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-. w ^ ®§T " * - -v tfM^tekn^wMdh MWMMtaabagalllBg, _.jk^*S»-~ I tetpXtBO 1 " aha W, " tn'?W*» m M«<ntrM w««nr sohooliig, [ttnatohavshis wny, towrruUng. «»To ateal a klm, and th#n deolata _Jfe only King* to steal another; Wlio would have thought he'd be ao MM? tt» tatftacMned to teU tote mothw* . «*•* If I whl fowiws' he aaya, Be 'will at once make reparation. And gladly what he took In haute •f ftetarn wtthmoi® deliberation. K: .-•MI WA& MY TEMPTED HLI V Ah, that's the way Oiey alwaya Aad (kink * few beguiling word* Will rectify the anmwt natter. He'll tod rip not the «Uly fir). To be oaMed "--but here she ROOU net qiileMy-changing m< 4'he soft relenting look Indorses. And then (the litSefraud!) she thro Berriaueee upward, pratiy " Aad*«»a pretty valntlinees. lf«r ̂ "ip" mutinous belying, 8be lays hlr hand upon her breast, -•; And says demurely and baaignljr: »**To err is human--to forgiva--' then It Is we act divinely." 1 *Wai did you ask of in*, aof<atk my ahoy here In ended* This: Tta ao eaay to forgive When w* are only half ott , ;,. HOW Tmntcripi. A, f v " fer..-.. : vv*. MISTAKEN ECONOIT. M Ve really most economise some- where!" said Obadiah, tagging wildly at his whiskers. "Tea, indeed," said 3, wringing my lands* " we mustI Bat I'm sore, Oby, -dear, we we neither oi us extravagant. We prast eat, we mast drink and we most live!" And Obadiah and I sat and looked at each other, in a sort of mild despair. We had only been married six months, Obadiah and f. Wo. were very yonog, both of ns, and perhaps we had begun the world too early. Our relatives told ns we hadn't any business to marry, bnt as their gratuitous opinions -were all that they had ever given us we had not paid mom attention to their utterances. We had taken a little one-story oot- tage, just on the high road, which was to let cheap, because there wei% only two rooms and a kitchen to it. Bat what did Obadiah and I want of more than two rooms and a kitchen ? I had the furniture which Grandmother New- oombTiad given me, and a rag carpet which my poor mother had woven the winter before she died. To be sure, oar accommodations were not extensive, bnt we did not expect to hold fashionable receptions or give large dinner parties. Obadiah had plenty of work in the woolen factory down by the depot, and I hang oat my little tin sign, "Dress- . making and Millinery,' and hoped that ' if (One one would see it, and come in and an order. But no one came, I •lenty of time after m; ati.es were over in t w_ ! coaldn't be always beeswaxing the fcwdi Mull ny honsekeep- the morning, ornamented with rawed ga*> leads hi vrhite. ••Only f6 a pair, ma'am," said ha, " Dirt cheap* it's positively giving 'em awagr at that price. " I have no $8 to spare," said X, in­ differently. " It's a great bargain, ma'am," he in­ sisted. ••• i"1', " I do not want them," satd I. He was silent for a few second " I'm sorrv,mo'am,"said he. " They'd be a great decoration for a lion so like this. Bnt if you really won't buy, it would be doing me a great favor to allow them to stand here until to-morrow. I've a long tramp before me, aud I'm not going to any place whore I think they'll be likely to buy anything of this sort I'll set 'em back by the chimney piece, ma'am, where, they won't be in any one's way. And I'm very tired with carrying 'em.*' 1 felt sorry for the poor, jaied wretch, so I made no objection. And when he was gone the vases did make the room look wonderfully pretty. I could not but wish that they were mine. Obadiah perceived them at once when he came home to tea, " Hello I" said he, "what does this aafran?" So I told him, adding: " I only wish that I could afford to bay them--they are so handsome." Obadiah walked around and around them, with his hands in his pockets and his brows knit thoughtfully. " Yes, they're pretty," said he, •* bat they're not perfect" "Not perfect!" I echoed. "Not by any means. Don't you see that lengthwise crack down one ? And the end of the little raised rosebud is chipped off on the other.. I hope you didn't do it, Josie ?" with a sudden glauce of apprehension. "I? Certainly not 1" I oried. "Why, I haven't so much as touched the things!" " Then I dare say it's all right," said Obadiah. And ne sat down to supper. "She next day, however, my friend, the china vender, came along, nmiling and obsequious as ever. " There are your vases," said I, "just where you left them !" But all at once he broke out into a storm of reproach and obloquy. They had been cracked and damaged in my eaie. They were perfect--abso­ lutely perfect--when he left them there the day before. I had worked the mis­ chief, and I was, of course, responsible for the value of the article. Of course, I knew that rascal was tell­ ing me a falsehood; but what could I do? I was alone in the house, and fairly cowed by the ferocity of the man. " You must pay me for them," he re­ iterated again and again, "orI will have you arrested at once ! " I burst into tears. "How can I pay von?"said I "The furniture, arranging the china cupboard, or polishing the windows. " I wish I could get some dressmak­ ing to do!" said I, wistfully; for Obadiah earnings were small, and I did so long hot a dollar or two o* my own. Why don't yon advertise