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VOL. XII. CAMDEN, S. C.. .TamTOfr .TTTNF 11, 1885 NO. 38. A Woman'* W*jr. Mr lady knrw that her facts w(l? fair. She knew that the artist was fniuol and great. Bo for uiany a day she came at his call. And In his studio posed la state. In a robe of vlolot velvet drest. Dressed In laces flltuy and Hue, While a shawl of marvelous texture traJlod Off from her shoulders?shape dlrlue. Fair and fairer ?ho picture jrrow. Day by day 'neath the artist's hand. Bott ard softer the light of the eyes, Of my ludy's eyes, as the weeks were span ned. , Khe kuuh! on the artist all the dar. Watching tho touch of his magfc hand. He thought of tho picture as so much?paint; 8he thought but of hltn ?you understand. When tho picture was done f he went her way. Hut she carried a dream to the end of life; When the picture was done?he forget hct name Aud entered tho picture an Somebody's Wife. The same old story, you've hoard It oft. The ways of fute an* a trlUo stern ? And when ono enters on love's domain It Is hard to predict how he luay return. nut I almost envy her the dream. Bo sweet, so subtle, so slow to fade, To love Is better than to possoss, Ai?d wo love so long- when by fate betrayed. Huttin Tyo* UrUwold. THE K1VAL WIDOWS. 8he was a very pretty littlo widow, and, though nearly forty, with a com Sloxion as fresh as though shohad boon ftoen voars younger, and hair of a lovoly golden yellow, disposed about her head in a series of curls, which was simply ravishing. She was ovidontly vain of it, for sho never parsed a mirror without glanc ing at It, and if thero happened to bo any disorder or unbocomlngness, sho would hasten to her rootu to remedy it. At least so Mrs. Langlcy said; but thou, some of tho ladies whispered among themselves that Mrs. Langley, tho tall, handsome brunette widow, was jealous of Mrs. Helton. Thero wero but two or throe unmar ried men at tho "Lake Hotel" of an ago suited to theso fair widows, and of thom tho major was by far tho most important. Timo and again had ho nppcarod smitton with the chartiM of somo fair lady, and timo and again drawn back just as tho fact was becoming patont to the lookers on. This timo, however, tho major was undeniably smitten. Somo said that ho was in lovo with tho goldeu locks of Sho blondo widow, whilo others insist ed that tho dark eyes of Mrs. Langloy had won him captivo. The major himself was evidontly un docidod upon tho subject, 'being al ternately in attendance on ono or tho other. And so tho two ladies, beneath asur faco of oxtremo politeness, woro at daggors drawn with oach other. Tho brunotto widow was certain that, had slto tho lield to hcrsolf, sho could bring tho major to hor feot with littlo troublo. So she was thinking, as with hor lit tlo not dog besido her, sho reclined up on her loungo at tho timo of tho after noon's siesta. Tho day was warm, and tho doors " tho ladles' upartmnnts opening ho corridor wero ajar. Moat of rtr Inmates woro taking their Stub* -m, '<iil tllky little spatalol nwoko froiiii his nap ^ and booamo restless. Puck submitted for a low minutes, aud thon noisoiossly Hlidiug to tho lloor, slipped out into tho passage and sought amusement In his own way. It wm not five minutes after this that Puok's mistress aroused fioui tho be ginning of iter nap. ty It was tlio dog that woku her. There ho was Hying round and round the room, dragging after liini what looked liko, yes, most deeidedly like,?tho head of Airs. Helton! Mrs. Langley sprang up, for no oti>er lady at the hotol had*' precisely tiiat shade and color of hair. It was?good heavons! It was a wig! Hero was a discovery, indcod! And a light of mingled surprisu,iuuu.sotnont, ' and triumph sparkled in the oyos of the handsome brunotte, as shosurvoyed tho unexpected prizo. Thon, with the wig in her hand, she softly glided into tho nassago, paused outsfdo Mrs. Holton's aoor, aud took a cautious peop within. Thero roolinod tho fair, plump, littlo widow herself, fair still, though hor snowy complexion and dolioate foaturos wore sot on by only a thin mist of short golden hair, which, if twistod all together, would not have mado a strand as largo as her little finger. Mrs. Laugley gently tossod tho ruin ed wig upon the lloor, and rotiring to hor own room, closod tho door securoly on Pook. Mrs. Helton did not oome down to toa, though hor aunt did. Tho old lady aeomed considerably upset, and J[lanood suspiciously round upon the noes of the ladies. But all looked so innocont, and all espoolally Mra. Langloy?Inquired so naturally an to tho oauso of her nlooe's absenoo, that her doubts woro quieted. They could know nothing about it. It waa a lovely moonlight night, and there was musie and danoing in tho saloon, and promonading on the lake terraoe. Mrs. Helton, listening to tho muslo, mmw tlrtd of itkjriitt in her own room. She could not possibly show herself In pobllo for a day or two, In whloh time ?heirilght have her wig rostored to Its normal condition. - Why, therefore, should sho not take advantage of tho moonlight obscurity to enjoy herself as sho might be per mitted? Mrs. Langley starod, and tho major brightened, as they saw hor stop upon the torraoe. Her faoo was shadod by tho folds of a silk scarf, which, falling ? to her thouldors, ontireiy conoealod her head. Thus, sho said, she must prote<^ horsolf from tho dews and the bree7.es. They wore all seatod in a group when Mrs. Langley said,?? "Did you ovor see tho Indian soarf dance, Mrs. (JaylordP" Mrs. Oaylord had not; and the major l>oggod a description of it. "I would show it to you if I had a scarf, or If Mrs. Hoi ton would be good enough to lend mo hors for a mo ment." The blondo widow colorod In tho moonlight, and murmured something about taking nold. "You could not posilhly take oold In this summer air, and you shall have my rephyr," said Mrs. Langley, with her sweetest and most persuasive smllo. What could Mrs. Helton doP How could she rofuse, with the eyes of all upon her, and ospeolally the major's eyes, who already looked a little sur prised at her hesitancy. Suddenly a thought dashed upon her. 8he raised her eyes and looked steadily at her rival. Sho saw It all In a mo ment} her secret had been discovered, and