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m ' T a755fi?w-i--s w - ?- 1 ', W ' 1 JB. - . C I lpHE ADTBETISEE. FAIKBROTflER & HACKER, Publishers. BROWNVILLE, NEBRASKA ABSENCE. "What shall I do with alL'tlie daj-s and hours That must be couuted ere I see thy face? How shall T claim the iuterval that lowers Between the time and that sweet hour of urace? f " Shall I in slumber steep each weary sense J w eary wuu longings shall 1 flee away Into past days, and with some fond pretence, Cheat myself to forget the present da'? Shall lore for thee lay on myself the sin Of casting from me God's greatgif t of time I Shall I, these mists of memory locked within, Leave and forget life's purposes sublime? Oh ! how and by hat means may I rontrivc To bring the hour that brings thee back more near J How miy.I teach my drooping hope to live, Until that blessed timu when thoa art here? I'll tell thee; for thy sake, I will hold Of all gtood aims, and will remember thee, In worthy deeds, each moment that is told, While thou, beloved one, art far from me. For thee I will arouse nvy thoughts to try All heavenward flights, all high and holy strains; For thy dear s-ike I will walk patiently Through these long ho rs, nor call their minutes pains. So may this doomed time build up in me A thousand graces, which shall thus be thine; So may my love and lonuhig hallowed be, And thy dear thoughts an influence divine. SATED BY MATCHES. A small room, poorly furnished; a pot of mignonette in the window; a girl at work at the table, sewing steadily. She would have been pretty if she had not becn,.so poor. If she had been better fed, she would have had a rosy cheek; if she had had freedom and less labor, she would have had dimples; if she had worn a dress of violet silk, instead of faded calico, it would have brought out the fairness of her skin and the golden hue of her hair. As it was, Alice Morne was pale, and pinched, and sad, with the sewing-girl's stoop of shoulders, and the sewing-girl's heavy heart. She rose suddenly and folded up her work a child's garment, of fine cam bric, trimmed with dainty lace. She made a package of it, donned her bon net and shawl, and went out of her lodging-house. She threaded the commercial streets rapidly, and soon emerged on the ave nues of wealthy private residences. Here it was quieter. The dusk was gath ering. Now and then a carriage rolled b 'One or two stately houses were lighted for receptions. Many more were somberly closed. Alice went on, with her quiet, rapid step. She stopped at last before a house all in a blaze of light Costly lace curtains concealed the luxurious rooms within; the soft notes of a piano came softly upon the girl's ear. "The Tracy's give another Eparty to night," said Alice. J She wont into the area and rano- the bell. A sen-ant admitted her. Shewent in with her bundle. She came out with a light step. The work had been approved, and she had been paid. A little dazzled with the scene sdie had just emerged from, she paused upon the pavement to count the money. "Give me a cent," said a little be"-- goov starting somewhere out of the bThntt4shdofcftiiii 4 ' Wfaat'doiyon wanbit for?" --asked 1 Alice. "I'm hungry," answered the child. He was pale and pinched. "Here's a dime: I would give you more if I could,"' she said. The child took it eagerly. She passed on with less than 2 to buy supper and pay for a week's rent. She had more work. "When it wa finished she came the same way in the dusk. As she passed over the sidewalk a faint line of white attracted her attention. There was a knob of glass, generally called "bull's-eye." in the pavement. It is usually inserted over a coal vault, and is removed to admit the coals. This one had not been adjusted with exacti tude, and at the crevice appeared a line of white. Alice stooped down and ex amined it. It was the edge of a folded paper. bhc drew it out with a wild thought that it might be some valuable check or draft. But it contained only a few words written in pencil: "I have watched for jou constantly for a week. IX you would save my life come back here, and all night long place matches where 3'ou found this paper. Tou shall be rewarded with all you can ask. A Pkisoxek. Alice closed the paper in her hand and looked around bewildered. No one was to be seen. She looked down at the lump of dull glass, but it was entirety opaque. The bull's eye uTas not set quite evenly in its place." She touched it with her foot, but could not move it After wuuiig a moment, comuscu ana in doubt, she passed on, recollecting her errand. The reir door admitted her. The ser vant had a child in her arms, the dainty little thing for whom Alice made gar ments. "Mrs. Tracy said you vas to come up to her chamber," she said. "'You know the way." The lady whom she met was not lovc 1) ; she was sallow and dark; very disagreeable-looking clutching her cash mere gown at the breast, and turning impatientlv toward her little sewino girl. ' " hy did you not come before?" she asked in a hoarse voice, with a slight French accent "The child should have had that dress to drive in to-day." "I was sick yesterday; 1 could not finish it," answered Alice, tremulonsty! Madame snatched the -package, tear ing it open and letting the little em broidered robe fall upon the bed. "Well, here is your money," said she, opening a velvet purse. "Next time I will employ some one who will do as they promise." Alice turned awav with a bursting .heart lor the woman's words meant starvation to her. She dared not raise her voice in reply; she divined truly that the heart under that rich robe was one of stone. As she passed down stairs she heard a low voice. It proceeded from one of the rooms about her. "And he is twenty-one to-day?" it said. "Yes; it is three years since his mys terious disappearance," with a sneering laugh. The voices were stealthv. A door closed and shut them in. Alice passed down into the street She walked fast, trcadingunthiuking ly upon the bull's eye, and went home. When she flung herself down to weep, she suddenly felt the crumpled paper in her hand. What should she do? She lay think in a long time. She considered the strangeness of the request, the possibil ity that it was not meant for her, the idea that it was a hoax, or written by some madman -for it was a man's hand But the girl's 'heart was warm and. true The possibility that some one was in trouble, and she might help them, was the thought that had the most weight. With no one to counsel or ob ject, she obeyed it. She went to the store and spent SI of her precious money for matches. She received a large package, containing thousands of little lucifers. The city clocks were striking nine as she reached the bull's-eye. The street was silent, the pavement deserted. As she bent down, some one tapped upon the bull's-eye. She slip ped a sheet of matches into the crevice. It