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THE BEAUFORT TRIBUNE . AND PORT ROYAL COMMERCIAL. VOL. V. NO. 35. BEAUFORT, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1877. $700 per HUE Siatle Cap? 5 Celts. Husbands, Ideal and Real. " Oh, fair Ambrosia! lift thy earnest look A moment from the pages of thy book : Is there 9 lover that hath power to move Thy heart to strong and perfect love ?" " Mv lover mast be wise, must love with me All lovely things in art and poesy ; His soul must sit on high like some large star, ! And men salute him, even from afar." j " I do not ask for houses, land, or gold, Only for knowledge great and manifold. Let such a lover seek my heart and hand. And I will bow me to his wise command." " Ah, what a stupid husband !" answered May; " I'd not have such a one a single day: My lord must own a very lengthy purse. Or else I fear he'll fiud it all the worse." " Ana I," said proud uornena, - own uo iora But he who buckles on his country's sword : He must lead armies, and in blood and dame Carve the bright letters that shall spell his name." The wise Ambrosia weds a banker old, A man without a thought beyond his gold ; And May, who vowed that naught but wealth should rule. Marries a poor professor, and keeps a school. And ne'er to proud Cornelia soldier came ; Vain were her dreams of glory and of fame ; She bowed her soul to daily household work? Her lord a little harmless dry goods clerk. THE ARTISTS BRIDE. It was a morning in early June?soft, _ J ?3 ^ ? warm ana ouuiuua. In a large room, at the very top of an eld-fashioned mansion, an artist stood before his easel, surveying the portrait which had just rec. ived the finishing touches from his long, pale fingers. He turned suddenly away, as if a sharp pang had shot through his frame, anil pressing his hand upon his heart, he coughed slightly, and in a moment hib lips were red with blood. "This will finish me, perhaps," said the hoy, for he was but a child in years, aud the lameness under which he sufft red made him look young by reducing his height. A light rap at the door made him start. He called, faintly, "Come in," and there entered a young girl of small and delicate figure, and a face which was absolutely startling in its beauty. As she entered, Michael Waldmver attempted to conceal the traces of liis recent suffering, but her quick eye saw them, and she faltered and turned pale. "It is nothing ? absolutely nothing, Madeliue. It was only an accidental fit of coughing which produced it." Mtule- j line looked mournfully at the blood drops on his clothes, and then at the crutches which leaned against his chair. He watched her look aud smiled, for he was Madeline Hargrave's lover, even though he did have to use those appendages to his footsteps; and he knew that in her eyes they were no bsr to his fame and no hindrance to his goodness. 44 Why, here is father's picture all finished," said Madeline; 44 but, dearest Michael, he surely has not a face so stern and harsh as vou have pictured him!" 44Just so he looked, Lina, when I asked him for your hand. He was absolutely terrible in his expression. I confess that I copied that very look. It was in my memory too strong not to be mingled with every touch of the brush. 441 must notstay here," she said, as she turned away from the contemplation of that pale face. 44 Papa is coming nere, sum l would ratuer not meet mm. He called lier to his side again, and she bent over him with a loving smile. 44 Let me show you this le'.ter, dearest," he said, taking one from the table before him. It was from a well-known gentleman ' of great wealth, who was noted for his liberality to young and indigent artists, and who had become singularly interested in Waldmyer. In the letter he had | generously offered to take upoa himself I the whole expenses of a voyage to Italy j and a year's study there, if he would go i at once; promising patronage and influ- : ence after hi6 return. 44 Shall I go, Lina ?" 44Go! certainly, you must and shall j go, Michael. Why, you would be mad not to accept this offer. Besides, do you know that if you go to Italy and succeed ?as I know yon will?my father wonld i be proud to receive you when you return : under the auspices of such a man as Mr. ! Lennox ? Nay, you will think me un- j maidenly if I say all that I was about to utter." Then, as if struck by a new thought, ' she said: 44 Yes, Italy will be the very thing for that terrible cough. Indeed, you will go, Michael?and go now, yes, go now." The young girl was beseeching her lover to part from her, even with tearful ! eyes, and he smilingly told her so. But ! ncraiofQ,] on/] OAAn 1 off Vi 1 m t/\ liifi J'CiniOm4 J UUU OWU ivi V UlUi W MW own meditations on the subject. Rome! Italy! The very goal to which his thoughts had flown a thousand times, and as often returned as did the dove to the ark. Would his feet touch the land so beautiful and hallowed by j the art he loved ? True, it would sepa- ; rate him from Madeline, but they were both young; and, as she said, when he had gained a name, perhaps he might j dare to claim Ifcr. He decided to go, si d wrote a few brief, grateful lines to Mr. j Lennox, sign lying his acceptance of his i generous offer. He had just sealed his letter when Mr. ! Hargrnve came in. He was, as usual, : very stately and magnifieant. He