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VOLUME XL NUMBER 15.
AN UNFINISHED POEM BY DRY
ANT.
The reader of Mr. Cryant’a poems will readi¬
ly remember toe many verses addressed to hs
Wife, such ns "Oh Fair nt of ibe Rural
Maids,” written about the I me of the r mar
ring-; -Th« Future I.ire," speculating ns to
the union of iheir sp rirs in the woriu toe tne;
the ick-lled," describing an illness; -- Yht
Life Th it is," rejoic ng in recovery; " 'i be
Twenty-s Mrs. venth of March," the birthday of
her death liryant; and "October, lWtt,” descriptive of
bur nt; and "May 1-veiling." a
gentle reference to her loss, ttiit in njld tiun
to these, ns we learn from Mr. Oodwin s -orth
AwUuvl eom ns biography of the poet n fraj-mont was
nuwng hio v>opor.q VVll’Ph vn»* •*.-■ *-*>«
memory i:i a very lender way so rn i years
aft-’r her death. The lines we t- un hushed
and uncorrected, hut we cannot refrain from
frvfnsr them as they were written—dated “lios
>yn, Isis:-'
The morn ha'h not the fflory that it wore.
Nor doth tho day so beautifully die,
Since 1 cau call thee to my sjJe no more,
To sa-e upon the sky.
For thy dear hand, with each return of sprintr,
i sought In sunny nooks the Itowers she
I Rave; still,
si ck them and sorrowfully bring
The choicest to thy grave.
Here, where 1 sit alone, is sometimes heard.
From the great world, it whisper of my
name.
Joined, haply, to some k'nd, commending
By worn,
those whose praise is fame.
And then, as if I thought thou stil? wort u'g-h,
1 turn me, half forgetting thou art dead,
To read the yemle tylnducss 1' thine eyo
That once 1 nti.ehi have read.
I turn, but see thee net: Iso Toro my eyes
The image of a hill-side mound appear ■
Whore all of thee that passed not to tho sk'C3
Was laid with bitter tears.
And J, whose thoughts go back to happier
That days
lied with thee, woo’d gladly now res' ri
Alt that the world cau give of fame and praise
For one sweet look of thine.
Thus, Such over, when 1 read of generous deeds,
words as thou didst once delight to
hour,
My heart is wrung with anguish as it bleeds
To think thou art not near.
Amt now thnt I can talk no moro with tlieo
Of ancient blonds fi-icn Is an’I (1 tys too ‘a r to last,
A bitterness wi h tho memory
Of ulJ that happy past.
Oh, when I
—Cm'tin/ Jfagaxtns.
THE ENGINEER’S STORY.
Bus'ncss had brought me to the Hamp¬ little
town of D---. among the New
shire hills, and here, much aga list un
will, 1 was detailed for several flats,
wh le waiting for instructions from mv
employers. Tho nearest per odical
store was twelve miles away, and. wi h
out books hands. or papers, time hung heavy
on my
The only break in mv monotonous
life was the arrival of the trains twice a
day, and in the d a l calm of my exist¬
ence this little ripple of exe tement be¬
came as much to me as the opera under
more fa orable circumstances. It was
while lounging upon the platform lliat
I became acquainted with Gem-go Sea
forth, engineer on the li. (’. A M. Rail¬
road. He was a man about thirty-live
years ef ago. Not what would be called
an educated man, hut sensible and
clear-headed. His home was in Con¬
cord, where he had a wife and two chil¬
dren. He ran from Con ord to 1)---,
and for two hours, while waiting for
the “down train,” he was in 1)--.
while The acquaintance, hour, at first begun to
away an irila on mv pat,
at da) least, grow is to a strong liking, acquaint- and to
- there no one among mv
anees for whom 1 feel a greiter respect
and esteem than for George Seaforth.
He had been on the cars since be was
sixteen, first as train-t oy, then as brake
man, fireman, and for the last ten years
as “loti engineer. must have had
some strange
adventures in that, time,” I sail I one
day, as we sat upon the for platform the train. of the
little station, waiting
“ f trange adventures ” he repeated, and
taking his pipe from his mouth,
looking moditatively across tho g een
fields., “Strange adventures! You may
well say that, sir. VYe train man are
always having adventures.”
“Supposeyou tell me some of them.”
1 suggested. “Well,” looking his watch,
at “as
there’s plenty of time. 1 don’t mind tell
ing you of one queer one I bad six years
ago, came tall, though I don’t o ten
speak of it; for you see when a man's
been'sice to face with death, l»e can’t
talk of it very well.”
1 settled myself on the rough bench
that did dutv as a chair, as comfortably
as I could, took a lresli cigar, and lie
began; I run
“It happened old Lion in from tins Lee way. to ta was r.own.
Bing If the know anything about New hn
you know that September s a
gland, month yon for fairs, and tins pal ticu
gro. t
Jar September was no had exception ot^ to ext tne
general rn.o. e lots a
work to do, but, as we naa exti.i toward i > },
there was no grumbFng It was
^
Timed as^orun extras
wereput regular tm, so between
the trains. Jim Turner brc , or
ever r e then. Ji m w- was h but as ood » a jetto fault lie
wouldgo oft on a lime once U*
as he d do more I' t than anv other ®-ber
him °u ButJim l r m r °hnd had l»en pretty sob sober t
lately. I believe he - ;
“rKo’foTofttah.W.oflv.K-haj
••Well, we got along all right this
time. till a’most night we stopped While at
I)------for wood and water. we
were waiting, March, the depot-master.
came along, and savs he: ‘.Seaforth, I
went vou fo do me a favor.”
