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THE FIRST FALL OF SNOW
The enow has began in the gloaming
And busily all the night
Had been heaping field and highway
With a silence deep and white.
Every pine, and fir, and hemlock,
Wore ermine too dear for an earl.
And the poorest twig on the elm-tree
Was fringed inch deep with pearl.
From sheds new roofed with Carrara
Came Chanticleer’s muffled crow,
The stiff rails were softened to swacsdown—
And still fluttered down the snow.
I stood and watched by the window
The noiseless work of the sky,
And the sudden flurries of snow-birds.
Like brown leaves whirling by.
I thought of the mound in sweet Auburn,
Where a little headstone stood,
How the flakes were folding it gently.
As did robins the babes in the wood.
The Trial By Jury.
Percy Hay, Frank Clarke and Tom Ever
ett were scholars in Old Graytop school.
The school received its name from a mount
ain peak that rose hundreds of feet towards
the sky just back of the school building.
Percy and Tom were boy's of wealthy
parents, but Frank was a farmer's son, and
to aid in paying for t his tuition he had charge
of a class comprising the smallest boys in
school. I wish that I had the space to tell
you of many a good time they had at Old
Graytop school, but if I do the telling must
go till another day.
For the present the following incident
must suffice.
“Oh, Mr. Clarke, Johnny Dodd’s got
the dates all written on his finger nails. ”
It was the little boy who stood next to
Johnny in the history class Frank was
teaching, and the culprit was seen to whisk
his fingers into his mouth: Then he put
liis liands behind him, and stood very still.
He looked still, but the blackboard at the
back of the class could see he wasn’t, for
he was rubbing his finger nails on his panta
loons.
Frank called the boy up.
“Hold out your hands.”
Johnny held them out, palms up.
“No, the other side,”
The guilty nails were streaked with pale
looking ink. Frank sent the boy to his seat
and said nothing. But when the lesson was
over, he detained the boys while he wrote
the following:
“Dear Pjcboy
That he scratched out and began again:—
“Honored and Respected Sir:
“Having heard much of your wisdom,
oh learned Judge, I desire and pray that
you will give audience tliis evening to a case
I will present. I shall furnish my own jury
and I plead that you will provide suitable
accommodations for the same, as well as a
place of detention for the prisoner, who will
accompany the jury. The details of the
court 1 leave in your hands, oh transcen-
tally great Judge, and 1 remain,
“With bewildering respect,
“F. Clarke, PlaintilL”
Frank sent this down by one of the boys
and received the following reply
“Seven o’clock, sharp.
“Ray, Judge.”
Calling four of the boys Frank said,
l) Johnny Dodd, you’re my prisoner, I give
you in charge of this guard. And they are
not to let you out of their sight. At seven
o’clock you are all to meet in Mr. Ray’s
room and, boys, I demand that the prisoner
be on time when the doors open, for lie's
going to be tried, so you see how important
it is that he should be there. ”
The guard marched him out, and for a
while made the most of their new dignity,
although before the afternoon was over, the
prisoner was eating peanuts and swinging
on the gate chain, while the guard was
shelling popcorn in Tom Everett’s room.
At seven o’clock Frank, who had been
busy studying in his room, came down
through the hall, pushed open Percy’s door
»nd was walking in when lie was stopped
by two broomsticks crossed in front of him.
“Ho, guard, who comes?” It was Percy’s
voice, but it sounded as if it came from the
very toes of his boots, it was so savage.
“It’s the plaintiff in the case, your Royal
Highness,” cried Tom Everett from inside.
“Let him come in. Oh noble guard!”
ordered the deep, hoarse tone of the judge.
The noble guard lowered their broom
sticks and Frank came in. Then he burst
out laughing.
“IIo, minion; seize him—he laughs in
court. Let the majesty of the law be up
held.”
It turned out that the “Noble Guard”
and the “Minions” were one and the same,
for they dropped their broomsticks and
seized Frank.
“But, my lord, I couldn't help it, you
look so funny. ”
“Unhand him, slaves; let him proceed
with the case. But let his estates be con
fiscated, and see that he dies at sunrise. ”
And the Judge spoke in such a terrible voice
that it set him coughing.
No wonder Frank laughed. The Judge
was raised on the bed with blankets flowing
from the throne for robes, and with a lion’s
skin over his shoulders for ermine. The
jury, composed of Johnny’s classmates, were
ranged along one side of the room on chairs
and trunks. Some were low and some were
high, and over the trunks and chairs were
thrown shawls and blankets with blue bor
ders. The prisoner’s box was really a box
—a soap box on top of the bureau—and
Johnny was guarded by two more bristling
broomsticks. The court was crowded.
“Ilulloa,” said the Judge, suddenly with
out a cent's worth of dignity, “where are
my spectacles?”
“If you please, Mr. Ray, said the prisoner
who, from his elevated position could take
a bird’s-eye view of the scene, “they’re
round behind your ear.”
“Silence in the court!” thundered a jury-
n an who was so small and the trunk so high
that Ills heels kept catching in the lock
lirougli the blanket. “Must lie speak, Air.
Ray?”
“Not a word, and if he does it again lie
(.lies at sunrise,” said the Judge cheerfully,
as he buckled on his spectacles—I mean
buckled when 1 say it—for they didn’t have
any sides, having been found in an old
trunk in the housekeeper's room, and had
to be fastened around his head with a skate
strap.
“Your most gracious majesty,” said Tom
rising from the table, which was covered
with a lot of old compositions to make it
look legal. “I have a painful duty to per
form—one from which I may say I shrink
with more than my usual diffidence and—
and—’’
(“Hear, hear.”)
“Who said ‘hear, hear?’” said the Judge,
looking sternly over his spectacles. “If he
says it again lie dies at sunrise. ”
“My usual diffidence,” said the counsel
for the defendant—who had been specially
engaged for the occasion by the plaintiff
himself. 4 ‘My lord, my learned friend here
has thrown my client into court, and why?”
“That’s just what I’d like to know,” said
the Judge, with commendable patience.
“I haven’t tlie least idea;” whereupon one
of the jurymen started off on the story, and
it took all four of the guards to stop him.
He was ordered to die at sunrise,
“Your Honor,” said Frank, rising and
looking at Tom with withering scorn: “per
haps my so-called learned friend will per
mit a plain statement of the case; I submit,
my lord, that anyone who is qualified to
plead before your august Majesty ought to
know—I repeat it, ought to know—that
you can’t open it with the defence before
there’s anything to defend.”
