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Where 11 the bn tons ft ay? Wt © knows wh> re all hepenneego* Th»t S'-K»>'how pe aw >y? Who knew !iow «'l the chi a breaks, 1 hat wasn't touched at all ? How baby got so blick a bruise, r ; And never had a fail? • i f v Who knows whence all the fashions And wher they dif>api*ar? Wh one brief mon h ahou d males • fright Of wha was "such so desr?" Who knows h< w li. tic 1>;1 a can swell losnch prod ginns it»? Who know n, indeed, what's going on Beneith his very eyes? • Who knows just where her husband gOMt, Wben " usin-ve" keep*.. im out? Who know w en best tow tra smile, And when ow a--a pout? Who know* the time to face the fact-- That she's • o longer y nnu? . Who known how beet to sp ale her mtna, And Low to hold her touj<ue? : *"')• Who knows tW most ccnv'Tiien'; day To br ng a friend to dmrur? Who knows ttie half of whar h-> sposal Ou clnbs, cig rs and wine? Who know« CUP bonnet c.n not last A w< man a I herli e? Who knows the worn n is the same When swee heart turns to w fe? Who knows why all th~ pretty girts Arc often la t to so? How al the ngly wom-r wed Who never ad a • can? Why sma'i men f ncv w ves so large, And lar-'p men : ncv small? Who kn-ws. in (act, tiow alt the world Was ever matched at all. , j Who knows how frr to rust a friend, How tar to i.ate a foe? Just when to speak a kindly yes, And wueu a stur v no? Wl o knows--the gri:u, o d Grecian tiafe Bays gravely--s va thyself, The wisest m n in all the wuiid la be who knows himself. 3 j. 1 HONEY WAR. I When the writer of this was first ' ' commissioned M Lien tenant of the Fourth Wisconsin CavalJ^, he was vlfat • >, i might be called a recrnit in an olcl rcg- riment. It was in 1864, and the regi­ ment WAS in Louisiana. If there was one things the new lieutenant wanted < J tilfo do more than another, it was to be placed in command of a scout, and sent on ahead of the regiment, whero he , w , ."would be thrown ou his own rosources. An officer in that position, the first time, has more responsibility than the commander of the army. He is su­ preme, until the regiment catches up to - '• him. and if he gets into a fight and 1 xouts an enemy, he is a hero, an great * * ?fcs Sheridan, in a small way. One day, % Eastern Louisiana, the adjutant de- / tailed forty men for a scout, and placed , ^ them in command of the new officer, /who writes this, with instructions to • rgo on about ten miles, to a bridgo across a small stream, and hold it till tie regiment came up. No Soman "^conqueror over marched forth to do Y jbattle, with more different kinds of ; emotions concealed in his fresh uni­ form, on a freshly stolen horse, and with a generally fresh appearance. It "was a great day for the race. It was ibelieved that there were not moro than twelve or fifteen Confederates within a Jhundred miles, and the chances were that none of them would l>e encountered, . 5but that was no drawback. It was not ' aiumbers that the officer cared to en­ counter. One rebel would be enough, And if he was a very old one, para- •. lyzed, and sick, and uuable to shoot, he • would answer just as well as a whole jregiment. It was not a great battle the young officer craved, but just a plain, small-sized one. The idea of be- ing ofi alone with a squad of men, wes enough, and the officer felt that "when he again joined his regiment ho woald have the air of one who had seen ser­ vice. Well, he did have such an air. "When about seven miles out on the road, the squad was halted in front of A house where there was a clear brook. The men dismounted and watered their "liorses, and some strolled up to tho house. You know how cavalry soldiers will stroll up to a house, v.-ith that in- uocent, inquiring air, as though wish­ ing to get acquainted with the people, and how they come away from tbo house with sides of bacon, canteens of milk, and all that. The horses were hitched to the rail fence, and the boys ' sauntered about the plantatiou,and the part of the regiment had advanced and formed a line between the rescued soldiers and the supposed enemy. The colonel, after posting his men, came up to the dismounted soldiers, where the surgeon had arrived with his ambu ance, and said. "Lieutenant, are you wounded? How mauy men did you lose? How in hades did it happen. You m;ght have known you would be ambushed if you didn't throw out flankers. What in thunder is that on your clothes? Great God, they have been fighting a lot of bee-hives." There was no use lying about it, and so the truth was told. At first the officer thought of saying he had been attacked by four regiments of Confederate cav­ alry, and that all the horses had been shot under the men, but he reasoned that such a lie would eventually be dis- proven, so he told the plain, unvarnished North Amcric :n truth, and when the soldiers heard it and gathered around the bee-wounded advance guard, so stuck up with honey that they hod to be scraped, a shout went up that woke the echoes for ten miles, and the kind­ ly old Colonel did not place the fresh young officor under arrest, but was con­ tented with simply telling him he was a fool, and a few things like that. The bridge held itself, the stampeded horses were eollocted, and the regiment moved on, but for months after that the soldiers never passed a bee-hive without somebody would yell for "the Second Lieutenant of Company E,°' and they would all begin to slap imaginary bees on their persons, and make a buzzing noise with their mouths. To this day, when a couple of soldiers of the old regiment meet and get to talking of old times and old comiades, one will always say, "By the way. what ever become of Old Sweetness, of Company E, who fell over a bee-hive and spoi ed his uni­ form out on the Comite River?" and the other will say, "O, he is running a newspaper in Milwaukee. I never thought he knew enough to run a news­ paper."