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A hundred years ago.
Where, where are all the birds that tang
A hundred years ago?
The flowers that all la beauty sprang
A hundred years ago ?
Tbe lips that sallied,
The eye3 that wild
Tn flashes shone
Soft eyes upon:
Where, 0 where are lips and eyes.
The maiden’s smiles, the lover’s sighs,
That lived eo long ago ?
Who peopled all the city streets
A hundred years ago ?
Who filled the chui eh with faces meek,
A hundred years ago?
The sneering tale
Of sister frail;
The p!,it that worked
A brother's hurt -
Where, 0 where are piots and sneers.
Xiie poor man's hope*, the rich mat's fears.
That lived so long ago ?
She let him up, and he turned to the
Vicksburger ana inquired:
“ Stranger, was it a fa’r fought ?”
**I guess it was!”
“ Then I travel I”
He entered the hat, put on hiB coat
and hat, took np his rifle, and as he
came oat he reached his hand to his
wife, and said:
“Good-bye, Sake! We agreed fa’r
and equar’, and here I go!” Then,
turning to the traveler, he added:
“Much obleeged, stranger—ye held
the candle plumb fa’r, and ye didn’t
holler for either one of m ”*
PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY.
Tbe Plan tor Bugllih and American
Coalition—An mxtenslon gcheme.
The executive committee of the na
tional grange have spent considerable
time in reoeiving and considering the
proposition of the English co operators
for a union for commercial purposes of
the two bodies. The co operafors are
represented by Thos. B. Wcrrall, of
Manchester, England, who is th a man
aging director of the company whioh is
proposed as the bond of onion. The
British co-operative societies are net
lt i fill Via imnAflci.
A FIGHT FOR SUPREMACY.
Alt Authentic Incident ot Travel in the
Southwest.
A gentleman residing in this city had
occasion a few days since to make a
journey down the river and several
miles back from it, using a saddle-horse.
Darkness overtook him in a sparsely
settled district, and as the roads were in
a bad condition and the evening looked
threatening, he halted before a forlorn-
looking hut, and asked if he could find
lodgings.
“ I reckon ye mought,” replied the
long-haired, sorrowful-eyed squatter,
after hesitating for a moment.
The Vicksburger found little to eat,
and his horse found still less. The
squatter and his wife were all alone,
and they had but a few words for the
stranger, and scarcely spoke to each
other. When the evening grew old the
traveler camped down on the floor on a
blanket, and being very tired he fell
asleep while host and hostess were
smoking their black clay pipes at the
other end of the room. He had slept
about two hours when the squatter
shook him by the shoulder and said : _
“Stranger, I’m powerful sorry to dis
turb ye, but I want to ax a favor.”
««Yes—yes—what is it?” inquired the
Vioksburger, as he rubbed his eyes and
6at « 1 Ye like to see fa’r play, don’t ye,
stranger ?”
“Yes, of course.”
“ Wall, me’n the old woman can t
agree; somehow she’s cross and tetchy,
and I guess I’m a trifle ugly. Least
wise, we don’t hug up worth ole boots.
We’ve fit and fit; I’m old and she s
chuck full o’ grit, and it’s about an even
thing!”
“ Well, I’m sorry,” put m the Vicks
burger, as the squatter hesitated.
“ We’ve been a-balkin’ since ye cum,
stranger, and we’ve made up to ask ye
to hold the candle and let us go in for
an old rouser of a fight—a reg lar old
sockdolager, whioh shall settle our fuss!
If I lick, she’ll go; if she licks, I’ll
travel !**
“I’m sorry if there’s any trouble, and
I hope vou won’t fight.”
“ We’ve got to do it, stranger," re
plied the woman, “ I won’t live with a
man who kin lick me, and he’s just as
high-born. Sam’s as good as the run o
men, but he’s lazy and sass^y, and wants
to wear his hat on his ear!’
