Jno. S. Mann,
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VOLUME XXIV, NO, 45.
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THE POTTER JWSNAL
A.XI 3
IT IE "W" S ITEM.
I, MY PSALM.
I mourn no more my vanished years:
Beneath a tender rain.
An April rain of smiles and tears,
My heart is young again.
The west winds blow, and, singing low,
I hear the glad streams run;
The windows of my sou! 1 throw-
Wide open to the sun.
No longer forward or behind
I look in ho|>e or fear;
But. grateful, take the good I find,
1 he best of now and here.
I plough no more a desert land,
To harvest weed and tare;
The manna dropping from God's hand
Rebukes my paiuful care.
I break tny pilgrim staff— I lay
A-ide the tot Ing oar;
!The angel sought so far away
1 welcome at my door.
The airs of spring may never play
Among the ripened corn,
N'or freshness of the flowers of May-
Blow through the autumn morn;
Yet shall the blue-eyed gentian look
Through fringed lids to heaven.
And the pole aster iu the brook
Shall see its image given ;
The w oods shall wear their robes of praise.
The south wind softly sigh.
And calm, sweet days in golden haze
Melt down the amber skv.
•
Not less shall manly deed and word
Rebuke an age of wrong;
The gra\ en flowers that wreathe the sword
Make not the blade less strong.
But smiting band shall learn to heal.
To build as to destroy;
Nor less my heart for others feel
That I the more enjoy.
All as God wills, who wisely heeds
To give or to withhold.
And knoweth more of all my needs
Th m all my prayers have told.
Knongh that blessing- undeserved
Have marked my erring track, —
That, wheie.-soe'er my fi et have swerved,
Hi- chastening turned me iack,— j
That more an 1 more a rrovitience
Of hve i- uuilerste *l,
Making the springs of tim< and seti-^
>w cet witli etcnial gi>od,—
Thar death seems but a covered way
Which opens into ight,
Whe •in no blind-si chi -' ■ in -iray
1" yowl the Fat:i-*r'> sight..—
That ci:< and trouble -••• m ax hist.
Through Memory's sunset air,
I ike IV. untaiu fan-r overpast.
In purple ili-iauce fair. —
That a' the jarring not- - of life
Seetn blending in n psalm.
And all the at!-"- - • f i - .-rife
si--* ramAngMaenba.
And so the shadows fa'l ajsirt.
An I tin- west winds p'.av ;
And ali the windows of my heart
I i>i* n to the d.,y 1
A Children's Lecture —The Fly.
LIT us put ,*I fl\ utKler the micro
-eoj e and see how beautifully it is
made. There is the head small and
round, with a large round Lunch of
j eves on each side; not single eves.
' like ours, but having many thousands
in each bunch, so that the fly can see
in a'.l directions at the same time.
Tie trunk is long enough to reach
to the ground when the fly stands,
because its neck is so short it cannot
bend it, and. like the elephant, it ha>
a trunk or proboscis, by which to lift
its food to it- month. The fly's
trunk folds back on itself, as you
would fold your arm when you touch
your hand to your shoulder, or your
leg when you draw your feet behind
you up to your body. The trunk
may le seen in full length by press
ing the sides of the living fly with
the thumb and finger. It will drop
ti.e trunk, so that with the naked eye
or a micro scoi*' it can be -eon dis
tinctly. The lijs of the proboscis
are large and covered with coarse
black hair- and when the fly sip
liquid- it covers the liquid with its
hps :.nd draw? it up into the tube of
its trunk, a- the pump draws up the
water when we pull down the handle
that is. it sucks it up, <>r. as we may
sav. it draws it up by suction. When
it eats solid food it first throws out a
liquid from its trunk to dissolve it.
and then it cau suck it up. It is the
pinching with these* lips that causes
the fly to tease and tickle u> in warm
weather, as if we were to take up a
small portion of our skin between
the thumbnail arid the finger-nail.
