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WITH THEE.
BY W. VT. ELLSWOBTH.
I'd rather walk through shower with thee.
Than with another when the air
la soft with summer, and as fair
The heavens above us as a sea
Of dim, ivnfathomed sapphire, where.
Slow drifting oj a liquid aky.
The white sailed ships of Gcd float by.
Sweeter is storm to be with thee.
Dark waters 'round us, and the roar
Of breakers on an unseen hhore
ltesouuding louder on the lie,
Than with another, hailing o'er
A rippling lake, where angry gale
May never rend the silken sail.
Scribner for Jane.
VI! K. I.i:JE.l OF THE AUKS.
lit V iCA ua, iLU.
I had a dream ; the Wall of the Ages unto me
Appeared of live flesh and rough granite built.
An immobility made of restlessness.
An editice with the sound of multitudes.
Black loop hol-s starred with lierce, out-peering
eyes.
And evolutions of all monstrous groups
In uiant frescoes and vast bus reliefs.
Opened the wall at times, and showed the halls,
Yaults where tho happy sat, the powerful,
Couquerors by crime iuibruted, incense-drunk.
Interiors of jasper, porphyry, gold ;
Or crowned with towers or wheat-ears, every age
Was there, and sphinx o'er its enigma bent ;
Each stage with some vague animation snowed.
Far rising into shadow as an armed host.
Where, with its leader, suddenly petrified.
In act to storm liy t-acalada the Night.
The mass thus floated as a cloud tlint rolls;
A wail it was, and then a multitude ;
The marble held the sceptre and the sword.
The (lut-t lamented and the dull clay bled.
The stout s that fell disclosed the human form.
Man, with the unknown spirit leading him.
Eve undulating, Adam floating, one
And diverse, bciirg universe, beat there,
Aud destiny, black thread the tomb winds off.
Sometimes the lightnings on this livid plane
Flashing, made million faces suddenly gleam.
I saw the Nought there which we call the All
The kings, the gods, the glory and the law.
Aud geueiations uown the age stream borne ;
Aud, as I looked, continued without end
The plague, woo, hunger, ignorance,
The hu;jt rtition, scieuce, hiscory :
As a black colonade is lost to view.
This wall, composed of all that crumbles down.
Ruse gloomy, scarped and formless. Where it was
I knew not ; somewhere in the darksome place.
THE YOUNG CUBAN.
One evening-, just after the 8 o'clock
gua had fired, I was seated in the Cafe
Fernando, in the Calle do Santa Maria,
Havana, smoking a Spanish cigaritte,
and watching tho crowd of persons
passing in and ont, or pacing up and
down tho hall, in that earnest, conversa
tional manner which characterizes the
Spaniard.
I sat quietly smoking, when a young
Spaniard whom I had seen in the Uni
ted States passed my table. I at once
pronouueed his name. Ho stopped,
and, after regarding me for an instant,
a bright, warm smile of recognition
lighted up his tine countenance, and he
sprang forward and elasjjed me in his
hands, while he expressed, most cor
diilly, hi pleasure at again meeting me.
He took a seat by me, and after I had
told him how loug I had been in Cuba,
and here I was living, he answered
my inquiries bv informing mo that he
lived within half a league of the walls
with his mother, and that his house was
at my service as much as if it were my
own. Having thanked him for his hos
pitable oiler, we talked of our former
schoolmates; for wo had been at school
together near Uoston.
Young Carlos de Armas had been
popular with us. He was of a slight
figure, but perfectly symmetrical, with
the most elegantly shaped hand and foot
I ever beheld. His hair was as glossy
black as tho raven's wing, and flowed
with silvery beauty about his neck.
His features were delicately chiseled,
and full of expression and energetic
beauty.
"You will go out with ino to-mor
row?" lie asked. "I reruaiu in to-night
to attend the opera, where you must go
with me. I will take no refusal, mi
umigo Americano," he added, with his
captivating smile, as he laid his jewel
ed, olive-colored hand upon my arm.
