Pike County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 13, Petersburg, Pike County, 6 August 1885 — Page 4

ME COUNTY DEMOlillT. Published Every Tharsday. PETERSBURG. - - INDIANA MY SWEETHEART‘ I* too. havo a sweetheart—pray cease your dcriding:; You were singing last night: "Love can never grow ola.” Do you think just because my old poll Is so frosty My pulses are sluggish, my heart has grown cold? Well, well, laugh away, I care, not for your Jeering— I have my own swoetheart, my daintiest ‘ dear; When she comes through the meadow grass singing so gavly. The birds cease their carolings only to hear. The grasses wave round her, the blossoms bow to her. All doing her homage, all kissing her feet; And wild, timid creatures in woodland recesses Lose fear at her coming and leave their retreat. She is rich and het wealth without stint, without measure; She wears in her tresses bright, shimmering gold; She has pearls, whitest pearls, and her red lips disclose them "'hen the smiles chose the dimples her rosy eheeks hold. With eyelids half-shut I can sec she’s debating As to whether 1 sleep, with a comical quiz; I smile, and her white arms go up in a twink ling. Anther cheek is laid closo to my wrinkled old phiz. Oh, she is my sweetheart, my merriest of maidens. And how much I lovo her I never oan say; She's my darling, my pride and my heart's dearest treasure. * Her age? Do you ask it? She’s six come next May. “ -Elizabeth t. Merrill, in Louisville CourierJournal, [Copyright Secured. All Rights Reserved.] Driven From Sea to Sea; Or, JUST A CAMPIN’. MX O. a POST. PlTBUSOKU BY PERMISSION OP J. E. DOWNEY A Co., Publishers, Chicago. *

CHAPTER XV.—Continued. The work of cutting through the hill into the, neighboring gorge was begun at once. A large number of workmen were employed, and everybody who was directly interested turned out and worked with a will, rein or shine. A tunnel was driven into thc~sS,lo of the hill, and whole kegs of powder exploded therein, rending the earth and aiding greatly in tho work of excavation, and at-last the work was so far completed that a portion of the water and floating debris’ was turned aside into the new channel. Th^ rains, too, had now ceased, and as the waters subsided the extent of the damage done could be positively determined. In places, banks of sand and gravel many feet deep extended across fields regarded by their owners as tho most valuable in their possession. In other Elaces the channel of the little stream ad been entirely choked up, and a new one cut by the waters through pastures and . grain lands, and in yet others, whore little of tho coarser debris had been deposited, the long standing of tho water had greatly injured vineyards and orchards, the vines and treetrunks being thickly coated with the line clay which the water had held in solution. On the whole tho damage was less than many had feared, and with the expectation of preventing any further injury by the erection of the dam, hope revived in the breasts of all, and they began repairing as fast as possiblo the injdry already done, and the cultivation of their vineyards and fields for the eomingcrop. The Parsons ranch had suftered with the rest, but not more than many others. A hundred grape vines stand* ing upon ground near the creek wore killed or badly injured. Several banks of gravel, mingled with larger stones, extended across some of the, most fertile fields, the total injury amounting to a thousand dollars or more, in ,prosnlive, but not seriously affecting the nediate income of tho family occupying tho white cottage under the bluff, around whose open porch.still clambered rose bushes heavy with their , weight of yellow, and red, and crimson blooms. As soon as possible after Johnny had been brought borne from the shanty in the hills where Ee lay so many weeks, Jennie and Lucy had returned to school in San Francisco, Mrs.l’arsons being now more than ever determined that they should not fail to obtain an education. “If we leave them nothing else, John, let us at least givo them an education,” she had said to her husband, and lie had made no objections, though tfee house seemed doubly lonely without them. --j To help Mrs. Parsons with the lighter work they secured the assistance of a young girl whoso parents had moved into the neighborhood but the year before, and who, having but little to begin on, were not imwilling that their daughter should tind'a home where she would be kindly’treated anil paid for washing the dishes and such other chores as her age and experience fitted her for. As they had missed a portion of one term the girls did not go home for the short spring vacation, but remained in the city and studied, in order to keep up with their classes; and when they did return in midsummer Lucy was engaged to be married to James Annel