--Peck's Sun. AGRICULTURAL. .. Thad Stevens* Strong Individuality. His whole life was shadowed by a deformity in the foot, which caused slight lameness and gave a morbid sensitiveness to his nature. While in York he dosired to join the lodge of Freemasons, but this physical defect rendered him ineligible. He was much chagrined, ;ind become a most violent and pronounced opponent of the order, never losing an opportunity to denounce it in upsparing terms. This hatred took a strong political bias, and from that time he was one of the most bitter and unrelenting Anti-Masous. His strong individuality impressed every one who ever met him, and his sayings and doings are still remembered in many characteristic incidents. Judge Durkee. who, like Stevens, was a Vermonter and was an ardeut and devoto l admirer of that gentleman, told me he was once engaged in trying a case with him and received a letter which was positively unreadable. He gave the letter to a friend, promising a liberal percentage of the prospective fee if she would translate it. She earned her reward after some hours' hard work on the epistle. His writing consisted of two or three letters in the beginning of a word followed by an irregular scrawL He was once asked to read a letter of advico which he had written a client. He glanced over it. found himself quite unable to read it and handed it back with "Humph, I don't write letters to read myself. I wrote it for you to read." A gontlemau once wrote asking an opinion, but neslccted to enclose the customary fee. With grim humor Ste­ vens returned a blank sheet of paper by next post. His powers of sarcasm were unrivaled and made him a terror to his antago­ nist in a debate. The counsel opposed to him in a cause always endeavored to avoid an encounter of wits, in which he was sure to be worsted. His influence over a jury was marvelous, acrl his crafty line of argument ofti n inclined the jurymen in his favor even when upon the wrong side of a case. He could manage to extort from a witness almost any testimony he desired, cun- niDglv turning the;r evidence in his fa­ vor by a series of artful and unexpected questions. An eminent judge, before whom he often argued cases, said his manner was most bewildering to an inexperienced witness.--Philadelphia Times. ^ A Dead City. A day at Mobile sufficed to give us a fair view of this onco thriving and pros­ perous but now dull and decaying old city. Some evidences of its departed greatness still appear. in the beautiful mansions and ti no grounds of the'old- time aristocracy, and in the occasional substantially built and well-preserved business blocks; but the absence of business activity and the church-yard stillness that everywhere prevails speaks of dead hopes, buried in the grave of the "Lost Cause." Before the rebellion Mobile was one of the great commercial centers of the South, the home of many of the wealthiest families officer went up to the house, and pres- • Alabama, and next to New Orleans, ently he saw the whole squad raidiug a dozen of those htraw beehives. Thcv were full of excellent honey, and the boys would take out groat piece;; of white honey-comb, full of lioney, place it in papers, handkerchiefs, hats, and every­ thing, and start for the horses. Oue soldier handed the officer a large piece of honey-comb, just to look at. The the chief city on the gulf. Now, prop­ erty that in ante-bellum times cost a hundred thousand dollars goes begging for a purchaser at twenty-five thousand dollars, and princely mansions that were built by their wealthy owners re­ gardless of expense are in the market at almost any price. The old oitizens live in the past, and are constantly as- ollieer took it to look at, and was about; curing you that "Mobile was a great city to give it baok, as it was beneath the j hefo' the wah, sir."--Southern Correa- dignity of a pew officer to jayhawk lion- POndenL «y, when ho looked up, and about twon- 4y soldier8 were coming away from the licnoy orchard too quick. Ihc bees wore Confederate bees, and they attacked the Yankees on front and flank, and rear, and of all the Imining and veiling and clapping that ever was, that beat the record. Before the soldiers could get to the horses, the bee^ got there and be­ gan to sting the animals, and they roared and plunged and kicked, and pulled away from the fence, taking rails with them, and stampeded back to the regi­ ment. The men gothoneyall over them, and the bees stung them on hands, face, and other vital parts. The beautiful young officer started for the road v ith the chunk of honey in hish«nd, tripped ou his sabre, fell down with the ho; ey under him in tho dirt, and rolled over it, and when ho got up his new uniform was a sight to behold, and tho bees, with no respect for rank or positioa, stung the officer unmercifully until his faco was swelled up and looked like anything but the brave and happy faco that started out an hour before, in com­ mand of the squad. Tho horses weio gone, and were tearing down th« road towards the regiment, and the men