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r' , s. - . " ^ :? *'M s* 'e^4^^v,% ^ X * : ~ ' xv:# YOL. XXXVII. CAMDEN. S. C., MJLY 10, 1879. N<X 51. ' ?* She Camden foutnat, PUBLISHED EVERT THURSDAY ? AT? CAMDEN, S. CM ? BY C. C. ALEXANDER. Subscript Ion Hates: (is AUV lSCE ) One YeK' $2 00 Six Months #1.00 Do Right. Tnke this motto (or your lilo, JDo right! Guard it well in every strife. Do right! Heed its teachings in your heart, From its precepts ne'er depnrt, J,et not evil get the start, Do right! ti u ii... ?.. i?... Do right! He will only prove yonr toe, Do right! Ever be where duty calls, In the field or palace halls, Flee Ironi haunts where sin appals, Do right! Pleasure will allure the mind, Do right! 'Tis a snare to all mankind, Do right! ..Principle must help us here, Keep our minds from doubt and lenr, Make our pathway bright and clear, Do right! ?Hattie B. Austin. TWICE MARRIED. 44 Yes, I supoose it's all very fine and grand, but I b'lieve I'd rather Eddie had taken a fancy to some one who wouldn't have felt himself too fine and grand for her ma and pa." . , ,441 can't, see bilt that the young man is perfectly civil and respectful. And certainly his mother lias a?ted the lady , by you." Called oil S-ou firsth and asked , JEiUUIt? UICl f LU i IqUV uu. tv v ouuuiu , bear in mind thaishe never expected to ! makdthe acquaintance of plain folks like , "us." - * . i ." There was nothingfelse to-do. unles, | she quarreled with heoson,1aEatliut she woutd^ever c , and hoth^apujeorher , eye. bo she made the best orytt -But- 1 Iul telKyou-ryhat: '3S:3Ky*Wlhtrl^,^ftiafc 3! absent-minded when he CamOtwi&e at ' night'from the storch--J"tTTSHflHgMrte or two before lie asked; as wn^gflKj&e& bfiiim, What dfr.you mc:\n?^K|raS^H| it's Jo be' an EpiscopalianVafiPFf ding, itlwi8^ ifej^jtolh'u'ro 11, ari#SjF course there U'beSHrowdyiH'r friendsUS* ' well as ours. And she is ashamed of-tie^ JS She wants Eddie to have Governor Reed 3 . |,,.r ;nvay instead of her shabby old 5 pa." , \ " if Eddie's willing?" 1 "Eddie wiiling! Of course Eddie Vi . 1 U:..? Ji4 m/??? moc itfillincr onH VOll ' m- Willing 11 JWU "<? y ??"bl "IV. j.-v. 1 never eouhl say no to a woman. So ii she ei.uie* along?Mrs. Le Hoy, I mean ?and taiks to-you about the social ad- ' vantag it will be to Eddie to go into ' the i-hureh on the goy.enior-'s arm, don'l you lisfn to her. Just yon say that you : have '?-ft it to the women-folks to settle the wedding." ' Mr. Clark received his orders meekly. \ He hop^ he WouM* noV be carrel-, upon r - ^t < ? .:o"rnoaT the eloquAnce of Mrs. Le ' Rov.- He doubted that he could hold ' out against it unlessiiis wife we're by to , ba-'knim. He sighed. He hated tp see ' Eliza fretted. It was his nature tc take, things as they eanie". but it was certainly eothers. Hut he had never seen her so 1 completely upset :vs she was now. Some mothers would have been ! elated at ihe prospect of a daughter's marrying above her. as the plira.se goes, 1 but of these was not Mrs. Clark. She ' w:is satisfied with her own station in life. She preferred to keep to l.er own . ways ami tliat other people should keep to tltfirs. She felt that she was as good ; as anybody else, and she did not desire ! to he"thrown with neonle who held a contrary opinion. Tlio next morning came a pleasant, J cordial note from Mrs. Le Roy, asking : .the Clarks?father, mother, daughter? ; to. tea with her that evening. Eddie '* wished to accept the invitation, and f Mrs. Clark could never hear to cross ! Eddie's wishes. She therefore somewhat 1 unwillingly dressed herself in her best and brushed up her old man. "Now, ! pa, don't give in to her," were her last } words as they were admitted for the 1 first time into the beautiful Le Roy 1 , mansion?really a mansion, built in Port i Royal in the old colonial times. Mis. I Le'Rov received them with a manner 1 that was graeiousness itself. If she ? made up her mind to do a thing at all, she did it thoroughly. She had combated her son's engagement to beautiful Eddie Clark as long as there remained a grain 1 I ' of virtue in opposition. Now she deter- J I - mined that there should be no vulgar L family jars. She showed a proper gen- 1 P tility in that at least. ^ Alas! Mrs. Clark was powerless to in- ' terrupt a long, amicable tctc-a-tetc be- 1 wijfcwc! n their hostess and her husband. ! {flouring which George Le Roy ?howed W her the various curiosities with which W the drawing-rooms were tilled, and Eddie l played soft airs on tlie piano. Eddie had ' been beautifully taught at the academy; i her tact in music, as in other matters, L . when she chose to exercise it. was great; siie played in that charming pensive, twilight style which serves so admirably to till up odd corners and crannies. George walked home with Eddie; the husband and wife were together. " I've done it,'1 Mr. Clark said, desperately, as soon as they were fairly started. "She was too much for me; I couldn't help it. "You didn't -agree that a perfect stranger should give away Eddier" 'Yes, I did. After all, what matter does it make? Anyway, it can't be helped now; and it's nothing but a form anyway."' Our only child!" groaned Mrs. Clark, with tears. Her heart was very sore. At that moment she would far rather Eddie had been goine to marry Joe Thompson, a clerk in her father's store, who had been in love with her for years, and who would have been honored by the connection, rather than blue-blooded Geoisje Le Roy, to whom Eddie's parents were a thorn in the flesh, to be endured as best might be Mrs. Le Roy carried the day; Mr. Clark, having given his word, held by it like an honest man. The weaning took jplace in St. Mary's, and Mr. and I Mrs. Clark were ushered to their seats like all the r'-st of tlie congregation, to | see their darling married. Mrs Le Roy swept in on her son's arm, calm, cool, collected: the bride followed, supported by the white-headed governor of the State. In bitterness of heart her mother Koorrl hor thr* vttwc m?irlp her Edna Le Roy. It was a large, dignir tied assemblage, in whieh goon Mr. and Mrs. Clark felt. lost. They felt equally lost afterward at the wedding reception at Mrs. Ee Roy's. It was a very melancholy satisfaction to tlieni to hear on all sides?