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' » '* ' t> ' 'W|>5 t «U ucBumor im ma. mu a», | •. IT oUTU vimu. eoum. I AobH think I feel amok older; I'm mn Pin j., i- ruthpT STBT, " ;i, Bat M are many young folks; I meet 'em every /'% day. 1 emfpBs I'm more pnttmltr in what I eat and drink, E Bat oae'g taste iraproTea with coltm* that is all it means, I think. Can you r«id n* out* yoo nml tot Well, the print* fe'-j In? is w> bad, . ' Mo youiiK folks' eves can miit liki the books that ^ on/-- we had, ̂Are you quit* m quick of hearing? Please to my thai oneo again, Don't 11»« plain word% yew Be www? Tea, I Often used a cane, • - But it's not heoMuo I need it--no, I a!way* liked t •' r,,f "tick. ** And w oif might lean opoa it, tto aa well it dioold <5/ lie thick. Oh, rm smwi, I'm spry, Pa tirely-- I can walk, yes, 1 cm, On tho days I fael like walkiag, joat aa weO as you, young man t ago? Well, my heart ia very tender, kut I think 'twas al­ ways so, l>on't you find it minertmeahappena that yon ean't wallaunmef Tea--I k^ow lots of people-4>at my memonr'a not to blame. What! You think my memory's failing! Why it*s Just as bright, arid daar-- I remember my grand-xrandnutf She's been dead these sixty year. Ia your Toien a little tremblyf Well, It may be, now and then. But I write as good as ever with a good old-fashioned pen; It's the ftillots make the trouble--not at all my fin­ ger ends-- " That is why mv hand looks ahaky when I aim for dividends. Don't you stoop a little walking? It's a way Vre always l.ad-- I have always l>een round shouldered, erer since I was a lad. Don't you liate to tie your shoestrings? Yes, I own it--that is true. Don't j-ou tell old stories overt I am not aware I Don't you «iy at home of evenings? Don't you loTe a cushioned scat In a corner by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet? Don't yen wear warm Beery flannels? Don't you mnffl' up your throats Don't you like to have onetiejp yon when you're - patting on y< ur coatf Don't you like old books you've dogs-eared, yen can't remember when? Don't you call it late at nine o'clock and go to bed at ton? How many cronies can yon crnmt of all TOO used to know That called you by youi Christian name some fifty years ago? How look the prises to you that used to fire your brata ? You've reared you mound -how high is it above the level plain? Tou've drain. <\ the brimming golden cup that "«*«» r fancy reel, Don't you get a little sleepy after dinner every day? Well, Id'Ma little sometimes, tut that always was Don't Tou'cry a little easier than Mae twenty cou'sistiî or^thro^men everything that might be turned to value to the confederate cause. Dan had no partieufar make up except thi dress of a Virginia farmer, and no story to tell ex-1 eept, that he was (when he got there( within the considerate lines to secure some sort of compensation for three horses seized by a party of confederate raiders. Circumstances might alter his plans and his story, but if so, he would have something else at his tongue's end. The spy left the federal outposts and headed directly for Centerville. He met with no adventure that night, lay in the woods all the next day, or advanced un­ der cover of them, and at dark again took the highway. He knew that danger lurked in every fence corner for one who skulked along, and he therefore put a bold face on the matter and walked briskly forward, passing quite a number of negroes and several white men without being dis­ turbed. Just then many slaves were try­ ing to reach the federal lines, and this fact got Dan into trouble. About nine o'clock, as he stepped briskly long, a patrol consisting of throe men sprang from the bushes and confronted him, supposing him at first to be a negro, when finding he was a white man, the leader of the patrol began asking leading questions and insisting upon prompt re­ plies. For some reason Dan thought it | best to change his plans. Dropping his ; left shoulder and humping up his back, j he replied to their questions in a whining drawling voice, in imitation of a lialf-wit. I "Laid for a nigger and captured afool!" j growled the leader, as Dan began to ask silly questions and danced around. " Wnar' do you live?" asked one of the others. . "In-^ze--moon," drawled Dan,laugh , ing as loud as he could. ! "How do you get down here?" j "On--a--string--ha! ha! ha!" And j he jumped around and chuckled as if he : had got off a good joke. j "Well, I suppose we'd better give him : a kick and let him go," remarked the | leader. "He's no nigger, don't know j enough to be a soldier, and we'd better j hurry him along." "I don't know about*that!" remarked j the third man, who had alone beta silent, j "I don't know of any fool in this neigh - j borlxood, aud we shouldn't let this chap : go until we have a closer look at him. j Here, you infernal idiot, do you know any one around here ?" j "Missus Brown--Missus Brown!" re ! plied Dan, using the first name that ( came in his way. "Well, it's only a step down thar," said the man, "and if she knows him it's all right." So there was a Mr. Brown close at hand. No one could have been more sur­ prised than the spy, and he feared he had gotten himself into a bad scrape. There was no chance for him but to go along, and go he did, amusing the men tor a quarter of a mile with strange antics and silly talk. Mrs. Brown was a widow, living in a comfortable, though small farm house, and Dan was marched straight up to her door. She was a wo­ man about fifty years of age, with a kind face and motherly ways. "Widder Brown," began the leader ftf the party, as he put his hand on the spy, "we captured this fool down the road thar. He acts and talks like a fool, but we want to be sure he isn't tricking us. He says he knows yoa. If you know him, that's