disappeared. She waited a few mo ments; the hand tapped for more; she lupplied them. As she waited again a pedestrian ap proached. She rose, and stepped back into the shadows until he had passed; otherwise, she did not fear. The street was quiet, and she could see the stars twinkling in the clear sky. Hour after hour she supplied matches, at intervals of quarter hours. Occasion ally the rap came for an earlier demand. But she could not see the hand. She only imagined it to be a man's. It was long past midnight. The city clocks were near striking two when her matches became exhausted. She had not been sufhcicntlv supplied, she thought Quite at a loss what she ought to do she rose from her cramped position, standing in doubt, when a voice said: "Come with me!" She started in terror, for a man stood beside her; but the next words reassur ed her: "It is I whom you gave the matches to; do n )t be afraid, but take my arm and walk fast, I am not safe here." Alice could see only a tall form, and a pale face, the features of which she could not distinguish; but the voice, though hurried, was gently modulated, and the stranger took her hand with a grasp that was not unpleasant "You must be tired; but this has been a good night's work for you, little girl," he said. "What did 3-011 want the matches for?" asked Alice, trembling. He had drawn her hand within his own, and she walked rapidly beside him. "It was the only way in which I could get fire," he answered. "The heat melted the cement which inclosed the bull's-eye in the wall of my prison, and I escaped through the cavity. It was larger than the one in the pavement. I have been a prisoner in nry own house for three years." As they left the vicinity of the Tracy dwelling, lie walked slower. "I was quite helpless," lie added. "I knew of no one to appeal to whom I could trust. But listening and waiting, as a man only listens and waits for free dom, I grew familiar with your step as it passed so often over the bull's eve and up the steps, and a week ago, when I heard your voice to that beggar boy, I resolved to trust 3-011. I knew your tread the instant that it touched the euro stone, and I slipped the paper up the crevice. You paw it immediately. The hour till 3-011 came passed heavily; 3'ou were my onty hope. You are a brave, good child. Now, where is your home? Can I go there for a little rest before da3'light?" "It is a poor place," said Alice, "but 3'ou are welcome." Daylight was dawning when she re vealed her povert3--stricken little room to him. He thing himself into a chair and dropped his face on his folded arms upon the table. Alice fancied that he was praying.and moved about noiseless ty, preparing a little breakfast. She did not realize that this man was young and handsome, and that it was not, perhaps, propriety' to have him there. She was onty zealous, in her pitv, to serve him, seeing by davjight how ill he looked. But by nq.(m there were strange do- "iiia luadie lime sewincr-mr 's rmm -b -- 0 t? ..i-i- -1 BEACONFIELD'S LATEST. Epigram from "Endynilon." Long extracts from "Endyniion" are unnecessary, for it is a book that every body must read, 3-et a few tid-bits may be given here scraps of epigram in which the author is always at his best : "A Ittle knowledge of the world is a very dangerous thing, especially in lite rature." " "Foreigners rarety know more than one English minister at a time, but they compensate for their ignorance in the aggregate bod3' b' even ag,erating the qualities of the individual with whom the3'are acquainted." "The onty use of being in opposition is that we ma3' enjoy ourselves." "All things change, and quoting Vir gil will be the next thing to disappear. In the last parliament we often had Latin quotations, but never from a member with a new constituenc3'. I have heard Greek quoted here, but that was long ago, and a great mistake the house was quite alarmed." "London is deficient in dining capa bility." When a nation is thoroughly per plexed and dispirited the3' soon cease to make distinctions between political par ties. The county- is out of sorts, and the government is held answerable for this disorder. "Sensible men are all of the same re ligion." "And what is that?" "Sen sible men never tell." "Great men should think of opportu nity and not of time. Time is the ex cuse of feeble ani puzzled spirits." "Every political party changes its principles on an average once in ten unorc; sLfc?a Ol" 1 j. 7 O C? one nam hpon spnt. fm -i jomr iw i&fc-sssrEJI&encuned and n'dnular one in the city, and he came, with two other gen tlemen, so grand that little Alice was quite awe-stricken. Finalty, Mr. Lionel Trao3T that was the name of the hero went away with them, and she was left alone with her poverty and her won der. Onty she v.as not quite so helpless and distressed as she had been, for one of the gentlemen had smiled upon her and left a few pieces of gold on her ta ble. But the marvel was all over with her, and the gold was spent, and poverty and labor and care had come back. when, one day, there was a knock at the door, and the landlady's little girl said that a carriage was standing for her, and a man in waitinjr said that she had been sent for. & What could sheBbut obc3T the sum mons, wonderinvhat fairy work it was that luxurious ride until she be gan to see through it, for the carriage stoppedatthe Tracy mansion. Uiere had oeen great public excite ment the papers had been charged with the development of the infamous plot in high life, whereby me true heir of a. great fortune had been drugged while ill and concealed, and a story trumped up about his mysterious dis appeance; but Alice in her solitude had known nothing about it Her pennies went for bread instead of news. But when she stepped upon the threshold, Lionel Tracy, the restored master, met her with a tender courtesv that took away all her fear, and made her feel like a little queen in the midst of the splendor. "Have the rest all gone away?" she asked, seeing no one but new servant':, and a pleasant woman who was the housekeeper. "Yes; I am quite alone, and shall be unless vou will come and live with me," saiu air. Lionel Tracy aspecies of rhapsodical rhetoric highly useful in troubled times when there is no real business to transact, and where there is nobod3r to transact it. "Dynasties arc unpopular, especially new ones. The present age is monarch ial, but not dynastic." "You must show that democrac3' is aristocracy in disguise and that aristoc racy is democrac3r in disguise. It will carry 3'ou through everything. That is the charm of a principle 3-011 have al w:i3s an answer read'." "All huvyers are loose ii their 3'outh, but an insular country, subject to fogs, and with a poworiul middle class, re quires grave statesmen." "My return," said Prince Florestan, "was the natural development of the irresistible principles of historical