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V. 11. WALK Ell k J. B. ODER.
VOLILUE I.
Sprlutr ('leaning.
By A lUFFItRKR.
The melancholy (lays have come, the saddest ol
the year.
Of cleaning paint and scrabbina floors and scour- !
ina far and near; . ;
Heaped in the corner of the room the ancient dirt
lay quiet:
Nor rose up at the father’s tread, nor to the ■
children’s riot:
But now the carpets all arc up, and from the
staircase top i
The mistress calls to man and maid to wield the i
broom and mop.
Where are those rooms, those quiet rooms, the ■
house but now presented.
Wherein we dwelt, nor dreamed of dirt, so cosy
and contented ?
Alas: they’re turned all upside down, the quiet
suite of rooms.
With stops, and suds, and soap, and sand, and
tubs, and pails, and brooms.
Chairs, tables, stands are standing round at sixes ;
and at sevens,
While wife ami housemaids fly about like mete- j
ors through the heavens.
The parlor and the chamber floors were cleaned i
a week ago.
The carpets shook, the windows washed, as all
the nt ighbors know ;
But still the sanctum had'escaped. thetable piled i
with books.
Pens, ink anti paper a'! about, peace in its very |
looks:
'Till fell tile woman on them all, as tails the
plague on men.
And then they vanished all away, books, paper
ink and pen.
And now, when comes the master home, as come
he must o’ nights,
To find all things are “ set to wrongs” that they
have ” set to rights.”
When the sound of driving tacks is heard, tho’
the house is far from still.
And the carpet woman’s on the stairs, that har
binger of ill.
He looks for papers, books or bills, that all were
there before.
And sighs to find them on the desk, or in tho
drawer no more
And then he grimly thinks of her who set this
fuss afloat.
And wishes she wero out at sen in a very leaky
boat.
Ho meets her at the parlor door, with hair and
cap awry.
With sleeves tucked up and broom in hand, defi
ance in her eye:
He feels quite small, and knows full well there’s
nothing to be said,
So holds his tongue, and drinks his tea, and
sneaks away to bed.
MR. VASE’S COTJUTSHIP.
The sweet spring was just breaking
into beauty, when one evening at the
sentimental Ilnur of twilight a young
lady was seated in the recess of a hay
window belonging to a stylish mansion
in the most fashionable part of Charles
street. Miss Helen Hammond was the
acknowledged queen of a small but
elegant circle which lived and breathed
within the shallow of the Washington
monument. Her form was tall and
graceful, her manners cordial and most
winning, her conversation I.T glit, puju:mt
and sometimes wittv. Her admirers
were many, hut, as yet, she had not
yielded a willing ear to lover’s vow.
Helen held in her dainty white hand
a volume of Tennyson's poems, opened
at “ J.ocksley Hall,” hut she was musing
rather than reading.
“ Amy, you were indeed, shallow
hearted,” murmered Helen; “weak,
foolish, and unworthy of so noble a
lover. No’ father’s threats,’ no mother’s
‘ shrewish tongue’could make me give
up a man so glorious as the hero of
‘ J.ocksley Hall.’ But I fear that such
men are only to he found in romance
and poetry. Certainly 1 have found
none in my experience of life. There's
Will Egerton, a mere carpet knight;
Frank Bradley, a beautiful dancer, hut
nothing more; Tom Troup, a fashion
able top; Charlie Vane is a bright,
talented, clever fellow, full of fine en
thusiasm, hut sadly wanting in energy.
These are four genuine specimens of our
Baltimore men. Mr. Vane is certainly
the most desirable of the four, hut he
has the reputation of being a great flirt,
and if there is anything 1 detest it is a
male flirt.”
Helen's soliloquy was interrupted by
the entrance of a servant, who handed
her a note.
“Another invitation. I suppose,” she
muttered; “this makes the third that I
have received to-day. 1 think 1 shall
refuse all invitations for the next week,
byway of a change. lam tired of par
ties, balls, and soci -ty generally. 1 wish
some sensible woman would discover
some new way of passing the time. I
wonder whether the Roman and Gre
cian ladies danced tho German, and
flirted, and ate caramels, and read
novels, and had to undergo the bore of
fashionable society? But, in the mean
time, 1 have forgotten ray note. • Miss
Helen Hammond, North Charles street.’
From my dearest friend, I.oulie Hun
ter,” and her face brightened.
“Dear Helex: 1 have just heard of
a characteristic piece of impudence on
the part of your friend, Mr. Charles
Vane. Last night, at the Ohio Club,
he bet a champagne supper with one of
his friends that lie would propose and
he accepted by thenotorious flirt, Helen
Hammond. I hasten to put you on
your guard, and hope you will give the
impertinent fellow a lesson wtiich he
will not soon forget.
