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THI YOL. Y. NO. 31 The Whispered Secret. A SKEVIAN SONti. Two fond lovers in the meadows meeting Kiss each other, kiss on kiss repeating; And, while thinking no third party knows it, Lo! the meadows near at hand disclose it; To the white docks and the grazing cattle They repeat the tale with busy prattle ; Then the flocks, who heard it with precision, Print it plainly on the shepherd's vision ; He repeats it to a gay wayfarer Who in turn becomes the soft tale-bearer ; To a sailor on the sea he takes it; lie into a tuneful song then makes it: iv. cj,;,, cincw it in all Quarters. JL V *4*0 MV mm ? ^ # And the ship confides it to the waters: While the waters, worse than any otLer, Hush in speed to tell the maiden's mother. Then the maiden, all the case discerning, Thus exclaims, with wrathful blushes burning " Meadows! Oh, that spring had not arrayed you,? Flocks! may cruel dogs and wolves invade you!? Shepherd! thee may Moslem anger vanquish!? Wanderer! may you walk in oonstant anguish!? Sailer! soon may ocean's billows wreathe you!? Ship ! may fire unquonchable insheathe you!? And t' ou?to tell a mother of her daughter? Sink deep in earth, oh, tattling, treacherous water!" ?Joel Benton. ETHEL'S TRIALS. It was only a seantrcoal fire,but seen through the open grate it looked bright and cheery, and dunoed and sparkled on after a fashion of its own, as if trying to put a broad smile on in spite of fate* The room was plain and somber enough in other respects ; the floor only half covered with strips of cheap carpeting, the furniture and belongings all of the simplest character. Ethel Hammond sat sewing busily, her dark hair half .in shadow. Tho light just glancing upon her face showed it pale and grave, the hps, beautiful in their curve, falling wearily apart, and the long black lashes almost touching the rounded cheeks. The faint rustle of~her work an 1 the occasional dropping of & coal were the only sounds that broke the silence. It was so still that Rose, snuggled down by the fire with her curls drooping over her shoulders, gradually lost all consciousness of her posrion, and" was in some danger of finding said curls canglit and imprisoned by a little tongue of flame,saucier then its fellows. v She sighed heavily. Ethel's dark lashes were slowiy raised, revealing wondrous, lovely eyes of clearest brown. " What is the matter, pet?' "Oh, Eihie"?with another sigh?" I have been thinkiug how different everything is from what it usctl to be. When we l.ved in our old homo, I mean, and father and mother were alive, and Robert was there, and we were ail so happy together! Don't you remember what dear good times we used to ha% e in the large parlor, before Rob. went off ? And now he is gone, and father and mother"?she stopped a moment, but soon resumed?" and you have to work so hard all the time, and?oh. dei.r, everything is dull and lonely ! We never set in to have any good times now. I think even Jip feels the difference, looking foudlv "do .v . at the little brown spaniel in her lap. r She was just lifting her head when EtLel spoke again. " Rose, how should yon like to go away from here into a large house all our own, wi;h handsome furniture such as we used to have ? And go to a good school, and have nice clothes and new playthings. Wouldn't it be pleasant?" "And Rob. ?" Ethel made a quick gesture. " Rob. wouldn't have anything to do with it. He is away." " Cut isn't he comiug home, to bring us all these nice things ? I thought that was wh it von meant. Ethie. Don't you know the night before he went away, how he told what handYM-Asontfl he was coins to bring home, and the gay times we would have ?" " Hush, child!" interrupted Ethel, suddenly, errowing very pale. " That was a long time ago. Robert must have forgotten all about us before . this, or he would have written." " I don t believe it!" retorted liose, indignantly. Ethel's eyes grew still more troublod,aud she , put her hand on her heart, with a suddeu.qniek gasp. | 4i It I could! if 1 only could !" she said to | herself. " Who is going to give us these things, j EthieV" she said at last. "Have any of the j men father owed been good, and let us have the money? Mr. Rowe said one of the debts j would have been enough for us to live on. only ; the man wanted every cent." " And I wanted he should have it Our , father's name uever should suffer, though it ; left us poorer than we are now. No, Rose, that | is not it, but?you know Jtf r. Woodward." She j hesitated, and,* in spite of herself, the scarlet j blood mounted to her brow. " He is rich, and he has asked me to marry him.' " I don't think it would be right for you to j give up Rob. and marry that old, homely-looking ! man, Ethel." To save her life Ethel could not have met the reproachful gaze of those great, serious i eyes. She looked down as she said: " Yes, Rose, I am going to be married to Mr. Woodward,and this is mv engagement ring." Rose did not speak a word, but for the first time since their double orphanage, she failed to i return her sister's good-night kiss. It was a bright June day wheu the sisters ; entered the new home of which Ethel was ! henoeforth to be mistress. If anything could have made her thoroughly happy, it would have been the tender anxiety which Mr. Wood j i a ..u? fko* nil Pnaa'a chilSiah rltu WSl'U uau Buunu luai an U , sires should be gratified. Six months of her wedding life went by, and found her at the close peaceful, content, grow- 1 ing daily more satisfied with her life and its duies. The winter holidays drew near. Rose released from school