The Beaufort tribune and Port Royal commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1877-1879, November 22, 1877, Image 1
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VOL. y. NO. 51
Jennie, the Milkmaid.
My heart is so light,
I sing.day and night,
Sook, Boss,
Book.
My pail is now ready,
I carry it steady,
Moo, Boss,
Moo.
I
My Jamie comes whistling,
He knows I am listening,
So, Boss,
So.
He smiles in my face,
And then takes my place,
Stand, Boss,
Stand.
1 sink right by his side,
Mv warm blushes to hide.
Wink, Boss,
Wink.
He looks down in my eyes,
I peep up in surprise,
Low, Boss,
Low.
" Look, Jennie, look yonder !"
I turn in great wonder,
Back, Boss,
Back.
i
Bound my neck his arm steals,
On the air his laugh peals,
Slow, Boss,
Slow.
On my lips, quick as light,
He Bprigs like a wight,
Turn, BoS8,
Turn.
Then away I run fast;
He siugs out: " Caught at last."
Bye, Boss,
Bye.
The Burnt Letter.
It was a gossiping neighbor who had
been spending an hoar with Mrs. ^Vehb,
ft nil just before she went sfle had let fly
the arrow 6he hail kept in her quiver.
"Your son Grantley goes over the
hill to the Burdock's pretty often, Mrs.
Webb," said she.
"I don't know it if he does," replied
the old lady.
" Naturally he wouldn't tell you until.
the last, after old Burdock's quarrel with
his dead father," said the neighbor?
" but everybody else knows. It's said
to be a settled vhing. Why, Keziah saw
him kiss her at the gate one Sunday
night, and even Ann Burdock would
hardly go so far as that unless it was
so, eh? Well, good-bye."
She hurried off leaving her hostess
dumb and motionless at the door.
ft was some moments before she eve i
thought of going in and casting herself
into her chair, but she did it at last, an?;
fell to talking to herself in this wise : 1
"Oh, it's worse than anything that
ever happened tome. I've had trouble, 1
heaven knows, but it was the kind I had 1
to bear if God sent it, but this doesu'r
seem right. My Grantley to marry
Steven Burdock's daughter, the child of
the very worst enemy his fath .r ever had, 1
a girl brought up by a woman I djspise ! '
Sarah Burdock never had the ways I ! 1
liked, nor did the things I^hought righf 1
for a woman to do. Everything is so ]
different with the Burdocks, so strange.
Like ought to marry like, or there'll 5
never be a happy home. But that's the
way with men! a pretty face strikes
them and away they go, and Grantley is i
like the rest. Why should he choose <
Sarah Burdock's daughter ?"
She rocked to and fro as she spoke, <
letting her neglected knitting drop into
her lap. . t
"There's Fanny White," she mur-: ]
mured, "a nice, thrifty girl; and Min- j i
nie Holm. Why, her mother is the best i
friend I have. There are plenty of girls i S
I could have made up my mind to ;
though I don't know why Grantley should 1
marry any one yet. But Ann Burdock, i
with her showy ways, and her airs and
graces, I netercan weleome her, never, i
never. I must go away and live by my- 1
6elf if she comes here to lord it over the t
house ; and her mother, no doubt, will
come and sit and talk in her foolish, ?
flighty way ; and the sisters will sit in
the parlor windows, and take up the ?
table. They'll be here half the time, (
and make nobody of me. I know them, t
Oh! if my Grantley does marry Ann \
Burdock. * But it can't be ! It can't!" ?
Just then a foot struck the floor of the s
tV> a r?/Iy?oi qa/1 a lvffln nn/I 1 c
jJUiUU, Luc niuuun loiocu a uuur, uuu e
through the aperture came flying two
letters. One a yellow, vulgar-looking c
missive, the other a little white envelope | c
with a monogram upon it ( i
The old lady looked up.
The postman, who had thus easily de- s
livered his letters, looked over his c
shoulder, and laughed and nctdded at s
her, as he hurried awav with his leather c
bag upon his arm, and she put on her j t
spectacles to read the superscriptions.
The yellow envelope held only one of c
those circulars with which tradesmen of f
all sorts are in the habit of flooding the t
country. The white one was not ad- 1
dressed to her, but to her son, and the i
monogram was a very pretty silver and s
bine A. B. i
"Ann Burdock," said the old lady.
" It's a note from her. Now, I wonder i
what she has written to my boy ? I'd 1
like to know. It's very easy opening
these envelopes. 'Tfsn't as if they were j 1
sealed ; and what harm would it be for i i
a mother to read a letter to her son i j l
I've half a mind to do it. Only he'd be i i
angry, maybe. Well, then, I'm angry 11
too, and with more reason. Yes ? I
will." i
A little old-fashioned copper kettle c
simmered and bubbled upon -the stove, i
A little spirt of steam arose from its t
spout. i
The old lady looked at it. Then, i
rising, she crept across the floor in a 1
guilty sort of fashion, and held the en- t
velope with its flaps downward, close to
the mouth of the spout. s
She held it for a few moments, and c
then softly touched it with her thumb
and finger. i
It was quite damp, and one fold peeled
away from the other very easily, and t
there lay the little note in her hand.
