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the others the size you wish, and to cores
pond with large one. A set can be easily |
made of marseilles, embroidered around the
the edge in scarlet, and a monogram in the
center. Handsome pictures may be made
by cutting white paper in the form of a dog.
cat, mouse, etc. and then arranging them
n some design: tor instance: Gut a tree
with a bird upon one of the branches. a cat
running up the same tree, a COW, dog, or
anything preferred, lying under the tree;
then put the whole design upon dark cloth,
and, when framed; it makes a picture hand
some enough for any parlor. Perhaps some
of the readers would like to know an easy
and cheap method OF making counterpanes,
as they are more profitable than quilts and
much easier washed.
Get five yards common sheeting and make
into a spread, then one pound and a half
candle Wicking. Take six balls of the wick
ing put the ends together, and cut in pieces
OF three inches in length, until the balls are
used up lay the spread on the floor and
mark out your design in circles, diamonds,
or any pattern you like then double the
pieces OF candlewick together and sew on to
form the design. This makes a counter
pane very heavy, and takes the place of a
quilt, and is more durable. r
Comforts for spare rooms are very pretty
made OF white paper muslin, and knotted
with scarlet yarn; some would object and
say they would get dirty so quick, but the
o1ncc on tho por,c1ip rroxyo~+ +ho 1I:,+ f~1-o
sticking. Bedroom carpets may be easily
made, and are durable for that purpose, by
taking two long wooden needles, and knit
ting rags the same style as carriers are knit
ted. Winter evenings are lengthy, and by
spending an hour or two each evening, how
many little fancy articles can be made with
our own hands, and render our homes at
tractive and ~inviting.-E. III. NJ. IN Floral
Cabinet.
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IDOLS,

Idols are the sacred, worshipped objects
OF the human heart. An idol may be stone
but it is no less ar idol. Few, now, bow
down to Gods of wood and stone; yet there
are many who bow and pray before the
shrines of their secret idols.
Man is prone to worship, and if he worship
not God he worships at some other altar.
Where we love with our whole hearts we
place our happiness. 7.
The idol may be gold; it may come in
showers upon us, yet it is kept hidden in
darkness, and fills the heart with greater
gloom than that in which it lies. Gold is a
mockery when an idol.
The idol may be self. This is the basest
of idols, for in every other worship there is
generosity except in this. Every word, OF
thought, ministers to keep alive the flame.
There is no beauty in it, for it is debasing.
Ye that worship self, turn aside and see it
from another point. is-
breathing creatures, that have bound us to
themselves irreyocably. We love and cher
ish them in perfect trust. Even if they are
not worthy of idolatry. Yet there are some
idols which are such only SO long as they
remain impassive. When they move. we
see their imperfections. The tongue speaks
not the words we expected, the eyes look
not love, the fingers move not to caress.
We gather the ideal together to place again
in some other real, and close our dissap-
pointed heart, in grief. The heart, shut
out from sunlight and love, is embittered,
and the bitterness shows forth in the spoken
words. Alas for love that brings not love
in return.
There are idols that break and tall there
are others which break and fall not.
No! they could not fall were they shattered
atom from atom. There is no satisfaction
in making gods; it only brings tears fol-
smiles and sorrow for joy, and often broker
hearts and graves. H'tI.ittle children, keer
yourselves from idols. p averle;y Magazine
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The no NJ T CIR CL T.
ALONE.
BY RUNE BLUFF

Or. beats there q heart that never has known
One dear loved spot it could call its own2
Can one look back, one with hair now gray,
Without a sigh for life's vanished May?
One, whose baby lips were by love impressed +?
Whose childhood's hours were by love unblessed ?
If so, what a wilderness twas, poor heart!
What a grim, drear life for a baby's part!
There may be some, thank Gop they are few,
Who of youthful sweets so little knew;
Who stood or fell when the tempter came,
No voice to praise, but many to blame;
With none to guard from danger and sin.
