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<> V mm mmmMMirnir LIT JEKWT* K, OVIK. r W ik-F1 mm IN told bor by with loving ;• Our ilarltna and onr pr A " t And wept that;««tv> crxxi *nd fair 'f'80 earty staraJd ft»v» fli©<V ii I.: "$1$ •' -, 5 i •$!» laid her in the aitant grfM- ' And wept above her tomb; ^ f fWip loved her a* the «umeter i »• 'i#. pure and tender bloom. • j * (* Aj in our heart* we half-rebelled • '^hat God had plotted awijr .';fv bhweum wo had cherished sine# ^ ?{; ytte first glad, booming day. j' *;r' ^' so. with litft and bitter taan, j y ' t We watered oft#«er grave, *v*' • ^ ,, -, M*r thought that Who had Mi Mrtf |> tVas aV» HP who gave; ' <B»til, one cool September mm, Ve came to weep in gloonu . Aj|d found one little lonely Howaa • * Still blooming on hoi- tomb ; - 4fed, fearing lest the early fraat Should blight its petals fair, took it home and pressed ft '* • *Twixt the Bible-tide with oanj , Jdld, looking on that little biooakt i ' We learned to think thst (JoA . ' ttad ta'en away our Utile flower From earth"# hard, chilly «od-- ; . »*»* - "r , md ta'en it ere the early frnrt , Of sin could come to blighl-- Hie little flower we loved so well, •~,J Bo spotless, pure and white. i/iHUMA. m. *' - *v of which I resolved to carry off about half. The two floors above were neat and pleasant; but it was the second story back that wrung my heart. It was the nursery. Toys and personal articles had of course been removed, Jr.- but there was a pretty little bed beside the large one, and two cunning little rocking-chairs. The window looked out on a pleasant garden, and here was sitting old Mrs. Wig<?an, with whom I had a little acquaintance. "Such a charming house," said I, "is it not a pity to break up «*»« charm- ing nest"? Do vou know the family?" Poor Mrs. Grab am 1 She lived here with her children so comfortably and happily, two or three lodgers on her up­ per floor, until a few months ago she lost I everything bv the failure of a banking y i house. She had no relatives in the city; «DB YOUNG FOLKS. «• or TH> MTAI. KXOHANS& •J What are grmnhopppni good lorf ; Child, corns listen to me, \- Anrt I'll tell you about agra»h<*p* ; That hops in history. •> A;You have read of mighty London-- It* wonderful rights and atrangw-- ' Ita Castle, Abbey, a-id grand St. PauPa . Tower and KoyaL Exchange. Well, on the topmost pinnacle . '•'* jj Of th« Exchange appears . -- _ '. A monster gramhnpper weatbercodt That has hopped three hundred yean. "*' - & j has struggled on, tried to get boarders, but the location is too remote; she sees no way but to give it up, place her chil­ dren with a friend in the country, and j try to earn a livelihood by painting, j She is said to be an excellent artist, i j though I am no judge myself. These ; j are all her own pictures, I believe. She j j is shut up in the back parlor--everything I j taken out of it but a chair. I saw her j j a few minutes ago. The tears were run- 1 j ning down her cheeks,-but there she j j sat, bravely stitching on her children's j winter clothes, sewing on the iast but- ! ! ton and mending the last stocking--poor ! thing! There are the little innocents at ; play now in the yard," j Mrs. \frggan herself (although she Cousin Ned, from California, Nevada, j had ,m ©ye °n the best chamber-set) New Mexico, and~«U other places be- j wiped away a good, generous tear; my yond the Rocky mountains, has been i eJes were dim, and I would gladly at paying us a visit. You know just what that moment have relinquished the best bargain in sideboards. Ned, too, the ~A woman once left a baby In a summer field to dte^ With a merry grasshopper chirpingMar With its noisy revelry. .THEREOFU6ATHO. 54. Mrs. ©ray to Mrs. Thompson. paying us a visit. You itnow just a jolly good soul Ned always was, and he is just as jolly now--as why should he not bo, 'with' an income of $6,000 or $7,000 a year? Beside that my poor George's $1,800 hides its diminished head. He is handsomer than ever, too --the same merry brown eyes and chest- nut hair ; but in addition an appearance, an air so altogether distingue that our neighbors all go to their windows to gaze after him. Well, do you know, the moment he appeared I aet. mv heart on him $T)I our dear old friend * Adelaide, who shall not waste her sweetness on tike desert air if I can help it. You know I always hod a fancy for match­ making, though, to confess the trnth, I have never yet scored a suooess in that line; my two predestined affinities al­ ways fly off at a tangent just as I flatter myself it is un fait accompli. (You wul perceive I have not forgotten qufte • •, A hsppy-lienrtwi schoolboy Listened as he skipped fir; • i- - And, running to catch the graaahappact •', He heard the baby cry. Oh, 'twas a royal moment For the sorrowing stranger there; The buy the little one carried home To a mother's loving care. The baby grew up to manhood, A manhood strong < ltd neat; Be wits a true an«t noble knight In the service of the state. And when the royal building * as founded in his mime, He lilted the humble grasshopper To its pinnacle of fame. There, through the long, long rentuties. By breeze or icmpeM. shaken, It tells, "<;»d heart! the voice of the lad By huuiuu love for»;t!ten!" the following day a great number visited the belfry to see Hie curious bell-ringer. It was found that an army of flying squirrels had cut the hole in the lattice­ work, and that the wind had forced the limb of the neighbbring oak through the opening* A little prong near tlis end of the limb had caught the clapper near its point, and so the wind made its novel bell-ringer.