Pike County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 36, Petersburg, Pike County, 15 January 1885 — Page 4

PIKE: EflUSTV DEMOCRAT. Published Every Thursday. PETERSBURG. ... INDIANA. HER WAITING. JJ]** sunbeams dimpled all The azure ocean. The robins caroled vows of sweet devotion. And proudly dipped and rose the snug ship Starling, when young Elisha whispered: “Good-bve, darling! Twill not be long to wait.” The dusty bees buzzed in and out the bluebells. The roses blushed and tossed their heads like true belles. The sun threw fleeting shadows ’cross the mowing. The brooklet gurgled softly In its flowing— And it was long to wait. Through ray autumnal woods the wind went For’atf his summer sweethearts lay a-dying; Hlue gentians fringed the tiny upland river, Some late bird-note set one sad heart acquirer— And it was long to wait. Tie snow fell thick on river, wood and dearing, Tie blasts swept round and round in mad careering, ‘ Aod out among the rocks, from dusk to dawning. Sounded the fog-bell's wildest cry of warning— And it was long to wait. Spring came again, clad in her beauty royal. As spring will come to stoadfast hearts and loyal, And lof the Starlinginto harbor swinging, while from each hedge and tree the birds were singing: “It was not long to wait 1” , —Emma C. Dowd, in Century. |X)ST AND FOUND. How Mr. Nicholson Took Care of the Precious Baby. CHAPTER i. Mrs. Nicholson was standing in a dubious attitude, with the study door half open, and her eyes turning from the quiet figure Jn the arm-chair by the table Jo another open door in the passage behind her, through which she co.uld see a flood of sunshine, and in the sunshine a cradle. “I don’t feel quite easy,” she said; “I am so afraid she Would cry and no one hear her. I wish I had not let nurse go out; but all you have to do,” coming into the room and speaking impressively, ‘‘all youTiave to do is to ring the bell violently—violently, remember—for cook. For Heaven’s sake, John,” leaning on the table ’and stretching out a pretty hand to attract her husband's attention, “look up, or speak, or answer me, or you will drive me mad!” “What is it all about, Agatha?” The Cftlm, placid, intelligent face opposite was lifted gently, and the thin finger was slipped onto the page to mark a pause. “It is baby, John,” said Mrs. Nicholson, in a faltering voice, and with idle, angry tears .rolling down her cheeks. “Here have 1, for the last ten - minutes, been begging and imploring of you to remember baby; not to nurse her, I wouldn’t trust vou, but only to ring: the bell if she cries. ” “Does that stop her? It seems

simple enough. 1 think even X can do ■ that.'1 But Mrs. Nicholson shook her head, still weeping. “You may laugh at me or sneer if you like. If it were my own baby I would say nothing; I would bear it all; if but Emmy’s!” '. With a patient sigh the gentleman at the writing table pushed the book away and lost hts place. He looked at her lit a bewildered wav. ^ “What is it, Agatha? a baby! O, ^JJiouuy’s baby, of course.” “And not one-half, one-hundredth part, one-thousandth part, as valuable -- JO vour eyes,” broke in Agatha, with impetuosity, “as the smallest, the most unknown, the most undiscovered star! You need not tell me; 1 know it.” “Of course,” frowning gently, “every , one knows that a star, however small — Istar^are not famous according to their size, my dear—is of infinitely more value than one hair of a baby’s head. 1 mean —hastily—“speaking entirely from the scientific point of view; but as you were saying—you were saying, were you not”—a little doubtfully—“something about that unfortunate babe of Emmy's?” Mrs. Nicholson had dried her eyes, and was confronting him in all the cool splendor of her pretty' summer dress, and with all the calm determination of a woman who has made up her mmd. “Yes, I was.” she said; “only, once for all, John, if you call it a babe I will leave your house at once and never, never come back; and if you call it unfortunate I shall take tlrnt hateful man- . useript with mo and hum it at the kitchen tire. If it were vours”—with impassioned irony—“it might, indeed, be described as unfortunate; but Charles is the best of fathers, and he has always been the best of husbands.”1 “Yes, yes, of course, mv dear. I said nothing against Charles; I did not know we were talking about him. We can finish him up to-night,” cheerfully. “If that is all you had better go out now, while it is fine,” turning his eyes to the dazzling sunlight for an instant, aud then back to his blotted page. “You can tell me about Charles,” you know, when you come in. The best of husbands! I don’t know much about them, I fear, but 1 know a little about the best of wives.” He rose and laid his hand on the long, slender, soft gray glove that was leaning with determination on his neat manuscript. The gray glove closet! round his hand gently and clung to him, almost as if it were loth to leave the thin, worn fingers; but he patted St gentiy and laid it aside. Mrs. Nicholson gave a faint sigh, but when she spoke again she spoke with less determination and more pleading:.

