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ARACBGOimO. »T THOMid xoomi. of my eonl! thin goblet ; TwiH clisee 'hat pensive tew; t ,, tjffa not so ;iweet as woman'* Upi •i But, oil! 'ti» mors sine***. \Jr, !v'?:W(^ike bfr deltirt ve beam, ^ : •' 'Twill ateal away thy mM| liko afleeUon'* dmio. V'*K" I' leaves no sting behind I : ,|(J!OME, twine the »TMOI thy browiitiklll Thtf* flowcre wore culled at n<v*Iv_^ \ k e w i m a n ' s l o v e t h e r o e e w i U f a ^ i / i . • \ But, ah ! not h»:f so si<in I fttv |for though the flower's decayed. Its Iranian re i* not o'er; ontt> when love'a betrayed. The heart can bloom no nor* How MV GHOST WAS LAID. He fell flat on the ground before me. clasped his hands to his forehead, ana uttered a horrible groan. ft ever on the •tage did murdered villain fall ao »ud- denly or with such a whaok. I began to shake all over. I was, is fact, frightened almost to death. Had I killed him? Had I really killed John , - . Bogers ? I was young enough to think °*. his pocket, tainly Jiad not that repose which mark* the caste of "Vera de Vere; and when »lie called to collect the bill she gave Bay mother an unlimited piece of her ttiind, ending with: "I'd Lev you to know, ma'am, that me and my iolks is jest as good as you and your folks any day in the year ; and, as for my John, ef I'd knowed what he was after I'd hev showed hint. A hity-tity piece--a nasty little thing like that! Ugh 1" "Has she gone crazy ?" panlod mam­ nio. " What have we done ?" And then I burst into tears. * "Don't blame hor, mamma," I sobbed. "I've broken poor John Rogers' fienrt." There was a good deal of rain nl>out that time, and chills and fever prevailed to an alurtning extent. John Rogers took them--I suppose lying 011 r'uo ground was not good for him--and had them very badly. He enjoyed it, I thiuli now, but he was a terrible, haunting ghost to me as he grew thinner and thinner, and yellower and yellower, and haunted my path with reproachful goggle eyes and Tennyson sticking out I think my remorse it possible. I did not then feel quite sure as I do now that " Men have died and worms have eaten them, but not for love." My 16th birthday wa» just past, «nd John Rogers was only 21. He was sot exactly a milk-maid; Biddy called iiim the "'milk gentleman;" but h« xnilked his mother's cow, and waa con­ descending enough to bring i* to our j ^ ̂ ^ door in a tin can every evening. We did ! . - * ^ - not keep a cow. The railway ran at the toot of our property, and we had had the pleaaure of seeing three Alderneya immolated on cow-catchers; and, as Mra. Rogers remarked that " though she was a lady to the backbone, and jest aa good as anybody in that neighborhood, ef not a leetle better, she did not mind letting us have her extra milk," wegave up ourowa expeiiments in ©ow-keeping and were served by John Rogers. Part of ths bargain understood, though unexpressed, was that the milk-bringing was to be taken in the light of a call. A member of the family received the can, and re­ marked sagely that it was warm, cold. rainy, or that we needed rain, and askea liow Mrs. Rogers found herself. When one sovereign obliges another great cer­ emony is required. I think I never shall forget the linen cuits, made as well as washed and ironed by his mamma, in which John Rogers always appeared ; his head of curly red liair; his big blue eyes, very round and wide open; his long, red hands and wrists, and the length of stocking, ankle «trd shoe string which finished him off. He generally wore a pink in his button­ hole. He was romantic, and had a vol­ ume of Tennyson and another of Tom Moore, which he was fond of quoting; and so we come again to the reason of his falling flat on the ground at my feet in that piece of woodland, and which was called in the neighborhood Peck's grove. I had not been wandering there arm- in-arm with John Rogers, but I had a habit of taking my book there on sultry Afternoons, and he had fallen into an­ other habit of going home that way after serving the milk, bometimes he* had a book in his pocket and would take it out And favor me with a selection. Lady Clara Yore de Vere was his favor it a. I was not particularly delighted with this attention, but our supply of milk was dependent on our civility, and I was civil; and so it had come to this--John Rogers had proposed to me. There, in the woodland, he had offered me his heart and hand, and I had said : "Oh, Mr. Rogers, please don't. I--I couldn't possibly think of marrying. I'm too young. Mamma and papa call me their little girl." "Never you mind, Celina. Old folks never kin understand young folks is Sowed up," replied John Rogers. " We n wait. We kin keep company a year or two. r® in hopes grand'ther '11 step off by that time, and well hev the med- •der farm. Dunno as we need even ter mention it jest now." " Oh, I don't mean that, Mr. Rogers," 3 mid, in terror. "I don't want to "wait. I mean--I"--here I thought of the milk. "I regard you with tne great­ est