ne cessity." "What is colonal necessary lacks originalit3'. A country that borrows its language, its laws, and its religion, can not have its inventive powers much de veloped." that hecatomb they call a wedding breakfast, which celebrates the triumph of a ri al. "Everything in this world depends upon will." "I think even-thing in this world depends upon woman." "It is the same thing." It is since the depths of religious thought have been probed and the in fluence of woman in the spread and sustenance of religious feeling has again been recognized, that fascinating and fashionable prelates have become favored guests in the refined saloons of the might3-, and while apparently in dulging in the vanities of the hour have re-established the influence which in old days guided a Matilda or the mother of a Constantino. "You may tell him, Beungaria, that he can come and dine, here whenever he likes in boots. It 'Is" a settled thing that M. P.'s ma3' dine in boots." ihe salvation of Europe is an allair of the past generation; the salvation of England should be the subject rather of our present thoughts. that increasing feeling of terror and despair which was deemed necessa- ry to the advancement of conservative opinions. "One should never think of death. Think of life that is real piet3'." "Turtle makes all men equal." "Now, I dare sa3' that ambassador has been blundering all his life, and yet there is something in the star and ribbon; I do not know how 3-011 feel, out 1 could almost go down on U13 knees to him. And there is a cabinet minister well, we know what he is. I have been sqnibbing him for these two j-ears, and now that 1 meet linn 1 feel like a snob. I believe them to be all impostors, but still it is7pleasant to talk to a man with a star." A public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is pri vate life that governs the world. The world talks much of powerful sover eigns and great ministers, and if being talked about made one powerful the3r would be irresistible. But the fact is, the more 3ou are talked about the less powerful 3-011 are. 11103- can onty succeed in uncomplicated cases, Their success in uncomplicated cases gives them something of a stand ing, not onty with the profession, but witli the people. But even this class of cases would be more successfulty treat ed, or, in other words, more speedity cured, if every weakened part were to be carefulty inquired into, and as thor oughty attended to. If there be liver torpor with the customary constipation, elimination should be thoroughly awa kened. If the kidne-s are failing to perform their work, then the treatment should include proper diuretics. If res piration be somewhat imperfectly pur formed in consequence of some affec tion of the bronchia or lungs, then the respiraton- organs should receive their share of attention. We might illustrate, the proposition still farther, but this will suffice. The thing to do is to build up the entire S3'stem, ever3' organ and part, to the end that the recuperative powers of the S3rstem nwy be fulty re Stored. This accomplished, 'nature will soon divest herself of malarial influ ence. We receive man3r letters of con sultation and man3' visits at our office from those who are unquestionabty af fected 113- the prevailing influence. Un less the location of their residences is greatly noted for malaria, we have little difficulty in overcoming the trouble. Even in regions having a bad reputation we can, in most cases, establish a com fortable degree of health in spite of the unfavorable environment. We are al ways pleased to give our opinion and advice in an3 case presented either b mail or in person. IF THE WIND KISE. Removal of Stains and Spots. Slcari7ic. In all cases use strong, pure alcohol. Gum, Sugar, Jelly, etc. Simple wash ing with water at a hand heat Scorching. White goods, nib well with linen rags dipped 111 chlorine water. Colored cottons, red3re if possible, or in woolens raise a fresh surface. Silks, no renmty. Lime and Alkalies. White goods, simple washing. Colored cottons, wool ens and silks are moistened, and very dilute citric acid is applied with the lin ger end. Oil Colors, Varnish and Resins. On white or colored linens, cottons or wool ens, use rectified oil of turpentine, al cohol tye, and their soap. On silks, use benzine, etherjuul mild soap ver3r cau tiously. Vegetable Colors, Fruit, lied Wine, and lied Ink. On white goods, sulphur fumes or chlorine water. Colored cot tons and woolens, wash with lukewarm soap, tye, or ammonia. Silks the same, but more cautiously. Grease. White goods, wash with soap or alkaline tyes. Colored cottons, wash with lukewarm soap tyes. Colored wool ens, the same or ammonia. Silks, ab sorb with French chalk or fuller's earth and dissolve away with benzine or ether. Tar, Cart Wheel Grease, Mixtures of Fat, llosin. Carbon, and Acetic Acid. On white goods, soap and oil of turpen tine, alternating with streams of water. Golored cottons and woolens, rub in with lard, let lie, soap, let lie again, and treat alternately with oil of turpentine and water. Silks the same, more care fulty, using benzine instead of oil of turpentine. Acute. Vinegar, Sour Wine, Must and Sour Fruits. White goods, simple washing, followed up b3 chlorine water if a fruit color accompanies the acid. Colored cottons, woolens and silks are ver3' carefulty moistened with dilute ammonia, with the nnger end. (In cases of delicate colors it will be found pref erable to make some prepared chalk into a thin paste, with water, and appty it to the spots.) An open sea, a gallant breeze, That drives our littfe.boat Hon: fast each wave about us flees ; How fast the low clouds float! "We'll never see the morning skies, If the wind rise;" "If the m iud rise, We'll hear no more of earthly lies." The moon from time to time breakb out Aud silvers all the sea ; The billows toss the waves about, The little boit leaps free. "We'll never see our 'rue love's eyes If the wind rie;" "If the wind rise, V.e'll waste no more on foolish sighs." She takes a dash of foam before, A dash of spray behind ; The wolfish waves about her roar, And gallop with the wind. "We'llee no more the woodland dyes, If the wind rise," "If the wind rise, "We'll hear the last of human cries." The sky 6eems bonding lower down, And swifter sweep? the gale; Our craft she shakes from heel to crown, And dips her fragile sail. "We may forgive our enemies, If the wind rise ;" "If the wind rise, We'll sup this night in paradise." FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. "Do you want a sewinir rirl?" asked Alice, innocently. "No; I want" a wife," he answered; "one that I can love with all mv heart, a? I do you, Alice. Will vou come?" Did she? Well, yes. And the public had another episode to excite them the famous Lionel Tracy's marriage Alice grew charming with happiness, and she was chronicled