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Give Me the People.
Some lore tba glow of outward thaw.
Same lore mere wraith ami try to win It;
The houM to me may lowly be,
If 1 but Ilka tha people in It.
What's all the gold tbat gllttrra cold.
When linked to hard or haughty feeling?
Wbit'er we'ra told, the nobler gold
la troth of heart and manl y dealing 1
Then let them seek, whoso minds are weak.
Mere fashion's smile atd try to win It;
The houte to me may lowly be.
If I but like the people In it.
A lowly roof may give ua proof
That lowly flowers are often fairest,
And trees, whose bark Is hard and dark,
May yield ns fruit and bloom the rarest t
There's a worth aa sure 'nrath garments poor.
As e'er adorned loftier station;
And mlnda as jnat as those we trust
Whose claim la but of wealth's creation I
Then let them aeek, whose minds aro weak,
Here fashion's smile, and try to win It;
The house to me may lowly be,
If I but like the people In It I
The Other Side.oHhe Story.
From Pacific Rural Press, ,
Did I ever ? Messrs. Editors I am heart
broken to think that you would publish such a
slandor about one of your most devoted read
ers; but it, only proves what I hne always
affirmed, that men are not to be trusted, be they
editors or common people.
To think of my husband, Timothy Toodles,
Esq., to whom I have been martied over thirty
years, getting himself into print.
Why, it is ridiculous 1 And to think that I,
who was fifty years of age last month, ard
never eaw my name in print, pave the day
when ToodleS and I were joined together, till
death or some woman do us part- to thit.k, I
repeat, that should bo so lidicnled in that
heartless manner; and adding insult to injury,
give it such a name as "A Hen-Peoked IIu
band's Soliloquy." Hfln-peoked I The idon !
Why didn't he name it " The trial aud tribu
lations of Timothy Toodles, Esq. ?" but no !
That was not high-sounding enough for bim.
I will now tell my e-ide of the ttorv:
Toodlos kindly remark?, that I follow him
from one room to another, until it is too late to
go out. And why shouldn't I, pray tell me ?
When he does "slip awny" without my knowl
edge, (one of his delectable phrases), he never
oomes homo until after midnight; uud in an
swer to my wifely questionings, replies "That
the lodge was later than usual, transacting im
portant busineFs." "Lodges" aro veryconve
nlent subterfuges, aro they not ? I should
like to know why women cannot have "lodges"
to visit, when the baby is cross, or the head of
the family soolds.
Whenever tho fire-toll rings during the night,
up Toodles statts, and would rush out bare
headed and bare-footed, but I am afraid that
ho would get over-heated, and then take cold,
or a building might fall on him, or his modesty
might be shocked by seeing a woman without
her dress. Toodles is a very modest man, and
1 persuade bim to remain at home, parllv by
hidiug bis olothes, and partly by having a
dreadful toothache. And after all my care, he
coolly remarks "That the ro is snob, a thing as
bi ing entirely too solicitous."
The wretch I to hold mo up to tho derision of
tho world. Why 1 My hair is gotting wliitor
every day, since that article has appeared in
print; but my time will come. As for my turn
ing his pockets inside out, what of that?
When a kning wlfo once dihcovers n pioluro of
a doll-faced girl, carefully wrapped up in tissuo
paper in her worse half's pocket, aud ou
inquiry, is told that it is n favorite cousin's
likeness (Oh I those very convenient cousins),
she is very apt to search his pockets regularly;
and nlnety-nino wives out of a hundred nnd
perhaps tho hundredth nUo would do tha
samo thing.
Such a looking honae, when I came home I
Words cannot do justice to the subject. I defy
any woman, who has the spirit of n mouse, to feel
pleasant, whon she stumbles over a chair on en
tering tho houso, finds the parlor in a state of
ohronio contusion, the chairs upset, ourtains
lorn, carpot (rulued, oanary bird dead, piano
scratched, uncomplimentary remarks written
undor the pictures in the album; tho bed-chambers
looking as 1( thorn had been a battle fought
there; pillows on tho floor; her best hat in tho
oornor, looking as if it had been used in a garuo
of battle dore nnd shnttle-oock; cigars strewed
around the bed and room; bats, coats and
boots here, there and everywhere, and a de
canter of wino upset on the floor beside a pic
ture of a ballet danoer iu an iuipossiblo altitude;
tho kitchen so littered up with dirty dishes,
novels', bottles of perfnmory, satin vests, curl
ing tongs, runsio hooks, broken glass, kid
gloves, withered boquets and goodnoBS knows
what else. You can imagine my feelings,
when I saw all this, aud then rend a note which
he h Id fastened to tho broken mirror.
