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ABBEVILLE PRESS & BANNER BY HUGH "WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 1877. NO. 5. VOLUME XXV. My Mother. Back through the lapse of lonely yearn, Of light and shade, and bitter tears, I seem to hear My mother's voice soft, sweet and lowSly mother's voice, ah ! well I know Its cadence dear. Oft sitting, when the uight bird wings His homeward flight and softly sings A plaintive song, Then mem'ry waves her magic wand And summons from the silent land Dear ones long gone. Again, I stand by mother's knee, Again hor sainted face I see, As in a dream. Then asks my heart, with voice of tears, For her; alas the sad. sad years Lie dark between. Oh ! mother, from that sphere divine, On wings of light cleave realms of time, Come thou to me If for only a little space. That I may look on thy dear face. One moment fee, As once I saw, thy tender eyes, That know not tears in rarauise, Grieved no more. 1 watch for thee, oh ! mother dear ; I listen, and I seem to hear Thy songs float o'er That lonely river, deep and wide, Which darkly rolls its Stygian tide From shore to shore ; Silent and Jeep through lonely years Swollen with bitter farewell tears Forever more. Trusting, I'll wait while life lasts here, Till in that grand, immortal sphere. Whore sorrows cease, Wo meet, and on thy loving breast My weary head shall be at rest 1*^ In perfect peace. A RACE FOR LiFE. CHAPTEIt I. THE MESSAGE. " My dear fellow, I am delighted to see you," exclaimed my friend McCausland, as he met me at the door of his house. I had gone on a visit to Holmesdale, a little town in the north of England. McCausland was an engineer to tl e water company there, and had invited mo to go down for a week. After the usual interval for dressinc, we sat *v,.4 down to ail cxceiium muu uniiiri. .<?<, uunaturally the conversation turned upon the weather. ) '-lam sorry this rain continues," said McCauslaud ; " it spoils my water supply. People bully me as if I could help it." ' Are your reservoirs near the town?" I asked. "No," he replied, "'away in the hills. We can go over to-morrow if you like. I'm due there." The excursion was arranged. Wc agreed to start at eleven o'clock nest morning, and we nnnutnallv. Wo pursued our way up tbo hill, ami crossing the brow, reached a small inn. Here we found a country gig awaiting us. Into this we clambered, and proceeded along a wooded byroad, stony and rut-full. At length, when hope had almost given way to bad language, we L pulled up at another email inn called the I Reservoir." Wo got out of the gig gladly." 1 Au engineer foreman hurried up ami accosted us politely. "Ik ali right, Johnson'*'inquired McCausland. "Yes, all right; but"? ' We!', hM what?" " I don't quite Jike the south reservoir embankment." was the reply. McCaunlaud tin ned pale to his very lip?. "Come with me." he nr.i-.I abruptly. We hurried after him in silence, and with a strange dread upon us. We soon came in sight of the extensive embankment, which confined the waters of the largest of the three reservoirs of the Holmesdale company. A fresh breeds was blowing the water iti small noisy waves against the pived top of the bank. Here and thero a tongue of liquid spat upon t'.e stonework, and rt one spot it trickled down into and appareut J J W*HIW "This is the spot I wmjookiug at this morning," said Johnson. "Yon had better have a few men to puddle up this," sa:d MeCausland, indicating a tiny crack that would havo escaped less experienced yes. 0 We then continued our inspection, but during oar progress round the works the clouds had massed themselves in wild grandeur above thehiils, and 1 .y heavily above the Apns valley in front. The railroad crossed the valley on n fraceful viaduct near Ammering junction, 'he dork slaty clouds hung suspended over this district. Long tendrils of the send came forth from them like lingers. Tlie.e clutched now a rock, then a solitary tree, now swept tip again and brought down aiarger mass of cloud to place npon the ground?ever stealing onward and downward, leaving all in itk "tealthv track dark and foggy. A low moaning sound was iu the air. It was not the wind, for the 1 reeze had strangely lulled. The trees scarcely moved, yet the water rolled up agaiu-t the reservoir banks as if agitated by an unseen wheel. We all seemed conscious of the dis turDance or iuo aituospueru couuuion-. huh the leaves whispered strange continence* to the motionless boughs abovo our heads. The men had all gone up t-o the reservoir*. McCansland and I sat chatting together. ' Do yoa think you could find your way back alone?" he asked, suddenly. " Why ?" I said. " Do you intend to remain here ? Is there any dauger ?" "Well, scarcely that: but I think I ought to be on the spot. I will return to-morrow or next day." ." Cannot I stay too?" " Certain lv, if yoa desire it. We rough it up hero, though.". " I do not mind that," I replied. So it was settled. Fortunate it was that I did remain. As we were preparing to visit the sluices again we were startled by a vivid flash of lightning, which bad hardly passed when the rdeks ring out w th a thousand thundertchoes. This was the signal. The windows of heaven opened, and a perfect deluge descended upon the devoted valley. The little brooks lenped up and danced down the hill sides in white array. Tiny waterfalls swelled themselves iuto'cataracts, and foamed down to the stream-'. The wind rose from its sleep and forced great rolling waves across the cop ,j ing of the reservoirs, and stones and grass became commingled. Now the sluice valves were all opened, and the long imprisoned water gladly dashed from out its prison to meet its native.river once again. The channel of the Ilolmesdale, ouce tiore filled with water, divided on the hill. Hut slill the men worked hard amid the gathering gbom and thunder by lantern light, and nature restid not that livelong night. Bit, I turned-in and got some sleep in defianctof the elemental w.'.r without. At Ive o'clock in the morning, as the gray light was struggling into life, McCausland came/ullv dressed, into my room. I startedup. "Dres yourself as quick as yon can and come dsvn stairs," he said. I began to ask question. " Lose no time, there's a good fellow ; I 'ant your assistance." He left the room. I jumpe up at once, hurried to the window and lookQ out. Day was just breaking thronch ti? mistv skv, and all the world was raining The water wan plashing -from the eaves, and mingled with the heavy drops, burst into a eparate stream in even* rut and furrow. The ind beat the tall trees a'nd roared amid the braihes. Ever and anon a sharp snap denoted a high torn from its place and whirled to thotoaking earth. I dressed qufcly and joined McCausland in the little park " He was studying a private copy of the raioad time tables, which as ai: official he alwaycarried. "Will you tal^the hor^e and ride down tc Ammering juncti? with a message ?" His collected m,ner assured me. Was thif al ? A ri'ie throtv, the rain was not much, "Of course, I will)." He grasned inv!and firmly. "Arc yoi nervous?" ne said.s he held it in his owi steady grasp. "Nonsense," I replied, laughing; "I'll bo , i ready in live minutes if it's important. Is tho Horse here V" 1 I ran up for my waterproofs. When I camo ; ; down the horse was at the door and McCaus- i < land inspecting him. I I 1 mounted. "Now." I said, "for this great I 1 message, if you please." ! 