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• r* 1 t '/< ^ -fi • » m r i M p t v . vWd Mi lUMWOraw. ^«St&S5r The Hps HH* MMMM MM* trwnWln* Will MM ft*fMtt» AMMI, And thy foxSrik tnMM mow Th^w**m»<llovia««>re*th. I ffO tM|«Ma; God only know*' •ow I IMW» toBRt>d to stay-- < How I Mm thuddered tbns to tW The Iom and shadowy w*y. ^ F«itfc Mi me that I «<*wi may «• Ttw'foyeth* bwwd And, A ad jit I t»ll«r while I cast A lingering look behind. • M&V 'I aM khpe bowed before 1M kHft ,?. v . . ;• - » In- bttleruoM and tears, *fk But I can Inn thea aiiiiiiil1ilii4(MI *MiE» •&'•• To light-thy weary years. '; Tonne, tendar form* will cling to thM, . ^ j;1, FtortMpa will jniae my tone, *i' V • . Aftd though they may not aliiu* thy fr$%f Tho» wilt not feel atone. IM th«m still closer to thy bre--t, And soothe their childlah woe, ' ' And cheer tlie many lonely boura ' Tha motherleea mart know. |&'; -~fy Tt»e world, with all Ita taopea and Joy*, Will MWiettmea make thee glad, - Bat they muct linger rotmd a hearth M deaoiate Mid aad. And oh. when time shall calm thy grief, Perehance the hoar may come S When thou wilt win another form To share thy heart and home. When thou wilt welcome to thy board A younger, fairer face, , And bid tky.children smile on ktr . Who talrea their mother's plaoe. Bat think not, could I speak to thee, Tltfu 1 would frown or blame, Though tbey should love the stranger (XM And oall htr % my name: Tor they will speak to thee of nsa, *y memory is their trust, , A word, a sintie. » look like mine, - WU1 oall use from the dust. Tet make my grave no place of tears, ^ But let the dear ones bring, To cheer their mother's lonely home, The blossoms of the spring. And even there thou too mayst kneel, , And softly press the earth That cavers her whose smile ones (in A brightness to thy hearth. - - m will the forms of early: , i Steal softly to thy side, ' 'Ana for an hour thin canst to Thou hast another bride. She way be all thy heart can ad^ So dear, so true to thee, • But CH the spring-time of thy Vim, i Its freSsaeswwiwr forme. " 3till guide the tittle trembling one* Who make oar household hand. , „ , Abe cannot know the tenderue«a . ;i ~ s * " That fills thel*'mother's ore-ait - |. Bat she can love them for thy sake, • ami make thee more than bleat. Tet keep one place, one little r"'a°V From an the rest apart, , One mot which 1 will call a "toml* Within thy faithful heart; I in the holy hoar of dreams, /hen spirits fill the air, < With tender eyes wad folded wing 111 softly rest me there. May God forgive this erring lo»S That fa to mortals given- It almost wooe my spirit back From happiness and heaven. And yet I feel it will not die When this/rail life is o'er, And watch till ail my loved onw MM Where we atnll p«t uo mora. - %3'<< A CABINET SECRET. * A. greet deal of sympathy «m felt for • Jteginald Courtney when his old repro- :,'.Sof a father disinherited bioh Not- ^ 'Withstanding his sacred- calling, the WW!" goings on" of the Rev. Samuel had m&een a scandal and a by-word in his ̂ îipariah and diocese for years past, and, I "When matters came to such a climax N that his son felt in duty boond to offer a i *espectfui remonstrance, everybody con- i^feidared that Reginald's interference was ^nore than justifiable. U irfortunately, , the reverend gentleman took a different „, %%iew, »nd, though he followed his son's • advice and resigned his benefice, m 'sfftkalhar diaoontinued his attention to the. ; jt'JUdy por showed himself amiable to #6a»on. On. the contrary, he took the. %•" -9<08Bg womnn with him to tke Gontinfent, ' ^ ttftoit first making a new will, leaving " " %;0tery fartling of his large fartune to his " ler bipfcher, the Baronet. C®ni'fcnej was vary muob i at having incurred his father's ^ >sure. Tiwir intercourse htvd al- :*raya beea extremely friendly, though of late yew«, owing, probably, to a guilty Ixmacience, the rector had rather iAttmned his son's society. But the old *rf%eaflelttatt, though he did not often in- yitfc? Reginald to bis house, made up fdt lit ttther ways, and especially ~ antiDg him a liberal allowance enabled the young mau to lead a of pleasant idleness, under the prs- i Of studying for the bar. This al- Io#anc< was at once discontinued when ift!®? cstraagemeafc took plaoe and Reg- Id'sincome was suddenly reduced to i pittance which he had inherited j*ofai ni8 mother. It was, however, leas this account than from honest affeo* jofl. gad filial regard that he made over­ tures to his father to bring about a ^conciliation, but his letters were stern- disregarded by the outraged parent; ML before time could work its soothing «9«md beutfieeut effect upon him the vitictor and his leliow traveler perished in dreadful conflagration which destroyed *i crowded opera house and made Europe with a tale of h rror. It was a rude shock to Reginald to . "find himself «MstnheritecL His father not revoked erf" altered his unjust » vfhich fm proved, in due course, i j^by.Joir Craves Courtpey, the fortunate ^'jjjkjgp&ee, who; took possession of his ^jor^ther'g esta|e with sublime indiffer- . ̂ .,:«noe to his nephew's feelings. Reginald / bad ̂ quarreled with the Baronet and his long ago, in standing up for his blather and duMfully repelling their ill-- " . tr-4 natuted attacks upon him. He there- *»*$ore felt his present potation the more ' j^Seutely because he could expect neither / assistance nor sympathy from his near­ est relatives. Thrown upon his own re­ sources, and being totally ignorant, with all his natural cleverness and social ac­ complishments, how to set about earn> ing his own living, he thankfully ae- cepted a modest post as supernumerary . ' , clerk or writer in one of the Government 4. offices. ^ His fortunes being now at their • j »9west ebb, lie proceeded to exemplify the proverbial recklessness of youth by ^6itiQg Diarrioi Then hd grftduatly lost sight of his old friends and asao- , ciates, dropped out of soeiety, and soon developed into ai anxious, careworn, poverty-stricken fkther of a family, wjiose existence wdg a perpetual strng- 1° 5^5ke ¥^.en(i3 meet Under ••!!