--Philadelphia Times. £ -J HOUSEKEEPERS' HELPS. FARM NOTES. DRYING TOBACCO.--Light colors are not desirable and are produced by rapid j case drying. In curing tobacco endeavor to let it dry Blowly, taking care, however, that it does not pole-burn. WORMS IN HORSES--To destroy pin- worms in horses, give an injection of J ,313 in 1875. In both the latter cases some difficulties had been thrown in th« i way by the town authorities, as was tl>£ recent?v at Chalons sur-Marne, where the Mayor placed the rate of horse-flesh at a higher rate than that of beef. The average price of horse-meat is from 25 to 30 cents per pound. Each horse furnishes about 200 kilogrammes iffo CLARIFY FAT.--Cut into small pieces, f%t of either beef or mutton. Put into a sauce pan and cover the pieces with cold water. Stir until the water boils, skim carefully and allow to boil until the water has been discharged in _ vapor the fat will then be of the color 1 make a good jump to reach it. of salad --1 -A---- -- * --•»« 1 - . salt and water two or three days in sue- ' (^00 weight) of meat, whish is capable Session, then administer a bail consist- being prepared in many by no mean! ing of an ounce of aloes and one drachm I unappetizing ways, such as pot au-fau^ iialoiiirl.--^V. Jicrcild. , boiled, roast, hashed, Luriuol, jugged, EXERCISE FOR FOWLS.--A new way of : STE- Parisian. ' furnishing hens that are confined in A small space with an abundance of exer­ cise is recommended by an exchange. A piece of meat is suspended by a string, ! just so high that the fowls will have to We snp- The Pocket Haaikerehlef. '• 1 We may forget ourpurse, ourpenknife, and many other things, says the London Hatter, without experiencing any great , l.wm u\tT °°1OT : make a K°°<' JumP to reacn it. We snj)- inconvenience, and even without its beina f°r B ul' ̂ li wlU keeP ̂ j pose other kinds of food might be thus j known at, times, but to lose or mislay the oi time. | placed, and no lien would be without j handkerchief maybe followed bvverv WIM BcH-Blacw awl a Rrant Boy. Aqnasco is such an out-of-the-way town that no doubt many of the children never have heard of it before. It is in dear old fellow, looked awfully sorrV, as yZ o£ MniyJand,--wid stamls on a he gazed meditatively out of the will- h.° "ill near the mouth of Patuxent dow where the bright-eyed little girl, and the boy with fair, long curls were loading dirt into a tiny cart with a min­ iature shovel. From the floor above came the sharp ring of the auctioneer's voice: " How much, how much? Six dol­ lars, did you say seven ? Six dollars, seven dollars--gone at seven River. In the summer time no girl or i boy of Aquasco need go to the seashore, j for salt water flows at their feet and the same salt breeze that sweeps fleet after fleet of white-sailed ships up and down the Chesapeake Bay blows in the windows of the houses in Aquasco. The j good people of Aquasco go to bed BO soon after supper that the wliippoor-will The auctioneer descended with his j crie® auA comPlains without one person followers into the front chaml»er. Be­ fore I knew it Ned was there, and in his impetuous way was bidding in a fashion to astonish the second-hand men. He swept everything before him ; Mrs. Wig- gan, to be sure, stood him a littie con­ test on the " set," and I laughed to see her glare at him, while he was so ab­ sorbed that several punches with my all the French we learned together at the ! Paras^ had no effect whatever. " Was Biverside Seminary. Notwithstanding j ^ere insanity in his family ?" I asked my years of devotion to pies and pud- j myself. By the time we reached the dings, I will keep a littie of it out of re- parlor the second-hand men had slunk speet for the memory of poor Mademoi- I away» the boarding-house keepers looked selle Laurent, who worked so hard to I fcghast. I made a brave stand for the drill it into me.) ! sideboard, but it was of no avail; and, But Adelaide and Ned have l»een cor- ! indeed, most of us sat down, leaving responding a year or two ; he speaks of j anc* . ® auctioneer to themselves, her with great respect--as how could he ! ®ver7 article from the second floor down otherwise, of course ?--and I have fondly I purchased that morning by the dis- hoped that his mission to the East may ] tingiuslied stranger. 1 • - - ~ This amusing turn of affairs rather Ade- cannot have more relation to the affairs of the , heart than to mining stocks, as he pre- < ®^hrmed my hopes in regard to tends. | laide ; of course, thought I, he ct Well, soon after his arrival three weeks ago, Ned and I were sitting in the dining-room alone; the children had started for school, and George had kissed me and gone down town, after an hour's talk about ranches, burros, and gulches, and canons. Now that I was alone with our visitor, the conversation took a con­ fidential turn, ^ordering on the senti­ mental, and, in pursuance of the idea EHL111 mhia' 1 ĥ} ̂J i with the fair curls was cliugintr aocloselv feK ^^:^°7de^1',that ! about her neck that she eouldnot readi­ ly free herself. As she arose and came rid himself entirely of those old recol­ lections, but he knows very well the sterling