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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1890-6-20, Page 22 ' IMITSETIOLD. The sitting-rOOM Window, itY Mau. ANNis L. J.U.K. What a wonfort it is, ttlien housewleening ie over, when the garden beds are all made se -with only an necasional ben to serateh up the eeeds -when the house stnelle of soap and wathr and jo.iot, all deer to t hetet of a gooa houthwife. "What is the good of ole:suing house, any- way 1" grumble the boys. Ilia all Ow emits; they would oet enjoy meths in their e11401 cape or glom:lets, nor any (Olen intriewr 111 thew homes, and but fer the regalae upeet• thsg, how is ono to meet and vanquish 0150' 51111,031 We feel settles' again in all the freslmess of clean curteius and new cretoune, It is pleasant to think, too, that aroma these grassy Indite there is no chance of dust istherhee for a little while, as beside a vil- age street, " Rest after tvetwiness," sing the housefficaners who now have time to work a little in the garden to prepare for the stunmer, aud to ettend to the many items of honte adornment that women enjoy, and men admire while they attempt to laugh at. The aids to this spring work aro many, but nothing seems to renew old paint and take off the dirt without injury like "Pearl - ilea." I remember some winters ago seeing a little boy drawing his sister along in a sled, the box of which was improvieed of a packing box with "Pearline" in large letters on the side. She Witti a pretty :Mild with large dark eyes, set off by a scarlet hood, and my companion remarked, "a good ad- vertisement for the Company ;" but the half of the ceiling of my sitting -room, the washed and the unwashed, was as good an advertise. ment if it could have been pictured. And so these little lwlps save oar strength and we should study to nse them. In the rest- ing spell we have time to take little journeys a.nd to study human beings, and it brings to us glimpses of life that are very interesting. "I never KM such a girl as you—all inen are alike to you." The speaker was ayoung girl and the occasion a picnic, when ex- tremes often meet, and the sentence caught my attention as it seemed to imply so much. I knew the young girl as a pretty ffirt, who locket' on men with speculative eyes, and thought all they were born for was to pay attention to girls. Her life had been spent in a city school and afterwards in the round of mediocre fashionable society, with plenty of time on her hands, numbers of male friends to entertaiu 1100, who passed the time just for amusement. It was only one of many cases of the bloom being rubbed off the peach as surely as it would be if that peach was in 0 boy's pocket with the many comrades such a i•eceptacle usually holds. There was no harm 115 11110 gui; her inorain- ate vanity and love of admiration led. to the result spoken of, and the young then were quite willing to give the cheap flattery and admiration that fed her heart and, starved her sent. Such a travisty of love and ideal friendship. I looked at the girl to whom all men were "alike" and saw on her pure face no taint of this spirit. "Serene and faith- ful arsyou,' I said to myth% "and happy is the man who can win your love. Let us hove it will be a hippy home, for it will be all in all to you," Datil found myself humming :— "Now all men besides are to me like shad- ows," for so they wools' be to this girl. The morning darkens, there is a cloud coming. the sitting -room window inttst be closed. EARLY PRESERVING, - — And mew Some utuds oteor us t may be Used. To can fruit is to 000000) it, yet there is a great difference between canna' and pre- served fruit, as it is understood by thd housekeeper, "Preserves" are what most housekeepers term the fruit that is put up pound for pound—or nearlythat—with sugar. "Canned" fruit, as it is generally understood, can be put up without any ees sugar ; or it may have added to it a small or large atuount, 08 oue's tastemay dictate. Seine fruits are by far better when canned than whenpreserved, whereas, on the con- trary, others are not fit to use if canned -with only a small quantity of sugar. Straw- berries are, of all the fruits, the most un. satisfactory when canned, but when proper- ly preserved, the most delicious. Rasp- berries, when preserves', are delicious, and useful for any kind of dessert : yet they are , quite as desirable canned. Indeed, I know I .of no fruit that retains its freshness and flavor in canning like the raspberry. Pears are insietid if preserved, but when canned in a very light syrup are delicious. Quinces are not good canned. To develop the per- fect flavor they should be preserved with at least half a pound of sugar to a pound of fruit ; better three-quarters of a pouna. These are only a few examples of the difference hi fruits in regard to the necessity of more or less sugar to develop flavor and ; texture. Of course, in selecting your fruit and the methoci of putting it up, you must take into consideration how you are going to use it. Shoula you, as many people do, use the preserved fruits and cereals in large • quantities, rather than use animal food, then the amount of sugar added to the fruit raust be only enough to give it the required flavor. When this Is the case the fruits that • require the least sugar should be selected; on no account try strawberries. For years I have been experimenting to • get the best method of preserving strew- • berries, ancl had not fouod a, satisfactory mode. A friend in Pennsylvania told nie how she made her preserve, which was delicious, Last summer 1 tried &good many ways, and • while several of the methods gave fairly satisfactory results, nothing Was such a perfect mecca as the Peimsylvania rule. I shall preserve all my strawberries by it this year. Here 11 10 : SUN-C:0010M STItAWIlintaltS.