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VOtCIE XXXIV. cape mat citt, SET JERSEY, THURSDAY, november 8, 1888. tools number 1781.

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TAKING BOARDERS. "B wra s scandal," tbe neighbors add, "thai Bin Deli* should in obliged to take boarders, after all the had been through i and heaven knows boarder* didn't help a body to work out her Miration. And to much money lo the family, too, taking U by and large ! I Waan'l bet Uncle Eben, over at Dover, well to do, and not a chick of hit own to care for, except the boy be had adopted, who wee ao credit to him ? It ahould take to a stranger, when bla owe flesh and blood wore needy, bat sometimes It did seem as If folks had more feeling for others than for their own kith sad kin. Then there I were cumins in tbe city, fore-baotlcd a row of pins to Delia; and there was her great Uncle John's widow a larking on the Continent, gambling at Badenand trying tbe waters of every mineral spring in the three kingdoms, for no disease under the sun but old age. She'd been known to ny that her own folks were too rich already, snd probably aha would endow some hospital with her property." Plainly, wealthy relatives were of no. value to Hiss Delia. To bo. sure, she waa a child, when her Uncle John had brought her into their simple life for a month's visit, with lire French maid and dresses, her jewels and fallals, which won the heart of her little namc-aake. Since then her Uncle John's widow had a sort of glided creation, always and always beautiful, for, though Delia had received little gifts from time time across the seas for the last flfyears, the had not seen hor heard anything of the being who had inspired Uin If such a person as Mrs. John I tog. erson was In ' the land of the living. Dead or alive, she seemed to have made no material difference in Delia's humdrum life. After having nursed her father through a long Ulneaa, Delia found that be had left a heavy mortgage on the .-stead, and her mother and herself , "

on the highroad to the poor house unless they should bestir themselves. As her , mother was already bad- ridden, the stirring naturally fell upon Delia, and she "Good board in the country, by the I river, at seven dollars a week. Large | chambers, broad plants, fine views, I berries and new milk. One mile from the station. Address, Delis ltogeraon, Croftaborough, Me. "Cheap enough ! " commented an elderiy lady who happened upon It. "Delia itogerson. An old maid, I suppose, obliged to look out for herself. 1 hare a good mind to try her board piaszaa snd new mOk. If I don't like It, there'll be no harm done." And so Delia's drat boarder arrived— an old lady, with a false front of hair, brown, wrinkled skin, faded eyes, black alpaca gown, and a hair trunk. Delia made her as weloosne as if aha had been a duchess ; lighten a wood Are in Mrs. and brought out her daintiest cup and saucer, with the faded old rosea wreathing them. "Wonderfully kind." reflected Mrs. Clement, as she combed out her wisp of gray hair and consigned the false front to the boa. "Wonderful kindness fur trade. Shell leant better. Human nadoesn't change with the latitudes. She'll Hod it decent pay lo consider the com. • fort of a poverty-stricken old creaBut in spite of her worldly wisdom, Mrs. Clement iris forced lo confess that Delia had begun as she bad meant to bold out, though other boarders came to demand her attention, to multiply her cares. The fret and jar of conflicting upsriaooa to Delia. When Mr*. Gre■ome complained of the mosquitoes with an air as If Mln ltogeraon was responsible for their creation ; of the flies, as If of appetite, as If Dalia had agreed to •apply It, along with berries sad new mOk; of the weather as If sEs had rlMtm.1 hfMwlr III ■■ ■ .kiM.IS la nn — pledged no sud- -

