Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1878 — Page 3

The Rensselaer Union. KENBBELAER, •' - INDIANA.

THE REASON. “ Dear! dear! what i* the matter now With papa', precion* little pet? How trouliled is the little Brow! ■rfiT* cheek* with falling team arr wet. Come here, and tell your P"P». ®' , Ji What it ia all about.’ 1 eha nt! And on a stool she took a sent Hack to me, with an angry flaunt. Of course she needed discipline: But we who felt rigorous rule In childhood, are quite apt to sin At the extreme from that old school, 801 read on and let her pout , Awhile, and then said, pleasantly—- “ Come, Rooy-Poay, turn about And tell me what your grief can be. “ Did dolly cry when she was dressed. Or Carlo hark till you were 'fraid. Or kitty scratch because you pressed Or pinched or scared her as you playod ? Dhl mamma—” “ Yes! that’s what it ia!” She cried, and fared mo in a trice. “ She wouldn't do my hair in friz! And then she saiu I wasn’t nice! “ Well, yes, I a'pose—of course— l cried, And that was why she arid so, but— She's cross! 1 won the pnrifled! She's Just as uirly—’” “ There! tut, tut! Come see your isqia, and forget About it -that's a darling—do! s me, dry your cheeks, all soilednnd wet; Your papa loves yon—mamma, too.” ' 1 won’t! 1 don’t love her at all: Nor you—yon're Juntas had as she— Nor Frank, nor Bess, nor Uncle I’nul!" ” But what have 1 done? Don't love mo, Your papa?” Then a doubtful iiaiise. Anil stubbornness of Stuart King Quick clutched at, “No,” sho said, “because You married such a cross old thing!" ■ —Earl Marb'e.

SAVED IN TIME.

Mr. Marcus Wilkinson sat alone in Ill's offi<*i, with a dainty little perfumed note between his lingers ana puzzled frown upon his brow. Tho note, directed in a graceful, feminine hand, was brief: . Deab Guardian: 1 will be at the office at ten in the morning, to eonsnlt yon upon n matter of importance. Millie. “ A matter of importance,” muttered Mr. Wilkinson, twisting the note nervously. “Can my fears "be trueP has Cyril Ormsby proposed to iny pearl? I am afraid he hag! And what can Isay? What can I urge against the man, if Millie’s own instincts have played her f:rise? Ten o’clock!” The last silvery stroke of the mantleclock had not died away when the door of the office was opened by a clerk, and Millie Bentley entered the room. - Just a few warns to describe the ward of whom Marcus Wilkinson always thought a pearl, a lily, every thing pure and fair. She was of medium height, slender and graceful, with a thoughtful face of exquisite beauty. Very young, only eighteen, Millie Bentley had borne e.arly the sorrows of life. Her father, having been wealthy, had failed in business and committed suicide. Her mother, delicate and holplcss, had fought poverty feebly for two years, and sinking under privation and toil, .had contracted a fatal disease. When all hope of life was over, the nows came that Millie’s uncle, dying abroad, had left a large fortune to his only sister. A will r was made by the dying woman, leaving her own too-lately won independence to Millie, and appointing their old friend, Marcus Wilkinson, guardian to the heiress. Sorrowing, and womanly beyond her years, Millie had turned from her own grief to a noble endeavor to solace some of the trials of those w ith whom .p/vv.e-Aj. J **- —'l •* l*ot* fnmil. iar. A cousin had come at Mr. Wilkinson's request to makca home for his ward, and she resumed many long interrupted studies. But a large portion of her time was spent in tho humble homes of thoso who had been her mother’s friends in the dark days of widowhood; and her gentle charities soon extended far beyond this sm all circle. She had been an orphan two years on the day when she came to seek Mr. Wilkinson, as already described, and the sorrows of her life had lost some of their bitter sting, leaving only a gentle sadness behind. “ Well, Millie," said the old gentleman, “ what brings to me the pleasure of seeing you to-day?” “ It was about myself,” Millie said, the softest rose tints flushing her checks. “ Dear me! I didn’t think you ever took such an insignificant person into consideration at all.” “ Now, Uncle Marc, please don’t tease.” “She wants something enormous,” saidthe old gentleman, addressing the walls. “ Whenever lam Uncle Mare, I know r what to expect next.” But just then the kindly man detected signs of trouble in Millie’s face, and the jesting voice was turned at once to one of tender gravity. “ What is it, my child?” “Cyril Ormsby came to see me last evening, and he will come here to-day; but 1 wanted to see you first. He wants me to be his wife, Uncle Marc, and”—, she hesitated here—“ you do not like him!” “Who told you that?" “ No one; but 1 see it myself.” "Well, you are right. Ido not like him. But my like or dislike has na control over you.” “No control!” Millie’s voice wits piteous. “Please don’t talk so. I come to you as I would have gone to my father.” “There, dear, I was wrong. Tell me, then, as you would have told your father, do you love Mr. Ormsby?” “ I think he is tho noblest man I ever knew. If you should she him with some of my poor people, how gentle iQid courteous ho is, you woula like him, too. He has given me so much sympathy in my work, Uncle Marc, feeling, as I do, that the possession of great wealth is but a stewardship.” “ And so won your love?” “My respect and admiration, uncle. I cannot yet realize that a man so noble and so good can really desire my companionship and help in his life. But, since he does, I am glad and proud to have wonJbis confidence.” “ Hem—yes! Enthusiastic, but heartwhole!” was Mr.. Wilkinson’s mental