Two of the audience cried “Good for
ou! ” and two more deaths were ordered for
sunrise.
“I will be as plain and simple as possible,
my lord.”
“The Count grasped the idea of the gen
tleman's simplicity.” Whereupon there
was an uproar of laughter in court, and
seven more deatlis were ordered, including
the counsel for the defence. ”
“Your Honor,” continued Frank, “the
prisoner is accused of writing the dates upon
his finger nails in the history class this day
convened.
“I protest, your Honor,” cried Tom. “T
submit to your Royal Highness that to admit
such testimony will establish a precedent
that years, aye, ages can’t wipe out. Think
of it, your Honor? Why, my lord, let me
put a question to you. Have you ever
made mud-pies? — dignified mud-pies, I
mean”—said Tom as the four guards were
ordered by the Coart to crush him where
he stood. 4 ‘Dignified mud-pies your Honor,
with only a little mud and a good deal of
dignity?”
The^Court grants gracious permission to
the defence to proceed. What! ho, there!
wake up the juryman on the third trunk.”
• The juryman, who had been up most all
the night before with a toothache, didn’t
want to wake up, and he even went so far
as to kick one of the guards. His life was
spared on account of his exteme youth, but
fifty lashes were ordered to take effect at
sunrise.
Having thus vindicated the majesty of
the law, the sleepy juryman was invited by
the Judge to a place on the bed behind the
throne, and was soon fast asleep.
“Your Honor, said Frank, rising, “your
learned mind must perceive the point which
the defence wishes to establish. The pris
oner’s nails w T ere discovered streaked with
black ; all the circumstances go to show
that it must have been ink, and yet this—
but I’ll call no names. I can afford to be
calm. Your Honor, the counsel for the de
fence seeks to shadow your mind and the
minds of the intelligent jury by suggesting
that it might have been mud upon the nails,
and not ink, that the prisoner—whose well-
known fondness for mud-pie making I must
admit—is thus clear from the suspicion
under which he rests. Your Honor, in a
famous case in English law there was a will
on trial. Everything seemed right about it
and judges and lawyers were puzzled—all
but one. Just as the document was going
to be pronounced valid, this lawyer calmly
took the paper and held it up to the light.
There before the astonished gaze of all who
crowded around, was the water-line date
showing that the paper w r as manufactured
years after the death of the man whose will
the document purported to be. Thus it
was proved a forgery. Your Honor, that
was a very simple exposure, but mine is
even more so. It was ink on those nails,
and do you ask me how I know?”
The court room was still as night. Noth
ing could be heard save the breathing of the
juryman asleep behind the throne. It was
an exciting moment.
“The prisoner will please stand up!”
Things began to look solemn for Johnny,
and his little legs were unsteady as he arose
on the soap-box.
Then Frank, with a dramat ic finger point
ing at the culprit cried, “The glass, oh
learned judge, look in the glass!'
^ And there, at the prisoner's back, in the
looking-glass of the bureau, was reflected
the part of his trousers which the blackboard
saw in the class—trousers streaked and
crossed with the hasty slashes of the guilty
finger nails.
Oh, how they shrieked with laughter;
the Judge almost rolled off his chair, while
Frank and Tom had to hold on to each
other to keep from dropping under the table
and to add to the tumult, one of the jury
men, who was sitting on a high trunk, ac
cidentally kicked a colleague who was sit
ting in a very low chair, right in the eye,
and it was some little time before the com
bined talent of the Judge and the counsel
for both sides could convince the injured
juryman that it hadn’t been done on pur
pose. Then came the first bell, which
meant that it was time for the jury to go
to bed.
Later in the evening Frank went again to
Percy’s room.
“That was a great success, wasn't it ? I
wanted ever}' boy in school to know the
deception, and yet I think they’ve been
told in a way that hasn't hurt the little
fellow's feelings too much. I don't think
it is necessary to disgrace a boy—that’s too
discouraging. You can rest pretty certain,
however, that it will be a long time before
any more dates are written on finger nails
in my class.”
A True Heroine.
To imitate a room which exists in
one of the most finished homes of Eng
land, the furniture and decoration
should be Japanese in stylo and char
acter. The larger panels of the door
are filled in with real Japanese lac
plaques of ivory and gold, which con
trasts well with the general dull red
coloring of the other work. Above the
low paneled dado—the panels of which
are filled in with dark, rubv-colored
plush—the walls are hung with sage-
green plush in panels, with borders of
cinnamon-colored satin, on which, ap
plique, a scroll pattern of green silk.
Above this place a broad frieze, filled
in with various subject panels repre
senting earth, air, fire, water and the
like. Figures and animals should be
done in their natui al colors, on yellow-
isli-green ground. The furniture should
be of unpolished rosewood, into which
various panels of Japanese gold lacquer
might be inserted. The seats of the
chairs are covered with sage-green
morocco, embossed and gilt in panels.
The general effect of the apartment will
then be quaint and pleasing, giving a
desirable foreign look to a domestic
home. Carpets de luxe are now, how
ever, almost without exception, Orien
tal ones. Turkish carpets have always
held their own in England, as covering
for dining-rooms in all well-furnished
houses, and there is no question that
they are infinitely tlie cheapest in the
long run. Now, however, Persian,
Moorish and Scinde rugs and carpets
have it all their own way. Nothing
else seems to be bought except perhaps,
what are called the “Anglo-Persian,”
at Kidderminster, from Persian designs.
They are not the same, however, by a
very long way, and those who furnish
well buy the real article, which is to be
had almost anywhere in London at the
present time. In Persian carpets there
is, however, an enormous difference
between the beautiful textures—mostly
with light grounds, with their close,
velvety surface, which seems to defy
ir—and the modern Persian—made
probably, on purpose for the English
market. Even in these, however, is
that wonderful combination of color ,
which the Persians understand so
thoroughly, and in which we English
but tyros. There is a clever way
in which these carpets, woven in one
piece, can be made to fit any room by
means of cutting them down. The car
pet is cut in two first, within the bor
der, and a portion unraveled. The;
threads are then taken up one by one
and fastened together by the fingers,
so that when finished it is impossible to ‘
discover the joining except by turning
to the back. Many partially-worn car
pets (but those mainly of the old rugs ,
or prayer-carpets) are now being sent
to England, with the pile cut down so
as to remove the soiled surface and
freshen the colors. Amongst the thou
sands imported by some of our large
carpet warehouses, it is possible to find
some of great value and exquisite tone.