—Pick 0000 . the strawberries and weigh them ; then put thein in the preserving kettle. Add to them as Many pounds of granulated sugar as there are strawberries. Sitir, ana place on the fire ; ana continue stirring oecasionaIly lung the mixture begins to boil, Cook for ten minutes, counting from the time it begins to boil. Pour the preserve into largo /fist- ters, having it about two 'Moho deep, ana place in thiesun for 10 hours or more (the rule said '24, but I found that one day of ' sunshine answered). The preserve is now earthy BO be put into jars and placed in the preserve closet. 11 10111 keep without ;seal- ing, but I used the Mason pint jers, as they arc as oonvenient and cheep as any article one can use. Remember that these proseeves are put into the jars cela ; that no water is used in cooking them, nothing but the street, berries and sager ; and that they will be very rich so that only st small quantity need , seri/with a person. The Haun0 of this fruit is perfeet. Only fine, ripe strisevberries eliould be encl. The platters of preserve estn be placed on a, table in a Moly whitlow, or on a sunny' piazza11 ie so early i(1 the seasou that there is 11101 100011 trouble with Coe, X do not Sile why the fruit could net he put in the jare and the jars placed in the sttn for two clays. I shall try ie Ole year • I with tenne of 111' preserve. It tvoula make the work inneh easier Sru..,.whithaV 1111 t ait4in.-7110k o'er three pints of rips strawberries, MO 1011 them in st large bowl with 018' pint ffi granu- lated enwite Mix eugar ttea 01 rawberries to- ' gether with a vegetable -masher and, lel them stand for two 011hree home. A t the Pea of hat thee rub through a strainer flea ie fine • , g at 111i\ 1111111151111 01110 oirutrt Of 31111111111 not 100 rich, Ulla 1.11W.r. 011100111 ol 111:drriil Nrill make abent three Tunes 'of the freo. su metered. It is env ot the meet delitsieue ei 4 Item. People somet Mies try to frecee the whole fruit, If fruit I eingily mixed ivitit the frezeu ethane aud stand ter an hour or so, • t his will enswer, but it must be remember- ed that the strawberry has -very little sugar iu it, and that will become as hard almost as a reek 11 11; is exposed to the freezing temperature for any length of time. The preeervea fruit, beteg saturated with sugar, will not harden in this way when kept at the freeziug point. PhEssuvEn Raw PINE•Arri,E,—Pine•apple is one of the fruits with which one must me great care, else it will grow hard 10 cooking, Here is a delitsious and rich inethod of pre. serving it : Pare the pineapple, Rua take not all the eyes. Now, with 11 very sharp knife, cut the pineapple in thin slices, cut- ting down the sides until the heart is reach- ed. This is to be discarded. Weigh the sliced pineapple and put it in a large earth- en dish, Add • to it as many pounds of granulated sugar as there are pounds of pine -apple, and stie well, Pack this mix. thre 18 ithou pint or (pert 4at's ; p1111 011 the envers and tighten them, t en put away in the preserve closet. The pineapple will keep for a year or more and be perfectly tender and fine flavored. About the first of June is a good time to put np pine -apple, STRAwiiminY CasAm.---Yor two quarts of strawberry cream, use one quart of straw- berries, half a pint of granulated sugar, one gill of cold -water, one gill of boiliug water, two quarts of whipped and drained cream, and half a package of gelatine. Pick over the strawberries, put them in a bowl NI -Rh the sugar, mid crush well, Let them stand tWo hours. Soak the gelatine in one gill of cold water for two hottus. Next whip the cream. Rub the strawberries and sugar through a stietinee into a lergebowl. Pour the boiling water on the gelatine, and, when this :is dissolved, add 11 10 the stvained straw- berry. Place the bowlin a pan of ice-evater and let it stand, stirring all the time, until it begins to this:ken. Immediately add the whipped cream, stirring it in gently. Pour the cream into a mould, which has been dipped in cold water, and set away to harden. At serving time dip the 111011111 111 tepid water turn the cream on a large fiat dish, and heap whipped cream arotind it. One quart of cream eeive enough whipped cream to make the diali and to serve with it.. MAMA PAittea. The French Woman's Advantage. When talking of French 100111011 and the important place they hold hi the world, it must be remembered that they have one groat advantage over their English American miters. The French woman until the day of her marriage ie a mere cipher. Anything in a shape ot originality and power is dis- couraged in a young girl; even exceptional beauty is not desired. The mother of a young girl rather under than overdresses her, and would infinitely 0011118 11010 you say: "She is so modest," or "What a gracefu young lady your daughter