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THE SOUTHERN PINE.
The Southern pine is a forest kinz
Through seasons bright or drear—
He reigns in summer, he reigns in spring,
And the old age of the year!
The Southern pine has a minstrel’s voice
And a proud, coni man ling mien—
Ar.d he sings the songs of the winds that
smite
His musical boughs of green!
The Southern pine is a forest king
Through seasons bright or drear—
He reigns in summer, he reigns in spring,
And the old age of the year!
Ah' was it decreed at some ancient hour
Of twilight lone and dim,
That the soul of a monarch, the soul of a
bard,
Should be given in trust to him?
—W. H. Hayne, in Youth's Companion.
TWO WAYSOF ASKING,
“Tears! idle tears! Niobe dissolved!
Sly dear ch.ld, what on earth is the
matter?”
Time: 4 of a summer afternoon. Place:
a pretty* boudoir, furnished in the fashion
of to-day, modeled on the style of Louis
Quinze, with a dash of “Libe ty” thrown
in, and modern acces-ories, such as
crystal flower Vases, three-volume novels,
and photograph stand, juxtaposed with
Queen Anne silver and knick knacks
ancient and modern. Dramatis Persons:
a. graceful figure in white, flung on the
floor with an air of desolation by the
sofa, her charming neck visible beneath
delicious little rows of golden curls, her
frame shaken by sobs: an older woman
standing a few yards distant, dark,
beautifully dressed, “good-looking
enough for anything” without being
distinct y handsome, aged somewhere
within the right side of thirty, and
wearing an expression half compas
sionate, half amused. There is a sus
picion of raillery in her voice, which is
felt and deeply resented by the fair sor
rower. Anger is often akin to sorrow,
as p.ty is to love, and the yoice which re
sponds to the question when reiterated
is decidedly petulant.
“I wish you would go away and leave
me alone.”
“I shall do nothing of the sort.” re
turns the other. “I am going to talk
to you, and I do not care in the least
whether you are angry or not, although
I had much rather you would take my
remarks in good part.”
“Oh,” responded the voice, still
smothered in the sofa cushions, but los
ing nothing of its resentful quality. “1
know how clever you are, and that, you
think that you can manage every one’s
aflairsa great deal better than them-I
selves.”
She intends this to be a “nasty one,”
and as a matter of fact it does not fall
v ery pleasantly on the ears of her inter
locutor; but she sits down on the sofa
aud replies with good humor: “Well, my
love, I may confidently say that I could I
manage your affairs a great deal better j
than you manage them yourself, and that
if I were you i would have Mr. Clement
Lascelles at my feet in a very short time.”
“Perhaps you ha e him there now,”
says the prostrate one, ceasing to sob and
trying to sneer instead.
“VV ell, Dolly, dear, to tell you the
truth, I fail myself to recognize in that
young man the charm which I observe he
has ,for —for some people; indeed, 1
consider him a poseur, with anexaspera
tinglv good opinion of hmself, aud, if
you ask my candid opinion, I think that
he would be all the better for beino 1
kre-—” 5
J orothy flounces up in a moment. “I
will trouble you not to insult my friends,”
she cries, with flaming cheeks. “And it
is not very easy to believe your sincerity
when he was sitting in your pocket all
last night, and you were out walking
with him for two hours this morning.”
. “Iu nnv ca-e,” replies Mrs. Dalton
coolly, “your remarks prove that I have
had time and opportunity to form an
opinion of his qualities. I don’t deny
that he is good looking, but it is intoler
able that he should be so conscious of it.
I admit that he is not without a certain
amount of cleverness, and has been fairly
veil educated; but I violently object to
his thinking himself able to sit in judg
ment on people a good deal older and
cleve-er than himself.”
“On you, for instance!” cries Dolly.
“No, I was not thinking of myself, !
though I admit the soft impeachment
(the one regarding my age, at least); aud !
what 1 dislike most of a l is his placing
himself on a pedestal to be looked at and
longed lor by—by pretty, silly little
gir.s, who ought to know better.”
