Hiillerinllk. ' -
Among the many ovldoncos of ex
travagance in wasting our food re
soiircw there iiro fow, snys tlio t'routa
iomr, more stnk ng than the wasto'of
miHc. Atiy onu who ha livoil in Lan
cashire or traveled in Ireland or in
Scotland, and lias noted tlio nfo and
characteristic food of tlio farmers, of
tho peasantry, and of tho working
classes, will know how ploaH.intnntl ao
coptablo a drink is lititturmilk. On tho
tho lirst day, a thin and semi-acidulous
boverago, clean to tho palate, refresh
ing una full of nourishment; on tho boo
ond day, thicker and richer, and moro
noarly resembling tho familiar curds
and whoy which aro anion ' tho luxu
ries of cooknoyn, but with tho curd
brokou into lino particle, and there
fore loss cloying and more digestible.
Tho waste of buttormilk in this country
is humiliating and painful to think of.
It needs no Hcioiitilic authority to say
liow nourishing it is, how full of digest
ible albumen am! animali.od Halt. Half
a pint of bittterm Ik contains as much
nutriment, and is as sustaining a bev
erage, a many gallons of boor. No
doubt the taste for it is one that do
ponds upon habit. To a Mecklenburg
palate, for example, the preference for
fresh milk over buttermilk would often
be surprising; and it is quite certain
that a taste for buttermilk would bo
much more easily acquired, and is much
moro natural, than tho taste for claret
or bitter ale. It is a moro mattor of
habit and of prejudice;' and that being
so, it is not a little surprising to rolled
that hundreds of thousands of gallons
of buttermilk aro thrown to tho pigs,
from the shoor prejudice that it is not I
lit iui unman iuuii, nun uuiii uiu iiiuu
lence of those who will not take tho
trouble to acquire the tasto for it. A
fow days since ono goiitlonmn offered to
supply a thousand gallons of buttermilk
a day for u.so in London; fresh daily, at
a rafo which would allow of its boing
sold at a halfpenny tlio largo tumbler,
and yield a profit of ono hundred per
cent, to tiro retailor. It might bo well
worth the trouble of someone who deals
with hwgo uumhorti of men to endeavor
to cultivate the taste for buttermilk
among them, and to savo thoo gallons
of excellent fond from being thrown to
tho pigs. If any demand could be cul
tivated for it, no doubt tho managers
of ooll'eo taverns and coll'oo palaces
-would bo glad to tin lertako the sale of
it. It would yield them a largo prollt.
and might with somo troublo bo revived
as the National drink. Buttermilk need
not by any moans bo considered as os
pooiully a drink for tho poor; as a nur
sery substitute for tlio milk and wauir
Willi which children aro largely fed, it
would lie more economical and intinito
ly moro nourishing; nor can thoro bo
any doubt, as indeed it is not a matter
of theory to assort, that children of any
rank cjuiokly learn to like it bettor than
jinythmg olso that can bo olVerod thorn.
m i
A Screen for the Hack Door.
It is often dosirablo to shut oil a view
of the back door and its surroundings
by a screen, so that tlio inmate) may
pass to tho dairy houso, wood shod, and
other out-buildings unnoticed by pass
ers along the highway, and others, A
soroon of lattice-work answers very
well, and one made with thin slats,
crossing one another, and so painted as
not to bo conspicuous, will present a
neat appearance and bo serviceable.
