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VOL. III. IUDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THU11SDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1873. KQ' 39'
(Jo ond Lcnrn a Trade.
I'll eing a little song to-night,
And cv'ry word is true,
You'll f-A that every lino is raennt,
Young gentleman, fur you 1
I've no iutcntion to offend,
Iu what is Bung or eaid
The sum oud pubntauce of it la,
To go and learn a trade.
CBOBVa.
The " coming man " is be who Htm
To see LiB fortune made,
Wuom ev'rybody will respect,
Because lie learned a trade.
Your education may he good,
Tut time ia flitting by.
Instead of working don't be fooled
The old man may not die ;
And if lie should, the chances aro
His will may be mislaid,
Or you cut off without a cent,
So go and " learn a trade."
The country's full of " nice young men,"
Who from their duty shirk ;
Who think 'twould cniBh their fam'ly pride,
If they should go to work ;
Take off your coat (your father did),
And Hurt some honest maid,
Who'll help you make your fortuno wheu
You've learned an honest trade.
Be temperate in all you do.
Bo faithful to your "boss ;"
You'll find the more you do for bim
Will never provo a loss.
You'll find out fifty years from now,
When fame and fortune' made,
The best step that yon ever took
Was when yon learucd a trade.
ONLY A CHILD.
Of nil por men tbo most to be pitied
is the poor rich man. The man iu ab
solute poverty enn be helped ; but for
the rrnn who U pool, with his cof
fers full of gold, thero is no earthly
)iep none, unless something can pet
down into his heart end open the way
for the incoming of sunlight nnd
warmth. Such ft transformation I ouce
linew, and I -will tell you how it wns
wrought. It was done by only a little
child.
Riifus Grote wns renlly nnd truly a
miner, though lie hnd probably never
Acknowledged that fact to himself. At
the nge of sixty, he lived in n dose,
small, shabby house, in a narrow sh eet,
though where the streets w re broad lie
owned a whole row, the rental of which
yielded what might have been a munifi
cent income to nny man.
In early life Rufns Grote had been
disappointed, so while yet a young
man, ho had shut himself ..p within
his shell, nnd through all the years ot
his manhood he hnd neither asked nor
given love or friendship. He took his
usance, even to the pound of flesh, if it
was due him by the bond, nnd he was
ns ready to discharge allbonded obliga
tion. When people who knew Rufus Grote
wished to point to a man without a
henrt they pointed to him. They de
clared that he loved no human being
not c-ven himself. That he did not love
himself was evident to thera from the
fact that he pave to himself not a single
comfort of life which he could avoid
giving, ond nt tUe same time live.
One evening, just at dusk, a coach
stopped at Rufns Grote's door, and a
lady dressed in black, and accompanied
by a child, alighted therefrom, and
plied the rusty iron knocker.
Tho miser answered the summons,
nnd demanded to kuow the applicant's
business.
" Uncle Rnfus," said the woman, " I
cm Mary Sandford, nnd tbisis my child.
Will vou give me shelter until I can find
work?"
Mary Sandford wns the only daughter
of Rufus Grote's dead sister. He had
heard of her husband's denth, nnd Le
had shudderingly asked himself more
than one if it might not be possible
that his widowed niece would call upon
him for assistance. And now that the
dreaded blow had fallen what was he to
do ? Had he followed the first impuls
es he would have turned the woman and
child away with a word, but that would
have been inhuman, lie was caught in
a trap. He hnd to open his door wider,
and let them in. And when they were
in, he was forced in common decency,
to go out and buy a loaf of bread and
some cheese.
Mary Sandford was over thirty-five
a slight, pale-faced, pretty woman, and
v hat of beauty she possessed was due
more to the re'flex action upon her face
and manner of her native goodness than
to nny outward form of feature.
Her child a girl of nine years was
c illed riora. She was a plump, dimpled,
canny-haired, and suuny-fuced child,
with'the light of a tender, loving heart
sparkling in every feature. She wn
really and truly a thing of beauty, and
a perfect joy.
After eating the bread and cheese,
and drinking cold water with it,
Mary Sandford told to Rufus Grote
the story of her husband's death how
he had sufferrdlong, and how he had left
her in destitution.
" Rut," she concluded, as she saw a
cloud upon her uncle's face, " I am not
come to be a burden -apon you. Mrs.
Mnynard will be in town in a few days,
and will give me work."-
" Ugh 1 What kind of work ?" grunt
ed Rufus.
" I shall keep house for ber."
T Later in the evening, by the dim
light of a single tallow caudle, little
1'lora crept to the old man's side, and
climbed up into his lap. For a inomeut
l e had thought of putting her away, as
he would have to put away an insinu
ating cat, but he did mot do it. So she
kept on until she had both hands upen
bis shoulders.
