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THE TWO SONGS.
Wlien lovo was young, at brightening morn,
While high above the yellow corn,
The glad lark shrilled, to her whose eyes %
Seemed homes ol radiant ccstacies
I sang.. The glory of the time \
Rang through the notes ami ruled the rhyme.
The rapture o£ the unklaecitrose,' , 3 .
When bud-bound petals tlrst unclose,
Spake from my lips, afire from those
Whose sweetness thrilled nty spirit through,
And the song’s jubilant music'knew
Joy’s impulse in cacli soaring strain,
Each cadence low, each glad refrain.
I turned. Those eyes looked praise, and yet
. Some shade of fear or faint regret,
t ike a thin eloud o’er sunlit stream,
Sweet the cares that ttucrdoii gave
For that giad song: am shadows siui i
Beneath joy's aun, or passion crave
Tiic night was young, the night-bird's trill
Shook softiicr than a far-heard Jute
From that, gray cojwe lmnealh the hill,
And then was mute!
Her head clasped close abov i my heart,
X sang—for that the words would start
From lnden lips—a song as ion’
As spring's first streamlet’s timid flow;
Low, yet as happv as the tears
Which fall unchecked from shining eyes,
When hope, outlasting sundering years,
Attains its paradise.
Whispers of trees, when storms linvo fled,
Bear such sweet burden; odors shed
By rain-washed roses through the night
'Breathe such serene and sure delimit
As tii is my song. I might not sec
Her eves in that leaf-cumbcrcd place,
Unt elosecr drew her tender face,
And prossed her heart to me.
And through the silence nnd the dark;
There came n gladness that the lark
11.1th not a song for. Love that lives
Through sorrow such deliverance gives
From fear, its shadow' may not start
To chill the clasp of heart to heart.
vourer’s head
The jaws gaped as
Instantly all was changed,
if they would separ-
POPULAR SCIENCE,
Kills ami Their Yoimr—Some Facto Not
Goitcriill.v It mum.
The October number of the Popular
Science Monthly contains an article by
Prof. Burt G. Wilder entitled “bats and
their young.” Beginning bis essay by
remarking that all parts of the world ex
cepting the colder regions are inhabited
by bats; that there are many kinds of
bats; that they often occur in very large
numbers, and that there are very few
persons, young or old, who have not seen
a bat, the writer adds: “ Yet, aside from
professed naturalists, it is equally prob
able that there are still fewer who, from
direct observation, could give any accu
rate description pf their appearance, their
habits, their structure of their relations
with the ‘birds of the air’ or the ‘beasts
of the earth/ to both of which bats bear
more or less resemblance.” Prof. Wilder
thinks that this is not strange, “ for bats
pass the day- in caves ftncl deserted build
ings, and ny about in pursuit of prey
only in the twilight. Much less rapid
than that of birds, their flight is so irre
gular as to render it difficult to follow
their course, and in the dusk they are
often mistaken for somewhat eccentric
members of the swallow family.” The
very asp|cf;of bats, we are told,* fe repul
sive ; they ..often emit an unpleasant odor;
they breed 5 vermin, which thev often
leave behind them in houses; tliey bite
fiercely when they are captured, having
sharp, “almost needle-like” eye-teeth.
Buts have rarely been domesticated, there
being on record only two instances of the
taming of bats. Prof. Wilder caught
one when he was a boy, and he gives the
following account of his somewhat dis
agreeable-pet:
“ One of our common bats (probably
either the ‘little brown bat,’ VcspertUu)
mbulatus, or the ‘little red bat, )
into the house one evening and
caught under a hat. It queuked and
snapped its little jaws so viciously that
all efforts toward closer acquaintance
were nosponed until morning.
“ When uncovered the next day it
seemed as fierce as before, but less active
ate, the crushed fly dropped from the
tongue, and the well-known clicks pro
claimed a hatcred and defiance which
hunger could not subdue nor food ap-
.peftse. So at least it seemed, and. I
think any but a boy naturalist would
have yielaed :o the temptation to fling
the spiteful creature out of the window.
Perhaps, too, a certain obstinacy made
me unwilling to so easily relinquish the
newly-formed hope of domesticating a
bat. At any rate, another fly presented,
j and, like the former, dropped the mo-
: meat my fingers touched the bend ui'tiic
I bat. With a third 1 waited until the
j bat seemed to be actually swallowing,
and unable to either discontinue that pro
cess or open its mouth tojmy extent.
“ Its rage and pexplexity were comical
to behold, and, when the fly was really
down, it seemed to almost burst with the
effort to express its indignation. But
this did not prevent it from falling into
the same trap again;and, to make a long
story short, it finally learned by expe
rience that while chewing and swallow
ing were more or less interrupted by
snapping at me, both operations were
quite compatible with my gentle stroking
of its head. And even a bat has brains
enough to see the foolishness of loosing a
dinner in order to resent an unsolicited
kindness.
