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HOUSEHOLD.
Eospitality-
The summer/brings to every coun-
try -dweller a m proportion of guests,
some from adjacehteountrypiaces, but more
from the city squares and streets. Te those
who have large establishments, with 1
army of servants and plenty of wealth,
thus becomes a festive season full of ple
sure, an al fresco continuation of the wint
gayeties. The host enjoysrdisplaying to t
guests the delights of his home, and the po
sibilities of entertainment that are his, enjo
his power of sharing with others and givi
them pleasure ; the guest manifests t
satisfaction that it is desired he should fe
and wing and taking enjoyment at eac
other's hands make mutual satisfaction. B
where wealth is wanting, the income limi
ed, and the servants are few or none, t
entertaining of summer guests becomes
barden bitter to bear, if undertaken
what is deemed a suitable manner. T
famiPy have perhaps been in the habit of li
ing in a narrow way, keeping down the ma
ket-men's bill's, having no superfluitie
doing much of their own work. But wit
the expected guests there must, under th
usual way of doing things, be at least an
other servant ; at dinner there must be son
and roast and salad and dessert, and pe
haps fruit and coffee, with almonds and o
ives and candies and possibly wine, whil
the rest of the entertaining will be on th
same scale of effort, and something must b
done of especial intereat every day in th
way of amusing the guest to make his visit
a success.
But is there any true hospitality in living
while the guest is with ue as we do not live
when he is absent ? If we should tell him
that we lived differently when he was not
with us, it would effect him very uncomfort-
ably ; and if we let -him suppose that this is
our mode of ordinary life, we lead him to be-
lieve a falsehood. A truer hospitality would
seem to lie in sharing with the guest our
own life, not a fictitious life put on for the
occasion ; in taking him into the privacy of
our home, and making bjm one of ourselves
for the time being. If we do not have soup,
or rare desserts, or after-dinner coffee when
alone, then not to have it on the days when
he is with us ; if only a beefsteak and a po-
tato is our daily fare then to have only beef-
steak and potato for our fare with him,
taking care to serve it with the same appeti-
zing neatness that we ought to insure at all
times. We have to consider that our guest has
notcome for what we are going to give him to
eat and drink ; he is supposed to have had
enough to eat and drink at home, or can get
it elsewhere ; he does not care for a mere
stereotyped form of entertainment that can
be had, and is had, anywhere ; he has come
for us, the variety and charm, possibly, of
the ways and manners born of our idiosyn-
crasies, or, at any rate, their novelty. If
he is not satisfied with our own life, he will
not come again, and we are well rid of him ;
but every chance is in favor of his being de-
lighted to be so valued and believed in as it
seems evident he is when taken into the
heart of our life, and served exactly as we
serve ourselves.
hour before serving. This is a simple -but
nice dessert.
BEST GINGER DROPS.—One-half cup of
sugar, a cup_of molasses, one-half cup of
butter, one teaspoonful each ofcinnamon,
ginger and cloves, two teaspoonfuls of soda
dissolved in a cup of boiling water, two and
one-half cups of flour; add two well beaten
eggs the last thing. Bake in gem pans or
it 'n a sheet. If it is eaten warm with a sauce
a- this makes a nice dessert.
er FRIED SALT PORK.—Cut the pork in thin
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FRICASSEED' CHICKEN. —Cut the chicken in
pieces for serving, then barely cover with
water and let it stew gently until tender.
Have a frying pan ready with a few slices
of salt pork; drain the chicken and fry
with the pork until it is a rich brown ; then
take it out of the pan and put in the broth
in,which it was stewed, thicken with a lit-
tle flour mixed smooth with a little water,
and season with pepper. Put the chicken
and pork back into the gravy, let it simmer
a few minutes, and then serve very hot.
ROAST VEAL PIE. —Cut cold roast veal
in slices with the stuffing and lay in a deep
dish, adding pepper and salt ; dredge light-
ly with flour, and put in the gravy that
was left and a little hot water: about a cup-
ful of gravy is enough for a dish holding
three pints. Cover the top with a crust
made of one pint of flour with one teaspoon-
ful of baking powder sifted through it ; add
a piece of butter half the size of an egg,
rubbing it into the flour; wet with sweet
milk enough to make a dough as soft as can
be handled. Cut a piece out of- the center
of the crest, put it over the dish and bake
in a brisk oven. Serve in the dish in which
it is baked.
MOCK MINCE MEAT.—Roll 12 crackers
fine, add one cup each of hot water, sugar,
curran s and raisins, one-half cup of vine-
gar, and slices to suit the taste. This
makes four pies.