“It is not Charles, indeed it is not; it is the baby. Nurse has gone out, and I have put her cradle in the morning room by the window. John,” suddenly, “are you listening? What did I say last?” "The morning room, Agatha.” “Well,” with a sigh of relief, “I see you are taking it in and forgetting those horrible stars; and how you can compare a star to a baby,” parenthetically, ‘•is past me.’ “I am sure I never did,” he said, gently. “Well, don’t interrupt me, John, or I shall never get out. What was I saying? Oh, baby is in the morning room, and if she cries—makes one sound— you are to ring your bell—this bell, John—for cook; do you understand?” “Yes, I believe so. I am to ring a bell—this l>ell—for cook!” “Oh, I hope you will,” after a pause. “Fancy,” her eves filling with tears again, “if she cried, and no one heard her! Oh John, you will not deceive me? You will try—and—ring?” “My dear,” speaking with some dignity, “surely I am not utterly destitute of common humanity or common sense. I have interesting work here,” pointing to the manuscript and the books of reference heaped around him; “but I suppose, after all, I am human.” “O, I hope so, I think so,” cried Agatha, clasping her hands; “only vou mijght not hear her, that was 'all I meant.” % ‘Then I think,” he said, with a gentle sarcastic smile, “that you may dismiss jour fears; they are quite ground••Very well,’; said Agatha, moving la a hesitating way to the door. “1 am satisfied, I am trying to be satisfied; don’t forget.” cheerfully, “I will take i leaf

from Charles’ book, the best of husbands.” “Oh”—the gray glove had closed on the handle of the door, but released it a^ain— “the Pavnters are coming tonight, so yon most not go out star gazing.” “All right,” obediently: “good-bye.” “Good-bye.” The bright iFace, that had almost disappeared round the door, came back again, and leaned, against the worn velveteen of the astronomer’s coat; for a minute the lips were pressed to it, then lifted. “Kiss me John; you are a dear old fellow after all, and I*am a fiend.” The sunshine seemed to leave the room with the sweet bright presence and hover over the pretty cradle, among the sounds and scents of the midsummer day. In the library there was onlyone shaft of light that came through the high windows and fell across the old velveteen coat, and the tidy manuscripts, and the open books, and left the handsome, clever, refined face in shadow. CHAPTER n. It might have been two hours afterward—painful after events created a confusion in Mr. Nicholson's mind, and the two hours might have been two days—when be became awiure of a laugh in the passage by the door. His hand had grown tired with writing, but the pen traveled steadily on; his eyes had grown a little tired; and it was a relief to raisethem fcr a minute to the. locked door, behind which he heard the laugh. He rose, with a half smile on his grave face* and paused, struck by a sudden presentiment. Something came back to him, as he stood in tne dull light of the dull room: was it a dream or a memory, or was it—the baby? He pushed his papers hurriedly away and walked over to the door and unlocked it, throwing it wide open. There was nothing in the passage but the yellow sunlight now upon the walls and on the old prints, and Mrs. Nicholson standing in her pretty gray dress, with her slim hands stretched out and the laugh that had disturbed him still upon her lips. In jhe room bey’ond there was more sunlight and the cradle. “John,” cried Mrs. Nicholson, laughing again as if she could not help it, “what have you done With her? Give her to me. You arc earning your title to the best of husbands!” He looked up in quick perplexity. “What is it, Agatha? What, do you want? I have nothing to give you.” “Oh don’t, John!” she coed, impatiently; “don’t tease! I want baby.” “Well”—the same perplexed look creeping over his face, and sof tening its sternness—“take her,” stretching out his hand to the cradle in the sunlight Agatha's eyes were turned on him for a minute with a look of contempt before which he positively quailed. Then she swept over to the cradle and tossed out the little pillow, and the sheets with their lace edges, and the pale-blue satin coverlet on the floor in a soft heap, and stood looking down upon the empty cradle as if she would conjure up the piak face and the flaxen head into their accustomed place. .

Mr. Nicholson had followed her on tip-toe and was stirring the softly shining heap on the floor with his patent leather shoes, as if he half imagined that she had tossed the baby out among them. “Well?” said Agatha, sharply. • “Well?” he echoed, feebly. > “Do you mean to say," she said, putting aside her angry vehemence and speaking tearfully, with her gray eyes turned up to his—“Oh, John; do you mean to say that you have lost her?” “1 have never touched her,” he cried, hastily, “I never—” heard her, he would have added, but again that faint memory—that dream — stirred him. “Upon my honor, Agatha,” he said, abruptly, leaning down into the cradle, and poking at tHe mattress with his thin fingers, “upon my honor I can't remember.” “You can’t remember!” said Agatha, with slow scorn. “Why, John she roared! Cook heart! herin the kitchen. She came rushing up, and found the cradle empty and baby gone. She thought you had taken her into the study; she told me so; but oh, John, it was somebody else, and they have stolen “My dear,” he said, shaking himself together, and speaking more lightly, “who would steal her?—a baby roaring, as you sav!” He shuddered. “Why, ■surely no one in his senses would do such a thing!” “Emmy’s bahy!!’ cried Agatha, tearfully, “and that is how you speak of her! O John, dear John, think again: didn’t you hear her? Perhaps you have forgotten—perhaps you have put her somewhere, and she has'gone to sleep. Sit down, John, and think—perhaps you have put her somewhere and forgotten.” Mr. Nicholson sat down on the window sill and covered his face with his hands. He tried to think, but whenever he concentrated his mind on the baby he was dimly conscious; of that fading fancy that he could not grasp —that dream of a cry. It had d sturbed him, he remembered, that loud, painful, jarring cry, but it had died away; surely it had died into peace without his interference? “Agatha,” he said, lifting up his face, sharpened with the effect of thought, “I do remember something—someoody crying; it must have betjn the babe.” “Yes,” said Agatha, eagerlv, “goon! You heart! her! That is right. “Cook says you must have heard her, she roared so. Well, and then? You —” “1—I can’t remember, Agatha. I may have gone on writing; that seems the most likely, I think; but I may have gone to the door. “No,” shaking his Head. “1 can’t get beyond the ory. 1 do remember that now distinctly.” “Perhaps, said Agatha, hopefully, through her tears, “you have put her somewhere in the library. Wliat have you been doing or using this afternoon?”

