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LIFE’S JOURNEY.
As we speed out of youth’s sunny station
The track seems to shine in the light.
But it suddenly shoots over chasms
Or sinks into tunnels of night.
And the hearts that were brave in the morn¬
ing
Are filled with repining, and fears
As they pause at the City of Borrow
Or pass thro’ the Valley of Tears.
But the road of this perilous journey
The hand of the Master has made;
With all its discomforts and dangers,
We need not lie sad or afraid.
Baths lending from light into darkness,
Ways plunging from gloom to despair,
Wind out thro’ the tunnels of midnight
To fields that are blooming and fair.
Thu’ the rocks and the shadows surround us,
Tho’ we catch not one gleam of the day
Aliove us, fair cities are laughing
And dipping white feet in some bay,
And always, eternal, forever,
Down over the hills in the west,
The last final end of our journey,
There lies the Great Station of Rest.
Tis the Grand Central point of all railways,
All roads centre here when they end j
’Tis the final resort of all tourists,
All rival lines meet here and blend.
All tickets, all mile-books, all passes,
If stolen or bogged for or bought,
On whatever road or division,
Will bring you at last to this spot.
If you pause at the City of Trouble
Or waitin the Valley of Tears,
Be patient, the train will move onward
And rush down the track of the years,
Whatever the place is you seek for.
Whatever your aim or your quest,
You shall come at the last with rejoicing
To the beautiful City of Rest.
You shall store all your baggage of worries.
You shall feel perfect peace in this realm,
You shall sail with old friends on fair water.-.
With joy and delight at the helm.
You shall wander in cool, fragrant gardens
With those who have loved you the best.,
Anri the hopes that were lost in life’s journey
You shall find in the City of Rest.
■ Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
An UnsusDected Heroine.
You think him a coward, said the old
doctor, but how can you be sure that he
is one? Courage shows itself unexpected
ly in many different ways and places, I
have seen men who had been brave sol¬
diers turn pale when they snt, down in a
dentist’s chair, and l have seen women,
who would scream at the sight of a
mouse, hear without a groan the pain ol
a terrible, surgical operation.
The other day, in an old station on tho
New Jersey coast, I saw a queen ly shaped
boat which reminded me of something
that happened to me once.
Some, years ago 1 took passage in a
large emigrant ship, the Ayrshire, for
this country. I had been at the llniver
sity of Edinburgh, and was impatient to
reach home. There was on board over
three hundred emigrant passengers in the
steerage, and six or seven passengers in
the cabin.
One of the cabin passengers was an in¬
valid, a very small, delicate young girl
of twenty years, attended by her mother
and nurse. She was not a patient suf¬
ferer. Her medicine was always too
sweet or too sour; her pillows were too
hard or too soft, and at the. wind or a
peal of thunder she would tremble and
cry like a child from fear.
There were two young men in the cabin
besides myself, and 1 am afraid that they
found a good deal of amusement, in pro¬
voking her terrors by telling horrible
stories of corpse lights on the rigging, or
of sharks ami devil-fish and other sea
monsters, or the sailors’ yarn of the great
shadow of a fish which follows a ship on
which is a human being appointed soon
to die. She used to stand by the hour at
the stern of the ship looking down into
.the cool, green depths to see if the shadow
(pursued her. shaken
Her nervous system was by long
suffering, and i sympathized with her;
but the other men voted her a nuisance.
They were strong, and full of health and
fun, mid thought it a hardship that the
cabin should be, ro they said, turned into
At hospital ward, with bottles and pillows.
One of them, Frank Lowe, had served
in the French army in Algiers out of sheer
love of excitement and adventure; the
other, Bernard Knott, had been a volun¬
teer in the United States Army during the
Civil War. So von see that, notwith¬
standing their unfeeling behavior toward
<he invalid girl, they were not cowards.
H was one day near the end of the
voyage, and we hoped to see land on the
morrow. Early in the evening Knott
and Lowe and 1 went down into the
cabui, as the fog was so heavy that in the
darkness we could scarcely see one anot h
ms faces on deck. I he lamps were
lighted, and we sat down at the table.
l took up my book; the other men began
to play dominos.