comment. “Suppose you and Igo for a walk?” he added, aloud. “A walkP” Millie said, in a tone of surprise. ' '. friend ,or two I should like to nave you see. When we come back 1 will tell you why I dislike Cyril Ormsby, if,” he added mentally, “ you have not already found out.” * It was not exactly such a walk as one would have mapped out for a gentlemiui’s invitation to a young, beautiful girl} but Millio followed its course, leaning upon her guardian’s arm, wondering a little, but never hesitating, the respectable portion of the city, to a quarter known as the Factory Row, ’ a place where Mr. Wilkinson had never before allowed his ward to go. For there were apt to be fevers and contagious diseases lurking there.

It lay low, and was unhealthy, and the houses were of the meanest description. “For a noble philanthropist, partly owning these factories and this quarter, Mr. Ormsby seems negleotful,” said Mr. Wilkinson, dryly. “ I have an interest in the factories, as you are aware, but do not own one of these wretched houses. They are all Cyril Ormsby’s.” “But,” Millio said eagerly “these people will not let him benefit them. They use his charity for drink; they abuse any privileges he gives them, till he is discouraged in his efforts to do them any good.” “ Oh! step in here!” It was a poor place, scantily furnished, and cheerless. Upon a cot-bod a woman lay, in the last stages of consumption. Sho looked up eagerly to Mr. Wilkinson. “ I hope you are better,” ho said, kindly. t “No; I shall never be better. If I may only die in peace; it is all I ask.” “ Mr. Ormsby will not disturb you now?” “Jennie has gone to him. Yesterday he sent word that if the rent was not ready to-day at twelve, out we must go. I’ve paid it regularly for five years, but he don’t think of that. All Jennio’s made the last month she has had to pay for fire and food. She’s but fifteen, and her pay is small.” “ What do you owe Cyril Ormsby?” “Thirty shillings!” “ And if he is not paid to-day, he swill put you out in the street to die?” “ He says the workhouse is the place for paupers." At this moment, a slim, pale girl of fifteen came in, crying bitterly. “ Mr. Wilkinson was out,” she began; and then seeing her visitors, she cried eagerly, “Oh, Mr. Wilkinson, you will not let mother be put into the street. I’ll pay every penny, sir, if only you will wait till she js better, and I can get my full time to work.” “ Have you seen Mr. Ormsby to-day, Jennie?” the old gentleman asked. “Yes, sir. He said he had.no time to hear any whining. The agent will be here at twelve, and if the money is - not paid he will put us out.” “May I?” whispered Millie. “Just as you please, my dear. Perhaps this dying woman or her child will drink up your charity.” “Hush, hush.” So tenderly, so delicately, Millie gave her charity, that there was only the deepest gratitude awakened without the galling sense of obligation. She left more than sufficient for comfort for some weeks, and promised to send delicacies for the invalid. No word of herself passed her lips until they were once more in the narrow street. “Oh, Uncle Marc!” she said, “can it be true that he is so hard, so false to me?”

