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They »i<oke tt tho.r homes and wlvee. 1 married the L >d o' Ltgan Brae," Sal one wlih a lofty ir; "there ts v» n <»' the nirth countrM A house wt a e t r share Oif.ld an8 i/e r, and hil> and look, OX bo so« and f ru.s to r nt)*?» Tifere"" m ny a man has envied me. And I'm mair than wee' contc-ns." ' • , *D«eam of a w man a- bright as <tay,a The se Oiid trave er s-^d; "Or am . f a .orm o erfect pra:% Ofanob'e ace a d head Qi oyc-i that are b ne as he i^en, 9 flowing nnt brown hai~; This is my wif and th n.'h not] Oh( she is wondrous fair.1" The t ird on •» sa d: "I hare a wlfat rtieis 110 thar ri -h nor f (ir: Bhe has h t eo.d, nor pear, n riant, « No a wo ilt o nur-b ow hair. But o'.l Si)f fores TO".' a>i ' hT lovS. Has 8 oi^l thr i ph every te-< ; Be*nty and cold nre trooil, but, trienls, We kr.ow tuut love is beat," They filled fie'r oars in the spring again, Ani t ey« i r.g t Heartily: "Hrb's t tlfe L ivinsr, Faithful Wife! Wherever hor m me may l>e," And wni they took their d'flf rent ways, O e iUoug ti ea u mam's brea«t: "B an y s goo i. and col t is ood. But a Trns Love is t..-e best." THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE If you sbonld see, for the first time, the brokers in the New York Stock Ex­ change (founded near the close of the last century), as vow may easily do, by stepping up a single Sight of stairs from Wall street into either of the two gal­ leries. you wou d be excusable for be- neving yourself in a mad-house. T-lie great room, or hall, about one hundred by forty feet, with walls and lofty ceiling handsomely frescoed and decorated, does not look in the least like a lunatic asylum; but the crowd of men on the marble floor below you cer­ tainly act like maniacs. There are hundreds of them, all very nicely and fashionably dres-ed, shout­ ing, gestulating. moving rapidly, ner­ vously about, most of them with pen­ cils or stylo^raphic pens and small books in their hands, dashing down Smething every few seconds, and then ting their arms and voices again, as ft to add to the general confusion and uproar. Not a word, although they scream, is intelligible to you or anybody else in ; the galleries; yon could hardly be per- t suaded that they are bawling except for • Hie sake of bawling. If they really , wish to be understood, they must either I,- be using a language you are unacquaint­ ed with or talking a kind of gibberish peculiar to the Exchange. Can they be Serious or sane? They are very serious, and they think lhem.se'ves the sanest of the sane. They ^re doing their regular business, buying And selling stocks. Tiiey are Bulls and Bears; the BuTls being those trying to put prices up, ; the lieara those trying to pull prices down. What sounds in the gallery so mean­ ingless to you, and to every outsider, is ?erf<iftly clear to the men on the t'oor. hey are calling ont, One hundred New York Central; Three hundred Bur­ lington and tyuincy; Two hundred Michigan Houthern; ODO tliousand Western Union; Seven hundred North­ ern Pacific Preferred, or Ten thousand united States Currency sixes. When a broker wishes to buy or sell, he lifts his arm to attract attention and nam OH i:<» kind and amount of security. Bidarc 'i:ade by shouts; when any of these is accepted, the broker nods in a Certain way, and the matter is settled. The l»uyer makes a rapid memorandum of the transaction; the seller the name, Snd the seonrity, whatever it may be, is elivered either at the close of bauk ^ours or at the time agreed upon. From the beginuing to the end of the Jear, all transactions are conducted in his manner. Hundreds of mill ons of dollars change hand* with nothing more than a gesture, a shout and a no;l. Toil would suppose that mistakes must constantly be made. But this scarcely per happens. The brokers are used to • din. and practice has ma le them perfect in the difficult art of doing busi­ ness in the midst of apparent chaos. The Exchange has u meinber«li p of 1,100, about 600 members being active. The rest are either old or elder'y men who keep their seats (it is styled a seat, probab'y, because a broker very seldpm sits down), though partly retired, or men of ample mea .s who live or are traveling abroad. The active members are mostly young or youngish, very few of them being beyond middlea?e. They certainly lie have like big boys just released from school, so full are they of frolic and fun. Dignity or re­ pose is the last or least thing they care for or esteem. Often when some dis languished stranger Is introduced upon the lloor they ridicule him and play jttkes at his expense, even fastening pa­ pers with dt-ritive phrases to his coat- tails, or hurtling him r;udely, or knock­ ing his hat over his eyes. And the more distinguished a stranger is the more boisterous and impertinent they ere apt to be. Their sportiveness is particularly ehown at Christmas t'xne, when liun- . deeds of the brokers, some of them lift Years old and more, appear on the floor Slowing whistles and tin trumpet*, winding ratt.es and beating toy-drum --often presents for tiieir chi dren - af­ ter the manner of street-urchilis. A£ very lit le is done, usual y, during the holidays, they then give themselves extraordinary license, and so, perhaps relieve their minds from the strain they ¥e generally under whi e at the Board he scenes there at Christmas-tide are Qurious to witness. Nowhere ebe in eiviliz*t on, it may be safely asserted, do solid men of b isiness. a good propor fton of them millionaires, behave so ri diculoits y. Another day of amiable riot is what they style White