to-morrow, without doubt.lt would be made known. For an instant her heart failed her; but then sho nerved herself to a bravo resolve. "I am very sorry that I cannot lot you have tho scarf," she said, in a voieo which faltered despito herself. "Why?" persisted her merciless tor mentor, with au air of innocent sur prise. "Because"?it was hard to sav, after all ? "because I have not my wig on." "Flora!" gasped Mrs. Gay lord. "I shall have to make a clean breast of it," she said, with a little laugh. "Ono of the ladies' pet dogs?was it not yours, Mr#. Langley??got hold of my wig this opening, and has complete ly spoiled it." Tho major turned his eyes upon her with u sudden and glad surprise. "So you wear a wig, madam! So do I. How rejoiced I am to lind a lady who happens to bo in the same predica ment as myself! Why. 1 would havo married long ago but for the haunting fear of shocking my bride with tho knowledge of my bald head." Then there was a tableau! Mrs. Bolton blushed and siuilod?a glad smile; tho major looked delighted, and Mrs. Langley s face was whito as she turnod away. "I lost my hair in a severe illness, and it has never grown again," Mrs. Bolton explained. "1 had it made up into a wig. So you soo it is my owu hair, after all." " When the company broke up at the "Lako Hotel," it was perfectly well known to everybody that tho major and Mrs. Bolton wore engaged. And it was all Puck's doing. A Mexican City. ?pap< oacri tho approach to the city of Chihuahua, as follows: At a turn of tho road tho city itsolf came in sight, nestled at tho foot of tho hills, the two tall eampanilo of tho great cathedral dominating tho landscape, and tho low, white, tlat roofed houses lying upon the terra cot ta surfaco of tho ground with a most Oriental ellect. Indeed, everything about the spot is distinctly Eastern. A?ross tho plains as we rode from tho station to the ground, tho gay scrapes of tho horsemen recall at onco the bur nous of tho Arab. Tho magnificent horsomanship, as they fly across tho open country, u< another point of ro somblanco. Dressed in a short jacket, with wide, flowing trousers, feet thrust into immense hanging stirrups of or namented leather, deeply fringod; a fantastio broad-brimmed hat; a bril liant blanket, tossed somewhere across the man or tho animal, aud an air of well-bred easo about the litho, oasy figure, thoso people aro wonderfully picturesquo adjuncts to tho setting which nature gives him. You moot a woman, on her hoad an enrthon jar of water from tho spring; auothor washing soiled clothes by the border of tho brook and sproadiug them on Hat stonos to dry: a group of Iudiaua mounted abovo a heap of rags on the long-sulForing burros; an team, drawn by two yoko of ?*eers clumsy, but offootivo trappings, with wheels cut from ft single to ^jj^oodJho^blank " " aerobi an angle, and the shining oyes of a dfcrk-skfiinod rauohaoho watching .you from the arched doorway. Noaror still, after ontcr'.ng tbo oity streets, tho long cloisters inclosed under Moor ish arches, wbioh form colonnades out Blde of overy house and offer grateful shelter from tho noonday sun; tho raosquc-liko domes of tho churches, with graceful open campanilos besido tho colored frescoes on tho outer walls, bright blue, yellow or red, accentuating the provalont tints of whito and palo brick color?all are Oriental. So are tho women creeping noiseless ly through tho dark alcoves with the grateful shawl thrown over tho head and covoring all tho faco but tho dark eyes; so aro tho littlo children, with one single thin cotton garmont for cov ering; so aro tho draped silent figures standing at stroot corners or huddled around tho fountains in tho plazas. Broad stono soats with high backs, liko thoso wo soo in Alma Tadema's pictures, line tho principal stroets under tho soft shadows of tho fan-liko trees; groat clumps of Moxioan aloo and priokly cactus hodgo tho roadways, whoro the high mud walls givo a glimps? behind; stroams of sparkling water run through tho narrow ditohes of red clay, fashionod by tho highway; tho vory Hat plain itself and back ground of low mountains ropoat tho landscapo of the Holy Land. Grasn Wlclown in Xton. Tho other day one of the faithful of Zkon was in town with produce, and ho took tho troublo to inform us that now Itisthattho golden opportunity pre sents itsolf to go out into Utah nnd "strlko it rich. ' Ho said tho wholo country was filled with grass widows, who possessed good ranches, and that a man from this country could go out thoro and pick up a girl widow who has been well broken in to both field and houso-work, with n good ranch, iust for tho trip. "Kick u sago brush n that country," said the old man "*n?4 f* frmnn widow in |>iVUy certain to bo startod up." Tho cause of so many crass widows being in the coun try is that they are the wivm of polyg amists, who, becoming alarmed a* tho way in which the polygumMs have been arrested, tied the country and permitted their plural wives to tsko eare of themsolvos. Tnis is indeed goldon opportunity for men out of em ploymont who wish to go to ranching. ? lioohe Htcord* Mr. F. Tupper's letter on his om barassments, which is printed in tho Brooklyn Magazine, contains tho fol lowing: "Tho simple truth (which with perfect propriety you nsk for and | with plain candor 1 hero supply) Is this: "I never had any abundance of riches, though I always lived honestly snd Morally, and for the mattor of I sotual poverty I undoubtedly decline to plead it while everybody else is suffer ing from the hardness of the times. However, it is true that I have lost for tuno nnd am vexed l>y debt, incurred not by my own fault, though I do not oaro to accuse others specifically. Of I course, I have to complain that a life of somo useful labor has come to 75 years without adequate reward, but after all (iod provldos for ovory day, and I trust in ilim to do so to the end, here snd horeafter." Three members of the Sanborn fnml i ly, a brother and two sisters, all of whom aro over four score years of ago, and now residing nt Haverhill, N. ft., wero never married, never rode In a railroad ear, and hare never had n stove In their house. The old-fashion ed tin baker, fire erano nnd hooks havo always beon used by thoo? WOMAN GOSSU\ HuUttltute for Plain, Olil-Fnahlonecl CallUif?Two Hltlc* of the ^um tlon of Woman'* Wrong*. The Mnlndjr of Accuimuul At Ion of K>t and tho Cunir?The I.Unit* of m Udjr'a Neck. WOMAN 8 WRONGS. Mrs. Henry Ward Boeeher, in an ar ticlo in tho Brooklyn Magazine, discuss ing tho reason (or discontentment among women, says: Wo think dissatisliod women have been affected with thoso pernicious doctrines which havo led on to tho most ridiculous outcry about "woman's wrongs"?woman defrauded of her rights, her cruel subjugation, and doctrines with which wo have less and loss patiencc, because wo see daily moro clearly mistakes and mischiefs which have sprung up. and will con tinuo to llourish through those doc trines unless the plague is stayed. Wo aro well aware that there aro many overtaxed, broken-down women, who by kindness and just appreciation might havo been saved ."