1 McCatislitiid's tone had something very ! solemn in it as he replied : j I "Tell the station-master at Ammering junc- j i tion, and any people you see, that the south j 1 reservoir will not last* three hours. It will i burst down the valley, and will destroy the i Apps viaduct, and carry away the bridges on : i the Holmesdale branch. Stop the trallic, aud i i save the passengers. God bless yon : and hark I yo, ride for your life! I will fire the signal- i 1 cannon as a warning. Good-bye." < CHAFTElt II. | | A WILD RIDE. J ] Mechanically I gathered up the feint*, nodded j < to McCausland, for I was too stupefied to re- ! ] ply in words, and started upon my wild ride, j j Three hours hence and the water would bo ; ' I pouring down the valley through which my i i course lay. No wonder"I had to ride for my ; ' life, anil perhaps the lives of hundreds of mv fellow creatures depended on mine. Ammering junction was some miles away. My route j i lay through an unknown country, across moor- i l laud intersected by Hooded streams and swept by the fierce wind and rain. i must do it, I thought, as my horse picked his cautious way amid the loose stones down ' j the steep by-road we had ascended the previous , day. I should need all mv strength, though, ' ' to execute my task*, so I pressed on. A valuable slice out'of my time had been expended when I reached the broad highway and urged my horse to speed. I had to turn off again, I kiicw, but I fancied I should easily find the path. Ik-side, was there not a "sign-post? Therefore, urged by dreadful tidings, and with the fierce wind and bitiug rain by turns and all together assailing me. I urged my horse onv.vrd. I reached the turning and pulled up to read the direction I should take. I nearly fainted with horror as I read. The fatal finger , pointed up the cross road I was pursuing? | "To Ilolmesdale and Seaham." Tho opposite , index pointed?"To lluddall and Ammering." i I could scarce credit my senses. Surely I wn? , nglll. we nuu cuiue up me |?ciiiiuiuii, ? >? up the hill to the reservoirs. I had merely to j reverse the route we had traveled. At {bat j moment, if you will believe me, the true state of the cane, aud my own stupidity, flashed upon ia#i-*Wv7ia?J coiue from Holniesdalc : I was i now bound for Aminerm?, * Lh lay at the j opposite Hide. This was a terrible mistake. It was now past ; six o'clock. One of the threo precious hours had elapsed, and I was further from Ammering than when I started. I was seized with despair. Whatever could I do now? Two hours ; remained, and I had three up hill miles to ride, f and then about seven more across the moor, before I could reach the junction, aud before that the trams might have started, and then !? j; I burst out into a cold perspiration at the i thought, and then, desperate, and only half } conscious, I rode madly back to the Ammer- j ing rond and up the hill again. But the storm ! ' fiend was abroad, aud had arrayed all his i i i forces against me. ! As we gained the more open ground the blast came down with such violence as to stagger us. I tore across the hillside, and hissed among the gorse and swaying grass. The rain camo ; down more determinedly than ever. At length i ' I rvmi'Vicfl iv Kirisll ohiKfccr of stone eottaires. and : hulled under the lee of the last ono to take j 1 reath for a fresh struggle over the moor? I which lay before mo. A straight road lay over ! i: ?a good road, but crossed at intervals by | r.:pid streams which had overflowed their usual limits, and swelled over their boundurips across j the flinty stones which had defied them all the suciraer long. The summits of the neighboring hills were 1 shrouded iu a veil of mist, but far iu advance, 0:1 the level, I could traco the railroad line. ] From the elevation at which I stood, I could i trace the channel of the Apps river down the | valley, and could guess the spot at which tho I flood would strike the railroad, and the branch i line over the spur of the hill. I could just dis- I > tingui-h the junction in the middle distance. A dark smoke appeared to be rising from it; an i engine perhaps waiting to start a train, and I j was lingering on the hill. All this, and more, j I could perceive as I rested on tiie summit. | Somewhat refreshed, I rode manfully forward I into the storm. How my horse kept his feet I do not to this j hour understand. The wind, which had been ; lllgQ oeiorc, a['[>eiucu iv iiu>u ?aiucivu uijn I force while we had halted, and it rushed across j the track terrifically. Pebbles were frequently j blown across the road, and every pool had its J 1 waves. like a miniature tea. Some helpless j crows were blown over my head, and a siuisterlooking raven skimmed the moor close by, j ! uttering a weird croak which fell upon my earn i j like a knell, and chilled my blood. I was quite i alone, noi a human being in sight,but suddenly j the whistle of a locomotive was carried to my 1 ; ears. An engine moved out of the station, j Auother whistle shortly afterw.-rd. The train i was safe. I watched it glide away over the \u- j duct. Five minutes later I rode into the sti- j ' tion.and called for the station-master. As I dis- | mounted the clock struck eight. The time was i up, and no signal from McCausland. Tele- j graphing would now be easy. A i>orter came ; out iu response to my summons. 4 I'm sorry ye lost the express," he began. " I don't want the train," I replied, "I must telegraph at once, though. Where is the sta- i t i<>u-master'!>" "He'll bo here in a minute. But ye can't j telegraph. The wires is blown down. We had ; to send a ' pilot' with the express to clvar the | line up to Handleigli." ' \'ot tf'lf/ranh ! I tell von. man. I must i stop the trafiic. The South Holmesdale reservoir will burst this very hour." ' ('an this Iw true?'' inquired a cool, gentle- j manly man at my elbow. It was the station- ! master himself. "True!" I echoed. "It'*only too true. I have ridden to tell you. We must mop the trains." " The excursion leaves Handleigli at 8:05," . mused the station-master. " There may be time ; come with mi." He crossed the line and entered the shed opposite. I followed. Just then a loud booming sound rent the air. The sound camo back from the hills like thunder. ' It is the signal," I exclaimed. "The water iti out. Ileaven help us i.