“She’s right, Btranger,” said the
squatter, “ and this cabin can’t hold
both of us any longer! It’s to be a squar’
fight—no kicking or clubbing, and we
won’t go back on yer decision! ’
The Vicksburger protested, but the
woman placed a lighted candle in his
hand, and posted him in the door, and
man and wife stepped out on the ground.
nuitet lor tjiuutsi uua m bodies ; lieuftft it will be impossi-
! And he walked down to the fence, j y e under existing circumstances for
I leaped over, and was soon lost to sight, them to unite with the patrons, but
' “Good rnff on the shoot," mused the ‘ '
wife as she gazed after him, “but hiB
‘Suke, I’m going to wallop ye right
smart in just four hoots and a holler!
said the squatter as he pushed up his
“ Sain, ye don’t weigh ’nnff into three
tons 1” she replied in a grim voice,
and the battle commenced.
The Vicksburger mentally bet twenty
to one on the man at the start, but in
two minutes he had reduced the odds to
ten. and in two minutes more he was
bettiDg even. The wife was like a wild
cat, springing, dodging, striking, and
clawing, and pretty soon her husband
had to stand on the defensive.
“ Look out for the Bengal tiger.
Sake i” he warned as he oiawed the air,
“ I can whip the boots off’n ye, Sam I
ehe replied, and the battle grew fiercer.
One of the woman’s sharp nails struck
the husband’s eye and blinded him for
an instant. As he threw np his arms
she seized both her hands into his hair,
yanked him down, and in another mo
ment had the “gouge’’on him.
“Sam, do ye cave? she asked as
they lay quiet. _ . ,
“That’s the dead-wood. Suke, and
I’m a licked man!” he mournfully an
swered.
fighting weight is clar run down to
nothin!”— Vicksburg Herald,
Alexander Dumas in the Drawing
Room.
A writer says: DrawiDg-room and
table talk is practised' as an art in
France, and Dumas has a reputation in
this way, and is probably as fond of his
effects in society as of those he furnishes
for the stage. French being admirably
adapted to epigrammatic conversation,
this professed wit avails himself of it
with rare skill. When he is present,
talking groups disposed about a room
gradually dissolve and gather near to
listen to him, and he becomes the auto-
orat of the conversational domain. An
occasional word is put in, a one given,
and this is the usual limit of expression
of those who surround him. In the
telling of risible wit—for he naturally
has several kinds—he affects the serious,
unmoved face to produce hilarious
effects, like a comedian, but a comedian
of the highest type. His epigrams and
anecdotes are so well made and so well
told that some people believe there is
previous preparation; all agree, how
ever, in the opinion that he has special
a in this way. His experience aB a
atic author has evidently perfected
him for this social amusement; in a
certain sense he transfers the stage to
the drawing-room, a ad adds the charac
ter of author to that of actor. As we
all know the manner adds much to the
matter; so when the laugh begins to be
heard the raconteur, cool as a May
morning, looks around surprised at the
risible manifestation, whioh naturally
increases it. He speeds an arrow at
folly as it flies, and fixes a wicked witti
cism on the absent with remarkable
dexterity. In private life, where inter
course is more intimate, he is fond of
M assing a portion of his time in that
'arisian gossip to whioh the gentle sex
is supposed to be more particularity
given.* In this fireside intimacy he is
ready to enter into that wide field called
chiffons with the zest of a fashionable
woman. .
Wobking Teams in the Coon op the
Day.—A writer in the Country Gentle
man says that he breaks prairie soil as
follows: “ The sod is in splendid con
dition, the grass well forward, render
ing the labor of teams comparatively
light. Indeed, my cattle seem to bear
the toil on grass alone far better than I
could expect. I am trying an expert
iment with my breaking this season, in
order to avoid the excessive heat of
mid-day. My cattle are at work as
soon as it is light enough to see. They
work steadily till 10 a. m.; ai< then
turned out until 4 p. m.; and worked
from that time as long as I can eee.
