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About Willamette farmer. (Salem, Or.) 1869-1887 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 27, 1875)
1 rTww 2 TlK HOP ClIVCLI. To C- Down the stream of life we're drifting, But our boils ire fir spirt; Yours with (olden hopes Is Isden, Mine twin but in ichiug heart. For you, the rosy mora Is breaking. For me, darknes and dnspslrj My roseate dreams hive vanished, Vanished slowly lLto ilr. Slowly down the stream we're drifting, You in sunlight, I in .bid; To you, the future smiles a welcome, My future hopes all seem to fade. ElUa E. AnOamy. The Deacon's Temptation. A Story of Yes'erday. Deacon Oorum was one of thn shining lights 5o Milford congregation; ho pnid his minister's tax, his town and county loxos, and worked out his road tax without audible complaint, and though a little noir and sharp at a bargain, was respected bh a electmon and justice of the peace should be; efflces which expressed both snbstaoco and respectability In the times whereof we write. But as ho prayed in the Friday meeting, or night and morning before- hia assembled household, the deacon Dover once thought of himself as included in tho pe tition, "Leiid us not into temptation. " He carried about with him n plca'ed consciousness that his neighbors could not put their fingers mpon any particular spot in his moral character which needed repair, and as ho prayed, he thought rather vaguely of the hired men who were exasperating at limes, in shortening hours or lightening their muscular vigor, never of himself. For Bhift'css and elipsbop people gen erally the deacon had an utlor contempt, and if his heart warmed toward any clasB of his fel. low creatures, it was to tho far away heatbei s to whom the gospel bad not been preaenca. 11 is not ton much to snv that the deacon hd ottered the Lord's prayer as many times oa he was days old without realizing tho immonBe significance of it to every living soul. But he Had nis lesson, as, sooner or laiur, we mum, and thU was the whv it happened: It wan h ch June, and the meadows wf ro all toady for haying. The descon's help having taken a Holiday, on inis pancuiar aimim'uu, having nothing eUn to do, be had an early supper, and went to bring homo the cows. It ws n nretlv nlace the summer paturo. A clnmp o( wlito thorn in full W ssoui was close by the bars, a long row 01 mapio Bireicnen along the road'id", while for away tho clover tnrf lost itself in the sugar bush, and that again in Iht) wood lot, which stretched up tho Hides of the enclosing hills. It was one of those lovely interior forms once so common in New England, where the wi.dness of primovnl na ture, and ibe perfection of high tillage met and kissed each other. So, as the d aeon let down tho bars and called, "Cut, enf, euf,"inn riehbiritoue which old Spot, 131.1 Ilorn and Brind 0 heard on Ibe farthest end of tlio pastu'i', his eye swtpt over the thick standing timothy of bis mt adow", and the rich green of 01 rn fields, to the white farm hotiBo, with its broad door yard, and the flat klfg barns and outhouses, with extreme complacency. "Wwli twenty thousand do'lars of its wutb a Yank Mil lin'," soliloquized the decon, as one by ono the sleek oreaturos passed into the road, some frisking along in hnste to bo milked others swinging their heavy bags with the plodding motion peculiar to cows approaching the Bro and tallow singe of existence. Ono pretty red cow with a wi ito star in her face held back, an if a little uncertain wbethor the man at tho bars was n friend c r an enemy. Co Bos, Co Boh," suug the deacon, en couragingly, but tho Bob refused to co-op' rate, whereupon ho was forced to surround her, and to execute Bundry and divers variations upon the original theme, during which ho discovered that tho animal ho was clmBiug was the strayed propeity of tlio Widow Higgius. Now, the Widow Higgins was the character of the neighborhood; her superabundant fro ulty had overflowed upon it in sickness and health, bhe was tho favorito with the young at quilting and paring bees, and walktd blanieliBH and uureproved by tho old. Jcab Higgins bad mouldered in his grave by the meeting house for sixteen yenrs, and his widder had kept herself and her littlo homestead tin ohang d, uud bud pivon her boy a good educa tion, with a thousand dollars, earned at the goose and press boaul, to start in the