Bloomington Progress, Volume 16, Number 17, Bloomington, Monroe County, 9 August 1882 — Page 1

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A COQUETTE'S TICT1M. A large and splendid hall, lit by gliaiening cfaandulieis and ornamented with all the taste and lnxniy of artistic skill ; filled yri0um afmoapbere of light and tuiuaa tad perfume ; ha tin ted by rronpa of loveir -women and dJatingiiisiiea men, all glonBed by that spirit of pleasure and splendor that one finds in such gatherings. Throagh tba long parlom, hnng with gDrgeoos draperies and rare paintings, beneath the betted ceilings of bine and Bilyer, iran and gold, floated the forms of the proudest and fairest, clad in filmy robes of white, or nob, rustling brocades, nhatting. firting and ditnoing in the vague, tremulous glitter of the light that made the plaes one blase of

Boft, dreamT mnsic swelled on the air.

its rhythm marked,, by the light step of danoam, yet gnbdoed and rendered indistinot by the eoaataiit hum of sweet YoioM eferywhere. Couples passed to aadfrO, or lingered about the doorways, talkjcg of lore, of pleaaore and of the scene before them. 8taid dipkimats and rulers sat at the card tables playing dignified whist with stately matrons the bailee of a post generation. Others in aa adjoining saloon discussed e. magnifioent oollaiion. Tbe hirthent of these parlors opened into a large oonservatory, where long and groeful air plants trailed downward from tiieir mossy basketvaad the dark green Iteaves of the lemon trees exhaled a grateful aroma. Strange tropical plants, with broad variegated leaves, grow rank and fibrous in marble vases aloagtZ balustrade; heavy vines clambered up their trellises, with pendant bella of azure, gold or toimson, showing briKht amid the festherr foliace. A soft

aygua, (iuu roooaio, leu upuu anese leauy

owawtrea mm gruunu KtasB giooes 01 a faint yink hue, scattered here and there among the eyergreena. Ko pbkae could have been more fitting and appfopriate to the pursuit of the divine soeial science furtation than tbia same coaaervatory. . In oozy alcoves, where the orange and magnoiia trees were embowered by the traoery of the ivy vine, were pi aoad rustics seats of Burioualy-joined br&Dcheg; and here, in the cool sound of a silvery fountain and tie heavy fragrance of the blossoms, one might sit with one's partner and whisper the enfanhlhgoB of love without fear of one of these alcoves the most aeoloded of all burrounded by the thick and odorous leafage of the trees and vines; sat Iieo Bastou and Maggw Ijovli As usual, she waa weaving her web of fascination honeying her words, modulating her exquisite voice, flashing her brilliant glances from underneath her long drooping lashes, artlessly toying with the watch-chain or eye-glass of her cavalier, aad exerting all those little WarifTbihTifmta; seeming innocent aaarmgh mi - themselves, bat which tighten each moment the adamuit fetters of pssioa's elavery abant the victim's sensea. Iiee Barton young, talented, wealthy, already celebrated in the political world was aa excellent object for the consummate skill of tbia coquette. More and niore inclined to admire her at each meeting, he had bean insensibly drawn on from one step to anothar until this Bight, when the dance, the wine, the nwsic, the iights, the gsyety,the brilliancy of all wmounaingB had somewhat bewildered him with a sweet and vonptuous delirium. Then the oool retirement of the eonacrvatory, with its shadowy wwaaa its coaaeleaa plashing of fallmg waters, its aromatic asd ac gnor-inspiring odors, yd its vague reverbeiationa of the festivities within, invited only the dreams and thought of love. half-hoar's conversation, hovering Bearer and nearer to the dangerous fcmia, silent but doubly-eloquent pause, aawwbvniBgv impaaaioned words of declaration, anil ItaggteLovell'a empty triumph was attained. She langbed a low, rauaical, bat raetallie laugh. " My friend," she said, "do not talk in that strain I shall faaey you aze in

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"My God! hi earnest t Do you not llieveine, then? Oo, Maggie, I swear itl I love you wlioDy J ll There was. a hmky intonation in his voipa, and h& stopped without finishing Ilia sentence. Ko I do not know what yon mean. IL indeeil I do not know what yon rnean. Ton surely cannot be serious. Yon frighten me 1 " He dropped the delicate, white-gloved band he ka.1 been holding, and looked kmg and earnestly into her eyes. "Do I bewr yew aright t " "Tea; I most go bow. I am very, very sorry yon have so misunderstood me. Sever refer to this scene again. It lias been as painful for me as for you." " And this the end?" "Yes. Ipityvou. Goodnight." Her purplo velvet rrmtled against the shrubbery, and Baston was alone. . "Hty me! Great heaven. I had rather she hfd laughed in my faoo f The Conversation Hans of BadenRadon is one of the "peculiar institutions" of the continent. Here are a g.est ball-roiHn, a theater, a restaurant, library, a reading-room, dressing: noma, and Justly, though moat prominent of all, gcjnbling saloons of infinite sphndur, where mufions change Jbands wry year. Day and night, boat, the week's end to the week's end, f sflent rows of men and wotnenrieh and poor, young and old, gentle and simple around the inlarBal ganviag tables of this strange boose. The laborer hesitatingly lays down his few coins the fruit, it may le, Of long and weary toil ; the Prince drops his racism of Napoleons on his favorite etcrdor ootor: the profetaaional player.