She might have read it if she chose ; s
if there were secrets in it, Mies Ann <
Burdock should have secured them bet- ; 1
thee she could Mth the little touch i 1
!] BE
of mucilage the maker of those enve* j
lopes had bestowed on each one.
Mrs. Webb took off her glasses, wiped j
them from the steam that had gathered {
upon them, and, still standing, opened ;
the sheet of paper adorned with a mono- I
gram like that upon the envelope, aud !
read as follows :
"Dear Grantlet?You went away;
angry with me on Sunday evening, and
said that if I would not take back what
I had said jon would never come to see
me again. And I was too proud and too
angry to say a word to keep you. But, I
Grantley, dear, I'm sorry for it now. j
You were in the right, and I was to j
blame, and I take it all back?every !
word. I never meant it. You are so,
downright you think one must mean all
one says, but indeed I never meant it.
And so forgive me and come again next
Sunday night. I flud that life .would
be a very sad thing for me if we really
quarrelled. Yours forever, Ann. "
"So !" muttered Mrs. Webb, between
her teeth. "It has gone so far, then ;
and she has been showing her temper
and angering Grantley. Well, if he has
spirit enough to stay away one week,
he'll have spirit enough to stay away altogether,
perhaps."
Then 8he gave an angry stamp.
"Why do I comfort myself with
that?" she said. "I know this letter
will call him back to her, and he'll be
more in love with her than ever. Oh,
if she had not written ! I know my boy
well enough to know that he would not
go back to her without that. Well, lie
hasn't seen it yet; and if I choose he
never need. It is for his good, I know.
Ann Burdock is not the girl for him.
I'll keep him from her."
She dropped Ann Burdock's letter
upon the fire. There it lay, a black and
shrivelled fold of tinder, as her son's
step sounded in the hall, and 6he covered
it from sight with the kettle.
In came Grantley, his face bright witli
the outer cold.
"Setting yourself on fire, mother?"
he asked. *' I smell something scorch
M 99
uig.
"It's not my dress," she answered,
and busied herself with the teapot, and
rang the bell for the tea things. _
In jame the girl with the tray, Sid 1
again Mrs. Webb had a little fright.
" Any letter for me ?" asked her son,
with an eager look in his face.
"No," she answered faintly. "Did
yon expect one ?"
" Not I," said he, his brows contracting.
"But I met the postman on the
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home and get my love-letter. His joke, !
I suppose."
" It was impudent of him," said Mrs. 1
Webb, not daring to meet her son's eye. .
" Thattfa love-letter, is it ?"
She to66?d him tlie tradesman's circu- 4
lar. He glanced at it and put it down. '
How sad he looked ! What gray tints
there were about his eyes and temples!
How much thinner he seemed than lie .
did a week or so ago !
Was it all that quarrel with the Burdock
girl ? Would it have been better
that he should have had that monogrammed
note ? J
The mother put the thought from ,
lier. She spread the little store of dainties
before her son and tried to make j
liim eat; and though she had been so
frightened by his questions, she could (
not help approaching the dangerous subjecfc
herself.
"Are you going cut to-night?" she j
?sked.
" No," he answered ; " I think not." )
" The neighbors were telling nib you ,
vent over the hill to the Burdock's rather ,
iften," she went on.
" Well, if I have, mother," he answerid,
" that is no sign I shall go again."
" Well, there are better places than
he Burdock's," said Mrs. Webb, "and
[ thought you'd never think of a girl
vhose father quarreled with yours, and
nay have the evil temper of her mother.
She's a flirt, too, they say."
Then she bounced -out of the room, j
When she came back Grantley had gone 1
ipstairs. i
She heard the boards of his bed-room
loor creak as he walked up and down for
loure, but she did not see him again
hat night.
Well, well," she said to herself, " he'll
^et over it."
But, whatever the feeling was, love,
mger. or grief, it did not agree with
Orantley Webb. He grew thinner and
hinner. He took less interest in that
vhich went on around him. He avoided
ill the other young people of the place, ;
md seemed to have neither youth nor
ipirit left.
Could it be all about that girl Ann,
>ld Mrs. Webb asked her.-elf, trying.to
beat herself into the idea that the boy {
was only ill. j
But in vain she made him warm possets i
md bowls of herb tea. Even if he had 1
lrnnk them, which he did not, for they I
dl went to water the grass of the old |
>rchard?even if he had drunk them, i
lion nrrtnl/1 VlOTO (IahO Vlim
'UVf "WUiU x*v?v D"""*
Only rne thing coold help him?the
>nly thing that seemed to him impossible
is he sat at his window, staring through
he starlit midnight at the roof of the
Burdock dwelling, never guessing that
inder its eaves Ann Bnrdock sat, at once !
ingry and sorrv, thinking of him and '
lone other. !
