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1 %&&$&S^ghi SU.'KK3rVfK^^%A x^3^ MVKISfiOOM, FKOM UHDER THIS LILACS. A little kingdom I possess, Where thoughts and feelings dwell, And very hard I find the task 'Of governing it well.... For passion tempts tuici troubles me, A wayward wilt misleads, And selfishness its 'shadow oasts Ou all toy words and deeds. How can I learn to rule myself, To bo the child I should Honest ami brave, nor ever tire Of trying to be good? How can I keep a sunny soul, To shine ulonr lite's way? How can I tuie my little heart To sweetly sing all day? Dear Father, help ine with the lovo That casteth out all fear! Teach me to lean on Thee, and feel That Thou are very near That no temptation is uuseen No childish grief too small, Since Thou with patience infinite Doth ^oothe and comfort all I do not ask for any crown But that which all may win Nor seek to conquer any world, Except the one within. Be Thou my guide until I find, Led by a tender hand Thy happy kingdom in myself, And dare to take command. THE TiLE-ROOM AT DEADWOOD. For twenty years the old mansion at Deadwood, with its gables, mullioned doorways and embayed windows, had stood unoccupied. Colossal elms swept over it, rank shrubbery hid its lower windows, and lush grasses and weeds swamped the garden, yet still the place was beautiful. It is said to have been built after a magnificent estate in Wales but no one remembered its origin. I stood on a great hillside overlooking the sea, and sailors and boatmen going by always looked tip at it as something pic turesque and grand. The mansion stood solitary, yet was but half a mile from the village by the river crossing the plain beneath, ami when, after this great trial of its inde structibleness, human life appeared there, it was immediately discovered by the surprised villagers. Half a score of men had mowed their way up the front door, had set every chimney smoking from the reat fires built below, had hacked and ewed mercilessly at the overgrowth of intrusive shrubbery, and finally a car riage had come bringing a fair young girl with a mulatto attendant. "1 think it'sit's fearsoaio like, don't you. Miss Queeme?" "Nonsenss it's delightfully antique and romantic. Only I'm not" going to live in the dark. Tell the men to cut down those locusts, Patty they shut out the san and are worm-eaten beside. Oh, it's going to be lovely here, Patty! I'il have those walks leading down" to the gate blazing with tulips in a month." "What will you do for company, Miss Qneenie?" "Oh, Guy is coming the first of May." "It was early in April then. The brave young heirless of Deadwuod took bravely hold of thtt work in hand. She called the sunlight in. through curtains of white lace. She hung the chamber walls with rose-colored paper. She spread bright rugs over the black walnut floors and filled the rooms with graceful bamboo and softly-cushioned furniture. And when her little dot was quite exnended upon further details of china, books and statues, the girl s: down to enjoy the home she had made. It was the first she had ever had and already her homeless life rested in it with a feeling of satisfaction which had been found in no other source. I am glad Guy is poor, because now I. can give him a home with myself," she murmured over her wedding clothes, which she was embroidering. "He shall have a buggy, and pick up a nice prac tice in the village and so we can have our good prospects after all. For the matrimonial prospects of these young people of eighteen and twenty two had looked doietul, very doleful, un til the woman suddenly rose equal to the emergency. "Dead wood is mine, you say, Mr. Quills?" she said to the lawyer. "Yes." "And it won't sell and won't let. And I have only five hundred dollars of in terest.money in bank stock?" "Just so." "Then I will live at Dead wood." "Alone i "Well, yes. for the present Patty and I," with a smile, sweet, yet quizzical, at the old lawyer's dismayed face. So far all had succeeded better than she had dreamed possible. She haa made the old mansion habitable and pleasant and now if the fallow laud were brought under a man's hand, the hitherto unprofit able piece of property might even yield an income for Miss Elinor St. Edgar and her husband, Mr. Quill declared. But things everybody expect seldom do happen after all, and the things no body expect to transpire are always con fronting us. After a blithe letter from his lady- love, Guy Blondel arrived at Deadwood one bright May day, and found Queenie, as everybody called her, so pale, so grave, so almost speechless, that he was dumbfounded. "Not a single smile yet, Queenie? Why, what