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BR: ft ».*"v #1 -#it f»-i* VM<WTIN<» ., ^i>"- a* u o. wiutow. Ytm> tr.!n wa* Tallintr, fallfn*, . Awl tho night wa« rtarfi and drear. I 1'iiW.I t'i« uifllit birdK calling, "Whither, wHithfti can wntwrt' •' |'e"l UH wkcre we'l! tiiid protection T •*yfbf iv find Hheltrr from the «tonn Cattte tin aiwwvr in bird diction: ; > '* 6,>d will ko.ip from every harm. ' t At dns)i, oa the «5oId. wet pavement, I hc.mi the jiatr-r of litt'o foot; _ A.id a little fonu lxscido th>' casement, Re.-<-aled a face HO pale and That I halted the door to ojieti. And, kindly takin« the oiitslretelied firm, ftrp*- <*ent'y in. at- the word" were spoken: •• I kuew He would keep from every harm. And out upon tiie wild, wild ocean Of human life I am now afloat, Towed to nnd fro by every motion Of wind or wave, in my quivering boat, And I shrink with fear lest an angry wave Should ingulf my bark in its wild alarm; But I hear 'mid storm, " His hand CUII save, And He will keep from every harm." .*• Jfc»METKntIM». Iowa. THE JEWEL CASE. i'l shall not be gone more than a week, said Mrs. Darkedale, "and ol oourse I feel that I can leave ©yery- thing in your charge, without the least anxiety." "Of course you may, Mrs. Darkedale," said Meta, a flush of gratified pride maiitling her cheek. "One favor, however, I must ask," added Mrs. Darkedale, "and that is, that you -will not receive any company during my absence." ' She looked keenly at Meta Gray. The girl colored deep scarlet. "I suppose you mean the Fenleys," Mid she, not without some constraint in her manner; "I do not expect to see them while you are gone." "Very weH, "returned Mrs. Darkedale; **you are a good girl, Meta, and I think I may trust you." Mrs. Darkedale was the relict ol an East Indian merchant, who had left her widowed and childless in the world about two years previously. Meta Gray was a distant relative, who had come to the Darkedale house, partly because her cousin's widow had written her a cordial invitation, and partly be- OMae she had nowhere else to go. She was a pretty, enthusiastic young crea­ ture, who had strange ideas of the world, and who rather dispised the promising wholesale grocer whom Mrs. Darkedale had selected as an eligible match for her, because he was a wholesale grocer. "Sugar and raisins are so vulgar," said Unfit, turning up her pretty little nose. "No more so than stocks and bonds," retorted Mrs. Darkedale. And much to the good lady's vexation, Meta persisted in selecting for her bosom friend a dashing damsel called Eudora Fenley, who fitted dresses and trimmed bonnets in a strictly private fashion, and }iad a poetical brother who gave guitar lessons. Meta Gray was not often ob- atinate, but this was one of the few oc­ casions on which Mrs. Darkedale got, as she herself phrased it, "thoroughly out of patience with the child." "I believe they have bewitched her," said Mrs. Darkedale. "However, I'll •ay no more about it. Perhaps the fancy will wear itself out, after awhile--and I have always heard that opposition is the worst thitig the world to fan a flame." So Mrs. Daikedala want away to her friend's sick bed, and left Meta Gray in possession, with only old Hannah the maid, to share the honors. It was a novel and rather a pleasant re­ sponsibility to order the dinner and de- <3&e on the dessert; and, when that was aettled, Meta went up stairs to "tidy up" Mrs. Darkedale's room, straighten the guipure lace coverlet and put away the Various articles that the good lady left scattered on chairs, sofa and dressing table in her haste of preparation. As Meta folded up a cashmere scarf, something dropped with a on the floor. r "Mrs. Darkedale's keys!" she ex­ claimed aloud It was true. The little bnnch had sotaehow caught on the long fringe of the scarf and got jerked out of the old lady's pocket, and she had gone off with­ out them. Meta was still looking at them, and pondering to herself Mrs. Darkedale's consternation at discovering their loss, when there came a soft tap at the door, and Miss Eudora Fenley rustled in, bringing with her a general impression ol sparkling beauties and fluttering rib­ bons, and a decided odor of patchouli. "Eudora!" exclaimed the girl. "How you did start!" said Eudora, with an affected little giggle. "No, I didn't ring. Hannah was cleaning the doorsteps, and I just slipped in and came straight up here, as I didn't find you in the parlor. What is that you have in your hand? KeyB?" , l "Yes," said Meta; "Mrs. Darkedale's keys. She has gone off and forgotten them. See--here's the key of the china closet, and this big one locks the silver beauffet, and here's the wardrobe key, and the little one with the gilded top bo­ ilings to the jewel-box." . . "The jewel-box," said Eudora, with fliparkling eyes. "Oh, Meta, that will be toe very thing! I am going to a ball to­ morrow night, and I've a piifc satin dress and wreath, and a set of imitation jewels. Oh, if I could only wear real ones, just this once. Only for one evening, and Mrs. Darkedale would never know it I've always heard that her's aze such beauties! Meta turned pale and red. "Oh, Eudora, I dare not." "Where would be the harm?" boldly demanded the milliner and dressmaker. "No one would be injured, and I should be so proud. Mrs. Darkedale never wears the stones--a regular old miser, she is. And you've always told me, Meta," with a sentimental accent, "that yon loved me." "So I do," faltered poor Meta. "And you won't grant me Uii« one fa­ vor--so trifling a one, too? Oh, Meta, what wouldn't I do for you?" Slowly Meta unlocked the jewel case; a square