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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (June 5, 1879)
jf ' T. ,.-, -lvj fl-' J - fl k-j v i Y I s. . s "t Vj. . .sHW. . JTHE BED CLOUD CHEF. M. L. T10MAS, Paklhktr. RED CLOUD, - NEBRASKA. PHILOSOPHY. Why docs the bud that Is near to its break ins Waku sweeter rallies than thefolly-blown ros? Wuy does tbo dream on the verge of awak ing . Stir deeper truths than a deeper repose? its v Why does thy love that Is broken with part- I.!f t Itself higher by the fullness of pain? Why is thcmcompiexc rapture w iriuiK Close on completion we never arcain.' Wh 'hy? Lies For a boundlcBS unBatisfled longing Ics uceneat uown in ine waroi uuiuau heart; . . .. Ever with this are tile sympathies thronging, Kvcr by this do the heavea-flowers start. Grow with our spring, we can follow you wholly Only as far as its inxtincts arc sent; Summer's a fact that is hidden and holy. Wo have not cen it; -we are not content. Jilnine Voodale, in Sunday Afternoon. THE VIOLET. Ioncly and sweet a violet grew The meadow weeds nmonj. Oho morn a rosy shepherd jnald, , With careless heart and idle tread; Came by, Came by The meadow lands and sung. ' h,"J'aId the violet, "wouldlwcro L Some stately garden flower ! - That I might gathered be and pressed Ah, mo! Ah, me! Only one little hour !" On came the rosy shepherd lass, t With heart that Idly .beat. 'And crushed the violet In the grass. " It mill !iM IIowHWCCt! Howswcotl" it said, with fuintlngmoan, " If 1 must die, to die alono Jr"or her,, Earlier- To diss ayar dear feet."., . . Tf' From the German of Gogtkc? . "THE COUGHING PRINTER." The-Agricultural lessens of a Itrlef but Remarkable career. It is a common observation that farm- Pars who desert the plow for the shop or mmmM m.A1i ciststAAjl TsrTiiln ttlA flfo? UUUUIU1 licijf duviWU ttm. "j man who tarns farmer frequently gets on in his new calling quite as well as his BOIgnoorv, anu uuunaiuiiaujr uuwmi them. ExamDles of these general truths M rmust occur to every ODserving .reauw. '"One of them deserves especial reoogai- tion in view of the remarkable present disposition among unemployed towas- Ttoonle of the East to establish them. !..- . . -i " j axArra nn fK YVlfin lands of the Watt. Whatever may be the result of this new departnre in their case, omers oeiore - them have found it gainful, as is illus trated in the following brief but true sketch of the late S. M. Wingert. At the aeo of 19. when Lee surrcn- aered, ho unshackled his saber, ex changing it for a composing-stick in a Pennsylvania printing-office. His trade learned, he followed tne Star of Empire by easy marches; halted long enough in Illinois to marry a helpful wife, and finally, in 18G8, brought up in Lawrence, Kansas. Here he worked on the .morn ing papers, and was regarded as one of , the best compositors in the West, his week's "string" frequently coming to .$85, and once to $37.50, at 45 cents a thousand ems. The result of such as siduous application was a racking asth matic caugh, which gained for him the soubriquet of the "Coughing Printer," and finally compelled him to change his "case" for out-door life and exercise if ho would live, at all. Accordingly, in the beginning of ' 1875, aged 29, he came to Kansas City, with $100, his entire capital, in his pocket. Ignorant of the business him self, he went into partnership with an old gardener who had been busted" by the drouth of the previous year. The firm leased three acres of choice selec tion, with a habitable house, inside the . T city limits, at 150 a year and 10 acres outside at $70. All went in the usual routine with them, till the young grass hoppers (it was the year those pests last hatched in Kansas) began their work. fltost gardeners then gave up; but the "Printer1 had followed Sheridan, and m was " on the fight. V The three acres containing the hot-beds, plant-beds and early vegetables, were fenced with a tight fence and ditched; the hoppers in side driven out and killed, and the out siders kept out by, frequently, a dozen men kept brushing down the fence and cleaning up the ever-filling ditch into a near-by stream. Referring to Mr. Wingeri's diary I find under dates of May 19 and 20 ('75) : " Terrible grasshopper fighting ; sixteen persons engaged; garden almost in tact." May 26, "Nothing of note for the past week but red-hot grasshopper fighting." It was a costly war, but it paid. On the 3d of June day of bless ed memory when the locusts flew, nearly every body was cleaned-out; there were "substantially no home grown plants or vegetables. The firm lived up to their privileges in the way of prices. They sold $7G0 worth . of plants, and had the sagacity to re- fuse 75 cents per hundred for enough cabbaM nlsatf s;to set seven acres, and t were justified by the returns. Thare sult of the year's work was: Plants sold, $700; vegetables sold, $2,409.41; total, $3,108.41; expenses, $1,145.11, leaving $1,968.80, or $981.65 apiece. It is nothing like the showing you can find in any book onthe subject; but in real life, for a green hand, it will do. Mr. Wingert had never made so little money in a year since he was a journey man, and had never saved so much. His health had improved greatly. Con sidering his inexperience and slender resources, he was elated with the out come of his venture and the prospect cf the future. He dissolved the partner ship and resolved to " strike out " for himself on a larger scale. He now rented a farm of 55 acres, four miles from the market-house, for five years at $500 a year. It was a corn farm in the ' Kaw Bottoms, in good condition for fine-haired crops. But about three acres of it were