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Convalescing'.
Dreaming of the woodland,
Dreaming of the hill,
"Where the shadows lie so cool
Lie bo cool aud still;
Dreaming of the river,
Sweeping slow between
Banks the summer raina niUHt keep
Deeply, darkly green ;
Dreaming of the pathway
T( a niOHsydcat,
That has waited long in vain,
For my coming feet.
Birds are flying outward
From recesses green,
'Jxlling in a trilling lay
"What their eyes hare seen;
Bees are coming homeward
Ladened flying lony.
Bearing sweets they gathered (here
1'rom the Linn tree's blowy
Breezes whisper softly
To the weary brain:
"Summer watches on the hills
Till you come again."
The Mountain of the Ark.
From the Russian station of Aralykh,
on the line where the last aud very gentle
slope of Ararat melts into the perfectly
Hat bottom ol the Araxes Valley, Mr.
llrvce and his companion commenced
the ascent of the mountain on September
11, 18 G. The ollicer in command at
Araljkh, a "Mohammedan noble from the
Caucasus gave them horses and a mounted
Cjssack escort to take them to Sardar
bulakh, a sifall military outpost on the
pass between Great aud Little Ararat.
fast a lvunlisn encampment and up a
grassy slope tne travelers rule to a traar-
bulakh-uthc Governor well -a very pleas
ant frontier post, but to tliein a place of
refreshing indeed, though the beginning
of troubles. Horses could go no further,
the necessaries for bivouac must bo' car
ried, and the Cossacks would not carry
them. Kurds had to be procured and
bargained with, a time-wasting process,
all the more trying to the travelers that
they could not understand what was said
on either side. The glorious snows were
beckoning them, the precious minutes
were llying, but there was nothing for it
but ;atieuce.
THE GOVERNOR'S WELL.
At length it became evident that the
travelers must camp at Sardarbulakh ;
neither Kurd nor Cossack would faee the
terrors of the mountain at night at au un
familiar height. For the unforseen an
noyance there arose one unexpected item
of consolation; a band of Kurds, who
had just crossed the flanks of Little Ara
rat from Persia in search of fresher
asture, came up, driving their cattle to
the Governor's Well : and the travelers
jeheld, in the most ancient scene within
the historic record, a picture which viv-
dly reproduced the first simple life of
the world. The well is an eliptical hol-
ow three feet deep, surrounded by a loose
wall of lumps of lava; troughs were set
up all over the surrounding pasture. And
urdish boys and girls went busily to
work filling brazen bowls aud carrying
the water to tlwj troughs, whence the
heep, small creatures like those of the
Scotch Highlands, and the goats ex
actly the scagegoat of Mr. llolman Hunt's
picture urank. ior two hours the wa-
g went on, and boys and girls and
women were so intent upon tneir work
that they hardly glance 1 at the strangers
from Frangistan, wcmderfully foreign as
the group must have been to them.
At 1 A. M. the party started, thirteen in
number, and made across grassy hollows
for the ridges which tend up the great
cone, tiie ivurus leaning tne way,, ine
travelers' hopes were high; the Kurds got
on rapidly; their pace was better than that
of the Swiss guides; but it soon slack
ened; and at the top of the first steep bit
these sturdy fellows sat down to rest;
and they repeated the periormance every
quarter of an hour, sitting seven or eight
minutes each time, smoking ana chatter
ing, and utterly indifferent to gestures of
remonstrance and appeals. The travelers
could not make them understand their
speech the interpreter had left them at
Sardarbulakh; "and," says Mr. Bryce,
"it was all very well to beckon them, or
pull them by the elbow or clap them on
the back; they thought this was only our
lun. aud sat still and chattered all the
same.
TWELVE THOUSAND FEET niGn.
"When daylight came the travelers be
gan to despair, but also to enjoy the won
derful cliects of light. At S a. m. they
had seen the morning star spring up from
behind the Median Mountains, shedding
a light that almost outshone the moon.