I was about to consent, for I had come
to Havana for ay health, which, having
been entirely restored in that delicious
clime, I had some days' leisure beforo I
contemplated returning to the States.
Hut as I was in the act of replying, a
richly dressed officer of middle ago and
haughty air came in, attended by sev
eral young oilicers, glittering in gold
and plumes. There was no vacant ta
ble, and as the officer was looking to
seo where ho could find a seat for
himself and party, his eye fell on me,
whose complexion and blue eyes (and
national air, doubtless) , stamped me as
an American.
"Here is a table, gentlemen!" he said,
striking his hand on my table by way
of taking possession of it. "This is an
American, and ought to be in prison
instead of being permitted to go at largo
here!"
This was all "spoken in Spanish, and
so grossly that I felt my eye flash and
my blood boil. I had half risen, pre
viously, in order to leave with Carlos,
but I now resumed my seat, quietly re
solved that I would not resign to rude
ness what I might have yielded to cour
tesy, and bad he properly approached
me.
"It is tho General ! I beg of
you, do not resent, for he is capable of
doing yon mischief. Yield quietly, my
friend. Havana is not Boston."
This was said to me very rapidly, in
an undertone, by Carlos, whose natur
ally brave soul was intimidated by the
tyrannical power which crushes every
thing noble in Cuba.
"is the Yankee going to move?" de
manded the officer, fiercely.
Several Spaniards, who were seo ted
at the little tables about, snranerto their
feet and servilely offered him the places
iney naa occupied. Hut he bowed neg
atively to their obsequious troffers. and
fixed his glance on me, as if expecting
inai i wouiu cringe before him, likethe
Cubans. I quietly sat smoking, and
tried to induce Carlos to reseat himself.
But he was disposed to conceal his ac
quaintance with me, and withdrew from
the table, losing himself m the crowd
that was gathering around.
Finding that I remained seated, the
general ordered one of his aides to re
move me. As he extended his hand to
fasten his grasp upon niy collar, I drew
a revolver and deliberately aimed at his
heart. There was a general retrograde
motion of the party. Some one behind
me wounded me with the point of a
sword. I turned and fired, and then
making a circular sweep with my pistol
around me, I took advantage of the
space which I had thus cleared to walk
through it and quit the coffee-house,
leaving behind me the fiercest uproar.
I had no sooner reached the street than
Don Carlos hurried past me, saying, aj
he did so, in my ear:
"Fly! Conceal yourself! Ho has
sent for a file of soldiers to arrest you.
Follow me, and I will show you a pJace
of safety."
I placed myself under the protection
of my friend Carlos, who led the way
across tho plaza to a narrow street,
w&ich we entered and traversed for
some distance through the darkness.
At length wc came to a small shop, over
the low door of which was a cigar-box
for a sign. The shutters wer closed,
but a faint thread of light streamed
through the crevices of the shutters.
"Here is tho shop of Pedro Alva,"
said my friend; "he is a cigar-roller,
whom I have befriended when sick, and
who is attached to me. You will be
safe here, as he may be trusted."
Ho knocked on the shutter, and re
peated the name of tho occupant of the
humble tenement.
"Quien la? Quien esta?" responded a
hoai so voice within.
"It is I, de Armas," was tho reply.
We heard an exclamation of satisfac
tion, and the half leaf of a door was
pushed cautiously outward. The light
from within showed him the face of de
Amas, and he quickly threw the door
wide and admitted us.
"Now shut, bar, and lock, good Pe
dro," said de Amas, aiding him.
Pedro, who was a short, dark visaged
Spaniard, with an enormous gray mus
tache, iron speclacles, and a bald head,
soon secured the door.
"I am glad to seo your honor," he
said, respectfully, "and your lordship's
friend," bowing to me; "but I hope
there is nothing wrong, senors."
"My friend, here, has been so unfor
tunate as to make an enemy of General
, and I wish you to conceal him."
"If lie has mado such an enemy, he
had better leave the island as soon as he
can, senor," said Pedro.
