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TBH , Tyieb'gEl!)XTtMlXVftsgt.isg!. .Xatsni at tki PS3&clC&stsinito., at jwsai .-t .f-TEEkliUw OF LOVE. WovenwellRln inn with suohlbroe .., , J sway. all hatband all distrust. As eddying' siruws.and particles of dust i Are lost by aotne kwif t river In it course. fcouefif lore my friends, mv life, my art, mmtA' shadow Hies the- lieht iiw . jpvWtQptem worthyjnjny Meart a Love is a irem irfaioh w un nun-:. To grace and perfume sweeter than the rose; J Bank With that vile and poison thistle hate. Love is a Joyous thrush, Uiat wc can teach 1 1 T stag sweetlute-l ike fconrfs which all mar ,'IJ earu .tij " J 1 lu ' t)r we can silence him and tune the car . TO caw of crows, cr to the vulture's screech. Love is a feast; .and if the jrmfsts divide Vith all who pass, tho", thousand swell the van,' xnere snail be fowl and drink for every The loans mad fishes will he ranttlplied. tore Is tfee guide. I look to heights above, Sc beautiful, so ver" far away: Yea, I shall tread their sunlit peaks some day Since clasd hi miae f hold the hand of Love. Lore lathe law. i nut yield to Its control vAthirhairBiid all' things-work for the best, .Aad. in the calm still heaven of thy breast, Vhat God Himself sits taUring with thy souL -dBfia Wheeler, in Chicago Tribune. man- - r '"CAT K DELAWARE. ;PraKlBet Cittseaa Who Have Beea Id .to, the Whipping-Post How s Jtofia- . tirmti WuXkili to Suffer Carious Stories of.tbe PMtT The whipping-post in' the New- Castle vjWrjwni-had seven ".vicUms yesterday. TTireeHx)ys,wKo had stolen" something like fifteen dollars, got' ten lashes apiece. Twenty lashes.were applied to the backs of-foor -otheT-prisoncrsvhohad" been convicted oijlarceny. Sheriff! Clark did jiot handle tlie-cat in a particularly - forcible manner, and the men who were strung tip in the pillory didn't, seehVto xnindlhe blows rrm:h. . The -whippingpost has greatly degenerated in late 'years. There was a time when it Was applied indiscriminately to thieves and felons of high and low degree,, Now it is .mainly used as a scare-crow for '.chicken-thieves, sneak-thieves and er zaat tramps known us " peach-plucks.1 There are Delawareans living in this eity who remember as children, or l.n ,: ...i ., .- fTUWMLl, a UUIC UUU SUIUU OI U1C DlUe -Hen's most respectable citizens were put into the pen known as the pillery "ad made to expiate their offenses against the law and morality by a forced embrace of the whipping-poat. As a child the writer remembers hav ing seen men "who. after being whipped, were W law compelled to wear the let ter "F" (felon) overthebackof their colB-ashprasitheyTmained "within the .boundaries of that State. Other eople? a little" oWer, -will recollect how, in Dover, a man, who had been a prominent church member and most lugnly respectable citizen, for some act of dishonesty was publicly whipped and condemned to wear-, the stigma of disgrace, the letter "F,"" as long as he lived, or to abandon his home and busi ness and, take up his abode in another Stater HeTesolved to stay where his interestsrand affections- inclined him to remain. Although he was a storekeep er and his occupation necessitated his constant appearance in jmblic, he at tendei toiushiisiiiess-iu person and it is said by those who frequented his tore- 'as purchasers that he had his stock 6o arranged and "was so adroit in ins moEcments'thaLnu-one ever caught sight of the badge of his disgrace whilst being waited on by him. in the old Suae, when Delaware was more -rigid in bar righteousness than she is to-day, it was held by those who made and those tolio administered the laws that dishon esty was.much more heinous when en gaged in by those placed by social posi tion above want und amidst respectable surroundings than when indulged in by those tempted by necessity and evil companionship., Consequently, when a prominent citizen was caught stealing or forging, his punishment was always made heavier and more severe than that meted out to rogues of- either of the classes contemptously known as "poor whites' or "free niggers." In fact, a half century ago so largo a proportion of tba criminals punished by whipping was of the respectable class of society, that a lady, on visiting Delaware some years ago.-having beard that this, that and the other distinguished citizen was the descendant of some one who had bean publicly whipped, asked: "Do not all the aristocrats of Delaware de rive their patents of nobility from the whipping-post?" Toward the-clo.se of the last century an eminent and well-beloved gentleman of SwgexCounty, a public-benefactor, distinguished ffjr piety, fell from his high estate. He was apVIagistrate, and noted for&wisAonf aud excellence of judgment, v. Qn oaeoocasioathere was brought before liim in his official capac ity aome counterfeiters, who had been arreatedVfor passingTbad monejva large amoant of' which was found upon their personal TheMagistrateas Tvas'his duly, took possession of the counterfeit tauT; id destroy it was supposed. The rogues f were rCumml tied f or trial and subseqnenUyo pilloried' 'and wUipped. Yeais afterward the neighborhood' wa3 noodedjwith. "bogus -money1 at-length traced to he, i 1!urre,!,Kho had com- nuuea tne cuipnis aiiuueu. i luul iio, it was afterwardTdiscovered, had been for along time passing the money he J Toad confiscated Jor destractjon." Everyi efforfwas made to shield this beloved and respected citizen from the conse quences of his offense, but without any avail whatever Jc was whipped, most eeirely in 'tneaU-janl.