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T'll-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C.. JUNE 28, 1881. EB IN A HAYFIELD. 13efore the mower's swooping soytho The dowy grasses bond and fall ; A group of children, gay and blitho, Amid the hay keep carnival ; While ri,-ing high, In azuro sky. The morning sun shies lovingly, 'ho flowers and pranses slowly fade. - And o'er their wreaths the childron sigh A maiden sees in every blado Emblems of hope but born to dio; Yet in the sky, atill rising high, The golden sun shints lovingly. Ti e mower works with haggard eyes, For bitter grief is in his breast: A larli thes up with startlod orioi 'I ho scytho h'ai swept away her nest , Yet r -% high in doop blue sky, T -till shince on lovingly. FioL 1, reh the mournos go (Thr. ..s sinking in the west); Ti.o mowor.Death has laid one low, With lading flowere to be at rost ; Yet in the rky, mid smilo and sigh, Th sun ,-hines ever lovingly. She Made a Mistake. Miss Jessamine had just emerged yawn iug, from her bed-room, although the sun was five hours high and its merry zig-zags of gold were penciling the casements, after a pattern which no artist under heaven could hope to Imutate. And Kitty, the colored maid who had ac. compl1aIied her mistress fi-om Mobile, anti reLarded this northern climate as a very polar region, was attendmig her with choco late, Vienna bread, and a brolleti chicken's wing. Georgia Jessainine was on a visit to her father's cousin, Mrs. Dartley. Major Joseph Jessaimine, her father, had been a well-to do planter in Alabama before the war, but was poor now, and Mrs. Dartley's invita tion to Georgia had been hailed with dc light. "l only wish she had asked me, too," said the major. So Georgia Jessaimnine was supplied with an etegant wardrobe and sent north to seek her fortune. Mrs. Dartley was a rich widow, who lived In a handsome house, scattered her money to and fro with liberal hand, and dwelt in a perpetual whirl of balls, parties, soirees, sand receptions. And into this sort of life Miss Jessamine plunged, as you may have seen a bee dive joyously into the deep bill of a honeysuckle. "If I can only make a good match in New York, I never need ao back to that tumble-down house in Mobile," said Miss Jessamine to herself. And, thus pondering. she devoted the onie energies of her nature to the attain nent of the aforesaid "good match." Claude Dartley, her cousin, came under that head. Claude was handsome, witty, and wealthy. But Georgia was a little afraid of Claude. She never could quite understand whether he was laughing at her or not. But, in Epite of all that, she smiled sweetly on Claude, as first and fore most among the "eligibles' on her list, and had built sundry castles in the air, whereof he formed the foundation. Last night. at Mrs, Penfleld's mutsicale, he had been especially devoted, and Miss Jessamne's spirits were high, as she drank the foaming chocolate and nibbled at the Vienna twists. In a minute, however, a blue ribboned maid came to the door. "Miss Jessamine," said she with a little apologetic courtesy, "would you please come down to the parlor? There's a young lady there, asking for you." "A young lady?" repeated Georgia, star ing at the opposite clock, which recorued an hour too early for fashionable cails. "WVhere is her card, Fanny?" "dhie didn't send up any card, miss," "Didl she ask for ime by name ?" "W ecll, miss, she asked for my mistress first, and then, when I said she was gone to Signor Arditi's to ait for her portrait, but you were mi, she saidi mliht she see youl a miniute." Georgia Jessamiine glanced down at the foids of her roseoloredi ciahmere mornio~g wrapper, and theni at tile opp)osite mirror, to see if the braids of her rich black hiair were in good order.. "t suppose I inust go down," said shec, -slowly; "but if it shoulud be one of those tiresome subscription collectors, or patent dress-supporter venider-s-" Katy made a grimace at Fanny as the (1001- closed behind thle rustling trails of Miss Jfessammne's rose-colored dress. "Dec young miissee, she (done t'ink nobod y hiaim't no biusiness to hib but herself," saidt she. "She's dat sellish deC good Lord ought to ha' created a little glass ober her to keel) off do rest 01) de world." .Meainwhiale, Mitiss , essamme, sweeping dIown stairs Into the dlrawinig-rooma, found herself face to face with a pale. lovely, girl, In rather shabby mourning, who carried a miorrocco traveling-bag, and held two or three volumes In her other band. "D1)i( you ask far me?" she demanded, sup)eiliously. The yomung hlady bowed. "1 have undertaken the agency of a new pubheation," saidl she, hurriedly, andl not wvithout embarrassment-' "'Land's Life of Martha Washmgton'-and should be happy to put, down your name as a subscriber-, The price Is "Pray dlon't trouble yourself to go on," said Gecorgia, coldily. "I never subscribe to any such ting. And I think it the height of insolence for you to come hero, pushing yourself into the presence of your superiors on such a pretext as this I low doe I know that you ar-e not, one of those sneak-thieves, who maoke your way into) people's houses itn ordler to carry olf their valuable parlor- ornamnents?" Th'le young lady had coloredl scarlet at first andI then grew deadly pale. "is ls Je(ssamme-" she saidh. "Th'lat will do," tartly interp)ased the haughty Georgia. "'I don't care about oni tering into any dliscuission with you. At all evente, it is hIghly