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4 ' r 3 TlfE q$e Circle. Paying Her Way. What has my duling been doing to-day " To pay for her washing and mending? How can she manage to keep ont of debt For to much caressing and tending I How can I wait till the yean have flown. And the hands have grown larger and stronger ? Who will be able the Interest to pay If the debt runs many years longer 1 Dear little feet I How they fly to my aide ! " White arms my neck are caressing; Bwettest of Muxes are laid on my cheek, Fair head on my Bhoulder pressing, Nothing at all from my darling la duo From evil may angels defend her The debt Is dUcharged aa fast an 'tis made, For love is a legal tender I People Here and There No. 1. From Pacific Rural rresa. "Don't give liquor to children. Possibly yon can do it with safety, but tbo chances are against it." Bubal PnKss, Oct. 17. The abovo item struck my attention, and I take the liborty of using it for a text. It is said, because true, that Borne parents will give their children mere babies in fact intoxicat ing liquors. At first the child'will greedily swallow the sugar that i led in the glass, but soon that will not satisfy him; he will cry for the wiuo, or whatever it may bo, and to pacify him, the mother will give him "just a drop; ' but a drop, ofton repeated, will bo so relished by the ohild, that be will find more ways than oneof obtaining Hi and aB the yearn pass, he will drink more and more, until he is degraded and lost to all sense of shame; and all may be chagred to "only a drop" in hid iyouth. The following iustance is fact, not fancy: There is a hard-working woman who Uvea not far from me, the husband earns from eighteen to twenty dollars a week enoogh to support a family comfortably; but seldom does ho arrive home with that sum; for on receiving his money on Saturday night, he enters a saloon, and carousos, "treating" this one and that one, until his mouoy is nearly gone; he then stag, gers homo, and lucky she may bo if she escapes a blow; his' verbal abuse, she cannot escape. She toils from morning until night, and often as late as twelve o'olock; she is au honest, good-hearted womau; but she haB her "beer" nearly always in the house; and to both of her children, tbo eldest not ytt five years of age, she gives the liquor freely. Whenever they wnnt a drink, she gives them "beer." One day, while thero on business, I saw her three year old child drink the liquor without a grimaco nod ask for moro. I remonstrated with the mother, but in vain; she said sho bad never felt any ill effects from drinking it, and sho had Riven it to her children since they wero a year old. They were stout, and appar ently healthy children, but the desire and lik ing for liquor will be apt to grow with them, mini "boor" will not content them; ond they may Ineto curso the day that their mother first gave them the deadly poison. In the words of tbo lint, "Warn every mother wherever you go, never to Live a drop to a child, as she values its future happinekB." SanJoso, Oct. 10, ltwM. Hinvb Ahout Beauty. Thero Mi,;r, more unfavorable to feninlo boauty"thnn late hours. Women who, eilhr froin necessity or Minim, nrnncl most of thedav in bed. and the night in dissipation, have always a pale, faded complexion and dark-rimmed, wearied eyes. Too mnch Bleep is almost as hurtful as too little, and is sure to' bloitt 'the person with a pallid and uuwholesomo fat. Diet hat also a marked iufliienee'upmi personal beauty. Gen erous living is favorable to good looks, as it tends to fill out ahd give color and sleekness? to the skin. A gross and excessive indnlgenco, howevor, in eating nod drinking, is fatal to the femalo charms, especially where there is great tendency to "making flesh." Regularity of time in the daily repast and sciuutitio cooking aro the best means of securing not only good health'but good looks. The appetite should never bo wasted during the Intervals between meals on pastry, confectionary, or ony other tickler of tlio appetite, whlclfgrntlfle.f tbo taste, but does not support the system. ''.Exorci so is, of course, esnontial to female beauty. It ani mates the whole physical life, quickens the cir culation of the blood, heightens tho color, de velops tb growth, and perfects tho form of each limb md the outiro body. It also gives beauty and grace to every movement. Hk Gentle to hie Little Onks. A mother who was preparing flour to mix into bread, left for a few momeuts, wheu little Mary with childish curiosity wont toneo what it'wos took bold of tbo dish, which fill to the Moor spilling the contents. The mother struck the child a severe blow, sajiug with anger that sho was always in the wi.y. Two weeks after, little Murv t.iekvned anil died. On her death-bed. whllo delirious, she asked her mothor if there would bo room for lit r. iimonij tho angels. "I was hIwub iu your way, moiber; you had no room for Utile Mary ! And will I bo in the ongds' way? Will there bo room forme"" Tho broken