Dolly stiiiens her back, and says, with
an assumption of dignity which sits in
differently well upon her. “If you will
excuse me I should prefer not discussing
Mr. Lascel.es with you. You are per
fectly welcome to your opinion of him,
and I claim the liberty of retaining
unine. ” Then, her majesty toppling over,
she says, \ indictively, in quite a differ
ent tone of voice. “Perhaps you think
I m such a fool that I don't see through
your mean abuse of him:”
‘•That I may win and wear him my- !
selfsuggests Mrs. i altori. quite good- j
humoredly. “No, my dear and acute
child, believe me, you have not fathomed I
and unmasked my baseness this time. I
know your dear and sensitive little heart |
is set upon this fascinating young man. !
I don’t think there is really any harm in
him, and I am magnanimous enough to
•° ready to show you how to obtain his
affections, and to make h ; m suppliant in- '
stead of you.”
“Suppliant!” cries Dolly, with fresh
flames from her burning heart ascending
to her cheeks
“Yes. suppl ant. Every one, my love,
can see—he most of all—how you hang
upon his smiles, and despair when he is
indifferent or capricious.”
Wrath makes Dolly absolutely speech
less. If looks, &c., Ac., Mrs. Dalton
would, Ac., Ac.
“Don’t be a Dolly.” resumes
1 r friend, not having suffered any visi
e injury from the lightning glances to
nich she has been subjected. “Keep
>ur temper, and reap the advantages of
my superior age and experience.”
“Xeep them to yourself,” retorts Dolly
tartly.
“The first I must, whether or no, but
the latter shall be yours. Come, dear
child, you know I am fond of you; be
lieve me when I say I vvmid not have
your enchanter as a gift, and also that I
am desirous to see h ; m subjugated by
you. He be yours, I premise, and
I will only make one condition.”
Dolly seats herself on the sofa, and
allows Mrs. Dalton to take her hand,
though she look# rather sulky. Still,
she does, poor little girl, regard Mr.
Clement Lascellcs as the first prize in
the marriage lottery, aud she is willing to
take upon herself her part of ibe con
tract; to worship him with her mind,
and endow him with all her wordly
goods. For in a smail way she is an
heiress, though he is not destitute of
money, and has an excellent position,
'Truth to tell, the young man is not
what is called “a bad sort;” he has
good looks, good brains, and good
manners, when he is not egged on to
taking liberties by the silly flatteries of
the other sex. Poor Dolly loves him
madly, and has innocently shown her
sufferings at his neglect. Mrs. Dalton
having paused to give due effect to her
words, Dolly, after a moment, is con
strained to say rather sulkily: “Well?”
“You must take ihe vow first.”
“What vow?” with latent irritation.
“The vow never to tell any human be-
ing—Mr. Lascelle least of all, that 1, or,
j for the matter of that, any one, advised
you how to act toward him.”
“Oh, of course, I promise.”
Mrs. Dalton takes up her parable,
j “Clement is really fond of you—he
! would be exceedingly fond of you if you
only allowed him.”
•‘lf I allowed him !” gasps Dolly.
“Yes,” repeats her adviser. “By al
lowing him, I don’t mean throwing your
self at his head, and showing him that
you adore him; but by making him
doubt your love and his own capacity
for pleasing you. Different men want
different treatment. There is nothing so
delightful to some as to see aud know
that a woman cares for them—it adds
tenfold to their devotion for her; but I
am bound to say that these men are in
the minority. Most of them are far more
stimulated by doubts and fears—the
woman becomes more dear as she seems
more distant, and, as a rule, when a man
is literally crazy about one of our sex, it
is because she has worried and tormented
and kept him upon a perpetual balance
between hope and fear. Now, you, and
others like you, have so hung upon
Clement l.ascelles’s looks and words,have
so positively shown him that he is a
great being, a lofty intellect, a rival to
Apollo, that it is not likely he is coming
off his pedestal to won-hip his worship
ers. Your only chance, my dear, is to
abandon your worship" to counterfeit in
difference as best you may, and to let a
gradual and startling conviction come
over him that you were not really in
earnest after all.”
“It is very easy to talk,” pouts Dolly.
“It is very'easy to act, too,” returns
Marian, “if you are positively certain
that your plan of campaign is going to
be successful.”
‘ How do I know that it will be?”
“Try it for twenty four hours, aud
see how it works.”
“But I don’t know what I am to do.”
“You mu 4 be absolutely guided by
me, anti not act oire moment on your
oxvn responsibility.”
“I dare say it will turn out all wrong,”
says Dolly, ungraciously, ‘.‘and that I
shall lose him altogether.'' .
