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BY HUGH WILSON AND W. C. BENET. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1880. NO. 32. VOLUME XXY.
A New Year's Song-.
I wonder what kind of a year it will be;
I worry and ponder for fear I shall see
A lack ol this comfort and jollity;
Bnt we welcome tho year
With a soul-stirring cheer;
For a year is a matter ol months and days;
It comes and it goee, but an honest friend
stays.
Old Time is a coward who murders unseen,
His foollalls oi velvet crocs over the green,
i^eaving death in his path to show where he
has been;
But I shake off the tear
As I welcome tho year,
Knowing this, that Old Time moves around
in a ring,
And must bring back the flowers again in the
spring.
The year that is dead I ihink did his best,
^ And brought many joys to my home and my
breast,
So I press his cold hand as ho sinks to his
rest,
While an unspoken lear
*.treeis mo incoming; yvai,
That the new will not love us as well as the
old;
But the last year is safe, and its story is told.
What's a year but a canvas where each, by
his art,
Paints a soeno or a Iragment from out bis own
heart,
To be hissed or applauded when shown in the
' mart ?
Then hurrah for the year!
Let us shake off our lear,
And unroll tho canvas, and mark out our
plan,
For the years and Old Time arc the servants
' of man.
Old Time seems a sluggard, when bringing a
joy,
And when laden with sorrow he trips like a
boy;
But he brings something new when he conies
to destroy;
So we greet the New Year
With a smile and a chcer,
And wemaie r inner nme aoour woik wnuc
he stays,
For the New Year and Old bringeth something
to praise.
The Cranberry Swamp.
" Of coursc," said young Doctor D-dling,
"a man has his own fortune to
look to."
"Of course," said JndithGiey; and
as she spoke the words a cold chill
seemed to creep, like slowly congealing
ice, around her whole heart.
"If you hud consulted me as to your
affairs," went on the young man, " instead
of taking this very extraordinary
t>tcp, entirely without advice or counsel?"
" Yes, I know," hurriedly interposed
Judith; " hut it's over and past now, so
perhaps we had better not talk about
it."
The red winter sunset was blazing
with sullen tire above the cedar copse
in the west, the leafless woods heal up
< their blisck arms in a sort of wrestling
agony toward tno &Ky :is ewe oieuK wiiiu
los<=ed them to and fro, and a solitary
i.aven uttered his ominous croak in the
woods at the hack of the house.
I)r. Dedling shuddered as lie looked
around him and glanced out toward the
dreary swamp that extended toward the
k east.
F "Such a place." said he, "for a
woman to elect to live in."
44 It isn't very cheerful," said Judith:
" hut I've lived here all my life, you
know."
44 The more reason for wanting to .set
outofitnow," said the doctor, iuipatiently.
Judith was silent. She looked at the
blazing logs on the old-fashioned hearth
and tried to keep back the fast-rising
tears.
Doctor Dcdling rose and took up his
hat.
44 Then! am to consider that our en
gagementis quite at an end?" S lid the
doctor
" Yes,"said Judith.
"I shall always wish saidyou well,"
the doctor, affably.
' I thank you." said Judith.
44 Good-bye," said Doctor Dedling.
14 Good-bye,'' responded Judith.
< The nextmomentshe was alone with
the blazing lops and the cricket chirping
on the hearth, and the strange
weird shadows that came and went on
the wainscoted walls.
It was a month to-night since they
had buried old Miles Grey out of sight.
Little Judikh, who had worn herselfout
in taking care of him. had dropped a few
sincere tears on the cheap coffin that encased
his remains, but no one else had
seemed particularly to grieve.
Mrs. Pytchley, hpr eldest sister, who
was married to a New York groopr, hnd
boldly declared that it was high time
the old man took himself off the stage
om/1 liur) nt'irlu nrfc
VI lliio VTV/11U, (kUti uuu Uimiv t?v uw* vv
of her disappointment when it was discovered
that a thousand dollars in gold
pieces represented all l is hoarded
wealth; with the exception of the
cranberry swamp, unon whose dreary
verge stood the house, and this dreary
property hy the terms of the will was to
be divided between his two nieces,
Judith Grey and Maria Pytchley, as
they themselves might agree
44 I'll take the ready money," said Mrs.
Pytchley, hastily. "What couid T do
with three or four miles of cranberry
swamp?'"
"Or what could Judith do with it,
either?" said ITobart Prytchley, who
sat whittling beside the fire.
44 I dare say she could manage very
nicely," said Maria. 44 I've heard Uncle
Miles say that he sold sixty dollars
worth ot cranoerries one year out of
that swamp."
4 Humph!" grunted Mi*. Pytchley.
" And that's legal interest on a thousand
dollars, you know," added his
wife. 44 What do^yousay, Judith?"
44 It makes no difference to me," said
"it does to me then!" said Mrs.
Pytchlev. Because, as you know very
;) welli Hobart's business is in the city,
? 1 > and we can do nothing at ah with :? lot
of swampy land,Mown here in the hackwoods.
So Mrs. Pytchley had taken tho liou\s
share of the old man's bequest, rind gone
back to her city home, over Hobart's
grocery store; and young Doctor Deriling
who h:.d confidently calculated on
at least five hundred dollars, to buy
surgical instruments and fit up an oflicr
in toe village adjoining?five hundred
dollars as the dowry of his bride-elecl
. -5 ?broke hi9 engagement in a tit of piqur
that Judith should have so deliberately
flung her fortune away.
"A set of harpies!" cried he, with dis;
t - gUSt.
"Slop, Doctor Dedling!"said Judith,
coloring up. " You forget that you an
ppt akingof my sister and her husband.'
"But they had no business to impos<
on you thus," exclaimed the doctor, impatiently.
" I agreed to the plan, without re
monstrances."
Doctor Dedling gave a shrug to his
shoulders.
"In that," said he, sharply, "yoi
showed your lack of common sense! I
you had no regard for yourself, yoi
might have had some for me!"
"Was it for money you wanted me?'
dpmanHpri Judith, stuno- to the ven
K quick.
Doctor Dealing colored high and licsitat<
d.
" A man must take monetary matter:
into consideration," said he.
houses all along, and lay down a line o
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rails, and?don't say as I mentioned i
doctor, because I only caught a snatc
here and there, when I was carrying
the plates, and setting on the fruit ar
nuts?but it's to go right trough o
And it came about that the engag
mont was canceled, and Judith Gr<
was sitting there, alone in the winti
twilight, with clasped hands and lief
drooped upon her breast.
Doctor Periling plodded home to tl
i village, and as lie passed the briliiai
! windows of the little hostelry, 1
| paused, remembering the bitter cold
the wintry air, the frosty influences
the breeze.
" I may as well go in and warm m
self." he thought.
Mine host met him with a very chec:
air.
" Walk in, doctor?walk in!" said h
! "Not that room," as Dedling laid h
I hand mechanically upon the door-kn<
| of the apartment he usually entere
i " The railway committee is a-setti
i there. This way please!"
"The railway committee?" eehoi
I Dedling. "What railway committei
You don't mean that they're actual
taking any steps about that old idi
of a railway between here and Glas
vilie?"
" Yes, I do,"said the landlord. "II
a committee of rich capitalists, as a
! building factories close to the falls, ar
I they incan to put up rows of tcnemcn
' Miles Grey's cranberry swamp, the ne
I railway is! And the chairman of tl
I committee is goin' to offer Miss Judil
] five thousand dollars in good, clea:
| hard money for her share of it."
i Doctor Dedling stared,
j "Five?thousand?dollars!" repent*
I he slowly.
Couki it really be a fact? If so?ar
there seemed very little reason f<
doubting it?what a fatal mistake 1
had made in rejecting a bride whocoul
| bring the rich portion of a cranberr
j swamp as her dower. If he had kno^
; this half an hour?one little half hoi
i ?aeo.
