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But nation hath voice* that epeak to the awl, •1 Of a far reaching past and a far distant goal, Of a dual existence unknown to the t hrongj A realm of the mind foi the children ot song. And the tints of the snnsrt, the film of the blae, That drapes all the woodland* when springtime • Bet, . .. . Awaken some chords in the mtm ry that «M> Uke a tale that ia told, or a vanishing dream. The reign of the rows, the Rong of the Mrd. The nistle of leaves that a zephyr has stirred. Call up for a moment a haunting rcgwk . Till tae forehead is bowed and the eyelids are wet. The gleam of a dew drop, the glow of a star. The lisp of a brook that is wandering afar. Seem parte of some life that has faded from sight, Am the meteors die on the shows of the night. Slow winds of the summer a gentle retrain. To the sweeo of the tree* and the rush of the rain; tit yma speak to my heart la a rythmical rhyme, Of a sojourn awbUe in an alien clime --Kokonw Tribute. DR. BLUNT'S PATIENT. It ever a mortal map. was fitly named, such was the case with Dr. Blunt, the name expressing one of the strongest characteristics. Had he been called Dr. 'Skillful, the same could have been said of him with truth. And then the ex­ pression on his face was a faithful index of another equally strong point of char­ acter, via., great kindness of heart. So quick spoken was the doctor on ordinary occasions, he not only abbreviated sen­ tences, but words themselves frequently suffered a very perceptible clipping. All the village of L---- was very much exercised one morning by the intelli­ gence that the two best rooms in Mrs. Lowell's elegant house, which had been unoccupied for a year or more, because the rent was so high, had been taken by a young lady who was a real live heiress, having no one but herself to support; and she was going to furnish the rooms I £ unto oneoTthe'taistoffoese yVditTit with no end of costly "pieces" and I unto me?" lovely ornaments; and furthermore, Law- j ««oh, Til go, doctor; Til be ready in a ver Peckham, who had charge of her] moment." estate, said she was a l^auty, but in very "Better take off that long-tailed dress poor health, he believeo. So the good- aiMj don a good sensible calico; I'll go natural gossips ruminated as to how sad i down to the, parlor," added the doctor, it was that one conlan t have everything • «< an<| -wait and take YOU right along in in this world. If you have wealth, like- » the buggy with me. Quick, now; I ly as not you have no health with which i wouldn't wait long for the Queen of to' enjoy it; things are pretty evenly dealt I Sheha " out, after all; and so after the maimer of j "Well, of all things!" thought Miss newsvenders. ] L,neey. "I don't know but that doctor Dame Rumor seems, for onoe, to have i will be the death of me, ci---perhaps his heard only the facts in the case, for in a I strange method will be the making of fe* days the rooms were really furnished ; me." and occupied as predicted, and Mrs. I Lowell was highly elated over the good > : looks as well as affluent circumstances of As Miss Lacey rose to receive them, Mrs. Cameron remarked: "Perhaps some one is siok i' the house. I saw the doctor gang awa' just as I was oomin' in." " I was not feeling very well," anwered Miss Lacey. " He came to see me." "Oh, did he. ml»s! an' isn't the auld gentlemf.'i iis' lovely ?" and in most en­ thusiastic terms she told of the great goodness and kindness experienced at the "doctor's hands. Told how all her life was hound up in her "one wee girlie, her bonny Janie," who had never been strong sine*1 the first time she had con­ vulsions, caused by indigestion, and how j " monny was the night the gude mon had staid until the morning, and niver a $ennv of pay would he take for it." ,; " ]>o you know the young doctor, np» Vm?" ; "No, I'm a strattger here, and know but very few persons. " "Well, miss, the young doctor is a winsome lad, and a christian indeed. He tells me oft I shouldn't fret for fear my lassie will be ta'en from me, but pray the gude God to spare me one ewe lamb, an' it l>e his will. He has practiced with his father the year or more, and how the auld doctor loves him! He hap a funny way of calling him all kinds of uncanny names, but iveryone knows he is the light of the auld man's eyes.* And soon after Mrs. Cameron gathered up her basket and departed. Miss Lacey had succeeded in closing up the gaping rents in the doctor's gloves, the tea hour had come and gone, but no doctor had reappeared. "Oh, he thinks me too comfortable a patient to need much attention," she thought repiningly, "but he might have at least told me what my complaint was. There! the bell rings; perhaps that *• he now." And that moment a rap at the door being answered, Dr. Blunt entered, hurried, flushed, and more abrupt in manner and speech than before. "Say, my dear girl, will you help a poor woman in great extremity?" " What do you mean, doctor?" "Oh, get your hat and shawl, and come now. You've no husband to con­ sult, no children to leave, and a poor woman is in danger of loosing her only child this night, and some one must Avatcli with her. I must be oft' in another direction. My dear child," again that tender tone, "wouldn't you like to hear your Savior say to you to­ morrow morning: 'Inasmuch as ye did coming out of the house, he met Lawyer Peekliam, when the following character* istic colloquy ensued: "Hi! Good morning, doctor. Well* I hear the young doctor is about to bring a daughter for you to the 4 family man­ sion. '" "Yes, yes!"--very quickly. "Well, well, there's room enough in the houajB and my heart for the precious girl, the good Lord knows, and as for voting Blunt., M. D.