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About Crawfordville democrat. (Crawfordville, Ga.) 1881-1893 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 4, 1882)
JESSIE IN TEE FANE. ' The Hold* aro olovei-laJen. Thu bos* are on tho win*, As J caste, loveliest maiden. Does jrayly aaunti rinif Mown tho breezy tano. The merry birds around tier sin*. Nor warble they In vain. For Jesslh'a heart is tunod to son*. As through the lane she moves along. She loves the purpl<- clover, The drone of hurrying bees, The songs that Heat alstve bor, The blossom-scented breeze That niffs her sunny hair; For Jessie's maiden heart's at ease, (til touched bv love's sweet yields cars, And finds dear Mother Nature A thousand joys in wood and fluids. And now einong the grasses. Along the verdurous way, Sweet Jessie alowly (mason. And all the green array Scans four-leaved keenly, If clover perchance A mystic Howard glance. spray her eager In vain! not o'en her magic eyes Can lure to view the fateful prize I But see! one comes to greet her. In sober homespun clad. Why grows the prospect sweeter? And why, with sinlle so glail. Lights up h'-r glowing face? Wor ho Is but a rustic lad. And she—a queen In gran ;! Ah, that's a secret who can tell? But Jessie likes her laddie well Bow side by side together They saunter down the lane. How lovdly is the wreath r! How fair the bloomy plain, Swept by the siimincr turl And Jessie, ore they turn agiiln. Knows why they seem so fair; For, looking fora four leaved clover. Her maiden heart has found- a lover. —Hamer’* 1 Vteklu. A Cold Welcome. West Chester gossips have been wag¬ ging their tongues at a lively rate dur Ing the last few days discussing the sen¬ sational reappearance of William Sny¬ der, who, slier an ah cnee of thirteen years, like Enoch Arden, lie seeks the wife whom ho deserted and finds that ehc is wedded to another, Mrs. Hart man Sylvester, of No. 215 Patton’s row, is tho lady in question. While attending to her duties as j an i tress of the Court¬ house, the other day, a bronzed and •boulder, bearded stranger anil, turning tapped round, her she on tho was confronted by the man with whom sho first contracted matrimonial relations nearly twenty years ago. During all tho years he has been absent she never heard a word from him, and long ago •he gave him up as dead. She looked him squarely in the fan**, and as he low¬ ered Ins eyes ho nervously asked : “Are you Mrs. Hartman Sylvester?” Sti)(jlor?” “ I am. Are you William the “I lady quickly William interrogated. Snyder, anil I have am come to ask your forgiveness,” tho long lost one plaintively answered. The meeting was not at all a pleasant one. Mrs. Sylvester readily gave her first husband to understand that she had procured a divorce; had married a man more congenial lo h >r tastes, who acted as a husband and father should, and that if he (Snyder) attempted to dearly break up her happy homo he would pay for it. Aft. r being thus apprised without Sny¬ der settled down to business any more delay, lie told Mrs. Sylvester that he was about to wed n woman in Boston, where he had been living ever •ice ho shook the dust of West Chester off his feet, and that he was anxious to ascertain if shu would prosecute him if he did so. “ I always hated you. I hate you now worse than a blaoksnako,” spoke up the incensed Mrs. Sylvester. “I don’t care wh it you do, sii you leave me and mine alone. Why should you come hereto worry my husband and myself. Go marry anybody imr you better please; but 1 hope slid you will treat than you me.” Without m <ro ado Snyder hastily un¬ locked a small snohel which he had with him, and instantly placed wife pen draw and ink before his astonished to up an agreement not to bother him if he mar¬ ried again. Mrs. Sylvester sent for her husband to oonsult him before doing this. When ho arrived he was intro¬ duced to Snyder. The latter advanced and shook Sylvester warmly simply scowled by the hand, but he, however, at assented the newly-made his wife acquaintance, drawing lie to up ti.o agreement proposed by Snvder, provid¬ ing the latter agreed to leave West Chester immediately and never lived return Belong as he proving (Sylvester) acceptable there. all The-e terms trio to hand-, the soon settled the whole inm.-, ami Snyder htir/iedly replace! I,; his I in his saeliel -iml to .k den inuie rh ibiv •! id'dii lie left We-l <’hcs*er ii.'j, ’ 11 ' es’tin for Ids home iu 1 111 a wc.i .,„ni lept 1 i i(l u l'.'! 'V r u“ r ,, [ \i7 , , ^v'VcV.w^lciai-v ' ! ,- 7 , ; other d.iv found | M. S. Ny .verier bust .a sown . Willi' a .