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A mid-May night,
The full moon light,
The singing of the nightingale
Came through the casement, with perfumes
Shaken from noddijig lilac plumes.
The sweet bird sung,
The fair light flung
Gleams on the laurels glistening:
O sweet, O bright, O tuneful night I
Among the orohard blossoms white.
Old music streamed,
Old moonlight gleamed,
As softly I lay listening:
The saddest things, grown sweet at last,
Come blossom-laden from tSie past.
'Tween prayer and sleep,
Began to Greep
A aream upon me glimmering;
It deepened to a visloned noon,
Which was not of the son or meCs;
'Tween sense and soui
The vision stole,
A strange pale splendor shimmering
And I with one was walking slow,
As in the moonlight long ago.
It thrilled my brain
With piercing pain,
It crushed my heart to perishing;
Until I dreamed it was a dream,
And woke and saw the moonlight gleam,
And heard the bird—the nightingale.
THE HOISEKEKI'EB'S DAUGHTER.
" I never did see such a sight in all
my life," quoth Mrs. Narley, elevating
her two rheumatism-twisted old hands
in the air. "Dust on them beautiful
oarpets; glass in the cons ervatory win-dows
all broken; chickens scratching up
all the geraniums on the front lawn,
and the lazy servsnts dawdling away
their precious time ; while poor dear
Mr. Avenel and Harry don't know any
more what's going on than if they was
boarders. Says I, 'Dear heart alive,
Mr. Avenel, this is enough to make your
poor wife turn in her grave.' Says he
•you know Ms pleasant way—'Well, I
know it isn't just right, Mrs. Narley;
but what can I do ?' And I answers,
ps I, 'Get a housekeeper.' Says he.
'Where?' Says I, 'Advertise,' Savs he,
!rs. Narley, you've hit the nail on the
head. I'll advertise to-morrow.' • And
that's how that paragraph hapxjened to
be in the papers."
Here Mrs, Narley stopped to catch
breath, and nodded emphatically at her
auditor, a pale woman dressed in deep
mourning, with the unbecoming frame-work
of a widow's cap around her
f&es.
"And do you think I should suit
the gentleman?" the latter asked timid-
"You can but try," was Mr. Narley's
encouraging response. "Mr. Avenel's
a« easy as a lamb, and not one o' them
ftg is everlastingly checking off bills and
counting nickels and pennies, and Har-ry's
dreadful pleasant tenmer^d. Any
way, if I v a s you, Mrs. Hawkliurst, I 'd
go up and see."
And Mrs. Hawkhurst, holding her
pretty little daughter by the hand, went
ap accordingly to the handsome stone
house on the hill.
There she found Mr. Avenel in a state
of temporary siege, for others besides
herself had seen the tempting advertise-ment,
and made haste to answer it.
There were fat women and lean, tall
women and short, Scotch women, and
trim, shaip-visaged women; women who
had seen better days, and women who
evidently hadn't.
Mrs. Hawkhurst looked around, some-what
discouraged by the formidable ar-ray
oE rivals.
•'There's no hope for me,' she thought
despairingly, and was just about to turn
away, with timid Juliet clinging to her
hand, when Harry Avenel advanced.
•'Did you wish to see my uncle
ma'am?" he asked, courteously.
"I—I called about the housekeeper's
situation," meekly murmured the wi-dow.
And Harry bowed her in at once.
The fat and the tall, the German and
the Scotch, the sour and the sweet, went
away disappointed that day, for Mr.
Avenel decided to engage Mrs. Hawk-hurt
as his housekeeper, with permis-sion
to keep Juliet with her.
!'She is all I have, sir," said the
housekeeper, apologetically, "and she
will try to be useful about the house."
:'How old is she?" asked Mr. Aven-el.
"Fifteen, sir,"
"Well, let her stay," said the widow-er,
good humóredly. "She'll eat no
more than a chicken, and I dare say she
can do a great many odd things about
the place."
Mrs. Hawkhurst proved herself an
executive officeiess of the greatest abil-ity.
Gradually the "chaos and old
night," of Ayenel Place was reduced to
system and order. Tha wheels of house-keeping
revolved so softly that no one
knew they moved, yet these were the
results. You scarce ever saw the house •
keeper gliding about the halls, yet the
servant declared she was omnipresent.
Mr. Avenel found himself actually the
inhabitant of a home once more, as the
years slowly passed away.
