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VOL. VIII. IUDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, JANUAEY 16, 1870. NO. 48.
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The Song or the Stream.
Over the mosses and grasses
The white cloud passes,
Silent and soft as a dreatn t
And the earth, In her sby embraces,
Conceals the traces
Of the secret birth of the stream ;
Till my threads are braided and woven,
And speed through the cloven .
Channels, and gather and sink,
And wind, and sparkle, and dally,
With song in the valley'
And shout from the terrible brink 1
Then the whirl of the wind divides me,
And the rainbow hides me,
As I midway scatter In air j
And I bath with endless showers
The feet of the flowers,
And the locks of the forest's hair ;
Till proudly, with waters wedded
My strength is bedded
By meadow, and slope, and lea;
And the lands at last deliver
Their tribute river
To the universal sea.
Bayard Taylor.
A SLIGHT MISTAKE.
To say that Harvey Frothingham was
in a bad temper was to put the mildest
form of words to express the savage
mood in which he found himself one
winter's evening, as he shot through the
main street of the town of L , on his
way homeward. Everything had gone
contrary to his wishes all the week.
To oommenee with, he had fallen in
love with Josephine Ormnnd, whose
pretty face was her only fortune, and
who worked in a paper-box factory for
her daily bread.
Entirely ignorant of the fact that Har
vey Frothingham was a man of standing
and wealth in L , pretty Josie al
lowed tho ruiuor facts, that he was in
sultingly free iu his addresses, to in
fluence her so strongly, that her digni
fied reserve taught him the lesson he
needed; and when he sought her for his
wife she refused the honor.
To add to this discomfiture, the heir
ess, Miss Maude Chesterton whom he
hod held in reserve, that his ambition
might win a wife if his love would not
had ocolly informed him that she was en
gaged to Fred Holman.
Now, if there was one man above
another who was utterly detestable in
the eves of Harvey Frothingham, it
was Fred Holman.
They had both been rivals at sohool,
where both stood well in talent, appli
cation and sooial position; and Fred was
ever a little in advance in every study,
carrying away the contested prizes far
more frequently than it suited Harvey
he should.
In society, Fred's handsome face,
ready . wit, courteous manners, and
frank, sunny temper kept him ever
in higher favor than Harvey Fro thing
ham's sullen, cold disposition oonld
gain.
And now, when Maude had been ever
gracious to the son of tho wealthy
banker, Silas Frothingham, she an
swered his love-suit by the tidings that
his life-long rival had won the promise
to be his bride.
"And the worst of it is, it will be Just
the match to suit his uncle," muttered
Harvey, savagely. " No fear of him
disinheriting Fred now."
For Harvey knew that Fred depended
entirely upon the good-will of his
mother's brother, James Rutherford, a
wealthy and eccentrio bachelor, for his
inoome. He had been left an orphan
when a mere boy, and his uncle had
adopted and educated him, and would
probably make him his heir.
But the bachelor, having long ago put
away sentiment, if he ever felt it, looked
to Fred to make a match that would in
crease bis fortune and sooial position.
It was the wish of his heart to see Fred
the husband of Maude Chesterton, and
his wish was to be fulfilled.
Harvey Frothingham, at odds with
love, would like to see his rival refused,
disinherited, humbled as he felt himself
humbled, since neither love nor money
would accept him.
He strode over the pavement in a sav
age mood, and started suddenly to see
Josephine Ormund coming out of a
shop a few steps in advance of him.
In her hand were several small pack
ages, and her face was pale and anxious.
In a moment Harvey was at her side.
" Let me carry some of your parcels,"
he said, lifting his hat as he spoke.
" Thank you, I have only a few steps
to go," answered Josie, hurrying for
ward nervously.
"You need "not be afraid of me,"
Harvey pni.l, ntin her nervous man
ner. "I will not annoy youl Why
will you not believe my respect is as
great for you as my love t"
And before he knew exaotly where his
words were leading him, the young
man was renewing the offer he had made
before.
At the door of a small lodging-house
Josie stopped and faced him.
'You have spoken so before, Mr.
Frothingham," she said, gently; and
because I believe you are sincere, I
will tell you what I have kept secret for
six months ; I am already married 1"
"Josie I Be quick! Why do you
stand there ?" oried a voice in the nar
row hallway, and a man stepped into
the bar of light thrown across the open
door by a street lamp.
"Fred Holman !' muttered Harvey,
starting forward. "Married! and to
Fred Holman 1"
It almost consoled him in his own dis
appointment to think of the hold he had
upon bis rival. Engaged to Maude
Chesterton, and married to Josie Or
mund 1 Fancy the proud face when she
knew she had been deceived for a girl
who worked in a factory. And sweeter
still was it to Harvey Frothingham to
think of the wrath of James Rutherford
when the news reached him.