respect as a neighbor, but--oh, no, Mr. Rogers, don't put your arm around my waist. I can't allow it; but--I-- couldn't think of marryixig you at any time." " Hay J" cried John Rogers. Ho said it so sharply tuat I started. All, I see that 1 am right!" cried John Rogers. " You've been a-trifling with my feelings. You've led me on to this to crush me under your heel. You tliort to break a country heart for para- time ere you went to teown." " Oh, Mr. Rogers 1" I cried, in des­ peration, "you know I'm not going to town ; we always live here." " It's all the same," said John Rogers; "Youheld your course without remorse. To make me trust my modest worth; And last ?ou fixed a vacant stare. Aid slew me with yoar noble birth, Miss Celina Tompkins. Oh, I know yon." " Dear me, I'm sure it's very dreadful of you to say so, Mr. Rogers," I said. " Then you repent?" said John Rog­ ers. " You ain't a goin' to yield to this here pride of birth. When folks' rela­ tions are ministers and doctors they do feel sot up by it generally, but 1---- FARM ROTES# 44 Howe'er It be It seems to xa* 'Tl» only no'ifc* to b« good, Kind heart* are more than-- Than doctors'sign*, and simp]* faith more than dominies' blood* You'll cast aside all them there preju­ dices of caste and hev me, whether or no?" "Oh, no, Mr. Rogers," I sobbed; " oh, no. I'm sure"--the milk rose be­ fore my memory again--" I'm sure no family could be more respected yours; hut I never mean to marry at slL" *' It's find, then?" said John Rogers. " Oh, yes, indeed it is. I'm very sor- *y, but indeed it is," said L Instantly, without warning, Mr. Rog­ ers threw his book one way and his milk-kettle the other, and fell flat before me in the road. " Get up, Mr. Rogers," I cried, when he had been perfectly motionless for full five minutes. " Oh, get up, get up!" And to my relief he answered, but what he said was really terrible: " Miss Celina Tompkins] There stands a specter In jour loriL The guilt of blood la at your door-- You're kiiied me!" Had I killed John Rogers? As I •aid before, 1 was young enough to be­ lieve it possible. For an hour I stayed there poking him with my pink-lined parasol, shedding hot tears, begging him to rise. He only moaned. Finally, AS it was growing quite dark, I picked op his book and his tin can, put his hat on the buck of his head and hurried home. At the gate I met a little boy and gave him a 10-eent piece to run and tell Mrs. Rogers that something had happened to her son, Mr. Rogers, and that she'd better go and look for him in *'Peck's grove;" and I added 5 cents more not to tell who sent him. Tb^n I vent home. 1 had done all 1 could do. I could not marry John Rogers, but I felt wry guilty. There was no milk for breakfast next Burning nor did Mrs. Rogers again n» bate any." Her manners cer- might eventually have broken down my constitution if papa had not decided that we should all spend a year in Euro}>e. I married abroad, and on\ our lvturn we all settled in New Yorkl and I felt glad not to return and face the tomb­ stone of poor John Rogers. " I'm afraid," I often said to my hus­ band with tears in my eyes--"I'm broken one honest heart that loved me well, and ' that I may even be responsible for a | 1Ue-" j And I never dared to sleep alone in ! the dark, for I fear of seeing the ghost I of poor John Rogers pointing to a vol- j ume of Tennyson, j " How the years fly !" But mine flew i happily. I was 30 years old, and the mother of thr ee little children, when we i one day bethought us to go upon an ex- i cursion up the river. The day was tine; j the air delicious; the boat a little too i crowded. On our way we stopped at ' the landing nearest our old home, and, j though fourteen years had flown, I | thought of John Rogers and grew mel- j ancholy. j " That ghost," I said to mysell, " will never be laid. Yet certainly I did noth­ ing wrong. I never encouraged him, I and I could not marry him. That would have been impossible." Meanwhile the gang-plank, as I be­ lieve they call it, was thrown out, and some people came on board. Among them was an exceedingly fat, comforta­ ble man of 35 or more; his wife, a dry, skinny person, in a bright blue bonnet and a purple grenadine dress, and a small tribe of children. I should not have noticed them any more than any of the rest but for the man's amazing promptitude in gathering up camp-stools and the fact that he seated the family very near our party. Once established, however, it was impossible to forget them, for he talked incessantly. " Martha Jane, got the basket ? Wal, I am relieved; thought you'd left it, and we'd be obliged to buy our victuals at the tavern, charging as they do. Sally, stop scratchin' your shoe toes. Do you tliiuk I'm made of money ? Ma, h'ist Peter onto your lap, won't you ? Next thing he'll be overboard. Don't scratch your head so. David. Ma, your vail'll git blowed off next, and you'll be both- erin' about a new one." " When I bother, I'll get one," replied a sharp female voice. " Ef 