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poetical Mepartinent.
The Memories of the Dead.
Weep not for the dead !
Thy sighs and tears are travailing;
Vaindy o'er their cold, dark hed
Breaks the voice of thy' loud wailing
The•dead, the dead, they rest:
Sorrow, and strife, and earthly woes
No more shall harm the blest,
Nor trouble their deep, calm repose
- Weep not fur the dead;
but oh weep sore for those remaining,
Who bend with grief defiled head
O'er their untimely waves complaining,
The dead, the dead no mote
Shall fill our aching hearts and ryes ;
But heaven hash left u, store
'Of sweet and blessed mernurieS.
As stars through dark skic< stealing„
With tender, holy light ;
As tongues ... of sweet bells pealing,
Upon the deep still night ;
4.30, on the spirit streaming,
A solemn light is shed,;
And longdoved tones come teeming'
With memories of the dead.
As clouds drawn up to heaven
Return in softest showers,
Like odors which are given
Sweetest from bruised flowers,
.Sad thoughts, with holy calming
The wounded hearts o'erspread,
In fragrant love embahning
The memories of the dead.
filisccltancoll9 ZCICItiOII.9.
,From the Delaware Republican )
• Robert Fulton.
The following article written by a gentle
than of this county, is well worth a perusal :
Fulton was born in Little Britain, Lancas
ter County, Pennsylvania, in the year
1765. his father emigrated from Ireland
when young, and settled in Pennsylvania,
where he married.
The suhject of this sketch, was sent to
school at Lancaster, where he received the
rudiments of an English education. In his
childhood, all his leisure hours were passed
in mechanics' sit*, or in paintin g .
At 17 years of age, he went toPhiladel
phia, where he was occupied in painting
Portraits and Landscapes, until he was of
age. With the means he had thus acquired,
he purchased a small farm in Washington
county, where he located his mother, his
father having previously died.
Leaving his mother thus provided ukh n
comfortable home. he embarked for Eng
land in the `22d year of his age. He took
letters of introduction to our illustrious coun
tryman, Benjamin West, by whom he was
tnost cordially received. ilr. West was so
well pleased with his amiable qualities, and
his genius, that he invited him to take up hiS
abode in his house, where he remained an
inmate for several years. After leaving
11r. West, he made portrait painting his
‘Thief employinent.
Fulton resided in Devonshire, where Ito
Thade the acquaintance of the renowned
Duke of Bridgewater, who constructed the
'first important Canal in Great Britain.
He also formed the acquaintance of Lord
Stanhope, celebrated for his love of science
and mechanic Arts, with whom he long
torrespcinded upon subjects, to which both
their minds had been directed.
So early as the yeitr 1793, Fulton had
turned his attention to the subject of Steam
Navigation.
In May 1704 he obtained from the Brit!
ish government, a Patent for a double in.
dined Plane, to be used for transportation.
He resided eighteen months at 'Birming
ham, where ho acquired much practical
knowledge of the mechanic Arts, which was
Of great advantage to him in aftei
From this period, he devoted a great por
tion of his time, to the subject of civil engi
neering, in %Vhich his talent for drawing
gave him great aid.
He is said to have been an elegant and
aceUrate Draftsman.' About this time, he
ptiblished a work upon Canals. 'three sub-
-jocts-appear-to—have—occupied-his-attention,-,
for the last twenty-five years of his eventful
life; viz : Steam Navigation—Canal Naviga
tion, and the use of Torpedoes, for coast and
harbour defence in time of war.
In 1797 Fulton went to Paris, where he
was invited by our distinguished country
man, the Poet, Joel Barlow, to take up his
abode with him which he accepted, and con
tinued to reside there during his long stay
in France.
Fulton has been censured for endeavor
ing to indroduce a system of sub-marine
waTfareTas'a - vi ola tion-of-t h e-laivs—of-War
his object however, was to put an end r to
wars, by rendering destruction of hurthm
' life so certain, that nations would abandon al
, together this inhuman practice, and turn
their attention to cultivating the Arts of
Peace.
Fulton was amongst the first who pointed
out the value and importance of connecting
the Great Lakes with the Atlantic, by means
of Canal navigation. In fact nt one period,
this subject appears to have been upper
most in his mind.
