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rA ERee 'VtkuilletR. For over thirby yeats the river known by the slanderous name of Pine Creek, Pennsylvania, has been the scene of warfare between two classes of hunterA. the "hounders" and the "still hunters,' The former class 'is largely composed of kid-glovettsportsmeir froni New York, Philadelphia and other cities, reinforced by men along the river who thrive upon their custom, while the latter'0al' the settlers, who say that hounding deer drives tlgom out of the country, and besites doesn't givo then a reasonable chance for their livep. Hounding is a lazy, unskilful method of taking game and is managed in this way: A man known as .a "starter" is sent back a few miles into the almost boundless forests that run back for leagues into thd wild country of Potter from the river, and the hunters station themselves along the runways that the door with sbcange instinct follow a teams follow the highways, The door or fresh tracks are found by the starter, the hounds are loosed and when the game comes down the runways the hunters shoot it and the wild sport is over. No tedious tramps, no working around to prevent the keen-nosed door from scouting the hunter. no creoping softly on hands and knees to the brink of a hill to look over and see if the game is there-nothing to do except to listen to the paying of hounds coining slowly nearer auid wondor what kind of game is ahead oi the iounds. Against this system of hunting the settlOrs protest, and it is admittod that if a still hunter has only a single chargo in his gun the door esoaes and tho hound gets it. Many havo been the personal conflicts between thse hunters and the owners of bounds, and sonm1 attempts to shoot and iany throats of shooting have been made by the angry owners of murmtered dogs. But not withstanding throats, the shooting of lioundis contiiues. tRogardless of slaugh ter the houn'ting goes on and each year adus tresh victims to the huid-stayer's dead hit and bibiging its record of fighta. Ono of the best known hunters and most renowned hounia-uiers is "Josh," whose sur-name, suiggestivo of - Ger man origin an liaboiious tongue twist ing, is Bernauer, Josh is a typicea hunter, tall, ciect, long in leg anta arm, a swift, runer, a dtangerous ighter and a sure shot. None oi t1h hunters have had miore adventures than tie, and liono have whistled a icquietu over moro hounds. None live been ,aoro out spoken in denouncing honimding, and of all the hunters ho lias imost, icurred the hato of the mon who drivo leer With dogs. Meeting him i few days ago, I asked hii to tell no the story of his run down tho Rotuid Top Moun tain, pursued by some iii(n whome iound he had kuled. "Well," he said, "1 it was this way. I was (igging potatoes down on the 11at near the rivor, when I h4ard, back on Bouad 11Top, a hound baying. .1 know it was Nigger, a b'g black htoud owned by Dr. M.e % Is, that had drivel in scores ot deer .nd tait I had tried a dozeln times to get a shot at. but never with success, so I took Uiy old siigle-barroled riflo and started up the steep hill to find him." '"Why dii'u you wtait. for the ho'nud to conmo to the river 'I" I said. "lcas, hw r'",lied, '"Dr. Lewis was a danagerom. sort, oi' a nian, with i ugly crowd aron:d hius 'in~d it. wasn't exaetly sat'e to shoot thle t h lound on thme river out in the clearig. wheroe everybotty woul ltuow it. N .t that I was much afraid of being liort," hto addett, "'but you knowv they nmi h$t burn my dwelings or something of that sort., So I *ust teok into an old road and climbed up, the mountain, hetemng all the time to the old humid's steady barking and thikinig thatt wvas the bast time lie would ever chazse ia deer out of my hunting -ground. du tst at. thme top) ot the niountan .1 stopped and listened, and seeing fthat. ho wias coming my way I waitedt and took breath. .ha a feow moments lhe camec in sight forty or fifty rods away, and ii was waitini; for himu to conic nearer when a few rods bacok of him 1 saw Dr. hewis anid two of biM men." "W~hat wvere iney doimg there?" I inquired; 1 thought the hunters stood on the runways and only one went with the hounds."' "'Why, youi seet,' lie replied, ''t~us Dr. Loeuiii lad said lhe would calch miii and stp) nmy hiounid-kiiig, anld heo knew 1 Would go any whore to kitl old1 Nigger, so the tixed ump this tiiap to get me." '"But they wouldn't dare to shoot you?" 1 suggest ed. "'They dare do ainythiing," h~e an awered, ''tit tthey hiadin't seen me andi I made up my muindu to shoot and take the chances. 1 was about live rods from the brink of the hitt, and cown through the thnick birush .1 knew none of theum could keep up with moc or long keep mec in sight, so 1. raised my gun and as the hotnud camoe into tin opeu space I nired. A howl of pain answered my shot anid I knew thiat 0on0 eniemy of the (deer was gone. .1 waited to hear no more, but started for hiome at a gait 110 other man ini this regioii cottd take. 'Tho men saw me and~ gave chase, anud just as .t wi's disapp~eirmig (over the mountain sidoe Dr. Lewis liredl, the bul let stukin~ig in a treo close beside ime. Tiho otheris odiint fire, bt all chaied me, andI whein I was a short (distance dlown the old roand 1 looked back anid saw the three men tearing down thme mountain after me. "'I kinew they couldn't catch me, but I din't w~amnt them to) know mec, 'so 1 turned asio and damshied ofl,tthrough [. ~ the thick wods, itcflowed again by a butllot, but I was too far away to bo hit by ordtinary blhootiig. (Vwn the steep hill andl thtoulgh th6 tbrush I went, teringhe leavesi aitt etilmoievered h b'had mea~ a i1 ioutn had one bruh rcing wocasedmy pursuer followed.u Thmey whrm nor weeks r m in th docto brokre they stork omun y htting ito against a tree." "They must have suspected1 yo.u eveni if they couldn't catch you, dlidn't they?" I asked. "Yes; of course, they suspected nin, but they couldn't injure any one with ouit better evidence than they had againstnie. Why, I changed my clothes after I get to the house anid startedt up the creek road and met