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THE JOURNAL. WEDNESDAY, Jt'NE , IS?:!. Isiewi st tie Pcr-sEes, C:lziu. Hal., as :ec:ad eli matter. THE DAY IS DONE. JSie day is done, and tbe darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his llight. I see the lights of the village Gleam through the rain and the mist, And a feeling of sadness comes o'er um That my soul cannot resist: A feeling of sadness and longing', That is not akin to pain. And resembles sorrow only As tbe mist resembles the rain. Come, read to me some poem. Some simple and heartfelt lay. That shall soothe this restless feeling, And banish the thoughts of day. Not from the grand old masters. Not from the bunis sublime, 'Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of Time: For, like strains of martial music. Their mighty thoughts suggest Life's endless toll and endeavor; And to-night I long for rest. Head from some humbler poet. Whose song gushed from his heart, As showers fmm the clouds of sunuMt Or tears from the eyelids start; Who, through long days of labor. And nights devoid of ease, gtill beard in his soul tbe music Of wonderful melodies. Such Mngs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care. And come like the benediction That follows after prayer. Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice. And lend to the rhyme or the poet The Iwauty of thy voice. And the night shall be filled with musta, And the eares, that infect the day, Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away. LongfcBtM. COLOR-BLIND. "But, Rene dear, you don't mean to say the' intend to make j'ou marry the Professor, whether you wish to or not?" There was an indignant look on Tom Nelson's strong, sun-burnt face, and an indignant ring in his deep voice. 44 Yes," answered Rene, 44 that's just what it amounts to. The mean to make me marry the Professor, as I'm not inclined to do it willingly." 44 But you don't mean to do it?" aid Tom, savagely. 44 No, Tom, I will never marry him," snid the girl, impetuously. 44 Why, Tom, haven't Iben promised to you since we were babies?" 44 Yes, Rene; and your parents seemed pleased enough with me until he came," said Tom, bitterly. 44 Never mind, dear old Tom," an swered Rene, as she put up her hand and cares.ed his cheek. 44 1 am pleased with you, and always shall be. Isn't that enough?" 44 Quite enough, little one." said Tom, in an altered lone. I think I could get along if everybody else disliked mo, if you were pleased with me." Just then a voice in the direction of the house Reno and Tom were in the garden called: "Rene, Rene!" 44 Yes, mother." 44 You must come right in," said Mrs. Alexander. 4The dew is falling and will take all the stiffness out of your muslin. And your father says Prof. Appleton is coming to-night. I want you to be ready to receive him." Rene gave an impatient stamp of her little foot, and Tom growled: 44 Confound the Professor!" A moment later he had kissed Rene and been kissed by her, and was strid ing away, while Rene turned and walked with reluctant feet toward the house. 44 A good lookin' lad and honest as the day is long," was the homely praise his neighbors gave Tom Nelson. If Diogenes had lived in Tom's day and neighborhood ho would not have been obliged to hunt long for an honest man. A Rene had said, she had been prom ised to Tom since both were babies. Words of love for each other were among their first utterances, and while Tom wore roundabouts and Rene very short-sleeved aprons, they registered a vow to marry each other. Unlike most engagements entered into in childhood, the compact remained unbroken. Tom had brains and nerve enough to become almost anything he might have desired, but he loved every foot of the f.ue old farm that was one day to be his, and every room of the comfortable, home like house where he was born, and he chose to till the soil. Before the ap- IMBarance in Linwold of Prof. Appleton, tone's parents had smiled on Tom and encouraged his marked attention to their daughter. They doubtless thought that a young man who was to become sole owner of a ten thousand dollar farm, well stocked, would not be a bad son-in-law for a not over-successful doc tor. But about a year before my story opens. Prof. Appleton had come to teach Greek and Latin in S College. Rene met the Professor a tall, gaunt, sallow-faced, bald-headed man of forty, who was always scrupulously dressed in the finest of broadcloth and most im maculate of linen at the house of a mutual friend in the village, and the learned gentleman proceeded at once to fall in love with her. He managed to become acquainted with Dr. Alexander, and received an invitation which he w:is not slow to accept, to visit at his house. Since the day when that visit was made, Rene had been really persecuted by Prof. Applcton's attentions. She did not like the man. He bored her ex ceedingly with his dry talk about things she didnot understand, or sentimental speeches about things she did. She constantly refused to ride or walk with him, and talked or listened to him as little as was compatible with the sim plest politeness. 44 She is a prudent girl," said the Pro fessor to himself. 4 bhe does not care to have much to say to a gentleman to whom she is not engaged. I will speak to her father." He spoke to her father, and gained the Doctor's full and heart v consent Tom Nelson, seeing how well pleased llenc's parents had been with him, had never thought it necessary to ask form ally for her hand. Doctor Alexander informed his daughter that Prof. Apple ton had asked permission of him to ad dress her, and then and there Rone ve 'Jiemcutly declared she would never re ceive the Professor as a lover, and suro ijr never become his wife. 44 Girl, you are mad," said the doctor angrily. 44 Prof. Appleton is worth I iiave taken pains to learn fifty thousand dollars, and the honor of having a Pro fessor in the family is a good deal, I as sure you. In short, I command vou to Teceive Prof. Appleton as your future husband." 