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VOL. IV.
riTTSBono Chatham co., x. c December is, issi.
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Only Friends.
We said good-by in a quiet lane,
In the gloaming, years ao,
And few wero our words about purlin
pam
Wc were only friend, you know.
Ay, friends we had been in the dear dead hours
That still in our heart would live.
At morn we hud wandered the wildwoml
Iiow'ik,
And roamed throiiyh tin? lanm at ee ;
Wo bad gather
1 the
cts of the
glades,
The roc and the harebell blue ;
We bad tallied of lov iu the (Hili;;lit hliiuh h,
And of hearts that wi re M ini and trim
But of our hi-artn' hojie,, and our own Inve
ditauif, Ah, never a word naid we :
For fate had forbidden our lip sin h tin men,
And friend we milil only be.
And our farewell came lile a limling rloum
That darkened life's morniii;; ray ;
And joy's glad plow, and hope's teinlei bloom
Died out of one heart tint day.
How we thought in that hour of the by-pme
days,
Of that golden minimi r prime.
Of the mountain wild ami the u.iuillaud e.ay
And the spell of the Inutuiug tune !
And it may be the lueni'i v nliispi
Conic o'er uh with subtile p.'w'r.
Awaking unbidden our lull heart
In the pain of thai pal tin.; hour
Fur our handi wi re ehu j i d and 01
1 wor.N
ehor.ls
"pn onee
met,
The liiBt time and the In.-t.
Ah me, 'twere wi II w .ulil .ill forget
Home Welles in our buried pat :
For the blue outline of the mountains high,
And the lake ami th" vnodland green,
And the lonely lane and the evening: hky
Too oft in my ibvum llle Keen ;
And still, though the huniiuer be bright nml
fuir
And the summer wood?, be gay.
Forme there in Honiething wanting there
That has paired from lny lite away !
TAKI1N HY STORM.
"Mademoiselle, wo are obliged to
fuik your Lospitnlity. Relieve mo, wo will
encroach upon it as little as possible."
The speaker, a young Prussian officer
in full uniform, bunt low before the
beaatiful girl he addressed.
Rut Mattie Moreau saw neither the
courtly grace of manners, cor noted
the young, handsome fuce ami form.
She only knew that the enemy of her
country etood before her, that the tri
color of Franco had been dragged down
from its high stut-durd where it floated
protoctiuglyovor tho little French town,
and tho hated banner of Prussia put in
its stead, that the very privacy of their
hearths and homes had been intruded
upon in many instances ruthlessly
and that the man before her was but a
representative of all that the disaster
entailed.
" Sir I" she answered, her lip curling
in undisguised scorn as she spoke, " we
re women and 'defenceless. It tits
you well that you fdiould make a pre
tence of asking, through courtesy, that
which you have ul ready obtained
through force. The only request wo
cau make of our guests" emphasizing
the latter word with supreme irony
"is that we may see as liltlo of them as
possible. Unless your regretful consid
eration domands all the house, leave us
any portion, however small, that shall
be ours, not only in word, but in
deed."
" Mademoiselle, your wishes are com
mands," answered the young otli.-er,
though a flush had risen to his cheek at
her hot words of scorn. "My advice to
you would be to take tho upper floor,
where there would bo no excuse of in
trusion, from mo. I wish most earnestly
that I might withdraw my men from the
house, but it is impossible. Tho town
is small, and the troops are many.
They are quartered everywhere, and
even should I withdraw them, you
might be subjected to fresh annoyance,
from which it will ever bo my earnest
endeavor to shield you. Permit me,
mademoiselle, to hand you my card,
and I hog you to command my scrvioes,
and to report to me any incivility which
yon may enoouuter."
80 Bpeakiug, he placed on the table
beside her a slip of pasteboard, and
making a low bow withdrew from her
presenoe.
The girl made no motion toward it,
not even bunding the haughty little
head in recognition of his courtesy.
