Decatur Democrat, Volume 26, Number 27, Decatur, Adams County, 13 October 1882 — Page 4

OUR LITTLE FOLKS. Fairy Fulk. “Do I believe in fairy stories?" Darling, of combo, I do; In giants so tall, And Titania small, I believe in them all Don't you? "Was there ever any Tied Biding Hood?" Oh, yes; without a doubt. There are wolves to-day, to lead yon astray, When thev eonae in yonr way. Look out! “And was there really a Cinderella, Wilh haughty sisters?" Why, yes, I've met with her since; And. though proud ones may wlnoe, She'll marry the Prince, I guess. “And was there a Blue Beard?" Yes, my darling, There was. But the beard’s turned red. If you tread on his toes, Or his secrets disclose. In a minute off goes Your head! And the fairy folk will never, no never, lief use to help you along. If you form an alliance With first-class giants And hid defiance To wrong. Love and Duty are real twin fairies. Beautiful, good and true; By them we're attended: By them we're commended; 1 think they're jnst splendid— Don't yon? —Neto York Independent. A Story for the Boys. It was a rainy afternoon, and my fl-year-old nephew and I were sitting on the rag in front of the fire. Frank was stretched out full length on the soft, white fur; I, in my own particular chair, sat patiently awaiting the request for “a story,” which I knew would be very sure to come sooner or later. “Make it a real true one, auntie,” he said at last, planting his chin on his brown hands and gazing straight into the burning coals. “When yqur Uncle Tom and I were children,” began I slowly, “we were ever such good friends; and, although I am eight years older than he, we were always together. My pleasure was never real unless Tom shared it too. Taffy was not sweet nor even my peanuts good unless Tom had some; half my goodies were always saved for him. “But Tom’s temper sometimes got the better of him, and when provoked—but wait a little and you shall see what happened to your Big Uncle Tom for letting his temper run away w ith him. “One afternoon—a cold, cheerless, rainy one, like this, dear—l sat looking out of the window at a poor little meadow-lark that stood shivering and wet on the edge of the porch. I soon called Tom to look, too, but, when I turned to see if he was coming, and not knowing he was so near me, I accidentally struck him in the face with my elbow. “‘Horrid, awkward thing!’ growled Tom: and I received a blow from his strong little fist which, I am sorry to say, was not accidental. Mother had just come in, and saw the whole scene. She made Tom sit alone on a sofa, away from the window and the bird, till he should grow good-natured again. But Tom was not to be soothed in any such away, for he was really angry. “ Horrid, awkward old thing!’ he muttered between his teeth. ‘I just won’t stay in the house with such a girl! I'll run away, so I will. I’ll run away to-night,’ he added, in a louder voice, intending to attract my attention and thinking to frighten me. “ ‘ What’s that ?’ said mother. ‘ Run away from home, and to-night ?’ “ ‘ Yes, and I am going right off now if .Ten don’t say she’s sorry.’ “ ‘ Very well,’ said mother, looking at me and seeing no signs of repentance in my face. * You know I allow no one in my house to tell a lie, so I suppose I must say good-by to yon, Tom.’ “Up-stiirs to his room directly overhead went the angry boy. We heard him shake his long-saved pennies out of his tin bank; heird him pull out bureau drawers, and then all was still, till Master Tom, flushed, angry, yet calm, tramped down the stairs. He said good-by! to all the family except me, and started out in the rain and wind. “I shall never forget how forlorn the little fellow looked as he walked down the path from the house to the barn. An immense umbrella, old and torn, he tried to hold over him with one hand, while in the other he held a bundle, containing his best suit of clothes, clean shirt, and his pennies. No overcoat had he, no rubbers, and only an old straw hat which he had pulled down over his eyes. “Bang went the front door after him. 00-oo roared the wind as it followed him! Splash came down the rain through his torn, worn umbrella, and even the grim tall cypress trees swayed their dripping tops over the path as he passed, as though they would send down an extra shower on poor Tom’s head. “Soon it grew dark. But no Tom returned. Os course none of ns thought he w ould really go away. We supposed the hottest of tempers would soon have cooled in that night’s storm. An hour passed; the darkness grew blacker. “ Poor Tom!’ I thought, ‘it's all my fault, every bit of it,’ and, although I was It years old and considered myself quite a woman, I began to cry. “But suddenly, much to my joy, I heard Tom’s step on the porch. I was about to rush out and meet him, when my mother stopped me. “ ‘No, child,' said she firmly. “That minute the front door-bell rang—then it was not Tom at all, I thonorht. “Mother went to the door, and there indeed was Tom. Lifting his hat to her in the most distantly polite manner, he said: “ “Good evening, madam. Will you have the goodness to tell me the shortest way to B— ’ ’ “We were then living at Alderwood, in th" country, and B— was the nearest railway station. “ *6h, certainly,’ mother said; ‘take the first road to the right. B— is three miles from the turning.’ “ ' Thank you. madam.’ came the answer from Tom’s proud lips; but his moist eyes said plainly, ‘ I'm so sorry, mamma.’ “He lifted his hat once more and walked calmly down the porch, off the steps into the dark garden and among the moaning cypress trees. “‘Oh. mother, mother, how conld yop'i’l sobbed, no longer ashamed oi my tears. ' Tom w ill perish, I know he will/and —I—and I— ’ “ ‘Jennie, my child,’ said mother, ‘ de I not know liest?’ And that answet was all I could get her to make. “ Supper was forgotten; we all sat gloomily around the fire. I was most miserable. I could think of nothing bul how I loved Tom, and how lonely it was without him, and how dreary he must be fooling. “But another hour had ticked its slow way around the clock before we heard those steps on the porch again. Thet thp bell rang again, as before. Thfi time I went with mother to the door Tom stood there. His hat was gone—his umbrella, too—his frowsy hair was wet, and his hands purple with cold but in a plucky voice he addressee mother; “ ‘ Please tell me the price of a night’: lodging in B—.’ “ ‘I gave the man 50 cents yesterday That bought him both bed and supper. *'' Will you take me in here to-night? asked Tom. 'lean pay you.’ And hi coolly show ed mother his handful o pennies. •' No,’ mother replied,' we don't take

