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w*. PWCABVER Am.rm C4JM. bt £vsrm MnOH. >' 'pp. k' ^r« lay oor rtory In the Kaxt : ' ~~ »TWe 'tin Eastern? Not the taMt{ pUoe (t.ttera k«MM w»(ew- brliut it* pfctibW«8» Mtf, ' conch with an nngnsrdsd And dew, oonfidiwrnative land. . A certain Caliph, In the days The raw affected vagrant w*yf, 4 And prowled at eve, for good or Mu,' In lanes and alley* of Bairdad, tftfpnce found at edtce of the baza.** j,** i t( utl'tiji where the pooreet workers S^, •"* A carver. •- Fair his work and flue, Jffftth mptertw of inlaoed desigi^ •?• Ind sh*i>ps of shut 8iCTitic»ncc...fit; .?? ft: i j l>» , f »- ; •• *, - <tj t '1 ***':•' *'<V #L To aught hut an anointed irl»ncfr" _-lie dreams mt<5 visions that grow plain In darkened visions of the brain. ini all dav buoily he wrought g I1 rout dawn to ere, ami no one bong»T.I-» law wiicn some Jew witli look wkwit, )r kocii-oved Greek from the? Levant, * m, W OULIT IHWM S WNUE-. .. / • S'U-in l>uv a jnontU # work by the wagnM . - - 'Soaring it swiftly over the seas v' ""To garnish rich men's treasuries. 5 j Ir, ? And now for lone none bonght at mil, • j,yBo -lw lay snllenln his stall. |.«i Him thus withdrawn the Caliph found,>. And smote hi* cUff npon the around; [» ** Ho, there, within! Hast wares to sellr Or slnmber'rt. having dined too well?" m- Dined." quoth the man. with angry eyi * How ahull I dine when no one buys? "* Nay," said the other answering low, ' S'f Nay, I but Jested. Is it so? Ijtake, £hen, this coin, bnt take basids ;"•< A counsel, friend, thoH hast not tried. " This craft of thine, the mart to snit, ,1s too relined, remote, minute; ; J"These small conceptions oan bnt> fail; ^ fLVere best, to work on larger scale, And rather choose such themes M wear More of the earth and lew* of air; 'The fisherman that hanls his nefc-*- The merchant in the market set­ tle couriers posting in the street-- he tfossipe as they psws and groet-- heste things are plain to all men's eyes, heretore with these they sympathise. . er (neglect not thi« advice !l . sore to aek three times the pilos." ' 'he carver sadly shook his head; le knew 'twas truth the Caliph said. : 'VOIR that day forth his work was planned1 •. . k» that the world might understand. lo carved it deeper and more plain; ; :*i le carved it thrice as larcre atrain; • • • le sold it. too, for thrice the coat; "3th! but tie artist that- was lost I 0 J : T H E M U ST NECKLACE. "We all have our ambitions. That of I Andrews, the great dealer in jewelry •ad l\ric-a-brac, was to be acknowledged the finest judge of precious stones and aati}TH\work to be foond in the trade. He worked" Sarlv and late to obtain this reputation, and ojudint- of perseverance and a few clever hits, ranch expenditure of money and not a trifle of burnt fingers during his apprenticeship, he succeeded in his desire. His knowl­ edge was allowed on all hands to be supreme, his taste impeeable, flair .tin- deviating. No stone of value, no piece of goldsmith's work, no specimen of cinque-cento art. was quite sure of its repute until it had been passed through the alembic of his judgment; and what > he had once stamped with his own ap­ proval, and consented to sell with his name attached, was sent out into the world with a certificate of merit that was worth a small fortune to its pos­ sessor. ; With this ambition of being known for accurate crnirioisseurship was nat­ urally that other of getting hold of all the most famous stones and pieces of . bric-a-brac that he could induce the present, owners to throw into his hands. If he knew of any precious bits belong­ ing to a decayed family of former nota­ bles, needing more money than heir­ looms, or to a young scapegrace who eared more for a month's spree than for all the rare gems, and cabinets, and pic­ tures, and .pottery Inoklering down at the dull old home, Andrew Andrews went round and round that quarry HITA a!dog scenting a cache, and never rested until he had got the thing he wanted. He generally succeeded for he gave good prices when it suited his purpose. • He .knew how lo bribe so as to create the desire to sell; and he even some- tunes bought at a lcs£ that he might keep urV his character as the indefatiga­ ble collector of unique valuables, in whose private parlor at the back of the shop you would find things not to be lad anywhere else in the world. All -the _san)^, he ground down . the poor <iw3i Mi* sold for heed, till- he took pretty well all the gilt off their ginger­ bread, and made the transaction for them rather a loss than agauu As, .however, nothing succeeds so much as success, he got his way nine times out <jf ten; and Andrew Andrews was known far and wide as the man to whom to go If you wanted to buy a good thing ir­ respective of cost, or to get rid of one on favorable terms, if your needs were got pressing, and you were dexterous in the art of angling. Now there was one thing which An­ drew Andrews wished above all in the world-to get hold of. This was the famous pearl necklace which belonged to the famous Lady Lipperley, of doubt­ ful fame--that I^ady Lipperley who had been one of the/beauties of Charles the Second's court; whose portrait Sir Peter Lely had painted as "Venus rising from the sea," and whose main article of attire in that portrait was this fam­ ous pearl necklace which Andrew An- <to*ws coveted as if it had been the • elixir of life itself. As pearls and an a necklace this jewel was unique. The center drop alone was >ortli a King's ransom; the pearls were well-nigh price­ less; and the fame of possessing this splendid and unapproachable treasure was of more value in the eves of Att- drew Andrews than half his fortune. The pearl