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f ft * V V$* . "v.- ^ ( * 'yr-x^^ ~tf '• v^; •? *>" •-.% •&*>-, ?;v (r^ » < - / 7r * T3T „* sss Youths' Dep^rtmen TEAUGHH TO IOTIWIHL ̂ « « Y OP y i V l w y h ' * * ' o v e r ttywUkoiis^ s»t3F*r. Aifi^to hi* " " iweled sistera-in-laiiV^lHit this rl is to be traiuedupinto a .6 business womjm. She is to f-Twfef; man who has no stase ifoout ess, even if heisheir to afortune, wad there hr no reason why a young lady should grow up in idleness any more than her brother. There are a Uffil tad downs in social want my little ' Goldie Locks to be aimed against reverses. 49he may not always have her father's to draw on, and I want her to be feffi Able to earnmoney for herself, just as R? her brother would have done if he had . liyed." t, The two ladies were perfectly shooked * '.*i at such sentiments from their rich ^-#5 *»wllter*in-law, but they felt that re- . • y, -monstrance was useless. If he would , spoil poor, dear Alice's little girl in *1 that wav, it was no fault of theirs. * ^ For their part, they could better ttfain ' the child how to spend h«r father's •r ; large incomc; but tne Idea of her ** learning to " earn money." with such ^ ^ expectations as Were hers, was beyond ridiculous. * *» But Mr. Ashley pursued his Own , course, regardless of the comments it ? awakened in the two households near his own. One of little Effie's birthday gifts, ^whert Only eight years old, wai an ele- } gatlt little aocottnt^book* done in green and gold, and as handsomely gotten up as the daintiest autograph album. -MM He gave her some very simple direc- nations about keeping her small accounts, I** and then told her he should give her an • allowance on the first of every month, on the condition that she should put down every penny of expense in an orderly way, and state clearly for what 2" she spent the money. |S Efhe was a bright little girl and was .<"i*much pleased with her "new play," and entered upou it with great spirit, She spent several of her dimes that very afternoon, more for the fun of putting ***-down the account than because she was absolutely out of pencils and stationery for school uses. She thought that • • pencils and such like articles had a li very respectable look to start her little *\aaccount book with. "So much more business-like than just candy and doll's she the only woman hoTfffingJ?' orable discharge from the U* *£ejj ^But Kady Bvownell, ;of N»> -City, shows a certificate of dfad-* •Ifrem the First Rhode Island Ke^P in which she was regularly j?" H H I y a m m i a »« r.. -- *» . , *»to press upon ner. But it was an under- • ..stood thing that her very liberal allow- *** ance was to supply all these small mat- ^|1ters, and make many drafts on father's yfrjpurse quite unnecessary. Here was a , lelimma, and Effie went straight • her father with it, as she did With all t si her troubles. Father smiled, wellf1'-1" * ^pleased at the chance Of teaching a good* *'j 'financial lesson, * • »i . ««uow jf father should hand out tlje "money for these new wants, Effie, the " 'lesson Would all be lost. As fai* as I •can see, they are all things that Can wait iMttfuntil next month. Of course, anything i**iyou need at school I must advance the •f.r money for and take it out of next -#tjimonth's allowance. But that would ***«have its disadvantages, you know," and hM he gave a kiss to the sober, upturned little face. " Business was business,'1 she found, ' «nd maybe the road would wind up hill tir at times. She thought and studied -considerably over her puzzling prob- 1» n* |ems, and finally asked father if there '"a0< Was not some way by which she could *^1rSave money, as Jane, the little waitress, •did, to supplement her allowance. This FSik itJas^he ceiifd more to $bat on the hearse and carri'^en soon as the remains came donate ciples of life that her instilling thrtfufi •* the years of her -existence. - • • , An orphaned oouain, lijb» herself financially stranded, she took into her counsel. Their plans were soon ma­ tured, and in a new, fast-growing town they opened a small provision store with the limited oapital tkey oould com­ mand. Their store soon became noted as the neatest grocery store in the place. Everything was fresh and tidy, and there was always room for a blooming flower-pot in the Window. It was something rare and beautiful, and often changed lor