1 was you I wouldn't publish my meanness to the hull boat, John Rogers." John Rogers 1 At the name I turned, and looked full into the fat man's face. It was very red and round now. No hollow in the cheeks--no sharpness in the temples, but there were the big gog­ gle eyes, round and blue as ever. The nose, with the funny nicks in the nos­ trils, and the curious, pale reddish eye­ brows, and a good dual of the pale red­ dish hair. " It is John Rogers ! " I ejaculated, involuntarily. It was his turn to be startled. " Who on earth ! " he ejaculated. Then a sudden light of recognition appeared on his faco. " Not Miss Celina Tompkins !" he cried, and we shook hands. " This here's my partner," he said, indicating his wife with a wave of his umbrella ; "and 1 see you've got one, too, and both our quivers is purty full. We've got older, ain't we, all of us, since you lived to Plankville? Grand'ther was fortynate enough to die next spring, and me and Samanthy stepped off in August. I weigh more'n i used to done ; I turn the miller's scales at 200. Mrs. Rogers, this here is--" I gave him my married name as he paused, and received a very unfavorable glance from Mrs. John Rogers. Afterward I heard her spouse explain­ ing : "She sot considerably by me when she was a gal, but she took too many airs. She was one of them kind that was all outside and nothin' solid, so I let her know I wasn't to be caught. They did say she most broke her heart. I dunno." " If she knowed what I've had to stand ehe'd rejoice," retorted the still unmodi­ fied Mrs. John Rogers. " I'm sure I wish you'd had her." A little later I saw them with their nine (I had an impression that they had nine) small children, and one in the arms, hunting for a place to lunch com­ fortably, and I turned to my husband with a sort of gasp. " My dear," I said, " that's my ghost --that's the person I've always believed I murdered- " The one who died of love for your sake ?" asked my spouse. I answered : "The very same John Rogers. He is laid at last."--New York Ledger. Ode To an Oyster--After Halt Whit­ man. Dichlamydeous dainty! Bivalvular beauty 1 Conchiferons creature, to prove thee ia duty. Stranger from Chincoteague! Sali- ferous stranger! Art thou, when swallowed, an epizoon 1anger? Monocular morsel. With never a dorsel. Whence thy maternity ? Whence thy paternity ? Whence thy fraternity? Art thou nomadic? or nature spora­ dic? But mayhap thou'rt addic- Ted to silence ? So! Iu thy submergemw*-- Excuse the divergence-- This superexcrt-bc-ence-- Saving your presence. Then prove thy salvation, But annihilation Awaits tliee. Waiter! this shell*-? Open it well! Succulent snoozer--there yon are«- you, sir ! -t 1 There on the fork--light as air I raise thee And praibe thee 1 Thou art gone I Thy lot it is sad. Here waiter I Confound you! That oyster was bad 1 THE oldest osage orauge hedge prob­ ably in the West, is on Waluut Hills, Cincinnati It was planted over forty years ago. LARGE amounts of barley are annually raised in California, ana transported 8,000 miles to be malted in Chicago, j Barley is commonly considered a native of the North, but such are the capacities of soil and climata in the Golden State that the cereal flourishes well in a semi- tropic latitude. Barley is one of the most remunerative crops that can be raised on good land, if well attended to. To OKT ihe moss oil young tives, 11 the moss has come from dampness and feeble growth, the best way to keep it off is to drain the land and enrich or cul­ tivate it. Scrapiug and washing with suds is a good temporary cure, but the best remedy is to be applied through the roots. Moss sometimes Comes from too much shade, in which case the dense growth should be cautiously thinned by pruning. IT IS stated that the proprietors of the new beet sugar faotory^t Shenectady, N. Y., expect to clear the cost of their establishment, $150,000, in four years, frctaa their regular profits. The farmers have,contracted to sell them beets at about $80 per acre, or $i per ton, a price the growers will probably not withstand more than one season. It would be better policy of the factory owners to give more for the beets and be longer in getting their money back. A WRiTEBin the Country Gentleman, in showing the uuiform profits of farm­ ing to be fully 10 per cent, on the invest­ ment of land and stock, for the last fifty years, concludes: "Farming is con­ fessed to be a .slow way of making a for­ tune, but the figures which we have been looking at prove that the capital iu farming is a good investment. When we want to set our business iu contrast with the money making occupations, wo make another issue aud plead for the safety and permanence of the business; and we try to show how a famiif can be rich without money, find how they can have the best thing which money can get--a home." D. B. NVIER writes to the Prairie Farmer that he had kept scions of the pear in sawdust from early winter through the whole of the following year, and to