--^who"actually presumes to bfelieve that he loves and appreciates her lwstter than I do--the renegade! if site- can do anything toward reclaiming that reckless case--There! forgot,ten mar gloves, true as the world must go bade for them. Morning, Peckham." • •: ' • V :' • * Jf'V it, DOMESTIC RECIPES. her new boarder, though in describing her she had said: i " But something ails the poor girl; she is so nervous, my dear--but fresh look­ ing as a daisy, and not the least mite pale or wasted, and my! the way she dresses!" She flew about the room in a surpris­ ing manner for her; donned a good warm morning dress, and in another moineut the doctors horse was tearing along the road as if to outrun his master's im­ patience. Yet during the ride the doctor explained to his companion how she must be very calm--"and you can lie," he added with convincing emphasis--for the child was suffering from spasms quite One morning, as Lawyer Peckham was j violent, distressing and dangerous. He oqtning out of Mrs. Lowell's house, he met Dr. Blunt going in. 44 Morning, Peckham," said the doo- toVkin his quick way. •'Good morning, doctor. Guess my •client is about to beoome you patient, "Yes, yes," jerked out the doctor, "jfhoUldn t wonder," and he disappeared. rAr moment later Dr. Blunt entered MSss Lacev's room. A very fair young lady reclined languidly in the sumptuous depths of a "Sleepy Hollow" chair, but t^e quick experienced eye of a medical m&b &n6w at a glance that something tfife wrong; although, as Mrs. Lowell h&d said, she was rosy and plump, the expression of the eye was troubled, rest­ less and morbid. The doctor seated him­ self beside his fair patient, felt her and then vented the remarkable query: -" Was it me or the young doctor you wanted?" Oh, you, by all means," said Miss Laoey with a smile, but instantly the ftoul>led looked returned. She added, "I want all the experience possible brought to bear upon my case." " Any parents?" quired the doctor. • ^ No, sir, my mother died ci conpump- I® when I was very young; my father daed when I was a mere child," •'" Humph! Have any local pains? Suf- fpFjfrctfn headache nausea?" "No, sir; nothing of the kind. There dfeexAs to be a fear of something all the time, an undefined apprehension; some­ times I flunk I may die, as mother did, of-Consumption." 1 G o t a n y r e l i g i o n ? " ' < *' Why, certainly, doctor. I should hOpte so. I am a church member, and hftvu beeji for years. I love my religion," and quick sympathetic tears affirmed the trntft Of thS prompt assertion. "Ever seen Jesus Christ sick and vis­ ited Him, or naked and clothed Him, or mitiisterfd to the thousand and one wants of the 'little ones' forever representing the ij^vior's Symbolized sufferings?" "Alas, no!" sighed poor Miss Lacey, "I have wanted for years, but this nervous weakness tmfits me for anything useful or practical. I give regularly to several 0lf i twbjo objects, and hope some good ltMPBQia that w^T." "Humpli! Well, I'm going now. Don't know just what I shall prescribe, but feel confident I can help you. Per- hagis 111 run in again before night with directions--bless me, what looking gloves! Will you mend these for me, "Certainly, with pleasure," laughed Miss Lacey, and for that instant there *5Wi g>o tijouble in her clear eyes. * "You see, said the doctor apologetical- ly» " my housekeeper isn't much on mending, according to my idea, and fettfi tbire's only my boy, the young doctor, as people call him--the most graceless piece. As for wife," and the voice grew wonderfully tender--"dear wife has been siaging in paradise, three i/en years or more." The door opened <#06ed softly, and the doctor was [*'! What a fanny doctor! What a queer, Sear old gentleman!** thought Mi«« Lacey ; " and these gloves! Well, I have here, no mistake; must get out my piece-bag and find some bits •f silk or something," and, forgetting kt* feart and weakness, she wa® soon doing her best toward repairing the ooctor's well-worn .driving gloves. ^ presently there came a knock at th«- floor, and Mrs. Cameron was admitted, the " very respectable Scotch woman " Wiom Mrs. Lowell had recommended as a "first-class laundress, neat, honest and ft church member. • The woman bore in her anna a goodly- Jifted basket in which were various 'igtttles of clothing beautifully done up. ; h- . . told briefly how the baths must be ad­ ministered. and the water kept hot all night; and finally, in mentioning the pa­ tient's name, surprised Miss Lacey bv re­ vealing the fact that it was poor little Janie Cameron, who had been taken ill that very afternoon, during her mamma's absence. Arrived at the house, the poor, dis­ tressed mother became very much com­ forted by the presence of "the d^ar. sweet young leddy who was too rrood to show such kindness to a poor body like mvsel'!" The doctor gave most minute directions to be followed through the night, then left with the cheerful obser­ vation: "IH send that young doctor around about midnight, if he makes his appear­ ance at the family mansion before that time. Oh. the most graceless biped!" and he was gone. Miss Lacey reflected with great satis­ faction the next day that not one thought could she r<-tnom' er having bestowed upon herself during that long, painful nirht,. with its new experiences of real suffering. All her energies and sympa­ thies were directed toward helping and comforting the agonized mother and re- lieving the sick child. Abont midnight, while sh«* was bend­ ing over a warm bath, in which she was firmly holding the convulsed frame of poor Jume. the door opened and the vo'i'.o- doctor entered. There was no sort of an introduction between the two-- who thinks of formalities at such a time? --but at once they worked together over the suffering child. Miss Lacey was vaguely aware that a young man, bearded and mustached, with a calm, deep voice and