box of inlaid wood, which oc­ cupied one of the shelves of Mrs. Darke- dale's wardrobe. "There can be no harm in at them, at all events," thought she. Mrs. Darkedale kept her costly and an­ tique Bet of jewelry in a ruby velvet case worn and tarnished by age, in one cor­ ner, and Meta had but just taken up this case when old ITannah Irnnnlr*^ at the door. "If you please, miss." said she. "there's a lady below who desires to see yon im­ mediately." Eudora held oat both hud. plead­ ingly. * *'̂ ^7 'OT one night, Meta," she urged. Ill be personally responsible. Dear Meta, please." Meta Gray hesitated in an agony of perplexity. Hannan knoaked again "She is in a lxurry, miss," Hannah. r * . "There, take them," cried Meta, push- ing the case into Eudora's hand, "and P- oh, be careful of them! I oughtn't to let you have them, I know I ought not, but HannaBfrl am coming." And, relocking the jewel box and wardrobe, she dropped the keys into her pocket and hastened down stairs, followed by the exultant Eudora Fenley. ; The lady whoae baste was so immedi­ ate proved to be only a poor friend of the Darkdales, and when she had taken a reluctant leave our poor little heroine found herself with abundant leisure to reflect over what she had done. "Oh. how wrong it was of me!" she thought, with remorse and anguish. | "But she will bring them back again i to-morrow, and then I will never, j never let them go out of my hands 1 again." . Meanwhile, Miss Eudora Fenley, j speeding homeward, like an arrow out of . a bow, found herself checked at a street ! comer by the gentleman who gave i guitar lessons ana wore his curling ' down on his neck. "Well," said he, in a low, imperious voice, "have you got it?" " I have got no money." A smothered execration burst from be­ tween his lips. "Hush,"' said Eudora; impatiently. " Do hear me out. I said I had no money; neither have I. But I've got something better than that, Mrs. Darke­ dale's jewels." She opened a fold of her dress just wide enough for him to perceive, in the depths of her pocket, the tarnished red. velvet case. His face brightened. "Good," he said, briefly; "you're clever. But don't go home. Our little plans are discovered; the police are on the scent. I've got all the valuables, such as they are, and, with your wind­ fall, we can go where we please." After this little insight into the private life and conversation of Mr. Oswald Fenley and his accomplished sister, our readers may readily conjecture that Miss Eudora did* not return the next morning with Mrs. Darkedale's jewel casein her hand. Meta waited until toward night, mak­ ing all due allowance for Eudora Fenley's fatigue after a night of merry­ making, and then, with throbbing heart, and strange, vague fears besetting her brain, hurried to the private dressmaking and milinery establishment. But, to her dismay, the apartments were vacated, and "To let" stared her in the face, watered on the panels of the door. " A bad lot, miss," said the landlady, indignantly shaking her head; "and if I'd any idea of what they was like I'd a-let my rooms stand empty afore I'd a-rented 'em to them. Why, miss, the police was here yesterday, and it seems they're a well known confidence pair-- and me out of a quarter's rent into the bargain!" " But where have they gone?" gasped Meta. " That's what I'd like to know myself," said the landlady; "and what the police means to find out, too." Meta Grav went home with her heart feeling like lead within her. For an in­ stant she, too, felt almost inclined to follow the example of Miss Fenley and her guitar-playing brother, and disap­ pear mysteriously. For now how could she ever face Mrs. Darkedale after this ? And Meta cried herself to sleep, not only that night, but every night for a week. "I'm afraid it don't agree with you to be left alone, miss," said old Hannah, inquisitively scanning her young mis­ tress' wan face and her tear-swollen eye­ lids. " But there's one comfort--Mrs. Darkedale will soon be home now." "Yes," feebly assented Meta. But she didn't appear to brighten np very much at the immediate prospect qf this "comfort." Mrs. Darkedale came at last.e "Why, Meta," said she, "what's the matter? My poor child, you are as pale as a ghost; and you've been crying, too. HM anything happened ?' "Yes," said Meta, striving to brace herself up for the confession which she knew must be made. "You left your keys!" " I know it," said Mrs. Darkedale, quietly. " I missed them before I had been gone an hour." "And--and I lent your jewels to Eudora Fenley. She only wanted to borrow them for one night to go to a ball. I know I did wrong, but she coaxed them from me before I knew what I was about. And she has disappeared; and--and, Mrs. Darkedale, the jewels are gone! Can you ever, ever forgive me? Will you allow me to work for you, like a servant, until I have made restitu­ tion ?" And Meta sank on her knees at the OUR YOUKtt FOLKS. A ritHlOSABLC LADY. . ' *'• *' I--OPENING DAT. 8c*icely waked up in the mornlig Is the I/wiy liandelion, Wh< n a little yellow bonnet (iavly she begins to try on. She wa« born to lead and da/xle. And her followers will be plenty* And because of that one little Yellow bonnet, there'll be twenty. N.