' in tramps here. Perhaps they would at ■ Nichols’, across the road ’ “ ‘ But,’ said Tom, his little lips trembling, ' I—l—love you!’ “Mother's lips trembled, too. ‘ That’s a very strange thing for a strange man to say to me. What do you mean, sir'?’ ; And then, somehow, she shut the door I in noor Tom’s face.” , “Oh, oh!” broke in Frank; how | could she do it? how could yon let her, auntie? It was just meaner than—oh, auntie, how mean it was!” “Bnt by this time mother had gone back into the sitting-room and into her 1 chair, looking so pale, I began to nnderI stand she was giving her darling Ixiv a ! lesson—but she nearly broke my heart i t, as well as Tom’s and her own in doing | “Eight o’clock came, and with it, fal- | tering slowly came Tom's steps on the porch. He rang the bell, bnt it only tinkled feebly. This time we all sprang to meet him, mother leading us and opening the door. “ ‘ Would you ?' sobbed poor, tired Tom. ‘would you—would you let me come in and let me warm my poor little hands? I am—Jennie, lam so sorry 1’ “In a minute, in a second, Tom was folded in mother’s arms, sobbing, repentant, wet, drabbled—yes, we were I all sobbing.” “ Well.auntie,” was Frank’s comment, i “I think Uncle Tom was just a brick!” I emphasizing the last word with a thump 1 ! of his clenched fist on the white rug. “No. I think mother was the ‘ brick' as ! you say. At least, all she ever after I ’ I that had to do to ‘disperse’ Tom’s tern- i ’ per was to say: ‘Does my little boy : wish to be taken at his word ?’ ” — Wide ( Awake. The (’are of Children. | While the baby is down for a creep, | > 1 draw little stocking legs over his arms r I and secure them by a safety pin. i A baby should sleep on its side. . i When lying on its back the food sometimes rises in its throat and chokes it. If a scurf or milk crust appears on [ the head do not apply water, but brush i often gently with a soft baby's brush. No child should go to bed hungry, > but food taken near the hours of sleept ing should be of the simplest nature—- . a cracker, a bit of bread or a glass of milk. Parents should teach their children j to gargle their throats, for it may be : , the saving of their lives. It is easier to I teach them this difficult and awkward I f it in health, than when prostrated by I disease. [ Let nature wake the children: she t will not do it prematurely. Take care ■ . that they go to bed at an early hourlet it lie earlier and earlier, until it is found that they wake up themselves in ■ time to dress for breakfast. Give your children plenty of out-door air; let them sniff it until it sends the rosy current dancing joyfully to their cheeks and temples. Air is so cheap I i and so good and so necessary, that no 1 child should be denied access to it. Before each meal let a child have • some ripe fruit or some fruit sauce. | Apples and lierries are wholesome. • Oranges should never be given to children unless the skin and thick white part underneath the skin and between the quartersis carefully removed. To prevent a child coughing at night | boil the strength out of ten cents worth , of “seneca snake root” to one quart of soft water : strain through a cloth, boil down to a pint, add one cup of powdered sugar made into a thick molasses. Give one teaspoonful on going to bed. | Children are affected often with ul- : cers in the ears after scarlet fever and other children's diseases. Roast onions : in ashes until done, wrap in a strong cloth and squeeze out juice. To three parts juice add one part laudanum and one part sweet oil, and bottle for use. Wash ear out with warm water, shake ; bottle well and drop a few drops into the ear. Bathe children in the forenoon when I possible, or if not too tired an hour before the evening meal; never for at ! i least an hour after eating. When pos- . sible, bathe before an ojsen fire, or in a I warm room near, and rub dry before : and open fire. It is injurious to bathe i children on rising, before breakfast, 1 especially in cold weather. Washing ' the face, neek and hands and dressing is enough before refreshing the body by eating. For sore mouth in nursing babies, I take a teaspoon each of pulverized alum and borax, half a teaspoon of pulverized nut-galls, a tablespoon of ! honey, mix and pour on it half a teacup ( of boiling water; let settle, and with a , clean linen rag wash the mouth four or five times a day; or simple borax water ; 1 is equally good. Half an even teaspoon of powdered borax in two teaspoons ol I t soft water is strong enough. ■ Dr Osgood recommends as a night _ suit for children a single garment endt ing in drawers and stockings. Over j this, in cold weather, may lie worn a , ' flannel sack. At severe seasons, in- ’ stead of putting an extra coverlet on r j the bed, he advises the use of a large bag made of light blanket, into which , the child may be securely placed and [ securely buttoned around the neck, r Light coverings generally are preferaj ble to heavy ones, if the night clothing [ | and the room are sufficiently warm, as , they do not induce perspiration nor , check exhalations. Going to Bed tn Japan. Going to bed in Japan is rather an • indefinite expression for any one accusL tomed to sleep lietween sheets and ! blankets and upon snowy pillows. In 3 fact, you do not “go” to lied at all, but the bed, such as it is, simply comes to ’ you; and the style of preparing for the night is about the same wherever you ■ are. First, a cotton-stuffed mat is laid I anywhere upon the floor, and a block or roll is placed at one end to rest (?) your j head upon. Then you lie down, and a | cotton-stuffed quilt is thrown over you. g i This quilt is like a Jap dress on a big g ! scale, with large and heavily stuffed sleeves, which flap over like rings. But the difficulty is that these capacious ’ sleeves, with all the rest of the bedding, s contain unnumliered legions of vorar > cious fleas hid away in recesses known only to themselves, but which onlv wait 1 i till you get fairly nestled in sleep, when e they begin their onslaught on their de- ? ! fenceless and helpless victim. Awak- ' ened by the merciless havoc they are d making upon you, it is in vain that you >f , roll and toss and shake your clothes till ie ; you are wearied out: that only increases the vigor with which they renew the o battle, and though you may spend hours ‘r in the faint glare of primitive oil-lan-tern, which is set in one corner of the it room, and strive to rid yourself of the it tiny tigers that are devouring you. it is it i all to no purpose, and you sink down at last asleep. But you are soon awak1 ened again, only to undergo the same ’ tribulation, and the long hours of night B . pass away as you pace up and down the j narrow limits of the room listening to the snoring of the dozen or more of the tough-hided sleepers who surround yon. 18 and peep through the sliding shutter of ' the house to see if tlie day is breaking “! or not. You cannot lie down again, for p ' the floor is crawling with the creatures ' ! you dread, and you cannot sit down, for i there is nothing to sit upon, and snob a , thing as a chair was never heard of in 3 that region. v. A cynical old bachelor of Portland, r.’ Ore., accounts for the fact that Port- ?' land is the w ealthiest city of its size in ie the Union by stating that it rains there if for six consecutive mouths in the year, and, as women can’t go out to go shop- « ping, the wealth naturally accumulates.