Really, Marie," said her aunt,
stretching out her hand for the card,
the young man was very polite. It
would have boen better policy, my
dear, had your manner not been so re
pellent.' " Repellent I" exclaimed the young
girl, rising from her seat in her excite
ment, and pacing up and down the
room " I wish I eould have crushed
him with my scorn. Does he not
know that a true French woman will
bear any insult rather than the hu
miliation of Prussian magnanimity ? I
hate him I I hate them all I How shall
I ever draw a free breath, knowing that
they live on the same air that sustains
me 1 France, be patient ; it is but a
little longer."
'Hugh Von Tronck," said the cider
lady, aloud from the card. " We mnst
not lose this. The young man may really
be of future service to us."
" Aunt, how can your Oive me the
card or teai it up yourself. Do you think
I would ask a favor at his hands ay, or
uecept one? Never, never!" and the
bright eyes flashed.
Hut madanie quietly slipped the piece
of paste-board within the reticule she
wore at her belt, determining, If neces
sary, to take the young cflicer at hw
word.
" Madame will pardou a stranger's in
terference, but I must beg that neither
she nor mademoiselle venture into the
streets to-day. The soldiers are in a
tdate of revelry and liot, which might
subject them to insult. Any commands
I should be hnppv to fulfil.
"Respectfully, HciiiiVo.n Tmksvk."
Madame Moreau, some threo days
later, read aloud the above card just
slipped beneath hor door. Her nieje
stood at the glass, tying on her hat and
listening with curling lip.
"You see, Marie," she said, glancing
np from the writing, "you must not go
out. It would bi rash madness."
Rut Marie only picked up her veil and
begun adjusting it across tho pretty
face.
"Marie, do you hear me?"
"Yes, aunt," she answered; "but
inasmuch as I am hungry, and there is
nothing iu '.he house to eat, I think it
rather a matter of necessity than of
choice. Reside, I would rather Lave
open insult thau Hcrr Hugh Von
Treuck's magnanimous interference.
l)j not fear, auntie ; I am quite able to
take caro of myself."
And, in spi'e of the elder lady's
entreaties, and with a good-by kiss and
a reassuring smile, she was gono.
Rut the smile faded us she stood a
moment on the threshold of the outside
door and glanced up and dowu the
street filled with soldiers. The color
in her cheek puled to whiteness, and
her heart beat loud and fast.
She almost determined to turn back,
when some one, standing at her elbow,
said in tones ho earnest as to be nearly
harsh,
"Did not your aunt receive my warn
ing:
It was Hugh Von Trerck who spoke.
"Are you in authority in this house,
sir.ovcr all its inmates?" she questioned.
"If wo are jour prisoners, lot us know
it. You cau then enforce your w ishes."
"You do me injustice, mademoiselle,"
ha replied, iu low. thrilling tones. "I
beg you for your owu sake, not mine,
not to venture out this morniug."
"Your prayers and commands are all
one to me, sir, sue rctorteu.
Tho next minute she had gained the
street, fear forgotten in her indignant
anger. With quick step ho hastened
iu tho necessary direction. ' Reyond a
rudo stare of admiration she was unuin
tested, and her few purchases were
effected.
She started to return, when coming
immediately toward her, extending Lorn
the curb to the wall, was a line of
Prussian soldiers, arm linked in arm,
their steps unsteady from liquor, and
their voices raised in laughter and song.
What should she do? She feared to
turn und (lee, lest they should pursue
her. Forhups by hiding her tremor and
walking boldly on they might make
room for hor to pass. Herr Von Treuck's
hated advice rang iu her ears. (she
should hate him trebly if it proved un
necessary. Rut now all the soldiers'
eyes were tnrfed upon her, as they stood,
an impassable phalaux, barring her way.
"Pay us toll, my pretty little Fran
caise," said one, fastening his coarse
ga.o upon her.
"Yes ; pay us toll," the others echoed ;
"a kiss apiece 1"
Concealing the awful sinking at ter
heart, sho strove to pass them by step
ping down from tho curb ; but theout-
side man and first speaker threw out his
arm prevent her escape.
"No, no !" he said in a boisterous
tone. "Y'ou are our prisoner, and we let
you off easy. Tay 111 willingly, and we
will prove good as our word. Drive us
to force, aud we'll holp oursolves.