As these are often of a long shape, not
very convenient, and therefore not so
saleable as the others, they are often to
be had very much below their actual
value.
In this w'orld there is a thousand
times more pleasure than pain, and ten
thousand times more happiness than
trouble.
Close relations—A toper’s skin and a
“whisky-skin.”
While the British army had posses
sion of Philadelphia, and Washington’s
army was encamped about the city, the
following incident took place:
The English Adjutant General made
his headquarters at the house of a man
named William Darrah. This man’s
wife v> as a true friend and patriot, true
to her friends and country. '—
The house was in a secluded part of
the city and the English officers often
held their private meetings there. On
one of these occasions the Adjutant
General ordered Mrs. Darrah to have
the upper back room made ready for the
reception of the officers.
“And, Lydia,” he said, in conclusion
“be sure that all your family are in bed
by 8 o’clock.
Fearing to disobey, Mrs. Darrah had
everything ready, and her entire family
in bed by 8 o’clock, when the officers
came.
At the General’s order had been very
emphatic, higher impulse than mere
curiosity prompted Mrs. Darrah to be
come a listener. Accordingly when
all was quiet, she slipped out of her
room into the hall.
The room where the officers were
holding their meeting was at the other
end of the hall. Quickly and quietly
she ran to that part of the hall, and,
placing her ear to the keyhole of the
room door, listened. As she did so, she
heard one of the officers read an order
from General Howe, commanding the
British army to move against Washing
ton’s camp.
This was enough. After hearing this,
Mrs. Darrah hurried back to her room
and entered, locking the door. Soon
she heard a rap on the door. She knew
what it meant, but she did not get up
till after three successive knocks. Then
she got up and let the Adjutant Genera
and his friends depart.
The next morning Mrs. Darrah was
up bright and early. Flour was needed
for the family, and, taking the bag, #
went to the mill, three miles distant.
But she did not go for the flour alone.
She had a great secret which she in
tended to make known to Washington.
After leaving her bag at the mill to
be filled with flour, she hurried on to
ward Washington’s camp.
On her way she met Lieutenant
Craig, one of Washington’s officers, to
whom she told her secret. She then
hurried home, stooping at the mill for
her bag of flonr.
On a cold, starry night she saw
the English soldiers leave the city for
the attack on Washington’s camp,
few hours later she saw the same troops
return to the city.
The Adjutant General soon reached
his headquarters, and summoning Mrs.
Darrah to his room, he said to her:
“Lydia, were all jour family in bed
at 8 o’clock last night?”
“They were,” replied Mrs. Dorrah,
quickl .
“It’s strange,” mused the officer.
“We have certainlj’ been bestraj’ed by
omebody. You, I know, were fast
asleep when I rapped on your door, for
I kuocked three times before I aroused
you. When we arrived at General
Washington’s camp, we found his can
non all mounted and his troops under
arms. So we were obliged to march
back to the city, without making the
attack, life a parcel of fools.
Mrs. Darrah entreated Lieutenant
feared the fury of the enemy.
But the English never found out who
betraj'ed them on the night they
marched against Washington’s camp.
from the attacks. The cry was
given to open the gate and let the bull
pass out- into the stall in which it had
been kept, but the gatekeeper had be-
ome too terrified to understand the
order or to perform his duty, and the
gate remained closed. The nerve of my
guide never faltered for an instant; but
seeing the terror of the others and wit
nessing the fury of the animal, he drew
his long knife and calmly awaited the
next rush to make the fatal thrust that
should terminate the existence cf the
bull and the scene of excitement. Once
more the bull swooped down toward
him, and he stood ready to strike the
knife into its Deck; but as he attempted
to spring back and let the bull pass by
him before doing so his foot slipped,
and he was at once impaled upon the
horns of the beast, and in a moment his
lifeless body fell within a few feet of
his dead comrade. The excitement of
the crowd now reached the most intense
point; it amounted to actual agony.
For a moment they were spell-bound
with terror, and gave utterance to pier
cing shrieks and cries. Then several
shots were fired at the bull, none of
M'hich took serious effect, but only ap
peared to increase its madness and
ire. Suddenly the bull, now blinded
with rage and maddened by the wounds
it had received, dashed against the
thorny barrier of the pitahaya, and
breaking through it, rushed among the
terrified multitude upon the outside of
the enclosure. The crowd scattered in
all directions, and the bull tossed or
trampled upon all who w r ere in its way
as it rushed toward the open plain.
There were three others killed outright
and several seriously wounded.
Tlie Hunter’s Story.
Horrors ot a Hull-Fight.
The scene of this horrible affair was
in the old town of Baydevaguato, in
Mexico. After taking my seat in the
enclosure I looked down into the corral,
and could not but admire my guide, not
only for his powerful and perfeetbuild,
but also for his good-humored expres
sion and calm self-possession. There
was some little delay before the bull
came upon the scene; but when a large
gate in the adobe wall w r as opened, and
he entered the corral with a rush and a
bound, a terrible presentiment of an
awful tragedy seemed to thrill the en
tire multitude. For myself, it so pain
fully impressed me, that if I could easi
ly have left the place I would at once
have done so, although but a moment
before I had been so anxious to witness
the contest. It was a splendid animal,
well knit, strong and powerful. It
seemed to comprehend the situation at
once, for with a loud tone it bellowed
forth its defiance to its antagonist, and
then, with head lowered to the ground,
commenced pawing the earth and giv
ing demonstrations of speedily com
mencing the combat. The attendants
shook their red flags before it, and irri
tated it still more by prodding it with
their sharp-pointed lances. Our hero
closely watched its every movement
with keen and intense interest, evident
ly aware that it might make a sudden
rush at anj' moment. With a roar that
appeared to shake the very earth, and
that certainly threw terror into every
heart in that audience, it sprang for
ward, lowering its head with the de
sign of tossing the Mexican into the
air. Two or three times the bull re
newed the attack with no better result,
and every time he escaped the lunge of
the animal the audience shouted and
cheered lustily, appearing to have over
come the presentiment of evil, and hav
ing full confidence in the man’s ability
to win the victory whenever he chose
to do so. It would hardly be credited
that the countenance of a bull could
vary in its expression; but it certainly
appeared as if intense rage and demon
iacal nate stood out upon every hair on
its face, and the more it was baffled in
its attempts to gore its intended victim
the deeper and wilder became that ex
pression of vicious propensity. One of
the attendants gaye the bull a more se
vere thrust than he intended to do,
when it turned upon him so suddenly
that, before he could evade the attack,
the animal had him upon its borns, and
ripping the body open with this exer
tion, tossed him high in the air while
the blood spouted upon the bull’s face.
