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OREGON LODGE, No. 3, I. O. O. F.
MeelJ every Thursday Evening, ''AvrNr'f
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Orkc.os City, Oregon.
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" tb trade. Orders from tha country
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J ORECON CITY BREWERY.
uha. S trcllMa tte b0T Brewery,,
WalitV ,u U4uuractur( a No. 1J
OF LAGER BEER.
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BY MABT CRISTX.VE KIP.
Coy frequenter of woodland ways ! It flings
A frolic wealth of sweetness broadcast where
The undergrowths are thickest and the air
Is vibrant with the rush and whir of wings!
From branch to branch its hardy tendrils swings
In wild, dense tangles where no foot will care
To follow, and the brown wood thrushes rear
Their broods unstartled. Here the vireo sings
In answering cadence through the fleet free hours
I'u to the rhythmic growing of the flowers.
Whose revelation in each dusky p'.are
Is of blithe strength, unworn and fine, bhy grace.
As of rare souln, that joyously their own
Best lives do live, though knowing themuuknowu.
Scribner for October
THE WHEAT lll.OSSOM.
Oh! give not way to selfish thought
When others are in pain.
Nor e'er rejoice at their mishaps
Because they bring you gain;
But rather kindly comfort g,t ,
A lrieudly hand extend
Think should misfortune thee o'ertake.
How prized would be a friend.
A surgeon and a carpenter
Together walked one night ;
The moon was full, and on the scene
Diffused her mellow light;
The road was long, and aore fatigue
Their limbs began to tira.
When in the distance they perceived
A hamlet was on fire.
The carpenter then rubbed his hand.
Exclaiming with delight,
Look at yon blaze there grows my wh eat ?
It blossoms in my sight!"
For, while the raging flames arose.
He thought but of his trade.
And for each burning house he knew
Another must be made.
While gazing, he did not perceive
A ditch, as passing by,
But, heedless walking, quickly fell.
And instant broke his thigh;
The surgeon drew him from the ditch,
Began his wound to wipe.
And to the fainting man he said,
"My wheat's already ripe!"
MISS ADA'S FORTUNE.
On tho evening of tLe .J of March
last, at nine o'clock, t'was raining cats
and dogs on Barnes' Common. A
gentleman, who bad been taking tea in
a small villa of the neighborhood, had
his umbrella blown inside out as he
emerged into the road on his way home.
The voice of a sympathizing maid ser
vant called at him from the doorway,
suggesting that she should ran and fetch
a cab; but he considerately answered
that if a cab were procurable he could
find it for himself which was said,
however, in a tone implying that a cab
on Barnes' Common on such a night
was a thing the stranger did not expect
to meet. He was, therefore, as much
surprised and delighted when, before
stepping into the twelfth puddle, he de
scried aa undoubted growler jogging
along, with horse and driver both in a
state of saturation. A score of yards
separated him from this cheering
sight; he hallooed, ran forward, and
had just ordered the man to drive him
to St. James street, when a buxom lady
of fifty and a younger one, apparently
her daughter, who were both struggling
with their umbrellas as he had just been
doing, arrived panting on the scene, and
exclaimed in dismay at finding the soli
tary cab already engaged. As though
the disappointment were too much for
the elderly lady's fortitude, site lowered
her umbrella and allowed the rain to
3hower as it listed on her dejected face
and the two sausage curls that flanked
it.
"Oh, dear, dear!" said she 'wretch
edly.
The stranger was not of an age to
hear any lady sigh "Oh, dear, dear!"
unmoved, lie was young and well
dressed. You could tell by his manner
that his anxiety to escape a soaking was
prompted by a sense of the. physical
discomfort of rain rather than by any
parsimonious regard for his coat and
boots. Lifting his hat, he at once im
parted comfort to the mourners, and
stamped himself as a person of polite
breeding.
'Tray take the cab," he said. "I
will only beg your leave to sit on the
box until we come across a hansom or
spmething," and he assisted both ladies
to step into the vehicle before it could
occur to them to say yea or nay.