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"Don't fret about him, Judith dea
lie isn't worth it," urged honest Ma
maduke Redfield, who had stopped c
his way to the postofiiceto bring a me
sage from his mother. " lie was ahva;
. a pretentious sort of feHow, all for ou
i ward show, with a heart like a ston
I and a nature as shallow as Deacc
I Doler's brook!"
Judith looked up at the clumsy, gooi
. hearted, hard-handed farmer, ar
I wondered that she never before notiec
! what a true face, and what clear, fran
| eyes he had.
"Forget him, Judith," pleaded Re<
I field; and she began seriously to thin
that she would at least make the tria
I u/t cf??v wit
| uoiue uvi'i wuui uuuooituu >31..v ???
mother. It's too bleak and lonesome f<
I you here?for the present, at leas
i Spring will be here time enough for yo
! to come back to the cranberry swamp
1 Judith Grey looked around at the sol
| tary room and thought of Mrs. Redfield
| big. cosy kitchen, with its brigh
colored rag-carpet, its windows line
| with blooming geraniums and its shril
I voiced canary bird hanging ever tl
i work-table.
"Do you think." she hesitated, "tin
I your mother would be willing to 1
i troubled with such a guest as me?"
j Duke Red field's face instantly becan
j radiant.
"Only try her," said he, "dear Ji
dith, you'd be as welcome as the flowe.
j in May!"
And the next day Mrs. Rod field can
' over in the old farm carry-all to claii
' her guest, and the old swamp houi
| was left to its own dreary desolation an
i the driving snows of January.
I Se.-ireel v three weeks had elapsed wlu
young Dr. Dcdlins came to tlic Redfie
! farm in his row gig, with the o.d ro:
horse, that really made quite a rood a
pearanee when you did not hurry hi
and when the road wa? tolerably gooi
and he was free from a visitation of win
is commonly known as the; " heaves."
I "There ain't nobody sick here,"sa
I Julius Brown the hired man, who w;
splitting wood at the side of the hous
::s lie eyed the physician rather susp
I ciously.
I "No; I know that, my man," sa
[ Doctor Dedlinff, but I've called to s
; Miss Grey."
"Miss Ciroy ain't noways ailin' as
1 knows of," persisted Julius, feeling tl
I edge of his axe, and still staring hard ;
j the medical representative of Glassvill
| " I have called," said Doctor Dedlin
! "as a friend."
"Oh!" said Julius.
" Will you be so kind as to let me in
[ persisted the doctor.
| " 'Tain't no use," said Julius, rollir
! a prodigious pin<> knot down from tl
j pile, and preparing himself for
stupendous effort; " there ain't noboc
' to liome."
| "Nobody at home!" echoed the do
j tor.
"They've all gone to church," e:
I plained Julius.
"Tochurch, man? Why this is Tue
day!"
"Who said itwa'n't?" retorted Ju
ius. "They ain't gone to huarservic
?thev are gone to be married."
"Who?"
" Why, our Marmaduke and Miss Ji
dith."
And down came the axe upon the ei
of the pine knot with a crash that mac
the man of medicine start backward.
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The new railroad was duly co:
structed. directly across the boggy depi
ofold Miles Grey's cranberry swam
and the $5,000 was placed to Mrs. Ma
maduke Redfield's account in the nea
' est national bank, and Mrs. Pythehh
' thinks she has made a mistake in tal
| ing the gold eagles instead of the era
I berry swamp?but young Doctor D<>
i ling thinks his mistake was great
j still.
Yonng Millionaires.
I "Caspar" fays in one of h
(New York letters to the ])
j troit Free Press: The Soveni
regiment thipks it did pretty well at i
! fair in gathering8100,000, and perhai
I something over, in three weeks. Bi
j there are several young fellows in Ne
: York, any one of whom could trive tl
Seventh S 100.000 without missing i
New York's old millionaires are :i
gone. Peter Goelet was the last of th
venerables who came under this heai
Commodore Vanderbill. A. T. Stewai
John Jacob Astor, William Rhineland
and Peter Lorillard being the others; b
: the old ones stepped out only to ma
, I room for the young. There's quite
, crop of these just now. Stewart w
| the only very rich man who had i
. heir to leave his money too. There a
, three young Vanderbilts to take care
- the Commodore'sc:ish when their fatli
, turns it over to them. A large share
I ! I'eter Goclet's money goes to his tv
nephews, sons ot his brother Robei
. and another n<jphew. JSlbridge T. Ger
i gets $500,000. Frederick Stevens, s<
of Paran Stevens, is one* of tin? be
. known of the youngjmillionaires. The
are several Astors to perpeluate tli
name and enioy the millions left I
! their grandfather. Rhinelander left t
> greater part of his wealth to his on
; son. who, I am told, can grip as tight
[ fist on a dollar as any man in Ne
York. Peter Lorillard's sons arc I
. mous as turfmen, but the family ca
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IS t.'IKen COOII cure Ui .mm iiuxiju-iy.
5 rather than spent. Bennett is,
course, another young millionaire, a
t Win. E. Dodge, Jr., may be named
f the same list. The present crop of ve
t rich men is larger than that of a f<
years ago, though the founders of
' the big fortunes have all passed aws
r
Curtains are not for ornament, V
use, dfop them, shut out the cold, a
3 have an open fire. It is the best of li
uries, an ornament and a cheerful co
f panion.
it, RELIGIOUS NEWS AND NOTES.
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in Now York city has 335 Protestant
id Sunday-schools.
^ Women are filling the pulpits of
e" Presbyterian churches in Texas.
-?Y
Canada has a Roman Catholic populaiion
of 1.H46.800, with 1,599 priests.
New York Stato contains one-fourth
tc of the Presbyterians of the oountry.
nt Martin Luther's last will, written by
iie his own hand, is in the library at fleidof
el berg.
The Catholics arc to petition for the
appointment of chaplains of their faith
for the army and the navy.
ry Dr. SchafT says that as a rule the
salaries of ministers in Europe arc
c barely sufficient for their living,
is The Methodists and Baptists of Mar>b
shall, Mich., have combined, the one
d. furnishing a church and the other a
?1 LLllIllSt-Cl
J. W. Waterman has presented Grace
-Q Episcopal church, Detroit, Mich., the
sum of $16,000 cash, paying in full the
'y debt upon the church.
Entire religious liberty has lately been
secured in Greece, through the efforts
of the English government at the English
Presbyterian church.
id The building erected by the Anglican
t- society for the promotion of Chris, ian
w knowledge in London, and which cost
ie ?400,000/has been opened.
th The Biahop of Peterborough, who is
n, to be the president of the English
church congress next year, lias fixed it
to begin at Leicester on September 28.
Four of the seven bishops of the
Methodist church South have been in
1(1 the ministry from fifty to sixty years,
5r and possibly this is true of five of the
seven.
y The Russian missionaries in Japan,
havine succeeded in bringing over to
,r .their faith some 4,000 Japanese, a bishop
is to be sent to Jeddo by the St. Petersburg
synod.
r The executive committee of the Bapl?
Xf IT ? 1 4.~ J i. a kAf/l
r_ I list Missionary uniun nsia vuicu iu uum
m | the next annual meeting at Saratoga
s_ Springs, and all the anniversaries will
J.g be held at the same place next May.
t- Tiie Old Believers, a sect of Russia,
e, having been found guilty of putting up
>n a new church in Butkoff, have been
sentenced to two months' imprisoni
ment, and the church has been confisid
catcd.
'd The largest synodal body that Christianity
can show, is said to be the general
synod of the State Church of Prussia.
which represents 16,000,000 Evangelicals.
It meets once in six years, the
;{ ui.fc meeting having recently been held
in Berlin.
t The Methodist Episcopal church had,
(lj j according to the statistics reported up
si to July last, 96 annual conferences,
_ 1M53 itinerant preachers, and 1,696,837
members and probationers. Since the
t_ organization o. the church 444 presiding
elders and 634,967 members have died.
