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Alim! thwo tMW * Ouiliot effnre the stains of yeara; "Xta grace alone can save, I know, "I >r* ti>3:ii» And yet, 'tis well to let tliem flowf , \> TOicy 600ihe the griels of life's dark iKWl^ j|ji sunlight smiles through April ehowcrtt And then 'tis written, "Jems wept," Above the grave of one tiiai s>rN . While friends and loved ones gathered'ivttUI With softened tread the new-made mound; Ttat when thus pressed with,,grief a Ht found a sweet relief in tears. A LEAF FROM LIFE Bj *M <£bgea to comess tnat ne s»w nothing whatever. "I will come," he said. Arriving at the little xoom, he was re- assmed by its barreimera. "Tins sim­ plicity, " stud he to himself, "arises out of innocence." Then he looked at the solitary* chair with some embarrassment "That is for von, Edward," said the yonng girl. " I can sit on the bed." " No, I thank yon, Sarah; I prefer to stand," said Edward severely, and handed her ,the chair with a gesture of determination. She took it with a sigh and a little laugh. "Then I will my history short," said she. All life histories are hitched at inter- vnjs on to the infinite. To make a life story short, therefore, is necessarily to make it incomplete. Snrah knew this, but she would not ask Edward to sit oil the bureau, so she made her liistory very short indeed. " I know nothing about myself," said she, "except that I was born in a hos­ pital, brought up in an alms-house, and support myself by making shirts." " That is noble," said Edward, with enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is a volcano of flowing sympathy. "The only clue I have to my parents is a broken agate, singularly carved," continued the vbung girL A broken agate!" stammered Ed BY CEUA T11AXTKK. *it-< - lh an attic like other attics, in a , . -,, , . , , ... like other cities, lived a young girl; not ™d, feeling in all his pockets with one uncommon after all, though the world | sudden impulse. The young girl re- may not believe there am such young I garded him with astonishment Asud- «irk For she was pretty, she was poor, j ^ suspicion came into his mind Sua- fhe was alone, she hardly found food fP™® » mother Tl dai^h"r."f «nd fire md clothe® enough for decency ^strust The world had been hard with and neatness by unoeasiug labors; and Edward, although be whistled. For a ret she was not a sinner. Her name 1 moment he suspected that Sarah had •as Sarah, vet nolKnly caUetl her Sadia i ^ rrunmagmg his room. By fame Indeed, nobody called her anj-thing dis- j mysterious instinct she divined lus tingnislied or individwaL The grocer «id, •nitli ill-concealed contempt, "Four oents, Miss," As for the car conductors, "Step lively, lady," was their salutation, if after a long walk to the shop that gave oat shirts to be made at fourteen cents, flw was tired and expended all the but­ ton holes in riding back. "Is there not a wilderness somewhere," Sarah used to flay to her looking-glass, "where I oonld go and make acquaintances?" It seems Ute had a looking-glass. But though Hie looking-glass told her much that she caxed nothing to know, it did not answer her that. There continued rate day to be in another room in the attic a young man aflimed Edward. Such things in such places have no perceptible beginning. They were not, and they Me; like a ring of grime on a shirt ouff. So with Ed­ ward; Sarah didmot. know when he came, or that he came, but she began to per- oeive that he was there. In fact, she met him on the stairs. He was neither tall near short, neither handsome nor plain. When he was in his room he whistled and sometimes tramped up and <k>wn. Sarah began to be interested, Bot in the young man probably, but in -flie fact that there was a young man. Well, such neighborhoods always lead to certain results. When Edward had passed her eighty-seven times on the stairs he met her for the eighty-eighth" time and bowed slightly but distinctly. Sarah smiled. Three weeks later he had said, " Good-morning," and Sarah murmured to herself, " I shall have an acquaintance--I shall have an aoquaiip- ance." By and by winter one day became Spring. Winter always suggests spring much as a hard boiled egg suggests chicken pie. But suddenly one day it is in the winter air that spring is coming-- is coming nearer--is happening. It must be with never ending wonder ttiat we behold this recurring miracle of the res­ urrection; a miracle, however, tlmt. heaven does not apparently consider it! worth while to work in the case of the 1 bard boiled egg. The heathen would ' have said this is rnte. But perhaps j another world will set it right thoughts. "Wait," said she imperiously. Push­ ing away impatiently her simple dress, she disclosed a very prettily rounded, but plain gray stocking. Edward turned, embarrassed and un­ easy, towards the window. The young girl made a movement of absolute simplicity. "Do not be ashamed," she said. "This is my wooden leg." Edward started, and approached her with tears in his eyes. "Sarah," he said, "you are adorable, and I--I was a don­ key. " She smiled a little and gave him her hand. Then she unscrewed the wooden leg and from a recess in the top took out the broken agate. "I think I am your sister,"said she softly, "and thia you see, is why I clatter on the stairs." It was an indescribable moment. Full of tender love and brotherly respect, Edward yet could not properly embrace his sister with a well ground fear of up­ setting her frail chair. Ajid she--she could not rise and throw herself upon his neck. With the air of one sacrificing at the altar, he knealt, gently lifted the wooden supplement of his sister's per­ sonality and screwed it carefully into its socket. Then both rose, gazed into the new worlds of each other's eyes, and melted into one figure, sobbing and ^mituig. So when the oommonest water-bucket is upset in the snow and the thin, solid looking ice across its face is broken, pours out the wealth of that wonderous fluid that runs round the world--bar­ ring the salt. One thing we can only guess at blind­ ly. W© do not know why Edward's first allusion to her infirmity should have flashed into Sarah's mind the thought that he was her brother. It was, per­ haps, the working of a beautiful instinct --a new sensitiveness--bestowed on her by nature as a compensation for the loss of her leg. But we may say it was this, or it was that We do not know. Knowledge is the agreement in con­ sciousness of an object with its ideal. This being the case, how should we know? Or how should we know we The sjiriug had not gone when ftnra.h i began to call Edward, Edward, and Ed- ! c a ?ew experience to ward to call Sarah, Sarah. This is j ®ara^* always an interesting formative period in ! "Sl the acquaintance of a young man and a i le& f, cai youug maid. Here it came about in all siinplcness: Sarah, before going to bed one evening, was combing out her long but thin yeUow hair and tying up the oombings, with the ends all one way, in * bunch against a rainy day. There was • knock on the lath and paper partition wall, w hich had seemed to her as thick «ft the Chinese wall, and which to Ed- "Wird had seemed as wonderful and sa- «ed a thing as if it had been built of twelve kinds of precious stones--or thir­ teen kinds, for the matter of that This was the partition wall between their rooms. Sarah finished tying up the sav­ ings with which she was occupied, took off her short print sacque, and, wiping her hands, clasped them over her exquis­ itely moulded bosom and cried "What is " But," she reflected after a mo- since I have only one wooden cannot be everbody's sister." It was the working of the mind of a begin­ ner in a new field. Perhaps she should have said, "Although I have a wooden leg." However, her longing for an ac­ quaintance returned. "Edward," she said " you must have friends Make me acquainted with them." He made her acquainted with a tn*ri named John, whose hair was red, and whom she married. John used her wooden leg as a medium of reproach and reproof, and finally cut her head off and threw it out of the window. John was executed. Edward became a blear-eyed drunkard, and was killed by an Italian in a street fight The Italian took poi- €fWhat is your name, my little neigh­ bor?" said the calm voiae of the young man from the other side of the wall. Sarah, who had turned to answer the knock, turned back to look in the glass a moment before replying, and then caught Hp a shaw l and muffled her shoulders in it Then she blushed. Then she smiled a little. A woman's smile may be an unwilling winter thaw, or a hearty fervor of sun­ shine. Here it was neither. After smiling a little Sarah said: *Ky name is Sarali." • "My name is Edward," said Edward, fl wish you would let me call you Sarah." "Very well, Edward," said Sarah blushing again. She did not know why Ae blushed. ' _ Then there was a delicious pause of a law moments. It was not the woman, you may be sure, who broke so sweet a •flence. A woman may not be wise at jutt times, but she knows when she feels like holding her tongue. In thin knowl­ edge she excels all men. a "Sarah," said Edward presently, "why «© you make such a clatter on the tffeurs?" The young girl burst into Tha jhraof looked »t. his cherry tree. ̂ With tMefe buds cluxtered nti ewy tWli|l| I Wish I could cheat the robbiuii," said