Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1877 — Page 3

The Rensselaer Union, RENSSELAER, - • INDIANA.

WHBN BABY COMBS. What a hath l* In the honest Charley, lonoeoine litt'e iuuu«e, Bound hie umaerr muet rofm, Tearful alien in hie home, Now Baby’s come. •* Charley'* noae te ont of Joint,” Sad hie *• auntie*" *ay, end point To the doleful little man. Headman of the growing clan, Now Baby’e come. All the world haa gone awry To Charleyv heart. None heed hie ery, Potent lew until to-dey. Charley calls. But none obey, For Baby's come. “ Got” he cries. ■“ Take her away I I don't like her. She cen't play.’’ Uulvering grief and tearful joy—- “ Charity! nt la Mammae noy. Take her away.’’ Wondrous fhlr. the pillowing lace Frames the lovely mother's face; Aht her henri can hold the two. Byes of brown and eyes of blue. When Baby comec. Baby brine* all love along, Bver growing, ever strong; Soundless well* of tenaernea*, Never ebb nor grow the le.s When Baby comes. What a hint of faint perfume, What a hush U in the room; All the loud world put to rout, All its vanity shut out, When Baby comes, ’Tit a temple: on its shrine Tremble- every hing divine Unto one. Hu Heaven lie* In ihe ephereK of her aolt eyes, ,When Baby comes. Far the wild world's fret and snare, Bndlesa business, weary care; Once again i omance Is sweet. Life is young and love complete, to hen Baby comee. All the earth Is made anew— Far the false, and fair the true, Wh re a little life begins. Free of sorrow, f ee of sins. And Baby comes. —if ary Clemmer, in N. Y. Independent.

WHEN THE SHIP COMES IN.

A aweet-faced woman and a sweet-fared child are wandering among the shipping docks of the great city. The woman is plainly dressed, but evidently in her best attire, and there is a touch of gentility in her finery, in the real lace collar, relic of better days perhaps; the pearl ear-rings and the neat gloves. The child is neatly dressed, too, and as she clasps the woman’s hand, looks love at her guardian. But the woman’s face is not at its best now; there is an anguished expression upon it, a careworn look, and a faint wrinkle upon the pale forehead that ages her and lessens the charm of her features. She is inquiring of the dock men, of the stevedores, of the loungers about the wharves, whether the brig “ Good Luck” has come in. She always receives the same reply to her eager question, and that reply is, that the brig “ Good Luck” has been lost a month ago, dashed on a lee shore and ground to pieces by the sea, and will never come in—never—nevermore. If they told her, she wouldn’t believe them, for this woman and her child have supreme faith —feel as sure as God rules, that the brig “Good Luck” will come in, and oome in soon with cargo and crew, though they have been asking the same question and breathing the same prayer tor many and many a day. Then she goes "across the street and winds her way among the bales and boxes and passing carts, and through all the hubbub anil bustle of the wharf, and climbs a flight of stairs to where the Brig’s owners have their office. They are used to seeing- her. They smile sadly when she enters with the child, and look significantly at one another, as much as to say: “Poor thing! she’s mad. No wonder, no wonder!” Mad! Yes, she is mad with “hope deferred,” with anxiety to meet her husband, Caleb Seller, Master of the brig Good Luck; to meet the Master of the brig, her husband and the father of this child. God of Heaven! why does he stay away from her so long? “Is the Good Luck in yet?” she asks of a clerk. “ Not yet, ma’am.” “She’s expected, of course, to-day?” “Of course.” “There’s a vessel coming in now. I see the tall masts. Look! look!” pointing out of the office window to the river front. “ Maybe it! Ellie dear, look! there’s father’s vessel, with father on board!” The child clasps her little hands at the sight. “Horry to say that ain’t it, ma’am,” says the clerk, relapsing into his calculations, and paying no more attention to the woman. She stares out of the open window at the approaching vessel, drawn by a tug, and then, with a blank look upon her face and a moan that is heart-rending, says: “No, Ellie, no! That is not the Good Luck. I see the figure-head; the figurehead of the Good Luck is an angel; a white and gold angel. No, no! that isn’t it.” “But papa will come home soon, won’t he, mamma?” whispers the child. “Yes, yes, yea 1 To-day, my darling, to-day.” Old Mr. Tawrnan, who is the head of the establishment here, now comes from behind his desk, and, approaching the woman, says, in a kindly tone: “Mrs. Belter, sit down; make yourself as comfortable as you can in a dingy office like this. Here little one, come here; five me a kiss. A bright, pretty little ear, Mrs. Belter.” “She looks pale,” said the mother. “She is tired; she has been walking too much.” “ Mamma, ?I don’t mind walking to find father. I’m not tired.” \ The old gentleman sits down and lifts the little girl on his knee and kisses her. She winds her arms about his neck and exclaims: “ You’ll tell my papa to come soon, won’t you ?” “ Yes, dear." It was the habit of this firm to pay a sort of pension monthly to the widows of CaDtains who were lost in their service. It was not much of a stipend, being only half-pay, but it was certainly a blessing in very many cases. Mrs. Belter had always received her husband’s money here while he was at sea, or it was sent to her when she was sick, or the weather bad. “ Ah, Mr. Tawrnan, I’m sure the Good Luck will be in to-day!” “ Certainly it will! What’s to hinder it?" he answers. He puts tne child down and goes over to his desk, and unlocking a drawer he takes out an account book and begins writing a receipt. Then goes over into the Cashier’s room. While he is there tire telegraph clerk calls him over. Click, clicklty click! goes the magic instrument, repeating its dot and dash message. - Hear that.!”,,, jaya the operator. “That’s news for you!” The proprietor could read every word by its sound. “ It’s like a message from God," says Mr. Tawrnan, reverently. “ I must not tell her." He comes back to where the woman idi sitting, his face flushed with emotion; some strange excitement. He throws into her lap a bundle of bank notes. “There, Mrs. Belter, now go home. Take a car at the don?." “Oh, I’m not tired. Ant) I should like to be here when the brig comestn. Butl thank you so much, so much."

