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SATURDAY KVEXIffU. BT BCLWBLL. The week Is past, the Sabbath dawn oomes on Beat—reat in peace—thy toil is done: And, standing as thou standest, 011 the brink Of a new scene of being, calmly think Of what la gone, is now ! and soon shall be Aa one that trembles in eternity. For anch as this now oloaing week is past, go much advancing time will clone my last, Such as to-morrow shall the awful light Of the eternal morn hail my sight Spirit of good ! on this week's verge I stand, Tracing the guiding influence of thy hand; That hand which leads me gently, calmly still. Up life's dark, stony, tiresome, thorny hill. Thou, thou. In every storm hast sheltered me, Beneath the wing of thy benignity; A thousand graves my footsteps circuit vent, And I exist—thy mercy's monument; A thousand writhe upon the bed of paiu, I live, and pleasure flows through every vein; 'Want o'er a thousand wretches waves her wand I olrcled by ten thousand mercies stand. How can I praise thse. Father? how express ' My debt of reverence and thankfulness? A debt that no intelligence can count, While every moment swells the vast amount. For a week's duties thou hast given me strength. And brought mo to its peaceful close at length And here my grateful bosom vain would raise A fresh memorial to thy glorious praise. „ The Evil* of Indnlgence. Nothing exhibits more clearly the necessity of resisting the beginning of evil than a contemplation of the ruin and misery men bring upon themselves. It is vainly imagined in youth that time and opportunities once lost may be afterwards recovered at will, and that, after having indulged in a course of folly, a man may return to virtue and well doing when he pleases. This fallacy leads many imperceptsbly from step to step in the downward and 1 treacherous steep of vice, till reason 1 and conscience are alike unheeded, and there is no Inclination to return. We do not mean to say there are not many 1 with strength of mind and purpose who 1 resolutely abandon evil courses and 1 live exemplary Jivps, but they are so i rare as to offer no inducement to follow ' their examples, and only serve to show I us how desperate is tne risk they run. ' Giving way to sinful courses has been 1 aptly oompared to being carried for ward by a current swiftly, easily, pleas- . antlv—it is not till we try to make headway against it that we find how f hard is the task. Habitual indulgence ) binds its votary with a chain, the firm- : ness of whose grasp he begins to re-« j alize when he attempts to break it. There is jast this difference in the abandobment of evil habits, that the ? longer the effort is delayed the more ' difficult the task brcomes. It is thus r made evident that the best security for . a virtuous life is to begin betimes. The t inclination being led aright,early habi . makes the performance of duty easy / and pleasant. The most oasual obser- . vation of the wrecks around us con- . vinces ns that indulgence in forbidden pleasures is the destroyer of peace and * fortune, of character and self-respect, ] and that without a good conscience, a properly governed mind, and a well- . directed life, discontent and disap- . pointment will blast every enjoyment. The derelict is generally an object of c interest and ooncern to some one. In 1 how many houses is the skeleton a 8 wayward and disobedient son? To ! him who ''knows the right but still the { wrong pursues" indulgence in forbid den pleasure does not yield the gratifl- 1 cation which is promised. There is 1 always more or less a feeling of degra- 1 dation and of self-inflicted ostracism, ' which all his boisterous mirth and the ( blindness inspired by the presenoe and • applause of kindred associates fail en- ! tirely to dissipate. How often is he suddenly arrested by the thought of an anxious father, a weeping mother, or 1 distressed wife ? Their prayers and 1 tears seem to haunt him. The black 1 sheep in the family, althcragh his name is not often heard, is more an object of 1 anxiety than are steady, stay-at-home, well-to-do boys and girls who nestle under the parental roof-tr oe.—Tin»leyn Magazine, Watching. A general, after gaining a great vlotory, was encamping with his army for the night. He ordered sentinels to be stationed all around the camp as nsnal. One of the sentinels, aa he went to his station grumbled to him self and said : "Why oould not the general let us have a qniet night's rest for onoe, after beating the enemy ? I'm sure there is nothing to be afraid of." The man then went to his station, and stood for some time looking about him. It was a bright summer's night with a harvest moon, bnt he oould see nothing anywhere, so he said : "I am terribly tired : I shall sleep for jnst five minutes ont of the moonlight, under the shadow of this ti»e." So he lav down. Presently he started up, dreaming that some one had pushed a lantern be fore his eyes, and ne found that the moon was shining brightly down on him throaghia hole