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WE DO HOT
PLEDGE
OH1OT
SOMERSET, PA.,
A TRAGIC TALE.
Th's sal sad tale of woe which I
Am called upon to sirg.
Is one that stir up many a s!gb,
And cuts liks ererylhing.
It tel!s in Isniruage short and terse
A very trairic story ;
A direful, doleful ysni in verse
Weird, horrible and gory.
The autumn leaves lay everywhere,
Tbe country roads were (flatted,
When up tbe slope with galla&t air;
A turkey gibbler strutted.
lie proudly bore hi bead erect
And hurriedly stalked by
Some brother cocks that idly pecked
With necks turned all awry.
Xj ember's days were nearly pissed,
The one for which be sighed
Had almost come to him at last
And brought his boiinie bride.
Wbat marvel that he loved her wbea
Urr form was full of grace;
Tbe tenderest, meatiest, plumpest hen
That perked around the place.
Tbe weary months of waiting d jne.
His heart was light and gay ;
The morninit sun would see them one
A glad Thanksgiving Day!
Alnady he might laugh at Cite,
A farewell.kL-is, and then
Tbe gsllant turkey gob would mate
Tbe px-erlcss turkey hen !
reached the yard. Wbat hideous sight
Is this which greets bis eyes?
Upon a bloia in bloodiest plight
His chosen sweetheart lit !
A butchers cleaver lay betide,
All ktreaked with ruddy stains ;
And she who was to be bis bride
Was uinus bead and brains !
Tbe neigh'bring turkeys stood around
Protesting at the slaughter ;
While with their tears her parents drown'd
The body of their daughter.
Before his eyes they cruelly took
His matchless fiancee.
And gave her to the ruthless cook
To roast Tbankgiring Day.
Then on that cleaver down he fell
And with its eie collided.
And in less time than I can tell
That gobbler suicided.
At early mom they f und him there
And couuted it a blosing.
To make ot hint Thanksgiving fare
Served up with oyster dressing.
THE WHITE GOBBLER.
TRE PAICT IT TL AY ED IS A
nt MAME AND A
IMXXE1L
Major Beasley Carter was a well known
citizen of Northern Alabama. lie was
something of a character, proud of bis
lineage, though he could not trace it fur
ther back than a few hundred yards. Ilia
forefathers, he avowed, were cavaliers,
and he often spoke of the great civil war
in England. Indeed, one not acquainted
with tbe history of that conflict and its
" long agonies," would suppose that the
Major had heard the belching of Oliver's
cannons, lie cared nottiini? ror recent
political factions, regarding with con
tempt the Republicans and Democrats,
but looked with extieuie hatred upon the
Roundheads. To hint our civil war was
conflict between the Tory gentlemen
and the Bare bout, rkmietiuiea, upon
taking up a daily paper (which he knew
was much inferior to the old-time news
letter sent out from Will's coffee bouse),
be would say to his wife that he wanted
to see if they were still burning witches
in New England.
Zilda Carter, the Major's daughter, was
declared the handsomest girl in the Lime
stone neighborhood. She had been lib
erally educated, and of course could not
share her father's absurd view?. She did
not, however, attempt to argue with him
for she knew that the only unpleasant
ness that had ever come np between her
parents was caused by a slighting remark
which her mother had made with, regard
to Charles I.
Just about year ago Zilda was per
mitted to visit a friend who lived in New
York, and, before returning home, she
went down into Connecticut. While in
that State she and her friend (a young
lady well known to the family) ate
their Thanksgiving dinner at a farm
house. When Zilda told her father that she
bad gone into New England, be frown
ed; but when, suddenly moved by a
bold impulse, she told him that she bad
eaten her Thanksgiving dinner at a
Connecticut farm-house, the old fellow
raved.
" You are not a true daughter !" be de
clared. " You know that our family has
ever turned a cold countenance upon
every patriarchal institution. Tbe cold
blooded fanatic tried to destroy our
Christmas, and yet you, a member of the
high-minded class that holds Christmas
in endearment, make confession, as it
were, of a fiagitious enor, by giving
countenance to a Thanksgiving Day. I
am ashamed of yoa, and never again can
I repose full confidence in you."