Hat Dav--in early September--when they call in, as they put it, the white lia s. The summer uaviug then (a rly passed, they show •heir knowledge and »ppreoi6ticn of tue fat-t by knocking off and trampling on everv v hite hat worn by any of their brother i rokers at that d .te. No white hat is seen there then but comes to immediate grief. It is struck oil', kicked around, so battered and marred that after passing the severe or­ deal of the Board it would not bring five cei ts in any second-hand shop in Chatham street. Naturally, soma of the owners of the forbidden and broken hats get angry at their treatment, although they might have been prepared for it; bnt tlio bro­ kers do tho mischief so rollickingly, wit-li such an overflow of spirit, that, the venation soon dispelled, thoy in turn become the uncompromising enemies of their associates' xyhite hats. Fun, even when boisterous and violent, is conta­ gious, and after a few minutes of this norse-play, the frowns of the gravest brokers yield to sympathetic,, laughter. Tho price of membership, or a seat at the Board, as it is generally called, va­ ries greatly, though as a rule it steadily advances. Many years ago it was only a thousand dollars. Recently it was thirty-five thousand dollars; but the long d illness of the stock market has caused a dec ine from that figure of ten thousand or twelve thousand dollars. The latest sale reported was at twenty- ei"ht thousand dollars. When a broker owns a scat he cannot be deprived of it, except by dismissal from the Exchange for violation of its rules. Otherwise, it belongs irrevoca­ bly to him, and to his heirs in case of death. This is a fortunate provision; for * hen brokers fail so badly that they oannot resume business they still have their seat, t^e sale of which will give them something to live on if deprived of other income. Brokers are continually failing, as they must with endless changes in the market, and the risks they are always taking. At a particularly excited pe­ riod they are in constant danger, and may be forced to suspend any hour. Wall street is as uncertain as the wind. When a broker has been honor­ ably unfortunate, no matter what his losses, his fellows are willing and glad to come to his aid. They will accept almost any compromise he is justified in offering; they not infrequently can­ cel obligations due them in order to get him started again. Such cancelings are seldom taken ad­ vantage of but for a time of stress. When the broker fully recovers him­ self. he is pretty certain to pay his creditors dollar for dollar, with inter­ est. Much as the brokers are misrep­ resented and abused, they are noted for their delicate financial honor, and they are generous to a fault. Their pocket-books are ever open to every appeal for assistance or charity. They give away more money than any other body of men in New York, or in any city under the sun; and yet they make no professions of benevolence. Ihey are inclined to be cynical in speech, but their cynicism rarely reaches their hearts. The hours of the Board are from 10 a. m to 3 p. m. daily, Sundays and legal holidays excepted. To a stranger all its meetings seem tumultuous and fren­ zied; but they are very different. A trained eye f-ees at a glance wlijpi things are dull. The sales are sometimes enor­ mous--more than one million of shares daily, representing one hundred million dollars. It often happens that they are too numerous to be recorded. They average, perhaps, two hundred antl fifty thousand to three hundred thou­ sand shares, though they are occasion­ ally as small as one hundred and fifteen thousand to one hundred and twenty, thousand. Wi:en Wall Street, is excited, when the Bulls or Bears have control of the market, the galleries are crowded, as is the tloor likewise. Nearly every broker then appears to be wholly frantic. The Exchange looks like a mass of whirling arms and jerking heads; a press of bodies sways to and fro; the din echoes and re-echoes from the walls and roof: the roar is deafening; hundreds of throats are clamoring shrilly or hoarse­ ly in >heir wild hunger for gain; Babel is revived and intensified. The swinging doors of the main en­ trance in Broad Street, and those lead­ ing to New Street, are ceaselessly banging, as the human tide ebbs and flows. The telegraph instruments, if you could hear them, are clicking like mad, as they ought to do, to agree with, tue madness raging around them. The telegraph messengers, being little fel­ lows. make their way mysteriously through the packed throng, creeping under men's legs, and c'imbing almost over their backs, to deliver their de­ spatches, telling of success or disaster, and enjoying the hurly-burly which they blinding increase. The deiirium of speculation is at its height. Scores of men are selling large amounts of stocks that they do not own, and buying heavily what they have not the money to pay for. What does that matter? Speculation is the good of that is hoped for. Click, clickvdick! Bang,bang,bang! Yell, yell, yell! Koar, roar, roar! The President waves hishandkerchief to a boy, who observes the signal, an<? beats a gong vigorously. It is heard above the crush and strife and noise.' The hand of the big clock above the desk is exactly at the point of thr e; the chairman pounds fiercely with hi. av^l, antl a Midilen comparative hush de rend* np'n the Exchange. Tho brokors seem to return to their senses. The transition is almost start­ ling. Speculation with all it* hopes and fears and anxietie , its terrible temptations and its numberless woes, is over--until to-morrow. -- Junius Henri Brow ne, in Youth's Companion. AGRICULTURAL bosons In North America. According to the published records of the Grand Lodges in North A raeri- c i there are 580,684 affiliated members connected with the craft. We give the ollowing table, prepared by Josiali H. Drommond, P. G. M. of Maine: Mem | Hem- ) era. JO and Lodg a. jvig. 8 0 1 is« nr 34,lfft 10,169 > onfr ft)* a 5 Veirr 3,069 »5 Nev d i.ao( i\P8l|New Km swlck.. ?, m 1",9« jJT.'W I'rinp* i e.. 7.IM1 'i 62 N w X'T ey U 771 ll,T39,N'vw M xfe 54,1 11511 New Yo k 6 ,07 Gr ndLo gea. K abam - Ark nsas ri ona British(.