Trust, i
A picture memory brings to me:
1 look across the years, and see |
Myself beside my mother's knee.
1 feel her gentle hand restrain
My selfish moods, and know again
A ehild’s blind sense of wrong andpain,
But wiser now, a man gray grown
My ohildhood's needs are better knpwn,
My mother’s chastening love I ows
Gray grown, but in our Father's sight
A child still grouping for the light
To read His works and ways aright
I bow myseil beneath His hand;
That pain itsell tor good was plannd,
1 trust, bat cannot understand,
I tondly dream it needs must bo
Phat, as my mother dealt with me,
So with His children dealeth He.
I wait, and trust the end will prove
That here and there, below, above,
The chastening heals, the pain x ‘ove!
Joke @, Whittier, in Youth's Companion
Better Luck Another Year,
Oh! never sink peath tortune’s frown,
But brave her with a shout of cheer,
And front her lirly—tace her down
She's only stern to those who fear!
Here's * better luck another year!
Another vear!
Ave, better luck another year!
We'll have her smile instead of sneer
A thousand smiles i
With home made ¢
And better lack another year
every tear
1 and goodly cheer,
Another year!
I'he damsel fortune still denies
The plea that yet delights her ear
"Tis bat oar manhood that she tries,
She's coy to those who doubt and fear;
She'll grant the suit another year!
Another year!
Here's better luck another year!”
She now denies the golden prise;
arn and sneer,
Will And went
But spite of frown ar
Be firm, and we wil
With home made glad and goodly cheer,
In better luck another vear!
Another year! Another year!
-— IW, Gilmer
The Belle of Wolf Run.
A com
barn. T
lamps of every description, the me:
ambitious of which is a circle of hoops
stuck full of candles. This does duty
he great space 1s lighted by
t
t
effedtive,
Seated near the stage, before which
hangs a gréen curtain, are two persons—
a man and a young girl, whom, even
the unpracticed eye might take as rustie
overs. He is a tall, finely-formed
voung fellow, with a noble head and
keen, sparkling blue eves. She is the
beauty of Well Run, faultless in figure
and feature, and with a something in
her expression denoting that she is not
quite satisfied with her position, even as
the belle of the village, or her surround-
ings.
Margaret Lee had never in her life
to realize all the emotions of novelty,
terror: wonder, del § with which a
novice locks on the strut and action of
those who cater to the profoundest
emotions. Of course she frgot where
she was; of course she was dazzled and
an
dagnt,
were, as usaal, exaggerated.
The here of the drama was a hand-
some, worthless rascal, who learned,
before the evening was through, to play
at our unsophisticated little Margaret,
reading her sdmiration in her eyes, and
ing the smiles. t rs, and aimost
n interest, of beauty of Wolf
Run.
‘Pretty seod - said
Charlie Vanee, he held her fleecy red
haw! to wrap about her, at the cl
of the performance.
Marearet had no words, 3
gasped: “Oh, Charlie!” as they gained
the door, and caught at his arm; for
thelr shod the Bero of the stage
Liis bespangied velvet finery,
tiy stationed =t that particul
in order to eateh a glance at he
face,
“Confound his impudence!”
Vance muttered between hi
Margaret shivered
the barn. Everybody
and talking. The soft,
won shed fis Jight
n beauty: bul
y
thaw
Y
4
s ht
she
oniy
sti
Charlie
a little as
was
clear,
upon
the two spoke but
had reached Mar-
} ite house set
iy
round
a scene ol
- 4 square w
goes a great ways,”
farmer, who had evi-
inking the matter over
a week or more, |
gain, do you ?"
helieve i cond £0 every
night.” said Margaret, fervently.
**They're a hard set, Magzev,” said
lover, a little malice in his voice.
* How do you know ? Are you sure
of that ?" she asked, eagerly and re-
provingly.
* Ob, they're generally thought to be.
Well, good-nmight, Maggy;" and he
had gone ten steps before 11 occurred to
him that they had parted withot
kiss,
“1 don't care,” hes
aloud ; “and that fe
uncie's tavern, too
tle me so, anyway?’
Now Margaret anc her cousin Anne
were almost #8 inseparable as sisters. It
was with a quick beating heart that the
former took her way to the tavern next
day, meeting Anne ns usual at the pri-
vate entrance for the family.
“Oh, Mag!” eried Anne, her eyes
sparkling, ** you've made a conquest.”
“ What do you mean?" asked Mar-
garet, her fair face flushing, her pulses
beating tumultously.
“Why, you know—last night. Oh,
isn't he glorious!—exquisite? And only
think he asked papa who that very
lovely girl was in pink ribbons in the
second seat—and that was you! Papa
jaughed and told Lim his niece, and
somebody else said something very
handsome abst you at the table, and
then papa up and said you were engaged
to Charlie Vance, which sounded so
ridiculous. And give you my word of
*"
honor the gentieman turned pale.’
3
ey
yb
it a
said, sulleniy, half
flow stays at her
Why should it net-
.
flattering words had accomplished their
her to stay to dinner, where of course
execution.
Well, Mag
asked Charlie :
only a week afterward. All the soft.
is it to be?
what
¥
His eyes had lost their gracious, spark-
ting beauty. It might be that his
cheeks were a trifle thin, and certainly
his dark face was haggard.
« Oh. Charlie!”—she stood on
other side of the spacious heardh, droop-
the large eyes startled in expression,
like those of*a frightened fawn.
«You are changed, Maggy. I don’t
gay it alone. God help us both. it's
talked about all over the place. Last
ight, : i !
ys. I felt like going home and blow-
ing my brains out,’
“ Oh, Charlie!
The
little figure drooped yet lower. :
+ And it all comes of that infernal vil-
qin. It allcomes of your going back
fort i, a
Mp Anne, to see him.”
Margaret lifted her head with a piti-
ful gesture. .
«He is going away to-day,” she ried,
. ereat pain in her voice.
2g ary you will see him before he
1"
£08. no, no, Charlie. Oh, don’t look
so cruel. can’t see him now, you
; 't!
noW | you've heard that he’s gota
wife elsewhere, eh?” oo
w Charlie! Fdon’t care; it isn't that,”
nswered, chokingly. How could
she add—" 18 is because I have found
+4 hase untrue, When he seemed to me
3 “angel of light.”
like an a fips quivered; the tears stood
Her and shining en her lashes, her
large were downcast, her hands folded
eyes a rigid clasp of despair.
wit) hall mever see him again,” she
hi sered. hoarsely ; ““ but if you say all
whispe petween Us, why it must be go.”
is 0¥Clon't say it need be, mind,” he
; Looking pitifully down at her, “I
erlook 2 £00 déal, [ love you so
0 much! God in heaven only
j.ow much I have loved you.
knows ot have the face of that man
But 1 Ww God! noe! no!” and his
hetaress uiders lifled with the scarcely
said,
ean OV
much,
FRED. KURT
VOLUME XIII.
| drawn breath, while a dark red hate
smoldered in his usually soft eves,
{ *“1t shall be just as you say," she
t murmured, meekly, without looking up.