He had not answered her note ; he was j
mforgiving; but she had vexed him. She
vas partly to blame. j
The old lady in the ruffled night-cap? :
vho often started from her sleep in ;
n the big front bedroom of the Webb ;
lome with a dream of letters that curled i
lp into tinder over the red coal?had :
noreon her conscience than she knew. ;
For though Ann grieved, she did not1
vear her heart upon her sleeve, but was
mtwardly gayer than ever, and flirted i
is she never had before, until at last j
he same neighbor who had brought the
lews of Grantley's love affair to his
nother, dropping into tea, gave Mrs.
fVebb and her son a bit of gossip as
hey sat at the table together.
"Ann Burdock isgoing to be married
it last. It's that young man from Lon-1
ion-Mr. Millet."
44 I believe weddings when I see them
low," said Mrs. Webb.
44 But Mrs. Burdock herself told me j
his," said the guest. I
When she was gone, Grantley, who ;
lat before the table still, with his j
slbow.j upon it, dropped his head upon ;
lis arans, and there was f sound, of rjnicV i
wreathing. i
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A.ND POET
BEAUFORT, S. C.,
For a little while his mother watched 1
him. Then she went close.
" Grantley," she said, in a trembling
voice, "what is it? What ails yon?
Tell me 1" !
"It's onlv that I'm a fool, mother." i
he answered.
44 But?Grantley, what about ?"
He lifted up his young, worn face then, {,
and answered :
' 44 Mother, don't you know ? It's
about Ann Burdock. It's been very ! j
hard to bear, but if she does maj*ry any ; (
one else?I?shall kill myself, I "think. (
Life doesn't seem worth having."
" Life doesn't seem worth having, if j j
you can't have Ann !" the mother said, ' ,
in a puzzled sort of way. 44 But why, ,
what is there in her ?" i (
;" What there never is in more than |
on?woman to any man, mother," saill , ]
Grantley.
Somehow, from the far-away years of1 j
youth,a memory came back to his mother 11
that helped her to understand him. i j
She felt that she had done very ill, and ! j
if confession could do any good, she ,
would even confess. At least, if she j
could not quite do that, she would let f
him know the tmth abont Ann. ,
"Grantley, dear,"she faltered, "you (
?yon had a quarrel ?" (
" Yes," he answered. I
" But if she had written to beg your
pardon you'd have forgiven her ?" j
She almost hoped that he would say {
44 No "?that she need not go on. r
But he answered : (
44 Yes?but she never wrote."
441 think she did, Grantley," said the j
mother. I?I know she did. i?I?an }
accident happened to the letter. It?it <
got burnt;but I'm sure it was anjapology. ,
Indeed, I saw a few words, but I didn't .
think you cared so. You see it?it fell {
into the fire." ?
44 Why did you not tell me before ?" ,
cried Grantley. (
44 Well, I somehow didn't like," was f
all the mother could say. 44 And why j
don't you go and ask her about it, and j
see what it was ?" ^
Prvir Afrs Wfthh when her son. after ?
many questions, had taken her advice,
cried bitterly. She might have felt
even worse had she heard what Ann was
saying.
The story had been told, a reconciliation
effected, a declaration made to the
effect that Mr. Millet had never been
loved. And then Ann Burdock said, i
with a laugh?
"But, Grantley, your mother burnt
that letter oil purpose. Only a man
mtro flia ofiinr rnnVfl fcilfl TVMV I t
LV/UiU \JXJX\Xs V \S VUV WWVAJ j v%* ? w w?v. v.. j
She did not want me for a daughter-inLaw.
I owe her no grudge?remember j
that, and don't tell her what I say."
Grantley never did. And old Mrs. j
Webb has often been heard to say that ;
Ann Burdock has turned out better than ,
jould have been expected. [
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1 Man who Tnrns Copper into Gold, c
The following is clipped from the San *
Francisco Bulletin: A gentleman resid- 0
ing in this city, who is in close corres- 8
pondence with relatives in Santiago, the
lapital of ther Republic of Chili, states 1
hat Paraf has maintained himself, des- J
pite the opposition brought against him. .
He has now three establishments in op- ,
iration, and is producing wonderful re- K
mlts. He has organized a company
ivith a capital of 88,000,000, and the peo- ,
pie are absolutely crazy to procure stock. ,
Copper mines that were formerly comparutively
valueless are now held at a
ixliorbitant figures, and prospecting is 1
active in every direction. One of the 0
nstances of Paraf's assays is interesting. 8
ton of copper ore from the Caracoles
listrict was submitted to several of the l.
veil-known assayers in the presence of a '
lumber of citizens, Paraf also being '
iresent. The assayers announced 8
lie result?they hail obtained four 8
md a half per cent, of gold. There- r
lpon Paraf suggested . that there
nust be more of the precious metal *
n the ore. but the assayers were prevented
finding it on account of its being hid'
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Icli UJ' LLltv uuppci* I1U VA1UVAAI wuu l
;hemical powder, which he ca'.ls "reac;ive,"
and this was submitted to those ?
present, and in its turn analyzed, with- ?