worth of Adelaide, and what a charming, intelligent, devoted wife die will make. All had gone but Ned, myself and the auctioneer. The latter knocked at the door of the back parlor. "Come in," said a voice, and the burly man swung the doors aside. The mother was mak­ ing an effort to rise, but the little fellow he hid not fallen a victim to some bon­ anza Princess, or some bewitching u . , , , ° t forward we saw the traces of tears, the j SftHhoiher tace- ^ was ever the trouble between* you the Captain's daughter ?" You' remember, of course, Julia, how much we heard at the time about that affair--how, during the war, I loved to read to you, even during study hours, the letters I liad received from Brother Jim, stationed at Fortress Monroe, giv­ ing the details, in Jim's rather satirical style, ©j ttie serious flirtation in progress betw*eso Lieut. Ned, of Company C, and C^pt. Darringtons pretty daughter, of the regulars? And afterward, h$>w some way« shadow came between them --nobody could tell how, only that Ned was hasty, and had exaggerated ideas of •^nan'a prerogatives, perhaps, and Mi«* Warrington proud and shy. And BO it . was forgotten. And now this same Lieutenant, after hairbreadth escapes from shot and shell, and scalping Apaches, sat there in an easy.ohair, by my Baltimore heater, and actually turned pale because I mentioned the Captain's daughter !" Love is in­ deed la grande pussioa. He had nothing to communicate, how­ ever ; bsjde me consider we were always great fools at 21, and likely at that time to get caught in a trap ; on the other hand, to throw our chances of liappi- n©fos away, just as it chanced to be ; he became silent, and I had not the heart to rally him as he sat there watching the floating smoke of his cigar, with a far- off look in his eyes--knowing, as I did, whole form. j From Ned, who was standing just be i hind me, I suddenly heard the words : j "My God! is it possible?" and, turn- | ing, saw him with a face most inde- i scribable in expression. Of course there | was no doubt about his being out of his j mind--too much auction had made him j mad. The auctioneer, after opening the doors, had been called suddenly away, and we three now stood there--those i two gazing at each other, and I at both. " Edwin !" at last said MrR. Graham : Edwin! with a voice and smile so sweet and sad that I did not wonder at what followed. Ned's ashen face suddenly flushed all over. "Lottie!" he cried, stretching | his arms toward her. "Lottie, my be­ loved, have I found you again ?" and he clasped her to his heart. The queerest termination to an auc­ tion ! I have 6een many in my capacity of housewife, but never one like this. MrSj Grnhani w;i* ti>•> "Captain's daugh­ ter, and the generous impulse of the honest Californian had restored his old sweetheart her home--yes, and the heart of her faithful lover. "Mamma," said the little fellow, slowly, "is this gentleman the auction­ eer, and will he take away all our pretty things ?" "No, my darling," said Ned, lifting the child far above his head, and then, bringing the round cheek to the level with his own lips, "all your pretty said Bertie, cor- that he had gone back fifteen years, and j f8 remain, you and your mam that pfi was walking the moonlight m° beacll With pretty Lottie Darrington, while the band of the regiment pkyed in the distance. From the sublime to the ridiculous-- it is always my fate, dear Julia. Bar­ ney, the factotum of the neighborhood, tapped at the window, and as I raised w sash, "'** A foine morning, mum," said he; " thereVa red flag out at No. 54, and I thought I'd be after comin' to tell ye. Tis a foine house, and a foine leddy, more's the pity." "Sou see. Barney knows my weakness, •Bd he had seen me a few days before •tt animated bidder at an auction in the neighborhood. " Thank you, Barney; I think HI be OA hand," I replied, closing the window. _" A foine ieddy," to be sure; I had olfcej^ niet lier--a fair-faced, woman ; plainly and tastefully dressed, walking with two charming children. Her house seemed the abode of peace and comfort, so far as the passer-by could judge, and what could have compelled the breaking IIP of so fine an establishment ? At all events I would not stop to speculate it Was possible here was my opportunity to secure a handsome side-board at a bargain* As I wished to be on hand in . time to look through the house before the sale began, I asked Ned to have the goodness to excuse me for an hour or so. "Oh, I will go with you, Mrs. Tool dies," he said quite gayly, and ran up e|ahs for his hat and cane. ma, too. "And yon, too?" dial)y. "I like you.' And so these two, after years of sepa­ ration, were brought together agaiu. And in such an odd manner, too! I couldii't help thinking how differently I should have managed it had I been writing a story instead of acting a part in real life. I should have f-mnd Mrs. Graham first, and sympathizingly won her to tell the story of her troubles. Of course, she would have mentioned Ned, and, of course, I should have seen at a glance tlmt »he loved him still. And then I should have been the good angel to bring them together, and merit and receive their htV l<mg thanks, and, in­ stead ot that, he e WHS U r uy acting the part of an angel without knowing it, and my chance for a romantic adventure spoiled forever. It was shameful, abominable, and then my plans for Ade' laide and Ned, of course it was clear that they never could succeed now. And yet I felt delighted. I went home leaving Ned at No. 54. What a heavenly change for Mrs; Gra­ ham ! How different from that of the morning looked the sunlight of this af­ ternoon! Her homo intact--her little ones safely near--the prospect of tlu- lonely garret faded away like a frightful dream. And Ned, happy as a clam, foi having remembered the widow and the fatherless. I had them all to dinner I ^.hat night.