| Show MRS SMITHS CHARITY BY ELLEN ASHTON that seamstress come yet mrs smith as she spoke leaned over the balustrade calling down the staircase to the thie footman no maam in aarn 1 I declare muttered the lady but quite loud enough for the servant to hear bear that lazy thing ought to be turned off its eight already A pretty day days daya a work it will be begun at such an hour john and she raised her voice to a louder key be sure you tell the coachman to I 1 be round by y eleven for ive got to go collecting with mrs huntley for the poor this morning she left the staircase as she spoke an and d pas sed sed red to her chamber where she expected to spend spond the next neit two hours in dressing to go out it was a cold and wet morning io in march while this scene was transacting in the elegant it mansion a thinly clad delicate looking girl was feebly struggling against the rain on her way 9 7 ito to mrs smith smiths 9 ahe abe she had been awake for half ahe me night tending her sick sister who lay jay dying of consumption in the comfortless and fireless room which they occupied together up three pair air of stairs in a narrow ill ventilated alley I 1 for breakfast she had eaten nothing but a dry frust past and drank not nothing hino hinc 1 but a cup of cold water and now with a faded summer shawl a pair akin air of thin thid worn orn shoes and an umbrella that ply haie hair protected her she was wag braving the inclement ct ement weather in order to do mrs smiths alam lain sewing at a dollar and a a week the loell bell rang and the rich lady throwing on 1 I splendid dressing gown went to the head of or llie juie e sta staircase i c ase bah gah iah ahl 1 t ats you at last miss aliss jones ii n it lille he said sharply A full hour behind t time ime Ite recollect collect mis miss what whit I 1 told you I 1 shall keep ny zu word and take off a shilling for every ever y day yon you are bu so late go at once into the back room bere here where everything s waiting for you too heartbroken heart broken to remonstrate the girl did P she was directed and took look her place in an apartment which as it was to be occupied only ly y the seal seamstress stress ai as mrs smith said was as from irom rom lom motives of economy never more than half lied bated tied here liere the girl sewed in her damp clothes cl othes and wet feet all day there not nonbeing being warmth enough at the flue to dry ether and at night went home through the storm to her sick sister sifter and the cold unfurnished room they occupied all that morning mrs smith protected from the rain by her comfortable carriage drove about ostensibly to collect for the poor but really to indulge in gossip and gratify her vanity by being called benevolent while exhibiting her splendid tablets on which to write the names of doners and expatiating 7 sentimentally senti sentimentally y on the sufferings of the indigent she took look good care to say nothing I 1 0 the needlewoman she had left working at a starvation prices price in a cold unhealthy room the next day the seamstress did not come at all mrs smith was highly indignant especially y as a piece of work which she fid hid hid particularly wished to be finished was incomplete you may tell miss jones if 11 she comes again tomorrow to morrow she said angrily late in the day that I 1 dont want her services any longer people who work for lor me must be punctual 1 when the footman went back back into the kitch enand rehearsed the message with which he had been charged there was an outcry among the servants tears pears to me sa said sald d the cook dat some of de ri rich cilie elile hab no heart at all deed it does dat poor anile was acost starved yesterday and looked as if she had the ager and she has a sick sister ayin of a consumption she says ef I 1 was you jemid tell missus she might turn her off herself deed I 1 would and dinah thoroughly aroused flounced around the room indignantly buethe seamstress never returned to receive her dismissal the exposure of the preceding day had brought on a violent inflammation of the lungs and she was now alyin lying in a high fever and drawing her breath in agony by the side of her sister here about dusk her landlady found her accidentally both having been too ill to summon assistance it was the charity of this woman I 1 only less lees indigent than themselves that saved the two sisters from perishing of want not that they lived ived long iong however to consume her hard earnings the violent inflammation soon carried off the seamstress and her sister speedily followed her one day while mrs kirs smith was making calls her luxurious carriage passed a pauper funeral the sight of the coarse pine coffin made the rich lady shudder as she rolled by and she told to all her acquaintances that morning how inexpressibly she had been horrified by the sight its gitti dreadful to think how many poor people there are she said and in spite too of all we are doing for them there must be a great deal of improvidence and laziness to cause it only to think I 1 had a seamstress a week or two aero ago who because I 1 reprimanded rep remanded her for coming late to her work left in a pet and I 1 haven heard of heryet her yet at the judgment day proud lady you will hear of her vain indeed is the charity that gives publicity to the