He was sitting on the piazza one day
smoking his cigar and watching the
graceful movement of Juliet Hawkhurst
as she was planting trailing vines in a
marble yar-e that occupied the centre of
the lawn when Mrs. Narley came out.
"A nice evening sir," said Mrs, Nar-ley.
"Oh, there she is!"
"Who!" Mr. Avenel asked.
"Why. that foolish child Juliet!"
answered the old lady sharply. "I
ha'n't no patience with her, that I
ha'n't!"
"What has she been doing now?"
asked the widower with an amused
face.
"Why, she's refused Ben Nicholas'
eldest son, as likely and forehanded a
young feller as there is in the coun-try."
"Ben Nicholas! Why, Mrs. Narley,
she is only a child."
I ' 'She's seventeen next week, " nodded
Mrs. Narley,' 'ancl high time she thought
o'settlin'." •
Mr. Avenel looked across to where
Juliet stood in her pink gingham dress
the soft summer wind stirring her curls
and her cheek as softly tinted as the
standard moss rose on the lawn. Seven-teen!
Was it possible that little Juliet
Hawkhurst had grown to be seventeen
years old? Oh, relentless Time that
would not stand still! oh, cruel years,
that went by and stole the fair bright-ness
of childhood away! So'Ben Nicho-las
had actually asked Juliet Hawkliurts
to be his wife!
" I wish you an'Harrv'd talk serious
to her about it," went on Mrs. Narley.
"Tain't likely she'll have many mor e
such chances as that.''
"No; to be sure not," said Mr. Avenel
abstractedly.
"And o'course she'd oughter think it
over well," added Mrs. Narley.
"Oh, certainly—to be sure!"
When Harry Avenel came home from
the city that evening, he found his un-cle
in a brown study.
••Harry," quoth the widower.
"Yes, uncle."
"I've been thinking—"
"So 1 should conclude, sir, from the
H shaped wrinkle between yOurbrow,"
laughed the young merchant, "Well,
and what has been the topic of your
meditations', uncle Joe?"
Why, I was thinking what would be-come
of us if Mrs. Hawkhust were to
take it into her head to leave us."
Harry opened wide his merry hazel
eyes at the idea.
' 'What made you think of such a thing
sir?" he asked.
'Oh, I don't know. She has a good
place here; but one couldn't expect her
to be contented with a housekeeper's
situation always, Harry."
'No, to be sure not."
'She has become very essential to our
domestic happiness, Harry," went on
Mr. Avenel.
"Yes—I grant you that. Uncle Joe."
"And I really don't know how we
could manage to exist without her."
"Raise her salary, uncle," Suggested
Harry.
"No, I hardly think that would an-swer
my purpose; but, Harry—"
"Well, uncle?" :
Mr. Avenel looked slightly sheepish.
"Can't you imagine any other way of
keeping her here?"
Harry stared at his uncle. Mr. Ave-nel
felt disposed to give him a hearty
shake f «r his stupidity.
Oh!" cried the young man with a sud-den
dawning of lucidity over the dark-ness
of his brain, "You don't mean—
matrimony, uncle?"
"Yes, I do?" quoth Mr. Ayenel stout-ly.
"Would you object Harry?"
"I, uncle!""
•'Because you are the only person in-terested
besides myself—and her."
"My greatest interest, uncle, is to see
you happy," the young man answered,
wringing the elder's hand. ' 'And—if I
too should conclude to marry at no dis-dant
day—"
"Why, then," cried Mr. Avenel gayly
we can all live together just as we, do
now, and be the happiest family in the
world!"
And he went into the house, wistling
as they went. '-John Anderson my Jo,
John." as blithely as a boy of sixteen.
Juliet Hawkhurst was standing by
the little side garden gate that evening,
thoughtfully watching, over her right
shoulder of course, the slender silver
crescent of the new moon. Juliet had
certainly blossomed into a perfect little
rose of a maiden, during the years she
had been an inmate of Avenel Place.
She was fairliaired and rosy, with long
eyelashes, deep blue eyes full of sha-dowy
purple gleams, and a complexion
like. rose-colored satin; and, moreover,'
there was in her every movement a self-possessed
gi-aoe and dignity of mien that
was inexpressibly charming. Juliet
Hawkhurt had been bom for a lady,but
untoward fate had made a housekeeper's
daughter of her.
As she stood there, leaning over the
iron rail of the gate, a footstep sounded
behind her: 1
"Juliet?"