came to look at his picture for the last time before it should be removed to his house. | " You have an expression there, young man " (he said this very pompously), '' which I ?ra not conscious of wearing. Will you amend your work in that respect I" Waldmyer bowed acquiescence, and with a few strokes of the pencil, he changed the expression to a grave but pleasant one. "Better, much better, and I flatter myself much more natural. When shall I send for this ?" " To-morrow, if you please, sir." Mr. Hargrave gathered up his gloves and hat, and was leaving the room, when Waldmyer, who had exerted himself too much, was again attacked as before, and the red stream was flowing from his lipi* " Bless me, Mr. "Waldmyer ! let me call a phy sieian." He could only answer by a sign not to do so. Mr. Hargrave handed him a glass of water and held it softly to his lips. He was touched by Waldiayer's gentle and patient look. "I am truly sorry for you," he said, in a tone unlike his usual imperious one. " You must go to a warmer climate, Mr. Waldmyer. Unquestionably it would be better for you than this changeful one which tries even my healthful frame," and he bowed himself from the room. Hargrave was a man, after all, of kind feelings aud strong benevolence. Perhaps he was not so much to blame for not wishing Madeline to marry one like Waldmver. He was poor, ill and lame; and in Lis heart, Michael, ever candid and right-judging, could not censure him for the part which he had taken; while yet he sighed bitterly over the destiny which seemed to separate him from Madeline Hargrave. Madeline had gone from Waldmyer's room to the house of a dear friend, Alice Clifford, to whom the lovers had mutually confided their hopes and fears. Alice was the niece of Mr. Lennox, who had been so generous to Waldmyer, and it was partly by her representations' that her uncle' had become so interested in the youthful artist. 44 You will not hinder this, Madeline," said Alice. 44 Do not! for I feel that it is his only chance for life. I speak plainly, for you must see that Waldmyer is dy mg by inches?not so much from illhealth, as that he is so hemmed in by circumstances, so narrowed in his prospects, that he has become hopeleas of the future. I have talked long and earnestly with him, dear Lina, and this is my conviction, that he must go or die r Madeline thought of the blood, and shuddered. 441 will urge him to go, Aliee," she answered. 441 have done so already. God knows that I would not stand in his path. I will go to him agaiD," and ' she added, with a quivering lip, 44 poor ! fellow, he shall go." . She did go to him and he consented J to go. Over their parting, we must not I linger. It was full of a sorrow too! sacred to be revealed; the sorrow which looks on death as near and certain. It was on a Inoraing in the latter part of July that Waldmyer sailed for Italy. He arrived in safety, and wrote, full of hope and reviving health, to Madeline. Several months elapsed after this, and he OEiV tilings J. uiu utn x uipuvelvet, I declare ! Just the color of Ra-1 phael's. Wliv, Alice, I should think you 1 were in love with Mr. Waldmyer, yourself; I will certainly tell Lina to watch you or you will run away with her lover. Nay, you cannot do that, Miss Alice, for poor Waldmyer is not given to running." 41 For shame, uncle, to sport with his ; dreadful infirmity." 111 trust Alice, from the accounts I hear from our young friend, that his infirmity will be greatly lessened." "Now I can guess the meaning of those mysterious packets which you have been addressing so often to that French doctor with thej unpronounceable name. Dear uncle, is Waldmyer cured of that terrible lameness ? 0,'do let me go and tell Lina." " Why, Alice, how you jump at conclusions. Becauso I hinted that Mr. Waldmyer may have received some benefit abroad, you?woman-like?conclude at once that he has thrown away his crutches, and can now walk n? well as you do yourself." was rarely lieard from. Alice Clifford, I however, received a letter from a friend I at Rome, which contained this paragraph : " By the way, Alice, one of your farfamed American youths, whose praises you have 60 often trumpeted, is here ; and if those who are tall and straight and healthy among them can compare with this one, I will concede to you what I have so often disputed?the superiority of American artists in points j independent of their art. You know ! that you have claimed for your country- j men that they were not only professional, but that the profession was only an adjunct to the man himself ; while I, alas, was forced to admit that our artists have, in general, no claim?beyond their actual profession?to intellectual wealth. 44 But I take it, Alice, that this youth must be an exception; for, although he is suffering from excessive lameness, and is often embarrassed in company, from his continual dependence on liis crutches, yet I assure you he is highlv distinguished here, for his professional talents, for the mournful beauty of his face and i for his intellectual acquirements. Ho is ! studying with one of our first artists, , and bids fair to paint well; understand me, Alice, not as Italians paint, but as .i well as Americans can paint. For the ; re6t, I will only say that this wonderful youth is called Michael Waldmyer, and 1 if he were not an American, I should ! expect him some day to rank with our j best artists." 