KILLED IN WAR. Some of the Methods of Destruction Lawful and Vnlawl'ul. [From the Gentleman’s Mairazine.l . I It is curious to notice distinctions in naval warfare between lawful and un- ; lawful methods, similar to those conspicuous on land. Such projectiles as bits of iron ore, pointed stones, nails or glass are excluded from the list of things that may be. used in good war, ! and the declaration of St. Petersburg condemns explosive bullets as much on one element as on the other. Unfounded charges by one belligerent against another are. however, always . liable to bring the illicit method into actual use on both sides under the pretext of reprisals, as we see in the folI low ing order of the day, issued at Brest I by the French Vice Admiral Marshal | Conflans (Nov. 8, 1759): “It is absoi lutely contrary to the law of nations to make bad war, and to shoot shells at 1 the enemy, who must always be fought I according to the rules of honor J with the arms generally employed by polite nations. Y’et some Captains have complained that , the English have used such w eapons . against them. It is, therefore, only on j these complaints, and with an extreme ! reluctance, that it has been resolved to embark hollow shells on vessels of the line, but it is expressly forbidden to use them unless the enemy begin.” So the English in their turn charged the French with making bad war. The ! wound received by Nelson at Aboukir lon the forehead was attributed to a piece of iron or a langridge shot. And the wounds that the crew of the Bruns- ] wick received from the Vengeur in the I famous battle between the French and I English fleets in June, 1797, are said to | J have been peculiarly distressing owing to j the French employing langridge shot of raw ore and old nails, and to their I throw ing stinkpots into the portholes, which caused most painful burnings and scaldings. It is safest to discredit such accusations altogether, for there is no limit to the barbarities that may come into play in consequence of too ; ready a credulity. Red-hot shot, legitimate for the de- ! sense of land forts against ships, used j not to be considered good war in the contests of ships with one another. In I the three hours’ action between the : Lively and the Tourterelle, a French j privateer, the use by the latter of hot shot, “not usually deemed honorable warfare,” w.is considered to be wrong, but a wrong on the part of those who equipped her for sea more than on the part of the Captain who fired them. The English assailing batteries that fired red-hot shot against Gluckstadt, ! < in 1813, are said to have resorted to “al mode of w arfare very- unusual with us i since the siege of Gibraltar.” The f “Treatise on Tactics,” by the Emperor i Leo VI. carries back the record of the i ’ means employed against an enemy in 1 naval warfare to the ninth century. ' The things he recommends as the most ' effective are: Cranes, to let fall heavy ! i weights on the enemy's decks; | ’ caltrops, with iron spikes, to wound ! his feet; jars full of quicklime, to suf- ■ > focale him; jars containing combusti- 1 hies, to burn him; jars containing poi- ! I sonous reptiles, to bite him; and Greek i ! fire, with its noise like thunder, to ; frighten as well as burn him. Many of ! these methods were of immemorial 1 usage, for Scipio knew the merits of I jars full of pitch and Hannibal of jars | full of vipers. Nothing was too bad for | use in those days, nor can it be ascertained when or why they ceased to be used. Greek fire was used with great I effect in the sea battles between the Saracens and Christians, but it is a fair ! cause of wonder that the invention oi ; gunpowder should have so entirely superseded it as to cause its very manufacture to have been forgotten. Neither | does history record the date of. nor the reason for, the disuse of quicklime, which, in the famous fight off Dover, in i 1217, between the French and English. ’ contributed so greatly to the victory of : ♦he latter. Murder by Burial. No scientific discoveries have been made in our generation of greater importance than those of M. Pasteur. As many of our readers are aware, they relate to the propagation of disease through living organisms, those known as bacilli and bacteria being most frequently connected with the morbid processes of disease. M. Pasteur finds that these microscopic forms of life exist esi peeially in dead bodies; that they work their way up through the soil to the surface, are taken into the intestines of grazing cattle or are distributed by the winds, and so, it would seem probable, i propagate a whole school of diseases—such as small-pox, scarlatina, typhoid and typhus fevers, diphtheria, tubercular consumption, pneumonia, erysipelas, etc., etc., and perhaps yellow fever. M. Pasteur mentions the splenic fever which prevails in France and other countries of Europe, and which annually destroys thousands of cattle and sheep. In one such case he discovered that an epidemic of this disease was follow ed, after some years, by a fresh outbreak among cattle that had been grazing where, previously, victims of the same disease had been buried under the pastures. The little bacteria had worked their way from the buried carcasses to the surface, and were found in swarms in the intestines of earth-worms gathered there. It ought to be the business of scientific people to show the relation of these facts—if they can be accepted as facte—to our present method of disposing of the dead. If the breezes that blow from Greenwood, Mt. Auburn and Laurel Hill are laden with germs that propagate the diseases that have already slain our kindred, then the most expensive feature of those cities of the dead is not their costly monuments. It is worth while to ask ourselves whether the disciples of cremation have not a truth on their side, and whether some amendment is not needed in the modes of bnrial which, in this country especially, seem designed to resist the operations of nature as long as possible, and so to make a dead body a source of indefinite evil. Indeed, the whole matter of our burial customs is one which urgently needs revision. It is astonishing that, in connection with risks so many and various as are involved in our modes of burying our dead, there should have been, in modern times, so little care and forethought. The dwellers in proximity to graveyards who have been poisoned by their drainage include a vast multitude whose number has never been reckoned. —Centum Maaazine. How a Cute Toad Catches Flies. Charles White, of New Castle, has a brood of chickens w hich have a run of , a portion of the yard, the old hen be- , ing kept shut up. The chickens arc fed , moistened meal in saucers, and w hen the dough gets a little sour it attracts a ■ large numlier of flies. An observant , toad has evidently noticed this, and ! every day along toward evening he i makes his appearance in the yard, bops . to a saucer, climbs in and rolls over unj til he is covered with meal, having done ! which he awaits developments. The flies, enticed by the smell, soon swarm •’round the scheming bratrachian, and . whenever one passes within two inches • er so of his nose his tongue darts out i and the fly disappears, and this plan i works so well that the toad has taken it , up as a regular business. The chickens ■ do not manifest the least alarm at th» ir . clumsy and big-mouthed playmate, but