Whilst at Paris, Fulton was desirous that
Bonaparte, then First Consul, should aid
him in carrying into effect, his great plan of
Steam Navigation. For this purpose, he
prepared a memorial to the First Consul,
setting forth the great advantages France
would derive from it both in peace and in
war. His memorial, he requested Bourien
ne, Private Secretary to the First Consul, to
present to him.
800 rienne, who was a classmate of Bona
parte 01 the Millitary School at Brienne, re
sided in the family of the First Consul for
many years as his Private Secretary ; and
he has since published, "Memoirs of Napo
leon." Bourienne says, that when he pre
sented Fulton's Memorial to the firm Con
sul, Bonaparte said—Bah ! ! Away with
your visionists ! ! The First Consul, would
give Fulton no aid or support whatever.—
Through the aid which he received from
Chancellor Livingston Who was then our
Minister in France, he was furnished with
means to make contract with Bolton & Watt.
of Birminharn, for a Steam Engine, which
was built under Fulton's direction, and ship
ped to IN, w York, in ISOO, he made a con
tract with Charles Brown, to build a Steam
boat. which was launched in the spring of
Ih(17 . ; and the Engine from England was
put on board of her in August of that year.
Mr. Livingston had a joint interest with
Fulton in this Boat• All things being in
readiness, they invited their friends to wit
ness her first movement.
It mny be proper here to state, that whilst
this boat Was in progress of costruction, Ful
ton was the constant subject of jeers and
ridicule. Frequently he heard the scoffs of
visitors at the Shipyard, who, not knowing
him often expressed their opinions in a man
ner not very complimentary to his under
standing. Nor was this surprising, when
we reflect that the grave American Philo
sophical Society, at Philadelphia, only four
years previous to Fulton's complete success,
placed upon record, their deliberate opinion,
that no practical benefits could ever been de
rived from Steamboat Navigation.
Fulton says that the day he left New
York, there were not thirty persons in the
city, what believe that the boat would ever
move one mile an hour, or ever be of the
least utility.
• But return to our narrative. Every thing
being in readiness, the boat moved from the
wharf and proceeded at the rate of about
five miles per hour to the no small astonish
ment of the multitude, who, though they
saw all their predictions falsified, sent up
shouts of applause. She reached Albany,
a distance, of one hundred and fifty miles,
in 3'2 hours, and returned in :10 hours, al
though there was a light breeze against her,
both going and returnine.
The trip of this boat which was called
the Clermont, forever put to rest the great
question of steam navigation.
At the ensuing session olthe Legislature
of New York inISOS, Fulton and Living
ston got the exclusive right to navigate the
waters of that State, by steam extended to
thirty years, . .
As their business increased rivalries
grew up. Invasions of their rightS ensued ;
and law suits followed as a necessary conse
quence. In addition to the boats built in N.
York Fulton built a steam boat at Pittsburg,
in 1813. This boat plied between New
Orleans and Louisville, Kentucky. In 18,14.
Congress passed a law authorizing the con
struction of a floating battery, after the mod
el of one for which Fulton had taken out a
patent,
Commissioners were appointed by the
President to superintend her construction.
The commissioners appointed, Fulton En
gineer, to carry into effect his own model.
To this object he devoted his undivided at
tention. She was launched in October, but
alas before her machinery was all completed
his immortal spirit was summoned to quit
the frail tenement it inhabited, and to return
to the God who gave it. On his way
home from Trenton, where he had been
vindicating his invaded rights, he was ex
posed crossing the Hudson, through the ice
which brought on eerioqs indispositioti.
Anxious about tho steam battery, he went
ALLENTOWN, LEHIGH COUNTY, PA., JULY 24, 1851.
-out-to-attend-to-the-concern,- before- his
health would justify it, when he took a re
lapse, which- biought him to a premature
grave.
The Legislature of New York, which was
then in session unanimously passed Res
olution's expressive of their high sense of
his important public services, and of the
heavy loss, which the whole nation, but
more particularly that State, had sustained
by his death, and as a further tribute to his
memory resolved to wear a badge of mourn
ing for the remainder of the session.
A few - years - nfter - his - decensethe - Su= l
promo Court a the United States, decided,
that the law of the State of New York,
granted to Fulton and Livingston, the ex
clusive right to navigate the waters of the
State of New York, was unconstitutional,
and of course null and void.