“ • What is it?’” savs I, for March
and I wes t: pretty good friends.
“ 1 Weil, savs lie, ‘there's a voting
woman here wh - wants to go to i a -
town, and she hasn’t a cent of money.
She came here to get work, am! she s
lost her pocket-book, and hasn’t any
wav to cot back home. I don't feel at
liberty to pass her over the road.
(they’d been making a row about free
and she r n’t the kind that
passes . a
you'd feel like offering money to. 'o
I thought mav be vou’d let her ride on
tbe engine.’ didn’t like refuse March.
“Well, I to
for. as I said before, he and I were
good friends, and he had done me
manv a wood turn: but 1 must sav Lie
idea of having a wom?.n in the cab ail
the wav to Fair own wan t
pleasanfi and I said so to March,
he was bound to have her go. and said
«o much that I linally told him to
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h !r along. She came out upon the
platform, a little, pale-faced thing, who
looked at me with great, frigh ened
eyes, as though she thought 1 was a
hear, and would eat her up as soon as
wo left tne station. March introdu od
her ns Miss Lord, and seemed to ex¬
feel pect me home, to say but something 1 all to make her
at was out of sorts,
and I only nodded in a surly sort of.
way. I saw the tears come" into her
eyes, and you b tter believe 1 felt kind
of mean, but I didn't say anyth ng,
omi AJrvx-clx Jjv.1jjx.vI ltd I'll l 111!
I saw her put out a little white hand,
not much b’gtrer’n a child’s, and lay it.
on his arm, as she sa il:
“‘God bless you, Mr. March.’
“And then I went off ro look for Jim,
who was late.
“ 1 found him the other side of the
depot, with a two-gallon cau of kerosene
in his hand.
* ‘ Vou sec,’ he said, as I asked rath¬
er sharply where lie’ll been, ‘le’ngifc
this a good deal cheaper hero than at
Fail-town, an 1 my wife thinks it’s a sight
better, too.’
“•Well, come along,’ I said, ‘for
we’re two minutes behind time now.’
“ When wc got back to the engine
March had gone, and Miss Lord sat there
alone.
Jim stared, but T said:
“ ‘ This young woman’s going to ride
on the engine to Fail-town. She is a
friend of ,i r. March.’ ho he put down
his kero one. and took his place on tho
cab
“I heard the conductor's ‘ All aboard,’
and then wo wereo f.
“I was but) with levers and valves,
for a man who drives a train holds tin;
lives of hundreds in li s hand, and one
careless motion may send them all into
eternity. So you see I hadn’t much
time to think of anything but n-y ma¬
chine, but I noticed that .Jim was
pretty ta kative. At first I thought
it was beeatise wo na„ a woman
aboard, but It and something by f began
to suspect R was worse
than that. His voice grew thick
ami his movements unertan, and at
last f could no longer hide from mvself
tlm fact that he had been driukmjg
Still 1 anticipated no trouble. Uo
were already more than ha f way to
Fairtown, and 1 thought he would keep
up till we got there.
“At A — the station master hau led
the conductor a telegram. He read it,
an I then handed it to u e. It, ordered
us to go on to N----to meet tlie special.
1 had expected to stop at the next sta¬
tion, and orders N—— was orders ten miles and beyond,
but are m >st
I e obeyo I. So 1 told Jim to pile
on the woo I. and 1 put on all the steam
1 dared, and we went spinning over the
road at a rate that must have astonished
the pnssens-ers.
“ \Ve had goti e a little more than half
way, mi;lit and I was distance beginning without to think much wo
ma’-e the
trouble, when Jim sat right douuo-i
the t ool- of the cab, and began to
whimper. work,’
•“Get up, you fool, and go to
levied.
• I can’t,’ he whimpered. •I’m
tired, an’inns’go er rascal!’ sleep.’ shouted.
“-Get up, you 1
‘Don’t yon know we’ve got to get to
j{----{ n ten minutes, or meet the
tram?
‘“I can’t help it, let ther ol’ train
come. 1 tell ye I’m tired. Now, look
here, Seaforth',’ nodding h s head with
drunken g avitv. ‘You’re workin
too hard...... Wliv, man. you won’t
live out half your days, if yon don’t
take some rest. 1 tellye'what’t 1'mgoin’ is you’d
better take things easy. to,
auvwav.’
“,'nd he laid down on the I’oor of the
ca b, and shut his eyes, mutter ng:
“lake it easy. easy. Jim’ll take it easy.’
*-i suppose J must have acted like a
wild man, for 1 knew that before 1 could
let the conductor know the fix that w •
w. re in, and the get train, help, and it would I’m afraid ho too I
late to save
„se 1 some pretty strong words, as a
, nan i s !V pt to when he gets in a tight
p] a ,; 0 . Not that the words help him out.
0 p. 1 suppose they o ly let o V some
of the extra steam, and make him th nk
quicker. Mo i stormed away there, all
the time trying to do my work -ud
Jim’s, and knowing ever moment that
we were losing ground. The sb-am was
down, and the engine .slowing up,
gpiteof all I could do.