in the branches of the tree above him. The next minute an arrow whizses past his ear, 'and the whole field before him seemed alive with soldiers in dark green ooats, who sprang up from the ground where they had been silently creeping onward, ana rushed toward him. Fortunately thy arrow had missed him ; so he shouted aloud to give the alarm, and ran back to some other sen tinels. The army was thus saved ; snd the soldier said : "I shall never for get. as long aa I live, that when one is •t war one must watoh." Our whole life is a war with evil Just after we have oonquered, it some times attacks us when we least expect it. For example, when we have resis ted the temptation to and pet tish or disobedient, soßtimes when lv« are thinking, "How good we have been I" comes another sudden tempta tion, and we are not on on? guard and flo not resit! it Jesus says to us: "Watoh and pray, that ye enter not into temptation. v'flallf, what time do your folks dine?" "Soon as you go way—that's miisus' orders." - - r": --••• 5 - AGBICGLTOBAL. CHEAPEST FOOD FOB WINTHBINO COWS. —ln estimating the value of concentra ted food for domestio animals regard should be had to the more bulky or coarse fodder that is to be used with it. Thin necessity arises from the fact that animals utilize the different ele ments in their food very nearly in cer tain definite relations, when they are fed under the same circumstances. If the circumstnces of the animals vary, the elements of their food should alqo vary with them. One class of elements is employed to build up and supply the waste of flesh, and another is used to supply warmth. The former consist of albumen, fibrin, gluten, etc., and are designated by the general name of al buminoids ; the lstter consist of starch gum, sugar, etc., and fat, and are classed under one head as supporters of respiration. It is evident that fit animals are exposed to the cold it will require a greater proportion of heat J producing feed to keep them warm than if they are in a warm atmosphere ; and i they are young and growing, it will require a greater proportion of flesh producing food to support both waste and growth than it will in adult animals which have only waste to be supplied. In adult animals in comfortable sur roundings, it requires for each pound of albuminoids used five to six pounds of the supporters of repiration; of whioh fat must always form a part. The value of fat as respiratory matter is two and a half times that of sugar and starch, and in comparing flesh-forming food with the supporters of respiration, the fat which an article of food oontains is multiplied by two snd one-half and ad ded to the starch and sugar. In sum mer the respiratory matter from which fat as well as heat is derived may con stitute a much smal er part than in cooler weather. It may go as low as four or live to one of flesh forming. It exists in this proportion during young and tender years. When animals are exposed to the cold air of winter it may run as high as eight or ten to one, and when such exposure cannot fce avoided the fe£d?r should adapt his food to thd* amount O- cold to be endured, and the comfort r exposure which cattle are to receive will be an important item in de termining which of tne foods named he«, bad better Belect, and it will, more ef fectually than the selection of food, determine the cost of wintering. FEED EOR CHICKENS.— The mother hen, if cooped, cannot scratch for in sects, minute larrffl, etc., that form the appropriate food for young chickens. Therefore, for the first two or three days they should be fed with the yolks of hard-boiled eggs, chopped fine and mixed with an equal quantity of good, sweet bread crumbs. This will pay, as it is well to give the chickens a good start in life at the commencement. Then for about a fortnight, feed with two-thirds of the best corn meal, add to this a boiled potato or a handful of tender grass ; chop the whole together. Calves lights, hearts will do, or any thing else cheap. If the spot where the chickens run affords inrects, then gradually leave off the meat, feeding with meal, cracked corn and wheat. But if in a city yard or other places where the forage is soarce, then con tinue the meat all through. The old fashioned way of feeding nothing but oorn dough answers very well in places where there are great quantities of in sects. At first, feed six or eight times a dav, and less often as they grow older. Feea enough at a time to have a little left, and when this is gone feed again very soon. Give whole oorn as soon as they are old enough to swallow it, and as great a variety of other things as possible--bran, wheat screenings, oat meal eto., all they can eat. There should not be the slightest parsimony in feeding ohickens. You can make them grow tx> fast, or make them too fat while gaining their growth. With adult fowls the oase is different in re spect to fattening. Growing chickens must be supplied with pounded shells, bone-dust, or lime in some form, if strong frames are required. To PREP ABB WAGON.