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.VOL. VII. IUDGWAy" ELK COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, MARCH "22, 1877. ; yQ5
Tailed by the Angrls.
The f armor's wife is sitting alone
In the dusk of a winter's day,
While over the bills the shadows fnll,
And oyer tho meadows gray,
And the cares of many a busy hour
Steal fust from hor heart away.
Her eyes have wandered through mist of tears
To the churchyard under the hill,
Whore the Bnow, like the wings of a brooding
dove,
Lies soft and pure and still,
And where her treasures, so long age,
She laid at the Master's will.
And ah 1 how oft as the days go by,
Hhe stnrts, as her listetu'ng ear
Has almost caught on the passing breec.
Voices so sweet and clear,
" 'Tis the angels culling !" she thinks. " Ah, me
It is wenry waiting lure."
The farmer from his work, at last,
In tho dusk of a w inter's day,
And he sits him down by his faithful wife,
And she parts bis locks so gray,
And looks in his face with a loving smile
That years never steal away.
And back again as her dim eyes turn
To the hills where the shadows fall,
She thinks : " My treasures are lying there.
But He has not taken all,
Since one is waiting beside me still
Till the angels' voices call."
But the weeks are slow, and the aged iw,
In the dusk of many a day,
Will watch the shadows come and go
OVr the meadows cold and gray,
Ere they, tt the Master's will, may lie
Where their treasures are laid away.
PURSUED BY WOLVES.
A Race for Life in a Russian Forest.
"Av.d to, mine host, you wish to
frighten me with tho old fabled cry of
Wolf ;' no, no 1 it won't do You don't
suppose a few cowardly rascals like your
wolves nre going to frighten two Buch
old hunter3 as myself and Paulo, here ?
What say you, Paulo ?" and the speaker,
n tall, fair-haired young Englishman,
turned to his companion, who stood in
the rear and exhibited the respectful
familiarity of a confidential servant ; a
man who had passed the prime of life,
but was yet hale olid strong ; a thorough
picture of the true Muscovite.
"I will drive wherever the master
orders," was the quiet reply.
" Good ! I knew that, Paulo. And
our host thinks to keep us here when a
glorious welcome is waiting us at Grov
onoff palace, only three leagues away,
by the fanciful story that the wolves are
nbnllt. WrkV luy own port I lifralcl lilr
pot shot at them. But I forgot, there's
Isabelle, and she might not care to ven
ture." "Don't mind me, Horry," rejjlied a
coft voice at his elbow, proceeding from
a graceful young lady who had at that
moment entered the apartment, holding
in her arms on infant. "I am as anx
ious to reach the palace to-night as you
can be. Is not dear Alexis waiting for
ma ? You forget I have not seen him
these three months; and baby here wants
to be presented to his father."
'" Not a doubt," was the laughing re
ply. "Well, we had better see about
starting. Paulo, get the sledge round."
"Will your excellency order the bells
to bo taken off; they attract the wolves,"
interposed the host.
"Not I, indeed. The horses would
not get along without them. It encour
ages them ; besides, I like the music of
the bells on tho frozen air: and if the
wolves are to come, they come, bells or
The innkeeper bowed and withdrew,
Now while the party are settliner them-
selves comfortably in the sledge, let us
briefly explain wh they are, that they
find themselves at a Russian outpost late
on a harsh winter's night. Harry For
dyee, who has been on a hunting tour
witli lus trusty servant, Paulo, a thor
ough hunter and trapper, has appointed
to meet his sister on her way from Eng
land, where she has been spending the
summer, and escort her to lier husband,
a Russian nobl'e, who, as governor of a
district, is located on an outlying po6t
far removed from civilization. The jour
ney lias been accomplished, up to the
time ot our meeting them, without ace
dent ; but, putting up to rest their
horses at a wayside inn, three leagues
from their destination, the landlord en
deavors to persuade them from proceed
ing by informing them that thepineforeet
which lies midway between the little
village and the palace is infested with a
pack of wolves but the answer to this
has already been given.
"Now then, Paulo, shake the r.ins
aid we'll be off. You are all right, Isa
belle," turning to the lady, " perfectly
safe and warm, and the little one?'
queries our hero.
"Quite, thank you."
And waving his hand to the innkeeper,
Paulo shakes the reins, and th. sledge
with its three horses dashes over the
hard snow with a speed and ease hardly
equaled by ony other conveyance in the
world, and at this pace the pine wood is
neared. But Paulo is an old hand, and
almost imperceptibly slackens the speed
of his horses, allowing them to take
breath, as he knows that they may re
quire all their strength before the forest
is passed. With one hand holding the
reins, he looks calmly to the priming of
a pair of revolvers and then, quietly
leaning over to his master, whispers in
his ears.
