IIIIe
OLUME I
ItlDGWAY, ELK CO. PA., FRIDAY, MARCH 2G, 18G9.
NUMBER 19.
THE FATIIEHLESS.
"Come hither, 'tis thy father, boyl
Receive him with a kiss."
''Oh, mother, mother, do not jost
On such a themo lis this.
Though I was but a little child,
How bitterly I cried,
And clung to thee in agony,
When my poor father died."
"Come, child, this is no time to weep,
Partalco thy mother's joy ;
Tbobuiband of my choice will prove
A parent to my boy."
'Uh, mother, mother, say not so,
I cast no blame on thee,
But you cannot mako a stinnger feel
A father's love for me."
"Come, boy, 'tis for thy sake I wed"
"No, mother, not for mine!
I do not ask in all the world
One smile of love savo thino,
0 say, why is the widow's veil
So early thrown aside T
The hateful minor Is not true;
Thou wilt uot be a bride?
'Oh, mother, canst thou quite forget
How band in hand we crept,
To my own honored father's bed,
To watch him as bo slept t (
An1 do you not remember still
Ilia fond but feeble kiss ?
'Alan! such thoughts but little Fuit
A day of joy like this.'' .
"Ofjoyl oh.tuothor. wo must part,
This is no homo for mo;
1 cannot bear to breathe one word
Of bitterness to thee.
My father placed my hand in thine,
And bade me love thee well;
And bow I love, theso tears of mine
May eloquently tell.
"Thou Eaves yon eUnrgJr loiei thy child-
1 see lie strives to please;
But, mother, do uot bo bis bride
1 ask it on my bended knees.
I used to lileu to bis voice
With pleasure, I coufess;
But call Mm husband ! and I shrink,
.Ashamed of his caress.
"For 1 am of an ago to prize
The being in whom blend
The love and the soiiciltido
Of father and of friend;
My father pluimed my boyish sports,
And shared each care I fell.
And taught iny infant lips to pray,
As by his hide I knelt.
'Yet deem not mine an impious glief;
No, mother, thou wilt own
With cheerfulness I spoke of biin
When we have been alone;
3ut bring no other father heie
No, niothei, we must part;
t'.ie feeling that I'm fatherless
Weighs heuvy on uiy heart"
Uu forgo I ten Words.
"Have you examined that bill, James?"
"Yes, mr."
"Anything wrong?"
"1 hud two errors.
"Ah! let me see "
Tlie lad handed Ins imployer a long bill
hat had been placed upon bis desk for el
imination.
Here is an error in the calculation often
lollurs which they have made against them-
elvesj and uuotucr ot ten dollars in the loot-
"Alfo against themselves?"
'Yes sir.'
' The merchant smiled iu a way that struck
the lad as peculiar.
( 'Twenty dollars against themselves,' lie re
marked iu a kind of pleasant surprise. 'Trus
ty clerks they must have. '
'Shall 1 correct the figures?' asked the lad.
'No! let them cerrect their own mistake?;
we dou't examine bills for other people's
benefit,' replied the merchant. 'It will be
time enough to recti I'y those errors when
they find it out. All so much gain, as it
tiow stuuds. '
The boy's delicate moral souse was shock
ed ut so unexpected a remark, lie was the
ion of a poor widow, who bud given him to
understand that to be just wus the duty of
men.
Mr. Carman, ths merchant, iu whse i in
payment he had been for only a few months
was uu old friend of bis father's, iu whom he
reposed the highest confidence. In fact,
James had always looked upon him as a kind
of a model man, nud when Mr. Carmau
agreed to take biin iuto his store, Le felt
that a good fortune was iu his way.
'Let them correct their own mistakes.'