Bey. “The wedding was not to take place for at least a year yet,” she told her mother in announcing the engagement Mr. Annelsey had desired an immediate union, but to this she had interposed a decided negative, and he had at last consented that she should remain at school a year louger, When the}' wore to be married and he would take her to New York to reside. This was not wholly unexpected by the family. They knew that Mr. Annelsey had followed the young ladies to San Francisco, and that he had been a frequent caller upon th^m while thcro. Jennie had even intimated in one of her letters to her mother that she thought Lucy and he would be married some day. She said less of Ensign, who was almost as frequent a visitor as Annelsey. Jin fact the two young men had made up their slight difierences and frequently called upon the girls in compauy, or together arranged with them for attending upon places of amusement; and if Jennie had chosen she could have informed her mother of the probabilities of another marriage, almost as certain of taking place as that of Lucy to Mr. Annelsey. Jennie, however, was not formally engaged to Mr. Ensign. He nad his own way to make in the world, and had passed the age when meu are apt to act hastily in such affairs. He meant Jennie to understand that he preferred her to all others, yet ha djd not think it well to bind her by ftpshal engagement until he had something more ahead upon which they could begin life together. Times for laboring men, and especially for skilled mechanics like Ensign. w®^e!?°°<l just then, but the standard oflmng lor alt classes was also high, and the art of saving large fortunes out of salaries ot thirty or forty dollars a week in private life is even yet not well understood except by a few railroad officials and presidents of savings banks. Mr. Annelsey, infatuated wrth Lucy, uxl having no necessity for delay on

account of pecuniary matters, had proposed the moment he found his courage sufficient for tjio ordeal; and she, ali hough knowing in her-heart that she loved Krastus Letter,, yet thinking he cared nothing for her, and that her parents desired her union with Mr. Annelsey, accepted Itim. But when he urged an immediate marriage, her heart failed her, and she begged for time, giving as her reason a desire to remain at school another year, and so tit herself tne better to till the position which she should occupy as the wife of one who had the entrance of polite society in the first city of the'conntry. In this Lucy was partially sincere. She did not greatly love the man to whom she had engaged herself. As an escort to places of amusement, or a companion upon davs of merry-mak-ng, she would perhaps have chosen him in preference to any gentleman of her acquaintance, and was not very sorry that she had promised to be his wife. She cried a little when she was lirst alone after having done so, and even told herself that she was doing it to save her father and the rest of the family from poverty, and because her heart was broken at Krastus’ desertion of her for Julia Ennis; but when she had cried her cry out, she did not worry greatly about it, but began picturing to horself the life she would lead when she was the wife of one who could supply every want, without haviug to stop to consider whether something else would not do as well, and be more economical. She honestly wished to fit herself as far as possible to appear well in the society into which her husband would take her, and intended to study harder than ever, hoping thereby to accomplish it. Anil so it had been agreed between them mat Annelsey should go at once to New York, where his presence was desired by his parents, and -that Lucy should remaiu in school another year, when he was to return, and their "marriage be consummated. CHAPTER XVI. THE OISAPPOIXTED LOVER. Of course, Krastus was told of Lucy’s engagement to Mr. Annelsey. In fact, lie learned it from Jennie in advanco of any other member of the family. As they were driving home from the landing on their return from San Francisco and chatting of those things which are of more interest to' young p>eople, namely, other young people,, Jennie suddenly broke but with: “Say, Luca, I’m going to toll Has,” and without waiting for a reply or giving any heed to the blushes which I Hooded her sister's face and neck, she rattled on with all the spoed which her tongue could command; "How’d you like t’ have Mr. Annelsey for a brother-in-law, Ras? I know \ ou didn’t used to like him very well, but you’ll have to now, for Lucy and lie are engaged, and are going to be married when he comes back from New York in about a year. There now, Luce,'-it's out, and you