>ut detecting the presence of gold. Scattering
this over the pulverized mass, .p
ind allowing about half an hour for
manipulation in order to produce ,thor- v
ragh incorporation with it, he asked z;he
metallurgists to reassay the ore,
vhen the astonishing result of thirty- ^
even and a half per cent was reached f
Paraf is reported to be on the top wave
)f success. He has purchased the Quin- ?
a, on the Canada, the principal street of
Santiago, the former residence of the .
ate Harry Meiggs, and which cost him :
?500,000, and there receives the worshipers
of the golden calf in right royal style.
Ubili is beginning to believe in him as (
ts financial savior, and his influence is
>nly limited by the credulity of the peo- r
>le. c
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How to Regnlate Light. *
Statistics kept by oculists employed a
n infirmaries for eye diseases have shown s
lint thft habits of some Dersons in facincr I i
t -window from which the light falls di- 1
ectly in the eye as well as on the work, p
njure their eyes in the end. The best t
vay is to work with a side light, or, if t
he work needs a strong illumination, so x
hat it is necessary to have the working a
able before the window, the lower por- n
ion of the latter should be covered with
i screen, so as to have a top light alone, e
riiich does not shine in the eyes while *
he head is slightly bent over and down- x
vard toward the work. c
In the schools in Germany this mat ter e
las already been attended to, and the v
ule adopted is to have all the seats and r
ables so arranged that the pupil never c
aces the windows, but only has the side I
ights from the left; and as a light sira- ii
iltaneously thrown from two sides gives e
in inference of shadows, it has been d
itrictly forbidden to build school rooms 1
vith windows on both sides, such illnmi- t
lation having also proved injurious to e
he eves of the DUDils. We may add e
o this advice not to place the lump in 1
'rout of you when at work in the eveling,
but a little on one side, and never
neglect the use of a shade so as to pre- c
rent the strong light shining in the eyes. c
rhis is especially to be considered at the ^
iresent time with kerosene lamps, with c
intensely luminous flames, becoming t
more and mora common.Jvuf* t
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ROYAL C<
THURSDAY, NOT
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Improved 3Ietbod of Wintering Cow*.
Mr. Linus W. Miller, of Stockton, N.
?., an experienced dairyman, advocates,
in a pamphlet entitled " Meal Feeding
and Animal Digestion," a system of feeding
cows during winter, which involves
the use of but three quarts of meal per
day. He asserts that this amount of
?ood Indian meal, fed under proper conditions,
is more than the equivalent for
all the good hay a cow can be coaxed to
eat?that the animal does not need to
have its stomach distended with a great
bulk of woody fiber, which imposes upon
the system a large amount of extra
mechanical work both in the processes
7f digestion and re mastication?that, in
brief, bulk in food is not advantageous
but to the contrary, and that nnriment in
Tood governs the condition ai d health of
he animal, and that condensation of
nutriment is true economy. Mr. Miller
lias condncted physiological investigalions
into the functions of the four stomachs
of the cow, whence it appears that
meal follows the same course as herbaceous
food, and stays longer in the
rumen than coarse food, while it also |
ligests more thoroughly than when the
mergies of the stomach are divided between
meal and coarse herbage.
Whatever may be the correct theory
n this regard, results of actual practice j
ippear to bear out Mr. Miller's views, j
The report of a oommittee, appointed to !
examine into the system by the Western !
ew York Dairymen's Association, shows
the following facts: The examination
vas oonducffed upon Mr. Miller's herd of
Z/hatauqua county native cows, th
iverage live weight of which was 900
sounds. The herd were fed exclusively
lpon corn meal for seven weeks, each
inirnal, according to its digestive capacity,
making an average of about three
fuarts of meal per day for each cow.
lie animals did not ruminate, did not
manifest so much desire for food as cows
fed on hay alone in the usual way, a litle
less than they will eat, showed no
ligns of unrest or suffering; and at the
ime of going back to hay, the cows had
leither lost nor gained flesh. After reurning
to hav, their stomachs filled and
nminfttincr went on normally, healthy
salves were dropped, and when turned
o grass the animals took on flesh faster
han those wintered in the usual way.
Their daily yield of milk was twenty-nine
)ounds three ounces, or one pound
sleven ounces per cow more than that of
my other herd sent to the same cheese
actory.