hearted mother then felt thai no saotitlce would bo too great, could she havo 6avcd her child. IuronTANT. Iu buylug u homestead lroin a husband ami wife the purchaser should exam iuo whether the wife has not been chauged since the declaration of the homestead was filed. In the ease of Johnson vs. Buh the Supremo Court has decided that when a home stead is the common property of a husband and wife, who have children, it does not be come the exclusive property of tho husband after the death of the wife without a will, or, it he should be married agalu, of him aud his second wife; but part of the property is inher ited bv tho children, and a slo without tbeir participation dors not confer a complete title. Dnoss Header, suppose we each of us were put through the nieuUl crucible aud the dross tki n out of us, how much would there be left ? One has the dross of tobacco, another that of whiskey, another that of vauity, nuother preponderates iu sensuality, another iu it bad temper, auother In aelflshnesg. Hut it Is pos sible, through the Christian religion, to so glow in grace as to eliminate the dross and to leave the pure metal, Smytuk was telling some friends about a wonder (ul phi rot, hanging lu a tage iu tho door of a store on BUte street. "Why." said be, "that parrot ciies 'atop thief to uaiurally, that every time I hear it 1 always stop. Now, hang it, what are you all laughing at V" Tut mosquito 1" n lustct that has no Movd, except what he steals. As an aTgeney for siuk. log arteaian wells h it unsurpassed. Confi dence iu his powers is the reason he always sings at his work. It yon want to kiss a pretty girl, why, klaa her if yon can. If a pretty girl wauts to kisa you, why, let her like a man. Thb heart which is capable of receiving the purest rays of joy, must hare been shadowed by the darkest cloud of sorrow, Boys who are sent on errand after generally make the beat whistlm. dark An Indiana-Farmer's History. On Tuesday we were drivingby the residence of William Fleet, of Eden township, and we spied Mr. F Bitting by the "roadside on tus shade of a large maple tree, smoking his pipe. We said.-"Taking comfort, Mr. Fleet ?",- "Yes," said he, "I am enjoying the shade of a large tree, which, forty years ago, I trimmed with my jack-kn.fe one day while I was at work splitting rails at $11 per mouth. They were clearing up the ground, and cut down many tery handsome little maples, 'when I selected this tree and requested, as it stood in the fence row beside the road, that it be left standing to remember me by. It was then not thicker than my wrist! I was then a poor boy, and worked out for a living." Mr. Fleet then gave a sketch of his adven tures in Indiana, and his experience among the Indians, in bis joking way. How he entered 1,000 acresof land on the Pottawottainie reserve, aud afterwards traded a half inlcrrst in it for one hundred acres where his lesidence now stands, and how afterward he wanted to sell tt and couldn't, and then bow he shouldered his ax and waded into the forest and felled the tim ber on twenty-acres. The relation of this bit of personal history was interesting, and more eo since we know that forty three years after Mr. Fleet ttimmed that little maple tree, while he was mauling rails at the small wages of $11 per month, he sits comfortably smoking his pipe und-r the came tree, which is now more than two feet in diameter at the trunk, and surveys over 1,100 acres of well improved and fertile land, worth $100 per acre. He doei more; he counts his flocks by the thousand and his herds by the hundreds, his bushel by the thousand, and his wealth by the hundred thousand. All the re sult of hard labor, hunosty and economy. All in forty years Tiffin, 0., Star. Concerning Chins. A pointed or round chin indicates n conge nial nature. A perron with such a chin will have a beau ideal, and will not be easily satis fied with real men aud women. The indented chin indicates a great desire to ba loved; hunger and thirst for affection. When large in a woman, she may overstep the bounds of etiquette and make love to one that oleaBes her. A narrow, square whin indicates a desire to lovo, and is moro common among womon. The broad, square chin indicates violent love, or at least devoted attachment. The broad, round chin indicates ardent love, combined with great steadfastness and per manence of affection. The retreating chin is indicative of the want of attachment and but littlo ardor in love. The chin, in its length and breadth, indicates self-control, self-will, resolution, decision, etc. Carnivorous animals have the upper jaw pro jecting, while tho'o of a graminivorous nature have the lower jaw.projecting. In a man with a projecting upper jaw will tie found largo de structivoness uud love of animal food; when tho lowor jaw pn jects, then a lovo for vegeta ble food. A California Girl. A oorrespondont of the Sacramento Union, writing from Sutter Creek. November 15th, qives this account of onoofthe girls of the period: The Atlantic papers sometime tell us of a farmer's daughter who r.iked hny with o horse, or drove a mowing-machine; but I tbjnk California can boast of as noble 'a girl "as any of tliem. A French air!, eichtoou rears of age, has hauled cordwood, two trips a day, live miles, averag ing n cord and three-quarters to a load, over a rocky and mountainous road, with four heavy borses, nearly every nay tne past summer. She is usually the first ou tho road in tho morn ing, and frequently the last one at night. She sits high upon her spring seat, with her whip and four lines lu her bands, and her foot on the break, managing ner team wltb as mucn crnco and ease as anv man. Her voice and ap pearance are entirely feminine, and she is of medium size. She is always accompanied by her father, who lifts the boavy sticks, but can neithor drivo a team nor speak much English. Her well-fitting, dark calico dress, hor calfskin laced boots, her black', broad-brimme4 palm leaf hat, and her long buckskin gloves, all seem to be well seleetod aud fitted to her business. Her brown hair hangs in two neat braids over bor shoulders. Sho is UBually moro or less dusty, but it cau be soen that it is ouly the dust of that day. Wbon she passes through the streets she turns hor eyes neither to tho right uor to the left, and seldom speaks to auy one unless she is spoken to or has business with tboiu. "Give mo n bid, gentlemen somo one start tbo cart do give me a bid, if you please any thing to start the cart 1" cried au excited Yau- keo auctioneer, who stood on the cart lie was endeavoring to sell. "Auything you please to start it." "If that's all you wants, I'll start hor for you," exclaimed a broad-backed country-man, applying his shoulder to the wheel, at d uiviuiz the curt a sudden puxh forward, tumbled the auctioneer over the aido. By the time the ituctlouerr had regained his feet, the countryman had started too. Common Sense is an element iu which per sons are wautiug. Common sense implies sound perception, correct reason, mental capa city and nood understanding. It is not to be ac quired entirely by education; it is a sort of In stinct. It may be polished aud made more a cute by experience. There is n great deal of sound philosophy in a little common sense homelimes, nud the exercise of it upou certain occasions would save many men from much subsequent humiliation. Heckntlt, a telegraph clerk in France refus ed to transmit a message in those, words: "Third epistle of Johu, verse 13 and 14," un der the law which forbids transmission of des patches not written in plain language. Refer ence to the text indicates that the despatch was merely au ecouomy of the words: "I have many things to write, but I will not with pen aud ink write unto thee; but I trust I shall shortly see thee, and wo shall speak face to face." Miss Bacon and Mr. Beaus were married ont West, the other day. We take this to be a "right Bmart" couple; tor he was shtcwd euough to "save his Bacon," and it can hardly be said that sue "ilon t Know Deans." A Littls Gibl remarked to her mamma, on going to bed, "I am not afraid of the dark." "No, of course you are not," replied her mamma. "I was a little afraid once when I went iuto the pantry to get a tart," "What were you afraid of ? " asked the mamma. "I was afraid I could not fiud the tarts." Am opposition Senator says two years ago when he "lifted a corner of tha vail which hid the publlo service, the odor of corruption tor tured the no.trils of the natiou.' ' What will be tho result when the Democratic Congress rolls up the curtain? " A Litti-b boy caught hi foot in some worsted with which his titter wat working theiantener, "Ood U love." in perforated card-board, and uot a blow oa Um ear that will lay him up for a ortnigM u it uota not njure aim lor we. - WILLAMETTE FARMER. A Pet of a Wife. ?. TA J.r:r,ZJ'. "omau size mis is me ecnu vi muu wishes. They want some one to pet, to fondle, to protect, tkey say; and this is true when they feet good-natured. Cynical women say .they want some one they can tyrannize over, but I am not inclined to take a oynical view of the subject. I believe very few men wilfully tyrannize over their wives and children, but the tyranny is there.'nevertbeless, and intellectual men, such as the world admire, are most ptone to exercise it." They are so wrapt in their own plans, theories and speculation that they do not even discover the fact that their own house holds are famishing for the bread of love, and fainting for the gushing springs of sympathy. They are so accustomed to adulation abroad that the simple home affection seems tame and spiritless; as the purest water of the deepest well is taBteless to one accustomed to the Bpark ling and burning, but poisonous draughts of in toxication. In our zeal to vindicate the "lords of creation" from the charge of willful tyranny, we are leaving our two bachelors and their im aginary wives too long neglected. Small size is a man's fancy, not the dictate of his