; den changes to annoy her boarders; of | I the shabby bouse and the antiquated ( furniture, "too old for comfort, and not , ( old enough for faib!on"-then Delia ■ I doubted if taking boarder* was her mis- | don. , "What makes you keep us, my dear?" , asked Mrs. Clement, after a day when , everything and everybody had seemed , logo wrong. "Why didn't yon ever marry? You had a lover I dare say, | did you not?" "Yea, a long time ago." | 'Tell rue about him— it" , "There Isn't much to tell. He asked , me to marry him. He was going to . Australia. I couldn't lease mother and falbar, you know, they were both feeble, | and be couldn't stay bare. That was . an." "Now 'all men bosidea are to me like , I "And have you crer beard from him ] since I" | "Yes, ha wrote ; but what was the , use? R could user oome to anything. It waa better for him to forget me snd , marry. I was s mill stone about his "Rut, supposing ho should return ' someday, wouMyoa marry him r , "I dare say," laughed Delia gently, , as If the idea was familiar, "let neigh, bors laugh ever so windy. I've thought , of it sometime*, sitting alone, when Us* , world was barren and commonplace you know. Everybody require* a little ] romance, a little poetry, to flavor every. , day thinking and doing. I'm afraid youH think me a silly old maid, Mr*. , "No. Tbe heart never grows old. The skin shrivels, the oolor departs, tbe > - eyes fade, the features grow pinched ; half ths soul it heir of eternal youth— to ( as beautiful at fouraoore aa at 'sweet . - twenty.' Time make* amends for the ta vagus of the body by developing the ' spirit. You didn't tell me your lover s j _ MB >fc_.EBlMKi imf rather not." . "Hbuame was Stephen Langdon. ! Mm in Melbourne. sad brin^Tme word ' bow he lories and what he is doing; " though I near sek, and Stephen never rata for roe that I can bear." Delia's rammer boarders ware not a samara. If Bmy took no money out of - bar pockets, they put aooe ta. Shcwai obliged to eke oat bar support with ■I copying few Lawyer Dumore and em-

broidering for Mrs. Judge Dorr. One j by erne her boarders dropped away, like , '• the slums leaves, all but old Mrs. Clero0 raU ° "I believe ni stay on," she raid. "Em * getting too old to move often. Perhaps yon take winter boarders at reduced * rates. Kb?" f'Do you think my terms high f '• "By no' means. Bulwben one's purse B la low—" "Yes, I know. Do slay, at your own price. -I cant spare you." *" She had grown lo have such a fondn nets for the old lady, that to refuse her 1 at her terms would have seemed like * taming her own mother outof -doors ; ir besides, one month more would not slg- ® nlfy. But she found it bard to make both ends meet, and often went hungry to bed, that her mother snd Mrs. Clem5 cnt might enjoy enough, without there f appearing to be "Just a pattern." At Christmas, however, came a ray of ranI shine for Delia, is the shape of a bun. b dred dollars from an unknown friend. J "It can't bo meant for me," she cried. r "It's directed to Delia Rogereoo," said i her mother, "and there's nobody oise of b that name, now your Aunt D.lia'sdesd." "We are not sure she's dead," objected 0 Qclla. * "Horrors ! Don't you know wbother 6 your own aunt's dead or alive f" asked 1 Mrs. dement, in a shocked tone. ■ "It isn't our faulc She D rich apd * lives abroad. I was nsraod for her. I I used to look in the glass and try to be- * Ilevc I'd inherited her beauty with the i name, though she was only oor great II "She ought 10 be doing something for ' T°o " * "How can she. if she's dead? Any 1 cording to pleasure. Uncle John made " it himself and gave it to her." "But If she ahould come back to you, ■ having run through with it. you'd divide B your la« with her. Ill be bonnd." " "I suppose I should," said Delia. ' and the miracles of spring began in J fields and wayside ; and Delia's hoarders returned with the June roses end

1 dropped away with the falling leaves, r and still Mrs. Clement stayed on snd on. 5 in arrears with her reduced board. No money had been forthcoming for s -me 8 time, and the waa growing more feeble B daily, snd needed the luxuries of an in. ' valid and the attention of a nurse, both 1 of which Delia bestowed upon hct without taking thought for the morrow. "I must hear from my man of busi- • ness to-morrow, Delia. I'm kneeuieep - lo debt to you." she began, one night. " "Don't mention it I " cried Delia. "I'd rather not see a cent of it than have you " take it to heart. You're welcome to ' slay and share pot luck with us. you're such company f-ir mother and me." "Thank yon, my dear. I've grown is • fond of you as if you were my own 1 flesh and Mood. There, turn down the B light. Drew the curtain, dear, and put a another stick on the fire, please. You - might kin me Jnst once, if you wouldn't '• mind. It's s hundred year* or ao slocc 1 any one kitted me." " And the next morning when Delia carried np Mia Clement's breakfast, her • boarder lay cold and still upon the pU- ' low. 1 Tbe first shock over. Delia wrote di- ' reetly lo the lawyer of whom the bad B heard Mrs. Clement speak of having - chargo of her attain, begging him 10 " notify that lady's relatives, if she had » any. In reply, Willis wrote: "The late Mrs. Clement appears to , cousins, who having an abundance of 1 this world's goods, yet served her thab0 bily when the tested their generosity, ' aa she hat tried yours, are all that re- ' mains of the family. In the meantime, 1 I enclose you a copy of her last will and ' testament, lo peruse at your leisure." u "What Interest doe* he think I take 1 In Mrs. Clement's win," thoogM Delta ; - but read nevertheless. 1 "Being of sound mind, the !Slh day 1 of June, 18—, I, Delia Rogereoo Clem' ® ent, do hereby leave one hundred dof. 1 queath the residue of my property, vli: queeth tbe residue of