" All right," is the sole response, but
the young Englishman as quietly looks
totheadjustraent of a breech-loading rifle
which has hitherto been concealed by a
fur rug, and brings his cartridge belt
nearer to his hand.
The forest is entered by this time, and
the deep shade thrown by the cieantio
pines creates a darkness almost as in
tense as that of night to the party who
have just come out of the glare of the
snow; the one relief to the solemn shade
is tfje long road stretching out in its
whiteness, and in its winding and turn
ing looking almost like a living serpent.
No sooner are the party well within the
shade of inhospitable and grim-looking
trees, than Paulo begins to peer about
him, now forward, now to the right and
now to tb left, a4 oa th in0w oyvsrsd
ground, but evidently he aees nothing to I
alarm him, when suddenly he exclaims
"Hah !" and gives the roins that ho has
been holding in his hand a shako that
seems to send a thrill through the horses,
who have also seen or heard somethiug that
they do not like, for they throw back
thoir ears, and tho thick spume flakes fly
from their mouths as they chafe at the
bits.
Isabella, who has been dozing, sudden
ly opens her eyes at the jerk which has
been given to the Bledge, and iu accents
of terror exclaims: "What are those eyes
amongst the trees on the hill ?"
No need to ask a second time, as the
hoarse bowlings, which had been but
mutterings mingling with the sighing of
the wind through the leafless branches,
now swell into a loud chorus, and a pack
of wolves dash from the trees after the
sledge and its inmates, and then ensued
a race for life indeed. The horses were
as sensible of the danger as their human
freight, and plunged along with all the
speed of thoroughbred animals. At
tracted by the cry of the child and the
alarming shriek of its mother, the fierce
pursuers came up on that side of the
sledge nearest to them, and seemed de
termined to leap into it. They were
close alongside, their hot breath could
could almost be felt, while the glare of
their fierce-looking eyes were terrifying.
At this moment Paulo pulled out his re
volver and fired, and the one nearest the
side rolled over and bit the dust in his
death agonies, but the others, nothing
daunted, leaped over the body of their
dying comrade and kept up the chase.
Harry leveled his rifle and another beast
rolled over. Just then one who appeared
to be the leader sprang at the nearest
horse and hung on his side, while the
affrighted animal plunged and struggled
to such a degree assjto threaten the over
throw of the sledge. To reload and fire
was for the experienced hunter but the
work of a moment, and the horse was
freed from his assailant.
Paulo had not been idle. His revol
vers had told more than once upon the
hungry pack, but they were pressing
closer aud closer, and it seemed as
though they must be eventually sacri
ficed to the rapacity of the wolves, when
a turn in the road showed them that the
forest was nearly elided, and that the re
maining portion of the journey ran
through an open country, where the
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wolves would doubtless hesitate to follow;
indeed, the pace had been such that thov
weje already falling off, and a shot or
two more from the rifle and revolver,
seemed to check their onrush. But it
was os if they were only concentrating
their energies for a fresh charge, for just
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as me iorest was cleared, mey surround-
ed the sledge on all sides, and Paulo had
just time to fire at the first on one side, 1
when, turning quickly, he lodged the j
contents of another barrel in the brain i
of one that had already mounted the
olcd(i;r. -
But this was the final charge. Once
iu the open fields the cowardly beasts
turned tail and slunk back to their native
wilds, while or. r travelers reached Gro
onoff poloee in ti:'"y, but did not easily
forget, amid tho fejtivities thut awaited
them, the terrible rrce fcr life they had
run on that harsh winter's night.
Experiments with Eucalyptus Trees.
Tho Sacramento (Cal.) Jiccord- Union,
in a late issue, publishes the following
important piece of news : The Central
Pacific railroad company have arranged
to have 40,000 cucalyptuB trees set out
along five hundred miles of the right of
way ot tne company, it should not bo
understood that that is tho whole num.
ber of trec3
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uu nut ubw xi, is uiu me
first installment, and is for commencing
the work. The object of this plan is to
note what effect the planting of trees will
have upon the climate. It is the theory
that large numbers of them will increase
the humidity of the atmosphere and les
sen the liability to droughts. The de
nuding of hills of their timber and the
clearing away of forests has a direct ef
fect upon climate, as is well established,
and the intention now is to sea how far
artificial means will be effective in re
storing the balance believed to have been
lost by the clearing out of our forests,
as well as the scattered groups of forest
trees. In this connection it is to be
noted that the directory of the Good
Templars' Home for Orphans, at Vallejo,
has now in progress the work of setting
out three thousand of the eucalyptus
globulus upon the grounds of the home,
which will make quite a forest when the
trees shall be fairly grown.
Does IU Own Feeding.
An English mechanic has contrived to
make a steam engine do its own stoking.