"Why, Major!" said Mrs. Carter, a
weak but sometimes assertive little wo
man, " the President of oar common
country sets aside the day, and instead of
frowning upon an observance of it I
think that it is our duty not only to the
Lord, but as good citizens to tbe Presi
dent, to"
To do what 7" the Major struck in.
" To observe the day."
"Yoa think so 7" said the Major, plac
ing both bands on a table as though be
bad bis wrath down and was determined
to bold it, "yoa think we ought to bum
old women, don't yoa 7"
"No, I don't think that."
" Oh, yes, Sarah, come.out now and ac
knowledge that you do think it. Stand
right npnow and declare y oor principles.
Admit that yoa would like to see old
Sue Black ney tied oat thereto the horse
block, and burned up. If yoa want to
ke op a contribution to raie mondy
tenough to hire somebody to tie the old
woman, I'll throw in. I will not have it
aid that I have ever stood as an obstruc
tion to any enterprise gotten np by my
wife. Zilda, get tbe clothes-line ready.
Yonder comes a man down tbe road.
Maybe we can hire him. We can assure
him that the old woman is not very
strong, as she has suffered with rheuma
tism for a number of years. Wbat, yoa
dout want to burn her? Then your first
lesson hasn't wholly converted yoa.
Humph ! I think yoa'd better take an
other."
I The Major hastened out into tbe gar
set
1837.
VEDXESDAT, NOVEMBER 27. 1889.
den, slamming the gate after him ; and
Mrs. Carter, turning to Zilda, remarked :
" It is said that every person is insane on
v.ne sabjacta. Your father is surely in
sane on his bobby. Ordinarily be is, as
yoa well know, the gentlest of men ; and
not only that, he is, aside from his hobby,
a liberal-minded man."
"I don't knot, and moreover don't
care anything about the cavaliers," Zilda
answered. I am a thorough American
and like everything that is American. I
have never enjoyed myself more than I
did at that Thanksgiving dinner, and
next Thanksgiving Day, which will be
only two weeks from now, I am going
to have a Thanksgiving dinner here at
home."
" Your father will not hear to it, my
child."
" Bat he mast hear to it. If he is so
avowed an Englishman why does he vote
in this country T Why did he run for the
Legislature year before last T He ought
to know that his foolishness beat him at
the polls; and by this time I should
think that he ought to know that the
paople are not in sympathy with his sil
ly romanticism. 1 don't like to speak
thus of my father, but I can't help it.
Why, Thanksgiving Day is quite as pop
ular here now as it is in the Eist Near
ly all our neighbors observe it."
" What lias caused yoa to change so,
Zilly? Was it your visit to tbe East?
Hitherto you have been indifferent with
regard to the day."
- My Eastern trip, of course, has had
something to do i h it, but how much
and in what manner I shall not say. I've
got my eye on that big gobbler out there,
and aniens his death warrant be signed
by the master of this household, I shall
resort to mob violence."
" Well, these is no rue in speaking to
your falher about it."
Tax going to speak to him, at any
rate."
He will be angry."
. " I can't help it ; but can we not con
vince hi:n of his foolishness ?"
" No, I fear noL"
" Is there not some way by which we
may prove to him that he is insane ?"
" No ; he is stubborn."
" Well, but are we to be slaves to his
etubborness ? I love my father, under
stand, but he should not expect me to
embrace so siily a prejudice. I think that
you have been altogether too weak. You
ought to have cured him of his foolish
ness long ago."
Zdda said nothing more with regard to
tbe subject. Two days before Thanks
giving, while Zilda and her mother were
sitting in the " big room,' as the negroes
termed it, the Major entered. He bad
been hunting, and placing his gun in a
corner, he took up one iof Si-otl's novels
and was soon folluwing the nod
ding plumes of the " Black Knight," Zil
da took up tbe gun and went to the win
dow. She was acquainted with the use
of fire-arms. She placed the gun npon
the window-sill, and sat looking out into
the yard,
" won't cock that gun," said the Major.
" It might go off."
Again he was following the nodding
plumes of the" Black KnighL" He bad
begun to smack bis lips, as though he
were eating a venison pasty with Friar
Tuck, when D'ltig!" went the gun. Mrs.
Carter sprang to her ft et and exclaimed :
"Gracious alive, child, yoa have killed
the w hite gobbler !"