were getting away as fast as they could, and tho officer was trying to keep up. What a sight it wap. Presently tho regiment came in pipht ovor a hill, on a charge, th*1 colonel in advance with his aabr* drawn, and in five mlnutob the dismounted squad of honev-fuglers was surrounded in a hollow squaie, and a ; - Mi' Letter-Writing. What should a letter lie? It may be playful, serious, humorous, pathetic, cynical, vivacious, graphic--anything you please; but we cannot admit it to a high rank unless it reveals the writer himself. A letter is a talk upon paper; and ouly that talk is really delight­ ful in which a man throws aside his so­ cial mask and shows us clearly his own intimate feelings. We are delighted with Gray s letters, because they show the grave, serious man getting off his lyrican stilts and revealing his tender­ ness by alternate touches of humor and «?imp!o feeling. We are charmed wit'. Cowper'n playfulness, as we should have b'*en glad to find him plavin with Jiia hares when the dark fit 'was passing away. Pope is fully as artifi- c :il in his letters as in his poems, and therefore fails to please us entirely, but who can read Swift's letters in tin fame correspondence without the sens* that the gloomy satirist has lifted the vc 1 for a moment and admitted to the intimacy of the real man?--Pal' Mail Gazette. • A YOUNG lady received a note from * young man of her acquaintance, solic ring her coiflpany to church, and as h« never offered to take her anywhere el»r she accepted bis kind offer and closed the note with the solemn declaratioi that "MkaiioB ia gelist AK OFT-TOLD TALB.--The secretary of the Ohio horticultural sooiety says he knew a mau who had made a great suo- eess with an acre or two of strawber­ ries, gathering from 20 to :!0 bushels per day, and was so elated at his suc­ cess that he concluded to enlarge his fields, and, to use his own language, said "he would hereafter gather 100 bushels a day or bust 1" and he busted! The moral is, one acre of fruit well at­ tended to will bring more net profit than five acre* partially neglected. LISIENAND ADMIRE.--Thirf" advice is given by the New Jersey State Horti- cu.turai Society: "The peripatetic tree v nder with his colored plates and fine samples of fruit preserved in flint glass jars, claiming to represent some cele­ brated nursery in Timbuctoo or Japan, is frequently on hand to sell the nnwa ry farmer. Listen to him, for thus you can see how beautiful a language the English is; how persuasive its powers, capable of elegant descriptions. List­ en, and admire, but--do not invest." No SPROUTS, NO WORMS.--Every year agricultural exchanges are full of reme- d es for the currant worm. 'Now there is no need of remedies, for there is no reason why there should be currant worms. I argue as follows and have substantiated my theories year after year by practice. The worms first make their appearance on the new growth, after which they spread over the bush. Now if there are no sprouts there will bfe no worms. The leading feature of a currant bush is to multiply sprouts each year. Henco if left alone it soon be­ comes a formidable bush, on which worms breed. My plan is to rab off these shoots as fast as they appear in the spring and so confine the bush to from one to threo main stems. The re­ sult is no worms and fruit largely in­ creased in size and quantity.--H. B. R., Warren, Ohio. MARKET WEIGHT VOR PIGS. -- The style of market pig has undergone a great change within a few years. The large four hundred to five hundred pound hog is seldom found. The over­ grown hog is no longer sought after, and pig-fceding has been more careful­ ly studied of late years. Shrewd feed­ ers have found that the older the hog the more its carcass costs per pound. It is also found that the flesh of the large hog is coarser and stronger, and not as sweet and tine-flavored as a 10 or 12 months' pig. It is true that the old­ er and over-fattened hog yields more lard, but this does not carry profit with it, as lard often brings no higher price than the side pork. The inducement, t erefore, to grow these large hogs no longer exists, and the three hundred pound pig has displaced the five hun­ dred pound hog.--Breeders' Journal. THE COST OF HEX-KEEPING.-- The cost of keeping a hen depends upon her ability to forage and the labor bestowed upon her by her owner. As sheep are considered the scavengers of the iarm they may be said to have suit­ able companions & poultry. It is a saving of material to convert refuse into salable eggs, and the result of the hen's efforts in that direction should not be entered into the account book, and if it does she should be credited, as an off­ set, with the amount saved that would otherwise be wasted. Her feed has been estimated by some practical poul­ try breeders as the valueg of a bushel of corn, but such calculation can not be relied upon, as it costs more to keep a hen in New England than it does in Virginia, with tho advantages of an earlier spring in favor of a Southern climate, to say nothing of the many open days of winter when but little snow is on the ground. She will also begin to lay earlier and larger, wean her chicks sooner, and require less care and attention, which are items of cost. Then, again, no two hens are the same. Breeds make a difference, and the kind of feed has an influence. The cheapest is sometimes too dear, as it is not the kind demanded. No one can safely state the cost of keeping a hen, except for his own section.