*£' ion, °i' it seemed like a i % g".™pse of heavea when an unknown I « #* W»Pon<fent;2ffered to put him in pos» ! Vj «% ^20,000 on certain conditions, i C<>urtmjy naturally lost no time ' . ii 'ou his benefactor to ^to- tlie matter. Mr. Rioh- ard de Courcy Myrtle Jones was ttie ; p j enph<Mmm_ s^p?lbtion of this benevo- 1 , individual, who described himself Va^e tern? of ! envelope ftought Uie matter over, and knew of no source from whence so large a sum oould possibly be for thoosning; beside whioh, tha prospeot of receiving £20,000 in his straitened oiroumstaaaes was das- ding enough to make him indifferent to the possible balance. Be was on the point of affixing his signature to a form­ al agreement, which Mr. Myrtle Jones produced ready drawn, when it suddenly oocurred to him that he was aoting rash­ ly. He therefore decided to take a few days for reflection, and sought out his old friend Bob Tyler to ask his advice. Hob was regarded as a shining light at tine Blenheim Ciub among his own set, on account of his natural shrewdness, his worldly wisdom Mid his native talent for diplomacy. He was a Httle vain of hw reputation, and, being an easy going, good-natured fellow, was always ready to take an interest in his friends' affairs. He greeted Reginald warmlv, after his long absence from his old haunts, and listened to his story with careful atten­ tion. At his suggestion Reginald made particular inquiries about his father's will, and especially as to whether he had executed a fresh one while abroad; but he found no reason to suspect that the will which had been proved did not con­ vey his parent's last wishes. Tyler, on his part, directed his ener- Ses to gather information concerning jr. Myrtle Jones and his method of do­ ing business. He found Mr. Jones was neither more nor less respectable than the rest of his class, who earn a some­ what precarious livelihood by searching the records of the chancery and bank­ ruptcy courts, and hunting up persons entitled to long-neglected funds. As in nine cases out of ten the information thus acquired turns out, from various causes, to" be valueless, the business would not be profitable were it not for the preliminary fees which it is custom­ ary to exact from victims whose cupidity has been aroused. The fact that Mr. Myrtle Jones had dispensed with this preliminary fee in Reginald's case seemed to suggest that the soi-disant •' law agent" felt more than usually con** fident of the value of his seeret. 41 Upon the whole," said Bob, a few days afterward, " I'm inclined to think there is something in it, but I'll be hanged if I can guess which way the Wind blows. I don't like the idea of yom resigning yourself blindfolded into Mr. Jones' hands. Suppose we call upon him together and talk it over." But Bob Tyler found his powers of persuasion and diplomacy at fault in dealing with Mr. Myrtle Jones. Secure of his secret. Mr. Jones held his ground and his tongue at the same time. He shrewdly pointed out that the very fact of his visitors having failed to discover the secret after being put on their guard proved that he wits jhstified in naming his own terms. Bob saw the force of the argument, and spehanged a glance of despair with Reginald, which Mr. Jones intercepted, " It seems a pity to waste time, gen - tlernen," heisaid briskly, in a matter-of- fact tone. "Here is the agreement. Why shouldn't Mr. Courtney sign it at once?" % " I suppose I had better," said Regi­ nald, seizing a pen with an air of des­ peration, "I shouldn't, Reggy, not to-day," in­ terposed Bob coolly. " It is Friday, you know, and I'm superstitious." Mr. Myrtle Jones took this for chaffy aad laughed pleasantly. Reginald, who -knew his Mend's- rtanner, perceived he was serious, and rose from the desk. "Terr well, then, let us say 10 o'clock t o - m o a c f f w , M r . - s a i d . "As ^ou please," said Mr. Jones, a little sharply, " I desft want to hurry you, of course; only if you delay much longer I may feel tempted to raise my terms." "I don't think you will," said Bob, with a grin. *• I believe Vn got aclew, he remarked, as they reached the street) " What became of that little old-fashioned oak escritoire that used to stand between the windows of your sit­ ting room in Dover street ?" " Why do you ask?" inquired Regi­ nald. "Because X recognized it in; Mr. Jones' office. Where were sour eyes, nun?" said Bob. . "I did not notice iL but it's quite possible,, for when I left Dover street I owed some rent, and being at the time in a considerable hole I prevailed on my landlady to accept my furniture in dis­ charge of arrears," explained Reginald. e"That's it, then! The things were, no doubt, sold, and our friend Jones picked up the escritoire cheaply some­ where," said Bob, exultantly. " I feel oonfident it is the identical article." "What a memory you have, Bob! All the same, I don't see that your clew can possibly lead to anything," said Reginald. " I never kept anything in it of value, and X carefully cleared everything out of it before I came away." "Let us stroll to Dover street and have a chat with your old landlady, at all events," suggested Bob. Reginald acquiesced, and af Dover street Bob had the satisfaction of learn­ ing that his friend's furniture had been sold to a dealer, as he anticipated. The lan^ady seemed rather reticent about the transaction, probably from the rec­ ollection of having made three times the value of her rent out of it. But Bob suspected there was something more be­ hind, and at length elicited the fact that a few bills and circulars, which had come addressed to Reginald after he left, and been placed in the escritoire for safety, had been overlooked when the furniture was disposed of, and