in the vil- #' aaid Mr. Megga. ! : ont l^raghiiML " A#te#«se P said ha " WKy, what on earth do you take us for, Mr. Meggs ? It costs a deal of money to •dvertwa." "It eosts something, eertainlv," said Mr. Meggs, thoughtfully, stroking his chin; "but, then, it calls public atten­ tion to the particular sort of iron you've got in the fire." "A little local paper like iliat?" said Gbadiah, rather contemptuously. "It's local custom that your wife wants, isn't it ?" said Mr. Meggs. " And I never did think mucnof news­ papers," said Obadiah. N So that settled the question, and afterward, when the foreman of the woolen factory cut down all the wages of the workmen 20 per cent., and coal went up, and the winter set in h ird and cold, and we began to consider the ques- ' Hon of how ana where we could econo­ mize, the local newspaper was almost the first thing upon which Obadiah •ettled, " That, at least, is aa unns oessary a- •travEg&nes," said haw I winoed a little. The Boggsville Htorctfd had been my companion for more lonely evenings I cared to re­ member. "It's only $1.50 a year, Obadiah," •«dl, "and really it's a very interesting "Just $1.50 a year too mi my husband, curHy. "The tion is _ just out. HI tell 'em we won't renew it. If you care so much about it, Josie, you can easily borrow Mrs. Meggs* paper." I was silent, I never could make Oba­ diah understand the deep-rooted aver­ sion to "borrowing" of any creature whatever that I had inherited from my mother. So we cut down our weekly paper, and left off using butter, ana burned candles a penny a pound cheaper, and I •ponged and cleaned, and rebound, and new-buttoned Obadiah's overcoat, in­ stead of buying a new one, and left off going to church because my old cloak was so shabby and I coaldn't afford any­ thing better. . And Oh ! how l did miss the Boggs- ville Herald. " If I could only get a little dteas- tnaking to do," said I to myself, "I wocld subscribe again myself. But I cannot bear to ask Obadiah for a cent . his hard -earned monev." I was sitting, very sad and lonely, one freezing February day, by the window, trying to mend one of Obadiah's old Waistcoats, so that it should last a few days longer, when a traveling peddler, with a large basket of china ornaments on one arm and a bundle on his shoul­ der, knocked at the door. He nodded t. in an insinuating manner at me aa I an- „ awered the summons. "Couldn't I sell you anything this morning, ma'am ? " said he, with a libe- d^play of a very white set of teeth. match boxes--" uch," aaid rabscrip- thiui to keep We also liiidersfcand t!ie Quartern^ii ter claims to bo the author of the swer to our communication, but those who know him this is eauully thin as his denial of being at the in I"O of the G. A. R. It Is barely p ble that the real author might be covered to be a most delightful and Ig toge t.hfr i >i t, rtfl "VrTrr • t r>«.<» ri - *• - in the dresser, in exchange, I'll leave ases. and well say no more about *•" i It went to my heart to part with the India ware, which had been a relic of my mother's housekeeping days ; but I .was so cowed and terrified by the man's bullying manner that I believe I would have given him the house from over my head if he had asked for it; and he went away,*Ie»ving the beautiful vases on the floor. How glad I was to see Mrs. Meggs come cheerfully in half an honr after­ ward--a good, motherly soul, with silver spectacles and an elderly dimple still lingering on her cheek. " Why, my dear/' aaid she, ** what's the matter ? And I told her all. " But, my dear,"said she, "howcame you to be so taken in? There was an article in the paper last week, warning every lx>dy against this very impostor. Didn't you see it ? It was called the ' "Vase Swindler.'" 1 colored deeply, and hung down-my head. " We have stopped taking the paper," said L " Obadiah thought we couldn't afford--" "Andyour beautiful old china, too ! " said Mrs. Meggs. "Why, there was half a column in the paper, week before last, about the value of old china now. And, by what is stated, your set of old India ware must have been worth $20 at least." Twenty dollars! And I Had frittered them away for -a pair of wretched, cracked, tawdry things, of the very sight of which I was already sick. "My dear," said Mrs. Meggs, "your ideas of economy are altogether mis­ placed. You should read the papers." Obadiah went and subscribed for the Bog^sviile Herald that very evening. And in the first number he saw an ad­ vertisement for hands at a new factory in tlio neighborhood, which offered steady work and wages a third higher than he was now receiving. And I in­ serted a modest little "Dressmaking i Wanted," and it was answered within j the week, and I am making my own (liiuer little income now. thank heaven 1 And if anybody tells us now that we can't afford to take a paper, we tell liiem, Obadiah and I, that we can't af­ ford to do without one. One Way of Doing It. If we may believe the Railroad Ga­ zette, they have queer ways in Switzer­ land in regard to dividends. That journal remarks : If the method which the United States railways have adopted for paying dividends be objected to as entirely foreign to all cash methods for doing business, it really can not raise a sudden' fear that the companies will soon exhaust their