44 And remember it is also my desire tkat you look upon the Professor with favor," added Mrs. Alexander. "Half the girls in the village are crazy after him." Rene's lips opened to say that any of them might have him for all of her, but b had never been disrespectful to her parents. She turned and walked out of the room without a word, but with sot rebellion in her heart. It was in the evening of the same da- that Rene met Tom in the garden and the conver sation we have recorded took place. Rene went to the house, five minutes after being called by her mother, deter mined to be so disagreeable to the Pro lessor that he would never ask her to be his wife. But instead of the Professor came a boy with a note from that laarned gentleman, saying he had taken severe cold which would debar him from realizing the pleasure he had an ticipated for that e'vening. and that he froped he should be able to call in a few '4ays. About this time Mrs. Alexander determined to pre a party.- At fifty fkm loved gayety better than did Rene ml twenty-two. A week from that even- decided she would gather liar friends together for a social time, a few games and a little supper. The list of people who were to be invited was forth with made oat, the invitations were written, and Rene's ten-year-old broth er Fred was sent out to distribute them. The Professor received his invitation as he sat in his room with watery eyes and nose made very red by constant ap- Elication of his handkerchief. He knew e should probably be the lion of the evening, and resolved to order a new suit of clothes for the occasion. He drew his desk close to the fire, and wf3te a telegram to his tailor in R , a city distant ten miles, telling him to send by express samples of the most fashionable cloth for gentlemen's evening wear. A boy was dispatched with the message. By the five o'clock train the samples ar rived, and the boy who was at the ex press office waiting for them, took them at once to the Professor. He examined them very carefully, indeed, before making a choice. He had heard Mrs. Alexander say that nothing disgusted her more than to see a person dressed out of taste, and he was wise enough to understand that to please the mother of the girl he hoped to win was no small thing, especially as be must depend on that mother to help him win the daugh ter. After long deliberation, he made a choice. 44 Pearl-gray is always genteel," he said. " That is a color, or rather shade, that must, I think, please every one." He sent the sample he had selected to his tailor, directing that knight of the shears and goose to make him a suit of the same cloth, having it cut in the way that would be the most becoming to one of his figure and position. The tailor had his measure. 44 H'm!" said the tailor when he re ceived the sample. "I wonder how this got in among the pieces I sent Appleton? I believe a piece was lying on the desk when I put up the samples. Guess young Durfee sent it in when he ordered that masquerade suit. Wonder why the Professor sends that baok?" He had held the Professor's note in his hand unread while he looked at the sample. Now he turned his attention to the letter, and gave a lonr, low whistle. 44 The Profespor must be getting boyish," he said. " Of course ho must be going to a masquerade to order a suit like that. I don't sec why he has it made in the latest style. But 'obey orders if you break owners' is my motto." And he went away to give his cutter minute directions about the suit. Tom Nelson went about his work with rather a heavy heart in those days. Rene's parents did not fail to show him that the' no longer looked upon his at tentions to their daughter with favor. He did not believe Rene would give him up, but doubts would creep into his mind and fears haunt him in spite of himself. All girls loved wealth and position. Rene might be persuaded in time, and what would life be worth without her? These thoughts made him uncomfort able in the extreme. He did not see Rene as often as ha used to. He dis liked going to her home, for he met with but a chilly reception from the Doctor and his wife. But Rene under stood why his visit were mo rare, and loved him in those days more than ever. Tbe evening of the party was bright and clear, and nearly every one who had been bidden to the entertainment was present. Several aristocratic friends of the Doctor's came from the city, and all the notables of the village graced the occasion by their presence. When it was growing rather late for arrivals, and all but three or four of the expected guests had come, the servant opened the parlor door and announced in a loud voice, " Professor Appleton." Doctor Alexander, proud that his daughter had a chance to make so brilliant a match, had informed his city friends of the Professor's wish to ad dress Rene, and all the village knew how deeply smitten was the man of Greek and Latin with the Doctor's daughter. It was therefore with un usual interest that every one in the room turned to look at the Professor as he entered. And every one continued for some seconds to look at him. An expression of supreme astonishment was upon all their countenances, and when they turned their eyes away from him to the faces of their friends, the expression of astonishment was changed to one of merriment. From a corner where some younr peo ple were gathered came a half-suppressed but unmLstakeable laugh. Be fore them all stood the Professor, who, in some way, all understood was to be the hero of the evening, dressed in a suit of bright scarlet! For a moment consternation held host and hostess rooted to the spot where they stood. Then thev moved forward, and greeted their latest guest, but in so embarrassed and constrained a manner that the poor man began to think he must have done something to ollend them, and tried in vain all the rest of the evening to think of auything he had said or done which could have displeased them. The hou rs before one o'clock were gottw through with