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HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher.
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VOL. V.
HIDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THU11SDAY, JULY 22, 1875.
NO. 22.
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" Though Lost to Sight, to Memory
Dear."
a roRM or 1701.
" Sweetheart, good-bye ! tho fluttering sail
la spread to waft mo far from theo,
An 1 soou before the fav'riug gale
My ship ahull bound upon the sea.
Torchauoe, all desoluto and forlorn,
Ticso oyou chall mips tbee many a year
But nnforgnttcn every charru
Though lost to Bight, to mom'ry dear.
" Sweetheart, good-byo ! one lat ombraco !
O cruel fate, two souls to Bovor !
Yot in thin heart's most sacred place,
Thou, thou alone Bhalt dwell forever.
And still shall recollection trace
In fancy's mirror, ever near,
Each smile, each tear, that form, that face
Though loHt to sight, to mom ry dear."
TWO SIDES TO A BUREAU.
ONE SIDE.
When I turned round nnd elio was
corning in the door, I'm sure I thought
I wns dreaming. If it had been the
queen a-commg in, I shouldn't hav6
boon more surprised ; and tho three
children with their three faces like little
pigs 1 " Hero you," whispered I to
Benjamin Franklin, " you just go 'long
and stick your face in some water, quick
motor ! And givo Johnny's a scrubbing
too." And I wet the corner of my apron
between my lips in a hurry, and rubbed
Sue's mouth ; and then I made believe
I hadn't seen bur before, nd dusted the
other chair for her ; and she sat down,
and I sat down, and we looked at one
another. Lord I she was that line 1 Her
flouuo.es were silk, and they were seal
loped liko so many roses, and lace show
ing under the edgo of them ; and she
h.iJsuch boots, Getting liko gloves just
enough to make your eyes water. But
the flowers in her hat you should have
8cr.ii them I declare you could have
smelled them ! Well, she seemed to fill
up the l'ltiii room, and if ever I was glad
of anything, I was glad that I'd scrubbed
the floor th.it very day, so that it was
clean enough to eat off of glad, too,
that I'd t iki'ti Jim's old hat out of the
broken window and put in the smooth
bottom of a box with a good respectable
looking t ick. Jim might have mended
that window, for he's a perfect Jaek-at-all-tra.le-;
but he'd rather play tho fiddle
than eat, and ho was a-playiug it out in
the tie-up that moment, with all the wind
there was blowing. However, I couldn't
complain, for ho'd just mended the
. chair, so that it was almost as good as
now, and had put me up as tidy a shelf
as you please over the stovo for the
brush and comb and tho hair-oil bottle.
If I'd been a little slicked up myself,
' with my new print and my pink apron,
or if I'd only had my bhang on, I
wouldn't "a minded. But when Ben
jamin Frankliu came back with just the
top dirt rinsed oil", and the rest nil
smears, I did feel so vexed that I gave
him as good a shaking as a nut tree gets
in harvest.
"Bless my heart !" says she, "what
are you doing that for ?"
" Because' bo's so aggravating," says
I. " There, you go 'long;" and I gave
him r. shove.
" Why," says she, " don't you remem
ber how it used to feel to be shaken
yourself ?"
" I don't know as I do," says I.
"As if you were flying te atoms ? And
your body was as powerless as if it had
been in the hands of a giant, and your
heart as full of hate ?"
"Why, look n-here," says I. "Be
you a missionary i"
" A missionary I" says she, laughing.
"No; I'm Mr. Mulgrave's wife. And I
came up to see how the new house was
getting ou; but the. house is so full of
plaster dut inside, and the whirlwind is
blowing the things olf tho roof so out
side, that I thought I would venture in
here till the cloud passed."
"I'm real g!ud to see you," says I.
" It's a dreadful lonesome place, and
hardly anybody ever comes. Only I'm
sorry everything's so at sixes and sevens.
You see, whore there's a family of chil
dren, and the wind blowing so," says I,
with a lucky thought it's always good
to have the wind or tho weather to lay
things to, li 'cause nobody's responsible
for thn element" things will get to
looking like ride out."
" Children do make confusion," says
she; " but ciufusion is pleasanter with
them than piailioo order without them."
" Well, that's so," I answered; " for I
roniembrr when Johnny had the measles
List year I thought if no only got well
I'd let him whittle tho door all to pieces
if ever ho wanted to again. Here,
Benuy," say I, for I begaa to feel bad
to think I'd treated him so if he'd
mortified mi, 't'.vas no reason why I
should mortify him, nud right before
folks so ' take that to little sister,"
and I gave them souu'thujg to keep them
quiet.
"Yes, children do make trouble. But
there ! I wouldn't bo without them for
all the tiae clothes I used to have when
I was single and worked in tho shop. I
worked at Burrage's, off and on, a good
many years on most of the time. I had
six dollars a week. Folks used to won
der how I got so many clothes with it,
after I'tt paid my board. But I always
had that six dollars laid out long before
pay-day in my mind, you know so I
spent it to the best advantage. There's
a great deal of pleasure in that."