had, probably, fallen into the of the dealer. " Were there any letters ? How do you know they were all bills ?" inquired Reginald, suddenly interested. "I know the look of a bill, sir. Trust me for that I've took in gentlemon lodgers top lone to make any mistake,*" said the landlady, confidently. " Still, Mrs. Andrews, I believe there was one letter at all events," hazirded Bob, speaking with an air of certainty. " Dear me, sir ! Well, now you men­ tion it, there was one from abroad," said the old lady, taken aback. " But there was nothing in it except--" "Except what?" demanded Bob, ex­ citedly, as the landlady suddenly recol­ lected her indiscretion, and checked her­ self in great contusion. "Cotue, Mrs. Andrews, you opened that letter and saw what was inside. What wa-< it ?". "I assure you, gentlemen, that the •̂**%x>kR as if he wanted to rile you," said B^b, shortly. "OnMhe contrary," returned Regi­ nald; "I take it as a sign that he was inclined to be reoonoiled to me. Would to God I had known of tKI» earlier." " No use crying over spilled milk," said Bob, sagely. "Cheer up, old ofcap. For the sake of your*wife and children you should be light hearted now." "Why, what do you mean?" in­ quired Reginald, in surprise. " Don't you see, old bov ? " exolaimed Bob; "your father's subsequent mar­ riage revoked his will, and consequently you are entitled, legally and morally, to the whole of his property, as hoir ait law, and next-of-kin !" Yanderbilt to Paris. An uicedote of Yanderbilt and Meissonier ig thus related by a corres­ pondent of a western journal: Mr. Vanderbilt's reception to his gentleman friends and to the artists was a very marked success. His famous Meissonier, "Information--Gen. Desaix and the Captured Peasant," is the best specimen of this artist's genius. It is the subject of a very pretty story, which runs thus: Mr. Yanderbilt was sitting to Meisso­ nier for his picture, and in chatting with the great painter, the latter observed: "My best picture is in Germany, in the hands of my enemies. I have offer­ ed all I. am worth to get it again, but they will not sell it to me." Mr. Yanderbilt got all the particulars and left the room. Summoning Avery to his side, he told him to telegraph to every gallery in Germany, and to find that picture; to buy it for him, what­ ever it might cost. In a week the picture was in Paris, so potent a wand does this our modern Prospero wield. Then, asking Meissonier to breakfast, a picture was seen on an easel, covered with a cloth. The painter supposed it was the portmitof Mr. Yanderbilt whioh he had just sent home. _ "Well, Monsieur!" said Mr. Vander- bilt, pleasantly, "my friends do not think that picture like me--I must ask you to change it a little." "Not like you! mon ami!" said Meisso­ nier, disgusted; "ah! it is your living image." "Weil now raise the cloth and see if it is at all like me!" ^ Meissonier went to the easel and very angrily tore away the drapery. There stood his loved and lost-^-"In­ formation. He could not believe his eyes. "Ah! mon ami! Oh, ma ferame, mes enfants--mais, je suis heureux!" said the excited artist. He danced," he sang, and he shed tears. Mr. Yanderbilt offered him the picture. "Noj" said the grateful Meissonier, "take it to your noble America, the friend of freedom and the friend of France." "Do I not love my opulent friend, the Yanderbilt?" old Meissonier says, as he tells this story. At the receptions in that lordly gallery where hang Gerome's Fortuny s Madrazo's, Millet's, and Millais', Zamacois" and de Neuville's, master- pieces, there is always* a crowd around this picture with its generous legend. Bad Xedidne-Man. One of the most hazardous, as well as unprincipled ventures a man can make, is to pretend to a power far higher than h® possesses. The famous Captain Cook lost his life by the hands of the simple savages whom he had allowed to consid­ er him a god. The following instance of narrow escape, by one brazen joker who took rather too much upon himself, is related by aa army officer who wit- the occurrence: A clerk in the agency store at Port Reno, in the Indian Territory, a short time before the last total eclipse of the sun, informed the Indians that on a cer­ tain day (naming that on which the eclipse would take place) he would put out the sun, and if they would assemble at that time they eould witness the per­ formance. The Indians professed not to believe what he said, but he assured them that he would certainly do all he promised, and when the day arrived it brought a large number of the red men to witness the sun's extinction. A few minutes before the time fixed by the astronomers for the observation to begin, the wag mounted himself on an empty sugar hogshead and began his incantation. Presently the sun began to disappear, and the "sons of the forest" evinced un­ mistakable signs of uneasiness, which increased as the performance proceeded, until a short time before the sun disap­ peared entirely they rushed upon the joker, exclaiming-- "Bad medicine man! put oat sun!" and would have dispatched him in short order had they not been restrained by the soldiers who had gathered to witness thefun. The Strength of Man's Lore. [Chicago Tribune..] My sex may deem me heterodox and worthy of consignment to any earthly hades convenient when I assert that I believe man really feels the power of love more than a woman when he feels it at all. I leave entirely out of consid­ eration the flirt and the butterfly. They are rot men, bqt mere entities. A man's heart is not equally susceptible with that of woman's, though of course every man who is a man admires, respects and loves a pretty woman. Why shouldn't ' he? But the average man is mentally strong­ er than the average woman--when a man really does love, when the passion that takes possession of his being is based upon admiration, respect and es­ teem, such passion with him I believe to be