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A Shadow In tho TtOiy. ThMNt ft shadow In tho raHay Whara Dm Hhas lie Mtaap, Whm lhilwiMa|vil0wnWi iadttiimUm fcoofMKiwyt There's a abadow In tba ralley h And a ?.\h floata ia tbe air, like tbe breath of angeiareatii* Oec Iks Mr mm akvond there. Suoh a ahadow In the yaliey Bringa a burden to my heart i Cxn not yoa, too, underetand it? Hmo ioq never felt 1U ?mwty . I hare witohed the ltiiea lying, t h* re seen the ? weot flags wee p , And hare *iahad that X, whan djing, Might he laid wtth them to alaep. Lite tbs human heart o'erahadowed ? By a aorrov awift and deep, Like tba awaat Hags and the Wiea In tba ahadpw rate aaleep. There's a malanoboly mitoiss In tha psrfuma-ladan air, And the tall roods seem to whisper, c ~* ' 'You'll find aorrow everywhere.' FARM, FIELD AjU) FIRESIDE. Kitchen lle'H> Bnowmo our a Oakdi?s.? There i n a oerreotwayto do CTery thing. If this be done bj blowing it inan upward di rection, the wiok mil n^Mmolder. away and the uerft time it ia wanted will be in good condition. Bbakpast Bibouit.? To three oupfuls of bnttermilk add one of batter, one teaspoonful of oroam tartar, half a tea* spoonful of jsdiMeuflljfenhaalfc, and floor , enough to make the dough Jnit -etUT| enough to roll out into bieouik. These, wlltbe wimderfolly lfght and delicate. OinflB Maoak jni.? Boil macaroni ia * cloth, to keep it atraight. Pat a lay er in a c^ish seasoned with butt Salter, and pepper, then a layer of oystera, al ternate, until the dlah is rail. Mix some grated bread with a beaten egg. ? Spread orer the top and bake. Awnm CnAniiOTTK. ? Beat two qnps.of nice apple Sauoe, well sweetened and fiatored, to a high froth, with the whip ped whitea o( three eggs; make into a mound in a glaes dlah and oover with lady's fingers or other small sponge caftps,, ( fitted neatly together; send aronhd sugar and oream with it. ' ? Packing BoTrsa fob Wiwtbb.? There are a few requisites for paoking butter safely for winter use. The butter most bVgMffM be pare; .thefj paokages muat be olean and air-tight,' and perfectly well olosed; and the plaoe of storage most be oool, olean, airy, free from moldlneaa, and net too dry. A clean, well-aired oellar with oemented floor, and ia which vegetables are not stored, is as good a plaoe as any for th4 storage of buttefc for winter ore. Purs air iiTinr important. Ar&a Jonathan.? Line the sid? spme nioe| ful| of Juioy, tender ap. peeled and slioed, with a little water to keep thom moist. Oover the | top Of the dish with paste and bake until the apples are soft, then remove the orust and mash the apples while hot, addOtO^. butter, grate* nut meg sad a little flaroring, if deeired.~~ When oool, serve with rieh oream, sweetened, flavored and whipped to a stiff froth, or the oream may be need without whipping. Oobn Bbhai>. ? Boa Id one oup oorn ' pUibvi.iag water; when half oup oold water. In the morning soald one oup of oorn meal with a eoant oup of water; add one-half cup white sugar, one teaapoonful salt. ? When cool enough add one-half oup of very light, tkflfn add enough flonr I to get] it into the tins quite soft. (The tins should be deep), l<et rise in the tlnb until light. Bake in a moderate oven. ' Ba-nnr r'oiifc a# ach*-7VW Journal o/ Health give* the following: There is tfaaftely sayaehe to which ohildren are enbjeot, so hard to bear aad diffloult to qnte.'M th* earaobe. But there is a remedy ne* known to fan. Take a bit of cotton batting, put upon it a pinch of black pepper, gather it up and tie it, dip in sweet oil ga^ lpperft ^ the ear Pat a flannel b^l^WsJSiSl had Promptneee should also ^ observed ing it a^rnle^that whenev^a toolor im without waiting a more convenient sea* son to have itdon* and Whicfc may . never ooato. a plow-handle, oul. tivator, hay rake or other implement is broken* it ehonld be repaired at once, and thus save time in the sod. The rarest way Is to examine all your imple ? ' meats and tools in the winter, when possible ordor before the opening cf . spring, so thai they will I*' tMjr tor , s.tsaetras zrfi gasssaway?** WkM Br?r4 *f I The Berkshire swine seem to hWre token a fre^h start among Western farm ers and raiaetra. At one time they were quits numerous ia the Eastern stdMUU die states, bat they wouldn't grow big VvwwlJ ypf Oil^l WCiv ?iin^fliuWil WHLi* preferred, and are no doubt more profit - f- end for hothe nee we like smsll pork.? There is nothing more objeotionable than gtMk fet hams, Weigh!** ftom ten : , to twenty ponndi, with not aiere than one-half lean. The small sine of the Si hogs cf which wete fed principally ujKmaooroe andnttta wbile tanning at < large, we* without comparison the best we evir ate- better, when properly btniled^than any other meet under the swu^o*. aw, ll^&S&ra&s: esre4li%Xi^nd consequently 'that ^ bran oh of farmina le much leefnrodto' ble than it was a quarter of e century kuai, VMV f ? j>ed, Tbtoe are, |nncts of the fSnn thai ?le then formerly, can injure. m to say pro The cultiva tion of apples and email fruit*, too, k another important branch of the farm that doae notreceire the attention its importance dtaa&di, Bum B? ? Fmly ftr ff*. The N. B. Jbrmer, in an article about feeding cattle with the sugar beet pulp, girae information of fntereet to farmera intending to embark in this new crop. ? To giro an idea of the eonoentrated na ture of the pulp after the extraction of the an gar, it ia atated that before the beeta are ground up for the extraction of the sugar they are thoroughly waahed, eo that the p^lp muat be free from dirt, and therefore in a better oondition for feeding than the dirty heete.br a taw oondition. In preeafng the beet, about ten per oent. of the ragar ia removed, leering three to fire per oent. still in the pulp. In extracting |he sugar there ,is *o much water extracted that .Uptakes fire tons of raw beeta to make one ton of pnlp, ao that the beet pnlp ia a very concentrated food. It followa that a ton of pulp ia five times aa oonoentrated aa a ton of raw beete, exoepting, of