necklace haunted bim Night and day he thought of it, and de- •iuod schemes as to, first its discovery then possession. He was willing to pay Royally for this royal treasure if lie epuld only secure it ; and, as it was, he spent no small sums in trying to find musk or tobacco become impregnated with the foreign odor of tli«ir neighbor. "Good morning, sir," said ,Mr. An­ drews, with a sharp glance that took in the whole personality of the visitor, from the well-brushed hair, just begin­ ning to thin on the temples, to the well- cut coat fitting like a second skin on the handsome back, and the perfect boots, in which a couple of small and nicely* shaped feet were incased. , "You deal in gems, einque-cento work, jewelry, majolica--bric-a-brac, ill a word?" said the stranger, whose dark eyes were roving round the place like an owl out amonsing, or a hawk hover­ ing above a dovecote. Mr. Andrew Andrews bowed.i an assent. , * * : "Your name is well known all over the world," continued the stranger, in his careless, off-hand way. "At all the art sale® in Paris, Vienna, Berlin, "Have you the necklaoe here in Lon­ don." asked Andrews. "Surely P answered Von Bascalliis. "I never travel without it. Beside, to tell the truth, I thought of offering it to vour Queen. It seems a pity that such a precious jewel should belong to an old bachelor like myself. It ought to adorn a court,* " "Could I see it before voti offer it?" said Andrews, trembling like an aspen leaf. i " Well--yes--under, restrictions," an* swered Von Rascalliz, looking at the collector as a policeman looks at a prob­ able burglar. "You oan see it, certain­ ly, Mr. Andrews; but you understand, don't you, that the thing is rather too valuable to be handed around to Tom, Dick and Harry, indiscriminately? If you see it, it must be at my hotel, and under my conditions." Certainly, certainly, sir," said An- of lias a cachet of its own, and one that goes beyond its own merits." As he spoke, he took off his glove and carelessly striked his mustache. On his hand glittered and played in the changing light an incomparable cat's- eve. .Neyor since he had entered the business had Andrew Andrews neen such a magnificent specimen o^ this strange stone. He looked at'it with the Con­ noisseur's admiratiQn, the collector'^ fascination; but the stranger did not" notice that rapt regard. He was think­ ing only of his mustache, which he had evidently the trick of stroking as some men play with their watch-chains, and others twirl their sticks with two fingers as a pivot. "You have a fine cat's-eye there," said Andrews abruptly. The stranger laughed in a half- pleased, half-deprecatory way. "Yes, it's well enough,* he said, "but I have finer things than this. Here is a gem, for instance, that has not its fel­ low in the world," he added, taking off the other glove and showing the most exquisitely-engraved emerald; "one of the finest and purest periods of antique gem engraving." ^ " You are rich," iaia' Andrews, with a covetous glance. "Think so? Whut do you say, then, to this?" laughed the stranger, t&king from his breast-pocket a small box, wrapped in many envelopes. When he finally came to the contents, he showed the connoisseur a pear-shaped pearl of the most perfect shape and color. Andrews held out his hand for the jewel, but the stranger kept it back with the instinctive action of a man who has gone about the world, and rubbed shoulders with his kind so long as to have dropped by the way all false modesty as well an trust, sensitiveness and inconvenient belief in human hon­ esty. He only showed it. lying in the box which he held tightly in his own hand; and he did not allow Andrew Andrews to touch it or examine it closely. "That is worth something, if yon like," he said, a» he reunfolded the box in its multifarious wrappings, then put it back in his breast-pocket, rather os­ tentatiously buttoning up his coat as he did so. "It is fairly fine," said Andrews, cau­ tiously. It was not his way to be enthusiastic over the property of others which he might have to buy. He turned the mirror round only when he had to sell. "Fairly fine!" echoed the stranger, with marked contempt. "I believe it is 4 fairly fine' with a vengeance! I should have thought a man of your judgment and experience would have pronounced a more fitting verdict than this, Mr. Andrews. Fairly fine! I like that! Fairly fine! Well, I suppose it is, and something more to the back of that." "You did not give me time to exam- j ine it, sir," said Andrews, a little sulkily. "Time enough for an expert like yourself to have seen its merits," an­ swered the stranger, hastily and some­ what haughtily. "The drop of. the neck­ lace which belonged to Lady Lipperley --which Sir Peter Lely painted in his famous picture of 'Venus Rising from the Sea '--which all the world known of--which lias been engraved and de­ scribed scores of times--surely it did not need a very close examination to decide on the merits of such an incom­ parable jewel as that! However, I did not come here to discuss mv pearl. I came to ask if you have still in your possession that famous Limoges snuff­ box which belonged to Richelieu, and from him passed down by various stages to Madame llecatuier, and then to young Vaurien, who sold it two years ago at the HotelDronot, where you bought it? Is it still in your possession ?" "The drop of the Lippelley necklace!" murmured Andrew Andrews. He was too much astonished^ al >sorbed, over­ come to listen to the rest. The pearl necklace which he had set his heart on having, and here was the drop--the ,fa­ mous drop--witliin reach of his hand. "Well, Mr. Andrews," said the stranger sharply, "have you that snuff-box ?" "The snuff-box? What