-THE CLOSK OK THK SK.» SOW. Scarce a week has wattered suushiM On the kuly Dandelion, When a little snowy head-dreM Gravely she begins to tie on. Ah, I see old Time is busy •la With this stylish little lady; •.iflb-d white-cap is a night-cap! She is past her beauty's heyday. Nothing now she cares for fashion; All she asks a bed to die on I Blows a gust! ami in a moment Gone is Lady Dandelion I I was had a Mr. .WartlM'e Scalp. This was the way it happened. playing Indian in the yard. I wooden tomahawk and a wooden scalp- ing-knife and a bow-'n arrow. I was dressed up in father's old coat turned inside out, and had six chicken feathers in my hair. I was playing I was Green Thunder, tho Delaware Chief, and was hunting for pale-faces in the yard. It was just after supper, and I was having a real nice time. Mr. Travers came, and he said, "Jimmy, what are you up to now?" So I told him I was Green Thunder, and was on the war-path. Said he, "Jimmy, I think I saw Mr. Martin on his way here. Do you think you would mind scalping him?" I said I wouldn't scalp him for nothing, for that would be cruelty; but if Mr. Travel's was sni'e that Mr, Martin was the enemy of the red man, then Green Thunder's heart would ache for revenge, and I would scalp him with pleasure. Mr. Travers said that Mr. Martin was a notorious enemy and oppressor of the Indians, and he gave me ten cents, and said that as soon as Mr. Martin should come, and be sitting comfortably on the piazza, I was to give the war-hoop and ftscalp him. Well, in a few minutes Mr. Martin came, and he and Mr. Travers and Susan sat on the piazza and talked as if they were all so pleased to see each other, which was the highestpocracy in the world. After a while Mr. Martin saw me and said, " How silly boys are! that boy makes believe he is an Indian, and he knows he is only a little nuisance." Now this made me mad, and I thought I would give him a good scare, just to teach liim not to call names. So I began to steal softly up the piazza steps, and to get around behind him. When I had got about six feet from him I gave a war- whoop and jumped at him. I caught hold of his scalp-lock with one hand, and drew my wooden scalping-knife around his head with the other. 1 never got such a fright in my whole life. The knife was that dull that it wouldn't have cut butter; but, true as I sit here, Mr. Martin's whole scalp came right off in my hand. I thought I had killed him, and I dropped his Scalp, and said, "For mercy's sake! I didn't go to do it, and I'm awful sorry!" But he just caught up his scalp, stuffed it in his pocket, jammed his hat on his head, and walked off, saying to Susan, "I didn't come here to be insulted by a little wretch that deserves the gallows." Mr. Travers and Susan never said a word until he had gone, and then they laughed till the noise brought father out to ask what was the matter. When he heard what had happened, instead of laughing, he looked very angry, said that " Mr. Martin was a worthy man. My son, you may come up stairs with me." If you've ever been a boy, yon know what happened up stairs, and' I needn't say any more on a very painful subject. I didn't mind it so much, for I thought Mr. Martin woidd die, and then I would lie hung and put in jail; but before she went to bed Susan came and whispered through the door that it was all right; that Mr. Martin was made that way, so he could be taken apart easy, and that I hadn't hurt him. I shall have to stay in my room all day to-day and eat bread and water; and what I say is that if men are made with scalps that may cone off any minute if a boy just touches them, it isn't fair to blame the boy. old lady's feet, with streaming eyes and voice choked with sobs. Mrs. Darkedale put out her hand and stroked the girl's hair kindly. "My dear," said she, "don't fret. There's not so much harm done, after all. There would have been if the jew­ els had been in their case, but thej were not." " Not in their case ?** "No," said Mrs. Darkedale, "I took them out, wishing to show them to a friend of mine, a jeweler, who proposed to reset them. I left the case because it was too cumbersome to cany. They are now being reset." Meta drew a long breath of relief. Miss Fenley had been cheated of her booty, after all, then, and had disap­ peared with only an empty case. " But I was just as much to blame as if they had been in the casket," she ut­ tered, sadly. " Why yes," said Mrs. Darkedale; " only your loss has not been auite so expensive a one, and my jewels are safe. Now, Meta, lay this not to heart, and don't let's ever speak of it again." And at the end of the year, when Meta Gray married the young hero of the coffee and sugar trade, Mrs. Darkedale marked her estimation of Meta's charac­ ter by giving her as a wedding present, part of the jewels. "For she is a good girl," snid Mrs. Darkedale, "and she has chosen well and wisely. A Toting Widow. A certain census enumerator of this city called upon a woman the other day who resides not far from the Capitol, and propounded the usual question as by law directed. The woman said she was a widow, her age was twenty-five aiul Orl«rln of Nursery Rhlmn. "Cinderella or the Glass Slipper," is a very old story. Thousands of years ago it was told to boys and girls. The orig­ inal read that an eagle stole the slipper of a very pretty Egyptian lady and bore It off. The eagle dropped it, and some one carried it to the King who made it known all over the kingdom that he would marry the lady whose tiny foot it would fit. And so Cinderella, the cinder-girl, became Queen. In France, Germany and this country the story has taken several shapes, and has always been a favorite. "Little Jack Horner" has the follow­ ing history: InEifgland. in the reign of Henry VHL, there lived a Mr. Horner. Henry, the King, wished to tear down all the fine monasteries and abbeys of England, sell their lands and pocket the money. This Mr. Honer was butler, or something, to an old abbot, who thought fie would gain favor with Henry