«? “ ' ' p '. * N ‘' ‘ A, ‘ fl ixen-liairod youngsters, ehr Iron bv licr second Husband Un I«n; |i!t'".'. to tell ,, the , story winch has -a w. d -o mm'i un. i ; i ilutt I.. xu_ t.ie ...d,. s.t ». “i hie in tut in June, D-d. tv. tuned to »m h"i:: HI Ill's CUV from a visit to mv sister a: t oatst .he. As ,v> -u :t> I onto e the lumse 1 called for Mr. Snvder. but he d-d not answer. 1 he first thing that »t!i\u"".l my a;:cn‘t"i was the .vt,.,. ev.eo* oeimarniire, w.v.ch had be cn taken Ofl the wa. . I i.ien > d th-ongh tho house ami discovered that ad mv husband s clothing had be n earned off. l instantly suspected what had oo curred. I ransa xed the house from top to bottom, hoping to timl a note from him, but vrithmit suceoss. When Itound that he had really gone l con eluded that tt w.inld result beiieho.allv to me. lor during tlu> six years 1 lived with him l never spent a happ.y day. 1 married him when I was bit sixteen year, old. and had only known him two weeks, so while we wore together l ha 1 plenty o' tuna to repent the folly of our h:t-:y marriacje. 1 wo alter he disappeared, ami l app.u*'Mo uie cosine I for a divorce, and wa* trr:v\.» 1 one. never heard & wn".I fr im liun since the nieht he deserted me. and s I e -nclnuetl ho was d ad ■ !is;1 ; bylvosiwr, by whom l bad three chil dren, and with whom l have been hv mg happily ever since. I hope that Mr. Snyder will never cross my path again, for I have been worried enough since h.si visitthe other day. I >a delpAw Record. -The fifth Rothschildg : rl is to marry the Prince of Wagram. She is very homely, but her | ! ain no ss is eoncei’cd bv a dowry ot 8-'“.”'’ iW. Spend As Aon Go. There is one lady in New York who does not intend waiting until her death to distribute her wealth for benevolent purposes, only to have herself, like the fate Miss liurr, shown up in court as a vile and dirty miser, her old clothes arid broken furniture exhibited as proof and of her squalid and menial existence, her intelligent capacity to give her money away denied by the heirs and re latives, who think it should come to them instead of going to religious and charitable < bjects Miss Catherine Wolfe is credited with disbursing in the last ten years $2,000, 000 of the large estate left bv h< r Oil her. .she has given it to a score ■ f insiitutions and societies, but all of the most practicable and useful kind; to a home for incurables; to a newsboys’ ... lodgings , , , house; , to . Union ~ >1 „ e , n the education of p>»or and deser mg young men from the South; to » school for girls in Colorado; to an enterp . of Christian socialism or communism on [/mg Island ; to the flection of a mi 1 - ing in connection with Grace Church, of which she is a member, mainly and devo e to club rooms for voung men young women, where clerks, art students, teachers and others living in lodgings may find the best current literature, music, bright, cheerful and elegant club-rooms, bauii-rooms, writing-rooms, whose etc., for the use of members, dues (25 cents n month or *2 50 a year) are so small as to be a burden to no one, and tie , imlingo .. .. yet preserve s, - - Mpeet which relucts at using a dole; ana where, though the club-house adjoins a church, no religious tes ■* are cx,u.,. , nor, indeed, any question askci as o > s bchef or denomination , o e Metropolitan Museum of Ait, a > church of which she is a mem it. , the addition of costly and specmiensof ecclesiastical art andarchi lecture, unexampled m tins country. Ibis lies been done umior h« i >'tx n immcdialcsupervision, sh ) i ■ ami catholic taste; a shicwd, p < sen-e; a want of ngo i j an * « ' prejudice, and securing to her the pecu liar but enviable pleasure o .. ■ ; bounty eniovod ant m 8 ° realized while she is he ™. a ' n ^ ! ‘° gather all the luxury of bom 0 honored, loved ana adnureu. I pleasure which the , he greatest ven erablc l eter Cooper, now appro,t, t tig a century of existence, derives from life is the love and gratitude, shown tho deference, him when homage and affection he visits his Institute an s 111 rounded by scores of admiring _ pupils, ., of hiitli sexes that are the recipients of hn bounty, and are learning art and science mid practical nff.nrs >v means of schools and endowed. professorships It said his that wealth Right long ago this spectacle h touched til( »f so ' Munibilitiesof a hundred nullionane one dyv and t do hat likewise. he was almost I ulviokily peisuadi for him d to an „o t ■ othms, when he go u 11 ' spasni (>f generosity and liuman sympa thy passed off, and lie sot hun-,elt at work again to pile up higher an already huge forluni'. But men ns mornen .11 _v weakness was aniple proof of the genu ineiiest of t he scone he li id w itnessed Mr. Reuben .spunger, of Cmcmnati, .s another of the benevolent givers who Sir Cft! inveriments S for other ‘ people’s bemifit. lbs rich gifts to h,s fellow citizens have made him the idol of the ,, , ,1 ,, .... .... bun to tho '..i, c. 1 . , f S fJ.’S.f”lm«S , - .1 f . ,V '. ... ... 