Pike County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 28, Petersburg, Pike County, 20 November 1884 — Page 4

THE WEDDING FEE. .! fifty years ago, . > trees were s hite with snow _ blossoms, met the air .s spellbound with the ;-erfuinc rare, opon 1 fRr™ horse, large and lean. And lazy with its double load, A sun-browned youth and amid were seen. Jogging along the winding road. Blue were the arches of the skies, But bluer were the maiden's eyes; The dewdrops ou the grass wore bright, But brighter was the loving light That sparkled ’ncath the long-fringed ltd Where those bright eyes of blue wore hid. A-down the shoulders brown and bare Boiled the soft waves of golden hair. Where, almost strangled with the spray. The sun a willing sutferer lay. It was the Mrest sight, 1 ween, a hat I ho young man had ever seen. And, with Iris features all a-glow. The happy fellow told her so. And she. without the least surprise, looked on him with those heavenly eyes, Saw, underneath that shade of tan. The handsome features of a man. And, with a joy but rarely known. She drew that dear face to her own, And, by her bridal bonnet hid— 1 can not tell you what she didl So on they rode, nntil, among The new-born leaves with dewdrops hung, The parsonage, arrayed in white, Peers out—a more than welcome sight. Then, with a cloud upon his face— ‘‘What shall we do,” he turned to sa*. Should he refuse to take her pay From what is in the pillow case?* And, glancing down, his eves surveyed The pillow case before him laid. Whose contents, reaching to its hem, Might purchase endless joys for them. The maiden answered: “bet us wait : To borrow trouble where's the need?" Tbnn at the parson's squeaking gate Halted the more than willing steed. ®J>wfi from the horse the bridegroom sprung: The latchless gate behind him swung; The knocker or that startled door, struck as it never was before. Brought Jhe whole household, pale will And there, with blushes on his check, — eo bashful he could hardlv speak. The parson met their wondering sight. The groom goes in, his errand tells, And as the parson nods, he leans Far o’er the window sill, and yells— Come in! He says he'll take the beans !’* Oh, how she jumpedl With one glad bound She and the bean-bag reached the ground; Tlifin with ..ook -t: t... j__ uvnu-ttOK lltvuini lilt; I: I All Then clasping with each dimpled arm The precious product of the farm, feme bears it through the open door, . '-- SUV V’l'Ctt UUI And down upon the parlor floor Bumps the best beaus vines ever boro. Ah, happy were their songs that day. When, man and wife, they rode away! But happier this chorus, still, T’Sl'wd through the woodland scenes “God bless the priest of Whltinsvillo! God bless the man who took the beans!” —R. M. Streeter, in Boston Transcript.