“ I have finished reading ‘ Morton
House.’ it is more ambitious, hut less
interesting tlmn ‘ Valerie Aylmer.
“ Your sincere friend, Loulie.”
“ Well,” exclaimed Helen, after she
read the note, “ this is even more than I
could have expected from Charlie Vane;
hut 1 will he even with the conceited
fellow. Forewarned is forearmed, and
I will give him more than he bargained
for. The idea of making me the sub
ject of a bet at liis club ! I must turn
the tables on him, and if heis hurt why
it is his own foolish fault!”
In a few minutes the servant an
nounced Mr. Vane, and that fashion
able gentleman soon made his appear
ance. He was dressed with elaborate
elegance. His beautifully fitting pearl
colored cravat would have made Beau
Brummel die of envy. His kid gloves
were of the same delicate color, and
fitted with miraculous nicety. “All
the perfumes of Arabia” saenied to
exhale from .his glossy hair, while his
mustache and imperial were waxed with
artistic skill.
Mr. Vane bowed with his usual air of
assurance.
“How is my charming friend, Miss
Helen, this evening?”
“ Perfectly well, Mr. Vane, pray he
seated.”
" J did not have the pleasure of seeing
you on Charles street this morning, al
though 1 promenaded there from one to
three. 1 saw Miss Jones, Miss Wilson,
Miss Tanner. Miss Lee; but the fairest
ot all the fair of Baltimore—-the lair
Helen—did not gladden my eyes.”
”( a m glad that you have been able
to survive your disappointment,” said
Helen, “and in future when you want
lo see me, come here, where you will he
more apt to find me than on the street.”
“ I was with Fred Simpkins, who
never makes morning calls except upon
Mr. Barnard.”
“lam happy to say that Mr. Simp
kins never makes any calls niton me.”
“ Miss Helen, you are too cruel 1”
cried Vane.
“ 1 am not cruel,” said Helen, “ 1 am
just.”
“.Just a flirt,” muttered Vane to him
self.”
“ Mr. Vane, will you be kind enough
to ring the hell ? I want the grate re
plished. I feel cold.”
“ 1 hope my presence has not had that
( fleet upon you,” said Vane as he arose
to comply with her request.
“Stay,” said Helen; “John has gone
out. Won't you put a few pieces of coal
in the grate?”
“Certainly,” replied the astonished
Mr. Vane, faintly, casting a despairing
glance at his delicately-tinted gloves,
and murmured, “ Five dollars a pair.”
However, lie nervously seized the coal
scuttle and proceeded to replenish the
fire as gracefully as possible.
“ Do have your photograph takenjust
as you are now, with the coal scuttle in
one hand and the poker in the other,”
saitl Helen. “It would be so original
and so becoming.”
“ It pleases you to he sarcastic,” an
swered Mr. Vane, replacing the coal
scuttle, and resuming his seat. “ You
seem disposed to amuse yourself a t my
expense, this evening, Miss Helen"
“And why not, pray?” saitl Miss
Hammond. “1 have often heard you
say that you believe in extracting
amusement from every one. But 1 see
vou like to laugh at others, hut do not
like others to laugh at you.”
“ From you, Miss Helen. I expected
better treatment.”
“ Anti why ditl you expect it ? because
I treated you as I do every one—with
politeness?” saitl Helen.
“ Yes,and with more than politeness,"
returned Vane.
•• What sublime conceit ! What rea
sons had you for supposing that 1 treated
you with aught save politeness?” asked
Helen.
“ Because I believed you better than
the world gave you credit for; because
I believed you had purer sentiments,
higher aspirations, anti a nobler am
bition than that of acquiring the doubt
ful triumph of a flirt; because I believed
your heart, despite your contact with a
cold and selfish world, was still filled
with warm and generous impulses; be
cause I love you, and because I believed
my love was returned. Nay, Helen, do
not cover your face, hut listen to me.
At first 1 did not wisli to give up my
bachelor independence, but love has
conquered such selfish notions, and I
now offer you my hand, my heart, and
my fortune. You do not speak, my own
darling. You hesitate! Beware how
you spurn the first warm love of a young
heart.”
lie waited in vain for a response to
his tender declaration. She ditl not
move. Unable to bear the suspense any
longer, Vane advanced and removed
from her face tho handkerchief which
she had thrown over it, Her eyes were
closed, and she was apparently locked
in the embrace of Morpheus.
“ Asleep, by Jove!” he cried in a tone
of mingled rage and disappointment.