1- Mr. Moody believes in a personal
io devil. Bcin? asked by a St. Louis reporter
if this was true, he replied that
it lie "most certainly" did believe so.
je "The Bible," he added, "is just teeming
with facts in corroboration of it.
le 11? is the Prince q[ Darkness and iiaa
this world for Ins kingdom."
i- Christianity has made progress in the
rs Fiji Islands to an extent which is surprise.
The:e are at present 841 cliap10
els and 291 other places where preaching
is held, with 58 missionaries busily
pngaged in preparing the way for others,
'd The membership numbers 23.274 persons,
and there are besides 5,431 persons
>n whose admission to membership will
Id probably follow soon.
in Ilenry Keet. who died a short time
ago in England, was the?Wesleyan min
ister whom the Anglican Bishop of Lin:
coin years aso refused to deal with?the
dispute at last leading to a suit at law
j against the bishop to establish Mr.
Kect's right to place the title "Rev."
before his name on the tombstone of his
' daughter. Mr. Keet gained a decision
in his favor, and the " Rev." was orjfi
dnred to placed on the stone. At his
? funeral the other day, when an attendant
was about to let fall the usual handj
ful of earth on the coflin, the vicar ot the
1P parish who was present stooped down
,,, and himself performed that little ser
e rice.
g, Mr. Charles Scott, of Belfast, Ireland,
ivldes the Protestant churches of Great.
Britain into four families or groups, and
?' gives the following statistics of them:
First.?Episcopal?Church of England,
ic thirty diocesans, 23,000 ministers:
jy Church of Ireland, twelve diocesans,
a 1,900 ministers; Episcopal Church of
|y Scotland, seven diocesans, 293 ministers;
Moravian Church, forty ministers,
c- Second. ? Congregational ? Independents,
England, 2,205 ministers; Scotlaud
and Ireland. 128 ministers?total,
2,333 ministers; Baptists, 1.876 miniss
ters; Countess of Huntingdon s Connection,
thirty-seven ministers. Third.?
1- Presbyterian?Church of Scotland. 1,639
e ministers; Free Church, 1,026 ministers;
United Presbyterian, 568 ministerstotal,
3,233 ministers. Presbyterian
j- Church in England, 268 ministers; Calvinistic
Methodists, 811 ministers;
id Presbyterian Church in Ireland. '636 1
le ministers. Fourth.?Methodist?Weslejais,
2,132 ministers; Primitive
Metliodists, 1,137 ministers; Methodist
Free Churches, 356 ministers; New Con
h neetion ana rHDJe unnsuims, o** imuisters.
Cork and its Value.
>y The constantly increasing demand for
k- cork for bottling and other purposes,
n- together with the f:iet that the cultiva- <
d- ; tion ofthe tree is sadly neglected, threater
ens to cause :i serious dearth of the article.
Yet no other substance has been
discovered thi?t will seiTe as a substitute
for cork in many of the uses to
which it i.?f applied. Cork is worth
. ! plevrn times wli.it. it was a century
' | ago, and its market value is continually
,j" increasing. The American commis,
! sioner of agriculture has satisfied himself
that the cork trees can be success^
fully cultivated in vnvious parts of the
w United States, and recommends that the
e government offer premiums to those
who, within a reasonable specified
jj time, shall have obtained the best rea
suits in cork culture. In -Sicily, Sarj
dinia and the kingdom ot Italy great
.t' plantations of cork trees have been destroyed
to obtain the tannin from the
bark. After having been stripped of
[-t, their bark the trees were burned, in
;i order that the carbonate of soda might.
be extracted from their ashes. In 1822
1Q the French government began to nurro
ture this important interest. France
0j- now has about 500.000 acres of cork
er plantations in Algeria. The tree grows
Df as high as sixty-five feet, with a diamro
eter of from three to five feet, and will
ive and yield cork from 150 to 200
' years. In a dry, sandy, siliceous soil, at
an altitude of from 1,000 to 3,200 feet.
ig^ and not further north Xlian tiie fortv,re
tilth degree of latitude, cork plantations
will flourish. The tree does not, however,
yield valuable cork until it is toI,,,
ward fifteen years old.
ly
in What (iood x'ictures are Worth.
!W . i. 1 V?v.
r Ai :i rfcuiit iiurii'jii in ncn x um
1" of oil paintings the following prices for
p j some of the finest pictures in the collection
were obtained: Jazet's "Dividing
?i the Spoils," $1,125: DeCamp's " Eastn
ern Slave Market," $1,850; Van Marckc's
" Cattle, near Bordeaux," ?2,900; Clay's
y " Harbor, Dutch Cojist," $2,075; Schreyer's
"Arab Caravan at Rest," $2,425;
8' Palraaroli's " The Pretty Model," $1,725;
W* Van Miens' " Tarquin anil Lueretia,"
$1,000; Demadraze's "A Spanish
Dance," $1,325; Machitti's "Italian
ml Water Carriers." $1,025; Troyon's
nd "Pasturage?Valley of the Toucques,"
ix- $1,120: Mcissoneir's "A Halt at the
ru- Cabaret," $2,225. The prices received
for the paintings aggregated $77,148.
The Colorado Shepherd;
Our shepherd must purchase hii
sheep; and here come in a good man3
honest differences of opinion as to th<
Kind which will give the beat results
Some will buy cheap " Mexicans," ex.
pecting to breed a better quality o
lambs, and then dispose of the origina
purchase. Others affect the Californif
stock, which of late years has com<
into favor in some quarters. The weighl
of opinion, however,would undoubtedlj
incline our enterprising young ranchen
to buy sheep on the spot in good con.
dition, and, what is very important
thoroughly acclimated. His "bucks'
(sav about three to each hundred ewes]
will generally be Merinos. In th(
autumn, we will say, then, he begins
operations under favorable auspices.
Ills cabin is very plainly furnished, and
his 44 corrals," or yards and sheds,
properly constructed and in readiness
For feeding in stormy weather he has
enough hay safely stored away; and
after due care ana inquiry, he has secured
an experienced and competenl
herder?better, an American. At daylight
all hands are called to breakfast,
and soon after the bleating flock ar(
moving over the range, and the herder,
with his eanteen slung over his shoulder,
and probably a book in his pocket, has
whistled to his shenherd doe and started
after them. During the whole day thej
graze on the short grass, going once tc
water; and afternoon sees them brouehl
ba*.*k near to the corrals, in which,
later on, they are again confined for the
night. Day after day, week after week,
month after month, pass in monotonous
round; and then the cold weathei
(tomes, and the herder puts on a thicker
' oat, and reads less, and walks about
rapidly, and stamps his feet for warmth,
An i thensome day, when he is tar away
from the ranch, there comes on thai
dreaded enemy of sheep-raising?a
prairie snow storm. With but little
warning the clouds have gathered, and
the snow is falling in thick and heavy
flakes. The sheep hurriedly huddle together,
and no power can make them
move. The herder may have had time
to get them into a gulch, or under a
bank; failing in this, there is nothinc
for it but to stay with them, sometimes
a day and a night, and trust to getting
them home when the storm is over,
Notfar from Colorado Spring*isa gulch
called Big Corral, in which more than
1,000 sheep were lost a year or two ago,
having followed each other up to the
brink, and lallen over into cue oeep
snow. Nor did the Mexican herder ever
return to tell the tale, for he shared
their fate. It is with the snow storm,
indeed, that the dark side of the
Colorado shepherd's liie is associated,
and the great tempest of the spring oi
1878 left a sorrowful record behind it.
It must be mentioned that sheds are an
innovation, that some ranches have
none even now, and that beiore they
were built the sheep were exposed, even
in the corrals, to the fury of the elements.
Per Conha, it should be said
that no such storm as that of March,
1878. has been known since there were
any sheep in this part of the country.
On this occasion thousands and thousands
of sheep perished. The snow was
eleven feet aeep in the corrals, and
sheep were dug out alive after being
buried for two and even three weeks.
