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farm: ano fikesidk. How To JKake a Bif. A lady writes the American Farm Journal: A a the making of floor mats nnd rugs has become eo fashionable of late, I would like to tell my way of making a rug. In the first place, I cut and sew my rags the name aa J would for rag carpets, each color by itself, then with a large hook I knit the diamond nbout one-third of a yard long of each aeparate color, beginning with one stitch, and making one every time across until the center ia reached; then narrow one stitch every time across until but one remains ; draw the rag firmly through this and it will need no other fastening; knit two rows of black around the entire outer edge of each diamond, and then kw them together by placing the oints together, and with a large needle and strong thread take up the outside stitch upon each diamond every stitch that you ew with the needle, to fill the space be tween the outride pointsof the diamonds; finish the whole by knitting three rows of black around the entire edge of the rug. Of coi-rsc each individual can use her own taste in disposing of the differ ent colors through tne rug. Mine rie. Very rich mince-meat: Procure a frciOi beefs tongue, rub it over with salt, brown sugar and powdered cloves; let lay three days, then wash nnd boil slow ly two hours; skim it and mince very fine, or take four pounds of the round of beef reject all fat boil slowly in a small quantity of water until tendcf.and mince when cold ; shred and miuce one pound of beef-suet, stone four pounds of the richest raisins, two pounds currants, one pound citron cut very fine.tlie grated yellow rind of two lemons and two orang-aand their juice.two tablcspoonfuls of powdeied cinnamon; four grated nut megs, one tablcspoonful cloves, one table epjonful mace, and one tablespooiiful gin ger, ten pounds granulated sugar, one round sweet almonds and ono ounce of bitter ones; prepare as for cake ; and four )ounds of very rinely minced tart apples, if you wish (apple is not put in the very richest pies); mix all together and moisten with a quart of champagne rider and a pint of brandy, or a quart of Maderia wine instead of cider, and bake iu a nwect puff paste. . Ia)l. Post for fences, gates or sheds, mav bo the sap or moisture in th timUrin'o. out the wood shrinks and clos up the pores, which prevents the absorption of water afterward, and thus saves the post from decay. Jt is said, and with consid erable snow of reason, that a post set with the top end in the ground will last longer than if set in the usual wav, with the but end down. Here is the explana tion : The pores which run lengthwavs of the tree are like little valves, whuh rerimt the flow of moisture upward, but never downward. Mulberry, cedar locust and post oak are good for posts, and, if well seasoned before being set in the ground, will last from ten to fifteen years, and sometimes even twenty years. It is said that iwts painted with a com- l-wiuon or noiied linseed oil and finely Till I UflftlA.! w 1 I 1 ... I t iJiniuKii win jat ior an aire. ;na we Co not rinnht. th .... . i i"...!! mnc Iirouiirral i -- a , bucii a paint. I'osts and phuiig, or rails, make a neat, durable lance, which covers leM ground than other fences, and is probably cheaper in tho long run than almost any other, par ticularly for yards and lots where tattle run. Ibis is the time of the vear when such work is commonly done, and a great leal can be dime I-1 ween now aud April nt odd times, when it is too wet to plow, look well to gate.", bars and fences." Profit Iroui (h rrm, Voc the wealthy, as an i uve.it men t for a home, there is none which pays a prac tical man as well as a small arm. We will say !?10,'!( 0 invited in a thorough and substantially improved firm 'of ono hundred acres, which would have all the omforts that one should desire. Three pKMj men would do near! y all the labor his household would be the snmp as though he kept house without the farm the farm would yield him ail his food, except his groceries, and much to spare ; it would also give him many gratifica tions which he could not have without it, Mich as beautiful grounds, park, fish poud lani-y Ktork, Uim-y fow et for all of which the cost would lie- Inter est an $10,000, $GO0; iuterest on stock, etc., amounting tt $2,000, $120- vearlv repairs, $200; sundries. 100; hire and Is'anl of three hands, S000 ; total, $ 1,920. Credit 15y amount of sales,' -Sl'ooo' Lalance fgainst the farm for the main tenance tt (,1am ijy is $020. The Ivla . . 1 .. : i n . J .... same "j -t I'liiucnaiiu omiorts in a city wouia cost three or four times th is sum, mm in me countrr. without . much more. Kime style of bouse and necessary fixtures in the country, with out farm, would cost : House, etc., and lot, $5,000; interest on hnuie, $00 yearly repairs, $100 ; sundries. $50 ; mo vimons for family of eight children. $50 ); carnage and horses, Svoo ; one hired man, 300; costcf maintenance, SI, 450 cost of maintenance with farm, 02o! Balance, $520 in favor of the farm on a investment of $12,000. laurel World .Veiling f lie ottf l .rm. Thero i- a constant buying and selling or farms going on from year to year in our country. This restlessness mi the piirt cf the farmer, and this desire to change, a present location for another one hundreds of miles ofi", is so frequently witnessed in our day that wo ceavs to wotider3t it. Jn the time of our fj:e fp.thers, when a man was settled on a farm, he commonly continued nu it through life, and then left it for his son. In times gono by, the Fame farm whs fiit occupied by the grandfather, and soon by the son and grandson, i lien the good old homestead was rev erenced, and the ocrupancv of it was esteemed a great privilege. There was a riisfaction ielt bv the surcensnr tl.ai t,; predecessor was his relative, cultivated the same fields, wandered bv the same brooks, traversed the same hills, and ate l the fruit of the same orchard. Then there was a home feeling, home associ ations, and home attachments. Now the farmer looks more to his jecuniary gains, and when offered a largo price for his land, hesitates not to sell. He quits his beautiful home.his well cultivated acres emigrates to the far west, and com mences a lifeof hardship that he never dreamed of. It can safely be said that where one man succeeds in this under taking many fsil. If he could only sell his ntw farm, how gladly would ho hur ry back to the old home, now occupied by strangers, and the inc'osure contain ing the graves of his kindred going to iin'n. With the advent of norim mmv will dispose of their farms and remove ti a inr-oif country, to undergo the pri vatum and troubles incident upou estab lishing a home in a new country. Our miMcois to remain where von are. If jou are comfortably off, remain so. Do rut exchange a certainty, unless lower ul reasons arc brought to bear upon you, to seek a m-w si.i tlemetit in a distant ro ir.on. tuk to. he old farm, lor it has never failed to ai-1 vi, in the time of eei. Ac."- r.n pa'id Jluncttoid. The HoHwhoM. Kriko Va Ki. One cup of sugr, one cupful of milk, one esc, three tahlespoon fuN of mrlied lard, one teawpoonful of soda, flour to roll ; fry in lard to a rich brown. (.rl.NtiKR CiV'KIl.8. One cupful of Migac, one of molx-ses, one of shortening, one of water, two teaspoon fu Is of soda and two of ginger ; mix stitr enough to roll thin, and bake in a moderately hot oven to a light brown. Codfish. Always buy the very small fish, which is almost Umcless. After Jrefihening it tlioroughly,take equal parts f fish and cold potatoes. 8lioe the po tatoes very thin, and pick tho fish in email bits ; have alo some hard loi!ed eggs, and elice them, be careful not to break them. Take an earthen baking dish, place in it a layer of potatoes, then fisli, then egg. c-pn;itie a little hiack licpper over. IVitvat until your dish is nearly full. Cover with cream or fresh, rich milk, put small piecesof butterover the top, turn a plate over it, and stand where it will cook one hour slowly. To be eaten with buttered toast. 