BRAKES AND WHITE YI’LETS One afternoon Marm a Lawson had company to tea. There were three women near her own age—she was seventy. Her withered, aged figure sat «p pert and erect at the head of the table, pouring the tea from the shiny britannia tea-pot into the best pink china cnj»s. She never leaned back in her chair: there seemed to be a kind of springy stiffness about her spine which forbade it. Her black cashmere gown fitted her long shninken form as tightly and trimly as a girl’s; she had on her (best cap, made of pretty old figured lace, with bows of purple satin ribbon. She wore her iron-gray hair in two little , j thin dancing curls, one on each side of her narrow sallow face, just forward of her cap. In some other positions she would have been called a stately old lady; she . could be now with perfect truth. Her old character had in itself a true New World stateliness and aristocratic feeling wholly independent of birth or riches or education. Marm Lawson was not a duchess; but she was Marm Lawson. The “Marm” itself was a title. In a more ambitious and cultured town than this it would have been Madam; but the Marm proved just as . well her simple«peighbor's recognition of her latent dignity of character. Her three guests sat each at one of the three remaining sides of the square table. Levina sat meeklv, half transfixed apparently, at a corner. She was a slender young girl, Marm Lawson's granddaughter, her son Charles’ daughter. She had lived with her grandmother ever since the death of her mother, some ten years back. Her fair colorless hair was combed smoothly straight back from her pale high forehead; her serious blue eyes looked solemnly out from beneath it. She ate her warm biscuit and damson sauce decorously, never speaking a word in the presence of her elders; she had been taught old-fashioned manners, and they clang to her* though she was important fifteen. Conversation did not flow very glibly amongst the guests, though they were ordinarily garrulous old souls enough. When they spoke, it was precisely, and not like themselves. Ever)- nerve in them was branched up to meet the occasion with propriety. This state afternbon, Marm Lawson’s china tea-cups, and company damson sauce and poundcakes, coming right in the midst of their common every-day, were embarrassing and awe-inspiring. They were like chib dren; they regarded Mann Lawson, as children will a suddenly elevated playmate, with a feeling of strangeness and respect. The one who felt this the least was a pretty, silly old woman, with a front piece of reddish-brown hair. She enmped it every night. Here checks . were as fair and pink as a young girl’s, her china blue eyes as bright. She ate her supper with a relish, and now apd then eyed Marm Lawson with a pleased Consciousness of her own pinky old cheeks. “How awful yeller she is!” she thought. But there was never any evidence of the thought in her placid blue eyes, nor about her tiny thin mouth, into which she was stuffing great pieces of cake like a greedy baby! The one next her, who looked younger than she was, from being fleshy, and so having no deep wrinkles, was a widow, who lived with her married daughter; the fair old woman was a widow, too, and so was Marm Lawson; but the fourth had an old husband living. He was a deacon of the orthodox cknrch. He had been asked to tea, but had been too busy planting to come. “I’m dretful sorry the deacon couldn’t come,” Marm Lawson had said, when she was seating her guests at the table. The pink old lady mentally resolved that she wouldn’t have sat at a corner if he had; she was jealous, and always on the lookout for slights, and careful of her own interests. She had fixed on the largest piece of cake ih the plate before it was passed; then she took it, defiantly. After tea, when they all sat in the north room with their knitting again, they felt more at ease, and their tongues moved faster. Marm Lawson had opened the north room to-day. The $ south, on the opposite* side of the entry, was her usual sitting-room. The north one was shut up except on occa

810 nc. The china-closet, where she kept her best china, was in there, the best haircloth rocking-chairs, and Mrs. Hemam and Mrs. Sigourney in red and gold on iiiahognny work-table. Everything— the hair-cloth furniture, the books, the beaded lamp-mat—had a peculiar, north room smell, not disagreeable, but characteristic, as- much the room’s own odor as a flower’s. It clung to the things when long removed from it, too. Levina, years afterward, and far away, putting b»r face down to the red and ^4 Hemans book, could smell the the old ladies speaking ' times as she went

interest in ■ unlawful ettriosity. She was a quietly strong-minded, conscientious vpung girl; bnt she was too de licate. That was what her elders were talking about. buried a good many children USE her own, years ago. There had been two young daughters about Levina's age. "I thought so, too,” agreed the deacon’s Wife. *‘I couldn’t keep my eye off her when she was havin’ tea. She made me think a sight of your Jenny, Mis’ Potter.” Maim Lawson sat up straighter and knitted firmly. “I don!t see any reason why Iievuiy ain't well. She allcrs looks pale; id’s liiir natural color.” But poor Marm Lawson had to succumb to it. if she would not; own it. Six months later she was living alone in the beloved old house, which sat closely down on the ground, with no foundation stones showing, and h.-vl, indeed, its great blotch of mildew ever present on its while-painted front. The grass in the little front yard was always rank and short, and a lighter green than elsewhere; a thick row of trees stood just outside it, along the sidewalk. “Of course it’s damp, mother,” Charles Lawson had said, looking in dismay at his fading daughter, whom he had come to see from life home in Lincoln, a town liftv miles distant; and he took her away with him on the next train in spite of all his mother’s objections. lie had a second wiife now, a good woman, so Levina would be well eared for, , and have a home. He urged his mother very strongly to sell the house and go to live with him; but she scorned the idea. Give jjp her home! she said; she’d like to set: herself; she knew all about old women livin’ with their sons’ wives. No: she’d lived fifty years in the old place, if it was damp, an’ she guessed; she could stan’ it a while longer. Thai' wa’nt no

