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About The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899 | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1894)
TOPICS OF THE TIMES. A CHOICE SELECTION OF INTER ESTING ITEMS. CwumU aad CrttfrUaM Bed I'poa th Happeoiaffi of tha l5- Hitorte4 sad O k national cemeteries, eighty three in number, contain. 3So,700 honored dead. Every indlridual (trae is marked by a stone tablet of granite or marble. Solomon's temple was 107 feet long, .'i'i feet broad, and 4 feet hi'h. Though deemed a wonder of the World it was not larger than many private houses of the .eent time. While a student at Cambridge, University, Coleridge, the pott, af fected a peculiar style of conversa tion. At the dinners in the hall where the students dined, the veal served up was large and coarse Speaking of it, Coleridge Raid, "We" have veal sir, tottering on the edge o. beet. Increase Mather, once the Presi dent of Harvard College, believed firmly In the influence of c .mets up on human destiny. It Is hard to be lieve that su.b superstitions survive. Yet an English exchange says: "The rector of Harthill. in his parish mag azine, informs parents that the con junction of certain malign planets makes it more unlucky to have chil dren's parties on a Thursday for years to come."" No man ever succeeded In life who did not tut his conscience into his work, whatever it was. If you agree to perform certain labor in return for certain wage, however small, you have sold your time and ability. I)o that work the best it can be dona Form the habit of putting the be-t of yourself into all you do. Work with enthusiasm over the small tasks that are your lot ac present, always In hope that greater ones will come to you by and by. They will be sure to come. Ir has been supposed that the waters of the Dead Sea are absolute ly destitute of any li'iug vegetable or animal organism. A French in vestigator, M. Lortet. has found that this is wrong. He finds innumerable numbers of species of micro organ isms, and they are of a very malevo lent character. Animals inoculated die in a few days from the blood poisoning brought on through the agency of these minute bodies. , The Eiver Jordan, which Is so poPur with pilgrims for bathing, is said to be full of these microorganisms. There has been considerable in terest aroused throughout the world on account of Bismarck's visit to Emperor William, showing that '-all has been forgiven." The London Times has found the explanation: 'So far as it is political at all it is intended to disarm I.ismarck's hos tility during an important national crisis, for as such the llussian treaty Is recognized. Nobody knows better than the Kaiser an I Capri vi that the coming year is likely to be one of un common difficulty, and Germany's position will be an uncomfortable one. The first thing, then, istoclose the ranks and, as far as possible, con ciliate the sleepless critic of the last four years. As Bismark, with all his faults, is above all things a patriot, this w.ll not be difficult" While the farmer has suffered dur iLg the past year, he has suffered less than any other class of men in the community, and should therefore take a roseate and hopeful view of the situation. It would not surprise us in the least to see next year oneof the most properous years that the farmer has ever en'oyed. There is likely to be no glut from old stores, unless it be perhaps in wool, of any product of his farm. Heavy e xiorts .and heavy feeding together with the short crop are fast cleaning jp his granaries and there is likely to be no surplus of wheat, corn, or oats, and with a short supply of hogs and a decreasing supply of cattle, the out. look, except for the lack of coofl dence, which is fast being restored, really seems better than it has for a number of years past. The Hawaiian language Is composed mainly of vowels, and a few consonants put in to vay the monotony. And the beauty of the system is that there is no watte. Every vowel is pronounced, For instance, when the American eye winks lit tbe appearance of the simple word "naauao," the glib native rolls out tbe Ave syllables with neatness and despatch. This means "enlighten " Double rowels are very frequent, but never a dlpth ng. Three vowels are ; sot n noom son. and, as above, four aad aometlmet more are found an. tenanted by consonant. Id the mouth of the uneducated native, the k3a to apt to be explosive, bat tit fctr claesre speak it with a Loricate ttat ewfiw tbe French a fa mmad It toaewtat resembles the general flow of the con tinental European languages, for the vowels all base the F rench quality, and the accent are not dissimilar. The excessive sowing of wheat on large tracts with small yields has, the American Farmer 11, inks, run its natural (our-e. The wheat ower in the future must -ow fewer acres and get large enough yield to give him sotue profit, however low the price. But when this time comes the price of wheat must advance to a po.nt where it will pay to increase the permanent fertility