The Women or Schorndorf.
Is the southwest portion of Germany
is the village of Schorndorf. Although
now little more than a mere postal sta
tion, U was formerly one of the strongest
forti tied towns of Northern Swabia, and
the pride of the beautiful valley of the
Reins. . ;
After the treaty of Westphalia when
the Bishoprics of Metz, Tul and Vcrdan
were ceded to France, the idea entered
into the French mind to search carefully
through the public records for the names
of all towns and cities which during any
former period had been the property of
either f the three Bishoprics, and to de
mand them from Germany as a portion
of the rightful spoils. Although this
preposterous demand failed to be pre
sented in Us original shape, it led to a
series of ageressions which final!' cul
minated in that devastation of the Pals
in 1G88 and 1689 by the French armies
under the direction of Montclas and
Me lac.
Mannheim, Rastaat, Baden, Heidel
berg and many other places were already
in ruins, and the French forces were
rapidly advancing toward the boundaries
of Swabia, their thirst for robbery and
destruction increasing with every step.
The Government of Wurtemburg, in
the hope of saving Stuttgart, delivered
all the towns of Northern Swabia into
the enemy's hands, and the only fortifi
cation which had not been destroyed by
the French troops was that of Schorn
dorf, to which the people looked as a
last hope.
The French commander sit confident
ly in his camp at Esslingen. laying plans
for his winter quarters in Wurtemburg.
The lloyal Commissioners had already
left Stuttgart to give orders to Schorn
dorf to fling open its gates to the invad
ing host, and the French gave little heed
to this last stronghold of the Wurtem
burg Government, so sure were they of
its speedy surrender. But exactly at
this point was the invading nrmy to meet
its cheek; for within the walls of Schorn
dorf was a determined man, and, what
was still more important, a determined
woman! "
The man wa the commander of the
fortifications, Teter Krunimhaar. Al
though he had received the royal com
mand to make a slight show of resist
ance, and then surrender the city, he re
fused to obey.
At . length 'a ; special messenger ap
peared from Stuttgart stating that the
French commander had given orders to
burn the royal residence and take im
mediate possession of the city, unless
Schorndorf complied with the demands
made upon it. But, in spite of all de
mands and orders, Krummhaar remained
firm. He had strengthened his forces
by drawing in large numbers of patriotic
villagers from the surrounding country,
and was determined to hold out until the
imperial army arrived. But treachery
and cowardice were so rampant in the
highest places that Krummhaar found
his strength growing less and less. At
length he summoned a meeting in the
Town Hall of all the officials and lead
ing men, to consult upon the possibility
of a continued defense.
Frau Kunkelin, the wife of the Mayor
of the city, was a tall woman of about
fifty years, whose word was law with all
the women in Schorndorf. Of a firm,
upright character, she had made herself
universally beloved and respected. Her
patriotism was of that kind which al
lows nothing to stand in its path, but
sacrifices everythingto the beloved coun
try. She suspected that the voice of the
City Fathers would be for surrender, and,
secretly following them to the council
hall, she hid herself to listen. As she
had feared, the patriotic determination
of Peter Krummhaar was overruled, and
the city doomed to fall like its sisters.
Frau Kunkelin rushed wildly from the
hall. Sending messengers through the
town, she summoned all the women to
assemble before her, armed with what
ever they could lay hands on. " We
have not laid up riches for these rascally
Frenchmen to live and grow fat on,
said she, ' and Stuttgart will see that
Schorndorf will not be humbled in the
dust, like Tubingen and Asberg."
An army of women was soon assem
bled. Armed with every conceivable
weapon, from a broomstick to a sword,
they presented a very strange appearance.
Then, with Frau Kunkelin at their head,
they marched to the Town Hall, and
broke in upon the solemn conclave of
their husbands. Frau Kunkelin, advanc
ing toward the astonished City Fathers,
made them a speech, in which she called
upon them to protect their homes, clos
ing with these words, addressed to her
husband himself : " I will kill you with
my own hand if you act the part of a
traitor."
After announcing their intentions,
the women proceeded to take possession
of the Town Hall, and, organizing them
selves into companies, held strict guard
over the gates of the city. For two days
and three nights the town remained in the
hands of the women, the City Fathers,
"on pain of death," being compelled to
obey their commands. Meanwhile, Peter
Krummhaar was assisting the women in
every way. Every moment was a step
toward salvation, for the imperial army
was rapidly approaching. The moral
effect, too, of this patriotic uprising of
the women was immei.se, and the wlfole
country which had been cowed down with
abject terror rose with one accord to save
the Fatherland. -
The heroine ' of Schorndorf, Frau
Kunkelin, lived many years after the up
rising of the women took place, and, it is
said, related the history to a goodly num
ber of grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
The Aldine.