" You are my Uncle Rufue," she
said, with a quivering, eager smile.
" I suppose so," answered the man,
foroing out the reluctant words.
" I haven't got a papa any more.
Mayn't I kiss you before I go to bed ?"
The little warm arms were around bit
peck, and the kiss was upon bis cheek.
The child waited a moment as though
for a kiss in return, but s!e did set net
it, and she slipped down and went with
ber mother to tbo little dark room
where Kulus Grote bad given up to
their use bis own hard, poor bed.
For himself, the best bad planned to
spread a blanket upon the floor in the
living-room. He had slept so before,
and he could sleep so again.
The soil of Rufus Grote's heart was
like the soil of other hearts. A seed
onco forced through the crust would
find root there either good or evil. In
all his manhood's life s bright a thing
had not crept upon him before so
warm a thing as that childish kiss had
not toucned his cheek He did not think
Of it so much until he was alone in the
dense darkness, nnd then, when he
could see nothing else, he could see
that sunny face, and the musical chir
rup sounded again iu his ears. At
first, he would have been glad to believe
that the child's mother l... instructed
her in this, but when he looked over all
the circumstances, he knew that it
could not have been ; and, in the end,
before he slept, he was glad that the
little child had "me to him of her own
sweet impulse.
Upon that hard floor, wifli only a
single blanket for bedding, Rufus
Grote did not sleep so soundly as was
his wont. Ho dreamed, nnd in his
dreams ho saw a cherub, and felt cher
ubic arms nbout his neck, with kisses
upon his cheek. And he said to kimself
in his dreams:
" Surely I cannot be such an ogre if
these sweet beings can love me !"
In the morning Rufus Grote was up
very early. He had thought, the night
before, that he had bread and cheese
enough lor breakfast; but nfter the
night's rest perhaps nfter the night's
dreams he took new theughts. With
out exactly comprehending the feeling,
the sense of utter loneliness and sel
fishness had given place just the glim
mering of a place to a warmer sense of
companionship and fraternity. He put
his hand up to the cheek where the im
press of the child's kiss had fallen, and
a new resolution came to his mind. He
went out to a neighboring street corner
and purchased tea, and sugar, and but
ter, and new warm breakfast-rolls, and
a small can of milk. He had just de
posited these articles upon his own
table when Mis. Sandford made her ap
pearance.
"Good morning, Uncle Rufus," she
said.
Had the host caught that sound when
he first arose it would have startled
hiiu ; but it fell very softly upon his
ears now. He had been exercising, and
had earned the salute.
"Good morning, Mary," returned
Rufus; and, so exceedingly odd was it,
that t We very tonesof his own voice sur
prised him.
' What can I do for you this morn
ing, uncle ? May I get your breakfast
for you ?"
"I will light a fire," said the man,
"and then, if you please, you moy
make a cup of tea."
The fire was lit., nnd then he showed
where his dishes were.
Mary Sandford was an accomplished
housekeeper, and she could accommo
date herself to circumstances very nar
row. While she was busy, a ray of
fresh sunshine burst into the room,
lighting np the dingy walls, and making
golden with its light the atmosphere ot
the place. It wus little Flora, bright,
joyous, and jubilant,' thinking only of
love iu this first hour of her waking
from sweet, refresking sleep. Without
a word, only a ripple of gladness drop
ping from her bps, she went to where
the old m 11 u had just eat down in the
coiner, nnd crept up ngain into his lap.
" I can t reach your cheek, uncle,
she laughed, " without getting up ; you
are so lAg, and I am so little."
And then she kissed him as she hnd
the night before ; but not as on the
night before did Rufus Grote.
With a movement almost spasmodic
so strange was it for him he drew
the child back to him, nnd imprinted a
henrty kiss upon the round cheek.
Anil the words " Heaven bless you,
little one I" fell from bis lips before be
knew it.
Verily, the crust was broken. But
bad any good seed fallen upon the
heait?
What nn odd scene for the miser's
home ! A really good breakfast, a table
tastefully laid, the fumes from the tea
pot fresh nnd fragrant, and the sur
roundings cheerful.
After breakfast Rufus Grote was
forced to go away on business. And on
that day he concluded arrangements
for the leasing of a building which was
tt return him a thousand a year ; and
he meant, when the business was done,
'hat be would be poorer than ever, and
live on less than heretofore, so that be
might lay np more and more.
On this same day one at bid bouses
was vacated a dwelling in one of the
broad streets.
He saw his Agent, nnd ordered bim
to let the house as quickly as possible.
