Bloomington Progress, Volume 16, Number 30, Bloomington, Monroe County, 8 November 1882 — Page 1

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"Wbun she trost is on the nankin and the foci ier"a to the shock, They's somethln' kind o' bcartr-Uke aboo tho atmosphere - . Wlcn tho heat of summers over and the ooolia Fall ia hereof conrso wa mix the Bows and the blossom . . on the trees, ' Ami (ba mumble of the hnrairUj' bird and taaafca' of the bees; ' " But the air's so appeazta'; and thalandseapa through the haas Of a crisp anl moans maafnf at toe early autnmn ys . tea vfctRtettma-no -palatal-baa on coJorta to root 'When the frost Is on the punkin and the toddor's ia the shock. The husky, rciBty rustle of the teasels of the com, i And ra.-pta' of the taagtod Jgana. golden . as the morn; The atrthb'e ia the tanks, kind o lonesome ' liks but sti;l A pratcbin' sermona to us of the barns they growed to fill: The KtHwvKck in the a! der and the reaper fa the abed; The hossea in their stalk below, the dm overhead; O it cMoklr. Hka the tickin' T When the trost fn on the -matta- and the toaV . der 'a in the shock. n kanapolis JourmU.

KCTGR-'JaTS. BI WtlHIM FOX&aSD.

"In the matter of lore," & the old proverb ran, "Ton baaia when yon tUx, and Vn off when yon can;" Bnt the more modem vcrakm-the balance to striker's wben van , and leave off vrhmyoa

Mv friend. I thoaeht. was ronirh

In speech and manner, always rude u4 ronh;

sos since ne jouea a mm at y coipe. He's more tmcwii than be was before.

"Whither away, eood Sandy, at snch speed?" "To meet a mon," gaid Sandy. "Ah! indeed? IH jn with yon, Ms ready friend replied; And op the street they harried, side by aide, Until they reached a point on Union Square, When John exclaimed to Sandy, with an. air Of Sattsfaation and Supreme content: "Here, my good fellow, is the utoH-u-nttU."

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. HJSSRS. J05ES CO. I guess pa and ma were pretty rich one time, for v.hen they came to California it was on their wedding- tour, and cost Into came by the -way of New York andWa&hington and Panama City, in a steamboat; and ma brought a maid to 'wait on her, and pa bad a servant named Jimi and when we got to California I say we; Fr only 14 now, bnt I was not born then, though that don't matter I guess pa had lots of money. I wad born at the lack House, and yon ought to see my baby clothes. Jones & Co. haven't the kind of goods those were because Mats has draggled them all to pieces. Mod is ths baby. Six years old Mand n, and it wont belong before sht!ill b a ekrk for Jones & Co. First babied always have the sices', things. Ms soys first babies ace like second wrtejp.

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Established A. D., 1835.

BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 18ti

New Series.-VOL. XVI.-NO. 30.

"Well, I sit of the opinion that after . 5 ,pa went ink) his house on Tan Ness avenue he went into stocks, whatever -' that means.; Going into stocks mass 1m cnrioTB business; and sometimes pa came hdue looking splendid, and wanted to biy everything, and laughed j at me for bepg so mesa and not getting ' ' better fclothes; and that he wanted to . . . drive in the jark aad go to the thealer. One day hej came home with a bra idnew carrisfJJ and a span of long udl horses and atcoochman and a footmtn. Then sometimes pa came home and looked Ten bine and talked about ,. stocks, aadI began to watch pa, and noticed thatsomehmea when he laughed Jthe londestj he looked as if ho wanted , . to cry, and fen he sold the horses and then the hotse, and the furniture was . 't-' . -' sent, to thd nuetion, and ma felt very bad, and rk wasn't like himself any

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tons: I ditjn'tera to notice it, beeanso X Raw that ssavrhn ha nail oaLI tlmm tt.

pay board; . ail I heard pa and ma talk . . fAJ into the Jtishs, and sometimes ma 3a ried, and paiwould look the motningjnst as if ho hadnt slept a wirk, and ! don't brieve be had. Once was dreadful. Pa came home tipsy; and X never saf nut feel SO bad, never; and then they fclked it over, and finally ma went honi to grandpa's in New York, with Mattt, and I stayed with pa to go to school.1 Then pa kept getting worse and woe, and went to lire ia ' rooms and cat p restaurants; and pa stayed out late frights, and I guess he drank mote thai was good for him, sod I thought someting liswl got to be done. So I Biiid to pa Ine day : "Pa, let's go kto business, and open store." t And ho laugbd and said: ' "What kjidof antore?j ' And I said: "h! a eondy store, or' a stationery store.pr a thread and needle store, jost such a women keep and little girls help in." i And pa tatghe and said ha- would think of it, snd when he came home tk,.t night Iaskedhim if he had thought . abotrtit, tnd he arid he had not; and X said he hid beker, and he said ho -Wonld; snlfUiat ic.raiag he didn't go oat, ltayed atjhoirt and wrote ma -a long letter. . 8oneit day I went into a-store on Polk ajreet, kept by a mee old ludy.who hada txhvntKknd, where they scld everytag, and shs said fo French they called it lingerie. I did not jipw what jdie naaat, beoaass it -wasi French, and I asktt her if she did not' want tosellhorsV'e, and ah said : "Do yon want t buy a store, " little girl?" And I sail: "My pa does." ' - And shc-smilefi oniWd she guessed tho Sheriff wrjirfdliiw store to sell in a few days. ittVamaUL tell pa, Jeeansehe'knw'lt.SBmiBBthe Sheriff. It was one of Mr, Naan'smen that sold pa's house and f mature for him. And theext dayt told p aboat the store, snd whan a dee one it was, and he had been a dry-gtodsman once, and hod had large, starts, and said" sSk dress goods, aid vetets and fan, and laces worth more that $1,000 apiece. J don't eiat tly kow what pa did, bat I think sometlsW "turned up" a lew day afterward, pi l heard him say he had made a "raito" and ho showed nie nwre ftan l.OOOln gob) and notes,