unfeminIne to go about peddling things, like any common peanut woman I And I beg you will not rep~eat it in thi/s house." She pointed impem ioushy t o the open door, andu poor Amy Hlorton, who, among all the slights and snuibs incident to reduced mecans, had never yet received a verbal cas tigat~Ion equal to this, hurried from her presence with cheeks aflame and eyelids wet wlth unshed tears. "There l'' said Miss Jessamine to herself, as she went uip stairs again; "I think I've paid her oil for bringIng me away trom my half-fluished breakfast. As for you, Fanny"-to the damsel in the blue ribbons -"11 you over admit such a person as that again, I shall certainly request Mrs. Dart- 0 Icy to discharge you." Fanny tossed her head, and would have a made a port rejoinder, had she dared. for V there was not a servant In the Dartley p household that liked Miss Jessanne. e But it so chanced that Claude Dart'ey tj himself, looking over the morning papers, o in the library, had heard the whole inter- ti view, through the parlor-door that Georgia 11 had neglected to close. Involuntarily he rose and came forward, I resolved to (1o what in him lay for the J healing of the cruel wound inflicted by a Georgia Jessamine's unwomanly words. i "Pardon me," said he, "but. may I look b at the publication you have for sale? I am p very deeply grieved that my cou-in should e have treuted you so rudely, and-" a But as she glanced wistfully up In his face, lie started back, with au exclamation d of surprise. t1 "Amy Horton I Can it be possible." b "I did not expect to see you here, Mr. g Dartley," said the girl, hurriedly. 01 i asked for the lady of the house. I did not n know who lived here." ''But, Amy, I don't undersland this. p You-General March's niece and adopted t1 daughter-selling books for a livelihoodi" J "It does seem strange, don't it ?" said a Amy with a falint smile.. "But you don't a know all. Uncle March is dead, and all d his property has gone to- his second wife. ti I was only a dependant, and I could not %i endure that sort of life, so I am striving to Ll maintain myself. I came to Ncw York, ti because I thought I could do better here tl than in a smaller city, but-but I am almost it discouraged." If Clauae Dartley took her hand and gazed I reproachfully into hr facel a "Amy," said lie, "Why did you not let IE me know when you were in trouble? Had A you foraotten our old friendship?" b "I thought I had no-right," ble faltered. M "No iyht; Amy? Would you have let yourself (rift away from me forever ?" o And Amy Horton hung, down her bright v golden head and faintly unmrmured: hI "I don't know . %A Mr. Dartley was in the inner office of the fl law chambers of Messrs. Failkland, Burgh 1) & Co., that afternoon, when Miss Jessamine I* rustled in, with a strong smell of "Jockey a Club," and a little tinkle of affected laugh- I ter. N Mr. Burgh, the only representative of f< the aristocratic young firm, rose and bowed tU low. al "Pray excuse our cigar smoke, Mis 91 Jessamine, " said he. a "Ol, that's nothing," said Georgia, tak- fA ing the leather covered chair that lie offered ii her. "I'm so glad that I found you lin, al I want to put your name down for some ti tickets for aunt Bella's charity charades. r( Very private and select. Five dollars a m ticket. And I shall expect you to take at h least half a dozen." "Consider my linited means, Misq Jes- n aminel pleaded the young lawyer, with a comical screwing up of his eye-brows. ti "Oh, you must I" inisisted Georgia, re- ti lentlessly. "I've undertaken to sell fifty, it and I never go. back from my werd Who's r( that in the inner office? Mr. Falkland? o Whoever it is must give me a round sub- a scription." [ Shte had just started up to go into the s( other room, when her purpose was antici- el pated by t he appearance of her cousin Claude on the tLresluld. "Oh, It's Claudel" cried she radiantly. "Well, I can searcely lIvy a tribute upon e, him, alter all lie has given tbward our o1 costumes and scenery " :ll "Stop a minute, Georgia!" said the young cl man, quietly. "You are holling tickets ai now. Will you alluw me to ask wherein f< consists the difference between you and the rc young lady whom you so grossly insulted , in niy mol her's dIrawving-rooml this morning? ti Will you let me repeat your~j very wordls, tI 'that it is highly unfeminine to go abouts pedling things, like any ctniomon-peanut al womanI'" Georgiia colored high. h "'Chaude, " stanniered she, "'I-I am c: very sorry. I did not know you were c; within heaing; and it was only a book (I agent, after all " 'I.E "'1There y'ou are misataken," said Mr. Dartley, with stinging co)ldness. "It was y, Mliss Amy I lortont, the 30cing ladly who is si shortly to bieconme my wife." p And Georgia Jessamiine knew that she a had conumnit ted a fatal nustake. She weat back to the tumbhle-tiowni house in Mobile, h, aiid the~re s) e remanins yet, too p~rouid to) i work for a living; and although Amiy has ir writ ten heri a kindl mivi tatin to vist. her, h Alias Jessainie lasa not tile face to accpt it- i,1 al nlow a Mhno is Worked. cl li "'I wish you would tell mec al about the ( way mcen get gold andi silver out of a nine, my diear,'' said a lady in lIrooklyn the h othier evening to her husband, as lie pleeledl of his coat and sat, down in three chairs for * the evening. "'I always thought, they lirst bored in to the ground with a pay streak until " they found the shaft,, andl thea they drif- 0 tced