She turned with a little rose blush
and a smile she fain would haye con-cealed,
and Harry Avenel came up and
stood beside her.
"Little elf, you thought you had hid-den,
away from me, but you see I have
contrived to find you out, even here!
What makes you blush and look so con-fused?"
'•Do I?" And Juliet fixed her gaze
very steadily on the green turf at her
feet, where a single yellow dandelion
was closing its eye. of downy gold for
the night.
"Listen !" cried Harry triumphantly.
I've got a piece of news for you."
"What is it?"
"What should you think of a stepfa-ther,
eh, little one?"
Juliet looked up this time in real and
genuine astonishment.
"A step-father, Harry?"
"My uncle has confided to me, this
evening, that he thinks of marrying,
Juliet, and from all that I can gather,
the bride is none other than your moth-er,
when we are married there will be
a nice little family circle of us, eh?"
And the audacious young man belted
her slender waist with his arm, and ven-tured
to draw her a little closer to him.
"Oh, but, Harry, you are all wrong,',
cried Juliet, crimsoning and smiling
like a June flower. "I—I meant to tell
you of it, but somehow the words would
not come to my lips. Your uncle told
me also, that he had concluded to marry
again, and—and he asked me to be his
wife."
"The—mischief he did!" cried Harry
Avenel,starting back as if some one had
struck him a blow. "You! Why, Ju-liet,
you are young enough to be his
daughter."
' 'Perhaps I am," said Juliet meekly.
"And what did you tell him? You
accepted him of course? He is rich and
I am poor, and all girls like gold."
Harry!"
"Tell me quick, Juliet?" he cried,
almost passionately. "Don't keep me
longer in suspense."
" I told him," Juliet answered inno-cently,
"that 1 had already promised to
marry you. "
"My little dove!" and Haray Avenel's
dark face brightened into sunshine once
again. "And you were right, for May
and November never yet were happily
mated. My uncle" is an old fool; and
yet I can't blame him, Juliet; when I
look at your sweet face.''
The countenance of Mr. Avenel was
slightly confused when he met his ne-phew
at the breakfast table next morn-ing,
but further that there was no signs
of the discomfiture he had undergone.
He gave Juliet an exquisite set of wed-ding
pearls when she was married, and
congratulated Harry after a very cordial
fashion. Bat he never proposed to Mrs
Hawkhurt,and as she had. never expected
anything of the sort, no harm was
done.
And everything goes on at Avenel
Place just precisely as it ought to do.
Mr. Avenel keeps his housekeeper, and
Harry has gained a wife.
Cornish FlsherfoUt.
Cornish fishermen are peculiarly pa-tient
under grinding poverty. Their
calling is a precarious one. The fish
upon which they depend for the greater
part of their winter food, often do not
come. What shall they do? They might
frequently and with good reason, cry
aloud for help, demanding some part of
the national subscriptions which the
Lord Mayor of London disburses to dis-tressed
Bulgarians and Other worthy
claimants of international charity; but
no cry comes. They might on the other
hand, destroy the boats and nets of the
seine-owner to set matters right; but
this idea never suggests itself to their
minds. They simply face the hard win-ter
without a murmur, keep their pov-erty
to themselves, eat their dry crust
with cheerfulness, and ask alms of none,
As a class they are certainly frugal. In-temperance,
of course, exercises its usu
al influence in preventing the laying by
of a portion of the earnings for a rainy
day, but in truth in the majority of cases
it is a hard struggle to live, let alone
save. During the long hard winter cre-dit
is often obtained at the grocer's and
the baker's, who can not harden their
hearts to deny their hungry customers
the necessaries of life; and spring finds
them with a burden of debt upon their
shoulders, which all the summer's fishing
is unable to remove. Hence many of the
fishermen are in a chronic state of debt,
a condition of things which can not "be
remedied until some occupation which
may be resorted to when stormy unfav-orable
winds prevent fishing is adopted.
The patch of garden ground tilled by
most fishermen is not sufficient to supply
the need. Theft is almost unknown. I
speak more especially of fishermen liv-ing
in small hamlets and villages; those
who live in larger towns are probably
no better than their neighbors. But in
bona fide fishing places property is ab-solutely
safe. Fishing gear, oars, arti-cles
of wearing apparel, and the like,
may be left unguarded and unwatched
without the slightest fear of their being
stoleu.