be; "If somebody only would show ine how. " I'll make a terrible scarecrow Kitm, \ With threatening arms and with bristling head. And «pin the tree I'll fasten him T»frighten them half to death," be raid. He fviUioned a se uvcrow ta tered and * j ' * horrible tiling to see! r» ^RJ" early, one sum UHT morn, He tat it up in his cherry tree. ' The blossoms were white as the light sea-foam, , The beautiful tree was a lovely sight, ®nt the scarecrow stood there so much at htm* That the birds flew screaming away in fright But the robbins, watching him day after day, With heads on one side and eyes so bright, Surveying ihe monster, be^nn to say, " W hy should this fellow our prospects blight! ** He never moves round for the roughest weather, He's a harmless, comical, tough old fellow; L«t's all go in the tree together, for he won't budge till the fruit is mellow I" So up they flew; and the saucict pair 'Mid the shady branches peered and perhed, Selected a *|K>t'with the utmost rare, And all day merrily ^ang and wwko-.l. And where do you think they built their neetf In the s?ar. crow's pocket, if you please, That, half concealed on his ragged breast, Made a charming covert ol safety and easel By the time the cherries were ruby-red A thriving family, hungry and brisk, The whole loug day ou the ripe fruit fed; 'Twas so convenient! They saw no risk! Until the children were ready to fly All undisturbed they lived in the tree; For nobody thought to look at the guy For a robin's flourishing family! -- Widt Avxtht. when somebody caught, her by the arms and threw her into the man's mouth, \vliich all along had been open in won­ der. The man tried to shut his mouth, Irat Sister Enigma began to tickle his longue, and when he opened his mouth she climbed out "Why did you do that, you naughty Brother Riddle, you," said Sister Enig- to the round, fat imp who had pushed ler in. ; "Guess," said Brother Riddle. " No, let 'em guess mine," said Sister Enigma. " Friends and fellow-citizens, yhat one thing is it that keeps this man's forehead from being a good place to fiance on?" "Give it up," was the chorus, even Great Grandfather Mathematics and Uncle Algebra joining in with tlieir deep bass. "Why, you see," said Sister Enigma. **it would be a good place to dance on if » wouldn't cave in; it's hollow under­ neath, ha! ha! ha! the man's got no fcjrains underneath." • As soon as Sister Enigma had given the answer Mr. Clarence Conundrum (u twin brother of Brother Riddle, but much more dignified), drew a mouth- , organ from his pocket and began to play : I "Oh! isn't it so, Old Numbskull?" A? \ i Mr. Conundrum's music had been set j j fairly going the whole crowd began to . i sing. Some swung by one ear and some ; | by another, shouting, buzzing and hum- j ming, "Oh! isn't it so. Old Numbskull?" ; J until the poor man was almost distracted. ; l He tried to get up, but could not budge, j . .. _ . The noise increased constantly. The lit- j OM su.4 Iliaidntffht Visiter*, tie imps blew out, "Oh! isn't it SO, Old ! One time there was a man who received ! Numbskull ?" until it seemed as though • a great number of letters from children, ! they had ten thousand horns. The man almost every letter containing a puzzle, - summoned his strength for one great Just after this man had put himself to effort. He drew his arms from under the i bed on a certain night he thought he felt ; covers, held them out at full length, and, a little bit of a something pitch -QU the I aiming to crush every single imt>. hit end of his nose and finally get astrifti^le j each ear a tremendous blow. " of his nose. ^4----" My!" said the man, sitting up in "Who are you?" asked the man. ' bed and rubbing his eyes. "I must have "I'm Master Peter Puzzle," replied I hit my head pretty hard. There's some- j the little bit of a something. "Why, ; thing on my handis; it must be blood." 1 don't you know me? Haven't you seen (The man got up, struck a light and j me in the newspaper corners, and haven't j looked at his hands. In the palm of each, ! you noticed that I very often dance over j dead and mutilated almost beyond recog- I whole pages in the magazines?" And | nition, was the body of a Jersey mos- | quito. t with that Master Peter Puzzle bit the man's nose so hard a bite as to send the blood spurting five feet high. "Oh! Oh!" said the man, "what in the world do you want?" coming to have a little fun out of you- Great-Grandfather Mathematics, Grand­ father Arithmetic, Uncle Algebra, Father Acrostic, Sister Enigma, Mr. Chess, Johnny Checkers and the whole crowd." As Master Peter Puzzle spoke the man opened his eyes a little ways and glanced at the end of his