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! . ^??? ? ? **. . ABBEVILLE PRESS & BANNER.! f > t - :'M I = 'I ^ BY HUGH WILSON AND H. T. WABDLAW. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1881. NO. 34. VOLUME XXV. r | v A Winter Klinpsody. FroiQ the irozen noiih comos flying forth The car oi the king ot storm; And the yel'ow sun looks paleand wan At the sight ot bi9 gloomy torm; From the snow-fll'od cloud he hath cast shroud On the last congealing ground, And his halelul gliwn on the ba'-bling strea f Hath stille.l its murmuring sound. ? Hark! hear his cry, as he iushes by, In the voice of the angry breeze; L.' T.-q hi'a Krf>Q?)i Tfitn thn Klaat HlMfV) That shritks in the leafless tree; With a hollow moan, like a demon's groan, It flies o'er the sleep-: usbed town; Then lashes the main till its waves again Are topped with a foamy crown. The queen ol night, with her silver light, Looks down from her throne on high; But her beams fall slow to our realm ol sno\ And freeze in the crystal sky; The bjilliant stars h?ve burst their bars, Ana npproacn mo ptirin iu greti, But they fade and Y~e. their white ray quiver, At a world in a winding-sheet. 1"i9 nature's niyht, and the wearied sight That sees but a waste of gloom, With gladlier geze when witbquickening ray Spring's Bnn shall the earth untomb; When the noise ol tho lain on the frozei plaiu b . Shall alarm the sleepin',' flowere, f j And they bur^t Irom their grave, in lh< breeze to wave, j And langh in the April showera. Like the winter's ingeis the pilgrimage 01 man on the shorts ol time, For his anxious sight sees naught but nigl.t "* In this dim probation clime; But beyond the tomb, in tho world to covno With the prize of his liie-toil won, n? u : i.? _:n ~ rt uviv iio e?u fjuinj; ne win ici^u as ku>j In the light of a quenchless sun. ?Frank J. Otiarscm. MOASICK'S PRE-EMPTION. "Well,no. She's not, exac'ly mine, nor yet my wife's; but we claim her ail the same." These remarks rcfeTed to a remarkably fine, not to say formidable-looking young woman, who had just reined a high mettled young horse out of the home gate into the townward lane. "Take the kinls out of him," said the old man, f\s lie closed the gale behind the cavorting steed. To which remark the fair horsewoman made reply by flinging kisses from her whip hand, andjdashing away into a cloud of dust. " ies, ne sail, in response 10 my further question, "she's my gal; but she's not my da'ter, nor she ain't my wife's da'ter. " Brother's ?" "No. No relation to either of us by blood." " WaifP" " I dunno much what a waif rightly is 1 call hei a pore nation." "I)o you mean a pre-emption ?" I asked, gently. " Well, no m?tter if yc call it a perflation er a pree-c-mtion," he answered n clictlp ireli'v " Wh.it T mprm in that. I took her up as n wild claim on the unsurvevcd lands of the U. S." "Vv'eii." and I laughed a little as I answered, "that's another way cl getting children." " Party pood way, though, if ye hap* rtn to get the kind that suits ye a? well as thnt'n suits me." " Seems to bo a fine horsewoman," I paid, haif musingly, as we were appro:K hing the entrance to tne house. " 8:ep in," he said; " the door'scpen, and that shows ye the old woman's not to heme; and the way she'll raise Cain, and lectur' on flics whtn she does come home will be music in this camp, you bet you!' and the man chuckled inwardly until he developed a touch of asthma that set him coughiifg in a way that was more comical than serio is. "Now," said he, when he had recov red. " let's go out to the barn and 3( c the mils. There is where I can talk best. Though I ain't a fust-class talker notiirf, I can get on better when I'm _ J --U ! C srein^ :i gouu, ucauuy con rescuing ior his biy." ' I reckon, row," he said, alter bavin? fliown me his horses seriatim,' you're thinking I'd crt to teli you how I percrnted the gai that went out the gate on the jumping brown colt. WelJ, sit down here, and I will teil ye; but fust I w?nt to say a word about that colt she's a-riding. Now. ye might think, seeing a woman cn him, that he's a picnic horse, and that all his cavorting is only frills and passear doings, but I tell ye he means it. He's a son of a gun on hoots. I call him Quien Sabe, because I don't know hi3 pedigree. He had just as good a chance to be a Belmont as to be a Pntchen.on the side of the sire, and which it is no one knows. His ram was Abdallah and Medoc. and that kind of a mix, 3e know, makes power and ambition til i ye can't rest. He looks and actj like a Patchen, but goes like a Belmont. Lainey, that's my gal's name, says he's the strongest, inginrubberest, lon2-bottomest hoss she ever had under her. And she's a judce. She's naterrailya judge as well as by experience. But I, for my part. I wouldn't throw a leg over Quien Sabe?not once ? for the price of him, and I refused a thousand for him when he was a twoyear old. He's rising five now, and Lainey's been riding him off and on for two years." "Where did Miss Lainey, or, that is to sav. Miss?Miss"? " Wood3-Lainey Woods, that's her name. My name is Moasick. Elden Moasick." "Ah! yes. Where, I would ask, did Miss Woods find a field for the development ' f her peculiar talent ?" ' That's what I'm going to tell ye," said Mr. Moasick; then, booking very seriously. yet somewnat comically, at me, be shook his finger and added: ' But don't ye ever fall into the idee that Lainey don't know much above or below a saddle. If ye ever should hill into tbat idee and happen to be a-conversing with her r.t tbe time, she'll take the starch o^to' ye mighty quick?and ye won't be the fust young feilow that's "pone up the flume that way." And here the venerable Mr. Moa3ick had a very eiight attack of risible asthma. When he recovered he said: 4 The way I peremted ; Lainey was this. 1 was in California when the Reese River mining excitement broke out n Nevada in 1862, and. wasn't t^oing mucti good. I bought a cheap little Mexican jackass, packed my blanket3 grub, tools, and cooking outfit upon bis back, took the road behind his tail and went afoot into the Nevada mountains, away east of Reese River, determined to find a silver mine, i had a little money on hand and a little more a-coming to me from good men, when 1 started. I sunk it all in two years ant * worked hard, but found nothing in th< mining way wuth talking: about. Jr the summer of '64 I hear ;;of the drouth in California, and of how cattle anc bosses were djing there of hunger while where I was there was an] amount of good hos3 grass. Nowismj chance, I thought. I'm losing bij money not having stock to eat this grass I took my jackass and started fo Eastern Nevada od foot along the over land 6tage-road for California, calculat <: to Jetcb hosses on the snares t Nevada. Besides my jaefcass, I had als a dog- a dog that peremted me? mixed dog?a kind of St. Bernard an shepherd dog?and he was a might wise dog. " On the stage-road them days thei was no houset?r.D houses anywhei i near it?only the stables and 'ostlers | quHriers at stations fifteen to twent5 ' miles apart. At these stations weren't no women or families?just men, and j mighty hard citizens most of them men ! 77.is. There being no place to stop at ot a J' x>i away time on, I kept right ahead, (day after day, with my pereession. , Tiiere was fust the jack, then mc. then _ 1 the dog. one bf hind tbe other, all as " j joifisn as could be. I wasn't feeling no way3 cheerful myself, but by the looks ' of tliirics when my face wasn't too thick with dust. I was the cheerfule.