Hindu Humor,
Cause of the Decay of Teeth.
In a recent work by A. Weil, the au-thor
states the cause of the decay of
teeth, whether external or internal, to
be theschizomycetous fungus, the mode
of entry and propagation and the life-history
of which he follows out in detail
The acids which occur in the mouth,
especially lactic acid, while they may
greatly promote tbe decay, cannot give
rise to it. The f ungus can readily be
detected by its acid reaction. The author
considers further, that, in many cases,
diseases of various parts of the body can
be distinctly traced to excretions from
the mouth and teeth. Other observers
had already traced a connection between
decayed teeth and septic abscesses, in
which was found a fungus similar to
that which occurs in decayed teeth.
. On a Florida River.
Once out in the river, the Boat wound
in and out ot an immense prairie dotted
with lagoons and floating islands, though
the current ran a devious way. Frequent-ly
it was so narrow that" the steamer could
scarcely squeeze,through and then so shal-low
that the deck hands would have to pole
it along. Twice on the route the lily-pods
and bonnets grew so thick before the prow
of the boat that- she bad 10 stop while a
way was cut through them. From the
deck of the steamer there were constant
opportunities for shooting duck and alli-gators.
At every turn alligators would
be seen, often so close to the boats that,
they eould be hit oyer the head with piae-knots
from the hunicaue deck. Besides
the alligators and ducks there were herons,
blue and white cranes, and wild geese.
The result was that a constant fusilade was
kept up from the decks. The only an-noyance
in shooting is the prevalence of
coot. The coot is a water bird that de-votes
its life to matins; you think it is
something else. In Florida whatever you
see—alligator, ciuck or heron—usually
turns out to be coot. As the coot is to
the water about what the buzzard is to the
land, it is considered disgraceful to shoot
it, consequently the ubiquity of coot—the
tendency of coot to turn up at the wrong
time and place—and the disposition of
everything else ^ be coot is a very con-siderable
annoyance. From the stern ;of
the vessel the fishing was splendid. There
is little better sport than to sit under the
shelter of the upper deck of the Marion
with a bright "bob" hung to a forty foot
line, trolliDg for trout as the steamer slips
away at a speed of , six miles an hour.
It will be a cokl day when you cannot
catch a score of fine trout m a ride of an
hour or so. We caught all that we needed
for the table on the boat, and could have
caught as many more if the scenery had
not drawn us away from the trolls.
The Hindus have their epics, their
dramas, their popular tales, and theii
poetry, Their Vedas contain passages
as sublime as any to be found in the
sacred books of other nations. Their
law-books are full of.wise and humane
counsels. Their epiçs celebrate the
actions of men and women not unlike
the heroes and heroines of Honier; and
their dramas bear strong affinity to ours
—a fact which led Schlegel to declare
that the English version of the Sakun.
tala of Kalidaea presents so striking a
resemblance to our romantic drain-,;
that we would conclude it to have been
unduly influenced by his love for Shake-speare,
if his accuracy were not well es-tablished
by all Sanskrit scholars. But
still, we cannot look to Indian literature
for an (Edipus, a Hamlet, or a Faust,
nor convèfsely, for an Eulenspiegel, a
Panurge, or a Sancho Panza; The dogma
of quiescence prevented the creation of
great types of tears or of laughter which
will live for ever. According to our
conception of the tragic, the Hindus
have no tragedies, and thé humor which
many oftbese writers possess is a humor
distinctly their own. While the true
humorist laughs at the follies of
mankind, and, even as he laughs loves
them because they are so human,
the Eastern humorist inspired by Brah-manism
or Buddhism, laughs at men
for rejoicing; or despairing in a world
which has; no reality. He never could
thoroughly understand the "brotherly
sympathy with the downward side1
which was the mspiration of Shakespeare
J Rabelais and Cervantes.
It is at first difficult for the Western
reader to define what is earnest and
what is humorous in Sanskrit works.
That which strikes us as grotesque and
ludicrous is to the Hindu sublimé and
serious. The difference in the stan-dards
of taste adopted by Eastern and
western Aryans is admirably exemplified
in-.th.eii? types of godhead. The Greek
gods and godesses are beautiful ajud per-fect
in form; Hephsestos, whose trade is
little suited to divinity, is mis-shapen;
and the horns, tails, and gòats' feet of
Pan and the satyr harmonize with their
semi-beastly natures. The Norsé gods
are strong, brave, and energetic, a»d
are models of complete manhood. The
Hindu godSj however are tremendous
monsters, with eight arms and three
heads, like Siva; with an elephant's
head, like Ganesa; or black, bloody, and
terrible, like the much feared, Durga.