"And until he can do so, I wish j-ou
to keep him securely here. To-morrow
I will try and arrange for his departure.
Now, my friend," he added, addressing
mo, and taking my hand, "I beg you to
keep close, and suffer no one to see you
until you hear from me again. If the
person you shot is killed, your life is at
stake."
"Tho gentleman is wounded, Senor
Carlos!" suddenly exclaimed the cigar
rollcr, examining the floor with his
light. "Here is blood ho is standing
in!"
"You did not tell me so," he said, re
proachfully. "I forgot it, and did not feel it, until
now reminded of it," I answered; but
now that I thought of it, I suffered pain.
De Armas made me take off my coat, and
upon examination, he found that tho
sword passed through tho flesh of my
left shoulder, making two orifices of the
breadth of two inches, and that the
wound bled freely. It was soon bound
by the skillful Pedro, who had been in
the wars, and had experience in such
matter., which it seemed to afford him
great delight to have to do with again.
De Armas, having seen me safely to bed,
in a small closet, half hidden by a pile
of tobacco bals took leave of me, prom
ising to come and see me tho next day.
and report how affairs stood.
lhe soporific influence of the tobacco
soon overpowered my senses, and when
I awoke it was ten o clock in tho fore
noon. Pedro had locked me iu, and
tnrougu tne cninKs ot tne ttoor l saw
him at his work, in the front shop.
I softly rapped, and ho camo to me.
aud pretended to bo assorting cigars on
a shelf over the door.
"What news from Carlos?" Tasked,
eagerlv.
"Nothing, senor. He is, no doubt.
acting for 3'our safety.
Pedro passed me a cup of fragrant
coffee aud a light roll, and I ate a hearty
breakfast. He closed the door between
the two rooms, and thus enabled me to
come out of my confined lodging place.
We had a consultation, and I resolved
to quit the refuge of his shop, unwilling
to expose him to danger. He warmly
insisted upon my remaining. Finally I
made known to him my plan, which was
to dress in a suit of his clothes, and with
half a dozen bales of tobacco on mv
shoulders, 6ally forth iuto the streets,
and try and get beyond the Tacon Paseo,
into the country, where, three miles
fromthecitv,dweltan English merchant
whom I well knew, and where I felt I
should be in safety. The change in my
wardrobe was soon completed, or rather,
instead of changing my dress, I put on
Pedro s coarse habiliments over my own
He stained my face with tobacco juice,
and then piled upon my shoulders
several parcels of tho broad leaved
tobacco, which flapped over and about
my shoulders and face, completely con
cealinc it.
I then told him to inform Senor de
Armas where I was going, that he might,
if he wished, come and seo me, and
grasping his hand, I went out of the
door.
At last I reached the last sentry of the
rir.v cutnost. Here I felt that 1 should
be most in danger, since I learned from
Pedro that strict orders had been given
to watch carefully every avenue out of
thA citv. Bv the time I reached the gate,
I was nearly overcome with weakness
and fatigue. The flesh wound in my
shoulder, heated and rubbed by the
tobacco pressing upon it, had caused it
afresh, and I conld feel the
Idond trickling down, even to my feet.
I. therefore, determined to sit in tho
shade of a tree, near tho gate, upon a
stone bench, till I in some measure re
covered my strength, and get a little
restored.
T lial rnr. lwrm seated ten minutes
during -which time I had seen the guard
rpliAvftd -when one of the soldiers
ounged up, and took hi seat on the
bench where I sat. Without ceremony.
he pulled a leaf from my bundles of
tobacco, and smelling it, liKe an epicure,
he seemed satisfied with its quality, and
deliberately began rolling it up in the
shape of a cigar. When uo had com
pleted it and ho made it very neatly he
licrhted it by a match, and commenced
smoking.
"Burn ciqnrro, hombre, he at length
said, without deigning a glanco at me.
'Where is your shop? I will send for
--. li t !
somo. lou nave goon xouacco uere.