Their vitality seems very great, and
many perish, not from the pressure oi
the snow, but from suffocation caused
by others falling or crowding upon
them. It is asserted that they sometimns,
while still buried, work their
way down to the grass, and feed thereon.
But our shepherd has taken care to
have plenty of sheds, and he knows, too,
that ny the doctrine of chances he need
not count on such a storm more than
once in ten years, and he faces the winter
with a stout heart. Whenever it is
FiossibJC to sena ine sucep uui, tut
lerder takes them, despite the weather;
but when that is impossible or indiscreet,
they are fed at home.
In May comes "lambing," and the
extra hands are busily occupied in taking
care of the young lambs. With theii
mothers they are separated from the
rest of the flock, first in small
"bunchps," then in larger ones; and
in October they are weaned. In June
comes shearing?an easy and simple
operation; and, if need be, "dipping,1
or immersing the stock in great troughs
containing a solution of tobacco or
litne, cures the "scab,"and complete
the yeai's programme. Our shepherd
sells his wool, counts the increase of his
flock after weaning, and if, as is to be
hoped, he is a good bookkeeper, he
sits down and makes up his accounts for
the year, ft is hard to picture a greater
conlnist than that whicn exists between
the sheep and the cattle business, the
freedom and excitement of the latter
bearing about the samo relation to the
humdrum routine of the former as does
the appearance of the great herd of oftec
noble-looking animals widely scattered
over the plains, and roaming sometime?
for months by themselves, to that of the
timid flock bleating in the corral, anc
frightened at the waving of a piece oJ
white paper. And then to think o:
the difference between the life of tin
"cow-puncher" (as he calls himself)
ridina fiis spirited horse in the companj
of his fellows, and that of the heraei
on toot and in solitude, is enough tc
make us wonder how men can be founc
for the one, while there is the slightest
chance of securing the other.?Harpcr\
Magazine.
Power of the Press.
Our press is of a growth so sudden, the
product of the last fifty years?-and i1
hardly goes behind that date?that although
we may measure its dimensions
it is very difficult to analyze fully iti
relations. It is too early yet in the great
social revolution to know how thf
power of the press will finally affect the
interests of civilization. No man car
adequately tell that, but no man can
doubt for a moment its wonaeriui
power?its almost omnipotence. There
are fifteen millions of newspapers,
magazines, productions of the press,
daily flung down before the eyes of the
human race. Fifteen millions! It
would not be a large estimate to say
that at least from twenty to twenty-fiv^
millions of people are daily and hourly
subject to the government of this great
power. It seems as if there could be nc
limit to such a power. There is such
an understood faith binding humanity
together that ii men constantly and in
great numbers repeat an assertion, it
requires a capacity such as is rarely, ii
ever, to be found to maintain against
such a power one's sole and individual
belief. When you think those imprints
can drop an idea into millions of minds
at once, serve it in any way they please,
put every form upon it for 300 successive
days, you see how resistless to ordinary
strength must be such a power.?
Wendell Phillips.
Another Cure or Diphtheria.
The subject of diphtheria is attract
ing the attention ol the press from its
ravages in some of the Western town3,
where the authorities have had to clos<
the public schools and forbid public
funerals of its victims. The_ benzoic
acid treatment, from tlie prescription o
Mr. Sliislikin, the Russian minister
does not seem to find much favor witl
the medical profession, as they say thai
it has been tried and it has failed. Tin
sulphuric acid treatment, as used ir
Australia, has been very successfu
there. The following prescription haj
been tried with great success, it is said
in Washington:
Ferri sub-sulph., 2 drachms; aqua,
fi ounces. Use as a gargle every 1, 2, oi
3 hours, according to severity of symp
toms.
This <an be used with an atomize]
in case of children too young to cargle
Iron is also given internally as a tonii
in the following prescription:,
Ferri sub-sulph., 1 drachm; syr. sim
pie, 6oz. From a quarter to a whol<
teaspoonful every hour, according t(
V
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD
Storlns Fruit,
; The storing and preservation of fruit
. is one of those points in fruit growing
. which tend to increase the profits ana
f enforce the usefulness of an orchard.
I Various fruits must receive different
i treatment to insure their keeping, but,
> as a rule, a fruit room where the temt
pcrature stands at about forty degrees or
r a trifle less, and with a dry atmosphere.
> is the best place in which to keep fruit,
. and bv maintaining a free circulation of
, air mildew can be kept at bay. Soft
' fruits are very difficult things to man)
age, such things as peaches, cherries.
; strawberries, only keeping well for a
; few days, while on the otner hand ap.
pies, pears and other hard things will
[ keep good for a long time, months in
, fact, if properly stored.
Of a necessity frost must be excluded,
; as frozen fruit will not keep long,
[ neither will it have any flavor, and the
. result of all our care will be a failure,
t Damp will also cause muck damage, as
. it condenses on the fruit and causes it to
, rot. The fruit room should also be per>
fectly clean, as the least musty smell
, will be communicated to the fruit, and,
, to say the least, 1 his would be very uni
pleasant. _ Absolute cleanliness is a sine
I mm nnn in all fill it Irfifininir nroCPflSeS.
r and whether to be kept for use in a
> natural state, or to be preserved in
; sugar, the same amount of cleanliness
, should prevail. All soft fruits, such as
> peaches, currants, strawberries, etc.,
, must be preserved in sugar if wanted to
i keep for more than a week after gather
ing. |
Always choose a dry day for gathering
i fruit, and in this and all other opera,
tions necessitating handling, use the
' fruit as gently as you would eggs. It
; must be remembered that the least
t bruise causes incipient decay, and once
> this has commenced nothing can save
[ the fruit after. Don't put too much
r fruit in the basket at one time, and as
soon as loaded take the basket direct to
i the fruit room, and take the fruit out
! carefully by hand, and place on a thin
b layer of clean wheat straw, laid evenly
; on the shelves. Don't dump the basket
i down, and then turn out the fruit like
so many stones, and don't lay the fruit
in too thick layers, or, as sure as fate,
i that fruit will go bad.
Choice specimens of apples, pears or
other fruit should be laid out separntely,
! and great care should be taken that
i damp is kept Kway from them, as such
> tends to mar their beauty. In fact, with
all fruit storing operations the greatest
care should be exercised, and then suci
cess can be fairly assured. W? may add I
that with a proper selectif n of kinds.
apples can be had right through the
year, but we will defer giving lists till
next month.? W. J. juay, in uie j.onaon
i Farmer.
Ventilating Sleeping Koom*.
> As soon as the occupants have left
the room, the bcdclothes should be entirely
removed from the bed and hung
upon a clothes-horse or the back of
chairs, the bed shaken up, and all curtains,
if used, drawn closely to the bed
posts. The windows should then be
opened both at the top and bottom.
, They should remaiD open in summer,
or in very fine weather, until a little before
sunset. In very sultry weather
. some outside air may be admitted all
night. In winter and early spring windows
should remain open until a little
after midday, when the warmth of the
| air is greatest, and then closed. This
way the air of the best portion of the day
is shut in and reserved for respiration
during the night, when the external air
! is at the worst. A tire should be lighted
for a few hours during the afternoon, in
very cold and damp weather, so ns to
' dry the air that has been shut in. This
is the way in which the exhalations
from bed clothing can be got rid ot in
such a state of the atmosphere, and the
sweetness and purity of the clothing
, and other materials which are kept in
' drawers and wardrobes secured. Here
, IS wnm rroi. lYCUflie anjrit;
" But," you will say, how can you
| toll whether the air of our bedrooms is
i pureornotP We are not chemists to
J analyze the air." "Why, man! woman!
| you have the best apparatus in the
i world, and one given you for tlmt very
purpose. Nature has given every one
. of you a nose, and purposely planed it in
advance of all the rest of the body to
, give warning of danger. It is the advance
guard of safety! If you will use
, this "one talent" which" nature has
; given you and not " keep it wrapped in
; a napkin," you may go safely. Use youi
. blessed nose for this purpose to-morrow
morning to test the air of your bedroom.
| When you get up leave your bedroom
; just as it was; go out into the pure
, morning air and breathe that until your
' nose is wide-awake, and then go back
and take a few snuffs of your bedroom
, air; if it smells fresh and sweet like outdoors
air, you have good ventilation,
, and have breathed the breath of life all
[ the night. But ii it is close, musty and
r sickening?well, I'll leave you to tinish
P that sentence when you and your bed*
, mate compare notes at breakfast, and to
' draw your own conclusions. Try the
' experiment by all means, and see how |
. much your i:osc can tell you. Perhaps
' it might give you some idea of the cause
I of your w.iking with a headache and
1 1 # ! *1-^ Ti 1
l languor, ieeung mai me is u umucu. n
is a burden when you carry such a crushing
and needless load.?The Housekeeper.