Hut such a screen of itself attracts at
tention, and is too artificial for a coun
try homo. A soroon may ''o made of
evergreens, sot in a straight lino to
form a tall hedge. Or, whoro tho land
can bo uffordotl, thoy may bo sol in two
linos to form a broad bolt, the trees iu
ono row being opposite the intervals in
tlio next. 'litis makes, perhaps, the
best of living screens, but thoy aro
somewhat slow in growth, and take up
considerable space. Still, tho Norway
Spruce, the tree on tho whole best suit
ed to tho purpose, will soon bocomo
largo enough, and somo temporary
screen may 1)0 usod In tho meanwhile
If these l roes aro set in a s nglo line,
place them six foot apart, but if in two
linos, thoy may bo ton foot apart. A
screen that is both aorvicoablo and
agreeable to tho eye, may bo made by
sotting posts as high as desired, along
the lino ot tho screen, ami connect tho
top of those posts by a cap-board. Bo
low this cap stretch a number of wires,
and tho frame work of tlio soroon is
complete Plant along tho screen ov
ory six or oight feet, quick-growing
grapo vines. J'ho Clinton or Taylor
aro tho most useful for foliage, though
tho Concord will grow fast enough, and
6ive an abundance of fruit besides,
mil the grapo vinos aro largo enough,
annuals, such as morning-glories, may
bo sown, or some roots ot tho Madeira
vino planted. In throo years, at tho
most, tho grapo-vino soroon will bo
complete, l'ho vinos should bo trained
with ii view to cover tho screen with
ioliago. American Agriculturist.
Country Itoatl-Making.
It noeds no argument to prove to
thinking pooplo tliat good roads pay.
But it is also evident that thoro is a
lack of good roads, especially in tho
country. This is duo largoly to ignor
ance and want of public interest. As
this is tho time of tho yoar when over
seers aro roooiving their appointmont
and boginning to spond tho people's
monoy, it is a good time to consider tho
.subject.
A good systom holps very much in
soouri'ng good roads. The old way of
having short road districts, un'oversoer
for each, and depend. lig upon' property-.'
owners to worK out llieir road-tax at
'their convenience is not suited to
'.tliiekly-settied regions. Having scon
tlio working of a systom somewhat sim
ilar to tho uno I am about to suggest, I
commend it to tho attention of those
T. T
vyho dosiro good roads. Whoro tho
worlds not clone by contract, lot oa h
"township be a district by itself. At tho
annual town meeting a Board of High
way Commissioners should bo elected
who should employ as road-master,
upon a fair salary, a good practical
man, who has somo knowledge ot sur
veying and engineering. Furnish him
With ono or two yokes of oxen, ono or
two pairs of horses with wagons, carts,
ploughs, scrapers, and small tools, and
money to hire steadily through tho
summer eight or ten men, and perhaps
four through tho winter. His business
should be to study road-making, loam
whoro tho host materials aro to7)o had,
and, in short, to give tho people, as soon
as possible, good roads all ovor tho
township. This system has two advan
tages ovor tho old way: 1. It would
put tho road-making in the hands of a
fow competent men who would make it
their business; '2. Tho hired men, not
having other interests to look after,
would work tho roads at tho proper
season of tho yoar, and, being engaged
constantly, would become export, and
accomplish much moro than green
hands.
A good road should bo hard, smooth,
woll-gradcd, free from stono nnd sandy
stretches, suliicicntly wide for two car
riages to bo driven abreast without
interfering, and having on either side a
ditch to carry oil' tho wator, and a
sidowalk for pedestrians As a rulo,
main roads leading to centers of trade
should bo straight, and macadamized
in tlio center. In suburban districts,
where the land is rolling, and where
rural beatitv and not utility alone is the
aim, serpentine roads are preferable, so
nm,,0 US't() avoU, tho hnijJ UU(1 InilH,1(Wf
and to develop good building sites. A
good road to bo pleasant ununttruclivo
should also have on either side rows of i
shade-trees. Tho untravelod parts
should be cleared of stones, briers and
woods, leveled and sown with grass
seed. When wator from a spring can
bo led to tho side of 't road, a wator
trough and cup should bo provided for
tlio refreshment of man and boast.
Brooks and streams which tho road
crosses should have wido. substantial
bridges, and a good wagon passage
through tho wator on ono side. Weep
ing willows around the water's edge,
and ivy vinos clambering ovor tho
stones of tho bridge, givo an added
charm. Guido-boaids or largo stones
at tlio intersections of roadsv painted
with directions as to tho way, often
savo much anxiety and many unnecessa
ry stops.
