Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1879 — Page 4

ONE JUNE MORNING. I'm thinking now of atime, my friend— How many enmmera ago? In the mornings dewy prim’-, my friend, The June** young glow; That morn when I and ton girl that died, Happy-hearted, tender-eye-1, Bat aide by aide, aat aide by aide, And whispered low. Oh, thoae young June days! God never made aught so rare; Glamour of silvern haze, Fragrance in earth and air; Each bird a fountain of praise, Each flower a prayer. And those hearts of ours, those hearts of ours I They wer« gladder than birds, they were sweeter tuan flowers; God looked not down that summer day On aught so tender and pure as they. Otr he- work my darling bent, Lowly, lowly; Waited while the minutes went Slowly, slowly. Ah she knew I loved her well— Knew I had a tale to tell In her pinky ear. Why, ah why. are lovers shy, When maidens wait with downcast eye, and none is near? Ah, yes, there was not a thing but knew; Tne harebell tinkled its bell of blue, And looked away; But the saucy thrush on the bough that swung, Boldly ho stared, and archly sung, And babbled the tale with wanton tongue To every bird on the spray. At length they came, a word or two— Hi tuple words— Which none o’ei heard but a bird or two — Flowers and birds. Blowly my darling raised her head; Never a word the sweet lips said, But flower cheeks blossomed a riper red. And the lashes were bright and a-tremble with tears. As two young souls in a long kiss met— A kiss whose melody haunts me yet Through all the years. And thou, from his nest hard by, A lark upspruug. And quivered into the sky, Aud sung - and sung. Tho noisiest babbler held bia breath, And the wind and the trees stood still as death, To list to the rapture, deep and strong, Of that skylark's song. Ah me, that strain, that tranced strain! It shivered aud died and shrilled again, In yearning, and bliss, and exquisite pain; It pit rood my heart, it stung my brain, It waked the tears like summer rain, It made me Jong to die; Htr hand to the last held fond and fast, And my rapt face turned to the sky. I heard the lark sing yesterday. , From bis grassy nest hard by; He quivered away in tho morning gray, And lost himself in the sky. He sang once more that self-same air; But. an, for the rapture, the vast despair, The passionate pain I it had passed from there; His heart was sere and dry. He never will eing again, ah. no I As he sung in that summer of long ago. For the world grows old, grows old. my friend, And the Junes have turned so cold, my friend, Aud there lingers a smell of mold, my friend, And rotting leaves; And he thinks of those days of gold, my friend, Aud grieves, and grieves. Ah, never again will he sing such a strain Of passionate strength.and glow. As the stra n he sung when we both wore young— How many summers ago? As the stra n he sung in the blithe June-tide, When I and my darling sat side by side, I and the dear little heart that died— How m ny summers ago? Ah. flftj summers ago my friend, Fifty summers ago! —Harper's Hatar.

TAKEN AT HIS WORD.