—'IO prepare Bide bacon, divide the oarooss down the backbone, remove the head, hamf, and shoulders. Oat out all the ribs with as little meat upon them as possible. Then rub the neßh side of the meat with salt, or whatever mixture is chosen (or the piokling. One ponnd of salt, 4 ounces of coarse brown sugar, and half an ounoe of saltpetre, is a fa vorite pickle. A B each aide is well rubbed, it is plaoed upon a stone or oak slab, in a 000 l cellar, with the skin downwards ; and one side is laid upon the other in a compact pile. A board is laid upon the top, withheavy weights. In a week the aidea are rubbed afresh with salt or the above mixture, and the top one becomes the bottom of the pile. This is repeated for six weeks, when the meat will be sufficiently salted, and may be hung up to dry, or taken to the smoke house. Ten days smoking is sufficient Knrnia POTATOES FMOM SMOKIKO.— Daring the period of itoring through the winter season, it is reoommended to expose potatoes to the vapor of sol- Eharous acid by inj of the various well nown modes. If not entirely effect ul in aooomplishing the objeot, it will retard or modify the sprouting of the potatoes to snoh an extent as to render the injury eansed thereby very alight. The flavor of the potato is not affected in the least by this treatment, nor is its vitality diminished, the aetion being simply to retard or prevent the forma tion and growth of the eyes. 80 says an English scientific journal. We print for what it is worth. The London Garden says that when the Cheshire market gardeners wiah to keep their onions for an unusual length ot time, they nail them in bandies on the outside of the house, and in this way, slightly protected from wet by the eaves, they keep on an average, five weeks longer than those of the same varieties and of the same crop, stored in the ordinary manner. A men of rook salt should always be left in a hones manger. v A cash system is one where a man. pays for all he gets, and runs the ohanoes of getting all he pay* for. ( | SCIENTIFIC. |" " GOLD LEAF MANUFACTURE. —The pro cess of gold-beating is exceedingly in teresting in its various details, and is one which requires the exercise of judgment, physical force, and mechani cal skill. The coin is first reduced in thickness by being rolled through what is known as a "mill," a machine con sisting of iron rollers operated by steam power. It is then annealed by being subjected to intense heat, which softens the metal, and next cut up aqd placed in jars containing nitro-muriatic acid, which dissolves the gold, and reduces it to a mass resembling Indian pudding both in color and form. This solution is then placed in a jar with copperas, which separates the gold from the other components of the mass. The next process is to properly alloy the now pure gold, after which it is placed in crucibles and melted, from which it is poured into iron moulds called ingots, which measure ten inches in length by one inch in breadth and thickness. When cooled it is taken out in the shape of bars, and then rolled into what are called "ribbons," usually measuring about eight yards in length, of the thickness of ordinary paper, and retaining their original width. These "ribbons" are then cut into pieces lj inohes square, and placed in what is called a "cutch," which consists of a pack of French paper leaves resembling parchment, each leaf 3 inches square, and the paok measuring from } of an inch to 1 inch in thickness. They are then beaten for half an hour upon a granite block, with hammera weighing from twelve to fifteen pounds, after which they are taken out and placed in another pack of leaves called a 'shoder.' These leaves are four and a half inches square, and the gold in the "shoder" is beaten for four hours with hammers weighing about nine pounds; after which the gold leaves are taken out of the "shoders" and placed in what are called "molds." These "molds" con sist of packs of leaves similar to the other packs, and made of the stomach of an ox. After being made ready in the "molds" the gold is beaten for four hours more with hammers weighing six or seven pounds each. The thinner the leaf becomes, the lighter are the hammers used, and it is also necessary in beating the gold, es pecially in striking the "mold," that the blow should be given with the full flat of the hammer and directly in the center of the "mold." The leaf, after being taken out of the "mold," is out into squares of three and three-eighths inches, and placed in "books" of com mon paper. Each "book" consists of twenty-five leaves, twenty "books" con stituting what is known as a -'pack."— Iron Aye. KUBBKR THERMOMETERS.