Miss Hammond rubbed her eyes as if
just awakening from a profound slumber.
“ Yes,” she said in a provokingly
languid tone, “ I believe 1 have been
asleep. What were you saying—mak
ing a declaration? Oh, please make
another —I do enjoy declarations so
much.”
Miss Hammond, you have insulted
me,” cried Vane, furiously striding up
and down the parlor.
“ You appear to be agitated,” she care
lessly remarked.
“ I am,” he replied. “ Good evening.”
“ Where are you going?” she asked.
“ Going ? lam going to engage rooms
in a lunatic asylum.”
“ 1 hope you will find them comfort
able,” she said coolly, as the door closed
on the form of the disoomfitted Mr.
Vane.
“ 1 have been too cruel,” thought
Helen, as soon as Vane left the room.
“ I might have refused him without
wounding his amourpropre. Yet he had
no hu-iness to introduce my name at
the club. But I am afraid I have
punished that youthful indiscretion too
severely. lam sorry too, for I like the
hoy. But it won't hurt him much—a
little check in the beginning only serves
to render these youths more ardent: he
will return to the contest with renewed
vigor.”
Helen was right. Vane returned in
a very short time, lie had scarcely left
the room wi.en it occurred to him
to return and pursue a different
course of conduct. He bail been actu
ated before partly by something like
love, and partly by a desire to win the
bold bet that he had made at the club;
hut now another and more powerful in
centive was added; revenge for the
wound his vanity had received at the
hands of the heartless flirt. So after
walking a half dozen squares, maturing
his plans for another and more success
ful attack, lie again presented himself
at Miss Hammond's door. She was still
in the parlor.
“What!” exclaimed Helen, as Vane
entered, “ I thought you had gone to
engage rooms in a lunatic asylum.”
“They refused to receive me without
a certificate from you,” answered Vane.
“ But a truce to pleasantry. I want to
talk seriously.” <
“ That will he a new vein. But 1 am
fond of novelty,” said Helen.
“ Well, then, I came back to ask jour
pardon; I acted hastily, nay foolishly.
What you intended merely as polite
f ness I construed into proofs of affection,
and when I received the punishment
• which my presumption and folly justly
merited, [ was angry, even rude. Still,
■ Miss Helen, I think it was unkind to
wound the vanity of an old friend by
: affecting sleep.”
“ You surely cannot expect a young
i lady to sit calmly and listen with atten
, tion to words which come merely from
the lips, and not from the heart of the
■ speaker. In other words, can you ex
pect me to allow myself to he success
i fully flirted with merely to gratify the
1 vanity and conceit of a young man?”
An Independent hiper— Devoted
FROSTBURG, ALLEGANY
“ Flirt 1” exclaimed Vane. “ What, 1
attempt to flirt witli the brilliant and
fascinating Helen Hammond ! No, no;
he wiio hopes to win your hand is an
ambitious man : hut he who attempts to
flirt with you is a presumptuous idiot.”
“Then you are one,” said Helen.
“Did you not boast, nay even, bet, the
other night at the club, that you would
propose and he accepted by the notori
ous flirt, Helen Hammond?”
This unexpected attack for a moment
disconcerted even the cool Vane, but he
soon recovered himself anti answered
with a smile of concealed triumph.
“ I did make such a bet, Miss Helen,
hut you are not perhaps aware of the
circumstance which led to it. I heard
you accused and condemned as a heart
less flirt, whose only ambition was to be
admired, whose only pleasure was to
infliat pain. Alone 1 attempted to de
fend you : opposed by a dozen adver
saries, I found I could do nothing, so
ottered to hack myopinion by a wager—
that I would either be accepted or else
refused in so kind a manner ns to prove
that you were not tho heartless woman
the world believed you to be. I lost my
bet. Still,” he continued, taking her
hand, which she made no effort to with
draw—“ still, I cannot yet believe that
contact with the gay and fashionable
world can have changed you so com
pletely from the sweet girl that you
were a few years since.”
Helen was silent for some moments,
during which sweet memories of the
past seemed to crowd themselves on
her mind.
“No, Charlie, I am not quite the
heartless woman the world thinks me.
There are still some true and noble
sentiments in my heart which your
presence and your words have awkened.
Notwithstanding my apparent heartless
ness this evening, 1 am not indifferent
to the gootl friend who defended me at
the club.”
Vane was totally unprepared for this
tender admission. For a moment lie
was silent, anti almost forgot his thought
of revenge. But alas for poor human
nature! it was only for an instant,
lie again reverted to the cruel manner
in which his declaration had been re
ceived, and revenge once more became
the ruling passion of his heart.