is," than have her physical attributes alluded to. Thus, all the petty jealousies, untrue gos- tip and personal remarks which assail an English or American gielhaving pretensions to rank-, fortune 011d beauty are avoided, 001d the ledy only becomes a possible per. sonality when shelties obtained a husband's protection and care. The single woman is an unknown 'phenomenon in French society; O girl who does not wish to be married is supposed to have, as a. matter of course, a religious vocation and accordingly becomes a tom without more ado. Every liberty is given as to ohoiee of convent, order, etc., but -with one or two exceptions, which prove the rule, every Frenchwoman of good fam• ilydevotes herself to 10(115100 00 0e—husband. —Paria Letter, Pasture Rotation. There is 010111 gain of feed by havinss ves- ture eel& so stream sea that each can rest at times. Ne hen one hos 0110011 of cattle and a bunch of sheep, three pastures can be steel adnurably. Let the sheep be hi No. 1 a week end the cattle in No. 12, then change the cattle to No. 3 and the sheep to No. '2 for another week, aud so continue the cir- cuit all the season. Cattle will consume the most suceulent grasses, and the sheep 1011010. 111g will eat the coarser grasses and weeds, while there will constantly be one field recuperating its vegetable growth, and the 00108 will have fresh feed most of the time, which tells in milk -pail and churn, If all graze one field continuously some of the *ease will be refused, because it will have ecome old and woody. This is not likely to occur to so great an extent whore pasture rotation is observed.—{A Central Mew- l-. orker. An Unorganized Industry. Official eleinber—"Winit will it cost to paint this church ?" Tradesmen—"Two hundred ancl fifty dol- lars" Official Members—"It's exorbitant, but I can't get it done for less. That's what every pietas. in town asks. Go ahead with the job." Same Official Member (nest clay)—"Bro. Goodman, we have decide(' to Melte your salary this year 5000." Pastor—"But--" Official Ileinber—"Thet's all we can afford to pay. We arm get scores of minis - torts for oven lessthan that," [Owing to ruinous competition Bro. Good- man accepts the reduction of 5800 in his, sidary. Whifdl Was .Eight? "I am going to the top of a mountain so high that whisky will not be found there. I am tired of whisky and all its Rind, and I want to get away from them" It was Signor Buchignani who said this, and he looked very tired as he poured out glass of le and b., otherwise brandy and benedictin e. "My dear sir," saki his customer, as I was about to ask teler° that bleseea mountain could be found, "there is not a mountain in all the world so high but you Will find whisky at the top. The only way you can escape 1110 to go to the bottom of 1110 1100." " I fear that yon are right," said the Seenor with a sigh. • A cheerful temper, joined with innocence will makc beauty attractive. keowledge cle- lightful ami wit gooa tottered. It will lighten sicknosst poverty and affliction; 0031' 000t ignorance mto an amiable simplieity, and render deformity itself agroottble,—LAd- clieon. THE BRUSSELS POST. JUNE 20, 1890, The °Omer Of the Bye. 'BWIFT SWORDS SHEATHED " Hew is you know he ilian't Iwo you 1"; Well, 1 wetelied bilsi out of the corner) (31111117 Nes 810 t 11" t.8' Mina to bow PST ART N G AN DBRIL LI ANT S ER MON 13, 111111' folks like me. II o's forgetten that he veer knew me 1110 1111 lies:. 100 were BY TALMAGE. . boys together, lie's beeeme 11101, 11 I'm a cold ewe I eider hie silk hat.- nhe swore, Its mission and its Doom—The peer 1111111181110, 011, 1 (Welled Ids hard, tint 1 the owner of hie eye lie watelied bins. A iiwan, towline, ghilli'e a jeideue leer. Thio man was look Mg for a islieht, He wen1,1 Itave been disappointed if he 11,1.1111 goi it, 0110 0011 ha pliV 011011 Slights. WO 0111 all of 00 think soine niltilicisncgii,e,exes, J0115 I—Chaplain T. DoWitt people, They :lethally prowl around for thll111girellVtbrttlTuai 1015111 within the veep; of our wiedge (001111151 IsefoieTe1itntiregoel,ln who lets that kind 3,1 111111 tiye, it is in Is the Academy of The stair -officers and brew that 10101005,1118 a 018(115,, 'Oki," 'Members of UM regiment evere immediately riming eye. It is nut an honest eye, in isy la front of the platform, anti their friends! judgment, fur the owner '18 11181'0'1081 Ynt thronged the galleries, The hytuu 0005 1008 himself. He thinks less of himself than the „asiaaas air: other people do of lum, yet; he WILUt$ other people to take hint at a higher valuation "Hy country, 'US of thee, than he gives himself, The eye that looks Sweet laud of liberty." out of its corner shows this hypos:rite:al The subject of the sermon was; settedepreeiation andprm ide contingled. sworci—lts Mission and its Doom." The text, would rather meet the bold, bad stare of ill bmvon." Oh, it Is the most hateful of glances, 1 think. Isal'11; xxiv., "My sword shall be bathed cruelty or guilt than the leering, corner. I Three huodred and fifty-one times does the &mineo g ege lith is eeeking for 'eights, Bible speak of that sharp, keen, curved, "Look bere, young nue cried an old inexorable weapon, which flasher upon us goaleman in my oars, some years ago, "hear 100110 the text—the sword. Sometimes the what I have to say. My eyes 111100 been Mention is