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McHenry Plaindealer (McHenry, IL), 14 Jul 1880, p. 6

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irr O&ITM tangbtto KSE5 lalawmllMiMMi Heah*s 1nfiKT mr* «•* the young acton Joined the alien »««*,_ ...• And when and whan the houele* qwm«a wmt v |PB {ap DM winter at their dieoontent. Itnt ww« the gleaming*In those mnoldeerthi :Ho Cnlvii-r yet had clothed) the foarfl tajM IhM fhuaberel. waiting for their scoopd birth; SH® read the legend of the stones; Science still pointed to bar eespty throwe. •*< MM ill tim< tvfil d«|»lw he tnA d«m. ^Laplace stood mute Ixifore the lifted *eil; ' Wtoe home-hml HumWdt trimmed Mi hf* lie mortal feet those loftier highta had plwi . Wh-nce the wide realmsof nature wjdaaWTJ Si vain their eyes our longing (athera strained !; j!To scan with' wondering gaae the summits hn .."Ihar far beneath their ciiiMreuNi footpathe Ua ifciilc at their first. email ventares M we may. ; tTho school-hoy's oopy shapes the scholar'* MM, ©i-ir grateful memory fills oar hearts to-day; ; ©rava, hopeful, wise, this bower of pe*oe they i planned, Wi:ih- war's dtwstd plowrft«w ncwrei land. F '* $ ., ] MISS MILBRED'S WARNING. fi Jd of our children's childreo yet unborn, Then on this yellow page you turn your are the btnef record of this May-day®®! t tihwe antique and faded letters Ilea, low vague, how pale our Sitting gfccwfa wfll dMl Yet Is our rela* the blood ran warm end red, . I1 or us the fields wore green, the ckiee were blue, 19)cugh from our dust the spirit long has fled, IVr li ved, we loved, we toiled, we dream* Hit FOU, ed at our rinse and thought bow MWh «• knew. i might our spirits lor one hour retain, Vhea the ne*t century rounds its busdieth >iag, i the strange secrets it shall teach to learn, to hear the large truths i.s years shall bring. Its wiser sages talk, its owoeter minatrels sing! *' There, girls!" ?' iEHjidft Moore held aloft dreadful image. ' 'A house-made ghost," she called it, laughing at the temfic re­ sult of her half-hour ol sedulous oooupa- tion. It xoas horrible! •We had been readfngf, fhsi afternoon, abbut the Princess Amelia, the ill-fated sister of Frederick, King of Prussia. One thing brought up another. And when an allusion was made to the "Woman with the Broom," who was said to'"have haunted the Prussian palace, at that time, Elfrida sought a carpet-brush, wi|;h a long handle, in the closet at the liekd of the stairs, and standing in the outer chamber alone, began to dress it artistically in a sheet, by way of showing ns her own idea of the phanton that troubled the rest of Prussia's Kings. We girls were alone in the wing chamber, which had been allotted for our occupancy bv Miss Mildred Fay, the owner of the lovely farm, and the com­ fortable, old-fashioned farm-house in Western Pennsylvania, where, with our parents, and other Mends, we were amending the early vacation months of the opening summer. One other girl, Elfrida's first cousin, Evelyn Moore, shared the wing chamber with us. She had now gone to the village, two miles distant, for the evening Trm.iT And Elfrida, who was somewhat envi­ ous of Evelyn's scholarship, social position and good looks, declared that she would leave her " woman with the broom " so near the door of our chamber, and in aaeh a position, that it would inevitably fall against Evelyn, as soon aaahe en­ tered, to bring our letters. " She says that she is afraid of nnfli»n» --that she does not believe in gfoosteana apparitions," she said to us. " Now lets try her courage We will hide in the unfinished chamber, outside, where ire can see and hear all that p^aan be- tween her and my phantom," While we were eying the image from a respectful distance, and feeling half afraid of the hideous face and the fiam- ingeyee, which EUrida fcad drawn with a few touches of her crayon and a little phosphorous on the white, surface of the afceet, a rustling soond and movement in the outer chamber made as all huddle together and strain am eyes fearfully to­ ward its dusky entrance. We all felt relieved, I think (X that I did, for one), when oar Miss Mildred, emerged from the gloom and entered our room without p"""mr to knock. Elfrida Med to thrust the home-made ghost into a comer, quite out of sirfit -But it was useless to try and conceal from Miss Mildred's seardiingly com- preiiensive glance the helpless apparition. " Which of yon girls nude this? Why aid you make it? itfrfril. ft at at arm's length. 