“Wait,” was the brief reply. They went into the wide court-yard in whose space stood the four great factories, the joint property of Marcus Wilkinson and Cyril Ormsby, long before divided by the entirely opposite management of these two into two distinct departments —one entirely under the control of the elder, the other of the young man. “Wilkinson’s absurd softheartedness,” as Cyril mentally characterized it, had made this division absolutely necessary. But it was not into his kindly-gov-erned, well-ordered departments that IVlnmm Willrinsrvm lftil his wand Ha turned into a small room, where a pale man was busily writing, and at the same time overlooking a long room, whereabout seventy girls wore at work before busily-whirling machinery. “Good-morning, Watkins,” the old gentleman said. “ I was in hopes that you were taking a holiday.” “Thank you, sir!” was the reply, in a dejected tone. “ I can’t well quit work, sir. There’s the wife and sixlittle ones, you see.” “ Have you told Mr. Ormsby the doctor says that your life depends upon a few weeks of rest and pure air?" “ Yes, sir. He’s not keeping me; but he says if I go ho must fill my placeanil that means starvation for my family. I could never get a new situation, as feeble as I am now.” “ How long have you been here, Mr. Watkins?” “ Seventeen years; sir. I was with old Mr. Ormsby before you came, sir.” ' “ A faithful servant seventeen years!” said Mr. Wilkinson, in a low tone; “ and a few weeks’ rest may save his life!” At this moment Millie shrank a little nearer her guardian. Through the window from which Mr. Watkins overlooked tho loom room, she could see Cyril Ormby, walking briskly about, his voice harsh and imperative, finding fault here and there, and keenly scrutinizing every item of the work. Not a face in the long room was brightened by the presence of the master. Fingers worked more rapidly, eves were fastened persistently upon the looms, and every one seemed aware of a stern taskmaster’s gaze. But Mr. Wilkinson obeyed the mute petition expressed in the looks of his ward, and led Millie out into the wide passages again, to another work-room. It were too tedious a task to follow every step of these two as they passed from room to room, everywhere meeting some assurance of Mr. Wilkinson’s own hold .upon the hearts of the “ hands,” and their terror of Cyril Ormsby’s harshness. Out again amongst the squalid homes, .where her guardian had no control, -bnt bus towed his kindly clarity without ostentation; and here, more eloquently than ever, Millie heard how cruel a mockery were all the schemes of charity and philanthrqpy that had been poured into her ears. It needed no spoken words from her guardian to tell her that the noble words uttered to win her were but those of hypocrisy, which knew how it could best plead its cause with her.

One and another, turning to Mr. Wilkinson as to a friend, unaware of the torture of their words to the kindly lady beside him, told of cruel exactions of work in sickness or trouble, of olosest calculation of time, of small wages and heavy rents. “ B we won’t livs here and pay, we get no work in the factories!” one said, when asked why lie did not seek a more healthy quarter. “lam doing overtime to pay for my child’s’funeral,” ono said, “for I lost the wages for three days. I stayed by her to see her die, and to bury her.” “I’m uneasy about the rent,” another said, “for l lost a week by a fall on the ice, and It’s hard making it up again.” ■ Not one word of kindly sympathy, of help, in trouble or sipkness. The “hands” under Cyril Ormsby. were simply human machines to do so much work, sick or well, pay the price of an hour or day at idleness, no matter how necessary.