“ Here, little one,” says the good-heart-ed Tswmna. “here’s something for you to buy candles with,” He puts into her tiny outstretched palm a bright quarter of a dollar, and laughs at the wonder and delight of tbo little recipient. “I’ll keep this for my papa.” Poor little thing, she Is weary unto sleep. She cuddles herself In the big chair and sinks into sluanber in an instant. “ Now, Mrs, Belter, you’re had no dinner,” says Tasman. “Oh, yes, sir,” “Yesterday, perhaps) but I mean today. Go down with Mr. Pelton here, our young man, and get something to eat. You see wo hare arrangements here for the comfort of our clerks. We give them a hot dinner, and a good dinner, too. There’s nobody there now. Everybody’s dined. Go down there, and ask the waiter, George,” addressing Mr. Pelton, whom he Lad summoned, “to give tnis good lady a cup of tea and a piece of toast, some chicken, and all that.” Then, pausing a moment, as if propriety and philanthropy are struggling for mastery in his mind, “ No, no, George. Tell Henderson to send the dinner up into my room here; that’s better!” The young roan leaves the room. Then Mr. Tawinan enters the office again and consults the telegraph operator. "Bend this message at once, Mr. Lindlay, if you please.” He w.rites sometiling, and the operator clicks it off at once. It’s a long message, a very long message, indeed; but the President’s message itself is not so important, so interesting, to those whom it concerns.” Then, by the time tho message is sent, the dinner is ready in Mr. Tawinan’s private office, when Mrs. Belter partakes of it, but does not think proper to waken the weary child, that she may eat, also. Then Mr. Tawinan says: “Now, you had better go. I’ll see to the child; I’ll bring the little girl up with me to-night.” “No, no!” exclaims the mother. “I must Lave my Ellie with me always, sir. You are so very good, though, sir; so very good! And is there no news of the Good Luck ?’’ “ Not a word, I’m sorry to s«.y.” “It can’t be possible. The brig must come in to-day." “ I’m sure I hope so, with all mv heart and soul, Mrs. Belter.” “ I know you do,” she responds, with a sigh. “Now, go. I’m sorry you have to wakcu the child, but I suppose you can’t help it.” “ Come, Ellie,” says the mother, touching her lightly on the shoulder. The child with a start awakes and cries: “Is it my papa? Dear, dear papa!” Then seeing her disappointment, ahe bursts into tears. “ Don’t cry, dear, don’t cry. The brig will come in! Don’t cry!” the good old man speaks soothingly to the sobbing child; and the mother catching her hand walks slowly and sadly away, followed by Mr. Tawraan, who lifts the little girl down the stairs, and helps both her and her mother into a car. The next morning the woman is again loitering about the wharves with the same agonized inquiry. She again puts the question to the wharfmen, and again receives only the same answer. Then, as before, she seeks the office of the brig owners, still accompanied by her little girl, and asks: “ Has the brig Good Luck come in yet?” “Notyet, ma’am.” She sighs and looks out of the window at the shipping. Bhe says she will wait for Tawinan, and sits down. When Mr. Tawman comes in, as usual, he greets her veiy kindly, and kisses the little girl and says: “ I’m sorry the brig isn’t in yet!” “ Will it be in to-dav?” “I hope so.” And he goes behind his desk and looks over his letters. He has not been long engaged