A Pleasant Love Story. Nellie Palmer was lying on the lounge in her pretty bedroom, crying and looking very unhappy. And yet she bad been married only six months; aud to such a “nice, handsome man,” as all the young ladies declared, that surely she ought to have been happy with him. Aud so she bad been, until—until, to tell the truth, Mr. Bob Palmer, forgetting, or seeming to forget, that he was a married man, had recently taken to flirting with these very young ladies, at all the parties in Middletou, leaving his wife to take care of herself. Surely it was enough to make any six-months’ wife cry —especially one so sensitive as Nellie. Not that Mr. Robert Palmer loved his little wife a bit less than on the day of his marriage- neither that Nellie suspected him of it, or for a moment doubted his morals, any more than she did his constancy. But Mr. Palmer was a gay young man, aud loved to amuse himself aud to be amused. He liked the society of pretty and lively women, both married aud single; and, in a word, he liked to flirt, and saw no harm in it. So, while he hung over the young ladies’ chairs, laughing and paying gay compliments, or promenading with the married ladies, his wife would be looking over a photograph album, or conversing solemnly with some old gentleman, or noticing some shy and awkward child, while pretending to be unconscious of her husband’s proceedings. Not that she was compelled to enjoy herself in this solemn way—she, usually so bright, and pretty, and agreeable—but she had no heart for anything else now. Of late, all her liveliness and chattiness had left her, and she answered absently and smiled listlessly, and, if compelled to dance or sing, did so out of time and out of tune, to her husband’s great vexation. It is thus that many a young wife settles down into a dull and faded old woman, while her husband grows handsomer and heartier, and wonders what on earth could have so changed her. “Hallo I been crying again, I declare I ” exclaimed Mr.' Bob Palmer, suddenly ceasing his little whistle, as he entered the room, on returning from his office. “What’s the matter now, Nellie? Canary refused to sing, or Madame Viglini not put flowers enough in your bonnet?” “Oh, Bob! how can you?” sobbed Nellie, beginning afresh. “Look here, Ellen,” said her husband, sitting down on the lounge, and speak ing more seriously; “I don’t like this at all. I never come home that your eyes are not red and swollen with crying. What have you to cry about, I should like to know? It’s an insult to me to go sniveling about the house in this fashion, aud moping away in corners, looking sullen and miserable, as you did last night, at Macklin’s. Why, people will think me a perfect domestic tyrant!” “Ah, Bob, don’t speak so! I can’t help it, indeed. Ido feel so miserable. You make me so, Bob.” “I! Well, that is rich! Perhaps you will be good enough to let me know of what enormity I’ve been guilty, that has turned you into a modern Niobe?” “Nothing really wrong, dear; but, oh! if you knew how much a wife thinks of her husband’s love, and—” Here poor Nellie broke down again. Mr. Palmer’s eyes opened very wide. “Whew!” whistled he; “if this isn’t really absurd. So, she’s jealous! ” “Indeed, no, dear Bob! But—but” —she could hardly speak for the choking in her throat—“you can’t understand the pride a woman takes in having her husband treat her with affection and respect before every one, or how it humbles and mortifies her to be neglected by him, and have other women consider themselves her rivals —like Isabel Baden.” Mr. Bob Palmer laughed outright, and then he grew angry. “ You’re an absurd little fool, Nellie,” he said. “As if Isabel Baden were anything to me beyond a pleasant and agreeable young .woman to amuse one’s self with at a party. Nonsense! ” “She don’t think so,” said Nellie; “and—and the others don’t think so. They all think you are getting tired of your wife, and Isabel flatters herself that she has cut me out, and is trying to let people see it.” “ Fiddlesticks! ” said Bob, rising impatiently from the lounge. “ I’m astonished at you, Nellie, and had really given you credit for more sense as well as temper,” he added, severely. “I wish you’d amuse yourself in society as I do, instead of going moping about in this fashion. You can’t expect to have me tied to your apron-strings; and I’d much

rather see yon flirting a little yourself than skulking away in holes and corners, like a spider, watching your butterfly of a husband to see if you can’t detect him in doing wrong. You make me quite ashamed of you, I declare.” Mr. Palmer took his hat and walked out of the room with an air of mingled dignity and injured innocence.. His wife sat up, wiped away her tears, and mused awhile, with eyes flashing and cheeks flushed with wounded and indignant feeling. “ Yes,” she said to herself, “ since he has requested it, I will amuse myself ‘as he does,’and see how he likes it! Ashamed of me, is he ? And he did not' use to be so when I was gay and happy. Oh, Bob, if you only knew how I loved you! ” And once more, despite her resolutely closing her eyes and pressing her fingers upon them, the tears would come.