Fulton and Livingston had constructed
noble and expensive boats ; but as soon as
the trade teas thrown open, they were op
posed by boats of little comparative value,
so that their prospects were ruined
We omitted to state that the steam Bat
tery, was completed some months after Ful
ton's death, and in the opinion of the Com
missioners, would have answered all the
purposes which her great Projector ever
predicted. But peace was concluded be,
fore she was finished, and there was no op
portunity of testing her merits.
She was afloating Fortffication.—Her
Steam machinery was in the middle pro
tected by sides of nine feet of timber in thiCk
ness, completely impervious to cannon Ball.
Any attempt to board her by an enemy,
would have been prevented, by scalding
water.
She made two trips to the Ocean, moving
with her whole armament on board at the
rate of 5,1 miles per hour.
As great opposition, however, was made
to her, as to his first Steamboat, but what
human invention or human improvement,
has ever been devised by man, which has
not been opposed.
We must here do Fulton the justice to
say, that he never pretended to lay claim to
the original invention of Steamboats. But
what he did claim, was the improvement
which he made upon the invention of oth
ers, and having given practical effect to
the whole. The important inventions of
Oliver Evans and John Fitch, are matters
of public notoriety, and if they had had the
means, they probable might have accom
plished the same object.
Fulton left a widow, four children, one
son, and three daughters.
His widow and son, died long since.
His surviving children presented a claim
to Congress, under the following circum
stances :
The Steamboat of the deceased father,
plying between New Orleans and Louis
ville in Kentucky, whilst pursuing a most
profitable business, (being the . only Steam
boat, then upon the Mississippi.) was forci
bly siezed by General Jackson. during the
war, and taken into the public service, for
the defence of New Orleans.
In the public serviceshe was run aground,
and remained aground for several months,
for which, no compensation had been made.
NOr had Fulton ever received any compen
sation for the use of his Patent for the float
ing Battery, or his service, in the construc
tion of her.
Congress passed a joint Resolution refer
ing the subject to the Secretary of the Na
vy, who made a report, allowing the Heirs
a liberal compensation for these demands.
'['he Committee on Claim:, lir , eiglit nßill
to carry into effect the fecretary's Report.
We have already exceeded the space al
lowed for these "brief sketches." We can
therefore'only say, that it was nearly ten
years, before the Bill finally became a law
although it had repeatedly passed both hou
ses of Congress. The most violent oppo
sition it met with, was from the delegation
in Congress from the State of New York,
with a fete honorable exceptions. On the
final passage of the Bill in 1816, the jour
nals of the Senate will Show, that both the
Senators from New York, voted against it
though it passed the Senate by a majority
of 18 votes.
The journals of the noose of Represen
tatives for 1846, will also show that when
the bill finally passed that body, that out of
34 members from the State of New York.
only eight of that number voted for the bill.
When this bill for the relief of the heirs of
Fulton was under discussion in the ['louse
of Representatives, the American A ristides,
the venerable Sage of auincy, (whose death
the nation has since mourned,) rose in his
place and stated to the House that he had
thoroughly examined,tho bill and the proof
in support of it, and the claim was found-
ed both in law and justice , ; and, he added,
that it was a disgrace to the natim that it
had not long before been paid.
The immortal honor of the various del
egations in Congress, frOm New England,
(where they had - but - little interest in steam
navigation,) during the long period that this
bill was before that body, with few excep
tions, they voted to pay the children of this
great public benefactor, their ‘ lowful due,
The conduct of the NeW York delega
lion in Oortgrees, At one time etllogiiing
Fulton's character and extolling his public
services, and afterwards refusing bread to
his children, reminds us of an epigram..
written years past by a French physician.
entitled the "Doctor with three faces."
The Devoted Wife.
She was a beautiful girl when first I saw
her. She was standing at the side of her
lover at the marriage alter. She was a lit-
tle pale, yet ever and anon, as the ceremo
ny proceeded, a faint tinge of crimson cross
i-ed-her-beautiful-cheek,like-the-reflection of
a sunset cloud upon the clear waters of a
quiet lake. Her lover, as he clasped her
hand within his own, gazed on her a few .
' moments with admiration, and life - Whim
and eloquent blood shadowed at -- intervals
his manly forehead, and 'melted into beauty
on his lip.'