won i nave to oe carrying me awiui load of having to tell it any longer.” “I think you are just as mean as you can be,” retorted Lucy, half angry and uncertain whether to laugh or cry.' “I hadn’t said a word about Mr. Ensign, who has been almost as constant as your shadow ever sinoe we met him on the boat You would be engaged to him, too—you know you would—if it wasn't that he has got nothing to go to housekeeping with. So, there now, Has. you know all about us girls, and can confess that you are going i to marry Julia Ennis if you want to without blushing.” lint Erastus made no such confession, and instead of blushing, his face became very white, and he looked straight ahead and did not spoak for some s6oonds, and then said, in a voice which sounded hoarse and unnatural: “I am not going to marry Julia Ennis or anybody else.” After that little more was said for some time. Once or twice Jennie, who felt that she was the innocent cause of the sudden silence wnich had fallen upon them, attempted to start the conversation again by asking questions about neighbors or affairs on the ranch, but Erastus only replied in the fewest words possible, and still looked straight in front of him. . ___ Jennie was half inclined to bo offended at this. She thought him angry because Lucy had engaged herself to a man whom he did not like. Could she. have seen his face she would have known that some feeling deeper than mere dislike for Annel&ey was at work within his breast. As for Lucy, the assertion of Erastus, that he was. not going to marry Julia Ennis or kaybody else gave her a sudden start and a momentary insight into his true feelings. % Was it possible after all that lie loved her? The thought sent all the blood rushing back upon her heart, and for a moment she felt that she should suffocate. Then came another thought. Perhaps Erastus had proposed to Julia and been rejected. This she felt could not be unless Julia had suddenly become enamored of some new admirer, for certainly she had always shown a preference for Erastus over the other young men of the neighborhood. Still the thought clung to Lucy that such might be the case, and that instead of reeling bad because of her own engagement to another, his silence was caused by pain at being reminded of his refusal by Julia, and her Whole mood changed, and she became as cold and hard as ho himself appeared. As they neared home she began talking glibly of anything and everything she oould think of—the presents they had brought for each mcmbor of the family—toys for Johnny, a dress for mother, a neo.k-tie for Erastus himself, and a silver tobacco-box for father—all bought with money saved out of that

OOUI UIU1U tw lUCU UWU use, gUlUg Oil from this to tell of their school, and of a couple of girls who came on the boat with them as far as Sacramento, where their parents lived; and how these girls were related to one of their own neighbors, and how. in answer to theirtnquiries, Jennie and she had told them all about this neighbor; how near they were to their own home; how their ranch looked, and how it had been injured by the washings from the mines. Here she came to a sudden stop. Shehad unintentionally run upon that which they were all trying to avoid the mention of, and there camo to her not only a knowledge of her blunder, but an entirely new feeling—a feeling that she was somehow responsible for the losses and sufferings of this family and every other family in the valley Whose homes were endangered by the operations of the hydraulic mining companies at Gravel Hill. At least she had arrayed herself on the side of the oompanios; was engaged to be married to one who was interested | in the continuance of the work which was certain to bring more loss and suffering to these people. She was no longer of them or with them; for from the moment she became the wife of James Annelsey her interests would be opposed to those of every one she had known since they had settled in the valley. Even ncr father and mother, and Erastus, must feel that she had deliberately chosen to desert them in the hour of their greatest loss, and had gone over to their enemies in order to save herself from sharing in the hardships which might be coming upon them. All this passed through her mind in an instant, and she sank down in her seat with a feeling of shame, and a hatred of herself whioh made It impossible to say a word more.

“No wonder Krastus js silent,” she I thought. “He can not bear even to speak to one who seems so utterly seltish- Oh! /Why did 1 never think of it in that| light before? It is that which has made him so cold to me ever since Mr. Annelsey first came. He has thought all tho time that I was trying to save myself from any suffering that may come upon the rest of them. »Ob, if 1 could only die!” By this time, however, Erastus had partially recovered from the blow which had fallen so suddenly, if not unexpectedly, and was able to take up the thread of the conversation where Lucy had dropped it; antTUcnnie, anxious* not to reach home in such a frozen silence as to attract the notice of their mother, also chimed in, thus giving her sister time to rally again; and when they stopped in front of the cottage and Mr. aud Mrs. Parsons, tho former carrying Johnny in his anus, came out to welcome them, thoy thought they had never seen their daughters in a gayer mood, and attributed it to joy at being home again after such a long absence. When Mrs. Parsons told her husband of Lucy’s engagement he remained silont for a time and then said: “I s’pose it’s natural, Marty, an’ what's natural is ginerally right, but someway I’m afeard Lucy will bo sorry for it some day. “1 ain’t got nothin’ in particular agin the young man, but I’d a heap ruther she’d a married Rastus, an’ I feel certain he’d a asked her ef Mr. Annelsey hadn't got in his way and he seen that Lucy kind o’ took to him; though I nevor could make out that she lovod him so very much while he was a cornin’ here to see her. “May be it’s all right as it is,” he continued, after a moment’s pause. “At least she won’t want fer somethin’ to eat or to wear. An’ may be it don’t make any odds how it*s got, only so vou set it.

