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JOHH J01T18 A1TO I
XT CHARLES O. AifES.
We had a tiff: “John Jonee,” said I,
“ you ahould’nt leave your cow at large I”
“ Ton mend your fence 1” wat hie reply;
And so ran charge and counter-charge.
j; the cow had cropped
Blade* of gras*, some heada of grain;
And yet for this a friend I dropped,
And wrought for both a lasting pain
I knew that I bad played the fool,
yet thrust my better thought aside,-
. And when my blood bad time to cool,
tUeetne S greater foal through r.rid*.
Upon two houses a shadow sate;
Two cordial wives grew shy and cool;
Two brood* of children learned to hate,
Two parties grew in church and school.
-John Jones’s pew was next to mine $
What pleasant greetings passed between I
As sacred as the bread and wine
Bad our communing friendship been.
■Oft had our volees swelled the song;
Oft had we bowed in silent prayer,
And ebared the worship of the throng
Who sat in heavenly places there.
But bow shall souls In exile sing
The Lord’s sweet song f The holy notes
Of fellowship, snd joy, snd peace.
And pardon, Btuck In both our throats..
Some lessened relish for all good,
Made life for both to deaden down;
And nature darkened to her mood,
And answered back our settled frown.
One summer eve I sat and smoked;
Good Doctor Deane came riding by;
Be eaid, In voice a little choked,
“ John Jones is hurt, snd like to die.”
A sudden Are shot through my brain,
And burned, like tow, the sophist lies;
And on my heart a sudden pain
Fell, liko a bolt from bidden skies. 1
I stumbled o’er the threshold where
Mv shadow had not passed for years;
I felt a shudder in the hand
A woman gave me through her tears.
When he no more the pulse could feel,
I saw the doctor turn away;
Some mighty impulse made me kneol
Beside the bed as if to pray.
yet not tbe Maker’s nsme I called ,
As one who plunges ’nesth the wave,
A swimmer strong and,unappalled,
Intent a drowning life to save;
So all my soul’s up-gathered dowers,
In anguish of desire intense,
Sent that departing one a cry
That leaped the abyss of broken seuse.
Back to the dim eye came a ray,
O’er the white face a faint smile shone;
I felt, as ’twere a spirits touch,
, The stiffened fingers press my owa.
O, resurrection power of God,.
Which wrought that miracle of pain
From buried hearts tore off the shroud,
And mado dear friendship live again.
Beside one grave two households stood
And, weeping, heard the pastor say,
<• That out of death He brlngeth life,
And out of darknesB cometh day.” 2
Was I chief mourner In the train ? ’
Ab, who conld guess of all the throng
The strange, sweet comfort In the pain
Of one who mourns forgiven wrong ?
HOLYOKE’S HOLOCAUST.
The Human Burnt Offering in a Pine
Church. ^
One of the moat terrible disasters in
the history of Massachusetts occurred
on the 28th, in the burning of the
French Catholic church at South Hol
yoke, during the evening service, and
involving the death of sixty-six men,
women and ohildren.
The olmrch society was established
about seven years ago, and Father
Dufresne had been the only pastor.
The parish included all the French
Gatbolics of the oity, whose number is
estimated at from 2,000 to 2,500 persons.
The church was erected in 1870,
ENTIRELY OF FINE ;
was about one hundred feet by sixty;
two stories, with galleries on the sides
and north end about twenty-five feet
wide. There were two doors in the
north end and the vestibule, from which
two doors opened into the body of the
church. The galleries opened into the
-vestibule. At the rear end was another
door by which a few persons escaped.
Immediately upon the breaking out
of the flam— all the occupants of the
galleries rushed to the east door, and
falling upon one another ohoked up the
doorway with their
BODIES PILED IN ALL WAYS
seven or eight deep. Here most of the
lives were iosi. f rom ibis mass Chief
Mullen rescued one young woman after-
having taken off two dead bodies from
•above her. The chief and others had
their clothes almost burnt from them,
and were badly burnt about the hands.