put in the best shape the cir cumstances 'permitted for the garden proper. .Fifty Bash were'used, .mainly in forcing cabbage, lettuce and tomato plants. - Thirteen acree of corn were planted lor feed, thirteen acres in lata ' cabbage, twelve acres in Irish and sweet . " potatoes, four acres in melons, six .' acres were in orchard, pasture, :etc, and the remainder in the usual small crops. It was a good year all round, but the " big money " was in the late cabbage. Total receipts, $2,920.75; .expenses, $1,810.05 ; balance, $1,080.70. The next year rn) we were nearly ruinedTin Kansas by "over production." Truck was low and weeds were nigh. Hr.3Yingert's sales for the year amount ed to $3,Uo4lo, ana me ouuay.was $2,456.66; profit, only $598.20. But all this time he 'was getting familiar ?" witk-Ms business if he was not getting rick; JaepickwtBptke-inoet approved , methods and secured tie mostefiicient )pliancs; he inci eased his business acquaintance, took lessons in the proper proportion of his planting, in econo- Brizmg labor, in reducing the whole rvgry ?'.-. j "J- j-'- hing o a. system. Eighteen hundred and seventy-eight opeaed upon the Printer favorably. His past "expenses" had been partly for every sort of equiv alent. His ovtfit of teem, tools, wagome, etc., was now veqr complete, aad iavoiced $1,741.40 though that in cluded some investments ia strawberry, raspberry, blackberry, asfarans aad rhubarb beds, which occupied about four acres. This, in the main, was his "lay out" for the season: the above-mentioned beds, 200 sash; early crops, ten acres f melons. sixUcres : potatoes, eight acres ; sweet potatoes, ten acres; late cab bages, eight acres; corn, five acres; tomatoes, two acres; celery, 5,000 plants. Early vegetables were to bej followed as lar as possiDie uy a, second planting. It was a splendid spring. The hot-beds used for market purposes made $2 a sash. The receipts for the week ending Mav 4, were $120.65. It seemed reasonable then to estimate his gross income for the year at $5,000. But one fatal May morning, while, it was yet dark, hi3 team ran away going to market; he was found lying by the roadside dead. Less than four years before, the " Coughing Printer " on a capital of $400 tried his 'prentice hand at garden ing; at the time of his deatarlo was considered to be at the head of that in dustry in a town of 40,000 people. Peace has its victories as well. as war; and in a favorite branch of her service this man was a conqueror. Ia consid eration of his remarkable success under the circumstances, it is an interesting question what would have been Mr. Winerert's ultimate development. It was his own judgment that his career had only begun. He held taefais busi ness was as amenable to the laws of business as any other, and to an unusu al extent offered facilities for large ope rations. It was his. ambition to sometime be able to offer to every family in the city, at their own doors each day, vege tables of the season, perfectly fresh, without intervention, and at such prices as larger-planting ana airecp aeaiing would justify him in making aad which would compel them to buy. He held that with such a market as his a gar dener should raise every vegetable suit ed to the soil and climate, especially thoae-of difficult production, carefully observing a due proportioa-in, the amount of each, according; tethe de mands of his trade, and have sesbething to sell every day in the year'rhough well up in garden literatureaereiied but little on his books. It wa Itbe hands, he said, more than theuaead, which needed education; and one-must put his fingers into the prints of every operation uefore ho was master of it the difference between knowing how a thing ought to be done and how to do it being wider than the sea. Yet he held that books were Indis pensable to the novice in horticulture, for they furnished him pegs to hang his knowledge on. He said if a man could not see beauty in a garden and love it he was out of place there. The com mercial featuro of his business seemed to him the most important; any body can raise "truck," but to raise it with hired labor and sell it with profit is a difficult sot t of merchandising. He held that owning land and working it were not necessari ly any more akin than selling goods and owning stores. If he had taken the home-of-your-own madness and gone on a "claim"- with his $400, runaway horses would not have killed him hoM never have been worth a team. It has been said repeatedly in agricul tural addresses and in bucolic essays written by well meaning people of leis ure that "brain" is a more important factor in farming than "brawn;" but the world has held the statement to be on a par with those theological tenets which every body admits but nobody believes. Instances are multiplying, however, that seem to verify the posi tion, one of which is herein imperfectly but accurately recounted. The figures given are taken from Mr. Wingert's books, which were faithfully kept to the last. Ability and good forture in his case went hand in hand, and left a rec ord that has rarely been .beaten. It proves, as far as it goes, that an artisan may make a success in agriculture; but let it not beguile the restive mechanic who longs for a country life into the no tion that he has only to turn farmer in order to succeed. Edwin Taylor, in the New York Tribune. Madame Bonaparte's Jewels. The Orphans1 Court yesterday re quested Mr. Joseph H. Gale, jcweler.on Baltimore Street, near Calvert, to ap praise the jewels of the late Madame Patterson-Bonaparte. The jewels com prise a rare collection of diamonds, ru bies, pearls, emeralds and gold orna ments, and are