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WEDNESDAY, Jt'NE , IS?:!.
Isiewi st tie Pcr-sEes, C:lziu. Hal., as :ec:ad
eli matter.
THE DAY IS DONE.
JSie day is done, and tbe darkness
Falls from the wings of Night,
As a feather is wafted downward
From an eagle in his llight.
I see the lights of the village
Gleam through the rain and the mist,
And a feeling of sadness comes o'er um
That my soul cannot resist:
A feeling of sadness and longing',
That is not akin to pain.
And resembles sorrow only
As tbe mist resembles the rain.
Come, read to me some poem.
Some simple and heartfelt lay.
That shall soothe this restless feeling,
And banish the thoughts of day.
Not from the grand old masters.
Not from the bunis sublime,
'Whose distant footsteps echo
Through the corridors of Time:
For, like strains of martial music.
Their mighty thoughts suggest
Life's endless toll and endeavor;
And to-night I long for rest.
Head from some humbler poet.
Whose song gushed from his heart,
As showers fmm the clouds of sunuMt
Or tears from the eyelids start;
Who, through long days of labor.
And nights devoid of ease,
gtill beard in his soul tbe music
Of wonderful melodies.
Such Mngs have power to quiet
The restless pulse of care.
And come like the benediction
That follows after prayer.
Then read from the treasured volume
The poem of thy choice.
And lend to the rhyme or the poet
The Iwauty of thy voice.
And the night shall be filled with musta,
And the eares, that infect the day,
Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs,
And as silently steal away.
LongfcBtM.
COLOR-BLIND.
"But, Rene dear, you don't mean to
say the' intend to make j'ou marry the
Professor, whether you wish to or not?"
There was an indignant look on Tom
Nelson's strong, sun-burnt face, and an
indignant ring in his deep voice.
44 Yes," answered Rene, 44 that's just
what it amounts to. The mean to
make me marry the Professor, as I'm
not inclined to do it willingly."
44 But you don't mean to do it?" aid
Tom, savagely.
44 No, Tom, I will never marry him,"
snid the girl, impetuously. 44 Why, Tom,
haven't Iben promised to you since we
were babies?"
44 Yes, Rene; and your parents seemed
pleased enough with me until he came,"
said Tom, bitterly.
44 Never mind, dear old Tom," an
swered Rene, as she put up her hand
and cares.ed his cheek. 44 1 am pleased
with you, and always shall be. Isn't
that enough?"
44 Quite enough, little one." said Tom,
in an altered lone. I think I could get
along if everybody else disliked mo, if
you were pleased with me."
Just then a voice in the direction of
the house Reno and Tom were in the
garden called:
"Rene, Rene!"
44 Yes, mother."
44 You must come right in," said Mrs.
Alexander. 4The dew is falling and
will take all the stiffness out of your
muslin. And your father says Prof.
Appleton is coming to-night. I want
you to be ready to receive him."
Rene gave an impatient stamp of her
little foot, and Tom growled:
44 Confound the Professor!"
A moment later he had kissed Rene
and been kissed by her, and was strid
ing away, while Rene turned and walked
with reluctant feet toward the house.
44 A good lookin' lad and honest as
the day is long," was the homely praise
his neighbors gave Tom Nelson. If
Diogenes had lived in Tom's day and
neighborhood ho would not have been
obliged to hunt long for an honest man.
A Rene had said, she had been prom
ised to Tom since both were babies.
Words of love for each other were
among their first utterances, and while
Tom wore roundabouts and Rene very
short-sleeved aprons, they registered a
vow to marry each other. Unlike most
engagements entered into in childhood,
the compact remained unbroken. Tom
had brains and nerve enough to become
almost anything he might have desired,
but he loved every foot of the f.ue old
farm that was one day to be his, and
every room of the comfortable, home
like house where he was born, and he
chose to till the soil. Before the ap-
IMBarance in Linwold of Prof. Appleton,
tone's parents had smiled on Tom and
encouraged his marked attention to
their daughter. They doubtless thought
that a young man who was to become
sole owner of a ten thousand dollar
farm, well stocked, would not be a bad
son-in-law for a not over-successful doc
tor. But about a year before my story
opens. Prof. Appleton had come to
teach Greek and Latin in S College.
Rene met the Professor a tall, gaunt,
sallow-faced, bald-headed man of forty,
who was always scrupulously dressed
in the finest of broadcloth and most im
maculate of linen at the house of a
mutual friend in the village, and the
learned gentleman proceeded at once to
fall in love with her. He managed to
become acquainted with Dr. Alexander,
and received an invitation which he w:is
not slow to accept, to visit at his house.
Since the day when that visit was made,
Rene had been really persecuted by
Prof. Applcton's attentions. She did
not like the man. He bored her ex
ceedingly with his dry talk about things
she didnot understand, or sentimental
speeches about things she did. She
constantly refused to ride or walk with
him, and talked or listened to him as
little as was compatible with the sim
plest politeness.
44 She is a prudent girl," said the Pro
fessor to himself. 4 bhe does not care
to have much to say to a gentleman to
whom she is not engaged. I will speak
to her father."
He spoke to her father, and gained
the Doctor's full and heart v consent
Tom Nelson, seeing how well pleased
llenc's parents had been with him, had
never thought it necessary to ask form
ally for her hand. Doctor Alexander
informed his daughter that Prof. Apple
ton had asked permission of him to ad
dress her, and then and there Rone ve
'Jiemcutly declared she would never re
ceive the Professor as a lover, and suro
ijr never become his wife.
44 Girl, you are mad," said the doctor
angrily. 44 Prof. Appleton is worth I
iiave taken pains to learn fifty thousand
dollars, and the honor of having a Pro
fessor in the family is a good deal, I as
sure you. In short, I command vou to
Teceive Prof. Appleton as your future
husband."