for the assessmient, and when they found ~ that they just p~ut a blast in the indications andI salted the dump. Now it,sems that you I dion't do it that wvay. You follow up the ~ mnicacious slate uiitil you strike the bias. iP fold. TIhen you see if you can find a color " that inatchtes the copper-stainedl trilobites, that you prospect, ando you " "No, 1 must, stop) you there'. You are getting a little off the vein. You provably I have the right Idea, but you are using terams c that tire not correct. Atter they get tihe k -alh rock on the (1ump11 andl pinch out the night slift, they salt the contact and blat out the vertical chmilbhahn. Then they di-ift I for the blossomi rock, baled tiay and pov- V city till they trike the varicose ven. After ~ that it is a short job to put on the bias-tol ~ and sample the stockholders. Where bitu- s mtinus duplex bisects the brecaded poirphiy.. C ry and~ scallops the gogue with cross-eyedl t shirriingsand1( hi -carbonate 01 bilious colic C interlaiced with moilre antique wvads of free coppier and free-ihling erysipelais. Thlus I1 Is not, always the case, however, for indi rectly or inversely, perhaps more, or scite- I thing less, as the case may be, amid stilt we might or aight nt, accordling to whether we Y did or not, but also besides, if net always, as already described, perhapuis, yet I wouni't he positive about anything which might, be dloubtful." T1hen Ito laughed a cold, hard laugh, and went to bed. If thousands would only ex plain these things to their wives, howuinuch ~ pjleasanter our homes would be. -Robrt hBueosucceedd to the 1 tih r'tia of stcntlanr1 In the yart 1R8a@ 1 The teaseis winch are used in woolen iills for the purpose of raisimif the liber ut of the yarn when the cloth has left tihe Oi are a natural product, and not an rtiflcial on1e, as those unac(juainted with roolen manufacture might be led to sup. ose, and though wire cards have repeat. diy been tried for this purpose, these -asels are still holding their place as the ally suitable material for oflectually raising h1e nap without any undue damage to the ber. A large amount of teasels are grown in lelgium. They are sown in spring. In (ugust or September they are transplinted, nd twelve months after this the first crop i gathered. The heads must be gathered efore all the flowers have bloomed, else tile oints are dried too much and lose their lasticity. Tile older and drier ones are lways preferred to the fresh ones. Tis plant Is found growing wild in Mid le Europe, but Is then useless for manufac. irers because in that-state the points are wt ent. III England the cultivated plant is rown chiefly in Yorkshire, lussia also uises a good crop in Poaind and the Uri. ma1t. The heads, after having been cut off tie lant,generally pass at once into the hands of .1 dealers. Ilie latter, in France, travel in uly about the districts mentioned above, ud buy the crops in the field, th price veragli.g from 25e to 60s per cwt. The ealer then sorts - the. tense!s, taking out lose which are crooked, too thick, or lormeaten; he removes the husks, cuts te stems to on1(e umiform length, ranges ien Into first and second qualities, divides iese again into eight or ten sorts, accord ig to their length, and packs theim into irge masks, and sells themi at so much per ,0 0; a cask of the s'nallest size holding I many as 150,000, while one of the rgqr sizes only contains 10,000, but all reigh four cwt. In Russia they are sold y the cask, In other parts of Europe by 'eight. As the teasel is a cultivated production r the tlust:e plant, it follows that its alue for manufactutring purposes is en atnced by careful cultivation. Tile hooks, 'hich are small boat, leaflets of the o %er, aire generally set vertically iI trans osed rows, though in the Fr- nch in the >rm of a spiral round the central cone, 1(d Closer tt the bottom than the top. 'his lealet has a strong rib at its back 'hich is both stiff and elastic; the sides rn, so to speak, wings, which are att ached > the x fter centrail core, and thus form ai elastic spring which enables the liook to rng back i wurk; each look also leans rainst its predecessor, so tiat when the >rcewhich pulls it is too strong, it turns a tle sideways, and thus lets the resistance ip off. This is one of the principal quali. eR of the natural teasel, and has never been ,produced in artificial iitations. In the ,ell grown teasels the hooks are situated Drizontally, and vertically to th spindle, hile in the inferior ones they incline as tich as 40 degrees. - The French teasols are pretty regular, ke hook is horizontal, stronger, and longer at others, and dries better without losing s elasticity; the Ge man kind is les' ,gular or strong, but on that account is 'ten preferred for fine qtlalities of cloth, hich require more careful treatnent. amipiess is injurious to all teasels, which Ion mould and thus. lose much of their asticity. The Triai of Jeanne u'A re. After preliminaries that threatened to be idless, the public part of the trial began I i Wednesday, February 21, 1431, at eight the morning, in he great chapel oh the iateau. The bishop of Bieauvais preaided, d of the sixty ecclesiastics smm1oni)1iedt orty-four were present. Three authorized porters were in their places, and there erc 8some other clerics, conceailed by a cur uin, who took notes for the speOcial use of ie English regenit. There was a crowd of >ectators, "'a great tumult," in the chapel, id very little ordier in the p~roceedings, .t a tinie when lords5 took their dogs anld iawks Into church with them, and mner iants made their bargains in thle naUves of lthiedrals, we iieed not look for scrupulous )corumif in a court convenedi to try a girl r the crime of being "vehemenitly sus5 L'ctedi of hiercsy." Th'lat was the charge: lehementement susp)ete dt'heresie. And ich ai grand~ tuidt w~as there in the chai Il thlat (lay that the subsequent sessions 'cie held( in a smaller hall o~f tile castle. 