pbj Biological knowledge. It is an al most universal fancy. The larger, rougher, more burly the man, the more sure he is to prefer a hmall sized woman. "I am deter mined to have a wife whom I can pick up in my arms and carry her over all the rough places," said a young farmer, whose softest lones sounded like a clap of thunder. As he spoke he snatched the largest and heaviest girl in all bis acquaintance, and lifted her over the brook. His words are echoed in the selection made by most large sized and stentorian-voioed men. Their ideal is of something the reverse of themselves, and thus fragile figures and low tones, are to them, the perfection of feminine attraction. My solution of the problem lies in the sup position that it is an uneducated action of Phi Foprogenitiveness, shown in the desire for some small creature to pet, to fondle, to caress. Those who have watched the world for fifty years know how often is enacted the Bad tragedy which may be named, "The Bride of a Year." Those young mon who are not spe cially desirons of enacting the part of the bravest husband of a buried wife, the helpless father of a puny babe, will be wise enough to let their Phlloprogenitiveness wait until healthy, happy, full-iized wives give ihem that best blessing of the Lord, a good supply of healthy, happy little folks to pet. Phrenologi cal Journal. Mind Reading 'The professors of Yale College, New Haven, Conn., have lately been entertained by the per formances of J. E. Brown, the mind reader. The learned professors indulged in hiding coins, pencils, card', etc., in books, corners and drawers, urown was men piocea en rap port with the hider, that is, he took the hand of the person who hid the articlo, or took hold of a. line held hv that person. Brown, altbouah blindfolded, would lead the individual to the exact snot, and fiud the article. Professor Thatcher purposely imagined a pain located under his nose. Brown immediately plaoed his finger on the preci-e spot. Professor Marsh imagined a particular word, wrote it on paper, and gave it to another person . Brown spelled it out at once by pointing to the re ipfctive letters in au alphabet written on a blackboard. The venerable Ex-President Woolsey concealed a coin under some books, but his mind was probably hazy, for Brown could not quite find it, though ,he came near the spot. But' when put en rapport with a younger man, Profes.-or Whitney, Brown im mediately found Jhe coin. Professor Brewer laced a tape measure in a distant apartnvnt; irown promptly went, blindfolded, to the place and found the artio'e. Professor FiBh gavo a pencil case to Professor Johnson, who gave It to Professor Thatcher, who concealed the article. Brown led the latter directly to the spot, and found the pencil, Professor Ly ,man held a paper, on whioh words were written by Professor tisuer, ami, oiiiitiioiueci, urown spelled the words without difficulty I Having witnessed so many of These curious experi ments, It is to bd hoped that the loarned pro fessors of Yale will te aoie to explain nowiney are done. Economy. Money is a question of industry, and as long os no have health, there is money stored up in our brains and in our sinews, of wnicu we are me lawful bankers, and which is subject to our draft; but, when we contemplate the economy of something that once lost is lost forever, the question assumes a new importance. For iu sttuce, our vitality is part of our slock in trade. We start out in life, usually, with n portion sufficient to our needs. To illustrate, we will suppose, when upon the eve of a journey, a mou was giveu n sum of money sufficient to carry him to his destination in comfort aud safety, nut assured tnac mis wouki uetueencuv of the supply, ond, that, if ho grew careless or wasteful, he would be set upon by jobbers err perish by the wayside, would we be called upon to pity him if he should wantonly woste this precious capital ? Yet this is but a true picture of our extravogauce in the matter of vitality; we fling it away upon our amusements, our appetites, ond our avaiice; aud, before the shadows of middle life fall athwart our paths, u- nr ust liiMin bv robbers in the shape of disease, or sink down upon tho threshold of usefulness, utterly drained of strength aud vigor. VntnrH Intpmlpd that we should live temper ately, aud her penalties are severe aud certain iu the end. We are always ready enough with pmmiies of reform, but somehow that artful villain, Self-indulgence, always has a key that will fit the locks of our resolutions, aud be just glides in and takes us by surprise, and, once face to face with him, we are cowards in our own cause, Fhrtnological Journal, Tub Stillnkss or Night and HoME.