In the Mahabarata Aryuna begs for one
glimpse of the infinite, universal deity,
and Krishna appears, with many arms,
stomachs, eyes, and mouths with pro-jecting
teeth, in which the sons of Dri-tarashtra
are sticking, even as the pil-grims,
concealed in the salad, were held
fast in the teeth of Gargantua, There
is, moreover, the. same wild luxuriance
in everything Indian. The Ramayana
and Mahabliarata are the longest epics.
The Pansha-tantra and other popular
tales consist of stories connected by a
single thread; and there are stories,
within stories, until an uninitiated rea-der,
before he is half way through this
labyrinth of incident, has lost the thread
that was to guide him.. It is in keeping
with the rich fertility of the Hindu im-agination
that the early metaphysicians
evolved the most tremendous humorous
conception that has ever entered into
the mind ot man. When the philoso-pher
paused, in his speculation on the
infinite, to look out upon the world
about him, he saw a land teeming with
life and beauty; and men and women who
lived and struggled, loved and hated,
laughed and cried. The contrast be-tween
the truth which he in his wisdom
had divined and life as it seemed aroused
within him a grim sense of the humor-ous.
After all he asked himself what
was the world, what was creation, but
Maya, a delusion?—a joke, colossal in
design, which Brahm, the only reality
had imagined for his own amusement.
It was even as Heine fancied it might be,
the dream of a jolly, tipsy deity.
Hiring Farm Machinery.
Hints For Pictures.
In these days of decorative art socie-ties
every young lady, it may be sup-posed,
knows something, more or less,
of the ait of painting. Some talented
ones succeed in making their knowledge
beneficial in many pecuniary ways,
while others, not so ambitious, are eon-tent
with designing pretty home deco-rations.
In many cases the cost of the
materials may deter many from
carrying into effect artistic ideas; or
they may be unable to procure the re-quisite
articles without vexatious delays,
on account of living great distances from
towns. To such I will suggest how,
with a trifling outlay, pretty panel pic-tures
may be made that amply repay
one for the time spent upon them. Take
two school slates, old ones will answer
the purpose, provided they are not
marred or broken. First paint in the
background either of snme neutral tint
or one shaded in calor; those from dark
bro wn to the lightest tint of that color
are pretty and effective, using burnt
umber and white; be careful to shade
it as gradually and evenly as possible;
the ligher parts will doubtless require
painting several times. Flowers, on the
whole, I think, make the simplest and
prettiest panel pictures. Some poppies,
wheat and one or two blue corn-flowers
on one, golden rod and some purple
chrysanthemums on the other, would
make a bright and effective pair; or a
spray of apple blossoms on one, and a
group of pansies on the other. Paint
the wooden frames of the slates in some
contrasting color, or else simply gild
them with liquid gold paint, and you
have at a trifling expense a pretty pair
of panel pictures.,
Every human being has a work ot
carry on within, duties to perform
abroad and influences to exert, which
are peculiarly his and which no con
seienee but his own can teaoh.
Much has been written on both sides
of this question, and still it is unsettled
which is the more economical, to own
expensive machinery or to hire it? We
all know, that there are quite a number
of expensive machines that average far-mers
find it convenient to use, that can
be used only a few days ini a year. In
this class belong the reaper, binder, and
mower, the grain drill, com planter,
threshing machine, and hay rake. These
are the most expensive, and as a rule,
are only used by each individual farmer
For a few days at a time once a year; and
taking them together they are costly,
and to keep them all entails a heavy ex
pense upon every farmer. In the case
of threshing machiaes, the steam ma-chinery
lias to a great extent settled the
question in favor of hiring, but in the
case of drills and reapers, the question
is still open. The one great benefit of
being able to get your own work done
when you want it done, is a very strong
argument for the hirer to overcome. A
majority of fanners are ready to sow
wheat at the same time, and do not care
to wait, when a few day's delay may
give a change of weather, when the far-mer
"may be foreed to be a week or ten
days later than he would have liked.