The Destrnction of Forests.
TnE constant and reckless destruction
of our forests is fast bringing us to a
condition in .which there will be occa
sion for .real alarm. It is not probable
that any " scare" like that which a few
yeais ago went over England, concern
ing the prospective exhaustion of her
coal supply, 'will immediately occur in
America touching the loss of our for
ests, but we wish something near enough
approaching it might happen to stop a
work that is full of evil promise.
In the whole United States there is
left but one really great tract of timber.
It lies at the far extreme of our country,
and consists of about one-half of Wash
ington Territory and a third of Oregon.
California has, perhaps, 500,000 acres of
forest, of which fully one-half has been
cut away within the last two or three
years. Here in New York we have no
considerable forest left except in the
Adirondack region. Our wealth of
maple, walnut and hickory is substan
tially, gone, and a large part of it has
been wantonly destroyed. Wisconsin
had a magnificent forest growth, but the
people are sweeping it away at a rapid
rate. One billion feet of timber were
cut in a single year. It will not take
more than a decade or two at the utmost
to fairly exhaust this source of wealth to
the State. Michigan and Minnesota are
following in the same course, slashing
away at their forests as if a tree had no
right to lift its head. One of our most
intelligent army officers. Gen. Brisbin,
who knows the Western country thor
oughly, and to whose accurate knowledge
of this subject we are indebted for many
facts, say9 that 59.000 acres of Wiscon
sin timber are cut annually to supply the
Kansas and Nebraska markets alone.
The Saginaw forests are even now prac
tically "destroyed,- and if the Northern
Pacific Railway is built it will open up
to the ax the one remaining belt of
American timber, in Oregon and Wash
ington Territory.
The railroads have been the great de
stroyers of oar forests. They use 160,
000,000 of ties annually that means the
leveling of at least 150,000 acres of trees.
The timber they use, also, is not the
refuse or the inferior, but among the
very best fine young trees eight to ten
inches in diameter. The Union Pacific
Company undertook at first to lay their
road with cottonwood ties, drawn from
the occasional wooded canons along the
line of the road. One consequence of
this was shown in our Washington dis
patch the otker day regarding the legis
lation to be asked of Congress for the re
lief of the road. The Government,, Com
mission appointed to examine the line
reported that it was not completed with
in the terms of the law. The use of
these soft-wood ties was held by them to
be an evasion of contract, and Govern
ment patents for the lands granted along
two or three hundred miles of the road
have accordingly been refused. The
settlers who have bought the lands can
get no titles from the company, for it has
none. This looks bad for our forests,
since it means the ultimate destruction
of thousands of acres of more good tim
ber to replace the condemned ties which
have already swept olF a large part of
the few precious growths of this com
paratively treeless region. If it is re
membered that ties have to be renewed
every seven years the extent of the de
mand on our forests will be appreciated.
When 10,000 miles more of rails have
been laid it will require all the trees in
the country to supply the demand for
ties.
Fences are also enormous consumers of
trees. In the East we are learning in
this regard economy from necessity, but
in the West, in some States, the farmers
cut down the forests with scarcely more
thought than they harvest their grain.
The fences of the United States, people
may not generally know, have cost more
than the lands, and are to-day the most
valuable class of property, save railroads
and real estate in cities. Illinois alone
has $2,000,000 invested in fences, and
they cost annually $175,000 for repairs.
In Nebraska, where excellent herd laws
are in force, the necessity for fences has
been so much lessened that the fences of
the State cost less in proportion to popu
lation than in any other in the Union.
The outrageous waste of timber caused
by the felling of forcst3 and the burning
of the trees to bring the land under cul
tivation still goes on at a fearful rate.
From 1800 to 1870 no less than 12,000,000
acres of forest were thus wantonly de
stroyed. For fuel also vast tracts are
leveled of their trees. It took 10.000
acres of forest to supply Chicago with
fuel one year, 1871. Our annual decrease
of forest from all these causes is not far
from 8,000,000 acres. Yet we plant only
10,000 acres of new forest a year.
The necessity for a commission of
forestry and the need of efficient laws
in all the States for the preservation of
our forests need no further argument
than these tacts. JV. 1 . J imes.
A Day's Churning.
They have a new hired girl over at
Kevser's farm, just outside our town,
and on Tuesday, before starting' to
spend the day with a friend, Mrs. Key
ser instructed the girl to whitewash the
kitchen during her absence. Upon re
turning Mrs. Keyser found the job com
pleted in a very satisfactory manner. On
Wednesdays Mrs. Keyser always churns,
and on last Wednesday when she was
ready she went out, and, finding that Mr.