"Mv shop, .tenor soliado?" I answer
ed, "is in Calle de Sau Juan, No. IS."
"Buen! And where do you take to
bacco out of the citv? People bring it
in usually."
"We have a large order to fall, and 1
take it out, to get this made up by a
friend, who sometimes helps us."
"When you come back, leave mo a
dozen," he said, "and I will be your
customer."
"As v-ou make cigars so well, senor, I
will give you a half a score of leaves, as
a present, if you are going to be my cus
tomer, J said; and suiting the action to
the word, I pulled the leaves from the
bundle, and handed them to him, to his
evident satisfaction.
I then passed on, and was soon be
yond the gate, and traveling on tho
dusty road, between gardens fragrant
with orange trees and tropical flowers.
1 at length reached the villa of Mr. W.,
who was in the citv; but I mado mysolf
known to Mrs. W.. who at once eladlv
welcomed me, and offered mo the refuge
I so much needed. When Mr. W. re
turned in the evening, he found mo in
bed, with a high fever, brought on
by the inflammation of my wound. I was
tenderly nursed for twelve days, and at
the end of three weeks, I was entirely
recovered. From Mr. W. I learned tho
excitement which had followed the
scene in the coffee house, and of tho
search made for me, by orders of Gen
eral , who represented mo as a spv
of tire Americans.
"If yon had not been an American,"
said Mr. W., "ho would not have insult
ed you as he did in tho coffee house.
Tho search for you is now over, as it is
supposed you have left tho island; and
you will be able to get off in the next
steamer without difficulty. It sails day
after to-morrow."
But I did not wish to leave until I had
seen or heard from Don Armas. I pro
posed for my supiscions were pain
fully rouod that we should send to
his mother's villa in order to ascertain
if he were there or not. Mr. W. advis
ed me not to appear abroad, openly, and
rode to her residence, three miles dis
tant, himself. Upon his return, the ex
pression of his face showed that he
brought ill-tidings.
" lie is iu prison J" he answered the
inquiring look I gave him , as he alighted.
"In prison? I repeated with a sink
ing heart.
"Yes. His mother is in great dis
tress. She says that three weeks ago
last night"
" The very night I last saw him," I
said.
"A Spanish officer, with a filo of
mounted soidiers, rode ont to the villa,
and entering it, searched for tho papers
of Carlos, and carried off every l-tter
and scrap of piper they could find, and
every letter he had written to his moth
er from the United States, when he
was at the university there. Upon her
inquiries why this was done, the only
reply she got was that Carlos was a
state prisoner, and arrested on suspicion
of sympathizing with tho American in
vaders." "Do vou know what prison he is in?" I
asked of Pedro.
"In the government prison, near the
port side."
"This is a strong place."
"As tho Moro itself, senor," answered
Pedro, shaking his head. "I know all
about it, for I was once in the guard,
and have done my duty in it many a
month."
"Then you must go to prison, and
chat with your old comrades. Yrou
must make them presents of fine cigars.
You must not be without a flask of wine
under your jacket. You must make
friends with all in the guard-honso. It
will take two or three days, twice a day,
to accomplish this till you make them
familiar with your presence. Throw
out hints that you think of enlisting
again."
"I will do it, senor," answered Pedro.
"If you will, I will afterward plan
some way ot liberating him," I ans
wered. After about four hours absence he
returned. He informed me that his
success had been far better than he an
ticipated, that he had not only been
let into prison by one of his old cronies,
now a sergeant, but had seen Carlos
and spoken to him, by tho sergeant's
permission.
This relation of Tedro filled mo with
joy and hope. I at once directed him
to procure a stout rope, and half a
dozen files, and convey them to the cell
of Don Carlos. The next day at ten
o'clock, when we knew that ho should
find the sergeant at his post, he went to
the prison, and conveyed these articles.
He placed them through tho iron win
dow, in the hands of Carlos, who said
it would take him two nights to file off
the bars, which were thick. He said
that if a boat could be brought under
the window at midnight, on the sec
ond night, ho would be ready to de
scend into it.