Dr. IjLwi and~ his party coming down. One was limping along and the doctor carrying his gun in two pieces, and they locked pretty badly used up. 4 " 'Thero's Josh, nowv,' said the~ doe tor, and then lie asked me If I had beu out on Round Top that morning." "'No,' I said; 'I have been diggina potatoes till just a few minutes ago, There was a hound off on the inountain, that sounded like old Nigger, and I waited to see if a deer didn't come in al Round Eddy, but after a while the barking topped arnd I concluded som one bad shot the deer up in the woods.' "'There ldn't any ono kill a deer but some one shot my dog,' said th< doctor, 'and we all thought it.was you but he wore dark clothes and you hav oi light and no one could go to youi house and change since the bound wai ktiled. We are all most dead ohasiu him down the fill", and look at iny gun Oh! I wish we knew who the raoul was we would give it to him," "So 1 0sca1p(d sulSpiciOn Im tiIU case, Josh concluded, "and Dr. Lewis swor, around, threatening all kinda of von geane on the man who killed his dog until a month or two afterward, whoe he shot hlimaself loading the sate gil he had fired al. Inc." T %, Stiles to EVeryth lIu, "blary," said ir. Norris to hiii wife, at he entered his snug little hoine o1e even ing, "we are to have company to suppo to-morrow. I met my old friend, llenr: Ard, in the street to-day, and asked lii to coine out." "Isn't ho the Ard who has grown a wealthy In the past few years " aske, Mrs. .Norris, as she stopped Ieiskly aroun in laying the tea-table. "Yes; but I don't think his wealth hI spoiled 1im. lie was axs cordial to me a ever, regretted that I was Rtili only a clerl In Ilohtion's, and wondered how I conk get along on such a poor salary. Ile doesn put on any airs at aill. So woar your pre' tiest dress to- morrow, Miry, and hitv i good supper," 'lHe shall have no reaxson to complain i'll promise that.," said Mrs. Norris, wl was an excellent cook and a capable house kee-cr. It was to her caueful managemon that her husband owed his freedom fron debt; for only the most syatenatic an< judicious economy could have made Iii small salary adequate for the support o his large fainily. While several of his rriends--tamc them Henry Arcl-lad risen rapidly through ioi tuamato specixiati ion, to position of ifflaence, Mr. Noiris bad remnainei poor, a clerk only in the hous in whiel he started as an erradi boy. Buts bj means of the most rigid economy a< xnuiitberless sacrifices, ie had beein able t purchase i a sial cotinage on the outskirt; of the city, aind lie declai e.1 that the dai he 'iade the last palynient upon it wias tll happiest. of his lire It had beei tLhe dreat of niiy years t. on a honme, and, inl his eljoymaxenit, h forgot, the sawriflces lie had inado, hic at the tinie seenied very liard. IIis wif had worked nobly to batuxidiy the ground plianting rose-bushes with her owl 1iami1d and training vines over thle coi taige. 4 prettier lacee ini the suiixmmer it would havi been hard to find. Mrs. Norris was dresed in her best aim the children were as fresh anti sweet a could be, whten Mr. Noriis aciedixA( hon the IeXt e'ven..inig, a1CCOMIIpLm1ed. by hI friend. The geietlan was eord'ial il hi is man iexr, it is Iru<; but, his Coining cast at gloon over the hotehohi, for lie 1,egan ati t ine, to comxiplain t tI Ihle Ileti.,as ride he hain fromi the city, coniiinbe "ed th'.mn on ix ing so farx out, asul he aivendr~x that he hatu heardl tioxt amtiv was chleap i thisi sectio hecausea it wias uniiiiithyv. He ai skedl Mrs Nourris it she dhid nt atihink lier chlri 0 Ixooked palet axid lie ad'vxsedI lir' Norris i< sell ouit and~ buy somiewhere else. H<i diwelt e'arnestlhy uipin thle faict of ithere he' inig so few neighxbors,andr '1o dkietor wtih a mile or two; uanel be suxcceededl In tilhan the' breast of his hiosicsi wili axnxit ty axni salarir. At thle tea tatule hxe spoke' of thle eleZ i tea service lie lad xtivenx his wile a few weeks pireviously; ot thxe dicioijux teat hi had draii k at. the hous~e of a Iiendx the evenling hetore,of thle rare ol cha whxicl hxad been used, uuidi thle dozeis of lxurie! which hxad beeni hxeaper upoin the tle ii his hxouror. Mas. Norris listenett anid sighxed. liei chxina set, used forn ixaxury years, beganx ti look poor and m'axn in li'erSLt siii ab h imaiginedi the beauity (it 31rs. A rdt's siver the itea tasted hi Itea; aind she hadnt ai)ippe' tile for thIe fried cystelsi, saiaxd, jclly, aim c'xke shxe bra . paipared so crarettiuly, awm with iso imuchx pleasure, uii lpatinrg, ai she had, somel cominneli~ nts ruox lher giues on lier cooking. After suilper lie whole famuaily gat hered about the stove, anix ihtenettu enxvioiay a; Mn. Ard dilatedn on thie delights of an opex grate; of thxe aic',ital necessity oif a lix librairy, where there was groin i children; of thxe costly boolii ix his own hioie, c1 the rare pictures anda elemganit Iuitiitre Ia ihie hxoiuse of his fiendxs; of thec fine societa in whxich his wvife mneved; oif her jewelry, her costily dressos, anud the numbxier or' sex' vantas lie foiund it inicumntili an himn te keep ini order to securet1 comxfort; ol thi convetuenice of gas, and the danuger of us. lng kerosene; aind or i wventy othxer thuigs that the host, of whlose hoxspitailiiy hxe wa paIttaking. dlidi not aixd conult not passess. Yet lie was nei lier boaisti i!inr ill-temn pered, andc gave' 1no (iccus5 toai lor otfeinei in ainythinig lie said. Buxt, when hxe aro':.e to dopurt, ncitheri Mir. Norris or his wile Felt aniy iregret to haive hximx go so carly, ixor did they uargc him to come a pxn. 'Thley feit said anai chiscontenxte I. Th'le little home in which tacy hix d takeln atich genum~ze c I...rt now looked ahauihy ad mean. 