the next June, fresh and in good condition, and when inserted as grafts they grew, and trees are now bearing from them. The reason of their being kept so long was that they were over­ looked. Mr. W., quotes the.remark of Van Mons that gratts received by him after being three years in the mails had beeu inserted and grew. It might pos­ sibly be of value to know how long they could be kept fresh, buried many feet under ground. INDIANA has a capital road law, which her older aud nearest sister States would do well to copy. Local Supervisors have beeu abolished, aud Township Superin­ tendents, chosen for two years, substi­ tuted, who take the entire direction of road and bridge making and improve­ ments. A capitation tax of $2 is levied on every able-bodied man between the ages of twenty-one aud fifty years in­ clusive, which the citizen may "work out," and Superintendents receive $2 per diem. Many of the features are decided improvements 011 the old law, and good roads--those indispensable promoters of agricultural and social thrift--are likely to result from it. THE Merino sheep of Australia turn off heavy fleeces. The Qurennlander (Bris­ bane) states that a full-mouthed ram's fleece, from the well known Wanganella flock, weighed 22£ pounds at eight months aud three weeks growth; 120 hogget rams gave fleeces averaging 11 pounds. A bale of wool containing 120 lambs' fleeces, pressed at Kinross, turned the scale at 448 pounds. The Merinos were introduced into New South Wales some eighty years ago by Mr. McArthur, one of the first gentlemen settlers, whose family have long held deserved promi­ nence in the country. His beautiful seat, Camden, is within an hour's ride of Sydney. The Australian Merinos are derived from the Rambouillet flock. MANURE FOB ORCHARDS.--The value of yard or stable manure is becoming more and more appreciated every year by in­ telligent orchardists, not only in pro­ moting the growth of bearing apple trees, but eminently so far increasing the productiveness and quality of the crop, and for preventing the usuel bar­ renness of alternate years. But the in­ quiry is becoming more and more fre­ quent, "How shall we obtain sufficient quantities?" It would seem that the improvements now making by intelligent and enterprising farmers, are likely to give a satisfactory answer, at least to some extent, by showing how a greatly increased number of animals may be kept for manure-making on a limited area of land. Good crops of roots of the right sort contribute largely to this re­ sult, although the drawback still exists of heavy labor in handling. We saw on the 200-acre farm of J. S. Woodward, of Niagara County, nine acres of heavy l>eets for his large herd of animals, and the fact that lie sold a year or two ago from his tliirty-acre apple orchard, no less than $5,000 worth of fruit, gives a good answer to the above question. Lar-.'»> and heavy crops of corn fodder--well utilized by chopping, as by William Crozier's process, and by chopping and steaming, as by the Messrs. Dunning, thus turning out their thousands of loads of manure from large and well-fed herds of animals--give another answer. When these appliances can not be obtained, turning uuder green crops and good cul­ tivation of the soil, as by Mr. McKinstry, of Hudson, have produced excellent re­ sults, although not a complete substi­ tute for even moderate top-dressing of manure.--Country Gentleman. PORK AND CHRMISTRT.--F. B. Cnrtis, in the New York's Tribune, makes a good defense of root feeding. The analytic food tables show that mangles have not enough nutritive value in themselves for a wholesome food. In this they mislead, as Mr. Curtis shows by experiment. "We wintered eight old hogs the past winter on three bushels a day of sliced mangels, and they grew all the time. At the end of four months one of them was taken out of the pen and slaughtered, and it was a fine porker. It was fat, and the flavor of the meat was most excellent. This hog had nothing else to eat for four months but its part of the three bushels a day of mangels. A bushel of mangels weighs sixty {KJUIUIH, and three bushels would therefore weigh 180 pounds. According to the wisdom of chemistry, 85 per cent, of the 180 pounds would be water, making 153 pounds of water and twenty-seven pounds of something else. Chemistry also in­ forms us that maugels contain but about five per cent, of sugar, which is the fat­ tening property, therefore the eight old hogs grew fat on twenty-seven pounds a day of sugar, w<x>dy fiber, etc.; or, in other words, eight hogs lived all winter and got fat on nine pounds a day of fat- forming material. This would give an average of one pound aud one-eighth to each hog to live and grow fat upon. These hogs would average if dressed over 200 pounds, so that there were eight lives sustained during a very oold winter, ) with the power of locomotion, aud over I 1,600 pounds of the choicest kind of pork j made ready for maket, on nine pounds : daily of saccharine matter. Great is 1 sugar, but greater is chemistry. Nover- i theless we would not on this one experi- | ment recommend beginners to depend on roots sis tlie choice feed for fattening hogs. Corn is better for fattening if fattening quickly, and economically > is is the objeqt. But if hogs must be kept for any reason any great length of time, then by ail means give roots or grass for a change. •• yglijfl Mi Mi HOUSEHOLD HELPS. (From the Household.] BUBBM AND SQXTEAK.