“All right,” replies Mrs. Dalton, los
ing patience and fis ng from her seat.
“Do as you like. After all, what ou
earth does it matter to me whether you
are happy or miserable? Go your own
way.”
Dolly springs up and cutups her by
the arm. “No, no, Marian, don't go;
don't be angry. I will do whatever you
tell me.”
“Then hearken and obey. Dick
Wyndham is coining You
know he is rather fond of vox!- Talk to
him. and to him only, all the evening.
Do not glance iu Mr. 1 ascelles’s direc
tion. I will keep my eye on him and re
port to you ho whe takes it. If he ap
proaches you in the e etring, look bored
and distraite, and reply to him by mono
syllables.”
“I shall never be able to do it,” groans
Dolly.
“Not with such a big stake to win?”
(a little sarcastically.)
“Ah! you don't knoxv what it is to
lovt?” cries Dolly.
“Not as you do, certainly,” retorts
MariaD, with an inflection of voice which
Dolly is not acute enough to catch.
Dick Wyndham arrives in time for
dinner. He is rather tond of Dolly— j
he is exceedingly hard up, and wants
her money even more than her sweet
self. He is bright and amusing, has a
considerable fund of small talk, is de
voted to sport, and has not Mr. Lascel- j
. les’s aesthetic taste or lofty manner of
showing superiority, lie has a genuine I
contempt for a man who talks art and
: plays classical music, as Mr. l ascelles
I has for one who thinks of nothing but
I hunting, lawn tennis and polo, though
he rides fairly straight aud is an average
! shot himself.
Not a little disgusted is Lascelles,
therefore, when Dolly, whose sorrowful
ness and its cause bas e greatly soothed
his complacency for the last twenty-four
hours, seems to have eyes and ears for no
one but this half-witted soldier at dinner.
Sh ■ is looking charming in a dress of a
delicious apricot tint, which he has not
seen before he is a great connoisseur of
die 8); if he couid only catch her eye he
would beam on her one of those glances
which would have intoxicated her maiden
| soul. But, whereas it has been his wont
T
to meet her tender, pleading glances
every two minutes heretofore, to-night
he nbght be Bauquo’s ghost, atid she one
of Macbeth’s guests, for all she seems to
see him. His memory serves him up
various sneering and savage quotations
on the theme of souvent femme vane.
He is so little congenial to his neighbor
at dinner that she expresses the most un
favorable sentiments regarding him in
the drawing room later on,causing Dolly
to halt between the desire to defend
him hotly and a sense of pleasure that
some one besides herself has suffered
from his coldness. Mrs. 1 alton makes a
pretext for calling Dolly aside.
“Excellent, my love!” she cries, in
high good humor, pressing the girl’s
arm. “He is enraged beyond measure.
He scarcely took his eyes off you. Go
on and prosper!”
Thus stimulated. Dolly does go on,
and prospers ex eediugly. When Mr.
I Lascellcs and Dick approach simul
taneously she devotes her whole atten
tion to the latter, and has scarcely a
word for the former, who presently re
tires in tragic dudgeon,and leans against
the wall looking like Hamlet, Lord
Byron, or any other blighted being in
the sulks.
Up to this moment Clement Lasceiies
has not seen any necessity for putting
his fate to the touch, because he has been
absolutely certain of winning; but now
that for the first time he has a rival, a
rival who is progressing by leaps and
bounds in his lady’s favor, he sees that
something must be done. He cannot
have been befooled.
With gloomy brow and stately step he
retires from the smoking room and seeks
the solitude of his chamber, but not of
his couch. The dawn has long broken
ere ho courts repose.
“Marian!” cries Dolly, a few haurs
later, bursting into her friend’s room
while that lady—no early riser at the
best of times—still nestles among her
pillows, “read this!” aud she seats her
self on the bed in a state of great excite
ment, while Mrs. Dalton languidly
peruses the letter thrust into her hands.
“I call it great impertinence!” she re
marks, returning it to Doiiy.
“Impertinence!” with wide-open eyes.