has come over you? Have you seen a ghost?" The girl winced as if he had struck her. "You do not believe in ghosts, Guy?" "Certainlv not, no sensible person ever does. But what has changed you so, Queenie You chill and astonish me, you have altered so in a few weeks! And I expected to find you perfectly triumph ant over your success, and ready to obey your directions ana. turn farmer-doctor at once." "Guy, we can never be married." "Queenie 1" "Something has happened to change all my pleasant hopes, Guysomething strange and unexpected, yet none the less conclusive. Then Queenie told her story. "One of the rooms, Guy, I have not touched or alteredan apartment on the ground floor facing the north, finished with tile, and so cold, dark and gloomy that I found it quite a hopeless matter to make it healthy and pleasant. Yet it is a handsome room, with inlaid floor and tiles of such great worth that I wonder the old mansion has not been r- 5K5feS *JSai!K^K, broken into and pillaged of them. Prob ably no one about here knows their worth. But, as I say, I left' the tile parlor un changed, even from the cobwebs and yows growing against the windows. But it is the only unpleasact place in the house, and its neighborhood to the bright little sitting-room I have made has never troubled me. "One cbilly, rainy night less than a week ago, and after I wrote you to come, I sat reading by the bright hearth-fire of my -sitting-room un#l nearly twelve o'clock. Patty was asleep in a little room leading from it which is directly beneath my chamber, and the other-two servants, housemaid and man, were asleep in their rooms in another part of The house. I had told Patty not to sit up yet when it grew midniglit the soli, tude of the great house weighed on me a little, and I felt loth to go to my chamber. Finally I wrapped myself in my dressing-gown and lay down on a couch before the hearth, knowing that the great wood fire would keep the rooraf warm till morning. I had lain there but a moment, I think, when I heard a voice in the roomj say, 'Look under the hearth of the parlor.' It was so distinct a voice that the room seemed to echo with it. I don't know why I did as I did do I should thought I would have been afraid but I sprang up, caught alight from the table, crossed the hall and opened the door of the par lor. "Poor little Queenie! You had over exerted yourself, and your brain had grown excited and unsettled." "But, Guy, I knelt down in that dark room by the hearth and passed my hand over the smooth tiles. Almost instantly I found that one was loose. It was small and I pried it up with a hairpin. Here beneath lay a small, yellow, folded pa per. I stared at it a moment, then tooK it out, and seeing, as I expected, that it was covered with writing, I only stopped to look once more around the silent black parlor, then hurried back to my sitting room. Oh, Guy, it was no coincidence, my finding a paper in that place! The pa per is of the utmost importance. You may see that for yourself. Here it is," and rising, Queenie took it from one ot the corner cabinets secured to the wall, and placed it in Guy's hand. A bit of coarse, yellow parchment, the cbirography quaint, the ink faded but it was the written confession of one Gilbert St. Ed gar that the estate of Deadwood had been wrongfully obtained, and that he had wrongfully defrauded the rightful owner of inheritance and he furthermore be sought and instructed the finders of the paper, which he declared hidden under the hearth of the tile parlor for safe pres ervation a few days before his death, to restore the ill-gotten estate of Deadwood to its rightful inheritors. Guy BlonM's scholarly face grew grave and a trifle paler as he read. Anticipating' what it boded for him, he made a strong effort for self-preservation. "Queenie, dear Queenie, you surely don't mean that you are going to give up Deadwood and all our hopes for this old scrap of paper?" "Deadwood is not mine, Guy." "Oh, Qaeenie, don't plunge'yourself in to after-poverty and separate lisfor ihis unsubstantial idea!" "I will not, if it is unsubstantial, Guy. I hope it may prove so. Let us both hope so and be happy, at least until we find out," said the girl, making an effort to stave oil her own discouragement. She was full ot pity, too, for the pain of the young heart all hers in its freshness and strength. Yet nothing overcame the power of that honest blood which had come with the strong blue eyes. She held firm day after day, only replying to Guy's pleadings: "Deadwood must be mine, Guy. If it is not mine, I do not want it. I would never be home else. At last Mr. Quill, who had been sent for