^ Mrs. Graham is charming. | I will say it, even if Adelaide dies an old maid. i inere will 54. So off we went to No. 64, where the Th,»f0 light curiosity shop, the effect of dec- Otatfve art run mad, but such taste and ingenuity everywhere visible. People with shrewd, hard faces, boarding-house keawBN "second-hand men," eying the pietty engravings and pretty water- colors mi the parlor wall, running their greasy fingers over the keys of the piano, •/fpattniing chairs topsy-turvey, and shaking libles to see how firm on their legs they Sight be. In the bay-window was a la**re stand of beautiful thrifty plants, and to pity him, and the grunt of the bull frog is the only voice that answers the tfhirr and ring of the clocks when they strike twelve, midnight. So it was that, when in the middle of the night of the 25th of last June, Cyrus Wallace, an Aquasco boy, heard the clmreli bell ringing, he sprang out of bed and ran barefooted into the street As he reached the gate he saw men run­ ning by at the top of their speed. "What's the matter ?" shouted Cyrus, to one of the flying figures. "A fire, I guess," said the man. " Fire, fire, fire !" shrieked Cyrus, as he ran after the others, and in a few minutes the whole town of Aquasco was aroused. Everybody was in tho street and everybody was hurrying towards the church. Women seized water buckets and children gathered up pails. Aquasco had been very still five minutes before, but now Aquasco was beside itself with excitement But where was the fire ? The first man who reached the church put his hands to his mouth and hallooed to the top of the bell tower, where the bell was still clanging away. The second man j did the same and the third called aloud and so did the fourth. Not a word would ' the person in the bell-tower answer, ! though he rang and rang, until all | Aquiisco gathered on the grass below. ! "The door of the steeple is locked !" said one of the men. " Nobody under- ! stands it" * i " Maybe some rascal got locked in | there yesterday and fell asleep," said : Mr. Rankin the Constable. ! "No, no," replied Mr. Westcoat, the • sexton of the church, "I was up there | in the afternoon, and there wasn't any- j body in the tower; it's a spirit of a gob- I lin, that's what it is!" and Mr. Westcoat ! shook his head, while some of the chil- j dren huddled together and held their | breath. "It's old Tappan's ghost," con­ tinued Mr. Westcoat "Tappan was sexton before I was, and he rang that bell up there for twenty years. He's come back." Cyrus laughed when he heard the sex­ ton say such things. length APPXIE BATTER PUDDING.--Four beaten •ggs, one pint of rich milk, two cups of flour, one teaspoonful of salt, two even teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Peel and core eight ripe, tart apples; put into a deep baking-dish; fill the center of each with sugar and pour the beaten batter over them. Bake an hour, and eat with cream and sugar, flavored with nutmeg or lemoh. GOOD APPLE BTTTTER.--Boil a kettleful of new cider until reduced two-thirds. Have a quantity of tart, juicy apples pared, cored, and sliced, and put as many into the kettle as the cider will cover. Cook slowly until tender, skim out and put in a second supply of apples. When tender turn all out and let stand over night. In the morning return to the kettle and boil down until quite thick. Add whatever spice you please. It re­ quires almost constant stirring. OMELET.--Beat the yolks of eight eggs and the whites of four until very light, stir in a teacup of cream in which a tablespoonful of flour has been mixed and season with salt and pepper. Melt a tablespoonful of butter in a baking-pan, pour in the mixture and set the-pan in a hot oven. When it thickens spread over the remaining whites beaten to a froth. Beturn to the oven and bake a delieate brown. Slip on a large platter and serve at once. QUINCE PRESERVES. --Pare, quarter, and core, saving the skins and cores. Just cover the quarters of quince with cold water and simmer until tender. Take out the pieces carefully, and lay on flat plates. Add the parings, etc., to the water, cover tightly and stew an hour. Strain through a jelly-bag, and to ea g. pint of the juice add a pound of granulated sugar. Boil, skim, add the pieces of quince, and boil gently ten minutes, take out onto flat dishes and set in the sun. Let the syrup boil until it begins to jelly, then fill the glass cans two- thirds full and cover with the syrup. COCOA FROM THE NIBS.--Put two quarts of very hot water into a three- quart enameled saucepan for every one- quart pound of ground cocoa nibs, and stir well together. Boil gently, but in­ cessantly, for eight hours, and stir occa­ sionally. Strain off the liquid intd a ba­ sin and let it stand until quite cold, when the fat (or butter) should be skimmed off. Warm up the cocoa for use. The cocoa nibs will reboil several times if a little fresh be added. The butter of cocoa is valuable for chapped hands, sore lips and burns, &c. I tried the whole nibs, but discarded them in favor of the ground, and have used the above recipe for years to the general satisfac­ tion of my friends. CRISP OATMEAL CAKE.