“Certainly!” and Mrs. Dalton, taking
it back, quotes from it:
“Though I cannot pretend to offer you the
! one great passion of a life—sad passages be
i vond the ken of other mortals have tarnished
the pure lustre which once surrounded my
soul as with a halo—yet, if you will take a
heart weary with the sorrows of the ages,
dimmed by the darkling doubts with which
an intimate knowledge of humanity clouds
the spirit, take me to your tender breast and
let me find shelter there from life's griefsand
disappointments. What recompense a heart
blighted as mine has been can bestow I will
strive to make to your angelic sympathy and
goo Ine-s.”
“Is it not beautiful?” cries Dolly in an
ecstasy, “I wonder wliat he means? I
suppose some woman threw him over
once
“I think it is exceedingly impertinent,
and I hope you will resent it.”
“Resent it!” almost shrieks Dolly.
“Why, it is a declaration!”
“Get me my blotting book off that
table,” commands Mrs. Dalton resolutely.
“Now,” she says, beginning to write,
“you will answer it in this way or I wash
my hands of you, and to-morrow he will
have reduced you to abject misery
again.”
She writes hurriedly for a few minutes,
and then with heightened color reads the
draft aloud:
Dear Mr. Lascptles:
I have received your melancholy letter,
and am truly sorry for all you seem to have
suffered. But, for my part, I look upon the
world as a very pleasant place, and have
made up my mind to enjoy myself as much
as possible: so, as I could not console you,
and you, with the ideas you express, would
make me miserable, I think you had much
better look for somebody whose temperament
is more like your own. I suppose you mean
me to understand that you have been much
more in love with some one else than you
are with me, which, to say the least, is not
very flattering. No! I must have an un
divided heart or none at all.
. Your sincere friend. D. 8.
There is a desperate fight between
Airs. Dalton and Dolly before the latter
can be persuaded to copy aud forward
what she considers a heartless and flip
pant missive. In the end Marian tri
umphs. Mr. Lascelles does not appear
at breakfast, and Dolly, though her soul
quakes within her, laugh# and talks to
Dick.
Later in the evening, when they are
playing lawn tennis, Clement Lascelles,
feelirg much smaller than he has ever
done in his life, seeks counsel from Mrs.
Dalton. With an angelic smile she al
ternately pricks him with daggers and
makes him gulp down bowls of poison;
but she does him an excellent turn by
taking a good deal of the nonsense out
him, He confesses that he adores Dolly.
How, oh, how, is he to win her? Has
he a ghost of a chance?
Mrs. Dalton, looking solemn, declares
her inability to reply to this. She
hints at 1# ly’s youth and love of
amusement.*.she hints, too, at Dick’s
unflagging good spirits ami temper.
And the upshot of it is, that when Dick
returns, crestfallen, from his afternoon
ride with Dolly, having spoken and re
ceived his answer, Clement Lascelles
carries off the young lady to her boudoir
on pretence of wanting to be shown some
thing, and, replacing the melancholy of
Hamlet by the conquering airs of young
Lovelace, takes her in his arms, swears
he has been a fool, and has really never
loved any one but her sweet self, and
that if she'accepts him her life shall be
one sweet round of pleasure.
Twenty minutes later Dolly has passed
on all his embraces, and more, to Mariai.
“How clever you are darling!” s(ie
says, admiringly.
To which Mrs. Dalton replies: “NoV
you know how to mamige him, make gool(
use of your knowledge.” —London Worl(u
The Aftermath of Death.
A gentleman, who was a citizen of
Marietta at the time of the fighting
around that point by the armies in 18(54,
was talking to us about the Federal
bombardment of the Confederate bat -
teries on the summit of lx ennesaw Moun
tain.
He said that after the,war an immense
amount of lead and iron was picked up
on the north side of the mountain where
the Federal missiles had struck.
He remarked that for two or three
years after the war, in the fall, when the
ground was covered with dead leaves,
parties used to set these on fire, so as to
keep the undergrowth down. The flames
would creep up the mountain side, and
at night would present a grand sight,
there appearing to be long lines of lire in
the sky.
But one of the most striking features
of these fires on the mountain was the
explosion of some of the Federal shells.
He said that even in Marietta they could
be distinctly heard, and on the first oc
casion or two of burning the woods on
the mountain side there were scores of
those which exploded, and the reports
| called back to the citizens of Marietta in
a very emphatic manner the Federal
bombardments which had ensued in
1804.
There is, however, no danger of this
kind now. as We have not heard of any
simiiar occurrences in a numberof years,
j —Kenne aw Gazette.