all we want." _ " Missus Brown know Tommy," chuck­ led Dan, as he boldly entered the house and sat down, and took the family cat on his lap. „ . The widow's vanity was a bit flattered, "OKe jBTthe most singular men I ever *n„^e place, that she had been jfoir door opened, a light appeared, and as mother and son ascended, she said: t "Of course he's a fool! Do you think I've got so old that I can't tell an idiot ' when I Bee him ?" "Well, these are suspicious-times," muttered the son in reply, and both ad­ vanced to the bed. Dan seemed to be fast asleep. One hand all cramped up was on the quilt in plain sight, and he laid his face screwed up until the lonesome look ought to have aaeltod a heart of stone. "There! don't he look like a fool?" whispered the mother. "He may be one, but it don't do any hurt to let the patrol take him into our outposts," answered the eon, and both descended the stairs. Daikmust get out of that. Not by way of the window, but down stairs and out of the front door. The patrol could not be far off, and he had no time to spare. Hastily resuming his garments, he softly descended the stairs. WhMe waiting at the door he heard the son go out, and after two or three minutes he softly opened the door. No one was in the room. Tiptoeing across it, he opened the froot door and stepped out, but only to stand face to face with the son, a young man of about twenty- five rnd of good muscular development. For what seemed a long minute they looked into each other's faces. -The confederate then said: " Throw up you hands, Mr. Yank-- the game is plaved!" " I justcamein to bid you good-night!" coolly answered Dan, and he gathered and made a rush. The confederate did not follow, becanse he realized that Dan was running directly for the approaching patrol. He was under full headway when he met them, or saw that he was going to run into them, and swerved aside. "Shoot that Yankee--kill him! kill him!' shouted the confederate at the house, and the patrol opened fire in re­ sponse. Dan was not over thirty feet away, and the gloom of the night saved him from be­ ing riddled. One bullet struck him in the left arm, just below the elbow, inflicting a painful wound, but the others went wild and he soon distanced pursuit. Dan did not get into Centerville that time, but he was there a month later. OUR YOUNG FOLKS. A rdllLE SOLVKfc BY MRS. R K. TURN Mb ' Oh dear, the buds and blossoms, The leaves and grasws too, All tell the self-same sfory, -- " We've work enough to do!" Just hear the brooklet murmur And sine its little song,-- " The world will move the If I just push along!' Combirdie, from the brandies, Come down and help me play; There isn't alway aunshine; Dorome down here to-day I I'm sure there's naught to hinder, No work ior you or me. We'll laugh and play this sunny day, And sing aloud for gleet " Y^ur nest you must be building?" Well, birdie, then Kood-by I Come, little bee, come, pretty bee, 1 Say, whither do you hie? Golden butterfly, I'll catch you! Chase me while I run! " After honey?" Well, I'm thinking You should hare some fun! What does i' mean, I wonder? Oh, now, I think I see,-- , If birds, and flow< rs, and l>ees must work, ' There's something left lor me! So I've learned one lesson well, Now I'll seek another. Well, I suppose a girl like me Ought to help her mother! -- Youth's Companion. your .. .. Ton* re slept the giddy potion you foel? tell us how You've watched »he harvest ripening till every stem was cropped, «, You've seen the rose of heauty fade till every petal dropped. You've told your thoueht, you've done your task you've tracked you dial round, ' --Ibacking-town! Thunt heaven, not yet! I'm hale and brisk and sound. you "shall lire to think And good for many a tusde, see: My shoes are not quite "ready yet--don't you're rid of me! O'.d P-'rr was in bis lusty prime when he was older far, And where will you be if I live to beat old Thomas Parr! ia certain *h well--I know--at every age 1 eharm You're coins? Come, permit me, please, I bee you'll take mv aria. I take your arm! Why take your arm? Pd thai* you to be toM I® •w enough to walk alone, but not so very old! HOW DAN PUVED THE FOOL. HOUSEKEEPERS' HELPS. met with was a private soldier in the Twelfth New York Infantry, which regi­ ment was brigaded with the Secoud and Third Michigan and Second Massachu­ setts during the first year or so of the war. Seen at one time you would say ,t Dan Harrison had blue eyes. Five minutes after you would make oath that they were black, as indeed they were. Dan also had wonderful control' over his voice. He could mimic the voice of any man in the brigade. He could bark like a dog, bray like a mule, whistle like a bird, and was the wonder of the camp. On one occasion our Wagonmaster was Asleep in his wagon, with his six mules roped near by. Dan crept behind a bale of hay and brayed loud and long. The ^Wagonmaster awoke and jumped down and pounded the nearest mule, grpwling out as he re-entered the wagon: "There, blast ye--I guess tou'H feel humble for awhile!" In about two minutes Dan repeated the worcLs. The voice was so exactly the same that a dozen ot us. who were hiding near by, thonglit it was the JVagonmaster again. The latter indi­ vidual stuck his head out , looked around in surprise, and then said: "'Well, it took that echo along time to get around tliis wagon!