(rid been alto gether lovely and re' ned, making thoir homos like a l'anulise beforo tlio fall. But wc can usually find two sides to every question. So. on tho other hand, wo know of many broken-down itA^n, dispirited. tired of 1 ifir. because ruined by the frivolity, irritability, and extravagance of their wives, who they hoped would he their helpmeet through life, men whom a refuted, sensible, lov ing woman would have redeemed from a life of shame and misery, making them luippy, noble, godlike. If weighed iu a just scale, we imagine tho rights amt wrongs aro about equally divided on either .->ide. Tho directful ness of tho human, left to roam wild and uttgoveined, never seeking tho peace and happiness of tho partner they have chosen, but their own selfish gratification, has changed many a matt whoso youth gave promise of nobility into a reckless, unprincipled husband or an arbitrary, hnr?h, domestic tyrant. On the other h nui. the saute selfish indulgence and unrcirulalcd passions have also changed many a woman capable of shiu.ng in her appropriate sphere as a helpmeet?God's best gift to man?as a mother, a homo refiner, into a irritable, fault-finding, unsatis fied. lirosido torment. k But this is partially wandering from the mailt point. We believe many arc injured and much dissatisfaction and ulthitppincss occasioned on both sides by tho growing disposition to travel, roaming each year away from homo and too frequently without the com panionship which would naturally bo secured. Koop together while you can. Death will sever the bond all too soon, or sickness compel absence full of tears and sad forebodings. If possible, never allow either to feel that they are not depondent, necessary?one to the other. You can not bo separated, even for a few wocks, without noting some littlo cltango on their return. Wo all havo some peculiarities of character orVlis posltiou which are not altogether KHoal. But if married young, bofof bits and peculiar traits are nxod pas] ohange, all jlteao littlo infelioitios ai Hitrht of in fchf/Antl *3, T ? d. But let sopariitlotiB, ovon if bIioj/onco begin, and tlio huH band and/wife begin to grow apart. Thoy leant that they are not absolutely nocosnary to onch other us at first nup posed. All the natural dissimilarities, which constant association have hold dormant, make up and aro loss and less oasily lulled to sleep, after oach sepa ration. KAItl.Y CAl.MNU. The fashionable girl, or at least a good many of her, has concluded, writes Clara Belle;, that there is not onough of the evening for all that needs to be done in it. IMain, old fashioned calling by fcllowjl/ has just about becomo obsolete in this big city. So numerous aro the receptions, card parties, and balls, and so incessant tho opera and theater-going, that it is a raro thing for a girl "in society" to bo found nlono and unengaged at homo aftor dark. This is a vast ulty, too, for tho most unsophisticated of us know that more gonuino, marrying sort ol love is gonorated in an hour's quiet in terchange of sentiments, from tho two ends of a not too long sofa, than in a wholo night of waltzing in a crowded ball room. Wo have all folt tho loss of bucIi intercourse, but it was not until latoly that anybody inventod a remedy for tho oVil. 1 don't know who she was, but if I did I'd go straightway and hug hor, for sho has dono a noble sorvloo for tho marriageable maidens of this metropolis. Sho announced to some of hor malo friends that sho was always at homo to roeeivo oalls at 6 o'clock In tho afternoon. That dovico, don't you seo, solves tho ontiro riddlo. Most of tho follows whom ono would liko to have visit hor aro either dono with their day's work by that time, or aro not laborers at all, and, theroforo, can drop In on thoir way up town, spend an hour agreoably (tho other conditions being rifrht), and still got homo in time to dlniior. with tho ovon ing loft olear for tho usual ontortaln inents. Tho oustoni has sproad with wonderful rapidity. It is only a month sineo I first heard of it, and now most of my friends havo fallen into tho fash ion. It is something of a bother, of courso, to make a toilot an hour earllor than dinnor time, but I rathor think it Is worth while. "Hut what I'm considering, Clara Hollo, dear," romarkod my ntlmate chum, Helena, "is thart tho follows ought to make a little more prepara tion, too." "Indood," I responded, "my callers havo shown, it seems to mo, all tho elaboration of dross that could bo ox pected, for you must bear in mind that thoy como direct from business." "Ah, but thoy don't como direct," sho insisted. "They stop at bars on tho way, ami a girl can t tell for tho life of her whether It's whisky, ale, champagne, or only tho clovos that thoy'vo been swallowing. What on earth nro you grinning at? Tho mod ern parlor iun't a baronial hall sya cious onough to escape the breath of a caller, no mntUr how hard one may try." I.I M.I A N IMHHKI.I.'s KAT. Speaking of accumulation, writes a correspondent of tho Philadelphia News, Lillian Ktis^oll has more than she wlshos of it in the way of fat. Sho used to be the delight and darling of the callow follows who worship beauti ful actresses, and the envy and admira tion of her own sox. That was before she ran away from her husband with anothor chap to I/ondon. Sho has como back heavier by forty pounds than whon ?he