A large sheet iron hopper i3 set above
the mouth of the furnace and iu front of
the boiler. This is the receptacle for
coals. Below the hopper a steel crusher
is made to run somowhot rapidly, and,
as the coals fall by reason of their own
gravity upon this grinding apparatus,
they are reduced to the uniform size of
cob nuts by tEe action of the crusher.
Thence the equalized fuel drops upon a
Eair of iron disks or fans inclosed in a
ox, and running in opposite directions
aa high velocity. The fans are in fact
the furnace feeders, for as the box has
but one opening, and that leads to the
fire, they literally blow the coals into
the latter and distribute them equally
over the whole surface of the fire bars.
The feed is recrulated in Quantity ac
cording to the heavy or light work the
engine may be doing, by means of a
single adjusting set screw. This is the
automaton stoker. The f uraaee fires are
fed and steam is kept up in the boiler
without the turning of a shovel, and all
that tho fireman has to do is to smoke
his pipe and whistle " Down in a coal
Infantile Mortality.
The following figures are instructive
as showing for ten years the ratio of
mortality of children under five years of
age to the total mortality in the city of
New York :
r Ami.
187 49.69
1873 48.76
1874. ; 48.81
1875 48.28
1876 48.74
1867 63.99
18C8 62.50
1869 61.09
1870 49.66
1871 48.08
This shows a steady decrease, much
of which is traceable, it is claimed, to im
provements U liw.rage and yanwlatlon.
The Indian Famine.
Mr. Monier Williams writes from Ma
dura that at lenst 15,000,000 human
beings will have to struggle for exist
ence, if they are not actually struck down
by famine, or by the disease which
famine brings iu its train. Of course
this estimate has reference only to the
poorest classes. A sad" feature
in the spectacle is the condition of the
cattle. As I traveled from ono place to
another, often diverging from the neigh
borh. od of the railway to less frequented
outlying districts, I saw hundreds of
lean, half famished kine endeavoring to
eke out a doomed existence on what
could only in mockery be called horbage.
When it is remembered that the cow is a
principal source of sustenance to Hin
doos of nearly all castes, and that no
such animal as a cart horse is to be
found iu India, all agricultural labor de
pending on the ox, some idea may be
formed of the terrible calamity involved
in a mortality among cattle. Even the
cows and oxen that survive will be al
most useless. Utterly enfeebled and
emaciated, they will have little power
left either to yield milk or to drag a plow
through soil- caked and indurated by
months of unmitigated sunshine. But
the sntldest feature of all isthe condition
of the humau inhabitants of this great
Feninsulo, I will simply recount what
know; and testify of what I have seen
with my own "eyes in the capital of this
presidency. Only a fortnight ago I saw
many thousands of poor famine-driven
creatures from the villages round Madras
collected on the shore and on the pier.
They were crowding round the sacks of
rice grain, with which the sands for at
least a mile were thickly covered and al
most concealed from view, the grain
bags being often piled up iu the mounds
to the height of fifteen foet or twenty
feet. Yet no onslaught was made on the
grain. A few men scattered about,
armed with canes, were guarding the
sacks for the merchants who owned
them, and were sufficient to prevent any
attempt at depredation, though here and
there I detected surreptitious efforts,
not so much to make incisions, as to en
large any happy defects already ap
parent iu the material which enclosed
the coveted food. What generally hap
pened was this : Very few of the grain
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"u' WPrf so WPV, ,a " l nZ
leakage impossible, and sprinklings of
rice were thus scattered about every
where. The luiowledge of this circum
stance was the cause of the vast con
course of miBeruble, half starved, emaci
ated creatures who had walked many
miles to the spot. Men and women, old
and young, even cripples, mothers with
infants on their hips, and naked chil
dren all more or less pitiable in their
leanness and in their hard-set aspect of
misery were earnestly engaged in glean
ing up every grain that escaped from the
tacks on the pier and on the shore.
Many were provided with coarse sieves,
by means of which a few rice grains were,
with infinite pains, separated from bush
els of sand.
Prisoners of War.
That a recognized code for treatment
of prisoners of war should exist we be
lieve to be most desirable. We have
frequently heard it said among others,
by M. Duuant that the treatment of
French prisoners by the Germans in the
last war had, to French eyes, been so
bad that should war again occur between
thein, and France bike prisouers, they
would suffer for the past sins of the Ger
mans. We may claim some right to offer
an opinion on this matter. We have
'"i"? cen '.wumenuu m gmng re-
Jii'i i j. ieiu;u
prisoners who were un
,iVn..,
doubtedly suffering extremes of hard
ship. We hove seen some of the saddett
Bights that war has ever shown ; the
French army coptured at Sedan, cooped
up in that narrow peninsula, suffering
the pangs of hunger ; the captive army
of Metz, marching out under the dis
dainful eyes of its conquerors, the sol
diers haggard, worn, weary, throwing
themselves down in the deep black mud,
in the sheer bitterness of despair, while
the pittiless rain poured down upon
them. Wo have seen the French pris
oners in the camp at Mainz, cold, bitterly
cold, with the snow deep on the ground,
many in thin clothing, and stockingless
feet, fed by but one meal a clay, and that
often given in the early morning of one
day, and not till the evening of the next.