-at ; .JDoTerj and the SlferifTwhormflicted ihe punishment was so fearful that he might beaccused of partiality fo acrich and respectable criminal that he cut so deeply into the , fleshes to cause the blood to run off the end of the lash" and down his own hands, whilst the back of the unfortu natejoffender was a sight on which the most stoical could not look without be ing sickened with Jiorror and pity. Some thirty-five or so years ago a well-knowaiandrrery-able 'politician of Wilmington ran for. Congress and came within three votes of being elected. He speat aore money than he could afford, and'i'n ordecto tide over a temporary embarrassment forged the indorsement of his brother-in-law, a distinguished physician of the city, to a note given bv n.,;dg.if-t::r - "t -i- came'toJmaCurity and so eseape any bad consequences. It so hapcpened that he was not e -good terms with' thebrother-in-law,aditbi8tkeiTellerof.the bank at which the note was presented for dis count knew. It was therefore retained until the matter ouldbe inquired into. The Teller took occasion speedily to see the doctor, and said, suddenly: "Why, Jou have made your iquarrel ppwith -, and, have commenced i indorsing forhinuieh?1!;; "1 have dope nothing of the sort," said the doctor, who was thrown off his guardrand-who, for family reasons, weuld have cut his tongue oat feefore giving his relative away had fhe taken tine to think before speaking. His after-attbinpts tohiish up the matter ware without avail. Eolitical opponents ol the unfortunate, culprit got hold 'of tbestotyY.andcTiejwas indicted, tried, and found guilty of 'the crime of forg ing, and sentenced to be -whipped. That he, would have. been so. punished there is bo doubt had.not Msj lovely and loving wife gone to the Governor" and' to the Governor's wife, and so wrought upon Ihe sympathies of both as to secure his BBBBp&GWfa&b pardoar-Bat frcwij that :tim forth he was politically and socially dead. Among the most beautiful, highly cultured and charming women of the State some thirty years ago were the four daughters of a high official who had the misfortune to be born kleptomani acs. It was well known to all'tho citi .zens of the town in which they resided that they had inherited this mania from their mother, who was a constitutional thief. The$e girls would take anything they could lay their hands on from mouse-traps to fishing-tackle. The ac quisitions made in this way were, in nine cases out of ten, wholly useless and worthless to them. Theirfather. know ing this propensity of wife and offspring,, visited the different storekeepers of the town and' requested them to send the bill to him for any articles they might miss after visits from the female mem bers of his family. There was, there fore, no particular trouble about the peculation of these youny ladies until a .new storekeeper came to town, who, on receiving the usual intimation from their father, said to some of his neighbofs: " Kleptomania-be hanged; it's nothing but thiefomania, and if they were poor women they would have it thrashed out of them at the whipping-post. If they come into my store to do any stealing Til have, them arrested and whipped as quick as if they were chicken-thieves." "wo one believed the fellow would carry out his threat, but he did. Two of the sisters came into his place, and after they were gone he missed a bundle of gloves. He followed them up the street, called a Constable, had them ar rested) searched, and would have had theai" committed to jail as common thieves had not bail been promptly of fered by a score of citizens for their ap pearance .to "answer to the charge at court. Kow began the tug of war. It was known that if the case came to trial the young ladies would be sentenced to be whipped, and ,that this sentence would not be remitted by the Governor, who was one" of tho sternly righteous men, who believed his position demand ed of him the exaction of the sentence pronounced by law, save in the case of after-discovered extenuating evidence. The only thing 4eft for the afflicted father who had , already been much im poverished through the peculations of his family, was to buv the prosecutor off. This he did, and reduced himself to almost absolute want by complying with the demands made upon him. The father never recovered from this public disgrace, and died soon after. The daughters, however, who never seemed to understand that they had been guilty of any criminality, held up their heads bravely, and all married well. Some of them are living to-day, beloved wives and good mothers, who, under the very shadow of the whipping-post, it is said, get their dry goods and other merchan dise in the old fashion, whilst husbands or sons pay up, just as their father did. Wilmington (Del.) Cor. Philadelphia Times. Raisingfhe "Old Boy." Some people seem born with a facul ty of raising the ancient masculine juve nile. They get folks who are minding their own business, and merely want peace and quiet, into all sorts of scrapes. This faculty is peculiarly de veloped in the commercial tourist usual ly referred to as a drummer. One of this class of gentlemen was at an up country railway station some days ago, and discovered, while waiting for a train, a wasp's nest. An idea at once struck him. How he achieved the feat without getting hurt, we don't know. Probably the wasps were dormant with cold. But at any rate he got that nest down and tied it" to the tail of a larg yellow dog that was fooling round the depot The dog started to run and that so stirred up the wasps that they sent a courier out to investigate, and as he did so in a manner disagreeable to the dog he only ran the harder and made three wild circuits of the depot The train meanwhile came in, and as trains don't stop long at country sta tions, it was just starting as the dog came round the third time. Wild with pain, the dog leaped aboard the train and plunged into a crowded car, just as the brakeman closed the door. The poor brute got beneath a seat and tried to curl up. The car was hot, and it wound up the wasps) and they came out, and in about half a minute the men in that seat jumped up so hard they nearly stove holes in the roof, and the way they clawed at their legs was a caution. Everybody looked. Then others became interested. And the dosr started on the run through the car. The wasps went for him and every per son in the car. A wild scene took place. rMen cursed and clawed wildly. Women got up on the seats and danced and the dog, which everybody thought was mad, tore up and down the aisle, howling. The conductor came in, thinking the people insane. He prompt ly joined the show. As the train was flying, folks couldn't jump off. No madhouse ever saw sucn a scene. There was profanity enough to sink a ship, and the brakeman gazing in at the door said it beat anything he ever saw iu a variety show. Finally the conduc tor stopped the train, folks got out, and the car was cleared of wasps and dog. But the passengers didn't get over it. They were