departed, and wo won't havo her In that condition. "When I was in (Jermany," sho says, "I hoard of a new and sure way to bant, and I took good pains to find out all about it. hot me ox^lai And the explanation ought clipped out by every woman who sire# to reduco her weight, and k< until Lillian makes her reappearance 4 upora, when its valuo or worthleaugl will bo demonstrated. A Prof. Epste belonging to the Uorlin university, the author of the system. ' His thee is that corpulenco la invari&bly caua by overfeoding, but he (tooiea that makos (at. On tho contrary, he hoi that fatty food protects. the album* and prevents its forming f<^t llesh. ? plan of treatment, therefore, con all in moderating the quantity of fod and whilo cutting off all vegetable 01 bo-hydrates, auch as sugar and s he allows a good quantity of fat eaten. lie advises thai- the diet monotonous, greasy, and succulen its to cause satiety rapidly. ?? The feeding of the fair but no longet and fairy Lillian is a* ^ollowsf breakfast, an ample cup'of bluOk without sugar, and a quarter of a pound of toasbntitto ~ white or brown broair plate of soup?not ve^otabl roasted or boiled nijrat as t cravos, a ruodoriytc amount of alw any vegetablo except potatoes and nips, some fresh fruit, a salad, nn cup of black toa without sugar. supper, the tea again with an oj little fat meat of any kind, fresh, or somo smoked or fried llsh sausago, with a small quantity ohooso, fruit, or buttered bread. this city the policial custom is to luhcll at noon anil dino at C o'clock, an' therefore tho supper which I liaro d? scribed is Lillian s luncheon, while thl dinnor is eaten at tho timo wheu roost1] ]>cople sup; but that does not alter thieh conditions and you can wait for thtt-ro*-. suit She expects to lose twonty I pounds in tho process., THE LIMITS OK A LADY'S NECK, That it is awful for a lady to woat *.J low-necked dross at a ball is conceded,, says tho Now York Tribune; but it has:; long been felt that an authoritative definition of tho limits of the territory jj known as tho neck is nooded. ? How] far does the feminine nock extend?.&t)dv precisely whero it bccomo merged Ik tho contiguous territories of tho back and bosom? Men. of courso, nothing as to this matter, and won)?n scorn to know very littlo moro. SjMp&L thing in tho nature of a boundary com* I mission, with powor to innko an ox- ] haustive survey, is clcarly ncoded. I last we aro about to have this impor> i taut boundary question settled by;^ j judicial decision. A young lady woo ing a low-nocked dross was rooeni expelled from a ball by tho mam i on tho ground that hor dress low. She appealed at onoo for redress, and tho court decido how low a low-i may bo worn, or, in other aro tho preciso limits of t nock. With tho methods bjr' court will arrivo at its 'i have no coin cru. It is evident* ever, that .the . court .w, point a comm will raako a s Whioh, in. y dopted vnook. k :S\iob J^^WKIsionT ? a decision will bo mftdo, and ? --W' soon know tho true oxtont of neok, , and shall bo ablo to dccido at a glance | whothor- any given low-neokod drcas keeps within tho territorial limits, or whothor it unlawfully onoroaches upon torritory not appertaining to neck. A 1USINKH3 WOMAN. 1 have twiuo written something about the women who have held or nro^-hojfj-. ing positions in the employ of tho Mani toba railroad company, says a wrltor in tho H'oiMin'a Journal, b\it I llnd I had not known it all. Tho first woman mentioned was Miss Carey, who somo years ago was left with three sistors and a brother to support, bho learned to bo a telegraph operator, and, wher ever sho went, took her family with her and supported them. Sho taught tvro sistors anil a brothor the business, and was appolntod agont at Way^ata, whoro slio had chargo of all tho busi ness, which in sninmor, with short-lino trains and steamers ou Lako Mlnuo tonka, Is vory heavy. Aftor a timo sho was allowed to have lior brothor to help, and one sister was appolntod tra'n-dispatchor on tiio samo road. Think of it! A woman, who used to bo considered so helpless and impracti cal, and generally useless and Incompe tent, givon the control of all tho life and property involved In tho manage ment of the numerous trains on tnat busy road. And what do thoy think of her? "I tried again and again," said tho superintendent, "to eatoh that wo man ofT duty before I gave hor tho placo, on Sundays and all sorts of odd hours, and I never once succeeded." A I'rnvHllInK Malady. Hundreds of womon all over tho country are sufVering from nouralgia to stffch nn extent, In many cases, aa to find lifo a burden. The following ex tract from tho lirilish . Mtdicul lleview gives ono solution as to tho oauso: "Thoro Is no rooognlr,ed reason W. of lato years, nouralgia of tho fi scalp should havo Incroasod SO ? tho fomale sox as comparod W?* own. There is no doubtrthat lb' ft., of tho most common fomalo maladl?*" ono of tho most painful and dlfliouit of treatment. It Is also a oauso of much mental depression, and loads moro ofton to habits of intomporanco than any othor. This growing prevalence of neuralgia may to somo oxtont bo ro forred to the effect of cold upon tho terminal branches of tho nerves dis tributed to tho skin; and tho roason why men are loss subjoot to It than wo men may, to a great extent, I think, ho explained by the much jr.eator protec tion afforded by tho n.odo In which the ft/i-m*' t>?>vor their neads when they aro in tho open air. It may bo observed that tho surface of the head whloh Is actually covered in man is at least throe time* that which fashion allows to a woman; Indeed, the points of con tact between tho hnt or bonnet and tho lioad aro so Irregular as practically to destroy any protection whloh might otherwise be afiordod. If I wero to re port to the journals a esso of facial neuralgia cured on tho prlnolplo of protecting the lateral and frontal sur fnee of tho fane an well as tho suporlor part of the scalp, It might excite a oor taln amount of ridicule. I can assure you, howover, that my pntlent con siders that her case ought to l?o report ed; for she says that, if wo can not do much for nouralgia with our prescrip tions, we ought to oppose fashion whon wo find It prejudicial to health and f0f> ductive of suffering." Tho California legislature passed a bill appropriating ?l0,000 to build a hotel for travelers In tho Vosomlto V alloy. FARM TOPICS. lt? In B?