An hour later, there came iipon the top
most slope of the cold and ghastly snows
of the cone, six thousand feet above a
flush of Dink. "Swiftl fit floated down
the eastern face, and touched and kin
died the rocks above us," says the author;
"and then the sun flamed our, and in a
moment the Araxes Valley and all the
hollows ot the savage ridges we were
crossing were flooded witli overpowering
light." At six o'clock it became evident
that neither Cossack9 nor Kurds would
go farther. Mr. Bryce then resolved to
leave them, to await his leturu or not as
thev pleased, and to make the a?cent of
the snow-cone alone; his friend, being
unequal to the exertion, aiced to wait
about and look for him at nightfall
They had now reached a height of 12,000
feet; everything, except Lilile Ararat op
posite, lay below them; the awful cone
rose there from where they sat, its glit
tering snows aad stern black crags of
lava standiuir up perfectly clear in the
eea of cloudless blue; tempting, indeed
but awe-inspiring, too, for the summit
was hidden behind the nearer slopes, and
no one could tell what th difliculties ef
the ascent might be. The Kurds and the
Cossacks knew nothing, and could not
tell if they had known anything oa the
subject, v
A LONELY CLIMB.
At 8 A. M. Mr. Brvce buckled on his
canvas gaiters, put some meat lozenges
four hard-boiled eggs, a email flask ot
tea, some crusts of bread and a lemon
in his pocket, bade his friend good bye
and set off, accompauicd, to his no small
surprise, by two Cossacks (who had been
mnch-ani'jsed
Kurd. After
ODe Cossack
by the ice-ax) and one
two hours' climbing, only
remained with the daring
mountaineer, and the
of this
worthy gave way before
terrible sheer
cliff, which had to be reached by steps
cut in the intervening snow. Mr. Bryce
bade him by signs to return to the bivouac,
and pressed on alone.
After two hours incessant toil up a
straight slope of volcanic minerals, frag
ments of trachyte and other stones,which
perpetually slipped under his foot and
hand, it became a question whether the
gasping climber could possibly reach the
desired gaol. lie would not at all events
give it jip yet; and after a severe struggle
with tins dpcidedly bad bit, he got on to
a rock rib, where ho was revived by be
holding a spectacle which he describes as
perhaps the grandest on the whole mount
ain. "At my foo!," he says, "was a deep,
narrow, impassable gully, in whose bot
tom snow lay where the inclination' was
not too steep. J3evond it in a line of
rocky towers, red, grim and terrible, ran
right up towards the summit, its upper
end lost in the clouds, through which,
as at intervals they broke or shifted, one
could descry, far, far above, a wilderness
ot snow.
A 11EOION OP SILENCE.
Having crossed the fissure, Mr. Bryce
began a tremendous climb along the
slope of friable rocks . which ran up till
lost in clouds, and among which he was
saluted by a violent sulphurous smell.
which made him look for some trace of
an eruptive vent, or at least for hot va
pors betraying the presence of subterra
nean fires. Nothing of the kind is to be
soen,'however, and he attributes the smell
to the natural decomposition of trachytic
rock, which is full of- minute crystals of
sulphide ot iron. AU the way up this
rock slope, the climber kept his eyes fixed
oa its upper end, to see what sigus there
were, of crags or snow-fields above. He
was now thousands of feet above Little
Ararat, which looked more like broken
obelisk than an independent summit
twelve thousand eight hundred feet in
height. "With mists to the left and
above," ho says, "and a range of .black
precipices cutting off all view t.o the right,
there came a vehement sense of isolation
and solitude, and I began to understand
better the awe with which the mountain
silence inspires the Kurdish shepherds.
Overhead, the sky had turned from dark
blue to an intense bright green, a color
whose strangeness padded to the weird
terror of the scene."