44 And remember it is also my desire
tkat you look upon the Professor with
favor," added Mrs. Alexander. "Half
the girls in the village are crazy after
him."
Rene's lips opened to say that any of
them might have him for all of her, but
b had never been disrespectful to her
parents. She turned and walked out
of the room without a word, but with
sot rebellion in her heart. It was in
the evening of the same da- that Rene
met Tom in the garden and the conver
sation we have recorded took place.
Rene went to the house, five minutes
after being called by her mother, deter
mined to be so disagreeable to the Pro
lessor that he would never ask her to be
his wife. But instead of the Professor
came a boy with a note from that
laarned gentleman, saying he had taken
severe cold which would debar him
from realizing the pleasure he had an
ticipated for that e'vening. and that he
froped he should be able to call in a few
'4ays. About this time Mrs. Alexander
determined to pre a party.- At fifty
fkm loved gayety better than did Rene
ml twenty-two. A week from that even-
decided she would gather liar
friends together for a social time, a few
games and a little supper. The list of
people who were to be invited was forth
with made oat, the invitations were
written, and Rene's ten-year-old broth
er Fred was sent out to distribute them.
The Professor received his invitation
as he sat in his room with watery eyes
and nose made very red by constant ap-
Elication of his handkerchief. He knew
e should probably be the lion of the
evening, and resolved to order a new
suit of clothes for the occasion. He
drew his desk close to the fire, and wf3te
a telegram to his tailor in R , a city
distant ten miles, telling him to send by
express samples of the most fashionable
cloth for gentlemen's evening wear. A
boy was dispatched with the message.
By the five o'clock train the samples ar
rived, and the boy who was at the ex
press office waiting for them, took them
at once to the Professor. He examined
them very carefully, indeed, before
making a choice. He had heard Mrs.
Alexander say that nothing disgusted
her more than to see a person dressed
out of taste, and he was wise enough to
understand that to please the mother of
the girl he hoped to win was no small
thing, especially as be must depend on
that mother to help him win the daugh
ter. After long deliberation, he made a
choice.
44 Pearl-gray is always genteel," he
said. " That is a color, or rather shade,
that must, I think, please every one."
He sent the sample he had selected
to his tailor, directing that knight of the
shears and goose to make him a suit of
the same cloth, having it cut in the way
that would be the most becoming to
one of his figure and position. The
tailor had his measure.
44 H'm!" said the tailor when he re
ceived the sample. "I wonder how
this got in among the pieces I sent
Appleton? I believe a piece was lying on
the desk when I put up the samples.
Guess young Durfee sent it in when he
ordered that masquerade suit. Wonder
why the Professor sends that baok?"
He had held the Professor's note in
his hand unread while he looked at the
sample. Now he turned his attention
to the letter, and gave a lonr, low
whistle.
44 The Profespor must be getting
boyish," he said. " Of course ho must
be going to a masquerade to order a
suit like that. I don't sec why he has
it made in the latest style. But 'obey
orders if you break owners' is my
motto." And he went away to give his
cutter minute directions about the suit.
Tom Nelson went about his work
with rather a heavy heart in those days.
Rene's parents did not fail to show him
that the' no longer looked upon his at
tentions to their daughter with favor.
He did not believe Rene would give
him up, but doubts would creep into
his mind and fears haunt him in spite of
himself. All girls loved wealth and
position. Rene might be persuaded in
time, and what would life be worth
without her?
These thoughts made him uncomfort
able in the extreme. He did not see
Rene as often as ha used to. He dis
liked going to her home, for he met
with but a chilly reception from the
Doctor and his wife. But Rene under
stood why his visit were mo rare, and
loved him in those days more than ever.
Tbe evening of the party was bright
and clear, and nearly every one who
had been bidden to the entertainment
was present. Several aristocratic
friends of the Doctor's came from the
city, and all the notables of the village
graced the occasion by their presence.
When it was growing rather late for
arrivals, and all but three or four of the
expected guests had come, the servant
opened the parlor door and announced
in a loud voice, " Professor Appleton."
Doctor Alexander, proud that his
daughter had a chance to make so
brilliant a match, had informed his city
friends of the Professor's wish to ad
dress Rene, and all the village knew
how deeply smitten was the man of
Greek and Latin with the Doctor's
daughter. It was therefore with un
usual interest that every one in the
room turned to look at the Professor as
he entered. And every one continued
for some seconds to look at him. An
expression of supreme astonishment
was upon all their countenances,
and when they turned their eyes
away from him to the faces of their
friends, the expression of astonishment
was changed to one of merriment.
From a corner where some younr peo
ple were gathered came a half-suppressed
but unmLstakeable laugh. Be
fore them all stood the Professor, who,
in some way, all understood was to be
the hero of the evening, dressed in a
suit of bright scarlet! For a moment
consternation held host and hostess
rooted to the spot where they stood.
Then thev moved forward, and greeted
their latest guest, but in so embarrassed
and constrained a manner that the poor
man began to think he must have done
something to ollend them, and tried in
vain all the rest of the evening to think
of auything he had said or done which
could have displeased them. The hou rs
before one o'clock were gottw through
with somehow. The Alexiuttterd and
every one present tried to act as well
bred people should, but with the Pro
fessor in his bright-hued garments mov
ing among them rather listlessly for he
felt that some unfortunate circumstance
had turned the Alexanders against him
it was not easy to keep decorous faces
and talk on the subjects usually dis
cussed at dignified and pretentious par
ties. The time when the guests could
say good-night and go away, was wel
comed both by them and by their enter
tainers, The next morning. Doctor Alexander,
looking as fierce as a hornet for the
little man was as fiery as a red pepper
when his temper was aroused called on
Prof. Appleton at his room.
44 What do you mean, sir," he cried,
without any greeting or preliminary
speech, " by coming to my house when
we have company in such an outrageous
looking suit as jou wore last night, and
disgracing us? I insist upon an immedi
ate explanation."