Tlio host timo of tho year to build
new roads is in tho spring or early sum
mer. Tho ground is then loose and
easily handled, and whon tho work is
completed it has timo to settle boforo
winter. When laying out a now road,
or beginning to repair an old ono, it is
good economy to employ an engineer
or other competent person to tix tlio
course, tho proper grado, tho direction
for tho wator to run, tho width of
wagon-bed nnd sidowalk. When onco
those aro wisely fixed they should bo
rigidly adhorod to. Tho road-bed
should have a convex form, twonty
inches to two foot in tho center above
the bottom of tho ditches. Low lands
and bad places should receive attention
first. It is often best not to turnpiko
the hills, but dig out the ditches and
cart the soil down on to the low laud.
This hoips tho grado, and tho mixture
of soils, especially if ono is sandv or
gravelly, is bonolioial. Lovol oil' tlio
dirt wiih hoo or shovel boforo harrow
ing and pick up all small stones. Do
not throw tho stones on tho sidowalk,
but cart to a mirv place which it is
intended to macadamize. Undordrain
low, wot, springy places, laying tiio tile
under the wagon track, witli a froo out
lot for the wator at the side of the road.
Black muck, wash from tho road
which is largely mixed with the drop
pings of animals and vegetable mold
aro not good materials, and should bo
covered up or carted away to give nlaco
to clayey subsoil, sand, gravel and lino
broken stono. These make a firmer
bod, and do not so oasily work up into
a blinding dust. Putting stono in ruts
nnd holes, or thin mucaclamizing, unloss
tho stono is brokou very lino, is unwise.
Tlio frost, rain and whools soon dis
placo them, ami then tho road becomes
rough and unpleasant the year around,
painful to horses, wearing- to wagons
and torturing to all travolors. Wator-
bars should be made on tho hill-sides.
A road-piano or sorapor is a very sors'
iocablo implement, and should bo used
moro froely, especially in the spring
and summer, to smooth tlio roads and
1111 up ruts and holes whoro wator is
likely to stand. Tho winter work for
tho men consists in carting and break
ing stono for macadamizing, and tho
catting of gravol for dressing the roads.
Had wo such roads as wo might and
ought to havo, thoro would bo loss com
plaint about living in tho country.
Dennis u. Vranc, in Examiner and
Chronicle.
Cotton-seed oil factories are spring
ing up everywhere in Texas -Dallas,
Ibenham, (lalvoston, otc. Uoth oil and
oibcako is shipped directly toKuropo
tho oil-cako to food to stock in Kuropo
and tho oil to bo re lined and sotit back aa
tho purest table olive oil. Heretofore
our olive oil has boon mostly mado from
North Carolina peanuts, which have
boon shipped to Marseilles, Franco.
Tho cotton seed scliomo is going to do
s troy entirely tho puro olivo-oil indus
try in Kuropo, and materially hurt tho
peanut-oil industry in North Carolina
and Tennessee.
4 A' Connecticut Yankoo has labori
ously eoustruocd a model of tho homo
of Washington, and rldos in a wagon of
unique stylo from town to town oxhibit
ing Mount Vernon to sohool-ohildron at
five cents a hoad. Ho says ho is "soo
ing the country."
Ono of tho Myslerle.s.