came. Queenie withheld the story of her dream, as Guy called it, but inquired, as quietly as possible, as to the existence of Gilbert St. Edgar. "Oh, yes, my dear your great-great uncle. I never saw him, of course, but my father remembers him." "I have a reason for wanting to see his penmanship, Mr. Quill," said Queenie. "Do you thins there is any in existence?" "Oh, Yes I know there is. My uncle, who was a friend of his, left a quantity of old papers and letters, among which are written bills of this same Gilbert St. Edgar. I'll look when I go home, and send you a specimen of the old man's chirography. Very interesting,' these old relics, Miss St. Edgar." And Mr. Quill partook of a delicious tea and rode back to town, never dream ing of the straip.ed and anxious young hearts he had left behind him. Two days later, inclosed in a facetious note inquiring when tbe wedding was to be, arrived from Mr. Quill a bit of yel low paper signed by Gilbert St. Edgar. With the color ebbing from cheek and lips, Queenie and Guy compared it to the parchment taken from the hearth of the.tile parlor for it was identical, and the same penmanship. There could be no doubt. "And now, Queenie?" "Now all hope is at an end at least for long years, Guy. But we may get rich by-and-by, and then" Tried beyond endurance he flung the slender hand from his own. The next moment he turned with a bitter cry of remorse, and snatched the girl from the floor. She had fainted. He never gave way after that. No more anger or reproaches. He realized that Queenie, too, suffered, and tried to comfort and sustain her. The sad days went byi. Queenie hid the dainty wedding garments even from her own eyes. At length one evening---the last even inga carriage whirled up the drive. The occupant,"drenched with rain, sprang into the house and the room. "Excuse my wet coatrain right in my face all the way. Oh, hang prelim inaries 1 Here are you young folks mak ing yourselves miserable both look as if you'd had a fit of sickness andand why, by George, Miss St. Edgar, old Gilbert St. Edgar was as mad as a March hare, and finally killed himself in that tile parlor!" shouted Mr. Quill. "I didn't tell you beforesort of hated to dash a brave young thing like you but they said the house was haunted, and a room where a suicide has been committed is an ugly neighbor to a lady's boudoir! But bless my soul! this old parchment ain't worth shucksnot worth shucks, my dear M-isa St. Edgar. He never defrauded anybody of Deadwood. He inherited it from his brother, as honest a man as ever lived. I'vo looked up the proofs-been three days about itana then came back as quick as I could to let you know the ..truth. Hang tbat old tile parlor! Seal it up I Tear it down! But, anyway, get mar ried and be happy, young folks. Don't be frightened out of the wedding." They took his adviceQueonie and Guy. The walls and floqrs of the old tile pailor were dismantled of their tiles, the whole north side turned into glass doors which opened into the garden, the walls hung with a paper of golden ara besques and rosebuds, and filled with a piano and harp, rose pink couches, books of poetry, pictures and marble Cupids and angels. Tbe ghost of Gilbert St. Edgar never walked there ^g9.m.~Ameri- can Monthly. i THK TWO X.XQXKTS. "When I'm a man!' is the poetry of youth. 'When I was-\.young!' Is:the poetry of old &&* ,W&- a "When I'm a man," the stripling cries. And strive the coming1 years to scan "Ah, then I shall be strong and wise. When I'm a-manl" "When I was young," the old man sighs, "Bravely the lark and linnet sung Their carols under sunny skies, When I was young!" "When I'm a man, I shall be free .To guard the right, the truth uphold." When I was young I bent no knee To power of gold." "Then shall I satisfy my soul With yonder prise, when I'm a man." "Too late I found how vain the goal To which I ran." "When I'm a man these idle, toys Aside forever shall be filing." There was no poison in my joys When I was young." "The boy's bright dream Is all before, The man's romance lies far behind. Had we the present and no more, Fate were unkind But brother toiling in the night Count yourself not all unblest If in the east there gleams a light, Or in the west Blackwood's Magazine. Femininities, A big mis-takeMarrying a fat girl. A fixed factOne that getg into a woman's head. Mrs. Oliver's female suit is said to be one of black mail. Women may become lawyers, but women cannot sit on juries. Thev could never agree. Miss Lavina Goodell and Miss Annie King have formed a partnership for the practice of law in Janesville, Wis. The music in a Methodist church in Indiana is furnished by thirty