Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1879 — Page 3

The Rensselaer Union. ■ ' i • RENIBELABK, INDIANA.

MY BERRY-MEN. No doubt, Kim« drowsy, sunnyday ~ When Rummer o’er the land held sway, The berry-men bare iMSaod your way. And sang aloud, m through the street J'hey drove their wares, “llere ■ fruit so sweet, All ripe, abd rare, and wondrous obeapl All through the mellow autumn days Thoir voices pierced the golden hase. Chanting their dull and tuneless lays. But. when the tender snow came down. And folded iu the busy town, They failed to make their daily round. When lo! Inst then the dull refrain Was straightway taken up again, Right here in this, my sn)all domain. And two wee men drive up and down (One’s eyes are bine, one’s are brown) Tbo play-room floor as through e. town. Their faces bright with fun and glee. Their voioes sweet as sweet oan be, These berry-men are fair to see. Now, when the rosy summer's dead, And e'en the timid, birds have fled, They call out, “ Berries ripo and red!" And, when the frost, with silent feet. Walks np and down the frozen street, They sing of berries rare and sweet. So, np and down, the live-long day, They wing and shout in th.ir queer play, 1 O buy from us! come up this way I’’ Clad in their dainty garnlen*s white. They drive and sing with all their might. From early morning until night. And, though the winter time is drear. We in this house have naught to fear. For it is always summer here. For with their pretty eves ashine, These precious berry-men of mine Keep summer with me all the time. When creeps along the solemn night (I would that von could see the sight,) Together, in tne fading light. They kneel down meeklv by my knee, An:i ask with sweet humility To be kept from all evil free. O precious berry-men! I say, Would thaf your life's pall) could alwity Bo sheltered as it is to-day! O ask, while kneeling by my knee, That you may be kept safe for me, My berry-men so fair to see! —faith Walton , in Chicago Tribune.

TODDLES.

I felt like a lady that morning. I was a lady, i thought, after all; quite as much so as Mrs. Jones, who lived in the great cupola house on the hill. Quite as much of a lady, I said to myself, briskly, as I dusted up my little shop, and arranged the sheeny ribbons and gay-striped goods in the window. The window was - hung with pretty lace curtains, and there was a globe of goldfish iu it that sailed about as courteously and busily as though they were getting their living as head clerks. It was a sweet, soft autumn morning; the village street was grassy and quiet, and I hummed a tune as I glanced cheerily out at little Toddles, flitting about in her scarlet ribbons under the old willow outside. Bless her little rosy face! why shouldn’t* I be happy when I’ve her to look afterP I was happy, and I hummed again that old snatch of a tune, and nodded gayly to Toddles, wondering vaguely to myself what was going to happen that I felt so uncannily bright. Nothing —simply nothing; things were done happening me long since. My way was straight and narrow, my days quiet and uneventful. As I sippedTny coffee that morning I remember that I held the cup up so the light, and felt a certain sense of satisfaction in the translucence of the rare bit of china. It is so pleasant to know that one’s own election may keep one aloof from the ugliness and squalor of poverty.

it doesn’t take much to keep one person, of .course, and I don’t count Toddles for anything. It needs but the odds and ends of things—a bowl of bread and milk, a cup of coffee, with now and then a lively bit of ribbon — to keep the little one going famously. Yes,* I always wanted to be a lady. And as I sat in my bright little room I felt half-inclined to forgive Richard Gray the heart-break he gave me long ago. And, O God! it wm a heartbreak. But if he had me, perhaps he would have shut me up in some gloomy city house, to be a lady after his fashion, to stiiie for want of a bit of fresh air, to walk softly under a thousand petty conventionalities, and to cease being my own mistress. Ah! that I never could endure. So it is, perhaps, as well that Richard left me and went off somewhere—God knows where. You see, l-iike it—my little sliod. There is something so delightful in seeing the pretty girls of the village, with now and then a fine lady, hanging Over my dainty wares, and trying the tints of scarlet, and blue, ana orange, with many a laugh and many a glance in the mirror. I call it my reception when they pour in of a holiday afternoon. I love colors; I lovo grace and beauty; and perhaps I might have been a bit of an artist, in my way, if ■l’d ever had tho opportunity. Richard used to say so. But ah! he said many a flattering thing and many a false in those old days. And if I ever dreamed of any higher life than contents me now—well, I’ve given up dreaming. For there’s Toddles, so round, and sweet, and soft, and real. She leaves me little time for building air*castles. You see, I love the Child as if she were my very own. For she came to me onfe day, about four years ago, a • wee little baby thing, curled up in a heap on my door-step when I went to open theshutters. Wherever she came from I never knew. Toddles never explained; she just stretched up her little fat arms to me and gurgled “Tod-od-doddlo,” and that was her sole introduction. It was surmjsed that the child had been dropped by some traveling circus passing through tho town, and I had excellent neighborly advice about putting the treasure in the Foundling Hospital. But one seldom takes good advice, and I didh’t. To tell the truth, I grew so attached to the child that 1 should even have beqn wicked enough, I fear, to regret any one’s.turnlng up to claim It. But that’s not at all likely now, after so many years-no, not at all likely; no more likely than that Richard and I should ever meet again in this world. And s hat —that is among the things that never can happen. It was qq this wise, our parting: Richard’s mother was old and feeble and miserly. She’d spent a good deal of money on him—sent him to oollege, and expected, folks said, to “make something of him.” She always expected to get her money’s worth out of her transactions. Richard held her in sort of awe, somehow, though she was little- wizened old- woman that be p could have lifted with his Jpft hand.

