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IF WE KNEW.
If we knew' the can pc and cresses
Crowding i <#uid our neighbors’ way,
If wo hueu the little losses
Sorely grievous, day by day:
Would vre then so oil on chide him.
For his la-k es rbriti und gain,
Leaving on his bean a shttdew
Leaving uu our life a stain?
If wo knew the cloud above us.
Held by the gentle blCsshig He re,
Would we turn away all trembling
In our blind and weak despair?
Would we shrink front tittle shadows
Lying on the dewy grass,
While dia only birds of Eden
Justin mercy flying push
If we knew the silent story,
Quivering through the heart of pain,
Would our manlnod (lure to doom them
Back to haunts of guilt again ?
Life hath many a tangle crossing,
Joy hath many a break of woe,
And the cheek tear stained is whitest,
This the blessed angels know.
Let us reach into cur 1 osoins
For the key to others’ live ,
And with love toward erring nature,
Cherish good that still survives;
Bo that when our disrobed spirits
Soar to realms of light again,
9 We may say, “Dear Father, judge us,
As we judge our fellow man ?
jftttsiccUancowsi.
’ TIE UTILS jpillll
‘Would pm like to look at 1 1 10 '1 imps,
s r r ? Singular trial that of Risk Allah
Bey against the Daily Telegraph.’
The speaker was a curious little old
man, c'canly dressed, cleanly shaved,,
with a short crisp white hair, and a face
like a red pippin : such a face as is hard
ly ever seen out of this country, and
even here rarely, save among farmers
gamekeepers, or other* who are much in
tlie open air, and at ail treasons. 'L his
little—for he was very small indeed as to
size—this little old gentleman, was en
countered in a first class smoking car
riage, on the South Western Railway.
‘Curious trial that 1 fore the hold
Chief Justice,’ continued the* old gentle
man, as if lie wished to promote further
conversation. ‘I was once tried ior rnttr
and r myself:’ with a pleasant smile, ‘Yes,
said the little old gentleman, ‘and’ (look
ing pleasanter than ever), “very nearly
hang too. 1 did not get off free. I was
sentenced to transportation for life; went
through seven years ot it ; and then they
pardoned me for what I had never done.
‘You see,’ said the little old gentleman
smiling more than ever, as the five other
smokers in the carriage stared at him :
•You see, I was for mstny years a cattle
merchant in London, ily business con
fcisted in receiving fiom abroad—from
Holland, Germany, Normandy, of where
ever I could form a connection—oxen,
cows, sheep, pigs, some on my own ac
count , others to be sold on commission
fur correspondents who sent their ani
mals to me for sale. Tho trade was a
profitable one. Every beast sent over
on my account was fully insured, so that
if it died on its passage I came upon the
insurance company. I iiad very few bad
debts and taking one thing with another
I may have fully calculated upon realiz
ing at least twenty-five per cent, on my
capital every three months. In other
words, I got a profit of a hundred per
cent, per annum on the money I had com
me need business with.
•lint with money comes the des re for
more. There was a time before 1 began
to deal in cattle, when I thought mysefl
rich if at the end of a year I had a coup
le of hundred pounds in bank over and
above my expenses for the past twice:
mouths. Now it was otherwise. 1 la
mented that 1 had not always an idle bal
ance of silt en hundred or two thousand
pounds. I was fond of money for mon
ey s sake 1 could not make money fast
enough lor my wishes, in the cattle tiado
and therefore determined to do a little in
the loan and discounting way.
*lt is nearly twenty y« nrs ago, A
have gone, through a deal ot trouble
Bince. My system was never put too
many eggs in one pot-new r to lend
wry much to any single person—but to
lend munv small amounts to various
people. 1 us. dto answer tin; idverti.se
menis o' tra it s non in difficulties. and
if I found that a hoi rower had good sod)
: l ilies to otter, I would lend him perhaps
j thirty or forty pounds, taking ten pounds
for tlie iieertmmedation for a month, ami
much more in propo.tiufi fur longer peri
ods. One of my clients was a printer
with a small business, near what was
ti l'll called the New-mad, now Maryle-
J bone road. He had often borrowed twen
Itv thirty and once as much as sixty,
, pounds Iroin me, and had always repaid
!me to the day. The security lie gave me
was always the same, the pent note of
hand of himself and his brother, a grocer
up Hackney way. The name of this bore
lower was Strange Edward Su.uige.
i He was m a delicate state ot health, al
i ways suffering hum his chest and in se
ven' winters lie used to be laid up for.
weeks together with a Lad cough, lie
I was a widower, without children.