|K?rd to the 1'iuturlng Mid Horse*.?tirui Seed ^ In the-Pockel?. ?r Beautifying tltc Wlndowg.?How te Quick-Soiling ??d MlRti Wced ltutter. ruUSING TO PASTURE. spth to which the frost has co ke ground, or, the ease of iloop tondod to keep vegetation and tho saturation of the soil i.eontinual molting of tho suow 3ts also to rotard plowing in Ono offcot of untoward is to cause thoso who do not soly tho practical, to turn it to pasturo before there is i growth to givo animals a bite, it ?fleet of this is that stoek and at tho sarno timo injure by gnawing down to tho '"iw source of injury is tho jeadows by tho feet boforo irm. The throe . of tho stock, ry to tho grass, and dia eoil from tho effect of no economy in turning j^telly cattlo and horses, up until tho grass is up so as to "Jbito. Whon tho blades lirst py induce root action ? fjataAtfal roots are called into ? thus furnish strong growth If fed close early in the >ot growth is chcckcd, aud >urdon of grass is lessened, tog of soil kills or chocks >, aud this, together with 1 of stock down into tho -where persisted in, may ?crop fully one-half. For Ss should havo mado iot less than two inchos bc sturod, and not thou if wet idors tho ground soft, tho othor hanil, who keep torn pasturo until the grass tnotigh they may iucreoso putoomo, do so nevertheless, their hords. Cattlo, sheep, ' are subject to bloat from Ceding, and also to scour [ too sudden ehango from .food. Cattlo should be f grass when it is of such a >tuoy can comfortably lill half a day's grazing, and will apuly to shcop. Of ?soil boing firm, sheep picking whero cattlo Horses bito much closor jand fully as closcly as ?tomachs aro small com of cattlo and digestiou Thoy may bo turned on whon thoy can satisfy pretty industrious grass aro anxious to got >H grass as early in tho ilble, and stock aro as rasa as their mastors aro itermlt tho foddering, must draw tho lino for leolde according to. .the ovorning his particular ical working, howovor, wo havo stated, unloss such as scaroity RAW 8Kiln IN l'OC'KKTS. ifO'should bo no tnuu lost in tlio >ding of meadows and pastures in il ) spring. it there is any indication froczing out, throw on a little grass id over tho weak or thin places, and fays of varieties suited to tin; situa t{< n. An old mat famous for his "luck" in grass, being a-..ked for i.is secret. re & "Alwuj:* eurrv yourcoat-pockets oTstfou fn |he -pring, and don't l>o afiald to use it when you timl a bare or til l.n spot/' Timothy is especially apt to This is from two principal uses. It forms a bulb just at tlio sur JQ of tho ground late in the season, is is tho storehouse for the next sea sO ii*8 growth. Hogs, sheep, and horses ar a loud of this, and, in close grazing, ai e apt to destroy it. Tramping also Id jui'eg it. Hence while one of the best W jftdow grasses It is ono of the worst fo rpf6so-fod pastures. Clover is ant to fr )<M50 out by tho gradual lifting of tho oi own through successive freezing and ti awing. Hence upon soils much liable tq Jiouvo Alsiko should take its placo. W hito clover also does well on moist SO Is, but not on ono permanently wet. Ol ohard grass is ono of tho best past i'UI I grasses, starting early in tho soa 80 nnd springing quickly after being gr itted. It likes a good loam or even H ahdy soil if rich. Hed-top is excel loi it grass for moist situations and re ta toTUs hold on tho soil for a long tlllfe.' In fact wo have too few pasturo greases, or rather farmers am not suf Bo ontly awako to tho importanco of vftrfoty In pasturo grasses. WINDOW 1*1.A NTS. is a groat rush just now for innual purchase of plants to beautify [ Windows and subsequently do duty [tho'llttlo buds of tho city and villago. joy will do nicoly in tho windows if pot* aro protootod from drying out 10 usually dry hoat of living-rooms. 'i also roqufro plenty of fresh air. istly matiagod, for plenty of - foqulrod by tho household ? ) than many get. Ono ^ protoot flower-pots from _ Jug at the aides is to inclose laraftlno paper. If within this is plac?K I a little spagnum moss tho very bolt condition of moisturo is sc on rod. I l>o Hoi water tooofton, and especially never allow tho saueors to hold water pertuano'ntly. Let tho soil of tho pots becomo i rather dry boforo watering. Nol to Htjpch a degree as to causo wilt ing, varying, of course, according to the nature of tho plants. When you wator do so thoroughly. If the water runs (piiokly through into tho saucer soHHilhitjg is wrong. Knrth-worms or something of that nature nrust bo lookod aftor. Or tho oarth may have booomo hardened and shrunk away from tho Inside of the pots. The plants and ballb of earth may be readily iarrod fr<m the pots for examination bv placing tho lingers over the soil and aoout the stem of the plant, inverting tho wholp and tapping the top of the pot trontlp on tho edge of a table. Wlion giving a thorough watering intil the water gathors in tho If you do this gradually the robably all right. At the end of half anihour empty what water is not reabsorbed and there will be little danger of water-soaking, unless you aro continually watering. Strong, young and vigorous plants requiro more wat^r for their size than older ones, ('alias nnd all that class of plants require a largo amount of water; all this class should have the pots protect ed from drying out through the pores of tho pots. Vho samo is true of all soft-leaved' plants, as geraniums, eo fous, oto. All tho caetli and spined plants gonfrally require very little wa tor except duriug the season of growth. HOW 11 K. MADE "CiILT-t:U?JED" Bt'TTKK. A Berkshire Comity (Massachusetts) farmer writes tho Scientific American j how ho makes quick-selling and high- , priced butter. It has couiuionscuso I truths in it. Ho savs: "Mv objoet has always been to mako > tho best buttcr--not the most profitable necessarily, but the best. Having this objoet in view, I havo been compelled to discard oil meal, and thus reduce the quantity of mv butter and tho value of tho manure, f havo boon obliged to take tho cows out of all basement oel lars, and havo