Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 17, Number 14, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 25 September 1886 — Page 6

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WOMAff MD HOME.

MAN IMPROVES COMPULSORY

A SEASON IDLENESS.

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Word to Ugly Women—Woman and Her Betonrcei-Mn. Frank Leslie—A Plucky Schoolma'am—A Study of Girl*—Paragraphs.

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A worker found himself suddenly shut off from his doily earnings, but he did not seek other involuntary idlers like himself to bewail the ill-fortune. He looked at homo for something to do, and found it. Several of the mortise locks on the doors refused to catch their bolt?. He took them out, and found broken wiro spiral springs. For these he substituted bits of rubber, and made the locks better than before. He washcred the knobs of the doors that had a rattling play whenever handled. He put new thresholds and storm guards to outer doors which had admitted a flood to the front ball and to tho kitchen whenever the rain wis from east or south. He tightened rattling windows, and •where tho upper and lower sashes met he placed flat strips of wood covered with woolen cloth on one side and edge this kept out a deal of cold wind.

Tho stove top was not large enough to hold utensils in cooking in addition to others just lifed off. Ho went to a building in process of erection, and was given four pressed bricks. I Fo mack) a framo to hold these side by side, and placed it alongside the stove. His wife considered it a great convenience. Several shelves were placed where they would do tho most good. Ho fixed a piece, holding a number of pivoted arms, to the wall back of tho stove, and the good woman had a handy drying horse for dish wipers, towels, and other small articles, and the bare, when empty, could be s*vung against the wall out of the way. The little girl bad dolls, and other playthings to bo mended, thero were chairs with broken backs and I0060 rungs which required dowel and g'.u**, and a table with rickety legs, and one with a leaf hingo rotted through by rust. Tubs and pails were in danger of coming to pieces for want of hoops. Ho made lxjtter hoops of wire than tho original ones of paper-thin iron. As cold weather was coming, ho hung a door to the pig's sleeping place, a door double-hingod with leather at the top, so as to swing both ways, and when released to hang vertical

There was scant closet room in the house, but in tho kit*, hen was a spaco between a corner and a window where a good-sized cupboard could bo placed. Tho idle mechanic, but busy man of family, constructed a "drearer," as lio called it, which, after a year's Use, his wife said was tho handiest piece of furniture in tho house. It was 5 foot long by 8 feet wide, having a table of these dimensions, directly undor which were two drawers, runnicg on strips furnished with rolls, for the drawers wero nearly 3 foet by 2 feet 0 inches, and 8 inches deop. Under these drawers wero two cupboards, side by side, ono furnished with shelves. The sides of £ho dresser extended above tho table, at tho back, of a width of about 8 inches, and high enough to receive il shelves. Tho contents of those shelves could bo covered by curtains sliding by rings on a brass wiro. Apart from labor, this pioco of urnituro cost less than 82.

This instance of useful homo employment In a ensa of enforced idleness is cited merely as a suggestion but many of these little jobs need not await a strike or other compulsory withdrawal from ordinary work they ana appropriate for evenings and otherwise unused holidays.—Scientific American.

A Word to Ugly Women.

Somebody said the other day that tho Princess Mottcroieh delighted in her unique ugliness. This is past belief. Thero never yet lived a woman who liked to think, uo matter what her mirror told hor, that anybody thought her ugly. And tho brighter tho woman is tho more it hurts. Sho might have ho genius of Shakespeare, tho ability to paint 1 iko Raphael. Sho might sing liko tho angels, bo as lovely as possible in hor mind, and yet— sho would not want a human being to say sho was ugly. It would hurt her as nothing elso could, anil sho would wall With her head bent down when tho thought came to her that tho girl who sold hor a yard of ribbon bad perhaps a prettiness that did not belong to her. Thero would bo mora beautiful womon in tho world if the ugly ones wero not made so conscious of it.

Occasionally thero is chic in ugliness, but. bo very suro, evon to tho woman who attains that, thero is never-ending suffering. How a man would laugh at this. But boauty in men is not desirable. A man grieves in his way when ho is little, when ho cannot count on his strength, and when he is a coward. But who over heard a man grio'ing for pink cheeks, bright eyes, or a mouth

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lxw A man unfortunate enough to havo presumed on tho intellectual strength of a woman and to havo tokl her that sho was ugly, has tnado a mistake which ho can never remedy. Tributes to her wit and wisdom, to her charms as lasting longer than thoso of a merely pretty foco never remedy it If ho neglects her for on© hour sho attributes it to hor lack Of boauty if ho speaks with tho simplest civility to a pretty woman, her heart will give a groat throb and sho will accuse herself of folly in coming where her fault sbowod more positively by comparison with others.