< w!" The station-master called out. A eloaner ap- j peared. "Is that engine readyV" "Yes, sir, waiting for the excursion." " lliiu and open the points. Now. sir. get up." I obeyed mechanically, and before I quite realized the situation we had crossed to the up line. The station-master stopped to get a red t!ag and give a few instructions to his subordinate. I now perceived that we were to raco the ilood. Steam versus water. Which would conquer? A whistle?we started. "The flood! the flood !" shouted the porter. V.'e turned one glance up the valley. A mov- i ing brown wall, capped witl: a snowy ridge, was j tearing down to the devoted viaduct. >10 time to lose. " Oo ahead," cried the station-master. ! I turned on steam,put the lever over another , notch, and the racc began in earnest. We flew along the metals. A few minutes would decide it. We mn?? get to the viaduct and over it first, or the excursion, unwarned, would dash to destruction. A depression in the ground ran beside the railroad for a short din ,; tance. We trusted to this to turn the velocity ! of the approaching water. J t was an exciting i race, and one never to bo forgotten. On rolled tue flood. We were running "neck and neck " for one terrible half minute. Now the resistless flood bore directly to the bridge, i Stones were rolled before it liko marbles. I Trunks of trees, havstaeks, dtbris of every de- I scription,came headlong down upon the doomed structure. We fled like lightning over the rails. Our speed told now. Sparks flew from the chimney. Another notch, i The beat of the piston quickened to an almost ! inconceivable rapidity. We were on the bridge, i Hurrah ! The curling wave beneath seemed to j Hpnilg iorwaru. ll wuiiv u^auisi me uuiucbihjb. i Iu a second we were across. i I I shut off steam, the station-master put down the brakes. A tearing, rending sound, ; | that was not the brakes?a crash ! We looked [' Lack. The line dropj>ed behind us like a stage i trap. The bridge gave way, and with a roar j [ that was herjrd two miles off, tho pretty via- j duct was swept away by the boiling, furious i water. i We were truly thankful for our narrow es j t cape. And now to save the excursion. Speeding fori ward again, whistling like a demon, our good ! engine?Vigilant by name?soon came in sight : i of the excursion train. By waving our red llag : , j we averted another danger?a collision. The 1 telegraph posts being down, trains bad to run i upon the same line as far as Handleigh,but our i timely action set all to rights at last. 1 We' soon^ave the bewildered passengers to I understand the narrow escape they had had. Fervent and sincere were the thanks we received from all except one man. He wan escaping from justice, and was captured. From the elevated embankment wo could tracc the course of the Hood for miles. The train put hack to Handleigh, whence tho passengers were forwarded by another company. By the time we bad arranged matters and returned to the broken viaduct the water had subsided. The work of destruction was complete, but a " break-down " gang was quickly oil the spot. A footway was constructed across the muddy river-bed, and trains stopped at. botL sides of the stream, the passengers exchanging from ore to the other. The loss of cattle and farm produce caused by that terrible flood was very great. Had the latastropho occurred during the. night, the los.< :>f human life would have been appalling. As t was, some unfortunate peoplo were drowned, nit uimc Jind motif marvelous escaues. The as p?jct of the country as I retraced my steps wasJeplorable?I could scarcely recognize ttu places 1 had passed in the morning. I found McCausland and his stuff at the reservoir awaiting me. lie wrung my hand fervent!;, und said certain words that I shall not casilj forget. The viaduct was quickly rebuilt, but the st-.tion-niaster at Animering docs not forget tin rr.ee of steam versus water on the Vigilant locomotive. Nor do I. Intelligence and Fidelity of Cats. Marvelous stories are sometimes told concerning the intelligence and devotion of eats to a master or mistress; but there is slight doubt that although remarkable isolated cases of this sort may exist, most cats are noticeably free from an^ high instinctive developments. An nc count is given of an old toll-keeper whf had a favorite eat and a pet canary, wlic dwelt together on terms of the niosl millennial lmrmony; but it is also relatei that once during the absence of the toll man, puss fell a victim to her natural yearnings and suddenly fled, with th? golden songster in her teeth, past hei master, who chanced to be working ir his garden. The toll-man never belieli her again, for there arc certain misdeeds which their perpetrator knows to b< past all possibility of forgiveness. Othej tales are told, however, in whict this final element of treachery is wholly wanting. An English lady not long agt nsserted that she had a line gray-and black cat which defended her lardei ugainst the inroads of other feline foragers. A stray cat was onco observed t< abstract from this lady's refrigerator ? cold stewed pigeon, wnereupoii -ourtui rushed after the thief," declares the possessor of this "remarkable animal,' and with some difficulty induced it tc drop the spoil. This unselfish and lierou wit then laid the pigeou triumphantly a1 its owner's feet. An instance is also ro lnted, on pood authority, of a cat whicl brought home a live canary in its moutli imd presented tlie bird to its mistress, The canary, being put in a cage, subsequently became a great pet, and puss alsc became its devoted friend, oueo severely punishing another cat who presumed k gaze with yearning looks upon its favor ite. In Scotland it is said to be quite j common thing for cats to occupy th( position of sentmexs on BJiopiteepera counters. "I remember," says Mis: Oliver, "one oat in particular, a ven large nml powerful Tom, who used dailj to mount guard on the counter, to pro tret his master's wares. He used t< walk up and down, generally keeping close to the shopkeeper, with his quiet eye on the customer. If the latter pait tiie money down, he was allowed to tak< up and pocket the articles; but if h( put a finger on any little package befon paying, Tom's big paw was down on hin at once, a hiut that never required re pouting to the same customer." Regard ing thin ideal Tom, it is furtliermor< narrated that he was the pink of every thing that was fair and honest; undei no circumstances could he ever be in duced to steal. Hie shopkeeper hai once retired for a few minutes to tin back of his shop, and had left Tom ap p irently asleep beside a large piece o butter which had just been weighed, A b >y, who chanced to be passing with ; piece of oat cake in his hand, observei the absence of the master and the seem ing slumber of Tom. Here was a superl l?ia flmnrrlif. tlw L.nautc H/ iriiLiLUX uio VMttVj tuv/u^i.v urchin, and lie drew forth his jack-knife slipped- up to the butter, and preparet to help himself. But his knife hud n< sooner entered the butter than Torn with distended claws, sprang upon him A wild struggle ensued, and Tom mingle< his own cries with those of the would-b thief, until the shopkeeper was present ly drawn to the scene of conflict. After ward, it is related, Tom showed market satisfaction in seeing the oilender's < ar soundly boxed. A Mrs. Church lia printed an account of_ a cat which savet the life of a poor Scotch peasant', whei lying ill, by bringing to his cottage ever night a rabbit which she had killed occasionally varying her tribute with i bird instead. That Barrel oi' Salt. One of the firm who run a commissioi house on Wooubridge street is a man o muscle. He can lift a barrel of flour a easily as a common man lifts a bag o oats, and it scarcely makes his ears grov red as he heaves a barrel of salt into i * 1 iarmer s wagou. jc ux wcl*a? uc hu been boastiug of his strength of muscle and wanting to Bee something lie couldn' lift, and the boys around the store go their heads together the other day. The; tools a salt barrel aud filled it with brokei pig-iron, old weights and other things put tw?