<1 im ii alitor la. » ad» ('o < rad i Connc ticutb D kot •elawa < 3 . . . . . . . . . l)i«t it of • o- = 'nmb a.......... Fl rida Oeo k a. luaho I 1 n 'is In an In II nTe ri ory. 1,366:NO th Caro lilt jNova Scotia Ohio 1 U'lO e?cn 1 340iPenn yva ia... 391 l\ E. I «n1. ... 88,6 I Q'I cc 23, 00 R o'el land.... 15 - uth ro iaa.. Iowi 19,!H2Te esee..„... \ans 8 1 305 T zar ..!.... Ke cky......... l5,4M lTt h LO l«iaivi...'. 4,3 2V<irm nt a ne 19,4ft!) VI f'nia Ma i ob 6tfl: A Bht> gion M ry 1 d 4 665 W nt V R< I.L..... M a "chuaette.... 5,&>6iw s one n IV71 chienn SG 488jW. omta*........ 8M M; n"s t 7 622 Mit» RStppi. 8,8CJ1 3,«W 3,411 8MJ 636 9,?M 3,7F» 6,tU 16,777 16,661 46 7,72 0,044 1,201 8,801 8,8CtH Totil. .....680,684 HF, who prorogues the honesty of to­ day till to-morrow will probably pro­ rogue his to-morrows to eternit/.-- Lavater. A USEFUL HERB.--The dandelion has of late become very popular as a salad erb in Ex gland. It requires the same routine in the way of culture as ohicory, viz: sow. in April in drills, take up the roots when fully grown in Autumn, and plant in a dark, warm cellar or mush­ room liop.se. The young blanched leaves are excellent ;or making np winter salads, and they come in at a time when the ordinary supply of out-door mate­ rial for shading is at its lowest ebb. GOOD FOR FRUIT.--It is often a seri­ ous question how to dispose of the hard bones that are frequently left lving around the back yard f r stray dogs to fight over and people to stum­ ble against. The New York Tribune gives the following plan as efficient and firofitable: Bury a peck or a half mshel or more of the hard bones un­ der a newly-set grapevine or fruit tree, or within reach of the eager roots of an old one. which will search them out and ,eed on them year a'ter year till the ?ast fragment is transformed into grapes t>r app es, as in the celebrated case of Uoger Williams. SOROHUM CANE AS FORAGE.--My ex­ perience proves that sorghum cane pos- lesses great value as forage. I have fed it to horsey cattle, hogs, and sheep and -onsider the re-ults equally favorable with thoso gained fr^ m the use of corn fodder in past seasons. I have used the amlier, for I consider it the sweetest variety. A member of the State Wool Growers' Association who winters large numbers of sheep, recently gave his ex­ perience. He tound that fifty acres of sorghum, drilling in about a peck to the acre, being careful not to get it too thick, and cutting up one-half to feed ia stormy weather, would carry about one thousand sheep through the winter. He used Minn- sota amber and orange- seed. "--John While, Ella worth County, Kansas. PEAS SOWN WITH OATS.--I have been experimenting with peas sown with oats in the fall. I have sown the red and yellow cow peas three years in succession 'with my oats in IN ovember. They will come up if sown too early. I sow from one and a half to two and two and a half bushels per acre, which insures me a good stand by the 1st of April or May, and they are large enou h when I cut off my oats to keep the weed or grass from injuring them. They run all over the field and make a complete shade for the ground and never fails to make me a good crop, far superior to any I raise in my corn or by sowing after hnvesting the oats. In fact I never saw better crops made in any mode of cultivation than the above I found I was always so busy with my plonghs after harvesting my grain that 1 could not always sow as many as I wished to. I find my land improves muoh faster under the above mode than sow­ ing-after harvest. As I get double the vegetable matter returned to my land, I planted oorton after oats this spring on the 18th day of June, and made 420 poands of lint per acre, which I sold at an average ot' y cent* per pound.--A. E. Sturge.a, MaDujJe, Ga. MORH ANIMAL FOOD FOR YOCNO CHICKENS.--Wo do not think that we can be mistaken in the belief that we should be far more successful in the raising of young chickens by giving them a groat deal more animal food than we are in tho practice of doing Corn meal mush, boiled potatoes, and similar substances generally compose, as we all know, the principal food of young chicliens; but we can see no reason why these young birds should be exceptions to the ordinary rule of young birds in general, which feed very largely, indeed chieHy, on animal food; even those which, when they are ma­ ture, live mostly on fruits and seeds are fed when in their nests on worms, grubs and insects. We notice the old iirds all day long busily engaged in supplying their young with food, but always with animal food. In fact, it is very rare that we have seen anything else. Why, then, should chicks be an exception? The recommendations, al­ most without exception, ia our poultry publications, is to gives more animal food to our grown fowls if we expect them to give us more eggs, especially in winter, when they can help them-- selves to none. That it is a great induce­ ment to make them lay more generously we have too many proofs to admit of any doubt. Besides, it is claimed that animal food has other advantages in the way of good health, etc. Why, then, let ns a->k again, should the young chickens not Le lienefitted with a mod­ erate supply of animal food?f All chicken raisers know the great losses always suffered in the growth of them, and may it not be owing to a large ex- ten to the withholding of so much ben- elit to the matured bird? We there­ fore suggest to our farmers to oliange their method of feeding their young chickens by giving them a due propor­ tion of animal food, chopped up in very Brnall pieces, and thus find out, each for himself, whether it i-i not a very decided benefit in raising to matnrity au addi­ tional number of the chicks into Btrong ea.thy fouls.