There is no use in telling her that when others pall upon him sho is over a pleasure, flint she is his rest, his delight and his pride he can never tell her that men havo spoken of hor beauty, and that so the trump card has been lost. Women think more, I really do believe, of beauty than men. A man finds pleasure in a woman she is, therefore, simply herself to him, and to be loved for that reason bat sho always yearns for tho love that is given to the beautiful face. Ugly women havo been more truly, more passionately loved, and everybody knows that a man is dotsned who once gives his heart to an ugly woman, for she has power untold by which to hold him but the woman is never quite satisfied. Well, these is hope for all of us. Marfc do Medici is said to havo been thick lipped, to have had small eyes and bad teeth, vet men loved her.—"Bab' New York Star.

London Itoportcr aud Mrs. Leslie. "You wish mo to tell yon something about my papers," Mm. Prank

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theeoixra of two wide eoInmnssL, ^ves their history with great pleasure. From it I learn that Mrs. Leslie^ editorial policy te to *produ* at tba earliest moment, regardless of expease,* eto. Beyond a Utile Evening" »ow and then, sbo has no social life. But a great nr.r« jNr-h call to see bar "for no other ajitp osethantoseea woman journalist at her desk.All thre. -ii hor totals the pr hasbeea with her. iae reporters ara al-A ../» looking her up and sajitg: "Mra. L«bc, you an worth *10 to vet day, Wooty* us an InterviewT ooctch^ng uu,is, perhaps, »*tob*astingof alL "Do you ever do any writing

ioney, I dont care to write. 1 tyrs ruy-cua-juondj"—and suo gkuiccd (says tba reporter) it some sparkling gems on licr fingers, and fixed up a nasty little gem of a brooch that iwaim loose several times—"and my dresses" —and she stroked (we ara told) her beautifully fitting black dress. "Why should I write when out of my business I make something over"—»rrl Mrs. Leslie mentioned a sum (it appears) along way up among tho tens of ttinn^infR "But," adds the discreet interviewer, "I am not authorized to reveal secrets."—London Cor. New York Star. 1

Tho Very Nervy Frenchwoman. I havo been especially struck by the hardiness of the Frenchwoman and the strength of her constitution. Unless she belongs to the idle and luxurious class of Frenchwomen, she will get through an extraordinary amount of work in a day, eat and drink very sparingly, go about in tho depth of winter with scarcely any more clothing upon hor than in summer, rush from highly heated rooms into a freezing air, and do all,manner of imprudent things, and apparently get no harm by it In French schools it frequently happens that English girls fall seriously ill in the winter because they try to do all that their French companions do, and their constitutions are not equal to the strain.

The Frenchwoman is endowed by nature with almost inexhaustible energy and a resisting power which admirably fits her for .the battle of life. When she is thrown upon her own resources it rartly happens that she does not make a living somehow. Sho has what sho calls "nervous attacks," through over-excitement, but it is very seldom that she falls into the low melancholy state that invariably goes with inactivity. The Frenchman, however, it may be explained, has nothing liko the "grit" in him that the Frenchwoman possesses. He is much more given to self-indulgence, and maybe this is the whole explanation.—Boston Transcript.

Woman and Her Kestources. Women need to cultivate their own Resources more. There arc some who early recognize the difference of value between the perishablo and imperishable things of this earth. Every valuable possession has its added care and expense. People who wero once in moderate circumstances, or poor, even, who grew wealthy, look back upoa the old Iij as freer from caros, and happier yet, if they wero to go back to their early and simple style of living the world would severely criticise them. Every woman needs to keep up her list of old friends, and to make now ones, too tho family and children cannot meet all tho wants that middle-aged people must have for friendship. Not any woman is so busy but that she can And time to write an occasional letter. If tho friend to whom sho owes a letter would come to see hor, she could lay aside work and talk to her, and urgo her to stay longer. Ono can stop on the street at tho risk of taking pneumonia in winter, to talk to a friend for half au hour, and why cannot friends bo civil when they do not meet?

Pure air every day, which housekeepers need so much, would freshen them up until twice tho amount of work could be accomplished that there is, witlio.ut tho daily dragging sensation which ono has who stays so closely indoors. There are many mothers and children who do not go out for a week of snowy or stormy weather, and all grow irritable or cross, because they have failed to provide themselves with

proper

protection against

storms—overshoes, laggings, rain coats or umbrellas. Tho English family entire goes out rain or shine. Health ranlcs first with them, as it should.—Paulino Adelaide Hardy in Good Housekeeping.