( ood Preiaed Beef.
We commend to our many new house)
keeping readers the following, which
t has been partly given in former years.
Take any fresh lean beef?the cheaper
t pieces, as the upper part of the leg above
i the "soup pieces,"answers very well;
; that containing tendons or plenty of
s gelatine is even preferable, and some of
! the round steak or any other lean pori
tion may be used with it. Boil closely
i covered until so tender that the meat
I will fall from the bones. (It is better
' to k?ep a closely fitting pan of cold
, water over the cooking Kettle, to con,
dense and cause to fall back the rising
i steam containing the escapine flavor.)
; Use only so much water as is needed to
' prevent the burning. Take out the
I meat, mix and chop it fine. Put it into
n. tin nan or other deep dish. Skim c#
; any excess of grease from the cooking
> liquor, and add to it a tablespoonful of
i Cooper's or other good gelatine for each
r three or four pounds ot meat. When
i dissolved pour it into the chopped
; meat: put on it a large plate or tin that
f will fit into the disn, and place upon
; this twelve to twenty pounds weight?
1 flat-irons will answer. When cold it is
i a solid mass, from which thick or thin
t slices may be cut, that are marble in
, appearance, and are very excellent for
sandwiches, or for a tea or breakfast
dish, and it will keep Beveral days even
in warm weather if set in a cool place.
It is tender, juicy, digestible, nourishing,
convenient and economical withal.
?American Agriculturist.
Mrs. Oakey's Advice.
i "A woman chooses for her profession
the head of a household. Let her not
j enter on it lightly. Properly viewed, it
f is the most elevated of all professions.
, She has in her hands the welfare and
1 direction of a few or many people, but it
t is a work which cannot be neglected. It
j is her duty to see that her home is clean, I
. ! SfQ
i airy, cneeriui, imupjr um n? vcnuuo
1 economies attended to.
3 A mistress should go through her 1
, house every morning,praise where praise
is due, and qqietly find fault with any
carelessness or omission, thinking
r nothing beneath her notice, but with
- a gentle authority which admits of no
question.
r Do not live with a fine house over
. vour head and subsist in the basement,
s Few people out of your family know or
care, now you live. Let your house,
- large or small, be kept for the benefit of
; those who live in it. Warmth and light
) are better than fine furniture, and good
beds better than fine bedsteads.
TIMELI TOPICS.
Henry M. Stanley is now ascending
the Congo, bound once more for the
heart of Africa, but by a different route.
He has taken the name of" Swinburne "
for some unknown reason. He has fifteen
Europeans, sixty-four Arabs and
several hundred natives under his orders.
His fleet consists of a smal) river
steamer, witn two cabins for thirty persons,
three steam launches and three
barges, in which are stowed supplies
and goods. He is acting for the International
Association, of which the Kinc
of Belgium is president.
wnen sne ib movfu unuui uum uuc
place to another. The Queen of Sweden 1
suffers greatly from chronic heart dis- I
ease, and since she received a letter, not J
long ago, threatening the life of the
crown prince, she has not left her bed.
Mr. George Augustus Sala, the Eng ]
lish writer now in this country, says ,
Ciinl he has changed his mind since lie ,
wrote sharp letters about America dur- ]
ing the war. Now, "the hotels in ,
America are the finest in the world,"
ctc., etc. Then he " was on the wrong ]
side of the hedge." Now he is on the ,
right side; and " the railway service of !
America is to-day more perfect," etc.. ]
etc. Commenting upon Mr. Sala's ,
change of mind, the New York Evening ,
Pout says: "If one fact stands out in all j
history with more distinctness than any
other it is that success has an enormous ?
influence in determining which is the j
wrong and which is the right side of the
hedge." ,
Concerning the building of several 1
new and fast ocean steamers, the Detroit '
Free Press has this to say: " Three new
steamers are about to be built for the 1
Liverpool and New York lines. The '
largest the Sahara, Cunarder. is to be '
7.00<) tons burden, and of aspapd to beat 1
the Britannic and Arizona. The Allan J
line ship is to beat me sanara, anu an Inman
steamer to surpass thorn both. 1
The Sahara will he the lamest and an- '
proach the Great Eastern in size. Although
for some hitherto unexplained 5
cause that vessel has never been sue- j
cessful, there would seem to be no reason '
why mechanical ingenuity should be
baffled to build switt vessels of enor- '
mous capacity that will carry a thousand 1
passengers without discomfort across 1
the Atlantic in less than a week. Un- (
doubtedly it will be done before the
close of the preaent century."
The present prime minister of Belgium, 1
M. Frero-Orban, commenced life in the 1
humblest manner. His family name
was Frere. While a law student, he .
fell in love with the daughter of a rich, 1
aristocratic M. Orban. The girl was 8
agreeable; the parents opposed. As the t
aay ior ins t'A?unuai<iuu .lyfjiuivvui.i..,
she said to him: " If you succeed, come j
in the evening to the box at the opera,
in which I shall be with my parents and
some of their friends." " But will they f
admit me?" asked the poor student. "I 1
will take care of that," replied the giri.
Frere passed the examination with r
ereat credit, and presented himself at c
the box. His sweetheart rose as he en- s
tered, and kissed him in the presenec of
the whole company. After that there '
was nothing for the parents to do but to
announce an engagement between them. '
When the marriiige took place, he added, 1
by tneir request, liis name to theirs. J
* t
Seventeen thousand persons witnessed
the first royal bull-fight at Madrid after
the wedding of Alfonso and Christine, f
The queen was dressed in the national .
red cloak, white mantilla and bright
bodice. When she gave the signal lor
the beginning of the light the vast assemblage
" redoubled their acclamations. ,
* !?.? *ai?ab tvri(-K hrillinnt ffilf. ens*
I JL IICJI LI AC LVJ L IT 1UU Milttimiv ^.iw vvv
tunics, mounted on picador rau!os, ap- ;
peared simultaneously in the ring, seated j
in coaches, each drawn by four horses, j
' plumed, richly harnessed and capar- t
I isoned. They were escorted by deputies ,
to assist the cabalieros in the plaza, who
rode their own horses against the bulls.
The famed Toreros killed eight tine .
animals, not, however, without many
exciting incidents. One bull jumped
the barrier, knocking down several per- ,
sons and tossing up a gendarme. Another
animal injured a picador, and a third (
also had its victim. The people ex- e
pressed much satisfaction to see the *
queen remain throughout the entire p -r- ,
tormance. as well as the Austrian duke, f
It is not often that a subject ventures }
to challenge lib sovereign; but this ^
was recently done by the Swedish poet j
Bjornson. King Oscar, wJio has a considerable
reputation as an author, takes f
a strong interest in contemporary Swe4-.;a
oAmnfimoQ rnhhor f
UISU lltL'ltVtUlUf <1>UU AiJ OVIUVVUUW >?v..v. ^
free in his criticisms of well-known ,1
writers. He lately passed an unfavor- i
able judgment on anew work by Bjorn- r
son, expressing at the sarao time con- n
tempt for tiie general character oi his j
work. The indignant poet atonce wrote
to his majesty demanding that lie should
either apologize for the insult or grant
the only satisfaction that would be accepted
by a rqan of honor. The king
was prosaic enough to hand the letter t
to the police authorieties of Stockholm, J
who forthwith instituted proceedings 1
against the writer. Bj rnson suddenly
discovered that a change of air would
suit him, and has now ample leisure to
consider whether a king should have (
the right to express a literary opinion ^
only at the risk of his life. ]
A convict in the Wisconsin Stat^prison
refused to go to his cell when ordered
) y the warden to do so. The r
warden held a watch in one hand and 1
a pistol in the other, and said: "II
will give you three minute? to obey, <
and if you don't I shall shoot you." i
The convict doggedly folded his arms t
and stood still. Minute after minute t
passed, the warden counting them out
aloud. This w:is in the workshop, and i
the prisoners were spectators of the 1
scene. When the I liree minutes had ex- a
pircd, the warden took deliberate aim (
at the convict's heart and said: "Til
give you two minutes more, and I swear .?