Singular Cause of Inattentiveaess.
Aprysexie is the name Dr. Guye, of
Amsterdam, chooses for inattentiveness,
and he quite singularly finds that the
nose is a cause of it. A dull boy became
quick to learn after certain tumors had
been taken from the nose, and a man who
had been troubled with vertigo and
buzzing in the ears for twelve years
found mental labor easy after a like
operation. In a third case a medical
student was similarly relieved. Dr.
Guye supposes that these nasal troubles
affect the brain by preventing the cerebral
lymph from' circulating freely.
A HOSPITAL FOR ANIMALS.
THE UNIQUE PROJECT OF MR
BERG-HS SOCIETY.
A Building to Care for Sick or
Crippled Domestic Animals
Ambulances and Doctors.
Concerning the new hospital for do
mestic animals which the New York So
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals proposes to build at once. Mr.
Henry Bergh, Jr., President of the so
ciety, said to a Sun reporter: “For a
number of years 1 have been impressed
with the importance of having a hospital
for the care and treatment, especially the
surgical treatment, of animals, and to
provide for unfortunate animals such
care and attention as is now given to
human beings.
“When we get our hospital we shall
have our ambulances ready, with trained
horses, like those of the Fire Department,
ready to rush out at the sound of a bell,
aba go to the relief of the suffering ani
mals in the streets. This will avoid the
delays which at present are nut only
vexatious but demoralizing to those who
witness the suffering of animals dying in
the streets. At present, when animals
are past saving, it becomes Decessarv of
ten to destroy them in the street. This
is a horrid sight at best, and a very
dangerous example to unthinking youths,
as some boys are apt to imitate the pro
cess with dogs or cats in the back yard.
“We expect to have some novel ap
pliances in our new hospital. One of
these will be a truck to rescue animals
from excavations. At present when a
horse tumbles down a sewer or a cellar
it is difficult to lift him up. We have a
derrick now, but it is cumbersome and
difficult to move and slow of operation.
Our new life-saving truck will be quick
of movement, strong and adaptable.
We shall be able to hoist out ahorse and
start him off to the hospital in a jiffy.
If we have to kill him it will be done
out-of sight of the Jpublic, and expedi
tiously. jgfcl have already received a letter
from Mr. Edison, who says the idea of
killing by electricity is practical, and I
have also a letter from .Mayor Hewitt,
in which he promises to give w’hat aid
he can to expedite the substiution of
some more prompt and less torturing
method of killing dogs in the dog
pound. “It isa common thing now for
dogs caught late iu the season to be al
most frozen to death in the drowning
process at the dog pound. When our
new hospital is finished we can kill the
dogs quickly, and keep them out of
sight, and put them to no unnecessary
pain. It has been proposed to kill dogs
by an apparatus which asphyxiates them
with carbonic oxid gas. I am satisfied
that that would be an expeditious and
destructive agent.
“The main work of our soc ety has
hitherto been done in the direction of
punishing those who have inflicted pain
upon dumb animals. This will be some
what of a new departure iu the way of
doing something for the animals them
selves. We had in mind the establish
ment of some more painless method of
catching dogs in the public streets. At
present the dogcatchers set a terrible ex
ample of brutality in the heartless way
in which they seize dogs and huddle
them into a cart aud off to the pound.
Such doings aie bad examples for chil
dren. It would be better to have a ve
hicle with separate compartments for the
dogs, and the dogcatcher, instead of
seizing a dog by the leg and throwing
him in a heap, could be provided with a
net, so as to seize his prey with unneces
sary pain.
“ The lower floor of our new hospital
will probably be devoted to the storage
of the ambulances, with stalls for the
necessary horses to draw them, and stor
age for the life-saving truck. In the
rear might be placed* the apparatus for
killing the animals that are to be killed.
On the upper floor we might have stalls
for dogs, cats, or other domestic animals
requiring temporary .homes or surgical
treatment. It is intended to make the
hospital free, except in such cases as are
obviously not proper for free treatment.
Many persons who are able and willing
to pay will use the new hospital. Most
of the c ases treated will be surgical. No
contagious diseases will be received.
Horses with scarlet fever or the glanders
cannot be treated in our hospital. The
danger from contagion -would be too
great.
