Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1880 — Page 4

Rensselaer Republican , MAJOR BITTERS A SON, rvHUkmm and Fronton. RENSSELAER. i : INDIANA

IB HE BlOHr Inow that he fee* kowwlMdi, WmfeKMM, •took*— I know not what— And yad I do not know if fee la lick or not If erred, and joH. and pomp, and pride, • Can make one rich. then fee la ao. I think there's nerd of ocher things, Yet do not know. To uks one rtefe. It seene to bm, Jt nerds e home where love ean dweO. PirSfi Ifees fee tew rash akoqae But this I know, a aad-browed man Mia tfe a dap upper room. Whfldallbatewlshafetaadeasc, . Aad sweet perfoaast The moate Heats on to kis ear. He bows his head neon his breast In vary bitterness of heart. And prays for rest. He sees—alas! now all too late— The eed mistake of kis past life. How small and narrow seem ita aims. Its greed and strife. ■» might hare gathered gems of troth To deck an ererHlrlng ar-01, Breathed thoughts to grave kis name foe aye On fame s bright scroll. He might have wrought out noble deeds, ’ And deed* of kjVe and tenderness. So that ail those that named kis name Should name to bieae. But he has done none of these things, His treasures are but heaps of gold. He feels be has for shining drote. His birthright sold. Men name the ram that he is worth. The gems bis wife and daughters wear, And how much their lest party ooat, And talk ends there. There are no deeds that they can name. In all theyears tb it he baa passed. Which in one thankful heart will live While life shall last. His wife and daughters have no thought, Except for pleasure's giddy maze; They have no thought to waste on him Of blame or praise. I say again &e may be rich. But to my mind it seems not sot Td sooner btvs a wealth of love. And let gold go. —Mary E. Poictß. in E. T. Week*.

GRANDMAMMA’S WILL.

Ir I said that Grandmamma Gresham was a rain old woman, I suppose it would not be very reverential. But still, she certainly did take an immense interest in her personal appearance—and that with some reason. A tall and commanding figure and portly presence, her black eyes glittering in her pale face with nearly the glow of their youth, and not a silver thread yet {Minting any contrast with the blackness of her hair, there was something startling about her, as if she were the apparition of a dead youth. She was never visible till a late hour in the day, and any one who had the temerity to break the rule and enter her apartments would be verv apt to find her sitting before the old swinging mirror, “in which her grandmother had dressed to be married,” as she used to say, and occupied, with the help of old Rose, in twisting in a tress of false hair here, a curl there, in darkening an eyebrow, or making a cheek more blooming with her little hare's-foot—a curious weird face reflected on her from that glass meanwhile before which she so constantly practiced these rites, a handsome face when all the work was done. What she wished to do it for was not so easy to be seen, at least by us young people; for why should she care, we thought, who considered her loTely or unlovely? It waCs not easy for us, in the flush and glory .of our youth, to realize that she could not bear to acknowledge even to herself the departure of her own. and was but keeping up the sad fiction as she might. There was a full-length Sortrait in ita old frame in the great ark hall, the likeness of a graceful, stately girl in her peach-blos6om silk, and hood and scarf of black lace, with the great loose ringlets of shadow over her round shoulder, and blowing back from her dazzling brow, with the glow of expectation in the dark and shining eyes and in the joyous smile. Sometimes Grandmamma Gresham paused as she passed, and rested npon her cane, and looked at this lovely picture that brightened all the gloomy place; and we none of us ever dreamed that she was thinking what a travesty and caricature of it she was now, with her patches and powders and paints, and in the velvets and India Cashmeres that every night when she took them off were laid away, lest she might not rise to wear them again, in the big chest, for Amelia Gresham. But none of us had any of Grandmamma Gresham's beauty. The fact was, she was* not our grandmother. We were the descendants of her first husband by his previous marriage, and she had married twice since, and if life were long enough, might have had as many husbands as Gudrun the Beautiful, for all we knew. She had married our grandfather when she was very young, and on his early death bad married soon again, and had let his children drift none knew whither, he having left them each only a souvenir and a recommendation to the young stepmother, to whom in his infatuation and passion he had bequeathed every thing else. She had sailed on in her career of sunshine and shadow, losing husbands and children, but, with her handsome bank account, never knowing trouble that might have touched her more nearly; and now, in her old age, she had been forced by public opinion to take into his house the grandchildren of her first husband, left orphans and nearly penniless. She treated us with a gracious hauteur. “Manners like ice-cream,” Anne used to say; “such cold sweetness.” But although so distantly kind to us, all horlove was for Amelia Gresham, her last husband's daughter, a pretty minx, who, in return, cared at all for her, and would not live with her in the dingy rat-trap, as she called the dear old mansion-house, but made her home with relatives in a gay city, where grandmamma punctually paid her board, and only returned for afresh outfit of the favors and fineries with which grandmamma loaded her. f lt was understood, long before we came to the bouse to live, that grandmamma had made her will, and given all she had to Amelia Gresham, and we never thought of making any effort to have that disposition of things altered; for although it seemed a great outrage, if one reflected on it, the property having originally been our grandfather's; nevertheless it was her own now. and she had a right to do as she chose with her own. Moreover, I can't say, after all we had heard about her, but that we were w little pleased to see that she had a heart, and could really love somebody. We came to the house only while we were preparing ourselves to make our own way in life; for we each had some little aptitude, I with music, and Georgia with painting, and Anne—well. Anne was our beauty, and was to be married to Francis Evans at some time or other: that was her aptitude, apparently. Somehow both Georgia and I felt that we were as much concerned in the marriage as Aune, and it used to please Anne, although she laughed about it. “ Grandmamma has had three husbands all to herself,” she would say; “it’s a pity if we '*annol have one among us.” Eat while we were in her house we determined to do oar whole duty to grandmamma, forgetting the years of neglect and oblivion, and returning to her what we might for the remembrance of us at last. We considered her comfort in everything and before everything, from the moment that she put t» htwwkwping key* is par' hands.