What is true of drilling wheat is true of
planting corn. When the proper time
arrives, every go-ahead farmer wants to
plant, and does not want to -wait when
often a few days' delay may prove the
main cause of the entire failure of the
whole crop. And with cutting wheat
we meet the same difficulty. Wheat
should be cut at a certain stage of ripe-ness
to make the best yield and the
heaviest grain, and can only be eut ear-lier
or later at a serious loss—more than
most farmers care to risk. As a rule
farmers who own machine» always in-sist
on securing their own crops first, in
sowing or planting their own grain first
and then he may be willing to hire his
machinery out to any one of his neigh-bors
who apply. I have always held
the opinion that with the class of far-mers
who own or rent small farms that
owning machinery in partnership is
much the most economical;but where an
extensive farm is carried oh, taking all
things into consideration, the ownership
of whatever machinery can be profitably
and economically used, is much more
economical than running the risk incur-red
by hiring. In many cases three or
four farmers may own an in terest in a
self-binder, and by exchanging work,
reduce the cost of harvesting; a crop of
wheat or oats to a minimum,, and run
very little if any risk of loss from delay
in cutting at the proper time, and more
so with drills and planters, while on ex»-
tensive farms the failure to cut at the
proper time of one crop may be a loss
of sufficient amount to cover the cost of
the machine; and the saiiie rule applies
to other machinery.
Fut Your House in Order.
Speaking recently about the dangers
of imperfect sanitary arrangements, Prof.
Doremus, the chemist, said that it is
safer to give a person the deathlie3t
poison in the laboratory and trust to the
antidotes, than #0 have him inhale sewer
gas, against the effect of which medical
science has found no remedy. The worst
of its contamination is that its presence
connot be readily detected. The most
violent type of poison is contained in an
inodorous gas, while water that has be-come
impregnated is actually more
sparkling and agreeable to the taste than
water which is absolutely pure. Tiie
air for many furnaces is supplied from
cellars which are filled with accumulat-ed
rubbish, dampness, and offal. Mi.
Wingate the sanitary engineer,, declares
that he has seldom or never found a
drain which was not in a defectiye con
dition. Of course there is such, a thing
as feeling unnecessary alarm in respect
to sanitary conditions; but the ordinary
citizen undoubtedly feels much less soli-citude
than prudence dictates. There is
a vast deal of ignorance and indifference
with regard to furnaces, waste-pipes,
and sewer connections evenameng those
who are building residences, of their
own. It is often an error to suppose
that deep scientific knowledge is requi-red
in .order that a house should be kept
safe from contagion. In many cases,
insidious as these atmospheric poisons
are, they gain a foothold through culp
able neglect and carelessness. As spring
approaches, cellars and garden plots
should be put in shape, and if there is
reason for suspecting auy hidden defect
it is advisable to consult competent
sanitary authorities.
Preventive Hxetsw
Whoever lives in a contagious radius
should in some measure steel him or her-self
against contagion, as it is not always
neeessary to be in actual contact with
affected person to inhale the poison.
Certain currents of air carry this about
awl spread i t where it can find a resting
place. . There is a preventive diet at
such times that will do much to counter-act
contagion.
Not to eat too much meat, but rather
more fish than usual; to supplement this
with green vegetable as much as possi-ble,
to drink tea and a little coffee, or
none at all; to take milk every day. To
avoid all greasy dishes, salt meats,heavy
pies and cakes, thick soups, and every-thing
of a heating character.
To take some mineral water, if so in-clined,
or drink water mixed with a lit -
tie fluid magnesia. To do everything to
keep the heat of the blood temperate,
and not overheat it by any means.
To drink no rum, no port, no whiskey
no ale; but if alcoholio beverages are
wanted, to take a glass of sherry, or
brandy and cold water, or a liitle gin
and cold water. To be more than mod-erate
in alcoholic drinks; but, if used to
them, not to leave them off at once.
Strlcklng a l i g h t.
JgFeople who light their pipes, cigars
or lamps or kindle their fires by instan-taneous
ignition of friction matches,
have, unless they are olde people, very
little conception of the labor and tribu-lations
attendant upon the same process
50 years ago. Every well regulated
family, at that time was provided with
* tin box of tinder, produced by the
oombustion of rags and a flint and steel
and matches which had been dipped ia
brimstone. When Are was wanted the
flint and steel and tinder was produced
and the tinder being ignited by sparks
precipitated from the steel by means of
theflint,amateh was touched to the bur-ning
mass, and being lighted was ap-plied
to some prepared kindlings and a
fire thus produced, the whole process
occupying from flye to 15 minutes, ac-cording
to the skill or luck of the opera-fcor.