another whioh had been perfecting itself in the small baok room where the brave girls kept house. A hired boy was all the help they had at first, but with their bright, cheery ways they managed to "make much1' of him. Cheerful folks are always the best served by those in their employ. Effie was the business manager, and she conducted their financial affairs ad­ mirably. Any Saturday night she could tell ydu exactly now the firm stood, and as it was a cash store them were no bad debts to bother about. Now all her former education came in play. She v/as most thankful for that early drilling which had brought her to handle money wisely, and turn it over to the best advantage. The business grew with a steady, healthy growth, like a snowball in deep snow. Better still, her worth was known and valued in the community to which her presence was a blessing. The poor and the suffering knew always whfere to turn for a helper and a sympathising friend. Effie, too, found a new and happy home at last, and not unwillingly laid off the cares of the large establishment on the strong young shoulders of Cous­ in Dell and an industrious young mer­ chant who proposed to unite the inter­ ests of the two concerns in a very em­ phatic manner. Indeed, henceforth Dell seemed to take fully as much in­ terest in Arthur's success in business as her own. Whenever the wheels got into a tight place, Cousin Effie was willing to leave her handsome home and its precious ties, and come down for a day or two, if need be, to help straighten affairs. v Indeed, in all the relations of life she never found it of the slightest disad­ vantage that she had enjoyed the bene­ fit of a thorough business training, and she fully carried out her plans of mak­ ing her own girls efficient, practical working women, as she wished her only son to be an industrious, intelli­ gent business man. If more daughters were trailed in the same way, this would not be such a hard world for women to make a liv­ ing in, when reverses come. There are a great many poor people in almost every community, but few are so poor or so hard to help as useless women who have been reared in idleness ol both brain and hand.--Practical Farmer. iatriBonlai Lottery. A YOUNG stranger called on Dr. M'C one evening, while he was a pastor inNew York City, toenigage his services in the performance of a nup­ tial ceremony. " I wish to make a bargain with you, doctor,1' said the young man. "I think the girl I am to marry will make a first- rate wife. If you will wait a year for your fee, and she turns out as I think she will, I'll then give you fifty dol­ lars." They agreed, the young couple were married, and the incident passed from the doctor's mind. At the end of a year, at the same time in the evening, the young man called again. The doctor did not recognize Mm at first. Do you not remember the bargain, we made when you married me a year ago?" - Oh, yes,1' replied the doctor. Well," said the young man, "she is • too? of the stable mussed up stiiem __----Jjthe yeung man went through, der. IF you wiir ia&e imo ^ ^ our- mt* self, and perform it faithfully every ' forenodn after 1 go down to the office, *1 I will pay you fair wages; in fact, Hook j|<ri forward to the day when my little girl ' "=2,n -the ^entire -charge of this • *A« "rtf •0 Exactly the opposite of this u tjie following: A clergyman in one of the Hudson Biver towns united a German couple in marriage. When the knot was tied, the bridegroom said, " Dominie, Tve got no monish, but rll send you von . „ . leefle pig." • It tras 'done, and tlie .elr- J00®- I greatly dislike having any cumstanoe was forgotten by the clergy- lieusc-inaid enterit. A little disarrange- man. Two years afterward he met the papers might occasion great German ijat another town, for t4»e $rst n " time sisiee the marriage ceremony was « 3»r w» m. trouble.' Little Efiie was delighted with her «ommissj»n, and set about her first taslffof earning money with a wonder^ ful aest lyhich would, never have come to .her without having first felt the want of it. ..,,, So atep by step was the child induced Into' various little financial schemes, and' long before she had laid aside her doll# had she learned to calculate witU her father questions of profit and loss, with a view to various Investments he was making. To make the impression ••till deeper, he never sent out a vessel