“I tell vou.” and he passed his hand
o gr ))ig forehead. “ it ina c? thesweat,
s t ar t 0 n me now. when 1 think of that
run ]t seems to me that 1 lived a. life
_
^ jn those f ., w m n ut ■<. it’s an
aw/|I j lhin „ , 0 have so many lives de
ling on you In the carsbeliini me
were lumdrcds of h- man be ngs, and
1 other tram had hundreds more. an<l
AlOhMiL. , a s , bet , voen tlmm lln , eterul;y.
the girl M rdi had put on
^ “ItSS
when everything se-uned lost.
phe thre .v o V her shawl, an j stopp^ ■»
fo Jira s , )lace . say ng q« o-ly;
... rlltake that man’s place, Mr.
Sea'orth.’ slight, ,
. you? , and j looked at the
almost « girlish, figure in astonishment.
.. . Y( . sbe said. ‘Ian, stronger
than 1 look, and 1 ve been watching tiie
hesitation, I sa-.d.
. ’Very well, but try, anu it ...
“ you cau
you tail —
‘ 1 dth6 ^
the thought ot faimre. toe; tuu Je
,,re of m -nglcl, all b eed.ng human- u> ,ies,
crushed out ol semman.-e o;
itv rose he ore me and I torn-: a ? .
with a groan. bu? r wRhout‘ -• s \ —'i- .
L a wod she "took
hei place, throw on the - wtmd'as • 1
.
, di«cted, : lo,n ^ ’; l ”; ! '
I ™l\t 'w’th d Ih'-‘
Yhe which “tb‘o' hen -Id
“ ‘oma-ntrate • i.-a
sXof 1 in In r
j her efforts.
hardlv s-enied to ffain around.
! «m>anedalm'd -i looked at mv watch, ami fairly
• ^ a .; as 1 saw that it wanted
j , ^ minu s 0 mltheext S1X , nd 3t SK * c were
V P toV ra at N---
• Th n . no t ! me J >t back, an i no
j , . MoD * .t> v n -ac ‘d N-.
I ■ Th thin-- for us to do but
s . . tbonoh J f-it that we
. j wca j-| . „r,i n /to ,le to- ■' «n A - 1 e hands
^ { ‘ ‘ ' i .{ j,,., l off the
l L wUcl ed lheal «-; t h s ort ot
tolling u th^igh 1
HAMILTON, GEORGIA. APRIL 13. 1883.
turning to stone. Well, if you’ll believe
me, that girl, instead of making a row,
as most women would have done, never
saul a single word, though she seemed
to know just how things were going,
but, aft. r one look at my face—and l
suppose I must have looked pretty bad
—almost by inspiration it seemed to me,
she did one of those things a man would
never her have the thought-of. K : had ght beh nil
was oil-can Jim got at
D —. With a steady hand she lifted
the heavy til can, wood, and poured half tllPCWthfl its con
luno- on then she
wood upon the tire, and it blazed up
with it quick, tie.rco ho™!, llirtt sc. it Hi ’
engine living over the rails at a rate
that fairly made one dizzy. Still she
piled faster, on (h and oiled wood, and The still train wcw rocked nt
on faster. •
lrorn side to s’lie, and the engine
seemed hardly to touch the rail-. I
looked at my watch, and then an iously
in tho direction of N---. It wanted
three minutes of six. Oh, if there
might other be some delay,something toniake
tlie train e en one minute late.
Bui no, away in the distant e I could sec
afa'iit line of smoke comingnearer and
nearer. The girl saw it too, and
leached for the oil can.
“ ‘It’s of no use,’ 1 said. ‘We can’t
get there, anil we’ve all tho sleam we
can safely carry now.’
“‘Are you sure it won’t hear any
m >re?’ she asked, anxiously.
• I shook my head.
“•I’m afraid not,’ Isaid.
“ ‘But it is possible that it may?’ she
asked again.
“ ‘Yes, possible, but not probable,’ I
answered.
“She asked tlie questions in a calm,
even vo'ce, and I think I answered in
much tho same tone, lor, now that the
danger J bail feared was really upon us,
1 seemed to have lost all fear, and l
watched tlie line of smoke nearing us
so last with a sort; of vague wonder as
to what the engineer of tins other train
would do when he saw us coming, roused too
la e to save his train. I was
from this sort of stupor into which L
seemed m danger , ot . falling, . ... , l.y seeing
the g ri again reach ior the oil-can. I
shook my head.
“‘It won’t do,’ 1 said. ‘It may ho
death.’
“ ‘But,’ she said, ‘it is death if I
don't.’
“I . nodded, and, without a
word, she poured the remainder
of the oil upon tlie wood, and threw
it hit i the file. Vbe wero
close to the station now, and 1 could see
people running acres? the p’atform, and
hear tlie women right scream front as of they saw our the
danger; tor in us was
extra, m> near that it seemed as if noth¬
ing but a miracle could sa\e us. i
looked at Miss Loyd. \Vitluhat last ef¬
fort she tier strength p corned the to leave her,
and sank upon seat, covering
her face with her hands, wailing for tho
death that seemed so near.