West, whence twico a year he comforted her heart with the assurance that ho was doing well Widow Biggins' place, a gambrel roofed, un tainted Luildini; of tho old ttvle. with its double front door and seven by nine panes of glass Bet Hush with tlio outer walls, borrowed grsoe from its surroundiuKS, and wits nestled so cosily nnder two great elms, in a bend of the river, that the passing travtb-ral ways Blaektned bis pace to enjoy the grateful shade, tho deli cious fragrance of the old fashioned garden, full of grass pinks, of swett herbs, and the muslo of the droning bees, who furnished the widow's currency at the village store. Duiing nil these years more thau one widower had hltohed his horse at hr door yard gate in vain. There was probably four acres in this snug little homestead, aud Widow Higgins had in herited it as her portion of n much larger property which piece by piece her legs thtilty bribers had parted with to swell Deicon Gprum's nowampleostatoiitwasthe only thing which prevented this bloated monopolist of the period from being literally " mouarch of nil he survey d." Irom his own front door. To n that li lml cotoled it. would have been mild lorm of txpressinR the di aeon's desire for this land a loo in hU case passitg the love of women. It bad never looked so irresistibly templiug as it did at this moment, when, putting up the bars, be slowly followed the widow's red heifer down the roo t. 80 intently were hi. eyes fixed nnnu this one snot in the landscape, that he failed to notice tho gathering gloom in the summer sky, aud to bear the muttering of thundor which betokened a tuddeu storm. Not until a Urge raiu drop fell upon his nose, fol lowed by another aud yet another in quiok succo-slon, did be realize the need of haste. "I'll marry berl" said the deacon, who was in the habit of speaking to himself ; "I'll bo blamed it I don't marry that woman yitl" Now the deacon knew the history of David by beeit, aud could hare told any member of hit Bible class' what It said in Claik'a Coin BjenUrlta of Naboth's vineyard and the ewe lamb, but ne never ureamru mat a iciamnj nlna walk ws to lead him into sodden tern- tatiou and inglorious fall. For Deacon Oornm bad a wife already, a chronio Invalid, who had been slowly perishing of housework and heart hunger, as 1-aves defrauded of nourishment Krmatnrtlr ripen end drop into the kindly ac of Mother Earth. Bui Bolhlt g of tfcte wa in Deacon Oorum 'a ij tbat night. By U Ume he reached the witow'8' !"' he BlUnUy opened to let Star Face into her shed, his shirt was pretty well sprinkled, but fired with an inflexible pur pose, he followed the cow through the yard, and, knocking at the lean-to door, asked Widow Higgins to " hand him her milk pail." t. m.it.uon." mM ihA Hltho wTdnw. , "what do you want ot my milk pail? You'd - -- , -- "'--""". better come in out of the rain." No, thank you," said tbe deacon, " 'taint no night for you to b3 ont; jest hand me the pall 'Oh, la, I ain't neither sugar or Bait," replied J Ihe widow, "and maybe the heifer wont like a new hand." " I'll risk it," said the deacon, and as the widow reluctantly jielded, he added, impres sively. " Miss Biggins, I've seen all I waut to f wimmin overworkin' thoirselves. I've had rav chastcnin', an' I mean to bea better neigh-' bor, and, better to bum." ' Glowing with the kindly feeling created by his own words, the deacon ambled off to the shed where lh little red cow stood impatiently . waiting for her mistress. He took down tne widow's milking stool from its peg, and not 1 without difHcully adapted it to his own propor- tions, the cow giving a vixenish whi-k to her tail as she watcbed the unususl proceedings. " Hist," said tbe deacon The cow stood without moving a leg. "Sol So-0.0." coixed the deacon, appre hensive of tbe manner in wl ich this reserved power m'gbt be exercised. By dint of patting and coaxing he finally got the animal in posi- 1 estly and simply arrayed, as becomes the oc tion, and was growing quite proud of his suo-1 caion of their graduation from school, cess, the pail being more than two-thirds full,: Tbe evils of the custom which has sprung when splash 1 came a torrent of the foamy li-1 Up of. making graduation day a time for a quid full in his face, blinding him utterly, and 1 display of fine clothes, are very many. There causing him to lose bis balance on the three nre gjr8 whose