-t of the : !ot. If the jack wasn't soiemn his looks I beiied him, and as for that do?, Nep, i heing a black dog, with a down tail, 1 ! think he wt-.s the most serious critter I j ever did see. He seemed mostly to be ! on the point of going to sleep, but he I wasn't half as sleepy as he was sleepy j looking. There wps mighty little carrying on day or night wiih;n a halt mile ! ot him that he didn't sahe. And the j fondest dog he was of little children that * 1 ever I saw. " Well, I used to make, with my solI emn iittie percession, twenty to thirty 1 miles a day, and, as I had about eight s hundred miles to go. ve see, including i delr.ys, I was in for a month's steady j tramping. Some days I would travel i for hours with one or another of the ! west-bound emigrant wagons or trains, a', they came creeping along toward the a 1 end of the hard jourr.cy across the con ": tirunf, foot-sorc, weary, dustv, and i dcJaridated. These "trains Led cliii5 j dron with 'em of all ages, and when my i deg got in among them children he was ! happy. He waked right up, raised his ; i drooping tail, and was a new dog. But I * i never camped at night with any of these i 1 rains on account oi my jack being liable ; to make"mischief among the emigrant | stock, and so I g'n'ely waited only long 1 enough at the common camping places j to let my animals drink and to fill my ; water keg with fresh water, and* then I'd pass on a mile or two or more and , j go a little off the road to good grass and some kind of shelter, if any shelter was r; to be had. In such a place I would ': unload Canary (that was the jack's I name) strio him of his saddle, give him ! a piece of biscuit, scratch his^ head a I | littie, tell him how handsome he was, j and let him go to grass. I always found | bim in sight, sound asleep in themorn! ing. After letting Canary go I would ' ather a few sticks or dry weeds, make ! my little lire, cook my little supper eat : it, give Nep a bite, roli out my blankets ! on the ground, lie down and sleep I soundly till after daylight. Nep mo3tly j laid down alongside of me on the edge 1 on my blankets, and though ho often I growled in the night, I never paid I much attention to him unless he got to j be extra ferocious; because, while I I knew the plains were prowled over ! every night by coyotes, just as well as j Nep knew it, it didn't need to affect me J as it did hiih. I wasn't afraid of no j coyote. "One night, howsomever, after I had ' made a very long and mighty tedious I day's tramp, I thought the dog was mighty onsettled about something; but niter rousing up a couple of times and finding nothing, I laid down and fell into a very heavj sleep, from which I did not awake until near sunrise. 1 don't suppose I should have awoke when I did, only that I thought I heard a child's voice saying: " ' Oo inus' not make suchja big noise i wiz oo nose!' "Well, sir, I opened my eyes, and j there, stancirg beside my face, was a four-year-old girl, holding Nep by the ear with one hand, and shaking the foretinker of the other hand at me, repeating* " ' No; oo mus' not make such a big I | noise.' 44 J. was not, and never Had been nm! ried, up to that time, and didn't know I much about children, but I began right there to feel like a father. I took the little blur:-eyed, rcd-cheeked, whitehaired plumpness, and sitting her upon ! my breast, I was just going to commence | talking to her, when she said, pointing: 44 4 Look at oo dog.' 44 And, sure enough, there was that | fool doc just a-tearing around camp, | a-walloping his tail on the ground, and I every now and again jumping high over I me an i the young one, as he had plumb lost his natteral senses. He was the ! gladdest dog I ever see." f 44 4 Now,' I said to the young lady, 4 what is your name?' j 44,Lainey.' I 44 4 Where do you live?' "4 In ow wagon.' 4 4 4 Where does your mamma live?' 44 4 Oh, my other mamma, she's dead! j the bad Ingius killed her. Now me's I got anuther "mamma.' 4 4 4 Where does the new mamma live?' j 4 4 4 In ow wagon.' ! 44 Where is the wagon ?' j 4* Down there,' pointing lor ward, i 44 4 Down where ?' said I, rising with l the child in my arms. 4 4 4 Down there,'pointing again, i 44 4 Oh, no. there isn't any wagon down j there. That's away off the road.' I 44 4 No, oo ask 'e dog. He knows!' 441 looked inquiringly at Nep, but he ] had fallen into his old, solemn, sleepy I lookd again. 44 4 Where did you sleep last night?' 4<40oknow. I sleeps wiz oo and'e j dog.' 4* I held the child in my arms, and ! looked all about the sage covered plain, | and up and down the lonesome, desolate dust line of road, but I could see no I sign of camp-smoke, nor any object ini dicating civilization. 44 4 How far did you walk, to come here?' 44Oh! such a long, long way?me and 'c dog. I so tired I go to sleep, and 'e dog tiss me in 'e lace and wake me up; then?then?we walk a long way, some more, and come tiere to sleep wiz oo.' 44 4 Well, now, Miss Lainey, you set right down here on the blankets, along side of the dog, until I get us some break fast, and I put tbe child out of my arms. " 'Mevewy hungwy.' "'Ail tight! We'll soon have some breakfast. Which do you like, Miss Lainey, tea or coffee?' "' Toffee, and heaps of sueaw.' "'And so, chattering along to the I child, I fussed around until I got our I little breakfast ready in the midst of the j wilderness. " Sbe was a vrry hearty young lady, ! and did justice to my rough efforts to please her palate, and after breakfast 1 she insisted on a Urge pan of hot water to ' was? 'e disses,' but as I could not afford that luxury in the midst of perpetual drought, we compromised tue matter by my agreeing to let her ride c n top of tbe pack-animal's pack. Tbis arrangement delighted her no little for a while, and 1 aiso suited me first-rate, until she got Into the idee of standing up like a ciri cus rider. She never bad much sense ; of fear. I arguea, and even scolded 1 against this circus business, but it was ' no use, and finally I gave her a ropp's end in each hand, which suited her mighty tine, until bhe got too sleepy and > lau; down on top of tbe pack and Ml i fast asleep, while I walked beside the ' ! pack to see that she didn't fall off. J "I didn't reckon that we should go t j far without hearing inquiries for a iost I child, yet, as I passed emigrant wagons, J I and was passed by otber emigrant 1 ' wagons, tbey had none of them lost a > j child or heard of a child being lost. 1 | " My little percession wasn't quite so > , Bolmen after we got Lainey, cause the J I doe, instid of walking behind with his J j tail drooped, now marched in front, ? i with tail and bead up; and Canary, cal j culating to keep up with the dog, stepr | ped a heap more lively than he did - | before, and ye hee-bawed splendidly, i-1 And now if ye think that when Lainey o | was standing up on top of Canary's p?ck o ; that we wasn't some circus, ye'r mistaa ken. d I "I don't know what the emigrants y j and stage-drivers took me for?whether I they thought I was a Mormon running e ' away from too much wife, or a wid'e derer in distress, or a man what had ' ki.lcd a family in order to steal a calt baby and a jackass and black dog?but ; I took myspif for a man with a powerI ful responsibility on his hands, i "The fust two or three days I was ' aw.ul feared I wouldn't find any one to , take Lainey off my nands. Theu, by , jing, I began to dread meeting or finding any one who would take her. And at last, to tell ye the truth, I left tne ' I regular stage-roa:I and sneaked oil over the Sierra into California by an old abandoned route. 4 I got some changes of clothes for Lainey here and there from emigrant women, piece at a time, and by the time I got down into the coast counties? 4 cow counties' some calls 'em-I was might handy in taking care of that young lady "I got "down to my stopping place well on into November, turned my jack out on a ranch, rented a little cabin in a little town?not such a very little town ?and went to keeping house and attending to my hoss speculation. I hired un old Mexican woman to look after Lainey when I wasn't at home. "At last it came Christmas day and I had Lainey by the hand, going up street as big as could he, to" fill her stocking, when we meets a lady, and down crops that lady on her knees on the bo-rd-walk right in front ol us, and, reaching out her arms, she said : " 4 Lninev Woods! Lainey Woods! Thank Gnd, I have found ycu at last!' " And tli.tt lady took my baby into her arms and hr>,"RT! kissing her. " Well, it cut me so to the qcick that I started away without saying one word, and would have left, but the little one wouldn't stand no such nonsense, and came a-crying and tearing after me, draeeing the woman by the hand. "'lie's my papa?my new papa. I , won't stay wiznobody but him.' " Well, you see, to shorten a long story, the lady and me talked it all over?how she was Lainey's mother's friend?how the Indians had killed Lainey's mother, and how disease and grief had killed the father?how disease had prostrated the friend? how Lainey had wandered off in Uie desert in the night?how part of Lainey's father's property.consisting mostly of fine brood mares, was left over in Nevada, temporarily in charge of the Overland stage company?in fact, how all this busimss and this child and this friend