-- Germantown Tele- ijraplt. IN PRAISF. OF TNK Sao,--A Vermont farmer writes to ^he Country Gentle nan: J opened a silo in twenty days from closing, and found the ensUage as ,'ood us any I have seen in five years of fee ling--the first year with the trench; two years with the stone silo, and two eur* feeding from a wooden silo in b.^rn. This year I am feeding from a l am silo full of grass, and a stone silo. Trie estimate of J. B. Brown of about I,(MM) per cent, profit with ens>lr.ge, I believe, for I have proved it this year. The five or six acres I put into this stone silo would not have been worth i^O before it was cut. I had been BO i usy building our house that the weeds had overrun the small corn so that one- hird was nothing bnt weeds. Then we had five frosts, freezing even tf e stalks of the large corn, and the fields Inoke 1 en'isely white. Cows would not ouch it when we WITH entting, and I fe t pretty blue. When we got ready to till it began te rain, and I mowed weeds and all, we as it was, hauled and stacked ne\r ent er, and put it through on tho half-ineh feed as fast as two men eonld feed it. We kept it well trodden down; put on about a foot or more of stone, and waited only twenty lavs, for I wanted to see if the ©sltt« would eat it. I have now been feeding a month, and have not cleaned o t th<* ..^angers, but left them so that the doubters eould see that nothing is lost. Everything, weeds and all, was eaten np. No»w let the scientists explain. This is certainly taking ont something I fetter than I put into the silo, for the same cows would not touch it, and now even calves and pigs eat all up clean. I was indeed astonished to see the cattle lake hold of it. For the fntnre I shall not trouble myself about weeds. I have three times as many eattle as we ever kept before we bad silos and have enough left to winter half as many mora. This silo ia about forty-four or forty- five by eleven and one-half feet,and prob­ ably has five feet of pressed ensilage. kt least forty tons of splendid feed are in it. I cut corn and all that w worst frozen, and it all has a delicious smell. I h ive proved one thin?, which is that if we have plenty of weight, and, instead of taking it oat of silo, move it back and double so as to keep the edges well pressed, we can go to feeding as soon as we like. of butter, two cups of sugar, three cups of flour, four eggs. BOILED HAM.--Boil until tender; then remove the skin; set in the oven for half an hour; cover thickly with cracker crumbs and season with pepper; set back in the oven for another half hour. MINCED BEEF.--Shred the beef and put into a stew pan with one large onion chopped fine; water enough to cover, pepper and salt. Boil until ten­ der ; then pour over bread crumbs and one tablespoonful of vinegar. OX-TAIL SOUP.--One ox-tail, two large onions, two carrots; chop all to­ gether and fry in butter; when done put into a soup kettle, with the beef cut into strips; boil four hours; strain and thicken with flour wet in cold watdr. COFFEE CAKE.--Five cup* of flour, two eggs, one cup of butter, one-quar­ ter of a pound of citron, one cup of coffee, one teaspoonful of soda, one cup of molasses, cloves, one cup of sugar, cinnamon, one cup of raisins, one cup of currants. LEMON PUDDING.--Half pound crum­ bled bread, half pound moist sugar, quarter pound suet, the peel of a lemon chopped very fine, and the juice of the same beaten up with one egg. Mix well and put it into a basin and boi! it half an hour; or put it into a dish and bake it CRANBERRY TARTS.--One cup of lard, one tablespoonful of BUgar, three table­ spoons of watef, and the white of one egg. Mix together with sufficient flour to make it roll out easily, and cut in small circles, placing a roll of the crust aroun,d each one for a rim. Fill with sauce and cover with another round piece in which three holes have been cut, and then bake. RICE CROQUETTES.--One cup of cold boiled rice, one teaspoonful of sugar and half as much salt, One teaspoonful of melted butter, one egg beaten light, enough milk to make the rice into stiff paste. Sweet lard for frying. Work rice, butter, egg, etc., into an adhesive paste, beating each ingredient thorough­ ly into the mixture. Flour your hands and make the rice into oval balls. Dip each in beaten egg, then in flour or cra< ker dust, and fry in boiling lard, a few at a time, turning each with great care. When the croquettes are of a fine yellow brown take out with a wire spoon and lay within a heated colander to drain off every drop of fat. Serve hot. LAYER CAKE.