|>raises of the bride's exquisite love lines*. They seemed no longer to have part or parcel in the matter. If Edna did not realize the pain of all this to her parents, it surely was not be- j cause she did not love them. She loved them deal ly, with a tenderness all her own; hut at that time she was too utterly absorbed in her own tumultuous happiness to he able to conceive of there being a serpent trail in her paradise. She clung to them with'passionate kisses before she started on her wedding ,journey, and had almost to be torn from their embraces; but this without probing the nature of their regret and wretchedness. She and George sailed for Europe al- i most immediately. lie was a rich man, but he had a profession to which he J proposed to devote himself. For the . next two years he attended medical lectures in Paris as assiduously as though ! he had been a needy student anxious to go to work to earn a living. He and Edna were very happy during those two j years; it was the life that suited Edna? j art and music and congenial society. TKn xiroc? nrnn froT'or on/1 Krl/ylitnr ! than her day dreams had pictured it. Then a year of travel. Then home. Eddie had never known how she had missed her dear father and mother until she found herself once more clasped in their loving arms, IIow had she done without, ail this while, their extraordinary devotion, their blind infatuation? She had never half enjoyed her own two babies until she had shown them to her father and mother. Tears of jov and pride rained down Mrs. Clark's cheeks. Eddie's little girls! There never were such beauties, such darlings. Eddie's eyes, clear, brown, eager, with their father's beautiful golden hair. Fortunately they were sufficiently like their father's family to win favor with their grandmother LeRoy on that score. On the wrho3;o, she was satisfied with the appearinVwiCpresented bv her son's family. Ed ilieVt^rench toilettes were stylish and bee&mng:' the elder baby prattled in French in a distinguished way; the baby proper was a study for a picture as she jay ln^ the arms of her bonne, whose picEresque cap and apron were the first jliat had ever appeared in Port Royal. Edna really did not do George discredit; ,lj? 4yould be well enough, if only it were-She t.-far her vulgar father and uother. 4 _? there were no jars. But, all theline. Edna grew gratdually-itarassed and MflwfedMU it becaioe patent to her that lookeddowa upphher antecedents, ajpcl that it was perpeti^hy^pon Iter mind to'instruct her in the dit&jent ppKlJB of her own social creejd. Epdie's ,'entle soi^l rebeilrti, She ha? her own h ide of birth, She'irted Roy's irroganee aad aasuaWwnr^She almost lateo Mrs. Le Roy; he vas made to appear to afebdvant&e4beb'-e George. Day after:day she ^EV&at die was stiffening and hardening lWyre he iey breath "of her motliethin^Mr's .. onstant surveillance. A womflHKtd * i word there will prejudice atmpfcriihiwares. George, for the first time, lotieed that hiswife had defects; sne j aeked self control, self-possession. ThAd'4 kings would come in time But tliey Wfire ^ in indispensable part of the equipment >f a finished woman of the world. Gradually* George began to object to ier frequent visits to 'her parents, alhough never in so many words. The irgument he used "was that she was so nuch away "from home; he saw so little if her. Gradually Eddie abandoned h's point; but in return she resolved hat she would he equally chary of her *isits to other places. She established a haraeter for unsociability and indiffcr nee among all the Le Roys' friends in r? i T> r Af,.. T a l!nu run pvvrpjv; ? Hi/111 liv nwj u:d urged her to cultivate?"for your lusbund's sake, my dear; a physician's vife cannot exercise too much discretion n the choice of acquaintances." Gradually she did not seem to herself 0 be the same girl. Oh, if only she and leorge could live in a little house of heir own! This great, grand house was 1 prison. Hut it had-always been on lie cards that George should live with lis mother An unusual devotion exsted between the mother and son. Eddie was not a wise woman. She mule no effort to conceal the bitterness n her soul from her own parents. They cnew that she was not happy; they lever dreamed of blaming her when day ifter dav went by without their seeing ter. But they did blame Mrs. Le [toy, and none the less as they saw Eddie trow quiet and dull and changed. George and she drifted farther and farther apart. His was an impressionible nature, which speedily fell away from the magnetism of any influence which was not vigorously exerted. And lie liked life and gayety; Eddie's mood hilled and repressed him. lie