He was not allowed to ride on the
box, however, The elderly lady natur
ally insisted on his getting in with
them. They were going to Fulham,
said she, which was not far. If he
would deposit them at their door, he
could pursue the rest of his way alone,
and like a person who is particular in
money matters, she added that she
would pay her share of the fare. By
this time, the cab having started, the
riot of its springs rendered speech in
audible, but the matroD, desirous of
proving her gratitude, screamed that
she was much obliged for what the
stranger had done, for she would have
caught her death of cold in that wetting.
He bawled forth that he was most hap
py, and so forth.
"Our name is Twilles," proceeded
the old lady, yelling, "and I hopeyou'lf
come in for a" moment to take a glass of
sherry or a cup of tea, to warm you up."
"Every day this entire winter," he
shouted in answer, thinking she had
spoken of the long continued rains.
"And a cigar with it, if you like, for
3Ir. Twilles is a great smoker," retorted
the old lady, still intent uoon hosnital-
Uy, till her daughter whom the occa
sional flashes of the roadside gas-lamps
showed to be a pretty girl of eighteen
or so nudged her mother with a smile,
and whispered that she and the gentle
man were playing at cross-purposes.
The invitation, then renewed with loud
er vociferation, was declined on the
ground of a late appointment, and soon
after the cab stopped at a pretty de
tached house, with a garden in front.
The old lady honestly remitted to her
unknown fellow-passenger a two shil
ling piece. He helped her and her
daughter to alight, and made them
both a bow, and there his adventure
with them would have ended, if, an
hour later, on arriving at his club, he
had not found on the cushion of the
seat which the young lady had occupi
ed, a gold bracelet, with tho name of
"Ada" encrusted on it in turquoise.
The finder of this trinket was a young
and nearly mined baronet, Sir Charles
Aylmer. A good-looking fellow, too
blithe tempered to reckon the cost of
pleasure or to stickle about the compa
ny in which he sought it, he left a
handsome fortune on the turf without
losing his reputation along with it. He
possessed certain domestic proclivities
which had survived his acquired ten
dency toward dissipation. . Thus his
visit to Barnes had been for the purpose
of seeing an old nurse who had been
pensioned by his family, and with
whom he went to take tea once regular
ly every quarter. Modest as these en
tertainments were, he rather looked for
ward to and enjoyed them, for nature
had made him, like other pigeons, to
live in a dove-cot; not to fly in the com
pany of rooks. However, Charley Ayl
mer shirked the idea of a visit to" Ful
ham to renew an acquaintance with
peonle who were evidently not in his
tc.', "and it is jH-obable that he would
have simply sent back the bracelet by
his servant, with a note, if tlie follow
ing day had not been Sunday that is,
of all days ho found it most difficult to
spend. To tell the truth he was also a
little curious to see whether the girl of
eighteen was as pretty as she had seem
ed to his indistinct scrutiny in the cab.
He consequently went to Fulham, ar
riving just as Mrs. Twilles and her
daughter were returning from church,
with highly-gilt prayer-books in their
hands, and he was greeted like one who
was expected. Ada had missed her
bracelet, and was afraid she had dropped
it in the road, which distressed her, for
it was a keepsake. Blushing slightly,
the young lady echoed her mother's
thanks, and appeared to the baronet a
very comely girl, indeed, quite gay and
sensible, too, with no missish awk
wardness, but sparkling blue eyes that
looked you softly in the face,' and a
complexion which bloomed like the
spring of which poets wrote before the
days when perennial rains soaked the
lands. Sir Charles had just handed his
card to the maid servant when the la
dies debouched round the corner of the
road, and, as soon as Mrs. Twilles had
read the name upon it, she evinced
middle-class appreciation of aristocratic
prefixes by coloring to the cheek-bones,
and earnestly entreating the baronet to
luncheon. To have refused an invita
tion so cordially tendered would have
been a discourteous act not in keeping
with Charley Aylmer's character. He
accepted without fuss. Miss Ada seem
ed pleased, and the guests would have
been pleased if good Mrs. Twilles had
not begun "Sir Charle.ssing" him at
every phrase, and apologizing for a
number of things which called for no
apology, as, for instance, the simplicity
of her bill of fare, the plainness of her
furniture, and the absence of Mr.