Who fought alone, to lose or win;
Whose griefs or joys there were none to share,
Who came or went with none to care: %
Who had no debt 'twould be sweet to owe
For the kindly helps Love can bestow;
Who in their prayers, if they learned the way,
Had never q dear, loved name to say;
In whose dreams came never a sweet, home face,
That Time from the heart could not efface;
No tender mem'ries fore'er to keep:
Who lacked that love our hearts all need,
Till their virtues sowed at length the seed
In other hearts, where it grew and bore
Loves pleasant fruit, all unknown before;
Or if to their aid no kind word came,
Till good and i'll were to them the same;
Who died as they lived, un~loved-who slept
In graves where Love no vigil kept.
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G0LDEM SHEAv ES.
Forever firm thy justice stands,
AS mountains their foundations keep;
Wise are the wonders of thy hands,

AS mountains their foundations keep;
Wise are the wonders of thy hands,
Thy judgments are mighty deep.
He that would m much with
God must commune little with the world.
Resignation is putting God between
one's-self and ones grief.-Madame Svetch-
inc.
None can enter by the heavenly gate
above who do not enter by the narrow gate
below.
-Meak-mindedt persons dispense favors
because they consider it a mark of SOW,
e~reginty.
Though we. msast never be weary Of
the Lords work, the sooner we weary of
Satan's the better.
Eminent men fare badly therefor; a.
one can not compare oneself to them, ono
keeps q sharp look-outfor their faults.
Even with the best will and inclination.
one does not easily Know his neighbor, and
lll-will frequently supervenes, disfiguring
everything.
There is a great deal Of love in this
world which the objects on whom it is vast
ed would be better Without-love that is so,
kind as to, be cruel.
Man is of SO obstinately contradictory a
nature that he will not allow himself to be-
forced to his own advantage, yet suffers,
constraints Of all kinds which tend to his
harm.
knowledge Of man is Of far less con-
sequences in the world than to possess tho
knack, at any given moment, of outwittings
the. man enc has to deal with. This Isl
proved at fairs and by mountebanks.
All "a suferngs are ordered bya Faith
er; tits the portion our Father gives us to-
drink, and whatever bitter ingredient there.
is IN it, still it is ON a Fathers procuring.
and why suspect it to be poison andbe afsaih
ofits
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MAXI HOME ATTRACTIVE.

WnaG makes nome attractive +! money VIII
procure may luxuries, and is very conduc-
i've to our earthly comfort. But the riches
Of this world are not equally divided some
are provided with means to purchasing any
thing that art can produce; yeti do not be-
lieve they enjoy these home attractions any
more than those who make their w adorn-
ments. / know | prize anything made with
my own hands, more than had'I purchased
it with money. The more we participate
in household affairs and adornments, the
more our tastes are refined. l care nothow
poor people may be, if they choose to adorn
their homes they can do so, with but a tri-
fling outlay of money. Perhaps I can give
a few ideas in regard to crystallizing winter
bouquets, etc.
First, gather a bouquet of thistles, burrs,
heavy grasses, and a few Globe Amaranths
crimson everlasting iowers) ~interspersed
through the bouquet. Take one quart of
common salt ane put it into two and a half
quarts of water; boil briskly fifteen minutes;
take off the stove immerse the bouquet in
it, and set away where it will not be dis
turbed until cold. The crystals are pure
white, and the bouquet looks as though it
was covered with the tiniest flakes of snow.
Another method is painting grasses. Get
five cents worth Of seveveral different kinds
OF paint (such as is used for painting housesl
also some gum arabic, Dissolved over night.
Dip the grasses in the gum arabic and then
in the powder (paint), and so on until you
have as many colors as you desire. A bou-
quet of each of these kinds, set on a mantle
or brackets, have a good effect on each 9TH
err. If any of our readers have a plant called
the Yellow Rose, very handsome frames can
be made of the pith by using it as soon as
taken out, it can be bent in any direction,
and stuck together with pins.