We never intruded on her in the solemn hours whea the eat before her glees, if we oould avoid it, except onoe, that I remember; we always spoke kindly of Amelia Gresham, and treated her like a prince** on her rare and brief vieite; and we did really listen with Interest to grandmamma's twilight recitals of her past festivities and triumph*, as she set with the gknr of the ooad Are reflected from the crimson curtains in life-like warmth on her pale face, for it was all like some romance to us who had seen eo little of either factivity or triumph in oar poverty-stricken lives. The only time that we varied oar manners toward Amelia Gresham was when she once tossed her head and gave grandmamma some shockingly rode speech on one of these occasions, and started to ran from the room with her fingers at her ears, when Anne, whose position as the married one—or at least, you know, we felt as if she were as good as the married (me—gave her more authority than the rest of us, laid her band timidly upon Amelia’s arm, and said, in a halfwhisper, "It isn't possible you are so cruel ss to wound the old heart that loves you so!” And Amelia, who had perhaps never been reproved in all her life before, turned on Anne with agase of astonishment, and then broke out laughing. “ Oh, you little nonnetter* ahel&ughed. “If you are going to be so caroral of people’s feelings, you had better begin by considering mine, bored to death with the thousand-and-first hearing of this sort of stuff.” "Bored to death,” said Georgie, “ when it's like a story!” Grandmamma was looking at Amelia. I saw a tear suddenly start in her hard, glittering eve. “ Ah, don't mind her,” I whispered, stealing my hand over and taking hers, for I sat on a low seat near her; “she'sonly jesting.” And grandmamma looked in the nre then, without making any reply, but took my hand between her own; she showed her age in her hands, and always wore finemeshed mitts to hide their shriveled backs, just as she bound her throat up high with lsce. But Amelia saw the little action, which, I am sure meant nothing, and burst out in one of her rages, which grandmamma, for all her majesty, had trembled under before; because it is always the one that loves that is at a disadvantage; the other is in the saddle. “Oh year’ she cried. “Honeying round her with your pusaying ways! Let me tell you, she likes honesty. And you won’tget a dollar of Mrs. Gresham’s money, for all—” “Let me tell youP' blazed out our gentle Anne at that, “that we don't want a dollar of Mrs. Gresham’s money. W e are making ourselves ready to earn our own. 0 Ana we think more of many other things than we do of money. And whoever gets it, anyway, we shall not forget that it was our grandfather’s money, not theirs.” “That is so,” said Grandmamma Gresham, as if the thought had never occurred to her before. But she rose slowly, and grasped her cane, and went away to her own rooms, and we did not see her for three days, Rose waiting on her till she was ready to re-appear again.

“ Isn’t it too bad, Francis,” asked Anne that night, “ that anybody should have our own grandfather’s house but ourselves?” But she checked herself as Amelia came back with a rose in her hair, and even frowned down Georgie's innocent remark about its being such a dear old place. And that it was: an elm-shaded, E -gabled, century-old house, set in ns, with a patch of blue lake just r it, and the slope of a green hill just behind it—a hill on whose summit the cannon had been fired on every Fourth of July, and on every Twentysecond of February, and on every anniversary of the battle of New Orleans, since time began for those days. It gave a oertain liveliness to the still region, the dragging up of great guns, with the following of little boys, and all the stirring scene of the loading and scattering and touching off, to which latter sometimes every pane of glass in the house shook. “It is very greeable,” said Amelia once, happening to be there at the time; “ and when I burly own the house, I shall make such a rout about it that the town will choose another spot for its cannonading!” But for my part lam glad to say now that I never disliked to hear it, and have sat listening for the reports, at times, when they would roll and roll away and awav into the woods in the far horizon till the echoes became a' sort of music. . . It was not ,a great while after the night when Amelia came back with the rose in her hair that I began to notice, a strange trouble in our sweet Anne’s face. Her great gray eyes would dilate and grow fixed in reverie, and at one time such a deep color would burn in on her face, and at another she would be so deathly white! apd at last when 1 saw Francis walking in the garden with Amelia, and her glance pursuing them, I knew what it meant. I might have known before if I had had the sense to understand the angry expostulation of Grandmamma Gresham with Amelia that once I overheard; but it never occurred to me that any one could be so shameful as Amelia was. But I knew how to sympathize with Anne better than once I might have done, to be tender with her, and to let her alone; fori had begun to think that, after all, giving music lessons would not be the work of my life, since Dr. Dinsmore had begun to visit us. How innocerft we were, we girls! We surely thought that grandmamma bad sent for him about her health.