somehow. The Alexiuttterd and every one present tried to act as well bred people should, but with the Pro fessor in his bright-hued garments mov ing among them rather listlessly for he felt that some unfortunate circumstance had turned the Alexanders against him it was not easy to keep decorous faces and talk on the subjects usually dis cussed at dignified and pretentious par ties. The time when the guests could say good-night and go away, was wel comed both by them and by their enter tainers, The next morning. Doctor Alexander, looking as fierce as a hornet for the little man was as fiery as a red pepper when his temper was aroused called on Prof. Appleton at his room. 44 What do you mean, sir," he cried, without any greeting or preliminary speech, " by coming to my house when we have company in such an outrageous looking suit as jou wore last night, and disgracing us? I insist upon an immedi ate explanation." "An immediate explanation? I do not understand you at all," said the Professor, politely. "I ordered the suit I wore last night expressly for your party. I thought pearl-gray was al ways fitting for a gentleman's evening costume." 44 You don't mean to say," cried the doctor, somewhat mollified, " that you thought the suit you wore last night was pearPgray?" 44 Indeed, sir, I did," said the Pro fessor, beginning to grow pale. 44 Well, sir, then you are very much mistaken." said the Doctor, evidently not finishing the sentence as he had at first intended. "That suit is fire-red, fire-red, sir, I assure you." 44 Good heavens!" exclaimed the Pro fessor, sinking into a chair. Doctor, I must be color-blind," he added after a moment's pause, "for I surely thought the suit was pearl-gray." Within a week, the Professor had his eyes examined and he was declared to be totally color-blind. I think Doctor Alexander would stall willingly have given him his daughter, but Mrs. Alexander would not hear of it. "No knowing what absurd things he might do." she said. "I declare, 1 would not be as shocked and disgusted again as I was that night for a hundred dollars, and Rene might expect such things at any time, if he should becomi my son-in-law." Tom Nelson became again a welcome visitor at the Doctor's home, and at Christmas he and Rene were married. But Mrs. Alexander did not give hex consent to the match; until she had brought out a basket of worsted and made sure that Ram's affianced could tell colors as well as herself. Womarit Journal. The Oriental Plagne, r Black Death. The Oriental plague appears to. have been a disease resembling typhus fever, but more severe. It was similar to typhus in the high fever, suddenness of onset, contagiousness, constipated con dition, delirium, rapid, feeble pulse, dry tongue, tinnitus aurium and deaf ness, jerking of the tendons, watchful ness and stupor, and the red patches or purple spots which appeared upon the body surface. The features not present in typhus were nausea and vomiting, bleeding of the lungs, an alarmed, des pairing expression upon the counte nance, the buboes and carbuncles upon the lody, and the high death-rate, two thirds of those attacked having suc cumbed to the disease. This pest, or as it is called, in Bible times, pestilence, is endemic in the Levant, and appears to have been gen erated by the til thy habits of that semi tropical region. From Asia Minor it extended in various directions. In the fifth century before tbe Christian era, it ravaged Egypt and the greater part of Persia and entered -Athens, where it raged to a fearful extent during the Pelopounesian war. In the time of Antonius the plague passed westward to Rome, and in the sixth century an epidemic, according to Procopius, oc curred in Egypt and Palestine. An exceedingly filthy condition prevailed in Europe during the dark age3. The Romish Church, preventing a Christian truth, had taught that the interests ol the body and soul were opposed to each other, and that the latter could be rendered more certain of heaven by a crucifixion and humiliation of the flesh. Rags, squalor and filth came to be regarded as proper manifestations of a devout spirit; comfortable houses and cleanliness belonged to the mam mon of unrighteousness. Bathing arrangements had existed in the houses of the wealthy and this was sufficient to lead to their condemnation. The result was that the filth, natural to people of that age, was increased by the estab lishment of religion. Society reached such a condition that even the rich rarely changed their linen, and strong ointments and cosmetics were used to conceal the filth upon bodies sadly in need of personal bath. Into a region thus prepared for its reception the pestilence was transmitted. Its ravages were awful. Under the name of Black Death it swept over Europe and portions of Asia and Africa. Iu Europe alone it is estimated that over 25,000,000 human beings perished iu the short spaco of three years. Peo ple were appalled at the suddenness of the attack, the tremendous violence with which it raged, and the rap idity with which mortification and putrefactive changes set in, blackening the bodies of its victims. London, in the seventeenth century, had become filthy beyond description. The garbage iu their streets; the ill drained, ill-lighted and ill-ventilated houses; the unwashed, poorly fed, and inadequately clad inhabitants, presented conditions necessary for the ravages ol a filth disease. The plague came and, though a semi-tropical disease, found things in such a fearful state that it was able to live and thrive in this northern city. The scenes that followed beggar description. Paiu and terror in the houses, death in horrid form stalking along the narrow streets, the denunci ations and mad yells of the abandoned, the appeals and prayers for aid, the suffering of the afflicted; the cart rattling along the street followed by the driver's cry, "Bring on your dead," and the lamentation and mourning fot the fifty thousand fallen, form but an inadequate and feeble picture