Miss Murray, the invalid, was lying on
a sofn. knitting, as usual, at some white
Huffy stuff. The young men called the
poor girl Miss Mullet to each other be¬
cause she was always scared and shudder
lag at some fancied object of terror.
Set in the woodwork at one end of the f
saloon , was a . long mirror, . and , draped , , ,
about it were some faded red and gold
curtains of moreen. Mrs Murray, who
was a chatty, cheerful little body, called
our attention to the drops of moisture on 1
the glass. l
“You cannot sec your face iu it,” she
said. “The fog must lie very heavy. j
“Where are wer” asked Lowe “Did
the Captain work up our position this
evening figured it
“Yes.” said Knott. “He
out by the dead-reckoning, of course.
Hut I believe he docs not know- any more
than I do where we are. ”
I noticed that Knott had no jokes to
make that evening, and that he was rest
less. Throwiug down a book that he hail
c&ught up, hc paced up and down the
cabin.
There was much shouting and tramp
ling on deck, but I supposed that the
crew were reefing sail iu anticipation of a
storm, and paid little attention to the
commotion overhead.
TO; 00 LETH0RPI: 'ECHO. LEXINGTON,’GA., FRIDAY. J.A NT ARY 17. 1890.
Suddenly it seemed to me as if every
hone in my body had been wrenched, 1
found myself on my hands and knees,
with the floor of the cabin rising like a
steep wall before me. Then I saw a
queer thing. The mirror broke obliquely
from corner to corner, and through ■ the
rent came a torrent of foul-bilge water,
People have described the wrecking of a
vessel in a storm at sea as a magnificent,
terrible spectacle, but that is all that I
saw at the moment of its occurrence—the
mirror parting in the middle and the
bilge-water pouring into the room.
Hut that was enough. I knew that the
ship was doomed.
The mate, Sanders, stood in the floor
way. yelled Knott.
“What is this';"
“The ship has struck a bar and 5
ing to pieces!' 1 the mate answered. - ‘All
hands ‘lie on deckl”
spoke pretty much as he might
have talked if he were giving an order to
holv-stone decks; vet I knew that he had
a wife at home, and a child whom he had
never seen, but had hoped to see on the
morrow. His coolness was habit, you
.see.
1 don’t know how we got on deck,
We men helped the three women up, of
course. That was habit, too. Good
habits tell in a time like that just as
much as they do in an evening party in a
drawing-room on shore.
The Ayrshire was on the great sandbar
which lies off the whole New Jersey
coast Hundreds of ships used to be
wrecked there. Before the life-saving
service was established the. New Jersey
shore was strewn with wreckage.
The emigrants were swarming on the
decks. A fearful surf broke over us
rontinuallv. The &hi]> wa» jrreraovably
settled in the sands, but it was rocked
incessantly by the waves. All around us
was the impenetrable grayness of the fog,
through which came the terrible thunder
of the breakers on the shore. It drowned
the shrieks of the women and even the
hoarse shouts of the Captain’,s trumpet.
“Surely we are on land?” piped Mrs.
Murray, dose beside me. “The ship is
|, ls| ,,
“On a bar,” said the mate. there
From the moment of her striking
was no clmt.ee of saving the vessel, which
was rapidly going to pieces. Thc pas
_rs and crew were huddled on thc
quarter deck. Three boats were launched,
but before one of |hem could be manned
they were swept away like feathers in a
storm.
We found afterward that we had gone
upon 1 he bar off the village of Point
Pleasant, Our guns were, heard on shore
and the crew of men along shore earnest
once to our rescue, but the fog tvas i»o
dense that we did not see their signal
lights nor, with the wind blowing to
ward shore, hear the tiring of their Dior
tar. It was after hours of mortal agony
and suspense that a xvild yell of delight
broke from the ship’s crew; they rushed
together, grappling a light, cord which
had fallen as if from the skies across the.
deck. life-saving
If was # line shot from the
men’s mortar on shore,
“Gently, men! gently!” shouted the
Captain, hoarsely, us he himself caught
the cord and pulled on it. pulled
By means of the line the crew a
rope from t he shore to the ship, and thgt
rope served in turn to draw ion board j
great cable. The crew made the cable
fast to the hull of our vessel, and it was
pulled taut from the shore.