“I used ter think,” he wenton, ‘fthat nobody couldn’t go to Heaven that took what they hadn’t earned, butl d’know. May be there ain’t no Heaven ’cr no Hell; an’ no rtoht and no wrong—that we're just put here like the wild beasts to fight fer what we g.t, and that them that can git the mostis the best fellers. “If a man or a child is hungry and takes a loaf of bread, they semi him to jail, because that's a vi’lation of the law; but of he has money to^tart on an’ bribes Congris to pass a law so he kin rob a lot of poor folks of everything they .have, as fast as they can get anything together, why, they’re leakin’ money because they’ ve got more talents than other fellers have; and everybody is entitled to all they can make in this country! “I don’t believe Christ ever taught any sich doctrine es that, but there is them as portends to be His followers and to speak for Him as is always cuddlin’ to the rich, a knowin’, too, Sthat no man can get a million of dollars without gettur some that belongs to other folks. “Wall, Annelsey’s rich, an’ Lucy’ll be his wife an’ dress in silks and satin, and 1 hope she’ll be happy. May la when we’re dead an’ gono he’ll let her take care of Johnny, ef the boy outjives us. There ought to be some good come out of so much sutteria’, an’ may be that’ll be the way it’ll Some. ° ' “1 wouldn’t take a cent of it myself ef I was adyin’of hunger, but of some time Johnny should need their help it won’t be a gift exactly, for the company that’s put tin dollars into Annelsey’s pocket is a takin’ ’em out of ourn, an’ though they ain’t the same dollar^ exactly, it amounts to the same thing— it’s a robbin’ of us to get rich themselves.” A few days after this Erastus informeJPMr. Parsons, and, later in the day, the other members of the .family, that when the hurry of the season was over ho intended to leave them and strike out for himself. He hoped that they wouldn't feel that he was deserting them, for he would never do that; but he was now two years pa t his majority, arid ought to begin for himself, anil a number i of young men of his acquaintance Were going down to the Mussle Slough country to take up land, and he; had decided- to go with them. This decision of Erastus was the cause of much regret on the part of John and Martha Parsons. They loved and planned that when he should start for himself it should be in the immediate neighborhood of their own home, if, indeed, he did not marry one of t ie girls and remain always with them. They readily conceded his right to go. however, and as there was now little prospect that they would sobn bo able to buy him a place they did not wonder that he wished to leave them and start a home of his own. Perhaps they divined some of his [feelings for Lucy; at least they realized that they could offer no objections to his going which would not appear purely selfish. At first they insisted that he take tin few hundred dollars remaining in bank, and a pair of horses and a wagon. The money he positively refuseil to touch, except a few dollars necessary to enable him to make the journey to the Slough, although both the girls joined thoir parents in hegging him to do so, and declared they would remain home from school, or even teach school, rather than permit him who had done so much to aid in accumulating what they possessed, to leave without anything. him as their own