□ecu oi jjcviny s goin . She kept up a stem, indignant front till the couch containing Levina and her father had rumbled out of sight; then she went back into the house, into her south room, and sat down and cried. “Charles mteht hev let me keep her; she wa’n’t, siek much; she’d been pickin’ up an’ ealin’ a good deal more lately; she'd get well here jest as well as anywhar. Charles might hev let me keep her. He’s got a wife now. I’ll warrant she don’t understand nothing ’bout nursin’. Poor lonesome old Woman I be! Oh dear! oh dear!’’ The poor old woman did have a hard, solitary life through the next winter. Charles was a good son, and iit troubled him; he wrote to her again and again, begging her to come to him. His wife wrote, and Levina, who was mending, wrote little loving, precise letters. But the old lady stayed resolutely where she was. She wouldn’t leave her home— no, not for a short visit. She knew all about that; the house would- be sold afore she knew it, if she left it, if ’twa’n’t fnrmor’n a week, an’ then she wouldn’t hev any home. Early in spring, however, her resolution seemed to give way. The longing to see her grand-daughter grew stronger and stronger. Jusgbeford the ferns and white violets came up airound the house she wrote to her son, and told him she would come an’ stay jest one week, an’ not any more; they needn’t tease her to. The morning she started Mrs. Potter and her daughter came in to help her oft'. They lived opposite, in a house a little back from the road, on a hill. She had to ride ten miles in a stage-coach to a little isolated station to fake the cars. When she got into the coach there was a queer expression on her face. Mrs. Potter's daughter, Mrs, Cartwright, noticed it, and spoke about it to her mother. “Marm Lawson looked sort of funny to me When she went off,” she told her mother.

“bhe felt awfully ’bout leavin’ the place.” “ Twa’n’t that. She had a look as if she was makin’ up her mind to something.” The poor old woman was making up her mind all that ten-mile drive, between the budding willows and maples,to Cold Brook. She was torn betwixt two loves and two longings for her dear Levina, and her dear old home, with its setting of green brakes and white violets. She was the only passenger. Sitting up • straight in the lumbering coach, clutching her valise and Jier bandbox, she argued with herself: “Here’s Leviny, poor child, expectin’ to see grandma—wonder if she's growcd any? An’ here’s the old place—seems as ef ’twas tearin’ of me in two to leave it. Oh, dear! 1 know 1 sha’m’t sleep a wink at Charley’s, nor eat a morsel; I never could eat strange cookin’. But, my sakes, seems to me I don’t keer, ef 1 kin only see Leviny, dear child. S’pose the house should ketch tire while I was gone? Oh, dear!” Her mind was not made up when she arrived at Cold Brook, where she was to take the cars. The train was late. She sat down in the little station, and watched the coach roll off, all of a tremble. Should she go or stay? The station was nothing more than a long bench with a roof over it as a shelter from the rain. One side w:is entirely open. She was all alone there. In two or three minutes she heard the far-off whistle of the train. Should she go or stay? Oh, Levina! Oh, the old house! Even while she was asking herself she was dragging her little trunk around to the rear of the station. Then she carried her valise and bandbox round, and crouched down there with them, a* wretched, determined, guilty little old lady. She had decided: the honse had triumphed over Levina The lirain came nearer and nearer, the engine-bell ringing. It gave a half halt at the little station; then, as there was no passengers in sight, went on. Days passed without any pjWngers at this little out-of-the-way place's When the train' metimes. gone the old lady dragged her baggage round to the front of the station again and sat down. She hoped vaguelythat a coach would come before long/and takfe her home; but she knew nothmg about it There she sat, honr after hour; freight trains thundered past and one or. two passenger trains; none of them stop]>ed. She could see people looking curiously at her sitting there and then they were gone. She had' some gingerbread and cheese in her valise and she took them out and ate them. It grew dusky and no coach had come; she begem to realize that none would come that, night. Harm Lawson had a great deal of spirit. When she understood that __ she would either have to remain where: she was during the night or strike oil: into the woods until she came to the road and a house, she faced the situation bravely. She did not think of the latter alternative for a minute. She wouldl not have left her trunk unguarded theie for anything. She was always accustomed to retire early. She opened ,her valise, took ont her Bible and read a chapter; then she went down on her knees beside the rough liench and said her prayers. Then she made up her bed on the bench with her shawl and cloak, and a folded dress for a pillow, and lay quietly down. She looked across and saw the railroad track in the dusk and the fringe of low woods on the other side. “It’s a queer place to go to sleep in,” said she; “but I s’pose His overrulin’ providence is jest as strong here as anyivhar. I only hope I ain’t cpmmitted a sin agin Him in not goin’ to see Loriiiy* a f 'the soft spring twilight deepened; ooine put faintly the