'mi a greai aeai longer by cut ting and thoroughly drying or seasoning bstore plaatine them in the UL To Fry Apples and Pobk Chops. Season'them with salt and pepper and a little powdered sage pr eweet mar joram ; dip tbem into beaten egg and then into beaten bread crumbs. Fry about twenty minutes, or UDtil they are done. Put them on a hot dish. Peur off part of the gravy to serve with them, if you choose. Then fry apples which you have sliced about two-thirds of an in inch thick, catting them around the apple so that the core is in the centef of each piece; When they are brown on one side and partly cooked, turn them carefully with a pancate turner, and let them finish cooking. Dish around the chops or on a separate dish. To wash Chamois-skin Garments. Make thick suda of tepid water and white cantile soap ; wash garment in it, and rinse in water containing a little soap. Hub no eoap directly ou the gar ment. HrOAR Cookies. One cup of sugar, one of lard, one of water, one teaspoouf'ul ot soda, flour to roll thin, with or with out spices. fOUTY.TWO YEARS WKUSK. flow "DM liarlfv-' Pnaaert Away and Kin nonrnril by III" Boon 'om paaionf. It is eood to speak well of the dead, but it can't hurt old Charley Ripton's feelings to state that be was one of the toughest old drunkards in Detroit. He has "been gathered in by death, and he will hear not nor read not. His life was as carious as his death. He lived as an experiment. He wanted to see whether he could kill whisky before it killed him, and when he found himself defeated he owned up like a man and was ready to die. Think of a man being more or less in toxicated everyday in the week for forty two-years '. That was old Charley's ex perience as near as he could remember. Not a man of his acquaintance ever saw him have as much money as a dollar at a time, and yet he managed to keep clothes on bis back, food under his jacket, and to find a bed. When men asked him what be lived for. he answered : " To take Bolid comfort." Perhaps be had it. No one ever sa.r him angry; he never made a complaint, he was never worried, and it wasn't half the time that he could tell the day ot the weet. Well, after fighting whisky for forty two long years, old Charley laid aside his battle-ax the other day. Nobody knew that he was ill no one had a suspicion that his time had come. He had been given a bed in an old rookery on Frank lin street, and in the night he called out that he wanted a doctor. One was sent for, and when he had looked old Charley over, he remarked : " You are going to die ! " "That's what I thought!" was the placid reply, and before daybreak the old man was a corpse. When the news went out that old Charley was no more, a lot of his old whisky-loving friends assembled to view the body and see that it was buried at the exoeuse of the city. " The object of the meeting," ex- j claimed a red-nosed toper, as they stood J around the body, "is to exhibit our re-j spect for the old man and pass him into the potter's field half-way white. If any j gentleman desires to make any remarks ! now is his time. There was a painful sileuce as the old soakers looked at the body, and from it to each other, and finally a short man with watery eyes began : "Ah! Old Charley was one of the uicest of gentlemen ! He hadn't a fault unless it was keeping too sober. I don't suppose he'd have touched a drop of whisky if he'd owned a whole distillery. They say that cold water killed him, and I move that we sue tho man who gave it to him." 'I his seech brought tears to the eyes of a woman in the corner, and the chair man emptied theaihes out of his pipe, and remarked that in the midst ot life he was in death. " Old Charley was a beautiful citi- vun " nut in a inn whu ilprt l i nvp a beer wagon. " It was a tender sight to i :i i i :,i i. :.... ...... ,i see 11 1 in smut: niMrii ue j;uu ma uac.iauu gas bills, ana no man was more quiet and peaceful. If the police clubbed him he never said a word ; if the papers abused him he only sighed and fell a falling tear. O! I would that more of us were like'him. I'll give two shillings, when I get it, to help buy him a coffin with four diamonds in the end." There was great sighing and groaning around the room, and the chairman rap jed on the window-sill and said : " S'o don't any of us begin to know what a day may not bring forth. When I hear these words around me I even wish that I was dead !" It was a long minute before the silence was again broken. A cross-eyed soker, called "General Beat," rose "up in the corner and said : " How lovely old Charley was ! He was a man who used to give thousands of dollars to the pour and uot blow about it or insist on having it published in the daily papc r.. He was always trying to see how much good he could do. and how sober he could be. I don't think he knew what the taste of whisky was. He was a great worker, a good man, and I move that we put up a monument to his memory." The chairman smiled as be remembered that the whole crowd couldn't raise a dollar and a hall to save their necks, but it was a time to do the fair thing, and he locked arouud and said: Will some gentleman second the move that we purchase a monument ? ' l?roken-no7.ed Barney seconded the mo tion, and it was put to vote and adopted, and then the chairman said: Well, that's all ; it is understood that the monument is to cost $10,000, aud I s'pose we ought to wear crape on our elbows for thirty days. Yes, old Charley in life was a flower of beauty, and in death he was not divided. Aud now we'll go out and play pigeon-hole, and try for a brief space to forget our soriow." -Detroit Frr Pr). The Ainazou Trade. The late commodore Maury shed much light upon the trade capacity of the re gion of the Amazon in Brazil, which he looked upon as destined to be one of the most lucrative in commerce. The Phil adelphia Ledger calls attention to the tame subject, and says that when once the energy of the American and Pritish merchant is intelligently devoted to opening this vast and productive region, its trade will rival that of the East In dies. The chief tributaries of the Ama zon arc the Maderia and Negro rivers, the former flowing in from the south and tho latter from the north. The conflu ence of the Negro is in the heart of Brazil, and near its mouth is the town of j Manaos, which has hitherto been a chief stopping place of the lines of steamers or sail vessels from the upper iortions of the livers and transshipped at its wharves to other steamers trading to Para, on the bayou of that name, about eighty miles from the Atlantic. Para, probably tho best known city of Brazil to the foreign merchant, for it equals Kio Janeiro in commercial importance, has been the trading port of this great river valley, whence have come the ships of the world. America, England and Portugal have heretofore conducted the bulk ol its commerce, and it has taken a considerable amount of American goods, wnt chiefly from New York and Boston, and transhipped at ita wharves on vessels ging to the interior. The costliness ot this transhipment is herealter to be saved, if it is possible to do so, for a line of American steamers is about to be es tablished to ply direct between New l orlc and Manaos. entenne the main mouth of the Amazon "north of Para. This line will probably receive a sub sidy from the province of Amazonia, of wnicn .nanaos is the chief citv. and it is also said to have the sanction'of the em peror. At the same time other Brazil ian trade is not neglected, for the pioneer vessel of a new line between New York and Itiii Janeiro will sail from the former city about the beginning of March. Baltimore mu.'-t look to her interests iu these new means of trade with Brazil. Halt imorc Sun. ' In' North Carolina they hold the golden wedding when a couple have been married five years. This is to get forty-five years the start of divorce and death. llovr Petroleum Is Found. The Pennsylvania petroleum is found in a sandstone formation fully 1000 feet below the lowest coal measures, the But ler county oil-bearing rock lying fully 300 feet below the level ef the sea. The general public entertain the idea that it is the result of the distillation of coal ; but scientists and practical operators deny any connection between the coal and oil measures. Hitherto science has afforded but little light upon the origin of rock oil, while operators have given more attention to processes for ex tracting if from the earth than to the in vestigation of the question aa to how it came there. There are but few facts which will support any theory whatever, and these ioint to a product of the de composition of aquatic plants and ani mals, as coal is the result ot enormous deposits of vegetation. Otherauthorities have asserted that it is the result of dis tillation in the earth's crust. As yet its origin is utterly undetermined. In the winter of 1858-9 Colonel E. L. Drake, f New Haven, Ct., started an artesi-tn well on an island in Oil Creek, a small tributary of the Alleghamy river. A neighboring Fpring bad for a long time given out about twenty barrels ot i ctro'euni in each year, which had been bottled and sold tor medical purposes under the name of " Seneca Oil." It was with a view of increasing this yield that the artesian well was started. In the latter part ef August, 1S59, the drill reached the oil-bearing rock a a depth of seventy-one feet, and resulted in a yield of over 1,000 gallonn per day. For centuries the Indians of that section had collected the oil from the creek by spreading their blankets upon its sur face, their labors being rewarded by small lots, with which they mixed their war paint or which they burned to illu mine their feasts and war dances. Dur ing these centuries no effort had been made to eecure it in large quantities, and the first one to drill for the product had caused a glut in the market by produc ing twenty-five barrels per day. But subsequent events showed that Colonel Drake builded greater than he knew. Its near resemblance to crude coal oil the first product of the productive distillation of coal led manufacturers to subject petroleum to those same pro cesses to which crude coal oil was sub jected in the manufacture of an illumi nator, and in a day a demand for the product was created. From a daily yield of 25 barrels 50,000 barrels produc tion has been reached and passed. From sales of fifty cent vials for corns, chil blains.aud rheumatism, transactions have enlarged to entire cargoes and are daily carried from our shores to every part of the globe. From seventy-one Jfeet the depth of the initial effort the oil driller ot to-day sinks a shaft 1,700 feet deep nearly one-third of a mile. Indeed some