oburse, thai the eager has baenxeadored:. In Germany no farmer will oousent to raise beeta for a sugar faototy unless he can hare the pnlp returned to him, whioh is atipulated in every oontraot,? They claim that it keeps up the flow of dBlIk hi winter like grass or fresh Corn fodder. This makes it a desirable win tec food; and nsgvafcp has advanced! Ita use will be eeonomioal to thoee who hare been raiaing beete for the Wilming ton sugar mill. Ita keeps well in oool sheda or oellars, or it may be put in a trenoh and lightly covered with straw j and board a, and taken out from time to time aa wanted. It ia mixed with hay and oorn meal in feeding to miloh oows and beef oattle. i Joke on * Humorist. Thai quaint and original genius, Sam uel L. Clem en ta ? Mark Twain? told a story at his own expepse whilo break* fasting with a journ Alistio friend in O hi oago, which |a too good to he loet? ami whioh by hio oonaent is now published for the firef time. 1 here had been /wme talk at the table about the' Grant ban-, quel, -when Mr. Clemens remarked with a smile and his peculiar drawl: 'Speaking of banqneta reminds me of a rather amusing incident that ooonrred to me during my stopin smoky, dirty, grand, old London. I received an in* vitation to attend a banquet thereand I went. It was one of those tremendous dinners where there are from eight hundred to nine hundred invited guests. I hadn't been used to that sort of thing, and I didn't feel quiW at home^ "When we took our seats at the table I noticed that at eaoh plate was a plan of the hall, with the poaition of' eaoh' guest num bered so that one oould see at a glanoe where a friend was seated , by learning his number. Just before we fell to, some one?the lord mayor, or whoever Was bossing the ooeasion? arose and be* gan to read a list of those present?No. 1, Lord So-and-so, No. 2* the Duke of | Somethlng-or-other, and ?o on. When thiS' individual read the ndta of some uiMMMiiHl iwUtlwd obaraotar or Ut*rtOfy , celebrity, it Would be greeted with more j or less applause. The individual who was reading the names did so in so mo* notonousa manner that I beoame some what tired, and began looking about for something to engage my attention. I foundthe gentleman next to me, on the right, a well-informed personage, and I irxUxeH into OohveVaatlon with him. I had never seen him before, but he was a{ good Hiker and I enjoyed it. Suddenly, just aa he waa giving mo his views upon : the future religious aspeot of Great Britain, our eara were assailed by a deafening storm of applause. Buoh a clapping of hands I had never heard be fore. It sent the blood to my head with aitiih, and 1 got terribly excited, **' ipand< my htfads With all my might. 1 moved* about excitedly in my ehair and olappedi harder and harder. 'Whoiaitr tasked! r right. 'Whose ' si ' ' * I he answered. ( ?I stopped applauding. ; 1 didn't clap any more. ' It kind of took the life out ' liWiit'faAt sat tlMe like a mummy and Attirt even get up aiad bow* It Was one of the mosk distressing fixes I Over got into, and it will be many a day before I M 'Jul. Knowing. Brerj Utile while, we reed in the pn- ' pen of eome one who he* iiaok * runty net! in hie foot, or knee* or head* or seine other portion of hie body, end that . Ipokjew reeulted therefrom, of whlehi the petMbt died. If erery person wee! ?ware of nperfeei remedy for ell suoh wonndu, end would epplj it, then ell Suoh reports Wit ee?e*. Bet At&ough , we oen give the remedy, we oen not ens' force it* application. Borne will not em ploy it beeenee they think it tootttnpld; othere will here no feith in it when they . yMd ||i whllft othsH think mohA wottod otsLd 1 fcttmAt, end not worth fnssing orer, nntil it ie too lete to do any good.; Yet elk meh wound* een be heeled with out the feUl ooneeqnenoee whioh follow tkeaa. The remedy in irimple, alrnoet elweys on hand, end een be epplied by eny one, nttd what M bettor, It le infalli ble. It Is simply to smoke the wound, or sny bruise or woUnd thst i* inflamed, With burning wool or WOOlett cloth. Twenty mlnutee in the smoke of woolj ' will teke the pein out M theworrt wonnd; repeated two or flirt* times ilj | will ulley thf worst eeeee of Inflamma tion arising from e wonnd. People may ?neerst the old men's remedy' ee mnoh | eg they please, bnt when they ere eflioi ed Joel let them iry 1L It bee sated many lives end mnoh pels, end Is worthy o I being printed In letters of gold and put In erery home. .. jfoAm u.i ( ? ' Oar*! It* wdght nted by goldsmiths wad Jowtlurft. Originally tht K*?r? h?MWMnH toe Uil?i pwrpoM; honoo th? nataft. A o*r?t <t ? jf^jght of four Smhe fine, while toMrSSfor orn* ttMlta Mid }?w?!ty TMri?p from ftighteon earwN down M low M twtltf Mid *ron Urn ewftW, The alloy la mnaily rilrer. ' ?, ? ; ' ixu .TJ"" ?? ?*** <**??*? or ribbons N<"'. " y* ^ hni W" 0Uo*** '"? ?Uoh I W?ta?7taii4,yo?*m m tut >11 JJJJIJB- to. draMd to ,*,( aflk.1 dSSSSSSS <** **"> laid at hfa feet a grest hogging him to re SThS ^ her ?~nd^1tw. Who also had a queer n*mo? Bu-llng-?hi. Ordering his Grand Chamberlain to open the bundle* there appeared to hie astonfahed gase the moel beautiful fabrics ever aeon. He sent for the lediee I o? his household, for there vu e drew fi? w J!?* 70,1 0-1 their delight. Demanding of the old woman of .toe emperor', many title* * was the oaetom):-r r..,. , arAoioaa Son of Heaven, Lord of the Ewth, Light of (he Empire, and Prngi t w6 Qold<m Df*?on. our Great j Prophet Fo. aaye: 'What fa told in the' ear fa often heard a hundred miles off-' I eqd also 'Give not away that which fa not thine awn. ' The secret fa not mine. ??K?t belongeth to my daughter and granddaughter.' And here the gran?f mother (who was not a very old woman, <u women many very young in China) b<)wed her head nine timee to the earth, i The emperor ordered a large enm of taoney to be presented to the woman and with his own august hands gave her magnifloent strings of pearls for her daughter and granddaughter. Afao for the granddaughter he gave a badge of honor, bidding the grandmother bring! the maiden before the next moon, for he must know her seoret, and should .Words be straight words, he would honor her as never lowly maid was ! honored before. ?f Su ling-shi was filled with delight when she heard the words of her grandmother. Busily was her loom set to work that she might have a dress so magnifloent for the occasion '5 1?? 