without giving her some little " ven­ ture" of her own, in which she learned to take the deepest interest. She stud­ ied the peculiarities of the various for­ eign markets where her father traded, looked out the countries on the great map in the office, and traced ont the VessePs course. She learned to take a watchful interest in the reports of ar­ rivals and departures, and, indeed, <H»ld have instructed many much older $faj*u herself long before die was in her «teens. At nineteen she was her fathers performed. Dominie," said the German ̂ " you refmenibew you married me, and I gave you von leetlepng.11 ̂ ; i ••Xes.".. ••Veil, if you'll unmarry mq, I vill give you leetle pigs."--Editor's Drawer, iri ISarper's Mc April. fagazvnt for .ti . "Ml? ^ A Brave gaileg,u #c . vi ' »**• • r . ;, 0m - ' "U%A . ** . * * THOMAS HUMPHREYS was as brave an English sailor as ever furled a sail. He was crossing Carmarthen Bay, a few weeks ago, in the customs boat, with Mrs. Bydder (an officer's wife) and a companion, when a sudden gust of wind struck the sail, and they found themselves struggling in the water. He first endeavored to support his com­ rade, who was an awkward swimmer, but the poor fellow could not be kept afloat. He then told the woman to cling to the boat, while he swam around to see what could be done. He got his kifife and opened it with his teeth, cut ^ away the cordage, and, after consider- foookkeeper, with a fair salary, and had I able exertion, dismasted the craft and •n elegant little office fitted up luxuri- righted her, but as she was full of Jntly for her especial accommodation, water, they could not get into her. He It occasioned a good deal of talk, this I therefore placed the mast across the eccentric way of bringing up an heir- [boat, and got the woman's arms over ^Ss, but Effie felt that she was 4• fa- J it on one aide while he went and hung tiler's boy," and they two were all the °n at the .other. Mrs. Bydder then •world to each other. Her education I said, " Every one for himself," and •iuul been carefully attended to, and her | begged him to leave her and to save social nature not neglected, but the 1 himself, which he could easily have world of fashionable dissipation she done, being only about thirty yards >JUM1 not entered, nor did she sigh for it. from the shore, but be knew that if he * lAlas! the lesson of usefulness had not 1 left the woman she would be drowned. e too early. Sad financial disasters He remained by her, at the cost of his sfll through the land swept away many I life, for an hour and a half, shouting all etiil larger fortunes, but that was not 1 the while for assistance. Just as a 'the saddest blow to Effie. Her father, I boat reached them, the ' brave fellow %do, was taken from her, and no won-1 sank from cold and exhaustion, but the <ter that for a time she was crushed by woman was saved.--N. ¥. Tribune. blow. I T 1 , m But there were duties closely press-1 --If Virginia is the "Mother of on every side, and she could not I Statesmen." it1 a in onler to mmrest to ktfe grief. BJ»e set herself \ that Pennsylvania's the •• Pa." Cap*. Martin Scott. Omc of the most widely-known men of any time is Capt. Martin Scott. Martin Scott was from his earliest years a remarkably fine pistol and rtfle shot. While plowing In the field one day he received a letter whioh inclosed him his commission as Ensiga in th<; Uulted States Army. He had never applied for this position, and to the day of his death never knew how ft dame to be tendered to him. He accepted it, how­ ever, and was soon famous throughout the whole army as the best shot of his day. Upon the authority of Col. R. B. Marcy, United Suites Army, I will give a sample of this shooting. A pfa$lag- card, with a spot about 'the size of a dime, was tacked upon a tree seventy- five yards distent. Capt. Scett then took a muzzle-loading squirrel rifle and {>roposed to see how quickly he could oad and fire three times. He began, and In one minute and twenty seconds had loaded and fired three times. Of course this was very quick work, allow­ ing hardly any time for aiming. The firing was almost instantaneous. When Col. Marcy went to examine the target he found one hole exactly in the center of the bull's-eye. He remarked, how­ ever, that the other two shots had missed the target entirely. Capt. Scott smiled, called for aa ax, split the log, and