** There was yet other reasons why Dan was considered greater than a menagerie. He could drop one shoulder three inches lower than the other. He could walk as if one leg was shorter than the other. He could work his ears like a horse. He could cramp his hands until they seemed to have been drawn all out of shape by rheumatism. He could make it appear that he had a squint in either eye, and he could raise his eye-brows clear up into his hair. He was a farmer's son, gen­ ial, brave and good-hearted, and he was never tired of doing something to amuse UB. Soon after Hemtzleman made his re- connoissance from in front of Alexandria down toward Centerville, he sent for Dan Harrison, and the result of the inter­ view was that Dan was engaged by the government as a spy. His curious physi­ cal structure and his natural coolness and bravery fitted him for such danger­ ous work, and I may say here that for three years he was accounted the most succesaful and daring spy in the service." Just one more curious trait about him and then I will relate an adventure of his which cost him a bad wound. A dozen of us would sit in a circle •round him, and somebody would ask: "Dan, what is filename of the Colonel of the third Maine?" He would close his eyes for perhaps three seconds, and Mien, eight times out of ten would give the true name. How it came to hun lie could not explain; but he seemed to divine things intuitively. I have seen him stand in front of the guard '•'jvist being dismissed, and all strangers him, and call out the first names of V out of every five. At Fort Michi- the winter of 1862, he made a thef2^ that he could give twentvSstiai1 m\mes twenty out of A ser't'enik111611 *** the line before him. into auu3C! my C°,mpa?y1 went over men, and Xegl™®nt andilbrougllt the dred gathereST °f than five huD" won. Dan X. 660 the wa?er lost or aCgtheiLKl^.^r^ 8lowly twenty-five mX*,tv!ent7^0 <* The three whom V ^ name8; Hezekiah, PhitetuA^rjXa11^ IT £fiLeXCtTii°r them was that heiwas not fully up on suture. |l • ®,an Harrison set out to work bis wjyr • jto the confederate intrench- HiB around Centerville, changed to see called upon to identify a stranger, and in the next place, she would lose prestige if she failed to do so. "Mebbe I know him--mebbeldo," she replied as she looked for her spec- tacles. "Somehow or other I alius know all the fools going, and most of 'em come around for victuals. Now, than, I 1 will look at him " She put on her spectacles, took the candle in her hand, and Dan was scruti­ nized for a long minute. He looked up into her face and grinned and chuckled, though his heart was in his mouth. "She don't know him," whispered one of the men. The widow overheard it and now she was on her mettle. Walking slowly across the room to put down the candle and her spectacles, she turned and said: " i'es, lie's a fool, and you are bigger fools for stopping him!" "Then you know him?" asked the leader. I rather think so! His name is Tom­ my, and he lives somewhere around Fair- lax. He's been here more'n a dozen times." " Didn't propose matrimony, did he?" asked one of the men. No!" she snapped, "but if he had he d have stood a better chance than white men who hide in ience comer* to capture niggers 1" So saying she slammed the door on them and went away. She sat down by the table and looked across at Dan, and j presently mused: "Yes, he's a fool, and those men had no business hauling him around, no mat­ ter whether I knew him or not I guess he's hungry and tired and I'll give him something to eat aud send him to bed." Dan "played the fool" to perfection, and when he had eaten, the woman had a real motherly interest in ium. She guided him up stairs, showed him the bed lie was to occupy, and then went down with the light, savi ̂ ig: Fools can see in the dark ti well as by daylight, and you might set the house on tire." The spy was out of the scrape, in one sense, and yet he was in trouble. He wanted to reach and pass the confederate outposts before daybreak. If he remained in the house he would encounter people next day who might want him more fullv identified. But how was he to leave? The chamber was a half-story affair, all in one room, and a window at either end. One of these would let the spy out. He crept across the floor and tried the sash of one. It was old and shaky, and yet he worked at it for a long ten miu- utes, and gave up in despair. The sashes were not nailed, but so warped that to get them up, or down, or out, would make noise enough to arouse everybody about the house. The sash if the other window could be raised, but Dan's finger's had. scarcely touched it when two or three dogs, which seemed to be kenneled directly below, com­ menced a furious barking. Escape by that way was cut off. ^ After a moment of thought, Dan de­ cided to wait till the house grew quiet, and then descend the stairs and go out by the frc i door. He might have to wait for an tour or more, and he, there­ fore, threw himself on the bed. He had scarcely got settled when he heard a commotion down stairs and the heavy tread of a man. Creeping out of bed, and putting liis ear to the floor, he soon made out that the woman's son had re- turned home after a considerable absence within the confederate lines. Dan listened for a long time, catcliing words 'enough to keep the run of the conversation, and when he heard both moving across the floor he slipped into bed again. It was well h« did so. The Twenty-four Proverbs la Conking. Miss Dod's lectures are full of little bits of information that might fairly be called culinary proverbs. Here are a few of them : There is a greenness in onions and po­ tatoes that renders them hard to digest. For health's sake put them in warm water for an hour before cooking. The only kind of a stove with which you can preserve a uniform heat is a gas stove ; with it you can simmer a pot for an hour, or boil it at the same rate for twenty minutes. Good flour is not tested by its color. White flour may not be the best. The test of good flour is by the amount of water it absorbs. In cooking a fowl, to ascertain when it is done, put a skewer into the breast, and if the breast is tender the fowl is done. A few dried or preserved