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THE JOURNAL
WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1SS'
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GRANDMOTHER,
.ki the flickering firelight shadows
That glimmer, and quiver, and glow.
Grandma and little Mabel
Are rocking to and fro.
The baby is cooing and laughing.
But Grandmother does not heart
For her thoughts are wandering backward
Over many a long-gone year.
She is not rocking our baby.
As she softly swings to and fro-
But she holds in her arms little Sammy,"
Dead seventy years ago.
Her bonny wee, brown-eyed baby!
She lets her spinning-wheel rest,
And in the little log cabin,
She holds her first child to her breast.
Socking, and soothing, and crooning.
While the shadows dance on her face.
And the flames are roaring and crackling
In the old-fashioned fire-place.
A blooming, red-cheeked little woman.
With eyes as black as can be,
Tho wild, restless spirit of girlhood
Subdued by maternity.
And Grandpa Is sitting beside her
Voung, and nroad-shoulderod and strong;
And he smiles, half proudly, half gravely.
As ho hears his little wifu's 6ong.
The baby's eyelids are drooping.
And his spirit is far away
In dreamland, where mortal children
With the littlo angels play.
But Grandma's head droops lower.
And, I think, with tear-dimmed cyca.
She sees, far away in the church-yard.
Where a little green mound lies.
Oh! the little blue cradle is empty;
And Grandma's arms are, too,
But they feel so heavy and listless.
As Uicy never used to do.
Sorrowful, lonely and silent.
She hears her little one cry.
And she thinks he is fretful without her.
So far away in the sky.
And she wonders, with feverish longing,
" l)o they give him a mother's carof
Do the ungels curl on their fingers
The rings of his golden hair? "
This was Grandmother's first sorrow;
And her step was never so light.
Her cheeks were a trifle paler.
And her eye u little less bright.
Hocking, and crooning, and soothing,
Softly she swings to and fro.
She is putting to sleep "little Sammy,"
Dead eoventy years ago.
JV. T. Observer.
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LITTLE CARROTSON'S HOLIDAY.
Mr. Culbill was a busy lawer, a
bachelor and not very fond of children,
so that his married sister, who lived in
the country, made a mistake when she
wrote to beg that he wonld provide a
day and an evening's amusement for
little Carrotson, who was returning to
Westminster School after his Christmas
holidays. The boy was due at his tutor's
house in Dean's Yard on a Wednesday;
but Mr. Cutbill's sister suggested that if
he came up to London on the Tuesday
her brother might make him spend an
agreeable day and take him to see a
pantomime afterwards. Little Carrot
son was not related in any way to Mr.
Cutbill's sister, but he was the son of a
friend of hers, and was said to be an in
telligent boy, well worth knowing.
Mr. Cutbill consented to entertain the
youth, and little Carrotson accordingly
arrived at the lawyer's private residence
in Gower street one January morning,
towards half-past nine. It was raining
hard, and Mr. Cutbill thought it would
never do to take the boy out of doors in
such weather. He would be getting
wet feet, catch cold, and so forth; be
sides, the lawyer was absolutely obliged
to go to his olliee for two or three hours;
o, as soon as Carrotson had been in
stalled opposite a cup of coffee and a
sausage, Mr. Cutbill said to him, in a
tone that was- meant to be paternal:
4 Look here, James; can 1 trust you to
le a good boy while I am out? I shall
be hack for luncheon, and then Til take
you to see the wax-works, aud in the
evening we'll go to Drury Lane So, as
Jou're goinjr to have two treats to-day,
hope you'll keep out of mischief."
" Oil, certainly, if you wish it," said
little Carrotson, eyeing the lawyer with
some surprise
" If you'll mindnottoleavc this room,
and not to play with the tiro, I'll see if
I have any picture books."
"Don't trouble yourself, sir," an
swered the boy, on whose chubby face
there was a slight flush of offended dig
nity. "There's a friend of mine who
lives in the neighborhood, and I thought
of going to hunt him up.
"A friend? Is he a boy, like your
self?" " Well, he's fourteen."
It was so long since Mr. Cutbill had
been a boy that he had forgotten all the
habits of the species and the manner of
addressing them. In the red-headed,
blue-eyed, merry-faced lad before him
he saw only a mere child who wanted
to go and splash about in the rain, per
haps, to make mud pies and to be run
over by cabs. " No, I must positively
forbidthat," he said. "You are under
my charge to-day and must do as I tell
you. Think what your mamma would
say if you were brought home on a
stretcher." Then, suddenly, a happy
thought occurred to Mr. Cutbill. Why
should he not set the boy to do a little
useful work by way of making tho time
"VTAV""" mi had read somewhere that
boys CHJ03 a half-hoTidliyHoelrai
whole one; so he darted out of the room
and returned with his washing book.
"Look here, James; Til see how you
can do sums. Just go through this
book, add up all the weekly accounts of
the past quarter, and then divide the
total of the number of weeks so as to
get at the average of my weekly expend
iture If you do all tiiat correctly by
the time I return, and without making
any blots, I'll give you half a crown to
-spend at school."
Having said this, Mr. Cutbill retired,
thinking he had hit upon an ingenious
device for keeping his charge out of
mischief. Littlo Carrotson's face was a
picture
Public school boys have strong expres
sions for describing such men as Mr.
Cutbill; the3' call them "howling snobs."