{ seem to consider it quite a lark to gather round him and peck off his : stolen eoat of meal, even when they i have plenty more of the same sort in , I the saucers. —-Vetc Ham puli ire Gaiette. 1 Columbus and the Northmen. What does discovery mean ? in what does it consist? If the Vikings had { already visited the American shore. p could it lie rediscovered ? Was it not j easv for Columbus to visit Iceland, to j hear the legends of the Vikings, and to follow in their path ? Thesee.ro qnes- { tions that have lately been often asked. The answer is that Columbus probably | visited Iceland, possibly heard the Viking legends, but certainly did not fol- j. low in the path they indicated. To fol- t low them would have been to make a f series of successive voyages, as they did, f each a sort of coasting trip, from Nor- f w'ay to Iceland, from Iceland to Green- ( land, from Greenland to Vinland. To ( follow them would have been to steer | north-northwest from Spain, whereas , his glory lies in the fact that he sailed f due west into the open sea, and found America. His will begins, “In the name • of the Most Holy Trinity who inspired j me with the idea, and afterward confirmed me in it. that by traversing the ocean westwardly,” etc. Thus accu- s rately did he state his ovm title to fame. f So far as climate and weather were con- ‘ cerned, he actually incurred less risk j than the Northmen : but when we consider that he sailed directly out across - an unknown ocean on the faith of a * theory, his deed was incomparably greater. j There is one strong reason for believing that Columbus knew but vaguely of.their voyage, or did not know of it at all. or did not connect the I inland they found with the India he sought. This is the fact, that he never, so far as we . know, used their success as an argu ment in trying to persuade other peo f pie. For eight years, by his own state ‘ ment. he was endeavoring to convert men to his project. “For eight years.' he says, “I was torn with disputes, and . my project was matter of mockery' ’ (costi de burla). During this time he , never made one convert among those , best qualified, either through theory oi practice, to form an opinion—“not a & pilot, n< r a sailor, nor a ] hilosopher. 3 nor any kind of scientific man,” he says. I c “put any faith in it.” Now these were precisely the men whom the story oi 1 Vinland, if he had been able to quote it. 11 would have convinced. The fact that they were not convinced shows that ihey were not told the story; and I a ts Columbus did not tell it, the * reason must have been either that he did not k-nww it. « did r.ot attach much ’ w eight to it. He would have told it 8 if only to shorten his own labor in argument; for in converting practical men an ounce of Vinland would have been 1 worth a pound of cosmography. Cer- 3 tainly he knew how to deal with indi- ! vidual minds, and he could well adapt ; his arguments to each one. The way ‘ in which he managed his sailors on his voyage shows that he ' sought all sorts of means to command ’ confidence. He would have treated his * hearers to all the tales in the sagas if , that would have helped the matter; the Skraellings and the unipeds, or onelegged men of the Norse legends, would * have been discussed by many a Genoese ‘ or Portugese fire-side; and Columbus 1 might never have needed to trouble 1 Ferdinand and Isabella w ith his tale. 1 We may safely assume that if he knew 1 thg traditions about Vinland, they made ’ no great impression on his mind. Why should they have made much .' impression? The Northmen themselves 1 had had five hundred years to forget ' Vinland. and had employed the time 1 pretty effectually for that purpose. ; None of them had continued to go there. As it met the ears of Colum- i ' bus, Vinland may have seemed but one . more island in the northern seas, and 1 very remote indeed from the gorgeous 1 India which Marco Polo had described. ’ and which was the subject of so many 1 dreams. More than all. Columbus was ! a man of abstract thought, whose nature it was to proceed upon theories, and he fortified himself with the traditions of philosophers, authorities of whom the Northmen had never heard. : That one saying of the cosmographer Aliaco, quoting Aristotle, had more weight with one like Columbus than a ship’s crew of Vikings would have had. “Aristotle holds that there is but a i narrow sea [parvuni mure] lietween the ' j western points of Spain and the eastern ! border of India.” Ferdinand Colum- ; bus tells us how much influence that i sentence had with his father; but we | should have known it at any rate.— j T. IF. Higjinson, in Harper's Mugaj nine. - Nostrums, Patent and Otherwise. Under whatever name they come, let ! them entirely alone. The peddling i nuisance has become almost unbearable. Half a dozen or more times each day is the housewife called to the door and importuned to purchase silver-plating fluid, or fire-proof powder, or some cureall for every disease, while the farmer ; at his work is haunted by the lightning ' 1 rod fiend who will put up a rod at half price for the good the farmer’s name will do him as a purchaser, or an equally smooth-talking fellow wants to make him agent for some very quickselling farm implement on which the commissions are very large, and if a bargain is concluded and an order given mayhap the farmer soon finds a note in the bank over his signature, equal to the amount of the order. And these parasites continue to harass the whole year round until every one who does not want to be duped or swindled feels like loading bis gun. The only safe way is to put your foot down solidly, pay no money for peddled nostrums, give no orders to any man you do not know will do as agreed, and put off your premises all the leeches who go around offering something for nothing. A firm in Pennsylvania offer to farmers and gardeners “the vitative compound” or seed and plant “iuvigorator,” purely chemical and patented. It is put up in little boxes, price $1 each, and contains less than two ounces of a mixture of sulphate of zinc, acetate of lead and alum, costing in the drug store : two or three cents. Dr. Kedzie justly queries what possible influence white vitrol, sugar of | lead and alumina can have on vegetable germination and development. They form no part in the chemicals of agriculture. Bnt credulity is large in the rural mak % -up and very likely these vendors will find plenty of purchasers The Chico (Cal.) Record says: Up near Adin. Modoc county, the other dav. Oregon Jack, of the Big Valley tribe of Indians, came to an untimely end by t lieing lassoed an 1 dragged to death by ,■ Tom Benton and Little Ben, two redskins belonging to the Fall River tribe. I It appears that Jack was a “medicine i man.” and his patient died, which means ( death to the doctor. Forty-two wellarmed Indians left for Fall. River with ■ I the intention of hanging Tom and Ben, i unless they can raise and deliver to the j injured parties S2OO in coin and eight ' ■ hordes. PittxcE Charles, the brother of the • German Emperor, is said to lie the i I greatest smoker in Germane. He con- I I siimes from eighteen to twenty strong ■ ‘ ‘ Havanas every day. and is reported to I t possess a cigar-holder by which he is i enabled to smoke three cigars at one i time. The Prince is now 81 vears old J* ’.I”” 3 / , a . nd 9tiu foUo™ u< the field, works daily over military • affairs, end wears no epeotaciee.