PRESSED CORNED BEET.—After serving
corned beef at dinner and while it
is yet warm, chop up fat and lean
together, not very fine, but so the fat and
lean may he evenly mixed. Stir in enough
dry mustard to flavor it, and put it into an
oblong tapering baking- tan, and place over
it (right side up) another of the same size.
Set two flatirons in the upper one for a
weight and let it stand over night : the
next day it will turn out in a loaf from
which new slices may be cut.
Yor!NO Bnees.--In washing and cutting
off the leaves be careful not to break off the
roots, which would let out the juice, and
the beets will lose their deep -red color.
Boil them in plenty of water; when done
drop into a,pan of cold water and slip the
skin off with the hands; slice them cross-
wise and place in a dish; add salt, pepper,
butter, and if the beats are not very sweet
i< teaspoonful of sugar. Set the beets over
hot water to heat, and serve hot with or
without vinegar. Should any be left put
them into a stone jar whole, cover with
-vinegar, keep in a cool place, and use as
wanted, slicing them. A root or two of
horse radish in the jar will prevent a white
,cum from rising on the vinegar.
GREFN PEAS IN CREAM :—Pat a quart of
peas into boiling water, and when nearly
done and tender drain in a colander until
dry. Melt a tablespoonful of butter in a
stew pan; add a tablespoonful of flour, but
be careful it does not brown. Turn in a gill
of cream and a half teaspoonful of sugar ;
bring to a boil, turn in the- peas, and keep'
the pan moving two orathree minutes or
until the peas are well heated, then serve
hot. The water in which the peas were
boiled may be seasoned, thickened slightly
ind makes a palatable broth.
Niyw POTATOES :—Wash and rub them
with a coarse cloth or brush kept for clean-
ing vegetables. Drop them into boiling
water and cook briskly until done and no
longer. Have ready in a seneenan some
butter and cream heated but not -boiled, a
little green parsley cut fine, pepper and
salt ; drain the -potatoes, add the nnxture,
put over hot water for a minute or two, then
serve.
RICK Sxow BALLS.—Boil a` pint of rice
until soft it two quarts of water witha tea-
spoonful of salt ; putin small cups and when
perfectly cold place in a dish. _-lake a boil-
ed custardof the yolks of three eggs, one
pi : t of aweetmilk and a teaspoonful of corn-
starch; &favor with lesion. When cold
turn vortartt aver' -the_ rice halls, half as
roll in flour and fry crisp. If required quick -
/y pour boiling water over the slices, lei it
stand a few minutes, drain, and roll in
flour as before. After frying drain off most
of the grease from the fry'ng-pan, stir in
while hot one or two, tablespoonfuls of
flcur, about half a pint of. milk, a little
pepper, and if the pork was over -freshened
a little salt may be needed. Let it boil up
and pour into a gravy dish. A teaspoonful
of chopped parsley adds greatly to the ap-
pearance of the dish.
CORN STARCH BLANC MANGE. —Measure
one quart of sweet milk and put one pint
on the stove to heat ; in the other pint
solve four tablespoonfuls of corn starch ;
when the milk is hot pour in the cold milk
and corn starch thoroughly mixed, and stir,
together until there are no lumps and the
mixture is thick ; flavor with. lemon, and
take from the stove ; then add the whites
of three eggs beaten to a stiff froth. Serve
with
To Preserve Pears.
Pears will very soon be in season, and are
among the most delicious fruits for preserv-
ing or pickling. They are so inexpensive
that they are apt to be forgotten ; and the
flavor is so delicate that it is .easily spoiled
by over -cooking. Yet the French cook and
confection -maker esteem the pear as second
only to the quince and peach. A puree of
pears is very often used as a foundation for
those candied and iced desserts in which the
French excel. The pear, :like the apple,.
possesses the quality of taking on the flavor
of another fruit or root, so that pears are
often cooked with ginger, when they are
fully as delicious as preserved ginger itself,
and even more delicate. The acid of the
lemon is often added to the flavor of the
pear, and is a decided addition to canned
pears. A finely flavored sweet pear like the
Sickel and some of the dwarf pears is deli-
cious for canning ; for preserving with ginger
the Bartlett pear is admirable ; and for
pickling, almost any good variety of pear
will serve the purpose.
To preserve pears with ginger, weigh out a
three quarters of a pound of sugar to R
every pound of pears. Boil four ounces
of sliced ginger—the green ginger which
is sold in market for this pur-
pose, not the dried ginger of the drug -shops.