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And, sore enough, fia few days we went into the store, aid ore the door was a great big sign of j Jones & Co.," at J pa wud i was the "fo. And when Ifftia, "A4 so, pa, yoiaro ones," ht

blushed, and I gness he didn't like bis Old friends to know that he was selling needles and thread and tape and things. We had two snug little rooms in the back of the store .to sleep in, and I made pa's bed and awe'- rat room and tidied things. At first pa shut up the store when he had to go down town on business, bnt after a little while I tended it, Mid when there were two customers in the store I waited on one, and it wasn't long before I could make change, and sell things almost as good as pa could; and by and by when he went down town I tended store, and we had splendid times. We went out to a nice place across the street for onr meaLi; 1 tended store when pa went, and pa tended store when I went. One day pa came in and looked dreadfully troubled, and then I said : "Pa, ain't I a partner, and don't par ners have a right to know everything, and ain't von hiding something about Jonea &Co.? And then I found ont that pa had bought too many things for the i-tore, and th it a note for $1,000 hnd to be paid, and that's what made pa feel had. And then I thought and wondered how I could get $1,000; and I kept on thinking over everybody that 1 guessed had $1,000, and every "one that I guessed had it I guessed would not lend it to pa. And then I thought about the rich Mr. Flood, snd said : " I will go down to his bank and get it, for he's got more than $1,000,000,000; and down to the Bank of Nevada the cellar is full of gold, and, of course, he doesn't use it all the time; and before Mr. Flood wants it IH take it back and pay the interest." And then I jumped up and hurrahed for Jo es St Co., took my best bonnet and put on my gloves, took off- my store apron and combed my hair, and got iuto a car; went to the Nevada Bank, told the clerk I wanted to borrow $1 ,000; and he

laughed and said I had better see Mr. HcLane. I asked who Mr. McLano was, and the clerk said Mr. MoLane was the President and was in the back room, and I went in the back room, and Mr. McXjaoe said: '-'Well, little girl, what can I do for you?" And I said: "I want to borrow Mr. McTjane opened his eyes and turned his chair around and looked at me and said: " A thousand dollars." with as much surprise as though $1,000 was all the money he had in tho bank. Then I began to get scared and cried, and then I told Mr. McLone all about pa and " Jones & Co.," and what we wanted to do. with the money, and that I would pay it back to him; and he looked kinder puzzled, and he asked me what pa's name was, and I told him and where the store was, and all about ma and Maud, and bow the baby died. I guess that was not very much like business, and. I don't know what Mr. MoLane wanted to know all that for. Then he looked at me again, and I gness he wasn't going to let me have the money, when a gentleman at the other desk came up to where I was sitting on a chair, and Mr. HcLane said: "Well, Flood, what do yon think of this young merchant ? " And then I knew it was the rich Mr. Flood, and I looked into his eyes, and he said: " Let her have the money; I will indorso her note." Tl en I jumped up and kissed him, and he kissed me; and Mr. Mclnne made a note for ninety days and I signed "Jones & Co.," and Mr. Flood wrote his name on the back of it. I took tho money away ia a canvas hag, that Mr. Mcliane said I must bring back, and I took the money to pa; aid didn't he look surprised when I poured ont tho great big $20 go!d pieces on the counter ? Then I told him what had happened at the bank, and when I asked him if he. didn't think I was a pretty good business woman after all, I gness he-felt real ashamed. After this I never see anything like it snch lots of carriages and such nice ladies kept eoming every day, and moat all of them traded with me, and pa was just as happy as he could be. Jones & Co. was making lots of money. When I took Mr. Flood's money back I just irmrched right through the bank, post the big counters, into Mr. McLane's room, and I took very good care to let tho clerk that laughed at me before see the bg. Mr. Flood came up and laughed, and Mr. McLane laughed, and I heard Mr. Flood tell Mr. McLane they would have the lunch to-day. And then Mr. Flood told 'me if I wanted to borrow money again not to go- to any other banks, bnt to come to his, and I thanked him, and Mr. McLane bronght me my notes, canceled by a great bine "Paid" stamped across the face, right over where I wrote "Jones & Co." Then I told Mr." Flood that when we fait able to send for ma I should come ovor.acd borrow some raoro money, because I wanted to buy a' house for ma and Maud, so that they wouldn't have to go into any more nasty boardinghouses, and Mr. Flood said X should have all th money I wanted. When we sent for ma and Maud, grandpa gave .na the money to come, and so we didnt have to borrow any money; and we took a nice cottage not very near thRtorefor pa didn't want ma tokaowabout Jones & Co., though I was crssy to toll her. For several days we fooled her. . She thought pa had a store, down town -and I was going to school. I told Jots of fibs about being detaioed at school, going down town, and jaO sorts of stories to account for being bomelate. One day who should I see coming into the store but ma? "Hare yoa any pearl shirt-buttons, little girl ?" said ma. " Yea, ma'am; said I, looking her right sqnare in the face. " Goodness gracious 1 " said ma. "Is that yon, Vevie-f I said, " Beg pardon, ma'am, what did you wont?" And then ma looked at me again. I had a store apron on and a small eap like a French girl; and because I wasn't very high pa bought me a pair of -wooden brogans, with felt buttons, into which I slipped my feet, and they made me four or five inches taller; and ma stared at me and than laughed and sail: Oh, I beg your pardon, little girl ; you look so much like my duughte-, Qenerievw, that I thought yon were ber.1" Then I heard pa snicker down behind the counter. He had seen ma come in ami he hid. Just as soon ss ma went oat. pa jumped ap and laughed and said: " Snatch off your apron and cap, Yevfo, and ran round the block and gothoma bsforayoar mother,"