The Major threw down the book. " I
told yoa not to cock that gun," said he.
"Now look what yoa have done killed
the finest turkey in the State. I could
have gotten five dollars for him, at any
time"
" Major, yoa know that accidents have
a habit of happening," Mrs. Carter an
sered. " Well, we'll have so eat him."
The next day at dinnerthe Major said :
" Thought yoa were going to eat that
turkey V
" 'e are," Zilda answered ; " but tur
keys are not good, you know, until they
have been dressed a day or two."
Well, then, when may we expect the
feast ?' .
"Let me see, mother, do yoa think that !
to-morrow will be time enough 7" j
-1 think so." ;
" Well, we will have him to-morrow."
The next morning the Major went to
the village, a short distance away, and
when he returned he was " snorting
mad."
"This is a fine trick yoa have played
me," be exclaimed.
"Why, what is the matter?" Zilda ask
ed, with pretended innocence.
"Yoa know what the matter is. Yoa
and your mother, too, know well enoonh.
You are trying to trap me into this
Thanksgiving foolishness, that's what
you are trying to do, bat it won't work, I
can tell yoa that."
"But, Major," said his wife, "the white
gobbler is done now."
" Makes no difference ; I will not eat a
bite of it I won't come to the table. I
won't have anything todo with it. Won't
give it countenance. I'll take a piece of
bread and a piece of bog meat and go off
down into the woods. If yoa and Zilda
want to make Roundheads of yourselves,
all right"
He sat down with a thump, and began
to mumble over "Ivanhoe." The ladies,
paying no attention to him, proceeded
with their preparations for dinner. As
the weather was fine, the tabie was set
on the long gallery. When everything
was ready when the great turkey had
been placed on the table the Major, pat
ting his book aside, stretched himself,
yawningly, and remarked :
"Sarah, have you got any bacon V
u No, I didn't cook any."
" You've got some beef, haven't you T
"No, I have not."
" Well, hang it ! What sort of meat
have yoa V
"Turkey."
" But I told yoa I wouldn't eat any of
it"
"Well, yoa needn't"
" But what am I going to take down
into the woods with me?"
" There's some corn bread and cold
biscuit in the boiler."
" Do you reckon I want to eat bread
and nothing else T
" There's some dried venison in the
smoke-bouse."
" I hate dried venison."
" Well, I believe there is a small piece
of sausage hanging np in the loft"
" I despise sausage. Cut me off a slice
or two of that turkey and let me take it
along."
"No; If yoa want any yoa must sit
down to the table and eat it"
"Look here, Sarah, what do yoa mean
by dictating to me this way V
"I mean just what I say. You said that
yoa were cot going to have anything to
do with this turkey and yoa shall not
onleas yoa surrender completely."
"I'll show you about that"
He sat down on the steps of the gallery.
Zilda stood at tha gate looking down the
road.
"Who is she looking for?" the Major
asked.
"I don't know exactly. Yonder comes
some one."
A young man rode np and dismounted
at the gate. He shook hands with Zilda,
and then she, taking his arm, conducted
him to the house. A mischievous light
shone in his eyes.
"Mr. Howard," said the girl, "let me
present yoa to my father and mother."
When they had shaken hands Mrs.
Carter remarked :
"You are just in time, Mr. Howard, for
dinnr is ready. Major, please take a
seat at the turkey end of the table. Mr.
Howard, you sit over here."
The Major, after hesitating a moment,
sat down and began to carve tbe white
gobbler.
"You have quite a pretty place here,"
said the young man.
"Yes," the Major answered. "Yoa are
a stranger here, I presume; and, by the
way, I do not wish to be impertinent,
but oilljou please tell me where you
got acquainted with my daughter?"
"I am a stranger, having never been in
this neighborhood until to-day, but for
some time I have owned the blast fur
nace and rolling mills over at Bolton
and"
"What!" the Majr exclaimed, drop
ping his knife and fork, "yoa are not
Howard, the millionaire?"
"Well, I am sometimes referred to in
that way. I met your daughter at a
Thanksgiving dinner in Connecticut last
year and since that time we have been
corresponding with each other."
"Why, bless my soul !" exclaimtd the
Mjor.