wells have been drilled to a depth of nearly 3,000 feet. Instead of a twenty five "tmmoer" the oil operator has j sometimes been rewaided by a 3,000 bar rel " spouter," and one well on the loug erty farm, near Petrolia, flowed 4,800 barrels duriug the first twenty-four hours. From a product unknown among American exports, jietroleum arose in a decade of years to the third position, be ing surpassed only by grain and cotton. Iletween the inception of the industry (sav 1860) and the beeinning of the year just passed (1876) it has brought into the United States more than $400,000, C0 in gold almost equal (if the heavy premium in gold during the civil war be considered) to the entiie amount of the ciiculating medium of the nation, in cluding the treasury notes and national bink circulation. From serving at feasts and orgies of savages it has arisen to the foremost position in the world as an illuminator, and now enters millions of households carrying humanizing and civilizing effects which can hardly be estimated. From Colonel Drake, the solitary operator of 1850, with his single assistant, the number receiving employ ment from drilling has increased to 2,000 men. while those who derive support from i pumping, refining, and transporting : Iiet mleum. lOCttner Willi IUC lutiiiauiu-, salesmen, and clerks employed in various ,iorwtr.,i..T,t i n H u -t t una ameu wnom i ucjt.iiv.u may be included mechinists and manu facturers of barrels, boilers, drilling tools, chemicals, glue, lamps, and the like, weuld form a larger army than won for us American independence. Nor is the sudden growth of this in dustry the most remarkable event in its - . . , i career. UolOJ-sai fortunes uae oeeu made and dissipated by dealings in a staple which has ever been subjected to the most violent fluctuations in prices. Crude oil has sold as high as $14 per bar rel at the wells when demand has ex ceeded the supply, and, when the scales turned contra, ten cents per barrel has darkened the hopes of producers. Won derful improvements have been made in all the branches of the industry, and yankee ingenuity has been taxed to the utmost. It took Cononel Drake six months to drill seventy-one feet in 1858-9; but in 187G Mr. Charles S. Clark drilled over 1,000 feet in twenty-eight days, the usual time being six or eight weeks. In the refining branch great improvements have been affected. Many will remem ber the dark color of oil turned out by refiners in early days. Its offensive odor made even the presence of a lamp an ob jectionable feature in any room, while the fumes arising from a burning lamp were almost unbearable. Crusted wicks ami smokv chimmcvs attested the im- lerfection of the refiner's art, annoyed the thrifty housewife, and con ntteJ strongly with the pure water-white color ol the premium surety on, its ireruom from odor and its superior burning qual ities. Again, tho volatility of the liquid made its confinement difhcuit, even in the most skilfully prepared barrels Oftentimes a lot of oil would shrink twenty and sometimes fifty per cent. while beinir transported to the retailer, A day's exposure ou a platform-car or at a lreiclit dPiHH, in a not sun or a searcn ine wind, would make sad havoc with the dealer's profits ; or it might be care- fullv placed by the side of a hogshead of 1 . . f ' A 1 1 , sugar, only to escape irom its oarrei ana quietly take up quarters in the hogs head with its neighbor. Boalon Tran script. The Musfc of the Soul. John B. Gough, in a lecture, said he was in a church in a strange city once, and tne sexton snowed into the same pew another person whoso looks impressed Mr. Gough unfavorably. The stranger nad a lace like mottled soap; his face twitched as if a sheet of lightning had run ail over it, and every now and then his lips would twist and give utterance to a strange spasmodic sound. I got as far away from nim. as I could. Presently the hymn was given out, and the congre gation rose to sing : Just at I am, without one plea, Hut that thy blood was rhed for me I saw that the man knew the hymn, and said to myself: "He can't be eo dis agreeable after all." I got nearer. He would sing. It was awful; positively awful. I never beard anything like it. And occasionally he would make that strange noise with bis lips. Then he'd commence again aud sing faster to catch up with the other singers, and perhaps he'd run ahead. They came to the next verc. He'd forgotten the first line, and while the organist was performing the interlude, he leaned toward me and whispered : " Would you be kind enough to give mo the first line of the next verse?" I did to: Just xs I am ; poor, wretched, blind " That's it," said he, " I am blind God - 1 . 1 A neip me ana me tears came running down his face and the tear lids quivered "and i am wretched and 1 am oara ly.ic." And then he tried to sing: Jut as I am ; poor, wretched, blind. At that moment it seemed to me that I never heard a Beethoven symphony in my me wun as much music in it as in that hymn song by that poor man, wnom inriHiianuy nad made happy in mi lot, "The brink of the water," exclaimed Mr. Middlerib, bulgimr jovouslv into the. saDCtum, "is broken I mean the wink of the batter is b naw, the wack of the boker aw, shaw. they brack of the winker is fiucky, the brote of the baker is winken here where U the near est shocter dop?" And the old gentle man was gone before we could ask him if he was trying to announce that the back of the winter was broken. Burlington Haiolfyc. OUB YOUXU FOLKS. Tbt Bakr at Sebaal. BT MilT A. TlltrSON. Th lb y baa gone to school, ih ine t What will the mother do. With nerer a call to button, or pin. Or tie a little shoe T How can she kee wn herself busy day "liinderiag thing'' With her Utile Another basket to fill with lunch, A do tli er "cood-by" to say. And the mother stands at the door to aee Her baby march away ; And turns with a sift that b halt relief, And half, a aomethiDgakln to grieu. She thinks of a possible future morn When tha children, one by one, Will go from thfir borne out into the world To battle willi life alone. And not even the baby be left to cheer The desolate home of the future year. She picks up the garments here atii there, Thrown down In careless hast ; And tries to think how it would seem If nothing were displaced ; If the house waa always still as th's. How could she bear ita loneliness ? But niothe'S hare no time to dream of future prief. or joys; bbe's very sure that night wUl bring Home hungry girls aud boys. , S casting useless fears away, Utte labors cheerfully ail day. Rural Homt. The Little Rose. Standing, sitting and kneeling, five small, night gowned figures were gath ered about a flower pot in. the middle of the floor, out of which grew a tall rose tree, bearing on beautiful blush rose. The rose smiled down graciously on the upturned faces and outstretch ed hands of the little flower worship ers. " O o oh !" sighed golden haired Lilian, "p'raps the man in the moon might have brought it to us last night. . "Ho, hew much you know I" whistled curly headed Uob. " Isn't it lovely 1" piped disheveled Sue, with clasped hands and adoring eyes. "Lovely!" said all the five. " i m going to carry it to phow mam ma !" said Sue. a moment alter, tne rose tree waving like a banner at their head, a night gowned procession wound up the stairs and through the halls, Bob, the cat. bringing up the rear, his tinkling silver bell swinging triumpantly from bis collar. The sweet faced rose looked in a mo ment at mamma at her toilet, then the little white robed throng, well pleased at mamma's delight, bore it down a flight of stairs to old Aunt Dorcas, who laid down her spectacles on the bible she was reading, and blessed the Lord she still had eyes to see His dear flowers. Up stairs now to grandpa's room, skipped the children, bursting tumul tously in upon bim as lie sat up in bed in velvet cap and gown, taking his co flee. . " Don't smell of it, grandpa ; it is too precious for noses," called out Sue, warningly, while she reached up on tiptoe to bold the rose up out of the reach of her grandpa's harmful fea tures. " What's a rose good for if not to smell ? Bring me my glasses, Bob, that I at least may look at this precious rose. Can't find them? Well, allow me then to greet this wonderful dose with a very good-morning." Grandpa took off his velvet cap and waved it at the rose, and then all the little processun shouted in glee, and speedily filed back again toward the nur sery, from which they had set forth. " I shall take this splendid roc to old Miss Peggy Twitchell,' said Sue, to her self, tangling the strings and pulling at the buttons of her garments, while she looked over her shoulder, as her toilet went on, at the beauteous rose. " Yes, I shall ! She has rheumatism in her two disagreeable looking thumbs.and I shall give it to her, I think." This last resolve was gasped in a great impulse of self denial. A fter breakfast, Sue with her flower pot hugged up to her little aching heart, set wcretly forth on her errand of mercy to Miss Peggy. "Mind your own affairs !" screamed Miss Peggy's vicious old parrot from its perch, as Sue camo panting and toiling up the steep stairs. " Perhaps it isn't my affairs to come with it, after ail," thought bewildered Sue, wishing with all her heart it might be quite right and unselfish to run straight home again' with the flower pot. " But