Finally it was agreed that he should take a pair of three-year-old colts and one of the wagons, together with provisions and money sufficient to last him until he could reach his destination, look about him a little and decide just what ho would do. During the time intervening before the day set for his departure he worked even harder than usual, that he might leave the fall work in good shape and so relieve Mr. Parsons as much as possible. The colts, too, were harnessed every day and made to do some light work that they might be hardened a little before starting upon the journey, which, although not such a very long one, would yet be a hard one on an? trials of their age. It was a very sad household, that oi John and Martha Parsons; during these few weeks of work and preparation; perhaps the saddest that had ever gathered about their board. When Johnny Was brought horn* crippled for life, and when it was thought that their homo was to be destroyed by the overflow, very dark indeed had seemed the days, especially to the parents; but always a hope that the homo might be saved, and the thought that eveu if worst came to worst the family could bo kept together, had enabled the mother to keep up a cheerful appearance. And young hearts are ever buoyant; so long as they have no very grave sorrows of their own, the sorrows of others, even those they love best, oan not prevent the occasional overflow of youthful spirits in merry laughter, and the young folks of the Parsons household had always expected that in some way the clouds that overshadowed them for a time would be lifted, and that the warm sun of love and prosperity would be found to hare a permanent abiding place in their firmament. ITO BE CONTINUED.] —Two waiters in a hotel at Lancaster, Los Angeles County, Cal., robbed their employer of a number of articles and left the place on foot. While one of them was taking a nap the other f to e a revolver and thirty-nine dollars from him and went on his way northward.— 5<W» Francis*) QhronitU.

THE MISSING LINK. Pictorial Solution of a Mysterious Disappearance. Teutonic* Supplemented bjr Canine, Sagacity— A Dream of Lore Rudely Dissipated—A Sad Awakening to the Stern Realities of life* [N. Y. Graphic.]

TEMPTATION. Suspicious. Wo think that the negro called “Senator” In the following anoedoto was correct in his suspicions. He said to a friend: "Mistah Waggonah, I tint I smelt one o’ dem mices.” “You think you'smell a mouse. Senator?’’ “Yes, sah. I done b’lieve I smell a miee, sah.” “How is that. Senator? What unexpected developments have you found now?” “Squiah, does you rocommember_dat gal I’se been cou'tin’ down in do scrubbnrbs of Steubenville?” | “Yes, Senator, I know her very well. What is the matter now? She has not gone back ou you, has she?” “Well, boss, I’se mightily afeard datam jes’ what she hab done. 1’se seed two or free tings dat looks nvouty ’spicious now, I tole yer, an’ I’se feared she’s done frowed me ovah.” “Why, what have you noticed, Senator?” “De mawnln’ papah says she has done gone and married Sam Likely las’ night Now, wouldn’t you call dat a mighty j ’spicious circumstaace, squiah?”—Bloomington Through Mall.

HESITATION. BONNER'S BIG HEAD. Something About Heads—The Book Agent Who Didn’t Fool the Nevr Tork Publisher. Robert Bonner has a big head. This is not a figurative way of saying that lie is mentally able, but a plain statement of a physical fact Not alone is his hat remarkable In size, but the shape of it commands attention. Its diameter from side to side is equal to the distance from front to back. Probably there is not another such cranium in America. A book-agent walked into Bonner’s office the other day with a bulky religious volume under his arm. “ I have called to show you a work,” he began. “ Haven't time to look at it,” said Bonner, decisively. “ The reason why I came to you,” persisted the canvasser, with the calmness of assurance arising only from habitual success, “was that your pastor. Rev. Dr. John Halt, considered this book highly desirable for his library, but did not feel able

PERSUASION. to buy it. He didn’t tell me to go to you, Mr. Bonner, and yet lie seemed to want the book so much that I thought possibly you might like to give it to him. Something that he said put the idea into my head and I said as much to him, but he peremptorily forbade me. He’d rather do without the work, helpful as it would be to him, than to have it hinted to you that it would be an acceptable present. St^l—” “You’re lying to me,” interrupted Mr. Bonner, “and 1 ought to kick you out.’* Then Bonner put his remarkable hat on his wonderful ht at preparatory to going out for his regular afternoon drive. “ 1 might have known better than to have tried my racket on a man with a head like that,” mused the agent, as he was about to depart—N. Y. Cor. Chicago Inter Ocean. Boy’s Composition. Johnny Flzzletop created a sensation in an Austin school by reading the following composition: ‘'The disobedience of parents is often the source of a great deal of Uneasiness to ) their offspring. Men who commit the

darkest; crimes generally begin by being disobedient to their children. “Disobedient parents are often the result of indulgent children, who intend it for the good of their progenitors, but are aware, loo late, that it is not beneficent. Of course, parents have their privileges and do not relish having them interfered with, but it is the duty of every conscientious child to see that they do not assume too much authority. Parents are naturally presuming, unless they are checked up once in a while. How often do we see a home where there is no peace, no harmony and no love? The