That evening, while Mrs. Sandford
was out, Flora came to Rufus Grote's
side, nnd looked earnestly in bis face.
" Uncle," she said, with quaint
seriousness, " don't you want me to
get hit your lap?"
" Why do you ask that ?" demanded
the old man..
" Mamma said I mustn't. She said
you wouldn't like it."
" What made ber think I shouldn't
like it?"
Because she said you weren't happy
nnd she cried when she said that her
little girl mustn't make her Uncle
Rufus dislike ber."
"And what did yeii say to that?"
nsked Rufus Grote, with awakening
interest.
"1 told mamma that I would put
my arms around your neck, and hug
and kiss you, and see if I couldn't
make you love me. And if you loved
me 1 knew you would let me 6it in your
lap.
When Mary Sandford came in, half an
hour later, she found ber child in Uncle
Rufus's lap, her sunny bead pillowed
upon lys bosem, and bis strong arms
entwining ber.
The good seed had fallen, and bad
taken root I
Three days afterwards, Rufus Grote
saw bis agent, and told him that be
need not hurry about letting the empty
house.
- On tlo evening ot that same day
Mary Band lor a cams in witn a utter in
ber band, and found Flora nestled away
in ber uncle's armF.
" Uncle Rufus," she mi&, " I have
received a letter from Mrs, Maynard.
She will be at homo the day after to
morrow." "And she wants to take charge
of lipr house ?"
"Yes."
" Very well. Wait till she comes."
And the old man held the little child
in his arms until it was time to go to
bed.
On the following msrning Uncle
Rufus told Mary that be wanted ber to
take a ride with bim during the fore
noon. And she said she would be at his
service.
And later, a fine conch drew np be
fore fhe door, and Uncle Rufns came in
and bade Mary make ready, and te make
Flora ready also.
They rode along, and when they
stopped Uncle Rufus handed them out
before a house with great chestnut trees
growing in the yard, and upon the foot
way. And Tie led them into the bouse.
And in the broad, handsome parlor
he turned and spoke, holding Flora by
the hand.
" Mary." he said, "this little child
has promised to make her old uncle
hnppy, and I will net give her up. This
house is mine. If you will come and
help me take care of it, I will live iu it.
What say jou?"
What 'culd she say ?
She saw the new light upon her
uncle's face; and when he took the child
in his arms, and held the sunny bend
close upon his bosom, she saw the
blessing of the coming time. She said,
with a burst of tears:
"Dear uncle, if Flora and I can
make you happy, you may command us
both.''
There was great wonder when Rnfus
Grote appeared a well-dressed, smilin ;,
hnppy man.
And in the mansion, beneath the
shade of the great chestnut trees, were
peace nud joy.
An augel, in the shape of a little
child, had touched a human heart loxg
buried in cold darkness, nnd brought it
forth to love and blessing.
TIid Chase of Hip Season.
Tbo moaning winds of November,
carrying sadness to our hearts and high
ping lints uudei country wagons, are
here. It behooves every man to take
care or his health, and hang on to his
hat. But as some will be npt to neglect
their hats in their anxiety for their
health, we havo thought fit to give the
following ndvice for their recovery:
When you feel your hat lifting, iin
mediately plunge your bauds into your
hair and givo it a twist. This will at
tract the attention of everybody to you,
md make you feel as if you were not
quite alone iu the world. Then, ns
.oou as the hair lifts from your eyes
and enables you to see your hat skim
ming along the road, start nfter it.
Don't trot after it, but gallop, and
while you gallop, smile. A smile goes
a good way on such nn occasion. It
cuts off other smiles by showing what
in excellent joke chasing a bat is, and
that you like it. Don't turn out of the
way for other people. Some of those
you meet may not take that interest in
the affair a neighbor should, and if you
can knock Ihem down and step on tlieni
ehey will become thoroughly engrossed
iu the subject nt once. As soon as you
see the hat stop, immediately slacken
your gait ; you can renew it ngaiu ns
soou us it starts up ; and when you get
right opposite it, immediately prostrnU
yourself upon it, and then get up nud
?o for it ngain. Never neglect to fall
down upon it when you enn, as that
jives the beholder better satisfaction,
and at the same time relieves the chase
of much of its monotony. Don't forget
your smile. This is one of the most
attractive features of thq, whole per
formance, and should not bo omitted
on any consideration. The moment
you stop smiling, people will think it is
all an accident, and losing their tem
pers will commence to jive you. Wheu
you have the bat fairly within your
reach, give it a god kick, and then
chase it ngain, and when you are sur
feited with the amusement, jam it down
on your brad witVout smoothing your
hair, and dart into the first store to
warm yourself. Danbury News.
The Bankrupt Law.