The egregious "cheek" of forbidding
Carrotson "to plajwith the fire," and
the utter villainy of compelling him to do
sums in a house where he had come as
a guest in holiday time, could only be
matched by the impudent offer of half a
crown to one who had no less than four
sovereigns in his pocket. The whole
thing was indeed so "rich" that after
a brief spell of speecldess indignation
Carroteon laughed. He took up the
lawyer's "beastly" washing book, and
Sot through the work set him in half an
our, after which he added some sup
plementary averages of his own. He
computed how many shirts Mr. Cutbill
would wear in the course, of a lifetime,
supposing he lived to the age of seventy,
and how much he would disburse in
getting his socks washed during the
same period, and so forth, but these cal
, dilations only amused him for another
half hour. Then he yawned, stared out
of the window, and was startled by the
postman's double knock. What devil
of vindictive mischief was it that made
him whisper then: "By Jove, I'll just
answer the old cad's letter for him ! "
Little Carrotson slunk into the pas
sage and found four letters in the box.
He left one. in case a servant should
come up aud collect tho delivery ; but
the other three he carried into the din
in room where he had -been working.
The breakfast things had not yet been
removed, and there was some water in
the slop-basin, by means of which the
boy speedily ungummed the three en
velopes. To sa3 that he felt the slight
est compunction at what he was doing
would be incorrect; he thought only o!
having a lark, and paying out old Cut
bill for his snobbery.
The first letter wat i printed invita
tion to dine with a Peer; the second was
a note from a lady who signed herself
" Flora Higgins." and wrote thanking
Mr. Cutbill for a legal opinion he had
given her in a friendly way. She al
luded several times to her daughter
Rose, who was so pleased to hear Mr.
Cutbill's cold was better, and hoped so
much Mr. Cutbill would look in soon to
take a cup of tea, and hear her sing one
of his favorite songs which she had been
practicing. The third letter was in a
man's hand, and referred evidently to
some differences that had arisen be
tween Mr. Cutbill and the writer. The
latter one Brown wrote, however, to
say that he trusted Mr. Cutbill would
frankly accept the explanation he had
tendered, and that the painful misun
derstanding between them would now
APOPO
It has been said that young Carrotson
was an intelligent boy. He proved it by
the calm deliberation with which he now
went to work; for, having found a sam
ple of Mr. Cutbill's handwriting in the
adjoining study, to which he repaired on
tip-toe, he applied himself during half
an hour to imitating that writing till he
attained proficiency. He then indited
the three following answers to the law
yer's correspondents, his face being as
serious as a Judire's whilst he wrote.
though there was a suspicious twinkling
in his eyes.
To the Peer he addressed himself
thus:
"MtLoiid It is very .kind of you to Invite
me to dinner, but I am afraid I cannot accept,
because sinco I last saw you 1 have suddenly
changed my political opinions ana inmK you
are altogether wrong about everything. I shall
be happy to make friend's with you again if
Sou will agree to think as 1 do: but, perhaps,
elng obstinate, you won't like to do this.
u So no more at present. From your lord
ship's obedient servant Loso Cctbim"
Next came Mrs. Higgin's turn:
"Mr Dkab Mrs. Hiooins Your kind letter
has pleased me so much because of Its allusion
to dear Kosa. I am im fond of her that I bavo
been quite miserable from wondering all night
whether she would marry me. and that must
excuse tho shakincss of my handwriting this
morning. I am sure I should make a good
husband If Rosa would promiso to keep my
washerwoman's account properly balanced.
I m vrrv ruirti en Inr about this. Please think
over tho matter and let mo have an early,
favorable answer, which will oblige, yours
truly. Long Cutbili"
P. S. Shouldn't I llko to catch dear Kosa un
der the mistletoe.
The gentleman who wanted to be
reconciled to Mr. Cutbill came in for
this kindly missive:
" Mr Dkak Bbo wn It was I who was In tho
wrong all through our quarrel, so plcaso say
nothing more in the matter. I havo a vile tem
per, which I f rrely acknowledge, and if you
had kicked me down stairs when we last met
It would hav served me right, though I might
have objected at the time. Pray come to dino
with me on Saturday evening itt seven o'clock,
and we will have one of th-j, best bottles of
champagne out of my" cellar. Don't trouble
yourself to write and say you'll come, as I
shall bo out of town to-morrow an-1 next day,
but will be b:ck iu time for our dinner, which
shall bo a rouscr. Ever your f riend.
L. Cutuili"
Little Carrotson put the letters in en
velopes, directed them and stamped
them with stamps of his own, after
which, having hesitated a moment, he
flung the three original letters into the
fire He had thought at first of restor
ing them to their covers and laying
them on the lawyer's table, but he con
cluded that the fun would be much
greater if he simply suppressed them.
He was seated by the fire, studying the
police reports in the Times, and looking
as innocent as possible, when Mr. Cut
bill returned home, toward one o'clock.
Now, if the lawyer had behaved "like
a gentleman" for the rest of the day,
little Carrotson might have had mercy
on him. The 003" was in doubt about
Eosting the letters he had written, and.
ept them in his pocket like loaded
weapons, ready for reprisals if Mr. Cut
bill "checked" him any further. Un
fortunately, the lawyer was a dull per
son, and committed blunder upon blun
der in dealing with his small but sensi
tive guest He took him to the Tussaud
show, but opposite the wax efiigy of
William Rufus he asked him at what
date that monarch had ascended the
throne He refused to let little Carrot
son go into the Chamber of Horrors,
saying it would excite him. He bade
him admire the noble brow of Richard
Cobden and took a mean advantage
of the occasion to bore him about free
trade Finally, he drew down on him
self the contempt of Carrotson by mis
quoting Shakespeare as they were sur
veying Charles Kemble in the part of
Hamlet: "That's Hamlet saying: My
kingdom for a horse,' " remarked the
mendacious lawyer.