as a beauty when she be came his bride. Ladies' Arms. The arms of the ladies at the opera have been studied b3r a correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer, who says: "Hundreds of pairs are thrown out into relief b- the maroon background of the boxes with an odd effect Insomuch as scrawm- arms arc usualty kept out of sight, those here on vi w, with few ex ceptions, are pleasing to look at There is a wide difference in the use of arms D3-women. Some are awkward with them as though they were cut out of wood, and keep them stiffly to their sides, making gestures onty from their elbows. Others move them with free grace and make them seem soft and pli able. The art of poising is not, on the whole, well illustrated at the academy. The boxes, in the main, are simpty square holes, holding four persons, and divided from one another by low par titions. The occupants are, therefore, at far more liberty than persons in or dinary seats to assume attitudes at will. Some of the women take advantage of this to take on a posture and air of un conscious grace, and move their arms about in a mildty seductive way. Some, on the other hand, sit prim aad perpen dicular, and might as well be paralyzed as far as any animation in their arms is concerned." MALARI4L FEVER. Malarial Fevers, constipation, torpidity of the liver and kidneys, general debility, ner vousness and neuralgic ailments Yield readi'v tothis great disease conqueror, Hop Bitters. It repairs the ravages of disease by converting the food Into rich Blood, and it gives new life and vigo to the aged and Inflnn always. See "Proverbs" in other column. Malarial Troubles. Dr. Foot's Ilcalih Monthly. Just now the human faniity seems to be infested with malarial affections. Va rious attempts have been made to ac count for the prevalence of malaria. Locations which have never heretofore exhibited aii3 traces of it are in maii3 instances found to give trouble to some of the oldest inhabitants. It is proba ble that there is more than one cause for this. Our atmosphere varies in its qualities even more than a stream va ries in the character of its waters. The air that we live in may not onty be af fected b3' celestial bodies, but b3 the vegetation above ground and the miner als under ground. These complex causes 11K13' produce atmospheric condi tions altogether different, at one time, from thos existing at another. It is not impossible that the perihelion has something to do with nromotiii"- ma laria. Another cause h:w perhaps not been thought of. It is the hard times through which the business and laboring people have passed. Since 1873, until quite recentty,those who depended upon business or upon daily labor for sup port have been nearty worried to death. The vital SA'stem greatly lowered by any cause becomes more easity the prey to disease. A person in rugged health in man3 instances ma3r be found living in a well known malarious climate without suffering from malaria. It is when, from an3r cause, his vital S3'stem be comes reduced that he prepares him self for the reception of a malarial poi son. We submit, therefore, in all seri ousness the proposition that the hard times have had much to do with the prevalence of malaria. It used to be supposed that malaria could onty produce fever and ague, or chill and fever. It has been found, how ever, that, like a cold, malaria affects the weakest part or brings into promi nence latent pnysical dilhculties. With out having any of the characteristic symptoms of malaria, according to the old ider, a person ma3' be a great suf ferer from it. It may awaken rheuma tism, neuralgia and a host of aches and pains in different parts of the system. It may affect the liver onty, or the di-" gestion onty, or the urinary organs only. It ma3' produce nothing more than drowsiness and general debilitj. If there be lung affection, or a uterine trouble, or a spinal affection, or, indeed an3' ill to which the flesh is subject, if may be greatly aggravated b' what is now commonly denominated "malarial influence." The treatment of physical ills pro duced or aggravated b3' a malarial influ ence must be comprehensive enough to give attention to every disabled part. Usually onty anti-periodics, like quinine or other preparations of bitter barks, are emplo3'ed. Nearty all the paiReeas for malarial troubfes are compos Conquering Women. New York Times. When Barrios came into power, one of his first acts was to drive the priests out of Guatemala. In his opinion they were drones in the comniunit, and made drones, so he would not have them about But the women, who there, as ever3'where else, have most use for re ligion, made a great outcry about the expulsion of their priests. There were a dozen women recognized leaders of ITIsiia:iciunt ol':i Colt. The following practical advice on the management of colts is from the Lan caster Farmer: If a colt is never allow ed to get an advantage, it will never know that it possesses a power that man cannot control; and if made familiar with strange objects, it will not be skit tish and nervous. If a horse is made accustomed, from his early da3's, to have objects hit him on the heels, back and hips, lie will pa3 no attention to the giving out of harness, or of wagons running against him at an unexpected moment We once saw an aged lad3 drive a high-spirited horse, attached to a carriage down a steep hill, with no hold-back straps on the harness; and she assured us that there was no danger, for her son accustomed his horses to all kinds of usages and sights that com monty drive animals into a frenz of fear and fright. A gun can be fired in front of a horse, an umbrella held over his head, a buffalo robe thrown over his neck, a railroad engine pass close b3', his heels be thumped with sticks, and the animal takes it as a natural condition of things, if onty taught by careful management that he will not be injured therebj. EoIIiii- or Penning SIi:ep. Cor. Country Gcntlcmat. This English practice is ver3' much misunderstood. Farmers in the United States have no idea how the sheep are attended to while a crop is penned off. Hurdles are used extensively, and a fresh bit of ground given daily, but the sheep are seldom confined to the small plat on which their da3''s supply grows, being allowed all the while to have sev eral pens to run back on, of which al though the inside rows are taken up, the outside ones have to remain, and a good many more hurdles ave to be used. The crop is fed so that there is no waste. In May it will probably be winter r-e to be penned off, or n-e'and vetches mixed, and this is mowed and put in racks or some other contrivance, which prevents the animals from tread ing on it or pulling it out, excepting a mouthful at a time. In June spring vetches will follow close upon the win ter grown feed, and then if there is no second crop of clover to be