an awful mad set and occa sionally after they got started again a man would find a stray wasp in his trousers and rise and yell. They talked of suing the railroad, and if they could have got that drummer his death would have been frightful. But he had gone on a train the other way. Boston Post. A Woman Starres Herself to Death ii Sixty Days. Miss Chloe Ann Violet, who started out on a starvation fast under the belief tliit vha wn nhAVinir n mmminil rf tho .Lord on the 5th of November last, died at the residence of her mother, on Queen Street last night about twelve o'clock, having lived without taking food of any kind for sixty days. The case is remark able from the:fact that it is the longest known. There is a well-authenticated case of a lady of New York State fasting forty-seven days, dying at the expiration of 'that time. Mass Violet although emaciated, retained consciousness and talked freely, indeed cheerfully, up to the time of her death. She was thor oughly impressed with the belief that her time had come, and that the Lord desired and commanded her to abstain from all kinds of food. She believed further that to die fasting would be a safe passport to Heaven, and the gates of the Golden City v would be thrown .wide open to her, but that to die in any other way would be disobedience to the command of the Lord, for which she would have to suffer in the next world. For sixty days she cheerfully acted out thishJelusion, her only regret" being that she allowed herself to be induced to "abandon her first attempt some years ago, to starve herself to death. She had not taken a particle of food of any kind since the 5th of November last; not even medicines would she take, fearing that her life might be prolonged there by. Her father, Mr. Robert Violet, died from, an overdose of laudanum, and her brother, Albert Violet, drowned himself in the river about ten years ago. Miss Violet was highly respected by all wha knew her. Every effort, force and per suasion were used to make her give up ther wild purpose, but without success Alexandrta ( a.) apeaat to Vhtcago Tribune. What loneliness is more lonely than distrust Qeorge Elliot. He meal. fasts enough that has a bad - -l - - SkUIfil Nrgtas It is desirable that mothers should truly estimate the importance of educa ting their daughters to a thorough knowledge and skill in all home accom plishments. But while endeavoring faithfully to perform this duty to their girls, let them not forget that good nurs inj and delicate care for the sick and feeble is one of the most important duties to be incorporated intimately with the whole routine of domestic knowledge and home duties. The gen tle attentions and unwearying patience so necessary to nurse the invalid back to health and strength in the gentlest, most unobtrusive manner, are too little thought of ; yet cou rageous and effectual effort is among the lessons that a moth-. er should begin early to teacn ner daughters. A little girl with quick sen sibilities, and sympathy for suffering, will lay these lessons to heart and weave them in with growing knowledge much sooner than 5 the rudiments were not unfolded before her until she had seen more of the pleasures of life, through society, and her interest in individual sufferings had not been brought into action while more tender and unselfish. It is true that some have no skill or sympathy with this part of a woman duty, and will probably never make great attainments in this line. But alt the more reason that, by early training and unwearied and patient drilling, mothers should endeavor that their daughters should so far attain unto the principles of good nursing that the sick who may be thrown into their care when they are mistresses of families shall not absolutely suffer from neglect and ignorance, or go through the slow starvation that must be their doom ii surrounded by those who are heartless through ignorance, and from not under standing some of the simplest rules of nursing. One can easily tell if persons have the instinctive talent for nursing by seeing them for a few moments in a sick-room, or by the side of one just entering the convalescent stage. It is torture, par ticularly to those much reduced by long illness weak and almost childish through great exhaustion to have a certain class of persons near them. The rustle of a silk dress which should never be heard in the sick-room anyhow is to one very weak almost unendura ble. Loud talking, sympathy expressed in an off-hand way, because the nailer thinks it the proper thing to do, buj which has no heart in it, and a long list of inquiries, rapidly uttered, with no pause between for an answer: "What'o the matter? What does the doctor say? Have you any appetite? What could you relish most a little soup? some broth? a good bit of hot steak?" etc. All this rattled off in a way that irritates and rasps the nerves like the filing of a saw. With transient callers one can 'bear it, because such calls are not often long. But if this were the usual tone of every day, from those on whose care the sick person is thrown, it would be intolera ble. However, there is a drop of com fort and some compensation in every dark corner. Usually those who have no sympathy with the sick or talent for nursing them are not often tempted to enter the room. One of the most important things to bear in mind when ministering to the sick is to ask as few questions as possi ble. Let judgment, instinct, and close observation teu if sponging the head and hands will be a comfort, and, if needed, do it without asking a question, and do it gently and noiselessly. Turn the pil low on which the head lies, or which may support it in the back of the chair, or put a fresh, cool one in its place while the one removed is airing, but do it so softly and with such tender touch that the patient is not disturbed. None but those who have suffered for the lack of such grateful, unobtrusive attentions can realize their value and comfort. Let one with no knowledge of how to act come in and attempt these kind offices, and mark the difference. With a loud voice, and rapid movements, " Here, lets change your pillow your head will be cooler. Raise your head while I remove it, and give it a good shaking up," and with energy sufficient to knead a batch