“There was a moment of awfu’ sus
p -use, anil then we were safe upon tho
side track, just as the e tra train went
thundering by, so ibe near that staveely from tho an
inch separated engine
hindmost car. The brakes wore put
on, and the long line of ears came to a
stand-still just beyond tho station, and
then slowly ran l ack to where the
crowd of alarmed and dtirb in men
s:ood watching us. At the shrill sound
o. ti;e escaping steam, M'ss Lord raised
her head, and looked anxiously around,
then seeming to rea Ho that we were
safe, she tried to say in something, and but
the words died away a murmur,
the next moment she fell on tlie I’oor
o! the cab like a dead woman. Blit be¬
fore I con d call any one to help her, for
I was pretty well -ha en myself, one
of the directors, who was on the train
tame along in a fearful passion. Ho
wanted to now what I done. meant by run¬
ning the risk that 1 had
“ • Haven’t you any brains? and don’t
you care any more for human life than
a donkey?’ he blustero 1 .
“1 handed him the telegram 1 had
received at A----, and which, fortu¬
nately for myself, l ha(l put inln my
pocket, and then f pointed to the i’o r
o' the cab, where Jim lay in a drunken
Bleep, and Miss Lord in a dead fain',
and 1 told the story as well as I could,
I tell you there was pretty lively times
there for a ew minutes The passen¬
gers found out, that something was the of
matter, and they c me pouring out
the cars, and crowded round the en¬
gine, and 1 had to tell my story over
and over to them. Well, some of tho
J|M . n carried Jim off to the station, and
( ,„.«,,ed him down on the floor, a d
M Lord was taken into one o. the
drawing-room cars, and fussed over as
t , i() 7 ]," she WM „ ne 0 f the greatest
, f -. V, - } loi^h before Ih she came
to sT up re was a
^ hd -or ha 1 m imr L e and that
^ w^ttd'Vlie \r^n-to.ml Hmt
K „cw t dim- of tolojrraph - and
t )ier in thc O !!!co at C —for awhile,
in a ew month* g .vo h-r a steady
job. | So vou see it want a bad ride for
lcr . a „,!- al ;. '
H .,t wimt became of her»” I asked,
p, sh .- s ti!l in the o ice?"
“Oh, bless vou, no, sir. lie did what
««»»>*•. “T*
serve ! a good husba.-d; I hope she got
0 f ,
-L eli, I non t know; pr t y muldlmg.
t T’-'-g, nn.t the-, he uo !■•«< . w.tn a
............ -at-Itr-d. ,o I
Mi ., there s no occasion .or any one
6jto :,cr#n-as rf%histle, and
ul H.en -1,
tho down tiatn came iit.x> view,..
1’ bisnipe m Ina pocket, the en
U'necr made ready :or hi, homeward
trip, saving, with a s \ smile, h- he
s ru-.g on the engine to and Concord said good_b,: 1 shall
it ever you come
l o glad to see you and yoc, an ask my
"J il ‘ ss ” ^at For i she £« t."-Ballou hmks of s the Monthly. husband
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True TrB ' ^ inve
Do „ you know , what it is so t] to ive .
<»“ » T***™ who is present with you
that your eyes follow lus _ ; that.you read
bis soul; that you see the changes m
Li* countenance; that you ant -ipate
his wishes; that you smile in h:s smile,
and aresad in iiis sarlne.ss, and an
c« t when 1c- is vexed, and rejfi»?.d in
hie successes?
COLORED FORGIVENESS.
* ......'• t \*5“AV5SK5 nt*"'* M “ r "
(i.itiieRwk Gazette, i
xll0 for „i v i ng spirit of the coloredpeo
j ( , j s }l distinctive character of that race,
The most violent animosities may coiices- be
cooled bv tho wave of tlie fan of
nncWho hottest fire of hatred can
b( , extinguished l.y a drop of the milk of
lmmau kindness. Sandy neighborhood Horn, a colored Buck
man known in the ns
Horn, soimtim. ag.-met the wife of one
CW)1 Nicholas. Mrs. One-eyed Nicholas
, ^ “lil..,,n. Wt ], c , attraction
, ft , , efts , £or Horn consisted in a lack
j Cretiftl rather than raatoriu1 in the abundance H uek Horn of tlie hung Mrs.
.
.
al , )uml Nicholas’ house while the old
. 0(1 Nicholas awav . Finally he and and Mrs. One- Lit
| ran .....l'a away came to
t j 0 Kl)( . k allll kind of boiled
cabbage eating-house. For tho first few
( sui-roudeml i av8 after the liimseIf elopement old Nicholas
v>man ol) bosom, to grief. he said. ‘Tho “De lost
mv
airiril hab tuck 'do rib what God had gin
me.” At last, the old man throw aside
|,js grief mid meditated revenge. Ho
took an oath lie would kill Buck Horn,
-Tsonobbor gone back on a oath,” lie
fV( ;,i j„ n neighbor, “an’ when I meets
jb,ok Horn 1m mns’ die de death ob do
ungodly. Happywill bode time when I
K ,. ts d< 5 BO i eB ,,f my f eo t in dat, ’onory
nm n’s blood.” Next day old Nicholas
came to the city. with He brought Asoertain- a pistol
and a briar hook him.
ing tlie locality of his mortal enemy, he
went totho house, and, without revealing
iiis identity, was admitted by a boarder.
Seated on a bench, be awaited the appear¬
ance of Buck Horn. After a wlmo tlie
man came. Nicholas sprang up, shut
tho door and locked it.
“Face ter face wid do dobil,” ex
claimed Nicholas, cocking his pistol, and
raising tho briar hook, “I liab swor tor
take yrr life, an’ fore do Lord I’bg agwine
‘or no nit.’
‘Look hoali, Nick, . said Buck „ Horn,
_
“fitly a man some sorter show,
“Bay ver prars. truck will „
“Nnk, 1 doan want, no yer.