--Boil, chop and fry, with a little butter, pepper and salt, some cabbage and lay ou slices of fried beef, lightly fried. To STAIN WOOD A M AHOOANY COLOR. -- Take half a pint of nitric acid, a piece of alum about the size of a Spanish nut, and as much logwood as will give the desired color. COFFEE CAKE.--Five cups of flour, one cup of butter, one cup of coffee prepared as for table, one cup of molasses, one cup of sugar, one teaspoonful soda, spices, clove and cinnamon. TEA CAKE.---Two-thirds cup sugar, butter size of walnut, the yolk of one egg, one-half teaeupful sweet milk, one- half teaspoonful baking powder, one cup sifted flour; use the white for frosting the top. To TAKE OUT SPOTS.--The yellow stainmade by the oil used on sewing- machines can bo removed, if before washing in soap suds you rub the spot carefully with a bit of cloth wet with ammonia. GINGER COOKIES WITHOUT EGGS.--One cup molasses, half cup sugar, half cup shortening, half cup warm water, two teaspoonfuls ginger, two teaspoonfuls soda; flavor with nutmeg, and flour to roll nicely. Roll no thinner thau one- fourth inch, and bake in a quick oven. FRYING CHICKENS.--Many people pre­ fer chickens fried to any other way. Dissect, salt and pepper; roll the pieces in flour and fry in lard. When done pour off the lard aud put in a quarter of a pound of butter, a teacup of cream, a little flour and some parsley scalded and chopped tine for the sauce. How TO CLEANSE RUSTY IRON.--Bees­ wax-and salt will make rusty flat-irons, etc., clean and smooth again. Tii) a lump of wax in a rag, and keep it for the purpose. When the irons are hot rub them first with the wax rag, then scour with a paper or cloth sprinkled with salt. To CLEAN WHITE OSTRICH FEATHERS. --Four ounces of white soap, cut small, dissolved in two quarts of water, rather hot, in a large basin: make the solution into a lather by beating it with a wisp or wires. Introduce the feathers and rub weil with the hands for five or six min­ utes. After this soaping wash in clean water as hot as the hands can bear. Shake until dry. ORANGE MARMALADE -- Take equal weights of sour oranges and sugar. Grate the yellow rind from a fourth of the oranges. Cut all the fruit in halves at what might be called the "equator." Pick out the pulp, and free it of seeds. Drain off as much juice as you conve­ niently can, and put it on to boil with the sugar. Let it come to a boil. Skim, and simmer for about fifteen minutes, then put in the pulp and grated rind aud boil fifteen minutes longer. BAKEI) HAH--Make a thick paste of flour (not boiled) and cover the ham with it, bone and all; put in a pan on a spider or two muffin ringft, pr anything that will keep it an inch from the bottom, and bake in a hot oven. If a small ham, fifteen minutes for each pound, if large, twenty minutes. The oven should be hot wlien put in. The paste forms a hard crust around the ham and the skin comes off with it. Try this afld you will never cook a ham any other way. CHOCOLATE--Melt four ounces of grated chocolate over a boiling kettle, add gradually three cups of boiling water and one ounce of sugar. Set it upon the fire, and when scalding hot pour it upon the yolks of two eggs, well beaten, with one and one-liali' gills of cold water; add a pinch of cinnamon, and return it to the fire for a few mo­ ments to cook the egg. It must not boil, but should be beaten with an egg- beater or milled all the time. Serve very hot. MINOED VEAL.--Cut cold veal as fine as possible, but do not chop it; put to it a very little lemou-peel shred, two gratss of nutmeg, some salt, and four or five teaspoonfuls of either a little weak broth, milk or water: simmer these gently with the meat, but take care not to let it boil; add a bit of butter rubbed in flour; pul pieces of bread, cut thin and toasted, cut in three-cornered shape, round the dish. Fried crumbs of bread lightly strewed over, or served in little heaps on the meat, are an improvement to the looks and flavor; a little shred of shalot may occasionally be added. GITM ARABIC STARCH--Take two ounces flne white gum arabic and pound it to a powder; next put it into a pitcher and pour ou it a pint or more of boiling water, according to the degree of strength you require, and then having covered it let it stand all night. In the morning pour it carefully from the dregs into a clean bottle; cork aud keep it for use. A tablespoonful of gum water stirred into a pint of starch that has been made iu the usual manner will give to lawns (either white