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THE DARLINGTON HERALD. VOL. 1. DARLINGTON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1891. NO. M. CHURCHES Presbyterian Church.—Rev. J. G. Law, Pattor; Preaching every Sabbath at 11 i o m. and 8 p. m. Sabbath School at 10 a. m , Prayei Micting every Wednesday afternoon at ■I o’clock. Methodist Cm iun. - Rev. .1. A. Rice. Pastor . Preaching every Sunday at 11$ a. m. and 8 p. ra., Sabbath School at 5 p, ni , Prajer Meeting every Thursday at 8 p. m. Baptist Cm hi h. Pev. G. 15. Moore. Paster; Preaching every Sunday at 11$ a. m and 8 :!0 p. m.. Prayer Meeting every Tuesday at s p. m. EnseoPAL Chapei..—Rev. W. A. Guerry, Rector; H. T. Thompsou, Lay Reader. Preaching ;lrd Sunday at 8:30 p. m., Lay Reading every Sunday mern ing at II o'clock. Sabbath School every I Sunday afternoon at 5 o’clock. Macedonia Baptist C’hi’ki h. Rev I. P. Brsckington, Pastor; Preaching every Sunday at 11 a. m. and 8:30 p. m. Sabbath School at 3:30 p. in., Prayer Meeting even Tuesday evening at 8 30 o’clock. COUNTY OFITCEKS, Sheriff.—W. 1'. Cole. Ci.erk of Court.—W. A. Patrn.t Treasurer. J. E. Bass. Auditor.—W. H. Lawrence. Probate Judoe. T. II. Spain. Coroner. —R. G. Parnell. Schoot Commissioner. W. H. Evans. County Commissioners.- G. B. King. W. W. McKinzie, A. A Gandy. (profcssimml CniiK w. F. DARGAN, ATTORNEY -. AT -: LAW. D.ARLINCiTON, C. II., S. C. Office over Blackwell Brothers’ store. £ KEITH DARGAN. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Darlington, S. C. JJETTLES A NETTLES, ATTORNEYS AT :- LAW, Darlington, C. H., S. C. Will practice in all State and Federal Courts. Careful attention will be given to all business entrusted to us. J> BISHOP PARROTT, STENOGRAPHER and TYPE-WRITER. ! I LEGAL and other copying solicited. | Testimony leported in short hand, and type written transcript of same fur nisheel at reasonable rates. Good spelling, correct punctuation and neat work guaranteed. Office with Nettles A Nettles. 0 P DARGAN, ATTORNEY -: AT LAW AND TRIAL - JUSTICE, Darlington, S. C. Practices in the United States Court I and in the 4ih and Sth circuits. Prompt | attentioe to all business entrusted to me. Office, Ward's Lane, next to the Dar | lington Herald office. DARLINGTON MARBLE WORKS. DARLINGTON MARBLE WORKS ^ DARLINGTON MARBLE WORKS I ' ! ALL KINDS OF MARBLE MONUMENTS, MARBLE MONUMENTS. | Tablets and Grave Stones furnished at Short Notice, and as Cheap as i an be Purchased Else where. J# Designs and Prices Furnished an i Application. I All Work Delivered Free on Line ^ of C. A I). R. K. DARLINGTON MARBLE WORKS, DARLINGTON MARBLE WORKS, DARLINGTON, S C. FIRE! FIRE! I Represent Twelve of the mest Reliable Fire Insurance Compa nies in the World -Ami ng them, the Liverpool and Lon don and Globe, of England, the Largeit Fire Campany in the World; and the /Etna, of Hart ford, the Largest of all Ameri can Fire Companies. jy Prompt Attention to Business and Satisfaction Guaranteed. F. E. NORMENT, DARLINGTON, H. 0. Office between Edwards, Norment A Co., and Joy A Sander*’. THE. COSTLIES1 GIFT. I give you a day of my life— Treasure no gold could buy— For peasant and peer are at on© When the time comes to die; And all that the monarch has. His koh i uoor or his crown. He would give for one more day Ere he lay his sweet life down. They .are winged, like the viewless wind— These days that come and go— And we count them, and think of the end, But the end we cannot know; The whole world darkens with pain When .a sunset fades in the west— .... 1 give you a day of my life, My uttermost gift and my best. — IjoniscC.Mnnlton. in Youth's Companion. Mrs. Grav, of Philadelohia. Ten years ago, in a certain good-sized own in Pennsylvania, there lived a family whom I will call Mitchell. The f amily consisted of husband, wife, and two children, the latter being a boy aged live and a girl of seven. Mitchell was a private banker, known to be honest, re .pectable, and worth a clear $100,000. 1 knew little or nothing about the family until certain incidents occurred. r )ne day his wife was fatally injured in i railroad collision at a point fifty miles from home. When he reached her, in respon-c to a telegram sent by a stranger, he found she had been removed to a hotel, and was being tenderly cared for by a woman who gave her name as Mrs. A. B. Gray, of Philadelphia. She was on the train, but suffered no injury. Mrs. Gray, as 1 might as well tell you now, was petite, good looking, a goo 1 talker, and, in a genial way, captivating. The fact of her taking charge of Mrs. Mitchell as she had done proved her tender heart. She told Mr. Mitchell ?hc had been a widow eighteen months, and was practically alone in the world, md though he was burdened with grief and anxiety, he did not forget to thank hei for her great