needed a man to look after 'em. So it came about, one way with another, that I mariied the lady, fathered the child and eot into the hoss business. " Which being just about what I wanted to do, makes me free to say that my wild peremtion in the desert wa3 a prettv lucky lay out." ji V r J J V T ~ it'9, iiiuix'u, vav luutky, x suiu. ^ "But now, after all, don't it seem to ^ you as if the black dog went off in the j night and stole that younz 'un?" Here t the venerable Moasick had a slight asthmatic paroxysm, and as we walked t toward the gate out of which Quien r Sabc and his rider had made their pictur- g esque departure, he finally succeeded in j sayine: r "Wall! That brown colt's yours for t just what I told you. Say the word c and I'll hold him lor you for mos1 any t reasonable length of time I said the word, and I'll put up the J money, but I'm not going to be in any l hurry about taking ''that brown colt" c away from the scenes of his childhood. ; If I were amarriea man it might he ,, different?but Ive sot my eye on _ Monsick's Pre-emption. Sibel?Spirit a 0/ the Times. g Getting Married in Germany. This time I was bound to make sure \ work, and so, with the best information t I could procure, started oft' for the civil p bureau (Standes Amt) to ascertain pre- n cisely what was required. 1, Upon what business do you come?" t demanded the pompous servant at the t door. g " I am an American citizon, and want t to know how to get married in Ger- t many," I faltered. E He opened the door of the main office, f( and shouted, " Ein Herr Amerikanner e wishes to marry himself!" and then E showed me into a lare) and well-611ed b waitine-room to take my turn, r every occupant of which gazed-fixedly at me without winking for some min- c utes. One thin, dark, wiry man in s soiled linen ar.c! bright yellow Kid gloves a had d'oppcd in to announce the death o of hi.-; third wife. A trembling young J] mother was sharply reprimanded for {] letting the legal third day pa*3 before announcing the death of her child. A somewhat seedy clerk had come, with a s radiant fane, to announce the birth of a p boy fourteen hours old, and to be called ? Johannes Conrade Herman Degener- j meister. A servant cirl and her lover p were waiting in one corner?she red and t giggling, he erect, dignified and laciturn j. as a hr ad-waiter?to be made man and r wife. I had plenty of time to observe, ? for nearly an hour passed before my turn g came. At length I was shown into a j lone room, with half a dozen clorks at t one end, who twisteu their necks, p.d- y justed their glasses, and gazed and lis- t tened with open-mouthed wonder4 I wish to get married in the very simplest and quickest way," I said, pre- c senting my passport. " Will you please ^ tell me how to do it?" ^ " >t is extremely simple," said the : officer. " We must have a certificate of your birth [Geburtsschein] signed by the . burgomaster, of the town in which" you were born, and wiih his seal, and wit- : nessed in due form. Your certificate of baptism [Taufsshein), shoui! also be f. sent, to guard pgainst all er or, sealed 1 and witnessed by the present pastor or the proper church officers. These must I be presented here by each of the con- 1 trading parties, with their passports, as f lio first. sf*?r> ] I carefully noted this, and he proceed- i ed: ' "The parents, if living, should cer- ' tify to their knowledge and approval of 1 the marriage. Wo must also be satis- * fiid that there is no obstacle, legal, { moral or otherwise, to it: whether ' either of you have been married before, s and if so, whether there are children, t and if so their names and ages. The parents1 names should be in full; also j their residence, occupation, age and t place of birth should of course be given { lor record here." j i oeggea ior anouier scrap 01 paper ( and made further notes. i "When we have these here in this j desk," Le continued, patting fondly that < piece of furniture, "ttien either i wc can publish the bans (Aufgebot) by 1 posting a notice of your intention in the Rdthhaus for fourteen days, or else you can have it printed in tlie journal of the place where you reside 5" America, and \ bring us a copy here as evidence that it . has actually appeared. After the ex , piration of this time you can be married in this ollice 11 ( " Must it be here?" I queried. "Of course," he said. "This is the only place wtiich the law now receg- ; nizes. Poor people are content with civil marriages only, but all who move in good society go Irom here to the church for a religious ceremony.'' " Is it not possible to shorten the time?" I timidly ventured to inquire. "We had made all the arrangements for an earlier day, and are seriously incommoded by the delay. I did not know the requirements. It takes four weeks to hear from America, and then two weeks more here, and? You do not, perhaps, exactly understand, and yet I hardly know how to explain. But there is really haste. We are pressed for time." "HasteP Pressed for time?" be repeated. " Perhaps I do not understand. I am sorry, but it cannot possible be sooner. You think we are slow in Germany. True. duv. we arc sure. We rei quire our people to take time to think ' over the matter beforehand, and divorce : with us is far from being the easy mat ter I have heard it is in America."? 1 Atlantic Monthly. FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. Acorns for Animals. t In Saxony and some other Darts of Germany, according to the London Agricultural Qazetle,considerable store is . set on oak " mast" as a winter food for . sheep, and where other food falls short * the ac:?rn crop is looked forward to J with no small degree of anxiety. In iUA XT.X tt~ .? **:,i LIIU juew xuitrsb 111 niiuipaiiut', ILI itxiu- Q dlosex and Hertfordshire, large quantities of "mast" are now being gath- * ered in. In the former count whole herds of pies are turned loose to forage , for themselves at this season of the year, j and receive but little of any other kind of food. Although tolerant of acorns ? far aboAe that of leasts and sheep, the ? practice of allowing pigs an unlimited ^ amount of unprepared "mast" is not to be commended. If given in large 1 quantities for long periods swine be- j come surfeited, and altogether indiffer- * ent to them, while at the same time they r1 lose rather than gain fleBh, and where ? pushed too far the system becomes dis- P ordered, the lymphatic glands enlarge, * and the balance of health is upset. ? Moreover, used in excess, the meat ia " rendered hard, stringy and lumpy, and loses its brightness, succulence and ? flavor.?Rural New Yorker. Poor Stock. *1 Many a farmer is kept poor by keep- Q ing too much stock. He would be ? r>KAOnflt?Atln if flirt ois-t/ilr trro n r\f fl^fi ? ! rthf I'l UU3 11 lliC ?T;W \Jl IUC li^Uii kind. It dees not pay to keep cows ig through i lie winter that are dry q pretty much all the time. It does not j, pay to keep over a lot o 1 lean and frac- j tious steers in the expectation that they r( will make good working cattle by a waiting iong enough. Ail such ani- ^ mals should be sold to those who have 0 more lood in store than their present- ^ poor owners. A miserable and melan- al iholy lot of no-breed sheep constitutes n no more desirable property either, g rheir fleeces are not worth waiting for, jt md their mutton is called such only 0] ay courtesy. They are of no use to a :armer but to help keep him poor. Good stock, superior stock, pays for 0j tself all the time. A herd of cows is ^ veil worth wintering that will pay in vj nilk and butter many times more than a, ,he cost of their keep. No other kind ?j jught, therefore, to be allowed on a ^ arm. No business man ever expects to w nake headway against competition by jolding a stock of goods that is of in- w erior value and out of fashion; and a -pt armer ought to observe the same rule, w ind carry on his hands no stock Lhat is ^ lot of the very sort to give him a good ^ ooting in the produce market. Ho never n :an get good milk, good buiter or goud I gj jeef from poor runts of creating whose I ixistence comes under the head of accilent rather than design. Superior stock s the only kind an enterprising and brifty farmer can afford to keep. 0I When cows show beyond a question hat they cannot give milk enough nor ec nilk good enough to pay for ttieii* 01 upport and yield a liberal profit besides, rj f. is time they were disposed of on al- p nost