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IRGI<»IIV« THE OL.D FLAO. •T Will C»*IT«»4 f J* the silent Bloom of « (rarr*t n->0«^ , With cobwebs round It creeping From (lay to <lsy tlie old fl»K lay-- A vrt ran worn and s'pepiiitf: Dlrjrv, old, each urinfc ><1 fold Bv th<> du«t of y«ar« WSK »!iad«l; Wonnd* of the otomi were upon its fonr The criumon stripes w*re faded. T*-»* II mournful Mght in the dim twiilght, Tli!« tiling of bumble Fcoming, Thit *o proud O'IT ttic CBFI' IIIG CROWD Hr.tl mrrkd it-, o 'lorn R'.esii.ii'sr; 8tai):<<l wiih m ild wore the braid# of go' Tliat had fl:iphed in the sun rays' kii w Of fa-1< d hue wan the field of blue. And pome of the Mtara were missing. Tlr.. . Noithenim ids and thro from glades, Whore <lr> ams the Sor.th-land woatlwr, "With Hlances kind and their arms outwined, Came up ihe ftair ( >;-<• tln>r. They i»uzt-d awhile witli a thonghrful smile At the crouching form before 'henj; With clinging hold* they grasp itn folds, And out ot the dar'oiiuse b.»re theui. Tbey healed iti* pears, they foil ait its stars. And brought them all together /Throe Northern maids and three from glados, W here smiles tne isoulh-'aiiu weather); Tbev mended away through the summer day, Made j-'ad by an inspiration To fline !t hifih at the nuilirg eky On the birthday of our nation. . - In the brilliant glare of the summer air. With a brisk breeze round it creeping. Newly bright through the glistening light The flag went grandly sweeping; Gleaming and bold were its brsid^ of gold. And flatbed in the sun rays' kissing. Bed, white and Hue were of deepest hue, And none of the stairs were missing. k NEIGHBORLY GHAT. Mrs. Smith, after the ohl-time fash­ ion of some country urigbborh<xwJs, hail brought her work to Mrs. Worth's house, intruding to spend the afternoon. Had slic been in some houses, perhaps her conversation would have been gos­ sipy--even slanderous--in its character ; but Mrs. Worth, she knew, was not one to encourage anything of the kind ; so before she was aware she wits discussing with her hostess topics of a very differ­ ent nature. "Are yon mending Laura's dress?" asked Mrs. Smith, in a tone of deepest surprise. "Yes--why not?" answered Mrs. Worth. •• Because she's 12 years old--quite big enough to do her own mending." "Big enough, yes--but she hasn't the time." " Hasn't the time, indeed ! Why Mrs. Worth, I never saw your Laura doing anything." " O. Mrs. Smith, you must remember she goes to school." "Goes to school! So do my girls. But there is plenty of time for mending out of school hours." "Not so very much." Mrs. Worth spoke quite firmly. " She leaves home at 8 in the morning and does notget back until 5 in me afternoon. could she sew ? " j . -, ' 'An hour before, supper, or. two hours in the evening." " Why, Mrs. Smith, YOU forget her lessons ; they take up all the evening ; and I certainly think she is entitled to her one hour before supper for rest and amusement, after her hard da^'s work." " Well, I don't think so. I think,, after I let my girls go off all day and enjoy themselves doing nothing, i;.'s little enough for me to get hinac work out of them when they come home. " " I .say it's cruel ; children's constitu­ tions are not made of iron!" Mrs. Worth "was growing indignant. " That's all very well to say ; but are children any better now than they were forty years ago ? Their mothers and grandmothers had to get up and do a ha.'i'-ciay's work before they went to school." "Perhaps--but, perhaps, if the chil­ dren in the past had not been so shame­ fully overworked, the children in the present might have inherited more strength than they have. The human eyetem is not a machine, ont of which must be tortured the gren: »st amount of lubor of which it is capn ie ; but it is the abode of an immortal life, to which all lalxjr, however great or small, is the .servant. My Laura is not a machine, .she is an angel ! " Mrs. Worth was so earnest that she actually more than half •convinced her fault-finding neighbor. " Maybe you're right," Mrs. Smith hesitatingly admitted, " but I think mending for a girl 12 years old en­ courages her to idleness. "Not at all," emphatically answered Mrs. Worth; " she has no ciiance to be idle. With her school and her lessons, she has more on her mind than I, with my whole house and family. And if you will carefully (Question every mother, teacher and child in the neighborhood, I think you will be compelled to agree •with me." Mrs. Smith was at a loss for an an­ swer, so she let her eyes wand r aimless­ ly around her. Suddenly she caught sight bf the basket filled with neatly ironed clothes. "Six handkerchiefs marked 'L.' Four pairs of stockings. Three sailor collars. All in the wash in one week." Mrs. Smith made a long panse between each comment. " Mrs. Worth, does Laura use all those in one week?" " She does," quietly answered Laura's mother. "But what extravagance !" exclaimed Mrs. Smith. " You indulge her tuomucli. You'll make her too dainty. I think it does children good to keep them down a little. Why that's a clean handkerchief every day.