had no sympathy for people with the blues. So lie sought amusement elsewhere. If Edlie'refusod to return visits, the more reason that he should visit vigorously. He was always warmly welcomed at the houses of his old intimates. The Storeys. for instance, made as much ot him as though he still were unmarried. He believed those girls would do anything j for him. lie showed Eddie with somewhat of schoolboy triumph a pair of! slippers Minna Storey had worked for j him in shaded flosses. Port Royal?at least its exclusive j circles?always left home in August and i September. The Le Roys from time im- ' memorial had gone to the Sweetbrier , springs during those months. It was decided to carry out his usual programme, almost without consulting Mrs. George Le Roy. She, for her part, detested the idea of going, as indeed she had ended by detesting all the Le Roys' doings. Nevertheless, Sweetbrier springs was a pleasant place enough, in the heart of the peiiceful, serene mountains. It was not- cn t:ir from Port Roval hilt tliat George could join his family once a week, for which fact Eddie would have heen more than thankful had she had the full benefit of his society when lie did come. But there were not many men at the springs, and Dr. Le Roy w:us handsome and popular. His weekly arrival was the signal among the idle girls at Rweetbrier to monopolize his attentions. And George was nothing loath. He came up here to recuperate and to have a good time, and when he applied to having a good time, it was with the same zeal which lie had brought to bear upon the stuuy 01 ins profession. The Storey girls were his warmest admirers. Minna Storey was as bewitehingly beautiful'as the typical Eastern houri?all rounded curves and dimples, soft, tendrilly brown hair, and laughing, tv>icf>lhpvnn<: hazel eves. She was a girl who never hesitated to follow the bent j of her pictures, although these at times led her into somewhat devious ways. She generally hid a love affair on hand, although this was apt to be not so much a flirtation as a romp. At least this was the distinguishing characteristic of her present encounter with Dr. Le Roy. Tt was great fun, no doubt, but it could hardly be said to he dignified. As the weeks slipped by, the fact grew to be an established one among the other girls that Dr. Le Roy was Minna Storey's exclusive property. Eddie was wretched. Those women are perhaps to be envied who, in similar situations, cultivate a gayety which, if forced, at least serves as an escape-valve. Eddie not only was wretched hut looked so. And George became irritated. He actually was at last in the condition of believing himself to be the aggrieved party. One evening, when Eddie hung over the children until they were asleep, crooning soft airs to them which always lulled th?m to rest soonest, she wandered down stairs with the vague intention of finding George and trying to dispel the miserable cloud which "had lj,ung between them now for so long. A wish to do so had come into her heart as she kissed her babies good-night. She drifted down the great sounding st airway, looking like a pale ghost with her sad eyes and her tlowing white dress. She glanced out on the different piazzas on her way; the boarders were apt to walk and sit about on these during the long evenings. But she did not see her husband. She drifted through the parlors, where there were card-playing, dancing, music. "Look at Mrs. Le Roy. How beautiful she is!" one person remarked. "And how intensely unhappy! Poor thing! What a pity that any one with a heart should have married George Le J Roy!' Slie stood in the open doorway and looked up and down the piazza on which opened tnc parlors. Ah, at hist! George was seated with his back toward her, in a lounging, negligent attitude. Facing him, in an attitude equally negligent, was Minna Storey, her dimpled Bacchante face upturned to his; her white arms gleaming out of the falling rosecolored sleeves of her dress,and wreathed with Roman pearls. Perhaps she was - - ? /?__ t 11_ -r% i.i. ?i.i posing ior i-?niia iiookij or some ouil-i Oriental character to whom strands of pearls are appropriated in tableaux vivants; at all events, her graceful head was adorned to correspond with her arms. She made a slight movement at the moment that Eddie appeared in the doorway,with which hex little white hand fell against Dr. Le Roy's knee, and lay there carelessly. Eddie's face contracted as in pain. She came forward. Minna, slightly changed her attitude, but with^ no visible show of embarrassment^* George glanced up. " Will you join iisgfl be asked, in an unsympathetic, sV&jV> Eddie paused a moment, looki^J^oran upon Mintta.jiThen she said, icj^BwpStJj thank Wfegnn.