1 unveiled . to the >« , > » It h '^s « a . gift oil' ; - Ww < \ y of o u 1 1 ' md a tree od. i l { T!-'; IT , . c\i s h.nc . ,en .. 1 g v > wl, ■ 1 It . !> .7 ,!77 ...... ;,' (In ‘"’"‘"'V o .' . jiciMiu.i 1 mi > ‘ \ th,™l Un-tr eduons . . t 01 e ow n " ' !U ." H ,M ‘‘ j' j i.wmit who , v , 1 vmii, , i a . g ‘■..pend me, as ll you |'’* ' go. J 8 -lhlmt " ' b,« ... ' Some New Arithmetical Problem*, A Wisconsin school teacher lmd nine locn scholars and she ligurcd up at the end of throe im uths that she had lie >' ' s '"*''** "" U ." A1 ‘ l “" . tie-' <>'.ic not received seventeen , ® *and that dtree of the girls d " v l ‘ ,;li,v!v - how many . ekm -d eo of the ot - unv'ive The atom .;e fisherman get« four nib »>!• si" on - bdc. iml three biles to a !.>:i, and half h - d, are w-t worth 0:1 ' ■' ,i ””' ' v this ran- how liieg u M; , e . .-;:ent::;t. to exlaud the "\\}\ »*. • tls mill do«r , .. :; u„ man chip in four, nt-apie'e ml purchase a sponge , ,, m hi - birth-day 1‘iie as em j, d 1\ He. eer la :,, lets himself loo-eon the donors . n ( ... „!,.■* s head to the > I.. Uow niueli is each A vo in ; i.mivw ag'-rs titty cents that ., . , : rfd! intoh;-m mth. atl(i lu . wi# , , itP A ser .eon charges ],. in - ; f or ■ urs’ w« k n remov j AVhat was ;hc exact ga’n in.le iu [ r >mart ;> A man pars '; tiftv cents extra to take lau hil) „ w ,j P having a tooth p,,'];.,!. ' W(>|1 t !u , dentist tx-uhlliave and without pulled ;|s a „ otu> auv ^ How mu .'h did the ptieut k bt , h , : ,., v 0: h , hr J n „. oaU ,„ s.Va school girl costs K Uer * hool-bovT;s; J . t as mu , as s tie t . she (1 ,. vollrs oost more than her , Than it -on>; her iee-enam vests nil ; !V her - rend,, and the gas and f(iel shp eotisuim s while M arking foot twice the cost of leamiii^ her to p^iut landscapes on old jiurs and piich ers> There lore, how many rich? daughters nu , 8 t a man have to be 4n Alderman pavs a teporter 85 to wrke him a speech favor.ng the eieo tion of a new schoolhouse, but a: ter do ij ver i n g eleven cents’ worth of the ora tj t , n heisinformed that there is no ques tion before the meeting, and he talla back and breaks a D ir of sns(-endera worth thirU'-tive cents. How much is tlie great man out of pocket? — -A Montreal policeman has a be- , day. whioh She lays ia two to eggs be at exhibited.- s time every^ther Lktc<x?o EerM Migration of Seals. Of the different aorta of North-Atlantic seals, all hut two are migratory—that ia to aay, the whole body of them more from north to south each autumn, and back from south to north each spring. Upon this important fact the great fleets of fishermen depend for their success. the Tlie annual southward journey of restless harp-seal furnishes a vivid pic¬ ture of these great n igrations which are so prominent a feature of polar history. of Keeping just ahead of the “making” the ice, or final freezing up of the forda and bays, at the approach of winter they leave Greenland, and begin their passage southward along the coast of Labiador, froely entering all the small gulfs and bays. They appear first in 1 detachments of half a dozen to a score or more of individuals ; these are soon followed by larger companies, until in a few days they form one continuous pro cession, filling the sea as far as the eye ( _ m reach Floating with the Arctic current, their progress is extremely rapidj aud in but one short week the wb ole multitude "has passed. Arriving at the Strujts «f BeUeisle, some enter , £be gn ;j t but the great body move on¬ i ward a \ OV g the eastern coast of Now f()Uljdland fiiiuks, aud thence outward to the , ’ where they J arrive month, about Christmas. Hero they rest for a and then they turn northward, slowly struggling aided them against much tho strong in their current south¬ that bo ward journey, until they reach the Labrador the great fields stretching from sb ore eastward—a broad contidfent ^ • Da ^ ug the first half of March, on (base groa t floating fields seals—only of ice, are bon| thousands Q f baby one ; n eacb family, to be sure, but with plonty woolly of play-fellows