In tike rear of the church was the
priest’s residenoe, which was also de
stroyed. The walls were pulled down
after the fire was nearly put out One
'woman lamped from the highest window
down upon the front stops, breaking
her am. A man with
TWO CHILDBEN IN BIB ABBS
jumped from a window and
•One poor woman enveloped in flam-
shrieked out—"For God’s sake, save
me,” and she was dragged out.
TBE BEBO OF THE DISASTER
was John Lyncb, a brave fireman, who
was the first to respond to the alarm.
He describes the scene when he reached
tbe burning church as appalling.
Wedged tight and immovable in the
doorways was a dense mars of humanity
from six to eight feet in height, none of
them able to stand upright from the
terrible pressure of the crowd behind,
while npon and over them a sheet of
fire rolled like a wave streaming far oat
into the open air. Without a moment’*
pause to consider tnoir danger, Lynch
and chief engineer Mullen rushed into
the flames, spurred on by piteous cries—
"For God's Bake oome and help us,”
and began pulling out bodies. A
moment later and a well directed hy
drant stream from Mt. Holyeke struck
the brave rescuers and undoubtedly
saved them from being burned alive.
The first persons drawn out were burn
ing, but they passed directly through
the stream of water and the flames were
extinguished. Some of the poor crea
tures fell fainting on the long flight of
wooden stairs leading down to the street
and few were able to walk.
By this time the entire fifce depart
ment had arrived, and worked with
snch energy and will that when the fire
was extinguished the charred wooden
walls of the structure were standing,
and were pulled down by the ho*, k
and ladder men in order that search
for the bodies might be made. Only
a very few moments com;
elapsed after the water struok the
buuding before the fire was, or*
but the destruction of life during
that brief period waB terrible. 'Some
sprang from the gallery windows and
were seriously injnred, and one person
appeared at a window.
COMPLETELY WRAPPED IN FLAMES,
and after tottering there an instant fell
to the ground dead and unrecognizable.
Hundreds of men went to the wreck as
soon as opportunity offered, to search
for bodies, and a force of police was
organized to keep back the large crowd
whioh had gathered. The greater num
ber of bodies were found in the fatal
entry way burned, some of them to |a
crisp. The body of one woman was
found in the pew she had occupied, her
clothing entirely burned off. A fleshy
woman who weighed some 180 pounds,
was dragged soreaming from the mass.
She was carried a short distance fiom
the ohuroh and placed on the grass,
while the
FLESH ACTUALLY PEELED OFF,
of her back. In a moment she fell over
dead.' The scenes last night and to-day
in the school-house basement, where
the bodies of the dead were carried,
were heart-rending in the extreme. In
some instances the features were dis
torted as though extreme agony had
been suffered before death, but many
looked ealm as though smothered. All
were blackened with smoke. Some
were burned beyond the possibility of
identification, nothing remaining but
the trunk.
Louis Desjemen, 5i years old, whose
wife and daughter were both burned to
death,
BECAME INSANE
to-day from grief, and cried oontinually
in agonizing tones, “ Oh my Julie t my
Julie 1” Some were taken out alive who
were under others who were dead, and
owed to this fact their own salvation.
One of the most protracted eases of
suffering was that of Mary Desjemen,
who, burned past all recognition and
blind, some how found her way to a
hill north of the church and wandered
around there about twenty minutes be
fore she was found and taken to Her
home, where she died about 11 o’clock
this morning, having lingered fifteen
honrs in fearfnl agony.
The fate of Immenie Menser and her
lover was a touching event of the fire.
She was organist for the evening, in the
absence of the regular one. and was out
off from escape. Her lover escaped,
but, fMing she was still within, turned
bade and shared her fate.
A REVISED LX8T OF THE VICTIMS.