This was attended with so much
labor, and productive of the use of so
many naughty words on the part of the
pesson operating, that fires were gener-ally
kept all night, This was done-there
were few stoves and hard coal had
not come into general use then—by cov-ering
the huge and biasing back-log in
the" fire-place with ashes, and in the
morning there was generally found in
its place a bed of live coals, which by
the application of fresh wood, and with
the aid of the then universal bellows,
usually produced a blazing fire in from
15 minutes to half an hour. Sometimes
however from some cause, the back log
would: be wholly consumed, leaving
nothing but a bed of ashes. In this case
particularly if there was an absence of
dry kindling in the house, some member
of the family must take the shovel, and
of times, through snow, knee-deep, trudge
to the nearest neighbor's, "after fire."
And sometimes, indeed, the nearest
neighbor's fire would be out, too, ia
which case tha walk would have to bo
extended till the fir« was procured. The
live coal were born home upon the shovel
often caréfully guarded with the hand ta
prevent blowing off, placed between tha
two brands, the bellows set vigorously
at work,, and the fire thus set a blaséng
In Ugh ting a candle, a live coal was tak-
•a up with a pair of tongues and blown
up with the mouth until a bias« was
produoad. Pipas were lighted by placing
ajive coal on top of.til» tobáceo or ci-gars
by helding the burning coal to the
end puffing with all one's might.
Tha first improvemsnt on this in Ii«w
England was the substitution of a botüe
of phosphorus, into which, the oork
being removed, a brimstone match was
thrust, and being thus ignited the bottla
was quickly closed in order to retain th®
strength of tlis liquid, -This was uueli
an emancipation from the thraldom of
tüe tind®r-box and flint and steel and
the other inconveniences of tha old
method, that people rejoiced greatly,
and believed the ne plug ultra in this
direction had been reached, and every
well regulated family was provided witi
its bottle of phosphrus, while the fiis'
and steel and tinderbox were laid-asid«»
to be used only in case of emergensy.
This invention was known by the name
of 'ÍOGO fooo matches."
Directly, however, there was another
invention, that left the phosphorus
bottle as much in the shade, as the other
had the flint and steel. This was the
application of a preparaiion pf phospho-rus
and brimstone to the tips of the
matches, which only required to be
drawn between the folded leaves of a
piece of sand paper to produce a light,
so that the smoker had only to carry
his matches in one vest pocket and
the folded paper in another to light his
pipe at any moment. These latter wer«
known as "Lucifer matches," as pai>
taking, it isi presumed, of the character
of the scriptural "son of the morning.'
But the spirit of invention was not satis-fied
to stop here, and the result was,the
present world used friction matches,
that'serye ail people, and the making of
which, at Ehe present time, in all proba-bility
consumes almost as much wood
as there was burned by the whole United
gtates, for all tha purpose of warming
and ©ooking a century ago.
Dinner oi the German Emperor,
After the frequent notices we read in
the papers of dinner at the Emperor's
ace, and tables laid for 20 or more
covers, it may not be uninteresting to
learn something of the Emperor's table
in general. Emperor William, is in the
habit of taking about 7.30 a, m., a sim-ple
coffee with a large allowance of milk
and a couple of small breads without
butter, At one o'clock p. m,, $he second
breakfast (lunch) is served alternately
cold and warm. The dinner takes place
regularly at 5 o'clock. If the Emperor
has one or two guests the table is simply
set in the lower apartments of the pal-ace,
the menu remaining the same which
he is wont to order for himself, consist -
ing of four or five courses, which the
chef de euisine submits early in the
morning and the Emperor approves of.
If the dinner is a large one, the table is
laid in the upper apartments. The in--
vitations are given by the Emperor at
an early hour, the arrangement cf seats
being then and there discussed with the
court marshals. The invited guests re-ceive
their host in a saloon adjoining
the dining-room where the latter salutes
and after a conversation of ten or fifteen
minutes, precedes them to the table.
The Emperor takes light claret or Mo^-
selle with soda-water, and coffee only
occasionally after large dinners. A cup of
tea, without cake or bread after the thea-ter,
concludes the frugal repast of the
day. When the Empress is present the
menu is submitted to her, and, except
when a large party is invited, the Em-peror
takes his dinner in the Empress's
apartments.
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Liberty can be safe only when suff-rage
is illuminated by education.