As regards the economy of meal feedug,
Mr. Miller points out that one
jushel of corn, ground and tolled, will
ast an ordinary sized cow of 900 pounds
weight twelve days, and is equal to 240
)ounds of hay. Corn at sixty cents per
mshel is therefore the equivalent of hay
it five dollars per ton of 2,000 pounds,
ind where it can be had at that rate the
ost of wintering the animal will range
rom seven to ten dollars, according to
oldness and length of the foddering
eason. But hay as a rule costs at least
en dollars per ton, and frequently much
nore. Hence the estimated saving by
neal feeding is placed at from five to
wenty dollars per animal, according to
he respective prices of corn and hay.?
Scientific American.
4<rape-Rot.
The only form of grape-rot that we
lave had an opportunity of observing
las visited us in the last two seasons. It j
ippeais suddenly in July. The grapes,
isnallv onlv Darts of bunches, soon be
ftme brown and soft, like a rotten apple,
nd when the unaffected berries are ripe
hey still adhere, shrivelled up, and
isually of a reddish tinge. The Wilder
Rogers No. 4) has been most affected,
ud the Iona, Eumelan and Clinton have
nffered partially. These sorts are of
uch different characters of leaf and
>erry texture, and style of growth, that
here does not seem to be any reason ap>arenton
these internal grounds for their
)eiug subject to the visitation.
But while gathering the Clintons from
. large frame covering a lean-to greentouse,
and elevated three feet above its
[lass, a circumstance was observed which
lied some light oifthe case, and shows
hat the cause is to be sought in some
udden stress upon the circulation and
eaf digestion, while very active, and
chile the conditions of temperature and
noisture are inducing very free and tenler
develop ement and extension of new
rrnwth. The rafter-like rods, to which
lie canes are strictly confined, are two
eet apart, the object being to shade the
^lass below without cutting off too much
ight.
For the same reason all side shoots
rom the canes were stopped at one or
wo leaves beyond the one bunch of fruit
.1 lowed on each. And while gathering
he very fine fruit about the middle of
)ctober, it was noticed that although
uany bunches had partially rotted where
>nly one leaf existed beyond the bunch,
.nd especially where this leaf was small
here was not a single case to be found
where there were three or four leaves, or
; continued expansion of them, after the
eoond or third pinching. As the pinchng
of these canes required the use of
adders, the whole growth was closely
>inclied at each of the three or four
imes of operating, from, about May 20
o about the end of July. Vines elsewhere,
more conveniently within reach,
nd pinched more frequently and more
uoderately, escaped rot.
The rot is not. however, to be altrib
lied to the pinching alone. We had
mrm, htunid weather doring July, and
ery free growth, and a general and sudleu
stopping of the pointe of growth
utension, either by hand or by weather,
rhile under such rapid headway, must
laturally be expected to cause injurious
ongestion, aud at such a season an emdurassed,
tender growth will quickly go
nto decay. It is worthy of note that
aildew has been but little prevalent
luring these two seasons. The active
eaf transpiration seems to have preented
its germs from gaining lodgeaent.
Our Concords, thinned and very
aoderately pinched, has most.? W. in
Veto York Tribune.
Keclnea.
Suet Pudding.?Two and one-half
upfuls flour, one teaspoonful salt, one
tip suet chopped fine, two eggs, scant
>int milk, one-half teaspoonful soda,
ne-half cup apples chopped fine, one
easpoonful each of cloves and cinnamon,
hree tcaspooafuis molasses j steam on*
:nd thrca-quarttr henr?,
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OMMERCIAL
7EMBEII 22, 1877.
Applb Custard Pie.?One pint of J
| sweet milk and three grated sweet apples, '
two well lieaten eggs, little salt, sugar, !
and nutmeg to taste. Have only an unj
L
. uerurutsi.
Brows Bread.?One pint of com
meal, one pint of rye meal, two-thirds
cnp of molasses, one large spoonful of
vinegar, one heaping teaspoonfcil of j
saleratus, dissolved in a little warm
water, one-half teaspoonful of salt, mix
well with warm water, quite soft, and !
steam three hours. Put in the oven fif- j
! teen minutes and brown.
Ox-tail Soup.?Cut the tail in seven
or eight pieces and fry brown in butter;
slice three onions, ana the same of carrots;
fry them in the pan after removing
the ox-tail; place the onioDS and carrots,
after frying, in a cotton bag, with a
bunch of thyme; drop it into a soup pot
with the ox-tail; cut up two pounds of
lean beef, grate over it two carrots, place
it in the pot; add four quarts of water,
some pepper and salt, boil five or six
hours, strain it; thicken with a very ;
little flonr, boil ton minutes longer, and 1
serve hot.
Chicken Salad.?A pair of boiled
chickens, seven or eight pounds in
weight (not old fowls), cnt in small dioe,
about a quarter of an inch square; two
bunches (seven or eight heads) of celery,
tho white part only; slit each head in
half, wash well, leave it in ice water some
time to make it crisp, drain well, cut the
size of chicken; add chicken and celery
together in a large bowl, season with
white pepper and salt to taste; use about
half this dressing; mix well, add two or
three tablespoonfuls of vinegar; dish up
in a pyramid shape, on a platter large
enough to put a border of lettuce, cut in
shreds or picked in small pieces, around
it, spread the balance of the dressing on
the top, put the lettuce and three hard !
boiled eggs, cut in four pieces, length-i
wise around the dish, take the heart of |
a head of lettuce and put in the center; j
a few capers sprinkled over the dressing
is good. Tivid
Pen-Sketch of Dort, in Holland.