penned over, they may lie on the after-math till some early sown turnips are lit to be eaten. The early sown white turnips will be read' to commence on b- the middle of August, and the general crop by Octo ber, so that there will be common white urnips enough to hold out to Christmas or New Year, then Swedes will be the best food till May again. the country for dairy-farming, but this particular form of utilizing our dairy products was onty introduced here long after it had attained great magnitude in New York, and was makingrapid head ways in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. This business, besides furnishing staple pro ducts for the home-market adequate to the largestpossible demand, has enabled us to become extensive exporters of but ter and cheese to Great Britain and con tinentalEurope, where American cheese has become a preferred article. Al though late in turning her attention to the establishment of butter and cheese factories, Fennsj'Ivania seems at last to be going ahead in it laboriousty, perse veringty, and with great earnestness, zeal and success. Wherever these fac tories are established the3' at once fur nish good markets for the milk and cream produced by all the dairies for miles around. Under such circum stances there is ever' possible induce ment to undertake such enterprises wherever the capital can be raised for the purpose. Potatoes as Food lor Stock. In some sections the food is too value able as food for stock, but sometimes it happens that there is a supply that can not otherwise be advantageously dis posed of, and will most likely be fed to stock. In such case, the following hints, given from a competent source, may be useful: "It is a maxim that potatoes in the raw state never ought to be given to an animal, with the exception of sheep and geese. It is said a goose will thrive better and the flesh will be more grate- iuiiy navored upon raw potatoes sliced than upon any other article, while sheep an old sheep particularly will more speedily thrive on raw potatoes than on turnips; but especialty in the beginning, raw potatoe will scour cattle and hors es, and not unfrequentty cause death, while there is ho danger from either boiled or steamed potatoes. It may be true the3' are excellent for geese, and that the3are excellent for sheep is well known. Of all animals the sheep like a change from dry to green food in the shape of roots; and that they should thrive on them octter than the turnip for the reason that, according to tables, the potato contains a larger fat sub stance and flesh-producing element than the turnip. Thus, a fair product is 200 bushels, or 12,000 pounds of material for the animal system, while the aver age yield of 20,000 pounds coniams only 1,440 pounds; so that relatively to each other they stand as: potatoes 2,640,and the turnip 840, a little better than a third of tlie relative feeding value. "The chief advantage obtained in feeding the potato are realized in ma ture animals; if bony structure is to be formed the turnip is fully equal to the potato. That ah excess of potatoes fed to cattle and horses produce ill results cannot be doubted, if the diet was ex clusively potatoes; but that- a small quantity, fed with dry hay, produced in jurious results is unsupposable. The boiling or steaming which generally means an addition of more or less mild feed, would be much more satisfactory. Pigs will not always eat and never can be fattened upon raw potatoes, while, if they arc boiled, next to boiled peas, perhaps, they will bring them to the greatest weight they are capable of at taining, and to greater perfection than anything else that may be continuously used with safety, admitting that three or four weeks' feeding upon com, oats or barley is necessary to make the pork iirm and impart flavor." FOOD FOR THOUGHT. Love, thieves and fear make ghosts. There is no true manhood without in dependence. Leisure is a beautiful garment, but it will not do for constant wear. A woman's advice is no great thing: but he's a fool that doesn't take it. There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not re sisted. The highest reach of human science is the scientific recognition of human ignorance. The man who can thank himself alone for the happiness he enjoys, is trulv blest. Men seldom improve when they have no other models than themselves to copy :ifter. Love others well, but love thyself the most; give good for good, but not to thine own cost Never does a man portray his own character so vividly as in his manner of portraying another's. Human nature is so constituted that all see and judge better in the affairs of others than in their own. Reason is the glory of human nature and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above the beasts of this lower world. By holding a very little miser- quite close to our eyes, we entirely lose sight of a great deal of comfort beyond wtiich might be taken. You can't make your child love you by scolding and freezing all the time, any more than you can hatch a bird by flinging your hat at it. Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart, nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants. From the remembranco of our faults we draw the most efficacious counsels, and find the secret of that language which may make them understood by others. To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for orna ment is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar. Fontenellc daintily compliments the sex when he compares woman to clocks the latter serve to point one the hours, and the former to make us for get them. A mediocrity of fortune, with gentle ness of mind, will preserve us from fear aud envy, which is a desirable condi tion, for no man wants power to do mischief. ANONYMOUS WRITERS. Wool. We are asked by an Ida Grove, Iowa, correspondent, first, what full blood ...