There was no word spoken as Mr. Wilkinson and Millie walked to the office again Once there, the old gentleman spoke, very gravely. “As your guardian, ’ Millie, I can speak to you no word against Cyril Ormsby. He is a rich man, of good social position, of irreproachable moral reputation, and a man whose standing in business circles is of the highest. A man who is a good match in every worldly sense. So much for your guardian. As your friend, my pearl, who loves you as your own dead father might have lovrd you, who knows every noble impulse of your pure soul—as that friend, I tell you I would rather soo you lying beside your mother titan the broken-hearted wife of such a man as Cyril Ormsby," “ I came to you as a friend, as almost a father.” said Millie, “and I thank you for Keeping me from life-long misery. To know my husband such a man as I know Cvril Ormsby to be, would, as you say, break my heart.” “I would not tell you,” said her guardian, “for you knew I disliked him, and might have thought that dislike prejudiced me. But, Millie, tell me you will not let this day’s work shadow your life. You did not love Cyril, Millie?” “No, I reverenced what I believed a noble, generous nature. That reverence a mockery, I shall never break my heart for a man I thoroughly despise, Uncle Marc.” And so it happened that Cyril Ormsby, coming to claim the fortune ho believed within his grasp, met only Mr. Wilkinson, with Millie's polite but distinct refusal to resign herself or her fortune to his keeping. But he never knew how it was that Millie learned the true value of his hollow words of charity and philanthrophv.

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—The other day, two young ladies, on the Nebraska frontier, jokingly offered to trade themselves off to a couple of Indians for fifteen ponies each, and the Indians very willingly took the offer. Finding that the joke was taken earnestly by their Indian friends, the girls became somewhat alarmed. The red men were told that it was a joke, but they would have taken the- girls by force had they not been intimidated. —Mrs. John Newcomb, of Watertown, Mass., put her eleven-year-old girl and eight-year-old boy to bed without kissing them, because they had been naughty, and, when she woke up in the morning, sho found that they had taken the money in their toy savings bank and started off for some Jilessea region where inhuman mothers are unknown. The moral of this is: Don’t let your children have anything to do with savings banks. —ln the family of Judge J. B. Julian, at Irvington, lives a lady who, thirtynine years ago, swallowed an ordinary sewing needle. A few days ago she became convinced that the needle had made its appearance immediately under the skin on the back surface of her right arm, a few inches below the shoulder. A physician made an incision and extracted tho needle, still perfect in form but discolored black.—lndianapolis Journal. —A lot of hands while recently digging marl in a North Carolina swamp, near the Capo Fear River, found imbedded, some eight or ten feet below the surface of the earth, a schooner or vessel in its ‘natural shape, sixty feet in length and forty in width. It was of consistency astnesurrounamg marl, and the nails or spikes with which it was put together were made of wrought iron. There were various kinds of bone and teeth around and near it. —On Friday last two men whose gait and demeanor, in spite of their shabby clothes, showed that they were old British soldiers were making some purchases in a store In this place, when all at once they were observed to stare rather hard at each other. At last one exclaimed soito voce, “ Brother Mike, by jove!” and the party addressed immediately replied, “By the powers, it is Tim himself!” A general handshaking followed, and explanations were in order. It seems that the two men were brothers, and both had been soldiers in the British Army, but in different regiments. They had served in tho Crimea, and aft(U - the close of the war, some twenty years ago, they had become separated, and each thought the other dead, until by the merest chance they met in Stratford as related above. In their travels since they last saw each other they had been in India, Africa, China, the United States, and finally arrived in Canada. —Stratford (Out.) Times.

Broad-Chested Horses.

“ Wind,” said an old horseman, “is the grand secret of a fast horse, Good lungs will cover a multitude of faults; whilst, on the other hand, perfection of shape and form are useless when the wind is out. The chest, therefore, in all cases, should be large and capacious. In shape it may vary somewhat, according to the service to which the horse is to be put. If he is to be kept for slow work and heavy drawing, the chest may be nearly circular in form, because this shape is the one for strength and bulk, to receive and bear up against the pressure of the collar; while at the same time sufficient room is secured for that expansion of the lungs caused by slow ana regular work. But, if the chest is circular, let it be at the same time deep, or else the lungs may be cramped. A horse with a shallow chest is worthless for any purpose. The rule, then, is this: For a draft horse, a circular but deep chest; but as soon as you pass through the different degrees of speed, up to the racer and trotter, the chest will increase in depth, compared to its roundness, until, for the highest rate of speed, you must have a chest as deep as a greyhound, and, at the samo time, not lacking in strength. Every breeder should keep this rule in mind when selecting his brood mares and stallions, for he may be sure that shallow-chested parents never beget deep-chested Colts.”—Chalauqua Farmer. ■ Thk Permanent Exhibition at Philadelphia has assets amounting to SBBI,002 41, while its liabilities are $510,004.81. Among the latter are $171,577 due the Centennial Board of Finance, but it is expected that it will be settled on payment of $40,000, which will leave the company all right, as it has got the expenses about down to receipts now. . -y . . ; r " —lt is told of the late Chief Justice Chase that Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines (who is much older than she looks) assured him one day that she should plead before the bar until she was 150 years old. “ And to think, madam, that this is to be kept up 125 years longer,’’"said the gallant Chief-Justice, as he bowed to the widow.