found the three balls imbedded in the single hole. These shots were all off-hand. Col. Marcy says that he has seen officers who vouched for the truth of the following, having seen Capt. Scott do it. He would take two pota­ toes, and, throwing them into the air successively, woula put a pistol-ball through both of them as they crossed in the air, one going up and one coming down. The first duel in which Capt. Scott was engaged was under the following Circumstances. He was stationed on the frontier, at a military post of Coun­ cil Bluffs. The officers were, the most of them, fond of a social glass, and ad­ dicted to card-playing, and they con­ sidered a man who abstained entirely from like indulgences as wanting in the proper spirit. Capt. Scott never drank a glass of liquor, and never played a game of cards, and, while he was very liberal in his intercourse with his brother officers, he was exceedingly parsimonious in his own personal ex­ penses. The officers around him took umbrage at this, and gradually with­ drew from all intercourse with him, until he was absolutely put into coven- try by all save three of his associates in arms. He submitted for a long time to the insults and persecutions, and then held a council of war with his three friends to determine what was best to be done. They told him that only two alternatives were left him-- one was to throw up his commission, and the other was to challenge the first man that should insult him. He read­ ily chose the latter course, and his de­ termination became known throughout the post. His skill as a marksman and his undoubted nerve protected him for a good while, no one caring to need­ lessly risk an encounter with him. At length, however, an officer from a neighboring post, who was a Cele­ brated shot, and had brought down his man in about half-a-dozen duels, was sent for. He took the first opportunity to insult Capt. Scott. The insult was given at mess-table, and a challenge immediately followed. In telling of the duel afterward, Capt. Scott said that he went to the ground considerably agitated. Being utterly opposed to dueling, he had determined to throw away his fire. Just about that time he accidentally overheard his antagonist say that he had a very disa­ greeable job oh hand that morning, viz.: the "shooting of a cursed Yan­ kee." This raised Capt. Scott's indig­ nation, and he determined from that moment to punish his opponent. When the word was given the men fired to­ gether. Capt. Scott received a slight flesh wound, and sent a ball whizzing through his opponents lungs. It is mentioned as a curious fact that this shot saved the man's life. He had the consumption before the duel and re­ covered afterward. I hesitate, how­ ever, to recommend this as an inevita­ ble cure for the consumption. It is a remedy, however, that is apt to either cure or kill. Capt. Scott eaine very near having another duel on the most ridiculous grounds.. He was a great spoilsman, and a perfect stickler lor all the tech­ nicalities of sporting lore. He would get into a passion at hearing anyone call a line of geese " a flock" of geese, or a bevy of quails "a brood" of quails. On one occasion he organized a grand hunt. The game was jackass- rahbits. A great many visiting officers were present and Capt. Scott had taken great pride in having the hunt conduct­ ed on the strictest principles. He had instructed the home officers that when a rabbit ran from cover they should all give the view halloo, "Tally-ho!" Among the officers was a Capt. B n, who wM att inveterate practical joker. The hounds were unloosened and taken into the woods, and soon opened musi­ cally. Every man was at his post in tiptoe anxiety to catch the first glimpse of the expected game. Suddenly, near the stand of Capt. B n, out bounded an enormous mule with twenty dogs in full cry at her heels. In this" critical moment Capt. B n roared at the top of his voice, "Sally, whoa! Sally, whua Sally, whoa!" The ridiculous cry taken up, and the whole field burst uncontrollable laughter. Capt was violently enraged, and it too that the friends of the parties 00 to prevent his calling the pri Joker out. Capt. Scott was after ceive some and tutors, both ladies and Thebbdyofthehall atyd the gallery on bothrsides of the or­ gan offered further accommodations. Precisely at five minutes to nine--not a second earlier or later--a