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' 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'
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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.
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