KITCHEN ECONOMIES.

—Keep fresh lard in tin vessels* —Bread Omelet. —One large teacup broad, one teacup cream; one teaspoonful of butter, four eggs. Salt apd pepper; fry liko an omelet. —Sponge or Jelly Cake.—Two eggs; one cup of sugar; five tablespoonfuls of water; one and one-half cup of flour; one and one-half teaspoonful of baking powder. For jelly cake, bake in layers. . • : —Oyster Filling for Turkey.—To one can of oysters add bread crumbs until you can mold it Itke a loaf of bread; add also liuttor tho size of two oggs, pepper, salt and a little pulverized sage. This is delicious. —Hickorynut Cake.—Two cupfuls sugar and one of butter well rubbed toKther; four eggs, whites and yelks aten separately; one cupful cold water, three cupfuls of sifted flour, one teaspoonful soda, two of cream of tartar, two cupfuls of kernels of hickorynuts. * —Montclair Drop-Cakes.—Beat up tho whites and yelks of six eggs separately, with a spoonful of rose water; to which add six ounces powdered sugar; boat the whole well, andadd one ounce of bruised carraway seeds and six ounces flour; drop them on wafer-paper, and bake in a moderate oven. —A Cheap Fruit Cake.—To one quart of sifted flour add a teacup of sugar, half a cup of butter, one cup of washed, dried currants, two heaping teaspoons of baking-powder and spice to taste; rub all thoroughly into tho flour, then: stir in cold water to make a stiff“batter. Bake an hour, first half hour quickly, then slowly. —Beans and Oysters. —Boil beans until ready for baking; season plentifully with butter, pepper, salt and little bits of pork, if likea; put a layer of the beans into quite a deep baking dish; then a layer of raw oysters, and.so on until the dish is nearly full; pour over a teacupful of tho oyster liquor and bake one hour.

—Chocolate Cake.—Two cups of sugar; one cun of butter; four eggs; one cup of milk; scant three cups of flour; two heaping tcaspoonfuls of baking powder; bake in layers. For the chocolate mixture: Grate one cake of sweet chocolate; beat the whites of two eggs to a stiff froth and add a cup of powdered sugar. —Flo-Flo Cakes. —One pound sugar, one pound butter, eight eggs, one pound and a quarter flour, two ounces currants and a half nutmeg; mix the butter with the sugar and spice; then add half the eggs, and beat for a few minutes; add the rest of the eggs, and work for live minutes longer; stir in the flour and currants, then bake into shapes. —Pound Cake.—Eight eggs beaten separately; not quitq one pound of butter; one pound of powdered sugar; not quite one pound of prepared flour, or flour With two heaping teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Beat the yelks, sugar and butter together, then add the beaten whites and flour by degrees, alternating until both are stirred in; flavor with lemon. • —Curing Hams.—Rub salt all over them as soon as cut and laid on a table; the next day brush it off and pack in a cask. Put on a pickle made as follows: One quart of salt to one gallon of water; to six gallons of water half a gallon of molasses and three ounces of suttpeler T jvt. the liam* remain in six or eight weeks, according to size. Smoke to suit, and pack away in salt in a cask; put in a cool, dry place ajid they will keep good all summer. —Apple Fritters.—One pint of sweet milk, six eggs, flour enough to form a batter, a pinch of salt, half a teaspoonful of saleratus, a teaspoonful of cream of tartar; then slice some good sour apples rather thin and mix in the batter; fry in hot lard, browning them nicely on both sides. Sauce —A little cream and sugar. They are nice made of raisins or currants instead of apples; dolicious if made of canned peaches, and the juice of the peaches well sweetened and poured over them when served for sauce.