"A great deal," says she.
" That's what I say to Jim; and then
he says his is all spent before pay-day,
too but with a difference, you know.
I suppose you've got a real good, steady
husband?'
" Oh, yes, indeed," says she, laughing
some more.
"Not," say I "I don't raoan that
Ji;a isn't steady, lid's as steady as a
clock at that old riddle of his. But
sometimes I do wish he loved his regu
lar trade as well, or else that was his
trade. But I suppose if fiddling was
liis trade, he'd want to be wood carving
all the time."
" Why don't you speak to him," says
she, " seriously?"
' Well, you can't," says I. " He's so
sweet and good-natured and pleasant
that when I've got my mind all made
up to give him a sound talking to, he
makes me like him so, and seta me to
laughing, and plays such a twirling,
twittering tune, that I can't do it to save
my life."
You see, I'd got to talking rather free
with her, because she, listened so, and
seemed interested, and kept looking at
me in a wondering way, and at last took
Suo up on her lap and gave her rings to
ploy with. Such rings I My gracious 1
0110 of them flashed with stones nil
around, just like tho milky way. I
should think it would have shone through
her glove.
"But," says she, "you should tell
him that his children will be growing
up presently, nud"
. "Oh, 1 do that," says I. "And ho
pays, well, he'll do for tho bad example
they're to tako warning by; nnd, at nny
rate, it's no rise worrying be fore tho time
comes, nnd when they do grow up they
can tako care of Uiomselves tho way wo
do." J
" And nro Jhtontod to leavo it
so?" says she
" Well, I'm contented enough. That
is, in goneral. But I do wish sometimes
that Jim would go down to his work
regular every day, and como back at
night, nnd have a good round sum of
money in hand at once, instead of jnst
working long enough to get some flour
and fish and pork and potatoes nnd sugar,
and then not so much as lifting his linger
again till that nil gives out; it's such a
hand-to-mouth way of living," says I.
" And of course wo cau't get things to
gether, such as a rocking chair and a
sofa, nnd n good-sized looking-glass and
an cight-dny clock. Not that I care
much ; only when a lady liko you hap
pens in I'd like to give her a seat that's
softer. And there's a bureau. Now you
wouldn't believe it, but I've neyerowned
a bureau."
"Indeed," says she.
I did como precious near it last fall,"
says I for I wanted her to see that it
wasn't altogether an impossibility, and I
wasn't wasting my time in vapors
" when Jim was at work up here, help
ing lay out the garden. Ho was paid by
the day, you know; Mr. Mulgrave paid
him; nud he was paid here, nnd I had tho
handling of the money; nnd I said to
myself: ' Now or never for that bureau 1'
But, denr mo, I had to turn that money
over so many times to got tho things I
couldn't do svithout any way at nil, that
before I got round to the bureau it was
every cent gone I"
" l'es," she says, "it's apt to bo so.
I know if I don't got tho expensive thing
when I have the money in my purse, the
money is filtered away and I've nothing
to show for it."
" That's just tho way with me," says
I. " But somehow I can't seem to do
without the shoes and flannel, and all
that. Oh, here's your husband ! That's
a powerful horse of his. But I should
bo afraid he'd break my neck if I was
behind him."
" Not wheuy husband's driving,"
says she. Auh,Sls mo good-day,
and kisses Sue, oil iugs into the
wagon, and is off I yAiird, with her
veil and her feathewmud her ribbons
and streamers all flying.
Well, so far so good. Thinks I to
myself: "She'll bo a very pleasant
neighbor. If she's ever so fine, she
don't put on nirs. And it does you good
onco in a while to have somebody listen
when you want to run on about yourself.
And ninybo she'll have odd chores that I
can turn my hand to plain sewing, or
clear-starching, or an extra help when
company comes in. I shouldn't wonder
too.
Well, that evening, just at sunset, Jim
was a-playing "ltosliu Castle," and I
was a-puttiug Suo to sleep, when I hap
pened to look out the window, nud there
was a job-wagon coming straight up the
hill, with something in it' that had a
great canvas haugiug over it. " It's a
queer timo o' day," says I to myself, "to
be bringing furnitiu-e into Mr. Mul
grave's house, and it not half done,
either. But it's none of my business.
Maybe it's a refrigerator to be set in the
cellar." And I went on patting Sue,
when all at once Jim's fiddle stopped
short, as if it broke, and I heard a gruff
voice saying: " Whoro'll you have it ?
Here, you, sir, lend a hand." And I
dropped Sue on the bed and ran to the
door, and they were a bringing it in as
pretty a bureau as you'll find in a day's
walk. "With Mrs. Mulgrave's compli
ments," says the man, and ieut off and
shut tho door.
I never waited for anything. Sue was
screaming on the bed ; I let her scream.
I never minded Benny's rassling nor
Jim's laughing. I got down every band
box and basket nnd bundle I had on the
shelves, gut out every bag there was
under tho bed and behind the door, and
iu ten minutes that bureau was so full
you couldn't shut a drawer. Then I
took them nil out and fixed them all over
again. "It's ours, Jim 1" says I ; and
then I just sat down aud cried.