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ulates rapidly bat carefully, and deposits his much or little with perfect nonchalance. At the end of one of these tables sst Lee Baston. Everybody knew him at Baden-Baden. For the entire season he 'had taken that same place at noon, and stolidly won or lost until 5 or 6 in the afternoon of every day. Sometimes his fortune was good Cod he won enormous sums ; at other times fate frowned, and his losses were equally startling. It made not a particle of difference how bis lock ran, Lowever. He saw the croupier's shovel pass out a shining cargo, or rake remove a glittering winrow of louis d'orft with the same expression and apathatic mien. He waa seeking excitement, poor fellow I but neither the fluctuating changes of roulette and rouge-et-aoir, nor the goblets of bianlv that the waiters brought him

from time to time seemed to satisfy his

craving. (Simply, wnenever tae croupier's rake or shovel diminished or increased bis pile of rouleaux, he finished his brandy at a draught and made fresh is vestments. Such a horrible life could not long continue without giving extreme evidence of its results. Baston gradually grew thin, pallid, dry and mortuary in complexion and feature. His hair and mustache began to be visibly sprinkled with gray. His nose and chin sharpened, his hands grew tremulous, deep wrinkles appeared about his eyes and cheeks, and

nnderneath the former the skin assumed a daJI, lead-colored look. In a word, the decadence of life, falling upon his

soul, affeeted his body, and, though only

two-and-thirty, he bore more marks 01 age than a healthy man, should at two-and-fifty. The brandy that he took, nevertheless, did its work upon his physical sys

tem. The pointof nisnose became iivia, and minute purple veins meandered just beneath the surface of the skin. His

eyes lost the humidity that gives those organs their brightness and glitter. Always clean-shaven and scrupulously elegant in his attire, he still had the air of a descending man, going swiftly and sorely to a rain worse than death.

After play he dined almost alwavr alone in the restaurant of the Conversation Hans, and in the evening loitered about the lobbies of the theaters. Although, aa I have said, every one knew him, it was rather io avoid than to seek his companionship. This, however, produced bo more effect upon his spirits than any other ontward circumstat.ee. Having no belief in, or love for, humanity, human sympathy was as much a matter of inuiffererjce as human hate. This extrs ordinary and fearfully abnormal condi tion is happily rare. Few spirits are ro originated as to suffer a blight which may lie termed, perhaps, a spiritual det.th, exoept through longer and more paraisteut agony than most men ever hive to undergo. Baston, however, wat- of the sensitive kind. He had placed his whole life in one passion and saw everything through the medium or that pausioa. Henoewben cruelly disilluslonno, he decided at once that all women were like Maggie LovelL To a flippant nature, such a thorough disenchantment seems impossible; but only because the thoroughness of the enchantment seems equally so. 'With a less evenly balanced intellect, Baston would undoubtedly have taken his own life; but vhere the soul's vitality is already gone there is little temptation to self-murder. So he lived on, meohanically, and Ins weary hours were only marked by the evfl and nnwhole some incidents of the gambling tables. A heavy, don fog lay upon the bosom of the Hudson, veiling its shores from sight, and making the vessels that lay motionless in the stream look ghostly aad distorted. The sounds of the city and the noise of sailors at work came confusedly and indiiitinot over the water. The swift,' smooth tide flowed down past the piers and slips where deep, dark currents eddied round and round among tha piles, bearing fragments of drift straw, wood, bottles and buoyant rubbish that went bobbing about in circles for awhile, unto, gaincag the stream, they hurried, fast and silent, down the river to the bay and oat toward the iroad

A light breeze occasionally wafted the heavy mist hither and thither, disclosing for a moment a gray sail of a echooner or the high, black hulk of a frigate, which faded away again on the instant, like the phantom ships of old nantical traditions. From the western shore of -the harbor the muffled and distant sound of oars rattling in the row-looks and Bplanhing in the water indicated the course of a row boat. An old and dilapidated seineskiff; rusty and greasy, speckled with fish scales and worn by rough usage, crept slowly out from Oommnnipaw and threaded its way among the countless stakes of the shad nets that bristle above the surface of that portion of the bay. It was rowed by a lather and son, lanky, tow headed, brown faced men, with hairy arms and hands mis-shapen from constant pul'ing at the oars and netropes, Bough of manner, uncouth of gesture, low of ambition and slow of comprehension, these fishermen, nevertheless, had a full share of the natural kindness of heart and human sympathy that characterize the humble everywhere. They worked together in storm and shine, and shared their gains and their bread, without the bickering that so frequently mar the relations between more cultivated men. Bowing from stake to stake, they hitched up the net, ring by ring, and as soon aa a fish appeared above water, hanging by the gills in the wide meshes, removed it and placed it in a bed of eelgrass on the bottom of the boat "Tauten up that line a little more, Jemmy," said the father, in a rough but good-humored voice ; "the net saga here." "Hold on by that stake, then, till I get for'ard. Seema tome it's darned heavy this mornin',' " Can't yon h'iat it ? Here, gi' me a holt onto it," Jemmy had, in fact, been pulling with all his strength of thew and sinew ta raise tbe net where it sagged down by the stake, but in vain. His father's strong arm was brought to bear also, and after a tug or two and a " now then I" the net began to arise, bat slowly and heavily. "There's a big ketch, I guess. It's time we had some luek anyhow." The old man did not reply. His practiced eye, piercing the green transluceaey of the water, detected a dark man some feet below, which came up with tbe net As it approached the surface Jimmy saw it, too. "It's a corp'. father J" "Tea." "Don't lef s take that in the boat, ' "Well git something from the Coroner fur it, boy. Bear a hand," la tnUk thflzkiera,of floating bodies