At Drury Lane in the evening it was
worse Little Carrotson derived some
amusement from the pantomime, and
almost relented in his revengeful pur
poses; but the miserable lawyer re
fused to stay for the harlequinade He
said that little boys ought not to be kept
out of their beds after half-past ten.
Little Carrotson silently ground his
teeth, and from that moment Mr, Cut
bill's punishment was decreed beyond
hope of pardon. The three letters were
posted in the pillar-box of Dean's Yard
on .the following day, when the boy re
turne d to school.
They were destined to have very re
markable eflects on the lawyer's future
In the first place there came to him on
the Frida3r morning a short but sweet
note from Mrs. Higgins:
My Dear Mr. CUTmrx Your original and
amusing way of proposing for dear Rosa's
hand has made us both laugh, but my beloved
child is nuitc alive to the honor which you arc
conferring on her. and I can promise you that
all the affection which you lavish upon her
shall be amply repaid in kind. Please come at
onoe; she is waiting for you. Very faithfully
- FRAHladrSlT'
What the deuce does this mean?"
asked Mr. Cutbill, with a blank look.
He wrote at once for explanations, aud
then received a curt note, begging him
to call at Mrs. Higgins'. That lady
and her daughter imagined that the
lawyer cherished the unchivalrous de
sign of retracing his proposal, and this
they were determined to prevent Mr.
C was confronted with his own hand
writing. He vowed it was not his, but
was driven at last to own that possibly
he had written the letter in his sleep.
He had heard of such things happen
ing, and thousrh ho did not oeltevo ho
was a somnambulist he could not of
course, swear that such was not the
case.
" But if you wrote the letter in your
sleep, did it betray your unspoken
thoughts?" was the clever Mrs. Hig
gins' next searching question. She
smiled kindly as she said this, and Mr.
Cutbill gave in. After all, why
shouldn't lie marry Rosa? He returned
to Gower street an engaged man; but
by that time he had come to guess who
was the culprit who had playe d him
this trick, and he thought with indigna
tion of the precocious depravity evinced
by little Carrotson.
This was on the Saturday, and Mr.
Cutbill had scarcely reached home when
Brown, his quondam friend, marched in
with a beaming face It should be said
that this Brown had behaved very badly
to Cutbill, but now there was emotion
in his eyes as he advanced upon the
lawyer and forcibly grasped his hand.
"You have acted nobly in forgiving me,
Cutbill. I shall never forget
it No more generous letter
than yours was ever penned; but
enough, Tve brought a good appetite
with me."
" I don't intheleastunderstandyou,"
Mr. Cutbill was about to say, coldly, but
he checked himself. Since Brown
praised him for his generosity, it was as
well to take credit for such a rare virtue.
Brown hail evidently come to dinner,
and as the lawyer always dined well,
his sudden arrival did not matter much.
But over their" wine, by-and-by, when
the two gentlemen had quite cemented
their reconciliation, Mr. Cutbill thought
iAest to tell the truth, and avow that it
was to a pestilent Westminster boy.
named Carrotson, that he was indebted
for the pleasure of having Brown to
Hue at his table. As if to corroborate
that assertion, thatverv eveniner's tiost
1 brought a letter from the lawyer's third
correspondent, the Paer, which ran
thus
"Mr Dear Mis. Cutbill What on earth is
the meaning of tho inclosed note, which, Ipr o
Bumc, is a forgery? Yours, truly, C."
A visit which Mr. Cutbill paid to West
minster School on the Monday night
might have had distressing consequences
for little Carrotson, but tor Mrs. Hig
gins' interference. As it was, the law
yer only went for the purpose of asking
now many letters Carrotson had thought
proper to write in his name, and he
smiled rather a grim smile, though
in cautioning the boy against practical
jokes for the future. Little Carrotson
laid the lesson well to heart He got
many a welcome reminder to this end
from dear Rosa, who, after her marriage,--become
his ally, and often invited
him to dine in Gower street, where she
fave him no washing bills to balance,
ut treated Tiim like a man, and tipped
I him sovereigns, earning in response his
unquauuea opinion as to nor oeing a
" brick." Graphic
The Red Pepper.
What ails the human throat in this
latter day, and what has become of the
old-fashioned red pepper? Men who
are now forty years old knew little of
throat troubles in their boyhood.. There
was a little sore throat occasionally,
and once in a while quinsy, and you
would hear at long intervals of putrid
sore throat Children were not as
daintily cared for in those days as now.
Few of them ever had underclothing to
wear, and scarcely a boy who had an
overcoat till he was old enough to earn
the money for it himself. Croup was
the parental horror of that da', and
yet as alum and butter were early
found a sure remedy for that trouble,
warping or contracting and so breaking
the false membrane as it was forming,
parents had no great dread of that
Children had few colds, and no serious
sore throat and when they had, a bowl
of red-pepper tea sent the ailing boy to
bed sweating, and brought him out well
in the morning.
The red pepperof our grandmothers
what has become of it? Who that lived
in those sensible days does not remem
ber the shining string of alternate red
and green peppers that hung from the
rafters over the kitchen fire, and which
had been planted, raised aud strung by
grandmother's own hand, and hung
in the place of honor, all to cure the
children's colds, colics and cramps, and
the older folks' congestions and chills
death to all the c's. And who docs not
remember how pcrfectty the pepper ac
complished its work a little hard to
take, a little hot after it was down,
and3et bringing you out all right in
the morning, and lending a halo of
pride to grandma's faco at the break
fast table that the puzzled face of the
modern doctor seldom shares. Ah, it
was a rare old magic the red pepper
that the grandmothers raised and used.