ability to pay. Pre­ ferred shareholders get their regular 3 per cent, in cash, but the holders of original shares are compensated in a IT IS thirty Pi|L to premature *M <*ttte at two yean them up to three years. I* aiuaonro y<Mr seed wheat, or seed for a rye crop, weigh a pint from the bin or sack, and purchase that which weighs tiie heavier. ENGLISH farmers have been very sue- oenwful in growing wheat by the aid ol peat char/oal as a fertiliser, whig at the rate cf 600 pounds to the acre. IT SHOtmD be remembered, that it is easier to deteriorate a crop by choosing bad seed, or even by carelessly neglect­ ing the selection of good se«W," than it is to improve upon a ^variety already ac­ knowledged to be good. The down hill road is the easiest traveled. TIIE melon has been cultivated from time immemorial, and yet there is no other plant known that is so wonderfully variable in its character. In the same hill, and from the same seed there will be produced some of the finest, as well aa some of the poorest specimens. IN KEEPING poultry for tne safce of me eggs they lay, no hens should be kept over after their strand laying season. Hens, as a rule, lay about an equal number of eggs in their first and second season, after which the product rapidly decreases. DR. J. B. LAWES says; "Experiments conducted in a laboratory, or underbuy artificial conditions whatever, require to be tested in the field before they can be adopted as final, or have any value as­ signed to them as regards the settlement of practical questions of agriculture." OF ANN poultry breeding the rearing of the goose in favorable situations is said to be the least troublesome and most profitable. It is not surprising, there­ fore, that the trade has of late years been enormously developed. Geese will live to a certain extent and thrive on the coarsest Brasses. FARMKRS in Great Britain suffered se­ verely daring the first half of 1881. No less than 571 agriculturists had to de­ clare themselves bankrupt, including farm bailiffs, millers and market garden­ ers. In trades immediately connected with farming, 501 have been forced to give up business. ACCORDING to the best information, •there about 4,690,000 sheep in Texas. This will in all probability be increased during the coming lambing season twenty per cent., bringing the number Up to 5,500,000. Valuing them at $2.50 each would make the total valuation of sheep in the State of Texas $13,800,000. THE observations of Dumas, Payen and Boussingault have shown the fact that a cow gives healthy milk in exact proportion to the surplus of food beyond what is necessary for her own mainten­ ance. If the animal is kept on food barely sufficient for proper nourishment, the milk produced must be at a loss of animal tissue, with general deterioration of the milk and also of the oow. EXPERIMENTS with concentrated fertil­ izers are often spoiled just as crops are injured or lost through wrong applica­ tion. Farmers are apt to think the manure must be put close to the seed, else the plant will not get the benefit of it. The real truth of the matter is, that it is not the plant just germinated that needs the aid of the ferti izer, but the plant which already has a starii and needs helping on to the finish. ENGLISH gardeners find a great jdiffi- culty in the perishable character of flowers when fertilized with pollen, or excluded from it. One of the orchids will remain in good condition a month or six weeks if not fertilized, but operated on by pollen the flowers fade in a day or two and the seed-pods elongate rapidly. Hence it is found important to exclude bees from pelargoniums to prevent the petals dropping. A GREAT share of the sheep raised in Nebraska are a mixture of the Cots wold and Leicester. While further south in Kansas, Texas and New Mexico are the Spanish Merino and Mexican. The lat­ ter are better adapted to a warm climate, produce fine wool and are more valuable m every way than other kinds. The climate of California is well adapted to a cross between the Spanish Merino and Mexican. WITH regard to strawberries, we can produce larger crops and finer berries by planting several varieties in one bed than by planting all of one kind. Though the variety may be perfect in its kind, jet strawberry plants are apt to produce imperfect blossoms, gome being pistillatei and others staminates. Through th® planting in of other vari­ eties in the same bed, tbougn m rows by themselves, a more perfect fertiliza­ tion may b© seeoredl WHEN clover IS wanted to enrich the sols for a succeeding crop it is better to let it mature rather than to cut it early. When clover is grown for seed the roots are the best developed and contain the most nitrogen. That is the reason why those farmers who precede wheat with clover for a fertilizer, first cut a crop of clover early and then allow the second crop to go to seed, before plowing it in. The roots and scattered leaves of clover make most excellent fertilizers. .Itjr onlv roctMitW thnt it hi* twn clearly demonstrated that a dead branon on a tree makes as great a strain on the main plant for moisture as does a living one. It is one of the most important discoveries of modern botanical science to the practical horticulturist, as by this knowledge he can save many a valuable