Deworralic atc
Bellefonte, Pa, February 20, 1891.
WHEN SAM'WEL LED THE SIN GIN.
Of course I love the house o' God,
But I don’t feel to hum there
The way I uster do afore
New fangled ways had come there,
Tno’ things are finer now, a heap,
My heart it keeps a elingin’
To our big, bare old meetin’house,
Where Sam’wel led the singin’.
1’low it’s sorter solemn-like
To hear the organ pealin’;
It kinder makes your blood run 2old
An’ {ills ye full 0’ feelin’,
But somehow it don’t tech the spot—
Now mind ye, I ain't slingin’
No slurs—es that base viol did
When Sam’wel led the singin’.
I tell ye what, when he struck up
The tune, an’ Sister Hanner
Put in her purty treble—eh ?
That’s what you call sopranner—
Why, all the choir, with might an’ main
Set to an’ seemed a flingin’
Their hull souls out with every note,
When Sam’wel led the singin’.
An’ land alive, the way they'd race
Thro’ grand old “Coronation!”
Each voice a chasin’ t’other round,
It jes’ beat all creation !
I allus thought it must a’ set
The bellso’ heaven a ringin ’
To hear us “Crown Him Lord of All”
When Samael led the singin’.
Folks didn’t sing for money then;
They sung because ’twas in ‘em
An’ must come ont; [ astar feel—
If parson couldn’ win them
With preaciiin’ an’ with prayin’ an’
His everlastin’ dingin’,
That choir’d fetch sinners to the fold
When Sam’wel led the singin®.
ECA A PI
OUTWITTED PIRATES.
Tn the vear 1859 a British steamer
called the Fairfax arrived at Shanghai
in distress, and upon investigation her
damages were found to be so extensive
that she was sold to a corporation
known es “The Golden Tea Company,”
It was composed of five British tea
houses aad it had four coasting vessels
in its trade. This steamer was wanted
to establish a line to the Lioo-Kioo Is-
lands, in the Pacific ocean, but more
particularly to the Island of Kiu-Siu,
where the company intended to estab-
lish a bransh headquarters.
The Fairfax was a sidewheeler of
600 tons burden, and noted as being
very fast. She was changed about a
great deal in making repairs, and when
I went aboard of her as a wheels-man
I found several things to excite my
curiosity. The cabin had beer done
away with, and in its place was an of-
ficeris messroom aft, and a comfortable
dining-room forward. The space be-
tween was used for berths and. storage.
I noticed that a great deal of the in-
terior wood work was covered with
heavy sheet iren, which had been
painted to resemble wood. The doors
were-very heavy, and were further pro-
tected by metal. The engine room
was-entirely enclosed, and when [came
to the wheelhouse I was surprised to
find it so arranged that iron shutters
hung on the inside, could be closed so
as to-make a little fortress of the place.
Two rifles and a pair ot revelvers com-
prised the armament. When I came
to ask questions of the mate he inform
ed me that they were going among a
lawless and desperate lot, and were pre-
pared for any emergency. In addition
to-what I had seen he showed me a
six-peund field piece on the promenade
deck, and a score or wore of riflesin a
room-set apart for an armory.
The steamer made her first and sec
ond trips without adventure. The
crew in each insiance was composed
almost entirely of white men—English
American, German, and French sailors
who had been picked up in Shanghai.
The cook, steward, and stokers were
nativeg, and on each trip we carried |
quite. a number of native passengers.
On the third trip about one-half of the
white erew had to be replaced by na-
tives, and when we left Shanghai we
had -sizty native passengers. I re-
marked on the singnlar fact that all
were men, and the mate explained
matters by saying it was a religious
body on their way to a famous temple
situated.on the sland we were bound
for. They looked to me like a erafty,
villainous lot, and my fellow wheels
;man, who was an American named
“White, predicted that we should have
trouble with them before the veyage
was over. We had scareely left port
‘before we.caw to it that all our wea-
pons were loaded, Jand we got “‘the
thang” of the iron blinds so that we
«could shut them quickly. One of us
would certainly be in the wheelhouse,
no matter at what hour trouble might
come.
