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FJ11ENDS OF FREE TltADE. A Largely Attended Convention. Held in Chicago on llic lltlu SpprclicB by J. Slrrllnz Itlorton, of 'c brnkn, I'mulc Hurd unit Otlicrs. Other Jtevtnur Iteforms Wanted. Tho national convention ot free traders nnd rovenuo reformers met at Haverly's minstrel hall, Chicago, on the 11th. Sotno 00 delegates from all parts of tho country were in attendance. Tho conference was called to order ly tho president, tho Hon. David A. Wells, alter which Gen. I. X. Stiles delivered an address o! welcome. Koutino business was then transacted, niter which tho report and address of II. 15. Rowker, honorary secretary of tho conference, was rend. Rowkcr stated thorn were state organiza tions in behalf of revenue reform in thirteen Htntcs and local organizations in many other sbitcs. Most of tlieso nrc m rela tion with tho American free trndo lengiitf, which is now organized as the national as sociation, llowker hoped this conference would Bolect a man from eacli statu who (would becomo a promoter of tho organiza tion throughout tho state, nnd its general representative, in relation to tho freo trado movement. Tlio speaker urged upon tho free traders.' tho necessity of planning for a great cam paign, and a step towards a trial ia the raising of a fund of Sl'O.QUO, which will lio needed tliis and next year of 1880. One third of this sum is already promised. "Wo ;will show before New Year's day of 1887. uch use of it that tho country will then come to our support as Kuglaud came to' tho support of C'obden and Uright." An address on "Tniiff and its relations to 'farmers," was then read by J. J. Smith, of Ohio, which ended the morning session. A prominent featuro in tho morning pro ceeding was the unanimous election of ex ,0'ov. J. Sterling Morton of Nebraska, as; chairman of tlio convention. A conunitteo !of five on nomination to present names for consideration as tho futuro officers of tlio league, and a conunitteo on resolutions consisting of ono member from ench state delegation were appointed in thonfternoou. On motion tho committeo on resolution, wns requested to remain and listen to nn open discussion ot tho principles of free trade before retiring to draft resolutions. A lively interchange of opinion followed, in which tho greater part of tho convention) .participated. There was a decided differ ence of opinion in regard to tho proper method of instructing tho committeo on resolutions, nnd before anything could bo; arrived at tho business session of the con-' vention adjourned for tho day. A largo audience containing a fnir sprink ling of ladies assembled in Central Musioj piall in tho evening for the purpose of listen-, ling to thu freo trndo speeches announced to' bo delivered by Henry Watterson, .T. Stcrl-i ing Morton, Frank Hurd, and others. A telegram was rend from Henry Watterson, expressing disappointment that at the last ;iuoincnt ho found himself unable to be pres ent. Kx-Uov. Morton in tho course of iv short address stated that Chicago, by a' .special act of congress after tho great lire,, ,was exempted from duty on overythingbtif .lumber. The people of tho city only wanted" tho right to buy where they could buy cheapest. If this was a good thing for Chi cago, why not for Nebraska and tho whole (western country? Continuing, ho said tlio negroes in the South were once deprived of "Jill their earnings. 'RJio farmer, who is now compelled to pay lift per cent, only lacks 75 per cent of being a slave. Tho concluding speech ot tho evening was made by Frank Hurd, of Toledo, who in. .eloquent words declared: ' "Whoeverowns my labor ownsme. Who ever controls the wages of my toil is my.1 'master. Kvery dollar of increased prico upon accounfcof miscalled protection means' la day of slavery for me. Over 15,000 .men,'' continued tho speaker, "are said by irand Master I'owderly, of the Knights of Labor, to bo able to work nnd willing to work, who aro out of employment in tho United States. Why? liecauso our mills ,areid!eoii account of no deninnd, tho re sult of so-called overproduction. That word is only another term for 'no market,' jenused by absence of freedom for trade and by ignorant selfishness protected manu facturers." NEWS NOTES. , Firo in Cherry vale, Kan., destroyed a big livery stable and thirty-live horses. Tho Hon. llradford