Nay, worse, we have seen the prisoners
of the army of the Loire literally freez
ing to death in the open railway wagons
in which they were for days retained in
that severe winter, on their road to Ger
many ; and we have heard, on unques
tionable authority, of men being taken
out of those wagons when they reached
their journey's end frozen to death. Aild
vet we say these are but the inevitable
hardships of war. Blackwood' a Maga
zine. Thoughts for Saturday Night.
Need teocheth unlawful things.
Genius is only great patience.
All philqsophy lies in two words,
"sustain and "abstain."
Be calm in arguing, for fierceness
makes error a guilt and truth discour
tesy The best and sweetest flowers of para
dise God gives to his people when they
ore upon their knees. Prayer is the
gate of heaven or key to let us into para
dise. Garments that have one rent in them
are subject to be torn on every nail, and
glasses that are once cracked are soon
broken; such is mans' good name once
tainted with just reproach.
Men's lives should be like day more
beautiful in the evening; or like sum
mer aglow with promise; and like au
tumn rich with golden sheaves, where
good deeds have ripened in the field.
Conscience is a clock, which in one
man strikes aloud and gives warning, in
another the hands point silently and
btrike not, meantime hours pass away,
and death hastens, and after death comes
judgment.
It is an observation no lets just than
common, that there is no stronger test
of a man's real character than power and
authority, exciting as they do every par -sion
and discovering every latent vice.
A fair reputation is a plant delicate in
its nature and by no means rapid in its
growth. It will shoot up in a night like
the gourd of the prophet; but, like tha t
gourd, it may perish ui a night.
A ew Terk Merchant.
A correspondent of the Baltimore
Bulletin writes:
The mention of Emma Abbott's name
inevitably suggests some anecdotes I
heard recently concerning Mr. George
G. Lake, whose elegant mansion on
Fifth avenue she makes her home here,
and to whom she is glad to be indebted
for much of the material encouragement
that enabled her to pursue her career.
Mr. and Mrs. Lake keep an apartment in
their house which they call the " Abbott
room," and which they hove decorated
with a number of objects of art, includ
ing a portrait of its occupant, pointed by
Frank R. Carpenter. Mr. Lake is one
of the remarkable men of New York. He
is well known as the senior member of
the Broadway dry goods house of Lake 4
McCreary, but he retired from active
business some years ago. He is to-day
a millionaire.
Mr. Lake came to New York a poor
boy from New England. He obtained a
situation in the old house of TJbsdell &
Tierson, and, in the course of time,
made a contract for three years at five
hundred dollars per year, or nn aggre
gate of fifteen hundred dollars for the
three years. Just after making this con
tract he was called on one day by Mr.
Crist, of Spies, Crist & Co. , who said to
him: "Mr. Lake, we have had our
eyes on you for some time; your fidelity
ond Application to business please us.
We have been looking for just such a
man to take charge of an important de
partment of our business. We offer you
three thousand dollars for the first year,
five thousand the second, and seven
thousand the third." Mr. Lake replied:
"I am obliged to you, Mr. Crist, for
your good opinion, but I cannot accept
your offer." Mr. Crist wos surprised.
"Why not, Mr. Lake?" "Because I
just made a contract with TJbsdell &
Pierson." "But not on such terms as
we offer you, Mr. Lake?" "No, cer
tainly not," replied the young man.
" Is your contract with TJbsdell & Pier
son in writing, Mr. Lake ?" " No, sir."
" Well, then it is not binding," said Mr.
Crist. "It makes no difference," was
Mr. Lake's reply; 1 ' I have given TJbs
dell & Pierson my word." The years
went on, Mr? Lake supporting his wife
and child on $500 a year. They boarded
in Camd street at $8 o week. Near the
end of the three years Mr. Pierson one
day said: " Mr. Lake, we wish to say
to you that we are. much pleased with
you. Among oil our young men you
have been the most faithful. We know
where you go. (When your daily duties
are over you go home. We are so much
pleased with you. that we have decided to
offer you an interest with us." Mr.
Lake replied: "I cannot except it, Mr.
Pierson." "Why not?" "I have no
capital and I will not borrow." . It was
Mr. Pierson's tui'U now to be surprised.
"But, Mr. take, you will stay with
us." " I will stay, Mr. Pierson, but you
must make it an object." Mr. Lake then
for the first time told of the offer of
Spies, Crist & Co., three years before.