parents cmnot well affjrd any legged stool. For an instant his " idees" were i extra expense on this account, nnd there is no in dire confusion : and no wonder, for he sat on the ground with his head in the mik piil, while its contents wtro flowing over his person in all directions. The deacon bad never been"known to indulge in profane language, but as he rose to his feet and saw tho beast confronting him (rearwise), from the farthest side of tho shed, bis utterance was choked by tbe torrent of expletives which seemed to bnrBt from tbe bidden recesses of his being. " Dang it all I" groaned he at last, helplessly; ns, fee line for a handkerchief to wipe his sopping head, he remembered that it was in his ooat pocket, and that had been left at nome. There was no alternative. The deacon saw he hid got to face the object of his attentions tVcn in this sorry plight, and the sooner it was over the better. One who might have wit nessed tho expression of surprise and cono rn with which she received his humiliating ac knowledgement of deft at, would not have be lieved it possible that two minutes before she bad been laughing until the tears run down her plump and rosy checks, as she had enjoyed tbe performance from the pantry window 1 Tho Widow Higgins was one of those rare charac ters who can enlir into the experiences of others through insight and sympathy, without losing themselves. The deacon's respect for I er rose immeasurably, an, walking homeward, nnder her umbrella, be remembered that not so much as tbe shadow of a smile had crossed her friendly countenance. More deeply versed in Ihe nature of th female box, that fact ould lave been sufficient to inform him that rhe had seen it all. His most pressing concern was, now that ono ordeal had beon safely passed, to escape the observation and inquiry of his own house hold. Jeanne 0. Carr in Sural Press. (To be Continued.) Country Life for Women. Mrs. Henry M. Field, tbe wife of the editor of the New York Evangelist, was unexpectedly called upon to read a paper betore a familiar neighborhood association formed in Stock bridge, Mass., for adding to the beauty of tho town by tho planting of trees, etc. She re sponded by reading a delightful little essay oa the advantages of country life for women. It was tho tribute of a genuiue lover of nature, and the sympathetic expression of one who outers into the joys and sorrows and all the innor experiences of her Bex. We can quote only tho concluding paragraphs : But if woman still chafes under the inevitable monotony of country life, is that alone the causo of her uuquietuess ? Woman has too much time for thought time whioh in a man is absorbed by tbe rontino of profession ; and this surplus ot mental activity she gives to increasing or decreasing force of the current dreams, tbe fallaoy of which a larger experience I the melody changes into pleasing, soft low of the world would prove to her. Given cer- Bounds and diatonio scales, which nnite and tain circumstances, she plans life according to , occasionally form very delightful musical tones, bor fancy. If in the country, she pines for a If the harp can be placed in a suitable position place in tho basy world ; whilo she who is dis- so as to receive sufficient draft of air, in a grotto, appointed there Bighs for the solitnde and re-1 romantically situated arbor, or hidden in po'0 whioh sho thinks would give her that some shady nook near a waterfall, the effect of i-omethlng, always alluring woman, always es-1 its Bweet sounds is very charming, caning her. ' But the time comes when all that is at an end ; M,SIOTBM Sons. Kev. Dr. Miner of Boston when outside of offeotion, there is no more to I devoted hi8 iaBt Sunday evening's sermon to gain, nothing to do but to Bit still and to grow , BUOttlng tho baselessness of the belief, enter-old-and the country is the place for a woman uined , gome ler8 thst nsa general thing to groxc oil ymceullu. Age comes to her almost ,he 80na of min8ters nrid deacons turn out bad. uuconsciously. There are charming old womea 11 He flr8t usodi for tho sake of illustration, the everywhere. Iu fact I begin to think thot oatniogue of tbo college with which ho had been woman is never so charming as when she en- ooun(,ed eome eiRnteen years. Among the tors the twilight of her life. But the transition Btudent8 0f that conege darfng j period were is diftloult ; Bomo roinaiu too long on the Bunny j ,hirt who wel0 song of miniBters, and not one side, some leave it too soon. of them tarned out bad io ony pojnted BeB0. In the country woman glides into the right I Three or ouri dutJng their collegiate course, position quite naturally. To tbe last she forms . iuilicated some waywardness, bnt they never an important part of the little world with which went s0 flr nBtmy as to turn out bad. He then Bheisidenlficdas with the home she loves, , Biuded to the families of sixty clergymen with and even the soft tints of her sitting-room, in whom he had be0Q acquainted during the past which everything has grown old with her, har- 1 thitty year), aud B0 fllr be had been abe to muuiio W1.U 11WK1.J uuir uuu itwuw iniu. It is a sweet pic ure of serenity. The work Is done ; the race is run ; she has put the chit. iIvaii frtt xwrwrn oil a lno nldn nail ami tnllml i nln 1 dren for whom she has planned and toiled into the Keeping or the liord. lie win guard tbem in the world whioh is disappearing from her view. She can do no more I Her Bible iu her hand, faith and love in her heart, she waits without fear for the closing honr. A Test or Lovk. Iu past ages the Russians were much distinguished as wife beaters, and Jerobauce went so far as to Bay that, "If in iluscovy the wotuxu are not beateu onee a week, tbey will not be good; therefore they look for it weekly. Aud the women say if their husbands did not beat them they should not love tbem." Tbls seems incredible; but, .l..W".,Ce"t,..,!0.,Aflt"T:i?' ! nursemaid of mine left me to b married. A shorttime after she went to the NatchalaUkor the place to make a complaint against her hus- bind. He inquired iuto the matter, when she coolly -old him that her husband did not love her. 'B cause,' she replied, 'be never whips me.' She resented the neglect of her husband to give btr those little attentions customary between man and wife." Yocno Aukrica. An advanced agent, a boy about twelve years old, knocked at tbe door of N UVUH UU UrWUU ItrV jnHIUlJi UU -.MVM tbe lady appeared be said: "inerea oe a coy around here pretty oou to clean your walk, but don't give him the job. His name's Jim; he's cross-eyed, and he blows up oats with powder snaps. I'll be here with my paitner pretty soon. We go to Sunday school, never sass our mothers, aad we're going to give naif the money to the grasshopper sagertn." The job wss saved for hUn. ZWrott Fn Prts. WILLAMETTE FARMER. Girls' Clothes. The following evidence of good sense on the aob .i Alio YAnn nntiHAl t-.-.0.1 AAnieH f"ktn Y, ",, "!".' 1 i it the Olohe of that city, will apply equally well ...... to all parts of the conntry in which, heretofore, extravagance in dress has reigned supreme: Tho committee of the school board on the girls' high school ot this city have done a very sensible thing in issuing a letter to the mein- bers of Ihe advanced and senior classes, asking them, as a favor, to dress as simply as possible on the day of graduation. This letter must pome as a relief to a force Dortion of the olrlfl ,!,.,-. , ,. thn onnnrtnnllv of , , ... .... ... . . aom& al lDe qe 01 ioe commmee, wnai they would no doubt be very glad- to do for their own iake, but for the desire to conform to what has become a custom, and the fear of not presenting as attractive an appearance as tneir aSsocUts. If all the girls discard their howy dresses on this occasion, there will be no danger that those whoso good sense would prompt them to array themselves simply will appear at a disadvantage. No doubt there are some thoughtless girls who will prefer to dis play themselvis before tho public in gaudy at tire, and attract attention by their dress, bnt (he sensible ones will be glad to appear mod reason in the world why they should be sub jected to it. Moreover, the attention of the scholars would much better be occupied with the creditable completion of their studies, and tbe preparation for showing to advantage tbe substantial results of the time spent in their education, than become absorbed for weeks in the anxieties of dress-making and the petty solicitude for making a showy appearance be fore a public andient e. It will be a wholesome thing for tbem if thoy can be persuaded that their friends and the public will hold -them in higher esteem f r tbe graces of character and scholarship which they may exhibit than for any