cherries, with stones out, are the very best thing possi­ ble to garnish sweet dishes. Single cream is cream that has stttod on the milk twelve hours. It is best for tea and cofiee. Double cream stands on its milk twenty-four hours, and cream for butter frequently stands fofty-eight hour*, Cream that is to be Whipped should not be butter cream, lest in whip- ' ping it change to butter. To beat the whites of eggs quickly, put in a pinch of salt. The cooler the eggs the quicker they will froth. Salt cools and also freshens them. In boiling eggs hard put them in boil­ ing water. It will prevent the yolk from coloring black. You must never attempt to boil the dressing of a clear soup in the stock, for it will always discolor the soup. In making any sauce, put the butter and flour in together, and your sauce will never be Jumpy. Whenever you see your sauce boil from the sides of the pan yon may know your flour or corn starch is done. Boiled fowl with sauce, over which grate the yolk of eggs, is a magnificent dish for luncheon. Tepid water is produced by combining two-thirds cold and one-third boiling water. To make maccaroni tender, put. it in cold water and bring it to a boil. It will then be much more tender than if put into hot water or stewed in milk. The yolk of eggs binds the crust much better than the whites. Apply it to the edges with a brush. Old potatoes may be freshened up by plunging them into cold water before cooking them. Never put a pudding that is to be steamed into anything else than a dry mold. Never wash raisins that are to be used in sweet dishes. It will make the pud­ ding heavy. To clean them wipe with a dry towel. To brown sugar for sauce or puddings, put the sugar in a perfectly dry sauce­ pan. [If the pan is the least bit wet, the sugar will burn, and you will spoil your saucepan. ] Cutlets and steaks may be fried as well as broiled, but they must be put in hot butter or lard. The grealse is hot enough when it throws off a'bluish smoke. The water used in mixing bread must be tepid. If it is too hot, the loaf will be full of great holes. To boil potatoes successfully : When the skin breaks, pour off the water and let them finish cooking in their OWH steam. In making crust of any kind, do not melt the lard in flour. Melting will in­ jure the crust. In boiling dumplings of any kind, put them in the water one at a time. If they are put in together they will mix with each other. __ _ Aristocratic Lady Gamblers. A most disgraceful scene, says Vanity Fair, took place at Newmarket. A num­ ber of ladies of high position aud rank, and well known in society, assembled after dinner at the house of one of their number to play bacarat. The hostess took the bank, together with a gentleman of the party; but at her first deal an ob­ jection was made to her manner of deal­ ing. She dealt again, when another point was raised, and thereupon ensued the most discreditable "row" that prob­ ably ever took place between ladies. Smoking and swearing, the heroines of the affair hurled every kind of uncompli­ mentary remark at each other for the space of something like half an hour, to the great fright of such of them as still retained the ordinary timidity of woman­ hood. At length the "row " ended, but so great an effect was produced by it that i| was thought necessary by the hostess to ask an exalted personage to come down and play the next night at the house ill order to rehabilitate it and Her, which the personage was good-naturedly pleased to do. It is right tp add that the hostess herself is said to have acted properly throughout. MarJ oriels Flrat Party. . Marjorie is a funny little girl tfho lives in a gray house near the shore of Lake Michigan. She is the child whose papa calls her all sorts of pet names, some­ times " Toodles" and " Little Scamp;" sometimes "Bluebells" and "Birdling.;" and whose mamma had to put her hands in calico bags so she would remember not to pick the green currants from the bushes and eat them. She is the same little darling who has a big dollie, named Fannie Rosa Belle, and one day when she had been to the barber's shop, she got the " siggars" and took Fannie Rosa Belle out of her carriage, and (jut off all of her curly "bang^s." Marjorie is the baiby who calls Gracie through the tele­ phone to come over and have a party with her lovely china dishes, on the lit­ tle table stuck all over with "bootisul postage stampers," and who gives her mamma dreadful " shocks" with her "'lectricity box." And slie is tlie very same child who tells stories like this: "Once time ago, there was a mouse, an' he had a long tail an' a iwap. An' de mouse got de twap in his mouf an' he choked, an' choked, and choked." You know her, don't you? Big l>right blue eyes, pug nose, and dainty hands and feet that are never still, except when she is tucked in her "big, large.Cwismas bed "--that is the Marjorie who went to the party. And now I am going to tell you all about it. Once there was a darling brown-eyed baby in the Home in the city, where little children are brought who have nobody to love them and take care of them. One day a kin d lady came there to see the children, and she saw this sweet baby and loved it* So she took it home with her and called it her own baby, and named it Edith, and it was little Edith who had the party. First, one bright, cold day hi the winter, Edith and her mamma went in the carriage to give the invitations. They were written on pretty cards and enclosed in the daintiest of envelopes, and on every card and every envelope a tiny spray of forget- me-nots was printed. This is what Mar- jorie's invitation said: -r .. . . Edith Mason will be happy to see Marjorie Allen on Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 14th, from 3 to 6 o'clock. You see that waa Edith's