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Ths crafty gi'M Vx$t looked to well on paper An fading BOW from sight M fades the taper At breath of flam*, Oral the ripened own Falls -neath thaiwthe. ~ We grieve to aeetheawrtth* Whr W b*r» pnwmA Cms tew ^n> IWH|i O tacUaaa lamb t CHOBTJS of W>a> Jfe "Denver" a break! 1(^,' ,>& It la rotten aa punk, j^U. ttiiA the road-bed would nfliMi j<r W»4m $ * « %'i'i , A poor lot of old junk. ^Ww long had our eye upon Palmar ?ij pot-teUled moat i&jBBIGUS (raodiw)-- f. ' ̂ • - "Ihi latest report, from the Wast dadan A** terrlMa efinch-buge .J|bve dbaM up the telegraph polea to escape from rlba violent rain-storms, . am eating tbe tope of the polaa, «W * Weetern Union " unsteady. OHO*U8 O* SBOBK UMI. : Jlif? ; Hie gods who in heaven abide, -ii? And preside o'er the planet ai MB, To stimulate lanflable pride In Ui heart, oinoe time begsa, SiP, Por-awttalaa lawhavecast, •< . tlMtp j, , Aa. the pitcher is cast for tho ewer, . w.% ' That the d#» alone «hall last, ?*iP ' The gradual only endure; • • • And that wealth which growe in a night ,. '%%«$ . In a night shall fade away. . , Aa the momiias. aaiste take flight At a glance of the eye of day. f" • "• ' 'StSefefw- 1* laborV-prhse, Work is tbe mother of Fame, And who on a " booin " shall rto / lo the height of an honest: The bee by industry reapeth The stores which enrich the All that is thrifty eieepeth, fot toil is the law of live*. _ And he who reaps without sowing A bitter harvest reaps. The law of gradual growing la a law that never 2T -WmTheOentury. IDAMMING THE SACRAMENTO. 4. li Away,Tip under the shadows of Mount •' plunging . down to the south, .<4oaming, shouting, thundering down the land as if to shake the mountains loose, , , new-born Sacramento river is as '^-&old and clear and white as the eternal ' ̂ pnows that feed his thousand gold-bear- 'sjpg tributaries. Iiong ago, in the early days of Califor- 1 |iia, when all the rivers there were ^3§iiongl;t to be full of gold, it was consid­ ered a matter of course that the great f^pacramento, far up at its source, was al- ' ;Hf° gold-bearing, and that it only needed •>rjineu and a little labor to "wing-dam" J - rffche stream some summer, and find a vein *>f gold almost as rich as the famous de- ^Jbosits of the Feather and the American < •, * ^pivefs, which feed the Sacramento and "adrain the melting snow ot the Sierras ; I iiar away to tfie south. y And so it was in the spring of 18-- ' . /|witk this purpose in view, that a party ' :f%oi Strangers in San Francisco hastily * ^pooled their fortunes, consisting mainly i ^lof hope and muscle, and, ascending the 5>y,1 ̂ Sacramento river to within thirty miles- ^ of its sotirca, settled down there and be- . ^'<gan to cut it in t*.-o with a wing-«am, •; Bbw, in one short and yet imcompiet- ' • "^ed slimmer, these ten men had managed P'&the amount of work which they , tI is hard tc say. Winter was not )fi[ zt the farthest in this altitude, then how a man working for himself jWill strike out, with the thought con­ stantly before him that the next blow of pick mag* mean to him wife, chil­ li, father, mother, home, or, what is :^the same thing, gold that would pave the ^tjjzoad leading back to these and all else 4 Idear to him! Late one evening, as the brawny, .iry, hail-robed miners still wrestled ith the bowlders down in the bed of ?^i|the river, which as yet had yielded no , gsecrets, a pale, slim boy stood on the #ft>ank and inquired in a helpless way, with a weak, tired voice, if they did ' ijnot want *'to lure help." :<;& The men stopped, looked tip, then at Jleach other, then at the boy above them fan the bank, and then they roared with iter. *' Hire help ! Look here, are you the elp ?" howled the atrragest of them, Hed Samacau "Yes, sir." . Again the ragged men leaned on their i||;f Spicks and shovels, lifted up their heads ' and roared, §sC>"'S;^ "Say, are you an orphan?" laughed "Col. Lassen," turning a quid. ""We're 1;-̂ all orphans here, and a long ways from ' 'M - home. Are you an orphan and a long f<"^!ray from home?" / '4 " No, sir," piped the tired boy. " I ,-i' am not an orphan, but I am a long way from home." "Well, you better start home, then. Jt will be dark by the time you get there, I guess. From the Flat, eh ?r themselves about the roaring and sweet- •meiling lire of yew and juniper, he was mad*to feel 'quit© at home, and soon fell SQ soundly asleep hp the fire TTAT lie knew nothing more till the «un came domiover the mountains next morning, and fooked him full in the faoe and wakened him. It was Nut Crackers* "cook and he had left a cup full of coffee hot by the fire, where the boy still lay. With an air of desperation, he was now down on his knees, with his sleeves rolled up, before a tub full of boiling hot water and obstinately greasy tin plates. He made an experimental dive with his big fist into the boiling water, and then suddenly leaped up, and, hopping high on his naked heels, launched into a se- pes of incoherent oaths, which was tim­ idly interrupted by the boy. "Let me wash em for you, please?" "You?" said Nut Crackers, savagely, in an effort to vent some of his irritation on the newcomer. " Yes, as scon as I wash my hands.** " You'd better drink your coffee, and get some color in your faoe first." " I will. But, sir, I want to wash the dishes for you. I know how. I always washed the dishes for mother at home when t he wits sick." Nutcrackers stoppedswearing. Pretty soon he came up to the boy, who was washing his hands and face in the little stream that slid through, oamp, and, snapping his fingers, which were as red as boiled craw-fisb, said: " Kid, have you got a mother, and do vou ? But bah! Yes, wash 'em. Jt's not a man's place to wash dishes. Wash 'em and clean up about camp. Got no money to pay you; we're all on the verge. But you clean up about here, and stay 'round for grub; time enough to get down to the Flat after beans." And with this he unrolled his sleeves *nd hobbled off down to the mine, leav ing the boy in charge of the few blankets, brush-beds, camp-kettles, pans a-ad old boots which made up the tangible fort­ une of the "Sacramento Wing-Dam Company.