__B_ la the morning. found her seated there, erect and pen as ever, Waiting for him. He eyed her curiously; she was a strung ;r to him] but he had not a suspicion that she had stayed In the station all r ight. He thought she had been brought early that morning; from one of the neighboring farms to take the stage. Marm Lawson got home about noon She went into her own house dsfiautly, She almost felt as if she had no right there. The neighbors, who saw her come, come running in, wild w ith curios* ity. Alii she would say was that she had made up her mind not to go a<iy further when she had got to Cold Brook, and she s’posed she had a perfect right to. She could not help owning thrjt she had stayed all night there—thry knew when the stages ran. She met their consternation on this point with the same severe self-possession, however. It was a strong proof of Harm Lawson’s obstinate force of character that she went erectly through this without the slightest abatement of her dignity or self-eontidence. She did not falter at all even when hei son Charles came a few days later. Ho was more severe with her 'for liter folly and imprudence than he had rrei* beett in his life. If she Cared more for that damp, musty old place than she1 did for Levina or himself, or her own life, she had better say so, and done with it. She ©veil him with stern indignation “ Charles,” said she, “your mother has got all her faculties yet, an’ she knows what’s l»est for her a leetle betl er’n you kin tell her. ’Tain’t for you to dictate, yeti awhile.”

l*»*» IU Oj'IIV V»l UH UUUAUVT7f otic noo wretched after her son had gone away. Even the meadow of white viclets and the brakes could not console h;r. She hungered pitifully after Levina. Still, she could not make up her mind to plainer! bitterly because they would not let her granddaughter come back; she •‘knowsd” it wouldn’t hurt her, she said. It wa’n’t any damper here than anywhere else; she hadn't seen a speck of mold on her bread all summer. Without; any doubt her constant struggle with herself wore on her. Being away from what she loved was the very bitterness of death to this sfcrongaffeetioned old woman; and when the being away was voluntary, and something she had to blame herself for.it was bitterness on bitterness. Toward the last of August she was taken ill-^qoite alarmingly s;o — and they sent for her son. He came, and brought Levina, who would not be left behind. When the coach stopped, Marm Lawson. who was perfectly conscious all the while, heard it. Then she heard Levina's voice. “Who’s that?” she said, with a startled look, to Mrs. Cartwright, who was taking care of her. “ ’Taim’t Leviny?” In another minute Levina was in the room. “Oh, dear grandma!” Her (grandmother gave one hungry look at her; then she turned heir face on the pillo w. “Now, Levina Lawson, you ain’t goin’ to stay in this damp house one minute, an’ git to conghiin’ agin. You kin go right over to Mis’ Cartwright’si, on the hill, an’ stay to-night, an’ to-morrow morain’ you take the stage ai’ go home. I won’t hev you here. You’ve jest got a leetle better. Go right away! Levina Lawson, why don’t you mind?' Her ip-andmother sat straight up in bed with a ghastly expression of anger. The poor little girl ran out of the room then, sobbing. She staid in the house, but they had to hide her being there from her grandmother. All that night and the next day she kept listening suspiciously. “Charles,” she would say, “yon wouldn't keep Leviny here when you know it 's as much as her life’s worth, I know; but I keep thinkin’ I hear her.” Toward night she grew worse; indeed, she died about one in the morning. A little before, she stretched out a withered hand and beckoned her son up to her. “Charles,” whispered she, huskily, “I want—to tell you—somethin’. I’ve made up my mind to—sell the place, an’ —go to Jive with you an’ Leviny—only —I want you to go but in the momin’ an’ dig up a root of white vi’lets an’ some makes, so—I kin take ’em with me.”—Mary E. Wilkins, in Harper's Bazar.