This green ginger brings from 10 to 20 cents
a pound. Select full, fresh -looking roots,
not the scrawny, worm-eaten ones. Scrape
them, to remove all the dark skin, and
plunge the roots at once in to cold water.
Slice them, throw a quart of hot water
over them, and let them- boil in this water
for twenty minutes. Then add four pounds
of sugar and the juice of one lemon, and its
yellow peel cut into thinslices; do not use
any of the bitter white peel next to the
fruit. Let the syrup cook ten minutes
more; then set the syrup at -the back of the
fire. Peel the fruit. Cut each pear in half,
removing the flower, the stem and core, and
drop it at once into the hot syrup. This
will prevent their turning dark, as they
certainly will if exposed to the air after
they are peeled. When you have a kettle-
ful of thepears, cook them until they are
tender. Fill jars with them, place the
cover over lightly, and prepare another ket-
tleful of pears to cook in syrup. When the
thre,e pounds of pears have been thoroughly
cooked and put in the jars, fill each jar up
to the brim with syrup. Put on the rub-
bers and screw on the tops as tight as you
can. Be careful when the jars are cold to
tighten themstill fur tiler, before you set them
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ARMAMENTS IN PROGRESS.
Aa Enormous Output of Mannlicher Rifles.
A Bucharest despatch says :—Returning
here yesterday, my attention was called _to
a curiously -fantastic article on the subject
of Roumanian armament, published on the
29th of June by a Constantinople paper,
whose efforts to sustain its reputation for
inveracity are -worthy of a better cause. I
shall not further refer to the article or to
the paper in which it is published. It is
more to the purpose to give you authentic
facts on the exactitude of which your read-
ers may, in tee fullest confidence, rely.
Allow me, then, to state two facts al-
ready pretty widely known, viz., that the
Roumanian Government contracted some
considerable time ago with the Steyr fac-
tory in Austria for 105,00n Minulicher rifles,
calibre 6. 5, and with the Roth cartrge
factory of Vienna for 52,000,000 cartridges
of the corresponding calibre, with wadding.
The Steyr factory is now delivering the
rifles, and the cartridge factory is preparing
the sockets and the bullets, while the Rou-
manian Government is making choice of the
smokeless powder to be used in the cart-
ridges. The special commission appointed
to make trials of the different qualities of
that powder has tested a dozen or so of the
samples submitted to its inspection. The
commission gave the preference to the pro-
ducts of the German factory Troistorf and
of the Belgian manufacturer Weltern. But
neither the one nor the other was adopted,
because both sarts were found deficient in
some of the required qualities. Under these
circumstances the Roumanian Government
applied to that of Austria-Hungary, propos-
ing to adopt its "official" smokeless powder
if that Government would consent to supply
it. The Government of Austria-Hungary
has not yet replied, but it is believed that
it will not -meet the Roumanian Govern-
ment with a refusal.
I may further inform you that the Italian
Government has adopted the Mannlicher
rifle, calibre 6. 5, with wadded cartridges,
and has come to an understanding with the
Steyr factory that a proportion of the rifles
and cartridges shall be made in Italy. Ac-
cordingly the Steyr factory has undertaken
to set up a rifle factory at Brescia, where a
beginning will be made by making the
simpler and interchangeable parts of the
guns, and these will be sent to the Steyr I
factory to be united with the other parts.
The number of rifles ordered is 1,200,000.
Attached to the rifle factory at Brescia
there will also be a cartridge factory, where
a part of the cartridges necessary for the
above number of rifles will be mi nutactured,
nd the remainder will be furnished by the
oth cartridge factory of Vienna.
The capital to be sunk in the Brescia fac-
tory is 8,000,000f., and an Italian capitalist
has entered into a combination with tine
Directors of the Steyr factory for the es-
tablishment of the Brescia undertaking on
that basis.
way. Divide up the slices of lemon peel
and pieces of ginger equally among the jars.
This is a most delicious and rich preserve.
nd is especially nice when served like pre
erved ginger with ice cream. The above is
n old-fashioned recipe, dating back to col-
onial times, when these ginger fruit pre-
erves were a special feature of the tables
f hospitable dames.
Love is Blind.
No truer saying was ever uttered than
the one that states that "Love is blind."
Love is not only blind, but it wouldn't see
if it could. There is no desire to look upon
the imperfections of those nearest and dear-
est to us, but rather a tenden,,y to closs the
eyes tight, and what they cannot witness
we know the heart will not guess about.