I'll kill you t hen if you don't go to your i
cell.* A defiant curse was the only re- i
ply. At the end of the extra two
minutes the pistol was lired, and the
convict lell dead. The officer is sustained
by the higher prison authorities,
who say that his course was perfectly
proper under the circumstances; but the
district-attorney of the county will try ,
him under an indictment for murder. .
The Pennsylvania Statejtraining school i
for feeble-minded children, at Media,
lias iust been visitedby a correspondent
of the Springfield Rrpulilican. He f >un
over three hundred y<*ig idiots unde11r
Upon the subject of keeping boyB on 1
the farm, an old farmer has this to say: i
" My eldest son is near twenty-one years '
of ape, and the other boys in the neigh- (
bornood younger than he have left their ]
parents. Mine have stuck to me when !
I most needed their services, and I at- I
tribute this result to the fact that I have I
tried to make their home picneniit. i
have furnished them with attractive i
and useful reading, and when night I
comes' and the day's work is ended, instead
of running with other boys to the
railroad station and adjoining towns,
they gather around the great lamp and
become interested in their books and <
papers." 1
A number of 'the occupants of European
thrones are forced to give more
time to their physicians than they can
find to devote to affairs of government. ,
The czar's nerves are shattered and J
Emperor William has to be very particular
to his food and airings. The 1
King of Italy is miserable in ill health J
his only child is fr?j] and delicate and
Queen Margaret faints aV?y at the.least 1
exertion. It is necessary to carry her
treatment calculated to make them
stronger in mind and body. There are
jchool-rooms holding from twenty to
;hirty pupils each. In the more advanced
classes, reading, writing, arithmetic
and geography are taught. In a
kindergarten, the visitor saw small
children modeling in clay, building
slock houses and weaving paper into
fanciful shapes. Cases 01 remarkable
improvement were related. The great
wonder of the establishment, however,
is thus described: "The trite saying
;hat 'blood will out' is exemplified in
the idiot savant, who is never found
imong the lower orders. A curious
case of this kind is reckoned among
the pupils of this school. So remarkable
ire his powers of memory that after
listening to a sermon, or other discourse,
he Is able to repeat it, verbati m
preserving, also, the intonations ot th
speaker. As a test of this singular
faculty the lad was once taken to' Media
to attend a lecture upon some scientific
matter, and the next day was asked to
repeat it. To the astonishment of all
he readily repeated the entire lecture,
rendering Latin phrases and technicalities
as glibly as the vernacular; yet in
;iis mentality the reflective power was
dull and feeble, and he was unable to
convert into practical sense the knowledge
he so lightly acquired."
A Strange Insurance Policy.
Just you crowd a boy out of his seat
in tue car, snub him at the stampwindow
in the postoffice, or ignore his
presence in the crowd around a fallen
street car horse, and he'll get even with
you if he has to sell his skates and handled
to do it.
A Detroit life insurance"igent lived
to be forty-five years old before he realized
this fact. It so happened that in
?oing up on the car he many times encountered
a tow-headed Doy about
twelve years old. One day he lifted this
boy off his seat to make room for him?elf,
and then added insult to injury by
calling him " Bub" and offering his
knee as a seat. The bov went out on
the platform and vowed that he'd hit
that agent hard if the sign ever came
right, and he shed a few tears of indignation
to clinch the vow.
Time sned aloncr. The bov's father
had been " thinking some " of life injurnnce,
and the rr?ent heard of it and
went for him. He called at his office,
tiis house, and nabbed him on corners
ind in the care, and the citizen finally
mid he would take a policy home, study
its clausHs, and return a final answer.
The tow-headed boy sat figuring out his
?chool examples one evening, when the
father said:
' John, I want to hear how well you
:an read. I haven't got my glasses
here, and you may read this insurance
policy to me. Read 6lowly, and don't
ikip the hard words."
"You got it of that man who stdod
it the gate yesterday, didn't you?"
wked the boy, and when satisfied on
:hat point he felt the balmy feelingthat
creeps into a man's heart when he's got
;he dead wood on the fellow who stole
:iis hens. The old gent got his feet to
;he fire, leaned back in his chair, and
ihe boy began:
" Wilnesseth, that the Bane-bang Insurance
Company," etc. When he
lot down to the proper place he cleared
lis voice anew and read:
" If the said person whose life is hereby
insured shall pass beyond the set;led
limits of the United States or Canidn.
or shall attend a pole-raising, or
jaucus, or dog-fight, or?"
"What!" exclaimcd the father, "does
;hat policy forbid me to go down to
;he caucus and help lay out the buinners?
Forbid me to be present at pole aising!"
"Or a dog-fight," put in the boy.
"A dog-fijrht?yes! That's a direct
nsult, that is! That's as much as to
iay I'm in the habit of patronizing such
hings, and I feel the insult!"
"Or if it is found that the insured deiberately
lied," continued the boy,
' or?"
"Deliberately lied, eh! That's an>ther
insult. They think I'll tell a bold
ie, do they !"
" And it is expressly stipulated that
10 bald-he/ided man who insures in this
lompany shall use bar-soap to wash his
icalp," read the boy. t
"Does that policy read that way!
>Vhy, it's a succession of infernal peronal
insults! Bar-soap on my scalp!
iVhy, I'd kill the person who undertook
o soap-suds my baldness! Thatinsurmce
company must be a set of lunaics!
What other insults have they got
here?"
" And the insured shall be required to
:o before a notary public or justice of
he peace and make oath that neither of
lis parents una ever u?en iv lcguiai innate
of a lunatic asylum for over three
nontlis in any one year."
" By gum!" exclaimed the old man as
le put his foot down?that's rather too
nuch! I suppose that a life insurance
:ompany has a perfect right to protect
tself", but when it intimates that my
ather was a fool and my mother a lunaic
it is more than I can stand. John,
old that policy and put it in uiy over:oat
pocket!"
The other morning the tow-headed
joy was on the ei^ht o'clock car. So
vas his father. The life insurance
igent got on at a crossing, jammed the
joy's hat over his eyes as he pushed in,
ind seeing his "patient" at the tront end
>f the car he crowded forward and
laid:
"Good morning! Glad to see yon
ooking so well. Did the conditions of
he policy please youP"
" Mr. Blank," replied the citizen, as
le handed out tho document, " here's
' *. I TJ U A- I
,'our policy: iveep it: xuuiiiwuutH.
[ won't have it! I won't talk about it!"
"But?," began the astonished and
rozen agent.
The other rose up, rang the bell and
rot off the car, followed hv his son
Fohn, whose Bad eyes seemed to be gazng
at something lar away, and whose
nouth was puckered into a most solemn
md sedate-looking big ().?Detroit Free
prcss.
Hllnd Letters.
A writer upon postoflice matters in
lie Philadelphia Prcss says some of the
)lind letters are very curious. The folowing
arc samples:
Mks. John Smith.
In care of her dad.
This, it is to be fpared. will not be revived.
for who Mrs. John Smith is
vould be hard to trace or where herdnd
ives. Another is
L. Logan,
Logan City, Penna.