lasting, to be almost unchangeable. If crowned with possession, enjoyment, peace, comfort and happy life succeeds; if unsuccessful, though later years may And him married, his life is a kind of liberation--he exists. There is no life, no strength; no sentiment to his exist­ ence; it is not a condition of waiting. AGRICULTURAL. law iuwn'f " and „ 17 r -- i euveM'pe came open in my hands." andgave an address in a I "Never mind that!" cried Bob; "all % - ?y -' fashionable Went End street. To Court- neyls disappointment he turned out to be a vulgar, shabby little man, carrying on business in a dingy oflLce on a third floor, who certainly did not look as though he bad the disposal of super­ fluous thousands. Nevertheless, he solemnly averred to his astonished vis- iter that he was in a position to reveal most important information, and would do so if Reginald would be satisfied with the sum namOl, and would promise to is forgotten and forgiven, as the news­ papers sa^. What did the envelope con­ tain. Mrs. Andrews?" " Nothing at all, sir," said the land lady in a great fluster, " except a copy of the marriage lines of Mr. Courtney's father, by which, it seemB, he married a Geneva lady young enough to be liis daughter." "I can't understand it, Bob," said Reginald, a few minutes later, when they KMptay'0m 'H4M In Order. To bo "as dull as a hoe "--that is, as dull aa most hoes an--is to be very dull indeed. It is to hate the edge battered and worn and the entire surface covered with rust. A hoe in that condition can not be expected to do very good work or to be an easy implement to operate with. But a hoe anoula never be in that con dition. It should be sharp and bright. It should have an edge that will cut roots without tearing them, and pass through the soil like a well-peiished knife-blade. Only the best steel hoes are profitable to use in the field or garden. They should be of material that wiH take a good edge and a high polish, and should have both when they pass into the hands of the purchaser. They should be kept sharp and never be allowed to become rusty. They should be sharpened by the use of the file, grindstone or whet­ stone as ftften as the scythe is that is constantly employed in cutting grass. Both surfaces and the shank should be rubbed with polishing material as often as there is any appearance of rust. To prevent rusting they should be thor­ oughly cleaned every time they are put away, if it is but for a single night. The entire surface, including that of the shank, should be covered with oil to pre­ vent the formation of rast. Hoes kept sharp and well polished cut any kind of roots readily and move through the soil without difficulty. A man with a sharp ancl polished hoe can do twice the work in a given time that one can with a hoe that is dull and rusty. There is economy in keeping a hoe sharp, if it is worn out in a week in consequence of frequent cefttact with the grindstone. Laborers who object to using the hoes that are often placed in their hands are entirely satisfied to use those that are sharp ana well polished.--Chicago Time*. Stable. Management. Much depends upon the groam in the management m the horses in the stable. Frequently very poor grooms get con­ trol of good horses, and the owner suf­ fers the loss resulting from their incom­ petency. It is more difficult to find a competent groom than it is to find an experienced farmer, skilled meohanic or practical sailor, because there is no ruie or mechanical standard by which to de­ termine the groom's competency. An efficient groom will keep the stable clean and purified from the carbonic acid gas generated from the lungs ia respiration, and the ammonia escaping from the ex­ crements, so that the horses will not breathe these gases, whioh create dis­ ease. He will, arrange in all ways for the comfort and health of the animals placed in his charge; he will have "a place for everything, and everything in its pjgeehe will be kind tempered, humane to his horses and faithful to his employer, and will understand his busi­ ness, and have the honesty to execute the trust with fidelity, vigilance and economy. Feeding is one of the most important duties in the stable. Horses require to be fed at regular hours, and in such quantities as wi£l keep the subjects in condition for their daily labor. Horses at work require about 2 per cent, of their live weight as the daily allowance of food. From sixteen to eighteen pounds of grain, and an an equal weight of hay, would be considered^ liberal al­ lowance for a large horse in full work. Small or idle horses would not require more than one-half that amount, as the quantity of food will depend up^n the size and amount of work required of them. They must be fed enough to supply the natural waste of the body, and to retiupply the snbstknee exhausted by the labor performed. --National lAve-Stook Journal. Hi I .. J - - _ L '. J pay iiifai over any balance that might be '.were alone. "Fancy having mar- dup to him over and above that amount. Bi6hard Courtney's first impulse wa* to mgfea to tha condition at ouc*. He had • ried this girl | What on earth did he • mean by sen cling me a certifitiate of marriage without a word Y" A Mark of Neglected Education. Dr. Alexander Graham Bell denied the assertion that deaf mutes, when taught to speak, have the accent of their native distiiet. Some children do artic­ ulate after peculiar dialects, but on in­ vestigation it always turns out that they could talk before they become deaf, and thin cannot correctly be ascribed to be hereditary. He says, also, that by proper instruction any harsh and disa-' greeahle character of the utterance may be corrected, aud he adds that "so suc­ cessful has articulation teaching proved in America and in Europe that dumb­ ness will be universally recognized ai a mark of neglected education." PBOPSSINO a remedy for mosquitoes, the Hatamonton Hornet says: " Place a small piece of raw meat on a plate in ?