** "Mrs. Smith, I do not consider my­ self extravagant," answered Mrs. Worth. "Laura wears no jewelrv nor fancy dresses to school. But I feel that if I ever allow my child to be anything else than perfectly clean, I do her a moral wrong. The body cannot be dirty with- j out tainting the soul. Laura needs-- I absolutely needs--just what you see, I j will never forget the miseries 1 endured i as a child by an insufficiency of these I things. I had no mother." As she spoke, the lady dropped a tear ' on her hand. Her visitor was touched, and felt rise within her something like admiration for the speaker. " Well," she said at length, " Laura ought to be very grateful to you." "Grateful to me?" asked Mrs. Worth; *' what for ?" " For all you do for her." "For all I do for her? Why Mrs. Smith, I only do my simple duty-- • hardly that, I sometimes think, when I consider the greatness of my resi>onsi- bility. Grateful to me! Why, whose place but mine is it to give her a moth­ er's care ? Who else should do it ? Why, so far from her feeling obliged to me for caring for her, I ought to be severely punished if I did not." " Children are a great trouble," feebly began Mrs. Smith. "Yes; but that's not their fault. They do not ask us to assume any such burden; it is voluntary on our part. They have nothing to do with their com­ ing into the world of trouble--we every­ thing. Is not this true ? Have we any right to buy what we cannot pr.y for ?" The questioner was silenced for a time. Mrs. Worth had finished had half a dozen children." " But I haven't," replied Mrs. Worth. • "Now, just suppose you had," per­ sisted Mrs. Smith. "I have eight. How oonld I mend for and look after so many, like yon do for two? Conld jou ? " "I don't know," thoughtfnlly an­ swered Mrs. Worth, "but I know this-- no woman has any moral right to any more children than she can properly care for." . . "What?" almost screamed Mrs. Smith. ' It's as true as gospel," firmly as­ serted Mrs. Worth. "The Lord never requires of any of us more tkiin we can do." "Well, I sometimes think He does," dolefully answered the other woman. "We see families of ten and twelve everywhere." "So we do," assented Mrs. Worth, " but if we think very carefully we are i compelled to believe that the Lord often j bears the blame of humanity's blunders, j If we deliberately put our hands into 1 the fire and burn them, we have no right | to say that the Lord burnt our hands, i though He did make the law that fire consumes almost anything that it j touches. God governs the universe by law--and we can, to ascertain extent, put ourselves within or without the] reach of any particular law. Can we not?" "' I see men as trees walking,'" uncon­ sciously quoted Mrs. Smith. Mrs." Worth smiled gladly, thinking to herself that she had momentarily i touched her neighbor's little-used intel­ lect. i "Suppose, though," continued Mrs. j Smith, falling back into her old strain, j " Laura should grow up and bring dis­ credit upon your training." " Well," answered Mrs. Worth, a shade of tenderness mingled with anxie­ ty crossing her fine features, " I cannot think she will ; I have faith to believe she will not. But if she should, I can­ not help it. I will faithfully strive to do my part; I believe that if THE FiSK, FRTJIT HKDOES.--A writer in the Oar- doner's Chronicle makes the suggmlioo that division lines between town resi­ dences, which are now often merely a low'hedge, might as well be mada of ' currents, gooseberries or raspberries, as of fruitless thorns or evergreens. A wire stretched at two or three feet above the surface would mark tho exact division woolens and silks are moistened, and very dilate citric acid is applied with the finger end. ALIZARIN® INKS.--White goods, taxv | taric acid, the more concentrated the j older the spots. On colored cottons and ! woolens, and on silks, dilute tartario | acid is applied cautiously. SCOBCHINO.--White goods, rub well with linen rags dipped in chlorine water; colored cottons, reaye if possible, or in between meum and tuum, and in the case of raspberries would serve for both | woolens, raise a fresh surface; silks, no sides to attach the tips of their canes to, so as to be neatly held up. With due attention to pruning out immediately after fmiting, tying up the shoots for next year's l>earing, and to the equal necessity of hoeing and mulching, such a division hedge should be made to look quite neat, as well as to afford a liberal supply of home-grown, well-grown and enjoyable berries. CHAKCOAL FOB SICK ANIMALS.--In nine gases out of ten when an auimal is sick, the digestion is wrong. Charcoal is the most efficent and rapid corrective. The hired man came in with the intelli­ gence that one of the finest cows was very sick, and a kind neighbor proposed the usual drugs and poisous. The owner being ill and unable to examine the cow, concluded that the trouble came from overeating, and ordered a teaspoonf ul of pulverized charcoal to be given in water. It was mixed, placed iu a junk bottle, the head turned upward, and the water turned downward. In five minutes im­ provement was visible, and in a few hours the animal was in the pasture grazing. Another instance of equal suc­ cess occurred with a young heifer which had become badly bloated by eating green apples after a hard wind. The bloat was so(, severe that the sides were as hard as a barrel. The old remedy, saleratus, was tried for correcting the acidity. But the attempt to put it down always raised coughing, and it did little good. Half a teacupful of fresh pow­ dered charcoal was given. In six hours all appearance of the bloat was gone, and every j tj,e heifer was well. parent did so, not one child in a hun­ dred would go astray. 