This he hod kept to himself, os faithful
to his duty at $500 a vear as ho would
have been at 5,000 or $7,000, though he
could not always keep out of his mind
the tempting offer he had put aside.
Mr. Pierson said: " Mr. Lake, on
what terms will you remain with us ?"
" I cannot both buy and sell the same
thing, Mr. Pierson. If my services are
desired by you, make mo an offer."
They parted. The next day Mr. Pierson
said: "Mr. Lake, my partner and my
self have determined to make you this
offer 810,000 per year for ten years."
"All right, Mr. Pierson, I accept!"
A Wealthy Thief.
Af one of the Paris police courts a rich
and elegant Russiou lady has lately been
condemned to three months' imprison
ment for theft. She is the pretty young
wife of Copt. Garianoff- Korewitchenski,
serving in the Russian cavalry. Her age
is twenty-six, and she has o daughter
of eleven who was implicated with her in
stealing a number of articles from a deal
er in fancy goods. On searching their
apartments a largo quantity of articles
wero discovered which had doubtless
been taken from many establishments
during a considerable period of time.
Many Russians of distinction attended
the court on account of the social position
of Mine. Korewitchenski, who was som
berly but elegantly costumed. At the
first interrogation she burst into tears,
and vehemently denied the charge. Her
child, however, acknowledged the rob
beries, both of her mother " and self.
Capt. Korewitchenski had hastened from
Russia to be present at the trial, and
urged his wife's innocence, stating that
her income was 30,000 francs, and that
she had no need to appropriate the pos
sessions of others. As it was apparently
a case of kleptomania, the punishment
was rendered light The child was ac
quitted. How a Woman Drives a Tack.
Did you ever see a woman drive a
tack? She holds it between her first
and second fingers and pusheB it a little
ways into tho carpet. Then with the
other hand she takes up the hammer, al
ways with the wrong side down. She
hits three or four delicate blows, not
raising the hammer half am inch from
the head of the tack, but pinches her
fingers, lets go and hits it sideways, so
that it enters the floor on a bias. Then
she pulls it out, selects another tack from
the box, and sticks a dozen into her
hands while doing it. Finally, with an
effort, she makes the point clinch the
floor, and with one blow she settles the
matter by knocking tho head off.
A Skeleton.
The St. Paul f)ipatch has discovered
a skeleton closet in the State capitol.
Intemperance has been increasing in the
legislative halls ond statesmen have been
on tine die benders. Some of the com
mittee rooms have been turned into pri
vate bar-rooms, which are run at the ex
pense of the State. It is alleged that
one of the committees obtained an allow
ance of $300 for expenses; that $20
went for a cupboard and $10 for keys;
that the balance was used to buy liquors
to put into the cupboard; that the drink
ing men in the Legislature were supplied
with keys, and that each has since been
tippling, .
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Domestic Recipe.
Breakfast Oat Meal. It may be
very palatably cooked in woter, with a
little solt added. The water must be
boiling hard when the meal is put in,
and as soon as it sets or thickens the
water it must be set back where it will
still boil, but not scorch. Much stirring
spoils it. Boil one hour or more.
To Save Waste in Cooktko. To cook
oat meal or cracked wheat without any
waste, butter a basin and fill it two-thirds
full of water, aud when it boils stir in
the oat meal or wheat ; be sure to hove
it thick enough, as you can easily thin
with boiling water. Set your basin in a
oteomer. Rice, etc., should be steamed
in same way.
To Coos Wheatkn Grits. In one
quart of milk or water of tepid heat stir
five heaping tablespoonfuls of grits ond
one tablespoonful salt ; put iu a farina
kettle ond place in the boiling water in
the under kettle. Place on the fire
where it will keep boiling, adding woter
os it boils away. Boil one hour, then
turn out iu uu eartheu baking dish, and
cover with a plate that covers the dish
tightly ; put iu a rather moderate oven
and leave a half hour. If it should boil
very stiff it must be thinned by adding a
little milk or woter.
Pudpino Under Meat. When roast
ing a piece of beef, three-quarters of an
hour before it is done take it out of the
oven and pour the drippings out of the
pan for gravy ; hove ready six or seven
nice apples, pored, cored and hulved, and
lay them in the bottom of the pan ; then
make a batter of two cupfuls of Hour,
with a teaspoonful of baking powder sift
ed in dry, one pint of milk, three eggs,
and one tablespoonful sugar ; pour tins
over the apples ; then lay the meat on
sticks in the baking pan, so that the
juice from it will drop into the pan be
low. Send to table iu a side dish with
the meat.