It cured all the juvenile ills we have
enumerated and many more. So great
and quick was its magic that many a
boy, who had such a sore attack of colic,
croup or cold that he was sure he
couldn't go to school, was cured at the
mere sight or smell of its steaming tea,
and sent bounding off to school as sound
as a trivet and as merry as a cricket
Indeed, sudden cures have been known
at the mere mention of it Older peo
ple, too, men who were a little afraid
of working out all day in the damp or
of digging in a well, and who now think
whisky the medium of warding off pos
sible chills, were often saved by grand
mother's red-pepper tea.
What has become of the redpepperP
And how did it happen that just as it
went cut of fashion diphtheria came in,
and with it a dozen other throat dis
eases with long and mysterious names
and none 01 which medical science,-
which has made the slowest progress of
all -the sciences, is able to treat with
much success? Our grandmothers kept
the young and old throats of their gen
eration cured np with red and cayenne
pepper, and warded oft many other dis
eases with them. What, since they
have disappeared, has taken their place,
or is doing their work? Something,
whatever it is, that doesn't cure.
A gentleman who was a boy thirty
years ago, said yesterdays "The reason
there is so much diphtheria is because
Seople have quit raising the red pepper."
'he man he was talking to had a sore
throat, and was trying to stave it off till
night with some of the gargles and
washes of the later day, so as to get his
day's work done, and yet was growing
worse all the time. The apostle of the
red pepper Baid: "Throw that stuff
away and $end out and get a little vial
of brandy, and fill it one-fourth full of
cayenne pepper, and put the cork of it
to your tongue every half hour, and
your sore throat will begin to heal at
once, and your voice quit being
squeaky." It was done, and it did.
Later in the day a gentleman trained in
medical science, but not practicing it
and so not conceited in its latter day
nature, came in. and was asked:
"How does this red pepper cuise my
throat that is, how does it act?" He
replied: "It acts as a local stimulus;
and in two ways strengthens the dis
eased parts of the throat and prevents
the growth of any false matter heats
and relaxes, stimulates and tones red
pepper always does that" He added:
"The world would be a great deal bet-
"teFonTand" a great "dealhea1thtefr M it-
used more of it"
So, while the modern doctor stands
puzzled and perplexed and unsuccess
ful before diphtheria, and while medical
science can do no more to control or
cure it than when it first appeared some
twenty-live years ago, and while some
times four or five children die of it yet
in a single family, why not revive the
good old plan of grandmother's of
watching the children's throats all the
time, detecting the first trace of trouble,
and then using the old-fashioned red
pepper to fight and ward off the disease
while it is incipient and before it be
comes rooted?
Doctors will laugh at it But doctors
always have laughed at the best people
to cure the tuck and ward off sickness
in the world the goodold women, wise
in experience, healing in their nursing,
and those who have raised large fami
lies of their own, and helped to raise
and save all the weakly young children
in the neighborhood, and any one of
whom is worth more in the sick room of
a child ill with children's troubles, than
all the doctors in town.
We propose the restoration of the
red-pepper to its old place in family
favor, aud to its undoubted usefulness.
We believe grandmothers can take it,
and with proper care by beginning in
time, beat all the doctorsyet in fighting
the dread diseases of the throat, and in
saving the children from their ravages.
Des Moines State Register.
Cleariag MiMy Water witk Alia.
It is not universally known as it should
be that muddy water may be cleared
with a comparatively very small quanti
ty of alum. It is a peculiar property of
this substance that, when in solution, it
will combine with the most foreUm nar-
tides in suspension, or even in solution.
In fact on tnis property is founded the
manufacture of the lakes used in paint
ing, the dissolved coloring matter being
precipitated by alum. In the same man
ner, all dirty coloring matter in a pailful
of water may be precipitated by dissolv
ing in it a piece of alum as small as a
hickory nut or even smaller, according
to the degree of impurity of the water.
Simply dissolve the alum, stir up, and
let it settle. Along the Missouri and
Mississippi Rivers this method is fre
quently employed. When no excess of
alum is used this also is mostly carried
down in the deposits. Household.
Youths' Departmeut.
the elf?sh ouster.
There once was a selfish old Oyster.
Who lived llk'j a monk in a cloister,
8afely housed in his shell.
Like tho monk in his coll.
Though tho bivalve's apartment was moisten
Anchored tight in the mud of the bay
This lazy old partr did stay.
Nor cared he to roam
Very far from his home;
For exertion, he thought, did not pay.
And you will be wondering, I think.
What he did for his victuals and drink.
Well, the Oyster was sly.
And when young crabs came by.
He would catch them as quick as a wink.
Then In him the poor crabs had to stay,
Till In time they had melted away.
So tho Oystor got fatter.
And the crabs but no matter
For crabs have no souls, people say.
w And oho!" said the Oyster, said he;
What a lucky old party I be!
Like a king in his pride
I wait here, and the tide
Every day brings my living to me."
But there came a grim Star-fish, who spied
Our friend lying flat on his side;
For the greedy old siuner
Had just had his dinner.
And now could not run had be tried.
With a spring to the Oyster he came.
And he threw his five arms round the same
He shut off his broath.
And he squeezed him to death.
Then he ato him, nor felt any shame.
The point of this story, my dears.
Just "as plain a a pikostnft" appears.
But please give attention,
While bric:ly I mention
The moral again, for your ears.
Don't be greedy and live but to oat.
Caring only for bread and for meat;
Nor selfishly dwell
AH ulono in your shell
Don't lie oyslcrj, in abort, 1 repeat
But you'll find it much better for yea
To be kind, and unselfish, and truo:
Than yi'ti'll not lack a friend
Your caue to defend.
When a Star-fish rolls Into your view.
George J. irtbsUr. in SL A'fcftoUfc
RAISING HIS OWN FRUIT.