Mr. .Nicholson followed humbly as she swept in before him, and Hung open the great curtains, so that the light rnshed in on to his table strewed with plans and manuscript Even then he spread out his hands, almost unconsciously, to defend his precious papers from her light scornful touch; but she stood in the center of the room., looking into every corner with her quick, soft eyes. “What have you used, John—this chair? You! have not been to the cupboard? NoJ” peering into a dark recess, musty with papers. “What else?” \ > “Nothing Mse, Agatha, here, except” with a quick smile, “the wastepaper basket, and that is empty. You can see for yourself.” “Ah, said Agathtk “here is cook,” as a heavy breathing Weame audible in the passage. “Cook/’ her voice trembling at sight of the sympathetic face, “your master has dot seen the baby—at least, he thinks' not. He was very busy, but he heard her cry, and he may have taken her up and forgotten. We are looking for her.” “Which you won't never find her, then,” said • cook, in a broken voice. "In my last place but one, where I was general cleaner in Mrs. 'All’s family, there was a child disappeared, as ‘it might be this, and it was nevei found —gypsies or not, it was never come across again.” “Oh don’t, cook!” cried Agatha, plaintively. “And Emmy coming this evening! Your master thinks he may have put her somewhere and forgotten. He remembers hearing her.” “Which he might,” said cook, “not being deaf. _ Which 1 don't mean no disrespect, sir, but she was roaring sw<*0d I say* to Mary, says |;

‘Master'll never know ow to quiet that child, so I’ll rnn np and bring her down a bit;’ and I stops to change my apron, and I nps, as it might be here, and the cradle, as it might be there, and no soond, and the cradle as empty as It is this minute.” Cook turned dramatically and pointed one stout arm to the little cradle in the sunlight. Mia. Nicholson's tearful eyes followed the hand, and her husband stood uneasily in the eenter of the group, with an anxious frown upon his “Which,” added cook, scornfully, “1 think a baby—and such a one, bless her!—is of more vally than all this rubbish!” She waved her hand over the table, on which lay the neat manuscript and the rows of mended pens, nnd Mr. Nicholson moved instinctively a step backward, as if she had an evil eye and his writings would shrivel up at her scornful gesture. “Cook,” said Mrs. Nicholson, with dignity, marred a little by the quiver in her voice, “you don't understand. Your master is very clever, and his writings are of great Value. Of course. “ with a pleading look upward, “baby is our first thought just now. There are no wild beasts here, so she can not be ea‘en. But she has gone, and before Emmy comes this evening she must bn ’ “ Of course she must,” said h er hus band, plucking up courage from bet exceeding gentleness. “We will begin systematically, and go through every room in the'house. ” So" the search began that ended au hour later, in the great hall, with three perplexed faces meeting each other at the foot of the stairs, in a silence that Mrs. Nicholson broke. “It’s no use, John; lean not bear it any longer. She is lost” She flung out her empty hands with r despairing gesture, but her husband caught and held them. “Don’t give up, Agatha; it will all come right If I search the world through, I will find her.” “ Or the body,” said cook. Mrs. Nicholson shuddered. The minute’s silence was broken by a sound of merry laughter and the trampling of feet. For a minute Agatha raised her head, listened intentlv, and then she dropped it with a sigh. ' “It is only the rectory boys, John,” she said; “they have been in the hafield all day, and I asked them to te; 1 can’t 6peak to them, I am ious.” so anx