fifth birthday, and her mamma was so kiad that she had forty little girls come to see h*af that day, and Marjorie was the youngest of them all, for she was only two arid 4 half years old. * When Wednesday afternoon came this dear little child had her nap just after dinner, so as to be ready fofthe party in time. She always goes to sleep all alone up stairs in her crib, just like a little lady. Well, when Marjorie waked up, her eyes were very bright, and her cheeks were very pink, and, her heart was happy. So her mamma bathed her, and dressed her, and wrapped her up very warm, and Maggie took her in her pretty carriage away down by the Con­ gregational Church, where Edith lives. And when Marjorie came home, this is what she told her mamma about her first party: "O mamma. I came down 'ere, an' I seen suts lots of little girls, and they played so--and so." Then she stopped and showed how they played, dancing ai^d singing, trying pretty games. "Some little girls had shaehes, mam­ ma, an' they dresses was all bine an' green an pink, an' white aprons all soaf, an' shitrd, oh, so lovely! An' we hau dinner there. We sitted at they table, an' I had a high chair, mamma. An- wliat 'ou siidc, mamma? We had all some paper caps 011, all of us; an' I said, " 'Sense me," an' "I very niuts oblizod," an' "<^frrci." An' O mamma, do re was a black 'ooman there! S'pose 'oo like black 'itomans, mamma? I'm don't, no-o-o! She poured all the gobbles o' waters, an' gin me one, an' Bessie, an' all the children. One little girl was so fraid of her, an' she dess cried so hard as she possible can. Oh, "I eated ho mrits, mamma! Chick- en-meat, an' ice-cweam an' bitsy, an' oh, we had evervsing--delly-cake, an' milk, an' oranze, an' chicken, an' canny,' an'-- 'at's all; an' gwapes! "There was dollies down 'ere, an' a cwadle with blue eyes, mamma; an' I wanted to play with 'at dollie, an' one little girl wouldn't let me, not at all! Wasn't she horwtd, mamma? But I had a big niggle an' worsted, an' so I crocheted. "An* I 'spect I s'all have to have a party my birfday -- can I, mamma? With my new dishes, an' Fannie Wosa Belle, an' kittife, an' all the little girls come, can I mamma? Wouldn't 'at be sweet? Won't I be sree years old next of June, mamma? "Papa came after me, an'I wouldn't kiss dear 'ittle Edie! I didn't seel like it; an' I wiggled an' wiggled. I'm dess pleatin tired out! But I kissed her mamma. Oh, I'll have to go down 'ere to make a oall,--s'pose I will; an' then I'll kiss her. 'At'll do dess as well. An' I want some o' that canny what I bringei home in a box from EcKe's party, mam­ ma, please mamma?" Anlmnli That tow Dlatlr. Music affects animals differently. Some rejoice, and are evidently happy when listening to it, while others show unmis­ takable dislike to the sound. For some years my father lived in an old hall in the neighorliood of our large towns, and there I saw the influence of music upon many animals. There was a beautiful horse, the pride and de­ light of sis all, and, like many others, he disliked being caught. One very hot summer day I was sitting at work in the garden, when old Willy, the gardener, appeared, streaming with perspiration. V What is the matter, Willy?" "Matter enough, miss. There's that Robert, the uncanny beast, he won't be caught, all I can do or say. I've given him corn, and one of the best pears off the tree; but he's too deep for me--he snatched the pear, kicked up his heels, and off he is, laughing at me, at the bot­ tom of tho meadow." "Well, Willy, what can I do? He won't let me catch him, you know." "Ay, but miss, if you will only just go in and begin a toon on the peanner, cook says he will come up to the fence and harken to you, for he is always a doing that; and maybe I can slip behind and cotch him." I went in at onoe, not expecting my stratagem to succeed. But in a few min­ utes the saucy creature was standing quietly listening while I played "Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled." The halter waa soon round his neck, and he went away to be harnesses, quite happy and contented. There was a great peculiarity about his taste for music. He never woi^ld stay to listen to a phiiutive song. I soon observed this. If I jJayed "Scots, wha hae," heo would listen, well pleased. If I changed the measure and expression, playing the same air plaintively, ho would toss' his head and walk away, as if to say, " Toiat is not my sort of music." Changing to something martial, he would return and listen to me. In this respect he entirely differed from a beautiful cow we had. Slie had an awful temper. She never would go with the other cows at milking-time. She liked the cook, and, when not too busy, cook would manage Miss Nancy. When the cook milked her, it was always close to the fence, near the drawing- room. If I were playing, she would stand perfectly still, yielding her milk without any trouble, and would remain until I ceased. As long as I played ilaintive music -- the "Land offers his services, shows his reference. Then the merchant: "Showme hdw you would erase a mistake in your fig­ ures." The aspiring cashier sets to work with scraper, ink-eraser, and what not, and, if he Succeeds in destroying all traces of the erasure, he is invited to take his hat and his leave. Leal," " Home, Sweet Home," " Robin Adair," any sweet, tender air -- she teemed entranced. I have tried her, and changed to martial music, whereupon she invariably walked away. Young People. FARM NOTES. A Baby Carriage in tlie Hall. A baby carriage in the hall. The happiest piece of furniture that any house can boast, always malting an honorable exception in favor of the cradle. That baby carriage means a home. Without it, only a place to stay in. It means a "dear little dimpled darl­ ing"--that makes