any terms that will clear them of! he farm. It is the same with all ^ features that are an incumbrance on n he farm instead of a profit; let them be >ut off without delay, and let the so- ^ sailed sentiment in the case be eradicated n >y healthier considerations of what fa :onetitutes thrifty and proritable farmng. If it were really made so, we tj. hould soon see an end of dawdling, outine, traditional, and listless farming, ^ .nd the infusion of a vigorous element ^ uch as moves the world of business and p] :arries life and activity into every { , lepartment. jr There are, of course^many ways in tl vhicn a farmer canjHB the sources of 9I lis unprosperou^MBition; but the p iractice of keerfpHpPhand, sumnrr 0j ^d winter, a lo?S?ractically worthess cattle?for afWmnle are worthless p, hat arc not profitable?is the moth and d< he canker that is surely eating out his e{1 ubstance. It is simply a question of d< ime tiow soon ne wm succumo. ior co m >e acknowledged hopelessly poor is sub- w aission. We repeat, no farmer can af- s< arcl to keep inferior cattle; a rich man jyj aay afford it, and charge his indebted- jr lesa to whim or delusive benevolence; a mt the farmer who has his jiving to p, Qiike off his farm cannot afford it, noi jn tidced can he afford to keep any kind of a attle but the bvst. He owes it to him- ai elf to clean out everything that is trash Xi nd worthless, and begin and build up hi n a sound basis. The more poor stock so le keeps, the poorer he is in consequence (g limselfMassachusetts Ploughman. b: A Cheap Corn Shelter. An exchange says that a handy corn m heller may be made from a piece of ut ilank two leet long, two inches thick ki ,nd ten inches wide. Drive eightpennv ct lails pretty thickly into the central at iortion, just so that they will not come st brough. and tor a distance of ten or w welve inches along the surface of the ri ilank. A small strip should be tacked m .cross the upper end and on the under a ide to hold on to the top of a box when te n use. The corn is shelled by rubbing w he ears upon the heads of the nails, the fe >oard resting in a slanting position in of he box. vi Keclpca. jn Stahch Podding.-Four teacupfuls 0, if milk, one tcacupful of starch, two b; ablespoonfuls of sug*vr, one egg; flavor i0 vith lemon. To be eaten cold, with b< elly, sugar and cream. d( Muffins.?One pint of sweet milk, hi wo eges, one tablespoonful of sugar, ni >ne tablespoonful of butter, one half sc up of home-made yeast, flour to make w i stiff batter; let stand over night; bake ci n rings. w Tr A UnTTC _Wolf a nnlro of mm. W jressed yeast in three half-pintB of luke- ^ varm water; add a quart of sifted lourj, and mix well to a tbick batter. ^et it stand six or seven hours in a r* noderately warm place till well risen. rhen add two eggs, an ounce of butter, s,' our ounces of sugar, and a tablespoon- J11 ill of salt; add flour (about a pint) 111 md work well with the hanis till it is i soft dough. Make into rolls; put them w n the pans they are to be baktd in, and lot near the stove to rise; as soon as ,r ;hey rise, bake in atjuick oven. Sweet Potato Pudding.?Boil one jound of sweet potatoes very tender. je md press them, while hot, turougn a rrater?the finer the better. To this ^ idd half a dozen eges, well beaten, threejunrters of a pound of butter, some j rrated nutmeg and lemon-rind, and a ;lass of old brandy. Put a paste in the ; aish, and when the pudding is done sprinkle with wLite sugar, finely pul- . prized. ft Nutrlcine. b Attention has been called by M. Moride 0 [o a new kind ot food to which the nane k "nutricine" has been given. Itspreparition is thus described: Raw meat, from n which bones and tendons have been S carefully excised, is passed into suitable n machines along with nitrogenized ali- ti mcntary substances, such as bread, to i< absorb the water of the meat, and tl possibly to form new combinations with a it. After the mass thus prepared is r dried in a stove under a mild hent, it is t pulverized and sifted. A powder of an t agreeable taste, and varying from yeilow k to <:ray in color, is the result. When n albumen, fats, or gummed water is 9 added to this powder, solid cakes or cubes may be made of it, a:id tbes?e solid I forms may be broken up, as occasion 8 may require, for soups or sauces. This p nutricine is admirably qualified to sus- l tain physical vigor, and h can be preserved lor an7 length of time if it is r kept from the deteriorating influence of a an atmosphere charged with moisture s and from the action of heal;. \ She had sued for breach of promise \ and the verdict of the jury was against i her. "Want to poll the jury?" she was I f asked. " Yes, I do. Jen' gimme the ! \ pole for two minutes," and she had j thrown off her bonnet before the legal < phrase could be explained by her coun- , sel. ( THE BYLNGTON BROTHERS. i Trade Romance of the War-A, True Story. Maior W. M. Robbins, formerly of ;he F- ur'.U Alabama regiment, con;ributes the following to the Philadel>hia Times, beginning with a ssetca of he siege ot Chattanooga: Several times the. Federal flags were ieen within fivo races of our line by the lashes ol our euns. Once the two lines ;ame into actual hand-to hand collision vith the bayonet at a place a ew steps to the right of where [stood. I never can forget the horrid :ommingling of yells, shouts, shrieks md imprecatio'ns which burst >ut for a few moments trom that spot vhere cold steei was doing its work, rhile balls came zipping down the line >y handfuls us well as from the front, n this crossing of bayonets several men in each side were slain, and among hese was Orderly Sergeant Byington, elonging to a company in the Fortyourth A labama, who fell with a baynet in his breast, having transfixed lis assailant in like manner. In this, as pell as every other attack so gallantly aade upon it that night, the Alabama rigade succeeded, by strenuous exerions, in holding its ground and lepelling ts adversaries. We should havtf been verwhelmed, I suppose, alter awhile, nd perhaps surrounded and captured y the superior forces opposed to us. lut after an hour or more of the kind f work I have described?during -i lull 1 the fighting?word came to us that enkins' attack had failed ot any "useful esnlt and that he had retired. Oar ction being merely subsidiary to his, re also were ordered to withdraw to ur camps, which was done without irther conflict or danger. Oar aasailnts must have suffered severely, but I ever learned how much. This night ght af infantry, fierce and persisteno as wa3, and at such close quarters, was ae of the most thrilling experiences of 1 le war. Early in November Longstreet's corps' F which we formed a part, left Chat- i tnooga with orders to advance on Knox- I ille and drive Burnside from that town 1 id out of East Tennessee. I mention 1 lis siege of Knoxville now merely for le purpose of giving a single incident hich occurred at it Upon the 1)ill on the western or southester n outskirts of the town stood ort Sanders, flanked by strong earthorks, forming part of the continuous ne of defenses around the place. Our >sieginff lines of pickets and rifle-pita ere pushed forward closer to (he defenvo works, fmm time to time, as found practicable. It so hapmed ^ttiat about the 20th of ovember, the writrr, commanding the ourth Als,bama regiment, was in charge : the picket line fronting the western ce of Fort Sfinders and the adjoining irthworks. During the night we were -dered to move our line up and dig fle-pits much in advance of our former 'Sition and within about three hundred irds oi the iort ana its nanmng worus. y daylight we uad a large number ot irie, squais holes dug waist deep in le ground (the best we could do with le time and tools we had) in a line inning parallel in the main to the ,ce of the Federal works, but, never- ; leless, curved' considerably forward at1' ie left and concealed in that part oy j lrubbery. These pits were occupied 7 the men of one battalion of the Fourth Inbama, while tbc other battalion was aced in reserve in a piece of woods a ttle distance to the rear. The ground l front of our new pits, especially on ui right of the line, was an open, nooth lawn, sloping upward (to the eaeral works) at a considerable anele "inclination. As soon as daylight revealed to the edera s our new line of rifle-pits, sud3nly we beheld springing over their irthworks and dashing impetuously )wn the slope toward