Twilles, who had gone to spend the day
with a friend at Putney. All this did
not prevent the luncheon from being an
excellent two o'clock dinner of joint
and apple pie, and the baronet missed
the truant Mr. Twilles but little. Be
sides Ada and her mother, the family
circle included three small cousins one
boy and two girls who giggled much
and ate largely.
Who Mr. Twilles was did not tran
spire during the banquet, nor did Ayl
mer trouble himself upon the point,
seeing that Miss Ada's accomplish
ments would have fitted her to grace
any social circle, even the highest. He
was fairly captivated, and had not
worldly wisdom enough to conceal it.
Though the amusements of the day
were restricted to conversation, tho
piano remaining closed aud the garden
untreadable by reason of the unusual
dampness. Ada was drawn info show
ing that she could talk on most sub
jects cleverly, without forwardness, and
that she possessed sensibility without
affectation rare gifts. She was, in
fact, quite a earl of price, this win
some, rosy daughter' of Mra. Twilles,
so that, before Sir Charles took his
leave, he had made plans for keeping
up an acquaintanceship, which promised
him some agreeable hours in the Sum
mer, when riverside Fulham is a pleas
ant district to visit on a steam-launch,
whether to lunch on sloping garden
lawns, or to saunter, flirting, in shady
alleys, full of the scent of roses and
pinks. Mrs. Twilles invited her guest
to dinner on the following Thursday to
meet Mr. Twilles ; he, on his side, in
vited a friend who was in the habit of
giving him boxes for the play (Ada had
mentioned that she delighted in thea
ters) , and begged permission to send a
box promised him for the Gaiety on
Tuesday.
. "When a man of thirty has never been
seriously in love, the first attack of the
tender passion is likely to be a very
sudden .and severe one. Sir Charles
Aylmer had no idea that he was in love
with Ada, but he thought of her all
that night and the following day. and
grew dismal lest sue should learn that
he had frittered away his money on
horses' legs, and should think meanly
of him for his folly. On the Tuesday
he went into the city on business with
his stockbroker, and having torn one of
his gloves in alighting from his han
som, turned into a shop near the Ex
change to buy a new pair. His amaze
ment may be conceived when, behind
the counter, he saw Ada and her mother
auietlv selling shirt-collars to a brace
of merchants' clerks. Over the glass
behind them were the abominable,
"Twilles. Hosier." in staring gilt let
ters.
Mrs. Twilles turned scarlet, Ada
grew pink, and looked sorry that Sir
Charles should appear so stupefied. He
recovered himself, however, laughed at
the unexpected meeting, bought his
Dair of cloves, and reminded Ada that
he hoped to meet ner as iu jaieiy mat
evening (the box having been sent to
Fulham over night), walked out more
foolish than he had ever felt in seeing
book-makers button their pockets over
thousands of his money. He had not
gone a dozen steps down Cornhill be
fore he heard a breathless voice oeuinu
him, crving :
"Hi !" and he was accosted by a
plump little man with pepper and salt
whiskers and shiny oiue eyes, wxio,
) thrusting a cool, dry hand in his, said :
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"Sir Charles, I'm Mr. Twilles, and de
lighted to see you. You dined at my
house on Sunday, and I'm sorry I
wasn't there. What do you say to a
chop in the restaurant across the way ?
Come along, I want to have some talk
with you,"
Mr. Twilles strode rather than walked.