1 Elfrida told her. " And please, Miss Mildred, don't tell Evelyn," she said eoaxingly. "We only jrish to find out whether she is really l»aver about such tilings than we are. She says she is; and she declared the other evening that the real 'woman with a broom' -would not have frightened her in the least--if she had seen and heard her sweeping, I moan, in ^ rxinniigfifl of ! *be royal palace." I -ir-V A11?you believe her?" asked Miss ; Ending her keen, gray eyes on S Elfnda s eager face. j " No; I did not," confessed V.lfriii* | "Did you?" v r • Miss Mildred addressed us. v Jr°w- that I had mjr doubts. Marian Hurst, with a half-averted, dreadful object, that was still held by our hostess, declared . that she had no doubt "whatever. No one could help feeling terrified at : she^re-TOd.C°millg Bud(lft"1J "I"n iharn." \ , You are none of you without von fair I share of common sense," said Miss Mil. , dred. And you can deliberately plan ; end aid and abet a deed like this!" j She tossed the image out into the dark. i open chamber. | With an angry exclamation, Elfrida ' w1f ®PfViP1|??fter hnt found her- ; self held back by a strong hand. i , " N?» That same thing has been ? dtmB in this very house once before. ; Wait till I tell you what come of it before 1 you try again to carry it out" ' | At the thought of hearing a story w. r| fri'ia forgot her momentary anger * and' crowded in beside us, near the chair at ? me TOAW when Miss Mildred had (seated herself. She looked at us very sadly. The half- I ly?ht may have deceived me. but I thought ikon, and I still think, that her i; keen, gray eyes were full of tears, as she began to speak. •! Fne-and4wenty yearn ago, mv dear mother godfather war© here; and I had ua darling brother, one year older than "-iiyself, named (Miver, and a sister - than either of us, who was called e, after the hmxmm of a story that iy mother had reafe and verv moh. iart beforeherllr^ ? I was always tall, and thin, and • mm see me now, girls. I took r father. He looked well enough, The Right Kind of Pride. \ A young man "that works for his board," no matter what honest work he does, has no reason for shame. A young man who eats the bread of idleness, no matter how much he has, is disgraced. All men, starting in life, ought to aim, first of all, to find a place where they can earn their bread and butter with a hoe, ax, spade, wheel-barrow, curry­ comb, blacking-brush--no matter how. ^dependence first. The bread-and- butter question settled, let the young man perform his duty so faithfully as to attract attention, and let him constantly keep his eye open for a chance to do bet- • About half the poor, proud young men, and two-thirds of the poor, discour­ aged young men, are always out of work. I he young man who pockets his pride and keeps a stiff upper Hp, need not starve, and lie stands a chance to become pph* if he ^ - r 1 -. and figure did not suit a girl, and I always called 'homely* from a child. "B»t .Oliver was handsome, like ouiff He had great blue eyes and! ©owing brown hair, find the brightest color, and the sweetest smile. And Iaa- dore was like him, only far more beauti­ ful. You have seen her portrait, down; "What! that lovely, that angelic! child?" cried Elfrida, wonderingly. "I thought that was an artist's ideal pfe- I tare!" " It was the image of ,onr Isadora at nine years of age," replied lass Mildi ed, i trying to coyer the sudden break and; tremble in her voice by a loud "Hem l'.' '"And at 16 she was far beyond that! painting for beauty," continued Miss Mildred. "Strangers used to atop in the i street to look at her, and to inquire who; she was. But she appeared to know nothing and care nothing about her won­ derful good looks. She was good and gentle, and always amiable, without the least apparent sign of vanity. " 'liipe for heaven,' our good old iQin- ister used to say. I wish she might have gone there then!" said Miss Mildred, with a stifled groan. **She did not die. then!" exelaimed Elfrida. "I was so afraid you were going to tell us of her death!" "She did not die. God help her!" re­ plied Miss Mildred, with a sigh so deep and sad that it was almost a groan. "Here, in this very wing-chamber, my brother Oliver thought of it," she said, after a long pause, "Here he called me | to help hira decide how to carry out the plan. You see, girls, Isadore was like your friend Evelyn--she possessed great oourage. She oeemed to have no fear of anything on earth. Oliver knew this; so did I. And neither of us expected any­ thing more than a hearty laugh at lier expense, or at our own, when the evening frolic ended. "It was Hallow Eve Isadore and her dearest friend, a Miss Nancy Bruce (who lived then at the farm just below this onel. had agreed to trv fate, with 'spells,' on that evening. They 'dared' each other to one thing and another, and finally Is­ adore pledged herself to go into the lonely old north rooms, with a candle, at 9 o'clock that evening, and eat an apple before Grandmamma Thome's great mirror that had been stored away there for safe-keeping for fifty years or more. "You see, girls, the idea was, that her future husband's face was to appear to her, looking over her shoulders, in that mirror, as she stood before it, eating her apple. "Well, Oliver overheard the girls plan­ ning this that afternoon, and he told ma And, as I said before, I helped him, here in this