There was to be, that very evening, a party at Col. Johnston’s, and Nellie took particular pains in dressing herself for it. She had been, of late, rather careless on this point, and was now rewarded for her extra care by her husband’s glance of approval and his remark that the pink silk was becoming to her. In consequence, her eyes and cheeks were brighter, and her spirits more buoyant, as she entered Mrs. Johnston’s crowded drawing-rooms. Scarcely had they paid their respects to the hostess, when Mr. Palmer accosted, or, rather, was accosted, by Miss Baden, a brilliant, confident girl, who tried to ensnare him before his marriage; and, at the same moment, a gentleman addressed Mrs. Palmer. She answered mechanically, unable to withdraw her attention from her husband and his companion, until, seeing something in Miss Baden’s glance at herself which she did not like, her pride again awoke, and she turned, as with a sudden determination, to the gentlemaa at her side. He was a recent comer to the town—very pleasant and handsome—and Nellie Palmer forthwith began to try and make herself agreeable to him. He looked so pleased, and was himself so agreeable, that it soon cost her no effort to converse; and then her old lively spirits returned; and, to her surprise, she found that she was enjoying herself. Her husband didn’t much notice this, but Miss Baden did; and her flirtation with Mr. Palmer lost much of its charm, now that his wife did not appear mortified and jealous, aud that people couldn’t see that she was so. Wherefore Mies Baden grew indifferent, and Mr. Palmer bethought himself to look after his wife. Not finding her looking over the photograph albums, nor talking to deaf old Mr. Brown, neither in any of the “holesand corners” which she was wont of late to frequent, he became rather puzzled. “She’s got in the dumps again, I suppose,” was his thought, “ au 4 is trying to disguise it under pretense of being ill. Dare say I shall find her crying or faintiug away in the conservatory, with fans and smelling-bottles round her—or perhaps she’s gone home.” At that instant a little laugh at his elbow startled him, and, turning, he saw Nellie, bright and flushed, talking to a very handsome man, who appeared quite absorbed in her. Mr. Palmer stared a moment at the unconscious couple. “Why, the deuce! ” was his thought; “ what on earth can they have been talking about all this while?” Then suddenly meeting his wife’s eye, he smiled, and whispered, “ Enjoying yourself, Nell?” “Oh, yes, dear, delightfully I Don’t trouble yourself about me, pray.” He passed on, but didn’t go far, and, as he stood whispering soft nothings to sentimental Kate Marshall, his eyes occasionally wandered to his wife. How pretty she was looking and how gay she was, and how coquettishly she was exchanging light repartee with that flirting fellow, Tom Harrison. And all the while the handsome stranger never left her side. It was perfectly evident that he admired her. “If she were not a married woman he would certainly fall in love with her—she—my wife;” and he felt a little resentful of the almiration. Nellie Palmer had never sung more sweetly, or danced more gracefully than upon this evening. “Don’t youthink, Nell, you’ve danced enough for one night?” said her husband, toward the close of the evening; “for a married woman,” he added. “Perhaps so,” she answered, cheerfully; “but I’ve enjoyed myself so much! Really, I almost forgot that I was a married woman, and felt like a girl again.” “And behaved like one,” he said, rather coolly. “ Who is that fellow that has been in attendance upon you all the evening?” he inquired, as they walked down stairs. “That remarkably handsome man, with the expressive dark eyes, do you mean ? ”