of the soil. It w ill be blow work to retrace the step by which much of our cultivated land ha been depleted of its fertility. Put with the use of clover and the combination of wheat growing with other crops, and the keejingof a greater amount of stock this changt can be made Hut It can only be bj an improvement in the character ol stock so that its keeping w ill 1 mort thaa paid for, leaving the manurt pile as the profit The improvement of the character of farm stock meet us as the first ne esity in any dis cussion of the means to secure bettei farming. Why do merchants encourage tb credit system? You answer that yoi do not Yes, but you da If the pystem were not encouraged by mer chants it would not be in existence to-day. Did you ever Hop to think that the mercantile community of the country is the only body of men who tolerate the credit system? Let' bee you buy postage stamps, postal notes, money orders, etc., on credit, Go to the theater, and you pay cash. Express compan es demand cash, and railroad tickets are cash on delivery to the purchaser: Why should not the merchant demand and receive cash? Simply because be encourages the credit system. It may be an im possibility to completely eradicate the credit system, but a strict limb tation upon credits is a step'un the right road, and its evolution will be practically a cash basis system, of doing business, it is worthy of a trial, and should, begin among the jobbers. It will ,uickly spread among the re tailers, like measles in a country school, and when it does It has solved the dead-beat problem for all time. Whensifteddown.it will 1 found that the credit system is the pro genitor of and responsible for more evils that affect the financial and business world than all other agencies combined. Says Trade: If the hard times will prove a restraint to the excessive immigration of laboring people and mechanics into this country, It will have proved itseif an evil with miti gating circumstances. Why we should piesent inducements to for eigners to come here and compete with our own people in their own fields of labor is hard to understand. Our laws not only encouiage tbe im migration of cheap labor, but of paupers as well; the restrictions upon the latter have not proved efficacious la keeping them away. Jt is just as senseless to as these people to come here, offering the.n work to do, as it would be for a merchant to ask an other to start an opposition store across the street. And yet tbe Amer ican people have been doing this for a century, and we are now reaping the reward of their senseless gener osity. The law of supply and de mand regulates the price of labor, as well as of material If there has been an excess of lab .rer the cost of labor is reduced, until some of these are pauperized and Income a burden upon t'.e State and their fellow men. This country cannot afford to sup port half a mill ion competitors to its worklngmen annually without bring ing su,"iering among Its own people as well as those who come. It may be said that we cannot forbid the landing upon our shores of honest and Industrious men. No. nor would we; but these do not "compose bv any means the bulk of this immigra tion. The paupers of the old world, the socialists, tbe anarchist and the crim nal seek here a larger and wider field for their peculiar operations. Already this country has had a fore taste in thb crimes of anarchists and the threats of socialists. To these freedom and lawlessness are synony mous. They must be taught differ ently, and taught by penalties that will cause them to believe that this is a land of freedom to the law-abiding man, but an inferno to the crim inal. The poor we may take care of, if deserving; the criminal we must exterminate. 7 Weak Prod action. The term "nam by pa ruby," whl b has come to be applied to a person of vacillating character as well as to weak literary productions, was orig inated by tbe poet Pope. He applied it to tome puerile verse that had been wrtten by an obscure poet one Ambrose Phillip addressed to tbe children of a peer. Tbe flrtt half of tbe term la meant a a baby way of pronouncing Aratr, a pet nickname tor Ambrose, aad tb eeeood half la eimptv a jltttllB word to fit lb DOMESTIC ECONOMY. TOPICS OF INTEREST TO FARMER AND HOUSEWIFE. Fmrmipv la Slnre that l.eiuires a l-ifr-ouir of Mudy Profit la lloiue Market Making la of atra w C-nertkl f arm tsk The rrof.sai.tou. of Farming. Not many vears have transpired since it was believed that 'anybody could faiiu it we J enough." The farm liecame the 'n atch all" for per sons who fai ed to nuke a liiug at any other or all other business. Th ; blight young me i of the farm were Rent to learn professions, but the mediocre and the numbskulls weie ept at home to till the soil, lluw I oo'ly they have done is proved by the lact that, asauile, with exceed ingly rare except i ns, farm ng up to date in th s country has only been a system of exhausti' g the soil of its plant food, as witness the abandoned farms of New England, where tilling the soil first