very room, that evening, while he disguised himself in a long white dress, and painted his face all over a deathly white, with heavy, frowning black eye­ brows that met. forming a black arch across his forehead. "It changed him terribly, and he looked so like a corpse in that shroud-like dress, that I was half scared myself at him. But neither of us thought of Isa­ dore being frightened. "And so we stole into the north robm, and contrived to get the mirror out of its frame. Oliver put his face into vacant space. I hung a drappery around it, and charged him to keep perfectly still, then stole away to watch for Isadore in the halL "In a few minutes she came down the stairs, with her candle and apple in her hands. She was smiling roguishly to herself as she opened the door of the north room and went in." "And what happened?" asked El­ frida, eagerly, as Miss Mildred paused. "Where was your mother? How could she let Isadore go into that dread­ ful room ?" breathed Martin Hurst. "Father and mother were both staying with a sick neighbor as watchers that night," said Miss Mildred; "and I watched and waited, in the outer hall, till Nancy Bruce came, crying, down stairs, to tell some one what they had planned to do, because she thought something awful had happened to keep Isadore so long in the north room. "When Nancy. saw me she caught hold of me and dragged me with her to the door of the north room. We went in. The candle was burning on the table. The apple had fallen to the floor. Beside it my brother Oliver was lying senseless, in a fit. His face looked like white fire, in the half-darkness. The poor foolish boy had rubbed phosphorus all over it, after I left him, to make it look still more ghastly and ghost-like. "And Isadore--where was Isadore?" cried Martin Hurst, beginning to shiver with nervous dread. "We found her huddled down in a heap in a distant corner, with her face turned to the wall. She knew no one. Oliver told us, long afterward, that Bhe stood gazing at him in silence so long that he advanced his face toward her, through the mirror, meaning to piny to offer her a kiss. "The light, the life, the intelligence, all went out of her own face at that mo­ ment,"he said. " She fled and crouched down in the corner; and he, believing that he had fatally injured her, fell faint­ ing to the floor." * ".Poor fellow!" sighed Elfrida. "Where is he now, Miss Mildred?" "In heaven, I hope! He wa* one of our first volunteers from this town, and one of the first officers who was killed in the last war. They tola me that he exposed his life in leading his men into action. I did not mourn for him guls; I knew how glad he was to go! Our parents died heartbroken, one year from that fatal Hallowe'en." "But Isadore, where is she?" Elfrida, half-fearfully. "At the State Lunatic Asylum. At first, she seemed only idiotic, and I kept her at home, devoting my life to her, as some small return for the wrong that I had helped to work. But now she is a raging, raving, dangerous maniac ! Oh. girls, there is nothing left now of the beautiful child, or of the lovely girl! It- was all our fault!" said poor Miss Mil­ dred, bursting into tears and hurrying out of the room. Elfrida's eyes were wet, like ours, as she brought back and silently demol­ ished the fearful "•woman with a broom." And Evelyn Moore, returning an hour later with the letters, never knew why we girls greeted her so kindly and so lovingly upon that particular night. is FOR THE TOUNW FOLKS, nuajnrnie miws»:i.r TO «MMri| ; Dear Iittl« brlRht-pvod Willie, * ? Always so full of gl«* h- Always so very misMiieTOua, "he pride of our home tohafe" One bright summer day we <3oea by the garden wall. _ ,S., T. Standing so grave and dignified & Beatdo a sunflower tall. ^ Hla tiny feet be had covered With the moist niui cooling sand; E Y The stalk of t he great tall «unflower f He groped with his chubby hand, -- j; When he saw us standing near Ua, flaring so wonderingly i; Atbi-. babyship, he greeted us r with a merry shout of gleei Weashed our darling what ploeaed US) ireplltd with a face agio*),, i "Mam I've] ma, I'm going to be a ngi||| planted myself to grow.?*' * f; K "Waalsd-A Bty." WAKTBD--A boy to ran errands, SAD make himself generally useful. Mr. Peppergrass came out, with his cap on the back of his head and specta­ cles pushed high up on his forehead, to wafer this written notice on the side of his store. And five minutes afterward (it might have been less, or it might have been more) a crowd of eager little lads assembled around it, standing on tip-toe to read every word. Johnny Jar vis had been just dis­ charged from his place as cash-boy in a dry-goods store, because business was dim and customers few. He was a fine, tall boy of twelve, with bright black eyes and a laughing mouth, and he didnt at all like having nothing to do. Charlie Warner wanted a situation be­ cause there were a good many little Warners, and nothing