snuff-box?" asked Andrews, recalled to himself, like a sleeper suddenly awakened. The stranger looked at him with frank surm-ise. "V hy, Mr. Andrews, what has come over you ?" he said, with a light laugh. "One wolild think you had been struck by some demon. We should say so in my country. What haw happened to you ? What is it ?" - . . „ "Nothing," said Andrews, trving to . out where it was. For there was some- ..laugh as lightly as his visitor, but mak- t. °* a tradition as to the strange ing a sorry kind of business of it. "I 2»y which it had disappeared from was only a little surprised when vou • Tu W'an(^' known to exist^Jor told me that that pearl was the drop \ P®ark had never $onie in tip,, |lie belonging to the famous necklace of • Markets-it was not known wkdtre. Lady Lipperley. It is a thing I have U6HC6 AlldrGW AlldrfiWS "in linn wnufiwl mv Hfo S6€ but I llftVG ence Andrew Andrews was in his line as well as following the custom of the I ^rade when he sought agents and spies, > to whom he offered a generous commis­ sion should they bring him within vou are a greater authority than the | drews. wiping the perspiration from his greatest man of the place, and what Mr, hP ? ^ ,evflt9'let 14 Andrew Andrews of London approves ! H e Majesty. He was impolitic in his eagerness. He felt that he was; but this was one of those occasions, which come only once in the life of a man, and he might be ex­ cused if he showed too plainly how much the matter interested him. . "But the snuff-box?" said Yon Ras­ calliz, who took the whole affair with consummate coolness. ' "No, I haven't it; I sold it last week.* Qn which tho polite Hungarian gave •ent to something in an unknown tongue, which, if it were not swearing, was a very good imitation. , The next day Andrews went to the hotel indicated, where he found Von Rascalliz, the pearls, the deed of trans­ fer, and a gentlemanlike looking man, who was called by the host nuyn cher, and who said, incidentally, that he, too, having heard of the famous necklace, had come to open negotiations frtf' it on behalf of the fabulously wealthy Mrs. --, who made it her boast to carry the revenue of a nation on her shoulders. Indeed; things had gohe so far when Andrews came in, that it was only by dint of a handsome personal commission to mon cher that he was able to stop the sale of the pearls there and then. He did stop it, however, and took a day and a night to reflect on the possibility of his own purchase. Von Rascalliz promised to wait his decision before either offering the necklace to the Queen •or concluding -with Mrs. --'s agent. But he must make that decision quick­ ly. Time pressed, and the estate in Hungary wanted the owner's supervis­ ion. The ball rolled according to the col­ lector's will. He had longed' for this moment with a passion known only to those who have dreamed for years of a quasi-impossibility, and when their dream is suddenly fulfilled they lose their heads. And Andrews lost his. He bought the necklace at a tremendous sacrifice; but he had attained his de­ sire, and the world envied while it ap­ plauded him. He spent a few thou­ sands in advertising his treasure, which he set at a figure that w'ould handsome­ ly recoup his outlay; and all London flocked to see the historic necklace that Andrew Andrews, the great brio-a-brac and art collector, had bought at a price which made cautious men wink. Among the rest came a little snuffy, shuffling old fellow, who had more knowledge of art and stones in hia little finger than Andrews had in his whole hfead. He was a queer, Bohemiau, gin- drinking old chap; but if he Were sober he knew a good thing when he saw it, and spotted a forgery as unerringly as a retriever brings in a bii-d. He looked through the gilt bars of the glass case where the famous necklace was lying; and as he looked lie might be seen laughing greatly to himself. "Splendidly done!" he said half- aloud. "A real work of genius! Ought to succeed; and don't wonder it fetched that ass, Andrews! Best thing of the kind I have ever seen; and if Andrews were not such a bumptious fool I would leave him to find it out by himself. But he- wants a lesson, and by the Lord Harry he shall have it." The next day the little snuffy old man called on Andrews with a bundle of dis­ colored old plates and - torn sheets of letter-press under his arm. "Andrews," lie-NSftid bluntly, "you have been taken 2k this time. That necklace is no more the Lipperley neck­ lace than jt is the Koh-i-noor. It is a forgery, sir; wonderfully well done, but only a forgery after alL" "Yon are drunk, Snooks P said An- drews» contemptouuslv. He was a coarse kind of man to his social inferiors, though an oily-tongued fellow enough to his superiors. ."Sober as a judge, Mr. Andrews, and a better judge both of pearls and their forgeries than you are," retorted the old fellow. "Here, see what these old des­ criptions say; look at these cuts. Where the deuce were your eyes when you bought this for a genuine pearl ?" he added, pointing disdainfully to one of the beads, which had a small, micros­ copic, manufactured flaw. "Test that bead, and my life on it yon will find it false. And so they all are. You have been do^e, sir, done; and your famous Lipperley necklace is worth only the price of a good bit of Palais Royal jewelry." It was in vain that Andrews swore and raved, abased Snooks like a piek- pocket, and vowed he would have the life of that infamous Von Raseallis. Facts are facts, and historical pearls can be proved as well as titles, and deeds of transfer in dog Latin can be j forged as Well as bank-notes and old ! poems. A4td the fact here was, as i Snooks had soid, that Andrews had j been taken in and done for with masterly ; success by one of the cleverest workmen I of the great Palais Royal House of, . ' There was no help for it. The thing 1 was undeniable, and the ruin of IHS far- | famed reputation stared him in the face. ! And this was a thing he never could j survive. . I He took his decision heroically., Bet- : ter lose his money than his character j for accuracy of judgment--letter lie to I did not wanted all my life never been able to trace> it. know who had it. "N,o? Then you could not have gone very far," laughed the stranger. "It has measurable distance of Lady Lipper- been in the possession of our family for i ley s world-famed necklace. generations." , a i.