His hands fidgetted with a thick gold
watch-guard, as if he were in tantrums
about the time, and he darted across the
road among the omnibusses and cabs as
though he much preferred the risk of
being knocked down and run over to
that of losing an instant. Aylmer fol
lowed him, bewildered, and wondering
whither this would t6nd. Expostula
tions were of no use, for the nimble
hosier had preceded him. He darted
up the stairs of the restaurant, caught
up the"menoo,"as he called it, ordered
a luncheon, which proved his cogni
zance of the science of eating, and in
cluded a bottle of sparkling hock, well
iced ; then, as soon as his half-reluctant
guest was seated, he patted him
patronizingly on the cuff, and said :
"Now, Sir Charles, just listen ; do
you think my daughter Ada is selling
gloves in that shop because she couldn't
afford to ride in her carriage with the
best of 'em? Let me tell you, Ada will
have ten thousand a year on the day she
marries."
"I am very glad to hear it for her
sake," rejoined the baronet, with well
bred composure.
"My name is Twilles. in Cornhill,"
resumed the hosier, buttering a slice
of his roll, and eating it to make the
time pass ; "but I'm Rigges, in Picca
dilly, where I sell Belgian lace, and
Chuckleborough, in Burlington Ar
cade, where I deal in Birmingham
jewelry. I keep a pawnbroker's shop
in the Minones, two nsh-stalls in Bil
lingsgate, and a wine-vault in the Lon
don Docks. Wrhat do von sav to
that?"
"You are a lucky man, Mr. Twilles."
replied Sir Charles, in astonishment.
"So I am, replied the commercial
pluralist, lifting a jrawn from a cut
glass saucerful of ice and crunching it.
"But I've not told you half yet. I'm
the Jones who advertises the Purga
tive Bath buns. I've three smacks em
ployed in the Pilchard Fishery, and I
turn out boxes of sardines as good as
those the French sell, and twice as
cheap. I bought up ten thousand acres
of standing corn iu Southern Russia
last harvest, and I've got a contract for
supplying the Montenegrin army with
cork helmets. The Podo sent me his
blessing and a silver cross, though I
don't hold- with Popery, because I
rigged out a hundred and fifty pilgrim
monks with my patent monastic ulster
at two guineas a head, or sixty shillings
for those who have hair linings because
they are doing penance. I've a license
for music and dancing at a public house
of mine in Holloway, and I'm at the
head of the Terra de los Fiveros Emi
gration Agency, bagging thirty shil
lings apiece for every emigrant who
likes to go and take his chances out
there against the sun, the snakes and
the mosquitoes."
"See what it is to have several strings
to one's bow," smiled Aylmer, who, not
being devoid of humor, was growing
amused.
"Several strings, you call it ! I think
I could count a hundred of 'em if I
tried," replied Mr. Twilles, rapping his
knife on the tabic to accelerate the wait
er's arrival with a dish of cutlets;
"where there's money to be made 1
make it just mind that. I'm the own
er of a proprietary club ; I've opened a
meeting honse for the Salisbury Plain
Shakers admission sixpence. I've in
augurated three ranks, invented a new
game of tennis which people can play
on their housetops when they haven't a
garden, and manufactured the new
'Tourist's Boot' with a knife, fork and
spoon in one foot, a tooth-brush and
comb in the other and looking-glass in
side both soles, which are hollow. Then
I'm going to send Messrs. Biggar and
Parnell about the country to give a
course of lectures on Parliamentary
tactics, and I have started a new maga
zine to which Mr. Gladstone will con
tribute an article next month."
"Enough, enough," broke eff the
baronet laughing, for the cutlets had
now been served. "I see you are a uni
versal benefactor, Mr. Twilles but
what can I do for you ?"
"You can become my partner by mar
rying my daughter," replied Mr. Twilles
harpooning a cutlet. Sir Charles gave
a slight start at the unceremonious pro
posal; but Mr. Twilles, whose mouth
was full, waved his hand to check him
from speaking. "You go on eating Sir
Charles, I can talk and eat at the same
time. My daughter was mighty struck
with you the other day, and her moth
er says you were so, too, with liar and
mothers don't make mistakes about
those things. Now I watched you to
day when you came in our shop, and I
saw you wince, though you didn't see
me, because I was in the back shop
counting the petty cash. Why did you
wince ? 'Cause Ada was selling gloves?