--Beat four eggs verv light, then add a cream made by beat­ ing two cups and a half of sugar and one full cup of butter, one cup of sweet milk, a large pinch of salt, two teaspoon- fuls of baking powder, stirred in wikh two cups and a half of flour; divide the dough thus made in three parts; to one part add half a cup of raisins, stoned and chopped and half a cup of currants; grate half a teaspoonful of nutmeg, and mix with half a teaspoonful of cinna­ mon. This is for one layer of the cake To the next part add two tablespoonfuls of grated chocolate, and a teaspoonful of vanilla. The one light-colored layer should be flavored with lemon. When baked, put the chocolate layer on the bottom, the one with fruit iu it next, and the light layer on the top. Frost the top of the cake. Fanners and Hogs. If the farmers of the country who own worthless dogs, says The Breeders' Gazette, could be induced to destroy them and substitute one well-bred shep­ herd pup, not more, to each farm, the wealth of every farming community would be vastly increased in many ways. Farmers, with a little tact in gettii | along with a dog, would soon find th^ coily saving them many a step. <£ager and anxious to learn, willing to do everything within his power, the young dog needs only a wise and patient re­ straint, an intelligent direction, to be­ come the most useful hand on the place The colly is an alert and discriminative watch-dog, answering for this purpose far better than the heavy, sleeping, stu­ pid savage bull or mastiff, who is liable to attack his best friends or eat up a child. As a colly acquire* age and dig­ nity, if he has been well taught, he im­ agines that tho whole business of the farm hinges upon the performance of his duties, and he becomes as punctual and regular as the sun Canine com­ panionship, if at liberty, has a bad ef-, feet upon the colly in most instances. Whore an old and wise dog is used to tutor youngsters by good example while; at work, it will do to have two or more together. The duties of the colly are practical and mean work: companion­ ship means play and is demoralizing. Especially is this true of companionship with a hunting dog. The shepherd dog has enormous perceptivos, and is very imitative; he quickly goes wild over game when led by a hunting dog, con­ sequently neglects and shirks his work, and is spoiled. The Ouly Thing He was Fit For. Somervillo Journal: "John," said a father to his son, "you have disappoint­ ed me gratly. I have given you every opportunity to learn something, but it has l>et<n just money thrown away. You are the stupidest young man I ever saw. You know nothing." "It is true, father," said John with a aigl1- ild ES cry Hew itly 100I THE GREAT SPECULATION, The panic in the Clark<«vi]le selio I has naturally cast a gloom over play ground and dormitory, and it will prob 1)1 T be long before the gane of marbh a recovers its former standing as a repu table though risky game. The panic was distinctly due to over­ trading in marbles. An immense busi­ ness was done with insuffici nt oupi'n) and a shrinkage in the value of rabb.ts or other securities would have precipi tated a panic at any t.ime daring tho last three months. The failure of James Smith was, of course, the immedia e origin of the panic, but the firm could not, in any event, have kept it-elf above water more than a week or two longer. Master James Smith is not only a skr.llful marble-player, but he is a finan cial gt-nius. At the beginning of the present school term he conceived grand scheme for enriching himself a d all the boys who had confidence in him He proposed that he should borrow marbles at a high rate of interest, and pav both this interest and large divi- dends out of his winnings as a marble- player. To every boy who should lend liim six marbles he offered to repay nine marbles within two days, and in case the lender should reinvest both principal and profits ho undertook te repay him at any moment, with profits at the rate of 50 per cent, every two days. The offer was so tempting that there was a general anxiety on the part of the boys to lend their marbles to James Smith, and in the course of the week every boy in the school had invested in the marble pool. It was understood that James Smith was to win marbles from boys unconnected with the school; but curiously enough, no one inquired where these boys were to be found, or at what hour of the night James Smith was in the habit of secretly getting out of bed and going off to play wit h his unknown adversaries. The boys were, however, perfectly satisfied with his method of conducting business. He never failed to tender large quantities of marbles to his patrons whenever, by the terms of his contracts, they were entitled to dividend*, and they never failed to reinvest the whole amount with him. Each of them had decided to make at least a million of marbles before closing their accounts with J ames Smith, and they were eager not to draw marbles but to add to their investments. The local store-keeper, who sold mar­ bles, consented, after the bovs had spent all their money, to sell them marbl s on credit, provided they would place securities in his hands. Most of the boys kept rabbits, and they pledged their rabbits, their toys, their jack- knives, and other negotiable securities with the utmost recklessness. Last Thursday night the books of Jnme* Smith showed that twenty-eight mil­ lions of marbles in round numbers were due to the sixty-four boys of the Clarks- vilie school On Friday ni lit James Smith announced his insolvency, wid assigned 203 marbles to the Greek pro­ fessor in trust for his creditors. The disaster was precipitated by a shrinkage in the valueof rabbit*, caused by the breaking out of a distemper among the rabbits hypothecated with a storekeeper. The latter, not knowing at what moment all the rabbits might die, demanded that they should be re­ deemed. In order to redeem them their owners were compelled to call in the marbles they had invested with J.