Can a mother ever see anything wrong in
her own child ? Is it not to her always the,
most beautiful and lovable creature extant, -
though outsiders may regard it as a young
terror, without form or comeliness? Yet
that deep maternal love -turns the ugly
duckling into the whitest and fairest swan
and she wonders at the poor taste of others
who do not rave with equal fervor over the
perfections of her offspring.
When a man or woman falls in love, what
does all the counsel of outsiders count
against their own blind, unreasoning pas-
sion for each other ? What matters it if
cooler and wiser heads point out frailties
that will go far toward marring future hap-
piness? Can they see the spots on their
newly risen sun ? Can they detect any
flaw in their idol ? No, because' they y shut
their eyes to all imperfections, and even if
they should see them, love with its beauti-
fying powers would even transform these
peculiarities into qualities that the lover
would find no fault with until the glamour
had passed away.
So it is with the happilymarried pair, they
do not detect in each other the mat ks left
by the flight of time, though to others they
may show that they are growing old,
but with the softening, mellowing in-
fluence of love the bride of twenty years
ago changes not to the husband, who
will always seem to her the lover
nfher girlhood. Outsiders may note the
growing lines of care, the whitening locks
and stooping form, bat ,as the aged couple
look into each other's eyes they see bat one
image, and that the face of the man or wo-
man they fell in love with so many years
ago.
She Had Him There;
Yesterday at the court of common pleas,
the. presiding judge asked_a lady, who ap-
peared as wr ness—"Your age 1"
" Thirty years," was the prompt reply.
His honor, with a smile—I think it will
be difficult for you to prove it.
"Just as difficult as it is for you to prove
the contrary," retorted the lady, .+ es my
certificate of birth was destroyed by fi re in
1850
The region abut the Dead Sea is oneof
the hottestplaces on the globe, and the sea
is said to lose a million tons of water a day.
'by evaporation.
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ENGL AND DItEADS CHOLERA.
Russia Deports 50,000 Victims and the
Disease Spreads Westward. -
The British public is just now shuddering
at the horrible possibility of the shadow of
cholera which is spreading over all Europe.
Unless the disease is checked it means
America in time.
Fifty thousand persons died in Russia last
month.
The disease has at last been officially rec •
ognized at Moscow. Four persons died
there yesterday, four other cases are in the
heart of the town and twenty-two cases
have occurred in a refuge for families of con-
victs passing through Moscow, and there
have been thirteen deaths.
All the passengers entering Moscow from
infected districts are subjected to three
medical examinations and disinfections be-
fore they are permitted to enter the town.
Warsaw is also infected.
A party of four Americans who visited a
fair at Novgorod are down with the cholera.
Two are reported dying. The service of
through cars from Constantinople to Vienna
and like service from Warsaw has been sus-
pended for fear of the plague.
Paris still c?suns to be safe, but in her
suburbs the disease is getting ground.
More than a hundred deaths occurred last
week just outside the city.
At Argenteuil all the hospitals are
crowded.
The Government decrees in Spain, in t
Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Portug
and other countries are issued establishin
quarantine regulations against the import
tion of goods from infected districts.
The question is really becoming a serious
one and is talked over everywhere.
Various riots which have occurred among
the ignorant, who claim that patients have
fact.
keen buried alive, are based upon scientific
A Vienna physician says that cholera pa-
tients nearly... always move after death.
Here are his wotds :
"It is a striking peculiarity of cholera
that corpses of those who have perished by
it, are for some time after death subject to
convulsive movements of some muscles or
even of whole groups of muscles."
Prof. Eichorst has observed these sym-
ptoms in several cases during an epidemic at
Konigsberg. These phenomena appear
about three hours after death and last long-
er than three hours.
He relates that en one occasion heleft a
patient for dead, and when, three hours
later he was told that the man had revived
be found the muscle- of the upper part of
the arm giving short, quick motions, follow-
ing each other rapidly, which were inter-
rupted by contractions of the whole group
of inuscles whereby the forearm was visibly
contracted. The fingers were distinctly
observed to be moving as though playing
the piano.
Dr. Barlow recorded a case in which some
time after death the jawbone began to open
and to shut.
The strength of these muscular contrac-
tions is such that corpses have been found
within fourteen hours to have shifted their
positions.
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ENGLISH YOUNGER GER SONS
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Great N nbcr of.Them .'itentghting
-the West.