—M. Kohl rausch, having several times noticed that glass flasks, closed by stoppers of hard rubber, burst, concluded that this substance must be very dilatable. This hypothesis was fully verified by experi ment, for the expansion of this body was found to be about three times that of zinc. From his measures, the co efficient of dilatation for 1° between 16 7° and 25 3°—=o 000770, and between 25 3° and 35 *4° =0 0000842. Thus, not only has hard rubber a very great co efficient of dilatation, but the latter increases very rapidly with the tempe rature. This remarkable property can be applied to the coustraotion of very delicate thermometers. Thuß, with a small instrument, consisting of two strips of rubber and ivory, 8 inches long, glued together and fastened at one end, we obtain, at the other ex tremity. a considerable movement for a change of temperature of one degree. The coefficient of hard rubber is equal, at zero, to that of mercury ; above, it is greater. We can, then, as a curiosity, construct a mercury thermometer with a reservoir of this substance, whose changes will be the opposite of those of a common thermometer, and which I will fall with an increase of tempera ture. A NEW MEDICINE. Attention has been called to a new tonio medioine under the name of Soldo. The tree is •aid to be found on isolated mountain regions in Chili; the bark, leaves, and blossoms, possessing a strong aromatio odor, resembling a mixture of turpen tine and camphor. The leaves contain also a large quantity of essential oiL The alkaloid obtained from the plant is called "Boldine." Its properties are ehiefiy as a stimulant to digestion and having a marked aetion on the liver. Its action was discovered rather acci dentally—thus: Some sheep which were liver diseased were oonfined in an inolosure whioh happened to have been reoently hedged with boldo twigs. The animals ate the leaves and shoots, and were observed to reoover speedily. Direct observations prove its action ; thus, one gramme of the tincture ex cites appetite, increases the circulation, and produoes symptoms of circulatory sxoitement. The plant from whioh the medioine is extraoted, is probablv the Boldoa fragrant. A DISOOVRRY has reoently been made 1 in England whioh if half that is for it be true, will not only put an end to the lively trade of working over old boot legs into new shoes, but will revo lutionise the whole leather trader It is claimed that s prooess has been dis covered by which different kinds of leather oan be made without n«i«p tanned hides at all, and in such perfect imitation of the natural article aa to defy detection. The sheets of fibrous pulp from whioh the material is made are pressed into real skins of lesthsr, the grain of the akin to be imitated being thus accurately produoed. The article is oalled leatherette, costs one eighth as muoh as real leather, and is alleged to be stronger snd of more uni form quality. A patent has of oourae been issued to the discoverer and preparations are making for counter feiting boots and shoes on an extensive scale, so that we shall soon know whether it is a new humbug or only an old one revived. A man may be properly said to have been drinking like'a fish when he finds that he has taken enough to m«ir» his head swim. DOMESTIC. I■ • _ OATMEAL MUSH MADS INTO BMAD.— Oatmeal mush is good and wholesome, but it is generally relished bettor in its secondary forms,as balls, griddle oakes, or gems. I have already told how the balls, (or mush balls of any kind,) are made—simply by kneading the cold mush into a rather stiff dongh with fine flour, with or without the addition (and improvement) of little cream or milk. These are shaped in balls or small bis cuits,. and baked in the oven. To make griddle cakes, soak cold oatmeal mush in sweet milk, and thicken to the proper consistency for griddb baking with fine flour—a rather stiff panoake batter. If you can not guess at this, try a little on the griddle. No baking powder is needed, but well beaten eggs are an improvement, one or more, as you oan afford. I put some mush soaking in milk and water, with some pieces of stale yeast bread, one n'ght, thinking to make pancakes in the morning, but when morning came, 1 dreaded the smudge, and so stumbled upon our much-liked oatmeal gems. The mush and bread are mashed and stirred fine with a spoon, and then fine flour is stirred in until there is a batter about as stiff as von can well dip into the gem pans with a spoon. This is our' favorite way of eatiDg oatmeal at present, and the bread added is an improvement. Remember that the batter must be quite thick, as tbe oatmeal is already cooked and will *ot rise any more. Oatmeal has tke name, among those who study into such matters, of being excellent food for both muscular and mental ftctivity-r-very useful alike for student and laborer, and excellent, if thoroughly eooked, to promote the growth of liirtle folks. NEEDLE-WORK. —Needle-work is thus gracefully eulogized by Nathaniel Haw throne, in the "Marble Faun "There is something exquisitely pleasant and touching—at least of a very sweet, soft and winning effect—in this peeuliarity of needle-work, distin guishing men from women. Our own sex i& incapable of any such by play aside from the main business of life ; but women, be they of what earthly rank they may, however gifted with in tellect or genius, or endowed with art fal beauty—have always some little handiwork ready to fill up the tiny gap of every vacant moment. A needle is familiar to the fingers of them all. A queen, no doubt, plies it on occasions ; the woman-poet can use it as adroitly as her pen ; the woman's eye that has discovered a new star, turns from its glory to send the polished little instru ment gleaming along the hem of her kerchief, or to darn a casual flaw in her dress. And they have the advantage of us in this respect.