“In de name,of do church I storniin
ab s ilia sinner. I ho old man leveled
lus piKlol.
‘ Nick, doan you remember , dat, , , Kon- T .
tuoky whisky, wo drunk dat day at ilo
"' n ‘Yes, 'y/ „ said tho old man, lowering . . lus ..
. “yey K°t any mould
V s *
“} l f-? 0 1 ’ , „„
Ilcali hit is, - mill Buck , Horn T , took , , a
Si H ,b ,«t'
Tho two men nai down, tjol jui? jfuti
_ ^ isfoJ ot/nr hmh Vnt do hook r> l>or
J >,, r now, we’s fixed,
H t! l )( . ry !,hi n g down do country?
W]lat , £ ain’t agoin’ so soon, is yer?
h ht U) (liliner .»
Ina 8 „ me more ob do ’possom
, Dat Btu ff ma kes me feel like
, iHtlill . 0()lno ont au - B0C mo . Doau
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Raising Poultry for tho Market.
Raising poultry for the market can be
made erly managed. quite a profitable By faulty badness if prop
m magement
tlie profit can be made very smal. in or »o
made to disappear entirely, raising
chickens for market it makes a great
difference whether they attain a good
size and are. sent in early in the season
when poultry late is scarce there aw! high, plenty or are of
marketed when is
poultry offered at low prices. 1 he
prices of chickens in Aug si n ut sop
tamtw ««««* lift* - hundred
percent, b.n and November. higher than they by yum ha. Goto- tho
ng
chickens hatched ear,y m the spring
they may easily be nude ready for tho
market early and then secure ho high
prices which prevail an.1 hrst during of the latter
part of summer part autumn.
In order to succeed in raising poultry
extensively, plenty of room must he pro- !
videil for it. There must be suitable ;
shelter, and plenty of yard room. The
yard should be large enough so that a j
large part of tho ground can bo kept m t
grass, to afford the poultry daily a supply of ! ,
green food. They need a supply
of green vegetables. Cabbage and and let- j !
tuce are best, but young tender
grass is good. Shade is needful in the j
yard to afford the buds a chance to re- |
treat from the hot rays of the sun in |
summer. Fruit trees may advanta- j
geously be placed in the yard They I
will afford the needed shade, and t he.
presence of tlie fowls will help to pro¬
tect the trees from insects and insure
their thriftiness ami fruitfulness. Poultry
yards are generally too small. If the
yard is large enough the fowls will keep
healthy. A New York hotel-keeper yard which a
few years ago had a poultry
contained fifteen acres, in which he kept
large numbers had of the turkeys, ducks of anil j
fowls. They range obtained the largo lot I
and during the summer a (
part of their food from the yard, and ;
were free from dl'.eases usually incident j
to poultry. Tho owner was wont to de
clare that he could raise a thousand I
pounds of poultry as easily and as I
cheaply as he could a thousand pounds .
of beef, mutton or pork. Under good
management it is probably true that a
thousand pounds of poultry can bo pro
duced as cheaply as a Uousaml pounds
of beef, mutton or pork. The fact that
poultry usually sells ai two or three
times the price of beef, Button or pork,
sufficiently indicates hoy mueh greater
the profit must be in poultry raising
than in raising beef, multon or pork.
Sent in im|,orW,w U ino Mi,,!; ol
thorn to mime . no >»m i
ou.s growth. The food for the youii<<
chicks should be such as is adapted to
promote growth, and should be abun
dant in quantity. Skimmed milk,either
sweet or sour, is an excellent article to
feed young chicks, along with Indian
meal or oat meal or bread made of
these articles he chickens should be
the time. Many allow their young
chickens to be only about half fed for
the first three or four months and then
by extra foedin" endeavor to bring
them into condition for the market. By
feeding well from the (list the chickens
are hastened to. maturity, kept in good
condition and are ready for tho market bo
at an early age. If poult,rv can
brought to maturity eatly in tlio season
and sent to market vhon there is a
scarcity of poultry offered, a high price
will he obtained for if The quicker
poultrv can be grown ready for market,
thc cheaper can it bo produced. required Acer
tain amount of food daily is to
supply the waste of the system, main
tain animal heat and so forth, and what,
is consumed in excess of that amount
increases growth and flesh. If a flock
of chickens can be brought to maturity
ready for the market m four mouths
instead of six, the cost of keeping them
alive or simply maintaining their con
dition for two months will be saved, j
The more the chickens can he made to -
eat and digest the faster they will grow j
and the less will be the eost of maturing ;
them. Neglect to feed generously is
the cause of many failures in raising
poultry for the market, The greatest
profit is obtained only by feeding all the
birds can eat, while the least profit half is
obtained by keeping them about
starved. Generous feeding and profit
go together and Hint fact should be suf¬
ficient inducement to secure good treat¬
ment of poultry .—Practical Farmer.
Reserved Seats.
In T traveling, . one meets with many
Fclfisli people; among them countless
women who insist on monopolizing under the two
fmte m a railway car pro
ti'D.so tlifit one of them jh eugf*-,- 1 . W . '
smoking-car ^ontlomair*, ior a bnet hupposodjy mterva m J the
.
saw two women of this Bort iig f
served during a summer tup. * «*
miles they succeeded m warding off
travelers who sought the M of them
the car, and the seat in front
the convenient receptacle of t eir
1 ’
, „
, lilies {mused in their con
v( mtio n to vach other and raised tln-ir
halJ , l4 as if in remo/z,trance, but it was
too !ate . the thing w- v quietly and
qnickly «sco m plighe,l, and thc two for¬
eitmers bf’understand who were muted there seemed
no words or gestures.