But I liked him for respecting his mother. • One day we two were sitting at twilight talking of the future dreamily, as was our wont “My little one,” said Richard, putting his arm about me, “it half seems too bright to ever bo.” • “ Ever be!” I echoed. “ Oh, Richard, if you talk that way, it will never be.” Riehard smiled, but his face grew overcast. I felt tnftt a storm was coming. “ WellP” I queried, seeing that he sat brooding and silent. • “Darling,” ho said, soothingly, “I knew it would come hardly to you; but how can Igo against my mother? Her poor old noart 1b bound up in me, Jeanetto, and she will never hear to—to anything that—” “That seems to lower you,” I added, in a steely voice that seemed to cut its way out Of my heart like a keen cold knife. “Oh, lam a ooward—a poltroon!” cried Richard, wringing his hands. “ 1 was born to bring trouble on those I love. Who, who sball 1 leave to suffer for me now, Jeanette P” “ The one who will say least about it,” I answered, hardily. My heart was throbbing heavily, like a clock that ticks the hour of execution, but I made no outcry, and we parted in that final parting silently. And I have lived silently ever since. One vear after that I heard that Richard's mother was dead, and then that he had married; who, I knew not —who, I cared not. He had married another woman while my last words were yet ringing in his ears—right there, before the face of the living Heaven, married another woman, and swore to love and cherish her, as he had often vowed to love and cherish me! „, . But I did not seem to feel this blow as 1 had felt our parting. I just fluug him out of my heart there and then, and my love and my silence v&nifhed. I looked into the face of my misery with a smile, and 1 took this little shop in the village, and worked early and late, and made it thrive. Then, two years later, came my little Toddles to me, sitting like a lily on my doorstep, as if some angel of peace bad dropped her there. I have named her Theresa, but Toddles has always been her own pet name for herself, and I like it because it is hers. Tbo child has brought me peace. And I feel no vengeance against anyone now. Nor do I rejoice that Richard’s wife is said to have turned out ill, and spent the wealth she brought him. But 1 had forgotten the shop ia all this reverie and reminiscence. There was a sharp twang of the lit. tic boll, and I heard a heavy step in the doorway. 1 setdown my coffee-cup hastily, and hurried in to confront a great muscular fellow with a big beard and a slouched hat, whose presence seemed fairly to wipe out the little shop. This was a rather different type from my usual customers, and I was a little shy of him. He hesitated, and seemed bewildered when I spoke to him—men never do get used to shopping—and it was some time before l quite made out what he wanted. It was some sort of woolen goods—a scarf or a kerchief, I think. These were not very salable stoqk just now, and I had put the box containing them out of sight somewhere. While I rummaged about, the stranger stood in the doorway, watching me in a way I did not like; perhaps he wanted to steal something. He looked needy enough and shabby enough.