In another hour he must turn back,
whether ho should have gained the sum
mit or not; to be overtaken by darkness
upon the mountain would mean death;
already he was suffering very severely
from cold, and his strength was nearly
exhausted. The rest must be told in his
own simple forcible words: "At length
the rock slope came suddenly to an end,
and I stepped out upon the almost level
snow at the top of it, coming at the same
time into the clouds, which clung to the
colder surlaces. lu the thick
mist the eye could pierce only some
thirty yards ahead: so I walkfid on over
the snow five or six minutes, following
the rise of its surface, which was gentle,
and fancying there might,still be a good
way to go. fo mark the backward track,
trailed the point of the ice-ax along be
hind me in the soft Enow, for there was
no longer any landmark; all was closed
on every side. Suddenly, to my aston
ishment, the grpund began to tall away
to the north; I stopped; a puff of wind
drove away the mists on one side, the op-
)Osita side to that by which I had come,
and showed the Araxes Plain at an abys
mal depth below. It was
THE TOP OK ARARAT."
The traveler himself could not put into
words the wonder aud awe with which
he was filled bv the spectacle which lav
before him. We can only iudicato the
chief features of that astouishinj pano
rama,whieh included Kazbek and Elbruz,
the latter two hundred and eighty miles
away, and had the Caspian Sea upon its
dim horizon. The mountains of Dagh
estan, the extinct volcano of Ala Goz,
.hrivan with its orchards and its vineyards,
Araxes like a silver thread, the Taunus
ranges and Bingol Dagh, the great Rus
sian fortress Alexandronol. and Kars.
its enemy then, now in Russian hands.
Two hundred miles away could be faintly
descried the blue tops ot the Assyrian
mountains of Southern Kurdistan.
'mountains that look down on Mosul and
those huge mounds of Nineveh by which
the ligris Hows." Below and around.
included in this single view, seemed to
lie the whole cradle of the human race.
"from Mesopotamia in the south to the
great wall ot the Caucasus that covered
the northern horizon, the boundary of the
civilized world." No wonder that, look
ing on such a scene, a solitary man should
feel terrified at his own insignificance.
"Nature," says the traveler, "sits en
throned, serenely calm, upon this hoary
pinnacle, and speaks to her children only
iu the storm and earthquake that level
their dwellings in the dust."
No wonder the solitary man could take
no heed of time until, while the eye was
still unsatisfied with gazing, the curtain
of mist closed again, and says the author,
"I was left alone in this little plain of
snow, white, silent, aud desolate, with a
vividly bright green sky above it, and a
wild west wind whistling across it.clouds
girding it in, aud ever and anon through
the clouds glimpses of far-stretching val
leys aad mountains away to the world's
end."
Mr. Bryce accomplished the descent
speedily and safely, reaching the encamp
ment at 6 o clock in the evening. Two
days later he and his friend went to visit
the Armenian monastery ot Ltcumiadzin,
near the northern foot of Ararat, and
were preseuted to the Archimandrite.
Here is Mr. Bryce's pithy account of the
interview: "It came out in conversation
that we had been on the mountain, and
the Armenian gentleman win was acting
as interpreter turned to the Archiman
drite, and said : "This Englishman says
lie has ascended to the top of Massis (Ar
arat)." The venerable smiled sweetly.
"No." he replied : "that cannot be. No
one has ever been there. It is impos
sible.' "
COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY,
The Curse of the East.
A number of philanthropists are in
dignant to learn that fifty thousand acres
of land, hitherto uncultivated, in Mozam
bique, and belonging to the Portuguese,
e been granted to a British and An
glo-Indian company, having a capitol of
200,000, for raising popies and making
opium. The company lias procured the
exclusive right to export opium, free of
duty, through all the custom-houses of
the province of Mozambique, and will no
doubt conduct a very lucrative trade.
Lflte accounts mention that "it is satis
factory" to hear that the people are thriv
ing, and that the opium produced prom
ises to be superior to the best raised in
India. Considering the manifold evils
which opium has caused in Asia, particu
larly in China, the increase of the drug,
and the inevitable increase of its smug
gling into that country, is justly regarded
by philanthropists as a great wrong to
humanity. They Fay that the Anglo In
dian Government should be held responsi
ble lor the deleterious opium trade.