applaudatory and sometimes againSt Inc all my life. Do you notice that daninatory, sometimes as drawn, sometimes I give a quick, sharp glance up at yell 01. its sheathed, In the Bible, and in much casionally 1 And notwe too that I do not Woular literature, the sword represents all habitually look you in the face when talking javelins, all muskets, all carbines, all guns, with me. Now hold on," for I was about to ell police clubs, all battle-axes, all weaponry assure him, and it was truth, that he had is for physical defense or attack. gooa name among men. "Men trust me after What more consecrated thing In the wimed they come to know no But I have a habit than joshuses sword, or Caleb'; sword, or of glancing sideways at men. That °ye of Gideon's sword, or David's sword, or Wash - mine has been my worst foe. I have tried. 80 I ingtou's sword, or Menthe's sword, or leaf- hard,Goa knows, to acquire a frank, open eyette's sword, or Wellington's mord, or way of greeting men. But I never can. I am Ji,losciusko's sword, or Garibaldi's sword, or suspicious at heart. I distrust men. I ant all' hundreds of thousands of American swords the while on the lookout for intentional ne. I tbat have ag,ain aud again been bathed in lect. That eye has cost me a fortune. For , heaven. Swords of (.bat kind have been the eaven's sake, young fellow, show your , hest friends of the human race. They have forehead, brush your hair back, give 0 clear, ' Main tyrannies, pried open dungeons, and full, honest, kind, trustfulgazelwith the eyes", clearedthe way for nations in their march Was not the old gentleman's advice sound?. I upward. It was hatter for them to take the The coy look of a woman's eye may he, mord aud be free, than lie under the oppres- charmiug. But the same thing in 111)01011100110 sor's heel and suffer. There is something (Leah Pfeep: other men resent ' it. The I worse than death, and that is life if it must changeful eye of a child, swiftly flitting like, cringe and crouch before the wrong. Turn a bird, front one object to another because ell: over the leaves of the world's history, and things are new, and there is so much to be ' find that there has never been a tyranny observed, this is all pretty in a child, but iu I stopped or a nation liberated except by the a man it means indeieston, iroltobiliby, sus.1 sword. lam not talking to you about the pielon, and possibly dishonesty. A fearless, way things ought to be, but about the way true num has an hottest, fearless eye. It is they have been. What form drove back the the wide 10111d010 in a well -kept dwelling, 1 Saracens at Tours, and kept Europe from through which glows the genevous warmth being overwhelmed by Mohammedanism and and light of a weli-fed grate, the • evening eubsequently, all Atneriea given over to lamp, and beaming of happy faces Mohammedanism? The sword of Charles And I do not believe, for one, that it can Martel and his men. Who can deal enough be counterfeited. The dishonest heart cannot n infinities to tell what was accomplished look though a clear, attractive, honest eye. for the world's good by the sevord of Joan of The stare with which some men seek Are; In December last I looked and saw to look honest is a plain lie. It is strange in the distance the battlefield of Marathon, to think of the human soul sitting and I asked myself what was it that, on that back of the brows there, and looking loost tremendous day in history, stopped the at your own soul thought the eye. Persian hosts, representing not only Persia, Or is the vital spirit not back of the brows? hut Egypt, and Tripoli, and Afghanistan, Is it in the whole body? Perhaps that is it, and Belloochistau, aucl Armenia; a host that and it coines to the outer air on y through had Asia under foot, and proposed to put Eu - the eye. At all events the eye reaches back ropounder foot, and, if successful in that in there, very near to :where we live, very battle, would have submerged by Asiatic bar. near to where the living num really abides. barleys:European civilization, and, as a eon - Anil what we are shows itself through the sequence in after time, American civilization. eye as through scarcely any other portion of The words of Miltiades, and Themistocles, the being. 'Yes, one needs to be honest to and Aristides, At the waving of these look through au honest eye. I've settled swords, the 11,000 lancers of Athens on the that for myself at all events. run, dashed against the 100,000 insolent Per- il: is the weak man who uses the corner of sians, and trampled them down or pushed the eye. "The weak aro oftenest the them back into the sea. The sword of that cruelest," exclaims iny wife, who sits by day saved the best part of the hemispheres, a me, And that is equally true. The strong trinity of keen steel flashing in the two lion does not appear like the weak eat, lights—the light of the setting sun of barber- thoegh he is of a feline moo. The man who ism, the light of the rising sun of civilization. dareS not face a thing because he is not Hail to these three groat swords bathed in powerful, squints ancl glances around heaven! corners. Paul Pry peeps through keyholes What put an end to infamous Louis XVIes to fiud out what he is not strong enough to plan of universal conquest by which England discover hes, it knock on the door. The would have been