The flv docs not breathe through its
mouth a: 1 nostrils and by lungs, as
we do; but it has little breathing
holes or pores all aloßg down its
sides, covered with a network of lit
tle fibei-s—t. e. threads of flesh—to
keep out the dust, and one of these
little ojmings is l<eated under each
wins, which, as you see. is made of
little 4ack horny threads, covered
with a very thin skin or membrane
above and below them. These horny
threads are tubes filled with air.
which makes the fly lighter and helps
it to flv wdh more east and swiftness.
The upper surface of the wings is
o veivd with black horny l ocks or
curved spines; and these too, ma\
be and doubtless are hollo* tubes
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j and filled with air. Then the fly has
two little thread-like wings, called
J balances, under the broad wings,
which help it to balance and swing
i from side to side, in the same way
that you would use your arms if you
were walking a crack or the fence, or
! as rope walkers use the long pole to
balance and keep from falling. The
; foot is a curious piece of workman
! ship and shows with every other
part how God has adapted every part
to the wants of the fly and the fly to
circumstances around it. Each foot
lias a little cushion of hairs upon the
bottom, which excludes the air when
the fly sets it down, causing the foot
to stick to the wall, the ceiling, or
the window glass, precisely as the
■ "sucker sticks to the table or the
pavement when it is wet and slapped
down, and this cushion of "tenent
j hairs" enables it to walk upon pol
ished surfaces without slipping; but
if you throw flour, or chalk, or dust
upon the window-glass the fly cannot
walk upon it and it is to keep the
foot free from dust and to enable the
| fly to walk easily that it so often
tub- the flat faces of the feet together
and upon its body. All flies are ■
covered with hairs and these serve i
as combs and brushes for the pulvilli,
■ as the cushions of the feet are called. •
| The eggs of the house fly are goner- '
ally deposited upon the leaves and ■
-ten s of plants, w here the larva? w ill
find food when they are hatched. A
single one is called a lar\ a. In a few ;
days after the eggs are laid the larva-. '
or caterpillars, are hatchet! and begin ]
to eat as soon as they are born. In 1
: a few days more the body is too large 1
for the skin and it throws it off or 1
• creeps out of it; and beneath there i
i> a new and larger one prepared. !
The -kin i> not a part <>f the body, 1
like ours; but is thrown off three or 1
f<ur time- during three weeks of the
caterpillar's life, as we would dorp '
off our dress or as our new teeth posh |
I out the little old ones.
After about three weeks the larva i
wraps itself up in its last skin, stop- <
eating and goes to sleep for a iVw ;
dsn -. This is called the pupa or :
sleeping state, because the insect is •
wrapped up like a baby in swaddling
el'thes. L>uring this time the ant- n- .
iuv t-r feelers, the legs, the wings and s
the proboscis grow oat; so that when
the fly comes out from its old skin it 1
has six long legs, two wing-, twojl
little balancers, a proboscis and mam i
thousand eyes. Before it had a large 1
mouth, now it has a small month and t
a long trunk: then it had short legs j
and large fleet, now it La- long, -leu- i
tier legs and feet, with cushions on .
them: then it had two small eye-. ■
now it has many thousand; then it i
had no wings, now it has two broad •
wings and two little thread-like :
wings beneath them. This makes i
the round of the fly's life. First an :
egg* then a lan a. or grub, or mag- <
got, or skipper—for we give al! tlu se
names to it as we find it in wood, or t
in meat,or in cheese; then the pupa >
or sleeper: then the fly or perfect i
insect. Flies are found ail over the .
earth and you will be surprised to <
know that in some countries of tsouth
I America they lay their eggs in the
nose and mouth of - me poor, dirty,
miserable people while they sleep:
and w hen the lan ;e are hatched they
cause great suffering and death to
the poor wretches. In Africa one
kind of fly stings the cattle, causing (
them to die in a few hours. In this
country the bot-fly deposits eggs
under the skin of cattle, and the gad
flv lays its eggs in the nostrils of the
sheep; and when the larva? are
hatched, the poor animals suffer and
sometimes die from the effects. But
the house-fly does no harm to man.