“It is a pity,” said Grandmamma Gresham to him one day, “ that such nice girls should be destitute. But then there is one thing—such nice girls do not need money. I had none.” Bat it was the very next morning that Dr. Dinsmore asked me to be his wife. And I was so glad, and so proud, and so .surprised, and so sorry, too, for Anne, that I had to go to some one, and I did burst in on Grandmamma Gresham at her toilette, and Lid my face on her poor old breast, and cried there. She laughed at me, although she lifted my face aud smoothed my hair; that is, she laughed in own way—she was very careful about laughing, on account of her teeth. “Well, my dear,” said she, “ you are going to have a good husband, and that is enough for anybody. I shall give you your wedding gown, but that is all I ehall give you. Amelia seemed to find it a great deal pleasanter with Grad mamma Gresham than she ever had before, and now it was her flying visits that were made the other way, and she came back and staid longer at the mansion-house every time. “ Mrs. Gresham is getting so old 'and infirm,” she would say, by way of explanation, to those out of the family who made remarks; and at first grandmamma would stare at such an unwonted exhibition of good feeling, and then she would tremble and get very angry at the imputation. It was when Amelia was away on one of her short stays that grandmamma sent for some gentlemen to come and see her, and she was closeted in her sitting room with them nearly all day; but we were none the wiser, and we did not say anything about it to Amelia, when she came in with Francis, who had met her at the station. She gave ns no time, in fact, for as soon as she had thrown off her cloak and fan, she plunged into the German lesson that Francis was giving her, while Anne sat by with a trembling lip. That girl had even taken to reading Blaukstone with him, he having assured her she would find it fine; he was studying law himself, and had been any time this five years. What a dreary wlmfcr season that

was! I remember how gray sad* dark It seemed, si though I was so full of happiness myself. Bat I oould not got Anne from under her cload into my sunshine. She began to go oat skxte, though, to the morning serrioe of a neighboring church, and came home always afterward with her white faoe full of peace. “Don’t mind me, dear,” she said; “lam going to be happy as ever by-and-by. We do not know what is beet for ns. What if I had found out he was not worthy when it was certainly too latef” Tet she did not break with Francis into many words, although lover-like behavk#had ceased. I think she felt she dared not give him up altogether for his own soul’s sake, and that if he came book to her, worthy or not, she would do him faithful serrioe yet; and so she waited. It was at about this time that one day we found Grandmamma Gresham sitting dead before her glass. It was a great shook to us. But I don’t think it eras any greater shook than it was to see Amelia auiokly and quietly go to grandmamma's drawers, and take out the jewels and laces there, carry them away to her own room, and oome down to dinner that night with the diamonds in her ears. We were not quite prepared for her taking the head of the table; but she did, and of course Anne said nothing. On the day after the funeral, having assembled os all in grandmamma’s sit-ting-room, she produced the will, and requested Dr. Dinsmore to read it. It gave everything to her. “lam very sure there is a later will than that, miss,” said Rose, firmly. ■ Amelia dismissed her on the spot, ss Rose might have known she would; but Rose repeated firmly what she said, and then Dr. Dinsmore calmly told Amelia that she oould not afford to let such a statement pass as that. But of course we could not have overhauled Amelia’s trunks if we had wanted to do so, that is, without more publicity and scandal than we oared to have, although, to tell the truth, on a hint from Rose, we had already privately looked in every nook and corner that we oould command, and had taken down and opened every book in the library, but to no purpose. There had been something m Grandmamma Gresham’s manner toward Anne, especially of late, that made Georgie and me think she oould not be meaning to leave her altogether unbefriended; the more, too. because she seemed to feel bitter and ashamed Concerning Amelia’s oonduct. I will confess that I was more malicious than avaricious about it, however. I knew that Francis Evans was only thinking of Amelia’s inheritance; that in his heart it was Anne for whom he cared, and he was selling his soul’s birthright for a mess of pottage, and I should have liked to balk and baffle him.

“A family physician,” said Amelia, with a great dignity that did not become her sort of nose, “is allowed some license, but perhaps so muoh will not be thken again when it is known that I now have a protector—” “A protector!” said Georgie, without thinking. “ Yes,” she answered. “And I wiH tell you now, because we are going, away for a week, that I don’t suppose it will be particularly pleasant for yon to be here on our return, as Francis and I were married this morning.” There was a dead silence for a moment in the gloomy room that dark winter morning, and then the report a cannon rolled through the air, followed by another, and I remembered, as I ran to the window, hardly knowing what I, did, but doing anything in my embarrassment, that it was the Twentysecond of February. “ Washington’s Birthday,” said GeorF'e, feeling just as I did. “ Dear me ! should think the Father of his Country might have had powder enough in his lifetime—” But she stopped, for Dr. Dinsmore was speaking, aud I never shall forget how proud I felt as I turned and looked in his honest eyes. “ We cannot congratulate Amelia,” he said, “on your choice of a husband who has been willing to play so infamous a part —” All at once the dark room was illumined by a mighty flash, and a report clapped through it and out again, and seemed to shake the very rafters of the roof and the Stones of the foundation. The great gun on the hillside bad burst, and at the same moment Grandmamma Gresham’s swinging glass, in which her own grandmother had dressed to be married, as she so many times had told us, answered to the fearful vibration, rent in cracks, like the rays of a great sun, from side to side and from top to bottom, in coudtless splinters, ana the shivered, shattered bits tumbled out upon the floor, aud with them a large folded sheet of paper. •