44 What a teasing thing Agnes is, Uncle Lennox," said Alice, as she showed him the letter. 44We have disputed so many times about American talent, that: she considers herself bound to keep j up the quarrel. Well, I forgive her in consideration of what she admits, and ' will go to Madeline with the letter. ; Even its qualified praise will rejoice her." ! The year waned and ended, and it was j not until the second had nearly expired, 1 that Waldmyer returned to his native I shores. Unknown to any one. Mr. Len- j nox had furnished liim with the funds ; which should enable him to pass a few months with an eminent surgeon, who j had so far succeeded as to allow him to walk without pain, and occasionally to i dispense with any other support than a light crutch and another person's arm. : He thus looked a very little taller than before. His face wore a hopeful expression, and there was a lighting up of the countenance, which no one ever saw there in the old time. Mr. Lennox did nothing by halves; and almost before the arrival of the j steamer that brought him was announced, j a splendid room was fitted up with every requisite for the pursuit of art that could be desired. *' Who is going to wear that splendid dressing-gown and cap ?" asked Mr. Lennox, as he saw Alice finishing them. " They are for your favorite, Mr. Waldmyer," she answered. " Excellent! I believe they are the ! ? t j:j ?* ?? "Well, that will comfort Liiia a little. > I will tell her that." " No?wait and let her find it out." A few months after this, Mr Lennox and Mr. Hargravewcre walking together, when the attention of the latter was drawn to the handsome sign on which the name of " Waldmyer, Artist," was conspicuous. " Is that the same whom you reoomj mended to me as a portrait painter I " The same. He is making a great i ; sensation here. His saloon is constantly j occupied by sitters, and already he has ' acquired a'fortune, although it is only a j i few months since he came from Italy." 4 1 Tinlf ai\/1 rtn It a IvaitaI a<1 if xuiij i uuu iias Liz; uatciuu i *1 He has, and since he returned his success has been unrivaled, not only professionally, but socially, for he is now admitted to very select circles." "Yes, very likely," said Mr. Har; grave ; "by the way it was I who adi vised his going to Italy. I knew it 1 would save his life, and moreover, I dis' covered such wonderful talent in him." Mr. Lennox bit his lips. "Let us go j in," said he. They did so, and Mr. Hargrnve greeted the artist with so much j cordiality, and congratulated him so j warmly upon his restoration to health, i and paid him so many compliments upon j his success, that Waldmyer ventured to ' draw the curtain from a large picture which stood in the room. * It was Madeline?so lifelike, so beautiful, that one would have almost expected to hear j her voice. It was a full length portrait, : and perfectly matched another standing i just behind it, which Mr. Lennox had employed liim to paint for Alice. The I 4-rrri-w m'vlo lioil oof nvi'rnfnlr of linnrc I l*TV ?1X1.0 lit*. VI OUV J-'ti ? I* IV1J j MV MVUAW when no one but themselves and Mr. Lennox were admitted. Mr. Hargrave gazed and wondered ; and then he gazed at Waldmyer, standing erect, or leaning but lightly upon a crutch of a peculiar French manufacture ; and which seemed a light support to a cripple, such as he remembered him when he asked him for his daughter. * * * * ? * "If ever life was prosperously cast," it was that of the two beings whose love had endured so long and so well. It was not in Mr. Hargrave's nature to withstand the pleadings of Waldmyer and his nvo friends, Mr. Lennox and Alice ; and there is not a happier little wife in the whole world than Lina Waldmyer, the artist's bride. Circassian Soldiers Helping Themselves. The presence of the irregular soldiery T? wrovAiim A ci'q IVfiivAi* i a r?nf a. K1 acq. in niijcivuui, "O'* ?* AU.XUV*, "V1( ** ^4VWU ing, according to a correspondent. The government has kindly ordered that no one shall kill Christians even if the armies are defeated, so that life is tolerably safe, but the little woes to which Christians are heir in the presence of the irregular defenders of their hearths wear upon the minds of the sufferers more than greater ones. The Circassians are commonly the culprits. One goes to a shop and asks, for instance, for gunpowder. It is furnished, and he walks off, saying that he does not propose to fight and pay for his gunpowder also. Another stops a man in the street and takes the shoes off of his feet, with the remark: " There, I knew those were my shoes." Another helps himself to a pair of boots and pays a dollar toward the cost of them and departs. There is no resisting the arguments of these fellows when they are armed to the teeth, especially where the article stolen is a pair of boots. The shoe which is in general use among them is very simple. A bit of leather is turned up over the sides of the foot and finely sewed with two seams, one from the tip of the pointed toe to the instep, and the other at the heel. This is the original model of all pointed shoes, ancient and modern, and is doubtless a strong and comfortable affair, but has the drawback for the Circassian cavalry service that the instep and