"And," said Zilda, "we had airreeu o
eat Thanksgiving dinner together this
year."
"I miy add," said Mr. Howard, "that
your daughter and I are engaged to be
married."
That afternoon the Major, after a long
silence during which he seemed to be
struesling with some deep conviction,
looked up and said :
"It's all right, I reckon. The romance
of the affair takes away its fanaticism.
We'll have another white gobbler this
time next year."
Opii P. Read.
Jefferson Davis' Petticoats.
Precisely how much fact and how
much ctiliouserabel!ishment there were
in tbe story that Mr. Davis was captured
dressed in the the garb of woman, prob
ably we will never know nor do we
care much. It was popularly believed at
the time, and there w as no end to car
toons, large ami small, representing the
scene, with the illustrious prisoner wear
ing a hoop-skirt and a full outSt of femi
nine garments. No doubt these were
much exaggerated, but they were suffi
cient to bring Mr. Davis into supreme
ridicule. I have before me two articles
on the capture written many years ago
one by General J. II. Wilson, the famous
cavalry leader, and the other by the
Hon. John II. Reagan, who was a mem
ber of Davis "Cabinet," and was captur
ed with him now a U. S. Senator from
Tex is.
I have read several other accounts of
the affair and there seems to be no doubt
that while Mr. Davis had on neither crin
oline or petticoats, he was enveloped in
a lady's waterproof with a shawl over
bis shoulders and some sort of female
gear over his head. The officer w ith the
squad which made the arrest had his at
tention attracted to '"three persons dress
ed in female attire" trying to get away,
one of whom proved to be Mr. Davis."
He hal "a black mantle wrapped about
his head." Another authority says he
bad on over a full suit of Confederate
gray "a lady's waterproof gathered at the
waist with a shawl drawn over his head
and be carried a tin pail." Mr. Regan
denies with fariwis indignation that bis
chief was "dressed in woman's clothes."
He admits, however, that he "under
stood that his wife threw a waterproof
cloak around his shoulders" to protect
him from the damp air. Pollard, in bis
Lost Cause," says Mrs. Davis "besought
her husband to e:ap, and urging him
to an opening in the tent, threw over his
shoulders a shawl which he had been
accustomed to wear." Some Southern
writers vehemently deny that he wore
anything besides his own proper clothes,
but the weight of the testimony is ovei
whelmingly again.4t them. It's of trifling
consequence. The question never can
rise to the dignity of a national issue.
CUctlund Leidtr.
The Salt Country
Asia.
of Central
Everything in the country of the River
Chai, in Central Asia, is described by
Gabriel Bouvalot as covered with salt
It is seen in the walls of the houses and
on the backs of the rivers, and the water
one drinks is very salt Traveling salt
petre makers go in summer from place to
rlace, wherever they can find material
to work upon. Their mode of operation
is a roagh-and-ready one. Holes in tbe
earth serve as vats and boilers, and be
low these are placed ovens. Abundance
of brushwood supplies materials for the
fires. One workman makes about fifty
pounds a day, worth a penny a pound.
Pe-haps no local disease has puzzled
and baffled the medical profession more
than nasal catarrh. While cot imme
diately fatal it is among the most dis
tressing and disgnsting ills the flesh is
heir to, and the records show very few or
no cases of radical cure of chronic catarrh
by any of the multitude of modes of
treatment until the introduction of Ely's
Cream Balm a few years ago. The suc
cess of this preparation has been most
gratifying and surprising.
Boston is doing well with her project
to erect statues to three great war heroes
Designs and models for bronze statues of
heroic size of General Grant, General
Sheridan and Admiral Farragut bave
been handed in by the sub-committee on
statues, and the time for oresenting de
signs closed. The committee will shortly
meet and award the contract
Hera
Popular Superstitions.
Popular superstitions. If not indestruct
ible, are at least very hard to kill We
know full well that the miracle-working
pagans of antiquity were scienti3c jug
glers, who imposed npon an ignorant
laity, and that the scpernaturalisaiS of
the middle ages were tricks that any ac
complished mountebank, w ith the aid of
a smattering of natural philosophy, ear
now exhibit to admiring audiences with
out the slightest aistance from the
other world. And yet, even in this era
of general education, half the people one
knows have their pet superstitions.