are entitled to a fee from the Coroner's office, and the old fisherman was not rrmrse to receiving a few dollars, even though the duty to be performed was a d-'engreeublo one. The corpse, then, was lifted from tho water and placed in the stern of tho skiff with that simple reverence that aeuth inspires among the lowly. It was thti liody of a man apparently advanced in years. Removing the slimy seaweed and sand that had shrouded the features, the fishermen saw a sharp-cut face, str3iigly marked with lines of care or snjfcring, and bearing traces of dissipation. The garments, which remained entire upon the body, were plain and fashionable, and a diamond ornamented the delicate cambric shirt front. "He was a gentleman," said the old man ; " mebbe his friends will give us somithin' harnsome." emmy, unused to such incidents, cued little to talk about it, and the row to shore was silent and expeditious. The Coroner's examination resulted in a verdict of "death by drewning." Papers found on the body showed that it wits that of Lee Baston. An investigation, made by the authorities, explained his death. Coming home from Europe, weary of life, and shattered in health, he had devoted himself entirely to the brandy bottle. The delirium tremens the awful avenger of outraged nature had attacked him on the passage, and while the steamer lay at her doc in Jersey City, he had fallen overboard vi a fit of delirium. Truly, a terrible death, terminating a terrible life 1 "Who could have imagined suoh a future for Mr. Baston two years ago ?" said Maggie Lovell ; " drowned while insane from intemperance 1 Why, when I knew him he was very respectable and quite a delightful man." ' Ah t" chirped little Mnnson, who wait himself just then madly infatuated with Maggie ; " ah 1 this intemperance is shocking. But no man of any soul ever falls a victim to it. If your friend Baston had known what love was he could never have stooped to the vulgar intoxication of the bottle." "True. I flirted with him once, and he did not miderstand it at alL poor aoull" Ten Thousand Clerks. The Government, and its employes benr a relation to our city somewhat similar to that of a college and its students to the little New England village where it is located. There are enough officeholders who are residents of Washington to .-make a good-sized city of themselves. In the various ' departments the work goiffl on the same from one year's end to the other, and one wonld scarcely realize how great the number of employes in tbe various departments is. The number is about 10,000. This is exclusive of the Capitol, city postoflice and District Government offices. This body of Government employes forms not only krge but a very intelligent and agreeable element of the population of Washington. A large proportion of them are people of thought, education ad refinement, and their presence would be an acquisition to any community. The remuneration of the employes of the departments varies somewhat, but generally the salaries range from $900 to $2,000 for clerical work, the latter being given to those who occupy responsible or particularly important position?, and the first generally to copyists, a great many of whom are ladies. The latter are hard worked and they work well and receive the smallest remuneration, bnt the wolf is kept from the door of many a family by their earnest endeavors. A great many of them once belonged to fanilies of wealth, but reverses came, anc, they are glad to be able to work for a U ring. In the Treasury Department the re are over 500 lady clerks, and in the Bweau of Engraving and Printing as many more. In the Treasury and Intenor Deportments changes are most frequent, and it is in these mostly that wozaen are employed, and every now and then there are rumors of pending changes which set their hearts flattering with dread until the danger is over. A position in the State Deportment is considered a permanent thing. It ia run on a plan similar to our army and navy. When some one dies promotions take place, and there is a chance for an appointment. In the War and Navy Departments, also, changes do not often occur, and many a clerk, whose hair is now white, entered the service when a youDg man. Employes perform their labors in a remarkably-satisfactory manner. In fact, it is apparent that the Government clerk, taken on the average, has greatly improved in many respects within the past dozen years. Wa&hx'nrion Star. Just an Average Sample. The occupant of an office on Grand Biver avenue sat at his desk when- a mild-faced stranger entered, passed the time of day, and asked': " Would you let me sit at your desk a moment and use your pen ?" " Certainly." "Oau I use a sheet of your paper?" continued the man, as he seated himself, "Oh, yes." "Thanks. You may hang up ray hat if you will. I can never sit for any length of time with my hat on." His hat was given a place on this rack and for ten minutes he was busy writing. As he finished he asked for an envelope, and when he had sealed it he said : "Pardon the liberty, but can you spur me a stamp?" H. s was given one, and after he had hotted it on he weighted the letter in his hand and remarked : "I'm afraid that's too heavy for three eeratH. Perhaps you'd better put on another." A second stamp was handed him and he then observed: " I'll leave the letter for you to mail as you no down." "Very well." "And, as it is an important missive, allow me to suggest that if you should go to the postoffice on purpose to mail it, 1 would take it as a great favor. Thanks for your kindaesa. Please reach my hat, and, as I suffer a great deal from the sun, I will borrow your umbrella until I pass this way again I" Conditions of Healtn. Tbe conditions of health are few but imperative. I. Pure air. 2. Pure and nutritious food, 8. Proper exercise. 4. Undisturbed sluep. 6. Regularity. 6. Temperance in all things. 7. Pleasant and active mental, moral and social conditions. 8. Bight bodily positions., 9. Cleanliness. 10. Sunlight Herald of Health Do not yield to misfortunes, bnt meet them with fortitude. VirgiL

AGRICULTURAL.

How to Keep Your Potatoes Gtood. Preserving potatoes for the table in the summer by slightly heating the surface and thus destroying the oyes, was recently suggested in the New England Farmer as a method worthy of experiment J. G. Adams, of Green county, Pa,, writes to the New York Tribune that the plan is practiced in his county to a considerable extent. The eyes are destroyed by simply pouring scalding water over the tubers, which are then immediately dried and put away, when they will keep indefinitely. Mr. Adams knows whereof he sneaks, for being engaged in the grocery business he has bought and sold potatoes treated by this process repeatedly. Hired Help. Michigan Farmer: There are some farmers who always have trouble with hired men. They take no interest in them further than to got the most time and labor out of them. They ore continually scheming to furnish odd jobs to fill up all the time, as though the laborer did not need an hour ef rest as well as the oleums. This maneuvering has a tendency to make maohines out of the help. They work to order, right or wrong, and shift all responsibility on the master. With help managed in this manner, shirking is praiseworthy. It is a constant strife to try and beat the "old man," as they call him. There is no feeling of interest' in tne work, and continual breakages and mishaps are occurring, which the help delight in attributing to the" order," or as a result of it.