But she does that 'cause I choose her to
be useful, instead of wasting her time
and my'money. If she were married
she wouldn't sell gloves, you see; and
I'd rub out that name of Twilles over
the door, which I only keep there be
cause Cornhill shop was the first place
where I set up in business. As to edoo
cation, Ada has been brought up like a
princess, and 'ud.make you a good wife,
whilst her money would just come in
nice and handy to set you on your legs
again, pecooniarily speaking."
"Who told you that I was off my legs,
Mr. Twilles ?" asked Sir Charles Ayl
mer, arching his eyebrows with more
good humor than resentment in his
tone.
"You're ruined, like Pompei, Sir
Charles; but that's no great matter, for
if some didn't get ruined, others
wouldn't get rich," said Mr. Twilles,
smacking his palate with his tongue, to
try the quality of the hock. "Why lor'
bless you," added he, "there isn't a lord
or baronet whose money matters I don't
know something of. I've even got some
of your papers in my hands, ani, with
COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY
all my respects, I'd exchange it for
Baring's any day. If I offer you my
daughter it's be'eos I think you and she
would make a neat pair, and because
Mrs. Twilles, you know, would be
mighty pleased to hear Ada called your
ladyship. But, of course, I don't ex
pect your answer to-day. Take time to
think about it, and meanwhile see as
much of Ada as you like. If I've seized
the matrimonial bull by the horns in
this summary fashion, it's merely be
cause I knew that you'd take fright and
leave Ada in the lurch if you'd suspect
she was only a hosier's child."
"How can you think such a thing?"
protested the baronet, amiably banter
ing. "All honest people and all lovely
girls especiallv, belong to nature's no
bility." ""That's true, though you don't quite
believe it, said Mr. Twilles, coolly.
"Xow just finish your. Stilton and I'll
pay the bill. We shall meet at the play
to-night, and you'll dine with us on
Thursday that's settled. But on the
day when you marry Ada you'll step
into ten thousand a year, which, by the
way, may surprise her more than it will
you, for she has no idea how rich she is.
I've not told her, because I don't like
girls to give themselves (h)airs."
Sir Charles Aylmer laughed, and was
much inclined at that moment to treat
the whole thing as a good joke; but two
months, day for day, after this luncheon
having in the meantime visited Ful
ham innumerable times Sir Charles
proposed to Ada and was happily ac
cepted. On the afternoon when this
auspicious business was duly settled,
Mr. Twilles drew his future son-in-law
aside by a coat-button, and, whipping
out a note-book from his pocket, said :
"Now, you're engaged, you'll be want
ing to give Ada a lot of presents, book
ies and such like. Just buy 'em all of
me. I'll sell 'em to you cheaper than
those fellows in Bond street. Say what
you want now; I'll take down your order."
The Uses of the Lemon.
As a writer in the London Lancet re
marks, few people know the value of
lemon juice. A piece of lemon bound
upon a corn will cure it in a few days;
it should be renewed night and morn
ing. A free use of lemon juice and su
gar will always relieve a cough. Most
people feel poorly in the spring, but if
they would eat a lemon before breakfast
every day for a week with or without
sugar, as they like they would find it
better than any medicine. Lemon juice
used according to this recipe will some
times cure consumption: Put a dozen
lemons into cold water and slowly bring
to a boil; boil slowly until the lemons
are soft, then squeeze until all the juice
is extracted; add sugar to your taste and
drink. In this way use one dozen lem
ons a day. If they cause pain, lessen
the quantity and use only five or six a
-day until you are better, and then be
gin again with a dozen a dav. After
using five or six dozen the patient will
begin to gain flesh and enjoy food. Hold
on to the lemons, and still use them
very freely for several weeks more
Another use for lemons is for a refresh
ing drink in summer, or in sickness at
any time. Prepare as directed above
and add water and sugar. But in or
der to have this keep well, after boiling
the lemons, squeeze and strain care
fully; then to every half pint of juice
add one pound of loaf or crushed sugar,
boil and stir a few minutes more until
the sugar is dissolved, skim carefully
and bottle. You will get more juice
from the lemons by boiling them, and
the 2reparation keeps better.