This was good news to my heart. I
now sent Pedro out to purchase a whale
boat, or some light, safe boat that it
would bo possible to cross to Key West
in, if necessary. This boat he pulled
round to a place near the prison, and
moored it by an obscure pier.
It was a starlight night. Fortunate
ly, we met no patrols, and reached our
boat in safety. Here, to my surprise, 1
found that Pedro determined to embark
with me. He said he would not remain,
for the escape of Carlos known, suspi
cion would light upon him, who had
been so rgcently in the prison. I was
giad enough to get him to aid me fur
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ther in my entetprise; and, pushing off
our boat, we were soon rowing with
noiseless dip under tho walls of the
prison. As the clock tolled midnight,
we came beneath the window. I look
ed up, but could see nothing save the
obscure darkness of the window.
"Hark!" whispered Pedro, "he isstill
filing."
1 listened, and distinctly heard the
grating of the coarse file on the heavy
bars.
"You are right; ho ha3 not done all
his work," I said, with misgiving.
As I spoke, there was a humming in
the air, and, with a splash, a piece of the
iron bar fell into the water. We held
our breaths. We believed it would be
impossible for the sound not to attract
the sentries. We expected to be hailed
or fired into. While thvts expect
ant, the rope fell from the height
upon my head. I caught it gladly and
drew it tight. I tried my weight upon
it and found it secure. The next mo
ment Carlos was in the boat, and his
arms about my neck. Pedro took the
oars and I tho helm, and we pulled
noiselessly out from under the frowning
walls. The guardianship sentry hailed
us with the sharp "Quien ?"' but we
answered him as we had done others,
by calliug ourselves the boat of an Eng
lish vessel of war, that we knew lay out
side, and to and from which the town
boats plied at all hours.
When we had reached the Moro we
breathed freely, ami as there was a wind
outside, we stepped our mast and hoist
ed our leg-of-mutton sail. By sunrise
we were eight miles north and west of
Moro Castle, aud steering for Key West,
as near as we could guess.
We ate a hearty breakfast of rolls and
fish, aud lighted our cigars. At noon
we dined after tho same fashion. See
ing in tho west a large ship, I bore to
ward it, and soon found, from her
bright sides that she was a Yankee mer
chantman. As we approached her they discover
ed us, and watched us through a glass.
We were at length received on board;
and as I had tho good fortune to bo
know to two of the passengers, we were
at once at home.
Carlos, whoae property had been con
fiscated after his flight, is now an active
loader in the army; and the day may not
bo far distant when ho himself shall be
tho instrument of freeing Cuba from
the yoke of Spain.
The Synonyms of Power anil the
Coal Supply.
Dr. Siemens, tho great metallurgist,
recently delivered an address before the
English Iron and Steel Institute, in
which he made a startling suggestion as
to tho utilization of water power. He
said that all tho coal actually mined in
tlie world would only create a power
equal to that annually wasted by the
Falls of Niagara. If this power were
applied to a powerful dynamo-electrical
machine, an electrical current could
be produced of great intensity. "A
copper rod of three inches in diameter
would be capable of transmitting 1000
horse-power a distance of say thirty
miles, an amount sufficient to supply
one quarter of a million candle-power,
which would suffice to liyht a moder
ately sized town." Who knows but
what here is the true solution of the il
lumination question. Of course Niag
ar Falls is not necessary, or even falls
of any kind. Every running river is a
great waste of power. The city of May
ence has all its gristmills operated by
the placid stream of the Ilhine, anchor
ing them off tho city and compelling
the current to turn tho wheels. Dr.
Siemens gave Niagara as an instance of
tho vast natural forces as yet unutilized,
and to show how the economy of forces
may yet greatly diminish the use of coal.
He says that the constant improvements
in the methods of heating tend to check
the consumption of coal. In twenty
years the average increase in the Eng
lish coal production has been 3,500,000
tons a year, while tho power gained
from the consumption of it has increas
ed much more rapidly. A ton of steel
rails can now be made with 5000 pounds
of coal, against 10,000 twenty years ago.
