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n lonrnm rouasn. 'iKitt* tmlteta, go farthest when no * --Htehter. Old Farmer Rough WM grin i And drove his m' n about WWi "here!" or "there!" aadoft wpdAl I When thins* went wrong, no donbfc Work must be done by get of son, fjid a,I in order, t«o, . Uven the (arm, or else he'd atom •'*' Till everything locked blue, ' **:<,K •• ' -** mi t A ploaoint word was seldom From him. " It in enough H«m day to day their hire top* Said surly Farmer Bough, "To keep my rule* ** well as fa* *" i order I have found L stone--with strap and hi - most be often ground." i thus he wrought, and tin licit tteasures from the »oU. . Bevintr still men worked with will Whom praises did not spofL Bat Bad and grave, th ugh strong and With sinews Arm and tough. The laborers grew--and the women, to -Who worked for Farmer Boosh. When ill-luck came, with frort and flana, And swept his goods away. Whi n loxs of b alth and loss of «MKk Brought on an evil day. Then Farmer Kough, so grim «ad Oave many a bitter groan To think that he, alas 1 should bo Left frienrtlesn aud alone. Bat Farmer Smooth, who, la his foath, Tbe benefits had <ear*ed Of tools well oiled, from thoaa who toUad For him affection earned, Ha spoke tu< in e ft, and l e'ped them oft With counsels wise and true; > And ne'er begrudged to thos* who l ^.Ibe praise which waa their doa when the floods swapt ill hia gi , Away, and he waa left Xacorry pligh---all in on# night-- 'Of 'mi 'ng lands bereft; Friends fl ock< .1,'.!«*• i»4r. .ed around, in g*tat frofovai, jAKJ gave snbt-tential aid: AttlFarmer Smooth aatd "'la (oodaodh, Who givea ia well repaidI" •|ff« CrtlJ A WEST TEXAS ADVENTURE. Here, throughout the rest of tho dny atirt evening, while the gusts howled morons the canon from out over the prairie to the uortli'ard, we lay at our *ase and'told stories, going sound ' tsleep at last, wrapped up in our buffalo kins. Some hours must hare passed, for our big firo had burned dowu low{ when I #BS roused by a scratching, raking noise on the rocks in front of our shed. Be- •ore 1 was vet half awake, something-- t. was so dark I could not tell what, but <ome heavy animal I felt sure--came lown the rocks aud fell partly into the r>pen front of our shed aud right on Vnsparh's, the German's, extended feet and ankles. With that Wert jumped to get up and we all arose, fumbling for our guns. But before Anse or I or any of us had gained our legs, down oame the shed, the half-hogsheads we had brought for our honey, oiu tilted-up spring-board wagon, brush and all. Who had the most toao with knock­ ing it down, 1 am sure 1 don't know. It was a free scrabble. One of the half- hogsheads tipped over in such a way as FARM NOTES. THK Prarle Fanner says grass and clover can be successfully sown with jbuck wheat. I LABOR should be the application of a I principle, and not merely to'follow a \ bluvl preoeipent. | THB New York papers denounoe the 1 prao.iee of spreading manure on lawns j or public parks as endangering health. | WHY do not our courts change the i oath to jurors so an to agree with the ! general practice ? "We will find a ver> I diet iu favor of the smartest lawyer." ! FOB six months of the year the cattle ! and horses must depond upon hay as their principal supply of food and it is all important that it unsaved in the best condition possible. THE days of routine farming are or ought to be pa it. The farmer who will 1 succeed now, must uot only know how to i do things correctly, but he must know \ why he does things thus and so. WE HAVB a variety of able professors in our schools, colleges, and universities, to completely shut Grant, the colored but what they all lack now is a profes- boy, under it all but his shanks; and, 8or of oommon sense. Will not some as the fore wheels of the spring-board rich man endow such a professorship? lay partly across the bottom of the hogs- j GRASS in a cornfield is the same as a head, he was caught fast. j weed. Too many stalks in a hill dimin- The noise he- made was as nothing ish growth the same as a weed. It oomparod with the racket the German oomes very near the truth to say that a was making, for the other half-hogs- weed is only a plant out of plaoe.--Eer.- M". |rii- wa- »* • . Four of us, my ranch partner, Alfred Dinsmore, and myself, and a young Ger­ man liouse-carpenter named Wert Ans- pach, and a colored boy called " Grant," had set out that day for a load of honey. A load of honey will sound oddly, perhaps, to readers East, but" that is the way we get it here. Wild honey, rich stores of it, is laid up by the native bees. The settlers often have resort to a " bee- tree" when their stock of sugar and mo­ lasses runs low. The honey is drained from the comb and put away in jars; and the wax makes excellent candles. Twelve or thirteen miles up north of pur location, in the canon of Lipan creek {head-quarters of Wichita river), there is a " bee's nest" which has supplied us andtlie families of three other stook- ipen for the last four years. This enormous bee-hive is in the clifl on the north side of the canon, front­ ing south. The entrance to it is up some forty feet above the creek-bed, where there is a horizontal crack eight or ten inches running along the face of tho pre­ cipice for 400 or 500 feet. This crack opens back-into recesses in the shattered crags behind; and here the bees, colony on colony, have their nests and have laid up honey for many years. By going round and operating from the top of the cliffy we have at odd times dislodged considerable portions of the rock with blasts of gunpowder and crowbars--sufficient to secure many hogsheads of