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:i ii m ' . M i- l.r t. o . f' 1, i rs THE JOURNAL. WEDNESDAY, AUG. 5, 1885. SaWrti it tli Fsxtefi:t. Cilsatei. Sit., si itcnA eliii matttr. A FOREST HYMN. The flowing sua is riding- high Amid the arches of the say. Dreamy air Ilea still. Xo soma disturbs the leafy glade Bare that by busy wood bill made Upon some ancient trunk, decayed Calm brood o'er vale and hill. In each an hoar I love to stray From haunts of toiling: men away, ' 'Mid forest depths profound; There, ip a bliss of solitude. Where no dull cares of earth intrude. And Nature breathes sweet quietude The grand old trees around The heart by daily care oppressed. The wearied spirit flndeth rest, As, pillowed on the sod. With nought above but leaf and sky, Ab4 loving look of Heavenly Eye. Perchance with angels hovering nigh, I dream or Nature's God. -3dtranl N. Richardson CurrcA "STAR-SPANGLED BANNER." The Thrilling; Event Which In spired This Patriotic Song. A piece of news was borne acrosa the Atlantic Ocean in May, 1814, which chilled with apprehension every Ameri can heart: Napoleon Bonaparte had been overcome by the- allied armies of Europe, and was safely imprisoned on the island of Elba! This intelligence notitied the American people that the fleets and armies of Great Britain, which for twelve years had been waging war with France, were now disengaged, and would have little to do, and would be free to overwhelm and crush 'the Republic of the United States. We were then in the second year of that contest with Great Britain which we Htill call the War of 1812. It was a summer of alarm, and the whole coast was alive with the bustle of defensive preparation. " The invasion came. The enemy's ships entered Chesapeake Bay about the first of June, a fleet of frigates and lighter vessels. In August Admiral Cochrane entered the bay in a great ship of eighty guns, bringing with him a fleet and three or four thousand sol diers, which increased the British force in those waters to twenty-three men-of-war and an army of ten thousand troops and mannes. Every one knows what followed. The country was invaded, Washington was sacked and pillaged and its public build ings burned. The enemy retired with considerable loss, it is true, but triumph ant and exulting. It was a dearly bought victory, for it silenced opposition to the war, kindled the national feeling and enlisted every heart in the country's defense. A few davs after, the British forces made their second attempt upon that coast. Baltimore, then a city of forty thousand inhabitants, enriched by the prosperous commerce of the last quarter of a century, would have been a valua ble prize; and would have given the foe a bold of the shores of the Chesapeake, from which they would have been dis lodged with difficult. Washington was but a straggling village, without milita ry value. Baltimore was a command ing position, capable of being defended. Two miles below the city, on a point of land jutting into the water, stood then, and now stands. Fort McHenry, so named after one of the early .statesmen of Maryland. Sturdy arms and williner hearts had been laboring there for many I weeks to strengthen its fortifications ! and get additional guns into position, under the direction of Lieutenant Colonel George Armistead. The time had been well employed, and the gal lant commander had a modest confi dence in his ability to repel the imposing fleet of Cockburn, which now consisted of more than forty vessels, and carried seven thousand troops. The fate of Baltimore depended absolutely upon his holding this position. The star-spangled banner which floated over the fort had been made by a lady of Baltimore, Sirs. Mary Pickers- fill, aided by her daughter. These adies, full of the patriotic feeling of the hour, made a flag worthy of the im portance of the occasion, ft contained four hundred yards of bunting. It was so large that the ladies were obliged to spread it out in the malt-house of a neighboring brevverv. When Mrs. Kickersgill's daughter was an old lady of seventy-six years, she used to describe the scene. "I remember," she wrote, "seeing my mother down on the floor placing the stars. After the completion of the flag she suerintended the topping of it. having it fastened in the mot secure manner to prevent its being torn awav by ball-;. Ihe wisdom of her precaution was shown during the engagement, many shots piercing it. but it still re mained firm to the staff. . .My mother worked many nights until twelve o'clock t to complete it in a given time." The reader will see in a moment tiie significance of this statement. But for the firm and faithful stitching of these two patriotic ladies, we should probablv have had no song of the Star-Spangled Banner. September the Cth the great British fleet left its anchorage -iu Chesapeake Bay and sailed for Baltimore'; and en tered, the Patapsco Rieer. upon which the city stands, live days after. Twelve miles below Baltimore, thev landed seven thousand men. Happilv, the brave Marylanders and Pennsvlvanians were ready for them. Three 'thousand militiamen, voluuteers from Maryland and Pennsylvania, commanded bv Gen eral' John Strieker, well-posted and well-intrenched, withstood this great force, killed their commander. General Ross, and forced tb'iu finally to aban don the attack: " wane inee events were occurring the great ve-el in the Brith fleet moved up the river, .auehored before Fort McHenry, and began to pour upon it that tempest of shot, shell and rockets, which the author of our song lias com memorated. Every gun was heard in Baltimore. Wc cau well imagine the feelings of its inhabitants during the twenty-four hours of its