-dftTOriy, 4"Q?t fttric*~nV?m; 'fil^ooTTFf^^Qorm"- It is confoundedly unpleasant to have you going about looking like a mute at a funeral." " I cnnnotlook more urtliappy than I feel." she burst out, with gathering sobs. " Why did I ever marry you? I wish I had died instead. Why did you not marry this Storey girl, whom you make love to now before my face? If you have no feeling for me as a woman, I should think you might show at least common respect for me as your wife." Her tone, her words, stung George Lc Roy to the point of fury. "My wife!" he said. " Heavens! I wish you had not that claim upon my tolerance. A man reaps a fearful harvest from a youthful mistake." Then he turned on his heel 1 ..1 ?,1 4-1.? cl,Uniting lull 11U9UI UIU UUV/l Olltvt pij >M liiuu mill. | Eddie was only :i trifle more miserable I than she li:ul been before. The next day was Sunday. Parties for ehurch were made up. Eddie found herself listlessly included in one. It might at least be more tolerable than wandering aimlessly about the hotel. As she was handed into the stage she noticed her husband gathering in Minna Storey's draperies within the compass of a light wagon, in which he was going to drive her. She was talking and laughing as usual. There was not a cloud on George's face. The sight cut Eddie to the heart. She averted her face hastily. Iler fellow - passengers saw what she saw; they pitied her. It is hard to a young, proud nature to be pitied. The stage clattered oil' amid a gay Babel ot voices. A mile down the road there was a hill. At the top of this hill the horses took fright, one becoming perfectly uncontrollable. Plunging and rearing, they dragged the stage to the edge of the mountain. The next moment the great lumbering vehicle was overturned and pitched down the mountain side. Then the horses, having done their worst, stood still. The driver picked himself up and surveyed the scene of the disaster. The first object that met his eyes was Mrs. Ta> Hoy, who had been thrown against a heap of stones. A messenger was dispatched to the hotel, who met Dr. Le Hoy first of all in his no-top wagon. "Ilurry! hurry!" he cried. "The stage has gone oyer the side of the moun tain. Mrs. Le Roy is dead." George was off like the wind; hut not before Miss Storey had entreated, witli white lips, to be let out. He was alone when he was confronted by Eddie's pitiful pale face. They gathered her up and carried her to the hotel for dead. The rest of the party escaped unhurt, except for trifling cuts and bruises; but when they laid heron her bed they thought that life was extinct. I might quote pages in support of the assertion mat iu<- mu u> ?>, .v emphasized by the dread of losing it. Harshness, indifference, neglect, dogged George Lc Roy's steps like stern accusers, now that Eddie lay speechless, unconscious, for hopeless hours. It seemed to him that he had killed her. If he had been with her this might not have happened. Surely he might have shielded her. Shielded her? Ah! had heshiclded her from other dangers, other ilis? The hitter reproach haunted him that he had betrayed his trust. IIow utterly little and contemptible their dissensions now seemed! Only the one truth remained, that she was his, the woman lie loved, the only woman who could till his heart. He sent for her father and mother. They came, wrung by the cruclist :m[ nu isli: but they came just as sllc began I to revive. Youth is stubborn: lift? is ! obstinate: and love wrestled with prayer. I George Le Hoy had never known | before what it was to face a mysterious Providence, omnipotent, and yet hearkening to supplication. Eddie was given back to him again? trivon back to him., so it seemed, from death. It was a second marriage. We often wonder if we could live our lives better if we could live them over again. Certainly Eddie and her husband profited by their former mistakes. For one thing, they spent their second honeymoon in a home of their own. When Eddie went down from Sweetbrier springs, in the fall, to Port Royal, she found a lovely house made ready for her, of which she was the unconditional mistress. George explained, to all whom it might concern, that the situation of the house suited the requirements of his practice better than that of the Le Royhomestead. It was astonishing how easy it was to get on with Mrs. Le Roy mere after this. Sometimes, indeed, Eddie wondered whether her former troubles had not been chimeras of her brain. 1 - e 1 > r i\ S iur iur. JtllU it LIS. VliUR,-lln;j( nuc at last entirely reconciled- to their daughter's marring*. -&jl&y-^pen^Jthc_ greater part of their subsequent ilr'es in spoiling their little grandchildren to tiieir heart's content.?Harper]* Bazar. Tilt: Health of Cities* The following tabulated statement is compiled from the anniyil summary published by the Registrar Gem**! of England. It shows tne death -rate and population of twenty-three of the largest cities of Great Britain for the.year 1878: ' * * Deaths Population, per 1,000 Cities. 1878. lwing, 1878. London 3,577,304. J 23.5 Glasgow 566,940 * V: 24.9 Liverpool 532,681 V 39.4 Birmingham 383,117 25.5 Manchester 360,514 . 27.9 Dublin 314,666 29.6 Leeds 304,948 ,'f23.8 ShofMolH 289 .537 25.0 I Edinburgh 222,371.* ~ 22.1 Bristol 206,419 \ .21.4 Brndlord us. 186,038 , ^ 22.5 .Word 170,251 s 20.6 Nottingham.....,;... 165,276 ^ 21.0 Newcastle l44,57Q~j_sjJ^>*i3.& Hull 143;13S*5ff'24.3 Portsmouth 129,461 ;?>- ' 19.0 Leicester 124,47^ .. 20 8 Sunderland.... ...i.. ,112,459^ 25.6 Oldhutn.. fiuU........ 107,366' ? 1 25.8 Brighton.. 103,923 . 21.2 Nor wielfc^ 84,62te . 24.6 \Volve^inJjtqD 74,24Q; 23.3 t)ifc?-..ia Jrx. ...... IGjM'I1-1 VlJ.'.nl Washington 160,000 | 26.40 Bullalo : 1.50,000 / 14.20 Louisville.... 150,000 | 18.50 Pittsburgh 145,000 f 19.07 Detroit 120,000 1 15.31 Milwaukee 110,000 18.95 Providence 103,000 i 14.G4 Albany 95.000 13.78 Richmond 75.000 21.98 Syracuse .60 000 13.60 New Haven 60.000 20.43 Charleston 56,510 35.58 Worcester 52,000 . 