nose. Master Peter was made of otavs. lie deal like the following: id a good * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Not to be Fooled With. ' 'G'wuffum heah, chile,--g'wuffin heali, I ("file yer," was a caution given a boy vending Chinese torpedo-bombs on Madi­ son street, yesterday, by an aged negro shuffling up from the Illinois Central depot; "doan' yer drop any mo' dem jimcracks roun' dis ole hoof of mine, or dere'll be a fune'l outen yo' house befo' sunup ter-morrower, sliuah! Ise a talk- in--yo'd better hoe anudder roe--g'wuf- fnm lieali!" _ "Hi!' said the boy, derisively, impro­ vising the symptoms of a tumor ni his left cheek, and winking with offensive rapid­ ly--"whose scare crow 're you, yer old knockemsliff--hey?" And with this he loaded up again and dropped the thing as near the venerable feet as caution and the length of the striug would allow. "Who yer goin' to vote for?" he then in­ quired, jerking the lx>mb back. "Whose sear' crow--whose--whose-- looker lieah, honey, I's a sour persimmon from de Yallabam--I'se a bull-dozer from the swamp--an' I'll frow whole gobs of sunlight froo yer in de cackle ob a spring pullet, if yer doan quit dat foolin' roun' my co nfield.' And with a movement as rapid as it was unexpected, the boy found himself in chancery between the patri­ arch's knees. musical j "Wlioof!" he continued, laying down . _ . . ,, hands as a preliminary to active measmvs. "What'll y$r gimme now ef I let off?" laughter; "I am going to bed, Edward i his grip-sack and spitting 'on his and you had better go too--good night " ' Edward," was her only answer. In fact ahe presently blew out her candle and fell into a sweet sleep. Edward was I puzzled. J Do you know what the young girl said j to herself when she laughed? Perhaps I die began to feel more like a sister or a mother to Edward them like an acquaint- ' anoe. j Days passed and this pair became more intimate. An acquaintance grows at the start not like a lump of sugar dis- ' aolving in tea, but like a crystal of Glau- •wr's salts forming in a saturated solu- W>n: that is, from a HER&II beginning it liecomes larger. It may fall away after- Wards, but there always is a point at Which it is greater than at the beginning. This is the general law of acquaintances •bd the ease of Edward and Sarah was •ot an exception. They had never been in each others' fponw. ^«Tellme history," «0d Edward •a Sarah, on the stairs one day. " How can I tell it here"' •ailing. "If you will come aoam and sit down--" yer she said, into my In this exceedingly delicate strait, the boy's judgment came exceedingly iato play, and his promises were brief, but golden. "Now," said the ancient, lifting the boy up, and resuming his grip-Back i n . wonted serenity, "nex' time yer w ant u-r fool roun' and get yo'self inter a muss, drappin' dufliggers on cullud toes, jes' bar in min' ter keep well outen de reach 4 dis niggah's habcen cappm--daVa all --yer heah my ho'n?" And then the "sour persimmon from ihe Yallabam" moved on.--Chicane Tri­ bune. "HAVE you been stealing apples?" asked the minister. "Yes, sir," answered the boy, sheep­ ishly. " And are you trying to hide them from me?" continued the old man. Yis,sir, said the culprit, and then ^ i' i. o t0® ^"Khtening up, "you said last Sunday that we avoid appearanc^of evil." "My head," explained Master Peter, seeing that the man was looking at him, "my head, sir, when "read up and down, across and aroiuul, betwixt and between, through "and through and criss-cross, represents the hero of the apple tree and little hatchet. Sabe?" "No, you horrid thing," groaned the poor man, "and I wouldn't if I could; you talk slang and no respectable boy talks slang." "Then take that, sir!" said the little imp, as he again bit the man's nose and let out a spray of blood which shot up like water from the fountain in Franklin Square. "The two letters of my neck," went on Master Peter, "spell the name of a his­ torical character. You remember, sir, no doubt, these pathetic lines: " 'There was an old woman. Who lived in a shoe. She had BO many children She didn't know what to do.' "Well, learning that she had so many children, I very kindly adopted one of them--child number 16,000, I think-- and the two letters of my neck repre­ sented that dear child's name. The let­ ters of my body represent the name of the air-line railroad to the moon, and the letters of my legs, he! he! ha! ha!" And Master Peter laughed so heartily at the very thought that in order to re­ tain his balance on the man's nose he had to take another bite, which this time went through to the bone. "The letters of my legs," said he, after regaining his