1 must not think of anything but my own duty--hers is a .oilier matter, i dare not neglect mine simply l>©cause I am afraid she will hers. *Two wrongs do not make a right. So, then, if I do have a bad ch:id, I will at least have a clear con­ science." " Is there any use of educating her so . much ?" inquired Mrs. Smith, flying off i chased by a dog, on a tangent. "Do you expect her to teach ?" "I don't know," answered Mrs. Worth. "I hope not; teachers usually have such hard lives. But I want her educated, simply because I believe it the duty of every parent to educate his or her child, anil the right of every child to When i obtain an education." I " Suppose parents cannot afford it?" , " Then/ they must be very shiftless parents ; / in fact, such parents cannot afford to have children at all. No man has any right to marry who sees no prospect of supporting a family ; do you think he has ?" "No, I cannot say that I do. But what is the use of an education, unless one earns a living by it ?" ".Mrs. Smith, such a question should not be considered a moment--except, I perhaps, in case of technical training, j But it is just as much my duty to culti- | vate my child's mind as her muscles. The Lord gave her an intellect just sis surely as he did a right arm. What would you think of me if J never per­ mitted her to use that right arm ? Do you see the analogy ? Now, there are many cases in which control of our brains is of more use to us than control of our bodies." "Isee; I never thought of that be­ fore. But, Mrs. Worth, it • you educate Laura so highly; if you keep her at school until she is 18, won't she become too fine for every-day work? Won't she despise plain housekeeping? Besides, when will she find time to learn it?" "She won't despise every-day work, or anything useful, unless my home- training is iu fault. In fact, the more learned she becomes, the more hope will I have for her; it is only the haif-edu- cated who put on such airs. As to time in which to loarn--I don't worry about that. An intelligent person cau alwavs learn faster titan a dull one. i venture to say that, in less than six months after she graduates, Laura will be an ac­ complished housekeeper. Next, I ven­ ture to see her mistress of some accom­ plishment by which she will always lie able to earn a living." " Have you no fear of her health? So many young girls have died, within the last few years, of over-study." " Not a great deal. 1 think many of the deaths said to be from over-study were, in reality, from other causes. I admit that every modern school or col­ lege for young ladies requires a great deal of hard work ; but, then, instruct­ ors reasonable expect that when a girl is actually in pursuit of nn education, she will make it her chief business. But here, you see a studious girl who sup­ ports herself by teaching out of school- hours ; here, another who has too many F^eierrea home-cares on her shoulders; unonier, j ,wint^ /,?! who is insuliieieutiy ciothed anu led ; still another, who was already delicate in health when she entered upon her course of iitudv. Now, these things should not be. In such a case, there is always somebody to blame--somebody's ignorance, or carelessness, or selfishness is at the bottom of the whole matter. Studv, pure anil simple, withiu reason­ able limits, never killed anybody. Now, I intend to regulate Laura's clothes, food, rest, exercise, and everything, my­ self. I will use every cure, and be guided by the light of all possible sci­ ence on the subject, and I will see if sho does not graduate as strong and well as ever she was." " Suppose she had no mother." | Mrs. Smith's tone changcd from caviling to one almost of reverence. I " Ah ! that I must leave to the hands of the Lord. But while sho has one she shall never suffer the need of one." When Mrs. Smith rose to go, she pressed her friend's hand fervently* With something like tears in her eyes and voice, she softly murmured : "De»r Mrs Worth ! I will never forget this day. You have made me another and, I hope, a better woman. You will have your reward some day, whether in ahis world or the next. Good-by !"--Ar­ thur's Home Magazine. EFFECT OF COMFORT ON THE QUALITY OF MILK.--The comfort of the cow has much to do with the quality of her milk*. In hot weather, the annoyance produced by flies, aud excitement caused by fight­ ing them, make the night's milk still pooreijthan it otherwise would be. Chem­ ical analysis has shown a great falling off of fat of the milk in the same cow when Any unusual excite­ ment of the cow affects the fat of the milk. Extremes of heat and cold also af­ fect the milk. In a case where cows went into a stream in hot weather, and stood several hours in the water above the knee, there was a falling off of the butter produced from the same quantity of milk. This accounted for by the ex-, tra food required to keep up the animal heat in consequence of the heat being carried off by the water. When we con­ sidered the fact that milk is secreted from the blood, we can readily see the effect that must be produced by excite­ ment on the nervous system of the cow. In a case occurring in the city of Albany, N. Y., where a nervous cow was milked by a passionate man, who whipped and otherwise ill-treated her at milking, the milk had been given to a child who had been healthy, but, after using this miik, became ill aud suffered from intestinal irritation, followed by a fever which seemed to effect the brain and nervous system. This illness was traced directly to the milk of this ill-treated cow.