of the horrors that ensued. The disease raged unrestrained, and apparently died down leaving its germs behind to await the growth of a new set of victims, when the great benefaction, the London fire occurred, and by consuming the filth and city, burned out the des troyer. The plague has occasionally reached Paris and some of the German cities. In 1734 it destroyed nearly half of the population of Marseilles, and in 183G a similar fever prevailed at Rajpootana, in Asia. Only a few years ago another epidemic of Black Death was born amid the filth aud fatalism of the Mo hammedan climes. The neglect ol sanitary provisions rendered its spread an easy matter. From Turkey it ex tended over a portion of Europe and for a time threatened to reach the At lantic, whence it might easily have been transported by vessel to the shores of the New World. Happily the Rus sian and Austrian governments became alarmed and took energetic measures for its restriction. That impassable military quarantine may have been severe, but it said most emphatically to the pestilence, "Hitherto shalt thou conic but no farther." It stayed the plague and was thus the means of sav ing thousands of precious lives. Other means have, at times, been found effectual for the suppression of pestilence; not quarantine but sanitary police and hygienic improvement in the large cities, like Cairo, have been most serviceable for its restriction. By such means it has been nearly stamped out of existence. Its extensive ravages are unnecessary. The pestilence "which walketh in darkness." is subject to human control. By quarantine and a rigid conformity to sanitary require ments, it may be restricted, if not entirely suppressed. Dr. Smith in Sci ence and Health. After Eighteen Centuries. On January 24 the skeleton of a woman with a child was discovered at Pompeii in a narrow street about twelve feet above the level of the ancient pave ment. It is well known that the catas trophe of 79 A. D. commenced with a thick showor of small pumice stones, by which the streets of Pompeii were cov ered up to the roofs of the hou-es. Stones were succeeded by ashes, which became solid owing to the action of suc cessive showers of boiling water; and these ashes now form the top layer of the materials which cover the ruins of Pompeii. Most of the unhappy beings who remained in the houses after the eruption first reached the town made their escape through tbe windows, but the greater part of these fugitives could have taken but a few steps, and must have been quickly suffocated by the poisonous fumes. With one arm the woman whose skeleton has been found was clasping the legs of the child, whose body shows contraction in the arms and legs and a general emaciation, which leu us to suppose that the child must have been very ill. It was a little boy about ten years of age. Doubtless the woman was the mother of the child. Some jewels found on the female skel eton indicated a person of condition; two bracelets of gold encircled the arm which held the boy, and on the hand were two gold rings, the one set with an emerald, on which in engraved a horn of plenty, and the other with an amethyst bearing a head of Mercury. Cor. N. Y. Sun. In some parts of Manitoba specu lation is said to be wild. It is getting to be quite common for a settler to sell his farm at from $5,000 to $10.000 $25 cash, balance in twenty to thirty days. The calculation of the purchaser is that within the time specified he may dis pose of the land at an advance; if not he only loses his $25. Young man do not wait until you can afford a heliometer before starting out housekeeping. A heliometer costs $10,000 and is good for nothing except forth observation of the transit of Venus. And after you are married yon won't care much about that. New Ha ven Register. SCHOOL AND CHUKCII. The Bible is translated into thirty two African languages, in eight of which the whole of the Scriptures are pub lished. Atlanta men are working up r. Southern Chautauqua, or central eamp mi'cting ground, for all the benevolent institutions of the South. Jauan is thoroughly awake in ths matter of education. She has established schools all through the country, aud at the University of Tokio there are now 200 students. Good old Mrs. Barton, of New Haven, has been for nearly fifty years the teacher of a large and important Bible class. A few days ago her class met to celebrate her eightieth birthday. New Haven Register. The National Societies of the Bap tist denomination hold their anniversa ries in New York, May 21-ul. These societies are the Foreign Missionary Union, the Home Mission Society and the Publication Society. Mrs. George Clinton Smith, ol Springfield, 111., has undertaken the. compilation of a woman's hymn-book. She asks that all women who have writ ten hymns that have been published con fer with her. Chicago Tribune. Rev. Dr. Magoun, of Philadelphia, told his New York brethren the other day that he .started" iu life as a bricklayer, aud that when he laid down the trowel and took up the clerical pen, lie secured the first brick he had ever laid, convert ed it into an inkstand, and had used it ever since. The students of the University of Missouri disliked Professor Lowry and asked for his removal. This request was refused, as they gave no good reason why it should be granted. Three hun dred of them burned the Professor in efligy, and then marched round his res idence singing " Hang Tom Lowry on a sour apple tree." Chicago Herald. Mr. Baring-Gould represents the re ligious condition of Germany as not very encouraging. He savs that of the 150, 000 inhabitants of Hamburg only 3,000 attend worship, and there are only five parish churches. In Berlin there are 900,000 Protestants, but only 11,900 at tend church on Sundays. The church attendance in Darmstadt is only three per cent. Throughout Germany only fourteen out of one hundred persons at tend any kind of religious service. English missionaries have begun to work iu the peninsula of Corea