It does us good when it picks up the
crumbs and other waste particle-,
that would decay and make the air
of our rooms less pure and healthful
1 and when they come in great num
bers it is because tlune is much there
for them to eat.
ty>at Rum did for Mr Brick
The celebrated Sum. Brick.of Au
gusta. made a speech at the Augusta
. Reform Club, which for pathos and
humor is n<t vften excelled. It is
necessary to note the fact that Mr.
i Brie k lost s j ortion of his ik -e s- :r.e
r vears since by a operation.
In .-occluding his remarks the speak-
vT -aid '
\\ hen I think of what I am and
what I might have been, ; can well
say that rum lias done much for me.
Little good and much evil. It has
made me a handsome man; it has
restrained me from extravagant iiv
ing, costly clothing, valuable jewelry,
last horses, seaside mansions and
yachts. It has prevented me from
being called a bloated bond-holder, I
may have been called a bloated H>um
mer,' but I am guiltless of bonds and
stock. It has saved me from paying
exorbitant taxes on real estate, and
relieved me of the double expense of
putting a cupola on my house and
putting a house under my cupola. It
has relieved me of a family and j
home. Washing days are unknown
to me and my l ight key awakens no
wife and children. It has prevented
me from !x ing swindled and robbed.
Nobody borrow of me under the
garb of prevented friendship. No
body attempts to wrest from me j
what they know I haven't got—and i
the only thing 1 have lost after a
series of years is a few inches of mv
nose, which I don't miss. Yes. rum
has done much for me. You can all
sec what ruin has done for ine and
let me toll ail within the sound of mv
voice, that if you have anything to
do with the vile stuff, it may do as \
much for you. Shun the bowl and
above all things avoid the first glass.
PVRIXG the past ten or fifteen
yeai*s much attention has !>een given
to the plants ot various countries by
paper-makers. Almost any plant
will yield paper material; but iu all
there is some element which it is
more or less costly to remove before
j>nper can be profitably made. We
have in our own country many plants
which do tolerably well. Ti.e com
mon rug-weed— Ambrona srteMKK
/oh'a —has been rather extensively
used the past year or two and
promises to hold its own pretty well.
But the plant which has become
most popular in this connection is a
gra>s—/.yo- .-7 >rt- —known in
the trade as Esparto grass and which
grows naturally in the marshes oL
South Spain and the coasts of thej
Mediterranean. In England Esparh
grass for paper-making is being con
seined in immense quantities. The
London 7 >/• is printed now entire
ly on Sparto-grass paper and it is
the stoutest paper we receive. The]
native locations have been found too
limited for the demand, and planta
tions are being made of it in various
parts of Spain where it does not nat
urally grow. It is well worthy of
trial in this c untry; but the sted
seems difficult to get hold of. Com
mumeoerCspraa had his attention,
drawn to its value when he was at
the head of the-Agricultural Bureau
and imported seed aft some cost; but i
the plants dietl out during the heat
of the following summer at the Gov-j
eminent gardens at Washington. It
was thought it would not adapt itself j
to this climate; but these experi
ments ought not to be regarded as
decisive, by any means.—lud'jxn
dent.
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Pay Your Fare.
Dean Richmond had a son who*
habits and character were not en
tirely in accord with his father's
w iskes. die not h-. i a pen
behind his ear nor path himself uj
on a stool poring over the books in
the office, nor did he exhibit any of
the qualifications for a successful
bull or** bear upon the stock market-
The father lost confidence in the s *n.
and so strong became hi- dissatisfac
tion that he eventually ostracised
him. He wtis allowed to labor and
shift for his own means of support-
He became a conductor upon his
father's railway. Mr. Richmond : '. 1
him that the least infractions of the
rules of the company would insure
hi- immediate removal and especially
was be warned against allowing any
person, whether friend or not. to ride
without showing a ticket or fuss, or
paying the necessary fare. He had
been employed in this capacity for
some time and there had been no
complaints, when, one day. Dean
Richmond himself became a pMM
ger upon his son's train. The con
ductor. while collecting tickets and
fart-, cam*, to the old railway mag
nate when the following dialogic
enrred
I "Ticket, sir!"
1 "Ticket? Get out! 1 am the
. president of this road. I don't buy
? tickets."
•; " That makes no difference. It's
- against orders for me to allow anv
. | body to ride without he pays his
I fare, presents a ticket, or shows a pass.'
i Come, hurry up."