kindness and to take her address. He would have offered her money for her services, but he saw that •he was a lady and would feel hurt bf any such action. She resumed her journey, and he took bis wife home to die of her injuries. It was three weeks after her death that I came into the case. After everything was over the husband suddenly discovered that his dead wife's jewelry was missing. She had with her, when the accident took place, about a a thousand dollars’ worth of diamonds. They had disappeared, and when he came to run over events in his mind he could not remember that they had come home with her. Mrs. Gray had turned over to him Mrs. Mitchell's purse and a few other things, but a pair of diamond eat drops, two rings, and a pin were miss ing. 1 was employed to proceed to the scene of the late accident and seek to trace the jewelry. The collision had occurred right at the depot in a small town. People about the depot and at the hotel assured me that Mrs. Mitchell had her jewelry on when taken to the hotel. The landlord’s wife was positive, and the doctor who was called in was posi tive, and when I had worked the case out I returned home to report to Mitchell I that nobody but Mrs. Gray could have taken the jewelry. Ho was astonished and indignant, and not only vigorously repudiated the implication, but dis charged me from the case with the asser tion that I was a novice in the profession. No other detective,working without bias, could have come to any other conclusion than I did, and, feeling sure of this fact, I was not so much put out over hil action. I have found in my long ex perience that most people who employ a detective on a blind case expect him to think as they do, and to follow up theories formed in advance of his em ployment . I went about other business, and it was about four months before I law Mitchell again. Then he sent for me in an official capacity again. No reference was made to my previous work, but fresher and other troubles bad come to him. A mcntii after the death of his wife he had opened correspondence with Mrs. Gray, and the result was that she had come to take charge of bis house. He was without lelntirea, or, at least, without those who could aid him in his situation, and she claimed to be free in her movements. You will suspect, just as I did, that she had captivated him, but he fought shy of any acknowledg ment of the sort. She was in bis house to care for his children and to manage domestic matters, and that was no one’s business but their own. I haven’t told you about the bank. In was situated just a square trom hia house, and exactly in rear of it. The bouse front! d on one street and the bank on another, and there was no alley between. Indeed, the rear yard of the house led right up to the near door of the bank, and Mitchell used to come and go through the yard, lu rear of the bank ing rooms, divided off by the usual rail ing, were the private offices and vault. A burglar alarm was connected with the front doors and windows, but none with the back. A large and savage dog guarded the real', haviug a kennel close to the door. What the hanker wanted to see me about was this: He had not only missed money from his wallet at night, but on two occasions considerable sums of money imd been taken from a small safe which stood in his office outside the vault. One of the mysteries was in the taking of the money. He employed a teller and a bookkeeper, neither of whom had a key to safe or fault unless it was a duplicate made without his knowledge. Neither had the word of the combination of the vault, and it seemed impossible that they could have taken the money even if so inclined. Both were perfectly honest so far as any one know, and Mit chell was all tangled up over the mystery. He hadn’t talked to me five minutes when I would have taken my solemn oath that Mrs. Gray was the guilty party, but, of course, I didn't drop a hint of my suspicions to him. When it came my turn to ask questions I found out that he was a very sound sleeper; that he occupied a front bedroom with his son p that Mrs. Gray and the girl occupied one In rear of his, with an entrance to both from a hall; that the keys of the bank safe and vault were always kept under his pillow at night. In addition, Mrs. Gray had won the hearts of his childrcu, if not his own, and it was only by the strongest argument that she had been in duced to accept a salary of $10 per week while occupying her position. It was as plain ns daylight to me that Mitchell meant to marry her in due course of time, but it wasn't atall plain as to what sort of a scheme she was working. I took the case, told Mitchell I had a theory, and then began to study Mrs. Gray. I found her to be a sweet and in nocent-looking little woman, seemingly devoted to the children. It was in