Keyser had already put the milk into the
churn, she began to turn the handle.
This was at eight o'clock in the morn
ing, and she turned until ten without
any signs of butter appearing. Then
she called in the hired man and he
turned until dinner time, when he
knocked off with some very offensive
language addressed to that butter which
had not yet come. After dinner the
hired girl took hold of the crank and
turned it energetically until two o'clock,
when she let go with a remark which
conveyed the impression that she be
lieved the churn to be haunted. Then
Mr. Keyser came out and said he wanted
to know what was the matter with that
churn, anyhow. It was a good-enough
churn if people only knew enough to work
it. Mr. Keyser then worked the crank un
til half-past three, when, as the butter had
not come, he surrendered it again to
the hired man because he had an engage
ment in the village. The man ground
the machine to an accompaniment of
frightful imprecations; then the Keyser
children each took a turn for half an
hour, then Mrs. Keyser tried her hand,
and when she was exhausted she again
enlisted the hired girl, who said her
prayers while she turned. But the butter
didn't come. When Keyser came home
and found the churn still in action he
blasted his eyes and did some other in
nocent swearing, and then he seized the
handle and said he'd make the butter
come if he kicked tip an earthquake in
doing in. Mr. Keyser effected about two
hundred revolutions of the crank a
minute, enough to have made any
ordinary butter come from the ends of
the earth; and when the perspiration be
gan to stream from him and still the
butter didn't come he uttered one wild
yell of rage and disappointment and
kicked the churn over the fence. When
Mrs. Keyser went to pick it up she put
her nose down close to the buttermilk
and took a sniff. Then she understood
how it was. The girl had mixed the
whitewash in the churn and left it there.
A gopd, honest and intelligent servant
who knows how to churn can find a situa
tion at Keyser's. There is a vacancy.
Max Adder, in DanJury Neics.
An Avalanche on the Matterhorn.
Sitting there gazing at the 7,000 or
8,000 feet of the Matterhom's height and
breadth that were still higher than my
resting-place, and drinking in the influ
ence of the vast silent scene around and
beneath, I perceived a movement upon
the left-hand outline and a large. surface
of the adjacent front of the mountain.
The upper fourth part apparently of the
mountain's height from the left-hand
edge to about the middle of the, front
was already bare and black like solid
rock. The movement of the mass, at the
outset very deliberate, was first percep
tible from the widening distance of the
dark surface between its upper edge and
a crest of bare rock that stood out upon
the profile above.' Then it was plain
that the entire weight of snow for a
thousand or two feet below on that side
of the mountain and nearly to the midst
of its front, as I viewed it, was moving;
and I felt the strange, false sense of
being lifted w ith the whole steep, mossy
bank on which I sat facing the avalanche.
Swiftly it gathered momentum and its
immensity became more comprehensible
when its greater part, fifty to a hundred
feet thick, shot out over a" crag that had
not been visible under this great thick
ness of snow, and down through the
clear air in one vast sheet, striking
upon a less inclined surface 2,000 feet
below, where it was dashed into a mill
ion fragments, and there flashed up a
vast cloud of fine, dusty snow. Rapidly
massing itself, it again surged forth
from the fleecy bosom of the snow
cloud over a precipice of nearly vertical
wall for a mile or more into its final
depths, leaving a large area upon the
mountain black and barren, and tossing
upward throughout the broad abyss an
other and more widely-spreading snow
cloud, while its sudden displacement of
air produced a rushing wind which
reached to where I sat. As you first see
the distant artillery's rushing smoke, and
hear the roar, so here arose, far beneath
and a mile or two away, a rolling, white,
misty cloud, and then the astounding
thunder of the concussion. The inter
ruption of this avalanche in its prog
ress doubled its sublimity. Had it
rushed all the way down one incline,
with no intervening crash between the
loosening of the mass and its plunge
into the depths, or if it had shot ofl clear
into the air and struck into the very bot
tom in a solid mass, it could not have
carried with it such majestic movement
of awful deliberation, nor produced
such prolonged and terrific roar. Cor.
Detroit Tribune.
Sacck fou DrcKs. Serve a rich gravy
in the dish, cut the breast in slices; but
don't take them off; cut a lemon, and
put pepper and salt on it; then squeeze
it on the breast, and pour a spoonful of
gravy over before you serve it out. -
A St. Paul paper, in announcing the
amusements for the sason, said: "We
don't know -who follows the minstrels."