-,. , " ,,, , I luiiwiiuiiuuui, nisi, WIKlb mil U1UOU society in Guatemala, wealthy ami prom- Merino wool, in the dirt or unwashed, inimt i1im rnrn ncnnMilK- Inn I in 1it ' lamentations and vituperations. They would have stirred up an insurrection against Barrios if they could, on ac count of their priests. He stood their attack until his patience gave way. At first he simply shrugged liis shoulders: then he knit his brows. Finallyhesaid: "This thing must be stopped." He had twelve single-armed high gallows erect ed in a line on the piazza. From the end of each arm he had suspended a broad, shallow basket, with a short rope fastened to the bottom like a handle. Then he had those twelve women brought to the baskets, placed in them, and hoist ed in the air. As you may imagine, such a spectacle in the piazza attracted everybody. All the city came flocking to see the ladies eievaieu into sucn unuesiraoie promi nence. And fancy, if you can, the wild, unbounded joy of the street boys when free admission was given them to swing those baskets by the short ropes attach ed to them. The little ragmullins yelled with delight, fought with each other to get at the ropes, and exerted themselves with Irenzy to see who could toss a bas icet Jiighest Ihe women the baskets and clutching the which thev were suspended, wildly, with new accessions of terror each time a fresh and vigorous hand gave a livelier impulse to their wicker chariots or sent them flying in new di rections. The assembled multitude roared with laughter and encouraged the boys. When at length President Barrios deemed that their punishment was suffi cient, he gave a signal, the swinging of the baskets was stopped, they were low ered, and the exhausted humiliated la dies were sent in carriages to their re spective homes. The lesson had never to be repeated, for they sought no more to meddle with concerns of government, and were very careful to keep to them selves thereafter their private opinions of public affairs. standing in ropes by shouting Bridges. In common with many of the most useful inventions, the origen of bridges is veiled in obscurity. By whom tfiey were first built, and in what manner the earliest bridges were constructed, are now mere matters of conjecture,and lie be-ond the reach of authentic and chronological history. Traditions as signs the invention of bridges to Janus; and on several Greek, Italian and Sici lian coins, representations of shins. crowns and bridges occur in company with a Janus having two faces. There is no mention of a bridge in the Old Testament; and the earliest historical record of a bridge is that which Herod- otus jivps of the one constructed the Euphrates at Babylon. over 59me Of these anti-periodics, H Xounds, Henry Martyn once said: "If I ever see a Hindoo converted to Jesus Christ, I shall see something more nearly ap proaching the redemption of a dead body than anything I have ever yet seen." To-day there are about 500,000 native Christians in India. The rate of growth has been, in 1852, 318,000; 1S78, 500.000. The entire number of conver sions in 1878, 60,000. Truly the gospel of Christ is the power of God unto sal vation. In 1879, 35,500,000 pounds of tea were exported from India, and in 1880 it is i I believed that the yield will be 70,000,000 i? wortli in I Incago; second, if it is classed as fine or fine heavy, and third, what grade of wool will pay the grower the best in the future? If our correspondent will turn to our market reports he will find the quota tions for wool every week. Merino is classed as both fine and fine heavy. Merino is a standard wool and always will be. There will be a constant demand for it, and taking the years to gether, it will be the best paying wool There have been times when the medi um wools were higher than the fine wools, but there is a limit to the de mand for medium and coarse wools.and if they were grown be-ond a certain limit they would prove a very poor in vestment The finer wools on the con trary are in demand for the manufact ure of the finer fabrics, and consequent ly such wools almost always bring a good price. The cost of keeping sheep, too, must be taken into consideration. We have frequently alluded to the fact that no one should keep sheep unless he takes proper care 01 mem. isut it is never theless a fact that the Merino will get along with less care than the other breeds. In our new western couutr thcy are the favorite breed, partly be cause of their hardiness. But there is room for all the breeds. Care of Hie itiilk JIoue. U. Stunrt. The first necessity in setting milk for butter is perfect purity of the place and surroundiugs, then there should be the following adjuncts: A moderate circu lation of fresh and moisty air with stagnant air the natural odor of fresh milk, which is disagreeable to some per sons cannot be removed: in dry air the cream becomes of a leathery toughness and often produces specks in the butter, and always makes an inferior quality. The shelves on which milk is " set should be raised at least three feet from the ground. When it is kept on the ground in the cellar or milk house, it is brought into contact with the coldest air, in which all the bad odors of the place are condensed. The temperature of the milk house should not be over sixty degrees in the summer, nor below lorty-nve uegrees in me winter; at a lower temperature "than the latter, the cream makes a very light colored but ter; besides this there is danger of freez ing, and frozen cream does not make good butter. . The utensils, in use must be perfectly clean, and but little light must be ad mitted, or the butter will not have that deep, rich color so desirable. Every time cream is poured into the cream jar it should be strained, otherwise there will be danger of having white specks in the butter. If utter iiai Cliccfee Factories. Germantown Telegraph. Few of the modern contrivances for rendering American farming profitable are deserving of more attention and en couragement on the part of our farmers themselves, than the establishments for manufacture of butter and cheese on a large scale, which now flourish so ex tensively in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania-and Ohio. This business originated in the state of New York, where it has become quite large, and has been the principal cause of building up the dairy interests of that state to such remarkable proportions. Pennsylvania A Veteran Editor Given Ills Vicivx as to FiciltloiiN Signature. C. F. Clarkoh In Des Moines Register. Having been inside the curtains for a considerable portion of a long life, it has given me an opportunity to judge of the character and animiis of those who write for newspapers over fictitious signatures. I have no confidence in them, and seldom read their produc tions. They are either ashamed of what they are writing or they re sneak ing slanderers. This kind of stabbing is done in fancied security. To be de fended by such an one casts a suspicion upon the man or the cause. Such com munications are always suspected and shunned by reflecting men. And when I have ever known a man writing an article and signing some name to it that has been dead thousands of -ears, or that never existed, I ever after hold that man at a respectable distance, as dan gerous. It ma3 be laid down as a safe rule that any man who writes and signs some other name than his own, or some arbitrary initial letters, is ashamed of what he writes, or is not willing to be responsible for the statements, or he wishes to stab some man's character in the dark, or knows his own character for veracity is so bad that his name at tached would be an impeachment of the article. I have made this matter a study for many years, and fictitious writers have always been suspicious men. Po ets and novelists have so concealed their productions, but it was only until their