THE OTHER SIDE.
" Well, Lawrence, I'm so glad you'v.i
come! I thought you never would.
And I've had such a lesson read mo t"
" Lesson 1 Who's been reading my
wife a lesson, I should like to know ?"
"Who do yoii think? Nobody but
that little absurd woman there that
Mrs. Jim. But I never had such a les
son. Drive slow, please, and let mo tell
you all about it this horse does throw
tho gravel in your face so 1 I'm expect
ing every moment to see the spokes fly
out of tho wheels. There, now, that's
reasonable. This horso is a perfect
griffin has legs and wiugs, too."
" Well--steady, Frolic, steady ! now
let's have your lesson. If there's any
ono can read you a lesson, Mrs. Fanny
Mulgrave, I should like to hear it."
"Now, Lawrence! However, you
know I came up to look nt the house,
for I've been haviug my misgivings
about that big room. And when I went
in, it did look so big nnd bare! I was
dismayed. I paced it oil' this way, nud
paced it off that way, nnd thought about
what I could put in tho corners ; nud
how that window with the sea view
wou'd bo as good as a picture ; and how
tho whole mantelpiece, from dado to cor
nice, with its white marble carvings and
gildings and mirror, was a perfect illu
mination ; and how I must confront it iu
that great square alcove with a mass of
shadow ; and we haven't a single thing
to go there ; and how magnificent an
ebony and gold cabinet like that Mrs.
Watrous and I saw at the exhibition
the one I went into ecstasies over, you
know, that goes from floor to ceiling ,
would fill the place. And the more I
thought of it, the more indispensable
suuh a great tbouj and gilt cabinet
seemed to bo. ' And I knew it was per
fectly impossible "
" How did you know it, may I in
quire?" " Oh, they cost oh, hundreds of dol
lars. And, of course, tho house itself
takes all you can spare. But I folt that
it would be uttorly out of my power to
make that room look anything like what
I wanted without it. And I kept sesing
how beautiful it would bo with tho--e
gold-colored satin curtains of your nunt
Sophy's falling back from the windows
on each side of it. And I sat down and
stared at tho spot, nnd felt as if I didn't
want tho house nt nil if I couldn't have
t hat cabiuot. Aud I thought you might
go without your cigars and your claret
aud your horses a oouplo of years, nnd
wo could easily hnvo it."
" Kind of you, nud cheerful for mo."
" Oh, I didn't think anything about
that part of it. Just fancy ! I thought
you were tho most selfish man iu the
world, and I was tho most unhnppy
woman; nud nil men were selfish, nud
all women wero slaves; and and that
ebony and gold cabinet was obscuring
my whole outlook on life. I felt so
angry with you, and with fate, nnd with
everything, that hot, scalding hot tears
would have shaken down if you had
happened to como just then. Well, just
then tho whirlwind enme up, and the
window places being open, all the dust
of tho building, all the shavings and
splinters and limoand sand about, seemed
to mako a sudden lurch into tho room,
nnd I couldn't see across it. . And there
I was in my now hat 1 And I made for
the door as fast as my feet could fly."
" Silliest thing you could do."
" I suppose so; for when I was out
"doors, the boards of the scaffoldings
were pitching through the nir nt such n
rate that I could neither stay there nor
go back ; and I saw that little shanty
just round tho corner, nnd ran in. "
" That was sensible."
"Thanks. Aud thoro sho was, pots
and pails about tho door, and a hen just
blowing in before me, and a parcel of
dirty-faced, barefooted children tum
bling round. And such a place ! It
fairly made mo low-spirited to look at
it. I was iu mortal fear of getting a
grease spot on my dress. But I was
in before I knew it, nnd there was no
help for it, and tho wind was blowing
so I had to stay."
" And the ludy of that house read you
a lesson ?"
" Sucli a lesson ! You'd have thought,
to begin with, that it was a palaoe. She
did the honors like a little duchess. It
didn't occur to her, apparently, that
things wero squaUd. And that inado it
so much easier than if she apologized.
She was a trifle vexed because tho face
of one of tho children was not clean,
and afterward she repentuigly gave him
the molasses jug to keep him quiet; but
another of tho children was such a little
darling ! Well, presently her touguo
was loose, and I had the benefit of hor
experience. And I know sho has a
good-for-naught of a husband, whom
she loves a great deal better than I love
you oh yes, sho does, for sho seems
never to have thought one hard thing
concerning him, nnd I was thinking so
many of you, you know ! And there
sho is, nud has lieen, with her cooking
stovo and table, her two chairs, a bed,
and a crib, with ft contented spirit and a
patient soul, and her highest ambition
and her wildest day-dream jnst to
have "
"An ebony and gold cabiuet i"
"Oh, no, no! Do drive faster,
Lawieuco. How this horse does crawl !
I want to get it up to her to-night. A
bureau. To think of it, only a bureau !