dress, close white by—all with in soft white, or a beautiful golden luster. The New toulldlander6 ca (i them “whitecoats.” In a few weeks, however, they lose this KO ft coveriug, and a gray, coarse fur takes its place. In this uniform they bear the name of “ragged jacketsand it is not until two or three years later ^ ^ full colors o{ tho a , Mt liro gained, with the black crescentic or luirp-1 ike marks on the back which give them the nameof “harps.” Tlie sque nling and barking at one of these immense nurseries cau be heard {or & long distance. When the are ver y y OUn g i the; mothers leave them ou ttie i(je and grfoff ia 8ea rch of { , comiug baok f r(;q)lou ,i y to look ufu , r the ]ittlo one8 . and although white, squeal- there are thousands of the small, . creatureg which to you and me wuul(1 8eem })re cisely alike, and all are mov j n g a b oU t more or less, the mother neV cr niakes a mistake nor feeds any bleating ) baby J until she has found her ^ f ice happen8 to pack around t | icm> g0 t i, a the t they can not open holes, nor ge t into water, the whole armv w yj' laboriously travel by floundering t0 t j 10 edge 0 f the field ; and they show an astounding sagacity in discern j ng the proper direction. It is supposed 4 hut they can smell the water at a long finance. Sometimes great storms come, break i, lg t he ice floes in pieces and jamming ^ against one another, or J the rocky / headlands, with tre eadous foroe Besides the full-grown of the that weak P R . babies ri f aro suob crushed tho us ands or llrowned> notwithstanding the daunt less courage of their mothers, in trying their young out of danger and upon the firm ice. And it is touchiug to watch a mother seal struggling together to with it between “fy her fore feM". flippers, swim »r J by driving it before her ami tossing b H[ mrd with her u08e .» The destruo . tion caused by such gales is far less when they happen after the youngsters have learned to swim. Does it surprise you that seals, which are constantly in the water, have to Irani to swim? Well, it might stagger the seals to be told that men have to be taught to W alk. The fact is, a baby seal is afraid of the water; and if some or his mother’s shoulder, nushes him into tho surf when ho is tea or a dozen day sold, he screams with fright f The f and scrambles out its fast ae he can. next day lie tries it again, but finds him Sjdf very awkward aud soon tired ; the third day he dot's better, and before long lie can dive and leap, turn somersaults " Iul ) U! ” me, 1^' Htemllv menuiy nie like I’wni a tune streak, „ the instant danger threatens, h« ho had to learn how, to begin with, like au.v^ other annual .—Ernest Ingcrsoli m6t. AiCAolu*. M.ignili.' nt Tffese ---' ipe for llnssia. 1 he (• > « . \ .itorv at l*oulkovo will s hrtly be in I possess, long 0 time n of a this gigau- ob tie te seo/e. r a sorvaion. constructed in 1830 by order of i*'“ t "ir Nuh.das. posses- d the most powertul instruments m the world, but ot late years the seientuic progress which has »von made in England, France aud the l nited States has put the Poulkovo i Heervutor, m the shade, The Un.vers ly oi \ „g,uni. tor mstauee. has non the .mormons McCormick tele scope, the diameter objective of which is 2i> i inches m and thirty-three feet long, while the Naval Observatory at Washington has one of the same cali la-r.andMr. Leek, awealthvt aliforman. is abt.ui to place a still greater telescope on Mount Hamilton near M. Jose. H.ur years ago the Russian Govern inenl a.-eommgly determined to eon struct a new instrument which both in respect to its mechanism and optic Power would surpass any existing tele -eopc. Ihe astronomer Otto Hurve was commissioned to superintend the work, the execution ot which was ,n trusted to >. Ah inf Lu k A: < o. . <h t ain ■ et>s. 1 tv'ir.a^s '.co ^ - :•£ of an amalgam ban ot ’ tnt ne.-.rlv crown ^ have been in _’o: a \ our, a °d bv the month October tliey will be ready oulkovo for u^. telescope Die will tot^ be length fort)-, of the 1 ero feet, and the diameter of the glass th.rt) inchea, exclusive of the mounting. telos°o|>e will be placed m a mradow to the s°U^west of the principal and building wll of Pulkovo Obsen;ator>-. it u P on » movable n-on turret which " Rsclt rest on rad*. The teleseojie wiU be sci powerful that the m>xin wdl be brought to an apparent distance of only a hundred railed from the earth.