remarkable for their original value in themselves and for their present value as relics of former days and historical associations. Their original value was probably $70,000, but their present intrinsic value is about $20,000, not taking into account the value which might attach to them from their associations. The most valuable article among the collection is a necklace of diamonds, emeralds, rubies and pearls, of hand some design and workmanship. The pendant is a large solitaire diamond, and the setting of all the stones is ex tremely quaint. .This necklace was the gift of a nobleman. Its present value is $3,000 or thereabouts. A crown of amethysts and pearls, fully three inches wide, is valued at about $5QP. There are several antique pearl necklaces worth from $50 to $300 each. Two handsome stones, known as antique, are set for pendants. One is transpar ent and the other is similar to a car nelian. A black enameled bracelet made in Paris and set with American $2.50 gold pieces is quite a novelty. It is worth -$W0. Another bracelet is made of six $5 gold pieces and a French coin linked together with gold. A third bracelet i most curious and unique. It is made of gold wire taken from the wrist of a skeleton in Pompeii. The three watches are very, old, and their intrinsic value is not over $20ch. 'Two are open-faced watches, while the third is a small hunt ing-case, set with pearls around the edges of the outer cases. One of the open.faced watches is blae enameled, and was fives, to Madafae Bonaparte by her grandfather.- It is supposed to be nearly 300 years old. In addition to numerous vinaigrettes, two memopal rings and one antioue cameo ffar. there1 an seven rkh and valaeWe need eraa- mects of pearls and taraeti. Baltimort jnuiKtin.-- " - Lemon Pie. 1 lemen. 1 tablespoon ful corn starch dissolved in cold water. 1 cup sugar, 1 egg, piece of butter size of an egg,l cupful not water; boil afew minutes.- -Make a merringue of -the whites of 2 eggs and 2 tablespoonfusl of pulverised sugar. Bake a shell first no as to have the crnst dry, j nf w l 'i ' - A Weman's Description of Ltacvllle, The following is from an article ia the May Atlantic, by Mrs. Helen Hunt Jackson: Castfornia Gukh, Ia which or oa whiea the new town ef Leadvilte is growing up, lie at right angles ta the Arkansas Valley, -and about J2 des from the head waters of the Arkansas River. It was a wild gulch, its sides grown thick with spruce forests, and a little snow-fed creek making its way down among them. But the waters of the creek held gold, and men soon found it cut, cut. down the spruce forests, and began placer mining all along the sides of the gulch. They arc torn up and riddled, WHiav, as if an earthquake had shaken them violentlv. All this while, in the stony mountains at the head of the gulcb, lay stores untold of solid sil ver, of which the miners lower down, working for gold sands by the handful, never so much aV-dfcamed. It is the old story of treasurc'bidlng the time of the man who knows its secret. One day, a man who knew one stone from another picked up a bit of mineral and handed it slyly and significantly to his comrade, saying nothing. The com rade, experienced in the ways of mines, took it, saying nothing, and pocketed ilL-n The gulch was full ct men; there Wife those workijg by thiir side to Whom one word might be a hint. Later, aloae; the two comrades conversed with each ether on the subject of this bit of stone. 'They took cantioueand secret rambles over the mountaiaside. They said aot one word to any bedy for two years, but quietly possessed themselves largely oi lanas. xouay huh miav waioa thesetwo men own you may see, kissaid, t,000,000 worta of silver; not infer it, trust, hope, believe it, from the "dip" or "bearing" or "vein," as is usually the case in silver mines, but see it; the walls of the galleries are it. The miners simply chop the walls down foot by foot, and wheel out the ore in barrows. And the whole range is believed Jo bo full of the precious metal. It is the west ern slope of the mountains lying back of Fair Plav. on whose eastern slopes many profitable mines have been work- ea ior years, it is oau nut miner uw not at once think that if one side of a mountain were made of silver the other was likely to be. Bat they did not; and so the Leadville silver bided, its .Mme. ; 4 " The town is a marvel. In six months a tract of dense spruce forest has been converted into a bustling village: To be sure,, the upturned roots and the freshly hacked stumps of many of the spiuco trees are. still in the streets of the town; fallen spruce trees, too, on which you can sit down to rest, and here and there clumps of superb tall ones standing, which af ford a most grateful protection from Colorado's hot May sun. Great spaces of scorched sage-brush are to be seen, its gray fctalks looking as twisted as if they had been wrung out wet and thrown down to dry. Great spaces cov ered with chips, also ; nobody had time to pick up his chips, and they are han dy to burn ; the house3 are all lo cab ins, or elEO plain, un painted ooard shanties. Some of the cabins seem to burrow in the ground ; others are set upon posts, like roofed bedsteads. Tents, wigwams of boughs, wigwams of bare poles, with a blackened spot irt front, where some body slept last night, but will never sleep again; cabins wedged in between stumps j cabins built on stumps; cabins with chimneys made of flowerpots or bits of stovepipe I am not sure But out of old hats; cabins half roofed; cabins with sail-cloth roofs; cabins with no roof at all this repre sents the architecture of the Leadville homes. The Leadville places of busi ness are