--Na­ tional Live Stock Journal. SHEEP AS RENOVATORS OF THE Soin. -- In England the most important method of keeping up the vigor of the soil is by pasturing sheep. The sheep and the turnip are inseparable, and it is due to sheep pasturing that the farms in that country do not deteriorate in quality. Their plan of managing sheep for such purpose is very different from ours. We turn our sheep in pasture and allow them to roam at \vill, picking, and se­ lecting only such garbage as suits them best, occasioning thereby a greater dis­ tribution of manure than we wish. Sheep dung is very concentrated and fine, and if the animals can be made to feed on small spaces they not only strew the manure thickly, but press it firmly into the earth with their feet. It is very rich in nitrogen, and Professor Johnston claims that this is due to the fact of the food being nitrogenized by the air taken into the lungs, and from thence into the system and discarded. This, however, is not generally accepted as correct, for if such is the case with sheep it is also equally applicable to all other animals. Its nitrogeneous qualities are, however, very apparent, owing to its highly con­ centrated condition. Fallowing is prac­ ticed to a great extent in this country, especially iu the South. It should be substituted by sheep-pasturing. To man­ age it properly the sheep should be hurdled on particular locations--chang­ ing regularly at stated periods. It has been claimed that one hundred sheep hurdled on one acre of ground for fifteen days will manure the land sufficiently for four crops. The land is first sowed with turnips, the Swedes or rutabagas being preferred, as they keep well. THE FAMILY DOCTOR. The Smallest Woman in the World. Lucia Zarate, the smallest woman in the world was born in Mexico. Her parents were peons--that is to say, half- breeds. When born she was the size of a rat. It was supposed that she was dead, and she was put in a little box that happened to be in the room. Soon however, she begau to scream. She was taken out of her box, and except that she wis wondrously small, she soon played and ran about like any other child. the sh»ep. As sheep eat close to the ground, they leave but little of the turnips. The hurdles made porta­ ble, and are easily removed or changed. .As soon as the inclosed piece of ground has been eaten off entirely the hurdles are removed just sufficiently to clear that piece to an adjoining one, and the piece lately occupied by them is then reseeded with something else. As sheep are not adverse to any kind of food, a choice can be made by the farmer as to the next crop. Among the many plants suit­ able for purposes are peas and beans. Cow peas are excellent. A sheep will eat the pea vine, peas, hull and roots, too, if he can get at them. Heavy tall grasses are not preferred, and so eager are the sheep for eating close to the ground that they have been known to become poor in flesh on heavy clover pastures that were nigh. They like the young tender grass and nearly all kinds of food make good food for them. It cannot be denied that by a system of hurdling and frequent changing of loca­ tion, they can be of incalculable benefit on poor soils. Instances are known in which worn-out lands have by being hurdled with sheep been brought to the highest degree of fertility. It is also a very cheap method of restoring land, for the sheep so pastured will not only yield an increase to the value of the land by bringing it back to fertility, but will, with wool and carcass, pay a hand­ some dividend on any amount of capital expended in such an enterprise.--Phil­ adelphia Record. remedy. Otii COLORS, VARNISH AND RESINS.-- On white or colored linens, cottons or woolens, use rectified oil of turpentine, alcohol, lye, and then'Soap; on silks, use benzine, ether, and milk soap, very cautiously. VEGETABLE COLORS, FRTJIT, RED WINE AND RED INK.--On white goods, sulphur fumes or chlorine water; colored cottons and woolens, wash with lukeworm soap, lye or ammonia; silk, the same, but more cautiously. IRON SPOTS AND BLACK SILK.--White goods, hot oxalic acid, dilute muriatic acid, with little fragments of tin. On fast-dyed cottons and woolens, citric acid is cautiously and repeatedly ap­ plied ; silk, impossible. BLOOD AND ALBUHINIOD MATTERS.