Who Are th© Charming Women? Beauty is a very important factor in human life, in the destiny of tho race but to bo commanding, to bo continuously influential, it must 1*1 sustained with something else. Apart from mind, maimers, culture, character, ii is a poor possession, and only proclaims tho luck of what, by a natural law, should bo its adjuncts. A merely pretty, handsome or boautiful woman is no match for one who is plain, even homely in person, provided sho has tact, delicacy of instinct, elegance and cleverness tho beauty will make an impression at first, but tho impression will bo removed and a reaction will set in unless the pretty womau can prove, by somo other and higher moans, her right to physical favor. Sho will soon be regardod as a counterfeit, having nothing internal to answer to the external.

Who are the interesting the attractive, tho charming women of society in this country! Aro they uniformly beauties? I3 this enchuntment in their faces and figures? Are their bodies more than their souls? Their bellehood springs from their manners, what they feel or think. Aro thoy \fhoin you delight to talk to—the ones of pink and white complexions, Grecian noses, oval faces, cameo cut and perfect, superb forms? Would you choose for companion, wife, her whoso chief charms rest in luxuriant hair, regular features? I have heard men say that they prefer "a fine woman, without personal charms, to the fairest goddess, radiant with insipidity." No healthful man can or docs despiso boauty in any shape, but between beautjr and brains there" is only one choice, in Courier-J ournaL

E. Henton

A Study of Girls.

"Do you know," said she, "I've been making a study of girls, I've just discovered pne new thing about them—the American ones, I mean. They're all making a desperate effort to live up to their reputations. Those ridiculous Now England novelists have got us in a frightful bos. They've mado tho world believe that we're subtle—that we mean some tremendous thing every time we mako a simple speech. All tho smart men are now trying to ju 1! us by this standard of complexity, and tke girls aro trying to cultivate the proper mysticism. A goat lot of dull writers have been saying tb mean another, and giving us credit for a sort of sublime craftiness, till no ono thinks they havo a right to take your ob I HIS meaning. Tho eonsoqucnce is that all thc^c school girls, who are turned out like a lot of new bonnets each year, are trying to be complex. No one talks" as she wants to, but is sho Uiinks Mr. Howells cr James would like to lave her. Having gotten over her An~! ir.ania, the Aj- nu girl is afraid she is a mg her indiYiu x: .-, and is hunting arou for her lost national traits.*—Saratoga Letter.

A Plucky Western Schoolma'am. We remember a scluv.l ten. :«r who came to '.h? l.v: Nebraska, late dan the ofSa&s and prevailed oa th :a to 1st her mako proof on her iim, so that t' :M roach home, forty distant, In u.. usumo her school oa M-. :i iay morning. SL& owned the p* that carried her on 1: it -.v. -days' ri«!~r.i«.ghQrmika. and fod :md ujd for' fee: She had earned it a* had earned to imnr-Av her d*&9, by tPOrhing thr'fr^r.*-'or-v.-,Hrcn the n«itfnea&i of «\U -V •S-v- -I sr.i' nth.

And a vf out on bleak highlands of Washington, wt rvtaeuiber a little school house with Us wqp of tow-headed youngs

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should If Iba\--oeoaslad to write sonwthing, aud am offered enormous cams if I would do it Publbheri upon the pfesoe, aad there had beta no help «dlt books if I had not time towrite, andedl- she hdoed heraelf. aa all sacb women ton pray*d me to send tib*n sooie tetter*

trooa Europ*. But now, kdc* I ba\"« mad*

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Con rl:t Ilie a general Icadiag a forlorn hope foughs until her hands wero blistered and aer face blackened, but she saved her flock, did that teacher from tho Kansas ncrmal, Apr! didnt faint, but looked up smiling like a daisy. The western woman is not degenerating.—Cedarvalo Star.

Pretty Girls of Dublin.

Ireland is noted for its beautiful wtmen, and the girls of Dublin are as pretty as those of any city in the world. They have, as a rule, fair, rosy complexions and good forms, they know how to dress the latter. I attended a regatta at Dalkey, the great yachting place near Dublin, and saw somo several fthonsftrMta of the better class of girls of Ireland. The poorer class were shut out by the higher prices of the inclosure allotted to us, and tho crowd was a kid-gloved one. Tho girls seemed to be remarkably healthy and in high spirits, and they showed, as I could judge from the witty remarks I heard- en passant, all tho love of humor for which old Ireland is famous. The Irish brogue coining out of the pearly teeth of a rosy-cheeked, bright-eyed Irish girl sounds very sweet indeed, and wero I a millionaire American with ono or two American girl babies, I would bring them to Ireland to raise them for tho sako of their complexions. The beauties are not, however, confined to the upper classes. I saw pretty girls everywhere, and many a sweet face there is among the white capped servant girls of tho hotels, and even among the workers in the fields or in the cotter's huts.—Frank G. Carpenter in Cleveland Leader. Cr-,