But in his triumph Harvey Frothing
ham had resolved to be very cautious to
have strong proof of his rival's marriage
before venturing to accuse, to either his
nnole or his betrothed.
He had noticed the number of the
house in the glare of the street lamp-
No. 28 Ealph street." P"
This waa the entry he m&dA hi.
note-book, in case his memory proved
treacherous.
Vjt. seemed as if fortune favor!
the next day, happening to go
into a large fruit and flower shop, he
saw Fred Holman selecting the contents
of a large fancy basket of choicest fruits
and rarest blossoms. '
Nodding carelessly to Harvey, he
wrote the address upon a card and
attached it to the pretty basket.
" You will send this at once," he said,
and then left the shop.
And Harvey, taking the place Fred
had just vacated, read the card:
"Mrs. F. Holman, No. 28 Ralph
street."
What proof was needed now ? It was
not in the nature of Harvey Frothing
ham to work openly in any scheme. A
blow in the dark suited him better.
Feeling sure of hia position now, he
hurried homeward to write two anony
mous letters, that would, he fondly
hoped, disinherit and utterly confound
his long successful rival.
One of these venomous missives found
Maude Chesterton in her pretty boudoir,
trifling with some embroidery, and
dreaming sweet dreams of her love and
Fred Holman's sweet devotion.
She was a handsome, dignified girl of
nineteen, fnll of all womanly sweetness,
unspoiled by her great wealth.
She loved Fred Holman with the
whole strength of her young heart, and
she was sure that her love was returned.
The dainty work under the slender
fingers progressed slowly, as Maude lay
back in her deep arm-chair, looking into
the glowing fire, and building castles of
future happiness.
From this tender reverie she was
aroused by a servant, who handed her a
squarely-folded letter, awkwardly ad
dressed, and fastened with a wafer.
Wondering who her unknown cor
respondent could be, she opened the
paper. The same straggling hand inside
met her eyes. Only a few lines were
written:
" If you would have a proof of the
falsehood of one you believe true, go at
eight o'clock this evening to the second
floor of No. 28 Ralph street, and you
will find Mr. Frederick Holman and his
wife."
" Anonymous !" the proud girl said,
her lips curling and her eyes flashing.
"It is a falsehood 1"
She threw the note upon the coals as
she spoke, and watched the flames curl
and blacken the paper till it flashed out
of sight up the chimney.
Then, with all the color stricken from
her face, she took up her embroidery.
Had Harvey watched her then, he
would have thought that that poisoned
arrow had missed its aim.
But it was not so. The work was
thrown aside, the piano rang out under
her restless fingers, a novel was opened,
a room was put in order; but while the
calm face betrayed no secret suffering,
the girl was tortured all day by the
words of the anonymous note:
" Frederick Holman and his wife."
Could it bef Had the frank, brown
ejes that had looked so lovingly into
hers mirrored only a false heart ? Was
she, indeed, so far deceived?
Long before eight o'clock Maude
Chesterton had resolved to prove or
falsify the words that seemed burned
upon her brain.
Surely, of all the world she had the
best right to test the truth of such a
'nonstrous charge against her betrothed
lover.
And while she was striving to hide
from any eyes the tortnres she endured,
James Rutherford was storming up and
down his library, holding the second of
Harvey Frothingham's communications
in his hand.
In the same awkward handwriting,
the same facts were stated, the same
hour and place to verify the writer's
words.
But the peppery old bachelor made
no secret of his wrath. To have listened
to him, one would have supposed that
making mince-meat of his disobedient
nephew was the least he intended. He
called him all the pet names suggested
by a furious rage; he used np all the
abusive adjectives in the dictionary to
describe Mr. Frederick Holman.
He exhausted every threat that he
could devise; long before eight o'clock
he had wrought himself up to a rage
that was frightful to witness.
It was with a chuckle of satisfaction
that Harvey Frothingham, seoretly hid
den in a narrow courtway, watched a
tall, stately figure leave a carriage at tho
head of Ralph street, and walk to the
doe r of No. 28.
In the quiet of the street he heard a
clear voice ask the servant who opened
the door:
" Does Mrs. Holman live here ?"
" Yes, ma'am; second floor."
" Is her husband at home ?"
" Ob, yes, ma'am: you'll find them
both there."
Then Maude Chesterton entered the
house, just as a short, panting man
dashed np the steps, and, not pausing
to make inquiry, also entered.
In the passage, Maude Chesterton,
turning, as rapid steps followed her,
faced James Rutherford.
"You herel" he said. "You have
heard too, then, of the trick this un
grateful hound has played upon us?"
"I have heard," she answered, in a
cold voice, "that your nephew's wife
lives in this house. I wish to ascertain
if it is true."
" We will soon see I we will soon see !