continuance. , The author of the song, Francis Scott Key, was not a combatant in the battle, although he witnessed it from beginning to nd. During the first operations on that coast Admiral Cockburn and sev eral officers of the British army occu pied as their headquarter a house at Marlborough, belonging to an aed physician of the place. Dr. Beancs, whom they detained as a prisoner, lest he should &end the news of their land ing to Baltimore. He was a particular friend of Mr. Key and of his family. Hearing that the doctor was about to be carried oft" by the enemy. Key obtained permission from the commanding Gen eral of the American forces to' go to the British fleet under a flag of truce, and make an attempt to procure the old gentleman's release In a letter to his mother, written just as he jras about to start upon this errand of friendship, he wrote: "I hope to return in about eirht or tea days, though it is uncertain, as I do not know where to find the fleet" He set sail from. Baltimore about the third of September, and found the Brit ish fleet atjthc mouth of the Patuxent boud for the attack on Fort McHenry. He weat o board the vessel of 'Admiral Cochrane, to whom he stated his et nasi, aad asked for the release of Dr. ! Tie Ad-nyral received hi Wilfctfcertacwt civility, but inform him that he could not comply at pres ent with his request, and was obliged even to detain Key himself and his ves sel .until the operation' upon Fort Mc Henry was concluded. The Admiral's vessel being over crowded, he sent the American gentle men on board of the frigate Surprise, commanded by his son, Sir Thomas Cochrane, where they spent the night, and thus moved on to the. attack. During the bombardment of the fort. Sir. Key and his friends, including Dr. Beanes, were sent on board their own little vessel, nnder a guard of marines, and thus they were afforded an oppor tunity to witness the 'action. Of all the thousands of human beings within hearing of that bombardment, there was-probably not one so fitted by nature and education to be moved by it. Francis S. Key, then thirty-five years of age, a lawyer in good standing at the distinguished bar of his native State, was a son of John Ros Key. an officer m the -army of the Revolution. He had been noted from his youth up for the ardor of his patriotism, and he had at tempted more than once to celebrate in verse the gallant deeds of his country men. He had a habit of dashing down lines and stanzas that occurred to him on any old scrap of paper that came first to his hand, and several of his poems were gathered up by his friends from the litter of his office.' AH day the bombardment continued without 'ceasing. During the whole night they remained on deck, following with their eyes the continuous arcs ol lire from the enemy's ships to the fort. The anxiety of the' poet, and the littla company of Americans about him, grew only more intense when darkness cov ered the scene, and they could form no conception of the progress or the probable-issue of the strife. Snddenly, about three in the morn ing, the firing ceased. As they were anchored at some distance from the British vessels, they were utterly at e loss to interpret this mysterious silence. Had the fort surrendered? As thevwalked up and down thedeek of their vessel in the darkness and si lence of the night, they kept going to the binnacle to look at their watchVs to see how many minutes more must elapse before they could discern whether the flag over Fort MeHcery was the star spangled banner, or the union jack of England. The daylight dawned at length. With a thrill of triumph and gratitude, they saw that "our Hag was st-Il there." They soon perceived from many other signs that the attack, both -by land and sea. had failed, and that Baltimore was safe. Tliev could see with their glasses the wounded troops carried on boar the ships, and at last the whole Br'.tist army re embarking. A few minutes after the dawn of that glorious day, when Ihe poet first felt sure of the issue of the battle, the im pulse to express his feelings in verse rushed upon him. He found in his pocket a letter, and he wrote upon the back of it the first lines of the song. In the excitement of the hour he could not go on with his task, but he wrote some further brief notes and lines upon the letter. Some lines he retained in his memory without making any record of them. When his guard of marines left him free to hoist anchor, and sail foi the city, he wrote out the song on the way, very nearly as it now reads, and on reaching his hotel in Baltimore he made a cleau copy of it. The next morning he showed it to his brother-in-law. Judge Nicholson. Chief Justice of Maryland, who, Judge as he was, had commanded a company of volunteers in Fort McHenry during the bombard ment. We may be sure that suck a Judge read the song with no critical eye. So delighted was he with it, that he sent it round to a printer, Benjamin Edcs, who had also commanded a comnanv of troops in the late ojierations. Au" ap prentice. Samuel Sands, who was living in Baltimore in 1878. instantly set it in type, an in less than, an hour it was dis tributed all over the city of Baltimore, received by every one with enthusiasm. But what is a song without music? An old Baltimore soldier told in after years how the words came to be so happily wedded to the music to which it has ever since been sung. A group of volunteers lay scattered over oue of the green hilLs near Baltimore a day or two after the bombardment. "Have you heard Francis Key's poem?" said a member of the company, who had just come in from the town." He took a copy of it from his pocket and read it aloud to them as thev lav upon the grass. It was called