These words made a strong impression on the
miud of James Lewis. When first spoken
by Mr. Curinan, and with the meaning then
involved, lie felt, as he bad said, shocked;
but as he turned tbem over again in bis
thoughts, and connected their utterances
with a person who stood so high in bis moth-
r g estimation, ne oegan to tninu that per-
pg the thing was lair enough in business,
r. Carman was hardly the man to do wrong.
few days after James bad examined the
1, a clerk from the house by which it had
rendered called for settlement, me lad
nfeseuii, wuueu witu mioirai iw occ
. : . . 1 ... : . 1. : .. -
L..L..4i.. Kf.Jartnaa wouia spaas: or me ev
T,,t KormuTSk.D0 remark. A check for
the amount of the blTfreqderecl, wus nueu
up and receipt taken. -
i. tmt. ritrht?'
.Times asked himself the Question. His
moral sense said do; but the fact Jhat Mr.
Carman bad so acted bewildered nit mind.
It may be the way in business' so he
thought to himself 'but it don't look
honest. I wouldn't have believed it of him.'
Mr. Carman bad a kind of way with him
t won the boy s heart, and naturally tend-
o fnaKO Dim juugo nuoimcr ue nilgai uo
most luvoraoie manner.'
wish be bad corrected that error,' he
(id to himself a great many times when
thinking in a pleased way of Mr. Carman,
and bis owu good fortune in having been re
ceived into bit employment 'It don't look
right, but it nay be it'sthe wsYofbuiiueis.
One day he went to the bauk and drew the
money on a check. In counting it over he
found that the teller had paid himifty dol
lars too much, so he went back to the counter
and told him of bis mistake. The teller
thanked him, and he returned to the store
with the consciousness in his mind of haviuir
done right.
'The teller overpaid mo fifty dollars, ho
said to Mr. Carman, as he bauded him the
money.
'Indeed! replied the latter, a light break
ing over bis countenance; and he hastily
counted the bank bills.
The light faded as the lust bill loft his
fidgets.
Tli3re's no mistnke, James.' A tone of
disappointment was in his voice.
'Oh, I gave him back the fifty dollars.
Wasu't that right?'
'You Biiupletonl' exclaimed Mr. Carman,
don't you know that bank r.iistakes aro never
corrected? If the teller had paid you fifty
dollars short bo would uot have made it
right.'
The warm blood mantled the cheek of James
under this reproof. It is often the case that
more shame is felt for a bluuder than a crime.
In this instance the lad felt a sort of mod
ificntion ut having done what Mr. Carman
was pleased to call a silly thing, and ha made
up his mind that if they should ever overpay
bim a thousand dollars at the bauk he should
bring the amount back to his employer, und
let him do as he pleased with the money.
'Let people look after their owu mistakes,'
said Mr. Carmau.
James Lewis pondered these things in his
heart. The impression tln-y made was too
strong ever to be forgottou, "It may be
right,' he said, but he did not feci altogether
satisfied.
A mouth or two after the occurrance of
that bank mistake, as James counted over his
weekly wages, just received from Mr. Cur
man, he discovered that he Was paid half a
dollar too much.
The first impulse of liia mind was to return
the half dollar to his employer, and it was on
hi lips to say, 'You have given me half a
dollar too much, sir,' when the uu forgot ten
words, 'Let people look ufter own mistakes,'
flashing upou his thoughts, made him hesi
tate. To hold u parly with an evil is to be
overcome.
'I must think about tliis, said James, ns
he put the money into his pocket. 'If it is
true iu one case it is true in another. Mr.
Curuwu dou't correct mistakes that people
make in his favor, und be can't complaiu
when the rule works against himself.'
Hut the boy was fiir from being iu a com
fort'uble state.- He felt that to keep half a
dollar would be a dishonest act. Still Le
could not make up his miud to return it, ut
least not then.
James did uot return the half dollar, but
spent it for his owu gratification. After he
had done this it came suddenly into his bead
that Mr. Carman had only beeu trying him,
and he was filled with" nuxiety und alarm.
Not long ufter Mr. Caimau repeated the
same mistake- James kept t'-ie half dollar
with less hesitation.
'Let him correct his own mistakes,' said
he resolutely; 'that's the doctriuo ho ncfs on
with other people, nud be can't complaiu if
he gets paid back iu tue same coin he puts
in circulation. I just wauled half a dollar.'
from this time the fine moral bense of James
Lewis was blunted He had taken an evil
counselor iuto his heart, stimulated u spirit
of covetousness latent iu most every mind
which caused him to desire the possession
of things bcyoud his ability to obtain.