You needn't laugh at me. I've an awful
cold in my head. And I mean she shall
have it. I think I can get Vhat she'll
consider a beauty, though, for twelve
dollars, or thereabouts. I do feel in
such a hurry, when it takes such a little
bit to make a woman happy."
" An ebony nud gold cabinet, for
instance."
" Oh, nonsense ! How you, do love to
tease, Lawrence ! I never want to hear
of such a thing again. I wouldn't have
it now."
" Stop, stop, good wifo I You'll say
too much. You silly little woman, didn t
you know that ebony and gold cabiuet
which yon nnd Mrs. Watrous fuw was
made for tho place between your
windows ?"
Chinese Pirate.
The English steamer Douglas reached
Foo-Chow from Hong Kong. A custom
house officer named Blacklock came on
board ns usual for night duty. This
officer had a few days previous been in
strumental iu arresting some scoundrels
who had stolen a large quantity of opium
from the steamer (jnantung. The
thieves' gang had therefore vowed ven
geance ngainst custom houso officers,
and Blacklock in particular. Some of
these threats seemed to have reached tho
ears of that officer, for on this night,
when he was watching the Douglas, pre
vious to the first officer's retiring, he
requested that officer to lend him his
revolver, saying ho expected a visit from
tho smugglers.
At about one o'clock in the morning a
longboat came idougsido tho Douglas,
with a large number of men on board.
The custom houso officer, perceiving
them, ordered them off; but they per
sisted, aud attempted to climb up the
ship's side. He then fired three shots
from his revolver, leaning over the rail,
which must bavo had some effect. '
Tho pirates opened fire on him and ho
was killed, receiving no less tliun twenty -flve
slugs right in his breast.
In the meantime the crew, hearing the
firing, rushed on deck with their revol
vers, and a few shots were delivered,
but the pixutea slunk away. Only ono
boat came alongside, but there wero two
others in the immediate vicinity, proba
bly to reinforce tho first boat if hor
crew had succeeded in getting on board.
It was stated next day that four o! the
smuggler pirates had been killed and
several wounded. The circumstances
have been reported to the Chinese au
thorities nt Foo-Chow, and they bavo
promised to do all in their power for the
apprehe ision of the pirates. It is said
that the river at Foo-Chow is very
thickly infested with these desperadoes.
Many people iu the Eastern States are
saving their vines and plants from des
truction by insects by sprinkling upon
them buckwheat flour.
A Struggle with a Porpoise. :
As a party of men wwe bathing on
the bench at Gonoy island, a short dis
tance from New York, they noticed a
largo fish plunging about in a vain en
deavor to escape to tho ocean, in a largo
lake of water left by the receding tide.
Tho lako was about a hundreda yards
long, nnd quite deep in parts, nnd wns
formed by bars of sand. As tho im
prisoned fish leaped about, it was discov
ered to bo a pi rpoise, nnd one of the
bathers, named O'Brien, conceived the
idea of capturing it. As the fish made
a dart in shore, the man leaped in nnd
grappled it nrouud the body with both
urins. Tho finny -monster scorned a little
dazed nt first, nnd O'Brien had assumed
nu upright position, with it in Ids arms,
nud was staggering toward tho .beach,
before it made a struggle. Whon' it did
wriggle its tail, however, O'Brien's grasp
loosened, and the fish darted mid lake,
where the water was eight feet deep in
places. O'Brien swam out nfter him,
nud with great courago grappled him
ngaiu iu tho deep water. Tho porpoise
dived, nnd the ninn disappeared with
him, nnd reappeared twenty feet dis
tant, but together, O'Brien apparently
having found a fin that was not too
slimy to hold on to. Tho fish seemed
thoroughly frightened, and mndo a swift
break toward the bar, towing the man
along, both disappearing and re-appearing
as the fish chose to divo or rise. In
shallower wattr O'Brieu again recovered
a foothold on tho bottom, and released
the fin to take a better working grasp
around the body of tho porpoiso. The
fish made a grnnd effort for liberty, aud
almost raised his tormentor out of the
water by a flirt of his tail. It succeeded
iu freeing itself, and darted off for the
other bar, O'Brien following. The fish
was penned ngnin, nnd O'Brien got an
other hold nrouud his body. The slime
was too yielding for h: grasp, and tho
tapering body of tho fish slid through
his arms. Both were well nigh exhausted
now, tho fish too much so to swim out of
the reach of his pursuer, aud tho man
too tired to exert strength enough to lift
his prey out upon the beach. O'Brien,
however, renewed his grip upon the pec
toral fin of the porpoise, and both were
quiescent for a few seconds to regain
breath. The fish recovered soonest, and
made another dart for liberty toward the
outlet bar. This timo he was successful,
tho tide having risen high enough dur
ing tho fight to leave a foot of water
over the sand. An incoming wave took
him half over by the undertow, and a
second lifted him across. O'Brien was
close to him wheu he reached tho deeper
water, and watched his porpoiseship
swimming from wavo to wave until he
got clear beyond the breakers. It was n
gallant fight. The fish was nil of six
feet, weighing, perhaps, two hundred
pounds. - ' - -
Japanese Students.