\x- ■'
"Hell, sir, you know who I am
and you know that I am entitled to ;
tide on this road free. I could make
i out a pass but I haven't any blanks. I
You go on. It's all right."
"See here, old gentleman, it makes
no difference who you are; give me
a ticket, show a pass, pay your fare, j
; or get off this train."
"Humph! young man you are get- i
ting mighty arbitrary. If you don't !
go on about your business I'll have '
you discharged."
The young conductor made no re-;
ply, but gave a vigorous pull upon
the bell-rope. As the train checked !
its speed and the father saw he was
about to be treated like any other'
passenger and w as really liable to be
set down beside the track midway !
between stations, he pulled his wal-.
let and paid his fare.
The National Home for Disabled
Volunteer Soldiers.
Milwaukee. Wis.. May 3 m '
En. ELMIRA ADVERTISER. — Sir: I
have been thinking for some time
that a letter descriptive of one of our •
Soldiers' Homes might not be unin-1
teresting to you r numerous readers. [
account- that have found their'
way into print have in general savor-'
>•> 1 somew hat of interest or prejudice.
I am an inmate on an equal footing
with all the mst a- to privilege though
I h >pe not a- to "m >ral status."—
Well, this north-eastern branch of
the National Home for disalded vol
unteer soldics is situated about three
mile- west of the city of Milwaukee,
the Milwaukee and St. Paid Railroad]
passing through the ground. Th>
lan l was purchased in 1&66, about]
four hundred tu-ses of good agricul
tural land. This building now used
: - a hospital, -ize one hundred and
forty by forty, three stories, brick. I
was built for the Home in I s ' T but
u: - found inadequate for the aceom- i
uiodatlon of the applicants and in
11
l v 9 the- building now used was
erected. It i> brick, three hundred
and fifty ly eighty feet, with wing
one hundred by fofty, all four stories
with basement. The farm supplied
| with numerous fine springs and the
water is fresh a:.d good on every
floor in the building; tbcie are baths <
and hot and cold water wash rooms,
and v. a .ER ch>CT- UJ-JII : very floor.and
n fact it ha.- all improvements to If
und in any mo lern institution of
the kind in the country. The gs> is <
manufactured on t lie grounds. The J
clothing is washed in the building.!
-team power l>eing u>ed for that pur
pose as well as heating the building. 1
The farm i- made to produce a great
deal toward the support "f the insti- i
tution. and all work is done bv in
mates—men who have been soldiers
and have become incapacitated for <
outside life, some temporarily but i
must of them permanently. M e
have all phases of disease and diss -
bilitv known to the profession. The <
I j
diet is of a very generous kind
and is varied so that no two days in
succession are alike in that respect.
Those who require lighter diet are i
furnished with whatever their appe- '
tite seems to crave. Each man is
furnished with clothing of the United
Mates regulation pattern, his wash
ing, his shaving, Lair cutting, etc., is
done free, he is furnished stationery
and postage, and tobacco to a rea
> malle amount. gratis, ?. •.. provid
ed always that he is not a pension. r v
when he must pay for the latter.
There is a very good library, and all.
the newspapers and periodicals of the
day are furnished free by the various
publishers 'f the eonntry. MTe have j
men here from all the States, but (
\- w York. I think, has the largest
representation of any. na
tionality, almost, is represented—the
German and Irish predominating
largely. General Butler—with all
his faults *e must love him still—
• has. in identifying himself with this
institution. Landed t.is name down
• to pOStt ritv in away that will war
• ran: its testing for g. ne rations at.
This place is truly juael * e
Home. It certainly comes as near
it as is possible without the presence
iof mother or wife. Our Deputy-
Governor is Major-General E>J. W.