shapely white hands, gave orders which she promply obeyed, and spoke words of hope and encour­ agement to the poor dazed mother. It did not once occur to her that there was anything novel in her position, as, hold­ ing the child in her arms, quitted at last, the young doctor sat close beside her, asking questions and giving advice, now and then turning down a corner of the blanket to watch the changing expression of the little sleeper's face. I But he, more accustomed to such try- j ing scenes, after the first moments of in­ tense application to the case, began wondering who this angel of mercy could be, working as if her whole soul were bound up in relieving this poor little child of a lowly mother. How long* he might have remained is uncertain, had not a messenger from another quarter summoned him away. The next morning Janie was bettor, and continued to improve until the anx­ ious mother was again relieved concern­ ing her. The next day but one, Miss Lacey re­ ceived a call from three bright, interest­ ing young girls, who, to her ntt'-r aston­ ishment, iuformcd her that Dr. Bin'it had recommended her as just the person to become President of a Dorcas So­ ciety. 'Oh, you must, you must!" they chirps in concert, and before they left she had partially promised to accept the position--to her own dismay. But when the minister called, a few days afterward, and said old Dr. Blunt 'iad insisted that a class of unruly boys in the Sabbath school who needed a U aclier, was just the work adapted to her class, she succumbed at once, " sur­ rendering at discretion " all right to de­ cide for herself. Miss Lacey finally wrote the doctor a spicy little note, telling him she believed any more prescriptions would undo the wonderful cure already accomplished. But of late the village gossips could not fail to notice how continually the voung doctor called at Mrs. Lowell's house. mUIOCNG FO tirroaTAT. IT M a. UMIRT • U Totty pelng home with And won't vou Uko me, tout Take tne to nee your nunlle, dew, Along with Totty, dol" " No; not to-dey; another time." " Why not?" " Well, It might bt Too much for grandmamma to hava Yoa both at once, you see." ...... < !V?« *t r# To TAKE OUT STAINS.--One teaspoon- ful of chloride of lime in three quarts of water will take out any kind of stain. Put the part stained in the water, let ro- main until out; it will not injure the cloth; only stains on white goods can be taken out in this way. CHICKEN CHOLERA REMEDY. -- Blue vitriol, one ounce, dissolved in one gal­ lon of water; give one ounce of this in one gallon of drinking water every morn­ ing; wash the drinking vessel out every morning; using an iron or tin. It is a sure cure. BROWN BRKAD.--Take two cups but­ termilk, one cup Indian meal, one eup flour, one egg, one-half cup molasses, one large spoon butter, one teaspoon soda, and one of suet. Steam one hour then set in the oven until it becomes a nice brown. Cut it warm for dinner. CATSUP.--Six large, ripe tomatoes, two small green peppers, one large onion; chop all fine, then cork till tender, and add two cups vinegar, two tablespoons sugar, one tablespoon salt, one teaspoon cinnamon, and one of cloves. Let boil a few minutes and bottle. Will keep a long time. GRAPH PICKLES.--Seven pounds of grapes on the stems, three pounds of sugar, and one pint of vinegar. Place the grapes in a jar and scald the vinegar and sugar together and pour over them. For nine successive mornings pour off the liquor and scald it. Use any spice you like. PICKLED BEETS.--Take beets while young and sweet and not too large, boil and slice as usual while they are still hot. Have ready a pan of hot vinegar, into which put the slices; cover a few moments until thoroughly hot, then with a spoon place carefully and closely in a glass can; then fill up with the vinegar and seal. If the slices are too large cut them in two. These make an excellent relish during the spring and early sum­ mer. EAST INDIA PICKLES.--Two hundred small cucumber pickles, two heads of cabbage sliced line, two quarts of small, or sliced onions, one large head of cauli­ flower cut up, six green peppers sliced, two ounces white mustard seed; soak all in salt and water twenty-four hours; drain over night. Boil good vinegar and one quarter pound black pepper, ground, one tesispoonful cayenne pepper." Pour over pickles; when cool stir in one quart mixed mustard. CBEAM PIE.--To be eaten warm or cold; very nice. One pint of cream, three eggs beaten separately, sugar to taste, pinch of salt, flavor as you like. Butter a deep pie dish, or mountain cake tin, sprinkle with bread crumbs that have been sifted, about as thick as pie paste, pour in the custard and sprinkle over it some bread crumby and cocoa- nut mixed. RHUBABB JELLT.--Take some rhubarb,* wipe it with a clean wet cloth, peel it. and cut it into pieces an inch long. To each pound of rhubarb add three-fourths of a pound of white sugar. Put it to boil for about ten minutes, or until tlu juice is well drawn. Strain it into » preserving pan, let it boil quickly till it clings to the spoon, skim it and put ii into jam pots or molds. The quickest way to know if it will set is to drop a ittle on a plate to cool. PUFF STBAWBEBRT PUDDINO. •--Sift two teaspoonfuls of baking powder with a pint of flour; beat well an egg; add a little salt; mix with sweet milk till of the consistency of thick batter. Place well-greased cups in a steamer; put in­ to each a spoonful of batter, then a spoonful of strawberries, and cover with another spoonful of batter and steam twenty minutes. Eat with cream and sugar, or a liquid hot sauce with a cup­ ful of strawberry juice added. To WASH lawn or thin muslin : Boil two quarts of wheat bran in six quarts or more of water half an hour. Strain through a coarse towel and mix in the water in which the muslin is to be washed. Use no soap, it you c;m help it, and no starch. Rinse lightly in fair water. This preparation both cleanses and stiffens the lawn. If you can, con­ veniently, take out all the gathers. The skirt should always be ripped from the waist. APPLE BORER.