comb. Still deeper down, in great pits and holes, there seems to be a vast deposit of old, thick, black, candied honey, which ' has Ijeen drained from the tiers of comb 'i£> above, year after year. ipM"* Iid*irer down the face of the cliff, the Honey, especially on very hot days, Weeps and oozes out at little cracks and J; seams of the fissured sandstone--so much 80 ^at l^ie cruL'k bank is there complete- ly honey-soaked, and the water for a mile or two below will at times be per­ ceptibly sweetened. Mucn of this escaping honey the bees themselves carry back up the face of the cliff. On a pleasant June day the canon and high above it, the air, will be dark­ ened by the incoming and outgoing elonds of bees, millions on millions of them, along the whole length of the crevice. The ordinary drowsy hum of m hive ia here intensified to a deep, solemn roar, distinctly audible a mile below. . To go honey gathering there on a summer day migut 1)3 a perilous busi­ ness. We have ii!v:.yg made our raids On the nest during the cold weather, generally on some chilly day toward Christmas when the boes are lying tor­ pid aud a winter silence hm fallen upon tlys whole vast apL.rv. It was one of the last days of Novem­ ber, and when we start: d that morning the weather was quite warm, almost " muggy," with a thin, bluish fog rising from the prairie, which had lately been burned over and lay coal-black under foot But we had not gone more than eight or ten miles when a " norther " came down on us in full blast. The first we of it was a sudden whirling of the «*•» % head had fallen partly over him, and ha was kicking at an unknown wild beast whose growls mixed with his ahock ..jiiise, rare bees you ?" we heard Itim calling out in reproachful tones. The moment we had extricated our­ selves from the brush and stakes. Dins- more and I sprang to §or feet and tried to take in the situation. It was too dark to see much. The brush was snapping and the half-hogs­ head bobbing up and down ; and juBt then a savage, growling head of some animal was thrust repeatedly out be­ twixt the spokes of on9 of the hind wheels of the capsized springboard. Anse, who had seized upon the camp- ax, let it drive at the growler's head. His first stroke knocked two spokes out of the wheel. At the next plunge i lie animal came head and shoulders through the gap. But I had secured one of the guns, and at this juncture, by arood luck, shot it dead. Almost with the report., Wert, who had l>e.-n making frantic efforts to get out through the brush on the back side, >cram^led to his feet, shouting : "Sharles, pe careful vare you shoots ! Whole dozen dem puck-shots go puza py my ear." "It's a bear," said Alf, peeping be­ tween the spokes of the wheel; but before we had time to haul out the car­ cass, or even get Grant from under the hogshead t:ib, another bear came sliding down the rocks with a scratch and a growl and fell sprawling into the ashes and still-glowing embers of the fire. V perfect smother of ashes and coals dew up. It must have been a warm lighting for the old chap's feet. He whirled round with a low yelp and 'eaped out over some logs at the lower *nd of our shed. I just had time to •ock my left barrel and fire as his hind legs disappeared over the logs. We heard him give a growl when the shot struck him, but had no time to look for him or even see where he went to, for Wert had set up a great outcry. " Qneek, Anse! qneek, Charles, mit vour goon ! In de holler up ze rock ! Do'n yon hears him vow ? Anoder one's comingr down 1" Hnrelv enough, there was another looking out of a great fi-sure, up t *en- y-tive 'or thirty feet, growling and mak­ ing as if to des<jend ! I could plainly see its head, aod, a moment after, it turned to come down tail first. ' Zhoust you hark, poys !" exclaimed Wert. " Only hear dem sing!" If there had been a whole menagerie but up back among those rocks it could yym *K '*<'4 K* -?» a**. ».*r !« i nett. IF YOU are fattening hogs soak the corn, tor it is hard and dry, and ?wine can't eat much of it. It would pt.y to oonstruct a box on purpose to soak corn in. Pigs, calves and horses all do bet­ ter on soaked corn.--Bennett. THAT man or woman who gratuitously feeds a tramp is worse than the tramps themselves. This ia . the process by which they are encouraged and sup­ ported. There is a demand for double the workmen which can anywhere be found.--Iowa State Register. THE farm is the plaoa to grow healthy lads and lassies. The excitement of a city life blights when young. It is the country that infuses new lift; and energy to the city, which continually receives recruits from the best blood of the country. MILK turns sour in thunder storms because during their continuance ozone is generated in the atmosphere. Ozone is oxygen iu a state of great intensity, and oxygen i3 the great acidifier through­ out nature. The excess of oxygen in the air imparts acidity to the milk by the formation of lactic acid. --Prarie Farmer. A NEBRASKA dairyman gives the fol­ lowing advice : " Feed souud food and give clean water to your stock ; be per­ fectly clean in all the operations of pro­ ducing butter; market it w, ile fresh, and don't wait for a rise, and I will guarantee the value will rise to an aver­ age of seventy-five cents per pound, and oleomargarine factories will slip out of existence, and both makers and consumers of butter will be satisfied." To KrLii lice on cattle, a correspond­ ent of the country recommends a mix­ ture of one bushel of dry sand and five pounds of sulphur will clear fifty head. Get them into a huddle, if you have a large lot, then go on the windward side, and throw it or sprinkle, as best you can, to get it on. One good sprinkling will I kill and clean out every one. Sulphur, coal oil aud lard will clean fowls of lice and scaly legs. Rub it on the feet and legs, and run your greasy hands through I the feathers. ^ { THE young lady goes to school or col- , lege, and if luckily she has a teacher 1 who understands domestic economy, she will learn that albumen dissolves in warm water, but hardens in boiling ! water. But when she comes to assume the great duties of life, though she has { learned that the albumen of meat is the most nutritious part, yet she will her­ self or permit her domestics to put her liar Jly have made more music--growl- • mea^ f°r dinner in cold water and bring • " • • 1 • r ! if l*n;i .1 i.