01 OoWm Dragon' might And pleasure in beholding her. The great day et length dawned, the heart of Bu-lingahl fluttered with fear and delight, as ?arrayed in a dress of roe*pink silk [and sky-blue tunic em broidered with gold. the pearfa in her! hair and golden badge upon ker buaom? ah? approaohed with Ambling foot steps his 'Fragrant Majesty,' whose subjeote, bend their foreheads to the gronnd, not daring to gase upon Mm, , **okatthfa fan,' said Aunt Maggie; ^on will see the Great King of the Dragon seated upon a ohair whioh bears sign of the dragon, toe symbol of Empire. Hfa robe, eent ;oa'Ung"8W' *" ot "J* y*low sujr, with a golden sun upon hfa breast ??<> ? topi p?Mook'? (Mthw to hta 0.p. Next to him fa the 'Grand Mandarin of Household/ clothed in aoerlet. The gteat Mandarin of War, General Hea ling- ah, in soarlet robes and blue sash, ?tends with drawn sword to warn them that death is always toe penalty of an untrath before the great emperor. , h e, ^grandmother, in dresf.pf green silk with yellow oollar, standing behind toe general, advanoed first, and bowing 8*?und, said: 'Know, Most Mighty King, that in my garden ws a mulberry tree, upon which I ofttimea notioed a worm that spun * ball for a house in'whioh to lite. These bails I often took within my dwelling aid I found that in* little time a moth crept out from each and fl?w away.' I a^wed L^ee, my daugbler^to the silken balls. This fa all that Ffcive done. 'Biao te kin.' It fa vety little. Let my daughter LvSee speak/ -i t, Then tho mother, whom you see next with the , royal pearl, in hVr hair id pink silk drees, bowed nine time*, say tag: 'Moat Graoious Ten Thousand ooooon-would unwind, and i u^sd it as thread with which to embroider the fine mm Wind, Afterward I taykt my daughter to do the pame. This, my Gracious Kiag, all that 1 1 h*U done. ? Let my daughter speak. ' Then oame Sa-lifig- shi, and. after nine bow* -be SS? Jidds 'If Hfa Meet Graoious Majesty and I Light of toe Empire will deign to oast bfaeyea upon these insects he will sea they are but ootrmon moths which t here let fly from my hand. I followed the example ol my wipe parent* (may they lire * thousand year* I) and saw that it was thia i in^eot whioh lfcid the Agga upon the mulberry tree, and which *ft?rw*rd beoame the Bombye tnori, or caterpU* la*. Thin fed npon tho mnlborry leave* thirty-two 4ay?? tod, Mfa ig it* skin four times, began to spin Its ooooon, winding alwaya the same w nj. My mother (may Fo bless her I) had learned to tfaririikd the ooooon and had planted! imany traee. Thus it was. Moat Mighty I hit npon the idea of wearing them.? Thin, my sovereign, is the ooooon, fend In thia roll yon will find the reanlt? a pieoe of aUk, whtoh I hope msy prove worthy of the aeoeptanoe of your gra? olotw loftiness, to whom ? surrender my knowledge.' And agsin sho howod her forehead to the ground* 'Behold a maiden pbesesssd of all the virtues,' aaid the. Knperor, And then turning to her he said: 'Rise, fat# jmak);suoh wisdom, snoh industry and sneh 'oeanky are worthy of an empire, -4 Half my throne shall be thine.' And taking the hand of the blushing Bu-llng. shi, he seated her1 beside him. ?My lords,' he continued, 'prepare fot the bridal oeremony. Summon the la dles of the court, and henoeforth know our mother as the Prinoess La- Bee, and onr grandmother aa the Prinoess Bang. Honor them sa snoh, and 1st the whole land know onr dragon will!' Ton will see on the fan,' oontinned aunt Maggie, 'that the eourt ladles were not far off, and that their ?nrloeiiy waa great, for they ware peeping. Of oourae, grandma congratulated hemelt on her shrewdness In 'presenting the silk to the emperor instead of selling it to a merchant The ingenious empress not only tsught ihe ladlea of her eenfrt how to raise the silk- worm, but brought vast! jnms of money into her husband's treasury by selling the secret to the westers, and for many hundreds of yearn theee Ohiasee weavew earefnlly gwM the ttenl which only they pa-awit At laet a aly old European monk vent to Ohins, obtained the ae enk, and stealing some ooooooe, hid thorn in his hollow reed oim, and walked away, rcjokring all Europe by ahowing people how silk waa made.? St. Nicholas. ? - finding *?lhri' ia the Bible. An English missionary, a short time ago, related a remarkable incident. There wae a lodging house in hie dietriot whioh he had long deaired to enter, bat wae deterred from eo doing by hie friend, who feared that hlfUfe would be endan gered. He became at length so nneaey that he determined to risk all oonse quenoee and try to gain admfseion. 80 one day he gave a somewhat timid knook at the door, in response to whioh a ooareo Toice roared out: * Who's there!' and at the same moment a vicious-locking woman opened the* door and ordered the fcnan of God Away.? ?Let him oomein, and see who he is, and what he wants,' growled out thoj same voice. The missionary walked in and bowing polite! y to the rough -look* ing man whom he had jnst heard speak said: 'I have been visiting moet of the houses in this neighborhood to road with and talk to the people abont good thing*. I have passed yonr door 00 long as I feel I ought, for 1 wish also to talk with yon and yonr lodgers.' ' 'Are yon what is called a town hum ion - aryt* i 'I am, sir,' was the reply. 