The Cherokee advance. (Canton, Ga.) 1880-19??, July 21, 1881, Image 2

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Newspaper Page Texts= tAmimm nnd imbalance -'who to hr can my Where tMh flofii vnrely obit tod that begin. And xrAft* Is greatort Who hath ecaloe to Alike the shade* and the substance in ? Who rightly knows them—which to which who Oowccirrlh which to etilor of Uie I wo ? Thou pluckVt the Haley from the' happy | ra«r; Touched with it». lowly looks, bnt art tot Toplnck the wandering shadows when Great is the shade: and 1' hare heard apeak , * |f Of one old Shadow able to appall Eyes not afraid of substances at all. ? and weak they Voa, thon art he, Oh Death, whom mortals iamo Ufo’s eliado<r, tremblers at a sbadbw’s tr4d : Albeit there are why know how noontide's flame Scorches, and of the shadow hare no dread. Seeing It means a cooi^rfnaky place frith troei All around and grass, and much obUriona oaee — William Watson, in fiprihn r. THE DOCTOR'S STORY. m «i|.. 1; htr 'tutn* aa mi In the year 1875 I graduated, i ,nd began to practice medicine in a cent try town in Canada. It was a coni min ng place, full of poor miners, and there4ns several doctor* thoro before site; bn; I bought out another man's practice l>ef >rc , ascertaining that lie had none, so I Had to try and work along as best I ocrak In two years my patients had inprea ted to a respectable number, bnt I was i till it poor man, fori could not exact n hei ivy 4 fee from peoplo who earned their bread by tbo sweat of tlioir brows in darkness, and aonietimcR in danger, mi Tlioy were poor, and the doctor Who attended them in case of fitness was noeessarily poor also. The valley j it) ..".jrjbioh the town was sitnat««l wash boun tiful one; lovely farina lay in every direction, and aged elms roeebesido placid river that flowed through L tnidst of it—peace and plenty Mailed , the beautiful scene, Anil happy men and women lived and died there without having ever seen the busy, turbnlunt si •'World outside. 1 . ^ | • V The superintendent 1 of onfe of the mining companies livoil near the cot tage which I had mnde my home, atid iu.hu had an only child, a daughter, and tl At,they say a poor man is never prop erly miserable till he falls in love I had to follow np my destiny liy loving Lillie Hardwick. ■ftho was lovely, that is thoonjy excuse • T can offer for my msh devotion , to her. "J'loved hor the first t me I ever saw her —ft Was one Sunday, at chnroh, " 1 • 1 She sat beside hof fathcr, and I thought angels all tin morning ibsteod pf *' listening to the sermon. She wore a blno and white dfoss and something gauzy nfon her hea<l; h*r .• hair was nut-brown and rippled * oviaUy, and her complexion pure j.infant's and Irosli as a rose, nil '■ i Hhe had large, soft brown-eyes, xriii lpng, dark Ipahos, and the sweetest voido ever heard. . „ ,&ft® r ‘- b * t Sunday I met her at tone or two parties, bnt I did not dare Us pay ^ Ipir any marked utuntion, for ahe was llio only daughter of a rich man, and I was the poor, nnknown dootor, strug- • gling hard to make a living. ' Thesnmmer wore away, and Tallin was still a bright star at which I fond if gazed bnt which was also far beyond my '-ttioh. ,! ‘ r I fttteied she eared for me, and t)._ kept love and hope alive, and at in; ‘present rato of progress,! might, j About sixt.t years, amass sulllcientof tlu ' World's gboflH to take a wife. Cortalnl the prospect'xvfts not cheering. 1 ' j I attended a picnic one day, and I had the happiness to he chosen Lillie’s oh. «ort which filled roe with delight, for - Wfi spent the afteinoon together ; alio ..had a volume of poems xritli her, and I . lay among the terns at her feet in the hard w.ood,grove whore moro energetic peoplo wore makings fire and proper ing supper, and road some of these) E ^lo,U(l tq her ; thoy wore aliort so ts, and one of them I shall never r-- -i i.’: - new to mq and ran thus I'm- • * ‘ “ lie littto knows A Wousiii'h heart, who, when'tltt cold w ind Mows • (Kicins It will change. Though Storms may rise, A»el grief - may dim, and sorrow' ol6hd llor »«»!-• skies, And hopeless hours, and sunless days come on, . And dark despair tho gloomy future iilj— But, loving unoo, sho loros through good or ill.’ I raised my eyes to Lillie’s face as sho listened to tho word*, and b®r look, tie* lighted me. " How true that is,” sho said, earnest ly, then colored, at, I suppose, the ex pression I eonld not keep out of my face. If I only dared there and then to -tell her how I loved her—but I had tityl the courage. , That picnic Jived in my memory like one sunbeam on a dark day—a streak of golden light shining through gloom. I okfrcely saw Lillio all winter except occas’onally at church, for I was too busy to be a regular attendant, , ,. Iu tho mouth of March a terrible day "No, doctor, stay whore yon are. Ton loan afede*.wkjaa we reano lug ijjr s^njgi^d ntof .fco lth»s Any WirtoUs it Ml , >wPdi/^i«i»idI d(a« •) dark chasm through which the black smoke still rolled. I stood in sad nfrutyaieu as to what wonld come next, wnen I felt a light touch on my arm, ard turning I found Lillie beside me. She wore a light morning dress and slippers, and was without a hat; her bosom rose and fell rapidly, for shehad evidently lost no time in oomiffg here. Oh, doctor T she cried, dinging to my arm, " 1 have ran all the way and I aw out of ItoeAtft. Tell me where papal* ?" *• I looked at her flushed face and eager eyes; I noted tho trembling of her hands, and the pink hot-house rose tlmt nestled in her breast, as if mocking her agony ef fbar. " Miss LilHe, come back a little, yr.ur father xras not in the mine at tho time of the explosion j I have seen him since; be in safe.” "Oh, thank Ood—thank CkSdl” sho cried, tears starting to her sweet brown eyes. i Yea, come back, Miss LilHe, it is not good for yon to inhale that smoke; come bsck I" Something trtld mo to get her away from the mouth of the pit, lmt it Was hard to do. At length I left her trying to console an old woman whose three sons had gone down a few honr* ago, hale, hearty young men, and who might be blackened corpses for all she know— tinned and bruised past hope Of recog nition even by their mother. 11 As 1 returned to tho shsft a dull, booming sonnd came suddenly from underground—the earth shook—a rtar like the blast of a thousand cannons Was ion hoard, and huge masses of inky sin rose atmvo the fatal pit. A second ex plosion had taken place. ® 1 | Screams from the women rent tlio air, and above them all, ringing out, I heard the voice of Lillie Hardxrik’k clear as a bell-: "Oh, papa, -papa!" My heart stood still; a crowd of mpn lmd gathered ronnd me, another party going down to help the dying men belotv. No one tried to atop me now; btit I could not go withont ono word to Lillio, If I went to my death ' let her at leapt know how I loved her. Hhe was by my side and I caught her hands in mine. " Lillie, I will try to save your father —if I cannot I will die with him." Oh, thank yon," she said, looking straight into my face. “ Come np alive — for my sake I" With theso words ringing in my eats I jumped on the lift and was soon spin ning downward into the vanlt of dark ness and despair. Tha air was thick with noisome vapors,,and we oonld dis tinguish nothing at first; bnt after awhile our lanterns revoalod huge masses, of coal thrown out of place, im prisoning men in, living tombs, for with out fresh air life.could not be sustained. On every side-the mine had beon rent tin*tort, arid instead of the wide passages where the men worked all wag blocked np 41th dol^ris, and large shaft|i of wood used to stay" np the mine lay torn and twisted, proving the fury of the power that destroyed them. We gazed at each other in mute despair—then seizing any imploipent that came to hand began to work with a will. I never know 1 eonld handle a pick before, but I certainly made good progress. and succeeded in bursting open a lead, ono of tho most important lit the mine. " Here!’’ I shouted, as I found a nnm. bor of men piled together, “ Gome and help me out with them. Boiuo of them at least are alive."- i- By the yellow light' of the lantern arm was doubled under him and broken what other injuries he had sustained oould not tell. He was placed in the lift and I took other men as the lift would date were laid thero and we were soon on onr way to light and life. The first face I saw on gaining day light was Lillie’s, in fact I saw it as I gazed upward anxiously; it shone white and pure above the dark abyss of woe from which we ascended like a star of hope. When wo came into the light and sho snwherfathor lying in my arms as I knelt to support him, sho proved her conrago by neither screaming nor fainting. Hhe assisted me to lift him ont and place him on a litter that had boen provided. I examined him now and fonnd that I in addition to tho broken arm Mr. Hard- ! wick hail sustained other injuries, none j of them necessarily fatal, still placing his life in great danger. I attended to for lost jopehad ted. Ifttjflthe was foil and too ^aiM4l to d npon. I attended Mr. Hardwick through the long illneea that followed, and with the help of Ood brought him back to health and strength as the hawthorn was in bloom, and the robins began their spring songs among the old elms.-— - I saw Lillie daily, and her swfeet fr.ee became dearer to me every time I met her. Hhe fonnd time to visit among those on whom the hand of Ood had been luid, speaking word* of fort and healing. A true womdnly woman—such as are given to bring ijieh Bearer to Ood than aught else can dd. It was a beautiful balmy evening when Lfiaid my last professional visit to her home—the pqrfnfne! of spring violets in the air and the dewy mist of early nightfall lay ovor the valley. | 1 fonnd Lillie sitting alone on the sidosteps of the porch, l^er lacework lying in her lap. " It ia too dark to work, doctor," abo said, pleasantly. " I am taking advan tage of the lazy honr. I like to sit here and enjoy the perfume of my violotfc— yon know I have a perfeot mania for flowers. Do you remember I wood a hot-house rose that morning s-that ^er rible morning I I do not 1 think I sHaL ever lovo roses again -tboirecent brings it all I>»ck to mn- One can hardly (m agiuo associating anything terrible with the pcrfnmo of a ro*e, bnt I dj>." I sat beside her and spoke on all softs of snbjeots except the oae nearest toy heart—that I had not conrago to men tion. I paid my visit to Mr. Hardwick and told him it was unnecessary for me, to see bim again in my profeaeional oa ily. " 1 , Como all the same, toy dear follow come as a friend," he saifl, pressing fiy hand cordially. Ilin wife, a sweet, motherly woraAnj seconded the invitation, and I bsflc them all good-night. Lillie sal on t steps, though. I had sOefi her flittihg nbont the house while I talked with father; as I passed ont she held ont hand to me, saying: I Here is something fbr you, dootfir. No, do not look at it till you are -at homo." I.’ Withont another word she vanished, leaving in my hand a small, white pack age. Aa soon as I was in toy shrgeiy 1 1 opened the paper; there lay thA rose my love woro in her bosom on the day of the explosion, and on the paper, in her own pretty handwriting,’the words bf the poem Tread to her among the maple trees., ..]; It was late, bnt I did not sleep until I saw Lillio again, and heard from hoi oww dear-it,>#ithat sho lived die. Her parnnts'oondjntid W marriage, and wo are Lanpy. The perfume of roa^s has for me no horrible associations. A iMtly l iulrrtnkrr. Whether other cities are blessed with lady undertaken ” or nob We are un able to say; bnt Philadelphia has odb who has lately been extensively adver tised by proceedings in court on ar.ooan.-t of her extravagant conduct at a funeral. A young unmarried lady died in that city leaving a little proj»erly of <>700 tp which a brother and two sisters wore the heirs. Her funeral, however, was token charge of by an annt with whom sho lived, who called in the' lady nnderi tokor and gavo her a carte blanche, with an injunction to have everything noces. sary done in a respoctnble 'Style. Tli4 bill was presented irt ' due time, and amounted to tho pretty sntu of $:l. r >4, moro than half the estate of tho deceased j including an elegant casket covered with black cloth at 8175, a shroud at •50, ten carriages at gild, flowem ut $18, mant, tha travelers elimb the Andes by the highway along the biink of the precipitous mountain wall. A friar had met tha party, and bidden them beware bf rook avalanche* that might roll upon them from the crags towering above the road. -. » The friar’s warning had not been fat vein. An we continued on onr road, avalar.chea of rooks end stones rumbled down along the 'fountain side, {and some of t|hem where they oonld do e groat deal of mieehief, for right under the nteepem pert -of the overhanging oliflfc, perhaps a mfo below the lend of onr road, the India* village of Tacunga extended along the bank of a little mountain stream. Home of the ontly- ing ranches seemed, indeed, to have been damagod already, for we saw tha peoplo miming to and fro as if they were getting their eowa and hones ont of the way. We had nearly reached the cliffs above tho village when Oapteiu Matins and- only reined ng his horse and snatc bed the halter-strap effenr mule. " Hbld on there 1” he Balled ont. " There's a gamiohaahead—4blockade! Confofind it, that will cost us a roundabout ride of five miles at least I" .. t j . " What’s the matter?" I asked, “iro the Ihdians going to atop ns?" "No, but the avalanciio. Look up there,” cried he—" that whole promon tory is ready to come down 1" A torrent of rolling stones drew enr attention to the overhanging cliffs l^yt a mile ahead, end, looking np, we mw that an enormous mass of rook was going to detach ttaelf from the moan- tain aide., The split grew larger 4>d larger; from th# .valley below we heard the fearful eriee of the ranchcros, who had already seen the oncoming nVa- lanche ; bnt we eenld not help thopi, and in the next moment the promontory came down with a crash that shook tho mountains like ett earthquake. A lnf?e cloud of dust rose from the valley; ton or twelve houses had been completely bnried, bnt by raid good Inck the Arid shower of rooks had warned the poor people In time, and we learned afterward that they had saved all their children and the larger part of their oattlo. We had to make a five-mile iletonr to tho left, and when we got back to the road oo the other sjde of the promontory, we fonnd a large crowd of natives con gregated near the scene of the disaster. Ten or twelve of them had begun to clear the road, bnt the larger number had gathered arqjnd a man who was performing a strange ceremony—an in cantation, intended to propitiate tlio wrath of the flte-fod, to whom the In dians attributed Hie effects of t he vel cauio forqee. -in»tb* far southwest a dim amoke-elond. curled np from tho Andes; toward these mountains the sorcerer had tnrned his face, and high over his head ho held a vessel with burning herbs, that diffused a peculiar aromatic odor. The Indiana Were so ab sorbed in their ceremony that they hardly noticed us, pnd, after watching them for ten minates.pr so, we passed them in silence and oontinned on our road; ■■’ ” • iv "' “ That’s a volcano-doctor,’’ chnoklef the'captain. "He makee them' beliovh that he can bewitch the earthquake, an4 the poor wretches are silly enough tq pay him for his yoous-poens. There arc volcano-doctors in,,every siorra, and they are sent for aa soqi! aa thero ia tho leau^ sign of danger." , ■■ . ijktmw Opium Bmeklnp to Mhtorato' e.|ppfcbf og^mpnolfta^in Cali- is in tHnfrounAr-lenefrtief Cali- .ia.WftiMron ire ftery%pfi9ocious; desire to indulge In everything which is for bidden. Every Chinese wash-house throughout the State is the center of evil. Yonng boys learn there to smoke Qpinm and contract the habit which ruins them body and soul. The Chinese receive boys xrith great favor, and ate always ready to initiate them into any vioe. In the cities the evil ia worse, as the opportunities for its gratification! are met on every aider There are many squalid opium " dens ” in the Chii ese quarters, and these have the regilar white customers. The police make fro qnent raids npon them, bn! the payn ent of $30 •fine releases tbe proprietor. I Tow it is cnstomAry for tho smoker to deposit this atnonnt before beginning bis in< nl genes, in order to assure the roleAto of the patron in case of arrest. The yieo is most prevalent among tho hoodlums of thie city and the promen of the tojan bnt police offloerK and detectives, whose word may be relied npon, declare tliat the practice is spreading xrith grew! rapidity, and that the law xrill soon have to be invoked to chock ifby heavy fines and other penalties. The qcw treaty xrill have no sensible effect upon the importation of opium into this coun try, aa the dnties are low in British Columbia and Mexico, and tho worki of smnggling it over the border xrill notj be difficult. As a Chinese merchant aaid n few days ago in speaking of the drtjg: "The Chineso xrill get it If It's on ton of t• 4*. the earth. Yon might as well try, to stop your nation from smoking drinking liquor." uy me yeuow light' 01 the lantern I , . * recognized the party that lmd gone down V' lmot '’ mo }V gloves, etc. to the rescue. LiUie’s father first. TTe 11 lH 0 "“‘-‘“faction to know that the 1C rescue, xauie s lamer nrsl. lie insensible but still breathed; his > n commenting on the features of the ease, treated tho extravaganeo With merited severity, "finch wholesale Humiliation," I10 said,"cannot be counter- nunced. It ia onntrary to law, the teach ing of religion nnd tlio mandntos of itsj my place beside him; as many of U.o "T* "" “amimes of it, „ „ .... ,, ' ministers, and must lie sovorelv reiiri other men as U,t» Uft would accommo- AUWiAltol U. iUttitll M lUimilU klttj O , m. nrwuiavxi lu daxmed qver onr peaceful valley. Abont wounds and hail him removed to his — — •- * - • house, which was fortunately near. Then 10 o’clock in the morning an explosion, tqok place in the mine of which Mr. Hardwick was superintendent. .-All-the men were in the mine when it occurred, And as tho fearful sonnd was ldsird, and the mine belched forth vol I returned to the mine. Ah 1. that woful day! as tha sun set that night there were sorrow and weeping in almost every humble home in the triton. roandod." He stated the ruje of law to ho that it ih tho duty.ot the executor or administrator to bury, the deceased, but only a reasonable and moderate sum, proportioned to tho vnlrip of tho property Io/t, is to be so expended. He cut down the bill from 8354 to $100. The undertaker will look to the aunt for the remainder. Hmr lilnrkuiiartle VIou llnd-iii'iil. At Baccarat nothing is more easy than to cheat, provided that tho banker lms a confederate, and this is how cheating has beon frequently pfactiebd fit Ostond ami other continental watering-places. Tho banker takes the six packs that aro used and proceeds to shuttle with tlio lost 1 ard exposed to the players. We will suppose that tl- e last card is $ three. This ho puts, with two cards above it, the top of the pack. >'0 sooner does tho confederate see ut the bottom of the ]f>ack either a six or a five than he makes a sign. Tho banker then puts the card with the two above it at the top of the u»iu, wiu mu uiuic ueicnea iorm vol- | — —- —~ umes of black smoke, crowds of waiting were al80 ke P l 1 vi * itud Indie’s women and children flocked to the fttther about ever - y tw0 hours ani a,l ‘ month xA the hideous monster that had a, ‘ n ‘" ter «d snch remedies as I thought I lost no time and the other doctors | pack. This goes on nntil lie has arranged 1 t>f the hideoos monster that had exmllowed np their husbands and fatb- ers. I xras soon on the spot, for I knew tAMl toould 'be workjor me whqn tho pmangled victims of the explo- 'brought to light. e not wanting to go they could, for tho being* imprisoned amkl I offered myself, pushed nu> beck, sajr- wero needful. I asked Mrs. Hardwick if she wished another doctor, but sho answered: ! " Oh! no. Yon saved my husband’s life and I have every confidence in your dozeu coups in his favor. Having done so, he pnts tho arranged coups at about fhe middle of the pack, but takes care to know where they are by means of u slight projection. He then asks some ono to cut. If the confedorato cuts ho does so at the exact commencement of the coups; if another cute nothing is ekill. Let the other doctors attend te more easy than for tha dealer to Slip the rest of the poor men." ! cards so as to make the ent come at tho We had all of us enough to do that required place. How this, is done .is al- day and many days after. most impossible to explain ; bnt I • ean No more explosions followed, but all myself do it in a bunglingsort of fashion, - the wounded men were not rescued at ar,d with a little practice I am surd I onoe. Homo of them wore buried among could do it without being perceived llrlitlenmly Orljtimp Hmlf «• Yt-nf, A recent tssne of' the Ban Franciscq Chronicle says: Tho steamship City o| Poking, sovonteeudays from Yokohama! arrived in this port yesterday. The fob lowing particulars of the fortunate res cue of a party of sajlors who Were lost on tho ocean are related by one of thq passongors: Tho 'second day ont fromi lokolioma it was our good fortune to rescue nine men toons a dhbasted. help less Japanese vessel which had been blox?n off the coast of Japan from the entrance to the Bay of Yoddo during a typhoon., Their account of the diaaater -is that the storm oocurrBd on the ninth of December lariyf T^ey lost their masts and rnddor ami haft boon drifting at tho mercy of the winds, they knew not where. After their oxrn provisions were exhausted they subsisted on their oargo, mostly besipi and drifid flsh^ and snch rainwater as. they eonld qatch daring tho six months which had elapsed since tlie typhoon occurred. Tliev had burned most bf the small woodwork, doors, berths, windows, eto., of their vessel for fuel, and were on short rations, foity beans per day for each man being the allowance. Their fire, when put .-rtt from time to time, they . had rekindled by rubmng two pieces of wood together. They ha-1 given up all hope of ever seeing land or anything human again, when, on Hatar- «lay, tho twenty-eighth of May. about 300 miles from the Bay of Yeddo and Yokohama, they sighted the Peking ou the wide waste of water. Captain I’orry, in answer to their signals of distress, bore down and sout one of tLe boats off with an otlioer and the dootor to exam ine-into their sanitary condition, and the poor souls ware soon lapded on par deck. One of their number bad died the day previou- from exposure, hanger and anxiety. Tim passengers, aided by Captain Berry, gave a concert on board for the benefit of the deetitute ones, which netted a pone of f 148. Just because a man goes through the rain without an umbrella, it doesn’t prove that he is a philosopher. It only shows that somebody has appro priated his water shed- ICsre fnr SrsuWlrsrM. Three New York doctors were recent ly interviewed npon the subject of si'.-i- sicknoss. Tbe Brooklyn Jiagle tljus summarizes their opinion. One nAid there waa only one remedy for it-j-to stay ashore. Bnt he subsequently *d- mitted that that is not a complete rem edy, for he added that land-sicknrws, canned by riding baekxrard and in rail way oars, is the same as seasickness. Bnt another doctor, Dr. George M- Beard, says that within a year there is no disease about which so much has bebn learned, and which fs so perfectly eata ble. 1 ' It is a disease of tho nervous sys tem, mainly of the brain and. spirial oord, come* from a series of mild con cussions, and produoea, by sympathy, disorder of the stomach. The remedy is bromide of sodium, taken tktee timi-v a day a few days before embarking, aijJ kept up al sea until the danger is passed. It renders tha system lore susceptible to the disturbances oatuod by the mo rp- mento of the ahjp. The drag most 1 >e taken intelligently and on oonanltntic n xrith a physician.' Dr. Hammond says that in his own ones ha has found or fifteen drops) <jf chloroform on 1 sugar and tli* use of bromide of potak sinm beneficial. All three doctota much. And if peopio are "the bett for it;” it is because the sea makes the hotter in spite of seasickness. "8 lent 0 more benefit own be derived from it than from an attack of typhoid lexer," «ajs Dr,; Beard. If, therefore, - it oafi be prerepted without causing any other or any greater- barm to the system, peo ple are entitled to the full benefit of remedies that aro really Sjnch. ( | They ItUn’t Tnrhtr. i He was rather a rongh and nnoontli!- ooking specimen, and he was striding along as though he Were trying to rosk time on the home stretch, when h passed so too callous yofiths who evi‘ dently imagined that " clothes make the man,” and ono of them sang out in a taunting voice: "Say, mistei, whoro did you got that gait f Ho paused abruptly, and turning on the party quickly, said: " I got it out on the porrario where I was tending to my oxrn bnsiness, and of yon want to hang on to it you’ll flfld it cz fall of spikes cz a hedgehog's got quills. Don’t all s^oak at once of yon want to nnhinge it. Which one wants to tackle it?”, But they seemed deeply interested in somothing else, and the man from " the porrario” remarked as he moved away, that ho guessed he "xrasn’ti the-man. they were lookin' for after alt.— WU nnd Witdom, >* ■ • ■* t, « • The 902 dailies published in the United Btates are divided into 430 morning papers and 540 evening papers. Ono hundred nnd thirty-eight papers issue Hunday editions; 682 issue week lies, forty-four sOmi-wOeklies and thirty- nine tri-weeklios. Eighty-one dailies are published in the German language. The average prioo per annum of a daily paper in the United Btates is 87.38. The average cost- per copy, coanting all the Btates, is, to annual subscribers, 2 1-3 cents, and to those who buy at the news stands nearly 4 1-2 cents. Com paring States xrith each other, the high est average price per copy is in Nevada, twelve cents, and the lowest in Dela ware, 1 1-4 ce&ts. With an aggregate daily circulation of 3,581,187, the people of the United States pay annu ally about 926,250,000 for their daily aexra, an amount just about equal to the pregret annual expenditures of the Fed eral government. riM im iMommmoLm, or saok- of cun ■niljfrliiflf xrlU'Mldom be able from the currant worm. Codling moths fly and do not np the tranks of trees. Tbe fen canker worms aro wingless, and 1 np the trees on warm days in ' and early spring to deposit their 1 When the paint get* off the 1 tbe l>est wagon wheels they lose md ure and shrink very fast in dry xroatj The quickest preventive is a mixtu petroleum and linseed oil applie tha, fellpq* witb^a brash, several^ over, where they are dry. ~ TAIa the Crwa. Many pretty good cultivators an the poor ones seem to lack the. 0 courage to thin crops as they shonltl if they wonld secure the beet results. Many a vineyard has beon nearly rained because its owner eonld not pick off and dcstroytho surplus Tho same js true of pears and fruit crops. Many vegetable crops nped the same attention, and if they do rgr, coivo it in time xrill be greatly tip- proved. Mangels, sugar beets and other roots aco among those that espe cially need attention. Oo/m, tneU ns, squashes and many other things ' rift also need looking after in the same u ay Do not neglect these important things if the best results are desired. ‘ Tlrare is w area,” —Tl r tlltngi oar* pen ter, " xrhaihaa done more good, I really believe, in this community, than any man that ever lived in it. He oan* not talk xrell in prayer-meeting, and he doesn’t often try. He isn’t worth naff ira eery little he oito put down on a subvertfition paper for any iew Tamily never moves into^tbe.vfiiiigc. thpt hq: does* pot find time to g^vaa.naighborly welcome and offer any little., service he ean render. He is usually on the lookout, to give strangen wMeat in iris pew at ehnroh. He ia afxrayt ready to watch with a sick neighbor,' will look after hla , |flain for him, and I've sometimes thought ha andhia wife kepthonaeplanta in winter just far the sake pf being able to rend littkA>onqnets to invalids. He finds time for a pleasapt word to every child ha meets, and yon wl)i always see them climbing into his one-borse.wngon when he has no other lossd. He really scoma to have a genius for helping folks in all sorts of common ways, apd it does me good <Wety day just to meet him on the street.” Tbs Milk hrMa. The period of milking may be clan ed in three parta. For the first a<r or seven weeks after calving the larg »-t quantity of milk per day ia produo id. After this the yield falls off pretty ci in- siderably, bnt then remains at ab< ut thd same ^ure W two three mfidtl >x, when a steady decline seta in nntil t lie cow is perfectly dry, By oarafol fei d- ing the beet parte of the milking periAls may be prolonged, and this ought to bo the aim of all milk-prodnoers. If gre on fodder and ofher food which stitadla os milk eecretion can be used at the rif ht time,- a considerable extra quantity of milk may be produced. Daring t be milkfag'fierlodsthb proportion of cas, in increases, and that of batter decroan is. Milk prod need by cows sOon after cal v- ing contains, therefore) toriro butter aid less oasefn than later, and the difference is great enough to make itself felt jlq the larger dairies, if the oowa calye about tho same part of tho year, 4t A Wcw Hm> Netpr. ' ^ou 1 ^ fbAig^ nlcAsary to flecure* si p. pins honey: A hive full 6f comb, spa se between the comb, fall of bees, almo dant pasturage, and favorable weather. nonsy i« oonsnmod very rapidly wlihn hyoed ia bsiqg largely reared, and if a scarcity of honey should oocor,, as is often the cose between fruit blossoms and clover, it ia veiy essential that fofd should bo supplied. Yon can by removing the drone conjb prevent the raising of diones to a agreed that there is no benefit <0 Ijo prevent the raising of diones to a great derived from seasickness except for but the bees will always, find those who are in the habit of eating toi> -Aafciittli efrnieUiidijhiihAo'tmsd affeiw drones. Bytha.nsa.of foundation, tlie number of drones oan be governed admirably. > . v - -. If the colony is as strong as it ought to bo the bees will do tbe(r own ho- cleaning withont any anaiatanoe, bee-keeper who has sufficient jndgmeijt to properly manage beos can know i condition of each colony, by sitting down besi.de it in the heat of the day and observing the notions of the bees. Beos xvith a fertile Worker xHll not accept a queen, nor xrill they raise cnln if brood is given them. They will sometimes start queen cells, bnt xrill not allow them to come to maturity. There is no way to detect a fertile worker among other bees. It ia poor polio/ to fuss with a colony in this condition. The hotter plan is to double them up with another colony having a good queen. j’ A curioas story is told in Berlin. A horse while crossing the electrio railway, having set his hoof npon tho rail, waa instantly thrown down, so water, one lemon, one dozen eggs, knead i ... .. „ Bvclpp*. Cakh ok Fnurr Sandwiches,—Four eggs, their weight in flour, sugar and bntter; warm the butter and beat it 16 a cream, then stir the floor and sugar into it gradually, beat np the ogga and stir them in. Beat the cake well for half an honr and bake in A rather quick oven. If for sandxriohes slice the cake in half and put preserves between. 1 Tossed Potatoes.—Boil some potatoes ia their skins ; peel theta and cat into small pieces. Toss them over the fire in a mixture of cream, bntter rolled in floor, pepper and salt, till they are hot, and Well covered With the sauce. Tomato Soup.—Take two quarts of soup, stock, or make a good beef soup, stir, let cool, and remove fat, put it into a kettle with two quarts of tomatoes reduced to a pulp by straining a sieve (in winter one can will do), thicken with vermioelli, season to taste, boil half an hour. The above proportion is for three quarts of soap. The planting of elm, maple and other forest troeBat proper distances along the highways increases the value of adjoin- ing property and adds to the beauty and comfort of the section. In Germany fruit trees adorn the waysides. Almond Cookies.