--According to a writer on horticultural and agricultural sub­ jects, when lwrers have once gained j possession of a tree the only way to get rid of them is to hunt for them care­ fully with a knife or wire and destfov them. The eggs of the parent beetle are deposited during nights in June, and are placed in the bark of the tree at the surface of the ground, or whatever may surround the tree. These eggs hatch in our latitude during September, and it is soon after this that the young grubs may be easily removed without the use of anything more than the point of a pen­ knife. A few minutes spent in this way about the 1st of October each .fall will keep the tree free from this pest.--Scien­ tific American. He was too sweet and wise to Thin Oi'orjfie, four years old He nodded rohly to hie tlujftkgBC Hia locks of curly gold. , ( ,4 . • ?v'. 5 ' " W Ills face demure his mischief Ml A h<>n nuutie said jjood-hy, And with a grave an<l grown-up ait He put his question »lf: . " Aunt Saidie, are TOO eomlng tool To see mamma Hgain T" " Yee--shall I, dear!" "Oh, yea, bat Bring UDCIC Willie then." " Why, Georgle, not btlng uncle WIS, Who thinks so much of you! Not bring your uncle 'M lite, dear? 1 thought you loved him, tool" In breathlees haste the answer euni " 0* course; but It might be Too much for my niHuuna to have You both at once, you see!" Tom aa4 na((l«> FlvhlMa: K*fartlo«. Tom had just come home for a vaca­ tion, from school, and as soon as his j mother had gone to examine his box, Tom took hie sister, Maggie, into the corner and said, confidentially: "You don't, know what I have got in my pock­ ets," nodding his head up and down as a means of rousing his sense of mystery. "No," said Maggie. "How stodgy they look, Tom! Is it marls (marbles) or cobnuts?" Maggie's heart sank a little, because Tom always said it was "no good" playing Avitli her at. those games--she played so badly. "Marls! No. I've swapped all my marls with the little fellows, and cobnuts are no fun, you silly, only When the nuts are green. But see here!" He drew something half out of his right-hand pocket. "Whatis it?" said Maggie in a whsper. "I can Bee nothing but a bit of yellow." "Why, it's--a--new--guess, Maggie." "Oh, I can't guess, Tom," said Maggie impatiently. "Don't be a spitfire, else I won't tell you," »aid Tom, thrusting his hand back into his pocket, and looking deter­ mined. "I am not cross, Tom; it was only be­ cause I can'i bear guessing. Please be good to me." Tom's arm slowly relaxed, and he said: "Well, then, its a new fish line--two new uns--one four you, Maggie, all to yourself. I wouldn't go halves in the toffee and gingerbread on purpose to save the money, and Gibson and Spoun- cer fought with me because I wouldn't. And here's hooks--see here! . . I say, won't we go and fish to-morrow, down Wy by Round s Pool? And you shall catch your own fish, Maggie, and put the worms on, and everything; won't it be fun?" Maggie's answer was to throw her arms around Tom's neck and hug him. "Wasn't I a good brother, to buy you a line all to yourself ?" "Yes, very, very good* I do love you, Tom." "And the fellows fought me because I wouldn't give in about the toffee." "Oh, dear, I wish they wouldn't fight at your school, Tom. Don't it hurt you?" " Hurt me ? No. I gave Spouncer a black eye, I know. That's what he got by wanting to leather me. Now let us go and see the rabbits." "Tom," she said, timidly, when they i were out-doors, "how much money did ' you give for your rabbits?" » "Two half crowns and six-pence," said Tom, promptly. "I think I've a deal more than that in my steel purse up stairs. I'll ask mother to give if to yon." "What for?" said Tom. "I don't want your money, you silly thing." " Well, but Tom, you could buy some more rabbits with it." " More rabbits ? I don't want any more." "Oh, but Tom, they are all dead." Tom stopped immediately in his walk and turned round toward Maggie. " You forgot to feed them, then, Mag­ gie, and I don't love you one bit. You shan't go fishing with me to-morrow. I told you to go and see the rabbits every day." "Yes, but I forgot it, and 1 couldn't help it, indeed, Tom. I'm so very sor­ ry," said Maggie, while the tears rushed fast. "You are a naughty girl" said Tom severely, "and I'm sorry 1 bought you the fish-line; I don't love you." "Oh, Tom," sobbed Maggie, "I'd for­ give you if you forgot anything; I would not mind what yoa did, I'd forgive and and love you." "Yes; you're silly; but 1 never do for­ get things--I don't !" "Oh, please forgive me, Tom; my heart will break," said Maggie. "Now, Maggie, you just listen. A'in't I a good brother to you?" "Ye-ye-es!" and I--lo-lo-love you so. Tom." "But you're a naughty girl. Lar.t holidays you licked the paint off my lozenge l»ox, and the holidays before that you pushed your head through my late, all for nothing." "But I didn't mean," said Maggie. "I couldn't help it." "Yes, you could," said Tom, "and you are a naughty girl, and you shan't go fishing with me to-morrow." With this terrible conclusion, Tom ran away from Maggie, and she turned Maggie thought it. probable that the small fish would come to her hook, and the large ones to Tom's. But she had for^otteu all about the fish, and was looking dreamily at the the glassy water, when Tom said, in n loud whisper, "Look! look, Maggie!" and came running to prevent her from snatching her line aAvay. Tom drew out her line and brought n large perch bouncing on the grass. "Oh, Maggie! Yon little duck! Empty