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Year: 1874

The young men We're gone until
the latter part of November. Several
persons longed for their return. Mr..
Job Goodwin, for one, began TO feel
strong conviction that Mort had ta-
ken the fever and died in the woods.
He was also very sure that each sue
ceeding day would witness some act
Of hostility toward himself on the
part of Captain Lumsden; and as
each day failed to see any evil result
from the anger Of his powerful neigh
Dor, or to bring any tidings of disas-
ter to Morton, Job Goodwin faith
fully carried forward the dark fore
boding with compound interest to
the next day. He abounded in quo
tations of such Scripture texts as set
forth the fact that mans days we're
few and full Of trouble. The book
of Ecclesiastes was to him peren-
NAL source Of misery-he delighted
to found his dcspairing auguries up
on the superior wisdom of Solomon.
He looked for Morton's return with
great anxiety, hoping to find that
nothing worse had happened to him
than the shooting Of an arm. Mrs
Goodwin, for her part, dreaded the
evil influences of the excitement OF
hunting. She feared lest Morton
should fall into the bad habits that
had carried away from home an Older
brother, for whose untimely death in
an alrray she had never ceased tc
| mourn.


And Patty. When her father hat
on that angry afternoon discovered
the turkey that Morton had giver
her, and had sent it home
with message in her name
Patty had borne herself ik'
the proud girl that she was. She
held her head aloft; she neither in
dicated pleasure nor displeasure a
her fathers course; she would no
disclose any liking for Morton, no


any complaisance toward her father
This air Of defiance about her Cap
tain Lumsden admired. 1t showet


her mettle, he said to himself.


think Patty would have finished tina


two dozen cuts of yarn if it had cos


her life. She even managed to sing


toward the last Of her weary day G


work; and when, at nine o'clock, sh
reeled off her twenty-fourth cut
drawing sigh Of relief when tn
reel snapped-and hung her twelv
hanks up together. she seemed I


blthe as ever. Her sickly moth
sitting, knitting in hand, with wa
, face bordered by white capri


looked approvingly on Patty
achievement. Patty showed her got
{ blood, was the mothers reflection.
Year: 1874

.
1T isn't all in bringing upi
Let folks say what they will;
To silver scour pewter cup
1t will be pewter still.
Fen as of old wise Solomon,
Who said train up q child
If mistake not had son
Proved rattle Drained and wildl
"A man Of mark who fain would pass
For lord Of sea and land,
May have the training Of a son,
And bring him up full grand:
May give him all the wealth Of lore,
Ofcollege and of school,
But after all may make no more
Than just decent fool.
Another, raised by penury
Upon her bitter bread,
Whose road to knowledge is like that
The good to heaven may tread.
He's got spark of natures light,
He'll fan it into flame,
Till in its burning letters bright
The world may read his name.
''lf it We're all in bringing up
In counsel and restraint,
Such rascals had been honest men
I'd been myselfa saint
o! it isn't all in bringing up
Let folks say what they will
Neglect may dim silver cup
twill be silver still"
Year: 1874

One Of the most audacious quacks that
Great Britain ever produced was John
Harrison Curtis. "Aurist." He knew al
most absolutely nothing of the profess
sion that he adopted, but he got some
thing of reputation, and was once sum-
moned to attend Sir Robert Peel, who
was suffering from temporary deafness.
He went provided with two watches, one
that licked very weakly and another that
made as much noise as clock Peel be-
gan to question him as to his mode OF
treatment, but Curtis, giving him a dig
with syringe, told him that if he didn't
hold his tongue some injury would befall
him. The quack at first applied the weak
ticking watch to Sir Roberts ear, and OF
course he couldn't hear anything, but af-
ter working for some time he used the
other one, and Peel could hear perfectly
we'll. 1t wes marvellous cure Spring
field Republican.
Year: 1874

Sash ends form the back Of the apron
front.
The Continetal hat is fashionable
among demoiselles.


Feather trimming is becoming more
fashionable every day.


Plush is not worn this season at all,
save by very young children.


A velvet underskirt is cheaper in the
end than the best of velveteen.


Put the largest red rose you have di-
| rectly on the front of your new bonnet,
and you will be in the fashion.
The newest French bonne,s have long
streamers of, handsome gros grain or
satin ribbon do En the back.
Quilted silk and satin walking basqpes
are in vogue again, to remind US Of our
dear grandmammas


Every lady should have a felt hat for
knocking about in.'' They are very
cheap and take the feather trimming
nicely.