> inches ufc salt at either end, an< rolled it to the curbstone ; and at i favorable hour a dray backed up in tin most innocent manner aud an order fron a groccr for a barrel of salt was haude< out. The drayman and two of the boyi fooled around the barrel so long that tin strong man got out of his chair ii disgust, threw off lii3 coat and said : " Yon fellows had better cet uorou plasters for your backs. Get out of thi way and give me a chance !" He seized the barrel by the chime and lifted away. It didn't move. H gritted his teeth and laid out to pull tin hoops right oft'. The hoops stayed righ there. So did the barrel. " It takes four good men to lift one t them barrels," said the drayman. "Nonsense! I've lifted a score of them and I'll pick this up or break my back I fptess the salt mnst be wet." He got in position, drew a lonj breath, and then lifted till his eye locked like two towels left out on th clothes-line in a dark night. The barn didn't lift. Pig-iron was too much fo muscle, and the lifter sat down, on th walk. His back used to be plumb u and down, but it hasn't been since tha lift. His eyes are getting back to thei original positions, and the red is ieavin the back of his neck, and ho sees tw men handle a bag of dried apples or bushel of beans without a word of con ment.?Detroit Free Press. The newest style of evening dress i the "baby frock," made exactly as fc an infant with all the fullness of the ski] tiirowu back, short waist, and wide sas i belt closed with slashed loops and fallin i ends. DEATH OF A HEADSMAN. Ilans Frierli, n Quiet Dweller in 1'arln, , Identified n? the 1'rusaln.n Sanson. !! An old man died at the age of eighty | [ a few days ago in the dreary street of I , Chateau-Landon, Paris, -who for some j, j years had dwelt there absolutely aloue j and unknown. He was stout, solidly ( , built, not talkative but good humored < I and friendly. He was known to be a 1 Berliner by birth, but he did not care to ; j t.ilk about himself, and his early history ; was shrouded with mystery. Hans j ' Friech was the name by which he passed i among his neighbors. He only went j out of evenings, and then but for a short | time, exchanging a few shakes of the j i hand with acquaintances. When he j I heard a German voice lie turned away i j or crossed the street to avoid its owner, j tie never read tho papers and received; letters but rarely, yet he busied himself \ j most of the time_ writing?what he re- ! fused to say. JHe una no visitors, piiui i ! his rent punctually, rose and retired j ' early, and lived well. In lino lie was a i perfect type of a small bourgeois retired j from business and living on liis income, i To women be was always polito, to cliil- i 1 dren more than kind. Not until bis j i deatli did the fact become public that J ! Hans Friech had been the beadsman of ; ), Berlin. , Headsman in the true significance of j 7 the word, not a mere mechauic puller of i cords and toucher of springs, like San- j ) son or Roch, for during the period he ) executed the hautex <rurres of the Prus-1 k sian capital, ending in 1840, the ax and i I not the guillotine was employed for the j decapitation of criminals. Hans Freich j I. was an artist, for not only could he rei: move his subject's head at a single j r blow, but ho knew and respected that j i { subject's rights and preferences, He j i did not affect the Gothic masquerade of ' i j black doublet and red hose ; he wore 5 j long black silk stockings, short close-fitr ting pantaloons of black velvet, a black i coat and black gloves. He would not i touch the handle of his ax with his bare j ) ttalm : not all the cold in Prussia could ' ; have induced him to such a flagrant j : j breach of scaffold etiquette. | Nevertheless the Berliners insist- j > j ed on overlooking tho fact that he i wore gloves and saw the blood upon ! k i liis hands. Friecli had no friends s . and too many acquaintances. People '; all knew hiru, and shrank from him. >! To enable him to leave the hateful town ' j he worked busily till he had iilled one t j of his long black silk stockings with i crown-pieces, aud on couuting them i; found that ho had enough money to asi I sure his ^rafort for the remainder of his . ! life. That very day he resigned his - ' fifTine nnd set out for Paris, where he )! found quiet ai d unconcern, where the r j children did not, point him out with tiny ) \ lingers to each other, or the women who ! came upon him shrink back in speecht less horror. So quiet was he indeed ) | that he became homesick for the scaffold ' j and set himself to write his memoirs, s J His identity and the nature of the work ' ' with which he had occupied his declin' j iug days only came out after his death. * | > | Words of Wisdom. > No man should be a judge in his own | cause. kj To a man full of questions, make no [; auswer. 5! What men are deficient in reason, t : they usually make up in rage. j Life is a duty, and one ought to desire -1 its preservation. Wilfully to let it decay 3 | wouiu ue a srn. " i Solon being asked why, among his r j laws, there was not one against personal " j affronts, anBwered that he could not be* j lieve the world bo fantastical as to regard 31 them. j; Whoever sincerely endeavors to do all 1 the good he can, will probably do much j more than he imagines, or will ever j ! know to the day of judgment, when the ] secrets of all hearts shall be made mani;; fest. . J Honor and justice, reason and equity, i go a great way in procuring prosperity j; to those who use them; and, in case of }, failure, they secure the best retreat and . j the most honorable consolation. . ; Let those who are appointed to judge 1 j of the character of others bear in mind 9 their own imperfections, and rather - strive by sympathy to soften the pang - arising from a conviction of guilt, than 1 by misrepresentation to increase it. s The skill should be. so to order the s : timn rvf rpr>rnftfinn flint, it mnv relax. and '' refresh the part that 1ms been exercised 1 and is tired, and yet do something which, F besides the present delight and ease, > | may produce what will afterwards be 1 profitable. A nnssinnntA temner venders a man i unfit for advice, deprives him of bis rea, son, robs bim of all that is great and noi , hie iu bis nature, makes bira unfit f for conversation, destroys friendsbip, b j changes justice into cruelty, and turus f i all order into confusion. r Tbe fountain of content must spring 1 : up in the mind; and he who has so little H knowledge of human nature as to seek ? happiness by changing anything but his J own disposition, will waste his life in ' ; fruitless efforts, and multiply the griefs P I which he purposes to remove. j The governor may be deceived ; he j i beareth the sword, and may strike with it % | improperly. But if, to remedy an occa' 1 sional inconvenience of this sort, you J dissolve government, what will be the j consequence ? More mischief will be 8 done by the people, thus let loose, in a a month, than would be done by the govj ernment in half a century. Vvnmivivn Fiinovnl*; floiulomnfiil. S u Judge Rhone, of Luzerne couuty, Pa., lma called for the vouchers for the items s termed funeral expenses in a recent case 0 hoard in the orphan's court. The amount Q of the decedent's person-il estuto was t 8581.82, -while the expenses of burial wore returned by the administrator at 8130.75. On the subject of extravagant funerals Judge Rhone 6ays : "It is not ' necessarv to have a pompous procession ill great length, in which figure conspicuously waving plumes?the prancing I* livery ;,teed, harnessed in finely up3 bolstered vehicles?and a glistening e 1 