Exterminating Rats and Mice.

Perhaps the best exterminator of rats and mice is a screeching old winter like thatof 1874-’75, which occurred at the termination of the droughty period, and beginning as far back as 1870. Unlike cats, dogs, wolves, foxes, squirrels, rabbits, etc., rats ana mice will not stand a great degree of cold for any considerable length of time, whether their nests are uisturbed and broken up or not; and the ultimate consequence was, that after the conclusion of the scries of cold winters which ended in the first quarter of 1875, rats and mice had become a comparatively scarce article in the farming districts of the Northwest. But since that date, there have been two warm winters and only one moderately cold, and at the present time, rats and mice swarm in stacks, corn-shocks and corn-cribs—-about, in, and under barns, sheds, stables, cellars and dwelling-houses, and so far during the mild weather of this winter have aqne an immense amount of destruction to corn in shock standing in the field. Since they can easily and readily be got at and compassed when nesting in, or burrowing under corn-stocks, an active terrier-aog, and an equally active man with a spade and club, will, when working together and with a good mutual understanding, make away with them rapidly. The samo manner of destroying them is a good, one, tod. where they gather in woodpiles, heaps of brush or rubbish, or heaps or stacks of grain or hay, and is far preferable to attempts at either poisoning or trapping them; neither of which methods is likely to succeed except in the hands of an expert. For ages rats have pitted all their wit and all their cunning against a small portion only of those two (jualities belonging to man—Mid up to this time the advantage in the contest has been on their side. But for the protection of houses and oollars, barns, sheds and outhouses, to say nothing of stacks and corn-cribs, from the depredations and intrusions of these vermin, there is., nothing equal to the employment of their natural enemy, the cat—one, two or three male cats, according to the piaeof the premises and work to be done—care being taken to procure the kittens of large and healthy mothers, and fixing them early in life, so they will stay at home and attend to their business. ::: :1 ....... There are. to be sure, few cats, however large and vigorous they may be, wiiling to attack a full-grown rat when they can avoid the contact; but they hunt and destroy the young ones all the more actively, for the reason, perhaps, that, they have so strong a dislike for their parents. IP . Very little success usually attends attempts to trap or poisqn them ui the

usual way. Traps, the whole crew of rats, in given premises, will avoid after ono or two have been caught or injurod; and after the first or second dose of poison has been swallowed, it is rarely a third will be taken; and after a short time the trapper and the poisoner is much more likely to be caught in his own toils than the vermin he nns sought to destroy. Kata and mice both may be driven away by the uso of substances hurtful or disagreeable to them, placed in their holes and runways in such a manner that they cannot avoid coming in contact with them. For this purpose Cayenne-pepper, perhaps, Is tho best, as it is certainly tnc safest to use; but it is costly. Potash does well; but it is not only a nasty and erosive substance to have about, but a dangerous one to all domestic animals to come in contact with; and chloride of lime, against which no other objection lies than it is an almost harmless compound, which rats soon come to regard witli contempt and indifference.