the basket." She never knew she had a bite till Tom told her, but she liked fish­ ing very much. It was one of their happy mornings. They trotted along and sat down to­ gether, with no thought that life woidd ever change much for them. * Life did change for Tom a,nd Maggie; and yet they were not wrong in believing that the thoughts and loves of these first years would always make part of their lives, -r- Oeorge Eliot. " How few," says Jeremy Taylor, "have heard of the name of Venepatadino Regium! He imagined that there was no man in the world that knew him not; how many men can now tell me that la was the King of Narsinga?" FARM NOTES. . " A lDMll, HOT A DB11K. . Higk AifttHarttF* Hop Bitters is not, in say aenw, alcoholic beverage or liquor, and could not be sold, for use, except to person® dMiwiM nf obtaining medicinal bitters. ' GBEEN B. RAuk. ]F* - Hj. S. Com'r Internal Reftt W. A. BROOKS, of Hamilton ship, Franklin County, Iowa, has 215 acres of flax as an experiment. Ho is satisfied flax is a more profitable grain than wheat, and predicts that it will take the place of wheat in a few years in Iowa. AN Ohio wool-grower noticing that another flockmaster complained that he could not rid his sheep of ticks, says he was troubled that way once, and advises wetting salt with turpentine when salting sheep. He finds this effectual, without "dipping." ; WEEDS on gravel walks may be de- ! stroyed and prevented from growing | again by a copious dressing of the cheap- i est salt. This is a better method than j hand-puiling, which disturbs the gravel I and renders constant raking and roiling j necessary. One application early in the i season, and others as may be needed, while the weeds are small, will keep the ^ [ walks clean and bright. | I A QUICK and effectual method to de- ! i stroy plantain and other weed pests on j lawns, is to cut the plant Off at the j crown, and drop on the top of the root 1 j.two or three drops of kerosene oil. The lawn will not be defaced by digging, and ; the work is at once and completely done; ! the root flies as surely as if struck by lightning. , i EVERY farmer knows that exposing po- ! tatoes too long to the rays of the sun, or | to too plenty of light and air, will soon ; ruin them. A good fanner will dig and dry his potatoes at the proper time, as quickly as convenient, and take them to , his dark cellar without delay, being care­ ful not to have too many in one bin. Potatoes which are fine and mealy when dug, treated iu this manner, will remain good until new early potatoes are ripe. , --Kr. ' \ THE experiment has been tried in Iowa, it is said, of sowing in the fall, upon bne , acre of land, two bushels of wheat mixed , with one bushel of oats. The oats shot up rapidly, and were, of course, killed j down by the frost. But they furnished i a warm covering for the earth, and when : the snow fell among the thick stalks and ; leaves they kept it from blowing away. ( This covering prevented the winter-kill- i ing of the wheat, and the rotting oat leaves and stalks afforded a rich top- dressing for the crop the following spring. The result was an abundant yield of | wheat, wliil'• land precisely similar along- 1 i lo, and treated in the same manner, 1 with the exceptiou of omitting ihe oats, was utterly worthless. ti THE destructive currant worm has for many years been held in subjection by ! the use of white hellebore, and although this substance is quick and sure in its operation, and by its use enables one to : speedily rid his currant and gooseberry plants of the depredator, yet it is a little difficult in some eases of application-- when the worms are working on the lower part of a bush. It is with much satisfaction, therefore, that we learn the announcement of a more convenient and not less certain agent for the same pur­ pose, and this is carbolic acid. Two teaspoonsful of carbolic acid mixed iu three or four gallons of water gives a ! liquid of proper strength to sprinkle over j the bushes. It is said to kill worms quickly, and what is more, it is reported 1 to be equally valuable in destroying the \ rose-bug when applied to rose bushes.-- j Vick. i EVERYBODY about a farm knows that animals will not eat the grass which grows up rank around their own drop- ! pings; it has also been observed by some ; that hay from meadows heavily enriched : is not eaten so readily as that from other fields. It is the practice, usually to put such meadoAvs to other crops, but if lime | be applied instead, wil) restore the j ground to a proper condition quickly. ; Lime laid on for such a purpose would j do more to sweeten a foul pasture in three months than if it was shut up for | six months, and left to the ordinary pro- j cess of cleaning. This is al>out one of i the most important uses to which lime could be put, correcting sis it does all j sourness and rankness in grass, reducing almost immediately all noxious efHuvin 1 from the manure deposited, and there- j fore presenting food, which, being rel- j ished by the stock, is converted iuto that which will lav the foundation of a profit. It is more especially 011 bog pastures ; that the use of lime is particularly bene- | licial, for besides its action 011 cattle \ droppings, it destroys moss, rushes, and ] all sedgy or other coarse growth, whose . places beeome occupied ny other more nntricious grasses. After the liming of j a pasture, cattle will eat the grass read- ' ily, which before they would not touch, j showing the beneficial change the lime 1 had brought about. i BJg Figures. -v- Mr. S. C. Clarke, of the Treasury De- i partment, has, beyond a doubt, an eye j for figures. He has prepared some re- I markable tables, taking a cent of our j money as a basis. He says that one cent j at simple interest, at 6 per cent, per an- I hum, from