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From Harper's Weekly
THE OLD COUNTRY WIFE.

Wrspt inthe golden wOOf
Other cOntented life,
Under the olden roof,
Sits the Old Country Wife.
Turning the pages of memory Ger.
Bright with affection and lore-sOngs of yOre!
Thus from the morning-balm
TIL evenings purple calm,
Coming old memories o'er and Ger,
She cheerily stitch,
And merriIy knitteth,
In the calm light Of the farmhouse door
She sings defiance.
With glad songs of yore,
To the sorroEs Of science,
The sad things OfIorei-
Her hopes, her reliance.
Are not in their store,
In the search of neOlogirs
She is not bent
Her wisdom, her knowledge. is
Simple Content
With her station content,
When content she hath trod--
With her Bible content.
And content with her ood.
And coming old memories Ger and Ger,
contentedly sitting.
And merriiy knitting,
She basks iathe Light the farmhouse door!
AhiIistle she knows
or the world and its woes;
Gifts folHes of fashion,
Or the bleak storms of passion,
The phantom Of Gain,
As he stalked through the land,
With his pomp and his pain,
she sought not to clasp;
So she felt not the grasp
ofrude Rims skeleton hand,
But the quiet within.
Undisturbed by the din
OF Madness and sin,
Makes glad The dim ligh; of the farm house door
Where SIZE cheeriIg sitteth.
Aud merriiy knitteth.
Coming old memories Ger and Ger
Thus calmly her life,
Free from sorrow and strife,
Hath spun cut its quiet thread;
And thus hath she knit,
In her simple wit,
FOud loves of the living and dead.
And though old age hath silserel,
Her head, ami beFildered
Her thoughts of the dim days of yore;
Yet, coming old memories Ger and Ger!
She cheerily sitteth,
And merr.ly kniiteth.
In the calm Hghtof the farm. house door.
Her loved ones of youth.
With their fondness and truth,
Have passed through that farmhouse door,
On deaths dropping plume,
But their mem'ries perfume
The tranquil content of the farmhouse door.
And their music u feet
On the golden street,
By faith she can hear from the farm house door,
And soon through that portal,
In raiment immortal,
Shall go the good wife CT the farm hOuse-dOor.
In pride-not in meekness,
In strength-not in weakness,
To join Gods love
With her dear ones above;
And we shall behold never more, as of yore.
The Old Country wife sitting
And merrily knitting,
In the calm ght of the farm house doorl
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she turned from the fire, ani going TO
the door of the room, said very kindly,
"Shall 1 boil yen a couple q fresh
-eggs for your supper. Pete ,"
"Yes, dear; ii you please
How the wife's poor heart, which for
years, had lain almost dead IN her TO-
som, leaped with joyful im1ul5ei N-bat
light flashed over Ecr eouuteu.ree, saak-
ing it beautiful, as OF ell, in lhe faes of
her husband. 'Yrs. dear, il gen
please" Not even in ihe voice of Giisi
or Lind, would her cars have foua such
sweet music.
At the supper table, Peter Crandall
praised the coffee, and the fried pota
toes, and said the eggs were just what
he wanted. Mrs. Crandall looked hap
Epy, and was happy. With the vanishing
OF their fathers usual morose silence,
and heir mothers sour looks and fretful
tones. the children's spirits, changing
like the chameleon, and taking the hue
of things around them, rose into new,
better. and happier states. Contention
ceased; and there was something Ike an
emulation of kind Offices among them,
Instead of a selfish grasping of whatever
IL b.,rf I,.;roI
Suddenly lhe eyes Of Mr. Crandall
opened. Even while he was wondering
at the 1T sical change produced by few
kind Is. full revelation Of the truth
came is mind. 4 new leaf in the
book of his lie was turned.
Thought turned once in the right di-
rectiou, Peer Crandall pondered this
new fact in his inner life history-the
magic of kind words--and going back to
the very beginning, reviewed his own
conduct toward his wife and in his
family, almost day By day, up to the
evening VIC by the power, almost of a
single word, the whole scene changed,
aud quite as suddenly as we see it, some
times. in psntomime. He saw his err
ror-sav aad felt how unjust be had
been; bog cold and even cruel in his
coldness. Very carefully did he guard
himself af.erward; and very prompt was
he in observing all ihe little social cour-
tesies toward his wife and children which
are so beautiful to see, and SO sweet in
all their influences. The green things
aourished again in the heart of his wife.
and the flowers bloomed there as of old.
Tie children learned TO initiate the kind
words, and courteous Acknowledgements
fer all little services, that soon became a
habit with their father and mother; and
into the kind words spoken, kind feelings
soon flowed. 1t was the beginning Of Q
new order of things in the home of Pc
ter CrandalI; where. in good time, the
desert blossomed as the rose.
Words appear as little things in them
selves. but they have great power. The
magic Of Kind words is wonderful Try
them. ye silent Peter Crandalls, who
have fretful wives and contentious chill
dren. Try the effect Of a little whole,
some praise on your tired, unhappy,
over.w orked companion, and see if it
dosen't brighten her pale face as il a
whole food oi sunbcams had been pour
ed upon it. Try il with your children,
and if you have in you the heart of a
true man. yen vill be pleased With the
eF.ct, that yoa will keep On trying, until
you will scarcely recognise your own
household.
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Two RECEIPTS FOR MAKING VINEGAR.
Fill large bottles with weak tea, which
may be what is left after drinking. Add
a small quantity of sugar or molasses, aud
set them in a warm place. say ia a window
where The sun shines. In a fortnight it
will be fit for use, and as good as cider
vinegar.
Take a pan of sour. sour thick milk;
break it SO Rat the whey will rise to the
Top. Fill a glass bottle with the whey,
and to every quart add one half cup ful.
Of sugar. Set it in a warm place, and in
a few days il will be fit for use.
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The MoUsrAcHE.-A Lady writer in
Graham's Magazine for May, has the
following IN regard 10 the moustaohe;
Did you ever know woman who
knew anything about It, who would give
'two pence" for kiss from shaved
lip? Somebody talks about eggs With
out sal;-nonsense! that does not begin
TO express it, because if man or woman
either is hungry, they viii foreso the
condiment, but declare. if Twas on the
point of osculafory starvation, ! would
die decently and make 30 sort Of sign,
rather than take the kiss without its &C.
comPanyiug mOusIache.
Where we have been, the girls are
not near 50 Palticuiar.-FranEJort { Ry)
Commonwealth.
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SHARP People IL LAFAYErrE.-They
arc getting sharp down at Lafiyeite, Ind.
under the influence OF their great miner
al water facilities. i horiiculIurist ad.
veriised hat he would supply all sorts Of
trees aud plants, especially ''pie plants
of all kinds" \ gentleman ihereupOn
sent him an order for 'orn package Of
cus,arI pie seed, and a few dozen Of mince
pie plants" The gardener promptly fill
ed the order by sending him four goose
eggs and a small dog. The Courier YOU
ches for ;hc statement.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1858-06-16