silver-plated ca-ket in which is placed :1 the cold clay clo! lied with raimentas costly r ftsthcrichestheworewhenliving. Neither e is a pile of carved ranrhle with poetic p inscription set over the tomb in a con,t spicuous corner lot in the city of the r ; dead, necessary for a Christian burial, g 1 Have the terms grave, coftiu and shroud tnr>rrM?an iiv Avfi'vbodv? Such (J UtCU il?6U.vvU J ? a parades as are called 'iiue funerals' may i- gratify the vanity of the living, but no respect for the dead demands them, and j where a decedent's estate is limited and s his debts are not paid, or where he ir leaves a family of h-lpless children, the rt expenses of mcli burial-i will not be h allowed out of his estate. Those who g i contract for and enjoy such luxuries i must, pay for them themselves." A CITY IX FLAMES. St. John, N. 11.? Vlnited by a Terrible I Calamity?The City Reduced to Anliea nnd a Number of Liven Lout. 1 The calamitous fire that visited St. John, N. B., is described as follows: The fire was discovered in a building on the south side of York Pointelip, next j to McLaughlin's boilor shop. To the J hitter building the flames had spread , before the firemen had reached the scene. J The engines arrived and did their best to stop the flames, but all efforts were ' in vain. Nothing could be done. The j flames then spread to the various build-: ings on Have's wharf, which were also quickly consumed, and before the fire j could be checked ?it broke out with ! a roar into Smith street, carrying every- j thing before it. From there the flames : spread iuto Drury lane and Mill street, [ following that iuto Dock street, taking 1 both sides. Before this, however, the : rear of the Loudon House and adjacent; buildings had been attacked^ when it j was seen that the first fire would inevi- j - * * ?! t\ i ? **r*n ! tably sweep along eitner jjock or iuui street. Aid came from Portland in the j shape of the town engine and firemen, j The tinder-boxes on fire, aided by the j wind, proved a combination too much j for the gallant workers, and almost in ] despair they saw the flames advance i upon .them, not slowly, but with a ra- | pidity that appalled the stoutest hearts. The buildings were a mass of flame at j the end of Smith street and Drury lane ; j and while the workers were vainly en- i deavoring to have the fire end there, a ; momentary gale took the flames across j Union street to the opposite houses, and then they receded; but their touch had ' been fatal, and in less than five minutes : these buildings were doomed to destruc- i tion. Roth sides of the street were soon ' in the grasp of the devouring element, > and the men were obliged to drop their i branch pipes and run up the street, affer ! which they dragged the hose after them, j Auother body of men were working j at the foot of Union street, and by placing boards in front of their faces man- j aged to battle with the flames until their j clothing became singed. Proceeding along Smith street in a'i southerly direction, the fire soon reached ; Nelson street, then Robertson's place, ; then extended to Robertson's wharf, and J then up the South wharf. As it gained I Nf>lKnn Ktrpot. on tlm smith, it there met , the flames coming up that street, and i the combination made a terrific heat that i could not be borne. Allied with the strong wind from the northwest, it did | not take long for the entire wharf to be : in a blaze. H:ilf a dozen wood boats j were at the head of Market slip, and at1 the end of the wharves there were about! the same number of schooners. Before the fire had assumed a formidable shape on the North wharf the men on vessels began to ponr pnils of water on the^ecks. The water was low just then, aniOomething like this was necessary to extinguish the sparks that were continually showered down on them. Those at the i head of the slip were in a quarter of an ; hour on fire in so many places that it\ was impossible for each outbreak to receive attention before the vessels were i well on lire. The flames caught their masts, and these afforded a stepping stone to the shops on South wharf. Not one of those west of Ward street was capable of withstanding the intense heat! and sparks, all being ot wood, ana uiey j went down as if felled by a hurrica. ?. j The schooners in front having bee* hauled out to a place of safety, many of the occupants of the stores were off helping their unfortunate brother merchants, and some arrived just in time to save their books. Others were just enabled to witness the destruction of all their stock. Some of the embers lodged in the steeple of Trinity church, Germain street, and with nothing to save it, the fire being so j high as to be almost beyond reach, the ! fire was lelt to pursue its own way. As the news spread that some wooden ; houses in Horselield street, as well as others on Duke i-treet, near the Victoria Hotel, were on fire, thousands were; -i 1 1 4.1. ~ a uiiirweu, Ub it w?in fctreu tuiiir tut- jac wns spreading north, sonth, cast and west to Germain, Charlotte, Duke and Horsetield streets, with not an engine to be had and everything going down before the unrelenting llames, A building on Charlotte street, had hardly become a j prey to the flames, wh'-n others on each ; side followed, aud in half an hour all ex-! ceptthe Germain street side of the square ; was in ashes. The Victoria Hotel and ! St. Andrew's church were in great dan- j ger, aud the hotel guests, as well as the j employees, began to make preparations ! for seeking new quarters. Very litt e ; time was given them to collect their j vfdruiblfis. and in the minority of eases ! they had to leave with scanty wardrobes. About the same time St. Andrew'a church took lire, and it did not stand long. Ad-; joining the church was a two-story brick building, occupied as a tailor shop in the lower story and by the Beacon, Pioneer, and Siloara lodges of Odd Fellows, as, well ns Milliccts Encampment of that order on tlie upper flat-, which was destroyed; prior to which, however, the 1 members managed to enter the building and save most of the regalia and paraphernalia. The buildings at the southern corner of Dock and Union-streets and 011 the opposite comer caught almost simultaneously. At an early hour the Western Union Telegraph Company's olfece was burned j and its valuable batteries and apparatus ; destroyed. A great quantity of the goods saved fell into the hands of thieves, ! who hung around like vultures, eager to | avail themselves of any opportunity that: afforded to carry off what they could lay j their hands on. The ballast wharf was covered most of the night with thousands of people anxious to escape by j water, as were also the railway track and tho ground around the track between the ballast wharf and Courteuay bay. The following newspaper offic-. s with their "plant" and stuck were completely swept away: The Freeman, The Evening Globe, The Daily Telegraph, The Daily New*, The Watchman and The Religious Intelligencer. The entire business portion of the city was destroyed. Not a leading establishment escaped. All the principal dry goods stores, the leading groceries, all i tho ship brokers, commission mer- 1 chants, all in the business of wholesale liquors, coal, Hour, provisions, salt, lumber, tea, West India goods, etc., were utterly wiped out. Forty odd blocks, or nearly two hundred acres south