Keep tha Hunters Away. m Ben Perley Poore : The most unmitigated nuisances which annoy those who live in the country are the self-styled "sportsmen." There are various grades of them, but all are equally detestable. From the city chap, in his velveteen hunting suit, with Lis double-barreled breechloader, down to the troop of small boys carrying an old musket which they usi by turns, each and all of these selfstyled sportsmen of high and low degree appear to tb ink that they possess a divine right to go where they please, knocking down stone walls when they wish to cross them, and banging away, right and left, at everything larger than a mosquito which they see flying about, 1 have no patience with these fellows, who are almost, if not quite, as bad as sheepstealing dugs, and I wish that the farmers of the country would unite and agree to prosecute for trespass any man coming on their land with a gun and a gamebag. v Use of the Hand-Hoe, With the introduction of tho horsecultivator tho hand hoe went out of uso on most Western farms. More work could be done with tho cultivator, and it could be done with greater ease. The more the cultivator was improved the more farmers became attached to it, and the greater was their reluctance to handle the hoe. At present the implement that has been used longer and to lietter advantage than any other in tho cultivation of cropi is generally discarded ou Western forms. Indeed, many market gardeners manago to raise most of their vegetables without using the hoe to any considerable extent. The horse-cultivator is certainly a very desirable implement to employ in both the field and the garden, but its use should be supplemented by that of the hand-hoe. It is profitable to continue tbe use of the hoe in every garden and cultivated field. Work can be performed with it that cannot be done with any implement drawn by a horse. The hoe should be used iu every corn and potato field before the cultivator is put in operation. It should be employed to remove stones, turfs and pieces of hard earth that may be over the plants that are making their appearance above ground and for stirring the soil around them. The cultivator is excellent for working the ground between hills, but for cultivating the hill itsolf there is no implement like the hand-hoe. It is very difficult to keep a field devoted to any cultivated crop entirely clear of grass and weeds without using the hoe. A field that has been worked at least once with a htuid-hoe is always int. re productive than one that has beec tended with the cultivator alonei. The truth is, the former performs some work which, the latter 'cannot do. Chicago Times. Preparing: Land for a Ghtrden. A large proportion oi farmers declare thai vegetable gardens are unprofitable, that they require a large amount of work and make a poor return for it. The truth is many excellent farmers are very poor gardeners. They are experts in raising corn, potatoes and small grains, but they do not understand how to produce the ordinary garden vegetables. They think the land for a garden requires no special preparation and no special manuring. It does require both. The spot selected for a garden should be well drained, and it is well to have it slope toward the south or southeast. The soil should be free -Irom weeds and the seeds that will produce them. Land that has long been in cul tivated crops is not in a condition for a garden unless it is highly manured. Even then it islia hie to bo objectionable, us it is likely to lie weedy. In many respects it is better to break a piece of sod the summor before it is planted. The plowing should be well done, and snfllnenUy early to insure the rotting of the sod. If the spot is some distance from the farm buildings it will not bo likely to be visited by fowls, and require no fencu to rrotoot it. A garden spot should be well manured, and the material U3dd for fertilizing should be well rotted. It is best to apply tha manure the fall before it is planted, so it can be incorporated with tbe soil If the manure is spread on inverted sod it will help rot it, while the seeds it contains wilt germinate, and the plants they produce can be killed with a harrow or other implement. Land which requires as much labor as a garden should be very rich. It should receive as muoh as fifty wagon loads of manure to the acre in otder to bo as productive as most market gardens ia the vicinity of large cities are, Bonn, The symptoms of roup are hoarseness, rattling in the throat, bod breath and running at the nostrils. If taken in band at this stage, the disease can be easily cured. First give a dose, say a dessert-spoonful of castor oil at night, and next day give throe or four droos of turpentine and one drop of oorbolio acid. For several days afterward give pepper or ginger and pulverized charcoal in tho food, and Douglass mixture in tho drinking-water. This will not fail if the fowls are taken in hand in time. Another remedy that has proved good is coal oil in half-teaspoouful doses internally, and a little injection up each nostril after wiping, A third remedy, or perils ps I ought to put it first, is the old reliable Gorman

llonp 1411s. They will cure in every ease chore a cure is possible, svni many poultiy-keepers keep them on hand all

the ume. Bo up is contagious, and as noon as it . s'ftoenrs in a flock the sick fovis should , at once be separated from the well ones, ' and the house, feed vessels, drinking troughs, etc., thorougly cleaned and disinfected, I Fowls that have recovered from the ! roup shauld not be returned to the flock until a week after the symptoms have ', disappeared. When ulcers have formed in the throat, , ia additon to the other treatment, apply -i pulverised chlorate oi potash twice a i day until cured. Bat when the disease j lias progressed so far thit tho whole I head is affected, unci the eyes closed and