Civility and Ceremony. Nothing is
more honorable and pleasant than ci
vility, and nothing more ridiculous and
burdensome than ceremony. Civility
teaches us to behave with proportion
ate respect to every one, according as
their rank requires and their merit de
mands. In other words civility is the
science of men of the world. A person
of good address who conducts herself
with due circumspection, conciliates
the love and esteem of society, because
every one finds herself at ease in her
company; but a ceremonious woman is
the plague of her acquaintances. Such
a one requires too much attention to be
a pleasant associate ; is too seldom satis
fied with what is paid her, and every
moment feels her pride hurt by the
want of some frivolous etiquette. You
cannot be tco formal to her, nor can she
dispense with her formalities to others.
In short, ceremony was invented by
pride to harass us with puerile solici
tudes, which we should blush to be
conversant with.
Effect op Wrapping Papers on
Dyes. It has been found, says Scrib
tier's Monthly, that woolen fabrics dyed
in aniline colors, particularly magenta,
have Jaded or changed color when
wrapped in white paper. Investigation
has shown that white paper prepared
from rags, straw or other materials that
have been bleached with chlorine, re
tains a portion of the chlorine for some
time after it is made. Aniline colors
are susceptible to the influence of chlo
rine, and change their shade when in
contact with it, and even the exceed
ingly small quantity of chlorine in -a
sheet of wrapping paper is reported to
be sufficient to change the shade of dved
fabrics so that the colors are disfigured
and spoiled. To avoid this difficulty,
it is recommended to use blue wrapping
paper for such goods, as these papers
are colored with ultramarine, which
tends to neutralize the effects of the
chlorine.
A young lady on Hoyne avenue, asked
her young man why he called her his
Ultra, and he cautiously replied it was
a Latin quotation. " This," said he, "is
my knee, and when I add you to it I have
my knee, plus Ultra, which is Latin for
" 1 don't want anything more on my
knee.' Don't you see, my darling?"
She said she did Chicago Tribune.
The voice of a woman just now is not
so loud for the ballot as it is for cans in
which to pnt up fruit.
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Liquid Manures.
In a long article to the Ceuntru Gen
tleman, M. Milton, a prominent writer
on scientific agriculture, takes the
grounds' that the best way to apply
manure, where immediate results are
required, is to apply it in a liquid form.
Containing, as it does, tne lertuizing
principles in a liquid condition, it is
more readily absorbed by the leeding
roots of all plants. It can also be ap
plied at all stages of the plant's growth.
which often cannot be done with solid
manure; and some plants which are not
in a condition to be much stimulated in
the earlier stages of their growth can
receive it at the time they do need it
when in a liquid form.
In applying liquid manure great care
should be exercised not to apply it too
strong or too directly in contact with
the plants. We this season seriously
damaged a crop of water melons by not
using the proper precautions. The
manure did not kill the plants outright,
but it caused the vines to shed all their
leaves for from four to six feet out from
the hills. In all cases when the manure
was not brought in direct contract with
the plants no such result followed.
Fowlhouse droppings are a very good
material out of which to make your liq
uid manure. A peck put into a barrel
of water and allowed to remain a few
days before being used, and when ap
plied diluted with about one-half wa
ter, we have used with very beneficial
results on roses, fuchsias, geraniums
and other fast growinc plants.
Guano used as a liquid manure should
be cautiously afplied, for if used too
strong it has very injurious effects. Ik
should be mixed with water to the col
or of weak tea before using, and twice
a week is often enough for any class of
Xlants. When a plant is injured with
guano water its leaves get yellow and
fall off. the oldest and most mature drop
ping first.
Feeding Cattle. The-' Nashville
Rural Sun presents us with an article
on the subject of feeding cattle, the
substance of which we sift out as follows:
If cattle are sometimes stuffed and at
others Starved, they will soon go through
the process of "eating off their heads."