There is a district of twelve thousand
square miles on the banks of the Ganges
where the poppy is exclusively cultivated,
and its groweth is encouraged in more
southern parts of Ilindostan. The plant,
sold to the officer of the Indian Govern
ment at a fixed price, is made into opium
under supervision of the Government at
the Queen's factories at Patnaand Ghazi-
pore, sent to Calcutta, and there bought
by 'merchants who smuggle it wholesale
into China. Out of about seventy thou
sand chests of opium made annually in
India, sixty thousand chests are con
sumed in China, the remainder going to
Burmah and the islands in the Straits of
Mecca. The tax on the opium sent into
China amounts to some 10,000,000,
which goes into the treasury of -British
India. The Chinese authorities iu 1839
demanded the surrender of all the opium
iu the factories of Canton, aud seized
some tweuty-five thousand chests. The
resalt was a desultory war, resulting in
the capture of Canton and other ports,
the transfer of Hong Kong to the Eng
lish, the payment to them of 0,000,000
as indemnity, and their continued con
nivanco ot , the opium trade, which
they are steadily increasing. No
body expects John Bull to be any better
than his neighbors, despite his pretense
and preaching. But since he is as he is,
his sins would be less conspicuous and
less odious, if lie could be persuaded to
lay aside a moderate portion of his intol
erable cant. His boasted efforts to civil
ize aud Christianiz j the world are rather
inconsistent with his sustainment aud
exteutiou of the epium trade, really, as
it is carried on iu Asia, a crime against
the human rase. N. Y. Times.
A War Scene iu Adrianople.
Hostilities have been resumed at
Adrianople, this time by the women.
The cause of war was the week's washing.
A Russian officer and his wife were quar
tered in the house of a Greek merchant,
named Youanuon. One dav the Greek's
wife entered the room occupied by the
Russian lady, and was about removing a
white table cloth tor the purpose of. hav
ing it washed. The officer's wife ob
jected to the table cloth being taken
away, thereupon they quarrelled, one
speaking in Greek and the other in Rus
sian, neither understanding a word of the
other's language. There was a struggle
for the possession of the table cloth, and
the Greek lady was about gaining the
day, when the Russian lady rushed
from the room and co:nplained to her
husband that she had been assaulted.
The officer remonstrated with the Greek
lady in strong language, and she replied
that he was not a gentleman. 1 he in
spector arrived, and the Greek lady was
asked to go quietly to the police station
She refused to obey, but ultimately was
led awav bv the police. The women ot
the quarter became so enraged that they
rushed upon the gendarmes, rescued ner,
aud carried her back in triumph to her
house. Iu the skirmish the lady fainted
The crendarmes followed her back to the
house, and contented themselves with
guarding the door of the room. Mean
while her husbaud had been summoned,
but on his arrival the soldiers refused to
allow him to enter the room. lie was
told that his wife had insulted the Rus
sian ladv, but that if an apology were of
fered it would be accepted. Ihe apology
was at once given by Youannon, who
wiely thought it was the best course he
could adopt to restore tranquility to his
household. Hie details ot the eisgage-
ment are civen by a Standard cories-
poudent at the seat of war.
A Kiss From a Kino. In the diary of
Lady Chatterton. iust published in Lon
don, that lady relates an amusing inci
dent of her mother's first presentation to
King George III: "When my mother
appeared, with her hair powdered after
the fashion of the time, the good-natured
King was so glad so see her that the con
ventional kiss, given to young girls on
their first presentation, was, on this oc
casion, so hearty and affectionate that
his nose became covered with the pow
der of her hair. The Kind's face being
rather red, the white powdered nose pro
duced a most ludicrous effect; and the
Lords in waiting, perceiving suppressed
laughter among tne court, and seeiug the
difficulty each succeeding lady experi
enced iu keeping her couutenance as she
advanced, ventured to say to the lung,
'Your Majesty has powdered your nose
The King, not quite hearing, but perceiv
ing that something must be wrong, be
came alarmed, and said, 'What what
My mother was almost convulsed with
laughter, which she tried in vain to sup
press when she saw Queen Charlotte's
severe eyes fixed reprovingly on her. At
last the King understood what had oc
curred, and as he wiped the powder from
his nose he burst into a hearty laugh, to
the great comfort of my mother, who
was then able to take her place in the
Minuet de la Cour with becoming
gravity."