meretricious display of outward adornment. This is an important epoch in their lives, and the impressions of graduation day may have a large influence upon their after lives. If the lesson of the superiority of simplicity and good taste over extravagant display can be impressed upon their minds on this ocoasion, they may learn to regard it in the same way nnder other circumstances. It is a besttting weakness of the feminine mind to lay too much stress on I personal adornmnt, and, in trying to make their persons superficially attractive, to over look more important considerations. Charac ter and duty should become tbe chief objects of their endeavors, and there is no more ap propriate time for keening their importance uppeimost in their thoughts than the day on untcn tney leave bcnooi prepared tor tne seri ous labors'of life. How to Make an Eoliak Hasp. An inBtru ment of the kind about to be described seems to be of very ancient origin, bnt was introduced during tne last century, ine j.onan narppro duces a very pleasing, melodious sound, espe cially in the open air, and is not difficult to con struct. A long, narrow box, tbe length of a window, or the position in which it is to be placed, is the first requisite; it must be made of turn ueai, lour incnes deep and nve in wldtn. At the extremities of tbe top glue two pieces of oak about half an inch high and a quarter of an inch thick for bridges to which the strings are to be fixed; within tbe box at each end glue two pieces of beech-wood about an inch square and the width of the box. Into one bridge fix seven pegs, such as are used for piano strings; into tbe other bridge fasten the same number of small braBB pins; and to these pins fasten one end of tho strings, made of small cat-gut, and twist the other end of the strings around tho pegs; then tune them in unison. Flsce over the top of tbe strings a thin board supported by four pegs, and about three inohes from the sounding-board, to prooure a free passage for the wind. The harp should be exposed to the wind at a partly-opened window; to increase the draft of air, the door, or an opposite window in the room, Bhould be open. Ibe strings in a current of nir sound iu unison: and with the iearn not one of their children have gone astray Aud in faoti ne 8ll,d( tbe whoje body of livinR cl8rgy with whicU ue wft8 acquainted. .'-T- l ..". Borne -5l in all. had no children, with the ex ceptiou of three or four, whose conduct in life was at all out of the way or unsatisfactory to their parents or friends. He never beard of a clergyman's eon being convicted of any crime. He then alluded to Dr. Spragne'a biography of clergymen, and said that of tbe first 100 names in the book, there was a record that 110 sons of those clergymen became ministers of the gospel. In this connection he also stated that a man who for nine years had been the keeper of a prison had informed him that during that period be never had the son of a minister or deacon within the prison walls. These facts, he tbougt. AUs a general thing the sons of ministers and ig ,7dmit tha there were initTnceawbere h , B h . ht u ' C hU " . .. n,ivT ,L 1 wirh ml Wa' deacons turned out bad. He was however, , """.ST.? "V0"." """ """" """ ' as with the sons ot ministers. A tockostkb, while warming bis bauds over the kitchen lire, was remonstrated with by his father, who said, "Go a-tay from the stove; tbe weather is not cold." The little fellow, look ing up at his stern parent demurely, replied, , - , 1 am 1 nesting ine w earner; 1 m warmiug my uauua. --- "JtrMPi." A little Vermont Rirl called at a ' drug store and raid, "My mother wauts ten oents' worth of tumps." This astonished the , clerk. The child insisted that it was jumps she bad been sent for, but returned to her mother I for farther lastructions. Very soon she came back, and said it was hops that she wasted. The Little Ones at School. Xf M. P. finlbnrn. editor of the primary department in tbe Jiicafiona Journal gives the following hints to teachers of tbe juvenile Firt, yon must be sure the children are comfortable and right here conies a sugges tion I should like to make to the builders of school furniture. I have felt for a long time that the seat to which our scholirs are doomed so despotically for such little eternities as even a few minutes of restraint seem to be to them, might be, and ought to be, more