'Tae smaall r-iomis seemed mxone criaiped'i than ever, iand they felt aishatmed of the poverty which prevented thema from living as Mr. Aid andi his friends lhved. Mary puti. her sihildien to he I, axnd thxexi went to hed herself, where, after thilnkmig over lier lot mi life, an'xt recaxling the nmaniy saceritices she had adce, iad the puinchingx ecoinomy she was obliged to pracetice, she tinailly cried hxerself to sheep. A I ew dlaws passed, and' thec cloud of diconxtent wvhiach hiad settled 111 an the famxuily wvas stIll heav'y, wthen, xone. evenimar. a Ynsuor, a xlr'. Aindrews, caliled. just is they were about to sit cdawn to supper. Mi. Norris inivited imta to the table; aind Mrs. Norris began to axpalgize I >r the homely lare, wishidig it wvas better. '"No apologies iare necess:iry, my dear xmadaxin,'' eaxxd the genxt lexnanc, asi h, thne w off has coat aind seatedl hiim elf a t thle taible "I waikedl out roam thxe city aiid have ac-. qulred the shua'p'.st indxc of an aippet ile. . feel as If I couild relish any andx every. thing.'' "We liv e such a terrile d istanxce fromi town,'' said Mrs. Norri', "'at is a wondelr tomxxe thait our fiieinds f.v'r thin I us at aull. As it he, they comne very seldom.'' "'Why, [ tink your home mxost d1eligt fully situnatedhl'' exclaixined Mr. Andrhews; who wais even wealthier thant Mir. Ard, andh lived in fair greater slyle. "'I drove past here 01n0 duay last siummerxo, aind no mt~naber thmaiking how like a bower of beauty this cottalge looked, almost covered with cximbinug noses, and surroux clod by) shrubs. And yoix couldn't have found a heaulthier spotL any where. Y oui children rhow the effects of the pture air they breathe. it. a a shamn to shut childre up in the city, wlilre they have no chance I to play out of doors." "T' 'y certainly enj y' the garden andI lawn,' said Mrs. Norrie, beinning to feel in a little botter spirits. "I iovr know hew to a-nu'se then when we lived in the city. "Property out here Is rising in value every day)," continued Mr. Andrews, who dealt hirgely in reat estate. "You bad better lay your hands on all the land you can Norris. You may realize a fortune, out of these few acres in ten yeers' time." It was now Mir. Norris's turn to look r pleased. He began to think he had made a profitable iuvestnent, after till, in buy ing the place. M1r. Audrwa continued to talk in this same strain throughout the evening. He praised everything on the table, apologized for eating so miunb, but declared he could not help It, foriverythmng tasted so well; admired the te-set as looking "just Ie one mother used to have;'' and when Mrs. Norris regretted not having open grates, lie told her that o)en grates were a mnii take, unless thewo was a lurnace in the teuse; that they never threw out half so much heat as a stove; and, as for a fur nace, several doctors he knew had declared them to be unhealthy; and they were ruin ous to house plants, of which Mrs. Norris had a great many. lie obset ved, in an swor to a remark of 31r. Norris', that gas was a convenience, certainly, but that ketoseno gave a miurli softer light, and was not nearly so trying to the eyes. When at length he tose to go, both Mr. and alrs. Norris urged him strongiy to como agaIn; and he replied that he would be very glad to do so, for lie could not remember when lie had spent a more pleasant evening <,r bad been made to feel more at home. The clourt which hadt been cast over them by Mlr.Ard's visit had flown away with AMr. Andrews, amit they forgot their povertv and many discomforts, and felt thankful to heaven for many blessings they enjoyed. Both Mr. Ard aid Mr. Andrews were slucere in what they saId; but you see there are two ways of looking at every I thing, and always a bright and dark side. We can teake ourselves contented with our lot by viewing it alwiys frou the bright sile, or we cin becoine very much discontente.l by conparing it with that of our richer nig.ib )rd it lte wnh us to From the report of the United States consul at Canton, we extract the follow > ing information: The plant from which i Chinese matting is made is an aquatic grass or rush. The kind from which the coarser matting is made is chiefly cultivated in the Shuihing departmeut on the West river, about seventy miles from Canton, and is grown in a similar manner to rice, in fields flooded with water. It requires very little care in the cultivation, as it propagates itsolf by shoots from tho root, and attains a height of froia six to cight feet. It is brought to market in bundles of about twelvo inches in diameter, each bundlo being suflicient to make four door mats, or six of tho sort used for the sails of the native sailing craft. The district of Tung-Kuan produces large quantities of this rush, )it of a kind used mlmost entirely for the man ufacturo of floor matting. It is said to grow better in the vicinity of salt water, wheii the witer flooding it is somnewhat brachidi. It is planited usually in the month of June from mips. Thiese are allowed to grow foir about two months, when they are planited in rows. thle soil being lhentiftully manured with bean en L e; it iequmires nea'mrly a year to mature. Whieni it is cut the stems are splt in two with a knife, and wheni partially dried in the sun packed in bundles, andi manufactured into matting at tihe city T.lung-Kuan, or brought to Canton, where th~ere are severmal extensive mani ulactories. When biroughit to the factory', the grass, as it is ealled, is carefully sorted; it is then made iinto bundles of two or thrco inches in dliamieter, and placed in cart heinware jars holdinig about ten gallons of water. It1 is then allowed to remnaiin in soak for three days, whien it is taken out and dried in the sun for a day. if it is to be dyed thle ordiinary red color whlich has beein or years most in vogue, it is lac ed in jars containing a liquid dye made by soaking sappanwvood chips in wvater. It remains in these jars for live (lays, tI hn dried for a day afterwards, ag-tin immersed in the dye for three days, when it is usually ready for use. Such colors as green, yellow and luu are the products of recent years. Tihie solntipn for coloring yellow is p~roduced from the seeds and tlowers of a planit common to iua, the ''Truira.'' A I yellow coloring matter is also made bya boiling for several hours twenty-five p~ounds of flowers of sophiora jop)onieni, in one hundred gallons of water, andi adding, when cooled one pound of ialum I to oaah ton gallons of solution. Green I and bluo are produced from the twvigs I and leaves of the "LIamnyip," or "'blue I plant,'" which grows in ab~undalince oinn Cantton. To the solutioii thus prodluced a small quantity of chemical (lye is now addied. Ini dyeing I hose colors the culms, or '"staraw," as it is technically called are soaked in water for seven days, anti then immersed in the colormg matter for a few hours only, the (lye being hot. iiojru waittig on nden A writer from New York says boys arc tbc last lnshion for briesmnids-a statt ment wvhiceh, now that it, looks up to me from pauper, scarce reemns loglcal. Never thieless, you know what I moan-that suf Ilees. 