commenced. As this territory tilled up farmers pushed on to New Ycrk State, where the same system of soil exhaustion was pur sued, and where now abandonel (arms are numerous. The tanner leaves a trail ot impoverished soil le hin i him as surely as a snake leaves bis trail in the sand. Most of th.s conies of the lest talent seeking other channels of business, leaving the i oo rest to till the soil, it would be better for the country were there an equitable division of talent among the various kinds of employment In two years' time a young man can le come a full-Hedged lawyer or doctor; but farming is so much more intri cate that a lifetime is scar, ely suf fic. em to comprehend it fully. Sir J. R Lawes has devoted over ha f a century to itsstudy, aid now laments that he Knows so little compared with what there is to know. There is n j business or profession that re quires so bright an intellect and so deep study fully to comprehend as that of agriculture, and this fact is just beginning to be realized. To lie a sue essful farmer at the present day requires con-tant reading and ex periment Such a one must ie a studious, reflecting man. So many co.iaitions and circumstance con front him from day today, that often hundreds of points should be con sidered before a wise step can be taken. These prefatory remarks were In duced by reading an article in a late English paper in lelation to lean pigs and bacon ork. Millions and millions of hogs are grown in the West, an 1 much of the iiork in the form of bacon and otherwise Hods a market in Great P.r tain; yet how tew ork producers know just what quality of meat that market demands, and if this quality Is not furni-hed, of course, the grower must le content with an inferior prl e. A combina tion of English dealers issued a cir cular which embraces the following statement: "In consequence of so many feeders continuing to make their pigs too fat, and the great diffi culty we And in disposing of over-fat bacon, wc are obliued to take some very definite steps to obtain leaner pigs." Then the circular proceeds to state a scale of prices which has been adopted, and which is dependent on the leanness of the pig as well as on the weight, the leanest '(but plump) commanding the highest price. The circular then continues: "We would impress on feeders the desirability of breeding only such swine as are of good frame and growth and refusing to feed for bacon purpose all short, thick pigs which must prove unsatis factory to them as to us. They will undoubtedly best serve their inteiests by studying the public taste, thus creating an Increased demand and a higher standard of prices for their pigs." 1 commend ihese remarks to the consideration of the pork grow ers of the West, adding that the lest pigs as herein described bring in En gland about two cents a pound more than the short fat pigs, and, of course, this ratio should prevail here. There might not be any difference in price in a small quantity, but In car load and larger lots any large slaugh terers would pay more. Cincinnati Enquire. Cholt-e of Kolln. In selecting farms and gardens in new places, purchasers often make the mistake of giving preference to light, sandy soils, which can be worked with less lalwr than clay, and never become muddy. Jut such light soilu, although good for some social crops, possess much less strength than others, and are en riched at more exiense, and while a clay soil will r tain for years the manure that is washed into it, a sandy soil can never be permanently enriched. Some years ago a gentleman called on the late Mr. liarry for advice, whose extensive nurseries had given given him an excellent opportunity tor testing the value of bis previous wide knowledge on the subject. Mr. Harry, in order to convey his esti mate of. the value of each, said: "If you can give lioo an acre for tbe sandy ground, you can aitord to pay :2oo an acre for the clayey loam, t'nderdraln it and manure It. and your improvement is lermanent; hut .be fertility is soon worked out of tbe sand." These views have been strongly confirmed to u by our Culti vation of both kinds uf solL This subject was thoroughly dis closed tome time ago at a meeting of the Frultgrcwe.a' Association of On tario, when Mr. It ace said that on visiting the exhibition or tbe finest fruit, be found tbe beet were grown on a clay loam that bad been under drained; and in many caeea where ample were found that came la competition with the best, they were found to be grown on underdralned clay. Mr. l'att.w.n .aid that on clay tbe fertility is not caily exhausted, and can I kept up with a moderate sup ply of in a nure, wh.le on sand It 19 feed. feed, feed all the time. A great many orchardsdo not bear upon sand; this is nothing less tnan soil exhaustion. The cay will retain all the ferti ity you ca i supply it with, lie said that gra pears, plums, apples, quince-, and red and black currents can be gr wu irofltably on clay or loam, which, of course, must le we.l u derdrained if needel. Country Gentleman. (;Mf1 Koadc Without