As the stzamer only had a small load
of freight, and that was all in the held,
the party of natives were quartered on
the lower deciz. The weather was very
mild and} they did not need covering.
The distance from Shanghai to Kia-
Siu is about two hundred and fifty
miles. As weleft port at 6 o'clock in
the morning, and averaged twelve
miles per hour, until four the next
morning we were pretty fairly across
the big bay or straits created right there !
by the lay of the eoast and the location |
of the islands. 1 came on watch at
four o’cloek. It was then fairly day-
light and the sea was smooth and ev-
erything very quiet.
My chum gave me the course, ’re-
ported that there was nothing new, and
went off to turn in. He had scarcely
disappeared when I was two junks
dead ahead, and five minutes later the
lookout on the bows reported them to
Mr. Graham, the first mate. It could
not have been more than two minutes
after this ;when I heard a shrill ery of
“Murder!” followed by two pistol
shots and a rush of feet, and I realized
that trouble was at hand, 1 rang the
bell for the engineer to stop and then
shut and secured my blinds, and T was
not a minute too soon. The wheels
had scarcely ceased to revolve when |
heard the patter of feet outside, follow-
ed by exclamations of anger and disap-
pointment. Then T used the speaking
tube to warn the engineer and he
speedily informed me that le had
made himself a close prisoner.
My iron shutters were provided with |
port holes, and when I looked down
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upon her bow deck I saw the dead
bodies of the mate and lookout lying
there and covered with blood from nu-
merous knife wounds, None of the
natives was in sight, bat directly a
fierce yell arose from the lower deck,
followed by pistol shots, and I knew
that the saffron-faced wretches were
murdering the white men as fast as
they could get te them. They left me
alone for about a quarter of an hour
Then about half a dozen of them came
up and demaaded my surrender. From
their dialect I knew them to be Co-
reans. They called to me in that lan-
guage, saying they had full possession
of the steamer, and had killed all but
two of the crew, and that my life would
directed. I communicated with -the
engineer, found that he was all right,
and he added that the Captain and
some of the crew were in the armory
and prepared to hold out to the last. I
then informed the pirates that I could
not think of surrendering, and as they
began battering the door with a cap-
stan bar I shoved the muzzle of a re-
volver cut and killed one and wounded
another before they could get out ef
range.
There was only a gentle breeze blow-
ing, and that was at our backs. The
two junks were coming down slowly,
having to make frequent tacks, and
when about a mile and a half away I
saw that they were loaded with men.
It was a put up job between the two
parties, and all the details were thor-
oughly understood. The engineer had
been blowing off steam to prevent an
explosion, and I asked him to hold
fast and give me a show to carry out a
plan which had suddenly suggested
itself. Fortunately for us the native
stokers had just, fired up before they
got the signal. They had murdered
the chief, who was an Englishman, as
also the oiler, who was a German, and
had left the furnace doors shut as they
rushed up on deck to join in the mur-
derous melee. The boilers were there-
fore making steam at a lively rate.
As soon as the engineer understood
what I wanted he started ahead, and I
took the wheel and brought the steam-
er’s head in line with one of the junks.
We were headed about north. One of
the junks was headed about southeast
on her tack, the other southwest.
They were, therefore, nearly broadside
on to me. We wentahead at moderate
speed, as I did not want to alarm them.
The natives on board gathered in the
bows and began waving cloths and hats
as a warning to the junks. The peo-
ple on the latter must have argued that
the steamer was in the hands of their
friends, for they fired their jingals and
waved their cloths in reply.
I held tor the junk headed to the
southeast, and she at once lowered her
sail to wait for the steamer to come up.