-.1 ..J I it slowly to boil, thus dissolving her albumen aud losing it Here is where a professor of common sense is needed. IMPORTANCE OF BREEDING SHEEP.-- However much by judicious manage­ ment we may enable a flojk to produce wool under the most favorable circum-' stances, it is perfectly clear that the natural character of the breed will be a very important agency; management will go far to favor the growth of wool, but it certainly cannot do all we need, been comfortably ( Hence the importance of securing sheep passing the norther, which are of a suitable breed, anJ from whieh we may be sure to obtaiu wool of the desired quality and weight. v-«" tiff* «*:•»• ' •j;:r •J ' • .-HV |pg over the tops of a belt of mezquits otu to our left Then came a puff of cold air as damp and chilling as when in summer one 6teps into a cellar. A minute later, this monitory whiff was followed by a second puff, a perfect gttst, which sent our hats whirling, and npset the hogsheads off the spring­ board. ' The norther was upon n*! That is the way these freezing gales always come here; sometimes they don't even give one time toget on one's great­ coat and mittens. How cold they are, and how they cut through a body! In half an hour the mercury will tall forty and fifty degrees. Often rain, sleet, and sometimes snow, oome with it No one tries to do anything during H norther here. Tou cannot even get a blacksmith to shoe your horse while a , • norther is blowing, and it often blows three days at a bout The folks " den up." and keep a great going. Tou will not see a person stirring out anywhere, no old settler at . even in the village. When the norther struck us, we set i t to go back home; but, as the canon was now no verv great distance ahead, W|» drove on and got into that at a place s, about two miles below the " great bees'- peet" > The cliffs here broke the force of the gale, antl selecting a spot where a i»i? rici of drift stuff had been lodged against the rocks by floods, we built a roxring fire, and made a shed, partly of the half-hogsheads and spring-boards and partly of drift-wood and brush. Here ing, whining, roaring and "There's an awful big den back in there ! and it's b'iling ovjr fidl of 'em I" Every minute or two a head would pop out in sight from the crevice. The tiring and the noise had stirred them up. It looked as if the animals had climbed up to this den over the heap of drift-wood which onr fire had burned up. The smoke and fire flaming up to rhe mouth of the hole bad kept them in during the first part of the night; or -lse they had isleep in there, But now they all evidently wanted to come out--hungry, perhaps. During the forenoon we got logs stuff from the drift-ricks Tower down, which we set up in .such a way that we could climb to the entrance of the den. All being quiet there now, Alf climbed up--to reconnoitre the brutes. There was a pretty largo fissure which opened up between and over great de­ tached manses of rock for eighteen or twenty fiet In back of these, lower down, there seemed to be a big black hole, evidently .1 considerable cavern. I now climbed up and together we p-eked al>out for some time. When we looked down into the dark hoi a there would be low growling. Three or four hours were spent. We found that it was no use trying to shoot them in the dark. There was a cave back in there as large as a hall--a great irregular cavity, emitting a very strong bearish stench. In the afternoon we assailed them on a new tack. Wert arid Grant split up a lot of wood which, with their assistance, we carried up our log ladder, half a cord of it at least, and then pitched it into the cavern. A brand was then fetched up, and we soon had a bonfire going which lighted np the whole inside of higher rate, while a large portion is still retained in the shape of manure from the animals to be applied to the land. A much larger portion of the produce of the land is retained in selling milk, than in raising and selling grain. Harris gives the following figures by way of illustrat­ ing these advantages: Five hundred pounds of cheese contains twenty-five pounds of nitrogen and twenty pounds of mineral matter. A cow, to produce it, would e <t six tons of hay or its equiva­ lent in grass, which would contain two hundred and forty pounds of 11 trogen aud eight hundred aud ten pounds of mineral matter, a very small portion of which goes off in the cheese, aud the rest remains to enrich the land ; while a crop of wheat removes five or six times as much. Grain-growing farmers keep up the fertility of their lapd, and dairy­ men can do so much more easily.-- Rural New Yorker. FERTTTJIZING.