one wouiu nave moved away, but | noise and laughter were in the hall ready, and the boys were stwmblin° toward her in the darkness, orerl rugs and skins. Something white being shoved from one to the other,J was pushed into Agatha's arms at li| and held there by a pair of rough, burned hands. “What is it? Oh, Jack, what is : she cried, bending down and kis to th^ir owner’s great surprise, boy’s yough hands. “Don’t, I sav,” said Jaek, dray., them away with a curious, shamef ul look. “It’s only the baby, Mrs. N| olson. She was crying in the craj so I just got into the room and ba her. She's been playing in the tray; she nearly got jabbed with a rake, but Jim got it instead. She’s a jolly little thing. Did you miss her?” “Yes, I thought she was lost,” said Agatha, gently. “Lost!” with a roar of laughter. “Well, that is good! May we wash our hands for tea? I’m not so dirty, I been holding her; but Jim’s simply mud all over. Here, hare you got her? it’s sc dark I can’t see.” The turbulent tide swept away intc the dim distance of stairs and passages, leaving a little group in the twilight oi the hall; a tall, dark figure, against which a golden head was leaning, and two arms with a white bundle folded in them. “Kiss her, John,” came a soft voice from out of the darkness. “I knowyou would rather not; she's only a baby, not a star; but just as a punishment, because you were so stupid.” The tall figure stooped and laid a dark mustache against the little bundle. "She’s very soft,” said another voice; “I don’t think I ever knew so much about a baby before. ’ ’ There was, after a moment’s silence, a movement on the man’s 'part, as though he weredrawing himself up to his full height, with a view to reasserting his dignity. He-cleared his throat. "After all, Agatha,” he said, stiffly, “I did, not lose the baby.” “I never said you did,” said Agatha; “I only asked you, and you couldn't remember.” “Another time,’! with an evident effort, “I suppose I shall be condemned unheard.” “Anpther time!’’ scornfully. “You may set your mind at rest Neither I nor Emmy is in the least likely to trust yon again, at least not with anything of value. ’ “Then how about the baby ?” with a laugh. ‘•That,” said Agatha, firmly, “includes the baby.’ —London Society. STEALING CHILDREN'S BRAINS. Examples of the Peril of Overtaxing the Minds of the Tooth. An evening paper calls attention to two distressing cases of oyeirtaskel brains which deserve the serious consideration of parents and teachers. One of them is that of a young girl who for three years has been a helpless, bedridden invalid, utterly wrecked in body and .mind, in consequence of a few weeks’unusual effort to excel in her classes. . Her parents were proud of her success in the large school yvhich she attended, and to gratify their ambition as well as her own, she put a strain upon her mind and body of which she was hardly conscious, but yvhich, when the examinations were over, resulted in a complete breakdown of all her powers. The fearful penalty of her violation of the divine law of lnental and physical health is a shattered intellect and a life of unremitting bodily torture.

ihe other case is that of a bright young lad who, in order to gratify his father’s ambition, which had been sadly disappointed by the boy’s failure to pass an examination in a single study—that of Latin—put forth extraordinary exertions to win at the next trial. Having no special aptitude for the study of lai£ guage, he was obliged to acquire his knowledge “by main strength/’ and to accomplish it was accustomed to leave his bed as soon as the honse was still, and work at his lessons till nearly dawn. But this could not last, and presently there was a collapse ofrthe nervous system. It is now a serious question if the prolonged rest and outdoor life prescribed for him will restore him to even tolerable health. anally disastrous cases are not un- . Some years ago we read of an uncommonly bright girl who learned we know not how many thousand: Bible verses in a Sunday-school comiietition for a prize. The verses were learned and repeated; hut the effort left the child’s memory a blank. She could remember neither verses nor anything else. We know of a young woman who graduated with high distinction from a school of repute, but for two or three years thereafter was unable to make the slightest mental exertion. Only by the most assiduous care was she. savedfrom serious mental disorder, if not actual and permanent insanity. These and similar examples of the perils of overtaxing the minds of the young should lead parents and teachers to guard more carefully against the tendency of ambitions boys and jrirls to go beyond their strength in tfee effort to c*oC—# T. Efemntr,

RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL. —It costs Italy $2,000,000 more to ran her prisons than her schools, but it is easier to lock a person np than to educate him. —Mrs. Ezra Abbott has presented to the Harvard Divinity School the greater put of her late husband’s theological library. The gift includes nearly 4,000 volumes. —Charles B. Richards, a workman and later a superintendent in Colt's Pistol-Works, Hartford, has been chosen to fill the chair of Dynamics in Yale College. —Hartford C-ouranL —When a visitor at the Carlisle Indian School asked a young, Cheyenne girl if she was a member of a church, she answered: “-Not much; just a little.”—Philadelphia Times. —The Yale Freshmen have been measured, with, the following results: Average height, 5 7.5 inches; circumference of chest, 35 inches; breadth of shoulders, 16 inches; weight, 134.4 pounds. The average age of the class is 19 years 1 month and 11 days. —The Boston School Committee has found it necessary to caution teachers against sending to the home of absent pupils to inquire as to- the causes of absence. Many of those absent have been found suffering from contagious diseases, and there has been danger of infection by exposure of the pupil sent to inquire.—Boston Post. The next American author to bo introduced into the French schools is Emerson. Unlike Longfellow, whose works were especially adapted for the girls’ lycees, Emerson, as a more difficult author, is to be reserved for the presumably more robust intellects of young men. The task of editing and explaining the writings of the philosopher will naturally be greater than that of illustrating the narratives of the poet.—AT. Y. Tribune. —Edward Everett Hale has been telling a Boston audience how he would run a school. He would recognize each boy’s drift. Then he would have halftime and full-time courses; that is, complete courses requiring only thirteen weeks’ attendance, as well as courses covering a period of forty-six weeks. This would be half-time study, but it would be concentrated, and a boy could begin one year just where he left off the preceding. We should gain regularity where now we have irregularity; we should know our work, and the boy would have time to earn something.— Boston Journal. ■—Secretary Teller shows in his anHial report that the Indians are mak^K^commendabl^progres^i^educ^