X. Stevens, well known in Illinois politics, died at Tiskilwa, 111., last week. Knights of Labor at Victoria, 11. C, re solved to wait on largo employers and do maud tho discharge of all Chinese. Thirteen Knights of Lnbor were indicted at Seattle, W. T., for intimidating China man. Bond for ench lixed at $:i,00(. The reported fuiluro of M. Hausman to obtain a contract for a new Kussinn loan is supposed to iudicato coolness between Russia and Germany. There wcro twenty-six deaths from small pox in Montreal Monday. Tho record for last week was iilll) deaths, of which 108 wcro children under 5 years. II. M. Pomeroy, a prominent Roatoninn, who built tho ocntrnl branch of tho Union Pacific railroad and was president 'several years, died in Ronton hist week. Twcnty-ono shovelers fought in Jnmos Hennessey's saloon, Chicago, tho other night. When tho row ended, Cornelius Hanley's body was picked up with four bullets in his head. A pieco of the scaffolding fell from tho Iowa state capitol building at Dcs Moines, a distanco of 101) feet, on tho head of John Hall, a workman, crushing his skull so badly that ho will die. Valentino Santerd, aged 14, murdered his mother, who of 13. 13. Sanford, in Fanning, iClay county, Texas, by shooting her live times with a Winchester rifle. He intended also to kill his father, bell tlio plantation 'and becomo a brigand. Irish-Ainericans met in Now York and re solved tosupport thoParnell fund. Mayor Byrne said ho would liko to be ono of 100 men to subscrilw a fund of 100,000. "Eugene Kelly was mndo treasurer and tho meeting adjourned to Wednesday. Whilo excavating for a building in tlio Fourteenth ward iu Brooklyn, tho work men unearthed eiuhU-on human skulls within a small area and fourteen inches from tho surface. Therein considerable excitement thereabout, as no ono cun explaiu thu mys tery. Mr. Turdy, alias McCormlck, abscond ing ngent of the New York Central railroad, from Bntavin, N. Y., was arrested in Den Ter, Col., at the instanco of tlio Canada In. suranco company, his surety to tho rail Toad company, Purdy hns been a fugitivo two years, and his Uefulcatiou is said to be nearly SlL',000. .' Benntor Vorhees, of Indiana, is said to (havo in courso of preparation tho greatest speech of his life. It will a on the civil service question, and its announced pur pose will be to prove the policy of tho pros jdent unsound. Tho senator is expected to deliver it early in tho cowing session ol cungresa. The kinj and queen of Wurtemburg will (xios do winter at Nko. "WOMEN IX DEMAND. How Tliey Are .Hurried In Washington Territory. When thecensusof Red Rend, Vnh fngton Territory, wns tnken lust month, it wns found thnt thoro wns a population ofJJTS.includiiujUD.' males, GO mnrried women, ono widow en gaged and the rest children. More than 200 of tlio men are bachelors ranging in age from 25 to 50. Red Rend is some distance from tho rail road, and it hns been a very ditlicult matter to get young women to locate there. Most of the girls who went there stopped at Yakima, or to tho larger towns south of there. When the school house wns built the directors advertised in various Terri torial papers for a teacher, and 'the first ono who presented herself was employed. She had not been at tho desk a fortnight before she wns mar ried to a storekeeper named Klvorson, who was about, the best lookingyoung man in tlio town. Sho resigned her place, but consented to servo until her successor had arrived. Ono of tlio young women, with whom the com mittee had been in correspondence, wns found disengaged, and in tho course of a month she transferred her self to Red Rend nnd took charge of tho school. She wns a tolerably home ly woman, somewhat advanced in years, but she, too, was led to tho al tar in less than a month, and gave up tlio school as her predecessor had done. Once again the place wns filled, and things went along smoothly for a whilo. About that time McGinn, tho tavern keeper, imported a servant girl from Portland, and put her in his kitchen at a salary of 0 a week. Mrs. Mc Ginn was iiot very lusty, and her hus band found that thoonly way in which keeping hotel was possible was for him to have efficient female help, lie had hud serious" trouble in getting anybody to come, but the wages that he offered finally induced the girl spoken of to accept the job. She had no more