sum mer and she was out a great deal, and I was on hand to follow her. It seemed to be time thrown away, however. She was shy, prudent and apparently all right, and I had put in a month on the ease and made no discovery when the outside safe was robbed again. A de posit and some bonds had come In at the last moment and had been placed there for the night. The whole thing amounted to about $900, and bonds and greenbacks were missing next morning. The safe had not only been opened with a key, but the bank had been entered by unlocking the rear door. No one could have entered by the front without sound ing an alarm. No stranger could have entered by the back on account of the dog, who was wide awake and all right. When Mitchell sent for me to give me the news I was perfectly satisfied that Mrs. Gray was the guilty party. I be lieved she had the nerve to enter his room in the night, secure the keys and then slip through the back yard, enter the bank and open the safe. When 1 learned that the dog was a great favor ite of hers this belief was a certainty. I couldn’t, for reasons already given, say a word to Mitchell about this. He wanted to suspect his two employes, but when we had canvassed the matter he was made to see that it was altogether un likely that either of them was guilty. Indeed, he was alone, in the bank when the bonds and money came in and he alone knew where the deposit was placed. What did I do? I turned to Mrs. Gray again, and in abcut a week something happened to prove that I was on the right trial. One of the street car lines of the town ran down to the railroad depot. It was Mrs. Gray’s habit of an afternoon to ride on this lino with the little girl as far down as a certain park, and to sit near the fountain and read while the girl romped about with other children. I had closely watched her while in this park, but no one had ever come neai her, and her demeanor had been perfection. On the third afternoon after the robbery she occupied her usual seat for an hour without anything happening. I sat on a lench in the rear of her and about thirty feet away, and by and by I noticed that she was writing a note with pencil. She did it so deftly that one sitting in front of her could not have told what she was at. Beside her was a large shade tree, and os near as I could make out sho disposed of the note, when folded up, somewhere about the tree. When she left I followed her for a short distance, and looking back I saw a young and well-dressed man occupy ing the pUce vacated by her. An hour later, when I could examine the tree, I found a hollow in the trunk just about on a line with her shoulder as she sat on the bench. One not looking for it would have sat there fifty times and dis covered nothing. My theory was that she had an accom plice—the young man whom I had seen. The hollow in the tree was their postof- flce. Next day I was at the park half an hour before her usual time, and behold 1 the young man was occupying that bench. As she appeared be got up and took a seat a hundred feet away, and by watching closely I saw that she took a note from the tree. Before leaving she wrote and “posted ’ one in reply, and af ter she had gone I saw him get it. I was now certain that I was on the right trail, and I went to Mitchell to secure some particulars I wished to know. 1 told him I had a clue, but would not re veal which way it l^d. I learned from him that the combination of the vault door had four numbers, and he alone knew it. It had been changed about • month after Mre. Gray’s arrival, and he hesitatingly admitted that the word was “Aline,” which was her Christian name. He would not, however, admit that this fact was known to her. For two weeks after securing this in formation I hardly got sight of Mrs. Gray. For some reason she remained very closely at home. 1 found out from Mitchell in a roundabout way that the moucy needed to pay the men at a coal mine and also at a large factory was de posited with him on the fourteenth of every month. It was simply passed in to him to be locked in the vault overnight as it came up from Pittsburgh by messenger. I reasoned that Mrs. Gray would worm this information out of him in some way, or that her accomplice would discover it, and that if she had the combination of the vault sho would make her strike on the night of a fourteenth. Oq ‘’ twelfth day of August she excbauge l notes at the park, also on the thirteenth. On this latter date I shadowed the yoUng man for three hours, and became satis tied that he was from Pittsburgh, and a “slick ’un.” Among the things he did was to go to the depot and inquire about various night trains, and particularly one which passed over the road half an hour after midnight. I promised Mitchell that a climax would soon be reached, and then staked my all on