of God, but not in the presence of man, Coke repliod: "For the reason that men, with weak intellects, can not discover the secrets which are known to God; and, there fore, in investigating truth, where nu man life is in peril, an(l one is charged with taking life from another, the Court should see all obitacles reimoved. Be sides, the cointeniance is often an index to the mind, and aecordingly it is fitting that the hat should be removed, and therewith the shadow whieh is cast upon your face.".' Mrs. 'Turner's hat 'was taken off, but she was allowed for modesty's sake to cover her hair with a kerchief. Chief Justiee Glynn did not find the Quakers so amena!le to the order of the court, when at Launceston Assizes, in 1656, they made their first public pro test against uine)vering the hea! Upon Fox and his com an in mi fortuno being broigzht int) court, the jige b:le them put off their hats. tistead of obey ing, Fox asked for a scriptural instance of a maristrate commanding prisoners to pti off th'3ir hats. The Chief .ustice inouired in return if hats were men tioned at all in t he Bible? 'Yes,' an swered Fox, ''in the third of Danilo, where thou mayest re.id that t ho three children were cast into the fiery furnace by Nebiehadnezzar's comniant, with t heir coat-, t heir hose, and their hats on. Ioere was a pro~of that even a heathen King allowed mnen to wear hats in his presence.'' Not. condescending to argue the matter furt her, Glynn cried, ''Take them away, jailer,'' and they were taken away, and thrust among thieves "a great wvhile."' When l'enn and other Quakers appearedI at the Old liailey to answer their delinquencies, they en teredl the COurt covered, somuebody re movingr t heir haits for t hejn. Upon fairly getting inside, thme court directelI them to put their hats on, and no0 sooner had they done so than thle hlecorder demand ed if they did not know they were in a King's court? l'enn replied that he knew it was a court, and( sulposed it to be the King's, but hie did not, think putting off a hat showed any respeet ; v~ihere upon he wVas iiedi forty mnarks, andi re marked t h-10 he and1( his friends had come inito court. uncover-ed, and in Putting on1 their hats agalin thmey had only obye orders, t hereforue if any one wais to be fined, it ought to be the i$encli.- il/ /he Tear Round. New Public Uilldligs. The Federal Govern ment will soon be sup~pliedl wvith a variety of handsome and expenlsive strutctures in all p~arts of the Union. Thirtyv-three new buildings wvere authorized to he0 begun at the last session of Congress, the location, ulti mate dh)st of the same, andl present available appropriation being given in the following table: U4timate AppropJ;ria Ahmuguoon, V....,.......... ',0.000 '2-,,000 111r(1kltI,NX ..--.........8001,000 S00,0roJ Onuhn 0...............50000 100,0(00 ( .4nIcoI.l N. [-.-.-----.-.-.....200,000 10000 (Tonneli litiifzo, Iown.......1001,000 50,000) Ilih.I, TJe'.................. 75000 57.001 lh-iiver. (:01- .--.-............30,000) 100.000 IDet roit. Mi.*h............... 01.00 250.000 1-'.i, Pa'-- -..-.---.---.......15(1,000 100.0100 iFort wayne, i110d............~ 101H) 5.0 F"r. ukfort. Ky-.-.-..--------.10.00 100.000 Galiveston1, Tex-------........ 15.0)0 6?.500 Greesborough. N. C...... 5'100 2.'.000 l itnnibal, MO).. ...... ........ 50:10 57.500 iiiriisonbneu , va------.....54.00 25.000 -h-k soni, Tlen..........5 .0:1) 25.00 1.eveworh.111.........10000 10,000 1.o isvlle K ............50,1400 200,000 JLnebtItur., Vai... .......... 100.000 50.000 ail an iettie, Nlih............ 10.000 50.000) N3i'uoe-zpol'a, Minn...-...... 175.000 60.000 )oxford, MI 4!........... )5,00 .... l'in-Ia'oIla, l-'in-.------........ 20,000 200,000 Peoria, l11................... 22.,,000 11)0,000 Ponght~ike(psie, N'. Y1........ 7500) '75.000 ( uhov, 111.................. 75.000) 87,501 Iloeheoster, N. Y............ 000H0 150,000 St. .ioseph, Mo.............75,00) ierant.(1n, 1'i............,...7,0!) 