“ Oh, here they are at last,” said I, eagerly, handing down the package from a high and dusty shelf. The man did not seem to hear me. He was looking at Toddles, darting about like a butterfly outside. "Whose child is that?” said he, abruptly. V It was an impudent question, and I felt my blood flush up hotly for a moment. But I reflected that this man looked wayworn and weary; perhaps he had conic a long” journey, and left a little child liko this at home. “It is my child,” I said, pleasantly. “Yours!” he repeated. “Or at least,” said I T “if not mine, it was left with mo to be cared for.” ■ Left with you,” echoed the stranger. “ Ay, so I have hoard. Left with you by the wretched man. the outcast, the degraded, who knew none else on whom to thrust his burden when his tinselled wife fell from the tight-rope, and died there, grovelling in the sawdust—knew none other of whom to seek charity than the woman who had loved him.” I listened as one stupefled with opium. What did this man know or guess concerning me and mine P What object had he in view in lingering about the shop? But I said, coolly, “ That is a story that needs to be proved.” The stranger stooped and looked keefilyATiß'er "Verily,” said he, with a low, sardonic laugh, *he has reaped his reward, it seems: he is both dead and forgotten.” I began to feel afraid of this man, who seamed bent upon insulting or alarming me. I pointed sternly to the door. “ Sir,” said I, “if you are satisfied with the foods, I beg you will take them away, have other things to attend to.” For a moment after the great hulking -figure disappeared through the doorway of my little shop I covered my face with ray hands, and all the past of my life rushed entirely over me. 41 httd not outlived It yet, after all. Suddenly 1 remembered Toddles, and hastened to the door to look after her. My customer had disappeared; the huge willow trunk hid the road from view, but I felt relieved, for there was my little one swinging back and forth with the long pendants of the willow. Only one instant I saw her in the sunlight—one instant. There came a rushing, tearing and tramping, a terrible sound in the air, and a great bull, tossing his horns furiously, and with eyes glaring madly before him, came snorting and bellowing up the .street The great willow was in his course, and, O God! my little Toddles! Then 1 know not whether I fainted or whether I screamed for help. I saw a tall figure leap out from somewhere in the very pathway of the mad animal, and the next moment Toddles, hulllaughing, half crying, was nestling in ■my aratarr The man whom I*had sent csr my door a few minutes since stood looking on us yearningly*—tho man who had snatched my darling from its terrible peril. i “ Both dead and forgotten,” he said. “Oh, Jeanette! Jeanette! do youliot know meP” \ The rainbow ribbons in the little shop-window spun diszilv round, and all things grew dim before my* eyes. For I knew thft, Richard Gray was come back to me. Poor and degraded and d«Bertedy ,hftd„ come back to me.

He lifted his hat, and, stooping, kissed the little one, who did not resist him. “I brought yon my motherless little one years agone. A beggar and a sinner though I was, I dared to pray yonr charity to ray child, whom its mother, flying from her home, would have left to perish among the gewgaws and clowns in whose company she died. Yea, verily, my punishment has been bitter. And' shall I leave you now, Jeanette, you and my child, and depart forever,, hateful in your eyes for all years to come—hateful when not forgotten P” But something filled my heart just then, like the rush of a mighty river. I looked back at my quiet life, my bright little shop, the years of silence and of sorrow. I felt Toddles’ warm heart beating against mine. He had saved her. Anal looked at Richard Gray, and my hand in his. Since then I have tried whst it is to be a lady in the far West- a lady in a log-cabin, without china, or carpet, or neck ribbons, and Richard says I have succeeded.— Harper's Weekly.

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—A rustio couple dashed into a Washington oyster saloon, and implored the proprietor to get them married as soor. as possible. They had eloped, and parents were on their track. The oyster man not only summoned a Justice to tie- the knot, but provided stews for the party "after the ceremony. —ln a brief account of a Mississippian’s encounter with a mule, with unpleasant results to the Mississippian, the Natchez Democrat says: “The animal was roaming around the yard, and, it being very dark, MJ). Hackler came in contact with him before he was aware of it.” Mr. Hackler has tied up the mule and his jaw. —A Newfoundland young man, who suffered much from pain in the back, bandaged himself with flannel moistened with turpentine. Afterward, desiring to loosen the bandage, and having nothing at hand to cut the thread with which it was stitched, he lighted a match to burn it, and was burned so severely that he died in a few hours. —The firm of Carter & Cavin, sugar refiners in Osceola, Ky., was dissolved by mutual consent. The partners had disagreed in consequence of Carter's wife quitting him and marrying Cavin, and the work of settling up their accounts was accomplished with difficulty. “Is everything satisfactory?” Cavin asked, when the books had been closed. “Yes, all that relates to the business,” Carter answered; “but theusris an account still to be balanced. You’ve got my wife, and I'll take your life in payment,” and he shot Carter dead. —An incident of life in San Francisco is thus recorded by the Chronicle: A young woman by the name of Georgiana Morgan was sitting last night about nine o’clock, on a doorstep, at the corner of Stockton and Washington *streets, when she was seized with a severe attack of coughing. At that moment there passed a warm-headed blonde, known as Annie Kearney, and also as Annie Fitzgerald, who took offense at the noises made by Miss Morgan, and approaching the coughing woman she drew a keen knife and slashed her three times on the face and then fled. With the assistance of friends the wounded woman Wds taken to the City Receiving Hospital, where her injuries were attended to. Two of the gashes extended from the right temple to the chin, the other being on the neck, but all are of sufficient depth and severity to promise, when healed, unsightly scars, which the unfortunate woman will carry with her through life. j j v£ —At Washington, a few days ago, Capt. Norman Crane was dying at Meyer's Hotel. The Captain was worth about $20,000. He bad lived five years with a woman named Mary Crane, and had introduced her as his wife in some of the most respectable circles in the District. No marriage ceremony had, however, been performed. When Capt. Crane was dying he desired to make Mary his legal Wife. The Captain’s sister, Celia Crane, was violently opposed to a marriage, there being,; it appears, no will. A clergymanJHhe Rev. Dr. James G. Addison, was "sent for, and was willing to perform the ceremony. Dr. Townsend, who was also present, thus described the scene in an interview with a Post reporter: “ The sister kept her place by the side of the bed, and as I asked the question first to prove his consciousness, ‘Do you know me?’ he-in-dicated his reply by an affirmative nod of the head. Then I asked, ‘ Are you willing to marry this womanP’ but before he could uod his sister patted him on the cheek, and said. ‘ Don’t answer them, my brother,* In his weak and, after several i attempts and failures, both I and Dr. Addison gave it up.” The marriage was thus prevented, and after the Captain's death the sister took possession of his personal property.