or printed) a look of newness to which nothing else can restore them after washing. Extravagant but Rather Pretty. The following t>eautiful tribute to woman was recently delivered by a re­ formed man: " I should like to propose a toast to-night, although a total absti­ nence man myself--a toast to woman. To be drank, not in liquor of any kind, for we should never pledge a woman in that which may bring her husband reeling home to abuse where he should love and cherish, send her sons to a drunkard's grave, and her daughters to a life of shame. Oh, no, not in that, but rather in the life-giving water, pare as her chasity, clear as her intuitions, bright as her smile, sparkling as the laughter of her eyes, cheering as lier consolation, strong and sustaining as her love--in the crystal water I w<>uld drink to her that she would remain queen reguant in the empire she has already won, grounded deep as the universe iu love. '• They Never Smiled. A Massachusetts man went to call on some school children, and began to tell them funny stories and pleasant tales which made them laugh. Suddenly noticing their faces becoming solier he turned and saw the teacher threatening them with gestures and a fierce expres­ sion of face. On asking her what the matter was, she said in a harsh and sol­ emn voice, " They are never allowed to smile in my room." "Then I think your room ought to be more agreeable than your company," he answered, and it is to be li.jped that he took measures by dismissing her to make it so. ^ THE FAMILY POCTOj, ^OR NEURALGIA.--Steep green horse­ radish root in cold vinegar, warm the liquid slightly, and bathe the parts af­ fected. FOB CONSTIPATION.--One ounce of senna, the same quantity of peppermint leaves, one-half pound tigs, all chopped fine and mixed with a few spoonfuls of molasses. Take a small piece after each meal. DIPHTHERIA. --Dr. 0. R. 8. Curtis, of Quincy, 111., reports in the Boston Med­ ical and Surgical Journal the results of the local use of a decoction of leaves of black walnut in diphtheria. The reme­ dy was chiefly employed as a gargle or applied with a swab to the throat and fauces. A poultice of the leaves was also resorted to in some instances. Dr. Curtis adopted the same remedy in con­ sequence of the recommendation by Prof. Nelaton in malignant pustule. The use of the gargle was unattended by discomfort, no patient objecting to it. Improvement in each instance was rapid, the ash-colored spots disappearing. LIME WATER AND MILK.--Experience proves that lime water and milk are not only food and medicine at an early peri­ od of life, but also at a later, when the functions of digestion and assimilation are feeble and easily perverted. A stom­ ach taxed by gluttony, irritated by im­ proper food, inflamed by alcohol, enfee­ bled by disease, or otherwise unfitted for its duties--as is shown by the vari­ ous symptoms attending upon indiges­ tion, dyspepsia, diarrhea, dysentery and fever--will resume its work, and do it energetically^ on an exclusive diet of bread and milk and lime water. A bowl of cow's milk may have four table-spoon­ fuls of lime water to it with good effect. COLD DRINKS.--It is true, remarks Dr. J. H. Hanaford, that certain per­ sons, or persons in certain conditions, cannot take very cold drinks at or near the meal time without impairing diges­ tion, since the stomach must be kept at about 08 deg. Fall, that digestion may be reasonably successful. Even a slight depression in the temperature of the stomach is sufficient to arrest the diges­ tive process, temporarily, at least, and, of course, derange the stomach. This class--small, it is true--would be inju­ dicious in the use of any cold drinks or very cold food, though it is by no means needful to use tea or coffee on this ac­ count, since hot water, properly pre­ pared, may tak6 their places. The use of ice water, especially in the hot sea­ son, when tlie system is so debilitated as not to be able to rally after unusual chill, necessarily following a copious drink of ice-water, must prove unfavor­ able. It not only expels the natural heat of the stomach, but lessens the natural flow of the gastric juice--if it does not totally suspend it--on the sup­ ply of which good digestion must de­ pend, in a great measure. Indeed, the influence of the use of very cold drinks is to produce flabbiness about the stom­ ach, indigestion, a sensation of heavi­ ness, a "tasting of the food" long after it is taken. It ordinarily leads to the use ot stimulants to aid in digestion, en­ couraging intemperance. In short, the stomach is debilitated by such a course --producing more or less dyspepsia. Baby Monkeys. Monkeys are born in almost as help­ less a condition as are human beings. For the first fortnight after birth they pass their time in being nursed, in sleep­ ing and looking about themselves. During the whole of this time the care and attention of the mother are most ex­ emplary; the slightest souud or move­ ment excites her immediate