running', don't waste valuable time doctoring t hat hen. Cut her head off, and get her out of misery. Finally, avoid damp, filthy yards and houses, crowding too many fowls in one building, roosting in cold draughts, exposure to cold and wet during autumn, winter and early spring months, and you will have but little cause fc fear the roup aiiong your fowls. JPrairie Farmer. HOUSEKEEPERS' HELPS. Pobk Podding. One cup sour milk, one cup molasses, one cup pork choped very fine, one teaspoon soda, mix quite stifF, boil three hours iu a cloth or steamed two hours; serve hot with sauce. Balloon Podding. Take four efjgs and three teaspocnfuls of flour and well beat together, add a little salt, thenfill up with sweet milk ; bake in a square baking tin and serve with sweetened cream. Cabbage Fried with Cream. Chop a quart of cold boiled cabbage, fry it fifteen minutes with sufficient butter to prevent burning, season it highly with pepper and salt and stir into it half a cupful of cream or of milk, with a teaspoonful of flour mixed with it ; let it 'cook five minutes longer and serve it hot. Fbibd Tosiatom. Cut the tomatoes in slices without skinning, pepper and salt them ; then sprinkle a little flour over them and fry in butter until brown. Put them on a hot platter and pour a little cream into the butter and juice. Wten boiling hot pour over the tomatoes. This dish is very nice served with birds. Sallt Losk. The genuine " Sally Lunu," as made in Virginia kitchens, is always a cake raised with y asst. It should be made, raised, baked and served in the same dish, and have little flavor in common with the so-called ' Sally Lues" made with baking powder. Take five cups of flour and pour over it a cup of boiling water; add a cup of milk and a half a onp of butter; beat thoroughly, and when tha mixture is blood warm add four- eggs, a little salt and the same amount of sugar; add last of all a half cup of home-made veast.

Heat hard till the batter breaks in blis

ters. Set to rise over night, and in the morning put it in the oven as soon as tho fire is hot enough to bake it Bako brown. The dish in which it is made

I and baked should be earthen, and the cake should lie torn apart in suitable J pieces before it is served, not cut hot

bread is always made heavy by the knife. CtJBBANT AND BaSPBEBBT SlBttP. -A lady contributes the following to the Gorman town Telegraph,' Remember the sirups of commerce are --m arly all terribly adulterated, and make your own for family use. Take eight pounds. of very ripe currants, red and white ; pick off all the stalks, and put them into a wide earthen pan ; then take them up in handfuis and squeeze them till the juice is all crushed out of them, which will take some time. Leave them in the pan with the juice twenty-four hours. Put two pounds of raspberries in a saucepan with two teacups of water and boil them for a few minutes till they are all crushed. Then pass all tbe currauts and rasplierries through a hair-sk v J ressing hew with a wooden spoon to extract all tho juice. If the juice should be very thick, pass it also through a jelly-bag. Weigh the juice, and for every pound of it, put two pounds of loaf-sugar, broken into large pieces. Put the sugar into a vre-serviug-pan with one pint of water; pour ail the juice ou it. Let it boil for an hoar, stirring frequently ; then put it into small bottles, and cork it lor use. Two table-spoonfuls in a tumbler of water will make a very refreshing drink in summer. Cherry sirup may be made in the same way with Morello cherries.

Writing with Lemon Juiee. Father John Gerard, of the Society of Jesus, who was confined and cruelly tortured in the Tower of London at tha end of Queen Elizabeth's ireign, was in the habit of writing letters in orange or lemon juice to his friends. The manner in which he thus baffled the vigilance of his jailers is described in detail in his higlily-interesting autobiography, published a fow years ago by the Rev, John Morris. Father Gerard says: " Now, lemon jaioe has this property, that what is written iu it con be lead in water quite as well as by fire, and when the paper is dried the writing disappears again till it is steeped afresh, or again held to the fire. But anything written with orange juice is at once washed out by water, and cannot be read at all that way; and if held to the fire, though the characters are thua made to appear, they will not disappear, so that a letter of this, sort, once read, can never be deliveied to any one as if it had not been read. The party will see at once that it has been read, and will certainly refuse and disown it if it should contain anything dangerous." One result of Fathor Gerard's orangejuice correspondence was that, with the aid of zealous friends outside, he effected his escape from the Tower in 1597. Dubiko the great floods in Louisiana there was seon one day moving through the aisles of shadow among the tall gum and oak trees, whose foliage made a green roof for the voyagers, a little raft some twenty feet long by nine feet in width. In the bow sat a young wife of 20, holdirg her child. In the center there was a heap of plain oountry furniture. Behind this were piled pots, kettles and pans. On her right, with arid features and doleful faces, were four dtior hounds, and behind them, resting on the beds, an old shot guu and rifle. Pulling at the oars was the husbiuid. Hardly two inches out of water, the flat moved along and passed out of sight. It re presented all the worldly goods of a young planter, saved from the flood. He had some forty-eight miles to go to roach his former homo. A Fmibida man saw in the darkness what he supposed was a wild beast in his path, aua, whipping out his pistol, killed his father who lay in tho road dcuuk.