--Rub a quarter of a pound of dripping or lard into half a pound of oatmeal, into which you have mixed a large pfrtclj of carbonate of soda and of salt. Make into a dough with a gill of cold water, shake meal plentifully on the board, turn your dough on to it, and, having sprinkled this also with meal, work it with the backs of yoiu- fingers as little as possible. Roll the dojigli out to the thickness of a crown piece cut in shapes--the lid of a sauce­ pan or a glass answers well for this pur­ pose--put tho cakes on a hot stove, and, when a little brown on the under side, jtake them off and place on a hanger l>e- fore fire the in order to brown the upper side; this done, the cakes will be ready for use. If to be kept, put them away in a tin box in a dry place, and when required the incentive to take the necessary exer­ cise while eating her daily food. ASSORTING FRUIT.--Great injury has been done by the careless way in which some growers put up their fruit. It pays in the end to give close attention to as­ sorting, and those who mark their grades honestly and put their names on their packages will soon obtain the highest prices. It may require years for a fruit raiser to establish a reputation, but when may be followed by very grave consequences, as we all know. Moreover, we make use of this article in many other different ways. All who make use of sjiectacles do mmmm IKE C«UT BUJOD PBwnr WILL CURS MoroCnla, ScMfulonl Canceram Hnmar, Eryaipclaa, Caaker, Salt Rheum, Pinapips «r Humor lit Ihc Facc, WenffaSjfcia, gfrnipay ,, via, RUenmatifua, Palnw in the Side, COKtivfMH, Piles, leateclM, Near .svR" ' it Pain* In the Back, Falntneae« Stomach, Kidney Comb plaint«, Female Weak* mtum and (General Debility. < them from their nose in order to put them very carefully into the case without usiug the handkerchief, and they use it again before putting them on, wiping the glasses with great care. The majority of people pay by far too little attention to an object so indispensable. TUa preparation ia twientiflcally and chemloalyMn- nuea. and SCI strongly concentrated from root#, herba _ "Srk« that its good effects are realized immediately HOt rClHOVG { ? cornmpuciTiff to it.. Then* is no disf*&86 of tlw huipn system for which the VKGETINE cannot be used jnth I'KHFI:CT SAFETY, as it does not. contain any matsl- lie rompouud. VOT eradicating the system of all im­ purities of the blood it has no eoual. It hus never failed to effect a cTire, giving tone and strength fcothewrtem dem.ir-ated by disease. It« wonderful effect*? upon tYm complaints named are surprising to all. Many have been cared by the VEGETINE that have tried many other remedies. It can well be called this is accomplished "he will always ob- | it into" the same pocket wVtii theTrkeys^ tain ready sales and be able to command ; their purse, their snuff-box, without good priees. SAI/T TO POULTRY.--We clip the fol­ lowing useful hints: Hens often have a habit of biting and pulling at their feath­ ers, and greedily eating them until their bodies are bear. This practice it is be­ lieved, is occasioned by a want of salt, as troubling themselves concerning the many strange substances with which ita tissue will not fail to come in contact in BO miscellaneous a company, and which might sully the purity which the hand­ kerchief ought to possess. Does one go to pay a visit? Before presenting them- when salted food is given them, they | selves to the person they wish to thank make no attempt to continue the habit. Salt pork chopped flue and fed twice a week, has been adopted with success, while others put a teaspoonful of salt with two quarts of meal or shorts moist­ ened, well mixed, and feed it about twice every week. Fowls, like human beings, to be healthy, must have a certain allow­ ance of salt. COAXJ FOB PAINT.--Suel Foster, of or solicit, some have been known to dust their boots with the handkerchief. Does the careful wife see some grains of dust left on her ornaments? She makes them disappear with her handkerehief. Boys in the school-room cleau their slates with t'-em; iu the play-ground the hand- kere ie is the necessary attendant of a mult tu ie of games. With this they wipe oii the dirt ; they strike off the dust. Muscatine, writes the. Iowa Homralcnd ! It is used to stop the blood that flows as follows: "Let me again recommend this article for old wheels, new wheels, wagon wheels, buggy wheels, wheel bar­ rows, etc. I have used it several years, and know it is the best paint ever used. This year my buggy needed painting-- some of the spokes rattled, and some of the woodw<a-k about the bed rattled a little, and when my man was tarring the wheels of the big wagon, the two-horse spring wagon and the one-horse spring wagon, he gave the baggy a coat all over -running-gear, shafts, dash board, in­ side and out, all over, and now the old rattle-trap looks and runs like a new buggy, runs as silent as a midnight hour, and shines as black as a black jet glass bead. Tiy it; it saves half the cost of setting tires; that is, they will not need setting half as often." from wounds--always very numerous in the age of leap-frog