The man fell with a heavy thud upon
the soil, and in an instant the bull was
goring him again and again. In vain
the others tried to divert its attention
from the man, or endeavored to rescue
their fallen companion from his terrible
fate. In less time than it requires to
narrate the episode, the poor fellow
was a lifeless corpse. It was a soul-
sickening sight. Some of the women
fainted at once, while the others
screamed in terror and horror at the
scene. All this commotion, combined
with the scent of fresh blood, wrought
the bull into a state of frenzy, and it
swept around and across the inclosure
with 3uch violence and rapidity that
the men could with difficulty escape
“I have had many narrow escapes,
and seen some strange things. I
can now recall one, when I was hunt
ing beaver; just as the ice began to
break up, and on one of the furthest,
wildest lakes I ever visited. I calcu
lated there could be no human being
nearer than one hundred miles. I was
pushing my canoe along the loose ice,
one cold day, when just around a point
that projected into the lake, I heard
something walking through the ice.
It made so much noise and stepped so
regularly that I was sure it must be a
moose. I got my rifle ready and held
it cocked in one hand, while I pushed
the canoe with the other. Slowly and
carefully I rounded the point, when
what was my astonishment to see, not
a moose,* but a man, wading in the
water—the ice water! He had nothing
on his head or feet, his clothes were
torn from his limbs, and he was talking
to himself. He seemed to be wasted to
a skeleton. With great difficulty I got
him in my canoe; when I landed i
made up a fire and got him some hot
tea and food. He had a bone of some
animal in his bosom, which he had
gnawed almost to nothing. He was
nearly frozen, but quieted down and
soon fell asleep. 1 nursed him like an
infant. With great difficulty and in a
roundabout way I found out the name
of the town from which he came.
Slowly and carefully I got along around
falls and over protages, keeping a reso
lute watch on him, lest he should
escape from me into the forest. At
length, after nearly a week’s travel, I
reached the village where I supposed
he lived. I found the whole communi
ty under deep excitement, and more
than a hundred men were severed
througn tne woods and on the moun
tains, seeking for my crazy companion,
for they had learned that he waudered
into the woods. It had been agreed
upon that if he was found the bells
were to be rung and guns fired. And
as soon as I.landed, a shout was raised,
his friends rushed to him, the bells
broke out in loud notes, guns were
fired, and the reports echoed again and
again in the forest and on the mountains
till every seeker knew that the lost was
found.
‘How many times I had to tell the
story over! I never saw people so
crazy with joy, lor the man was one of
the first and best families, and they
hoped his insanity would be but tem
porary, as I afterward learned it was.
How they feasted me, and when I came
away, loaded my canoe with provisions
and clothing, and everything for my
comfort! It was a time and place of
wonderful joy. They seem to forget
everybody else, and think only of the
poor man I had brought back.”
The old hunter ceased and I said:
Doesn’t this make you think of the
fifteenth chapter of Luke, where the
man who lost one sheep left all the rest
in the wilderness, and went after it,
and when he found it he called his
neighbors and friends together to re
joice with him ? ‘Likewise joy shall be
heaven over one sinner that
repenteth.’ ”
Sujjar from Corn.
Salmon Fishing.
The angling on Loch Tay Scotland,
is chiefly done by trolling the minnow.
AGRICULTURE.
DOMESTIC.
HUMOROUS.
j j ^ ... Milking.—One would think that the The Spare Bed.— Almost every Put Me Down.—“Put me down,”
Seated in the stern of his boat the subject of milking is sufficiently well family has a spare bed. It is generally he said, as the officer led him in hold-
i . . - ftfiiimVatA t understood at the present time without in a spare room, remote from the living ing him up bv either arm, “put me
angjer nas on eimer siue oi mm a stout any further instructions with reference i room, where it would never feel the down as Lord’ Dum Dreary, and be
trolling rod similar to a I hames spinn- it, l>ut never was there a greater influence of any fire that would usually hanged to you !”
ing rod, only longer and stronger. To mistake made. Hundreds of dairymen be kindled; or in a chamber with no They put him down in black and
each of these is fixed a heavy reel hold- begin to complain that their cows are arrangement for warming it in winter, white, and then the}' put him in a cell,
ing one hundred or one hundred and d.ying up early while they have good into this spare room and spare bed When he had sobered off a bit he
hvpntv vmk nr mnrp nf ctrmt tnliino- feed and plenty of it. We were talk- company are put, frequently without earnestly inquired if there was a Son of
^ ? ,, . . . & mg with one of the leading dairymen 1 tne least thought that there is the Malta about the place, and was recom-
line. A good length is requisite, as a with reference to the matter, the other slightest ^ danger of injuring their mended to Bijah. When the old janitor
Loch Tay salmon when first struck will day, and his opinion coincided with ! guests. 'J his is done with the kindest came in the prisoner uttered three dis-
often make a rush of sixty or seventy ours in this respect, and he claimed I intentions, out of respect for their tinct coughs, and drew down his right
yards in length, and if you have some that more cows were spoiled by being friends, who they wish might enjoy ej'e.
fnrtv or tiftv vards of line nut it rhp improperly handled than by poor food, the best they have. Strong, healthy “What’s the matter with you?”
. * \ ~ ‘ To get the greatest yield .of milk the persons, in the vigor of life, might not growled the old man, who never saw a
time, as is often needed, an active fish cows should be milked regularly, quiet- experience any serious inconvenience. Son of Malta as he knows of.
will soon clear your reel out and break ly and thoroughly, yet quickly. Gen- Not so the leeble or aged. Many under The prisoner then whispered in a
away; 120 yards, therefore, is better erally speaking, twice a day is often these circumstances have taken a cold peculiar manner, pinched his right ear,
than
a tw
yards
swivels, and terminating in a couple of near the right time.’all things consid- in winter not only becomes cold, but roared Bijah.
strands of stoutish single salmon gut. ered, as any. Milking should be done also gathers moisture, and is dangerous “ Are you not a brother?”