When within a quarter of a mile of her
I rang the bell for the engineer to go
ahead at full speed, and the steamer
started off like a wild locomotive. We
were almost upon the junk before the
people divined our object, aud they
had only time to utter one long-drawn
shout of terror. 1 held the steamer
for her broadside, and she divided that
junk like the two halves of an apple
falling away fromja knife. I expected
a great shock, but there was none. It
was no more than asif we had run
down a yawl. I believe she held at
least fifty men.
A greatcry went up as we passed,
and when I had Leaded the steamer
around not more than half a dozen of
the poor wretches were in sight, and
those were clinging to fragments of the
wreck and tossing about. [ gave the
engineer information of how we had
succeeded and told him I proposed to
serve the other juak the same way.
The natives aboard the steamer seemed
helpless and terror-stricken at first, but
when they reslized my plan they mov-
ed to prevent it. They rendown and
opened the furnace doors to lower the
steam, and a gang of six or eight at-
tacked the wheelhouse. A second par-
ty made an attack on the engineer's
room at the same moment.
The second junk, seeing the fate .of
the first, had gone about, and was
etanding due north with sail set. The
wind was light, however, and we could
ran five feet to her one. We had a
large reserve of steam, and after I had
ker nose pointed for the junk I gave
the gang outside a little attention.
They were banging at the door and
ithe shutters with the capstan bars, and
I wounded two ot them before they
would desist. The engineer, also using
a revolver, killed one and wounded
two. The fellows then drew off, beat-
en at every turn and disgusted with
the job, and mow I was close up with
the junk. She also heid about fiity
dekperate locking fellows. Aware of
my intentions, about twenty of them
who were armed with muskets gather-
ed aft and peppered away at the plot
house, but the few bullets which hit it
fell harmless.
When the bow of the steamer was
within a cable length of the stern of
the gunk every native began to howl
and wail, and most of them threw
themselves prostrate on the decks.
White cloths were held up in token of
surrender, but in answer ‘I rang the
ell far the engineer to pull her wide
open, He did so, and we seemed to
li{¢ out-of the water and to be dung at
the doomed craft like a missile. The
steamer struck her square in the stern,
crashed into her for ten or twelve feet,
and then the julk fell apart and became
a heap of wreckage, which was cast
aside from either bow.
quarter of «4 mile and then turned, Not
a living man was to be geen in this last
disaster. 1 ran over to the other heap
of wreckage and saw two men still
hanging on, but the sharks pulled
them under just as I rang to stop our
way. The steam was about exhausted
anyhow, and the time had come tor a
move against the pirates on board.
Believing they were badly frighten
ed, I reloaded the revolvers and step
ped out on the deck with one in either
hand. The only man in sight was the
leader of the band, who stood on the
bows looking up at me. As I stepped
ont he said ;
be spared if I promised to do as they
I ran on for a:
“Don’t shoot me! We meant you
no harm! We have thrown away our
weapons!”
I went down to find them cowering
in the passageways, every man’s pluck
completely gone. The captain and
second mate were in the armory. I
let them out, and then freed the en-
gineer. The four of us were the only
white men left alive. We collected
the prisoners in the mess room, held a
short consultation, and then . proceeded
to act. While I remained among
them to check any new ambition, the
captain took his station at the forward
port gangway.
The engineer then led the pirates
out to the Captain one by one, and the
latter put a bullet through each man’s
head and pitched him forward into the
gea. It was retribution with a ven-
geance, and certain writers, who were
a thousand miles from the scene and
underwent none of its perils, have
termed it “tbe massacre of the prison-
ers.” I wentont with the last one.
Like all others who had preceded him,
he went humbly to his death, not even
uttering a protest. When he had been
disposea of we turned to and prepared
the bodies of our dead for burial, clear-
ed the decks, and by two ot us acting
as stokers, we worked the steamer up
to Kiu-Sin.