-."It is night now, and here is home. Gathered under the quiet roof, elders aud childreu lie, at rest. In IIih mlil.t nf h cre&t calm the Stars look out from the heaveus. The silence is peopled with the past sorrowful remorse for sius and short comings, for memories of passionate joys and griefs rise- out of their graves, both now alike calm and sad. Eyes, as I shut mine, look at me, that have long since ceased to shiue. ice town and the fair landscape sleep under the starlight, wreathed under the autumn mists. Twinkling among the houses, a light keeps watch, here aud there i what may oe a sick chamber or two. The clock tolls sweetly in the silent air. Here is uight and Jest. An awful sense of thanks makes the heart swell and the head bow, a I pass to my room through the sleeping house, and feel as thongh a bushed blessing were upon H. Thaclrray. An experienced editor paya high and de Mrved compliment to the fair patron ol the Pre. "Women, " he says, "are the beat sub scribers in the world to newspapers, magizinea, etc We have been editor forty years and nev er lost a dollar by female luWiiWr. They teem to make it a point ot conscientiont duty to 'pay, the preacuer and the editor two classes of the community that tuatVr more from bad pay and bo pay at all tbaa all the raat put together. SomMf the Trials of a Woman. r !" ' ' IP'' ' ir ' ti ' ' JS. Tbehardest trial to"a woman of nervous energy, ambition and occupation, is the daily demand made upon her time by her acquaintance of the day. Women she may have met accident ally, and been thrown with for an hour or an evening, call upon her, ask favors of her, try her sadly, and then depart to come again, seemingly with the Intent to get the benefit of her diligence and efforts. Men who in the busi ness dealings have learned to know her, call, to settle some trifling point, and then come again because it is Bgreeable to them to do so, never stopping to consider that they are a tax, and oftentimes a bore, ond never bo necessary to her existence that they need stay an hour to transact a matter that is of no importance to any one but themselves. A woman of this stamp should early learn to avoid fovors; they cost too dear. A bouquet of flA.Aa nn avAtiinff nf tbe ODera. "or anv other unnecessary kindness, often is paid for by hours. Of naru service ai enieriaiuiug, u. coo j .. tions that are uudesired and undesirable to a woman, who. to erow in strength must grow apart, and who to succeed must not be embar rassed by so called friends. Leam early the value of personal independence; strive to live above society, and aspire to that culture and grace which render it unnecessary. Bejoice in your Bingle-heartedness; delight in being magnanimous; for a woman to be really inde pendent must DO lOIiy Ol soul ami oiiuro ui masses in every moral attribute. Bid yourself of women who hamper you by their society; avoid, as you would o pestilence, women of vulgar instincts ond ordinary attainments. Poor sooiety is worse than solitude to even less earnest women than yourself; to you who have a life-pursuit, and are pursuing it, it is simply a calamity. You may offend, out the loss of strength to you is more than the good will of small natures. PArenoJogical Journal. Dacohtbes. An intelligent writer says: "It is not possible to over-estimate the advantages which would result from men in trad' s ond professions ollowing their daughters some par ticipation in the work of their daily lives. What girls want is a larger observation of the world and a deeper knowledge of human na ture. There are few of our merchants and manufacturers and professional men who could not largely avail themselves of the services of their educated and competent daughters; and if such service could be rendered generally availa ble, it is not too much to say that a wider and more fertile social life would arise for mankind. Men's occupations would in no sense be preju diced, whilst women would at once find that outlet for theirfaculties, for whioh so many of tbein have' been so long striving. A cer tain responsibility would increase their self reliance. A capacity for earning would remove tbeir sense of dependence; ond a definite oc cupation would bring both health and cheerful ness, and the larger experiences of life would sive force and completeness to their mental horacter. A Beautiful Sentiment. In Augnstin Daly's play, "Under the Gaslight," Laura Uourtland uttereu tnese uenuuiu. u'u . "Let the womau you look upon be wise or voin, beautiful or homely, rich or poor, she has bi t one thing she con really give or refuse; her heart. Her beauty, her wit, her accom plishments Bhe may sell to yon, but love is the treasure, without money and without prioe. She only asks in return that when you look upon htr your eyes shall speak a mute devo tion; and when yon address her your voice shall be gentle; loving and kind. That you shall not decpise her because she cannot un derstand all a' once, your vigorous thoughts und ambitious plans, for when misfortune ond evil have defeated your greatest purposes, her love remains to console you. You look upon the trees fot strength and grandeur. Do not despise the flowers because tbeir fragrance is all they have to give. Remember love is all (hiit a woman can give; but it is