notice; and with her baby iu her arms, skillfully evades any approaching danger by the most adroit manceuvers. At the end of the first fortnight the little one begins to get about by itself, but always uuder its mother's watchful care. She frequently attempts to teach it to do for itself, but never forgets her solicitude for its safety, and at the earliest intimation of danger seizes it in her arms and seeks a place of refuge. When about six weeks old the baby begins to need more substantial nutriment than milk, and is taught to provide for itself. Its powers are speedi­ ly developed, and in a few weeks its agility is most surprising. The mother's fondness for her offspring continues; she devotes all her Care to its comfort and education, and should it meet with an untimely end, her grief is so intense as frequently to cause her own death. "The care which the females bestow upon their offspring," says Duvaucel, "is so tender, and even refined, that one would be almost tempted to attribute the sentiment to a rational rather than an instinctive process. It is a curious and interesting spectacle, which a little pre­ caution has sometimas enabled me to witness, to see these females carry their young to the river, wash their faces in spite of their childish outcries, and al­ together bestow upon their cleanliness a time and attention that in many cases the children of our own species might well envy. The Malays, indeed, re­ lated a fact to me, which I doubted at first, but which I believe to be in a great measure confirmed by my own subse­ quent observations--it is, that the young siamangs, while yet too week to go alone, are all cairied by individuals of their own sex; by their fathers if they are males, and by their mothers if females." M. d'Osbouville states that the parents exercise their parental authority over their children in a sort of judicial and strictly impartial form. "The young ones were seen to sport and gambol with one another in the presence of their mother, wlio sat ready to give judgment and punish misdemeanors. When any one was found guilty of foul play or ma­ licious conduct toward another of the family, the parent interfered by seizing the young criminal by the tail, which she held fast with one of her paws till she boxed his ears with the other."-- Chambers' Journal. Cement Floors. A correspondent of the Country Gen­ tleman states how he mixed the cement and gravel for cellar bottoms and roads, which stand use and the weather. In October, 1878, I put down a ce­ ment drive-way. The first coat was three and a half inches thick, seven parts of sharp, coarse sand or fine gravel, to one part of cement, thoroughly mixed in a box dry, then dampened with water. I spread it on the ground in section* or squares. As soon as it was set, I put on another coat, one inch thick, of one part of cement to three parts of sharp sand. When that was set, for a finishing coat I put half an inch thick of one part of cement and one part of sand. It will in a week or ten days do to drive over. For my cellar bottom I used five parts of clean, coarse, sharp sand (plasterers call it fine grave!) to one part of cement. This was mixed in the same manner as for the drive-way. It only requires to be damp enough to work well. It was mixed id a box, wheeled into the cellar, dumped, and spread smooth with a phovel, hoe, or trowel, about two inches thick. Take a spade or shovel, flat side, and b» at it ilown hard and smooth. For finishing, use one part of cement to one part of sand ; this is thoroughly mixed, and then watered so it is like plastering mortar. Dump it on the first coat, about half pn inch thick, spread and smooth with a trowel. It will eoon be­ come as hard as stone. The cement I used is known as Portland cemeDt, though I think the common hydraulic cement will answer if fresh. Belief in Witchcraft. Ludicrous as the powers appear to n* at the present day with which witchcraft in former times was credited, such pow­ ers seem never to have been denied or disputed by the great minds of the past. A witch was all that was abominable, and to bo held in the strongest loathing; yet few had the wisdom or the courage to contradict the possibility of her exer­ cising the arts she pretended to. The Judge, as he passed sentence on the condemned woman, trembled lest her fell gazo should bring upon him and his household sorrow or death. The yelling crowd, as it half stripped her to undergo the water-ordeal, shuddered as it saw upon her exposed bosom the marks which, it was supposed, proved that she allowed her "familiar" to draw upon her life's blood. The villagers who went miles out of their way to avoid her haunts, never for one moment believed that the object of their fear was power­ less to work them evil, and was either a half-mad woman, the victim of a hideous delusion, or else the actress of a knavish part to serve her own vile ends. To all the old crone, with her tall hat, crutch- stick, and black cat nestling ou her shoulders, was