1 do not ziean, however, that boys are the only fashion, hut one of the fashi ionis; for in the fail eli iemic of uweddings peculiar to 1882 no fact showsi fo'th more plainly that there are many facts, iill equally true. it is curious to read in the dit. rr~nt fashion inagazinesu t-he dihrectionis as to tths, whettu r of the young lady, who, accoimni to IBeecher. ts about to "marry a divinity smnd sadly thereafter content to live with a man,'' or of her equa: ly poetic b~ridlestnaidis, w hether girlIs or boys. One says dresses are made slm ply and of one or two materials; another says they are rIch and varie and display en'ubmiations of thre'e or fouar fabries, etc. Welch is rIght ? All, 1 answer; aini great, thierefome, is your lberty of canl. science. 160t boys should be f'ancfully e.ressed aIs pages~, copied after ol p:ciareR, and1( uingl.iunably tis the revival or by -gone ide s that, bring up a really pretty seeking aftter color lhas c-msed an attir lng of bridesmaids hmm dilferenit tiresses of pronmomunced hue, such as cribnson, b'lu., yellow, green, etc., the grouping to imi tate old paintings. -The latest style for parlor stoves ib a combuinationi of. burass, irout and tiles.4 .i'ho facings are of polished brass, wvhile the interior is of haummered iron, and ecnatiQ tilesa form a frame-work be 'wnen the mantel and the gr. Cate and Thtxog. "Evbry time pa says anything," remark.' id the bad boy, addressing the grocery nan, "it-gives me a new idea, I tell you )a hits got a great brain, but sometimes he lon't have it with him. When he sud, he other day, I was a terror to cats, I bought what fun there is in cats, and me md my ohum went to stealing cats right s', and before nighu we had I L oats caged We had one in a canary bird cage, three in pa's old hat boxeo, three In ma's band boxes, four in valises, two in a trunk, and the rest in a clo et up stairs. That night pa said he wanted meq to stay at home, be Dause the committee that is going to get up in oyster supper in the church was going to meet at our nouse, and they might want to send me on errands. I asked him it my chum couldn't stay too, 'cause he is the healthiest infant to run after errands that 6ver was, and pa said he could stay, but we must remember that there mustn't be no monkey business going on. I told him Lhere shouldn't be no monkey busluess.hut I didn't promise nothing about cats. Well, sir, you'd a died. The conunittee was in the library, by the back stairs, and me and my chum got the cat boxes all together at the top of the stairs, and we took them all out and put them in a clothes basket, and just as the minister was speaking, and telling what a great good was done by these oyster sociables in bringing the young people together, and taking their mlinds from the wiccedness of the world, and turning their thoughts Into different chan nels, one of the old tom cats in the basket gave a 'purmeaow,' that sonnded like the wall of a lost soul, or a challenge to batktie. I told my chuni that we couldn't hold the bread board over the clothes basket much longer, when two or three cats began to yowl: andthe minister stopped talking and pa told ma to open the stair door and tell 'he hired girl to see what was the mat. tdr up there. She thought our cat had got saiut up !n the store-room door and she opened the stair door to yell to the girl, and then I pushed the clothes basket cats and all down the bacK stairs. Well sir, I s'pose no committee for an oyster supper was ever more astonished. I heard ma fall over a willow rocking chair and say 'seat,I and I heard pa say 'well, I'm damd.' and the girl that sings in the choir say, 'iH-ca ens, I'm stabbed,' then my churn and me run to the I ront of the house and come (down the front stairs, looking as innocent as could be, and we went to the library, and I was just going to tell pa if there was any errands he wanted me to run, me and my chum was just aching to run them. when a yellow cat without any tall was walking over the minister, and pa was throwing a hassock at two cats that were clawing each other under the piano, and ma was trying to get her frizzes back on tier head, and the chair girl was standmng r)n the lounge with her dress pulled up Lrying to scare oats with her striped stock ings, and the committee broke up. Well, to tell the honest trutb, pa knew I had something to do with tMe muss, and basted lte and yanked me around until I ha to have my arm In a shrng;' but what's the use of making such a fuss about a few cats Ma said she never wanted to have any 3oipany again, cause I spoiledeverything. But I got rcu with pa for basting me, bis iuorning, ard I dlassent go home. You ee ma has got a big bati sponge, as big is a chair cusIion, and thismorning I took ie sponge and illed it with warm water, td took the feather cushion out of the taiar pa sits in at the table, and put the ponge in Its place, and covered it over m'th tie cushion cover, and whent we ali got set diwn to the table pa come in andi tat dIown on it to ask a blessing, lie started in by closing lie eye~s and placing tis hands upl in front of him like the letter 7', and then he began to aik that the food ve were about to partake of be blessed,and lien lie w~ as going on to ask that nil of us >c made to see the error of our ways, xhein he bogant to hitch around, and he >p~eneri one eye arnd looked at me, and 1 ooked as pious as a boy can