Set a ladder up on any public tbor.
oughfare, and mark bow many of the
wayfarers will step into the mud to
avoid passiag onder it Thousands who
would be ashamed, perhaps, to own it,
would much rather see the new moon
over the right shoulder than the left.
The howling of his dog, or the accidental
stopping of a funeral before his door,
gives many a brave man an unquiet feel
ing, and journeys and serious enterprises
are often "held over" for a day, in order
that their commencement may not fall
on a Friday.
The fracture of a lookinj-glass, the
upsetting of a salt-cellar, and fifty other
incidents as inconsequent and trivial, are
looked upon as "ill omens" by multi
tudes of civili2ed and Christian folk,
and the horse shoes nailed over the doors
of barns and byre", in various parts of
the country, prove that the dread of
witchcraft did not die out with the witch
persecutions in Ne England.
Some of the common superstitions of
the day are, in their origin, as old as
history itself, and most of the modern
"spiritual phenomena" by which the
credulous are astonished and bewilder
ed, are really oniy revivals of the bum
bugs of antiquity.
Superstition is, as we have hinted, a
hard-lived monster. A tendency to be
lieve in what is physirtilbj impossible
seems to pervade most of the human
species; nor can education exterminate,
though it may modify and control, this
tendency. The simplest and most logi
cal explanation of onr proneness to
credulity is this: there are so many
things physically impossible which mw4
be true there is so much in the origin
of man, his fall, his preservation on the
earth, his redemption, his eternal destiny
which he knows and feels to be inde
pendent of all the principles of cause
and effect of which mere rcuou can take
cognizance, hit he is apt to forget his
duties have been fixed, his course laid
down, his life-lesson so written that he
who runs may read, and all tbe conse
quences of bis departure from tbe
"straight path" to happiness here and
hereafter, so clearly expresnet and de
fined, as to render the interposition of
signs and wonders in his behalf or for
his guidance unnecessary and oselpw.
Iet him rest awtired that the Master of
the supernatural world never employs
its mighty powers for unnecessary or
useless purposes.
Twenty-eight in a Family.
A Marshall (N, C.) special to the Globe
DrmocriU says : In the western part of
North Carolina and about seven miles
west of the Hot Springs there lives a
family by the name of Brooks. It is a
very interesting one, and many a visitor
to the quiet little town of Hot Springs
has had his curiosity so aroused by
stories, of this family that they bave
hired teams and driven seven miles to
the Brooks residence. This consisted of
a little, low log cabin in an unsettled dis
trict, and is occupied by father, mother
and twenty exceptionally handsome
children.
fcvery one is x blonde with got len yel
low hair and peacn complexion, and all
as ignorant, wild and untutored as they
are beautiful. In addition to the above
family proper the two oldest girls are
married ; one is a widow with two chil
dren and the other ha three children
and a husband. Both these little fami
lies are living with the old folks at home
making in all a family of twenty-eight,
when none are missing. The home or
log cabin consiitts of but one room, and
that a very small one.
On two sides of this are built seven
lerths, one above another, against the
wall, and they are evidently built with
the cabin. In these "boxes" the parent",
children and grandchildren lay them
selves away when night comes on.
Three times a day this interesting family
may be seen at meals. The oldest mem
bers seat themselves about on the ground
in front of the house, "Indian fashion,"
and are favored with tin plates and iron
spoons, while the younger ones stand
around a rough home-made table insidti
the cabin, eating beans with a relish that
is good to look upon. This is the prin
cipal diet ; now and then they have a
change, but it is of tbe same plain, cheap
order. They are all healthy and robust.
Where to Wear the Ring.
"1 had supposed," wid the jeweler, "by
this time, with the daily press to enlight
en them, that everybody knew which is
the proper finger on which to wear the
engagement ring, or the finger on which
to place the ring at the time of the wed
ding, or the finger on which to wear the
ring after marriage. Bat we are asked
this question every day. Sometimes the
query is made in person an 1 sometimes
it comes by mail. There was a time
when the engagement ring was worn on
the first finger of the left hand and on
the tnird finger of the same hand after
marriage by women. But now one finger
is the custom. It is proper for either tbe
man or the woman to wear the engage
ment ring on the third finger of the left
hand. When the man weds he places
the ring on the third finger of the left
hand of the bride, and she wears it there
after her marriage. If the groom wears
a ring it is on the third finger of the left
hand. I don't know that there is any
thing in the books to this effect, but it is
the custom."