in his correspondence, when a scream from the woman startles nim. She has risen and is pointing excitedly out of the window. “Here is a ship, coming in; look, look!” “That’s not it,” says a clerk; “that’s a schooner.” “Oh, no!” adds Mr. Tawman; “that’s not the Good Luck.” “It is! it is!” She darts from the office, dragging the child after her, runs across the crowded street, across the hustling wharf out to the very edge ot the water. Mr. Tawman rushes to the window, opens it and calls to her. To no purpi.se, however. All the clerks cluster about the window to watch her. “The woman is mad,” says one. “ She’s going to drown herselt.” Tawman says quietly to the telegraph operator: “ It’s the Mary.” The schooner is being towed up the river by a tug. She is making preparations to anchor in the stream, opposite the wharf. All this time Mrs. Belter is standing in the midst of a crowd of excited people, waving her handkerchief, and the little girl is waving hers. “Look! look there! There’s a man overboard 1” cries one of the clerks. A cry of alarm goes up from the wharf. “Thunder!” exclaims Mr. Tawman, thoroughly aroused. “What does that mean?” “ He’s swimming like a fish,” says a clerk. “He has landed. Hark at thecheersl” “ God of Mercy? look! look!” shouted the operator. “She is hugging him; so ia the little girl. It’s Capt. Belter!” “Thank God!” exclaimed Tawman, “ and pray Heaven she may not sink under the shock! Poor woman. How she clings to the drenched man. Dear! dear!" Then he puts on his hat and runs downstairs like a boy, and darts over to where husband and wife and child are, united and happy. “ The Good Luck’s come in!" yells Tawman, lustily. “Ah!” he exclaimed, shaking the Captain by the hand, and not caring for tbe gaping and wondering crowd all around nim, “this is good luck, my boy, isn’t it, eh ? Did you get my telegram ?” When the man can apeak he answers: “Yes.” • “ I planned it all!” chatters old Tawman. “ You see, I got a dispatch, yesterday, from the Breakwater, saying that Capt. Belter had been picked up on a raft by the schooner Mary, bound in, and that you were coming up by rail from Lewes. I telegraphed back word for you to come up in the schooner, for a certain purpose. The shock would have been worse to her if I hadn’t. I told her when I put her in the car yesterday, that the brig would come in, and come in it did. Over to the office, every one of you, and after dinner and dry clothes, Cap., we’ll have a talk about business. Come on!” In a paper read recently by Mr. E. G. Ravenstein before the Statiftfcal Society London, on the populations of Russia and Turkey, he stated some facts of especial interest at present. Russia has a population of 84,584,482, while Turkey has only 25,986,858. The increase of the former is 1.1 per cent, per annum, the Jews being the most prolific of the inhabitants; but toTurfeey—tfae-author believes that the Turks proper do not increase at all, owing to the vicious habits of the women and the losses entailed in defending the empire. In Russia there are 100 Russians to every fifty of other nationalities, and 109 Christians to eveiy sixteen Mohammedans and pagans, while in Turkey there are only 100 Turks to every 197 of other inhabitants. A vert precise person, remarking upon Shakespeare’s line “The good men do is oft interred with their hones,” carefully observed that this interment can generally take place without crowding the bonea.