Second floor. Here we are. Now,
then 1"
And the old gentleman's raps proved
the exoitement under which he was
laboring.
A very pale, sweet woman opened the
door, her eyes showing that she had been
weeping very recently,
" Does Mrs. Holman live here ?" the
old gentleman asked.
" That is my name, sir."
"Can I see your husband ?"
The soft eyes, full of deep trouble,
were lifted.
" Is it on business, sir I".
" Very important business," was the
rather dry response.
" Because the doctor said to-day he
must not have any mental exoitement.
He is so very mnch worse to-day; I I
am afraid he is dying I"
And sobs broke out again.
"Dying!"
Maude Chesterton reeled into the
room, and sank dizzily upon a chair.
James Rutherford, with a face white
as death, said: ' Dying An accident ?"
"No, sir; it is a fever from over
work." -
" Fever over-work !"
" Josie Josie I"
If ever Fred Holman spoke, he spoke
then from an inner room, and the little
wife, seeming to forget her strange visi
tors, answered, qniokly:
"I'm coming, Fred."
She went at once to the room from
which the voice came, and again the
two, listening intently, heard Fred's
husky voice.
" Bring the last cordial, Josie. Ten
drops I I am sure he knew me ; but he
is faint"
A moment later the same oheery
voice spoke again : " Drink this, old
fellow. Sol See, here is Josie! Don't
yon know Josie?"
Then another voice oh I so very
faint I said :
"Josie little wife!"
A moment of utter silence followed,
and then Josie said :
" There is a gentleman and lady in
the other room, Fred, who want to see
Frank. Will you see them ?"
And Fred, appearing in compliance
with this request, found his uncle vig
orously fanning Maude Chesterton with
a newspaper to bring her out of a faint
ing fit.
Before ho could frame a question, his
nncle said, quickly:
" Get me some water I" And he
obeyed.
Then, Maude's blue eyes opened with
a bewildered stare, the old gentleman
continued :
"We were sent here to see your
domestic felicity, and we seem to be
misinformed."
" My domestio felicity ! cried Fred.
"Read that," said his uncle, handing
the anonymous note. And Fred com
plied. " Humph ! yes," he said. " So you
came to see Mrs. Frederiok Holman.
Well, that lady has made me a happy
man ; " and his eyes flashed merrily
upon Maude. "But I will introduce
you to my cousin's wife, Mrs. Frank
Holman. Maude," he continued, with
gentle gravity, " since you have come
here, it will be an act of Christian
charity to remain, for "and his voice
sank very low " we are afraid the poor
little woman will be a widow before the
morning."
" Poor fellow ! " said James Ruther
ford. " What is the trouble ? "
" Over-work. He thought he could
increase his small salary by toiling over
fine engravings in the evening, and he
broke down, I never knew of his mar
riage till last week, when he wrote me a
painful note, begging me to care for his
wife if he died. I came here at once,
and was fortunate enough to win poor
little Josie's : sisterly confidence and
affection. Maude, if the great trouble
we fear comes "
"I will be her true sister, . Fred ! "
interrupted Maude.
Here was a deep silence of several
minutes; then Josie, very pale still,
crept softly into the room.
"He is asleep I" she whispered.
"The doctor said if he slept he would
live I"
And when she broke into hysterical
weeping, Maude held her close in loving
arms, whispering that she must let her
stav and comfort her, for Fred's sake.
Nearly eleven o'clock came, and still
Harvey Frothingham waited, half
frozen, in the dark courtway, to see the
discomfiture of his rival. Then his pa
tience was rewarded by seeing Fred and
his uncle come ont of No. 28, arm-inarm,
evidently the best of iriends, and
enter Miss Chesterton's carriage and
drive away.
Not until the day of the wedding,
when he saw Josie an honored guest,
and was introduced to Mr. Frank Hol
man, did Harvey Frothingham under
stand the slight mistake he bad made.
Clothing a Client.
"Hie Eureka (Nev.) Leader is respon
h i We for the following story : A young
lawyer of Eureka, who has just been ad
mitted to practice at the bar, had the
tesponsible duty assigned to him by
Jmige Rives, last week, of defending a
criminal confined on a charge of robbery.
Tlie budding Blackstone visited his
client, and was shocked to note his
shabby appearance and generally un
washed and nnkempt appearanoe. As
this was his first case, our legal friend
was naturally anxious to acqnit his
client, and in pursuance of this laudable
ambition he concluded that if the pris
oner presented a cleanly and respectable
appearance before the court and jury,
hia chance of getting off would be en
hanced, and, acting on this idea, the
lawyer not only sent to the jail his best
6uit of clothes for the fellow to wear,
bat also dispatched a barber to the
soene, with instructions to shave, sham
poo and cut the man's hair. It was all
done, and the thief came into court look
ing as neat as a newly-elected candidate.