To scream would be but to gather
round hor frosh tormentors, so she
struggled to appear calm.
"Let me pass," sho said, in low, in
dignaut tones, when, without deigniug
further parley, the first speaker threw
his arm about her waist.
Sho felt his tainted breath upon her
nbnek. O God 1 must hor lips be
poisoned by his touch? With sudden
strength she wrenched herself from his
grasp, the brutal laugh, of the others
jeering on her ears.
A scream) loud and long, burst from
her lips, followed by another and an
nothor, as her persecutor again ap
proached, when, as if by magic, torae
one darted in between them and felled
the ruffian to the earth.
The others, bold With drink, mur
mured angrily, but a gleaming pistol
soon silenced them, even as they rooog
nized their vountr colonel and res
pectfully moved away, fulling
guard, he put the man ho hold nndor
his heel under Brrest, then turned and
offered his arm to tho trembling girl.
She saw then, for the first time, that
it was Hugh Von Trenck who had saved
her. Haughtily refusing his arm, hating
herself, hating him more, she walked
on in silence by his side. At her door
she forced herself to speak.
"Sir, 1 owe you my thanks," she said.
"Mademoiselle, the day will come
when you will pay me jour debt in
full," he replied, and left her.
What did ho mcttu ? His words the
man himself, haunted her. How brave
and full of courage he had boen ? now
nobl v ho had come to her relief I How
generously he had uttered no word of
reproach, or of the truth that sho had
brought it all on herself. If he had not
been a Prussian, nhe might almost have
liked him. As it was but sho got 110
further thau Hiis. She broke down in a
htorm of tears.
A week later tho troops, all but a
mall reserve, were ordered cut for a
sortie. Palis hud long been in siege
aud must soon capitulate. With all her
eart Malic prayed night and day for
succe s to the tlagalieady loomed. That
her cause could be lost seemed to her
impossible.
Now and then tho winds noro to her
the boom of cannon. They were light
ing not far off, and among them was the
man she had treated with such disdain
ful coutcmpt. Could it bo that sho
thought of him ut such a time?
The third lny tho lighting closed
The Prussians wero again victorious;
but all night long they were bringiug
back the dead and wounded to the
town.
It was just daybreak when a squad of
soldiers halted t her door. She had
not dreamed of undressing during the
long night. A nameless dread had tor
tured her. Sho knew in this moment
what it was, as herself sho went down
and threw open the door to receive the
pale, senseless form the' bore.
This way 1" sho raid, with quiet
li3iiiy, and led the way to her own
ocm and her own bed.
no had told her she should pay her
lit. Could ho have foreseen this day 1
Would ho ever know what sho hnd done
for him ?
For weeks his life hung in the bal
ance ; but one night ho opened his gray
eyes to consciousness, and they j ented
on the solitary figure by his side. Her
aunt, weary, had gono to rest. A smile
broko over tho white, thin fane.
"You here, mademoiselle?" ho said.
"Yes," sho answered, "I am here."
Ho held out his wasted hand, and
sho silently placed hers within il. Then
still with a smile upon his lips, he fell
asleep ; but from that moment the tide
had turned, and life had gained the
victory.
He was almost well again when, one
day, came the tidings of the fall of
Paris, and on the same day, by the fa
tality of fate, came to him tho news of
his promotion to a general's rank.
"Ah, mademoiselle," ho said, "I can
not rejoice while you weep. I once said
von should repay yctir debt. I little
imagined how you would repay it. I
meant thou tho day should come when
vou should love and marry me. I had
loved you from tho first moment my
eyes rested on you, iu spite of your
contempt and seoru. Rut now you
have paid your debt iu your own way.
You have Riven me back my life. I
will no longer torturo you by my pres
ence. I will go away and leave you."
And ho turned his head, that she
might not see the moisturo in his eyes
Rut softly she stele to his side, and,
kneeling down, nestled her head on his
arm.
"If I say stay, Hugh, then will yon
go?"