discipline, was like a bird | set free. She went dancing and singing about the house, working busily at odd moments on 1 various manufactures of her own intended for surprise presents. V It is so nice to be rich, and give so many penole a 'Merry Christmas,'" Rose said, delighted. Ethel never ftfrgot one incident of all that bright, joyous, happy time. For ere the Now Year s day she had welcomed in so gayly came 4o a close. Rose lay feverish and restless on her couch with the first symptoms of what proved to be a malignant fever. She had probably caught it in some one of the poor neighborhoods they had visited. Night and day Ethel watched by her side, one fear ever inj her heart, one prayer ever On her lips: "Save her - spare her, oh, God." A vain prayer, for He denied it There came a morning when Ethel saw her darling's face with uply the light of day resting on it, the dark eyes closed, and the lips whereon she pressed wild kisses, cold and breathless. Nor was that all. Mr. Woodward who had watched unremittingly in the room, was himself taken down with the disease the very day that Rose was buried. Ethel came home from the grave where her sweetest hopes perished to take her place as watcher by another sick bed. Not for long : the fever made more rapid progress here. In less than a week, the strong man was a corpse, and Ethel, utterly crushed by this new blow, was left alone in the world. Alone to meet poverty no less than sorrow. Mr. Woodward had made no will since his marriage. An old one dated some rears back left his property all to distant relatives who were not slow in taking possession. Hard, money making people, none to well pleased with the marriage in the first place, they had no scruples in taking from the young widow all that the law allowed, even though it left her nearly penniless. So from the elegant house with its luxurious appointments, Ethel went back to one small room, simply furnished with what little she could honestly call her own. Here, alone, C BE i. despairing, she took np the burden of life again, and recommenced her old routine of daily labor. She came home one evening more than usually wearv. It was a cold, wet night, and she was chilled through from a long walk, carrying home her work. " She grows more lovely every day with that little, sweet, grieved smile," said Mrs. llill to herselt as she cutered to announce a caller, "a strange gentleman who's been here twice before since yon went out.' "Some oiio to see about work probably. Will you ask him up, please?" She rose languidly, took off her things, and just smoothed her hair without looking in tho glass, ttlio was hanging up her cloak, when a step in the doorway made her turn and look round. * , A gentleman, tall, brown and heavily bearded, stood there looking at her. "Excuse me. Will yon please bo seated?" she said, offering him a chair. He sat down without speaking, and after waiting n moment for him to do so, she inquired hesitatingly: "Do you wish sorno work done, sir?" A quick smile broke over his face, and gave a new light to the clear, sparkling, black eves. "Ethie!' She started, gave one wild, eager look?and how it was, Bhe never knew, but good Mr?. Hill passing by a moment after, saw through the open door a sight that surprised her not a little?her favorite boarder clasped in the arms of the strange gentleman, and sobbing away as if her heart would break, with her head resting on his shoulder. "Thank heaven, darling, I have found you at last!" was (Robert's first exclamation. "I had begun to think you were lost to mo forever." Ethel Hammond's trials were over then. The Bride of a Week in the Snrf. . Daintily she picked her way over the sands to the edge of the sea; timidly, and with the winning grace and gentleness of a youDg fawn, she clung to the arm that was to protect her in health and in sickness, on the deep as well as on the land. He seemed to feel the full weight of the responsibility he had assumed, and with tender care and words of encouragement lie guided her toward the waves. At length they stood on the edge ; the indashing surf reached almost to their feet, but still her pretty gray flannel bathing suit was dry and unspotted, and the bright red trimmings caught and threw the clear rays of the summer sun. So they stood for a minute; she with her hand resting confidingly in his, he looking bravely into her upturned and half frightened face, and urging her to trust to liis strength and witn mm to plunge into the dashing whirlpool that lay before them. Of course, the man's persistence overcame the woman's fear, and they dashed into the surf together. Then all at once the picture changed. They parted company, and he, " braving all and fearing naught," rushed forward into 4he waves. For a moment he rode them manfully, and his little partner, standing kneedeep in the bright water, looked upon him with admiration, not unmixed with a satisfaction that comes of assured possession. But, as has been the case witll stronger m5n, his glory was short-lived. A billow higher and more powerful than any that had gone before?what is known as "a Cape May ripple "?dashed full against him ; he struggled, lost his balance, w18 lifted off his feet, and, splashing, dashing, throwing his arms and legs about him wildly and helplessly, he was thrown sprawling at the feet of the little lady whom a minute before he had been patronizingly urging to put her trust in him and fear nothing. " So pride must ever have a fall." The young woman was equal to the occasion ; what American girl is not ? The receding wave was about to carry the venturesome young gentleman back