At that period of marine history, when
a cable had been stretched from the land
to a wrecked vessel it was generally sup
posed that the rescuers had done all they
could, and it remained for the ship s
company to find their way to the shore il
they could, clinging to this rope. Hut
now, slung to the cable, there came out
to the vessel that same queer little boat
which I sa w the other day at Point Pleas
ant. It is shaped like an egg, with a
hole in the top through which the passen
gers trawl to enter the boat, Tile ear
will hold about fifteen people, When
the passengers are [lacked away m it il and is
the lid has been screwed down,
drawn back to land through the break¬
ers, turning over and over as it goes.
It was a fearful trip to mak -, but it
was the one chance for life to the people
on the ship. awful
1 i unnot fitly describe the scene
on that wreck; the darkness, the wet.
the thunder of the sea, the hundreds ot
men .Slid women standing there facing
death, and fully realizing the perils that
urvouudeU them.
It was the first time that the life-car
had ever been tested by actual service,
a nd eveu the Captain looked doubtfully
afc the strange looking craft that ^
C ome out to the ship along the cable.
“Who will go in it?” he shouted,
“The wome n have the first choice, it is
j j not one.” B g00 d chance, hut it is the only
( The men among the emigrants began
‘ t0 push their wives and children toward
j the car, but the poor creatures shrieked
i and fought against entering it. I did
j uo t )q amc them. It is bad enough to go
i down, drowned in the open waters, but
t to down locked in that iron coffin-
“\ery well,’ cried the Captain, j
’There is uo time for choice. If thc
women will not go, the men shall.” !
At that little Mbs Mullet stepped for
wwd before them all, actually smiling.
“Gome," she said to the terrified wo
mcn> you surely will follow me.
) ;lm no thing but a poor little cripple:”
she stepped into the dark box and lay
down in it. Then the others crowded
j uu , j t a f ;or her. Stout English matrons
and pretty Irish girls, children ami ba
),„. s \yi u ,i the car was full, its lid was
screwed down tight and it was pulled
out into the waves. Upon the ship no
man shouted and no woman cried in the
fexv minutes that followed. \y ( , C ould
hear nothing,
But presently the car came back—
empty, Then xve breathed freely again,
NV0 knew that the people it had ear¬
r ’ ie ,\ had reached the land safely.
All of the other passengers were taken
to the shore in the same manner. Over
three hundred lives were saved by that
Hfc-ca-r on its first night of service. Do
Uhe vou wonder that I took off mv hat to it
other day?
Two years after the shipwreck which I
havo told you of, I met Mrs. Murray, and
with her a plum)), rosy girl who, she told
me, was her daughter, the one that I had
known on the Ayrshire as an invalid.
Now the girl's eyes shone and the red
blood glowed in her cheeks.
Miss Murray said that the voyage in the
ear had given her new life. But I thought
that the new life had come rather with
the wakening of courage and the spirit
of self-sacrifice within her.— Youth'a
Companion.
The Ship of the Desert.