look when ec knows the paincakes are getting cold, nd1( pa lie kind of sighted andt said 'Amen' oat. of snaiush, and got up ad told ma ac dlidni't feel well, arid site would have to ake his plaeo and puss around the sassige LUnd potatoes, and( lie looked kind of soairt car t and went, out with his hand on his >istol po~cket, as though he would itke to told more than a half a pail full of water, mrd I (din't watit to play rio joke on ma, :ause thre catls ntearly broke her up, lbut libc sat dowit, andi~ was just going to h >lp ne, when she rang Ciie bell anid called the iiredl girl, and saidt shre felt as thrugh her rleuralgiam wars coming on, aind she would to to her rloom, andl told the girl to sit lown and heclp Ilennery. Tlhe girl sat hOWn att p)ouid ime olt somec coffee, andi hten sheo sid: '[Howly $t. P'atrick, but I >lave thn sa patncakes are burningt,' arid she veint out, in the kiuchen. I drank iiy cof 'ee, and thenr took tbe big sponge out of lie charir rand p~ut the sponge in the bath orm, arid risked them if I1i1old go after he dloctor, ai pal had changed his clothes md~ got on hris Sundahiy jinmts, and ho said: never miit thre (1-Ctr, I guess we will mril thrrough,' and for me to go out andi go o thre dlevil; and I canime over hero. May, bere is no harm ii ai little wvarnm water, is here? Well, 1'd lhke to know what pa .ndl m". and thre hired girl I hought. I ami lie only real heoalthy one theore is in our The, (0,4'ich Kack. Whien a frmrer goes into a savage bird's amp) t hitkes with hnim a thorn poloiwith brairch or two) of thc thorny bush left on lie ewt'. Th'lis is called a "tuck, '' anid vbenur tire trick is 5lpliedi to the ostrich's reek or head (iris tender points) ihe Is al r~ost invarrilsr>y subdued, and, after one or wo elforis to es-opo, bolts furiously off to lie oithier side0 of the crimp, where he races ip and dhownt to veut lis baffled rage. If, rowvever, the bird gets near enough to his iapponuent to give the to-called kick, he ifts ihis bony leg as high as his b)ody and hrrows it forward with demorninc groce-. ituinOss, arnd brinigs it down with terrible orce. Ilis object is to sip the enemy down withr hii- dangerous claw,but in most cases t is tire flat bottom of his foot which ~tr.kcs, anid tire kick Is clangerous as mitch rein Its slieer power as froin Its lacerating fleets. It is a mnovemjent of terrible ye ocity andl power, at all events. Several notances may be mbtitoned of herd-boys >eirng thus either wounded, maimedl, or tilled outrIght. One case occuirrea near haauff iteinet, in wich a horse had his maek broken by a single blow. In this puee lire birdi had endeavored to kill the idter, lbut miss~ed him and~ struick the morse, Mainy persona hrave been set upon by ,nrs, when there was nio shelter, not even ice to rm to. In such a case, if tlhe mtrsiucci were acquainted with struthlouis acucrs, he would lie down flat on inc trournd, where the bird enids It impossrule o str ike him. Bunt even this is no light naitI cr, for some ilrds in their rage at be rtg bsflledl of their kick, will roll over ,hir prFostrate enemy, bolloiig with fury mid trampling upon him in the mtost Gon n mtptcousa hnshion. One man wh:> thus uttemnpted the lying-down plan found that very timte ho attempted to rise the bird vouldn return arid stand sentry over hint, ill at last, alter creeping a distance he ot out only by swimming a pond that onaed ne side of the camp. Vondiing ana Iman.ce. ,During the Senatorial term of the lat' Zsch Chandler he occupied a handsom< and commodious residence on 11 street. One of the rooms was fitted up for a gym. naslum,and here after dinner Zach,usuall3 spent an hcur swinging the clubs and using the dumb bells. Frequently his Senatorla friends would drop in upon him. Ther were masks and foils for those who foun pleasure in fencing; while for those inchn ed to spar there was an excellent assort ment of boxing gloves. Chandler was i large, burly man, with a hand on hin like a hired man. le delighted in rougl Woorts, avd was never so happy as whei pounding some one or being pounded ij return, with the gloves. Conkling wa almost a nightly visitor. He wun a cleve sparrerr and in the exciting bouts ietweel himself and Chandler usual y came off vie torious. On. one occasion he panishel Zsch so badly in the presence of a doz en spectators that the giant Michigan uer foamed inwardly with rage, an swore by all the gods on high Olympu he would be revenged if it cost him hi fortune. The opportunlty came sooner than hu expected. L'iwrence Barret was travelin that season with a company of his owl seleetion, impersonating a round of Shak sperian charactera. In order to invest tn play with as miuch realism as possibi Barrett engaged Jem Mace, the pugihst for one of the characters. When the com pany visited Washington Chandler invite< Mace to call at his house, where he unfol ded to him the details of a plot to "put ui a job" on Lord Roscoe. If successfuill carried out Mace would receive a substan tial rewardj. Alace consented. That eve ning Vonkhng dropped in,as was h a wont Chandler introduced the pugilist as one ol his constituents,a lumberman of Michigan Cookhng murmured lits p.easure t.t meet ing any friend of Z ich's, and tnen .he ru gilist was gravely presented to Senator BiscK, Bayard, Merton and several ottei gentlemen, ainung them a well-k nowi newspapbr man. They were all in th secret, and were there by Candier's ex press desire. Zach had planned the affal with diabolical coolness. Not only did hu intend that lace should "dust the ficors with "Conk," but lie invited his Senatoria friends to witness the operation whicb, through the journalist, would be read the next day with loud guffaws by an alread' prejudiced public it required but little imanwuvering t< arrange a set to between the New Yor Senator and the l'uiberman." T lat. ter with blunt candor disclainedi a1n knowledge of the science; but addcd thal he wak "used to rough and twr' . figlts, and could give aUa take some plowerfn blows " Conkluig snilled serenely. Llore was a foeman worthy of his 8'eel, a verit. ble pugirstic diamond In the ruigh, lit would show the assemibled spcoIators low science could oonquer brute strengih. 