<mes Smith. The larter was unable to re­ spond to the call; a panic followed, aud the unfortunate boys lost both their marbles and thei* hypothecated securi­ ties. The principal of, the school investi­ gated the affairs of James Smith on Saturday afternoon with three ooasecu tive apple-tree switches of the largest size. James Smith had played marbles with the son of the janitor of the female seminary on two or three occasions and had lost heavily. The dividends which lie tendered to his victims were simply the investments made by other victims. He had not won a single legitimate mar­ ble during his entire career as a marble financier, and, as the principal coldly remarked, whenever he stopped to se­ lect a new switch, his conduct had been no better than that of a professional pick-pocket. At present the Clarksville school boys have neither pocket-money, mar­ bles, rabbits, nor any other negotiable property. No one can palliate their fol­ ly or feel much sympathy with them in their losses. Nevertheless, although no grown person would for an instant be guilty of like folly, it should be men­ tioned that James Smith informed the boys that he conducted his business strictlv in accordance with Wall street methods, and that they actually be- iieved he spoke the truth.--New York Times. Bridget McFIyn's Com phi'nt. "Misther, mon, Oi, want yer to put my mon's name in the paper, bad 'cess 0 him. Two years ago Oi wuz a re­ spectable widow an'was corted by the min near an' far, but Tim McFlyn^ bad ' ess to him, kim around wid his fine clothes an* his blarnev an' med me be­ have he was a perfict gintlemon, which he wasn't, an' be the time he knew me a week he had the choke to ax me wonld 01 marry him, an' though Oi wasn't wantin' to marry at all, at all. Oi just inst jumped at the chance and towld him yes, bad luck to that day, Oi didn't make no toime in makin' the priperia- iotis. but afther die knot was tied Oi found out wlioy he was in such a hurry, the blackguard. He didn't want to work, an' expected mo to take in wnsh- in'an' support him, which Oi did ill yistherdav whin the scamp tuk liis duds an' lift, an' Oi want yee to sav that as Tim MoFlyn has lift'me bed an' boord widout cause or provoca»i<tn, Oi warns , ^ _ .all persons net to thrust him on my ac-intftr IITIPK ITMI» J •• . * ... _ J V tho market, iind will be <oi.i at the io\«f0t'r>t. as x will not be responsible fur market j.n.-c. Persons intending Jkny d*-bts wh ch he mny eonthraet. Ef bliilii, or those handlins brick, wilt-v.- j i* ,, do well to caliaml see us before . .P ' F ano her mon )>urchu»in if, AVe invite nn examination Willi anv Itrit'k umdc in the Norlhwe.xl. Oi'd take the law on him fur the wa* mid ™»i.a^|diHftVed.™i?nocent henrt ltn the further iut'oi iuatlon apply to or ailiin^.s McHENRY BRI Manufacturing Co.. MeH>nrv, III., .lime 1 Itli, 1**4. kes av him that makes us poor wim- min miserable, an' ef Oi had him here Oi'd give him another batin' wid the • I room that 'nd make him howl wid i joy.--Carl Pretzel's Weekly. CincKEHs are now hat hed eut by the aid of e ectrieity. The nest er ~z " ~ r~7 basket is filled with fine hay. nnon An end to Idono whi. h the eegs are laid. The cover is EiUvant Shepanl, of [larriflmrg iSbVjurymaii i^it yonr knowing that much entirely disqualifies you Its a sad case." WH mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment.between break­ fast and dinner time; keep back the tears and look a little pale abont th" lips, and in answer to inquiries, say: "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps ns, and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurtfm^fcet to hurt others.--George Eliot. a thick layer of soft down attaolied to a r.iund box containing eoils of wire. These are heated by an electric current, •*ho*e temperature is regulated by a thermometer placed on the cover. When tho heat. l>eoomes too great the lis" of the mercury cuts the eo Is out of c rcuit and allows them to cool. All the attention re juired is to sprinkle and turn tho eggs once each day. THE defects of the understanding, /.ke those of the face, grow worse as we grow old.--Rovheiou* au<L Tal\ With the Bejg. My son, I heard you speak of »nther the other day as "the o'd and of y our mother as "her hi What's the matter that vou can't refer to them as your father and mother? Suppose your parents should speak o f y o u a s " t h e k i d , " o r " t h e f l y Y o u ' d soon begin to think vou had been bor i into the wrong familV. The son who is ashamed of hi* parents ought to be ashamed of himself. Suppose their ways are old fashioned, and their grammar a little off. and they don't feel like keeping up with the fashions of the day ? Not one father or mother in ten had the advantage you enj°y. Forty or fifty years years ago Uiey walked three or four miles to a country school to pick up a little learn­ ing, while now you are talking of going to college. They began poor and have toiled and labored and saved for their children. You just rem-mber that things have greatly changed in this country. Years ago a ea ic*o dress was seen at church far oftener th »n a silk. Men went to meeting clad in homeqpun. The rule in most houses was for child­ ren to stand up to eat. The biggest pieces of pie went to father and mother, and children were not allowed to sit up until 10 o clock at night, or to argue a question after the head of the family had decided it. My boy, don't get any foolish notions into your head, If your father is old and gray and bent --if your mother is trembling