of King street, have not six buildings remaining. Every street, square and alley was lilled with furniture, aud thousands of people wero without food or shelter. The International Company's steamer New York sheltered and fed 1,000 persons, and the vessels in the stream had large numbers of people ou board. Thousands had to get away from , the lower part of the city by boats. A j number of lives were lo t, and it was be-! lieve.l the destruction of property would , amount to fifteen million dollars. i FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. Kccipeti. Rice Croquettes.?Take half a cupful of rice; let it soak two or three hours ir warm water enough to cover it; ther drain it dry; add one pint of milk; cool this in one pan set into another of hoi water until the rice is soft; then add on< tablespoonful of sugar, one of butter and a little salt; let it cook slowly for t few moments; beat well two eggs, re move the rico from the fire, and 6lowli add the eggs; turn it out to cool; wher cold, flour your hands, roll the rice int< balls, punch a hole half-way througl with your finger, fill it up with jelly then cover up the opening with the rice dip it into beaten egg, then in cracke: crumbs, and fry in butter. Calf's Head Cheese.?Procure i prepared head and put in warm wate: sufficient to entirely cover it; if an; part is out of the water it will becomi discolored; put in with it one carrot four onions, half a pound of sweet sal pork, six cloves, a bunch of parsley, i teaspoonful summer savory, and thre< bay leaves, and one lemon; boil until th meat leaves the bones, when skim ou and mince fine with the salt pork; taste and if not salt enough add a little, am any other spice; place in a strong baj that has been wrung out of boiling wa ter, tie tightly and place a moderatel; heavy weight on it; when cold cut ii slices for lunch or breakfast; the brot] is nice strained and used as soup. Hominy Croquettes.?To every cup ful of cold, boiled, fine hominy add ; tablespoonful of melted butter; mixwei together; add slowly a little milk; tliei beat all to a paste; at the last one tabic spoonful of white sugar and one beatei egg; flour your hands, and roll tli hominy into balls; dip into beaten egg then line cracker crumbs; fry in ho butter, and serve with currant jelly. Molasses Fruit Cake.?Two and one fourth pounds flour, one and one-fourtl pouuds butter, one pound sugar, si: eggs, one cupful milk, two pound raisins, one pound currants, one-hal pound citron, two teaspoonfuls cinna mon, two teaspoonfuls cloves, one tea spoonful ginger, one teaspoonful mace one nutmeg, one pint molasses, on teaspoonful soda, two teaspoonfuls ciear tartar. Apple-Egos.?Pare and core a con venient number of apples, leaving tlier whole; fill with sugar, and pour ove water; then place in oven; when nicel; baked take eggs, prepaied as for ome lette, pour in and over the apples, au< return to oven for about ten ininutee grate over them nutmeg, and serve hot Chocolate Ice-cream.?One quart c cream, one pint of new milk, one pouni of sugar, two well beaten eggs, fiv tablespoonfuls grated chocolate rubbei smooth in a little milk, flavor to taste heat the milk almost to boiling, pour i by degrees in with the beaten egg am sugar, and freeze. Fnrm Toplrw. Give your hogs a rublyng-post i some accessible part of their inclosure it facilitates their keeping clean ani seems to afford them much satisfactior Several correspondents write to at uouuee the complete extirpation of rat and mice from their cow-stalls and pip geries since the adoption of this sirapl plan : A mixture of two parts of well bruised common squills and three part of finely-chopped bacon is made into stiff mass, with as much meal as may b required, aud then baked into sma! cakes, which arc put down for the rat to eat. The carrot crop is rendered useless i many gardens by grubs eating into th roots. This takes plarc in many wel! managed gardens. The best remecl that I have tried was to scatter a quanti ty of soot and lime over the surface c the ground before forking it over for th carrots. This works it into the grounc and keeps the soil free from all sorts c grubs for the whole season. The nej best way is to sow the lime and soc between the rows and hoe it into tb ground. Ah early as the middle of June, som( times before, we have practiced openin the hay hurvest, and find when feedin that the earliest cut is preferred to th later by all the stock. Seed Selection. Major Hallett, in the Gardcnen Chronicle, says: "Very close observr tion during many years has led me t the discovery that the variations in th cereals which nature presents to us ar not only hereditary, but that they pre ceed upon a fixed principle, aud fror them I have deduced the following la^ of development of cereals: 1. Ever fully developed plant, whether of wheal oats or barley, presents an ear superio in productive power to any of the rea on that plant. 2. Every such plant con tains one grain, which, upon trial, prove more productive than any other. 3. Th best grain in a given plant is found ii its best ear. 4. The superior vigor c this grain is transmissible in differen degrees to its progeny. 5. By rcpeatei careful selection the superiority is accti mulated. G. The improvement, wlii.-J is at first rapid, gradually, after a loni scries of years, is diminished in amount and eventually so far arrested that practically speaking, a limit to improve mcnt in the desired quality is reached 7. ]3y still continuing to select the im provement is maintained, and practicall; a fixed type is the result." The Embroidery of History. One of the bits of history mos 4 *- T- _1 U^j.i.1 laminar to Americans is uhchsuu ? uutw of New Orleans, where, from behind lii: breastwork of cotton bales (a materia which the enemy's camion coulil no pierce) he repulsed with prodigiou slaughter Packenham's veterans, fresl from their European victories. Thi; story of the rampart of cotton, as relate* in both English and Americau histories is, however, purely apocryphal. It origin seems to nave been the fact that m:iny days before the battle of Jauuar 8 (for Jackson's troops had been work iug steadily at the intrencliments siuci Christmas) about fifty cotton bales wen taken out of a neighboring flat-boat am thrown into a line of earthworks to in crease its bulk. About a week before the assault, in a preliminary skirmish, a Walker tells us in his "Jackson at Net Orleans," the enemy's balls, striking one of these bales, knocked it out of tin mound, set fire to the cotton, and sent i flying about to the great danger of th< * ' * All 1.^1 ammunition. All uiu uait:s were auioc quently removed. "After this," coil tinucs the account, "no cotton bale wore ever used in the breastwork. Tin mound wnfi composed entirely of eartl dug from the canal and the field in tin rear. 