Charity is friendship in common, and
friendship is charity enclosed.
Expositou Opinions.
Nothing
is more amusing than to hear
different opinions on the exhibition ut-
terftUv i.nnlAnf n, T-.rinna cho,ioa f
political opinion. The Bonapartist coun
- i -i -
sels his friends not to so there, remarks
that everything is sadly incomplete,
hints that the whole thing is a failure,
and with a sigh remarks that it is "not
much like the affair of 1807." A good
many Americans, I regret to say, echo
this idea. They appear to fancy that the
downfall of the late empire was a loss to
civilization. The Republican is
course enthusiastic in praise of the rich
ness of the exhibition, as compared
"with trfat hodge-podge in 1807;" every
thing suits him now as nothing pleased
him then. The English swells endeavor
to find fault because they imagine that a
republic must in some manner bo con
nected with dirt; but their little offen
sive sneers pass unnoticed. The Legiti
mist holds aloof, sneers at all the fine
talk about modern progress and the
union of the peoples, and prophecies that
the country will ruin itself in junketings
aud special appropriation. As for the
Orleauists,,they yawn in their elegant
chateaux in the country, and announce
that they "shall not go up to town until
late this season not till that dreadful
exhibition is over, you know." Mean
time the fair keeps on its way, and is
more prosperous thus far in its first
month than the grand hurly-burly of
I8G7 was. The real truth is that the Im
perial Exhibition was planned more with
an eye to amusement than this has been.
The Republican advisers thought it not
wise to turn the Champ de Mars into a
beer garden, or a place for flirtatious ;
but rather to construct there a solid and
rich museum, iu which a real interna
tional competition could bo iugaged in;
and no sensibly people will regret their
decision. There were 36 restaurants on
the Champ9 de Mars, in 18G7; but I will
venture to say that, before this exhibition
closes, it will be recognized that it has
been a far greater popular success than
the old one. Edward King, in Boston
Journal.'
Iltw Dauiel Webster Went to Church.
Of Dauiel Webster when he visited
Wheeling with his wife and daughter, an
old inhabitant writes to the Intelligencer
of that city : "That massive man who
seemed to loom up above all others, who
inspired one with his majesty ot person,
with his voice, with the flash of his deep
sodark hazel eyes, and with his every
movement, who was not really a large
man in height ho was only about 5 feet
10 inches. His head looked very large,
but tlnfle are many ls large. He
wore
7 3-8 hat. Mr. Clay's looked
much
His
smaller, but was of the same size.
shoulders and chest were very large, that
was all; he tapered to small hips and
verv small hands and feet. He weighed
very little, if any, over 200 pounds. He
remained in Wheeling over Sunday and
attended the Rev. Dr. Weed's Church, on
r ourth street, wnere he said he Heard a
very good sermon. It was amusing to
see him and his family goiug'to church.
He went ahead with that never-to-be-
forgotten tramp, placing his "'foot down
as though he intended it to stay there.
There was no elasticity in his legs, and
apparently there were no bones, heel or
instep in his feet. His wife, not much
for pretty, came about a rod behind, with
much the same tramp. Miss lvato went
a rod oem ud uer with more oi gooa iooks
and less of the tramp, but she was very
hard to keep step with aud if the daisies
of Marshfield would rise unhurt from
under her feet they are harder than any I
have seen."