--Tillage, in a general sense, denotes such preparation of soil, by mechanical means and fertilization, and such general treatment as will in ure an improved fertile condition, even aft r the removal of the crops. This is very much aided by a judicious rotation of crops requiring a less expenditure of fertilizing material; but there lias never yet been discovered any means that would entirely do away with the use of some sort of application to the soil that is continually cropped. Resources for fertility are many ami various, including accumulations of the various kinds of manufactt.reu articles that are found in the markets. It is a great convenience that chemical science has pointed out the manner of combining the simple ele­ ments of fertility to be most serviceable to the farmer in the use that he may de­ sire to make of the same as a supple­ mentary manure; but a question of great importance to all farmers ia: whether it is desirable to enter very extensively into the use of this class of fertilizers. It is supposed that the mineral elements applied are the same that exist to some that when laid flat the back bone will b« in the middle ; sprinkle with salt and lay on a buttered gridiron, over a clear fire, with the inside downward until it begins to brown, then turn over. When done, lay on a hot dish and butter plen­ tifully. FISH CAKES.--Gold T>oiled codfish, either fresh or salt; remove the bones aud mince the meat; take two-thirds as much warm mashed potatoes as fish, aid a little butter and sufficient beaten egga or mUk to make the whole into a smooth paste, season with pepper, make into cakes about an inch thick ; sprinkle them with flour and fry brown in butter. To CIJF.AN Goiii> ORNAMENTS.--Dis­ solve a little sal ammoniac in s irits of wine, and wash the gold in it; or, try the following method : Mix fomo jewel­ er's rou?e with a little salad oil, and with a tooth brush rub the ornament till per­ fectly clean. Then wash it in warm soap and water with a clean brush, and dry it with wash leather. BI<ACK crape, when wet by rain, is almost certain to spot Lay the crape-- whether a veil or piece of trimmiug--on a table, and place a piece of old black silk underneath the stains; then dip a soft camel's-hair brush in black ink, and carefully paint the stains,oyer with it, gently wipe off the sup. r-abun^ant ink with a piece of silk, and the stains, as the places dry, will disappear. ORANGE CAKE.--Mix two cups of sugar with the yolks of two eggs, then add the whites beaten to a stiff froth ; next, add a large tablespoonful of but­ ter, then one cup of milk aud flour to make as stiff as cup cake; flavor to taste: bake in jelly pans. Filling : One lemon, two orangea; grate the rinds, add the juice, one cup of sugar, one tablespoonful of corn starch, one cup of water; boil until smooth: cool before putting between cakes. RHUBARB JELLY. --Take some rhubarb, wipe it with a clean wet cloth, peel it and cut it into pieces an inch long. To THE FAMILY PHYSICIAN. To BIFCDSH plain and wholesome food: Earn what you eat by an honest em­ ployment; tie regular at your meals and eat slowly. Never spoil your taste by the use of the " vilo weed or by the use of pungent and heating fruits of the castor--the mustard and pepper, or even the too free use of vinegas. The natural appetite is satisfied with plain food till corrupted or vitiated by luxuries. " AN ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." Oh this principle it is easier to prevent dyspepsia by the use of nourishing food, plain and easy of digestion, taken regidarly and ia moderate quantities, than by all the medicine of a drug store. And, indeed, since it is difficult to destroy the effect without the removal of the cause, it is simply impossible to cure dyspepsia permanently while the diet is positively bad. AT.T. heat or warmth in the body comes from food oxidized, slowly burned in the body, just as much and in about the same way that heat in the stove or fur­ nace comes from fuel oxidized or burned there. Warmth is always escaping from the body, unless it is in an atmosphere nearly up to 100 degrees of heat Warm clothing, warm hou -es, stalls, sheds that prevent the rapid escape of heat save the necessity of taxing the stomach to digest an excessive amount of food (fuel) to keep np the heat of the body, human or brute. MORE USES FOB CARBOLIC ACID.--Ac­ cording to the London Lancet the use of carbolic acid has been found specially effective in all that class of local fester­ ing, pustulating diseases of the skin, which are at once so common and so difficult to cure; they include all kinds of pustules, boils and carbuncles, syco­ sis, pustular acne and festering ring­ worm ; such strumous sores, especially of [the neck, as come under the care of the physician ; also phthisis in its sec- appiiea are ine same INIW W BUUID « "rhubirb add three-anar- i onc* urK* 8tag?9» cases °* bron- extent in the soil--in fact are a part of ; 1 p.oundrtrabarlb add three quar clutl8 accompanied with more or less the soil and may by gradual accumula- j f a.P°"I\d whl,e fe.u«ar- FutV;, ptirulous expectoration. wie BUU, auu may, ujr . . boil for about ten minutes, or uutil the 1 # 1 - hornsexist to. xcess, and^such a state , juice is well drawn. strain it into a pre- 1 h' of affairs maximum orops might be ex- 1' .... r- -serving pan, let it boil quickly until it more It is found, owever, that, in order to be efficacious, the carbolic acid must be brought into contact with the part to be acted pected ; but is this always the case ? t - tV „ Rnoon Ki;im ",t and nour it , ,, - ,, . , - * " ' • clings to tne spoon, skim it ana pour 11 ^ on an(j the Lancet says that in mnnv into jam pots or molds. Tne quickest j cnaes where the acid has been found in- May not a farm be really mineral sick, so to speak, or, in other words, become by constant application of this forcing kind of manure, as to be partially in­ sensible to its direct effects? It is said that an individual by a gradual and constant use of arsenic, will produce such a state of the system as will enable the taking of a dose without f^ar of any little on a plate to coo]. CHOCOLATE CARAMELS.