consoquoutly received less butter for a given ainouut of food. I have been forced, instead of dropping tho manure into a convenient cellar be low the cows, to give up this cellar and wheel manure into a shed. 1 hare been obliged to discard deep setting and to content myself with tho open, shallow method, w hich is more expen sive, and requires more attention, aud returns less butter. I havo been obliged to reject all feeds except corn, whc'it, hay, beets, and carrots, 1 have been obliged to givn up using tho milk of cows that have calved too recently or too remotely. I havo for a dozeu years carefully and faithfully tried to make good butter?as good us it could bo mado. This has always been tho first consideration; profitableness hfts always been secondary. Tho result has beeu for many years this butter has brought a higher price than any butter in tho County of Berkshire, where so much good butter is made, anil it has taken tho first prize over tho county. It has been in such constant demand at sixty-five cotits a pound the year through that when making 100 pounds a week there havo been unfilled orders for twenty-live to thirty pounds more." m ? ? Ilornlihn. Tho top of lloraima, perhaps the most remarkable mountain in the world, has at last been reaehod by Mr. Edward F. im Thurn, who was scut to South America last Oetobcr by throe of tho leading societies of Great Britain, to study the famous mountain and it? wonderful surroundings, and to learn if its summit was really inaccessible, as other travelers had reported. A telegram from him announcing that he has reached tho top has just uoen ro ccivod in England. Humboldt once said that no rock six tcon hundred feet in perpendicular height had beoti found in tho Swiss Alps. Roraimi lifts above Its sloping sides a solid block of red sandstone about two thousand feet hi<*h, somo ol which, according to Sir Robert Schom burgh, aro ??as pornendicular as if erected with a plumb-line." It is tho highest and most wondorfnl of a group of table-topped mountains situated in an almost inaccessiblo part of British Guiana. Its ltat top was boliovod to bo about seven miles squaro, but Mr. im Thurp's dispatches say tho nearly lovol summit is twelvo miles long, and that it if covorcd with vogetation. Tho mountain's aidos aro sloping and woododito a hoight of 7,730 feot abovo tho 8Qa.\Thon riso tho vortical wall o vast sandstono fgrmatiq jUhc W W?J < the Hourcfl^ starting from tho same placo, soparat wldoly and llow to tho Orinoco, tho E&.sequibo, auil tho Amazon. Other cascados break out from tho sidos of tho mountain a littlo way below its summit. , In tho rainy season some of tho streams thus formed aro impassa ble. The rivers that fnll from its crown surround lloraima with a perpotually moist atmosphere, which explains in part tho rcmarkr\blo development of its tlora. The threo botanists who havo visited tho mountain found many plants there that wero now to science. Of about two hundred species of forns growing 011 tho slopos of lloraima, nearly one-half are peculiar to it. From 183o to 1882 seven whito trav elers viaitod tho mountain. All of them loft it, owing to lack of provis ions, beforo they had surveyed it on all sides. All but two pronounced its summit unattainable. Whitoly said perhaps it was accessible from tho west side, which ho had not soon. Another visitor refrained from expressing an opinion. Only McTurk and Boddam Wotham ever saw tho west sido of tho mountain. Thoy caught a glimpse of it, and thought in was a repetition of tho other facos. It was this sido that Mr. im Thurn hoped to scale, though ho thought tho north sido would, per haps, ofior moans of ascent. IIo said ho would not employ a balloon in his attempt to roach JLho top. It would bo highly interesting to learn how ho gained the goal that crowned his la bors, with perfoct success, and to got tho rosults of his sciontilie studies 011 tho isolatod, but vorduro-crownod tablo-top, and on tho slopos bolow, which his latost dispatch says aro "a vory garden of orchids and most beau tiful and strango plants."?New York > Bun. Tim I)nrki<y mid tho Crnl>. A St. Simon's H-yoar old darky cftinn to grief as follows: While fishing in tho river a largo crab took his hook and pulled him in. Whon just at tho surfaoo of tho water, fearing ho might loso tho vory much desired crustacean, tho darkv inadvortcntly slipped his hand undor tho hook and crab in order tho moro certainly to seeuro tho prize. No sooner dono than tho crab, with his largest claw, closed In on CufToo's foro fingor. This was a dilemma, but CufTeo forcibly thought himself equal to tho omorgoncy, and naught the crab's claw botwoon Ills firm-set teeth. At this time tho crab fastonod his other claw into Cufluo's flat noso. This state of things so paralyzed him that ho bel lowed loudly for holp. His walling* brought to his assistance a kind-hearted gentleman passing by, who, with somo stonos, crushed tho crab's claws, thus relieving him from his prodicamont and pain.--Huron ((Ja.) 'telegraph. A Unit linore Mini. Italtiuioro has a recluse in the per son of William II. Israel, once mem ber of a prominent conveyancer's firm, who lives in the family mansion alone. For fifteen years he has allowed no one to visit hint but his lawyer anil a colored man, who every day brings him a loaf of bread and a pitcher of water. Tho handsome furniture of tho house is g;>ing to decay and is cov ered with dust No clothing covers Israel's person save an old tattered blanket, around his shoulders, a few rags dangling about, his loins, and an old hat all as o!