and weak and has no care for the frivolities of tljis day, it is toil which has brought these days of hard work and nights full of anxiety that their children might be spared the same slavish lifo. Where they wore blue- jeans you have broadcloth. Where they ate johnnvcake you have sweet cake and pie. Where their mode of life and forced eoonomy prevented them from enjoyin/ society, amusements or books, just think how you make the shillings tiy, ana what is offered to interest and amuse you! Now let's have a word to say about economy. I've been right among you. and I know that you want this, that and the other, and "want it bad." Up to the time of the war if one of the boys of that dity had a dime to spend for Fourth of July, he thought himself well fixed. The boys want a^out five dollars apiece nowadays, and that's all gone be­ fore noon. If we got a new book it was conjdered a great piece of extravagauce. The lad w;ho had cash enough to walk into a panoramic exhibition, buy a pair of skates, or treat himself to sweet-meats was looked upon by the rest of us as a Jay Gould. I'm not saying that you shouldn't have money and use it, but right there is a vital point. Be sure that you real­ ly need what yott buy. Ask yourself if it will pay. Money is tho wheels on which the world moves. Acquire the habit of throwing it after every novelty brought out and you'll by and by have a second-hand museum and no cash to run it. I dislike a stingy boy, but when I see a lad planking his nickels dowu at the desk of a savings bank I know that he is one of the future men who is going to build our railroads and do our whole­ sale business. There's a big diffeteace between being stingy and being eco­ nomical. The richest men in America are liberal in giving to churches, asy­ lums and to the unfortunate, but thoy never waste. They don't indulge in this or that simply because they have money enough to pay for it. Now, if you are about 15 years old you've got a sneakirg idea into your head that it's a big thing to use an oath occasionally. You never made a greater mistake! It is true many men use more or less oaths, but 1 would like to have you find me one who isn't ashamed of it! It's a mean habit, for it is a habit. I know you can point to the greatest men in the land and prove that they spit out oaths, but that's no reason why you should follow suit. 1 here isn't a swearer in the country who doesn't feel a quiet satisfaction in sitting down to converse with a man whose language is clean and pure. There's nothing manly in using an oath. Swearing is about the first thing you hear from the lips of a fool or drunkard. Even a heathen can swear.--Detroit Free Press. He Was a Hust/er. I am a rustler, and don't you furgit it," said a man with a broad-brimmed hat on and a belt full of deadly weapons on Front street. "I'm a bad man from Dakota, and yer kin put me down whenever tlior's anv scrimmagin' ter be done. I'm tliar when yer want some big work, an' don't ver furgit it. None o' the white livered sons o* wash-women kin ruu over me. I'm a. rustler, and don't yer furgit it!" " A number of men gathered around him out of curiosity and a little bit of insignificant manhood stepped forward and said: "Shake, pardner. I'm a rustler, my- jelf, an' ther' a nt no white livered cuss from Dakota that kin come around byer an' brag about his stuff 'thout lickin' me." You? You?" asked the surprised Dakotan. "Why, if you lived whar I come from, they'd bat yer up alive." "You're a--ety--liar." "Thar, now! yer needn't think yer kin Bay what yer blamed please, jes 3ause yer little. Ef yer don't hush, I'll ilap yer jaws." "Oh! You great big, knock-kneed coward!" cried the little man, frothing it the mou'li, aud the crowd dapped their hands and cheered heartily; but before the cheer had died away, the Dakota giant ha4 the little fellow bent across his knee and was spanking him like all sin. "Yer thought yer'd come a game o' bluff, did yen Yer little, stinkin', red headed puf. I heard yer tell that feller over yan ler what yer'd do, an' that ar war what made me talk big. I knowed year'd tike it up. I war layin' fur ye, foungster." The little man _ howled dismally, but the big man continued to spank, and when he was tired, he said: "Thar, I reckon that'll do yer, ma<be you'll learn by this that ther's a darned light o' foolishness in the stories about little men flaxin' big uns. Yer km go over thar, now, an' tell yer p »rdner bbWsyer sot fooled."--Through Merit. ANB POINT. A TIP-TOP : politician turlftCiHt KEEPS pegging away -- the AN oat is better than a wink bi nd horse. AN exchange heads one ef Its ing editorials--"Voioe of the . Just as if the people had a voice, a rediculous idea Bohemian. IF Bismarok would come to this country and ride in a crowded railway coach one time, he would think more kindly of the American h«a.--Gold Leaf. THE difference between an oasis and a bald head is that one i* a fertile spot in the desert and the other is a deserted spot under the fur-tile.--Carl Preteei'8 Weekly. "SHE loved not wisely but to swell," remarked a discarded lover on passing his old girl dressed in a seal-skin sacque and leaning on the arm of her husband. --Gorham Mountaineer. DE sob; rest man in de worl' is de fel- fer whut hab jest got ober a spree* an' he knows dat do advise whut he gibs yer is good, 'case he didn't follow it hisse'f.