1I. removed his coat and vost and tied hi suspenders about his waist. '."hey tool their places, Ubandler aticng as referee. Mace's position was one of studied awk. wardness. Ie held both handF in front 01 him, and Instead of bracing hinsli With one lea behind the other, eoth feet wer< wide apart and nearly on a parallel line. Conklidg's movements were thr perfectio of grace. Ile flourished his lists rapidly for a moment buore Mace's face, a-nd the with a "Look out for yourselfll he struck a blow ctruight froau tue shouider. Bit somehow It fell short,, The lumber'mau in his heavy, awkward fashioni, had, by good luck, it seemed, just moved back fat enough to escape .t. Conkhiug laughed and said in a patroniz.ing tone, "You did that very cleverly." A few momenta of sparriii( toilo wedi. C'rmklug saw a good openmng and made for~ it, but, the lumber man clumsily avoided it and countered at heavily that Gunkhug measured his length on the floor, lie camne up smiling, how. ever, and~ comnplimouted tunelumibermnan on his extraordinary luck. .Not a suspicion entered his mnd~. In the next round Conkling succeeded in planting a few light blows on his oppc. nent,'s chest, but was knocked down at tic cos~clusion with so z~uch force than he was unable to rise for an instant. When h<4 rose to his feet it was plain to be seen that he was very angry; but lie struggled hard to contrul his emotIons, Hie was badl3 used up. U'.s "hyperion cturlihad lost its curve and hung linp and soggy on hli forehead. His clothes wvero torn, while great beads of sweat rolled down his face. Abe spectators were ready to shriek wittl laughter, but were held in Cheek by old Zaich, who promised them still further sport. Ho then signaled to Mlace to "go in." Alace didt go in. lie pushed Rtoscoec He rcrode hun, he pounded him. He4 worried hun so that at last Conkiing drop pod into a chair so weak and exhausted that lhe couldi no longer retain his legs. Then the pent, up merainent of the spec tators broke forth, led by old Zaeh him. self. They howled and yelled. You couki have neard them a D!ock. Slowly the truth dawned upon Roscoe that ho had been maae the victtm of a ridiculous prac tical joke. Calmly lhe drew oft his gloves quietly lhe arraniged his disordeored Tattire, bleanwhile lhe- laughter continued. He cast, a withering glance of scorn and (dell. ance at nas tormentors. and then, with thi dignity or a palace, marched (down thi stairs, Hie never forgave Chandler, an( wouldt never .illow even his most intimat< friendis to '"chaff" him on thesaubject. lustfial Glaiss.s Tlhe finger mnust be wetted and drawn round the rim of the glass. It is not every glass that will produce a good tune, and even with the best a little practice is necessary to jusmly regulate the pressure o1 the uinger, so as to avoid unpleasau noises If you have not glasses of the proper range of size and thickness yotu can tutin thema by pouring water into them. The practice dates frtom the midle of the 17th century. In 17146 Uluck, while in Eng land, playced a concerto 263 arinmg-glass es. The armanica of Franklin consisted of a series of glass basins on an iron spin. dIe, made to revolve by a treadlle, and kept moist by a trotighi of water in which their lower edlges rested. Chords of seve rai notes couild be played on this, and pieces were comnposedl for it; but it popa. larity was evanescent.. You will remem. ber the allusion to thie "musical glasses'' in the ' Vicar of Wakelld," writij about 15 years after Gluck's performanco. '7mS breakfast, we take in winter will dleteritne our efficiency for work in the dlay, andl will so iufluence our whole being for that periott of time that no aftermcal can correct it. The breakfast, in winter mtust dontain more niitrogenouis food than in summner, it is absolutely neeed. You must store hicat to furnish material for ab), sorion'i anud for maintaining vitality; add to this nitrogenous food1 something that will dlisengiage heat fromt the blood and keep up temperature, anti you may defy the coldest dlay, Your face may feel it, your handis may feel it, biut your body will 1)0 impiervlous to it, andi go on dlisengagingi that mnwardl heat which can alone stand against the lowered temperature without. If this first meal has been properly atten ded to we may presume that vital action aan be maintained in full force for flye hours at last before it naed renshi.k EodMowime LAncE AIID yA9R.---Thee are few people wfio ar mort generally coonomical than the Gerrmans. and an in stance of the~r ability to make much .out of a little' has recently '6o unUer I ray notice, which seems worthy Qf .att gn tioD. I One of my friensa has her gareteri wofi - ed cu shares by a- Gbrnan.- Early, in the - spring he put out a quantity of cabbage I plants, giving a little more space between I the roots than is usually allowed. The 1 cabbages were easily worked with a horse. 1 Later, whei the time for settitig celry plants had come, he planted double .rows .4 of celery between the cabbages. The cel r ery rows are not ova eight inches apart, and in the same trenchsc that when bank. ed not more than halt the work will be.rc- 1 quired to prepare them for bleaching that ] would be necessary R the plants were a(t iu the usual way. The cabbages are nearly ready for use, and will soon leave the cel cry in full possession of the soil, Every part of this garden is utilized. When the early potatoes were ripe they were dug and turnips were sown on the land. Vacant spaces in other parts of I the garden have been filled with supertiu 3 ous plants from the beet bcd. Where space is somewhat limited it riehly repays the labor to fill . the grounld and keep something growing everywhere. The ground will need thorough fertilization ' when it is croppcd so persistently; and when one does not keep a pig to eat up the refuse from vegetable, dishwater, etc., 2 it Is a good plan to have a compost heap Y where such articles may be turned to ac - count. All the weeds (which should nev er be allowed to ripen seed) from the gar- I den, fine chips, if-wood is used, roots and . ine brush, leaves and cippings from the 1 - lAn should go into the compost heap. These, with an occasional sprinkling 01 1 dry earth to prevent unpleasant odors, will 9 absorb the slops from the house, and prove I e a valuable fertil:zer at ellght expeuse, 'The I compost heap should be turned over once I or twice during the season to insure de- ( composition, and it should not b)e placed ) r too near the home. < bones, old boots anti shoes,broken uten- ' bils ahd the like should be buined, and i . their ashes spread around the peach trees. Should there be a clv.y spot in the garden, a that is the place for the Ili. Coal ashes 1 seem to be o1 no .se exNcept for garden i walks RatI carriage drives, but wood ashes e benefit tilmost any kind of vegetation. ilo'sa Ei'i.