Thirty thousand dollars Invested in the Mining Company, fifty thousand in United States bonds, twenty thou, sand in Fortune Flannel Mills, and jewels, to the beloved niece of my first John ltogeraon, Dells Rogerof Croftaborough, Me. 'For I was stranger, and ye took me In ; hungry, and ye fed me ; sick, and ye ministered "Qoodncn alive I" cried the neighwhen the facta reached their ears 'What a profitable thing It Is to take i Of course Steve Langdon will come home and marry her, if she forty old maid*. You may stick a 1 pin in there 1" Delia did not open her house to the nest season. She found enough to do In looking after her money snd spending it ; in replying to letters from indigent people, who seemed to Increase alarmingly ; In receiving old friends, who suddenly found time to re1 member her existence. Sure enough, the seal appeared Steve Langdon 1 and all the village said, "I told you tot" "It's not my fault that you snd I are 1 single yet, Delis," he said. ' "We are too rid to think of a change now, Steve." 1 - "Nonsense! It's never too late to mend. I'm not rich, Delia ; but I've 1 enough for two and to spare." "I shouldn't be contented not to drive 1 my mrriage and have servunts under 1 now," laughed Dell*. ' "Indeed ! Then perhaps you have a 1 maich In view? Capt. Seymour 1 asked me, by thh way, it I bad come to ' with Squire Jones' interests." "Yes? Squire Jonas proposed lo an ' laUwrifc." ~ "Now, see boo,* Delia. "Have I come all the war from Melbourne on a fool's | errand ? Than I was growing uaod to 1 my misery ami lonaliims, when the ' anil brings me a latter, in a strange 1 which tells me that my dear lore, ' Delia Rogtrson, loves and dreams of ' an atin. Is poor and slooa, and needs ' 1 me-me! And tbe Mer is signed by I . ber-aual, Mrs. Clement, who ought to J ; know. I packcl my bouaebold good. 1 TmgMyou did." . "In order that I may congratulate r ^-'But I haven't accepted Hrn-be-l " Because you will marry your own . love, like the lass in the song, Delia." Ia Croftsborough people aim not yet | tired of^ttf wmnni . made

s | HESEY CLAY'S VIBIT. ' •V - — - Forty Years Ago H# Was a Guest of Cans labind. ' Sometime during the middle of July, ' 184", Henry Clay, known as " Harry of 1 the West," was recuperating at the ' White Sulphur Springs. He had, pre- 1 ° vious to that tine, been working very ' bard at public duties at the Naiiona! 1 ' CapUol. and for this reason was wisely ' resting, for the warm weather of July ' " was anything but a timo for speech mat- 1 a log or engaging in his world famed do- 1 bates. Durjng one of Mr. Clay's con- ' ' vemlioos he had expressed s desire to c go to some northern resort. This news, c coming from one so eminent, rapidly 1 spread northward, and finally reached 1 a tbe ears of Smith A Hooper, proprietor* ' of the old Manaion House, which was • situated on the Mock now occupied by ' Benetct & Brother's store and extended 1 " from Jackson to I'crry street*. These 1 gentlemen immediately sent an Invito- ' j f Ion to the great Kentnckian to spend a 1 J spread like wild fire thst Henry Clay ' was soon gotog to visit Cape Island. Bv ( r the 10th of August, in those days, the ' J visitor* generally left the Cape for their ' home*, and consequently, the people had I I thinned out. But as soon as it was * p the Middle Slate* and especially South t Jersey. United State* Senator James A. ' by Chaa. C. Gordon, was amoDg the first 1 to arrive. On the Saturday before his I [ present cottager) got here with a big ' party from Philadelphia. Clay had come i by stage and rail, so far as there was ■ any, to Philadelphia, being greeted on ' J his route by boats of friends who had,!' I he ran for the Presidency against Polk . ' ( On the morning of Monday. August t . party left Philadelphia ou the steamboat ' the