for again. He read it a second time, and a third, more soldiers gathering aliout to hear it, until the ' whole regiment seemed to be present An actor, named Ferdinand Durang. who was also a soldier, sprang up. rushed into a tent, 'seized his brother's music book, used by both of them for their (lutes, examined piece after piece, and at length cried out: "Boys. I have' hit it!" He had selected the air of a favorite old English song, called "To Anaereon in Heaven," written by John Stafford Smith, about the year 1772. It wa composed for a musical club which met a? the (Urown and Anchor Tavern in London, frequented by Dr. Johnson and Sir Joshua Reynolds. As soon as Fer dinand Durang had selected the music, he mounted a stool aud sung it to his assembled comrades with all the fire and apirit of which he was capable. Au eye-witness says: "How the men shouted and clapped! for never was there a wedding ot poetry to music made under such inspiring in fluences. Getting a brief furlourhrthe Brothers Durang sang it in public soon after. It was caught up in the camps, and sung around the bivouac fires, and whistled in the streets; and when peacs was declared, and we scattered to our homes, it was carried to thousands of firesides as the most precious relic o? the War of 1812." The flag of Fort McHenry, which in-, spired the sousr of Francis Kev. still . I istsin a tolerable stato of preservation. viiuuf i ."irunsieaci caused it to be taken dwn from thestaff after the battle, and its honorable wounds bound about bv the very ladies who had made it. It was 'ever after carefully preserved. He left to his widow, who in turn bequeathed it to their youngest daughter, born under it in Fort McHenry after the bombard ment: and she in turn left it to her son, Mr. Eben Appleton. of Yonkers. New York, who now possesses it. It was raised over Fort McHenry for the last time September 14, 1824. "at the recep tion ot General Lafavette. The author of the "song died at Balti more in 1843, aged sixty-four years, and iu ickm a smau volume f his wnt iiM;.i,n.i :- .l. -. ,-Z rr"r" He has living descendants James Par- ton, m louth's Comvanion. Companion. The contract for the great - bridge across LAKe Chamnhtin f, v.Si. Hero to Alburgh. Vt, has been awarded !?? I,awns Iron Works, Spring held, Mass., for a little less than $50. 000. This is to be the tirst iron brid across Uke Champlain, and will be tie finest bridge m the Stole of Vermont, and oneof the finest in New England. rEnTFi t!ran r76" the PopIe 01 tiIsl? ?Tl have beeQ obliged" to cross the Like bv hnf in ... j ... w -.- w m, Buiuuici UAU 1 J2? 'V m wmtr- A bridge has been uw " lor iwcnry years. Troy Times. ItaMtnutf five of the most Oromi cntshoe manufacturers in Germany arc now in this country employed in differcut shoe factories, their object bemg to study the beat features of the Amencaa method of iaoe-ttakur. It , ."'?"7rr wnnaas are lag acre ior tae JExprcss. AN EXPENSIVE LUXURY. 4 S7.MH lledcliamber that lias Caused a Xawaait iu yew York. A' remarkably lawsuit, In Which John A. Morris, a millionaire of this city, and M. N. Cutter, local architect, have fig ured prominently, has been decided by JiidroDnnolmeiniavorof thn former, Thesuit involves perhaps the most ex- pensive bed-rogni ever constructed. Mr. Morris has a large country establish ment at Throgg's Neck, Westchester County. In October, 1882, he decided to have a private bed-room built for his cwa use, and called in Mr. Cutter, who wsis to formulate plans. It was said at the trial that the reason the addition ws mad.: was b?eause when -Mr. Mor ris slept, he snored so loudly that the noise disturbed the other sleepers in the house. Mr. Morris' specifications called for a total expenditure of .$.5,500. The bed room was to be located over the carriageway, and access thereto had through a private bathroom which con nected with Mrs. Morris' sleeping apartment, ue room was to he twenty-four feet square, and, except that it should contain an English fireplace, was to be in keeping with the main house externally and internally. After "giving these "directions Mr. Morris and family went south for the winter. Although the main house was built entirely of wood, the architect provided that the western side of the addition should be an arch of brown stone and brick supporting a chimney forty-five feet high, shaped like a cham pagne bottle perforated by a bull's eye window. On the eastern end he ordered an elliptical bay window, although that of the main house was semi-polygonal. Thus the exterior, as Mr. Morris claims, was made to represent a blast furnace or fai-tHry. It was iu the interior, how ever, that the architect seems to have given full play to aestheticism. The English fireplace was to have behind it a concealed heating chamber resting upon a block of stone weighing seven thousand pounds. As this mass of rock rested on three slender floor pieces it naturally settled and pitched the fire place forward, somewhat after the manner of the leaning tower" of Pisa. The ceiling of the bedroom was to con verge into a dome lighted with opales cent antique Venetian stained glass with brilliaut glass jewels, the forms vari ously symbolizing months of the year, e. g.", holly for December, mistletoe for January, " and "Morning." "Night," "Music." "Architecture," etc. The room was to be finished in fancy cabinet style, with fine carvings, arabesque work, carved friezes, cornices, panels of l"aves aud flowers carved and cut through a ground of embossed and pa;nted leather. The eeiliugs and dome were to be trimmed aud hung'with em bossed leather aud wood carvings. The gas-fixtures wqre to be of antique brass, Cyprus copper, oxidized silver and man ufactured