But, unfortunately, one bad mistake
had been made. The barber had shin
gled the fellow's hair down to a close
crop, and in consequence a worse-shaped
head or a more villainous set of features
never were revealed. The impression
on the jury was so marked that they
rendered a verdict of guilty without
leaving their seats. It was time and
coin thrown away; and not only that,
but it is said that Blackstone had to get
out a writ of replevin to regain posses
sion of his clothes. After this he will
rely on testimony, and let personal ap
pearance take care of itself.
Toad Poisoning,
TIia fnllnwinir m'ncTilar account of the
Af.n ff vmiostninff nn thei human
body, is reported in the hist number of
tne jjonaon vnemtsi :
A child of six yeais old followed a
Icvoa tntkA rat a tint mimmflr'a dav. throw
ing stones at it. Suddenly he felt that
the animal had spurted some moisture
iiifsk Ilia Avd ThnrA unddenlv set in a
slight pain and spasmodic twitching of
the Blightly-injeotea eye, out wo umi
after coma, jumping sight, desire to
Innd and drink, consti
pation, abundant urine, great agitation,
manifested themselves, xouoweu vu mo
sixth day by sickness, apathy, and a
kind of stupor, but with regular pulse.
Some days later, having become com
paratively'qniet, the boy left hia bed ;
his eyes are injected, the skin dry, the
pulse free from fever. He bowls and
behaves himself like a madman, sinks
into imbecility and speechlessness, from
which condition he never rallies.
HOW TUB CHINESE MARK TIME.
Naae Very t'arlaus Eaoerple frem the
Latent Official Almaaar.
The Chinese Official Almanac is is
sued annually in December, and is care
fully prepared by the board of astrono
my, an important body, imperially ap
pointed, presided over by a prince of
the royal blood, and equal in dignity to
any other government body in the em
pire. The almanac is bestowed as a
special act of grace by the emperor on
tne Coreans, Looohooans, Annamites
and other tributary states. As this
publication is so highly respected by
the Chinese, it may fairly be considered
as the representative of the highest
state of astronomical science reached by
them. A large part of fe!ie astrological
portion of the almanao is intended for a
".'practical guide in the common affairs
of life." A translation is given of the
admonitions for the first days of the
current year, as follows :
The first day is favorable for sacrifice
and for entering sohool ; at noon it is
allowable to bathe. It is unfavorable
for starting on a journey or exchanging
residence.
The second day is favorable for sacri
fice and bathing. It is unfavorable for
starting on a journey, removing or
practicing acupuncture.
The third day : there are no indica
tions. The fourth day : may receive or make
visits and cut out clothes ; at seven
a. m. may draw np contracts, barter
and make presents. May not go on a
journey or break ground.
The fifth day : may visit, bathe, shave
and clean up ; may not plant and sow.
The sixth is favorable for sacrifice,
visiting, taking on a new servant, start
ing on a journey, removing, marrying,re
pairing, breaking ground; at three a. m.
may draw np contracts, open shop, barter,
send presents, seal, test the soil and
bury.
The seventh day : may level roads,
but must not start on a journey.
The eighth : may sacrifice, memorial
ize, enter office, assume ceremonial
clothes ; at five a. m. may sit toward the
southeast ; also favorable for conjugal
union, visits, weddings, taking on a new
servant, starting on a journey, erecting
uprights and putting on crossbeams,
building, removing soil and ' burying.
The writer gives a few more items and
comments as follows :
And so it goes on for nearly every day
in the year. Enough has been trans
lated to show the excessive childishness
and absurdity of this, the principal part
of the imperial almanac On the seven
teenth one may be treated for illness
and open caches of provision. On the
twenty-third it is allowable to pull down
old houses and walls but drains must
not be opened or wells dug until the
twenty-seventh. Arrests should be made
on the fifteenth ; this is the only favor
able day in the month a very satisfac
tory arrangement for criminals. There
ere four days in thirty on which one
may cut ont clothes, and the same num
ber on which one may sweep and clean
np. It is advised to shave on the fifth,
twenth-third and twenty-ninth, and to
bathe seven times in the month. Un
fortunately, the intervals between the
bath davs are unequal, and the believer
in the almanao must wait from the fifth
to the thirteenth and from the fourteenth
to the twenty-third. Besides, on the
first, bathing is favorable at an incon
venient hour viz. , noon ; the hour on
the twenty-ninth (five o'clock) is much
better.
These indications seem too silly to af
fect sensible men, yet while the China
man is not only Bonsible, but actnally
shrewd and keen, he guides moBt of his
more important affairs by the almanao.
The poorer classes watch the almanao
carefully, and marry, bury and do other
things only when it advises, and it is to
be feared that the better educated do
not start on a journey nor enter office
except on favorable days, though it is to
be hoped they bathe, shave and clean
much oftener. American Journal.