James hud good busiuess qualifications,
and so pleased Mr. Carman by bis intelli
gence, indnstiy and tact with customers, that
he advaiiod him rapidly, and gave bim, be
fore hrt was eighteen veurs old, the most re
liable position iu in the tore. Hut James
bud Icarued something more from his em
ployer than how to do busiuess well. He
had learned to be dishonest. Ho haj uevei
forgotten the first lesson be bad received in
this bad science; he hud acted uot only iu
two iustances, but iu a hundred, nud always
to the injury of Mr. Carman. He had long
since given up waiting for mistakes to be
made in his fuvor, but originated them in
the varied and complicated transactions of a
large business iu which he was trusted im
plicitly; for it hud never occurred toMr. Car
mau that his failure to be just to the letter
might prove a snare to fliis youug man.
James grew sharp, cunning and skillful;
always on the alert, always bright and reudy
to meet auy approaches towards a discovery
of his wrong doing by bis employer, who held
him in the highest regard.
Thus it went on until James was in his
twentieth year, when the merchant bad his
suspicion aroused by a letter which spoke of
the young man as not Keeping me niosi re
spectable company, and as spending money
too freely for a clerk on a moderate saler7.
Before this time James hud removed his
mother into a pleasant bouse, for which he
paid a rent of four hundred dollars; his sal
ary was eight hundred, but he deceived his
mother by telling her it was niteen nunurea.
Every comfort that she ueeded was fully sup
plied, and she wus beginning to think that
after a long and painful struggle with the
world, her happier days had come.
James wus at his desk when the letter was
received by Mr. Carman. He looked at bis
employer uud saw bim change "countenance
suddeuly. He read it over twice, and James
saw that the coutents produced disturbance.
Mr. Carman glanced toward the desk, and
and theireves met: it was ouly for a moment,
but the look that James received made his
heart stop beatiug.
There was something about the movements
of Mr. Carman for the rest or the day that
troubled the young man. It was plain to
him that suspicion had beeu aroused by that
letter. 0, bow bitterly now did he repent,
in dread of discovery and punishment, the
evil of which he Lad been guilty! Expouro
would disgrace end ruin bim, aud bow the
bead of his widowed mother even to the
grave.
'You are not well this evening,' said Mrs.
Lewis, as she looked at her son's changed face
acrost the table, end noticed that be did not
eat.
'My bead aches.'
'Perhaps the tea will make you feel bet
ten
'I'll lie down on the tofa in the parlor for
a short time,'
Mrs. Lewis followed him into the parlor in
a little while, and, sitting down on the tofa
orTwhich ha was Ivinir. placed her band noon
hit head. Ab, it would take more than the
lofing preaeure of a mother' band to ease
the pain from which be was suffering. The
touch of that pure band increased the pain
to ngony.
'Do you leel better; asked Mrs. Lewis.
She hod-remained some time with her hand
on his forehead.
'Not much,' he replied, and rising as he
spoke, be added, 'I thiuk a walk in the open
air will do me good.'
'Don t go out, James, said Mrs. Lewis, a
troubled feeling coming into her heart.
'1 II only walk a few squares.' And James
went from the parlor and paseed iuto the
street.
'There is something more than headache
the matter with him, thought Mrs. Lewis.
For half an hour James walked without
any purpose in his mind beyond the escape
from the presence ot bis mother. At last bis
walk brought him noar Mr. Carman's store,
aud at passing ho was surprised at Boeing a
light within.
'What can this mennr he asked himself, a
new fenr creeping, with its shuddering im
pulse, into his heart.
lie listened oy the door and windows, but
he could bear i.o sound within,
'There s something wrong, he said; 'what
can it be? If this is discovered, what will
be the eud of it? Ruin! ruin! My poor
mother!'
The wretched young man hastened on,
walked the street for tw hours, when he re-
urned home. His mother met him wlieu he
entered, and, with unconcealed anxiety,
asked bim if ho were better. He said yes,
but in a manner that only increased the
trouble she felt, and passed up hastily to his
own room.