How to Get a Dinner.

A gentleman who had traveled about pretty extensively was greatly perplexed to understand how it was that other persons were waited upon promptly and well served at the hotels, while he was almost entirely ignored and could scarcely obtain a square meal —complain to or swear at the Waiter as be might. At last hisneyes were open to the dodge of feeing the waiter liberally, and being of an ingenious turn of mind he determined to..improve on the plan. | ’ The next hotel he dined at,he took his Seat very pompously at the table, and took out a well-tilled pocketbook, extracting therefrom a ten-dollar bill, which he had laid on the white cloth beside his plate, and placed his goblet upon It. In an instant almost ho was surrounded by Winters, who seemed to vie with each other in attentions. Every wish was anticipated, and all the delicacies of the kitchen and pantry were placed before him in tempting array. . Having fared as sumptuously as a Prinoe (to the envy »of many of the guests) he took up the greenback, and beckoning to the nearest waiter, was immediately besieged by half a dozen or so. Holding the bill in one hand, he pointed to it with the other, and inquired of the crowd: “Do you see that bill?” “Oh, yes, sir,” they itfPexclatmed in chorus. “ Then take a good look at it,**- he replied, “for you will never see it again.” Saying which he departed, leaving the waiters aghast. 1 "*►«»■ 3 | • By the latest returns there are in France 82.873 persons of unsound .mind, 42,986 of whom are in the Asy-

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

■ —Very weak lime water will kill worms In flower pots. —lt is not oil that gives a horse such a sleek ooat, but a plenty of elbow grease.— lowa State Register, —Window Boxes.—Thoso boxes supply the place of a hot bed or cola frame. Soeds sown in boxes of earth three inches deep, and set in a warm kitchen window, the plants properly watered and thinnod, and, if need be, transplanted to other boxes of earth, will give an abundance of early-tomnto and other plants. —Early Pasturing. —No stock should be allowed to wander over the meadows. This is doubly injurious. It destroys the grass and spoils the appetite of the animals for ary' feed. Nothing is fained but much is lost by this practice. he ground is also “poached,” and quagmires are formed in low, springy spots where the first grass appears. —Coffee Jelly.—Coffee jelly is occasionally very refreshing. Make the coffee precisely as if to drink (not too strong), sweeten a little and add the gelatine in the usual way, only not too much; it is best when just too thin to quite stand- alone. Serve with cream and sugar.—Mrs. Read, in the April number of Dr . Foote's Health Monthly. —Cranberry ' Jelly.—Dissolve one ounce of isinglass in three-quarters of a pint of water; then draw out oyer the fire and press the cranberries, and add the isinglass jellv to a pint and a half of the Juice, a dessertspoonful qf lemon juice, six ounces of sugar, and the whites and crushed shells of four eggs. Simmer ten minutes; then strain through muslin till clear, and fill the mold. —Gems.—One quart of flour, one quart of milk and water, half and half: put flour in basin with little salt, and gradually pour in milk and water, beating up your batter; beat it up light; put your gem pan in your oven overnight; it can’t be too hot; put a small lump of butter as big as the end of your little finger in each of the compartments of the pan; when it is hot till with the batter; bake in a very hot oven fifteen minutes. —The spring work does not all commence with the plowing. Long before the ground is ready to work the thoughtful and intelligent farmer will be busy making plans. In this case, when the season’s work begins, he will know just which fields he wishes to plow, how much manure he is going to apply, where it is coming from, and what crops he can most profitably plant. Careful planning and forethought are important elements of success in farming.— N. Y. Herald. —A writer in the Inter-Ocean at r tributes the hair turning gray to the opiates given to infants in the form of soothing syrups, etc. She says: “To prevent one’s hair fading or turning gray while young, mix and use one-half pint Jamaica rum, one tor-oil, half ounce tincture cantharides. The hair and scalp is to be thoroughly washed with castile soap and water once a week at first, then less often, then the oil mixture applied to the scalp in small quantities, a teaspoonful being sufficient in most cases, and thoroughly rubbed with the hands; apply every other day. This stimulates and nourishes the hair admirably.” —To make a fall for a bracket, shelf or mantel, cut Java - canvas, of any shade desired —drab, or brown, or black—into theform you want Usually it is deepened at the center into a point or scallop, and also at each end. In each scallop embroider a figure, flower or medallion; trim the edge with some bright fringe to correspond to your prevailing color, and have a heading of galoon, or fringe, or embroidery. One made of drab, embroidered in scarlet zephyr, with a flower in each of th# three points, and a scarlet vine for the head, and edged with scarlet furniture fringe, is handsome. Application work is also very effective—several shades of one color, or bright contrasting colors on a sober ground; bright butterflies cut out of flanuel, and chain-stitched on *at the edges, or flowers or designs from the antique. — Western Rural.