"An immediate explanation? I do
not understand you at all," said the
Professor, politely. "I ordered the
suit I wore last night expressly for your
party. I thought pearl-gray was al
ways fitting for a gentleman's evening
costume."
44 You don't mean to say," cried the
doctor, somewhat mollified, " that you
thought the suit you wore last night was
pearPgray?"
44 Indeed, sir, I did," said the Pro
fessor, beginning to grow pale.
44 Well, sir, then you are very much
mistaken." said the Doctor, evidently
not finishing the sentence as he had at
first intended. "That suit is fire-red,
fire-red, sir, I assure you."
44 Good heavens!" exclaimed the Pro
fessor, sinking into a chair. Doctor, I
must be color-blind," he added after a
moment's pause, "for I surely thought
the suit was pearl-gray."
Within a week, the Professor had his
eyes examined and he was declared to
be totally color-blind. I think Doctor
Alexander would stall willingly have
given him his daughter, but Mrs.
Alexander would not hear of it.
"No knowing what absurd things he
might do." she said. "I declare, 1
would not be as shocked and disgusted
again as I was that night for a hundred
dollars, and Rene might expect such
things at any time, if he should becomi
my son-in-law."
Tom Nelson became again a welcome
visitor at the Doctor's home, and at
Christmas he and Rene were married.
But Mrs. Alexander did not give hex
consent to the match; until she had
brought out a basket of worsted and
made sure that Ram's affianced could
tell colors as well as herself. Womarit
Journal.
The Oriental Plagne, r Black Death.
The Oriental plague appears to. have
been a disease resembling typhus fever,
but more severe. It was similar to
typhus in the high fever, suddenness of
onset, contagiousness, constipated con
dition, delirium, rapid, feeble pulse,
dry tongue, tinnitus aurium and deaf
ness, jerking of the tendons, watchful
ness and stupor, and the red patches or
purple spots which appeared upon the
body surface. The features not present
in typhus were nausea and vomiting,
bleeding of the lungs, an alarmed, des
pairing expression upon the counte
nance, the buboes and carbuncles upon
the lody, and the high death-rate, two
thirds of those attacked having suc
cumbed to the disease.
This pest, or as it is called, in Bible
times, pestilence, is endemic in the
Levant, and appears to have been gen
erated by the til thy habits of that semi
tropical region. From Asia Minor it
extended in various directions. In the
fifth century before tbe Christian era,
it ravaged Egypt and the greater part
of Persia and entered -Athens, where
it raged to a fearful extent during the
Pelopounesian war. In the time of
Antonius the plague passed westward
to Rome, and in the sixth century an
epidemic, according to Procopius, oc
curred in Egypt and Palestine. An
exceedingly filthy condition prevailed
in Europe during the dark age3. The
Romish Church, preventing a Christian
truth, had taught that the interests ol
the body and soul were opposed to
each other, and that the latter could
be rendered more certain of heaven by
a crucifixion and humiliation of the
flesh. Rags, squalor and filth came to
be regarded as proper manifestations
of a devout spirit; comfortable houses
and cleanliness belonged to the mam
mon of unrighteousness. Bathing
arrangements had existed in the houses
of the wealthy and this was sufficient
to lead to their condemnation. The
result was that the filth, natural to people
of that age, was increased by the estab
lishment of religion. Society reached
such a condition that even the rich
rarely changed their linen, and strong
ointments and cosmetics were used to
conceal the filth upon bodies sadly in
need of personal bath.
Into a region thus prepared for its
reception the pestilence was transmitted.
Its ravages were awful. Under the
name of Black Death it swept over
Europe and portions of Asia and Africa.
Iu Europe alone it is estimated that
over 25,000,000 human beings perished
iu the short spaco of three years. Peo
ple were appalled at the suddenness of
the attack, the tremendous violence
with which it raged, and the rap
idity with which mortification and
putrefactive changes set in, blackening
the bodies of its victims.
London, in the seventeenth century,
had become filthy beyond description.
The garbage iu their streets; the ill
drained, ill-lighted and ill-ventilated
houses; the unwashed, poorly fed, and
inadequately clad inhabitants, presented
conditions necessary for the ravages ol
a filth disease. The plague came and,
though a semi-tropical disease, found
things in such a fearful state that it was
able to live and thrive in this northern
city. The scenes that followed beggar
description. Paiu and terror in the
houses, death in horrid form stalking
along the narrow streets, the denunci
ations and mad yells of the abandoned,
the appeals and prayers for aid, the
suffering of the afflicted; the cart
rattling along the street followed by
the driver's cry, "Bring on your dead,"
and the lamentation and mourning fot
the fifty thousand fallen, form but an
inadequate and feeble picture of the
horrors that ensued. The disease raged
unrestrained, and apparently died
down leaving its germs behind to await
the growth of a new set of victims,
when the great benefaction, the London
fire occurred, and by consuming the
filth and city, burned out the des
troyer.
The plague has occasionally reached
Paris and some of the German cities.
In 1734 it destroyed nearly half of the
population of Marseilles, and in 183G a
similar fever prevailed at Rajpootana,
in Asia. Only a few years ago another
epidemic of Black Death was born
amid the filth aud fatalism of the Mo
hammedan climes. The neglect ol
sanitary provisions rendered its spread
an easy matter. From Turkey it ex
tended over a portion of Europe and
for a time threatened to reach the At
lantic, whence it might easily have
been transported by vessel to the shores
of the New World. Happily the Rus
sian and Austrian governments became
alarmed and took energetic measures
for its restriction. That impassable
military quarantine may have been
severe, but it said most emphatically to
the pestilence, "Hitherto shalt thou
conic but no farther." It stayed the
plague and was thus the means of sav
ing thousands of precious lives.