But it is well to remember that, to drive rats away from our premises is not to destroy them, but simply to transfer sjmething which is a nuisance at home, to our neighbor, where it will bo a nuisance abroad. To kill thorn outright, then, is tho only way to get rid of them; and if one does not choose to avail himself of the services of their natural enemy, the cat, perhaps the best exterminators, acting as poisons, are some of the many preparations of phosphorus got up for that express purpose. Phosphorus is said to have a certain and perhaps a similar attraction for rats and mice that catnip and valerian have for cats, which draws them to where it is from considerable distances. But the ordinary preparations are not only comparatively costly and disagreeable to handle and have about, but they are virulently poisonous, and sometimes contain so much phosphorus that the preparation repels rather than attracts the vermin. But there is a method of its use, known and practiced in the Bahama Islands, to protect the pineapples, that are grown in such enormous numbers, from their only enemy, the rats, which swarm, as they always do in warm climates, where the ignorance and prejudice of the natives and the people have almost exterminated the cat A fair-sized yam or sweet potato is boiled in the usual manner, and while it is still hot, but not very hot, a common phosphorus match is thrust into each end, and, in course of a few hours, the poison has been taken up and penetrated through the § citato 1 s substance. These are then istributed about and under the pineapple plants, and are greedily devoured, and with fatal results, by the rats. How far such a remedy would succeed in cool and moist climates, and upon vermin which have access to more or less animal food, it is difficult to say; but the remedy is a cheap, easy and comparatively safe one, which deserves to be tried, and, if found to be an efficient one, should be widely and generally advertised as a discovery of no inconsiderable economic value and importance. —Home and Farm.

Imperial Incomes in Germany.

Tho Berliners complain of the stinginess of the Imperial Crown Prince and Princess of Germany, and are specially hard on the latter. They accuse her of making a purse for her younger children, as if that were a crime, and tell how, at the seaside last year, she was content to tako half a house. As a matter of fact, their Highnesses are compelled to exercise the strictest economy, and it is immensely to their credit that they are able to make ends meet on resources so limited. People who sympathize with the Prince of Wales by reason of his restricted income may be surprised to learn that the “appanage”—that is, the allowance from the State to the Imperial Crown Prince—is just £7,500 a year. The Crown Princess lias from England an income of £6,000 a year, and the interest on her dowry of £30,000, say £1,500 a year more. So the income of the couple is a bare £15,000 a year, plus the little Sehloss in Unter tier Linden and the villa at Potsdam rent free, as also the right to give a certain number of dinners annually in the “ White Sehloss” at the charges of the Emperor. That illustrious monarch has a civil list of about £600,000 per annum, and a private income from landed property of about £260,000 per annum more. He, however, makes nb allowance to his son, tho Crown Prince. The old gentleman does not believe in allowances. He is not stingy; Fritz can have what he wants if he likes to ask for it; only lie must ask. Fritz has a spirit of his own, and for many years after his marriage the modest menage of the heir apparent was maintained without indenting on the parental funds; but of late years the expense entailed by an increasing family has forced the Crown Prince to ask subsidies from his father. It is not generally known in this country that no Prince of the Prussian blood-royal draws the pay of any office he may hold in the State, whether civil, military or naval. Pluracies in the Imperial family arc only honorary pluracies. London World. —Thirty-odd years ago a child was born in a Welsh Poor-House. A few days ago the charity-boy, since the hero of many strange adventures and vicissitudes, dined with the Prince of Wales and received an ovation from the Koyal Geographical Society. Was there ever any wilder romance than the life of Stanley? “ It is announced that the Indian famine fund collected in England reaches the fine total of £500,000, or $2,500,000. This is the largest collection which |ias been raised since the patriotic fund for the relief of the widows and orphans of the soldiers and sailors in the Crimean War.

Mt. Vesuvius.

Should an eruption occur in this volcano, and cause the destruction of one-half of the inhabitants who live in the vicinity, the remainder, who barelv escape with their lives, immediately move back upon the half-cooled lava, and tnere live 'in constant fear of another eruption, foolishly fancying that the only tenantable portion of the earth rests within the shadow of the great volcano. This fairly illustrates the force of habit, and the persistency with which people cling to opinions when once formed. For example. Dr. Piewe’s Gold-, en Medical Discovery cure* incipient consumption, coughs, colds, and all affections of .the liver and blood, yet some still depend upon physicians and remedies that have naught but repeated failures to which thejr can refer. And although Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription is sold under a positive guarantee to cure those weaknesses peculiar to women, and notwithstanding that thousands of women bear testimony to its efficacy, and-the truth of all statements made concerning it, many yet submit to tlie use of caustic ana the knife. Again, Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Purgative Pellets, no larger than mustard seeds, will positively cure constipation, where it is dependent uporf dyspepsia or torpid liver; yet some still depend for relief upon the “blue pill” or huge doses of (Im-ttc cathartic, medicine. In the face of such facts, can we wonder at the blindness of the poor Italians} *