" A correspondent of the Providemce
Journal thinks that in the present Btate
of business it may be a relief to the
community to know what the Supreme
Court of the United States his decided
the Bankrupt Law to mean with refer
ence to sales and mortgages made by a
person, who, within six months after,
goes into volnutary or ixvohvitary
bankruptcy. In the case of Tiffany
against Lucas, the court says that " ail
sules are not forbidden. The interdic
tion applies to sales with a fraudulent
object, not to those with an honest
purpose. It is for the interest of the
com innnity that every ne should con
tinue bis business, and avoid, if pos
sible, going into bankruptcy ; and yet
bow could the result be obtained if the
privilege were denied a person who was
unable to command ready money to
meet bis debts as they tell due, by
making a fair disposition of his proper
ty in order to accomplish bis object. It
is true he may fail, notwithstanding all
his efforts, in keeping out of bank
ruptcy, and in that case any sale he
bus niado within bix months of that
event is subject to examination.
Two thing8must conour to bring the
sale within the prohibition of the law ;
the fraudulent design of the bankrupt
and the knowledge of it ou the part of
the vendee, or reasonable cause to be
lieve that it existed."
Sweetness. A tender-hearted little
girl once came in from th woods and
showed a face covered with mosquito
bites. " Why did you not drive them
away ?" said the mother. " They would
not go," 6aid the child. "Why did you
not kill thera?" "It would not have
been right," was the answer. " But I
bare setu you kill them at homo," urged
the surprised mother. ''Yes, mamma,"
argued the child, firmly, "if they come
into my Louse and bite ma, I kil
them. Bat if I go into the woods, that
is their bouse, and I have so. right to
Kin taem,"
A Mutton Millionaire.
The Pastoral Prtnca of New Mexico.
The Kansas City Time has inter
viewed Senor Y. C. Armijo, of the great
sheep and wool raising firm of Arm'jo
& Baca, of Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Mr. Armijo is a yonng man, tho Bon of
the bend of the house. The family
have been engaged in the raising of
sheep and wool for exportation East for
several generations past. They aro
unable to estimate their herds accurate
ly, but a rough guess aggregates the
nctunl number at something over half
a million. Years ago, when Kausas
City was the shipping and trading point
between New Mexico and the East, Mr.
Armijo, Sr., used to ship his thousands
ot fleeces from this city by river to St.
Louis. It seems almost incredible for
people living East of the great plains to
realize the vast extent and innumerable
herds of sheep raised yearly in the mild
dry climate of New Mexico. The fami
lies claim nearly two million bead of
sheep, which are scattered over a
range of country more than three hun
dred miles square.
In reply to a qnestion whether the
Indians troubled their immense herds,
he replied : We are not troubled by
Indian depredations to any serious 'ex
tent. The Indians are troublesome at
times, but we scorcely ever miss what
they drive off or slaughter. They seldom
kill our flocks wantonly, and only take
for food when they pass one of our
herds. He related an incident, in 1835,
when the Apaches and Navajoes drove
oil 35,000 head at one raid, and thought
that not less thau 30.000 bead had been
stolen by Indians since then. The In
dians drove off about half that number
between 18C1 and 1805. "But," said
Mr. Armijo, " we hardly miss them."
The Mexicau sheep-raiser generally
handles his herds iu flocks of about
three thousand head. Each of these
herds is under the personal superin
tendence of a major domo or overseer,
who is assisted by shepherds, for whom
the sheep have a fond affection. At
night these immense flocks collect close
together around their shepherds, nud
sleep peacefully guarded by well -trained
dogs.
These shepherds nre paid from 10 to
815 per month the year round, the over
seer about 25 per month. These herds
roam at will over the boundless dry
plains of New Mexico, without shelter
all the year through. They require no
feeding, the short nutricious gramma
grass peculiar to New Mexico, afford
ing good pasturage iu winter as well as
..ummer.
The Mexicau sheep is Fmaller th.;n
American sheep, but are more healthy
and hardy. They clipabout two pounds
of wool to the fleeca ; their wool is short
and lino, and from all that c m be ascer
tained by tradition banded down
through several generations, were Span
ish merinos brought from Spain Jby
Cortez's expedition.
These great sheep raisers nre now en
gaged in shipping large herds of sheep
to Colorado. Mr. Armijo last season
drove about twelve thousand head to
Denver, aud signifies his intention of
doubling hi-t drove next season. He
says that with proper care and atten
tion, sheep iu sufficient numbers may
hereafter be raised upon the plains of
Kansas and Colorado to supply the en
tire world w,ith mutton and wool. Dur
ing the eoniversation he related an in
cident of a man who, three years ago.
purchased 4.500 head of sheep from
Armijo nnd Baca nt the low price of g2
each. To-day that man has 20,000
sheep, worth 810,000, to say nothing
of the enormous probt accruing from
the sale of wool during that time. And
ngain, be demonstrated the profits ac
cruing from the purchase of 5,000 head.