into the sea in which he professed to be j so much at home; he was still sprawling | ?it is the only word?and clutching wildly at the sands, struggling to regain his feet, when she, stooping down, quietly but quickly caught his bathing shirt firmly in both her hands and held ^ " A.11 ihrt vnnvTA /VAT^O ill III lU&b 1111 lixc nave? 111*14 guuu uuvj^ Then he jumped to his feet, and she, womanlike, when he was no longer in danger, gloried in his downfall, and said, with a pretty toss of her dark brown curls: " There, I told you so ; what did you want to go out so far for, foolish fellow?" ' # A Turkish Pasha with a Brogue. During the late war between Servia and Turkey it so happened that some of the lady nurses and their staff, as well as some special correspondents and medical men, fell somehow within the jurisdiction of a Turkish pasha. They were naturally anxious to explain J to this dignitary that they were non-com-' batants and entitled to protection. They deputed a very well-known special correspondent, with a person who professed to be a Turkish interpreter, to wait upon the pasha to make explanations. The correspondent found himself not wholly without emotion in the awful presence of the pasha. The interpreter tried to begin the explanation, but verv soon stammered in his Turkish, and seemed unable to get on. The correspondent tried to come to his assistance, but being much weaker in his Turkish than even the interpreter, was unable' to get beyond a few words, and soon broke down completely. The paslia made a sign as if to interrupt them, and the correspondent waited in almost as much excitement as M. Jourdain in presence of the son of the grand Turk. Then the pasha said: "Ah, then, you can spake to me in English. I was born in the beautiful 1 citv of Cork." i v | The Absent Minded Man. A very respectable citizen of Detroit decided the other day to try the blue ! glass cure, and he took the glass and a : glacier home with him and pointed out the window where it was to be put in. It wasn't the glacier's business to notice that . the window was on the north side of the house, where no ray of sunshine ever came, i and he finished his work according to in! structions. The citizen returneihjust as the job was completed, and after walking around the house two or three times he remarked: ""Well, it seems to me we have got the wrong window." " No sun here," replied the painter;; " what shall I do?" 'Well," said the citizen, as he squinted around, "we'll leave it for a day or two. i If I can get the sun around here some way it will be all right. If I cau't we'll have to take the glass out." The glazier is waiting to see if the man can handle the sun.?Free Frees. 3AU] AND PORT BEAUFORT, S. ' FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. Plaster on White Clover. I ' It is not so generally known among i fanners as it ought to be that the yellow ' ridges and much of the level drift soil of ' the North hold dormant the germs of white clover, which may be quickened ] j aud the plant brought to light and made to cover tl,e laud with tlje finest of herbi age, a feed especially adapted to milk, j A moist season will develop the plant, but it can be done, and in any season, by the use of plaster (gypsum). A bushel or a little more per acrs, sown early, will start it forth so as to afford feed for that season, The next season fhp errritrfh Trill hp Pfmtiniied. and Can be " ? ' ? J ? . j improved by giving it another dressing j of the sulphate. For a greater and more i immediate effect, the first season the stone should be ground fine?the finer the better. The second application the i season following may be coarser and , more of it applied, as it will last the longer, thus dispensing with annual ap! plications. Especially is this a favorable mode for treating hilly land that , from its steepness precludes the use of the plow, or the application of barnyard manure; that will admit only of the application of the more concentrated fertilizers, such as guano, the super phos! phates, etc. But none of them can compare with the profit realized from the t sulphate, which is now obtained ground I to order and of the best quality here in central New York at $4 per ton. Large quantities are used, and the amount is increasing. Those who have neglected to sow it will find it to their advantage still to apply it. If there is rain enough to dissolve it the effect will be seen in time enough to cover the fields in the fall with a fine fresh growth, making the October milk rival that of June, and if not fed to close, start out in the spring (without a dressing of plaster) and afford good feed during the season. If the land is in good condition, somewhat fertile, and plaster has not been used, to apply the plaster will make the growth pro1 portionally heavy. One of mv neighbors applied it to a piece of naked'soil which had been put to potatoes the year before. Without plowing or harrowing he sowed his plaster at a venture, the plot being a small one and no time to plow it. Such a growth of white clover I never before saw, ankle deep, and as thick"as it could stand. Without the plaster it probably would have been nothing, as the season was rather dry.? F. G., Montgomery county, N. Y. Household Hints. Baked Apples.?Bake until they are tender, quarter them, and after you have taken the core out, place them in a platter and sprinkle white sugar over them and a thick layer of cream. TiKwoN Pie.?One lemon, one ecrc. one cracker, one cupful sugar, half cupful water, one spoonful salt, the juice of the lemon squeezed out, the pulp and cracker chopped together; grate the rind. Calves' Feet.?Boil them until tender ; cut them in two, taking out the large bones. Season with pepper and salt and sweet marjoram, and dredge well with flour; fry a light brown in lard and butter mixed. Serve with parsley sauce. To Perfume LfNEN.?Rose leaves dried in the shade, or at about four feet from a stove, one pound ; cloves, caraway seeds, and allspice, of each one ounce, pound in a mortar, or grind in a mill. Mix all these together, and put the compound into little bags. Raspberry Vinegar.?Red raspberries, any quantity or sufficient _ to till a stone jar nearly full, then pour upon i them sufficient vinegar to cover them, Cover the jar closely, and set it aside for eight or ten days; then strain through A! rvv wnol'in Q?