It. is very easy to see iliat the writer
>f this simply rewrote the last name in
lis mind instead of the one lie ought to
lave writtpn. Orctaved Canady P. 0.
iflice for Margaret Kennedy is perhaps
neant for Ontario, "out it is safer to send
lie letter to the dead letter ollieo than'
o try.
Miss Bridgett Carr Underbill Ancoler
Virgin St 64 is hard to decipher,
lere is a"letter to Mrs. T. .J. Cariile C,
vliich is a little too much abbreviated
(ven for the blind man to read.
In tho foreign mail there lies a lottoi
iufliciently stamned to he sent, hut
vhich, it is to he feared, will not reach
ts destination, for it is superscribed
To her Magusty
Queen of England
London.
No true lady will bounce out of the
room and slam the door after her when
naked to forego her new silk dress for a
few days and let her husband settle an
r>ld cigar hill.?Detroit Free Press. And
no true mnn. simply because he edits a
papir. will rush into print with bis
family troubles. ? Louisville CourierJournal.
"What (Jueen Yictorla Never Told.1'
People attempting to do great deeds The
and failing arc having a run in litera- x
ture just now. The Atlantic recently .
published the story of "the man who
was to have assassinated Napoleon,"al- 1136
though the story, as told, makes it
doubtful whether there ever was any T
such man. The Saturday Magazine, a
published by Mr. F. B. Perkins, assistant
librarian of the Boston Public Li- &
brary, and a nephew of Mr. Henry Ward Ihe
Bcecher and Mrs. Stowe, furnishes a tale ?
of exceeding intorcHt, written by Suehet T
Ward, the secretary of " Admiral Mor- .
gan, of the United States flagship 'Tennessee.'"
Mr. .Perkins is Secretary The
Wa:d's exeeutor and found the story I<
amoni? his Danors. The incident it re- T
lates fias never been discovered in any ^nc
public document, nor has it yet appeared
in Martin's '* Life of the Prince Con- Anc
sort," and Mr. Perkins thinks it never I*
will. Briefly the story is as follows: p
The Tennessee was cruising in the Q, .
English channel when the news cam*- of ,
the stooping ol the Trent and the capture
of Mason and Slidell. Morgan was T
eager for a fight, and hoped the incident A
would lead to war. He was holding his The
vessel off Osborne, Queen Victoria's
residence, on the Isle of Wight, subject Oh.
to the orders of our minister to England. X
Ward was sent ashore to fetcli that gen- x
tleman, and on his return with him wag ^
told by the coxswain of the admiral's
barge that the " old man had got a wid- 1116
der below, a runnin' off with her. They ^
say she's the richest woman in Eng- 0
and." Till
? tit?> ?a *i,? i
A8 SOUC US T* ?ll"U U11U 1/1115 u'.iuioi/ci |
were on board, the Tennessee got under j
way. " The widow was Queen'Victoria |
with one of her personal attendants,
Lady M The American minister .
was stunned, looked again, stepped for- V
ward, and,'bowing very low and cere- vac
moniously, said he was most astonished; . A
whereupon Queen Victoria burst out tiro
upon him, asking him if it was possible B
he had contrived this wickedness. She cosl
declared, in a peat rage, that she had ^
been kidnaped by "this person." meaning
the admiral, who was a worse pirate .
than John Paul Jones. "But whatever A
happens to me," she said, "it. will be Ke.?
the end of your republic, Mr. , and Wlt
you will richly deserve it!** "She T
spoke right royally; without a tinge of and
fear; as boldly as if sho were addressing tbei
her own parliament in Westminster B
abbey instead of being a captive in a dor
foreign man-of-war, beyond the possi- lifebility
of rescue." ' j
The minister at once ordered the ad- tjjC
miral to stop the vessel, turn about and jat
take it back to its anchorage. The ad- ?
miral remonstrated. "Mr. ," he . .
said, " we've got 1em sure, with her,"
motioning toward the opposite cabin: w,t
"they will be glad to drop Mason and T
Slidell like a hot potato." But the ed
minister insisted, and the admiral | dou
obeyed. Then the minister went into I silv
the cabin and hnd a lone talk with the | D
queen. He told her that'she controlled | prir
the lives of thousands of brave men. for ' pap
she could cause or prevent the declara- j of "t
tion of war. He begged her, as a i wat
Christian, to overlook the insult, and j f
not destroy a country which loved and j
reverenced her as her own English peo-1 gjje
pie did. There was a tremor in his ; wjj(
voice. Queen Victoria, changed color, wej
hesitated, :tnd finally agreed to keep ?
silence, if she could he put on shore w
again without its being known. This j 7^?
was accomplished, the minister kissed J Pnc
the queen's hand, and the American re- i nea
public was saved. [ nev
Admiral Morgan had been studying I V
the Jxindon Illustrated News containing j ami
sketches of Osborne and the grounds, j con
together with a narrative of the queen's ; ted
habits and favorite resorts while resid- i but
inz there. He was thus enabled to put I J]
a bo:it ashore, secretly capture her and crel
carry her off to his ship. The queen call
i -- 1? j ? J ! _
was .18 gO(M as ncr wuru nun iirvi-i ujuj
breathed a whisper of the affair. Per- abl:
kins heads his article, " What Queen fata
Victoria Never Told." We, however, l
have private information, to which
Perkins is quite welcome, that the rea- tjje
i?pn why she never told it is because she
never heard it.?Detroit. Free Press. con
git i
Why 1 he Law Is Uncertain. T
Language is an imperfect instrument!
for the expression of ideas. Not a few j
of its forms are ambiguous?that is. ^
they speak in two ways. Reader and i j"
hearers are left in old Isaac's perplexity. |
The voice is that of Jacob, tlie hand is I
that of Esau. i *01
Many of the terms of language are '000
equivocal. They have two meanings, , oxc
so that the reader is in doubt as to the j sf01
mind or intention of the writer. ! Bro
The., who draft statutes know how I J
difficult it is to frame a law which shall 1 yea
be free from ambiguous expressions or i app
equivocal terms. .Judge Story once told 1 tree
a personal incident, 'which illustrates . betl
this difficulty. ! yea
He was employed by Congress to j
draft an act. So important was it that ! tj .
he spent six months in trying to perfect J
its phraseology. His purpose was to j r*'.
make the statute so clear that the most i .P.
i v,? f/x | ma'
asiuie lawyer auuuiu uui< ,
the shaddw of a doubt upon its meani??.
|,n?
The draft, proving satisfactory to the i *
lawyers in Congress, became a law fn I P^1"'
less than a year, a suit, involving the in- P':l1
terpretation of this very law, came be- WR3
fore the court over which Judge Story tftX
presided. Having heardthe arguments tr<-f
of the able attorneys, the judge confessed ra?'
that he was unable to decide upon the T
meaning of a statute which he himself cepi
had framed. in
He, of course, knew what fie had rem
meant to put into the law. But the tun
criticisms of the two lawyers showed eve;
him that he had used such aqabiguous fifte
expressions that it was doubtful if he T
had said what he meant to have said. his
? thei
Want of Courage. hea
A great deal of talent is lost to the
world for the want of courage. Every
day sends to the grave a number of
obscure men, who have only remained pj
in obscurity because their timidity has ~g
prevented their first effort, and who, if ^2
they could have been induced to begin, wj1(
would, in all probability, have gone tjtj(
great lengths in the career of fame. The ^ _
fact is, in order to do anything in this Qr ,
world that is worth doing we must not wjj(
stand shivering on the brink, and think ^qq
of the cold arid danger, but jump in and **.
scramble as wc can. It will not do to *jti
be perpetually calculating risks and adjusting
nice chances. It did very well &
before the flood when a man could con- ?ee
suit his friends upon a publication for ?t.