to feed them with since their father died. Louis Brown had been out of regular employment ever since the china, factory closed in the fall. For these little fellows belonged to the innumerable army of boys who cannot play and enjoy tho bright hours as they go by, but must work and drudge, and count every day lost that does not bring in its corresponding wages. Children, did you ever think how hard the world was on these poor little toilers? It was not long before Mr. Pepper- grass's store was full of boys who wanted to "run errands and make themselves generally useful." Kg boys and little boys, tall boys and short boys, well-dressed boys and shabby boys--boys who leaned up against the flour and potato barrels, as if they had left their backbones at home; boys who stood straight up--boys who took off their caps, and boys who kept them on. And still they kept coming. "Hold on!" said Mr. Peppergrass. "This will do!" So he took down the notice, and bolted the store door. "Now I will proceed to business,"said Mr. Peppergrass, rumpling up his hair, and adjusting his speetacles so as to make his keen gray eyes sharper than ever. A few penetrating glances, half-a-dozen questions, and the number of boys was speedily reduced to our three little friends" --Johnny Jarvis, Charlie Warner and Louis Brown. They were all three willing and anx­ ious to work; all three bought good rec­ ommendations, had honest faces, wanted to enter on the situation at once, 'and wrote neat, round hands. "Humph! humph!" said Mr. Pepper­ grass, with his hands locked under his coat-tails behind. "There's three of Sou, and I can't find work for three oys!" The little lads said never a word, but looked eagerly at the grocer, each on6 hoping that he might be the boy selected "to run errands and make himself gener­ ally useful." Mr. Peppergrass stared hard at the spice-boxes and preserve-bottles in the window, frowned at the cracker-boxes, and finally made up his mind. "Brown!" said he. '"Sir?" said Louis Brown. "IH try you on a few sums. I Want my boy to understand the first princi­ ples of arithmetic!" *1 am good at figures, sir!" cried Louis. "Are you?" said Mr. Peppergrass. "Very well; I'll give you a trial" He wrote down a labyrinth of figures on a slate, and then opened the door of a little room which communicated with the store. "Sit down her, Brown, and work out these sums," said he. "I'll come to you in a few minutes." Johnny Jarvis and Charley Warner looked blankly at each other, then at the grocer. "Please, air, what are we to do?" said they. "You are to wait," said Mr. Pepper­ grass, shortly. "Your turns will come in due time. ' The sums were not especially hard, and Louis Brown was quick at figures. He soon dispatched his task, began to look around. It was a stuffy, close-smelling little room, with one window close up to the ceiling, and a curious, old-fashioned Ijook-case or desk, with glass doors, lined with faded red silk, in the eorner. "I do won dor what Mr. Peppergrass keeps there?" said Louis, to himself; and after he had wondered a little while, he got up and went softly toward the desk. "The key is in the lock," said he; "there can't be any harm in looking. Perhaps there are story-books--or maybe curious shells and stones--or--" As these thoughts crossed his mind, he opened the silk-linded door. Buz-z-zz --whew! out flew a beautiful pearl-col- ored dove. Louis stood aghast. In vain were his efforts to capture the little creature. It fluttered from the top of the Ijook-case to a pile of boxes beyond, and thence to the top moulding of the window, as if it enjoyed the chase; and in the midst of it all. in came Mr. Peppergrass. 4<Eh? What?" said he. "Hew did this happen?" "Alease, sir," said Louis, hanging his acad, "the bird gotout, and I was trying to catch it again." "Got out, did it?" said Mr. Pepper­ grass. " It must be a very ingenious bird, to be able to open the desk from the outside ! You may go, boy. I'm quite certain that you won't suit me. I don't approve of middlers." So saying, he opened a door which led directly out into the back street, and dis­ missed poor Louis Brown without further ceremony. •' Now, Pearlie," said he to the little dove, who perched on his shoulder at onee, " you can go back to your nest. You have helped me out of the difficulty this time." So he let the little creature fly out into the vard, where it belonged. Charley Warner was the next one ushered into the stuffy, smelling room. He, too, speedily finished his sums, began to look around him for something to occupy his attention. "Oh, iny! What a lot of boxes,"-said he, " piled one above another, lflr« a Tower of Bable! What can Mr. Pepper­ grass keep in all them?" Charley listened. No advancing foot- M» lookedoaotioasly about him, bmt lift «aw nothing. Then he rose from his tfhair %nd crept toward the mysterious pile of boxes. They were °f al' shapes, rather small, and fitted wiUi loose wooden corew. f . « **1G ^ one- Ik was full of Rnprliali walnutn "Hello!'