“ In a few days the bat would take
flies from my fingers; although, either
from eagerness or because blinded by the
light, it too often nipped me sharply in
its efforts to seize the victim.
“Its vorasity was almost incredible.
For several weeks it devoured at least
fifty house-flies in a day (it was vacation,
anil my playmates had to assist me), and
once disposed of eighty between day
break ana rahset.
“ This bat I kept for more than two
months. It would shuffle across the
table when I entered the room, and lift
up its head for the expected fly. *Vhen
traveling it was carried in my breast
pocket.
“ In the fall it died, either from over
eating or lack of exercise, for I dared not
mental postulate of all biological re
search, we are bound to inquire whether
one mode of expression is not much more
likely to be true than the ‘other.” g T
Epizootic Remedy.—\
zootic prevailed so' ext
f hen tj
Snsivel
epi-
three
years ago, we had full experience in the
benefit of palliative treatment, and none
in any other. As soon as the first horse
in the neighborhood was attacked, our
working team, which was Knsr fall-,
,
aft
_ * ••••'V •'•“-I"
mg, was fed each a peck of scalded b
with a double hail
Although till
ul of scalded
iV
ran,
meal
Office St. Lours Agricultukal )
and Mechanical Association, s-
St. Louis, Oetober 14th, 1875. I
This is to certify that the Spees Earth
Auger, represented hjr ; Warren A. Sherwood,
Esq., has received tnt 1st premium and di
ploma at the St. LouiSjfairs, ‘in 1874 andl875.
f - Ju. O. Kalb, Sec’y.
The office of Dr. Sherwood, who owns the
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is Room 4, St. Charles Hotel, St. Louis, Mo.,
where all inquires should he addressed.
i'moi Brand Exposition of the Tradesmen's
Industrial Institute, Pittsburg, Pa.,opens Oct.
7, closes Nov. 6. Address A J. Nellis, Pres.
t _ iu:n, except one j
uay, tuey never eeaseu worn, ana recov- t
flew
was
let it out of doors, and it was so apt to
injure itself in the rooms that I seldom
allowed it to.fly.
“I should add that it drank frequently
and greedily from the tip of a camcl's-
liair pencil.
“It must be admitted,” the writer
says, “that most bats are ‘uncanny’ in
respect nnd unfriendly in disposition,
while the legends of blood-thirsty vam-
f jircs have only too much foundation in
act. But it is only fair to them (tlie
bat family) to admit that the number of
species which thus injure men and the
larger animals is very small; and that
while all of our own bats, nnd most of
those of other lands, are fierce devourers
of insects, and use their sharp teeth for
defense against their captors, there are
many kinds, especially the larger (Rous-
settes, etc.), wnicli live almost wholly
upon fruits, and are moreover, quite
good eating themselves. So there should
be made a distinction between the ven
omous and the harmless serpents and the
more and the less poisonous spiders.
“Perhaps one clement of distrust of
the bat family arises from their appar
ent nonconfbrmity to either of the com
mon animal types. The bat seems to be
1 either a bird with hair and teeth, bring
ing forth its young alive, or a mammal
with wings and the general aspect of
nipii vuv ^vmv*u» ,«yJ)GCv V* »
bird. Add to these exceptional features
that their attitude, when at rest, is al
ways head downward, and that their legs
are so turned outward as to bring the
knees behind instead of in front, and we
may almost pardon the common dislike
in its movements, probably overpowered ; of the whole family of bats.
When touched
by the glare of day
its jaws opened
S F
aytigli!
wide,
lit.
1 We mav as well state tit once that a
the sharp teeth j bat is really a mammal—that is, it
were exposed, and from its little throat! agrees with moles, rats, sheep, horses,
came the sharp steelv clicks so character-! cats, monkeys and men in bringing forth
istic of our bats. Nor did this fierce it* young alive, and nursing them by
demeanor soften in the least, during? the'milk: in having red blood-corpuscles,
day, and when night approached I was j which contain no nucleus; in being
nlvnit to lot it <ro hut the sitrhl of n hiir I clothed with hair, Htld ill puaocsaiiig A
..;.,, 1 V, ; .n atrr-ir.ris ! SQT}>i!! eajlomtn—that is. a hand ot nitres
to feed the captive. Held by the wingt! connecting the two cere lira I hemispheres,
between the points of a pair of forceps, ' *" ‘
the fly had no sooner touched the bat’.-
erect in a tew days, no other treatment
being given. The bran mashes were
kept up until all coughing bad ceased.—
Country Gentleman.
He who iias once believed that life
has an aim and a meaning, and who has
given up that belief for the conviction
that life is simply a misfortune without
aim or meaning, lias made but a sorry
exchange, even though he may have the
gratification of boasting that he is at one
with the great thinkers of his age.
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There are other anatomical features
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mole, or the mole as a burrowing bat.
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