Still Another Telephone.

Over a hundred Invited guests witnessed a private exhibition of the “ Edison,” a newly-iavented telephone, In the auditorium of the Main Exhibition Building, last evening. By means of the Instrument vocal and instrumental music performed at ihe Central Station was tram, mitted to the auditorium, where it was reproduced in a louder tone than the original. The Invention is called “ Edison’s Electro-Motograph Telephone." and differs fundamentally from any lnstru ment of the kind which has yet appeared before the public. The transmitting apparatus consists simply of a long tube, having one end covered with a thin sheetbrass diaphragm, kept tight by a stretching ring, and having soldered in the center a thin disk of platinum, immediately in front of which is an adjustable plati-num-pointed screw fixed to a rigid pillar. To transmit the music it is only necessary to hum, sing, or play into the open end of this tube, which action causes the diaphragm to vibrate. The platinum poinls meeting, a circuit is formed, and the eleetrio current transmits every vibration overthe wire to the receiving end. The receiving or reproducing apparatus is based upon an original discovery made by Mr. Edison about fiveyearsago, which was that when a piece of paper is moistened with certain chemical solutions, is laid upon a metallic plate connected with the positive pole of a battery, and a pla-tinum-faced wire connected with the negative pole of the battery is drawn over the paper, the passage of the current through it renders the solution oleaginous, and the wire slides freely over the psper; but when the current is interrupted the normal friction of the paper returns, and the wire slides over it with difficulty. This principle is applied to the receiver—a sounding-board and a drum or wheel having flanges on both sides. Over the drum, which is rotated by a hand-crank, passes a continuous strip of paper, and pressing tightly upon it and the wheel is a smooth platinum point at the end of a spring, secured to the center of the sounding-board. The current from the battery passes to the spring, thence to the platinum point, thence through the moist paper to the drum, and thence back to the battery. When the drum is turned the paper passes forward, and the normal friction between the point and the paper gives a forward motion to the spring also, which draws out one side of the sounding-board. If now a wave of current passes through the paper the friction disappears, and the spring not being pulled, the resonanter regains its horizontal position. This takes place at each vibration. By means of this friction the feeblest current, which would not have any appreciable eftect upon an electromagnet, exerts extraordinary strength. Stretched upon this sounding-board are eight wires, forming the gamut. Any of these will vibrate when the required number of vibrations per second are made by the sounding-board. For instance, mid-*' die C is beard when 256 vibrations are nude per second. The instrument is extremely sensitive, reproduces the highest notes, and overcomes in a great degree the difficulty exnerienced in the use of electromagnets, whose slowness of operation is due to the time required for the magnetization and demagnetization of the iron cores and the production of secondary currents. The reproducing apparatus was on a table in full view of the entire audience. An operator turned the drum crank, and Mr. C. W. Greene announced before each piece of music who was to sing or play it at the Central Station, five miles distant. The reproduction sounded as if coming from a second-rate violin that needed rosin. Ths note could he heard distinctly throughout the largest hall in the city.— Philadelphia Timet. ?y&~

An Unsophisticated Traveler.