** When the ten tired men came to din­ ner that day they found such a change far the better that they persuaded the boy to stay. True, they had no money, even for themsdves; but, when they "struck it"--and strike it they must the very next week--he should be paid, and paid well. And with this under­ standing they went back to their work that afternoon, leaving behind them a boy with a lighter heart than he had borne for half a year. The men worked like beavers .now. The summer had slipped away, and win­ ter had taken possession of the summits of the mountains, and set them with snowy castles. The river was rising every day, inch by inch. They must out quite across the river-bed, and strike the veiu before tine river broke over the wing-dam, or all their labor would be lost. They had already, even in mid­ summer, pierced the center of the river­ bed and thrown the stormy stream be­ hind them. They were now on the farther side, Mid were cutting straight for the bed-rock bank that cropped out not twenty feet away. They had begun with the rock-bed on the other side, and had followed the rock-bed across the en­ tire bed ol the river. The gold must be somewhere ahead of them--somewhere' within the next twenty feet. It was now only a question of days» oi hours. This, be it remembered, was in the early dayss when all men still obstinately believed that gold must lie in veins and strata. How full of hope, of heart, were these men who had been shut up there in a gaping onnwd the earth, all summer ? Not one doubted that tliej would strike it--a little yellow vein deap in the bed of this stormy river, where the finger of God had placed it in the dawn of crea­ tion. Banks might fail, ships founder at sea, but this gold--it was there! It had to be there ! A little yellow river of virgin gold! These ten men did the work of forty. They could hardly wait for dawn, and they worked at night while the little .stars stood sentinel at the castles of snow above them. They scarcely ate their food, they were so eager. How­ ever, there was little to eat They did not wear much clothing, though winter was in the air. One man had not even the fragments of <sleeves to jhis only re­ maining shirt This was the man called Samson. He had arms like a giant, and would show the knots of muscle of his arms by the firelight and boast of his strength by the hour. He had a theory that his arms should always be entirely naked. He said he had torn off and thrown away his splendid sleeves in or­ der to gi?e the muscles of his arms full play, and he advised all the boys to do the same. But it so happened that one night, after one of these Itoastful exhibi­ tions, having undertaken to dry the socks of these giants on a pole by the fire as they slept, the boy discovered that Samson had torn off the coverings of his apos that he might protect his feet. It is to be recorded that the early Cal- ifornian was particularly partial to bib­ lical names. There was one of this party called Joseph. " We calls him Joseph because one day he fell in the pit; and then, he's the biggest fool in the camp," said Lazarus, a bony, pock- aside to the P|! "From the flat, sir? What is that?" | inarked, thoughtful man, Hw • ««^hys Portuguese Flat," chimed in a k°y* < - tall fellow, with a touch of gentleness in ' One of this company was now called V ? his voice. "It's four miles down, the Col. Lasses. COJ. Lasses was frem the } "£?$¥< **ver. C -*! > j only mining camp on this end of the M river. Where did you come from, my kid, that yon didn't know that, eh ?" "Why, sir, I came from the other way--down from Oregon." Some of the men caught their breath and looked at each other, and others shook their heads. But the very tall and ragged one, who was called "Nut Crackers/® leaned soberly aside on his picK. At last one of the men, a sprightly, handsome young fellow called Timothy, threw down his long-handled shovel and, coming up out of the mine, said: " Well, my kid, you may not be an orphan, but you're a mighty long ways from home ; about a thousand miles, I And as you can't get back there him. They had somehow leaned M love him in spite of themselves. Ha was indeed very ill. But what could they do? There was no doctor at the Flat. There was not even a drug­ store. And if there had been, what then? Every pistol, rifle, knife, every available article, had been pawned-- "put up," aa they called it--to oarry on/ tiw "work* "Boys," at last cried Timothy, the impulsive young fellow who had first welcomed him; "boys, I have an idea; yes, boys, I have. Let's make the kid a piurdner!" ^ " JiBt as we're striking 1" murmured a voioe with a Southern aooent, out on the edge of the dark. Then, after a pause long eneugh to turn a quid, the voice answered itself: ' * Waal, yes, Timothy." Nut Crackers was not a talker. His lips quivered a little, and he went out* side in the dork. There was a deep silence. The prop­ osition seemed absurd to nearly every man there. The river surged on, now louder, now softer ; the fire leaped-and lioked its red tongue, as if about to break the stillness, and that was all. But Tim­ othy was in dead earnest, and, hearing a voice out in the dark breaking the awkward silence never so faintly, was on his feet "He may die^ boys. He may not live till morning.