A burden camel can carry more that
half a ton of load, though of course not
at great speed. I have frequently seer,
i (hem, says a correspondent of the Daily 1600
Suratogian , loaded with 1500 or
iid moving off at a fair gait. An
j average load, under favorable circum
stances, is about 600 pounds, and this a
camel will carry easily, without pushing,
twenty-five or thirty miles a day. In
General Napier s campaign against Smde
they had an efficient corps of 1000 men
mounted on 500 dromedaries, two men to
j each dromedary, both armed with rifles
! and sabres. hi battle the animals were
j charge made to of kneel 500 of in the a men square, forming under a base the
oi operations, from which the other 500
operated as inf anti y
In case of extremity the thousand men
had shelter “ r,fl thc aUJI ? lals ’
which were prevented i from rising by a
hobble the fore leg. lhm _ tic
j on corps
quently marched seventy miles in twelve
hours, I have heard some remarkable
! tales of the speed of dromedaries traveled 600 miles An
Arab to d me he had
in u week on the back of his delool, but
this was simply an example of the Oriental
habit of amplification. It is true, how*
ever, that while a her.se can outrun a
dromedary in a short race the latter will
take a load of 400 or 500 pounds and
make his fifty miles a day for a month
An odd thing in camel driving is that
they must not bo pushed. They will set
their own gait, moving slowly where the
road is unfavorable and making up lost
time of their own volition on the good
stretches. The camel has one great ail
vantage over a horse. He can live oil
j anything like a goat, He browses on
j every ,shrub and plant that grows even
| the thistle and the prickly pear. He can
also travel, m emergency, three, four,
even six or seven days, without water or
food. It is Ins ugly looking hump that
enables him to do this. Composed of
gelatinous fat, the animal lives off it by
reabsorption, In the East the condition
of a camel after a long journey is judged
by the size of his hump.
It is not uncommon to see camels come
in, after long and painful journeys, with
bucks almost straight, their humps hav¬
ing nearly disappeared i was much sur
prised to learn that the hump does not
soem to be intimately connected with the
animal's vitality, Lmant Hey told me
he had often opened tho bumps when
they became so large from high feeding
as to prevent tho saddle fitting properly,
and taken out large pieces of fat without
in juring the animal or affecting his health.
It is generally supposed, loo, that the
camel thrives better in hot than in cold
countries, but this is not true. I see no
reason why the camel should not do well
and be very useful in the climate of Texas
and on all of our southwestern plains.
Iron That Citmo From the Sky,
whcn Corley, had completed the eon
| quest of Mexico, the Spaniards, among a
t mnny mher peculiar and extraordi
j £ observations which they made in that
remai kal>le country, were particularly
st| . U( . k imA puzzled by one fact. They
j,otlc-ed that the Aztecs possessed certain
implements, * such as knives, daggers, etc.,
mj de of iroll) but it seemed that only tho
most distinguished of the natives pos
j st , ssu( j sl ,ch, that iron was a great rarity,
j . U|( , wag |ml higher than gold.
j ^ ff rs t the Spaniards believed that
Aztecs extracted the metal in some
j crude fashion from its ore, which abounded
in many parts of the country, but they
soon ascertained that this was not the
case. They found that not a single
smelting furnace existed in the Empire,
and their surprise was not small when
they learned that the Aztecs were totally
unacquainted with the method of ex¬
tracting the iron from the ore, which in¬
deed they had never suspected valued of any
; kinship with the highly metal,
; ,,, he q Ues ti 0 n whence the Aztecs had
j j ocurc q t)ie ]ittln iron problem they possessed the
j bet ,. um , a perplexing they to
Spaniards, a problem which were
j * ) The natives do not
I er ilb ) c to so ve .
to have enlmlited them much on
(hc sub - ect for when asked they myster
ious ) v pointed ‘ to the sky and indicated
* iron from the
: ^ t th obtaine( ] th e re
j , r ; ons . U) J ove> guch assertions no doubt
! -” ed with incredu
h g ' aniards m ,, iv an
' m]lQ md the concluded that the
, s y
j Aztecs received it by way of t raffle with
■ otL(Jr pw .haps more civilized nation,
I which they suspected to exist and kept
, kin „ f| ; N „ rth attd South, for more
than a hundred
It was left to modern science to nn
ravel the mystery. The Aztecs were
quite correct. Thc iron of which they
j,ad made their implements was not fash
kmed from raa t e rials of this terrestrial
,, lobe but hutl come to them from the
nknown regions of space. Their iron
in fact of meteo ri C origin, like that
hc M:lV! tsof Yucatan and the Incas of
’ ■ ; vhich many weapons are still
' rV( . (t j„ collections. —-1 (riant
,
A Cobra’s Revenge.