1 ‘One day St range came to mo and said
i that he had a very excellent oiler to en-
I ter into papjaiei ship with a pi inter, who ;
; had been established in business several i
years. The sum required to be paid lor 1
the partnership was three hundred
i pounds and he asked me to advance him
that am nut upon the security ot a pMi .
icy of insurance for one thousand pounds .
upon his own life. On inquiry, 1 hmii-l :
; tliiit years before, Strange Had when a I
young and healthy man, effected an in- ;
j sura nee e pon his life for five hundred j
i pounds and afterwards increased it to j
I. no thousand pounds. This policy he,
i hull always managed to keep tip, and
still wished that it would lmt relapse, j
1 As it Inn! been running on h r nearly
i twenty years, and as lie paid a very
! small premium, and was now in bad
! I ealth, tho insurelice - company would
: have been glad to purchase it back.- ;
| Therefore, after looking at tin; aft.nr in
j every puss;bio wav, 1 came to tho coil'- 1
elusion that ike security was good, and j
and that 1 might safely advance the sum
of tlfrec hundred pounds upon the seciiri j
ty of the policy being endorsed over to
me. This was done, and 1 advanced the j
money ! Gentlemen, the worst day’s bus
iness 1 ever did in my life.
‘ln genetal a creditor sees but little
of Ins debtors,-whether tin y are lew or,
many.. The man who owes money gen- I
erali’y avoids the individual to whom he j
owes it. Hut it happened otherwise
with Strange and myself, M ith new !
I business that he had bought, lie was not ]
| expected not even by his partner t,o in
1 lei sere; and his own indifferent health j
! made it very desirable that he should j
|he as free as possible from the eoidini'd j
! air of the ch sc printing rooms. The j
partnership lie had purchased secured I
! him a certain amount of income which
; together will) what he lead besides, al
. lowed him to go about in diverse parts
| of the country, traveling being much re
-1 commended by his medical attendant,,
j linowing that, I had to make weekly
trips to Harwich, and that I had often to
go to Rotterdam in the way • f business
; when looking after.cattle, lie asked me
i whether he could be of use to me as a
clerk? He asked for no salary, only
j his actual traveling expenses ; and joi
this he was to keep my accounts, write
and copy my letters and make himsell
generally useful. Thu bargain was a
; good one for both parties. On the one
hand any business was increasing every j
week and having to knock about a great J
| deal at fairs and see a great, many deal- |
: era, I had no time to look properly alter
; my acounts which sometime got. rather
complicated. Oil the other hand, Strai)
igo had enough to live upon .but not
! enough to pay traveling expenses with
comfort Having been friend- Ibr sever
al years when we travelled together we
always had our meals in common ;
and ia country places or where the inns
j were very full vve generally took a duub
lo bedded loom between US.
‘Alter a time 1 found Etrunge’s assist
ance of such value to me that 1 was aid.
to increase my connexion very materia!
I y indeed. Being a shrewd man, he was j
able at the end ot a twclve-1r1014.il ,to 1
make purchases and conduct my bu.si
ness as well as I could. This led, nat
urally enough to a partnership being
formed between us by the terms of which
1 was to lend him five hundred pounds i
to put into the busiues of which he wax ;
to have a fourth of the net profits. As :
surely for tho five hundred pounds he
insured his life lor anothei thousand.
Thus, when we commenced working to-;
gather as partners, Strange owed me.
Cight bundled pounds, amt 1 held p dick*
ofutstiiuiice on bis life for two thousand j
pounds.
“Our business trips used generally to
last from a week to a fortnight. Some
times we were detained at the port to
which vve had brought the animals, for
lour or five days, awaiting the means pi
shipping them to England ; for it is not
J every steamer that will take bullocks, or
sheep or pigs as cargo. Sometimes one
of us would remain in London conduct
in" the sales of such animals as ins
partner sent him from abroad. Ami this
had happaned when the event ot which
I am now going to tell you took place.