** " In that case--in that case, I guess we can do it," chipped in the man from Maine. "Look here, boys, if we strike it. there is enough for us all. And if--if--- here Timothy's two forefingers hooked together angrily, as if thev were ready to strangle each other at the thought-- " if we don't strike it " Several of the men were on their feet and glaring at each other. The speaker hastened on: " But of bourse we will. Boys, it's there. Of oourse it's there. Irs got to be there. I never doubted, boys. But I am a bit superstitious. And, as I sat there looking in that boy's face, I says to myself, says I,boys, God wouldn't, couldn't disappoint that face. Now, if he was in with us. boysswe couldn't pos- sibhr miss it to-morrow." No man answered, but several crossed over to the other side of the lire to the boy, and JLamrus put out his hand to the sufferer and said, tenderly, as he took up the 1Mb and helpless fingers : "Shake, pardner, shake. You're one of us now." Even the sour and silent man from Maine came up and shook the boy's hand; then, as he shuffled off te his side of the fire, he said, half to him­ self : "Well, if we do miss it neow, there's one gooa deed we git credit for, any- heow." " Key-rect, boyB," said the laconic Colonel, as lie gave tho hand of fellow­ ship and walked off, feeling somewhat broader in the chest and bigger about the heart than he had for a year. "But if God A'mighty goes back on us now after what we've done--wa-al, I'll jjst--" But the last of this speech was drowned in the roar of the Sacramento river as it rolled away in the darkness with its mighty secret that, on the morrow, should be torn from its very heart. In the Ml which followed, a voice was tard out in the dark in the direction ward which Nut Crackers had gone, stumbling and twisting his long, un­ gainly legs over the great bowlders. And as one of the men spoke to the kid by the fire of to-morrow, of the gold, the going home, the wife waiting at the door three thousand miles away, the old mother waiting with one foot in the grave, who could not go to rest till She said good-by to her boy, the moon seemed to come down out of heaven to see and the river to stop and listen. This was the 'eve of battle. Wnat victory or defeat for to-morrow! No coward bad as yet ever set his face for the Sierras. Each man here was a hero. And every one of these worn-out fellows had a heart like a girl. Even the laconic Colonel hooked his knuckles in his eyes, and, turning away so aa not to be seen, muttered: " Blast me if Nut Crackers ain't out there a-prayin'!" As the man came back out of the dark a Bong burst out in the mountains by the camp-fire such as the Sierras had never heard before and will never hear again. It was not the words, not the air, not the singular occasion. But it was the heart, the hope--the extreme of hope which is despair. It was the old ana simple song, lined by the man from MaiaeK From Greenland's icy meountlna, From lisjy's coral «tran'; Wharn Afric's sunny foount'iaa Boll down their golden nail'. 1 Perhaps it was the " golden sand" that had BO long filled their souls, sleeping and waking; maybe it was the "icy mountains" about them that invoked the song. But whatever it was, the hymn broke out and rolled on to the full com­ pletion as strong and as resolute as the river it outsung. The man from Maine sang loudest of all; it seemed that the power of mountain pines was in hi» voice. Ana tbe boys no longer looked down or turned aside now. They shook hands in hearty mountain fashion, and sang and sang together again. It seemed that they had never become acquainted through all that summer before. "When they had finished the hymn for the second time, the man from Maine grasped the hands of Lazarus and Nut Crackers, and cried out, " Once more, boys 1 Once more! And, boys, the p'int and main thing in the j prayin' and the singin' is that the kid gits well, of course. But, boya, chip in their pistols, rifles, rings and knives, and pay the men with the gold ravished from the unwilling river. The boy sat urn the bank, wrapped in a blanket, just above the knot of eager, breathless men. The dull, blunt pick­ axes were driven to the eyes at every blow. The wornont, shovels sent the gravel ringing to the rear. Only one foot now remained! Was the gold hidden in the last little crevice in theriver? Where was it ? It was there It must be there! But where? At last the pickax struck through. The gravel shelved off and fell down with a dull thud, and a pan was washed in a trice. Not a color! And not an oath #as -heatd I Draw a red line right here and remember it Not a single oath was heard. And these men were neither unskilled nor out of practice in that line ! Quietly and mechanically the boy went back and gathered up the- few old blankets that would bear transportation. Joseph went no the river a little way- opened the floodgates, and, as the last man. climbed out of the pit, leaving the battered tools behind him, the waters came booming over Bra a mighty in­ flowing tide. The huge and weary old wheel ceased to oreak, and the Sacramento swept on in its old swift fashion. The group of men was not so de­ pressed, not so miserable, after all, aa you might think, as they hobbled back to camp and took up their blankets. True, they turned their heads for a last look as they climbed the hill away from the bar, but it was noticeable that they still did not swear. The man from Maine muttered something about yet making the river, pay by rafting lumber down it, but that was all. The boy's legs failed him at the first hill, and Nut Crackers took him upon his shoulders. Soon smother took him, and so in a sort ©f glorious rivalry these van* quished Trojans reached PortugueseFlat And as, tired and heartless, they stum­ bled into the town, they lustily sang a song, with these words for the chorus : And we dammed