It was a hotel-landlord, and he followed
them all the way from Milwaukee with
an unpaid board bill.
Vermont's State debt is $360,000,
having been reduced $153,000 in the past
two years.
Where impudence is wit it is folly to
reply.
USEFUL AND SUGGEST1YE.
Sprinkled chips of dried sassafras
will keep away worms from dried fruit.
Milkers, stop dipping your fingers in
the bucket of milk and wetting the cow's
teats; of all dirty habits this is the
worst.
Butter when pure is non-nitrogenous;
if they is any portion of whey present
it becomes nitrogenous and will decom
pose. Pomade Called Beak's Oil. Melt to
gether over a water bath, soft or lard
body, six pounds ; oil of almonds three
pounds. Mix well, and upon its com
mencing to congeal add oil of bergamot,
two ounces; oil of cloves, one ounce;
oil of rose, twenty drops; oil of neroly,
twenty drops. Beat well with a wooden
spatula until cool.
In regard to the means or possibility of
deciding the sex of eggs much difference
of opinion exists. - But M. Genin, in a
communication to the French Academy
of Sciences on this subject, states that
he is now able, after having investigated
the matter carefully for several years, to
state that all eggs containing the germ of
males have wrinkles on their smaller
ends, while female eggs are smooth at
the extremities. New York Timet.
Keeping Eggs. Emily Audinwood,
Stanstcad Plains, P. Q., says: "I have
tried several experiments, but find none
to answer so well as the following; I
have kept eggs for two years and found
them perfectly good when used: Two
pounds of coarse salt boiled ten minutes
in one gallon rain water; pour off into
an earthen jar. When nearly cold stir
in five tablespoons of quick-lime; let it
stand till next day; then put in the eggs
and keep them tightly covered until
wanted for use."
Savory Mutton on Veal Cutlets.
Cut up the chops and beat them with the
edge of a knife. Beat the yolks of a few
eggs and dip the cutlets in them ; season
them with pepper, salt, nutmeg and
bread crumbs. Roll them in buttered
crumbs and broil them. Use for sauce
some good gravy, a piece of butter,
crumbs of bread, capers, anchovies, with
some nutmeg and a little vinegar. As
soon as they are dressed, tear off the pa
pers ano set them on the dish with the
sauce. Cor. Germantown Telegraph.
To Preserve Cider. Prof. Horsford's
recipe for arresting the fermentation of
cider at any point is as follows: "Put
the new cider into clean casks or barrels
and allow it to ferment from one to three
weeks, according as the weather is cool
or warm. hen it has attained to lively
fermentation add to every gallon of cider
three quarters of a pound of white
sugar, and let the whole ferment again
until it possesses nearly the brisk, pleas
ant taste which it is desirable should be
permanent. Pour out a quart of the cider
and mix with it one-quarter ounce sul
phate of lime for every gallon the cask
contains. Stir it until it is thoroughly
mixed and pour the emulsion into
the liquid. Agitate the contents
of the cask thoroughly for a
few moments, then let it rest
that the cider may settle. Fermenta
tion will be arrested at once and will not
be resumed. It may be bottled in the
course of a few weeks, or it may be al
lowed to remain in the cask and used on
draught. If bottled it will become a
sparkling cider of surpassing excellence."
Plant Lire In Winter.
Activity in plant life in winter is not
alone confined to the crj'ptogamia. Dur
ing this inclement season many of our
forest trees ripen and perfect their seeds.
The firs and pines are not like the decid
uous trees, which allow the moisture
thej' contain to freeze in winter. The
temperature of a pine tree under the
bark never falls below the congealing
point, no matter how severe the cold
may be outside. These resinous trees
keep up a kind of low tree heat as do the
bears a low animal heat in freezing
weather. Consequently the circulation
of sap goes on and the immature seeds
arc ripened. In some localities in the
northern part of our country those ever
greens grow which bear true leaves, like
the ivy, laurel, or perhaps the holly. AVe
call these plants evergreens: but in fact
they change their leaves as do the decid
uous varieties. The change is made
gradually, one leaf dropping off when
another has grown to replace it, and so
the tree, is never wholly deprived of its
foliage. It is probable that in winter
there is considerable vegetative activity
in these evergreens, as it is impossible
that these changes can take place when
the sap i3 completely dormant. Sun
light and warmth are agents of tremen
dous power in connection with plant ac
tivities. If in the depth of winter a mild
day occurs, we shall find, by making in
cisions in the stem or branches of trees,
that the slumbering forces are partially
awakened and the sap ia in motion.