°ur sleeping room, and the * birds' will ight on it and never fly away." Our " birds " would fly away with the plate and all.--Ckvmden Pott. 4 have some vegetable food to be kept healthy and dlo well. They are fond of apples and also of carrots; cabbage is excellent for a change. Buckwheat is one of the best kinds of grain. Feed- ing entirely of corn is not so good. There should always be a mixture or variety of grain. When fed twioe a day hens will not gorge themselves and thus produce disease in the crop and digest­ ive organs, as they are apt to do whdfc only fed once a day. It is far better to divide the same amount of feed into two feedings, morning and afternoon. For a quarter of a century we have almost daily heard the voice of a neigh­ bor at the break of day calling his hens to feed them. This man always has eggs to sell Farmers'poultry are too closely inbred, which makes them weakly and impotent; and they- are careless about the old hens. Young hens will lay three or four times as many eggs, and the .male bird should be changed at least every other year, intro­ ducing new blood. In no case should a male be allowed to breed with his syrn offspring. Yery few farmers consider these things, and henoe poor returns.-- New York Tribune. flere Fle»li«~Lew Fat. A man's appetite frequently has much to do with his opinions. Forty years ago, when labor was a pleasure, we cared not how much fat was mixed with the flesh of beef. Our digestive organs were equal to any demands upon the system. Less activity has wrought sympathy for the sedentary and the dyspeptic. The largest portion of the beef eaters oannot eat or digest the lumps of tallow on our fatted beeves. Nearly half of the weight is tallow,, and is a total waste. Hence there is a demand for beef for city con­ sumption in the Uuited States and Eu­ rope with more iiesh and less fat., Aud the inquiry has become so earnest that breeders and feeders are beginning to heed the demand. Even our English customers complain that American beef is made too much of corn and too little of grass. The only way to obviate this complaint is to raise more blue grass and less corn. And the pastures should be so arranged that growing steers can have the advantage of it in winter as well as summer. Corn is not to be repudiated as the food or finish of cattle. Nor is it to be denied that it is a flesh as well as fat-producing article of diet. But when cattle are raised mainly on sweet, tender grass there is a greater proportion of flesh than when fed mainly on corn. The complaint cannot be remedied altogether by the change of food. It must bo largely aided by the breeder in selecting stock inclined to a large amount of juicy flesh and less bone and fat. Our soil and water saturated with lime is calcu­ lated to produce larger bones, so breed­ ers must judiciously select small-booed and well-fleshed animals. We have always contended that the profession of stock breeding meant something, and if it is not employed to improve in every wav. the business should be abandoned, and those men called thoroughbred cat­ tle-raisers. This is a serious question to consumers, and we plead for more tender, juicy flesh and smaller piles of tallow with our beef.--Dea Moines Reg­ ister. The Hena at Klrby Homestead. The nurse girl, needing out-door ex­ ercise, was given the entire charge of the hens, and the men folks relieved of this duty. A programme was arranged, which was carefully carried out, with an astonishing increase in number of eggs. The new system of management is the nearest perfection, judging by the re-" suits, of any we have ever practiced. Hens are early risers. Early in the morning they are fed buckwheat--two quarts for fifty hens. About 10 o'clock they are given four quarts of apples or carrots, or both, cut up fine in the chop­ ping bowl with the griddle cakes, pota - to skins, etc., left over in the kitchen, and water also is placed before them---it would be better if warmed In the mid­ dle of the afternoon they were again fed corn,) two quarts, and the eggs are gath­ ered. A box containing oyster and clam shells, sliarhtly charred so they will break up easily, is kept in the hen house constantly, and also another box with fresh shells in it pounded up as tine as possible. Another box is" filled with coarse sand from which their crops can be replenished with, gravel. Slaked lime is also accessible. We used to keep feed before the hens all the time, but they got too fat and were poor layers. They must be fed early in the morning, requiring buf a little, and they must be fed with regularity. Fowls want a variety of food and must FAMILY RECIPES. A DILIOIOUS, CHEAP CAKE.--One oup sugar, one egg, butter the size of an egg, three-fourths cup sweet milk, one and a half cups of flour, one teaspoonful baking powder. Bake in three layers. If a larger proportion is desired measure in a coffee cup and use two eggs. SADDLE OF LAMB.--A saddle of lamb is a dainty joint for a small dinner par­ ty. Sprinkle a little salt over it and set it in the dripping pan, with a few small pieces of butter on the meat; baste it occasionally with tried-out lamb-fat* dredge a little flour over it a few min­ utes before taking from the oven. Serve with currant jelly. OBANOE OHIP&--Out the oranges in halves, squeeze the juice through a sieve ; soak the rind in water, dry and then boil in water till tender, drain and slice the rinds, pour the juice over them, take an equal weight ©f sugar, put sugar, rinds and juice into a broad earthen dish, sec it over the fire, stir frequently until the ohips candy; then set them in a cool place to dry, whioh process will take three weeks. OBANOE JBLOT.