(^ ? granger came into the of- "Of what family?"' asked Andrews i ace where Andrew Andrews transacted anxiously. j Itfsfciwiness, examined his books and "The Von Rascalliz of Pesth," said oflered his wares. He was looking now the stranger.,, •ell-conditioned, handsome-looking man w ^ 8trfuf,er" A Rascalliz was Ani- with a military air and a good address "' th& court of Anne--dou't. Walked straight through the front shoo' "u f _ roraeml»oir-whon most of the :^regarding the shopman's inquiries as .' u of-:tje m<mwrchhad-gone"; to wliat lie Wftnted iuid Mmp full '**. Wow, futd tlieir fortune#! A_ 3 *_ J •*_: •l- upon.'.; .were in some instances-of no more value reward to whomsoever should bring the neoklace to his place. But neither ad­ vertisement nor offered reward produced any good effect. The missing jwfirl# never turned up, and to this hour tho mystery of their disappearance is tin- solved. Only Snooks suspects, and An* drews knows, what became of that fam­ ous Lipperley necklaoe, each pearl of which would have made an era in the life of any jeweler to whom it might have been offered. But if hammers oonld speak, that hammer in Andrews' private sanctum oonld tell its own tale, and that well-fed, handsome, polyglot Greek swindler, feasting his accom­ plices at Bignon's, would have confirmed the disclosures made by that general smash.--London Truth. Giving It a Hana. V ,*f I believe you are the dramatio and musical copy evolver," said a very flash- looking youth, entering the amusement editor's room. "Correct you are," said the editor, glancing up from an article on " The Opening of the Season," and setting his polka dot tie. "Any information in that line ?" " Yes ; loads of it, cully," said the vis­ itor. " I'm just running over with dra­ matic notes. Been collecting them all summer, but I came here on my own ac­ count. You see I'm in the show busi­ ness myself. Have a snap all ready for the road, and am now working the press for a send off. Between yon and I it is rather a shady lay out, bnt I think we oan brace it np with big printing and liberal notioes. Now, as old Bill of Avon puts it, there's everything in a name." " Yon mean he puts it just the other way," said the editor. " Well, well goone better on William, then," said the visitor. " Now I've got the snap together; engaged all the peo­ ple, and secured a good lively attraction, but I'm stuck on tho name, and I thought some of you newspaper chaps might help me out. I've struek three or four boss names, but I find every time some other manager has been there before me. Now you fellows live and sleep with the dic­ tionary at your finger ends, and I'm sure you "ban help me out. Pve run all through the mastodons and mammoths, so you needn't strike that lay." " Well, let's see," said the editor, tap­ ping the desk with his pen and gazing at a flaming hand-bill draped above bis head. " I suppose you want something startling, something that will catch the eye at once and hold the attention." "Oh, yes," said the visitor. "You seethe show isn't over strong, and we managers have found that it's the right racket to increase the name of the show in proportion to its weakness. Now if I traveled with Blind Tom 1 should call the snap " The Phenomena of Astrologio Cosmos.'" "That sounds very well," said the ed­ itor. "But I fail to exactly see how it catches on in Blind Tom's case." " Oh, never mind about its meaning anything," said the visitor. " What we show people love to see on a three-sheet poster is a regular jaw-breaker. Some - thing that will paralyze the Gillies at the first peep, you understand ?" "To be sure," said the editor, getting into the spirit of the conversation. "A regular knock-down array of syllables. Something like this for instanco, 'The Prognosticated Proxility of Professionals' Combination.'" " Just so," said the visitor. " Very well for a starter, but I want a four- liner. Something thai will cover tike whole bill." "How does this hit the complaint?" asked the editor. "Suppose we run your show out as the Silicicalcareous Si- phu&cniated Slavonic Deletilabilities." " Whoop la!" shouted the visitor, springing to his feet and bringing his fist down with a bang on the desk. " That queers every show but mine on the road. Think of the papers trying to get away with that name. It will sim­ ply lockjaw the entire circuit," and he rushed down to the printing department and gave his order for a thousand three- aheetera on the spot.