A man buys this number, anil m six
months he finds himself possessed of
10,000 sheep, one-half of the 5,000 in
crease being ewes and the other wethers.
Here is an increase of 100 per cent, in
six months in natural merease. lne
fleeces on tho 5,000 bead will be worth
50 cents ench, and the 5,000 lambs can
be sheared in the fall, yielding two
pounds each. The increase of sheep is
more thau compound interest twenty
times compounded. Mr. Armijo says
that, allowing for losses, there is noth
ing in the world to prevent a man from
getting rioli at sheep raising in live
years.
Compensation for Slaves.
The question of the general govern
ment of the United States paying for
the slaves of the South, liberated by
Lincoln's proclamation, is now agitated,
aud will probably come before Con
gress at its next session. Hunter,- of
Virginia, in a late address discussed
the subject, and a number of Southern
papers have taken it up. Mr. Hunter
says: " When the private property in
slaves was taken by the United States
for public- uses, a claim accrued to the
individual owner for just compensation
uuder the fifth article of tb amend
ments to the Constitution." The Rich
mond Whig says: "We cordially in
dorse bis views, and bold that the
Southern representative who fails to
urge the claims of our despoiled people
in proper season will be recreant to ins
duty aud faithless to the trust reposed
in liim."
The number of slaves emancipated
was 4,500,000, and Mr. Hunter proposes,
as a preliminary movement, that the
general government loan the old slave
holdiug States $100,000,060 without in
terest, this sum co be ngaiu " loaned to
the old slaveholders in the same man
ner after the model and strictly upon
the precedent of the act of June 23,
1836, depositing the surplus revenue of
the United States with the different
States upon the terms and in the man
ner therein specified."
The question, if it does come up be
fore Congress, will attract no little dis
cussion and attention.
A New York State Grange. A State
Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry
was fully organized at Syracuse, New
York, by O. P. Bieman.of Iowa, General
Deputy at Large. Representatives wre
present from all parts of the State. The
following officers, among others, were
elected and duly installed : linge U,
Hinckley, of Fredonia.IMaster ; Geoige
Sprague. of Lockport. Secretary. New
Jersxy bas also organized a State
Orange.
Love in the Olden Time.
Among the early settlers of Hopkin
son, R. I., were the Wells families;
mauy of them lived in the south part of
the town, near Ashaway, aud the im
mediate neighborhood was known near
ly a centurv ago as Wellstown. About
the year 1800 Thompson Wells lived
there; he was a farmer, a prudent, sav
ing man, strictly honest, and was
blesRed with two pretty daughters, Lois
and Sally. These girls made Wellstown
an attractive place; they bad admiiers
mauy, and one day a stranger came to
town, a young man of splendid address,
Mr. Beriah WTells. of Lenox, Mass. He
was invited to Wellstown, and among
the first things which he did was to fall
greatly in love with Sally Wells, and
she fully reciprocated bis affection.
When he'left for his home it was Wells
town talk that Sally was engaged, and,
in fact, the dear girl encouraged the be
lief. Wells, however, acted strangely.
He did not communicate with ber or see
her during the whole year; so, in about
a twelvemonth, Sally was receiving vis
its from a young man from Woodstock,
Conn., who had just opened a school at
Westerly, Mr. Lindon Fuller, a gentle
man of fine scholarship, nud be found
himself every Saturday at Wellstown,
spending two days each week with Miss
Stilly, aud greatly in love with her; the
result of a short courtship was an en
gagement cf marriage, and the time an
nounced for the wedding.and necessary
preparations made. Right at this junc
tion Mr. Beriah Wells, the first lover,
made his appearance at Wellstown. He
knew no.iing of the contemplated mar
riage, and at once made known to Miss
Wells that he had not forgotten her,
aud bad come expressly to renew the
engagement, nnd take her back to Mas
sachusetts ns his wife. Here was a di
lemma. The truth was, she loved bim
best, and she told ber father so at once,
and sought counsel and advice from
him. He talked with his friends and
neighbors, and it was finally agreed,
without ber knowing their conclusions,
that the two lovers should be informed
how mutters stood, and, iu their pres
ence and other witnesses, Sally Wells
should say which one she toved best.