and pris >t;ers' base; the age also of communism iu handker­ chiefs. With wounds come tears, and the handkerchief, full of dust, spotted with dirt, with the blood of bodies known or unknown, serves agaiu for wiping the eyes, the nose, or the cheeks furrowed with tears. We do not wish, and we can not tell here all the strange uses that people make of the pocket handkerchief. And then what signals have been con­ veyed by itt How many sad farewells, how many cheerful congratulations! The very method of waving it has a language, as the motions of the fan also have. • But no one has hitherto discoursed on the language of the pocket handkerchief. And how useful it often is as a help to the pocket or the hand-bag! How many Tie Great Blooil Purifier. OR. GALLIER SURPRISES. Vegetine Cured His Daughter* * OAIXIKKSVn.-LK, Chilton Co.. Afa„> May i 5, W78. { Drar Sir~My da,i(tht«r has been afflicted with nasal oatarrh, affection of bladder nnd kidneys, and is of acrof- ttloue diathesis, and, after having exhausted my skiM and the mrtsfc eminont physicians of Selma, I at iast re­ sorted to the USE of your VEOETINE (without confidence). and.to my great juirprise.my daughter has been restored to health, i write this as a simple act of justice, and not as an advertising medium. Respectfully, T. B. CAIXIER, M.Di Vegetine is Sold by all Druggists. HOSIER SAVING SEED CORN.--We frequent^ i mushrooms, myrtle-berries, strawberries, have the vitality of our corn killed by j and raspberries have been gathered iuto early frosts, and consequently get a poor j the handkerchief in young days, and stand of corn the next season. The pre- j more valuable things in later life! Then ventive is, as soon as there is danger of there may be evil results traced to it--a frost to go into the cornfield and select the ripest and fairest ears, and plenty of them. Save only ears that have small cobs and deep kernels. Either braid it up by a few husks left on each ear, or make a scaffold in the loft of some build- number of ailments of which one cannot, guess the origin; diseases of the nose and eyes. Fortunate it is for him that incurs nothing worse; diphtheria, for example, which the handkerchief may heedlessly j transmit. Let us not use the handker- ing, where a good circulation of air can j chief except for its proper purpose; let Sitters Meets the requirements of the rational mniical philos­ ophy which at present prevails. It ia a perfectly pare vegetable remedy, embracing the three important prop­ erties of a preventive, a tonic, and an alterative. It fortifies the body against disease, invigorates and re­ vitalizes the torpid stomach and liver, and effect* a most salutary change in the entire system, whtgi in a morbid condition. Cyrus knew very well that only cowards believed ingliosta. ' f°r table put them in the oven for five He was afraid of big dogs and drunken ! minutes to warm them through and re- men, but common sense told him that i crisp them. there was no such thing as a ghost or ' --' -- creature of the. dark of any kind. j The Game of Boston. o ,^ve keyR,"^aida nian to ihfiJ^^/Tlie game at cards called "Boston," •, M'm ?° "P al.H1 nu8" [ says a late writer in the New York Times, mg. ^ie sexton fumbled in his pocket ! after the capital of Massachusetts, and be had. A scaffold can be made by nail­ ing sticks from rafter to rafter, and then laying small poles on. When the corn is first put up, do not lay it too thick, as the cob may not dry out, aud it may heat and spoil. Spread out thin.--Co mi- try Gentleman. MAKING CLAY Son, FnRTiiiE.--La the Maine Farmer is related the experienced of Jonathan Weston in making clay soil productive. He says his soil was " a stiff, hard clay; now it is a clay loam and yields good crops. After plowing the hardest and poorest acre in my field, which I did soon after haying, I told a boy and French horse that when they had nothing else to do it would be their busi­ ness to haul sand on to this land. I do not now recollect, but think we hauled one hundred and fifty or two hundred one-horse loads. The next spring, with a heavy cultivator, I thoroughly mixed this sand with the clay, and, without a shovelful of any kind of dressing, sowed us devote it to a special place; Jet us change it as often as possible, and in­ spire our children with a great disgust for another's handkerchief on account, of the disagreeable, nay, dangerous conse­ quences that may ensue. Much more might be said about the pocket hnnder- chief, but enough has been hinted at to set the reader to tliinkiqg upon its Im­ portance, its uses, and its abuses. A Result of the Mississippi Jetties. As a direct result of the success of Captain Eads' jetties at the mouth of the Mississippi River, is noted the present remarkable demand for huge grain carry­ ing barges for the transportation of wheat from St,. Louis to the ocean-going vessels at New Orleaus. This demand for barges is supplemented by the recent purchase of several of the most powerful towboats ever built at Pittsburg, and which were originally designed for the coal trade. With 20 feet of wafer * For sale by all Drnggiste and Dealers generally. H A L T HITTERS One Five Thousand Dollar United States- Registered Four Per Cent. Bond will l>e forfeited and paid by the MALT BITTERS COMPANY to any individual or ts any society of physicians or druggists if MALT BITTERS, A Family Medicine