Stouts. The advantage of projerly built and well maintained dirt roads seems tobaielieen largely overlooked in the movement for the improvement of our country roadi, and it has tieen said, with s me reason, that the movement in favor of good roads has been hampered to some extent by a somewhat too enthusiastic advoeacv of broken stone roads, either macad arn or telford. The cost of such stone roads is atso utely prohibitive of heir adoption in many parts of the country where, perhaps, improved roads are urgeutly needed. Comparatively little is said' about dirt roads in tbe discussion on im 1 roved construction. Ikith surfac drainage and sub-drainage are essen tial In obtaining a aurable road, and intelligent maintenance is anothei essectial, which latter is rather diffi cult to insure. Tiie mere dumping of piles of eartb in wet sits or low places Js not maintenance, but Is a waste of energy due to carelessness or misdirected ?.eal. With a good dirt road once completed, it would probably be found economical and advantagcout to intrust its maintenance to a few skilled and Intelligent men paid for their services, instead ot leaving the maintenance to the spasmodic aiten tion of the farmers and their hired men. Colman's Hural World. Handvrlcbeit tor the Children. Until a mother has tried it she will not know what an essential edible on the children's luncheon table are sandwiches. A p'ate plied up with these appetizing dainties will fade before a group of hungry children like snow tjefore the sun. It is also an excellent way to disguise unat tractive col 1 meat t iat would be re fused by the youngsters if offered In its normal state. Twoor three kinds of meat, the accumulation from sev eral meals, can te utill ed in this way more palatably, beiuove all fat, coarse and gristly pieces, add a bitof tongue or ham, if possible, to flavor, or chopped parsley if the i hildren lUe it, and alter seasoning with salt onlv, spread between pieces of home-made bread, brown or white, or lKih. The success of sand wiches, to ch ldren as well as to elders. Is in their making. Thick pieces of alum-risen bread choke little throats as quickly as big Jam, raisin, stoned and split, date and fig sandwiches are all acc p'.aLle to small fry, and are wholesome sweets maple sugar is considered an especially delicious tilling by them, and even plain granulated sugar has done duty, by way of variety, with great success. Pittsburgh Chronlcle Te egraph. Making Cr of Straw. It is a great waste to use straw only for bedding, as Is done by many grain growing farmers. With a little ground grain mixed with cut straw stock may be kept as well as on hay, and much more cheaply, hven with out cutting the straws a good deal will lie eaten as a change of food The chaff of wheat and oats is es pecially valuable. It has more nutri ment according to its weight than has ordinary straw, and it will be picked out if animals have a chance at it. The refuse will be what grows near the butt, and this can l e used for bedding alter the 6tock has re jected it . Farm 'ofe. Ik your cattle drink from a brootc, follow it up some dav to see if there are any dead cats or dogs in it Thk farmerhat does not care to take the pains' to learn his business should not grumble if his neighbor profit by what he lose. A ooi j lan with the teams is to let them run out on good pa-tures two or three hours every time that the farm work will permit. Onk way of getting clear of dis eases is by not growing the same crop on the same soil for a lew years. Th s it one advantage of cro rotation. The great trouble s, iso few men know how to manage flocks; they seem to think that sheep like shrubs, grow without care or cultivation and they will, and be about as valu able. One inexcusable source of disease comes from scattering food on lllthy runways. When food is scattered on bare ground it should first swept clean. An occasional application of fine lime or clean sand will always be in order. The stimulative feeding of bees early in the spring, with a view to producing many swarms, is success fully practiced by many breeders. The honey thus Used contains m ich lollen, and is therefore a great stim ulus to brood raising. , Mlch research and investigation warrant tbe assertion that man :snot the only animal subject to dreams. Horses neigh andrear upon their bind feet while asleep; dogs bark and growl, and in many other ways ex hibit all their characteristic passions. We Have AU Observed It. 