-- Steeping in lukewarm water. If pepsin, or the juice of Oarica papaya, can be procured, the spots are first softened with lukewarm water, and then either of these substances is applied. GREASE--White goods, wash with soap or alkaline lyes; colored cottons, wash with lukewarm soap lyes ; colored woolens, the same, or ammonia ; silks, absorb with French chalk or fuller's earth, and dissolve away with benzine or either. TANNING--From chestnuts, green wal­ nuts, etc., or leather--White goods, hot chlorine water and concentrated tartatie acid ; colored cottons, wooless and silk, apply diluted chlorine water cautiously to the spot, washing it away and re- applyiug it several times. TAR--Cart-wheel grease, mixtures of fat, resin, carbon and acetic acids--On white goods, soap and oil of terpentine, alternating with streams of water; colored cottons and woolens, rub in with lard and let lie, soap and let lie again, and treat alternetely with oil of turpen­ tine and water; silk the same, but more carefully, using benzine instead of oil of turpentine. Anu>»--Vinegar, sour wine, musty and sour iruits--White goods, simple wash­ ing, followed up by chlorine water. Colored cottons, woolens and silks are very carefully moistened with dilute ammonia with the finger end. In case of delicate colors it will be found prefer­ able to make some prepared chalk into a thin paste with water and apply it to the spots. DISCOLORED pianoforte keys--Should the keys at any time become discolored remove the front door, fall, and slip of wood just ever them, then lift each key up separately from the front (do not take them out), and with a white cloth, slightly damped with a little clean cold water, rub each one separately (white keys only) dry off with a cloth slightly warm. Should they be sticky through children practicing after hand­ ling sweetmeats, etc., first damp the cloth with a little spirits of wine or gin. On no account use soap or washing pow­ der. If the keys be very yellow, the only thing to be done, if too unsightly, is to have them properly whitened by a practical man. If only slightly yellow, keep clean and exposed well to the light, and they will gradually improve. RECIPES. STEAMED PUDDING.--One cup of sugar, one-half cup of butter, three eggs, one cup of milk, three heaping teaspoonfuls of baking powder ynd three cups of flour ; steam one hour. GERMAN WAY OF FRYING BEEFSTEAK. --Pound the cut steak a little, salt it and fry quickly with hot lard on both sides. Potir off the lard and place the steak on the dish. Put into the pan some fresh butter and fry with it some finely cut onions and potir this over the steak. GERMAN WAY OF MAKING POTATO SALIP.--Take some small and long pota­ toes (lady fingers, if procurable) and boil them unpeeled. Let them cool, peal and cut into tine slices , add a little hot water, best vinegar, oil, salt, onions and pepper to suit. QUINCE JELLY.--Take clean rice par­ ings and seeds. Put them in your porce­ lain kettle, oover with water and cook until very soft, drain through a flannel bag (without squeezing,) boil the juice from twenty minutes to three-quarters of an hour; you can not tell when it is boiled enough unless you cool a little of the juice; do not put the sugar in until the juice begins to be thick; skim off all the froth that rises, for on this depends the purity of the jelly. FRIED STEAK AND ONIONS.--Melt a lump of butter in a frying-pan ; cover the bottom of the pan with onions sliced very thin ; then lay the steak over them ; when the onions are fried until they are tender put the beef on the liottom of the pan and cover it with the onions ; add butter or lard as you need it. Liver cooked in this way is nice also. When it is done lay it on a platter and heap the onions on the meat A very little gravy made in the pan in which you have cooked the meat and onions is an addition, but make only a little and turn over the meat, seasoning it well with salt and pepper. POTATO SAL AD.--The potatoes are first put into cold water iu their skius, with a good teaspoonful of salt added to a dozen potatoes. They are then allowed to boil up, and afterwarcTleft to simmer gently until quite tender. When cold they are peeled and cut up into rounds as thin as possible, which are laid in a dish, well seasoned with salt and pepper, sprinkled with plenty of finely-chopped parsley, and then saturated with oil and vinegar. Ia other salads, vinegar is used in about the proportion of one to ! four of oil; but potatoes require a good deal more--in fact, an almost equal quantity of each, not less in any case than three spoonsful of vinegar to four of oil. Those who like the flavor will find thinly sliced onions, either spring or Spanish, or a very small piece of garlic, finely shred, a great improvement to the tastiness of the salad. them, but desired that they would not „ . . , open the chest. The officers at first MALARIAL fevers arise from decaying asked for duties on clothes which the vegetable matter and stagnant water. j distinguished Hebrew consented to pav. IMPERFECT cooking is,at the root of i By this they thought that the chest all parasitic disease oonneoted with oni ; might contain gold. Abraham con- food. | sented to pay the duties on gold. They IN bathing, too long exposure to imagined the contents to be silk; water is followed by loss of body heat ,111 short, he consented to pay for pearls, and cold. I or for anJ other valuable articles, if they POISON ANTIDOTE.--A standing anti- j 1!^ °Pe.n c^e8t- But; the cus- dote for roison bv dew, poison oak, ivy, i •. . '.P1lB ln "Porl. op'ningit; - * - - ' • Jf and behold, as soon as the lid was lifted, I that lustrous beauty, who made such a | stir in Egypt, appeared. It was tho j superb Sarah, herself J The jealous : Abraham, to hide her chairns from the gaze of tlu envicus Egyptians, had etc., is to take a handful of quicklime, dissolve in water, let it stand half an hour, then paint poisoned parts with it. Three or four applications will never fail to cure the most aggravated cases. NERVOUS HEADACHE.