“ * Out flew the web and floated wide; The mirror cracked from side to side; “The curec is come upon me,” cried The Lady of Hhallott,’" I exclaimed, in a sort of hysterical exoitement, as I saw that paper and sprang for it. / Amelia's quick eyes had seen it, too, though, and she also darted in its direction. Rose was before her. “It is madam's last will,” she said. “It is {‘ust her way. She was always hiding ler things. I knew it. She tuckedn between the back-board and the glass, you see. I knew it, for I witnessed it, though she bound me to silence.” And she gave the paper to Dr. Dinsmore. It was very brief. But when it was read it was found that out of the greatly-diminished estate Amelia had an annuity of four hundred dollars a yoar; and the mansion-house, with all it contained, and with everything else, belonged to Anne and Geofgie. “Under the circumstances, sir,” said Dr. Dinsmore, as he folded the paper again, “you will scarcely wish to remain any longer under the roof you have outraged.” And obliged to obey that commanding glance, Francis Evans and his wife, like two whipped hounds, passed through the door he held open. “Heaven bless George Washington and the man that invented gunpowder!” I cried. And Rose ran to pack the great chest and the trunks, by Anne’s direction, and send them after Mrs. Evans, who had walked off with the two diamonds in her ears.— Harper's Bazar.

Theodore Snediker, of No. 606 Broadway, has been arrested at the instance of his wife, who lives at No. 867 Grand street, on a charge of abandonment. Snediker tells a curious story. He has been in the habit, he says, of calling at his wife’s house every Saturday night in order to give her money. She would refuse to accept it, but he would force it into her hand or leave it on the table. At length she would not admit him, and he then placed the money under the door. The next week the crack under the door was filled with rags, and he broke a window and threw the money in. He says that his wife was of a very jealqps disposition, and that she would follow ana watch him when on his way to work. The most singular feature of the whole matter, however, is that Snediker has brought a suit for divorce from his wife on the ground of cruel and inhuman treatment. He is a large man and she is of a diminutive size. -N. T. Tribune. . Whatever variety of potatoes an planted, select the best tubers for seed. Plant large, well-formed, smooth potatoes, as it is evidence of a large, wellformed variety, evidence of soundness and health, evidence of perfection; and in order to produce the best of anything the surest way is to sfeftfet the West to grow from.

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

Meat that has been frozen should be thawed oat before being pat into the barrel, as th# hard-frozen meat does ** * *° d ° a *~ ▲ dot bed (not mod) is good for hogs, and if dnety there is little danger of vermin. A warm, dry hogpen, with a dirt floor, and.banked op so aa to keep oat the wind, is a comparatively safe place for bogs, and can be cheaply iKMiwtraoted Thb Washington Comity (Pa.) farmers, as a general thing, seed down the ground from wUoh a crop of com has Been gathered, which, where it eaa be done, ts heavily manured in the spring for the oorn crop, and then in the fall, with the application of some fertilizer, the field is seeded down and generally produces a good crop of wheat the year Goiokb Ice Cuajc.—Make a costard of a pint of cream and four egg* put to it Cut up in small pieces two ounoes of preserved ginger; add sufficient ground ginger to flavor well, and syrup or sugar to taste. Stir occasionally until cold, and pat it into the freezing-pot. Care shoald be taken to use fresh and good ground ginger, as otherwise it is apt to impart a moldy kind of flavor. These frosty mornings and ohilllng winds are laden with rheumatic pains, which are apparently lavished without stint on aged people. In absence of a better remedy, it will be found that equal quantities of kerosene oil and turpentine applied warm to the afflioted part will do mueh toward ’ relieving pain. All rheumatic people should wear flannels, not only In winter, but all summer, too, if they are then afflioted. —Exchange. Farmers who spread on a thin ooat of twelve or fifteen loads of manure to the acre, and expeot to raise a good orop, would be astonished to see the quantities of the best kinds of manure whioh market gardeners often apply to an acre of land near the oities. what would they say to the application of six hundred dollars’ worth of horse manure to a single acre? Two or three hundred dollars’ worth of manure per acre is a oomnon thing among market gardeners, and they find their account m so doing, too. Agricultural societies, if guided by reflection instead of preoedent, would offer to those who, by persevering experiment establish new and valuable varieties of fruits and vegetables, ten times as muoh as they now offer for sleek stallions and pampered geldings and heavy crops from patches of oorn. A new variety of the potato, for example, is generally considered to oontinne in perfection not more than fourteen years. Fresh varieties must therefore be raised—and how few will take the trouble to do itfP He who does, and suooeeds in supplying the place of a declining peach or apple, or potato, is a real Benefactor of his country, and deserves higher reward than the inventor of a new shell for dealing death and destruction to the human race, which, by the by, rarely falls upon the real authors of the mischief that plunges nations into war.— Cincinnati Times. The following rule for computing interest is reoommended: Multiply the principal by the number of days in the entire time, considering thirty days a month, and three hundred and sixty days a year (as is usual in interest rules)* Multiply this produpt by the number expressing the rate per cent. Divide this product by thirty-six andfrom the right of the result point off five plaoes. The dollars will Be found at the left of the point. ’ This rule is always oorreot, and it involves no fractious except when the rate is fractional, as three aud a half per cent. Fractional rates are not common, however. A remark is necessary in explanation of the pointing off. If the principal contains cents, follow the rule; but if the principal contains dollars alone, point off three places from the final result. Although the above rule is, in general, as good as any, it is particularly useful to such as have an elementary knowledge of arithmetic. Educational Weekly.

Growing Plants in Living Rooms.