/l O/l/l fA flia /"?!OflP ! I UHI 1IPA U1 XUUOlUlj CUiU (VUV4 W VUV \ 4V(M liquor one and a half pounds of sugar to each pint, place over a fire and boil for a few minutes, allow it to cool, and then bottle for use. This makes, when mixed with water, a delightful summer drink, also very beneficial for convalescents. Fresh Mackerel,.?Mackerel must be very fresh, indeed ; wash thoroughly, dry with a cloth, and sprinkle inside with salt and pepper ; take very young leeks, the long green tops and ail, tie all around the fish, aud broil slowly over a clear fire; must be turned often; when quite done pour over it melted butter, ; with parsley in it; garnish with parsley. Lemon Jelly. ? Grate one whole j lemon, taking out the seeds; add one egg, one cupful white sugar, four tablespoonfuls cold water; mix well together and cook over steam until it is clear; put in cups and set in a cool, dry place; it will keep four or five weeks. Don't Breed Too Many Fowl* Upon one place, and never attempt to keep a dozen varieties within the space that should properly be devoted to on ly one kind. This is a glaring and growing fault in this country, in certain quarters. The novice or the more experienced fnucier who gives his active attention to the perfecting of a good flock of one or two varieties, is the most successful, and in the end he will not only become better known in connection with 6uch one or two kinds that he breeds well, but he will find it most to his profit in the end, unless his farm or estate be extensive. In this latter case, any number of varieties may be handled to advantage, if sufficient "colonies" are established upon different portions of the place. This is the principle. Separate your flocks?give them room and range?and don't attempt to breed a hundred where you ought to have but a score together. Be 6ure of it, this is sound advice, and we have learned its importance in years of practical experiments amoug poultry.?Poultry World. Worms in Melon Vines. Can you tell me what I can do to prevent the worms from killing my melon vines ? I have been unable to raise good melons for several years past on account of some pest which attacks the roots after the vines have reached a considerable size. Upon examination I have found small white grubs down in the roots and near the surface of the ground. The white grubs found in the roots and stems of your melon vines are the larvae of a pretty little moth known to ontomologists as Alelittia cucurbitce, or cucumber melittia, because it attacks plants belonging to the cucumber family, melons and squashes included, i Scattering ashes and lime about the young plants when they first appear FOR' ROYAL C( C., THURSDAY, , will sometimes prevent the moth from depositing her eggs upon them; bnt this cucumber borer is a difficult pest to fight, with our present knowledge of its habits. Every infested vine should be dug up and burned with its contents ; and in this way the number of moths might be lessened somewhat in a neighborhood. A Man Without a Name. It isn't often that a governor's veto blasts a young man's matrimonial prospects, but the nay of Governor Kemper, of Virginia, is responsible for such a blight. It was the case of a man without a name. Cast upon the world in infancv. his parents' name was never learned, and the "waif grew up dubbed Tromp Payne. He was a mason by trade, and had become quite successful in business. He had already experienced mortification and some legal difficulties by the reason of the uncertainty of his name, but he had managed to get along until last year, when he fell in love with a beautifal girl of Fauquier and sought her for his wife. He found his nameless condition an insuperable objection to the lady. She could never consent to part with her own name until assured that she would legally receive anoth'er in its stead. "Tromp " applied to the eourts for relief, but they held that, while thev had power to change a name, they had no power to give a name to a person who had none. In his tribulation " Tromp " applied to ex-Governor Smith, who introduced in the general assembly the bill legalizing the name of Charles Van Mason?in which " Tromp" had combined the name of his chief benefactor with that of the trade whereby he had got on in life. But it was not until the last days of the session that the bill got through both houses and was sent to the governor. He had not heard of the facts of the case, and supposed it to be one in which the courts could do everything required. He veoted it?returned it disapproved just as the general assembly was adjourning sine die, and it was too late to help the matter. Late information from Fauquier tells that the lady has finally refused to entertain "Tromp's" proposal any longer, and has taken another suitor, whose name is inherited and incontestable. "Tromp" in /loermir lins frnnfi to