--Arkansaw Traveler. JL TOUNO lady while p'ay'ng l.iwn tennlflu - Indulged in this mild. < en iemea^ee:. "I'.l smash in vonr han With th end of my bat4 _I wi.l--or my nam* Will Dannfti,* •--Paris Beacon. * bwS ver got 1 I A "Thai is pr Suffwu n Operation. _ robab y the most sueoBSS- ful operation ever performed"* re­ market! qhe physician to another. "It is/'indeed," WAS the en husiastio reply. *'l should svy that the tumor weighs not less than eighty po.ind*." "At lonst that. 1 h*ve made arrange- uents to have it carefully preserved, »nd it cannot bnt prove of great bene­ fit to the a t of surger f." **Un<io ibt d!y. You must allow me A CHICAOO lmclar opens up a lo congratulate von, dortor, ou your and wonderful field in theivingbusa mcce-s in this matter. You 1 ave re- He carru^e with him a Irij live rat. Cental great credit on the profession, when he is discovered by the female V» ell, I must leave yon at tnis cor»«r. help he just di ops the rat and walha Good-day; I »u»po e I wll i>re you at majestically away, and aU pursuit» lha funeral."--Phi tad li<hi« LmH i ONE society lady to another--"Tlv?y tell me that the reason Fitz Nubbs isn't more liberal is becau e he puts his money all in bank." Second lady--"So my husband says. He calls it the Ftao Bank." "WHEN shall we have be ter weather?" asked the reporter of the editor. "In Heaven," was the reply. Then tue re­ porter looked sad, feelin * that he would never have an opportunity to enjoy it. "I HATE to see a man Hesitate a talf hour before making up his mind," said Fishton; "it don't t «ke me hal a min­ ute to make up my mind." "I shouldn't suppose it would take nearly so leng as that," was Fogg's laconic remark. "IF he was the last man on the earth, I wouldn't marry him," *a d Ethel im­ petuously. "No, indeed, dear," replied Elf rida, calmly, "what would be the use of marrying, when there is nobody to envy you?"--Burlinrjton Hawkey9. ADVICE TO TOO PROLIFIC FOBXS. One ptriect in , To 1 v- and shinty Is worth far mora Than pag s suora Tha live a day. - ... ^ Ttien i ass away. -- Youth b Companion. "GENTLEMEN," said Banratto's show­ man to the gaping crowd, "this is the largest elephant in the world. He is accustomed to bearing the heaviest burdens without complaining." "If that's so, I'd like to see our New York Board of Aide men on 1m back," re­ marked a local tax-payt r shaking his head.--Texas Sittings. AN enterprising journalist has kept a record of the diseases and ailments with which Queen Victoria has been afll.cted,' or reported to have been, during the past year an 1 thus sums them up: "lumbago, acute rheumatism of the joints, hysteria and nervous excitabili­ ty, with gout in the stomach in reserve." Poor Vic! She must have been suffer­ ing from an attack of the hyster a when she wrote that book. Then to think of all th< se diseases in one poor human body within a yearl Indeed the Queen must be a regular subject for medical experiments.--Peck's Suti. MR. BLANK--"Do you know, my dear, that at this season of the year I almost wish I was a Mormon, because "• Mrs. Blank--"Oh! yon horrid old brute. I always knew " Mr. B ienh-- "Patience, my love; I reallv could not care for any one but you, only you se» " Mrs. Blank--"Oh! yes, Mr. Blank, I Bee. I have seSn for some time, and I'm going right home to my " Mr. Blank--"Please give me a chance to finish. I was enly going to remark that a Mormon usually has a separate house for each wife, and " Mrs. Blank--"Well, I should just n Mr. Blank--"And he ought to bo happy " Mrs. Blank--"Oh! you horrid old---" Mr. Blank--"Ought to be happy because it is not at all likely that all his wives clean house at the same time."--Philadelphia Call A Bird's Nest Lined with Gold. Close to the United States mint, on the roof of a place of business across the street, there is a small bird-box, which was formerly occupied about" this time of year by a pair of robins, bnt lately occupied oo!ely aud entirely by a pugnacious and tricky Englisn sparrow. This miserly f ollow--and Che sparrows are all an avaricious set--after driving the robbins out, has ocoupied the box for two seasons without even so much as a mate. As mi^ht be sup­ posed, one who was able to do that is foremost in looking out for himself in other ways. Among tho girls, and even, among the men in the nunt, nearly all of whom bring their dinners with them, this particular sparrow lias been long a favorite because of his lioldness, an (M5o freely does he fly in tlie windows and flit in the back door of the smelting room to pick up crumbs that they jocu­ larly say he is the only one who has the "free run of the mint." A short time ago a boy in the buihl;ng went where Mr. Sparrow has made his nest, and. peekiug into the box to see if there were, any ot the voung folks at home, as the> boys love to do, he was surprised upon, drawing his fingers out te see theia sparklin? in the bright sunshine. No miner who strikes an unexpected vein was mere excited than that boy as he seized the box and carried the whole thing down s airs, where it was found that the inside was not only fleeked with gold dust, but that the accumula­ tions of the preo'ous metal had formed, a sort of carpet of sparkling, soft, yel­ low gold, the whole proving a veritable "bonanza." The sparrow hail regular­ ly been carrying off quantities of gold dust in its feathers which it shook out when it made its toilet in the morning. The nest is being assayed.--Ihiladel- phia Times. In China, white in the head drees, in the shoes, or in the hem of the garment is a sign of mourn ng. Women pat a whits be'id aronud t^eir heads; men: braid a white silk instead r * n blaek In their queues. Men tailors make all the clothes; the women make their own shoes. A Chinese bride dress is scarlet. It would l« a Ktd o nen if anv white apparel should be plaoed on her per­ son.