“ Not indifferent to me,” lie paid in a
soft anti tender tone. “ Yes; hut I re
quire more. Do you think Helen, you
could give up your hooks, your
home, the halls and parties you enjoy
so much ; could you give up your old
associations, the charming society of
Baltimore, the many friends you have—
could you give up all these, and go to
some wild and uncongenial soil with
one who has only hi* profession to de
pend upon ?”
She leaned her head upon his shoul
der and sweetly whispered:
“ I think I could, Charlie.”
“ I am glad to hear it,” cried Vane.
“ My friend Torn Harris is looking for a
wife to accompany him to Texas. 1
will mention your name to him. Gootl
evening, Miss Helen,” continued the
now triumphant Vane; “you can sleep
now, 1 shall not disturb you.”—Wash
ington Capital.
Bigotry in Nicaragua.
An instance of blind bigotry has oc
curred at Managua, in Nicaragua. Two
Americans, Capt. Cunningham and Mr.
Simpson, were walking quietly through
the streets, when they saw coming to
ward them a procession consisting of a
priest carried in a sedan chair, with the
holy sacrament, and escorted by sol
diers. They turned down a By-street in
the direction their busine s letl them,
when suddenly one of the soldiers do
tacln d himself from the procession, and
running some forty rods out of the way
to where they were, without saying a
word stiuck Mr. Simpson with his bayo
net, and made a savage thrust at Capt.
Cunningham, the bayonet passing
through the nose and under the left
eye, causing a severe wound. Both
gentlemen had only been in the coun
try a couple of weeks, and neither of
them spoke a word of Spanish. They
ilid not know it was necessary to take
off their hats, more particularly as they
were some fifty yards from the street
down which the procession was passing,
and both of them say that liad any one
asked them to take oil' their hats, or
even made a sign to them, they would
immediately have complied. On the
fact becoming known to the commander,
he at once caused the soldier to be ar
rested, and he is to ho punished, al
though the unfortunate man says the
priest gave him the order.
How the Earth is Formed.
If the reader, after perusing the fol
lowing description of the probable mode
of the formation of the earth, given by
an English scientific writer in a new
volume, does not understand the pro
cess, he had better leave this “ internal
sperical vacuity,” and go where bigger
words are used : A formal idea of the
heaven and the eartli may he obtained
by imagining the heaven as at first an
affluviant generation from a monecen
tral point, occupying, or creating and
occupying, space; the earth, as the ar
rest or end of such generative action,
with the gradual relaxation of central
tension and abnegation of such center,
tlie consequence being the formation of
a huge internal spherical vacuity,
termed in the Genetic record “ earth.”
The Escaped Nun.
Edith O’Gorman, the “escaped nun,”
who is now traveling around the coun
' try giving an alleged expose of her treat
ment in a convent, advertises herself
as an unmarried woman. She is also
accompanied by a man calling himself
Prof. Auff'ray, who rooms with heratall
the hotels, and says that she is his wife.
’ The Minneapolis News, of the 12th inst.,
- states that while in that city last week,
Miss O Gorman was brula'ly beaten in
' her room by this man, and that screams
1 of terror and entreaties for mercy came
from the room every night. The same
paper gives a further account of the ter
-1 rors of her marital life, to which, if the
statement is correct, the most vigorous
1 convent discipline must be infinitely
! preferable.— Chicago Times.
Twenty thousand women gain a living
t in Switzerland by working in the watch
factories.
ii Literature. ,Mining, Commercial, Agricultural, General and Local News.
OUNTY. MARYLAND, SATURDAY, MAY 11, 187-2
The Now Church Organ.
BY WILT. M. CART.KTON.
They've got a bran new organ. Sue,
For all their fuss and search ;
They’ve done just jus they said they’d do,
And fetched if, into church.
They’re hound the critter shall be seen,
And on the preacher's right
They've hoisted up their new machine
Tn everybody’s sight.
They’ve got a chorister and choir,
Ag’in my voice and vote;
For it was never my desire
To praise tho Lord by note!
And twice, when Deacon Tubbs was sick.
I took the fork an' led I
I’ve been a sister good an’ true
For five an’ thirty year;
I’ve done what seemed my part to do.
An’ prayed my duty clear;
I’ve sung the hymns both slow and quick,
.lust its the preacher read.
And twice, when Deacon Tubbs was sick,
I took the fork an’ led!
And now, their bold, new-fangled ways
Is coinin’ all about;
And I. right in my latter days,
Am fairly crowded out!
To-day tne preacher, good old dear.
With (ears all in his eyes.
To-day the preacher, good old dear.
With tears all in his eyes.