For a few weeks the natives kept
wonderfully quiet about the adventure,
but it then leaked out that about 130
lives had teen lost in the attempt to
capture us. Had they got possession
of the steamer it was their intention to
run her up to the head of the Yellow
Sea, and make use of her in their pir-
atical excursions from the coast of For-
mosa. As none of them understood
how to navigate “the wingless devil,”
as they called her, it is likely that she
would have been blown up within an
hour or two after they got charge. She
was in the trade and on the same line
for the next five years, and every na-
tive craft would turn tail at the sight
of her five miles away.
El ———
What Makes a Man Old.
To himself, a man is as old as he feels,
to others as old as he looks. There is
nothing strikingly new in this observa-
tion, but it applied well in an amusing
case the other day. On a train that
was coming into Boston there were two
gentlemen, sitting in contiguous seats.
One of them was gray and bent. As
the train approached the station the
white haired man rose, took up hisover-
coat, hesitated, and glanced nervously
around. 'I'hen he said:
“Young man, I will be much obliged
if you will help me on with my over-
coat?’
The other rose quickly and gave him
the assistance that was asked for.
“There—ow! I'm a little stiff.
Thank you,” said the old man. “You
are kind. Some time you may be: old
yourself, and then you will be glad of
a young man’s assistance.”
The other laughed. Perhaps, sir,”
he said, ‘you wouldn’t object to telling
me how old you are ?”
“I? Oh! no,” said the old man.
“I’m 63 years old —almost 64,” he said
with a sigh.
“Indeed?” said the}*young man,’ and
I'll tell you how old I am. I shall be
71 years old my next birthday .”
It was his actual age, but the first
man flatly refused to believe it and
went oft with an air as if he thought
the other were trying to play a rather
bad joke.
ETT
How Daughters Should be Educated.
To inaugurate an economical fashion
is well ; only let it be one of prevention,
not of cure. To rear a girl in absolute
dependednce, good for nothing, selfish in
her aims, and exacting in her demands,
is a sin against the daughter and against
society. To begin at her birth to econ-
omize and retrench in every department
for the accumulation of money, that
this monstrous perversion of her life
may be accomplished and maintained,
is grotesque and heathenish. Girls thus
trained will fail of attaining a high or-
der of womanhood. Their aim will be
petty, their ideals low, and nothing
very excellent can be expected of them
in wifehood er womanhood. Let the
reform already inaugurated be made
fashionable and be carried on.
While we carefully guard whatever is
womanly in our daughters, let them be
trained to more of fibre and firmness.
Educate them to self denial if pecuniary
circumstances demand it, and not to self
indulgence. Accustom them to be of
service in the household, to regard econ-
omy as praiseworthy and even heroic,
and to add to all their other accomplish-
ments a practical knowledge of work
and the posession’ of some lucrative vo-
«cation or industry by which they ean
support themselves. Such girls when
portionless will carry to their husbands
doweries in themselves,
One Reason for Woman's Small Pay.
Often, where men and women seem to
be doing just the same work, the wo-
man is requiring one trifling concession
and another which she really pays for
in her own wages.
The bottom of it all rests of course on
the simple fact that so few women
take their work seriously. With a’ vast
share of them the serious business of life
is getting married, and none of them
could be in better, but this turns the
work they dointo a mere expedient for
support uatil marriage comes, and the
inevitable results in the lower scale of
wages for women,
But for this women would drive men
aut of some pursuits, like stenography
and typewriting. There is something
in thie feminine capacity for taking
pins which really fits her to do work of
this order better than a man, provided
she gives herself to it instead of devoting
half her energies to giving herself away
to some man.—Her Point of View in
New York Times.
e———————
— Little James had been imparting
to the minister the important and cheer
iul information that his father had got a
new set of false teeth. “Indeed,
Jumes,”” replied the minister indulgent-
lv; “and what will he do with the old
| set?’ Oh, T suppose they’ll cut them
‘down and make me wear ‘em.”’
Wit and Wisdom.