--Farm, and Gar­ den. EXPERIENCE WITH APPLE ORCHARDS. --Trees should not be cultivated after they reach a bearing age. What is meant by this is that the land should not be plowed and crops taken from it. These crops rob the land. Plowing, in spite of the best care, breaks off the roots and prevents them from feeding near the surface, where the soil is best, and where they can have the benefit of all the rains to help make up the vast amount of moisture a tree always re­ quires. When the ground is notpiowed the surface will be filled with the little rootlets. The breaking of roots is the cause of dead limbs and the early decay of the trunks. Orchards not tilled will last years longer than those mangled and bruised as they generally are. There must be great care and patience in work­ ing among trees. This work must be done, at a rule, by the owner, and of­ tentimes he is not fitted to do it. The best seeding is orchard grass. Natural grasses will come in and make a good sod. Orchards should not be mowed but always pastured. Hogs are the best kind of stock for this purpose, sheep are also excellent. Both will help to enrich the ground, and to improve the fruit, as they will eat the imperfect and wormy specimens, and so reduce the number oi moths to prey upon the fruit. Additional fertility is given to the land by spreading barnyard manure broad­ cast over the ground. An orchard should receive such a dressing at least once in three years. For a few years after seeding, the ground may be dug over by a spade for a distance of two or three feet around t e tree. An annual turn­ ing over in this way is sufficient. Wood ashes are the best fertilizer for apple trees, and a slight sprinkling on the ground will have a marked effect, espe­ cially when the trees are young. Wash­ ing the trunks with strong soap suds at this time is also an excellent plan. It is not healthy for trees to place a clear manure directly in contact with their roots, or to put too much manure around trees. They do not want big doses but a constant supply. This they get quite eflectually from the droppings of the iiogs and sheep, (which are distributed all over the ground) and the surface manuring from the barnyard. One of he most productive orchards in Sara­ toga County was »et in sod and has •lever been plowed. It has been con­ stantly pastured. Wet spots must be Irained, as apple trees will not flourish where there is standing water, of where t ie ground is very wet. The soil should >e deep. Lcamy lands are the best.-- b\ D. Cur tin, in Country Gentlemen. HOUSEKEEPERS* HELPS. FRENCH OMELET. -- Crumb a half ozen slices of stale bread and mix vitli four beaten egg*; season and fry n butter until well browned. BACON AND EOGS.--T ut the bacon n'o thin slices and fry crisp. When one fry the eggs in the name pan. .n egg on each slioe of bacon. LAMB Omrrs.--Lay in warm but­ ter for a half hour, turn several times; then broil on a greased gridiron, but ter, pepper, and salt, and servo immedi ately. FRIED BRKAD.--Bent together two- thirds of a pint of milk, one egg and a pinch of salt. Dip slices of bread iuto it and fry m butter till a delicate brown. CREAM SPONGE CAKE.--Break two eggs in a coffee cup; beat them well, then pour in enough sweet cream to fill the cup and beat again. Then to this add one cup of sugar, one cup and half of flour in which two teaspoons of baking powder have been thoroughly stirred. CODVISH BALLS.--Put the fish in oold water and set it on the back of the stove; when the water gets hot pour it off and put on cold again, and so con­ tinue until the fish is fresh enough. Mash a half dozen large boiled pota­ toes and mix with the fish, and a half cup of butter. Make into balls, dredge with flour, and fry brown in butter. MANY housekeepers in different parts of this country are using compressed yeast in place of home-made; this is all right if they prefer to do so, but this should be born in mind, unless this yeast is perfectly fresh and sweet it must not be used; it is unwholesome and will make the bread uneatable; no soda or any other known substanoe will sweeten it. OMELET*--Break six eggs in a bowl; skim out the yolks into a large coffee cup; beat the whites to a stiff froth. Now beat the yolks enougft to make them smooth, fill up the cup with milk and pour this into the bowl containing the whites of the eggs. Put in a little salt and stir enough to mix the whole-- that is, as little as possible. Have th * frying pan warmed and a piece of but­ ter as large as an egg already melted therein. Now pour in your eggs and milk; let it cook slowly; be sure and not burn. If there is danger of this lift it up from the bottom with a knite. When the froth sets on the tcp it is done. Put a large plate oyer the fry­ ing pan and deftly turn the' whole up­ side down. SPICE PUDDING.