than learned tlio ways of the kitchen before two or three young men began to hang around the back door of the tavern. McGinn was equal to tho emergency. Ho watched matters for a day or two, and becoming convinced that tho school house episodes were to have a repetition in his own kitchen, he got a gun, and just as a young man appear ed at tho back door tho next evening after supper he jumped out on him. "What do you want here?" heasked. "Nothing." said tho fellow, coloring up a little; "nothingniueh. J was just calling on the girl in there; she's an old friend of my family, and 1 look in once and a while to see how she's get ting on." "Well, Tin a friend of your family, too," said McGinn, "to tile ex lent that I don't want to kill you, but if you don't keep away from hero I'll murder you. Now, you git." Theyouth slunk away. The next day the girl wns missing from the kitchen, j and' late in tho afternoon it was dis covered that shohad married tbeyoung man. The same day tho schoolmis tress announced her resignation, and as McGinn was on the warpath with his gun, tho leading citizens mndo up their minds that a crisis had arrived which would require a good deal of statesmanship to bridge over. That evening, when the school com mittee met .to consider things, Mr. Elder, tho chairman, f-.aid he had an idea which he thought worthy tho at tention of his associates. Ilepropos ed that in the futuro all school teach ers should bo made to sign a bond not to marrv beforo'tho end of the term. Tho idea was accepted, but fearing that the conditions might make it im possible for them to get women into .the town, they said nothing about them to tho one with whom they had opened negotations. Sliecamoon.and alter deciding to take the place wan informed of tho contract she would ,havo to sign. To this she indignantly declined to accede. Tlio school com mittee was inexorable, and so was she. Sho said she would leavo for home in the-morning. Tho committee men looked at one another to seo if anybody was weakening, but no one appeared to be willing to give in; so it was decided she would have- to go. This particular girl was young and vivacious, and when sho started off with School Director Reebo of Yakima tho whole town wished sho would stay. An hour later Reebo drove into town with the girl still in his wagon, and to tho people who gathered around tho vehicle with questions, he t;u id: "Tho fact is we've decided to get married. Sho didn't want to go back, and I didn't want to have her go." Everybody felt that Reebohad play ed roots on everybody elso but there was nothing to say. At tho next meeting of thecommiteo, which Reebe did not attend, Mr. Elder again had an idea which he wanted to submit. Ho said that in view of what happened, it occured to him t hat Red Rend had greatness within jits grasp. "Xow.'i ho continued, "lot us over stock this market with schoohna'ams and servant girls. Advertise lor them everywhere, offer big wages and hire all that come. Wo'll got enough after awhilo to go around, and when wo ao it, wo may have a few on hand." Thesuggestion was discussed at con siderable length, and finally adopted. The school board decided to hire ten teachers, and twenty of ths married jnen in town agreed to take twenty-live servant girls. Tho advertise ments brought many answers, and in tho courso of time tho town began to Jill up with young women of every de scription. As they arrived they wero nssigned to different families, and be fore a week had passed tlieie wero more marringes on foot than the preacher could keep track of. Tho ex periment has been found to work splendidly, and as tho only school ma'uni in town is snid to be on tho point of marrying, it is thought that the Bamo device will be resorted to again. Six girls have married out of McGinn's kitchen, and during tho last twelve mouths there have been four teen teachers at the little school. The present incumbent is a grenadier frou Michigan, and thoconunittoothinktht will last some time. "WHAT W'UAa YOUHAVH? Tippling at tlio Capitol Webster nnd Clay's Tipple. Washington Correspondence Cleveland . Leader. Many of these committeo rooms at tho Capitol contain during a session a choice article of spirits, and tho pres ent Minister to Rorlin, Mr. Pendleton, was not averse to treating his friends ot the Senate now and then. It used to be thnt there