Something for the Children. In these days of picture books, crayons, blocks, etc., it would seem that the little ones would not lack for variety. But even these at times prove monotonous, and one must resort to some other device. At such times a blackboard is a source of interest and oftentimes amusement, aud it is not a littlo help in teaching primary arithmetic and geography. It is sot necessary for it to be large, and it will cost but little. Keep a box of colored crayons as well as white, and do not deprive the children of the pleasure of drawing on the board, as well as writing and ciphering. When small children become wearied, it is just as well to release them, or draw their minds off in some other channel. Therefore, it is a good plan to let each little one have a slate and pencil, also a lead pencil and paper, and when they become wearied with other studies let them mako letters. Children can not be taught tho use of pen and pencil too early, and should bo allowed tho free usa of them, even at the risk of scribbling their books, for by their continued use they learn to write oasiiy and rapidly.—Mrs. I. A. W. in Courier-Journal.

The Pretty Queen of Koine. A correspondent writes that the pretty queen of Romo is with her young son, the Duke of Naples, at Courmeyor, which is the Italial Chamounix on ono side of Mont Blanc. "Sho lives," says tho correspondent, "in the Hotel Royale—royal only in name—a thirdclass hotel, excepting in price. It is, however, delightfully placed, commanding a fine view, and the queen can go out for her frequent walks without passing through the town. Here, with her dear friend, tho Villa Marina, and two gentlemen in waiting, with her young son, the pretty queen takes her summer vacation. Plainly dressed and well shod, sho walks miles. She chooses the hour when tho people at the hotel aro (lining and the roads deserted excepting by a few peasants, to whom she speaks, and, finding out their needs, is judiciously benevolent—a beautiful character Marguerite do Savoie. In tho evening they send up lighted balloons and burn wood fires on the summits of the mountains.—Boston Traveler.

Girls In the Cities.

I tell you, when you como to look at it, tho outlook for girls in cities is vfry discouraging. Their aim in life is, of course, to become happily wedded but how few marriages in respectable bocicty take place nowadays. Girls grow up to blooming womanhood, wither in old maidhood and die without having secured a taste of married blessedness. Men seem to havo no desire to wed, and of those who do, how many bring their wives to early graves or drive them to something worse. I know a young lady who was at ono time the bello of St. Louis. She married, and was considered to have made a good match. Her husband was wealthy and moved in good society. Sho died soon after her marriage and her funeral was largely attended but how is she remembered? There is not so much as a slab to mark ber resting place. Men, truly, are becoming wholly depraved.— Police Clerk jin.Globe-Democrat

California Girls Abandoning Corsets. I will confide to you that us girls havo pledged ourselves to eschew corsets. I always did liato those things and marvel that they have been fashionable so long. Do you know, I believe us women will be wearing trousers before 1900! La mode is getting nearer and nearer that consummation. Look at tho figures you can view any day on Kearney street or Market street. Almost tho typical Grecian drapery in scantiness. Skirts are being laid aside and great is the consequent gain in ease. Oh, dear! how slow the monde is in enlightenment! Suppose we, tho fair sex, should don trousers, would masculines stare at us curiously more than a week! Use breeds indifference, you know.—Oakland (Cal.) Echoes.

The Woman With the Dog. And tho inevitable woman with l!ie dog. Shall I get to heaven somo day, I wonder, and, with adoring eyes and reverer.v. tread, go wandering through the golden streets only to encounter a aster angel, earth born and paradise transplanted like myself, clasping

we think ono thing and yet her horrible, little, dim-eyed poodle or her fat and busy pug to her breast? I hope not, for I think I could not endure even heaven with such women about. Oh, for an earth-

dies tho brood sheets and tho broad paste brush with the skill of an expert. She tho widow of a former bill poster, and continues business with energy.

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the sun-browned feocber in their

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Woman's Labor Union.

Son Francisco has a woman's labor union. It was incorporated for the purpose of manufacturing wearing apparel, establishing laundries, eating houses, restaurants and reading roomst

After having your hands In aoepy water we* them in vinegar and spirits of camphor, it the alkali and kcepa your handt •oft.—Tribune and Farmer.

There exists tUQ a form of contract, mado in the time of Edward I of England, In which a man cngagod to sell and deliver his wife to another mam—Barton Budgat

Woman is society's balance wheel, and tho man who does astcooSde in his wife leads a life which cannot admit of day being turned on it—VTashixtzton Hatchfft

TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL.

IN N0I1T1I CAROLINA.

SKETCH OF THE WIFE AND DAUGHTERS OF A MOUNTAINEER.

Bringing Their Goods to Market—A Filthy Habit—Trading at the General Store. A So-Called Home—.Tho Kitchen Outfit—No Hope.