of the various religions denomina- __ is, the Government paying a stipulated price for the care and education of the children therein, There are also twenty-three schools maintained by churches and associations without expense to the Government. WIT AND WISDOM. —The New York Graphic says that in the play of “A Wooden Spoon” a young man makes love to four beautiful young lady actresses. We should call'that a “brass” spoon.,—Norristown Herald. —Too cautions. He—“I am going to take away a bottle of salt water as a memento of this watering place.” She —“ But don’t fill it too full, or it will slop over on us wrhenthe tide comes in.” Fliegende Blatter. —Janitor (to his wife who has hung the water-pail on the gas-jet)— “Bridget, me darlin’, did Mr. Levystraus tell ye to put this pail on the gas?” Bridget—"No Pat; but he was after sayin’ that the gas was laking, shore!”— Washington Hatchet. —“ ’Ellow, Eil, ’ow’s this about your brother ’Arry?” said one Englishman ‘to another on Fifth "‘avenue. “I ’ear ’Arty ’as a broken ’art because the ’orse ’e ’as-been ridin’ is dead.” “It’s true, Georgy, iveiy word of it. The doctor thinks ’e ’as ossification of the ’art” — Philadelphia Chronicle-Tele-graph. —Jim Terrv, of San Antonio, induced * local publisher to bring out a booK of poems. Every once in a while he would call on his publisher and talk to him by the hour. 1’fatally the publisher said to him; “You remind me very much of your book.” “In what respect?” “I can’t get rid of either of you.”—Texas Siftings. —A heavy pounding on the floor above caused young Mr. Staylate to inquire of the girl on whom he was calling: “Are your folks taeking down carpets this evening?” “Oh, no,” she replied; “it’s only papa putting on his heaviest boots, and-” “Good evening!” interrupted the youth, as he lashed out of the door like a circus ' clown through a hoop.—N. ¥. Journal. —“Well,” he paid to the minister at the conclusion df the ceremony, “how much do I owe you?” “O, I’ll leave that to you,” was the reply; “you can netter estimate the value of the service rendered.” “Suppose we postpone settlement, then, say for a year. By that time I will know whether 1 ought to give you one hundred dollars or nothing.” “No—no,” said the clergyman. Who is a married man himself, “make it three dollars now.”—Detroit Post. —A haberdasher one day, standing, as was his wont, at his door, under the sign of the Golden Lamb, was accosted by a townsman and a neighbor. ‘‘Good morning, Andrew,” says the‘passing townsman, “what be you thinking of?” “I was thinking,” said the haberdasher, glancing at his sign, “as how the lamb >s a picture of innocence.” “Yes, friend Andrew, but that one of yours is a picture of gilt.”—Scottish American.

AIR AND THE TELESCOPE. The Air the Worse Knemj of the Astronomer's Observations. The air we breathe is in truth the worst enemy of the astronomer’s observations. It is their enemy in two ways. Part of the light which brings its wonderful, evanes^nt messages across inconceivable depths of space, it stops; and what it does not stop, it shatters. And this even when it is most transparent and seemingly still: when mist-veils are withdrawn, and no clouds curtain the sky. Moreover, the evil -grows with the power of the instrument. Atmospheric troubles are magnified neither more nor less than the objects viewed across them. Thus, Lord Kosse’s giant reflector possesses—nominally—a magnifying power of 6,000; that is to say, it can reduce the appar-. cut distances of the heavenly bodies to one six-thousandth their actual amount. The moon, for example, which is in reality separated from the earth's surface by an interval of about two hundred and thirty-four thousand miles, is shown as if removed only thirty-nine miles. Unfortunately, however, in theory only. Prof. Newcomb compares the sight obtained under such circumstances to a glimpse through several yards of running water, and doubts whether our satellite has ever been seen to such advantage as it would be if brought—substantially, not merely optically—within five hundred miles of the unassisted eye.—Popular Science Monthly- f