An Kxainple for Boya in the Country.
" I think there never was a boy who
did not love to eat every kind of fruit!"
This sage remark was made by Fred
Can field to his elder brother as they
looked wistfully over the fence between
their qwn fruitless garden and Mr.
Black's very tempting orchard, which in
the proper season produced abundantly
apples, pears, grapes, peaches, plums,
apricots and all the small fruits known
to the intelligent gardener. Just at that
moment Mr. Black himself appeared
among the trees, and Fred, forgetting
his usual modestv. called out: "Mr.
K!?iidr mnv T tnlro uninp nf thoso minlcw !
that hang over the fence?"
For sonic unaccountable reason the
gentleman spoken to was not in his
usual mood of generosit3r, and, answer
ing the boy quite roughly, replied:
" Wh3 don't rou grow apples for your
self?." Poor Fred, who was already
moving towards the attractive tree,
turned quickly away, and the tears
started in his eyes.
" I told 3ou not to ask him," said his
brothers, reproachfully, "but you paid
no attention to me; you will mind me,
next time, I think."
" I will have fruit of my own, next
time!" said Fred, suppressing asoband
dryingjiis tears lest any one might see
his mortification; for a spirit of inde-
tendence had been awakened by the
ate affront
"There is not a tree in our garden,"
said his brother, "and you know the
place is not our own; if 30U were to
plant trees you might never eat the
fruit" "It will be good for other bo-s
then," said Fred, with determination 'in
his tone. "I will plant them, and I
may eat of the fruit too!"
His brother laughed at this newly
formed resolution; but it only fixed
more firmly Fred's manly and indepen
dent decision, and he began at once to
learn the season for planting the differ
ent kinds of fruit-trees. Without losing
a day, he was soon at work laying out a
bed for strawberries. The plants were
procured from a neighbor, who was
digging up some of his and who said
that any one who wanted them might
have them.
Fred next found two nice apple trees
growing wild in the wood. As they
were just the size for transplanting,
when November came he removed
them to his little garden. A young
plum tree was uug up from the fence,
with his neighbor's permission, and sev
eral peach trees, which came up of
themselves the spring before, and stood
in a cluster in the back 3ard all were
transplanted to the new garden. Some
grape-vine cuttings were carefully
planted in a damp comer near a high
wall, and a cherry tree from the road
side found its place in Fred's orchard in
the early spring.
Our little gardener was more and
more interested day by day, as he
watched the growth of his trees. His
delight was Doundless, however, when
he saw the strawberries put forth blos
soms." "Now," saidhe, "I shall say
nothing about them till they are ripe,
and then surprise mother with a dish of
strawberries and cream."
Fred was not sparing with the watering-pot,
and when other boys were
romping along the street he was found
in his garden, pulling up weeds, train
ing his grape-vines, or, after sunset,
sprinkling the young plants with water.
In the meantime he learned how to
crraft and bud his trees and, when an
opportunity cSiiSCd, he added another
tree or picked up some new information
about the cultivation of fruit
The fourth of July had come, bright
and lovely, after a heavy rain of the
night before. Fred was out in his gar
den at sunrise, for he expected some
thing of interest there. Imagine his
delight when he saw his strawberries
red with ripe clusters. He gathered
some of the finest, and by the time
breakfast was ready he had a dish of
beautiful berries placed by his mother's
plate She, too, was delighted, and
praised the fruit All the family tasted
them, of course, and bis little sister
clapped her hands and said: "How
nice, to have fruit growing in our own
garden ! "
Fred's vines bore some bunches of
grapes the second year, and the grafts
which he set in the young trees all did
well. His garden was a source of great
pleasure to nim, and he never tired of
showing to his friends his thriving and
promising orchard. In a few 3'ears he
had . apples and pears, cherries and
plums, apricots and peaches, and differ
ent kinds of small fruit No wonder the
boy was proud to hear his mother tell a
friend from a distance: . "We seldom
bu3' fruit now; Fred grows it all in our
own garden."
This little gardener had now grown
up to be a 3'oung man, and his lather
had procured for him a situation in a
business house in a distant town. " I
want to go very much," said he, " but
what will become of my garden when I
am away?"
" wul take care of it" said his little
brother, " and if it is not as fine when
you return as when you leave it you
can blame me for neglect"
Though Fred grew up and prospered
in other pursuits, his garden never lost
its attractions and pleasant memories,
and when, .in after years, he revisited
the home of his boyhood, before taking
a seat in the house, he had to take a
Ul. .U-nU t.n oawlon Isvnlr of-
muium uirougu uic gcu, inD.
the trees which his own hands had
planted years before.
If the thousands of boys who read this
would follow this boy's example, they
would find a useful and delightful occu
pation for their -spare moments, and
their' work would be a source of inex
haustible pleasure to the end of life.
The fruit is sweetest of all when the
trees that-bear it has been planted by
our own hands. Rev. R. Hi Craig, in
N. Y. Observer.
The Best Kind or Fooling.
Jack andoKitty sat 03- the fire one
windy March evening, popping corn.
"Tell you what, Kitty," said Jack.
"I've thought of a boss April-fool joke
to play on that new boy across the road.
He s so honest and solemn, you can fool
him just as easy."
"What is it?"
"Oh, I'll take a chip and write on it
April-Fool,' and wrap it in a paper,
then Pll put another paper on the out
side of that, and so on, lots and lots of
.papers till I have a big bundle. Pll
write on the outside, Henry Johnson,
from a friend,' and the last thing before
I go to bed the night before April-Fool'a
da3 I'll run over and hang it on their
door-knob."
"Won't some of them see you ?"