us, a body of en about two hundred strong, whic'i e scon afterward found was the ?cord Michigan regiment, led by 1-ijor Byington, and sent to dislodge u? om our new position. I hurried up in 1 moment the reserve battalion of the c . ?ii, alu JUIIL1 .M-KIUUUJU IAJ lClUlUiUU LUC IXiUU I. the pits. And then ensued for j few minutes one of the fiercest t id deadliest combats of the war. bese two veteran regiments, both i wing come to the field at the first und of the tocsin, as their names show ccond Michigan and Fourth Ala.ma), thinned now by hard service d many battles to about two hundred en each, but every man of them terly fearless, splendidly daring and lowing all about war, grappled with .ch other as in a death-grip. If cour:e, such as makes an old soldier's hair nnd on end to think of, could have on against equal courage and :supeor position, the gallant Michigan en would have triumphed. But the labamians had the advantage of shelr in their pits, which, shallow as they ere, afforded much protection, I'; so 11 out, too. that the curve in this line ' pits on the left proved of great ser iUC IAJ UO, ll/L AO wui uooaiKtuvj vuui^vu i line parallel to, and square against, ir right, they were enfladed with terrilc cffect by the fire from our pits on the It, which, hidden by bushes, had not ?en noticed. This circumstance quickly ;cided the contest in our favor. Many iving fallen or been captured a remmt only got back to their works, me bearing on their shoulders ounded comrades. As it looked too uel to fire on these, tne Alabamaians ere ordered not to fire on any one who as carrying a wounded man, and the [ichigan men, hearing this order, irewdly availed themselves of its proction by shouldering wounded comides, so tbat several made good their icape by this means. But the grassy ope remained thickly strewn with the ead and wounded. Alas! for the high earts that were stilled there forever. Major Byinaton displayed a heroism orthy ot the leader of such men or of iy men. He came on, sword in hand, i front of bis line, exhorting them to >llow him to victory, and rushed to the ery brink of our rifle pits, where he ill desperately wounded within a few 1 :et of me. The fight being quickly J ver, I had him carried back to the little iCceof woods in our rear and made as 1 Dmfortable as possible till he could be 1 ?nt to the hospital. His leg was broken ! tid he was shot also in the side, but bad i! 3 these wounds were he seemed to 11 jffer but little pain. While lying there '' e inquired the name ol my regiment, nd on being informed, said quickly: "I 1 ave, or had lately, a brother in your ' ritadi??Orderly Sergeant Byington, ! f the Forty-fouith Alabama.'1 How he i1 new so well the brigade of his brother j nd the regiments composing it I did ' ot think to ask, and do not know, aid he: "My brother is a Northern J lan bv hirth, but went South some ; ime ago, and became a ' secesh,' and lie j now in your brigade," and he added tiat he would like much to see him, nd begged me to send for him. The eader may imagine how it pained me o have to tell him that his brother of he Forty-fourth Alabama had been ii led three weeks before in the fight ear Cliattunooga, under the circiimtances already related. If any surviving relatives of Major Jyington shall read this sketch I can ay for their consolation that every lossible kindness was shown that paiant, i'entl^man, and that he bore the louble pain of his wounds and sad beeavement with the fortitude of a brave oldier and Christian philosopher. He urvived but a few days, and when his vounds proved mortal and he was no i;ore, no heart mourned over him mere lincerely than that of the foemen who I net him in his last battle. Let me add, j ilso, that no better or braver soldier i ,han Sergeant Byington, of the Fourty'ouvih Alabama, ever served in the Confederate arn>y. Peace to the ashe3 j >f those 1770 noble brothers who fell on ' opposite sides. MULE YERSU8 BEES. X Terrific Encounter Graphically Described. I was visiting a gentleman who lived in the vicinity of Los Angeles. The morning was beautiful. The plash ol little cascades about the grounds, the buzz of bees, and the gentle moving ol the foliage of the pepper trees in th? scarcely perceptible ocean-breeze made up it picture which I thought was complete. It was not. A mule wandered f'Kfl onnMA Tho ortonA T I lf.1 tuv JL JUl; OUVUV) A LUUU^Uli couicl have got along without him. He took a different view. Of course mules were not allowed on the grounds. That is whf.t he knew. That was his reason for being there. I recognized him. Had met him. His lower lip hung down. He looted disgusted. It seemed he didn't like being a mule. A day or two"before, while I was trying to pick up a little child who had got too near this mule's heels, he kicked me two or three times before I could t?ll from which way I was hit. I might have avoided some of the kicking, but, in my confusion, I began' to kick at the mule. I didn't kick with him long. He outnumbered me. He browsed along on the choice shrubbery. I forgot the beauty of the morning. Remembered a biack and blue mark on my leg. It looked like the print of a mule's hoof. There was another on my right hip. Where my suspenders crossed were two more, as I i r _a tii. J _ 1 nave oeen miormeci. xuey were siaeDy side?twin blue spots, and seemed to be about the same age. I thought of revenge. I didn't want to kick with him any more. No. But thought,if I had him tied down good and fast, so he could not move his heels, how like sweet incense it would be to first saw his ear3 and tail 9mooth off, then put out his eyes with a rod-hot pcker, then skin him alive, then run him through a threshing machine. While I was thus thinking, and gelLing madder and madder, the mule, which had wandered up close to a beehive, got stung. His eyes lighted up, w if that was just what he was looking for. He turned on that bee-hive and took aim. He fired. In ten seconds the only piece of bee-hive I could see *as about the size a man feel3 when he ba* told a joke that falls on the company like a piece of sad news. This piece was in the air. It was being kicked :it. The bees swarmed. They jwarmed a good deal. They lit on the nule earnestly. After he had kicked ihe last, piece of bee-hive so high that tie couia reach it any more, he (topped for an l&tt&nt. He seemed trying to ai certain whether the 10,000 bees ?h Ich w ere atinglpg him meant it. They iid. The male turned lobWr I never . ? ? K!M/> flniinl H HYA won AH_ Jaw au,y turn*; tvs cvju.n n. ?ureloped in a dense fog ot earnestness and jees, and Riled with enthusiasm and itings. The more he Hcked, the higher le arose from the ground. I may have ieen mistaken, fori was somewhat exited and very much delighted, but the nute seemed to rise as high as the tops )f the pepper trees. The pepper trees vere twenty feet high. He would open ind shut himself like a frog swimming. Jometimes. when he was in mid-air, he vould look like he was flying, and I vould think for a moment he was about o become an angel. Only for a moment, rtiere are probably no mule angels* iVhen he had got up to the tops ol the >epperrtrees, I was called to breakfast. told them I didn't want any breakfast. The raule continued to be busy. tVhen a mule kicks himself clear of the larth, his heels seldom reach higher lian hia back; that is, a mule's fore egs can reach forward, and his bind egs backward, untii the mule becomes traightcncd out into a line of mule Mirallel witli the earth, and fifteen or wenty fret therefrom. This mule's iind lr^s, however, were not only aised into a line wilh his back, but they vould come over until the bottom of he hoo.r3 almost touched his ears. The mule proceeded a3 if he desired 0 hurr.7 through. I had no idea how nany bees a hive would hold until I saw hat bee-Live emptied on that mule. They covered him so completely that I lould not see any ot him but the glare >i' hi.'j eyes. I could see, from the ex>res!!iio:i of his eyes, tbat he didn't like | he way things were going. Th(3 inule stili went on in an absorbed rind of a *ray. Not onlj was every tree of the disurbed hive cn duty, but I think the lews b Eid been conveyed to neighboring lives that war had been declared. I :ould see bets flitting to and fro. The uule was covered so deep with bees hat he looked like an exaggerated mule. The hum of the bees, and their moving in each other, combined into a seething lias. A sweet caim aud gentle pracefulless pervaded me. When he had kicked or aa hour he began to fall short of the ops of the pepper trees. He was setling down closer to the earth. Numbers vere Jelling on him. He looked digressed. He bad always been used to ricking against something, but found iow that he was striking the air. It vas very exhausting. He fi:ial..y got so that he did not rise :learo! the ground, but continued to tick with both feet for half an hour, lext with first one foot and then the )ther for another half an hour, then with iis right foot only every lew minute3, he intervals growing longer and longer, intil he finally was still. His head Ironped, his lip hung lower and lower, rhe bees fitung on. He looked as if he ;boughttbat a mean, sneaking advance had been taken of him. 1 retired from the scene. Early the iext morning I returned. The sun came ilowly up from behind the eastern hills, rhe light; foliage of the pepper trees ;remb.'