'Well, then/ said the fieroe-Iooking man, 'sit down and hear what I am going to say. . I will ask yon a question ont of the Bible. It you answer me right, you may oall at this house Jand read and pray with us or our lodgers as often as you like; if you do' not an swer me right, we will tear your olothes off your baok and tumble you neek and heels into the street. Now, what do you say to that, for I am a man of my word?' 1 The missionary was perplexed, but at length quietly said: *1 will take you.' i 'Well, then,' said the man, 'here goes. Is the word 'girl' in any part of the Bible. II so, where is it to be found and how often? That ia my ques* tion.' "r. m. ; 'Well, sir, the word 'girl' is in the Bible, but only onoe, and may be found in the words of the Prophet Joel, iii, 8. The words are: 'And sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.' ' - 'Well,' replied the man, 'I'm dead beat, I dtuet to hare bet five pounds thit you oould not hare told,' 'And I oonld not hare told yeeterday,' said the visitor. 'For several days 1 hare been praying that the Lord would open a way Into this house, and this Very morning, when reading the Soriptures in my familyy I -was surprised to And the word girl, and got the Oonoordanoe to see if it ooourred again, and found it did not. And now, sir, I believe that God did know and doee know what will oome to pass, and surely His hand is in this for my proteotion and your good.' The whole'of the inmatee were greatly surprised, and the Jnoident has been the means of the conversion of the man, his wife and two of the lodgers. ? Now VArnlsli. Borne few yearn Ago it was dlabovorod 1 in Natal, South Afrioa, that knives used in cutting down plants belonging to the natural order Eaphorbisoeas were pro tected ' from ruatihg by the gum whioh adhered1 16 them. This led to further experiments being made with a view of ntUiaing ihe^gum ao a preset vAtivo ma terial. Iron platea Were oofcted *itb it and aubjeited 'to immerakm in the wa ters of South Africa, which are stated to' be proverbial for their foulnepssnd for the rapidity of the growth of vegetation. The euphorbia in Natal grows 'in close oontiguity to the seashore, s 0 that there was ample opportunity for severely test ing its value as a protecting oovaringfar iron ' 'jqtyftfcstf v oortoeion and marine growth. The experiments proving suo oessfnl, it was then sought to pat the dinoovery into a practical form. To this end the gum was dissolved in a prepara tion of spirits, and ttils was found to be. a ready means of applying it as a ooat ing for ships* bottoms, and far ironwork generally requiring BUoh protection, the spirits evaporating and the gum being left on the surfaee of the metal. A. sheet of iron edited with this preparation was plaoed in the waters in the naval dock yard at Chatham, where anything im mersed becomes rapidly fouled. At the end of two years the plate wss taken out and was found to be quite ole?u? and free from fouling and corrosion. The composition hss also been saaBSSstrtlly tested in Africa against the ravages of the white ant. These' taooessee have led to its adoption in practice for vark one purpotes, rfbdlt it no w being intro duced in Kngland. > y . , , "if1 . . ? New Treatment of Con ?n mpt Ion . { The medio*! Reoord describe* a now theory of oure in the eeee of oon*ump? Hon, whioh into oiour the lunge by * meohanioal effort, ohiefly by manipulat ing the ofaeelee of the throat, so m to 'eeuaemore foroibio breathing; eeoond, 16 estebliah perfect digestion; third, to promote e prooesa of heeling the tuber* ?lea, eo the! they shell beoome chalky or oalcifled m??eee; fourth, to oompel the petlent to take ebundent freeh *ir, sunlight end out-door exercise. To *o eure perfeot digestion, e epeeiel diet hi ordered in eeeh omo, and the food Is ebenged as the power of assimilating it Improves. To promote the eeloifyiog of the tuberclee, the aelte of lime, whioh eve found in moet vegetable end animal food, ere supplied in e notable condition ?the theory being the! too muoh heet in ordinary oookiog deetroya the natural oombinetion of theae aelta with albu men, and render* them Ineoluble to e week digeetion. Oat -door exeroiae ia held to be bo Important that the petiente ere expeoted to go out in rain, enow, dampneee, and eren in night elr or dew, the habit thua acquired neutralising the danger of taking eold from anob expo aure. Only strong heed winda end ex* treme hot weather are to be guarded againat; and the petiente aleep with the windows open summer and winter. Ton might as well baok a mule up > againat a bee-hire end tell him not to > klek ea to tell a woman about a wedding .na.ip~i.iW FACET UK. There Is no end to ring*. The only kind of cake children don't cry after ? a cake of soap; A professional beauty, though two words, Is really only one silly belle. An sdor who hsd not studied his pert was osught in the sot by the prompter. It is more profltsble to look up our defects than to boset of our attainments. How osn procrastination be the thief of time when it never oomes np to time, v The rsan who took hit rest to s justioe to have it bound over thinks justices are no good, soyhow. Hu?bsnds never meet their wires with 'spides' on the Hps; they wipe them off before they get home. 'What were the worst resnlts of the eiVil wsr T' cried an orator, 'Widows,' shouted Jones ? who hsd married one. Great men pay high prices for choipe library books, make s show of them, die, and the hqir#sell out for what they will bring. - Ton should nover give advioe, If tho 'person to whom jon offer it is wiee ho doesn't neod it. If he isn't he won't take it. How quietly flows the river to the sea, yet it always gets there. This is a good pbint to remember whon you are trying to rush things, . Hopo is s flatterer, but the most up right of sit parasites; for she frequents tho poor man's hut, as woll as the palaoe of his superior. tho hoy asked, Mo you blow down the muszle of your gun?' 'To soe,' replied the man, 'if it is' ? And just then ho discovered that it was, "Couldn't you lond mo #6?' ^Yes, I oould, but I won't.' 