Bonnets are not worn with such high
crowns as they were six months ago
There's reason in all things" said Miss
McFlimsey when she cut her "three-
decker" down.


Necklaces of small, square blocks of
jet, are new and pretty. Being t,they
can be sewed on ribbon or velvet, and
are worn with brilliant effect


Ball fringe has almost reached the
size of cobble stones. The balls, in
some instances, are filed with shot to
keep the polonaise down and hide the
facing. .. s...... ....... t.--


For full dress the hair is arranged
high in the back and the top of the
head covered with finger puffs and
loops. Ordinarily, straight back from
the face and queue behind.


American silks are quite popular this
season. They are well spoken Of, wear
better than some imported silks, and
can be had at comparatively cheap pri
ces.


I Many of the new velvet sbasques are
made with deep revers, faced with quil-
ted silk or satin, the cuff being also of
silk or satin and quilted to correspond.


There is very little economy and
much less satisfaction in the ready made,
or ''pattern dresses" They are;poorly
made and sewed on the machine, and
fall apart without the slightest proyoca
ton. r


Nearly all the Scotch plaid costumes
are trimmed with bias kelt plaitings of
the same material There is trimming
for them of fringe, combining all col
ors in the plaid, but it is not pretty.


A newt fashioned muff is square and
the shape and size of cigar box. 1t
is of sealskin and opens at the top for
small bqnI1Ies, ayes ,h..sdlsesehiefss
etc. It is lined with pink-quiIted satin
and can be secured upon payment of
SO in q. S. currency.


Dyed feathers should never be worn
out doors in rainey weather. The color
goes off on its own account and leaves
stains on bonnet and basque that can
not be eradicated The same may be
said of feather trimming, much of what
is sold nowadays being twice dyed, and
very poorly, too.


There is very elegant garment for
full-dress occasions or reception visiting
known as the Partisan cape. 1t is one
solid mass of jet and bugles on lace
foundation, over some light-colored
silk. 1t is one of those things, as the
Snowman is in the habit Of saying, "that
must be seen and examined to be ap-
preciated."
Year: 1874

The Cincinnati Commercial is one Of
those newspapers that insists that the
money supply of the country is equal
to its necessities. Yet the financial col
umn Of the Commercial testilies that in
Cincinnati sail depositors in good cred
it'' can obtain loans at the banks ssat
eight and ten per cert, while outside of
bank prime business paper is negotiated
at ten and twelve per cent" Comment
on this is hardly necessary, for every
man of good hard sense knows that no
community can conduct business on
money borrowed at ten or twelve per
cent and be permanently prosperous,
Year: 1874

BY MRS. N. j. ROBERTSON.
L am aweary, and fain would rest
In shadowy paths where human foot nee


trod,


When forest depths in summer hues are drest
And the strong mountain towers up to God
Not by the sea, not by the oceans breast,
Where rolling waves forever dash the shore
turn away from murmurs of unrest
To where the hills stand firm, forevermore.
Green grows the moss upon its granite breast.
And clinging vines DER all its harshnes


twine,
Why should my life be evermore unblest,
Leafess and silent in the summer time?
Thou know'st, o God! Yet they do err wht


sing


In suff'ring only can the soul grow strong;
Where sunlight comes not flowers can neve,


spring,


And broken harps send forth no Joyous


song.


Forth went from the mount when life wal


new,
Strong in my pride to battle with earth


strife; .....
o giant hillsl I come again to you,
Give back to me the wasted strength of life
Year: 1874

The Utica Herald remarks as follows upon
the manufacture of new kind of cheese,
for which patent was recently granted:


The Insertion of the prepared solid fat Of
the body 20 take the place of the fat taken
from the milk is not alone employed TO make
an imitation of butter. 1t is reported that,
as fat and buttermilk are employed to make
artificial butter, so fat and skim-milk are used
to make cheese. The aims involved are sim
liar in either case, although the methods OF
manipulation are, of course, varied. 1t is re-
ported that factory is in operation in Brook
lyn, where the olein and margarin expressed
from the intestine fat of cattle is intimately
mixed with skim-milk, and the rennet then
poured in, producing curd rich in oil, which
can be cured, and sold for cheese. Here we
have process for putting lack into skim
milk, an animal oil in the place of the cream
which has been removed. We have heard
that something of this kind has been prac-
tced nearer to Utica than Brooklyn. 1t is
an ingenious device for adulteration, aud
nothing more nor less. No matter il the oil
derived from the taliow be chemically pure,
still the mingling of it with milk to take the
place Of cream is adulteration, aud though it
may not be a change of composition which
produces an unhealthy material, it is a change
which occasions a loss of value. Thus the
schemes for artificial butter and cheese are
fraudulent at the outset, and even when we
suppose that none but the purest oils and fat
are used. If these compounds come into any
wide consumption there will be materials
used variously disguised which are wholly un-
fit for entrance into the system. Then will
the evils of an enterprise which now seems
only mildly Objectionable be recognized and
appreciated.
Year: 1874

There has been much complaint that the


prices of short-horn stock are far above the


reach of ordinary farmers. This is very true
as regards what is known as fashionable stock.


Ten, twenty, or thirty thousand dollar ami
mails are not for farmers who have their
bread to win from their farms. But yet it is
but the golden setting which surrounds these
animals, the fashion of their families, their
pedigree, that makes them so attractive, just
as the golden setting might enhance the val
ue of any article, without adding cent OF
value to its own intrinsic worth. There are
thousands of short-horn bulls in the country
which, without doubt, would sire as good a
steer as might be got by ''duke." Not long
since bull of questionable blood was sold
for but $500, about the same time as S15,OOO
would have been given for the "Second Duke
of Hillhurst," and numerous excellent judges
have held the first to be the better bull. Now,


the lesson of all this is that farmers should


not be misled by the glitter and glory OF these
vaunted fashionable animals into the belief
that there is no excellence elsewhere. The
grand patriarch from which these dukes and
duchesses sprang was purchased for $40, and
there have been, possibly. as good young
bulls sold for less than 500 within the past
thirty days in Kentucky, as was the bull Hub
back in 1887. If farmers should be misled by
the present high prices OF fashionable stock,
it were better that the dukes had never been
born. Nothing is more needed than an i'm
provement in our beef stock. Recently stock
was brought all the way from Texas and sold
Year: 1874

IN the New York market for S25 to $50 a
mead: Those who are familiar with the beef
that Is supplied to the markets of country
towns and villages, know that there is much
OF 1t that is OF no greater value than this
from Texas. The beef consumed in country
places is OF the poorest character. The best
In the country is taken to the large cities, but
yet there is much there that is inferior, The
feeding of all this inferior stock is a waste
and loss to all concerned 1t is a loss even
to the consumer, for the poor, who can least
afford to consume inferior meat, are those
who use it. Breeders OF short horn stock.
other than fashionable strains, complain that
there is no demand for bulls. This is unior-
tunate, and we app!ehend it is owing TO some
extent to mistaken idea that there is a clos
er connection between high prices and fairly
good stock than is warranted by the facts,
that the absence of this demand is to be at
tributed. We would sugges. to breeders the
advantage OF turning some of the unstable
bulls into feeding animals, and their exhibit
tion as beef cattle at the agricultural fairs
where farmers may see and appreciate them.
The exhibition of grade steers from short
horn stock might also add greatly to the repu-
tation OF the sires. The early maturity and
great weight of this stock is an advantage
that cannot be too highly considered by farm
ers who are raising cattle for market, but as
yet, unfortunately, the short-horns are not
sufficiently popular with those who make
this use OF their stock.-N. Y. Times.
Year: 1874

The american Artisan gives the following
recipes for waterproofing leather:


Melt together beef tallow four ounces, res
in one ounce, and beeswax one ounce, and
when nearly cooled solid add as much meats
foot oil as the above mixture measures. IL is
to be applied with soft rag both to the soles
and uppers. The leather should be warmed
meanwhile before fire, and the application
well rubbed in. 1t requires two applications
to make leather thoroughly waterproof