--For a small dish of jelly take a half cupful of gelatine and dissolve it in a half cupful of water, let­ ting it stand for an hour; then add the juice of four oranges 1 and a little less than a pound of white sugar ; after mix­ ing thoroughly pour on a pint of boiling water. The mixture is net to go near the fire, but is pressed into a mold and set in a cool place. When ready to serve dip the mold for an instant in hot water and then turn out the jelly. ORANGB BISCUIT.--Boil four whole oranges in two or three waters, until the bitterness is removed, then cut them and remove the pulp and juice ; beat very fine in a mortar, and add an equal weight of pulverized sugar. When well mixed to a paste spread it thin on china dishes and set it to dry before the fire; when half dry cut into shapes, turn the other side up, dry that well, and then pack in boxes with layers of paper be­ tween, until ready for use. ORANGE PUDDING.--Peel and cut five oranges into thin slices; remove all the seeds, pour over them a teacupful of white sifted sugar. Heat a pint of milk and add the yelks of three eggs well beaten and one table-spoonful of corn flour made smooth in a little cold milk. Stir incessantly, and as soon as thick pour over the fruit. Beat the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth, add a table- spoonful of powdered sugar and pour over the top of the fruit for frosting. Set in the oven to harden, then serve. Can be eaten either hot or cold. TURKISH PILAJP.--This is an English dish and is considered very nicd. It is made of one cup of stock or cold water, one teaspoonful of salt, one eupful of stewed and strained tomatoes, quarter of a spoonful of pepper, a small cup of rice, half a cup of butter. Boil one onion with the tomatoes for fifteen minutes, strain and add the stock and seasoning ; put in a saucepan on the stove, and when it boils add the rice. Boil until the liquor is absorbed, add the butter, set on the back of the stove, remove the lid and cover, with a thick towel; let it stand twenty minutes, then turn on to a hot platter and serve. To COOK GREEN PEAS.--Poll or buy your peas in the morning. They will have a much sweeter, richer flavor than they will have if they lay longer. Do not wash them, for what can be cleaner than the inside of a pea pod ? Put all the butter your conscience will allow in a bright tin or porcelain vessel; let it get hot; put the peas in, shake around a few seconds aud put just enough water on to eome to the top ; salt; let them cook fifteen or twenty minutes; dust a very little flour on, pour enough cream or milk on to come to the top. While cooking watch that they do not boil dry. Try it and you will never cook them any other way. BeStndlons. Whitefield was poor and in "service." but he managed to get an education; and both England and America have felt his power for good. William Har­ vey did not find out the circulation of the blood by a lucky accident. He was a hard student at home and abroad, and taught the doctrine to his classes for ten years before he published it to the world. Young men ought to remember that there are still splendid services to be rendered. All tne discoveries have not yet been made. The field is now the world, as it never was before. Educa­ tion of the highest kind in physiology, mental philosophy, engineering, chemistry, is accessible as it never was before. An empire without the emperor has grown up on this continent, and much of the soil is yet without occupant and master. Other empires are open to educated ability,, and will become more so every year. There is ajegitim- ate sphere for splendid ambition. Let our boys forego the cost of tobac­ co and catch inspiration from the best books. -Let them turu their backs ou the tempting glass, and spend their money in stimulating the mind. Even fashion "parties" and pleasure may ID put in the background, that the time and thought required for them may b > given to getting that mental habit and furniture that will make its possessor a helper to his race, and a capable servant of that Creator--the "Father of Lights," --who has given us brain and heart, with capabilities, that we may be lights, benefactors and conquerors, on fields where no life is lost, and even the vanquished are gainers. from Adelina. When invited to join in the sacrament taken with the family be­ fore the chloroform was &iven she un­ feelingly said that she didn't cara whether Carlotta lived or died, and she did not wish to be annoyed any more. Carlotta is, like her sister, a great artist, but, unlike her, a woman oi great hear who is sincerely lovf d by many in her profession, and one who makes friends everywhere. • v <•#„; *' Making Hand* Beaatiftd. *-' [New York Sun.] In one of the side streets up . » The Two Pftttte. Acsordrag to the scribes, between Patti and her sister Carlotta there exists undying hatred. Two years ago, when the dreadful operation was performed upon the latter, iu Paris, and all the world sent messages, letters and dis­ patches, all of anxious inquiry, there came not one word of love or sympathy town is the office of a "Hand Doctor. The ex­ terior of the house has no sign or door plate to attract the notice of the general public, but it is evident that the fashion­ able world has been informed of the doc­ tor's whereabouts, from the number of richly dressed people who frequent the office. Curiosity induced a reporter to visit the place. The servant who an­ swered the door-bell showed the visitor into a front parlor, where a young wo­ man stood ready to receive patients. The reporter pulled out an unsesthetic looking hand from his pocket, and ex­ pressed a desire to have it made a thing of beauty. She examined it critically, and said: ' Your hand has been sadly neglected, and needs treatment. The skin is bad in color, the knuckles look dark and the nails are dreadful. If you will be seat­ ed until the doctor is through with the patient he is now treating, ho will attend to you." While waiting, an examination of the curiosities of the office was amusing. In a case on one side of the room were wax models of