ankles are bare?for no Circassian wears stockings. To remedy this the Circassians make a sort of a boot leg of another piece of leather, and wear that separately. The sight of tliis cavalry boot is enough to explain the Circassian greed for surreptitious foot gear. How Philadelphia Kills Dogs. A Philadelphia paper says: " At this I season of the year, when so many un- ! muzzled dogs find their way to the dog poimd on Lamb Tavern road, it will be a matter of interest to some citizens to know what becomes of the animals when they arrive there. The dogs are kept a few days in case their previous owners want to claim them, and, if not called J for, are killed. The mode of killing them is rather novel in character. Into j a small brick building, containing two ! rooms, one above the other, the unsus- ; pecting canines are induced to enter. i Once in, the modes of exit are closed. A charcoal fire is started in two stoves, i' and as soon as a blue blaze (carbonic acid < gas) appears on the fires, the windows : are shut and the dampers are reversed, j so as to prevent air from entering the I rooms. In about a minute the dogs fall , insensible, utter a faint cry, and shortly afterward cease to breathe. They are left in the room, however, for eight or , ten minutes to make sure that life is en- u tirely extinct. The windows are then opened, and, after the poisonous gas es- , capes, the dogs are removed." , Strange Rites. ' According to Mr. Mackenzie Wallace, : when the approach of cholera is feared, ; all the village maidens in some parts of i Russia gather together at night, in the i usual toilet of the hour, and walk in pro- i cession round their village, one girl j' walking ahead with an Icon, the rest following with a plough. The girls make their own arrangements as to time; but it sometimes happens that the men find i out what is going on, though, if any one ] is caught taking observations, he is sure j to be considerably beaten, it is said, by ] " - " * ? Jl * 4 tne lair meinoers or me procession, a ; correspondent says that a very similar custom is in vogue in Azimgurh, India, i when drought is apprehended. On an i appointed night the village women, I taking a yoke and plow, go to a fallow J i held, generally in a northeast direction | from the hamlet, and draw the plow a i' few times over the field. Women of in- , i ferior caste and mature age are generally the performers. Notice is given to the : males of the village, and they religiously abstain from vitiating the ceremony by 11 improper curiosity. I: CONSTANTINOPLE IN WAR TIME. Tlie Softnn and Their Method of lutimida* tion?An Exciting Scene. A Constantinople correspondent writes: The Softas (students of religion) want Midhat Pasha to return to office, and they want Redif Pasha and Mnhmond Damad Pasha to be sent about their business. There came, a few days ago, a great mass of stalwart, tierce-eyed men surging up past the front of St. Sophia into the courtyard of the Dar-ul-Fownoun, where the parliament holds its sessions. The day was fine, and the coffee shops under the Assembly Hall were crowded with people who were nearly frightened out of their wits by the sudden apparition of that motley crowd in red and green and blue and black cloaks, and wearing white or green turbans on their heads. A mob of Softas is the most terrible of mobs in its outside appear ance, and the four pair of Turkish sentries at ihe gates and on the staircase of the Assembly Hall dared not stop them. They insisted on admission to the hall, and the captain on duty at the top of the grand staircase made no effort to stop them. He only induced them to moderate their expectations, and to select five spokesmen, whom he conducted to the floor of the astonished Assembly. He introduced them with the remark that they wished to ask the Assembly a few questions, which they proceeded to do. Everybody in Constantinople dreads the Softas in his inmost heart. Nurses use the name to frighten children. So the president of the Assembly, instead of ordering the floor to be cleared of the intruders, suspended business in order that they might speak, and even argued with them in his paternal way from the lofty white pulpit which places him above the heads of all the house. They went away at last, sure that they had done a great and noble thing. After they had gone, the president of the Assembly closed the session and went straight to the sultan's palace. The more he thought of the affair the more he was nettled at having been carried away by the popular fear of Softas. This mob had insulted the Assembly, and late, but fully, the president saw that the Softas must be punished for it. ? ? ? ? * 1 1 il L 1 Martial law was aeciarea me next uay, and now there are about forty of the ringleaders of the affair cooling their ardor in jail, under s.