Other means have, at times, been
found effectual for the suppression of
pestilence; not quarantine but sanitary
police and hygienic improvement in the
large cities, like Cairo, have been most
serviceable for its restriction. By such
means it has been nearly stamped out
of existence. Its extensive ravages are
unnecessary. The pestilence "which
walketh in darkness." is subject to
human control. By quarantine and a
rigid conformity to sanitary require
ments, it may be restricted, if not
entirely suppressed. Dr. Smith in Sci
ence and Health.
After Eighteen Centuries.
On January 24 the skeleton of a
woman with a child was discovered at
Pompeii in a narrow street about twelve
feet above the level of the ancient pave
ment. It is well known that the catas
trophe of 79 A. D. commenced with a
thick showor of small pumice stones, by
which the streets of Pompeii were cov
ered up to the roofs of the hou-es.
Stones were succeeded by ashes, which
became solid owing to the action of suc
cessive showers of boiling water; and
these ashes now form the top layer of
the materials which cover the ruins of
Pompeii. Most of the unhappy beings
who remained in the houses after the
eruption first reached the town made
their escape through tbe windows, but
the greater part of these fugitives could
have taken but a few steps, and must
have been quickly suffocated by the
poisonous fumes. With one arm the
woman whose skeleton has been found
was clasping the legs of the child, whose
body shows contraction in the arms and
legs and a general emaciation, which
leu us to suppose that the child must
have been very ill. It was a little boy
about ten years of age. Doubtless the
woman was the mother of the child.
Some jewels found on the female skel
eton indicated a person of condition;
two bracelets of gold encircled the arm
which held the boy, and on the hand
were two gold rings, the one set with
an emerald, on which in engraved a
horn of plenty, and the other with an
amethyst bearing a head of Mercury.
Cor. N. Y. Sun.
In some parts of Manitoba specu
lation is said to be wild. It is getting
to be quite common for a settler to sell
his farm at from $5,000 to $10.000 $25
cash, balance in twenty to thirty days.
The calculation of the purchaser is that
within the time specified he may dis
pose of the land at an advance; if not
he only loses his $25.
Young man do not wait until you
can afford a heliometer before starting
out housekeeping. A heliometer costs
$10,000 and is good for nothing except
forth observation of the transit of
Venus. And after you are married yon
won't care much about that. New Ha
ven Register.
SCHOOL AND CHUKCII.
The Bible is translated into thirty
two African languages, in eight of which
the whole of the Scriptures are pub
lished. Atlanta men are working up r.
Southern Chautauqua, or central eamp
mi'cting ground, for all the benevolent
institutions of the South.
Jauan is thoroughly awake in ths
matter of education. She has established
schools all through the country, aud at
the University of Tokio there are now
200 students.
Good old Mrs. Barton, of New
Haven, has been for nearly fifty years
the teacher of a large and important
Bible class. A few days ago her class
met to celebrate her eightieth birthday.
New Haven Register.
The National Societies of the Bap
tist denomination hold their anniversa
ries in New York, May 21-ul. These
societies are the Foreign Missionary
Union, the Home Mission Society and
the Publication Society.
Mrs. George Clinton Smith, ol
Springfield, 111., has undertaken the.
compilation of a woman's hymn-book.
She asks that all women who have writ
ten hymns that have been published con
fer with her. Chicago Tribune.
Rev. Dr. Magoun, of Philadelphia,
told his New York brethren the other
day that he .started" iu life as a bricklayer,
aud that when he laid down the trowel
and took up the clerical pen, lie secured
the first brick he had ever laid, convert
ed it into an inkstand, and had used it
ever since.
The students of the University of
Missouri disliked Professor Lowry and
asked for his removal. This request was
refused, as they gave no good reason
why it should be granted. Three hun
dred of them burned the Professor in
efligy, and then marched round his res
idence singing " Hang Tom Lowry on a
sour apple tree." Chicago Herald.
Mr. Baring-Gould represents the re
ligious condition of Germany as not very
encouraging. He savs that of the 150,
000 inhabitants of Hamburg only 3,000
attend worship, and there are only five
parish churches. In Berlin there are
900,000 Protestants, but only 11,900 at
tend church on Sundays. The church
attendance in Darmstadt is only three
per cent. Throughout Germany only
fourteen out of one hundred persons at
tend any kind of religious service.
English missionaries have begun to
work iu the peninsula of Corea a land
from which almost all Europeans have
heretofore been jealously excluded. The
area of Corea is 90.000 square miles, and
the population about 10,000.000 souls.
The language is quite unlike both Chi
nese and Japanese, aud much difficulty
lias been experienced in learning it.
Some progress has, however, been made
in this direction, aud a translation of tiie
New Testament has been begun by a
Presbyterian missionary named Ross.
Chicago Times.
President Robinson, of Brown Uni
versity, is this year delivering the course
of Yale lectures on preaching. He
states that the proportion of people who
attend church is diminishing. For this
he gives a number of reasons, some of
which are very diverse in character.
Among the reasons are skepticism,
cheap literature, and the practice of
preaching old sermons. He also men
tions the willingness of too many
churches to exist on supplies of strange
clergymen from Sunday to Sunday, iu
stead of securing the services of a regu
lar pastor. To these he adds the un
easiness of the present generation and
the lack of desire of hearing the steady
preaching of an old-fashioned gospel.
Chicago Herald.
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PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.
There aie people who will buy any
thing on sight if they can be allowed to
pay for it ou time. .V. 0. Picayune.
"The man who steals my purse
steals trash." but the man who steals
laragraphs has no trash of his own on
lamL jTio. S. Weaver.
"Yes," said a lady, complacently,
"I expect we'll get rich now. My hus
band has just been appointed one of the
receivers of an embarrassed savings
bank." Somcrville Journal.
The new idea is to have the hand
photographed. We have held some
hands that are as indelibly fixed on our
memory as the photographer's art could
fix them and others without a trump.
This is a double action joke. New Haven
Register.
A western desperado twenty-seven
years old has killed twenty-six men.