Capt. Z. Matzmulla, of the Japanese
navy, has arrived iu this country, nccom
panied by six Japanese youths, who have
been sent abroad by tho govorninent to
bo educated. The captain told a re
porter: L have a threefold commission
from the Jnpanoso navy department. In
tho first place I must disposo of these
youug gentlemen, who have been study
ing navigation and gunnery in Japan,
aud have been selected, ou account of
their intellectual activity, to represent
their native country in the naval acade
mies of Aunapolis, Md., and Woolwich,
England. For the former Masters Ter
ata and Uriu will start immediately, and
for the latter Mxsters Ioilo nud Tunaki,
who are to study tho science of seaman
ship, Takagi, who is to devoto himself
to medicine, and Maruta and Miynbara,
who are to become engineers, will set
out in my company shortly after. In
London I will present my credentials to
tho lords of the admirality, aud nsk their
nid in procuring a skilled professor and
two competent assistant professors of
navigation for my government. I am
furthermore commissioned to purchase
specimens of tho most npprovod naval
steam engines. Japan is eager to im
prove her navy, and ready to grasp every
legitimate means of doing so. I should
be better pleased if I had the authority
to adopt tho improvements that the
Americans have engrafted upon their
naval system; but my instructions wero
to seek those that the Englishmeu have
wrought for their own benefit, and I
must be obedient. I am nttached to
America, having been a student at An
napolis for nearly six years, graduating
in 1873.
A Wife's Trick.
A lady occupying a high position nt
Washington, whose husband was of tho
government, made a trip to Europe with
him. She "doted" on lace, and here
was her opportunity. Talking of the
acquisitions she would mako iu this line,
he told her she shoul-.i piu-chnse any rea
sonable quantity, provided sho would
not smuggle any. To this sho accepted.
The gentleman took as part of his ward
robe a dressing gown, for, liko most
Americans, in tho privacy of his room
he liked to pull off his coat. Several
times on tho ship he observed the care
his wifo took of his garment, and was
gratified for her anxiety for his comfort.
Onco wheu smoking, while lighting his
cigar, ho sot his gown on fire aud quite
a hola was burned in the skirt. His
wifo was considerably agitated, and he
was flattered that so trifling a danger to
him had so moved her. One morning
immediately after their return to this
country he found that before he reached
his offico that keys he needed he had
left nt home, and retraced his steps to
get them. Letting himself iu with his
latch-key ho proceeded to his chamber,
and on opening tho door fouud his wifo
on her knees on the floor, his ikessiug
gown divested of its lining and spread
before her, and the, scissors iu hand,
disengaging .from it a white, flimsy
fabric with which it was covered. Sho
sprang up on seeing feim, laughed, and
exclaimed : "You are tho smuggler.
You wore that laco nil over Europe, and
brought it home."
He Couldn't Go. A crowd of boy 8
passing by a house in Detroit the Other
day halted as they saw a mournful-looking
boy at tho gat, and ono of them
called out: "Hi! there hain't you
going to the circus ?" " I was a going,"
replied the lad, 10 husky tones. " but
the baby up and died last night and ma
eays 1 won t dare te even holler for four
weew to corns r
How to Conquer the Fotato ling.
The Hartford Timet .tolls of this
method of destroying potato bugs: The
pest of the potato fiolds, movii ft stondi
ly eastward, has made its appearanoe all
over Connecticut haviug como in four
summers from Colorad to New Eng
land. Tho plan tried iu Hartford re
cently of covering tho vines with the
powder of white hellebore, though it
seems to bo quite as cflective ns any
other, is attended by the same difficulty
when it comes to a largo field, Mr.
Wm. Benton, whoso grounds nt tho
south end of Hartford have this season
wituessod the appearance of the Colorado
potato beetle in great numbers, has tried
a now plan, and it scoiub to be both ef
fective and well adapted to practical use
on good sized fields. Ho went through
the rows with a horso nud plow, with a
whiffletroe that would hit the potato vines
on both sides, and attached to the ends,
iu order to lower tho sweep and render
it effective, a small bunch of birch brush
wns fastened. Thisnrrnngcmontknocked
off nnd swept off tho bugs by tho thou
sands; and on reaching the end of tho
row ho turned tho team, burying the
bugs hopelessly. That was more than a
week ago; nnd ns no sign of the're-np-pearanco
of tho destroyers has been
seen, Mr. Benton thinks he has saved
his potato field. At first ho despaired
of getting rid of such a depredating
army, nnd had it not been too late in
tho season would have plowed up Iris
potato field and planted it with corn so
formidable did tho invaders appear.
This " happy thought " struck him, and
l.e saved his potatoes. His theory is
that the bugs were too youug to know
how to dig their way out when once
buried. Later in tho season they bury
themselves to escape the winter, nnd
como out bright and smart next year.