A HORRID JESTER. A Prove.king Husband Who M illdoul; Aggravated His Wife’s Curiosity. He had finished his supper, 'lighted a cigar, and was easily seated with his wife in the library, when he asked: “Heal’d anything spicy to-day?” “Spiqy, my dear? I don’t understand you.” “Why—why—you know. Anything exciting; anything about anybody— anybody, you know, missing, gone away wiithout telling where they have gone.” “l>o you mean any elopement?” -J '‘Yes, yes; that’s it I thought you would know.” “Bless me, John, has any ono eloped —any one I know—any one we know? Tell me. quick.” . “Well, I didn't know but that you had heard-” “No, ;no; I haven’t heard anything about it Do tell me all about it” “Why, my dear, I thought you-” “But I assure you this is the first I have heard of it” “Heaid of what?” “Why, the elopement” “What elopement?” “The elopement you are going to,tell me about.” “I don’t know anything alout any elopement. I was only about to ask you if you knew of any when you interrupted me.” “Now, that’s too bad, John, to work me up in that way. See, I am all of a tremble. Hand me my smelling bottle, please.”—N. Y. Herald. A Team of Deer. A curious looking team, attached to a light buck-board, attracted the attention of a crowd of men and boys at the Junction. The team consisted of two immense buck deer, with large antlers, and looked as though they might outrun a streak of lightning. Their harness. was made entirely of buckskin, there^'hot even being a buckle about them. Ihe driver and proud ovmer was a Digger Indian, well-known by the name of Buckhorn by our sportsmen, who have visited Big Meadows for the purpose of hunting or of fishing during the pleasant outing season. Olid Buckhorn is the high Chief of the Diggers in the neighborhood of Big Mestaows or Greenville. As a guide In that grand sporting country he is an invaluable acqmsition to any party of campers. It is said ho is moderately well off, owning a dro ve of ponies and a number of cattle and sheep. This novel team of his has been it use for several years, he having, caught the deer when they were small. ]En the winter when the ground is covered with snow, Buckhorn hitches his team to a sleigh and goes dashing over the country.—Buttf (CoL) Record. —A resident of Toronto, Canada, is the possessor jf a watch manufactured in China It is over one hundred and -sixty years old. and presents the appearance of sn old-time English lever watch. The worts are constructed on a similar plan to the more modern American time-piete. Cn the case inside Is the name of the maker in Chinese ebaraoters,

THE COST OF WHEAT. Dbwaa#on of m Subject of Tart btfartanoe to Farmers* What does it cost to raise a bushel of wheat? That is the great business question of the day. It is of paramount importance to fanners all over the world, to all who eat theirgrain, and to all whose income or trade is dependent on the general prosperity. What it costs to raise wheat is one of the things we must .know in order to peer, however dimly, into the great problem whether these prices are indicative of a permanently lower level. If the world has raised, as some statisticians claim, only enough wheat this year to feed the world, the low prices now being made are but a temporary dip in the curve of quotations. But if, as other statisticians claim, the world has raised more than a hundred million bushels in excess of its wants, and the conditions of production and access to the markets are such that there is a permanent state of over-production, low prices must continue until farmers have readjusted their industry to newer and better conditions. This must be a slow process with the conservative farmers, loath to change, and it is not pleasant to look forWarotp the prospects of the dependent industries—that is, all the industries— While the Change is being made.

Ihe wheat question is a big question —bigger than any one who has yet taken hold of it. The London Economist, in an article which we recently reproduced, ciphers out the cost erf an acre put to wheat in England at not less than #35. With the average return as it is this year, only $25 an acre, the fanners of England are losing $10 an acre on their wheat.' Various estimates have been made for this countrf. The Tribune, giving the farmer the' benefit of every item in order to make the result as little discouraging as possible, has put the cost of an acre in wheat at $7. Correspondents who have written ns from the wheat districts have corrected our figures as too low, and have estimated the cost at $9 to $10. One of the most intelligent efforts to arrive at the facts of the case is made by the St. Paul correspondent of Mradstrcct's. Present prices, he says, do not give_ the farmer a living profit on any estimate of cost that is warranted by experience. One of the bonanza farmers of the Red River Valley finds that in a good year his lands produced twenty bushels to the acre at a cost of $8, or 40 cents a bushel. This is the minimum cost, for it represents the economies of gangplows, labor hired, housed and fed with military system, wholesale prices for all supplies, steam harvesting and thrashing. The maximum cost this correspondent puts at $9 an acre of fifteen bushels, or 60 cents a bushel. The average cost lies between. The amount the farmer is getting for his wheat, taking 12 cents for freight and three cents for other charges out of the 63 cents for which his wheat is selling in Minneapolis and St. Paul, is but 48 cents. These figures show conclusively that the farmers of the Northwest are losing money at the present prices of wheat, just as the farmers of England are falling behind. They are receiving no interest on their capital; not even the actual outlay of labor and money. Will these losses persuade the farmers