"DiunKkT Balit Ann; I am unavoidably
compelled to leave home on bnsinoss for about
two weeks; but will return at the explratiou of
that time, honing to find a pleasant home, and
a cheerful wife. You littlo imagine how I have
missed you. Your loving Toodlw."
Dearoat Bally Ann I
Any one would infer from the above, that ho
had several other Bally Ann's, and I was the
"dearest," Yes I I have no doubt that he
missed me, to maka homo "pleasant," Ou a
oonspiouous part of my virtuous couch I saw
a paper with the article before mentioned heav
ily marked with a blue pencil. Like all of
Eve's daughters, I have my aharo of curiosity,
and I took the paper, aat down on the floor;
my favorite easy-chair had one of its ahem
limbs brokeu, and commenoed reading. The
first two Hues struck ma as being something
similar to my case, as, I had gone to visit my
mother; but I read on, until the slanders made
my face burn I never use rouge aud to give
my slowly bristling hair, a chance to stand on
end, I threw off my hat, and ttill read
on, until I notioed that he would go away on
bniineas for about two weeks.
That was the last straw I I knew Toodles had
written it. A man of bis years fifty-eight next
week old enough to have more sense, rushing
into ptlut, and making himself conspicuous.
I knew now what had befallen my venerable
Thomas Oat. No mora his musical "melon"
would greet me. I rose in my wrath, with
soma difficulty, smoothed my erect hair, left a
brief message underneath hie interesting aketoh.
"Tour wife awaits you at the; hotel," and
I majestically departed, leaving the house in
the condition I found it.
Two weeks later, Timothy Toodles, Esq.,
entered my preaeooe, and rushed forward to
embrace me, I waved hlu off, and aUrnly said:
"Perfidious man, were j ou not ashamed to in
vade the sanctity of oar home, and lift tba ear
tain to the public view T"
He looked bewildered, and than said: "What
did you say. 8y Ann t"
I gased ecorufuUy at him, and repeating mr
question, adding: "I know all; I have read
yow delectable effusion holding my pray hair
p to the aeorn of tha world; sad, will now eay,
that I shall not enter your house, until it la in
Us spotlsas order that I left It. I shall remain
hare, as you think it is so economical, and yon
.- . ah. hllla" .
I Mvar saw a man look so oreatlaUeii. He
agreed, to verjtaiag, ana urea days law, i
my house, arid found
everything in order, and new curtains, sew
mirror- new carpet, a new canary bird and a
beautiful Thomas Cat, which reminds me of my
deDarted favorite.
I Timothy Toodles, Esq., has been very sub
dued since then, as I rewind him of his article,
! only thtee times a day; and thanks to my train
ing, I am positive, gentlemen that ha will
never trouble yon agaiD, by rushing into print
1 in ttwif tJrliAtilnnai manna
au auua) iiuivuivuo ujitMucit r t
No'w you have heard my side of the story, do
you blame me for my righteous indignation ?
San Josd, Jan. 1st, 1875.
Naming Babies
it is a fearful responsibility to be delegated
to name a child which is not your own. So
far as my children are concerned, I am never
bothered; I just watch them for a few days to
catob a leading trait in their character, and
then found the name on that. If they are
mild tempered and peaoeful. I select some
Fuoh name as Placid, Contentment, Harmony
or Peace, and if ugly, I saddle 'em with Hurri
cane, Tornado, Tom Bayers, Cape Horn or
Texas Jaok. Strangers are sometimes amazed
to see me go down to the gate, and hear me
call out : "Tornado,- Bayers, Cape Horn, John
son, Quad, you. and Contentment, Harmony,
Sunflower, Burlingnme come in to supper,"
but 1 run my domestio affairs as suits me best.
Mrs. Daiton was over the other-day with her
baby. It is a stub-nosed, red-faced rascal, and
I hope he'll never be named at' all. She put
him into my lap and said:
"Now, do give him a name something sweet
and handsome and good."