PRIDE OF ANCESTRY. li B«l> Burdett's Advice to a Young Man. Mv boy, if you want to be somebody n in this world, you must begin by being somebody. Yon must have and assert 8 an individuality. If you have a family ( , tree that reaches to the stars, draw your t pen through every name on th- record ], until you come to your own. and stand B squarely on that. A grand old ancestry s is a.splendid thing to have, and a grand- j, father is something for any man to be j proud of. But your ancestors won't e make you, my boy. Because they are ], dead, and the world of to-day wants 0 live men. Nobody gropes in the gra\ e- j ; yard except the medical students, j Queen Victoria traces her blood back v to William the Conqueror. Well, she t can’t help it. She isn't to blame for it, nor does she deserve any particular credit for it. Such a woman as Victoria. my boy, refleets honor upon her an- ( cestors, her pure womanhood would ] honor them though she never were a j monarch, but I can't see that her anecs- ] tors do her any greater honor. Why j you, suppose you can only trace your t ancestry back to your father, why, your j father is a better' man, a better chris- t tian, he wears better clothes, he lives in t a lietter house, he has more luxuries f and conveniences in life than was or f did or had William the Conqueror, and 8 so you are that much ahead of the queen. , Look me in the eye, Telemachus; would j you feel proud if you could prove that f von were a lineal decendant of the four t Georges? Certainly you would not. If t you should have said yes, I should have j advised you to stuff yourself and sell t yourself for a cigar store sign. If you t . assert vourself, my boy, that is all the a world asks of you. If the world has a work for you to do, if it wants you and „ needs you, it isn't going to bark up your r family'tree. Who asked about Lincoln's c ancestors? Who stopped in 1868 to as- t certain if Grant s family came over in the Mayflower? What “old family” did t the American people elect president in 1880? What great-great-grandfather a invented the telephone? sVho knows q Brigham Young's mother-in-law ? God c bless your grandfather, my boy. Love t his memory, honor his name, revere his teachings, but don't try to wear his s shoes to-day. You can't run and you f can't climb’ in them. I tell you, your j s neighbor will question more closely the f pedigree of the blooded horse or the • f milch cow you want to sell him than he 0 will your own. . t When I hear a man talking too much r about his ancestors. I l>egin to think he K needs them very much. And I always |j, feel sorry for a man who died Indore he t was born, and lives only in the deeds E ami words of his great-grandfathers. e Don't die out two or three generations f before you begin, my boy. Live your t own life, if it kills you. I have known r some men who were very proud of f their ancestors, whose ancestors would 0 have been most dismally ashamed of t them. s Pride of ancestry! It is dust under n your feet compared with pride of pos- f terity You never in all your life felt j. that pride in your great-grandsire, who c fought at Bunker Hill ami shivered at | Valley Forge, that you feel in your first f boy, even when he is three days old and c has nothing to show for himself but r flannel and wrinkles. When a man, on his way to the drug store for ten cents’ r worth of paregoric meets the younger { . man going to the furniture store to buy j f a $35 cab for his first, he cannot repress t the pleasant pity that curves the older ! lips. But, bless you, it doesn't hurt the f young man a particle. Ho can stop f right there in the street and give his t older neighbor points on the treatment a and culture of children. Don’t waste I i your pride on your ancestors, my boy. I t Save it for your posterity. They will | lx 1 in better circumstances and live in better times. While your ancestors came over in the Mayflower, a leaky i old tub of a sailing vessel, that landed the pilgrims and then went straight away for a cargo of slaves to land in the West Indies, your children will go across in a t'unarder. first cabin, faring j sumptuously and only ten days out. It is enough for yon, my boy, to know that j your ancestors were good, brave, honest hard-working Christian men and wo- I men. For the rest of it, do you live your own life, and live it so that you will honor them and add new luster to their good names, but don’t my boy, I i beg of you, don't try to “boost” yourself up in the world on what they did long Ix-fore you were born. Do something ■j yourself. Training the Senses. There is a man in Texas who claims to have the best nose as to smelling powers in the United States. He can detect by the smell the different kinds of corn, of bread, and the qualities of | many other substances which to other • people have no scent at all. He foretells a thunder storm more accurately i | than Probabilities, declaring that there j is a peculiar smell in the air w hen overcharged with electricity which it has at no other time. The Indians are gifted not only with , ' keen sight, but equally fine sense of I scent. Au Apache on the hunt can folI low an animal by the trail as swiftly’ as ! a deer-hound, putting his nose to the track to tell the length of time since the deer or coyote passed. The hunters in the Lower Alleghanies, whose lives have lieen passed wholly in the unbroken wilderness of the mountains, possess a keenness of vision which to the dwellers in towns appears marvelous. We rememlier. when following one of these guides through the gorges of the great Unaka range, that while fording a low stxeam he stopped suddenly and forced the party to retreat. On the muddy shoal in the bed of the stream, fifty feet away, he saw a single imprint, with three lobes, slight as that which might have l>een left by a fallen leaf, but which showed him that a panther had crossed but an hour before. i These woodmen can tell any tree in the night by the different sound i of the rustling of its leaves. Sailors . | oi- dwellers on prairies or Russian steppes possess long and accurate sight. ' The negroes in the Zambesi are said to have the eyes of cats, the noses of dogs and the ears of a tiger, so keenly- ' whetted are their senses. They gain : I their food by use of them, like tlie ani- \ . ■ mals. Now these facts go to prove that the senses of man are naturally as keen as . those of other animals, but have grown . dull through disuse. When man became civilized he trained his brain ami soul to the neglect of his body. Whv should he be satisfied with this incomplete education ? Any boy or girl, by simple practice in the use of his sight‘or hearing, at long distances, ean strengthen the I eye or ear, and even, in a more measured I degree, the sense of smell. Much of | our blindness and deafness is due to sheer inattention. 1 The consequence of our neglect is i that we live in a world from which we persistently shut ourselves out. When I we pass through a forest the air is tremulous with a thousand delicate woo«ly perfumes of which we know ' I nothing; a chorus of countless fine bar- 1 monies are sounding about us, and rare 1 tints and gradations of form and color ' surround us unseen. Is it not as much 1 ■' worth while, boys, to train vonr eves ' I and ears as your muscles?— Youill's I Companion. , i Prince Alexander of Wagram and His Bride. Prince Alexander de Wagram, whose , Keths- i child beta announced, n a grand* i |