9 - V Wisww Consumption.—For the cure of till* llstrcisInR disease there bu been no medicine yet discovered thut e*n show more evidence of reel merit than Alien'd Lung Balaam. This nnequaled expectorant for curing consumption, and all dlseusos leading to it, such as a (Teel lons of the throat, lungs, nml nil diseases of the pulmonary organs, is Introduced to the suffu Ing public after Its merits for the cure of such diseases have hoen fully tested by the medical faculty. The Bhlsumi Is, consequently, recommended by physicians who liuve become acquainted with its great success.

The Best and Most Economical.

Housekeepers are giving the cheap, adulterated baking powders a “wide berth,” and whys Because experience has taught them that an al>solutcly pure, full-strength, full-weight article, such as Doolet’s Yeast Powdeh, which never falls to produce light, wboleeome and nutritious biscuits, rolls, muffins, wattles and griddle cakes of all kinds, Is by far the cheapest and most economical.

Rheumatism Quickly Cured.

"Biirang’s Uheumatio Remedy,” tho groat Internal Medicine, will pnnitively cure any case of rheumatism on tho face of tlio earth. P-ice 91 a bottle. Bold by all Druggist*. Bend for circular to Helphenatine <t Jk-ntlov, Washington. D. 0.

Mothers, Mothers, Mothers.

.Don’t fail to procure Mbs. Winsuiw'h Hoornwo Svhup for all diseases of teething in children. It relieves the child from pain, cures wind eolic, regulates the bowels, and, by giving relief and health to the child, gives rest to the mother.

Stuttering cured by Bates’ Appliances. Send for description to Simpson A Co. ,Box 5075.N.T.

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ASK the recovered fIjSS. ■ n dyspeptics, bilious suffer JHli 11 tl 1H | f-M era, victims of fever and ague, the mercurial dlsh] eased patient, how they , * recovered health, cheer ' ful spirits and good appe- .■ ‘l ““ w»*r llt <4IJ Wilfrid taking SIMMONS’ Li via U —w*-yijT regulator. The Cheapest, Purest and Best Faintly Medicine In the World! For Btspkpbia, Constipation, Jaundice, Billons Attacks, Sick Headache, Colic. Depression of Spirits, Sour Stomacii, Heartburn, etc., etc. This unrivalled Sruthern Remedy Is warranted not to contain s single particle of Mkbcurt, or any Injurious mineral substance, but Is PURELY VEGETABLE, containing those Southern Hoots and Herbs, which an all-wise Providence has placed In countries where Liver Diseases most prevail. It will cure all Blseases caused by Derangement of the Liver and Bowels. The BTMPTOMB of Liver Complaint are a bitter nr bad taste In the mouth; Pain in the Back, Sides or Joints, often mistaken for Kheumatlsm ; Soar (Stomach; Loss of Appetite; Bowels alternately costive and lax; Headache; Lees of Memory, with a painful sensation of having failed to do something which ought to have been done; Debility, Low Mplrlts, a thick, yellow appearance of the Skin and Eyes, a dry Cooflh, often mistaken for Consumption. Sometimes many of these symptoms attend the disease, at others very few; but the Liter, the laigest organ In the body, Is generally the seat of the disease, and 11 net Regulated In time, great suffering, wretchedness and DEATH will ensue. I can recommend as an efficacious remedy for disease of the Liver, Heartburn and Dyspepsia, Simmons’ Uver Regulator. Lewis O. Wundeb, 1625 Master street, Assistant Postmaster, Philadelphia. “We have tested Its virtues personally, and know that for Dyspepsia, Biliousness and Throbbing Headache It is the beet medicine the world ever saw. We have tried forty other remedies before Simmons’ Liver •Regulator, but none of them gave ns more than temporary relief; but the Regulator not only relieved, but cured us.Ka Telegraph and Messenger, Macon, Oa. MANUFACTURED omi»t bt J. H. ZEILIN ft CO., ' PHILADELPHIA, FAs JPriee SI.OO. Sold by all Druggists.

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