The latest revised figures give: Dead,
71: fatally burned, 22: other vise burned
art wounded, 27. Of the 71 dead, 55
are females art 16 males.
-An Arkansas youth -me to Ms
"Whar’s big butch, little butch, the
the one I
enuff to sot any .
without you've lost 'em.*
How to Avoid Contagious Diseases*
By contagious diseases are meant such
as may be propagated by touch, or by
being in the direct presence of the pa
tient himself, or from some material
derived from him, snch as soarle> fever,
small-pox, eto. Infections diseases are
produced by some noxious matter in the
byth^body itself; of such ore ague, ty
phoid fever, eto. In the latter olass of
diseases the necessary precautions are
to fry and change the character of the
surrounding air by enforcing strictly
litary laws, which is in a great mess-
i different from the oonrse to be taken
in avoiding contagious diseases. This
consists chiefly in the shunning of all
unnecessary oontaot with the sick and ip
destroying all noxious material they may
create. Whenever we aee a person sick
with a contagious disease no excessive
fears should be allowed to occupy the
mind; it is wholly needless, and, more
than this, it predisposes the system to
the disease it so much dreads by dimin
ishing its tone. A good plan is to eat or
drink something before entering the
siok-room, as it is supposed that when
the stomach is acting the catching poi
son is to a certain extent repelled; hence
after meals would be the time to choose.
Some thfak or believe that the virus
of a sick-room is introduced into the
system through the spittle ooming in
oontaot with the poisoned air and then
swallowed. Therefore, it would be well
to ejet and not to swallow it. Oleanl-f
ness is a good preventive to contagion;
those exposed should take a bath morn
ing and evening; also change clothes
dally.
After leaving the sick-room take a
brisk walk, as this will excite nerve
foroe and air the olothes. It is not well
to sleep in the room with a person hav
ing a contagious disease. Therefore,
when o*lled upon to watch a night with
the sick—which every humane person
is, and others ought to be willing to do
—it is well to take a book and try and
keep awake all night. For when asleep
the system is relaxed, thus offering less
resistance to oontagion. Certain odors
are also sometimes beneficial as pre
ventives—as camphor, hartshorn, vine
gar and many other substances, al
though modem science has branded
them as popular delusions.
Science has introduced disinfectants,
whioh deserve great merit. Of these
the oarbolio acid is deemed best of all;
an ounce may be put in a gallon of
water, and then used by sprinkling.
Among others always at hand are wood
charcoal, quick-lime, and fresh earth.—
Cor. Rural New Yorker.
The Cotton Worm.
Dr. A. R. Grote advances a somewhat
novel and at the same time encouraging
theory in regard to the cotton worm, so
injurious to the agricultural interests of
the southern states. The result of care
ful inquiry into its history has led him
to the inference that it is in reality a
native of south and central America,
that its appearance in tbe United States
is the result of immigration from the
south, and that it dies out every year
with its food-plant, the eggs whioh it
lays not ooming to maturity, being
killed by the inolemenoy of the weather.
He finds testimony that for many years
after the introduction of the ootton
plant into the southern states , the cot
ton worm did not appear, and that its
existence in southern Alabama but little
preceded the late war. It is, however,
oapable of extended flights, as it has
been observed in the eastern states, end
also at Buffalo and Chicago. The sup
ply of the insect is, therefore, main-
tuned every year by means of flights
from the south, which are somewhat
capricious, and may be diverted out of
their course by powerful currents of
wind occurring "t the time of their
inference uawu from these facie
by L*r. Grote is that the process of arti
ficial extermination may be simplified
by limftihg the period during whioh it
oan be suooessfully attacked, by,
doing away with a certain .class of pro
posed remedies. The agent employed
to destroy the worm must be vised
against the first brood, as they appear,
in spy given locality, daring its pro
gress northward, and that, to be effect-
ual, tL* action most be oonoertedin
the application of the remedial sgeni
MraaqLgyte
agricultural interest.