In the morning the strangely nlfprcd face
of James, as he met bis mother at the break
fast table, struck alarm into her heart, lie
was silent, and evaded all her questions.
While they sat at the table the door bell rung
loudly The sound startled James, and he
turned his head to listen in a nervous wuy.
' ho is iti iisked Mrs. .Lewis.
'A gentleman who wishes to see Mr.
James,' replied the'girl.
James rose instantly, and went out into
tue hall, shutting the diuing-room door ns
he did so'. Mrs. Lewis sat waiting her sou's
returu. She heard him coining buck in a
few moments; but he did not enter the din
ing room, then ho returned ulonjPtlie hall
to the street door, Hiid she heard it shut.
All was silent. Startiug up she run into the
p-issage, but Jnmes was uot there. He had
gone uwuy with the person who had called.
Ah, that was a sad going away ilr. Uar
muu had spent half the night iu axnmiuiug
tho accouuts of James, and discovered frauds
of over six thousand dollars. Blindly indig
nant, he sent uu oflicer to arrest hnn early
in the morning; and it was with this oflicer
that he weut uway from his mother nkvkb to
R KIT UN.
'The young villain shall lie in the bed he
has made for himself!' exclaimed Mr. Carmau
iu his bitter indignation. Aud he made the
exposure completely. On the trial he show
ed au eager desire to have hi in couvicted,
and presented su.h an array of evidence that
the jury could uot give any other verdict
than guilty.
The poor mother was in court.and audible
in the silence that followed came bercouvul-
Bive sobs upou tho air. Tho presiding judge
addressed the culprit, uud asked it be had
anything to suy why the sentence of luw
should nut be pronounced against him. All
eyes were turned upon tho pale, agitated
youug man, who rose Willi un ellort, uud
leaned ugaiust the railing by which he stood,
us if needing the support.
'Will it please the court,' he said, 'to di
rect my prosecutor to como a little nearer,
so that 1 can look ut hiiu uud your honors at
the same time?'
Mr Carmau was directed to coino forward
to where the hoy stood. James looked ut
him steadily for a few moments, uud theu
turned to the judges.
hat 1 have to say to vour honors is
this,' (he spoke calmly uud distinctly), 'aud
it may iu a degree exteuuate, though I can
not excuse' my crime. 1 weut iuto thut muu'i
store uu inuocent boy, and if be had beeu au
honest muu 1 would not Lave stood before
you to day as u criunual. '
Mr Curiiiuu appealed to the court for pro
tectiou agaiust au allegation of such un out
rageous character; hut he wus peremtorily
ordered to bo silent. James weut on iu a
firm voice.
'Only u few weeks after I went iuto his
employment I exam i uud a bill by bis direc
tion uu discovered au error of twenty dol
lars. '
The face of Mr. Carman crimsoned.
'You remember it, I see,' said James,
'aud I shall have cause to remember it while
I live. The error was iu lavor of Mr. Car
man. I asked if I should correct the figures
and he uuswered, 'Xo, let them correct their
owu mistakes; wedou't examine bills for other
people s beuebt. It was my first lesson in
dishonesty. 1 saw the bill settled, aud Mr.
Carmau take twenty dollars thut was uot bis
owu. 1 felt shocked at nrs'.; it seemed such
a wronn thiug. Hut soon after he culled mo
a simpleton lot huudiug buck a fifty dollar
bill to the teller of. a bauk, which he hud
overpaid me on a check, aud then
'May I ask the protection of the court?'
said Mr! Carmau.
'Is it true whut.the lad Eays?' asked the
iudsre.
Mr. Carman hesitated aud looked confused;
all eves were ou his face; aud judges aud jury,
lawyers and spectators, felt certain that be
was guilty ot leading tuo uuuappy young
muu astray.