sunshine all the time-- when it hasn't got the colic. / It means a happy mother, whose life is filled with all tender care, all sweet responsibilities, all wonderful hope for the future. It means a father who holds his head up among men with the grandest dig­ nity that any man may know. To mother it is "Baby." To father it is "My boy." That baby carriage in the hall means all the wealth of rosy hours as mother sings lullaby songs--perhaps, " llusti my dear, lie stilt and slumber, Holy angels gua-d thy bed." When all the time she is the angel that God appointed to guard it, as none of all high heaven's host could do. It means a word of plans and projects which all center in that one little life. It means a father that studies his bank balance with wenderful diligence, for veu ' "My sou must have a good education, £jie | and a good start in life," you know, OUR BEST REWARD. WINSTOK, FOKSYTIIE CO., N. C., > March 15, 1880. I TOTITE HOP BITTERS Mia. Co. : Gents--I desire to express to yoo my thanks for your wonderful Hon Bitters. I was troubled with dyspepsia for five years previous to commencing the use of your Hop Bitters some six months ago. My cucchaa been wonder­ ful. I am pa9tor of the First Methodist Church of this place, and my whole congregation can testify to the great virtue of your bitters. Very respectfully. REV. H. FEREBEE. THE truth is, remarks the Countrj) G. nfh'man, while every farmer knows that clean culture is absolutely essential to success in his common farm crops, many fail to apply the same knowledge to their more expensive orchards. To destroy plantains, dandelions or other weeds on the town, drop carefully a single drop of sulphuric acid into the centre of the plant. One drop will do the business; more will fye likely to do harm. IN England it has been found that seven pounds of sulphur mixed with one hundred pounds of ground bone and al- loAved to slightly ferment for a few days before being applied to the soil, will ef­ fectually defend the young turnip plants from the attacks of the fly. BEST TIME TO HANDLES BEES.--In mid­ summer, from early morning until ten a. m. is the best and most quiet time, when many of the bees are out. They shoidd never be disturbed at night or when the air is damp or chilly, or it is windy. AN improved corn-slieller has been patented by B. A. Camp, in Indiana. It is so constructed that it will not become clogged, nor break the cobs, but carry them out of the way, and deliver the shelled corn into a spout whence it can be drawn off into sacks, or other receivers. AN inquiry has been made about the proportion of saltpetre and water to be used in forming a mixture for the de­ struction of the squash bugs and other insects. It is a teaspoonful to a gallon of water, and a tablespOonful to a com­ mon pailful of water. , , A f GENTLEMAN at the head of a large fruit-drying establishment states that fruit sliced very thin across the> axis, placed on a tray in the sun, and covered with thin muslin (not mosquito netting), will present an appearance closely re­ sembling that prepared by evaporation and bleached by sulphur fumes. SOME years ago, says the Ohio Farmer, D. M. Ferry grew six hundred bushels of onions on an acre, for which he was offered $2.50 per bushel, making the snug sum of &1,500 from an acre. A farmer who heard of it, and knew no more about onion-growing than he did of Sanskrit, planted five acres of common corn land in onions, the next season, the seed costing him $100. Ho didn't grow a bushel of marketable onions. Had he studied up the subject and planted tlie first season an eighth or fourth of one acre, he might now be a successful onion-grower, whereas he indulges in profanity at the smell of an onion. To DESTROY FUNGI": IN CELLARS.-- The use of sulphur to destroy fungoid growths in groensliouses and vineries is well known to horticulturists. The same remedy may be applied to destvoy fungus and mould in cellars, in many of'which it exists to such an extent as to damage produce stored there. Take some stick sulphur, and place in a pan and set fire to it; close the doors, making the cellar as nearly air-tight as possible for a few hours, when the fungi will be destroyed and the mould dried up. Repeat this simple and inexpensive operation every two or three months, and the cellar will be free from all parasitical growth. A MILKING SHED.--For summer dairy- ing an o}K>n shed in which the cows can be tied and given a few mouthfuls of fresh green fodder after they are milked, and which should be cleanly scraped after each milking, is perhaps the most convenient and the best. The milk mav be drawn free from dust and dirt " flicked " by the switching of the cows' tails; as will happen with cows loose in a barn-yard. Moreover, the milk pails should be of tin and not of wood. An old wooden milk-pail can not be made clean by dint of any amount of scouring. Nor should the milk-pail be used for any other purpose ; but, as soon as the milk is strained, the pail should be washed with cold water, scalded, and turned bottom upward upbri a bench or on a stand furnished with pegs to hold the pails, that they may be well aired.--Ex­ change. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC AND AGRICUL­ TURAL EDUCATION.--A paragraph is go­ ing the rounds of the press affording the interesting intelligence that "the French Government has ordered a course of teaching hi agriculture in every primary school in the country." I suppose this .action must be accepted as a right and proper thing on the part of the repub­ lican government of France. But what shall be said of another, and older, and many think a better and a greater r^'^ub- lic, the governing powers of which nave suffered a vast system of schools endowed for the express purpose of teaching agri­ culture, to lapse into the insignificant form of what Gold win Smith calls "One- horse Universities." If the Republicans of France deserve high praise for that recognition of agriculture, shall it be praise or censure that shall be meeted out to a collection of lawyers and politi­ cians which deny a few thousand dollars to the Agricultural Department and re­ fuse to make its head more than a regis­ tering elerk ?