S
HE-
{ USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.
Dampness will cause honey to become
thin and watery.
To make green gold, melt together
nineteen grains, pure gold and five
grains pure silver. The metal thus
prepared has a beautiful green shade. ,
Five parts of sifted whiting mixed
with a eolation of one part glue, togeth
er with a little Venice turpentine to ob
viate the brittleness, makes a good
plastic material which may be kneaded
into figures or any desired shape. It
should be kept warm while bring work
ed, It becomes as hard as stone when
some parts of the country, there
have been large numbers of the orchard
or tent caterpillars which have left their
rings of eggs on the young twigs. If
these are now out off with a dipping
pole, it will prevent in every instance a
large neat of caterpillars, and be much
more easily done than after the latter
have grown.
. Unless the month is frequently and
carefully cleansed, it becomes infested
with vegetable and animal parasites,
These cause decay of the teeth. Soap
is the best material for preventing the
development of the fungi and for neu
tralizing the arid. Precipitated chalk
mixed with the soap assists the cleans
ing action.
The German washerwomen use a
mixture of 2 ozs. tuipentine and 1 oz,
spirits of ammonia well mixed together.
This is put into a. buoket of warm
water, in which j lb. soap has been dis
solved. The olothes are immersed for
twenty-four hours and then washed.
The cleansing is said to be greatly
quickened, and two or three rinsings in
oold water remove the turpentine smell.
Among some uneduoated people there
is a superstition that the ticking noise
made by a little inseot popularly called
the "death-watch” forebodes a death
in the house. This little creature is a
beetle of the timber-boring species.
The tick is only a call one to another,
and if not answered it is repeated. It
is produced by the beetle luting itself
upon its hind legs and beating its head
against the place where it is standing.
In old honses these insects may be
heard rapping all day long.
In using Paris green to exterminate
the potato bugs, the poison should be
mixed with the cheapest grade of flour,
one pound of green to ten of flour. A
good way of applying it to the plants is
to take an old two-quart tin fruit oan,
melt off the top, and put in a wooden
head in whioh insert a broom handle.
Bore a hole in the head, also, to pour
the powder in, and then punch the bot
tom full of holes about the size of a Ho.
6 shot; Walk alongside the rows when
the vines are wet with dew or rain, and
make one shoot at each hill.
To Remove a Ring from the Finger.
—In case a finger-ring becomes too
tight to pass over the joint of the finger,
the finger should first be held in oold
water to reduce any swelling or inflam
mation. Then wrap a rag soaked in
hot water around tue ring to expand
the metal, and lastly soap the finger.
A needle threaded with strong silk can
then be passed between the ring and
finger, ana a person holding the two
ends and pulling the silk, while sliding
it around the periphery of the ring,
will readily remove the latter.
The alloy popularly known as oroide,
from whioh a large number of cheap
watches, chains, and trinkets are now
manufactured, is made of pore copper
100 parts, tin 17 parts, magnesia 16
parts, sal smmoniao J part, quicklime J
part, tartar of commerce 9 parts. The
oopper is first melted, then the magne
sia. sal lime, and tartar in
powder ace added little by little art
briskly stirred for half an hour. The
tin is lastly mixed in in grains until all is
fused. The erueible is covered, tad the
fusion maintained for 85 minutes, when
the dross is skimmed off and the alloy
is ready for
Oatebfillabs.—The tent caterpillar,
eggs of which encircle the small twigs
in rings of 400 to 500 each, fa most
easily destroyed before it hatches, or
early iff spring. Gat them off and bon
them. In an extensive plantation, we
sensed an aotive man to pass through
wing art dear them out. He
_ _ about 3.000 nests mt wo days,
thus preventing ths hatching of ovei a
of ngp mon tMi all ths
birds in the township would have dons
rhrtnlrim. Llsoem parts of ths
S sooner they are looked aftJc^hs