How to Gain a Bay. The dropping of a day in going across tho Pacific ocean eastward, say from S.in Francisco to Yokohama, in Japan, is not very difficult to understand, though many persons seem puzzled over it. Even the Hon. James Brooks, iu hip sketchy volume, "A Seven -Months' Rim Up and Down and iiround the World," written in 1871, says: "Yesterday was Thursday, to-day in Saturday, June 17; wo have dropped out Friday, which ought to have been June 16 this year ; theire are but six days this week nay, only five, from Sunday to Sunday. I am' puzzling over tbis in geography and on chart, and, tho igh doubtlesa it is clear enough to the navigator and astronomer, I have found it not so easy to store it away in my head, We are not in Gibeon, nor the valley of Ajoilon, with enemies to avenge, as Joshua had when he orderod the sun and moon to stand still, but the sun stands stir, to us in this wild wilderness of waters, as wo lose the day." In brief explanation, let any one imagine himself to ativrt at noonday and travel to the westward as rapidly as tlio sun or, more correctly, as the earth turns eastward on its axi it is evident that to him there would be no rising or sotting of the sun; ihere could be none, for the sun wonld lje constantly overhead, In like manner, if one were to start eastward at neon and travel at the same rapid rate, saj 1,000-miles an hour, there would be to him two full days iu twenty-four hours i. e., two sun-rh-ings, two noons, two sunsets aid two nights. Now the rsa3on for aduing or dropping a day while crossing the Pacifio, instead of tho Atlantic, or Indian, dr any other ocean, is because the 180th parallel of longitudo east or west is found there that is, the -point immediately on the opposite side of the earth from the observatory in Greenwich, near London, which navigators tuifornily count as the starting point, or zero. In traveling eastward, or against the sun's apparent course, it is necessary to drop a day, and for convenience and uniformity tbia is bne at the 180th parallel; in like m onc er, in moving westward, or with the sun, one day must ba added or counted twice. If this were not done, the travel er would find on arriving at his journoy's end that he was either one day ahead or behind those whom he had left nt home that according as he had gon-s east or west aronud the world he had gained or lost a day, both of the week und month. In other words, Mr. Smith, who left Chicago (the real center of the earth'is influence) on the 1st day of lost January for a trip via San Francisco, Jpan, India, Egypt, etc., reaching hone for Christmas, will have 3C6 days during tbe year 18S2, while Mr. Jones, who started eastward around the world, wil show but 361. days' work during the same year of grace. Tbe throe or four minutes of time gained or lost euch day, being put together, make up one day in the aggregate, and is dropped out or added, a st vted above, at a point exactly opposite Green wioh, etc., 180 degrees, or onehalf of 360 iegree:i, the number in any circle. Chicago Inter Ckman. The Ante' Cows. The slave-making tribes are not occupied solely with the oaptore of working slaves. - They freq aently spread out over giants to carry off the aphides, or plantee. These are tl eir cattle, their milch cows, their goats. So we eee that in one sense the ants are a pastoral raoa They are very fond of t sweet liquor which drops from two little teats carried by tho aphis at the extremity of the back. So the ants scatter over the surface of vegetables, socking this food from individuals by turn as they encounter them. At other times the warrior ants, accompanied by a retiaue of their slaves, swoop down on th aphides, carry them 0.-3L and imprison them in their dwelliilgs, in order tc milk them at their leisure, and then they are nourished and cared for exactly like stalled animals. An ant nest is, tlereforo, more or leas rich iu the luxuries of the. table according to the numler of aphides it possesses. Ants are so greedy for this honeyed milk that, to proo ire it more conveniently, they make coveroi ways to tho plants most inhatited by these insect cows. It is even said t aat, to insure a richer harvest frcm the aphides, they often leave them on lite plants, hut with fittoly-tempered earth build there a species of .little stables in which to imprison them. Several of these surprising constructions hav been examined, and of their purpose tier can beuo doubt. Some ants, in place of drawing this saccharine juice, of which they are so fond, from other animals, find an abundant supply of it in their own bodies. This is seen in the case of the honey ant. These strange iusocte. are found in Mexico, where they iu habit little subterranuau galleries, i.t a given time the abdomen of a certain number becomoH globular, truuspaient and full of a saccharine matter to such aa extent that it is of the size of t. small cherry. This animal honey has a delicious taste, and it is regularly sou jjht foif by the Mexicans, who dig ip tha subterranean houses to collect the insects, which, after being deprived o:! the head and abdomen, are served up in plates as dessert, A World of Wonder. Norwegian Honesty. Soon after starting we passed the saeter where Jens livas when he is not hunting in the mountt ins, and, Esau wishing to nee what kind of snow-shoes they use it. thifi part of the country, Jens ran up to the house, and fetched his " skier." To give an idea of tbe absurd honesty which prevails here, we noticed that though Jens had been absent from home fr the last two months, and the windows were shut up, yet the door was only latched, and after an inspection of the snow-shoes, J ens would not trouble to take them bach, but simply left thou by the side of the road to wait his return three or four days honoo. Another instance illustratiujf tbe same simplicity occurred to us once when traveling in quite a different pars of Norway. When ohunging oariolee at a station our baggage was Ul heaped together on the rcudsido, and as 'to wanted to stay there an hour or so for dinner, and tbiti was a main road with a fair amount of traffic, wa suggested to the landlord that our goods had better be brought insido the station. He merely looked up to the sky with aweathorwise eye'aud replied : "Oh, no; I'm intra it won't ruin," From " Three in Norway." The Roll of Fust Trotters. Down to the close of 1881 the records show that there ire fifteen trotters with a record of 2:20 Annie W., Belle BrasHold, Captain K unions, Elaine, Frank, LitUe Fred, Fleoty GnldduBt, MamIn itio Gift, Oram 50 Girl, Nanoy Hackett, Humboldt, Ettie Jones, John H., Prospoio and May Queen. Nine have made

a mile in 2:19, viz: Adelaide, Clingstone, Cantors, John S. Clarke, Daisydale, Jot-ephns, Flora Temple, Deck Wright, Fannio Wifchorspoon. Four have done it in 2:19 J Will Cody, Moose, Troul-adour and Thomas L. Young. Seven in 2:19j Bodine, Comet, Croxie, Driver, Kceno J., George Palm w and Parana, Nino in 2:19 Albemarle, Alley, Fronc-.s, Alexander, Kitty Bates, Bonesotter, Cozelte, Edwards, Graves, Wcdgewood. Nine in 2:18 Monarch Chief, Slow Go, Lucy, Lady -Maude Midnight, Nutwood, Patchen, Lady Thome and J. B. Thonw. Nino have a record of 8:18 Red Cloud, Great Eastern, Edwin Forrest, Judge Fnllorton, Robeit McGregor, Nettie, Proteine, Kate Sprague and Dick Swivoller ; one a record of 2:l7f , Hauuess ; two, iSanta Olaus and Edwin Thome, 2:17$ ; three, Dexter, Piedmont aud lanta Glaus, 2:17J ; one, Glostor, 2:17 ; two, Charlie Ford and Occident, 2;16-; two, Uarhy ami American Girl, 2:164 ; one, Lucille Golddnst, 2:16 ; one, Hattio Woodward, 2:15i : on, Smuggler, 2:15 ; one, Lula, 2:15 ; one, Hoijeful, 2:14J ; two, Goldsmith Moid and Trinket, 2:14 ; and one, Rams, 2:13. St. Julien erowdod his record 'own ta 2:11 ; and finally Maud S. takt tic lead of this long line of 83 trotters, who have made 2:20 or lietter, with the unequaled record of 2:10".