-ntence of banishment, while some fifty or sixty more, who live in interior cities, have been expelled from the schools where they were studying, with orders to go home at once. The government now makes light of the affair, but at the moment it feared a movement like the agitations which ended the reign of Abdul Aziz. The only thing which deprived the demonstration of this grave character was the fact of the parliament. Lst- year the Softas were the "representatives of the people," and carried all before them. This year they did not see until after the affair was over that the parliament represents the people, and receives from them the support and trust which the Softas have always been accustomed to find. Thoughts for Saturday Sight. Life becomes useless and insipid when we have no longer either friends or enemies. * Friendship is the medicine for all misfortunes, but ingratituce dries up the fountain of all goodness. Make no more vows to perform this or that; it shows no great strength, and makes thee ride behind thyself. XT 1 A .U.. 4.^ i^CYCI picnu iu pufcmj, kju itu as this world is concerned, you might better admit that you are a villain. Man wastes his mornings in anticipating his afternoons, and wastes his afternoons in regretting his mornings. Right in one thing becomes a preliminary to right in everything; the transition is not distant from the feeling which tells us that we should do good to all men. The pleasures of this world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them, and they make us despair in losing them. He who says education, says government; to teach is to reign; the human brain is a sort of terrible wax, that takes the stamp of good or of evil, according to whether an ideal teaches it or a claw touches it. Oaths are vulgar, senseless, offensive, impious; they leave a noisome trail upon the lips, and a stamp of odium upon the soul. They are inexcusable. They gratify no sense, while they outrage taste and dignity. Of all the love on earth the one most like the divine love is that of the good mother?so unselfish, unforgetting and watchful, considerate, free from jealousy, and desiring the good of her children far more than her own happiness. Enoch Arden in Australia. A short time since a young sailor, Becond officer of a ship trading to the Mauritius from Melbourne, left his wife living at Williamstown, Australia. At Port Louis illness seized him, and ho was left in the hospital seriously ill. On the arrival of the ship, tile wife saw the captain, who gave her the facts concerning the health of her husband. Subsequently, another arrival from Mauritius told her that her husband "died in the hospital," and upon this very unreliable authority she concluded herself a widow, and in this capacity took a situation in the provinces; and after a time?say about a twelvemonth from her husband's leaving?she married her employer's brother. Meanwhile, the husband was not dead at all, but recovered. No ship offering for the colony, he shipped home, writing his wife, wbo, Laving left her former residence, never got his letters. Arriving in England, he learned that a rich relative in China bad died and left him a large amount of money, and accordingly he sailed to China and took possession of the property, upon which he realized some ?90,000, the result of years of successful speculation, and sailed for Victoria to join his wife and enjoy his wealth with her, only to find that, unlike Penelope, she had not waited for her Ulysses, and was another's. The next homeward mail bo it took him away to England without disturbing the felicity of the existing arrangement. The wife now repents her precipitancy, 1 Jfarm, garden and household. Recipes. Beef-Steak Roast.?Take a nice thick beef-steak, pepper and salt one side well, make a nice stuffing of breadcrumbs, seasonings, and onions, wet with egg; lay this oyer the steak, and roll up like a 44 roly-poly" pudding; tie with a bit of cord. Bake like any other roast. Forced Meat.?Take bread-crumbs (dry bread grated is as good), add onethird as much chopped suet, thyme or other herb to taste; salt and pepper; beat up eggs enough to wet it to a paste; stuff your roast, fish, or fowl with it, or lay it in the pan among the gravy. Canned Cobn.?To every six quarts of corn take one ounce of tartaric acid dissolved in boiling water; cut the corn from the cob, and put in sufficient water to cook; put the acid in -while the corn is cooking; when done, seal airtight in tin cans or glass jars. To prepare for the table, pour off the sour water and save it; put in enough fresh water to cook it; to every quart of corn add one small teaspoonful of soda and let it stand a few minutes before cooking; while cooking put in a teaspoonful of sugar; if the corn turns yellow there is too much soda; pour back some of the sour water until it turns white again; when nearly done season with salt, cream, and butter, same as fresh corn. Tin quart cans are preferable to glass jars. Berry Pudding.?One pint of milk; two eggs, well beaten; a very little salt; one-fourth teaspoonful soda; one-half teaspoonful cream tartar; slowly add flour enough to make a thick batter; at the last add one pint of any kind of berI ries, well sprinkled with flour; boil one hour in a well-buttered mold, or, if you have no mold, a floured cloth will do; after the pudding has boiled hard for one hour, remove it from the pot and dip it quickly into cold water, and a3 quickly turn it out; this will prevent sticking; serve at once, for it soon becomes heavy. Cabinet Pudding.?One-fourth pound butter and one and a half pounds granulated sugar beaten to a cream; add the well beaten yolks of five eggs; one-half cupful milk; then half pound of flour, with the whites of five eggs; lastly, half i pound of seeded a nd chopped raisins, with a quarter of a