I see Americans everywhere who still smell of salt water, and who are yet trying to appear as though they had been abroad every year of their lives. For there is nothing an American is so much afraid of as of seeming green. For my part I rather like to be a greenhorn. I’ve made up my mind to it. I tell everybody in the omnibus that I’m an American ana not used to this sort of thing, and then every man and woman in the ’bus is so delighted to find one of those poor benighted Americans willing to confess his ignorance, that I am straightway overwhelmed with all sorts of information. I get up alongside the driver and say: “ You don’t often get a Yankee up here that don’t know anything about London, do you ?” Then coachee swings his whip and nudges me —he always nudges before he speaks—and begins to tell me that the Duke o’ Well’nton lives here on the left, and the Marq’s o’ Wes’mins’er lives there. One of the drivers told me that lie “ s’posed Gen. Grant ’ud go back very much hawner’d since ’eed dined with the Lawd Mayor." I told him I did not doubt it. The pronunciation of the better classes here is rather better in some regards than our own—the vowels are fuller and broader. But I am astonished at some words. Tho plural “ days” is almost if not quite identical with the Latin “ dies," in the ordinaiy pronunciation. Of course the illiterate cockney is quite as amusing to an American as tne unlettered American is to the English traveler. It took me some time to find out that Someretouee meant “ Somerset House,” and when a driver pointed out what he called “ the assy erection," I had to guess from the looks of the building that it was the House of Correction. I try to keep away from Americans. I am in a very good hotel, but one of the most old fashioned of English hotels. “ The Golden Cross” used to be a startingplace for the post-coaches, say in Pickwick's time, but it is now a rather uppish “ family hoto',”retaining, however, many old ways. I am, after a week’s experience, beginning to learn how to manage things. I am never so well pleased as when I succeed in making some mistake sufficiently ridiculous to bring a smile to the face of an attache of the place. They look so deadly solemn—these English folks about hotels—that I am driven to desperation with a desire to see them laugh—just to see if they can.— Edward Eggleston’s London Letter to Brooklyn Timet.

A Pointed Illustration of Retributive Justice.

A strange case of well-deserved retribution has been lately reported to os, the circumstances of which are as follows: On one of the best farms in Orange County, located within a few miles of Middletown, there lived a farmer who came into possession of his property, it is said, by defrauding his agea tether out of it. He Induced the old gentleman to deed the homestead and farm over to him, representing that he would be well taken care of during bis declining years, and that were the property in nis own name he would take more interest in It. No sooner was the deed made oxte And delivered than the son began ,* series of petty perseto perform duties aboufthe term, overtaxing his strength; excluding him from the family table and dealing out to him in a gingerly manner susten*nce hardly sufficient to keep soul and body together. These acts of cruelty were carried to such an extent that the broken-hearted father was compelled to leave the roof which he himself had erected, and throw himself ujx>n the charity of the world, at one time, we believe, becoming an Inmate of the County Poor-House. Things went on in this way for some years, the son apparently prospering and accumulating quite

a large share of this world’s goods. He became suspected of severs! sets of dishonesty In dealtog with his neighbors, and lost no opportunity to enrich himself at the expense of others. To Much an extent did he carry hiaf parsimonious practices that at last be endeavored to escape the payment of some of his Just debts by secretly conveying his property to his son, little thinking that his own son would be so ungrateful to him as he had been to his father. He thus successfully evaded the payment of his debts, bnt when he attempted to continue control of the farm an unexpected obstacle presented itself—the son proclaimed himself solo owner and refused to follow out his directions, or allow him in any way to control the proceeds. Disputes and recriminations followed, until finally tbe son ordered the father oil the premises, And refused to contribute to his support. The upshot of the whole affair is that the grandfather is now reinstated in the old arm-chair in the family circle, and will be tenderly cared for during tbe remainder of his natural life, while his son is employed as a farm laborer in a distant part of the country. Ingratitude, in every second generation, is no doubt hereditary in the family, and it will be curious to observe what the present owner’s son will do if he gets a chance.— Middletown (N. Y.) Argue.

Lagging Justice In Massachusetts.

Justice is a fine thing. If you don’t believe it, read this synopsis of the doings of a Police Court in a Massachusetts city for one day. First appeared a woman, charged with assaulting a child who had been an inmate of her family. The arms, neck, shoulders and back of this little slave were examined by the officers and presented an awfnl sight, being raised in large welts, some of them as wide as the two fingers, in various stages of discoloration, from a bluish-black to a greenish-yellow, while there were several long stripes on the back where the flesh was literally raw. One of the child’s ears is disfigured for life, and the little thing burst into tears as she recounted to the officers that “it was made larger by a beating,” adding mournfully, “itwill never be small, like the other, again.” Her last whipping, the child said, was brought about because she failed to finish a large ironing at four o’clock, and the weapon used was a walk-ing-cane. Testimony could not have been more conclusive. The woman pleaded guilty, and was punished by a fine and costs, amounting in all to $13.95. Next came Patrick Gorman, who was lined $55.65 for peddling without a license, and four persons were fined for drunkenness. Nowj can anybody be blamed for asking where the justice came in ? Was this outrageous discrepancy the fault of the Judge or of the law! Whichever it was, it should be treated as it deserves.— Boeton Herald.