21.61 y Total population. .5,813,107 Av. 20.97 From tlio above table we learn that the average death rate per 1,000 living is less in twenty-three cities of this country than in as many in Great Britain. Still, :is will be seen, the population in the cities of America is not as dense, and nmol' ,..1 ana tlin wntnr i? mniv nuri* Ill Uliran - , than there. In England the rule is laid down that the mortality of a healthy eity should not exceed 1/ per 1,000. Until we reach that limit in both countries the work of the sanitarian must he regarded as incomplete. ? New Haven Union. A Slighted Girl's Revenge. Norman Spencer stole $17,500 from the Pennsylvania Oil Company, that employed him :is bookkeeper, and tied to the Southwest. The robbery was carefully planned, and the thiefs intention was to take a new name, settle down as a planter, and marry the Titusville girl to whom he had long been engaged. She knew all about this scheme, and was tojoia him as soon as practicable. A detective was sent to watch her, and when she started Westward, after receiving a mysterious letter, he guessed she meant to join her lover. lie shadowed her en the journey so closely that she became aware of his watching. At Quincy, 111., she hired a woman of about her own size and shape to put on hei travelling suit, cover her .face with .a veil md go to Chicago. The detective unsuspectingly followed the wrong woman, while the real one went on to meet the fugitive thief. Meanwhile Spencer tinil Ivunrlifr n. nlantntion near Galveston. Tcxjis. and fallen in love with a neighl bor's daughter. Desiring to marry her, I he wrote to the Titusville girl at a point on herjourney that she need not come to him. The Titusville girl was as quick at revenge as she had been at deceiving i the detective. She at once informed the police where Spencer was and he was i arrested. - Words of Wisdom. There is no difficulty to liim who I wills. An open countenance, hut close j thoughts. We live no more of our time than we i spend well. Never mind where you work; care more about youi work. There is nothing so fatal to comfort as well as to decorum, as fuss. It is the best proof of the virtues of a family circle to see a happy fireside. IIow few faults are there seen hy us which we have not ourselves committed. The heart is a book which we ought not to tear in our hurry to get at its contents. Bo not affronted at a jest. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no uarm unless thou hast sore places. Hannah ."Moore said to Horace vval| polo?" If I wanted to punish an enemy | it should he by fastening on him the trouble of constantly hating somebody." Times of general calamity and confusion have ever, been productive of the I greatest minds. The purest ore comes from the hottest furnace?the brightest I flash from the darkest cloud. FARM, GARDEN, AND HOUSEHOLD Health Iliiitfl. Er.os in Casf. of Trouble.?The white of an egg is said to be a specific for fish bones sticking in the throat. It is to be swallowed raw and will carry a bone down easily and certainly. There is another fact touching eggs which it will be well to remember. When, as sometimes by accident, corrosive sublimate is swallowed, the white of one or two eggs taken will neutralize the poison, and change the effect to that of a dose of calomel. ~ Balsam Ointment.?Two ounces of balsam fir; two ounces of mutton tallow; two ounces ot beeswax, and two ounces of spirits of turpentine must be simmered together and well stirred, then strained through a bit of coarse muslin into a tin box or wide-mouthed bottle that can be kept close from the air. This is one of the best oinments that can be jjfpcured for burns, cracked hands, runrounds on the fingers, and is equally good for wounds upon horses and cattle. A Convenient Plaster.?'Take one ounce of white rosin, one ounce of mutton tallow and one ounce of granulated sugar; simmer well together. Have ready half a yard of fine bleached cotton, and. with a case knile spread the salve, while hot, over the surface of the cloth; spread it on evenly and quite thin. When Cdld, lay a thickness of tissue paper lightly over the surface. This will prove a constant comfort in little wounds, such as scratches, cuts or burns. A bit cut off and stuck over the place is a quick cure, as it excludes the air and is not bulky or in the way, as finger rags always are.". Weak Stomach.?Where the stomach is weak, its muscular action impaired, i and .its nerves over-sensitive, but little food should be taken into it at a time. The best diet is skimmed ^nilk, half a pint every four hours. YY hen milk is no{ well digested, lime water is com| bined \tfitlj it. Such foods as coffee, tea Lj\pd tobaeco must, of course, be given up absolutely and at once. A sovereign article of diet is buttermilk. In buttermilk the cas.ein of milk is coagulated and broken up, so that the stomach is spared two steps of the regular process of digestion. Another excellent preparation [ of milk is koumyss. It contains a good deal of carbonic acid. In all cases the stomach's work should be made easier by a diet consisting of eggs, milk, starchy vegetables, stewea fruits and a little butter, with stale bread.?Medical Record. "a Fruit Tree#. I find that lime, wood ashes and old iron put around the roots of decliriing fruit trees have a very beneficial effect! Chjese fertilizers restore the tree to a healthy condition, and also greatly irafrove the fruit in quality a d quantity. d-iade die application on a Windsap aim Ncv?r Fail; about half a bushel of mixed lime and allies to each, and dug it. in with a hoe some six feet around the and put the old iron immediately he base of each. ^gJ|^T<y.T nut.fo^^j^h trees may be mado T.Ims: if salsoda to redness in an iron pot, and dissolve.it in one gallon of water, and while warm apply it to the trunk. After one application the moss and old bark will drop off and the trunk will be quite smooth. The wash has highly recuperative properties, making old trees bear anew. I have tried soft soap as a wash with good results, and also a coating of lime in the spring season, which is a fine specific tor old trees. The question is often asked, is it best to manure trees in the fall or spring? I have found the summer season to he a good time: I have much faith in mulching, especially young trees, for several sc.