But if they ore subjected, liko the hero
of ono of Poe's stories, to a "prema
tnre burial," they stay buried; nnd the
beauty of this plan is that it can bo car
ried out speedily over fields covering
acres nnd without much trouble or ex
pense. Mr. Benton says this method of
sweeping off tho bugs by horso power
does not break tho vines. He says a
cultivator instead of a plow will not do
tho work.
Mother Nature.
Jane Grey Swwshelm, noted ns a nurse
during the war, brings forward a surgi
cal case as curious ns that of Mr. Car
rufh's, tho Yiueland editor, iu which
she gives nature full credit, as follows :
It was iu Campbell hospital, Washington
city, in the summer of 1863. The board
of physicians, Beven iu number, united
in informing me that I need not sacrifice
my life iu an effort to save Corporal
Randall, for that he must die. I went
to Head Surgeon Baxter and said : "If
I can keep his stomach iu good working
order, nud kep it regularly supplied
with the best blood-makiner food : if I
can keep down fever and paiu so that he
sleeps ; keep up the circulation and pre
vent chills, will he not get well ?" He
threw up his head with a laugh, tud re
plied : " I never knew a man die under
such circumstances." "Well, lean do
that." " If you can, you will save him."
"Very good. He is saved, only you
must nttend to the wound as usual."
"Of course, of course, wo will do that
in any case ; and we will give lum to
you, and do all wo can to help." That
man's recovery is ono of the surgical
wonders of tho war, for he got a now
thigh bone nfter the old one had been
shivered from the knee to the hip joint
by a Minnie ball, and the bono feeder
destroyed, so that the formation of new
bono was thought impossible, nnd death
from suppuration considered certain
from the amount of old bono left in frag
ments, where they had been driveu into
tho flesh. The surgeons were allopathic,
and so was I ; nnd what wo did was to
furnish nature with all possible facilities
lor getting rid oi uer waste material by
keeping the wound open and clean, and
tho opening in such position that she
uia not nave to work ngainst gravity,
but that it should assist her. The drain
was frightful, and lasted for months,
but we kept up tho equilibrium of de
mand and supply by a judicious fortifi
cation of tho digestive apparatus, and by
making tho perspiratory organs absorb
fuel for animal hent, by sponging with
alcohol and water. We created no new
diseases or disturbances, and encouraged
nature to attend to tho one business of
healing that wound, little dreaming that
sue wouia or could mako n new bone,
but suo aid.
Spartan Simplicity.
Tho college crews nt Saratoga have
been putting in practice the results of
their readings in tho classics, by au imi
tation of tho ancient simplicitv of Sparta,
They have declined to accept the elegant
prizes offered by ono of the local hotel
proprietors, whilo returning hearty
thanks for his courtesv. Their declina
tion is based upon the ground that out
side prizes might aft'ect tho true interests
of tho races so far ns the members are
concerned. Apparently they prefer the
flag that is the tokeu of championship to
any gold or silver token, remembering
that their contest is f imply the rivalry
oi gentlemen, ana not tno otiort ot pro
fessional oarsmen. Though some may
think that the collego boys have strained
a point in taking this position, it will be
conceded that it wero better to err on the
side of pride thau iu tho opposito
airection.
A Feat In Telegraphy.
Some idea of the ramifications of the
electric telegraph from an experiment
successfully accomplished in Loudon a
few weeks since. . Captain Sartorius, nt
present iu Teheran, Persia, wished to
tost his pocket chronometer, and to'check,
wiui uusoiiuo correctness, its time in
Persia vath Greenwich time. To do
this it was necessary to havo n clear line
from Teheran to London, a distance by
" wire" of nearly 4,000 miles. After
somo little trouble in getting the German
relays into satisfactory order (the lino
comes through Berlin) the important
signal was made several times to insure
accuracy, with the result that the watch
was found to be two seconds slow by
ureenwien tune..
The supreme court of Illinois decides
that wheu a farmer contracts to furnish a
cheese factory with milk, lie must not
skim it before delivering it.
Tree Culture Iu the United State.
Gen. Brisbin, stationed with the regu
lar nrmv iu tho far West, having made
tree culture n study of many years,
writes to the Now York World directions
for raising mauy useful varieties. As
the culture of trees is now acknowledged
to be of grent importance, iu view of
their effect upon the water supply of a
country, as demonstrated iu various
parts of Europe, aud even in our own
Western btates, where premiums are
offered for tho greatest number planted,
we append a few of his directions and
remarks:
The black walnut is a favorite treo, nnd
very useful. Itgrows admirably in
rocky ground, anThrives best in land
with n yellow suLml. To prepare the
land, furrow outas if for corn aud drop
tho walnuts one m a lull, four foot npnrt.
Cover lightly with n hoe or plow. The
sood should be planted soon nfter it falls
from the tree, nnd is best dropped with
tho hull on. If this cannot be done,
bury tho seed but by no means nllow
it to dry. Seed is also good dropped in
February nnd covtrcd in the spring.