--Take a quart of the best New Orleans molasses and boil it until when you drop a little of it in cold water, it becomes brittle ; add to this not more than a small handful of harm, as would at first produce instant carbonate of soda; now, a few minuteB death. So too continual use of stimu- j before you are to take it off your fire, at lants by an individual, in time, renders ! the very end of your process, add four " * * ' ounces of cold chocolate, which yon have grated as fine as possible ; stir it , The value of a long-continued and careful : breeding is shown as forcibly in the wool 1 as in the general form of the body, i These flocks which, for several success- j sive generations, have maintained one : steady and uniform character of wool, ! offer the best source from which to , breed when it is desired to improve the : wool of any flock. The buyers should I not look for rams suitable for this pur- ' pose without d ily considering the prev- | ious history of the flock from which they I may be selected. Many a sheep pos­ sesses the external qalifications desired --so far as the eye is able to judge--but unless the flock from which it has been obtained has been carefully fed, the buyer will probably be disappointed. The value of good wool is a strong in­ ducement for making its growth as abundant and as good as the local cir­ cumstances of a farm will allow. FARMING IN CALIFORNIA.--A corres­ pondent of the I hicago Tribune, who has recently been journeying from Cali­ fornia to Los Angeles, writes as fol­ lows : " Looking from the car across the great agricultural section, the range of the eye is bounded only by the distant such individual wholly insensible to any stimulating effect, except when taken in large quantities ; but there is food that is natural to the human system, Mid al­ though the use is continued, if it be in a judicious manner, the body continues healthy and lifs "TSs-it seems to be with the soil; a continued use of stimulating or peculiarly forcing com­ mercial fertilizers, while good for a few crops, will, in a little time, lose their efficiency. This will undoubtedly ex- Sjlain why, in some cases, farmers who iave been accustomed to use a particu­ lar brand of fertilizer because it at first gave such excellent satisfaction, will abandon it for another, because the re­ sults are not so good as formerly, when the c^use iB not so much a difference in the quality, as it is a continued use, and in that case another brand of different combinations wUl give, apparently, new energy to the soil. That all such fer­ tilizers serve an excellent purpose, and are excellent helps to the farmer, can not be denied; but the part of wise pol­ icy would forbid the too extensive use of the same. It was the saying of a wise farmer who, in answer to the inquiry of the three principal things necessary in in farming, replied : manure, manure, MANURE. H01SH0LD HELPS. thoroughly; pour out in thin la: buttered tans. them. Never put any re rs on ivor in fFrom the Detroit Free Press Household.] CURE FOR POISOV OAK.--Apply zinc salve and mutton tallow to the parts af­ fected. GOOD VINEGAR.--A cheap vinegar con­ sists of twenty-five gallons of warm rain water with four gallons of treacle and one gallon of yeast Let this fer­ ment freely, and it is then fit for use. REMOVING TAN AND FRECKLES.--Take a half teaspoonful of flour of sulphur and mix with a cup of milk. Wash the face in it, allbwing it to remain all night HOMINY GRIDDLE CAKES.--To one pint of warm boiled hominy add a pint of milk or water, and flour enough to make How to Live in Summer. Food is a part of drifik, and drink a part of food ; both sustain the constant changes of the body, and are necessary for its maintenance. Man may have early come upon the idea to manufact­ ure beverages from various vegetable substances, and so have originated the habit of taking fluids, which are never really meant to quench thirst only. Some are taken for their aroma, for their supposed strengthening and stimulating qualities, as various wines and spirits: others, as beer, for their sustaining and satisfying properties; others, as some fruit and vegetable juices, for their re­ freshing qualities. We call the three former, that is, spir­ its, wines and beer, alcoholic drinks; their composition we cannot here enter upon, but their effect upon the human system, if taken in any undue quantity, is not healthful. As regards the hot effective, the failure has been due to a neglect to insure this contact THE SUN CHOLSRA MEDICINE.--More than twenty years ago, when it was found that prevention of cholera was easier than cure, a prescription drawn up by eminent doctors was pub­ lished in the Snn, and it took the name of "the Sun cholera medicine." Our contemporary never lent its name to a better articla We have seen it in con­ stant use for nearly two-score years and found it to be the best remedy for loose­ ness of the bowels ever yet devised. No one who has this by him and takes it in time will ever have the cholera. We com­ mend it to all our friends. Even when no cholera is anticipated it is an excel­ lent remedy for colic, diarrhea, etc. Take equal parts of tincture of Cayenne pepper, tinture of opium, tincture of rhubarb, essence of pepp» rmiut and spirits of camphor. Mix well. Dose, fifteen to thirty drops in a little cold water, according to age and violence of symptoms, repeated every fifteen or twenty minutes