by glv- | ing him twelve of his very best and rich­ est monasteries. So the abbot sent deeds of them to the King by this John Hor­ ner. But Horner thought, as he "sat in the corner" of the carriage on his way to the King, that he would see what all these great papers which he was carrying should mean: "He put in his thumb and pulled out a plum"--i. e., he opened and read the deeds, put the one for the largest piece of land in his own pocket, gave the rest to the King at London, and came, home and told his master that Henry VIIL, for his fidelity, had made him a present of one of the large tracts of land. -•Blue Beard," too, is very old. He is supposed to be Giles Delaval, Lord of Rais, and was Marshal of France in 1429. "Jack, the Giant-killer," came from India. He breaks forth in all sorts of doings all over the story-books of the young. And so of "Jack and the Bean­ stalk." i "Babes in the Woods" is a very touch­ ing story. I think the origin of this #kv being the concave top crust. " When the pie was opened." i. %hen day began to break. "The birds J»egan to sing," I. e., the hours to begin Jnerrily. "Theking in the parlor count­ ing out money;" the "king" is the sun, the monarch of the day. There he is Enthroned in the sky. He is said to be Counting out money, because the sun- ihine is gold-color; see how he " counts it out," flings it about him, the beautiful golden sunshine. "The queen up-stairs eating bread and honey." Of course, if the king is the sun, the queen is the inoon. "The maid in the garden, hang­ ing out clothes." The '«maid " is Aurora, the goddess, not of the day, but of the dawn. Now, "up jumped a little bird and nipped off her nose." The little bird who did this very ungallant thing is, of course, the first hour of the day, for Aurora, or drawn, disappears as soon as the king, or sun, arises. A Westerner Searching for Society. " What I want to see," said a Denver man, as he alighted from the train at Manhattan beach, " what I want to see is some of your boasted civilization. I ain't much on the swell myself, but I want to see some top-shelf society. That's what I want. Now just parade your As- tors and your Yanderbilts and your Jay Goulds and your Knickerbockers and the other ancients right before my presence. Don't be any way skeered of me. These clothes only cost $15, and I'm no way stuck up. I want to see some tone. Cut me a thick slice of high life. I dome a long piece to see the fashionables, and if they're in condition, just pull off the blankets and trot 'em forward." "Is there anything I can do for you?" asked the manager, courteously, notice- ing the crowd gathering. " Bight you can, stranger. I come mor'n a bushel of miles to see this climate, and I want the attractions spread so I can examine the lay-out. I can throw some money myself, but what I want to see is style. Tell 'em not to hide on my account. Just walk some of the digni­ taries up and down before me a couple of times. I want to see their points. Fetch me out a couple of well matched high steppers and give 'em their heads." N > " All the people you see around you, sir, are first-class people. They move in our highest circles and belong to the aristocracy," explained the manager. " Are you giving it to me straight, part­ ner? All these fellows way-ups? Who's the philosopher with his breeches tucked in his socks ?" { "That is a Yale young gentleman, home on a vacation. " "I don't want that kind. Show me a high daddy, one of 'em that gets their name in the paper for going to whooping weddings and is called the elight. Pick me out some Astors. That's the trout I'm throwing for." " I don't think any of Mr. Astor's fam­ ily are here to-day. That stout gentle­ man with side whiskers belongs to one of the first families in New York. He is a very popular young man, and leads in the germans." "Ain't big enough. Haven't you got a couple of head of Vanderbilts, or a Jay Gould or so anywheres? You see, stran­ ger, I've read about those fellows and I'd like to greet 'em with cordiality. What I want is to wabble fins with the satin lined. That Yale man and the boss leg slinger in the Dutch fandango ain't new. We see them home when they string for tourists. I'm on to them, but what I want is the balloons, the soarers. Throw your pick-ax, stranger, and see if the wash don't pan better dirt. Strikes me your rock don't assay pretty well this evening. Where's the mob ?" " These are the best people I know of to-day," said the iganager in despair. "Mr. Vanderbilt is not here, nor is Mr. Gould." "Ain't you got any Knickerbocker's on draught ? Don't you keep the best in stock ? You'd make out to starve in Denver, if you tvasn't interfered with, partner. When a man throws himself for a lioteler in those parts, he keeps the high-toned population right out in front and shored up behind. You don't seem to have much experience in running a beef-a-la-mode ranclie. Just begun, haven't you ? If I was in your place I'd have them Goulds and Knickerbockers and Vanderbilts and Astors ranged right along the front edge of the back stoop, spitting at a chip for drinks and the fust one that broke gravel would pay his bar bill or go home bare-headed; now, you hear me. What you waul, stranger, is enterprise. All you've got is a shed and some water, and if your liquor ain't any FABM NOTES. to London Agricultural Gazette says that Canadian butter is the worst chiss of butter that is brought to the English market. FOR every thousand inhabitants this country contains 2,024 cattle, sheep and swine. In European countries the aver­ age is only 1,166. A FOREIGN grower of lilies attributes