Mr. Fuller was sent for. It was ar
ranged that Mr. Sheffield Wellx.a friend
and relative of tho family, should ask
the questiou. So in the big front room
they met, and Sully was asked her
choice of the two men for her husband,
and she promptly replied that Beriah
Wells was ber choice. Mr. Sheffield
softly repeated the question three times,
she each time giving the same answer.
Mr. Fuller's appearunce betrayed the
deep agitation under which lie was
laboring iu hearing her decision, but
his bearing towards her, nnd all pres
ent, told well that Lindon Fuller was a
true gentleman. After a short interval,
Ber.iah Wells stepped forward and
asked the attention of the company.
He stated that under all circumstances
he could not marry Miss Wells. He
admitted it to be his fault iu not visit
ing her, or communicating with ber for
a year ; he owned that ha loved ber
and bad come to seek her baud iu mar
riage. Yet, tho fact of her marriage
with Mr. Fuller having been announced
and preparations all made, he feared
that the marriage of himself and Miss
Wells would render their life unhappy,
and he could not enter into such a
covenant. Here was dilemma number
two. Silly s feelings may be better
imagined than described. Mr. Fuller
could not marry ber now, for she bad
publicly choseu another. Sa they all
parted. Fuller at once dismissed his
school and went home to Woodstock.
After a fortnight's time Miss Wells'
father, without advising her, sent one
of his neighbors to Connecticut, with
instructions to fiud Fuller and have
him come at once to Wellstown. In
two days the messenger returned ac
companied by him. Mr. Wells spent
the afternoon with him, advised him to
renew tho engagement with his daugH
ter, fully believing it would be for their
mutual happiness to be married, and
speaking lor himself and family, be
would rejsice to see them so. That
evening Lindon and Sally were pledged
in marriage again. - The next day
Bariuh Wells was sent tor, and he and
Lois stood up with them at the wed
ding. It passed off finely, Fuller and
Wells treating each other in the kindest
manner. A lew more weeks passed,
and there was another weddiug at
Wellstown ; tho some company were
there. Beriah was bridegroom and
Lois the bride. Lindon Fuller and tbe
charming Sally, his wife, stood up with
them. " And, in fact," Beriah would
often say afterward, " Lois was always
bis choice. More than sixty years
have since passed away, and so have
Fuller, Wells and their brides. I'rovi
dence Journal.
Elephants.
Elephants, at times, show much soli
citude for, aud attachment to, each
other, and many instances are on record
iu which, when one of these animals
has been wounded and disabled in
hunt, a comrade has come to tho rescue,
Iu one of thtse bunts, a male elephaut
was seriously wounded, beeing the
danger and distress of ber mate, the fe
male, regardless l her own danger,
quitted her shelter in the wood, rushed
out to bis assistance, walked round and
round him, chasing away tbe assailants,
and returning to his side, caressed him,
Whenever he attempted to walk, she
placed her Hank, or her shoulder, touts
wounded side, and supported him.
Artificial &U.
Bulwer says that poverty is only an
idea, in nine cases out ot ten. Some
meu with ten thousand dollars a year
suffer more want of means than others
with three hundred. The reason is, the
richer man bas artificial wants. His
income is ten thousand, and be suffers
enough from being dunned for unpaid
debts to kill a sensitive man. A man
who earns a dollar a day, and who does
not run in debt, is the happier of the
two. Very few people who have never
been rich will believe this, but it is
true. There are thousands and thou
sands with princely inoomes who never
know a moment's peace, became they
live beyond their means, lhere
really more happiness in the world
auong working people than
those who axe called rioh,
among
Treatment of FrnlMree that Bear
Every Alternate Season.
As it is a eommon occurrence for
many fruit-trees to yield a crop of fruit
only once in two years, tho inquiry is
frequently propounded, " What is the
cause, and is there a remedy for it ?"
Tho presentation of a few pomologi
oal facts touchibg this subject will as
sure us beyond all doubt that the fruit
fulness of a tree aside from certain
causes beyond the control of mortals
is subject to familiar pomological laws,
which every intelligent pomologist
understands. It is understood that the
frait buds of an apple tree, from which
the crop of apples must be produced
during the season of 1871, were formed
in the growing season of 1870. If there
had been any occurrence to prevent the
formation of fruit buds in 1870, the
tree, of course, could not produce fruit
during the season of 1871. It is well
understood, also, that when a tree is
growing rapidly it cannot yield a boun
tiful supply of 'fruit ; aud when every
blanch aud twig bends with a heavy
crop, the spray and the buds cannot be
expected to make more than a small and
feeble growth. Hence so large a propor
tion of the vital energies of the fruit
tree bearing a heavy burden of fruit is
employed in the development of the
crop, that the buds for the crop of the
succeeding season cannot be properly
unfolded ; therefore the season follow
ing the year of an abundant crop is ap
propriated solely to the development of
ruitbuds : and as there is no lruit re
quiring tbe energies ot tue tree, ine
hole vital force is concentrated in pro-
ucin2 wood and fruit buds. The next
season, whether tne yeur De ouu or
even, nature having made prepiration
n buds, there will be a bouutiiui crop
of fruit; aud if none of tiie buds or
young fruit are broken off, all the vital
powers of the tree will center towards
the full development of the fruit, to the
serious neglect of the crop of buds.