The proportion of young English gent
men who are roughing it in the West f
exceeds that of the young Americans. Th
is due to the fact that the former have neve
been taught a trade or profession, and hav
nothing in consequence when they have bee
cheated of the money they brought wit
them to invest but their hands to help them
and so take to driving horses or brandin
cattle or digging in the streets, as on
graduate of Oxford sooner than write horn
Waver.for money, did in Waver. He is now
teaching. Greek and Latin in one of on
colleges. The manner in which visiting
Englishmen are robbed in the_ West, and
the quickness with which some of them take
the lesson to heart, and practice it upon the
next Englishman that comes -out, or borrow
from the prosperous Englishman already
there, would furnish material for a bookful
of pitiful stories, an 1 yet one can not help
militia at the wickedness of some of these
schemes. Three Englishmen, for example,
bought, as they supposed, 30,000 Texas
steers, but the Texans who pretended to
sell them the cattle drove the same 3,000
head ten times around the mountain, as a
dozen supers circle around -the back drop of
a stage tomake an army, and the Englishmen
counted and paid for each steer -fen times
over. There was an ether Texan who made
a great deal of money by advertising to
teach ycung men how to become cowboys,
and who charged them $10 a month tuition
fee, and who set his pupils to work digging
holes for fence -posts all over - the ranch
until they grew wise in their generation
and left him for some other ranch, where
they were paid $30 per month for doing
the same thing. But in many instances
it is the tables of San Antonio` which
take the gteater part of the visiting
Englishman's money. One gentleman
who for some time represented the
Isle of Wight in the lower house spent
three modest- fortunes in the San Antonio.
gambling -houses, and then married his cook,
which proved a most admirable speculation,
as she had a frugal mind and took entire
control of the little income. And -when the
Marquis of Ayiesford died in Colorado the
only friend in this country who could be
found to take the body back to England
was his first cousin, who at the time was
driving a hack around San Antonio. One
hears stories of this sort on every side and
one meets faro dealers, cooks and cowboys
who have served through campaigns in In-
dia or Egypt or who hold an Oxford degree.
A private in G. Troop, Third Cavalry,
who. was my escort on several scouting ex-
peditions in the Garza outfit, was kind
enough and quite able to tell me which
club in London had the oldest wine cellar,
where one could get best visiting cards en -
raved and why the professor of ancient
anguages at Oxford was the superior of
the instructor in like studies at Cambridge.
He did this quite unaffectedly and in no
way attempted to excuse his present posi-
tion, nor was he questioned concerning his
position in the past. Of course the value
of the greater part of these stories depends
on the family and personality of the hero,
and as I cannot give names I have to omit
the best of them.
A GREATPARACHUTE DESCENT.
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(The last poDem she wrote).
leveling? you darkened all
in .ltfy$weetheart ! my
the day,
When from my silent dwelling your footsteps
le- turned away;
fa
The mowas dark as midnight, the noonday
is sarnd as dawn.
The milk -white daisies drooped their heads
along the dewy lawn.
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n My darling! my dearest! I sought the garden
hround,
But neves in a blossom your precious face I
found,
No rose was red beside your lips, "no lily like
your throat.
e No sound or thrilling of your voice in any
e thrush's note.
✓ Ah ! what is like your eyes,dear Y gray sparkle
of the sea,
So clear and crystal shining their beryl glances
be;
And where is any flower of all that may com-
pare
With the softly dancing glitter of the sunshine
in your hair g
Aloneyour througfeet,h lingering daytime I listen for
Those springing steps no longer along the path-
way beat ;
I hear the dewdrops rustle in the branches
overhead,
But home and you together for many a day
have fled.
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Cappazza, or Paris, Falls 3,990 Feet In a
Device of His Own.
A very bold and successful parachute de-
scent has just been made at Villette, a sub-
urb of Paris, by M. Capazza. Occurring
immediately after'a number of fatal adven-
tures of the same kind, it has naturally
gained a good deal of credit for the author.
This aeronaut arranged his balloon and the
parachute so that he could ascend with the
latter wide open. He accomplished this by
making the parachute itself cover the baloon.
He was thus able to do without netling, car
or any of the usual apparatus. The balloon
after the parachute had been attached was
inflated at the Villette as works. The
cords of the parachute were of the unusual
length of thirty-two metres. This enabled
the aeronaut to retain all possible freedom
of movement on his little seat. The top of
the parachute was provided with a conical
chimney, through which the gas of the bal-
loon was to be discharged.
The inflation was effected without acci-
dent, except a little embarrassment caused
he by a small storm. Then the aeronaut rose
al in view of a great many people in a state of
g high excitement. When he had reached a
a- height of 3,900 feet he burst open the top of
the balloon. The latter at once fell, whil
the parachute remained apparently motion
less. The aeronaut descended in his para-
chute at the very moderate pace of 1 metre
30 inches a second and alighted safely in a
cornfield at Drancy.