Andrew Fisher, a driver on the Maura*
Railroad, in India, died from snake bite
under the following circumstances. One
morning Fisher saw two cobras on the
; plain in front of his bungalow. He armed
himself w ith a stick and went up to kill
j t hem. He succeeded in killing one. but
i the other escaped. Later m the day. while
Fisher was dressing himself to go to his
I work, he sat on his cot, wheu hc felt
1 two sharp bites on his back. On turn
‘ ing around he found a cobra behind him.
Notwithstanding all medical aid. the wi¬
fortunate man died the same evening. ti
j > s believed that the cobra which made its
escape in the morning was the one that
i Bit him.
THE FARM AND HARDEN.
}’W DUCTS OF WILJ) LAND.
Uncultivated land is not wholly unpro¬
ductive. In some places people make more
ready money in an easier way by harvest¬
ing and selling wild berries than they can
by the poor farming methods they give
to their partly exhausted cultivated land.
Yet where wild berries are profitably
grown, cultivated berries of the same
varieties will be still more productive,
and pap 7 even better if properly managed.
A farmer ought to be ashamed to let na¬
ture’s unassisted methods excel his best
efforts.— American, Cultivator.
SPREADING MANURE IX THE WINTER.
Manure made in the winter should,
wheu it is possible, be spread as it is
made, on the land where it is to be used.
It is a fact that cannot be controverted,
and has been abundantly proved both by
reason and practice, that manure is never
worth more than it is the dap 7 it is made.
Nothing is added to it, but usually much
is lost from it by lapse of time. Except
on steeply-sloping ground, the manure is
safe from all danger of loss, and is put
where it will do the most good when it
is spread on the land direct from the
stable. There is no more handling of it,
and if is rained upon all that is dissolved
from it goes into the soil, just where it is
wanted. lienee it is a convenience and
an economy to haul out the manure and
spread it as soon as a wagon load is
gathered .-—American Agriculturist.
STACKING STRAW.
If put up m a good shape so that it
will keep, wheat or oat straw xvill make
an excellent feed to use during the win¬
ter. AVliile wheat cannot be used for
feeding it can be converted into a good
qualitp 7 of manure bp 7 using for bedding.
It is too good a product to be thrown
away, as it is often done in burning. In
itself it may not contain a very 7 large
amount of plant food, but it is a good
absorbant, and by using for bedding
much of the liquid voiding that would
otherwise go to waste is absorbed, and in
this way can be applied to the land.
Mixed with clover and bran it makes
an an excellent excellent iooa food for lor stock stock durum auiin 0 the tne
winter. It is not by any means a com
plete , , iooa i m . itseli. u \ but . / tea m connection . •
1
with - other materials . good results map 7 be
secured. But the quality must be good,
and the way it is stacked has much to do
with the quality.
It can be stacked so that it will shed
water and keep in fully as good condi
tion as hay, but it is often the case that
by carelessness large quantities of it is
spoiled, The most economical plan is to
stack as thrashed; the work will be less
and thc straw in the best condition. One
mistake that is too often made is that suf¬
ficient caro is uot taken at the start. The
foundation is either made too large so
that the rick cannot be properly com¬
pleted or not large enough to hold all,
and what is over is often on one side. Thc
sides should be kept up evenly like hay
until you are ready to top out, and then
draw in gradually, taking pains all the
time to tramp evenly, so that in settling
it will not make flat places to take water.
Where there is a large acreage of xx'heat
there is of course a considerable quantity of
straw . Yet with good management using tq
mulch, for bedding and tq feed it can all
be used tq a good advantage—-at least
much more Herald. profitably than to burn.—
New York
PRACTICAL FACTS IN FEEDING.
That the outward form—both as to
horses and cattle, as well as of the
smaller classes of far m stock—-is of the
highest importance, there can be no
question. Outward shapes are made
primarily 7 by the formation of the frame,
and secondly, by the size and formation
of the muscles. When xve have added
to this the placing thereon of a becoming
fat deposit, xve have the whole story as to
outer contour. Yet these do not give us
the whole truth. They give us the
anatomical formation only, xvhile those
things xve cannot look inside and see,
namely, the manifestations of physiology,
the digestive and assimilative forces, the
tendency to rapid growth, to health or
Its opposite, requires that we give them
more thought, else our plans of feeding
xvill be crude, and consequently imper
feet.