'The prisoner was b~roulght in, freed from uer chlains, and1( was allowcd to sit. No rie of tihe imany pens employed iln record. ig the events of this (lay has given us any it of her appearance. We have, ind~ieed, 1o enunieration of tile articles of 11cr man11's ~tire, which was made such a hleinlous iarge again~st her: "The hlair cult rounid ke thati of young meni, shlirt, breeches, ouiblet with twenty points reacing to the nee, hint covering only the top of the ead, boots and( gaiters, with spurs, sword, agger, culirasts, 11ance, and( other arms ear ed by soldiers." This was her eqmpmlIlenlt >r the field1. She still wore a man's diress, 1(1 doubtless heor persoin showed tile effects f nuine months' iminnsonmennt, and three tonths of chains and fetters. Th'ie presiding bishop toldl 1her to pliacc ar hlands 111101 the Gospel and( swear to aswer truly the ques0tions thtt would be rop~osed1 to 11er. "1 (10 not 1know,'' sid 10, "upon01 whiat you wish to qJuestionl me1. 'erhaps8 you will ask me things which I Laghi not to toil you." "'Swear,'' rejoIned tile bishop, ''to tell 10 truith upon whatever may be asked0( 3 ou mncerning the faith and facts within your nowledge." "As ao m1y father a1(n othler," salid she, and( that (lay after settmig out for France, will swear willingly ; but the revelations rhich have come to mec thiroulgh God, to o one have I relatedl or reveale-d them, xcept alone to Chalrles my king ; and I il not reveal thtemi to you though you It off my hlead, because I have reck ived lm by a vIsion anud biy secret communilli ition, with mnjunction not, to reveal them. etore oight (lays have 1passed( I shall know ' 81am to reveal them to you." 'The bishop ulrgedi her againl and again to1 ike the oath wIthout conditions. 8lhe re 18s(d, andl they were at length obuiged to lachi theO poInt, and( accept ai hilted oath. 11pon her knees, with both hands liacedl poni a missal, she swore to answer truly thlatever mIrghit be asked of her, so far as lhe could, conecernnp, the comimon faith of 1hristians, bitt no0 more. Being thlen unes. loned( conicerning her name ando early life, lie answered thus: "In my own country I was calk d Jean1 ttoe; sInce I have been In F~rance 1 have >eenl called Jeanne. As to muy surname I 11nnW nothung, I wmanborn at te miim. of DIomremy, which makes one with ti village of Greux. The principal church is at Greux. My father Is named Jacque d'Arc; iy mother Ysabelle. I was bap. tized in the church of Donremy. One of my godmothers was named Agnes, another Jeanne, a third Sibylle. One of my god. fathers was Jean Lingue, another Jeari Yarrey. I had several other godmothers, as I have heard my mother say. I wai bapt ized, I believe, by Messaire Jean Atinet. I think he Is still living. I think I ain about nineteen years of age. Froi my mother I learned my Pater, my Ave Marie, and my Credo. I !earnedjroi %iny mother all that I believe." "Say yourli Pater," said the presiding bishop. "Ilear me in confession, and I will say It for you willingly." Sevural times she was asked to say the Lord's prayer, 4ut she vilways repelid, "No, I will not say my Iater for you unless you hear ine in confession." "We will willingly give you," said the blihop, "one or two notab'e menvwho 4peak French; will you say your Pater to themi ?" "1 shall not say it," was her feply, "un less in confession." As the session was about to close, the bishop forbade her to leave the prison which had been assigned to her in the cas Lie, under pain of being pronounced guilty A heresy, the crime charged. "I do not accept such an injunction," fhe replied. "if ever I escape, no one ahall be able to reproach ic with having iroken my faith, as I have not given ily wvord to any person whatever." She con - inied to speam: in language not recorded, oiiplaining that they had bound her with ,haiiis amd -shackles. - " You tried several times, " sahl the bishop, "to escape from the prison where you vere detained, and it was to keep you muore .urely that you were ordered to be put in rLns'1." "It is true," was her reply, "I wished to et away, and I wish it still. Is that not a ,hing allowed to every prisoner" 31:e was then rcmoved to her chamber, ind the court broke up. The next morn og at 8, in the robing-room of the chaleau -a large apartment. near the great drawing ;oom-,-the church again convened, forty. ;even dignitaries of the 'church being as embled. Again the captive was itunchained in( brought in. Again she sal. in the prea mnco of this. convocation, of trained men, done, without advqcato, counsel or at ,Qrney. She undersatood the issue between icrself and them.' Th managers of' the rial meant to make lFrance believe that his girl was an emissary of (lie devil, aml .hus she felt herself compelled to fall back 1poni her claim to be the chosen of God, mud to insist upon this with painful repeti. ion. We must bear in mnind that she was tbsolutely sevemed from all active, eicient mmian symp .thy. It, was a contest be ,wen one