Experience in Killing Canada Thistles.

It sometimes happens with many farmers that some particular management of the irrepressible Canada thistle, in some single instances, through hoeing, plowing, mowing or some other method, apparently more accidental than through any shrewd management, w|U prove to be r almost entirely successful in killing these posts of the farm. Let the farmer out take that particular method as a precedent for future battling with the enemy, undertaking to kill other fields of thistles in the same way, and nine times out of ten he will fail and get discouraged; or. even if he succeeds in killing them out, root and teiti cti ,huwili find the identical ground well stocked with seed, with which to renew itself again, unless constant care is exercised to suppress them. 1 do not consider Canada thistles really irrepressible; but 1 must say that 1 have been more successful in keeping them subdued through tilling ana weeding, so that they would not interfere with the growing crop, rather than in killing them outright. 1 am inclined to believe that the Berlin correspondent you quoted in a recent issue will find that the thistles he reported to be killed were only choked down and subdued, for the time being, by the ranker growth of the field-crop overtopping them, when their leaves, which act as their lungs, deprived of sufficient light and air, will shrivel and die down, just as they are reported to have done by your correspondent. I have found that with any crop that will grow ranker or taller than the thistle it is much easier to keep the latter in check than with a short growth, as barley, or a small hoed crop, as beans. Wherever thistles can have the advantage, they are most sure to take it. I will state some personal and varied experience in fighting thistles, which have proved the most successful in subduing them. The first lot I tried to kill was a few acres where the wheat was choked out by them the year before. I planted to corn, in rows, to cultivate both ways, and which I continued to cultivate often until August;, then, after a rain, pulling every remaining thistle by hana, : at ..which time they would come up with a long root, ana by that season of the year tbo corn was large enough to so completely shade tne ground as to keep them from sprouting again. I have never had many thistles on that spot since. The next experience was with a tenacre lot, \tell-seeded to the largo late clover, with about half of it yery •• thistley.” Both the clover and thistles were nearly even in their growth until they were about twenty or twentyfour Inches high and densely thick on the ground, with the thutUSs nearly heading oat- At of affairs, I

think about the ear\y part of July, a heavy wind and rain-storm laid it all flat on the ground. In a few days the clover ralsod its heads, to grow «p again as rank as ever; bnt the thistles, failing to make a new grqwtk, died out and rotted under the heavy crop of clover, which was cnt the last of July. The thistles seemed quite, dead, and that picoe of ground wab free of the noxious weeds tor years after. Other fields where thistles had overpowered the' barley I have sowed to rye, which grew quicker and taller than the thistles, reducing them very much, and giving a good opportunity to seed down to olover ana timothy, which, when the ground is well-stocked with it, So preoccupies the land as to check the growth of the thistles. I was, however, surprised one year in tilling twelve acies of corn on an old and tough quack turf, where I expected also to have plenty of thistles, by not finding any of the latter, except whero some stacks fjji standing had smoothered out the quack, when the thistles soon occupied that ground. Over the balance of the field it appeared as if the quack had run out the thistles. Late in August, as I had the quack about subdued, the thistles started up quite numerously from seed which seemed to have been in the ground. However, I think these small plants could be easily killed if attended to promptly.—if. Ives, in “ American Cultivator

How to Preserve Eggs.