writings had established the fact that they would be disgraceful to their real ones. "Junius," the ablest critic that ever hid behind a fictitious name, did not dare at the time, nor during his life, to openly acknowledge the authorship to his letters. Aid all of his successors have been a pack of snarling, disreput able puppies, whose characters would condemn their statements-, or who are mean enougn to stab a man or his opin ions, like the midnight assassin, in the dark. Any one may, therefore, look with grave and well-founded suspicion upon any communication in a newspa per without the real writer's name to it. This position is sustained by the thousands of articles offered to me as an editor during the last fifty years. They were generally offered by sneaking slanderers, or to accomplish an unwor thy and dastardly purpose. Editors should not tolerate such things. Any thing a man writes, if it is not good enough to put his name to it, it is not good enough for publication. The communication itself should not only be held as suspicious, but the man him self should ever after be watched, hav ing once attempted to say a thing or make a statement without daring him self to be responsible for it. 1 have looked over in my memory the long list of those who years ago attempted to effect a purpose or belabor an opponent fictitiously; they have eventually come to some bad end. "Sick for This." They drove into town behind a cross eyed mule and a spavined horse. They looked contented, but one member of the party was the head of the house, for she handled the ribbons, and when they halted she hitched the team, while he stood demurely by and took the basket of eggs and her shopping satchel as she handed them out. They disposed of the produce at the grocery store and then entered a dry goods store. She ma a few trifling purchases of thread, pit. needles and such things and then ea.. d for two knots of yarn. "That won ., be enough, Mary," said the man, plucking at her dress. "I guess I know what I'm buying," she retorted. "But it ain't more than half what you have had afore," he persisted. "Wal, that's none o' your business; these socks are goin' to be for me, anil if I want 'em short, you can have yours come way up to your neck, if you want to." The man bowed to the inevitable, with a long sigh as his partner turned to the clerk and said: "Two yards of cheap shirtin', if you please. "That ain't enough, Mary," said the old man. plucking at her dress again. "Yes 'tis." "No, it ai 't" "Wal, it's all you'll git," she snap ped. "Put it up, then, mister," said he, turning to the clerk. "Put it up and we won't have any." "Who's doin' this bmin' I should like to know?"' hissed the woman. "You are, Mary; you are." he admit ted; "but you can't palm off no short shirts on me." "You act like a fool, John Spinner." "Mebbe I do, Mar', but I'll be durn ed to gosh if I'll have half a shirt no, not if I go naked." "Wal, I say two yards are enough to make any one two shirts," she snap ped. "Mebbe that's enough for you. Mar'," he said very quietly; "p'raps you can get along with a collar button and a neck band, but that ain't me, and I don't propose to freeze my legs to save 8 cents." "Get what you want, then," shrieked she, pushing him over the stool; "git ten yams, git a dozen pieces if you want 'era; but remember that I'll make you sick for this." "Four yards, if you please, mister four yards," said he to the clerk; "and just remember," he continued, "if you hear of 'em tindin' me with my head bnsted, friz to death in a snow drift, just remember you heard her say she would make me sick." And grasping his bundle he followed his better half out of the door. night A dozen or,more are up nearer the works, and" in Mr. Edison's house eighteen of the horse shoe tips are on the chandeliers. "Step to the door and keep your eye on the row of lights," said Mr. Edi son. "All ready." The inventor turned a small wheel. The place was in darkness in a twink ling. He gave the wheel a reverse turn and the fifty lights popped up at the same instant. "Those lamps out there are all sorts of odds and ends put up by the boys," Mr. Edison explained, "and we are try ing to make an exhibition with them. When we get all the lamps up we will give practical tests." Mr. Edison's residence h:is been light ed by electricity since election night. There are eighteen burners in the dif ferent rooms, seven being in one room. Each lamp is provided with a thumb screw like that on an ordinary gas burn er, by which the light may be turned on or off. Behind the door is a key by which all the lights may be turned on and off at once, and this time saving arrangement is preferred by the mem bers of the household to the single burner kes. The light is clear, soft, nd steady, and its diminished volume takes away that intensity and whiteness that make the big lights now in use so unpleasant. The probable boundaries of the two districts in Now York where the light will be first introduced were recently given in the Sun. The company has not claimed the right of way, and Mr. Edison says it will be late in the winter before work is commenced. There will be ultimately twenty-eight districts in the city from which light and power will be supplied. Mr. William H. Vanderbilt has had the wires put in his new house in antic ipation of the time when the company establishes its plant in his neighbor hood. Much of Mr. Edison's time these days is taken up in giving testimony in old patent crises before a commission that sits in a room over the Menlo park of fice. The commission sits until after dark, and was taking testimony on Tuesday night by the light of two kero sene lamps. These sc-sions make it necessary for Mr. Ellison to work at night, and he gets to bed in the early morning hours. In answer to a visit or's suggestion that he was overbur dened with work, he said: "Oh, no; I never felt better in my life. I never sleep more than two or three hours in twenty-four. I don't feel well if I do." A Wedding Postponed. William Parkerappeared to be a young man of twenty-five with an open coun tenance and a mind firmly "sot," but on the latter part the audience were soon undeceived. One of the spectators in court was a father with a bad squint to his left eye. Another was a mother with fingers hooked just right to secure a firm hold on a broomstick. A third was a young woman with a sharp chin, red curls and a great sorrow. Little by little the truth was unraveled. That there William Parker was engaged to marry that there girl with a sharp chin. Indeed, the day had been set. Her pa rents had gone to an expense of fifty dollars for a bridal feast, and the min ister came and waited, and tilkcd and waned, but the groom came not Six hours before he was to be wed William read a magazine article to the effect that a woman with a sharp chin could make a husband so