That's nothing. We know a young
physician who can double discount any
desperado that ever stood up, and he
isn't stuck up about it either. He is so
modest that he never mentions it.
Rochester Express.
"Just taste that tea," said old
Hyson to his better half, at the supper
table the other evening. "Well, there
doesn't seem to be anything the matter
with it. I can't taste anything."
"Neither can I, ami that's what I'm
growling at." Hackcnsack Republican.
A new agony aud one that is in
every way admirable is for a young lady
to entertain her gentleman caller with a
few arias ou that classical instrument,
the banjo. The true and deep signifi
cance of this is: "Don't J'o to the min
strels any more. I will be your min
strel. Did you ever see love s dreaui
set to music in more attractive shape?
N. Y. Graphic.
A man went into a drug store and
asked for something to cure a headache.
The druggist held a bottle of hartshorn to
his nose and he was nearly overpowered
by its pungency. As soon as he recov
ered he began to rail at the druggist and
threatened to punch his head. " But
didn't it help your headache?" asked the
apothecary. " Help my headache!"
gasped the man. " I haven't any head
ache. It's my wife that's got the head
ache." Chicago Tribune.
An erratic Judge, who stammered
badly in speaking, was hearing a case in
which a witness was asked his name.
"M-m-my na-na-name e-e's Je-Je-Je-Jones,"
was the answer. "Wh-ha-ha-t
d-d-do-u-u- me-ana-ma-mean?" roared
the Judge. " Sce-sc-sc-sc-irr?" said the
witness. " Te-te-te-tc-ake tha-ah-at
ma-ah-an t-t-t-t-t je-je-je-a-il fo-oh-oh-oh-r
co-on-ou-t-t-t-tempt!" shouted the
Judge. It was amusing to see that
Judge when he found that the witness
was not poking fun. but really stam
mered like him. Quincy Modern Argo.
Give It to Hl, Old Gimlet Eye."
This court-room scene occurred in the
early days of the State of Vermont, when
school houses were used for court houses,
and log stables were used for jails
The Circuit Court was held at Berk
shire Center, when old Judge Hammond,
who was remarkable by his having a
crooked eye, presided. The case on hand
was one of trespass, and had attracted a
full house. Everything went on smoothly
until the old Judge began to charge the
jury, when he was rather severe on the
defendant. An eccentric person in the
crowd, who did not realize the dignity
of a court-room, jumped up and said:
" Give it to him, old gimlet eyes." The
old Judge rose, and in a voice of thun
der, said: Who is that disturbing this
court?" The eccentric person replied:
"It's oldhoss." Then says the Judge:
44 Here, constable, take that old boss and
put him iu the stable." The consequence
was the court had to adjourn till after
noon in order to straighten the faces of
the officers and jury.
This story was told me when I was a
boy by a venerable Judge who had in his
younger days studied law with the "gimlet-eyed"
Judge. Cor. Chicago Journal.
Farm Wages and Renting Farms.
I find that as the "boom" in fanning
is subsiding, there is less excitement
about hiring help, and the range of
wages will be lower than promised a
month ago, and very little higher than
last year. There should be some in
crease to correspond with the greater
cost of living, though where this is
mainly furnished by the employer at
his own table, there is less reason for
any advance. In cities, men and wom
en who work in shops have to provide
food and lodging as well as clothing,
and the high prices of provisions have
necessitated a sharp advance in wages.
But on the farm this is not so. That
grain and potatoes are dear, only means
to most farmers now dear seed and a
certain greater cost of making the crop,
without any assurance of a higher price
for the product. If to this higher wa
ges for help have to bo addeu, the fact
makes it almost certain that the farmer
will receive little profit. I am reminded
of the practice of a wealthy farmer in a
neighboring town, who has periodically,
every iew years, retired, rented his
farm, sold his personal property, and
again after a year or two, has resumed
business, restocked his farm and re
sumed its management. He has made
eleven auctions during the thirty odd
years he has been on his present farm,
and he has made monev almost every
time. He keeps himself on the farm
while it is rented, aud devotes the
leisure he thus secures to improving its
groductiveness against the time when
e expects to work it again. As he is,
among his friends, a gauge of future
prices, it may be worth while to note
that this year his farm is rented. On
most leased land the soil deteriorates
aud the farm loses in condition; but
where the owner remains on it and
spends his leisure making needed im
provements," this need not be the case.
Generally" for one or two years a farm
will rent for more than the'interest. If
then the owner, sells off his stock when
prices are high, and buys back when
they are low, he makes money, besides
the advantage of being in the farming
business the only .years when farming
really pays. Cor. Country Gentleman.
.
Chicken Coops.
The old-fashioned coops, the chicken
coops that our cfeildhood knew, were
queer-looking affairs of all shapes and
sizes, made of old boxes and barrels, or
of anythtngelse that came handy. That
these nondescript coops were useful in
their day and generation no one will
deny; no one ever dreamed of calling
them ornamental. We don't know that
it is really necessary to have ornament
al coons, but then, while we are about
I it, we might as well make a decent look
ing house for the mother lion and her
infant brood. Perhaps in time we shall
demand an ''esthetic" coop with a bed
of lilies in the front yard and a back
ground of big sunllowers, but we don't
insist upon this this season.
Here is a chicken coop that comes
about as near perfection as any that we
ever tried, and we don't believe that
any sensible hen will find a wofd to say
against it. The upper half of the front
is of wire netting which admits air aud
light, while the projecting roof keeps
out sun and rain. The lower half is
made with perpendicular slats, and a
door which turns up on hinges and
fastens with a wooden button, making
all snug and tight. When down this
door makes an excellent place to feed
the chicks. In one end there is a small
door for the hen, and when the coop is
made with a lloor the door will be nec
essary to enable one to clean the coop.