— lendm FrkgrayH. A Comstoek Hero. The reporter had an interview with Mr. Van Dusen. He is a rather slim man, about five feet seven inches tall, with a thin, dark beard, prominent nose and lantern jaws. Indeed, he could stand very well for a reduced photo graph of Brother Jonathan. But Van Dusen is not a Yankee. lie is a native of Michigan, and 47 years of age. The reporter found the hero of the day in the washroom of Fitzpatrick’s board ing-honse in Lower Gold Hill, rubbing soap on his hands, and wholly absorbed in the occupation. He looked up with some surprise from Ins basin in the wo iden smk when the reporter spoke to him and said he wanted to interview him. Van Dusen is not a talkative man, and it was only in response to the jour naliat's constant questions that the story of his adventures was drawn from him piecemeal. While giving a bit of infor malion as to his perilous journey, Van Dusen would pause between splashes in his basin, turn up his dripping industri- counte nance for a moment, and then ously resume his ablutions. He was rather amused than otherwi e that a newspaper should think it worth while to send a reporter to*ask him nb >nt such a trilie as going into a drift 1,400 feet long. 2,150 feet below the surface, filled in part with almost scalding water poison- over three feet deep and loaded with ous gases that had slain two men who l.ad mtde the attempt before him. There was no affectation about his un con clousness of his hiving done any¬ thing heroic. It was absolutely real. “Oh, no; I’m not exhausted,” said Van Dusen, as he rubbed his face vigor¬ ously with the towel on tho roller. “I’rn feeling chipper—never better in my life.” He encountered the bodies of Bennett and Callahan. Both were lying on their backs. He merely paused as lie Then,” came to each corpse and passed on. “ said Van Dusen, “ I got to the cooling house and saw the boys.” the Ho seemed to think that statement of this fact furnished all the information that was necessary. “They were glad to see you, of course,’ 1 sujjge^teu the reporter, “Yes, but they were a darned sight gladder to see the ice in my machine, ? i He had to leave his lantern out in the drift, as there was a tremendous draught in the cooling-house, dark iu the cooling “It was pretty house,” said Van Dusen, “and when I went in the first thing I asked was ltow manv of them were alive. They said the whole seven, and I said I was mighty glad to hear it. ‘What do you fellows want most?’ II says, and they said grub and ice. They did go for my ice. [Mr. Van Dusen chuckled at the recollection.] I couldn’t One chap-it was so dark ])laee him—laid his arm across his breast and began hauling it his out of my I machine and piling it up on arm. guess they knew what had happened to the two hoys that went down in tho morning, for they asked me if there were any dead bodies in the drift. I said there wasn’t, for it wouldn’t have done’em lights any good that to know. carried, They had and seen the the boys they went out kind of sudden when they fell, of course, so it wasn’t hard to guess what had happened. “They had fixed things comfortably in the cooling house and were pretty man aging to get tolerably cool air and water. They wanted all the air they could get, of course, and one of ’em sings out to me as I was going to tell ’em on too to work the th™’ compressor. [ thought, [terhap,,.!», n.i-ht he one or so in the crowd that was near giving ? in, and 1 asked if anyone wanted ■ mike the riffle k lapsac k to try to for the shaft, but they wouldn’t hear of it, .so I started hack. Bennett walked down the drift a ways with me. He had his head on him and wasn’t seated or anxious a bit, so far as I could see.” On 1 he return trip one of the rubber air tubes of his knapsack got loose, and he had to depend upon one. Then the foul air put his lantern out, and his only guide as he floundered through the last 300 feet of hot water was the faint gleam of the candles of the men at the slation One of tho doctors at the mine S;dd thftt not ono nvln in a thousand W(>u!d have achieved the feat accom p i| 8 l ie d by Van Dusen, and that it was { n:u . ve | ous that he should apparently suff( . r so phv-icallv and mentally fl ' om 80 terrible an ordeal. Van Dusen at „ vloc j. was back in the hoist j nf r works, standing around with his j iands j„ his pockets, taking a keen but Pa i m interestrin all the work that was being done toward the rescue of his iiruers .