little girls, an adult quartette and a blind organist. From recent pedestrian intelligence there is need of a song entitled: "tramp, tramp, tramp the gals are marching 1" The man, who, whea *he was given ah inch of his lady lo^e'^^den hair, took a' {Nell, wishesJie halK^meaatfotaer girl* Two young girls in the Youag Ladies' Free Classical and Bible college of Bing hampton, N. Y., can talk Arabic-and chew gum, but no gum Arabic. Very kind gent: "Do you know, my dear, that we have to day the shortest dav of the year?" Lady: "Very true! but your presence makes me forget it." The generous young fellow was some what surprised when he asked his heart's idol if she could just swing on all the jewelry she desired, what kind would she prefer, and she answered, "a gate. Syracuse Times. A Chicago woman is going to try to try to keep her mouth shut three thou sand quarter hours. If this new depar ture should become epidemic what a mighty peace would settle down over this troubled land [Oil City Derrick. Lady Lapard and Mme. Dolez, the wife of the late lgian minister at Con stantinople, are the only Europeans who possess the Turkish Star of the Order of Merit for Women. The decoration blazes with diamonds. A young man went into a florist's store the other day to buy a rosebud for his affianced. 8eventy-five cents was the price asked.' "Will it keep?" inquired the young man. "Oh, yes,fa long while. "Then yon may keep it." A Wisconsin girl wishing to prevent her lover going to California stole all his shirts from the line on which they were hanging out to dry. He couldn't do a better thing than take that girl along. She will never let him starve. Little Deveraux Blake, in a recent lec ture, speaks of the similarity of Americr.n women and the Chinese in regard to voting, and quotes John Chinaman as saying, "Melican man make no better laws for women than they do for the poor outcast Chinaman." The pedestrian fever has even extended to the most secluded precincts of the family circle. We hear of several young ladies of highly respectable parents in this city who are training to walk, and nearly all of them are under two years of age- Just to see how she would act he ut tered a "big 'in her presence, and she immediately handed him his hat, and he knew by the look of her eyes 'hat it was too late to repeal the test oath, and he departed wishing that he had held back his profanity till after the wedding day. Apple Meringue Pie.Peel and slice same nice, tart apples add a little water, cover close and stew them until tender, then season to taste with sugar add a small lump of butter, pinch of salt, a little cinnamon or nutmeg and some grated lemon peel. Mix well and rub the sauce through a sieve. Line a pie dish with some nice paste, fill with the mixture and bake until the crust is done, then coyer the top with a meringue made by whip ping the whites of two eggs with two tablespoons of powdered sugar, and a pinch of salt. Sift powdered sugar over the top of this frosting and return to the oven until colored alight brown. It a man really wants to know of how little importance he is, let him go with his wife to a dressmaker.-New Orleans Picayune. Connubiallties.^ tThe elephant allows bis wife to' carrv but one trunk. How to get rid of an importunate lov ermake him a good husband. ct The separation will be short? Jfrs. Ohristiancy will sail to her husband in June. Mr. and Mrs. S. Hall recently sent out cards for the fifty-fourth anniversary of their marriage. The woman whose husband refused he" a chip bonnet when she axed him says he is a blockhead. The most useful pedestrian is the man who walks the floor nights with the ba by.New Tork Herald. The mother's heart swells with pride when her baby begins to pedestriauize at at the age of nine months. Admiral Dot wants to marry. Judg ing from his name,, his wife will be the girl of the -period.Chicago Tribune. Conclusive evidence at a recent trial in England proved that a girl had become a mother at the age of 13 years and one month. Why was the mother of one of the old Peruvian rulers like apiece of rubber? She was an inca-raiser.Boston Tran script. Some say that the quickest way to de stroy weeds is to marry a widow. It is, no doubt, a most agreeable species of husbandry.2'urner's Falls Gazette. Sappose that baby-carts do injure the baby's health. Doesn't the baoy have his revenge when night comes and the paregoric is downstairs?Detroit Free Press. In an odd St. Cloud (Minn.) wedding the groom could not speak or under stand a word of German, while the bride was a German who could not speak or understand a word of English. After the marriage ceremony was