The streets of Asheville aro wonderfully quaint and picturesque. They are so, partly by virtue of their unlikenos to anything else with which tho. northern visitor, accustomcd to industry, thrift and the lifo cud stir of business, is familiar. Poverty and contentment go hand in hand. Yonder a barefoot darkey, with crownless hat and dilapidated trousers, chaffering with a countryman over a watermelon, "composes" well, but the Anglo-Saxon seems an alien clement. Picfcuresqueness is not bis forte. He is lean and scrawny, while Cuffey is fat and shining. Cuffey's tones and laugh aro mellow and unctuous the soul of good nature and love of ease flow through them. Tho countryman speaks with a sad and gentlo drawl. He may not know it., but ho was made for better things than to pick tho banjo and lio with his feet to the fire.

His wifo and daughters—there aro threo of the latter—aro all tall, thin, angular, with no hint of womanly grace in their forms and little in their faces. They aro so lean that their dresses fit, as tho old saying has it, "liko a sack on a bean pole." Each has a bit of wood three 01* four inches long sticking out of her mouth. There is, or has been, snuff on the unseen end of it. Sometimes you may see a brown rivulet of the snuff juice meandering down their chin. Some of theso poor women, however, are evidently industrious, and as clean as a filthy habit, which is almost universal, will allow them to be. If it is a bright day—and by far the greater number of the days are bright in this gonial climate—there are from fifty to a hundred of them in a town. Some havo walked in— three, five, eight miles—with a few quarts of berries, a few apples, potatoes, chickens, the aggregate pf their goods probably worth less ihan $1. '-••'-jt' CALICO DKESS.

Others havo come in the country teams, long, low, canvas-covered "Pennsylvania wagons," sitting in splint chairs, drawn by mules, or, possibly, by steers. They wear calico dresses and calico cape-bonnets. They never had anything better than a calico dress—not one in a hundred of them—in all their lives. Not ono in a hundred of them can read or write. Not one in a hundred over attended school threo months. Thoy stand about at tho street corners, gazing at tho passersby with wide, staring, incurious eyes. They "trade" at the general store their rag carpeting, their tallowy butter, their homespun yarns for tobacco, Rio coffee, calico of gay colors. They sit about on upturned boxes in the stores, their trading finished, till it pleases paterfamilias to start for home. Not infrequently you may see ono on either side of the husband or brother, who has got at the bar-r 01 closo by more than he can carry, supporting bis staggering steps, and hoisting him into tho wagon, whero ho lies in the straw upon tho floor while tho women drive home.

Homo! Tho house is of logs, with probably two doors, possibly aboard window. Should it be built of boards with glazed windows, it is spoken of as "a nice house with glttss lights." It is apt to bo about sixteen or eighteen feet square, and may have a lean-to, which may bo used cither for a bedroom or cooking room. Uusually, liowover, the simple family cooking is done in the great stone fireplace at the ond of tho family room. There aro often threo beds in a row on ono side of the room. Perhaps there is a loft above which is reached by a ladder, or, as in one case we knew, by ono of the boys climbing on a table, clutching a rafter and swinging himself up. In this ono room all ages and loth sexes sleep, from childhood to old age. Tho furniture is of tho simplest. Along table at ono side, with low benches besido it for uso at meals, is often seen. There is, rarely, a plain bureau, but this is in tho homes of the well-to-do. Thero may bo 11 spinning wheel in the corner. There is no china closet, for the whole table sorvi.o would not furnish forth a modern camper-out for a week's outing.

THE KITCHEN OUTFIT.

Tho cooking utensils aro an iron teakettle, a frying pan and a bakeoven, the latter deep, iron vessel, with a hollow cover which holds coals for browning tho top of the bread, and a coffee pot. Thero may be a pot to boil tho dinner if so, it may also serve to boil the family washing. Bacon, fried in th frying pan corn bread, baked in tho bakeoven beans, string beans and "roasting oars," boiled in the jxt, with plenty of baco:i for "seasoning"—these aro the staple article: of the family fare, accompanied three tirrw daily by black Rio coffee, usually taken without milk or cream and almost always without sugar. This menu is varied occasionally by fried chicken, more rarely by game, which might easily be had with little trouble. What is known as raised bread or yeast bread among us is spoken of south as "light broad," in contra-distinction, probably, to tho ordinary buttermilk biscuit, which is either sour and heavy, or sodden and yellow with soda. Tho art of making "light bread" is not familiar one to tho woman we have been speaking of. Sho knows nothing of the niceties of cooking, nothing of dainty housekeeping.