then plying between that place snd ' 9 House, where s tog dinner wis In wail- ■ . Ing for the distinguished gueals. Dur. ' ing the summer llassler's Band had " gagement had expired before this event. ■ snd so another band was brought down ' ' Beck's Band. Tbe names of the mini- 1 clans were: Jacob W. Beck (leader », 1- I , Beck, C. Beck, 1L Beck, J. SI Beck. G ' Beck. A Beck, J. W. Gaul. J lawch, < f A. Fcnner and B. Wllks. The note, on ■ written at the bottom of the page : ' God ' t Men them all." • . These people registered at the hotel ou 1 . prove interesting to Ulnae of our older I of the good times gone and almost for. ■ t gotUn : Hon. Henry Clay (written in a ' big. round hnnd by one of the commie ' tee), Col. John Bwift. II. While and son. ■ W. B. Smith. F. Lcnmg. Miss Ricbe. ' Mln Johns, Kentucky ; John 11 Wau < J kins. John Wright, C. W. Bender, ti ' W. Borron, James R Counover. II. A. < ; Stockton, H. Holllngshead. John I) < . Maealul. Mills II. Espy, Goo. It. Graham. B. W. Roberts, Ttaoa. Smith. Robert S. 1 Van Syckel, llonry Thomas. Jr., Miss ' J Cox. Miss Ewtng, Mr. F. Turner, Peter ] J Logan, G Byner, Win. W. Woode, Jno. 1 C. Dobleman, Jr., Philadelphia , J. C. ' Driver, James C. Mansfield, New Castle; ' Jos. R Payne, Mrs. Payne, Mtn Payne, W. C. Gatcrwood. Charleston, 8 C-; T. J E. Pryor, John PenU, Richard W.Wey. ' man, New York ; Derld L Wood. J. F. 1 Boaford, Conshohocken. ' Mr. Clay wu given it real on his sr. | ' rival, but the day following was his buslest while on our unsurpassable beach. 1 , During the day many more arrived sod ' ■ the Island was filled with country folks 1 anxious to see the great man. Rev. 1 Moses Williamson made the sddren of 1 : welcome, to which Mr. Clav flttlnvlv re- ' - Clay

, sponded in words that electrified his Hat. ' oners. Among other things he remarked to a friend that Mr. Williamson made one of the best addresses of the kind he 1 ever heard, and made many Inquiries ' about the good and wcll-knosvn divine. ' 1 Mr. Clay's magnificent language, savs 1 ' one who heard blm, held the crowds ' •pell-bound. After the speech making, 1 there was hand - shaking and a grand ' feast. The speech making took place 1 L in the old " KoragE" the music pavilion : B and ball room of the hotel. During the few days following tbe people from e Bridgeton, Salem, Philadelphia, New B York and Wilmington came flocking to i ths Island by til available modes of ° travel. Mi. Clay was received on the I part of the County of Cape May by Dr. T Maurice Beeeley. During bis visit there I * were more arrivals each day than there ^ had been for any previous day of that ; While here Mr. Clay loved bathing and I '. went In as often as twice a day, and It • ° \u while enjoying it that he lost a great rteHafhia-halr. The ladies would catch j " him antTFRll i'Jlkir of scissors, carrier! i for just that purpose, clip locks from B his hoad to remember him by. When , he returned to Washington his hair was ; 0 very short. Indeed. Those who remcm- j 0 her his visit here say that he was not too big to talk to any and everybody, and t ° that be waa aa often found talking with 1 ' the employees around the hotel as he t waa with the guests. Lxats T. Srxvtxa. t r a t " She Saw tha Point. , B "Tnere! What have I always told yon?" he said as lie handed her (be 1 ( paper over the breakfast laMe. ' , "What la ltr « , "Chicago bank busted all lo pieces, ' „ and the depositors won't get a cent ! ' c Suppose I had started a bank .book, as you were always pestering me to do?" J "But the banks here are all right." 1 jt "Certainly; but suppose I had da- 1 _ I sired to go to Clil-ago and buy 100 barj, | rela of pork, and bad put my money * "Y-eA," she answered after awhile, 1 and Badth chuckled all the way down ' " Mrs. Smith— la this election day, Johu? 1 o Mr. Btnlth— Y'ot ray dear. Are you going to tbe potts ? * Mia. B-No. i J Mr. 8— Why not ? i Mia 8—1 have nothing to wear. I