composure and wiping the perspiration from his brow with an eye- winker which he had reached over and snatched from one of the man's eyelids, "the letters of my legs, ha! ha! spell the name of . the hill upon which the North Pole is planted. You see the pole used to be Christopher Columbus' cane, but as Christopher was taking a walk among the icebergs one sunny afternoon he lost his cane, and the polar bears stuck it on my bill to play circus on." J ust then the man felt something boring a hole through the lobe of his ear. The poor fellow reached around to find out what it was, when the newcomer stung him on the thumb. "Keep away, keep away," sang the newcomer, in a buzzing voice. "I'm the Honorable Jeremiah Reims, the honora­ ble member from the Ninety-ninth Dis­ trict. I'm making a hole to get my hook in; keep away." While listening to Mr. Rebus the man felt a third visitor hopping around on his forehead. "A nice floor to dance on," he heard this third visitor say, in a shrill, piping voice; "that is, it would be if it were not for one thing." "What's that, Sister Enigma?" said Master Peter Puzzle, addressing the third comer, who appeared to be very jolly. "Guess," said sister Emma. At which Master Peter, Mr. Rod us, Father Acrostic, Johnny Checkers and all the others--for it soon appeared that all had arrived--fell to guessing. One guessed that it was because the forehead was too slippery, another that it slanted too much, and so on. Every time the guessera were told that they had failed they bit a piece out of the poor man's face. Once Father Acrostio, in his rage, seized a handful of beard and pulled it up by the roots, at which Sister Enigma Knowledge of the Ancients. A great many people entertain the idea that the progress of mankind has been invariably from barb arism to civilization. In what follows, Chief Justice Daly shows in P'ypular Science MonthIt/ that people did know something four thous­ and years ago: ^ "From one ot those books, compiled after manner of our modern encyclo- j psedias, and the compilation of which is j shown to have been made more than I 2,000 years B. C., it has been acertained, i what lias long been supposed, that Chal- l dca was the parent lruid of astronomy; for j it is found, from this compilation and j from other bricks, that the Babylonians j catalogued the stars, and distinguished and named the constellations; that they I arranged the twelve constellations that I form our present zodiac to show the i course, of the sun's path in the heavens; divided time into weeks, months, and years; that they divided the week, as we i now have it, into seven days, six being | days of labor and the seventh a day of j rest, to which we have derived our word j " sabbath," and which day, as a day of rest from all labor of every kind, they observed its rigorously as the Jew or the Puritan. The motion of the heavenly bodies and the phenomena of the weath- I er were noted down, and a connection, I as I have before stated, detected, as M. j I de Perville claims to have discovered, ! | l>etween the weather aud the changes of | i the moon. They invented the sun-dial j to mark the movements of the heavenly i I bodies the water-clock to measure time, j j and they speak iu this work of the I I spots on the sun,, a fact they only | j could have known by the aid of tele- j j scopes, which it is supposed they possess- I ed, from observations that they have noted down of the rising of Venus and the fact that Layard found a crystal lens in the ruins of Nineveh. Tlieso "bricks" contain an account of the deluge, substantially ! the same as the narrative in the Bible, ' except that the names are different. I They disclose that houses and land were ! then sold, leased, or mortgaged, that > money was loaned at interest, and mar- 1 ket-gardeners, to use an American phrase, j "worked on shares;" that the farmer, j when plowing with his oxen, beguiled ! his labor with short and homely songs, two of which have been found; and, to ' connect this very remote civilization i with the usages of to-day, I may in con- j elusion, refer to one of the bricks of this i •library, in the form of a notice, which is [ to the effect that visitors are requested ! to give to the librarian the number of the ! book they wish to consult, and that it j will be brought to them; at the perusal | of which one is disposed to fall back up- ! on the exclamation of Solomon, that I there is nothing new under the sun." J Au Ohio Woman. i Mrs. Prudence Glover, who lives with her daughter near Cincinnati, being one hundred years old recently, had a birth­ day party, to which many friends were invited. She showed few signs of