“It shall be just as you say,” he re
{ plied, quickly. “De you think you
Foould learn to love me again, a little?
he asked, the anger ail gone. She was
i 80 beautiful.
I “Try me, Charlie. You are so strong
i and good, and noble; I always felt that
i—and one can't long like where one
can't respect, can one?” Her hands were
on his aru now, and the lovely plead.
ing eves uplified to his.
* You won't see him again?"
i *l wou't—I swear | won't! What
should I want to see him for now?" she
i sobbed,
He Then, we will wait. This troupe
{ goes to-morrow. Don't ory, darling;
| dare say it will all come out right;" and
alter a few low-spoken words, the young
man left her, but by no means with
| peace seated on his bosoms throne.
* Mamma, if anybody comes, say I'm
jout,” called Margaret, from the top
i stairs,
I “Well, I guess nobody'll be here to-
{day, uniess it's that actor fellow.” was
| the response. ** Don't walk in the sun,”
she added, for mother and father were
proud of their darlings beauty, and they
| secretly wished for her a better match
than even their neighbor's son.
Deep in the woods she struck, deter.
I mined never to see that too fair fatal
i face again.
** He'll be gone to-morrow,” she half
sobbed, holding her hands hard against
her heart, “and 1 shall never see him
{again. God be thanked! for, oh, I dare
i not trust myself.’
The path, siippery, with pine.leaves,
i led to a favorite resting-place—a cleared
i spot through which ran a erystal-clear
iriver. The place combined several dis-
{tinctively beautiful features. Here she
isat down, unmindful of the singing
istream, the soft shadows, the sweet
fmurmuring of the wind in the tops of
ithe trees.
| A footstep near startied her.
Inthe river, asin a mirror, she saw a
Fision that had become all too dear to
hepa graceful figure clad in black vel-
i, the small hat, with its waving
| plumes, reflected, with the outstretched
{ hand that held it, in the bine depths.
| She sprang to her feet, aburning flush
| spreading over brow and neck, and
{ would have fled but that hie was besige
| her at a bound.
i “My beauty! my darling! my own!”
| “Sir, those words are an insult to
ime!” she cried with spirit, striving in
{ vain to free herself from his caressing
*An insult! I would die before 1
i would offer you an insult, my beautiful.
Come with me; I want to show you a
| lovelier spot than this—come!”
*1 will not, she said, firmly, wresting
herself from him, not daring to look up
inhis face. ** How could you follow
mé—how dared you?”
* Love will dare anything," he said,
gayly, fastening his powerful eyes on
her face, and drawing her glance up to
is. “Come, I will woo you like
Clade Melnotte.” And again he put an
!
ning, the two were torn asunder, and
the man was thrown headlong with one
blow from the powerful arm of Charlie
ance,
“Go!” he sajd, sternly, pointing to the
frightened girl. **I cansave you from
his insolence, but I cannot promise to
save you from yourself. Go, and think
on your broken promises.”
Later in the day Charlie came up to
Mazgaret's house and asked for her.
“Whatever is the matter with the
child ?” queried the mother. I never
saw her in such low spirits.”
The young man made no answer, but
went into the cool, shaded parlor.
Presently Margaret came down, white
as 8 lily. There was an unspoken
question in her wide, tearless eyes.
“Ne, I didet kill him, Maggie,
though he deserved it. 1 don’t want
the grime of murder on my soul, even
for youl, my poor girl. But l sent him
away as subdued and cooled-down a
man &8 ever you soe. Such men are
always cowards. And now, Maggie,
you're free. I never should want to
think of the look you gave him while |
held you in my arms, ard I should have
to think of it. I've come to say good.
bye, for I'm off for the West, and if ever
—hello!”
There was a low, broken sob, and on
his chest Margaret lay a dead weight.
The girl had fainted awny.
Well, along sickness followed. Charlie
could not leave her lying there between
: death, and the first visit after
set up settled the matter.
garet had conquered her vanity,
! which, after all, was more touched
| thax fier affections, and found that there
i was only one image in the heart that
had been, as she thought, so torn with
conflieting struggles—and that was the
frank, honest, blue-eyed Charlie Vance,
who had loved her ever since she was a
baby.
And of course they were married.
Specigl Agents for the Next Census,
The following is a list of the Special
Agents of the Census Office, Depart-
{ment of the Interior, appointed to in-
| vestigate, in their economic relations,
| the most important industries of the
United States, and the statistics of tele-
| graph, railroad, express, transportation
and insurance companies ; also, to collect
the sogial statistics of the country :
‘The Production of Cotton— Professor
E. W.Hilgard, University of Califor-
{ nia, ingharge; two assistants.
{| The Manufacture of Cotton—Edward
: Atkinson, of Boston, in charge.
The Production of Cereals— Professor
William H. Brewer, of New Haven, in
charge,
Raileeads—J. H. Goodspeed, of Bos-
+ ton, incharge.
The Manufacture of Iron—James M.
i Swank, of Philadelphia, in charge.
| Social St tistics of Cities—George E.
| Waring, Jr., of Newport, R. I., in
| charge; one assistant
The Manufacture of Wool—George
IW illiam Bond, of Boston, in charge.
Fire snd Mar'ne Insurance—Charles
| A. Jenny, of New York, in charge.
| factures—Professor W. P. Trowbridge,
{of Columbia College, New York, in
| charge; two assistants.
Wages in Manufacturing Industry
| burg, Pa. in charge.
| Fishing Industries and Interests—
| Professor G. Brown Goode,
| Smithsonian Institute,
| charge; eleven assistants.
| Meat Productien, Transportation and
| Export — Clarence Gordon, of New-
burg, N. Y., in charge; one assistant.
The Production of the Precious
| United States
| charge;
six assistants.
The
ndent and
and Blindness — Fred, I.
Springfield, I11., in charge; two assist-
ants.
Tree Covering, Forest Wealth and the
Lumbering Industry—Professor Charles
S. Sargent, of Harvard College, in
charge.
. Agricultare—Jacob R. Dodge, of the
Census Office, Washington, in charge.
Mining Bast of the Mississippi River
—Piofessor Raphael Pumpelly, of New-
port, R. L, in charge; nine assistants.
—.