comfortable. A perfectly Horizontal plane is nor, wnai we like ourselves, neither is it on tbe principle which accords the most case and comfort to a sitting posture. Our comfort" chairs incline back, even in the seat. I don't mean rocking and lounging chairs merely, but a perfect easy chair shows a front elevation of at least one or two inches over tbe back elevation; in other words, the hind lg are very perceptibly shorter than the front ones, thus relieving the spine by insensibly insisting upon its rest. It does not make yon lazy to be easy, neither will it tbe little fell w who oa to sit there; and would respectfully suggest that the pretty little seats in our primary schoolrooms be surren dered to this one item of comfort. A certain amount of exercisis absolutely necessary necessary for health and indispens able as a means of discipline. I have beon in schools where the poor little sufferers were compelled to sit use so many mummies, witn hands and feet according to line and plummet. with the light of gladness all gone from their eyes, and looking as if. their heaven would come when the hand of the clock were ronnd to twelve m. As children grow older and their experience of school life enlarges, they will naturally full into this routine of general demands; but these new comers ar like raw recruits, very igno rant and very foirful. Don't require them to do much in the inactive line; give them free and full exercise of all their limbs not to scrape feet for very mischief, or to endanger necks by twisting tbem round to thenext be hind bnt let them take tbe longest way round to reach their seats; give them frequent errands to other parts of tbe room, or to each other; give tbem liberty to swing their arms natural y, not the stereotyped clasping of tbe hands together behind as they waU, thus throwing tbe shoulders and bead forward, making them permanently ungraceful, if noth ing more Berious; let thorn, or require them to, fiut their two feet firmly to the floor, and not nsist on the tip-toeing, which at least looks very uncomfortable; have short and frequent recitations, insisting npon strict attention dur ing the lesson; grant a variety of diversions of various character, all of which shall tend to instruction, etc. The multitudes of exnrcises which are useful and instructive as well is al most infinite, and in just hinting at the above I bave by no means exhausted the catalogue. Ladies as County Superintendents of Public Schools. Tho Republicans of Shasta have nominated Mrs. D. M. Coleman for superintendent of schools. The lady is said to have large expe rience as a teacher, and if elected will make a capable officer. And it is further said by the Shasta Courier, that .she will receive the sup port of the votorB without distinction of party. At tbe last session of the legislature an act was passed nnder which women were made eligible for all educational offices not prohibited by the constitution. Since that period ladies bave, in one or two instances, been elected school trustees. But the present 'Campaign is developing the fact that ladies are aspiring to the salaried offices in connection with the com mon school system. In-seven counties women have already been nominated for tbe office of county superintendent, and these nominations are about equally divided between the' Repub licans and Democrats. The counties in which ladies have been nominated are Inyo, Miss Ellen Kndy; Butte, Mrs. woodman; Mann, Miss Acbaia Elkins; San Diego, Mrs. Mary Sanborn; Shasta, Mrs. D. Coleman; San Luis Obispo. Mrs. Carrie Stanton, and Santa Bar bara, Miss Virginia F. Russell. In tbe debates which occurred on the passage of tbe bill, it was contended that women can not legally be elected to that position. Tho line of argument taken np was, that under the constitntion no perBon is eligible for an office who is not a duly qualified voter for the same. Therefore, ss we have not yet advanced in Cal ifornia to the system of woman suffrage, no woman is eligible for a popular elective office. It is possible that the present campaign may involve some contest in which this question will be raised, and we 'may then obtain tbo opinion of the Supreme Court on the point in dispute. New Method of Making Mortar. So very marked is the mortar used in mod ern building as poor, compared with that used in ancient times, that various attempts havo