She was raised to field work. She milks the cows, feeds tho hogs, plows, hoes corn, builds fence, haul3 logs, pulls fodder, digs potatoes in short, does any and all the work a man may do, its amount only limited by ber strength. If her hard, rough life has left small room for the graces of life, what wonder? Into ber darknea/ and ignorance no household journal conies, with its sympathy and stimulus Should ber husband sell a piece of land, she "makes her mark" in the proper place. Her little girls are growing up just as their mother did. There is a poor apology for a school, taught during two,

quake to shake the cobwebs out of their brains and open their eyes to the truth that all sensible folks hold them in contempt— three or four months in the year, somewhere, "Amber" in Chicago JournaL two, three or four mil® away. That even this, rightly used, would lift than out of tho «... slough where the "deference of mankind has

A Woman Bill Poster. pjaoetj. bo-.v should they know? How Saratoga has a woman bill poster, who han-

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reach them and lift them to a higher

(N. C.J Cor. Woinanrs Jour-

level f--Ashevilio naL

Fishing for a Dog

A citbsen of Clayton, Ga.. lest a valuable dog, and suspected that he bad fallen into adogerted mining He coalu neither see nor bear ai bing ol hiia at the bottom of tin mrty-fJL- hole, but when be let down a piec_' oi meat on a string something ^Wt" as rr. -edily as a Saranac trout. Then a miner went down, and sore enough tho dog was there, and after being drawn up was nd to be unhurt-—Siff York Sun.

Xot Bad to Take.

A physr says: "When a teaspoonfui of warm

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is taken every fifteen, twenty

or thirty it has a surprising effect on catarrh. Every family should have a glaai of pure honey in the house, in order at once, after catching cold, to bo able to use some.— Exchange.

Dried Grange and lemon peel burned on coab in a sick room ars good deodorizers.— Tribunoand Farmer.

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UP IN THE LOFT.

Out to die barn the children hie. When I he sun 13 hot in the summer sky! Out in the barn where the livelong day The breezes rustle the fragrant hay. Oh, the balxn of the perfumed airl Oh. the breath of the flowers fair

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"Which bud and bloom in the meadows wide, With daisies and buttercups side by side! "Up to the loft," cries Jack, "we'll go, 1 For the breeze is cooler up there, you know." And golden-haired Elsie follows him fast Till the top of the ladder is reached at last. And over their heads, in the rafters strong. The doves are cooing their sweet love song, While in and out at the wide barn door The swallows are teaching their young to soar.

Oh, dear old barn on grandpa's farm, Slay.winds nor storm ew do you harm For grandpa in the "long ago" Over your rafters climbed, we know. And grandma, quaint little maiden she, His chosen playfellow used to be, And with book aud dolly 'midst the hay Up in the hayloft loved to play. -Mars*. D- ®riagjj

A HOME OF YOUR OWN. %,'r

Good Advice to :t Young Married Couple. A ise in Point. Ono of the very iirst things that a young married couple should think of, is tho getting of a homo of tUoir own a house which is theirs "to havo aud to hold" for lifetime, if possible ono that shall be to their children a place around which all their youthful memories gather, and bring aglow to their hearts, no matter what may como to them in after years one in which each room will, in process of time, become endeared through its associations. It may seem far away in tho distance at first, but persistent, thought and effort in that direction will bring it to pass in time, and much sooner than at first seemed probable. Necessity or expediency may make renting tho only thing to do for a season, but I still adhere to the opinion that it is the truest economy and highest wisdom to get a home of your own at the earliest moment that you can make it practicable.

These peripatetic pcoplo havo rarely much of value that they can call their own, for in the very nature of things thoy could not have. The family lack the sense of permanency in regard to a home which is always so desirable, and especially when people aro upon tho down hill sido of lifo. While young and vigorous, with brains busy with what is going on in tho world, its absenco is not felt so much, but tho day must como when tho interests will bo gradually withdrawn with the waning strength from purely outside matters and center within the home, and it is then that tho heart longs for and is best satisfied with what long habit has made dear and familiar.

Another thing is true. Your expenditures aro much more likely to bo carefully looked after if you havo such an object in view. I know a couple who boarded for some years after their marriage, then rented a houso and went to housekeeping. They lived up to every cent of their income, though never running in debt. Finally they concluded to have a home of their own, and took advantage of tho installment plan that is, thoy had a house th^m by persons who make that sort of iliiiig i'n ir business, gave a mortgage upon it to sceuro tho builder, and paid for it in monthly installments. The undertaking caused a complcto chungo in their way of living. Without being niggardly, they looked closely after excuses, and found that they could enjoy lifo junt as well as ever, and oven better, because they had a definite object in view which absorbed their thoughts, and for which they wero planning from day to day. They go without many little luxuries to which thoy were accustomed, but thoy do not feel tho deprivation in the comfort thoy tako in what is to bo really a home, not just simply a teniiorary place to livo in.—Cor. Toledo Blade.