The two lives of Harriet Beecher Stowe,
over which there has been some contro
versy, are ready tor the public One is
by her near neighbor and friend, Mrs.
Florine Thayer McCray ; the other, call
ed "The Life of Harriett Beecher Stowe,"
and nominally an autobiography, is pro
duced under the direction of her son,
Charles E. Stowe. The first is a sketch
of Mrs. Stowe's literary career ; the sec
ond has the additional value of contain
ing many valuable letters and unpub
lished documents.
Jl. O
WHOLE NO. 2001.
The Farmer's Sunday.
J. P. Roe, from whose article In the ".
Y. Ecangrlat ths following extract U tak
en, evidently speaks from personaifcxpe
rience of the advantages and disadvant
ages of the faruer's life in regard.to the
proper observance of the Sabbath :
Tbe farmer is right in thetuiidet of hia
possessions. The sources of his iuco ue,
Lis means of living, are open to his gaze
and all around him. Hence it is diilicu'.t
UjT him to sever his thoughts from theiu.
It is difficult for hint to look with equa
nimity ujn the efftt-t of a late fr t on
his early crops, or a shower upon his ex
posed clover, left out despite his b st cal
culations and efforts. If a market ard
ner, he is sorely tempted to watch for
the armies of predatory insects tiiat sud
denly swoop down upon h:s pot9S-ssions
the striped bug, the black flea, the co -ored
beetle, and other multitudinous foes
whose "destruction wasteth at noon
day," and no day exempt If a beekeep
e', the bees would seem to argue "the
better the day, the better the deed," in
swarming. Uf ail this we are personally
familiar, and "speak feelingly" ia writ
ing. Now we affirm that if the church-going
farmer runs the gauntlet of all these lia
bilities, and g-ets to church in tim fur
even tbe benediction, it should l pro
nounced upon him ; and if earlier, it
wonld seem as if a blessirg shuild be
alied upon him as is doubtlessly done
by the appreciative country pastor. And
if an a pottle's preaching was not proof
against the fatal effects of drowsine in
a city congregation, due consideration
should be bad for the country preacher
in harvest time.
But despite all we have writ'ec, there
is much in the Sabbath's coming to cheer
and hearten, npiift and strengthen the
weary worker of the week. Going to
church is good for him, though the dis
tance be long ; he of all men needs to be
taken from the scene of toil and care,
that the spiritual can come into, leaven,
uplift and transfigure the physical and
material, lest he become a mere clod
Bunyan's "Men with the mack rake."
Constant toil, the pressure of material
interests, have weighed heavy on body
and spirit, and while the weary lirabs are
resting, his higher nature calls for exer
cise, a certain mental and spiritual hun
ger; even if such appetite be lacking,
the more the need it be created, quicken
and fed.
And now (drawing on our own experi
ence) we would urge that the extra phys
ical rest so imperatively demanded, es
peciaily in season of exhaustive labor,
that the whole be not taken from the
Sabbath morn, but that the tired nian
seek his bed at an early houron Saturday
night Furthermore, that a littln extra
forethought, preparation and precaution
be true of Saturday. In some things, at
least in our experience, "prevention ia
better than cure." We wiil allow it is
hard to get into a spiritual frame if the
spirit and temper be ruflledlby some an
noying incident, such as the discovery of
the cows in the corn over night Thus
securing needed and well earned rest,
wasening in goot season irora sieep
"tired nature's sweet restorer" refreshed
by a morning bath, the Apostolic injunc
tion "our bodies washed in pure water,"
is excellent both for sanitary and spirit
ual reasons, if we would go with a clear
head and clean conscience to the houte
of God.