“It is not intended to have the hospital
take the place of the establishments of a
similar kind already in the hands of
veterinary surgeons. It will be an
emergency hospital, and useful for many
aiimals who may be treated elsewhere
aierward, or whose treatment may be
pad for by owners who are able to pay.
Sane idea of the necessity for such an
hospital may be gathered from the fact
th;s during the past year there were
deskoyed by this society 2546 animals
whae recovery was not beiieved to be
possDle. There were 1202 animals
chloroformed who were disabled past
recovW. There were 522 disabled horses
rernoxtd from the streets. Many of these
cases xould have been taken to such a
hospitf as we propose to have now.
There k not at present in existence any
hospita such as we propose to build.
They lave in connection with our
Philadelphia branch what they call a dog
| shelter.^
Shorthand Talking.
A wrier in Chamber*'. s Journal says
that the expressions used by some boys
and girl if written as pronounced,
would s*nd like a foreign language.
Specimen are given of what is called
“shorthafl talking;”
“Warelgo last night?”
“Haddr skate.”
“Jerfinithe ice hard’n good?”
“Yes, llvd’nough.”
“.Ter g<j-lone?”
“No; 111 ’n Joe wenterlong.”
“Howl* jer stay?”
“Pasta:#’
Commening on this, the Christian
Advocate sis: “Such specimens might
be multiplill indefinitely. It i 9 enough
to make 4e dear grandmothers and
aunts sighlr the days when they were
young Its too often the case that a
civil questln will bring from a child
‘Yep’ and law’ as a reply, for these
seem to be |ie nineteenth century sub
stitutes for |e quaiut ‘Yes, ma’am,’ or
‘No, ma’amif our forefathers.”
Peel was ilparliament at twenty-one,
and Palmersln wa 3 lord of the admiral
ity at rwentjlhree.
SELECT SIFTINGS.
There are 172 species of creatures that
are blind.
A Jersey cow that eats cats on sight is
reported from Ohio.
The expression “almighty dollar” was
original with Washington Irving.
The first eclipse upon record was a
lunar one, and was observed at Babylon
721 B. C.
The first lighthouse on this continent
was built at the entrance to Boston
harbor on Little Brewster Island, in
1715.
A member of Congress while it is in
session cannot be arrested for a debt, but
lie may be arrested at any tune for a
felony.
The first steamer to cross the ocean,
the .'■avanuah. was of 650 tons burden,
and sailed from Savannah, Ga., to Liver
pool id. July, 1819.
The two-year-old son of a Missoun
farmer committed suicide because his
brother got a new suit of clothes and ho
had to wear the old ones.
The largest tree in the country cast of
California is a gnarled old sycamore that
stands in Upper Sandusky, in Ohio. It
is forty feet in circumferrence.
The population of London, England,
according to the last census, was 4,776,
661. It has never yet exceeded 5,000,-
000, but must be in that neighborhood
at the present time.
A gold watch which a Missouri farmer
lost last fall, and for the theft of which
he sought to send his hired man to
prison, was found in the stomach of
one of his cows which died the other
day.
Dr. B. L. Boss, of Fort Valley, Ga.,
has a small piece of metal which was
once a part of the cannon which James
Oglethorpe bronght with him when he
came from England to plant a colony in
the American wilderness.
A young white elephant recently cap
tured has been sent from Mandalay to
Rangoon. As white elephants are held
by the Burmese to be sacred and are re
garded as emblems of Burmese royalty,
it was considered inadvisable to keep the
elephant at Mandalay.
The latest Maine romance comes from
Biddeford, where an honest, awkward
farmer, who had been pestered for years
w r ith a suit for sending indecent letters
to the girl he loved, has just been able
to prove that their author was none other
than her rase ally brother, who hoped,
by preventing her marriage, to keep un
divided their joint estate.
Captain Calhoun, an old resident of
St. Joseph County, Mich., died in Flor
ence Township recently, and his four
sons, who had been separated for eight
een years, came home to attend the
funeral. They rode in the same car un
known to each other from Chicago to
White Pigeon, two of them occupying
the same seat, and it was not until they
all tried to get the same conveyance to
take them to the old homestead that their
identity was disclosed to each other.