The youug scoundrel looked me in the eye
for a moment, and then deliberately kicked me
five times in the stomach and clawed my nose.
I told bis mother that uhe'd better name bim
Tarantula, or Centipede, or Cougar, and the
picked him up, bugged him, and said that I
bad tbe reputation ull over the neighborhood
of being n brute.
Mrs. Oogber also brought over her offspring
tho other evening. It is a girl with red hair,
white eyes and largo ear', and she spit at me
the moment I took her up spit full in my face,
and bowled nnd fought to get hold of my neck
tie. "She's such a blesafd, sweet tempered little
angel, that you must give her some awful nice
name," said tbe mother.
I suggested Susie, Be sie, Bella, Dolly,
Betsy, Mollif, Snllle, Tillie, and fifty other
names, but Mm. Uogber replied that I hadn't
any refinement about me, and she said tbe dar
ling croaturo was to be named Mirabdl Augus
tlno St. Clair Dogber.
There's nothing like having a high soundfng
name for a child, no matter if his lather bas to
work for a dollar a day, nnd his mother goes
out wuHhing window. Very often as I come
up to dinner I find George Washington Hugo
Brown rolling in tho dirt with Thomas Jeffer
son Adolf Lo Grand Smith, while Darabel Flo
riun Victoria Grunip is drawing a stick up and
down the walk by a stiinu. driven by Theodore
Jackson Duke Albert Fleming. If those chil
dren nail common names I suouleln t care a
cent whether they lived or died. .If. Quad.
Hapfinfs-iintiii: Family CincLK If a man is
so situated that h cannot be hnppy in his fam
ily relations, bo will not onjoy happiness at all.
Man must cultivate, therefore, nnd look forthit
great end of his labors tit home in tbe bosom of
his wife, and in the nffoction of his children.
Around his on health, in (ho presence of a lov
ing family, the husband and father, himself the
affectionate head of the household, cannot be
otherwise than happy, He has no competition
in business there, no opposing candidates for
honors no grasping, unscrupulous enomy, who
may seek to take advantage of every weak point
to injure him and tear from him bis earnings
and possessions; but every one near him gives
bim preference, is awake to bis interest in
evervtnins: they emulate each other in doing
him heart-felt honor, and without dissimulation
or affectation, sympathize with him in all his
sorrows, hopes, joys aud triumphs. His loving
intercourse at homo is followed by no remorse,
is attended by no dicqulttiug reflection or re
gret, te is tuere perfectly at oaso, mny be
himself without .reserve, and be sure that no
unnloasant occurrence or oonsenuenco can re-
suit therefrom. It Is his kincdom. and ho is
triumphantly entered
beloved by every subjeot. His wife is the hon- your pnmii i u utu uCW .,
ored queen of homo; none dispute her benign '" 7 and be good, it seems as if I'd die easier,
swayisheruleaby smiles, and the whole fam-. Won ' J?" P'pmise me , my son? And I
n i! ' i i.. i l i, i i nromised her. bovs, ond that's what m's me
where they pobsess i l-Dr. liyfonl. I n? mea uoiamg my nana, ana i promisea to
J " quit (he low business, and go to work. I came
" "- " ''down to tel ye, and now you won't see me on
An Old Timb Custom. Tbe Babj Ionian She Potomao again. I'vo bought an ax, and am
had a law, which was also follow od by the 'going up iu Cana In to winter."
Heneti, nu Illyrlan people, and by Herodotus There was n dead silence for a moment, ana
thought to be one of their best, which ordained then he said:
hat when girls were at a marriageable age they "Well, boys, I'll shake hands with you all
wore to repair to a place where the young men around afore I go. Good by, Pete good by,
were assembled. They were then sold by tho. Jack, Tom, Jim. I hope ye won't fling any
I1V llVri IU UVI 4lV!7. UUU UBl I'D Ut.MMJF UUIV
publio oner, who first disposed of tbe most
beautiful one. When he had sold her, he put
up others, according to Ineir elegroesof beauty.
