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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.
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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,
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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
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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."
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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
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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
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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* '
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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.
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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. '
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.