Th e following embraces extracts from an address delivered by Peter B. Mead before the New Jersey Horticultural Society: To snow you that 1 have some right to speak on the subject, as well as to win your confidence, 1 will state that I have grown plants in rooms since I was a boy. In this way I have grown, of species and varieties, several thousands: indeed, I have more than once had upward of six hundred in the house at the same time, nearly every window being ornamented in this way. I may, therefore, be supposed to know what kinds of plants sucoeed best in rooms. I will ada that I have had no inconsiderable experience in growing plants in the greenhouse, and I am oompelled to admit that to grow a plant well in a room taxes one’s knowledge and skill more than to grow the same plant well in a greenhouse. There is, therefore, no occasion for the sneers that we sometimes hear about growing plants in rooms. . Some of you may ask whether plants in rooms are detrimental to health. Speaking from my own experience, I most say they are not. I have even had my bed-room windows crowded with plants during the whole winter. It must be observed, however, that some persons have very delicate and susceptible nervous systems, and cannot endure even the delioate fragrance of the rose. Such persons may be injured by, or suffer great Inconvenience from, fragrant flowers. I have known some suoh persons, however, to receive much pleasure from the cultivation of inodorless flowers. Aside from suoh oases, I know of no injury likely to arise from growing Slants in rooms; but I know of a great eal of solid comfort and pleasure. Thus much on the score of injury to the health of the grower. I will turn next to the conditions best adapted to the health of the plants. Since the general use of hot-air furnaces and baseburning stoves, the difficulties of growing plants in rooms have been muoh increased. In parting with the fire on the hearth and the wood-burning stove we parted with a good deal of pure, healthy air. But we must make the best of it, and have recourse to ventilation and open windows aud doors in connection with some expedients to be hereafter noted.

In regard to exposure, a room facing the south is the best; next, east; next, west; and last, north. There are seme plants that are very well adapted to either of these exposures, which will be mentioned in their turn. There are some “accessories” which are almost indispensable. A barrel or two of good soil should be put in the cellar, ana not left out-of-doors. The best soil for general purposes is rotted sod. A good outfit would consist of rotted sod, leaf mold from the woods, old, well-rotted manure, and sharp sand of any kind, except sea sand. If rotted sod cannot be had, get the best soil you can; for yon can make it good enough with the other materials. Next, something tb Stand the plants on. Have a box made throe and a half feet long, two and a half feet wide and three or four inches deep, and, if convenient, lined with zinc. Place this on a table, and fill it with clean sand, which should be kept moist. This will promote cleanliness as well as the health of the plants. It will, be a great convenience to have the table fitted with

roller*, not only for rolling it back am cold nights, but tar handling tke plants triton necessary to change or dean them. There is no necessity for saucers buL Jtay this arrangement, can be Irebly prevents the accumulation at red spider *and some other insect poets. TIM drip is absorbed by the sand, and no harm is done to the carpet. The moist sand table has another advantage: The evaporation that slowly bat constantly takes plaoe from its snrfaoe greatly promotes the health of the plants. Perhaps the ladies will admit that a vaporiser is a good thing to hare. The plants think so, and so do L loan only allude briefly to the use and composition of soils. Rotted sod, redoeed with more or lees sand, is well adapted for most kinds of plants. In the absence of rotted sod, a good compost may be made of any common soil, leaf mold and sand, to which should be added, if convenient, a little well-rotted manure. If you have no manure, then drop in the water occasionally a lamp of carbonate of ammonia or a few drops of hartshorn. Do not at any time nse guano, either in the soil or in the water. For the cactus and succulents generally the soil should be light and sandy. In regard to watering, do not have any set time for this, but water a plant whenever it needs it, or as soon as the soil gets dry on the surface, and then five it enough to go quite through the all of earth. Plants like the calls, however, should be kept constantly wet. 4 plant in bloom needs more water than when not in bloom; a plant in a dormant condition needs less than when growing, and some plants, when dormant, require to be kept quite dry. It would take too much time to classify these plants here. A good brass syringe, with duplicate roses, is quite a necessity. A watering-pot about nine inches deep, seven inches in diameter, with a spout two and one-half feet long, iittfti with a couple of roses of different degrees of fineness, is a very convenient thing for a lady to handle. The face of the rose should be flat and made of copper. One rose should have very fine holes. The common handle is an awkward thing. Instead of being placed at the top, and at right angles with the spout, it should start at the edge nearest the spout and pass over the top to near the bottom of the pot, m a line with the spout. In placing the plants in position on the table do not crowd them. No two plants should touch each other. No matter what your knowledge and skill, or how painstaking you may be, you cannot grow good plants if you crowd them; not, at least, what I oall good Slants. You cannot do it in a greenouse, much less in a room. It is much more satisfactory to have a few well-grown plants than to have many poorly grown. Place the plants, therefore, in a proper position, and so that each may have a due share of sunshine and light. The spaces between the pots may be very prettily filled in with selaginellas, ferns, festuca glauea, tradescantia and similar plants that like a little shade. Syringe or vaporize the plants frequently overhead.' Open the windows at top or bottom when the weather is mild. On very cold nights pull down the shade ana roll the table a little back from the window. If you have but little fire-heat, you can, on cold nights, .spread. some papers or a sheet over the plants. Do not keep the room too warm. In brief, be thoughtful and observant, and these and many other things will naturally suggest themselves.

Children’s Fashions.