--Take one small square loaf of bread, peel off the crust, cut in pieces, aud pour upon it one pint of boiling water, and add one table- spoonful of salt. Take one pint of flour; add one heaping teaspoonful of baking powder, two coffeeoups of raisins, seeded and chopped; mix all well with the flour, first powder and next raisins; then add soaked bread and one teaspoonful each of alspice, cinnamon, mace, and cloves. Then add, by degrees, one coffeecup of sweet milk, and beat the mass well together. Scald pudding bag, and put in the pudding, which should be pretty stiff, and boil three hours. The whole secret lies in plunging puddings in boiling water im­ mediately after they are mixed and never Jetting them cease boiling. Be sure and turn them over, and always lea Ye room in the bag for sewing. He Wouldn't Suppose. The boy had come home, and the old man felt that it was a good time to gratify hid curiosity about speculation. "Thomas," he began, "I've read a good deal about speculating in wheat. How dow do they work it in Chicago?" "Well, father, suppose you had' a thousand dollars." "I won't do it! I never had that much money at one time in my life, and never expect to." "Well, suppose you feel pretty sure that wheat will go up ten cents per bushel before harvest." "I won't s'pose no sich thing! I don't s'pose it'll go up over four cents." "Then you may go on to the theory that Europe has all the wheat she wants, and prices will drop seven or eight cents in the next six months."* "I sh'an't do no such thing! I don't believe wheat will go down even two cents!" "Well, suppose you buy a thousand bushels for June delivery!" "Thomas, you're a fool! What on airth do I want of a thousand bushels of wheat?" "Then you can sell a thousand for July delivery!" "I can, eh! I've got about forty bush­ els in the granary, and I can sell a thousand, can I ? I did hope you'd lparn something down there, but I see that you run all to red neckties and stand- up collars. You can go out and air yourself while I take a smoke." Peter Cooper's Race. * lecture on "The Growth of the Locomotive Engine." at Columbia Col­ lege, in New York, Professor F. R. Hut- ton told an interesting story about Peter Cooper's experiment in speeding a locomotive against an old gray car- liorse more than half a century ago. One of the chief obstacles to the attain­ ment of high speed in those days was the lack of a sufficient draught through the fire-box. In the stack of Peter Cooper's small experimental engine, the flues of which were made of gun barrels, was a fly-wheel run by a belt, to in­ crease the draught. With this device, it was thought that the locomotive would outrun the car horse, and a race was arranged, the engine and the horse- car to run on parallel tracks. The start was even, the lecturer said, but the engine soon began to draw awav from the nag. The distance was in­ creased, and the prospect of a brilliant victory for the locomotive was all that could have been desired, when the belt slipped off from the fan-wheel. Peter Cooper lacerated his hanris in an at­ tempt to readjust the belt, but it proved fruitless, and instead of distanc­ ing the old gray horse, his locomotive and the experienced nag came in neck and neck. No Encouragement. A negro near Salem, Alabama, who had rented a piece of land and gone into cotton, sat down with a white man one day to see how he had come out. "Let's see!" said the friend as be got out his pencil. "You raised four bales, eh?" "Zactly fo' bales, sah." "It took two to pay the rent?^ "Yes, sah." "And the other two to square up for rations?" "Dat's it.M "And now you 4HM>W how much you are ahead! Well, Moses, you seem to have come out about even." "Am dat so?" replied the old man with a crestfallen look. "If you can't figger dat I'm at lea-t $50 in debt, I doan' see any incouragement to go ahead dis spring."--Wall Street News OF ALL the actions of a man's life his marriage does least concern other people, yet, of all actions of our life 'tis most meddled with by other people. LEARN what people glory in, and you may learn much of both the theory and practioe of their morals.--Martineau. PATRICK HENRY. Do-- ItooottMliom of tlM> Great Apostl* oi Llbrfiir. Patrick Henry's career is so familiar that only a few personal details in re­ ference to him need be presentod; as some of them have never before been published, they may interest the reader. There exists a very prevalent orror as to his social origin, which is said to have been ignoble. This statement ha- no foundation. His father. Col. Homy was a gentleman of respectability, a classical scholar, a presiding magistrate when that office was only conferred up­ on persons of social position, and a good churchman and royalist, who "drank the King's health at the head of his regiment." Another error in relation to Patrick Henry is his supposed want of education, and Mr. Wirt dwells upon all these points as tending to enhance the splendor of his gen us. Unfortun­ ately, the statements are all untrue. The "Man of the People" and "Propliet of .he Revolution," as his contempora­ ries styled him, was not uneducated, any more than he was of low origin. t 'n the contrary, he was so well edu­ cated that at 15 he read Livy and Vir­ gil in the original, and his "standard volume" throughout life was that diffi­ cult book, Battler's "Analogy of Relig­ ion." He remained a poor scholar for no other reason than that he had little taste for reading. He was also indolent by nature, and only capable o& sustain­ ing exertion when his interest was ex­ cited. This fact explains the early failures so much dwelt upon by Mr. Wirt. He failed in farming because he had no taste for agriculture, and be­ came bankrupt as a country storekeeper because trade was equally repugnant to him. This is the sufficient explanation of all these idle hunting and fishing ex­ cursions, the violin playing and story telling, when he ought to have been at­ tending to his business, which his bi­ ographers have so much emphasized as a contrast to his subsequent career. Like other human beings, he