"My love my darling! do you mock
mo
"Nay, Hugh, I am like my own poor
Paris," sho replied. "Tho soige has
been a long one, but sho and I, I fear,
have alike bppn 'taken bv storm.' "
The Lumber Industry of I'ugeiii Sound,
Thero are sovoral species of conif
erous plants, which seem particularly at
home at P 11 got Sound. None but those
who have been on the ground cau havo
an adoquate conception of tho extent
of the lumbering ! business of tho dis
trict, Washington Territory. Tho sound,
a magnificent arm of the sea, reacho
down from near tho northwestern limit
of the Territory nearly to its western
middle, affordiug extended facilities of
navigation, its nnmerous bays, like in
sinuating fingers feeling into the Terri
tory all along tho shore, as if inviting,
and even clutching, after the commerce
of the country. Around this stretch
and spread of navigable waters grow
tho finest forests in the world, of pine,
fir, spruce and redwood, the enormous
growths of which are a natural wonder.
Since the settlement of the Pacific coast
the lumber business of Puget Sound has
been gradually developed, under the
stimulus of California aud hinese trade,
until it has become an industry of lead
ing proportions. Numerons mills of
first-class appointment and capacity,
cluster about the indentations of the
sound, many of the lumbering points
constituting towns by themslves. In
these towns are stores carrying stocks
of merchandise of from 010,000 to
1100,000. The lumber companies own
lines of ships aud freqnoutly from four
to ten vessels can bo seen simultaneously
loading at 'the dock of a single mill
Many of these mills havo attached to
them from twenty to fifty dwellings,
and the population of a single village
sometimes numbers 500 or COO persons.
l'niperor Nero's Love fur Music.
In his own person Nero gave tho
world proof that love for the divine
art of tannic cau live in tho blackest
soul. When he ascended the throne he
summoned Terpnos, the ablest of the
l iilii'nirili, to Lis court and became his
iudustiious and studious pupil iu sing
iuK, neglecting none of the measures
which wero practised by tho fireek
musicians of that day for tho preserva
tion and development of t he voice. His
baritone, voice was nuturally weak, a
little rough and hoarse, und only by
means of iueesi-aut practice), , by the
greatest care in vocal and instrumental
delivery, did ho succeed in accomplish
ing anything in music. During hi-t
whole life he was filled with the con
viction that he was tho first virtuoso of
his time, and he died with tho words,
"What an artist perishes with mo!'
When, toward tho end of his reign, tho
proprietor of Gaul, .tulius Viudex, rose
against him, nothing pained tho em
peror more than the fact that iu the
address of tho Gallic insurrection, he
was called a miserable cithara player.
Desiring to shine, as a tragic singer as
well as cithara player and poet.he intro
duced musical festivulsiuto Rome in the
style of tho Greek festival and iu a
princely maimer. Suetonius fays that
" their lenders cin.td 40,(100 sesterces."
Finally ho determined to exhibit his
art before the connoisseurs and the pub
lio of Rome, and this happened in the
second spring games, in the year of til,
snort tiruo niter the urst perse
cutions of tho Christians. All
tho world had desired to hear
his diiuo voice, but Nero only
wished to appear in his garden. Finally,
when his body guard united their soli
citations with thoe. of the pcoplo he
promised to take the public stage, and
sent his name to bo inscribed ou tho
list of singers and cithara players. He
drew lots with tho other contestants,
and when his turn came ho a'icctided
the stugo followed by the tri'
bancs und surrounded by his intimates.
The pracfecti pruetorial carried his
ithara. After ho had taken his place
and played the prelude, ho had Cluvious
Unfits announce that ho would sing
Niobe, and he sang for an hour. Never
theless ho postponed tho contest for the
principal prize and the other numbers
of tho programmo till the next year, in
order to have au opportunity to be
hoard ofu ner. Tho postponement was
too long for him, however, und he
appeared repeatedly in public. Ho did
not scruple oven to associate with the
actors of the private theaters, aud one
enterprising manager, a praetor, closed
an engagement with him 0110 day for
1,000,01)0 sesterces, a remuneration
which he owed less to his art than to
the testy and dangerous artistic pride.
Resides the cithara songn, ho sang a
number of tragic ports in costume.