another thing; there is one compact, straight street, running east and west, in the center of this medley of sage brush, spruce stump3, cabins, and shanties. Hero are shops, restaurants, billiard-rooni3, dance-halls, banks, law yers1 offices, hotels, livery-stables all that a town needs. " There are fairly built wooden houses, principally of the battlement-front style, and one story high a few of them.two stories high and not without some pretense of finish ; the platforms and steps in front of them make one continuous line of lounging grounds for Leadville men. I counted 46 at one time in a short distance, men either leaning against door-posts, or sit ting with their elbows on their knees. The nrddle of the street was always filled with groups of men talking. Wagons were driving up andllown as fast as if the street were clear. It look ed all the time as if there had been a fire and tho people were about dispers ing, or as if town-.neeting were just over. Every body was talking, nea.ly oveiy body je3ticulating. All faces looked restless, eager, fierce. It was a Monaco gambling-room emptied into a Colorado spruce clearing. The town lies well up on the slope; the mountain off-look toward the west is good the oroad, green valley of the Arkansas, some miles wide, and the Sawatch mountains, all from 10,000 to 14,000 feet high, all snow topped, beond. From higher points on the mountain, where clearings have been made for the miners; the view is made much more beautiful by the near foreground of the solid green of the spruce forest. Just in the edge of the forest are- large reduction works, their smoke pouring up' a perpetual lnrid column of almost rainbow tints. Here one may see long rows of bins filled with the ore from different mines. It looks simply like yellow dirt, but fire turns it into solid silver, i looked into the mouths of the great furnaces; the molten mass "babbled and seethed; from one opening ran the worthless "slag," from the other the shining metal. The slag was caught in an iron vessel shaped like an inverted bee-hive, and swung between two wheels. By a long tongue two men drew it out, emp tied the fiery metal on the ground and shook out thV crust which in that few seconds Jiad solidified into a cast of the bee-hive. The ground was strewn with these casts, and crusted with the hard ened slag in shapes like those of lava beds. Near the other opening were piles of solid balMon bars ready to be shipped, each, bar worth about $50. I saw a dozea of these made in a few minutes. Bv a queer and paradoxical mental process, money seems to be at once cheapened and made precious as you watea it being created by the ton. There is no reason way every body should not be a millionaire; and for actual pov erty, it is perverse and impossible. In"the afternoon we climbed the meanttin side to the highest point where nmutes are being worked. 'Looking np from the town we could see nothing ex cept a solid front of spruce forests, but winding in among the trees we found mines and miners every few rods; be fore weconld see them the creak of the windlass would draw our attention to the. spot. They were all alike; a square hole in the ground planked orer like a disused well j Just open space enough - r,u ", r y "9 ' "S, m kftforamaa to go up and down; a wiadlaes, rope and backet; two men at the windlass; oae below, filling the backet. Over and over aad orer, all dariong, the basket is lowered and raised, emptied on the yettaw pile of earth or ore at one side lowered and raisst, lowered and raised from eight to j twelve times aa hour. enamz over the dark opening you can bear the faint clink, clink, of the miner's shovel at the bottom of the well; it sounds in credibly far off. The men at the wind lass lean oa their elbows in the inter vals of rest, and look off vacantly into space. They arc paid by the day,moV of them; it is all one to them what the bucket brings up. earth or ore. row and then, however, when a new shaft is being worked, and it is uncertain whether ore will be "struck" or not, as the decisive time draws near there is great excitement at the windlass. Any moment may show that which will re veal that a fortune lies below. It is like waiting a throw of the dice. - Hardee Made Easy. Gen. Hardee, whose Manual of Infan try Tactics was in use in all the South ern armies, visited a rural Georgia town one day during tho war, and the com mander of a "eccond-class militia" coronanyflought to do himself and the General honor by parading his com mand in front of 'the inn in which Har dee had rooms. The writer upon tac tics came out upon the balcony to re view the command, and the militia officer put his men through their paces. In one ot lae maneuvers tne men oocamc confused and got into a hopeless tangle. Hardee, in telling the story, jaisUnat he could think of no possible risy in which they could be extricated, and waited with great curiosty to see what the militia commander wouhl do. That rural tacticiaa' looked at the confused mass for a moment with a scowl of per plexity upon amfefaaead; then his face cleared, and heaabated the ordor: "Disentangle to the front; march." Whereupon the men rushed forward and formed a new line without regard to the order of the old one. Hardee said the command was not in his own or any other uook on tactics, out mat. n ougatto be. Battlesaakeg ia a BalL Zebolon Martin and son, who live at Henry's Bend, about six miles from Oil City, Pa, while removing stones on their farm the other day, discovered a ball as large as a bushel basket, which appeared to be a coil of black rope knotted and curiously iaterlaccd. The warm sunshine fell upon the ball, which