was a regular bur in tho Capitol. This bar was known vulgarly as "Tho Hole in tho Wall." It wn-i situated between the llouseand the Senate, and at it Clay and Webster often drank. In deference to the tem perance sentiment this bar has been long since abolished, but liquor is sold at tho Capitol as much as ever, and you can get whisky straight in either the House or Senate restaurant by merely asking for "cold tea." It is said that drinking is decreasing at Washington. I do not believe this to bo so. Fewer people drink at the saloons, perhaps, but it has come to be that every public man has his cel lars stocked'with nines and brandies, and liquors are sold by tho quantity instead of by the glass. All of the gro cery stores at Washington keep largo stocks of liquors, from Mumm's extra dry champagne down to a very cheap article of whisky, and you will find wine stores in nearly every block. In no city of tho United States, except, per haps, New Orleans, is there so much wine drank in proportion to the popu lation. Many families never sit, down to a meal without having wino on the table, and at a Washington hotel, where public men stop, it is the rule to take a bottle of wme with your dinner. Within tho last few years punch has become vory popular at Washing ton, and j on will- now find a big punch bowl at almost every " fashionable gathering. It is quite an art to make a fine Washing ton punch, and it takes very little of the regular article to cause tho knees to quiver and the head to swim. One recipe contains the ingredients, whisky, rum, claret, champagne, sugar and lemons. A little water added to this, and you have a drink that will put an old toper under the table after half his usual allowance. Still this stuff is ?iven to young men and maidens. Is it any wonder that sonic of them get too much, and we have such scenes as that of Stewart Castle last winter, what Congressmen Hobnail's son in sulted a young lady, and the half of the party wero affected by their tip ping? Jt was such punch as this that started young Mahono on a spree in which h6 attempted to shoot ono of the waiters at Welcker's, and it is this punch that will undoubtedly create a scandal or two tho coming season. A great deal of beer is drunk in Washington, and many of those who drink wine regularly at their meals prefer a light article, such as claret. Tho man who drinks such as beer and claret seldom becomes adrunknrd, and in those countries where cheap light wines are staple, as Italy and France for instance, you will find much less drunkenness than in America or Eng land. There is a good deal of differ ence in the United States as to drink ing. Men from tho North and Ease and from California drink wine while those from tho West and South take whisky or beer. Kentuckians usually take whisky straight, and Wisconsins are fond of their own Milwaukee lager. Senators Fryo and Rlair aresaidtobe the only Senators who are teetotal lers. Attorney General Garland likes a good article of Rourbon. President Cleveland drinks beer some times, and of the members of tho Lower House, few of them are averse to a dram on tho sly. The Speaker himself is a good judge of li quors, and ho often takes a bottle of wino with his lunch. Roth Cox and Dorsheimer liko good wine, and ex-di-plomates, such as Hitt, of Illinois, seldom eat without a bofetlo of wino at their meals. Ren LeFevre drinks beer, and there are a number of members who mo addicted to drinking hot wa ter. There was a Congressman named .lad win in tho Forty-soventh Congress who never sat down to a meal without having a teacup of hot water placed bctoro him. Ho seasoned it with cream and sugar and drank it as other peoplo do coffee. Congressman Hatch, of Missouri, is also a hot wa ter drinker, and Rreckenridge, of Ar kansas, takes it with every meal. These hot water drinkers advocate the practice as a cure for dyspepsia nnd indigestion, and they say they be como as fond of tho drink as of tea. coffee or whiskey. An Elizabethan Dinner. In Elizabethan days the first course on great occasions would probably bo wheatcn flummery, stewed broth or spinach broth, or smallnge, gruel, or hotchpot. Tho second consisted of fish, among which we may note lam preys, poor John, stock fish, and sturgeon, with side dishes cf porpoise. Tho third courso comprised quaking puddings, bag puddings, black