Tho frost crocks tho walnut shell, nnd
the Bprout will start out soon after being
covered in April or May. Forty acres of
walnut timber wm yield tho farmer iu
ten years more than if the laud is planted
every season iu graiu. Tho tree3 will
grow the first year ton or twelvo inches,
tho second thirty, and the third year,
four to five feet. The first nnd second
year tho ground may bo plauted between
tho rows with potatoes or corn and it
will not hurt the young trees, walnut
striking a deep root nnd drawing its sus
tenance from the subsoil. To mako the
trees bear nuts early dig under nnd cut
the tap root. Fruit ' trees that do not
bear may also bo mndo to bear by cut
ting their main or tap roots.
Au experienced tree grower says an
acre of sugar maples at twenty-five years
of age will average one foot iu diameter
and produce 2,000 pounds of sugar nn-
nually. When the trees measure twenty
inches they will givo 00,000 feet of lum
ber worth $2,500, besides n great deal of
fuel. A peculiarity of this treo is its
body increases in size faster than the
top. It can therefore bo planted very
closely. Two hundred trees will grow
on an acre. Maple seed ripens in Octo
ber and should be planted iu rows the
same as ash, but not so thickly. Alter
planting allow tho tree to stand two
years in the nm'sery and then transplant
to ground where it is to grow perma
nently. The oak is the most valuable of all
trees. It can readily bo raised from the
seed, which should be gathered iu the
fall, after the acorns drop. The best
month to gather seed is October, and it
should be planto.tl.nt once, or kept iu a
cool, moist condition until spring. The
plants should be sot out about eight feet
apart, nnd between the rows somo up
right growing treo enn be planted as
nurses for the oak. These latter should
bo cut away whenever it is necessary to
make room for the oak. Burr oak and
chestnut oak nre best for fuel nnd red
oak the best for rails.
!1 Tho soft maple, in its wild state an un
couth nnd scraggy tree, when grown
closely in a cultivated grove is much
improved in appearance and a most use
ful tree. I havo seen numerous patches
well shaped, and eight and and ten feet
high at threo and four years of age. In
Nouoma county, Iowa, maple trees,
seven years old from the seed, were
largo enough to make three ten foot
rails, nnd an acre yielded 3,000 mils.
This timber is always iu great demand
for manufacturing purposes. It beats
the walnut thrte years in a growth of
ten years. I he seeds ripen m J uue, and
should be sown in mellow ground ns
soon as they fall. Plant one and a half
inches deep with drills, in rows twenty
inches apart. They will como up in six
days. Keep tho weeds out until tho
plants get a good start. The first year
they will grow eighteen or twenty inches,
They should bo transplanted the next
spring and set out '1, 700 to the acre.
They will grow four to fivo feet tho
second year.
Why the Sultan Visits England.
Attentions to the sultan of Zanzibar
continue to be of the mildest ldud. The
accounts of him which the newspapers
give are so meager as to indicate little
concern iu his movements. The Daihi
Telcaraph, however, has ".interviewed'
him under tho shield of some unnamed
outsider, as we are given to understand ;
since the interview, ns developed and
practiced in America, has never been
looked on here with favor. Iu this case
nothing is omitted not even the re
marks of the " interviowor " himself,
the description of tho hotel where the
sultan lodges, his appearance, the np
penrance of his suite, and how they are
dressed. The upshot of it all is that the
sultan has come ou business. He has
lost 12,000 a year by tho "treaty" with
the English a treaty signed under the
moral suasion of Admiral Cummings'
guns and his navy has been destroyed
by a hurricane. 'U hat he desires is that
tho English, by way of indemnity for
tho revenue which the suppression of
tho slave trade sacrifices, should set him
free from the yearly tribute of 40,000
which he pays to Muscat, give him a
steamsliip, a thousand Snider rifles nnd
ammunition, and tho loau of half a dozen
English sergeants to drill liis black
troops. This is not Bought by way of
cnarity, out to eniuuo mm to maintain
his authority and carry out tho provi
sions of the treaty ngainst the opposition
of his chiefs, develop commerce, make
roads inland, and promote generally the
prosperity of the countrv he rules over
and, of course, that of the Englishmen
nnd .bnglibh subjects who trade there,
Too Much of a G'ood Thing.
At the central market in Detroit, a
long-haired man mounted a box nnd
commenced: "My friends, who hnth
redness of eyes? The drunkard. Who
hnth woe? The drunkard. Heaven
send us pure cold water. Thero is noth
lug like w ." At that moment a bov
who was throwing water from a garden
nose used around there, accidently turn
ed the stream against tho Btrancrer'i
back, aud he jumped down and said it
was a case of assault, and ran after
warrant. He said tbut no human being
could throw cold water over him without
being mads to auffer for it,
Items of Interest.
A shirt on your back is worth two iu
the bush.
Bloated bondholders can bo very much
reduced iu bonds by visiting any water
ing place.
A large turtle was recently caught in
Lnko Saratoga with tho date " 1822 "
engraved on its back.
You occasionally meet a mau in this
world whose word is as good as his bond,
aud both aro worthless.