the onlyt earthly thing which God permits us to carry be) ond the grove." ' Idka or Dkath. That death and sleep are very much olike, the sages all tell us; but bee how uttractively Leigh Hunt describes the latter. " It is a delicious moment, certainly, that of beiug well nestled in bed, and feeling that you shall drop gently to sleep. The good is to come not past; the limbs have been just tired enough to render the remaiuing in one portion delight ul; the labor of the day is done. A gentle lai urs of the perceptions come creep incover one: the snirit of consciousness disen- gages itself more with slow aud hushing de grees, like a mother detaching her hand from that of her bleeping child; the mind seems to baveobdmy lid closiug over it, like the eye; 'tis closing, 'tis closing tis cio?ed xne mjsterious spirit has gone to take its airy rounds." Insects as Agents in Peopaovtino Disease. The article published in another part of this number on the fertilization of flowers by in fects suggests some considerations relative to the part which injects perform in the propaga tion as well us the prevention of disease. It is well known that putrefying organio matter at tracts flies and other insects to seek it as o nidus for their eggs, where their larva) find an abundant Bupply of food os soon as they are hatched. The ulcerations ond eruptions which characterize manv infections diseases attract flies, and it is reasonable to suppose that, aftor alighting upon an infectious ulcer or pustule, they often carry away with them small quanti ties of virus, which may Infect healthy persons upon whom tne insects may Bnosequentiy alight. The disease known popularly as car buuclo has been attiibuted to the action of cer tain insects supposed to carry with them virus generated in certain diseases to which bovine animals are liable. It seems very possible that small-pox may be communicated frequently in this manner. To what extent insects act as carriers of pollen from flower to flower, does not seem to have been investigated as the im portance of the subject demands. That they act also as scavengers, devouring substances the decay of which would pollute the air with unhealthy gases, and perhaps miasma, cannot be doubted; and the old notion that a scarcity of flies denotes an unhealthy season, and vice versa, may have a soientiflo foundation. Ex Rtk and Indian Loaf. Scald three' pints of very coarse com meal (as coarse as that ground for horse feed) with three pints boiling water. Add one gill of molasses and three pints of rye meal (rye graham); mix all together very thor oughly, and make into loaves three or four inches thick. Set on the stove where it will simmer up and not burn, and let it stand until it rise enongh to crack all over the surface. Then put into a moderate oven and bake three hours, or bake two hours and steam two hours, or put into a pretty good oven, with a declining nre, at nigni, ana nave H reaay tor oreuiasi the next morning. Serve warm or cold; better warm. ; Arrxi- TAKTXxr. Peel six large pudding apples, boll to a pulp, mix with sugar, cloves and lemon-peel, to the taste; let this mixture stand till cold, then mix it with two ounce of dried currants. Make a light puff paste, take & laj-sa Hat badtin? tin. and pour the mixture in. Cover with the pastry, and bake half an hour in a very not oven. YoJHQ Folk ColUM. Hoe Out Your Row. One lazy day farmer's boy. Was hoeing ont the corn, And moodily bad listened long To hear the dinner horn. -. The welcome blast was heard at last. And down he dropped his hoe; Bnt the good man shouted In his ear, "My boy, hoe ont your row I'' Although a "hard one" was the row. To use a plowman's phrase. And the lad, as sailors have it. Beginning well to "haze," I can," aald he, and manfully He seized again his hoe, And the good man smiled to See The boy hoe out his row. The lad tha text remetubered. And proved the moral well, .That perseverance to the end' At last will nobly tell. ' Take courage, man I resolve you can, And strike a vigorous blow; In life's great field of varied toll Alwayb "hoe ont jenr row.," A Prompt Boy. A boy borrowed a tool from a carpenter, promising to return t ot night. Before eve ning he was sent awov on an errand, and did not return home until late. Before he went he was told that his1 brother should see the article returned. After he had returned home and gone tobed, be found out that the tool bad not been sent to its owner.' He was much 'distressed to think that his promise had not been kept, but was persuaded to go to sleep, and rise early and carry it home the next morning. By daylight he was up, and nowhere was the tool to be found. After a long and fruitless search, he set off for his neighbor's in great distress, to acknowledge his fault. But how great was his surprise to find the tool on his neighbor's door-stone I And then it appeared from the print ot little bare feet in the mud, that the lad got up in his sleep and carried the tool home, and had gone tojbed egain without knowing it. Of course a boy who was prompt in his sleep was prompt when awake. He lived rejected, had the confidence of his neighbors, and wfls.