a land from which almost all Europeans have heretofore been jealously excluded. The area of Corea is 90.000 square miles, and the population about 10,000.000 souls. The language is quite unlike both Chi nese and Japanese, aud much difficulty lias been experienced in learning it. Some progress has, however, been made in this direction, aud a translation of tiie New Testament has been begun by a Presbyterian missionary named Ross. Chicago Times. President Robinson, of Brown Uni versity, is this year delivering the course of Yale lectures on preaching. He states that the proportion of people who attend church is diminishing. For this he gives a number of reasons, some of which are very diverse in character. Among the reasons are skepticism, cheap literature, and the practice of preaching old sermons. He also men tions the willingness of too many churches to exist on supplies of strange clergymen from Sunday to Sunday, iu stead of securing the services of a regu lar pastor. To these he adds the un easiness of the present generation and the lack of desire of hearing the steady preaching of an old-fashioned gospel. Chicago Herald. m m PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS. There aie people who will buy any thing on sight if they can be allowed to pay for it ou time. .V. 0. Picayune. "The man who steals my purse steals trash." but the man who steals laragraphs has no trash of his own on lamL jTio. S. Weaver. "Yes," said a lady, complacently, "I expect we'll get rich now. My hus band has just been appointed one of the receivers of an embarrassed savings bank." Somcrville Journal. The new idea is to have the hand photographed. We have held some hands that are as indelibly fixed on our memory as the photographer's art could fix them and others without a trump. This is a double action joke. New Haven Register. A western desperado twenty-seven years old has killed twenty-six men. That's nothing. We know a young physician who can double discount any desperado that ever stood up, and he isn't stuck up about it either. He is so modest that he never mentions it. Rochester Express. "Just taste that tea," said old Hyson to his better half, at the supper table the other evening. "Well, there doesn't seem to be anything the matter with it. I can't taste anything." "Neither can I, ami that's what I'm growling at." Hackcnsack Republican. A new agony aud one that is in every way admirable is for a young lady to entertain her gentleman caller with a few arias ou that classical instrument, the banjo. The true and deep signifi cance of this is: "Don't J'o to the min strels any more. I will be your min strel. Did you ever see love s dreaui set to music in more attractive shape? N. Y. Graphic. A man went into a drug store and asked for something to cure a headache. The druggist held a bottle of hartshorn to his nose and he was nearly overpowered by its pungency. As soon as he recov ered he began to rail at the druggist and threatened to punch his head. " But didn't it help your headache?" asked the apothecary. " Help my headache!" gasped the man. " I haven't any head ache. It's my wife that's got the head ache." Chicago Tribune. An erratic Judge, who stammered badly in speaking, was hearing a case in which a witness was asked his name. "M-m-my na-na-name e-e's Je-Je-Je-Jones," was the answer. "Wh-ha-ha-t d-d-do-u-u- me-ana-ma-mean?" roared the Judge. " Sce-sc-sc-sc-irr?" said the witness. " Te-te-te-tc-ake tha-ah-at ma-ah-an t-t-t-t-t je-je-je-a-il fo-oh-oh-oh-r co-on-ou-t-t-t-tempt!" shouted the Judge. It was amusing to see that Judge when he found that the witness was not poking fun. but really stam mered like him. Quincy Modern Argo. Give It to Hl, Old Gimlet Eye." This court-room scene occurred in the early days of the State of Vermont, when school houses were used for court houses, and log stables were used for jails The Circuit Court was held at Berk shire Center, when old Judge Hammond, who was remarkable by his having a crooked eye, presided. The case on hand was one of trespass, and had attracted a full house. Everything went on smoothly until the old Judge began to charge the jury, when he was rather severe on the defendant. An eccentric person in the crowd, who did not realize the dignity of a court-room, jumped up and said: " Give it to him, old gimlet eyes." The old Judge rose, and in a voice of thun der, said: Who is that disturbing this court?" The eccentric person replied: "It's oldhoss." Then says the Judge: 44 Here, constable, take that old boss and put him iu the stable." The consequence was the court had to adjourn till after noon in order to straighten the faces of the officers and jury. This story was told me when I was a boy by a venerable Judge who had in his younger days studied law with the "gimlet-eyed" Judge. Cor. Chicago Journal. Farm Wages and Renting Farms. I find that as the "boom" in fanning is subsiding, there is less excitement about hiring help, and the range of wages will be lower than promised a month ago, and very little higher than last year. There should be some in crease to correspond with the greater cost of living, though where this is mainly furnished by the employer at his own table, there is less reason for any advance. In cities, men and wom en who work in shops have to provide food and lodging as well as clothing, and the high prices of provisions have necessitated a sharp advance in wages. But on the farm this is not so. That grain and potatoes are dear, only means to most farmers now dear seed and a certain greater cost of making the crop, without any assurance of a higher price for the product. If to this higher wa ges for help have to bo addeu, the fact makes it almost certain that the farmer will receive little profit. I am reminded of the practice of a wealthy farmer in a neighboring town, who has periodically, every iew years, retired, rented his farm, sold his personal property, and again after a year or two, has resumed business, restocked his farm and re