We speak of the trees as being bare of
foliage in winter: but this is not abso
lutely true, for trees have winter leaves
as well as summer leaves. These leaves
are less apparent, but they are no less
real or perfect. If we take from a tree
one of its buds and examine it carefully
we shall see that it is composed of a little
bunch of true leaves nicely compressed in
layers, resembling fish-scales. These are
the winter leaves of trees, and every
species has them perfectly characteristic
of its kind. .
This winter dress of trees is no apparel
suddenly formed or put on late in the
autumn; it is the growth of all the
spring and summer months. During the
hot season, when the sap is active, it was
diverted away from the buds by the
great demand of the expanding summer
foliage, so that their growth was slow.
They remain immature until the summer
leaves begin to fall, when the sap flows
toward the buds and they are perfected.
The winter dress of trees has a purpose
in the economy of plant life. The
structure in winter does not demand nu
trition, but it must have protection, and
this the buds afford. In them is stored
up all the beauty and glory of the vege
tation of the coming year, and thus ttiey
possess an interest of the highest kind.
Nature is very careful in these buds, for
it seems to understand that in them exist
latent forms of life most intimately con
nected with the welfare of the race. In
order to protect them they are com
pressed together tightly in the smallest
possible space and covered in under an
air-tight and water-tight roof. The outer
layer of buds is either covered by a
warm coat of fine hairs or cemented
closely with a resinous or glutinous
secretion, which resists the action of
water. NicJiaC Fireside Science.
The Rack and Loins of a Horse.
Wjien a horse's back is short the loins
will be found to be broad and strong
what is called good; a circumstance
arising from the circularity of the chest
and the breadth of the hips these four
formations, viz., shortness of back, cir
cularity of chest, breadth of hips and
strength of loins, generally being found
in combination. It is a great matter
that a horse should have good loins, and
when these are associated with a long
back and tJe requisite length and sub
stance f hind-quarters we may take it
for granted that the animal possesses
both speed and endurance. Look at the
hares and rabbits, greyhounds, deer, and
such like animals and note w hat thick
ness of loins and length and muscularity
of hind limbs they all exhibit, w hile
their fore parts amount to hardly any
thing in comparative substance. It is
impossible that a horse with thin, nar
row loins can last; the moment his feet
sink in the dirt that moment he will fail.
It is the good loin that can and the only
point that can compensate for hollow
ness of back. When the loins are good,
not length, not even hollowness of back,
are to be accounted objectionable points.
It is nonsense to pretend to prescribe
that the back should be long or short, of
this length or that; although we may, in
a general way, fall in with the common
description of what a back ought to be,
and say " that, to be a good one, it
should sink a little below (behind) the
withers and then run straight." The
back will be too large or too short, or
(though, to the observer, of unusual
longitude or shortness, still) of the proper
length, depending upon the formation
and dimensions -of other parts with
which, in structure and action, it is asso
ciated. A long back would ill accord with short
legs, defeated in their operation ; a short
back would not require long legs, they
would do too much for it. We have,
therefore, long-backed horses and short
backed horses, and yet with backs of
proper length; because the longitude,
whatever it may be, is that which is the
suitable length for the machine of which
it forms a part. A very common, but
not less, on that account, reprehensible
custom among "judges of horses," is to
find fault with a point, without any ref
erence whatever to the general or par
ticular conformation with which that
point is consorted. Abstractedly consid
ered, it may be out of proportion ; but
considered correlatively, w ith out-of -proportioned
other parts in the same frame,
it may be in the best proportion, or of
such proportion as serves to compensate
for faulty dimensions in other parts. A
part most faultlessly fashioned and pro
portioned may placed among certain
other ill-formed or out-of-proportioned
parts appear itself to be the faulty
piece in the fabric.
In an animal body, as in machines
made by man's hands, the great object to
be sought for is Juinnony between the
constituent members; at the instant we
are not hastily to condemn any apparent
disproportion, lest, on critical examina
tion, it should turn out to have been
given for the purpose of compensation
to make amends for some defective
structure elsewhere, which may not at
first sight have struck our attention.
Praiiie Farmer.
Temporary Dam for Ice Ponds.