C. T. B. writes from Buzzard’s Roost
as follows: In atterspting to write
publicly, Lelose my subject too abruptly,
or in other words, I do not cover
enough ground, How shall I remedy
this defect?” Ans.—Buy larger boots
and you will find no difficulty in
covering more ground.—-Keekuk Con-
stitution.
ry
Lin
Snow Two Rundesd Feet Deep,
The tollowing rematEable account,
rom the London F8eN of enormous
snowfalls in Northwestét India, shows
what a world of vapor 8 carried inland
on the monsoons from the Indian ocean
to strike against the loftiest mountain.
chain in the world, and be precipitated
in such snow and rains 88 occur on the
foot-hills of the Himalayas. About the
India occur the heaviest rains ever
known; and further east, in Cashwere,
it seems the snows are sometimes ter-
rific.
Some interesting details of this extra-
ordinary snowfall in Cashmere in 1877-8
are given in a paper in the just issued
number of the Journal” of the Asiatic
Society of Bengal, by Mr. Lydekker.
Early in the month of October, 1877,
snow commenced to fall in the valley
and mountains of Cashmere, and from
that time up to May, 8, there seemed
to have been an aimost incessant snow-
fall in the higher mountains and valleys;
indeed, in places, it irequently snowed
without intermission for upward of ten
days at atime, At Das, which has an
an elevation of 10,000 feet, Mr. Lydexker
estimated the snowfall, from the native
account, as having been from thirty to
forty feet thick. Theeffoots ot this enor-
mous snowfall were to be seen through-
out the country. At Dras, the well.
built traveler's bungalow, which has
stood somo thirty years, was entirely
crushed dewn by the weight of spow
which fell upon it. Inalmost every vil-
lage of the neighboring mountains more
or jess of the log houses had fallen, while
at Guimarg and Sopomarg, where no at-
tempt was made to remove the snow,
almost all the huts of the European vis.
itors were utterly broken down by it.
In the higher mountains whole hillsides
have been denuded of vegetation and soil
by the enormous avalanches which
swept down them, leaving vast gapsin
the principal forests, and closing the val-
eys below with the debris of rocks and
trees,
As an instance of the amount of snow
which must have fallen in the higher
levels, Mr. Lydekker mentions the Zogi
pass, leading from Cashmere to Dras,
which has an elevation of 11.300 feet,
He crossed this early in August last
year, and then found that the whole of
the ravine leading up to the pass from
the Cashmere side wae still filled with
snow, which he estimated in places to
be at least 150 feet thisk. In ordinary
geasons this road in the Zogi pass is clear
from snow some time during the mon h
of June. As another instance of the
great snowfall Mr. Lydekker takes the
valley leading from town of Dras up
fo the pass foRaratitg that place from
the valley of the Kishiengunga river,
About the middie of August almost the
whole of the first-méntioned valley, at
an elevation of 13.000 feet, was com-
plets ly choked with snow, which in
places was at least 200 feet deep. Inthe
same district all passes over 13,000 feet
We ill deep in snow at the same sca-
son of the year,
Mr. Lydekker gives other instances of
snow in places in September where no
snow had ever before been observed
after June. As to the destruction of
animal life in the Upper Ward wan val.
ley large numbers of ibex were seen im-
bedded in snow; im one place upward
of sixty heads w@fe counted, and in
another not less than one hundred were
counted. The mast convincing proofs,
however, of the havoc caused among
the wild animals by the great snowfall is
the fact that scarceivany ibex were seen
during last summer in those portions of
the Wardwan and Thail valleys which
are ordinarily considered as sure finds.
So, als, the red bear and the marmot
were far less numerons than usual, Mr.
Lydekker estimatestha® the destruction
to animal life caused by snow hes far
exceeded any siaugher which could be
inflicted by sportsmen during a period
of at least five or six years.
—————————
Maple Sugar Making.
The best sap weather when the
wind is southwest, with fleeey clouds
by day and clear nights, cold enough to
freeze wu little. Thesap will run as long
as these conditions prevail. A south
wind threatening min soon stops it:
though if a soft snow falls instead it will
Thesmgar-maker has no
nse for rain; it wes his jacket, soaks
his wood pile and increases the quantity
of water to be evaporated, and the water
running down the trees, steeping moss
and lichens on its way, and falling into
the sap. gives a ds stain to the sugar
that nothing short of chemical means
will remove. Ina good “run” the sap
accumuiates, and the fires faust be kept
going all night. There is no particular
fun in this when one has cathered sap
all day, but the great store tubs must be
emptied to make room for the next day's
gathering; so after supper the one who
is to boil till midnight wends his way to
the works through the deepening twi-
light. The familiss woods iook solemn
and mysterious in the uncertain light.
The owl takes great interest in the
sugar-maker s fire gt night.jand perched
on a tree just outside the circle of light
hoots loudly at intervals for hours. If
you have two pans, and propose to boil
a large quantity of sap, you will have no
leisure to speak of. You fill the “feed
tub,” and set the faucets at the bottom
to run as large a stream as can possibly
be evaporated, then you urge the fires to
the utmost. The pans bubble and foam;
the fragrant steam rolls away in clouds.
re sli Ge
1s
distant woods where other lonely
watchers like yourself are at work, and
after a while the waning moon comes up
and her light struggles in among the
trees. If the airis clear and still the
tinkle of the falling drops of sap can be
heard at a distance of many yards, a
stroke on a tiny silver bell: and as the
pitch varies somewhat according to the
size of the bucket or the depth of the
sap. or for some gther reason. you may
enioy a unique eoncert, if twenty or
thirty trees stand near enough together
to enable you to hear them all at once.
Now several drops fall at once, then the
intervals gradually widen, then narrow
again, while others chime in, giving
cadence, No one notices it in the day
the valley tar below, swollen with the
tribute gathered by the sun from every
snow hank within its basin.— Good Com-
Hunt the Ring-A Winter Evening
Game,
A circle is made. and a piece of tape or
A ring is
| tied together. Each of the players takes
hold of the tape or string with both
hands, and the person whom lot or
| choice has marked out for the victim,
standing in the middle of the circle, is
next made to turn round three times
(without shutting his eyes or submitting
to apy other disadvantage), and is then
| let lposé to hunt for the ring. The ob-
{ject of the rest of the players is, of
‘cougse, to prevent his catching it, and
| they pass it from one to another, cover-
ling it with their hands as rapidly as
possible. If a coastant backward and
| forward motion of the hand is kept up,
|it will be found extremely difficult to
diseover where it is so as to stop it be-
| fora it disappears. As in the fairy tale,
| it will often be seen to gleam, but only
| to disappear when an effort is made to
the greatest rapidity in opening and
shutting every hand round the circle, to
| each of which he has immediate access
| a8 goon #8 he has touched it. It is un-
| fair to pass the ring from under a hand
after it has been touched and before it
hasbeen opened, and the player in whose
possession 1t is finally found becomes in
ury the victim.