pud dings, white puddings, and narrow pud dings. Then camo veal, beef, capons, humble pie, mutton, narrow pasties, Scotch collops, wild fowl, and game. In tho fifth courso all kinds of sweets, creams in all their varieties, custards, cheese, cakes, jellies, warden pics, suckets, sillabubs, and so on; to Le followed perhaps by white cheese and tansy cako. For the drinks, ale and beer, wine, sack, and numerous va rieties of mead or mcthe,lin, some of which wero concocted out of as many as five-and-twenty herbs, and wero red olent of sweet country perfumes. Chambers's Journal. General Simon Cameron, on his way home to Harrisburg, stopped in Phil adelphia long enough to tell an inter viewer that after fifty years' activity in politics ho wns tired and had step pea down and out. FARM AXU HOUSEHOLD. l'lirm lire Itlo.i. The milk of the Holland cat tlo a shorter name for 1 lolst ien-Friosion is c'nssed as of the same quality as the Shorthorn. Hon. Samuel J. Tildenhnsthe finest chicken houses in New York at Grey stone. His hens and eggs arc the won der of farmers. W. P. Dickson's siok cows died at Marshall, Mo., and in their stomachs were found clusters of sixpenny nails, gun caps and pins. Robert Ronncr owns two kings and one queen of the turf Dexter,!!. 17 1-4; Rarus, 2. HI l-l,undMuudS.,2.0S.'5 -t. The investment cost him $111,000. To have a cool and dry cellar open its windows late in evening when tho night air is coolest, and close them before sunrise; then if the room is tight and no ray of sunshine enters it, it will remain cool through the day. Warm air holds more moisture than cold air: so if warm air is introduced into a cool room the moisture is condensed and settles upon the walls and damp ens all tilings in the room. A peck of fresh lime will absorb 71bs. of water from the air; so if lime is put-in open boxes in a damp cellar theair is made much drier. When any animal is kept short of food it goes back rapidly, and more food will bo required to make up this lost ground, than would havo kept the animal in its normal condition. Thii is especially true as regards swine, if these are permitted to fall off now, for lack of lood, they will con sume much more than the present gain, in recovering tho loss. Animals that are intended for fattening.should bo kept, on full feed now, and those to be wintered over, should bo kept in good condition. ComttnlU.i. I have fed the cornstalks that grow on my farm for fifty years, and often thought they paid well for the labor of raising tho crop. Largo coarso stalks are not best for fodder; tho more tender and full of leaves tho bet ter. They must bo cut whilo green and thoroughly well cured. After tho grain is threshed and the bnrnsenipty there is room to stoe stalks, and if well cured and dry when put in they keep as well as hay and cost no more per ton. My stalks are fed mainly to cows and young growing cattle, in "dry open yards, being properly distrib uted before tho cattle are turned out. If tho yards are dry there will bo no waste if the quantity is suitable. Nothing should be fed in tho mud. Stalks fed in mangers to horses, cattle or sheep, handle best, and the work is less, if cut. They aro sometimes cut with corn on, unhusked, and used with good results to fatten cattle and sheep. Rut they cannot be cut with out tho expense of machinery and labor, which amounts to consider 'able; and when there aro cows and young cattle with suitable yards for those of each kind and age to get ex ercise they supply a desirable change of food, keep them busy yet quiet and contented, while they grow and thrivo better and get more strength and vigor than if fed on straw or hay of average quality. Alonzo Sessions, Ionia Co., Mich. FullInC offof Hull- of Anlniiils. The hair falls off in consequence of some disease of tho skin which de prives it of the necessary nutriment to renew its growth, llairgrowsfrom bulbous roots orglands called follicles, imbedded in the skin, and these draw the required nutriment from thoblootl. When the skin is diseased or inflamed or tho blood is seriously disordered, as l.i some fevers, the hair is deprived of its supply of nourishment ami stops growing; sometimes it is wholly de stroyed, and permanent baldness is tho result. This is rare, however, and Hmo simple treatment to removo tho cause nnd stimulate thu action of tho follicles will