until relief is obtained. --New York Journal of Commerce. Two Queer Stories. Among the choicest books in his li­ brary Mr. Grenville possessed one of two volumes of an excessively rare fifteener, I think, the Mazarine Bible, printed on vellum and magnificently bound. Of course he was very anxious to get a copy of the missing volume also on vellum, but he hoped against hope. After many years, however, he had the unexpec ea season, alcoholic beverages require the j ani almost unexampled good fortune to greatest care in their use, and to take only such wines as are really of a cool­ ing tendency. When vitality flags very much it is possible to give a sudden stimulus to the nervous system by tak­ ing a small quantity of wine or spirits with cold water, which will rally an ex­ hausted person suddenly and help him to exert his energies for recovery, but to drink successively any quantity of wines or spirits in hot weather is equal 1 to trying to commit suicide on the I chance--that the pistol will not shoot | or the rope will not hang. To increase I in summer the heat of the blood, which ! alcohol does, is an irrational venture. ! As far as beer is concerned, the taking | of it is by many thought a necessity, with the thermometer at 90 degrees. More beer and more beer is called for, while each glass makes the day hotter for him who takes; Beer should only be taken in the cool of the evening, ana a thin batter ; beat two or three eggs, and stir tbem into the batter with a little j it may somewhat restore the flagging salt. Fry as any other griddle cakes. FRIED POTATOES.--Take cold, boiled potatoes, grate them, make them into flat cakes, and fry them iu butter. You may vary these cakes by dipping them in the beaten yolk of an egg and roiling them in bread crumbs, frying them in boiling lard. BREADED EGGS.--Boil hard and cut in round, thick slices; pepper and salt and dip each iu beaten raw egg, then in fine bread crumbs or powdered cracker crumbs and fry in bntter, hissing hot. Drain oft' every drop of grease and serve hot. PLAIN OMELET.--Six eggs, one table­ spoonful of flour, one cup of milk, a strength after the labor ot' the day. It is better to avoid it as much as possible during the day. We have now many aerated drinks, fruit and lime juices, mineral waters and iced lemonades, all refreshing and abating the influence of excessive heat from without Whatever these may do to oool us, they cannot do away with the results of dry, parched-up food, which occasions thirst in an undue degree. To keep drink down, in fact, we must keep food up to its proper standard. A very cooling drink is made of light clarets, with slices of pineapple, the peels of cucumber, a lemon slice or two, a little nutmeg and white sugar; this is not at apuimnu « i.uur, uu« [ every one's door, but such mixtures can pinch of salt. Beat the white and yolks . J, aro maA „Wn«r material* [>y the cienL° From where weTto^d up £ ' m"uutaiu8' ,while a. broft(J ex^nse H 1 . . « I mmrin/v /wnin /lAtrAl>in<T monv fhAIIQ separately. Mix the flour, milk and salt, add the yolks, then add beaten whites. Have a buttered spider very hot; put in. Bake in a quick oven five miuutes. DRIED FRUIT.--To keep dried fruit from becoming wormy, after beiug pre- the fissure, the bears could now be seen rrouehing behind the black bowlden | uid in the far corners of the cave, snarl- j ng uneasily at the fire. I counted j five, and Alf scon made out two others. | To shoot game thus cornered up may j be deemed an unsportsmanlike method ' of hunting, but my friend and myself ! were troubled by no such scruples. j An hour later we hauled seven bears --dead ones--out of that cave, which, added to those air. aiy secured, made ten earcHi»8es ! They were remarkably fat bears, too, with but one exception. Their flesh had a noticeably sweet taste, which we attributed to tlieir getting so much honey hereabouts.-- Youth's Compan­ ion. IN the South of France caged decoy birds have their eyes put out, and they sing to the rays of the rising sun which ^ ̂ but cannot see, and they_at- .4* j. j&>}4- the mules their com, and had no thoughts of going up OQ the prairie for hooey, or anything else, while the gale held. The crag on the side against which we had our fire was sixty or seventy feet liitrh. but. rs T have mentioned above War-here all along much fissured and tracked, showing crevices and crannies Where the broken strata had worked Mart, about three and four feet in width. The drift-rock which served us for wood­ pile burned well, the blaze mounting half way up the cliff and casting a warm glow back into our shed. tract free birds from the woods. The latter birds-- thrushes, nightingales, linnets, woodpeckers, robins, black­ birds, yellowhammers and larks--are mercdeswly shot, twenty or thirty at a time, and are used for food. There is also much netting of these birds. In­ sects are increasing in number. An ef­ fort is being made to stop the slaughter of the birds. THEY were walking down Main street together after the matinee. " Conklin's Shirt S ore," said he. " Is it ?" saidshe, "how did he tear it!"