THIRTY YEARS IN DISGUISE,
Miscovered, After Death, to
nian,
A letter from Watsonville, Cal., to
the San Francisco Call, says: There is
hardly a city or town or hamlet of the
Pacific coast that includes among its
citizens a few of the gold hunters of
the early days where at least one person
cannot be found who will remember
Charley Parkhurst. For in the early
days the gold hunters were, by rapidiy-
stoceeding gold discoveries, drawn back
to San Francisco as a headquarters, and
again distributed from
recently found d
same early days Charley Parkhurst was
a stage-ariver on the wore imporicat
routes lending out from the city. He
was in his day one of the most dex
terous and famous of the
drivers, ranking with Foss, Hank Monk,
and George Gordon, and it was an honor
to be striven for to ocoupy the spare end
the driver's seat when the fearless
Charley Parkhurst held the reins of a
four or six in hand. California coach
ol
adjunct that was wanting in all preced.-
ing coaching, It was when the organ-
ized bands of highwaymen waylaid the
coaches, leaped to the leaders’ heads,
and, over leveled shot-gunps, issued the
grim command made so often that it
wns orystalized into the felonious lor-
muin of "Tirow down the box
Drivers of a phiegmatic temperam. nt be.
come accustomed to these interruptions,
expertly wrecken up the killing capacity
of the gun-barreis leveled at them, ac-
the inevitable, throw down
treasure-box and drive on. Charley
Parkhurst was high-stung, and this
Wis one requirement of the driver of ths
early days he could never master. He
drove for a while between Stockton and
Mariposa, and once was stopped and
had to eut away the treasure box to gel
his coach and Passengers ciear,
did it, even under the “drop” of the
robbers’ firearms, with all ill-grace,
and he defiantly told the highwaymen
that he would ** break even with them.”
te was as good as his word, for, being
subsequently 1
from Mariposa t ‘
his
speryt
Cepl
stopped on a rety trip
O Hlockton,
opportunity, and,
ously, turned his wild mustangs and
his wicked revolver
everything through
hooting was to
quently ascertained by
** Sugarfoot,” a notorious highw avian,
who, mortally wounded, found his way
to a miner's cabin in the |
him how he had been shot by
'srkhtirst, the famous driver,
: attempt,
nn
n
he watched
contemporane-
oose, and brought
Phat |
the mark was subse
{ i
Sid, is
§
4 ’ ¥ 8
we Lhe contession of
and told
Charley
iis
in a des
with others, to stop his
afterward
Parkhurst also
route from
Jose, and later, and
ong time, he was ** the boss of the
between San Juan Santa
Cruz, when San Francisco was reached
by way of San Juan. But Parkhurst
was of both an energetic and a thrifty
nature, and when rapid improvements
in the means of locomotion relegated
coaches further out toward th
tiers, and made the driving of them less
profitab.e, it was not sufficient for him
that he was acknowledged us one of the
three or four crack whips of the coast.
He i abandoned driving and
went to farming. For fifteen years by
prosecuted this calling, varying it in the
n
winter time by working in the woods,
he was known as one of
where | ti
skillful and powerful
umbermen, and where his services were
eagerly sought for, and always
manded the highest wages. Although,
he was hinil
migratory
eoaing
ana
¢ fron.
resoiulely
i
i Most
Of Oo ana
ym
in his stage.-o
in m ae-coach
in
fellow well met w
miner
ith
8, and during the sue
$ 3s
OF 58 |
years
tfe as farmer and Jumberman he
WHS social and eenerous with
lows, was never inte
moral or reckle and t
was that his years of labor had
rewarded with a competency of
thousands of dollars. For several
past he had been afllicted
with rheumatism
ahie to do phivsiea
ady had even resn
eling and d
limbs, He was also attacked by a can-
cer on his tonyne. As the combined
diseases became more aggressive, the
genial Charley Parkhurst became, not
morose, but less and communion
tive, till of late he hes conversed with
no one except on the ordinary topics of
theday,
Last Sunday, in a little cabin on the
Moss ranch, about six miles from
im
resuit
heen
svVerad
ie mpe
£8, + BUT
YOAISs
S50 |EVErecly
to be un-
the mai-
shriv-
Bs not ony
labor, but
i
i in
ion of
partial
some of his
Ja
stort
jess
the industrious farmer and expert
woodsman, died of the eancer on his
tongue He knew that death was ap-
proaching, but he did not relax the re-
ticence of ais later vears other than to
express a few wishes as to certain
things to be done at his death. Then,
when the hands of the kind friends who
had ministered to his d ving wants came
turous Argonaut, a discovery wns made
that was literally astounding. Charley
Parkhurst was a woman.
Parkhurst may fairly claim to rank as
by all odds the most astonishing of all
of them. That a young woman should
nssume man's attire and, friendless and
alone, defy the dangers of the voyage of
1849, to the then almost mythical Cali
fornia~~dangers over which hardy
pioneers still grow boastful-—has in it
sufficient of the wonderful. That she
pation above all professions calling for
courage, coolness and endurance, and
that she should add to them the almost
romantic personal bravery that enables
one to fight one's way threugh the am-
bush of an enemy, seems almost fabu-
lous, and that for thirty years she
should be in constant and
association with men and women, and
that her
been even that she
suspected, and
her death without disclosing by word
assumed man's dress and
their exact truth] wes not so abund-
ant and conclusive, It is said by several
trom Providence, R. 1
Words of Wisdom.
hungry.
run in debt.
| briars of manhood.
ation and blunder impress more
Good men have the fewest fears.
has but one who fears to do wrong. He
one,
The hardest working men and women
nre those who do the working and plan-
ning; and they ure few, for most people
consider second-hand goods the
| cheapest.
Good words do more than hard
speeches, as the sunbeams, without any
his coat which all the blustering wind
could not do.
| Tt is ensy enough to find plenty of men
{| who think the world owes them a liv-
ing, but hard to find a chap who is
willing 10 own up that Le has collected
the debt in full.
If a man’s word is not as good as his
bond the best thing is to get on with-
out either. If this can’t be done look
| well to the bond and treat the word as
though it had never been spoken.