made to kneel on the steps snaky boy oh the playground looks over his of the Tuileries and the Anglo-Saxon race shoulder. I remember a fellow who used would have beau halted and all Europe par - actually to 8ee10 to the rest of no boys to have _eyes capable of glancing 101111(1a corn. er. He was detested for his impudence, and contemned for his meanness. To be Great Powers of the 'World 00111 Soon blientli their Swords in an Uolversal DIsnranouent—Arbilramunt 00111 Take the Place of 'Star. alyzed? The sword of Marlborough, at Blenheim. Time 00800 101)00 the Roman war eagles, whose beaks had beenpunched Into the heart of nations, must be brought down front sure, he generally" got there by Ins sneak- their eyries All other attempts had disgrace - big ways, but we lusted him all the same, fully failed, but the Germans, the ntightest and those eorner-of-the-eye glances linger nation for brawn aud brain, undertook the with me yet as I think of him. They seem were:, and under God succeeded, What to be following 1110—in Ft cringing, down- drove back the Roman cavalry till the horses, ward look, if I confront them with " 1•Vil,,,t evoundeci, filing their riders and the last rider are you after 111010 1-1,1 snivelling apology, perished, and the Hereynian forest became if I say, "You liar !"—in fawning flatter. the scene of Rome's humiliation? 'rho sword, oey, if a. favor is asked or desired—in abject the brave word, the triumphant sword eubmission, if I thmicler, " Get out with of Ariulnius. While passing through you 1" Bet always the first _glance that is , Franco last ,TanUary my nerves tingled free, these eyes of this boy, in the old vile evith excitement and I rose in the car the lege, 1.18ep and squint out of their corners, better to seo the battlefield of Chalons, Ugh 1 hOW one abominates it 1 the mounds and breastworks still visible, I would teach it child, especially a 1103'— I though nearly 500 years ago they for girle eau make all sorts of glances pretti they be themselves of sweet Rua -11 were shovelled up. Hers Attila, the heathen if monster, called by himself the "Scourge of would insist on my boy's looking out of his God, for the punishment 'of Christians ', his full eye. Stand ernry ect, lad, and throw the shoulders back, 1011011 you are addressed 1.,life a massacre of mations, came to an'igno- minions defeat, and he put into one great or are addressing another. Show your i pile the wooden saddles of his cavalry, and brow. Wear the smile of amiable rover- the spoils of the cities and kingdoms he bad ence for age, but look the most venerable or famous man full iu the eye. Let your tones sacked, and placed on top of this holocaust convoy yew wish to please by courtesy, and, the women who had accompanied him in his devastating march, ordering that the torch let your words be true and 11111111, 13ut never be putou the Pilo, What povver broke that cast the eye 1,01011, except when, manfu„lly, you have to confess an error. Even in consword, and stayed that red scourge of cruelty that was rolling over Europe? The sword of 10581011, 1110111 squint out of the corner of the eye. The habit of a full gaze caunot he Thoodoric and Lollies. formed too early,--[Harkleyllerker. To effine down to later ages all intelligent Englishmen unite with all intelligent Americans in saying that it was the best Some Wenn Weathee, thing that the Amerioan colotties swung off from the goverement of Great Britain. lb would have been the worst absurdity in four thousand years if ,,this dountry had continued in loyalty to a throne on the other side cf the sea. No one would pro- pose a governor-general for the United States as there is a governor-general for Canada. We have had splendid queens in our Amoricanecapital, but WO could hardly be brought to support a queen on the other sesta of the Atlantic'lovely and good as Queen Victoria Is The only use we have for earls 5111 1011(18 and dukes in this country 1 he P111111 001118 dried up in the year Imo je, to treed; them well when they pass In the year 1 1 12 the heat was SA greet that through t° tileir hunting grounds io the eggs could be it cooked. In the sand. In 1 2127 far west, or when their fortunes have felled it a recorded that many men and animals reinforce them by Wealthy matrimonial came by their clonth through the intense alliances:. Imagine this nation yet a part heat,. In the year 1313 the waters of the of English pessessions1 The trouble the Rhino end Danube WON) partially (trie,1 up, mother -country has to -day with Ireland The would P031 paradisaic condition compared and the people plumed over on foot, orops were burned np in the year 1894, and with the trouble she would have with se. in 1 538 the tieine and the Leith were cm dry England and the United States make 0X 1)1)1(1,, In 1500 a goat drought swept through colleut neiglabors, but the bwe families are Europe. In 1614 in Prances and oven to largo to live in the same house. What in Switzerland, the brooks and the ditches a god -send thab we should have parted, aud were dried up. Not less hut Wore the yam., parted long ago! But I can think of no other 1640, 1679, sled 1701. In the yew 1 715 from way in which NVO could have pothibly achiev- the month of March till October not a drop ed American 1100es:flame°, George III., the 01 1101111 fell ; the temperature rose to 113 cle, half"el'eel Mug, would not have Id us go. grew Ilemuntir, and in favoreil places the Lord North, his prime minister, would not fruit trees blossomed a second time. Ex. havo 1" lis go. General Lord Cothwallis traordinarily hot were the years (724, 174(1,100(11(1 not have lot us go, although tater 1 756 and 1 81 1. 