--Brooklyn Eagle. The Landlord. Who f» it that i* known so well ? Let every one his praise go tell. Who knoweth how to keep hotel? The iandlora. Who meets escb gneet with smiling faoei Who's rich in bonhomie and grace? The right man who in the right place? Tho landlord. Who knoweth every one he meets? Who cordially all oomern greets? But who is down on hot«?l beats? The landlord. f\ Whoso house if open every day " Tliit all whukind quite freely may €otn« in an l <>at tueir fill, if 'thejr Have got the ready cash to pay? The landlord. The landlord, my dear children, is an honest man, generally; but, unless you keep away from his house, he- will take you in if he can. But dk> not judgo him too harshly. If he cttn put up with you, you shoeld be able to put up with him. ' He is always ready to give everybody a warm reception, and puts yon on the ' register as soon as you arrive." The landlord is the head of the hotel. He is also its boniface. The landlord, though usually a tem­ perate man, is never so happy aa when ne is full. Nothing pleases him so mooh as to see a host in his iiouse, but, empty though his house may' be, still he is a best in himself. In some hotels they hfito stated hours for breakfast, dinner anJ supper; but you can get meals at all oars. The landlord is ever watchhpl of his action.% although the keeper of an inn is necessarily inn-discreet. Drinking habits are not necessarily prevalent at the hotel, bnt almost every­ body's first care on entering one is to call for the porter. The landlord will give yon a room if he have it. He has a chamber maid for all comers. While you are at his house you are his guest, but probably you have already guessed that. Some persons are very illogical in their treatment o( landlords. I once AGRICULTUftAL. Bon't Leave the Farm. X' the world like a man than be smothered ! knew a man who said that a certain in ridicule. What Snooks had discov­ ered others might discover, and, when the thing' got wind, where then would be his pride of place as the great art collector, his purity of repute fas the unfailing judge and critic ? ,, That night the necklace was missing from its ct^se and the case itself was found broken to pieces in the shop. In the morning, when they came to omn the place, the ̂ .assistants saw the floor . strewn with broken glass, the gilt bars I bent and broken, and 0Sms, hnjr«, I h*v« something to tsll yon, »r*r, I would whisper it low-- Itu tlitHiM of tsaftnv the homestead. j i im in s htury to go. f •«< WWW mirrtnir world has inducements, 1 ItKf.' 1* many a my, busy mart, •at lit not made in a day, MVS, i Ihin'l lw in » hnrry to start! \ T%i' farm Is the safest and surest, '1' > ••Tho ort'lmriU are builillntt to-day; Ysn'w frt>« as thn air of the mountains, • And itiotittroh of all you survey; Jstt(«r stay on the farm a while longer. Though profits should oome rather slow; Btmowber, you've nothing to risk, boys. l>o V Jon't be in a hurry to go! Cpt Xuoh or Too Uttle. There Is perhaps more hay injured by not being dry enough. One extreme is equally as bad as the other. Clover, for instanoe, if allowed to become too dry in the sun, will lose all of its leaves and blossoms, and the stalks that are left are of little value. On the other hand, if put into the mow too soon it will be­ come mow burnt and equally worthless. Bait as a fertiliser. , 1 I am in favor of using salt as a fertil­ izer and as an insect destroyer. I have used it on alluvial and diluvial land with good effect. Last year on fifteen acres of corn I applied eight bushels of salt to the acre, after drilling in the seed about one kernel to the foot. On that field there were no cut-worms, while my brother, who doubted the efficacy of salt, planted without, and the cut-worms destroyed a large share of his crop, so he had to plant over. In the cultivation of turnips I have succeeded in destroy­ ing the black fly completely through the use of salt. I have tried salt in al­ ternate strips in my wheat field and found where the application was made no Hessian fly, while on the other strips the loss from ravages of the fly was es­ timated at five to eight bushels to the acre. Farmers here who have not proted its effect, and dd not care to venture largely, join and buy a carload, for it is cheaper to get it in bulk and parcel out after it is received.--Cor. Pemmylwniia State Gazette. improve the Cattle* The high price of beef and the in­ creasing business of cattle-growing in the far West is stimulating the breeding of the improved breeds of cattle. Im­ porters vie with each other in obtaining choice specimens from Europe, and there is a lively home trade at healthy prices, both for breeding on improved farms and for crossing on the cattle of the plains. The value of these cattle has been wonderfully increased under the new. order, and very soon the long- horned Texan will be of the past, and the grade shorthorn, Hereford and An­ gus will take their places. While the Western cattle herds are being im­ proved S6 fast, it is worth while for those who breed cattle on the improved farms of this State to make a note of it. They can no longer afford to raise scrubs. They are no longer profitable, indeed, they never were so, but seemed a necessity in the pioneer stage. Their day is past and there is no further use for them, and no excuse for raising them. But the improved breeds will do but little better than the others un­ less they are well fed. The sooner our farmers realize that the fewer cattle consume their feed the mote profit there is in it. The Stone-Boat. The g£eeder'8 Gazettt talka about this really convenient device for all farms: These are made in different styles, but are all on the same general principle of the flat sled, with or without very low runners. As its name would imply, they are of great use in moving stone from the fields to where they are to be used, or in ridding the fields of stone. From being low, heavy stones can be either rolled on or pulled onto it with a chain. Beside these uses, there are many pur­ poses for which they come constantly in ase. If water is to be hauled, barrels can be set upon the boat, and, after be­ ing filled, can be hauled to where it is needed to be used. This is particularly handy where water is needed for putting Paris