The rich Babylonians were emulous to carry
off the finest women, who-were sold to the
highest bitlders. But as the young men who
were poor'could not aspire to have flue women,
they were content to take the ugliest, with the
money whioh, was given with them; for wheu
the crier had sold the handsomost, he ordered
the ugliest of ull tho women to be brought, and
inquired it any one wns willing to take her
with a smalt sum of money. Thus she became
the wife of him who was most easily satisfied,
and thus the finest women were sold, and from
tbe money which they brought small fortunes
were given to the ugliest, and to those who had
any bodily deformity.
Thk Advantaois of Wintxb Winter makes
natious manly by driving men into social uni
ties, and obliging them to live with each other,
and devise ways for their amusements and in
struction. In a mild climato, where there is no
necessity for men to dwell under a roof, they
wander abroad, andiu a great measure dispenfe
with each other's society, so that, although
they may have certain amount of cursory en
joyment, they are comparatively nulnstructed.
But, in a severe climate when tbe cold season
shuts men out from the field and they retreat
from their ordinary vocations, and the days are
short and the the eveniuga are long, the dwell
ing becomes a school-house, and there must be
conversation and reading. Under snoh ciroum-'
stances the family las center of knowledge;
and, if there be any leaven In it, a center of
Cbriatianlzatlon. '
In the family all the ohlldren serve the father
and mother; serve them in love; serve them
not in suoh a way as to abolish anything that is
in them, bnt in such a way as to enable them,
to (urn all their faculties Into tha current1 of a
purified and noble affection. They grow up
giving and taking, and doing these things
tnrough disinterested affection, and being taught
to do (hem so. What an education this ial
A Yanxib poet thus breaks forth: "Oh I
the snore, tba beautiful snore, filling the cham
ber trom ceiling to floor I Over the coverlet,
under the sheet, from her w dimpled chin
down to her pretty feet I Now rising aloft like
bee in Jane; nowsunktothe wallofacracktd
bassoon I Now, flats like, subsiding, then ris
ing saain, is the beautiful snort of Elisabeth
Jali '
WILLAMETTE . FARMER.
Why "Ugly Sam" Reformed.
A Promise to a Dying Molher-A Story thai
Touches the Heart.
He had been missing from the "Potomao"
for several days and Cleveland Tom, Port Hu
ron Bill, Tall Chicago and the reat of the boys,
who were wont to get drunk with him, could'nt
make out what had happened. They hadn't
heard that there was a warrant out for him ; had
never known of his being sick for a day, and
his absence from his old haunts puzzled them.
They were in the Hole in the Wall saloon the
the other morning, nearly a dozen them, drink
ing, smoking and playing cards, when in walked
Ugly Sam.
Thero was a deep silence, for a moment as they
looked at him. Sam had a new hat, had been
shaven clean, had on a clean collar and a white
shirt, and they didn'tknow him at first. When
they saw that it was Ugly Sam they uttered a
shout and leaped up.
"Cave in tbat bat I " cried one.
"Yank that collar off 1 " shouted another.
"Let's roll him on the floor I" screamed a
third.
There was something in his look and bearing
which made them hesitate. The whisky red had
almost faded from his face, jtnd he looked Bober
and dignified. xHU features expressed disgust
and contempt as'he looted around the room,
and then revealed pity as his eyes fell upon tho
red eyes end bloated faces of the crowd before
bim, . , ' i
$ "Why, what nils ye, Sam ?" inquired Tall
(Jnicago, as tney all stood mere.
"I've oome down to bid you good by, boysl "
he replied removing his hat and drawing a clean
handkerchief fron his pocket.
"What I Hev yer turned preacher ? " they
shouted in chorus.
"Bojs yer know I can lick any two of ye, but
I hain't on the fight any more, and I've put
down the last drop of whisky which is to ever
to go into my mouth I I've taken an oath.
I'm going to be decent! "
"Sam, be you crazy?" asked Port Huron
Bill, coming near to him.
'I've come down here to tell ye all about it,"
answered Sam. "Move the cba'rs back a little
and give me room. Yo all know I've been a
rough, and more too. I've been a drinker, a
fighter, a gambler, and a loafer. I can't lcok
back and remember when I've earned an honest
dollar. The police hez ohased me around like
a wolf, and I've been in jail and the workhouse,
and the papers has said tbat Ugly Sam was tbe
terror of the Potomac. Ye all know this, boys,
but ye didn't know I had an old moth'r."