When he impersonated he rot s and gods,
he wore a musk made to resemble his
own features while tho m.i.ks of the
heroines and goddest-os copied the
features of the woman of whom ut tho
titun ho chanced to bo most fond.
Among other roles ho acted tho parts
of Orestes, (Kipns and Hercules.
A Spanish City ut Niirhl.
As the shades of evening descend,
this wholo street, illumined with lamps,
torches, and parti-illumined with lan
terns.'.bccomcs a fairy scene. Tho cafes
uro then crowded to repletion ; youth
ful eyes flash lovo at each other over
snowy Ilorchatas ; old men sip their
spiced congao and dream of tho isles
of the blessed, and fiery politicians rave
and stamp anil seem ready to tear each
other to pieces. Here a group of artists
discuss a picture ; there a couple) of
padres are trying their hands at cards ;
hero is a young milihih', fresh from
Madrid, covered with spangh s and as
gay as a peacock ; and thero in that
corner cau you believe your eyes !
tho veritable old beggar that you just
saw in the street, investing tho piestu
hat you gave him in a nightcap of in
vigorating cordial. 1. very rank in
society is represented ; every variety of
color and costume flashes out beneath
those brilliant lights, while your ears
are assailed by the diu of voices, the
tinkling of glasses, the sharp click of
tho dice on tho marble table, iuter
mingleel with the straius of delicious
mnsio. This is Do las Siarpes by night.
Would you not like to see it ? It is a
phantasmagoria of splendor ; it is a
babel of confusion ; it is a page from
the "Arabian Nights' Entertainments"
supplemented by sundry passages from
he "Hero de la Mareha."
Ry far the best marriage, in point of
commanding social position, made by
any American lady iu F.ngland in recent
years, was that of Mrs. Ives neo Motley,
with Sir William Harcourt. Lady Man
dovillo gained higher rank, but her
husband is utterly destitute of any posi
tion arising from personal merit of anv
kind.
In Winchester, N. IL, a lady has for
ten years been a clerk in a savings bank,
and now that the Treasurer is in prison
for appropriating tho funds to his own
I use, the lady .has received every voto for
' treasurer.
J'Orl LAK SCIEX'E.
Writing on tho yellow fever in . 1
Lancet llthjn, Dr. J. C. Le Hardy con
siders that the fact is established beyond
dispute that in dejections of tho
patients, and in the atmosphere of a
yellow-fever region, there exist minute
fungoid plants not previously described.
Ha maintains that it is to these plant ,
which require a temperaturo of 20.0
degrees for their growth, that the pro
pagation of the disease is duo.
C. Shaler Smith has applied the re
sults of tho observations of several
years to the estimation of the amount
of pressuro that has been exercised by
the wind in gusts of extraordinary vio
lence. The most violent storm of which
he has a record occurred at East St.
Louis, 111., in 1871, when a locomotive
was blown over by a wind pressuro of
Wi pounds per tquare foot. Tho jail at
St. Charles, Mo., was destroyed 111 l.'i7
by a pressure of 81 .'1 ; a brick dwelling
at Mwrshtield, Mo., in 18S0, by a force
of 58 pounds per square foot. Railway
trains maj be blown frcm tho track,
and bridges prostrated by pressures of
from 21 to 31 pounds per square foot.
These estimates are based upon the
calculation of the smallest amount of
pressure that would do tho damage.
Tho original Edison lamp with carbon
loop, with which ho mude expoiiinents,
and with it a certificate under his own
hand that it burned 1,3111) hours, is now
to bo seen at the Patent Museum, South
Kensington, London, whero the hanging-
board designates "electric apparatus.'.
Galvanized iron is iron covered with
zinc in a zinc bath. Formerly it was
covered by the aid of electrie-ity, created
by a galvanic battery, but lately it is
covered with zinc in the same manner
that tinned iron is made, still keeping
its old name. Zinc will corrode under
neath paint, and form zinc oxide, a
white powder, which loosens tho zinc
and it drops off.