the commencement of the j Christian era to the end of the current | year, A. D. 1880, would amount to only 1 one dollar and fourteen cents ($1.14). j Accepting for the present purpose the j common understanding of the adaptation of the Grogoria calendar of the whole period of the Christian era, the same one cent at compound interest, for the same period of time and at the same rate of in­ terest, compounded annually, fractions excepted, would amount to three quadri- decillion, 735 tredecillion, 963 dnodecill- ion, 560 undecillion, 427 decillion, 120 nonillion, 584 octillion, 658 septillion, 169 sextillion, 353 quintillion, 630 quad­ rillion, 998 trillion, 468 billion, 995 mill­ ion, 477 thousand and 562 dollars and 98 cents. ($3,735,963,660,427,120,584,658,- 169,353,630,998,468,995,477,562.98). Mr. Clarke continues and sajys that the cur­ rent value of a globe of fine gold of the magnitude of tiiis earth is $11,116,503,- 641,581,635,112,643,097,947.14, and the number of golden globes eaeh of the dimensions of this planet, contained in the amount of the cent at interest, as aforesaid would be $264,652,186,921,303,- 226. The maximum estimate of the en­ tire population of the world, including every man, woman and child of all races and creeds and conditions of men 011 the earth is fifteen hundred millions (1,500,- 000,000). If said amount therefore were equally divided among all of the inhabit­ ants of the earth each and every human being would be entitled to 176,434,791 of said globes of fine gold as his proportion­ ate inheritance; and each and every one of them, living exclusively on the princi­ pal, without any further accumulation or income, might spend one of said globes of gold every minute of time-- night and day for three hundred and thirty-five years without exhausting his patrimony. But if this stupendous ag­ gregate amount of the compounded ac­ cumulations of said cent for nearly nine­ teen centuries be again invested as a new principal, the simple interest thereon at 5 per cent., for the single year 1880 would be $224,157,831,625,627,235,079, - 490,161,217,859,908,139,728,653.78, or for each of the 366 days of said year $612,- 4 5 3, 042, 6 9 2, 970,587,648,880,221,906,- 721,060,491,061.89. This vast sum pro­ portionately distributed among the fif­ teen hundred millions of people would give to each and every inhabitant, as his or her own proper portion of said inter­ est, one of said globes, containing more than two hundred and sixty-four billions of cubic miles of puro gold every three seconds during the year, or twenty of said golden worlds every minute."-- W'aMhhuf- ton Republic. A Japanese Fable. Onoe upon a time, on the shady side of a hill near the sea-shore, there lived a crab. One day he found some boilfd rice, and set off home with it; but on his way was spied by a monkey. The mon­ key offered to exchange the seed of a persimmon, the fruit of which he had nearly finished eating, for the rice. This the crab accepted on condition that the monkey had not injured it with his teeth. The exchange made, Jocko devoured the rice, but the crab planted the seed iii his garden. A long time afterward, the mon­ key happening to pass the same spot, was surprised to see a fine tree laden with fruit, aud his friend the crab sitting on I the balcony of a nice new house, admir- ! ing his fruit tree. The monkey being 1 hungry, begged the crab to allow him to | eat some of the fruit. But the crab | apologized saying that his friend would l>e quite welcome to some of the fruit, ; but fie could not climb the tree to gather I it. The monkey declared ability to climb ' if the crab would allow him to try; to I which the owner of the tree consented, stipulating that he should receive half the fruit that was plucked. So up the monkey clambered, and as fast as he I could, selecting the best and ripest fruit, j but was too greedy to notice the crab, uAonRey of SL, „,,d deceitful I ££££ Non^t devout "than he was to be found in the country round, and every spare moment from his business was put into some­ thing energetic toward strengthening up the little church into which he had projected himself. Noticing his interest, " Raising " Setter Dogs. A good story is told of a Rockville sporting man. Having a fine litter of set­ ter pups--pedigreed stock--he was tak­ ing special pains to give them a good start in the world, and to this end it was Lis custom to rise from his bed at short intervals to feed them. It became rather tedious business for him to "crawl out" during the cold winter nights to attend to their wants, so he tried a new plan. Sotting a pan of milk in a warm comer be­ hind the stove, he went to bed, and in the attic, where she sat on the floor, and laid her head against the worm-eaten shelf with a crushing sense of misery. When Tom came home to tea his father asked where Maggie was. Tom said, "I don't know." "You've been naughty to her, I doubt, Tom." "I'm sure I haven't father," said Tom. "I think she's in the house." " Perhaps up in that attic," said hei mother, "a singing and talking to her­ self, and forgetting all about meal­ times. " "You go and fetch her down, Tom," said his father, "And be good to her, do you hear? else I'll let you know better!" Tom never disobeyed his father, so he WASHINGTON, D. C.