AUSTRALIANS FLowERs.-Colonel Nun
dy tells us that the native rose has the
color but no other resemblance to the
European queen of flowers. 1t is one
of the few field flowers possessing any
odor. Waited on The passing gale, it
comments itself pleasantly to the senses;
but strange enough, on closer acquain-
iance, there miugles with the rich per-
fime ar undoubied smell of fox! a scent
which however productive of rapture in
the feIl,' IS hardly adapted to the bou-
doir. In the lowlands Of the Botany
scrub noticed a crimson and orange
fower, Ike the fox glove in form, very
handsome, but 50 hard and hoFney in
texture, that the blossoms actually ring
with 4 clear mstallic sound as the creeze
shakes them. 1t might be the faries'
dinner bell calling them to dew ambro-
sial. But alas!ihereare no ''good people"
in Australia, no ona ever heard Of ghost,
a boyle, or a fetish here.
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One of the jokers says; Women re-
quire more sleep than lmen, and farmers
less than those engaged in almost any
other occupation. Editors, reporters,
printers and telegraph operators need 40
sleep at all. Lawyers can sleep as much
as they choose, and thus keep out Of mis-
chief. Clergy men can sleep twenty
four hours. and can pu, their their parish
10 sleep once week.
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SraArAGzM OF TWO Lovers IN LII
NoIs-Two young persons desired to
marry, but the girls mother wouldn't
consent, aud she being of age, the gem
tlemer sued out a wri, Of habeas corpus,
and the mother was compelled to bring
the daughter to court. The Judge ask
ed the girl whether she wanted 10 marry
Smith! She said ayes" aul he mar
ried them.
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WHOLE NO. 2176.
CURIOUS EXPERIMENTS.