what might happen on the night of the 14th. At 8 o’clock on that evening I threw a piece of “dosed” meat to his dog from a neighboring yard, and at 10 I softly climbed the fence to find the canine in his kennel, ami sick enough to remain there. I lav down within ten feet of him, hidden behind a bush, aud it was an hour and a half be fore anything happened. Everybody in the neighborhood was in bed and asleep by that time, and I was not greatly sur prised when a female Sgure, which I knew to be that of Mrs. Gray, suddenly appeared and passed me five feet away, going toward the bank. She stopped at the kennel to speak of the dog, and then opened the rear door and entered. I did not move from my hiding place un til she reappeared, about twenty minutes after. She carefully locked the bank, and as she passed me on her way to the bouse I followed quickly behind. The keys she laid on the back steps, softly opened the side gate, and I let her reach the street before I brought matters to a climax. 8hc was only out of the gate when she was joined by a man, but when I rushed to seize them he got the alarm, and was off before I could grab him. I got her, however, and she had a bundle under her arm, which I took charge of—a bundle containing about $19,000 in greenbacks. What a nervy woman she was! She just simply laughed a bit as I led her up the steps and rang the bell to arouse Mitchell, and when I had told him all, and had the money and his keys to prove it, she just looked up at him with a smile and asked; “Well, what of it?” The “what of it?” was a corker. Mitchell couldn't let the public know that his bank could be so easily robbed, and he couldn’t let society know that he had been duped by an adventuress, and after a consultation he actually gave that little adventuress $200 in cash to clear out.—iYeie York Sun. The Stinging Tree. Though the tropical shrubs of Queens land are very luxuriant and beautiful they are not without their dangerous drawbacks, for there is one plant grow ing among them that is really deadly in its efforts—that is to say, deadly in the same way one would apply that term to fire, for, if a certain portion of one'a body bo burned by the stinging tree death would bo the result. They are found of all sizes, from three inches up to fifteen and twenty feet. In the old ones tho stem Is whitish, and the red berries usually grow in a cluster at the top. It omit* a peculiar and disagreea ble smell, but is best known by its leaf, which is nearly round, with a point on the top and jaggared all around the edges like a nettle. All the leaves are large, even on small plants—sometimes larger than a saucer. The effects of the sting are curious; it leaves no mark, but the pain is said to be maddening, and for months after a jab from one of its numerous “sting ers” the part stung remains very tender; especially is this true in rainy weather, or when the paits stung have been acci dentally dampened, even if very slightly. Hunters who have found themselves sur rounded by small forests of “stinging trees” in the dusk of evening have been known to lie down and pass the night as comfortable as possible, fearing to make an effort to extiicate themselves in the dim, uncertain light, least they might get deeper and deeper into the besetting trouble. “I have seen," says Shuman, “a mao who would treat ordinary pain lightly roll on the ground in agony for hours after beingstung, and have known a horse so completely mad, after getting into a thicket of these trees, that he rushed open-mouthed at everyone that approached him, and had to be shot to relieve his agony.” Dogs, when stung, will rush about, whining piteously, bit- iug pieces of fiesh from the affected parts. The small “stinging trees,” only a few inches high, are even more dangerous than the large ones, being so small they are likely to brush one's ankles before they are seen. One safeguard for the experienced huntei is the fact that they always grow in palm thickets and no place else; the presence of paiui trees is therefore sufficient to put an old settler ( ou his guard.—St.Louis Jis/tuhltc. ACCIDENTS. SPRAINS, BURN’S, FRACTURE, AND HOW TO MEET THEM. A Doctor's Sensible Advice as to the Proper Treatment for All Sorts of Misfortunes—Fainting, Sun stroke ami Poisoning. “Speaking of accidents,” said Dr. Curtis, “sprains are often the most seri ous, and, at the same time, ustally re ceive the least attention. If your boy breaks his leg, the whole neighborhood is turned upside down and you rush off Vo' a doctor. Very proper that, you should do so; but a hundred broken legs arc permanently cured with no after ef fects, to one sprain that nny bother the patient all his life. “ ‘Nothing but a sprain!' you say. Perhaps he lies on the lounge a couple of days. Maybe y6u put hot or cold water on