to order after the architect's special designs. Iu one corner of the room a plate of metal was to be sunk, upon which a brass bedstead should stand. Other concomitants specified by the architect to the carpenter were equally elaborate, imposing and expen sive. By the pleadings in the suit it appears that the brick and brown stone masonry was to cost over $5,000. tho carpeutery, exclusirc of the interior, over 3,000, the ironwork over $1,300. the interior finish over $12,000, furni ture over $2,000, one pair of iron and irons $105, a grate fender $150, and a coal-hod, lire-set stand, brush and bel lows, $111. The total for these and other luxuries, exclusive of furiiituie, was over $27,080, or $21,500 more than the contract with Mr. Morris called for. The only cntrauce to this palatial bed room was through a private bath and closet The carpenter had expended some $9,000 when, becoming alarmed, he wired Mr. Morris, in Florida, that he had received- an estimate for ) art of the interior finish of $5,971. Mr. Morris at once wrote Mr. Cutter that he had re ceived a telegram from the carpenter that absolutely appalled him, and de sired to know "what the whistle might cost if he went on." At the same time he wired the builder for full details, and asked what was meant by "interior finish." When'he learned what was go ing on he wrote the following letter to Mr. Cutter: "I gave you authority to draw de signs for a room to co'st no more than 5s-,wu. i on sent me a month since same designs which were perfectly ab surd on account of the expense which they involved, and I wrote you a letter which it struck me any one" would un derstand. Now you amuse yourself by forwarding another lot of designs for furniture for a room which will not be built with my consent. Can I say any thing to you which will make you un derstand that I shall never do any of the extravagant things you propose, and in fact there is nothing you can propose in the future that there is any chance of my doing?" At thcpanie time the builder was di rected to complete the addition, disre garding the architect's plans of the in terior. Mr. Morris then sued Mr. Cut ter for damages amounting to $16,775. The latter retaliated with a suit against Mrs. Morris, who owned the cottage, for $1,262.08. his commission as an architect in planning this addition to her premises. The former suit has not yet bees tried. The latter was begun last Thursday !efore .Fudge Donohuc and a jury in the Supreme Court. On Mon day morning the complaint of Mr. Cut ter was dismissed upon the merit, the plaintiff having fa'led to establish his case. There was a large attendance of architects and builders. In this cele brated eae, which has been running some two year.-,, ihe architect was rep resented by Mr. John Henry Hull and Mrs. Morris by Mr. Charles E. Codding lon. Ex-Judges Fullerton and Cardoa were also counsel for defendant on the trial. .V. 1". Oraihir. LOW-NECK Dt ESSES .Moro a Cause or IK-llealtli Than la Under stood -Woolen rudri";uriii-nts re ary. Ths jtume of woman, from a hy gienic point of view, is mueh discussed at present and the vexed question of tight lacing and of skirts too numerous and heavy for the forms which sustain them is considered with patient thought fulness by medical peaple and female reformers. However, all this great ex penditure of time and attention will doubtless result, as it has hitherto done, in no possible change :u dress save that prescribed by fashion. The evils of lacing are in general ex ooerated. and it is by no means im possible that if men wore a species of corset they would enjoy an immunity from the effect of violent cold and main' disorders from which thev now suffer. The ancient beau of an age more foppish than our own was not unfamiliar with the art of lacing, and there is no record of his being injured by it. The exposure to cold in wearing low Beck dresses is certainly one which affects the health of women more im mediately than the wearing of corsets, and the thin-soled slippers and high heels of the day are also causes of cold and consequent disturbance of the sys tem. The advantage of woolen under vests over silk is certainly not to be denied, but to an irritable skin the former is almost as intolerable as the hair shi.-t of a penitent Kid as such self inflicted scourges arc cot dc rigeur for the moment the .silk vesfis pernaps tho most popular. The Hour. A Frenchman who lovhis wife calls her his "darling cabbage" or hi "littfo blue rabbit TIGHT LACING. Mate of the Kvlls Brought ea by Et Compression. xjgu mcing nas oeen conaemneaior many centuries by writers dating as far back as the reign of William Unfits: and in France a moralist of the fifteenth century says mat dresses were "so century says tnat dresses were trSut Q the waist that they can hardly respire in them, and often suffer much pain by it." Here, be it observed, however, that corsets, although the most convenient, are not the only means of tightening in the waist. Dresses worn without corsets may be laced so tightly that the unfortunate wearer can hardly breathe, and bands fastened firmly round the waist so as to serve the same purpose. Perhaps that inner striving after higher life, which is thought to be the especial prerogative of men, is the cause of the notable fact that univer sally human beings are dissatisfied with their own natural characteristics. Thev wish to make nature hurrv nn tn their ideal of what ought to be, and they therefore trv to improve upon her. More than one nation compresses the skulls of its infants to make them long, broad or flat, as it chances to think best. Some tribes consider it vulgar to have white even teeth like those of a dog, so thev file them