—Viiyinia (V '7 ('Xet’.J En un-rUe. Cats „ 1 From ,, the ,. Holy Land. T , , xvru While ., it ... of - much • pleasure , is a source for many people to maintain kennels o» fine dogs, it has remained for Thomas H. Dudley, of Camden, ex-Umsul at Liver pool, to toad the taOaon m rairaag rare and odd-looking eats Mi. Dudleys beautiful country residence, a few miles south of Camden, possesses nnmy tractions m the way of live stock, but Hie most interesting of all area half dozen cat* which.were born m .Terusa lem. Tliey are distinguished from average back-yaru feline vanegated by the length of of their fur and the color their eyes. One m parttenlar has fu four inches m length which grows m waves AH are as white as snow and none have fur less than two mchea long. Red. yellow, blue and green are the colors of theireyts. The rn^t interest mg of the tribe is a litt.e kitten with a blue and a gray eye. They were pro cured for Mr. Dudley Great several years ago at aibig excuse. care is exercised bv the servants in rearing them. Phiia* detphta Record. —A ham \rt Granby, Osweiro County, Wfls s * n i -k bv li^htnine recently, the l> -it bem* attracied, it is and thought^ by ! lbe la ge btvnzed vane hor>e with beav , TOd> extending into an elm flag tered. 8ta!f The driven latter through was completely side of t h a and the unbumed. t be building Portions and into of the the earth, and is v n nc were j carr ; e d a long distance. The fine new barn was saved bv strong *t wind blowing fa , he ^ ht d roPtioE b some lesser buildinir5 wpre burned. Not a particle of nun , pU for sotBe tlPn ^ ; efore or after buildings burned, and at the same j > of the shock there was not I partic ^ ) e o{ thunder or lightn ng, or » cloud overheadL-N' T. Tunes Chasing a Lion in South Africa. ! prowling during the. about night and lions keeping have beet; I hideous I hurry up a roaring, so away m front Wlt h the prospect of meeting one stroll » D ? hom « >n the gray light of the early hours. The air is raw and cold, so i march at the double-quick and reckless *>'Hmist mv hands to the bottom of my pockets in the Regent happy consciousness of not being in street. My expeditions t wo n-uul attendants in mv hunting have developed considerably shr.veled up. and have an ashy complexion un¬ pleasant to behold, and they slink around shivering with the cold and donbtless envving me mv pockets, We so m get a considerable di- : since "head of the caravan, and begin to keep j nerds 1 sharp look described out for game. distance; Several are at a but, not taring to go f; we leave these un.in however, do not become more promis ' n!tn ^ ' ve begin to (oncltn.e there is to be no sport this meriting-. Just as Liat thought shapes itself down sinks the guide in a crouching position, while he excitedly wmspers: -A lion, a lion, Instinctively we follow lus example, Aiter a hurried glance at my rifle cautiously raise m. head Looking in * h(; <» ™.-Uon indicated by thy guide lion I am morticed at seeing a line eeureiy bounding away through 1 the b.-ng grass. Kisng meet lie p.e :.e,y. In:I on, im.-.a-nied, smiply l*-‘»^ lor » momentary state and then continues its course. Grinding out an expression of intense vexation, and yielding to the impulse animal in of hot Hie haste. moment, My I riush after the servants, less eager and more wise than I. remain where they were. It never occurs to me that I have double-barreled only the re¬ maining cartridge of my rifle for a possible encounter with tha enemy. The movements of the lion can only be (raced hy tile shaking of the grass, anil with eye intently fixed on that I dash on pell-mell, tripping, stumbling heart and gasping for breath, while my palpitates with the excitement of the chase. We thus keep up the race for about 300 yards, when all at once the shaking of the grass cca-scs, reminding me that 1 must proceed with much more caution lest i rush abruptly into the fervent embraces of his leonine high¬ ness—a consumrtiatiau most devoutly ambi¬ lo be depreciated, seeing I have no tion for the world’s reprobation and a warning epitaph. Moving I on suddenly very stealthily for some time emerge into an open space, and as sud¬ denly halt transfixed; for there stands the lion at a distance of a little more than fifteen yards, with its side toward me, and evidently awaiting shock my ap¬ proach. The momentary to*a gives place instantly strange feeling of (W citation. With such a splendid oppor¬ tunity for a shot I am sure of my game! Mentally, as by a Hash, I picture my¬ self exhibiting the trophies of the encounter to level an admiring and troop bang! of it friends. I my gun, To my infinite mortification, and, as 1 think, against all the laws of reason, there is neither the grand death spring nor the last tragic roar. Un wounded and undaunted, there stands mv dangerous