When xve pair farm animals for work
xve select with a view to fitness, that one
beast may have no undue advantage over
another: but a system of pairing—a suit
able separation of the weak from the
strong—is rarely practiced in feeding,
The beast that needs the best morsels is,
as a rule, the one that gets the poorest.
There are,as is well known to farmers god
feeders, animals in every collection, no,
matter what the breed, that are strong in
appetite, digestion and muscle. These
individuals drive all comers—get the
best of tho provender, befouling the re
mainder. This has reference, of course,
to farm beasts that are fed “out in the
open,” where the xveak are required to
compete with thc strong, else go without
food.
Regarding the surface as related to the
deep-seated parts 'arts in iu the the matter matter of of ability ability
to yield valuable product and contribute
to the general profit, it is not unfair to
make comparison with the mine; as, in
this ease, no matter hoxv attractive those
parts are in sight, wc look deeper down
for the main results.
As hinted, no full success can come of
any plan of feeding that sandwiches the
strong and xveak together, no barrier
being placed between. Some indix'dual
animals have good digestion, and the as
similative powers are efficient; yet xve
make no headway xvith some of these un
til xve have studied their peculiarities by
niacin^ them in a quiet place, uoting''the guarantee
ing time to eat in quiet, result
as to rapidity of gains, and food. pounds put
on from a given amount of
The beast that drives all and gains
apace, is not necessarily the best one in
'
tiie herd—as a feeder. He takes oppor
tunities that belong to others, and as
stated ’cannot wastes feed; hence
sheet be mado available in his
case for the purpose of making a good
showing. No owner ever knows the net,
neither the gross cost, of such a beast,
The success attending the feeding of a
herd of cows and heifers, both as relates
to their feeding qualities and their value
as feeding breeders—the judgment being
based in part upon deportment among
their kind—affords good and safe ground
upon which to select those having qual¬
ities we are in quest of, obtaining
these as the future mothers of the herd.
feeding Regarding the deep-seated qualities in
animals, the digestion may be
good, while assimilation and the power
to hold convertible nutrient particles
within the system may be greatly at
fault. Some animals eject in the excreta
much of that taken in at the mouth.
They are conspicuous as great consumers
and slow growers, while as to fatness,
that is a state they never reach. For
this reason, it is now and then observed
that some of the moderate eaters in the
herd gain apace, fattening with great
ease and retaining their condition upoE
light rations when once they reach a good
condition. These very desirable qual¬
ities are not difficult to detect, and point
clearly in the direction of which should
be retained as breeders.
Young animals, premising that they
are bred right for feeding, feed up
more kindly and promptly than those
that are aged, because digestion is most
vigorous at that period. Unless bred
xvith great skill for the single purpose of
feeding, young animals do not fatten
kindly, all experience showing that wheu
the attempt is made to make them fal
they grow, instead of getting ripe.—
Prairie Varner.
FARM AND GARDBN NOTES.
Too heavy loads make balky horses.
Gentle treatment makes gentle horses.
To much physic will make unsound
and unhealthy horses.
Grain uiav now have a top dressing of
suitable manure or of commercial fertil¬
izer.
If the straw was returned to wheat
land it would not become exhausted so
soon,
Have you a good supply of cabbage,
turnips, potatoes and onions stored for
! winter use?
See that the tops of the hay stacks are
aU ri ° ht Half a day’s J work on them
now may J save tons of r . liay J tor next
.
sonn«*
He who makes the greatest success at
^"irie growing is the one who com
menced in a small way and works to
Skater numbers as he learns to breed,
”V° W and feed,
Sunflower seed xvill be found useful
food for poultry, brightening up the
plumage and stimulating egg production.
Don't fail to plant a little patch of it in
the garden next spring.