--Dr. Ochlschla- ger, of Dantzing, has found salicylate of sodium to be of great value in the treatment of nervous headache when given at the beginning of an attack. Drowsiness is produced, and after a few hours of sleep the patient wakes up re­ freshed and free from pain. When, however, the patient is anemic the drug locked her up in this chest. SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY. ALPHA CENTAUR; is the nearest of the fixed stars, and its distance exceeds the sun's 230,000 time. EXPERIMENTS have been made in Paris uvnvTi.1. AO WAV Wiug j LUftYB UW3ll lutftUO IU rJHiB frequ ntly fails to produce a salutary ; with a new kind of military telegraphy, effect. DYSPEPSIA.̂ We have seen dyspeptics who suffered untold torments with al- most e very kind of food; no liquid could be taken without suffering ; bread be­ came a burning acid; meat and milk which consists simply in reading °large letters by a telescope. It is hoped to succeed at 60 miles distance. A NEAPOLITAN gardner, after years of experiment, has produced acameha with a delicate perfume, and think it probable (Thii vagruwUit rapraaants the hjnits In « healthy atat*.) 1STAMABD BMDT IN MANY HOME8. For Congka, Colda, Cranp, SraukMh u| *• •thai aSactiona of tha Throat nd jr^U\CM,KataaSa unriraled and uttarlj bajroad all OMnpatlUon. IN CONSUMPTIVE CASES Laura's dress, and was now darning her gayly-striped hose. " You're a queer woman," at last re­ marked the visitor. " Now suppose von WHENEVER you see a woman with a mending great deal of Italian sunset in her hair, HOUSEHOLD HELPS. and considerable aurora borealis in her cheeks and nose, you will experience less stormy weather if you let her alone, I than if yoa don't.--Lampion. ' [From the Detroit Free Press Houseliuld.1 REMOVAL OF STAINS AND SPOTS. STEARINE.--In all cases strong, pure alcohol. . GUM, SUGAR, JELLY, ETC.--Simple washing with water at a hand heat. MATTER ADHEBINO MECHANICALLY.-- Beating, brushing and currents of water either upon the upper or under side. LIME AND ALKALIES.--White goods, simple washing. Colored cottons, Pay Day in Workshops. The following appeal to employers is being circulated by postal card: ^ To EMPLOYERS: The Women's Na­ tional Christian Temperance Union re­ quest that all employers will consider the advantage arising from making some other day in the week than Saturday pay-day. Those who have tried it find that Monday or Wednesday are prefer­ able to Saturday, as the money is ex­ pended for family needs before the li­ quor sellers can get it on Saturday night or Suhday. Employers, please try the experiment, and see if your workmen are not in a better condition on Monday. A statement of results will be gladly received by MRS. P. STRYKER, Springs, N. Y., Com. for New their torments pass away and their hun ger relieved by living , on the white of eggs which have been boiled in bubbling water for thirty minutes. At the end of the week we have given the half yelk of the egg with the white, and upon this diet alone, without fluid of any kind, we have seen them begin to gain flesh and strength, and quiet, refreshing sleep. After weeks of this treatment they have been able, with care, to begin upon other food. And all this without taking med­ icine. Hard-boiled eggs are not half so bad as half-boiled ones, and ten times as easy to digest as raw eggs, even in eggnog. --Exchange. HOMEMADE SICKNESS.--Were it not that the human constitution has an en­ during quality compared with which the toughness of the mule is sweet infantile tenderness the atmosphere of the average city home in cold weather would make the city lively with funeral processions. A visitor needs merely to pass the front doors of most houses to discover odors that do" not seem traceable to any partic­ ular article, yet which have an oppress­ ive effect upon respiration ; tome times similar effect is experienced where no odor is perceptible. Occasionally the residents of a house, returning from church, theater or party, notice this peculiarity of the atmosphere and promptly say all sorts of bad things about the plumber, who probably deserves them a 1, but no one seems to think that the air of the house should be changed on e in a while during the winter. The air of an unoccupied house, with no connection whatever with the sewers or other sources of disease, is ut­ terly unfit to breathe, for it is continu­ ally being robbed of its oxygen by car­ pets, furniture, floors, walls and every­ thing else that is susceptbile of decay. Wliat, then must be the condition of the atmosphere of the house where half a dozen people and an equal number of gas-burners or lamps are daily assisting at the work of deoxygenating the ir and loading it with impurities ? There are many houses in which people wiio are cold would be warmed quicker by leaving a window open for two minutes than by hugging the fire, for impure air greatly lessens physical warmth. Continuous ventilation is never thought of by more than one builder in a hundred, so but few people can hope always to breathe pure air indoors in cold weath­ er. An occasional opening of doors and windows throughout the day, however, the work being done most thoroughly just before bed time, would put an end to thousands of cases of sickness and de­ bility that come from no cause but im­ pure air. The Bohemian Girl at Home. A correspondent of the Philadelphia' Bulletin writing from Carlsbad says: The Bohemian girl, as she ap­ pears on her native