Children's hosiery differs little in style from that of grown people. Cardinal, seal brown, old gold and gendarme blue are furnished, handsomely embroidered in colors, to match the prevailing shades of the dross, while tartan plaids and broken stripes combine many bright hues. Many boys are wearing handsome furtrimmed sacaue overcoats, one of which is of dark Brown diagonal cloth, bordered with sealskin fur, with wide collar, and furnished with horn buttons. Walking jackets in various jaunty styles are common for young girls, while for smaller children sacques reaching to the bottom of the dress are worn. Dresses for children up to six or eight years of age are still made in one piece —a fashion both comfortable for the child and convenient for the mother. Wool and silk, and silk and velvet, arethe materials used in these dresses, which may be very simple, or elaborately and gracefully modeled to simulate a vest and jacket. Satin bands and lace serve as garniture. Kilt suits, which are still popular, come in Scotch plaids, and are worn with stockings to match. For boys’ school suits plain cloths and fancy cassimercs in checks, and small and large broken plaids, are used. Plainer suits for girls of from ten to twelve years of age are of wool and silk in combination, and are frequently modeled in princess style, with a deep pleated flounce at the bottom of the skirt and with scarf-like drapery. Shirring is also in great favor on girls’ suite. A new spring suit of light gray de bege for a little girl is in one piece, with a front composed of alternate diagonal pleats of de bege and silk of a similar shade, and is finished at the bottom by a wide fine-pleated flounce. A veiy unique Parisian design, also new and suitable for a young girl’s spring dress, consists of two pieces, a plain robe in princess style, pleated at the bottom, and an overdress. The waist of the latter is ini bodice-shape at the back, and in front extends down to form a long polonaise which reaches over the hips, and is bunched together at the back in graceful drapery. Plain goods of solid color form the under robe, and the upper garment is of figured goods in the same or an harmoniously contrasting shade. ' Favorite country and seaside costumes will be made, as heretofore, in blue, brown and mixed flannels of fine light quality, and will oonsist of blouse waists and kilt skirts. Prominent among new patterns for girls’ spring suits is one consisting of a skirt formed by overlapping rows of deep pleating and a pannier basque. This costume u completed by a sacque in Vandyck style, which will probably prove popular as a spring wrap. In spring goody, both for wraps and dresses, fight tan, cream ecru and similar shades will be very popular in cashmeres, de beges and light cloths. Among new things for children’s wear appearing in dry-goods houses are dainty little dresses of fine muslin, cambric or marseiUes, with elaborate fronts composed of fine tucking, inserting and embroidery. Hamburg-Swiss, or Portuguese machine-work embroideries are employed on these garments. A very pretty costume for a little girl’s house-wear is an over-dress composed entirely of Italian or Breton lace and inserting, with a garniture of graceful ribbon bows, and designed to be wOrn over a bright-colored silk or satin un-der-dress. Included among spring and summer goods suitable for children's use are momie cloths figured in Japanese style on soft, cream-tinted grounds, or dotted with tiny flowers and leaves on K* l pink, blue or other colors; also, a of crepe so rich and soft that it has almost the appearance of silk. Both of these materials are entirely of ootton.—N. Y. Evening Post

—During the year 1858 the late A. T. Stewart invited Lewis Tappan, a pnV mt in the firm of Arthur Tappaa 4k Oa., to come to Us store, then situated on Broad to and report the facta of hisoondittanto hie linn and to Henry Sheldon, a French importer, and several others, from whom Mr. Stewart desired considerable credit. After a eareful examination, Mr. Taiwan reported Mr. Stewart to be “ferny worth 983,000 over and above all his liabilities.” This gave confidence to all parties, and thenoe afterward ha had all the credit he wanted. Some yean after this, Mr. Stewart told Mr. Tappan that the credit given as the result of that examination gave him a new start in business, and was of immense advantage to him.— Harper's Weekly.

—The Louisville Democrat says that as a body politic each State should out but little figure. Its prosperity and strength should not be seen in the number and magnifioenoe of its public buildings, such as State-houses, Poorhouses, Correction-houses, Courthouses, Jails, Penitentiaries, eto. These may be evidences of the prosperity of “suceeas,” but they are not evidenoee of a prosperous, highly civilized, self-governing commonwealth. On the oontrary, they are monuments of social rottenness and internal disorders. So far from being objects of pride, they should be oonsiaered expensive and shameful finger-boards of a kw order of civilization. —The hound is a most interesting dog. How solemn and long-visaged he is—how peaceful and well-disposed! He is the Quaker among dogs. All the viciousness and currishness seem to have been weeded ont of him; he seldom quarrels, or fights, or plays like other dogs. Two strange bounds, meeting for the first time, behave as civilly toward each other as two men. I know a hound that has an ancient, wrinkled, human, far-away look that reminds one of the bast of Homer among the Elgin marbles. He looks like the mountains toward which his heart yearns so much. —John Burroughs, in Scribner for March.

—The ice is generally broken up in the Hudson River, and many of the icehouses are still empty, which is a great loss to the laborers relying on the ice harvest to give them work. Kingston alone loses 9100,000 in this way, it is said, and in some cases there is distress among the families of the men. It is thought the rates will be fifty per cent, higher in New York than last year. Some of the companies have sent their men and machinery to Maine, where ice is plenty, and others are drawing supplies from different parts of New England. To keep hams after oaring, wrap in brown paper and place in a tight Dag, so as to be secure from flies; or, if preferred, cut hams in slices suitable for cooking, trim off the rind, and pack as compactly as possible in a stone jar; over the top poor melted lard so as to completely exclude the air. When ham is wanted for use, scrape off the lard, remove a layer of meat, and always be particular to melt the lard and return it immediately to the jar. Prepared either of the above ways, ham will keep through the season.— Cincinnati Times. —A cast-iron gas main at Saarbrnoken was lately taken up, after having been laid for ten years, and when removed was found to be converted into a soft sbbstance which oould be cat with a knife, and, on analysis, was found'to contain only fifty-two per cent, of metallic iron. The pipes had been covered with cohoshes which were found to contain much sulphur, and the destruction of the pipes is supposed to have been due to the sulphur in the ashes and the oxygen of the atmosphere.