!ed with his morning caress. His joldet; kiss fell upon the opening roses. \ bee cculd be seen flying hither, another thither. The mule lav near the icene of yesterday's struggle. Peace jad come to him. He was dead. Too nuch kicking against nothing.?Lock Melonn, in January Californian. Petroleum for Harbor Defense. A correspondent in York, Pa., Mr. D. EL Naell, suggests the use of burning aetroleum for repelling hostile fleets p I ' ? 151-m 4-Visvasi rtf Rulf i *vi r?ro rum uturuura imc tuuou ui ^iuwuiuiv, Philadelphia and New York. A hunired thousand barrels of oil poured upon m out- flowing tide would cover a large irea of water, and when set on tire would sweep a fleet with ? torrent of destruction that nothing could resist, W hen a stream of burning oil ran down Llie Alleeheny river, a year or two ago, the flames sometimes leaped up 100 feet, and threw out lateral tongues of lire terrible 1.0 see. Sach flames around an iron-clad fleet would asphyxiate all on board. Another plan would be to link together long lines or rafts of oil barrels, and si:nd them against the fleet by small, 3wift steam launches that could be steered by electricity from the shore. The barrels could be exploded and the oil tired by the eame agency at the proper moment; and, if necessary, line after Jine of the fire rafts could be drilted or driven aeainst the enemy until every vessel was destroyed. Such an application of flouting fire might also be used to protect a system of torpedoes in a ship channel, by making it impossible to operate any counter system for exploding or removing the torpedoes by men iri small boats. Obviously this plan would not do to rely upon generally; though in certain emergencies it might be resorted to with terrible ellect.?Scientific American. Tha Menagerie. "So ycu enjoyed your visit to the menagerie, did you P" inquired young Sillabub ot his adored one's little sister. "Oil. yes! And, do you know, wo saw a camel there that, screwed his mouth and eyes r"~vy.i 1 awfally, and sister said it locked exactly as you do when you are reciting poetry nt the church sociables." The Frlnting of ltallroad Tickets, There are few Industries of such raag nitude of which bo little is known as the manufacture of these insignificant-lookI inc paste-boards which you pay so ! roundly for before taking a ride in a rail* 1 f road train or on a steamboat. In point i of extent t' e business is not much now f below that of the printing of the cur i rcnfir r\{ f-ho ronlm nr f.hf> Tvrr?Hiir?Hr>n r>f Tricks of Jockeys. A writer lor Harper'* Weekly has been having a talk witu Mr. Bishop, a well known horse dealer in New York city, and the following is a part of what the dealer told him: " 'Tricks ?' There isn' tany end of them' If you want to buy a horse, don't believe your own brother. Take no man's word for it. Your cyp is your market. Don't buy a horse in harness. Unhitch him und take everything off but the halter, rod lead him around. If he has a corn, or is stiff, or has any other failing, you ?an see it. Let him go by himself a little ways, and if he staves right into inythincr you may know he's stone ^lind. No matter how clear and bright lis eyes are, he can't see any more than i bat. Back him up, too. Some horses >how their weakness or tricks that way tvhen tlioy don't in any other. " But be as smart ns you can, and you'll gft caught sometimes. Even an jxpert.gets stuck. A horse may look ivfr S3 nice, and eo a mile a minute,and ret have fit?, for instance. Tnere isn't a i i?o man nnn M f-ol i it. HI1 unmotHino1 hftn ! the various stamp3 of the general government, and equal care and vigiliuice ! [ arc necessary in an establishment where 1 , $5 and $10 bills are turned out and 1 where millions o' dollars' worth of rail- ! i road tickets are printed every day. Both 1 demand the employment of men of wide j experience in their calling, and of i he very highest standards of intellect and 1 integrity, and, above these, the utmost ' vigilance is required to guard against a * possible temptation to appropriate for an 1 improper purpose even a single one of the many millions of tickets which are handled by the various employees. Until ( within the last few years the printing of ( these tickets had been done in various 2 sections of the country, each road pat ronizing establishments in their respec- j tive vicinities or conveniently near their * different headquarters. The Western ? roads, for instance, would have their s work done in Chicago, the New Eng- ? land roads in Boston, Springfield and c New York, and the roads on the Pacific r slope in San Fruncisco. As the railroad e business of the country advanced and 1 became perfect in organization, the eys- ? tem of one road issuing tickets of the * coupon form over an indefinite number fc of other roads became established, and ? thus not on ly more tickets were required, t but there was at once a demand for their ? speedy and uniform printing ! About the first to observe this new ? source of business and wealth was an 11 Englishman named George Bailey, who ' is now recognized by his followers as * the pioneer railroad-ticket printer of the c country. He commenced the business 8 on an extensive scale in Buffalo in about 1860, and a few years since retired with J an ample fortune. By making the busi- jj ness a specialty he soon secured the b patron.^ge of nearly every railroad in a hhia dPfttinn nf the United Stat s. He L had machinery and presses built ex- * clusively for this particular line of ^ worK, and, of course, revolutionized r the whole bu'iLess, much to the disgust h and financial loss of hundreds of other J printers in distant sections. But the business was too growing and * promising to be long confined to a single J-1 section, and, through the genius and " perseverance of an indomitable Yankee, nearly -one-half of the railroad-ticket c business of the company has been secured toCBSSaft. Over 100 railroads * are supplied witn ils..tz . Hcketa from * Boston. The number of^'t^engsgt i1 which any given road may carry dvra?c c a year does not by anv means indi- h cite the number of tickets whiob & that road consumes. Forms are d often renewed and old issues of o thousands and thousands of tickets h destroyed without being used. Every e' ticket office, whether large or small, ha3 u to keep on hand a far greater number of o tickets than there is likely to be any call n for. Probably fifty tickets are printed against every one that is sold. Tbus, for I instance, if a road like the Boston and E Albans cariied 10,000,000 passengers in cj a year, a basis of 500,000,000 tickets 91 would be required to keep all their offices supplied. As before intimated, the presses and ti machinery required are very complicated N and expensive. Ordinary printing ji paraphernalia will not answer, for, be- it side printing the usualfaceof the ticket, every one has to be numbered and tl counted. This Is all dono automatically g' by a single impression, and common lo- e1 cal tickets are thus turned out at a rate y< of not less than 25,000 per hour, and coupon tickets at a speed of about 3,f>00 per hour. Tiie local tickets, after they have come from the press, are again ol counted by rn ingeniously-contrived ai machine, which never makes a mistake, In and the coupon issues are counted by ti girls. All this having b<?c-n done, the P tickets are divided into packages of 100 ^ each, and when delivered to the roads n: a receipt for the exact number is