- The slender thread of silk or cotton keeps them united with the small, familiar, gentle interest of life,the continually operating influences do much for the health of the character, and carry off what would otherwise be a dangerous accumulation of morbid sensibility. A vast deal of human sympathy runs along this electrio line, stretching from the throne to the wicker chair of the humblest seamtress, and keeping high and low in a species of common union with their kindred beings. Methinks it is a token of healthy and gentle characteristics when women of accomplishments and high thoughts love to sew, especially as they are never more at home with their own hearts then when so occupied. - MANAOEMENT or A HOUSEHOLD,— Young ladies, out this out and pin it on your bonnets : ,- No young woman ought to feel herself qualified to become a wife until she is sure she understands how to do the most that can be done with her husband's money. The man agement of a household is not a thing to be properly and safely intrusted to hireling hands. A servant is a broken reed for the head of a family to lean upon. There are a thousand little ways in which money most be expended, in which real shrewdness and enterprise are requisite in order to use it to the best advantage ; and there are a thou sand others ways of saving money, open only to those who have studied aright the art of economy. The Turkish pro verb has it that 'a prudent woman is a mine of jewels,''and, like many other Oriental sayings, this is beautiful for the truth it embodies. A wastful house keeper not only actually robs those for whom she undertakes to manage of the comforts it is her dnty to provide for them, but keeps her husband head over ears in debt, and makes the domestic life of a poor man a continued series of experiments in shunning it from one day £°i. ® next ' * n keeping the stomaon lull, though the purse be empty." FIBOT EFFORTS. —It is curious to ob serve the first efforts of the child to ex ercise his powers and his range of ex perience. He begins to manifest his in nate wish to do something, and to oon nect his little intelligence with things around him, by inarticulate crowing, and by vague, unsteady motions of limbs and body. His tiny fingers are always busy. He soon exhibits ouriosity, and pioks and pries into everything. His first attempts to walk are most awk ward, feeble, and ludicrous. Hi« ac tivity is inoessant He rolls and tumbles and babbles for hours together. After hundreds of falls he learns to stand. - How little oontrol he over his own motions. He starts to go for ward, and staggers backward or to one side. His first attempts to utter words are as wide of their aim as his first at tempts to walk. He has no distinct idea what he wants to do. His organs of speech are unformed. He makes the oddest approximations to oorrect articu lation. The strong tendency to "H*ate everything he sees and hears con tinually incites him to make new trials of his powers. He mimios everything. Almost the whole of primary eduoation is imitation. Therefore, what little children need are good example*. WABTS may be removed from the hands by the application of hartshorn. The use of it will not nauso any pain unless it oomss in oontact with a out 01 bruise. A cure is' usually effected in •bout three wseks. The Santa Ores Sentinel compares that town to "the dimple on beauty's cbeek. More eheek than dimple, probably. HUMOBOU9. A WISCONSIN schoolboy handed 111 the following composition recently : "I go to sohool to learn to read and rito and siphor to slide on the .ice and traid off an old nife if I have one, in summer to pick wild flowers and strawberries and to get out of work hot days, some boys has to go to school to get out of their mother's road, but I would rather stay in winter than to go two miles and set by a cold stove' and freze my tose. I like to go to sohool to see the teacher scold the big girls when they cut up. Some goes to sohool to fool but 1 go to study when we are old we can't go to school and then we will feel Borry that we fooled when we was young and went to sohool. I don't get no time to fool anyway for I have enough to do when it cornea to my gography." IT HAS long been a curious inquiry whether the iron in the blood is affected by a magnet, by heat and cold, and other agenoies that affect it in the rod and pure forms. Daring the past in tensely cold weather a Greensburg sci entist has been making