HAWAIIAN ISLAND'S LEPROSY. The Only Hope of the Native Race The Lepers' Colony. i It is now mora than half a century ■ ainoe leprosy was introduced into the t Islands. It would be quite to point with certainty to i the original case, but it ia generally un- ' Ocrttood that the seed of the dreadful ■ malady came from Asia! and came in i i the person of an ill fated foreigner, lie I or may not have been aware of the I incalculable injury he waa about to in. I the arrival of Captain Cook, in 1780, l almost entirely free from the numerous ' , coatagious diseases that prevail among 1 civilized communities; but the life he 1 led in Hawaii waa such as to speedily < , it was not long before Its unmtslakoablc I i aymtoms warn developing in every ' - quarter of the kingdom. Ufbrosy do- I I velops slowly. . Gne may leper for < , months or even years before tbe symp- < of the disease begin to discover < ally evident. Then they are unmlalak. I have been done, and done inno. I ceolly enough, perhaps, for the leper I . will have but recently becomo conscious 1 . of liis state. Thus lepioay spread ' , such an alarming degree that it became ' , necessary to lake puMie action iu the > matter. I Tbe di-caae is acknowledged b; the I medical world to bo incurable. It baa 1 ever been ao considered; and as yet. 1 ! tried, the most hopeful of the 1 despair. The Mosaic law was explicit I walk alone, crying. "Unclean un. I I clean " Their garments were to be . prohibited. Ir like manner, aegrega- ' of the Hawaiian race. A sult.ble s,»t I

waa sought lo which the leper* might • deriy cared for and Jealously guarded, u ; found great d lUcully iu re-curing a , secreted by frlemls. who were willing I' to braycprasiblc eontaglot^retfcer^lhsn h mgiit ^ Eye witnesses of the beait- ' It is a question of saving the remnant li found to be. by all odd*, the moat detlr. f settlement such as was proposed. ' Island lit Molokcl. This lowland was ,| ' there was nn necessity of its being od in the welfare of tbe natives. There [ was ample sustenance both on land and c ducc, and be was alike fcorlcaa and ho*. f [ piubly disposed. Indeed all things , considered no better refuge for the leper c

land under tbe great windward cliff of Molokai was speedily snd permanently * , secured. Transportation began Immed- 1 ! lately, and for twenty years It has con- t Llnucd; In spile of the pitiful protests- c ' Hons of friends and relidons. In spite of , , the first instinct of humanity- the nalur- , al appeal of the smpathetic. It haa | j continued— It must continue until the r . vcslagc of leprosy has disappeared [ , from the kingdom. I > of food. ! f The greatest enemy of agriculture is ( : f The mule ts hardy snd handy, if not ^ i handsome. ' If you would havo your boys profit by , t your mistakes, don't repeat them. c Some farming is like an old jacket— ( I frayed at the odges and very thin else. „ t where. 0 i Growing a boy on the farm is a mighty a i good foundation preparation of him for 0 i any honorable business. , i I There is this difference between the i poor and Uio good farmer; One com. I plains of tho bad seasons, tbo other re- n ■ in the good seasons, i Two horses of one kind will do as , I much work as four horses of another g i kind, snd it ought not to be hard to de- g : termine which Is the more profltaMc. l When a man comes half a mile to borhoe or a fork, you may depend on his b coming somo day to borrow money, but (l coming to pay it back. „ I Perhaps it cant be remedied, but it Is, j, . neverlcsa a pity that the creature flatter, ed by the nod of a politician casts a vote a that counts as much aa the ballot east „ a true man. — dmerfex* AprieuUirui g November. j. With a rashness that he never realizrd j until too late be kissed the Boston girl ^ . right on the mouth. b • ' Never do that again, air I" she raid. , " M M-MIra Waldo," raid he, " H the - lord lets me thaw out tkli Ume, I shall , nei"r attempt the like agalh, at least [ without an ovrrcoaL Fweddy (In deep diatrtra) — Cho&y, J f In twoubta this mawnleg, , i. ChMly- What's tha mattah, old boy? , Fweddy— The atwecu are J all sloppy j nawsty, and I ca* n't woll up my ironsehs witbont deal wo lag Ike eweaae, . bah Juror" . „