A learned Swiss has pointed cut that
a poplar cr other tall tree may, if its
roots strike into tho dump soil, serve as
a lightning conductor to protect a house ;
and he thinks ho has verified tho con
jecture by examination of a number of
individual eases of lightning stroke. Iu
the case, however, where tho houses
stands between the tree and piece of
water, a pond, well or stream, the
shortest path for tho lightning from tho
tree to the we.-conductor may b
through tho house !
'I he Maoris.
The principal food of the Maoris is
pork, mussels, eel, dried shark and a
variety of other fih. Of vegetables,
they have potatoes, the knmera or yum,
the taro (a vegetable with a largo leaf
something like an arum lily, though not
so largo ; the root is something liko that
of tho artichoke, but it is intensely hot
and leaves a burning sensation like an
overdose of pepper would,) maize, und
tho kernels of the koraka. These two
latter when gathered are put in kits
und steeped in wate r until tho begin-
ring of spring, which time, as ono may
I suppose, tliey are pntrui. iney are
then taken out and eaten with much
gusto by tho Maoris. The stench pro
ceeding from these kits when taken out
of tho water is indescribably horrible.
Sometimes potatoes undergo the ranie
process. Potatoes cooked in a kopa
(pronounced copper) is perhups the best
method known. A large hole is first
dug, into which a largo number of rod
hot stones are put. The potatoes, which
havo been washed, and are quite wet,
are put on top, and then securely cov-
red up with ma's and earth put on top.
In this way they are left perhapH teu
minutes or a quarter of an hour, after
which the covering is removed, aud
thero the potatoes are, done to a nicety
The chief native industries are mats
and kits of various kiuds, which are
made from tho fibre of flax. Some of
tho latter are most handsomely worked
and dyed iu a vaiiety of colors. They
go in largely for the cultivation of
tobucco, (the Virginian sort,) which
thrives remarkably well ; il is prepared
by tho sweating process, and is made
into largo rolls aud taken to tho towns
and sold ; it is usually called ruurau,
but it is not equal t that of European
manufacture. The, I.on,lnn l'ML
The l'otate.
Nobody knows where the potato came
from originally. It has been found, ap
parently indigenous, in many parts of
tho world. Mr. Darwin, for in
stance, found it wild in tho Chonos
Archipelago. Kir W. .7. nookersays that
it is common at Valparaiso, whero it
grows abundantly on the an dy hil
neor tho sea. In Peru and other parts
of South America it appears to be at
home ; and it is a noteworthy fact that
Mr. Darwin should have noted it both in
the humid forests of tho Chinese Archi
pelago and among the central Chilian
mountains, whero sometimes rain does
fall for six months at a stretch. It
was to tho colonists whom Sir Walter
Raleigh sent out in Elizabeth's reign
that F.ngland is indebted for petatoes.
Herriot, who came out with these colo
nists, and who wrote an account of his
travels, makes what may perhaps be
regarded as the cailiest meution of this
vegetable
FARM, (i.VRDt.N AM) HOLSEIIOM).
How to Item i n)' tuni.
ncre is a timely and important item
for those who desire to get rid of
stumps : "In tho autumn or eaily win
ter bore a hole one or two inches in
diameter, according to the girth of the
stump, and about eight inches deep.
Put into it one or two ounces of Falt
petre, till tho hole with water,
and plug it close. In the ensuing
spring take out the plug and pour in a
gill of kerosene oil and ignite it. The
stump will smoulder away, without
blazing, to tho very extremity of the
rootn, leaving nothing but ashes.
Celery.
Henderson says that tho practice re
commended by most gardeners of earth
ing up celery every two weeks from the
time it begins to grow, is utter non
sense, resulting in tough, stringy, rusly
plants. If wanted for use during the
latter part of this month it may now be
straightened up and tho earth druwn
around it with a hoe. After a week,
bank up to half its height and iu ten
days finish tho banking process. I
will be blanched iu ten days and ready
for use. Rank up no more than can be
used or sold, us it, makes it hollow.
If eeii'in.