soil, does not look as if she had ever dreamt of marble halls as did the girl of the late Mr. Balfe's opera. She begins life swathed in a stiff pillow to straighten and strengthen her back. Soon after she begins to walk she takes lessons in bearing burdens on her back, and by the time she reaches woman-hood can carry a ten-gallon cask of water, or a huge basket filled with fire-wood or soiled clothes up a steep hill twenty or thirty times without stop­ ping to rest. Advancing in years, she may be hitched with a cow or a big dog to pull a market wagon, driven by her beloved and loving husband. If she is a very good wife she may be advanced to the dignity of being the off-horse, with a dog for a near one, to haul a coal-cart to a customer's door, and when she unhitches herself she carries in a pannier the rusty looking coal of this country up one, two er three pairs of stairs, while the man and dog repose in the street. It is thus that the native Bohemian girl often fulfills her destiny in this historic and chivalric land. Women is the drudge and the beast of burden here, as iu many other ports of tho Continent. There are fine horses for driving heavy vehicles, and there are donkeys that pull fat dowagers or lazy little boys up the hills. But there are no equestrian displays. A riding horse is more rarely seen in Carlsbad than a pretty German woman, and yet there are scores of cavaliers in cavalry uniforms and wearing spurs that ougli' to be pricking the sides of the best blooded steeds of the orient. But there is not much need of horses in a country where women are the laborors, and the pleasure horse is an expensive luxury. Limits to Belief. There are limits to human belief. You may believe what the candidate says in convention; you may believe what he says on the stump; you may believe what the old settler says about the win­ ter of 1.852 or the summer of 185."5; you may believe what a man tells you in a horse trad*;: you may believe what Ven- nor says about the weather : you may believe what a man says who was at the Centennial; you may believe the army liar, and you may believe the snake liar; but when a man takes his cigar from liiii lips and, with a guileless, sim­ ple prefix of a date and place, starts in on a trout story, bur aud bolt and lock and double lock the gates of your belief when he gets to the place. Don't be­ lieve a single, solitary trout--not though it weighs less iliau a pound. Under the shadow of the trout truth dies, and the man who iishes four days and oidy hooks one lone trout, ;-o small that he loses it in his empty basket, comes liom^ the biggest liar of them all---Burlington lIawk-E>/c. Abraham and Sarah. The pretty story concerning Abraham and Sarah, as related by the Talmudists, runs as follows: When Abraham Ment to Egypt, he took with him a chest. At the Custom House the officers demanded duties. Abraham was ready to pay fragrance. M. FiiEisHEN has made a comparison between the bark of young oaks grown respectively upon sandy loams, upon peaty soil that had been once burned, and upon a similar soil that had been thrice burned, and found the proportion of tannin highest in the product of peaty soil. A NATURALIST asserts that cranes carry small migratory birds--unable to perform the flight of three hundred and fifty miles --across the Mediterranean Sea on their backs. In flocks of cranes traveling south­ ward across this sea, little birds of many species are observed, frequently flying from their perches only to return a mo­ ment after. MARBLE IS generally considered to bo a very rigid material. A remarkable case, however, is given by M. Guebhard, in which a marble slab at one side of a door in the Alhambra of Grenada has been bent considerably out of shape by super­ incumbent weight, without breaking. The slab is ten feet high, nine inches broad and two inches thick. M. TROTTPEAU has lately made numer­ ous experiments with head-gear in its relation to heat from the sun. He reaches these conclusions, which may serve as useful hints : 1. Head-coverings of conical and rounded form are cooler than those of flat shape, the helmet is accordingly preferable to the kepi in hot climates. 2. A thick body, formed of a substance which conducts heat badly, protects effectually against the sun's rays. 3. No metal should be used in the construction of head-gear. 4. Good ventilation, obtained by means of lateral air-holes at the top and a gallery at the base, isolating the head, causes a very sensible lowering of the interior temperature. A head-cover of bad con­ struction may be made cool by good ven­ tilation. IN HIS address before the British As­ sociation of Science at its recent fifty- first annual meeting, Sir John Lubbock, the President said : " Summing up the principal results which have been ob­ tained in the last half-century, we may mention (over and above the accumula­ tion of facts) the theory of evolution, the antiquity of man, and the far greater antiqhity of the world itself ; the cor­ relation of the physical forces and the conservation of energy; spectrum an­ alysis and its application to celestial physics, the higher algebra and the mod­ ern geometry, lastly, the innumerable ap­ plications of science to practical life--as, for instance, in photography, the locomo­ tive engine and electric telegraph, the spectroscope, and most recently, the elec­ tric light and the telephone." LESCHMIDT, whose observations have been confirmed by Stoney and Sir W. Thompson, calculates that each mole­ cule of hydrogen measures, at the most, not more than a fifty-millionth of an inch it diameter--a minuteness of which we can form absolutely no conception, with the most powerful microscopes, lines ruled on glass the nineth-thous- andth of an inch apart can be perceived, although confusion of the lines begins at the seventy-four-thousandth of an inch, rendering distinct vision beyond that limit impossible with any instruments now known. Soreby believes that a length of one eighty-thousandth of an inch would contain from five hundred to two thousand molecules--say, five hundred in albumen and two thous­ and in water. It appears, therefore, that the smallest spere of organic mat­ ter clearly visible in the most power­ ful microscopes would contain many millions of moleculos of albumen or water. were solid liquid fires; and we have seen ] that these flowers may in the near future ! thT'dS^cUon* *** - ! be s*o cultivated, as to rival the rose ml " AS AN EXPECTKANT IT HAS N« EQUAL IT CONTAINS NO OPIUM IN ANY Ftli. J. N. HARRIS Jt CO., Proprietor* OIHCIXHATI, O. FOR SALE BYliI DRUBGI8TS. HOLMAN'S PAD CURES ft Simply Without ^ MEDICINE f Absorptiw The Only True Malarial Antidote. DR. H»LMAN'» PA» SB no gtieaa-work remedy-- •• feebla t»<iutiv« experiment--no purloin«4 h»<lge podge { seme other Inventor'tide* ; it it the original and only gennfne car* •t4ve Pad, the only remedy that haa an hon­ estly-acquired right t« use the title-word "Pad** la connection with a treatment for chronic dlaaajM •f tho Stomach, JAver and Spleen. By a recently perfected Improvement SR. H®i« MAN haa greatly increased the acope of the Fad'a •sefulneaa, and appreciably augmented iU active curative power. Thla great improvement give* HOLMAN*S PA> (with its Adjuvants) such complete and unfailing control over the most persistent and unyielding forms of Chronic Disease of tho Stomach and L,lveir, as well as Hala> rial niood-l'ulNOulng, as to amply Justify the eminent Professor hoomit1 high en­ comium: "IT is NZARXR A UNIVERSAL PANACKA THAN ANYTHING IN MCSICIKX 1" The success of HOLMAN'S PADS has inspired im­ itators who offer Pads similar in form and •dor to the geawlne HOUIttASi PAD. Beware mft tbese XBosrus and Iml- taticn Pada, gotten up to sell on tbe reputation of tho GENVIKB HOI..MAM PAD. Each CSenwtae Holnan Pad beara the Private Revenue stamp of ta* HOLM AN PAD COMPANY with tka Trade Mark piloted m grcea. FOR SALE BY ALL DftUGGiSTt •( scat !*v asil, pott-paid oa reeeipt of HOLMAN PAD CO- , A O. Bom. 2112.] 714 !Sroadw»f, K, W. Fighting Witches in Prussia. Prussia is no doubt ft highly-civilized country, but her northern aud north­ eastern regions do not appear to be just now the most desirable places of resi­ dence for persons of the Jewish race or old women of retiring habits and unpre­ possessing appearance. To torture a re­ puted witch is, seemingly, a pursuit al­ most as congenial to the agricultural Borussian as is the persecution of Jews to the Pomeranian operative. The latest achievement, in the former line is reported from Stangenwalde in the 'columns of tlie Danzigrr Zeitung. A potato- hawker, returning from the Danzig mar­ ket to her village with a lame horse, was driving past the cottaee of an aged fe­ male, believed throughout the country sid« to be in league with the Powers of Darkness, When the tired animal came to a dead halt, and declined to proceed any farthtT. This not unnatural result of lameness and fatigue we forthwith as- scribed to a spell, cast upon the horse by the venerable dame inhabiting the cot­ tage ; and at a late hour of the same evening the indignant potato-hawker's husband and m< it tier-in-luw proceeded to haul the sorceress out of her bed and to iniliet tbe most barbarous torments upon her with a view towards compelling her to ex Teise the demon of which she had obviously caused the horse to be pos­ sessed. They hacked her fingers with knives, kicked her, trod upon her face and beat hei unmercifully. Her screams arouse ! the neiyhlv-.riiood, and between forty and lifty pe.t.s.ints were soon assem­ bled iu the poor old woman's dwelling, where they gave ail imtiinnable encour­ agement to her brutal tormentors. One burly bumpkin volunteered to fetch a razor wherewith to severe the arteries of her wrists. Another produced a rope, and was adjusting a clumsily-tied noose round her neck, with the avowed inten­ tion to hang her, when she was rescued from his clutches by the district physi­ cian from Cartliaus. who happened to be visiting a patient in Tangenwalde aud was attracted to the scene of the outrage by the shrieks of the victim.--Lonond Telegraph. A little kerosene added (Q stove polish improves the lustre. US. LT1U E. mini, IF LTH, UU. LYDIA L PINKHAMP* VESETABLE COMPOTOB. I^^POSLTIVECTTRE feral] tkooo Pataftal Ceotplolut* sad Wc aoeoauaoa to oar fcost fetM.Ec 2>©pnlotloa. It will euro ontiraly the wenrf. form oi Famate Ooo*» plaints, &11 ovarian troubles, Inflammation and Uloera tion. Falling and Displacements, and the eonsi«Ma* •plnai Weakness, and Is particularly adapted to tfco Cbsog* •£ Lifft. It will dissolve and expel tumors from tbe ffiixsrmstl an early itigt of development. 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