" No danger. They always go to bed
early over there I suppose because his
mother is too poor to sit up and burn
out wood and lights. But they get up
early in the morning. He'll go out to
the pump for some water, and find the
bundle, and he'll think he's got some
thing nice. Won't he be well fooled
when he gets it all undone and finds
nothing but a chip ?"
"He"s got a sister not quite as big as
I am," remarked Kitty, not seeming to
enter into the sport as heartily a Jack
did.
"Come here," children," called their
mother from the sitting-room; "and
I'll suggest an improvement on Jack's
plan. I dare say Mrs. Johnson would
remember that it was the first of April,
and tell Henry not to expect to find any
thing in his bundle. So a surer way
to fool him would be to put something
inside. There are the rubber-boots you
had last 3-ear, you know. Jack, and
the3' were so small you only wore them
a tride. You might do tht'm up forHen
r3", and they would be very nice for him
to wear in this spring mud.
"Mother," said Kitty, "there are
my copper-toed boots that "I outgrew
last 3'ear. Couldn't I put them in for the
little girl?"
"Certainly, dear."
Not man3' evenings after, 3'ou might
have seen Jack and Kitty very bus3 in
the kitchen. The rubber-boots and copper-toed
ones were tied up in a snug
package, and over that was wrapped no
end of papers, till the uunule was al
most as large as Kitty herself. Jack
wrote the address, and ran over with it
at bed-time, as he proposed. The Wid
ow Johnson's light had been out for an
hour, for the children had kept watch.
She found the bundle when she first
got up the next morning, and carried it
in 10 inc cniKiren. xou must remem
ber it is the first of April," she said,
with a smile, "and you mustn't expect
to find much in this, if it is heavy."
" Oh yes, it is April-Fool's day, isn't
it?" laughed Henr " Well, they can't
fool us now, can the-. Sis? But we'll
undo the papers. The3'll come hand
for a good many things, and we shall
find a stone or a brick at the last end."
So the children had lots of sport un
wrapping the papers, and they were
most thorough' fooled when at last the
very boots they had so much needed
came to view.
"I'd like to be fooled this way every
year," cried Henry, storming about in
his new boots.
"So would I," chimed in his little
sister, looking happily down at the copper-toes.
Youth's Companion.
Core of Lamps.
Considering the number and variety
of kerosene lamps in use, it seems a lit
tle strange how few there are who fully
understand the care of them. There is
avast difference in both the quantity
and quality of light given by a" well
trimmed and a badby-trinimed lamp,
and it is surprising to me that any one
of ordinary observation can be satisfied
to use a badby-trinimed lamp or an imperfects-cleaned
chimney. Yet it is a
fact that out of the many thousands of
lamps in use there are but very few that
are trimmed as they should be, or have
perfectly cleaned chimneys. It is not
only careless housekeepers and servants
who make this mistake; it is, many
times, those who are careful, but fail
from the want of proper knowledge upon
the subject First of all, a lamp-wick
should never be trimmed with anything
but a sharp trimmer, be it one of the
many patented implements now in use,
or simply a pair of scissors. The latter
is the best Let them be sharp, and
used for no other purpose, wiping them
well after using. It is generally thought
the best wa3' to cut a lamp-wick is to
round the corners, thus preventing the
flaring of the blaze and the breaking of
the chimney. Others, again, simply
break the charred wick with the fingers,
supposing that it will then burn more
evenly, but in both these ideas they are
mistaken. Great care is necessary in
the trimming. The wick should be cut
below the burnt part, and. parallel with
the top of the burner. Then you are
sure of its being straight, and of having
a bright light. Now comes the care of
the chimney. Unless they are well
cleaned, no matter how well trimmed
the wick may be, if the chimney does
not receive the proper attention the
lamp will give very unsatisfactory light
In cleaning chimneys, many are again
mistaken, as they wash them, and, as
they suppose, wipe them perfectly dry.
In this they many times fail, and the
result js, the-chimnsy-brcaks whenjhey
ieast expect it I have found, after
many trials, that the best wa3 is never
to wash them. Siniply blow your breath
into and on them, rubbing quickly with
paper, the softer the better. Do this
until your chimne3 looks clear and clean.
Then 3ou have no fear of their being
damp and apt to break, at the same
time 3'ou avoid the particles of lint that
are apt to adhere to the glass if cloth is
used. This care given to both wick and
chimney will be a thousand times re
paid, if 3'ou care to have a bright and
good light Caution: Be careful to keep
the ventilating tube on the burner al
wa3's open and clean. Remember, also,
the well-known fact that heat expands
and cold contracts; so, if 3-ou would
avoid having the chimneys broken, nev
er subject a lighted lamp to a draught
of cold air, nor place it where cold water
ma3' "splash on tho chimney; and, too,
the oil should be replenished every day,
and never be suffered to get below the
reach of the wick. Prairie Farmer.
Buying Bottom Lands.
A year or two ago aMichiganderwho
was in New Orleans thought it would be
a nice thing to own some real estate in
the South, and he wasn't long in dis
covering a Mississippian who could ac
commodate him. tor what he consid
ered an extraordinar' cheap price the
Wolverine took in five hundred acres
of Vhat the other called rich bottom
lands, and came home with his hat on
his ear. This last winter he found a
Detroiter who was going down that way
and asked him to run over the farm and
see what sort of property it was. A
letter was received from the traveler the
other day, which read:
" I didn't run over your purchase, but
I did the next best thing I sailed over
it The name of the lake is Lake De
spair, and your bottom lands are at the
bottom of the lake. Didn't
see any
I ricmt nf a. nmn on them, but nresume
' ... , r a LI. ? ...: 1
yOU W1U nave no trouoie in growing ai-
hgators twenty feet long. H you want
the other 22,000 acres I think they can
be had at the same price. Please writ
at once." Detroit Free Press.