Take three pieces of pith the length and
width you wish the frame; stick pins
through each of the corners; then take a
piece Of pith and double up to initiate a knot
and stick on each crossing at the corners
any one not having this plant, can substi-
tute the pith of some other plant. The
frames look like wax-work, and are often
mistaken for it. Quite pretty rustic frames
are made simply of large acorn shells, var
nished either brown or black. | make black
yarnish by putting a little lampblack in COM
mon varnish, which is much cheaper than
to buy black yarnish. Coral frames are
made by dipping the stems of raisins in red
sealing wax, and sticking on a frame. |
will next mention how to make a handsome
toilet set of corset laces twenty-eight laces
will make a set consisting of five pieces.
Commence with a lace, and sew round
and round until you have sewed three laces
IN a SOLID mass then make small rings
tsolidl the size OF a silver quarter, and sew
al aroaaA them next, three plain rows OF
laces, then another row of rings this makes
the large mat for w~ash-bowl> Then make
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KISSING.

We are sorry to see that a contemporary
treats this subject with a judicial gravity
which should be reserved for another cause.
1t seems that a Connecticut girl wrote to
the editor to ask this important question:
" Is 1t proper for a lady to kiss a gentleman
goodnight when she has been ~carriage-rid-
ing with him." AS the discussion of this
point comes home to the business and bo-
SONS of thousands of both sexes throughout
the country, it should not be lightly nor
f1ippantly carried on, therefore the journal
in question gravely answers
ga lady may kiss.a gentlemen after she
has been carriage-riding with him under GER
tain circumstances, but they are very tew.'
If she is engaged to him we have no objec-
ton, nor have we if she is a near relative.
Otherwise she she had better politely refuse
to do it, for that is a foolish maiden who
throws away her Kisses"
Now the first of these three sentences is
merely a general statement Of what follows
in detail. The last is a new form Of the old
saving that the fruit that falls without shak-
ing is rather too mellow. The middle sem
tence contains the gist of the whole matter,
and this maintains that a girl must only kiss
her near relative and the man to Whom she
is engaged to be married. AS for kissing
mere relatives in such circum%s stances, that is
| simply nonsense. Mere relatives don't want
to kiss her, and she doesn't want them to
kiss her. The rule is, therefore, practically
narrowed down to this-that a girl may kiss
her accepted lover and no one else. II this
rule of conduct were adopted how many
girls would have accepted lovers to- kiss?
Does an engagement come suddenly after a
mere formal acquaintance, or is it not the
result of a gradually growing intimacy in
which men and women learn to understand,
by carriage-riding and otherwise, and con-
fde in one another? This doctrine, to be
consistent, should be carried a little further,
and maintain that d girl should not go out
carriage-riding except with a near relative
or the man to whom she is engaged This
is the principle adopted for the government
of the young ladies at a certain seminary,
and we recommend to the consideration of
our contemporary the answer of a lively
pupil to the p~receptsess who undertook to
enforce the rule against her. The young la
DIV asked permission to, drive out with a gen
tleman. "You know the regulations of the
institution was the answer. is he your
father2" "No.' is he your brother?'
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No" "Are you engaged to him ?" "No,
but l expect to be before I get back" That
answer carried the day, and there is much
philosophy in it touching the Whole subject
OF courtship, kissing aud carriage-riding.-
Warerley,
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L OF A III

Never break a promise made to a child it
is positive cruelty to do so-more, it de-
stroys the little ones implicit faith in hui
man nature. An eminent British statesman
is said to have traced his own sense of the
he got from his father when a boy. When
home for the holidays, and walking with his
father in the garden, his father pointed to a
wall which he intended to have pulled
down. "Oh," said the boy, II should like
to see a wall pulled down. "Well, my boy,
you SHALL" The thing, however, escaped
his memory, and, during the boys absence,
a number Of improvements were being
made, amongst others the pulling down of
this wall and the building of a new one in
it's place. When the boy came home and
saw it, he reproachfully reminded his father
of his promise. "My boy" said he, you
are right. / did promise, and I ought not
to have forgotten. It is too late now to do
just what I said | would, but you want to
see a wall pulled down, and you shall. y
And he actually ordered the masons up and
made them pull down and rebuild the new
wall, that his promise might, as nearly as
possible, be made good. cit cost me TWEEN
ty pounds" he said to a friend who was
bantering about it, " but" he added solemn
ly, !. if it had cost me a hundred I should
have thought it a cheap way of impressing
upon my boys mind, as long as he lives,
the importance a man of honor should at
tach to his plighted word"
AsToNIsHED.-He walked into the drug
store says the New Orleans Bulletin, and
said, "Gimme a glass of that sody.' "What
sirup will you have? "asked the boy. Seer
up! don't want seerup !; l want sody!"