son of Marshal Berthier. He is now in 1 his 46th year, devoted to the pleasures i of a country life, and is a famous huntsman. In addition to his splendid estate of Gros-Bois he owns a princely mansion in Baris, ami has a private income of S6O,(MK) a vear from investments in the funds. His bride will receive from her family an annuity of $30,000, and she has, besides, a private fortune of some $600,000. She has just lieen visiting Prince Alexander s family at tiros- ; Bois. The , wedding will take place earlv in the coming season, and the happy pair will henceforth reside most of the time in Paris, the Prince denying himself the joys of sylvan sports in deference to the desires of his bride, who wishes to shine as the bright particular star of Paris society. Growth of the United States. The United States in 1790 comprised a tract of about 820,000 square miles* lying between the Atlantic, the Mississippi, Canada and the Gulf. Its population was 3,929,214, being about 4.9 inhabitants to the square mile of the territory of that date, aliout 1.3 inhabitants to the square mile of the terri- ' tory to-day. This population was almost wholly on this side of the Alleghenies. Aliout 125,000 pioneers were to be found in Kentucky and Tennessee and 14,000 in the Ohio’ Valley, There were then but six cities with a population of 3,000 or more, and their aggregate population was one thirtieth of that of the country, or aliout equal to that of Newark of to-day. i The Census of 1820 shows a territory extended to the Pacific comprising 2.000,000 square miles and having 9,633,822 inhabitants. The area of settled territory has doubled, ■ and the great Mississippi valley has already a population of 20,000,000. About one-twentieth of the jxipulation lives in the thirteen cities having 8.000 or more inhabitants and an aggregate jiopulation a little less than that of Chicago of to-day. The population had a smaller admixture of persons of foreign birth than ever before or since, and the wealth of the country was distributed among the many. The seventh census, taken in 1850, shows a territory swollen by acqnisi- ' tious from Mexico to nearly 3.000.000 square miles, and containing a population of 23,067,262, or about 7.7 people to the square mile. Only aliout one-third of this domain was settled, making the average density’ in the populated region to lie 23.8 to the square mile. A most striking fact shown by the census is the increase of city population. The thirteen cities of 1820, with 8,000 or more inhabitants, have in 1850 become eighty-five, with an aggregate population of nearly 3,000,000. Instead of onetwentieth, one-eighth of the population reside in cities of this grade, and for the first time the census records a city of 500,000 inhabitants. By 1880 our territory had been increased by the ees- . sion of 45.000 square miles by Mexico i and 577,000 by Russia, and our population had grown to over 50,155,783. The 85 cities of B,(MM) inhabitants had increased to 285, with an aggregate population of 11,308,756. or 25.5 per eent of the total population of the country. Four-fifths of the population now inhabit that vast region west of the Alleghanies, which at the first census returned less than 150,000. This increase in population, great as it is, falls far liehind the material development of resources and wealth which has marked this ninety years of phenomenal national growth. This national growth cannot be shown witliin the limits of a magazine or newspaper article, but it is set forth in pains-tak-ing detail in the great tomes in which the mines of census information are buried. Christians in the World. The fidlowing statistics gathered .■om a speech made at the Congregation--1 union of England and Wales, by Dr. I. M. Storrs of New York, are believed o be accurate, and will be of interest o many. In the year 1800 there were ,000 evangelical churches in the united States of America. In the year 880 the number of such churches was '7,090, showing an increase of 94,(KM) in ighty years. In the same period of ime the number of evangelical minisers was increased by 67,000. The Sunday schools in 1830 enrolled 570,000 icholars, and in 1880 they numbered >,580,000 —a growth of about 6.000,000 in fifty years. In 1800, in all evangeli•al denominations in our country, here were 364,872 members, and n 1880 there were 10,065.963 —a >ositive increase in those eighty years >f 9,701,091. The nnmler of evangelI cal societies in 1800, was one for every 1,740 inhabitants; in 1880 there was >ue society for every 520 inhabitants. Again in 1800 we had one ordained minister for every 2.000 inhabitants, ind in 1880 we had one for every 717 inhabitants. In 1800 we had one comi municant to every 13 of the population; in 1880 we have communicants in evanj gelical churches for every five of the , population. While onr population has increased during these 80 years about tenfold, the number of communicants has increased almost twenty-eight fold. During the last thirty years of intense struggle between free thought and Christianity, the growth of our communicants has lieen 6,535,085. At the end I (of the first century) of Christian history it is commonly estimated that there were about 5(10,000 adherents to the Christian faith; at the end of the second century, about 2,000,000; at the end of the third, 5,000,000; at the end of the fourth, 10,000,000; the end of the fifth. 15.000.000; at the end of the sixth, 20,000,000; the end of the seventh, 25,000,000; at the end of the eighth, 30,000.000. Now the number of enrolled communicants in the United States in 80 years, from 1800, haa increased 9,700,000. or nearly as many as the nnml>er of adherents to Christianity at the end of the fourth century of the Christian era. Those adherents were not all professed Christians, or enrolled members of the churches. On the basis of ‘adherents the I nited States present an increase of 35,230,000—m0re than the entire Christian body at the end of eight centuries. New Proof That the Earth fs Round. A new proof of the globular form of the earth has been produced bv two scientists in Geneva, Messrs. Dufour and Farell. They have called attention to the fact that the images of steamers and surrounding mountains, when reflected on the surface of the immense lake, invariably appear in a diminished size. Hence they conclude that the surface of the lake must be bent in convex shape, otherwise it would not produce the same results as a Japanese diminishing mirror or a convex lens. Os course, this observation is not confined to the lake of Geneva, but must be true of all great water surfaces which are sufficiently still and placid to serve as mirrors. A critic has asked why this phenomenon has not been noticed until recently. MM. Dufour and Farell reply that it has possibly l>een noticed by private observers, who have not thought of its interest or importance as a confirmation of the theorv that we are living upon a glolte. The'v add. further, that the diminution oi the reflected objects is so slight that it would naturally osca}>e the notice ol ti c greater numlier of observers —Lon, (I'm Post. If yon have never filled a musk melon with champagne you can't legin to realize how little you will care’ for the trouble! of human life after you rise ut> from the table. v