And they gave themselves to one anoth
er in the presence of [leaven, and every
heart blessed them, as they went on their
way rejoicing in their love.
. Years passed on, and I again saw these
lovers. They were seated together where
the light at sunset stole through the half
closed and crimson curtain, lending a rich
er tint to the delicate carpeting and the ex
quisite embellishment of the rich and gorge
ous apartment. Time had slightly chang
ed them in outward appearance. The girl
ish bouyancy of the one had indeed given
place to the grace of perfect womanhood,
and her lip somewhat paler, and a fainter
line of care was slightly perceptible upon
her brow. Her husband's brow, too, was
marked somewhat more deeply than his
ace might warrant ; anxiety, ambition, and
pride, had grown over it, and left the traces
upon it; a silver hue was mingled with the
darkness of his hair which had become thin
around his temples almost to baldness.—
le was reclining on his splendid ottoman,
with his face half hid in his hand, as if he
feared that the deep and troubled thoughts
which oppressed him were visible upon his
features.
'Edward, you are ill to night,' said his
ife, in a low, sweet, half requiring voice,
. she laid her hand upon his own.
Indifl , 2rence from those we love is terri
•ble to the sensitive bosom. It is as if the
sun of heaven refused its wonted cheerful
ness, and glared upon us with a cold, dim,
and forbidden glance. It is dreadful to feel
that the - only being of our love refuses to
ask our sympathy—that he broods over the
feelings which he scorns or fears to reveal
—dreadful to watch the 'convulsive fears
and the gloomy brow, the undefinable shad
ows of hidden emotions, the unvoluntary
sigh of sorrow in which we are forbidden
to participate, and whose character we can
not know.
She essayed once more. 'Edward,' she
said, slowly, mildly, and aflectionately, 'the
time has been when you were willing to
confide your secret joys and sorrows to one
who has never, I trust, betrayed your con
fidence. Why then, my dear Edward, is
this cruel reserve? Youmre troubled, and
yet refuse to tell the cause.'
Something of returning tenderness sof
tened for an instant the cold severity of the.
husband's features ; but it passed away,
and a bitter smile was his only reply.
• Time passed on, and the twain were sep
arated from each other. The husband sat
gloomy and alone in the damp cell of a dun
geon. Ile had followed ambition as his
god, and had failed in his high career.—
Ile had mingled with men whom his heart
loathed, he had sought out the fierce and
wronged spirits of the land and had breath
ed into them the madness of revenge.—
He had drawn his sword against his coun
try ; he had fanned rebellion to a flame ; and
it had been quenched in human blood,—
He had fallen, miserably fallen, and was
doomed to die the death of a traitor.
The door of the dungeon opened, and a
light form entered and threw herself into
his arms. The softened light of sunset :ell
upon the pale brow and waisted cheek of
his once beautiful wife. 'Edward, my dear
Edward,' she said, have come to save
you ; I have reached you after a thousand
difficulties, and I thank God my purpose is
nearly executed.'
Nlislortime had softened the proud heart
of manhood, and as the husband pressed
his pale wife to his bosom, a tear trembled
on his eyelash. •I have not deserved t hin
kindness,' he murmered is the chocked
tones of agony.
'Edward,' said his wife, in an earnest,
but faint and low voice, which indicated ex
treme and fearful debility, ''we have not a
moment to lose. By an exchange of gar ,
mots you Will be enabled to pass out unno
ticed. Haste; or we may be to late. Fear
nothing for me. lam a woman, and they
will not injure me for my efforts in behalf of
a husband, dearer than life itself.'
.But Alargaret.' said the husband 'you
look sadly ill. You cannot breathe the air
of this dreadful cell.'
'Oh, speak not of me, dearest Edward,'
said the devoted woman. 'I can endure
anything for your sake. Haste, Edward,
and all will be well,' and she aided, with a
trembling hand to disguise the proud form
of bar hershand, in a female's garb.
ir.
NEUTRAL IN POLITICS.
'Farewell, my love, my preserver,' whis
pered the husband in the ear of the dis
guised wife, as the officer sternly remin
ded the supposed lady that the time allot
ted to her visit had expired.
'Farewell, we shall meet again,' respon
ded the wife, and the husband passed out
unsuspected, and escaped the enemies of
his life.