Onc'fiood l5«od Ucgets Another. A friend related an ir.ddcnt to mo to-day about Mr. James W. fScrtvillo, of Oak Park, which will be of interest to tho people who assembled the other afternoon to witness the laying pf tho coraer-stono of tho Scovillo institute in that charming suburb, tho great distinction between different philanthropists is that somo of them give their money in tbeir lifetime and others givo it after they are dead and have r,o um for it themselves. Mr. Peabody, of blessed memory, wus moved to make his princely benefactions by reading on a tombstone in London of a man who had bestowed largo sums of money "in his lifetime," and Mr. ijcovillo was similarly affected by an incident that befell him in the Cooper institute in New York. While he was in tho office of the institute a clerk came in with a plumber's bill which l.e had gone out to pay, and informed the officer that the plumber refused to tako any pay for bis work. When asked for an explanation ho said that ho was a prosperous man and that ho owed it all to Peter Cooper. When he was a hopeless, penniless lad on the streets of New York ho had been taken up and given an education at tho Cooper institute, end ho could never chargo Mr. Cooper for anything. Mr. Scoville was at once penetrated with tho idea that the greatest happiness that any human being can feel was to do good in his lifetime, and livo to Bee the effecta of it and to enjoy tho gratitude of his boncficiarios.—Cor. Chicago JournaL

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Pions and Semtible Monks.

There is a certain monastery in Spain where the fat and unctuous friars and lay brothers pericm r-tidi feats in the way of cooking and eating uj mako one think of tio Arabian Nights. A sparkling rivulet flows through the center of an immense hall, and thence through pierced wooden reservoirs, containing every sort and size of the finest river fish. Each side, loads of game and venison, vegetables and fruits are heaped. Beyond along line of stoves extend a row of ovens, hillocks of flour, rocks of sugar, jars of the purest oil, pastry in abundance.

On one occasion the party eat down to "ono of the most delicious banquets ever vouchsafed to a mortal this side of Mohafh mod's Paradise." The macedoine was perfection, tho ortolans and quails lumps of celestial fatness, the sautes and bechamels beyond praise, and a certain truffle cream was so exquisite that the grateful Lord Abbot piously gave thrtTtfcs for it.—New York Evening _______________

Gavo Herself Away.

"Therer exclaimed young Bpriggins suddenly as they were all sitting on tho piazza. "I must go and get shared. My face is as rough as a cow's tongue. I tell you it feels uncomfortable to have these little,, short bristly bail* all over a fellow's chin."

Do Pnyster always gushes when young Sprains say# anything. "I know it," said (he now effusively.

Ami then everybody leaned forward and asked her all at once bow she knew it, but Miss De Puysfcer only blushed painfully ami •aid that they were horrid things.—Loussvillo Journal

A Babbit Hunting Goat.

A Georgia farmer has a goat that joins gleefully with a bound in banting rabbits. When on tho trail be imitates the dogs and runs with bis to the ground, but when the quarry is in view cp go bead and tail and bedashes after the unfortunate bunny rcgardko of his companions. —New York Bon.

GAMBLING GRANGERS.

RURAL POPULATION OF THE WEST ENGULFED IN THE WHIRLPOOL.

toit in the Grain Maelstrom—TJcttlng on the Futuro Price of Corn .or Wheat. In the Provision Pit—Too Much Coulldence in Their Judgment—Wiped Out.

Without actual observation one can hardly realize the amount of grain gambling done in tho country. Every village and city in the northwest has a grain office—sometimes three or four—that receives dispatches while the big board is in session. These dispatches cost from $10 to §20 per mouth. Under tb rules of the board and telegraph company the firm must not communicate tho markets' to auy ono. In fact, the speculators of a town all ''chip in" to pay for them, and they aJl know "just how she is going."

Let me introduce you who have net been initiated into the office of one of these firms at 10:30 a. in. It looks as though tho majority of tho well-to-do farmers of tho surrounding country were patrons of that grain firm, Tho other dealers have dropped in a moment or sent a clerk. Tho men about to mi who havo money to invest aro well repivsented. You will wonder what is going 011 but no tieo the yellow message sheet that iasses from hand to band and listen to the asides. You will hoar more about tho certainty of wheats going up than you supposed an ei porter know about it. Don't get scaml and lay in six inontlis' supply of flour, for it probably will bo cheaper. Tho country s}x! ulator is most always a bull, and tho way to get his horns in is to put prices down.

IT LOOKS SO INNOCENT.