Texas. Varieties in Food. The hunter on the Pampas subsists on ffalo beef, with scarcely a particle of jjgetable food to vary his diet. The indoo is content with rice and rancid butter, and cannot be induced to eat flesh. The Greenlander gorges himself with whale oil and animal fats of any kind he can secure; the moderate Arab has his bag of dates, his loto3 bread, and dhourra. On the coast of Malabar we find men regarding with religious horror every species of animal food, while the native of New Holland has not a single edible fruit larger than a cherry on the whole surface of that vast island. The Englishman considers himself ignominiously treated by fortune if he cannot get his beef or bacon; the peasant of the Appenines is cheerful with his meal of chestnuts. Beside varieties in the staple articles of food, there are the infinite varieties of fancy. The Chinese make delicacies of rats and of birds' nests; the French, of frogs. The ancients, who carried epicureanism to lengths never dreamed of by Guildhall, thought the hedgehog a tidbit, and had a word to say in favor of the donkey, which they placed on an equality with the ox; dogs they considered equal to chickens, and even cats were not to be despised. The pork, which we eat with great confi dence, they considered, ana not untnuy, the least digestible of animal meats, fit only for artfsans and atlrfetes. Tliey ate snails with the gusto we acknowledge in oysters. Power of ji Dead Child. Last Tuesday afternoon, says the Memphis Avalanche of a recent date, Detective Pryde stepped on board the steamer Maude as 6he touched the levee, and approaching a brunette leading a white poodle, politely told her that she was wanted on a telegram received from St. Louis. "It's my husband," said she; "I will wait, but he can never induce me to live with him again." She walked to the Worsham House with a firm tread and her little white poodle trotted behind her. The husband arrived in due time. An interview was arranged and "took place. Mr. Gardner approached madam with extended hand, but madam would have none of it. What did the deserted husband then ? He knew well the path to the woman's heart. Tenderly and gently he led her memory back to the little cradle and its baby inmate in which mingled their blood in common; thence he brought to her mind the baby shoes, the little torn apron, the ball, the marble?all that remained of their idol, now in Heaven. The mother's heart, through the little dead form and the sad picture of the white flowers on a short coffin, warmed again toward the father of her boy. Her face twitched with emotion, and as the bright days of the honeymoon were brought back to her thoughts sobs shook her frame, and between tears she said: "I'll return with you." The battle was won. A Shower of Frogs. The Petersburg (Va.) Index-Appeal says: A gentleman of this city, who was ?:~:i.:~noirrlilmrinrr nnnn visnaig in uuc ui wv ?- -?? ties at the time of the recent storms, states that the frogs were so numerous along the roads which he traveled that they flew up from lmder his buggy wheels almost like dust. It did not appear to him as if they were much, if any, larger than flies, but they were very active. Where the things came from was as great a mystery to our informant as to us. It is supposed they must have been hatched out in large numbers by the hot weather, and driven from the boles in which their parents live by the penetrating storm. A few of the thousands?if not millions?which pranced around on i our lower streets with so much vivacity a few days ago, still remain, though they look as if they did not enjoy the country. Whither the/ rest have hopped we know not. It is not unlikely that great quantities of them died. Their appearance was one of the most singular phenomena ever witnessed by the curious in these parts. T T )MMERCIAL. rULY 19, 1877. Consumption of Boer in Europe. From a report of a committee of the British House of Commons, relating to beer and brewers, it appears that the number of bushels of malt made for the year ending the thirty-first of December last was 60,929,632, and the amount of duty charged for the same period was in round numbers $41,314,000. From the first of October, 1875, to the first of October, 1876 there were exported from England 430,854 barrels of beer, the declared value of which was $8,572,395; Scotland, 41,869 barrels, declared value from $914,000; from Ireland,351 barrels, declared value $16,125?making a total of 473,254* barrels of beer exported from the United Kingdom during the twelve months, of a declared value of $9,503,510. The greatest number of these barrels of beer were exported to the " Continental Territories?British India," which figure in the list for 138,857 of them. In a return to tho Berlin statistics bureau upon the consumption of beer in Germany, Herr Grad, now one of the deputies from Alsace in the Reichstag, points out that, like most modern industries, brewing is gradually being concentrated into a few hands; for, notwithstanding the increased production, there are not so many breweries now as there were some four years ago. There has been a decline of twelve per cent, within that period, from 15,456 in 1872 to 13,520 in 1876. In 1875 the total production of beer was, in round numbers, 880,000,000 gallons, the principal figures being as follows: 460,000,000 gallons in North Germany, 214,000,000 gallons in Bavaria, 67,000,000 in Wurtemberg, 31,000,000 gallons in Baden and 20,000,000 gallons in Alsace-Lorraine. This total?about 4,400,000 gallons more than in the previous year?is arrived at, .notwithstanding the dimunition