37.50 sh reveport, 1,a... ..........1000040 100.000 Sy-raet oo, N. Y..-.--.-..-..-.--.- - 00,000 100.000 T'tr Itiante, I iud-.--.--.--.......150,000 75,(0 wV unlamIsport, Pa...........10,00 50.000 Total..................,75,000 $'2,7:2,500 In addition to this, appropriationis were mlade for continuing buildings in course of erection as follows: A mount. Montgom-ry, Ala.....................5 0 0 Litt!O Itak, Arir..................... ,' M sintn 1). 0..................... 4.000 I ait'fro, (11-'-----------.---.............0,000 hicagoe', 11--------------......4 .00 01 (liok, IIn............................ NI )tatlpia, Pa. -.-'-'-.-'-.-.--.-.-.-.-.-.....400000 BaTirer Md.partm.nt.............. n50o, 1Th~isti maks ..to......f..S.,3575,000b Nm.:Y. Grhic~M........... pumin, melns: and.oter.vegtable Nw rkn, part n hila.an. par.fa.0 Ideurecomen. dsthe... eve...cu.tivation87,as thenb, a hot. weatherdid.greate diifferenen m leri..,..... .. .750-) difrerenco was ~erv marked. Although The Siummer of 1882. The summer which according to theI calendar has now closed has been marked by some noteworthy meto->rological Conditions. The month of June was alarmingly cool over nearly all districts lying between the Atlautio coast and the Rocky Mountains, with frosts in fif teen of the States frors the 1st to the 10th and excessive rainfalls in the great grain growing sections, so that some in dulged the prediction that this was to he " a year without a sutnmer." Al though the high temperatures of July aid August dispelled . this fear it was not so unreasonable to those who re member the abnormal seasons during the period from 1811 to 1817, when oc curred the most remarkable depressions of summer temperatures known to all history of thermometric nmeasuremnents. In 1816, according to several historians, J "i here was frost in New Eigland in A every month of this stiummr," and also t as far south as Phila(elplia : .,ly,1 al- t most. destroyin-.4 some crops, while in I Enigland, as the oya! Society's records show. the same sununer was cold enourgh to make 1816 "a famine year." It is to be hoped that, as no similarly cold summer has since then been known in aInIy part of the United States, it will never recur, but it may be rash to say it is impossible. If we except New En gland, where great aridity has prevailed since .Juzne, lie past summer has been y exception ally free fromi protracted and t inten'dlroughuts, and in the interior of a the countMr, where severe summer drought is the climatic rule, precipita tion has been rather excessive than defia One of the most noticeable character istics of the Season just ended is the ab.ls -nec of the usual July and August i hurricanes in the West India seas, and conuseqiently there have been few dis turhnces on our Atlantic and Gulf coasts. The passage of these storms along our Easterncoasts no doubt great ly modifies the atmospheric conditions oil the continent. Drawing toward them the moisture of the air for hun dreuls of miles from their tracks, and condensing it in immense quantities in their central areas, they must leave the Middle latitudes cons derably drained ot tie watery vapor accuiula'ted by the sun's long continued evaporative force on the warmi ocean. The absence of these storms may in part account for the recent redu nlant rainfall an hiu midity ;n the Gulf States and on the At lantie seaboard, and it is probable if we should shortly have a visit f. om1 a pow erful tropic hurrcane, which is very probab0e, there would be anit early and sbarp turn of the seaon. No Amenri can summer can be coiplete without it; t but there need be no fear that it will not come~i, and the1( loniger it is (delayed thme more cert ain will it be to assail our -otuthiern andu Eastern coasts with unu sual violenice. Ylewinmy the past sunimer from the agriculturist's standlpoint it has been exceptinal ly p: opitious. Its abnormal feature ha~s be:'n an exceptionally large i infaull. which, on the whole, consider ing that the great defect of American summer (cli m:it e in the chief agricultural districts is aridity, is a good fault.