lady seated at the piano in front of the platform be­ gan to play a lively march, and at that very moment the doors leading into a wide corridor, with class-rooms on each side, were thrown open, and what seemed to be an endless procession of girls came in, the patter of their feet sounding like the dripping of a fountain, and harmonizing prettily with the alle­ gretto movement of the music They were formed in single file, and stringed in with measured pace, silent and de­ mure--girls all the way from fourteen to twenty years of age, from the farther edge of childhood to the farther limit of maidenhood; girls with every shade of complexion and degree of beauty; girls in such variety that it was amazing to contemplate the reduction of their individuality to the simple uniformity of their well-drilled movements. We looked for the last of them; the seats in the body were fast filling, without the least noise or confusion; Dut the lady a the piano was still baatinc out the alle­ gretto air, and we coulS see the long lines threading in through the corridor, and hear the steady rain of footsteps. The clock in front of the gallery marked nine, and the body of the hall was now filled, but the stream continued to pour into the gallery, until nearly every seat was occupied; and at four minutes past nine the last of the procession had en­ tered, the doors were closed and the piano became silent. What a triumph of system! The first thing to excite our wonder and admiration was the num­ ber--there were 1,542 pupils; the sec­ ond thing was the earnestness of the discipline, and the third was the sug- gestiveness of so many girls at work m assembly, with their pwn education as the primary aim, and the education of• countless thousands of others as the final aim, of their toil. When the doors had been closed, and the last footfall had died away, the pianist struck one note, and the girls, who had been stand­ ing, erect and silent, before their seats with their faces directed to the plat­ form, turned half round; another note was struck, in response to which they unfolded the seats, and upon hearing the third, they sat down in a body, not one being the tenth of a second later than the others. The students being seated, a chapter of the Bible was read by Mr. William Wood, President of the Board of Edu­ cation--a venerable gentleman, whose name is identified with one of the his­ toric banking houses of the metropolis (this duty being done by Mr. Thomas Hunter, President of the College, in the absence of Mr. Wood)--and a non- sectarian hymn was sung to the accom­ paniment of the organ. A pause fol­ lowed, and we instinctively becamc aware that mingled expectation and hesitation were rife in the assemblage. It was time for quotations. To exer­ cise their memories and inspire self- confidence, the students were invited to volunteer personally selected quota­ tions from authors, and " the multitu dinous seas" of literature, from the nearest to the farthest, are explored for aphorisms, epigrams, odes and elegies; Herbert Spencer or Emerson yielding a subtle morsel of philosophy now, ana food Thomas a' Kempis or Mohammed oing service then in sonorous adora­ tion; the Attic salt of Oliver Wendell Holmes and the envenomed wit of Tal­ leyrand, the ponderous wisdom of Dr. Johnson and the sweet piety of Jona­ than Edwards, the musk-and-lavender verse of literary Ladies' Repositories and the robust humor of Shakspeare or Sheridan--scarcely anything is deemed inappropriate, and the selections made indicate most varied readiness, with, perhaps, too great a taste for the florid m rhetoric.-- Wm. H Bideing, in Har­ per's Magazine for April. A Lost Pocket-Book and its Claimants. A GENTLEMAN recently advertised in the New York Times that he had found a pocket-book, and a reporter of that paper went to his house to see the crowd that would call for it. In two days there were forty-one women and fifteen men, and two letters, represent­ ing a loss of <1,700. It was impossible to say how many were genuine, as the attempt to get hold of . lost articles of Value is regularly carried on by sharp­ ers in New York. One confederate, for example, will describe with great minuteness the pocket-book he has lost --" a Russia leather one with a strap," containing so many notes and a few newspaper scraps. He is told it is not his; then he'll go over it again, adding