it, or a little arnica. The sprain gets better and the boy gets restless under confinement, declares the sprain is all right and goes about his play again, when very often his too soon going about produces permanent lameness.” “A sprain," continued the doctor f “is a violent wrenching of a joint; ovei- straining the ligaments and tendons, some of which may be badly torn. And sometimes even with the best surgical care a joint remains still and weak, be cause the torn ligaments or tendons are not perfectly repaired, or chronic inflam mation sets in. “When you consider that from the tips of the fingers to the wrist, ami from the end of the toes to the leg, there are not less than thirty separate bones, tied together with straps, cords and clastic bands, ami about twenty hinges, you will see why a sprain is so easy and at the same time so serious. “Do not treat a sprain as a small mat ter. “Give it immediate and careful atten tion. If it be your foot or auklo that gets the wrenching it is more than likely the pain will compel you to sit or lie down. Raise your foot high euough to be comfortable and rest it on a pillow, then put on hot water cloths. If you have arnica put about one part of arnica to’ seven parts of water. But if you haven't the arnica the hot water is about as good. “I believe also,” said Dr. Curtis, “in an equable compression of the sprained oinl by bandages. Tear up an old sheet into 2j-inch strips; sew them firmly together. Begin below the toes and bind it around smoothly. Have plenty of bandage, so that it can he two or three layers thick. Wind it around evenly until the sprain is inclosed. “Then you may wet the baudage with hot water and arnica, or laudanum and water if it is very painful, or alcohol and water. Any one of them are good. A complete rest, for the leg for some time is very necessary for a thorough cure. “if in too ardent a devotion to base ball the boy in the family sprains his wrist, treat in the same way as the ankle. Begin to bandage at the fingers, and un- ; til all pain is gone use the hot water ap plications. Rut his baseball hand in a sling, and until thoroughly well let some one else take his place in the picked nine.” Dr. Blake says that you can easily tell when a bone is broken by tbe person not being able to raise the limb and by its bending when it ought not and by the pain. The Hist thing to do is to get a splint. Various things can he used for splints— a shingle, a stiff piece of paste board, still straw or reeds bound to gether, or a stiff hat with the crown knocked out and the body of the hat split up. Any one of these can bo used. But, interposes Dr. Blake, be sure you put something soft on the splint—grass, hay, soft hair, or wool, cotton batting— anything of a soft material. If you haven't anything better at hand and hap pen to be in the fields or woods, tie the splints on with haudkerchiefs and sus penders until you get your patient to a place of more convenience. “Your object is not to cure broken bones, hut to put the broken ends in their proper places ami keep them there. Nature will do the rest. Nature is very considerate to us if we give her half a show. Nature and comwun sense would cure three-fourths of the ills of hu manity if we would allow them to.” “Upon the subject of burns and scalds of the ordinary character,” said Doctor Blake, “the first object is to utterly ex clude the air from the burned surface, auy number of rags will not do this. Everyone has flour or soda or sweet oil in the house. A good way to do is to beat the soda and sweet oil together; make several applications with this, or you can cover it with flour or powdered borax. It will quickly take out the fire and give relief. “Perhaps the best thing to keep on hand for such emergencies is equal parts of linseed oil and lime water. The Eng lish and Scotch iron works keep quan tities of this on hand in case of emer gencies. If the burn is very deep and dangerous 1 should advise dressing the bum with raw cotton and linseed oil un til medical assistance comes.” In giving inlimnation regarding an ordinary cut, the iluctoi said: “Don’t be afraid of letting it bleed thoroughly. Aftriwanl clean with warm water, being verv careful to remove all narticles of flirt and glass, as dirt causes mortifica tion aud glass works its way into the flesh Then put on your strips of ad hesive plaster, and our good Mother Nature will finish the job for you. Of course, if you cut a vein or un artery that is, as Kipling says, another story. So severe a cut as that needs something ti’Jj very tightly between the cut and the heart, as every beat of the heart pumps the blood into the bleeding artery. To tell whether it is a vein or an artery tint is cut, notice how the blood comes. If it comes in jets or spurts it is an artery, if a steady, copious flow, it is a vein.” “About bruises," continued Dr. Blake, M I seldom use anything but hot water cloths; a little alcohol in the water is very good. Continued hot-water appli cations prevent discoloration and subdue mfianniation.’’ “When any one faints where you are toe that they get plenty of air; loosen the clothing at the waist and neck; lay them flat on the back and lower the head. The fainting is caused by absence of blood in the head, and your object is to get the blood there again. “Don’t prop them up on pillows; you had much better stand them on their heads thau that. A slight shock to the nervous system will often restore them. Cold water on the face or breast, but a little water U just as good as a barrelful. There is no ne cessity of drowning the fainting one. Spirits of ammonia, applied prudeutly to the nostrils, is a good restorative. “For sunstroke, a cold bath, cold cloths on the head, and hot ones to the feet, are the usual methods of restora tion. “As for poisoning, that is a dangerous subject to handle. There arc so many poisons that act so differently that you had better tell the Krnminert reiders when they meet with a case of poisoning, with suicidal intent or otherwise, e dose them with water, with a spoonful of mustard in it, until vomiting rewards their efforts. The main thing is to get the death-dealing substance out of the stomach as soon as possible. The doctor will have to take care of the rest.”—Sun Francisco Examiner. Admiral Brown’s “Hookupu.” Grief for their late King did not pre vent the people of Honolulu from get ting up a “Hookupu" in honor of Admi ral Brown. Hookupu has a terrible sound, but it means something pleasant. In old times the Hawaiians used to give their sovereign^, heroes and popular peo ple generally great free will offerings, to which any one might contribute accord ing to his or her means. Thus the gifts would range from pearls to pigs. The custom h%s almost fallen into desuetude, but was revived in honor of Admiral Brown when the Charleston was about to return to .San Francisco on the com pletion of the mournful duty of traus- porting Kalakuua’s body to Honolulu. Everybody took part in the Hookupu. Ad miral Brown was received in state, and after a set of complimentary resolutions had been read to him, the presentation of gifts began. Some were presented by agents of the givers, but many brought their gifts and placed them in the Ad miral’s hands. The Queen Dowager Kap- iolani believes in good eating, and sent the Admiral one box of eggs, six boxes of cocoanuts, six dozen fowls, one bag of fish, six bunches of bananas, three bags of potatoes, three pigs, one sheep and one calf. Other gifts were more cal culated for (esthetic tastes, and included some beautiful feather work, aud many rare and curious mementos of the Ha waiian past. A Honolulu paper says the gifts were numbered by the hundreds, and that the Admiral was almost smoth ered with bouquets; that every class took part in the presentation. The ladies carried bouquets or wreaths of rare blos soms, which they placed about the gal lant Admiral’s neck. Indeed, the native ladies admired the admiral so much that some of them kissed him, aud be being a generous man kissed back. As the wish to kiss him was generally expressed, the Admiral said he was willing, and would make no undue discrimination under sub stantially similar and contemporaneous conditions. So there was scene which moved the astonishment of those not ac quainted with the customs of the coun try, but which, according to the Hawaii an idea, was but an affectionate leave- taking. But such pleasant occasions must come to an end, and after Admiral Brown had kissed all the ladies and shaken hands with all the gentlemen, he gathered his hundreds of gifts together nnd the Hookupu was over.—Boston Transcript. Wall Levelling Rifles. The new rifle with which the German army and navy have been armed during the last few mouths is a terror in the way of small weapons. The gun has a bore ni .31 inch and throws a projectile of lea l coated with nickel-steel weighing 14 ' grains, or about half an ounce. The car tridge used weighs nearly an ounce, and is 3.25 inches in length. The magazinr of the rifle carries five cartridges. Tin speed of the bullet on l“aving the muzzh of the gun is about 2100 feet per second, and tbe limit of its effective range is u little under two miles. Brick wall* of small thickness are not absolute proof against this gun. as Severn shots striking the same spot will make a breach.