Mining Nomenclature.
Names of mines, like one's emotions
when eating Limburger cheese for the
first time, are peculiar. The locator of
Dry Hash probably showed his prefer
ence for a dish which is a prominent
feature in a boarding-house, and has a
large oircle of acquaintances. Little
Bilk leaves one to infer that there is a
Big Bilk; in fact, on consideration, we
concede that there are a great many of
them. Mollie Darling shows that, al
though she is getting to be an old maid,
she still has admirers. The Fraud is no
exhibition of human nature; the locator
wanted to pique the pride of the vein
and spur it to belie its name. On in
quiring of one minerwhy he had named
his claim " I Enow All," he explained:
" When I left the East I left my girl
there, and and some trouble I had with
another lady. When I got out here I
wrote to my girl that Isvas doing bully.
That wasn't so; but yon know how a fel
low will write. Wrote! that I expected
to return soon and cage her in a palace.
She answered: 'I know all. Yours no
more, Jane.' " Asking another why he
chose to name his " Terror," he replied:
"For a lady." "Howl Didn't know
that was a female name." " Well, yon
see, that's my wife; she's a terror.
Left
in Gold Hill? Ton
Tom Pike being ques
tioned as to his naming a location Joab
Johnson, said: " That that was my
name in the States." I asked the pro
prietor of the Last Chance if he really
considered this his last chance for a for
tune; if he failed would he try again ?
" No, sir; no, sir; will go to robbin' the
stages." To the man whe was showing
me his two claims I remarked: " From
"There's nuthin' in it." "And this
second one, Heotor. You admired the
valiant Trojan ?" " Named for my dog
Hector.' He's dead now. Buried
over thar. Come an' see his grave."
Salt Lake Tribune.
To the perfection of true friendship it
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particular individual selected from the
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tce ui iimiiainu, vuu iuaj u considered
ma a.nnt.hAv utlf an whom w. nun nnkAM
our most serious tnougnts; Deiore whom
we are not ashamed to lay open our
wettaneeses ana ioiuibb; or, in the ex
pre?sive phrase, to think alone.
the name, the Treasury, you must have
high hopes of this?" . " That isn't why
I named her that"' "Why. then?'
The Octopus.
Though all the ootopods, large or
small, can swim freely at will, such is
not their habit; they prefer to lie con
cealed, or partially so, on the side or in
the clefts of rocks. There the ootopod's
body is protected from the attacks of
other animals, while it can extend its
long feelers in search of prey, of which
fish, mollnsks, and crustaceans are the
principal objects. Its movements, when
an object of food is perceived, are mar
velonsly rapid, swifter than the flight of
an arrow from the bow of an experi
enced hunter. The long, flexible arms
grasp the victim; its hundreds of suck
ers, acting like pneumatic holders, make
escape impossible; and, as the long
arms draw the object nearer and nearer,
the other shorter arms add their multi
plied disks, forming " a perfect mitrail
leuse of inverted air guTis, which take
horrid hold, and the pressure of the air
is so great that nothing bi t closing the
throttle-valve can produce relaxation. "
This throttle-valve is the neck, as we
have before described. Those lengthy
appendages, the limbs, are rather in the
way when the animal is swimming, and
would act as drag-anchors if left pen
dent; but the octopus usually draws
them close alongside, whence they ex
tend in a horizontal position, acting the
part of a tail to a kite. It propels it
self by drawing in and expelling water
through its looomotory tube. The oc
topus swims backward, and it has been
remarked that it changes its color to a
darker hue when it starts out for a swim.
This change of hue, apparently at
will, is one of the most peculiar charac
teristics of the octopus. It may be con
sidered the chameleon of the sea. Its
ordinary color when in repose is a mot
tled brown; but if irritated it assumes a
reddish hue, approaching to purple.
Nature seems to have been almost su
perfluously careful in furnishing this ani
mal with protecting elements; for this
coloring matter, which resides between
the inner and outer skin, enables it even
to assume the color of the ground or
rocks over whioh it travels, so that one
can hardly say what color it is before it
may have changed to something quite
different. When exhausted after a bat
tle or a straggle to get out of a trap, it
turns pale like a human being.
utners oesides victor .Hugos hero
have had a chance to test the strength
01 tnese devil nsnes. Major Newsome,
R. E., when stationed on the east coast
of Africa in 1856-57. undertook to bathe
in a pool of water left by the retiring
waves. He says: "As I swam from
one end to the other, IwaB horrid ed at
feeling something around my ankle, and
made for the side as speedily as I could.
1 tnougnt at flrst it was only sea weed;
but as I landed and trod with mv foot
on the rock, my disgust was heightened
at, feeling a fleshy and slippery sub
stance under me. I was, I confess,
alarmed; and so apparently was the
beast on which I trod, for he detached
himself and made for the water. Some
fellow bathers came to my assistance,
and he was eventually landed.