The Rush to the Cities.

A mob of half-starved men is a pitiful sight; a mob of idle, vicious men is a sad commentary on our civilization, and in all our large cities we are frequently called upon to contemplate both pictures. That such a condition of affairs exists is not the fault of the cities or of the public at large. There are more people yitnhe cities than can find employment, and these people are in Chicago and other cities by their own choice. The facts which came to the surface last week as to the number of people out of employment were appalling, but will they prevent one young man from the country from carrying out nis pet scheme of comiog to the city ? Will one farmer’s boy, with a good home and plenty to do, read of the great masses who have bad homes; little to eat and nothing to do, and be deterred from coming to the city? Not #ne. The rush will continue, and our cities will continue to be burdened with more people than can find employment in their borders Boys and girls born and raised in the country have an insane desire to live in towns. They dwell on the bright side of city life so much that their own life in the country seems always dull and prosy, and city life always charming and bright. They magnify the drawbacks on one side and exaggerate the pleasures on the other. They drone over the dullness of countiy life and decline to see the dark side'of city life at all. In. this way they encourage a dislike for what is in their possession, and cultivate an insatiate longing for what their fancy makes existence in the city. A boy hesitates to round out his life on the form. It :s in some way beneath him, and he goes to the city to realize his ambitious schemes and becomes a clerk in a dry-goods store, or a laborer in some manufactory, or a driver of a street-car, or a brakeman on a railroad. He comes from a home where he was, in a certain sense, master of his own movements, ard enters a business where he works harder, where he lives less comfortably, and where he is always in a subordinate position. He comes from the farm, where his living is assured, and enters a field where a position, ever so humble, is difficult to secure and hard to retain; where he takes great chances of being thrown out of employment under most embarrassing and distressing circumstances. He comes from a locality where there are no beggars, no poverty-stricken people, no men presuming to dictate as to when he shall labor, and where and how, and enters callings in whieh he ceases to be master of his own action.

The boy that does this sort of thing Is indefinitely multiplied, and he keeps doing it all the time. In nine cases oat of ten he is disappointed; bat he never acknowledges this, and other boys, knowing nothing of the disappointments, and trusting only the boy’s exaggerated statements, manufactured to hide his real feeling,.follow in his footsteps. Let die boys and girls, the young men and young women remain in the country, patiently and thankfully. Let them disabuse their minds of the false notions they have formed of city life and look at facts. A young man employed on a farm has to work hard. He, would have to work harder in nearly any occupation in the city. He has to work in the hot sun and in the rain and snow, it may be. In ihe city he would work in the dirty, smoky atmosphere of some manufactory, or would be exposed to Just as inclement weather as on the farm. A farm-hand, getting eighteen dollars per month and his board, is making more money than he would iu the city at forty dollars per month. And yet, while farm-hands are scarce, laborers in the city are ever abundant, and clamoring for work in every department ot business. In addition to this influx from rural districts, cities receive the larger share of immigrants from other countries. The poorer classes cluster together in squalid localities, where there is Tittle comfort and little to do, when outside of the cities are broad farms, where there is much comfort and much to do, or new lands inviting them to possibilities of ownership. While every department of labor in the cities is overstocked, thousands of acres of public lands await owners and occupants. People have perversely looked in one direction for employment. They must adopt a different rule, and look in all directions. They have expected to find employment where laborers are most abundant; they should look for it where laborers are scarcest. —Chicago Inter-Ocean. When a small boy with a prejudice against yellow dogs observes an old oystercan in a condition of inactivity, he at once begins debating the question whether it was created to point a moral or adorn a tail. The dog gets the first news of the decision.—Worcester Press,