A correspondent wishes to make a
temporary pond from which he may cut
ice in the winter, and afterward draw
off the water, leaving the stream and
its banks in their usual condition. This
may be done by erecting a temporary
dam in the following manner: Select a
part of the stream where the largest
space may be flooded with the shortest
dam. A place where the banks slope
rapidly and above which they recede
from the stream should be chosen. In a
direct line across this place set some
strong fence posts not more than eight
feet apart. They should set at least four
feet deep, and bedded with lime mortar
and stone or cement concrete to make
them perfectly solid. If the dam is not
more than four feet high these precau
tions are not necessary, but if of a greater
height they will be needed to resist the
pressure of the water and that of the
ice when its surface is acted upon by the
wind. The posts should be strongly
braced the braces being set in the same
manner as the posts. These posts may
remain always in their position ready
for use, and will occupy very little room
or occasion very little "inconvenience at
any time. If they can be set up in a
fence row so much the better. All that
is needed then is to provide some hem
lock planks of equal width and sixteen
feet long, jointed and tongud and
grooved upon their edges. These are
fastened to the posts by carriage bolts,
the nuts of which are exposed on the
outer side of the dam. The middle
panel of the dam is made of planks eight
feet long, so that when it is desired
the bolts may be taken out and the
planks removed one by one, and
the pond drained off gradually. The
other planks are made to break
joints, the ends being bolted to alternate
posts, which will help to strengthen the
dam. The lower planks mut be made
to fit the surface of the ground, and
should be sunk three or four inches in it,
and the ground well rammed around
them. If any leaks occur as the water
is raised, which should be done gradual
ly by putting in one plank of the center
panel at a time, they should be stopped
by throwing in sawdust, tan-bark or
leaves, or swamp muck. Wiien the
whole i? up, the upper plank of the mid
dle panel should be hollowed out suffi
ciently to allow the waste water to es
cape. If there is any danger of the fall
ing water washing the soil away, a slop
ing apron of boards should be'made to
receive it. A pond with a surface of
half an acre frozen six inches thick will
furnish 300 tons of ice. Where the
ground is favorable, a pond of this size
may easily be made at an expense of
twenty-five dollars, and the fixtures will
not need renewing for twenty years.
The main point is to be 6ure that the
posts and braces are properly set, and
that the planks fit tightly; then there
will be no danger of the dam breaking
or the water leaking away. If the water
flows back into other fields there is no
need to remove the fences, even if they
are of rails, if they are well staked and
such riders as are likely to be covered
with water are wired down to the top
rails. American Agriculturist.
A Very Notable Performance.
It is instanced as perhaps the most
striking of the many proofs of the
enormous brain-power and capacity of
the Great Napoleon that he could dic
tate upon different subjects to several
secretaries at the same time, or as fast as
each could write, and continue such dic
tation for an indefinite time. The matter
is stated as a fact in several of the lives
of Napoleon, and I have never seen it
questioned in print; indeed, I believe
that something very similar is narrated
of one or two other celebrated char
acters. The faculty is truly a marvelous
one; and the ability to carry on two or
more manual operations at once, which
are not merely automatic or mechanical,
is only less wonderful. But what an
astonishing exhibition would it be to see
the same person perform simultaneously
two mental and two manual operations!
The nearest approach to this that occurs
to me is the case of the itinerant musi
cian who many of us have seen perform
upon two or more instruments together,
but it is always the same tune that is
played upon both. If a single instance
can be given of a performance by the
same person at the same time of two
entirely different tunes upon two different
instruments, steadily and without lapse or
break, I will readily admit that the
exhibition would be quite as wonderful
as was that which I am about to relate.
From the same gentleman who related
to rue the anecdote of Gouverneur Morris
which was published in Hearth and Home,
I have the following relating to the same
eminent personage. My informant was
present upon the occasion to which I am
about to refer, is still living, and is per
fectly reliable; so I may claim that the
story is sufficiently authenticated:
During one of his visits to his vast
possessions in the northern counties of
New York several persons were with Mr.
Morris in his office one day, when the
conversation happened to turn upon the
remarkable power of Napoleon to which
I have alluded. Some one remarked that
the ability to dictate to two or more
amanuenses at the same time was an ex
trardinary one.
"Not60 much so," said Morris, "as
the ability to write on two different sub
jects at the same time with a pen in each
hand."
"That is true," was the rejoinder,
" but I never heard of any one who
could do that."
1 think I can," remarked Morris.
"Let me try."
Turning to his desk he arranged two
blank pieces of paper before him and
took a pen in each hand.
"I was about to till out a description
in a deed," he said, " and I must alst
write a letter to the grantee to accom
pany the deed. Now let us see if 1 can
do it all at once."
And to the amazement and admiration
of all present, each of whom we may be
sure scrutinized the performance with
critical watchfulness, he did it as cleverly
and rapidly as though he had been writ
ing either separately, and the task was
performed with excellent penmanship,
without blots or erasures, and without
the least mistake or confusion in expres
sion. Now, more than sixty years after that
day, I commit the record of it to print,
well knowing that it deserves a place
among the minor chronicles of the great.