The boy placed the glass uader the faucet
and turned on the soda water full head. As
it struck the glass. with, n kissing, noise
the stranger saiai AGosh ALI Jerusalem !!
what's that 20 and starting backward, fell
over 3 stool, and as he tried to get up, he
brashed against a perfumery stand, which
| caused a bottle to fall off anil strike him on
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the back of the head. AT the same time,the>
boy, thinking something very serious had
happened, dropped the glass on the marble
counter, breaking it into ninety-nine piecea.
unfortunate stranger, with his hand to
the back of his head and his eyes protrudinx
with fright, started tor the street at a speed
of twenty miles an hour and ran plump into
the arms Of a policeman, who collared him
and, crushing him up against the wall of .
house, said, whats the matter?" "Mat-
terl' echoed the thoroughly affrighted
stranger, why, the drug store has explod-
ed and T'm the only one saved! !" 7.sa
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PARADISE Losr.-M. Edmond Scherer, a.
French writer, gives the following criticism
Of Milton's Paradise Lost" in a recent
work - Paradise Lost is a false, gro
tesque, tiresome poem ; not n reader in a
hundred can go without smiling through
the ninth and tenth books, or without yawn.
ing through the twelfth it does nothold
together it is a pyramid balancing on its
point-the most frightful of problems re.
solved by the most puerile Of means And
yet, Paradise Lost is immortal. 1t liver
in virtue Of some episodes which will remain
forever famous. In opposition to Dante,
really to possess his beauties, we must read
Milton only in fragments. But these ffag-
ments are part of the poetic patrimory Of
the English race."'
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SwAGGER.-The baggart never works. Hc
talks loudly of what he can do and has done,
and tries to impose upon his neighbors by .
boastful But he amounts to moth
ing after ALL How much OF this silly swag-
ger and swash' is to be seen on all sidess
Nature somehow made q special provisions
however, for keeping her favorites quiet
and concealed. The great thought is. the
one that comes to its birth in silence. The
large man knows too we'll that the moment
he stopped to brag he would lose his real
advantage. "Never mind about these trt
tles,' = says Nature to him II will do far
better by you if you will come to me-" And
in thus going he sees how lofty is hurnili-
ty, how modesty helps to put all obstruc-
tons out Of the way, and how that tranquil
reserve which goes with genuine power,
recruits his strength continually. On the
other hand, pretension and humbug go but
so far at the farthest. They are sure to DO
found out. Let a wind bag alone long
enough, and it win collapse at last, 40, n
cares when or how ~, &g ar
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,5ORTG ACES NOT TAXABLE.