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

—All doubts about crops may now be dismissed from troubled minds. This is to be a year of abundance of the products of the earth.— lowa State Regitter. —To Remove the Odor of Paint.—Set a tub of cold water—if very cold or having toe in It all the better—ln rooms which are freshly painted, and It will absorb much of the disagreeable and unhealthy odor. Renew the water daily. When posslblo, keep such rooms constantly open; if closely shut, even for a day or night, while the paint is drying, especially if the walls are papered, the odor seems to become fixed, and it is very difficult to get rid of it so that it will not be perceived for a long time after, whenever tne rooms are closed. Ice-cold water is an excellent absorbent of impure odors in sick rooms. —Country Gentleman. ~ —Stuffed Onions.—Wash and. skin very large onions; lay them in cold water an hour; then parboil in salted boiling water half an hour; drain, and while-hot extract the hearts, taking care not to break the outer layers; chop the hearts very fine, with a little salt pork, or bacon, breadcrumbs, pepper, salt, mace, and wet with a spoonful of cream; bind with a wellbeaten egg and work Into a smooth paste; stuff the onions with this; put into a drip-ping-pan with a little hot water, and bake until the onions are very tender, meantime basting often with melted butter. When done, take the onions up carefully in a vegetable dlsli; add to the gravy in the dripping-pau- the juice of half a lemon, four tablcspoonfuls of milk, and a little browned flour made smooth in cold milk; boil up once and pour over the onions. Serve very hot.—.Sural New Yorker. —lt is possible to raise calves without giving them fresh milk, for with a little skimmed milk and hay tea they will thrive almost if not quite as well as upon the pure lacteal fluid. Fifty years ago SirJameß Stewart Deoham, of Scotland, instituted experiments in raising calves with hay tea, taking them from their mothers when three days old, and those experiments were eminently successful. Two pounds of hay were steeped in twenty quarts of water, ana then boiled down one-half, and to this was added a quart of skimmed milk. In some instances molasses was added also to give sweetness, and the calves not only thrived upon this diet but preferred it to fresh milk .—.Formers’ Union. —Squash vines are subject to the attacks of a long, slim borer that resembles somewhat the spindle-worm sometimes found in corn-stalks. It is hatched from eggs laid on the vine, but we are not familiar with the parent insect, nor do we know of any sure preventive against its depredations. When discovered in the vine this worm should be destroyed. There is another borer, shorter and thicker, and of a yellowish color, which is quite as destructive as the first, but has not as yet been veiy numerous, so far as we have learned. It should also be destroyed when found in the vines. Squash vines are sometimes found wilting and dying when no insects can be found—certainly not by careless observers. Yet there may be grubs or insects at work under ground on the small roots. Very little seems to be known about this difficulty by squash-growers, the principal remedy being to plant more vines than would be needed if all lived—New England Farmer.

About Churning.