antagonist, It takes “staring upon the hunter!” one or two seconds to lot the grim realities of the situation daivn upon ray the tables imagination. turned Only too evidently are ammunition, and upon me. I have no 1 dare not flee. To “fix” him with my eye unfortunately does the not occur to me I as practicable. On contrary, have a very distinct consciousness that he has “fixed” me, anil that 1 should not be ungrateful for some convenient tree from which I might try Hie fasci¬ nation of the human gaze. Thus for a little space, which to me seemed hours, stand face to face. The lion seems uncertain what to do, but finally re¬ solves to treat me with contempt. Turning with dignity, he gives one or two powerful bounds and disappears in the jungle, while I, limp and he dragglcd, return to my men. — Good Words. Bob . BurdetUs Advtce y .- to . „ Boy*. “ You say you demand the noblest type of womanhood in your wife. If that is the sort of woman you want, marry Nora Mulligan, your laun dress’ daughter. She wears cowhide shoes, is guiltless of corsets, never hau a sick day iu her life, takes in washing, goes out house-cleaning, and cooks for a family of seven children, her mother and three section men, who board with her. I don’t tliiuk she would marry yon, because Con Began, the track ‘walker, is her style of qualifications man. Let us just examine into your as a model husband after your own matri mental ideas, my boy. Cau you shoul fler a barrel of flour and carry it down t0 tho ct , llar? Can you saw and split ten cords of hickory wood in the fall, so ^ have ready fuel all winter? Can » von ^ spade np *^ half an acre of ground fog t>n ? Do TOU kuow what w j|j take the slimy taste out of the new ^ ' Fernand ’ ean yon patch the little leak b(j klteilen r 0o£? Cau Ton bring j £ £ b p uda wado f p , lt tv to - t[l0 d m ,„ es iu the si-ting window ? Ci m you bang some c heap paper on the kitchen ? Cau you *h e front cate so it wili not bag? Can ^ POU ,lo am tarn- ^ siout the house that ' Mv dear boy, R f you see £ Mulligan will have none of ^ wante a higher typo of true ‘ You expect lure to to men ^ ma n’swork about the house, but - ^ wife to do everything do . Believe me, . nine-tenths of the girls £ ’ aud sing charm P J 1 iano j4 so iQ ited knowl . ^ do wn as mere ‘butterflies of f«Mon are'for ’ are better fitted for wives than Toa a husband. If you’ want to marrv a firet-cla^s cr-ok and experienced honsekeeper do jour courting in the in tel igence office. But if you want a wife° marry the girl von love, with 1 dimplod hands nnd a face like th© son fight and her love will teach her all these thinga. my boy. long before vou baTe (earned one-half of vour own teeson.' 1 _ Burlington Hawkfire. -Jordan Perkins waarlowimr whTn with a ?nftnr teA a ’-1 v a fnimM and ’ tTh« i» ‘* J a f ®J n ‘0? ,7. f '’ K ', ,' ,‘ l V,-' ’ . ‘ 1 ( ca t5l 'b ‘‘is ’ * near1 ^ ofc Education for Farmers. To the average mind the word educa¬ tion is limited in its definition to wha'i one learns at school, but that is alto¬ gether mo narrow. Education means well growth, culture, development, as and as the acquisition of knowledge, knowledge the schools; again indeed, is not monopolized only by one who knows what he learns at school is much more justly entitled to the epithet opportunity of ignorant, us than he who, having no student to attend svh >oi, and lias been a diligent There of nature of men. were wise men before letters were in¬ vented, or schorlsestablished. Schools, good edacitim, sell iols, are exe -ilent auxiliaries t> bit t'ley arc nothing mote. It is admitted by all that, no amount of book learning will suffice to fit a young man for the duties of a phy¬ sician, a lawyer, or a clergyman, and ‘.he idea that it would tit him for the profession of agriculture is absurd. Yet each profession has its literature, which can be reached only through the portal of the school or the aid of private in¬ structors, and the literature of each pro¬ fession is of prime importance to Ui >se who would pursue successfully a profes¬ sion. The literature of a profession, farm¬ ing, for example, conserves the wisdom of the past and records the experiments of the present. But the wisdom of the past preserved in books is like wheat before i. is winnowed, nixe d with the chaff.of ignorance and the cheat of pre¬ judice. So, also, is much of life scien¬ tific knowledge of the present. They are both misleading and injurious to aim who accepts them without question. But they are great helps to him whose mind has been trained to criticise all things, and