over, Margaret turned lovingly to him, andwith said: "Connaught part thee and me!"can And the duke replied that he'd blarst 'is bloody h'eyes h'if h' anything should come between 'em. Many of the weddings of the Easter holidays will be conducted in the Eng lish style, and consequently eligible best men are in great demand, while milliners are exercising wonderful ingenuity in manufacturing dainty bonnets for the bridesmaids.Graphic. A New York insurance man calls his wife Honesty, because it's the best poli cy.New York SeraW A Cincinnati horse man calls his wife Gray mare, be cause she's the better horse,-and a St. Louis bar-keeper calls his wife Wine, be cause she maketh glad the heart of man. Margarita, the young queen of Italy, when she goes to a ball takes good care to enjoy herself. She not only dances, but remains until three in the morning, While his majesty, King Umberto, goes home and to bed as early as one o'clock, leaving her to her pleasure. "But you know, pa," said the farmer's daughter, when he spoke to her about the addresses of his neighbor's son, "youshould know, pa, that ma wants me to marry a man of culture." "So do I, my dearso do and there's no better culture in the couktry than agriculture." jfjrs. Martha Kaynor of Brooklyn testi fied lif court on Wednesday that she was in the habit of hiring out her husband as a carver at weddings, dinner parties, &c. She was asked by the judge if she thought she had a right to do so, and re plied "Certainly, I have the right to hire him out. Haven't I supported him for four or five years?" "Husband, do call at the doctor's n your way down town, and tell him to come up here as soon as he can. Johnny has hurt his toe so badly that he cannot go to school George has sprained his ankle this morhing I found that Wil liams both legs were dreadfully swelled, and little Tom has his feel blistered. It's too bad for anything! I wish this walking fever was over." Before marriage"Oh, my darling, your voice is as musical to me as a vesper bell whose tones fall soitly on the per fumed evening air! Speak again, and say those words, my beloved, for I could listen to your voice until the stars are ex tinguished in everlasting night!" After marriage"I've had just enough of your clapper, old woman, and if you don't let up I'll leave the house!"Newark Gazette. No one ever succeeded in extracting honey from a spelling bee. Didn't eh? A young man who attended a spelling bee in this town three years' ago took therefrom a young lady whom he recent ly married, and he calls her "honey" for short, and thinks she is ten times sweeter than that saccharine product of the bee. What he will call her a few years hence is a question we hand over to"our puzzle solvers.-Norristown Herald The Bay City (Mich)jVew says that two young Germans and their wives live in a dense forest thirty-two miles from any other habitation. Tbey appear to be rich and refined, have pianos, marble-topped, tables, etc., in their houses, and they live like retired princes. They get their money by express from Germany. Why they live thus no one appears to know nor is it anybody's business, for that matter, so long as they behave themselves. BEFORE AJSD AFTER. I loved Amanda, past all telling, For her my bosom dire was swelling, Her pictured sweetness stole my sleep, I know, therefore, my love was deep. Oh tinted cloudlets, resting soft, She floated near, in fancy oft, Fed by the gods, on nectar still, Oh, bli6sl To pay no grocer's bilL We two were wed, and then I found In No. 5's she walked the ground, And if the gods had fed before, They never fed her any more. That Eochester physician who thinks that the tomato produces cancer should be remonstrated with. Has the time arrived when a man can not look that dearly-loved vegetables square in the eye without feeling as if something were gnawing at his vitals? But we have gone to far to retreat bring on your cancer.N. T. Com. Advertiser. And yet it is too true. Have you not often seen the tomato can, sir?Philadel phia Bulletin. Mrs. S. S. Cox is a capital business woman and relieves her 'husband of a mass of correspondency which would otherwise demand a large portion of bis time. There are many women in Wash ington whose amiability, good sense and tact are of the greatest value to their con gressional and domestic lords. THE HOUSE AND FARM It will be well for farmers who use circular saws to know that 9,000 feet per minute for theiiinofa circular saw to travel, mavbc laid down as a rule. Thus a saw twelve inches in diameter, three feet ronnd the rim, 3,000 revolutions twenty four inches in (diameter, or six feet around the rim, 1,500 revolution's tbrco feet In diameter, or nine feet around the rim, 1,000 revolutions four feet in diameter, or twelve feetaroundthe rim, 750 revolutions Ave feet in diameter, or fifteen feet around nm.fiOO revolutions. In otherwords, the larger the diameter of the saw, the less the nnmber of revolutions. Attention to this rule will save accidents in ,the use of saws as used on the farm. T!