If you have winter grain on a side hill
from which the snow is likely to blow
off, a thin covering of straw xvill not do
harm. Try “winter protection” for
xvheat to see if it won’t pay.
The Dorking is an excellent all
round fowl. A fine dresser for table
purposes and a beautiful bird in any way
you take it. It is an English brood and
considered among their host foxvls.
Many farmers do not know xvhat a
surveyor’s mark on a tree is, and some¬
times gets in trouble by cutting such trees,
as tho law strictly forbids it. The mark
is “two slashes and three gashes” across
them.
When a limb is cut from a tree it
should be as close to the body as possible.
The cut should be a smooth one, without
bruising the bark, and the cut surface
should be covered xvith some kind of
cheap paint mixed in oil.
If you expect those calves you are
raising to make good cows, you want to
keep them growing righ on through the
fall months. It is easier to keep them in
good condition for going into xvinter
quarters, than to get them there if poor
xvhen winter comes.
If a pasture field is not yielding grass
as it ought, try giving it a good top
dressing of manure. Some farmers think
this the best place to apply manure,
Ground to be planted with corn should
be manured in the fall and plowed in
spring. The manure goes into the soil,
\ aud produces Ic xvill not wonderful wash off, results steep next
year. even on
!an<“
Increasing the Wlnu Supply.
According to the Nexv York World, a
close observer might see in the nostrils
0 f some of the football athletes a curious
j wire frame, xvhich expands those impor
tant parts of the breathing apparatus, so
; that a much greater than the normal per
I centage of oxygen may be received into
I the lungs, Just before the Yale-Harvard
boat race it was .rumored that several
j Yale men had come to town to have ad
j ditional “breathing holes” bored through
the cartilages of their noses, The fact
was that they did come probably to hax-e
j j greater these wire “wind” “spreads” supply. inserted More to oxygen secure of a
j course means more strength and more en
j durance. These wire frames or spreads
are about a third of an inch in diameter,
j j ’ shaped rounded rounded like end, end, and and a paralleelogram. about about inch inch xvith long. long, a
an an
! They arc variations of a new implement
j j n gynaecology,
i
1 •The Good Old Days.”
Among the curiosities to be found in
.
the Minnesota State Law Library are two
volumes of the colonial laws of Massa
chusetts, 176J to 17< -• 1 hey are, of
j course, reprints, but “ye olden style”
has been faithfully reproduced. The code
j of laws in vogue in those provincial days
! was truly very crude. It was then that
| the whipping post was resorted it stipulated to as a
mode of punishment, but is
' that - ’no man shall be beaten with above
i forty stripes, nor shall any true gentle
men, nor any man equal to a gentleman.
be punished by whipping unless his crime
j be very shameful and his course of life
vicious and profligate.” Again the code
says: “If any man shall Blaspheme the
name of God, the fattier, Sonne or Holy
j ghost, with direct, expresse, presemptu
| ous or high handed blasphemie, or shall
j curse God in the like manner, he shall hr
put to death.
LISTEN ?
Whoever you are as you read this, i
Whatever your trouble or grief.
I waut you to knoxv and to heed this:
The day draweth near with relief.
No sorrow, no woe is unending.
Though heaven seems voiceless and dumb)
So sure as your cry is ascending,
So surely an answer will come.
Whatever temptation is near you,
Whose eyes on this simple verse fall;
Remember good angels will hear you
And help you to stand, if you call.
Though stunned with despair I beseech you,
Whatever your losses, .your need,
Believe, when these printed words reach you,
Believe you were born to succeed.
You are stronger, I tell you, this minute,
Than any unfortunate fate!
And the coveted prize—you can win it;
XVhile life lasts’tis never too late!
—Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
Don’t hit a man when he is down; ha
may get up.
Protection on glassware extends to
where it gets into the hands of the hirec
giri. but
Beauty may be only skin deep;
the plump girl gets the most sleigh-rides.
— Puck.
In the race of life it isn’t the fast mem
who come out ahead Binghamton
■piMican.