Read “ I can read my title clear
To mansions in the skies.”
I al’uys liked that blessed hymn—
I s’pose I al’ays will;
It somehow gratifies my whim
In good old Ortonvillc;
Rut when that choir got up to sing,
I couldn’t catch a, word ;
They sung the most dog-gondest thing
A body every heard!
Some worldly chaps was standin’ near.
An’ when I seed them grin,
I hid farewell to every fear.
And boldly waded in.
I thought, I’d chase their tune along,
An’ tried with all my might;
But though ray voice is good an’ strong,
L couldn't steer it right ;
When they were high, then I was low.
An’ also eontrawisc;
And I too fast, or they too slow.
To "mansions in the skies.”
An’ after every verse, you know,
They played a little tune;
I didn’t understand, an’ so
I started in too soon.
I pitched it pretty middlin’ high,
T fetched a lusty tone.
But oh. alas! I found that I
Was singin’ there alone!
They laughed a little, I inn told;
But I had done my bow;
And not a wave of trouble rolled
Across my peaceful breast.
• She understood the time, right through,
An' kep ’ it with her head;
And sister Brown —I could but look—
She sits right front of me :
She never was no singiu’ book.
An’ never went to be:
But then she al’ays tried to do
The best she cou'd, she said;
She understood the time right through.
An’ kep’ it, with her head ;
But when she tried this mornin’, oh,
I had to laugh, or cough !
It kep’ her head a bobbin’ so,
It e'en a’most came off!
An’ Deacon Tubbs—he all broke down.
As one might well suppose;
He took one look at Sister Brown,
And meekly scratched his nose.
He looked his hymn book through and through
And laid it on the seat,
And then a pensive sigh he drew.
And looked completely boat.
An’ when they took another bout.
He didn't even rise;
But drawed his red bandanner out
An’ wiped his weepin’ eyes.
’ W’ \\
11
. Hut drawed his red bandanner out.
Ah' wiped his wet pin' ei/es.
\ I’ve been a sister, good an’ true.
For five and thirty year;
[ I’ve done what seemod my part to do.
An’ prayed my duty clear;
But death will stop my voice, I know,
, For he is on my track;
And some day, 1 to church will go,
1 And never more come back,
i And when the folks get up to sing—
i Whene’er that time shall be
k Ido not want uo patent thing
A squealin’ over me!
Since tho reign of the Emperor Max
. imilian I. (1594), the Austrian armies
, have fought nt) fewer than nearly seven
thousand battle®, or one to every fifteen
days. Since the year 1600 Austria bus
; had one hundred and eleven years of
i peace, and one hundred and sixty years
of war
Farm and Garden.
Keeping Sweet Potatoes. —To keep j
| sweet potatoes through the winter •
‘ treat them as the ladies do their dahlia
| bulbs. Pack them in dry sand, which
has been thoroughly heated, so as to
I drive oat all the moisture, and then set
them in a warm, dry place. Instances
i have been known where they have leen
j kept for two years, being stored in a
j warm, dry cellar, near the furnace,
j Keep them awav from all moisture.
Unlike Irish potatoes, which need a
| cold situation to keep well, the sweet
potatoes need to be kept warm and
<iry.
What ('an he I tone Against Spavin.— A
veterinary correspondent of an ex
change, m tlie course of a. comprehen
sive article on spavin, its causes, etc.,
gives the following as what can he done
against it :
“A rational treatment requires:
First, to give absolute rest for the ani
mal, respecting the diseased joint, till a
coalescence has been effected ; second
ly, to produce a certain degree of in
; flammation in the diseased bones, just
enough to effect a union, hut not so
much as to lead to further destruction.
Such a limited degree of inflammation
can be produced and supported by dif
ferent means -for instance, by firing,
by blistering, or by sc tons. Firing is
frequently very effective; there is, how
ever, one objection to it—that is, it pro
duces and leaves behind rather ugly
scars, which are unnecessary and should
he avoided. Blistering, also, is usually
attended with good results, an 1 may he
preferred, provided the substances used
as a blister are such as do not leave any
blemishes behind ; in other words, do
not destroy the skin and the roots of
the hair; as, for instance, an ointment
consisting of one part of the red bin
iodide of mercury and of sixteen parts
of hog’s lard, applied and rubbed in
about twice a week, generally answers
the purpose. All such extremely cor
roding substances, however, as arsenious
acid, sulphuric acid, muriatic acid,
nitric acid, caustic ammonia, corrosive
sublimate, euphorbium and others of a
similar nature, should never he used, on
account of the mischief they will pro
duce, lor they not only destroy the roots
of the hair, and degenerate and destroy
the skin, hut sometimes become de
structive also to the parts beneath,
even to the hones themselves, and fre
quently make the animal an incurable
and valueless cripple. The secret reme
dies used against spavin, ringbone,
curb and splints, by traveling quack
doctors, generally consists of some of
those extremely corrosive substances;
therefore all would do well to give such
fellows a wide berth.