poimd of well-washed and dried currants^ihc fruit must be floured before mixing; use a buttered mold or floured bag; boil three hours; then plunge quickly into cold water; turn it out at once to prevent sticking; serve hot with sweet sauce. Economical Sponge Cake.?Three i eggs, one cupful each of flour and sugar, three teaspoonfuls baking powder, onequarter pint milk, salted and flavored to taste, made thin. It is nice for jelly cake or strawberry cake. To Clean Papebhangings.?First blow the dust off with the bellows. Divide a white loaf of bread of eight days old into eight parts. Take the crust into your hand, and beginning at Al_ _ A r 11 * A .1 ? .1 uie top 01 me paper, wipe it uowuwaru in the lightest manner with the crumb. Do not cross or go upward. The dirt of the paper and the crumbs will fall together. You must not wipe above a half a yard at a stroke, and very lightly, and after doing all the upper part go round again, beginning a little above where you left off. Put one or two red peppers or a few pieces of charcoal into a pot where ham, cabbage, etc., is boiling, and the house will not be filled with an offensive odor. Picklnff (?cei<e. Picking should be done in a close room or every breath of air will scatter the feathers and down." Having taken up your bird, draw a long stocking over its liead and down on the neck, to prevent its wreaking its vengeance on you by its merciless biting. I The wings are formidable weapons also, and must be held, or their blows will leave many a black and blue mark as evidence of their power. Geese might be picked upon a caponizing table and fastened in the same way as a chicken for the operation of caponizing. Pick when the quill of the feather is ripe, that is, clear ; while the feathers are developing the quill is filled with bloody matter, which shows their unfitness for picking. When picking, take all the small feathers, leaving all the large ones, except four or five under each wing, which must be plucked to keep the wings from drooping. Take off the down only in warm weather. The number of times it is best to pick geese in a season depends upon the climate. The rale we have given above will enable any oue to determine when the feathers will do to pluck. Keep the geese in a warm place when they are out of water, if the weather is cool after picking. The early goslings might be picked when their feathers are grown and ripe, and yet grow out full in time for fattening, for the holiday market. The yield of feathers will ho iihmit nnA-nnnrtpr ot" a nonnd from each goose, and these alone will very nearly pay for rearing them. Feeding Young Chick*. In some localities it is difficult to get chicks through the first two weeks after they are hatched; for the little complaints of this early period are often more numerous and critical than at any other period of their lives. Feed is the first consideiatioD, and pure water a great essential for them from first to last. Cornmeal is the one article of chicken diet which has been the main dependence for generations; but some experiments with rice, last year, convinced us that for young chicks it is equal to anything, if not superior to everything else. Broods fed upon rice alone, all liv2d and grew finely on a single handful at a feed, for the hen and her brood. An inferior quality, known to the trade as broken rice, is just-as good for feed, and it takes so little for a feed that the expense is no greater in the Northern States than cornmeal, while in the South it will be the cheapest feed known.?Poultry World. There had been a heavy thundershower, and the parched earth and wilted vegetation drank in the refreshing showers. " I should think the plants would whisper to each other how delicious it was," he exclaimed, enthusiastically. "Yes," said she, "all but the onions ; they wouldn't be likely to wir eper with such a breath;" HOW LUMBERMEN LIVE. Long Hoars and Numerous, if not Luxurious, .lleals?Sunday In the Woods. The Journal,. of Lewiston, Me., prints the foliowing: The annual com; ing of the river drivers, whose tents are now pitched near us on the banks of the Androscoggin, is an event anxiously i awaited this year, not only by the lumber manufacturers, but also by the lum, ber consumers. And not by these alone; ! for the lumbermen will soon be along in j quest of new suits of clothes and the | luxuries of civilized life. They are vig| orous, energetic men, leading a jollv if a I Inlvsvm'/Yiia on. 1 ilanarormis lifft A fflance iniA/XiVUO (IUU \iuu^v*w?M Q? at their style of doing things may not bo without interest at this time. Three hundred men will cover and cut a section of about three miles square, taking off over 60,000 logs, which would measures bout 10,000,000 feet, each seasou. Work begins at daylight and ends at dark ; and when the days lengthen, or the moon favors, a long twilight or earlier morn, the men get the benefit in longer working hours. On the river, when the drive is started, work begins at three o'clock in the morning, and ends at nine in the evening, the men having five meals?breakfast at six, lunch at nine, dinner at twelve, supper at five, and tea at nine. The meal consists of pork and beans, corn bread, molasses cake, and tea or coffee. No stint is given to a man's appetite. The fare, such as jt is, is abundant, monotonous, nutritious, and