one hundred and fifty v'ars, and then "ie
live to s ?e its success for six or seven ?aP
centuries afterward, but at present a not
man waits, and doubts, and hesitates, ~~ft
and consults his brother and his uncle
and his particular friends, till one day c'a.s
he finds that he is sixty years of age: orl
that he lias lost so much time in con* ft
suiting first cousins and particular > ven
friends that he lias no time left to follow con
their advice. There is no time forover- cou
squeamishness at present, the oppor- shi]
I unity so easily slips away, the very Ws
period of his life at which man chooses boj
to venture, if ever, is so confined, that tioi
it is no had rule to preach up the neces- squ
sit>, in such instances, of a little vio- pap
lence to feelings and to efforts made in plo
defiance lo slriet and sober calculation, des
?Sydney Smith. lisli
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tho
It used to be said of the Rev. l)r. A. tlie
P. Peabody, that he was so absent- S
minded he would go to a party, get in- ize<
terested in conversation, tie his legs up a tl
in a silk handkerchief, and when he j Th
started to leave his seat he would full ! the
upon his face, bavins forgotten to untie Tin
the handkerchief. Upon one remarka* clo
bie occasion lie is said to have broken w&
up a sewing-eire'e by calmly and un- sue
consciously stuiling two-thirds o f the arr
white skirt of a young lady's dress into wh
his coat pocket, under the impression am
that it was liia own pocket handker- wa,
cliief. of t
Winter.
cold winds from the northward rear
ho quivering snow-flakes thickly la?nd
cover with a velvet pall
rusaet sward ol mead and moor
1 standing at bis cottage door,
he laborer thinks of labor scant,
nd sees the haggard hand oi warn
ow shadows on his chamber floor.
i children shont for joy, and cry
A merry Christmas!" as they seo
be whitened cloak of bnsh and trety * ' >
1 the 8ott leathers in the sky.
? lrnrtw Yir?f whtr fhn 1 ntVinr'a orn
j i
sad and heavy through the storm;
hey only know the lire is warm,
1 that the stating time Ls nigh.
I he to whom they look lor bread
i filled with many doabte and tears,
or in the howling wind he hears'
lays that must be idly led.
t little ones must still be ted,
A *"
hough work be scarce and winter long i
nd though the willing hands be strong,
y cannot thaw earth's irozon bed.
h
winter! winter! bright and gay
0 some, with what an ir?m grip > */x
hou boldest many a silent lip, j'*
t cannot words of gladness say!
n, while we leel thy brightness, may
Te leal lor those whose hearts are full
1 bitterness, that has no lull
winter days are gone away! >
?Harper'* Bjxm
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
'
faited States Senator Jones, the Ne x
la millionaire, is English. ,
l clock, pendulum -is bound to keep
fe if it Has to swing for it. ,
oth very light colored and very dark,* r~
tumes for street wear are in vogue.
. great deal of the medicine used noways
is vial stuff? Yonltert Statesman. ^
1.-^1 ...i. 4
. competing 11'IWJI UUl Y? lib oaja 4,
erously of another that "it stands , bout
arrival."
reat your servants with confidence * K
consideration, andjflo not suspect' Z"-<~
m of doing wrong. ' V
oys who are granted theutmoAt free- , *?. .A
a of the streets are like the sands of JM
?ttiey run out.?Gate. Oiiv.
he Sultan of Turkey has portions of
New York Scientific ^nicrica%trans- F H
d into Turkish for his reading.' .? gHH
/"hcri a man gtts the rheumatism in 9HH
knees he knows the beauty of a gate JjHflHB
bout hinge*.?-Mew Haven Register.*' H
he farm products of Illinois amount- p yjBBMm
in 1879 to $200,000,(MO. which is [< iXBH
ble the product of all the gold &&d tKm
er mines in the United States.
o not lena your paper and cheat the Ha
iter. People who ao not pay for the
ers they read have the hardest kind
imes trying to get to Waven.-BtiUer
Lumberman.
he mother should s?3L anexampleof
lg neatly and appropriately dressed.
will see no one during the day before
:>m sue suouia oesire 10 appear ?u j ,,
1? or to be so attractive.
crw ie it in fashionable weddings that
always have a-cata'ogqp of the
ie's wearing apparel, while we never
r of the groom having so much as a
t pair of socks??Syracuse Herald.
Without wholesome intervals of
usement, uninterrupted work beles
intolerable' There are and must
lifferences in the modes of enjoyment,
there is a common womanhood.11
[iss Payne, of St. Paul, became a sei
smoker. When two gentlemen
ed she hurriedly thrust a lighted
irette into her pocket, and was soon
ize, receiving burns that were almost $
ive in your drawing rooms; huve
ks, work, music, fire, all to make it
pleasantest place for the members of
family; a place for resf, comfort,
versation, with nothing too fine to
lpon.
he United States use more coffee
n any other nation, England more
and Spain more chocolate. We also
more suear than any other country
fully half of all the Malaga raisins
ivn and dried.
Te suspectthat there are men in New
k who would willingly give ?100,fora
seat in the New York stock
hange, who rarely give a cent toward
iringone in the heavenly kingdom.?
oklyn Union-Argus.
oshua Woodbury made eeord in the
r 1781 that he had just sot out two
le trees "for posterity's sake." The *
s still stand on a farm at Cape Eliza1,
Cumberland county, Me., and this
r bore two barrels of good apples.
he total production of honey :.in the
ted States has for years past aver1
about fifty million pounds annually.
L879 the supply is estimated at half
t quantity, owing to a failure of the
[) in California and a partial failure
ither States. ,
rifirrollc QfiVQ FiVPfV
UC XUHivrio ?. . - -w
3011 in the State of New York who
its shade tree3 along the public liighj
is entitled to an abatement- of hi*
at the rate of twenty-five cenls poi
!. We believe this fact is not geney
known."
he Dub? of Rutland recently acted
notices to quit their farms sent
by fifteen of his tenants, and when
t day came, directed his agent to roi
the whole of the year's rent to
ry one ot his tenants cxcept the
en who had given notice.
he*proprietor who nuts onions on
bill-of-fare in French, and then s^nds
tn to the table in sections with the .?
rt punched out, and covered with an
^ant orown oaiwr wiuui mane.-' uh-ui
It like half-grown crullers, perpetrates S
ruel fraud upon the evening young
11 who is going out to see his girl.?
el Gazelle.
pain has 92 dukes, 866 marquises,
counts, 93 viscounts, 98 barons. The
Die number of persons bearing the
es of duke, marquis, earl, viscount.
on and lord in the United Kingdom
Great Britain and Ireland is someere
about 900. but of these only some
have seats in the house of lords.
st of the rest bear merely courtesy
;s.
.nother secret printing oflicc has
n discovered by the Russian police in
fli\a tfmn in mw? of
rctensiiuijt, aim wu tuuv ... .....
mcst fashionable quarters of the
ital. When the police entorcil the
ise they found about twenty persons
mong them three women?some of
om are supposed to belong to the best
sses of society, engaged in printing a
>idden ])amphlet. *
Ir. Anseli Warren, of St. Louis, is a
ierable printer who is recorded as a
lpanion of Mr Greeley while the
ntry lad was serving his apprenticep
at the case in J'oultney. Vt. Mr.
irren says that Mr. Greeley's first
-i. _ ??f wmfi'nff frvr nil Mlfiil
1311 IIIWUJPI, ill <v. ,
i was made apropos of a monsterash
which was sent into the newsier
oflice. Several of the men emyed
in the oflice undertook to write
criptions of it, the best one to he publed.
The young Greeley was among
competitors, but his item was not
ught to be successful, and went into
waste-basket.?Tribune.
ix boys at Hennepin, Iowa, organ:i
as bandits, on a plap suggested by
irilling novel which they nad read,
ey could not find a natural cave, and
refore dug one in the side of a hill,
eir tirst exploit was to rob all the
thes-lines in the neighborhood on a
ah day night. Great excitement e:.d,
and several innocent tramps were
ested; but the mystery was explained
en, on the following night, the young
ateur thieves stole a horse and
pon, and were caught taking a load
he clothes to the nearest city.