'Ihe experiment of using cottoi and other articles in raising the embank ment had been discarded." An editor nays he never dotted an i but one in his life ; that was in a fight with a coutem porory. A DETROIT MONKEY. llow lie <*eta Involved with si Hnll ol | Pitch. Tliat poor Mrs. Nicholo, wbo has been grinding a hand organ around the soldiers' monument for the Inst year, had ; I got to believe that alio owned the sole right to play "Captain Jinks" and "Growing Old" in this town. The other day along came a double-fisted, heavy-weighted, big-voiced Italian whe | had a bran now organ aud a heap ol i fresh tunes. She ground and he ground, I and he wasn't halt an hour beating hei | into the middle of last week, She r^a| lized that ho was taking in all the CJist i while she was receiving all the pity ant j she put he/ little organ on its little carl j and drew it home. Something must b( j done to recover her lost prestige and i share of the public currency, and sh< yr j sent to Toronto for a monkey to mak< 3 ; faces at the public and hand around th< ! tin' cup. A monkey would offset th( 1.1 new organ, and the monkey's anticf 11 would offset the Italian, and he'd hav< q j to pack up. e j Poor Mrs. ftieholo came out yesterday t j morning with the monkey for the firsi ' time, and it wasn't ten minutes before j; her fond dreams were being realized, f j Boys and girls and adults gathered * i around, her sagacity was applauded r- i and big coppers and little pennies anc a | bogus nickels darkened the air as the] ^ | flew to her cup. The boys soon dis j covered that the monkey was fond o anything and everything except old iroi " [ kettles and rusty joints of stovepipe, anc , I they bought him candy, peanuts, applei i and other appetizing diet. In the mids I of the era of good feeling a young fienc came down Monroe avenue. He wai about twelve years old. and in his hanc he carried a big ball of pitch, which h< ' had taken from a barrel where a roofe! was at work. The crowd drew him t< tho monkey H and, as he saw the littl< j* beast devouring whatever was thrown it h he conceived a wicked plot. Waiting x his chance he tossed the ball of pitch a 8 ! young Darwin, and in half a second thi ! monkey was trying to swallow it. I ; was a big dose. No horse in town couh " | have gulped it down without starting thi . tears. It began to soften up as th< e : monkey gulped and swallowed, and in thi II i course of a minute he had a bad job oi ! hi3 hands. When he realized it he madi ft jump into tue air, ieu uacn ana mej n ensued such a scene as no Turk eve r dreamed of. Poor Mrs. Nicholo shrieke< Y and grabbed the beast by the tail am held him up and thumped him around 1 i The old folks fell back, the boys yellec l> [ and innocent children shed tears of heart i felt sympathy. f | " Water!" cnVd a man. J 1 " Camphor !" shrieked a womau. c ! " Police !" howled a peanut boy. 1 And the monkey spit and gurgled am >; gulped and pawea and contorted till h t was all tied up and his owner turne< d pale and shouted and cried and gesticu i lated, and the big Italian with the ne\ ! organ smiled complacently, and remark d ed that Providence always had a care fo ; the fatherless and the destitute. Tha [1 monkey may have swallowed that pitc] i. ere this, but he hadn't got it haif-wa; [. down when poor Mrs. Nicholo grabbei g him and made a run for home, leavini the organ unwatched on the street. 0 i What the moral lesson will be no on [_; can tell. She will either beware c 8 j monkeys, or that monkey will beware o ! ni? V?/vr?a will VintrarA nf "Vm a | WUJU WW r.?w.. e | cnn take your choice, while the monke; q j will iu future prefer strawberries. ?. Detroit Free Press. ! n ; Quick Time Around the World. .e J The Omaha (Neb.) Republican print l" ( a letter from Dr. F. S. De Hass. Ameri 7 can consul at Jerusalem, in which h l" | gives an account of a tour he has latel; )l made around the world in aixty-eiph .e ; days of actual traveling time. The let ' ; ter is dated at Jerusalem, May 10 i 1877. The outline of the journey w , J quote, greatly condensed, in the follow p i iug: e | " Having safely returned to my post, i take pleasure in furnishing your readers i-1 agreeably to promise, with a brief notic g | of my quick and successful tour arouni g ! the world. Not counting the time I la; 6 ] over at different points, as these break ; iu the journey could all have beei ! avoided, I made the entire circuit of th< ?' | globe in exactly sixty-eight days, an( i- j but for heavy weather on the Pacific o would have made it in sixty-two days e The journey from Alexandria, Egypt, vii e Brindisi and Paris to London, and fron - thence to New York and San Francieco n was accomplished in twenty days,and w< v were just the same number of daysgoin< y , from San Francisco to Yokohama, Japan Crossing over from here to Canton, ii r China, took six days. A sail of ten day it over the Chiua sea and through th: i- strait of Malacca, touching at severa s J points we have not time to notice e i brought us to Ceylon, off the southen 11 j coast of Hindustan, and one of tho riclf j est of the East India islands. Then-; t we sai!ed directly to Suez, in Egyp* J i which took twelve days,and from thenc-i j in a few hours, by rail to Alexandria li: our starting point, making the entli'* g distance of 25,000 miles?16,000 miles ;, by water and 9,000 oil laud?in sixty eight days, without any accident or de !- tention of auy kind." Appearances. ^ J When a man begins to go down hill, ! he is apt to betray the fact by hisexte rior appearance; he wears a long face | allows his clothes to look shabby, am ', acts like one bereft of hope or prospects 0 i Now this is very poor policy; the sym ? 1 pathy and assistance of friends is no J j gained by wearing a dirty shirt; and un ? : less a man acts as though he had cot fi 8 ! dence in himself, lie must not expect ti 1! inspire it in others. And so with th? ? 1 external appearance of everything. Neat * i ness of appearance does not end with r ? man's credit, but often enhances th< H ! value of articles which lie may have fa ? i sale. This is especially true upon tin V : farm, and we will venture to say that i * farmer who attends to tiie exterior o: ? 1 " ? i ?i " ! [UlUgS 1U Reuwill, mtuu <13 tituu oluuici 3 j ami animals, clean yards :iud buildings '; and fences in good repair, will oh tail ' five to ten per cent, more for the proe ducts of his farm than one who neglectf s such simple matters. If any one doubts v' the efl'ect of external uppc-arnnce upoi 3 values in market or elsewhere, let hin ^ ! try sending butter to market in an oh ' | weather-beaten -irkin, no matter how 31 good the butter or clean the vessel maj " j be inside. If this does not satisfy, tiy "1 some stained and dirty eggs, or half 3. plucked poultry. Producing a good arB j tide is one thing, but selling it toadvan 11 tage is quite another, and the good sales 3 j man generally makes the most money ol 1! the two. The importance of a fair exte*, rior can hardly be overestimated. Thif I 1 ~ '? in nnr nl i pruimpm in jjuti-uii iu uiij i traile, and iu every grade of society . j therefore, it is too iraportnut to be overI looked or passed unheeded. Items of Interest. I Tramps who arc willing to rent themB#lves 1" for scare-crows can make standing engage| monts with farmery. i Wo didn't know that the gentle musical . I mosquito was at all inclined to drink, yet we j j see people putting up bars for them. j Tho police of Kansas towns have orders to . j shoot all potato bugs found running at large ' i without a muzzle on. This is important, if ! true. , A printer's baby took the first prize, 675 in I gold, at the Chicago baby show. That was a f " fat take,'' and the committee was "justified " in awarding it. 1 Tho average Mexican now rises betimes, ' pokes his head out of the window, and cau* tiously inquires of the first passer-by: "Who's t President this morning ?" I A naturalist claims to have discovered that t crows, when in flocks, nave regularly organ) ized courts, in which they sit around and try i offenders?a sort of crow-bar, so to speak. 