preitared by them, does not excel, in a fair competitive examination, all other medical com­ pounds now before the public called " Bitten," In th* following particulars: only to find that he had left the keys at home, a half mile away. Glad enough to get away from the haunted church, the sexton started home after the keys. Meanwhile the bell still rang. Every now and then the strokes would be faint, but the next instant would come a loud clang, as though the old bell didn't like such mysterious work a bit. The wind was blowing stiffly in the tops of the tall oak trees, but all knew that the wind could not ring the bell because of the lattice-work around the belfry. While the people were whispering together around the church, Cyrus was busy look­ ing for a way to get into the belfry be­ fore the sexton should return with the keys. He knew that there was a little round window, just large enough for him to crawl through, some distance up the . 20 feet of water as- . it to oats and grass seed. The result j sured at the South Pass, where the jet- | was beyond my most sanguine expecta- I ties are located, the river transportation ! 1. DIGESTIVE POWEK. 2. NEIIVE POWER. 8. BLOOM-PRODUCING POWEH. 4. FLKBH-PUOMTCINO POWER. 6. PUREST AND BEST MEDICINE. MALT BrrTZM.a. much played by our forefathers, has lately been revived, it is said, in New England and in New York, especially here, and is greatly enjoyed on account of tho skill required for proficiency. Boston is played by four persons with two packs of cards, which are never shuffled. One of the packs is dealt and the other cut alternately, to determine the trump, the trump governing the game. The dealer deals five cards to each player twice, and deals six cards the last time around. If the first player can make, or thinks he can make five tricks from * his hand, he says: " I go Boston," and his fellow-players may over­ bid him with the words: I go 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 or 13," as the hand of each may justify. Should any one fail to make tho number of tricks he bids for, and,Ww J\f. 1 he must pay to each competitor a forfeit! Barney will be provided for, we shall all bless the day that v^ousrn Ned went to the auction and bought up the entire establishment--in­ cluding a widow and two children not on the list. It is time for me to look after the din- Sf.r».. ̂I thought I must write to you tnis little romance of my humdrum "fe As ever, your old chum, EMMA. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., has an opium den which is patronized exclusively by white citizens. J " stepped boldly up the rounds. "I'll bring down!that ghost before Mr. Westcoat gets back," laughed Cyrus, and the people could see him by the dim starlight as he put his head through the window and disappeared. Cyrus found himself in a queer place, ft was so dark in the belfry that he couldn't see where to move. He groped from one step to another, going up the belfry stairs slowly, while the sound from tho bell abovo seemed to crash lown from above with ten-fold clangor. He reached the crank which the sexton upon beforehand. The agreement is I imperative^ without it the game is impos- i sible. It is accounted the most complex and difficult of all games at cards, and I is therefore a favorite with professional j gamblers. Boston has tions, yielding an average of two tons a year, with the exception of the first and last, for the next eight years, after which I plowed again and applied the same remedy to the other side of the furrow. Now, after the liberal application of sand for so many years my hard clay was dis­ solved, and I have in place of it a good, mellow loam. And instead of cutting eight or ten tons of hay, as formerly. I now cut in good seasons forty tons. For the last twenty years I have sold as much hay on an average each as the farm cut when I commenced, and yet I have never purchased $f>0 wortlrof manure." WHAT AN OLD FARMER SAYS.--This is the advice of an old man who has tilled the soil for forty years: I am an old man, upwards of three score years, during two score of which I have been a tiller of the soil. I cannot say that I am now, but I have been rich, and have all I need; do not owe a dollar, have given my children a good education, and when I am called away, to leave them enough to keep the wolf from the door. My experience has taught me that: 1. One acre of land, well prepared and well cultivated, produces more than two which receive only the same amount of labor used on one. 2. One cow, horse, mule, sheep or hog, well fed, is more profitable than two j spoken of as the American game. Ben- | jamin Franklin has the reputation of ! introducing it in Paris. He gave it the j or <d<>ver is raised. ; name of his native city, and is said to • • -- - ! have been a very clever player. The philosophers of the eighteenth century, j keep one well. : 3. One acre of clover or grass is worth more than two of cotton where no grass turned when ringing the bell. No one I was there. • "Hello ! ho, there, ho!" shouted Cyrus i lirectly into the bell's throat. But the ! Well's roar drowned his words. He j 'limbed still higher, and soon sat amopg ! the rafters above the bell. He reached lown and felt the ait around the bell. His hand struck something. " Oh!" 1 thought Cyrus. He felt the something j uid found that it was the limb of a tree, i Following the limb with his hand, he ?