James Franklin, lifts, in Jlearth and
Home.
Judgment of MrsrciAxs. Theodore
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What I Know About Vegetine.
H. R. Stetexs:
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quarter the prices printed for them. As a rule, tho
poorer the organ the higher its printed price and tho
greater the discount on it.
The MASO.V Si HAJlXrV ORG.W CO. are
now ottering new styles, with important Improve
ments, and are selling not only for cash exclusively,
but also on new plans of easy pavments, running
through one vear or longer. They also rent new or
gans with privilege of purchase. 'Rent jiuiil tlirce
year p.irrlinaes t lie Organ.
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Every soldier who was disabled while In the service
Of the liepublie, either by wounds, broken limbs, w
ciilrnlal injuries, hernia or rupture, loss of eyesight or
diseased eyes, or was broken down in the service I'T
exposureor hardships incident to camp life and field
duty, or where disease of the lungs has been Contract
ed in the service, when the resultund sequence of oth
er disease, such as pneumonia, retroeessii or falling
back of the measles, or Where the phliiti pulmonale
Is the direct result of the exposure of camp life, or
diseases of the bowels, such as chronic diarrhO'a and
the like. Every soldier who has thus been disabled is
entitled to an Isv a i.i d I'cnhion. Lveu the loss of a
finger entitles a soldier to a pension.
All widows and children of soldiers dying In the
service, or after they were discharged, on account of
wounds received or'disease contracted in the service,
arc also entitled to a pension.
Special Attention ;iren to 1aim for
Increase ol Invalid Iciiion.
M'rethan Wwho are now drawing a pension aro
justly entitled to an increase. iy lerins are:
o Cliarsres JTIade I'or Advice,
And no fee ever asked unless successful in collecting
your claims. . A , .
I also rake tip claims that have been rejected In tne
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dlertoseeatonce the exact amount oi wuv
aril
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Wishart's
Pino Tree Tar
Cordial !
Nature's Groat
Romedy
FOR ALL
Throat and Lung
Diseases.
For Sale by All Drug
gists end Storekeepers.
Dr. J. Walker's California Vin
egar Jlillcrs aro a purely Vcctalii
preparation, mado chicily from tho na
tivo herbs found on tho lower ranges of
the Sierra Nevada mountains of Califor
nia, tho medicinal properties of which
aro extracted therefrom without tho uso
of Alcohol. Tho question 13 almost
daily asked, "What is tho causo of tht
unparalleled success of Vixegar Hit
ters?" Our answer is, that they removo
tho causo of disease, and tho patient re
covers his health. They aro tho pre at
blood purifier and a life-giving principle,
a perfect lienovator and Invigorator
of tho Eystem. Never heforo in tho
history of" tho world ha n niedicino ler-n
compounded posscsHinfr tho retr.nrkaMe)
qualities of Vinkoar Bitters in ho.ilintr tha
sick of every disease, man h heir to. They
are a gentle rurtrativo as well as a Tonic,
relieving Congestion or Inflammation of
the Liver and Visceral Organs, in Bilious
Diseases.
Tho properties of Dr. Walker's
VlSEOAR Uittkrs are Aperient, Diaphoretic,
Carminativa, Nutritious, Laxative. .Jinn-tie,
Sedative, Counter-irritant Sudorilic, Altera
tive, and Anti-Bilious.
Grateful Thousands proclaim Vix
egar Bitteks tho most wonderful In
vigorant that ever sustained tho fciuking
ejbtem.
No Person ean talio Iheso Hitlers
according to directions, and remain long
unwell, provided their bones aro not de
stroyed by mineral poison or other
means, and vital organs wasted beyond
repair.
IJilious, Iiemitlent and Inter
mittent l overs, which aro eo preva
lent in tho valleys of our great rivers
throughout tho United States, especially
those of tho Mississippi, Ohio, Missouri,
Illinois, Tennessee, Cumberland, Arkan
sas, Red, Colorado, Brazos, Bio Grando,
l'earl, Alabama, Mobile, Savannah, Bo
anoko, James, and many others, with
their vast tributaries, throughout our
entire country during tho Summer and
Autumn, and remarkably so during sea
sons of unusual heat and dryness, aro
invariably accompanied by extensi vo do
rangements of tho stomach and liver,
and other abdominal viscera. In their
treatment, a purgative, exerting a pow
erful inliuenco upon theso various or
gans, is essentially necessary. Thero
is no cathartic for tho purposo equal to
Dr. J. Walker's Vinegar Bitters.
as they will Epeedily removo tho dark
colored viscid matter with which tho
bowels aro loaded, at tho fanio timo
stimulating tho secretions of tho liver,
and generally restoring tho healthy
functions of tho digestive organs.