I'll see; I'll see 1" Tap, tap went her trembling fingers acainst Miss Twitchell's door. ' " Get out!" yelled the parrot. "Come in !" squeaked Miss Twitchell. " I've brought you this beautiful rose, Miss Peggy; I thought it might be a comfort to your two poor thumbs to look at it, and you may keep it al ways." These last brave words took away Sue's remaining breath and courage. She tet down the rose tree, turned her back an Miss Peggy, and wiped away two big tears that tumbled over her warm face. "lallerssaid so; jes' trust!" piped Miss Peggy. " I had such a hankerin' this morning after green fields and pleas ant pasters, and here they are set right down before me." Miss Peggy here took such a damaging sniff at the rose that Sue turned round in agony at the sound. " Pleae don t smell it too hard," she implored; and then amid the jibes and snrieKs oi tne parrot, sue rusaea away down stairs to cry behind Miss Peggy's wood pile. The day wore on. The roae blessed Miss Peggy's eyes and heart for hours, and helped her poor, afflicted thumbs wonderfully with its suggestive pres ence; but the parrot eyed it aslrance, and muttered wrathfullv at it. ly and-bv two little boys lell into a dispute just under the open winclow aiiil from words scon came to blows. "Heie, here! screamed Miss Peggy thrusting her head out over the side "stop that fightin', boys, this minute!" the boys never heeded. " Stop, I say !" " Go ahead, shrieked the parrot. "Stop! stop! I'll give you something beautiful now it you only will! Whether it was because a policeman came in sight around tne corner, or- Peggy's dazzling bribe, the boys sud denly desisted, and made a rush for Miss Peggy s stairs. " Oh, now," exclaimed Miss Feggy, taken quite by surprise at the hasty end ins of the battle, " you're the boys that fight ! Well, I'm glad you've quit it. It s homely work, unchristian actions! Here, you come and draw lots. The little fellow that draws the darnin' needle gets the beautifullest flower pot, rose and all." The boys' faces brightened. He of the darnin'-needlc was the next moment clattering down the stairs yelling with delight, the pot cla-ped tight against the fluttering rags ot his jacket. " You've forgot something, haven't you : called out Miss l eggy, in a loud voice from the window. The bov halted, felt for his battered hat, cast a hasty glance at his few tat tered garments, and then uuswered with confident. " No, ma'am ! " " Yes, you have a thank you, ma'am. Remember, that liot's a not of blessine: so mind you use it well,"' cautioned the old ladv, frttriily, aided by the iarrot. who exhausted all hi liMrreeable stock of words on the boy. "I me bbe ought not to have parted with that flower s-j s n," was the troubled afterthought of Miss Peggy, as she push ed up her spectacles over her anxious eyebrows; "but it's gone where I hope it will do a world ol good, and that's what it was brought to me for." To be sure, it did a " world of good! " Mrs. O'Kourke washed a year's cobwebs from her one window, to make, room tor the " illigant plant." The tidy window involved a generai scouricg up that things might correspond. The clean stove and floor set Mrs. O'Rourke to thinking that it would be as well to keep the children cleaner, and send them reg ularly to school; and for herself, why not spruce up a bit, to be decent to see the schoolmistress when she made tbem a friendly call. Tattle Pat faithfully nurtured and tended the thrifty plant every day. " Whist, now. Pat ! It's a pot o blessin' anyway, as the onld lady .said. Me little crooked Tim is quite another little man to what he was afore it came. It's put the life in his shaky leg.?, some how. He asked me last night, 'mother,' sez he, ' wud ye lind the loan of it for a week to uld Sandy, the cripple tin man ? Now wud ye, Pat? " A nd 83 the little " pot of blessing " set out again on its errand of mercy. Youtht? Companion. DOtt AD BADGES. A KesnJaUaeeaiea or m Fauaiaata Eagllaai S porta uaaua. The London Examiner relates the fol lowing anecdote of tho late James Merry, the English sportsman, iron-master, mil lionaire and member of parliament : "A favorite pastime ef our hero, in his early days, were the pitting of a dog against a badger. He and his chum in sport, who became his partner in busi ness, procured a celebrated badger that had never been drawn by any dog. some Edinburgh sportsmen, however, sent a challenge, and backed their dog against the badger for what in those days was esteemed a heavy amount, a sum of five hundred dollars. "The owners of the badger accepted the bet, and the fight was to come off at Linlithgow, half-way between Glasgow and Edinburgh, on a certain day. To the horror ot our sportsman and his chum the badger died, and died on the day just before the day on which the affair was to come off. To one of them the five hundred dollars was a dead loss; but to the other who knew that there was hope even when the signs of life were gone there was something yet to be done as we know well enough there always is to them who have a heart for any fate.' So he took the dead badger, placed him in the well known box, pro ceeded to the tryBtring-place, prepared. if possible, to save if only a portion of the money now forfeited. "On arriving at Linlithgow the men of the defunct badger had their hearts re lieved by learning that tne dog men had come but had not brought their dog with them ; the warrior, however, would not fail to appear the next day. This was accounted an opportune moment by the companion of our merry-hearted hero to propose a compromise. The mer ry one bade his friend keep his own counsel, or wait to hear what the dog party might say. They dined together ; the all-subduing and melting influence of the much desired Clyneleish brand pro moting good fellowship and good will. "The dog party began to hint at draw ing the bet, rather than trying draw the badger. A kick under the table from his friend intimated the anxiety he felt to close at once with any terms that might be offered. That kick was re sponded to by another still more vigo rous. Finally, the backers of the dog offered fifty dollars to cancel the bed. Kicking was again renewed, but our hero remained firm, like Horatius, who kept the bridge so well, steadfast still in mind. It was at length agreed that the dog party should forfeit three hundred and seventy-five dollars. The bank notes were handed over and the momentous question was settled. " "'I'm thinking we've got the better o ye this time, Jamie ; oor dawg's got the mange.' " 'I'm no sea sure about that,' replied the other ; 'our badger's dead ?' " Kailway Progress in Texas. roster, luuiow uos circular, re ferring to railway building in Texas, etates that some lull seems to have taken place in railroad building during the past month, although enterprises iu hand are well pushed ahead. San Antonio has now the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio road, and New Bransfels will soon have its branch to Marion com pietea. x nose wno Know the resources of the countiy through which this road passes, and for which San Antonio will be its terminus for some years to come cannot but look to greater prosperity than ever for the city of the Alamo. The Texas and New Orleans road progres?es lavorably, and opens up the finest tim ber region of Texas. The Texas Western narrow gauge has given another t?n miles under contract ; the Houston and Texas central is changing the gauge of its western division to standard width, and is extending its aco brauch quite rapidly. ' The east line road has twenty miles completed and additional five miles graded ; the Dallas and Witchita road is now certain to be carried forward to Denton, and the Texas Pacific will be extended west of Sherman, in order to accommodate the large cattle interests centering there. During the last year Texas constructed 387 J miles of railroad more than any other state in the union. She has now 2,072 miles of com pleted road, and stands twelfth in order ou a basis of a total milage, eleven states having more miles of road completed This is a good showing, and augurs well tor the future. A nice young lady in a west-side sun day school has a class of bright little boy with whom she labors to have everything clearly understood, and to this end fre quently calls upon the class to define the "hard words." Happening to use the word "responsibility," she asked some one to explain what it meant, upon which one of the smallest, a wise little chap, spoKC up as ioiiows, greatly to the aston ishment or the atoresaid young ladv " Boys has two buttons for their s'penders so s to Keep their pants up. When one button comes off, why there's a good deaf of responsibility on the other but ton. l here is an anxious inquiry among the patriotic Ohioans, if president Hayes can nil an tnese vacancies among the rear-admirals. CLARK'S '0. N. T." SPOOL COTTON. How. aad Where II la made The Clark Thread t'empiuiy-Larxeil Work ta Itae Sew World it ereaef Splen. did Batldlagw-Foreats of n'oaderfal Machinery. The Process of Manufacture. Down In the f'otton Fields The Enaplo-rcV ajortetles The Clark Hose. Company A Urand Keller Nortel y Kne ployea' t'euleanlal Eiar Ion The Renowned Knreka Club and ThlMle Band. MANY IXTERESTIXG PARTICULARS. ;Froni the E-scl County Prm. Newark. N . J . A t the foot of Clark street.in the Eiffhth ward of the city of Newark, on the