poor ignoraul girl and the man Lgers of the court, Paid and backed by the >ower that governed all Engluand and half rauce, with the stake as the certain con lequenco to her of an erroneous line of leiense. In all the trial she was the only Vitness examined. An Amrerican sMell. The'l most stylish turnout in Florence, lialy, belongs to Mr. LivlIngstone, of New York, who drives a "twenty-in-haud." Vive 'Anierical These twenty horses are iely natiched in size and color, being all Yright bay; and they are decked out with rorgeous harness, loaded with gold plated :lasps and buckles, of which they seem as )roud as a young girl of her first ball Iress. The h-ippy- possessor of these liorses,and LIso of a great mana f)r notodlety, insists 1pon' "holding the ribbons' with his own iaiids; therefore,as lie is advaincd in years rnd ir quite feeble, he is fastecned' firmly mad securely to the high front seat of the n'iglish ''drag," which lie usually pre~fers, hough oni grand occasions lie dIrives a'amait ocach miade after the improved miodel of lie Londoin Coaching Chaih. Th'esc leather traps have been added by his faimily quite ately,and muichi agaiaist tihe old gent leiian ' vill; but hiavinig not long since tunmbled lit of his pla1ce, to the consternation of hns Lttendanifts, who picked haim up nioane the vorse for his full, but very dusty, andl ira a 'tate of towering indIagnationi agalist every hinig and1( every b~ody, lie has givenl a grudg nig lasent to their wishes, naturally not dec. nrhaag to hiteially "bite tia h dst" a secondl ime. Ihis fondness for notoriety must ertamaly be gratifled, for .'the band wagoni if iarnumi's great moral show never ex :itedu miore attention thanl does the Living tone turnout. Aai hour ago lie passed any andowv on his wvay to the Unschmaae, whore IC shows him'nself on most pleasant after ioonis. His hiorres p~ranlced and caperedl, mud the greal golden buckles of their liar 1ess gleamedc~ brightly mi thie sunshlpc. Two preterunatuiral ly solcmnii fotmein, :lad in blue liveries, sat with folded arms 11p0n their perch, andl the mainm seats of (lie 1rag were occupiedi simpil~y by asmall,bback .errier pup,) who amlusedl hiimself by jump. ng -backward andt forward, vigorously iairkinig at the crowd. Mr. Livinlgstone aat aa solitary graandeur, strap1ped securely nto the coachani's pilace, wrapped in aii vercoat 1 ied thbroughot, with miagni fleent, Lueasiamn saables. J lhe fua formed a collar anad freenl cuffs. A garmienlt which a younag Xamerican belle lmight, well eiivy him. A etinue of thirty or forty ragged gammiss ee orktd him11, commllentinig on (lie poInts of lie establishment iand waitchinig for stray >nifessaii, but the owner of all this ag. ailleence sat. rigidly iiprighat, lis eyes fIxed pon~i ll frisky leaders, for althioughi lie as aid to enjoy p~laudits of (lie adiinumg :rowdl, ie is not given to any unniaecessary :xpenadituire of copper coins. Th'le people aal luhim'"I Amaerieaa," or (lie Ami; cana. Many years ago es cry room had its bell 'o, es. Ttiose in the best? roomi were somei iiies (lie work of (~he ladiies of thle hiouse, mid were not, only usefuat, but or namanental. l'he days of these aippendihages hiavep ;assed away, andl the bell-rope nao loanger orna fnents (lie parlor. Aln En~glisha writer hin dleienbhing an exhibition of artistic emi broidery says: "'A very decorative apphli. ueationi of needlhewoi k is to be fond In bel-I! 10ope5, which 1 should be gladl to 8041 more) frequently lantroduaced, as they offer mucha mare legitimiate scope for dlecora*tive nedlework thaanmianay tinmgs to whIch It lis now applhied. Somec very good spec. inens are showin. Among them a graceful Itenaissance design in salmona shades cii green gold grounid, and a coniventional desIgn in pale blue on dark blue ground.' Important baotors in Curing OVeese. When It is desired to have cheese fit for use in thirty to sixty days, and have keep ing quality to last fron four to six months, renanet anougn should be used to cause coagulation to begin in night's and worp. Ing's nilk in fifteen minutes at ninety de grees, provided it is to be cured at seventy degrees in air of average moisture. The amount of mioisture in'curd affects the length of time requited foi curlugsince whey con tains four or five per cent of milk sugar, which Is liable to be changed into lactic acid, which, as has been staled, hinders curing. If there is too l ttle water ini the curd the tic tion of rennet will be retarded and the cur ing go slowly, notwithstanding there is less acid formed to hinder its progress. The ac tion of rennet has been explainerl to be the action of digestion; to goon well it must have plenty of moisture. The drier the curd, all other conditio;ns being the same, the slower the curing anil the longer the life time to the cheese. The life of a cheese mity be prolonged almost iadellnitely sim ply by reducing Its molsture,with but little variation in other respects. A cheese which is a very long time in curing seldon cures as evenly and as perfectly, and is conse quently not so easily and perfecty dissolved and digested, as wti: cured more rapidly. Lack of water seems to be the principal reason why skini cheese is generally so im .perlectly cured and much poorer in quality than they need be. it would be a safe rule to leave in water enough to equaal the weight of easein, no matter whether it was large or small. When a pound of cheese Is made from ten pounds of average milk