Savr n. writer in an Encrlish magazine :
Within a few miles of Rotterdam is a
town that will thoroughly satisfy the
antiquarian. Age stares you in the face.
On all sides such an accumulation of old
and interesting bouses, that in perambulating
the street you turn your head
from side to side like a Chinese mandarin,
and scarce know how to take it all
in, yet proceed. I had heard no one in 1
Holland speak of Dort in terms of praise.
Those of whom I made inquiries had
never seen it. My visit was but the result
of an impression that something
worthy of note would be found there.
Far short, indeed, was the expectation of
the reality?not always the rule in life.
I saw and wondered. Street after street
of ancient houses. Every possible outline
that professed anything of the picturesque.
Few of the square, stiff,
strajgl* buildings familiar to ordinary
experience. Not only aucient outlines,
but house-fronts also. No modernized
bricks and stone; no window-sashes
painted white ; at least for the most
part. Nothing could be more picturesque
or ancient looking, more quaint
and interesting than one of these canals.
Every house hoary with age, varying in
shape and size; now tall, with gabled
roof, now smaii ana aimmuuve, ub 11
gradually sinking into decrepitude and
the grave. Here and there wooden balconies
overhung the water, covered with
creepers and flowers, that drooped iu
graceful boughs and tendrils, emblems
f life and beauty amidst decay. The
water beneath reflected all the" quaint
multitude of outlines. Above every town
in Holland?the dead cities scarce excepted?
Dort carries yon back into the
past centuries ; away from the world of
to-day into that of the Middle Ages.
No town I had visited so delighted me.
I had seen nothing like it in Holland. It
was not, as in some places, a house or a
building here aud there standing out
from its neighbors to delight by its
charms; it was the general tone and
churacter of the whole place. The marTel
of passing from street to street, finding
the one prevailing type of age and
beauty. So that at last one could only
exclaim: " And still they come !" And
the wonderful old canal views were multiplied.
Many of the small side streets,
only wide enough to admit our startling
equipage, and send an affrighted pedestrian
flying m a doorway for refuge,
whence they would peep out with wonder
in their eyes and homage in their mien ;
many of these small side streets were
full of diminutive houses dating back
three centuries and more, untouched
since the days of their first youth. One
of the characteristics of the place was
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the remarKftDie manner in wiiiuii ui?u > wi i
the houses were out of the perpendicn-1
Jar. This is the case more or less j
throughout Holland. The soil being j
loose and sandy, the piles sink, the;
foundations give way, and the houses nod i
to each other. But in Dort the feature \
was carried often to 'almost an alarming j
point. In many instances it looked as if j
a gentle push would send down an old |
building crashing to the earth. More ,
than once it was difficult to pass a lean- j
ing tenement without positive fear. Not
a few were propped up with beams to ,
support their old age. This feature J
materially added to the picturesqueness i
of the town ; increased the look and j
feeling of antiquity of a life ended;!
seldom met with, but full of inexpres- i
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B1U1C UliUiiii.
Profit of Sheep Raising in California.
There is more profit on the average
in keeping sheep in this conntry, says
the Visalia (Cal.) A(jey than in any other
conntry on the globe. With the exception
of Holland and Belgium, the aunual
weight in flesh of America exceeds that
of any other country. In those two
countries the average weight is sixty
pounds; in America fifty-two pounds. !
But owing f/O the higher price received j
here for wool the annual revenue from ;
each sheep here is just double that
in Holland. The aunual revenue here is
82.16, on the average; Australia is Dext
highest, $4.50 ; Spain next, 81.45. Only
five other countries exceed 81, and in
Russia and Greece its revenue is only 42
cents. The average weight as well as
the price will be largely increased when
the vast flocks of coarse woolen sheep in
the West have been bred up to the condition
they undoubtedly win be ife a f*w j
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$2.00 per
Thirty Years Separated.
There are some strange ;*ea ares in an
action pending in the Twelfth district
court at San Francisco, for a divorce
and a division of common * property, j
Martha Stevens is the plaintiff and j
Coleman Stevens the defendant. A
separation in fact has been in existence
between the parties for the long period
of thirty-three years, the plaintiff, according
to the story, having barely
tasted the sweets of the honeymoon
when her husband deserted her, leaving
her almost penniless, and in a condition
which increased ber troubles. Mrs.