Said Brother Gardner to tho Limekiln
Club:
" When a man axes mo who libs nox'
doah, I answer him Brown, or Jones, or
While, or whatever do namo may bo;
but when ho goes beyond dal, an1 axes
what salary do man aims, how often his
wifo changes bonnets an' how doy
mako sobon dollars a week go furder
dan I kin fo'teen, I become a olain. I
has no business to know, an' whon 1 do
know I won't tell. I used to have somo
curiosity iu dis dirocshun, but I has got
ober it of late y'ars. When I know dat
a sartln man, rccoivin' a salary of
twelve dollars per week, kin give par
ties, hire carriages an' dtoss his wile in
silks it makes mo glum. Dat Is, it usod
to. I usod to wonder why 1 couldn't
do do samo thing on the same money,
but I nobbor could. Whon do olo
woman used to toll me dat surtin wom
en had new silks, now hats, new closo
an' now shoes onco a month do y'ar
roun', an' wo habin' to live olus on do
same monoy, It made mo mad. Dat is,
it used to. When I saw men who owod
for delr washin' struttln' aroun' like
lords whilo I had to work sobon days
in a week an' pay my debts, 1 foil liko
smashiu' frow do sidowalk. Hut
I has got ober all dis. When I
meet a woman who km dress like
a banker's wifo on do ten dollars or
twelve dollars per week paid hor hus
band, I doan' 'low myself to ebon fink
about it. When I see a man bu iu'
twonty-cont oigars, snortin' a catio and
takin' champagne, whilo his chillon at
homo am bar'lut, I try to believe dat it
am all right. When a lady wid ."?;500
worf of closo on axes mo to do a job of
whitowasltin' in a parlor whar' do bos'
1)ictur's come from a tea store an' do
)cs' cha'r am under chattel mortgage
I doan' stop to wonder who she thinks
she am foolin'. Naybnrs ob mine who
owo all do butehors "widui a circle of a
milo kin pay fo' dollahs cash fur a lib
cry rig on Sunday, an' I shan't critieie.
Wives may go shoppin' obory day in do
week an1 gin parties ebory night, an'
my olo woman will keep do cabin jist
do" banie Sinco wo quit wonderin' an'
spoeulntin' ober deso tings wo feel much
better. Wo know tur a fact jist how
fur wo kin make money go. If odder
folks kin lib l.ko lords on a salarv of
SOOO a y'ar it's a streak of good luck
an' none of our biznoss. My advice to
you am to lot sich lings pass. Dcy aro
mysteries will which wo havo no biz
ness, an' de mo' you ponder obor dom
do less you will in joy what you havo
honestly aimed by ha'd work an' savod
by good economy." Detroit Free 1'rcss.
Do Birds Bury Their Dead I
You aro all familiar with the story of
"The Babes iu tlio Wood," and ronicm
bor how tho robins, finding tho babes
lying dead, side by side, covered thoir
little forms with leaves, wrapping them
in a windiug sheet of nature s own pro
viding. Did you ever ask the question, Do
birds bury their own dead?
Let me toil you an incident that caino
from an eye-witness of what I relate
In a tree near an old-fashioned farm
house, way up in Vermont, two robins
built their nest. A lady watched them
day by day as thoy brought straws, a
bit of cotton, or "thread, and weavod
them deltly in, to form their Minimer
home Ono morning bho found throe
blue speckled eggs in tho nest, and on
another, three tiny littio birds in thoir
place How busy tho father and mother
birds woro. nmvidinv for tlioir wnnls!
and how prettily and tenderly thoy
cared for thoin!
When thoy woro largo enough thoy
gave them lessons in Hying, and heroin
comes tho point of my story. While
,thoy were trying their wings ono day, a
'cat caught one, and boloro tho lady
could rescuo it, it was injured beyond
recovery, bho put the poor trembling
little creature back in its nest and lolt
it thoro for tho mother-bird to nurso
back to life, if possiblo.
It was of no use. Tho cat's cruol
claws and sharp tooth had done thoir
work, and their victim died. A fow
days after tho lady, seeing and hearing
nothing of tlio othor b.nfi, wont to the
nest, and found that thoy had built a
thatched roof ovor tho poor littio bird,
and thoro ho lay on his back, with his
claws sticking up through tlio straws.
Thoy had buried thoir dead, and do
sorted tho nest. Youth s Companion.
Charming IHrls.
Porfoct cleanliness is itsolf a poten
chann. The mo3t bewitching combinat
tion of features over scon .since Helen
of Troy bloomed upon Meiielaus would
bo spoiled by ill-kept teeth. Beautiful
teoth alone givo attractiveness to many
a face.
Tho appoaranco of good health is ex
tremely attractive; and mo't girls can
nave that charm u thoy will faithfully
try to obtain it. But there is still
another graoo which wins hearts, and
keeps thorn, too, and that is tho graco
of good temper.