tree. When a tree has been transplant^, seme roots get injured, and the supply of moisture in the best cases is more or less deficient. Any dead branch or any weak one should therefore be out away at once. Soiti and season unquestionably nave much to do with the flavor of potatoes. The late ones retain their flavor over winter and spring better than early , sorts. Prof. Roberts found that under the same conditions small potatoes for I seed gave the poorest results, the mid- | die part of large potatoes next, the seed i end next, and the stem end the best. A whole large potato with a single eve ia the bent possible seed. It takes a little cold water a herdsman says his practiae of curing thf from 40V ,,000. MM far morer a* vrell as to the "t, of AiiMMM^plctdture to export {Kirk, than to export what may b* tilWitd the raw material-- oorn. sores on cattle, winch, v washed clean with pt. tree from dirt, would ves. A Wry careful practi hoof-rot is to thoroughly cleanse the af­ fected parts with warm water and soap, and then apply warm tar between the hoofs. In very had cases there will lie a largo core to come out: remove it care­ fully with the thumb ana ting* r, cleanse the cavity as above, with soap and water, and then fill it with warm tar. Keep the parts thoroughly covered with tar, even if it is necessary to use a bandage. Keep the animal in a clean, dry pasture. It is no more liable to affect the whole sys- cem tiiaii anv otlu r ulcer. Wlieu once cured there is no danger of its appearing ag,ain unless from the same cause. THERE are a great many people in the world, it is true, but this little planet is very far from overcrowded for all that, and there is vet plantv of room for hu­ manity to spread lise.f. In this country alone, exclusive of Alaska, where we have great and valuable possessions, wo have 710,668,000 acres of available land not yet surveyed but open to settlement, and 734,951,000 acres surveyed but not yet taken up. And yet, Greet Britain has more virgin land'than we have. In the Australian ootonies she has 2,000,- 000,000 acres of laud never yet touched i in Cape Colony 52,0!)0,OOG_ acres all ready for settlement but "with no set­ tlers ; in Natal, Ceylon and the West Indies 14,500,000 acres, and in Canada probably something like 1,500,000,000 acres of unoccupied and very fertile lands. All this vast territory of unused land is enough to give a farm of 160 aores to 31,325,000 families of five per­ sons each, or to 156,625,000 persons. IN A timely article encouraging sheep husbandry the Farmer's Review says : " The increase of the world's wool crop during the last decade is immense, and yet it his not exceeded the requirements of tlio race. The great variety of fabrics made from wool, and the ever-widening demand for them, leave very little room to fear that wool growing will soon be overdone. The English nation consumes vast quantities of mutton annually, the amount eaten, if my recollection is not at fault, as shown by statistics, being greater than that of boet consumed. Be that as it may, mutton is held to be the healthiest of all meats, and the British people have long cultivated sheep hus­ bandry for the production of choice mutton. Then, again, our own people are consuming more mutton new than they have ever used before, and as its healthfulness, as compared with pork, becomes more generally known, name consumption of mutton will enlarge. THE milking qualities of cows are the arts of man. The cow in its natural state gives as much milk as will keep a calf about two months, then for four months as much as will partially sustain it; after that it takes care of itself. On the other hand, the cow which art has produced gives as much milk for four months in the year as will support four or five calves, and for five months more as much as would support three, two, and one. Thus we find that almost every breed has its milking strains. The Dur­ ham has its milking qualities just in proportion as man has induced them. The Hereford is also a noted beef- produoing breed; but these are strains which are deep^Bgttkera But man has not suoceded sovran In converting butter and milk producers into heavy beef animals. The Ayrshire,, the Jerseys, the Guernseys, are not easily converted into beef animals; yet it may be said that man changes the characteristics of ani­ mals almost at will. THERE is always something new crop­ ping up in the butter and cheese trade, one of the latest innovations being the introduction of Russian butter into the English market. One of our well- known exporters, while staying in Lon­ don recently, says the Produce Ex­ change Bulletin, was surprised to find Bussian butter offered for sale in good sized quantities in several wholesale pro­ vision stores in that metropolis. The party referred to was at first inclined to be somewhat sceptical about this butter being the prodnct of the Ruse, but he was soon convinced of the fact in more than one quarter. It was handsomely got up in white oak tubs, and very much resembled Canadian. It is stated that butter and cheese factories have been started in quite a number of the Russian districts, ana mat tne production oi dairy produce upon scientific principles is likely to become a staple industry of that vast Empire. The American dairy­ man should not be outdone in quality of product by the farmer of any other nation. HOUSEHOLD HELPS. . ing iotftheccust, pieoes and mix it apple. Betallaway ...., "A# >• A • < • §w crass; OSw®(K. SS with the to grow quite Taub Coriiias.