—Signor Parmetti has been analyzing the debris and dust of the streets, with the result of finding a large percentage of iron and glue contained therein. He proposes making practical use of this discovery by establishing blast furnaces and glne works in London to secure the valuable products from the waste matter of metropolitan Btreets. —Dr. Nichols suggests in Dr. Foote’s Health Monthly for March that the reason fruits do not digest well when eaten after flesh is because the gastrio juice secreted to act on the meat will not act well on the fruit. Perhaps on this account the better way is to eat fruit before meals rather than as a dessert. Miss Corson says: “Both poultry and game are less nutritions than other kinds of meat, bat they are more digestible, and consequently are better food for people of weak digestive organs and sedentary habits. They are both excellent for persons who think or write much.” x GfifQER Drops.—One-half' cup of butter, one cup of molasses, one cup of sugar, one cup of cold water, one heaping teaspoonful of soda, ginger and salt to taste. Drop in tins ana bake in quick oven. —A bill has been introduced in the Ontario Legislature to legalize marriage with a deceased wife’s sister. Conmon-sense and the science of chemistry, when applied to batter making, reduce tbe time of churning one-half, Increase the product 0 per cent., the quality of the product •JO per cent., and gtve a rich, golden color to the batter the year round. All these improvements, together with many others, result from the use of GUt-Edge Butter Maker. Sold by druggists, grocers and general storekeepers. Vbgetinb.—By its use you will prevent manv of the diseases prevailing in the Spring and Summer season. It is said that four million packages of Fraser’s Axle Grease were sold In 18 52; and We believe it-

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" Prom the Quaker City. 9- J Quegwmuu oodtr dih of Oct. 4.1879, certified to the wonderful efficacy of Warner** Safe Pills and hefe Tonic la removing a fiver disease accompanied by chronic ooaaUpatioa and yellow akfn. Bznnrae’s Russia Salts has genuine merit, as all who ■*# ti will testify. Price 96c. VE6ETHI Purifies the Blood, Renovates and Invigorates the Whole System. Alterative, Tonic, Solvent and v Diuretic. vnimi u wa «niwi> tram me jam et carefnily—ad bait* rootsend herbs. an* matronsIt coot—crated that it will effectually eradicate ire* —system every talatof —(tala, Serwftat—a MeetriTuMt, Caacr, Caacrse* Ma■ev, erysipelas. Sat* Rhea as. Syphilitic UlicMW, C«dtvr, Vatataen at the Steakeefc, and air disease* that arise boa Impure Wood. Sciatic*, Inflammatory and Chronic Wtrmmntl , Xearalgta, dost and Spinal Complaints, can only he etfeotaaily cored tbreoga the Wood. * rat doers and Erapttv. Slvmmm at the Mkta, ysMsles, riaplM. Btotehea, Soils. Teetop. SooMheoa as! aiscw.ns, VZQSTDB has never tailed to effect a pnmat ours. Tor Palat la the Back. fllda,y Complaints. Bropey. Penal, Weakaes., leavorrfcas. attains from Internal nloersUon. and marine diseases and Con oral Debility, VEOKTINS acts directly epoo the causes of thave oompt tints. It Invlgoretet and Wraasthem the whole system. acta •poo the secretive onr-ns allays tnflammaaon, cunt ulceration and regulates the bowels. For Catarrh, Byspopsta, RaMtaal ©•«- Uveaeos. Palpitation or the Heart. He M* ache. Piles, Morvoasaeoo, and Prostration of the Herrons System, a> medicine has ever riven such perfect isttefaction as t ie VEGETINE. It purifies the Wood, ciesatas all of tbs organs, and possesses a controlling power over toe nervous system. Tbs remarkable cores effected by TEGETINK have Induced many physicians and apothecaries whom we know, to prescribe and use it In their owa families. In fact VEGETINE to the beet remedy yet discovered ter tbe above diseases,and Is tbs only reliable BLOOD PCflltfdtfl yet placed before the publla. VEGETINE pftKPAUfID BT H. R. STEYENS, Boston, Mass. Yegetine is Sold by all Druggists.

■ PERMANENTLY CURES ■ nKIDNEY DISEASES, H U LIVER COMPLAINTS,II ■Constipation and Piles. I ITHAB Tim V 9 U ■wonderful if Hi [ H power. n M BECAUSE IT ACTS ON THEII ■ UVEK,TIIE BOWELS AND KXD-Ed Erne vs at the sahib time. n Because It cleanses the system ofP| ■the poisonous humors that developed ■in Kidney and Urinary diseases, Bil-H niouenass, Jaundice, Constlpatlon,n I (Piles, or In Rheumatism, Neuralgia! I Uand Pamela disorders. I KIDNEY-WOET Is odry vegetable earn. H HH pound and ess be Mat by smil prepaid. Qose package will make six qta of medicine. □ ■ thy it wow : Q ■ Bsy It at the Urscstata. Price, Sl.oa. ■ I I WILLS, XIC3A23:CN k CO., Preerietcn, I I UP Barllapt—, Tt.