The experiment was carried out so easily
and successfully that itis expected the Cap-
azza method will be generally adopted by
parachutists. It will be particularly valu-
able in war time, as the aeronaut will per-
haps be able to descend after the bullets of
the enemy have disabled his balloon.
A Pleasant Old Legend.
Many years ago, sailing from Constant-
inople to Marseilles, we passed close under
the Iee of Stromboli, off the north coast of
Sicily. The irreconcilable old volcano was
not in actual eruption, but from the crater
a, reddish smoke was rising, while from the
fissures in its sides burst now and again
tongues of lurid flame. "Ah!" observed a
sailor—the vessel was an English one—"Old
Booty is at it again 1" So far as I can remem-
ber, there is a legend that one Capt. Booty,
a master mariner trading to the Mediterr-
anean in the seventeenth century, became
so notorious for drinking and swearing that
he was seized upon by the fiend and carried
off to the interior of Stromboli, from which
he has continued ever since to utter profane
language by means of tongues of fire and
puffs of smoke. This, however did not pre-
vent the ghost of the profane skipper from
frightening his widow, who resided in Low-
er Thames Street, half out of her senses by
appearing to her at supper time smelling
strongly of brimstone`
My life is sad and weary, too dark with want
and pain,
But your dear eyes would bring its light and
gladness hack again.
My soul is tired of desert sands, bereft ofcheer
and balm.
For you were lige the diamond spring beneath
its lonely palm.
Come back, come back. my darling! Across the
spacee hear!
Come light this night of grief and gloom, my
Hesper shining clear;
Not long have I to linger, not long to call or
cry;
Come back, my treasure ! come, my heart, and
bless me e'er I die!
—[Rose Terry Cooke.
—
Eayiiig Time. '
The heated sun is shining on the fields of rich
July
In blazing summer splendor from his throne of
turquoise sky,
The perfume of the meadows fills the soft
sweet moaning air,
The corn blades wave a proud salute to the
fields of clover fair.
The farmer is the charm er in the romance of
to=day ;
Astory of the glory of the time of making
hay.
The scene is spread in endless fields, fair fields
of IIlinois,
Humanity, the artist. pauses slowly to enjoy,
How beautiful the changing view, how rich
the bounteous sight,
How eagerly work horse and man e'er fades
Sol's helpful light
0, haying time, no Maying time is half so fair
- tome,
Swretclover days, no over praise can singers
give to thee!
The mowers in the dewy fields press through
the yielding stand
To music of the keen machinenowhumming
over the land,
The long windrows of clover surf the rakers
leave behind
Are quickly tossed by gleaming forks in hay-
cocks, soldier lined,
The wagon takes its jag on to the yawning
big barn door
Where tramping boys with romping noise
tread down the fragrant store.
There's stubble in the shaven fields clean
swept of every spear,
The big red moon comes sailing up the sky so
sparkling clear,
A gentle hush has touched the scene, the
weary toilers sleep
To dream pe rhaps of greater fields of richer
The ggrain to reap,
day is done, the hay is wont and grateful •
rest is meet,
'Til morning founds its warning ne'er disturb
theslumber sweet,
0, clover scented, sunny days of fragrant
new mown hay,
Your incense breathes ideal life that fills the
soul for aye.
0, breezes, waft the blessed -joys to toilers in
the town
!And gladden hearts that sigh with car 'neath
smoke grimed chimneys frown.
The pleasures and the treasures of the glow-
ing, crowing days
Are fairer, sweeter, rarer, than a year of bud-
ding Mays.
GEORGE E. BOWEN.
PEARLS OF TRUT>I.
Even in a palace, life may be lived w ell.
Disbelief in goodness becomes pain, and
afterwards degradation.
All men would be masters of others, and
no man is lord of himself.
A willing mind is able to steer a man
against the stream of the strongest impedi-
ments.
He that rises late in the morning must be
in a hurry all the day, and scarce overtakes
his business at night.
e A man is great and good, when he is able
The Richest flan in the World.
A Chinese banker, Han Quay, is stated
to be worth the almost inconceivable sum
of three hundred and fi.ty millions sterling.