to raise less wheat and something else than wheat? Another correspondent ol Bradstreet's shows that in the last ten years wheat in England has fallen considerably more than oats and barley, and he predicts that the English farmers will therefore raise mope of these grains hereafter than of wheati Batcher meat and dairy produce have risen in price while wheat has been going down, and farmers will replace wheat with these more profitable products. In Minnesota and Dakota the correspondent of BradMreel's says that stock-raising has already assumed large proportions in the southern counties, and is rapidly gaining in favor. But the great rush will be to flax. The fanner can raise about as much flaxseed to the acre as wheat; but while wheat sells for only 63 cents a bushel for the bulk of the crop and 73 cents for the very best, flaxseed brings ,$1.17 a bushel in St. Paul. But all farmers who read this must not rash into the culture of flax, for it will be easier to glut the flax market than that for wheat. The best outlet for the farmer is in the production of meat and daily products.—CMcago Tribune. How to Build a Cheap Fence, Which la Neat and Serviceable.] Everybody knows how to make a fence for the poultry yard, but everybody does not know how to make a cheap fence. Fences are very expensive, and any plan that enables a person to make a fence in such a manner as to cost but little and yet be serviceable, will always be adopted. The cheapest fence is made of lath, but unless it is well made it is worthless. The desire should be to have the fence as strong as possible, and the weakest place is near the bottom. The objection to a lath fence is that dogs sometimes break through, not intentionally on the part of the dogs, but because the fence will not withstand pressure. To make a good, strong, durable lath ■fence, six feet high, the panels may be eight feet Having placed the posts eight feet apart, procure some good shingling strips, (shingling lath,) and securely nail the bottom strip from post to post and six inches above the ground. Nail the next strip exactly eighteen inches above the first one. Thus'the first strip will be six inches above the ground, and the second strip being eighteen inches above that, will consequently be two feet from the ground. The third (or top) strip should be nailed three above the second, or five feet from the ground. Now, naB to the bottom strip half laths. As a lathis four feet long, a half lath will be two feet in length. Let the bottom touch the ground. Nail the lath to the two strips, the bottom of each lath of course being on the ground; the top of the lath is nailed to the second (or middle) strip. Place the half laths one inch apart, which will keep in the chicks as well as the larger fowls. Here it will be noticed that you have a strong, close, good fence, with the cross strips only eighteen inches high, and six inches only from the lower strip to the ground, but the fence is only two feet high. Having made the' fence only two feet high, but close and strong, you now desire height. This is made of the whole lath, which is nailed to the middle and top stripe, but instead of being only one inch apart, two inches will be close enough. The fence will thus be six feet high and durable. The practice of nailing whole laths with a half lath above it is here reversed, as we place the half lath at the bottom and the whole lath at the top. There are several advantages to be gained by so doing. First, the strips are brought elose to each other, making the pressure against two strips instead of one. The half lath can be placed closer together, with economy, than with the use of the whole lath. Should it be desired the whole lath may be at three inches apart, as full security of confinement is made by the lower. It is cheaper to repair a rotten half lath than a whole one, and as such fences usually begin to give out at the lower part first, this a great advantage. Such a fence combines strength, cheapness, and efficiency, and can be made by any one.— Poultry Monthly. —The first watch was about the size of a dessert-plate, and was used as a pocket clock.—Boston Budget. \ POULTRY FENCES.