-Anl teonomical farmer I writet: This is what I d v ' I do with f mny house alovs-I have most of it carried i and thiown on to the stable manure,which t is under cover. This makes the manure r in better order for use in three months than i: it. t.therwise would be in mne months. I 1 als) keep a box or barrel near the kitchen ii packed full of the short straw and dust i such as comed from a fanning mill, etc. 3: Into Lhis barrel or box are thrown emall 1 quantities of wash and dish water. The a The water drains through, leaving the e subtsance in 'ue straw and sust. When it i is fully charged I move it away and supply t another box. You will be surprised to see what a valuable feeder you will acquire e during the year. This substance is gener ally thrown on the ground, which find its f its way into the well, is drunk and follow. ed by sickness in the family. t l.it A uonn, in his address on the fac- C tory system or butter-making, dehaveredt at. llutland, June 20, before the Vermont Dairymen's Association, stated that the farmers of Frankhin county, Massachusetts, sent ott during the year 1880, 490 tonts of b)utter,which brought on the average about 8 eentO per poumd less than creamery but ter lirom facteries in the vicisity. This ~ loss of 8 cents equaled in the aggregate ~ the pietty little sum of $25,140, whIch 1 might have gone io the p~oekets 0of thei ~ farmers of Franklin county, and at the 9J same time have savedi their wives an tin- 'y told amount of hard worik and unceasing a care and anxiety. Un. J. ii. ilax&ronD mainains that ~ cancerous tendencies, catarih, boils and sinilar inflammations are the d:.rcct result of excessive usc of "the heaters'--otably C animal fats and (lils. Consequently sensi ble treatn,ent lies in the dlirection of abste- a mious reginmen; discard pork, use as little a "grease'' as possible, live mainly on the l~ grains (whole wheat iuntead of fiue flour). ti fruits andi .vegetables. "The lower and e more simple the diet the better," especiaily for sef'entary persons who do not by exer-. cise or constant labor in the open air con sume the hubricants by actual combustion i as a means of keeping up the naturalt warmth of the body. t Tm hog in a single generation changes a in form and color and habit from the staid r and quiet porker to the fleet and fierce-wild n~ boar. One importetd boar Is told of that dI changed immediately after escaping from i a ranch, and became as wild and fleet as S a deer, with a thin body and arched back, a) andl legs that appeared much longer, while 0 he more slowly assuimed the dark sandy a color of the wiid boar. Tihe tendency to o reversion, too, ma more immediate when g the animal or breed has been more recent- b ly reclaimed from the wildi state andi where the change by domestication has been most marked and rapid. . Tim: aggregate sum of money paid for imported stock by breeders in the UnitedA States, is somewhat startling. If the P'ittsburg Stock-maa'. statements are cor rect. It says that "the outlay in this di rection was $8 675,518, or more than the exports of live ca'ttle from the Unitedr btates amounted to in the first half of the present year. Thlere is a solid Increase in the importation total for 188% and It is not likely that it will fall much below $5, 000,000. No other people in the worldl are making as liberal mnvestments In fine stock at this time as the breeders of the~L United States." l AT a late meeting af the Keintucky Ilor ticuiltutral Society members were warned to be on their guard when purchasing wild ti goose plum trees, for thousands of trees E were sold as such that had no right to the w name. The following descrIption of the tl true Wild Goose was given: 'rhe fruIt ii should be large, about one inch or over in si dliamleter, miore round thtan loiig,turns yel- "E low three or four days before it becomes et red and ripe, and when ripe is covered wV with bright and beautiful golden specks hi about the size of a pin head. Hi IN experimenting with cotton-seed meal at at the M ississIppi Agricultural college a steer led for beef gaIned 200 p~oundt~s i fifty-six days, or an average of atbotnt 4p pounds per tiny, consuming an average of 14 2 5 pounds of seed and 11 pounds of hay antI straw. kTe cost ot food per (lay o was not quite 10 cents, or about $5.0 for 200 pountds of b'eet. TH R most emtinent of our agrictultural scientists afhirm,thiat plats cannot assimi- ai late free nitrogen, which exists in the at al mnosphero, and a Germ-ian botanist says at that 4"if a cell contains a nitrogenous body di it, can develop new chemical combinations 01 and form new eells; if it cobtains notie it ti Is not capable of fter develop.ment. . Dow pillows are a dainty appendai, > a lady's bedroom er boudoir lounge low very muoh in fashion. .To Gan, mt their iWtention of poiteet softnei, he cover' sh'ould be iado of Iihdressed Ilk, or any of tho'pliant satins or Indish ilkB now to be had. 1his cover inay )e highly embroidered. in geometrical >r conventional patterns in Silk, with iore and there a ime of gold introduced md.the result will be - sofa cuslihi loth novel and elegant. 