Stevens is fifty-eight years of age. She
has a certificate which shows that she
married Coleman Stevens at New York,
on November 1, 1813, and she states
that two days after their marriage the
husband went to visit his father, some
two hundred miles distant, where he remained
The following March she also
went to his father's. Sl a took this step
because she was advised that her husband
was going after a young girl, prospectively
rich. She found her husband
very friendly, and he frequently called
upon her, as she resided in a neighboring
house. Then they both lived at his
father's house, bnt not as married
people. On the 15th of May, 1844, she
signed a deed for the sale of land from
Coleman to his father, and then they
started for Michigan. It was the understanding
that the money realized from
the sale of the lgnd would be invested
in land in Michigan. They arrived at
Goshen the first day, and remained
there all night. The next morning he
said he had made up his mind not to go
MipMrwn and nronosed io return to
his father's house. At Charter station,
en route to his father's, her husband
jumped off the train. She looked out
of the car window And saw him running
across the fields, and that was the last
time she saw him until she met him in
San Francisco last year. At the time
her husband jumped the train she had
about twenty dollars in her pocket, but
no other means of support except a little
land she owned. 'After doing housework
for a time at Williamsburg, she
learned the milliner's trade, and opened
a little store. She went to New York
once or twice a year to purchose goods.
The winter following the cloee of the
war she went with her daughter to
Camden Hills, Michigan, where she remained
until February, 1875, when she
went to California. She states that she
never received any support from her
husband from the time he deserted her
until granted alimony in the present
divorce case. The first intimation she
had of the whereabouts of the missing
husband was a letter from his father,
written in December, 1872, in which he
asks forgiveness for favoring Coleman.
Mending Matrimonial Chains.
A curious institution for the purpose
of matrimonial reconciliation exists in
the old provinces of Prussia, in whicn
the population amounts to more than
seventeen millions, who are mainly Protestants.
The courts have, of course,
the power of granting divorces ; but before
any suit of divorce can be entertained,
a very singular process must be
gone through. Man and wife are required
in the first instance,to present themselves
before some clerical or lav authority for
the purpose of being, if possible, reconciled.
When the marriages are between
persons of different religions, the
magistrate may be applied to for this
purpose. But the people of these
provinces are, for the most part, Protestants,
and in the vast majority of
cases the clergyman is the reconciling
authority prescribed by the law. The
plaintiff in such a quarrel must.in the first
instance, go to him and state his or her
grievance, and the clergyman must next
hear the wife or the husband, who, in the
oonteraplated suit, would become the
defendant. When he has heard them
separately, so as to become acquainted
with the strength and the weakness of
the case on both sides, he then hears
them together, and exerts all his powers
of persuasion to effect a reconciliation.
If ha fails in his efforts, the parties can
proceed with their suit; but some very
interesting statistics have recently been
issued at Berlin with respect to the success
of such efforts. It appears that in
1873 the number of married couples
who desired a separation was 7,325. Of
these, no fewer than 2,829 were reconciled
by the intervention of clergymen.
In C03 of these cases the reconciliation
proved ineffectual; but the general result,
without taking into account pending
eases,, was that nearly one-third of the
whole number of matrimonial disputes
were thus appeased. In 1874 the number
of quarreling couples and the proportion
*of those reconciled were about
the same. Even a failure in the first instance
does not seam to destroy the efficacy
of the resource ; for of those who
renewed their quarrels a second time,
about a third were once more reconciled.
The success of the clergy, in fact, in this
function is so considerable, that they
have earned the honorable title of
,* peacemakers."
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Chloroforming a Horse.
A curious operation was performed by
Dr. Wm. Hailes, Jr., at the request of
Mr. Newton, upon a valuable trotter,
belonging to him. The horse is a hue
animal, with a record of 2:30; for some
time it has been noticed that when
speeding him he labors nnder a difficulty
in breathing, his throat appearing to be in
some manner choked up. Determined to
ascerta;n the cause, and, if possible,
remedv the difficulty, the owner consent
ed to "an operation. It is well known
that it is a very difficult thing to cause a
horse to lie down, and iu order to obviate
this it was decided to jvminist r
chloroform while the operation was b ing
performed. Accordingly a lnrg*
q lantitv of chlorfoor.n and ether m'xed
in equal parte, was a ministered. The
an'mal objected very strenuously to the
treatment, but was finally, abon4. ten
minutes alter the dose had been applied,
overcome and fell to the floor. An incision
in the vicinity of the throat
was then cut, and a very careful
examination made, but nothing could be
found which would be likely to hinder
the breathing. It is supposed that the j
trouble is in a membraneous thickening j
of the tissues of tl? throat, for which, of;
ocmrse, nothing cin be done: ? Albany
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items of interest.
The boss team?A yoke of oxen.
Two-button kids?A young goat fight.
Hotel-keepers are people we have to
i "put up with." z
Agony personified?A bachelor editor
trying to prepare an able and judicious
article on the baby show.
OharlesBarth made a treasury of his
bed in Bosoobel, Wis., and after his
death securities for $13,000 were found
in it.