ARGUMENTATION. indulgent kid allows not only his parents, but his grand-parents, and relatives who lhay be in the house, to have their own way, and follow the dictates of their own foolish desires. The child who fails to keep a tight rein on the reckless parent is, soonel or later, sure to have his gray hairs, if he lives long enough, brought down in sorrow to the cemetery. Parents who obey theii children are the first to obey their Heavenly Father. What a wise old adage it Is— * bring up a parent In the way he should go, and when he is old ho will depart from it.’ Obedient and good parents make useful men and women, when they grow up.” —Texas Siftings. Why He Took His Feet Down. “Charles.” said a sharp-voiced woman te her hushand, “do you know that you and 1 once had a romance in a railway car?” “Never heard of it,” replied Charles, in a subdued tone. “I thought yon hadn’t, but don’t yon remember that it was that pair of slippers I

CONSUMMATION. presented to you seven years ago last Christmas—the Christmas before we were married^- that led to our union? Yon remember how nicely they fitted, don’t you? Well, Charles, one day when we were going to a picnic you had your feet up on a seat, and when you wasn’t looking 1 took your measure. But for that pair of slippers I don’t believe we’d ever been married.” A young, unmarried man sitting near by immediately took his feet down from a seat. —Chicago Herald. WONpER. A Man Whose Theory Does Not Square with Ills Fraction. “What I maintain is this,” said Mr. Whiffles oracularly* “at the age of sixty, or thereabouts, the power to wonder ceases. Take my own case, for instance. I am sixty, gentlemen, and have led a very active life. I have traveled widely amt read deeply; I have gazed upon the marvels of nature, art, science and mechanics. I have watched progress In every shape with emotion and

CONSTERNATION. awe; but I have ceased, to wonder. The cessation was not a matter of choice; I have uo longer the power. Remarkable histories, adventures and theories excite a certain peculiar feeling in me, but it is not wonder. Even the doings, the most eccentrie doings, ot crazy fanatics, either moral, political or religious, can not move me to wonder. I am beyond it, and I don’t know whether to be sorry or not You may depend upon it that to * man of sixty wonder Is a thing of the past” Here a neighbor looked Into the coffeeroom and said: “Mr. Whiffles, your wife asked me to step down and say that she particularly wanted you to go home at one*” Mr. Whiffles drank his glass ot “cold without” hurriedly, and as he got his head into his hat exclaimed: “How 1 wonder what the deuce she wants me lor.”—Detroit Free Preaa. - _ —“Ma,” said little Tommy, “do the ‘Injuns’ own the railroads?” “No, my son.” “Well, they’ve got somethin’ to do with them, ’cos pa says he bought his ticket off • scalper.”—Paul Herald.

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE. —Money economically spent in drain* ing wet places may lift a mortgage from a farm. —Owners of large farms in Oregon are selling off tracts and declare themselves believers in “a little farm well tilled." —A writer in Vicks Magazine says a dozen sets of perennial larkspur plants, in a row alongside of his potato field, will actually kill off the potato beetles. —A rooster in Chester County, Pennsylvania, has hatched out fourteen chickens from fifteen eggs, and has since been taking the best of care of them as if he was their natural mother. —At least two-thirds of the orchards that are reported dying from old ago are actually starving to death, and might be brought back to a fair state of health and vigor by a generous system of feeding the soil. —Fried Salt Pork.—Cut in thin slices and freshen, roll in flour and crisp, drain off most of the grease from the frying-pan, stir in while hot one or two tablespoonfuls of flour, one-half pint of milk and a little pepper; let it bod, then pour over the pork and serve. —The reply of a breeder to a shiftless intending purchaser, don’t buy, for poverty and bad care will disgrace any breed, is worthy of record. The standard of practical value and profit in any animal is the feeding and commonsense care use. —Cleveland Leader: If there is any one luxury the farmer’s family should enjoy, it is a comfortable carriage. A pleasant ride is a dispeller of weariness from hard labor. . Don’t go trundling areund in a lumber wagon, scrimping to add more acres to your already too large farm. —It is said that the flavor Of ’beets, turnips or cabbages in milk can be overcome by dissolving half a teaspoonfnl of salpetre in a teacup of water, and pouring, it into the churn with the cream at churning time. r' Cabbages may be fed at night after milking without flavoring milk. —It is said that Paris green applied to rosebushes and grapevines infested with rose-bugs, will kill the insects as surely as it does the potato-bug, when used on potato plants. The application can be dry, mixed with flour op land plaster, or in liquid forin, mixed with water, and sprinkled on, in the same manner as for the potato-bug. —The potato and tomato, being both members of the same family, may bo grafted into each other with success, so far as growth is concerned. A gardener who tried grafting the toraatp on a potato plant had a crop of tomatoes above ground, and one of potatoes underneath. The latter, however, were not good, as potato leaves were needed to give character and maturity to the crop.