i did sO, And when ma got home she as tho most surprised person yrin ever saw. Vb knew this thing wouldn't last, and so that night we told ma all about the house of "Jones & Co.," and ma kissed pa and said he was a noble fellow, and "just as good as gold," and she "never was so proud of him in all her life," and fell to kissing him and crying and taking on. I never saw ma act so foolish hi all her life, and pa said she was "making love to him ovef again." Well) now, the story is about over. Ma came down to the storo to help. At first she looked kinder sheepish, especially when some lady came in she had known at the Lick House; but she soon got over all that and began to make bonnets, and we had a milliner store, and then she insisted upon saving the expense of a separate house, and we moved to a larger store next door, with nice rooms fixed to live in and a nice show window for bonnets; .Mid little Maudie is beginning to be handy about, and all of us work, and wo are just as happy as the days are long) and we have lots of money. I have never seen Mr. Flood but once since, when I went down to the bank unbeknown to pa, and told Mr. Flood and Mr. McLane that any tine they wanted to borrow $1,000 "Jones & Co," would, lend it to them; and they laughed and said, ' "Couldn't tell stocks might go down." And then Mr. Flood said: "If all the people he had given money to would pay it back as I had he didnt think he would get busted in a long time." And then I saw the clerk thm laughed at me, and I smiled at him and bowed; and since then he has been buying all his) gloves at the store. I told him I thonght he used a great many pairs of gloves, and he said they wore ont very bust oonnting money. He is dreadful particular about his gloves, and if thore is nobody in the store bnt me he is sometimes half an hour picking out just the kind he wants. Pa has bought a splendid gold watch a real stem-winder ; and we " Jones & Co." have bought a nice largo lot out on Gov. Stanford's new cable railroad, and paid for it; and if the timas are good this summer, as pa thinks they will be, we shall have a house of our own again. San Franciaco Calk Literary Problems, Boughly speaking, we may say that in the seventeenth century scarcely any man conld make a living ont of literature in England. In the eighteenth many men conld make a bare living; in the nineteenth many can make a very decent income. Can we say that the supply kfts improved with tht demand? The trade lias undoubtedly increased and multiplied beyond calculation. But if we speak of the art, he would be a bold man who should say that there is any improvement at all. ' Have we now any work to set beside Shakspeare, and Spenser and Bacon, with their minor stars of the great constellation ? Is the literature of the present day, setting aside two or three men of genins, who belong rather to tho previous than to this generation, to bo compared to that, of the great opochs? Li it clearly better than the comparative dead level of the end of the last century? How many of the living -writers under 60 will lie read a century hence? I will pot say for I do not believe that literature is really declining, nor maintain, what some people hold, that we may trace here, as elsewhere, the tendency of democracy to substitute a mass of commonplace respectability for a spare growth of more exalted excellence. The problem is for too complex to be answered in any off-hand formula But it is at least plain that the finer growths of the literary vineyard are not multiplied in proportion to the pecuniary manuring of the field. It is said, and I suppose truly, that a successful dramatist at the present day could make an income, at which the mouths of all the inhabitants of Grab street would water. Even in the last century, playwriting was by far the most profitable part of the trade to which an author could turn his hand. Have our plays, then, improved since the days when the sole record of the lives of some of the most popular dramatists is due to the extreme difficulty which they experienced in raising a loan of 5? Plays at the present day have perhaps more literary value than is admitted by the persons who are always declaiming aboat the decline of the stage. This, however, is at least clear that through tho seventeenth century the drama represents tho highest literary achievements of the first-writers of the time; that in the next century there are only somn half-dozon plays which have any claim to be in the first rank of literature, and that in the present century (putting aside plays like the "Cenci" or "Van Arfcevelde," not really intended for the stage) there are none. We could hordly apply a more crucial experiment to prove that money-payments can not secure good literature. Cornhill Maaasine. Dynamite. Dynamite, or giant powder, as it is frequently termed in the United States, like all explosives, goes through a process of combustion when exploding. A large part of the effective force is due to the heat generated by this combustion, or burning, which may or may not be attended by Same. One of the peculiar merits of dynamite (which consists of twenty to twenty-five parts of nitro-glycerine, with seventy-five to eighty parts of finoly pulverized infusorial earth or burnt clay from glaRs works) is its slower or more complete combustion. Nitro-glycerine alone explodes so rapidly that it is apt to scattor nnexploued drops, involving waste and danger. Tho slower combustion of dynamite gives time for communication of the forces to the moss to be moved, resulting in a considerable saving of pressure. The total potential energy of dynamite isl,13U tons per square foot, But the percentage of tliis which can be realized in actual practice depends upon circumstances. For example, the total theoretic work of a pound of gunpowder, assuming complete combustion and the utilization of its entire expansive force, is estimated at 480 to 480 i;ons pressure to the square foot. But tho percentage of this realized in actual practice varies from only about halt (or 50.5 per cent.) in a seven-pounder mountain gun to ninety-threo per cent, or 450-452 tons per square foot in a thirty-eight ton gun. It is not too much to est: mate that the effective force of giant powder under favorable circumstances rises to 1,000 foot tons per pound of the mixture.