Tho faces of the crowd expressed amazement.
"I nt-ver mentioned it to any ye, for I was
neglecting her," he went on. "She was a poor
old woman, living up there in the alley, and,
if the neighbors had not helped her to fuel aud
food, Bhb'd have been found dead long ago. I
never helped her to a cent did not see her for
weeks and weeks, and I used to feelmeun
about it. When a feller goes back on bis old
mother he's n gettin' purty low, and I know it.
Well, she's dead butted jos'erdiy 1 I was up
there afore she died. She sent for me by Peti',
nnd whon I got there I seen it van nil day with
her."
"Did she say an; thing ?" asked one of the
boys, as Sam be-dtated
"That's what ails me now," he went on.
"When I went in she reached out her band to
mo, and, says she: 'Samuel, I'm going to die.
and I know (1 you want to see me afore I passed
awny!' I sat down, feeling queer like. She
didn't go on nnd say as how I was n loafer,
and bad neglected her, nnd all that, but says
she: 'Samuel, you'll be all alone when I'm
gone. I've tried to be a good mother to you,
and have prayed for you hundreds 'o nights,
and cried about you till my old heart was sore !'
Some of the neighbors bad dropped in, and the
women were crying, and I tell you, boys, I felt
weak 1"
He paused for a moment, and then con
tinued: "And the old woman said she'd like to kiss
mo afore death came, and tbat broke mo right
down. She kept hold of my hand, and by and
by she whispered: 'Samuel, you are throwing
your life away. You've got it in you to be a
, man, if you'll mako up your mind. I hate to
llla "d feel that my on y son and the last of
our family mny go to the gmiows
bricks at me, and I shan't never fling at any of
jo. It s a dying promise, ye see, ana ill keep
It if it takes a right arm I"
The men looked reflectively nt each other
after ho hud passed out, and it was a long time
before any one spoke. Then Tall Chicago
flung his clay pipe into a corner, and Baid:
"I'll lick the man who says Ugly Sam's head
isn't levil I"
"So'll 1 1" repeated the others.
Mabbiid Live. Caresses and attention, and
all I be pretty follies of love, are for the idle
hours and the cloudless sunshine; but tbe silent
sweetness of married friendship is that for
which men look in dark days, aud the treasure
on which they rest. Why cannot women learn
reliauoe? they think. Why must they always
need to be told again and again that which they
already know, and begin to doubt so soon as
they oeaBe to hear? This is the first contest of
natures in married life, but it is one wherein,
it tbe woman ia wise, the will yield without
a murmur, and bide her disappointment as care
fully aa the Spartau boy bides hts fox.
A Whx-obdkbcd home is a paradise on earth
No other earthly pleasure is equal to the calm
contentment felt at the family fireside. The
excitement of even successful business is at.
tended with vexation; the enjoyments of travel
are associated with fatigue and danger; tho
pursuit of fame is distracting; and even the
pleasures of knowledge are oombined with bit
terness, 'But tbe happiness of the fireside ia
unalloyed,
A Mush and Mil Bocublb. The Flaocr
ville .Democrat aays: Mrs. Kirk wid give a
mush and milk sociable in the basement of the
Methodist Church, on Friday, Jan. 15th, 1674.
Everybody is invited to be in attendance. The
ptooeedsarstabe devoted to charitable pur-
tWft
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Whkk oild people go book to their childhood,
whst , things do tbej remember most? what
do you remember about your mother that ia
gone? Not anything by which she was formally
mad known to the world, bat some scene of
tenderness, some fragrant sentiment which lin
gers in your iaaaginsJuoo.
A TBivsxw announces as a fact that he
onoe in his Ufe beheld people minding their
own .bnskMMi" This remarkable oeoursnee
happened at se tbe pessangers being too
"sick" to attend to each other's eoncsn.
it 1 had
The Way American History was once
Written.
Mr. Bancroft is familiarly charged with
writing the History of the Revolution in the
'nte eft of Washmgton and Franklin, , and
making themont to be perfect, while be slights
or misuses all the inferior actors. This ch. ge
has no foundation In truth. He is really very
fair, and knows better than bis ciitics do how
to make allowance for failure, which could not
tut exist in such times. The charge has been
mursedbytbe amazement, which naturally
grew into indignation, first of individuals and
then of tbat indefinite being, "the general
public," when they all learned that the even
seven years of the American Revolution was
not an exceptional period, in which all who
went and came were saints, Bolonsand Caesars.