Potato Dumplings (According to a
German receipt.) Boil five or six good
sized potatoes ; let them get cold, then
peel and grate into a large dish ; do not
crush or mash them together, but keep
them light and flaky ; then peel about
the some qnontity of raw potatoes, grate,
and put into a cloth, press out all the
water, and put the potatoes in a dish ;
cut up an onion very fine, put in two or
three eggs, and a small handful of salt ;
cut Borne stale bread into small squares
and fry in hot lard or butter until they
are brown and crisp ; thoroughly mix the
raw potatoes, onions, eggs ond salt ; put
in the bread, and lastly the boiled pota
toes, handling as little os possible ; roll
the mixture into balls, and put them in
a pot of boiling water, into which you
have thrown a handful of salt; after they
have been in about twenty minutes take
out one and try it.
Farm Club uettons nmt AuHwrrii.
How about horseshoes made out of
Bessemer steel ?
The manufacturers claim that the steel
shoes will last three times as long os
iron ones; that they are lighter, and con
sequently easier on the horse, and that
when beught by weight you can get
twenty-five per cent, more shoes than
when buying iron ones. -
Wliat is the occasion of cows losing
the use of one or more of their teats ?
The cause is largely owing to neglect
iu properly "drying off" a cow, ond
generally those that lose the use of their
teats will le found to be among the best
animals of the herd. Cows cannot be
dried of their milk at once, and some
cows continue-to secrete milk in small
quantities for n long time. In all cases
where the animal has ceased to give
milk, or is what is termed "dry," she
should have her udder examined from
time to time, and the teats fried to see if
any mirk can be drawn. At first the
trial should be made at intervals ot two
or three days, and if there is a particle
of milk in the bag it should be all thor
oughly drawn. This prevents particles
of coagulated milk filling up the milk
duct at the base of the teat, or lower
down, causing a stoppage of milk
through the duct ond so spoiling the
teat for fuither use. Not unfrequently
this foreign substance, acting as on irri
tant, induces violent inflommation. and
the resnlt is a swelled bag, garget, or
some disease of the udder, which couses
trouble.
What is the cause of the peculiar
" sheepy cdor and taste often found in
mutton ?
An impression is very prevalent, even
among experienced sheep raisers, that
the taste and odor mentioned are due to
the contact of the wool with tho meat.
but high authority states that the true
cause is to oo louud in d: lay in disem
boweling the carcass. The intestines
should be removed at the earliest possi
ble moment after life is extinct, and be
fore the removal of the pelt.
Wlien should lambs be weaned ?
Generally at shearing season, when
they are four or five months old. Sepa
rate them from the ewes, and place them
in company with a few barren or " turn
ed off ewes, to guide aud gentle them,
in a field sufficiently distant from the
mother ewes to prevent them from hear
ing each other bleating. The lambs
should have fresh, tender pasturage for
the first few weeks, and the ewes dry
and short food, to reduce, the flow of
milk. As soon as assured of the safety
of their bags from garget the ewes
ought to be placed in good pastures, to
prepare them for winter.
The Roman Sentinel.
When Pompeii was destroyed there
were very many buried in the ruins cf it
who were afterward found in very d'f
lerent situations. ihere were some
found who were in the streets, as if they
had been attempting to make their ee
cape. There were some fonnd in deep
vaults, os if they had gone tuere lor se.
curity. There were some fonnd in lofty
chambers. But where did they find the
Roman sentinel ? They found him stand.
ing at the city gate, with his hands still
grasping the war weapon, where he had
been placed by his captain. Ana there,
while the heavens threatened him; there,
while the earth shook beneath him ; there,
while the lava stream rolled.he had stood
at his post; and there, ftftr a thousand
years ho was found.,
Vitality ond Cunning of the Locust.
In 18G5 I made experiments to see
how soou locusts would drown. After
confining them in woter twelve hours
they soon showed signs of life when
plced in the sunshine, and iu a few
minutes began to move. 1 tried ireez-
lntr. and came to the conclusion that tliey
could be frozen up any length of time,
and the warm sunshine would revive
them. In 1847 I tried animal poisons to
see what effect they would produce on
locuste. I put the poison on celery,
which the locuste prefer to other vege
tables, and after observing the ellect
formed the opinion that they could cot
their weight of ony animal poison with
out ill-effect to them. As soon os they
hatched out and began eating in April,
1875, I took a can of coal oil ond o pan
for the purpose of making a fagot to burn
some that had juBt begun to eat my
wheat, coining from a Bandy knoll in the
field. I poured the oil iu the pan, and
in moving about the pan I caused two or
three to leap into it. I perceived that
they changed color instantly, and to all
oppeorance were dead. I then forced
them in and observed the same results.
On placing them in the sunshine it failed
to bruig them to luo again
I afterward
tried cool tar with the same happy re
sult. Turpentine, alcohol, alkuh and
croton oil will kill them, ond from the
results ot my experiments I believe that
anything that will kill vegetable life will
destroy locust life under the same con
ditions.