This description applies to every town of 2,000 inhabitants throughout the west. In tho larger cities there is a branch office of somo commission firm or bucket shop wliero they handlo more monoy than nine out of ten of tho legitimate business linns. Is it. gambling? Yos, in its worst form, because ib looks so innocent to the now beginner. Nothing is bought or sold nor is there any pretense of buying or selling between the transactors. They simply bet on the futuro prico of the corn or wheat which tliey nominally buy or sell. Tho old mid most always "busted" speculator explains to his victim bow by tho system of margins ho can control thousands of bushels of grain with a few hundred dollars. Thon ho offers to tako him into a deal. It is a suro thing, and tho profits, as seen through his magnifying imagination, aro immense. Tho gudgeon takes the laib and puts up tho mono}'. As ho don't know much about tho business, his "partner" docs 1I10 trading. In most cases his money is all that goes into the doal, and if they win ho never knows it.

Meantimo ho has boon studying tho methods of grain gambling. This succcssful investment upon his "judgment"' makes him tho smallest man in town in bis own estimation. Tho worst of it is that it. i3 r.ot liko a caso of tho measles—ho never gets over it.

I will relato a few typical instances. Their portraits will be recognized in almost ovory hamlet in tho land. A man who owned one of tho best farms in Illinois lias lost over $100,000 within tho l:ist fifteen years. Yet ho knows that ho can get it all back, and moro too, if he can only raiso tho money to invest. Such is the hallucination of this game that few over quit with 11 dollar. Nor do they, liko Joaquin Miller, leani a lesson from their expcrienco with tho boards.

In one western city of 4,001) inhabitants and its surrounding territory n:oro than 6"00,00 is known to havo boon lost in grain speculation in the last twonty-flvo years. Only ono grain firm in this city that has not failed in this time. Still tho men who lost a largo portion of this liavo faith ill their "judgment." /IN TUB rxtovisioN nr.

A well-known stock shipper of Iowa, has lost throe fortunes in tho provisi ".v pit nevertheless, I10 knew pork was too hnip nt. 8W per barrel this spring, to his sorrow. Most all of tho country grain merchants lail because! they are drawn into this maelstrom. To be owing debts contracted in dealing in options, and doiug business under another man's name, has ceased to bo even spoken of in (I10 grain trade. It is looked upon as something to lo expected. The country always loses. Why? Every country dealer is a firm believer in higher prices for al I produce. If ho sella anything it is only for "scalp," and I10 intend to invest his last dollar on tho long sido when tho market goes a trifle lower. IIo Li always trying to get in on tho bottom, but is loath to sell at the top. No ono knows his method1* better than tho manipulators of tho markets. When the prico of anything on the list is OJlow as tho state of trade warrants, they put it from threo to fivo cents lower, and frcezo tho countrymen out.

Tho chronic failing of most speculators is to spread themselves over more than they cau carry, 'ffiey havo so much confidence ii their judgment that they either buy or sel1 a largo lot, and only margin it one or two cents, A slight fluctuation "wipes them out"

Every "big bulge" in the market fills Chi cago with outside speculators, flushed with success. They look upon tho board of trade building as a mansion prepared especially for their reception. Within two weeks nine out of ten aro banging around the bucket shops, and inside of a month they borrow money to get home. Individually, they aro not so lamblike as to deserve pity. An old commission man, who, withal, fa quifo a philosopher, tells me that it surprises bini to see bow much apparently green young men know about the methods of speculation. They arc thoroughly posted in "puts," "calls" and "straddles," .and need no urging to invest their money. That these young fellows mako defaulters is no wonder.—Pekin (Ills.) Cor. Now York Sun.

A Remarkable Englishman. A bright littlo Englishman, who has been getting bis first impressions of the land of tbc I brave and the home of the free from a fort-' night in Newport, sums them up naively in

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very few words. Wo are all very much moro cultured than ho expected to find us—more rpfined, more civilized, better educated, palticularly th. young girls, who quite take one'n* breath away by tho brilliancy of their attainments. Our t. itality is something better imagined tbuu described—BO generous, lavish, so charming is it our bouses are hand- 4 some, our men and women bright and clever 1 and as for our brisk, breezy, lnnchter-loving existence, it is a constant revision to the phlcgmatic British temperament, which is never biitbo but by fits aad starts.—Providence JournaL

Befuwd the King"* Invitation. Ernesto Itossi is at present writing b&J memoirs, which will alludo to a correspond,enco between P."~f and the late King Lud-1 wig on tbe sutj't of a performance which! the king bad a. 'l him to r.ive for his exclusive benefit. It is said th replied'! to the king's invitation: "11 IMIH gladly play! gratis Lei/ro 1.X/),G00spectator*, but 1 couldI

not make up my mind for millions to play I before a angle person/*—Now Yark Com-] mercial Advertiser. P'^v "V

De man who spends his time wonderii why coons war1 made to climb trees ami wery apt to misa a good many chance? to| knock ober rabbits ronmn' about his fcetBrotber Gardner.