Mary Swain had her "spine twisted"
in a crowded car of the Continental Pas
senger Railway, at Philadelphia, and a
court awarded her $12,000 damages.
This Is probably the largest back pay
1 ever drawn by a woman. Free Press.
Commissioners Proceedings.
May 2d, 18S2.
At- roll call, all present.
On application of Julius Rudat for a
private road, Jacob Ernst, Wm. Lamb
and C. D. Clother were appointed Com
missioners to appraise the damage.
Bond of Fox, Canfleld & Co., for the
building of Looking Glass and Beaver
bridges was approved.
Contract for building Sculley's bridge
was awarded to Fox, Canfleld fc Co.,
for the sum of 5610.
Commissioner Hudson was appointed
to ascertain the best route for the Rob
erts and Moraii roads.
J. J. Macken filed application to sell
liquor in the town of Platte Centre.
Wendel Escbelbaclier tiled application
to sell liquor iu the town of Humphrey.
Applicants were instructed to publish
notice, as required by law.
Recess until 1 o'clock, P. M.
At 1 o'clock, P. M., all present.
Minutes of previous meetiug were
read and approved.
Commissioner Hudson was appoint
ed to ascertain the uumber of culverts
necessary on Meyers' road.
P. W. Schmitz was appointed road
over&eer for District No. 11, to fill the
vacancy caused by the removal of J. E.
Godfreys
The petition of John Walker and oth
ers for location of county road and vaca
tion of former road, was granted.
Petition to build a new bridge at A.
Mathey's was laid over.
Lumber for culvcrU at Lubker'a and
Postle's was granted.
' Bond of Henrj' Wasserbergcr, road
overseer, approved.
Clerk was instructed to ascertain the
kind of personal propertj tax assessed
to W. N. McCandlish, in Colfax county,
for the year 18S1.
Applications for culverts 011 Meridian
road were granted.
Commissioner Hudson was instructed
to remove Mrs. Tigner and Mrs. Child
to St. Maiy's Hospital.
Clerk instructed to furnish lumber to
roadoverseer Saalfeld to build a bridge
across Toby creek.
Bills allowed on bridge fund:
August Schneider, work for Jack
son bridge. $12 00
Ernst, Schwartz & Co., nails and
Hugh Hughes, lumber.. 50 40
Adjourned to M:i3' 3d.
May 3d, 18S2.
At roll call, present Commissioners
Hivet aiuLHuilsoii, and Staufler, Clerk.
Commissioner Hudson was instructed
to procure two dozen road scrapers.
The Commissioners reported on exam
ination of Loup and Platte bridges,
that the Loup bridge is in fair condi
tion and that the Platte bridge needs
immediate repairs at north upproach.
Commissioner Hudson was thereupon
authorized to procure the necessar3
protection.
P. W. Schmitz, roadoverseer's bond
was approved.
Board adjourned to Ma' 2nd, at 10
o'clock, A. M.
Joux Staoffer,
County Clerk.
Ulllk om u I'arn Crop.
Many farmers who keep inferior
cows, give them poor care, and make
a miserable quality of butter think
there Is no profit iu keeping cows to
produce milk. It is questionable,
however, if there is a more profitable
farm crop than milk. To make mouey
out ol milk it is necessary to keep
good cows, to give them the best oi
(ood, to bestow proper care, aud to
have a market near at hand. A re
port is published of the profits ot a
herd of thirty-three cows belonging
to Mr. Charle Millard, ol Lake Mills.
Wis., during the year 1881. No ac
count is kept of tho uiilk cousumed at
home during the time. The owner ol
the cows Fold at the creamery at Lake
Mills 224,486 pounds oi milk, for
which he received $2,307 25. This ia
an average of over $71 per cow. Pork
worth $600 was also made trom
skimmed milk brought back from the
factory. Ten calves were raised that
were valued at $100. The total re
ceipts lor the cows were $3,067 25, or
neatly $100 per cow. Oi course hard
work was required to produce feed
for these cows during the lime they
were kept in stahles, and constant
care was needed to draw the milk at
the proper time and to take it to the
creamery. But the puiii ol money re
ceived was large, and receiving cash
for larm products at the end of every
week or month is an important con
sideration. Many farmers who pro
duce little but grnin receive money
-but once a year, and are obliged to
buy mt)8t-Ul' their supplier ou credit.
The credit syHtcm has beeu the ruin
of man j farmers. It has caUeSil them
to buy injudiciously and to pay large
prices. Dairying, as at present con
ducted, is a cash buelness, aud on
that account has special claims on the
attention of fanners.
PKICKS OK SHOUT IIOKNS.
The public hns, been informed ma
ny times during the past tew years
that "the bottom has fallen out of the
short-horn busiiiesB," and that hereaf
ter animals of this breed will sell at
low prices. Manv have declared that
the Hcrefords aud polled Angus were
coming cattle tor beef, and that the
Jerseys aud Ayreshires would dis
place all other breeds in first-claa
dairy herds. When it was announc
ed that Hon. M. II. Cochrane, of Can
ada, would sell all his duchesses and
most of Iiis Bales strain of short-horns
at the Union stock-yard on the 18ilf
of April, many concluded that he was
preparing to retire from the businods
of breeding the stock he had yiveu so
much attention to, aud was about to
give hif attention to other kinds of
cattle. When the day of sale came he
made a neat little speech, iu which he
declared that nhort-hnriis were his
"first love" and would probably be
his last, and that it was his intentiou
lo breed them bo long as he "owned a
hoof." The salo called. together the
beat breeders in the United States
and Canada, and the bidding was
spirited. Twenty-three animals were
sold, and brought the large, sum of
$49,095. The cow bronght $14,200,
a d one sold for $8,500. The average
pi Ice paid for the lot of cattle was
2,081 25. It is evident from these
figures that short-horns are still in
favor, and that they will not soon go
out of fashion. There may be better
rattle, but short-horns are still regard
u as pretty good. The circumstance
that the number of short-horns in the
conutry is very large and is fast in
creasing does not seem to operate to
bring down the price of very nupe
rior animals. On the other band it
appears to have the contrary effect.