As the grasp of an ordinary-sized octo
pus holding to a rock is not less than
thirty pounds, while the floating power
of a man is between five and six pounds,
I believe if I bad not kept in mid-cban-
nei it would nave been a life-and-death
struggle between myself and the beast
on my ankle. In the open water I was
the best man; but near the bottom or
sides, which he could have reached with
his arms, but whioh I could not have
reached with mine, he would certainly
have drowned me." Popular Science
Monthly.
A Model Xew England Farm.
Mr. Burnett, the owner of the three
hnudred acres in Sonthboro, Mass.,
known as Deerfoot farm, makes a spe
cialty of breeding, raising and fattening
hogs, and converting them into various
articles of fond, and of the products of
the dairy. The conversion of the car
casses into hams and bacon, and the
manufacture of sausages and lard are
carried on in the most systematic man
ner and on an extensive scale; extra
pains being taken to prodnoe for the
private consumption of customers in
Boston, New York and Philadelphia,
the choicest and most palatable articles.
Mr. Burnett raises about 350 hogs an
nually, and purchases from the farmers
cf Vermont 1,500 fat Berkshires, whioh
make the best pork. After being dress
ed, the hogs are kept in a refrigerator
for forty eight hours, when they are cut
up, the hams and bacon cured in the
most approved manner, the lard tried
out and canned frte from adulteration,
and the pork packed in kegs of fifteen
and twenty pounds weight; the sausage
meat chopped by machinery and sear
soned with the best quality of sage and
pepper that can be obtained, and then
made -into sausages. Mr. Burnett's
baoon has taken the place of imported
English bacon in the Boston market,
and has become so popular in Philadel
phia that one dealer has offered to take
the entire product of Deerfoot farm,
which amounts to 800 sides a day, while
3,000 hams are cured annually. The
product of sausages averages about
1,000 pounds a day. Another specialty
of Mr. Burnett is the canning of pigs'
feet, whioh are sold largely in the sea
son to yachting parties. The piggery at
Deerfoot farm is an extensive affuir,
located at some distanoe from the main
buildings, and consists of a building
eighty by forty feet, with a wing sixty
by twenty feet, containing pens, in
which were seen about 250 swine of all
ages, from the sucking pig to the hog
ready for the scalding vat. The animals
are fed twioe a day, on a cooked mixture
of two-thirds corn meal and one-third
ground oats, which Mr. Burnett has de
monstrated to be the most profitable
food for fattening hogs. In the dairy,
the Devonshire process of producing
clotted cream is used. New milk, .scald
ed, is placed in long, large pans, which
are placed nnder a refrigerator, where it
is cooled rapidly, the temperature being
reduoed in three hours from 100 degrees
to thirty-two degrees, and cream raised
to the thickness of three-fourths of an
inch, whioh ordinarily re.Jred forty
eight hours. This cream will keep
sweet several days, and is sold for sixty
cents a quart to Boston families. Mr.
Burnett also manufactures from 250 to
800 pounds of butter a week from the
milk of fifty cows, of whioh twenty-five
are thoroughbred Jerseys, The butter
readily sells at seventy-five cants a
pound. Boston Transcript.
ASSASSINATION.
Mrs la lllah Places Whs Were Attacked
Daring Ike Past Year.
Four times within as many months
were attempts made on the lives of three
sovereigns of Europe. The German
emperor was twice in danger. On the
afttrnoon of May 11, as he was riding in
the Avenue TJnter der Linden, Berlin,
with the grand duchess of Baden, E.
H. M, Hoedel, a tinsmith and a social
ist, shot at him with a revolver. The
ball did no damage, and on his trial
Hoedel asserted that he did not aim at
the king. But evidence to the contrary
was overwhelming, and, in accordance
with the sentence, he was beheaded on
August 15. The second attempt on
Kaiser Wilhelm's life was made just
tbree weeks later, and as he was riding
through the sam3 street, when K. E.
Nobiling, from a window in the third
story of tho house No. 18, discharged a
double-barreled gun at him and lodged
forty shot in his head and neck. In
spite of a desperate resistance Nobiling
was immediately arrested, but not until
he bad succeeded in inflicting upon him
self a dangerous wound, from which he
died on Sept. 11. He was an interna
tionalist, ana, nnlike Hoedel, was a man
of good education. The emperor's
wounds were so serious that he was
obliged to resign the government into
the hands of the crown prince, until he
reaf sinned his power on Dec. 5.
On Oct. 20, ns Alfonso, king of Spain,
was riding in the Calle Mayor, Madrid,
J. O. Moncasi, twenty-three years of
age, a cooper by occupation and an in
ternationalist in political belief, shot at
him, but only succeeded in slightly
wounding a soldier. On Nov. 7, an old
soldier unsuccessfully attempted to kill
the Spanish ex-minister of war, Bregua .