<l as his hermitage. To make up for tho deficiency of cloth ing, nature hus stepped in and provided an abundant growth of hair, which covers his entire body. His hair and board nre long r\ 11 <I unkempt, reaching fully to his waist, while his linger nails are as long as the* fingers themselves. Israel is believi' 'o be worth a hand somo fortune. MAltK TWAIN'S BOYHOOD. *n lutervlrw With Mr* .Janr Clrmeni, Mother oI ttu< Kmnou* llumorlnt. In an unpretentious two-story brick ] dwelling, at the intersection of Uigh ind Seventh street..,, Keokuk, Iowa, lives Orion (.'lemon* ami his wife, Tho former is the eldest brother of the fa-! inouj "Mark Twain," anil it a lawyer ! by profession. He is the personage ' who was the "(lovoruor's Secretary" I nt C'urson, Ncv., and who gave Mark J the subordinate povtiou which result- j i>d, with its atK-udant experiences, in ) tho production of probably the most thrilling realistic portrayal of frontier I life over given to the world- the book [ "Roughing It." Mr. Orion Clemens j now lives a very <juiot and sccludod life, being much given to literary pursuits,in which ho i- assisted by his graceful and accomplished wife. They havo no child reu. With then) resides Mr (.'lemons' i mother who will be S'J "years of age next June. Tho writer, being strand ed in Keokuk for a few hours, improv- I ed the opportunity to make a call upon the venerable old lady, and in the ! course of an hour's conversation, which I followed, received from her lips MAW a n m t n > r Ks. j concerning her most noted son, which will be new to tho generality of read ers. "Sam was always a good-hearted i boy," said Mrs. (.'lemons, "but lie was a very wild and mischievous one, and do what wo would we could never make hitu go to school. This used to trouble his father and me dreadfully, and wo were convinced that he would never amount to as much in the world as his brothers, because ho was not near so steady and sober-minded as they were." "I suppose Mrs. (' emeus that your son in his boyhood days somewhat re sembled his own 'Torn Sawyer,' ami that a fellow feeling is what made him so kind to tho many hair-breadth es capades of that celebrated youth?" "Ah, no." replied tho old lady with a merry twinkle in her eye, "he was more like 'Huckleberry Finn' than 'Tom Sawyer.' Often his father would start hiiu oil' to school anil in a little while would follow him to ascertain his whereabouts. There was a largo stump on tho way to tho school house, and fcatn would take his position be hind that and as his father went past would gradually circle urouud it in such a way as to keep out of sight. Finally his father ami tho teacher both said it was of no use to try to teach Sam anything, because ho was deter mined not to learn. Hut 1 never gave up. lie was always a CHEAT UOV low IlISTOllV and could never get tired of that kind of reading, but ho hadn't nny use for school houses and text-books?" "It must havo boon a groat trial to you?" "Indeed it was," rejoined tho moth er, "and when Sam's fatherdiod, which occurred when ho was 11 years of age, 1 thought then, if ever, was the proper timo to maku a lasting impression on tho boy atid'vork a change in him, so I I took him by Alio hand and went iuto 1 ^Ihfl.roQtu whfcro tho oofftn was and iu noinOH*wjosoneo j(Xad some serious ._queft? to iuriike of bllfl, and that J[ know his weird onco giwn wa3 :ij\cr broken. For'iS.j.'u novo, told ii false hood. Ho turned ' his streaming eyes on nio and cricd out, "Oh mother, I will do anything, anything you ask of me except to go to school; I can't do that!" That was the very request I was going to make. Well, we after ward had a sober talk, and I concluded to let hiin go into :i printing ollico to learn the trade, as I couldn't have him running wild, lie did so, "and has gradually picked up enough education to enable him to do about as well as those who were more studious in early life. He was about 'JO years old whou ho went ON t 11 k Mississippi AS A PIl.OT. 1 gavu hiin up then, for 1 always thought steam boa ting was a wicked business, and was sure he would moot bad associates. I asked him if he would promise me on the Bible not to touch intoxicating liquors, nor swear, and ho said, "Yes, mother, I will." Ho repeated tlio words after me, with my hand and his clasped on the holy book, and I believe ho always kept that promise. But Sam has a good wifo now who would soon bring him back if ho was inclined to stray away from tho right. He obtained for his brother Henry n place on tho same boat an clork, and soon after Sam left tho river Honry was blown up with tho boat by an oxplosion and killed." Tho dear old lady gave me tho last romlnisconcos in a trembling voico and with eyes filled with tears, but in a mo ment recovered her wonted serenity of expression and told many moro inci dents and interesting stories of tho then embryo humorist of which my moinory was not sulllciently neeurato to enable me to reliably reproduce, though tho general idea will always ro uiain in my mind as an indeliblo pho tograph of Mark Twai t. not as tho world knows him, but :n Is.- was and is to the mother whose id i! ho evidently is, and whoso ,KTKON<? ?.??<>I > sj.N-K and wiso counsel in hi-: \o'i:li undoubt edly has contributed lur^e \ to his suc cess. Mrs. (Meuicns, .? :?!?? from a deafness, which iiocmm*,', ,i<?- tho use of an oar trumpet, is well piv.ervod and sprightly for her years. Mark Twain inherited the humor and the talents which ha\e made him famous from his moth r. stated tho younger Mrs. Clemen-. lie is all 'Lnmpton,' and rescioM- - her as strongly in person as in mind. Tom Sawyer s Aunt Polly and .Mm. Hawk ins, in 'Gilded Age,' are direct por traits of his mother." Mrs. ('lemons wa-? Mm Jane I,amp ton boforo her marriage, and was a na tive of Kentucky. Mr ('lemons was of the F. F. V.'sof Virginia. They did not accumulate proper!) .and tho father loft the family not hing at h;sdeath but, in Mark's own words, "a sumptuous stock of prido and a good old name," which, it will be allowed, has ;>r>>\ed in this case at least a sulVicicnt inheritance. Tho principal of a New York school for teaching deaf mute children to talk j and understand what, is said to them ] by watching the lips of the speaker in i a recent lecture delivered to show to 1 what perfection the system has boon j carried had the lights lowered and had a deaf boy interpret his utterances by | watching tho shadows mado on tho wall by (lis lips It appears from observations made in France lliat the development of veg- j etablo lift* is retarded by an average of nearly four days for each additional j 100 yards of altitude. The arrival of ' tho chimney swa|low is delayed about, two days tor each increase of 100 yards in height. <;i.r wiNCis. It is said there uro otil v about half a dozen wooden houses in Loudon. The timber-work of tlio domes of the Church of St. Mark, at