soon seemed to move in its many coils, and then the men saw that the ball was a ms of snakes. The warmth revived the dormant reptiles, and the surface of the ball was soon covered with rattles, which swayed to and fro with a sound resembling the blowing of wind through the dead leaves of a tree. What seemed at first a gordian knot began to un ravel. The tails protruded more and more, and as the snakes unlocked their intricate coils they appeared to be pack ed with their heads in tho center of this living ball. The snakes soon complete ly uncoiled themselves and showed fight, whereupon the men set to tho work of slaughtering the reptiles. Fifty six snakes wore killed. The largest reptile possessed 17 rattles. Oil Qity Derrick. Nevada newspapers announco that vast numbers of grasshopper eggs are incubating in Sierra Valley. A spade ful of soil is represented to have con tained hundreds of thousands of eggs deposited in clusters. Tho farmers have not turned a furrow this spring, know ing that with these pests in the soil their work would be fraitlessof result. Grain crops will only foster the scourge, while to let the ground remain idle may starve the insects into emigrating. Fears arc expressed that they may sweep down up on the fertile valleys of California, but whether they can cross mountains of such altitude as the Sierras is doubtful. It is proposed to dig trenches before they are able to fly, and, driving them in, to cover them up. This plan worked successfully in Utah two years ago. John Dunn, the right-hand man of King Cetywayo, is, as his name indi cates,, an Englishman. According to the Cape Argus he has lived so long among the Zulus that he is more Kaffir than English. He is the heaviest trader in the Zulu country, andhas a large number of personal adherents, subject to no authbritv but his own. His lawful wife is not a Ksffir, but he has taken 15 or 10 native wives, and his family has grown to patriarchial dimensions. He is described as a man of medium height, in the prime of life, thicksetand bronz ed, with a pair of flashing gray eyes and a heavy beard. He dresses well, and -would pass muster as a prosperous farmer. Ma. Donald G. MiTcnEix wa9 cured of his family tendency to consumption in a curious way. He had a very se vere cough When he started tocross from the English shore to the Island of Jersey. There was no steamer," he say3, and I had to go on a 20-ton fish ing smack. There was a great storm, and for 30 hours we were on the En- flish Channel in the roughest weather, was very sick and lay for a long time on deck covered with a tarpaulin and holding on to a mast, expecting every moment to be washed overboard, and not caring very much if I was. Finally we reached Jersey, and, strange to say, my cough disappeared. It Had teen chronic" u Eauacoe. There is scarcely any ache to which children are subject so hard to bear and so difficult to cure as the earache. A remedy never known to fail is to put a pinch of black pepper upon a bit of cotton-batting; tie it up, dip it in sweet oil, and insert into the ear. Put a flannel bandage over the head to keep it warm. It will give im mediate relief. The trivial nothings which the mouth utters may become possessed of awful import when accompanied by the lan guage of the eyes; and the poor, com monplace sentences may be taken ap and translated, so that they shall stand written across the memory, in letters of flimfring sunlight ard the colors of June. Bbook trout are Belling at Fulton Market, New York, at prices which no one except the rich can afford to pay. Those from Long Island bring fl a pound; those from Canada So cents. Salmon from the Kennebec are scarce, and are selling for 81.50 a pound. The Legislarare of Delaware divorced SI married coaptos at its recent session. JfKtjsaxxx is adding 1,TC to its Jewufrpopulatkm every yet . .S8PW1MK rjjgB --"- .' triu an"'ii cheap Lima, Iw I Hmffmtt a rataltj t Tear TMif-tt a amy. Frtwn Uj siy Aawrwww fr y j "Mary was net a vary stream woman five caau a ear. and br self 4Maial aad mrittavtt ah AA it. Ilr reat was . . .i -- t ... c!5 f!M2 "mr.aT'L.1: rajMuuuMmuw. & -j the did t: she appropriated 7 ceaU each day for rent, CiorW 2 for oD. and 10 for food. Kow the oU never ctqahethe2tar bandays and in summer the ustd none, to oat of the sZ " ., . w :if . re of drcmUc. U1 U oM of it went for wick, a chimney, or re oi cKwavre. wmwthiagofthetkli. S!arraan with a coll merchant to bring him 36 raed for J? cenw every axuroay evening ;nerco a - a i ... a . .a. i ma ... B. mmA .Mm mm w ui -- i -- - - - ar aval m.aa r aunr ww iiv.. inn nuwi aai rnvTVA it with coke for her, and in summer she used so little that her money accamu la ted in his hands and be put t fuel in cheapest, her cellar for it when fuel was and o her winter supply was sufficient as she doled it out. As aha had a fire ml mnvenicncM for whW and Iron- and conveniences for washing and Iron ing, a poor woman did her wash ing and Mary's together in Mary cellar every week and ironed for both; a tub of suds was left, and at night Mary scoured her room and cleaned her windows and furniture. Her place was always clean, so were her children: consequently they were healthy out the boy pick up bits board for times the t.:i .k. ,..'.1.1 .-...i "tk. little children returned early from their expedition, the boy washed and combed and huried to a grocer's, baker's and butcher's in the vicinity, to see if there were any errands or any sidewalk clean- ingforhira. Regularly ho went each morning and if there was work he irot Karly every morning she sent J. ""urau., 4., ,, -r ;::,;;:", .. , ; and irirl with a basket to, po?- . . . . , w. ,.r TBro lJ? 