Resignation is =n invaluable treasure
which can not by the most violent evils
be taken {rom us.
Learning is a good thing for man to
have in his upper story if he has com-
mon sense on the ground floor, !
Let us be of gobd. cheer, remembering
that the misfortunes hardest to bear are
those which never come.
Passenger— Which of the fool ques-
ions you hear every day tires you the
most ? Conductor—That one.
“Bradders,” remarked Rev. Poindex-
ter Granberry, “neber judge udder
folks by yourself, but judge yourself by
udder folks.”
“T can’t find where that plumber did
anything to this heater.” “Neither
could I. I told the man, but he said
we'd certainly find it in the bill.”
He—What do you think of the idea
that 16,000 years hence we will be here
just the same as now ? She--From pres-
ent indications it seems quite plausible.
A sure scheme-—“At last I have it,
said the poor but honest man who
knows it all. “I shall advertise for pu-
pils incorporate myself into a university
and wait for some rich man to endow
me.’’
“Every thing is at a stand-still with
us,’” said the dear old Philadelphia mat-
ron. “So I bave observed,’ replied
the major. “Your daughter I hear is
still twenty-three just as she was ten
years ago.’’
“I'm willing to bet anything that
that young lady has just graduated from
sone seminary.” “Yes, zoam I! Isn't
she refined-looking, modest and cultured
in her behavior ?’ “Pshaw! I don’t
mean her. I mean the gushing, gum-
chewing girl with her, who is using so
much slang.”
Never be discouraged because good
things go on slowly here, and never fail
daily to do that good which lies next to
your hand. Do not bein a hurey, but
be diligent. Kater into the sublime
view of it. God can afford to wait, why
can not we, since we have him to fall
back upon?
Loving Wife—*Now that you are
ruined, Henry, 1 will disclose my secret.
For years I have been saving up, and
now (pouring a shining heap of gold in-
to his hat) this may tide you over.”
Husband--Oh my darling, how did
you manage to doit ?” Wife—¢ Easy
enough Every time you said a mean
thing to me I put ten cents in a box.”
Literary Aspirant—“I have just
written a novel. Lt will make a book of
about 400 pages. What step would
you advise me to take in getting it pub-
lished ?”7 Literary Veteran—W hat
step ? Step into any second-hand book-
store and look at the cords of 400-page
novels with the leaves uncut for sale at
15 cents a copy.”
They Settled the Pin Money Question.
He was a young man who had been a
few years married. In answer to a
question about pin money he said : «I
1 get my wages every Saturday night.
I carry the money home and give every
cent of it to my wife. If I want any I
ask for it She buys what we want, and
and she putsin the bauk all we can
spare. It is as much her interest as it is
mine to save all we can. If she is fit to
be my wife and bring up the children
she is fit to be trusted with the money,
and I never ask her what she does with
in?
Another man, who receives monthly
wages, said : “When I am paid I hand
over to my wife as much money as she
earned before we were married, and that
was 54 a week.”
Thereis peace in both these houses.
There is no need of comment.
A Bag of Milk,
“Here you are, two pounds of chops,
good scant weight,” said the merry
Cranston street grocer to the young man
of family who had brought in an order
from his wife “and now your milk ;
where’s your can !”’ The young man of
family protested that be hadn’t read the
order, and had not been equipped witha
can. “Never mind,” said the grocer ;
“here hold on to it,” and he dexterously
slipped one paper sugar bag inside of
another and filliped the corners into
place. The two quarts of milk were
poured into the inner bag. ‘The grease
in the milk prevents it from going
through the paper as water would,” ex-
plained the grocer. “I had hard work
to get people to believe they could car-
ry milk in a bag at first, and had to let
it goat my own risk. I’ve sent it so
half a mile by slow transit; still I'd ad-
vise you not to stop to tell any long stor-
ies on the way home.”— Providence
Jouanal.
A Red Noah.