At tho present rate of increase, the coal
supply of England would be exhausted
in two hundred and fifty years, but Dr.
Siemens relies on the increasing econ
omy of use to greatly retard this period.
Nevek Knock Under. No, never!
Always rally your forces for a more des
perate assault upon adversity. If ca
lumny assails you, and the world as it
is apt to do in such cases takes part
with your traducers, don't turn moody
or misanthropic, or worse still, seek to
drown your uuhappiness in dissipation.
Bide your time. Disprove tho slander
if you can; if not, liveitdown. If jjov
erty comes upon you like a thief at
night, what then? Let it rouse you, as
the presence of the real thief would do,
to energetic action. No matter how
deeply you may hive gone into hot
water always provided you did not
help the father of lies to heat it your
case, if you are of the right kind of stuff,
is not dsperate, nor 13 it iu accord with
the divine order and sweep of things
that life should have any difficulties
which an honest, determined man, w ith
Heaven's help, cannot surmount.
Silver Mines of Peru. The famous
silver mines of Cerro del Pasco, in Pe
ru, have, since their first discovery,
yielded silver estimated at So00,000,000
in value. The working of the mine 'was
always conducted in a crude and un
faithful manner, and nothing like the
amount the ore was capable of yielding
was produced. Mr. Henry Meiggs, the
famous American railway builder of
Peru, proposes to construct a tunnel by
means of which the mines can be drain
ed, and a vast amount of rich ore be
reached. The proposed undertaking
will be equal to the Sutro Tunnel in cost
and extent, but it is thought that it can
be made to pay.
A recently published notice of a
marriage iu Philadelphia, ended with
the announcement: "No cards; no flow
era; nobody's business."
Confidence of Farmers in Each Other.
One of the most useful features of the
Grange movement is its tendency to
produce confidence among farmers
that is, confidence of farmers in each
other. The average farmer is too apt
to look upon his neighbor farmer in the
light of a competitor as a sort of busi
ness enemy who wants an opportunity
to take advantage of him. This state
of feeling probably grows out of the
isolated life led on thfl farm and the in
frequency of social or business rela
tions between farmers. Farmers very
seldom have business with each other,
and hence there has naturally grownup
a sort of distrust of one another. The
Grange movement brings the farmers,
as a class, together, and by interchange
of ideas concerning their agricultural
operations and calculations by a rela
tion of their successes and failures, by
a moro thorough understanding of each
other's feelings, their hopes and fears a
mutual sympathy grows ui aud mutual
confidence is cultivated. Members of
the Grange are led by degrees to regard
each other more in the light of brothers,
as they call each other in the Grange
language, and the old notion that each
farmer is a sort of competitor in busi
ness wears away. When these changes
have taken place, the road is open to
that co-operation so desirable among
farmers, not only in the cultivation of
their lands and the improvement of
their agricultural knowledge and prac
tices, but in the sale of their produce
and purchase of supplies. The Grange
furnishes the machinery to bring farm
ers together, but mutual confidence in
each other must furnish the clue to co
operative success. When farmers can
be brought to see more fully their mu
tual interests and mutual dependence,
and tho similarity of their relations to
all other classes, that confidence will
naturally grow and be strengthened. If
a sort of farmer's exchange were to bo
established in each Grange, where each
farmer were to state, either in writing
or on a sort of bulletin board, or orally,
what ho has for sale and what ho wants
to buy in tho way of stock and other
produce of the farm, it might in many
cases lead to advantageous business
transactions between the members. It
frequently happens that one neighbor
has an animal or animals for sale that
another one is looking for, and neither
being awaro of the other's wants both
undergo many incouveuiencies, and per
haps spend ccnsiderable time unneces
sarily, the ono in looking up a buyer
and tho other in looking up the thing
or animal wanted. I he Jbxchange sug
gested would frequently obviate all this
iuconvenienco and los3 of time, and re
sult in material advantage.