--Rural New Yorker. A Test of Cashiers. A Paris merchant, who has been sev­ eral times robbed by unfaithful cashiers, has invented an infallible test of compe­ tency. The cashier presents himself,' And lie goes home and catches the laughing toddler up, and reddens the dimples with his whiskers, and then put­ ting sturdy little twelve-month's old on j Hartier's I *lis feet' sets llim at Jus'a; b, c of walk- I ! ing, addressing him with comical dig- ! j nity, "Well, Governor, where shall we j j go now?" ' j | And although lie only calls him "Gov- | J ernor," the mother's heart says--and the i father wouldn't deny it were she to put ' it in words--that more likely it will be I ! President, in that dim, beautiful and certainly very grand future. I Her choice, though, would be that he I should be a good man and a happy one. I Between them both they parcel out for j his manhood's years all that makes life worth the living. I That baby carriage in the hall means j a good deal, does it not? j It means everything' to the father and mother. It means more than can be told. If you have such apiece of furniture in use you know all about it! If you haven't, it's a waste of raw ma­ terial to bother with you.-- Wheeling Leader, Recording the Motion of Trains. It would be a curious catalogue that would set forth the number of inventions that have been applied to railroads,, for railroads have been the prolific mother of a great many contrivances, and have given inventors thousands of opportuni­ ties to exert their genius and ingenuity. The next time you are on a palace draw­ ing-room car or a sleeper, look about you aud try to take an account of the patent arrangements that are applied to contribute to your comfort or tend to your safety, from the Westinghouse air brakes and the Miller bumpers to the little catch that holds the window cur­ tain at your side. One of the latest in­ ventions and one that seems to us could i wreii an , *!^ ' be made verv ™ll^l fl,« of three bptties. be made very useful, is called the "Wythe Speed Recorder." It is named from its inventor, who is said to have made and l&st several fortunes in inven­ tions. A stock company owns this pat- ant. The machine makes an indisputa­ ble record of the movements of a train, end this record could be used in evidence in cases of collisions and accidents. It is placed in the caboose. A gear to the axle moves a roller, over which a paper, marked in small squares, runs. A pen­ cil is adjusted to the surface of this pa- jx-r, and when the axle turns, the paper i.i moved under its point and receives a mark. This pencil has two movements, one lengthwise of the paper, showing distance, and a second crosswise on the paper, showing time. When the train is in motion the pencil mark is diagonally across the squares, and when at rest the mark is up and down across the squares. The instrument records stops, backings and all motions of the train. It tells how often, how fast and how far every move is made, and in cases of disputed evidence would do much towards fixing responsibility for accidents. It shows just how long the train stands at any point, and is to a train what a log-book is to a ship.--I'Hniira Free Press. RocnHSTER, N. Y., March 11, 1880. Hop BITTERS CO : Please accept our grateful acknowl­ edgment for the Hop Bitters you were 80'kind to donate, and wluch were such a benefit to us. Yours, v*ry gratefully. OLD T-ADIES OF THE HOME OF TOT FRIENDLESS. DELEVANJ Wis., Sept. 24, 1878. hfflts--I have taken not qaite one bottle of the Hop Bitters. I was a feeble old man of seventy-eight when I got it. lo-day I am as active and feel as well as I did at thirty. I see a great many that need such a medicine. D. BOYCB. _ MONROE, Mich., Sept. 25, 1875. Sirs--I have been taking Hop Bitters for inflammation of the kidneys and bladder; it has done for me what four doctors failed to do. The effect of the bitters seemed like magic to mo.. W. L. CARTES. BRADFORD, Pa., May 8, 1875. It has cured me of several disease?, such as nervousness, sickness at the stomach, month ly troubles, etc. I have not seen a sick day in a year since I took Hop Bitters. Several of my nr iirhbon use them. MRS FANNIE GREEN. Immense Sale. EVANSVII.I.E, Wis., June 24, 1879. Gentlemen--No Biltors have had one- half the sale here and given such uni­ versal satisfaction as your Hop Bitters have We take pleasure in speaking lor their welfare, as every one who tries them is well satisfied with their results. Several such remarkable cures have been made with them here that there are a number of earnest workers in the Hop Bitters cause. One person gained eleven pounds from taking only a few bottles. SMITH & IDE. BAY CITY. Mich., Feb. 3, 1880. HOP BITTERS COMPANY: 1 ihink it my dury to send you a re­ commend for the benefit ot any person wishing to know whether Hop Bitters are good or not. I know thev are good for general debility and indigestion; strengthen the nervous system and make new life. I recommend mv patients to use them. DU. A. PRATT, Treater oi Ohronic Diseases. * SUPERIOR Wis., Jan., 1890. I heard in my neighborhood that your Hop Bitters was doing such a great - deal of good among the sicic and afflicted with most every kind of disease, and as I had been troubled for fifteen years with neuralgia and all kinds of rheu^ malic complaints and kidney trouble, I took one bot tle according to