By an ingenous system of writng history, under
which the Ameiiean youth of the first half of
this century were brought up, all defeats were
over, all follies forgotten, all cheats forgiven,
and one clear suy ei virtue ""
back-oround of tbe whole narrative from the
-. .fD.nl P.nn'fi rMa till that olOSinC
scene when nmld the tears of thousands Wash
ington Bheathed bis swora at Annapons. ine
curious lad who read sometimes asked meekly
when he found how bravelyWayno took Stony
Point, how it came into English hands at all.
Bat neitber.book nor.teachtr, gave-any answer
to such impertinent questions.
'Onward still the Yankoa lion bore,
And still the scattered BrltonB fled before."
Nothing, therefore, could well be moreamaz
! n o V..AC nf ornrtflnhlldren and creat-
irrnndcbildren. as they read the four volumes
of Jul, oancroil s ivuvumuuu, muu w uu ux
this man blundered, inat tail one sioie, mas
nuA. aa in triA nnv nf Prftnre. and vet
nllUaUCl Wto a aw J"J - -- -- v
another was suoh a confessed fool that nobody
trusted mm wun any auiuomy. iu wuiai
.1 . n.A.tilH if anrrca Vthinh ITIAn nailed the
naa r1.a Pif All rririnn dwindled down
into an assembly, of incompetent twaddlers
before tne war was eione, nus ueeu pciuttpa, a
surprise almost as staitling. But really we do
nnf owi tl,o.f iha faiilf. In thiu'view of tbe drama.
or of its performers, is to be charged on tho
man who puns tne curiam aswe. xi muse
people were fools he could not make them
leave sensible records behind them. To take
him to task is really to ask him to falsify history.
His real offence seems to be, not so much that
be dUc'ose the imperfeotions of others tbe
men who stumbled nnd fell, as that be proves
them Bos'on Advertiser.
Larok and Small Ears. Largo ears, as has
been observed, hear things in general, nnd de
note broad comprecensive views and modes of
thought; while small ears hear things in parti
cular, showing a disposition to individualize,
often accompanied by the love of the minute.
Large enrs aro usually satisfied with learning
the leading facts of a cae, with tbe general
principles involved too slrict nn attention to
the enumeration of details, especially all repeti
tion of the more unimportant, is wearisome to
them. People with such ears like generally,
and are usuilly fitted to conduct large eUer
prises, to receive aud pay out money in large
sums; in buying or selling would prefer to leive
a margin rather then reduce the quantity of
goods of any sort to the exact dimensions of tbe
rne.isrre specified, aud in giving would prefer
to five with free hind and wlthont too strict a
calculation as to the exact amount. Small eirs,
on the contrary, desire to know the particulars
of n Btoiy asvell as the main facts; take de
light often in examining, handling, or con
structing tiny specimens of workmanship; are
disposed tb be exact with respect to inches nnd
ounces in buying or selling, to tbe extent at
least of knowing the exact number over or under
the stated measure given or received. People
with BUth ears would, iu most cases, prefera re
tail to a wholesale business. Phrenological
Journal.
Femalk Education. Canada is becoming
well furnished with institutions for the higher
education of women. Toronto, Hamilton,
London, Brantford, Whitby, nnd Ottawa, in
the Province of Ontario, have eaoh large and
well conducted ladies' collects. It is now
proposed to commenca one in Halifax, to cost
fifty or sixty thousand dollars. In the Prov
ince of Quebec, where the need of it is more
pressing, and where the means are in abun
dance, it is hoped that soon the monntain's
brow at Montreal may be crowned with its
"Trafalgar Institute," a splendid monument
to the liberality of its founder, who began by
divestiug himself of ten acres cf land, tbe
fluent site iu tbe city, worth at leatt $50,000,
and who has aho bequeathed a large fortune
for its future extension and maintenance;
All tbe girls aro becoming vegetarians.
They wear turn-up hats.