'Then do you think I wouldn't pay you baokt' 'Yes, you won Id, but you couldn't.' j The new Queen Christina, " of Spain, is to reoeive a curious present from an inhabitant of Madrid ? a psir of stook ings made from onion peel. Mrs. Partington, reviewing Boston health reports, found that the number dying from 'total diseases' equaled thoee dying from all others. A mob tarred and feathered a oomio singer out West for eloping with another man's wife. His manager bills him now fcs the 'great feathered songster.' One good turn deserves another; but it does not seem possible thst there oan be more than two good turns in an old silk dress, however deserving the case may be, There are men found oooasionally who will kill the goose thst Isys the golden egg, and there are dootors who will hon* estly try to prevent the spread of cents gious diseases. A young Iowa man has invented a machine by whioh the lire oan be lighted in the morning by clock-work, and the young ladiee regard him as a most de-? sirsble 'catch,' matrimonially speaking. 'Aw, my good man, what kind of a wesidenoe do you think would suit met' asked an exquisite of a house agent. After taking him in, eye-glass and all, the agent replied, 'Something like a flat, would be most appropriate.' Loudon Truth: 'To come home and finnan ill-cooked dinner presided oyer by * slatternly wife in her tantrc as is a gloomy business. To hear a husband maunder daily over the increasing prioe of ooals And small beer is quito as gloomy for the wife.' 'We have bcen friends long, and I? I' ? | 'There It is, the same old hack neya! style, ' said she with impatience. ?Jtfa fellow can't propose to, me in anJ original sort of way he can just quit | WmftW *elV>tth .desperation. ?i nd how does Oharlle like going to! soh< olf'; kindly inquired a good man of the little six-year-old boy, who was watt ing With tin ean in hand the advent of anotier boy. V'I like goin' well 'nough,' replied the embryo statesman, ingenu ously, 'but I/don't like stay in' after 1 gitt)ier< " itleman passing through one of Ik) offloee at Washington was af- , by some clerks, and was advised! ? ? jlain to the principal, which hd dldithuii 'I have been abased by some of the rascals of thfs place, and I oome to Acquaint you of it, is I understand you are the principal.' E nest [at six]? 'But mother, dear, is it r< ally true the world 'was made in six ??Yes, Ernie, and if Qod > oould have made it In Ernest [after a moment's J? 'Qb, mfcmma, that would you know; why, we Bnnday every other isiji)**' ' Kij c.i [\ ' . , ! mg men were sitting to? ng lady happened to ity. One 'real sweet! ng, ss he supposed^ looking at him, remsrk4 OU| Mill WINI n WWIttlUg ?lUt' per,; * Well, Mite ? , yon needn't look li me m though yon wentod to out m?.' 'Objno,' ewoMly replied the young ledy, ?I ipfl green*.' women who .Invited so many gno ta Diaitki|iving thet in order to mekb the labio long enough for them she in obliged to hnvoone went oome over the fameoe register mey think Ihet, if ?he Uy? ? light rng over the piece, the f At roan who eeonpiee the eeet oen't nn? deretend whet ehe ha* done to him, but yon bei ho will end hell recollect it* end wheii the long repeet is finished end the p*r^ of hint thet heen't melted goee ont on the pieue to oool off he will eweer e greet onth thet when Ohrietmee oomee ho will give thet Women'e children four teen home, e policemen's rettle, e per rot thet eweere, e drum end * monkey. Did Hot* Tm e new feeling? eotnethlng more Then we bed dared to own b*(?e, Which then we hl<l not j We eew It hi eeoh othar'a eye, And wtah'd, In every half- bieat h'd nigh, - ? Te apeak, bnt did not. Bhe felt ay lip*' ItnpemUm'd toneh - Twee the *r?t ttee 1 dared ao mneh, And yet ahe chid not i Bat whleper'd o'er my beralng browt 'Oh I do yon doubt I lore yon no*?' flweet aonl f 1 did not. / Warmly X felt her boaom thrill, I preaa'd Heloetr, oioeer at III, ' vflThongh gently bid col} Till?Oh I the world bM eeldom heard 4 Of lotMre who ao neerly err'd, ?* And yat, Who did not. . Tkomas Meoea. THE NEWS. * A train lamped the track near Madi son, Ark., and running into ft tieatle overthrew fifteen eere loaded with ootton, all of whioh were bnrned. George For ayth, a hrakeman, and a negreea aud her two children were killed. Sevetal other train employee* were injured. A boiler exploded in ft planing mill at San Claire, Wi ft., killing three men and injuring ft number of o there, Magargee'a paper house and several other large buildings mostly ooounied bj paper m*n and printer*^ on the blook bouuuod by Oheatnut, Market, Sixth and Seventh streets, Philadelphia, were destroyed byflre. Loss $100 000; partly insured. Three children of Cayuga. Oni. broke through the ioe on a mill pond and were drownded. Two ol them, a boy and ft girl, belonged to William Iiooey, a (inn< r? i&d the third, a 6l"t to Benjamin Foetcr. Their ftgen ranged from eight to fourteen years, 1 The itabtio dAbt Mfttement, J?eo 1st, ehows tfcg total debt, -intetvs?*and peta oipal, lessoash in the treasury, to bo $2 016.019,712 88; decrease during Nov ember, $709,828.18. ? ? - DeWitt Talmage'e Brooklyn ohuroh has withdrawn from the Presbyterian fold on aooouut of alleged persecution, and declares it will not return until as sured of fair treatment. The aohooner Hattie Jones, of Buffa lo, laden with $30,000 worth of wheat, is given up as lost on the lakes, uapt. 1'rantly and wife and eight men are supposed to have gone down with her. The election in Ijouiaiana resulted in Democratic suooess, wfth large gains. I An explosion of fire-damp ooourred in a mine in Ohemnitx, Saxony, and it is feared that from seventy to eighty persons perished. The reoovery of the oorpsee of the viotims is aotlvely pro- 1 The engineer ftt the tJnion shaft, Vir- 1 ginia City, Neb., while changing shift, ran the oage into the sheaves. Eighteen men were In the oage and the skip bo ? 