CALENDAR. USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE. —As celery is known to be beneficial for nervousness, it is now claimed by those professing a fair trial that cranberries assist in curing dyspepsia. —Seven thousand dollars’ worth of tine cows have been killed in one county in Ohio by being fed on dry sorghum leaves. They had every symptom of mineral poisoning.—Cleveland Leader. —In olden times all insects were counted as injurious to crops. Modern farmers have learned more of entomology, and now prize some of the parasitic insects as among their best friends.—xV. Y. Herald. —Kindness to domestic animals means thrift and prosperity; abuse and neglect results in viciousness of disposition, loss of time, unthrift, and reduction of market value." When this understanding becomes universal man's happiness and prosperity will have been greatly augmented.—Troy Times. —Custard for Cake: Blanch one pound of almonds by pouring boiling water over them to soften the brown skin. After the skin : is removed chop the nuts very fine, and mix with it two ^ggs well beaten, one cup of thick, sour erearn; sweeten to taste and highly flavor with vanilla.—Detroit Post. —The Southdown sheep was years ago the only breed of mutton sheep known in this country. Of late the Hampshire and Shropshire are coming into favor. They are just as hardy and ir mutton is as good as the Southwn, while they add the advantage of r size.—Exchange. —Young wife: I am determined to rn at what hour my husband comes [me at nights; yet, do what I will, I not keep awake, and he is always ful not to make a particle of noise, ere any drug that produces wake|ness? Old wife: No need to buy Sprinkle the floor with tacks.— Chicago Herald. —Rice Pudding: Soak one cupful of best rice; after soaking four hours, drain it off; place thd rice in pudding dish; add one cupful sugar and one teaspoonful salt, and eleven cupfuls milk and spice; put in a moderate oven and bake from two to three hours, stirring occasionally at first if the rice settles.—The Household. ■—An English farmer says: “For two winters I placed six horses upon the following weekly allowances: Forty-two pounds of oats, twenty-eight pounds maize, twenty-one ponncls beans, twen-ty-one pounds hay cut into chaff,seventy pounds long hay. Total, 196 pounds of food per week per horse. Upon this food the horses have done admirably while in constant work.” —The niethods of pork making have changed wonderfully within the last twenty years, and the hogs are healthier and the pork is better. The profitable pork is pig pork and the animal is forced for the meat barrels from the day of birth. Dogs have less work nowadays running after the yearling racers than formerly; in fact, dogs ha re seen their best days as guardians for swine.—Boston Globe. —There are many reasons why habits of neatness in farming lead to success. Such habits are none too common, and in every business the men who do their work in the most thorough manner get the best pay. The world is full of poor work, that of necessity can only bo poorly paid. The farmer who grows his crop among weeds can never sell his grain at the highest market price, while the extra care needed to secure absolute purity is sure to be proportionately well paid.—Prairie Farmer. USE LITTER FREELY. Not Only Keep Animals Warm and Clean, bat Absorb All Liquids. It is perhaps always profitable to have troughs and vats for holding liquid manure, nut very many farmers do not possess these, and must depend upon the absorbent quality of the litter. The value of the liquid excrement "of cattle, sheep and horses exceeds the value of the solid, and as this will be saved just in proportion to the absorbing capacity of the substances used for litter, we always select that substance which will best absorb liquids. Litter is also to prevent the escape of animal heat, and serves the same purpose as shelter. It retains the animal heat, not altogether because it is a poor conductor, but it holds around the body of the animal a quantity of air, and air is a very poor conductor. Woolen clothing is warmer than cotton clothing, becau£g it holds among its fibers large quantities of air which retard the passage of the heat. Saw-dust answers best the requirements of a litter. There is nq doubt of its excellence; but often there may be of its economy. Where sawdust can be had for the hauling, or for a small price, the farmer is certainly foolish if he does not use it liberally for bedding. Its value in the compost heap will far exceed its cost. But in some parts of the country, as on the Western prairies, it is impossible to procure saw-dust; and the farmer must use the best available substance—straw. It is inferior only to saw-dust in. retarding the passage of heat and absorbing the liquids. Like saw-dust, it holds air around the body of the animal. The straws are filled with air, and air is held in the spaces between the straws. It is equally well adapted to the purpose as an absorbent. Straw is much wore largely used for litter than any other substance, because it has been most convenient: but for once our convenience has led to our good. In the West straw is considered a necessary evil, to be reduced to manure as expeditiously as possible. Even when a show of feeding it is made, the object is more to get it into manure than to put flesh upon the cattle. This is not surprising where not ten per cent, .of the stover from corn is utilized, and where other excellent fodder, including hay, is allowed to go to waste, and on account of its abundance, is always fed in a slovenly manner. Here we can well use litter abundantly, and where it has a value as litter, it should be used in sufficient quantities, not only to keep the animals warm and clean, but to absorb all the liquids. In such places it pays to be economical of litter; not in its use, but in Its saving. Leaves and vines are scarcely inferior to straw, and may lie gathered in such quantities as to admit of all the straw being fed. Dry earth is a good absorbent, but it lacks the other requirements of litter, and its use should twin the compost heap rather than in | itie ^ble;—Amtritvn AarigmMurisl, a