The bottom should be covered with sand
or gravel which should be removed
often enough to keep clean. Where the
ground is dry and there is no danger
from rats these coops may be made
without a noor and moved to a fresh
spot of ground every few days. Make
the coop high enough so that the hen
can stand upright without bumping her
head against tho roof, and large enough
so that she can turn around without go
ing out of doors. Prairie Farmer. '
She Will Endure But Will Not Betray.
A little before dark last evening a
group of a dozen men, with ono woman
in their midst, stood on one of the side
paths of the common. Near the woman,
who was young, neatly dressed and of
intelligent appearance, was a decent
looking man under thirty, whose staring
eyes and vacant expression, showed that
rum had got the better of him. A stal
wart policeman had his hand on the
drunken man's collar, while the woman
clung to him and besought him to let
her husband go. This is what happened
a moment before. As the staggering
man, half led, half supported by the
woman, turned from the Tremont street
mail into the path leading diagonally
toward the Joy street gate, he half
struck half pushed her, so that she fell
violently to the ground. She arose and
again was thrown down, but in spite of
all clung to his side, and walked with
him, he striking and pushing her as
they went. In a minute a dozen men
were after him, and it would have gone
hard with him if a policeman had not
been in the front rank. As he stood
there with the policeman's hand on his
collar, he said not a word, but stared
about stupidly at the men, whose angry
faces and clenched hands showed how
strong was their feeling, and there were
rough looking fellows among them, too.
But what was the use every blow given
him would have made the poor little
wife suffer ten times more than he.
When the burly policeman had mast
ered his indignation sufficiently to per
mit of speech, he blurted out: ' "What
do you mean by striking a woman?"
'She's m' wife," was the sullen re
ply. 44 And what if she is, you brute; isn't
that all the more reason why you
shouldn't harm her," roared the police
man. And right there came in that
touch of femimne nature by which thou
sands of times wives have before aroused
at once the anger and the admiration of
the officers of the law.
" Oh, he didn't hit me" and then,
when a dozen men said: "I saw him do
it," and she saw how useless it was to
deny it, her flushed and tear-stained
face dropped and she said, tremblingly:
" I mean he didn't hurt me."
Then the policeman said to the besot
ted wretch: " Come along," and started
as if to drag him off, but in an instant
the wife was upon them, crying and
I Heading that she might be allowed to
ead him away. He's always good to
me," she cried, " and he wouldn't have
done it only the liquor was in him. We
came in from Cambridge this afternoon
to look for a tenement, and all the way
in he was talking about our little place;
but he met some friends, and then"
and she could not say any more.
What was the big, soft-hearted po
liceman to do? His feelings were like
those of the angry, sympathetic men
about him when he looked at the man
his grasp tightened and his body
straightcned; when he turned to the
woman his hold relaxed, and at last he
let go, and pushing him slightly toward
her, said: "Well, take him" and then,
to those standing around "it does
seem to me, and I've seen a good many
cases like that, that women are a queer
lot; it seems as if the more you licked
om tfiA hollAr tlmv lik-fil Vftll."
Then, the little woman drew
drunken man's arm under her own
started off ud the hill, and if he
the
and
had
misbehaved while he was in sijrht
the
owners of the score of eyes that were
watching would have had an account to
settle with him. Boston Journal.
A piece of close reckoning has re
vealed the fact that Jay Gould's income
is one dollar per second.
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Chalk or mmrnnaw miKn.i .ni.
or ribbon that has been greased, and
held near the lire, will absorb grease so
that it may be brushed off.
i -Su1t'0P fetl ou dry feed are frequent
ly troubled with sore lip. An applica
tion of sulphur aud lard once or twice
will generally effect a cure. Indian,
apolis Journal.
To make an e-y-ellent wash for the
hair, dissolve in one quart of boilino
water one ounce borax, oue half ouuee
of camphor. The ingredients should
be finely powdered.
It Is as necessary to use precaution
in cutting oil" limbs from trees as ampu
tating the leg or arm of an individual,
and it can only be done safely when
the tree has sufficient strength to bear
the shock. Trimming of trees should
be done gradually, instead of cutting
off all the diseased limbs at once.
Stove Polish: -Have a thin mixture
of black varnish and turpentine; applv
this with a paint or varnish brush to a
portion of the stove: then with a cloth
dust this over with pulverized British
luster or stove polish; then rub with a
dry brush. The stove must bo perfect
ly cold.
tolling rots harness sooner than
sweat ; and after being used for several
hours in hot or rainy weather, all leath
or harness should be cleaned and oiled.
Tho leather can ouly be preserved by
keoping it well saturated with oil.
First wash the harness with tepid water
and soap, then oil with .someone of the
usual preparations for greasing harness.
uome treasure.
Agriculture pays in California.
The San Diego Herald says that in Ven
tura county a man entirely without re
sources last year bought forty acres of
laud at 60 per acre, engaging to make
a payment this year to the extent of his
crop. He planted Lima beans, aud last
fall the result was $122 per acre, and
he paid for his laud aud had a large
surplus.
Cement for porcelain or glass: Boil
slices of skim-milk cheese, or the curd
of milk to a paste in water, grind it
with newly-slaked lime in a mortar.
Heat the fragments to bo joined, apply
tho least possible quantity of the cement
bringing the fractured edges together,
tie in place If noeeary, and dry thor
oughly before using." White of egg
mixeii with slaked lime makes a very
good cement for earthenware. N. Y.
Tribune.
A person who formerly suffered
from cold feet writes to the New York
Trihin : I have received great bene
fit "Vom the use of foot baths in which
tbe water was almost painfully hot, and
which, as it cooled, I renewed witli
scalding; water. Red nenoer and mus-
rd min vied with the water have add
ed to the effect. Whenever my feet
became painfully cold 1 plunged" them
in the hot foot bath and kept them
there half an hour or more. The effect
has been only good. I have never
taken cold in consequence, and the
circulation in. my extremeties has been
wonderfully quickened by this process,
so that now 1 rarely sutler from cold
hands or cold feet.