one who luid dealings with the devil, and who, through the might of Satanic aid, could scatter the seeds of misery broadcast wherever she listed. She had sold herself to hell, and, until death claimed her, her power to effect evil, it was alleged, was unlim­ ited. The great man is he who ri.ses superior to the prejudices of his age; but before the end of the seventeenth century--with the exception of Bodiu, Erastus, Reginald Scot, John Wagstaffe, and Dr. Webster--there were none who had the boldness or knowledge to brand witchcraft as a base aud palpable super­ stition. We find Lord Bacon gravely prescribing "henbane, hemlock, man­ drake, moonshade, tobacco, opium, and other soporiferous medicines" as the best ingredients for a witch's ointment. From the pages of his "History of tlie World," we see that the gifted and practical Sir Walter Raleigh was a firm believer iu this childish form of superstition. The learned Selden, in his "Table Talk," while pleasantly discoursing 011 the sub­ ject of witches, shows that he also held the same faith. Sir Thomas Bro\vne, the kindliest of physicians; Sir Matthew Hale, tlie most acute and spotless of Judges; Hobbies, the skeptic; "the em­ inent Dr. More, of Cambridge," and the patient and thoughtful Boyle, all were of opinion that witchcraft was an evil capable of solid proof, and that its dis­ ciples merited sharp and quick punish­ ment. It was not until the dawn of the eighteenth century that men came to the conclusion that the devices of "witches and witcli-mongers" were only so many tricks and fables, and utterly unworthy of credence. The last judicial execution in England took place in the year 1710, when a woman and her little daughter were hanged at Huntingdon "for selling their souls to Satan." Since that date, however, various cases have occurred of women, accused as witches, being drowned while undergoing the ordeal by water at the liauds of their in­ timidated^ yet infuriated neighbors.-- Fraser's Magazine. PERRY DAVIS' Pain-Kflto The White Mountains. The Indians, it is known, inhabited these mountains long before the settle­ ment of any portion of New England by whites. But their villages were chiefly situated upon the skirts, where the hunting and fishing were good, and the ground favorable to their primitive mode of cultivating it. His infallible eye for the best sites is sufficiently evident, since we find the Indian's uncouth wig­ wam invariably succeeded by the most important settlements of the English. Otherwise, the mountains were for the American Indian, as for the natural man in all ages, a sealed book. He re­ garded them not only as an image, but as the actual dwelling-place of Omnipo­ tence. His dreaded Manitou, whose voice was the thunder, whose anger the lightning, and on whose face no mortal could look and live, was the counterpart of the terrible Thor, tlie Icelandic gcxl, throned in a palace of ice, among frozen and inaccessible peaks. So far, then, as he was concerned, the mountain re­ mained inviolate, inviolable, as a kind of hell filled with the despairing shrieks of those who, in an evil In ur, trans­ gressed the limits sacred to immortals. The first mention I have met with of the Indiau name for these mountains is in the narrative of Capt. John Gyl x, printed in Boston in 1736, saying that " the White Hills, ca31ed the Teddon [Katahdin], at the head of Penobsco liver, are, by the Indians, said to be much higher than those called Agiocko- cliook, above Saco." The probable sig nification of this Indian word is, accord­ ing to the best living authority, "the mountains on that side," or "over yo >r der," to distinguish them from the mountains of the Penobscot. It is not precisely known when or how these granite peaks first took the name of White mountains. We find them so designated in 1672 by Josselyn, who himself performed the feat of ascending the highest summit, of which a brief record is found in his "New England t» Rarities." One cannot help sajiug of this book that either the author was n liar of the first magnitude, or else M e have to regret the degeneracy of nature, exhausted by her long travail ; for this writer gravely tells us of frogs that were as big as a child a year old, and of poi­ sonous serpents which the lndiaus caught with their bare hands, and ate alive with great gusto. These are rari ties indeed I The name is traced, no% as in the case oi Mont Blanc, to the fact that their peak- are covered with perpetual snows, foi this iB true of only half the year, but from the circumstance Ihit the ba^ granite of which the highest are com posed transmits a white light when ob­ served from a distance. Maiiners ap proaching from the open sen deserie. what seemed a cloud-bank rising from the landward horizon when tweiit leagues from the nearest coast, and I >e fore any other land was visible.--Hur per'* Magazine. NAMES and occupations reported to London census enumerators : " ' Wm. 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