In the early days of English law, it
was a custom for the clients to send a
present of a pail of gloves to the counsel
who undertook their causes, and even to
the judges who were to try them. These
gloves were generally only a cloak for
an absolute bribe —Mrs. Croker, for ex
ample, presenting Sir Thomas More with
a pair lined xvith £4O, which he re
turned. A bribe given in such circum
stances continued to be called “glove
money” long after gloves had ceased to
hold a place in the transaction.
Jack Tar's Jledicine Chest.
One of the principal afflictions of sea
men on long voyages used to be sea
scurvy. This was particularly the case
on sailing vessels, or those bound on
-voyages in the polar seas. As a general
rule the malady is to be attributed to the
deprivation of fresh vegetables any con
siderable length of time. The exclusive
use of salt meat in lieu of fresh also con
duces to the disease. Under existing
marine laws relating to the general com
fort of poor Jack it is not nearly so
prevalent as in former years.
Every vessel sailing under the United
States flag, bound from any port in this
country to any foreign port, is bound by
law to have a well stocked medicine chest
aboard. • The same rule holds good if
the vessel be bound from a port on the
the Atlantic to one on the Pacific, or vice
versa.
lii the medicine chest there must be a
sufficient quantity of lime or lemon
juice, sugar and vinegar for the use of
the crew.
As soon as the fresh provisions and
vegetables give out and salt food has to
be" regularly used the anti-scorbutics
must be given to the men. Ten days
after the salt provisions have to be used
exclusively is the time when the master
of the vessel is required to resort to
these remedies. The lime or lemon
juice and sugar is served out at the rate
of half an ounce per day each man, and
a half pint of vinegar for each, weekly.
If the vessel should sail without these
things in her medicine chest, the master
is liable to a line of SSOO. Should he
not use them at the time required he may
be fined SIOO, but if it can be shown that
the owners of the vessel are either by
neglect or otherwise in fault for its not
being on board, then the master may
legally recover from them the fines and
costs which had been inflicted on him.
Vessels leaving a port on the Atlantic
for one on the Pacific side, or a vessel
crossing the Atlantic, is obliged to carry
in a secure place under deck sixty gallons
of water, 100 pounds of salted flesh
meat and 100 pounds of wholesale ship
bread for each person on board.
If Jack Tar’s stipulated allowance has
been reduced during the voyage, without
sufficient cause, he may recover damages
amounting from fifty cents to $1 per day
for the time he suffered such deprivation
and according to the amount and quality
of the food withheld from him.— Neu>
York Press.
A Love-Lorn Cataleptic.
In the Lancaster ( Penn. > Insane asylum
there is a patient who puzzles all doctors.
He cannot speak, but can hear and walk
after a shambling fashion. But he can
not move hand or head or eyelid. Just
as others place them, so they must
remain—open or shut, straight or bent.
His name is John Koechel, and his sad
condition, it is said, was brought abcut
by a disappointment in love—after which
he ran wild in the woods till attacked
with catalepsy, from which he now
suffers. Commercial Adcertmr.
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
Preserving Eggs.
Any method which will keep the ait
from the inside of the shell will preserve
eggs for a certain length of time. Eggs
lor packing should not be more than one
day laid, and packed in fine weather,
the best season being from April to
September. One method of packing is
to immerse them in lime water and set
away in a cool cellar, this, though u-u
--aiiy successful fitr some weeks, often de
stroys the eggs by keeping them in too
long. A better way is to back them in
salt in a stone jar. Put a layer of salt
two inches thick in first, and alternate
layers of eggs and salt to fill the jar, the
eggs standing on the larger end; a thick
layer of salt should be put on last.
Cover with a stone cover and set in a
cool, dry place. —Detroit Free P.e s.
A New Coverlet.
Cheese-cloth quilts are the new cover
lets, and commend themselves, being
warm aud inexpensive. The materials
needed are ten yards of the cheese-cloth
and five one-pound rolls of cotton. The
cheese-cloth when cut into lengths of
two and a half yards is placed on a
bed or table. Over this is laid a layer
of cotton batting, which has previously
been placed before a hot tire or register,
unrolling it from the bundle over a chair
or clothes-horse. This causes the cotton
to expand to twice its first thickness.
A second layer goes crosswise, and so on
until all the cotton has been utilized.
Over the last layer is placed the second
cover of cheese-cloth, and the whole tied
with worsted, in bedquilt fashion. A
feather stitching completes the edge.—
Comm. rcial Adcertiser.
Teach the Girls to Sew.