having passed so far beyond the allotted age of man. Sho is perfectly erect, moves without support of cane or friendly arm, and would anywhere be taken for a | woman of seventy-five. Her eyes are ! bright and her voice as clear as a girl's, | and her laugh as merry. Her faculties ; are entirely unimpaired, with the excep- ; tion of a slight deafness. She received ! her guests with cheerful greetings, wel­ coming old friends and making new ones at ease. The Rev. Mr. Hobbs made an address at supper, in the course of which he computed that Grandmother Glover's heart had kept time at least three apd a half billion times to the march of life. "She lias reached five score," he added, "with strength still firm, and vision clear enough to liecome a bride. And if any eligible centenarian of good looks and manly courage doubts it, let him pop the question. She might blush a little, I know, and appear somewhat coy, but, sir, press your suit, and there may bo yet a sensation for the newspapers--a wedding in high life." A BROOKFIEL,D, CONN., man is the happy possessor of a calf with three tails, which he is assiduously and care­ fully raising. It would be a great pity if he should fail, for the capabilities of a calf with three tails when it shall have attained the age of cowhood cannot' easily be estimated. A cow with one tail is able to drive the most even-tem- per» (l agriculturist- w ild in the fly season, but- when we consider the milking of a cow with three erratic tails flying irre­ sponsibly about, two thought becomes bewildering. LAWRENCE BARRETT has given up his trip abroad with his family this summer and has settled do^rn at his cottage at Coliassat, to rest, read, study and pre­ pare for his fall and winter work. He proposes to bring out several new things next season iu rather elaborate style, and to secure^--what he has lacked before--a superior supporting oompany. j SOWINO WHEAT.--When wheat follows j oats, the oat stubble should be plowed as soon as the crop is removed from the j field, otherwise the dry weather, that so I frequently conies in early autumn, will j make the soil dry and hard, and it then ; can only be worked with difficulty, j Wheat requires a fine, mellow soil, and" ! if any clods remain afterthe first harrow- I ing, the work of pulverizing the soil ! should be continued until all clods are ! reduced to a fine state. The roller and ! the Disk harrow are both excellent im- I plements in bringing the soil into a ' proper condition. DitiiiLiNG is by far the best method of ; sowing; it secures uniformity in depth, i and Saves seed by putting all the grains | in a proper place for growth. Five or | six pecks of grain is sufficient seed per - acre when the drill is used. Of late some farmers are testing the value of cultivat­ ing wheat, and their results are almost uniformly in favor of the practice. In sowing, the alternate spouts of the graiu drill are closed, and the seed sown in rows .about sixteen inches apart. It is not difficult to construct a cultivator that will work between these rows by means of which the soil may be kept loose and free from weeds. SEED.--Much depends upon the variety of wheat sown. Of the several kinds now "in the field," the Clawson takes very high rank, aud is the one found to be generally preferred in the wheat re­ gions we have recently visited. EARLY sowing is best, except when there is danger from Hessian fly, when the late sowing is preferred, but owing to the poor growth made in autumn only au average crop may be expected from sowing late to escape the fly--it is a choice between two evils, the lesser of \Vliich is sowing the seed late. EYE is not so valuable a crop as wheats but it has the advantage .over wheat of doing well on a poorer soil. It should be borne in mind that a soil that is rich enough to grow a good crop of rye can, by a dressing of 250 to 300 pounds, of fertiliser, be made to produce a much more profitable crop of wheat. If the rye is grown for the straw, in special cases, the rye crop may be more valuable than wheat; but as a grain crop the wheat takes the front rank. FALL FODDER--White turnips may be sown this month. With the use of manure or artificial fertilizers, an oat stubble may be made to produce a ;rop 600 to 800 bushels per acre. These roots make excellent food for all kinds of stock, and will keep in good condition until January. SHEEP.--The coupling season begins soon, and a good ram only should be used. If possible, secure a pure blood-- a poor ram is poor economy. CLOVER SEED.