'Hie following from the November Century la one of the moat touching o stories thst Mr. Kennan has yet told of I' tbe fate of Siberian exttee - t " To me perhaps the meet attractive u and sympathetic of tha Tomsk exiles a the Russian author Felix Volkhof- F ski. who was boo shed to Siberia for life e 1878, upon the charge of ' belonging f a society that intend*, at a more or t remote lime in Ihe future, to orcr. f throw ihe existing form of government.' t He was about thtrly-clgbl years of age s at the time 1 made his acquaintance, and I and high expiration* Be knew 3 well, was familiar with Ameri- 1 can history literature, and had, 1 believe, < translated into Rub- Ian many of the i of Longfellow. He apokr to me ■ . - Ataeoal al Springfield,' and recited it lo me alood. lie was one t . of tbe most winning end lovable men J tragedy. His health had been ahaUered t melancholy in bis dark I , Urhrd to him; and when 1 bade 'him 1 arm* around me and klsacd me. and c forget us : In bidding you good-bye. I < feel a* If something were going out of 1 my life thst would eeror again come t it.' I * ' Since my return to America 1 have I beard from Mr. Volkhohkl only once. | wrote me last winter a profoundly I sad snd touching leiter, in which he in- I suicide, lie himself hid been thrown I out of employment by the suppression 1 ber as s pale, delicate, sad-faced t Der as pate, ueucatc, saa-iscco

•Ilmtf, twmty.flve or thirty years of i age. had tried to help him support their I family of young children by giving pri- ] an invalid, and in a morbid Mate of < dlacatc, she rva onod herself Into the be. I tic jnorejban a jeur^ago rte put an end husband was devotedly attached to Iter . , American expressed the deepest , and which Volkhofakl had in lum pre. | death. He ho|n*l. he raid, that It [ four political offenders, all of whom 1 | taking their own lives. ' - 1 tried to read Volkufakl's letter , of tbe writer, and Imagined what this , last blow of fate must have been to such < a man.- an exile, in broken health, and with a family of helpless children de- ■ pendent upon htm, — the written lines - choking in my throat 1 put the letter 1

and the little match-box swty. , •• The Tsar may whiten the hair of , luch men aa Felix Volkhofskl in the al- • launb-proof casemates of the tor- ■ convict overcoats to Siberia ; but s time j will c me. In the providence of God, i when their names will stand higher than , on the roll of history, and when the ; a sourer of heroic insplraUon lo all ( who love liberty ami their , Tito November Century begins the thirty -seventh volume and nineteenth year of the magailne; and the number more notaMc by the beginning of aeveral new series, or magailne "features." 1 The most important of these is the first tout ailment of TA* Century Gallery of j described by W™. Stlllman and by Mr. himaclf. Tho engravings in this j series were made in the presence of the original pictures themselves; they are actual copies, snd unique In the history of krt; tor such careful copies have never ' "Pictures of the Far Weak" a fuU 1 page engraving, ts given in the same number. Among the leading contributions to 1 this number are interesting installments ' of the Life of Lincoln and of George highly Important papers on tho Siberian Exile system. The Guilds of the City of London are fusely illustrated by Joeeph I'enncll; ' severs! Unpublished Letters of Lord 1 Nelson are accompanied by two striking 1 portraits of tbe hero of Trafalgar; Julia contributes a story entitled ' "Mistaken Premlsce"; Dr. Robinson 1 with the aid of illustration, the 1 title of hli article, "Where was the place called Calvary?"; Murat has a paper on "Gravelolto and Revised," accompanied ' numerous illustrations; Dr. Lyman 1 Abbott has a timely and thoughtful 1 essay on the present tendency of relig- ' thought on tho world, under the sug- ' gestive title of "The New Hefoi motion." 1 Other contributions include "Bird 1 The Loon," by Simeon Pease 1 Cheney, "Mammy*! Lljr Boy," a negro ' dialect crooning song, by II. B Ed- 1 wards. Illustrated by K W. Krmbie, ' Memoranda of the civil war. Open Letters by George Kennan, Rev. T. T. ' Richard Hoffman, nod others, etc., etc. 1