—Nor York Journal. FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. UIF.I.D I'F.AS FOK ORCHAHDS. The experiments related by Professor Caldwell, of C'crncll University, show ing that common peas absorb nitrogen from the air, suggest tbe advisability of sowing peas rather than other and more exhaustive grains in orchards. It has long been known that a pea stubble made an excellent preparation for wheat, particularly if fed down nnd the vines [ after the peas are eaten are plowed un- . dcr. The soil is undoubtedly made richer by such a process, and if sown j with some winter grain the fertility is I prevented from being washed away by I rains and suows. For orchards the pea has great advantages over clover, as it requires the soil to be plowed in the spring and kept pliable all summer. Clover stunts the trees while it is grow ing, as however much it draws from the air it also draws much from the soil, and that too of moisture and mineral elements that the tree most wants to make it productive.—Boston Cultic ’ now ASPARAGUS IS PLANTED. Asparagus for a domestic garden may be planted as soon as tbe ground can he worked, and in this way: The land is well covered with manure, which is turned under as deeply ns possible by the I plow or spade. Spade cultivation is pie- i fcrablc for all garden work. After ink- j ing the surface smooth, tbe ground is 1 marked out three feet apart, and trenches are dug eighteen inches deep and wide. The earth dug out is returned with plenty of luamtre or rich compost well mixed with it for a foot, when the roots, one year old, to he procured of the seed . stores, are spread out eighteen inches apart and covered with soil. This will leave a slight ridge where the plants are set. The land is to he kept clear ol weeds, but may be planted between the rows with dwarf peas or beans or onions the first year. The second year a lew j forward shoots may be cut, tbe third year some be takeu, and after that the ground will hear a lull crop. About fifty plants can thus be set iu a square rod, and four square rods will afford a fair supply for a small family. The stulkr I thus grown will not be the largest iu size, but there will be more of them than il the roots were planted four feet apart - each way.—New York Times. DOING UP A HOUSE'S TAIL. I will send you an easy and quick wax of doing up a horse's tail in muddy weather, says a correspondeut. First, take the tail in the left hand with the right hand take hold at the up per md of a small bunch of hair, about eight or tea inches long; then select an 1 other bunch of the very longest hair in the tail, about the size of a man’s finger. With both hands twist what is left in tin left hand three or four times to the right then with the right hand put it imdei and catch it with the left hand, and hold it till you take the long bunch or braid with the right hand and twist around, ot wind around once or twice, according to the length of the hair, from the oppositt direction. Then take the end of it, wit! what you have in your left hand ami thr short bunch; twist all together in a ban twist, double it and find the band of thi braid that you wound round the tail, am I stick it under twice. After a little practice any farmer, hx ohserviug the above rule, cau do up hi: horse’s tail anywhere, on the road or it the stable, in two or three minutes, with out strings or ribbons, aud it will stay till taken down. 1 hnx-e nex'or seen oi heard of a bet'er and quicker way. I goi it from a French stage driver.— amt Fireside. FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. Sod turned under is a good mauurc. A cheap horse is generally a poor one. . Hay fed in the open air seldom escape.- waste. y Keep the hennery xvell supplied with coal ashes. Get the berry crates iu good shape fot | next season. Scatter manure under the fruit tree- a, far out as limbs reach. Onion tops cut fine make a good gicet food for poultry at this time. If you grow erops among your fruit j trees apply manure euiugh for both. Stables get filthy very easily. It re j quires care and labor to keep them clean. As a general rule it will not be found 1 best to attempt to keep more thau fifty ; liens in one house. A hen that is scared off her nest cverv ! time any one approaches should not be , used for hatching. There arc chestnut trees iu Wisconsin 1 a foot through that xvere planted by the ' men xvho now own them. When you tin l a huli to head your herd that suits you, you buy him. Don't quibble over a few dollars. At this season hot ashes from the eoal stove will aid to maintain health if •prinklcd under the roosts. Hens are often obliged to leave then nests ou account of lice; it is importaT to keep a lookout for them. Try mulching the bare spot.-- on the i knolls and high poiut<. in your meadow.