One week’s trial convmoes me that I
can thus do more work, without danger
of hurting my cattle, than to wait till
7 a.m., and work through the heat of
the day. The cattle, after a weeks
work, take me round a land 120 rods
long as fast as I have any desire to
walk, pulling a fourteen-inch breaker,
and cutting two and one-half inches
deep ‘
In France and other continental
countries the bodies of deceased persons
are committed to their parent Jeartb
much sooner after death than is the cus
tom in this country. The iaw, in con
sequent, insists on great care being
iakeu U> avoid premature interment.
In Brest lately, however, * marine fell
into a lethargio state, was certified as
dead by the hospital authorities, and
his supposed remains were conveyed
under a military escort to the cemetery.
A few days afterward some of those wno
had buried him were surprised and
horrified by meeting him in the street.
Fortunately he had been reserved f6r
scientific purposes, and when he was
placed naked on the marble slab in the
dissecting room the sudden chill revived
him,
them to unite with the patrons, but
this difficulty has been met by the for
mation of a trading company having the
indorsement and support of the united
co-operative bodies in England, and
fully organized under the English laws.
The propositions are to have two
branches of the society, one in Englani
and the other in the United States.
The board in each country is to have
the absolute control of the funds sub
scribed therein, and all to be used for
the purpose of the international ex
change of commodities. The capital
is 825,000,000.
All transactions are to be for cash or
its equivalent. The British co-opera-
tors number 500,000; have over one
thousand stores, some fifty or sixty cot
ton spinning mills, about twenty flour
ing mills, an agricultural and horticul
tural society, and a number of manu
factories, and, of course, consume a large
quantity of American products. The
funds subscribed by the English branch
of the company will be employed
in the purchase of ships, the erec
tion of warehouses, and the manu
facture of suoh articles as are in
constant demand among the patrons of
husbandry. These ships will bring the
goods to New Orleans and other south
ern ports, and to eastern ports if neces
sary, and they desire tne patrons to
employ their portion of the capital in
carrying American staples and produots
to meet these ships, and thus to make
the necessary exchange in the most
direct and simple manner. The co-
operators have a large surplus capital,
whioh is constantly on the increase, and
whioh they think can be profitably em
ployed in this trade.
While eaoh branch of the oompany
will have oontrol of its own affairs the
two boards will form aconnoil, who will
by joint aotion decide what branches of
business will be engaged in, and define
the method of oondnoting the safne.
An American will be sent to Liverpool
to watoh the interests of the grange
branch of the company, and the Eng
lish board will have a like representa
tive in New Orleans,. while the general
supervision will be in the hands of a
managing direotor, already elected, and
who, though an Englishman born, has
been twenty-three years in America.
The proposition is regarded with great
favor, and it is expeoted the sub-oom-
mittee of the national mange, to whom
the whole matter has bo jn referred, will
report Monday.
The executive committee determined
to <end three of their number, viz.:
Messrs. Shanklaud, of Iowa; Chase, of
New Hampshire; and Jones, of Arkan
sas, to represent the patrons of hus
bandry in the cotton states congress,
whioh meets in Baleigh, N. O., on the
13th inst.
Wicker Coffins.
A number of prominent medical men
in England are conducting a spirited
crusade against the present method of
tacking our dead bodie: under the
dniaiftw, recommending that wicker
baskets be substituted for the splendid
motniiin and air-tight affairs with which
corpses are now enveloped preparatory
to interment. While ic is the aim of
our scMnlifio undertakers to so perfect
their caskets that the remains enclosed
will preserve their life-likeness as long
as possible, these medical folks across
the waters arc endeavoring to pop
ularize the use of wicker^ ooffins, in
order that, ihe uiBBuIutiuu ut
and its resolution into mother earth
will be allowed to proceed in the natural
order oi things without hindrance. The
movement seems to be a sort of com
promise between the costly process of
inhumation now in vogue and the more
repugnant, though cheaper, eremation.
“ Dust thou art, dust returnest,” seems
to be the text of the advocates of the
new movement, and they are in favor
of making a practical application of it.