A young lady who is suitably dressed,
who lias good tooth in good condition,
who enjoys blooming lumlth, and who
possosses a cheery. Kind disposition,
need not worry herself about the shape
of hor noso, or tho color of her hair.
Thoso sho cannot control. Tho other
charms wo have mentioned, which aro
worth all other personal attractions put
together, aro generally within tlio roach
of thoso girls who know how to live.
Good habits, good thoughts, good
tloods thoso wrlto thoir record upon
tho human oountonanco and mako it
lovely with an enduring lovolino-s that
timo cannot efface louth's Compan
ion. Cosaro Cantu, tho groatost living
Italian historian, is ninety-two, but at
times appears as young and active- as
ono of half his yoars.
Our Young Ktmrtcrs.
A HKIW.
Mnmtnn closed her look as tho ovo grow
dim:
'Twits iv beautiful story, too
AlxMit a Caputm who iravo his II fo,
in it Hiorm, to navo his crow.
Horllttlo boy Hilt on hnr knee, nnd thought
Of tho ta o sho Just hud rend;
Then, lilting hla oyos to his mother's fuou,
V What Is a hero?" he said.
"Is ho always, I wonder, a groat, strong
man?
Docs ono ever cotno to this town?"
Then main mas it My bonds, and strokes
Tlio curls of chestnut-brown.
"A llttlo bov, llkoyou, can bo
A horo bravo and tutu,
I'ljrht lug, not giants, but faults, my pot
Willing to daro and do.
" In days of old, bravo in on worn called
Hy tho good nainoof 'knight;'
Thoy helped tho weak, mid ovor fought
For Justice, truth and right.
" All horcs thnt tho world has known
Onco woro but hoys w.io tried
To lend a no. tie llfo, and loavo
A grand namo when thoy died.
"Tho brnvest horo, dear llttlo ono,
May novor iu far lands rmtii,
Or do groat deeds: but ovory boy
Can bo a hero ut homo I"
Golden Days.
GOINU TO SEA.
I havo lately had a lettor from my
nephew. Johnny Uriggs. As the spell
ing and grammar aro a littio defective,
1 will only givo tho postscripts, which,
however, contain tho pith of the lettor
itsolf. Tho run thus:
"P.p. mi' Kcesoii I have decydld to Oo to
see. Is Heeausol Am so fond ot Fun and ad
vciiehur. 'P. s. s. can 1 rl.o quloklst In tho navoy or
Hy going iu tho Merchant h.tvIs?
.Ioii.nnv Unions."
It is a great many years since I was
a boy liko Johnny a groat many; yot
not so long ago but that, after reading
his lettor anilits postscripts, 1 fully un
derstand Johnny's frame of mind. Ho
is tired of tho sameness of life tho oat
ing and sleeping and going to school
aro all so uneventful. Thoro are no
pirates, or wild liul ans, or typhoons to
bo encountered in this prosaic exist
ence, no fnirumng maidens to bo res-
'cued from poril of tiold, lire or llood.
His ardent soul pants tor adventure,
and he is alltime to encounter the ex
citement which -ho fondly bolioves to
bo inseparable from
"A life on tho ocean wavo."
According lo his letter, this now-born
desire is duo to "a unqucnehibel Spirit
of Roving." which ho darkly hints
is an inheritance from a very re
mote ancestor, who is mentioned
by Johnny as a "freebooter." My
own impression, however, is that it
arises from tho fact that the nows
dealer at tho corner of tlio block whoro
Johnny lives deals in live-cent nautical
novels of the most startling kind. I
saw ono of thorn onco. It was called
"Tho Boy Blockader; or, The Strange
Secret of Hampton Hall." I was inter
ested to notice that tho publishers an
nounced it as of thrilling interest, and
intended especially for tho instruction
and edification of youth! All for five
cents! But I am wandering from my
subject.