avoided what was disagreable. He was a natural and genuine man, loved plain company and rustic humor, and was once discovered when he was old and famous, lying on his back and playing his violin for a crowd of children tumbling over him--traits attributable, one and all, to his Btrong human sym­ pathies. There is nothing to show that he was considered by his contempora­ ries a rude or ignorant person. From some chance phrases in his private let­ ters he seemed to have shared Jeffer­ son's distrust of tho planter class; but the old "nabobs" were not so absurd as to regard him as their social interior. His wonderful oratory made him a thousand times their superior. By the common consent of all his contempora­ ries, his eloquence was indescribable; and even Jefferson, who indulged in somewhat undemocratic sneers at his origin, said, "He spoke as Homer wrote." Mr. Wirt has cast a doubt by his rhetoric upon this point, as upon others. His exaggeration enfeebles the delineation. But enough has beon es­ tablished to make it certain that Pat­ rick Henry was one of the two or three greatest orators of the world. One of his contemporaries, who had often felt the spell of his eloquence, declared that his force lay rather in his manner than in hiB matter--"in the greatness of his emotion and passion, the match­ less perfection of the organs of expres­ sion; the intonation, pause, gesture, at­ titude and indescribable play of coun­ tenance." It is certain that he swayed every assembly which he addressed, apparently at his pleasure. Whenever he was fully aroused he overthrew all opposition, and forced his listeners as from a species of magnetism to accept his views as the only true ones. Any comparison of him with tho greatest of his contemporaries would only estab­ lish their inferiority. His superiority was acknowledged. When ho rose in Congress and exclaimed, "British op­ pression has effaced tho boundaries of the several colonies--the distinction l>etween Virginians, Ponnsylvanians, New Yorkers, and Now Englanders are no more--I am not a Virginian, but an American!" his listeners are said to have declared him tho greatest public speaker on the continent. No writer speaking of Henry should omit to notico his dovout pioty. He wrote in his will: "I have now dis­ posed of all my property to my family ; there is one thing more l wish 1 could give them, and that is tho Christian re­ ligion. If they had that and I had not given them one shilling, they would be rich; and if they had not that, and I had given them all this world, they would bo poor." In person Henry was tall and graceful, and stooped. His eyes were blue, his expression grave, and he wore buckskin clothes, yarn stockings, and a wig without powder. These details aro set down as part of the personal portrait of one in refer­ ence to whom every trifie must interest --for this man changed the destiny oi the North American continent.--J. Ea­ ten Cooke, in Magazine of American History. A Large Family. The yellow Italian beos are gentler than the brown wild bee,s; and it is said that the Italian bee has a longer pro­ boscis, and so can get honey from the red clover, which is so abundant here­ about. I thought they were- better: for, when I was a very poor nian I bought an Italian queen be in th city of New York, and paid twent lars for her, and I have never y< pen ted of my extravagance. I hav sixty-nine hives of pure Italian and they are all the descendants pretty queen. Allowing forty tho bees to a swarm, which is a mo number, it is not a bad showing fj majesty. Let me see, forty th by sixty-nine makes--well, at lei and a half millions of living d< ants, besides dozens of queens 1 given away, with all their descen these, added to the multitudes th; lived and died in the meantime make, all together, not far fro hundred millions in twelve y Mrs. S. B. Herrick, in St. Nir]\ Why He Was So Independeij "Is Colonel Prouder in?" j "Yes, sah; an'if dat is a mil yer, better not present it to-day "Yes, but I want my money,! this is the fifth time I've been here. He has been owin' this ' e aw sl*"?onjk9" ... , , for ease both to man and team, ]urned, "Good Lawd, boss, dat s nuffir too young yit fur de Kurnel The Old Schoolmaster. What has become of him--th# did schoolmaster? Thirty years and more ago in everv community, almost, there was a schoo teacher whose personality was strongly felt in all its concerns, big school wa* a private one. As a rule he had no other ambition than to teach, and sought for no reward other than the success of his pupils in their respective walks of life. He was a man whose opinions were respected by parents, and whose admonitions had weight with the pupils. In those days the boy re oognized that he owed respect not only to the injunctions of his parents but to those of the teacher, and so admirable was the relation and understanding be­ tween the parents and teacher, that there was rarely any cla hing. The boy who, while at home, was under con­ trol of parental discipline, did not es­ cape the curb during school hours. The teacher took up the reins where the parent laid them down. The effect of this arrangement was most salutary, Hundreds of the most distinguished men of the time acknowledge the con­ trolling influence of their old school­ master upon their, lives. They may have forgotten the things they were taught bv the books, but they cannot forget the personality of the teacher nor refuse to admit his potent part in