banks of the Passaic, occupying several acres of ground, upon which are buildings the floor ings ot which measure nearly eight acres, are situated the largest thread works in the New World, employing about fifteen hundred hands and paying out every two weeks from sixteen to twenty thousand dollars in wages, to be distributed by the employes among different classes and oc cupations in the city, and from fifteen to twenty thousand per month toother par tieshere.who in various ways are connect ed with this vastestablishment. Although having the largest pay roll of any em ployers in New Jersey, and contributing more to the weliare and prosperity of the city than all its financial institutions combined, we hear less in the newspapers bf this Woild of wealth makers than of some second class money lending shop on Broad street. It would be useless for any one to attempt to trace to their source all the varied industries which have entered into the production of Clark's " O. N. T." Spool Cotton, which is sold by every merchant dealing in dry goods, fancy goods, hosiery, notions, etc., in the United States, and contains two hundred yards of that indispensable ar ticle, stronsr, smooth and beautiful. It is made up of NEARLY FORTY-TWO MILLION DOUBLINGS, and yet is fo fine as to be hardly visible a few inches from the naked eye. The im mense capital invested in the Clark Thread Company's Works and the vast volume of business, amounting to several millions per annum, extending to every part of the United States, is one of the principal sources of Newark's prosperity. What it is and the blessings which flow from it, are not realized by one in a thou sand of the people who dwell within the sound of their tower bell. Notwithstand ing the large amount of money which the establishment was to pour into the hands of every merchant and trader in the city, as events have shown, the! first thing which the City Fathers did when these works were being erected was to tax the bricks and material not yet shaped into buildings. It was on a par with the intelligence and appreciation of the EEALr SOURCES OF WEALTH, usually exhibited by the average politi cian. Had it been some trust company or curbstone broker that asked exemption, it weuld piobably have been granted. Some idea of the value of these works to the community may be had by an illus tration of a thing which might really happen at any time. The Clark Thread Company employ, as stated, about fif teen hundren persons, paying out to them sixteen to twenty thousand dollars every two weeks. These hun dreds of hands pay out that money to the butcher.the baker, the grocer, the clothier, the dry goods merchant,and all who have anything to sell get a part of it in some way, either directly or indirectly. From their hands it goes to pay debts.meet ob ligations and fill the channels of trade with .the circulating medium called money, and which is to business what blood is to the human system, giving it life, anima tion and power. Suppose to-night these works were DESTROYED BY FIRE. They are fully insured. The CLark Thread Company receive their insurance in cash from their underwriters. They say to themselves ; "Business is dull, sales are uncertain, profits are small, the future is unknown, and our taxes are heavy. The vast business requires close attention and persistent energy. We will not take this money and rebuild the works, but adopt the plan pursued by most moneyed men, viz : go to Washington, buy government bonds, bring them home, put them in a tin box, pay no taxes, and sit down to take our case, eat, drink aud be merry, with no thought of care,supported in lux ury without risk by the interest on our bonds, paid by taxation of the producing classes." Can any man calculate the wide spread ruin which would follow such a calamity and course of action by The Clark Thread Company? It would be incalculable. All those people who earn ed money to purchase what they wanted to buy, would be added to the list of paupers who to-day clamor for work or bread. Misery, want, STARVATION AND CRIME would be the fruit of such a course. But this is ex actl y what h as bee n done th rou gh out the country, and explains why one in twelve in Newark are to-day supported by the city. The productive capital of the country, which employed our now idle millions, has been put into government bonds, and appalling destitution and want are on every hand, and increasing at a fear ful rate. Labor is the source of all wealth and prosperity, an$ there is no loss equal to that which follows enforced idleness of the producing classes. There is no music so full of joy and peace and good will to men as the sons of labor and the music of machinery. Better far that all other songs be hushed and etery note be stilled, rather than those, and, to them we now introduce the reader. ' ON THE DOCK of the Clark Thread Company, which is five hundred feet long, is a mountain of two or three thousand tons of coal, drawn out of boats at the wharf by a donkey en gine, and the bales of cotton find their way from the same wharf to the brick house, for the storage of that precious ma terial, one pound of which will make one hundred mile? of thread, containingabout forty-two mil i ion doublings. The raiud cannot grasp the numerical fact. But four gradesof cotton are ordinarily used in the manufacture of Clark's "O.N.T." Stool Cotton, and known as "Sea Island Cot ton." This comes principally from South Carolina and is grown on the small is lands along the coast. Considerable is raised on the peninsulas and around the bays and inlets, but it is not equal to that of the sea islands, which is the finest in the world. The first bag of this sea island cot ton ef the crop of i 876 was pur chased by the Clark Thread Company at fifty centa per pound. The inland eotton is not used in the manufactureof thread, being too short in the fibre. On these sea islands were the richest planters of the South in THE OLD SLAVE DAYS, many of them haying as high ao six hun dred slaves, and compared with whom the feudal lords of England were children iu luxury, hospitality, and elegance. But to day all is changed. Those vast estates are cut up into small plantations, many of them owned by the negroes, who now call no man master. They bring in their season's product, sometimes on a mule and again in large quantities. Brokers on the ground or at the landings, buy and pay the negroes for their cotton, often dividing the money according to the labor performed in raising the crop. Some lease the land of the former owners, but t he old state of things is " dun clar' gone." Thi3 trade and traffic, it may be fairly expected, will in a few years largely in crease the wealth and intelligence ot the race in thesa localities. THE SEA ISLAND COTTON brines treble the price of inland. An acre will produce in 1 he neighborhood of three hundred and hny pounds of seed cotton, which when ginned weighs about seventy-five pounds, or one to five. The negroes without doubt will eventually grow all the cotton, as not one in five of the Northern men have thus far succeed ed in their attempts. Let the reader re member that we have not looked at a sin gle piece of machinery yet, and then cal culate the number of people and the amount of wealth, these works employ and produce, before we reach the factory. The sail, the mine, commerce and manu factures, all find employment to supply The Clark Thread Company's works, and when they stop the cotton may bloom and fall nnplucked, the coal miner may starveon a bed of black diamonds, the sails on the rivers be spread to the breeze no more, and the lathes in a hundred shops be left to rust in silence. The manufac ture of Clark's "O. N. T." Spool cotton embraces tha islands ot the sea and pen etrates the bowels of the earth, utilizing the treasures of wealth on every hand, enriching and blessing mankind at every step, from the womb of ages to .1 : Ji . xr...,i- .;n Hie OfJluuicra nb lien 01 . . n 111 uun . a- amine into the immediate sources of the power which drive the endless machin ery of this vast hive of industry, with" its sixty miles of belting and about seventy miles of steam pipe lor heating purposes. WE ENTER THE ENGINE HOUME, itself laree enough for an ordinary la& tory. Here is a mighty production of human brain and brawn, in the presence of this monster, with its majestic tread, one feels his own insignificance and frail ty. This vast piece of machinery, mov' ing silently, save the sharp click of the j a 4 a . : .. .. l : er to the combined draft of six hundred horses, and is two engines in one, usually termed a double engine, lhe fly-wheel, traveling at the rate of forty-eight revo lutions per minute and carrying three huee belts on its surface, each two feet wide, is seventy-eight feet in circum ference, twenty-five feet in diameter, and weighs thirty tons or sixty thousand pounds, the ehalt isiourteen mcnes in thickness.tbe double cylinders are twenty- six inches in diameter, with condensers, and astroke of five feet. They were built by Corliss, in 1874. One of the three belts on the fly-wheel is one hundred ar,d fifty of Jn lonrfli Knt prpn this HrillKlrt mrr- I ster could not run the works. It has a big twin brother, and together they travel every day for ten hours on their endless journey, and never get tired. 