'The stunnier of 181(1 1000 00 ' 'Yorktown he wag glad enough to have us Id hot that the plans of amusement lima to be 1.11111 go. Lexington, and Bunker Hill and dosed. • I Monmouth, and Trenton, and Valley Forge It will perhaps assuage the discomforts of the coming 81(1111(81 to vend some pest ex- perience tvlbh heat, compiled by a German statietician. In the year 027 the springs were dried up ana 01011 feinted *with the heat. 111 870 it Was impossible to work in the open fields, In the year 993 the nuts on the trees wore " roasted" as if in a baker's am 1 In 1000 the rivers in France dried up and the stench from the dead fish and other matter brought a pestilence into the land. The 11041 111 the year 1014 dried up the rims and the brooks in Alsace -Loraine. Wero proofs positive that they 'word not Lots of 800 111,500111 wining to let us go. comnitteo of n out Of "lionieseem to got "Solid" refreshmentS, ,..:otiournes 001M ;terms the ocean to see hat c. uld hat been done tvould have round 110 better weeninuelffike theu Lon- don tower, Tbt 01113 waY 11 ooffld bare lawn thaw was by the MOHhiferliell'S entild write the det4dration of indopend- Moo, bub only Washington's sword could have achievea it, and the other swords bath- ed in heaven. So now the sword has its uses, although it is a sbeathed sword, There is 1(111 111111 urniorS in Brooklyn, ('0 71051' York, or or Chicagot.. or Charleston, or New Orh•nits, 00 0017 American city that eould lie spared. We have in all our Amerieen eit les a ruffian population who, though they are email in number Nonpareil with the geed 'emulation, tvonld agnin and again make rough and stormy 111111% il', back of our mayors and commies vounelle and police there were 1011111 the armories Itud arsenals some keen steel whieb, ie brought iuto play, would make quick work of mobocracy. There are in every great community unpriucipled men who like a row ou a large scale, and they heat them- selves with sour mash and old rye and other decoctions, enriched with blue vitriol, potash, turpentine, sugar of lead, sulphuric acid, log - wood, etre-eh:due, night -shade, and other precious ingredients, and take down 0 whole glass with a resounding "Ah I" of satisfaction. When they get that stuff In and the blue vitriol collides with the potash and the tur- poetises with the sulphuric acid the victims are ready for anything but order aud decency and good government. Again and again in our A111011011/1 cities has the necessity of bolus guards been demonstratece You remember how, when the soldiers wero all away to the war iu 1801,04, what conflagrations wore kindled in the streets of Neer 'York, and what negroes were hung. Some of you remember the great riots iu Philos lelphia at fires, sometimes icindled for the opportuuity of uproar and despoliation. In 1849 a hiss et a theater Nrould have resulted in New York city- being demolished bad it not been for tbe eitizeo eoldiery. Because of an insult which the American actor, Edwin Forrest, had received in England ?rem the friends of Mr. Macready, the Ifinglleh actor, when the latter auneared in New York. iu --es...see:Ohs distinguished Englishman was hiss..d mid mobbed, the walls of the city haYing been placarded with the anuounce- ment: "Shall Americans or English rule in this city?" Streets were filled with a crowd, insane with passion, The riot act was read, but ie only evoked louder yells and heavier volleys of stones, and the whole city was threatened with violence and assassination. But the Seventh regiment, under Gem Dur- yea, marched through Broadway, preceded by mounted troops, and at the comatand: "Fire: Guards! Fire!" ihe mob scattered, and New York was saved. What would have become of Chicago, two or three years ago, when the police lay dead in the streets, had not the sharp command of military offi- cers been given. Du not charge such scenes upon American institutions, ahoy areas old as the Ephesian mob that howled for two hours in Paul's time about the theater, amid the ruins 01 101110(1 'stood last January. They were witnessed In 1675 in London, when the weavers paraded tho streets and entered buildings to destroy the inachiuery of those who, because of their now inventions, could undersell the rest. They were witnessed in 1.781 at the trial of Lord George Gordon, where there was a religious riot. Again, in 1710, when the rabble cried, "Down with the Presbyterians! Down with the meeting- houees!" There alu aye have been, and al - n themselves and which ordinary mans ways will be a class of people sthat cannot gover/ menet govern, aud there are exigencies , which notbing but the sword CIII1 meet. Aye, I the militia are the very last regiments that it will be safe to disband, Arbitrament will take the place of war be- tween nation and nation, and national armies will disband in consequence, aud the time will come—God hasten RI—when there will be no ueed of an American army or navy, or a Russian army or envy. But some time after that, cities tvill have to keep