Dr. Seymour Haden has opened an
exhibition of the wicker basket with
open meshes, which he reoommends for
burial, at the duke of Sutherland’e
house, and fashionable society has
flocked to it as one of the sights of the
season. When fashion commends a
new idea in anything, no matter if it is
a coffin, of course the suocess of the
thing is pretty well assured. Bnt it is
doubtful if the project will really
succeed. There is entirely too muon
earnest sentiment in the world regarding
the preservation of the form ana facial
lineaments of deceased friends to allow
the proposed innovation to gain pop
ularity. Oh tha oontray, the world
would rather know the secret of the old
Egyptian process of mutniuy-makiug,
and learn thereby to preserve through
all time the physical semblance of the
departed, even though a mummy, after
it gets to be ten or twenty centuries
old, is one of the most hideons things
imaginable. In an agricultural point
of view, however, the wicker-basket
idea is not a bad one.
“Tempered" Glass.
Varied as will be its application for
scientific and industrial uses, its utility
for domestic purposes will be consider
able. It will be a boon to the careful
housewife; besides its utility for all
articles of common household orookery,
china, hot water, and washing appara
tus, M. de la Bastie’s invention will in
future relieve her mind of all anxiety
regarding her most favorite china and
glass, for, if “ tempered ” by this pro
cess, they will be proof against the
carelessness of the most careless ser
vants. To give an illustration.
Amongst several artioles whioh we in
spected and tried one, whioh appeared
to us to be a common china plate,
turned ont to be of the tempered glass
enamelled on the top. It was thrown
on the floor, gave forth a bell-like
sonnd, but did not break. In fact, it
may be thrown about anyhow without
breaking. A square piece of glass
about one-eighth of an inoh in thiok-
ness was put into a wooden frame, rest
ing only with its sides on the latter, and
we were surprised to find that it sub?
tained the weight of an adult mail.
Chimney-glasses and globes will fly
directly if the gas is turned on too sud
denly on lighting up; tempered glass
will stand any sadden changes. It is
even stated that pipes made of this
glass will withstand the greatest press
ure, and that it would be worth while
trying it for water-pipes. If it were
once established to be proof against
frost what disoomfort wauld be spared
the householder of London, who looks,
at the breaking up of frost, for the
bursting of his water-pipes and its con-
oomitant misery, as regularly as to
the non appearance of watering-carts
when an east or north wind is blinding
him with dust. We shonld not omit to
mention that there is a great probability
of the efficiency and durability of the
new glass being put to a severe test.
We are informed that there is some
prospect of its being used for the large
tanks of the new Westminster aquarium,
now in course of ereotion. Tne glass
plates forming the sides of the tanks
are, of necessity, of snoh an enormous
thickness, to insure safety, whioh is not
always obtainable, as to make their con
struction very expeasive. Glass tem
pered by M. de la Bastie’s process, it to
stated, need only be of a quarter the
thickness of ordinary plate glass used
for that purpose, and even ihen resist
any possible amount of lateral pressure.
Does Giant Farming Pay?
Three years ago a company of Eng
lish capitalists offered $1,500,000 tor
the Sullivan farm, in Ford oounty, HL
The same property has since passed
into the posession of the Hon. Hiram
Sibley, of Rochester, N. Y., who values
his interest at $500,000. Part of the
decline in value of the Sullivan farm
may be attributed to the general busi
ness depression, but a large share must
be ascribed to the poor success of giant
farming. Mr. Sibley, the new propri
etor, is fitted by nature and education
to carry on a work cf this description,
but he is one n an picked out of 10,000,
Farming on a large scale depends tor
success on the elements that are essen
tial to the safe and prosperous conduot
of a large business, and also requires
a milianty with details of farm work.
Since the Sullivan farm, embracing
40,000 acres, and the Oaynga oounty,
N. lY., farm of 4,000 acres, are now
under one management, we may have
an opportunity to dotonnino what brains
can accomplish in the highest depart
ments of agriculture.—Chicago Tribune,