the per cent. of water and of caseln will .be very nearly equal. Anot her important factor in curing cheese s teiplJaee. A variation to tempera ture i lie curing room n may be itade to liirry or retard the progress or atier the character of the curing. There is always some particular temperature at which a cheeae, according to its make, cures best. A cheese with a tight rubber like rind must be cured slowly, or more gas will be pressed in it than can escape through its ind, and it will puff. A cheese full of fat must also cure slovly to pre vent over-heating on account of the heat developed within it. The inside of a cheese cures faster than the outside, for the reason that the outside is drier thani the inside from the easier of escape moisture,and also I ecatee the heat developed in the oxidation going on all through the cheese is given off, like the moisture, more rapidly from the exterior than the interior. A. lievso with but little fat in it oxidizes slowly and of courbe developes but little warmith. Skim cheese requires a little watrmer rootu than one fron whole milk. Silt enters into tle question of curing, because it affects the anioulit of water in curd. It gives firaness and flavor to cheese, but it absorbs three thnes i1s own weight in dissolving. A green cheese,then placed in a curing roin, is affected by the amount of rennet and moisture it contains, by temperature,- air, acid, fermentation and salt, and at the same thne, it may be added, It has a power of absorbing odors from its surroundings. A Novel Fouuing Cradle. Tis cradle is formed of two triangular folding end frames provided with foktling braces and connected by longitudinul rods, from which the canvas bottom is eupported. These frames are pivoted at their apex on the to) of two connected triangular folding standmards, and are provided with a. crank for swinging the cradle. A bent rod, from which a fan is suspenled, is attached to the bearings of the cradle in such a way that it moves in a direction Opposite to that of the cradle when it is swinginr, or the fan may be operated independently of the niovements of the cradle. The two trian. gular frames forming the cradle are pro vided with pivoted folditig braces and are suspendted at their apex from shafts moi~untted tat the apex of triangular folding stanidatrds which are also p~rovidled with thie plivoted folding braces. The cradle ends are connected with each other by rigid lonigitud Inal rails.' The cradhle frames are connected by lhe longitudinal bars fromi which ihe canvas f<.rinit the bottom of the cradle is suspecnded. Wicker work or a railinag extends along the a-ides of the cradlle. The atmft, from wvhich the cradle is suspend~edl, is pro)vided~ with a cranak for swinginig thie cradle, anmd with connicctis for operating the fant. These connections are niade adjustable, so that the fan may he mtoved imore or less, and1( provisioni is mtadhe for awingmtg either cradle or fatn sepjarately. T1hc cradle may be operate c/ by means of a treadle, or' by a string o r belt, fromt an adljoiintg roomi. A lim., a i-amus CmpL16i1. A short time ago a yolug Itahatn namied Montinari triedl to cross the Adriatic in a skiff. A stormi came up, and for necarly forty-eight hours lie struggled agaitnst the winds andi~ waves aiid conttinuted to keel) lis lty craft alltoat, although lie lost an oar early in his ianvoluntary cruise andh ails tajined severe huts upoan his head, righlt foot., chest and bot hands. TIowaird sun set of the seconid daty, when he had giveni upi all hope of human axi, lie esp)iedl .afar off the smoke arising from a steamer's funa nel. By ashinost superhunmman effort lhe sutc ceedled in aipproachinig the steamer within hailhiug distance aind piteously Iaaplored the captalin to take him on board. . The latter ad~dressing hun in Frceh, asked hin ''how much lie would give to be saived,''to which barbarous qluestioni Montiniari replied." "'Two hundicerdl (dollars" "Thatl is too little," rejoined his i nhuan interlocutor, andt the steamuer proceeded oni hier way. Elevenm hours hater lhe wast rescued by the iiiueh ark Jennty. linaocoutpind( lmIo,mmm. M~any p~eop~le have to leave their houses for a time, dutrinig which perlid, especially in dlamup seasons, tnot only the furniture, but also the walls atini the paper on lthem te lible to get (damagd by the imolsture ini the attmosphiere. Thibs can 1)e avotded in a simpiJle mannter. Before leavinig the house the rooms contalamg furnitutre ought to beo well fastened, to exclude us miuch of tile iuiter air as possible; a diah' of dry chioriule of hmne should thaen be placed in the middle of the apartment, and~ inshIde aniothecr large empty vessel, lntutee to receive'the wvater flowing out of the for mer. Thie well dried chleride of limc hi ta such an afliity for water that it will at. tratc' all the moistuiroeconitainied in the room andl keep the~ air p~erfectly (try, so that no harm can occur to either furniture, pap~ers, etc. Care umstyQnly 1be taken to open dooers and windIoWs V'heni the apart ments are to be occupied, as, thme dry air is not. grood for hnnat~hing. Uruising for Icebergs. The early appearance of Icebergs in tie track of Atlantic steamers, and the imint. nent risk which these wanderers from the north occasion to navigators and passengers, again call forth the query whether soie thing cannot be done to diminish the hazird of them, If not to destroy them outright. Commander McKay, of the steamship