the Sacramento As it waa never dammed before. Joseph had the boy on his shoulders, while Nut Crackers followed close be­ hind ; and in this order they entered the only hotel, with the others stringing in after them. " Barkeep'," begaii Joseph, as he set­ tled the load on his shoulders, " we wants to pawn this 'ere boy. Yes, we do. We want to pawn this boy for one square meal to get away on, and we'll come back in the spring and redeem him. Yes, we will. H we don't, bar- keep', may we never strike it--here or up yonder." And what a dinner it was I But Joseph, Timothy, Samson, Laz­ arus, gentle Nut Crackers, where are you now ? And what befell you, brave sol­ diers of fortune,, after you came back in the spring and redeemed the pledge ? Are you climbing the mountains still? Or have you left them forever and be­ come merchant princes, railroad kings, and leaders of your fellow-men? If there is one of you living anywhere, in whatever circumstances, answer one who loves you well, for he it was you pawned for your dinner when you daihmed the Sacramento.--Joaquin Miller. AGRICULTURAL, South, and chewed tobacco. Perhaps nothing pleased the Colonel better than firing tobacco-juice at the thousand little lizards that darted up and down the eMnimg white bowlders that strewed the „ ^ ^ *>ar* to say that Col. Lasses | a sort o' side prayer for the mine. Now. was not Ins name. Lazarus, in a burst " - and WeeL v.- F. Mitschki OoUandi. a German »gri- oulturist, has been writing on the sub­ ject of the relatun of tbe wool to the body-weight of merino sheep. Accord­ ing to some breeders the larger varieties of merino are to be preferred on aeoount of their yielding a better return both in flesh and wool for the fodder consumed. The Chicago Timet, however, declares the reverse to be the case, as the build of the sheep has a greater influence on the fattening properties than the abso­ lute size, and larger quantities of wool are obtained from small sheep in rela­ tion to a given weight than in the larger kkids, the relative increase amounting to from 20 to 80 per cent. , Growth of Colts. . In. order to winter a colt well and have him come out a fine, showy, sturdy animal in the spring, particular atten­ tion must be paid to his growth during the first summer and autumn. If the mate's milk is at all deficient to keep the colt in good flesh and thriving steadily, it is best to have recourse at once to cow's milk. Skimmed milk answers very well for this purpose, especially if a little flax- seed jelly, oil or cotton seed meal is mixed with it. A heaped table- spoonful, night and morning, is enough to begin with, when the colt is one month old. This can gradually be in­ creased to a pint per day, by the time the colt is six months old, or double this if the colt be of the large farm or cart horse breed. & Oats, also, may be given as soon as they can be 'eaten. Begin with a half pint, night and morning, and go on in­ creasing, according to the age and size of the animal, to four quarts per day. These, together with the meal above, should be supplemented with a couple ©S quarts of wheat, bran night and morn­ ing. The latter is excellent to prevent worms, and helps to keep the bowels in good condition. of confidence toward the boy, had in­ formed him that they at first calied the Colonel "Molasses Jug"--not because he was sweet, but because he looked it Put they had found it a little too long and finally pushed it down to "Lasses.* There now remained only a few feet between the energetic miners and the abrupt bed-rock wall before them. Yet no man for a moment entertained a shadow of doubt that his fortune lay there in virgin gold. Or if any man for all together: From Greenland's icy meo-u-n-t'lns, Yes, boya, heave it in for the mine, on the sly, like. Keep her up, now ? From Injy's coral str-i-u, Where Afric's mtnuy feo-u-n-t'ina I Roll down their golden s-a-n. ! Yes, boys, weather eye on the mine; j don't cost a cent more, you know, to j come right out flat-footed'for. the mine. | so that she can't miss in the mornin' under no possible derned stances." Pain from Severed Limbs. The feet of Josiah West, who met with that painful accident on an Eastern railroad, were taken by his wife to Fre­ mont, N. H., for burial When the un­ fortunate man gained consciousness at tho hospital the WHlift following the loss of his limbs he complaincu that his toes pained him a great deal, that they seemed badly cramped, and he requested tbat some one move them for him. At that time the feet were tied in a bag, and the hospital people did not know where they were to be found. It seems simply incredible that the position or condition of a severed member of a person's body should affect in the least the sensibilities of the owner; but suffice it to say that the undertaker with whom the writer conversed affirms that he personally knows of numerous cases where persons who have lost a limb declare they felt pain from an awkward position which the member was in. He cited an instance of a man who lost an arm in this city last fall. After being amputated it was Bent to the un­ dertaker's for burial. It was placed in a box, the back of the hand being down, remaining in this position for several hours. The owner of the severed mem­ ber during that time experienced pain in the arm, which grew so unbearable that at last he asked a friend to go to the undertaker's and see about the limb. This was at 5:45 in the afternoon. The friend was busy, and did not start off for half an hour, and during that time the pain had ceased, and the wounded man said he need not go. He went, however, and found that the undertaker had just finished caring for the arm; that it had been placed in an easy and natural posi­ tion in the box. The time when the arm was