additional points, and these are denied by the finder of the pocket-book. Per­ haps the latter incautiously drops a hint or two that the book is black and has a clasp, or has more money than the amount mentioned. A second con­ federate comes and describes a pocket- book with a steel rim; the points at which he fails are successively elimi­ nated by the finder, unless he is very shrewd, and the third or fourth con­ federate describes the jpocket-bfcok ex­ actly and carries it off: Sometimes a description of a pocket-book is impru­ dently inserted in the advertisement, and the sharp fellows who are on the watch for these advertisements are early on the ground and take it away. In the present instance, the gentleman •if ' • . - " iiwn iuhe killed while leading his command -for­ ward in a most desperate battle of the Mexican War.--Philadelphia Times- Opening of Horning Session ct tfce New York Normal Coll Ar ten minutes to nine o'clock on& morning last November the writer took seats with the President on the chapel platform of the Normal College. The vast hall was then empty and rever­ berant; the day outside was cloudy, and tfie long Gothic windows let in a gray twilight which gave the interior an ecclesiastical solemnity, the eftect being heightened by the gilded pipes of a large organ in the gallery. On the platform with us were the professors NAVGSTT SOMEBODY. 1 | SaMMnvrt been in the pantry, aomtbody** btw Nibbliagand Muiwingaad miffing podding aad SomeSody'n b«ttaMap*etting things all over the . ': hnnaA! ^ ' ••,, maybe it was • _ hottae! ' Maybe," piped rotftmh Willie, mouse. Somebody's little SCUMBI are under the CT<*B4»- prem door; I , Somebody's little apron la on the pantry floor; Somebody's little finger-prints axe in the costard MaySae,* $bent" whisper'd Willie, "may be it nnfVad lost, but a small black one,"antl iiad a five-dollar note in it. She went away, and soon another woman entered and described hers as a small black pocket-book with $5 in it. She was told it was a large brown pocket-book, and was much disconcerted. The nar­ rative does not say whether anybody finally got the pocket-book. Perhaps there was no pocket-book at all, and the gentleman amused himself and the reporter by pretending to have found one; perhaps he kept it finally as pay for his trouble; or perhaps it is only a reporter's story, invented in lieu of anything more exciting.--Detroit Post and Tribune. --Pennsylvania has another miracle --A tramp sawed two cords of wood. .W Somebody's naughty boy, then, or, perhaps, some nanghtygirl, ' Foe, close by the little sciaaom, lagr a tangled Kolden curl. Rose-r»dgrew Willie withshonting, "Mamma, I eh&^a't tell <~. lie! 'Tt̂ ^obod^a ̂ naĵ ity somebody; no little '-Ehte Qorham. in Youth?* Companion, 1'^ DUTY AND PLEASURE. ^fJtm-first and pleasure afterward, wrote Amy Leslie in her copy-boo one fine morning, Line after line she penned, makin for her thoughts v/S far away. At last her mother, who w sitting near her, said, "Amy, this! the third time you have spelt pleasun without a •p,1 arfd left out the 4f i afterward. Put down your pen an tell me what you are thinking about, for I am sure it is not of your copy." "I was only thinking," replied she, '• how glad I should be if my copy said head was pillowed on her ate wWer. Not a them, for a few OOpf WM qui first and pleasure iftei out-duty there is no pleasure at all' Ctoitd? a Companion. How » Bey Caught aT > 1 out fishing with his mother, on I Lake, in the western partof New Yc or, perhaps I should say* she .wm? iag, and he was looking- <NUB. of the boat. He could see the tfafc dar ing about here and there, aadJitodHto watch them, and he put Tifrt fiifin'Jfi/ulmia down tc the water as Le" COSm^SIS them more plainly^ •fr» ntxf lui SOIItfr. ' W-7.SSJJ* 3' " »/> ' S-. <w! -fttft M*'« ; ' ' j , f f i . . 'M-M. ' Vii' I > <• - -Tv I icli Sc Hay tho: M f f m I h m n A t f W - ; V^widri n -trnm TO »«. .-•<?