--Vial entleta should be Ait about half aa inch thiok, and flattened with a chopper before frying. When brown on on* side ton tod do them on the other, oootanning to do so till they are thoroughly done, which will be in about a quarter of an hour. Make a gravy of some trimmings, whioh put into a stew-pan with a bit of soft butter, an onion, a roll of lemon-peel, a biado of mace, some thyme, parsley, and stew the whole over a slow fire for an hour, and then strain it; put an ounce of butter into another pan, and when melted mix with as much flower as will dry it up ; stir this for a few minutes, then add the gravy by degrees the whole is mixed ; boil it five minutes, then strain it through a sieve and put it to the cut­ lets. Some gowning may be added, to­ gether with mushroon or walnut catsup, or lemon pickle. COP CAKE.--Two-thirds of a cup of butter, two enps of sugar, three cupa of flour, two-thirds of a cttp of milk, four eggs, one even teaspoonful of soda, two heaped teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar and a little salt. This rule makes very nioe common cake, and by making a lit­ tle change, several varieties can be made by it. To make it richer, add a little more butter and sugar and two or three eggs. This will make two loaves. For variety, take one-quarter of the batter, and add one-half cup of the meats of common walnuts, cut up rather fine. Take another quarter and bake in two parts; put between them a layer of chocolate frosting, with the addition of enough grated chocolate to make it dark and assenca vanilla to suit the taste, spread the frosting again on the top and dry in a warm place. To another quar­ ter add currants and slices of citron, and frost it with white frosting. The re­ maining quarter bake plain, and frost with yellow frosting ; sprinkle the nut cake with powdered sugar. To make mixed cake, take one-half of it and make it dark with cinnamon, nutmeg, clove, and currants (not too rnnch clove), ac­ cording to taste; lay it in the pans, al­ ternating in 'layers with the other half. Or divide in two parts, grate chocolate into one part and flavor with essense of vanilla, and bake in alternate layers with the other part Another way is to bake in pie-plates with jelly spread between. THE FAMILY DOCTOR. much less coinmonpl&eo manner. When raore labor, but a much batter crop is "1 have no ai money," said I, spiritless* do not need any of your ly, "and Swires. ' "Ah, but you do not know what splendid article I have here," he per- *®ted, loosening, the strap which passed across his shoulder, and lowering the package carefully to the floor. **A pair of real Wedgewood faiences. Hh, don't shake your head, ma'am; I shan't charge you anything for looking at 'em, you know, fm certain you're an artist--all the ladies are bom artists --ami this is really something quite out <of the ordinary." > And. with a succession of nods and the general meetings are annually held, it is calni'y decreed that they be allowed to travel for three full days through the Cantons of Zurich, St, Gall and Orisons, at the exfjense of nobody except the roads, these free ridos to. by accepted as dividends. Much is made of this priv­ ilege by the helpless shareholders, for who'e crowds of them turn out for the gratuitous excursions. secured by cultivating in rows or drills rather than in hiils. IN A BAD case of gapes give the chicken a pill of camphor about tiio SIZ'J ©I a garden pea. As soon as any symptoms are manifested, give the birds water to drink which liaa been strongly impregnated with camphor. The treatment seems to explain itself. The gapes or gaping Is caused by the presence in the windpipe of small red worms. No medicine can THE St. Louis Globe-Democrat thus reach them unless it does so in the form r- has its Bay about Maine: " The light penalty for drunkenness in Maine is j thirty days in jail. They have a law that no medical student shall be allowed to graduate and practice medicine who has not had regular practice in the dis­ secting-room. Then they passed a law that no bodies, save only the bodies of executed criminals, should be cut up in dissccting-rooms. Then, as a climax to all this, they abolished capital punish­ ment. That!§ kiiid cf # cocufttiy Maine is. , <" -• ' . • ', *'•% • , , . r * > of vapor. One hour after the chicken has swallowed the pill it smells of camphor. Camphor is a strong vermifuge, and under the above treatment the worms die. IT IS a noticeable feature in the pro­ duction of corn and hog product, from 1875 to 1880 inclusive, that while the former was increased from 1,324,000,000 bushels to 1,507,000,000, the prodnct of meats and laid rose from 1,154,000,000 is to considerably over 2,000,000,* During the same period the ex- ' '5 .'.a •V - f. *"/ ' * /VC rite. - nit * ' I From MM American Cultivator.] BICE MUFFINS.--Rice muffins baked in gem pans are very nioe, and are easy to make. A pint of sweet milk and three eggs thickened with a tablespoonful of flour and a cup of rice steamed until it is tender are needed to make them. CREAM POTATO.