changed from the awkward po­ sition to the latter coincided exactly with the time when the owner had felt the pain leave him. When the friend re- E>rted to the unfortunate man he (the tter) said he knew just how the arm was placed, that he could feel its posi­ tion, and correctly described the same. Another case cited by the undertaker was abonfc a man who lost an arm above the elbow. The member was given to the undertaker and buried. The man subsequently went to Lawrence to live. About a year after the accident he paid the undertaker a visit, and told him his arm for a long time had pained him a great deal; that the fingers seemed cramped, and that he wanted to see the buried member. Accordingly, it was dug up and examined, and, strange to •s, Sheep on- Small Farms. ' Many Infirm that it is no longer profit­ able to keep sheep on small iarms, es­ pecially where the land is quite valuable. They declare that small farmers cannot successfully compete in the production of wool with the men who have large ranches on the great plains where land can be obtained at a nominal price. So far as the production of wool is con­ cerned it is apparent that the persons who have large ranges possess great advantages over small farmers. Still small farmers can engage in some de­ partments of sheep husbandry with a good prospect of making money. The breeds of sheep that produce the finest mutton do the best in quite small flocks, and at present prices the production of mutton is much more profi table than the production of wool. To raise good mjit- ton it is necessary to keep sheep where the supply of food is abundant at all times, and where a variety of food oan be obtained. Observations in this coun­ try and in England show that the finest mutton is produced on farms devoted tq the produetion of a variety of crops, and on which there are suitable shelters in case of storms and severe cold weather. The raising of merino bucks for selling to large sheep - owners on the plains is another profitable branch of sheep hus­ bandry for small farmers. The large sheep-owners have little time and poor opportunities for breeding animals to improve their stock, which is generally very poor at the start They ordinarily commence with the native sheep found in Mexico or the Territories adjoining that country and cross them with merino bucks. They find it more profitable to buy these bucks than to raise them in the places where they are Ideated. They can be bred to excellent advantage by small farmers who have the time to de­ vote to. them. There is always a good market for them on the plains.--Chi­ cago Times. What Shall Farmers Bat P The home departments of the agricult­ ural papers have of late been criticising the farmers on their manner of living, and giving them much advice in regard to what they shall eat, the largest por­ tion being a diatribe against fat pork, till the reader not acquainted with farmers would* suppose that this was their principal living. We do not pro­ pose to enter into any hygienic argument as to the relative values of various foods for producing strength and health, but the writer hereof, knowing something of the habits of farmers and their families, is moved to say that on their tables will be found, on an average, food as whole­ some and well-prepared as on those of any class of people we have; and there is ho occasion for wasting any sympathy on them for they are the healthiest, strongest, and, statistics show, the long­ est lived of any class or occupation con­ sidering their numbers. These voluntary advisers say that the farmer's diet of pork and potatoes and beans brings dyspepsia and its evils ; which would be very correct if it were true ; fortunately it is not, and from a large acquaintance with farmers we c%n say that this is not what ails them. One writer says: " Farmers eat too much fat meat and too little green food to sustain the system in a proper condi­ tion. Give a Frenchman or a German a head of lettuce, a couple of hard-boiled eggs, with vinegar, salt and peppe-, and a loaf of bread, with a cup of coffee, and he will fare more sumptuously than &n American upon roast meat of any kind." Now we know what ails these French­ men. Such a combination as oi), salt, pepper and vinegar is enough to kill them Ask any hard-working farmer how much wheat a man could rake and bind on such a dinner. Another of these hygienic writers says, "Lettuce s , _ , and onions mixed together, with only say, found to have the fingers tightly i Balt> vinegar, pepper and a little sugar, A - _ A. 1 il * AA m 1a/\ nwatn/v J a A am 1* ma a AT_ turned up toward the palm, as the man had said they felt to him. The fingers were straightened and the arm consigned ! raw °°ions with salt, vinegar and ^f.8- And % get .^K meFe i ;rTn5ant "had" a doubt, he kept it to to-night, you d better bunk with us-eh, TfUe> only ft few feet remained. circum- K <%! »•*£ . 1 boys?" "Bet your boots !*' cheerily cried Nut Crackers at his side, as,he twirled a finger playfully through the boy's yellow hair. A heavy-booted, half-bear creature, that came crawling out of the mine after his young partners, grunted out a quali­ fied assent, and the party went slowly stringing out toward the bush shanty of the company, which stood a little way back from the foaming river. Other* followed, for the sun was down, aud it was time to "knock off." The boy was weary and altogether wretchad, He was tall and pale and thin, like a weed that had grown in shadow, and was not likely to be an addition to the working force of the mine ; but he was reserved and respect­ ful, aud so eager to help about the camp in bringing wood and water, aud so earehii not to be in the way, that he was tolerated until after the tired men had had their suppers. And then when they ^ fBfUAjOm ^ The song was finished, and with light hearts they laid down at midnight---sol- . . f : diers in the trenches, waiting for the . But even a few inches would be enough j ^awn> ' 8 " to hide a vein of incalculable wealth, i fjt^e },ear<j an(j understood it j Who should dare to doubt, after all I all fle WftS notso m now the they had endured and dared ? N.», there , flight of tho<>e at home, the hope de- ! was no possible show for fortune to ferretl_the80 thij)gs ha(1 mado the heart | escape them. The gold must be there, j Bick and the bodv «ick. But now he | For was not winter nipping at their | should have gold !