shaping the course of their lives. The influence of some of those teachers, to fame unknown, upon the history of the country, as made by their pupils, is be­ yond all reckoning. If ever men de­ serve canonization, those quiet, unpre­ tentious pedagogues did. Some of them oould count by the score men, eminent in the world's affairs, who had once been within the reach of their birch. But the day of the old schoolmaster has gone. Few of the old fellows remain. There may be one, here and there, but he belongs to the past and he can find but little comfort in the educational methods of to-day. But it is not likely that anyone would recall the old schoolmaster and substi­ tute his regime for the public school system of the present time, for as great as was the influence of the former for good, the latter accomplishes a greater work, so far as the benefit to the aver­ age individual of the community is con­ cerned. It is this "average* benefit that justifies the public school. But it is a matter of very great regret that, with the growth and development of the public school system, the person­ ality of the teacher could not have been preserved. As it is, the pupil sees and feels the system. He looks upon the teacher as simply a wheel in the great machine and as something which may be very easily displaced without affect­ ing the general movement. As ib tho case with a great corporation, individual agents count for nothing bevond their ability to execute certain specific func­ tions. The man is nothing; the agent everything. So it is with the public school system. The teacher's ability to win the love and respect of his pu­ pils; his power to charm; his influence upon the moral natures of the children placed in his care, are no longer essen­ tial qualities. The teacher, therefore, becomes of less consequence in the community. What the teacher says or does amounts to little. He become a humble individual who is paid far less than his deserts, and who, owing to the political forces that sway the boards of control, is afraid to call his life his own. You no longer hear a boy sav, with the emphasis of great satisfaction and a good deal of pride, that he goes to school to old Prof. X--. His father, who is a statesman, is frequently heard to boast that he went to Prof. X--'s school. The boy goes to a ward school and only knows that his teacher has a name. He has no thought of him or her after school hours. It would be vastly better if the teacher could be made more of. It is painful to think that men and women who give their lives up to the daily sac­ rifice of school-teaching, with its tre­ mendous responsibilities, should be so entirely subordinated to a system that they should be made to lose all their personality--the precious quality in every man whose soul is large enough to contain a noble aspiration. If the old schoolmaster and his methods could be made factors in the public school system, the good in each preserved, there would be infinitely better Results from the expenditure of the people's school money. Possibly these condi­ tions would be realized if teachers were paid as well as carpenters or bricklay­ ers. Then there would, perhaps, en­ gage in the profession men and women whose personality no "system" could crush out--G. V. Matthews, in the Current An Actress of 1799 Alive. Some little notice should, I think, appear of the pension recently granted by Her Majesty to Miss Kelly. It seems difficult to realize that we should have now living, and in full possession of all her faculties, a lady who made her debut on the stage in 179U. Miss Kelly was an actress of some reputation, and for some time was lessee and maliager of a theater which was called Miss Kelly's theater. Miss Kelly has acted with Miss Jordon, who must frequently have acted with Charles Macklin. Indeed Miss Kelly herself appeared on the stage only three years after Macklin's performance. It iust possible that Macklin might TWtnrtoTU^.wllO 4iere Jbont IBet- lak- ang inie re- Will play You roan Standard, Manny, Grown, fie He am got some four-year-ole bj what got to be paid befoah dat, "That's discouraging." "Can't help it, sah. I'm de pribate secretary, an' dat am d tion ob affairs in dis house, de Kurnel's property is all in 1 name, an dats why he am so ir ent."--Kentuc ky State Journa Ligut Rvpretty , you Piano and JV, ce of flatter It o, you We have a certainty on the poinL 3ven one experiment about them ; £ taken up; does not »et out ot ordcfi nizet of twine ana does not strsf grain with ease aud certainty18 ,ell*p IT SHorLD seem that indolen&L'Y t'hanifed; tightness of buudlc® n,g would incline a person io be : even ill tan<»! ' * - - - - - • Hnt2ivLr«« I°N™TELY gre»ter pains and I COULD everything oe twice, oontnvanoe to be ft knave.-- S hens tone. J everything would be done better. PITH ASP POWI.̂ r v ^ USTBBYBODY'S favori te--$. ^ ' ALWAYS in use--The letter «. ̂ A TO0TB foroe--A cornet bnl A STEONG support--Stimulants. * TBUTH crushed to the earth will rise again, but it may be late in the after­ noon, when the day's work is dona-- Carl Pretzel?* Weekly. WHEN A hen gets on her nest tint a short time she "lays," but when she re­ tires for a couple of weeks she "sets.'