—In green-houses the plants are sometimes infested with red spider during summer. Its presence may be detected by the brownish appearance of the leaves. These insects cannot exist in moisture, and the best method of checking their progress is to syringe the plants about sunset, or later, so that they will be wet all night. This is more effective than syringing during the day, when the moisture soon dries up. —The dust from moldy hair and grain causes unpleasant sensations and sometimes blind staggers and death in animals and men. ' Rust and black mold on wheat affect threshers disagreeably always, and sometimes injuriously. An exchange mentions that a California vine-dresser had been badly poisoned by grafting vines when the cuttings were diseased with a black fungus. Care should be exercised in these respects. CORN PLANTING. Unseasonable, but the Hints are Worth Considering For Next Season. The chief difficulty in racing corn is close planting, and it is a practice hard to overcome, so thoroughly has habit established it. It extends to the grains also, but its greatest harm is with corn, reducing its yield, often largely, and in some cases more than half, on all kinds of soil, whether good or poor, but more on good soil. Shade is the cause of this effect of close planting, which extends to both the stalk and the ear; but its chief harm is with the latter. We find the same effoct in orchards, where the admission of sunlight among the branches is_ ueeessary to the health of the tree amSf development cf fruit. Take corn of medium size, and three and one-half to four feet space between the rows, and the stalks twelve inchos apart in the row, and the best success will be obtained, one year with another, on good, but not the best soil. With rich land, in good condition, full four feet between the rows is required, and something more with the largest kind of corn, particularly if disposed to sucker much, the suckers or side-stalks, if the season is favorable to ripening, adding considerably to the amount of the grain, and much more largely and of increased quality tp the stover. There is considerable advantage in having the stalks in a single line in the row, one after the other, about equi-distant. This affords more open space, and admits of a little closer putting of the rows. To put' the stalks a foot apart in a line in the rows, and the rows four fact, apart, is equivalent to four stalks in a hill with check-plauting, affording a greater yield both of fodder and grain than with hill planting, which will probably not be denied. There will be a greater number of ears, and a larger side growth, the latter in particular, the more open space favoring development and giving a cltance for sun and air—an absolute necessity. I could cite many cases in endorsement of this, and have my own experience to corroborate it. Farmers, generally, are loth to experiment, or they conduct their experiments injudiciously and without sufficient care, not understanding all that relates to the test. The quality and the uniform character of the soil must be considered, and allowance made for the difference in corn: particularly must the size be kept in view, as also the disposition to sucker, as these effect the shade, which, if earned too far, lessens the ear growth, and with farther crowd ing results in fodder corn. The point to be aimed at is the greatest development to the ear, with: out an excess of space, and it must not be forgotten that the best development of the ear means also the soundest and fullest growth of the stalk which sun and air effect. This, of course, can be accomplished only with thorough, clean culture, as a crowd of weeds seriously arrests development and materially lessens the yield. I have insisted upon the necessity of more space in and above the ground, as it is an indispensible requirement too little heeded.—F0. in Country Gentleman.

A "Delicious Condiment." A letter to the London Standard declares that black beetles—the ordinary domestic beetles—when properly dressed form “a most delicious condiment.” Here is the recipe for beetle past: “Catch your beetles in a soup plate lille<Pwilh vinegar', and keep them soaking for six hours. Then turn the beetles out and dry them in the sun for at least two hours, when the outer shell can be easily removed, the flesh then resembling that of a shrimp, to bfe put into a gallipot and mixed up with flour, butter, popper, and salt, to a thick paste; stew in the oven for two hours, and when cold serve with bread and butter.”