The Mennonites who have settled
large tracts of country in Kansas, Dako
ta, Nebraska, Manitoba, and other por
tions of the great West and Northwest
have also settled the fuel question out
there by the introduction of grass stoves
The Western liural gives diagrams show
2 how to construct a stove for the
burning of crass, and every family can
now go to grass for -their fuel. These
grass furnaces are extensively U9ea in
the homes of the Mennonites in Russia
and from thence the pattern has been
transferred to the far West. They are
made of brick or stone, and are about
five feet long, six feet high and two and
a half feet wide. The Russian grass
stove has six stories which are, com
mencing at the foundation, ash-box, fire
box, oveu, lower smoke passage, hot air
chamber, aud upper smoke passage, the
dry grass requires no special prepara
tion for burning and is shoveled in, as it
were, bv an abled-bodied citizen with a
pitchfork. Three or four times in the
twenty-four hours the energetic party
with the fork tosses the loose hay into
the roaring furnace for about twenty
minutes each time. This gives sufficient
heat for cooking and comfort. The stove
cost about $5 each. Detroit Free Press.
At a recent meeting of the English
Institute of Naval Architects a paper was
read suggesting that a let ot crude pe
troleum might be thrown upon the deck
of an ironclad with excellent results. The
crew would be so scorched aud smothered
by the smoke as to be forced to retire
from working the guns, when a launch
with, a spar or otnec topedo couia ap
proach and deliver the fatal blow. It
was calculated that such a jet could be
thrown duu leet witn accuracy, appar
ently much after the fashion in which
water is directed Iroin a hose on a con
uagrauon, oniy witn precisely the con
irary intent, ivireauy tue necessary ap
paratus has been designed, and it i3 be
At . 1 1
lieved that a single gallon of petroleum
would render a hundred square feet of
surface uninhabitable by man for some
little time. It is alleged that a Russian
commission which investigated the sub
ject decided just before the opening of
the campaign that liquid fire could be
used against ships with success.
i ue nickel cent in our coma20 owes
its origin to a desire of Mr. Bryant's,
alter ma nrst visit to Germany, to re
place the old-fashioned copper cent with
something more resembling the kreutzer.
Respect for Are iu France.
L, 'e."euung very touching in
lue respecttui allection and care with
which old age was, and is still, treated in
France. Not only the parent's, but the
grandmother's salon is the point of re
union of the whole family, vieing with
each other who should best please and
amuse the old lady. They never failed,
whatever the occupation or amusement,
to come in first and delight Bonne Hain
an and Ma Tante by their pretty toilets.
J and be rewarded by the somewhat exag-
gcraieu aumirauon xuey elicited. But
the old lady really thoucht her Grand
daughters marvels of beauty and grace.
A very marked feature of French old a"-e
is its beinveillan.ee to the'young, an im
possible word to translate, for it is neith
er good nature, kiudness, nor indulgence
rather an habitual state of the mind
disposed to admire and approve. This
tone ot feeling is but natural for chil
dren to their parents, and the young to
the old are almost universally dutiful
and affectionate. Well do I remember
how pretty I used to think the sliirht in
clination and kiss of the hand held out to
them, which prefaced the morniDg em
brace to Bonne Maman. Our own roval
family is the only one in England where
I have seen this graceful custom prevail.
If young women and girls knew how
much charm and eonquellerie there is in
this manner to their elders; how much
younger they seem, how their grace and
softness gains by contrast with old age,
they would not in their own interest in
dulge in the Get-out-of-the-wav-old-Dan-
Tucker style which obtains so much in
our society at present. Even the young
men were lull of attentions to their aged
relatives. They really loved them al
most as parents. When the Prince Con
sort's Life first appeared, we all wondered
at the deep griet he expressed for the
death of his grandmother, a relationship
scarcely taken so seriously with us.
Adorable et adonee was the phrase used to
me only a few mouths ago by a vouns
Frenchman of the modern set about the
venerable mother of his parents. It
must be said that the grandchildren were
often brousrht up in her house, and that
sue ueing much younger than the same
relative in Eugland, became almost a
friend and coufidaut to these young men,
who found in her that experience in the
past and sympathy in the present, which
made her society as charming to them as
it was to thosa of her own age. Afac
millan's Magazine.
Houses twelve stories uion.-In the
West Eud of London, in a neighbrhood
known as Queen Anne s gate, a banker
named Han key has built some enormous
mansions" overlooking St. James' park,
and not far from the Metropolitan rail
way station by that name. The houses
are the highest in England twelve sto
ries perhaps the highest in the world.