(it.MH. -Take one cup of corn-meal 01
rye meul and two of Graham Hour; put
into it a pinch of salt, a spoonful ol
sugar, two teaspoons of phosphatic
baking powder, und then sift it twice
through a sieve ; mix to a stiff ba'ter
with either sweet or sour milk ; grui-e
patty-pans or gem pans ; put ono laiye
spoonful of batter in each and buke im
mediately. Cheam Pie. Take a teactipful of good,
thick sweet cream in a bowl ; beat it till
it foams with an egg-beater, adding fine
frosted sugar till sweetened to the tuste ;
flavor with lemon or vanilla ; have the
crusts ready baked ; pour in tho mix
ture, and you have a delicious pie. 1 f
jour cream is not the thickest and best,
add the whito of ono egg while beat
ing, and stand in the warm oven till it
forms. My fuuiily pronounce this the
best pio yet.
To Kiii:r Cihek. Put the cider in a
porcelain lined or brass kettle ; bring it
just to a boil ; skim well aud put into
jugs, ond immediately, while hot, s.'al
up after tho old-fashioned way with
sealing-wax. The above will keep cider
sweet any desired length of time, just as
when it came from the press.
Itlllll'ol llIU llll'i..
The time has been in this count ly,
and not a great number of years ago,
when many farmers found almost insur
mountable difficulties in the way of the
introduction of good stock ; but that
time has passed away. Obstacles which
presented themselves disappeared, aud
it is 110 longeron open question, whether
or not it is good policy to breed, grow
and fatten the best. The great cost of
thoroughbred stock, at 0110 time, was u
barrier iu the way of its general use,
but breeding bus now grown to be a vast
industry, and prices of good indivi lual
sires and dams have been so reduced us
to place them nearer tho reach of all,
than ever before. The hard times of u
few years back prevented many farmers
from weevlingout trashy breeding stock,
the nieaus for making desirable substi
tution beiugaeiually unprocurable ; but
this difficulty is now removed. T
generally unremuner.itivo condition of
the fat stock trade was another impedi
ment to those desiring to raise their
standard of breeding ; but this trouble
no longer exists. There actually are no
obstacles in the way of general im
provements at this time which are worth
considering. On the contrary tin re is
au incentive to the introduction of good
blood. It is one of the urgent demands
of the day, and if the American people
would become, as they cau, the regulur
feede-rs of Knropo, it mnst be heeded.
The standard quality of the stock on our
fat stock markets can, with proper ef
fort, bo raised fifty per cent, within the
next two years' time, without any finan
cial trouble whatever. f'ill.-hmih Stork
man.
Fish i I. '
Tho following suggestive- facts, sysa
Dr. Footo's Uen'uli Mnt.ihhi, are gathered
from Professor At water's paper before
the annual meeting of tho Fishcultural
Association : Fish consists of waste
matter and Hash. The waste consists of
bones, skin, entrails, etc. ; tho flesh of
water and two solids ; the solids are the
nutritive material. The proportions of
waste in different samples vary widely :
A flounder sixty-eight per cent., while
one of halibut steak only eighteen per
cent.; making the halibut the cheaper
fish at a higher price. The least waste
is to bo found in fat shad, fat mack
erel, and dry and salt fish. The
practical application of these facts is of
the utmost value. Tho sumo nutritive
substance in the different, samples of
fish were foun 1 to vary iu cost from forty
onnts to a pound. Tho hieh price.
bear in mind, being for fish having the
irreatest waste. "It makes little differ
ence," it is added, "to tho man with
$5,000 a year whether ho pays forty
cents or $4 a pound for the albnnienoids
in food provided it suits his palate : but
to tho housewife whose family must be
supported upon $000 a year it is a matter
of groat importance,
ITEMS OK INTEREST.
The great question 111 New Jersey just
now is : "Do bank directors direct?"
)no of the richest heiresses in Ger
many, CouniesH Holm, is a baby only a
year obi.
The most beautiful tropical birds for
hat decoration comes from tho West
India I'-iutids.
Rrick Pomeroy is a bankrupt at Den
ver, whero ho Las been concerned in
mining operations.
A Delaware man served for five years
in prison before he concluded to estab
lish his innocence of tho crime. Hfl
didn't want to rush things.