in Southern Germany due to the large wine crop, it having been remarked that when the wine crop is an abundant one in Germany there is less demand for beer. Owing to the decline in the number of breweries the averacre annual production of each brew ery in existence is nearly fifty per cent, in exceps of what it was four years ago, while, with regard to the annual consumption, it is calculated at about twenty gallons per head of the population in Germany proper, as against only nine gallons per head in Alsace-Lorraine. The consumption is the greatest in Bavaria, being equal to about fifty-seven gallons per head, end it is from Bavaria, too, the export trade is the largest, amounting, as it does, to 11,000,000 gallons a year. The Sleepy Duke's Peril. The late Duke of Wellington was accustomed during the latter years of his life to drive himself about in a curricle, a habit which caused his family considerable uneasiness since, from his increasing years and failing vision, it teemed probable that he would meet with some accident. The duke's well known character, however, was such that nobody dared to hint such a thing to him, and all the round-about methods taken to induce him to abandon his charioteering having failed, he was left to enjoy its pleasures at peace. What rendered this so extremely dangerous was his habit of going off suddenly to sleep,' which brought Jiim so many hairbreadth escapes that at last it was arranged for some member of the family to accompany him whenever he could do so without awakening his suspicions. One day his second son, Lord (paries, contrived to be honored with the perilous invita* ' * .1/v n noidrtin rliofonOO IIOU. ri-il/UI U11V1.U?, <t wi buiu uu?uuv.v along the road, the duke went off into a nap, and one of the reins fell from his hands, while he kept hold of the other, still feeling the horses' mouths with it. The result was that the animxls were gradually edged toward a deep and steep ravine which bordered the road. Lord Charles, watching things meantime, and praying that his father might, as he had done many times before, awake in time to prevent the else inevitable smash. The duke, however, continued to nod and to pull, until at last, as the horses were on the very edge of the ditch, Lord Charles seized the fallen rein, and giving it a pluck, pulled them short round into the road again. With a sharp turn the duke awoke, and seeing the rein in his son's hand, asked angrily : " What are you doing with the reins, sir?" "Well, sir," replied Lord Charles, j " the horses were going straight over the i edge, and I just pulled them off it to prevent us being smashed to pieces." The duke looked at him sternly, and said: "I'll trouble you to mind your own business." Words of Wisdom. Let pleasure be ever so innocent, the excess is always criminal. Theories are very thin and unsubstantial ; experience is only tangible. An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded. Cheerfulness makes the mind clear, gives tone to thought, and adds grace and beauty to the countenance. I scarcely exceed the middle age of man ; yet between infancy and maturity I have seen ten revolutions.?Lamar tine Gaze not on beauty too much, lest it blast thee; nor too long, lest it blind thee; nor too near, lest it burn thee. If thou like it, it deceives thee ; if thou leave it, it disturbs thee ; if thou hunt after it, it destroys thee. If virtue accompany it, it is the heart's paradise ; if vice associate with it, it is the soul's purgatory. It is the wise man's bonfire and the fool's furnace. I,,, I One Woman's Way. When Professor Wormly, of the Starling Medical College, of Columbus?who has just b^en chosen to the chair of chemistry in the University of Pennsylvania?had completed his work on I " Micro-Chemistiy" (now p standard! authority on both sides of the Atlantic), , he found that the cost of engraving his j minute drawings would be so great that no publisher would take the risk of pxibli- j cation. There was danger, therefore, ! that the world would lose the result of ; his arduous labors. The difficulty was, i however, overcome by liis wife, who i studied the art of steel engraving dili- j gently, and with such success that the ! plates reproducing her husband's draw- I ings rival the finest bank-note work. ' RIBI $2.00 per A THE TURKISH CRESCENT. How the Gibbon* Moon Became the Turkish Emblem. It is usual, among recent writers, to name "The Cross" and "The Crescent " to distinguish the respective creeds in the present Turko-Russian war. Iu fact, these several symbols plainly mark the Christian and Ottoman faiths. The question when and why the Ottomans adopted the crescent has been much discussed long before now. It was alleged that Mohammed broke the disc of the moon and caught half of it falling from heaven in his sleeve?this is i stated in the Koran and seems to indi?A i.U-1 .v.mo/la a rnnncf CUlt; WHO 1U.U1111U11UCA* UJKUV >uv J V "O moon a sign of bis divine authority. The crescent, or half moon, with the horns turned upward, was a religious symbol, however, long before the Turkish empire began. It was reported that Sultan Othman, founder of the empire, A. D. 1299, dreamed that he saw a crescent moon, which waxed until its splendor illuminated the whole world from east to west; that he then adopted the crescent, and emblazoned it on his standard, with the motto: "Donee Itepleat Orbcm," or " Until it fills the world." But the crescent moon had been a symbol well known to the worshipers of Diana in the ancient mythology of Greece and Borne. There are old statues of her, with the up-pointing crescent over her