The Messiah eraze among the Indians
of the west and northwest revives
interest in anything that pertains to
the queer delusions and beliefs that have
been rife among the different tribes for
the past century. It is remembered
now that in 1883 the Sanpoels, a small
tribe in what was then Washington ter-
ritory, became greatly agitated over the
teaching of an old chief who professed
to believe that another flood was near at
band. He said that the Great Spirit
had commanded him to collect tribute
and build an ark that would outride the
waves. His great canoe, 112 by 288
feet, is still to be seen in an unfinished
condition near one of the tributaries of
the Columbia.
Eighty Days for Eighty Oaths.
Park Wilson, a well known character
about town, was sent to jail by Justice
Hapsman, at Chambersburg, Pa., Dec.
10, for eighty days for swearing eighty
profane oaths, Under the Pennsylva-
nia “blue laws” act of 1794 the penalty
for profane swearing is sixty-seven cents
for each oath, or in default of pay-
ment thereof oneday in jail for each
oath. Wilson would not pay a fine of
$57.30 for the oaths indulged in Satur-
day night, so he went to jail for eighty
days. A conviction under the blue
laws is a very rare occurrence in Penn-
sylvania.— Baltimore American.
White people in several towns in
Oregon have banded together and driv-
en out the Chinese by force.
The Bacteria Fad.
Science Gune Mad in the Hands of En-
thusiasts.
These doctors are a wearisome lot, ob-
serves the Milwaukee Sentinel. If the
world were foolish enough to attempt to
follow all their suggestions and to avoid
all that hygiene cranks declare to be
dangerous, living would be impossible
except under conditions that would
make living intolerable. The latest fad,
next to the disposition of surgeons to
extirpate all the important organs of
the body, is to find bacteria every where,
and to warn people against doing, for
tear of bacterin, what it is necessary to
do in order to get along atall. A Buf-
talo doctor has tound nothing better to
occupy his time or no better way to ad-
vertise himself than to examine under
the microscope the straps in the street
cars by which unhappy wretches main-
tain an upright position when the cars
are crowded. He finds these straps
“fairly reeking with bacteria.” This is
a strange use of the work reek. We
might as well speak of the atmosphere
as greeking with birds. Reeking means
steaming or smoking. Bacteria have as
much right to be everywhere as birds
and butterflies have to fly in the air,
and they are for the most part as harm-
less. The idea the doctors seek to con-
vey is that where there is microscopic
lite there 1s danger to health. If there
is a space on earth where microscopic
life does not exist, man can not exist on
that spot. The air we breathe, the wa-
ter we drink, is full of harmless animal-
culae,and would not be life sustaining
otherwise.
We are warned against sneezing, ex-
cept into a bacterium receiver, for fear
of letting loose into the air destructive
bacteria to attack the nasal membranes
of other folks. We are warned against
receiving money—-hard money or paper
money —without first putting it through
a disinfecting process. We are told to
go through the world with a strainer
over the nose and the mouth, wear car-
bolized gloves, and so on. In short, if
we are to stand any show of living to a
reasonable age we are to shut ourselves
up in gauze saturated with disinfecting
preparations, drink distilled water, ab-
stain from everything ‘we like, and have
no other concern in the world than the
care of health.
There ave certain reasonable sanitary
rules based on a few facts of observation
that are worthy of serious attention.
They are not attended to ordinarily, be-
cause hygienic cranks urge so many ri-
diculous and impossible rules and so
constantly shock the common sense of
mankind. To ask a rational being to
refrain from grasping a friend’s hand
for fear of bacteria, to deny himself the
pleasure of osculation and all that, is too
much. If these doctors persist in point-
ing out microscopic life wherever they
find it,§the thing is to recognize the fact
that microscopic life is edibleand whole-
some- -raw, fried, stewed, baked or in
any other form. Weare made up—ali
of us and every part of us—of microsco-
ic organisms. A man is simply a col-
lection of such organisms, every minute
particle of his being having an indepen-
dent life. There is nothing to be fright-
ened at. Bacteria have been in the
world a good while, and enough people
have managed to live to make a pretty
active world.