A great number of the largest banks in the
Chinese Empire are believed to be under his
control, and if his stated wealth be a fact
(the truth there is no means of testing) he
is unquestionably the richest men in the
world. In the absence of proof regarding
this individual, John D. Rockefeller, the
founder and virtualproprietor of the Stand-
ard Oil Campany, is the richest man in the
world. He started without a single dollar,
but by untiring energy he has amassed an
enormous fortune estimated at about $150,-
000,000. His income is five million dollars,
and he spends only $100,000 per annum, so
that his wealth keeps piling up at a tre-
mendous rate. Mr. Rockefeller, is about
fifty-six years of ago. If he lives until
seventy his wealth, it is estimated, will_
amount to nearly $300,000,000. Viscount
Belgrave, grandson'of the Duke of West-
minster, if he lives to inherit his patri-
mony, will be one of if: not the richest man
in the world, as by the time he attains his
majority the leases of the Westminster
estates will have run out, and the income of
the property, now estimated at about $5,-
000 a day, will then be nearly twenty times
that amount, or upwards of $35;000,000 per
annum. There are two families—the Roths-
childs in Europe, and the Vanderbilts in
Amereia--which are immensely wealthy,
the combined wealth of the Rothschild
family .being estimated at $1,000,0(;0,000,
and that of the Vanderbilt family at about
$375,000,00^. Unlike the rich men of Eng-
land—the Dukes of Westminster, Bedford,
Buccleuch, and Argyll, who inherited their
great estates—the Vanderbilts' property
was accumulated in two -generations, and
most of it within thirty years. The case is
without a parallel in history. Amongst
monarchs the Shah of Persia and :the (czar
of Russia are the most wealthy -their re-
spective incomes being estimated to be be-
tween ten and fifteen million dollars a
year.
to impress on others his passion for right
and his sympathy with good.
When man forsakes the ideal for the ma-
terial, what is the gain? He leaves hope
behind, yet does not attain to certainty.
The poor need more than food ; they need
the knowledge, the character, the happiness
which is the gift of God to this age.
Poverty bas the right to be as proud as it
chooses, so long as it accepts nothing ; when
once it has accepted anything it has become
mendicity.
None are so seldom found alone, and are
so soon tired of their own company, as those
coxcombs who are on the best terns with
themselves.
Whatever is glorious and excellent in the
world, cannot be acquired without care and
labor. No real good, no true happiness is
given to men upon any other terms.
When a man acts from a sense of duty,
he will find that the flower which springs
out of every duty dine, is a new hope, one
that ho can wear as a blue flower in his
bosom.
Half the evils in life arise from a very
determined desire that certain ends should
be accomplished, but a very determined
reluctance to carry out the means necessary
for their accomplishment.
People Should Sleep Apart.
Is it healthful for two persons to sleep in
the same bed? It is always unhealthful for
two persons to sleep together under the
same covers.
The air ander the bed covers immediately
surrounding the body of a sleeper is exceed-
ingly impure, becoming more and more im-
pregnated with poisonous substances es-
caping through the excretory glands of the
skin from the moment the person retires
until he arises.
The odor of the bed clothing, after hav-
ing been occupied for a night, is often pos-
itively offensive to the nostrils of a per-
son who has just come in from outdoors,;
where the fresh, pure air has been breathed.
The poisonous character of this under-
the-bedcloth air would be somewhat mor e
likely to affect a child's constitution more
than an adult's.
In elderly persons the amount of impuri-
ties irr the air surrounding the sleeper must
be greater than in the younger persons; eon
sequently while both persons would- b,
more or less injured, the proportion ofharm
would doubtless be greater to the younger=
person than to the person of moreadvanced.
years.
OBRtfiISH NEWS.
A woman Brewer, whose husband
is abroad, committed suicide in a most
determined manner at Goldsithney, Penz-
ance, on Sattatrday morning. She stood in
front of a loing-glass and cut her throat
in a frightful manner with a pocket-knife.
It has been determined to enclose the re-
mains of- the late Duke of Clarence in a
beautiful sarcophagus in the Memorial
Chapel, St. George's, Windsor. The sar-
cophagcs is nearly ready, and will be fitted
to enclose the coffin, as in the case of the
late Duke of Albany.
The death' is announced of Mr. John Mac.
Gregor, better known as "Rob Roy," of
canoeing fame. Mr. MacGregor' was the
eldest son of the late General Sir Duncan
MacGregor, K. C. B.
In a London police court, recently, Lady'
Donoughmore was fined $100 for failing to
give notice that her daughter was suffering
with scarlet fever in a lodging house and
for moving her in a public conveyance.
Pupils at an English technical school
rowed across the Channel from Folkestone
to Boulogne recently in an ordinary four -
oared galley, covering the distance in 5j
hours and beating the record.
The Montefiore memorial prize at Girton
College, Cambridge, was won this year byMiss Edith Emily Read. It is the year's
income from a.permanent fund and is worth
about $320.