hands of all shapes and sizes. Fat hands, thin bony hands, some with long fingers, some with short--hands as they should be and hands as they should not be. Opposite these a showcase con­ tained an assortment of soaps, salves and lotions, and a ISt of gloves, coarse and clumsy, that seemed strangely out of place in a place devoted to hand-beaur ty. The young woman said: "They are cosmetic gloves. These are only a few of the kinds we use. The doctor pre­ pares others to suit the ne^d of different, patients. These are prepared to whiten, the hands. They are spread inside with a preparation of yolk of egg, oil of sweet almonds and tincture of benzoin. The double lap at the wrist effectually protects the cuff from being soiled. The gloves next to them are to soften the hands, and the lining is saturated with a mixture of honey, myrrh, wax, and rose water. The gloves in the cor­ ner are still more powerful. They, con­ tain as strong agents as can safely be applied to the hands, and cannot be used when the skin is chapped, scorched or broken in any place. They are lined with a preparation of tartaric oil, lemon juice, oil of bitter almonds, brown Windsor soap and some other ingredi­ ents." Some puffed out bags looking like boxing-gloves proved to be bran mittens and the attendant explained the use of a box of curious looking thimbles about two inches long. "These are finger-tips for ihaptng the ends of the fingers. Tapering fingers are not an impossibility. Ladies are willing to undergo inconvenience and injury for the sake of tapering waists, but make no effort to improve the shape of their hands." As a lady closely veiled came out from the back parlor and left the room, > the doctor announced himself ready to attend to another patient. The treat­ ment was begun by scouring the hands with fine white flint sand, soap and bot water. Then followed a bran bath, which is merely rubbing the hands with bran until thoroughly dry. Stains and dark lines about the knuckles were then touched with some acid on a piece of ohamois skin, and the hands were anoin­ ted with cold cream and held in warm towels till dry. This process being com­ pleted, tlA doctor requested his . patient to sit before a table near a window, and seating himself opposite, and opening a case of ivory instruments, he asked:, "Are you superstitious about nail- spots?" ' "No. What do you mean?" "It is an old belief that white spots upon the nails brihg good fortune, while black ones are considered unlucky. 'Both are ugly, however, and if you have no prejudice I Will remove them;" and so saying, he applied a black, pitchy sub­ stance that smelt of sulphur to each spot, and during the ten minutes he al­ lowed it to remain there, employed him­ self in pushing down, with a dull ivory instrument, the skin growing round the base of the nail. When the salve was removed from the nails the fingers were dipped into a pink wash, and then pol­ ished with a powder and chamois-skin brush until each nail shone like a conch shell. By this time it seemed as though a scribbler's cramp had seized each finger, and a strong desire was felt to thrust the aching hands into the pocketB. "Character is *hown by the shape of the nails," said the doctor. "When they are long and narrow it is a sign of dull­ ness, and when curved they indicate rapacity. Short nails imply goodness. You do not affect that, I see," said he, as he tightened his grip on the fingers, and commenced filing off the nails at each corner, leaving them as sharp and pointed as the thumb-nail of a Bcrib- bliug dervish. Tales of the Second Empire. I have wandered some distance from the vanished imperial court, of whose doings 1 will add one anecdote more. Among its reigning belles was numbered a beautiful foreign lady, who one day, had the misfortune to lose her only sis­ ter. Numbers of loftily titled people attended the funeral. The bereaved beauty, overwhelmed by her grief? sat throughout the whole of the ceremony in an attitude expressive of crushed and hopeless sorrow. Half-sitting, half-re­ el ming, with on exquisite foot peeping from beneath her sable draperies, the unstudied grace of her pose and figure captivated all beholders. But, unfor­ tunately for her, the undertaker's men, when busied with preparations for. the funeral the day before, had witnessed the careful rehearsal of that charming attitude so expressive of unutterable woe, and they told what they had seen to the intense delight of the lady's enemies-- and what famous beauty is ever without tlu-m? Then, too, they tell the story of a fast American damsel who had been treated with a good deal of favor by the emperor and empress, and who walked up to the former during a cotillion at one of the state balls, and pinned a favor to the breast pf his coat, with the remark: "Come, Louis, and let us have a good galop." The emperor turned his back on the young lady without answering, and from that day forward she never again received an invitation to the Tuil- eries. It fared even worse with her than it did with Mrs. Langtry when that lady slipped a piece of ice down the august back of the Prince of Wales, for she asked pardon and was forgiven. THE Mayor of London has to pay dear for the honor. Ona who gets through on $2O|)0t) over and above -heia salary is doin^well. wra AHP POIUT. LORD of the Aisles--The sexton. SOLOMON was the first man wh6 posed^ to divide the hetr in the AN English clergyman preaobedt a ser­ mon from the text: "We remember the garlic." It is spoken of AAHAVIN&T been a strong sermon. \ A NEW novel is announced, "The Colonel's Cross." What the mischief is the Colonel cross about ? Have the sa­ loon-keepers combined to deny HIM oredit?