Facts for Farmers,
will continue to fertilize
years, when not ground too fine,
The best potatoes grown under favora-
ble circumstances contgin twenty per
cent. of starch; poer ones, about ten
per cent.
in vineyards, orchards, ete, for the
banishment or destruction of noxious
insects, It is sald noxious insects are |
not found in hemp fields,
Cows remove more from the pasture
that their droppings supply; therefore
it is & good plan to spread manure over
them, sprinkied with plaster, to save
the ammonia for the young grass in the
Thick lime whitewash, thinned with |
a strong decoction of tobacco stews, ap-
plied *o fruit trees, is recommended ws |
a preventative against rabbits and ether
animals gnawing them during the winter |
season
A cellar that is cool, dry and dark,
and yet well ventilated, is the best place
for preserving potatoes in large quanti-
ties. When smaller quantities are tc be
preserved there is nothing like dry
sand, i
The very con'agious and destructive
i
was imported from England in 1843,
greater or less extent, and ft
doubtful if it can be exterminated,
A rood Jersey cow, during ten years
usefulness, will produce skim milk
sees
Of
pounds of the best butter in the world
into the bargain—butter worth several
times as much as the heaviest beef ani- |
nis,
hie best hreed of fowls would never
satisfy the man who did not take an in.
terest in them. Fowls must have care
and attention just the same as any other |
live stock. It is foolish and unwise to
think they ean tind their own living and
at the same time vield a fair profit to |
owner. Good, clean, pure water
and a food of egg-producing and nour-
ishing constituents, fed regularly and |
wisely, will pay the owner of the flock, |
no matter whilk may be breed or
pedigree
J. D. Gilbert, of Elkhart, Iil., who |
exhibited the (at prize ox at the fat eat-
tle show held in Chicago, gives his mode
of feeding YOURE animais as joiiows:
* 1 feed my young cattle just encugh to
them through the winter
After they are two and a halt |
vears old commence feeding corn win
il sum until 1 send them to
Attend 0 them closely and |
p them improving from the time |
vy are led on corn to the time they
eave the farm. Generally feed from
eight to twelve months on corn. Intend |
from this time to feed a vear younger,
and one year sooner to market
Think I ean get my steers at thirty
months oid to weigh 1,700 pounds. This |
course will pay much better than tw
keep them until thirty-six to forty-two
months, and get an average of 2,000 to
<, 100 pounds out of the eattie.”
Heclpes,
Rove Jeery Caxe
white powdered sugar,
flour, four eggs, whites and volks beaten
¥, pinch salt; beat the yolks |
and sugar to a cream; and the four and
then the whites beaten to a very |
wh; mix quickly; rub and butter |
hake ten or lilteen
Ig WO oven when done
lly and roil kiy.
Favorrre Mear Pie. —Ta
beef, or roast meat of any ki slice It
thin, cut it rather small; iay it, wet
with gravy and sufliziently peppered
and salted, in a meat-pie dish, 11 liked,
sn small onion may be chopped fine and
sprinkied over it. Over the meat pour
a couple of stewed tomatoes, a little |
more pepper, and a thiek layer of
mashed potatoes. Bake slowly in a
moderate till the is a light
urown.
Frieo Breap Prope. —Take n stale |
loal of baker's bread ; cut in slices; beat
up SIX egps; stir them into a quart of |
mii dip siives into the milk and
eggs: lay them upon a dish, one upon |
another, and let thom stand an hour;
then fry them to a light brown in a little
putter;
syrup.
Poraro Baris, or CROQUETTES - |
Four large mealy potatoes, cold, mash
ha
Li
. su
sirong
3
keep
months,
ner
send
One teacupful
one teacupial
SeRArald
sail,
wi
still Ire
HLAYZE TOASUINE-DAL
minutes, a
svread with je
oord
d roast
CO)
{
a.
oven top
' thie
"oy Lit
of fresh melted butter, a pinch of sait, a |
little pepoer, one tablespoonful of |
coreg, and the beaten voik ol one egg: |
rub it together for about five minutes, or |
until very smooth; shape the mixture |
into balls about the size of a walnut or
rolls, dip them into an egg
well beaten, and then into the finest |
sifted bread crumbs; fry them in boil |
ing lard.
Care of Ducks,
Ducks usually begin to lay in Febru.
ary, and if shut up at night most of
their eggs will be saved ; shut up all the
They will
sometimes lay in nests prepared for
them in their roosting-house, but do not
build nests of their own until nearly
done laying and ready to sit, which is
about the middle of May. Taking their
not be plucked in
ing, Ducks should
them weak. After that they
be picked as often as their
teathers ripen, which can be wold by |
picking a few from the breast; if there
no colored fluid in the end of the
feather, it is ripe. The little gray ducks
ripen their feathers once in four weeks;
is
pin feathers take |
their places, when separating them is!
very tedious. Larger breeds of duck-
do not ripen eheir feathers so
quickly. The ducklings can be kept
near the house better if hatched under
hens, as ducks and turkeys are alike
about keeping their little ones as far
away as possible, until hawks or other
animals catch them, when the old ones
Ducklings
should be fed on raw Indian meal
dough, salted a little, once or twice a
week. A dish containing a few quarts
of water, and refilled when empty, will
do for them as well as a creek, but it
of the water easily or they will drown,
Lotteries,
Lotteries are said to have been first
employed by the Genoese government
The
time or other to increase their income,
have not only robbed the working com-
have lessened their habits of labor and
and handsome gains. Between 1816
and 1828 France derived from lotteries
an annual income of 14,000,000 francs,
but forty-three years ago they were
suppressed, and the year following a
large increase of deposits were found in
the savings banks of the country. In
1841 Prussia got from them 800,000
thalers and Austria 3.600,000 florins.
The first lottery in England was in
1759, and its profits went to the im-
provement of public works, but the
coi gequences were so obviously mis-
chievous that it was abolished by an
In Italy, lot-
tories are still tolerated, nnd their effect
is most injurious, keeping the very poor
population in still greater poverty. In
some of the States they rre still toler-
ated, and wherever they are they work
THE GOOD OLD DAYS,
The Extravagant Sprees of Our Celebras
ted Foretuthers,
I'he following is from an address hy
James Parton before the New York His-
This venerable society
when the festive
in June,
month? What connection between
able member had rebuked him, saying
gravely: * Let no man speak disiespeot-
fully of sandwiches here, for sandwiches
built this house.”
of the Puritans in 1620 was to abolish
that most time-honored and beloved
feast, Christmas,
the observance of the day a matter of
them * till they should be
that day. Bat in
Puritans never succeeded in abolishing
Chrisunas, although they no longer ob.
old fashion-—on
November,
The Puritans had little to make merry
For years they had nothing to
drink but water; and often the only
viand was a lobster, with nothing to
make a salad of Then it was that the
clam made its appearance in history.
But often, when the pilgrims had a
ready a feast of ground.-nuts and clams,
the Indians would come and eat it. To
put a stop to these breaches of etiquette
the pilgrims hanged a man, not an In-
dian—that would not have been strange
or original-—but
their own number for stealing from an
Indian. Inthis tragic way the clam ap
In this proud and
are often mentioned in tones of dispar.
agement; but it is far otherwise inNew
England, where they have
nual Episcopal clam-bakes.’