1 neath, and nearly *11 were more or less injured. One, T . O. McOarty , has sinoe died. Several others, it is feared, are fatally hurt. Two boilers of the Girard furnaoe, 5fonngs town, O., exploded with terrific force, wrecking the engine house and 1 badly damaging the furnftoe. Two men were buried in the debris, ftnd one, Amo? Llewellyn, was killed. j A fair was he id in the Presbyterian ohnroh, oorner of Broad and Oxford Btreete, Philadelphia, to raise money to pay for a new organj but some of the deooralions oaught fire, and everything oombustible within the walla was de stroyed, including the new organ. Loss $60,000; insured. News haa been reoeived at Liverpool that a war has broken out between nval chief a in New Oftlabar, Weat Afrioa, and that 200 persona have been alain and wounded, and the prisoners killed and eaten. The Europeans in New Calabar have requested a British naval offloer to interfere. It i? ftpprehended that the ^outbreak will spread from Opobo to ^During ft pftrty u?ft* Plueville, N. C., J Bob Farrow, oolored, exoitod by drink and tho suspicion of hia wife s unfaith- j fain ess, began a quarrel, whioh beoame ceaoral, during which ho killed two men with his revolver, and then fled. Philadelphia has sold $2,957,450 of Pennaylvftnift railroad atook at par, arid converted the money into ita own four per oent. bonds. , ? On November 80 the Utee drove off the herdera in charge of a herd of bct>f belonging to the White River oamp, and appropriated the atook. I Chief Oolorow. before the peace oorn miaslon, acknowledged that he and Jack led the attack upon Thornburg, but state* the fight waa the result of mistako, and not premeditated. He also swore positively that the Mormons promised assistance In any war with the govern- I ment. ' ? ,, 1 The secretary of the treasury oalla for proposals for the sale to the govern- 1 ment of $1,000,000 of six per cent, bonds, to be ftpplied to the sinking fund. Owing to the numerous reoent assaults upon V. ? S. deputy murshftls in the mountainous Tegioue of Georgia while' the offloers were endeavoring to sup-, press illicit distilleries, the revenue, it^oritiWkteled to oonolude there ia an* organised ptah ftmottg the moon-} shiners' to oppose the enforcement or the lew. ' Large numbers of arreats havo been made in Moc ojw on account of tho recent attempt on the life .Of the otar. No, olnee nave been gathered, however. . I Andrew Traoy. a talented young law yer, and member of an honorable, family, was hanged at Smethport, Pa., for the mnrder of his cousin., a young lady who declined to marry him. Thci condemned , passed his last nigUl' in devotional exorcises and appeared o?m poeed, The drop fell at 2 10 p. m, . but owing to some blundering tho knot slipped and the man fell nroowotons on the floor. A new rope beiDg pro - oared, he was lifted on the platform and again dropped, his ncek being broken. A Buenos Ayres dispatch aays : Intelli gence has been rc o aived here that the allied Peruvians and Bolivians hare been completely defeated at Tarapaoat Peru, by the Chilians, who have taken possession of the town. The Ohilian squadron ia blookading the port of Ario). Secretary Everts has telegraphed to the oser of Rassla the President's om l Satnlations on his troape from the at> mpt on his life; ' Medford Waters, oolored, who mur dered his fomeir friend in a fit of anger, was publioly hanged near Elkton, Md., dying easily, as his neek Was broken. The last few days of his lifeweire pasied in derivinrfreligious oonsolatlon, and he |>rarfess^drhi* belief in future redemp Otto Wolf and hii wife, hard-work ing Germans living in a Hew York tenement!, left their three small ohildren locked in their rooma while they attended to their labor.' In som# way the children set the place on fire and two of them Were burned to, death. Report* indicate that Egypt Is pre paring for war with Abassinia, and will put 20,000 men in the field. The Indian oommisston is progressing finely, lack is still on the stand. So far he has proved the meat valuable witness yet examined, answering all questions promptly and keeping nothing baek. H* claims the removal of the agen cy wan the commencement of the 1 rouble: tbfttat an elevation of 8,700 feet, with frost every month in the year, farming was impossible; that he and his bands re ceived no rations for a year, which, he claiins, was a violation of the treaty of 1808; but his engagement with the troope was a fair fight: oslla Douglass ? squaw-man for having attaoked the agency, and insists that a white man under the same oironmstanoee would hage fought Thornburg. The flooring of a flour mill in Brook ton, Maas., gave way with 8000 bnahels of wheat, burying three men in the rulna. Although willing hands threw out the grain as soon as possible, the men were dead when reached. The British government has arrested Thomas Brennan, secretary of the Na tional Land League, at Dublin, for using seditious language and endeavor ing to seduce the pollcc from their alle giance. Much oxcitement was created in cdnsequcnee. One of the small pavilions connected with Bellevue, New York city's princi pal hospital, was destroyed by fire. Of ?V \ v .VI - twenty-three patients all were safel y gotten oat with the exoeption of three children. A broken rail near Glasgow, Mo., wrecked a train. The engineer, fireman and express ^messenger were seriously, perbapa fatally soaldod and burned. The fair held bj the Seventh regiment, New York oity's pet militia, in aid of the new armory, netted f 1*25, 000. O. M. Chilis' paint works, Brooklyn, N. Y., were destroyed by fire. Loss 915,000. The city of GrosswatJien, Hungary, has been inundated, and mauy build ings destroyed. Although hundreds of inhabitants wero foroed from their homes, no lives were lest. The Albanians and MonteuegtiDs burd had another battle, in which many were killed on both Bides. A fire broke out in Sathorland's boil er shop, Troy, N. Y., and soread to adjacent buildings occupied by laun dries, and shirt and oollar manufactur ers, after whioh it crossed the street and destroyed six tenements and a ohuroh. Loss will aggregate $850,000. Eighteen thi^ndrcd employ eee wwo thrown out of >ork. " Arrangements lmve boon eutcrcd into for a new railway to tho Paoiflo coast. ? The Atchison, Topoka and Sauta Fo, tho St. Louis and S?n Franoisoo, and I the Ohioago and Alton companies unito in building from Albuquerque, on the Rio Grande river, New Mexioo, to San Diego and San Frau cisco. Aspinwall was struck by a terrillc wind and rain