They did meet again—the wife and hus
band—but only as the dead meet in the aw
ful communings of another world. Affec
tion had born up her exhausted spirit until
the last purpose of her exertions was accom
plished, in the safety of her husband—when
the bell tolled on the morrow, and the pris
oner's cell was opened, the guards found,
in the hahilaments of their destined victim,
'the pale but beautiful. corpse of the 'devo
ted wi(e.
Cause and Cure of Hard Times.
I profess myself to be an honest farmer,
for I can pay that no man can charge me
with a dishonest action. I see with great
grief, that all the country is afflicted as well
as myself. Every one is complaining, and
telling his grievances, but I find they do
not tell how their troubles c‘me on them.
I know it is common for peOlde,to throw
the blame of their own misdeeds do others,
or at least to excuse themselves of the charge.
I am in great tribulation ; but to keep up
the character of an honest man, I cannot in
conscience say that any one has brought
my trouble on but mi' - § - df. "Hard times—
no money !" says every one. A short sto
ry of myself' will show how it came to be
hard times with me, and no money, at the
age of sixty-five, who had lived well these
forty years.
My parents were poor, and they put me
at twelve years of age to a farmer, with
whom I lived. till I was twenty-one. My
master fitted me with two stout suits of
homespun, and four pair of shoes.
.At
twenty-one I married me a wife, a very
good young woman she was. We took a
farm of forty acres on rent. By industry
we gained fast. I paid my rent punctual
ly and laid by money. In ten years I was
able to buy myself a farm of sixty acres,
on which I became my own tenant. I then
in a manner grew rich, and soon added an
other sixty acres, with which I was conten
ded. My estate increased beyond all ac
count. I bought several acres of out-land
for my children, which amounted to seven
when I was forty-five yearS of age. About
this time I married my eldest daughter to a
clever young man, to whom I gave 100
acres of laud. This daughter had been a
working, a dutiful girl, and therefore, I fit
ted her out well, and to her mind exactly ;
for I told her to take of the best of my wool
and flax, and to spin herself gowns, coats,
stockings, &c.; nay, I suffered her to buy
some cotton to make into sheets ; I was de
termined to do well by her. At this time
my farm gave me and my whole family
support on the product of it, and left me one
year with another, one hundred and fifty
dollars, which was for salt, nails, &c.--
Nothing to wear, eat, or drink, was pur
chased anywhere, as my farm provided all.
With this saving, I put my money to inter
est, bought cattle, fattened them, and made
great profit.
In two years after my second daughter
was courted. My wife says, "come, you
are now rich ; you know Molly had noth
ing but what she spun, and no clothing had
ever come into our house fur any of us, she
must be fitted out a little ; she ought to fare
as well as neigbor B's Betty. "Well, wife,
it shall be as you think best, I have never
been stingy, but it seems to me that what
we spin would do." However, wife goes
to town in a few days, and returns with a
calico gown, n calimaco petticoat, a set of
stone tea-cups, and half a dozen pewter
spoons, things that were never seen in my
house before. They cost but little—did not
feel it—and I confess I was pleased to see
them. Sally was as well fitted out cis any' '
girl in the parish. In three years after my
third daughter had a spark and a wedding
concluded upon. Wife again comes for
the purse ; but when she returned What did
1 see ? A silk gown. silk for a hat, look
ing-glass, China tea gear, &c., and a hun
dred other things, with the etnty purse.—
Then followed jealousy and quarrels. Mol
ly ought.to be out-fitted as well as
• Betty.
Good homespun and cotton fi xtures were
ruled as vulgar, and white feathers and
silk, must take their places ; Sal's husband
must speculate in stocks, hacked endorse
ments ; but he had all the fun of specula
ting, and I had nll the misery of paying.—
Then grandpa must be the treasury depart
ment for all things needful. Nothing was
heard but arrangements for journeys, Wills,
parties, and such like. In about a year
Bet's husband made a mistake ; and signed
somebody else's name to a check instead of
his own. He was arrested Mid settd to jail,
and I had to spend half of my earnirta to
get him out. - "Sal's - hilsband - died, leaving
0, legacy of nine children, whom, with their
Mother, I've got to support. Bet's elder
boy was framed for a doctor; took his de
gree, and sent his first six patients out of
the world by improper treatment, forwhick
he had to fly the lend, leaving hie deer in;
NUMBER 42.