-N. Y. Ilerald. __ A New Statue of Washzington. The colossal bronze statue of Wash ington, which is to be placed in Fair mnounit Park by the Society of Cincinnati of Philadelphia, is tohave a sub~strue ture of granite with two great terraces. The sides of the lower terrace are to be covered with bronze relievos, in which groups of animals and human figures larger thant life are shown. The animals are to be typical American beasts, and will be pieced ini recumbent positions. Ini thme midst of the groups wvill be an Indiau warrior and squaw, a river god and a river goddess. On the upper terrace the pedestal will stand. The figures of the horse anid rider which it will support wilml bec twice the ordinary size. Washtington wili be represented in uniform, with a military cloak thrown over the shoulder. The right hand grasps a field glass, while the left holds the bridle rein. Thme sides of the bronze pedestal wvill represent allegorical figures of the e troops dleparting for war, the return anid tie lessin~gs of peace. Professor Ru-( dolph Siemerinug, the German sculptor, to whom the contract for a statue was 1 awarded, has completed the miniature model of the monument, and has begun work in Berlin upon the full-sized figure, from which the cast will be made. The cost when completed will be $140,000. Makinug Adob~e.. Monday mornmng we drove down to see them making adobes. T1hey make anl "acequai"' by drawinig thle water thzrough a ditch from the creek to wvhere the ad~obes are to he madle. This wvater, clay and chopped hay form the audob~e material. Th'Ie workers presented a piet uresqlue appearance, the red hand ker chiefs bound about their foreheads con trast lng with thc-r bronzed skins, glit ter~ng ewes and (lark hair. They wore gray-colored shirts and pants that might inveb becu white at the embarkation of' Noah's ark. They were rolled high above the knees. Twvoof the meni stood knee-deep) in the mud, with which they loaded an oblong litter, trot ting with it to a nan on the lill above, who moldedI the bricks, ie had a hollow rectangu lar f rame, three inchues in dlepth and di vided in the center. Placing th'son the gr'ound~ he filled it with niud from the litter, smnoothled the mud evenu at the top), aund raising the litter left two brieks on thzeground, while t he two men trotte oI back and again loaded thle litter. Afer these adobes dIry on lie top they aire turnled sideways to harden in the sun. At night they arc carefully covered wvith tarpaulin, in case of rain, wvh:ch dlest roys them if it falls before I her are hiardene~d. The Mexicnis, in buildinig their houses, hollow out a place in front of thle build ing. wihuere lie ''acequiai"' is formed to make the adobe'jt, and when the huouse is finished usec t his hollowv for debris. How Can You Tell a Good Cigar I Trhey used to say thant a good cigar couild lie known by thme Jight brown specks on it. These were made by wrnms, the story was, and the worm's 'wre epicures in tobacco and would touch only the best. Bunt the chemists soon found a way of simulating thesec worm specks. So that spoiled the test. Then there was no other gnide but the ashes. If these burned white the cigar wats good ; if not, bad. But the enter prising tobacconists soon found a way to make the vilest cabbamgenia burn as spot-' lessly white as the best Havana. An-1 other test gone. Finally the makers of choice cigars put a little red label around each. This was thought to be'something I which wouldalw.ys be a..-r .uide -Sage and othr herbs which you vish to keep for use in the winter should >e gathered on a dry day. If they are erfectly dry when gathered you can ift them at once, and with very little rouble. Put them away in tin cans the cans in which prepared cocoanut odes are nice for this spupo); keep hem where it is dry. Herbs which you lo not care to sift can be tied in bunoles md hung up after the fashion of our .randmothers.