To this is fixed a phantom minnow of quietly, without any scolding or kick- t0 the most robust and healthy, but es- “ Not by a dozen jugs full!”
medium size a blue or i vf-Bow one he- in g or otherwise hurting or exciting pecially so the aged and infirm. None “ And you will not respond to a cry
* . ‘ ^ * . the animal, and she will then habitu- are more exposed to this danger than of distress from a Son of Malta?”
ng used on either rou, so that the fish ally CO me gladly for the operation, i th e ministers who preach with two or “Not any! All I know about’em is
may have a choice of color, as they stand quietly and let down her full * more churches alternately. Sometimes that one of ’em once raided my hen
will often run on one to the exclusion flow. It should be done thoroughly, tbey arrive at the house where they in- coop, and I took a solemn oath to be re-
of the other, being capricious in their as nearly as possible always by the tend to spend the night late in the day, venged. If His Honor lets you off I’ll
rietPfi thp nr»pn wi» nnve Bpi.io- same person. There is a great differ- thoroughly fatigued and chilled : or at be round the corner to embrace you!”
1 _ . .. . .... " ence in milkers; some will get the last the close of the labors of the Sabbath All nigbt long the prisoner was cal-
rejiched, forty or nitv yards ol line are drop, while others will leave the rich- I are completely prostrated. In either ling out to the brothers who heard him
paid out from either rod. The rods are est part in the udder. It has been case the system requires rest and com- not, and when morning came he tried
fixed at a right angle, projecting over proved to the satisfaction of all good f°rt, and is in a poor condition to be a new dodge. Alter coming before the
the boat’s side. A °-ood sized stone dairymen that the strippings will yield taxed with an extra efiort to keep up bar, and indulging in unbounded as-
i f i i e . ” , from ten to twenty per cent, more amma * Leat in a cold, damp bed, and tonishment at the sight of the Court,he
or a lump o. lead of tw o or three pounds j cream than the rest of the milk; how the result is a sleepless night, cold cried out:
weight is taken; the line is wrapped important it is then that the cow should and hoarseness in the morning, pro- “What! do I see before me the
around it once, and the stone is laid up- be milked clean. Besides, if she is not tfacted cough, congestion or consump- friend of my boyhood days?”
on the seat of the boar, holding the line : made to yield all that she has daily, and death. These dangers are “ I wouldn’t see him if I were you,”
down When a fi<h strikes tlie «tonp ' slie will dry up sooner, and gradually ea? “J remedied. The least trouble, quietly observed His Honor.
, , * ... , , . , , . " . fail in the quantity until it decreases perhaps, where it can be done, is to “ Why,we used to play together—slid
shaken olt and the fish hooks itself. perC eptibly. Cows should never be tondle afire in the room or in an ad- down the same hills, bathed in the same
And now \ouhave rowed for many a hurriedly driven to and from the pas- joining room, and ^ open the bed an mill-ponds and went to the same
mile under the lofty shadow of Ben ture as it agitates and heats the milk, hour or two before it is occupied; or it schools.”
Lawlers, but not a fish visited your rod. if before milking, and tends to make warmed by a hot soap-stone, “ J can’t help that, Mr. Dum Dreary.
Possiblv for two or three days you have them wild after the milk has t>ecn water or the old-fash- At that time you were innocent and
Wn drawn. We had an opportunity of ' oned . "arming-pan or bj applying high-minded; now you are a law.
been out of luck, nothing but an odd seeing the res „] t5 ot a change in the heat ln :m .v. way that a thoughtful breaker, and on your way hence.”
kelt or a wretched pike or a hill trout management of cows on Pleasant View woman can find out. Extra quilts and “ Didn’t I divide my apples with you ?
or two have come to look at you. Old Farina short time ago. The proprie- i comforters will add no protection. The And didn’t I let you beat me playing
Donald, j'our chief boatman,
along with a subdued steady swing, as accident, which confined him to the
if he were used lo waiting, as in truth j house for nearly a week during which
met with a severe cold and daiu pness and dangers are
the bed.
he is; half asleep and half awake he ap- I «>own tact not unfrequently brought so debased ?” gas^Tthe - man?
for action l-m m-’ . SLa-S t0 Public notice in the newspapers,that UmDed int0 the “ c0 ? r idor. and Bib
Poisonous Cheese.—It is a well-
known fact, not unfrequently brought
marbles?’
“ I don’t remember. All I know is
that you are going up for thirty daj’s.”
How can the human mind become
he
pears, but he is quite ready for action treated kindly, still it was different occasionally a cheese is found which 'imped into the corridor, and Bijah re-
♦...* i OCC.UlOnailJ a cneese IS lounu wmen n i; p ,i r i,., r rluln’t. lrnnw hilt w/h.iltl
from their usual treatment, and the
it, milk pail showed a much smaller yield,
and the cows themselves became rest
less and refused to “give down
at any instant nevertheless. You
just leaving the point, and thinkin
no better than all the rest of the lake
and the whole thing a delusion, a snare formerly, although, as” before stated,
and a swindle, when “spang” the big they were treated with the greatest
stone bounds into the air. kindness and milked by experienced
“There he is,” yells Donald, as the hands. But when he was able to come
possesses poisonous properties. Record
is made of very severe and occasionally
fatal eases, where the symptoms could
be attributed to no other cause than
the eating of cheese—where, indeed,
plied that he -didn’t know, but would
look in the city directory and see.
P]
terrible screech of the reel heralds
run at last. Down goes the novel, the
cigar g^s into your pocket, or over
board ; the rod is grasped upright in
your hand, and is bending like a bow
to the barn again, the cows soon filled
OMULGATING A NEW MaXIM.—
“ 4 Give a beggar a copper, and it shall
__ . , come baek to you again,’ would make
every individual partaking thereof was as good a maxim as any, and a more
more or less affected. Some time ago truthful one than most of them,” re-
almost the entire Legislature of the marked the philosophical lookiug young
r i .v . . State of Vermont, on the occasion of an man of the crowd,
the pails as usual, and that, too, with entertainment offered to its members at “How so?” inquired the more ven-
no enange oi ioou. adjournment,were thus made sick,and, turesome member.
albeit some sport was made of it at the ‘‘You give him a cent,” gravely ex-
Photecting Trees From Animals.— time, it was by no means a laughing plained the first speaker.