J>n})Jjc M jn that „ (r> H t least,
t a, ,t witli then On another occasion,
|)artv \,,,./ enter, ul a car, not a seat
v .. as avttiJa G ne {H-.rson was ginod- aisle
. . others ,: one and two; the
- ’ ,i wdetl. “This
nn c tat v ( - ro
.. Baid thf or, ’ “room in the
} ;ila ^ ^ fot thw: v . ho Rre standin-o”
w.-rc at a discount
' h conductor
(plenty of rwm „t the
insisted that they should l»e retained by
their occiii>aiite, and all were nuule com
fortalje. ‘‘Do as you would lie d< ne
, ^ )s a g00tl when traveling as
e where .
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_Xew England sometimes boasts of
its influence in Ghicsgo. but it has only
a br,„t one-fiftb as many representative*
there as Germ mv, and a fife over a
tbird 3S mita y as Ireland. - Boston Eo
en i m Trawler.
I he t nblmge.
Just speak to. a fine lady about ca
oages and she will think that you have
nentioued one of the lowest tilings on
sartli. Madam, you are wrong; it ih one
of the most useful articles of food,
l'hose ancient nations did not know
food science, lmt they knew tho valu* of
jood and nourishing tilings, and gave
;hem tho place of honor which they ue
lerved. Cabbages were and thought the Lgrp- of
highly by ancient nations,
firms gave the cabbage the other honor dishes; ot let
ting they it called precede it divine all. their dish, lhe Gree s
a
ind Romans had ii great nlfeotion lor
jalibage, and conceived tho idea, wlnoli 1
save myself, that the use of cabbage
keeps people from drunkenness. I am
persuaded that the constant eating o
rc.rtam vegetables lulls the desire tor
ileolmlie beverages. Greek doctors as
fribed all kinds of virtues to the cabbage,
ft was thought to cure even paralysis.
Books were composed to and celebrate ladies the
virtues of the cabbage, par
foolc of it soon after childbirth. 1
Romans thought even more of the oah
ringo than tho Greeks. They ascribe to
it the fact that they could for six hundred
years do without doctors, and Cato
actually maintained that cabbage cured
ill diseases. The ancients knew several
kinds of cabbage—the long-leaved much green used
Babbage, the hard white, so fer¬
in Germany for “sauerkraut" or
mented cabbage, the curly and the red.
This last seems to have held the place of
honor, and was first introduced by the
Homans into Gaul or France, and then
, £ |jt u> Great Bri tain. Later the
, J, )oavod oahhage was introduced,
)jo Gn , ( ., !s wore fimd of aromatic sea
|(mjiJ lf (>jl> raiB i n wine, and almonds.
They boiled or otew&rl Hie e>i)>bn ^6 and
it vvith cummin, coriander seed,
witI , oi | win,-, and gravy, making rich
to j„. B of a vegetable, which wc now boil
iu water, and reckon among the „cmhrar.ee plainest
fwJ Hr „ n ,. tbi Iike a rel
r>{ ,. /K)killg « cabbage among the old
(Jnduhw cuau) d own to the modern
{w th( . y cahl)(lK(! leaves
w ith dainty mince meat, and then stew
them with gravy.— Mrs. Lewis, in Food
and Health Leaves.
Fdccationap Statistics.— Of tho 36,-
7 (’, 1 ,<KJ 0 people in this country over ten
y< ars of age, nearly 5,000,tKJ0 cannot
read and 6,239,000 cannot write. Of the
nmnlmr who cannot write 3,019,<J00 native am
white, of whom 2.255.000 are 3,220,
white and 763,000 foreign-bom; practically rmtivc
INK) are colored all
Is.m. what may Taking Ik; called the whole_ the literate population age, 17 of
|s* cent, are illiterate (cannot wnte); 9
p r cent, of the whites and 8.7 per cent,
of the native whites illiterate, 12 per
; .•cut. of the formgn-bom and 70 per cent,
: of thc blaek*
A mono the many Heidellwrg n in tradi- , ,
tionsof . dueling is the each following; sliced off Two the
studente fou.ght, and fell the
other’s no*.. Th. ime* to
ground, and being picked up by the
seconds were idahtetgd again on tlie
laces of the duelists. Hie operation
sncceeiled, changed. hat in Hie hurry the noses
had l>eeji aquiline man
. henceforward had a snub and the snub
tarn had an aquiline nuw,
$1.00 A YEAR.
A San Francisco Snow-Slonn.