A New Cattle Disease in Jamaica. A
correspondent writes to the London Field: A
relative in Jamaica writes: "I am in a sea of
troubles; the cattle on one of my properties
will not get well, and will die. Nobody here
has ever seen or heard of anything like it
upon any pen (a cattle estate) in the inland.
I have lost fully 000, aud am by no means
out of tbe wood. The animals waste away
until they die; there is no other symptom
than that of wasting, and, when opened, the
liver is a mass of corruption, and full of big
worms. I am well acquainted with the ordinary
liver disease of cattle. The present plague
dlffe:s from it in tbe beast having no cuugb,
and in the old herd of between five and six
hundred being affected. Nothing tbat I have
tried does any good. The nnnsual quantity of
rain which has fallen in the last two months,
may have increased the epidemic."
Ripened Leaves. Many persons think that
when the leaves turn red and yellow in the
fall it is because they have been killed by
the frost. But a little observation will show
that such ia not the case, and that the autumns
when the leaves are moBt beautiful, are those
in which the frost is the latest. A severe
frost kills the leaves at once, and they soon
fall, brown and withered. To be brilliant
they must ripen naturally, and oar hot Sep
tember and October midday suns have prob
ably maoh to do with it, tut in England, where
the falls are apt to be damp and olondy, the
leaves are not so bright, and American artists,
who strive to Mint our manlea and rionrooda
as they see them, are unjustly accused of
over-coionng. jst.
A Mam on Long island, famous for hU hogs,
was asked what was the secret of his success.
He answered: "I always choose s sood-
natured pig. Those that when they eat are
constantly running! from one trough to
another and kuoeking their snouts sgainat the
next pig I sell to my neighbors, who' don t
know better than to bay sack troublesome
snimsis, wnue my contented pigs get fat."
Pates Maotactube Upwards of one hun
dred flrsae are eaoaced in the manufacture and
sale of paper in Philadelphia, the first estab
lished in me country oetng tne iiutennouse
Mills, where the old Continental paper money
was nude. At the present time all oar bank
note and fractional currency paper is made by
tha old end wealthy firm ot J. M. Wilcox k
Co., of that sib.
Yoil(Q pOLK3' CoLlJpil.
"Prevention. is Better than Cure.'7
I was sitting beside
My destined bride,
One still, sentimental day;
"How I long," said I,
"Out to make you cry,
And I'd kiss tne bright tears awsy U'
Fslr Cecily blnsh'd,
Her voice was hnsh'd,
I thought she would cry, to be sure;
Bat she Usp'd to mi,
Fouling prettily) f S
"Prevention Is better than cure t"
Popping Corn.
Isn't it fun to ,pop corn? and when it ig
popped isn't it good? Most boys in the country
crow a few hills of. DOD-com to furnish them
nmusement in the Winter evenings. There is
come skill to be used in so simple a thing as
popping corn. ) In the first place, the corn,
should be well dried) for when too flesh and
soft it does not pop well at all. Then a wire
popper with a long handle is the best thing to
pop it in. 'A very Bmalj handful of corn, only
about enough to cover the bottom, is put in the
popper'and thereover fastened down. Then
we must heat the corn grndually.Jiqldingjt at
a distance ftom the odals, and wneri-it-ls"will
heated through bring it nearer the ,fire, ,wheu
the. popping will begin.' 'Yon 'mutt shake all
tha time, and the more. the corn pops the
faster you must shake to prevent burning. If
tho corn is of a good kind a very1 liMIe will fill
the popper when finished. Pop! how the little
grains bounce abont as they jump op and put
on their snowy night-caps. Look at a popped
grain. It does not seem at all like a kernel of
corn; it is fairly turned inside out. What
makes the corn pop and behave in this way ?
Tbe chemist says that the corn contains an oil,
and tbat the heat turns this oil into gas, and
when the pressure of this gas gels strong enough
to burst the grain, pop it goes. Tbat corn con
tains oil may be new to you, but there is oil in
it, and in sorao kinds of corn a great deal.
Sixteen gal ons of oil have been obtained from
100 bushels of grain, and very nice oil too. It
hsB but one fault, and that is it ooats too much
to get it out of the oorn; while the' mineral oil
lasts the petroleum from which they get kero
sene it is not likely that we shall feed our
lamps with corn oil. When yon hear the grains,
go off with a "pop," and a "sput," justremem
ber it is the oil that affords you, all the fun, and
turns the hard and flinty grains into beautiful
masses of corn-starch, not only pleasing to look
nt, but wholesome to eat. Americari Agricul
turist. Is it Good for the Boys?