Old mother earth has been troubled
with more ague chills in the past year
than for seventy years previous.
Some idea of tho magnitude of the
railroad interest in this country can be
hid from the fact that NiO.000 people"
are employed in its service.
Professor King has ber-a offered SOD
to permit a couple to go up in his bal
loon and bo married at a height of
2,000 fe-tt above their future home.
Clara Louise Lellogg is really Koinf
to be married next March. It was kind
of her to wait until she had saved up
enough money to support a husband.
Previous to IT'.tT Paly was without a
newspaper. Now it has more organs
than it knows what to do with, and is
obliged to : end some of them overher-j
-'t,.
Had the prosecution of Gaiteau beer,
conducted us it should have been, tho
muu would have been tried, condemned
and executed w ithiu a week after the
death of his victim. .Ye'ir- Ywk Omphh;
A man whoso head formed the termi
nus of a blow 1 y a featherweight pugilist,
positively affirmed thereafter that tho
aforesaid featherweight weighed eigh
teen stone.
Gov. Murray, of Utah, peut Gov. Crit
tenden, his half-brother, of Missouri,
as a silver wedding lire-sent, a silver
brick weighing eight and one-half
ounces, and inscribed "1S50."
Mr. Theodore Walton, whoso betting
exploits in Kuglund gained him fame
and money, has arrived in New Yorii.
He admits winning $f 103,000 during the
rueing season, fr:j"0,000 of which was
won on three races of I'oxhall. lie was
called tho American plunger, a term
formerly applied to the Marqr.is of Hast
ings, who during his career on the turf
was equally reckless.
' Holy Stoning" the Decks.
In a sketch of life on board a training
ship, a writer says: "The dicks were
'holy stoned' three times a week. I will
explain it an near us possible. 'Holy
stoning' a deck is accomplished by at
taching a strong rope to loth sides of
a stono twelve by eighte en inches, and
about eight inchos thick. Five or six
men, or morc, then grasp each ropo, and
while one side pulls tho other side
slacks up, and then vice versa, as they
drag the sfotie lengthwise, or fore and
aft, the deck. Resides the ' holy rtono,'
canvas and sand are used to scrub where
the ' holy stone,' cannot be ".scd. Small
hand stones uro ulso used to scrub tho
hatches and wood work, and pumico
stone fer the brass work. Everything
is made clean for the time beinfr, and
looks fine, lint l,:ii)0 men make dirt
aboard ship all about the decks,
wherever they go some drilling at tho
heavy guns ; some lying down, reading;
some sewing, and 01 hers tying fancy
knots; gangs at work swabbing or dry
ing up the berth aud gun-decks, white
washing overhead, drying np tho orlop
deck by swing pans tilled with char
coal, swung to and fro close to tho
deck. As sorni as ono place become
dry us far as your swing reaches, shifs
and dry another place. Some uro mend
ing their clothes ; others are filling tho
tank with water. All is bustle in tho
morning. In tho afternoon it is more
quiet, for, with tho exception of tho
boatswain's mute's shrill piping and his
hoarso calls, ordering boats away, tricing
up awnings, coiling ropes away that are
out of place, and his calls for men who
are ' drafted.' there is not much to do
but read ami writo and, well, search
your clothes."
Who l.urifer Is.
'Who is Lucifer?" said tho teacher to
the infant class in Sunday-school.
"I know," spoke up a brave five-year
old girl in a very earne-st touo.
Well tell mo, Katie," said tho
toacher.
"W'y Lucy's fer Rob spriggs, who has
such a funny little mustache, an' wears
such a short tout ; but papa don't liko
him at all, an' sea ho ain't got no sense,
an' no money, an' he's fer zt olo Mr.
Grip, au' "
"That will do, Katies" broko in the
teacher ; "I see you aro posted. Wo wil
go on to anothor question," and it re
quired the teacher five minutes to get
throngh using her handkerchief wiping
her eyes, sho "hud such a bad cold, you
know," for Lucy was instructing an
other class ner by. Lucy told her
mother afterward that sho thought Katie
too young to go to school, the confine
meant ws not good for hor. Sitiny.