Iowa has a law which forbids a man to
marry his step-daughter, yet nllows him
to marry his mothcr-in-law.
A "Bonanza of Health" is what they
call a new sulphur spring reached by nu
nrtesinn boring nt Hopkiusville, ivy.
Men who never have fivo dollars read
descriptions of dangerous counterfeits of
that denomination with great interest.
A single association for fish culturo
has since May distributed 320,000 youug
salmon through tho streams of Cou- ,
necticut.
A paper in Pittsburgh, Ta., says that
tho West is every year becoming more
independent of the EasW in tools and
hardware.
Chenp labor" comes up in a new
form in San Francisco, where a Chinese
young lady is an applicant for a vacancy
in a public school.
A Boston man's second wife lias had
him nrrested for using her monejj to
buy his first wifo a tombstone with
poetry on it.
It takes many years to make a young
politician know how to be useful, and it
takes as many more to make nn old ono
understand when he has outlived his
usefulness.
A Washington man writes to the Ji'c-
2)utlican of that city complaining of
" the water we dimks." Tho editor in
dignantly asks who ho means by we "
nnd.' what water?"
The best rules to form a young man
are : To talk little, to hear mucn, to re
flect alone on what has passed in com
pany, to distrust one's own opinions and
value others that deservo it.
A London medical journal informs us
thnt tho notion of pewter nud hydro
chloric acid nnd nilrobromncctnnilido
produces hydrochloride of cthenylbro
mophenylenedtamits. Much obliged.
The largest Cardiff giant story comes
from Sandusky, Ohio, near which, it is
said, a petrified mau of gigantic sizo
has been found in a uowly-discovercd
cave four hundred feet below tho surface.
A countryman fell off a ferryboat nt
Yicksburg, and his wife, waiting coolly
until his head showed above tho water,
shouted: " There, durn yer, I know'd
you'd do it I Bet yer never get out,
either I ' ,
Thero wns a gold mine m Cherokee,
Ga., a few days ngo. After a little of
the excitement subsided, somebody dis
covered that tho deposit consisted of
gold foil stuck around on tho rocks with
mucilage.
A New Orleans paper says that tho
coming cotton crop will number ',()50,
021 bales. When au editor can figure ,i
crop down as lino as that ho'll soon be
ready to carefully estimate tho sands ou
the sea shore.
A millionaire of Granville, Wisconsin
has recently made a will, in wliich ho
leaves 50,000 to any incorporated town
or village iu Wisconsin that will not
tolerate n brass baud. Now that's some
thing liko philanthrophy.
Tho newspapers stnto that a well-
known banker iu Paris has absconded,
leaving a largo deficit behind. Mrs.
Partington thuiks it was very good oi
the poor old mau to lenvo it, when he
might havo got off clear with every
thing.
A common practice among the British
soldiers is to commit some small theft in
order to get their release from the army
nt the cost of a short irnprisonmont.
The magistrates see the dodge now and
give soldiers full sentences for such of
fenses. A lady correspondent who assumes to
know how boys ought to be trained,
writes to nn exchange as follows: "Oh,
mother ! hunt out the soft, tender,
genial sido of your boy's nature."
Mothers often do with nu old shoe to
the boy's benefit.
A census enumerator iu Liberty, N. 1.,
has found a German girl, fifteen years of
age, who speaks German aud English,
ond accurately writes both languages left
handed. She has made til teen tnournna
shingles since the snow left, besides
dragging in many oi tne crops iu ner
section.
If thoso dresses were twice ns tight
they would wear them. If it were tho
fashion to carry a barrel ot Hour ou tho
back of tho neck they would do it, or die
trying. lou conklu t devise n lashion
the women wouldn't meekly follow, from
no clothes iu winter, to bearskin over
coats iu summer.
Thero is a lad who for five or six years
has been selling fruit, etc, on the Maine
Central railroad, whose pluck aud busi
ness tact are quite remarkable. Ho is
now, perhaps, seventeen years of nge,
and owns several small houses and other
buildings iu Bath, and 18 said to be
worth 87,000 to 8,000.
Mr. Duauo thought it would bo a
good joke to have his only sou learn tho
alphabet early, and so ho named him
Aaron Burr Concord Duane, making his
iuitialaA. B. C. D. Wheu tho boy
married Ellen Francis Garroway Hurd
(E. F. O. HA he began to think how
the balance of the alphabet would como
iu as applied to the children.
The Hartford Times reports that there
were seen on a wharf iu that citv, re
cently, no fewer tlm sixteen children,
between the ages of four and eight years,
all drunk. They liad obtained access to
some of tho vile liquor of the dramshops
and drank enough to set them crazy
drank, or helpless. Somo were weakly
trying to stab each other with such
weapons as they could reach.
A wealthy mau died some months ago.
Some of his heirs were slighted, aud
tried to break the will ou the ground of
unsound mind on the part of the testator.
The effort failed. It was shown in evi
dence that the man made most of his
money by judicious advertising. The
court remarked : " We need look no
further for proof of this man's sound
Judgment," Andth court was right,