*,,A[an ii pets'at our house, but in many families they are, and the many canine and feline ills their flesh is heir to, are deserving of consid erate attention. In sucheaeesihe services of a professional dog doctor or cat doctor are not always available and the humane owner must rely onT hiissown Chips of ExperienceAs I have seen so many reports or products from different parties,! thought I would give a small one in my own experience. I kept three cows of the common stock, from which we made 780 pounds of good solid butter, commencing March 1, and ending the 28th of November, 1878, and for which we received a premium oftwo cents on the pound, besides using all the cream that we needed for a family of five persons. The cows had good clover pasture and all the salt and all the water they wanted. I think with a few bushels of ground feed I could have made them do a good deal bttter than that. This year I expect to keep a record of pro ceeds of the same three cows, it nothing hap pens them. I think there is much profit in keepieg a few good cows as anything else that a farmer has on his farm. I think a man small capital, on a small piece of land, make a good living keeping 4 good"cows and 200 chickens, with little outlay. We keep Black Spanish Black fowl they are good lay ers and veryhardy.Cor. Practical Farmer. Early Chickens.Good. Cochins or Brahmas that ordinarily commence to lay in December or January, if every early hatched, will pro^ duce a "lajing" in the fali, perhaps betore this time. But, as a rule, the pullets gotten out|n April and May previously will not earn much till early in the succeeding year} and the cockerels are not fit for good service until January or February, as breeders. Plymouth Rocks and Leghorn fowls lay well from Janu ary to July. The Asiatics commence in De cember, January or Februarv, and lay steadily (when not trying to set) away into September and October frequently, if well fed and cared for. Chicks of the prior spring, of any of these varieties, mature at about Christmas. If we want winter layers, the pullet3 of any breed must be hatched early in the season. So, to beginners, we 6ay that this and next month are the proper ones to procure the stock that you may choose to commence operations with. In the spring months every body who has wintered a flock of young fowls prefer to keep them for laying and hatching purposes, unless he can get higher prices for his birds than at this season.Michigan Homestead. Gentleness in Handling.Not even the cow receive gentler handling than the 6heep. Kindness is always well repaid by any of our domestic animals, but the sheep being so shy an animal, it requiressnecial ex hibition of kindness. It should be so handled and treated as it will never be frightened at the approach of a person. Their treatment should be such as that they will actually learn to entertain an affection for their keeper, and if they do, they will naturally be tame and do cile. A flock of wild sheep is about the most unprofitable investment that a farmer can make. They are continually getting them selves into Borne trouble, and causing great annoyance, if not loss to their owner. We have seen some flock-men jump into a flock and pull and haul the sheep by the wool, un til the animals were not only half frightened to death, but suffered great injury otherwise. A sheep should never be caught or lifted by the wool. Some one has said that if any one doubts the impropriety of lifting a sheep by the wool, let him permit himself to be lifted by the hair, and it is a good suggestion. When sheep are thus caught or lifted, the skin in some instances is actually torn from the flesh, and if the injury is not to that extent, it cannot but affect the flesh to some degree. Sheep should be lifted by placing the arms around the body and near the forelegs. This is the easiest way to do, especially with large sheep. To catch the animal, the hands should be thrown about the neck, or else the sheep should be caught by the hind leg immediately above the hock. This latter mav be done with the hand or the crook, and'when this way is adopted the utmost gentleness should be observed, and the sheep gentlv drawn back until the other hand can reach the neek. It is scarcely necessary to remind the keeper