Theue is nothing so excellent as a fresh egg, or so execrable as a stale one, and, considering how many good eggs go wrong every day, it will certainly be worth our readers’ while to note the following process, to which Dr. Phipson has called attention, for preserving them fresh for many months. On removing the eggs from the Heat, they are coated with butter in which 2 or 3 per cent, of salicylic acid has been dissolved, and then tliey are placed, individually, in a box filled with extremely fine and absolutely dry sawdust. Care must be taken that the eggs do not touch each other, and that they are completely enveloped in sawdust; and should these precautions be strictly observed, they will keep fresh for several months, possibly Tor more than a year. Dr. Phipson tested.the process for two years with most satisfactory results. What we have hitherto said ftpplies to the preservation of the whole egg, but there is also the plan of Berg, for preserving the albumen (or white) of.the egg for photographic purposes. The wliite separated from the yelk is evaporated in zinc pans or porcelain cups, at a temperature of 113 degrees. The solidified albumen thus procured is reduced to dust in a mill. The yelk is whipped up by- r .achinery into a light mass and then spread on zinc plates and evaporated into dryness at a temperature of 176 degres and then pulverized. The powder so obtained keeps for a loDg period, the white being employed for the purposes to which albumen is applied in me industrial arts and the yelk for domestic purposes. Both the cook and the photographer, therefore, ought to take an intelligent and lively interest in these proposed methods for keeping eggs fresh for a twelvemonth or for preserving the valuable parts for a similar time.—Cassell's Magazine.

He Was a Diplomat.

A very tall man with sandy chin whiskers entered the door. The car was full, and the only seat unoccupied by two persons was filled with a valise, a’ bundle, a shawl and a thin woman of thitry-five, with the latest style of red hair and false teeth. The man with the sandy whiskers, feeling a systematic bond drawing him toward the woman's red hair, touched her on the shoulder and said: “ Is this seat engaged?” “ Yes, it is,” snapped the woman, swelling up ip the seat, that the man might observe no possible room. “ Ah?” murmured the man, in a pleasant tone. Then he went and stood by the stove and mused for a while. Presently he returned to the scene of his rebuff, and leaning on the arm of the seat said softly: { “ I beg your pardon, madam, but as I was standing by the stove your features struck me familiarly. Did you ever attend a Presidential reception at Washington?” “No, l never did,” replied the woman, but in a milder voice than she had at first assumed. — “Then you will please pardon me,” said the man, with an apologetic air; “ the mistake was occasioned by your close resemblance to a young lady from Philadelphia, who made her debut that season, and whom I had the pleasure of meeting. She was considered the belle of the season.” “ No—l never was in Washington,” remarked the woman, in a mollified tonet —» ; —- “ It is strange how much you resemble the young lady in question,” pursued the man. “ The hair is the same golden hue, and while her features may hot have been so clear-cut and Grecian in their—but there, excuse me, Lam annoyiug you,” and the tall man started away. - “Don’t hurry,” said the woman, pleasantly, “There doesn’t appear to do many empty seats; won’t you sit here?” and she picked up her numerous baggage. The man with the sandy whiskers didn't know', tyut finally accepted the invitation, and in an incredibly brief space of time had the valise and bundle in the rack above, the shawl tucked around the window to exclude the draft, and was regaling the red-headed woman with a choice collection of aneodotes, that kept her laughing till the passengers could see the gums of her false teeth.— Hockland Courier. Lake Erie is only sixty to seventy feet deep. But Lake Ontario is 59 2 feet deep, 230 feet below the tide level of the Ocean, oc. as low as most parts of the Gulf of »t. Lawrence, and the bottom of Lakes Huron, Michigan and Superior, although the surface is much higher, are all, from their vast depths, on a level with the bottom of Ontario. Now, as the discharge through tho River Detroit, after allowing for the probable portion carried off by evaporation, does not appear by any means equal to the quantity of water which the three upper lakes receive, it has been conjectured that a subterranean river may run from Lake Superior, by Huron, to Lake Ontario. — The American Ship.

A Wise Deacon.