When America began to export furs
t
the country lived extravagantly, Bring-
ing molasses from the West Indies, they
soon learned to make rum of it, and rum
became a circulating medium ; but rum
our forefathers. Even at the meetings
the room was often dark
hot rum. If anvone supposed that in
error. John
the temperance
this untry,
price rum
of his
began
in
the
tude
who
ment
that
moves
o
of
Was
and in small ‘towns there would be fa
dozen rum taverns, which were alarm.
ingly injurious to the people. Other
records show similar facts. From read-
ing Franklin's memoirs, the lecturer, in
pommon with others, had thought that
SAC A lemperance man,
cious Franklin, who knew well what to
tell, omitted to state that after he be.
came a prosperous gentieman he was no
onger a teetolalier,
The absurd and barbarous habit of
drinking heaitir was observed in all its
Later, tea and coffee came into fashion,
though chocolate had preceded these
dainties in the popular favor, and the
chocolate was commonly bolled with
sausages and the whole mess eaten with
aspoon, The coffee in olden times was
probably very bad, and even as late as
John Randolph's time there was ground
for his immoral remark: * Waiter, if
this is tea, bring me coffee; it this is
bring me tea.”
In the time of the revolution, while
the army was starving at Valley Forge,
inter, when the commerce of the country
was pour ng in weaith, the style of liv-
sequences of this extravagance were se-
z > % a
rious, For one thing it broke up Pres.
ident Washington's cabinet. Dinners
did it. The salaries of the secretaries
were all insufficient to keep up the style
Why Suspension Bridges are Dangerous
Referring to the blowing down of the
Tay bridge in Scotland, Prof. Park Ben-
jmmin writes as follows: Apropos to
this particular accident a distinguished
French engineer and iron founder, now
in this country, informs us that he has
known bars of iron made by himself
from Scotch pig to change from a tough
fibrous to a brittle crystalline structure
in traveling by rail only from the north
of France to Paris, This is, of course,
an extreme instance. Again, recent re.
search has demonstrated that because a
structure withstands a large quiesoent
load, that fact is little proof of stability
under repeated shocks and -vibrations,
Metals are believed to have a ** life.” A
bar, for example, may stard a milion
vibrations and break down at the mil
lion-and-first and yet the last shock
may be lighter than preceding ones. Ate
tempts, however, to reduce this law to
practical application, have elicited an
abundance of conflicting evidence, bul,
nevertheless, it is well settled that §n
no department of mechanics isan ex-
tended course of actual experimenting
more urgently needed or of graver pub-
lic importance. Still, against éven the
above supposition, the fall of eleven
spans seems to militate, at least in the
light of such information as is now at
hand, and the conviction is forced that
some otter theory lies at the bottom of
the occurrence. This leads to the
ready been frequently urged by engi
neers who disapprove of bridges on the
suspension system-—-namely, that the
structure may be thrown into isochrona
vibrations by the wind. This intro-
duces anew attacking element. It is
pended weight may be caused to vibrate
over large ares bya very small foree, if
the impulses be properly timed. Sol-
diers in crossing a bridge always break
step so as to avoid causing vibrations in
the structure, and there is a well-known
old story of some one who offered ta
“fiddle a bridge down,” his plan being
to cause the hridgeto swing in unison
with the beats of notes corresponding in
pitch with the periodic vibrations ofthe
structure, It 18 not necessary to mul.
tiply examples of so well knowu a
physical fact which is here adduced
simply to point out that it may not be
unreasonable to assume that the ong
spans of the Tay bridge were ihrown
into actual swinging vibration by the
gale itself, those of the same lehgth
would vibrate synchronously and the
piers might be supposed 10 represent
nodes or neutral points.
—————————
“The Great Beard of Rama.”
There's a plant in Ceylon that seems
made to grow where no other green
thing can. The curious thing about it
is the way it manages to scatter its seeds
over the dry and desert places. The
seeds grow in a round case, shaped like
a dandelion’s seed-head, but much
stronger and larger, being as big as a
child's head. When they are ready to
grow, the boxes of seeds get loose from
the stalks, and the first strong breege
starts them off on the sand. Away they
go like balls, scattering the ripe seeds
on their path for miles, and wherever a
seed falls it takes root and grows. If
the bLall comes to water, it 1s $0 light
that it flor ts easily, while the wind still
carries it on. In this way the seeds ¢
carried to the most barren shores, find
begin the work of covering them \
green. This curious plant is the er
pink, called by the natives “The Gfeat
incessant ill
Beard of Rama.”
wo— TAS
How Farmers are Swindied,
esterday a well-known gentleman
| called at this office and gave us the par.
| devised scheme to defraud people that it
| has ever been our lot to record, The
{ thieves, for they cannot be oalled hy
| any oer name, have successfully vie-
| timized a number of farmers of this
{ county. Their scheme is as follows: A
{ well-dressed man ealls at the residence
| of some farmer, and after introducing
of the State board of agriculture, an
| is sent hy the board to gather the sta.
ear, the same to be printed in book
printed like the following:
Inpiaxa Stare DoARD OF AGRICULTURE,
Statistica! Department,
bushels of Saxsesd raised.
bushels of oats raised...
This blank, as will be seen from the |
which
wo
i
the swindlers
fill up with
| state
lis left any |
After the printed |
write num- |
then request |
He |
then fills up the blank space at the foot |
In several of the cases
wherein some of our farmers were vie-
timized, the amount called for is one
The swindlers were in this city
our readers to give as much publicity as |
possible to this, and warn all against |
Do not sign any paper |
presented by a stranger, and you will |
How a Top Climbed a String. |
The Japanese top-spinner walked to |
the stage and untied a string
whieh as soon as it was loosed swung |
juickly to the middle of the stage, and |
then hung perpendicularly. After un.
1
The top spun x short time st the end |
It continued in |
this way to move steadily upward until |
When the applause that greeted this |
and placed it beside the table. He then |
set sixtops, exactly alike in size and ap- |
taking a seventh in his hand, indicated |
He then sat down on the floor, |
Itran |
slowly to and through the open door. |
The pegler waited » moment, as it ex- |
pecting some signal from the now invisi- |
His suspense was relieved an |
The
nal. It came, as before, in the tinkie of |
a bell, upon hearing which the man held |
up Wo fingers. Finally, when ten rooms |
had been visited, and ten bells rung in |
this way, had been counted on the per-
former's fingers, he arose and pointed
toward the house, and toward the table,
upoh which the six tops were yet spin-
ning. After a few moments, during
which we silently watched the door of
the house, the top that had been ringing
the bells came quickly out of the en-
trace, ran down the drawbridge and
d-opped motionless at the feet of the
Japanese, That same momen the tops
on the table sto and dropped over
on their sides. —8t. Nicholas.
i
Celluloid,
Celluloid is one of the most remaria-
ble of modern inventions, and bids fair
to be not less extensively or variously
used than vulcanized rubber. It is pro-
duced, says the Journal of Industry, by
mixing gum camphor with a pulp of
gun-cotton, and suhjecting the combi-
nation to a high degree of pressure and
heat. The result is a hard product of
extraordinary toughness and elasticity.