-. Y. Pose. LADIRs, send 25c. to Strawbridge & Cloth ur, 8t and Market sts., Philadelphia, and rceive their F.Ia.oin Quarterly for six utmths. New music and 1,000 engravings in each number. -After a protracted official investiga ion into the cause of the fatal boiler xccident at the Erie Car Works, the ury returned a verdict in accordance vith the theory of scientifio experts, hat a current of cold air passing lirough the furnace suddenly crystal zed the iton previously exposed to iore than ordinary heat. by which it 1)St its power.-Pittsurah Post. 1IhT temper often proceeds from those aiiiful dioiders to which woinen are sub 1.ct. in fennite complaiits )r. R. V. 'ivree's "Favorite Prescription" is a cer Ain cure. By all druggists. -A Philhdelphia crank, who wears atn exceedingly high hat, "to prevcnt he lightning from striking him,' places ipon the ro6f of his house every day a arcre (Iuantity of fruit for an imag'nary : to at. A small boy, who has earned of the eccentric conduct of the >ld gentlemat, climbs to the roof daily ml a :ightn-ng rod and does much to onliri the old man's belief in the nythical female.-Philadelphia Press. Yo:NU or middle agedi men sutferiig rom nervous debility, I ,ss of memory striature obt age, as the result of bid It)its, should send three staips. for Part il fi lfi tne Series piii lets. A dd ress ' o o's I )isrxNsAaY AEi)ICAI ASSOCIATION, t ltN. Y. -Rye tea cakes or breakfast cakes are made of one pint of sweet milk, two aggs, one tablespoonful of brown sugar, r.lFi a teaspoonful of salt; stir in this nough flour to make a batter about like griddle-cake batter (rye flour sifted is to be used). IAake in well-buttered ;em pans for half an hour. If the cook prefers to do so, she can use part rye ind part whent flour.-N. Y Post. Our School Books. [Danville Register, Septenber 21st.] Thlie Board of Education has adopted blcGuffey's Readers, as will be seen from heir notice in to-day's paper. After xperimenting with two other series hey come back to McGuffey's with tilt ~onviction that in all essentials of a eader they never have been surpassed mid never will b~e. In this they are suo ~ained by the action of Richmond, Pe ersburg, Lynchiburg, and the largeit ~ities in the United States. Albemarle md Rockbridge counties, Charlottes rille, Lexington and Staunton, the treat centres of higher education in Virginia have adopted McGuflev. Along the Midland and Western Rail roads, county after county has come back to McGuffey with a unanimity that would be incomprehlensible did we riot know the book. From Danville to Alexandria, from Bristol to Norfolk, every county, but Four or five, has acted, and every one 'hanged the series in use for McGufley. And this action is based in every in ~tance on the recommendation of the eading professional teachers of each sounty without consultation with those >f any other. Indleed. we find McGuf ~ey on the lists of New York and Brook yn inl the East; exclusively used by San Francisco i-n the Wecst; leadling all >thers in Missouri and Wisconsin on the Northi, and exclusively used in Louis atna in the South, and St. Lozis and Jinemnauti in the centre. Thus they ire truly National in character, andl imparalleled ill success. Every Virginian feels a pridle in the uccess of McGuffey's readers. D)urine fe his d istinguished scholarship a.s istedl to render illustrious our Univer ity where he labored, and to-day, in very State of our National Union, the Ramne of the great Virgmnia teacher i ispedl by a mill ion clhi l'lren, before ny hear of our Washington, ourJe 'rann, our heroe< or o ur statesmen. -At the request of the Indians a [Piin Ridge Agency, Dakota, their agent nas8 prepared a number of notices. print 3l oni linen, offering a rewardi of fifty lollars "'for evidence that will 2onlviet iny person of selling, trading or giving to an Indian or half-breed liquor." This is done at the expense of the Indians. ave Sallow (olor of skin., or \ ed..wash "iwn spts on fac, or bdv ' Ie, U' tei tIushdes, low spirits antd glo mv f i oreboi .s, tre* xiilini g fi"rm "torpid liver.'' ori bii. ""taINes'" In many~ case., of --ivt r comt phant i~'onl y part of t hese sviinprirn- tr. ex i'rienced. ( As a reruaedy' for' :' Ii -bt ('u'es lI)r. Pie'rce's5 "' e O! \~lMedIiena lisc ('ry hats no eq tiial, a~ i t el lects perfect and rad licail cures. A t all drug store.s. --" If dog-catchers are going to shoot boys mnstead of catching dogs, dog catcher catchers will soon have to be 11ppointed to keep the mortality within reasonable limits,' is a remark by a New York paper, which would indicate that thio dog-catchers are being bantered ubout their mark smanship.-- Boston Post. W"1hN exhauisted b~y me~fntal lnhor tu,!. lKidney' Wort to inninatai n I. ali hy cltil ,4 all organs. -A New Hampshire woman spent two hours cleaning a postage stamp l which had done duty once, pasted it on a. letter, and walked two miles to mail it, and1( then paid Uncle Sam $7 to call it a mistake-.N. Y. Graphitc. WVarnes's Sinfe Kidney and Llwer Casere. -The Boston Journal of C'hemistry thinks glucose will be the sugar of the future. It can be made from corn and potatoes in climates where sugar camno w iil not growv nor' the sugar beet be culi PREvENT crooked boots and blistered beels by wearing Lyon's Patent Heel Stif euners. -The Prairic IFarmezr, published at Thicago, has changed its form to sixteen >ages. each page ten by fifteen inches, mndprinited on a better quality, of paper, mnd is illummnated b~y several interesting )ictures. K~Idmey Dt==. Pain, Irritation, Retention, Inoontnene, )eposits, Grave), etc. cured by"Buohupalba." . nd for pamphlet to E. . WzLL, ,Tersey ,1~ I AN EXTRAORDINARY VAtb,. AUSTIN, TExAs. February 20, 1881. To Mr. J. W. Graham, Druggists: Dear Str-My .case was an acute form of Bron chitis, and was of one and a half year's duration. I employed the beat medical aid possible, but failed rapidly, until the doctors said I would die-that my case was lcurable. Thrown upon my own resourses I got a .bottle of DR. WM. HALL'S BALSAM FOR THE LUNGS, and In six hours felt a decided relief. In threo days the cough almost disappeared. Now that my chances of life are good for many years, I earnestly recommend the above to every sufferer of throat or luig disease. C. G. LATH ROP. 0OSTET!. CELEBRATED ST01YZACY4 Tb true antidote to the effects of miasma is H1ostetter's dtomach Bitters. This medicine Is one of the most popu lar remedies of an age of successful proprietary specifics, and is In Immense demand wherever on thia Continent fever and ague exIsta. A wineglassful three times a day is the best possible preparative for encountering a malar lous atmosphere, regulating the stomach. For sale by all Druggists and Dealers generally. HEALTH IS WEALTH! Da. E. C. WKTor's NERVE AND BRaiN TARATUMIT; a specific for Ilysteria, inzzinses, Convulsions, Nervous II eadache, MenIal p)1 ression;, Loss of eAlenoty, Prenia ture old Age, caused ,y over-exertion, whichi leads to miserv, decay Rand death. Onte box will cure recent cases. Each box con tains one moonth's treatmaent. One dollar a box or six boxes for tive dollars; aewt ty mail prepaid on receipt of price. Wk guateo six boxes to cure any case. Wit i each order re'ceived by us for six boxes, at cornpanied wiih tive dollar , we. will send the pur chaser our writtn gitantutee to return th iioney if the lratmenit daos not eiafct a cure. Gilarantes istied only by G. J. LUIIN. Csarieston, X. C. Orders by mail promptly attended to. HEGE'S IMPROVED CIRCULAA SAW MILLS. Send for With universal .og CIRCULARS. Beam, Double Ec centric Friction Feed. Prices Lcw. Worknxan- 2t - shIp FIrst-Class. Ifn"deured by GALEM ION WORES. DALE~M, Y. 0. FIVE-TON WAGON SCAL[S SBO AUlliron andi steel, Double Brass Tsre assan I loes he pays the freight. All sizes equally low, abr faee book, addr'me JONES OF BINOHAMTDN, Bingham, N. T. McBRIDE & CO.'S CHINA AND GLASS PALACE, ATLANTA, GiEORGIA, Ownt the (Oate City Natu ta l S'tone Watter Filterem .ind1 Cherry's St eatu Fruit it nl Vegtab ille Ii r' ter. .