INDIANA ITEMS. ; New Albany is to have a public library. Martin Thayer, who was shot by G. W. King at Ossian, is dead. The barn of James Loy, near La- j porte, was burned, loss S3,(MM). Jacob Moore, an old resident of Decatur, died at Sardinia, aged 67. Miss VoniF. Janes of Randolph conn tv, was thrown from a horse and killed. ' A post of the Grand Army of the Republic has been organized at Gentry- ' ville. S. Wood & Son's stove factory at Marion burned. Loss $6,000; no insu- , I rance. Jacob M. Wells, jw>stmaster st Marion, fell from a wagon, and was j fatally hurt. Workmen on the George Ruhl farm near Richmond, unearthed the petrified skeleton of a man. J ames Harden, in jail at Nashville, ; for the killing of James Kelley, has been released on bail. A new military company known as the ‘ Dick Tiiompson catlets” has been organized at Terre Haute. Vico county's quota of the Morton monument fund, SI,OOO, has been raised , and paid over to the treasurer. Daniel Sullivan, aged eight, was i kill< d in the Wabash freight yards, at Logansport, while jumping on cars. A Rei tblican daily will be started in Goshen, Elkhart county, by J. H. Bey- j erle. It will lie known as the Daily Times. David Meh.arry of Shawnee Mound, j Tippecanoe county, while digging a ditch on his farm, found the remains of ; a mastodon. Mbs. N.an. Knox, an insane woman at j Franklin, attacked her son with an ax. inflicting dangerous wounds. She then attempted suicide. J. J. Hardin, of Nashville, has l>een found gniltv of murder in the first degree for killing Wm. Kelly, while robbing his melon patch. Packages of money amounting to near $250 were stolen from the safe of the American Exo ess Company, in W. H. Moyers’ store, Connorsville. Nelson Hoag, of Warsaw, has been sentenced to the penitentiary for four years for bastardy, the prosecuting w itness being his step-daughter. Five thousand citizens of Elliottsville, celebrated the 101st birthday of James Parks. The veteran was accompanied by liis wife, who is !M) years | of age. Mattoon, Ind., has the oldest resident of the state in the person of Mrs. Arriea Smith, whose birthday is recorded as on April 15, 1777, at Richmond, Va. Albert Poulson, a young man 25 vears of age. was killed by a freight train near Plymouth. He was intoxicated and lay down u}x>n the track and went to sleep. For the year ending April, 1882, there were quarried of sandstone, 961.883 cubic feet; of limestone, 12,178,753 cubic feet; of eoal mined there were I, tons. The jury in the Boyer murder case, which was on trial at Washington, brought in a verdict of manslaughter, fixing the penalty at fifteen years I in the penitentiary. A woman named Taylor, a milliner, ■ in a fit of temporary insanity caused by fear of failure in business, drowned herself in a lake near Kendallville by w ading lieyond her depth. Mrs. Alvin Pixley, who eloped from her home near Muncie with a school teacher named Poland some months i ago, has been found in Oregon by her husband, and returned home, John Todd, the wealthiest citizen of | Lagro, Wabash county, and well known throughout northern Indiana, is dead. . Mr. Todd had for forty years been a > leading business man of Lagro. • James Harrell has filed his petii tion in the Circuit Court, gt Connersi ville, asking for an inquest of lunacy in f the ease of Nancv Harrell. The sum- , mons is sent to Marion County. ! Ziba Cole, aged seventy-seven, a * i highly respected citizen, died of dropsy. ' ; at Seymour. He was the father of C. B. Cole, Assistant Superintendent of the Ohio & Mississippi railroad. The farmers of Floyd county are troubled with a new plague—that ol t fleas. They are in the cabbage and potato fields by millions, ami destroy the leaves and tops of these vegetables, i Fnow private advices from Constantinople the Crawfordsville Timex learns that the Sultan lias given to Mrs, Wallace the handsome present of a diamond necklace and a diamond hair ornament. A J. Thompson, an extensive grainbuyer, swindled two banks at Terre Haute to the amount of $2,600, bv drawing money on duplicate bills of lading, having made erasures with oxalic acid. John G. Taylor, colored, barlier. W'ho was indicted for illegal voting at New ark. and jumped town, w as arrested in Marietta. His bond was increased to SSOO and he was committed to jail, aa he could not secure any liondr.men. Miss Mollie Hart, of Indianapolis, was sent to jail for firing Butch's icehouses last July. Mrs. Elizal>eth House claims to have witnessed the incendiarism and been threatened with death should she reveal the fact. The exepenses of the Soldiers' Orph an-' Hom during September were sl,— 093. ti, and for the same period the ex penditnres of the Home for Feebleminded Children amounted to $1,092.79, adiffe eneom thecostof the maintenance of the two institutions of onlv sixtveight cents. ' 3 George Ames, a grandson of the late Bishop Ames, and a nephew of ex U. S. Senator Booth of California, while temporarily insane jumped from the tmrd story of a Richmond hotel. He was lately clerk of the senate committee ion elections at Washington. His recovery is very doubtful. James Dangerfield, a sawyer, employed in Riggs’ saw mill, at Funk’s, a station on the C., W. 4 M. railroad, five miles north of Anderson, fell against a buzz-saw, and before assistance could arrive was ripped open from his alslomen to his shoulder. The physical! states that he cannot recover. John 11. Finnell, a young man residing in Vermilion conntv, has brought suit in the Vigo Superior Court against Thomas Godsey, Henry Bishop, Marcus Conover and Solon Johnson, alleging that they are indebted to him in the sum of SSOO, which sum the plaintiff lost and paid to defendants at a game of cards. Mr. J. D. Sutphen, of Leesbnrg. Ko - cinsko conntv. lias quite a relic in the way ot a newspaper subscription receipt. which reads as follows: “Received of Horcce Coon three dollars in apples on account of subscription to the Register, from No. 1. Vol. 1. . S< hi tler Colfax. 'March 13, 1848.” , At a gravel-pit near Ridgeville a dozen hum »n skeletons were unearthed, some of them in a remarkable goo I state of preservation, and specimens ean now 1 e seen at the office of Dr. . hoemaker. They evidently belonged 1 * S<l P r ? baW 7 » rtaturv or I mo;. sing* ihait ißtmwnt. I