brow. Another account is that Philip of Macedon, father of Alexander^ the Great, was engaged one night in undermining the walls of Byzantium, which he was besieging, and his operations were discovered to those within by a sudden appearance of a young moon, and that in gratitude for this timely light the Byzantines commemorated the frustration of Philip's hostile design by creating a temple to Diana and by adopting her orescent as the symbol of the State. It has also been alleged that in 1446, when the Turks took Byzantium, thoy adopted the crescent standard which they found there, and which the Janizaries had borne for more than a century previous. Undoubtedly then the cres cent was the emblem of Greek pievious to the superiority of the Turkish rule. Oddly enough, at the present day the crescent is to be seen on and in churches in Moscow and other parts of old Russia, generally surmounted by the cross, thus unquestionably marking tho Byzantine origin of the Russian chyrch. In 1801 the Sultan Selim III., having previously presented Lord Nelson with a crescent richly adorned with diamonds, founded the order of the crescent, which, as Mohammedans are not allowed to carry such marks of distinction, has been conferred on Christians alone. The Turkish order of Medjidie, founded by Abduel Medjidi in 1852, and liberally confprrftd nnon French. English and Italian officers after tlie Crimean war, bears a crescent and a silver sun of seven triple rays. Assuredly the crescent dates from the time of Endymion. The Poet and the Child. John Burroughs, the essayist, who enjoyed an intimate acquaintance with the poet, Walt Whitman, has introduced an engaging sketch of him in a long and very interesting paper included among the "Birds and Poets." I give here (he writes) a glimpse of him in Washington, in a navy-yard horse-car, toward the close of the war, one summer at sundown. The car is crowded and suffocatingly hot, with many passengers on the rear platform, and among them* a bearded, tlorid-faced man, elderly but agile, resting against the dash, by the side of the young conductor, and evidently his intimate friend. The man wears a broadbrim white hat. Among the j am inside the door, a young Englishwoman, Of the working class, with two children, has had trouble all the way with the youngest, a strong, fat, fretful, bright babe of fourteen or fifteen months, who bids fair to worry the mother completely out, besides becoming a howling nuisance to everybody. As the car tugs around Capitol Hill, the young one is more demoniac than ever,and the flushed and perspiring 4 * ' 1 1 mother is just reauy 10 dutsi into ieai? , with weariness and vexation. ( The car stops at the top of the hill to ( let off most of the rear-platform passengers, and the white-hatted man reaches inside, and, gently but firmly disengaging the babe fromi ts stifling place in the . mother's arms, takes it in his own and ( out in the air. The astonished child, j partly in fear, partly in satisfaction at j the change, stops its f creaming, and as ^ the man adj'usts it more securely to his j ( breast, plants its chubby hands against j ^ him, and, pushing off as far as it can, gives a good long look squarely in his j face; then, as if satisfied, snuggles down j with its head on his neck, and in les* j ( than a minute is sound and peacefully asleep, without another whimper, utterly fagged out. A square or so more, and the conductor, who has had an unusually j hard and uninterrupted day's work, gets off for his first meal and relief 6ince j morning. And now the white-hatted man, hold- , ing*the slumbering babe also, acts as conductor the rest of the distance, keep- , ing his eye on the passengers inside, who have by this time thinned out greatly. ^ He makes a very good conductor, too, pulling the bell to stop or go on an needed, and seems to enjoy the occupa- J tion. The babe meanwhile rests its fat 1 cheeks close on his neck and gray beard ?one of his arms vigilantly surrounding it, while the other signals from time to time with the strap; and the flushed mother inside has a good half-hour to breathe and cool and recover herself. ! A Cat Charms a Snake. Mr. J. H. Mann, of Osseo, Mich., has - "TP.*-? lrnAirn kit fv?C n Am A of Tim. t% 1UJLU V/AU uuv n u wj vmw ? .? ^ He was observed by one of the neighbors capering and purring around something i in the garden. The neighbor, to her surprise, saw in a coil a large snake of the blue -acer variety, the cat seemingly having it under its control and fascinated. ' The reptile, on seeing the lady, ran ! through the fence and out of sight, but i was afterward seen by Mrs. Mann, who watched its maneuvers. The cat finally j succeeded in bringing its prey to the ! door. The dog Sliep took in the situation and soon dispatched the snake, ! while the cat capered and purred around the dog, giving unmistakable signs of its satisfaction over the result. The snake measured three feet two inches. JNE emu. Single Coif 5 Cents. A Considerate Lorer. " Mary," murmured lisping Alfred, Undecided what to say, "Mary," if you do not love me, Thay thd; that'th the only way. " But, Mith Mary, if you love me," Pressed the wretch in accents oland, " And you wouldn't like to thay tho, Then, Mith Mary, thqueeth my hand. Items of Interest. Borers for oil are called well-wishers. Texas is larger than France by 40,000 square miles. What kind of robbery is not dangerous? k safe robbery, of oourse. Georgia reports a rattlesnake killed in Dade soonty nine feet long and having thirty-six rattles. The number of persons who have signed the tfuiyhy temperance pledge is estimated