“ I never noticed his eyes or that he was at all handsome,” he answered, stiffly. “ Oh, I thought you meant Capt. Lovell, of the artillery. Ahl here he is—just one moment, dear—l quite forgot—” And Nellie spoke a few words to the Captain in passing, of which her husband could distinguish only something about “ that book.” “ Upon my word,” he said sarcastically, “you appear very intimate already.” “ Because, love, we’ve discovered that we’re congenial spirits. We like the same things—books, music, scenery; indeed, everything—and have the same opinions on most subjects. You know how pleasant it is to meet with one who can comprehend you—not your outer self merely, but with a sort of soul sympathy.” “ Soul fiddlesticks! ” “ You never did have much sentiment, Bob,” sighed Nellie, in an injured tone. “ Sentiment be hanged 1 Come, Nellie, be quick with your wrappings. It has been a stupid evening, and I shall be glad to get home and to bed.” When Robert Palmer came home next day, he found his wife, not crying, as before, in her bedroom, but in the parlor, practicing a new song. “ Capt. Lovtll called this morning,” she said, “ and I have promised to sing this for him at Mrs. Campbell’s.” “Ah 1 ” he answered, with an expression of indifference; and, ns his wife again struck up with the first few notes, he muttered to himself, “ Confound Capt. Lovell 1” At Mrs. Campbell’s, Capt. Lovell was again in attendance upon pretty Mrs. Palmer; and then other gentlemen discovered her attractions, her piquancy, and coquettishness, and flirtableness; and so, in a very few weeks, Mrs. Palmer was a belle. She did not seem in the least to care who her husband was attending upon, and, indeed, he could rarely get a word with her at all, when at the gay assemblies which they constantly frequented. He sometimes gave her a hint that she was “ no longer a -girl/’ and that he was her husband; but she only laughed, and said there was no harm done, and that she was enjoying herself so delightfully, and felt herself more a belle than even when a girl—which was true, because she had not flirted then, being absorbed, heart and soul, in Bob Palmer. But now it was Capt. Lovell who appeared chiefly to occupy her thoughts, as well as a good part of her time. She sung and danced with him j she read the books

he sent; and so frequent were his visits, so constant his attentions, that at last Mr. Robert Palmer’s wrath burst forth. “Ellen,” he said, as he one day closed the door on the departing Captain, “I really cannot permit this to go on any longer. Your conduct to me is moat unexpected—most astounding. You are by far too intimate with this fellow, Lovell. He is constantly in my house; and last evening he scarcely left your side, while you stood, for two hours, the center of a group of chattering, grinning popinjays, like himself.” “Why, Bob, you yourself blamed me for playing wall-flower and ‘ spider/ and said you were ashamed of me.” “I am much more ashamed of you now,” he retorted, severely. “ Now, dear, that is quite unreasonable of you. Didn’t you tell me that I would please you by enjoying myself and flirting a little? You know you did,” added Nellie, reproachfully; “ and now that I am obeying you, you get jealous.” “ Jealous? not 11 But lam offended and insulted —yes, and disgusted as well. If only you could hear the remarks about yourself and that Lovell ” “ Similar to those that I heard in regard to you and Miss Baden, I presume? ” said his wife. “What is Miss Baden to me?” he demanded, angrily. “And what is Capt. Lovell to me?” “You encourage him, madam. You flirt with him.” “As you do with Isabel Baden.” “A man may do what is not permissible in a woman.” “ Ah, that is it! ” said Nellie, with her old sigh. “ You men- may neglect a wife—may wear out her heart and life with anguish—may expose her to the pity or ridicule of all her acquaintance by showing devotion to another; and she, poor slave, must not presume to turn, as may even the trampled worm, but must bear all in meek tilenoe, never even imploring mercy, lest she offend her lord. But I have had enough of this, Bob; and now as you do to me will Ido to you. If you go on flirting, so will I. I know you don’t care a bit more for Isabel Baden than I do for Capt. Lovell; but I will not be neglected and humbled in the sight of the whole world. I am not a slave, but a wife, and demand the honor due to me I” Her mood was a new one to her husband. She sat erect and proud, looking him steadily in the face, with bright, clear eyes, in whose depths he could still read great tenderness; and he at once comprehended the whole matter. He looked at her a moment, as steadily as she at him, and then ho rose and took a seat by her side. “And you really care nothing for this Lovell, Nellie?” “No more than I ought to do for my cousin Laura’s affianced husband,” she replied. “Affianced ? ” “These six months; before I met him; and I would have told you of it, but ” She stopped, and looked half archly in his face. He understood her, and, taking her in his arms, kissed her tenderly. “ Oh, Bob! how could you ever have doubted ne ? ” “ I will do so no more, love! ” “ Never flirt any more ? ” “Never!” •

SOME SNAKE STORIES.