Progress and Happiness. Indeed, the opportunities and advantages oi the ago are so immense, the inventions so prodigious, the convenience so universal and supreme, that the ob-ecnei-constantly looks to see if there is a corresponding advance in human wel fare. The Arabian stories are ou-sdone. Ali Baba and Aladdin are familiar heroes. We own 'all the amulets. We have mastered all the magio. Bui; there arc those who reflected, as they read those wonderful tales, that while it was pleasant for Forte natus to have his parse, und rapturous for the Prinoe to awake the sleeping Ix-auty, there was apparently the some old sorrow and suffering on i very bide. All the magio endec; in individual gain, and, although fairy power hitunttxl Bnguad, Bagdad was no t fairyland. Wo know a charming and venerable lady who uned to go to Albany in itsloop, and she has. sometimes been a week on the way. We leave New York tA hatfpast lu and dine in the Capital at 2. An other old friend made her bridal tour to Niugara sixty years ago. But her grand daughters can make theirs to the SUuboaeh and Terni in a shorter time. W know of ths riot in Alexandria before it. in suppressed. Longfellow dies, Darwin, Emerson, Garibaldi, and Oregon anil Naples know it simultaneously, Fiftjt years ago, if early winter nighttt.il overtook Congress in session, a man toiled long and laboriously to make ciarkness visible with oil and candles; now on a touch floods the great hall with day. It is a symbol of tho sudden flooding of tha whole world with the news of the mo ment. From bin office, his slop, his home, a man with bis telephone talis with his friend, his lawyer, his grooei:, his doctor, miles away. No fan ned convenience in his daily employment ooca-w to him that is not already fact f.nd waiting for him to buy. fiis newspaper, a library for 5 cents, ia bat a type of all It is the age of miracle. Is it also the age of greater ht.ppines j? Is tho blessing universal? Does the magnificent and marvelous genius of invention bind men closer together? We put a girdle ronnd the earth in forty minutes. Is the swift journey one of general blessing? Walking along ttte street of palaces that leads to 'the beautiful metropolitan pleasure ground, marking the elaborate workmanship, the costly Bplendor of detail, catching glimpseN of rooms rich with the spoil of every zone, bright with exquisite decoration, seeing the silken find lac ad and jeweled figures that step fiom stately carriages, and seem to float on lir like spangles on a sunbeam, do we f sel that it is the poxse of Fortuntitus, gcod for himself and his family alor.e, or tliat all this splendor is but the flower of a f eneral prosperity, a universal content i t is a momentous question, which sentiment, not political economy, must answer. Sentiment rules the world. It is the sense of injustice, not a demonstration of supply and demand, tkat upheaves sooiety. The golden age was not that iu wltich inventive genius wrought miracleii, and when tae Alpci, a region of dazzling icy heights and cold dark valleys, wait the symbol of human society. It was prosperous, 'out it waa prosperity ot mutual good will, of friendly interest, of general co-operation. It was a dream of pagans. But it was a Christian world in which they bore one another's burdens. Telegraphs and electric lights and cheap periodicals alone will not leotore it, Bui; the same spirit, and only the same spirit, will win Astrasa back again. " A'ditor's Fany Chair," m Mar.er'i Magazine. Pai d A Bill. A Detroit lawyer took in , new boy, and, as he had s uffered to come extent from the depredations of the former one, he decided to try the new lad's honesty at once. He therefore planed 15 in bills under a weight on his desk and walked out without a word. Upon his return, half an hour later, the bills wore gone and 75 cents in silver had taken their place. " Boy I wacn I stepped out to get a draft on London I left $15 under this weight !" " Yes, sir." " And now I llnd only 75 nts !" "Yes, sir, but, you see, you hadn't been gone live minutes when a man came in w ith a till against yon of $14.25, and I paid it I guess th change is correct." " You you paid a biU?" "Yes sir there it is, all receipted. The nian said i t had Blipped your mind for the last four years, and so " He didn't get any further before he was nubed for the stairs, ami he isn't in the law business any more.

A Corner In Trousers, There are corners in oil, m teas, in beans, in mining stocks find railway stocks, in wheal;, in corn and why not corners in lirousbrs ? Tliat r as the important question ae-ked himsalf recently by a great financial nobleman of Berlin while at his tailor's. The cloth was of an extraordinary jmttern. Palpably it would create a con nation iu the Bourse. "I would like to moncpol: ze that pat tern," he said to tho tailor; "iust boo how many pair of trousers il, will make." The tailor calonl ited, and said thai: eighty-throe pairs of trousers could be made from the bundle of cloth. " I will take them all it wonld be very disagreeable if ono of my colloagues were to appear in a similar pair." His orders we ro obujed ; and now he glories in having more pairs of trousers of a resplendent pattern than any other man in Berlin.