*, Sept. 24,1679., , Dear Sir- -W hy don't you get a certift* eate from Col. W. H. W., of Balti* more, showing how he cured himself of drunkenness by the help of Hop Bitters. His is a wonderful case. He is well known in Rochester, N. Y., bj all the drinking people there. _ He is known in this city, Cincinnati, N<rtr Orleans, New York; in fact, all over Ihe country, as he has spent thousands of dollars for rum. I honestly believe talis card would be worth thousands of dol­ lars to you in this city and Baltimore alone, and make thousands of sober men by inducing the vm of jour MTT,TON, Del., Feb. 10,188®,* * * Having used Hop Bitters, the noted remedy for debility, nervousness, in­ digestion, etc., I have no hesitation in saying that it is indeed an excellent medicine, and recommend it to any one as a truly tonic bitters. Respectfully, REV. MRS J. H. ELI.GOO»'. i declined to insert you? advertise­ ment of Hop Bitters last year, because I then thought they might not be promo­ tive of the cause ot Temperance, but find they are, aud a very valuable medicine, myself and wife having been greatly benefited by them, and I take great pleasure in making them known. ,< < REV. JOHN SEAMAN. Editor Home Sm'inel, Alton, NlrfJ?.f Scirio, N. Y.. Dec. 1,1879. I am the pastor of the Baptist church here and an educated physician. I Mm not in practice, out am my sole family physician, and advise in many chronic cases. Over a year a^o I recommended your Hop Biiicrs to my invalid wife, who has been under medical treatment of Albany's best physicians several years. She has been proatly benefited and still uses the medicine. I believe she will become thoroughly cured of her various complicated diseases by their use. We both recommend them to our friends, many of whom have also been cured of tlieimvarious »Mincr>tH bv them. I!F.V E. R. WAUliEN. ' <> C«rott of l>rl» kills. "A young friend ot u.ine was cured pf an insatiable thirst for liquor that had so prostrated his system that he was unable to do a~ y business. II<> was en­ tirely cured by the us.; of II >p Bitters. It all tyed all that burning thirst; took away the appetite for liquor; made his nerves steady, and he has remained a sober and steady man for more than two yent s, and has no di sire to return to his cups, and I know of a number of others that have been «*ured of drinking by it. -^•Fto*n a Lendinj Rai'.ioad Official, Chi­ cago. Id. Wicket! fur Olnrgyinrn. "I believe it to be all wronsand even wicked for clergymen or other public men to be led into giving testimonials to quack doctors or vile stuffs called medicines, but when A really meritori­ ous article is made up of common valu­ able remedies known to'all, and that all phy.-icians use and trust in daily, we should freely commend it. I therefore cheerfully and heartily cominenJ Hop Bitters ior the good they have done me and my friends, firmly believiag they have no equal for famiiv me. I will not be without them. Rev. -, Washington, D. C.w A good Baptist clergyman, of Bergen. N. Y., a stroncr temperance man, suf­ fered with kidney trouble, neuralgia and dizziness almost to blindness, over two years after he was advised that Hop Bitters would cure him. because he Was afraid of and prejudi<« d against the word " bitters." Since his cure he says none need fear but tru*t in Hop Bitters. My wife and daughter were made healthy by the use of Hop Bitters, and I recommend them to my people.-- Melfio list Clergyman, Mexico, N Y. I I had severe attacks of gravel and kid* | ney trouble; was unable to get any medicine or doctor to cure me until I ! used Hep Bitters, and they cured me in S a shovt time --A DistinytU^h'd Lnot/er and Temperance Orator of Wayne county, B.Y. Farming Under the Sea. The fact, is not generally known that within three hours' ride of Boston a large and profitable business lias been carried oh since 1848 along the seashore, and is nothing more or less than "farm­ ing wider the sea." Everywhere upon the coasts of eastenl New England may be fouud, ten feet below the water mark, the lichen known as carrageen--the " Irish moss" of commerce. It maybe torn from the sunken rocks anywhere, and vet the little seaport of Scituate is almost the only place in the country where it is gathered and cured. This village is the great center of the moss business in the country, aud the entire • -- ! Union draws its supplies from these Knew His Business. j beaches. Long rakes are used in tilling A conductor on one of the Chicago j this marine farm, and it does not take long to till the many dories that await the lichen, torn from its salty, rock l>ed. fellow; upon which the monkey got angry, pelted the poor crab, and broke his shell. The crab's friend, the wasp, coming by, attacked the monkey and stung him so severely that Jocko scampered away frightened. The wasp then sent for his friends Egg and Mortar, and after due deliberation, they made it up amongst them to punish jocko. They arranged that Egg should explode if put on the and ran into the house and up to her Nire, the wasp should sting jocko, and 11XUU HJ' MV / UCU, illlU 11J luc * v**mv,/v,7 VX4 ov small hours the young canines called for | went to the top of the stairs and. said. food. Thinking to make one job of it he arose in the dark and canied the pan care­ fully to the wood-house, when seizing | each pup by the nap of the neck he thrust its nose into the pan, and when all j had "got in their work" returned to his I bed. The next morning he was roused by his wife, who wanted to know what in the world he had done with her bread pan. Investigation followed: his wife had wet up a batch of bread and set it hehiud the stove to rise; this pan our "shot" had carried to the pups and they, after gorg­ ing themselves with the dough, waddled back to their warm nest. The yeast was Maggie, you're to come down." But she rushed to him and cianground his neck, sobbing: "Oh, Tom, please forgive me--do love me--please, dear Tom?" " Don't cry, then, Maggie; here, eat u bit o' cake. Come along, Maggie, and have tea," said Tom, at last, when there was no more cake except what was down oteirs. So ended the sorrows of this day, and the next morning Maggie was trotting with her own fishing-rod in one hand and a handle of a basket in the other, stepping always with a peculiar gait, good and the puppies rose, looking like j in the muddiest places, and looking so many muffs with the head of the ani mal used for trimming, while their legs and tail resembled warts on an early rose potato. The sportsman says he would nave made a pie of 'em, only the crust would have been inside 'mtend of out.