* A hen is nothing if not ungrammaticaL SOME men are born great, soma achieve greatness, and some write 12,- 876,546,281,000 words on a postal card, and grasp fame right by the baok of the neck. LANDLADY--It's singular but true, Mr. Crossgrain, that all my boarders remain with me. New Boarder (at first meal)--Too weak to leave I guess, after the first week. - A PAIIIS man was told that he had a large quantity of the "milk of human kindness," and fifteen minutes later he was seen purchasing a pump and dig* ging for water.--Parih Beacon. FLOWEKS : sweet ministers of peaee which come to cheer us on our pil­ grimage through time to eternity. They smile alike for all and for all they exhale their sweet perfume.--Peck'* Sun. "YES," said a Philadelphia girl, "I can take my pick from half a dozen wealthy young men in this city." "You ought to be able to," replied ft rival belle, sweetly, "you aro certainly old enough to pick."--Philadelphia Call. "Don't you sing, Mr. Tempercent ?" Miss Trilliloo asked at the musioale. "Well not quite," replied the old man, "but I come pretty near being musical. I just shave the notes." And little Miss Trilliloo thought he was a barber. --Burlington Hawkeye. A CHICAGO man has a small boy named Tod, and when he sits down to doze by the fire in tho evening and hears his wife call "Toddy," he often arouses from his nap, and adds, sleep­ ily, "Mo too, George--'alf and 'alf." --Burlington Free Press. "Did not the sons of Jacob commit a heinous sin when thov sold their brother Joseph?" asked a Sunday School teacher of the son of au Austin merchant. "Yes, sir." "What sin was it they committed?" "Thev sold him too cheap."--Texas Siftings. "Kiss Me as 1 Fall Asleep," is the title of the latest song. A gentleman friend of ours, married, says that if he were a poet he would writo something entitled "Kick Me as I Fall Asleep," suggested by tho method adopted by his wife to prevent him snoozing in church.--Exchange. THAT was a sharp minister who stop­ ped in the middle of his sermon and sang a hymn and then explained him­ self by saying: "If the members of the choir are to do the talking, they cer­ tainly will permit me to do the sing* ing." It is said it was so still in the neighborhood of the choir after that, that the sexton was sent with a search warrant to find the members to sing tho last hymn.--Peck's Sun. "WHAT do you ask for this oil paint­ ing?" "That is worth $350, madame." "It is beautiful! And how much is this?" "This is worth $425, madame." "And this?" "That J'J worth $500, madame." "How beautiful!" "Were you thinking of purchasing some pic­ tures." "Yes." "I would be happy to sell you a few of these. They are among tho finest ever brought to this city." "They are beautiful!" "This $600 pas­ toral is exquisite." "It is indeed. Hr.ve you any of these pictures that como on cards for five cents a dozen?" "No, we are out of them, but wo got in a new supply of one-cont postage stamps this morning which we are selling off at cost. You'll find them on the fifth floor; tho elevator isn't running.--SL Louis Critic. A Word to Mothers. What the mothers of to-day need is independence and common sense. In these days of fashion many a woman wears out because she is desirous her children shull have as many tucks, flounces, plaits and frills as her neigh­ bor's children. Or sho heats her blood until she is tired and cross over a cook­ ing rauge that sho may prepare food to equal or excel her near neighbors. She, maybe, belongs to that unfortunate class whose better half judges her from the amount of labor which she performs. "My wife is the smartest woman in town. She will do more work than a man any day." Have you not heard such remarks? Beware, hnsband; nature will have her revenge, and if you want that "smart" woman to care for you in your old age save tho strength, stop the over­ working of those strained nerves, unless you desire to have another to fill her place. Mothers, dross yonr children accord­ ing to yonr means and ability. If your frieud's 2-year-old Susie is "so sweet and pretty in her embroidered whito dresses," don't try to excel, but let your 2-year-old Flossie wear her warm, dark woolen dresses, and her health will be cared for, and she will bocouie a more sensiblo woman than Susie, whose mother's aim is for her baby to bo ad­ mired. We do not discard fashion when properly used. Copy that happy me- mium which calls for no remarks. If you cannot dress as youi neighbor without working far into tlio small hours of morning, wearing out brain and body, foe your husband's sake, mako your dress with les3 bands and shirrings, and save your strength. "As you commence so you must go on," is MI old saying. Mako yourself a slave to fosliion for a child, and assuredly, by the time she is 16, your bonos will ache and your spirit quake ovor tho endless work of her wardrobe. -- Cincinnati Saturday Night " An Indiscreet Little Boy. "What is that invisible power," asked* I an Austin Sunday School teacher, "thatl j prevents the wicked man from sleep-l I ing, that causes him to toss about otp] his pillow, and what should he do tc enjoy that peace that passes all under standing V" "Go to tho drug store and buy som< insect powder. Ma saut me for adime s worth last Wednesday, aud we haveu'i felt--" I Johnny Spilkins would have gon into particulars if his sister, who is ; little older and has ten times as muc l sense, hadn't pulled him dow a.--Te.rak Sijtings. . ^ I IF our homes have trap d6ors gdin down to dangerous depths, we do nc content ourselves with warning the li tie feet that make tho music of bom We fasten the doors and bolt tho bar And yet we sanction by liccnse tl open doors <0f fuin just beyond oi thresholds. ' I