down, color them and subject them to various other kinds of treatment with a view to fitting them for their dignified position in the mouth of a man. Other nations, with much pain, tattoo themselves in ele gant patterns, raise knobs of flesh on their faces, and stick large bones and shells through the lobes of their ears and the cartilages of their noe$. It is not so very long since all Europe con sidered it impossible for children :'to grow straight without being swaddled. How could nature be expected to do her work unaided? If we were to take a girl the natural size of whose waist was twenty-four inches, put ou her a small pair of slays and draw those stays in till the waist measured sixteen inches only, that girl would faint almost immediately, and, unless the stays were opened," would probably die frbm failure of the heart's action owing to mechanical pressure on the heart one of the evils brought about by the external compression. But if we were to take a girl of the same age and height, whose shoulders and hips measured the same, but who from childhood had been gradually accustomed to tight lacieg, we should find that, with a waist of only sixteen inches, the vital functions were still being performed, although, aa might be expected, health was feeble, for not one organ of her body on which the pressure had been exerted would be in its right place. The deformity caused by tight stays is unfortunately generally effected so gradually during the years of growth that the sufferer is unconcious of any harm. Moreover, just as the Chinook infant will cry when its head bandages are removed, so the woman whose body has been crtfthed out of all semblance to its natural form by the gradual ap plication of pressure by stays, each successive pair of which is tighter than the last, will exclaim if her corsets are takcu away: "I could not exist with out their support. My back aches without them, and I feel as if I were falling to pieces." X. Y. Herald. THEORY VS. PRACTICE. Well Ktablished Theories in the Hand of Unskilled lractitloner. How often the failure of well-established theories, in the hands of un skilled practitioners, bring disgrace upon both! The difference betweei theory and practice is frequently sup posed to reflect discredit upon, or to prove the worthlessness of theory, which is a mis-take. A theory that' is true can not lose its value, because in bad hands it does not seem to accord with practice, and while mere theory is more helpless than mere practice, the advantage of theory and practice over practice only has" been demon strated over and over again iu live stock as well as every other business. A most striking illustration of theory vs. practice was only recently fur nished, quite accidentally to the writer. A young lad, having under taken to assist in some work involving the sawing of a number of pieces of board into exactly equal lengths, un took that part of the job and exercised the greatest care in measuring his boards one with the other, yet when his job was done, be was puzzled and mortified to find in some of his pieces nearly halt an men difference in length, and in many of them an eighth or a quarter. To the blunt declaration of his senior, that he had measured the pieces indiscriminately with each other, instead of measuring all from the orig inal one. he faintly expostulated that that ought not to have been nece-saiy, inasmuch as it was a well understood principle that two things, equal to a third, must be equal to one another; nevertheless, he admits now that he understands the difference between theory and practice. Perhaps the il lustration may be suggestive to some of our young theorists who have not yet tried to put their theories in prac tice. Lice Stork Journal. Glucose Meal. Glucose meal, or as it is now called gluten meal, is the waste of the manu facture of glucose or syrup from corn. Acids aud alkalies were aud are used iu the process, and not all of these cor rosive substances are removed from the waste residue which is dried and offered by the manufacturer, as cows feed at a price more than the original value of the corn. A ton of corn in Chicago is worth about sixteen dollars, but a ton of gluten meal is held by the manufac turers at twenty-two dollar's aud Wty cents. This must be a profitable price for a wa.te product, and the exorbitant value is fixed by the scientific process of estimating the protein contained in it at exactly the same value as that con tained in good oats or wheat bran. This is the same delusive process by which roasted leather, utterly useless a a fertilizer, is valued for its nitrogen on a par with guano. In truth,. farmers have little to thank "scioiice" for when it is made the instrument for defraud ing them in such ways as this. X. Y. Times. A wife in New York in 1878 loaned her husband one thousand two hundred dollars that he might redeem a mort gage and save some property from the hands of the Sheriff. The husband promised to refund the money when he should dispose of his property. This he failed to do, holding that "what be longed to his wife belonged to hini." The wife sued her husband for the sum loaned, with interest. Under the in structions of the court, the jury ren dered a verdict in her favor for one thousand seven hundred and twenty-six dollars. In Xew York a married. woman does not lose tier individuality when she marries. X. Y. Herald. It is certain that the next great war in which the navies of great pow ers shall be employed will ne marked by the most horrible casualties. The torpedo will play a more important part than ever before known. The in ventors have brought this weapon to an extraordinary degree of perfection and there appears no limit to its de structive capabilities. Chicago On. rent. MISCELLANEOUS. A Pennsylvania court has :l.