‘4s Strange could speak I rencli very
well, I often sent him alone to the fairs
in Normandy lirittaimy, nearly always
i going myself to those in Holland and tuc
north ot Germamiy It was somewhere
about the end of a certain Miy that he
went over to France, intending to re
main there about six weeks, and go from
ouo fair to another, on a certain round.
HStUI SHALL THE PRESS TIIE PSOLLB’S IU3HTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY TEAR AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN.
QUITMAN. GKO., AUGUST LI, ISISS.
Three or four consignments ot Lea -s
h.id reached me in London, end the la-t
Was l-i come over ia a day or two. M\
| partner had visited all the lair* lie inten
ded to go to, and was to in 1
: wrote him at Southampton where he
| was t<> land saying that 1 would meet
him then' take a look at the cattle he
Mold bought and send some to Loudon,
and go with the rest t> some of the
i southern counties where there was lik-dy
jto be a market that would suit my
In. .k‘.
M reached Southampton on the day
■ named and met Strange. We dined to
gether in the afternoon at a small inn
, m ar the docks, and finding we could
J not get two bedrooms engaged a doll ‘Je
bedded room Ikr the night. Then wo
1 began to square up accounts and sp 'at
the afternoon seeing how we stood
jin tin- matter of money. But somethi ig
1 that Si range had done vexed, tan sorely
] lie had the face of wlmt 1 had.vvritU'ii to
j him in Loudon to the contrary paid a me
two p. imd.s a head more lo: about thirty
i or forty beast than we should ever real—
j ize. \VTien 1 told him lmw fool sidy he
| had acted he answered me Lack that lie
had done h s best and that he had as;
: inueh light as l had to speculate with
I our .joint funds. To this 1 replied that
i although lie was undoubtedly a partner
; in the concern it was 1 who had put in all
all tne capital and that he only an inter
jest of twenty-live per. cent, in the profits
His rejoinder I remember Well, lie said ,
(fiat il he died ! would get all the 111011
ev he owed me and more too. To this;
1 i retorted in a passion that 1 knew il, j
and that 1 did not care now sooiV’he died ;
All this wrangling tm k place in ihocofco
room of the inn before toe girl who wait j
od on os tho cook ot the house, tho bar
maid the landlady ami the landlady's 1
husband. The latter when he saw we
were getting angry tried to make friends
lietwc en us, bill in vain. V\ e were each
annoyed at vvhat the other had said as
well as our own lolly, and neither would
be the first to say- he was sorry for w hat
hud passed.
About six o'clock I took up my I,at
•nid went to see some friends in tho town
Wi.en 1 got back it wftt past eleven o’-j
clock, and Htrango tho huui-c.naid told
me had been in tied asleep more than an
i hour. I paid my share ot tho bill for 1
■ intended starting early went up stairs,!
found Strange last asleep and went to j
bed myself Next morning 1 was called
at live packed my bag swallow'd a oup
of Coffee and in half an hour was on wy
way to Loudon. 011 leaving the inn 1
(old the uorlcr that my companion was I
asleep and that las was only going by :
the ten o’clock coach lo Brighton, they
need not call him yet. 1 should not hu-j
get |o tell yon that, while 1 as (Less 1
mg'Si range it woke and that e shook i
hands no r our dispute ol the. previous !
day. We moreover agreed to change:
our plans and Strange was to meet me j
in Loudon on tho next day. A* I was
closing my carpet bag he asked me to,
lend him one of my razors : a thing
which 1 had the greatest objection j
(for if I am particular about anything 1
possess it about my razors | but having
only just made up my difference with
him i could hardly leluso him such a
small favor.
4 r , r ........ 1,,.u ,
TjiO da vs I am writing of were before
railways had extendi ,1 lo Southampton.
Leaving the latter place at half pad liv
in tl e morning it was hall past six in
the e\ oiiiii r before i got to town. 1 W'eiil
to bed got up early next day, and, while
1 was sittin rat breakfast, with my wee
our servant told me that two gentlemen
wished to speak to me. 1 went down to
see them, and, before 1 could open my
in mill to ask them what they wanted,
found myself with handcuffs on, arrested
for the murder ol Edward Strange.