1 hey are wonders of power and elegant workman ship, worthy ot a visit from any one who wants to see the BIGGEST PAIR OF TWINS in New Jersey. They are supplied with steam from nine immense tubular boilers and four large upright boilers, Corliss' plan. They consume twenty-five tons of coal per day, which will give some idea of the amount or steam necessary todnve the immense establishment. Besides these bera are three ordinary sized engines, niftde by Watts, Campbell & Co., of New ark, in different parts of the works, mak ing seven in all, a grand total of nearly fourteen hundred horse power. The young mountain of coal, which looks enough to last the whole city a year, is rebuilt by two hundred and fifty tn boat loads, at brief intervals. MANUFACTURING THE THREAP. The cotton is brought in bales to the mixing rooms, wiiea it is examined anu placed in bins, according to the different ' the grades, ready for the scutching machines, which open and beat the material, clean ing it from the dirt and sand it contains in the bale. After going through the scutching machine, it comes out in the shape of a roll, like wall paper, compare tively soft white and clean. It is, how ever, really in a very rough state, com pared with the fineness and perfection that is to be reached. Several of these scutching machines are running continu ally, and their sound is like the roar of a lightning express train, as it whirls past the platform where you stand. The first scutcher is fed with the bale cotton from a hopper which lets it through in to knives set in large rollers, which revolve with tremendous force, and lightning speed, picking the cotton into small pieces, and passing it by suction of air, on to other rollers, between which it goes and comes eut in the shape of a web or "lap" in large rolls. Four of these rolls are then placed upon a machine like the first and run together through the same processof picking and beating and cleaning, when it comes out again in the same shape as before, rolled to exactly the thickness which it is desired to make the "saver from which the thread yarn is to be spun What a "sliver" is will be learned further on. The machine is so del icately set that it regulates the thickness of the web or lap to within half an ounce, in a web of five feet, weighingonly twelve to eighteen ounces After being put through three scutching machines in this way and com ing out with eight thicknesses of web or lap similar to that produced by the first process, it is ready for the carding ma chines. This department is filled with Carding Machines.Drawing Frames, Lap pcrs, and Combing Machines, a perfect labyrinth of belting, pulleys aud machin ery, the noise of which is like the roar of many waters mingled with the clatter of a thousand wheels. Oi.e of the large rolls of web or lap that came from the last scutching machine is placed on a carding machine, which takes and runs it between the teeth of a large and small cylinder for the pur pose of drawing out the entangled fibers and laying them parallel or inthe same line ot direction and also to remove the small pellicles or motes which may have es caped theactionof thescutchingmachine. After being treated in this way, a comb er or doffer takes the web from" the small cylinder.which is now a delicate gauze; and it is gathered up and passed through a small hole, say half an inch in size.after which it is coiled in a revolving can. The whole process is one of wonderful delica cy ,the material being so finely worked that a breath of air would break it. This card contains ninety thousand square teeth to a foot, or a total of four million one hundred and eighty-six thousand. On the carding machine is a little joker that works like some old man, raising the wire-covered flats from the teeth of the carder, which it cleans, and throws off the particles of dirt and coarse cotton left on them. Six of the TIN CANS CALLED CARD SLIVERS. in which the roll is wound are now taken to another machine called a Drawing r rameand run together into one "sliver." These six are so light that when tbey are passed together through a hole and made one, they fall into another sliver and are then no larger than one of the six from which it wasmade, although they have not yet been twisted at ail. j our teen of these cans full of slivers are placed at the "Lap per" and run between two rollers, making a new web nine inches wide aud half an inch thick, which comes out like the original roll from the scutching machine that takes the cotton Irom the bales. Only that now it is soft and delicate as is possible to conceive, weighing only one huudred and forty-five grains to the yard, nine incnes wide. Jt now goes in rolls to i wonderful little machine, a French in vention, first introduced in this country by The Clark Thread Company. It is a refined carding machine, the product of which is as much superior in finenets to the large carders past described as the most elegant silk goods arc to THE COARSEST COTTON CLOTH. It is called tho French combing machine and is only used by the best thread mak ers, as it is very expensive and while it makes the thread superior in quality, it adds twenty per cent, to the cost of man ufacture. Six of the rolls of webbing are now passed together through the combing machine between two rollers, and combed by innumerable steel teeth to the fine ness of gossamer and the thinness of a spider's web. It passes on, is gathered into one soft round " sliver" again, goes tnrougn rollers once more, when it is coiled into cans as before, with a loss of twenty per cent, on the material which composed the web when it was put on the French machine. It is a texture so fine aud soft that one cannot but wonder how it bearsits own weight. After the last process, six of the slivers are again put through the drawing frame making one sliver no larger than any of the six from which it is drawn. Then six of these last are putthrough thesaine process reducing them in size six times, and adding that to the length. This is repeated three times, and each time they are coiled into cans. The last sliver is the same eizeand weight as when the process began, although doub led four hundred and thirty-five thousand four hundred and fifty-six times. The last cans are now taken to THE FIRST SLUBBING FRAME, from which cans they are passed through rollers, then twisted to about the size of a lead pencil, and wound on bobbins, all by the same machine. From this they go to the second si ubbing frame, where one nu n dred and two spindles on each machine are winding yarn Irom two hundred and four bobbins, which came from the first slubber, two threads being wound upon one spool. The next or intermediate stubbing ma chine winds upon one hundred and seventy-six spools, from three hundred and fifty-two bobbins, which came from the second slubber. The next and last is called the roving machine, and fills two hundred and forty spools, which came from four hundred and eighty bobbins, from the in termediateslubbingmachine. By this rep etition of doubling and t wisting the yam is fast becomingstrong and hard. Weuow followjthe yarn called "roving" to the self acting "mule," which makes eight hun dred and forty threads of yarn frem six teen hundred and eighty bobbins. This wonderful machine, two of which are op erated by one man, draws out the yarn and twists it from sixteen hundred and eighty spools, when it comes away, and on its re turn winds it on eight hundred cops (spools) making the last number of thread yarn. We now come to THE THREAD MILL, which is a distinct and independent de partment. Thecotton yarn comes here, and first goes to the cop winding machines, whore it is run from the cops, through deli- cate balances, over soit Ielt ground, upou noDDins, two tnreads together upon one. From the cop winding department, the bobbins go to the slinging department, where the two threads that were run to gether on the spool, in the cop winding department, are twisted or spun in one thread, lhe thread, as it is unwound, runs through water, and rapidly over glass guides, and the bobbin which re ceives it revolves five thousand times per minute twisting hundreds of threads on each machine. After being twisted two threads together, making one hard thread. three of the latter are agaiu run together on a bobbin, the same as in the first cop n0w twisted together, making eix strans, 1 winaing uepm init-nu xnree or tnese are and THE PROCESS OF TWISTING THEM is exactly the same as the one last de scribed. ' It is known as the finishing twisting department. When the thread comes from the finishing twisting depart- mem, it n imp;cieu wun tne greatest care, by skillful persons, and put through several tests before passing the reeling department, to be wound in skeins for the bleach house. The machines in this de partment are very curious, and daily turn out vast quantities or thread, which is packed, and given a through ticket to the bleach and dye bouses. They measure off the thread into skeins of an exact length and size, and when they have reeled off just the right amount of yarn, always stop, and unnxe some kihu oi yarners, they never forget to tell the same story without variations. Again arter coming from the reels, THE THREAD IS CAREFULLY INSPECTED, the work employing several girls, who take all the rough and imperfect thread from the hnks. After this second inspec tion, we find it next in the bleach house. 