-c!oI that, as fictions are not under the common law, bets thereon tfeit. IhitadelnhH i're-s. ire not for- Enough land irj the I'nite ! Stn'cs is owned by 'foreign syn!it r.tos- to fur nish "V1.000 families "with eighty acres of land apiece. Troy 77c. The Odd Fellows of Maine have a membership of 14,656. and since their organization in the State, in IS 1:5, have paid for individual rel e $77,323. -A news item iu an exchange is headed "A Man lrowi o.l by a Dtuni." If if -in h. iii-.-.v-.wl !,.. i . . . I. -... tne uriini wuicn w case the instrument ... ....... ... is probably the .hould be ac.iuit- I, . ted on the giound of self-defense Xom'.f'nirn IfertiU. Perhaps a servant g:rl uses kero sene o'l for kindling puipose-s because there is no dynamite :n tiie house. The head of the family should think of this, aud supply hi-, doinest.es with all the modern appliances her work demand. Xorristoir Herald. Large quantify- of timber are now creosot.'d at the West, in a special manner, for railroad purposes, the effect being to increase the tenacity of the wood for holdiugpikui. etc.," as well as its density, ami its ability to re s'at mechanical 'wear. C.iicajb Jour nal. A gentleman who imagined that ho reeognt.ed a lady fr'end. advancad cor dially, and a 1 rested her: "I lieor nar- don. he ra .1 "but isn't this Mis ' -" replied the stedpate." "Ah. .-..!or blind". AT. Greenleaf? lady, "my excu-e me. V. Sim. The prose of uar differs from the poetry to the evte.il that martial iuumc. huzzas of victory au.i the gleaming of banucrs and the tramp of armed men. ditl'er from the groans tif the wounded and dying, the ghastly corpses, the blood-.-oaked fields and the weeping and mourning of those whose loved ones have been laid in gory graves. X. 1 Observer. Colonel Matthew S. Quay, of Penn sylvania, is the owner of the s'te of old lort Mcintosh, the furthest American out-pot among the Indian 3 during the Revolutionary "war. situated in a com manding pos:ton on the bank of the Ohio Kiver at Heaver. The old picket beat whereon the sentry made his rounds is yet well defined, and along this Mr. Quay has planted forty shade trees. Chicago Inter Ocean. During a very tedious ride on a railroad out of Memphis the passen gers, tired, dirty and thirsty, nlhused the compam with the exception of one single passenger. His fellow-passengers commented oh this and asked him win he didn't cuss the road, too. "It woul'l be hardly fair," he n-idied "as I a-n traveling on a-fiv pa's-;: bat if thev don't do b.'lter preity soon I'll go out and buy a t'eket anil jo'n you."- S:. Louis (ilube. Dr. Backus, of Koche-er. X. Y stepped on one spr'ng morning to sur vey his lawn, wh cii he had nca'Iy ter raced and sodded the day before. A pair of swine had broken "ous of their pen during the niglit and r Kited the fair surface until ! I.ok.d like a battle field whiv -cveral n" lie inch shells had ju-t up:tidc I. 1 ise doctor was too old to cry aud to p:oii to swear, and lie therefore observed with some emotion: "AVell ! you' never can lav dirt to suit a hog!" Albany Journal. ' A f armor living near Howe's Cave. N. Y., had a surprise recently. He was plowing a field about half a mile from the cave's mouth. He stopped for a few minutes to rest himself and his horse under the spreading branches of a tree. Moving 011 a little di-taucc. he tunu'd. and looking back was dumb founded to se that the large tree was gone. He ran back and almost fell into a great chasm, which had swallowed the tree and a piece of land. It K be lieved that this will lead to the discov ery of au outlet from the rear of Howe's Cave. A'. J'. Tribune. A popular Xew York variety ac tress contrivc to make au extra bit of money in her nightly vocation bv sing ing songs in wh'ch "the excellences of the wares of various business men are warbled forth. In an impersonation ot a tipsy dude she vocalizes extravagant pra:se of a certain brand of w'ne. In another imper.-onatiou she extols the virtues of a certain cigarette. The managers of the various houses n which she has been engaged have re monstrated with her in vain. As she is a good "drawing card" she is allowed to have her own wav. Ar. Y. Sun. THE RETRIEVER. U3 WIiim ServiriM in the Field Coiisiilei-eii liiliien-tallt-. Ara The term retriever is in itself suffi ciently indicative of the duties which this breed of dog is called upon to carry out. and these duties can, it is univer sally admitted, be successfully per formed by many arieties besides the one in question. In fact, the very crea tion of the retriever proper, as he now exists, is, comparatively speaking, of but recent date. Up to the time of the introduction of this class of dog, sports men were compelled by force of circum stances to rely upon the serviees ol their other sporting dogs, and the ma jority of the pointers and setters and spaniels were broken to retrieve as well as to point the game. There are cer tainly many object '011s to this practice, as there is considerable difficulty in keepiug pointers and setters who have been broken to retrieve their irainu steady in the field. The presence, therefore, of a well-broken retriever is considered indispensable to a shooting party under most circumstances, and invariably so when beaters" are em ployed. In consequence, probably, of the recent introduction of the retriever as a distinct variety into the dog family, there are numbers of very inditlereiit and unworthy .specimens, to use a mild j- expression, of the breed to be found in all directions. Jhe-e may. we think, reasonably be considered to ba the re sults of some of the many experiments