his success, in part, to the use of deep pots, those eight inches apart being fully fifteen inches deep. AN old dairyman recommends having a faucet in the bottom of the cream jar, so as to draw off the watery portion, which becomes bitter, and imparts a bit­ ter taste to the butter. IT is in farming as in every other kind rif business. No man can make it profit­ able unless he looks carefully after the details. There are hundreds of ways in which waste must be prevented in order to secure success. THE Pall Mall Gazette says "that while the upper classes may not conquer their prejudices against foreign bacon, the native dealers do not hesitate to buy the American meat at low prices, and re­ tail it at a high price." A CORRESPONDENT of the Rural Mes­ senger has had good results from the ap­ plication of lime, wood ashes, and old iron put around the roots of fruit trees that were not doing well, thus restoring the trees to a healthy condition and im­ proving the quality of the fruit. A CORRESPONDENT of the Rural New to throw the race in favor of Wilkes, and that the order of the judges com­ pelling Lucy to win had lost the pools for him. He admitted his complicity in the attempted fraud, and urged its failure to carry as ground exempting him from paying the pool-seller. The outcome of the suit will be looked to with interest by all sporting men.-- Cleveland Herald. JOTTINGS AND CLIPPINGS. SAXS the Chicago Tribime io *« Young Mother:" "It would undoubtedly be proper for you to name the child Vivian Mabel Genevieve, and it would also be proper to jump into the lake after you had done it." WE don't wish to alarm the American people, and we don't want to create a panic in commercial circles, but we would like to sav, from a profound con­ viction of eternal truths and imperative necessity, that " now is the time to make up clubs." THE baby stare is considered pretty for a young girl now in England. It is done by opening the eyes as wide as possible without raising the brows, and slcians, being of no avaiX l sent to^De- posit, forty-live miles, and got WONDERFUL POPULARITY OP Mi RENOWNED MEDICINE. 19M CHroatoat Caratlr. RveceM ml tbtlfl --A Vole* from thi People. No medicine introduced to the public has ever met with the success accorded to Hop Bitters. It stands to-day the best known curative article in the world. Its marvelous renown is not flue to the advertising it "has received. It is famous by reason of its inherent virtues. It does all that is claimed for ir. It is the most powerful, speedy and effective agent known for the building up of debilitated systems. The follow­ ing witnesses are offered to prove this: Wlut It IMdfor an Old L*dr. COSHOCTON STATION, 1«. Y., > December 28, 1878.) Gents--A number of people had been using your Bitters here, and with marked effect. In fact, one case, a lady of over seventy years, had been sick for years, and for the past ten years I have known her she has not been able to be around hair the time. About six months ago she got so feeble she was helpless. Her old remedies, or phy- slightly turning the corners of the mouth upward. Saying "mouse" five or six times gives the right position to the lips. THERE are two reasons why many parents know so little about what their children are learning at school. They are not as well educated as their chil­ dren are supposed to be, and do not wish to show their ignorance, or they to show then* ignorance, Yorker stops a cow or steer from jumping i send them to school in order to get them over fences by nailing a horse-shoe on out of the way. one forward foot. This prevents the A TRAMP consented to do a small job at hoof from spreading, and consequently digging post holes at Carson, Nevada, renders the animal unable to spring. L though labor was contrary to his custom. _ a bottle of Hop Bitters. It had such a very beneficial effect < n her that one bottle improved her so she was ab e to dress h«-raelf and walk about the house. When she had taken the second bottle she was able to take care of her own room and walk out to her neighbor's, and has improved all the time since. My wiJe and children also have derived great benefit from their use. W. B. HATHAWAY. Agt. U. S. Ex. Co. This is calculated to be very effectual. THE London Farmer, of recent date says: "We are threatened at all points with American competition. It is men­ tioned that eggs imported from Chicago have been eaten at Dublin breakfast tables since the month began, and good American butter at 8d. per pound is on sale on the Dublin quays. THE Royal Society of England has of­ fered two prizes of £25 and £10 each for distinctly new varieties of wheat which shall combine the largest yield of grain and straw per acre with approved form and size, smooth and thin skin, full and white kernel, and high specific gravity in the seed, and with bright, firm and stiff straw. j. THE necessity of good walks about the house-yard to the barns and outhouses is apparent to every one during the fall, winter, and early spring months. In the vegetable gardens during the season of culture and harvest, and in the flower garden they should always be found neatly fringed with grass. To make a good walk dig out the earth a few inches deep and fill in a layer of broken stones, brick and the like, then si layer of fine clinkers, and over this spread coal ashes and roll down, if you have & roller. If not, make the surface as smooth and compact as possible by other means, and the weather will do the rest. These walks are hard, clear, durable, and withal cheap. As a farm represents money, the fanner who improves it improves his