I know no iusect that exhibits the cun
ning of locusts after they ore four weeks
old. When very young they appear to
have no sense, as they will leap into
water or fire if iu their course. After
four weeks old they will perform nets of
cunning that ore incredible to the unob
serving. Ill 1875, after they ute my
neighbor's crop on the east, they set out
for my field. I turned water between
his and my field, and caused it to flow
four or five feet wide in places, and let
it flow through the wheat ten or fifteen
feet wide in places. I soon found them
crossing by thousands, swinging from
blade to blade of the wheat that stood in
the running water. I then cut the wheat
out, but at the junction of n ditch I had
left two fence poles in the form of a letter
V, the lower ends crossing near the
water of the creek, and the upper ends
on either side of the ditch. They soon
found passage, ond would ond did climb
down a pole fifteen feet long over the
water of Bear creek, and up the other
pole into my field. They were making
the passage in one continuous stream
when I made the discovery, ond the
ground and wheat were covered near the
passage by those that had crossed.
Alilwaukee Jscit's.
The Priest and Physician.
A French jourunl says that a famous
French surgeon, lately deceased, who
was brusque and unpolished, found, on
entering his house one day, on old priebt
who had been long waiting his return.
" What do you want of me ?" " I want
you to look ot this," meekly replied the
priest, taking off an old woolen cravat.
which revealed upon the nape ot his neck i
a hideous tumor. ",101111 have to die
with that," coolly remarked the surgeon.
a. thank you, doctor, simply replied
the priest, replacing his cravat, " and am
much obliged to you lor warning me, for
I can prepare myself, us well as my poor
parishioners, who love me very much."
The surgeon, who was never astonished
nt great things, looked upon this priest,
who received his death sentence unmov
ed, with amazement, and said: "Come
to-morrow, at eight o'clock, to the Ho
tel Dieu, aud ask for me." The priest
was prompt. The surgeon procured for
him a special room, and in a month the
man went out cured. When leaving he
took out of o sock thirty francs in small
change. " It is oil I hove to offer you,
doctor," he said; "I came here on foot
from Rouen in order to save this." The
doctor looked at the money, smiled, aud,
drawiiig n handful of gold' from his poc
ket, put it in the bag along with the thir
ty francs, saying: " It's for your poor,"
ond tho priest went oway. Same years
later the surgeon feeling death to be
near, bethought him of the priest, ond
wrote to hiui. He came ot ouce, mid the
surgeon received at his hands the hiht
consolation of religion.
What Shall He Del
An editor writes : Editing
n paper is
a nice business. If we publish jokes,
people say we ore rattle headed. If we
omit jokes, they say we nre an old fossil.
If we publish original matter, they blame
us for not giving selections. If we pub
lish selections, folks say we are lazy for
not writing something they have not read
in some other paper. If we give a
complimentary notice, we are censured
for being partial. If we do not give com
plimentary notices, folks will say we are
jealous. If we do not cater to the wishes
of the ladies, the paper is not fit to tie up
a parcel or make into n bustle. If we
remain in our office and attend to our
business, folks say we are too proud to
mingle with our fellows. If we go out,
they ray we never attend to our business.
If we wear poor clothes, folks say busi
ness is bad. If we wear good clothes,
they say we never paid for them, Now,
what are we to do ?
Ravages of the Rinderpest.
Earl Fortescue in the House of Lords
called attention to the outbreak of rin
derpest in Essex and Yorkshire and
ask the lord president of the council
what steps have been taken to prevent
the spread of the disease. The privy
council has issued a notice stoting that
the cattle plague, has been detected at
Bow and Stepney, both within the
metropolis, and also at Hull. A fresh
outbreak is reported at Hull. It is
among stock in the vicinity of the first
outbreak, though tho entire herd where
tie latter occured were immediately
slaughtered.
Rinderpest. A circular letter ls
bean sent to collectors of ports by the
United States treasury department an
nouncing that it is understood from the
public prints that the rinderpest has
again broken out in England, and conse
quently importations of neat cattle and
hidr-b of neat cattle coming from that
e umtry are therefore prohibited,
further oulcre,
In the Chnrcliynrd at Tarrytown.
Here lies the gentle humorist, who'died '
Jn the briKht Indian fminmrr of his fame .
A dimple stone, with t ut a dnto nd name,
Murks hiii neelnded routine place beside .
The rivpr tbnt he loved and glorified.
Hire in tuo autumn of his days be came,
lint the drv leaven of earth were all aflame
With tinUthat brightened and wore mulb-
llow Kweet a iife was bin ; bow sweet a death !
Living to wing with mirth the weary hours.
Or with romnntie tales the heart to cheer (
Dving, to leave a memory like the brcnth
' Of summers fnll of sunshine and of showers,
A grief and gladness in the atmosphere.
Items of Interest.
Do not forget that while you fold your
hands time folds not up his wings.