We pity the man who snores through
the morning hours of Sabbath, takes no
morning bath, slouches around in his
work day clothes (with scarce a higher
thought than the dumb brates) on his
premises. There is a brutalizing prccess
tfoing on here, which unless arrested will
unfit the individual for nst fu!ni- and
happiness in both worlds. To the farm
er standing in the front ranks of those
who earn their bread by the sweat of
their brow, the Sabbath is full T privi
lege and blesfcir.g, to the full enjoyment
of which he should give himsell as both
his duty and his right It comes to biin
as his best earthly friend. It finds him
sitting down at the lowest seat of the
good thingi which God has provided in
nature for his natural wants, it takes him
by the hand and says "Friend, come np
higher," to the knowledge and enjoy
ment of the best gifts God has in store
for his earthly children.
Success.
Dr. Talmage says these encouraging
words to young men :
"Just start out with the idea of success.
Yoa are going to succeed. What does
that mean, a large number "of dollars ?
Not necessarily. I have seen a house
with thirty rooms in it, a vestibule of
perdition ; and a house with two rooms
in it, a vestibule of heaven. Yon cannot
tell by the size of a man's hoi the size
of his happineso. I say to the young
men in all earnestness, and among other
requisites for success in life, when the
time come, marry a good, honest wom
an; one who will stand by you in the
contest of hie. I have seen them over
and over aeain ; I have Hn the anceess
of people that I could not understand oo
the .'art. They did not seem to have any
special elements of success, but there
were reasons at home why they succeed
ed. There never has been a time since
the creation of the world wbtn there
were as many good, honest women as
now, and the man is a fool that don't get
one c f them."
The last legislature of this State abol
ished the o'dlVnce law of 1703 so M at at
present, in this State, it is the duty of
every man to care for his own stock and
not to fence against his neighbor. This
is a step in advance, for the cost of fen
cing is very great Already is is possible
to observe persons taking atvanUge of
the new laws.
One of the largest buttonwood trees in
the State of New Jersey stands in front
ot Charles Littlefield's cottage, in Eaton
town. It was measured recently by
officers of the New Jersey Geological.
Corps. It is fourteen feet three inches in
circumference eight feet from the ground
and eighty-two feet bigb.
Do too suffer with catarrh ? You ran
be cured if yoa take Hood's Sarsaparilla,
the great blood purifier. Soli by all
druggists.
Of tbe twelve grand prizes granted at
the Paris exhibition of lv39, four were
awarded to citizens of the United Statei.
The Arizona' Kicker.
We extract the fulloing frotn the last
issue of The Arizona Kicker :
A Dot'SLt Hit Last week certain felts
wh want to are Da downed were cbu k
iing because we were nH inviie-l to tM
grand an'nmn soiree given by Mrs-Jmigo
Ui!denlt-ve, ot Jai-Kao Helmut. . It was
a social snnb on o, we'll adaiit, but tbe
aforesaid rhm kting has ceoe-l. Itbrokw
short off day before yesterday w hen t'e
sheriff arrived from Oaiaha and tapid
the judge on theshoalder and asked him
how the business of cow stealing got
along.
We've had the biography of tbe jndj
In hand for some month. Fie robbed a
post-office in Illinois, stole hogs in Iowa
an.l embetz'e l from a.toll bridge in In
diana. On top of that he stole cows in
Nebraska, and when his ife made cold
mutton of as we went down to the tele
graph office and dispatched the sheriff
to come on. We think we are about
even. It is not the policy of this paper,
aa we have often stated, to deplete our
population hy "giving away" oar citizens
but no one roust try any monkey shine.
with us. We are hereito.'stay.
He Steppei In our lest i.-ue we rail
ed attention to the fact that William
I'arton. familiarly known as "Baldbead
ed Bill," had succeeded in securing the
noioinatiotijfor alderniati cf tbe second
ward on the People's Iiefirm ticket We
didn't go much on tbe reform biwinesjt.
to begin with, and we went considerably
Um on William. We kindly mentioned
the fact to him that be was an old siuk
er, a man who never paid a debt, and
that he escaped indictment for stealing
the btidge funds bv a flaw. In a broth
erly way we asked him to step down and
out, but instead of heeding oor well
meant advice he came hunting for ns
'with a shotgun.
Then we bad to exhibit certain dm-rj-inents
to the gixxl people to prnve that
William's true home was in slate prison,
and it was decided to get a move on
him. Some one gave tbe snap away,
however, and he was a mile or more
away when the people called at his cabin
and asked him to come out anil play pen
dulum. Un are heavy on genuine reform in
politics, but we can't t made to believe
that the way to begin it is to nominate a
thief to office.