poor of our abundance if we neglect the greater charity of sympathy with the indigent and suffering fiering sus suf whom we actually know petersons magazine STORING POTATOES the following results obtained by my plan of storing may prove useful 1 twelve sacks ful of or potatoes lifted october 1852 stored stoned with lime the lime being placed in small bundles in the middle of each sack tubers all preserved whereas some of tile the same potatoes stored without lime were much affected 2 fifty bushels of potatoes dug up toward the end of october were pitted with three bushels of quick lime limes the latter being placed at the bottom of the tha pit and covered over with a thick layer of grass 0 on opening ening the pit it was found that the diseased tubers did not amount to more than two dozen tubers stored in the ordinary haytin way in pits without limu limo were almost entirely iles kles destroyed troyed by disease 3 4 5 potatoes stored with and aud without lime quite qu 11 ete ite untouched by the disease 6 roots stored in a large chest or box with lime and the latter being placed in a small clothes basket and covered over with maggots faggots fag gots on opening the box the tubers were found quite healthy whilst some that had bad been kept in it a cellar without lime were much diseased 7 twenty bushels of tubers were placed in a large bin with three bushels of lime the latter forming a stratum at the bottom and covered over with a thick layer of coarse cinders at the end of three months the roots toots were found to be quite sound whilst another lot which h had bad ad been put in another bin without lime lible were very much diseased 8 potatoes housed in sacks one or two large lumps of lime being put into the sack keep the tubers quite dry and well preserved 9 potatoes first dried by exposure on a cravel gravel walk to the heat beat of the sun and then stowed away in birge boxes with lime all healthy tubers housed in their natural condition become diseased east d 10 potatoes housed with lime all healthy 11 same result 12 1 several bushels of potatoes were wera pitted with lime and when examined at the expiration of several beveral months were found to remain untouched by the disease roots pitted without lime time ime became quite rotten 13 two or three hundred bushels of potatoes were divided into four equal lots three of these thoe were pitted with lime the other in the ordinary way III in the first of the three lots stored with lime tilo the ilme lime was placed at the bottom of the pit with the other precautions in the second it was thrown into a conical heap ia in the centre of the iu lubers tubers bers and iad in the third ird an and d last it was placed on the top of the potatoes being from front the latter by a layer of brush bruth brushwood wood ac examining the tubers at the end ead of some months those in the first pit were found to be much diseased whilst those contained in the other were nearly healthy the best result says this correspondent corres t 1 am disposed to think was obtained by placing lle ile lime iline oil on the top of the tubers and this is the I 1 intend to follow s thornton J Hera path bristol THE RUSSIAN RUSSIA IMPERIAL TREASURE AT moscow A letter fiona tlona moscow to the boston gives the following interesting account of imperial treasure it is contained in five rooms t through bron brou h which we were escorted by no legs lesa than twelve servants in addition to the director and his attendant I 1 cannot forbear mentioning the attention which we as americans Amp ame ricans received not only liere here but throughout all russia atom those in in official capacity and the bare mention of Ameri amerl caine calne proved an open sesame everywhere in the imperial treasury are carefully preserved the platters and salt cellars cellars cef lars upon and in which bi blead ead and salt are given to the emperor on his big arrival at moscow also a glass blown by peter himself with a ducat blown hito into the bottom of it in one room are fifteen crowns including those of the captured countries poland siberia r astra chan eban georgia and the crimea peter the great and his ilis half brother the foolish ivan who were crowned together have each a crown of wonderful magnificence they contain respectively and fine diamonds besides som some of the largest rubies and emeralds known I 1 the imperial crown contains more than 2600 fine diamonds and the ruby linder under the cross the largest one known in the world alone cost silver roubles coubles rou bles peter 11 II was the first monarch crowned with this and anne added the ruby bought by her ambassador at pekin the the crown of poland so called is here but it is is merely a crown made at warsaw to be used in the funeral ceremonies at the burial kf of alexander in 1825 the sceptre of poland is a single sin ble gle piece of aqua marme marine two feet long and by some strange fatality is broken in the middle there is also a throne here which is studded with more than 2000 turquoises and is covered with pure gold t the double throne of peter the great and his big brother ivan is of solid silver A curtain hangs behind it under the concealment of which thein their sister sophia dictated their answers here are also two saddles of the empress catharine given her by the sultan at the