‘lt seems that, finding Strange did not
comedown by half past nine, the pm lei
went rip to call him . lie found the door
I inked imt no key in it. Alter knocking
Horm-tirne on the outside the door was
broken open, ami poor strange was found
with his throat out from car to ear, am!
a, razor in his hand. The key ol the
door was afterwards found in the oofb 0
room, under tho very bench on which 1
1 bad sat to drink my cap of coffee before
starting.
“I was brought before the magistrate
at Bow street the next morning, and was
i |,y biin sent down to Southampton to
await, the result of the coroner’s in
j quest, upon my partner. 'll e verdict was
wilful murder, and, after commitment by
the magistrate to the sessions, 1 was put
: on tiial for my life at Winchester,
j ‘ The trial lasted only a few hours It
i was fully proved that Strange and my
self had quarreled and had high words
the night before, and that 1 bad said I
did not care how soon he died, so that 1
could recover the money, 1 had lent him.
A great dial was made of the fa- 1 that
bv'stiangfe’s di nth l should be entitled
’to tho insurance upon his life to tin; a-j
; mount of two thousand pounds, by which
1 -hon'd he a clear gainer of one thou
j sand two hundred. It was further shown
j that the razor found in poor Strangl'd!
hand was mine, and three medical men j
j declared their conviction that, although
(.bar, instrument was undoubtedly used
to kill the dead man, it must have beeif
placed in his hands after death. More
over, there were not only evident marks
,of a ’struggle about the bed and bed
clothes, but Strange’s throat was cat
from right to left, which no one could
have done unless lie bad been left band
,ed man, which Strange was not. Then,
(•'again, the fact of the hodrsom door be
i iug ’locked, ami. the key hid elute to
where 1 had hrciikfuslcd, (old tearfully
•! against me. 11 was clear that Strange
.could not by any possibility have cut
his own throat, and then locked the door
l of his room 011 tho oumide. It was at
tempted, by my counsel, to threw dis
credit upon this part ot the evidence—
The learned gentleman tried very hard
to elicit, something which might even
lead the jury ’l > imagine that tin: door
had been looked after tho murder, and
1 that some person unknown had uiiknow
-1 inglv let the key drop in the Coffee room.
But it was of no avail whatever. It
clearly proved that the key had been in
side the 11.'ill - when 1 went up to bed, and
that it had never been seem again until
il was found in the coffee-room. Mv de
fence tried hard to make out that some
i person likely to commit the mUrder j
j might have been in the house on that day,
hut all of no use. As the trial went on, j
; even 1, who knew my innocence, eouhl
i not help allowing to mysoll that the ev
idence, though purely circumstantial, |
j was Very strong against me. The only
j points in my favour were, that, oil the j
, day ol the murder 1 was supposed to have
'committed, I tiaveludpip to London, and j
had not the least appearance of a man I
who had anything on his mind, Again,;
Si range was known to have had on his
persoqa gold watch, and a purse con-
Uiiiiing a few sov .oigns art 1 twenty live
, pound noies, the numbers of which latter
wore ascertained at the bank at Booth
; anipton, whine ho had procured them in
• exchange Ibr a bank notes bill. The
; watch had been taken, and wa-i never
. traced;* the ’novengns had also disap
j pea led; hut the bank-post had been cx
elianged at ihe Bank of England on the
day after the murder, and before I, as 1
hilly proved, had any communication
whatever with any one in London. Os
this last point my. counsel made the
most, lmt it. did not hi Ip mu much, il
anything. The jury retired, and alter
d■■liberating about half an hour, returned
into court, and declared, through llit:: 1‘
fill email, that 1 Was guilly of the Wlllul
murder of Edward Strange.
“Gentlemen, a man who has gone
through that, ordeal—who has heard the
jury pronounce him guilly of capital
ci iino, and heard the judge pass settence
of death upon him a man, 1 says, gen
t’emen, who has gone through that
ordeal, and si ill lives to 101 l tho tale, may
(or am I presumptuous?) he looked upon
as a man who has really gone through
what, in these days, would bo called a
! sensational time. I heard every word
the foreman of the jury said, and found
myself wondering vvliat ihcjudgc’s black
! cap —of which every one has heard, but
: low have see —would lie like. Then 1 j
j was in a kind of a dream lor a time, tilt- i
j lil 1 heard the words' condemning me to 1
be hanged by 1 lie neck until I was dead.