The Wbatheb Our subscribers have
been both surprised and pleased at the
way we have hit the weather fjr the last
two weeks. We didn't expect to do so
well in the start off, aa the only instru
ment we had was an old horse shoe, a
two foot rule and a war map of the battle
of Gettysburg, but we made no mistake.
Our tirst prediction was that the fol
lowing week would be cold, clear, cloudy
warm and variable, with possibly rain.
We bit it even to the variable. She
varied from a frost to such a hot night
that everybody kicked the quiltj off.
The rain diJn't lant bat three days, but
that was sufficient to let us ont.
Our second prediction also bit it pat.
We predicted winds, calms, sunshine,
clouds, high pressure around the month
of the Amazon, with a considerable wob
ble between here and the Pacific. She
wobbled. We got just what we expect
ed, and from this out we are going ahead
like a scared jackrabbit hunting for
cover. Watch our smoke. IktruU frtt
Pre.
Twouldn't Work.
He was a plain, larmer-like man, and
he was in charge of a voung man with
his head bound np and otherwise injur
ed. After one of his trips to the water
cooler to give hi patient a drink, one of
the passengers inquired :
"That young man met with an acci
dent r
"That's exactly what he met with, sir.
Gosh durn him !"
"Relation of yours T
"My second oldest boy, Bill. I'm
taking him home to be nursed up. Liked
to have his empty bead knocked off."
"Careless, eh ? Ho was it ?"
"Wal, a young feller op our way tumb
led off a train on this road and broke a
leg and got f 2,000 damages. It sort o'
give our Bill somethin' to thick of, and
after getting a good ready he starts out
to go up to Rochester. What. does he do,
after riding a ways, but stick his noodle
out of the window, and party soon along
comes a switch board and flattens his
face until yoa can play marbles on it
He's mending fast, but he's going to carry
a phiz around with him which'il scare a
yellur purp out of a year's growth."
"And the company refuses to come
down?"
"Of course it does. B:ll went again
the rules and regulations, and he's left.
If he'd had his head knocked off I
might have got a few hundred on a coin
promise, but as it is he'll bave to grin
and bear it That is. if his grimier wasn't
smashed all to flinders along with this
nose, Hey, Bill, ho yoti feeling now T
"Party weak, father."
"Shouldn't wonder, but it's all right
Boy of your agf, who hain't got nuthin
but marsh hay in his head, deserves no
pity. Jist lay back and take it easy arrd
reflect on whether yoa are going to hire
out to a dime museum or hunt a care in
the hills."
He Was Clever.
"Will yoa kindly allow me to stand V
asked a gentleman as he got into a rail
way carriage, which carriage already con
tained the specified number.
"Certainly not, sir." exclaimed a pai
senger occupying a corner seat near the
door. "The way these trains are over
crowded is shameful !"
"As you appear to be th only person
who objects to my presence." replied the
gentleman. "I shall reicain where I am."
"Then I shall c-.ill the guard and have
yoa removed, sir."
" Suiting the action to tbe word, the a
grieved passenger re and, tuning bis5
head out of the window, vociferously
summoned theg'iard, the new comer saw
his opportunity and q'lielly slipil into
the corner seat ?
"What's np?" inquired the g-iard, ai
he opened the carria; d.r.
"One over tbe uu:nlier," replied tLe
new-comer, coolly.
"You ovist co'iie ou, sir! the train'
irking on," and without waiting fur
further explanation the gtiard pulled out
the Jagr:evel pawnger, who was left
wildly gesticulating on the platform.
Lontlim Court Jvurrtol.
The Thought of His Creditors.
Lieutenant (over head and ears in debt
zazing dreamily at tbe hand of a wealthy
heiress Ah. how many persons) thi
charming little hand is capable of mak
ing happy !
Lady Many I I shooldthinkonly one.
Lieutenant 4Jh, if you bestowed it on
me, I assure yoa s great many persons
would be rendered happy. FUtymde
B'mttter.
Three things too much and three things
too little are pernicious to man to speak
much and know little, to spend much
and have little, to presume much and be
little.
A man who cannot mind bis own bas
inet is not to be trusted with that of
another,