of bread the kindly but too Doisterous mend, pulls out the pil low with a jerk that sets the head throb- bing, and with much noise and rapid motion beats and shakes the pillow, and as roughly pushes it, freshened and cooled, to be sure, behind the drooping head, with a vehemence altogether out of place in the sick room. If one could note the sufferer's pulse before this " mighty rushing mind" swept into the room, and compare it with what it will be after the pillow is twitched out, and this energetic shaking up has been ac complished, and the victim is permit ted to lay the head back in peace, she would readily comprehend the import ance of quiet, gentle ways in a sick room. The next important step is to find food absolutely necessary to a healthy convalescence after a long and protract ing illness. That is just the time when the nurse's skill and ingenuity will be taxed to the utmost. To coax the ap petite, never ask the patient what is wanted. Bring in some dainty unex pectedly. If on first trial it is not satis factory, say nothing; do not look or feel disappointed; quietly remove the dish from sight, and then try again, prepar ing something entirely different, until atlast you hit on something that pleases the eye and which the stomach will re- tn without any nausea, and then there is an important step taken which tends toward rapid and healthy recovery. No professional nurse can for a mo ment be compared with the mistress of the family, who has catered for the Eleasure of her flock for years and nows each individual- taste and pecu liarity. Taking counsel with the physi cian, and learning what will be harm less, in case the patient fancies it, she will with her own hands, if at all effi cient, prepare some dainty form of nour ishment, or superintend its being pre pared, watching carefully that nothing is scorched. Always remembering a little more sugar or salt can easily be added by the patient if not quite enough ; but if too salt or too sweet for the weak stomach, love's labor is lost and the in valid suffers. When neatly prepared, choose the prettiest bowl or cup, cover a small waiter with a snowy napkin and quietly bring it to the patient. Sit down and gently ask if the repast seems pleas ant, and can be tasted without any dis turbance. But suppose this proves a failure. Don't be irritable or impatient, but cheerfully, after a short time, try some thing simple, but entirely dissimilar,and offer that. It will not be long, if patient and quiet, before the very thing will be found. Until similarly situated none can fully realize the horrors of convalescence, un less some good angel, with placid brow and smiling lips, stands by the side ready at the right moment to step down and trouble the waters continually, until the right spring is touched that will send healing and strength through the languid veins. Mrs. Henry Ward Beech or, in Christian Union. A local potentate on the west coast ef Africa, styled King Ja J a, wishing to divert the trade of the Qua Eba tribe in to his market, sent an expedition against the people who opposed his views, and after a short and sanguinary war mas sacred his prisoners, boiled their heads, and had their skulls-utilized in the orna mentation of his palace. m On the homestead every boy aai CI should have their own tree t aara , and have the fruit. They should to Hght to plant the seeds of fruits aai to care lor the seedlings, and how sa ted or graft. QreerfdiFrwU Grower, Distenper !a Horses. The disease usually called distemper or strangles in horses is a peculiar form of specific fever, mainly confined to young animals, and m.iy originate from various causes, such as changing from field to stable, or from grass to dry feeding, and especially from a change ! of locality. Young horses, and even those well advanced in years, when ta- xen lrom tne countrv into the city are very liable to have the distemper. This is so well known that purchasers of horses when visiting the sales siahles in our largercities are not surprised tofir.d that the very animal they wish to pur chase is more or les "off his feed" on account of distemper. It is al-so very annoying to the salesman to find his Jroungest and perhaps most promising torses showing general languor and a rough coat at the very time he would have them look their bW. B-it it is one of those things that he can not well avoid, for lhe.se are the symptoms of distemper. A few days later the ani mals will begin to cough, and there will be a redness of the nasal membrane, and a watery fl w from the nose and eyes. Theauim.il finds it difficult to swallow food or water, and there is a swelling between tlie bones of the lower jaw, followed, perhaps, by rupture and abscess, after which the animal obtains relief and rapidly recovers. These are some of the symptoms of dUtemper, a disease which appears to be more or less prevalent among; young horses in all parts of the world. Ihe disease possesses the essential features of scarlet fever, measles, and other eruptive fevers in man. Its devel opment and course are always charac terized by fever, which has its incuba tion stage, lasting usually eight to ten days. It is not safe to check the fever, but the better way is to allow it to run through its uniform course, accompanied by treatment alleviative rather than cu rative. Sustain the strength of the pa tient with soft, nourishing food bran mashes, linseed meal, warm corn meal, puddings and gruel. The nostrils may be steamed and warm poultices applied to the jaws ; in fact, anything that will promote the formation of matter and its expulsion from the system is worth try ing. What may be called medicines or drugs are seldom required in distemper; but unless soft food is supplied, phytic may be required to prevent costiveness. More horses are injured by giving them too much medicine than too little when they are afilicted with distemper, be cause their owners or attendants, in their anxiety to relieve the sufferings of the poor brute, pour down a larger quanti ty and more powerful medicines than are either safe or actually necessary. Some of tho earlier veterinarians de nied the contagious character of di-r- temper, believing it to be only the re- suit ot some special condition of solt peds due to domestication and restric