cheap. A cook is provided for every fifty men. The beans are generally the large white bush, parboiled in pots holding about half a bushel, then ten pounds of pork is set in the middle of the beans in the pot, a quarter of a pint of molasses | poured in, and then the pot is set in a hole surrounded with hot ashes and burning charcoal, the top covered with a stone, over which a heavy wood fire is built, and here they stay from five to eight hours, coming out a palatable dish. All the baking is done in rudely built, stone ovens, which are heated, before the dough is mixed, with a good wood fire. The loaves of biscuit or cake are set upon the stones and are cooked quickly and thoroughly. A camp of 300 men will consume daily four barrels of beans, half a barrel of pork, one barrel of flour, half a barrel of meal, one-quaiter of a barrel of sugar, and five gallons of molasses. The men are encamped in tents, making their beds of boughs, while their extra clothing, a pair of dark overalls, woolen shirt, and two pairs of woolen socks,, is kept in on nl<1 rrrni-n oo/>V nr?d UKP(1 OR ft tlillow at night. Sunday in the -woods is always a day for sharpecing axes, mending sleds, repairing boots and clothes, setting out a new tenting spot handier to the cutting in the woods, and all the odd chores which would grow out of the congregation of so large a body of men. All well regulated camps exclude liquor. Being usually fifty to one hundred miles from auy settlement, and the men not beiug . paid until the end of the season, there is little inducement for any speculator to peddle rum through the woods, or for the men to straggle off in search of it. The consumption of axfcs and handles is enormous, an axe lasting a month and a handle three weeks. The axes are sharpened daily, some camps having regular sharpeners, while others require each man to keep his own axe in order. The old axes are never collected for the junk dealers, the distance to ship them being almost too great to make it an economical measure. A Picturesque Turkish Town. The Turkish headquarters at Shumla are picturesquely situated. A correspondent who visited the camp one ; IViday (the Mohammedan Sunday) draws a pretty sketch. Innumerable bellshaped tents, interspersed with the green ones of the superior officers, are clustered about all over the vast hollow in the natural amphitheater of the mountains. ' The sound of bugles on the plain breaks the stillness of a lovely summer's even- ; ing, and from all parts men are coming at the double to fetch their rations from the kitchen camps on the left of the road. 1 Shumla, in addition to its natural strength, is very strongly fortified; is in ; the opinion of many men impregnable, j The town itself, cosily nestling at the base of the hills, is extremely Oriental in appearance. It is much more Turkish than Rustchuk, which has become more or less " Westernized " by the passage 1 of the mails. The railway platform is ' crowded with uncouth-looking men and j boys clad in every variety of native cos-. tume, from the sad brown jacket and 'ample continuations of the Turkish peasant to the wonderful-becloaked ; A.rmenian merchant and still more showy i 1 Aranauts. Boys of a similar genus to 1 those who sell evening papers at ordinary j railway stations run up and down with fruit, water, curious-looking loaves on : sticks, and bits of roast lamb on skewers. BllllCIUil^ aiuuu ulu luvtiw U1 iiuvu wares, pushing each other aside, and generally exhibiting symptoms of a won- 1 derfully keen eye for business and quick 1 scent for backsheesh. Soldiers, of J course, are plentiful. Melancholly Cir- ' cassians, with honest-looking blue eyes ;; ] Arabs, looking exactly what they are, ; i blackguards, impure and simple, blue- ' tuniced warriors of the ordinary Turkish i 3 line, with their bright scarlet facings f1 and fezzes; these are mingled with white- 1 turbafled softas, black-hatted and gown- j * ed Greek priests, and exquisitely dressed j1 and gloved French-imitating Bulgarians. I Together they make up a crowd such as j 1 only the dirty but picturesque East can j1 produce. 11 ? c Facts Worth Remembering. c A queen bee lays from 10,000 to 30,- ! 000 eggs in a year. It is estimated that no less than two hundred different species of caterpillars t feed upon the oak. a The slower the growth of the oak the j i more durable the wood. i Bees, beetles, dragon flies, gnats, t spiders, etc., have minute animalculse r upon their bodies. t The roe of the perch, only half a s pound in weight, has been found to oon- c tain 280,000 eggs. 11 The larva of the silkworm weighs, p when hatched, about 1,000th part of a a grain previously to its first metamor- t phosis; it increases ninety-five grains, s or 9,500 times its original weight. j u # Items of Interest. The bird of paradise is a native of North Guinea, near the equator. Shocking knowledge ? Personal acquaintance with a galvanic battery. We find self-made men veir often, but self-uamade ones a good deal oftener. The Centennial Exhibition diplomas have been received in Europe and distributed. * ? Contributor?"Why have you not inserted my last article ? Was it too long ?" Editor?"No, it was too narrow." A Wisconsin eagle, killed the other day, had eleven bullets in its body. It was probably going off somewhere to found a