that when the crook is used upon a sheep which is closely surrounded by other sheep, that great care mast be exercised lest the other sheep jump against the one caught or against the crook, in which case severe dam age may be done.Western liural. From the Journal of Chemistry. The health and comfort of hrses have of late years been greatly .improved by the bet ter construction of stables. They are made more roomy and lofty, and provided with means of thorough ventilation. In many new 6tables lofts are done away with, or the floor of the loft is kept well "above the horses1 heads, and ample shafts are introduced to con vey away foul air. By perforated bricks and gratings under the mangers, and elsewhere round the walls, and also by windows and ventilators, abundance of pure air is secured for the horses while being introduced in moderate amount, and from various irections, it comes in without draught. Too much air is almost an unknown stable luxurv. To se cure a constant, supply of pure air, norses re quire more cubic space than they generally enjoy. Even when.animals are Stabled only at night, a minimum of 1,200 cubic feet should be allowed. In England the newer cavalry barracks give a minimum of 1,500 cubic fet, with a ground area of fully 90 square feet per horse and the best hunting and car riage horse stables have more room. THe Scarcity or Qalncen. 3 Within a few years past the quince trees have been attacked by a worm, just under the surface o( the ground, somewhat similar in appearance aud in its effects lo the peach worm, and not belnsr properly attended to arid the worma removed, the trees have generally died, and the fruit accordingly disappeared from all our markets. The quince can be just as successfully grown as the peach, if a little care is taken to head off its principal enemy, the worm at the reot, which requires but little time and trouble each 6pring and fall in removing the earth from around the stem of the tree, probe for the grub in his hole in ihit bark with a stiff wire, and filling up around the tree with wood ashes or slacked lime. The cheap gas-lime, from the gas works, is a very effectual remedy for worms in peach trees, and it would no doubt an&wer the same purpose around the quineo. Lancaster Farmer. Overworked Pariuer*. Oyerwerk is simply working after the strength has been reduced so low that it Is painful or wearying to move. It is working after the nourishment In the blood has been mostly used up. In the care of the muscles avoid colds and rheumatism. They make people stiff and lame. They take away the natural elasticity which always gives so much pleasure, and substitutes a worn-out, tired, exhausted feeling which borders ou pain aud is often more difficult to bear. How very careful the owner of a fine horse is that it shall not take cold! He knows if it does it will founder, and after this it will never be a good step af08,fcs KIR. pf them migit have* preserved theiro SS^J ffiy and cats/are not exactly resourcesparasitie On of the consists of a mite most commonh aihnsrs he will have to treat is u. man which burrows in the skin. The cure is to rub the diseased parts with an ointment of lard and sulphur, well ground together, after having washed the ekin with warm water and and soap Carbolic acid mixed with times its weight of lard or glycerine may be used for other animals, but for dogs this acid is dangerous, being absorbed by the skin and acting as a poison on the blood.Michigan Homestead, bra A !& 1 ^4 tAken Pr Pe ha farmers arul 0 old age the A ^S^ 0 6111861 3 ft:*ny should. The daily muc S.-|fc-* JS0fe.. iinoortan a to any *S woodland lawns, ^AMORlrOREAM, r, far removedu from meadows green, I tS$ i ^ere flit, like birds, .Lie in toy attic, all alone, T- i Anudt dream the while the morning dawns. fhoughtB of a past surpassiag tairV I hear old, unforgotten words Remembered feptstpps on the stair. Old odor#, plden songs, perhaps Sleep seems to melt them into one-* Come back, and all the long elapse Of time rolls back to days long gone, I know I'm dreaming if 1 wake I shall descend to narrow days And petty cares, which grudge and take the time I dspent in other ways. My daily labor, hard and stern. Gives me so litUe, takes so nraeh B^l, Gives me such wages as I earn But chills my hfe with icy touch."** There's nothing left. Vainly Ithink In duty done to find content Each dawning day wakesme to shrink Jsromlife, from which the soul seems rent. This ia my happiest hour, this time, *i# Brief moment of my morning dream. Before I heaferthe unwelcome chime, 'Tif^ more in the rain tha gleam. ^the I smell thaed liliestwhite, K"5""1 Whose stalks es er bright Bwayf H?ifugard,taU en' Where last I in that Btill place, satwminerlede you fac to face. see you ase you stood, I hear A jOU tha with the biros', T,Y? ic And all thaelsounds far off and near i rell to your words.