-isons after .?! /* vO.?r?fn*l A nnlo tvnr?Q nrr? Qniil "Ii;j .Wt JMUUH... to have two growths during the sc:ison? the secondary growth takes place after midsummer, lienee it is that a top dressing of good manure, and also coarse litter, facilitates the late growth, and often produces vefy marked results in the habit and formation of the tree. The good effect that mulching has to young trees is, that it wards oft the intense heat of the sun from the tender roots, and also has a tendency to hold moisture. A good top dressing of stable manure in the fall, around young trees, with a good many corn cobs east over the surface of the soil, give satisfactory iwciilfc ?Tinrnl Afrnmnrr Some Little Things1 Learned by Expertence. If your coal tiro is low, throw on a tablespoonful of salt, and it will help it very much. A little ginger put into sausage meat improves the flavor. In icing cakes, dip the knife frequently into cold water. In boiling meat for soup, use cold water to extract the juices. If the meat is wanted for itself alone, plunge in boiling water at once. You can get a bottle or barrel of oil off any carpet or woolen stuff by applying dry buckwheat plentifully and faithfully. Never put water to such a grease spot, or liquid of any kind. Broil steak without salting. Salt draws the juices in cooking; it is desirabie to keep these in if possible. ' Cook over a hot lire, turn ing frequently, searing on both sides. Place on a platter; salt and pepper to taste. Beet having a tendency to he tough can he made very palatable by stewing gently for two hours, with pepper and salt, taking out about a pint of the liquor when half done, and letting the rest boil into the meat. Brown the meat in the pot. After taking up, make a gravy ol.the pint of liquor saved. A small piece of charcoal in the pot with ' boiling cabbage removes the smell. I Clean oil cloth with milk and water; a brush and soap will ruin them. Turn Mors that have had milk in thomshouiil never be put in hot water. A'spoonful of stewed tomatoes in the gravy of either roasted or fried meats is an improvement. The skin of a boiled egg is the most effieacious remedy that can be applied to a boil. Peel it carefully, wet and apply it to the part affected It will draw off the matter and relieve the soreness in a few hours, Primhic Pench Tree* Frequently old peach trees are made thrifty and fruitful by severe cutting back?cutting the large branches down to the very stubs. Not long ago we were | told by a very intelligent and experi ?lin\t"icnnf'nvniT CHCCU ll ni.it . . .., ; much surprised hy seeing some previous; ly fruitless old pejich trees hanging full of superior, large fruit. Inquiry led to the statement that they were apparently worthless trees, which had been the year before closely trimmed to get the outstretching limbs out of the way of working around them with a team, so , that the trees presented little more than j a trunk with stubs sticking out a foot or | two. and now hung full of line fruit.? I F. eft F.Magazine. TIMELY TOPICS. The statement is given that more candy is made and eaten in the United States than in all the rest of the world combined. Boston manufacturers consume about 4,000 tons annually. New York about 7,000 tons and Chicago does a large business in the same field. The exports from the United States to Europe include " the best French candies." The Prussian government appears determined to make sure that the army shall not, like the French soldiery, be permeated by the leaven of democratic ideas. The troops stationed in Berlin have been forbidden to read the Liberal newspapers, and their quarters are to be searched at regular times for the prohibited journals and for other objectionable publications. Severe punishment is promised those with whom such articles are found. There are more than a million Welsh speaking peopfte in Great Britain. In the Isle of Man twenty-five per cent, of the population in 1871 understood Manx. In the same year it was computed that not more than five thousand persons could read Irish, and no newspaper was published in that language, whereas, in 1851 ilrere was scarcely a county in which Irish was not more or less spoken. Now it is scarcely heard except in the extreme west. Clare, Galway, Donegal, Kerry, Mayo and the westorn islands are the strongholds of the ancient language. " Blind with rage " meant something in a Paris workshop < ne afternoon some weeks ago. An overseer of the works, finding that one of the men had not finished a piece of work which was urgently required, fell into such a state of fury as to strike him in the face. Almost in the very act of striking, however, he staggered back, shouting for aid and complaining thr.t he could not see. The workmen came round him with offers of assistance, but nothing could be done. It was certain that he iiad suddenly lost the use of both his eyes. Medical evidence showed that some of the blood vessels behind the eye had burst, and that the blood had flooded the interior cavities of the eyeballs. An aeronaut narped L'Estrange recently met with ari-txtraordinary escape from death in Australia. In the presence of thousands of spectators he made an ascent from the agricultural grounds on the St. Ki Ida-road, in the balloon Aurora?the s.