The last of the four attempts was on
the life of Hnmberto, king of Italy, and
was rendered possible only by his com
mand that no guard should surround his
carriage as he entered cities in the
course of a tour which he was making
through Italy. His intention was that
the presentation of petitions should be
entirely free. On Nov. 17, as the car
riage containing the king, the queen,
and Prime Minister Oairoli was entering
Naples in this unprotected manner,
Giovanni Passante, concealing a knife
with a red banner, mounted on the steps
and aimed a deadly stab at Humbert's
heart. But the king defended himself
with his sword, and before the blow
could be repeated, Cairoli, at the cost of
a severe wound, had grappled with the
mnrderer, and in a moment he was in
the custody of the police. He was
twenty-nine years old, a cook by trade,
aud, like Hoedel, Nobiling End Mon
casi, a socialist or internationalist.
More sensational, and even, perhaps,
scarcely lessimportant than theseorimes,
was the unsuccessful attempt, on Feb.
5th, at St. Petersburg, of a young
woman Vera Sassulitch by name to
kill Gen. Trepoff, chief of the St. Peters
burg police. Her motive was personal
rather than political, but an idea of the
detestation in which the Russian police
is held may be gained from the fact that,
though she fired the shots in broad day
light, as was abundantly shown by proof
and not denied by herself, she was acquit
ted by the jury amid the applause of the
large and even brilliant audience in the
courtroom. Two high Russian police
officials were killed during the year
Baron Heyking, of Kiev, and Gen.
Mezentsoff, chief of the czar s private
police. These were political murders.
This mania for assassinations extended
even to Peru and Japan. In the latter
country Mr. Oknbo, minister of the in
terior, was almost hacked to pieces on
May 14th by six men armed with swords.
He was in reality the power behind the
throne, and was somewhat known in this
country as a member of the Iwakura
embassy of 1872. His assassins were of
the Samurai, or privileged class, and
professed, probably honestly, to have
acted from patriotic reasons..
In Lima, Peru, on Nov. 16th, Dan
Manuel Pardo, ex-president of the re
public and acting president of the sen
ate, was shot by Melchor Montoya, the
sergeant of his guard. The crime was
to be the first act of a revolution, but
Montoya was deserted by his confeder
ateB. Trichinosis.
This is a parasitic disease, caused by
eating pork infested with minutest hair
like worms, called trichinae. It is ody
since 1860 that the disease has been
fully investigated and understood, but
it can now be traced back, under other
names, at least Iwo centuries. Since
the above date it has been recognized
wherever pork is eaten raw or imper
fectly cooked; and there have been
many epidemics of it.
The trichiufe, after passing through
the 6tomacb, rapidly multiply in the
intestines, and thence they work their
way into the substance of the muscles
generally and of the internal organs,
where they soon roll themselves up into
coils, like worms of the earth.
If comparatively few trichinae are taken
into the stomach, either because the
pork is but slightly diseased, or is eaten
sparingly, or the meal is not repeated,
the disease is light and soon over.
In severer cases there is vomiting;
diarrhea, followed often by obstinate
constipation; profuse sweating; fever;
great pain in the limbs; difficulty of
ohewing, swallowing and breathing;
hoarseness, oiten with entire loss of
voioe; neuralgio attacks and sleepless
ness, except in children, with whom the
ujjpuono uuuuiuun oi stupor prevails.
xu me muaer oases the patients begin
to recover in five or six weeks; in severer
forms, convalescence is deferred for four
months, while the full strength is not
restored for a muoh longer time. A
fatal termination is very common, gen
erally from paralysis of the respiratory
organs. In children, recovery is the
rule. No means have yet been found to
destroy the trichina).
American hogs seem to be especially
liable to the disease. They should be
sold for the market, home or foreicn.
only after legal inspection. But thorough
oooking kills the trichinee. Lard, of
course, having been subjected to a hish
heat, cannot contain them,- Youth's
Companion,
Instead of leaving flowers and wreaths
on the graves of dead friends, custom
expects the people of Madrid to leave
visiting cards.
Items of Interest.
" Anti-fat remedy" Killing the hog
when young.
Winter is the season best suited to
freeze speech.
A hotel bill may be called inn-debted-ness.
Why is a healthy tree like a dog?
Because the bark is sound.
Look out for the girl who throws her
whole soul into a rair of slippers for the
parson.
George W. Matehett, of the Arhansat
Traveler, has been sticking type fifty
eight years.
Woman's capabilities are great, but
hardly sufficiently developed to allow of
her driving a nail without hitting her
finger.
A man who bought a box of cigars,
when asked what they were, replied,
" Tickets for a course of lectures from
my wife."