who accepts only that which stands this crucial test. Colleges confer degrees, yet these are often M. misleading; the young man with A. or M. 1). after his name is not necessarily is a master "prepared of arts or of medi¬ cine. He only to enter up¬ which, on a career if he of practical the experiment, possesses talent, the in¬ dustry, and the perseverance necessary to the completion of his education, may ultimately make him worthy of the title conferred upon him prematurely by tho school. No amount of theoretical training will lit a man for the successful pursuit of agriculture; yet, without theoretical training, of intelligent a mm rarely rises to the digni¬ ty an fanner. Farming is a profession in the same sense that the prac ice of law or of med¬ icine is a profession; hence tho youth who is destined to become a farmer should be educated with reference to that profession. furnish The public schools of this country the facilities for all the literary training cities, absolutely needed, and, in the larger the scientific branches are taught as well as they are in our colleges, and these are important. While it were a waste of time to study the dead languages, the prospective farmer should become familiar with the elements of natural history, botany, chemistry, geology, and natural philos¬ ophy. These branches of science have a direct relationship to his future busi¬ ness, and the young farmer who enters the profession versed in them will find that he is not only prepared for a larger measure of success, but that his mind is fitted for communion with nature,whose secrets, hid from others, are constantly, revealed to him, affording an inexhaust¬ ible source of pleasure as well as profit. To him every expanding leaf or opening flower has a beautiful significance, and every phenomenon involved in the growth unknown of plants the ignorant has for him plodder. a meaning to All nature to him is one grand illustrated encyclopedia filled with lessons of wis¬ dom, from the pen and pencil of the original author and artist of the uni¬ verse. To the educated farmer the rocks present their own history, written in unmistakable characters by the finger of God. The soil whispers to hint of its fertility or complains of its poverty in latiguag' fectly intelligible, and the treasures of Flora, Pamona and Ceres are shown, in rich abundance,ac the feet of him who wields the magic wand of intelligent labor .—National Farmer. Ovcrfcil Pi'<-s ------ There has never been a J'ue when the question of overtecdingtivesto.'kof every character has receivedso'nni: h attention at the hands of breeders as is now the siderably case. Tig exercised breeders are at present con on account of the fearful losses Sustained from cholera, and it has slowly dawned upon the minds of many of the gentlemen that perhaps the evil practice <4 overfattenz in<r has souiethin^r to do with these continued losses, ' Science has as yet failed to prove the truth of this assump tion, bat practical feeder and breeders arc coining localities to that conclusion, and iu many selves accordingly are bv discontinuing governing ihcm the practice domestic of crowding their stock' Of all animals, the pig goes it ups n his cheek, and at the ordinary fair, or fat stock show, his verv fullness of cheek is too apt to govern the awards, Consumers, however, do not indorse stuffed these paunriiv, porkers, knowing round, overfed and that good pork maU cannot generally seemingly be fed found where ani are for lard pur poses and that done. What is required and demanded both at home and abroad is the long-bodied shoulder, lean hog, ham, which affords a deep which and sides upon meat instead of fat is the rule. There ha been a growing dspo. sition to stop th practice of over-feed ing hogs, and so general has ti.e de wand Be« me for good lean pork that, notwithsandmg feed the universil practice to to the utmost capacity, breeders are now market changing thei/views, that and send ing to pi<_s will guarantee good-paying reasonable block qualities. that It is very to suppose an animal overloaded with great masses of abso lute fat and grease cannot be as healthy as the one which, while sufficiently fed, is not burdened with a mass that is only profitable orei udealers to the American lard manufacturer. pork do i ? in not hesit}4le to as ' ert the sto -k of this country is overfed, and it is to these ex P o;ners tha * the American breeder- are indebted for the change that cannot but result to the benefit of the feeder, the dea i cr and the consumer .—London Fanner.