'The edge may to finished with fine silk cord; carefully 6voiding anything that 'will keep the iushion in shape, as it is 'xpected to rield to every movement of weary headi >r aohipg bach,. One of tbese pillows, vhich are generally a little more thau a ialf'a yard squaro, was covered with udian silk in a crushed strawberry tint. This fabric may be bought now in all ho art shades of yellow, rq .and blut t $2 a yard. For light draportes it is lot to be surpassed.) On the squarei Iorming the upper portion of the pillow vore scattered a few interlaced disca melosng small geometrical shape;. Vl'he outline of these designs was fo' owed by the needle in darning stitOhes, akien close together-a small stitch oi ho vrong gide, a longer one upon tho -ight-wit I old gold silk. Some of tho lisks were filled by parallel lines of larn'ng stitches covering the ground; >tht rs had beon left witL a few touchest ,f gold, "Jatpauese sky lines," to break ho unformity of the ground. By using IeSCl.L varying in hu j from dull blue I deep red, od gold to brown, silver ray to daik blue gray, the designs vere brought out charmgly and witi mit little work. Pongeo in the natural Mne does very well for a similar experi iout in color, and any of the deoper bados of yellow in soft silk are recom aonded, not only for decorative art, but >ocauso this hue is apt to beffetive u whatever corner of the room you may loot to dispose of it, whether tote-a-tote iti a blue couch or on an casy-clitur ,f Indian red. Where the possessor of down fillow aspires to the simplest iethod of covering it, without the ad itional tax of needle-work, I would uggest a width of one of the soft foul rd satinB now sold for dross purpas( a all the principal shops. One of thea atins, cream-tinted and besprinkled ith pompadour bouquets of pale pink ,nd blue, was made to do duty for this ourposo with sncoess. Wheni a present or an ivialidd is in queslion, or, iideed, a any case where the cushion is ilabi ually used, the best plan is to make a ioavble cover of litien to use over the- A!( iner liing of rose-coklred lavendor or lue silk, For this purpose drawn work i all its varieties comes into play effect rely, and the finer the imaterial the lore attractive the result. Work order upon drawn threads of the liien, A int add a few scattered sprays of flow rs, worked in split illosello that haa een previously set in color by droppiu ie skein into boiling water. Clover, urple and white, is full of fragrant uiggestion and invitation to the head to 44 .hne toward it. The cover, when inished, should ho edged with lace. RIOU CLAM SoUP.-Use for this sOup he soft clams which are sold in "bunch s" or "strings." Wash a quart of then 1 a quart of cold water to free them romi saud, tand then strain the water biroughi a towel fine enough to re tain the. and, and place the clams in it over the - .rc; allow themu to boil gently for about fteenu minutes. Meanwhile put twio rablepoonfuls each of butter and flour vor the liro in a thick saucepan, and tir them constantly until the butter selts and blonds smoothly with the ' our; then gradually stir into them one uart of hot milk and the liquor in 'hich the clams have been boiled; sea on thme soup palatably with salt and epper, and place it whiero it wili kee~p ot. .Cut the soft part of the clams way from the haird parts which may bo hopped and used for OniM .FnirTs, [oxt beat the yolks Qf two raw eggs for no minute, mix with them half a cuip i1 of the hot clam soup, and theni stir ac mixture into the rest of the soup, nd servo it at once. If thme soup is al >wed to boil after the yolks are addedl > it they will become curdled. Serve rackersi iith the soulp. CnAT-Fxsz P'r--The flesh of the tails. Sthe only considerable pert; the intes no running through the middle of' the til should be removed. Prepare the tile of fifty cray-fish in this way, Have eady a quar't of tomatoes, peeled liced amnd stewed, or a can of tomatoes, :>l a pound of crackers to crumbs o1f tedium siz~e. Butter an earthen baking ish, aput the above-named ingredients &~ ito it in layers with a rather high sea mning of salt and pepper and two table ?oonfuls of butter; lot the top layer be cracker dust. Bake the pie for half a hour in a modeorute oven. A glass fsherry wine, or a cupful of any cold rayy, may be added to the pie before aking it, to vary the flavor. Oxwrxn Sour, wIrH CRA CKEnls.-St~am ie liquor from a quart or oysters, add( it one quart of milk, arnd place it over eo fire, to heat gradually. Meantime, smove all bits of shell from the oysters. s the milk and oyster liquor heat skim tom, and when no more scum rises mir noothily with them four heaping table' oonfulIs of cracker-dust or crackers >hled and sifted; seas.on the soup with vo saltapoonfuls of salt and dust of yonne pepper; putt the oysters into it, Lfr it until their edges curl, and thien ~rvo it at once. The oysters should ot be added to the soup until just be >re serving it, as they grow hard and augh if they aro cooked more than just oig enough to curl their edges. Oys r cracker's should be served with the FamiD BASiS, MARIYLAND &TYLE. --layve to fish scaled, the fins and tail cut off, id the eyes taken out; wash it in cold ator, and dIry it on a clean towel; score oe fiah to the bone on both sides, mank ig the cuts about aii inch apart, rub It anmd cayenne pepper into the cuts, id let the fish stand for an hour in a 0ol place.. Then dredge it thickly ith flour, and qluicly brown it over a >t fire in a tlntppg-pan containing iflio~int smoking hot fat to prevent irnmg, Serve tihe flsh very hot as >on as it is brown, Cu mecovers are madne for brand anos wyhich admit of a great deal of' ucoration. They can be of almost any atorial, but the most serviceable are dask cloth or felt, with a design orked as a bordering in gold, silk, or allow crewels, and finished off with a " irrow worsted fringe. Conoiun tab~lceovers for dining-rooms e of linen plush, and are to be had in Icolors. Thle centre is perfontly plain, d. the bordering1 which is usually., ep, is stamped in arabesque, Moorish, gonetrical design to harmtnonize with 6 latest style in carpets, which is ens -aly of thiat aaotem.