green on potatb plants. If a drag or plow is to bo taken from a distant Held, the stone-boat is convenient .for moving them, for, being low, one'naan can load and unload them. They are also convenient for moving a disabled animal. If a cow or horse is sick aud cannot bo gotten to the barn, the stone- boat can be taken to them, and the ani­ mal rolled upon it and quickly trans­ ferred to the stable. Any wagon-maker, or even the farmer himself, can make these stone-boats. We have never seen them in market for sale, bnt we should think a profitable sale could be found for something of this kind. Replacing a Horse's Shoe. In the busy season on the farm there is often much time lost and work do laved l>v frequent journeys to the black smith shop. Many of these visits ar< unavoidable; but when made for th< simple resetting of a single horseshoe it is expensive. A job like the replae ing of a "thrown" shoe should be don at home. It is not A difficult one, an< the needed tools are few and inexpert sive. A light hammer, a pair of pinch ers. a ptincli, all of which every farmer' work whop should contain for other pur poses, and a few horseshoe nails are a] that isi necessary. It might bo well t add to this a blacksmith's plane t smooth down the face of the foot, bn for the simple resetting of the shoe thi is not required. If the shoe is onl loose, it may l>e tightened by driving u] the old nails and clinching them anew but if quite loose it had better be- taker off, which can be done with tlie pinch er», care being taken not to break thf DOMESTIC RECIPES. THOSE who do not wish to use liquor ,|n cooking receipts will find a wineglass Of ginger, lemon and vinegar, mixed to­ gether in equal proportions, a good sub- , ptitute for wine or brandy. The pow­ dered ginger is the beet. ^ APPLE MINCE PIE.--TWO pounds of vpples pared and chopped, three-fourths pound of beef suet, one of currants, one- Tialf raisins seeded and chopped, one- half sultana raisins, one-quarter citron 'out in shreds, one table-spoonful cinna­ mon, one teaspoonful of cloves, one of mace, one table-spoonful allspice, two {>ounds brown sugar, half pint best >randy, a glass of wine, two teabpoon- iuls of salt. To MAKE an excellent vermicelli soup, boil a leg of mutton for three hours; use water enough to cover it. Season with pepper Wl salt; add butter and herbs to suit your taste. An hour before serv­ ing stir into it a cup of vermicelli. This soup can be strained if you wish it to be clear, before you add the vermicelli. Keep the tea kettle on the stove full of boiling water, and as the soup boils away add to it from the tea kettle. A SUGGESTION.--If the cook stoves of. any of the sisters have quiofe^ oyenfc, or you have hired hplp whose mania for stuffing the stove with all the wood it can contain is constitutional, burning all you may have baking, try keei>ing your puddings, both bread and Indian, under water in the oven as a protection against scorcliings. As soon as a crust hardens pour a pint of hot water over tlie pudding in its pan, refilling when it evaporates, and, instead of a pudding with two scorched crusts and a hint of what might have been between, you have it. PKACH PUDDING.--Pare and cut into small pieces a dozen large peaches. Strew over three table-spoonfuls of powdered sugar and let stand one hour. Make a custard as follows: Put a pint and a half of new milk on to heat; when hot, add a third of a box of gela­ tine, which has been soaked for two hours in a half a cupful of milk, four beaten eggs and a small cupful of sugar, and cook four minutes, stirring con­ stantly. Take off and flavor. When partly cooled turn on to the peaches (they should be in a deep glass dish) and set away in a cool plaice for several hours. If more convenient make the pudding the day before wanted. BOSTON BROWN BREAD.--Take two cups of rye meal (not flour), four cups of yellow corn meal, add water enough to make a batter stiff as you can stir it. The water in which squash or pumpkin has been boiled makes excellent bread; if you have not cooked squash or pump­ kin use clear water. Add one gill of molasses to the butter, a teaspoonful of salt and half a teaspoonful of soda, dis­ solved in a table-spoonful of boiling wa­ ter and a teacupful of home-made yeast. Let the bread rise over night and till very light, then put into deep iron pans and smooth over the top with cold wa­ ter. Let it rise a little longer, and then bake for six hours in a slow oven. It is better to make late in the day, and leave all night in the oven. Tak out before the morning fire is made, wrap in a cloth and steam a while. Serve hot for break­ fast. * 'I' Training the Senses. There is a man in Texas who claims to have the. best nose as to smelling powers in the United States. He can detect by the smell the different kinds of corn, of bread, and the qualities of many other substances which to other people have no scent at all. He fore­ tells a thunder storm more accurately than Probabilities, declaring that there is a peculiar smell in the air when over­ charged with electricity which it has at no other time. The Indians are gifted not only with keen sight, but equally fine sense of scent. An Apache on the hlxnt can fol-1 low an animal by the trail as swiftly as a deer-hound, putting his nose to the track to tell the length of lime since the deer or coyote passed. The hunters in the Lower Alleghanies, whose dives have been passed wholly in the unbroken wilderness of the mount­ ains, possess a keenness of vision which to the dwellers in towns appears marvel­ ous. W6 remember, when following one of these guides through the gorges of the great Unaka range, that while fording a low stream he stopped suddenly and forced the party to retreat. On the muddy shoal in the bed of the stream, fifty feet away, he saw a single imprint, with three lobes, slight as that which might have been left by a fallen leaf, but which showed liim that a panther had crossed but an hour before. These woodmen can tell any tree in the darkest night by the different sound of the rustling of its leaves. Sailors or dwellers on prairies or Russian Bteppes possess long and accurate sight. The negroes in the Zambesi are said to 'have the eves-of the o£ dotr^ mmI -y.rcy' •MM i ' PITH AND POINT. '.