AGRICULTURAL.

tVlreat-Growlng. The success in growing wheat in Pennsylvania tho last few years should stimulate us to raise a greater average per acre than has been the case in many porlions of the State. We notice that as much ns an average of thirty bushels has beou obtained this year in some of the Western States; and we are well aware that tho yield has been much increased this year in Pennsylvania :n sonic special instances over forty bushels per acre have been obtained. Of course there are various caunos influencing success. That which might be an aid at one point, may be an injury at another. Bnt there are one or two matters that wheat-growers aro apt to forget. The first is, that as a general thing it is well understood that m mure must be liberally applied to induce a good crop ; but many persons plow it under, henco it is not until the plant has set its roots deep' down into the soil that it derives much lienefit from the manure. Bnt if the manure is so placed that the yoilng rootlets could pnsh fit once into it on germinating, it woidd get an early start on its vital course, which would establish it firmly against any future drawbacks. In the second place, few persons have any idea how mantlro operates in making roots. If we bury a shovelful of manure some distance from a thrifty tree in early spring, and examine it again the ensuing fall, we find the lump of dung a complete mass of roots, wh-le the earth in other parts contiguous has but a few straggling ones. Some people think that the roots are attracted to the spot by tho manure; but it is not so. They are actually created by the manure. A leading root stuck into the rich moss, finding, plenty to eat, at once sets to work to increase and multiply. Contact with the manure, therefore, makes roots ; and the principle in successful wheat-culture should place the grain and the food as close together as possible, if we would encourage it to root-out well and get a good Rfcu-t. We all know very well how this is done with corn. Manuring in the hill is quite a universal practice; but where it is not, the result is well-known. We repeat, therefore, give the crops an early start. It has a wonderful influence in its efforts in nflcr-life to come out well. Germanloicn Tetegrapli. Waste in Feeding Corn Fodder. The amount of corn fodder annually wasted on every farm through carelessness is very large. To throw it loosely over (ho fence info tho b.irnyard in hopes that it may be eaten in place cf other provender is only to place if. where it can be picked over and finally trampled under foot. It saves time and labor, of course, to feed it in that' manner, but it deponds on the sirmly whether snch usage will enable tliis farmer to aarry his stock over winter and bring them out in tho spring in good condition. The stalks- aro never eaten when the fodder is glvun directly from the shock, but, after the blades are selected from them, ate wasted. It is the judicious use of corn fodder that aids the hay to last till grass, and, as labor in winter is expensive, ia a certain sense in owing to the fact that but little outdoor work can be done, the preparation of the corn fodder for feeding should be made an object on o-very form. For this purpose the cutters vsed should be of a kind that not only cuts stalks into short lengths, but also crush and tear them to pieces after they are cut. As most cutters do this, the manner of doing tho work is well known. As to the" importance of so doing, it can be safoly stated that horses and cattle will eat them when so cut and crush: d, okpecially if they are moistened and sprinkled with bran or meal and seasoned, with a lttla salt. Th crushing tears the outer hard covering of the stulks in such manner that stock will not reject them. In fact, they become eas'ly digestible, and when fid in connection with good hay will Take the place of it in proportion to the quantity used. It is not claimed that corn fodder is a complete food, for neither is hay, if the an iuals are to lie wintered with the expectation of the best results; but, as all sto -k men make a practice of feeding concentrated food in addition to coai-so provender, corn fodder answers a good purpose when it is prepared, and, while the item of lalwr is to bo considered, it should bo l omembcrcd, also, that it is mncli cheapor to keep laborers at work on a farm than to pnrchnse hay, and as the whole of a corn stalk can be made serviceable there is no reason why wo should allow any portion to go to waBte, especially at times when tho stook of hay is insuraeicnt for the winter's demand. ,

end; yet, like many other qualities, littln mote than mere germs in nature.

! Jtliey become hcretlitary by long usage. Few sorts rif iminiais a?p ntore susceptible than cattle of iMntf moldec! .into

W ' I J niSMU) i.AJ III 1 1IU11 JW easily trained and developed as that of giving milk. It is a function liich, constantly varying of itself, ct.u be dwarfed or extended at will. Byiacans of careful training, kind treatment and intelligent breeding it can bo developed and made hereditary; an opposite system keeps it in a state of nature. The habits Of a COw and the food she receives hare a great deal to do witl. hor milking powers; quick and silent haudmilkhig does t!o rest. The praot ce of hand-milking nas all along tended greatly to the development of th j lacteal glands, and this development has become hereditary in our best mi king breeds. Tho ewes of tho Larzac hree& of sheep, from whose milk the famous Boquefort cheese is made in France, have been lland-niilked for genera' ions, so that thoir milkiri" properties rti'c now considerably and inherited. By repeatedly exciting the teats it is even possible to cause an animal tha; has never borne offspring to yield a small quantity of milk, and a cow sometimes remains barren several years aftei having had a calf, giving a profitable quantity of milk all the whi e." Domestic ecosomt.

. Prom otitic Ifilk, The following from the London -Xir Slock Journal is a good statement of some practical points suggesting the extent to which milking qualities are dependent on treatment and training: "A copious flow of milk, sustained through many months, is a quality which has been produced by art in domestication. Wild cattle raTely provide more than enough miik to rear their own offspring, and the flow of it is of comparatively short duration. Small in volume, the milk is rwh in quality, but the lacteal orgaris soon dry off again. This, of course, is in harmony with the requirements, of tho young animals in a wild state, and is a correlation of tho roving lifo and haphazard feeding of th-i dams. Moro milk than the cnlf requires under such conditions would bo a waste of material energy which nature does not encourage. It would, moreover, bo an enoumbranoe to the mother. Wild cattle aro neither good milkers nor good fatteners, and in parts of England, where oalves are allowed to run with their domesticated dams generation after generation, the breed of such animals is not famous for milk-giving. Like that of the mare and owe, tho milk is smaller in quantity, rich in quality aitd short of duration. The desultory and irregular sucking of a calf or. foal or lamb is not conduoivei to the development of a large flow of milk, and it distinctly tomlsio shorten tho flow. Hand-milking of a similar character has the sumo effect. Young people are allowed to learn to. milk on cows who are going dry for calving, not those who aro still in full flow. New beginners soon dry up a cow's milk, and bad milkers, do the same. "Heavy milking properties, then, are artificial, in the sense that they have been developed under domestication and by careful breeding; for a givea