been' made to ascertain tbe "secret," if seoret it was, of the composition of tho old builders in mortar making. One "secret" which the old builders possessed, we may quietly here impart to those ot the present day, that is, to miike good mortar, good lime and good sand must be nsed; the old builders did not use sand nnflt to be used, as do the builders of the day oftentimes. When we examine almost any piece of modern work, we find that the mortar hardens very slowly, and even when it has be come fully hardened, it crumbles away, loses cohesiveness, bo muoh so that in many cases it is quite an easy matter to detach the stones or bricks from one another, and from tbe mortar. The very opposite characteristics are found in ancient work, and on examination it has been seen that tbe mortar has in great part been converted into silicates, entering into close onion with the particles of quartz. It is to these silicates that mortar owes its firmness, and it is to the slowness with which silicates form in modern mortar, and small proportion of these present in it, that this owes its pov erty A method of setting free tho silioious earth, and promoting the rapid formation of silicates, baa been discovered by Prof. Artuo, aud which yields a mortar resembling in its cuaracteristics those of the ancient kinds. The great recommendation the process possesses, is its simplicity. Lime is in the first Instance well slaoked, and carefully mixed with finely sifted sand; to the mass is added a qnantity of uuslacked lime to the extent of one-fourth of the' sand in the first instauoe mixed with tbe slacked lime; mix the whole thoroughly, tbe mass heats and the mortar may be at once nsed. When the mortar is not wanted for im mediate use, the first process only is carried oat, namely, mixing the sand with the fine slacked lime; when wanted tor use the un slacked lime has to be added. A very strong mortar is said to be the result. A Bie Mast Thousand Years Old. The English papers announce the discovery of a bee in a fragment of millstone grit, and what adds materially to tbe discovery is the report that it was living when found, bat unfortunately the slab fell into the hands of a rustic a boy, who, when he broke the atone and aaw the bee slowing reviving, insttuitly dispatohed hiss. YodQ Folks' ColUH' Letters to Boys No. 9. I have written eight letters to you who can resd. Now I wont you to read this to the "wee-bits" who have to winder around, puzzling their lit tle brains to think of some mischief to do. I heard a queer thumping sound in the sitting room this morning, and when I went there what do you suppose I found? Nothing but a very small boy, with his very small nose twistid into wrinkles, and hla lips sticking out so far that I asked him It I should lay my parasol on them. There he sat, kick ing his shoes against a chair with all his might. " Why, Carlie Nortonl" said I, "what is the trouble?" "Lots o' tubbiest" said he; "my bozzer;ome shoe is all yepped, and papa won't let I go down street with he, 'cause he's 'shamed o' the jepsl" Of course I had to laugh at suoh a funny speech from such a funny, cross-lookini? little boy; but I just sat dawn and sewed up the rips in bis shoe, while be kept on talking. "They's drefful naughty old things, tbe folks that make 'em, don't make 'em dood, don't make 'em to last, don't use stout fred; they just makes 'em to sell, my mamma says so, so now!" As Carl is a boy who would say, if he were old enongb, as the little girl did, "My munma says so, and it's bo, it' it ain't sol" I did not dispute mm, due said a wouia inne mm iu ine shoe shops where tbey make just such little boots as he wears; for 1 was going to call upon a lady who works there. The wrinkles. went out of his nose; his lips went back into their proper plaoe, and we wem soon nnder way to the shops. Carl clung close to me when we entered one of the stitching rooms, for the machines made a a great deal of noise, and the people were all strangers to him. Some of the ladies looked very poor and pale, for it is hard to run these heavy machines day after day. I took Carl to Bee the elevator, and we saw a large box come up from tbe room below, filled with leather cut in tbe right form to be stitched to gether for shoes. Miss Placer took some of the smallest pieces and stilched tbem together with thread that Carl said "mils' be stout, 'cause t'was