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE. —Washington Cake: One pound of i flour, one pound of sngar, haft pound butter, six eggs, one cup sour milk, one teaspoonful of soda, and a grated nuts | meg.—The IfttitikonL \ —Crain should be fed after ha-has been eaten, and no other food or drink should be giren for some time after, so that the grain may remaig in the stomach until it is fully digested.—Troy •Times. A _ > —Baking soda gives instant relief to a burn or scald. Applied either dry or wet to the burned part immediately, the sense of relief is magical. It seems to withdraw the heat and with it the pain. Keep it in the ironing-room.—San Francisco Chronicle. —A flock of sheep on a timothy meadow, naked and defenseless, is a bad sight to see. They will cut away the bulbs which are the life of the grass. They will eat their heads off by eating the roots of the timothy.—Cleveland Leader.

—If the simp m which plums are to be preserved is very hot when they are drop]ied into it, they will cook so quickly that they will not lose their shape, and if put into the cans with care, will well repay one for .taking the trouble.— JV. T. Post. , —Avoid things that add neither to the attractiveness or the cqmfort of a room. Let the walls be a good back ground to the few really choice paintings or engravings, which contribute so much towards home furnishing; but do not make them so dark that you can not see what they are. —It is now suggested that tests be made; of work horses as well as trotters and runners. It is an excellent idea. Then we will have records for all classes of horses. The best trotting, running, walking and drawing records will tell on the scale of comparison better than all the pedigrees that can be produced. —Prairie Farmer. —For vegetable soup scrape two carrots, an onion, quarter of a cabbage and two turnips; cut them into pieces a little larger than dice. Put the pieces in a large sauce-pan, with a little butter and water; let it cook half < an hour; then cut your potatoes in the same way; take your meat out of the soup kettle, skim off the grease, and put all into your broth, and let cook another half 'hour.—Exchange. —The demand for mutton as an agreeable and cheap food is steadily increasing. The markets of New York alone require more than a million sheep annually. Farmers, too, who once used only bacon and pork, are becoming mutton eaters. The convenience of a few sheep on every farm to furnish the family with good, wholesome food, is now appreciated more than a few years since.—N. Y. Tribune. —What we need on our farms are independent men—men who have the courage to leave the old beaten track and reach out on all sides after knowledge, and accept the teachings of science and the products of invention which give them promise of greater success. What we need is a higher education. We can not expeet this of old heads, but our hope is in the rising generation, who are to take up the implements of labor as they fall from the hands of the fathers.—Chicago Times.

UI31 ERINS. The ;iUnt and Cheapest Plan to Build, Them In a Corner of the Cellar. In limestone sections the well water is hard and quite unsuitable for washing. In place of it rain water is used, and there is nothing equal to an underground cistern for holding a supply. There are various ways of constructing good cisterns, but I think the best, and in the end the cheapest plan is to build it in one comer of the cellar. This can be done most cheaply when the cellar is made; but as all the cellars made years ago were very large, it is an easy matter to bui Id up a wall near one comer, making: a square bin that will hold from thirty lo one hundred barrels. I have seen this plan frequently adopted. If the old cellar wall stands firm, remove all the outside mortar and fill in with cement even with the outer course of stone. It is best, where the ends of the cistern wail meet the cellar wall, to remove a few stones from the latter at that point, extending the others into it, thereby preventing any possibility of its giving way under a heavy pressure of water. This new wall should be two feet lower than the cellar wall, so that the cistern may be entered from the top at any time. At the bottom firmly imbed a one-inch pipe crosswise of the wall, and provide it with a stop of some kind, by means of which the water in the cistern may be readily drawn off into the cellar drain, and thus save the tedious operation of pumping or dipping out, necessary in all underground cisterns. And just here let me urge the beneficial results of a thorough cleaning out of all cisterns at least twice a year. It is also an excellent plan to have the water conductors so arranged that the first fall of rain may be turned upon’ the ground until the roof is thoroughly cleaned. This, while it may seem a small matter, is yet of great importance, and should 'not be neglected. Kain water is the purest of all water, and in sections where well water is poor, or in malarial localities, it is used for drinking purposes, being usually filtered through gravel or charcoal to remove all impurities washed from the roof. The cistern pump should be placed in the sink, high enough to pump directly into a pail. If the stove is near the pump, water may be pumped directly I into the reservoir by the use of a short | pips.—L. D. Snook, in N. Y. Examiner. AN ICE-HOUSE. Directions for Building, and How to Pack Ice So It Will Keep. We Can best answer numerous inquiries about building an ice-house by giving a description of one we put up for our own use a few years ago. The locality selected was one affording facilities for drainage, was well shaded by trees and conveniently near the house. The surface being sandy was leveled, and four by six inch sills, fourteen feet long, were laid down and halved together at the corners. The plates, of the same length, of two by four inch stuff, were put together in the same manner. Studs two by four, and thirteen feet long, were mortised into the sills and spiked to the plates every eighteen inches. The roof, a “ square pitch,” is covered with ten-inch boards, two inches apart, and other boards of the same width nailed on as battens. Hemlock boards, nailed horizontally on both sides of the studs, cover the sides rand ends, the four-inch space between the onter and inner siding being filled with saw-dust. There is a door at the ground level, and another just above, both being practically double by means of horizontal boards placed on the inside as the house is filled. The roof projects over the sides about a foot and the spaces between that and the plates are left open to afford. ventilation. A layer of sawdust four inches or more thick was laid on the ground, and the blocks of ice stacked upon it as closely as possible. The top of the ice is eovesed with a layer of marsh hay about two feet thick. This house, if filled up to the roof,would hold about sixty tons. When half filled there has been a considerable quantity of ice left over each year, though it has been used very free- , ly. The cost of the house is small.—■ American AirricuituriM.