As a precedent necessary to success in
this direction, farmers should always
be willing to sell anything they have to
a brother farmer at the lowest figure
they are willing to accept for it, and
not ask a larger price tlian they would
take of a dealer. We have reason to
know that this rule is not always adopt
ed where farmers attempt to deal with
each other. If one farmer has hay 10
sell, or any other article of produce, we
know it to be a custom to ask his neigh
bor farmer nil ho could get for it in
town, allowing nothing for hauling to
market and other incidental expenses
in marketing it. A little practical co
operation among farmers in the way we
have suggested will most likely cure
this custom and lead to beneficial re
sults. Let farmers cultivate confidence
and good feeling among themselves.
HOW TO liAISE AND FEED Y'OUNG TUR-
keys. Turkeys should not be bred in-and-in
longer than two or three years,
when a change of males is necessary.
Hens about a year old are best for breed
ing, but they often lay forty or fifty eggs
before sitting. Older hens lay less.
Remove the eggs daily, leaving a china
egg in the nest. All that are to be al
lowed to sit should hatch by the first of
Juno. Every young turkey under four
weeks old should be gathered toils fold
before sundown and shut in. Teach
them to be gentle, so that you can pick
them up and put them under their
mother's wings, if necessary. "When
hatching, says a writer on turkeys,
"remove the shells from the nest and
allow them to remain twenty-four hours
after hatching before feeding. For the
first two or three days I keep them on
the oli I nest, as it is all warm through'
out, and feed on thick custard, with a
proportion of one part egg and the other
new milk. I keep them Un this feed for
nearly a week, and allow little or no
run for them, and then only in the
warmer portion of the day. Keep them
clean, dry and warm (and they will bear
a goodly amount of heat), well fed,
and they will keep ouiet and repav vou
for this extra care, that at the first out
look may appear liko foolishness, but it
is not. When they are about a week
om l begin to wean them away from
custard and introduce whole buckwheat.
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ana allow more run. When eommenc
ing to feed buckwheat, do not forget to
furnish water for beveraere. or thick.
sour milk, and clam or oyster shells
uroKen nne. lhe old-fashioned idea of
raisiug turkeys on curd alone and al
lot ing them to range from one end of
the farm to tho other is exploded.
Farmer's Friend.
Kaiser Wilhelm owns so many hon
orary medals and marks of decoration
that when ho wants to wear them all at
one time he has to put some of them on
another man, his own coat not having
acreage enough to contain them all, and
he will not stick them to his trowpers
for fear they will get under him when
he goes to sit down. This news comes
over by cable, and if it is not true it is
not our fault.
I am willing to rock the baby while
women folks are biling soap; Iamreddy
to kut rags to work into rag carpets;
they kan keep me hunting hen's eggs,
or picking green kurrants; or I will
even dip kandles or kore apples for sass,
but I won't churn. Josh Billings.
Rce-barb fences are becoming very
popular in New Jersey.
Happy Homes.
It should bo tho chief aim of every
man and woman to multiply the num
ber of happy homes, for the home is the
seed-plant of a noble and flourishing
commonwealth, and all tendencies are
to be avoided which increase the diffi
culty of diffusing through every rank of
life the refined and holy influences
whioh are nourished by the domestic
affections.
Eeckless speculation among capital
ists, disturbing the steady and uniform
course of employment, "and its sure
counterpart, drunkenness, and improv
idence among workmen, are tho sharp
est wer.pons which are brought to bear
against the happiness of the home cir
cle; for the elements of man's truest
happiness lie in a very small compass,
and if society were only conducted in a
moro rational and moderate spirit, and
its members of every class, were re
strained from viscious indulgences of
their appetites and passions, and from
the pursuit of phantoms which fade
away in their grasp, how much greater
happiness would be found in t'to home
circle, and what burdens of sorrow and
grief would be lifted from the hearts of
women.