P'arthia, suggests that it would be a zood plan to detail a government gunboat or two to fqllow one or more of these icy monsters to study their natural history after they have ,entered upon their voyage. A record of such observations, he says, would be of priceless value to the navigator, as It wouLd help him to estimate the probable position of an iceberg, so as to avoid it after being told of its position at some previous date. . This would give value to the now practically useless ships' reports, signaling, etc. lie suggests, also, as has been recommended before In this paper, that gunboats might profitably be detailed to test the effects of shot, shell, dynamite, or torpedoes on these ice masses, and is disposod to think that such treat ment might very much hasten the dissolu tion of the bergs. For the benefit of readers who are not navigators Commander McKay adds that neither the air nor the water temperature gives the slightest help to the navigator in Indicating the neighbor hood of an iceberg, except perhaps when there is a fresh breeze blowing directly over it and in a line with the ship, or when there is a change of water temperattire crossing its wake. But in the passages to and from America it is usual to cross their track on nearly a rght angle. Consequent ly this last small factor as a guide to its whereabouts is lost, In the early part of last July lie passed within three miles of an iceberg with temperature-air, 00 deg. ; water, 61 (leg. In'the latter part of the saie month, 120 miles north and 100 miles east of the fornior position, lie passed quite close to an Iceberg with a steady tempera ture of air 64 deg., water, 130 (leg. Judge, Alopor, There used to be in Queen Anne's County, Maryland, in the days of Judge lopper, of cherished meiory, an old ollender, whose Lnme is forgotten, but who, for the purpose of this story, shall be culled Kildee. This person was, court after court, brought be iore J.udge 11opper, charged with fighting somebody or breaking the peace In some way. The Judge fined imu.n until lie got tired and tinally told Kildee that if he was ever brought before him again he would send him to jail. Kildee assured the judge that lie would be Peaceable inl the future. But when the next turin caine Kfildee was there charged with assault and battery. Juelge Hopper, vexed and indignant, re minded Kildee of his charge only six months before, and asked him what, pallia tion he could show for breaking a promise made in open court. "Yes, Judge," said Kildee, "I renimber it all, and I expeut to go to jail. You must kesp your word. I didn't intend to go buck on you, J udge; but the way of it was this: This man, whom I whipped, heard me promise you that I wouldn't fight any more; and so, one (lay he net ne, and abused me, and cussed mae, and called me everything lie could lay his tongue to. I stood it all, Judge, for I remiumber what you told me and what i told you, and I said to him he wouldin't abuse me in that way if I hadn't promised J udge lopper not to light any more. lie then commenced to cuss 'and abused you, Judge, and I couldn't stand that. I lit on him and licked him quicker than lightning. I ani willing to go to jail, Judge, but if I have to spend half of. amy time there, no iman shall cuss Judge hlop per when I'm around, and go off with it.' Kildee's seitenee was a very short one. Kusoli your E~ye Open. Never read, write or sew by gas-light; it is exceedingly hurtful to the eye. Always, when possible, uisc a kerosene lamp, one low enough to enable you to sit with It iinmiediately undler your nose. Not only isi this practice recommended by thme worst, oculists, but, there is also the dlelicious perfume so grateful to a cultivated taste. Wh len outdoors aliways protect your visual organs with colored glasses. lie sidles being a great ornament to the nose they preveiit the daylighlt reachiing thme eye. Nothing is so bad as daiylighit for thme eye. Of course you will remove your glasses when you enter aim artiflcially lighted room. It is only natural light that hurts. One of the very worst tihings you can do for time eyesight Is to tell a man bigger than yourself that hIs veracity is doubted. One Instance of this kind hiis often destroyed a p~ersonm's sight for months. It is also a (dangerouir practice to use the keyhole as an avenue of vision. T'he party on the other side may own a brad awl or sqniirt,.gun. To toughen the eye. it Is recommended by good authorities t hat onme sit in the steam ear besideC an opein window. 'I'his, to lie sure, Is heroic treatnment, lbut if persisted in time eye will become so tough that nothing can !)enetrate It, not, even light. Marrowvfat got, up unusuamlly early the other morniing, and his wife asked hn If lie wouldl go out and buy somic eggs for breakfast, as she had forgotten to ordler any the night before. Feelin~g omisually good-inatured, lie answered ini time aflirm-. at ive. "'lut,'' fsaid Mrs. NI., "dlon't go to the grocer's, they charge twenty-live cenits a dlozeni for themi there, and they were only twenty-two cenits at the .butter and egg store yesterday." Marrowfat, said nothIng, but a quiet smile playedI to.imd the corners of hIs imiouthi as lie put on his hat a d went uslt oh tihe door. Whmen lie returned his lomving 81pouse queried: "'Eggs the same price to-.day, my dear ?" ''Well." replied pator' famia, "these cost, inc thirty-two cents." "Why, Mr. Mariowfat, what (10 you imiean ?" asked sihe. '"Thle grocer's