Asonsition effect upon me gentlemen.
: or am 1 presumptuous? And will you fu
[ vur me, sir. with a light.
“In spile of appearances,” said this
• little oh I gentleman, smoking with ex
; reeding relish, “my friends did not lic-
I iicve me to be gmiiy of the fearful crime
j [or which 1 was to be hanged by the neck
until I was dead, in ten days after the
I rial. They moved heaven and earth to !
o 111ai 11 a (‘1)111111 ilia! ion of my sentence,
and alter a great, deal of trouble, Ile v
aicceeded. At. the time of which !
speak, there was in England a tempora
ry, hut very strong, reaction against,
| capital punishment 1 cannot recollect
all the c.miliistaiicoß of the case, hut in
a trial for murder two Men had boon con
,banned to death and duly executed, and
only aft< r liny had he 11 hanged Ivy tin
neck until lie;/ were dead their supposed
j victim made his apnoaranee, wed and
j hearty. The public press took up the
question of not banging upon oirciinistan
tal evidou , end I was hem-filled to (lie
, x cut omy I f 1 y the mmp.inry o;cil<-
ii,i:iit, I was respited, and condemned
1 to transportation fin- file and very ‘short
ly afterwards - for in those days trails
portal inn was in full swing found my
sell on my way out to Van I) -men's
Land, a convict ‘lifer.’
• For seven long years, gentleman, did
I undergo this punishment tor a crime,
for vviiicii I was pci loci ly innocent. Cu
riously enough, the man who really had!
murdered poor Strange, as he afterwards 1
confessed, went out in the same ship
wits me, condemned to seven years 1
traii.-portal ion Ur luirglaiy. He must j
have heard me tell my story and declare |
my innocence over and over again; lor in
the colony vve worked along lime togelli-j
or in the same gang. He was alter-j
wards assigned to a master who lived j
! near the prison where I had to slave out:
j my lime, as in Jio.se days ‘lifi-rs/ whose
sentence had . ell comftiuted for a capital
* punishment, were never allowed to leave
the chain gangs. But, after three years
in Van lE emeu’s Land, this real murder
or t ink to his old trade of burglary. To
j avoid being captured, he fled to the bush,
: and on a party of police being sent aficr
I'u; band to v.micii lie belonged, lie shot a
! constable in cold Wool. lie was cap
; lured, s mtenced to bo hanged by tfie
! neck until he was dead, and two days
befnie is execution confessed that he
hid in entered, at .Southampton, a per
son called Strange, for which offence
1 another man had been sentenced to death.
II s statement was taken down, and ii
Was exact. It appeared that lie had
been bidden for Several utnrs in the inn,
intending to steal whatever he could lay
I his-hands on. Early in tho morning he
had found his way into poor Strai.go’s,
1 room, hoping to pick up something be
lore'tlio house was astir. But his on
trance awoke Strange, who struggled
fora few moments with him, und kept
■ | hold of him. The razor which 1 had
lent Strange being on the hod, he *tiiur
j derod his victim with it, and then put it
j into Strange's hand, in order to make it
! appear that he had conimiled suicide.—
He secured the watch, .the’purse, and the
hank miles, of the murdered man, and
stole out of the house, locking the door
of the bedroom on the outside, and hid
ing (he key. Lie declared that he hap
got into Si range’s room l cfore 1 left the
house, and that Ibr some time his leaf j
was lest I should come back. Had I
doin' so, the murder vvofild, ill allfprolup
bility, have been prevented-,
j "Ween the statement made by this
; convict bad bei 11 duly verified, and when
j certain references had been made to the
j tonne authorities, 1 was duly liberated.-
j That is to say, gentlemen, 1 obtained the j
royal pardon, for having commited a
! crime which 1 never commited. And
j very sensible 1 am, gentlemen, of the
j royal clemency. Though it seems
: odd. ”
; “All tickets, gentlemen, all tickets
! ready 1”
j The train had reached the ticket plai -
1 1111 at Yailxlia!’.