HiCKOitY Nct CAke Two teacups of

ngar, one half teacup Of butter, one

cup of muk, tiirec and one-naif ex ps of flour, three teaspoonfu's of bakingpowder, fix eggs, well-beaten, one pint of chopped hickory nutst Black Cake One pound browned flour, one pound brown sugar, one pound citron, two prunda currants, three pounds stoned raisins, threequarters of a pound of butter, one teacup of molasses, two teaspoonfuls of cinnamon, ono tcaspoonful each of clot eg and soda, twelve eggs. Apile Fkittkiis Make a batter of three ounces of flour, half ounce o .' butter, half cup of warm woter, oik egg, pinch of salt, one teaspoon baking powdor, cut the apples iu small, thin dices, put them in tho batter and fry in hot lard. Serve hot with ou'ter mid snpar. CooASr T Cake with Onk Ego One cup white sugar, one and a half of (lour, one of sour cream, yelk of one egg, one teaspoon sod:v, a little salt. If your erostm is very thick your cake will le too rich. Now with the white of the egg yon can make frosting to pet between the layers, sprinkling each plentifully with desiccated cocoanut.

Bo-r.KD FaosTfiro One eni of white !

sugar placed in a basin with a little water ; set on the stovo and boi till clear and will "hair" from a spoon; j pour it lowly over the white of ai egg ' beaten stiff, stirring constantly till cool. 1

If not thick enough when cold yon did not boil the sugar enough. This I i-ost-ing wll cover more surface than alien made without boiling the sugar. To hiake good pastry the butter should be sweet, the lard fresh: the flour should bo sifted and of the best quality; the water should bo cold icewoter is preferable. In rolling tho crust roll always one way. When there is any dough left over it should be kept on the wis or in a cold place until wanted for use. Dough that has been kept in tliis way two or three days always makes tho flakiest crust. W.U.T-EO Oystebs. Make a wall one and onij-lialf inches high and (hreeqnarteru wide of one quart of nicelymushed and well-seasoned potatoe s just inside the raised edge of platter, glaze it by covering it with beaten egg and placing in the oven for a few minutes. Place the liquor from one quart ol oysters in a porcelain kettle; let boil; skim well; the?', add the oysters seasoned with salt, boil up once, skim out the oysters (this liquor can be usel for soup) ana add them to a cream ilrissing made by putting a teacup of rieh cream, butter size of half an egg, and a little pepper and salt, in a pan placed wi:hin a vessel of boiling water 'or a double boiler). When hot add two ounces of flour mixed smooth in some cream or milk, and let cook till thickened, then place oysters and dressing within tho potato and serve immediately. ' Love and Bomance. Not long ago I heard an elderly woman make this speech to a younc girl: "When yon live to be my age, yon will know how little love or romance, .or whatever you call it, is worth." On some temperaments such words fall liko frost. Experience is not alwjys a guarantee of wisdom, the older some peoplo become, tho less they sc ;m to know. A child seeking protection in its mother's arms, is a better teacher than a person with a hard, morose nature. What do the blind know af the wonders and lvauties of earth. What folly for them to affirm that the iov.er fringed path, the radiant cloud", the star-lit sky aloft, exist but in our imagination. The patriot is not led to battle through a base, or sordid motive. If ho did not love his country, his- wife, his children, would he bo ready to lay down his life to defend his home? Disinterested affection exists, and it is that, and that nloue, that will give an atmosphere of home to the log cabin or the palace, and woe to the person who attenpts to found one without it. Whether or No." An esteemed correspondent who devotes critical, powers of unwonted iicuteness to the discussion of question of grammar and philology, favors us with his views agaiust the ordinary colloquial phrase "whether or no." Our correspondent admits that it if a well established part- of English speech. "Thoro is no colloquial phrase," he says, 'iso universal. Everybody' uses it."' And

j yet ho goes on to argue that if it is auI alvtiofvlly examined, it is not accm-ato. j Well, what of that ? Tho fact thn't it is j idiomatic, and that it is used by iduoai ted and iHte.llige.ufc peoplo, is enongn. Thero is no use in attempting to reconstruct the English tongno acoordi lg to

the iron rules of exact reasoning. The language is idiomatic; it is free ; it is flnent ; and that is what makes its excellence. If our correspondent hod his own way, wo fear that ho would . serious injury to one of the noblest i lstruments of human thonght. -AT. Y. Muii. "I THiUHHED the little boys and mushed the big ones," was the young sohoolmnrm's explanation of her suoceiis in subduing an unruly school. The rope wi h which a Kansas murderer was hanged was woven into bookmarks and given to the convicting; jury as keepsakes,