Cause of Sudden Death or Fowls.
It frequently occurs that fowls are
found dead under the roost. If fowls
are cared for and made comfortable in
their lodging places, and have a good
quality and "quantity of food, then we
must look elsewhere for the cause.
They must have food or become worth
less, especially in winter. One unac
customed to the care and management
of the poultry can hardly realize the
amount required to winter fowls and
keep them in profit, without which
tere is little use in keeping them. It
hardly pays to winter fowls that are
over two years old, unless in extraor
dinary cases of fine birds kept for stock
purposes merely. Obtain early hatched
young fowls which will becomo fully
matured before cold weather sets in,
for after that period there is littlo
growth. The strength of food goes
toward supporting the existence, more
especially where the quarters are un
comfortably damp and cold, and fowls
crowded.
There are many things that affect tho
health of fowls, and most of all are the
quality and quantity of food, mode of
administering it aud the air they
breathe. If crowded in a small place,
and kept there continually, there can'
be no clean place to put their food. I
know it is often the case when the
weather is extreme, that fowls for their
own comfort must be huddled into a
small compass in order to make all
comfortable, and in such cases they do
not suffer while the cold continues, for
the droppings are immediately congeal
ed, and with a scattering of dry ashes
over thesurface, no ammonia is exhaled,
and their food may be so arranged
that it is not contaminafbd. But
when the mercury goes up, thawing
---
commences; the droppings should be
then removed, and the fowls allowed
either a run out, or cleaner quarters.
Fowls require daily care at all seasons
to be kept in good condition. When
fowls are found dead under the roost,
there is something wrong with the
keeper, or the midnight thief has been
among them and failed in securing his
booty. Fowls are frequently smoked
down with matches or brimstone, when
their fall is noiseless. To avoid this,
the fowls should all be trained to roost
in good secure buildings, and a safe
lock turned on them every night No
sudden or malignant disease causes
such Midden death.
Fowls are often sick for a long time
and escape the notice of all except the
close and accustomed observer, who
cannot be deceived, for the general
look and carriage tell the tale. At feed
ing time the fowls will generally all
come in a huddle to eat, and all appear
to eat greedily. The time to seek out
the ailing birds is when they are in qui
etude. When they are is this state ob
serve them closely. All the well ones
will be trimming and dressing the
feathers. The one that remains moping
behind, and does not trim her dress, is
ailing, aud many times beyond aid or
recovery. Still the bird will go to
roost, and may be found dead in the
morning, or sometimes early in the
evening. Such e;ucs might be taken
in hand immediately as soon as discov
ered, and the necessary remedies ap
plied. Ten to one the bird has indi
gestion and hard crop to begin with;
but the cause of this indigestion is the
secret to search out. It may be bad
food, musty or mouldy grain or meal,
unfit to bo taken into the stomach. The
stomach is a sensitive member, and re
fuses obnoxious food. Notwithstand
ing fowls revel in that diet which ap
ears to us filthy and unclean.yet when
eft alone to search out their own food
they rarely take in any indigestible
substances. It is either a weak, low
state, or bad grain, that produces this
difficulty. Cor. Country Gentleman.
Congressman Evins, of South Car
olina, has forwarded to his constituents
a supply of tobacco seed for gratuitous
distribution among those who care to
cultivate "the weed." At ono time
great attention was paid to this
crop in South Carolina, and large quan
tities were raised, but, for some un
known reason, for a number of years
its cultivation has been almost entirely
neglected.
Mr. Howells, of The Ashtabula
Sentinel writes from Buffalo to his
aper: "I walked around one of the
arge glucose or corn-sugar factories,
and the smell I got of it dispelled any
desire for a closer inspection. It is an
immense building, seven stories high,
and two or three hundred feet square,
and every inch of it stinks. It must bo
too utterly awful in the summer."
KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE I
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ru.r, ic!Ni.
HON I S. i riHS A. VI
i.i. si. m:i. i: i:i.k-
1H11 AM) .
.movi: - Tin: ur( i
with or i bust. 5
1NG.
KENDALL'S SPAVIN WRE!
It li:i iiuv.I ihoiH.uitl.-. of case and is destined to cure million- aud millions mor
KSNDALL-'S SPAVIN CURE!
N the Mih pnoitiw -n- known, and to show what tliN remody will do we give here
: :i - tu ,.;. of i-:im 'urvd lr it. a statement winch vas
G1VBN UNDER OATH.
" W 'ioui it May Coneern. Ill the
fir i.-.,."i I treated with Iveml.iIlN
! v in Cure." a bone s;-ivin of several
ith grow th, iifarh U.ilf a large a-,
a . ns egg, ar.d eonidctely topped tin
:ai-i--neutul "-:iicil tlic"ei!.rgenient.
I t..ivc work.d llie Iior.o eer-dnee very
L.nil. and lie never h:i Iwen lame, nor
could I ever see any dill en nee iu the
size of the hock joint' since I tre-ited
liiia with "Kendall? Sji.ivitt fiye."
U. A.Cainks.-Ku.-!iurgh
'.IK V:.. F.-I. . :.?.
?orn and siihsi-i :led to helore ni
tin -iTitli day of Feb.. a. l. K'.K
.ions (.:..' kxxi:.
.Justice of iVace
KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE;
ON HUM A2f FLESH it has been ascertained by reieatcd tr ds tit be.
he very best liniment ever used J'oruiiu dti, scaled pain oj' lona standimi
or of short duration. Aho tor CORNS, RUN IONS. FROST RITES
or any orutse. cut or lameness. Some are amid lo use it on ha -nan jlesh
simply because it is a horse medicine, but nu sficitltl remember that what
is good Jar R EAST is good for MAN.' and ire knoir front Expert'emii
that 'KENDALLS SRAVIN CURE" em, ha W ,'.,, ,, ,.;.n.i I ..,.
old with perfect safety Its Effects are wonderful on human flesh and it
does not blister or make a sore. 'Try it and he convinced.