their arm- ories, arsenals, and well drilled militia, be. cause until the millennial day there Will bet populations with whom arbitrament will bs as impossible es treaty with a cavern of hyenas' or a jungle of snakes. The* mon who rob stores and give garroter's hug, and prowl about the wharves at midnight, and rattle the dice in gambliug-lualls and go armed tvitit pistol or dirk, will reirain from disturbanco at the public peace just in pre. portion as they realize that tho militia of a city, instead of being an awkward squad, and In danger of shooting each other by mistake or losing their own life by looking down bate the pothers:el to see if it is loaded, or getting th ramrod fast in their boot leg, are prompt OS the sunrise, keen as the noeth wind, joot as the thuuderbolt, and accurate, end rime lar, and disciplined In their movements as the planetary system. Well done, then, I say te legislatures, and governors, and mayors, and all officials who decide upon larger armories and better places for drill aud more generous equipment for the milita. The sooner the sword can safely go back to the scabbard to stay there, the bettor; bub until tho bilt °Mugs agaiust the case in that final lodgment, let the sword be kept free from rust; sharp allalong the edge, and its point like a needle, and the handle polished, not only by the chamois of the regimental servant, but by the hand of brave and patriotic officers, at. ways ready to do their full duty. Such swords are not bathed in impetuosity, or bathed in oppression, or bathed in outrage, but bathed in heaven. Before I speak of the doom of the sword, let me also say that it has developed the grandest natures that the world ever saw, 11 has developed courage --that sublime on- ergy of tho soul which defies the universe when it feels itself to be in the sight, It has developed a self-sacrifice which repu. dunes that idea that our life is worth more thau anything else, when for a principle it throtys that life away, as much as to say, it is not necessary that I live, but Ibis nec- essary that righteousness triumph. There are tens of thousands among sic:Ahern and southern veterans of our civil war, who are 05 per cent larger and mightier in soul than they would have been, had they not, during the four years of national agony, turned their back oe liome, and fortune, and at the fronb sacrifice(' all for principle, It was the sword which ou the northern side de- veloped it Grant, a McClellan, a Hooker, a Hancock, a Sherman, a Sheridan, and Ad- mirals Faeragut aud Porter end on the south- eru side a Lee, a jackson, a Hillea iGordon ana theJohnstons, Albert Sydney and Joseph Be and A.dmiral Semmes, and malty foderals stud confederates Whose graves in national cemeteries 0.111 Marked "Unknown," yet who were just as sell-saerificing oral bravo as any of their major-gonorals, and whose resting places all up and clown the banks of the A.n- droseoggin, the Hudson, the Potomste, the Mississippi the Alabama, have reeently been snowed limier with white flowers typical of resurrection, and strewa with rod dowers commemorative atm carnage through which they passed, and the blue dowers illustrative of the skies throttgli which they a.sconds 13ut the sword is domed, There, is one word that notch te be wobt10 111 every bhroI(e-000m 10 e0'e/m.1;0;0°Mo% in everr navy -yarn, in every national council, Thh word Is Dimarinionent But no government eau afford to throw Its sword awny until all the great governments have agreed to do tho same. Through the influence of the 1.800111 con veution of North anti South Ain - Mean governments at Washingtou, and queens, and sultans, and gems Ault take part, MI oivilived 15108 will come to clls. armanseit, and if a feu' barbaroue races decline to quit war, thou ell the decent natinns will Send out a force of continental police to Frwecp out from the face of the earth the miscreants, But until disarma- ment and eoneequent arbitratioo than be agreed Is by the great governments any ;herbs government that dientautlee Om forte- reesesii, aud tipihOS its guns and breaks ite sword would simply invit wn destruc- tion. Suppose, befere such general agree- ment England should throw away 1100 51000(1; tbink you France has forgotten Waterloo? Suppose Wore such generstl agreement Ger- many should throw away her sword; how long would Alsace and Lorraine stay as they are( Suppose the Czar of Russia, before auy such general agreement should throw away his sword; all the eagles and vultures and lione of European power would gather for a piece of the Russian bear. Suppose the United States, without any such general agreement of disarmament should throw away her sword; It would not be long before the tiarrows of our harbor would be ablaze With 1811 un'ing of foreign navies coining here to ehow ;be folly of the "Monrce Doctrine" Side by eide the two movements must go. Complete armament, till all agree te disarm- ament. At ((10 811)110 command of "Halt!" all nations halting. At the same command. of "Greene iums1" all muskets thumping. At the same 0011111100(1 Of "Break rauks!" all armies disbanding. That may be nearer than you think, The standing army is the night- mare of uations. Euglaud waats to get rid of It. Germany is being oaten up with ik Russia is almost taxed to death with it. Sup- pose that the millions of men