that no doubt have lieeri made from time to time in breeding this sort of dog. which experiments in many cases have turned out disastrously for those whoso fertile brains conceived the cross. At any rate, the almost countloss num ber of black dogs which are seen in all parts of the country, and which are in variably styled retrievers by those most interested in them, 'would cause it to be supposed that their owners, for the most part, are honestly under the belief that in doing m they are describing the animals correctly." It is not, however, only to sporting Hoga alone that the art of retrieving game on land or in water is confined, for many breeds of dogs which are by no means identified with sports in popular estima tion can be taught to do so easily by any one with patience eaough to under take their education. As a matter of fact, we have ourselves owned bull ter riers which would do this retrieving business well enough; but still they always failed in one essential, mputh. The tenderness of a good retriever's mouth has more than a great deal to do with his value as a workman; it is simply essential that be is not hard mouthed, and does not injure fur or feather in carrying it in his jaws. In this respect a vast number of what would otherwise be very good retrievers ' ail, and become worthless in the field," for a dog that mangle's his game before he brings it in would be certain to gain but slender thanks for the assistance he leuds a modern sportsman- Book of th' Dog. SCHOOL AND CHURCH. Irshop Coxe. of Western New York. I announce. that the Dioee-an Council has lke-1 $1,000 as the lowest .-alary wh c'i .should be offered a min'ster. IS I ii-tt .jre'A. Edward Everett Hale thinks that "in thee days the church has some thing to do besides singing; reading and praying." Among the other th:ngst he llientnnt 'lirwmtalitv ixlumitinn ! and charity." -Tim Rev. Dr. P. II. Mell, the ven erable moderator of the Georgia Bflntist Convention, was first elected in 1857. ! ' and has e-ved continually since, with i "i '.Vl rilUil . II i; 1 .11 . 1I1IIU Id! " II - .lM, 1. .. ... f ,... ...., ,..- 1QT.I... I 1870. during which he was i; in broken health. --,'ii.' Weekly. ?.... 1 r ...1 -. 1 winy uoacon pins it inns: "flow hrethien, let us get up a supper anuat ourselves rich. Buy your food; thee give it to the church;' then go aud buy it back again; then eat it up and your church debt is paid." Toledo Made. The Methodists of Georgia arc in terested in the conversion of the Jews, and have a mission organized for that purpose. Rev. Jacob Fr.sliriian. evan gelist to Hebrews in Xew York City, is preaching throughout Georgia and Flor ida in furtherance of th.s enterprise. Vhristian Union. When Dr. Tucker preached the in troductory sermon b.-tore the Bapt'st Convention at Columbus, Ga., recently, a lady in the congregation was wearing the same dres whieh slie wore thirty years before on a sim lar occasion, at which time Dr. Tucker was also the preacher. .V. Y. Examiner. The Baptist Conference in Bostou at it recent session discussed quite at length Qta subject of "mind cure." The decision arrived at was that the the Jheory and -practice of this cure, as now professed and carried on. mav parhaps constitute a science, but it can not claim the designation "Christian." l!o!on Journal. Bee teachers are employed by the Government in Germany to travel'tami place to place and give" instructions in hee culture. It is saal that the German ratal schoolmaster Is examined in bee culture before he is granted a diploma as a competent teacher. Preliminaries for summoning a gen eral council ot" the Roman Catholic Church arc under consideration. The chief quest'ous to be proposed for con-.-iderat'on have reference to the "in ternal administrate of the Church, which has been a matter of deep, grave .and in -leasing concern to Pope Leo XIII." The council, it is added, will assemble next spring, with a programme fo-mulatcd almost'solely by the Pope hiniNclf. X. Y. Herald. -President Webb, of Missis t'ppi Col lege, was interviewed by a young man who wa-ited to go to school! "Weil," said ihe President, "what do you kn nv.'" "Nothing." was the response. "Well, you are just four years ahead of -ome of thj other pupils. "it takes them four ears to learn what you know to sat with. Your prospects are line. 8.r." A'. Y. I'ost. PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS. A fool and his gun are soon parted, cs if -"ally w1imi the former blows dowu the mil '.hi of the 1 itter to see if it is loaded. Toft do Hade. A turnip closely rescmb!inr an ele phant is on exhibition at Key YeaL A man close'y resembling a beat can bo seen almost anywhere. 'Vdrago Time-: . "How can I find out. all about tli3 young lady to whom I am engaged?" asks a prospective bened ct. Hasldie a vounger brother? If so, consult him. Boston Post. A Vermont husband got wind of the proposed elopement of his wife, and frustrated it by keeping guard over her silk dress. She wouldn't run awav in a calico gown, anil he knew it. Troi Time: . A bachelor who wanted a wife wrote a tender epMle to a nice young Isdv. He applied therein for her hand and heart, and wound up as follows: Have the aoodncs-. to send me a reply as mkih as possible, as I have another young person in my eyo." Chicago Tribune. There is .