sumed its management. He has made eleven auctions during the thirty odd years he has been on his present farm, and he has made monev almost every time. He keeps himself on the farm while it is rented, aud devotes the leisure he thus secures to improving its groductiveness against the time when e expects to work it again. As he is, among his friends, a gauge of future prices, it may be worth while to note that this year his farm is rented. On most leased land the soil deteriorates aud the farm loses in condition; but where the owner remains on it and spends his leisure making needed im provements," this need not be the case. Generally" for one or two years a farm will rent for more than the'interest. If then the owner, sells off his stock when prices are high, and buys back when they are low, he makes money, besides the advantage of being in the farming business the only .years when farming really pays. Cor. Country Gentleman. . Chicken Coops. The old-fashioned coops, the chicken coops that our cfeildhood knew, were queer-looking affairs of all shapes and sizes, made of old boxes and barrels, or of anythtngelse that came handy. That these nondescript coops were useful in their day and generation no one will deny; no one ever dreamed of calling them ornamental. We don't know that it is really necessary to have ornament al coons, but then, while we are about I it, we might as well make a decent look ing house for the mother lion and her infant brood. Perhaps in time we shall demand an ''esthetic" coop with a bed of lilies in the front yard and a back ground of big sunllowers, but we don't insist upon this this season. Here is a chicken coop that comes about as near perfection as any that we ever tried, and we don't believe that any sensible hen will find a wofd to say against it. The upper half of the front is of wire netting which admits air aud light, while the projecting roof keeps out sun and rain. The lower half is made with perpendicular slats, and a door which turns up on hinges and fastens with a wooden button, making all snug and tight. When down this door makes an excellent place to feed the chicks. In one end there is a small door for the hen, and when the coop is made with a lloor the door will be nec essary to enable one to clean the coop. The bottom should be covered with sand or gravel which should be removed often enough to keep clean. Where the ground is dry and there is no danger from rats these coops may be made without a noor and moved to a fresh spot of ground every few days. Make the coop high enough so that the hen can stand upright without bumping her head against tho roof, and large enough so that she can turn around without go ing out of doors. Prairie Farmer. ' She Will Endure But Will Not Betray. A little before dark last evening a group of a dozen men, with ono woman in their midst, stood on one of the side paths of the common. Near the woman, who was young, neatly dressed and of intelligent appearance, was a decent looking man under thirty, whose staring eyes and vacant expression, showed that rum had got the better of him. A stal wart policeman had his hand on the drunken man's collar, while the woman clung to him and besought him to let her husband go. This is what happened a moment before. As the staggering man, half led, half supported by the woman, turned from the Tremont street mail into the path leading diagonally toward the Joy street gate, he half struck half pushed her, so that she fell violently to the ground. She arose and again was thrown down, but in spite of all clung to his side, and walked with him, he striking and pushing her as they went. In a minute a dozen men were after him, and it would have gone hard with him if a policeman had not been in the front rank. As he stood there with the policeman's hand on his collar, he said not a word, but stared about stupidly at the men, whose angry faces and clenched hands showed how strong was their feeling, and there were rough looking fellows among them, too. But what was the use every blow given him would have made the poor little wife suffer ten times more than he. When the burly policeman had mast ered his indignation sufficiently to per mit of speech, he blurted out: ' "What do you mean by striking a woman?" 'She's m' wife," was the sullen re ply. 44 And what if she is, you brute; isn't that all the more reason why you shouldn't harm her," roared the police man. And right there came in that touch of femimne nature by which thou sands of times wives have before aroused at once the anger and the admiration of the officers of the law. " Oh, he didn't hit me" and then, when a dozen men said: "I saw him do it," and she saw how useless it was to deny it, her flushed and tear-stained face dropped and she said, tremblingly: " I mean he didn't hurt me." Then the policeman said to the besot ted wretch: " Come along," and started as if to drag him off, but in an instant the wife was upon them, crying and I Heading that she might be allowed to ead him away. He's always good to me," she cried, " and he wouldn't have done it only the liquor was in him. We came in from Cambridge this afternoon to look for a tenement, and all the way in he was talking about our little place; but he met some friends, and then" and she could not say any more. What was the big, soft-hearted po liceman to do? His feelings were like those of the angry, sympathetic men about him when he looked at the man his grasp tightened and his body straightcned; when he turned to the woman his hold relaxed, and at last he let go, and pushing him slightly toward her, said: "Well, take him" and then, to those standing around "it does seem to me, and I've seen a good many cases like that, that women are a queer lot; it seems as if the more you licked om tfiA hollAr tlmv lik-fil Vftll." Then, the little woman drew drunken man's arm under her own started off ud the hill, and if he the and had misbehaved while he was in sijrht the owners of the score of eyes that were watching