Georgia’s Rattlesnakes.—lrwin is the champion rattlesnake county of Georgia, so far. A few days ago, one of the venomous reptiles was killed there, which was six feet long, eighteen inches around the body, and sported fourteen rattles.— Savannah (Ga.) News. A Big Horned Snake.—On Thursday last, Messrs. George Johnson and Davie Wills killed, on the former’s farm in Hall county, Ga., a huge horned snake which measured eight feet in length. Its horn, which is on the end of the tail, and used as a weapon of defense, was over two inches in length.— Gainesville (Ga.) Eagle. That Champlain Serpent.—A Lake Champlain Frenchman gives the following solution of the recently reported water monster: “I see dat on de paper ’bout a sarpint, and I knows somebody bin fooled. I see dat same ting good many time. Sometime he be crooked tree, old log. Sometime I see big sturgeon jump, and some loon he try to fly, he make one big splash and dive. Big snake all one big lie. I live more dan forty year on de island. I see ali dose tings. De man who start dat story he drink too much. He like see snake in his boot next time.”— Springfield Republican. Snake, or Calf?—A cow belonging to John H. MeCroskey, of Tipton,lowa, recently brought into the world a calf with what was called a snake head. The body and legs were regularly formed, but the neck was perfectly round and fully as large as the head. The nose and upper jaw were split clear through, and the tongue, which was sharp like that of a snake, protruded up through the opening. The eyes, large and flat, looked straight up, while the top of the head and nose were nearly on a line. The under jaw was apparently without jowles and was little more than a continuation of the neck. It was unable to stand, but would get upon its knees and wave its head and dart its tongue out like a snake. It also attempted to crawl, and, when lying down, showed many characteristics of the serpent.

A Sea Serpent as Bio as a Junk’s Mast. -The Tokio (Japan) Tinies says: “Capt. Davidson, Master of the Mitsu Bishi steamship Kiusbiu Maru, gives the following relation of what passed before his eyes on his voyage from Riu Kiu to Kobe in the early part of the month. The statement is duly signed by himself, and countersigned by Mr. John McKechnie, the chief officer, and its authenticity appears to be beyond question: ‘ Saturday, April 5, at 11:15 a. m., Cape Satano distant about nine miles, the chief officer and myself observed a whale jump clear out of the sea, about a quarter of a mile away. Shortly after it leaped oat again, when I saw there was something attached to it. Got glasses, and on the next leap distinctly saw something holding on to the belly of the whale. The latter gave one more spring clear of the water, and myself and the chief officer then observed what appeared to be a large creature of the snake species rear itself about thirty feet out of the water. It appeared to be about the thickness of a junk’s mast, and, after standing for about ten seconds in an erect position it descended into the water, the upper end going first. With my glass 1 made out the color of the beast to resemble that of a pilot-fish.’ ” Reorganization of the Russian Army. An imperial ukase just issued from St. Petersburg orders that the Russian army shall undergo an important transformation. There are in Russia 140 regiments of infantry, each consisting of three battalions, subdivided into five companies. Now each regiment is to consist of fovr battalions, subdivided into four companies. This measure increases the Russian army by 20,000 men in time of peace, and by 130,000 men in time of war. The reorganization of the army is to begin at once, and must be pushed on rapidly.— Paris Soleil. Amnesty has been granted to 2,771 French Communists.

FARM NOTES.