--Mash finely; salt well; stir in a cupful ot scalded cream to a dishful made with ten large-sized potatoes: add a little butter, by taste. Do all this in the hot pan they were steamed off in. Keep hot over the fire where it can not burn. Serve as soon aa possible. SHRUB.--This fa a syrup of fruit juice and vinegar. Boil juice from fruit as usual. Strain and measure. To a pint of juice add half a pint of strong cider- vinegar and half a pint and a gill of sugar. This is for sweet fruit. Cur­ rants would require a pint of sugar. Stir in the beaten white of an egg for every three of the above measures. Set on to boil, set off and skim, as a simple syrup. Boil again ten minutes, strain, and bot­ tle. LEMON PI*.--Grate the rind and strain fbe juice of two lemonB ; core, pare, and chop fine one large, tart apple; ipound one soft cracker very fine ; melt two table spoonfuls of butter, and mix with the, cracker crumbs ; mix the lemon rind and juice with tne chopped apple and stir with them two level cups of sugar; beat the yolks of two eggs to thick froth, then tne whites to stiffness, then both together. Beat these with the lemon, apple, and sugar; mix the buttered crumbs with all. Cover pie plates, put a broad rim about their edges, and fill as tarts with the mixture. Bake twenty minutes, or until the crust is done. Orange pie in the same way, with less sugar. PAN-DOWDY.--Core, pare, and quarter enough tart, juicy apples to fill a deep earthen baking pan. Make a crust. Butter your baking pan welL For a three-quart pan, take a teacup of brown sugar, mix with it two tablespoonfuls of allspice, with a pinch of mace. Mix all with a teacupful of molasses. Put the apples into tne pan, scattering In a few bits of butter, and stir in the molasses and sugar. Roil your crust out into a thick roqnd .that wUl cover jhe pan, fit Wtmw one feels the approach of a severe cold, he may often find relief by using composition tea. The fallowing is the recipe for the powder : Take one- half ounce of red pepper, one-half ounce of cloves, one-half ounce of cinnamon, one-half pound of bay-berry bark and one-half pound of ginger. The ingre­ dients should all be ground and thor­ oughly mixed. Put in wide mouthed bottles and cork tight. When needed, put a teaspoonful of the powder in a bowl and fill in with boiling water. Milk and sufar make it very palatable. SPEAKING of oorpulency, an exchange says : Take a Mat from the lower ani­ mals ; those who feed chiefly on animal and vegetable nitrogen are lean, as lions, tigers, vultures, crows. Those who live on grains and carbonaceous foods are fat, as the bovines, and equines, domes­ tic fowls. In general the avoidance of carbon in its various forms of starch and sugar will produce leanness, though if one has a tendency to corpulency it may not be entirely " ~ ous exercise ' tendency are always lean. Oversleeping habitually and overeating produce excess of adi­ pose. IT is not healthy in any country, at any season of the year, or at any time of life, says a medical writer, to get up early, habitually; the old are better Vested by lying late, even if not asleep, while the young require all the sleep they can get. In all latitudes, in warm weather, the morning air, although feel­ ing cool and fresh, is laden with a pest­ iferous miasma. In winter the atmos­ phere, before breakfast is so cold and chilly Mid searching that it fairly shriv­ els up man and beast, chilling to the very marrow-bone sometimes; hence the average duration of human life would be increased, and the amount of sickness largely diminished( by late rather than early rising, as all the other nations full well know and practice. WBCTINO upon the sabjeot of 44 cold feet," Dr. J. H. Hanaford says: Good health is never attainable if the feet are habitually cold, since this implies an impaired circulation of the blood; that it does not reach the extremities. In­ stead of " toasting them in the oven" soak them in warm water till thorough­ ly warm, and then dash cool or cold wa­ ter over them, rubbing them thoroughly with a crash towel till a reactiod occurs, using a flesh brush freely. This, fol­ lowed for a few nights, will generally warm the feet by improving the circula­ tion of the blood. The brush, used on the whole body, iB not only safe--safer than the cold bath, at least for the weak­ ly--but will aid in equalizing the circu­ lation. Let the feet also be put in the warm rays of the Bun; the clothing warmed and thoroughly sunned. This will do much to improve cold and sweaty feet, and can do no possible harm. Keep the feet clean, whioh can be done only by frequent washing. THE following, from Dr. Elam's "Phy­ sicians' Problems," is both forcible and sensible : Fear not to do the work for which your gifts qualify you ; but do it as one who must give an account of both soul and body. Work, and work hurd, whiin it is day ; the night cometh soon enough--do not hasten it. Use Sour facilities, use them to the utmost, ut do not abuse them--make not the mortal do the work of the immortal; the body has its claims; it is a good ser­ vant ; treat it well, and it will do your work ; it knows its own business; do not attempt to teach it or to force it; attend to its wants and requirement*; listen quietly and patiently