5 By the laws of Florida no man who has lest ' an arm or a leg, no matter how or where, or from what cause, can be taxed for any busi3 ncss he may enter into, always excepting tho , 3 liquor business. 3! A man never so forcibly feels the incon5 venienco of being under-sized until his wifo informs him that if he had been two inches taller his old pants would have made two new ' pairs for his son. A great philosopher says in tho economy of 5 nature nothing is lost. The inside of an orango * - -1- ?- ?' ~U51a *Ka /Mitviida nf thfl ? in ay rcircau uuu man, mint? imv vuvrmv w* -? l same fruit may serve as a medium for breaking another man's leg.. I There was a weird, wailing sound heard in . Wisconsin recently like the sough of ihe north wind through a pine forest, but it was only " the iEolian music of a few billion grasshoppers ' j burying their dead after the late frost. i Poor woman need not feel badly if she cannot 1 throw a brick at a hen or sharpen a pencil. 3 There are few tricks more consumate in skill i. and dexterity than the way in which she rescues j her trail from the mud with one band. A fashion item says: A bonnet much ^ worn consists of a brim and capo of faconne 1 straw, with a soft crown made of coarse mos3 lin. And a boy's straw hat " much worn " conr sists of a ragged crown, half the brim gone, 3 and no band around it. 3 " My son," said a mother to a little boy four years old, " whom above all others will you ' wish to see when you pass into the spirit ? world ?" " Goliah!" shouted the child, with a t joyous anticipation; "unless," he quickly 3 added, " there's a bigger fellow there." t A safety envelope to prevent tampering has j been devised. On theflap the words " attempt to open " are printed with a double set of chemicals, the first impression containing nut3 galls and the second green vitriol. If the e flaps be steamed or moistened in any way the 1 magic printing will appear. e j One who claims to know says that old United j ! States coins, dated fro'a 1793 to 1814, if they _ j are in good condition, are worth from five cents , [ to forty cents; if they are sharp, or just as | I they came from the mint, then they are worth i ; ao oarh TTnited States silver dollars dated ~ 1 1794 1804, 1836, 1838, 1839, 1851, 1852, 1854, j ! 1858, if in good condition, are worth $3; if thoy _ | are sharp they are worth more. A man could stand the flies and never loso bis temper, if thev would only bo contented to be buried where they fall, but when a fly as big as a grain of coffee falls on its back oil a slab | of butter, turns over and crawls out, and goes J i limping across the plate, straggling and wading ? | through everything it can find, and finally cre, | mates itself in a bath of hot coffee, good gra* j cious, but it does make a person mad. ' i The Jonannisbrod, a black bread used so V j largely by the Russian army for food, is made > j with a quantity of some kind ot grease, which r forms a substitute for butter. It can be eaten i. dry ; but the Russian soldier prefers, when he j j can got it, to break the bread into small pieces. 11 j These he puts into a bowl and pours hot water Y over them. The grease then develops into a ;l I Kravy, and the whole forms a simple kind of 3 ! ?0UP* ______________ I e Combinations of Fodder and Grain. f; As the object of every farmer should f I be to push his young stock forward as ii i fast as the best food, in proper quantity, y ' will do it, he must not be content with a - ! ration of fodder which they will eat, but [ one that will furnish them the nutriment required for rapid growth. While he | should scrupulously require liis animals ! to utilize everything raised on the farm, s ! let him combine the less nutritious with -! the more nutritious, so that everything e shall count the most in growth, and 7 therefore in profit. If a farmer has but t! little straw, two quarts of wheat bran to -: the bushel of straw will make it equal to '> | good hay; and theu, to give extra e growth, add one quart of corn meal or - j corn and oat meal mixed to tliis, and the ; animals will thrive finely. This ration, I j two quarts bran and one quart corn meal '? ! to the bushel of straw, will cost no more e | than hay at market rates?cost of grain i ! ranging from three to four and one-half 7 , cents, and when mixed with a bushel of 9 cut straw will weigh about nine pounds. 1' And this ration we have found to push 3 ' young cattle and colts rapidly all 3 ; winter. When stock-feeders have full c faith in the fact that it is always the ex tra food that produces the profit, they ? j will not hesitate to use a small ration of 1' graiu to improve the fodder ration. It ? takes but a small amount, and that all 3 I goes to growth. The reader will see ' ' ' ? ?* < ?-> n/I.I 4-Ito TTnvirmq lfiiuls j | huw euaj iu xo ??n.4v* ~ j of grain to the different foJder mixtures *: we liave mentioned. We usually make 11 a mixture of the grain before it is ground, - and give as large a variety as is conven11 ient. We have made the following > 1 mixture for use at the present time : i Winter -wheat, blowings (one-quarter i cracked wheat, three-quarters chess), - ! twelve pounds ; oats, live ; corn, Qve ; , j flaxseed one; totaltwenty-threepounds. , . This is all ground together very line nnd , j makes a very palatable ration, good for - all stock, but not expensive, as will bo 5 j seen by the following figures : Twelve ' pounds wheat blowings, three cents; five pounds oats, six and one-quarter cents; live pounds com, five cents ; one pound flaxseed, three cents ; grinding, two and one-quarter cents ; total, 1 twenty-three pounds, nineteen and one1; half cents or 816.94 per ton. This combination possesses many excellent j qualities. The flaxseed is added to give _ ! o;l, as well as nitrogenous material, nnd 1 makes it just laxative enough, but adds t only slightly to the cost. We find that . work horses'do excellently well upon it, . as well as all stock. We use this to j supplement other rations, such as above 5 mentioned. We have often found flaxseed . a most profitable addition, but never t' add more than one part to twenty of j other food, as it renders it too laxative. ] ?Country Gentleman. { "Couldn't Lie for that Money." f A story is told of a young Watervil'c, i Me., lawyer, who was of convival turn, , who had in his hands a number of uni settled accounts against an old farmer in the vicinit3', who never paid any debts i until he was sued, and then only after i loud outcries against the lawyers for i "grinding the faces ol" the poor." Oua i day he came in to settle a bill, when tins I lawyer oller<>d to discount him a dollar aid a half if he would go into the street, r mingle with all the groups of people ...1..,,., I,a fiiwl t]if? roll Wiiimi xic uiipMt ?u? ? ? ..?% versation up to a point where he could . incidentally remark that he (the lawyer) . was a sharp ami worthy fellow. The - old man wanted the money, but finally f he said impressively : "Squire! I'm u very obi man and Have doue many t wicked things in mv life; but with my F: views of eternity I can't lie like that fo r ;' nnncy." The dollar and a half was die. j counted without extorting any recomi ^eiise therefor.