* thought Charlev. "fmin luck! Old Peppergrass will never miss two or three of these," and he pocketed a handful The next box was fall of beautiful Malaga raisins. Charley nipped two or three bloomy, wrinkled fellows off the stem, and ate them. He was fond of raisins. . ' "What next?" he said, tugging at the cover of the third box, which seemed to fit a little closer. All of a sudden, however, it flew off with a jirk, filling the air with cayenne and _ setting poor Charlie to sneezing as if he meant to sneeze his head off. Mr. Peppergrass hustled in. said he. "I see! But you needn't have been in such a hurry to ex- amine my stock, young man. I haven't engaged you yet, and I don't intend to." And poor Cnarlie sneaked away through the back door, which Mr. Peppergrass politely held open for himr 'feeling that Ms curiosity had ruined his cause. It was some time before the cayenne pepper was sufficiently cleared from the atmosphere for Johnny Jarvis to take his turn at the sums in decimal fractions, but he worked them out patiently, and then sat looking round him, as the others had done. But he was too honorable to dream of meddling. He, too, wondered what was in the boxes, but he didn't do anything more than wonder. He heard a mysterious rustling behind the faded- silk doors of the old book-case, where Mr. Peppergrass had shut up his pet kit­ ten, but he never thought of opening it to see what it all meant. He saw a glass jar of mixed candies on the mantel (sly Mr. Peppergrass had counted every one, besides covering it with a dusty lid, so that the least finger­ mark would have been quite visible), but he sat there quite still, until Mr. Pepper­ grass bounced into the room. The old grocer looked at the candy jar, he glanced at the unmolested boxes, and, opening the desk, saw the kitten fast asleep in the corner. "Ah!" said Mr. Peppergrass, with a long breath. "Yes, exactly! You are the boy I want. Come right back into the store, and I'll set you to work weigh­ ing out tea and coffee." And that was the way Mr. Peppergrass suited himself with a boy.--Golden Day*. AGRICULTURAL. .The Han in the Gallery. Yt #ill be remembered that, in his speech nominating Sherman at the Chi­ cago convention, Gen. Garfield, after de­ livering an appropriate eulogy upon that candidate, said: " Who do you want?" Whereupon a voice in the gallery shouted " Garfield." That unknown man called mpon the General on Tuesday afternoon, just as he was washing his hands to to prepare for a general shake. He was a one-armed soldier, and rather seedy in his make-up. Said he, " General Garfield, I come to offer my congratulations." " Thanks,-thanks," said the General; "letme see, weren't you in the Forty- second Ohio--?" " No, General, that's not it. Didn't you hear that voice in the gallery when you said 'Who do you want?' I'm the fellow that said it. I was for you first, last and all the time," "You are a prophetip soul," said the General, " and if I come to the White House depend upon it I shan't forget you". And the one-armed man left his on a card and went away happy. In a few minutes Garfield was sur­ rounded by his friends, and his right hand was going like a pump-handle, when a burly Teuton pressed forward and accosted him: "Guten abend, General, I dinks I have some glaims on you anyhow." " I am at yourservice, my good friend," said the General; " let me hear from yon." " Did you hear dot man shoud oud in in de gallery ' Garfield' when you say ' Was haben sie?" " Ah, yes, I aemember it Well Do you mean to tell me--" " Yah, General, Ivas dot man,"Identi­ cal zame." " My friend, I shall never forget you as long as I live. Let me hear from you any time." And the man went away happy. Passing through the rotunda on bis way to the carriage, the General felt a thundering slap on the back, midway be­ tween his shoulders and hips, accom­ panied by, " Hillo, old Gar." Turning round he saw a very little man, with a very tall hat, and a very thick stick in his fist. " Don't remember me, eh? I'm called the boss interviewer of Chicago. I in­ terviewed old Conk, and you too--4' "Ah, yes. Well, good-day, good- day." •"Hold on, old fellow," said the chap; " I want to have just a word with you on my own hook. Didn't you hear that fel­ low up hi the gallery when you made your Sherman speech, shout ' Garfield?' " " I did, I did. Do you mean to say--" " Guess I fixed you that time, old man. I knew it was bound to go that way. Now, I consider I am the man who saved the Republican party." " My dear, good little fellow," said Gar­ field, "you deserve the thanks of the Na­ tion. I shall give you a new club. Come down and see me in Ohio, and IH tell you all about the next Cabinet. Perhaps voull be in it." And the little man went away happy. Just as the General was boarding the train, a bottle-nosed politician from the Seventh Ward plucked Him on