--Trinity Tablet. waving grain, covering many thousand square miles of level land, lies between. Nowhere else is farming prosecuted on such an extensive and scientific scale, and the quantity of wheat and barley produced each year is something enor­ mous. To the Eastern tourist, the lack of fences, roads, and homes is surpris­ ing. For miles and miles on each side of the road nothing but wheat-fi. lds are seen, and the play of light and color upon the standing grain exc eds in beauty the b^.st tints of the most famous artists. On «sv»jry ranch is seeu farming machinery of whose value the Eastern farmer is scarcely yet aware. Gang-plows for preparing the ground, centrifugal sowers for scattering the seed, combined plows and sowers, giant headers for cut­ ting, and costly separators for threshing, combined headers, threshers aud sacking wagons--there are the implements which have made large farming possible on the San .Toaquin, and which have furnished wonderful results for the amount of cap­ ital emp'oyed." SKLLING MILK AND EXHAUSTING LAND. --Without going into the exact figures to show the amount of fertil zing material carried off from the land, it will lie suili- cient to remark in a general way that, while a high price is obtained in selling the mi k for what is carried away, a low sum is paid for the enriching substances supplied in the purchased food, aud in any special fertilizers added. In other words, the cows convert low-priced ma­ terial into that which sells at a much Qf 1 pared, as it should always be before putting away, by scalding, as you put it in sacks scatter amongst it pieces of sassafras bark from the root Tie close­ ly ; it will keep years. SOAP FOR REMOVING GREASE-SPOTS.-- Dissolve in a half pint of water half a pound of washing soda, put in two pounds good hard soap, cut in slices, and boil until a mass is formed. Then add a half-ounce each of ^lcohol, camphor, ether and liquid ammonia, and mold into cakes. PRUNE PIPS.--Take a pound of prunes and soak them over night, so that the stones will slip out easily ; stew in some water with as many raisins as you wish, and sweeten; use less water than for sauce; when both are soft grate in the rind of two lemons and fill the pie, al­ lowing two crusts. CODFISH STEWED.--Boil a piece of codfish, but do not overdo it. lick out the flesh in flukes, put them in a sauce­ pan with a piece of bntter, p< poer and salt to taste, some minced parsdy aud the juice of a lemon, with a dust of cay­ enne. Put it on the fire till quite hot, and serve. PREPARED MUSTARD.--Two table- spoonfuls of mustard, one of flour ; mix thoroughly while dry. Have a teacup two-thirds full of strong mustard; fill with water, stir the flour and mustard into it and l< t it lx>il until as thick as custard; remove from the fire and add a tablesixxmful of sugar. BROILED FRESH FISH.--When thor­ oughly cleaned and dried, split open so be and are made with cheaper materials, and at the corners of our streets a good trade is done with them. Rice water, barley water, oatmeal water, with lemon and sugar, should be ready in every house where children are. These are surely better than cold tea, which is often given, or milk, that cannot always be trusted. Small pieces of ice are very refresh­ ing now and then for strong, healthy persons; also, a drink of water mixed with vinegar and molasses is tliirst- quenchiug for workpeople, or a slice of lemon dipped into white sugar. Cool the blood without disturbing the diges­ tion and distending the intestines and you will get through the day. A small ice-cream now and then is re­ freshing, but a continual use of it in sultry weather may have very evil con­ sequences. 1 The humane custom to erect here and there a driuking fountain is in the liigh- estdegree praiseworthy; it will save many a headache, many a faltering spirit from giving way and cool many a parched i tongue. But the water in sucii fount­ ains must not be of an indescribable taste and a tepid temperature. Bright 1 and clear it should sparkle, refreshing truly. This is a matter of grave thought to those in authority, who can eseupc i from the heat of towns to the seaside and to sylvan shades, leaving the hard worker iu the dusty, hot, smelling city. The principal needs ot life, uutil now spoken of, have been food and drink, though the first place ought to have been claimed by ail-.--food and Health. A BOSTON brewer says that men in a brewery never get drunk, although they drink often, and gives as a reason that they t-tick to one kind of beer and do not per ? their drinks. ' ' altegither ?"--Boston Tran»cript. PERRY DAVI3* A SAFE AND Slltf REMEDY FOt Rlieamatism, Neuralgia, Craapt, Cholwi, Diantm, OlMBtm. Brums, $ Hutah. FOB MALE Bf ALL DRUtitilSTS. 0OSNPTN£ ^ STOMACH _ 0* BITTERS Malaria ia an I'mcen, Taporoot PolNon, Spreading dlccapp nnd death in irmnyloo&'ltkm,frr whi«k quinine ip no npnn ne antidote, out tor t effects at whk:h Il< b tter's Stomncli Bitters not only atliorongS remedy, but ;i lei hie preventive. To ih>s tact there ts an > vi rwh lining array of testimony, extending over j period of thirty yew*. All d sor^en < f the irer, ittai •cb end bowels are also c nquerert t y tbe B tter*. IW~ For sale by all DragglaU and De iler* generally. • HICAGO PITTS! •ittm" Dt KBaIltoba.be Machine that threshes and Bftctly. " Chicago Pitts HaraeFowera are the but ia t/n BLACK HAWK >lv t and all arain* Double Pinfet > warMl get not only a copy on vellum, but the identical copy, as shown by the binding, which had been so long separated from the one in his possession. Mr. Qreu- ville, when showing the books to Mr. Amyot and to Samuel Rogers, who was there at the same time, told the history of his good fortune. Amyot said it was the most remark­ able coincidence he had ever heard. Rogers did not quite agree to this, and proceeded to mention the following, which ho thought still more remarkable: An officer, who was ordered to India, went, on the day before leaving En­ gland, to his lawyers in Lincoln's Inn .Fields. The day being wet, he took a hackney coach, and when he got out, as he was paying the driver, he dropptd a shilling. He lookod in the mud and slush for it in vuinr and so did the coachman. On his return home after some years' service he had again occa­ sion to go to his lawyer's in Lincoln's Inn l ields. When leaving, he recollect­ ed his lost shilling, and, by some unac­ countable impulse, began to look for it, when, strange to say, just at the very spot where he had paid the coa ihman, anil on the very edge of the curbstone, he found-- "The shilling!" was the hasty con­ clusion of my excellent friend. "Not exactly," said Rogers, ' but 12-penny-worth of coppers wrapped up iu brown paper!"