financial condition. The more valuable he makes it the more hife capital stock is increased, the larger will be his returns, and when he dies the larger will be the patrimony he leaves for his family. Fix up the old home, then. Clean out the fence corners. Destroy the noxious weeds. Grub out the hazel and sassa­ fras. Burn out the stumps. Clean off the logs and stones. Make a paradise on earth of your farm, for are you not to live on it while you remain on earth, and will not your family live on it when you lie in i yonder graveyard? Plant out good or­ chards so that your family may enjoy the good fruit that you had the foresight and energy to provide for them. Leave a good record behind you. RADISHES may be grown in a very few days by the following method: Let some good radish seed soak in water for twenty-four hours, then put in a bag and expose it to the sun. In the course of the day germination will commence. The seed must be sown in a well-manured hot-bed, and watered from time to time with lukewarm water. By this treat­ ment the radishes will in a very short time acquire a sufficient bulk and be good to eat. If it be required to get good radishes in winter during the severe cold, an old cask should be sawed in two and one-half of it filled with good earth. The better'n your judgment, I'm going back 1 radish seed beginning to shoot as before dry.' "You will find everything first class here, I think," argued the manager. "We aim.--" "Just so, chief, but you don't hit. must be then sown in, the other half of the Irarrel put on top of the full one, and the whole of the apparatus carried down into the cellar. For watering, lukewarm water should be used as before. In the You aim too low. You've got room here j course of five or six days the radishes A v _i i xi.- i..- 1.1-- . x.. i _;ii 1-- ^x ^ eak--jyeV; England her husband died two years ago. The ! may be considered a very, very old bal- J --yea, yea, faithful recorder, on receiving the name of the woman's deceased husband and j his occupation when alive surmised that j he must have been a relative, if not the same Mr. B who .was a member of the One Hundred and Seventy-seventh New York Volunteers during the war. A conversation ensued, when finally the enumerator innocently asked if her hus­ band was the same Mr. B. who died during the war, saying that he himself was a member of the same regiment, and that he was well acquainted with the man. The widow, in a modified tone, replied: " Oh, yes, but that was a long time ago." The amusing part of the af­ fair is that the man has been dead about seventeen years, and if the woman is only twenty-five, she became a widow at the early age of eight years.--Albany Argus. lad, which tells of Richard ILL murder- inpr his own dear little nephews. The story of "Little Red Riding- Hood " is found in the German, but not exactly as we tell it in English. The Germans have a great variety of younp-folk-lore, or stories for little ones. " Mother Goose" was a real person. She lived in Boston. Her daughter Elizabeth married the printer, Tom Fleet, who gathered up the nursery mel- lodies of his mother-in-law and published them. I must now tell you of the meaning of an old nnrsery rhyme: "Four and twenty blackbirds made into a pie;" these are the four-and-twenty hours of the day. The "pie" is the space lte- I tween the earth and the sky--the flat- looking ground being the bottom < crust, the birds in between, and the to hold the biggest bug that ever strad died a blind, but there isu't a card out liigher'n an eight s}>ot. I reckon you plavpo«l without the fifteen." "Would you like to try something?" asked the man, anxious to dispel the grinning crowd. "You might fetch me one, and these gentlemen a Jittle tan bark, if it's good; I don't want any stock which the share­ holders are responsible for the debts, but if you've got some liquid symphony in Q majoi^ I'll wrap up a cartridge with you, stranger." "Join me in the bar-room," said the manager, nervously. "Good stake off for a junction. Gen­ tlemen, me and the engineer are going for the doxology. Will you jine us ?" They "jined," and the stranger ordered refreshment and left, despite the entreat­ ies of the gentleman from Denver that he would "introduce him to the ladies, such as they were, and he would forego the top lifters until lie (the manager) had run along the vein to the prospect of paying clean up."-- Washington Post.. Large Crops of Corn Fodder. Several correspondents in a late issue of the Countri/ Gentleman seem to have given from actual weight on small patches of their fields, pretty reliable estimates of the amounts which were grown per acre, previous to the curing of the corn. They state these weights at 28, 35, 36, and 45 tons, respectively, per acre. The latter was sowed in drills three feet apart, using three bushels of seed per acre, and the season was perfect in every respect for its growth. They do not state what the weather was when the corn was cut, or the time of day it was done. To be fair in such a trial, the weather ought to be sunny two days before, and the stalks not cut till all the moriung dew was dried off. Dr. Bailey, of Massachusetts, as­ serts, that he can grow 75 tons of corn­ stalks per acre. If he does, we think he will have to resort to the Cuzco sort, of Peru, which grows there 25 feet high or more, and is three i.iclis i:i diameter, or so, at the butt. This would be about as eatable and digestible as cord wood, un­ less his method of ensilage can transform it to palatable fodder. He is now culti­ vating a mammoth ensilage corn, of which he thinks highly. We hope when his crop of this has been gathered and fed to his animals, he will give not only its yield per acre, but the value of its fod­ der to his stock in comparison with the smaller sweet corn.