Tourists have told you of our boauti
!ul climate, of a land whorb even in mid¬
winter, roses bloom in the open air and
ice and snow are unknown; yet strange tlie
is it may seem, on the last day of
year, suddenly, without warning, wo
were treated to a thousands genuine snow-storm. of boyish
Hurrahs from
voloes filled the air as the feathery
snowflakes fell swiftly, and whon they
continued to fall, hour after hour, cov¬
ering tho earth with a snowy mantle,
boyish enthusiasm know no bounds;
ouoh snn wballing, such coasting on lin
provisod sleds, such giant balls, snob
snow men, snob forts! They know
wliat to do with It, our California boys,
though unless they had been out of tho
State they had never seen snow before*
They tried to cram the fun and frolic of
a whole winter Into one day. Nor were
the girls less wild; quiet, sedate maid¬
ens romped; they family greeted milkman, the passing their
stranger, tho
frionds young and old, with snowballs;
dignity was thrown asido; young ladies
forgot they wore grown up, dandies
threw away their oanes, put I heir gloves
in their pookets, to return the halls
thrown from every side. Such a snow
carnival was never soon. As for tho
old folks, why wo wero as bad as the
young. The snow-storm came to us like
an old friend, bringing to many of us
happy memories of our childhood’s
homo. Many a doar grandma lot tho
snow settle on her cap as she stood on
tho sidewalk regardless of the pelting of
a roguish grandson. Papa and mamma
threw balls at each other. Wo all for¬
got it was Sunday. It was not so ftirfny
when tho tho Sunday-schools began, wore that out, the
soon after storm
children should shout, scream and
roll In tho snow, as it was about
two hours later whon tho ohurohos
wero out, and tiie grown people acted of
like children. Coming out of one
the largest churches in town, a g rave,
sedate member slipped and fell; before
ho was allowed to rise, other sedate
members had rolled him in tho snow.
Every one, old ami young, rieh and
poor—was in tho streets; wo can give
you but a faint idea of the wild frolics
indulged in. They wore young ladies
and gontlomen, not had track, boys, making who put tho
a big snowball on tho
car-drivor get off of his ot»r to roll it
away, and, when a policeman appeared,
snowballing him so lie had to run.
Standing in our dummy cars, tho en¬
gineer proved so tompting a target ho
was nearly smothered in the snow.
Poor fellows, they could not stand it,
tho too cars of high stopped houses running. would People make im¬ on
mense balls, lotting them fall on unsus¬
pecting pedestrians. Many silk hats
were in.ann umn 101 .» -r,.,,-., v.. n .
The few Chinamen who ventured out
had a hard time. Our China-hoy stand¬
ing on tho stops, asked : “What for him
boys heap laughP cold wry badP” lie
had reason to t hink so before the eml of
the day; some boys caught him, buried
him in the snow till ho was nearly
smothered, and sent him home crying in
like a baby. Wo lived many years
the East, but never saw a snow-storm
like thU, for there all the trees (hut tho
evergreens) are bare, the rose bushes
are covered with brown branches,
bushes and plants are dark ami with¬
ered ; but here everything was different
—the grass, trees, bushes all green.
Many rose bushes covered with bmls
and roses, the climbing fuchsias red with
flowers, the Abntilon gay with its swing¬
ing hells. In our garden we had smilax,
heliotrope, geraniums, fuchsias and
roses. We picked our New Year bou¬
quet after the storm began. Think of
picking beautiful tea-roses and white
rosebuds in a snow-storm!— Our. Hus',on
Transcript.
A Long Nnp.
A rece.nt dispatch from Buffalo says:
A very peculiar and remarkable case
has just come to light in this city, but
lias not as yet, strange to say, attracted
the notice of the local press. Tho State
Asylum for the Insane is located here
and is one of tho largest, and finest in¬
stitutions of this kind in the world. It
contains at present, about 250 patients, them
the most remarkable case among descent,
being that of a man of German
who hails from a large town in southern
Ohio. Ho was found lying in a street
here one day over a year ago, and was
taken to tho police station by an ignor¬
ant policeman who believed him to
he intoxicated. There his real condi
tion was discovered by a physician, and
ho was hurried away to the Insane
Asylum. The man has spoken but once
during the time he has been an inmate
of tho Asylum. Then he declared inco¬
herently that the “lord had commanded
him to sleep” and that he “would be
awakened by the lord when it suited
Ilis pleasure,” or words to the same
effect. The man is insane, his sleep, peculiar and
delusion being that be must
sleep he certainly does, for he is utterly
unconscious, and has been for over a
year, being fed on liquid food just as an
infant would be. His eyes never open,
and when raised up in bed, if his sup¬
port is withdrawn, he will sink down as
limp as a dead person. Various devices
have been resorted to in the vain en¬
deavor to arouse him from his lethargic
condition, including electricity, shower of the
baths, trickery, etc. In presence
writer, Dr. Granger, one of the attend¬
ing physicians, pinched the patient’s muscle
flesh in sensitive parts, but not a
moved or quivered, yet when the head¬
board of his bedstead was soundly
rapped upon with a brass key, the
patient’s face twitched convulsively,
The man has excellent family con
nections, and a brother of his declares
that no insanitv was ever noticed in his
brother previous to iiis coining to But
falo on » visit, when he was overtaken
by his present great misfortune. Dr.
Granger states that the case is a rare
one, only one or two such being on
record. He also states that the patient either
is liable to arise at any moment,
a perfectly sane man or a combative,
destructive, raving maniac. He believes
him to lie cognizant of ail that transpires of
in his presence. He is thirty years
age and unmarried. The case, when
it becomes more publicly known, will
certainly awaken wide-spread attention
in soieatUio and medical circle*.
PASSING SMILES.
Tim person who does nothing in tbis^p
world is Oy.
“Marhiaob makes the man—the woman
wrh maid before.
A Western paper informs its readers
that its candidate for Congress slings tho
most eloquent lip of man in the State.