Bints for the Work of the Month. [From the American Agriculturist.] A horse fork should be in every bam. In the hurry of haying, the cost of a horse hay fork may easily be saved in one week, by rapid unloading. Roots.—Early blood beets, and sugar beets may be sown early this month, Mangels will now require clean culture, and vigorous thinning. Rutabagas may be sown from the Ist to the 25th of this month, upon land that has not been prepared in time for earlier crops. Frequent cultivation is essential to successful com growing. The cultivator should be kept going this month through the com and the root crops, about once a week. It matters not that there are no weeds in sight, it is not alone to kill weeds that we cultivate and hoe, but to loosen the soil, and by that means to stimulate the growth. Summer Fertilizing.—The experience of the past few years has often shown it to be useful to give a light dressing of fertilizer to the com, just before the last cultivation. This help? the earing, and renders many ears productive that would otherwise be abortive. The fertilizer should be worked in with the cultivator. A mixture of poultry manure, ashes, and plaster will be useful; or the prepared artificial corn fertilizer may be used in place of this. Fodder Crops.—The rye ground cleared by this time may be immediately prepared and planted with fodder corn or oats, the latter to be followed with late turnips as the oats are cut for feeding; or Hungarian grass may follow the rye, and be cut off in time for sowing rye again next fall. A good plot es cabbages will be found useful for fall and early winter feeding of cows, and, if plants have been provided for, they may be set out on the rye ground, or some other piece of rich, moist soil.

Orchard Grass.—ln a late season like the present, early grass far pasture or for cutting is unusually valuable. The great difference between grasses in earliness is strikingly seen when one has a field of orchard grass adjoining one of timothy. Orchard grass is too much neglected, and those who have never grpwn it may try it with great advantage. . That it is the earliest to start in the spring, comes into blossom with red clover, and both are ready for autting in the best condition at the same time, are by no means all its valuable points. Curing hay in the cock is preferable to sun drying. The sweating and fermentation improve, and prevent heating in the mow or stack. The writer prefers to put up hay, after the dew is off’, in moderately large cocks—four feet wide and high—after it has lain spread in the sun for one full day. It may thus stay safely for a week, it necessary, and a hay cap will protect it from a twenty-four hours’ rain. The day it is drawn in, a man should start early and throw open the cocks, to get a final airing for two or three hours before it is taken up. Corn.—Late plantings of corn may be made up to the middle of the month. Some early sorts, and some new varieties which claim to be extra early, may be tried as an experiment. It will pay very well to make late plantings up to July for fodder, planting in drills three feet apart, with about twelve grains to the foot in the drill. The largest kinds of sweet com are the best for fodder. Triumph, Marblehead Mammoth, and Stowell’s Evergreen are suitable for this purpose. The common opinion, that sweet corn is better for fodder than field corn, is well founded; but there is some difficulty in curing the stalks, which is easily surmounted, however, and which will be noted in season.

Mowing machines are now indispensable. The scythe may be used for cutting about fence corners when the wasteful zigzag rail fence is used; but so far as other uses go it maybe hung up out of the way. In choosing a mower, the chief points to consider are, lightness of draught, strength and simplicity of construction. Witn these, one has economy in use, durability, «convenience of handling, and ease in keeping in order —points of the utmost importance. There is one other point worth noting, which is safety in case of a runaway, or when mqwing a rough field, and there is danger that the driver may be thrown upon the cutting bar. The cutting bar should always be well in.advance of the driver, but never directly ahead of him. Hay.—Recent investigations threaten to upset some popular notions. It has long been supposed that early-cut hay is more valuable than that cut later. If the judgment of the cows were a test, there would be no question about it. They will leave the riper hay, and even refuse to eat it at all, if they can procure that which has been cut earlier. In the writer’s dairy, the milk falls off more than 10 per cent, when the young hay is changed for that cut two weeks later. This is sufficient to support the general opinion in spite of chemical analyses, which go to show that ripe hay is heavier, more bulky, and contains more nutritious substance, than that cut earlier. Perhaps the operations of the chemist can extract more nutriment from ripe hay than can the cow’s stomach; but, as young hay feeds more profitably, it seems best to cut early.

HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY.