Now Johnny has asked my advico on
this mattor of going to soa. True, I
know that, liko advico asking pooplo in
general, ho will only tako so much of it
u3 coincides with his own ideas the
remainder will be contemptuously
ignored as tho views of an. o'd fogy.
But Duty with a big D stands at my
elbow, so out of my past experience I
have evolved the following:
Mv Deah Nkphew: "Tho Burling
ton Hawkcyc man, who is ono of tho
most charming persons I know, says
this: 'Everybody likes a candid man
till ho gives a candid opinion that in
ter'eros with their own. Then he's a
bigot.' So boforo I finisli tliis lottor
you'll know what a bigot is, and that
will bo something.
"Your fondness for fanio and ad
venturo is if I may so express it -a
family weakness. It sont your father
to California in '1'J, and brought
him homo with rather loss monoy than
ho took away with him. Mo it sout to
to sea; and it' 1 learned nothing olso
thoro, I found out that present-day sea
going hasn't (piito as much fun or ad
vonturo about it as present-day sea
stories would havo us believe. If you,
my dear .Johnny, should go to sea, you
would probabh mako the samo dis
covery. I doubt oven if you would find
among your shipmates a daring Dick
Doshaway.a romantic Italph Uaekstraw,
or oven a jolly Jack Easy. Tho men
who havo taken the plaeo of these
homos of f'ction aro literally on earth,
earthly, rather than of tho soa, salt. I
don't know just why tho salt should
havo so hist its savor sinco tho days
ot L-oopor and Mnrryatt. But ono
would think now-a-days that it was
henceforth lit for nothing but to bo
east out and trodden under foot of men,
such a downtrodden racoaro the sailors
of to-day.
"For you will no longor, my dear
Johnny, find tho jovial tar who in the
words of your favorite song.
" 'Sings as ho lows tho gathering cloud,'
to bo tho maul', independent mariner
of Potion. Ilather is ho (literally, oft
entimes) under the iron heel of a brutal
taskmaster.
" I have novor hoard hoard him siiif
as ho viewed the gathering cloud"
though I have hoard him, under his
breath, uso unpleasantly emphatic
words on the subject of tho weal hor.
I And my impression is. mv dear noiihow.
that after you have boon to son a short
timo, you ourolf will not look upon
tho gathering cloud iu tho light of a
subject for tuneful molody; becauso
when a man is called out of his watch
bolow to liolp shorten sail four or livo
times ovory twenty-four hours, ho is apt
to loso his ear for music.
Why, tho summons to this unpleas
ant duty is of itself calculated to mako
u boy think of home. Tho officer of
tho dock does not seiyl word for'ard
that U3 tho weather is likely to bo un-Y
pleasant ho would bo obliged o the
sailors if they would kindly ar so nnd
appoar on do.'k as soon as thoy can con
veniently. Oh, no! But tho second
mate, wh6 is muscular of arm and pow
er ul of voice, thundors away at tho
forecastlo door, shouting in a tono that
doesn't admit of discuss on:
'Turn out here to ahort'n sail; and
bo quick about it, tool"
"I may remark in passing, my dear
John, that it will at such a tune bo uso
loss for you to plead fatiguo, drowsi
ness or oven a sudden headache, a3 an
oxcuso for not oboying, or oven to re
mark that you'll b"o up directly.' I
should not care to bo in your sea-boots
if you did.
" But by tho timo you aro drenched
with the driving rain and dying spray,
havo plunged frantically into tho loo
scuppers and boon requested with moro
emphasis than courtesy to got aloft on
the topsail yard, you will forgot your
drowsiness. For it will bo all you" can
do to cling to tho yard with j our ol
bows whilo your fcot aro balanced on
tho slippory, Bwaying foot-rope and
your numbed lingers clutching at tho
slatting canvas which seems trying to
knock you from your perch.