to its hints; occa- stionally;forestall its necessities by a little indulgence, and your consideration will be repaid with interest. _ But task it, and pine it, and suffocate it; make it a slave instead of a servant; it may not complain much, but, like the weary camel in the desert, it will lie down ana dib. SODA put for washmgd$ii|i: . # Btara' a r&fo-eknd j earth, the larger the dUofis. Uir&n-saoT wheels inquire a much larger body of water than over-shot. THB diamond is rather more than three and one-half times heavier than water. „ OIL or essence of pine apple ia obtained' from the product of the action of putrid cheese and sugar. A HORNET'S nest -- being the fines! woolly substance known--Is the best polisher for glass lenses. ' : ACCORDING to seamen, a green hne of the ocean indicates soundings, an in­ digo blue, profound depths. SPIRITS of camphor makes a good barometer, as it is cloudy before a storm and clear in fair weather. LEECHES may be induced to bite more readily by bathing the surface to which they are applied with milk. A BODY which weighs one pound at our equator would weigh five ounces six drachms at that of the planet Mars. _ A STEEL bar held iu the natural direc­ tion of a needle, and struck several blows with a hammer, will become magnetized. PENCIL marks can be rendered indeli­ ble by dipping the paper in skim-milk and ironing on the wrong side after dry­ ing. THE largest bituminous deposits in the world are in Asphaltic Lake, or Dead Sea, in Judea, and Tar Lake, in Trini­ dad. THE icebergs of the Southern hemis­ pheres are much larger than those Of the Northern, and frequently attain a height of 1,000 feett WE CANNOT determine the sound of a string which makeB less than thirty vibra­ tions per second, or of one which malrw more than 7,552. PAPER can be made transparent by spreading over it, with a feather, a very thin layer of resin dissolved in alcohol, applied to both sides. y IN a number of examinations of the heart-beats of the dying, Bouohat re- oorded six seconds as the longest interval between the pulsations. THE diamond is the purest crystal car­ bon found in nature. Plumbago, of whioh lead pencils are made, is the next purest. Coal is crude carbon. IT IS a popular mistake to call a thin, flaky, semi-transparent mineral iaingltum. Isinglass is fish glue, and has nothing to do with the mineral, which is mica. SILK articles of delicate shades should not be folded in white paper, as the chloride of lime used in bleaching the paper will probably impair the color of the silk. DISSOLVING five ounces of niter and the same quatity of sal-ammoniac, finely powdered, in nineteen ounces of water, will reduce the heat of the liquid forty degrees. A GOOD microscope may be made by boring a small hole in a piece of tin ana filling it with one clear drop of the balsam of the common fir. It will magnify sev­ enty-five diameters. THE sunbeam is composed of three distinct rays, one of heat, one of light, and one called the chemical ray. The blue or chemical ray is greater in spring, the light ray in summer. The chemical ray is less in autumn. IF A lamp chimney be cut with a dia­ mond on the convex side, it will never crack with the heat, as the incision af­ fords room for expansion, and the glass altar ooaUag setmais to its original-shape, with onlya scratch visible where the eut was made. ARSENIC is not freely soluble in any organic mixtures and may generally be found as a white sediment, which, when thrown upon .red-hot coals, gives out a strong odor like onions and a thick smoke. Common arsenic can not be de- teotodby the taste. . The Difference. One oi the great female writers on dress reform, in trying to illustrate how terrible the female dress is, says : " Take a man and pin three or four tablecloths about him, fastened back with elastic and looped up with ribbons, draw all his hair to the middle of his head and tie it tight, and hairpin on five pounds of other hair and a big bow of ribbon. Keep the front locks on pins all night and let them tickle his eyes all day, pinch his waist into a corset, and give him gloves a size too small and shoes the same, and a hat that will not stay on without torturing elastic, and a little lace veil to blind Ins eyes whenev­ er he goes out to walk, and he will know what a woman's dress is." Now you think you have done it, don't you, sis? Why, bless you, that toggery would be heaven compared to what a man has to contend with. Take a woman and put a pair of four-shilling men's drawers on her that are so tight that when they get damp, from perspiration, sis, they stick so you can t cross your legs without an abrasion of the skin, the buckle in the back turning a somersault and sticking the points into your spinal meningitis, put on an undershirt that draws across the chest so you feel as though you must cut a hole in it, or two, which is so short that it works up under your arms and allows the starched upper shirt to sand paper around and file off the skin until you wish it was night, the tail of which will not stay tucked more than half a block, though you tuck, and tuck, and tuck, and then fasten a collar made of sheet zinc, two sizes too small for you, around your neck, put on a vest and coat, and liver pad, and lung pad, and stomach pad, and a porous plaster, and a chamois shirt between the two others, and rub on some liniment and put a bunch of keys and a jack knife and a button-hook and a pocketbook and a pis­ tol and a plug of tobacco in your pock­ ets so thev will chafe your person, and then go and drink a few whisky cock­ tails and walk around in the sun with tight boots on, sis, and you will know what a man's dress is. Come to figure it up it is about an even thing, sis, isn't it?