- I looked beyond, across the world, lo where the wind-mill stood and hurl'd Its giant arms, tbat turned and rolled in dizzy motion, quickly whirled. I see the pigeons wheeling high? Above our heads the golden bees, Treasured with honev-laden thigh, Like winged insects argosies. I see it all it fades and dies Into the gray of waking hoursi? As rainbows fade in summer skiis, Whosebrilliant color mocked the flowers. Ob, weary light! that comes to glad A hundred hearts: no smile you bring Tome, whese heart, though now so sad! Was onc!e as lightnever as swallew'smwing.tyemor 'r,,,elds where fee Will tread, as in the long ago, in dreams I smell your fragrance sweef And see the corn flowers sway and blow Wm. Geoghegan, in Celtic Monthly. A New Order. The other day, after a strapping young *& man had sold a load of corn and potatoes on the market, and had taken his team to a hotel barn to "feed," it became known to the mes around the barn that he was very desirous of joining some secret society in town. When questioned, he admitted that such was the case, and the boys at once offered to initiate him into anew order, called "The Cavaliers of Coveo." He was told that it was twice as secret as Free Masonrv, much nicer than Odd Fellowship, and the cost was only two dollars. In case he had the toothache he could draw five dollars per week from the relief fund, and he was entitled to receive ten dollars for every headache, and twenty-five dollars for a sore throat. The young man thought he had stn^fe^ a big thing, and after eati% a hattyg fc dinner, he was taken into a storeroom!? above the barn tone init^Mjl. The boys poured cold water doy^reis back, put flour on his hair, swore him to kill his mother, if commanded, and rushed him around for an hour without a single com plaint from his lips. When they had finished, he inquired: "Now I am one of the Cavaliers of Coveo, am I "You are," they answered. I "Nothing more to learn, is there?" "Nothing." "Well, then, I'm going, to lick the whole crowd 1" continued the candidate and he went at it, and before he got through he had his two dollar initiation fee back, and three more to boot, and had knocked every body down two or* three times apiece. He didn't seem 1 greatly disturbed in mind as he drove out of the barn. On the contrary, his hat was slanted, he had a fresh five cent cigar in his teeth, and he mildy said to one of the barn-boys: "Say," boy, if you hear of any'Cava lier asking for a Coveo ibout my size, tell 'em I'll be in on the full of the'moon" to take the Royal Skyfugle degrees." i A Dog's Memory. There is a well-known story of a. mur-: derer being discovered by a dog flying at his throat and bearing him to" the 1 ground, when he confessed thi -he* had I murdered the animal's m^ster^ The story^y**- is matched by one told in &M( and Water of Nelson, a black spaniel. One night the dog was missiDg from his favorite corner, and nothing fox sever al weeks could be heard of him, not withstanding the most searching in quiries. After the family had retired to rest, one miserable winter night, the well known bark of old Nelson was heard at*" the door. He was soon admitted to the* cozy" quarters, supplied with food, v?hMh he ate with many a grateful wag of his tail, and looked a mere bag of bones in com-4**" parison with his former self, besides he ing very lame. A neighbor came in and inquired if I Nelson had arrived, as Tie met him on the previous day at Macclesfield, eighteen miles from Manchester. The driver of Si the mailHjart had also seen him af Derby, '$* and gave him a feed of milk and oat-sc^-, cake, but could not induce Nelsonto re-f-* main with him or with-th hostler of the inn where he baited Some time after the dog came home fk1 the owner of Nelson, caljkid at a |ubli^*'- house in the neighborhood, having with3..,. him his four-footed and faithful friendSt* and companion. |w A. sturdy, surly-looking man stood at^ the bar, and to the surprise and alarm of everybody, Nelson sprang at the 'throat of the stranger, striking his teeth, through* the waistcoat, and holding '*n with the**.. utmost tenacity. _.V- 5lf- With a strong effort, Nelson'i ownarC',- reieasedthe man who "confessed theteF and then that the cause of the dog's an-?iT ger arose from the fact that "he was theS man who stole him, took him to London by the caoaLboat, .wh&&ijpld hinx and' left him.' Th dog must, ""therefore, *i have traveled from London toManches- I 1