a series of ex periments to ascertain the fact. Know ing the lips to be very vascular, he selected a pretty woman with very red lips, and one cold, frosty morning assayed to kiss her, expecting his lips would stick to hers as if he had pressed them against the pump handle. The experiment was satisfactory ; for if the iron in the woman's lips did not re spond, a skillet, that lay near by, did. THERE is nothing BO refreshing and BOQI satisfying in this cold, wicked world as the spectacle of a graceful woman. After she has knocked you down and pounded you over the head five or six minutes with a rolling-pin, and you get up and say you are sorry and willing to beg her pardon, the look of gratitude that illuminates her hea venly countenance will do all but pav the doctor's bill. "SIT DOWN, sit down," said a judge to an impertinent limb of the law, "I cannot entertain your ridiculous propo sition." "But my necessity." "But my necessity." "Yes, yes, your neces sity—l admit your necessity—l under stand—l admit your necessity—l idmit you are a necessity yourself, or at least the next thing to it, for 'neceusity knows no law.'" AN EXQUISITELY dressed young gen tleman, after buying another seal to dangle about his delicate person, said to the jeweller that "he would-ah like to have-ah something engraved on it ah to denote what he was. "Cer tainly ; certainly; I will put a oipher on it," said the tradesman. AN OIID bachelor says: "When I remember all the girls I've met to gether, I feel like a rooster in the Fall exposed to every weather I 1 feel like one who treads alone some barn yard all deserted, whose oats are fed, whose hens are dead, or all to market started." HEBE'S a funny reply given by a little boy in London, to the following ques tion asked him by a gentleman : "What occupation does your father pursue for a living ?" He answered, with great simplicity : "He is a dreadful accident maker, sir, for the newspapers." A SELKIRK sexton used to preface the dram customarily given to him at funerals with a general nod to all the company, adding, qnite in a serious way, unconscious of the doleful mean ing the compliment oontained, "My service to you all, gentlemen." "WHERE'S the molasses, Bill ?" said a red headed woman sharply to her son, who had returned with an empty jug. "None in the city, mother. Every grocer has a big black board outside, with the letters chalked on it —'N. O. Molasses.'" "I SWEAR," said a gentleman to his mistress, "you,« are very handsome." "Pooh !" said the lady, "so you would say if you did not thin* so." "And so you would think," answered he, "though I should not say BO." A CLEVELAND youth of rather fast proolivities fell in love with a parson's daughter, and as a clincher to hiß claims, said to the reverend gentleman, "I go my bottom dollar en piousness." "WHT are you so precise in your statement—are you afraid of telling an untruth ?" asked an attorney of a fe male witness in a police court. "No, sir," was the prompt reply. ATOUNQ man advertises for a place as salesman, and says he has had a good deal of experienoe, having been dis charged from seven different ware houses during the year. A SCOTCH divine, recently praying, said : "Oh Lord, give unto neither poverty nor riches,"and pausing sol emnly a moment, he added, ' 'especially poverty." . A TENEMENT house landlord remarks that his tatterdemalion tenants ought to be able to pay cash in advance, since they always have rents in their pockets. A WRETCHED Danbury boy being asked if he would live always, replied that he would live part of the way, and go the rest on the train. MASK TWAIN says nothing is more useful before an election, and more useless after an election than the "dear people." WHAT is the differenoe between a market-gardener and a billard marker ? —One minds his peas, and the other his cues. LITTLE Georgie shirked his spelling lessons at W. He feared that he might oome to want.— Fun. AH auctioneer complains that he is Uk.Eoooh Arden, he „ 0 day to day." tottUb'.gtoS." ,ben h " ¥* " tw ° °' TOCTHB' COLCMH. How NKLLT SAW THE OLD YEAB GO OUT. —Little Nelly Neal couldn't quite understand it. She heard folks talk about the Old Year "going out" and the New Year "coming in," and she wondered to herself where the Old Year went to, and if any one ever saw him go and where the New Year came from, and if anybody ever saw him come. It was a puzzle. She determined, how ever, that she would watch this season, and see for herself the Old Year "go out" with her own eyes. Therefore, when she overheard mamma say to Aunt Josie one night, as she undressed the children, "When Nelly goes to sleep we'll go down to 'Trinity watch meeting' and see the Old Year out," Nellv just made up her mind she wouldn't "go right to sleep" as mamma bade her, but she would stay wide awake ever so long instead, and then, may 'be she wonld see the Old Year go too. Bat rfter mamma and auntie had kissed her good night, and she heard mamma say to papa, "¥ou sit up for us, the girls are