People in Ceutantinople. The lower orders proper live very much like their brethern in Christian t'Otintrips, Both men and women work. The wife helps her lord and master in the daily toil, washes; clealUJj and keeps the' house' in Order ; she" has neither time nor Ojjp'rd-tunity , for' frivolous amusements, consequently tfhb' is. more respected both by husband ana Children-j and knows not the heart sickness ana weariness of the harem. But even hero women do not eat with the men, and never stir outside their domicile unveiled. There is no middle class among tho Turks); There aro the rich (or easy) and the poor. Thewi two orders aie constantly changing pla)s. Tho ridl man of to-day may be the poor one of to-morroV.- You will know him by his shabby, greasy Coat and ttnbrnshed shoes. Ho will make no effort to keep up appearance. You may .see him buy some simple fare and eat it in the street on his way to business or homo. He has lost his place. He is pool'. Ho is neglected. Meeting hiin thus yott might suppose him a shoemender, or a lowclass coffee homo keeper; yet he lute Only just missed being a ilaslirt, and a few months more will probably reinstate him in the position lie has lost. The men ttatt women of the country are naturally all on li par. There is no genius, no talent, no eminence of virtuo among them (or if thore bo, it is banished as soon as it dares lift its head). One man is as good AS, another. A fair address, a smattering of French, and "good luck," are nil that are wanted to make a no body a first minister; but the gftifle tottune grown fickle may hurl him front his post, and he sinks lower than what we understand by the "poorest gentlemen." Ono fact bailie's European wOnld-be reformers. We ate always meeting with surprises. There is nothing solid anywhere. Therein no public spirit, no landed interest, no trade interest, no personal authority nothing to grapple with. Everything slips' through your fingers. The laws exist but are not enforced. It, ie nobody's business to enforce them ; property is

yours to-day, mine to-morrow, and a week hence it may be Mahmond's, or Safnet's, or Ahmed's, 'i'he one thing permanent among us is the watchful jealonsv df the various nationalities. It is the different Consuls t'nat keep order here, not the Turks and, were it not for this protection, Europeans could not live In Tiirkef . The Turks are indifferent tradesmen. Nearly all the shops in Galata, aud the whole of those in Pera, are kept by Europeans. The Greeks are the chief traders, though a smart bnsiness is done by the Levantines. The most fashionable shops aro French, but there are a few first-rate English and American ones. A large class of Turks hawk their wares in the street. They are for tho most part fine, stalwart, eivjl-spoktsn men. They shoulder enormous baskets, containing cheeses, creams, fruits, vegetables, and many other comestibles, and furnish more than half the alimentation of the city. The habits of these men are vcrv simple: they live chiefly upon

bread and fruit; bnt they also know tho j secret of tho pat an feu, and often I ' have seen a knot of- them, after their j

day s woi R, grouped under a sued or on a green spot of earth, mixing the "savory mess" yott will perhaps bo shocked to hear the pot contains vegetables (of onions a large share) stewed ir: oil ! A somewhat strong tasted mutton called Karamaui is the favorite food of the Turkish upper classes. Palifi' is also an everv-day dish, wherein Europeans alo delight. The chief fault of Turkish cooking is the enormous quantity of grease and fat consumed, and the excessive sweetness of many of the dishes. Soine of the Costumes of Japan. The umbrella is an institution in Japan, writes a eormspondent. Whether it owes its invention to this people or not, they avail themselves ."largely of its uses. Tho Japanese umbrella is a sensible article in its amplitude and lightuesa, being ms.de of paper and bamboo. When under one of them a man is nearly as safopas if he was under a died, so far as the fulling rain in question, and the shade it affords from tho sun is "like unto that ol a great rock in a weary land." When folded, however, it possesses a volume that is rather unwieldy, and inartistic in appearance. The average Japanese ia seldom seen without his umbrella. It is an indispensable article of eonsfo :t. and rain or shine, ho places himself under ils protection. If tho same array of umbrellas were to be Been on Market street that is constantly in sight on the sitrects bore, it would bis a novel spectacle, especially on a bright, sunny day. Tho garment most .commonly worn is suited for all the needs of warmth and coolness. It is made with wide, flowing nquare sleeves, and is wrapper shaped, open in front from top to bottom, and confined at tho waist by a long band wouud around t he body a number of times. It is a very simple outfit. Comfort cannot cxaci; anything more simple. In the cold season these garments are duplicated by the addition of wadded articles of the same character. The great multitude wear for head gear simply a piece of blue cloth tied about the temples, thoughthe. stiaw hat is fast coming into use with many. Of course, there are many who have adopted the European styles of costume through from head to foot. The nfcvive dress of the Japanese is not a costly one. One of tho garments in summer will cost about $1.50, if made of cotton; more, of course, if of silk. Live and Let Lire. Throughout all Germany (writes Consul Flynn from Chemnitz) thore is one golden rule, which is almost universally observed : "Livo and let lave." Tlie times ai-o never so bad but that all find something to do. It is better to kp the people employed than to support jails, penitentiaries, and poor-houses. If there are fifty men idle and there is no way of utilizing their lalior save by cutting down the wages of those who have work, tho wages ure cut down generally at tho request of tho workingmen themselves. But tho great manufacturers are not backward in emergencies of this kind. They would rather cut thoir profits down than tliat the industriotis w orkingmen should bo driven into idle' "ess and the vico nd crime which invariably accompany it. The capitalists, workingmtm and laborers being iu favor of a division of labor, tho law. as a m itter of course, steps in whenever possible, and enforces it. Thus the poorest luickman, with the shabbiest vehicle, and the boniest horse, is as certain to get his wharo of work during the day as tho best haokman,