Many years ago, when we employed matter, though all who were affected “Yes.”
as the strong fish hurries off at top swine to clear our fruit garden of’the by the poisonous cheese recovered. The “And immediately he bows assent in
speed for the middle of the lake, while eurculio and other insects, we found symptoms of this cheese-poisoning are: return!”
Donald carefully reels up and lays 110 difficulty in protecting young or nausea, followed by violent and pro- Then he looked all around, and they
aside tlie other rod so as to he miite smooth-barked trees from their attacks tracted vomiting; pain in the bowels, looked all around, and one of the com-
. - 1 by tying around the stems a few strong purgative action,and great pros- panv with a more bulging brow than
clear ior tne piav. rorty or nity yards branches oft’the sweet brier. The ani- tration, with fever. When the patient the ’ rest leaned against a pillar and
are run out when the line seems to lilt ma ls had a special dislike to tlie sharp recovers there remains for some time a groaned as if in agony.
in the water towards the surface, and prickles. The trimmings of Osage soreness and tenderness of the bowels,
the next moment a huge silver column hedges might answer as well. Coarse indicating continued inflammation. The ( ~ "
almost three feet and a half long, shoot? " ire netting would be neater in ap- ; attack, to the inexperienced eye, very
^ , , ®’ pearance, and if dipped in oil or cover-: closely resembles one of cholera mor- ness ue was trying to badger recently,
out of the « ater a good yard or more, ed with paint would not rust. An Eng- i bus; while to the physician it hears “ suppose I shouid tell you that 1 could
and falls hack with tremendous splash. i; sll p i anter adopts another mode. He some of the marks of arsenical poison- brln S a dozen men of your town to this
“Mon, but lie’s a proper lusshe, von,” plants a thorn bush at tlie base of each in g- These facts have very much mis- court-room who would say they would
says Donald; “canny wi’m canny;he’s free as it is set out, and finds these an led the public, so that in one case the not beueve you on your oath, what
' 1 ■ 1 idea lias prevailed that no real poison- "'ould you say i And calmly the wit-
ing occurred, but that tlie symptoms n . ess ma<Ie reply: “I would say you
,,, : simply indicated tlie over-eating of in- " ed - ’ A gentle smile diffused itsell
, , ,, ... , . 1 is “ digestible food, or the indulgence in all over tlie eourt-room, and the unruf-
nte- to tlie National Lire Stock Journal unaccu9tome d beverages; tvliile.on the " e <l witness stepDed down.
other, tlie attending physician has
been led to suspect carelessness in the Giddv (to ol d ge nt)—“ Please help a
U1 use of Paris-green, or 111 tlie applies- poor woman with sivin small children,
This Mon °f arsenical fly-poison to the out- a u t0 —” Good-natured old gent (who
side ol the cheese. knows her)—“Yes. hut I say, don’t
3a miy
lepper”—and out dashes the fish
again with another wild but futile leap
for liberty. Then he plunges down,
down, down to the very bottom of the
lake, forty fathoms down. How do
you feel now? No more laziness no days to three weeks old. We cut
despondence? No, indeed; excitement slit, about one and a half inche:
is wound up and turned to top concert fength, just forward of the bag.
fi i i is more convenient than in the si
efficient guard against cattle.
Mr. A. Tilden, of Morri
follows in regard to spaying heifers : , oth the atten di„g
We spay when the call is from three K _
pitch as the mad fish bounds over the jo not think there is aiiy more risk to! The Right Way to Brush Velvet, i F ou th;1 *? k T our femHy- increasesrather
wave, or cuts the depths in forty or run in spaying a heifer at that age than —The art of removing lint, dust ami J. 00 r, apidl L ? Last wee - k - jt . wa ® onl F
fifty yards rushes time after time, till in eastrating a bull calf of the sameage; | light matters adhering to velvet, con- f,vo w v
: his strength
mdiir-
my calves, the heiters do i
in the prnpor mode of
n aging
five.’’ Biddy (not a bit abashed)—
__ _ Sure, and isn’t that all the more rea-
ince. But everything must have an not mind the operation so much as the J the brush. Take a hat brush (no”too son . w ^,T >' our honor should help me
bulls lifter the second day. Sew up j soft, but having the bristles elastic,and I a & am • ^
through the hide and j returning at once to their original state
*1 i. .i w hen pushed aside), hold it firmly un- ; j
twenty min
end, and after fifteen
utes he begi
er and shorter
stout stick of some three or four leet
long, with a bloodthirsty-lookin.
ith stitching
to slacken and run short, all that you cut through, using deep
, and Donald takes up a stitches like a letter x.”
Regarding borers in peach trees,
Within the last two weehs two men
tier the palm of the hand, in the direc- " i ! ve , bee “ kiI , led b - v K th « explosion of-
of the arm, and with the bristles * hlske - v barrels - , In ^stances tlie
downward, and pressing them first harrels wereempty. rhesefatal casu-
gently into the substance of the velvet, altles teach tbe importance of always
then twist around the arm, hand and ke . e P™£ - vour barrel at least balf ful1 of
brush all together, as on an axis, with- " lls *
out moving them forward or backward. _
The foreign matters will thus be drawn „ , E " atl one advantage over tlie girls
up and flirted out of the flock without the present da Y M lien her mother
injury to the substance of the velvet, e aHed her to set the breakfast table, all
and the brusli must be lifted up and *1® her hangup in a
butchers’ hook tied to it, yclept “the says the Country Gentleman, it is useful
gaff.” He takes oft' the cork, feels the t0 * ,ea P a °* d . r y slacked lime
. - . „ . ,, about tlie peach trees alter the grubs
point, and bides his time, watchfully had been p picked out and be f or f the
directing No. Mho takes the oars, earth is drawn back to the tree. The
Once or twice the huge fish come3 roll- hme kills any grubs that may be lelt.
over near the boat, but he manages If a live grub is thrown into tlie dry
to wallop off again to a more respectful lime it will soon die ; this may be tried \'Y “ v ““ v '‘ " l ' ““ v ‘ W ad wash her face nut on a seraohic
1 .... ° t .. to satisfy any inquiring mind. Having placed in a similar manner over every "au, wa&n ner iace, put on a serapnic
distance, till a dextrous turn of the ? n t i»;« wm? in 1877, the writ- part required to be brushed. By this smde ,and skip down stairs.