-- One morning as the elder doctor was I New Haven Palladium. darkly radiant from under her beaver bonnet, because Tom was good to her. They were on their way to the Round Pool--that wonderful pool, which the floods had made a long while ago. Tom threw the line ia lor ms aad mil the rod into her hand. Mortar, placed on the roof, should roll off upon his head as he ran out of the door. The next day the monkey being hungry, called at the crabs' house to apologize, and to beg another dinner of fruit; but, seeing no person in the house, he en­ tered, and finding a nice large egg on a tray, lie put it on the tire to roast it, as he could not manage raw eggs so well as hard cooked ones. Presently the egg exploded violently and scattered the hot cinders over Jocko, who ran into the next room howling with pain; but the wasp j flew out of a corner and stung him so% badly that he rushed out of the house, frightened and almost mad with paiu, when dropped the mortar upon his head and killed him. Moral:--Cunning and greedy people rarely gain much; and ungrateful ones are generally punished in the end. How Soon We Are Forgot. How soon human glory becomes only a fleeting shadow. But so goes the world. It is a story verified by many generations. A Chinaman, a student of Confucius, once took it into his head to travel in Europe. He arrived at Amster­ dam, and at a bookseller's shop he asked for the works of the immortal Ilixiofou. The bookseller assured him that he had never heard of the author. " What!" said the Chinaman, "have you never lizard of that immortal poet, that light o the eyes, that favorite of Kings, that rose of perfection ? I suppose that you know nothing of the immortal Fifsihihi, second cousin to the moon?" "Noth­ ing at all," siid the bookseller. It is an | obvious moral. The world is the book- * seller. Alas, the vanity of human fame! his pastor, to encourage him? shoved him along all he could, and in a short time the new convert was a sliming light among his fellow-worshipers, and the Christian grace with which lie passed the contribution-plate evoked nickels from what before had been barren pockets. One Sunday morning a hoodlum was noisy, and the conductor quietly ordered him out. He went, but last Sunday evening he appeared with a mob of dis­ solute companions, bent on a difficulty. The conductor kept an eye on the leader until the disturbance beoame unbear­ able. , " Put on breaks a moment, parson, said he, " till I look after this fare." Approaching the thug, he went for him, and wiped up several yards of aisle with him, and then stood him no his Five cents for the kingdom of God!" be demanded.c The hoodlum said he did not have to pay. " Five cents for this ride on the gos­ pel chariot," and he smashed the thug in the countenapoe. "But, brother," remonstrated the pastor, " you cannot compel him to con­ tribute." " Never you mind that, parson. You preach and 111 collect. This man can't dead-head on this orthodox through line without putting up. Beside, I'm re­ sponsible to the company for his fare. Fve punched him and he's got to show THE Rochester Democrat tells of "Three cases in which careless people lost their property." Now if those care­ less people had simply had simply had their case checked, or even plainly re­ marked, it would doubtedly have saved heap of trouble, as well as property. The husbands and fathers gather thp moss frtim the sea, and the wives and daughters prepare it for the market. Soak it in water, and it will melt away to a jelly. Boil it in milk, and a delicibus white and creamy blancmange is the re­ sult. The annual product is from ten to fifteen thousand barrels, and it brings $50,000 into the town, which sum is shared by one hundred and fifty families. Its consumption in the manufacture of lager l>eer is very large, and the entire l>eer of the country draws its supplies from Scituate beaches, as the importa­ tion from Ireland has almost ceased. It is not generally know n that the moss, as an article of food, is called " sea-moss farina." Are ITon Nat la Good Health 1 If the Liver is the Bonrce of yonr tremble. JOB can find an absolute remedy in L'R. SANFOBD'S LIVES JNVIOOBATOB, the only vegetable cuthartio which acts directly on the Liver. Cures all BiliouH diseases. For Book address Da. roan, 162 Broadway, New York. TIM Voltaic Belt Co^ Klanhall, IKck^ Will send their Electro-Voltaic Belts to the af­ flicted upon thirty days' trial. See their adver­ tisement in this paper, headed, " On T) irty Days' TriaL" DH. FLACK, for thirty years one of the ra<yt successful educators in the country, offers Rreatly reduced rates for board and tnition in our advertising coin 1ms. Hia school is located on the Hudrton river and in the most healthy and beautiful location. Bi tter write and offer what you enn • ffnrd to pr\v. wil 1 £">t his reply. Wa confidently refer our readers to the card of Dr. C. R. Bykes, in another column. He is an old resident of Chicago, a regular gradnate, honesty honorable and responsible, and, as a physician, takes first rank in his chosen specialty of catarrh and its complications* THE timber and lumber business in Gebrgia will amouut this year to 800,- 000,000 feet, and will exceed $5,000,000 % Tear. YEOETIXE in acknowledged by all "imapg of people to be the best and most reliable blood purifier in the world. NOTHING is uglier than a crooked boot. Straighten them with Lyon's Stiffentar*. _.^oyT'* ¥"<* *««, TOTfa afcdi iMtabto xuartj new sails «£ AM doflsb