- and pastmes with fire straw. Many garden seeds are better not planted until the soil is warm enough to sprout Umu and tend them riri.fl twxnv Sit that the soxvs about to farnxv are not left out -ome cold night, and a lot of dead or dying pigs found iu the moui- iog. To have a few early strayberrios, dig up sods of plants from old beds and put in greenhouse or hotbed. Did plantt yield better forced than new. RECIPES. Steamed Potatoes—Some familiet never boil potatoes, but cook them in t steamer over a kettle of water. They are nice and mealy, aud e:'.n be steamed cither with their jackets ou or peeled at one chooses. Salsily Fritters—Wash a dozen root* ot salsify, scrape, put in a sauce-pan an*1 cover with boiling salt water, took tender, chop small, mix in rielt egg batter. Have a skillet of boiling lard on the fire; drop the mixture in spoon fuls and fry brown. Soft Gingerbread — One cupful of sugar, one cupful of molasses, one cup ful of butler and three eggs. A cunful of sweet milk, three even cupfuls of flour, three tcaspoonfuls of baking pow der and a pound of seeded raisins. Add a tablcspoonliil of cinnamon, ginger nnd cloves. Frizzled Beef—Chip dried beef very thin. To every half pound allow a large tablespoon fill of flour; melt the butter iu a frying-pan, add tho beef and stir over the tire until the butter begins to brown; dredge in the flour, pour in the milk, season xvitli pepper and stir until it boils; serve immediately. Hot Cakes—-Heat a pint, of sxveet milk, put in it a large tahiespoonful of butter; when melted, pour in a pint of cold milk, four wcil-boatcn eggs and a teaspoonful of-alt; beat xx-cll and rift in flour enough to make batter, with two tenspooufuls or baking-powder. Bake on a well-greased griddle and serve hot, with maple syrup. Orange Cake—Take two eveu teacup ■ fuls each of sugar mid flour, half cupful of xvater, the yolks of five eggs beaten x-ery light, also the whites of four, the juice and grated rind of one orange, and two teaspooufuls of baking poxvder sifted with the flour. Bake im four layers. Take the juice and grated rind of one large or two small oranges, three-fourths of a teacupful of sugar, and the white of one egg beaten stiff. Spread this be tween layers, adding more sugar to that used for the top. Marvels Mail? of Milk. “The first food of man’ has been put to many uses, ami converted into many forms by human ingenuity, but its latest application is perhaps the most remark able. An inventor has just taken out a patent to protect a substitute for bone or celluloid, and the material which is to substitute the -obstante- is produced from milk. Casein—the solids in milk are iu tbe lir-t place reduced to a partly gelatinous condition by means of borax or ammonia, and then it is mixed with mineral salt dis-olved in acid or xvater, which liquid i- subsequently evaporated. The method of procedure is to place the casein in a suitable vessel aud incorpor ate under heat the borax xvith it, the proportions being ten kilograms of borax, dissolved in six litres of water. When the casein becomes changed in appear ance the water is drawn off, and to the residue, while still of the cousistency of melted gelatine, one kilogram of mineral salt, held in solution of three litres of water, is added. Almost any of the salts of iron, lead, tin, zinc, copper or other mineral which arc soluabie in acid may be u'cd. When the mixture is effected the solid matter is found separated trom the greater portion of the acid and xx-ater and is then drawn off. Next the solid matter is first -objected to great pressure to drix'c out ,.d possible moisture, and and then to evaporation under great heat to remove any remaining moisture. The resulting product is called “laetites,” and cau be moulded into any desired form. By the admixture of pigments ot dyes any color nny be imparted to it, but the creamy white color natural to the substance is tin' most beautiful, being a very close imitation of ivory, Combs, billiard bulls, brush backs, knife ban Ills, and all other articles for which ivory, bone, m celluloid are employed, can be melt of this new product of milk. —Both > Tninvript. A Been lor Bachelors. The advantage of a pocket that has nc sewed -cams and cannot rip and that it neat and smooth in the garment are such us will Im: appreciated by every masculine reader. Such n pocket is the invention of un ingenious Niuv Englander, xvho calls hi- device a safety seamless pocket. The peculiarity "f these pockets is that they arc woven complete in one piece. No stitching or sew ing is necessary to make them iv civ for um\ but they are turned out by th' loom in the exact form in which they arc required fot trousers. - ’■ - IV . 1 Journal, Toethache Electrically Cured. That most grievous of our minor ills, the toothache, may be sometimes cured, and usually alleviated, by a weak gal- xanic current, xvbirh can he generated by placing a ilvn coin on one side of the mouth and a piece of zinc on the n‘hi • To increase the effect, rinsing the mouth xvitli acidulated xvater will bo found efficacious.—I'iuUtdtlohia Jteeord.