#..» irittZ , -jf.f", *ii ...afa f- rm'». •»«!,: • tnuny, •Pleasure first--duty afterward/ It's] that the boy became, for a while, quite very hard always to have the nasty famous, and had his photograph take% things first. I wish I could have one whole week with no duties at ill! How I should enioy myself!" Mrs. Leslie remained silent for a mo­ ment; then she said, while a quiet smile played round her lips, "JVell, Amy, for once you shall have what you want. For a whole week you may amuse 'yourself; no duties, mind, my child--none at all." " There is no chance of my wanting any, I assure you, mamma," said Amv, joyfully} "I shall be so happy, you'll see!" "Very well, then," said Mrs Leslie; "you may begin to-morrow. To-day I shall expect you to do as usual." Amy said no more; she finished her copy, I3arned her lessons, then went to the nursery to take charge of her little brother, while the nurse was busy with other work. Afterward, there were socks to mend, and an errand to rfin, and buttons to sew on to baby^ shoe, and a letter to write. And so the day passed, and the next morning dawned on pur pleasure-loving little lriend. "No duties!" she said to herself, as she woke at seven, which was her usual time for rising; "No duties; so I can lie in bed as long as I please." And she turned over, ana as she could not sleep, began making plans for the day and thinking what a delightful time she should nave. About half-past nine she came down-stairs, to find her breakfast on the table; milk, toast and egg, all as cold as possible. -"What a wretched breakfast!" grumbled Amy, as she took her seat. "Well, dear," replied Mrs. Leslie, "your breakfast was ready at the usual time, and of course is cola now.11 Amy said no more. She ate with only half her usual appetite, and finishing in about five minutes, put away her chair and left the room. As she went up­ stairs to fetch her hat, baby, in the nursery, stretched his arms for her to take him; she dashed past and left the little fellow crying with disappoint­ ment. She went down again, a fairy- book in one hand and a box of choco­ late-drops in the other. The sweets had been a present, but hitherto he* mother had only allowed her to have just one or two daily; now, however, she might do as she liked, and at present her idea of perfect bliss was the combined charms of ohocolate drops and fairy stories. For about two hours Bhe sat in the garden; then she grew tired, and a lit­ tle sick from eating too much choco­ late, and was returning to the house, when her pet kitten ran out to meet her. For a short time she amused her­ self by playing with it, dressing it up in her pocket-handkerchief and carry­ ing it like a baby; but Miss Pussy wearied of this, nnd n.t last jumped-"*rS of her new dress and her mistress' arms, leaving a scratch as a keepsake behind hen Altogether the morning was hardly a. successful one, nor was the afternoon much better. After dinner, one of Amy's little sisters tore her frock, and was run­ ning to Amy to ask her to mend it; but Mr. Leslie said: "Don't go to your sister, my child, come to rnc;" and little Jessie, wonder­ ing, let her mother darn the rent. Amy felt very uncomfortable, for she knew that Mrs. Leslie's eyes were not strong, and were probably aching with the ef­ fort of such tine work, but she shrank from offering her services, and made her escape from ' the room as soon as she could. In the eveniqg she was about to draw her chair to tie fire and read the news­ paper to Mr. Leslie, a duty of which she had always felt rather proud; but her father gravely took the paper out of her hand, saying quiekly, "No, Amy, this is a duty; remember you are to amuse yourself and do nothing else." Amy's eyes filled with tears, and she ran up-stairs to her own room. She had no heart to read the fairy-book or to make clothcs for her doll, or to play with her kitten, or even to eat the rest of her chocolate drops. " I shall never be able to bear anoth­ er day of this," she said to herself: "I thought it would be so delightful to have no duties, but somehow my play does not seem half so good as it was." But the, next day brought no real pleasure or comfort. Listlessly Amy wandered about, having no zest for any of her former amusements, and feeling thoroughly unhappy. She be- fan to long for the very duties which ad seemed so irksome to her; she could hardly keep from tears when she saw the others busy over lessons, or her mother doing work which had formerly been hers. At last her misery ended in a fit of crying, and, shutting herself up in her own room, she gave way to it. Sob followed sob so quickly that she never heard her door open, until her moth­ er^ arms were round her. and her hot, with the mark of the bite on his naapc This may seem a very tough story, but' it is true. The thing took place