It oan be made plastic again and molded
into any required form. Any color can
be given to it by the use of coloring |
matter during the process of manufac |
tare. The uses to which celluloid is put |
are numerous, and are constantly in-
oreasing. It is extensively used as a
substitute for ivory, which it resembles
to closely that it is sometimes difficult
to detect the difference. It is said to
equal ivory in strength and durability,
sad not to wap or discolor hg in ime.
1 has proved a good materia or p
and on kevs, billiard balls, backs of
brushes, looking-glass frames, handles
for knives, forks, umbrellas and many
other articles. It is much cheaper than
ivory, and is claimed to be better for
decorative purposes. [t is also used
with much success to imitate tortoise.
shell, malachite, amber, pink coral and
other costly materials. In imitation of
tortoise-shell, it is made into combs,
napkin-rings, match-boxes, cardcases,
ete. Imitations of pink coral iewelry
are made and sold at prices much below
those of the genuine The same is true
of imitations of malachite and amber.
Mouth-pivces for pipes, cigar-holders,
eto, are common. It is also used as a
substitute tor porcelain in making dolls,
heads. The frames of eye-giasses
opera-glasses and spectacles are made of
t. More recently it has come into use
in combination with linen, cotton or
per, for shirt bosoms, cuffs and col-
Poe The material has a hard, glisten.
ing surface, like that of newly-laundried
linen ; is elastic and impervious to mois
ture, and when soiled can be renovated
with a moistened sponge.
The Fate of Aaron Burr's Daughter.
A Western paper tells the story ef
the death of Theodesia Burr Alston, the
only daughter of Aaron Burr, who
sailed from Charleston, S.C., December
30, 1812, on a voyage to New York. the
vessel, the Patriot. never being heard
from afterward. An old sailor, Benja-
min F. Burdick, latel deceased in a
poorhouse at Cassopolis, Mich., con-
fessed on his death bed to having been
one of a piratical crew who overtook
the Patriot January 3, 1813. The
captain, crew and passengers we made
to walk the plank. Mrs, Alston was
among them. She arrayed herself in
white and made the fatal walk with a
Bible in her hand and without a tremor.
It was the dying sailor's lot to pull the
| TIMELY TOPICS,
——
| Mr. A. 8. Fuller, of Ridgewood, N. J.,
| contain ** 8,000
Choose for Me.
In the throng of o bazar
Bewildered, sighing,
“What 10 be buying,
Choose tor me, father,” said the child,
1s & labyrinth of flowers,
Gold daisies taring,
Pink bells inlaid,
Hound roses ruined in showers,
+ Which to be wearing,
Choose for me, true love,” sald the na
In livelong, dazzling mw pe
Joy's flood, love's passion,
Fame's star: srohed goal—
} "Which miow of these vexed way.”
In thy compassion
| Choose for me, heaven!” prays the sow .
— Laura Sa¥ vd.
——————
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
| Sound logio< Telephone talk.
Hintig parties on the plains of Texar
| report buffalo very scarce,
Nine thousand mies of new railroad
i known.” Bo he reminds active young
men that there is a little room still left
under a dead palmetto fan hundreds of
personal security—Trouble.
| When a siag takes to the water he
swims for deer life. — New York Herald.
| Gen. Grant says he thinks VVashing-
is the handsomest city in the world,
Darwin has won a $2,400 prize, offered
at Turin, for discoveries if the physi-
| apiece”
Sm —
practice of locking passengers in the
tolerated in America. The
to kick it open
“Golden opportunities” snd “silver
; lining" never cash bank notes.
A fanny conductor says cay wheels
| Central America.
| A man wearing a pair of
may be Arreveretly siyied, old eyes in
Lem.
The Sisters of Charity in the United
—
that most of the knowing passengers
there provide themselves with the small
square kevs that will unlock the
the British railroad carriage.
Nervous 'passen
travel with locked doors, yet have no
silver of the requisite size. Strange as
it may Appear, the door is unlocked in
this way by sli
guard's hand while the app
words sre whispered in Lis ear.
Many of our greatest discoveries have
the result of accident, rather than
a fixed and definite purpos..
Washington city i» fast becoming the
chosen resort where newly weaded
Oh, it was pitiful, near a whole city
full, snow-shovel he lind none. Gone
to borrow one. — New York Express.
The employees of nearly every leading
ounce of keep-your-mouth-shut is
better than a pound of explanation after
Bismarck lias bought $40,000 seedlings
ny
has proved to be a service and a blessing
opularly termed an accident. Itis
have come to the knowledge of ex
one in which they were operating, and
accidental discovery, and now it is
accident discovered that carbonized
paper, instead of platinum, was what he
was after.”
The reigning Czar possesses in full
at great fires, which his younger brother,
i
the St Petersburg fire On one
occasion this
the machine™ all but proved fatal to
both. When the German Lutheran
brigade,
roached too near the burning build.
ing, the belfry of which was already be.
ginning to totter. Suddenly a Bue
beam, at least twelve feet in length, fell
blazing from the roof, snd struck the
groun
+
£
i
We know an elderly maiden lady who
says she is willing to waste Lier sweet
ness on"some heir, desert or otuerwise
Sunbeam.
Ex Senator Revels, the colored politi-
cian of Mississippi, is president of the
University a oon He says hie has
abandoned polities. :
The first colored member of the Ohio
lature, Representative Willinms, of
The earnings of all the rail.
rosds of the United States for the lest
Jone were $490,103 361, sgunst $470,
L272 for the preceding year,
The quantity of paper now used an-
nually in the manufacture of paper ta
jars amounts to 20600 tons. 875
10,000,000 yards of cotton cloth were
required in this industry.
Statistics show that nearly $50,000,-
worth of property was destroyed by
fire in this country during . Kero
sine was the eagse of al
this appaliing destruction.
Lives of great men sil remind us,
For sone things they ene not a rink,
Bat to 1h fact they caa’t blind us;
Each one wants his own ro0th-brash.
-—Sulem ounbeam.