peace of 1735 and 1775 the first is all diamonds the horse shoes silver and the stirrup gold for she sat astride one topaz in the martingale alone cost the two are a perfect mass of diamonds and altogether my eyes ached wi with alth magnificence COAST AND SHORE LINE OF THE UNITED STATES the coast survey now progressing develops very many interesting facts in relation to harbors shores and coasts that portion of the report of coast survey issued on the of july jilly 1854 gives us our extent of sea coast on tile the atlantic and pacific oceans as follows the shore line of the state of maine including inga bays Y islands and all irregularities 2456 miles of new ev hampshire 49 massachusetts rhode island connecticut new york new jersey delaware maryland virginia north carolina 1641 south carolina georgia florida east coast 2474 west coat 1562 alabama mississippi louisiana 2250 2 05 0 texas te aas 1330 the above figures give the northern atlantic coast including that of maryland at miles southern atlantic from maryland to the capes of florida miles the tile gulf coast total south atlantic and gulf total pacific from boundary of san sau diega to the mouth 0 of frazers fragers Fra river s of the pacific coast 1343 miles are immediately contiguous to the ocean miles mies of shore line of bays miles of shore line from cape flattery to frazers fragers Fra river miles of shore line of disands in the tiie pacific and miles of shore line of islands from cape flattery to frazers fragers Fra river the area of the slopes of the continent towards I 1 tha oceans the lakes and the gulf is as follows the pacific slope square miles atlantic slope proper northern lake region I 1 gulf region atlantic lake j and gulf east and west of the mississippi mississippi valley vailey drained by the mississippi and its tributaries tributa ries rles atlantic including northern por thern like mississippi valley und and and gulf or middle region 1 over two fifths of the national territory is I 1 by the mississippi and its tributaries tributa ries rles and I 1 more than one half is 13 embraced in fit what may be called its middle region one fourth of this total area belongs to tile the pacific one sixth to the at one twenty sixth to the lakes one ninth to the gulf or one third to the At atlantic lautic nc luding the lakes and gulf pittsburg journal 2 RELIGIOUS iv ENGLAND the list last steamer brought the intelligence Intelli grence that the english of lords by a majority of one vote had a measure called the tile religious worship bill the following report of the tiie debate fur an idea of the measure cin gazette the earl of shaftesbury loved moved the adoption the report on the religious worship bill the object of which 0 h was wag to repeal so much of the of georce george III ili as prohibited the embling assembling ask of than 20 persons parsons in a house besides the family timily for the purpose of religious worship ile he thought bought that at tile the present day when so much gnor ance especially in religious matters existed every svery impediment ought to be removed from reli gions instruction and he was therefore muc hAur to hear that any as aebi tebi to be offered to this measure tile the bishop of london was wag willing to give 1 every facility fici lity to persons engaged in the spread of religion but would not consent to allow persons to establish in their houses small congregations to the injury of the established church the bishop of oxford had no doubt that the tho bill was brought bought forward with the best intentions but fet ret lound Jound to oppose it on the ground that it would interfere materially with the action of the established church after stating several reasons 8 the bill the tile liht ri ht reverend prelate moved that it be taken into further consideration that dav day daveig six months the earl Har harrody roby the earl of chichester he the duke of argyle the earl of rodon and the lord chancellor spoke in favor of the bill and the earl of carnarvon against it their lord is hips ships then divided when the numbers were for the tile bill 31 against it 30 majority 1 WHAT IT COSTS the washington papers publish a list ot of the appropriations made at the last session of congress covering twenty four of the large columns of the intel ligen the aggregates a if nf the classified heads of expenditure are as fo follows lows civil diplomatic and miscellaneous army fortifications military academy ac indian department naval revolutionary and aid other pensions nava xava service post office department ocean steam mall service bervice texas debt total athe the In intel teNge feuge igen I 1 acer remarks upon this exhibit this vast sum of is only the amount of specified appropriations the great mass of contingent objects of expenditure of which the sums were unascertained and could not be specified may swell the grand total of ahe expenses of the year io to perhaps seventy five i millions mi lions of dollars although the government expenses must necessarily cessa rily increase increase with the growth of the country and the corresponding cor necessities of the public service one can hardly imagine the necessity of bovast so vast an augmentation au of the necessary expense expenses of the gove government at seventy five millions of dollars and the immersi |