“Ah! Yes!’’ said the little old gentle
man, producing his: ‘‘mine’s a Return
Ticket: but it had very nearly been oth
erwise:'’
Tin: Ilayticu War.
Doubtless sortie of our readers", like
ourselves, have been puzzled by the
names under which the revolutionary
negroes, who are butchering each other
in St. Domingo, now hail. We find the
following explanation in tho correspond
once of the New York World:
The two parlies now at war in Hayti
are known by the expressive titles of the
“Liyard’ 1 and the “Uncos.” The “Liy rrd ’
are the suppoi tors of Salnava, the "Un
cos” his enemies. These names origina
ted daring the ‘carnival,” a few years
hack, when "politics were expressed in
songs, to the beat of drums; and in one
those songs the following sentiment was
expressed:
“Dure is no house
Du tiyurd don’t lib:
i )ere is no tree
Do tiyurd can't climb!”
fmeaning that there was no position to
vvliirh too low-black laborers could not
successfully aspire), and this being set!
to a popular air, was sung with great
z :st by all the lower orders of society,
while ihe children of the classes learnt il
; horn their nurses. The liyurd affording
j an exetdout idea of insignificance, aecom-1
pained with agilty and skill—the other
| poetical party toned vent for the decla
ration of their sentiment in the same Im
inerous method, styling themselves “Fa
cos'' (a black parrot which feeds upon
liyaids), and the air was sung—
‘•De ('iicos, O! <1 j Cacos, olu’
•‘Do (.'acoa cat the liyurd oh”
This affords t one little idea of the respeef
ive characters engaged 111 the present
I struggle in lluyti. The "Cacos” party
1 are the better classes of the people [the
! proprietary party); - the liyurds are the
lower classes, as the laborers, tho I’ie
qnent, barbers, shoemakers, and draymen
—and these arc the supporters of Sal-
naves’ Government.
Salnavo understands tho character of
his parly, and there is good generalship
in his present plan. lle,we!l knows that j
the (dlicersAvill not.expose themselves in j.
leading any attack, and therefore so|
long he shows preparation for an assault j
there is little lear of tho soldiers doing
much, he therefore calculates licit hold
ing out within the .capital will eventual-;
ly damp the ardor of Fauliorl’s troops,
that they will throw up the ocege in dis-i
<-nst, and return to their homes, leaving]
him master ot the situation, lie has]
collected Ficquets lo his assistance; these ■
arc the savage from the woods of the inte
rior, and promising to divide among them j
the dukedoms and earldoms of the new i
empire il lie is victorious. The couse-j
qncnco is that as they all wish to be j
dukes, marquises, and earls, Salnave
easily gains them over to his side.
These men light desperately, for their i
life is iorfeiu and if they tail; lor having so
Ur fofgotU n,thi ir legitim ite stat.ou asjto
aspire to titles and rank over the pio.
primary class, they could never fall back
again into their proper places. The
coinmamlei'-iii -chiel at tiie Cape is a low
black tiddler, and the commander at
Connives a low black barber—swords
having taken the place of the “bow” and
tho “soap lather.”
Cape llayti and Gonaivc3 have been
! coiniiiplete y tu: rounded by tho Uncos,
aid tfie light has ext guished in the
1 lighthouse at Jacmc'l At L’ort-au-l’riooe
j vtinge liavoj been burned down, and at
■ .lucmed affairs had become so serious
j Hint 11, M. S. Mullet was about to pro
ceed there. The llaytieti steamer ol war
Galatea, now undergoing repairs in New
York has been seat for, and the war
steamer, ffffd December, la,’surrendered to
1 Lite Uncos at the Cape. .
Gold ranges from SOO to $63 Ilayticu
|to s-d American. Provisions vvuto plou
i li lul.
‘Nat what are you leaning over that
empty cask for?’ “I am, utvurning over
departed spirit.”
[s->.OO per Ajmum
m 27
! DON’T NEGLECT THE TIGS,
It is true tliat,just mm tlio' farmer is
busicr ‘thuii ut. any Crther turn 1 of tlio year
biit there ore a great many littl'e things
that can he done about tlio barn ami
farmyard that siould not bo neglected
fur the more pressing work of tlio Lay
| field.
It is now that the pmrltry and pigs
and interests are negle ted
; and at the time, too, When a little extra
care would richly pay.