-aid to have been "jmt die.ii'ured" a kind of tobacco which, if smoked or chewed, will make a man forget that, he owes a dollar in the world. Just discovered! Why, that brand of tobacco has evidently been in use as far back as the memory of man runneth. Xorristown Herald. -Kvery Mussulman who makesapil pr'inage to Mecca is honored during the remainder of his Hf by the title of Hadji." In the United States a muscle man never secures a higher title than professor, but he is sure of that, pro vided he open a saloon. llo.it on 'J'ran script. "Did vou attend the grand opera?" No: I wasn't able to." "But I thought you said you were going?" "Yes, I did. but o;t see hiy wife concluded that she would rather go to the shore th's sum mer, ami so we did not go." "Well, I don't know but that you were wise. I should have liked to go out of town myself." Host on Post. Finn mother to boy "Didn't I tell you that I d whip you if you played in that water again, "say?." Boy "Yes sum." Finn mother "Then why did you do it?" Boy -"Because I didn't believe you?" Firm mother- "Never mind; you shan't go down town with me when I go; see if you do?" Shortly afterwards the firm mother ami the boy go down town together. X. Y. (irajti 'c. --Something wonderful is s tire to happen on this earth before long." sud denly remarked a Harlem man, looking up from his newspaper. "Why. John! you don't mean it!" said his wife in a. tone of a-loni -Inuent. "I? the world coining to an end?" "I don't know, I'm suiv: but it looks like it. This pa per says there is a plumber in the Phil adelphia Alms-house." "O. is that allP'-sahl'the little woman, with a sigh or renci. "i inougui pertiaps some hard hearted husband had given h's wife money without her asking him for it." X. Y. Journal. . SO GLAD. A Tramp (irrtin; to u Member of the I'rotVitloii. A man about forty years of ajre was leaning airainst one of the wails of the I'lt'on Depot yesterday, when a chap sauntered pasL h!m several times and looke I him over as if trying to establish h's identity. Number one stood the sc.utiuy without unv evidence of demor alization, anil number two finally ap proached closer and observed: "Cold dav." -Yes." "Live here?" ' "No." 'Uoinj' out on the cars?" "No." "Perhaps you are a respectable mem ber of societx ?"- "U. no." " "You ain't! .Shake! Say, perhaps you belong to the profesh?" i io. .Mist uea-jueauea in on fre:ht tra'n." "WrH. I deelare! I hoped you was tramp, and yet-1 feared you might be one of these high-toned, respectable chaps. "Anything up?" "Am tiling! Well, I should smile! Come down into the freight sheds and I'll fix up as the roan who was knocked to pieces by the premature discharge of a cannon, and we'll find this town a clover field! Lands alive! but how glad I am you didn't turn ont to be a respect able member of tbe commanitf!" Dt-"joitFrtefrtss. USE HALLShair RENEWER. It is a medicinal preparation, and, ut the same time, an elegant and clcauly toiL-t article. Its action upon the scalp U health ful. It nourishes the glands which support the hair, and causes thin, dry hair to be come thick, soft, and vigorous. It restores the color of youth to locks which have becomo faded with age or disease; and relieves and cures itching, caused by humors of the scalp. Dr. George Gray, Xaohua, X". H., writes: "It gives vac pleasure to testify to the wonderful effects produced by Hairs Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewcr, as observed by mc in very many cases. It witt. cfjitaixly KKsronK TIIK HAIR TO ITS ORIGINAL COI.OK. It cleanses tho head of dandruff, and leaves the hair soft, glossy, and beautinu." F. T. Sandhein. 1010 Spruce t., Philadelphia, Pa., writes: "After xin:ivailiu-ly tiyint; a number of preparations to prevent my liair froil falling out, and. realizing that I was fast becoming bald, I tried, a a last resort, Hall's Hair IJenewer. I have ned only four bottles of the Renewcr, and nm perfectly satisfied that it is the best prepa ration in the market for checking the falling out of hair, invigorating t!i hair roots, and promoting a new growth." Buckingham's Dye for tiii: WHISKERS . commends itself to all who have occaiuu to IK' a de for the beard 01- mustache. It will change gray, faded, or sandy whi-kers, to a hcautirul brown or black, as desired. The colore produced ::ie natural ami lustiur. It cannot h- washed rT, contains no destructive ingredients. . cheap, safe, convenient to live, and ciTVctual. PRRPARKP RY B. p. HALL &, CO., Nashua, N. H., U. S. A. Sold bv all dealer-, in medicine. - THE SUMMER TERM -OF TIIK FREMONT NORMAL AND BUSINESS COLLEGE, At Fremont, Nebraska, AVill hesin JULY 7th, 1885, and End Aug. 29th. UNUSUAL ADVANTAGES WILL BE AFFOKDED PERSONS WISHING TO PREPARE FOR TIIE EXAMINATION FOR STATE AND FIRS V GRA DE CER TIFICATES, TO HE HELD RY TIIE STATE SUPERINTENDENT AT FREMONT, AUGUST 2Gth and 27th. The Business Department will atford every opportunity tor improvement in Penmanship, Business Arithmetic, Book keeping, Commercial Correspondence, and imitation of actual bii-iue?. Music. We can speak with tbe utmost confi dence of the instruction iven in our Music Department. .Mist Rose Conrad, instructor of the Piano Forte, a graduate of the Cornell Conservatory of -Music, is not only a brilliant performer, hut a pains-takinjr and superior teacher. The instructors in Vocal Culture, Note-reading and Singing are thorough and suc cessful. Expenses. Tuition for efcht weeks, $ to $102if paid strictly in advance. This in cludes admission to Normal and Business classes. Music, .$12 for twenty lessons. Short-hand, $12 for twenty les'-on. Type writintr, with use of instrument, $10 tor twelve weeks. Good (lay hoaril can he obtained in the College Home at $2.2.1 per week. Rooms f0 cts. to 7T ctp." per stud ent. The Fall Term will begin i?ept. It, and coutinue ten weeks: tuition, 1. For further particulars atluress, W. P. JOHHN, A. M. President of Normal College, Fremont, Neb. SPEICE & NORTH, General Ageiitn for tbe Sale of REAL ESTATE. Union Pacific, and Midland Pacific R. B. 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