In feeding meal, we always want it
ground fine, as our experience is that
three bushels of fine meal is equal to
four ground coarse, though an over
feed of fine meal will scour worse than
coarse. This the feeder must guard
against. Always give each one a box to
himself, so you know what he eats what
you feed him. Don't fee too heavd at
the start, but gradually increase so as
not to clog, as it is difficult to make
profit on an animal that has boen over
fed or foundered.
We once tried a three-year old scrub
ster until he was four years old, with a
lot of young grades. The grades made
a gain of G15 pounds each in ten months
and two days, and the scrub made 423
pounds in the same time; and through
the feeding season he ate three pounds
more meal per day than an other in the
lot, and I think full as much hay though
that was not weighed. He weighed at
four years old 1.4GG pounds, and sold
at4J cents per pound, while the two
two-and-a-half-year-olds averaged over
1,400 pounds and sold at 5 cents. In
feeding, a few rutabagas are a great help.
Hay and corn fodder fed alternately are
better than either alone. In our opin
ion no farmer who feeds grade short
horns judiciously, and takes care to get
the benefit of the manure, will ever need
credit. As for scrubs, fight shy of them ,
for if the market is dull and slow, you
are compelled to sell for less than they
coityou, andseldom, under any circum
stances, at a profit.
Potash as a Fertilizer. Potash
forms one of the most essential constit
uents of a fertile soil, and one of the
most important of all the fertilizing
agents within the reach of the agricul
turist. In many plants it constitutes
more than one half of their ash, and in
most at least one third. In neutralizing
acids in the soil and in the liberation of
ammonia it acts in the same manner as
lime; but when it is desired to simply
effect last mentioned objects the latter
should bo used, as being cheaper; and
potash, generally available in the form
of ashes, should be applied as a manure,
using the word in its strictest sense, to
indicate a substance that contributes
directly to the building up of the struc
ture of the plants. But considerable
care should be exercised in tho use of
ashes, and they should never, as is the
practice of some in manuring corn in
the hill, be mixed with guano or the re
fuse of the hens' roosts, inasmuch as
the first rain that dissolves them will
cause the potash to displace the am
monia in the same manner that lime
displaces it from barnyard manure and
similar manures, as we have just mentioned.-
Coleman's Rural World.
How to Fit a Chollar. The plan
adopted in the West, which wo are as
sured by men who have been long in the
collar business does not injure the
collar in the least, is .to dip it in wa
ter until the leather is thoroughly wet,
then put it on the horse, securo the
hames firmly, keeping it there until it
becomes dry. It is all the better if
heavy loads are to be drawn, as that
causes the collar to be more evenly fit
ted to the neck and shoulder. If possi
ble, the collar should be kept on from
four to five hours, when it will be per
fectly dry and retain the same shape
ever afterward ; and as it is exactly fitted
to the form of the neck, will never pro
duce chafes or sores on the horse's neck.
Carriage Journal.
Two men were riding in tho cars on
the Danbury Railway the other morn
ing, when one asked the other if he had
a pleasant place of residence. "Yes,"
was the reply; "we have sevn nice
large rooms over a store." "Over a
store ! I shouldn't think that would be a
quiet place." "Oh, it is quiet enough.
The folks don't advertise." "Ah ! I see,"
said his friend in a tone of relief.
Danbury Jsetcs.
Some Women Wbo do not Marry.
It is a common thing for writers upon
social questions to lament a certain ten
dency towards a decrease in the number
of marriages, which tendency they as
sume as a fact and then endeavor to
explain. The most popular explanation
among cheap moralists in the press and
in the pulpit is to the effect that the
young men of this generation have a
disinclination to matrimony because
the young women are so extravagant in
their habits that only rich fellows can
afford to marry them, and so frivolously
educated for the adornment of society
rather than the creation of a home, that
they cannot become good wives. . Thia
may be true to some extent in regard to
the wealthy classes in which the young
women aro brought up in luxury, and
taught to expect nothing else during
their life time, and tho young men are
accustomed to depend upon a regular in
come, which they have learned to spend
upon themselves but not to increase. No
such narrow-minded and cynical inter
pretation of the motives of human con
duot should, however, be accepted in a
broader application. We are inclined
to think that the majority of men now as
always desiro a wife who sha'l prove a
true comrade in the battle .f life, and
share its triumphs or defeuU, and the
majority of women are willing to enter
into such an offensive and defensive
alliaLce with a man they love against the
world. What guarantee has he who
waits until he has won success be
fore he marries, that the womau
whom he chooses to share his for
tunes is worthy of trust or affection ?