The Ascetic Idea ^f Family Life. I should be very sorry for the people ■I' live with to discharge their home duties in the spirit of martyrs. God preserve us all from wives, husbands, children, brothers and sisters who go about the house with an air of celestial resignation! There are homes in which I think I have caught a glimpse of peoplejof that kind. They perform every duty with a faultless exactness—an exactness precise enough to irritate a saint. They submit with exemplary patience to every inconvenience, and are rather grateful than otherwise for the disappointment and vexations which sometimes disturb the smooth currents of life in the happiest families. But they regard the claims of others as affording opportunities for acts ol self-denial which take the place of the hair shirt and the fasting and the scourge of the monastic life, a panacea to be endured for the discipline of their perfection. The lines rest on a poor, mean unchristian conception of selfdenial which I cannot stay to discuss. They also set the home life in a false key. Self-denial! This is not what we ought to think of in connection with wile or husband, parent or child, brother or sister; but the joy of affectionate and hearty service for others. It is no self-denial for a man to wear an old coat a little longer that his wife may have a new dress, or for a mother to go on wearing an old bonnet that one of her children may have a new pair of boots. Where there is the kind of love which ought to bind all hearts together in a home the happiness of life comes from giving our own pleasant things to those who are dear to ns. —if. W. Dale.. Advice to a Young Man. Indeed no, my son, one man is not as good as another. Not by a long chalk he isn’t. A young man of your age ought to know better than to say such a thing. It is a very pretty bit of democratic sentiment, but it isn’t true. When you have heard that assertion shrieked out in resonant tones that fairly echo back from the clouds, on the fourth of July, if you will follow the orator home abd observe him clearly; you will perceive that he didn’t and doesn’t believe what he says, and doesn’t live upon his own platform. Now, don’t misunderstand me. I am not talking politics. I know, my son, that you are as good as any man that walks the earth. I agree with you most heartily so far. We are as good as other men. The back of our hand and the toe of our foot to the slanderer who says we are not. But, are other men as good as we are? There is where the gazelle comes in. That is what tries your democracy. Just think that over a little when you are fixing up your next Fourth of July oration. It will stand a great deal of thinking over. I tell you, my son, if all men ■were really as good as each other, and we all thought so, this world would be too perfect to live in. Ah no, my boy, one man is not as good as another.— Robert J. Burdette, in Brooklyn Eagle.

Origin of a Slang Term. One who has studied up says that the Word “snide,” which has come into6 general use, like many slang wonts, means more than the nearest English word in its meaning. ' There is the “snod,” from the provincial English, which means “sly, cunning,” and is derived from the word “snood,” used in fishing tackle and in the way artfnl young misses tie up their hair so as to tie tlie young man’s heart within. The word “sehnide,” from Pennsylvania Dutch, means the cut as applied to . a tailor, who is called “sehneider,” and probably cuts the cloth too short. “Snide” is now applied to almost everything manufactured which is under quality. A “snide” buggy is one loosely-constructed and painted .up to look well, but out of which the spoke will fly driving round the turns. A “snide” piano is. one which has a wellvarnished case and brass fixings, but with a harp like that in Tara's halls, and which will soon be mute.—Troy (X. Y.) Times. -« * •- —The new Schuylkill Valley Railroad in Pennsylvania is remarkable for the number and costliness of its bridges. Besides thirteen large iron structures, it has many others which span small streams and ravines. The larirest bridge, that at Manayunk, is 1,400 feet in length, has five spans with plate girders, and stands eighty-five feet above the level of the water. The 'bridge over the Union canal at, Reading is 700 feet in length, with a, through truss. In addition to the expense of the various bridges is that of the tunnel near Pheenixville, which, with its approaches, was formed out of the solid rock'. The tunnel, is 800 feet by twenty-seven feet wide.—Philadelphia Times. —Sierra Valley, Sierra County, Cal., is one of the prettiest but most isolated places in the State. It has no telegraphic communication with the rest ol the world, and can only be reached by a difficult stage drive of twenty-five miles. The inhabitants have just begun to sing “Grandfather’s Clock,” and probably will not hear of “Wait Till the Clouds Roll By” for several months yet.—San Francisco Call., —From surveys of the Gulf of Mexico it appears that its area is 595,000