Hineks. who hu-> a good reputation
as an officer and in his short admin
; istration has given evidence of exec
' utive ability together with humane
j attributes. The surgeon is Dr. Isaac
11. Stearns, of Massachusetts, latterly
troiu the Maine Home, a surgeon of
; very extensive experience, a physi-
I cian of acknowledged skill and a
' gentleman of warm impulses. The
chaplain is E. A. Ludwiek, late colo
1 ut 1 in the army, a young man of more
! than average attainments and who,
| though so situated that lie could
i place himself in an enviable position
I outside of this place but chooses to
1 waiveall personal considerations and,
making it a labor of love, stays here i
with us, is certainly my ideal of the
I Christian gentleman. The weather
jis quite cold here yet. We haven't
had a warm day yet this season, so
that it is dull. I am told that as
soon as it is warm weather they have
| picnics and pleasure j>arties here fr>m
the city almost every day enjoying
the cool shade and delightful drive-..
Iu order that one may be admitted
all he is to do is to show evidence of
his service, that he was honorabh
discharged, and then it is left to the
board of surgeons to say whetner he
is physically disqualified to earn his
own subsistence.
Very respectfully yours,
MICAWBI'B.
The Starry Snow-flakes.
It was snowing fast and five little
m>>es were pressed against tae win-,
dow-panes. their owner- looking out
to see the white flakes fall. As they
stood thus a voice upstairs shouted.
"Come up here, young ones, and I'll
make you MC -tar.-!" It was Uncle
L>eu. w hose guests the children w* re.
Five pairs of little feet [ottered up
the stairs.
"Show u- the stars 1" cried Franky,
putting hi- head in at tin loor. " But
you can't because it i-n't night, you
know."
*• But there are stars that may be
seen by day." said Uncle Ben, laugh
ing with the rest. "Wait a bit!''
Presently he put some snow-flakes
under his microscope and Frank and
the others looked through it and saw
stars of most beautiful form-. "A
snow-flake, you see. is a star." said
Uncle Ben, triumphantly.
"Oh, how prettv !" cried Loo. "I
shall hate to tread on the snow now!
Just to think of trampling love!;,
stars under foot! But perhaps they
are not always so beautiful! "
"Yes. my dear, they are." said
Uncle Ben. "but I don't think the\
ever look twice alike, for their forms
are endless."
"The-e are all iust alike." said
Fan. ~N o, they are a teenty-tonty
bit dirferent.''
" Yes, and sec-," cried Frank, "they
are changing all the while ! "
" Yes. they change their form-as
they melt," said Uncle Ben. "At
one falling the flakes have ah.:>ut the
same st\le of figure, but if it shook!
stop snowing a while and then begin
again the flakes would have a differ
ent form."
After the children had hooked
through the microscope as long as
they cared to do so their uncle took
a book from the table and in a mo
ment their eager little faces were
lending over it as it lay opened upon
his knee.
"Ob! oh!' cried the children,
"what lot- of pictures! Are these all
snow-flakes?"
"Yes." -aid Uncle Ben.
"They're nice to look at. because
they don't melt." said Franky.
••Yes and some of these are pret
tier than the lice snow-drops" ad
ded little Gus. "Just count how
many points they have !'*
"Ah! these were seen up in the
1 cold polar region*-." sai d Uncle Ben.
"I have been up there myself, you
know, and I was sorry enough that I
could not handle my pencil so as to
draw the beautiful star-flakes I -aw.
Tbev take more varied forms in the
Arctic regions than in our temper
ate clime."
"It isnt very temperate here now,'"
laughed Frank: "it's oold enough for
li. . >-*■-' >U !?•
"Tell n- how many kinds you
8. P. Hamilton,
Publisher.
$1.75 A YEAR
uncle," said Loo. * 4 But may be you
didn't keep account."
u \es. 1 made crosses in my note
book, ' nswered Uncle Ben, "and
there were forty-two crosses in all.
But I have read of a Captain Scores
by who counted up to ninety-six
varieties. Sometimes the flakes take
the form of darts or pyramids, but I
think the stars are prettiest—Come,
now let u? go down-stsiirs and make
a suow-man," Then they all marched
out of doors, their Uncle at their
head, and the boys fell at once to
piling up snow, but Loo, as she
stepped out on the soil white carpet
of the earth, kissed a -.now-flake as it
fell, saying softly to herself, "I love
vou, beautiful white star.
r __ t t _
The Use of Children.