A D>IIj Defalcation. The Hon. John Kelly, the head and -rout jf Tammany Hall, a man of strict integrity, an indeiatigahle worker, early at his Office, late to leave, so burdened with business that regular meals were seldom known by him. with mind in constant tension and energies steadily trained, finally broke down! The wonder is that he did not sooner give way. An honest man iu all things else, be acted unfairly with his. physical resources. He was ever drawing upon this bank without ever depositing a collateral. The account overdrawn, the bank suspends and both are now in the hands of medical receivers. It is not work that kills men. It is irregularity of habits and mental worry. No man in good health frets at his work. By and by when the bank of vigor suspends, these men will wonder how it all happened, and they will keep wondering till their dying day unless, perchance, some candid physician or interested friend will point out to them how by irregularity, by excessive mental effort, by constant worry and fret, by plunging in deeper than they had a right to go, they have p oduced that loss of nervous energy which almost Invariably expresses itself in a deranged condition of the kidneys and liver, for ft is a well-known fact that the poison which the kidneys and liver should remove from the blood, if left therein, soon knocks the life out of the strongest and most vigorous man or woman. Daily building up of these vital organs by so wonderful and highly reputed a specific as Warner’s safe cure, is the-only guarantee that our business men can have that their strength will bo equal to the labors daily pat upon them. Mr. Kelly has nervous dyspepsia, we learn, indicating, as we have said, a breakdown of nerve force. His case should be a warning to others who, pursuing a like coarse, will certainly reach a like result.— The Sunday Herald. “I’m having a rattling time.” said the cur with a can tied to his tail.— Weekly OAu'erieir. “A little fire is quickly trodden out Which, being sutterod. rivers can aotqtieneh.” Procrastination may rob you of time, but by increased diligence you can mage up the loss; but if it rob you of life the loss is irremediable. If your health is delicate, your appetite fickle, your sleep broken, your mind depressed, your whole being out of sorts, depend on it you are seriously diseased. In all such eases-Dr. Pierce’s “Golden Medical Discovery” will speedily effect a genuine, radical cure— make a new man of you and save you from the tortures of lingering disease. State-prison- convicts are like the hairs of the head, because they are all numbered. —iV. Y. Mail.’ Yeung: Men, liead This. * The Voltaic Belt Co., of Marshall, Mich., offer tosend their colebrated Electro-Vot-taic Belt and other Electric Appliances on trial for 30 days, to men (young or old) afflicted with nervous debility, loss of vitality and all kindred troubles. Also forrbeumatism,neuralgia,paralysis,and many other diseases. Complete restoration to health, vigor,and manhood guaranteed. .No risk incurred, as SO days’ trial Is allowed. Write them at once for illustrated pamphlet, free. The dentist always goes armed to thi teeth.—Burlington Tree Press. * * * * Piles, fistules and rupture radically cured. Book of particulars two letter stamps. World’s Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y. What is regarded as inspiration by the poet is by the editor regarded as insanity. —-V. 3". Herald. Bave your wagons, your horses ami your patience by using Fraser Axle Grease. A cyclone is like a waiter. It carrit everything before it. — C«rJ Pretzel Weekly. Pike's Toothache Drops cure in 1 minute, Glenn's Sulphxtr Soap heals and beautifies. German Coen Remover killsCotosa Bunii Bananas are more easily recognijsd the fall than at any other time of the ve —Pretzel’s Weekly. 1 Te afflicted with Bore Eyes, use Dr. Isaac Thompson's Eye Water. Druggists sell It. 25o> Tee man ijxthe moon must feel all broke up when he reduced to the last quarter. —Statistics collected b - Joseph PI Ferk ny of Syracuse, N. Y.. show that thousands of people live io a greater age than 100 years. lie says that at the present t me Connecticut leads in longevity in this country. The majority of very old people are women. Among men soldier-, salors and farmery are the longest lived. Mr. Perkins, found one Hundred ministers who had passed the century limit, but he found only thirty doctors, ten lawyers and ten actors that had reached that standard. There is no record of a 100-year-old newspaper man.—Express.

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