Another way: Dissolve three-quarters of
an ounce of paraffine in pint OF lard oil. The
best quality OF oil should be used. 1t will be
necessary to heat the oil in order to dissolve
the paraffine. This solution may be rubbed
on boots once month, and it is said to rem
der hem perfectly water-tght, at the same
time it does not interfere with the backing.
If the solution is found to make the leather
TOO stiff, the amount of paraffine in propor-
tion to the oil should be reduced.
Year: 1874

lis a beautiful valley about a mile
in length. walled in oneiiher side by per-
nendicnIar walls from two to othree nun
grna feet in height. There is but one en-
trace to this enchanted SPOT, and that
is by very rugged and DANGEROUS
pathway, and the footman experiences Sl.'
treat difficulty in the descent. Upon
sEaecyine se the valley we could hear the
rustling of the wind through the lofty
n;nes on the cliffs above us, sounding
Ike the roar of some devastating hnrr',
cane while the grass beneath our feet
law as calm AMI still as death. Not even
the slightest breath of air could be ielt.
Everything was so still that person
standing at the lower part of the valley
could distinctly comprehend person
speaking at the upper end.-Dc"''
Mirror.
Year: 1874

A resident of New Haven, Con
nccticut, not long ago. had occasion
to 90 to the metropolis of the EN-
pire State, and accordingly he start
ed for the steamer landing with car
pet sack in one hand and cane in the
other, i'll what he supposed to be am
pie time. But when he came in sight
of the wharf he observed the boat ap-
parently swinging away from her
moorings, and amid the shouts and
jcers of the bystandcrs, he broke into
frantic run. for the landing. The
boat was eight or ten feet from the
wharf when he reached the place
where he had hoped to find a gang
plank, but nothing daunted, and
trusting to the momentum acquired
during the run, he leaped into the
air and gained the vessels deck.
Not without accident, however. The
carpet-bag struck one passenger so
violently in the stomach that he
doubled up like a jackknlfe, and alb
sorbed whole flask of brandy in
getting Strengthened out, while the
cane struck another man in the face
with sufficient force to suddenly in
duce him to get down on his knees
to look after his hat. When he had
recovered it the man who had occas-
ioned it said to him in tone of
mingled apology and self-congratu-
lation. "Well, l made it!' "Yes,
you did," said the sore-headed pas
senger, "but, you burned old fool,
this boat amt going out, she's com
ING in"
Year: 1874

[Camp Meeting Correspondent N. Y. Times.l


The old people, by the way, who


used to attend camp meetings of the


primitively rustic sort regard the
camping of the present day as an eff


fete and refined institution. The


other day an old Methodist sister


button-holed me, as l was coming
out of the Tabernacle, and poured
the burden of her grieved heart into
my ears. She expressed great dissat-
isfaction with this camp meeting,
and with all the camp meetings now
held. She said it wasn't so when
she was younger. Then people went
to the woods. They didn't come to
bring their fine clothes and show off,
like these girls at the hotel, who
just spend their time playing croquet
and going with the young men.
Then folks were serious, and every
body came to hear the preaching.
Then it was no odds what kind of
tent you had, nor how old it was;
you just pitched it on the ground,
and if the rain came down at night
and the thing got wet, and the water
ran all around you, why you didn't
catch cold or nothing if you only had
the grace of God in your heart. But
now they have these water proof
tents with board floors to them, and
mahogany furniture and pianos in
them, and it isn't like the old times.


The good woman then proceeded
to explain how modern degeneracy
had produced falling off in the
length of the sermons. This she
looked on rs a dangerous sign of the
times. In her day some Of the SER
mons were three hours long, but now
the people think it good deal to sit
out a two-hour sermon. To the old
lady's last statement | most cordial
ly assentcd, for | think, with most of
the people here, that two hours is
almost an hour and quarter longer
than u sermon ought to be, if the
preacher breaches it with any idea
that his hearers will remember it.
This excellent woman went her way
and | went mine, and we shall prob
ably never agree us to what constitu-
ties profitable calnp-meeting. On
further inquiry | found that the dear
old soul was lodging in one of the
most delightful and home-like cot
tagcs on the cliff. | had supposed
that she slept on the ground on a
bundle Of straw, and that the night
winds nearly blew her tent away,
Year: 1874