The more animals there are of this
breed, the greater is the desire to
bring them np to a still higher stand
ard. Chicago Times.
KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE!
IT Cl'KFS SPAVIN?,
Sr LINTS, UIN
bonks, cunns and
ALLS JIII.AK BLEV.
IS11ES AND 1CI
MOYKST1IK ItUNUi
WITHOUT BLlSThi:-ING.
. flP3kENDALL'sVV.
sgggjCkMXttfAg.
KBNDALVS SPAVIN ITRE!
It ha cured thousands of cases and IsMestined to cure millions and millions
KENDALL'S SPAVIN CIFR1!
Is the onl poiitive cure known, and to show what thN remedy will do we give I
a a sample of i-a.-es cureilby it, a statement which was
GIVEN UNDER OATH.
To Whom it 3Iay Concern. In the
year 1S73 I treated with "Kendall's
Spavin Cure," a bone spavin of several
months' growth, nearly half a9 larye as
a hen egg, and completely stopped tho
lameness and removed the enlargement.
I have worked the horse ever inet; very
hard, and he never has h-en lame, nor
could 1 ever see any difference in the
size of the hock joint ir.ci I treated
him with -'Kendall's Spavin Cure."
It. A. G A INKS.
Enoslmrgh Falls. Vt.. Feb. i", '19.
Sworn and Mili-oribcd to before me
this 25th day or Feb.. a. d. 1ST!.
Jonx C.Ikxnk.
Justice of I'eaee
KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE:
ON HUMAN FLESH it has been ascertained by repeated tri ite to be,
the very best liniment ever used for any deep sealed pain of lomj standing
or of short duration. Alio for COIiNS, It UNIONS. F HOST-BITES
or any bruise, cut or lameness. Some are ufraid to use it on hirnan Jlesh
simply becaxise it is a horse medicine, but you shoidd remember that "what
is good for BEAST' is good for MAN, and ice know from Experience
th at "KENDALL'S SPAVIN CUBE'' can be vied on a child 1 near .
old with perfect safety. Its Effects are wonderful on human flesh and it
does not blister or make a sore. Try it and be conduced.
KENDALL'S SPAVIN fJTJRE;
IT
Read below ol" its wonderful eflects ag a liniment for the hu an family.
IIkmatitk. .Mioum, Aiui.t 'JO, 1SS0.
B. J. Kkndali. & Co.. (tKXTS: I am so overjoyed hi view ol the result of an ap
plication of your KcmlallV Spavin Cure that iYi-el that I ouht for Hum.-initk-.'
sake publish it to the world. About thirty-live years as;o while ridirnj a voting
ugly hone, I was injured in one of my testicle, a'nd from 'that tun to three weeks
ago a fdow but constant enlargement lian been the result, givimr me a great amount
of trouble, almust entirely preventing me from horseback ridina, which was iny-
usual way ol" traveling. I saw a notice of your Konda P "p:i iu i 'are, never once
thought ofit foranything except for horse's, but after receiving he medicine and
reading over what, it was good for, feeling terribly exercised about mv ditlieiiltv. for
I had consulted many physicians and none gave me any specific but. when it could
be endured no longer to remove it with the knife. I applinl our Kendalls Spavin
Cure as an experiment, aud it was so painful in its application tli:i I concluded
not to repeat it and thought no more abi. ut it until near .i weekv and lo and behold
oue-balr the size wa gone, with joy I could scarcely behrve it, i hnmediatelv ap
plied it over again, and have made iu all about Ji dozen applications running 'over
a space of two weeks and the terrible enlargement is almo-t goc. in lew ot" which
I cannot express my feelings of delight. It has been a (Sod send to me. mav he
send to others With like troubles, John Kick.
Pastor of Hematite Cougregatioual Church.
P. S. You are at liberty to put this iu any shape von may pleae. I am not
ashamed to have my name under, over or by the side ol' it.
KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE!
Kendall's Spavin Cure is sure in its effects, mild in its action as it docs not
blister, yet it Is penetrating and powerful to reach any de.p seated p tin or to re
move any bony growth or any other enlargement it' Used lor Several days, such as
spavins, splints, callous, sprains, swelling, any lameness and all enlargements of
the joints or limbs, or rheumatism in man and for any purpose for which a liniment
is used for man or beast. It is now know it to be the best iiiiim nt for in. m ever tfed
acting mild yet certain in its effects. It is Used iu full strength w It la perfect safety
at all seasons of the year.
Send address for Illustrated Circular, which we think gives positive proof, of its
virtues. No remedy ha met with ueli iiiiUillli'd -ueess to our knowledge, lor
beast as well as man. Price $1 per bottle, or siv bottles for $.".
ALL DRUGGISTS have it or can get it for you.
or it will be sent to anv address ou receipt or price, by the propnetois,
48 Dr. B. J. KENDALL & CO, Euosburg Falls, Vermont.
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passed. I am prepared to make final
proof for all parties wishing to get a
patent for their homesteads.
tSfHenry Cordes, Clerk, writes and
speaks German.
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