. Buffalo Bones.
Hundreds of Tons of Them Shipped to
Eastern Manufacturers.
Not satisfied with killing the buffalo
for his fur, says the Grand Forks (N. D)
Plaindealer, the avaricious man now
picks up the dry bones, as they are
found over the State, and sells them
to eastern manufacturers. Only a few
years ago these animals numbered mil-
lions. Now there may be fifty within
this State. A few figures regarding the
bones of the animals slaughtered during
the last few years will show in what
numbers they existed. Where the buf-
falo flourished there his cousin, the
demesticated cow, will thrive, and
sheep and horses will do especially weil
on the nutritious herbage that enticed
the bison from the south and central
Dias From the single station of
inot there were shipped of buffalo
bones in 1886, two hundred and twenty -
five tons; 1887, six hundred tons; in
1888, three hundred and seventy-five
tons ; in 1889, two thousand seven hun-
dred and seventy-five tons; and there
have been shipped this year and are
ready for shipment, at that one station,
two thousand four hundred tons. Col.
Lounsberry estimates these bones rep-
resent two hundred and fifty-nine thou-
sand two hundred animals, and that
these shipments do not represent over
one-thirtieth of the entire amount of
buffalo bones that have been bleached
on the sunny surface of North Dakota
—bones that once were the frame work
of seven million buffaloes.
Difference in Hair.
The difference between straight and
curly hair is very apparent on a mi-
croscopical examination. A hair is a
hollow tube, and straight hair is as sound
as areed, while a curly hair is always
flattened on both sides and curls toward
one of the flat sides, and never tqward
the edge. It is a curious and little
known fact that the hair of women is
coarser than that of men as weli as
thicker on the scalp. In an average
head of bair there are about 130,000 in-
dividual hairs. The hairseems to have
a life of its own, independent of that of
the man, for numeious instances are
known of the hair continuing to grow
after death. In one of the St. Louis
cemeteries the body of a lady was some
years ago disinterred for the purpose of
removing it elsewhere. When the cof-
fin was opened the entire cavity was
filled with a mass of auburn hair which
bad grown after the interment had tak-
en place.
AN EXHAUSTING PLACE —Mistress—
[am at a loss to understand your mo-
tive in leaving.
Brideet—The work is too harrad,
mum, and it’s worn out I be entirely.
Mistress--Why, I have done most of
it myself.
Bridget—Yes, but it’s worn out I be
hearing yez tell me of it.—Mu nsey’s
Weekly.
Two swallows don’t make a sum=
mer, but two drinks often make a full.
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Points About Poultry.
We know a man who makes his hens
“hoe’ his garden, at lest practically.
He make a long box with slat sides and
top which will just {It between the r
and in this contrivance the hens are
to scratch to their heart's content.
All farmers should keep pure bred
poultry ; there 1s no economy or profit
in common barnyard stock. They eat
no more, and certainly a thinking
farmer prefers the blooded fowl and wilk
keep it and n> other. A good farm
should naturally demand good stock.
There is nothing so welcome to poul-
try in winter as green food, so bard
to obtain at moderate prices. For this
reason the nearest substitute comes in
the way of clover hay cut in small
lengths, steamed and mixed with a
warm feed in the morning. The hay is
stored after harvest of each year. r
Guinea fowls will go into a house to
roost if they have been accustomed to it
though they like to choose a place for
them:elves, and have a decided liking for
trees. It is necessary to keep them in
pairs. as they are monogamous. They
nearly always steal their nests. They
are not remarkably beligerent, but it is
not advisable to confine them with other
fowls.
A feed trough should never be used
for poultry, nor should food be kept
before the hens in a feed hopper, When
feeding poultry it is better to scatter the
grains, in order that each hen should
hunt for herself, and secare her share, as
well as exercise at the work of scratch-
ing. The feed hopper induces overfeed-
ing, and the hens soon become too fat to
lay.