--Peck's Sun. AIAFE M» SOK tESHJY rot ilssn Diantmir FOB SALE BY AlA KtUtffllgfS. C£L£BBITE0 Yaluable Saggestiona. Always tell the truth ; you will flndit | 8mHll easier than lying. Always do a kind act in a kind way; to do it otherwise destroys its value. Do a mean act in a mean way ; so it will have a keener sting--for your own breast. But better not do it. Whatever you dislike in another cor­ rect in yourself. Better be upright with poverty tha.̂ wicked with plenty. Time never rests heavily upon us when it is well employed. Do your duty in that station of life in which God in His providence has placed you. Mind your own busin--. . Though Shaken In Every Joint And fiber with fever and ague, or blUona remittent, tire . •ystsm may yet be freed from the malignant vfaroa witJ« Hoatetter'a Stomach Bitters. Protect the ajratong^ against it frith this benefioeat anti-apasmodio, which * furthermore a suprometremedy for liver complaint, con­ stipation, dyspepsia, debility, rheumatism, kidney tfoa> Mm otbsf tiiflMHitfi Stor sale by aU DRA«Ms aad Duslm t •S HOLMAN'S » A" b m wterelga rwriy for #lfara» rf •ad Stomadl trtmblM, ud ia ttae OHIT ' SAFE an* ABSOLUTS «a» far Malaria Is. ' Ha various typM. Dr. HtlSliiasi'S I Is & ge&mlne and teal remedy, WITHOUT TAKING MEDICINE.̂ It wai the FIRST article of the Had that Introduced to the public generally. It waa tkr ORIGINAL PAD, aai waa davlaai bj DR. HOLMANalona. ;j. He struck out from tha be*tea path aad mad* a»% NEW WAY. N* aooner had he rendered the aa<t^: dertaklng a CERTAINTY than the IMITATE* ud FIKATBS who HANG te and infest ever NIG-FL ecssfnl enterprise, started np and have since feJ-t '- towed in his footatapa aa elofcljr aa the law wilk- toleeate. Against these Dm. HOLM AN gfoa SPECIAL WARNING. Not only dvtfcay PAIL TO CURS, but in disappointing the yurchaaer thay bringff doubt and •<Hum ma the principal mi i tlon,of which asr, Hofaaan** Pad iathe GENUINE and ONLY TRUE EXPONENT. Every imltaftow ia an emphatic endoraa- Bent «f the anbsUntiai worth sf tha geaalMk article. A poor one ia never copied. g Each Genuine H«»liaaa Pad basal': Om private Revense tttaaap HOLMAN PAD CO., with tha abaVa Trada^b' Mark printed in graea. Jtup JTMM WUh^mt FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS, Or seat by mail, paat-pald, ra receipt af DR. HOLMAN'S advice ia nun. Fall traattofg •ant free an application,, Addreaa HOLMAN PAD CO.. tP.O. Be* 211XJ 944 Biwdwar, R.T. m m.uniL A Country of Small Things. Almost every variety of animal life in Japan inclines to the pigmy or diminu­ tive order. The horses are small po­ nies, the native cattle are not muoh above half the weight of the Devon breed. The largest Japanese duck is by comparison with the American wood-duck, our lightest variety of the species. Their geese are no larger thiui our mallards and canvas-backs. Their swine rate in size between the small chinas and the Guinea pig, and their men and womerP are considered large at the respective heights of five feet two inches ana four feet ten inches. They are active, wiry and athletic, however, and can endure great hardships better than many weightier breeds. WHEN the Emperor of Russia yawns, those about him look in awe upon the wonderful Cwcliaam dis­ p l a y s . . " • • " > < < i . . . ' LYBIA Em PINKHAM IFLQETABLE COMPOUND, baPwdgJjCnre Bwdtui. r<aID.'?rTJ!°™* UM U!C67» #*< i •taints ̂aU ovarian WOBMSS, innamrawn MonTnoila* aad Msptaeements, aadtfw conasqas* ̂ * .<•&$1 (fr*..! wealoi®®: w* to particularly adajrted to tk* V* Change at Uta- v It win dlssolT® and snrpel toman from file ntsrasfn ̂ M «t.mreof development. The tendency local* '̂1%'"'• serous hwnorsthereis checked T»ry*peedliyby ttsaass. I II (smovasfaintness, flatulency, dertrcgraaU craving „ YJ forattmnlaBta, aad relievesweaksese ofthsstomaok. . t V," H eorea Bloating, Headaches, Nervosa Prostration, oaumr. HgUm™-. Pew--na aad lad>- J.,J , ̂ , Thai CseBng of bsartng down, ceartag pato,wa(̂ /̂i|̂ ls| tad baokache, is always permanently cored by Its nsa. ' ..yVJ:.' It wfll at all Umes and nnder all circumstances act ia. ' harmony with the laws that goram the female system. t For the cureof Kidney Complaints of stthsraasthto Compound Is nnsarpassed. '• " WWK K. PINKHAM'B VEGETABLE COM- -'i £ NDKDii prepared at SS and US Western Avenue, , •. l̂ nn,Kass. Price $L Stxbottlesfor $5. Sent by mail" " la the form of pills, also In the form of lozenge ̂aa ' faceipt of price, $1 per box forelUur. Mrs. liahhaaa * ?>Z • Mfaamn all letters of Inquiry. Send Car lat. Address a* above. Mtntion this Paper, r ' - !to family should be without LYDIA E. PnOQKAVS liVEH PILLS. 'They care constipatioa, bEUeaaaML t J--S awpMitir the Mrs*. Stoeatapee Ms. . • TlT . sr Said by all Dnnim.H §*-: fmm. 4* »v > . . ."a . J.. .4 .̂. 'ik. *' 'feu. .£. J J....? J. v, ; ' • ̂ , . . . ' " f ^4^ i