tion of liberty. Later authorities, how ever, class it among contagious diseases, but consider jt one of so mild a charac ter that it is confined altnosC entirely to young animals. Sometimes, however, it assumes a more virulent form, and will spread through au entire neighbor hood, attacking the youug animals first, and then the older ones, unless they have had the disease in their younger days. It is seldom that an animal has distemper twice ; the first attack, as a rule, protects the patient through life. All animals of the equine species are subject to this disease, iaclu ling asses, mules and zebras. An English ve terinarian, in speaking of this feature of the disease, says: "This general lia bility would indicate that there is some material in their blood which affords fitting pabulum for the feeding and mul tiplication of the specific germs, some what in the same manner as a few par ticles of yeast grow and reproduce them selves. One of several vexed questions connected with strangles is whether it can be produced de novo; whether, un der certain circumstances, perhaps by retention of effete matter from gastric derangement or checked perspiration, the morbid virus of strangles can be de veloped from within." We can see no good reason for doubt ing the possibility of strangles being de veloped, starting, as it were, in one ani mal,any more than that it can pass from one to another. What is termed by some old horsemen "breeding stran gles" does not involve the mooted ques tion of the "creation of something out of nothing," for the germs of this dis ease are probably akin to the spores of our microscopic fungi, smut, rust and mildew, which seem to be everywhere present in the air and earth, and when they reach a congenial place, sprout, grow, and multiply rapidly. This germ theory of disease is attract ing increased attention nowadays, owing in part to the recent great discoveries of Pasteur, the eminent French microscop ist, and it will probably not be many years before the true origin and cause of some, if not all, of our most common contagious diseases will be rally known and understood. Of .course, the air about a horse with distemper will con tain more germs of the disease than that at a distance ; consequently another animal coming within the radius of this infected circle would be more likely to take the disease than if he remained outside of it. The germs of some dis eases may be carried a long distance be fore losing their vitality, while others soon die, and this may account for the rapid spreading of some diseases over a country, while others remain for a long time within circumscribed limits. We know this is true with diseases of plants caused by microscopic fungi, and it is proDaDiy tne same witn tne germs of disease affecting animals. The disease known as pleuro-pneumo-nia in cattle, although known to exist in a few localities in the Eastern States for several years, nevertheless makes no progress, or at least has been kept con fined to very circumscribed limits, while the epizooty which prevailed among horses a few years since spread over the entire country in a very few weeks. Is the germ of one lighter than the other, thereby allowing a more rapid dissem ination in the air, or are they more po tent and certain of finding victims? This is a question which our scientists will probably be able to answer at some future day, if not at the present time. Why a horse having strangles when a colt should be able to resist the disease in after years is another question easier to ask than to answer. N. Y. Sun. Sweet Potato Pudding. One pound of sweet potato, boiled in a little water; when done, take them out, peel them, and mash verv smooth ; beat eight eggs very light; add to them half a pound of butter (creamed), half a pound of sugar, half a teaspoonful of powdered cinna mon, a very little nutmeg, one wine glass of rose-water, one gill of sweet cream; stir all well; then add the sweet potato, a little at a time; mix all u gether, stirring very hard; then butter a deep dish, put in tho pudding and bake three-quarters of an hour; or line a pie-plate with puff-paste, put in the pudding and bake twenty minutes. To mend broken ivory, moisten thoroughly a small quantity of very finely powdered good quicklime wita white of egg to form a paste. Use af once, clamp the parts, and do not dis turb for twenty-four hours. Do not usa an excess of the cement. A young woman of Wallingford. Conn OT3 IliatliCU U1U U11IC1 CGlIMjf and, while the festivities that followed the ceremony were at their height, she eloped with one of her old admirera) who was among the guests. m m Serpents coil around the arms ani W the hair of fashionable women. Cati appear in brooches and earrings. - Farm Work in Winter. - The winter season is not only a good thinking season for the farmer, but there is a good deal of practical work that can be done during the short days, which is often neglected. Here is some good advice about such work, that a correspondent gives to us through the columns of the Country Gentleman: Few farmers are aware how much farm work can be accomplished in the winter season. Many farmers confine their operations in winter to "ing wood, filling the ice-houses, etc. A smaller class, more enterprising, draw out the manure as it is made. Tba Very best fanners keep all their avail able force busy all winter. There are many kinds of farm work that can be performed very advantageously in win ter, if it has become necessary to lay a stone wall in any part of the farm, and the stones are in piles, so thev can be got at, they can be drawn now much cheaper than next summer. Those who have never tried it would be sur prised to see how much easier a loaded stone-boat draws when there is a little snow on the ground. When the snow is a little deeper, a sleigh can be sub stituted for a stone boat. Farmers who have stones to draw from meadows or other fields would do well to prepare for drawing the stones in the winter. Small stones can be piled in heaps, and large ones can be raised from the ground, merely to keep them from freezing down. Large stones can be handled in winter by simply hitching a rope around them, and with the im portant advantage of not plowing up the field. I think that such stones are much more