would have had an account to settle with him. Boston Journal. A piece of close reckoning has re vealed the fact that Jay Gould's income is one dollar per second. FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. Chalk or mmrnnaw miKn.i .ni. or ribbon that has been greased, and held near the lire, will absorb grease so that it may be brushed off. i -Su1t'0P fetl ou dry feed are frequent ly troubled with sore lip. An applica tion of sulphur aud lard once or twice will generally effect a cure. Indian, apolis Journal. To make an e-y-ellent wash for the hair, dissolve in one quart of boilino water one ounce borax, oue half ouuee of camphor. The ingredients should be finely powdered. It Is as necessary to use precaution in cutting oil" limbs from trees as ampu tating the leg or arm of an individual, and it can only be done safely when the tree has sufficient strength to bear the shock. Trimming of trees should be done gradually, instead of cutting off all the diseased limbs at once. Stove Polish: -Have a thin mixture of black varnish and turpentine; applv this with a paint or varnish brush to a portion of the stove: then with a cloth dust this over with pulverized British luster or stove polish; then rub with a dry brush. The stove must bo perfect ly cold. tolling rots harness sooner than sweat ; and after being used for several hours in hot or rainy weather, all leath or harness should be cleaned and oiled. Tho leather can ouly be preserved by keoping it well saturated with oil. First wash the harness with tepid water and soap, then oil with .someone of the usual preparations for greasing harness. uome treasure. Agriculture pays in California. The San Diego Herald says that in Ven tura county a man entirely without re sources last year bought forty acres of laud at 60 per acre, engaging to make a payment this year to the extent of his crop. He planted Lima beans, aud last fall the result was $122 per acre, and he paid for his laud aud had a large surplus. Cement for porcelain or glass: Boil slices of skim-milk cheese, or the curd of milk to a paste in water, grind it with newly-slaked lime in a mortar. Heat the fragments to bo joined, apply tho least possible quantity of the cement bringing the fractured edges together, tie in place If noeeary, and dry thor oughly before using." White of egg mixeii with slaked lime makes a very good cement for earthenware. N. Y. Tribune. A person who formerly suffered from cold feet writes to the New York Trihin : I have received great bene fit "Vom the use of foot baths in which tbe water was almost painfully hot, and which, as it cooled, I renewed witli scalding; water. Red nenoer and mus- rd min vied with the water have add ed to the effect. Whenever my feet became painfully cold 1 plunged" them in the hot foot bath and kept them there half an hour or more. The effect has been only good. I have never taken cold in consequence, and the circulation in. my extremeties has been wonderfully quickened by this process, so that now 1 rarely sutler from cold hands or cold feet. Cause of Sudden Death or Fowls. It frequently occurs that fowls are found dead under the roost. If fowls are cared for and made comfortable in their lodging places, and have a good quality and "quantity of food, then we must look elsewhere for the cause. They must have food or become worth less, especially in winter. One unac customed to the care and management of the poultry can hardly realize the amount required to winter fowls and keep them in profit, without which tere is little use in keeping them. It hardly pays to winter fowls that are over two years old, unless in extraor dinary cases of fine birds kept for stock purposes merely. Obtain early hatched young fowls which will becomo fully matured before cold weather sets in, for after that period there is littlo growth. The strength of food goes toward supporting the existence, more especially where the quarters are un comfortably damp and cold, and fowls crowded. There are many things that affect tho health of fowls, and most of all are the quality and quantity of food, mode of administering it aud the air they breathe. If crowded in a small place, and kept there continually, there can' be no clean place to put their food. I know it is often the case when the weather is extreme, that fowls for their own comfort must be huddled into a small compass in order to make all comfortable, and in such cases they do not suffer while the cold continues, for the droppings are immediately congeal ed, and with a scattering of dry ashes over thesurface, no ammonia is exhaled, and their food may be so arranged that it is not contaminafbd. But when the mercury goes up, thawing --- commences; the droppings should be then removed, and the fowls allowed either a run out, or cleaner quarters. Fowls require daily care at all seasons to be kept in good condition. When fowls are found dead under the roost, there is something wrong with the keeper, or the midnight thief has been among them and failed in securing his booty. Fowls are frequently smoked down with matches or brimstone, when their fall is noiseless. To avoid this, the fowls should all be trained to roost in good secure buildings, and a safe lock turned on them every night No sudden or malignant disease causes such Midden death. Fowls are often sick for a long time and escape the notice of all except the close and accustomed observer, who cannot be deceived, for the general look and carriage tell the tale. At feed ing time the fowls will generally all come in a huddle to eat, and all appear to eat greedily. The time to seek out the ailing birds is when they are in qui etude. When they are is this state ob serve them closely. All the well ones will be trimming and dressing the feathers. The one that remains moping behind, and does not trim her dress, is ailing, aud many times beyond aid or recovery. Still the bird will go to roost, and may be found dead in the morning, or sometimes early in the evening. Such