Yesterday morning a rural gentle
man from the classical Skunk entered
a drug store in East Dcs MoincS, and
wished to sell the proprietor some
potatoes. That gentleman declining
to purchase, the farmer renewed the
offer to one or two other men that
CHANGED to be in the store at the time.
None of them wanted to buy. and
Just as the last refusal was made. the
potato man espied large looking
glass, extending from the floor up
wards about seven feet. and reflected
upon its face was his own face and
form. Not recognizing his double,
and supposing that he was address
ing some other man, he appealed to
the image to buy some OF his Ne
shennocks. No answer being return
ed, he repeated the question still
louder. Silence continuing, he turn
ed to the other gentlemen Of the par
ty and savagely asked: SIS that old
cuss deaf" The roar of laughter
that followed explained the mystery,
and he went elsewhere to sell his
" 'tatcrs." State Register.
Year: 1874

Surveys are quietly proceeding on
Grand Island, says the Lockport
Journal of the Sth instant, for anoth-
er international railroad bridge. The
company was chartered last spring
both in the Dominion Parliament
and the American Congress, and al
ready capitalists have been induced
to cooperate and engineers are set
to work. The bridge is being built
in the interests of the Canada South.
ern, whose managers say that not
only is the international bridge una
valuable on account of its single
track, but that the city of Buffalo,
through which trains can only be
run at the rate of six miles an hour,
is a serious obstacle in the way of
railroad traffic. Hence they feel
themselves compelled to 'go round"
Buffalo.


The grand Island bridge will have
double track, also double carriage
way. 1t will cross the western In
ternational branch of the Niagara
river just below Black creek, to
which short line will be built from
Stevensville; then ruE along Grand
Island a distance Of about seven
miles, and cross the eastern branch
to the main land near Tonawanda,
there connecting with the Erie and
Central. The situation, the journal
adds, is an exceedingly favorable
one, the water being only twenty
feet deep and the current one and
one-halt' miles an hour, as against a
current Of from eight to twelve miles
at Buffalo. The bridge will be fin
ished in August, 1875, and an lmpor
tant saving in time will, it is conf
IDENTIFY anticipated, ensue from its
construction.
Year: 1874

he is skillful enough. or if not throws
one side of the loop on the animals
back and the other on the ground be-
hind him, and he presently backs in
to it, when it is quickly drawn tight.
Then the two horses set out in oppo-
site directions, the animals hind feet
are pulled from under him, and he
comes down, one would think at the
imminent hazard Of breaking his back
bone. A man rushcs up with brand
ing iron, claps it on his right hip,
where it makes cruel singeing and
fixing.


1t is frequently a good deal worse
business to get away from him than
it is to catch him, especially if he has
fight in him, and he generally has by
this time. The brander gets out Of
the way; while the two horscmcn are
holding the animal tight, with the
lassos around their pommels and the
horses at dead set, a third rides up,
the lassos are slackcned little, the
one around the horns is slipped off,
and the man instantly mounts his
horse before the animal can rise and
fees, while the raging brute strug
giles free from the other lasso,
and perhaps give chase. Thus both
lassos are recovered, and everybody
gets off with whole skin.


One Of the most extraordinary
feats performed consisted in the las
soing OF a sucking calf with a loop
fifteen feet across. 1t requires great
skill to throw a lasso with such an
enormous loop. and it has to be hurl
ed a long distance to narrow down
sufficiently to catch so small an ami
NAL. In Texas | have seen man
lasso prairie dog, but he used Il
small rope and Il very small loop.


One of the men executed a feat
which would seem incredible to a
person who had not witnessed it. Ri
ding at full speed across the plains,
nearly abreast OF a steer, he spun the
lasso ahead and took in both his
fore feet, bringing him down with Il
raking plunge on his nosc.-Cor.
Cincinnati Commercial
Year: 1874

TuEC CATrIE DIsEAsE.-1'heR Reading
recently the existence
of disease among cattle in Montgomery
county which results in certain death
to all attacked The animal at first
manifcsts languid and stupid dispo-
sition, refusing TO eat, and finally goes
staggering about until death takes place
which occurs in from few few hours
to about two days from the first attack
The nature and cause of the malady Is
something of mystery, not only to
the farmers and cattle owners, but To
the surgeons.


This same disease has carried of
quite a number of cattle in New Castle
county
Year: 1874

GREATNESS OF LABoR.-Farm labor was
never SO cheap as at the present time.
The roads throughout Chester and Lam
caster counties appear to swarm wltn
able BODIED laborers and "tramps, peg
ginS work at any price, and some are
Wiling to work for something to eat