the coat- tail and shrieked, " General, General, one word--only one word." "What is it, my man?" " Do you remember when you msilA your speech in the convention nominat­ ing Sherman that a m»n in the gallery shouted " Garfield?" The General is not a profane man. He was once a minister of the gospel, but he was also atone time of his lifeacanal- hoatman. Early habits of thought and expression are never completely eradi­ cated, and he startled some of his friends in the car as he threw himself into a and exclaimed: " Cuss that man in the gallery." A MAX was sawing wood in * back yafa. He severed two sticks as thick as your wrist and then went into the house. " Mary," said he to his wife, "my coun­ try needs me; there's no use of talking; we've just got to slaughter all these Injuns; no true patriot can be expected to hang around a woodpile these days." "John," said his wife, "if you fight Injuns as well as you saw wood and sup* port your family, it would take one hun­ dred and eighteen like you to capture one squaw, and you'd have to catch her when she had the ague and throw pepper in her eyes." John went back to the" woodpile wondering who told his wife all about him. Wart «IM MM*. lFr« lha American Agriculturist.) LATE potatoes will need constant watching for the Beetle, which should not be allowed to do any damage; kill the insects at their first appearance by an application of poison. BUCKWHEAT as a late crop to fill out with, when another has been removed or failed to grow, can be sown up to the middle of the month. A bushel of seed per acre is an abundance to sow. CLEANLINESS.--The utmost neatness should be exercised about the premises in the hot weather. Garbage of every kind should be disposed of before it be­ comes decayed and is giving off a bad odor. Pom/rax.--Chickens hatched thi« month will, if well cared for, be large enough to get through the winter safely. It is not best to set any hens after July. Vermin breed very fast in hot weather, and great cleanliness is necessary. SHEEP can care for themselves if they have a shady pasture supplied with good water. The matter of a ram to be used later in the season should be considered now and secured in time, if not already on hand. A full-blood will often im­ prove the flock. MEADOWS.--As Boon as may be, after the hay is gathered, give the meadows a good top dressing of fine manure. This will produce a thick bottom growth to shade the ground and prevent the soil from drying up and injuring the roots of the grasses. WHEAT.--When wheat follows oats in the rotation, the stubble may be stirred with a cultivator to give the scattering oats a chance to sprout before plowing for the wheat crop. If the oat crop is harvested before the grain is fully ripe, as it should be, there is less need of this precaution. WATER SUPPLY.--An abundant supply of pure water is essential to keep animate in a healthy and thriving condition. The importance of pure water for animals is too often overlooked. Impure water is a fruitful source of disease to animals as well as man, and the quality of milk is impaired when cows are compelled to drink at stagnant pools. GROWING SEED CORN.--It has been conclusively shown that any grain can be improved by a careful and continued selection of the seed. This is especially true of corn--and it is a grain in which a selection can be most easily and thor­ oughly carried out. Any farmer can se­ lect a given portion of his corn field for seed, and can thin, remove suckers, poor stalks--those with imperfect ears, etc., and in that way increase the growth of the best ears, with sound. and vitally strong gain. SUMMER FALLOW.--A summer fallow was formerly considered the proper pre­ paration for a wheat crop. Where hoed crops are introduced into a regular rota­ tion of crops, the desired cleaning of the land and pulverization of the soil maybe effected without resorting to the more ex­ pensive method of fallowing. This being the case, the increase in the amount of roots grown will diminish the acreage de­ voted to summer fallow. PIGS.--A run in a good clover stubble will be beneficial The yards should be kept as clean as possible. A quan­ tity of copperas sprinkled about the pens will deodorize and disinfect the place very satisfactorily and cheaply. Young pigs should be pushed now if they are for early market. A rapid growth secured now is of the greatest im­ portance. If the stpek is not what is de­ sired begin to improve it at once by se­ curing a pure-blood boar of some good breed to use in the herd. CORN.--The cultivator should be kept going, to both kill the weeds and pulverize the soil and keep it damp and mellow. When the com gets large the horse should be muzzled that he may not be nibbling at the corn and forget his work among the abundant green fodder. It should be kept in mind that the work of cultivating the corn crop has a great influence upon the growth of the crops that are to follow. The full returns for work done in the corn field are not all in when the corn is gathered, a point that should always be borne in mind. HARVESTING.