'fV ' . . .1 Z of wood, paper and paste- 'f-2f : Si. TJSrZ UTl Sv V ' kindling. In aranicr?orao- ' " " Y" .i ,...,,, ,C r . . t uddIv was rood enoth to cholvsortof feeling cimo over me, and I M t acle llelah, I will tei, v a fnrithfihmfMtnrannnnvora-talij'sippine of claMCS. a tilling back' ol loaf. The food thus eiv ' ' - -mm m V . .. . r -- work was the sole Sabbath Sunday, Mary was earning urday mornings tho boy cleaned tcp or areas for a couplo of houses in an adjacent street, eettinc for his work soap mad cient S. i ..i-.. i..vii. iu 1 -.i :.! x.v.rw itiu v w kv-wB - extended their fuel hunt and offered .i.s s . . i ...it- ...i. --i ,k nn;. ....,... till CliailU.1 ili4 kiiU I'UUUtV " rWM olrithinfr rnrnnil in tii xiv Htmnliml thi. family wardrobe, though it cost the fat, Of Which his prudent motner I conwucrauie Eurwuj """"'S y... miwuhwmwwi ", :' " ' 3 her soap, and in quantity sufll- curs and men by his quwr ways. Moat the hearth and pourtwi It !nU th Hf .. to enable her to trade some to tho " 3'ou Know now u is in mwo muu rav-1 ano leicneii mo win cturr, wm i r'awirnfnrtlid iro nhn iii-ft I in nuius wncic tu uwv v.... . iihuuw hhh ..w, .-. . mother many a late evening's work in his whole private niMory anu anu:e patching and turning to make it do. dents, for the bcnellt of ids oiniradcs irrrnnr (t.r hn hnv !inrl Hrl wrnt tn CUriositV. b considered a BOCiai IraiiU. the public school, and, encouraged by their ir mother, worked hard, as those o knew schooling was a boon and who meant something to them. On Sab- baths, clean, if shabby and thinly clad, thoy all four took tho most obscure seat in a mission church. They never begged nor obtruded their troubles on nnnin nrfiiinnUirtUrvdrflVnnwn or over got any help beyond, perhaps, trifln now and thnn from thn school t...u. wvMW " Still, I can not comprehend how i cents a day fed four, even with nn casional meal to the boy and a stale 10 occasional meal to the boy and a loaf. Vorrtiil T until T rnt Mirr's bill nf reandeTeouf akine two ends moet. She always fare tnaU!n tat An rift tMAAr CKa nltafnvu lrlA. II,. Pmn .hnn,'. ,lnnt hnn where sho wM knowS, d crrjiSg some basin or pitcher of her own for , j - l.v"4"! """ W"V "V"r k nT 'i .."-' -- her small purchases she saved the shop- 7 cniIcdt ln l,', dcovcry that lorn a largo surface In the abriiUn l d keepers paper and string, and so they I ates was born at Lynchburg, Va , hail mriou gacs and the exhalation Mi did not bendcre serving hor in littles. ( ten through the last war, and was gen, mail therefore be of Imwwnv. did not bcCTudee servincr hor in littles. She asked the butcher to save her bones and meat trimmings which she could buy by the 2 or 3 cents' worth, more to she regularly bought at tho same place, she often received little gifts or accom- llavor ner xooa tnan to do looa. as modations which eked out her store." Minn TTrln aoarehnd in hflrdp.tr. drew out a slip of paper, and read this poor woman's method of feeding four pco- pie for 10 cents a day: " Monday: One-half pound barley, 3 cents: half a pound corn-meal, 2 cents : half pound dried beans, 3 cents ; scrap meat, 'j cents, me corn-meai made into mush was their breakfast; the beans, and half the scrap meat to flavor them, made dinner; half the bar ley, boiled with a little scrap meat, made a supper, x ou see nere were tnrce very nonti- TnnlL. 3 epnLr a.ilt 5 rnnt r half a pound of corn-meal, 2 cents. The barley left from the day before was, with molasses, their breakfast: a few of the baans had also been retained, and boiled with tho pork and some men' was a dinner, and corn-meal and a little molasses made their supper. The salt would suffice them fer a week, and the molasses was not all uied that day. Wednesday: 3 cents for potatoes, un- wholesome, nourishing, digestible uisn-1 uuucajjiumiuu w - nvuuntuuim es, capable of going a long way in sup-, tne base of the nose was the plncbeJ, nnrtintr p-rinM. Tncsdavt salt oork. dark look, which in a surcslirn of death. less potatoes were dear, and if so h3 " nave no xnemts wno want to bought instead the cheapest vegetables j bear of me,' he said, after a pause, to be had: 2 cents for bones or scraps , 'hut if you have a few mlnuUs to ?pare to boil with tho vegetables; half a f would like to tell you something about pound of split peas, and 2 cents for myself, as you've ones or twice asked corn-meal. Thursday: Scents for pork mc questions. It's hard to carry tb 3 cents for beans, 3 cents for barievand burdens I've had for years and die like 1 cent for pepper. Friday 1 cents for , a saHen og at last,' He drew a paJn-corn-meal, 3 cents for molasses, 3 cents ful breath and went on in a faint, hur- forpeas. Saturday: 3 cents for beam, r;cuvo:ce: 3 cents for butcher's-scraps, and 3 cents -'It was on the march through Fenn for potatoes, cabbage, or some other sylvania jost before Gettysburg; the vegetable. Sunday had to take its , weather fearfally hot. Men were con chance on a loaf earned by the tinually dropping from the ranks, faint boy at the baker's, or a little ing from heat and thirst. When we food saved out of the week, or passed any spring or creek the regi taest some gift to the boy for running the t would make a mad rush, aad the cold grocer's errands. If by any chance , water and the heat together laid naaay a Mary saved a cent out of her day's food, fellow flat oa the road. At last the or it with every cent earned by the chil-! der was given that aay man who left the dren went into a little box as r saving I ranks to fetch or drink water, wHaoat for clothes or the inevitable shoes for leave from the Captain of his company, winter. Their living seemed a daily , should be instantly shot ia front of his miracle; it was the miracle of perse- regiment. The mea were killing them verance, sound judgment and careful ' selves, yon know, by the way they were calculation. Mary took all the tleep going on. About noonday we got to wtrch she could, sparing herself sewing ' K , where we were to halt foraa at night, and so sared fuel and lights hour. Four hours we had been march and her own eyes. Her food was regu- ing through the f and, under that larly taken, cooked as well as possible, blazing mn. Just outside the town aad always of a kind to bring the bet was a little brook, running by the return in health and strength. They roadside. To march along by that worked in this way for five veers, the water with dry lips, swollen toagaef , boy earning more money as be needed burning eyes, was hard. Oae maa more clothes; then at 13 he got a situ- stepped from his place, filled his caa tion with the coal man. In two yean teen and was back ia aa iastaat. more the eirl eot a place with the bak- This maa was bt brother. Tk , er's wife, for all the neighborhood had j learaea w respect hub lmwuy iu uai mea us ise xroei ranx of oar struggle against beggary. For two company were ordeied to "fall ia." I years before she weat out the girl had j was oae of them. I begged my Can helped her mother in sewing aad so se-1 tain for God's sake to spare me this carea ner ciouing; e jouxzgen. zin , had fallen heir to the kindling gather- ing, area cleaning and errands. When ner sister was ewraieu mi xnn posiuon wis cnua aeipea ar wvuxt .. , -l?t. l-l S 1- .aVam with the sewing; see is now 12, ana tne l watcaed my eaaace to aaisa the Cap whole fainiiyarethrivmgjnerery way.' ' taia who had doaa his beat to make me THEonoaEMaasHofPasmic, N. J , j JJgaS S ? Gte-SSiS aaiwflledtSOOayear to each, of hi4 ifSliFS1! oarCokmel foar hones, beside 50 tobensed ia Iccmm 9X compaay lost ail 5!S!& Vbat2tfmeaaad-wa caosaa to par the WWX"B"JT;: The pottery maaia has gives place j to a erase for collections of embroidery, j rKirjtTK TOM fSATO. A mil. Meat room dim wfta to- bacco-tmoce, poorly NghUtf wiw ip TZlXTrnmrimt the alae aad a Mfcaw awTO m ?Z vw unbU! tk4d. alUr "";,n """' t r.K- j .- lUlnM rlaaT; griy tfad Ud. As J-aCkAU-B !!! MHPIk -"r,-"- "" - J vi !---. 4J knwlcd aroead the little the Scree Jiwr ST!aawk Th U fSJSSu UymW J0VS(S. tW it r!s Vl dear to the TL L d another atfiiia w aw wi h. w itmsm' i Lm'4irc aw , - :: : ;f,: VM aaW. w r r w- 1 m w 9OT u a m w w- - - - n m -r , i. ..?, - iahislew, qulHwayt Well, my boys. youv each had your ay, ana aoiaeti io o ais aacidote yet; but ycVre , fUag 'a ami bo ajtkcl t&e Dhl l&n ior tnue taiea ou ine -. n Qe qjwr tiiiti b. my JJ mJ maybe coald tell a.tory ,w well as aay lit t .....r.i)..n rvck " Lay oa. Doctor; we ar tha toert he wpt at lt till the hu, always." - -- "None of u can tell uch yam as Set Kxengft rTater. you, when you're onoe ct going, forj vou neer poil a good tory for waai of i Fenliasad and Anjjltnfl hvt adding a trifle here aad there )ot to . Wa.rrkJ ivUmt a month. who make it complete ana rounu u oh ko - i - - J iJifM ua a tiirv MTnrv mr mmi ajriiinnn izinnt l . & . . . - . -m Jm.. a Si a 1 4 t roii'll own that's a weeJtuoMi I'm notinorv. very subject to, boy, butaotnehow wy thouabu Kom to tun on a ioor follow who's dead now, so there's no harm in ' talking about him, if vou cat e tolistaa. A sharp order to the Jaalor Ueateii- , nt to fllf up the atove w th wood aad "he quick about It," a fllhog of pipes, a .' k a 1 . I v 'Tp at Camn IV, not many years aco. mere was a soiuier ho CXCUfH! . ilmwinlnr. xhutuit liko CCira in a Hit. with nothing to do but look at each oth - r till liririmr atari them off on the war nuth arnln. kch ticnoti s Dccullan - person's peculiar! - i f -" i " -- tlaH UndorCO a 5Cai"C vhing anaiyi, ami any ono who refuses at once to divulgi g ce- ca The Idea that 'the proper study of man - , kind Is man' is carrieu u us innnosi J limits, both among olliccrs and privates. This soldier I was tailing you aootu wan prompt and exact about ht duties, no fault could bo found with hb conduct, but his face wore always a look of ex- trcnio depression. He was seldom Mocn at tho sutlers store, never at, the soldiers' dances or theatricals, never spoke if ho could avoid it, but amtnt his aDaro timo lvinir Idlv on bin "-".4" bed or wandoring alone over tne bleak, frosty prairioi. it was at last decided by his comrades that he had committed some crime anu cnnsiea 10 oacapo ui Maw, and a prejudice began to be felt WP- ifor fellow, which recited ' m hw Mn totally ostracized. I nlUed 0 " CIIW to tbhoplUl OU ' or i.ta .tor .tnl "K -. bjt any cfTort to draw him into conversation now in his second enlistment in me regular army. 14 Spring came In, and tho scouting parlies went out. From time to time a small detachment would come Into Camp It. to tako out aapplic, or to bring In sick and wounded men, for mountain fever and 'hostlles' were both pretty troublesome that season. One broiling Augnstday an orderly came to my room, whero I was swinging in a hammock , and engaged in desperate combat with tho flies and gnats " ir,' said he, Private Gafw, B Co., buiuuihuii.iiiwhh "' " 'All right; be diwn dircclly,' and in a couple of minutci I stood by (iateVs bed, in tho cool, quiet hospital ward. His tanned skin and close cropped hair, the sunken eye and holbw check H.gavo A short examination showed tnat his days, if not his hours, were numbered: infict, from the nature of the wound I was surprised that he had lircd to reach the garrison. t My poor fellow, I can't help you, except to promise to deliver anv message , Ju wish sent to your friends. " Gac gave a short sih, but the look in his eyes was more cheerful than anyone had ever seen in them before. regiment halted. The jirst rix amy, xor ue ooomea man was my e wa brother. "No talking. Attention, squad! Load! Fire!" I knew mv amu never loeceea un. oat mv noor 1 . t . -.