A marriage entered intowi'Ti thought
ful care, and cemented by a faithfully
pure love, when a fixed position has
been gained, and a small fund accumu
lated; with hard work and frugal habits
at the commencement of the new life,
so as to meet in time the demands of
tho future; a home comfortably ar
ranged, clean, healthful and bright,
with a small collection of good books, a
few well selected engravings, some
blooming plants in the window, with a
canary bird to awaken sweet echoes in
the room, or it may be a piano and flute
to accompany the voice; the evenings
made pleasant by cheerful occupations,
tending to mutual improvement, with
the exchange of visits with neighbors
and friends of congenial tastes and pur
suits these are conditions of life which
can bo attained by every husband and
wife who will carefully seek for them,
but are lost to thousands because they
do not seek them in the right direction,
but go abroad in search of the enjoy
ment and happiness which they might
create at home if they possessed the de
sire to obtain them.
This is not a visionary picture, but a
sober possibility, which even now, un
der the pressute of adverse times, is to
be found in the homes of many working
men and women," who have learned the
secret of being therewith content.
Mutual aiffeetion bhoul t be preserved by
mutual endeavors to amuse, and to at
tend to the wishes of each other: but
when there is a total neglect and indif
ference either to a-nnse and oblige, can
it be wondered at that affection bciomes
indifferent, and sinks into mere civility?
ExcJidnge.
Seeking a Comet. It was with anx
ious feeleng that Mrs. Partington, hav
ing smoked her S2)ecs. directed her gaze
toward the western sky in quest of tho
tailless comet of 1830.
"I can't see it," said she; and a shado
of vexation was perceptible in the tone
of her voice. "I don't think much of
this explanation system." continued she.
"that they praise so, whera the stars
are mixed uj so that I can't tell Jew-
Peter from Satan, nor the consterna
tion of the Great Bear from tho Man in
the Moon. 'Tis all darkness to me. I
don't believe there is any comet at all.
Who ever heard of a comet without a
tail, I should like to know? It isn't
natural; but the printers will make a
tale for it fast enough, for they're al
ways getting up comical stories."
NVith a complaint about the falling
dew, and a slight murmur of disap
pointment, the dame disappeared be
hind a deal door, like the moon behind
a cloud.
The True Code of Honor. A man
cannot afford to be unfaithful under any
circumstances; a man cannot afford to
be mean at any time; a man cannot af
ford to do less than his best at all times,
and under all circumstances. However
unjustly you are treated, you cannot,
for your own sake, afford to use any
thing but your better self, nor render
anything but jour better services. You
cannot afford to lie to a liar; you can
not afford to be mean to a mean man;
you cannot afford to do other than up
rightly with any man, no matter what
exigencies may exist between him and
you. No man cau afford to be any but
a true man, living in his higher nature,
and acting with the highest considera
tion. Buttonhole Boquets. Buttonhole
boquets, now almost indispensable to
gentlemen, are made in two ways, of a
single flower, such as a rosebud or tube
rose, with a leaf as a background, and
also of several varieties of small flowers.
To keep them in place, and fresh, the
lower part or stem is sometimes wound
with tin foil, and fastened to the coat
or dress with pins. A better way, how
ever, is to use the neat little buttonbole
boquet holders, made of glass of all
colors, and attached to the dress, or coat
by the pin which belongs to the hofcler.
These holders contain water, and keep
the little boquets fresh for several days,
while the stems fit so tight to the mouth
that no water can escape.
An officer who commanded artillery
during the late war informs us of the
following simple remedy for colic in
horses, which he Las tried with perfect
success in hundreds of cases; rub the
horse well between the fore legs and
around tho girth with spirits of turpen
tine. Immediate relief follows. At
lanta Constitution.
Brino up your children to joy. Give
them just as much as they can take
without intoxication and without reac
tion. If you take too much of any one
essential you cheat some other. Equi
poise of the various elements of our
being is what we want.
T.ie evasive Boston man carries his
gold watch in his boot leg about this
season, and the assessor sees it not.
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