lead mine. " Please don't shoot the cows" is a sign on a farmer's fence near Chicago, intended for city sportsmen who go out after prairie chickens. A Mohammedan writer, speaking of the different sects of his religion, says:' "Sects are different, becanse they spring from men; bnt morality is the same throughout, because it springs from God." Nothing will so emphatically grab a man by remembrance's coat collar, and haul him back to childhood's time, as to suddenly come upon a half-dressed youth nestling behind the rushes on the edge of a swimming pond, sadly chewing the knots out of his shirt sleeve?. Forget to remove a pitcher of cream from the kitchen table and several hundred flies will tumble into it in less than forty minutes. Set the same pitcher of cream as a fly-trap and you wouldn't catch more than two of the insects in half a day. Such is the experience of a young housekeeper. In average health, and under ordinary circumstances, the fat of the l>ody constitutes about one-twelfth of its weight, but in some cases it becomes increased to an enormous extent. Bright, of Maiden, England, weighed 728 pounds: Daniel Lambert, an American, weighed 739 ; and a case is recorded in liie Philadelphia Transaction* of a female child which at four years of age weighed 266 pounds. The Custer of the Russian ?rmy, and its youngest general, is Skobeleff, conqueror of Khokand, and now on the staff of the Grand Duke Nicholas. In the Khokand war he made a night_ attack, with 150 men, on a camp c-f~ several thousand of the enemy, cutting down every man within the range of. their ^ swords. The enemy fled, leaving forty dead and all their camp ma .erial ana htLcrcmao SJkobeleff did not lose a man. There has been so much ra in in Iowa that the grasshoppers wear India-rubber boots. Intelligence of a Hocking Bird. A correspondent from a tfity in Arkansas writes: Deeds of personal valor and heroism, when bronght to public notice, are always applauded, and general'y find their vivacious and enthusiastic historian. Now I propose to peiform this friendly office as best I can, for several members of the little feathery tribe, in relating a little occurrence: recently brought to my attention. A gentleman residing in this city has the yard fronting his residence adorned with shrubbery. One shrub having a small post support, it seemed a small mc eking bird had utilized for a nest, in which, on this particular occasion, reposed five little birdlings to fill the fond mother's heart with joy and gladness. One evening the lady of the house had her attention attracted to the spot by a violent fluttering and shrill screams of distress from the parent bird. Going to the place, what was her astonishment to fird a large snake coiled about the post, seemingly intent upon having a " game " supper. The lady at once called a se rvant, who promptly dispatched the reptile. Now for the singular part of the transaction. No sooner had the good ladv appeared rmtib fJmn Mrs. Mockingbird UJJVU WAV ? wuv . v disappeared in the direction of the woods? bnt, in less time than it takes to record it, she returned, accompanied by five of her feathery neighbors, with a war cry issuing from their tiny throats, evidently intent upon the destruction of the ruthless invader of their homes. A reconnoissance in force was at once begun, but the " enefcy " had disappeared. The search, however, was continued until, at last, his remains were discovered, when the now happy songsters set up, as it were, a shout of triumph and congratulations, and dispersed to their 6ev?, eral homes. A Defiance Met with a Shot, At Mellville, Ray county, says a Lexington (Mo.) paper, occurred 'what may yet prove a fatal recontre. The difficulty, we are informed, had its inception in % joke, which will, beyond doubt, prove i very serious one to both parties. Luther Schoolar and James Duvall are young men of good families, and well thought of in the neighborhood in which they lived. Both are well known in Lexington, and Mr. Dnvall has relations living there. They were in Melville, a small village in the north-east part of ttay county, when a dispute arose aetween them over some trivial matter. Prom words they came to blows. Friends nterfered and parted the combatants. 3 hoolar drew his pistol and Dnvall picked up a rock. Duvall called Schoolar * coward, and dared liim to shoot. The vords hau hardly left his lips before Schoolar fired, the ball entering Duvall's right, eye. The ball did not enter the irain, but took a downward course and odged near the roof of the month. The lectors say the wound is very dangerous, )ut not necessarily fatal The latest acrounts report Duvall doing ns well as ;ouId be expected. Crnel Sport. The other day a number of frogs were ortured in the English Black country in i manner limply revolting. Some dozen nen met at a public house b t on indnlgng in a little "sport." To accomplish heir laudable purpose they skinned a lumber of frogs alive and set them upon a able to race, betting upon the result, and *' a- ? prinkling salt upon me poor Biuicxujg reatures with a view to make them go he faster. All the men were in the emJoy of a well known Black country firm, ,nd the police at onoe communicated to he head of the concern the facts above tated, with the result that all the twelve aeu were instantly dismissed;