-I SiiWX .*100. following ninusc- .5i> by E A'Murphy StUlair. tnmo£ boy of the iant. c park. invited guests at worth. MBJER 15. of all premium '1 iately following ake pliice in the the OS 8 Colts Oil pvtMninm. Mountain Mor- ecial premiums, it.od guests, lien l;iiiin, Gen. Ohet- Gen KJ«I rod jjfe. )ihcn c)ii>cn .V Douglass lioof. All the old nails should be y moved by using the punch. The most ' nothing; a chorus of countiessHnVj1 ner/* iv Andrew Andrews iri his sanctum sancto- Ifum. "Good morning, Mr. Andrews," he I r^ ancestor,- Maximiilian' von | P4"* 80 royally, and which ho exi>eoted «r hke a man accustomed to the world I Ban.-nlliz, and we have preserved the to sell handsomely. There was a hue Mid not afraid of his company. He ! precious hcirtoom frfon that day to this. I W"1 cry, of course; the police were likeCn TVI'QIn t*Je Ono'n{d deed of * transfer j m> and all the servants were sub- been many written in the Latin of that period, to the most rigorous cross-exam- who had thus, by long Queer stuff that Latin," he said, laugh- Ration, which resulted in nothing; and L T W " I a c t i o n if Cicero coild then Andrew Andrew* advertisS his things which have lain near ooffee or» have fathered it." 1 loaa extensively, and offered a gigantic hotel-keeper's house was not fit to lodge in, and immediately afterward lodged a •omplaint with him. The landlord usually charges for ex­ tras, but he considers this honest and a b o v e h o u r A . -- T r a n H f r i - p t . ignorance in Italy. From the Italian census of Dea 81, 1881, it appears that in twehty-throe out of twenty-four provincial chief towns the number of persons knowing how to read and write has greatly increased since 1871. In ten years the citizens of Udine had increased in such knowledge at the rate of 9 per cent.; in Oomo, (150 that the pearls thtm. their good looks. Lady Lipper- 1 disappeared. Nothing else had ley's exchequer was one of those which 1 been abstracted--only the famous Lip- . T> , i..,l vr.„ to. She *„M the fa™ ncck- 1 K» wbW. Ante™ had 1 sons ignorant of reading and writing, and in 1881 this number was increased to 3,120 persons; data are wanting to explain this fact. In the twenty-four capitals of provinces the average result is that a little more than 50 per cent, of the inhabitants know how to seed and write.--London Nature* difficult matter is tlie driving of the new nails, which must be so "pointed" at the end that they may not go into the * quick," but come to the upper surface of the hoof an inch or so above the sole. This can be learned by watching a blacksmith, and if he. itf a good-natured one he will willingly show how it is done. A little practice will render it an easy matter to drive the nails in a proper manner. As soon as the nails are driven through, they should be turned down, and afterward nipped off with the pinchers and curved in to hold firmly. The work of resetting a shoe can be quickly done, and at a time when no loss is incurred. The morning before work, or the hour of rest at noon, may be so employed, and a journey saved, of miles it may cbe, to the nearest black­ smith. The shoe may come off at a time when replacing it at once will save the labor of the team and hands for a half day or more, in whioh case the ability to reset the shoe is a very labor- Baving accomplishment, and should be possessed by every economic and ener­ getic farmer throughout the oountry. RIVERSID Incites an exami Dry G which arc being offe: sortment of READY which will be sold v In Hat- and Caps, am confident I can si Druo% and Medicine! monies* are sounding about us, and rare tints and gradations of form and color surround us unseen. Is it not as much worth while, boys, to train your eyes and ears as yoor muscles?--Youth's Companion. California. Although almost an infant compared with the original States of the Union, California must be accorded the van aa an industrial, money-making State. Be­ ginning its career by gold mining, the development of silver mining, which soon followed, proved almost as re­ munerative^ Then wheat raising be­ came a most flourishing industry, and now we are told that the yield of the vineyards and orchards promises to be­ come of even more importance than the cereal harvest. Nearly 10,000,000 gallons of wine are produced in the State annually. No trustworthy statis­ tics can be obtained as to the total quantity of fruit grown, but the report says that 2,000,000 pounds of dried, 4,086,430 pounds of canned and over 7,000,000 pounds of green fruit oome eastward by rail last year.--Star. LIGHTHOUSES are better appreciated. by sailors than actors, v . # 'V .;.v r:;; A YOUNG cat is a kitten, but an old one is a confounded nuisance. LIQTJOR works much evil, which ac­ counts for the dealers wanting to rectify it. • WHAT word in the English language possesses the greatest number of one particular letter? "Possesses." THERE never was a law in England forbidding a man to kiss his wife on Sunday. Itprobably never was needed. FASHION at a picnic demands that a girl should get wet sooner than hoist an umbrella that does not match her suit. IT has been ungallantly said that the telephone does what society rules have always been unequal to--compels women who use it to talk one at a time. "YES," said the farmer, "barbed-wit© fences are expensive, but-the hired man doesn't stop and rest every time he him to climb it."