'Not loug afterward,' resumed Lewis, ' 'in
receiviug my wuges 1 fouud thut Mr. Carmau
hud paid me filtv centB too much. 1 wus
about to give it back to him, when I re mem
bered his remark about letting people corect
their owu mistukes, aud suid to myself 'let
him correct his own errors,' aud disliouestly
kept the money. Aguin the thiug happened
and uguin I kept the mouey that did not of
right beloug to me. 'ibis was me oegiuing
ot evil, aud bere I am. If he bad shown any
mercy I might bave kept silent aud made no
defence.'
The young man covered hit face with his
handa and sat down overpowered with his
feelines. His mother, who was near bim,
sobbed uloud, aud bending over, laid her
band on his head, saying;
'My poor boyl my poor boyl'
There were few eyes in the court room un
dimmed. In the sileuce that followed, Mr.
Carman spoke out)
'Is rov character to be thut blasted en the
words of of a criminal, your boners? It thit
right?'
'Your solemn oath that this charee is un
true,' said the judge, 'will set you in the
right' It was the unhappy boys only op
portunity, and the court felt bound in hu
manity to hear him.
James Lewis stood 'up ajrain instantly.
and turued his white face and lauk, piercing
eyes npon Mr. Carman.
Let him take his oath if he dure!' he ex
claimed. Mr. Carman consulted with bis counsel and
withdrew.
After a brief conference with his associ
ates, the presiding judgo said, addressing the
criminal:
'In consideration of yonr youth, and the
temptation to which, in tender years, you
were uuhapily subject, the court eives you
the slightest sentence, one year's imprison
ment.. JLut let me warn you against any lur
ther step9 in the way you have taken. Crime
can have no valid excuse. It is evil in the
sight of Ood and man, and leads only to suf
fering, w hen you come tortn again alter
your brief incarceration, may it be with the
resolution to dierather than commitacnme.
And the curtaiu fell ou the snd scone in
the boy's life. When it was lifted again, aud
be came forth from prison a year afterward,
bis mother was dead. From the day her
pale face faded from his vision ns he passed
from the court room he never looked upon
her again.
Ten years afterward a man was reading a
newspaper iu a far western town. He had a
calm, serious face, and looked like oue who
hud known suffering mid trial.
'Brought to justice at last! he said to him
self, as the blood came to his face; 'convicted
on the charge of open iusolveney, and sent
state prison. So much far the man who gave
me, in tender years, the first lesson in ill-doing.
Hut, thank God, the other lessons have
been remembered. 'When you como forth
again,' said the judge, 'may it be with the
resolution to die rather than commit a crime'
aud I have kept this iujuuetion in my heart
when then seemed uo way of escapiug ex
cept, through crime; aud (Jod helping mo,
1 wul keep it to the end.
A DisurftTKD Darkey". An industrious
darkey living iu Western Pennsylvania, af
ter accumulating a house aud lot, thought,
his next purchase should be iu tho way of
live stock ami so be bought a sheep of the
male persuasion. His favorite amusement
during leisure hours wus to get down on the
grass and noil dehuueo to the aunnul, which
would inuke savage plunges at the apparent
enemy, out us the savage en ature approach
ed, the darkev would droo his face to the
ground so thut the sheep, missing his mark
would tumblo over and over. Oue duv the
durkey called a couple of passing neighbors
to see the fun, and he begau a part of tbo
little farce, as usual. The sheep did not
seem to see him ut first, but presently raised
his head from the grass on which it was graz
ing and trowned upon hnn.
"Oh, jis wutch him now! said Sambo, in
great glee.
Old bucky made a rush as was his wont,
and Sambo suddeuly dropped his face to the
grouti.l. Hut us tho fiends would have it his
flat uoo came in contact with a sharp snag
he diudn t observe belore, and he jerked back
his head iu time to receive the full shock of
the sheep's hard head between his owu nose
und wool.
There was such a rolling and tumbling over
and over tor the next quarter ot u minute,
thut tho neighbors could uot tell wlucli was
the sheep or which was tho darkey. They
soon got separated, and Mr. Darkey got
owly up, grinned foolishly, and said:
Pon my word he uebber dun dut afore!
Gittin too smart for dis uigguh. I'se gwiue
toslopfooliu with such a lellah as dat.
There was plenty of mutton in the neighbor
hood next day, but the sheep was never sceu
agaiu.