Au intelligent friend bas a valuable
apple tree, which yielded a bountiful
crwp of apples once iu two years. He
expressed a desire that promologists
could have sufficient skill to make that
tree bear a moderate crop of frui.
very season, rather tliitn a heavy crop
one vear and nothing the next. As the
variety was so excellent they greatly
usired a small supply, at least, every
season, tie was assured mat it ne
would whip off all the blossoms on one-
half the tree-top, the portion defoliated
would yield a supply next season. &s
he knew that it the tree produced
fruit on only one-half tho top, there
would be more than his family coul'd
use, he reluctantly tried tne experi
ment, in the success of which he cher
ished no confidence, and whipped off
every blossom to be seen within the
area of about half of the tree. The re-
ult was just as it always will be uuder
similar circumstances there was a
supply of fiuit the following season on
the part of the tree from which the
blossoms had beeu removed, while the
other portion of the brunches yielded
no fruit.
The same result could have beea at
tained by whipping off one-half or
more of the blossoms over tho entire
tree. By removing th blossoms the
specimens of fruit would have beeu
greatly lessened. Hence the energies
f the tree would nave been adequate
to theperfect development of tho limited
crop, aud also to the preparation of the
fruit-buds for the crop oi the suoceuu
ing season.
Some pomologists havo assumed that
the fruitful year always occurs on a sea
son designated in the caleudar by an
uneven number, nnd the observations f
others have been confined to treeB that
have yielded fruit during the season
represented by an even numner in tne
computation of centuries. Thus far in
the progress or scientinc pomology no
plausible reason bas been adduced to
show why the fruitful season may not
occur duriag a year designated by an
even or an uneven number. ine tact
that fruit trees, which have been accus
tomed to yield a crop on what we de
nominate to be an "odd year, have
been so managed as to produce the nc-
customrd supply en an "even year,'
assures pomologists that the iruiuui-
ness, or want of productiveness, is not
influenced either way by the season rep
resented bv an odd or an even number,
There is one fact cennected with this
subject which most people have not
failed to observe namely, when tne
blossoms or the young fruit, or both,
have been destroyed by frost, the trees
the following season will be unusually
fruitful. A. Y. Jleraca.
Deviations of the Compass.
A deviation of tbe compass bas fre
quently been observed on vessels carry
ing petroleum, and this irregularity is
attributed to the sheet-iron tanks con
taining the oil. The greatest deviation
is shewn where the vessel heads east or
west: but there ia none when the head
ing is north or south. A Boston sea
captain, who bad been troubled with
this deviation, in comparing bis posi
tion as obtained from observation, wuu
that derived from bis " dead reckon
ing," gives the following ingenious
method for regulating bis c jurse: Hav
ing tried the four compasses in different
parts cf tho vessel, be found that tber
was a deviation oi nueen degrees easr,
or say one and one-half points. He then
placed one compass near ine mizzeu
mast, and one on a plank laid across
tha stern boat-davits. These two
agreed, and by them be corrected the
binnacle compass. 11 Kept me com
pasu on the plank at the stern.aud every
time the vessel's course was changed,
day or night, be noted the difference
between it aud the binnacle compass,
making corrections accordingly.
Indian Depbedations in Texas.
Captain J. Elgin reports that the
Indians aro as bad as they have been
since tbe war, ii not worse. All tbe
Indians are off from their reservations,
excepting Satanta. They are beaded
by Big Tree, and have stolen nearly all
the horses on the Little Wichita River
and the West Fork. Saventy-five or a
hundred Indians crosied tbe Little
Wichita the other day. A party of thir
teen stole two hjrses in Jacksboro. It
is reported that a surveying party,
camped outside of Jacksboro, were fired
I upon by Indiana,
Quoth a Western plagiarist--" Sweet
are the use of advertisements.
Columbus, Ga., has a Methodist min
ister who conducts three churohes.
Minnesota exports annually about
$30,000 worth of ginseng for the Chinese
market.
Pilot Temple, the well-known trot
ting stallion, has been sold at aucton
for 85,500,
An Iowa town offers a bounty of two
cents for every rat's tail left at the
Mayor's office.
The best salesmen are those who sell
their customers not what they want.but
what they don't want.