“ Setons also cannot hut produce
ugly blemishes, and should never he
used.
“The best, prevention, of course, eon
sists in excluding strictly not only
those horses and mares from breeding
that have spavin, hut also those that
have weak joints, are how-legged, or
show bad mechanical proportions in
their books. ll’ we do that, cases of
spavin will cease to be frequent. If we
have a horse with hock joints inclined
to spavin, or a horse that is naturally a
little how-legged, hut is yet free fiom
spavin, we can frequently prevent that
disease if we lower occasionally the in
side heel and the whole inside of the
hoof from the heel to the toe by ju
diciously paring so as to take away the
center of the weight from the inside of
the hook and throw' it upon the center
of the joint, or further toward its out
side. As far as the exciting causes arc
concerned, cases of spavin would also
considerably decrease in frequency if
Young America had less tendency to
gallop young horses under the saddle.”
Hints for the Housewife,
To Ilid Canaries of lAce. —A friend of
ours, having large experience, uses for
perches in the cages sticks of the com
mon elder (Sandmens Canadensis ), from
which the pith is removed and notches
(ait in the upper part of the perch at
distances of one-half to one inch ; thus
a series of holes connecting the exterior
and interior of the perch are made. As
the birds purge, the lice leave them and
creep into the interior of the perch.
Each morning the perch is removed and
and the lice jarred out on to a piece of
white paper and destroyed. We have
also heard that lice will not stay on a
bird or fowl that sits on a sassafras
perch.— Rural New Yorker.
Graham Bread. —Take two cups but
termilk ; one-half cup best sugar-house
syrup; one teaspoonful soda; half tea
spoonful salt. Stir w’ith a spoon to a
stiff* mas (not too stiff*, else the bread
will be too hard), pour into a three pint
basin well buttered; put it in a steamer
over cold water, which gives the loaf
more time for rising. Steam three-quar
ters of an hour; then place it in the
oven just long enough to give it a rich,
brown color. If the buttermilk is not
of sufficient richness, use a tablespoon
full of thick cream. Graham bread
raised with yeast is much improved by
cooking the same way.
Apple Charlotte. —Pare and slice your
apples ; put a half pint of w'hite sugar
to every pound of apples, and as much
water as will he sufficient to stew. It
the apples are very acid, add a little
more sugar; flavor with lime syrup;
flutter a dish, and line it with buttered
bread ; then put a layer of apples, and
one of buttered bread, and so on, until
the dish is tilled. The last layer should
he apples. Take the crust off* the bread.
It should be baked in a slow oven.
The New Hrulge at Niagara.
In the great gale, a few days since,
people at Niagara looked to see the new
suspension bridge come down, hut it
stood the test. although the central por
tion, unprotected with guys, performed
a gracelul serpentine movement, both
horizontally and perpendicularly, that
was worth seeing. The entertainment
was rendeied additionally attractive by
the pas ing to and fro of passengers of
both sexes on foot and in carriages .just
for the fun of the thing. An enterpris
ing velocipedist also added to the
amusement of the occasion, hut his
machine v/as not a success on shipboard
i in a storm. The performance closed
P with the demolition of one-half of the
i inclined railway descending to the
ferry.
Why Men Don’t Marry.
The census statistics show very clear
! ly that more than fuiir-sevenths of the
marriages in M:issachust tU are among i
the foreign horn population. Why is j
it ? For the most simple reasons—the !
foreign-horn can afford to get married, j
and the native cannot; mid this must
he so, so long as our extravagant modes
of life continue. In social life, there
never was a people tending to deeper
and more destructive social corruption,
and th t it is so is most evident from
the records in all the courts and the
columns of all newspapers—than Amer
icans. Once was the time when a wife
was a “ helpmeet,” now, in a thousand
eases, you can change tin* “meet” to j
“cat,” and make it read more truth- | ,
fully.
We boast of our system of education : • ,
we have female high schools, female
colleges, female medical schools, and ;
female heavens. Our girls are refined, 1
learned and wise; they can sing', dance,
play pianos, paint, and t tlk French and
Italian, and all the soft languages, write j ■
poetry and love like Venuses. They '
are ready to he courted at ten years,
and they can he taken from school and x
married at, fifteen, and divorced at i t
twenty. They can make splendid shows )
on bridal tours, can coquette and flirt I
at the watering places, and shine like j •
angels at the winter parties. But j
Heaven he kind to the poor wretch
who marries in the fashionable circles!