The Xew York Herald says Parsou
Browulow presents the most extraordinary
picture of physical debility that was ever
heloro witnessed in any legislature assembly.
Thud. Stevens might have beeu cousidered,
when brought iuto tho Senuto Chamber ou
meu's shoulders to tuke his place among the
managers in the memorable days of the im-
peaebmeut trial, the best illustration up to
that time presented of the triumph of intel
lectual will over a shuttered and prostruted
bodily oigauist, but Hrowulow's appearence
shows even greater ludiculious of physical
wreck and ruiu, aud yet tht'latter lacks uoth-
lug of the same unconquerable mental hie
aud energy that marked to his latest moments
the character of the Great Commoner.
When taking the oath Browulow lay back
in his chair, bis head bent down, his fuce
shrivelled ghastly, and of unearthy hue, his
hands clasped iu bony, vice-like grasp, and
bis whole uppeuruuee indicative of great
physical depression. As Mr. Colfax read
the oath ie poor old Parson raised his feeble
arm, which shook with palsy and dropped
every moment at bis side. Assistant ber
geunt-at-urms Bassett went over aud sustain
ed bis arm through the remainder of the
ceremouy, though tho old man made two or
three desperate efforts by himself to sustain
the right arm propping it with bis left baud.
After he had taken the oath the Parson
stretched forth his band for a glass of water,
which shook wluly before it reached his lips
I he orueai, sigut as it seemed, had com
pletely exhausted him.
Ct iiEFOR Drunkenness. Recipes to cure
oue of au appetite for liquor are constantly
going the rounds of the papers. A friend
who has tried it gives the following receipt
Have steady employmeut, aud give it atteu
tion teu hours each day, except Sunduy, aud
theu attend church service regularly, go home
to speud your leisure hours. If your home
is uot pleusunt, set yourself about the agree
able task ot making it so. beu you go
out to publio amusements take some person
of pure unua aud steady babits with you.
The above recipe is more effectual thun a
dozen temperance pledges.
Somb Scare." Little Minnie found
out an ingenious way of getting into bed
in a hurry, which she thus explained to
ber mother t
' Mamma, do you know how I get to
bed quick r '
"No," was the reply.
" Well," said she id great glee, I step
one foot over the crib, and then I Bay
" rats' ana scare myself right in."
AGRICULTUICAIi ITEMS.
Of the 36,000,000 acres of land in Illinc-la,
21,000,000 are improved, aud 10,000,000
nder actual cultivation.
Solon Robinson asserts that the apple
trees in this couutry are slowly dying out,
aud that nothing can save them.
Before the Bpring work multiplies, farm
ers should have gates and fences iu order,
and put all the implements of the farm in
perfect order.
By putting a little borax into cold water,
t will be found that flannels will not only
come out better cleansed, but there will be
absolutely no shrinkage.
Tho earliest society for the promotion of
f agriculture in the United States was es
tablished iu Philadelphia in 1785. The
Massachusetts society wus the second iustitn-
ioii of the kind, aud was incorporated in
792. . .
The Ohio Farmer, of February 20, says
that the sheep panic in that State is subsid-
ng, and that sheep whicu could not nave
been sol J three mouths ago for 7" cents euch,
are now in demand at $1.50 to $3.00.
A correspondent of the Countrt Gentle
man says he killed briars by single cuaing
with a grubbing hoe, done alter tue snow
was off in the spriug, and before the ground
thawed. Mowing in spring or summer in
creases them.
Mr. Trabiio, a wealty farmer residing near
Iluuuibal, lately received a stallion direct
from France. He is a cross between the:
Arabian and Normou, and one of the fiuest
specimens of horse flesh ever brought to
America.
The Gardener's Monthly says that if the
people of the Uuited States care to become
successful grape-growers they must recog
nize the fact thut tho root? of the grape vine
can scarcely be kept too dry und that the
vory best way to accomplish this on flat land
is to raiso the soil above the natural level.