usually restore thogrowth of hair. Tho treatment should bo to give a laxative medicine, is a pint of linseed oil, to a horse, or eight ounces of opsom salts, and to apply vaseline, to which one-tenth part of tincture of canthnrides is added, to tho skin of tho mane and the tail. A fow appli cations of tho vaseline mixture havo quite removed tho trouble nnd its ac companying irritation in many cases. Tim OiiBstlon of Manure. This is a specially good tinioto think and study upon tho question of ma nure. A southern farmer whoso land is exceedingly rich, and whoso corn crop tho present year yields 80 bush els to tlio acre, remarked to tho writer, who recently visited tho farm: "I am busy gathering everything lean to make manure of. I am raking tho woods for decayed leaves, mowing down weeds from thestubblo fields and tho creek botttmi, and putting them in pens under tho cows and horses. Mv corn makes a uood cron. but with , a little manure I can get 100 bushels per acre, and that is wnat i am aim ing at. Good culture, tho best I can give, brings mo 80 bushels, and I can go on doing as well as that, but by and by it will be hard to keep it up. I find it is better and easier toimprovogood lnnd than to bring up poor land, and I am going to manure tho best land I have. Many a northern farmer will think thisstrango talk and woi k for a farmer and a tobacco grower in the south. To n Unity Mother. Illustrated ChriBtiun Weekly. Thf human brain needs rest nnd change. Tho human mind needs relaxation. Tho human heart needs pleasant companionship, Deprivo them of those roqusites, nnd the result, in nine cases out of ten, will bo insan ity. Perhaps you inuwine that I wean to frighttn you. Why, to tell tho truth, if 1 could not nrouso vou to a sense of your condition un less I terrified you n little I would rather do so than seo you nn inmatu of an insane asylum. Vou seo this to be quite in accordance with the rest of nature's iaws. Tho body cannot subsist on ono kind of diet;' it must havo more or less variety; and be hold how plentifully our Creator hns provided for this great need in the abundant fruitfulness of earth, air and sea! How soon the palate tires of one article of diet! How soon the body starves when fed upon one thing! Dear friend, 1 beseech you give this subject your most careful consideration, for I perceive you aro killing yourself with the constant strain brought to bear upon body and mind, and unless you consent to relax tho strain you will suffer very seriously in consequence. Your "nervous headaches" a re sent, perhaps as warnings, which, if heeded, may prove your salvation from nioro serious trouble. I have found it ex ceedingly injurious to work during the evening." You have been busy all day with ono duty or another; tho night has come; you can find no warrant in Scripture for continuing your labors, but you can for resting from them. So let the workbasket remain undis turbed, let the needle rest. You will be all the more skillful with it on the morrow. Spend the evening in reading, conversing, playing interesting games with your children or in visiting your friends; or, better still, if you feel able, in attending an interesting lecture or concert; then, when you retire, you will sleep sweetly and awake refreshed and equal to the performance of thu day's duties. Never eat heartily when "tired to death." Drink a cup of tea and eat a cracker or two, or beat tip an egg m half a pint of milk, sweeten andllavor to tasto and drink it. This will strengthen you, and will not make any demands upon your weary stomach or digestive organs. And another thing: Do not rise early in the morning and trot all over the houso doing this and seeing to that for hours before you eat anything. Put on the coffee, if you use that bev erage, or tho tea, if you use that, as soon as possible, and pour yourself out a cup just as soon as it is in a condition for drinking, and add what ever light, easily-digested articlo of food you may like best. This done and you must eat slowly, and at your ease you will find that you can re turn to your work and fairly "make things fly." You will catch yourself singing, per haps, and when your husband and children conio down fresh from their slumbers they will meet a smiling face and sit down to breakfast presided over by a cheerful hostess. Force yourself to try this plan