1 he bleach and dye nouses are among most interesting departments of this vast establishment, although not the most agreeable. The progress in washing ma chinery.that is here exhibited, wouldmake our grandmothers think that the millen ium had come. The baby washer, as we call it, of this concern; is rather a large child, whose place and uses will appear later. After the thread is sent Irom the inspection department to the bleach and dye houses, it is unpacked, counted and put into large tanks, immense loads at a time, and boiicd by steam for several hours, which takes out the dirt and CLEANS IT PERFECTLY. It is then put through washings oft, and preparations wonderful and curious. The water used, we judge, would have in creased the flood j ust about enough to ha ve lifted Noah's ark from the snag on Mount Ararat. Some of the wash tubs are ol stone, and all are on a scale equal in mag nitude to any of Col. Seller' scheme for making millions. The loads of thread are put in and taken out of boilers, rins ers, washers, dryers and half a dozen other processes by machinery. Then after all this, it goes right back to those huge steam boilers, and the same thing is done over again. The dry room is heated by seven thousand five hundred feet of Bteam pipe, and can be regulated to any desired temperature. After leaving the reeling department, the thread that is to be colored goes to the dye house.and that which is to remain white, to the bleach house. In the dye house is the E stent dying machine, used only to dye lack. It does the work far better than by hand, and is equal to the labor of more than a dozen men. ALL COLORS OF THREAD are made, and the quantities of soapi.dye stuffs, and other material of the kind used, are immense. Eighty thousand gallons of water are consumed daily in the bleach house alone, and one or the Artesian wells of The Clark Thread Com pany has a capacity of one hundred and fifty thorn and gallons per day. This is a remarkable well, sixteen feet deep aud eight feet in diameter, of which Professor Maynard, the New York chemist, said it produced the purest water he'ever saw. It makes a man thirsty to look at it, and is absolutely free from any particles of matter, by chemical test. The thread is blued on a big scale, which gives that handsome tint so greatly admired by the ladies. Then it is committed to the ten der mercies of the baby washer, which are cruel, and goes through it ten times. The baby is built like the ordinary wash ing machine, but each of the rollers weighs a thousand pounds, and as the thread passes through the water into the washer THEY nOP AND JUMP and pound with antics queer, but it does the business Ihorougnfv. This was former ly done by the old fashioned pounder and barrel which our grandmother used to set us at when we were boys, before going to school in the morning. Then it is drawn through the rinse r, which is a simple and novel machine, continually supplied with pure Artesian well water. The thread passes over a roller into the water, comes up again over another roller then down into the water, and up and down, and out and in, and out and over the reels into the great boxes on wheels, from which it is put into a large water extractor, a perforated hollow cylinder, revolvingseveral thousand times per min ute, and then it is transported to the dry ing room. In this way five hundred heads can be rinsed in four minutes which used to take an hour and a half. After the thread has come out of the drying room, COLORED OR UNCOLORED, it goes to the warerooms, where it is counted and put into packages to be given out preparatory to being wound upon spools for the market. The thread hav ing reached this stare of perfection, has become very valuable and is looked after with the greatest care. Tickets direct it to its different departments and denote its t-ize, quality, etc Tte inspect ion and testing of thread is one of the most important features in its production, and it would surprise the lady who tews day after day with Clark's " O. N. T." Spool Cotton, to know by what patient and constant care the perlect smoothness and regularity of the thread was Fecured. His now taken to the hank winding depart ment and wound upon large bobbins, when it is readyfori's last wind upon the spools, from which it is taken bv the consumers for its thousand uses of necessity and util ity, from tying the rag on the boy's whit tled and bloody finger,to the delicate em broidery of the wedding gaiment. THE SPOOLING DEPARTMENT. The spooling room is a busy place, where spools of thread of all sizes and colors by tensof thousands are woundevery day.two hundredyardsonastiool. The self-acting spoiling machine is a marvelous piece of mechanism. The spools are placed in an iron gutter by the operator, when the ma chine picks them up. puts them on a shaft eight at a time.winos the thread upon them at the rate of three thousand revolutions per minute, cuts a little slot in theedge of the spool, catches the thread in it. nips it off, drops the spools full of thread into boxes below, picks up eight more empty spools, places, winds and drops them as be fore, and never makes a mistake. The ma chine. which is used in this country only by TheClarkThreadCompany.was exhibited by tbem at the Centennial, and with their magnificent case of goods, was one of the great attractionsamong the many wonders of the exhibition. From the spooling de partment, the spooled thread is taken to THE WAREROOM, where the beautiful little lab?l contain ing the name, number, etc., of the thread, is put on by girls. The quickest of tbem will put Ialiels on the ends of nine or ten thousand in a day, all of which have to be moistened by the tongue, placed on the spool, and then struck with the hand to paste it. rjome of tlie-'e girls work about as quick as lightning. After ticketing, the spools of thread are put into boxes ot one dozen each. They are then ready for packing. About twenty-five thousand feet ot lumber pr month is cut at the mills, in Michigan, to the vari us lengths required, and all that is done here is to put the boxes together. A private wire runs from the works iu Newark to the Nork York office, and the line is kept busy in sending orders and transmitting messages of the company. In the short time we were there several large orders came in from different parts of the couu try, and among them were me from Maine, Texas, CaliforniH, Wisconsin Oregon, etc The Clark Thread Compa ny sends out annually vst quantities of show cards, calendars, etc , some of which are magnificent specimens of the litho graphic and printer's art. Id THIS A FAIR COUNT? The numbor of feet of draft which one pound of cottou undergoes is one trillion, seven hundred and seventy-two billion, three hundred and twenty mil lion, six hundred and thirty-five thou sana, six nunurea leet, or staled in figures, 1,772,320,635,600, a distance of 33o,477,582i miles. The follow ing demonstrates the apparently in credible statement: The web of cotton from which this immense length of thread is drawn is forty inches wide. It goes to the carder, where it is drawn to 4x120, eoual to 180 feet. Then the drawing frame increases it to 480x6, equal to 2,880; the lapwer 2.880x21. coual to 6.480: the comber draws it out to 6,480x26, equal to 168.480: then it goes to the first head drawing frame, where 168,480x6 equal to 1,010,880. THE SECOND DRAWING FRAME multiplies the last length by six again making 1,010,880x6 equal to 6,065.280. which repeated on the third drawing frame makes a length of 6,065,280x6 eq uai 36,391 ,680. Now comes the fi rst si ubbing frame where 36,39 1,680x5 is eaual to 181 . 958,400; the second slubber 18 1 ,968,400x4 '. equal to 818,812,800; the intermediate slubber 181,958,400x6equal to 4,612,876,- oUO; the nnishine thread winding machine makes the total length of the thread 4,- ,Jt2,',76I800x6 equal tq 29,477,2tU,Mi. XT i U..LI! . .u m;n -IUIT Jb gUCB Oil UOUUIIJS UJ luo where 29,477,260,800x91 gives us 272, 664,662,400 feet. We then multiply the lastnumber of feet which states the tetal length of one pound of cotton drawn into thread, by the length of theoriginal web, which is six and a half feet, and have the total as stated before 272 G64,662, 400x6. feet, making a grand total of 1, 772,320,635,600 feet. The cotton, when finishpi as yarn, ha been doubled six million, nine hundred and sixty-sev en thousand, two hundred and ninety six times (6,967,296), in passing through the different processes. W he n the yarn ia made into nix cord finlnheri thread, the shove number of doubling have been mul tiplied by tlx, making a total of 4I,SO.S,7ttf doublings, Now divide the total draft, I,- 772,327,632,600, by the total doubling, and If the work is correct, we ehall hav the total nnmoer of feet of yarn in a pound of cotton, which ia 254,337 feet. Bat there haa been 20 per cent.losa in the manufacture, which muxt be added, making a total of 305,254 feet of yarn for a pound of cotton, or 120 haaka of K4o yarde eacb, enough to reach from New York to Trenton, a distance of sixty mile. MACHI5E AND CABIETBHOPS,BOX FACTORY AUD PRIMING HOUSE. The Clark Thread Company do all their printing and lithographing at tho worka here. Four printing presses are kept running all the time, and ia the lithograph depart ment one ateam preca and lz or eiht hand lithograph preasea are continually emp10.' In both departments the practice pf the "art preservative" ia in the highest tyle. Order for the paper bo department in th ne item of straw board are given ai hiirh eighty to one hundred ton at a time. In tne machine shop a large number of men are em ployed in making new machinery and keep ing in reniar the vast quantity iu use in the arioui departments of the works. The cab inet factory turns out about two hundred cabinet per day. The hobbina, etc., ii"d the mill are.made htre. In fact abeut all tha Clark Thread Coniptnv y.o outside far in the raw material. Thi-v manufacture all tber ue, except a few of the more intricate or patented machine. THE CLARK HOSK COMPANY. One of the best organized and equippe-i fire companies in the citv of Newark i thtr "Clark lloae Company,' organized May 1'ilh, 1869. There are twenty iiiember.euiployee of the factory, brave active men, trained by frequent practice to their duty, and piond of their company aud outfit. Their eiiiip ment ia as follow : Two hose cariages with wrenches, bar and axea, carrying aeven hun dred and fifty leet of hose on reel aud two pipe with extra norzlea. They ahio cem uiand nine hundred feet of hose with pipe and notzlea in twenty-one different aUtiu, in and around the factory, one Cameron fire pump, one Worthington, one Watt A Camp bell, and one Blake puuip, one hundred and eventy-eiirht filled bucket in tbeir proper place throughout the worka, sixteen hand pumpa, (prinklera in all the room of the cotton mill, (he packing house, the macfitne and carpenter shop and the drying rooms. There are also sprinkler in the two top noora of the thread mill anil in tne ware house, and there are thirty-five fire plugs or dydrants on the premises. Kegular meeting are held on the second Monday in each month, and practice is had every two week. Examination of all valves, hydrants, rumm and other equipment take place on uie first of each month, and a minute report of the exact condition, position and ell'ectivenea of the fire service ia made to the Clark Thread Company. THE CLARK THREAD COMPANY RELIEF SO CIETY. One of the best and most beneficial organ izations which constitute a part of the sys tem and care of the Clark Thread Company for their employe, is the Relief Society, ft was organized January 22d, 1870, for the pur pose of providing a fund for the relief of thos who might, by accident or sickness, be in capacitated fioin sustaining themselves. All the employe of the company muHt be mem bers of the society.and each receives awistani-c when needed, from the fund according ti the amonnt paid in, which must be at lenst one cent, per week, but no one is per mitted to pay in an amount which would draw, in case of sickness, more than half their average weekly waies. Every cent paid iu draws seventy-five cent per week. The Clark thread Company contribute five dollar per week to the fuiid without o issa tion, hut all other cease their contributions when the unexpended balance in the treasu ry reaches fifteen hundred dollar. When the fund is reduced to seven hundred dollar payment are renewed. The payment int the treasury average about nine month in the year. We hope that this humane and systematic organization may find many imi tator among the man ufacturers of Newark ana throughout the country, who read this article. The company pays interest at seven per cent, on the money in the treasury, be sides their five dollars per week into the fund. Since its oreaniziiliou one thousand three hundred am) ninety-seven member have been relieved, and twenty-four deaths hava occurred iu the society. The reason that the receipts for 174 ami l7i are less than usual is because the fund had reached the maximum of $1,500, and paymenta were stopped. The following very interesting ta ble hliows the amount received and pai l out from 1S70 to 1 fe7 inclusive: Yeira. Hcceipls: Payments. 1870 $1,742.31 fl,r0l.2S 1871 2.V I7.!''i 2,OIO.3 1872 2,111 12 1,704 S 1873 2,3il..'r 1,74" n 1S74 S.iS.iiO l,59.'..t ! 1875 1,51 '.Ol l,l2i.7fi " 77.01 187.:. 53 3I 1,7.51.91 Total 1 1 2,!23.:t I $ 1 1 .W.tti 52 Balance in treasury Jan. 1, 1877, $yS'i.S2. HOW tLAIIK'S "6. N. T." SPOrtL tOTTOX OKKrI.NATF.il. Until withiu a few years, the great difficul ty to be overcome in the introduction ofew. ing machines, ;it the objection made bv manufacturers and operators to the then pop ular threads. These complaint were loud and well founded that the sale of sew ing machines wa greatly impeded on ac count of the impossibility of obtaining a thread ndnpted to their use. Mr. tieorgo A. Clark, appreciating the diflicully.introituced into the American market the now f.imotiH Clark's "O. N. T." Spool Cotton.all number being six cord, from 8 to !", which met the demand, did away with all complaints, and long since established its reputation as the best thread in use for sewing machines or hand sewing. To Mr. (Jeorgc A. Clark belongs the credit of being the first to supply tbos fine qualities of fcin Cord Spool Cotton with which his name is associated, l he thread i used and recommended by agents of the Singer. Wheeler A Wilson, fir-over Ac Baker, Domestic, Jfowe, Florence, Weed, Wilson, Blees, BemiDgtou, ,Secor, Home.Lathrop ami other aewiug machine conipahies. The ru perior nuality of ( lark' " O. N. T." Spool Cotton soon procured for it an immense sale, but with the great popularity of the omin came also counterfeits which made it neces sary for the manuficturer to adopt trade mark for their own and the public proteo tion, and now upon every genuine spool their thread is the following : This trademark is fmniliiir lo every mer chant in the United states, and alt who have ever tried the genuine Chirk' "O. N. I." Spool cottou, continue to use il. F.MPLOYH.KS AT THK CRNTKNNIA I.. A noticeable feature of The (.'lark Thread Compauy has always been their thoughtful and considerate attention to the welfare and pleasure of their employees. The Centen nial Exhibition afforded an opportunity for its practical illustration which should not pass unnoticed in thin aiticle. Desiring to give all their operative an opportunity Ki witness the ere at Exhibition at Philadelphia of what the nation had accomplished during the first hundred years of iU existence iu in dustry and ait, the company planned and carried to complete t-uccess a mooster excur sion to Philadelphia, which embraced their fifteen hundred employees, with Invited guests, members of the press, and the mayor and Common C ouncil ot the I ity of Newark. Some idea of its extent may be pained when it is known that forty-five railroad coaches were employed for their accommodation, and the cost for transportation, mlmission, enter tainment, etc., exceeded six thousand dol lar. But this large sum is sun II compared with the unalloyed pleasure w hich was af forded the grand aruiy of industrious people who find employment at the 'lark Thread Company work in Newark. The Common Council passed and caused lo be beautifully engrossed and presented to the Company, a series of resolution from which for lack of space we copy only the following extract: .tolnei. That wn witm-MM witn irr-nt Mtli.fMrf tmi th kind iiimi and nttii1i'ti nhown ty Oia IH-rs "t t)il l 'qui puny ti (lirir Mlwn li 11 n 'I rl wnriiinff T-"-AliJ thfi evldnu t of fWi jr tlm t fx If Is liM W'1!! Ilium ; rcociiiy.iliff lliHt thil Hlnr iid np:tl thus brnim:izn. proMpt-i it'- rniit mi.iiu. Hmiirnl. Tliot I 'm I.k i nil ..f Hi.' I inu Thiakii Ciiw pasv in vii r ciiy. wiih tliir iinmi-iiMi nrliN.Mit'l th'air Hf-liir ol opi-r-iitiv.. Iihm prt1 m ml Jfi-tii. nnd Hint Newark im nnd hoiilil t, innltv pri-iid if Ler in an li tact uri nu M.-n ltr urn Ih nd pr-i-pr -iiv Diimt evr deriid. mid Hint Oils muni' ipHii- Hhonld lntr nnd i-aronraK l,y ovrrr prpr mwiii" thrtr enlal'ilMini'Mit and nnc - Hmoliitimia ol tlimika to tha company ! ! pinned by tbaemplfivrv. THK LLKKKA UOAT Vl.VR AMI THISTLE BANK. The now famous crw, which c am so near winninir the tiri.A ap.iinst lhe world at the Centennial Jnternstion KeiratW last August, is from The Clark Thread Company W orks principally. It has a li-tof thirty nve active and about ortv honorary members. It i the champion crew of the Pssaie, aud ha beaten the celebrated Atlantic crew of New York. J'hev won tlm fir.t heat on Monday, August 28th, lro, at rnuaneipiiia, rieating the Dublin and Argonauts crew. On the second day they were beaten by the cele brated Beaverwyrks, of Alhauy, by only six seconds, the Beaverwycks winning lhe championship of the world on the lot. day. the Newark boys of The ClHrk Thread Com- sny coming very close to the championship ot fie woriu. , The Thistle Rand, one ot the best in tho State Is organized from the employee of tlm company and play for all the many excur sion and festivals of the employees, beside answering outside calls when made. Tby accompanied the Eureka to Philadelphia, nn4 also the grand excursion of ti e em ploye to the Centennial last year, and al ways play at the regatta iu which the Knre kas take part THK JCKW YORK HOITSK. At No. 400 Broadway, corner of Walker street, New York, is the splendid marble building of ieorie A. Clark t brother, the selling agents of The Clark Thread Compa ny. The entire five stories of thtir uiaifniri ent Place are fitted np with every facility possible for the prompt transaction of their immense business. -tirilKN WhlTIMU TO ailVKKTISKMS wm law llat) ttatvart !-( la Ibis fiaiMir. H. fi. I. IV.