means velvet will be improved instead ♦
of deteriorated, and will last for years. Man may be the noblest work of
creation, but he de doesn’t think about
His Sad Mission. it, and he doesn’t look it, on hearing
Mrs. Nichols is a wealthy lady. She his name called in the street, he turns
is the wife of an invalid. The other and that U is 0!lI >' somebody call-
, . ,. .... . ^ used lime in this way
oar brings him within reach. Donald er f ound no borers at all in his trees in
leans over. There is a flash in the wa- 1878, and therefore lias confidence in
ter, a splash, and a mighty flopping as this means of repressing the depreda-
the noble fellow is translated from his tions of this pest,
native element to yours. A tap on the
head soon quiets his struggles, and
Scratches in Horses.—A writer in
lovely fish not forty-eight hours in the the AtlanU ,. Constituti0 n says a very
lake and weighing thirty-two Pounds d remedv is t0 keep the lower part
by the steelyard, !s placed to your cred- - fthe , ; vashed clean with castile
ir “VV hfinn'” rpsminds Hip ° .
Whoop!” resounds across the
lake, and a solemn libation of the liq
uor m hieh cheers and inebriates too, it
taken in quantities, is poured out to his
day she was summoned to the parlor to
see a visitor.
“Good morning, sir!” she said, as
she swept into the room.
“Good morning!” he replied, very
Some time ago it was announced that the
United States Commissioner of Agriculture
was experimenting on the possibility of ex
tracting sugar from the stalks of common
Indian corn, although it was said the results
attained were not satisfactory. Another an
nouncement is now made by a Mr. Drum
mond, one of the secretaries of the English
Legation at Washington, who says that in a
short time there will he made public.p-newly
discovered process through which sugar of
the best quality can be made out of corn it
self. Every one must have observed the
reetness of our common corn, owing to the
sugar contained in it, but until now no one
has been able to find out a process where
by sugar could be economically extracted
from the grain. By tliis discovery it is al
leged that a thousand pounds of sugar can
be made out of the corn grown on a single
acre, which, of course, would give the
fanner far better returns than he now ob
tains from that crop, or, indeed, from almost
any other now grown. Besides, tlie extent
to which it can be grownis practically un
limited. It grows in every State and Ter
ritory in the United States, except Alaska.
Should this announcement prove well
founded, we M ill be enabled not only to pro
duce all the sugar we need ourselves, hut to
supply half the outside world besides. Sugar
cane and sugar-beet are at tlie present our
only reliance for the production of sugar,
but as the groM'ing of the former is confined
to certain territorial limits, its quantity must
alw r ays be restricted. The sugar-beet has a
more extended growth, but its productive
ness is not nearly equal to that of the cane,
and its growth and manipulation is far more
difficult besides. Should the new predictions
be realized it M*ill prove a most fortunate
thing for our farmers. In certain portions
of the great west it is so abundant and cheap
that it is used for fuel, realizing scarcely
anything for its growers. Tlie vast field of
prospective profits opened up before the
agricultural interests of this country by this
alleged discovery are almost incalculable,
and bid fair to work a revolution in tlie sugar-
making industries of tlie world.
—Matthew' Crooks, the San Francisco
millionare, who died some time ago,
desired to witness tbe nuptials of his
daughter and Edward Barron, which
had been fixed for a future day, and
the marriage ceremony was performed
n the chamber of the dying man.
oap, ana apply a mixture of lard and
gun-powder. Another is to wash the
sores thoroughly with warm water and
castle soap, then rinse off with clean politely. “I understand you have an
water; after this rub dry with a cloth, invalid husband?”
Then grate some carrots and bind them bave >>
, —:— . , , i on tlie sores. Repeat this every day A . ,
An officer of the Russian service, Colonel for four or five days. W hat seems to be the matter with
Prjwalky, lias published an account of an ,. him?” inquired the caller, with pro
expedition made in 1877 to this almost un- 5 fessional gravitv
known lake of Central Asia, and although Diamond Cut Diamond. “Consumption.”
Baron Richthofen, one of the highest geo-1 ~ ’ , , . ,
craphical authorities iu tlie world, denies " a " ere la T JD S ofl some mlles a ’ va - v , Be f n tr « ubled Idn S- ba "' ellt on >
that he reached the true Lobnor, the before Madras, on tlie steamship Su- as he drew' Ins handkerchief across his
Colonel's story is sufficiently interesting . oiatra, wriiich had broken her shaft just f ace a couple of times, “or is it hasty ?’
and important to secure attention. Russian as we left Madras for Ceylon, when a She told him in a very dignified man-
and Chinese troops are, as our readers are boafput off from the shore with a party ner ^ er husband had been a suf-
awnre face to face with one another in of natives t0 se) i us f ru ;t s , und among ferer for five years.
lately^in^nibe/fion against^the Cliin^se^but tbeni "' a ‘ one of their most famous 1 “Five Jears-five years!” he rnur-
now reduced to submission. With the men of niystery. lie came on board, mured meditatively, as he drew <5ut a
prospeets of peace and war in that quarter audit was suggested that he should memorandum book and began to figure,
we have not hingat present to do. In 1871 perform there. j ‘‘Well, I guess another year will settle
ing his dog.
Somemthere on the ragged edge of
Michigan there is a town called Bad
Axe. The picture papers have sent for
cuts of it.
It is not necessarily true that a
woman is a thief because she hooks her
sister’s dress behind her back.
Mrs. Smith says her husband is like
a tallow candle, because he will always
smoke when he is going out.
A dandy on shore is disgusting to
many people, and a swell on the sea
sickens most everybody.