There are over l.yuu oonvicie m ue
penitentiary at Joliet, HI., and the number
is increasing at the rate of 100 a
month.
A murder jury at Beading, Pa., offered
prayer at every meal, and petitioned the
Divine Providence to direct them in their
verdict
The Black Hills papers say if 1,000
women would immigrate there thev
would at once find remunerative work
and husbands.
At midnight on a lonely road: " You
don't recognize me ?. Why, you defended
me and got me off at the last assizes.
Thanks to you, I have been enabled to
resume my avocation. Your money or
your life!"
A grub of a boring species was found
in a four-foot lath the other day, in Berlin;
Conn., that must haye been in the
wood for thirteen years at least. It had
eaten almost the whole length of the
lath, leaving only a shell..
"I waa born in Bath," said a dirty
looking customer, as he harangued a
anftlitiflftl mMfinff. "and X love
ViUVTU ?V
my native place." " You don't look as
if you had ever been there since," said
one of his hearers as he proceeded to
laud an opposition candidate.
from under the bluff on which the
town of Huntsville, the capital of Madison
county, Alabama, is situated, bursts
an immense spring, clear and cold, supplying
the whole town with water for
domestic uses, for watering the streets,
and for use by the fire department. It is
the largest spring in Alabama.
\
If I should come to high renown.
And compass things divinely great,
And stand a pillar of the State",
And count an empire all my own,
And miss myself?I were a child,
That sold himself to slavery
In some fair castle by the sea
That glimmered toward his mountain wild.
In Auburn (N. Y.) prison there were
recently 1,405 convicts. .Fifty-three of
the number were " life men," of whom
on their entrance the oldest was fiftyseven
years old; the youngest, fifteen.
The man longest in the prison was sent
there on September 25, 1858. The average
cost of supporting each convict is
$70.31 yearly; or nineteen cents and
three mills daily. -Superintendent Pilshiirv
in npcotifttinff for COUftBBCtS, which,
~ "** ' o - D - ..
if obtained, will. give employment for
1,000 convicts. The total earnings per
convict are increasing. In 1870 they were
$51.36; in 1877, $58.76.
The North Hill boys tied a sky rocket
to a dog's tail, and when it began to fizz
the dog looked at his watch, and remarking
that he had just time enough to get
to the depot to catch the train, stprted
off, So did the rocket. For a secon^ot
two it was doubtful whether the rOdJtet
would run away with'the dog, or the dbg
with the rocket. Bat at last the canine
got the bulge, and settled down to a two
minute gait, increasing the distance and
cutting down his time every jump, while
they could hear him howling clear to
Keokuk. The dog passed through Winnebago
county Wednesday night, and is
supposed to have reached the Evergreen
shore by this time.?-Burlington Hoickeye,
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A Thirteen Year Old Thief.
The case of Libby* O'Brien, whose
singular career hast just been brought
to light, is another case of youthful depravity,
and one, unfortunately, of an
increasing number. The defenders of
the theory that wickedness is a part of
the nature of man will find new support
in such on illustration oMheir theory.
The illustration gains additional merit
from the (act that thS mother of this
poor girl is an honest and industrious
woman, who was utterly ignorant of her
daughter's crimes and degradation ; yet,
notwithstanding the evidence on this
side of the question, it is probable that
Libby has been influenced by various
circumstances and characters, and that
no proper restraint has been placed
upon her actions and desires. In appearance
she is qnite prepossessing, although
her features scarcely indicate the
possession of nerve and canning which
she has demonstrated in such a remarkable
degree. The system of deception
that she has pursued from the beginning
of her downward career proves, howA
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ever, mm uei upjiciuBn^c ? <? .?v
deceptive as l>er receift existence has
been. That she has excellent traits of
character there can be no doubt, and her
yout'i may safely be brought forward in
partial extenuation of her crimes. Yet
the fact that she is so young?just thirteen
years old?makes these crimes still
more horrible. What fiendish power
has been working in the heart of this
child ? She has, it appears, committed
twelve robberies., She has, perhaps,"
been the menus of ruining an innocent
woman. When accused of having been
concerned in a number of sneak robberies
she made no denial, and, what is
still worse, showed no signs of trepidation.
Outwardly she is a hardened ~ <
criminal. Yet we may be pardoned for
still entertaining the belief that *?he is
not altogether beyond good influences.
Here is a good chance, therefore, for some
truejphilanthropist. We Lor e that something
will be done to save the child, not
to punish her with a rained life.?New
York Telegram. /
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Editor and Landlord.
Landlord.?44 Mr. Editor, I'll thank
you to say I keep the best table iu the
city."
Editor? "1,11 thank you to supply
my family with board gratis. "
Landlord? 44 I thought yon were glad
to get something to fill up your paper. "
Editor? 441 thought yon were g'ai to
fesd men for nothing. "
It's a poor rule that won't work both
ways.
Exit landlord in a rags, threatening to
hdro nothing mott.to ao witfi (fid offlcs.