A Iarge part of the massive wall of the
tower of the parish church, Great Chiswell,
Essex, fell in with a loud crash at an early
hour on July 19th. Signs of lateral expan-
sion of the tower had been noticed of late,
and on the previous day a survey had been
made with a view to removing the peal of
bells, which are now left hanging in a dan-
gerous position.
According to the tenth annual report on
Scottish saimon fisheries, which was issued
on. July 18, it appears that last year was
favorable both in regard to the number and
size of the fish taken. The boxes of salmon
sent to the Billingsgate Market during the
year were of the estimated value of over
£138,000, showing a large i
uricase on 1890.
Lady Matheson is making arrangements
by which crofters -in the Uig district, in the
West Highlands, will have an opportunity
of securing increased holdings. The lease
of the farm of Linshader recently lapsed
through the death of the tenant, and it-iras
been decides to reduce ite size, and give the
disjointed portions to those who may desire
them among the crofters of the adjacent'
townships.
A singular accident happened during the
adjustment of the compasses of the mobilis-
ed ships in Sheerness Harbour. A pinnace
was upset through coming into contact
with the hawsers of one of the ships which
was being swung. Three bluejackets were
in the boat, and two of them held on until
assistance reached them. The other man
was under the pinnace, but a hole was made
in the bottom of the craft, and he was
brought through alive.
A novel operation was performed in the
Royal Infirmary at Edinburgh. A farmer
was suffering from a diseased leg -bone in-
duced by an accident. Acting upon medical
rdvice he went to the infirmary, where a
surgeon removed the disease bone and
substituted an ox's rib. The limb is now
said to be as healthy and as strong as ever,
the operation having been entirely success-
ful.
The justiciary court has quashed a convic-
tion of a Glasgow " medical specialist" who
had affixed bills to a hoarding and a gate on
a Midlothian road in breach of a county
council by-law. Lord Young, while admit-
ting the necessity for repressing the biil-
sticking nuisance, and the dangerous
practice of throwing away waste paper—so
apt is paper blown about a road to make
horses shy—characterised ttie bye-laws on
these subjects as ridiculously framed:
According to the report of the Fishery
Board for Scotland, there are about 500
miles of rivers and 40,000 acres of lochs
there barred against salmon by obstruction$
in the shape of impassable waterfalls. In
some of these cases the cost of enabling
salmon to surmount the obstruction woul
probably not be repaid by the increased
value of the waters opened up. But in the
great majority of cases the cost of opaoing
up the barrier would be ariply repaid.
NEW CONTRIVANCES.
In France, 9,079 patents were grArd for
electrical improvements during the past
year.
A New Yorker has made a clock which
contains 34,000 pieces of wood, comprising
about 325 varieties.
Among the most recent uses to which
electricity has been applied is that of trans-
mitting photographs and drawings by wire.
Scientists say that an average man of 154
pounds weight has enough iron in his system
to make a plowshare and enough phosphorus
to make 500,000 matches.
Three broad patents on electric locomo-
tives and electric railway systems, applica-
tions for which have been filed since June
3, 1880, have just been issued to Thomas A.
Edison.
The end of another hundred years may
see aluminium the most widely -used metal
in the =world next to iron and steel, bat it
is never destined to supersede them, beeause
it is not a fit metal to do so.
A speaking watch is said to be one. of Mr.
Edison's latest inventions. The dial is made
to represent a human face, and the interior,
contains a phonograph. The mouth opene
and speaks the hours, -half hours and the -
quarters. "
An ingenious lock has been invented by
which doors, etc., may be locked frcm_
distance electrically. it is specially applic-
able for doors in private and business hoiisesi
and offices, where absolute privacy is need-
ed or desired: The leek 'ie operated y
simply turning -a, switch
Professor Hall; of the runlets Institution
for the Blind, devised;a typewriter "ferthe
blind: Therearehntsiakeysno anau puiate.
Dots are made in the paper, as in. the Braille
system ; bnt with the machine the letters
can be made verb► rapidly-
The results:agiven „out hy_ sough of the
tanneries of France using the electrical
method showthat there is accomplished in
ninety hours by this method what would
require•from seventeen to eighteen months
by tanning -ii _a, vat and from five to siiat
months by process of agitation.
lmPor to 'Buainese Men.
Johnny I, say Pa, a man, can i$1lei.e es
heap of `money by failing in business, can't 1
he
-- es,' my son, for decency's sake, he
hast stablisb come hind of business bo+
f fail.
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