storm, and fivo vessels in the harbor were driven nshore and wreoked. The Panama railway was in undated to a depth of several feet in many places along its route, and much damage wns done. Many of tho inhab itants were foroed to vacate thoir homes. Course or Study lit High Schools, Au essential misapprehension, not only of the proper disposition or ar rangement of studies, but a misoonoop tion of the end und purpoao of study, is one of tho saddest edtioational indica tiona of our era. With the progress of materialism in soienoe, sensualism iu philosophy, and utilitarianism in every phase of modern life, tho fundameutal truth that education deals dircctly with minds, only indircoUy with temporal vocations or callings, and that its oujoo tiro point is pure oulture, has become almost a traditiou of a long gone age. ? The sympathetic alliauce of materialism in soience, and sensualism iu philosophy, involves the subordination of the noblest oapaoities of tho hnman intellect to the attainment of mere utility as its end and ideal. The complexity of modern civili sation, tho bewildering diveraitv of in terests, passions and prejudioes that oontrol the springs of human aotion, are striving to degrade education from its lofty mission as the ordained instrumen tality for the regeneration of man's in tellectual naturo into a debasing system of mere training, having for ite goal the perfection of his physical nature, just as the athlete is trained for the arena, or the race horse for the stadium. The oultivation of the purely sensuous is the "point proposed" by our modern educa tionists, and they would arrange all our - rioulums of study with referenoe to the Attainment of this specified end. Hence arises the modern clamor for "practical departments," "mechanical oourses," "polvteohnio features," and the sense less denunciation of our oolleglatu and high eohool ourriculums as mediev.il or antiquated. It is a sad but incontesta ble truth that a large seotion of modern educationists propose to themaelvde the attainment of no nobler end than the oattle-raiser who fattens beeves for the market, or the horse-raoer who trains his favorite steed for the display of his skill at the Pimlioo courses. In modern onrrioulums, enoyclopodism and abridg ment, varying forms of the same funda mental error, are .the tendencies to be most aarefnlly avoided. These tenden cies are conspicuously displayed in the use of historical epitomes and compen dium*, and in the endeavor to teaoh the etymology of English, a subject which, fr^m the very nature of its historical de velopment, is invested with difficulties that are oapable of rational explanation only by an extended acquaintance with the soienoa of comparative grammar. I do not mean to assert that we impose too severe burdens upon onr high sohool pupils, but that ife dissipate their oner-' gleB upon too great a variety of snbjeots, some: of which oan nod be intelligently or suooessfully taught during the high sohool oourse. This feature of onr sys tem demands the most oareful consider ation, an well as the most jndioious treatment. Homo Lessons. It is the otifltom in many pri vate And not a few pablio aohools to assign^ long lessons ,to the pupiln for home fctndy in the evening, and for recitation at eohool next day. It is the ouotom of many oonsoientious mothors to ait down with their children and as* sist them in, learning their lessons. In fact, it Is only the ehUdren who have some help of this kind thai make good reoitations. The 'others fail, more or Jess, and are punished, more or Joss. It seems to ns that this is a very unfair di vision of labor. : The parent does the hardest part of the work, and the teaoher gets all the credit*- and the pay. How. we propose, in good faith, to re* verse tne arrangements. Let the teaoher see that the lesson Is learned, and let the parent hear the recitation. Then the parent pan jndge whether or not the pupil has been industrious and atten> tivo. II he has been remiss, let the punishment be administered in the proper plaoe and by tho proper party? at home, and by the parent. What a reformation this would work I It would make the parent the jndge of the teacher's ability, and supply him with the means of judging oorreotly. How careful teachers would be not to give long, lessons ! How patiently they would explain' ail the ha*d points f How diligently would they work to make orooked paths straight and rough plaoe* smooth I What a close and amioablp partnership there would be between the teaoher and tho taught, both being jointly responsible for the quality and quantity of the work done t It may bo objeoted that it would be unreasonable to hold the teaoher to ao oonnt for defects which might bo due ftolely to the inoapaoity or the per verso ? ness of the learner, Bnt inoapaoity is not a good exonse. K?ory child oan learn something, and one part of fc teacher's duty is to proportion the task to the fcbilitt of the pnpil. If he orrs here, ho is (foflcient in one of the moat important requirement* of his profes aion. Aa to perversenees er obstinacy, anch vires of temper have but little de velopment under a good teaoher. It is the fnc impotent praotitionor that bring* them out in fnli for-?. Bnt granting that, as an oxcoption, tho progresa of a ooholar may be retarded by *uoh advorae currents, the work of the teaoher will, in the long rnn, be iadged by the reanits obtained in a majority of inatanoes ; and the majority of pupils are neither psr verse, obstinate, nor dlhtfrwise inoapa oitated. They are willing to learn, and able to learn, from thoae who are able arid willing to teach them. Bo let na have a reform. Let the ohildren learn their lessons at school, and reoito them (if they must bo reoited) at homo. It being known that Zola is engaged on a sequel to tho AMommoir, which ho Intends to ohristen Nana, some wag proposes to call the Zola movement not Naturalism* as it is now styled, but NanaturaUam. A Serious Meet, ^ Ample provision is made lor those _ children who deaire (o goto aohool, but