Up to the twenty-fifth of October 156,-
734 people had the cholers in Japan, of
whom 50.627 died. The aboilslnuent
the British and Germans of the
quarantine there is citied to explain the
Within the last ten years thirty-lour
to withdraw, but the Grand
Nicholas . :msined to theend. and saved
Reading, Pa. employs over 1,500 per-
sons in hat making, who ture out 1.700
dozen Lists daily. To produce these
there upon travelers. Thirly highway.
men, having attacked a mail coach with
Vinchester rifles, were put to flight,
five of their number killed and several
So the necount
exaggeration, gousidering tue disparity
of numbers, were not most professional
law breakers, especially those in Mexico,
arrant cowards, who never take the
offensive unless backed by greatly su.
One might imagine
that the Americans had beer armed
with Gatling guns from the destructic
they wrought, but their most effective
age and resolution.
George Green, is from
other, Frank Senter, is from Massa.
i
1
A retired Spanish soldier, Lopez, is 112
old. He recently seni to Lis son
at Columbus, Ga , a letter, saying that
after forty years of army service he
been retired on $1,500 a year. The son
who received the letter is seventy-nine
years old.
The Rev. John G. Brady, who hasre-
turned from a stay of two years in
Alaska, says that the natives have
learned bow to make “a ruinous intoxi-
m molasses, and they
drink so much of it that aicobolismis a
The ; concentrated
Mayer, of the Stevens institute, in an
hservation from which he sonciudes
e
tion changed at each flash of the light
as respects seetion, equally divided.
They are obvious!
terial; just such citizens are wanted
“Grandpa,” says Minnie, reflectively,
being able to im-
part useful information: * Grandpa, 4 :
ou. The are up in
and strict administration of justice.
The education ef the two Americans has
unquestionably been of the kind most
n there. Their parents have, very
plainly, in their case taught the young
idea how to shoot.
Trapping Rats.
A Wisconsin correspondent of the
New York Tribune gives the following
lly adopted :
Having lured to destruction many oid
Solomons among rats, I will detail my
plan: Take a pan nearly full 6f bran,
set a small steel trap without any bait,
puta lirht wad of tow or cotton under
the pan of the trap, which press dewn
so it is just ready to spring; put the trap
in the bran, making ¢ piace with the
hand, so that it may be below the sur-
face when level; lastly, scatter a few
kernels of corn on the bran (pumpkin
seeds are better), and you are ready for
your victim. I bardly ever fail to fool
some of the ringleaders in this way,
while younger ones are easily caught.
If *P. cannot thus circumvent that
shy and cunning old specimen, I will
give him my olan with strychnine,
which is ns swift with rats as with dogs.”
So much for the Wisconsin rats, e
cannot but think that the “old Solo.
mons " out there are not half so wise or
cunning as some we have encountered in
the East. Some years ago the rats made
bad havoe in our cellar, and we resolved
to try the efficacy of the steel trap. It
was set inal » flat vessel, and weli
covered and hidden with bran. We
were more cautious than the” writer
above, for we used a large spoon to
move the bran, fearing the rats might
smell the touch of our fingers and keep
away. Small bits of cheese were then
dropped over all parts of the bran over
the covered trap. The next morning
there were traeks of rats all over the
surtace, except where the trap was bur-
ied; and the cheese was all taken, ex-
cept directly ever the trap. We were
compelled to resort to a more effectual
trap, which proved quite successful—in
the shape of a fine old tom cat.—Couniry
Gentleman.
The World’s Teleguaphs,
The system of Selugrapius in pufops
comprised. at the end of 1877, 268,
miles of lines and 769,768 milez of wire.
There were 19.627 government telegraph
stations. The umber of employees
amounted to 61,974, and the number of
instruments to 41,708. The number of
aid messages was in round numbers
86,000,000, of which 20.000.000 were in-
ternational dispatches. The number of
other telegrams forwarded amounted to
about 7.000.000. M. Newman Spa
gives the following statistics for the
other parts of the world: In America
(1875 to 1877). 114 157 miles of wire:
8 756 stations: 23 000 0:40 teley s. In
Asin (1875 10 1876) 24 521 miles of wire;
489 stations; 2 300,000 wlegrams, Aus-
tralia (1875). 23.582 miles of wire; 689
stations; 2.500.000 telegrams. Africa
(1874 to 1876), 8,148 miles ¢! wire; 196
lank from beneath her. Her face
Po ed him ever afterward.
stations; 1,200,000 5:legrams.
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The following are among the promi-
EO Ercat Tortie '
Falsetto, 818.000; Spendthrift, $15,000:
Lord Murshy, £10,900; Wallenstein,
£9,000; Sly , $8,000; and Mis-
take, $5000, besides man
ranging from $2,000 to $5,000 each.
Gloucester, Mass., is a town of widows
anu orphans—a place of sighs and tears.
of its vessels and 240 lives: and those
240 deaths made thirty-eight widows
and 219 orphans. Since the year 1830
the losses of Gloucester have been—
vessels, 405; men, 2,118,
Remarks a writer: *“ A gentle hand
can lead an elephant by a hair.” Now,
what foolishness that is to put izto the
minds of children. Why. bless you,
elephants don’t have hair; they just
have hides, that's all. Perhaps a gentle
hand might lead him by the tail, bu
mind you, we have our doubts even
that.— Rockland Courier
Parbeiling Themselves,
The Huntsville (Ala) Independent of
a recent issue says: One of the most
sickening affairs, if, indeed, it is not the
most horrible, which it has ever been
our duty to chronicle, happened last
Saturday on the premises of M>. Solon
Kelley, about eight miles trom Hunts-
ville. There was a hog killing in pro-
gress, and two colored wen, an
Dennis Patrick, brothers. got into a dis-
pute about each other's share in the
year's crop. A long kettle filled with
water was near by. The wales in the
kettle had been heated to such a high
degree that they were waiting for it to
cool a little in order to scald hogs in it.
The water was so hot that they were
afraid it would “set” the hair of the
hogs. This was the high temperature
of the walter when the bro : to
quarrel. Dennis, who was the oldest,
told Robert that he would put him in
the kettle if he didn't shut up, and
Robert, the preacher brother, told Den-
nis that if he put him rt) in the
water hie (Dennis) would have to go
with him. Dennis caught Robert and
ressed him back in the direction of the
ketcle. He pressed him, both of them
having their arms locked meanwhile,
until they both went beadlong into the
kettle of seething water. Their piteous
and awful screaais and moans soon at-
tracted others to the place. who firall
gxtrinted them from the boiling
ron.
They retained their senses when first
taken out, and their intense agonies
were simply a
limbs, grea ed f
with them, leaving their bones a :
Their beards feli out and ‘hair
dropped from their heads. They had
literally been cooked alive. Tus sight
was sel that those whe i it
were well-nigh para horror.
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