re- c( niiirpd. Manv roads from a distance a telegraph their orders in the morning, a and in the afternoon 500,000 tickets are t) shipped in response. Daring the excur- a; sion season the establishment is often c kept running day ana night.?Boston b Berald. h 1< 8' Keady-Made Lightning. t) A recent issue of the Salt Lake City (Utah) Tribune says: Some time ago we had occasion to call attention to the e Ada mine ou Snake creek in this terri- ? tory. It will be remembered that men- 31 tion was made of a strange kind of rock -( found in the tunnel of that mine that ^ I emitted a bright gio?r, as phosphorus ti does, when rubbed on witti nammer or f. pick. This was at the time classified, p for want of a better name, as phosplmretic rock The miners in the district called it " hell's-fire rock," and the tun- 1: nel is known in the neighborhood ,1 as "hell's hole." R. N. Baskin, a owner of the mine, recently forwarded some samples of this strange k rock to the professors of chemistry at n Yale college. On careful analysis it was ?. found to contain no phosphorous, as at b first surmised. Ttie gangue was easily determined; but the subtle power that j; gave light to the rock baffled the sages t] of New Haven, and the broac term r, magnectic or electric was given to it. This is something new in mining. Miners sometimes get struck by lightning. but this is the first well authenticated instance on record where a m ner j, has struck lightning. Again, in this 0 progressive age, when gas and coal oil n Uo?;? foiro n hnr?k sent,. t.hfi disco verv _ UUK1U LV UWUV V* ^ of a mountain of ready-made elec- ^ tricity may become a source of incalculable value to its owners. Our 1 cal c telegraph offices need oniy run a wire from the Ada tunnel to their inslru- n ments to obta'n a ptrmanent supply of ^ electi icily. The trouble and expense ot r( replenishing batterits, replacing broken e jais, etc., wou d be entirely dispensed ? with, and "hell's hole" home-made lightning always on hand free of charge. The benefits to be derived from this ? discovery can well be imagined, but it '7 is not necessary at this time to point out jali of them, as a more complete nistory f, of the property and the various uses to which its strange power can be applied will be given at some future time, upon the organization of the Hell's Hole Ready-Made Lightning company. Midnight Company in India. A recent writer gives us an idea of the society one i3 favored with when trying , to get his natural sleep in variously 11 populated India: What would some of your readers thinK, while lying quietly 3 in bed beneath the inevitable mosquito ? net, if they were to see gazing intently c from the ceiling right above a long, green lizard and a centipede, challenging each other tc mortal combat; the centipede loses his hold, drops down ^ on the net, and whins under 1 the bed; you involuntarily shut f your mouth quickly and turn 1 07er on your face, wondering whether ] or not he went down your throat or under the bed; you next closely scruti- 1 nize the horizon line of the mattress, and not being gifted with power to see 1 but one spot at a time, you pivot around 1 on your kn^es with a pillow upraised ' ready to smash him the moment you see 1 his eye peering over the edge?but he ' comes not. Your attention is next ( called to a half-hundred large black 1 bugs, which arc indulging in a game of lawn tennis on the floor, when in s eps 1 a bandicoot, a rat as big as a "yeller 1 dog," and devours this whilom garden party. Ilerr Reulaux, a Germ-.w writer, has described an elevated wooden valley in 1 the Rhine province, in which the p:iss< age of the wind produces musical tuj*ts i wonderfully like the chiming of be : )ens. Or he may have a weak back. Jive him the whip, and off he goes lor iraileortwo; then, all of a sudden, he li s down in the road. After a rest he rets up and starts again, but be soon sits lown fcr good, and no'thing but a der. ick could raise him There are nharpra in New York who make a busi iess of selling such horses.^ After he sale tliey Dave tneir agents sjyiy ollow the buyer and, when the final ireakdown comes, they step up, and, fter expressing their sympatny for him, iuy the horse back again for a mere ODg, only to sell him again at a fancy igure to the next greenhorn who may cme along. Even a horse with the leaves may be doctored up so you can't ell him. They feed him on wet grain or a while, and then, when they show ?ff, drive him so smartly that you can't 1 ee there's anything wrong. " Do you know what a dummy is P fou don't? Well, I'll tell you. tie's a orse that don't know anything. His 1 rain has gone wrong. A dark stall nd overfeeding have ruined his digesion, and that has affected his brain. | >rive him out a ways, and pretty soon , e will jerk his head around and pull ight straight on one line. You can't old him; it's no use to try. The first , ou know he has damped you in a ditch ' r smashed you up against a lamp-post. . 'ie him in a stable, and he'll back up , ill he breaks every baiter you put on im. Stretch a rope across the end of Lie stall so he can't back out and he'll < limb up the wall. , 1 'he vou don't believe it. but It's < ?. i havfrspen nge._go clear upstairs: < nd once I saw one go out ofa second ! ocan't* know he's just a f^flbaSjjptt \ ne of these idiots when 1 eg inner in the basinesf. Be brpwT, very thing in the stable and thee went , p the wall like a lunatic. Afterward . ne of the boys that groomed Lim for the lan I bought him of admitted that the j nimal was 'just a 1-e-e-tle bit dumb.' can tell one now the minute I see him. ' [e steps uncommonly high. In most ises when you see a horse do that, be ire he is a dummy. What do we do with the horses we Bt stuck on P1 Send them to theauc- 1 on, where buyers take all the risks. 1 0 reputable dealer ever sells a bad one 1 1 tiny other way. It doesn't pay to do \ "I could talk all day about these ! )ings, only your paper is full now, I ues9, and I'll stop. But don't you I rer buy a liorse, young man, unless 3U know how to do it." ( The Irish Constabulary. 1 A New York paper denies the truth J f a telegram from England which jserts that "the entire garrison in Eng- ' md does not include a single dis- 1 nctively Irish regiment," and adds : j ractically the garrison includes upard of twelve distinctively Irish regi> lents in the shape of the royal Irisl ! jnstabularly. This, take it for all in j II, is certainly one of the most remark ; ble corps in tne world. It has proved 1 ie practicability of raising in a disffected country, out of the disaffected lasses, a body of men presenting a com- ; ination of military and police who j ave shown ever since they were >rmed, some forty years ago, an un- 1 wearing fidelity to the flag under which : iey serve. These men must have had ny amount of kith and kin engaged in reasonable practices,yet they have never tiled in being leal and true to the , overnment whose uniform they wear, nd this although the remuneration is uch as a New York policeman would egard with sovereign disdain, for not m per cent, of the royal Irish receive oe remuneration of our patrolmen. The >rce, which has its headquarters in 'hoenix park. Dublin, is entirely dis inct from that, in point ol mere nby ique, even finer body of men, the Dub- j n metropolitan police, which (the A 1 ivision especially) is not surpassed by ny body of men in the world. So giantic are some ot these fellows?who ave, too, what the life guards for the lost part have not, breadth to corre- 1 pond with height?that strangers may ] e seen gaping up at them in sheer 1 mazement. It will be a dark hour for 2 Inglish interests in Ireland when these ! me and tried, and not too grateful , .^cognized, servants, sho^ signs of ! werving. 1 The Horse That " Died of Grief." j One of the San Francisco papers hav- : ig published an account of the death 1 f a horse from grief at iosing his jaster, the Chronicle sent a reporter to erify the statement. The groom was 1 iterviewed with the following result: 1 "Yes,sir, thatthar war thecuriostest ase I ever hearn tell on No more thar 1 in't no sich case writ about io books, uther," and the stableman removed a rief T. D. pipe from his teeth, and ?sted its cheering bowl on the reportr's arm to fix his attention more closely. Ye see that lioss were as sound a hanual in wind and limb as ye'd see at a rize fair in the old country. Gentle as kiiten, and a pet for the children." 