KENDALL'S SPAYIN CURE:
Read below of its wonderful v Herts as a liniment for the hu t'lii family.
.. , ,-,. . .... .. , II KM AlllK. MlsMIL'KI. UJHt,f.'0, KSNI.
I... i, lvi..!w.i.A o.t.Kvrs: -I ..m o ..eijed i' ux of the result of an ap
plication of jour K.mlatr-SpaxinCure tli.it I h-cl that I on-lit for lliuiirtiiilic
saKe publish it to the world. About thirtx-tive vear- ao whil. rulim- a vuii"
ugly horse. I was it.jnrcd in one of my testicle-, and from that tun to three wed.?'
aen a s ow but consP.i.t enl irciucnt has been the roult, gh ma ,,,e a ureal amount
of trouble, almost eiitirl preveutini: me fiom horseback ridii:- wli'cli un. mv
usual wa;.oi tiaxcli'i;,. I vi a ctiee of j, Mir Keiiila.l, -piin v :liri., necr once
thought out loranythimjevcept f.r h.ir-. ., bi.t after receiving he medi.in.- ,nd
reading over what it us. ood for. f.elnig ternblv exercised about m ditlieuttv for
I had co-Milted man ph siciatis and none .::ne me anv speeili.-but x hen it could
le nidured ito loiter to reinoeil viihtheKi-.it.. I ..i.,.li,,l wur Kendall? i in
I lire a? an experiment, ami it wa? ?o painful in it- appliiafton that I concltnied
not to repeat it did thought no more ab-ut ituntil n...r u,,i i i i i. .i.i
one-hair the size was go'ie. with jo I could -carcelt bcliec it, I imin.diatelv ..p.
pltcil it over again, and have made in all about ' : dozen applic tion? ruMuiii"er
a space ol two weeks and tle terrible-enlargement is:i!inot go.e. in view of "which
I cannot .pics-iu leciing- of delight. It ha- been a Cod -end to mc. ma he
-end t otin-r-with like tr. ible-. John I.iue
L'a-tor of Hematite Congregational Church.
P. S. You are at liberu to put thi- in anv shape ou max p!e:i-e. I am not
i-liamed to have mj name under, over or by the side of 'it.
KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE!
Kendall's Spavin Cure i--tire iu it? etl'ect-, mild in it- action a- it doe? not
Mi-ler, yet it is penetrating and powerful to reach mv de p -cited p tin ..r io re
move any boiiv growth or any other enlargeiiii lit if u--.l for -cmmI di?, -ueli :n
-pa ins, splints, callou-. sprains, swelling, anv t iiucucs- ami ili laigem.-iu-. of
the joints or limbs, or rheiiin.it i-in iu man and for any purpo-e for which a liniment
is used for man or beast. It i- now known to be the be-t liuimeiil for man ever ti-cd
acting mild yet certain iu it? etl'ect-. It is used in lull -trciigth with perfect saf.-tv
it all sea-ons of the year.
Send address for lllu-trated Circular, which we think give- positive proof, of it?
virtues. No remedy ha-met with -m-Ii un.ii illli d -iiee.-s to our knowledge, for
bea-tas well as man. J'rice .f 1 per bottle, or -i bottle- for $".
ALL DRUGGISTS have it or can get it for you,
or it will be sent to any addre. on receipt of pi n . bv the pioprirtor-,
IS Dr. IJ. J. KKNUAIJ, .t CO. Ivioshtirg Falls, Vermont.
WHEN YOU TRAVEL
ALWAYS TAKK TIIK
B. & M. R. R.
Examine map and time table- carefully
It will be seen that this line connects
with C. l.&(t. It. i:.;in fact they
are under one management,"
aud taken together form
what is called
I
uiun fluum:
Shortest and Quickest Line to
. ST. LOUIS, rum
DES MOINES, ROCK ISLAND,
And Especially to all Points
IOWA, WISCONSIN, INDIANA,
ILLINOIS, MICHIGAN, OHIO.
ri'lXCll'Af. AIIVAXTAOKS AltK
Through coaehe.- from dctination on O.
II. & Q. It. It. No tran-fers; changes
t.oin C. IS. ,t O.. It. It. to connect
ing lines all made iu
Union Depots.
THKOUGH TICKETS
AT
LOWEST RATES
CAX 1IK 1IA1
t'pon application at any station on the
.oad. Agents are al-o prepared to cheek
jaggage through; give all iiiformition as
o rati..-, route-, time connection, etc,
tnd to secure sleeping car accomoda
tions. This company is engaged on an exlen
lion which will opt n a
NEW LINE TO DENVER
And all point- iu olorado. This e--tention
will In; completed and readv for
u-ine-s in a. few month-, ami the pub
ic can then uiijoy all the advantages of
through line between Denver and
Chicago, all under one management.
I. S. Kuti!.
Gen'I T'k't A'gt,
1'Jy Omuia, Nki:.
LAND, FAltMS,
AND-
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AT TIIK
Union Pacfic Land Office,
On Long Time and low rale
of Interest.
ll wishing to buy Rail Road Land
or Improved Farms will tlnd it to their
ad.antage to call at the lT. P. Land
OfU'c before lookin elsewhere as 1
male a specialty of buying and selling
lauil- on commi-sion; all per-ons wish
ing to sell farms or unimproved land
will '"'"d it to their advantage to leave
their land? with me for sale, a- my fa
cilities for atlccting ales are unstir-p:is-.d.
I am prepared to make tina!
proo: lor all parties wi-hing to get a
patent for their homesteads.
3J Henry C'ordes, Clerk, writes anil
spcaL-German.
SAMUEL C. SMITH,
Agl. L. P. Kind Department,
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rii
3
k.
1
;
a