It it said "Fortune knocks onajti f erery man's door." In wjfjt Mies il ninst havs been when th mii& xfts j WMask Twain remarks that all Hood, io jiossess the flnent Hatty ip "H world, ia ships for we bare ilenty kf : vster. A iatt, on being asked why ale called bit two canaries vilhtKler and Wilsoc, leplied: "Because Matter wi . Singtir. " Tin latest slang exprenaio'.i applied to the auKctpto'ble young-jsWlil5 'Potato," The realm thereto isth.-isiiotognetifiy gets mas bed. It Tiik flat hat is liked by tbe yotingiawn who w-xr it because they cm rbstch owe lie edfpss and hold it on with tleir mm 'rlten tho wind blow. JBurietMi. Bao ivir pointed his gun at a partridge; v,ho cap ncappei and the bard .Hew oft " Just n.y conf oundod luck r exalaitaed Brown. ' Miss fire every time." "Have patten counseled Fogg. " Yon May .nave better luck in another world,". "Yia, Judge," said the prisoner, "I idmit tt at the back of my trousers were tangled in the dog's teeth aad that I dragged the animal away, but it you call that stetding a dog, no matt on earth ia safe tract comnuttmij crime." . "Lavkenob, my dear," fiid his witt wreattel in smiles, "I wish job. had. been to church tliis moiraing. Mr. Jones was very interesting, nd when fats prayed for the absent ooee-r" "WelL that accounts fat it;. then. -1 haven's caught, each a ttring of fish llor a year aa I did this morning." CB.OTtUCmOHS OH TBS WAItBB She aligned uponafeaaaaaaaaV- . '' TWa araa iiad; . .,,,. . She tt !t older thwalanaaadta - Thia madiiaeamad; - ' Madlrtr yet vaa (heat the malt ' Who ttire'V it Uim; ,. ''' Bat aiaddeet wat aba beoagaa Ifto a ioaa sheeooM notawaac - ', Yvrk JMrtaaat. ( t& " ' The Waupnn itdeconfeiiw particle informing :.ts readera''arlii.toea pickentl." We did not read tho artioky, bnt suppose, of course, the limiter says, eat pic i erel at meal time. :$ethtxtg appears ho much our, of place as to aee a roan in business iioors walking along the street picking the boscs out of a . piece of pickerel. George i'e-shi t Whe t all tho buffaloes are tallied off, if Uncle iflam can be induced to quit, feeding thn red de'dls on oanned goods and other Government rations, they will have to be put iu an Ameneait l:ic tiding- . house, tnd their dyspepsia irifiiwjnd up the node red raaru The Secretory of the Ixt-ierior shonld cut this out' and paste in where he vrill see it figaih TOTAL AHKTHILATIOS. . t Ob, ha a a Boner" boot-itack told, Atul bia yaara "Jjey lumbered Bine " . ' Bott;t and tuipoUelied waa he, aSiattr . Hit conatantly ulinul ta abina.

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expect me to go till I get bit enough to sleep alone, do yon f "Toe, fltfah IT And they rub along the fence in oitpoeite directions. Two girls belonging to a olltirett tthair at Oshkosh got looked into fce e huroh tbe other night while they we talking over tlie fashions. They gave the alarm, when a man living near the clinroh put a board up to the window and they siid down to the ground. The wt st singftlar thing is that after they had. got safelv to tho ground they looked mad, and went off without thankbxz that taaa.

and they wont ttpeak to tho loan when they meet him. He oukir.ti .aiHoant for it until he went to take the board down, when he got slivers in lis Ikgera and scratched his fingers and faamtohed his thumb on a shingle nail that stnok

np through the board. Bonwi nvt are might v careless. He says he ilonl care only tor the other hearts that may woha. Peek's Sun. The Pleasare of Ivwir1i"V I heard a man who had faed itl bssiness, and whoso furniture waa nold at auction, say that when the afadle, "and the crib, and the piano ai, beats would come, arid he had to kaw the housn to oe a man. Now, tharn are thouiiauds of men who havo leal; their pian, but who have found boStar musto fn th aon n rl tA' thou ehiltlrfta'a waieaat

and footsteps going ohearily clown with them to poverty, than the lutraao;ty ot honied instruments. Oh, how I fussed is bankruptcy when it saVe'a roan's children? I see many 'mian wlttt are bringing up their rhudren-o-f Iidibutd brint; ip mine; if, when'-tiiey i 10 years old, I should lay them a tto disseotiig table and cut the ainetrs of their arms aud legs, so that they could never walk nor use their hands, but aly ftit still tnd be fed. Thus rich mm pit th knift of indolence - and luxury to their children's emergies, and they grow np futted, lazy calves, fitted IV nothing at 25 tut to drink deep and aercuuider wide, and the father most, be a slave nil his life in order to make bwgsttt ot bis children. How bleased, then, is tha stroke of disaster, which setB thfr ehnV dren free and .gives them, oyer to the hard bnt kind lxiaom of BaTj$f'Who saya to them "Work!" awl wtirkin makos them mon.--Jzr'y Wr Beevlur. The del Uasba-ti. . The wife of a Philadelplia twe asked her husband to gi he '$1,000 whic h to speculi.te, and, like the good man ha ia, he complied. In a day or two oiiportunity offered let bow raihraj- bonds at very low flzviet nd she nested. vyhen,heoapae bom, that night the remarked : " Gteorm it seems as if I reoaiMtxar of yon: having some Blank cMntf rsilwav bonds." .. " Ye-t, I did." " Jmt 1,0Q0 worth, wasn't. it " Eacty.,, ' Hud you sold thorn?" " Ye; to-day.. " Wiat are they worth?" " About 10 per cent" "What!" she shrieked. "Why X bought those very bonds and paid 95 for them I" ' "Just wo, darling j just so. Xo wanted to speculate : I knew yon 'ould get bitten. I tlierofbre- arranged it to oovxir the most of that $1,W Wk into my wa let," , "J&it, sir 1 " "Be calm, Maria; be eata. it yo ' lose yoor tempor that way J'Ml'll ww have a ny luck buying on m euriliad market. Yon ought to be xw of o, . . i j i avikiA A,, aftinim

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