once or twice and I know you will be pleased with it. I havo tlio greatest faith in it, be cause 1 proved it in my own case, and this is true of all the suggestions I have given in this letter. Tea mill ColTm-. "One of the most marked differences between English anil Americans in matters of diet," says tho Evening Post, "is in their relative uso of coffee and tea. In Great Rritain tea has long been tho favorite, while in tho United Stales coffee is preferred. The differ ence becomes constantly more striking. For some years past thoconsmnption of coffee per capita has remained sta tionary or fallen offin the United King doin, whilo that of tea has been steadi ly increasing. In tho United States, on the other hnnd,thoconsumptionol tea has of lato fallen off rapidly, sink ing from 1 .51 pounds per capita livo years ago to only 1.10 last, year, while the consumption of coffee has increas ed only less rapidly, until it now reaches about nine and a half pounds a year per capita. Tho English now drink livo times as much tea as coffee, whilo tho Americans drink eight times as much coffee as tea." IIoIdJiiK Infant. Some very radical views aro being advanced in these days by our physi cians in regard to tho management of infants. Wo cannot agree- to all of these such as, for instance, keeping a room at a certain temperature and then allowing littlo or no clothing on tho tiny unfortunates who stay iu it. lint wo wish to heartily second Dr. Page's ideas ns to tho holding inarms of young children. Ho insists that they are much better off with less "tending" than it is customary to bestow upon them. Tho busy woman who has a largo family of children, yet whoso means do not al low her to keep a servant, often man ages, in some way, to get along, keep well herself nnd rear her children healthfully. Sho will tell you, if you ask her, that her baby geta "precious little tending." Sho holds linn to feed hint and dress him, but he rides in his littlo wagon, lies on tho bed, or, if old enough, plays on a comfort able on the floor most of tho timo. This, Dr. Pago says, is tlio proper, normal way of attending to babies. Ho argues that this continual holding, trotting and tossing make tho muscles of tho child soft and flabby, becnuso it has no chance nor encouragement to exert its own stiength; and that its mind is ultimately less intelligent, be cause, never having tried or learned to anuibo it. elt, its powers also have not had opportunity for develop ment Phila. Press. Wuriilni; Kahut Autumn 1Hiiihii, Philadelphia Ledger "Creeps" is tho term which is popularly applied to tho chilly sensation which comes with autumn mornings nnd evenings. It is not pronounced enough to be cold, and yet is u skirmisher sent by tho frost to put men and women on thoir guard. The grown folks can takecaro of themselves if thoy will though thoy are few that do so. Rut tho chil dren aro supposed to bo cared for by their ciders. Tho mortality among infants is largely attributable to the facts that children can not tain) care of themselves, and that their eldors da not take sufficient caro ot tho chil dren. "Creeps" are an admonition which should be heeded if autumn dis-. eases are to be avoided. Tho sensn tton of chilliness felt at morning and evening, though the mid-day sun niny be oppressive, is the protest which nature makes against neglect. The daily change in theair from cool fo hot is in itself an unfavorable condition. Unless it is guarded against by change of apparel it is a cause of physical de rangement, if not of serious illness. It may be laid down ns n. maxim that the healthy condition of the body is found only in the condition of comfort. Mind AVIiat You -ay. The safest way, then, is tosay noth ing before children which you would rather they should not fully under stand; for 4 hey coinperhend tar morn than one would believe possible, did not one's own recollection prove tho fact. A lady told us or.ee that, so sure wns she that children's capacity, for understanding the conversation of grown-up people was so universally underrated, that shehas always made, it a rule to send her ow n youngdnugh tors from the room whenever thecon versation touched upon matters she preferred tliev should know nothing about, and she was confident much, good had resulted from the practice. It could certainly do no harm, and could scarcely fail