An occasional and weU-tlmad ratty of wll gives a seat to conversation aad ia welcomed accordingly; but the thrusting of the unwelcome pun upon feeling of nausea ao great that it prompts us to kick the offender, .be he ever so iotimate friend. In thane days tha punster meets with toleration than he did from out They had little but oontor those who were always on Ihe , alert to seise upon anything that would give them a chance of exercising their wit In the transposition of words. If people ventured to ein in this they were rebuked for their forwsrdness. and If the offender were old i he was reminded with dignity that of nil Ihe race of fools the old fool is the most objectionable. I been satisfactorily traced. Dr. himself was In doubt, as be i says: "I know not whence this word i is to be deduced; to pun to to grind or ' empty sound like that of a mortar beak seems only a corruption of clink?" , There to no disputing the antiquity of puns. Aristotle wrote s grave disquisition on them, and Addison tolls us that . Cicero "has sprinkled several of his have in ail ages been used by men elth- . species of pinchbeck wit, which they I could not otherwise obtain. II has even been raid that s certain Bishop An. into the way of repentance by preach - ' of s pun are rare Indeed. The listed them, but tbe bishops ' were notoriously addicted to them. Bo i were tbe lords temporal. good Queen Beat was raid lo he very proud of this accomplishment, although the only sample of her majeety's I wit handed down to ns to slightly dei nanaeu uown to ts silently etc.

' phsntlne. "Ye be bnrly, my Lord 1 raid Queen Elizabeth, "hot - shall make leas sur In our realm , than my lord of Leicester." Shake. - speare, it must sorrowfully be confessed, ' in a link in the Shakespeare. I Bacon discussion which may be useful . Mr. Donnelly. Lord Bacon, it it . well knows, wan much addicted to pun- ■ eing, and often playfully declared him- . 'ell s decendant of Og. the king of the properly of e neighbor of which the owner realised »#00 last sea ' son, was sacraflced lo tbe close-planting ting out every alternate tree, with a 11b1 orchard If the owner has the Intelligence snd nerve to do it at once. But what a lost lo the toil, this production of one ' hund.ed and fifty trues whloh can oaly And •• the survival of the Attest" will bo Mil back two yeare al lout by this plan - of planting and then thinning an or- ' chard. Tho apple tree demands a rich 1 nished. it assumes large proportions anil gin, immemmj-ielda^Wby, ^tben, 1 ing fifty bushels of healthy fine fruit 1 than fifty trees with fifty bushels of wormy, knotty, gnarly specimens fit only for pigs and thieving vagrants? In the latter instance the toll Is taxed to produce the wood of fifty trees instead ' of five. The cost of purchasing, plant- ' ing, etc. , all contribute* toward swelling ' the contrast In the amount paid out. In 1 the first instance you will be rewarded 1 with satisfactory reaults ; lo the lttter - there will be disapposntmcnl, low of i time and money and a failure to realize 1 when your orchard comet in bearing. r same results comnerativelv. thourh

' regard to the vine. Too close planting ■ will sooner or later result disastrously. - proper distance for setting apple ' trees it from thirty to forty feet ; for tho > grape not less than fourteen to eighteen i feet for vigorous crowing vines. Of I oourte varieties, methods of training, ' root- pruning, top^ireralog, ate., will I modify these figures with regard to ' grapevines, but better have them too far r apart than too closely crowded American AprieuUuriU. Household Hint*. , Cover your kegged-plckle* wltfl strips of horse radish, and they will not mould . oUhgcome atalo. I By adding a spoonful of vinegar and a , sugar to stove blacking e high poL I lsh to easily produced. A correspondent rays; "In making i preserves, yon can save half the sugar t by putting it on when the fruit ia boil. t lag." Is that so? Immerse your broom once a week in . clean, hot suds, then leaving it to drain with the handle downward*, aad it Witt | A small piece of salt pork broiled with fricaaced chicken will impart a peculiar ( richneas to the gravy, far superi - n to , thst got from butter alone. , Pulverise a tcaspoonful of borax; put t it in your last rinsing water, and your Clothe* which would otherwise be yel- , lowiah will come out white. The best way when hot grease has spilled on a floor Is lo dtah oold water over It, to as to harden It quickly ^ and prevent it striking Into the boards. ! add vinegar, which destroys its life and | flavor. Boll water for moistening it, , snd let the water become blood worn. | For Flrat Place, j A great amount of political engineerI will be done by friends of candidal** , secure for their mtn the first place on I the ticket, and the best man will probasecure the coveted place. Than if . by the majority of the people, i the election to assured. Electric Bitters ! been pet to the front, its merits pas- , ted upon, hat bean endorsed, aad uaaa- , imoualy given tha first place, among remedies peculiarly adapted to the relief and cure of all Diseaam of Kidneys, Liver and Btomarh. Electric Bitters, being guaranteed, It a safe ixvestmcat. Plica 80c. aad 91 per bottle at Marcy * Drug Blora. 9