What are they at washing floors? Oh,
we forget: nobody has bare floors now—
how vulgar they would he! What are 1
tin y at making bread or boiling beef?
Why, how thoughtless we are ; to be 1
sure they will board or have servants. (
What are they at mending old clothes?
But there we are again : the fashions t
change so often that nobody has old ]
clothes hut the rag-man and the paper- 1
maker now. What are they at washing t
babies faces and pinning up their trow- <
sers ? And here is our intolerable stu
pidity once more—having children is •
left to the Irish. What lady thinks ot !
having children about her now? < >r, j
if she is so unfortunate, don’t she pu
them to wet-nurses to begin with, and i
to boarding-schools afterward? We
repeat: we have come to the point
where young men hesitate and grow'
old before they can marry, and after
ward keep clear from bankruptcy and
crime. What is the consequence?
There are more persons living a single
life—are there more living a virtuous
life ?
It is time for mothers to know that
the extravagance they encourage is de
structive to their children; that all the
foolish expenditures making to rush
their daughters to matrimony are, in
stead of answering that end, tending to
destroy the institution of marriage al
together.
Heet Hoot Sugar.
It having been demonstrated that
beets can he grown in many parts of the
Pacific slope, of such quality and in
such quantity as to insure profit to both
the grower and the sugar manufacturer, .
it is not surprising to learn that larger
tracts of land will be devoted to their
culture this year than ever before. At
Alvarado, Cal., a large sugar manufac
tory, capable of handling sixty tons of
beets every twenty-four hours, has been
built. Last year the company owning
it manufactured 500,000 pounds of sugar
of excellent quality, equal in every re
spect to that made from cane. This
year product will be more than doubled,
and as several other large sugar works
have been established in different parts
of the State, an appreciable and favorable
effect will no doubt he produced on tin*
sugar market of the country. The sup
ply of cane sugar manufactured at the
South during the past few years has been
far short of the demand, and high
prices have ruled in consequence.
Education in Saxony.
A novel and most interesting experi
ment in the field of elementary instruc
tion has just keen resolved upon in
Saxony. Hitherto, as everywhere else,
so in that small, hut highly developed
Kingdom, the youth of the lower orders,
upon being apprenticed to a trade, have
been left at liberty to forget the little
they learnt at school. Attendance at
Sunday schools and evening instruction
provided by the State and charitable
societies were perfectly optional. By a
law just passed this liberty is abridged,
and compulsory attendance at evening
schools exacted for a period of three
years. Nature says : This is, we believe,
the first time in the annals of the world
that an attempt has been made by a
a State to extend the education of the
humbler classes beyond the merest rudi
ments, and after they have entered upon
the business of life.
Delicious Sorrow.
There is a mysterious feeling that
frequently passes like a cloud over the
spirits. It comes upon the soul in the
busy hustle of life, in the social circle,
in the calm and silent retreats of soli
tude. Its powers are alike supreme
over the weak and the iron-hearted.
At one time it is caused by the flitting
of a single thought across tho mind.
* Again, a sound will come booming
; across the ocean of memory, gloomy
1 and solemn as the death-knell, over
[ shadowing all the bright hopes and
l sunny feelings of the heart. Who can
l describe, and yet who has not felt its
. bewildering influence? Still, it is a de
licious sorrow; and like a cloud dim
ming the sunshine of the liver, al
though causing a momentary shade ol
gloom, it enhances the beauty of re
) turning brightness.
Darwinism in Australia.
I The way in which extremes meet is
i illustrated by the fact that the native
t Australians, who are, probably, as near
t brutes as men can he, have for ages be
j lieved in the theory of development, of
f wh’cli Darwin is the apostle. Accord
t ing to their faith, man has ascended
- from the lowest forms ot life, through
& all the intermediate grades of animated
s existence, to his present physical and
1 mental excellence. They cherish their
1 dogs with great care, inasmuch ns they
b believe them to be embryo men, liable
e to develop at any moment into f>np of
themselves.
Editors and Proprietors.
number 33.
Foreign Gossip.
Ai.va C. Stone, of Montague, Mass.,
was run over bv the cars on Tuesday
i night. IFis head was completely served
I from his body, and probably rolled into
; Deerfield river, as it lias not been found
A citizen of Paris has written a his
! tory of the Commune, and now wants
| the hide of a Communist to bind the
j book.
In Russia it is not an uncommon thing
j for tlie Czar to go behind the scenes at
I the theater and compliment the leading
performer.