The Supreme Court OF California has recently
made q decision OF the utmost importance. II
it is 10 be taken as precedent IN other
States. Ii has decided by an almost unani-
nous bench. only one out Of five dissenting,
and he giving Is yet no reasons Tor ms MS
sent, that the taxation of mOrtg cages or other
evidences of debt as property is illegal and
unconstitutional. This decision Is in the
broadest and clearest terms. 1t meets the
whole subject, rejecting al mere tochnicaltics
and side issues. The particular case, that Of
The People va the Ilibcrnia Savings and Loan
Society. is not once referred to III the course
of the three elaborate opinions by which the
decision of The Corr is supported. The Cont
means 10 assert sqnarely and positively that
the taxation 81 mortgage, is illegal, because,
to use the language Of Chief-Justice Wallace,
"Merc credit, are q false quantity Ill asccr-
claiming the sum OF wealth which is subject to
taxation 40 property, and in so far IA that
"sum is attempted 10 be increased Ivy the adj
"di;ion Of those credits, property taxation,
biased thereon, is not only merely fancitul,
but necessarily the unconstitutional IMPOSE
" ton OF an additional tax upon portion OF
1.-The property already once taxed"
If this be- good law in California, ii certainly
ought to be in most other States; for the de-
cision il based solely upon the common-sense
principle enunciatcd above, and upon the
clause of the Constitution which provides that
Taxation shall be equal and uniform through
"out the State" and "all property in this
Estate shall 10 taxed in proportion to Its
"value, TO be asceitaincd as directed by law"
These rules are OF course embodied In some
shape in the constitution OF every civilized
community. In the case of California. how
ever, there exists q seeming contradiction of
them in an expression used in the Political
Code in the clause defining personal prop
"ertyr as including "mOney, goods, chattels
evidence OF debt, and things in action"
This would seem to be more formidable OBJ
stacle to the exemption of mortgages from tax
alton than exists anywhere else. But the Court
treated it with the disrespect 1t deserved.
Justice McKiDstry. who delivered tho opinion
of the Court, refers to this clause as an I" at
tempt merely, to include chooses In action
in the definition of property. and declares that
to make ii the duty OF assessors "tO assess
"all things in action Is to give csnstruc.
" ton to the Constitution which must lead to
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FINANCIAI-GM iu.c-bn column.
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intended victim and he has no scruple in using
all the power of his office to thwart it.
Just before the present trial began ne IN
structed tho Acknowledgement to write MS
extraordinary letter to the Western DISTRICT
Attorneys, warning the members of the Ring
that no mercy would be shown to those who
gave evidence against their accOmplices. lie IL
significant fact that this letter, which
Attorney General PlerrepOnt says was intended
to be private, was Immediately known to Gen.
Babcock, and was given by his counsel to q
Western newspaper of very large circulation
said 10 have intimate relations with the
Whisky party. The bearing which it was cal
culated to have on the BabcOck trial may be
inferred from the fact that the witness Everest,
who has testified to the mailing OF money by
joyce to BabcOck and Avery, was one OF the
members Of the Ring who, after making his
escape to Europe had recently returned to tes-
tfy, and twas currently reported at the time Dir.
Picrrepont's letter was written that Mckee and
Mag1lirc would also DO witnesses for the prose-
cution. But the interference of the Depart
ment of Justice did not stop here; for an
Assistant United States District-Attorney from
New-York seems to have been employed TO
obtain from the convict Bingham certain docu-
mcnts required by the prosecution, and to turn
them over to the defense.
These things have an ugly look, and II the
peculIarities of the Presidents temper were
not well understood they would compromise
him personally in very serious manner. But
he has shown before now that when his friends
are in peril he perceives no improperly IN In
terfering with any department OF the Govern
ment whatever. He showed that most con-
spicuousy in connection with the District Ring.
When Congress abolished the District Govern
ment in order to get rid of Boss Shepherd,
Gen. Grant tried to nullfy its action by I'M
mcdatey appointing Shepherd Commits
sionor. When the Safe Burglars were put on
trial interference with the Judiciary Department
Of the Government began The machinery OF the
District Attorneys office was employed to
screen the criminals and. when that was i'm
possible, to open the jail doors for them to es-
cape and the President himself made an as
founding demonstration upon the jury by
inviting one of the defendants, during the
trial to feast at the White House. That
the President does such things with entire I'M
consciousness that they are improper, that he
considers his behavior Of he thinks of it at
alp az rather chivalrous and manly, is some
satisfaction to those who concern themselves
for the honor of his high office but Presi-
dent with su h complete miscOncepton of
the nature and limitations Of his authority is
one of the grayest dangers to our country.
lie is better fitted to rule an Asatic Kingdom
than - free American republic.