Who can say that the inventions of the
nineteenth century do not show us to be
going ahead, pushing onward to perfec
tion? Not only is this the case in scien
tific matters, but in all branches pertain
ing to household work. In one particu
lar, however, we are losing ground. Our
daughters are not taught the use of the
needle, as were our grandmothers in the
good old times of “long ago,” for did
they not fashion dainty, beautiful gar
ments, without the aid of the sewing
machine, with its numerous attachments,
hemmer, rubier, tucker, corder and
binder?
In ‘-grandma’s day” every ruffle xvas
hemmed, rolled, whipped and sewed on
by band. In undergarments every seam
was neatly felled, every yard of flannel
xvas (after being run together) nicely aud
evenly “catsteppea,” and without this
pretty finish was considered a bungling,
unsightly piece of work.
In many cases too much time and eye
sight were spent in beautifying and<
adorning ladies' underwear. Particu
larly was this the case when days, weeks
and even months were spent in elabo
rately embroidering the chemise and
nightgown yokes so much in vogue
twenty and thirty years ago. This I
consider a wanton waste of time, and
now that Hamburg embroidery and
woven trimmings are so cheap and pretty
there is no excuse for it.
Neither do I condemn the use of the
sewing machine, but I contend that td*,
do good machine work it is almost
necessary for dne to understand how to
do plain sewing. I think all mothers
should begin by the time their daugh
ters are ten years of age to teach them
the rudiments of this branch of house
hold work. lam fully aware of the ob
jections urged by most mothers, mainly,
want of time, if not want of time on the
part of the mother, want of time on the
part of the child; many times it is a
want of inclination on the part of one
or both.
Do not let your child commence too
soon on fancy and decorative work, but
give her a good foundation by a thor
ough drill in plain sewing wriiile yet
young enough to be guided by your in
struction. With this foundation all
branches of ornamental work will be
comparatively easy. —Good Housekeeping.
Recipes.
Rice Entree.—Stew a cup of rice un
til well done, add a small cup of milk,
two well beaten eggs, pepper and salt
to taste, pour into a shallow pan, sprinkle
grated cheese thickly over the top and
bake until the top is nicely browned.
Potato Turnovers. —Mix about a
pint of hot mashed potato with one egg,
season to taste, and roll it in flour.
Make it into balls and press or roll it out
thin, put a tablespoonful of meat,
minced and seasoned, on one half, fold
over and press the edges together and
brow T n on each side in drippings.
Beef Smothered in Tomato. —Cut
an onion tine and fry it slowly in one
tablespoonful of butter in a stew pan.
Add one pint of tomatoes cooked and
strained, one teaspoonful of salt, a little
pepper and one pound of beef cooked or
uncooked, cut in small pieces. Simmer
very slowly until the meat is tender.
Oranged Strawberries. —Place a
layer of strawberries in a deep dish, cover
thickly with pulverized sugar; then a
layer of berries, and so on, until all are
nsed. Pour over them orange juice, in
the proportion of three oranges to a quart
of berries; let stand for an hour and just
before serving sprinkle with pounded ice.
Rice and Asparagus Soup. —Wash
well half a pound of rice and parboil it
in water, cool in cold water, drain, and
*tien cook it with a quart of beef broth
for twenty minutes; then pour in two
quarts more of beef broth. Put in at the
last moment a pint of small cooked green
asparagus tops, boil a minute and pour
into the soup tureen and serve,
Ebcai.loped Tomato. —One quart to
matoes, add one teaspoonful salt, one
saltspoonful pepper, a few drops of
onion juice and one tablespoonful sugar;
butter a dish and sprinkle with crumbs,
pour in the tomatoes; cover with one
cup cracker crumbs moistened with
butter. Bake until brown. Fresh or
canned tomatoes may be used for the
above. Use plain crumbs.
Crecy Soup. —The materials needed
for this soup are one quart of rich brown
stock, one pint of carrot, one
ful of sugar, one teaspoonful of salt,
a little pepper and one smali onion
sliced. Wash and scrape the carrot.
Shave oil in thin slices a pint of the
outer part, l'o not use the yellow
centre. Cook the carrot with the onioo
in Coiling salted water until tender:
Rub the carrot through a colander, add
the stock and heat again. Add the
sugar, salt and pepper, and when hot
serve immediately with croutons.