--The work of harvesting the wheat, oats, barley, etc., should be begun before the grain is fully ripe, as it is less liable to shrink and is therefore heavier and of a better quality. The straw is worth more if the crop is cut be­ fore the grain is fully ripe, an important consideration on every farm where straw is used for fodder. There is also less waste from the shelling of the grain in the process of harvesting; while the work can be performed without that hurry and rush which must be experienced if the grain is left until later. A delay from unfavorable weather does not in­ volve a serious loss when the work is be­ gun early, and in season. HORSES need good care in these hot days of mid-summer. They should be kept clean by frequent currying and occa­ sional washing of the legB and feet. The flies will cause the most inconvenience, and while working in the field some pro­ tection from them in the shape of nets or thin blankets (sheets) is a great com­ fort to the animals. Keep the stables clean that they may not harbor flies or develope any bad odors. Horses that are at regular farm work need good food --better than grass alone will give. Oats or ground feed of some kind must sup­ plement the pasture at night. Cows giving milk should not be al­ lowed to fall off in quantity from insuffi­ cient feed. It is more difficult to increase the flow of milk after a shrinkage from lack ot full feed than to keep up a high activity of the secretion by artificial feed. When the habit of diminished milk scretion at a particular time of year is established, as it will be by repetition, it is not always easy to prevent it entirely by liberal feeding. The habit will also be transmitted to the offspring as a family characteristic that will diminish the value of the animal as a producer of milk. Give the cows extra feed so soon as the pasture begins to get short. ?.'3MSW - * . FWM wearing masks. The old man and his wife fought them until they were un- oonscious. In the struggle the mia m were torn from the faces of two of the men, and they were recognized. The neighbors went to the rescue, and the robbers were followed, but escaped to the woods. Three days afterward the two were captured. They have recently been sentenced to five years each in the penitentiary. The farmer still refuses to select any safer place of deposit for his wealth than his own house.!--Neu> York Tribune. HOUSEKEEPERS' HELPS, PINEAPPLE WATER ICE.--Peel and pound a pineapple and pass through a tine sieve, add the juice of one or two lemons with a gill of water and sugar or sirup to taste; strain into the freezing pot. AN infallible remedy for a rusting tea­ kettle, says an exchange, is to brown coffee in it. A thorough washing of soap and water will remove all the odor and smoke of the coffee, and leave the kettle smooth and free from rust. RICE CHICKEN PIE.--Cover the bottom of a pudding dish with slices of broiled ham ; cut up a broiled chicken and nearlv fill the dish ; pour in gravy or melted butter to fill the dish ; add chopped onions, if you like, or a little curry pow­ der, which is better; then add "boiled rice to fill all interstices and to cover the top thick. Bake it for one-half to three- quarters of an hour. , NEW CARROTS WITH CBEAM.--Trim a quantity of the smallest new carrots that can be obtained, and boil them in salted water. When done, drain off the water. Melt one ounce of butter in a saucepan,' add to it a desert-spoonful of flour, pep­ per, salt, grated nutmeg, a pinch of pow­ dered sugar, land a small quantity of cream. Put in the carrots, simmer gen­ tly a few minutes, and serve. THE following process is recommended for cleaning white Shetland shawls. Put the soiled article into a large bowl;, throw over it half a teacupful of flour, " dry," rub thoroughly, as if washing, then thoroughly shake out the flour. If the article is not clean repeat the pro­ cess in clean flour. Articles cleaned by this process will retain a new look as long as there is a thread left.' RHUBARB TARTLETS.--Make a short paste with one white and three yelks of eggs, one ounce of sugar, one ounce of butter, a pinch of salt, and flour quan­ tity sufficient; work it lightly, roll it out to the thickness of a quarter of an inch. Line some patty-pans with it, till them with uncooked rice to keep their shape, and bake them in a moderate oven till done. Remove the rice, and fill the tartlets with rhubarb, stewed with plen­ ty of sugar and a dish of lemon-juice, and at the top put a heaped spoonful of whipped cream. CHERRY PUDDING.