Don’t let your hogs he obliged to wul—
\ low in tilth a foot deep,'when a cart lull
| of sods and loam will twiko their quar—
i tern sweet and comfortable. No hog
ever lived in fddi from preference, and
we can easily see how, with the thermonr
etei in the nineties what comfort a pile
of nice fresh green sods and a pail or
two of clean cool water can bring them.
Setting aside the benefit which is sore to
result to these animals by a little care
it is outrageous that they should be ob
liged to live in the dens that they some
times inhabit. Think of eating an uni'
mal that has breathed fur his whole lile
time an atmosphere that is extremely of
fensive even to tlio distance of a half »
mile from his quarters I There is mr
reason why the hog-sty should he mow
offensively odorous than the cow house,,
and it should not he.
Then 10b an hour from the night or at
earliest morn and bring np a good cart
loud of loam and sods ami throw it to the
hog i
Vour manure pile will be enriched fop"
the next season; and the pigs will pick
enough loud out of the load to pay for
the hauling, a'nd will be vastly more
healthy and clean for the trouble.
We spoke of the importance of having
a supply of good, clean water by toe
swine trough all the hot weather ; until
the expel intent isjtrioi one can form an
idea bow they enjoy it. Just fancy bow
hard it would be for a hmnnii being to
live without an abundance of cold water
to satisfy bis thirst and our word for it
a pig is very like a in.in in many of hi*
necessities.
bread upon the water?.
A Calafornia adventurer was trying
to get back to San Francisco from thv
mines where bo bad worked and search
ed without success, until his meaua
were exhausted. He came to a river,
but the ferryman asked a dollar to tak*
him across. The adventurer said s
‘Then T must walk up the stream un
til I cm ford it, for I have net a dollar
in the world.’
•If that is so.’ said the ferryman, 'jump
I in ; 1 never refuse to take u clever ina.i
I across because be is broke ’
When they bad readied the opposite
shore, the ferryman, who bad eyed tlw
adventurer very closely on the way,
said :
‘ls not your name Jones P
‘lt is,’ replied the adventurer.
‘Ami your father used to live in •
street, New York?*
‘He did,’ replied the adventurer with
astonishment to find himself recognized.
Thereupon tlio ferryman drew from his
pocket and commenced counting out gold
pieces,
‘1 have made five hundred dollars by
ferrying passengers, here are three hum
died of them for you. Yon can pay in®
when you are flush, or if that don’t hup—
pen all right.
When 1 was a little boy and,my mt»U*
or a poor widow many a time has you*
father visited our home, and when In*
|,ad gone somewhere about the room wo
would find money for a barrel of flour or
to pay the rent when we knew not be
fore where it was to c me from ; aud as
long as I live il l have a crust when I
find one of his sons in want he shall got
the biggest ball.’
The loan was gratefully accepted. By
its aid the traveller was aide to roach
Sun Francisco, earn enough to repay hi*
benefactor and return safely to his homo,
Be.u'tutl Ccstov in LUiviii.. —A Bra
zilian correspondent of the Missouri Re
publican gives the following;
‘The person who meets with a sudden
or a violent death in Brazil, either by ac
cident or murder, is buried by tlio way
side, near where the event happened, and
u cross inset up at the head of the-grow*
To this cross as the emblem of his faith
everywhere, the Brazilian lifts his hat in
passing, and it is a beautiful custom of
the people to hang this love memento
with flowers and garlands. 1 frequently
past such a cross near this city whpre a
: man was uturdeied so long ago that but
; few remember the circumstances, yet
pious aiidjiinseeu hands are always deck
mg Uii.s wayside cross with wreaths and
j roses.
‘Arc you near-sighted, miss?’ said »i»
impudent fellow to a young lady who
i did not onco cifoosc to notice him- ‘Ye*
ut this distance, I can hardly tell wheth
er yon arc a pig or a puppy,’
‘What kind of board (J> you gist at
your house ? said a friend to Biiiks the
other day. ‘Well, we pine during, the
I week, and plank down a good deal Sat
urday,’ said tlio cadaverous-Biuks.
; A Western editor Says that "his con
nection with th’c press has thawed ,and
! resolved itself into adieu.