cumbrances attaches on my purse. I Could
fill your paper with further particulars, but
that might not he so agreeable to your rea
ders. I will only say, in regard to hard
times, let every man exercise the ability
nature has given, in his prescribed sphere ;
let contentment reign within the breast, no
envy reach its threshold. Regard not the
apparent glitter of thy neighbor, nor aim at
an equality beyond your comprehension
live more to pleas yourself, and less to please
other people ; be frugal industrious and just
bring your ideas down to a level, nor let
them be disturbed by bad example. So
shall you avoid the mishaps I have expe
rienced in family matters, and rejoice in
old age over a life well spend, with just
hopes for years hereafter.— f
pat cli,
Curious Discovery in Buliarig,
A very curious discovery has just been
made in the province of Bulgaria, in Tur
key. Some Greek workmen, in digging
near the village of Rahmanileah and the
town of Hadzah found a large table of grey
colored marble; they removed it, and found
one beneath exactly similar; having re
moved that ale, they saw a great number of
objects shining like gold and silver. They
hastened to the captain of the district, and
that functionary, assisted by two ecclesias
tics, proceeded to make an examination.—
They found the skeleton of a man of large
stature, with a copper helmet ori his head ;
surrounded by a thin crown of gold ; the
hands and the arms up to the eldows were
strained with something of a bronze color ;
in the right hand was a copper chain, with
an incense-box of the same metal, covered
with verdigris, on the third finger of the left
hand was a gold ring, with the figures ia
Roman characters, 966. By the side of
the skeleton were three cups in silver, very
brilliant, and 26 cups in iron, very rusty,
but bearing traces of having been gilded :
there were also an immese number of nails,
and about 500 arows, of which the wood
was rotten and the points rusty. The skel
eton and the different articles were careful
ly packed up, and sent to Adrianople for
examination.
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Early Trainingi
In the case heard before Judge 'carte, of
the United States District Court, on Friday
last, in which the captain and two of the sea
man were the opposing parties, there as
an incident in the hearing of the case Which'
excited a feeling of filial affection in the
heart of every one present, and proved that
the early culture of the moral principal Eiy
a mother in the habits of her offspring is
never lost upon the recipient.
A small lad was called on the stand to
testify in the case. He had been d faind
on board'the barque Conrad while at 'ler ,
nambuco, and was present during the edn- ,
troversy between the captain and the bretlY.
The shaggy appearance of his head; and
the bronzed character of his face and hetk
from exposure to a southern sun,, at first
sight would seem to indicate carelessness
and neglect; but underneath that long and
matted hair the fire of inteligence gleartied
from a pair of small and restless eyes Which.
could not be mistaken. The counsel for
the captain, from the extreme youth Of the
lad, doubted whether he understood the ob
ligation of the oath he was about td take
and, with a view to test his knowledge; ask.:
cd leave to interrogate him. This Was
granted, and the following eoloquy took
place :
Counsel. "My lad, do you understand
the obligation of an oath ?"
Boy. "Yes sir, I do."
Counsel. "What is that obligation ?
Boy. " . .ro speak the truth, and keep noth
ing hid."
Counsel. "Where did you learn this, my
lad ?" '
Boy. "From my Nionum, sir;" replied
the lad, with n look of . pride which showed
how much he esteemed the early moral
principles implanted in his breast by her to
whom was committed his physical and
moral existence. How truly has it been
slid' "that bread cast upon the waters will
return after many days I"
This answer caused a thrill of joy to an
imate the bosoms of the Auditory, and ev;
6 , ("dee Was lighted Up with satisfaction.—
The lad was instantly admitted ib testify.
Rather a Hard thing to cast.—"Do you:
cast things, hero ?" inquired a Yankee the
other day, as he sauntered into a foundry
and addressed the proprietot.
"We do."
"You dast alt kinds of things in iron, eh ?"
was the next query.
"Certainly—don't you see that it is our
business ?"
"Ah, well, Cast a shaddiv will you ?"
He tins cast out and ieferred to a briiss
foundry.
113" The ignorance of young ladies'
brought up to thumb pianos, read love•sicic
novels, and entertain young getidemen wltlr
moustaches, is astonshing. The other day
one of this class threw the milk intended
for teaout of the viioulovi., because, it had a
yellow eenm on the top.