to keep them fromj much (lint, being too young to fully coinperhend, might have been of last ing injury from the erroneous ideas, conversations, innocent enough iu themselves, might havo conveyed to their entried minds. Hon to Try Oyster. For this purpose each and every oyster should bo as large, plump and fat fresh, of course, not salt as you can procure. Any small ones will servo for suuces.croquot tos, soups, itc. Drain off their juice, put them in a bowl,cover them with ice-water, let stand a few minutes, then place theininacplander and drain them. Dry btt ween two soft, thin towels, without pressing them, and lay upon a molding board lightly coated with crackerdust, finely sifted. Heat up to a thick, rich custard as1 many eggs, and an equal measure of cream, as you need for moistening all the oysters, adding, at tho last, a salt spoonful of salt for every three eggs. Have ready a sufficiency of finely sift ed bread crumbs, prepared by rubbing I he heart of a stale loaf of white bread, in a towel, and passing it through a sieve. Dip the oysters one by ono into tho beaten egg, and roll them in tliecrunibs till covered in every part. Ry no means flatten them, but keep them as; round and plump as possible; lay them on napkins, and keep in a cool place for hall an hour; again dip, and roll in crumbs, and set aside for an other half hour. Now lay them on tho wire stand, not quite touching each other; sot the stand into a deep frying pan nearly full of whatever fry ing mixture you use, which must bo boiling hot, and fry quickly to a deep yellow color, but do not brown them, or they will bo lough and greasy. Lift the stand out of the pan, drain quick ly and serve the oysters on a hot white napkin, placed on a hot platter, and garnish with twigs of paisley or water cress, stuffed olives and small bits of lemon. The daintiest condi ment of all is the French mayonnaise sauce, either served with lettuce or finely-cut cabbage, made up with it as cold slaw. Rotter still is to anoint each piping-hot oyster with a coating of the ice-cold mayonnaise it must. be fresh from tho ice-box and eat it on tho instant. The Grcuto.sc Diamond in tlio "World. From tho MannfactiiriiiK Jeweller. Our Amsterdam correspondent tells the story of the immense African dia mond weighing 475 carats in the rough which is iu process ot being cut by Mr. Jacques Metz, oneof thohirgcst diamond cutlers of thnt city. Tho stono is said to havo a somewhat cu rious history, and, though its exact birthplace is only a matter of conject ure, it is known that it was found by somebody iu ono of tho four mines of Kiniberley, in the Capo Colony, South Africa. It is said that in June or July of last year one of tho surveillanco officers of tho Central Mining Company in tho Iviiuberley mine found the stone, and, being exempt from search, carried ib through tho searching houso unper ceived and sold it to four irregular dealers for lt"),000. Reforo leaving tho province tho new owners had a. night of drinking nnd gambling, which ended iu two of them becoming its owners instead of four. Tho two owners escaped tho secret police and reached Capo Town, where tliey found a dealer who readily paid them $95, 000 for thestone. There is an export duty on diamonds shipped from Capo Colony of one-quarter per cent., but it appears that this stone was smuggled out of thu colony by a passenger on tin mail steamer and brought to Lon don, where its presentation at Hatton Garden created a groat sensation A former resident at tho Capo mines managed to form a company of eight persons, who bought thestonobetween them for $225,000 cash, on condition that the seller or sellers should receive a ninth sharo of tho eventual profits. The real value of tho stono has been estimated at London at abovo $1, 000,000, According to tho rules of valuation of tho famous Tavornler diamond, its value would bo $1,100, 1)80. Tho correspondent says that tho art of diamond pohshingexistingin Amsterdam for more than three cen turies hus been brought to such peiv feetion that it is expected that this stono, weighing hi the rough 457 car ats (and said to bo whiter and purer than any of its historical predeces sors), will lose hi working much than other famous stones; that it will lio more rapidly finished, and it has every chance of remaining the lniget and finest diamond ot tho 'world.