--Texas & if tingf. THE hair-dfcessers of Paris have a dif­ ficult task set them at the next public competition. One of the subjects for practical illustration is, "Stylish method of cutting the hair of a bald-headed man." . * O " I DON'T see any sense in that sort of thing," said Mrs. Smith, as the waltzers whirled past her ; "and not only that," she added, "but it is positively dis­ graceful" "Why, how can you say so?" replied the young lady by her side; "turn about is fair play, you know." ; A GENTLEKEN, whose CUStOfU WSS tO entertain very often a circle of friends, observing that one of them was in the habit of eating something before grace was asked, determined to cure HM), UJIONI A-repetition of the offense, ho said: "For what we are about to re­ ceive, and for what James Taylor has already received, JTTIE Lord make us truly thankful." " WE are living hi a grand and won­ drous age," remarked a railroad passen­ ger to the stranger who occupied the seat beside him, " invention is rampant everywhere." "Yes," said his com­ panion, " that's about what 1 observed to a witness in & divorce suit against me reoently; there are more liars to the square yard now than there used to be to the acre."--Brooklyn Eagle. ,x YOUNG George having importuned his father for a horse, tne indulgent parent presented him with the ancient steed which for years had carried him about the city streets. A few days afterward the affectionate son interviewed his father, saying, " Father, can't you give me a horse a little nearer my own age ? That would be more of a companion for _ If * me. A GUMMY, whose fortune is far from being as ample as he pretends, makes a specialty of showing himself in front of expensive restaurants, where, however, he does not dine--far from 'it! HIS friends, having seen nothing of him for some days, began to ask each other what has become of him. " I hear he is laid up with an attack of indigestion." "Ah I of toothpicks ?"--From the JPtafpA. WE were talking with a lady recently, and, speaking of her son, she mentioned with pardonable motherly pride that Charles read nothing but scientific works now. In a subsequent conversa­ tion with Charles it was discovered that the scientific works in whioh he was so much interested were written by one Jules Verne. His mother sees in Charles * S prospective Newton, and is happy,-- Boston Transcript. THEX sat BY the Tower of PiM, And he did what be could for to pliem; He looked in her eyei, He heaved many seyea. Then stuck out hi» arms for to sqttlaM.. CONSTERNATION. • It wk8-« youth of modeat purse Soft uid unto a maid: " Which would yovi rather taokie nest, Ice-cream or lemonade?" Across the maiden's rosy cheek Fast flits a winning stmile; "I'll order some of both," she said. „ % Heaven help the young man's pile. - " WIPE," said a New Haven man, im­ patiently, "whydojou let that child run around to-day so dirty, so much like a little monkey ? I saw him in Neigh­ bor Jones' yard just now, the worst- looking object I ever saw." "Was he over there, though ?" was the responded inquiry. "Well, he'll pass for Mr. Jones' dirty brat so long as he is there. I'm not going to wdrry."--New Haven Register. GEN. GRANT used to tell a story of a blacksmith who started out to make a " clevis " out of a piece of iron. Grant continued that the blacksmith ham­ mered away till he discovered he didn't know how to make THG- instrument named. He then sauT: "I'll make a horse-shoe." He faided. "Then I'll make a horse-shoe nail." He failed again. Then, in his wrath, plunging the red-hot, shapeless mass of iron into the blaoksmith's water-buoket, he ex­ claimed: "I'll make a -- big fiz of you, anyhow." MOSES was in some respects a man of marvelous ability; he turned walking canes into snakes, got an immense ex­ cursion party across the Red Sea with­ out paying a cent for ferriage, and brought his people out of Egypt with all their baggage, which is more than England and France have been able to do recently, but the defection of ten of his twelve reporters proves conclusively that he would have failed lamentably as managing editor of alive daily NEW^ paper.--New York Herald. George Elliot's Good Men. Not a few of us keep in our memories a sacred place for some whom we have known long ago, and who were not wholly UNKKE these pictures; mon who were unlearned in the wisdom of this world, and yet who knew how5 to guide an infant's steps with precepts which would help him in after life more than the books of the philosophers 01 the - counsels of the wordly wise; men so pure in their unselfishness, so simple in their truthfulness, so patient in their persist­ ent diligence in the performance of duty, so unambitious in their expectations of reward, so bravely straightforward AND kind in the face of a lying and cruel world, that we keep the memory of their lives as a refreshing thought in the midst of the hideous careers and al­ most as hideous precepts which are not uncommon in society to-day«and always. Such of lis as have reason to cherish these sacred memories hold it not the least of George Eliot's claims to our gratitude that she has known how to depict to us, not unworthily, thissimple and excellent, this unlearned but wholly incorruptible type of human nature. Others might have sketched for us the same characters; but they would have been exaggerated probably into oddities whom we liked, but at whom we must bepermitted to laugh. THH doctors begin to Warn young girls against playing lawn-tennis too violently, just as they warned them against skating a few years ago. If wo were literally to obey the doctors, when anxious to know what to eat and drink and avoid, life would be cheerless and uninteresting enough, and there is always the secret of consolation of know­ ing that the average doctor VERY WLD"IB practices what he preaches. A* English astronomer SAYS that in remote ages the day was hut three hours instead of twenty- four. Just think of A man devoting SIXTEEN days to sobering up after a Four.% of July drunk ! And a thirty days' note would be staring a man in the face with alarmr ing soanness.--Norristown Herald, * V". • 4/: