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the mercury. •Emitted U *eoond-cla*. mutter at the San. “ ,j eM yille Postoffloe, April 27, 1880. HMdemlUe, WMki*«t«ii Cointy, e«. PUBLISHED BT JERNIGAN & SCARBOROUGH. Btit*fiption. • 91.60 per Tear. G, W. H. WHITAKER, dentist, Sandenville, Ga. Terms Cash. Office at hi* residence on Harris Street. April 3, 1830. THE MERCURY. THE MERCURY. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY. A. J. JERNIGAN, Proprietor DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. 91.50 PER ANNUM. NOTICE. jty- All oowmBniootion* tatted ed tar this paper must be aoooMpMtaff with the loll VOL. I. SANDERSVILLE, GA., OCTOBER. 5, 1880. NO. 27. cation, but a* a guarantee of good faith. We are in no way re*pon*ible for the view, •r opinion* of oorrespondent.. B. D. EVANS, Attorney atLaw, April 3, 1880. Sandoraville, Ga. DR. WM. RAWLINGS, Physician & Surgeon, Sandersvillo, Ga. Office at Sandewvillo IIolol. April 10, 1880. E. A. SULLIVAN, NOTARY PUBLIC, Sandorsville, Ga. Special attention given to collection ol claims. . _ ... Offloc in tho Com-t-Houso. 0. H. ROGERS, Attorney at Law, Sandorsvillo, Ga. prompt uttontion given to all business. Office in northwest room ol Court-House. May * • 1880. C. C. BROWN, Attorney at Law, Sandorsville, Ga. Will practioo in tbo State and United States Courts. Omco in Court-Honso. H. N. HOLLIFIELD, Physician & Surgeon, Sandorsville, Ga. Office next door to Mrs. Bayne’s millinery store on llanis Street. DR. J. B. ROBERTS, Physician & Surgeon, Sandorsville, Ga. May be consulted at his office on Haynss street, in the M—onki I,o<ige building, (rom 9 a m to 1 p m, and lrom 3 to 6pm; daring other boars at his residence, on Chnroh street, when not professionally engaged. April 3 1880. Watches, Clocks AND JEWELBY BBT AIRED BY JERNIGAN P08TOFFICE HOURS. 7:00 to 11:30 a. m. 1:30 to 6:00 p. m. K. A. Sullivan, P. M. Subscribe for the MERCURY, Only 91.50 per annum. PUBLISHED BY JERNIGAN & SCARBOROUGH. Antnmn Woods. Mountains bending, Steep ascending, Clad in oolors bright and blending, Windy woodlands—never ending, Flaming floods on every slope; Fiery blusboe, Tawny flushes; God Is in the burning bushes And tho vision on us rushos Liko tbo rosy heights of hopo! Crimson, yellow, MiBty, mollow; now tbo lorosts bow and billow! Maplo, ash and oak and willow Shed tho trophies of the year; Thus wo rondor All our splondor, Leal by loaf in sad surrender, Pomp and prido and pleasure tonder, When our days aro in tho sear. Down they shiver! Qunko and quiver! On tho swilt and Bilent rivor, Whore tho current glides iorevor To tho wido and windy ecu! Sifting, sowing, Drifting, blowing ; Now thoy’ro floating—gaily goiug, Liko tho lives ot men a-flowing To the liiu that is to lie. ■—Modern Argo. Emigration Figures. ing to seo the old home desecrated by the stranger’s hand. I Up to 1820 no statistics of emigration No; there it stood, as she had always into this country were kept officially, nown tt--the very Picture of home but the numbers wero trivial, only 8,386 comfort, the center of all those modest foreign emigrants being reported for luxuries that a well-to-do farmer, of all tlmt year . In , 830 the number was 23, other men, may most easily command. 300 . in 1810> 8 4 i( )oo ; 1842, 104,600; 1850, But, although the dear old house was | 369 900. 1854i 497,600. That was the unohanged, its inmates were new and Btrange to her. A stout, middle-aged man, in a white summer suit, with a broad-brimmed hat and a cigar, sat on the steps of the piazza reading a news paper. A fashionably-dressed lady, some years liis junior, swung in a ham mock upon the lawn, lost in a novel. Several children, in broad-brimmed bats and brown Holland blouses, were making the lives of two nurses a burden to them, furthordown the lawn, among was immensely in demand, emigration j rympjo.tho Dakota^ farmer, and Glenn the elm trees, where a swing had hung was heavy, reaching the highest figure ' n "‘ *“ — u 1 in 1873, 459,800. It fell to 313,000 in 1874, 227,000 in 1875, 170,000 in 1870, 142,000 in 1877,138,000 in 1878, but roso to 178,000 in 1879, and was, of course, very much increased in 1880. England COMING BACK. FARM, GARDEN ASl) HOUSEHOLD. Small Farm. Best Apropos of this subject, the Spring- field (Mass.) ITnt'otfsays: There has been some lament over the tendency in this country to mass great areas of real estate under one management, and fears maximum number for nearly twenty I have been expressed that, in tho West, years. In 1856 and 1850 tho number at least, we shall some time experience was but about 200,000 each; it rose to Ike evils of landlordism whicii havo 251,000 in 1857; was 153,040 in 1860; in cursed oldor parts of the world. But 1801 and 1802,for tho obvious reason that such fears appear to be groundless. W0 our war was a deterrent, fell to 91,000; havo no law of entail, and tho prob- the labor demand so far overcame this I ability that these vast areas will remain that the number arose to 176,000 in 1883, under a single management for more 193,400 in 1864, and 249,000 in 1865. than one or two generations is rather From 1865 to 1873, during the term of small. The big farms of the West are post-war paper prosperity, when labor | proving comparative failures. Dal- Italian Colonists in New Fork. Tho first members of a family who come to this country aro generally the eldest. Those are explorers. It they thrive, they send money to pay the pas sage of their relatives. This voyage is generally accomplished in from twenty- five to thirty days on English steamers that sail from Mediterranean ports, and costs about 940 apiece. They arc so I scantily fed on rice and potatoes by the steamship companies that they generally carry provisions of thdr own. As they land at Castle Garden their countenances toll plainly the sufferings they havo en dured during a month’s journey at sea. If they get employment here it is gen erally in railroad building, street paving I and street denning. Their earnings average 91.25 per day; but tlioy are | BUY YOUR Spectacles, Spectacles, FROM JERNIGAN. [!®“Nono genuine without our Trade Mark. On hand and for sulo, tottsjosfj Glasses, Etc. Music, Music. JERNIGAN FOB VIOLINS, ACCORDEONS, BOWS, STRINGS, rosin boxes, etc. IMachine Needles, OIL and SHUTTLES | l or all kinds oi Machines, ior sale. I will also ordor parts ol MaohinoB that get broko, and now pieces arc wanted. A. J. JERNIGAN. A man in Louisa county, Iowa, who 1‘Jicd quietly in his bed recently, escaped Ideath narrowly many times during his •career. Once lie was stabbed in the iBtomach and given up by the physicians. |At another time he fell into a well sixty Ifeet deep; again, he was gorged by a lbull until life was apparently extinct land more recently a loaded wagon •passed over his head, cutting off one Irar, Up in a city garret, on a hot June day, a weary woman leaned back in her clinir, and pressed her fingers against tho eyes tlmt refused longer to seo the stitches in the shop-work over which she had toiled from daybreak till now, four o’clock in the afternoon. From the street far below her, a voice had only thnt moment soared upward, calling “Strawberr-ees! strawberr-ees! Ripe, red strawberr-ees 1” And, as if by magic, her thoughts turning backward had carried her to Depdenc, the home of her youth, and to certain lovely June day in her six- tecntli year, when she had stood in the sti aw berry pasture on the Blessing farm, witli the red berries perfuming all the air, and said the words which sect red her fate from that of Maurice Blessing, and made her life what it was tliis day, almost hopeless, and ceaseless struggle for bread, won at tho net die’s point. llow it all roso up beforoher! Tho gretn pasture sloping upward to tho dniLer green woods, whose tops seemed to touch the deep blue sky, sloping downward to the gray stone wall, with the cold spring leaping out through a wooden trough, among its lower stones And below the wall, “the thirty-acre mowing,’’spread out like an immense emerald velvet carpet, with the two- story cream-colored liouso lifting its pinzzaed front at the oxtremo end, just where the shadod lane began, that led from the Blessing farm out into tho vil lage road. She, the poor orphan girl, had boon offered this comfortable home; and she hnd refused it—for wlmtP For a dream of lame, which had loft her toiling in this hot garret, while in the black trunk yonder the book which was to have made her fortune, refused by one pub lisher after another, was lying, till she could find courage to thrust it into the fire. “Scarcely five years,” she sighed, rocking herself to and fro. “ And Maurice has sold the old farm and gone to Colorado; and I am here, lonely, disappointed, old before my time. Oh, if I could only live that day over again, and be as wise as I am now! Ior now I know that I love him—now, when it is forever loo late!” Sickening, with a sort of calenture among those hot city streets, for one glimpse of her early home, Hester May roso and went to the desk where her worldly wealth was stored. By the closest economy, site had managed to lay aside a few dollais, for the gloomy purpose of paying the ex penses of her own sickness and death, when tho time should come for her to die among strangers. From this sacred hoard she counted out a sufficient sum to take her to Deep- dene. . „ , „ 1 will stay only one day, she thought. “And I will work all the harder after I return to make up this sum again. But see Deepdene, now that it is fairly in my mind, ’I must! And I will take one more look at the dear old farm before it is in the hands of stran gers, and so altered that I shall not know it.” The next day saw her on her way. The five yearn of her absence bad been years of change to the little country vi - l!l A railway whisked her across the lull road from Torrington. Once she would have made the journey in a y e ° stage, drawn by four horses, with John Oolney. Grossest and most d.s agreeable of earthly stage-drivers “rKrfllago. loo, TO. smartened and freshened up-new houses, new faces, now iron fence around the small oval park that graced the center of the town; now names above the gilded fronts of the shops; a new set of giggl'-ng misses on their way to the new brown-ston academy, which stood where she had once thought it an honor to attend toe district school, in a plain, one-story structure of faded brick No doubt all these alterations were!' the better; but they made her heat t ac with a sense of loss un from time immemorial. “ City” was stamped upon every face and figure that she saw. Had Maurice sold the plnco to some retired morchant, who would over-or nament and disfigure it in the modern villa style P If ono could but live their lives over after they grow oldor, and aro taught by oxpcricnco what is best for tlienil” thouglit HeBtcr in her sadness, once more. She would have gone up to the house nnd asked leave to rest und look around if it had remained in tho care of old Farmer Williams and his wife, the ten ants of the upper farm But she could not faoc these prosper* ous, happy “city people,” who would look at her with their coldly-curious eyes, and wonder, almost audibly, “ what she could want,” even if they did the Caliiornia nabob, have not sue- shamefully choatcd by foremen and em- ceeded well. Tho Sullivan farm in pioyers, nnd they consider thcmsolves Illinois has been cut up, and tho work fortunato if at the end of a week’s hard of subdivision is more likely to go on work they roalize 95. Ignorant of tho I than that of accumulation. Tho To- language, thoy are unable to mako their ronto Globe points out that groat farms rights good; and should they protest | and Ireland (taking 1873 rb a stand-1 requiro a vast amount ol machinery, I againBt tho organized system of spolio- ard) sont about one-third, 159,999 which, to be mado profitable, must be j tion of which they aro tho victims, they out of 409,999; it may surprise most kept at the same work year after yoar. readers, however, to know that thoso Tho most successful farmers ol tho West two countries send about an equal num- are tboso who own comparatively small ber, and that in 1872,1875 and 1878-9, arms, which they can keep ontiroly England sent more than Ireland. Thus, under their own supervision and man- for 1879, 24,000 emigrants wero of age with littlo help, and improve rather English nationality, and 20,900 wore than deteriorate, by a proper rotation of h n from seven to ten months. With this Irish. Scotland contributed 13,000 in crops. capital thoy turn in disgust from this 1873 Germany sends nearly as many A still bettor cxamplo of the superior- kind of labor and become organ grind- England and Ireland combined- ity of small farms over big ones, is 0 rs, fruit vendors or ragpickers. 150.000 in 1873, against 152,900, a na Mound nearer homo, in the ruarkot gar- pr ieO they pay for an organ ranges 31.000 in 1870, against 44,000. Among ^ns ucar tho groat cities. Some of the from 9#0 to 9100. The wealthiest in- tho other European countries, Sweden finest of these we know of are in the dulge also in the ad|unct of a monkey, stands next; then Norway; then France, vicinity of Boston. For an example, The children of tho family won d bo Italy nnd Austria. Not China alone, there is one of five or six acres within glad to be taken care of as kindly as J ..111.- I: : * — .. I 4I...4 nt4tf nrlti/ilt nmnllOAB I 4l>n aiemmIma I are discharged. On tho principle that half a loaf is better than no bread, they I conttnuo to work in this way until they ] : havo accumulated 9100. By dint of pri- I vations from which most men would shrink, this purpose is by thcmlattained Longing. Ol all tho myriad moods of mind That through the soul oome thronging Which one wan e’er so good, so kind, So beautiful as longing T The thing we long ior that we are For one traneeondent moment, Before the present, poor and bare, Can make its sneering ooinment. Still, through our paltry stir and strife, Glows down the wished ideal, And longing molds in elay what life Carves in the marble real. To let the new file in, we know, Desire must ope the portal; Forhaps tho longing to be so Helps mako tho soul immortal. Longing is God’s fresh heavenward will With onr poor earthly striving; Wo quonoh it, that wo may bo still Content with merely living; But would we loarn that heart’s fell soopc Whioh wo are hourly wronging, Our 11 vos mustollmb lrom hope to hope And reallr.0 our longing. Oh, let ns hopo that to our praise Good God not only reckons The moments when wo tread His ways, But when the spirit bcokons— That some slight good is ulso wrought Boyond solf-satislaotlon, Whon wo are simply good In thought Howe’er we loll In notion, —Jamet it. Lowell. % ITEMS OF INTEREST. There are some men so talkative that nothing but tho toothache can make one of thorn hold ids jaw.—-V«ut Orleans Picayune. “Strivoto make a good impression refreshed At tho foot of the lane a gentleman, in Ja summer suit of silver-gray, stood leaning against the bars, with his straw hat drawn down over his eyes so far that lie failed to seo the strangor’s silent npDronoh. “ Will you lot mo pass, if you please!” said Hester, at last, after waiting some moments. He wheeled round, as if site had ward movement wore recorded. In I seems almost wasteful, but the results tor was hastily sent for by ono of these sippi river. 1870 according to British statistics prove his wisdom. Within two or three organ grinders who lives in Baxter In the Btato of Ohio there are 93,308 54 554 oersons went from tho Unitod I weeks ho has mavkotod from a small 8tvcet> because his monkey was ill. Tho persons on the pension rolls, of whom I ICinedom to this country and 54 097 patch if 175 worth of string beans. HIb man bad himself been confined to ills 2,996 are widows of soldiers of tho went thither from this country; to Can- early potatoes are aiready dug and have bed fcr a m0 nth, and haa refused to call war of 1812. adn 0 335 and 0 229 from Canada; I brought him something ilko 93,009, and I lll0 physician because that would cost customers on a milk route in Now to Australia, 32,190, and 9,570 from the K™und w f c » a * J ’ , When - u P on ‘\ l3 anival, the doe- „ avc .n, Conn., are supplied by a woman fnrttl emigration 109 409 and at work producing a second crop of t or learned what tho matter was, he' vi tirtta immtarat oa The total vegetables. .The amount of truck rushed down tho 8ta irw«y of tho house. ' if Si from Mav 1851 to wl>>°h ho manages to securo from h'S L weal . ing ut the impudcnco of the movement of .risli from May, 1851, to | „ hi. Iinum I Italian .But thr hitter was not discour- who in all sorts of weather drives her rounds with unfailing regularity. That prisoner has a very smooth 11a wuveiuu ruuuu, iia 11 ouu miu 1 , , . Q7ft ,, t 1 few ROrOS, which lie about his liouso . luulftn< UUI llir liuwi WIH I1UI, ui.vuui- I . * . struck him, and starod doubtfully in 1 1 „ Ireland and barns, is really marvelous, but tho L godt Ho followed tho physician, and countenance, said the judge to the • * 1 » ort3 wa , 9 Twentieths secret is high cultivation and a scion- 8i ‘j cnll offerod him a fivc .dollar note, sheriff. “ Yes ” responded tho sheriff, direct, of vrhom "ket^twmtiettas tilic mothc ’.. Tho same method may bo llopln ' that tbo argument would prove “ he was ironed just before ho came in. came, to this countiy, 07 per cent 01 ine n |j ed an y W boro in Massachusetts, and j rrC8 istible. The modicnl man, how- The whole oost of planting and cul- wholenumbor leaving tla umitn ivi g | Uw dawdling away over huudreds of L vcr> haughtily walked away. Strange tivatlng an acre of cotton, ginning tho acres, and getting only half a crop, and lls ^c incident may appear, it is sur- product und delivering it ou a railroad, atthesamo timo impoverishing tho soil, p. l880 d by that which tho writer saw | is stated by a South Carolina plantar at is tho i-heorost folly. l'aature for Hold. The subject of good pastured for hogs in surnmor is becoming one df Bpecial interest to farmers. So also the provid her face She uttered a groat cry “ Maurice 1 Maurice! I hoard that you hnd sold tho farm, and gouo to Color ado!" “ Hester, can tliis be you,” lie an swerod. Ilis eyes seemo.i to devour her. Words rose to liis lips, and wero forced back again. At last lie asked: “ Is your husband hero witli you Hester P" " My husbandP” “ Why, yes! I heard thnt jcuwtr married very soon after you went to tho city." “ You heard wrong, Maurice! I have not been married. I have never even thought of such a thing.” “ But why did you go, then, IlosterP dom from 1853 to 1870 also came here, it is perhaps a hopeful .symptom thnt I the human tide which will for yet many ycai-3 sot to these Western shores con tains a larger proportion of skilled or half-skilled laborers, and a smaller pro portion ol tho least dcsirnblo class than used to be tho caso. when, in ordor to collect materials for cioven dollars, or about live and threo* this sketch, ho paid a visit to “Now eighths cents per pound. [Inly." Sitting on tho ladder leading to There aro 125 reaping machines rat the roof of a house was a woman n urs - mjng over tho Dairymplo farm in ing a monkey at her breast. jWhen I10 Dakotft( w hich embruoes 24,999 acres in ing of a supply of roots for them during J uttered an ejaculation ol astonishmont, wbc at and 12,999 in oats. Tho wheat the winter is beginning to receive do- ti l0 woman, in tho subdued tone of a a ycrages eighteen bushels to the acre. Tile Moment of Fear. I served attention from the moreprogres- pcno n who is afraid to disturb a patient, and the oa ts about seventy-five. This Bonaparte lost four aides de-cam pdur- sivo and successiul farmers. The con- calmly whispered: “Stamarolto” (lie w ;n gj vo the enormous yield of 432,990 ing the short time he was in Egypt, tinuous and oxcossive use of corn lias is sickJi bushels of wlioat, and 909,000 bushels One of them, Crosier, appearing to long been deemod wrong both in theory These organ grinders earn in good I 0 f ofttg< To move this immense amount Napoleon to lack the proper degree of and in practice, although comparatively I weather about 91.59 per day, and arc 0 ( gvuin would require 111 freight boldness at tho proper time, lie burst few feeders ever seem to have considered generally accompanied by a woman and | i ra i rB of thirty oars each out against him in one of liis violent and how it might bo avoided. Tho hflhM a baby. in order to excite the charity of — ^ — . humiliating attacks of abuse and con- however, is breaking, and a radical th(J good .natnred Americans. As lor , manuscript under liis arm, Why did you loave DeopdeneP Why tempt. Tho word coward escaped him; change in the of „‘ robin mc> 1 know of no 6 rcftter nuisance t,mn and said vory politely^ “ I have a trifle did you refuso to marry me, if -if there I Crosier determined not to survive it; he | 5 na „i f in „ | tlio sound of a baud organ, and have ' ’ was no one elso in the way?” sought death on Poor Hester! I did not succeed She thought of the hot city garret, of | He was in attendance on Napoleon in | n B “h n S mnrttonertimothv*. I low tho example of tho French and Italians by rigorously forbidding an in-1 y° u He came into the editor’s room witli a cd not to survive it; he regards feeding seems fast going;on 1 ms ^ ^ of ft ,“ ud organ( ftnd havc ^"/r’.r.T/ueautiful sunsetyestcr- scveral occasions, but change, we doubt not, will result been always at a loss how to understand P ere 0 . h1 ~ , f,-i P nd . till tho siege of Acre, very marked decrease of disease among American law-makers do not fol- day. which was dashed oflt bjr a fr irinnnn on NT.mnlnnn in swine. Of the grasses most suitable for way « nm of mine, which I would like inserted i no was m ttWU uu U v. „« swino. ur tiro grasses ..... the trendies there, when such a sharp hog pastures may be mentioned tlmotoy, rigorous.y iwu.uu.uh «n ...-, - , u ... .. „ lookout was kept by tho garrison that rod olovor, blue grass and orohard gnus. W ^I 0 U is a perpetual bore, as|Ju 8t inaert lt yourself, lepliod the if an elbow or feather showed itself In Umber pasture, whore1 red clover [ ^ an m.diaguised manner of beg- editor, gently pushing the waste basket above or beside them it was immediately would not do so well on account of the The army * f tormentors that in- toward hlm.-Golvc lon News. grazed by a bullet. Crosier watched shade, white clover will boUound valuar ^ York js t0 a gl . e at extent com- The Western women who go to Bos- his opportunity and jumped upon the ble. it Tf.Tu t TtaTo easy matter posed of Genoese. Tho work is by no ton to kill the author of the fo.lowing platform. “Como down, I command several kinds, but, 1- ta no ^symatt^ easy> for to carry ftn 0 rgau about story must go to the office of tho Commer- you!” cried Napoleon, in a voice °l lokeep ^ ^ toW n is very laborious. These people cial Bulletin: “Is your programme thunder; but it was too late; the victim ground. The> moretoardy will g fu Migs B0et ieoru3herP” asked a young of his severity fell at his feet. later crowd the others out We are ™ iro“ u ^ ^ q{ f hQ weight ol man of a Wc8teru dam sel who had just Murat, the chivalrous braver of nil sure more hogs aio be .ng g ^ L, u n lhe muscles that many struggled out of tho refreshment room danger, had also his moment ot f«r, year than ever of thei whS have beonlimglntho bi^ with dlavpaintmentiBher eye and an which lost him the countenance of his | csted in Pork produotton ar^ | ^ ^ Jf lamG . .. order of da nces” in her hand. “ Pro- The fruit vender is another interest- gramme fullP” said the daughter of the It was at the 1 reaarama , ^ type of the Italian colonist. The | Setting Sun, “Waal, I guess not! I the dream of fame that never had been 1 ■""" 11 " mir ” 1 ” 1 ’- -■ -« •»- «room.” "Plenty of room. realized, of the unlucky book that was lying in the black trunk, of the littlo burial hoard so hardly earned and | saved. The tears came quickly to her eyes, obscuring the honest, handsome face on which sho gazed. “Don’t cry, Hester,” said Maurice] Blessing, taking her hand. “ And tell why you would not marry me, doarP” Because I was a fool!” sobbed Hes-1 ter. Is the folly ended?” asked Maurice, ding a smile as he bent over her. ^ Cannot you give me a different an-1 lir8t Italian campaign, ui.iwviunit wtw 1 ^j‘ e J sub j ect 0 f gra88 for hogs in summer, I laziness and narrow mindedness. He I and an ice cream, an’ that don’t go far swer now, IlesterP If you can, wo will | fh „ „ ar . | 0 r tho raising of roots for them in win-1 resorts to this occupation because it ro- toward filling my programme, I can quires no physical exertion, no mental ^ you> » on the dear old farm.” | rison. n« 1**“,*?'“*“ T'"' Health iilut*. I labor, and bocause his ideas are not suf- rcmoved^fromt^genTral^and'ii^ewy Lemon juice will allay the irritation ficiently broad to venture into other 0&tmeaI< fie wJ caused by bites of gnats and flies. Our older readers remember when the sent out on the most distant and dan- a weak solution of carbolic acid in y OD j y U8C 0 f oatmeal among us was to gerous services; in short, he more than rain water will cure pimples and simple as good for ills puipose as lie can . , ud wilU for the s i c k. There conquered Id.cl.ur^r be,oreU.ebuttle| eruption.. |.UU SS |”» * from 95 to $19 per month to the corne r But you sold it and went to Colo rado,” said Hester, wonderingiy. “ At least I heard so.” I was a fool, too, Hester; for 1 went o) Colorado, and I was quite ready to sell. But my brother-in-law, from the city, persuaded mo to rent it to him ior one year, till I had time to think the matter over. When came to my senses— although I had not forgotten you, darling—I was very glad that the poor old place was mine still, and I came back some six weeks ago to see it. My sister and ber hus band and family go back to the city next week, stopping a( the mountains on Iheir way. I shall bo left alone, with good Mrs. Williams for my housekeeper and her husband as head hired man— just as I was before. Hester, won’t you take pity on me, and come and share my JiomeP I have never cared for any one but you." I do not know in what words Hester answered him. But I see her daily in the cream-colored farmhouse, the very model of an active, bustling, good-tem pered farmer’s wife. As for the book she has utterly for gotten it. She needs its recompense no longer, and she is far too happy to care or wish for fame. of Aboukir, on which occasion Napoleon I Ammonia, saleratus water, and other himself was obliged to declare that I10 aBjaBne wa8 hes are the usual remedies was superb. The brave Marshal Lannes one day severely reprimanded a colonel who had punished a young officer for a moment of fear. “ That man,” said lie, is worse than a poltroon, who pretends he never knows fear.” On the bank holiday at the Alexandra palaoe, London, 199,990 persons were turned into one inclosure. Thirty thousand cups of tea and coffee, 350 barrels oi ale, 42,000 loaves of bread, and itn a seuoo u. —*■-. . . , I 60,000 buns and cakes were consumed And sho turned mto the shad n j b morning and night. hat ledonly to tho Blessing farm, »od Light and Heavy Blows. The difference in effect between a blow delivered by a light hammer trav eling fast, and one delivered by a heavier I10 minor traveling more slowly, is that the effects of the blow are more confined in the first case and more spread in the second. The blow from a light hammer pene trates but slightly below the suriace; while a blow from a heavy hammer penetrates deeply into the metal which is being forged. In practice, it will be observed that light, quick blows have a tendency to drive out of shape, split and break the iron; while tho force of heavy blows with a heavy hammer moving slowly, penetrates deeply into tho iron, and forces the ;mass 01 the metal out into the desired shape. Every woodchopper knows the differ ence in effect between the effort to drive a wedge into a tight place by light blows or by heavy on»s. —Manvjacluro* and Builder. for bee stings. A fresh tomato leaf crushed and rubbed on the puncture is recommended as an easy and sovereign cure. A correipondent residing at Ilonolu Sandwich islands, says that a good health preservative is to sponge the body in cold water, containing a small percentage of some alkali, such as am monia. The ammonia combines with the oil or grease thrown out by the perspiration, forming a soap, which is easily removed from the skin, leaving the pores opeD, thus promoting health and comfort. Milk (or Chicken*. Sloppy food is unfit for chickens. Their stomachs are formed to grind hard substances, and if given soft food tho gizzard, a portion of the stomach— which is mutiple in fowls as in cattle— is weakened, and does not perform its partial digestive functions. Milk may be given with coarse cornmeal, both being scalded together until it is a stiff mass, or it nay be curdlod and separated from the whey, and given dry. But it must not be sour. Sour Jood is sure to bring on intestinal disorders and pre pare such a weakened condition of the system as will offer favorable oppor from 95 to $19 per month to the cornc r , storekeeper, according to the importance ^ ^ ^ J behind the age n of the site. He goes to market every ^ ^ are glad that at least among the two or three days and buys from 95 to more intelllgent c i as8e s of Americ ins, it $39 worth of truit. lhe profits 0 , a | ba8 become a, common article of food. of iruit stand in a good location averages in the best season $2 a day. He generally feeds on such fruit as begins to decay. Like all his countrymen, lie is sober and more than economical—stingy. He But in Scotland, where people are noted for brain and brawn, it has long been the staple food. Says a recent Scotch writer: “For the past forty years I have made my breakfast of a does not mind coming to blows for » pint of oatmeal porridge, with very rare stolen apple. The police often hinder exceptions, and nothing else, fasting for their prospering. Now and then they p our hours afterward. are ordered to remove, on the pretext that their stands are incumbrances. Should they fail to heed the order, their open-air shops are seized, and that is the last they see of them. They fre quently lose a great deal of money in this way, or by removing to loss favor able places. “Good corners,” as they call those central pointB of the city where their goods find a ready sale, be come scarcer every day. This explain why many a fruit vender whose bright eyc-s and soiled hands were familiar to New Yorkers las disappeared. The most of these havc set up their stands in Brooklyn, which seems to- offer a better field.— New York Sun. I The mosquito has six legs and only ono mouth. Let us therefore be thank ful that if it does bite it doesn t kick. “ If, howe ver, I take any other form of breakfast, I find myself very hungry before the next meal, which is never tho case when I have had my porridge.” He adds: “ I feel assured that if the laborers of the southern counties, with their children, would but take a basin of oat meal porridge and milk, with such other food as they can procure in the in terval, we should have a much stronger and healthier race of men and women.” We have no doubt, not only that such diet would give us a stronger and healthier race of men and women, but that it would save children from many of the ills now so rife among them. It is easily digested, nutritious, makes muscle, and gives a clear head, which cannot be said of a large poition of the food used in this country.—Youth's Companion!