Taking for granted the existence
of disinclination to matrimony in
our day, we should explain it not
more by the dread of young men of
limited means to assume new burdens
than by the unwillingness of yeung
women to Vast off the burdens which
they have already assumed. Within the
past few years many new avenues of em
ployment have been opened to women,
and they have found their way into
many new departments of industry.
Thus young girls have acquired a certain
spirit of independence, and as they have
grown in helpfulness the helplessness of
those about them seems to have increas
ed. As the girls in some households be
came bread-winners, the boys seem to
grow idle and careless, and, lacking Ihe
spur of necessity, they fall into the habit
of lazy trust in their sisters' industry,
which the sisters of the last generation
showed in the industry of their brothers.
Thus, in addition to that large class oi
working-girls who have been left to sup
port a widowed mother or family of
younger brothers and sisters, there are
thousands-who have to become virtually
the head of the household through the
drunkenness of a father or the worthless
ness of a brother. When girls had not
so many employments as they now have,
and were incapable of earning such good
wages, it was simply impossible for them
to take such burdens on their delicate
shoulders. Now they accept these tasks
in a spirit of cheerful self-sacrifice, and
soon find their youth slipping away
from them and their beauty fad
ing. They cannot think of mar
riage, because marriage would sink their
individuality; deprive them of the
power of earning money and turn adrift
those dependent upon them for support;
so the wrinkles come, and toil hardens
the frame into grim outlines, and the
shadows of unrealized dreams and unful
filled hopes fall over the brightness of
the eyes, and the woman is merged iu
the worker. It is wonderful how many
cases of this kind there are in the coun
try. They outnumber the cases of j'oung
men shirking matrimony through dread
of woman's extravagance three to one.
Philosophers like Mill would consider
this tendency of woman toward hard
labor and celibacy an indication of an
adyance in civilization, the harbinger of
that era anticipated by the doctrinal ie
when love shall case to be the main
business or aim of woman's life, and the
neatness maintained without effort, the
comfort wrought out of small resources,
the cheap adornment of the household ia
which a girl is at once a bread-winner
and the home-brightener might almost
reconcile us to such theories were it not
that a mournful air of sacrifice hangs
over all these domestic temples. Ia each
the priestess grows weary of her vestal
service, and adherfng to it from a senst
of duty looks upon her life with the
sadness of those who know not love,
but, as the poet sings,
" Far from passions, tears and smiles,
Drift down a moonlts sea and pasa
The silver coasts ot fairy isles."
British Rights Vindicated. Brit
ons Lever will be slaves. A London
mag istrate decided two weeks ago that
a pedestrian has a perfect right to hold
up his umbrella if he finds himself iu
danger of being run over, and that a
coachman has no right to strike the umbrella-holder
a violent blow on the fore
head with his whip. ' You people who
drive carriages think you have an ex
clusive right to the road." remarked
the magistrate scornfully, as he fined the
Goachnian 823. This incident illustrates
the readiness with which an English
man resorts to the police courts when he
has a genuine grievance, and the
promptness with which his rights are
vindicated. Americans suffer themselves
to be imposed upon time and again
rather than take the trouble to procure
legal redress. There are two facts,
however, which are to be borne in mind;
the processes of law are more tedious
and lumbering here than they are there,
and the fees of the lawyers in such
cases are much higher.
A Southern book-keeper visiting the
North on his vacation walked to the top
of Bunker Hill Monument, He said
thatitwasthe hardest column to foot
up he had ever seen since he had left
home.
If you do not want to be robbed of
your good name, do not have it painted
on your umbrella. Turners Kails Re
porter. The Graphic says that " the blarney
stone is the same as the sham rock. "
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