Hush-money, when used, is more apt
than any other money to make a noise. ■
Picayune.
Nature has made some men tall, and!
laziness has made them short.— Burling¬
ton Free Press.
The youth xvho becomes ill from in¬
dulgence in a “snipe” has a stub-bom
malady .—Binghamton Herald.
Two of the wealthiest men in tho
West are said to have been messenger
boys. It pax 7 s to go slow, after all.—
Statesman.
Yes, there is plenty of room at tho
top, and there always will be unless fa
cilities for getting there are improved.—
Binghamton Herald.
Little boys generally look on little
girls as a nuisance; but when they grow
older the reverse is generally the case.—
Milwaukee Journal.
She—“You have often heard, of course,
of the mermaids singing? I wonder what
tune they sing?” He—“Nep-tune, I
suppose .”—Lawrence American.
“You say your husband is a great
whistler?” “Yes, indeed; you ought to
hear him some time when my milliner’s
bill comes home!”— Statesman.
Love will go where it is sent;
At least, so say the scholars.
But often love, 1 fear, is bent
On going' where ’tis dollars.
—Boston Transcript.
A Mormon has been committed to jail
for contempt of court for refusing to tell
hoxv many wive he had. Evidently his
misery was more than lie could confess.
—Itochester Post-Express.
Landlady—“What’s the matter, Mr
George? You look down in the mouth.”
Mr. George—“Just so. I’ve almost
swallowed a feather from that chicken
soup .”—New York Journal.
Smiffkins—“Aw—I—a—want you to
trim and curl my mustache, barber.”
Hairdresser (who doesn’t like being called
“barber”)—“Cert’nly, sir. When shall
we send for it ?”—Once a Week.
Jeweler (to Chinese laundryman)—■
“Why, John, you’ll ruin that watch by
allowing it to lie in the suds.” Laundry
man—“Me puttee him in soak, allee
samee ’Meliean man.”— Jewelers’ Weekly,
••Alas'." cried the captured fish,
“How little did I opine
The worm that looked so delici¬
ous could have such a horrible spine?’-
—New York Herald.
A. (to his friend, the famous painter
of battle scenes, who covers up xvritb
smoke all things that he does not know
how to paint)—“And xvhat are you
going to do when they use the smokelesa
powder?”— Fliegende Blaetter.
Eighteen centuries ago a prophet had
no honor in his own country, Nowa
days there is mighty little honor about
them anywhere. if there were they
wouldn’t be trying to make people be¬
lieve they could prophesy.— Dansville
Bi'eeze.
Muskrats in the Northwest are build¬
ing houses three stories high with man¬
sard roofs and bay windows and steam
heaters in the cellars. Some persons may
think this is a sign of a hard xvinter, but
it isn’t. It is a sign that somebody is
lying .—Neio York News.
Chicago Girl—“Oh, Auntie, we’ve
just been out shooting at the target.
Great sport, I tell you.” Boston Girl—•
“Yes, indeed; I fuilv coincide with
Belinda, although the diversion is some¬
what arduous. I succeeded in perforat¬
ing the bovine optic three times in sue-,
cession.”
Bay Horses.
Did any one ever see a man or a woman
with “bay” hair? asks the Horse World.
No more than he saw an auburn horse.
The word bay does not of itself signify
a color, and its use for the purpose of
designating the color of a horse is pure¬
ly traditional. It originated in England
iu a district xvhere the breed of horses
was mostly several shades away from the
brown and yet too brown to be called
red. There grew in this district a great
many bay trees, to the leaves of which
the horses exhibited a decided affinity.
The bay tree had long been cherished
among th>‘ natives for the medical quali¬
ties of its leaves and berries, and, in a
way, xvas sacred to them, having had a
place in many of their legends and super¬
stitions. Every breeder of horses was
sure to have a number of the trees, and
relied upon them almost exclusively for
the medicines wherewith to cure his
horses. The leaves were used in omen
tations and the berries in clysters. The
horses coming from this district, reared
among the bay trees, became known os
bay horses, and the uniformity of their
color led to the common use of th*
tern.