miserable in four weeks that he would welcome death as a relief. The article further said that a father-in-law with a squint to his eye was a bad old man to loaf 011, and he put thi3 and that together and made up his mind to escape the noose ready to slip over his head. While the bride waited, William was growing drunk at the rate of ten feet an hour, ami when the clergyman walked home he almost passed the al ley in which the recreant groom lay sleeping. "Were you ever here before?" asked his honor. "No, sir." "Do you think you can keep sober after this?" The prisoner looked over his shoulder at the three accusing witnesses and then whispered: "Say, Judge, send m& up for three months! "Well, if vou can think I'll let you go," court. "No! no send me up!" "But don't come here again," an swered the judge, as he closed the doc ket and reached for his hat. William was boxed. He went out of there surrounded on all sides, and when the trio got him out of the neighborhood they either changed his mind on sharp chins or killed him. behave yourself I continued the 'ews from Menlo Park. Xew York Surf. "Have 'ou heard the news, Mr. Edi son?" said a workman on Tuesday the great light maker was There are, or have lately been, on ex hibition in Glasgow, Scotland, samples of leather prepared with chrome, and without the use of anj-tannin-whatever. It is claimed that the chrome process, invented and patented by a Dr. Hein zerling, is not only cheaper and more expeditious than the usual methods of tanning, but that it produces a leather "stronger, more durable, more pliant, and less pervious to- moisture." The chrome-tanned leather exhibited was made into, belting, harness, boots and other articles, and it may be well to sug gest that our leather dealers should scrutinize what may be learned regard ing the results, and if the report is fa vorable it will go hard with our invent ors, but they ment will better the improve- Pretensions to youth always give to a woman a few more years than she really has. is really one of the yery best regions of. ftfn iff?, Kidnev-Wort is a remedy which removes foul humors from the blood, and creates healdiv action in ever' orj.'an. Torpid ki neys and liver lead 10 gravel, diabetes, constipation, piles and rheumatism. Kidney-Wort is tie surest and saf est'reiaedy to use. Jtoiky .bw?- ninrlit ?ia "i-i-" .w ,-. -- going the rounds in the Menlo Park shops. "What about the pump?" "Yes. It made me jump three feet." "1 jumped three and a half," said the electritian. Then, turning to the visit or, he explained that the cause of the exuberance was a telegram just receiv ed that announced that the big pump, the delay in construction of which had so hindered work in the shops, would be shipped on Wednesday from Phila delphia. The big pump will not supply the only lack in the machinery necessary forthat grand illumination that has been in prospect for several months. That 1,550 horse power dynamo machine, the larg est ever made in the world, is not yet finished. Its bed has been put in place and other parts will be received in about ten days. It will take another ten days to get "the thing in working order. Wire for nearly eight miles of mains I has been laid, and 800 lamps will be put up as- soon as they are made. "J can make a carload of lamps a day, as soon as we get under way," said the inven or. Edison is cqpl and philosophical through all the vexatious delays he ex periences at every turn. "I worked two years, night and day, on the quad- ruplex telegraph invention, he said. "It worked perfectly in the laboratory experiments, but when we came to ap pty it in New York and Boston it wouldn't work for a long time. A sim ple thing like the telephone took me two years, and then it was sprang on the public at hah cock. The result has been repeated changes and improve ments in their construction. The light is a different thing. It is going to be all that it should be, commercially, from the start. I don't want to leave any room for improvements." On a line of temporary wooden posts near the railroad track about thirty lamps of sixteen candle power are burning wjtix a bright Steady glow every A Diver's Training-. Before a man can be an expert diver he must undergo a course of -severe physical training. The atmospheric pressure on the surface is fifteen pounds for every square inch of the body, and on the average man is something like fifteen tons, but the outside and inside pressure being equal, this immense weight is unnoticed. At every thirty four feet of descent under water this pressure is increased one atmosphere, or the additional pressure of fifteen pounds to the square inch, and as it is absolute ly necessary to have the air pressure in the armor fully equal to that of the wa ter, some idea can be had of what the diver must withstand, even at the mod erate depth of thirty-four feet, although the inhaling of this compressed air in a ni"asure relieves the unpleasant sensa tion. When the distance is increased to a hundred or a hundred and fifty feet, the sensation becomes almost unendura ble the blood starts from the eyes, ears, mouth, and even from the pores of tho skin, and on returning to the surface extreme exhaustion is the result Some men are so constituted physically that they cannot remain under water at all. The greatest depth that is ever attained is one hundred and fifty feet, and then the most experienced diver can remain at this point but five or six minutes without serious injury. Divers go to this depth onty to secure articles of great value, remaining long enough to at tach a chain or rope. At a hundred feet an old diver can remain about an hour, and at fifty feet from four to six hours, according to the strength of the diver. Many of the game birds of India, such as partridges, peacocks, pheasants, and jungle fowl, are so extensively prey ed upon b snakes, foxes and other ani mals that they would long since have been exterminated were it not for the immense number of eggs they lay; and even as it is they do not more than hold tlu ir own against the destructive influ ences which surround them. A dispo sition has recently been observed, how ever, on the part of some ol these game birds to frequent trees more than has hitherto been their habit, and also t build their nests in trees; and it seems not improbable that by a process of natural select-on, securing the survival of those which adopt these precautions, there will be brought about very consid erable changes in the habits of many important kinds of birds. At a recent concert, it was the sub ject of remark that in what fine"voice" the singers were; in commending his good judgment, the leader will pardon us for whispering that he always recom mends Dr.Bull's Cough Syrup for clear ing and strengthening the" voice. Love, knavery and, pecessity wa&Q wen good orator!. 1 1 . t i X u agftft ;?Ba- -"