They wore found at a depth of f roia six to twelve feet from the surface. The wife of James M. George, a prominent merchant of Freetown, committed suicide last night by cutting her throat with a raz-or. Mr. George sayj that at twelve o’clock she was sleeping by his side in bed. At three o'clock h e awoke again and she was missing. Going out in search of her. he was horrified upon discovering her lifeless Ixhl v lying in a p<x>l of blood in the yard, with' her throat ent from ear to ear. Her mind had been impaired for some time, and the act was undoubtedly committed while laboring under temporary i u . sanity. The remains of a man were fou nn near Vincennes. The city marshal al once set about investigating the affair A hat was found which was literalh riddled with bullet-holes, indicating that the victim had been shot. The skeleton fell to pieces when touched Letters and papers in the coat prove, the victim to lx- William H Rise, s voung butcher of Vincennes, who had lieen employed early in the summer In O'Donnell and Hon, proprietors of i meat-market. Bise was a married man and letters indii atcd that his wife lived at Rix’kport, Ind. He was last seen in Vincennes alxiut three months ago. when he mysteriously disappeared. Frog Stories. The supposed reappearance fro® I time to time of the sea-serpent is not a more often subject for credulous admiration or scoffing ridicule, as the case I may be, than are the innumerable I stories of frogs or toads said to have lieen imprisoned for centuries, if not for j unnumbered ages, in cavities in sandi stone or in coal, or in the heart of a tree, and living through their long con- ! finement seemingly in the enjoyment of : excellent health. The credulous or ini credulous respectively believe in or nt- | terly reject all such stories. Among | the latest of these remarkable accounts : is one given in the Times of India, j where we are told that a live frog was recently exhumed from among some Buddhist relics which had lain buried I for seventeen hundred years, near a place called Bassein. Supposed eases of toads lieing fonnd alive in the heart of living trees, or in sandstone, or coal, have been very numerous, and it is needless to ]x>int out that a frog only seventeen centuries old must feel that it is a mere raw youth in the presence of a toad which has watched the formation of the coal Wds. Unfortunately it can rarely lx* possible to get scientific evidence of a case of this kind. There may lie no question that a toad has been found in the center of a solid block of stone, but the stone was broken liefore it was found, and that there was no crevice leading to its position could only W proved by fitting the pieces carefully together again. This has generally become impossible before any scientific man hears of the case. In 1825 Dr. Buckland made a series of experiments to test the possibilities of toads surviving long periods of confinement without food or air. He made twelve cells in a large block of porous limestone and put a toad into each, covering the mouth of a cell with a plate of glass carefully cemented on. The block was then buried three feet deep in his garden. After more than a year it was dug out and examined, when most of the toads were found still alive. Some were emaciated, but in two of the cells the prisoners had actually grown heavier. In one of these the glass plate was fonnd to be eracked, so that minute insects might have entered, but the other cell was quite sound, and yet the toad had gained a quarter of an ounce in weight. To explain this Dr. Buckland is driven to the hypothesis that there must have been some Haw in the cement with which the glass was fastened. All the surviving toads were bnried again, and liefore the end of the second year they were all dead. Twelve toads were also immured in much smaller cells in a block of hard sandstone. not pervious to air or water, and they all perished within one year. Dr. Buckland was evidentlv not quite satisfied with the result of these experiments. and indeed they prove a good deal in favor of the toad’s powers, while they disprove nothing. They prove that a toad immured in a close cell, with no visible creviee for the admission of food, may not only survive fora year, but actually grow, while they do not prove that it may not do the same thing for a century under letter conditions. For Dr. Buckland admits that he had caught the toads two months before he experimented with them, and that they were in a meagre or unhealthy condition; and there is a point even more important which he does not touch on, namely, that they may not have lieen at that particular time disposed to torpor. There must be a very great difference between the state of an animal imprisoned against its will, and that of one prompted bv its own instincts to seek retirement. A bear in a cage dying for want fixxl does not prove that liears never hibernate. And Dr. Buckland himself mentions casually that when he examined the toads, as he frequently did, during the second year, he found them always wide-awake with their eyes open. This alone seems to deprive liis experiments of all the value as evidence of ths kind required, for the very jxissibility of any animal surviving long without food flejiends upon its being in sneh a state of torpor that all vital functions arc entirely or almost entirely suspended. In that state the need for food is reduced almost to zero, and, considering that a toad has lieen known to live an active life in captivity for forty years, and then did wear out, but met a violent death, they must be made of good wearing material, and there may lie no assignable limit to the time for which one. properly put to sleep and hermetically sealed, will “keep.” I do not know how long frogs live. — Harper's ll'eekly. Bitter Ureek's Bad Cowboy. Tlie bail cowbov from Bitter Creek was on the Comstock last night. He went into the Gem saloon and thus described himself: “I'm a race horse in an advance and a tortoise in retreat! I' hen von hear my voice above the racket you kin Ixigin to measure off land for a graveyard!” Alxiut this time the “race horse” found himself doubled up in a corner, and as he sadly wiped the dripping blood from his nose and bulging upper lip he exclaimed: “I didn't mean to cast no slurs onto this place, for here I know the land's measured off and the graveyard established.*— Virginia CHH Enterprise. The curious fact has been disclosed that women are extensive holders ■ ' bank shares in New Y’ork. The Bank of Commerce has 1,829 shareholders, and 778 women hold more than onefourth of its $5,000,000 capital stock. The oldest bank in the State is the Bank of New York Banking Association, 10.27(1 of w hose 20,000 shares are held by 247 women, fifty-t wo tru.st. es of estates and nineteen charitable institutions. If js the popular belief that the stock of the great banks are held al' most exclusively by men of immense w ealth, but the facts concerning these two powerful New York banks are wholly against that thtsvry. Il is not proper to speak of a milk man’s watering his milk. You should •ay that he expedites hie cream. —£<“(' ton Transcript,