They are let in fiats, upon a new associ
ated principle; And Mr. Hankey has
chosen for his own apartments the high
est story, where he commands the purest
air, with view9 of the parks, Surry hills,
and northern heights. The suits of
apartments are bo eagerly sought after by
those who wish to avoid the cares of
housekeeping that Mr. Hankey is build
ing a second block of buildings twelve
stories high. The tenants are chiefly
bachelors, whose suites contain a bed
room and a sitting-room; but there are
also family suites of ten rooms. Eleva
tors, of course, travel to each story, and
eletric bells and speaking-tubes are in
each room. There is a "wine-cellar" for
each tenant; the male-servants are in liv
enes; the iemales wear a neat and uni
form drdfcs ; and one quarterly payment
covers the expense of servants, taxes, gas,
water, and indeed every item of house
keeping, even down to the insurance of
furniture.
In a "Tea-Hono." Here, for the
first time,we were taken Into a"tea-hong,'
where they were preparing tea for the lor
eign market that is ruining it. it is
subject to a degree of heat as high as a
man can bear his hand in for a short
time; for which purpose it is put into
iron vessels over furnaces. While in. this
process of heating it is stirred actively
by men's hands, the men changing from
one hand to the other at short intervals.
the heat being too great to be borne
long by even those accustomed to it. In
to these vessels a handful of coloring
matter is cast, consisting of what? I
do not know what all. Prussian blue.
we were told enters into the composition.
and with our eyes we saw indigo being
pulverized for this purpose. I have never
relished tea in America, and I think
I shall never drink it there again
Here in China, where it is used pure, it is
a delightful beverage. If I can't tret it
ithout indigo hereafter I think I shall
not taKe it at an. xou can get no re
spectable Chinaman to drink it after it
has been doctored fur the foreign market,
and. I feel altogether disposed to class
myself with intelligent Chinamen on the
tea question that is,as to the tea itself-
but tor the water they use here in mak
iug n excuse me. msn-oo Marvin, tn
Nasliville Advocate.
an ooservant writer savs that "very
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tew men can bear prosperity. It intoxi
cates them like wine. It turns their
heads and throws them off their balance.
Others cannot bear adversity. They have
no fortitude, no courage, no hope. Ihey
are not like the old sailor who said he al
ways felt happiest in the hight of a storm
because he knew then that the next
change that took place, whatever it
might be, must necessarily be for the
better. They cannot realize that there
will be a change. When the sky is once
cloudy and overcast they will not believe
the sun will shine again. Young men
should make it a point to keep tneir
heads cool under all changes of circum
stances, to preserve their equanimity,
and not to be unduly elated by susccss
or too much cast down by disappoint
ment." It is estimated that 400,000 acres of
new ground in northern Minnesota will
be put under cultivation this season. -
Dangerous Liberty.
When will parents learn the importance
of keeping fire-arms out of the children's
wayf Ihey will play with them if they
can. It has been established by innumer
able examples that there never was a gun
or pistol so crippled, old or rusty, that it
will not go off in the hands of a child,
and it is also as well established that the
innocent aim of a child is always deadly.
Two more cases of this kind aie reported.
A boy of twelve years of age was left
alone for a few minutes with his one year
old sister. He commenced playing with
the baby with a loaded rifle. The gun
went off, the ball entering his sister't
chin and passing through her head, kill
ing her instantly. The alarmed boy
called for help. He said that a man
came into the house and shot the child
and then ran away. That was a lie told
in fright. He afterward confessed that
he was playing with the gun, pointing it
at his sister, when she, grasping and pull
ing at the ramrod, the gan went off in
his hands. And so she died. The other
case was that of a fourteen-year-old who
was playing at "burglars" with a seven-year-old
friend. He had a gun which" he
did not know was loaded, but which he
had been in the habit of using to snap
caps. The inside boy took the gun, while
the outside fellow played burglar and
robber at the wide chinks of the door.