none for those who are unwilling, or whose parents or guardian* are utterly indifferent to their future welfare, end . keep them without schooling. We thus have an Arab population springing up in our midst, children growing to matu rity without any regard for law and order, aud whose only eduoition is that of thq street with its evil associates. Did {ho baleful oonsequeccos resulting from the ncgleot of this ol&se fall only upon themselves, they would be fit sub jects for the exerciso of privato philan throphy, and not for any oaro or expen diture on the part of the Btate; but the faot that they arc the great feeders of the class that fill our jails ia a suffloieut reason for directing attention to them. Shall our public sohool system take bold of them and by a course of indus trial, mixed with ordinary publio Bohool training, proparo thorn to bo honest bread winners aud wealth producer)*, .or shall it ignore them aud let the country havo the expense of them as criminals, or at tho beat an drones. Those who huvo to pay taxe* for the education of the* ohildreu of tho country have a right to expeot that all these will be educated; if they are not, and those who ore nog- * looted are afterward to ptey upon tho oommuuity, endangering both life and property' and coating much more fee jail- birds tbau as scholars in au indus trial school, wo neod not bfc' surprised if our school syi torn be pointed to aH a failuro. flot Something Frisky I 'Got something frisky ?' ho askod, an lie walked iuto a livery stable and called for a saddle horde; 'something that will pronoe about livoly and wake a fellow out of his lethargy ? I used to ride tho trick mule iu a circus, an' I rcckou I oau back anything that wears hair.' ? They brought him out a oalioo*oolore<lO beast, with a vicious eye, aud he mount' ed it and dnshed off. Before he had '*? gone two blooks tho animal buokod, orashed through a high board fenoo a^d plunged into a cellar, tosaing his rider, < over the top of an adjacent woodshed and landing him on the ragged edge of ? j a lawnmower. They bore him home, straightened him out, and three sur- j geons oame in and reduoed his dislooa tions and plastered him np with raw " beef. A few weeks later ho oalled at the stable and said if they had a gentle saw horse with an affeotionate disposition, bridle with a curb bit and martingaljfl,, and a saddle with two horns and a o tap per to it, he believed ho would goydp in the haymow and gallop arounjifti little where it waB soft and it wqrrtdn't hurt him if he went to sloep a a/a fell off, as bo did the other day. A florae Dealer's Trick, It is one of the queer things in this queer world ? and there is high author ity for oalling it a queer world ? that the men who have had the most ezperienoe in dealing with oriminals are sometimes the oasiest dupes. Witness the trans action exposed in a Now York polioe court. An ex-sheriff, aud a Yun^ea at that, sees an advertisement offering a fast horse for sale, regardless of price or oonsequenoes. He visits the plaoo, and this little comedy onsues: Enter one of the confederates in the_ sohee?p. and asks the supposed propriotoqij^jtixe oan buy the horse for. The pTopriowr quarrels with tho supposed bidder, and declares that he shall not have the horse for a thousand dollars; exit in assumed rage. The confederate turns to the ex sheriff, Yankee and future viotimi, and offers him $50 if he will buy the horse for #300 and make it over to his new acquaintance at4|hat price.' ex sheriff, having a Yankoe*s fondness for $50, agrees. Exit the oon federate; the horse is bought at $-150, > ; Real vUluo of the horse $&0. s ti Hardened Glata. ' " ' Considerable progress seems to ha^ro boen made of late in the manufacture of hardened or tough glass, and moat of the difficulties oonneoted with the in dustry have been oyefoome. What in moro important, the pvocesnea of manu facturing have been simplified iab& obtu bined with tho ordinary operation/* of glass-blowing, so as to diminish the ex pense and give more regular forma and more perfect execution. Objoots itt^de with the liquid material, wheh they are ?till' red, are thrown directly into tlm tempering bath, and are not again heat ed to the melting point, as at flrat, which often oaucea a ohange in their form. ? Bottles, drinking glasses, lamp gUstfea, nnd other oonoave objeote containing air are reooived on a onrved tube, a sort of siphon, whioh at the moment of immer sion allows the air to evcapc, while the iqtlid enter* the cavity Without difficul - ty. All tbece improvements have be Sn adopted at the glass works of Ohoisy-le Roi, under M. Baatio's direction, and it 14 confidently expected that in a very short time objeots in hardened gloaa-will be quite as oheap as thono made7 in the ordinary way. Insanity Cnred by ? Tall. A singular oase of recovery from i* - ?unity through an injnry occurred re* '0 oently in the New York homeopathic ' state etylum for the insane. ,,A male patient, twenty -four yeei re old, when in e state of violent irritation, sprailg up to the gas fixtures, caught hold of * "? slender tubing and swung himself with ?; considerable foror. The fixture g*ve away end the patient fell, striking his heed npon tho stone pavement. In ? stsntly he arose, walked ont of tho ward, and gave n oloar aooount of tho aomdont he had mot with, lie had, in faot, recovered bin rtind, though he Buf fered greatly from the external injuries to his soalp. I I)r. I. I. Hayes, in a ieetiire at New.- * port, It. I. , satyl, y,l believe the Bennett ^ expedition will reaoti the pole through 1 a substantially open sea, and that it will be a matter of ohoioe or clrottm stance whether they return by the way they oame or cross over the Arctio ooean and emerge by the way of the Spiiabur gen see or through Smith's sound.' ?j i * Chicago trots ont figures to show her postofftoe doea a yearly bn second only to that of Now York> St, Louis accounts for this by that the majority of tho letters are Wri ten by Obicago women in reply ?ertisemente for wires.