tired, and look at the children once in a while, Nelly felt very sleepy. Her eyelids felt so heavy they wouldn't stay open at all, not even when she tried to hold them apart with her fat little lingers ; and it wasn't very long before Nelly was away off in that beautiful country of childhood's dream land. She must have been there time, for she had been having son*b real good times with her dollies, who always conversed with her in real voices in that happy land, when suddenly with a little start Nelly opened her eyes, and, sure enough, there stood the Old Year, right by mamma's bureau. He was a dark, cross-looking, old man, to be sure, and he seemed to be roving around very cautiously. Nelly saw him open the top draw "and take out mam ma's new watch that papa had given her Ohristmas. She supposed, in a sleepy sort of way, that must be Time he was taking along with him. She did not stir or make any noise, but just watched him put things in a bag he held in his ( hand, and waited to see -where he'd "go" to,so as she oould tell Dollie Dean and Sasy Silver all about it next day. She lay very still until she saw him move over toward the crib, where Baby Bunn lay sleeping. Oh, no; she couldn't let him take the baby too. Why, the New Year only brought him to them last winter : and—no, no—the Old Year should not "go out" with their baby ! Just then a very shrill, piercing scream startled papa. "No, no!" it shrieked; "you shan't have my baby brother!" From the library to the nursery was but a step, and papa rushed wildly over to discover the cause of the outcry. On the stairs he met a figure which pushed past him swiftly and rushed rapidly down the stairs and out of the door, dropping a package as he ran. "What is it, Nelly? Speak, my darling! Are you hurt?" cried papa, with pale lips, as he came towards the little white-robed figure that stood be side the crib. "No, papa,—but he was going to take Bunn too, and I wouldn't let him—and I hate him, and I'll never watch to see another Old Year go out," and Nelly burst into a passion of tears. Papa understood now, and, seeing his little ones were unharmed, he bade Nelly take care of baby, who opened his brown eyes and seemed to quite enjoy the excitement and dissipation of the hour, while he should go down stairs to see if there were any traces left of the burglars. It was too late, however, to oatch the thief, but all his spoils were secured, for the bundle he had dropped in his haste to escape contained all the valu able booty he had selected. Mamma hugged her darlings close to her bosom when she came home and heard the story, and declared she would never leave them again to go to "watoh meeting." Nelly felt herself quite a heroine when papa told everybody next day how brave she had been to give the alarm and frighten off the burglar. Bat Nelly still declares when she tells the story to her playmates that it was the Old Year she saw "go out I"— Hearth and Home. Us* OF G-£T'S WHISKERS. —Every one must have observed what are usually called the whiskers on a cat's upper lip. The use of these in a state of na ture is very important. They are organs of touch. They are attaohed to a bed of close glands under the skin, and' eaoh of long hairs is con nected with the nerves of the lip. The slightest contact of these whiskers with anj surrounding objeot is thus felt ■tore distinctly by the animal, although the hairs of themselves have no feeling. They stand out on each side of the lion as well as of the oommon oat, so that from point to point they are equal to the width of the animal's body. If we imagine, therefore, a lion stealing through a oovert of wood in an imper foot light, we shall at onoe see the use of these long hairs. They indicate to him throngh the nicest feeling any obstacle whioh may present itself to the passage of his body; they prevent the leaves whioh would give warning to its prey, if he were to attempt to pass through too elope a bush, and thus, in conjunction with the soft- cushion of his feet, and the fur upon which he topftdß, the j enable him to move towards SHJVw T*" 1 a * tUlneM even greater than that of a snake, which creeps along the giass, and is not peroeived until it is ooiled around its prey. These ani mals are all beasts of prey, and thus we see how even these seemingly use- v 1 * 8 e ? onie S" 6 ** helps to them, and how wisely God prepares every creature for its work, 'r THSBB is a dog belonging to a CJon oord fire oompany which always it upon herself to spread a fire-alanjf and makes a great ado about it When a fire broke out, a few days ago, she rushed to a sleeping fireman and, seis ing him by the throat, waked him. She then went to the house of another fire man, and, having oalled him out by her Q P° n to Rothes and tried to hurry him up. bustlings and trouble, • an( ? ou trages, quarrels and strife, ansein the world, keep out of uem all; concern not yourselves with
The Alamance Gleaner (Graham, N.C.)
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