easily handled with about a foot of snow on the ground, as such a depth of snow tends to prevent anv pitching or rolling, which always causes annoyance. Stones for building pur poses can be hauled to better advantage in winter than in summer. Winter is a good time to prepare for changing or repairing the fences on the farm. In drawing manure in winter it is not advisable to pile it, unless for the purpose of decomposing straw or kill ing foul seeds. I have followed the practice of hauling manure every win ter, and I think the most beneficial re sults follow the practico of spreading it directly from the sleigh. I have to go over the fields in the spring and break up the large lumps, but this is benefi cial. The manure Is very much more valuable when applied in a green state, and when it is mingled to a great ex tent with frozen liquid manure, than if it has been allowed to leach and dry for months before beiug used. A "very good sleigh for this purpose is made with wooden runners, and it is best to provide a tight box for the liquid manure. When the manure is all out it is disposed of, there can be no fur ther waste, and it fertilizes the first crop on that field. Ihe true principle of farming is always to keep ahead of the work. Christian Union. Fighting the Canker Weneu It is very common for writers on cank er worms to recommend that the trees to be protected be treated with printer's ink quite frequently, beginning in Octo ber or November, and continuing the practice till the trees are leaved out in spring. It is not improbable that the moths may occasionally mature suffi ciently in their pupa skins to burst them and come forth, during unusually mild weather in autumn, but in average years the number Umt come out of the ground before spring will probably be found to be very small. Mr. O. A. Hillman, whose apple orchard on his farm in Marlboro1 is one of the best in the vicini ty, has made the habits of the canker worm a study, and has found that the female mollis which are wingless, very seldom crawl up the trees till the first really warm day in spring. His method of protection is printer's ink spread upon strips of paper some six inches wide, which are wound around the trunks of the trees and fastened by two or more carpet tacks at each end of the band, the paper receiving one application of the ink early in the spring, and then the trees are examined every warm day till the moth begins to move, when the ink is again applied. His observations lead him to believe that the moths move al most solely by night, and that the great er portion leave the ground the same night and immediately following the first warm day. By watching closely, and by having the papers all in place and covered by one application of ink, he is able to know by the few scattering moths caught, just about the right time to give them a sticky path to travel in. Last spring, a very warm day in April gave promise of starting out the moths in full numbers, and by painting the bands of the entire orchard one after noon, he was enabled the next morning to see nearly the whole previous years crop of moths imprisoned in the sticky mass. The number which crawled up later was too insignificant to be worth paying much attention to, unless utter extermination of the species be aimed at, which would be an undertaking of no small moment where an orchard is surrounded by trees belonging to care less neighbors. At the close of the pairing season, the tacks are drawn out from one end of the paper bands and they are allowed to hang loosely, during the growth of the tree in summer. Before winter the pa pers are replaced, and if the trees are now too large to be encircled by the bands, the ink is brushed over the inter vening space on the bark itself. New England Farmer. The Tree-Planter's Oppertanity. It is the season for making out a list and selecting trees to be set in spring. Those who will trust a wandering and wholly irresponsible agent with this im portant work choose to incur risks, and almost always find that they have met them. The wiser way is to go to the grower, who has a character and a busi ness at stake, and is pretty sure to raise the varieties that give most satisfaction in the particular locality while making irmi oi new surisoi promise. j.ne pur chaser can then see whole rows of the kinds he determines to plant, and can mark with colored string or otherwise the trees he prefers. An inexperienced person is very apt to select a neat, clean-stemmed, straight specimen, grown like a weed, such as one sees where trees come up thickly in each others1 shade and on rich clean soil. But such trees, with their thin, delicate bark, unshaded by leaves, are least fit to endure exio:ure to sun and wind, and unsheltered, uumulched soil. The knowing planter prefers a stout stem, short rather than long, and full of buds and spurs from which leaves can issue to shade the stem and help the ascent of sap; which will also yield early first samples of the fruit. If shoots issue from these lower down than he would have the head he stops the extension by a timely pinch with thumb and finger as .growth goes on. If the stem is not erect, that is a minor and temporary drawback, easily remedied by a stake and string rightly applied. It is im portant that the roots of a tree be fresh, undried by wind and unbitten by frost. If a scrape with a finger-nail shows a white, bright, moist surface under the outer him of brown, the roots are sound. As to the top, the ripe free shoots of last year indicate health and vigor. These shoots should . be shortened in (except the one or three to form the head). Thus we examine the. three constituents of the tree the roots that supply, the stem and its baric that car ries, and the leaf-bearing owls that digest N. I. Tribune. A satirical innkeeper advertise ha bouse w " the only second-daw ia the world." REMOVAL OF G. HEITKEMPER & BRO.'S JEWELRY STORE! We do hereby notify the people of Columbus aud vicinity, thit we have moved our Jewelry Store to tho building BETWEEN OEHLMCH'S AND KRAMER'S ON ELEVENTH STREET. It Is a oaw, large, commodious building, where we have now on hand, and will sell either at Retail or Whole sale, anything in the line of Wains, Clocks, JBWBlry, Sihf si Plated Fare, Spectacles and Optical