He put his face to one of the chinks, and
this was a good opportunity for the other
to "blow wind" in his face by snapping
caps, l lie nrst cap missed nre, out tne
second discharged the gun and killed the
outsider in the game of rebbere, in
stantly.
There is no more to say. If children
will play with fire-arms they must get
shot sooner or later. It is for parents to
prevent such dangerous play.
The FasMonable Wife.
The fashionable wife looks on her hus
band's money as spoil something which
he wants to guard, and she to sieae. It
is no joint property which it is as much
her interest as it is his to save and use
wisely; but an enemy's possession which
it will be her. gain to loot. As for com
panionship toujour perdrix palls, and
an evening spent with her husband alone
counts as the ne plus ultra of deadly
dullness. Personal love for him has died
out, if even it once existed under the
guise of passion because of novelty; and
whatever she may be to others, ner nus-
band finds her uniformly cold and repel-
lant. Motherhood is her bug-bear; chil
dren unwelcome intruders; and there is
no more miserable woman extant than
the fashionable wife with a baby, that
hinders her from joining in the season's
vulgar pleasures. Essentially selfish and
shallow, love has as little meaning for her
as the doctrine of duty or the glory of
sacrifice; and those who know her stand
aside in a kind of wonder at the scheme
of creation which includes, among its
offsetts, a being without uses and without
virtues a woman with presumably a
soul like any other, absolutely destitute
of the love which saves the world from
worse than death of the reality which
seeks truth and lives in it of all noble
ness of aspiration and all righteousness
of life a woman whose good is pleasure,
and her one sole religion fashion.
Advice to the Girls. I want to give
the girls a bit of advice. Marry the man
you love, whether he be a farmer or a
mechanic, rich or poor, but first, when
you begin to go in company you can go
with a rich one or a poor one, as you like.
If you commence with a rich one you can
still keep it up; and so it is with the
other. Terhaps some of you may say I
married for riches; so I did. I never
went with a gentleman but what if I took
the notion to marry him I could, and bo
I never learned to love a poor man. I
live on a farm and expect to all my life.
I do my own work for myself and hus
band and hired hand ; have been married
two years. I do not think it a woman's
place to shear sheep, cut wood and husk
corn. 1 think it she keeps a tidy house.
yard and garden, she will have all she can
do. Blanche, in Ohio Fanner.
Cocoanut Custard. One cocoanut
grated, quarter pound butter, two cups
white sugar, two eggs, quart new milk;
bake with one crust twenty minutes.
French Cake. Three eggs, two eup9
white sugar, two-thirds cup of butter.
one cup milk, halt teaspoon soda, halt
teaspoon cream tartar, three cups flour,
flavor with bitter almond.
Ginger Snaps. One pint molasses and
one cup butter, boiled together; when
cold add half cup ginger, one teaspoon
soda, and flour to roll; roll thin and
bake.
Corn Cake. One cup of fine Indian
meal, two of sifted flour, one-half cup of
granulated sugar, one egg, a piece of but
ter or lard half the size of an egg, one
teaspoon salaratus, a small pinch of salt,
one pint sour milk. It is greatly im
proved by using the egg, but very good
without.
Ego Omelet. Break the eggs, separat
ing the yolks from the whites; beat the
whites to a stiff froth ; then drop the yolks
in the whites and beat both well together;
grease the pan with butter; cook two
minutes, one minute before turned, one
minute after turned; do not season until
after cooked, as the seasoning causes it to
fall if done before cooked.
Asparagus. To cook asparagus with
out making it stringy, cut tne snoots
when about three inches high. Soak
them well in salt and water, but take
them out thirty minutes before dinner, tie
them into small bundles, and boil rapidly
twenty-five minutes, until soft. Spread
hot toasted bread with butter, skim out
the asparagus, spread it over the toast,
and serve.
Ocr Fo'od. Rice and potatoes consist
chiefly of starch, and of themselves alone
are poor food, unless combined with fatty
and albuminoid'matter. For this reason
we use with rice in puddings milk, eggs '
and butter, which supply all that is want
ing, and it thus becomes a valuable as
well as a palatable article of food. '
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