is next door, the butler and egg store quiarter of a mile away; I rodle dlown and back; the cheapest things. my love, tire soimetimnes the dearest," chiirpedt tarrowfat as lie buried his head In. the morniing paper. M. Leon hianet has succeeded in bleachIng by means of time electico light.. TIhie concentrated rays comn pletely decolorize blood albumin in t.wnv.foanr honrs, under ordinnary FOOD FOR THOUGHT. Why Is a nursery a good place for dancing? Because It Is a regular bawl-room. We carry our neighbor's crimes in sight, but throw our own over our shoulders. Tf you would never have an evil deed spoken ol In connection with you don't do one. What Is sweeter thanl a sugar hoase? Why a young ladies" seminery, when it II full of lasses. A man is great just In ptoportion to his superiority to the condition of life In which he Is placed. To know how a bad man will act when-In.power, reverse all the doctrine preaches when obscure. When a policeman flaids a man full he taked him Into the station house and .his frietid ball him out. A woman that wears false curls which have not been paid for, Is a hair owing sort of an oJ !et. le will find himself in a gre tt mis take that either seoks for a friend inl a place or tries him at A feast. One should not dispite with a man who either through stupidity or shatne less less, (onies plain truths. Tihe human mil id is like a (Irunukan peaoan, on horsebtok-prop it on one stile And It failIs on the other. You will gaitn a good reputation If you avoid those actions which Youi can consure and Ilamoe iIn others. Life Is not so short but that thewe is always tIme enough for courtesy. Self conmand Is taio maiu elegaice. Blessed be he who gives to the poor, albeit only a penny; doutlly blessod be he who a-ids kind w.>rds to his gift. The moust sure mnethod of subjooti ng yourself to be dceivea l to consider yourself more cunning than others. Wit stands in the same relation to common sense that palat do.s to wia,t -it gives the lnuish and preserves it. if you have talents, ind'istry will stiengtheni them; If moderate abilities, industry will supply the dellcienoy. Men who have the strongest intel lects have the weakest mlr-)rles; ti,ey trust more to inventijin than ellma ory. A man never attalas true greatness by being perfootly satistliad wi a the resuit of o:cih (y's work as i, done. We suppose wh1en1 a woman has I the pinl m11on11y sh11 Wats, she has- t tained the pin a lkel of her Ii pi less. Flattery is ofte n a traflic of mutual meannoss, who:-o although b Ii part los intend deception, nelti r Is de ceived. If you would be miserable, look within, If you would be distracted, look around. If you would be happy, look up. There Is in mani a higher aim than love pf happiness; he can dto without hapVlitass and Instead thereof And Jblessedness. V"Two of a tradi can never agree,' said the old attago. What nonsense. How 6ould they m:ike a trade unless they agreed P Frien'jahip is the cordial of life, the sedative of our sorrovs, and the mill tiplier of our joys; the source equally of anlimaion and of repose. Live with your friends as If they might sonetines become your enemies, 11d11 wilh your enomies as If they might some timie becomne yotar frlends. HIunman longings are preversely obstiato, andl to the man whuose mouth Is wvatering for a poach It Is no use to oiler tile lairgest vegeta.ble mar row. Thouh .liread ingI anid conversation may furnish us witih many ideas of men and( things, yet It Is our own meditation must for i our Judge ipent. Experience and enthu~lasm are. muiph like the two buckets of a well; as the 0on0 rises t~he other sinks, and they are fotund only for a momenl; together. Love does not ahan simply at the conislousm good of the beloved object; it isaanot satisfIed without perfect loyal ty of heart. It alms at its own coin pleteniess. So much are we the slaves of tile wvorIld that we sometimes hesItate to do an aiction whIch is promnpted by the heairt, fearful that It may be mistaken b~y others for folly How ofteni is our dissatisfaction with tihe world but dlssatisf'aioni wlth ourselves; and the han Is that woe tulrned against us, beIng grasped, prove our own two. 'rho law of the hiarvost Is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit, sow a habIt and you reap a character ; sow a character, and you reap a destiny. Say nothing respecting yourself, eIther good, bad or indiferenit nothing good, for it is vanity ; notinmg bad, for that is aficotation; nothuig Iaindront, for that Is sIlly. Irresolution is a fata habIt,; it is not viciouls in Itself, but It loads to vice, creep)Ing upon01 Its victims with a fatal ity the penialty of wvatch many a fine heart has paid at the scafi'old. Polished steel will not shine In the dark, no more can reason,. however refined and cultIvated, shline elea lotusly but as It reflects the lIght of dilvine truth shed( from heaven. Humanity Ia the particular chlarac toristle of groat minds; little, vicious mids abound with anger and revenge and are lncaipab~o of fooling the exalted pleausure of forgiving their enemIes. If we lIved as we ought to live, and as wo might lIve, a power would go out fronmi uts that would make every day a lyric sermon that should be seen andi felt by an ever-enlarging audi once. if you would be exempt from tin easiness, do nothing which you know or suspoot is wrong; and if you wish to em1joy the purest pleasure, always do overything within your power which you know is right.