A short time belore his death. Gen. Wash-
ugtou-wrole a letter coutuinig the following
passage, "It is nopeu, und win oe expected,
thut more effectual meuus will be pursued
to muke butter unother year, for it is ulmost
beyond beiief, that with 101 cows reported
ou u late enumeration of the cattle, that I u
obliged to buy butter for the use of my owu
nuly. .
The California Farmer, of January 21,
speaks quite enthusiastically of the great
activity of furmers in that Slute. Hill sides
uud hill tops to the very summit fl-e. being
ouirht under the dominion of that sword
of the Earth, that divides limb from limb,
and particle from panicle, and prepures it
for that "Uaptisinml J? out which shall lul-
nll its destiny. What would the larmers ot
the East say to seo tho furrows ot our grain
planters?
The Ogdensburgh Journal pays: W. II.
II. Jones, of Massenu, St. Lawrence county,
has a pair of calves, eight mouths old,
which weigh 9C0 pounds, stand four feet
high, uud girt five feet three inches. They
are a cross between Devon uud Durham, of
dark cherry color, and are twins from
four years old cow. Mr. J. challenges-the
county and State to produce a better puir of
steers ot their age.
Stock of every description need especial
care during the period ot chauga lroni win
ter to spriug. Laboring animals should not
be put too suddenly to hard work, but in
ured to it by degrees. Cows, ewes nud sows
should be sufficiently, but judiciously fed as
the time ot having their youug approaches.
Uuurd them strictly uguinst aecideuts, and
huve them constantly looked after.
A Maine man gives his method of treating
balkv horses as follows: "Let, me lulorm
humane ineu aud hostlers, aud all who hold
the rein, that the way to cure bulky horses
is to tuke them Irom the carriage and whirl
them rapidly round ti-ll they are giddy. It
requires two men to accomplish this, oue ut
the horse's tail. Dou't let him step out
Hold hnn to tho smallest possible cirolo.
Oue dose will often cure him: fwo doses are
final with the worst horse thut ever refused
to stir."
It is said that many farmers, in different
sections of the country, avoid planting or-
chard because they fear there will eventually
be more fruit ruiscd thun a murket can, un
der the most favorable circumstances, be
found for. Theso farmers should tuke
view of the dried fruit trade, or of the caun
ed fruit truffle, aud also make themselves ac
quainted with the wonderful consumption of
fresh lruit which prevails in all directions.
Thousands ot dollurs worth ot trnit is now
annually sent afar off, iu good condition, to
places which not long ago never received
any, ull owing to the improved methods o
packing, preserving, nud transportation.
'I tiii i-v rtfi ti naimn lid iaa m iwih lenit ii i I
.Graut and Wasltburue.
Captain (now President) Grant had re
sided at Galena several years before Mr
Washburne knew him. Washburne
then the leading man of his Congress
ional District, carrying it, as the phrase
goes, " in his breeches pocket,', owned
and resided iu one ot the most elegant
residences in the city, while Graut was
clerk in ins lather s leather store, and oc
c u pied a little two story cottage on tho
top of a bluff, requiring him to climb a
stairs some 200 feet every time he went
home. At the first war meeting held at
Galena, to muster volunteers, Washburne
offered resolutions and engineered the
meeting, and Iiawlins made a speech.
Capt. Grant was present, but seems to
have been to inconspicuous to be culled
on to take part- At the second meeting
however, Capt. Grant was nominated
Chairman. The first company raised,
however, elected one Chetlain Captain
and Jessie Grants partuer, Collins
peace . Democrat, said to Washburne
" A pretty set of fellows you soldiers are
to elect Chetlain for Captain ! "
Why not ! "
"They were foolish to take him when
they could get such a man as Grant X "
What' Grant's history t "
" Why he is old man Grant's son, was
educated at West Point, served in the
army eleven years, aud came out with
the very best reputation."
Washbnrne immediately called on '
Grant, and invited him to go to Spring
field. There Pope was the hero of the
hour, and all was confusion. Washbnrne
urged Giant a claims, and the latter had
already applied to tho Governor of
Ohio, his native State, and t the Adju
tant General of the army at Washington,
who had not even the grace to answer
his letter.
Washburne with difficulty restrained
im from returning in disgrace to Galena.