<>und that the limb had thrust itself through a big hole in the lattice-work. Hvery time the tall tree on the outside rocked, this limb moved quickly forward ind withdrew again. Cyrus laughed. He had found the ghost, for he knew that the end of the limb had caught the clap­ per of the bell, and so that every time the tree was rocked by the wind the dapper struck. He caught the limb with both hands and gave it a hard, strong pull. The limb bent and the bell stopped ringing. In the mean time the people were waiting anxiously below. As soon as the >ell stopped Cyrus put his mouth to the hole in the lattice, and called out that it was all right. The sexton soon arrived with the keys, and taking a hatchet, Cyrus chopped the bothersome limb in two. Oie people of Aquasco went to bed, and many laughed at the sexton's ghost. On i who were his companions in France, were very fond of the game and delighted in its novelty. Baron d'Holbach is re­ ported to have said that only a man of genius could excel at Boston. The game has always been played more or less in the Southwest, where much money is still lost and won by it. MANY years ago'there lived at Salem, Connecticut, an eccentric man named Amasa Kilborn, about whom numberless stories are told to this day. On one oc­ casion in summer he had a five acre lot of choice grass, cut and spread out to dry. In the afternoon a shower came up and drenched it. The next day the hay was spread out to dry. Another shower came up and re-drenched it. On the third day the program me was repeated. On the fourth day, after the hay had been properly dried and raked into wind­ rows, a cloud jpillar moved up over the western horizon, and a distant growl of thunder echoed from the hills. Kilborn was mad. He looked at the hay and looked at the cloud. "Kuu up to the house, boy," he said, in a voice trembling with resentment, "and bring down afire- brand, quick, now!" The boy asked no questions. He came back with the blazing torch, and Kilborn touched off each windrow. "There," said he, "I'll 6ee if this hay will get wet again!" 4. No farmer who buys oats, corn, or wheat, fodder and hay, as a rule, for ten years, can keep the Sheriff away from the door in the end. 5. The farmer who never roads the pa- ]>ers, sneers at book-farming and im­ provements, always has a leaky roof, poor stock, broken down fences, and complains of bad "seasons." 6. The farmer who is alx>ve his busi­ ness and intrusts it to another to manage, soon l»as no business to attend to. 7. The farmer whose habitual be.verage is cold water, is healthier, wealthier and wiser than he who does not refuse to driuk. Horse-Meat as Food. Some very interesting statistics have been published by the society for pro­ moting the use of horse-flesh and the flesh of asses and mules as food, show­ ing how steadily the consumption of •heso articles of diet has been increas­ ing in Paris and the provinces since the foundation of the society in 1866. The weight has increased from 171,300 piu uds in 1866 to 1,982,620 pounds in 1879. In the principal cities of the of grain to ocean hulls bids fair to assume proportions that may jeopardize the over- j land carrying of grain between the Up- j per Mississijipi a*d the seaboard. Within i the past few weeks the St. Louis and i New Orleans Transportation Company ! and the Mississippi Valley Transport®- j tion Company have been in the market : as purchasers for steamers and barges. ; The latter are of the variety known in i Western waters as the "model" barge, j in contradistinction to the coal or square barge. These craft are built to a model, ! and those recently contracted for are of ( the following dimensions: Length 225 : feet, width 36 feet, hold 9 feet. The j " cargo IKJX " or receptacle for grain has ; a _ capacity for 00,000 bushels or about! 1,500 tons. At present, forty such barges ' are being Imilt at different yards along j the Ohio River, and the total number of j barges that will soon find employment in | the grain-carrying trade between the points named is placed by good author­ ity at 120. A "tow" of such barges consists, under favorable circumrtances, of five, a loaded barge drawing about eight feet. To make the round trip be- j tween St. Louis and New Orleans re- | quires tweuty days, and the freight on ! wheat averages eight cents per bushel, j The lack of return cargoes prevents this rate from Ixiiug its great a " bonanza " as j would appear from an income of $24,000 j for a three weeks' job. Nevertheless it is a good thing for those engaged in this J wholesale way of sending grain down the ' "Father of Waters."--Scientific Ameri- A Monster Llzznrd. There is displayed in a glass case in Baltimore a living specimen of a guano lizzard, lately brought from the Navassa Islands in the brig Romance. This hand­ some crawler is three feet in length, two- thirds of which is tail, with the head of a erocodile, an enormous mouth, furnished with two dangerous rows of sharp ser­ rated teeth, two pouches or sacks at the base of the jaw, a loose skin of a dirty brown color, aud a curious nodosity near the tip of its nose. It is one of the largest of the species ever seen, and, on account of the size of the sacs and the nodosity, is suppose^! to be forty or fifty years old by people who are accustomed to them in the guano islands. 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