Boys think tobacco is good at any rate they
persist in trying to use it though it makes them
ill, as if they thoughtit would prove tobe good.
A boy nine years of age was re oently brought in
for examination by his mother, and having a
twenty-two inch brain, we advised him never
to touch tobacco, because it had such a tendency
to induce the blood to the brain and keep tbe
body lean and little. We remarked that1 if he
ever exp'oted to be a full-sized man he must
keep c)ear of tobacco as be would' of any other
poison. The motherremarked that .she had
seen enough of thence of tobacco 'to make her
very earnest in traiulng her boy relative to its
use. She said her husband nsed tobacoo for
ten or more years, beooming lean, billions 'and
Bokly;( that when he became so weaki and ilL
that he could hardly walk or situp, he would
smoke several eegars a day. Finally the doc
tors informed him tbnt'he must'qtJlt using' to
bacco or go to his grave.' This brought him to
his senses, aud he resolved to try the i experi
ment. From that day be used tobacco no more
and in three months' time he went.from a
weight of 130 up to 185 pounds, and became as
hardy, healtby and robust a'man'as'conld be
seen in a day's ride. That woman 'thinks to
bacco is not good for boys, and she is sure it is
not good for men. She is determined ithat.her
boyB shall be kept from it. If parents could
rtalize the extent of the evil resulting from the
ueo of tobacco, especially by youth, they would
certainly refrain from setting them the bad ex
ample. The appetites rofaU tobacco-users are
perverted, and they are in an abnormal condi
tion ot body and mind.
As little Alice was walking around tho
garden with her great-aunt,' a maiden lady, she
caught eight of, an.;inseqt npon, the footpath,
which she immediately ran and crushed with her
boot. "Oh, Alice," cried tho "ladj, . "you
should cot have done that ! 'Perhaps the poor
thing was a mother, and had some littlo ones
to provide for." After a few minutes's--consideration
,the child said, "Bat auntie, perhaps
it was only a great-aunt."
Industbious School Girls, ThaCal. CW
rensnya: We know of a school in this county
where the large girls go' to the school-house on
Saturdays and scrub it out nioelyi and keep
everything around tbe building neat iand or
derly. Such evidences of goQdtwill and indus
try are commendable, and wo hope their teacber
will be unliring in his efforts to give them a
good education. '
We'll give 11 for tho sight of the boy ten
years old who can 'get out of bed in the morn
ing and find bis hat and shoes without half an
hour's hunt.
Salt on Wheat.
Borne soils are benefited by an application of
alt, but we do not belive there is any efficacy
in it to keep wheat from freezing out. Tho
rough drainage is the remedy for that. Every
one knows, or ought to know, the value of ashes
aa a fertilizer. Salt furnishes two of the most
important elements of the ashes of plants
sodium and chlorine, and hence it will be valu
able to lands deficient in these. Every farmer
must determine for himself whether his land
needs salt or any other substance. Sow fait on
alternate strips of yonr wheat, marking where
yon sowed and where you (did not, end then
observe the difference in the crop next year.
Where the constituents of salt are wanting
wheat will almost always lodge, even though
tbe crop of straw be light. If yon have been
troubled with this salt will be useful, though
we should prefer to mix it with the manure.
Professor Mapes' famous receipt is: One
bushel salt, three bushels of marl; let lie under
cover four months, and kthen mUi it with one
cord of muck. This is no doabt .. valuable
mixture for sandy land. Where salt is' sown
broadcast do it after the wbest is sown, giving
frosa one to five bushels per acre. Mr. Qeddes,
of Mew York, in an essay on salt M a manure,
comes to these conclusions: "Some sods hats
enough of salt, and more added does sa injury.
Lands away from the sea coast are greatly ben
efited by light applications, bat heavy quanta
ties are injurious even' there." Ohio Farmer,
Waoon Whsels axd Dbait. Experiments
recently msde in England Indicate that wagons
are most easily drawn, oa 'all kinds of roads,
when tbe fore and bind wheels are of the
same eise, and when the pole lies lower than
the axle.
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