The Slaats-Zeilung summoned the
foreign-born population of Chicago to
the polls iu nine languages.
A teacher in Cairo, 111., lately thrash
ed a small boy nearly to death because
he wouldn't multiply C3 by 7.
A jealous Milwaukee wife fired two
revolver shots at her husband, neither
of which took effect, but he has quit
flirting.
The Providence Journal says that not
a single dollar has been diverted from
the Sprague estate ns a settlement upon
the wife or children.
The Lowell Courier remarks that no
man can consider his literary repu
tation secure nowadays until he has
written a comio almanac.
The Catholio ladies of Memphis deco
rated tho graves of the priests who died
at their pobts of duty during tho recent
epidemic of yellow fever.
A love-lorn young lady at Dubuque
does nothing nil day long but sit und
hold her hands. Iu the evening her
fellow calls and holds them for her.
Most of the mustard sold by grocera
is not genuine. It may contain a little
mustard, but is composed miiulycf
wheat flour, turmeric, and sometimes
capsicum.
During a single week the police of
New York made 1,569 arrests. For the
same period tho Bureau of Records
registered 405 deaths, 480 births, and
193 marriages.
Patents miy be secured by American
citizens in England, France, Belgium,
Austria, Prussia, and Russia. The ag
gregate population of these countries
amounts to 219,000,000.
A straw-burning engine was recently
on exhibition at Vienua. From a series
of experiments the straw fuel is found
to be equal to about ono-fifth its weight
of coal in heat-producing power.
Mayor Hurdy, of Selmo, Ala., op
pointed Thursday, November 13, ns a
special day of Thanksgiving iu that
city for its escape from the yellow fever,
and the day was generally observed.
Cholera raged to a terrible extent in
Northern India in 1872. The regis
tered deaths due to it were 1G5.458.
Among th e British soldiers stationed
there the deaths were C15 in number.
An Iowa wife eloped with a young
fellow recently, and as soon ns she got
intimate enough with him to have free
access to kis pockets stole $700 there
from nnd traveled triumphantly back to
her husband.
Swindlers of both sexes are reported
to be busy in various districts, collect
ing money from charitable but foolish
people, under pretence of the subscrip
tion being in aid oi me iueiupma u
Shreveport suflerers.
Leather jqwehy, which obtained some
popularity a few years ago, bas been
revived this season, and will, no doubt,
become fashionable. The new styles
are odd, and for that reason will find
favor in the eyes of many.
The tribunal at Santiago de Cuba,
before which the prisoners captured on
theVirginius were brought, condemned
Bernabe Varono, Pedro Cespedes, Jesus
del So!, and Gen. Ryan to death, and
they wvere shot on the morning of the
4th.
Anna B. Bassett, of Boston, who sued
hei husband to recover 020 which she
" loaned " him after their marriage In
18GG, has lost her case on the ground
that no contract between husband and
wife for the payment of money has any
validity in law.
Th island of Jamaica has been visit
ed by tropical rains such as she has not
experienced for fifteen years. The
rivers rose twenty-five feet above their
natural level in twelve hours, and there
was considerable loss of life and proper
ty in eonseqnened.
The Philadelphia Centennial " Com
mittee on Plans " have awarded $10,000
to the authors of four architectural de
signs, but remark that " no one of the
designs can be considered as represent
ing entirely satisfactorily what is re
quired for the . Centennial build
ings." Prisoner to learned' magistrate
" Has any one a right to commit a nui
sance ?" Leemed magistrate "No fir,
not even the Mayor no, air, rv&t evert
..he Governor." "Prisoner "Then you
can't coi?i rnic me, for I was arrested as
a nuisance, and you've decided that I
am one."
A good lady, who, on the death of
her first husband, married bis brother,
has a portrait of the former hanging in
her dining-room. One day a visitor,
remarking the painting, asked, ' Ia
that a member of the fumily ?" " Ohl
that's my poor brother-in-law," waa the
ingenious reply.
The Supreme Court of Maine has
held that where husband and wife are
sued for an account against the wife
only, she being in a separate business,
the husband is not liable. A woman
and tho husband was jointly indicted V
mill llul U t vaw&sv v . v JW
course of her business. The jury found
a veidict in accordance with the tilling
of the Court.
The Pennsylvania State Ceniennial
Committee bas issued an address saving
that although it has been deemed best
to relax the efforts of the committee ior
a time, owing to the financial troubles,
it ia hoped thst the impression nmy not
be created that tbe programme as here
tofore let forth is sot to be louowea up
to a successful result, and that no
thoughtful citiaen, whether in public
or private life, will Jail to do bis part
in this noble noSu