only a'> few miles from where I live,r ~ Sill, in Nursery. : ' ! < • •v-"1 How Milk Is Mad*. WE all know that milk comes, frpm the cow, and is derived primarily frf&i the food that goes in at the mount; The cow, indeed, is the machine whioh ra» ceives the raw material, the grass or hay or grain, and in the natural labor*, toryof her body produces the sweet and palatable milk, so essential to infancy/ so agreeable to the adult. How it Is done is a most interesting inquiry; It is not simply filtered from the blood, <&s water is filtered through earth or papepr. It is itself an organized material, con­ taining bodies which possess form, and which are Allied to the animal Wmw produces them. r . If we pass a bristle Inwardi through the orifice of the teat, it traverses a duct or tube which opens into a reser­ voir which communicates with other reservoirs or with ducts; selecting on© of these ducts and continuing, it finally arrives at a small saccular cavity, which comprises the extremity of system. Within this cavity, the vehi­ cle, as it has been named, the fat of milk is produced. But how? A micro­ scopic examination shows these little cavities, but about a thirtieth of an inch, more or less, in diameter, are tied with cells of a uniform size, but, if any­ thing, smaller above than below. These cells produce the milk globules by forming new cells in the following way: A cell commences to bud at the extremity, and grows until the bud is dropped off into the cavity; and there the water containing casern and milk sugar in solution, and which has been transuded from the tissues, takes this young milk globule, but just now *P§rt of the living structure of the cow, and washes it down through duct after dirctr till it reaches the reservoirs and passes out through the teat. Thus the fat of milk is formed in the cow, and the proc­ ess is strictly an epithelial one, or a sort of a cell growth, as the nail cells elongate to form the naii of the hind or foot. Let us retrace our way with the milk. The simple cell, which but just now was part of the vesicle, or terminal acini, or ultimate follicle, has received the material for its growth from the blood which has been brought to it by the system of capillaries, which has en­ veloped it with an abundant network. This material received into the cell has become changed into fat by a specif of change allied to degeneration, or the breaking up of previous compounds. This ultimate follicle hi - grouped #ith other vesicles of a like character? to form a lobule. This lobule is arranged with ot^er lobules, and the combined secretion erf all the lobules are passed onwXfd to the main duct. To repeat, the vqaifUea secrete and pass their product, Jthe milk globule, into the duc£ of the lob­ ule, and from this duct' the globule passes into others, continually more capacious, until it reaches the reser­ voirs, which are principally arranged about the periphery and apex of . the udder gland. We thus see that the milk glohfale is at one time a portion of the living cow; that it must partake in some measure of the character of the cow. Hence, as cows differ--we know that cdws* meat differs, formed of muscle cells, as it is, one piece of beef being tender and juicy, another being dry and tough-- so must there be differences in their milk. The understanding of these facts of structure has a very practical relation to the manufacture of milk, sis we have elsewhere shown, Sditntific Farmer. • -,t -- m -- * --Of the new Judge of the United States Supreme Court, Judge John M. Harlan, it is related that his success as a lawyer has been largely due to his strength of constitution and powers of endurance. In the great Pullman pal­ ace car case he was employed on' short notice as one of the counsel. He had but a day to inform himself and study up the authorities, but he undertook the task. Locking himself up in his office with Lochrane, of Georgia, and Mr. George M. Pullman, he examined them thoroughly, grasp­ ing all the points, and collecting and arranging his citations. For twenty- four hours, during which his compan­ ions alternated between sleeping and giving information, he studied the case, and at the end of that time he had every point at his fingers1 ends, and was seemingly as fresn and strong as when he began. ->y • r'-t -a • si --One way to elevate a man ia^the public eyes is to hang him. , ,