--Clover cut early for hay will be ready to cut again for seed this month. The nod may be turned for wheat, and will furnish a large amount of valuable, quick-acting plant- food. FOR fall pasture, rye, or millet may be sown early this month, on rich and thoroughly prepared soil. If not wanted this fall, the rye will make a good crop for the spriug soiling of the farm animals. ' WINTER oats have succeeded in some parts of the South, but are not a safe crop for the North. The seed is sown next month, but the preparation for it is now made, and the more thorough the better. SWAMP LANDS.--This month aud the next are the best for cleaning up the wet, low lands. The thick growth of grass and weeds is first to be out aud burned, when the soil will bo ready to break up with a plow. So soon as the soil has been made fine by thorough harrowing, it should be so^n to grass seed. Frequent­ ly it will Vie necesssry to run one or more drains before the soil is prepared for the seeding. During dry weather drains can be dug at much less expense than when the soil is full of water. In making a drain, it must be remembered that its value largely depends upon the thoroughness with which the work is done. A drain to be a paying invest­ ment must be a permanent investment. It is better to make a single drain that will last than a larger number, with the same money, that are imperfect, and will be constant sources of trouble. MUCK.--This valuable material for the barnyard, stable and compost heap, can be dug with the greatest ease and profit at this season. It mav be drawn out into a heap near by, with a team and a dump scraper, where it can get dried out, and afterward, be drawn to the place where it is to be used. COMPOSTS. -- There are many waste matters about the farm, and they should be gathered into a heap and there rotted into a valuable fertilizer. Weeds of all kinds that do not contain ripe seeds, and refuse of crops, should go into the com­ post heap. FALL F ALLOWING.--It is wise to plow as much as possible for spring sowing. It is a half-way fallowing, and in so far an advantage to the soil; it is of more bene tit to heavy land than light, and the earlier it is done the better. Fall plow­ ing greatly facilitates the farm operations in the spring. MANGELS AND BEETS.--The root crops need frequent cultivation through August, and as long as the foliage will allow it. Sugar-beets are best if earthed up until the roots are entirely below the surface. Mangles do not require this care in "hilling up." POTATOES should be harvested so soon as they are ripe, otherwise the tubers may sprout, especially if the weather is wet; they are more apt to be affected with the rot if not removed from the soil as soon as they are mature. Burn the vines. Cows will need some fresh fodder when the pastures become short and dry. Fodder corn is excellent for this, keeping up the flow of faiilk through the season. An abundance of cool, fresh water ought to be within the reach of the cows, and also shade from the hot sun of the sum­ mer noon-day. LAMBS shonld be separated from the dams and given a good pasture by them­ selves. If early lambs are desired for the spring market, a Southdown cross is preferable for quality, though in size the Coiswolds are much larger than the Soutlidowns. SWINE.--By proper management two litters of pigH may be obtained from the same sow in a year, and with considera­ ble profit. It is frequently an advan­ tage to have pigs come in August, as they can then be ready as small pork for the holidays. Above*all, keep the pens neat and clean. Sunshine. The world wants more sunshine in its disposition, in its business, in its chari­ ties, in its theology. For 10,000 of the aches and pains and irritations of men and women we recommend sunshine. It soothes better than morphine. It stimulates better than champagne. It is the best plaster for a wound. The Good Samaritan poured out iuto the fallen traveler's gash more of this than of oil. Florence Nightingale used it on , not a cupful, but a soul full. It is: good for spleen, for liver complaint, for neuralgia, for rheumatism, for failing fortunes, for melancholy. HOUSEKEEPERS' HELPS. YEAST.--One pint mashed potatoes, water and all, one cup of flour, one cup of HU«*ar, one cup of salt, one cup of strong hop tea, four quarts boilingwater. When nearly cohl add a pint of good yeast. Let it stand for twenty-four hours, occasionally stimug it; strain it and put it in a jug and set in a cool place. PINEAPPLE JELIIT.--Wash pineapples, and cut off the ends; then "grata them without peeling, and to every pound of grated fruit put a pound of lump sugar. Boil slowly (skimming occasionally) un­ til the fruit is quite clear, put in glass jars and cover each with a paper dipped in brandy, then cover closely and keep in a cool place. BOSTON BROWN BREAD.--For a long loaf, or two good-si/.ed ones, use the fol­ lowing receipt: Three cups yellow meal, one and a half cups Graham meal or flour, one and a half cups rye, scant two cups New Orleans molasses, three tea- spoonfuls baking powder, salt; mix with milk to consistency of'.stiff batter, pour into buttered mold, and steam four horn's. TEA PUNCH.--Make a quart of strong tea,' using six teaspoonfuls of the . best green tea to a quart of Ixiiling water. Let it draw for ten minutes. As soon as the water boils, add the rinds, juice and pulp of three hirge lemons, tithing out all the seeds. As sooil as the tea is drawn, strain it, and sweeten with two 'pounds of loaf sugar. When perfectly.cold, add a quart of Jamftica rum and three sliced lemons. Just before using make thick with finely broken ice. BLACKBERRY ConiaAL. --Wash and pick berries; mash them with a wooden spoon in a preserving-kettle. Let them come to a full boil. Strain through a fine sieve or jelly-bag. To every pint of juice add half a pint of water, one pound of loaf sugar, one ounce of whole cloves, and the same of mace and cin­ namon, a grated nutmeg, one ounce of pounded green ginger. Boil again for half an hour, strain through a jelly-bag, and when cohl add to each pint of cordial one gill of brandy. To be kept ina cool, dry place. CHICKEN AND CORN (MARYLAND FASHION).--Yon want fresh com; cut off the grains from the cob and put it in a pot with only enough water to cover it; stew thoroughly; cut the chicken up and add to the corn: season with pepper and salt, and when the chicken is tender add a ten cupful of cream, thicken with a very little ilour or cracker dust and but­ ter. At the very last, chop parsley fine and mix thoroughly. A variation from this is to stew with the corn an equal weight of pickled hard crabs. Even better, soft-shell crabs cooked with chicken and corn used to be one of the choice dishes of Maryland. NEW ENGLAND BAEED BEANS.--Some people think it necessary to soak beans over night before cooking, but that is not at all necessary. Boil the beans in plen­ ty of water ur.til nearly done, then drain off the water and put them in an enrther. pot, with cover, and bake slowly for two hours or more, in water enough to keep them well moistened. Most people in New England add from one to two table- spoonfuls of molasses, according to their taste. This gives them a rich, brownish shade, and a better taste. Put iu pork or not, and in quantity to suit. We have always left out the pork, and our Sunday morning dish of baked beans is usually satisfactory to all at the table. Good New Englaud brown bread is always ac­ ceptable with the beans. Dr. Callier Surprised, Vegetine Cured His Daughter. 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Tho story may pass, for although honor among thieves has no existence, it is probable that regular practitioners act ou the principle that dog should not eat dog. lliat they ever go an inch beyond that, we do not believe even though we have it on the aifthority of the Gaulois that Charles Dickens once lost his watch at a theater in Paris, and found it at his hotel with a note running: "Sir--I hope you "^ill excuse me; but I thought I was dealing with a Frenchman, (and not a country­ man. Finding out my mistake, I hasten to repair it by sending herewith the watch I stole from you. I beg you to receive the li image of my ••respects, and to believe me, my dear countryman, your humble and obedient servant. A PICKPOCKET. " Triflers with feminine affections do not always get off cheaply. 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No female novelist worthy of the name appeared in England until the reign of George IU. The lady who first had the courage to brave public opinion was Frances Buniey, the friend of Garrick and Dr. Johnson. Miss Burney remained unmarried until she was nearly forty years of age. Romance is then supposed to exercise a less dominant power, but she, nevertheless, had the imprudence to espouse Monsieur d'Arblav, a French refugee, whose in­ come consisted only of a precerions an­ nuity of £100. The marriage, however, proved a very happy one. Macaulay describes Monsieur d'Arblay as "an honorable and amiable mau, with a handsome person, frauk, soldier-like manners, and some taste for letters." The pair did not suffer from poverty; the wife became the bread-winner; and not very long after her marriage her third novel, "Camilla," was published, by which she is said to have realized over three thousand guineas. --Home JiAtrnal. BE bland in your maimers and blind in your prejudice. 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