* Gold ! Gold! Not heels ? Was not the last bit of rusty old bacon in the camp-kettle with the last handful of Chili beans? They had OthwM ' no*i tasted bread since the 8unday be- i fore, the last time they had all gone j down to the Flat, and then they had pawned tlie lait six-shooter of the j crowd for a last square meal. Bread! i Their bread was hope. And of that they | had plenty. | But now the hoy fell ill--suddenly and j dangeroiisly ill. He had never quite I pulled up, and now, all at once, just as ! they were about to strike it, just on the i eve of the next to the last day, he broke ; down and lay half-delirious with a fever j as the men came up from the mine by moonlight and quietly gathered about for himself had he come to the Sierras. But there was a mother who had been tenderly reared, there was a father who had beeh u scholar in his day, then the little ones--all these had been pitched headlong into the wilderness, and were utterly out of v place. How he pictured the return--the escape from the wilder­ ness ! It made the blood leap in his heart, and after a night of sleep he felt a new flush of strength with the first gray of dawn, when the men were on their knees before the fortune in the mine. No man had tasted food. No man thought of that And well enough, too. No ! Their first meal should be down at the Fl at. They would ail take bade again to the ground, and no mere trouble was experienced from it--Manchester Mirror. . Soldiers' Handkerchiefs. French soldiers are provided with handkerchiefs on which the following sanitary instructions are printed: " Wear the cravat loose. A . strip of dve to health. Moet hard-working peo­ ple need meat; well-fattened, nioely- oooked fat pork in moderate quantities will not be hurtful. Mutton should be used much more extensively by the farmer. With *the icebox which many now have, a carcass can be easily kept till it can be consumed, or neighbors can exchange with each other and di­ vide into smaller portions. Well-cured ham--boiled is the best--with eggs makes a good foundation or a dav in haying. A moderate quantity of fresh vegetables in variety and also ripe fruits in their season--green, never- cooked or uncooked. Green corn and that class of food daily if desired in its season, but always in moderation. Although many farmers are open to criticism in lack of product in the veg­ etable and fruit garden, both for sum­ mer and winter use, it is asking too much to require him to make these his sole diet The farmer who gives his laborers good substantial food, not trying to confine them to mush and milk for breakfast and green salad for dinner, will get the best day's work from them. The farmer who eats roast beef and mutton and fat pork, who takes a daily bath in summer, and does not overwork in the hot days, may not expect to reach much above three score and ten, but the years will be full of labor, and he will leave behind him a form well tilled.-- Detroit Post. HOUSEKEEPERS' HELPS. COCOANTTT JCTMBIIBS.--Those are very nice for tea. Grate one pound of cocoa- nut, mi* it with three-quarters of a pound of sugar, three eggs and two table-spvonfuls of milk; beat all well to­ gether, then drop on buttered tins and bake. A GOOD addition to soup is made by cutting bread in little squares and frying them in butter till they are browned on every side. About three minutes before the soup is taken from the fire add the brea1, so that it will be flavored with the soup, but will not be soaked so it will crumble. PIE-PLANT PUDDING.--Wash and out the pie-piant in small pieces, cover the bottom of the pudding-difih with it, then put in a layer of bread crumbs and plenty of sugar, and so on, until the dish is full; add a little water, and only a tittle, as the pie-plant is very juicy. To be eaten with a sauce. OX-TAIXI -SonF.*--Take two tails, wash and put into a kettle with about one gallon of cold water and a little salt. Skim wff the broth. When the meat is well cooked take out the bones, and add a httle onion, carrot and tomatoes. It is better made the day before using-, so that the fat can be taken from the top. Add the vegetable the next day, and boil an hour and a half longer. BOILED CORNED BEEF.--Soak over night if very Bait, but if, beef is young and properly corned this' is not neces­ sary; pour over it cold water enough to cover it well, after washing off the salt. The rule for boiling meats is twenty-five minutes to the pound, but corned beef should be placed on a part of the stove or range where it will simmer, not boil hard, from four to six hours, according to the siae of the piece. To FRY halibut successfully, first fry a few slices of salt pork. To tie fat ob­ tained from the pork add enough lard so that the slices of fish will be at least half buried la it Dip the slices of fish in fine Indian meal before frying. Have the fat hot, but let the fish cook slowly at first, so that it will be done through, then it is an easy matter to give outside the delicate brown longed for by the epicure. * To ciiBAM stained woodwork which is also varnished, an old housewife recom­ mends saving tea-leaves from tho pot for