'One of the mott a ngular thing inlif,"aW a ph losopber, "lathe ease with which many men settle great financial questions when tbey find It to difficult to tettle the gro-cerrbllL" CAMELS FOR FARM WORK. Bin Ita ll la at tb flouah. W her ! are FrartkallT I aknoan. CoL Iodge in his Kiders of Many Lands has pointed out the curious fact, not generally understood, that the horse is a comparatively recent factor in Kgyptian la'Or or transr tauon. He was unknown on the banks of the Nile until the coming of the Shepherd Kings aUiut 1.700 years before the ( hristlan era. and no representation of toe war steed, tr of the horse in any capacity, is to I found in the more ancient mountains in the land of the Pharaohs. fcven to this day the camel Is a much more familiar object on tlx plains anil in the cities of Kgypt, lioth for riding and as a -beast of burden; and he is not infrequently seen drag ging the plow, sometimes hitched to in ox. sometimes hitched U an ass, now and then hitched to a man serv ant, but generally hitched to one of his own species. jie j8 )n evcry ca pacity in which he i found invari ably more useful than ornamental, and he is never amiable. Whatever he does is done In an ungainly and ill-tempered manner. His d iverdoes not find him a tractable ob ect before the plow, ind how uncomfortable he is under the saddle nearly every llv ing American witnessed for himself last year In the street called Cairo as it wa exhibited at the World's Pair. It is all very well for travelers to talk of the docility and of the sagac ity of tbe camel on his native sands; to say that he is to the Arabs what the reledeer is to the En luiniaux and the Laplanders the principal source of their happiness. No doubt he does furnish them with food, with raiment, with fuel, with tents, with domostic utensils; unquestionably he dies trans;iort them from place to place, carry their merchandise, plow their lands; be certainly does enable them to make war upon their neigh bors, and assist them in defending their wives and their children and their household gods. But he. Is anytning but docile, even if he is sagacious; and the unsuspect ing American traveler, whose coat was eaten off his back, and whose flesh narrowly escaped being con sumed, by the principal source of happiness of one particular Arab in the streets of Luxor last winter, is Inclined to believe that tbe docility of the camel is greatly exaggerated, and that his sagacity Is somewhat misapplied. Harper's Weekly. I'ointa About Girl. Nobody has ever yet discovered a girl with a small waist who didn't think she could have It smaller with out feeling uncomfortable. Some girls take rlrst-class happiness In having a burned finger, or a old sore, or a sprained ankle, because It is so comfortable to receive sym pathy. It takes an artistic woman to hold up the skirt, of a gown gracefully. Not one woman in ten can grab her dress so that it hangs prettily around the hem. It Isn't always nervousness that makes a girl bite her lips. Some times very often, in fact she docs it to give theru a nice color. When you see a girl with her hair all mussed up you must not think she has not combed it. It takes her many weary moments to Ux it in that tangled fashion. When a girl is 111 she says that she'd give everything she owns to be well, and when she Is well she scolds and Irets because she can have only one hat. Whenever one girl tells another girl about her troubles with her dress maker, the other girl has a tale of woe twice as long and twice as har rowing to tell in return. The superstition regarding opals evidently has gathered itself together and shudled off. Kvery girl that can secure an opal ring appears to be wearing one just now. It Ts a very easy matter ti tell whether a wlrl is expecting a man or a girl caller. If a man is coming, she looks in a mirror every few mo ments. If it's a girl, she doesn't. Not What Thny Were. Since the veil has fallen into par tial disuse, the Turkish woman has alsode arted. Marion Crawford tells us: The yashmak Is not what It was ten years ago. and has almost ceased to hide the face at all. Strict as the Sultan's ordinance is, there Is not the slightest pretense of olylng It, and, in the great ma orlty of cases, a thin white veil barely covers the forehead, and is but loosely drawn under the chin. The cross-band which used to cover the nose alove the eves has entirely disaptwared, or is woro only when ladies appear in public at such places as the Sweet Waters, or in their Itaiks on tho Goldcd Horn and the liosphorui, It must be admitted that, with the disuse of that old-fashioned veil, a great illusion has disappeared fiom the streets of Constantinople. There was something very mysterious about It. Muck eyes never looked so black, and deep, and liquid as when seen by them-elves, as It were, between two broad bands of opaque white. In those days, every yashmak veiled an ideal beauty, very different from tlx; ugliness of the pale and flaccid feat ures which Its absence now generally discloses, One is Inclined to doubt whether tbe mirror Is In common use In the barem of to-day." oX l,ilrloun. It bas been decided by an English court that it is not l.bellous to call a lady a woman. This recall the fa : t that in a Western town, a couple of years ago, a young woman who worked at a clerk in a dry goods store threatened to sue a newspaper for libel because It referred to her as a saleswoman, and' not at a saleslady, bhe did not carry out her Intention, however, as she waa ad vised that the had do ceae. AGE AND MARRIAGE. The Ctrl ot To-Def Unea Nat Wa4 Wa4 Vjm Mie I Searer XS Ttuta The olservaDt