\gnt fur' Sei h 'I hiomas Clock Co. i''ries furn ithed oat aplicaittin. MILL and FACTOR~Y SUPPLIES OF ALL HINDS, BELTING HOSE and PACKING, OILS, PUM~PS ALL HINDS, IRON PIPE, FITTINGQS, BR~ASS GOODS, STEAX GAUGES3, ENGINE GOVERNORS, &cc. Send. for Price List. W. HI. DIL LINGHAM & Co., 1-3 MIain Street, LOUIS VILLE, KY. OPIUM HABIT AND DRUNKENNESS. Positiv'elv, speedIly and germanenatly cured by ft It. IC EFL i 'S 001,1 ) lIrhal J'DI EM, conitiing not forn of O)pium. TIrnth Iivites~ InvestIgation. ltieferaeces best ini the State. For termes, pampuih lets amnd ptrooft, adldressr, W. C. BELLAMY, M. D., 71-2 Broad St., Atlanata, _Ga. C S ".':". ba a il IviooRAT t. .iR sownr itaL . "et Piarnouna' Purtu lv. Pll.. mat o Newia Bit Blood, and will -ompllete~ly changn the blood it i h< entire systtema in thrtee months. An' I eronu wahto will take one 1p111 each night fr.ait I it l'' weXk- niat- 1 restoredl to sotodt hrealtli I, t' h a thing l.e osie. Sold ever' whaere or ,sent by riaail 1I.a lt 1. Ier . -tmpja. I. M. .oIntNSON &~ 00.. Peotn, Mnen, forsrly lauager, "e. P'b U M jRy F. *. -* noiey. Atla.Lla, ~~ 3 ~ a. In * a?'e eY'twnee given and , eierencges to cured H A BIT (liient an:i phscas IC R E . tua or atokonTh BUE SUB Best work in th'- U.S. for the money. Eniterprise Carriatge Co., Cin'ti, 0. Territory Givers. Catalogue FREE. AG~ENTS WANTED FOEL THE HISTORY TalE U. S. BY ALEXANDER H. STEPHENSa It contains nearly 1300 fihe portraitts and engravings of b-att le's antd otr itli irlial steines. artit Ia the iniost co mplite arid-aluabtlle laidtory cver publislhied. it In sold by stabocri tiIota only. and Agenats atre wtanted In every couint y. enud for circular. aind extra terms to Agents. Nauiesat t eest wie Cs.. At1anta. tea. SAW MILLSmr T1 HE A ULT MA N A TAYLOR 00., Nanefleld. Ohio. -e .ag 4 I. h awors..cas. s l. tore...e. 'ble sleep;i efree eres where all othesa fail. A 'da insc r1 roa eS.pticaJ. Prt ee 800'.sa d iRON T'r~c tdos. Ini tinany~ erases (i' Nervouts l 'rite povi'Cthed10( c!Ondionb of a le blood. this yerless reim tatse's that have btt iled 4411o in oftt ourt; m 'sti minenit ph table remedyI . I pre(~(eri be It int preferenc' e toi an atIn tas Di. lIAiiTER'8 IJION TrONii a : ne~icsity' in am ii qFr. 8.oo-oi.tAvo~.. NOV. th estive orfpans anit' ne'rt'oei syittsem, mak1Iingf it aplicaE'ble to Genfeatl Deb'i ty,, Iss of A lpv.. ftst, P'rostratifon of'ta Powternv aind fimpotenec.e MANUFACTURED BY THE DR. HARTER MI FQRNSer'voui a Sense %i~~ Feelings, Di - <Weak Sight, Sore BrAnch;s', Aethn A CATALOGUE JUST ISSUED CONTAINING 100 ILLUSTRATIONS AND PRICES OF JIAMONDS, WATCHES, JEWELRY AND SILVERWRAE Will be sent to any address upon application to J. P. STEVENS & GO JEWELERS, ATLANTA, - - GEORj& FAIRBANKS' SCALES. The World's Standard. For Weighing Sced Cottol at the Gii. Vill more than pay for itself in one Season. Don't be humbuged by the cheap and worthless Wagon Scales which are offered at any Price; they are of no use and you will be better off without a Scale. Write to us for Prices and one of our Books giving Testimonials. Don't buy untill you have heard from u. or seen our authorized agent. SOUTHERN COTTON BEAM F'rame, Hooks and all other requirod Attachments. BUY ONLY THlE OENUINE Fairbanks' Etanidard. SCALE S OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. A~SEND FOR PRICE L1ST.G FAIRE3ANKS & 00., NEW ORLEANS. MASON & HAMLIN ORGANS -soda omsand ow er swty bat aliy r puad ca 'crr an. Alofr easy paym a. NEW I LLIJ PIANOS IANFA?.nodc amport ant i oemnsa dape eut0 "AEr asoh r Pins ,IL 'I1a h.b.IV s4eidt, V.isrk; 149o"'Wabnaa Ae." hEa'a. AIGENT1S wanted fo te best selling book in the United at the ter ms we oe. Salary and commission to the Atlanta. 4Aa. t~ttii~stii".'_----------:----O. F..rty one-'82., DR. 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