directions. It at once did me a great deal of good, and I used another bottle. I am an old man, but am now as well as I can wish. There are seven or eight families in our place using Hop Bitters as their family medicine, and are to well satisfied with it they will not use any other. One lady here had been bedridden for years, is ell and doing her work from the use The ti!rave of Jolm Howard Payne. A letter from Tunis, Africa, says: I LEONARD WHITBECK. A Voice from the Pren. I take the opportunity to bear testi­ mony to the efficacy of your " IIop Bit­ ters/' Expecting to find them nauseous and bitter and composed of bad whisky, we were agreeably surprised at their mild taste, just like a cup ot tea. A Mn* CresBw^ll and a Mrs. Connor, frieada, have likewise tried, and pronounce them the best medicine they have ever taken for building up strength and toning up the system. I was troubled with costiveness, headache and want of appe­ tite. The two former ailments are gone, and the latter greatly improved. I have a yearly contract with a doctor to look after the ht a'th of myself and famrily, but I need him not now. S. GILLII.AND, Peoples'1 Advocate, July 25. 1878. Pittsburg, Pa. A Beautiful New York City. Binghamton, N. Y., known as "The Parlor City," claims to be the cleanest town in America. Each resi­ dence has its own lawn and ornamental I flower beds. Thre are no fences be- i tween these homes, or ou the streets, so 1 that the eye roves over an unbroken line ; of smootli-shaven grass and carefully- ' tended flower-beds, these extending from to another. Between the one square ... _ „ , , _ sidewalks and the streets there is a strip must tell you of our visit to the Protest- [ of grass, which is kept as neatly and ant Cemetery to see the grave of John well rolled as the plots next the houses. Howard Payne, the author of ' 'Home, Outside are the rows of trees, and in Sweet Home." This man, who never many streets there is a double row, one knew the joys of real home, died alone 1 inside, and the other outside of the and unhappy in this far-off land. We | sidewalk. called upon our American Consul at Tunis, who told us of some interesting ' things in connection with the last years of our unfortunate countryman, who died in the same room in which we were then sitting. In a small inelosure, planted with cypress trees, and shut in with high walls, we found this quiet resting-place of the dead, among many tombs of foreign Consuls--English, Ger­ man and other nationalities. Our atten­ tion was first attracted to the plain white marble slab, resting on a square founda­ tion, and overhung by an immense pep­ per-tree, whose long, graceful branches reminded us of the weeping willow of our own land. We stood with uncov­ ered heads as we read this simple in­ scription: John Howard Payne, Twice Consul of thp United States, I)u«l April 1. 1S51, Born at Boston, June S, 1792. Sure, when thy senile spiri flo«l To realm6 lieymul the iizure dome, Wil l i a rms outs t re tched , <i d ' s i ins i sa id , " Wi Iconic t.o Heaven's'Uoinc, Sweet Home.' " When There Is no Point to an Article. Justice--Young person, take a fan, cool yourself off, and let us see if we can get a little reason into your head. We receive letters like yours occasionally, and we propose to make an example of yon. You write us in the regular style. You begin by saying you admire us for our bold attacks' on shams and frauds; I STRA,OH7EN youTold hoot^nTehoeB with you like oui honesty and oui fearlessness, j Lyon's Heel 8tiffeuers, and wear them again, and our wit and our humor, and our A GENUINE portrait of George Wash­ ington is owned by Dr. Nicholas Curtis Washington, of St. Louis. The picture, which is attributed to the younger Peale, is life-size and quarter-length, showing Washington in the stitf black dress-coat with its broad collar, which was fashion­ able in his day. Arc Yon Not in GOIHI Health I If the Liver is the source of your trouble, yon can find an absolute remedy in Du. SANKOJID'S LIVER INVKIOI:ATOK, the only vegetable cathartic which acts directly oil the Liver. • Cures all Bilious diseases. For lioo!i addrqas DH. SAN- FOHD, 162 Broadway, New York. I he Voltaic Belt Co., Marshall, Ulch., Will send their Electro-Voltaic Belts to the af­ flicted upon thirty days' trial. See their adver­ tisement in this paper, headed, "On Thirty Days' TriaL" i)n. C. E. SHOEMAKER, the well-known anral surgeon of Reading, Pa., offers to send by mail, free of charge, a valuable little l>ook on deafneaa and diseases of the ear--especially ou running ear and catarrh, and their proper * treatment-- giving references and testimonials that will •atisfv th$ most akeutic&L A.ddreaa u abova. VEOETINE is acknowledged by all classes of people to be the best and most reliable blood purifier in the world. ONLY the genuine axle grease has the name of Frazer on every package, and wears longer than any other. cleverness, and our everything--and a groat deal more of the same sort; which is all nice enough, though cheap. But, you don't like our attack on--well, never mind what; your toes have been trodden on, that's all; and you don't like it. You see neither wit nor point, nor justice in our strictures on your friend. You en­ joyed seeing other people's friends con­ demned or ridiculed; but you don't like it when it touches yourself. Then we are unjust and stupid. You could for­ give us, you say, if there were any point to it. But there isn't--to you. Hasn't it occurred to you that others may see a point and a good one? Or do you think that your friends alone are immaculate and infallible; and that your interests alone are sacred fromattaek? Fan your­ self, youth, and reason.--Puck. WILBOFT'S Fever and Ague Tonic. THI« OTI reliable remedy now sells at one dollar. DfBULL'S