mortal must cer tainly have noticed .among otb r thing that the marrying woman of to-dav d -lers her wedding until a much more advanced season in life than did her grandmother or even the giris of a decade ago, ys the Philadelphia Time. The question arise: V bat is the cause of thi putting off that time so many de clare is the end or all women's exist ence':' Perhaps mothers are more sensible in tbe-e days and the young daughter is not thrown upon the world, either in a social or more workaday fashion until she has had a thorough school ing, which means in these days of long terms a communion with book until she is over twenty-one. Tbe girl bers if may be wiser in her day and generation and reall.e that gay cties and t e happy-go-lucky exist ence before marriage must of ned s sity come to an end when she is led to the altar. Then, again, this is an age of lode pendent women. They enter the field of labor with men and find in such occupation less time for senti ment ttan was allowed the lacka daisical girl of the jast It is our earnest conviction that many girls have been led Into the error of a fool ish marriage through a lack of occu pation. Jusy, active, intelligent women have no time and less Incli nation for the making of romances. They are absoried In art, In music, or In more humdrum occupation that return an excellent remunera tion and which they are too wise to give up until they are certain tbat tbe man who asks them is able to compensate for all that they put away for his sake. Many a woman defers marriage be cause she feels that her duty He at home in the care of an aged father or an Inval d mother or helpless broth ers and sisters who depend upon her alone for support. Peroaps some one argues that all this tends to tbe es tablishment of a vast splnsterbood, but let us whisper that after all when the right man comes along, when real love creeps Into the heart and wily Cupid makes his presence felt, then it matters not what specious argument may have !ceu advanced heretofore, engagement and marriage appear to tie the truest art and the' noblest duty, for after all wo are but women and are governed more by the heart than by the brain, inde pendent and self-reliant though we think ourselves. Over the Parlor. It Is the worst posslbe arrange ment in the world lor the old people to lodge directly over the parlor, es pecially when there is an eligible daughier in the family. It was quite late in the evening, stealing, In fact, towards the wee sma hours, and Charles and Georgina, two youthful lovers were alone in the parlor com. muning in that tender way known to true lovers, when t tin nip, thump, thump, was jeard m the celling overhead Tbe lovers exchanged looks of sur prise and embarrassment, Charles was confounded and Goorgie was vexed and chagrined, but neither Knew what to say. Thumi, thump, thump, came again, and things U'gan to look serious. It was evident that the old gentleman was admonishing Charles to gi. He had staved late frequently before without being insulted. Thump, thump, thumji 'I guess I'd better be going," said Charles. "Well, if you must," said Georgia, not knowing what else to say more thumps; and the couple separated at the door without exchanging their wonted favors, sweet and precious. And then (Jcorgie dusted for the par ental dormitory, greatly exclUul. "Father, you insulted Charles, aud you have abused me, by your impa tience, and L never was so outraged in my life!" "Why, what is the trouble, chile?" inquired the old gentleman, looking over his glasses in great surprise. "A pretty piece of business, 1 am sure," returned Georgia, " or you to drum on the lloor to send Charles off, as though he did not know when it is time to leave, and as though I was a baby " "Why, mercy on me, girl," re turned the old man. "I never thought of you and Charles. 1 was interested in reading, and my foot fell as eep, and I rather think I have a right to stamp a littie under such circumstances:" Georgina retired re icved, and the next morning Charles received a note from her explaining the matter. Mmleat Appreciation. Notwithstanding her wonderful gifts. Madam Hand was sincerely modest. On one occasion a discussion arose about the latest work of a writer who, though vapid and dull as a rule, had flashes of something a proacbing genius. "The Iwok is ' not good throughout." wild Madam Sand, "but Itcontalns at least a description of Venice which pleases nie greatly." Several of her hearers agreed with her, but were under the impression that they had already met with thi clescrl, live piece somewhere. "Kg ad, I know where:" suddenly exclaimed her son, at d off ho rushed to the bookshelves to find a novel written by his mother, In which he found the very description, which had been copied almost word for word. "What, is this by me?" Madam Sand repeated, astonished and atartled. "I had no idea of It After all, It it really not so bad." An opinion which wat warmly endorsed by her trienda ' , - ; f Ask man what wages he get, and he will tall you what bethinks he de aervea