But,' I hoar you say qulto scorn
fully, 'it isn't always storming on the
ocean.' And I havo no doubt but that
you picturo yourself, arrayed liko u
Pinafore' sailor, lcan'ng idly against
the rail as the ship glides smoothly on
ward boforo tho steady trade-winds
ovor somo sparkling tropical soa; which
1 confess is a charming picture, my
dear nophow, tho drawback being that
it is as unlike tlio reality as a ton-cent
cliroino' is unliko a photographic neg
ative In certain latitudes thoro aro sum
mer seas and skies for days at a time
Were it not so, my dear boy, the un
pleasant and endless jobs of tarring and
greasing, and splicing and mending,
and scrubbing and painting, and scrap
ing and oiling, which are always going
on on shipboard but novor finished,
would have to bo dono in bad weather
instead of line. For the good Captain
and his kind-hearted officers not only
mean that you shall havo no time to
' mope' or bo homosick in, but thoy
bear in mind the beautiful suggestion
of Dr. Watts, that
"'Satan tlnds some mischief still
Tor Idle hands to do.'
So that you will find ovory moment
spent on deck is filled and running ovor
into the next ono with tasks of ovory
conceivable kind tasks which are in
variably connected with clinging tar
and odorous groasc tasks which will
tako you from tlio kcolsou to the royal
truck a dozen times in a day.
"True, should the Sabbath prove ex
ceptionally fine, you may havo timo to
road a chapter in your Bible, though
such rare occasions aro generally occu
pied by sailors in tho necessary duties
ot patching and mending.
So, my dear Johnny, in summinrtho
matter up, I havo to tell you frankly
that going to sea boforo tho mast does
notgive tho boy tho chance togratify tho
lovo for fun and adventure of which ho
fondly dreams. True, boing dismasted
in a typhoon or wrecked on a loo shore
may savor of advonture, but oven those
oxciting opisodos-have somo very un
pleasant features so unpleasant, in
fact, that it not unfroquently happens
to tho participant in them that he novor
returns home to rolato such adventures.
"And finally, as to rising in the naval
or nierchant'sorvico, that, my dear
nophow, depends. If you have an iron
constitution, gutta-percha joints, and
perfectly tempered stool springs all
over your body; if you havo a quick
mind to tako in both tho practice and
thoroy of seamanship; if you have a
never-tiring energy, which can causo
such body and such mind to be in the
porpotual motion, and if you havo
enough of tho yeast of ambition about
you to koej) tho whole in a sort of un
ceasing fcrmont -why then, in tho
courso of time, you may rise in oitlior
branch of tho service But you
will novor riso abovo hard work, ox
poBiiro, anxiety and responsibility,
even if you aro dlovatcd to tho quarter
deck. In conclusion, my dear Johnny,
my own impression is that, generally
speaking, you will find tlio best part of
sea-going to consist in staying at homo
and reading truthful accounts of tho
sailing experiences of others." Frank
II. Converse, in Christian Union.
Foxes Thai 'ccd Chaining.
A fox that had boon caught young
was kept chained in a yard, and bocamo
so tame that fowls and gecso ap
proached itVitliout fear.
"Pretty thing!" said its mistress.
"It does no harm. It is cruol to koop
it chained."
So she unbuckled its collar and lot it
run about. Scarcely, howovor, had sho
turned her back, than sho heard a groat
clucking from hor poultry. Looking
around, sho saw the fox scampering oil
with hor plump red 'pullet thrown ovor
his shouldor.
"You troachorous, ungrateful little
villain!'' cried tho woman, " and I
thought you woro so good."
"So I "was, mistress," answered tho
fox, " as long as 1 was chained."
Thoro aro many littio foxes that need
chaining. Thoro'is tho "put off study
ing your lessons to the last minute,"
for that runs off with your good marks
at school; Master ltoynanl "spoaking
without thinking," which is always get
ting its ownor into trouble; nnd Sly
boots "nobody will hoo you do it."
Chain thom up! that's the only way to
manage thorn. Kind Words.
Tho fonco botween tho Bomister
and Graco farms, near Utica, N. Y., is
Mio subject of a lawsuit. Tho ground
involvod is worth about throo dollars,
and, thus far.threo thousand dollars hava
boon spent in litigation.
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