belonging to the standing armies of the worla and in absolute idlenese for the most part of their lives, should become producers, in-tead of 000011111 - era, would not the world's prosperi ties im- prove aril the worlds moral's be better? Or have you the heathenish idea that war Is necessary to kill al the sure tis population of the earth, aud that without it, the world would be so crowded there would soon be no reserved seats and even the stauding room would be exhausted( Alt I thitik we can trust to the pnettmoulas, and the consumptions, and the fevers, and the Russian grippes to kill people fast euough. Beside that, when the world gets too full God will blotv up the whole concern and start another world and a better one Beside that, war kills the people who can least be spared. It takes the pick of the nations. Those whom we could easily spare to go to the front are in the penitentiary, and their duties dentin them in that Minted sphere. No; it ie the public- spirited and the valorous who go out to die. Mostly aro they young men. If they were aged, and had only five or ten years 11101,0 tO live, the sacrifice would not 80 00 groat. l3ut 11 (8 those evho have forty or fifty years to live who stop into the jaws of battle, 100u1- war Col. Ellsworth fell while yet a mere lad. Renowned McPherson only forty-three. Honareas of thousands fell between twenty and thirty years of age. I looked into the faces of the Ifreneh and Gorman troops as they went Out to fight at Sedan, and they eveiv for the meet part armies of splendid boys. So in all ages war has preferred to sacrifice the young. Alexander the Great died at thirty-two. Wheu war slays the youtig it mg only takes down that which they are, but that winch they might have been. So we are glad at the Isaiahie prophecy. that the time is coming when nation shall not lift up sword against nation. Indeed, both swordsshall go hack into the scabbard —the sword bathed in heaven and the sword bathed in hole In a war in Spain a soldier went on a skirmishing expedition and, secluded in a bush, he had the oppor- tunity of shooting a soldier of the other army, who had strolled away from his tent. He took aim and dropped him. Returning to the fallen man, he took his knapsack for spoil, and a letter dropped 0>1 00 it, and it turned out to be a letter signet' by his own mower. 11 the brotherhood ot man be a true doctrine, then he who shoots another man always shoots his owu brother. What a horror is war, and its cruelties were Neell illustrated when the Tartars, after sweep- ing through Russia and Poland, displayed with pride nine great sacks Ailed with the right ears of the fallen, and when a corres- roadent of the Loudon Times, writing of the wounded after the battle of Sedan said; "Every moan that the hutnan voice cau uttefIrose from that heap of agony, aua the cries of 'Water] For the love oE God, waterl A doctor! A doctor!' never ceased." After war has wrought such cruelties, how glad svill he to have the Old Monster hituself die. Let his dying conch be spread in some dismantled fortress, through tvhich the stormy winds howl. Give Min for a pillow a battered shield, and lot his tad be hard with the rustod bayonets of the skin, Cover him with the coarsest blanket that a picket ever wore aud let bis only cup be the bleached bone of one of his war -chargers, and the last taper by his bedside expire as the mid- night blast sighs into his ear: "The candle of the wicked shall be put out, " To -night, against the sky of the glorious future I see a great blaze. Ib is a, fowl. dry in full blast. The workmen have stirred the Ores until the furnaces are seven times heated. The 10th wagou-load of the world's swords have been hauled into the foundry, and they are tumbled into the lute nace, and tbey begin to glow aud redden and melt, and in hissing ancl sparkling liquid they roll on down through the crevice of rock until they fall iuto a mould shaped like the iron foot of aploev" Then the liquid cools ore into a hard metal, end, brought oub au anvil, it is beaten and pounded mid fashioned, stroke after stroke, until that which was tt eveapon to reap harvests of men becomes an imple- ment turalug the soil for harvests 00 00011 the sword baying become the olo 'Nabors. queer Nesting Place. (1.0010 use has been discovered for electric - light globes, says the Boston Advertiser. ,The Bluing birds have found shat they make ex- cellent places in which to build their neste, sheltered as lathe 11111803 01)50(1 Demi the Winds and storm, mid many a lively courtship may be sem almost any day, by giant:tug at the top of the tall poles, 0 The now -comers porch upon the edges of the globes and peep and Witter to one anoth. er as they make their connubial arrange. monts. Thou they may be 50011 bringing their twigs and bibs of straw and twine pre- paratory to beginning housekeeping, A day or two later and the do:Melte is all ready for ocoupancy. Ohe may see the little nests front below through the glass. The clear littlefellowe NOM happy' end eoa. touted, although they live itt the fell glare of light by day and by night A birds nest one expects to find hidden be - natal a branoli in some pool shady sPot and not in so eonspielous a plad as this, But if tho birds are happy there it is 10 be hoped that the faithful employpeS of tho oloottio. ; );