Fortify the body against diseaso
by purifying all its fluids with Vinegar
Bitters. No epidemic can tako hold
of a system thu3 fore-armed.
Dyspepsia or Indigestion, Head
ache, I'ain in the Shoulders, Coughs,
Tightness of tho Chest, Dizziness, Sour
Eructations of tho Stomach, Bad Tasto
in tho Mouth, Bilious xttacks, I'alpita
tation of tho Heart, Inflammation of tho
Lungs, I'ain in tho region of tho Kid
neys, and a hundred other painful symp
toms, aro tho offsprings of Dyspepsia"
One bottlowill provo a better guarantee,
of its merits than a lengthy advertise
ment. Scrofula, or King's Evil, Whiui
Rwellinps, Ulcers, Erysipelas, Swi-l d Neclf,
Goitre, Scrofulous Inflammation, Indolent
Inflammations, Mercurial AnVctioiH, Old
Sores, Eruptions of tho Skin, Soro Ivvcs, etc.
In these, as in all other constitutional Dis
eases, Walker's Vixkgar JiirrKus havo
shown their great etirativo powers in tho
most obstinate and intractahlo criso.
For Inflammatory and Chronic
Rheumatism, Gout, BiIio::s, Bcmit
tent and Intermittent Fevers. Diseases of
the Blood, Liver, Kidneys an 1 Bladder,
theso Bitters have no c final. Such Di -ea-scs
arc caused bv Vitiated Blood.
Mechanic.. I DiseasPS. Persons en
gaged in Faints and Minerals, finch as
Bl umbers, Tvpe-setters, Gold l"ut-rs find
Miners, r.3 they ndvance in life, are nuljcct
to parahvis of tho BowcK To puard
against this, tako a dose of Walki-k's Vis
euar Bitteks occasionally.
ForSK'in Diseases, Eruption Te t
ter, Salt Blienm, Blotches, Spot s Pimples,
Iliftules, Boils, ('Hibuiich-", Ling-worm",
Scald-ln-ad, Soro Lyes, Krysip-hn, Itch,
Scurfs, Discoloration of tho Skin, Humors
and Diseases of tho Skin of whatever iiamo
or nature, aro literally dug up and carried
out of tho system iu a'shoi t time by tho w-o
of these Bitter.?.
Tin, Tape, and other "Worms,
lurking in tho system of so many thonsuinN,
are eilt-ctually destroyed and n:moVed. 'o
sytfem of medicine, no vermit'itre, no an
thelmintics will free tho system lioia worms
lik3 these Bitters.
For Femalo Complaint , in young
or old, married or single, at the i.i wn of wo
manhood, or tho turn of life, theso Tonic
Bitters display so decided an influcnco that
improvement "is soon perceptible.
Cleanse the Vitiated J$Iool when
ever vou And its impurities bur-tins through
tho fkin in Pimples, Lrup'ion--, or Sores;
cleanse it when you find it obstructed and
sluggish in tho veins; cleanso it when i: ii
foul ; your feelings y;:i tell you when. Keep
tho blood pure, and tho health of the syr-tem
will follow.
It. II. MtDOSALI) it tO.,
Drjgjrists amlG.-n. A irta., S in Fmrciico. Citifi'mia,
and cor. of Wiishiiiirton n:il rijariloTi su.. X. Y.
Sold by till Ltrugglol siliil Dealer.
TUl' "FAIULT FAVOKITE.'
Jte
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riety of mirk without etraftj-hniftit.
We einplmtlenny di-njr t hetareiii-iit mad tr mri'tiM
of other nraeliiuts cuuecrmug our gooiia aiid our lui
nea standing.
Ssnrii .MacMnB Co.,
153 Slate St., Chicago, 111.
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mupj AGKfTS READ THIS!
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CAUL O Pred'et tlint hlH lumk will bearcitinrk-
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ptt'i'lc clamor too t;. m rnl to be tltst ..gariicd. JV. 1'.
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w a it ShaV-peart or Baeen w :.ii! of Joltn TauVs
w boi.k 7ftre's imtmr. i.i K r it v i-
Urnphir. J '
Jolin Paul's Eoott will b a d?vfr mt. for lt .mk,.
tout-lie uotliiug tUat he do not auorn. hroijk ajn
Argil. "
It will be a pleasant, attractive volume. Unrptr't
Tor an airenrv fur this IwiV. sililra friT rum . -v.
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