on such a big spool"; put in a white cloth lining, stitched on a black binding, and put in the eyelets; then she told Ctrl she could do no more, they must go tbe shoemaker and have the soleB put on. Call viewed the whole process with wide open eyes, then sol emnly inquired: "P'ease ma'm, will they yep, an1 bozzer a fellow, so bo's papa'll be 'shamed o' he?" She told him she was afraid if a boy wore them nearly out, they would rip. He gave her a look of disappointment, and putting his littlo fat hand in mine, said, with a sigh: "There, auntie, told you so! turn, let's be goin'." We went, and an hour afterward he was fast asleep in his crib. Tbe first thing be saw, when he awoke, was a pair of new boots; just snob, ones as you love to weir. We, call them silver toed; Carl says "shiver toed." Tou would know better than that, wouldn't you?. Corresponds ence Rural Press, True to the Character. "I say, girls," said a little blue-eyed, flaxen haired boy on Second street yesterday, "let me take your candy and we'll all play chicken." "Is it nice?" inquired half a dozen six-year olds in' chorus. "Nice! you bet it is. Let me show you. Now, I'll lay tbe candy down here on the step, and you all go down there and come up when you bear me call like a rooster." ine girls retreated and gathered in a group about fifteen feet off, while the boy got on his knees, with his head over the candy, and began to call and strut and flap his arms like a roos ter's wings. ''Cluck, cluck, rat, tat, rap, cluck," and all the girls came running up and bent to pick np the candy, when the little fellow opened his mouth and took it in at one gulp. "Oh, you mean boy," they cried, "you have taken all our candy." "Thats 'cause I played rooster," said the boy; "roosters always call the hens up when he finds a grain of corn, and then picks it up himself." Youthful Philosophy. "Grandma, do you know why I can .see up in the sky so far?" asked Charlie, a little four-year-old, of the ven erable lady who sat on the garden seat, knit ting. "No my dear; why is it ? " said grand ma, bending her head, eager to catch and re member the wise sayings of the precious little pet. "Because there is nothing in the way," replied the young philosopher, resuming his astronomical research, and grandma her knit ting. Anothkb Steam House, Mr. Fortin Her mann, says Les Mondes, is testing a machine which is moved by artioulated feet which 'are successively planted upon the ground. Two feet act from the front body and two from the rear, being pressed downward by steam, which besides, in a horizontal engine, oscillates rods which, acting upon tbe feet, cause the ap paratus to drag itself along. From experiments cited, it appears that the feet, when shod with rubber and charged with a weight ot 2.2 lbs. Ser OA inch, indicated an adhesion equal to .75 of tbo weight of the motive machine. The apparatus travels at the rate of from 4 to 4.8 miles per hour; and by a new arrangement, in whioh one pair of feet trot while the other pair amble, it is expected to run at the rate of twelve miles. It will ascend grades of one in ten with quite heavy loads. Cbimicai, EsKBor of Flames. Experiments aaaa.w -rwaw j a-aaa.au UJ a--,,. MabUU SUU fiondy to determine the relative chemical " light strength" of various flames. They ar range the flames studied by them in the follow ing series, the weakest being put first, and the numbers representing it the relative chemical attttaav-rv. T w i tn m ti1 Unlit O a !-. l.,t 1 oxygon, 4. ; magnesium lamp, 5 ; flame of nl- Imni mui in anlnhMA nf a.Ln vr.n. c . . rent of nitrons gss directed to carbon burning .u vcs-xi, u-i , turret.. 01 oxygen, 4 ; current of oxygen directed to sulphur burning in a vessel, 8. Thus it appears thst tbe flame of sulphur in oxygen is remarkable for its chemi cal energy, and is therefore well suited for pho togrsphio purposes. Thi Magnetic Ccbves. Iter. O. H. Hop. kins gives the following method for fixing the curves which steel filings take when nnder the action of a bar msgnet. The filings, having been prepared so as to be nearly the same size as possible, and that size very minute, are poured into a mortar, and a small qnantity ot finely powdered reels is added : these are stiied togtther until the two snbstsncee are completely nixed, and then, eouiderable jprewsre being exerted upon they are nibbed. 1 SV H : a-- ..1-, AJ M