--Rural New Yorker. will be fit Farmer. A Person of Importance. The hotel clerk's chief idiosyncracy is his unruffled self-conceit. Whether he summons the boll-boy or porter, writes out the dinner bill of fare, adds up your bill, chews the end of a toothpick or surveys himself in the glass, he assumes the air of one who evidently thinks no small things of himself. The hotel clerk first, and after hiin the deluge. Some of these gentlemen * are so very far gone in self-esteem that they effect a sham ascet­ icism, being reserved in their manner, answering in monosyllables, and speak­ ing in subdued cadences, as if a scarcity of speech and modulation of the voice were the indications of true dignity. The best passport to the good graces of these individuals is dress. Should the guest arrive travel-stained and in modest attire, the clerk sniffs him at once and relegates him to a room at the top of the house. On the other hand, should the guest appear in a vest of many colors, and have the appearace of being some tailor's walking advertise­ ment, shining with ointment and smell­ ing of bandoline^ he is received with a smirk and a smile, and assigned'to one of the best rooms in the house. Hotel clerks may change their climate, but it is not often they change their manners, and to all guests they bear themselves with a supercilious air, as if the obliga­ tions were all on their side and they regarded the traveling public as inter­ lopers, trying to make their way on cheek, and upon whom a very strict watch should be kept. A Case of Interest to Sporting Men. Frank E. Shaw, a pool-s ller who travels about the circuit, commenced suit in the Common Pleas Court against Joseph Udell, the owner of Sleepy Tom, to recover $500 claimed to be for pools purchased for the defendant on the 2:23 race in Grand Rapids on the 2d of jiily. The defendants backed Ken­ tucky Wilkes against the field, Lucy selling as favorite. Wilkes won one heat, when the judges suspected that the race was not being trotted squarely, and ordered Lucy's jockey to drive her for all she was worth. The- threat to ex­ pel the jockey had its- effect, and Lucy won the race. Udell had not paid for his pools, and, when a demand was made for th© money, refused on the ground that he nad bargained with Lucy's driver He returned to his employer's house in aii hour, threw down his spade, and said he had changed his mind. He had found •3430 worth of gold bars which some miner had buried. A MARRIED man committed suicide in his room at a popular summer resort a few days ago. The provocation is not 1 known, but it is supposed that it was be- I cause his wife was unexpectedly sum- l moned home and left her husband be- ' hind to pack her trunk. There are some i things a man can do as well as a woman, I but packing a woman's trunk is not one j of them. i FANNIE Roos, a pretty but thievish ! young woman, was discharged from cus- j tody at Paducah, Ky. Within a block j of the jail she met John Mathias, a re- | spectable farmer, who was visiting the j city. Their acquaintance began on the spot, and before night they were mar- \ ried. In addition to the usual ceremony j the bride took a solemn oath of reforma- j tion. | SOPHIE SPARKLE, quoting from some- 1 body overheard at a hotel, says that u Boston woman never believe s well of you until she finds out that you are really j possessed of merit, and treats you ac- ! cordingly, with her grand riv of pride and conscious superiority. A New York j woman, on the contrary, accepts you as i being worthy of respect until she finds I out that you are not, and will extend, even to a stranger, a spirit of civility and ' confidence. THE pastor of the Methodist Church at North Adams, Mass., explaining to his , Sunday school the meaning of " original j sin," said that Adam's fall did not moral- : iy affect anybody now. The superinten­ dent assured the children that the pastor ! was mistaken, and endeavored to prove : it by argument. The discussion lasted ! two hours, and finally became heated, i the pastor accusing the superintendent j of being "neither a gentleman nor aj Christian." The children did not get i any very clear idea of that day's lesson. ! A CERTAIN manufacturer of Bradford ) j who made a composition with his cred- I itors, was under cross-examination at the j | Leeds Assizes. "Now, sir," cried Mr. I Bagwig ferociously, "attend to me. I Were you not in difficulties a few months j ago?" "Noa." "What! sir? Attend to my question. I ask you again--and I pray be careful in answering, for you are ! on your oath, I need hardly remind you --were you not in difficulties some months ago?" "Noa, not as I knows of." "Sir, do you pretend to tell this court that you did not make a composi­ tion with your creditors a few months ago?" "Oh! ah!"