CURIOUS EXPERIMENTS.
A writer in London Agriculturl Gazette
relates the following curious experiment,
worth the attention Of Agriculluralists:
g l tried curious experiment with a
few potatoes this season. Twelve months
since saw letter from farmer stating
the great success that had attended anex-
pertinent the writer had made the previ-
Gus season: 1t consisted in inserting a
pea in each potatoe in the usual way
The result. be stated, was yield of peas,
and a splendid crop of potatoes. But the
most important result was the entire free
dom of the potatoes so treated from any
disease. while those planted the usual way
in the same field, were extensively det-
erioraied. was led by ibis statement,
10 try the experiment on a smallscale, in
my Own garden this season. I planted
not quite half peck, only fifty sets, in
ranks, cutting piece cut of each, and
putting pea firmly in. The psas grew
up and lourished well, and last week 1
dug the potatoes. They were perfectly
free from all taiut or speck of disease,
and very fine and largo. while inthe same
bed close TO them, was another. lot plan-
ted in the same old style, nearly half of
which was rotten. leave your readers.
to draw their own conclusion"
BUrrER AND CHEEsE,-L LymOn RawsOu.
Esq, OF Carlisle, in this county. has fur
nished Us with the following statement of
Butter and Cheese, Shichhe made from
four &C VS., during one year. ending April
9th, 1858:
Butter. 8oaIbs.
Cheese, 355 lbs.
| OF which he sold, Butter, 5s5 lbs.
at an average price Of 20 cts. per
pound. sI17 90
Cheese sold. ia lbs, as Q cents
per ID. 10 96
Mix sold, 400
Whole amount sold, s13l 26
Most Of the Butter was sold in Cleye-
land at prices varying from 20 to 25 cts.
per pound. The average sold from each
cos. was s32 8l4. The whole amount
of Butter made at Is cents per pound,
(about The average of Elyria price and
the Cheese at cents per pound. would
amount 10 515S rs. Average per COW,
$50 il. There was no extra charge for
keeping. and the cows each raised cali.
We call this aprelty good prof from four
coWs.-Elyrie Den.
a SENATOR ELEcrED BY LOVE LEr-
TER.-In certain town in this State,
letter arrived fer young lady fiOm her
loyer On the day Of the election. The
postmaster as is not unfrequeut in the ru-
raj districts. knowing the eagerness with
which a message of that tender charac.
ter would be expected, took upon HIM
self she pleasing duty of delivering it; but
first, Ike coed D mocrat, he must vote
and Of course in seperate self sealing
envelope. This was duly prepared with
the Democratic tickets, safely enclosed,
and the gluten stuck together. Stopping.
at The town meeting, he deposited the let
ter in the ballot box. and proceeded with
the seperate and selfsealed to the house
of the maiden, to whom he gallantly ham
ded the entire Democratic ticket, State
aad town. How the lady Interpreted tie
missiye We DO not know, but the modera-
tor and clerk ungallantly refused to count
the love letter, and the Republican can
didate was declared elected by one major
iiy.-Prov Jour.
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The HAEEM UNyEILED.-A Moldayian
countess, a frequent visitor in the
harem Of the late Redschild Pasha and
digniiaries of Cons,antinoPle, thus takes
the romance out of the popnlar idea Of
these Mohammejan paradisas.
Women, fat, i'll made, dirty aud stupid
such is the personnsI Of all harems.-
Add to this thai the women pass iheir
days in Jealousy OF each other, disPuting,
abusing, aGd fsti-cufing, and you viii
understand that the happiness of Mes
siauFs the Turks, which was for centur-
les inGlm5d in the imlginaiionsof of ro-
mancers and poets, leaves much to be
desired 10 make it perfect.
The harem is he'll where four OF
five furics busy thewselves in toriuring 4
poor devil whom they call master and
lord
"A well kept harem, of four women
only, costs twenty FIVE thousand dollars a
year. aud that of the Sultan, for 1856,
cost a hundred million or francs, or
twenty millions of dollars The young
Turks, who nave adopted European
ideas, regard the harem as an institution
that has had its day"
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R0HANCE III REAL LIE.