--Nineteenth Centuri/. Hammer Drinks. The London Chemist and Druggist gives some recipes which it vouches for as good: Ginger Beer--Brown sugar, two pounds; boiling water two gallons; | cream of tartar, one ounce; bruised i ginger, two ounces. Infuse the ginger j in the boiling water, add the sugar and < cream of tarter when luke-warm, strain, | then add one-half pint of good yeast. | Let it stand all night; then bottle. If desired, a lemon may be added, and it may be clarified by the white of one egg- 1 temon Beer--Sugar, one pound; boiling water, one gallon; one sliced lemon; bruised ginger, one ounce; yeast, one teacupful. Let it stand from twelve to twenty hours, after which it may be bottled. ' Hop Beer--Sugar four pounds; hops, ' six ounces ; ginger, bruised, four oun­ ces. Boil the hops for three hours with five quarts of water, then strain ; add five :uore quarts of water and the gin­ ger, bod a little longer, again strain, • add the sugar, and when lukewarm add one pint of yeast. After twenty-four hours it will be ready for bottling. Spruce Beer--Hops, two ounces ; sas­ safras, in chips, two ounces ; water, ten gallon. Boil half an hour, strain, and add brown sugar, seven pounds; essence of spruce, one ounce; essence of gin­ ger, one ounce ; pimento, ground, one- lialf ounce. Put the whole in a cask and let cool; then add one-half pint of veast, let stand twenty-four hours and bottle. A Misapprehension. " Phat wud I do wid that ?" exclaimed Patrick, when the hackman handed him the baggage check. " I gave yez good money, und yez try to put count- rfeit onter me." "You mistake," said the hackman; " thin is not money, it is only a cheek." "Go away wid yez," cried Pat; "isn't a check always writ on pa- Did yez take me for a greenhorn .try; to tbe mark waa® a WsrMo?, buy on? Btael HawK, anas it Is tlie latest Improved machine fa the market, having- all of the merits avd xmie of flU defects of Vibratere, Agitator*. Oscillators, etc., BOW In UKO. LigTite? draft and too?a durable, Ite Ion la reciprocal, consequently will not i •ootio Ih. pieces. Thoroughly tested. Beata them all 1B and other kinds of grata. It la almpllaity Turns In it* owe length. N. A. PITTS' SONS MFQ. SO. Vani • •.•faftoraoft It. CHICAOO.IU* KIDNEY-WORT THE GREAT CURE FOB BHEUMATISM As It to tor mil disease* of tbe KIDNEYS, I LIVER AND BOWELS. olaanass tbo aystem of ths acrid poison I iisat eanaca tbe tiraadful suffering whiob [ assi;}' the victims of Hheumatiam can reallae. | THOUSJ OF CJISES of the wont forms o>r tlila terrible dlaaaaa I iMW* been quit.;.1; seiieved, in @ stsACI; (jot | PERFECTLY CURED. KIDNEY-WORT haa had wonderful aucceaa. and an immense aale in every part of tbe Conn try. In hun­ dreds of oases 11 haaoured where all else had (ailed. Itis mild, but efficient, CFJt'fAIJi IN 1YS ACTION, but liarcilc«« in all caaaa. lyltfleaaMi, Nlreafliitim nnd arlveeNew IJfo to all tbe important orfansof the body. The natural action of the Kidcey6 is reatored. The Uvcr ia cleansedcl all disease, eud the Bowelsmovo freely and healthfully. In this way the worst diseases! are argsSfcafced from the system. Aa It baa been proved by thouaanda that KIDNEY-WORT is the most effectual remedy for oleanalng the •yatem of all morbid seoretlona. Itahouldb* used in every household as a SPRIMO MEDICINE® Always curea BILIOUSNESS. » ONS'iTPA- TION, PII,E3 and all FEMALE Disasaes. Is put up In l»ry Vtable perss, in tic pans, one package of «iiieli mokes tin nans medicine. Also in Liquid Form, verr ('•ncratrateilor the convenience of un>*e wiiocanijosreadiifpre- pare it. it act* irith rqnal efficiency«»tUher/orm. err ITOF YOCK DKUGGIST. PRICE, ai.®* W'KIJ^o iU€IUKI>SON A O.. Prop *. (Will tend fte TT. KIDNEY-WORT the lpar*Kt and Beat Medicine ever Bale. Acolmbination of Hopfti Suohu, Man* drakle<""t Dandelion, with ail tneTwst and most cTurative properties of all other Bitters, male e am the greatest Blcod Purifier, Liver Sl«,^\ator.MdUfean.a Health K-tonn, Agent v„ a eV.an possibly long extrt where llop mt^t^uXed^Varied aad perfect ars thai, 0 pe rati fttfgi hi ui figor to tS» api isd lafim. To all whose employments eauss Irrc-pularl" ty of liie 1IIOI% "RINWY «»rgmis. or *bo re­ quire <LU A|>petia«rV Tonic and mild Stimulant, Hop Bitters are invar 1 eating. •• No matter whatyour femeHngs or «ym»torns are what the disease or ailwnent is oae Bop Bit­ ters. Don't wait until you sick but If yon only feel bad or miserable,• use tnem at once. It may saveyourlife.lthasV'^ed hundreds. 9500 will be paid for a cal»e they will not eure or help. Do not suffer ®orltt yonr friends suffer,but use and urge tliem^k *° Ulkj Hop B Remember, Hop Bitters Is drugged drunkc o nostrum, but the Purent^^^ <il ^ Best Medicine over made : the "IHTiLIBf. and HOPE* and no person or family1 should be without tbem. p. 1.0.Is an absolute aril Irresistible cure 1 forl)runkenne«s,uxe of opium, tobacco audi narcotics. All sol'l by arusr<n«t*. 8®nd , (tor Circular. Hap Bitter. Mfg. Cs., Rochester.?? Y and <">"t/ WA\TFD-I,-dy Agents In evetr town to se£ 'DR. MARTIN'S CURK" tor FKMAlVS WKAKKIN . Cure ve Send for cits* lar DE. MARTIN A CO.,70 S.ate Street, Ohi<