( placed in many offices of'trust and profit. If all grown folks felt as this boy did, there would be a good many tracks of bare feet found some of these bright mornings; and what piles of tools and books would be found at their, owners' doors ! The Whistling Tree. Did ony of our young readers ever hear of o "whistling tree? " A writer in the St. Nicholas o paper printed for the young people, says he he has, for be has birds that tell him everything. The whirling tree is found in Africa. It is a strange looking object, with branches white as chalk. It has long horns, the inside of which is the favorito of some tiny insect. When this creature crawls out to see the world, he of course, leaves the door open behind him that is to eay, a small hole through which he crawled. Now, the wind blowing through the trees when the leaves are off make a musical noise in those hollow thorns, so that it sometimes sounds like thousands of flutes playing at ,once. Tbo na tives call it the whistling-tree. We've a whistling tree in our meadow, but it is'nt of the African kind. It bears boys, with cheeks as red as peaobes.- I've heard half-a-J dozen of them whistling in it at a time. And they come down out of it with their hots full of wild cherries. "Whistle, Jim," We noticed yesterday a youth, about fourteen years old, doing his work in o very surly manner and heard'a com- panlon say tobim; "What's the use of grumb ling? Whistle, Jim, and the work, won't be so hard." Thot's it, my little man, thought we , for we have always noticed that those who sing or whistle while at work, find tho labor less heavy and tedious. We don't believe in one puckering up his mouth and going through the -world on one lone whistle, but we dont believe in singing and whistling, provided the time and filace is appropriate, while one works. There s a great reliel in it. A writer says that hohad once a hostler who whistled pretty much the whole time, except when sleeping or eating. It is hardly necessary to say that he was a cheerful and good-natured fellow, or that his industry was belped rather than hindered by his music. WhiBtling is essentially an out-door practice.' In the house it is apt to be too sharp and pierc ing for the delicate ears. But, in a large shop, or in the fields, it is good company for any man, an helps on his work. It may seem ludicrous, yet it is true'tbat whistling alleviates drudgery. The very efforts will throw the mind into a new channel, and the music, poor as it may be, will teem like gocd company. So we say: "What's the use of grumbling. Whistle, Jim," but in making this suggestion we hope all the enter prising musicians in Vallejo will not open whistling Echool at once. Ex. Eeepino MkalsWaitino. -Little things often interfere with our comfort very much, andone small annoyance is for men to delay coming to dinner when called. Sometimes they have an hour or more ot work wnicb tney will do before quitting, aud then they go to the house to find the dinner cold, and the cook discouraged. Nothing is more disheartening to a tired woman than a table full of dirty dishes, ornamenting the table an hour and a-balf later in the day thau usual. Punctuality is a virtue tnat men snouid learn if tney are in the habit of being uncertain about coming to meals. Any woman worthy the name of house keeper will be regular with her meals, if it lies within her to have them so. Lxmon Sxbct. Lemons are recommended as very wholesome and useful in certain states of the system. People often crave an acid of some kind, particularly in the warm days of spring and summer. When lemons are oheap they should be made into syrup for future use. Press out the juice of the lemon aad. remove tho seed, which give a bitter taste;' separate the duId from the peel, and boil the former. In the proportion of a dozen pulpa to a pint of water, to extract the acid. Ten minutes boil ing is sufficient; strain tho waterinto the juice; add a ponndof white sugar to a pint of the juice; boll the whole ten minutes and bottle it. Une or two Ublespooniiai oi mu lemon syrup in a tumbler of water will make a cooling, healthful beverage. Germanroirn Ttltgraph. Patio'! Fiutt Cake. "Mrs. A. M. D.," of Colnaa, send us the following receipt which she thinks housekeepers, whether Patrons or not, will And worth' the trial: "The day before you make the cake, stew two raps of dried apples till soft, chop fins and simmer in two enps of molasses from one to two boors.. Next morning add one enp of tour milk, two small teaspoonruls of soda, one enp of sugar, one nutmeg grated, one teaspoonful each of cloves and cinnamon, butter the sixa of an egg, and i floor enoogh to make ss .stiff as gingerbread; raisins improve it. Bake wjth a steady fire. Tims improves it and ieeing will keep it from drying and getting hard. u A raummmiailM.VJilVP'