The Bueyrus JoarnaI says that man
living near there, lost his wife years since
in Homer, II. z; that they had lille
girl which he gave 10 friend and left
the country, Ho was gone ten years
and returned. bu, could fad no trace of
his child. She had two marks by which
he might know her, one toe WIS gone and
she had a scar on her arm. The man
have her up as los, TO him aud finally
settled near Buyrus and married. The
les, We give from that paper:
About six weeks ago. he happened
TO pass by The room in his house occa-
pied by servant girl who had resided
with him for nearly two years, al time
when sac was about 10 retire, aud the door
being open, he saw her feet. lie mere
ly glanced Al it, and happened 10 notice
that Ike lille toe Of tie right foot was mis-
sang. He thought nothing Of it at the
time, but after retiring, the idea struck
him that j, might be the daughter lie had
searched for 50 long. Atlirst he dismiss
ed the thought as improbable, bu! it still
forced itself upon him, until finally he
requested his wife 10 20 to The room and
ascertain whether there was or not, marks
of scald upon her right arm. She
went. and 10 his immense delight reported
that the mark was there. The poor man
was 50 positive Of her indonIily, that ,be
girl was awakened, and in the mrddle oi
the aisht was questioned as 10 her origin
She could only tell them that size die
not know her parent that her earlies,
recolIcclious were that she had liveC
somewhere in the east with family
namej-(aamiug the family she. has
been left with by the woman originally
entrusted with her,) aud at their death
she was taken charge of by the overseers
Of the poor, place provided for her anC
she had come to Bucyrus with a family
and had supported heFselfhy doing house
worIdsincs.
This tailed so nearly with the already
asceFiained facts in the case that the mex
day the father STATED east with her, ant
Z
visiting the different points she hac
named, osccrained to his great JOY, tina
she was in truth his daughter.
She was an extremely beeuiful girl
ofgreat natural intelligence, and though
totally uneducaied, is still Interesting.
She is now at Greeuyille, Ohio, receiv.
ing an education to fit her for the new
station she has assumed in life.
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STATE OF TENNESSEE.

Gardner 4 Co|var against WIN. Wians,
ad u'r, widow and heirs.
On motion of complaints, and it appearing
to Inc satisfaction If the Gle &. Master t'at
the defendants, George B. Oliver and l,hn
5. Williams are non residents Of tie Stnc #
Tennessee so that the ordinary process Of Tho
law cannot he served upon them Ii is there.
fore ordered that publication for four 'ucc',.
sivc weeks b. made in the llrm, journal T.
newspaper published in Winchester, Tcnnr..
SEE, requiring snid nonresident defendants 10
nnrcar herein on or before the frs iuy +
our Chanrerv Court Il, the Court house Ill
Winchester, Tennessee, on W. dnesday afe-
third Monday in August next, and pie ad m.
s~er or dcmur to said Bill or The same VIII
b. taken for confessed and sel for hearing
exparte MS 10 them.
July -. II. f. ESTlLt. ca N.
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RrvALlNG THE TELEGRApH-Mr, Wi.
mans, Of Baltimore, the locomotive bull.
der, is said TO be building steamer in
tha, city upon plans entirely his own
which is to cross the Atlantic in six days
A man who can knock six days off o
twelve in the period required to cross the
Atlantic, may take rank next to Morse in
annihilating time. We will see directly
whether Mr.. Winan's scheme succeeds
So much has been accomplished recently
by science and skill, that it would be
hazardous to predict any untried expert.
ment as impossible.
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STATE OF TENNESSEE.

Sarah II i'll vs.. Saml. Taylor, ct ais.
On motion of compl'n' and it appearing to the
satisfaction Of the Clerk & Master that the
defendants Saml. Tayloy. Thornton S. San
bridge. Thomas ]. Sandridge, Pendlelon F.
cambridge ard Francis Hill. are non.resi.
dents Of the State of Tennessee, so tfnt the
ordinary process of the law cannot be served
upon them. 1t is therefore ordered that pub.
LEGATION he made for our successive weeks in
the Home Journal, a newspaper published in
Winchester. Tennessee, requiring said non.
resident defendants to appear herein on or be-.
fore the first day Of our next Chancery Court
10 be holden at The Court house in Winches.
ter, Tennessee, on Wednesday after the third
Moncav OF August mex, and plead answer or
demur to said bill or the same will be taken
for confessed and set for hearing expa-'c ss
to them.
July ~. H. R. ESTILL, C. g. NJ.
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E6r. The Union and American OF the
LIST inst, says we understand a dispatch
was received yesterday from Mr.. M. D.
Davie, President Of the Bank Of America,
stating that the Bank had not suspended,
and that it would not suspend. The
notes of the Bank Of America are re.
ceived ut par by Messrs. A, Wheeless d
Co., Brokers, the Merchants Bank, and
we believe the Traders Bank. The
Union Bank, which was the agent Of the
Bank Of America here, does not take It's
notes now, nor did any other Bank in
The city yesterday, except those mention
ed.
A gentleman who's position enables him
to speak advisedly, assures us that the
Messrs. Davie have not disposed Of their
interest in me Bank Of America. They
own the larger portion Of the stock Of the
Bank, and are men Of great wealth, and
they con make its issues good as we'have
assurance they will, in the dispatch Of
the President.
The Southern Bank is "Aat." Nobody
will take il a any price.
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FOR EERsnEBA SPRINGS.