e;ucs might be taken in hand immediately as soon as discov ered, and the necessary remedies ap plied. Ten to one the bird has indi gestion and hard crop to begin with; but the cause of this indigestion is the secret to search out. It may be bad food, musty or mouldy grain or meal, unfit to bo taken into the stomach. The stomach is a sensitive member, and re fuses obnoxious food. Notwithstand ing fowls revel in that diet which ap ears to us filthy and unclean.yet when eft alone to search out their own food they rarely take in any indigestible substances. It is either a weak, low state, or bad grain, that produces this difficulty. Cor. Country Gentleman. Congressman Evins, of South Car olina, has forwarded to his constituents a supply of tobacco seed for gratuitous distribution among those who care to cultivate "the weed." At ono time great attention was paid to this crop in South Carolina, and large quan tities were raised, but, for some un known reason, for a number of years its cultivation has been almost entirely neglected. Mr. Howells, of The Ashtabula Sentinel writes from Buffalo to his aper: "I walked around one of the arge glucose or corn-sugar factories, and the smell I got of it dispelled any desire for a closer inspection. It is an immense building, seven stories high, and two or three hundred feet square, and every inch of it stinks. It must bo too utterly awful in the summer." KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE I i it (i!: siv.vi ru.r, ic!Ni. HON I S. i riHS A. VI i.i. si. m:i. i: i:i.k- 1H11 AM) . .movi: - Tin: ur( i with or i bust. 5 1NG. KENDALL'S SPAVIN WRE! It li:i iiuv.I ihoiH.uitl.-. of case and is destined to cure million- aud millions mor KSNDALL-'S SPAVIN CURE! N the Mih pnoitiw -n- known, and to show what tliN remody will do we give here : :i - tu ,.;. of i-:im 'urvd lr it. a statement winch vas G1VBN UNDER OATH. " W 'ioui it May Coneern. Ill the fir i.-.,."i I treated with Iveml.iIlN ! v in Cure." a bone s;-ivin of several ith grow th, iifarh U.ilf a large a-, a . ns egg, ar.d eonidctely topped tin :ai-i--neutul "-:iicil tlic"ei!.rgenient. I t..ivc work.d llie Iior.o eer-dnee very L.nil. and lie never h:i Iwen lame, nor could I ever see any dill en nee iu the size of the hock joint' since I tre-ited liiia with "Kendall? Sji.ivitt fiye." U. A.Cainks.-Ku.-!iurgh '.IK V:.. F.-I. . :.?. ?orn and siihsi-i :led to helore ni tin -iTitli day of Feb.. a. l. K'.K .ions (.:..' kxxi:. .Justice of iVace KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE; ON HUM A2f FLESH it has been ascertained by reieatcd tr ds tit be. he very best liniment ever used J'oruiiu dti, scaled pain oj' lona standimi or of short duration. Aho tor CORNS, RUN IONS. FROST RITES or any orutse. cut or lameness. Some are amid lo use it on ha -nan jlesh simply because it is a horse medicine, but nu sficitltl remember that what is good Jar R EAST is good for MAN.' and ire knoir front Expert'emii that 'KENDALLS SRAVIN CURE" em, ha W ,'.,, ,, ,.;.n.i I ..,. old with perfect safety Its Effects are wonderful on human flesh and it does not blister or make a sore. 'Try it and he convinced. KENDALL'S SPAYIN CURE: Read below of its wonderful v Herts as a liniment for the hu t'lii family. .. , ,-,. . .... .. , II KM AlllK. MlsMIL'KI. UJHt,f.'0, KSNI. I... i, lvi..!w.i.A o.t.Kvrs: -I ..m o ..eijed i' ux of the result of an ap plication of jour K.mlatr-SpaxinCure tli.it I h-cl that I on-lit for lliuiirtiiilic saKe publish it to the world. About thirtx-tive vear- ao whil. rulim- a vuii" ugly horse. I was it.jnrcd in one of my testicle-, and from that tun to three wed.?' aen a s ow but consP.i.t enl irciucnt has been the roult, gh ma ,,,e a ureal amount of trouble, almost eiitirl preveutini: me fiom horseback ridii:- wli'cli un. mv usual wa;.oi tiaxcli'i;,. I vi a ctiee of j, Mir Keiiila.l, -piin v :liri., necr once thought out loranythimjevcept f.r h.ir-. ., bi.t after receiving he medi.in.- ,nd reading over what it us. ood for. f.elnig ternblv exercised about m ditlieuttv for I had co-Milted man ph siciatis and none .::ne me anv speeili.-but x hen it could le nidured ito loiter to reinoeil viihtheKi-.it.. I ..i.,.li,,l wur Kendall? i in I lire a? an experiment, ami it wa? ?o painful in it- appliiafton that I concltnied not to repeat it did thought no more ab-ut ituntil n...r u,,i i i i i. .i.i one-hair the size was go'ie. with jo I could -carcelt bcliec it, I imin.diatelv ..p. pltcil it over again, and have made in all about ' : dozen applic tion? ruMuiii"er a space ol two weeks and tle terrible-enlargement is:i!inot go.e. in view of "which I cannot .pics-iu leciing- of delight. It ha- been a Cod -end to mc. ma he -end t otin-r-with like tr. ible-. John I.iue L'a-tor of Hematite Congregational Church. P. S. You are at liberu to put thi- in anv shape ou max p!e:i-e. I am not i-liamed to have mj name under, over or by the side of 'it. KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE! Kendall's Spavin Cure i--tire iu it? etl'ect-, mild in it- action a- it doe? not Mi-ler, yet it is penetrating and powerful to reach mv de p -cited p tin ..r io re move any boiiv growth or any other enlargeiiii lit if u--.l for -cmmI di?, -ueli :n -pa ins, splints, callou-. sprains, swelling, anv t iiucucs- ami ili laigem.-iu-. of the joints or limbs, or rheiiin.it i-in iu man and for any purpo-e for which a liniment is used for man or beast. It i- now known to be the be-t liuimeiil for man ever ti-cd acting mild yet certain iu it? etl'ect-. It is used in lull -trciigth with perfect saf.-tv it all sea-ons of the year. Send address for lllu-trated Circular, which we think give- positive proof, of it? virtues. No remedy ha-met with -m-Ii un.ii illli d -iiee.-s to our knowledge, for bea-tas well as man. J'rice .f 1 per bottle, or -i bottle- for $". ALL DRUGGISTS have it or can get it for you, or it will be sent to any addre. on receipt of pi n . bv the pioprirtor-, IS Dr. IJ. J. 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