With the finest vehicle at the stand. The difference between the earnings of tho two is er.B81 by greater number of trips which Uie good hor&o can make. The Subscription Paper. A Western editor started out with a fitiliscription paper to raise a small fund to sink an experimental shaft in prospecting coal, and iu his rounds came acre's Mil following characteristic persons who are" y likely to be found in almost every town. He met the town hog, who came to the place without a dollar, and had made a comfortable fortune, speculating on the igiroranee, credulity, or misfor tunes of the inhabitants, or the financial ouibitrtnsHCicnts of the municipality, and who, when asked to contribute 85 cents to the 15 fund, said he had no money to invest in "such speculations." He met the sninll-souled chap, who refused to contribute because somebody else did not. Ho mot the lordly chap, who g:w.. 15 cents, as ho said withont any expectation of ever seeing -it again, bnt as an act of charity, and to get rid of the solicitor. Ho met the avaricious gentleman, who would not subscrilie unless the experimental shaft was sunk on hi land, and with the proviso that no other persons be permitted to dig for tho coal in

five miles of hint. He met the low-spirited citizen, who told him he was a fool for trying to do anything "in this town." He met the fractious bull-head who was going to "buck again" the project en general principles. He met she irgemladed man, who was satisfied the csperiraental boring would cost "thousands of dollars," and so was unwilling to contribute to an insufficient fund. He met the little trrcat man, who had

not been approached in the proper manner and by the propef party, and so would do nothing. Ho would rather the onmmnnity at large would suffer and tho entei'prisn fail than to give anything unless thero WiUI &VW fnsamade over him, He met the man who wanted it ail' nonuced in the papers if he gave fifty cents, and the brass band brought out if he condescended to bestow Ids patronage on the matter. He met several public-spirited, lilier-al-niinded citizens, who willingly and gladly contributed to the enterprise, the desired fund was raised, the experimental shaft wof. sunk, cool was found, and now the former one. horse town has scores of sncceasifnl coal shafts in operation, two railro.uta, five times the population it had before coalwas discovered, fine schools and churches and all of its people are prosperous and hare plenty. Pah Alto Reporter. A Lucky Pocket Handkerfhir. Iu the last year of the seventeenth century a man appeared in Olascow in which the city found a lienefactor, vho has been vatlier ungratefully forgotten. His name was Wilson ; he was born in Plaketiold. aud, in as far as he is remembered at all, it is by the name of his birthplace. Ho hod been a weaver before ho served as a soldier n the Continental wars; and while so serving in Germany his oye was one day attracted by a woven blnVai'd-whitecheckered handkerchief, lit was a lucky tiioment for Olascow when Flakefleld bought tho article. He stowed itaway imcng his treasures, and lie resolved 'some day" to weave one like it. In tho year above named ho and the prized handkerchief, with FUkefteld's father Mid brother, settled in Olascow, and there, the ex-soldier returning to bis sld calling, attempted to prodiftee a ' woven blue-and-white checkered handkerchief. After some tmsneccssful essays, Flakefleid succeeded, afid tho blue-and-white checkers were soon familiar all over the country. Thre K-as a rage for tho novel handkerchief, 'fresh sot up looms could hardly produce these articles fast enough, and on ;heni the extensive linen manufacture of (Moscow was founded. Some years after, the town drummer of the city was a man who excited mu-ah sympathy. This humble official, in fact, was none other than Wilson, of Flabe:leld, the other soldier and weaver, whose loom had started into life tie above named manufacture; but rival looms, whose owners hod greater capital, beat ont of the field the "wabster l.iody" who had done so much for Glasgow. He fell into poverty, and all that itenorous Glascow could or would do 'or him was to make him useful (on irmall pay) in liis old days as town drummer. So runs the story ; but it is to be suspected that there is a dash of romance in the details. About the time that FlokeSeld and his kinsmon nettled in G-lascow the city was making :rapid strides in mannfaoturing importance. From its 18,000 inhabitants, in 1695, a monthly cess was obtained for the expenses of the war, which amounted to 1,800. It seems incredible, b'lt it can bo proved. The amount of this tribute made Glascow second only to Edinburg, which contributed 3,880; Mid thus, in the course of a century, Glascow had advanced from the fifth : the second city in the Kingdom of Scotland; A Heart less Guest. A hotel guest was standing having his clothes brushed. On finishing he handed a $5 bid to the hall boy. Ho grinned from ear to ear, and nearly 'broke his back bowing and thanking so generous a being. But his face fell so quickly that ho bad some trouble in oatohing it beforo it reached the floor when tho generous being said, in tones, not to bo trifled vrith: "Getitohangedl" He wont away and brought back the change livo one-dollar bills. Deliberatelv pocketing four, the generous being liauded the ono remaining to the dust or. Again a sweeping bow from Hie ilnst broom, a "ThiWik yon," and a tmdden convulsion as the guest remarked in soktnvn tones: "Get lit char ged !" Once moro h departed and brought back two fifty-cent pieces. One 'vent into the traveler's pocket theother into the hall boy's palm. He smiled, iaid "Thank you," and was slipping :.t into his pocket, when "Gt it changed," again rang into his ears. Two quarters camo back with him this time, which lie handed to the guest, who putting ono iu his purse, turned over the other to to the hall boy. This time he was allowed to walk off nearly across the hall, when, as f by an electric shook, ho was brought to a standstill, with those terrible words, "Get it changed!" This lime two dimes and aniokel wero deposited in the hand of ths guest, who put the two tlimes in his pocket, handed the brash-boy a nickel and walked in to dinner. .