Lamp wicks should be changed fre
quently if a clear, bright Home is de
sired. If persons would take more trouble
about living they would be less troubled
when dying.
To scold people when tkey make con
fessions is the way to keep them from
confessing again.
The blue glass treatment is ridiculed
by the Medical and iS'uryical Journal
os n silly mania.
The condition of the British cool trade
grows worse. The oldest man in the
trade cannot remember a time bo bad.
They say it is dangerous to go into, the
water after n hearty meal. But who ex
pects to find a hearty meal in the water ?
Nearly 8,000 persons worm out a liv
ing in silk manufacture in the State of
New Jersey. There are $20,000,000 in
it.
Some hygienic writer says : "Let your
children eat oil the salt they want."
Bless you, it isn't salt they wont it's
sugar.
The hop crop of Maine for 1876 is es
timated at 400,000 pounds, valued at
$100,000. Three-fourths of the crop wos
raised in Oxford county.
Somebody in St. Paul, on the way
home from the doctor's office, dropped
the following prescription : "Blue glass,
one part; faith, ten parts."
A young man having complained that
n young lady hud sat upon his hat, he
was told that he ought to know belter
than to hold his hot in his lap.
It is thought that the time will yet
come when members of the choir will be
expected to behove during divine ser
vice just os well us other folks.
No trouble to pay board iu Mississippi.
The Handsboro Democrat says : " Saw
logs are legal tender here." Split wood,
of course, is fractional currency.
Bayard Tuylor says : " It is a wither
ing commentary upon our modern cos
tume that no sculptor has dared, or ever
will dare, to model a statue weiuing a
stove-pipe hat."
Revenge is like a boomerang. Al
though for a time it flies in the direction
in which it is hurled, it takes a sudden
curve, and, returning, hits your own
head the heaviest blow of all. .
Elder Evans, the leader of the Lebonon
Shakers, has started a graveyard on a
new plan. The graves are to be twenty
feet opart, with a tree planted over each,
so that in time there will be n handsome
grove.
A bill introduced into the Legislature
of Delaware enacts that where a bride and
groom, or the bride only, ore resi
dents of the State, and leave the State
for the purpose of being married beyond
its limits, they shall be guilty of a misde
meanor. Your hand, Mr. Hayes, ond pleaso re
member, sir,.th:it we carried a torch for
you three separate times last toll, at
great personal sacrifice. Without being
presumptuous, sir, a custom house would
be deemed a sufficient reward for this
trifling service. Exchange
The best solace for the desponding
patriot now may be expressed in the
words of the mighty Daniel Webster :
" Fellow-citizens, you hove a waterfall
a hundred and fifty feet high. No peo
ple -with a waterfall n hundred ond fifty
feet high ever lost their liberties."
A lady, whose cook went to a wake,
was given notice by hern fortnight after
ward that she was going to be married.
" Who to ?" asked the mistress. " Please,
mam, to tho husband of the corpse."
" Why, does he love you V "'Oh, yes,
mam; he said I was the light of the
funeral."
In the United States, where a whisky
shop, n blacksmith's shop, a grocery and
two or three residences, constitute many
n city, it is strange to read that the Eng
lish nre only now talking of elevating
the great port of Liverpool to civic dig
nity. Yet euch is the fact, Liverpool is
only a town.
" I come out of the accident," said he,
" and who do yon think wos the first peT
son I met ?" " Who, but that snme eter
nal prize package peddler who had bored
me for six hmidred miles on the train,
and Nemesis, where art thou ? he was
the only ono aboard who wasn't hurt
someway !"
Brigham Young, Jr., is organizing in
Salt Lake City a company of 500 Mor
mon families, which will colonize in So
nora, Mexico. The Mexican authorities
have promised perfect religious tolera
tion, and large grants of land. A rendez
vous of the colonists will be established
at St. George, Utah, and the march to
the new land will be taken up on the
tenth of April.
Smifkins always meant to be very po
lite, and among the conventional rules
beaten into him was the one about
"present company excepted." At a
gathering of young Beacon Hillers, the
other evening, allusion was made to the
acknowledged good looks of Boston
girls. "Yas," said Smifkins, "it is
ah undoubtedly twew that Bahstou
lahdies are bootiful," and he turned
smirkingly to his lady listeners, " pwes
ent compohny excepted ah." .
Germany sends annually into the fur
market about 120,000 fox skins, of which
30,000 come from Bavaria and 22,000
from Prussia. ; Of other skins, her aver
age annual produce is 20,000. pine mor
tens, 60,000 stone martens, 280,000 pole
cats, 8,000 otters, 8,000 badgers, and
600,000 bore skins, whioh last are used
by the felt hat makers. Of rabbit skins
the annual yield of Germany is onlv
300,000. to 6,000,000 in France. Th
bkins of 400,000 domestic eats complete
tlelit.
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