'be stableman paused to refcmoie tne re in bis pipe, which the rain, dripoing rom the reporter's ulster, had quenched. "When did it die?1' asked the reoner, sadly. "The boss died Saturday last.' " Whatailed itP" " Lung fever " " When did its master die?" " Two weeks ago to-day." "Well, what is there curious about hat? " asked the reporter in amazement. "Curious! why it's curious enough, I hud say, when thar ain't another boss ick in this stable, and we've got a hun* ired of them here!" "fclood Morning, Sir." A few months ago, says Dr. Wood, talking along Fifteenth street, 1 came ip behind a friend and said: "Good norning." No answer. " Good morn ng, sir," a little louder. " Oh, excuse ne; I didn't hear you the first time." ' How then did you know I had spoken wiceP" The obvious explanation would be hat he real'y heard him the first time ind did not notice the doctor was adiressing hiu; the louder and distincter ;one itselt informed the listener that he was spoken to for the second time. The doctor explains it more elaborately as follows: On my first speaking the impulse cf the voice bad fallen upon bis ear and started a nerve-wave which had struggled up as far as the lower apparatus at the oase ot the brain, and, passirg through this, had probably even reached the higher norve-cent< n in the surface of the cerebrum, near to which consciousness resides, but not of sufficient force to arouse consciousness.?IAppincott's Magazine. j I Where There's a Will There's a Way. Though troub! es perplex yon, Dishearten and vex yon, Retarding your progress in eomber array To shrink with terror Is snrely an error, For where there's a will there's a way. * The task may be teasing, x The daty unpleasing, Bat he whoconlronts it will soon win the day, Hall the battle is over When once we discover That where there's a will there's a way Misfortunes nnoounted Are often snrmonnted, Ii only we qnit not the field in dismay; Then one more endeavor, - Remembering ever*" That where there'* a will there's a way. 'y, HUMOROUS. A standing nuisance?The fellow on '' the curbstone. Pity the poor duck who has to go around barefooted ail winter. A joke is not so durable as s church bell. After it has been tolled a few times it is worn out. Poor people eat mutton because it i? . sheep, and rich people eat venison be* cause it is deer. ^ When a fellow now wants to talk real nice slang he says: "Oh, file your ear and look pleasant." " ? * / - ' v Wliiie Bunngut is me most. iavor?oi? for haymaking, it is a well known lact that wild oats are best sown by moonlight. Mr. Beecher says that when doctors are called to treat any disease the nature of which they do not understand, they '^11 it malaria. A Michigan farmer invented a trick with a hole in it. He sold rolls ot butter that nad been made hollow, filled with water and frozen solid. The Philadelphia News says it is better to have loved and lost than to be -??4* ? ? ?f fitrfl A^/iUolr ATI OaIHI \ *> JUUgCU IV |?CU Kxy OVUTVV V.VVB. V winter mornings to start a lire. " The man who sings " Bock Me to Sleep, Mother," weighs oVer two hundred pounds, and it is physically Impossible for his parent to accede to brifl wishes. "Eugenie, Eugenie, will you insist ? an wearing the hair of another woman an your brad P" ' * Aiphonse, A1 p ho use, jo you still insist upon wearing the skin jf another calf upon your feetP" Pne of the things that saddens a man b'this vale ol eye water is to lie awake |s Half the night listening to a barkin.; teas about to pan zor a snort one. A-dolphus bought her a baud mirror, as Lie wished to oe remembered often;?-. McGregor News. , . - . ' i v--^ *M* Inherited Tendencies to Digease. ' fej The present article is based on a vatyible paper bv Dr. J. R. Black, In the' : popular Science Monthly. Seventy thousand persons in Americ i yearly die with consumption, most of whom have in- jv. Merited the disease. Vast numbers inherit a tendency to rheumatism, epilepsy, insanity, cancer, indigestion, mi- ? ' ^ ?raine, neuralgia, asthma, and to early V.si2S loss of sight and hearing. No other _ *!>; *? cause of grief and suffering compares ^ with that due to organic d<fects handed down from parent to chili. Of our 40 000,000 of v people probably g? 26.000,000 inherit some constitutional defects. But hitherto little has been done to arrest these tendencies. Physi* cians are called only to the sick. On 4 the contrary those who have inherited. tendencies to disease are generally as ' careless o! their health as others, while, ' ? aooa a# fKnon whn olrOftntT fi))AV I LI bUC WMVz VI i/uugv tt uv uuvhmj wmwt* the tendency, their friends are apt to. pursue just the course most likely to trengthen it- For instance, a consump- ' : bive is shut out Jrom the out-docr air : * * xod gentle exercise, though these are his mly hope. Moreover, the whole influence of our social life and practices >ncourages the thoughtless squandering >f vital reserve. *? As a consequence we are degenerating / , . ? is a people. The death-rate and birth- i rate are steadily approximating. The ^ .. + \ lifference is already less in New Eng? * j [and than in any country in Europe, . . | France alone excepted Yet therein no inherent difficulty in the way of extir- . pating hereditary diseases. Hygenic r* - i i?re w^ulu accomplish it?such care as ;an oniy come from a medical expert, ^ ind such as we are all ready to resort to n acute diseases. Able physicians have ? ;hus been able to extirpate tubercular ^ consumption from themselves, their . amilies and descendants. Parlor and SIeeping?Car Law. The plaintiff purchased of the defend- j ir t, a sleepine-car company, at Indl- j napolis, s ticke purporting to entitle j aim to accommodations in a designated sleeDine-car. in a berth to be pointed - 1 Dut by the conductor. !Vnce to New M fork city. A certain berth was accord- J| ingly assigned him and designated on | the ticket, but at Pittsburg the car was ~k detached, and a different and less safe 1 find comfcrtable berth was offered him I in another car, which he declined. In an I action for damages for breach of con- f tract, held (in an Indiana case) that he was entitled to a continuous passage in jr the same car and berth, or in one f equally safe, comfortable and conven- 1 ient; and that it was no defense that the JS defendant simply rented the cars to the 3 j railroad companies fdr the use of passengers. A passenger on defendant's railroad, finding no vacant seats in tbo ordinary coaches, the seats being occupied either by passengers or their baggage, proceeded to a J drawing-room car, owned by a -jBM priyate individual, but form? innfiart nf thotr#ili snH TT CUlfirlV TUU :,S >UV _ with it by contract with the defendant, and there took a s>eat. When called on for extra fare for that seat he refused, a! announcing his readiness to go into the .235 other cars if a seat were provided for . ?a| nim there. Thereupon the porter of ,'^|T the drawing room car, employed by its J owner, attempted to cject him. Held - I (in a New York case) that the defendant ia J was liable lor this assault.?J/tany Late -Igi J Journal. Mi For Husbands Only. fa A correspondent of the Baltimore .? Sun, writing from California, says: A ':*? cure for wife-whipping was authorised 5| by the last legislature of Nevada. The authorities of Austin, a mining town in this State, have erected a whipping- ABjfl post to punish summarily wretches who jBfl abuse their wives by biows. We wish jMEjl it weie practicable to apply appropriate correction to the no less unmanly tyranny of unfeeling exaction and cruel words by which too many husbands keep" aU their wives in never-ending torment. If ,-^M a man had the brains he Ixjasts he would speak ever kindly to the mother of his j household, if it were only for selfish ' motives, Make your wife happy by tender and affectionate treatment, ane you will make ycur home a paradlsd more precious than gold and costly JBBj mansions. . We admire the Hindoo parable and believe its instruction that de- . j9Pj| scribes a woman at the gates of heaven I praying that her naughty husband |fl j might be admitted. " He was ever kind jB j and true to me, and if you would make j me happy I must share with my bus- J band." Instantly the portals opened and the argil bade him ent<>r. "Be- jEja cause of thy wife's prayer thy sins are j forgiven. Who live in liarmony on ' earth in heaven are not divided." -Sjfl