Use kerosene to clean unvarnished furniture. Try benzine for removing paint spat ters on window glass. If cheese gets too dry to eat, grate it, pour on brandy, and pack into jars. Blankets, and, indeed, flannel of any kind, should not be washed with soap which has resin in it. Cements for joining metals or glass and wood are, made as follows: Melt resin, and stir in calcined plaster until reduced to a paste, to which add boiled oil a sufficient quantity to bring it to the consistency of honey; apply warm. Or, melt resin, 180 parts, and stir in burnt umber thirty parts, calcined plaster fifteen and boiled oil eight parts. Or, dissolve glue in boiling water to the consistence of cabinet-maker’s glue; then stir in sufficient wood ashes to produce a varnish-like mixture. While hot the surfaces to be united must be covered with this compound and pressed together. Breakfast Hash.—Chop into hash some cold meat (corned beef, beef, or mutton, or fowl); season with salt and a little pepper, also a little butter if liked; boil enough potatoes to make, when mashed, twice the quantity of the hash; mash the potatoes to a cream, adding before the mashing a table-spoonful of butter and a teaspoonful of salt; fill an earthen baking dish with the potatoes, rounding it; handsomely in the center of the potatoes make a deep hole large enough to contain the hash; round it all nicely and bake a light brown; garnish with celery tops. Pouch for Clothes Pins.—One of the latest conveniences which I have noticed for housekeepers is the apron for clothes pins. It is a trivial affair, but, nevertheless, quite useful. It takes nearly one yard of calico to make it, the apron or pouch being fifteen inches in length and nearly as wide. Round the corners at the bottom. At the top, on each side of the front, two inches from the middle, cut out a strip nine inches long and one and one-half inch wide for pockets. Bind them with lighter-

colored fabric than the apron, that they may be readily seen.• Gather into a band and button at the back, or, if preferred, put on strings and tie. Washing with «Hard Water.—To those who have to use hard water for washing this method may be recommended : Procure a large barrel, set it close to the well, and let some one who is able, if you are not, fill it with water; then put in two panfuls of wood ashes, skim off the coals, let it stand two days at least; wash your #hite clothes as for boiling, soap them and lay them in a clean tub; have sufficient broken water boiling hot to cover them, pour it on them, and cover immediately with one or two thick woolen blankets, and let them stand until the next morning; then wring them out, and you have a splendid suds with which to wash your colored clothes. Suds and rinse your clothes, also, with the broken water, and your clothes will look as nice and white as if you had used rain-water. This a good way for women who are not strong, as they are not so liable to overwork as if they did it all in one day. Doing Up Lace Curtains.—Put the curtains to soak in lukewarm water, turning over and clapping between your hands two or three times during the twenty-four hours that they remain in the water. Then if you have a wringer, fold smoothly and put through loosely; repeat for two or three days if very much soiled and smoked. The last time they are put to soak, add to every gallon of water two ounces of pulverized borax, after which put them on to boil in this water. When scalded a short time rinse thoroughly, and make a thin starch, with a trifle of blueing in. Now pin or sew to your carpets 'some sheeis, which done, wring out the curtains, and pin right side down upon the sheets, putting the pins in every two inches. Stretch' them evenly, but take care not to draw out of shape. Let them be until dry, when go over with a hot flat-iron, keeping a tbin-cioth or paper between the iron and curtain; then remove the pins, and your curtains ire ready to hang.

ODD HAPPENINGS.