-thie, it is said, which was used to convey dispatches during the rFninco-Prussian war. When the balloon had attained the great altitude of a mile and three-quarters it suddenly collapsed, thegasbursting through its side: but the parachute came into play, and, 4:hv? wvooL- Hkp ji_ Qtr>ru? Hl^lCilU U1 tuc Hivvn Mvuiiig , it went .down in :i ziuzajr rffurse, and finally struck a tree. Wo^en screamed and fainted, somc^U on tlfrir. knees t,h>-Winiyls cl:i>i?od in pfayijr, wlijle ^-rWtcii into thr-tLfOVfl'ro expecting to find a WFnjpM to tb<drjwtonjshment they dijbvered L'Estringe ah ye;'and j^Imost ufl|jfrt.' . According to the Deutsche Alhemeine Zcitung, a German, named Karl Steinhach, lias made an important discovery in photography. After years of study and experiment he'has sueceded in obtaining a chemical composition, by means of which a mirror image may be lixed and sold as a photograph. With tlito enmnnsitinn the mirror surface is painted, and the back part of the mirror receives also a coating of oil. The mirror thus prepared is nehl before the person who is to be photographed. The oil coating evaporates, and the likeness of the person remains in natural colors on the light surface. The image, so fixed, is brought in to a bath, and is exposed half an hour to sunlight, before delivery. A rich capitalist in Peru, it is said, has acq tilled this invention for ?400,000. and large establishments are to be formed in North and South America for carrying it'out. The Two Mill-Owners. There were two men (about 1838), Stickpenny & Whowell, who owned a sawmill near Old Town, Maine, in common. The arrangement under which the mill was operated was that each one had the mill all to himself during the alternate weeks. Stickpenny was a mean, rusty old chap. Whewell was a shrewd, investigating young man. The mill was run by a crude, rough kind of an undershot wheel that gave very little power for the amount of water used, so that the water was often short. Whewell wanted to put in a new iron spiral vent wheel then just coming out, hut Stickpenny woulu have nothing to do with it. lie wasn't going to lav out money for any < * ? ? .I---., il "SUCH JOO Jis inai/. iiiiiiiii, m uciii.li s:iid lie would pay all the lrlfs, to which Stickpenny at last agreed, " hut provided you put the wheel in in your week." So the new wheel wa? put in, and Whewell. being of a mechanical turn j of mind, experimented with it, and soon j found that by plugging up some of tin-. ' orifices the saw went through the log j faster than when they were all open. So j lie plugged them up during his week, ' and always pulled the plugs all out again i for Stickpenny to operate with. Soon it began to he noticed that somehow or other Whewell always managed to saw j a couple o! i housand feet more of lumber ! in his w k than ever Stickpenny could, I no matter how the pond was. Finally; I i. v wont <lown to'see Whewell | ""vn,......., - | about it. I Says lie: "Whewcll, how is it fliat i you always manage to saw more lumber in a given time than I ran when my turn comes round? " Says Whewel]: " Don't you know how that is? Waal,I'll tell you. It's because you ain't been treatin' of me fairly on this matter. It's again nature. You can't expect the mill to saw as well for you as it does for them as do the square thing all around." Stiekpcnny wouldn't believe that and went away. But still the mill went on turning out regularly more lumber for Whewcll than Stickpenny managed to get out of it; so finally, V.nniA nrntinrl nnrl Cfiifl j I 111' 1(11111 V ?UIIV. IU WVtlixt . " What's your bill? I'il pay my sharp." i Hp paid it. and thereafter Stiekpenny i managed to saw lumber .iust as lively as I W he well did. "Weil," said the old ! fellow. " I always knew that the folks around here were all ag'in me, but I j never thought the Almighty was;" and ! lie died without finding out the explanJ at ion of it all. A m:in may bo as pure as a virgin ! snowllake and as mild as a May moruI ing. but lie will get wild just tho same I when his ollioe boy dips the mueilage| brush in the inkstand. ijSHK . .' is t // m - * i ADVERTISING RATES! Tu. nsr 3^001 |>i OOJ.JI ooT * i Ani* k nnU a nnUiK nn 1 vreu. liW|V V.wiv v?iT<? 2 44 1.76 7 60 12 25 20 00 ' 3 44 2.60 9.(0 16.26 24.00 4 " 8 00 10.60 18'0 27.60 6 44 8.60 11.76 20.60 31.00 6 ? 4.(0 1 2 60 22.75 34 00 7 " 4 60 18 26 24 75 37 Q0 8 44 6 00 14.00 28.00 40 00 8 months. 6 60 17.00 82 00 60.00 4 44 .......... 