—This rale xrill make a large quantity, and may of course be varied to suit your needs: Tw%gioanda of bntter, throe pounds of sugar, one pound of almonds blanched and chopped, cut in halves or poundsd, two teaspoonfuls of cinnamon, one tea- spoonful of saleratas, one cup of boiling ning through of tomatoes liofllli. fuvwmt strong was the current, and another * in flour enough to make the dough as I horse, having also tonohed the rail, xrith ’ stiff as cooky dough should be, roll and his iron shod hoof, received a shook f cut in fancy shapes, and after they are which sent him galloping off, in^wiM in the tins, sprinkle, the al»ouds thickly terror, 1 over them. JTtoJML Aim Munrara. ' Xtvttztsa* tatelHgestot. There are 000 Methodist churches in the Fiji islands. ‘"The Baptists have 1n Asia 102 mis sionaries, 610 native preachers, * 475 churches and 40,087 members. Thera were 3,191 baptisraS last year. There were'127,780 confirmations in the^Chnrch of England in 1880. The largest number confirmed in any one dideere xras in London, 15,539. The Old Bvtiio's church, at .Wilming ton, Del., recently celebrated Up lH8d anniversary. The ohalioo and paten used in the service are 103 years old'. Tlip sum 618200,000 has been secured toward the endoxnnent fond lor the benefit of the floathern Baptist theological seminary, at Louisville, KJ- During the flfty-etoriif }wers of Us ex- ifttAno8 thB American Sunday -school union has distributed 8,7,1.i),(hhi worth of publications and ozganized 70,000 Banday-wchool* with 500,000 teachers and 8,000,000‘MhohM. '• —V The Rev. Joseph Cook recently de livered his last lectors in London in the Metropolitan Tabernacle. His theme wap " Certainties in Religion.", During his visits, to England Mr. Cook has preached and'toctnred 190'times. ‘He will visit Germany, India and Australia before hi* return to the United 8totes. The Methodist Episcopal ' church, South, has 3,678 traveling preachers, a gain of lis in the put year, and 837,- 881 members, a gain of 15,365. Of there members 1,081 are negroes and 4,981 are Indiana.- The Virginia conference is the hugest, having 67,008 members, and 18« traveling, 10 superannuated and 173Ideal prodchors. " ! * It in stated ihat while th4 Presbyte rians have twice as many members as the Episcopalians,. three times as many infanta are baptised by the latter u by the former- For the last six yearn the number of infants baptised by theltore- byterians lias at no time reached 20,000, while the Episcopalians have baptised from 80,0()Q to 32,000 annually. The general assembly of the United Presbyterians which reoently closed its sessions at Pittsburg, Pa., empowered a commission to ednsumwate a union be tween it and the Associate Reformed church of the South, with tiie under standing that neither chnroh change its standard. The assembly refused to rale instrumental music in the churches. The nincty-sexanth annual convention of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Pennsylvania presents the following diocesan statistics: There are 117 par ishes in union with the convention, and five ont of it. The sittings in the churches and chapels 'nUmbor 06,010 ; tho communicants, 25,203, and the scholars 28,158. There are fifty-eight Sunday-school buildings, fifty-six par sonages and forty-six. cemeteries, and the satire value of cboreh 'property .'is placed at 10,000,000. -r ft rntfe About Hylutra,' Hr. Lena, in a reofint loiptute at Parta on his journey from Jfbrocco to Tim- bnctoo, hat been correcting some of Mm generaily-reoeived notions aa;,ito the condition of the, Sahara. It really forms a great plateau, about 1,100 fafet above the level of the Atlantic. In fio part of this platean is there to be fo'nnd that depression l>elow ’,fl)e level of the ocean which is shown on the maps .of certain geographers, aa&mhiab baa led to wild schemes of converting the Sa hara into a great inland Sea. 1 More over, the Sahara it not one dead sandy level; bnt really Varied in ita Mperi. Rooks are znooettlcd by sandy plains, here rad there are oases covered with alia giasa and stagnant shallow shftffia of water. The fresh water fossils, which are met with is mpny parts, show that the Sahara is not the bottom of a dried- up sea. Again, the temperature is not nearly so hot as might be expected. In short, the Sahara is not so bad as it has been called; wild beasts are rare, arid the moat formidable enemies to be met with are the Touraeg tribes, who,-ac cording to. the report, recently ored the French Trans-Bahara expedi tion. As to Timbnctoo, Dr, Lena found he had to traverse a great space covered yrith , rains , .befqre he eonld reach the inhabited part. There a» now mly 90,000 -inhabitants, but many ■choals and rich- libraries.—'New Fork Stmt , - • • -. i* It is calculated that the temperature e(4hji Great Geyser ci Iceland nowhere Reaches the boiling point, whiqt Should be nearly twenty degrees higher.