Ac Astrologbt on fUnuHtm. The nativities of the Queen's chfldtwi all show some individuality nd character. The second son, Priaos Alfred, a he was formerly distinguished, va liorn at Windsor, Angnst1, 1844, .at 7 :50 a. m., with the $btth degree of Virgo ascending. The most notable position at his birth, was tha dose conjunction of the Sun and Mars in the Eign Leo. Ths denotes a great liability to fevers and violent aoouUtnts. Tha Prince of Wales, who with many faults is yet remarkable for bis bon-homie, and for the strong personal regard in which he is held by Ms -immediate friends and the peoplo ia his domestio establishments. The favorite epithet applied to the heir apparent is the word jovial, and the correspondents tell ns much of his affable Irobnobbing with actors, literary men and others. The Prince of Wales was born with Jupiter rising--hence jovial .Tory correct word. All those words, descriptive briefly, succinctly and graphically of character, are relics 'of the former general belief in astrology. From this doctrine we have oar word saturnine, mercurial, martial, etc it is curious, indeed, to what extent we may trace in this direction the old doctrine of tho planetary influence, even in the most of our proverbs and common plirases. "He may thank his stern," "his haiky stars," etc., aro examples in every-dar use, and -Hhakspeare is noiably fond, of snob, expressions. He Kpeaka of the "alarcrossed lortm," Borneo and Juliet; of the happy Christmas tuna, "when no planet strikes," of "tha moon coming nearer tha earth tlan ia bar wont and making men road," and in fifty -other places of the belief in ooenlt influence. The same is found, in th other old poets. Tha unfortunate Princess Alioa had an interesting horoscope. She waa born as Yeans was rising and pooseesed many animablo ancl attractive) qualities, and was one of the most popohur members of tha family:. Tha 8m waa in conjunction with Mercury and approximately in parallel with Jupiter. Her mental faculties wore vary bright, and it was said that wldle yet tit her teens she was one of the most hif (try accomplished young ladies of Great Britain, articnlarly fond cf books and art, and with a mind oil wider sphere in many ways than nonal. Tha San xras tho hyfeg, or life-giver, at her birth, and was afflicted by tho seaquidt.te aspect of Mars, the same evil planet alsc afflicting the Moon by square .5poc;. Tho Sun was in the sign Tauras, which rules the throat, and the nnforliunato lady contracted than terrible malady, diphtheria, and fell t, victim to it. She caught the inf. action by kitting one of her children who was suffering from the disease. Tliis diphtheria :ia a strictly martial disease and m the horoscopes of those who are stricken with it tho planet Mars will invariably be seen to occupy some malignant position at birth and also to exercise, an influence in the directions at the t ime when the malady appears. At those periods when ho is traversing the sisns Tarsus and Sorpio thousands of children may ba observed to be swept away by it. This -was remarkably exhibited ftt tho last time Mars made his long Stay in Tarsus. Baltimore News. Kits OK Dio Lewis accounts for the baldness of men in a simp'ie way thtir habit of keeping the head constantly covered. He says you never see a man lose a hair below whers the hat tonshes bis skull. It will take oil as clean as you can shave it down to exactly. that line, -but never a hair below, A he has been bald fifty years. The common black stiff hat, as impervious as sheetii'on, retains the neat and -.perspiration. Tha little hair glands, which bear the same relation to the oair that the seed does fc the plant above gionnd, Iweome weak from tho moisture and hoot, and finally become too weak to sustain the hair. It. falls' out and baldness exists; A man with a good head of hair needs very little protection when; the hair grows. "And yet" he says, "wo men wear immensely thick fur caps, and what amounts to sheet-iron hats, and do not dare stop out in a chilly atmosphere. moment lest we take cold. It is a silly, weak, and really a serious error. The Creator knew what he was about, when he covered a man's head With hair. It has a ve y important function in protecting the brain. It will nsver occurin any man who wears such a hat as X do a common white sik hat witli 500 holes in the top so that fhoro will ba more holes than hat. This costs nothing; the hitter will do it when you purchase your hat. If the nap be combed back the wrong way and after the holeii are made it may bo combed the right way no one will observe the peculiarity. The hat will wear puite as long the hatter says considerably longer because, it is dry instead of moist; in brief, there is not a single objection to it, while it- will certainly prevent baldness, keep tho top of the head cool, and prevent much headache."

Uncle Hen ford's BcBeetlnaSi "Natur'" said Uncle Hereford reflee'ively, squirting some tobacco juwe upon tho monain' paper that had just fallon from his lap. "Natur don't seem to have no consarE for her dumb orittars. She just chucks 'em loose aortar-like and lets 'cm rustle for themselves. Yon can't detect no iort o' jedgmtmt into a pelican now, as a kinder instance. You never s;en a pe lican with no sort of sense. They jest agitates 'emselves through the air and gits overbalanced by their fish tank, and lose all consherness of anything in the least, wise approachin' to common sense. A good, right-mind'3d pelican never need to gjo famished to roost, with catfish, as stupid as clams a swhxmin' easy liks into the full viow of riimniverous bads. 'But the chances aro ten to six that a pelican will take the hardest way to get a dinner, and then light emtio tho aScaggiost fish. There was Neff SimpBOn tother day fishin' into his dad's slough, when he nips up a nix-inch oatilsh. There was a pelican clutterin' around a watching of him, and no sooner does that fish flip into tho ait than that there pelican a gobbles of him, hock and all. And then the darned pesky )!col calonlates to fly away with Neffs aatfiah. I elon't believe as how Neff knows itow to f;tuff a skin, but the bird is a lyia out t here in the woodshed aa un boio sing a lookin' critter aa ever I se-s oubiideo' Both Bridges, 'vho stood for wstabto last year." As Uncle Herofeird picked up his paper he eyed that stain in sober silence for a moment, and then remarked sot to veco, "All dumb erfttoya . are not foolisheit."

Sbje Tal or Make a iuu The word tail or, in the plicme "Nino tailors make a man," had originally (says an exohange) no partoiriil reference at all. l?iom Queen Elisabeth who is said to have acknowledged an address from eighteen tailors by saying, "Thanks, gentlemen both" t Carlyle, the saying has Ikhhi mistaken. The orig-. inal word is "tatei'." The exaot spelling is not known, b it it is connected with the "tally" or "tale" of Eton's shep herd; or it may bu "tollers." In some parts of England on the Health, of parishioner, the church-bell tolled once, three times, etc., iiccording to the ago of the dead per som ; aay nee few an in a i ai i- e - . 1.-.

nine times for a man. So -BaaitaTU by

would say, when the bell

"Nine talera make a man,"