7.60 19.00 89 50 69 00 6 , 44 8 60 24.00 48.00 84.00 9 44 9 50 80.00 59 00 105.00 I 12 44 10 25 85.00 68 00 120.OG (3* Transient advertisements mast be aocom panied with the cash to insure insertion. Song and Snmmer. ^ Whilst the golden hand of morn Scatters roses over the sky; And the south wind, nearly born, Wanders full ot odor by; Sing?lor summer speedeth last ? Sing?and every pleasure share ! Soon, alas, the wintry blast Strips the woodland bare, Sweet bird, Strips the woodland bare ! Sing, and make the morn tliy lriend ! Circle round each happy tree iVhere thy brother mates attend, Full of joyous liberty ! Speed thy wing from spray to sprayTeach the world thy merry song; Swiltly summer glides away? Pleasure lasts not long, Sweet bird, Pleasuie lasts not long! ? Charles Swaim ITEMS OF INTEREST. What the country wants?Summer boarders. Uneasy lies the man who has already Deen caugui m it unw ui n?ii;c. Three Nevada mining towns that had 21,000 people now muster, all told, about fifty. Hanging is capital punishment?especially when you're hanging on some good looking girl's arm. Why is a newspaper Jike a toothbrush? Because everyone should have one of his own, and not be borrowing his neighbor's. A liver pad man wants us to advertise him and take a pad. We don't want a liverp ad. without the money.? Saturday Niglit. George Eliot got $35,000 for her last novel. We expect people would pay us that much for our last one, too?if they could be convinced it really was the hist on e.?Burdctlc. loung men wno raaKc regular visirs Sunday nights, with several sandwiched in during the week, may properly be said to belong to the " Press Association."?Bradford Era. "The only real bitter tears," says someone, "are those'shod in solitude." You may bet yqut life that philosopher never saw a ten-year-old boy coming out of the woodshed in company with his father and a skate-strap.?Hawkcye. " Must have rained around about last night," remarked the old farmer, as he looked abroad in the morning. And his little boy, whose jacket was very ragged, ' said he" wished . that it had rained a roundabout for him.-rGriswold. . A parishioner of a Berkshire pastor . was asked what the color of the parson's * eyes was. He didn't really-know, he said, "when he prays; .'has.ey/ Nre cl?nf onfl whpn lift nreaches. I y . When you anTl were lad and A fresher hue was on the grass, . . ;. .* Because yon hit me in the eye^f i- *'- -'" V.' We quarreled then lrom first tolas t, *.? ~'"-u - ' ] '' When yojftad I wece lad-and lass. fe . . . When lad and lass were you and I You stole and ate ma's custard pie, . . " . ' Then in ray coat the crumbs did throw : And how they licked me you well know; - v Such were the things that came to puss * When you and I were lad and lass. * ?Oil City Dei rick. An Enormons Condor. In the course of the day I had an opportunity of shooting a condor; it was so satiated with its repast on the carcass of a dead horse as to suffer me to approach wittiin pistol shot before it extended its wings to bike lliglit, which to mo was the sumal to lire i and having loaded with an ample charge of pellets^ my aim proved effectual and fatal. What a formidable monster did I behold iu the ravine beneath me, screaming and flapping in the h^taconvulsivc struggles of life! It maj^f difficult to believe i that the most gigantic animal that inj habits tlie earth or the ocean can be j equaled by a tenant of air; and thrse persons who have never seen a larger ! bird than our mountain eagle will j probably read with astonishment of a I species of that same bird, in the southern hemisphere, being so large and | strong as to seize an ox with its talons, I and to lift it intd the air, whence it lets | it fall to the ground in order to kiu una prey upon the carcass. But this astonI ishment must in a great measure subside ; when the dimensions of the bird are j taken into consideration, and which, incredible as they may appear, I now insert verbatim, front a note taken down with tr.y own hand. "When the wings : were spread they measured sixteen | paces (forty feet) in extent, from point i to point, the feathers are eight paces I (twenty feet) in length; and the quill ; part two palms (eight inches) in circumference. It is said to have power sufI ticient to carry off a live rhinoceros."? j Temples Travels in Pent. The Duke of Argyll. The Duke of Argyll now visiting America is the eighth duke of that title, lie wa$ born at Ardingcaplecastle, Dumj bartonshire, in 1823, and succeeded his j father in 1816. Before his father's death, ' and while he was Marquis of Lome, he I took an active part in the controversy in the Presbyterian church, and did some literary work, publishing, among other | things. "A Letter to the Peers from a ! Peer s Son," a letter to the Rev. Thomas I Chalmers, I). I)., on tin* present position I of church affairs in Scotland, and an essay entitled " Presbytery Examined." lie lias been a freauent speaker in the House of Peers. lie has tilled enough ofliees to turn an American politician green with I envy. In 1851 he was chancellor of the I University of St. Andrew's, in 1850 lord I privy seal in the cabinet of the Karl of j Aberdeen, in 1855 he held the same ofliee under Lord Palmerston, in 1858 he was : postmaster general, in 1858 lord privy ; seal again, in 18fi0 postmaster genera | again, 1861 lord privy seal again. He has been reotorof the University of Glasgow, president of the Royrl Society of Edin lnirg, and secretary of state for India. Among his other ofliees arc those ol * ''* niicon's hnll?c iHTtMiuary iuumci V?* ??<? | hold in Scotland, chancellor of the University of St. Andrews, trustee of the British Museum and hereditary sheriff j and lord lieutenant of ArsylMiire. Sti'I, with all these honors, he walks and eats - - 11? ; and has hands and leet jusi iiku nmui men. In later years he has pul>lisliod I "The Heiirn of Law," " Primeval Man " J and a number of other works.