Venice, is more than M'1 years old, and is still iu a good state. Mrs. .Julian James, the Wealthy widow whom it is rumored cx-l'resi dent Arthur will soon marry, has tho dar k beaut\ and pronounced features that betri> h--r .Jewish origin. Shu spent tin1 !a>t season in Washington, and ass'sted : > receivo at most of tho White llou-e levees. One of the greatest astronomical works of the century, a cataloguo deal in*: with (.'i.ixwi stars in the Southern Hemisphere, lias just been issued in London. Five persons were engaged in the work for a period of fourteeu years. Hen liutlvr has done another shrewd t hi Hit. lie has rented his house on Capitol Hill iu Washington to tho senate for the use of its com mi Woe*. The rent paid i?lo.OOO a year. Those who are familiar with tho cost of building such a house and its present value iu the real-estate market say that this rent represents exactly 21 per cent upon the original investment. A (icorgia individual, who is well versed in regard to cattle, says that after the sap rises in tho spring cattlo driven from north to south, a distance of thirty miles or more are suro to die, and those driven from south to north will not die, but the cattle they cotno in contact with will die. Driving them east and west has no effect upon them. Recently one of llarnum's elephants was found to be in danger of becoming blind. A surgeon who examined tho huge animal declared that tho oyos could be saved if tho elephant could bo induced to submit to an operation. Accordingly llio poor animal was tied down and some caustic lluid was dropped into one of his eyes. Ho roared with pain, for tho treatment was severe. On tho following day tho eye that had been treated was much better, but the surgeon thought ho was going to have a terrible time in opera ting on the other eye. Kaucy his sur 1>ri.se to lind that as soon as tho groat >ea>t heard his voico ho stretched himself on the ground and peacefully submitted to the painful ordeal. Tho elephant had simply recognized tho skill and friendly purpose of his bene factor. ? There are throe /.ones, three climates, within tho limits of Venezuela, from colli too intense to be endured by man to the greatest degree of heat known on t)io earth's surface. Tho Alpiuo zone lies to the west among tho snow clad summits of tho Andes, whero aro plains swept by blasts which chill tho blood. Tho next zone is from 6,000 to 8,000 feet above tho soa, covorod with forests of timber and nutritious grass es. Tho third zone is tho tropical, | where fruits of all sorts aro produced in tho greatest abundance. Iho Veuo 1 zuelana claim that theirs is the only I land whuro coffee and x^oru, sugar and applos, jlananas and wh^t grow In tho lamo . ::. An< i*toro that amusii^^^^^^^^^H^P^was not bo much i store as w^BtinTlishment with halls und rooms r^Rr furnished. La dies tnpptd in nilFout all day long, most of tho visitors having with them pugs and terriers. The pet do>,8 wero scattered through the rooms, cach awaiting its turn. M*any small mats and ru ;s were around tho waxed floors, and every bit of varpctingof tho kind wa? occupied by some pretty littlo creature. These dogs have various dresses. The robe used iu the morning is a garment of dark-blue cloth. It is called a paletot, and is lined with red flannel. From a leather collar little hells jingle as its wearer walks along. Sometimes a bunch of violets is fas tened on the left shoulder of tho dog. On very cold days the pet is clad in sealskin of tho same pattern, the col lar being in fur mounted in silver. Farm* on t-lie linltio. A moro beautiful farming country does not exist than that along tho southern shorts of the Baltic. No fenc es mark tho boundaries of tho fortilo farms whieli stretch away over tho roll ing hills to tho distant horizon, all aglow with yellow grain. At intervals a clump of trees, often soon intensely dark against tlm ripe grain, shown where a farm-house stands, and giant windmills swing their sails on the high est hill tops. The highway, a linoly built ehaussco, leads straight across tho country, only curving to pass through soma village. Mountain ash, birch, and cherry trees border tho road in an unbroken rank. In tho ditohes and hy tin; road grow countless varie ties of wild Uowevs a perfect pnradiso for the botanist. From tho highest hill tho eye meets to the south a suc cession of grain Holds. To tho north, beyond tho soft undulations of the cul tivated hills, tho Baltic shimmers in tho strong sunlight, a narrow line, sharp at the horizon, 'l'ho dimension* of tho brick barns prove the accustomed mag nitude of the harvest; tho luxury of tho farmers' houses tells of inherited suc cess. J/ar/tcr's Mti<j<izinc. Dentlny In Warts. The fato of nations and men often turn on the merest trilles. It would ho indeed curious if tho destiny of Kr glnnd and Kgypt was to bo materially alVectod l>y the prrsonco of two warts on the cheek of a Khartoum ship's car penter. Tho occurrence of such a con tingency, seems, however, to ho quite within the bounds of possibility. In his address to the Soudanese, Mohammed Ahmed wrote: "lias not (?od Himself given mo the signs of my mission tho two warts on tlm loft cheek which are spoken of in His book?" This cogent reasoning would seem to have had its effect, for tho officers of the Kordofan army who joined his standard exhorted their companion* to follow their ex ample, declaring that the medhi "is al ways smiling, and his countenanco is beaming as the full moon. On his right check is a wart, and other signs which are written in the hooks of tho law." There is. it i< true, a grave dis crepancy as to the position of tho warts; hut it might nevertheless have been heller for the peace of the world if Mohammed Ahmed had been born without any warts at all. Lomlon World. It. is related of a "moonshiner" at Clare, Mich , that lie sold some pino logs la-d fall to a Saginaw lumberman, tli<! same bring cut on land owned by the Saginaw man. Not long after ho sawed tho ends of the logs .so as to erase the marks and sold the same logs over again. The tiling worked so well that he tried it again with equal suc cess, and kept on doing so until tho logs, which were originally sixteen feet long, wore reduced to two feet.