HOST!!TEfiS a ! Mfers The Bitten Invariably remedy yellowness of tbe complexion and whites of the eyes, pains In the right aide and under tbe right shoulder-blade, furred tongue, high-colored urine, nausea, vertigo, dysp-psl i. constipation. heaviness of the head, mental despondency sad every other manifestation or accompaniment of a disordered condition of the liver. The stomach bowels and kidneys also experience their regulating and tonic Influence. Tor sale by all Druggists and Dealers generally.. GRAEFENBERG #V EOETABLB PILLS Mildest ever known, cure MALARIAL DISEASES, HEADACHE, BILIOUSNESS, INDIGESTION and FEVERS. These * PELLS Tone uo the system a«d restore health to those suffering from general debility mu' nervousness. Sold by all Druggists. fits Oentß T3«r Box-

WINTER'^r^' 1 - _ Offt'r for Ml > »l|« Hlftl quantity of T knd In IK# lIP i T NuiUiem portion of Iff HEATtt Good water. Best crone of' AND '"hi and healthy. Winter Wheat and all klnus —— tata fl ■I NP of Grain; Klux, Hemp; Fruit 111 L n 1111 are produced tn abundance. _ For full parboil are apply to | r. DAGMV. U'tlonVr, ■ I |k||\A x&hJ&aKttr. BLANDS *IC PCUTC The lleree tai.u 7 J LtN I J HU Dlaeaare. any eotravtnes. Complete explanMlonseC CM—, symptoma sod treatment Übtas of do— etc, all lu plain lanzuaco; safe* —ay tunea its coat AGkNTH WANTKIk Price 2R eta. Addi— W’. K. HYDI dt CO.. Si W shlnron St. Chlcaro. nuw * r°ur babe, place it at onm on El DOE'S toon. There U no crude in tbe world thst has stveo.MKh universal satisfaction. WOOLKXCH k Often—y label.

Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery cares all Hasten, from the worst Serefuta to a common Blotch, Pimple, or Eruption, Erysipelas, tsUrkcasi. Fever hares. *e»ig or Reagh Shi a, in shoriTall (lisea-es caused by bad blood, are conquered by this powerful, purllvlng. ami invigorating medicine. ■ .| ; __ _ ■ „ Esiteriallr lias It manifesto) iu potency in enrtng Tetter, Rose Mask, Bells, Csrtam, elea, here Eyes, Scrofulous seres ss4 Swellings, THUS Swellings, lieltre or Thick Wek. and Knlftrccd tilmdi* ■ If vou feci duilTdnowsy, debilitated, bare sallow eolor of skin, or pn face or bodv, frequent headache or dizziness, bad ta-te in mouth, internal bcat or chills alternated with iK>t flu*tie-, irregular appetite, and tongue earned, yonarcaufTertng from Torpid Elver, or •* Biliousness." As a reme.lv for all such eases Dr. Pierce s Golden Medical Discovery has no equal, n* It effects Perfect and radical cures. In tlie cure of Bronchitis, Severe Coughs, Weak Lang*. awl early stages of Can* naSha, it has astonished the medical faculty, and eminent physicians pronounce it the greatest medical discovery of the age. Sold by druggists. No nae of taking the targe, repnlsi ve. nauseous pills. These «t Pellets (LUUe Fills) arc scarcely larger Usaa mustard idßf/' Being entirely vegetable, no particular cate is required jftr »® E B 9vVv while using them. Thevo|*rate wiilmitt disturbance io the AAV srstem, diet, or occupation. For Jaundice, Headache, 9 om, j\\\ Qt m tssatipstlss, Impure Bleed, Fain ig.|he Shoulder*, Bit“ va Tightueae off Cheat, Blzxineso, hour Eructations frem Tbs **Utuo Otant** Csthartte. items**. Bud Tsate lB lllft, Milieu*attacks, Fain la gm unamai usuwrue. ugaeys, luteruul Fever, Bleated feeUug about Stomach, Bnsh es Bleed la Mead, take Mr. Weree’a Wcamal Purgative Pelleta.

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WARNER’S [JSAFE KIDNEY&LiVER CURE

(formerly Dr. owfph Kidney Cure.) A vegetable preparation and the oaly —re rwevty In the world Cor Brigbl'a Plaraa., Mabrtea aaavi ALL liltary, Liver, eat imonUtaoi tbe high eat order in proof of these statements. •WFor tbe cure of Diabetes, call Ibr Wan nert Safe Plnbetes Cure. M*yor the cure of Bright’s and the other disease*, oall for Warmer’s Safe Kldsty sued Liver Cara. BtfTWARNER'S Safeßemedlss art sold by Druggiit* and Dealers in Medicine every* H. H. Warner & Co. 'riepitilsn, BOOHEBTBB, H. T. ■ce-smd for Pamphtat IPt— Hi Care for C.os»un.p- ■ v tleu Is also the best cough med ■ lclne Base smalt.—bottle ■ large. Sold everywhere, sse. ■ and M 1.00. ■ Warranted to flret buyers I PENSIONS! PENSIONS! SOLDIERS OF TOE WAR 1861! ■HO t. STEVEBS A CO, of Cleveland, nh'o, and Chicago, ni loots, give theta entire attention to the business of urespecting WAR CLAIMS. Arreere of Pension allowed only la rial mo prieiatoA before JULY 1,1880. Address with stamp, KIL6 B. BT EVENS Jt CO., Cleveland* Ohio, er Chicago, Illinois.

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