Nothing can exceed the intenso affec
tion which a girl deals out to her father
for a day or two before the time when
she's going to ask for a new dress.
Old buttons are in demand in Paris as
articles of parlor ornament, and large
prices are paid for those in steel, jasper,
silver, pebbles or Alencon diamonds.
He that is found reasonable in one
thing is concluded to be so in all; and
to think or say otherwise is thonght so
unjust an affront and so senseless a cen
sure that nobody ventures to do it.
In Belgium, if a candidate dies be
tween the day of his nomination and the
day of the election, his name still re
mains on the list ana must be voted lor.
At Ste. Mary, Luxembourg, a dead man
has thus been elected to the communal
council.
The St. Louis Republican says: The
correct way to pronounoo the name of
tnis state is as though it were spelled
Mizzouri, and that of its southern
neighbor as though it were spelled Ar
kansaw. Dictionaries and gazetteers
often give other pronunciations, but
these are the ones which the people of
the respective States generally follow.
Uoud Resolutions in Chicago.
The Inter-Ocean bestows the follow
ing good resolutions gratis cpon its sub
scribers. Every one can easily be a
little, if not a good deal, better than
during the preceding twelvemonth. Set
the mark high, and live as nearly np to
it as possible. Resolve, among other
tilings, tnat during tne coming year:
1. You will curb your temper and
your passions. Violent pleasures, arti
ficial excitement, or a free rein to a
temper easily provoked, consume life as
well as render it nnhappy.
2. That, if addicted to profanity, in
even the bmallest degree, you will aban
don it. Aside from moral and religions
considerations, swearing is degrading
and vulgar, and betrays a poverty of ex
pression.
6. That for a year to come, whatever
the temptation to do otherwise, von will
tell the truth. Lying grows upon a
man, and is a contemptible, as well as
odious, habit. Reform it altogether. -
4. liesoive to speak ill of no man or
woman, except under proper provoca
tion, and to the person's faoe. The
slanderer deserves a place in that lake
which burnetii with tire and brimstone.
5. Swear off from alcoholio drinks.
and put the dimes, quarters and halves
you have been accustomed to spend for
liquid lightning into a savings box. You
will stand on your head with surprise
and gratification when you come to count
np tne accumulation at the end of the
year.
6. Bo industrious, keep your promises,
pay your debts, be charitable; in short,
take a big stride ahead in a wiser, better,
more intelligent and nsefnl life, and the
year will not only prove a happier one
to you, but you will emerge from it
more successful, more honored, and
richer in everything than on the day
when you began the work of reform.
Try it.
Hats Ancient and Modern.
How few of ns ever trace the history
of the hat, says Forney's Progress.
ine leit nat is as ancient as Homer,
The Greeks make them in skull caps,
onical, truncated, narrow or broad
brimmed. Tho Phyrgian bonnet has an
elevated cap without a brim, the apex
turned over in front. It is known as the
cap of liberty. An ancient figure of
Liberty in the time of Antonius Livy,
A. D. 145, holds the cap in the right
hand. The Persians wore soft caps;
plumed hats were the headdress of the
Syrian corps of Xerxes ; the broad brim
was worn br the Macedonian, kin era.
Castor means a beaver. The Armenian
captive wore a ping hat. The merchants
of the fourteenth century wore a Flan
ders beaver ; Charles VII., in 1469,
wore a felt hat linel with red, and
plumed. The English men and women
in 1510 wore close woolen or knitted
dtps ; two centuries ago hats were worn
in tne nouse. Pepys in his diary in
1664 wrote, " September. 1664. cot a
severe cold because he took of his hat at
dinner," and asain, in January, 1665, he
got another cold by sitting with his head
Dare to auow ms wife s maid to comb
his hair and wash his ears ; and Lord
Clarendon in his essay, speaking of the
decay of respect due the aged, says :
"That in his younger days he never
kept his hat on before those older than
himself except at dinner I" In the
thirteenth century Pope Innocent IV.
allowed the cardinals the use of the
scarlet cloth hat. The hats now in us 3
are the cloth hat, oork hat, embossed
hat, felt hat, fur hat, leather hat, paper
hat, silk hat, opera hat, spring-brim nat
and straw hat.
Cost of the Yellow Fever.
Loss of life by yellow fever in the
South last year is estimated at about
15,000 persons, and of money and trade
at from 8175,000,000 to 8200,000,000
as great as the loss from the Chicago
fire. But some good is likely to come
out of this calamity. It is thought that
henceforth quarantine regulations will
be more thoroughly established than
they have ever been. Apart from death
ana human suffering, negligence is the
worst una oi political economy. Hjx.
penditure of one-twentieth part of what
the fever has cost might have prevented
it altogether. Soieniiflo American,