A Herkimer county (N. Y.) man, who has lost several thousand dollars by indorsing the paper of friends, recently went before a magistrate and solemnly swore that in future he would indorse no paper denoting a pecuniary value. He carries a copy of the affidavit with him, and, when approached on the subject of indorsing, he wihps it out and is free. A man bought some of the $lO Government certificates at the Cincinnati office, and missed one after retiring from the window. He could find it nowhere. “ Give me a dollar and I’ll get it for you,” said a boy. The offer was accepted. The boy yanked another urchin out of the line, and choked him until he opened his mouth, from which the hidden certificate dropped out. Charles Schumeck has been for several years a grain speculator at Tell City, Ind. At first his ventures were unfortunate, but some months ago his luck changed and his investments realized a big bonanza for him. His good luck, however, preyed upon his mind. He went to Louisville last week and began to buy everything he saw, from SI,OOO-horses to baby carriages. His brother caught up with him, and he has been sent to the Indianapolis Insane Asylum. A jeweler in South Royalston, Vt., spied on the finger of a highly-esteemed young lady, who was shopping' in his store, a ring that bad been stolen from his stock. She told him, in response to his inquiries, that it had been given to her by a boyish suitor. This led to the discovery of a society of thieves, sons of respectable parents. The boys had secret signs, passwords and oaths, after the manner of a body they had read about in a dime novel, and had committed several burglaries. Two oddities recently died at Que bee. One was a man' who went to bed forty years ago because of a disappointment in love, and did not leave it until he was carried to his grave. The other resolutely refused to speak to a living soul for even a longer period, invariably expressing his opinion by means of writing on a slate or table that he kept conveniently near. Like the other, he owed his idiosyncrasy to bad treatment from the female sex, and both led peaceful, if uneventful, lives after adopting these peculiar means of revenue. According to the Virginia City (Nev.) Enterprise, a freight train was stopped between Reno and Wadsworth the other day by an army of crickets, which covered the track for three or four miles. When the engine struck them it slid along a few feet and stopped, the dead bodies of the insects having the same effect upon the track as though it had been greased. These crickets are jet black, two inches in length, and fat. They do no harm to the crops. It is the opinion of the railroad men that the crickets took to the track because the rails kept their heat long after sundown, when the ground elsewhere was cold. Between Leesbury and Sumterville, Fla, is a rich' strip of hummock land, about four miles long and a half a mile wide. In this strip is a large basin which suddenly went dry a few days ago, leaving myriads of fish in the bottom. Many loads of fish were hauled away, but the remainder being exposed to the sun there arose a stench that was offensive for miles around. It is supposed, by the Leesbury Advance, that a subterranean river flows under the strip of hummock, and that the lack of rain caused the basin to lose its contents. A company of mourners who had assembled at a house in Little Valley, N. Y., to attend the funeral of a child, were summarily dismissed by lightning. The electric fluid passed down the chimney and cut the stovepipe in two. One streak of lightning struck Mrs. J. B. Munger, tearing off both shoes, burning a hole in the heel of one stocking, blistering a place oh the foot the size of a silver half-dollar, and cutting the flesh on the bottom of the other very badly. She was rendered insensible by the shock, and was supposed for a time to be dead, but was not dangerously hurt. Another ladyjg dress was somewhat torn. Another streak of lightning flashed into the room where lay the body of the child. The floor in the center of the room was torn up, and two dogs in the cellar killed outright.

The Stomach Cannot Be Freighted With greater trash than a violent drastic purgative. True, such a medicine relieves constipation for the time, but at the expense of great injuiy to the intestinal canal, which it both inflames and weakens, thus unfitting it for the performance of its proper functions. Widely different is the action of Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, a tonic aperient, which produces effects prompt, indeed, but never violent and convulsing. The purity of its botanic ingredients, its unobjectionable flavor, its genial influence upon the mind, and the thoroughness of its remedial action in cases of constipation, liver complaint and dyspepsia, combine to render it a most desirable family specific. It increases both physical vigor and substance, traaquilizes and invigorates the nervous system, and gives an unwonted relish for the food. A wine-glass three times daily is about the average dose. A note found on the body of a suicide at Worcester, Mass., contained the following: “Don’t think I am insane or anything of the kind. Simply, I can find no work at anything, from shoveling to steam-engineering. I have tried over twenty cities and farmers without number, and rather than beg or steal do this act. My reputation is unsoiled.”

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