At length Grant was employed lo assist
in Governor Yate's office, aud in musler-
ug out regiments.
It is most improbable tliat either
Washburne or Grant had any prescience
of Grant s future success, as Grant him
self is reported to have answered a friend
who asked him why lie ant not apply tor
Colonelcy: 'To tell you the truth, I
would rather like a regiment, yet there
are few men really competent to com
mand a thousand soldiers, and I doubt
whether I am one of thenr
Yates having appointed Grant Colonel
of a regiment, he was indebted for his
promotion to Washburne. President
jincoln sent a printed notice to each of
the Illinois euatorsand Representatives,
asking them to nominate four Brigadiers.
Washburne pie-sed the claims ot Grant
on the ground that his section of tho
State had raised a good many men, and
were entitled to a lirigadier. Grant,
Hulbuit. Prentiss and McClelland were
appointed. When Grant heard of his
promotion ho said: "It never came
from any request of mine. It must bo
some of Washburne's work."
In October, 18G1, while Giant was in
command at Cairo, Washburne paid him
a visit, and then tor the hrst time became
inpressod with the conviction that Grant
was to be " tue coming man ' ot the
war. In the language of his friends
from that time he had "Graut on tho
brain." When Pope's friends urged him
for a Major Generalship, Washburne se
cured a promise from Lincoln that none
of tho Brigadiers should be further pro
moted till they iiad distinguished them
selves in the field. A ring of con
tractors whom Grant had offended circu
lated iu the newspapers a report of his
intemperance. Washbiirue wrote to
Iiawlins lo know if it had any grain of
truth. Rawlins repliwd that much as he
loved his chief, he loved his country more;
and if from any cause he should see him
unfit fur his position, he would inform
Washburne. Having written the letter,
he showed it to Grant, who replied :
Right, exactly right j send it by all
means."
It was not until tho battlo of Fort Don-
elson that Grant entirely achieved a posi
tion which rendered the kind offices oj
washburne no longer absolutely necess
ary to his promotion, i'our days alter
that victory he was appointed and con
firmed Major General of Volunteers.
Woman's Work and Wages.
The proposition of Hon. G. W. Sco-.
field to give the clerkship in Washington
to women, met wun sneers irom a pseuao
Republican journal, but we thing all ac
quainted with the kind and quality of
work demanded irom clerks in the van- .
ous departments at tho Capital will agree
with our county representative.
' The reason," ho says, " why women
did not command the same salaries as
men was that nearly all tho departments
of labor were closed to them, and they
were compelled to take smaller salaries
than men such salaries aa they could
get" ft
This is emphatically the caso in loca
tions, where tho surplus population is
mostly female, and the cruel wrong done
to the sex and society calls for speedy
redress.
In no placo can the good work com
mence with inore . propriety than at
Washington. There we will hud thous
ands of young meu wasting their lives
in purely sedentary employments fitted
for females by tho very character aud
'mode ot conducting the same. At no
place cau the great reform be started in
widening the channels of labor better'
than at the Capitol, and we thank Mr.
Scotield for leading off iu the good work.
Social science conventions may meet
and resolve reforms iu all affairs relating
to the welfare of woman, but a practical
effort like that we name does more real
benefit than wordy conventions, and
much talking by rival orators in rival
Sorosian societies.
The same objections to action on the
part of the government in the above
named reform were offered by tho same
class when Congress was requested by
another Pennsylvanian Thaddous Ste
vens to take the initiative in proclaim
ing equality in the District of Columbia.
We trust Mr. Scotield will press his
motion, and keep pressing upou the
House until be succeeds in carrying '
through successfully the entering wedge
for the improvement of woman's work
aud wages.
The New York Times may declare
"the Government is not benevolent
society or a woman's right association,"
but we declare and know that all the
great reforms in our social life of the pres
ent century come from the very body of
representative man addi eased by our Con
gressmen on behalf ot women's right to
be lurnished employment at remunerative
wages, and that she should have the pre
ference Erie DispntcK.
o
Ha that by his plougu would thrive,
Himself, must either hold or drift.