Goods, &c &c. A fnll Hoe of Toys, Organs, Pianos, in and see our new I A lrl' E.ire ! Ye Ac. One huadred yer ago a little girl fnamed Mary Butt was living with her parents at the pretty rectory of Stan ford on the Terne. in England. She was a bright and beautiful child, aud when she grew up she became Mrs. Sherwood, the writer of a great many charming stories for young people. But nothing that she wrote i so en tertaining as tho story or her child hood, which, when she was an old 1-idy, she told to please her grand children. I wonder how the girls who read this paper would endure the discipline which little Mary sub mitted to so patiently in 1782. From the time he was six uutil she was thirteen she wore every day an iron collar around her neck, and a black board strapped tightly over her shoul ders. This was to make her perfectly straight. Perhaps you may have seen here aud there a very stately old lady who never was known to lean back in her chair, but who always held her self as erect as a Poldior on duty. If jo, she was tnuzht, you may be sure, o carry herself in that way when she was a little girl. Poor Mary's iron collar was put on in the morning, and was not takeu off until dark, and, worse than that, she says : I gen erally did all ray lessons standing in stocks, with tho collar arouud my neck. I never sat on a chair in tuothei 's pretence." my Her brother aud herself were great readers, but you can count on the fingers of one hand all tho books i hey had to read. lCobiuson Crusoe, twoselsof Fairy Talen, The Little Female Academy, aud Esop's Fables formed the entire juvenile library. They used to take Hobinson Crusoe aud seat themselves at the bottom of the wide staircase, the two heads bent over the page together. Whenever hey turned a leaf they ascended a tep, until they reachod the top, and then they began to go down, again. Little Martin was not very pernor vet - ing with bis Latin, so, although it was not then the fashion for girls, Mary't. mother decided that she should begin tho study in order to encourage him. The sister soon distauced the brother, and before she was 12 her regular task of a morning was 50 Hues of Virgil, tianslated as she blood in the HIOCKS. il lou will ask what sort of a dress f this little girl was allowed to wear 100 j years ago. in summer phe had cam brie and in winter liuseywoolsey or atnfT onans r!K ..: i v. fliuil gowns, With a simple white Illll8lin for best. Her mother alwavR insisted on a pinafore, which was a great loose apron worn over every thing else and enveloping her from head to foot. It is quite refreshing to unu mat, neiiner tue oiacRDoara nor the Latin took from the child a love of play and ot dolls. Her special pet was a huge wooden doll, which she carried to the woods with her, tied by a string to her waist, after the grown people uau decided that she was too uig iu care ior uous. a. iricna one day presented her with a fine gauze cap, and this was the only ornament ?he ever possessed as a child. I think the little girls who compare 1882 with 1782 must be thankful that they were not born in that century. Tet little Mary Butt was a very happy child, spending, when permitted, bourn ol great delight iu the woods and grove?, aua listening eagerly to the talk oil the learned and traveled visitors who), came to the Stanford rectory. Hin per's Young People The prevalence .of small-pox throughout the country has caused ome 8trauge"exhibif!pns of fright ind selfishness. Only nine miles out of St. Louis a uegro lay sick with the disease on a pile of straw at the read side. Thenext morning he .was dis covered and, att the weather nad-Deen cold, it is probable that he was badly (rozen ; but nobody, would go to his aid and be was left to' dje all aloue, which he did after another night of I'Ytintliria. An Htrtinr, rrmmu.. -a similarly left to herself in a suburb of ..gwu.. v. m. AftAv.tau nvuiau no. Ciucinuati.-Afterjier death. the shanty iu which her body remained was set on fire by throwing' blazing wad ul straw at it Three children were ibandoned by their parents at Selma, IVnn., and iu this case there was not ihe excuse of real danger, for the ather and mother had been protected by recent vacciuation. In a Wiscon sin lumberman's camp three men were left by their companions with food lud water for only three days. After that they would have starved to death had not a man, who heard of their plight through the fugitives.gone to their succor. On the other band, cases or seir-sacrincuig bravery are Mao numerous. F. GERBER Sc CO., DKALKRS IN- FURNITURE, AND UNDERTAKERS. Claire, BgMs, tans, ' TABLES, Etc, Etc GIVE HIM A CALL AT HIS PLACE ON SOUTH SIDE lllfc ST., Oiie door east of Heintt's drug store. Sewin Mftohim?-, and a great many articles too numerous to mention, store pric.'-. vei r lu , and everything will be guaranteed. KENDALL'S IT CURL Sl'AVIWS, SPLINTS l: I N O- BON'ES. t I'ltBS AND allsimi . i:bli:v ISHrJS , XI) Kh MOVES Til L BU.NUL WITHOUT BLISTSK IX Q. jfl?5'KENDALL,3fc Ffl iTrmv "7 IINDALLS SPAVIN ODEI! It hai cured thouiands of cases and is destined to cure millions and millions more. KINBALL'S SPAVIN CUR1! Is the-only positive cure known, and to show what thN remedy will do we give hero as a sample of casen ;ureil br it, a statement hich was GIVEN UNDER OATH. To Whom it Mav Concern. In the year 1375 1 treated with "Kendall's Spavin Cure," a bone tfp: in of several month' growth, nearly half as Iars;e as a hens egg, and completely stopped the . lameness and removed the enlargement. 1 have worked the horse ever since ver hard, and he never ha been lame, nor could I ever see any dillerenee in the 4 size of the hock joint Miice I treated him with "Kendall's Spavin Cure.'' ' K. A. Oainks. ' Enosbursch v.uin. vt.. Feb. 'Si, '71. Sworn and (subscribed to before me ' this 25th day of Feb.. a. d. 1ST!). John G. Jkxnk. Justice of Peace. KENBALL'S SPAVIN CUBE; ON HUM A XT FLESH it has been ascertained bi repeated trials tu be, the very best liniment ever usedor any deep seated pain of loin standing ur uj snore aurauon. auo Jor fJUliJS, JiUJS lUJYS. FtHJUT-BITES or any bruise, cut or lameness. Some are afraid to vse it on human jlesh simply because it is u horse medicine, but you should remember that what is good for BEAST is good for MAN, ami ice know from Experience that "KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE" can be used on a child I i,eur old with perfect safety. Its Effects are wonderful on hitman Jlesh audit does not blister or make a sore. Try it and be convinced. I1NALL'S SPAVIN CUBE; Read below of Its wonderful effects as a liniment for the human family. , , IlKMAlIIlC. 