For tie accommodation Of the public who
W sh To visit Berahebn Sp ings vim MrMinn
vile or Tracy City, the Stages Vill run to and
from those p aces, daily. connecting with the
cars at eac place, MS follows;
Leave McAlinnvllo every morning at !
o'clock. and nrrve at Bersheba Springs the
same day at 2o'cnrk.
Leave Rersheha Springs every morning al
g o'cl0ck, and arrive at A.cN!naville a, |
-,'clock. Il. p.
Leave Taacy City every evening at 4o'clock
and arrive mt Bersheba Springs III" somr eve.
ming at O'Clock.
Leave Rersheba Springs every morning at
4 oclork, and arrive at Trey City at II O.
CLOCK the same day, giving passengers tive to
take dinner at each place before the depart
ure. Passengers will be carried to and from
the cars at each place.
M. A. PRICE.
july Is By, MARSHALL. AZ.
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NOTICE.

Whereas the Legislature Of Tennesser az
ITS Last session, passed an act making it tn
dnly Of the varion. Sherlffs of said State, lc
opon and hold al election at each precinct
in 'hcir rcspr ctIve counties, in order TO nscrr"
tain he sense Of ,he people as to whether
cnnventnn shall be called to "amend, revSe
or form new Consii,ul ION Of "a State;
therefore, !. John W. Custer, Sheriff ofFrank'
lin county, do hereby give notice to the voters
Of said county. that I will, on the 1T lhnn'
day of September next, open and hold an cleo
ton OF tho various precincts of said county,
for the purpose of taking said vote. Given
under my hand Il, office, this the 10Th July'
1889. JOHN w. CUSTER,
Sheriff of Franklin County.
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An exchange says that the coo
weather that we have had during this
week has been the means of diminish
ing the size ofhoops. We would not be
surprised if it should, for we have late
~ seen two ladies walking under the
same veil, we know such a feat could
not have been performed about the
rs o. Al gust.
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Nearly q Suicide.

We learn from o correspondent that tho
fashionable notion OF suicide has found
It's way into the fashionable circles OF at
least one SIMMER resort. At one of'hese,
known 10 the pleasure seeking world as
"Deal," quite an exciting sceno occurred,
a few days since, tingng with something
more than the won,ed life those who bask
in the happy, genial pleasures Of this
famous but quiet retreat. Tho house at
Deal stands some four hundred and fifty
yards from tho sen, between which there
is a walk some seven foe, wide, which
serves as the ,horoughrnre. Near the
beach, 10 proven, tie walk from being
filled with sand by passing wagons, TWO
upright, pieces oftimbe- are erected, about
eighteen fne, in height, with cross'piece
near the top. An interesting young Ph'l'
adclphia lady having fallen desperately
in love with a gentleman, whose atien'
tons were monopolized by couple OF
New York ladics-alhcit he was q faith.
| ful and devoted attendant until their arr,
val-res we'd 10 make it the last time
that she should he so gayly deceived. AT
the hour for bathing two ladies and gents
were on their way 10 the beach, when,
horror stricken, they heheld dangling from
the cross beam (Which, since the occur.
renee has heen named the Lovers
Swing") the form OF a lady in her bathing.
dress. She was at once recognized by
the party as ",he lady in love" The
gentlemen quickly lowered the lady by
the rope by which she was suspended
and carried her to the arbor on the beach
when il was discovered that her pulse
was actively beating. By the application
Of some water to her face, and rubbing her
wrists. she speedily revived; and in less
than half an hour she was seen lashing
about in the surf--none more full Of life
and spirits than she. Since the above
occurrence, which has been the current
topic Of conversation among the guests
at Deal, it has been rumored that gen.
tleman from neighboring city attempted
to "shuff1e off this mortal coil" at the same
place: but the facts being in the possession
ofhis immediate friends, it has been i'm.
possible to learn the cause which impelled
him TO the rash act.