A down-town physician reports busi¬
ness “terribly dull considering tho state
of the markets.”— Kingston Freeman.
Tils, farmer Hie golden grain,
Amt sewed th* farmer’s daughter;
With her a charming episode,
For mam she'd esla water.
It is said that Ohio wives do their
own housework. Now, that is the kind
of an no hire idea we like.— Yonkers
Statesman.
Hancock’s father wanted him to learn
tho printer's trade. Had lie done so, in¬
stead of being a West Poiuter he might
have been a Better.
“ Tis sweet to dye for those we love,”
exclaimed a young man when his best
girl asked him wny lie didn’t wear a
mack instead of a light mustache.
The animal carries his tail at tlie op¬
posite extremity fr»m his head; a man
carries his tale m his month. And thus
docs many a man make both ends meet.
It iH learned from the Salt Lake Herald
that Galileo discovered Liniberger cheese
floating through space in 1609, and made
an entry in his diary at the time that ho
thought it in a very poor stato of pre¬
servation.
Smith says: “My wife, who lias just
read that 'it tabes a Japanese girl thir¬
teen hours to dress for a party,’ lias sent
to Japan to know how she docs it. She
can’t occupy more than four, for the life
of her.”
As they wore about to hang an Irish¬
man in London, one of his friends who
had come to witness the ceremony, cried;
“I always told you you would come to
this!” “And yo« have always lied 1 I
have notcome—-I was brought!”
A enNTLBMAN who possessed an imita¬
tion rat tobacco ponoh, thought ho would
enjoy the nervous shock of a friend by
placing it where his friend’s eye would see
it suddenly. He was much mortified when
the friend quietly took it up, helped the him¬
self, and then passod it about till con¬
tents were gone.
“Wigwam, you have again r “But come from up
unprepared!” "Yes, sir.’
what ?” “ Laziness, sir. ” “ Jolin
cause mark for
Bon, give William a good proceed. ” up¬ “I
rightness. ” “ Bates, yon
have notprepored, too, sir.” “Johnson, “But why
net?” “Frem Immiicss, sir.”
give Bates a bad mark for plagiarism!” •
The young Positivists are multiplying. other
Passing a group of’ children the dramatic
oveniiig.wehoard a little girl of a
• - . i M -..Mevile irt n 1 iHl.» }‘»IV UHL’*
snasivoly, “Now, you area had angel,
aren’t, yon?” “ No,” was tlie and dogmatic I ain’t
rejoinder, “ I ain’t a bad angel such things
a good angel. There’s ho as
angels, anyway.”
The Malice of Inanimate Tilings,
A certain young man in this city can
novor bo argued out of a bolief in the
total depravity of inanimate things,
which has been impressed forcible upon him in
a singular and manner. East
Saturday night he came home very late
from tho club—although that, fact is
neither here nor there. On reaching his
sleeping apartment ho proceeded to un
dieis according had to an unvarying removed gyst em
into which he fallen. lie
his coat and vest anil hung them over
the back of a chair. Then ho sat down
and took off hi* shoes. lie then drew
off a certain other garment—in short, his
trousers—in one pocket of which he was
accustomed to earry a penknife and the
key to his office desk. On doing so he
heard tho knife fall upon the floor, and,
picking it up, be placed it upon the
washstand and finished disrobing. In
the morning ho arose betimes, and, on
rosuming his trousers, discovered that
his key was missing. He groveled all
over the floor looking after it, but with¬
out effect, and although hunting high
and low, could find nothing of it. As it
stormed that day and the walking was
bad he he nut on a pair of heavy boots,
which wore all day, anil donned
again on Monday morning. On Sunday
he tried all manner diabolical of keys on his desk,
but, owing to the ingenuity
of the lockmaker, none would fit, anil
on Monday he got a iock-mith to come
look,and up, who, after along trial picked the
at his order made him two keys,
so that no such calamity as ho had en¬
dured should a rain fall upon him. With
these two keys in his pocket he went
home Monday and night putting to prepare the for dress- the
theater, oh on
shoes he hail worn at the club found the
missing key in the toe of one of t hem.
The language that he used at this dis¬
covery was of a somewhat, lurid char¬
acter, but it seemed to do him good.
And lie swears and affirms that tlie key
jumped into tho shoe on purpose, hav
ing previously arranged with the knife
to tall loudly on the floor at the same
moment ami deposes avert suspicion; key and will he
furthermore t hat the
not now fit his desk, as it had stretched
tlie slot in joke it so that widely by grinning over tho
its little it can not move
oolt in the lock .— Roston Journal.
The Human Figure.
The proportions of lengtfi the human of the figure
are six times the feet.
Whether the form is slender or plump,
tlie rule holds departure good, any from deviation the highest from
it is a
beauty in proportion. all their
Tlie Greeks make statues ac
cording to this rule. The face, from the
highest point ef the forehead, where the of
hair whole begins, to the chin, is one- nth
the stature. The hand, from tlie
wrist to the middle finger, is the same,
From the top of the cheat to seventh. the highest
point of tho forehead, is a If
the face, from the roots of tlie chin, be
divided into three equal parts, the first
division determines the place where the
eyebrows meet, and the second tlie nos
trils. Tlie height, from the feet to th6
top of the head, is the distance from the
extremity of thb fingers when the arms
are extended, ready
“Have you got the rent at
*st?” “No, si*; mothers gone foryou out
washing and forgot to put it out
“ Did she tell you she d forgotten -
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