“ Deacon Wilder. I want you to tell me how yon Kept your-elf and family so well the past season, when all toe rest of ns hare been aids so much, and hare had the doctors running to ns ao ''■"‘fir.i.T.jLOT.the.iu-er e«.y. 1 iwd £?XS&“VK*«eSSS?SW it kept ns all well and able to woftail the time, and I will warrant it has ooet you and most of the neighbors one to two hundred dollars apiece to keep sick the same time. I guem yog UM»MS medicine hereafter. Bee Other oolumn.

A kill has been introduced in the Pennsylvania Legislature to authorise hotel-keepers to post tn* names of guests who go off without paying their bills.

The School-Book Question.

[From the South B«hd Tribune, March I.] The publication* of the old school booh publishlnK house of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Its successors, Van Antwerp, Hraicx * Co., pave been adopted for the next six vears In nearly every county In the State. Thie chan/e haa been gradually going on for aeveral years, and waa not Dually accomplished In onr own countv until laat season. To-day It would not take 110 to recure an entire uniformity of books in the county. These works are guaranteed to parents and guardians by the publishers, at prices so low that it does not really pay a bookseller to handle them. For Instance, M Oufley’a Spelling Book, coating In Cincinnati 11% cents, Is retailed here at 15 cents. It costs at least three-el a bths of a cent to get the book here. The profit It proportionately •mail on other books. In tble county tble reduction in prices of school-books waa brought about by Supt. Moon, and It can be made general throughout the atatc If County Superintendents will do their duty as ours haa uone. For, as stated above, Van Antwerp, Bragg 4 30. stand ready to lurnlsh the books at a guaranteed price, and where any over-react*, log book seller asks more thau this price, will send the books direct to school districts. Under these circumstances there Is no chance for ecbocl-patrous to pay exorbitant prices for books unless the County Superintendent 1* negligent of tbe patrons’ Interests and “stands In’’ with the book-sellers; and, If he Is lound out In tha. lie should bo immediately removed by the County Commissioners. In most. If not all the counties In the State, these books have been adopted by the county Board ot Education for six years. In this county, for Instance, there can be no change of books until June, lt(84. A great advantage resulting from this is that as tbe older children In a family advance In their studies the books discarded by than can be used by the younger members and a great expense la avolued.

A Word to Doubters.

There Is a good old English maxim that teaches us to “ believe every man honest until we know him to be a villain.’’ . American custom seems to have reversed tb s law and appears to make every man a villain until he has proved himself an nonest man. As with people, so with things. Every article placed In our markets can lay claim to popular favor upon Intrinsic merit and value alone. Continued popularity, therefore, is proof positive of intrinsic excellence. Dr. Pierce’s Family Remedies are tar more popular to-day that ever before. The people hare tested them and know them to be genuine remedies for tbe diseases they are recommended to cure. The Golden Medical Discovery and Purgative Pellets are the best alterative, tonic, and cathartic remedies that Can be used In chronic diseases ot the stomach and liver. The worldwide popularity of the Favorite Prescription, as a never-falllngremedyfor Female Diseases, would have alone secured to Its discoverer tbe iime be has so i Icblr won. Dr. Bage’s Catarrh Remedy, of which Dr. P erce *s also proprietor, is recommended by those who have tested Its virtues as a safe and reliable remedy for catarrh In Its worst foi tna. Chew Jackson’s Best Sweet Navy Tobewot