—It is interesting to know also that Benjamin Franklin, notwithstanding Tom Hughes' intimation that nothing is known about him in England, is one of the few men whose place of residence in London is thought Worthy of commemoration: Whoever walks down Craven street Will see a medallion on the front of house No. 7 with these words inscribed on it: “Lived here, Benjamin Franklin, printer, philosopher and statesman: born, 1706; died, 1790.” For eighteen years Franklin made his home in this house with Mrs. Margaret Stevenson, who had been recommended to him by some Philadelphia friends. At. one time he hoped his son William might marry the daughter, Mary Stevenson, but this was not to be.—Every Other Saturday. —Thomas Colt, who for thirteeu years had been an inmate of Bellevue Hospital, New York city, left that institution recently. He entered the institution in' 1871, when a boy of twelve years, suffering from a disease whieh had destroyed his nose and seriously injured his eyes. Since then the attendant physicians have grafted one of his lingers upon his face, and succeeded in building up an almost perfect nose and restoring his countenance until it has a very presentable appearance. During his sojourn in the hospital the patient was operated upon more than thirty times with the knife.— N. Y. Tribune. --- . --=

—There is a popular idea that a sili Ter piate is inserted in the skull after trephining. Dr. Brinton says, according to the Philadelphia Clinical Record, that he has very carefully examined all the ancient and. modern literature, and failed to find a single instance reported of any metal plate being inserted after trephining. Nor lias he found any scientific reference to it. —A charming girl in a Passaic (N. J.) boarding-house, who won the hearts of both male and female boarders, turns out to be a man. —Newark Register. —South Carolina tea, cured in a fruit evaporator, has been prononneed by experts to be equal to imported teak. Dr. Robt. Newton, late President of the Eclectic College ot the City of New York, used Dr-Wm. Haul’s Balsam very extensively in his practice. He nlwayssaidthat so'good a remedy ought not to be considered merely as a patent medicine, l>nt that it ought to be prcsoribedfreely by every physician as a sovereign remedy in all cases of Lung diseases. The maxim: “Strike while the iron is hot,” is getting altogether too slow for the age; you must make it bothy striking. “Rousrh on Rats-” Clears ont rats, mice, flies, roaches, tod-bugs,ants, vermin,chipmunks- lEo “O, where shall I find content?” sighs • magazine poetess. Have you tried the dictionary, dear?— Oil City Derrick. Ip StrccESS be the true test of merit, it is a settled fact that “ Brown’s Bronchial Troches” have no equal for the prompt relief of Coughs, Colds, and Throat troubles. Sold only in boxes. Price, 23 cents. , i A good definition of flirting is “attention, without intention.” “Buehu-Paiba." Qu'ck, complete cure, an jmnoy ing Kidney and l' rinary Diseases. SI.

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