- orouwr ici: aeasw from uus momeat lastaoaors at the CotoaelV aarried faseraL "Now," whispered the devil, "here's your ehace tQ rsreage yosr k r.s a. i . ...mi.t.iiH m wn ilia mti. v, .a- . l.ti.kui w tmnk vtv rnT i'iWki n w . f - . brother's death ; Uke it. H war aT feajrsif lii.iUit T.VU?k S lata gave orsr for tfe ! ?A; tw Rtri -wwuow, jwa vti r k i . . .i aadmfei (a Mb cmkm whkh t his - & w ejr!nv J t w ft u W JV VW1 r w -- w--. -A.... ... : . .. , --. .. 4ll roati aa of ?3U. .-w tha (eatra, n i &.js ir aemyvt pkf t aer Jm?tW XvT& fettotW W I. 0a loVJUj from ?- i 1 want! to die U rid !; hl ' foe, aad dr4 not coai a. - -r I nia-- vr I -mt f t w J"LU trhnip I istjl wm wm . -- v life tor to oid t- - mm hv fik4 I o ltrd Kuri; I hare mi thm trn: wr ma. JTv , t KCb MPFTJ ' - tK(t &. hi K dart He &i n' ,! bw it! I ?Ki aXST which t... hm wfr?1V tP 1 haYin ftniml a lfaiaa? kkw. 'T I ; x$l cab:o sp nu icuh.i au Bcighbor, an eaccltont wjdo bt J wiMJ w tBdeavoiiwg to m I n found her ih icar, eaos by aUit. , conuunln,: tho Kre? and th9 ti a. I the ro.uw, over a btK Arv , Un V ', ulUedf thnip mi.da l rotor s o , had been watching it for nmr I J what i thJ matter wUJl IM iUt make vour aonH ifowo ' So dow wont, and a wxm at hi m k rr. I . . . ilritik thit chlor VOU Uf Uitt -h, 1 1 n'rans it'll com. Sho did o,?m I w I M tlrink'L it all. tho oa rulHui nr ' Ufolly. You am she'd forget l jt " ilfullv. on p she d fori; ttM-t waior. Well, ihiaUry n" r -a e w.Uy. M,urlimny H ml j; ew.tly. auirtiminy h ji ' . j and here you've got the grcdnt a right to makti It happy, tbmjjft v. Iktxi a monlh bliiiiL'. lha htii , doesn't come. Don't you w h .H tba water t lacKingr ., y-i n tKiur la morn love, uUlua aa4 Mams. II vm mnvi wnuo ji . young, you'll have a mo by t. I aor than Ihe widow' jmkim, whi ' r j cidi:r can romwly." Unolo Ilelah' f , b a good one. ZWm W - The Influence of Trew on Ilfallh. The value of trcci from a r , point of view, in laigu and ovum . t i elite, can scarcity Imj over w'uo'r ' j Apart from the n of relt-f an 1 neiw wnicn tney imparl, moir v- ir a purifiers of thi atmosphnre n sum f fncredible It ha. InsnUvr I fhv. a gooil siauMl elm, plane, or im.-' ,x. will produce noron million leiruf, U. ing a united area of two humify! t? ' and anuarn icet. I ho inililrjnr? -i . ent in overcrowded and unheal ny ou trlcts. In Iondon and all larr there exlU a great number t wa spots in which one or more irpr r- i I be planted to In this respect, to sdvanUiti In eitry w. at all evctiu, th?v f.v age thing better In Krancr-, and n It I In mot Continental clUoa, whrrj i - Boulevard are kept cool In suuunr nr 1 warm in winter, owing to ib rl if which treei havu in modifying U?n irv tnrc; In addition, they tend by nv- " tion to purify the eoif balow a wrU a-i the atmoiphare alxv ihcm A for planting treoi in the wldn trtr n I waste nlacaa of the nielromitiiff itiiiff compluh m beneficial result a V-f " cellent Institution which suppliei dn- Ing fountains for the refreshment of man and beast. France and (JrrmaHr. Side by side with the rccorry of prosperity, France ha kept in i w recoverr of her military wwm ) t of -a population of 37,000, W a' -701,000 men ars in tboai'tiTisrrr , olO.OOO In the reserve, 52," m tr territorial army, and ttf&.GOO In the wt ritorial reservemaking a foul of ah!, 2,400,000 men, all of whom hare recn ed some amount of mUKary training Besides these, there are aboat 1, "&& men who, though nominally taIongin;c to the army aad liable to jscrve in cr tain contingencies, hare rce!v"! n- training. Again, thasc figurr Ui (r mans have to show In the acti?e army 401,000, In the retcrve UW.OOO. in U: landwehr i60,000, and in the laadttnrni 1,030,000 making la all 2,61 ! men who have received aime amount l military training; mkda$ 2ti,fj tmn who have received c training. In eat ally the Germans have the advanta' , the figures for the two countries br nj 91,000 mea and 70,000. In artillery the numerical advantage U with theKrra3, the figures being, for France 'J,i 12 spir., aad for Germany 2,121 guns. 'I bf ti mease drain ot labor which the main tenance of this army moat Impwo up;n France is ia addition to? not In !! t a drain of money. The array estimate now reach 142,500.000 yearly. m- Tiik largest infant at birth of whkh there U any autfcenUcaied record ww boraiaOat9oa the I2th ef Ut Jan uary. The new.born boy wm ZA pounds la weight (the ordinary wesj;1 betag aboat pounds i. and 30 incht i height (the ordinary height being abjt 20 inches). The circumference of tfc 19 inches, and the fool wsa 3 ia lanrth. Sir veart weo thn woman became the mother of & chihl 18 pcende ia weight and 21 inches u heif kt. The size and weight of fJx eahe, laegh extraordisarr, are pro pprtioaate to the iae of th pxrrnta. The mother, Mrs. II. V. Bat, of ots Scotia, is 7 fettaad 9 iaehsa highland the father, a KentsckSan. b 7 ft ' inches high. The London Ifoptt Maeeam oaa boast no looirr of iu yr&z- iafsat, wkioh to oalj 24 rnch M. eace. Irba great saMortane to hue a fretful dispotttioa. It takea the let graacs oul of life aad kav& -t.'.j weeds where a cheerful liUpov.utz woaki casse flowers to bloom. The habit of fretting iiOB that grovT' rap idly anless it be sternly repressed ; and the best way to ovtrcosse it is to try al wy to look oa the cheerful side ct thjaft. I one wt to ?c one i m? J-" K Eg - - Ml - it-: .v