--a bright smile of intelligence spreading over the ingenuous face of the witness--"that's what you mean, is it? But, you see, it were my creditors as were i' the difficulties then, an' not me." THE honey ant makes its store vessels from the bodies of the workers. First, it bites the end of the abdomen, thereby setting up an inflammation, which closes the apertures of the body. Then it feeds the maimed creature with honey, pour­ ing it into the mouth of the living honey pot, just as the bee pours honey into its crop. This process is continually re­ peated, until the body of the store ant is distended to an astonishing size with honey,, the skin being stretched to such an extent that it is sufficiently transpar­ ent to show the honey within. It can not escape, for the body is so heavy that the limbs are insufficient to carry it, and it so remains in the nest until the honey is wanted. In Mexico these ants are so plentiful that they form regular articles of commerce, being sold by measure in the markets, and used for the purpose of making mead. Specimens may be seen, in the British Museum. An Ei»tlmala«Uc Indorsement. GOBHAM, N. H., July 14, 1879. Gentsr-Whoever you are, I don't know; but I thank the Lord and feel grateful to you to know that in thin world of adulterated medicines there is one compound that proves and does all it advertises to do, and more. Four years ago 1 had a slight shock of palsy, which unnerved me to such en extent that the least excitement would make me shake like the asrue. Last May I was induced to try Hop Biiters. I used one bottie, but did not see any change; another did so chang ; my nerves that they are now as steady as they ever were. It used to t;ike both hands to write, but now my good iuht hand writes this. Now, il you coutinue to manufacture as honest and good an article as you do, you will accumulate an honest fortune, and confer the great- est blessing on your f«ilow-men that was ever conferred on mankind. TIM BUUCH. A Hntbanrt'a Testimony, My wife was troubled for years with blotclir#, mrth patches and pimples on per face, which nearly annoyed tbe life out of her. She spent many aoilurn on the tiiousan<Mnfallible (?) cures, with nothing but injurious 'ffecis. A lady friend, of Syracuse, N. Y , who had had similar experience and had been cured with Hop Bitters, induced her to try it. One bottle has made ber face as smooth, fair and toft as a child's, and given her such health that it seems almost a miranle. A MEMBRK OF CANADIAN PARLIAMENT. A Klctt liWdy'a Experience. I traveled all over Europe and other foreign countries at a cost of thousands of dollars in search of health and tound it not. I returned discouraged and dis­ heartened, and wai restored to real youthful health and spirits with less than two bottles of Hop Bitters. I hoi e others may profit by my experience and stay at home. A LADY, AUGUSTA, ME. CLEVELAND, O.. Oct. 28, 1879. My better haif is firmly bnpressed with the idea that .your Hon Bitters is the essential tMna: to m>tke life happy. She has used several bottles, and I would like to have you send me a dozen at lowest price. JB. POPE. Secretary Piain Dealer Co. SPRINGFIELD, 111., Sept. 3, 1879. Gents--I have been taking your Hop Bitters and recehed great help from them. I will give you my name as one of Lhe cared sufferers Yours, MRS. MARY F STARR. Nerve-G raft Ing. Dr. J. Gluck, of Bucharest, lately brought before the ninth congress of the German Society of Surgery of Berlin some interesting results of experiments in nerve-grafting. He cut out a portion of the sciatic nerve of a fowl, and then removed a similar portion of the same nerve from the leg of a rabbit, and placed this in the leg of a fowl, uniting the two ends by sutures. The nerve united, and the paralysis caused, of course, by the excision of the piece of nerve was recov­ ered from. He repeated the experiment, and exhibited the successful results, showing the fowls with full restoration of power. He was led to these experiments by the result of a case of nerve suture. Paralysis of the median had resulted from the extensive destruction of the tissue of the arm by gangrene. Dr. Gluck cut down on the radial nerve and found that part of (the nerve was destroyed. He united the two ends by sutures, and the man regained the power of motion, which he had etirely lost. Of course, the experiments of nerve-grafting in animals, adds the Jxincct, do not warrant the ex­ pectation that a similar result could be obtained in the case of the human sub­ ject. It is well known that the union and regeneration of nerves occur with greater facility in the case of the lower animals than in man. MINISTERS who preach one sermon a week and run one prayer meeting a week, are so exhausted that they have to have a vacation of two months, while the editors of a paper which is issued seven days in a week, and who write more in a single night than a minister's sermon contains, walk around a block and take a wind pudding for a lunch. That's the difference in talent.--Peck's Sun. Excruciating Palm Edwin Freeman, of Norton, Mass., says: "I have suffered the moat excruciating pain in my kidneys for years, and physicians or medicine could not relieve me, until about three years since I commenced faking Hunt's Remedy. I purchased a bottle at Blanding's drug store, in Providence, and I took the first dose there, and after using one bottle I was free from all pain; and, although thin was three years ago, I have seen no trace of disease and have not had to take any medicine since, I believe Hunt's Remedy to ba the best Kidney and Liver medicine ever known, and I cheerfully recommend it to all sufferers from this disease." Trial size, 75 cents. / A w T o n N o t i n G o o d H e a l t h l If the Liver is the source of your trouble, yon can find an absolute remedy in DR. SANFORD'S LIVER INVIGORATOR, the only vegetable cathartic which acts directly on the Liver. Cures all Bilious diseases. For Book address Da. SAX- FORD, 162 Broadway, New York. The v oltalc Kelt Co., nanhall, ITflcli*, Will send their Electro-Voltaic Belts to the af­ flicted upon thirty days' trial. See their adver­ tisement in this paper, headed, MOn Thirty Days' Trial/| DA C. E. 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