TMjuaxc: uiiic?, auu wail me aiua ui tut: surface included within the 100-fathom line is 387,000 square miles—rather more than one-third of the surface having a depth of less than 100 fathoms. The greatest recorded depth is 2,119 fathoms, the mean depth being 858 fathoms. THE MARKETS. 5 75 95 53 Si*® 79 ® 35.*® 27 ® 51 11 5 75 5 25 4 65 4 25 3 50 87* 79* SB 27* 52 , 10 (JO 18 00 25 19 12 50 7* New Yoke, January 18,1885. CATTLE—Native Steers.$ 5 00 ®| 6 75 COTTON—Middling.. 11*® 11* FLOUR—Good to Choice. 3 75 ® WHEAT—No. 2 Reu. 91*® CORN—No. 2. 52*® OATS—Western Mixed. 36 ® FORK—New Mess. 13 00 ® 13 25 ST. LOUIS. COTTON—Middling. 10*® REEVES—Good to Heavy.... 5 35 ® Fair to Good. 4 50 ® HOGS—Common to Select.... 4 00 ® SHEET—Fair to Choice. 2 75 FLOUR—XXX to Choice. 2 90 WHEAT—No. 2 Winter. No. 3 “ . CORN—No. 2 Mixed. OATS—No. 2. RYE... TOBACCO-Lugs. 4 Medium Leaf. 9 00 ® HAY—Choice Timothy. 13 00 e 14 00 BITTER—Choice Dairy. 24 EGGS—Choice. .... ® FORK—New Mess...... 12 25 ® BACON—Clear Rib.. 7 ® LARD... 6*® CHICAGO. CATTLE—Exports...«. 5 75 ® HOGS—Good to Choice. 4 50 ® SHEET—Good to Choice. 4 00 ® FLOUR—Winter..... 3 50 ® Fatent. 4 00 « WHEAT—No. 2 Spring. 80 ® No. 2 Red. ® CORN—No. 2..,. 36*® OATS—No. 2.. 26* « FORK—New Mess. 12 00 ® KANSAS CITY. CATTLE—Native Steers. 4 80 « HOGS—Sales at. 5 05 « WHEAT—No. 2..... 61 ® CORN—No. 2 Mixed.... 29*® OATS—No. 2. ® NEW ORLEANS. FLOUR—High Grades. 4 S7*« 4 80 CORN—White. ® 50 OATS—Choice Western.. 37 « 38 HAY—Choice. ® M 50 FORK—Mess. « 12 75 BACON—Clear Rib. « 7* COTTON—Middling. 10*® 10* LOUISVILLE. WHEAT—NO. 8 Red. ® 78 CORN—No. 2 Mixed..-. ® 40* OATS—No. 8 Mixed. ® 30* PORK-Mees....-. .... ® 12 50 BACON-Clear Rib. ® 7* gOTTON-MWdJihf..,.. .... ® W* 625 4 75 4 25 4 40 4.75 81 80* 36* 12 12*' 5 65 4 40 61* 29* 84*

» —The Assembly of the Cherokee nation is divided into two bodies. Senate and House, or General and \Nationai Council. The first named has sixteen members, the latter, fifty-eight, making a total representation of seventy-four. The representatives are divide*: into three parties, viz.: National, Loyal and Downing The division is caused by divergent views on questions relating to local interests.—Chicago Time*. —Pavements made of brick impregnated at a high temperature with asphalt are found more durable for wear than granite or compressed asphalt. By driving out the air and water the bricks take up fifteen or twenty per cent, of bitumen: they an; then put endways on a concrete bed with hot tar.— Chicago Times. —No storm has been found crossing the Atlantic from east to west, or moving from our Atlantc coast to the plains beyond the Mississippi.—N. Y. Sun. - The statement of Dr. Samuel K. Cox, Practical and Analytical Chemist, Washington, D. C., reads: “Red Star Cough Cure is enti ly free from all opiates, poisons and emetics. It is an original combination of the oest remedial agents, and is as harmless as it is effective.” I ah seized with disgust, said the darky whose hat was blown away by the wind.— Waterloo Observer. Another Ufe Saved. About two years ago, a prominent citi*en of Chicago was told by his physicians that he must die. They said his system was so debilitated that there was nothing left to build on. He made up his mind to try a “new departure.’' He got some of Dr. Pierce’s “ Golden Medical Discovery ” and took it according to directions. He began to improve at once. He kept up the treatment for some months, and is to-day a well man. He says the “ Discovery” saved his life. Everythins is adulterated. Even boys of sixteen are aduit-he-rated.— Whitehall Times. No Safer Remedy can bo had for coughs and Colds, than “Broicn's Bronchial Troches.” Sold only in boxes. 25cts. With mnbrelias, like men, it is generally the poorest that gets left.—AT. }'. Journal. “Frailty, thy Name Is Woman.“ —Bamlcl. That she is frail, often in body, “ Tis true, ’tis true, ’tis a pity. And pity ’tis, ’tis true." Dr. Pierce’s- “Favorite Prescription” is the best restorative tonic for physical frailty in women, or female weaknesses or derangements. By druggists. Price reduced to one dollar. Contempt of court—The way the old man feels when the daughter’s lover lingers into the small hoars.—Boston Star. Pike’s Toothache Drops cure In 1 mimite^Se. Glenn's Sulphur Soap heals and beautifies. 25c. German Corn Remover kills Corns a Bunions. Tailors ought always to be able to please their customers, because it is thsir especial business to suit people. Wrecked Health. Victims of youthful indiscretions suffering from nervous debility, lack of self-con-fidence, impaired memory, and kindred symptoms, should send three letter stamps for large illustrated treatise, giving means of certain cure, with numerous testimonials. Address World’s Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y.

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DIO. a. HUM'S TAR WINS BALI, A sun care for all THROAT AND LUNG DISEASES. Colds. Concha, Hoarsen****, Sore Throat, Loss of Vole**. Influenza, and all wich,Threat Troubles field instantly to its I ical and soothing influence.

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