TRUTHS. HOP BITTERS, (A Medicine, not a Drlak,) CONTAINS HOPS, BfCRt, lATDBAKI, DAHDELIOI, AND TH* PURIST AND BIST MEDICAL QUALITIES OF ALL OTHER BITTERS. TBC3BY CUPIE All Diseases of the Stomach, Bowels, Blood, Liver, Kidneys and Urinary Organs, Nervousne6-, Sleeplessness, Female Complaints and Drunkenness. 01,000 liN GOLD Will be paid for a case they will not cure or help, or for anything impure or Injurious found iu them. Ask your druggist for Hop Bitters and free books, and try tbe Bitters before you sleep. Tak sno other. The Hop Cough Cure and Pain Belief is the Cheapest, Surest and Hast. Hop Bitters M t'g Co.. Rochester, N. T. Tor Sale by aU Druggi Me. W WILBOR’S OumruujLD OT 1 PURE COB LITER l OIL AES LIME. J To the Consumptive.—'Wilsor’s Compound ot Cod-Liter Oil and Limk, without possessing the very nauseating flavor of the article as heretofore used. Is endowed hr t’ie Pie sphate of lime with a healing nrop-rty which l enders tho OH. doubly efficacious. Ks m v sable testlmonl tit of Its efficacy shown t > Ihoee who ue Ire to see the in. Sold by A. B. WILBOR. CUemtst, Boston, and all druggists. ■ Dana’s Stock Label and Register. We desire to make It known, far and wide, that <*■ Pat. White Metallic Ear Labels and Registers are use J by noted ktock-Growers, and their tesUoiool tls provs them to be a great lmpiovemt at ua every other known method us marking and registering Cattle, Sheep anu Swine. • We send lOn Late It. stamped with yonr name and numbeis to order,. * itli Hi-gister sheet and u spring Punch whlchrffisfhit oval bole, and handles that will lock the Label in the hole In tne car, to auy one promising to pay *4 promptly on receipt of the package by maU. »4 paid for Istoels entitles you to the agency, with a liberal commission. Address C. DANA, West Lebanon. N. H. The out Reliable and Justly Celebrated Blit DWELL CLOVER SEPARATOR. The only doublecylinder Clover Mac' Ine made Iti the u. a. grea'lr Improved an I prices r slu-et for 1879. The Wooer Uaf, a paper giving valuable Information on the culture and saving Clov r Seed. free; also, lllnstr'd price-list. Address HI KUM S: 1.1.9 K FG. 4:0., South Bend.lnd. ~FARM~FOR SALE. 41* ACRVK adjoining Shawnee town. 111., on OHIO Itlt'KK. Terms easy, for particulars applj to THOM. J. eOOPt.H. Shawneotowu. lit fhhietectivTs OF EUROPE AND AMERICA, O* Lira in the Secret Service, A selection or OIL' RBBATED CASES IN GREATBRITAIN, FRANC E.' GERMANY, Italy, Spain, Russia, Poland, koyft and America. A Revelation of the Mott Renowned Detectt ret of the Globe,/or the poet 25 yean. It discloses some of tho most marked Instances ot deep-laid plans of mischief and outrage ever recorded by pen or pencil. FrWussfy lUuettaud irttA Tull Page hnoraringoj 850 pages. Agents are meeting with astonishing soooesa We oiler Kxtra Inducements to Agcntt, and pay Freight chaises on Books. For temu address the J. B. BURR, Pub. Co., Hartford, Ct. • Medicine* bare failed to WHAT igpsfs OTHER liss St:I4T'MHHFAOV. c ße^ror O lUKt0 iLt kJIRh INSTITUTE. '■"Wl.. ■■■ ■ Established In IBTC for tho Cum without, tue u..e of knlfeor loss of blood and little

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I 111 Thsrough Workmanship, El-gmat flatsh, Perlhattoa as Pan., CwipUurim as s.-lrauat, at, , j*r" Vibsatus" Thmtowr OatOu an la-yankls MABVFLOOT fhr gleiplleitj «r Parts, sain* Im. than one-half tha aaaal Salto aid Oasra. Make* Clean Work vita os Litterings ar Heat wring. rOTB Sixes of 8e pare, or* Made, Raagia* from 81s to Twelve-Horse tin, no* IwaMylw as Mesa* Harsa Powera to taatnh. YIOB Parties 1 are, Call on **r Dealers ar X . write te a* for lUiutrated Circular, whlnh wa emit Oam ® Speaks for Itself. RnucuSß irxrrEßjm. Byracuae, NY, Noe. 15,187#. About four years since, on building my bouse; 1 ana* lysed s Targe number of sane C ' pies of whitt lead, and from n- these selected the beat to bo r had. with which I painted a large part of the tome: tbe rest I painted with •• Bobber -“vreor- EfesSS'SS her for which It is named. One year since 1 found the "pure lead and oil" could be easily rubbed off, and wri, in fact, being fast washed off by the talna while that part of the building painted with the KuMx r Paint w«s as hard and glossy as It was three weeks sfter first applying It 1 have since painted the whole bouse with the Rubber Paint. I can. therefore, from both analysis and practical test, recommend tbe Rubber Pointy strong Prof, of Chemistry and Physios. For prices, terms, etc., address HDBBRR PADtT CO» Cleveland, Chicago. MS. Loafs, New Ysrk. NIW Tl JIT TRIM lathshsstearlsftlksstoto. k*M,M "TssrwJr.! ’for nee eo*y of“Kaaasm Pedflo laue ahasri.* slArsss *. J.LUwere, LaaA Coafr, Isllas. Ssesta. rIT A CURED 11 ll I u ■ ■ NT resDcdy tor Flta, Kpllepaw or raillag nickarks, warranted to effect a speedy and Permanent Cur*. •* A Free Bottle” ot my renowned specific and a veins tic Treatise sent to any sufferer sending aw his Pustofßce and Express Address. Da. IL 0, BOOT, 181 Peart Street, N. f. 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