--One quart of scalded milk, not quite a pint of Indian meal, a scant half pint of sifted flour, four well-beaten eggs, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, a teaspoon fill of salt and a pint of whole, ripe cherries. Let the milk stand after heating until tepid ; stir in the meal and flour, removing a table-spoonful to mix the baking-powder with ; add the eggs and salt, then the cherries and baking-powder. Turn into a pudding-mold or bag and steam two hours. Eat with sugar and cream or butter sauce. Purifies tin Blood, Ronovatet Invigorates the Whole Sy»te». ITS MEDICINAL PBOFBBhsS ABS Alterative, Tonic, lolvon# and Diuretic. • •' .46 Bio Faith in Banks. An old farmer living near Petrolia, Pa., having made #100,000 in oil, re­ fused to put faith in bunks or to invest his money. Ho kept the rolls of green­ backs in his farmhouse locked up in boxes and trunks. The money became damp, mildewed and moldy. When he discovered the condition of his money he took the notes from their hiding places and spread them in the sun about liis orchard to dry. The spectacle of a fortune lying loose on the ground among the apple trees was witnessed by hun­ dreds who -were attracted to the farm by the singular proceeding. The money was thus exposed for two days, guarded by the farmer, his wife, daughter, and hired man. Then it was returned to the boxes. Three nights after the green­ backs were housed the farmer woke up to find three masked men in his bedroom. They bound the old man and his family, and had discovered and secured $1,000 of the hidden treasure when they were frightened away by the return of the hired man from Petrolia. Subsequently Us home was broken into by three men ~'AM . The Slave Trade in Egypt. -Notwithstanding the laws, treaties and decrees for the suppression of the slave trade in Egypt, and even the activity displayed by the Ejgyptian Government for its extinction, dispatches recently re­ ceived at the Department of State from our Consul General at Cairo would seem to prove that the inhuman traffic, • al­ though not carried on as openly, is plied as energetically as formerly. The slave trade is carried on by the Arab caravans which, while nominally trading in legiti­ mate merchandise between Egypt and Darfour, in Central Africa, run the slaves into upper Egypt to the city of Assioufc generally, on the Nile, about 280 miles above Cairo, where the Lybian range of mountains run nearly down to the river. The slavers secrete the slaves in the an­ cient grottoes and tombs in these mount­ ains until .they are disposed of and distributed throughout the country. The activity of a young Swiss attached to the American Mission at Assiout re­ cently resulted in the seizure and manu­ mission of 68 slaves and the incarceration of 35 Arabs, charged with being slave dealers. Through the representation of the British Consul General at Cairo-- there l>eing a treaty tor the suppression of the slave trade between Egypt and England--three hundred soldiers were dispatch to Assiout, the caravan sur­ rounded and the seizure above noted ef­ fected. Although it was well understood that this caravan had brought more than 1,000 slaves into the country, the mcst rigid search failed to discover more than 68, the remainder having been disposed of and safely distributed before the ar­ rival of the soldiers. Of the 68 persons manumitted some were seized in then- native country while sleeping in their tents, others were borne off while tend­ ing their sheep and cattle in the fields; some of the girls were forced away from their husbands and still others were originally slaves and sold to the caravan. --Philadelphia Times. A Hen's Curious Hatch. • _ A gentleman in Raleigh, of unques­ tioned veracity, relates a story whose truth he asserts to be above par. For some time past a lien of liis had been conspicuous by her absence from the premises, and there were fears that she was lost. Those fears were very agreea­ bly dispelled, however, on Friday, when she made her appearance, singing in ner gayest manner, and stepping along in her sprightest style. Just behind her were some diminutive objects to which she ever and anon gave her undivided at­ tention. The slowness of their progress caused the hen's owner to rush out to see what the brood was this time. He was astonished to see the lien cover with her wings twelve little terrapins. Soon she was reassured, and allowed him to get a look at her treasures. The family were called out to see the wonder. The owner of the hen then went back the way she had come, and found out how the eggs wore hatched. A terrapin which had laid the eggs had deserted them, and the motherly fowl concluded to sit on them. This she had done, and tli«v result was,the twelve young terraxnns. Mum FANNY DAVENPORT is character­ ized to a marked degree by the old Davenport dramatic instinct. Private letters from her reveal latent enthusiasm for her art, which promise vitality in her work next season. It is predicted that Miss Davenport will make a marked suc­ cess of the new play, in which she is to appear in the role of an English Jewess. 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