Ear trumpets of a wonderful con
struction, by which sounds can bo heard
at a distance of a mile, are to be shown
at the Vienna Exposition.
A wom an in Manchester, England, has
been arrested for chloroforming women,
and, while in an insensible condition,
cutting off and stealing their hair.
Rev. My ram I). Wood, who was con
victed of seduction at Atlanta, G i., was
sentenced on Wednesday to ten years’
imprisonment in the penitentiary.
A two-story hotel, with a French
roof, to accommodate two hundred
guests, is projected at the summit of
Mount Washington.
Sir H arry Burrand, Baronet, with an
income of £15,000 per year fiotn estates
in England and Ireland, recently mar
ried Miss Anderson, the belle of St.
John, N. B.
Alls ave one of Queen Victoria’s ladies
in waiting are widows, her choice since
Prince Albert died. They receive £3OO
per annum, and are the widows of de
ceased Peers.
Two hunchbacks celebrated their
nuptials in Paris the other day, in the
presence of thirty invited guests also
hunchbacks. At the wedding ball all
the musicians were hunchbacks, as was
every dancer.
The Parish municipal authorities have
at length accepted Sir Richard Wal
lace’s offer to erect drinking fountains
in the streets of that city at his own ex
pense, and orders have been given for
their construction before the hot weather
sets in.
The London boys amuse themselves
by placing percussion caps on the rails
of the street railroads, greatly frighten
ing both horses and passengers. The
nuisance has become so general that de
tectives have been detailed to watch
and bring to justice the sportive youths.
A Halifax pilot and three assistants,
who at great risk succeeded in getting
aboard a Quebec schooner which had
parted anchor and was going out to sea
with the drift ice, were arrested by the
agent, on bringing her in, for illegally
entering the vessel and breaking open
the cabin.
Janvier LaMotte, the ex-Prefect of
the French Department of Eure during
the Empire, was recently tried for
felony, and it was proved that, while
his salary was only thirty thou and
francs, he spent annually four hundred
thousand francs belonging to the public
funds. His case is said to have been by
no means isolated among the Prelects
of the Second Empire.
Sunday in New York,
The New York Academy of Design
will hereafter be open seven days in
the week. Last Sunday witnessed the
inauguration of the new programme.
The galleries were filled with a large
and orderly assemblage, and nothing
whatever occurred to mar the quiet of
the Sabbath. This is the true way to
insure the observance of the day o< rest,
which experience has proved to be es
sential to physical and mental well
being. As it is now, churches and
liquor saloons vie with each other in
attractiveness, and the latter carry off
the palm. It is useless to ignore the
fact that a majority of people do not,
and will not, attend religious services.
As workers in a real, not an ideal world,
it is our business to recognize this, and
see to it that they shall have at least an
opportunity to spend Sunday some
where else than in close, cheerless
rooms, or in gaily painted, cheerful sa
loons. Our libraries should be thrown
open ; our collections of paintings and
statuary should invite the passer-by;
our leading scientific men should, as in
London, deliver “talks to workingmen”
in some central hall, where the work
ingman and his family might come, and
he sure of a glad welcome. It the Sab
bath was made for man, it should be
made pleasant for man, not only for tile
Christian and the drunkard, but for the
great majority of men, who are neither
the one nor t he other.
French Juries,
it is suggested by the correspondent
of a New York paper that we should
borrow a feature of the French law in
the constitution of juries. It often
happens during prop cted trials that
one or more ot the jurymen are inca
pacitated by sickness or death. In
cases that are likely to he of long dur
ation, the French couits select one or
two ext''a jurors, who are required to he
present during the trial, and listen to
the evidence and arguments like the
rest. They do not go into the consul*
tat ion room, however, unless vacamien
occur in the original twelve, in which
case they replace the absentees. Thus
the trouble and expense of a second
trirl are often avoided.
A Winter Muskniehm.
The Pacific Rural Press speaks highly
of a muskmclon, the seed of which was
brought from Turkey, which keeps
readily to midwinter or later. The edi
tor ate of one plucked three months
previously, and which it seemed might
have been kept months longer. It-is
hardly as rich as some of our musk mel
ons, but if it can be kept the year round
will he of great value.
Durino the recont boat race in Lon
don between the Oxford and Cambridge
crews, a novel experiment with the* tele
graph was tried with success. A steamer
accompanied the racing boats, having
on hoard an instrument, and a cable
connected with a wire on shore. This
was paid out as the steamer pro
ceeded, and at the same time dispatches
were telegraphed to the central office
■ reporting the progress of the race, the
! arrival at well-known points along the
route.