a few days. Drain them, and when you have a sufficient quantity put them in clean, soft water ; let them simmer for half an hour ; when almost cold strain them out, and dipping a flannel cloth in the water wipe off the paint, drying it with another flannel cloth. One cup of tea-leaves to one quart of water is the due allowance. PEA soup can be made so that it will be relished by almost any one. Look over and wash one pint of split peas ; let them soak all night In the morning drain off this water and put them on the stove early enough to boil five hours. Have four quarts of water when you commence. In this put half a pound of salt pork with little streaks of lean in it, cut in slices, a table-spoonful of celery seed, a small onion cut in bits ; salt and pepper to taste. When done the peas should have lost their shape and the soup lie smooth and free from lumps. can be served at any time, with good ef­ fect upon the health of the family." If per will not produce dyspepsia, there is no need to call in fat pork or any other food found on farmers' tables. People should remember that there is much of truth in the adage, " What is one man's meat may be another's poison." The farmer, strong, active, hard-working and always in the open air, eats meat and needs it, even fat meat. His digestive organs are strong also, and he knows flannel day and night around the body T % -'t 1X0(1 T Za in order to keep off diarrhea. Quencli of dy^pBia. Long days and xi - .. ^ ,, , > oa hard work, even in summer, exhaust the muscular system, and good, substantial food is required to supply the waste. thirst with very small doses of wine, coffee, vinegar and water or brandy and water. Take a piece of bread and a lit­ tle coffee before the march. Spirituous liquors do more harm than good. Drink water neither hastily nor too cold. In quarters wash face and hands, and when possible the whole body. Wash the feet and rub in a little fat or brandy. Next cqpk the soup, and do it at once, even though feeling quite tired out" HE that is proud, eats up himself; pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle; and whatever pfaiBes itdelf but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise.--Troilus and Cresjida. As ANT man may be compelled to eat his words, he should never indulge in bitter speeches. This light green fodder is good as an ap­ petizer, but as the main article of food will not answer, but eaten extensively will weaken rather than strengthen the hard wovker, while the condiments are to be used as little as passible. But the question may be fairly asked: What shall the farmer eat? We will answer this for ourselves, practically, not perhaps scientifically, or with any theory as to the probable effeot of this or that on the system. The farmer does his hardest work in the summer months. In the very heat of dog days he works hardest, and for that very reason needs good substantial food. He cannot afford to waste any strength in digesting a large quantity to ft littk iMtrisMAfc i iifflt it H«undu- Hats Off. Dio Lewis accounts for the baldness of men in a simple way--their habit of keeping the head constantly covered. He said you never see a man lose a hair below where the hat touches the skull. It will take off as cleanly as you can shave it down to exactly that line, but never a hair below, if he has been bald fifty years. The common black stiff hat, as .impervious as sheet iron, retains the heat and perspiration. The little hair glands, which bear the same relation to the hair that seed wheat does to the plant above ground, become weak from the moisture and heat, and finally be­ comes too weak to sustain the hair. It falls out and baldness exists. A man with a good head of hair needs very little protection where the hair grows. "And jet," he says, "we men wear immensely thick fur caps, and what amounts to sheet iron hats, and do not dare step out in a chilly atmosphere a moment lest we take cold. It is silly, weak and really a serious error. The Creator knew what He was about when He covered a man's head with hair. It has a very important function in protecting the brain. Bald­ ness is a serious misfortune. It will never occur in any man who wears such a hat as I do, a common white silk hat with 500 holes in the top, so that them will be more holes than hat. This costs nothing ; the hatter will do it when you purchase your hat. If the nap be combed back the wrong way, and after the holes are made it be combed the right way, no one will observe the peculiarity. The hat will wear quite as long- the hatters aay con­ siderably longer--because it is day in­ stead of moist; in brief, there is not a single objection to it, while it will cer­ tainly prevent baldness, keep the top of the head cool, and prevent much head­ ache." A PBKTTT way to ornament *» . pen­ holder which is made of wood is to bore a tiny hole in the end and insert a short peacock's feather. It should be secured with a iittle glue, and this must be done with neatness. This makes a pretty and inexpensive gift, and is better adapted for use tliah the painted feather-holders. Two brothers who were very success - ful dentists built a large and handsome house, the appearance of which waa thought to resemble a large molar tooth. It was a common remark, " See what brotl*ezm an do when they pull to- getherl" FPU JUIP PODTf. Tn fan of tbe "f&^Txyiof "to catch husbands, A MABCH it said to be the most de­ stining music ever yet composed. ALMOST anybody can run into debt? but nearly everybody has to crawl on* ti a ; IT is a terrible come-down for a man to fall out of a balloon, and be obliged to walk home. No QNB ever believed beef could get up so high. It was quite poor when it commenced to go up. STUDENT, fresh from college, to con­ ductor: " 1 wish to get on the penulti­ mate car." Conductor: "We have no peanut car; you can take the smoker." COOKED his own goose. "Mr. D., if yon shall that' said the tailor. " YES," says Fogg, " I used to believe everything; was the most credulous fel­ low alive. But," he added, "since I have had this confounded sore throat it is hard for me to swallow anything.