3IldsilKI, All 11 -a 'JO, 1S30. B. J, KENDALL A- Co., GENTS: I am so overjoved in view of the r.-siilt of an ap plication of vonr Kendall's Spavin Cure that Tfeel that I ought for IIumanitiiH nake publish it to the world. About thirtv-livo e.irs ago while riding a voting ugly horie, I was injured in one of my testicles, a'm! from that time to three weekn ago a slow but constant enlargement han been tin- renlt, giimr me a great amount t.f trouble, almost entirely preventing me from horeb.u-k ruluiir. wh eh was my usual way of traveling. I saw a notice of vour KendaMV Spavin lure, never once thought of it foranything except for bor.', but alter receiving the medicine and TenK over what it was good for, feeling terribly exercised about my difficulty, for 1 bud cocsulted many physicians and none gave me anv specitie but when it could be endured no longer to remove it with the knife. I applied vour Kendall's Spavin Cure as an experiment, and it was so painful in it- application that I concluded not to repeat it and thought no more about it until near a week, and lo and behold ne-half the size was gone, with joy I could scarcely believe it, I immediately ap plied it over again, and have made iu all about i. dozen applications running over a apace of two weeks and the terrible enlargement i almost gone, in view of which I cannot express my feelings of delight. It has been a God send to me. may he Bend to others with liKe troubles, John Rick. Pastor of Hemitite Congregational Church. 1 S. You are at liberty to put this in anv liape.u mav please. I am not asbained to have my name under. ver or by the side of it. KENDALL'S SPAVIN CBBfi! Kendall's Spavin Cure H sure in its ttAt lx Iu a. .. .. .... ?n. .....I .. """" J" "" l'cw" " " lei nu u reacn any tieep seateu pain or to re- 3 move ; any bony growth or any other enlargement if used for several days, such as Plut spurns, caiiou. fprams, swelling, jiuejoinu or iimos, or rheumatism in man IS Used for mail or beast. It i- HOW known 5 acting mild yet certain in its ertects. It is at an seasons or tue vear. Send address for Illustrated Circular, which we think gives positive proof, of its "virtues. No remedy has met wit 1 iiirh unoii illii d hiicijs tn mir i.nnivipiif. r...- 1 beastas Well as man. Price $1 per bottle, . , , , ALL DRUGGISTS have it or can get it for you, or it will be sent to any address on receipt or price, bv the proprietors, 48 Dr. B. J. KENDALL & CO, Eiosburg Falls, Vermont. 1870. 1882. THK almtfbus journal Ii conducted as a FAMILY NEWSPAPER, Devoted to the best mutual inter- jests'of its readers and its publish. - -ex8. Published at Columbus. Platte ; county, the centre of the agrlcul- . tural portion of Nebraska, it is read by hundreds of people east who are looking towards Nebraska as their fnture home. Its subscribers iu Nebraska are the staunch, solid portion of the community, as is evidenced by the fact that the Journal has never contained a ' "dun" against them, and by the other fact that f ADVERTISING In its columns always brings it reward. Business is business, and those who wish to reach the solid pecrple of Central Nebraska will nud the columns of the Journal a splendid medium. JOB WORK Of all kinds neatly and quickly done, at fair prices. This species of printing is nearly always want ed in a hurry, and, knowing this fact, we have so provided for it that we can furnish envelopes, let ter heads, bill heads, circulars. very short notice, and promptly on time as we promise. SUBSCRIPTION. Icopy per snnum " Six months ' Three monthB, ...$2 00 ... 1 00 ... SO- Slngle copy sent to any addrest in the United States for 5 cts. K. TOTUTE1 CO.. Columbus, Nebraska. $66; a week in vour own town. S.1 Out tit free. No risk. Kverv thing new. Capital not re quired. We will furnish von everything. Many are making, fortunes Ladies naske as much as men. and boys and girls make great pay. "Reader, if you want a business at which you can make great pay all the time, yqu work, write for particulars to II. Hailstt a Co., Portland, Maine. ijan-y Call 473 SPAVIN CURE! FOR 31 AN IT IS NOW KNOWN TO BE ONE OF THE BEST IF NOT THE BEST LINIMENT EVER DISCOVERED. euVct.s, mild in its action as it does not - .. - m any lameness and all enlargements of and i.ir anv purpo-e for which a liniment to be the best liniment fur mn vr inpil used in full strength with perfect safety or six bottles for $". WHEN YOU TRAVEL ALWAYS TAKE THE B. & M. R. R. Examine map and time tables carefully It will lie ,een that this line connects with C. lt..Q. K.K.; in fact they are under one management, and taken together form what is called Shortest and Quickest Line to ST. LOUIS. PE0HIA. DES MOINES, ROCK ISLAND, And Especially to stll.Poimts IX IOWA, WISIONSIN, INDIANA, ILLINOIS, MICHIGAN, OHIO. FKIM'IPAi. AIiVAN TACKS ARK Through coaches from destination on C. Ii. & (J. K. It. No ti ansfers, changes f.om C . It. .t Q. K It. to connect ing lines .ill made iu Union Depots. THROUGH TICKETS AT- LOWEST RATES -CAN BK HAD L pon application at any station on the application road. Agents are al-o treii.iied to check baggage through; give all information as to raten, route.-, time connections, etc., and to secure sleeping car accomoda tions. This company U engaged on an exteu tion which will open a NEW LINE TO DENVER And all points in Colorado. Thii ex teution will be completed aud ready fur business in afew months, and the pub lic can then enjo, all the advantages of a through line between Deuver and Chicago, all under one management. P. M. KtlNtlM. Geu'I T'k't A'gt, My Omaha, Nkb. TTK.HKY UAMN, Manufacturer and dealer in Wooden and Metalit Burial Cisketa. All kinds and sizes of Kubex, also has the sole right to manufac ture and sell the Smith's Hammock Reclining Chair. Cabinet Turning and Scroll wcrk, Pic tures, Picture Frames and Mouldings, Looking-glass Plates, Walnut Lumber, ete., etc. COLUMBUS, NEB. ROUTE ?ggsggE:&2gS33 .s-J Vf "