--Salem Sunbeam. PRINCESS BEATRICE now manages the royal establishment at all the palaces, and will not marry anybody. Next, thing you know, that woman will buy a cat. A GIRL who sets out to look graceful in a hammock has as much work on hand as the man who tries to be lan­ guid, with a saw-log following him down a hill. WOMAN as well as man is fond of hitting the right nail on the head ; but when it happens to be her finger-nail, her enthusiasm becomes wild tegd in­ coherent. ' XHBRE was a yonng lady called NANCY, Who for brio-a-brac had ench a fancy That» family jar Twixt her par and her mar Delighted the soul of Miss Nancy. "MY brethren," said Swift, in a ser­ mon, "there are three sorts of pride-- of birth, of riches and of talents. J. shall not now speak of the latter, none of you being subject to that abomina­ ble vice." "YES, stranger," said the native of a hobbledehoy Western village, "five year ago this hull place were a wilderness; nothing but perarie grass and red In­ juns. Now, stranger, there be twenty men in that jail over yonder, and forty more in the poor-hus. It's a growin' town, you'd better believe, stranger." IT is serenely claimed by a Bradford editor that a young lady in charge of a local telephone ofl|ce has such dulcet tones that when she is talking through the instrument the wires between the stations becomes an i&olian harp, and little birds fly out to I'post on the line, in order to learn new music for their songs. FIRST proud mother; "My boy is only 11 years old, and he comes in every day with his pockets full of fruit. He can get over the top of any fence they can put up, the darling!" Second proud mother: "Pooh for your boy! Why, my Jimmy is only 10, and he's a corner- loafer, and has been to the police court twice."--Louisville Courier-Joumali A DISPATCH from Troy, N. Y., says the Baptist council which tried Rev. E. B. Simmons, pastor at Oreenbush, for "writing love letters and lying," has found him guilty. It was hardly neces­ sary to add the words "and lying.". "Writing love letters" and "lying" are synonymous terms, and if the members of the council ever wrote love letters, they know it.---Norristoivn Herald. MADAM is preparing about 10 ;30 P. m. to go out "for the evening," as she is accustomed to do rather too frequently to please monsieur, who has made up his mind for the fiftieth time to assert himself. The following dialogue ensues: Monsieur--"Where are you going, my dear?" Madam--"Where I please." "But when will you be back?" "When I choose, sir." " Ah, yes! of course! But no later; I should not permit that." THE London Spectator says that •The humor of the United States, if closely examined, will be found to de­ pend in a great measure on the ascend­ ency which the principle of utility has gained over the imagination of a rather imaginative people." The humor of England, if closely examined, will be found just about ready to drop over the picket-fence into the arena, but never quite making connections. If we scan the English literary horizon we will find the humorist up a tall tree, depending from a sharp knot thereof by the slack of his overalls. He is just out of sight at tho time you look in that direction. He al­ ways has a man working in his place, however. The man who works in his place is just paring down the half-sole and newly pegging a joke that has re­ cently l>een sent in by the foreman for repairs.--Nytfs Boomerang. i" b ""V / Magnetize the Bed. A German has occupied many years in studying the art of bed-making, or, rather, bed placing. Baron Reielien- bach, the painstaking German, main­ tains that improperly placed beds will shorten a man's life. He says: If a mere magnet exercises an influ­ ence on sensitive persons, the earth's magnetism must certainly make itself felt on the nervous life, of man. In whatever hemisphere you piay be, always sleep with your feet to tho equator, and let your body lie "true aa a needle to the pole." The Baron says the polar direction of the body is of the utmost importance for the proper circulation of the blood, and many disturbances in the human organisms have been cured by simply placing tlie bolster at a different point of the compass from that it had occu­ pied. Let snch as have hitherto been in the habit of sleeping with their heads where their feet ought to be take to-heart the example of the late Dr. FLscliweiter. of Magdeburg, who died recently at the age of 102 vears. The most unhealthy position, we are told, is when the body lies due east and west. Some observers assure us that to sleep in such a posture is tatamount to committing suicide, and that diseases are often aggravated by deviations from the proper posture.--Christian, at Work. • The Reaper. Ben. Perlej Poore gives the following account of the origin of reaping machines. Rev. P. Bell, son of a Scotch farmer, but studying for the ministry, one day noticed the actioh of a pair of hedge shears as used in the garden, and looking attentively said to himself: "Here is a principle." He tried it on some oats near by. Soon he SEW his way td the cutting, and had suitable sets of shears made. The gathering baffled him long, but accident intervened - again, and helped him to success, reached in 1828, the grain cutting being tried upon straws stuck in the ground, be­ fore any crops ripened. In 1833 one of the machines was ordered from America, and soon those of Hussey and were produoed, using the same principle. & kr I,.#-*, , ... , .4L