** SCIENTIFIC and systematic efforts are being m:ide to grow the Peruvian bark in this country. " The Peruvian bark," says an eminent soldier of Chili, "is a great deal worse than his bite. --Bur- dette. PHYSICIAN--" And is that all you are going to give me--twenty marks for forty visits?" Miser--" I should think that was enough. You must consider that if I hadn't been sick you wouldn't have had anything." A NICE Judge, when asked why he had allowed a totally unnecessary female witness to take the stand ana testify, said: " I knew that it was not neces­ sary, but I saw that she had a new bon­ net and was striving to show it" " MADAME," he said sorrowfully, "I shall never be young again." " No, she replied, regarding him with a cyn­ ical expression, " when nature makes a mistake, she never repeats the same ex­ periment with the same material." "I WOULDN'T be in Egypt," said lbs. McGill, " for all the wealth of Creosote." Seeing a look of astonishment on the faces of her auditors she added : " Creo­ sote, you know, was an old Roman god, and everything he touched turned into gold." A LITTLE girl braids the hair of one who sits in front of her instead of study­ ing, when the teacher remarks: " Horn© is the place for arranging the hair, not here. What would you think of my braiding my hair in school ?" Presently Susan's hand was raised, and the teach­ er, supposing she wishes to ask some question about the lesson, nods, when she hears the following: " Mary says .your hair is false, and that you wouldn't dare do it here." Two Highlanders found themselves unable to get into harbor in their boat, the waves driving it out to sea so per­ sistently that Donald, after obstinately battling with the element*, cried out to Duncan in a dialect which we will not attempt fully to represent, " Go doon on your knees, mon, aud offer a bit of prayer." But before Dunoan was on his knees the boat's keel grated on the beach, whereupon Donald shouted, "Stop praying, we've come ashore fay our own exertions, and I'll no be be­ holden to anybody." THE following authentic anecdote was told Dy an English lady: She had en­ gaged a new cook, and, on the day fol­ lowing that functionaiy's arrival, went down to the kitchen to give orders, which the cook received in silence, but, with manifest ill-will. The following morning no cook appeared in the kitch­ en, and, after waiting some time, the mistress retired to the drawing-room. Here sat the cook en a comfortable sofa, and, rising on her mistress* entrance, she prepared to withdraw, observing, "Now, you have left my part of the house, ma'am, I am ready to leave yours." It is hardly necessary to state that she did leave, with some prompt­ ness, but the lady contemplates spend­ ing the remainder of her existence in a hotel. < " WHAT do you ask for him ?" in­ quired a gentleman stopping in front of a box wherein a remarkably clever- looking Yorkshire terrier, weighing less than five pounds, lay dozing, and which was presided over by a man with a pe­ culiar " dorgy " look. " Fifty dollars, sir." As the gentleman examined the dog the " dorgy " man, thinking he had a buyer, observed, " What will you give for him?" "Oh, I might go 010 on him." The look of disgust that came over the man's face was simply inde­ scribable. " Ten dollars 1" he ejaculated, patting the little fellow on the head, " and that little tarrier weighin' but lit­ tle more than four pound and bavin" caught three rats already ! Sir, that's an insult to the dorg."--New Yorlf Hour. : Rufus Hateli's Story. At a dinner party given by some of* the members of the Produce Exchange, the folly of a man pretending to know more than his brother speculator was very well exemplified. One of the more egotistical of the knowledge dispensers was making a speech, and he drifted into enlarging on materialism. Among other things, he said that he did not believe in anything that could not be seen audi realized, and on this point he got into pretty deep water, when a practical brother interrupted him by asking: " Did you ever see and realize Con­ stantinople and Alexandria?" The answer was, "No, but my unole has been there, beside they are on tho map, and, therefore, I believe them to be^ in existence." The dialogue continued for some min­ utes, when the interrogator demonstrated the logic of bis position by demanding : "Do you believe you liase gotswg brains?" 1 •< Yes, of oouraa. « " Did you ever see them" • The answer came rather faintly, though quite naturally, " Nd." <« Did any one else ever see them?" At this stage, of the proceedings; tho dinber party came to a somewhat sud- A»>i termination.--Ttu Hour. Naval Appointments. Now that the reduction of the number of naval Lieutenants has been made so sweeping no man can reach that grade until old age, and the old-time joke will be revived about the Mi&Jhipman who before coming off watch went to wake his relief. Shaking one hammock he said: " Come, father, get up; it's your watch." To which the middle- aged middy replied: " No, my son, shake the next hammock; this watch belongs to yous grandfather." MR. VILLIEBS STUART records thai when the mummy of the great warrior Thothmes ILL was unswathed the body was found to be unusually short and slight. Hardly had a rapid photograph been taken of the figure than the fragile remains, as if in protest against the vio­ lation of their rest, vanished into dust, i aoA toafe their n dreaau Ssil