at one nil lion. A woman in New Hampshire, 101 years old. s suffering from whooping cough for the first ime in her life. If you think you are too tall, marry an exravagaut woman and you will soon find yourtelf snort enough. Of all the various methods proposed for the eduction of postage none is so practical as his-get married! Sandwich islanders are digging for petroleum >il. They are digging in the sand, where a :argo of it was lost Two souls with but a single thought?Two agamuffins climbing over an oi chard fence, vith a fierce-eyed dog in pursuit The pay of the Turkish soldier is only three sents a day, so from motives of delicacy the >aymaster never comes round, finm# neonle keen savage dogs around their louses, so that tiie tramp who stops to "get a lite " may get it outside the door. Over one thousand applications for oommisdons in the Turkish army have been made by sx-Union and ex-Confederate officers. Any lady can press her old bonnet over into he new summer style by placing it on a payenent block and letting a loaded ice wagon back iver it lengthwise. A journal mentions James Clark and wife, irho were " born, died and were buried on the tame day." Jemmy and his wife must haye leen awfully young. Jefferson Davis is living at Mississippi City, in the border of Lake Pontchartrain, between tfew Orleans and Mobile. He is writing his nemoirs, ami is in excellent health. The humaa voice has nine perfect tones, but :he?e can be combined into 17,592,044,414 different sounds. The arithmetic is not to be. rcuched for, but if correct accounts for some if the disoord from which the family of Adam iuffer. At the Hammersmith police court in London, die other day, a laborer named Hemmings was irraigned for whipping his child Mary with he buckle end of a belt. The magistrate, in ^ irder to test the girl's knowledge of the nature if au oath before swearing her, questioned her is to her knowledge of the Bible, and she replied that she never heard of it. The magistrate, expressing surprise, adjourned the hearng a fortnight, and gave instructions for the rhiid to be taken to a school and instructed as a the Bible and the nature of au oath. 1 Turkish Doctor and His Patients. A correspondent in the Turkish camp it Shnmla writes : I was present to-day n the doctor's private tent while he saw lis morning's patients, and a cm ions jxperience it was. Two non-commisrioned officers stood at the entrance by the sentries and ushered in man after nan for about two hours. The doctor, jeated on a medicine chest just inside, felt pulses and prescribed with the re^uarity of a clock ticking. Two native loctor's assistants, who squatted behind, landed a pill or gave a draught as lirocted. Now and then when an unmistakable case of fever was discovered .he man was told to go into the hospital, ml; the majority were dosed there and ;hen. One man came up-with the tooth iche. At a signal given, up jumped me of the Turkish doctors, seized a pair )f blacksmith's pinchers, and, going belind the fellow, threw his left arm round lis neck as if he were about to strangle v lim. In an instant a capital double tli, as sound as a young elephant's racking tusk, was lying on the earth on lie other side of the tent. The patient, ivlio had never winked, mildly suggested that the wrong one might have Deen drawn, as he felt the offender at work still. "Be off, be off!" said the operator, pushing him out of the tent with his pinchers. 'I ben calmly resumng his seat on the floor, he lit up a fresh ngarette and politely handed the live }uarcoal in the tongs to me. Elephants Bathing. A large number of persons reoenfly witnessed the bathing of the elephants jonnected with Howe's circus, m the log pond on the Common, in Boston, [t was a novel and most interesting sight 'or the large crowd of ladiea and chilIren. The animals confined themselves X) the deeper water in the center of the cond, lashed and squirted water with heir trunks, and snorted to their hearts' jontent. The water was hardly deep enough for their interesting sport. The lames of the elephants were ChieftAin, Mandarin, Gypsy, Princess and Baby, [twos noticeable that "Baby" always sept between the two cows, Gypsy and Princess. The heaviest animal weighs 5,276 pounds, and the ages range from fourteen to eighteen years. The baby is eery fond of a small black camel belonging to the menagerie, called " Dick," and whenever the keeper called out t "Where is Dick ?" the little fellow would affectionately trumpet for his companion, much to the delight of the spectators. After disporting for about forty minutes, the elepnants answered to the call of their keeper and marched away, followed by three or four hundred boys. A Hot Wind. The Stockton (Cal.) Independent of June 8 says: Yesterday was a remarkable day. From early in. the morning until ten o'clock at night a hot, siroccolike wind blew like a hurricane from the northwest, licking up every particle of accessible moisture from the earth, while the thermometer reached ninety degrees in the shade. Its effects were very prostrating, as it seemed to dry up all the juices of the body, leaving one feeling like an animated Egyptian mummy. It was very damaging to the wheat fields, as it shelled out the grain and scattered it over the ground. One farmer, who came in from the southeastern part of the oounty, estimated that at lea^t 150 pounds of wheat to the acre had been beaten out and was lying on the ground, and he thought that at least 15,000 bushels had been scattered on the farms lying along the line of the Sonora road. It was such a wind as has not been experienced here for years.