Churning in summer is best done in the morning early, while it is cool; in winter it must be done in a warm place. Rapid churning is not the best, but an even, steady, moderately slow time is; fifty or sixty strokes of the dash per minute will generally bring the butter in thirty minutes. If the cream is slightly acid and of right temperature, say 55" to 60 it will require less than half an hour. We believe that butter produced in about that time—or in forty minutes—is better for keaping than that produced in longer or shorter time. If it is not the right temperature, set it in a moderately warm place until it is, or place the can in a large boiler of warm water until it is fight The churn should not be soaked over night, In the morning put in a quart of boiling water, chum it one minute, then draw it off an<]. pour in a pailful of cold water to remain in the chum five minutes. The cream is then agitated un til a complete separation of the fatty matter from the milky fluid nas been effected. All the buttery particles ot the cream or milk are encased with thin pellicles of casein, or cheesy particles of milk. If the churning is done so quickly as to fail to break up or separate the casein pellicles from the oily or buttery particles, the butter will have that cheesy flavor which all dislike so much. If the butter will not gather, pour into the churn some icecold milk. Much butter is spoiled by churning the cream too warm. The churn should be as nearly straight up and down as possible, and the dash should stir all the milk every stroke it makes, so that the butter should all come at the same time. Care should be taken that the dash shall strike the top of the cream and the bottom' of the chum at every stroke. If the chum be filled, so that the dash cannot strike the top of the cream, the operation can scarcely be accomplished. Rapid churning should be avoided at the Commencement, though the motion may be accelerated after tne cream curdles with butter. There are mauy favorite churns of the barrel pattern. We believe, however, the best is the simplest—the old-fashioned upright churn, which can be so arranged as to work the dasher with dog or horse-power. The size of the churn and other dairy utensils should, of course, be prpportioned to the requirements of the dairy. In large dairies in Chester County are used barrel chums worked by horse-power. The churn is a large barrel, bulging only enough to make the hoopsdrive well, with a journal or bearing in the center of each head, and resting on two uprights, so that it may be revolved by horse-power, or in favorable situations, by water power from an over-shot wheel. This barrel has stationary short arms attached to the inside of the staves, so arranged as to cause the greatest disturbance of the milk as it passes through them in the turning of the chum. At one side is a large opening, secured by a cover that is firmly fastened in its place; this is the cover or lid of the churn. Near it is a hole less than an inch in diameter for testing the state of the churning, and for drawing off buttermilk; this is closed with a wooden plug. This hole also allows the escape of the very last drop of the buttermilk or water when the butter has collected. Churn as often as once a week, and as much oftener as circumstances will permit. Upon churning, add the cream upon all the milk in the dairy. Buttermakers in this country seem to be thoroughly divided in opinion upon the question of churning the whole milk or only the cream. By far the greatest majority in this country churn the cream, while in England, Scotland, and a good part of Ireland, the milk is churned in quite as many cases as the cream- In small dairies the quality must be much improved, for by churning the milk the risk of tainted cream is avoided. Some of our best premium dairies churn the milk. The most common objection to churning the milk is the labor, but power is now so cheap (horse, dog, or sheep) that the objection has little force as compared with the increased quantity and improved quality. Beside, when the labor, time and trouble! of skimming and taking care of the cream are taken into account, we doubt whether there is any increase of labor. Another objection to churning the whole

milk is the amount of casein contained in it. Ossein is highly nitrogenous and soon decays, emitting a disagreeable odor and Imparting it readily to other substances. Where the entire milk and cream are churned, when the milk is strained it is allowed to remain without being skimmed until the cream is sufficiently ripe for churning. This point Is ascertained when a tnick, uneven scum or veil appears on its surface. As in the other case, each meal’s milk is always strained into separate vessels; and although all the cream, when put into the churn, is not of the same degree of ripeness, still this does not affect the whole; and the tem perature, as also the variation of motion during the process of churning, is precisely the same; beside, the quality and produce of butter will be not only equal, but more than from cream only.— Willu P: Hazard.

The Cost of the Strike.

Some idea can be formed of the losses which have been sustained by the country at large by reason of this strikj, by taking as a basis the cost to the railroads resulting from the suspension of traffic. An average of $40,000 per day, which is a fair estimate ot the loss by each of the five trunk lines, makes the total for these roads $200,000; add $50,000, as a low calculation, for the losses by interruption of other roads, and the total is $250,000 per day, or $1,250,000 for the five days’ suspension. The losses sustained by the Pennsylvania at Pittsburgh and on the line between that city and Harrisburg arc calculated at $10,000,000. Half of that amount would scarcely cover the cost of property destroyed on the Baltimore & Ohio, and it is likely that $10,000,000 would approximate the losses ot railroad property other than th(®e which have been enumerated, and the destruction in cities and towns by the acts of rioters. This makes a total of $20,250,000. The losses sustained by the community at large are almost incalculable, embracing as they do the loss of life and limb, the destruction of perishable freight and live stock, the detention of passengers, the support of militia and special officers summoned to preserve the peace, inconvenience attending tardy mails, increased cost ot living consequent upon the advance in prices o provisions, augmented taxation, and perhaps the bankruptcy of corporations which might otherwise have been averted. — N. Y. Journal of Commerce.

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