Colonel Prjwalky left Kuldja and traveled j
southeast and he struck a great river, the
Tarim, which drains a wide tract of country
to the north of Gobi district, and finally
flows southward, losing itself in the sands
of tlie desert, or at last collecting such
Improved Platform Scale.—A platform
scale in constant equilibrium has been
invented in France. On a stand next
to the piattorm are placed the register-
ing cylinder, the clockwork, ;wiiich
rotates slowly, and the double wheel-
work, which determine the state of
“Spreading some sand on the deck, trim. I suppose you’ve had him in constant equilibrium. The principle
raters as it lias left in a shallow lake <
tlie 90th degree of Most longitude and the lied rolled in the cloth about bis loins, trickled down her cheeks, which (
40th parallel. The lake lies in a southwest concluding M'itli a very clever trick, in her caller to remark:
and northeast direction, about sixty miles which two pigeons, one black and one “Yes, I know it is sad; but then
long and fifteen wide. It is nearly covered wb fte which were made to vanish at there’s no use of taking on. Death is
Math reeds, and appears to be subject to .... ,
periodical changes of level. Its waters are " 1 ’ 0 ian =
clear and sweet excepting near tlie shore,
by M'hich tlie equilibrium is restored,
as soon as it has been disturbed bj' some
cause or other, is this: If there be
placed on an ordinary balance a glass
full of Mater, counterbalanced by a
he planted it in a mango-seed from Florida, but that amounts to nothin
which he raised a mango tree some Consumption is aM'ful uncertain; you
eighteen inches high. can’t tell when it is going to yank
“Then he did some surprising things you.”
with a venemous cobra, M'hich he car- 1 The lady made no reply, but tears weight, and if there be dipped into that
iused glass a mass, whatever it may be, hang
ing from a thread, the equilibrium will
be destroyed,—in proportion as the
plunger penetrates more or less into
the liquid, it will more or less disturb
from one basket to an- inevitable and can’t be escaped. Now, the equilibrium. It is such a plunger
tlier. The Captain urged Robert Hel- then, say we’ll give him till next May.” that has been resorted to to establish the
and it is alive with" fish and wild fow 1 i er who M as on board to do something The lady sobbed audibly, state of constant equilibrium on the
Its inhabLl are its most strange characG to bother the man, who was very eon- “Yes, 1 suppose he was a kind.indul- g™"™
eristics. They seem to approach tbe an- conceited about himself. gent husband, and it will be hard for cylindrical vase, three-fourths filled
cicnt lake-dwellers_in tlieir habits, for they “g 0 Robert suddenly asked to look at j you to part with him; but you must with Mater, and a cylindrical plunger
live on the lake itself in dwellings con- one 0 ? the pigeons, lie took the m'bite : brace up and face the shock with he- of M’hich the supporting thread is roYled
structed of reeds. The whole region is un- Qne . wkh a moveiDent like lightning roic fortitude.” O' er a pulley, is lowered or hoisted by
P^lsk3° has tough? Jiigl/many facts be P u ' led tbe . bead f tbe bird \ 1 Still no reply from the lady, whose
wholly new to modern geographers. After held the head in one hand, the quiver- face was now buried in her handker- menta tion or diminution of weight,
reading an accouut of the Colonel’s adven- ing, struggling, dying bird in the other, chief. The equilibrium restores itself inmie-
turcs one is inclined to lose patience M’itli and then threw them overboard. “I didn’t come here this morning to diatelv, and the motions of the pulley
a stay-at-home geographer, however emi- “The commotion was frightful. The star U P your feelings aud make you feel transmitted to a Had pencil, which pas-
nent, who questions the accuracy of his native shrieked aud cursed and sad. Death is awful solemn, but busi- se s over ihe surface of the registering
conclusions. Colonel Prjwalkv has left St. 1 . . , . , ’. nOBa h.idinoaa
Petersburg to make another trip iu Central f ve '' ent to bls ra " e m the cholcest i 18 bu » lnes3 ‘
Asia. He will proceed by Orenburg, Omsk '^"Salese. He then paused and drew a card
and Semipalatinsk to the Chinese frontier, “The mighty white magician looked from his pocket, and presenting it said :
thence to Hami, Ilansu and Lassa. From writh merry eyes at ilie juggler’s dis- • “Perhaps, after you are a widow you , _
Lassa he intends to reach the Himalaya by tress. Then when the row was at its " ill have no use ior your husband’s nad oome into use with such remarkable
nin # cl 1116 ™n t0 } height and 1 begun to feel uneasyatthe garments; if not, I should be pleased grinding is an indispensableol^eratioiK
. , . ’’ Ka sogar, ana pran k, ’ Robert suddenly raised his to make a bid on them. I keep a sec- but artificial means have of course to be
cross the intervening plateaux to Russian bands _ ob t h ose beautiful, white,won- ond-hand clothing store, aud I just resorted to, in order to force the coodi-
Khokand. The journey is to occupy two -
years. While reviewin:
Russian exploration in
may mentiou also accounts
cities, Mistorian and Meshed, prouaoiy re- waru. mere was cue wmte uove cir-j ywu n ucccnt xuca oi wuat tuey n a eoil ot pipe or corrugated cylinder
lies of Khowrasmian times. The former of cling round in the air; in one moment j fetch.” the interior of which steam is applied,
those cities must have been one of the most it alighted on the piece of carpet before Then she summoned the coachman The application of the heat is recom-
important in Central Asia. Its aqueducts j tg despondent owner, unharmed, but he didn’t arrive in time to get a kick , mended just before the wheat enters
cover a great tract of country, and one of Otl ,. 00= „ QTTO =.,ioom 0 th** rinthtor the millstones, a separate heater being
used for each pair of stones. The result
cylinder, leaving on the unrolled paper
traces of all its movements.
In the new process of milling which
the Brahmapootra. Returning
Lassa, he Mill visit Khotan,
despondent
them was traced some forty miles (sixty- Curses gave way to profound salaams at tlie clothier
five verts) to its Bourse. The budding ma- aad prayers that the great white magi-
terial appears to have been for the most part cian might never die.
brick, M’hich are still in perfect form and
uninjured by the passage of untold centu- —Mrs. Lunsford, of Auglaize county,
ries, bearing carved work and inscriptions Ohio, who lost her husband and six
and sometimes colored decorations and ara- children by the burning of their resi-
besques executed M’itli considerable skill dence, several M eeks ago, died of grief
and taste, i afterwards.
Phosphide of calcium on becoming of this arrangement and operation is
wet Mill give off spontaneously com- found to be the driving of the moisture
bustible phosplioretted hydrogen, thus contained in the inner substance of the
emmitting light. This is the principal wiieat more or less into the bran, which
ingredient used in the distress anp is thus toughened, while the flour is
guiding signals thrown into the water left to dry, its color being improved,
from a sinking ship, principally to and its condition more favorable for
guide those iu the \yater to the boats. packing and shipping.