A fattening coop should beaway from
the flock and roomy enough to accom-
modate the birds without crowding. If
fed on good sound wheat, oats, and
branchop, two weeks should find them
in excellent conditiou for the table. A
fowl neatly dressed, entrails taken out,
and thoroughly washed, adds much to
its attractiveness to the buyer. The
price should be the best for choice dress-
ed steck.
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The last season has witnessed the in-
troduction of large numbers of white
Plymouth Rocks among our farmers,
with good results as far as has been
learned. Like their progenitors, the
white Plymouth Rocks are plump, full
breasted, and heavy bedied fowls, hardy
and good layers, and good table fowls.
They are handsome because they are
spotless, and always show to advantage
upon a green lawn or meadow. They
are easy to raise, and breed very true—
more uniform than the barred variety.
Holland is noted throughout Europe
as a center for fine geese, ducks and
turkeys. They show keen perception
of the demands of the market by pro- .
ducing eggs and feathers, which bring
better profits the year round than mar-
ket broilers. Large flocks of from 1,000
to 6,000 geese may be seen on some of
the best farms close to Amsterdam. The
farmer drives his geese to market several
miles distant, as we would a flock of
sheep. They export large oonsign-
ments of egos and geese feathers to the
New York commission houses each sea-
son, selling them at a good profit and
pay expenses of transportation.
Pretty Girls as Nurses,
“She’s a King’s duughter, God bless
her! and she’s been all through this
bouse, leaving joy and sunshine in her
wake.”
It was an old wrinkled woman who
spoke. Her eyes were dimmed with
tears as she gazed affectionately at a
pretty. young girl, scarcely twenty, who
was just turning the corner:
The scene was a Brooklyn street, in
one of the most densely populated parts
of the city, and the young girl a mem-
ber of the King’s Daughters.
“We do all the gond we can’’ said an
elderly member of the order, “but the
greatest service is being done by our
young girls just budding into woman-
hood. They are indefatigable workers,
and each day finds them climbing tall
tenement house stairs and in the sick
rooms of the very poor.’—New York
Journal.
Sad Fate of a Little Girl.
A five year-old child of William Ber-
ry, who lives near Shamokin, was burn-
ed to death on Thursday. The boys had
a bonfire in the street, about a hundred
yards from Berry’s house, and in some
way the child wandered to the fire while
the boys were absent. In a few seconds
the elothing of the little one was in
flames and they were burned from her
body before the flames were subdued.
Her sufferings were excruciating, as her
body was burned raw. The little one
only lived a few hours and death relieved
her of her misery.
A man who was afraid of thun-
der crawled into a hollow log as a place
of safety during a thunder storm. The
thunder rolled and the rain poured down
in torrents, and the old loz began to
swell up until the poor fellow was
wedged in so tight that he could not
get out. All his past sins began passing
before Lim. Suddenly he remembered
he hadn't paid his newspaper subscrip-
tion, and he felt so small that he was
able to back right out.
It is said of Senator Gorman that
he is so cool, nervy and self-possessed
that it is impossible to surprise or dis-
concert him, Were be, in the midst of
a speech, to put his hand into his coat-
tail pecket, and find a Calfornia
earthquake hatching out Idaho cyclones
he would go on with his remarks as un-
concernedly as if he had only found a
cough drop.
“How is your son gettin along
at school, Unele Abe?” “Might fine,
sah. Gittin to be a gem'man michty
fast. Ye jes’ orter see how he makes fun
of us two ole ignerent nigger folks when
he comes home. It makes me mighty
proud , sah.”
Too Bap.—*“You must write a regret,
John. 1 can’t go to tke Brouson’s din-
ner.”’ A .
Why not! Didn't your dress come ?”
“Yes—but the dentist hasn't sent my
teeth.”