For what are these child-angels made
I that are sent down to this world to bring
so mm h love and rapture and then go
j from us in such bitterness and mourn
ing? If we believe in Almighty Love,
, we must believe that they have a merci
ful and tender mission to our wayward
souls. Tiie love wherewith we love
theiu is something the most utterly piir
and unworldly of which human exjteri
ence is capable and we must hoj>e that
every one that goes from us to the world
of light goes holding an invisible chain
of love by which to draw us there.
Sometimes I think I would never have
had my little Daisy grow older on this
earth. The little child dies in growing
into womanhood; and often the woman
is far less lowly than the little child.
It seems to me that lovely and loving
childhood, with its truthfulness, its
frank sincerity, it.- pure, simple love, is
so sweet and holy an estate that it would
he a beautiful thing in Heaven to have
a baud of heavenly children, guiltless,
gay and forever joyous. tender spring
blossoms of the Kingdom of Light.
Was it of such that He had left in His
I heavenly la.me that our Saviour was
; thinking when He took little children
in His arm- and blm-ed them and said.
"Of such is thfc Kingdom of Heaven!'*
To Restore Scratched Furniture.
"■kiape one pound of Ix-eswax into
I 1 *
-hayings in a {tan: add half a gallon of
iritsof tupeatiuesodone pint of liu-
S' lsl r :1. I. t it remain twelve hours,
then stir it well with a stick, into a li
, quid: wi;ii" -ti; I i;. g add one quarter
pound shellac varnish and -ue ounce aJ
ka/iet root. Put this mixture it to a
gallon jar and stand it befci<• the fire or
in an - v en, for aw tek to keep it just
warm, shake it up three or four times
a day. Then strain through a hair sieve
a: d l-.-tti'* it. Pour ab<>ut a teaspoon
ful a wad of 1 ..ize. go lightly over
t';e face and other parts <>f mahogany
turiiituie. then rub briskly with a .sim
ilar dry wad, and in three minutes it
v ill produce a dark brilliant polish un
equalled.
Another preparation may 1* made as
follows: Make a mixture of three parts
linseed oB and one part spirits of tur
pentine. It not eoly comers tbedalf
urtd surface, but restores wood to its
original color and leaves a lustre u}u
the surfa- ". Put on v. itL a woolen loth
a:.d when dry rub with woolen.
Prohibition in Maine. —Decrease in
Crime
We - hear it said that there
is more liquor drank now in Maine, un
der prohibition, thin there was forty
year- ago under lie* - . But every can
did ma'i knows better. ladeed, a coui
poiis 'ii { Maine to-day w.th license
-tab - M.r ' - t' :t * are not one
f irth many pi. -- in Maine wD-re
intoxicating liquor- sac Mii as a leve
rage a.- t lie re are in I." IOC states and
not one-eighth as much liquor sdd ;• r
inhabitant. The last report of the At
tomeyT.enenil of Main** ~-3 ninety
per ' Tiit. of our criminals are made by
the liquor traffic and gives us some iu
tei---tir.g statistics of the decrease of
crime in this State growing out of pro
hibition and its enforcement.
During the year I*j6 the prison. ja.l
and reform idM weened J>4 crimi
nal". The number sentenced m 3 so7
was 1-37 : in
1879,159; in 1871, 1-52: aud in i-Cg y
1u Estimating tlie average of coic-
EDitments f-.r the seven years under re
view we find it 1-52. TL. result indicates
the RMtfcaHe fact that the crime du
ring the List yea: 1*72. in wi.i-L the re
form movement has gone hand in l.ahd
with prohibition. is thirty-three j*-r
cent, less li an the average of the last
seven yarv. It si' ild' * noticed. more
over, tint the number c avicted arid
sentenced last year is nfty per cent, less
than in and thirty-three per cent,
than in I*7l.
Of course DO one will CLAIM 'bat our
prohibitory Li v. are tl. j: -gily enforced
in all parts erf the Stat*-, for tLat :m
--jesil'* everywhere until the paMic sen
timent of every locality shall hsvebeen
bro ght up to the requisite standard. —
JLcwirtos M .Lr - * uer-?.
A . SIX -hat- METER shs T-I—AX ur
chin