Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1877 — Page 4

THE EMPTY CRADLE. Had is the heart of the mother Who Bits by the lonely Hearth, Where never again the children Shall waken their songs of mirth. And still, through the painful silence, She listens for voice and tread, Outside of the heart—there only She knows that they are not dead! Here is ihesdesolate cradle. The pillow so lately pressed, But far away has the birdliug Flown from its little nest. Crooning the lullabies over That once were her babe’s delight, All through the misty spaces Hhe follows its upward flight. Little she thought of a moment So gloomy and sad as this, When close to her heart she gathered Her child for its good-night kiss. She should be tenderly cherished, Never a grief should she know, Wealth, and the pride of a Princess, These would a mother bestow. And this is the darling’s portion In Heaven—where she has fled ; By angels securely guarded, 'By angels securely led. Brooding in sorrowful silence (Ivor the empty nest, Can you not see through the shadows, Why it is all for the test? Better the heavenly kingdom Than riches of earthly crown ; Better the early morning flight, Thau one when the sun is down ; Better an cu/pty casket Than jewels besmirched with sin ; Haier than these without Hie fold, Arc those that have entered in.

MAKE YOUR OWN WAY.

David Speers was taking bits afternoon smoke. Perhapsthe long clay pipe looked :t little incongruous with the hundsomdyfurnished room and the massive silver plate on the mahogany sideboard. But, lor that matter, he was an incongruity—a little, common-looking man, not very well dressed. Certainly a very wide contrast to the handsome, stylish-looking young fellow who interrupted his reverie by a very frank and noisy “flood evening, uncle. Can 1 t.dk a Willie Witn you r ' “ That depends, Robin, on what you’re gaun to talk about.” “ You know, uncle, that Aleck Lang and 1 have long been friends.” “I have heard so; I don’t know it.” “Well, we have. To-day Aleck came to tell me that ho is going into the car-pet-weaving business in Kilmarnock, lie intends to buy Thomas Blaekie out.” “ lie’ll need some bawbees for that.” “ Ilis father wdl help, and he asked mo to join him. What do you think about it?” “How long have you been wi’ llastie ?” “Five years.” “ And liow much have you saved?” “ Well, to tell the truth, uncle, nothing at all. What with Jessie marrying l ist year and Rosa this, and the presents I had to give, and other expenses, my savings all went away.” “ Humph !” “ I thought, perhaps, that as the. business was such an old, sure one, and as both the Langs would bo interested in it, you would lend me xa,ooo Im b.i..|> a wonderfully good chance.” “ I have made it a rule never to lend money to young men.” “A very unkind rule when it touches mo, unde. You were never unkind to me before.” “ I am not unkind to you now either, Robin.” “Only £2,(100, uncle! And such a chance !” “(luid heavens, hear the lad ! ‘Only twa thousand !’ Did ye ever earn twa thousand pounds? Did ye ever save twa thousand pounds? When ye have, Rebin, come to me, an’l'll talk wi’ye about lending ye the sum.” “ But, uncle, the thing is not n new venture; it is sure to pay.” “ It is gaun to ha’e new masters; an’ men nt (JO arc na sae sure about things * paying’as lads of 5-and-20 are.” So the young man wont away much disappointed and not a little angry; but other friends looked more favorably on the plan. Che £2,000 were borrowed, and Robert Rae and Aleck Lang bought the old-es-tablished carpet-weaving house.

T|ie first year the, concern, in spite of falling prices, did very well. Robert’s shaije of profits not on ly gave him a good living, but paid his interest, and allowed 1 uni to lay by nearly £IOO toward clearing oil his borrowed capital; and the next year things wore still brighter. In the tonrtli year of the. enterprise Robert Rue called again on his uncle. “Good evening, uncle.” “Good evening, Robin. How’s business? ”

“First-rate. I don’t come to-night about business.” “ What for, then ? ” lam going to be married. I wanted Io tell yon about it.” “ That’s a mair kittle risk than Blackie’s business, Robin.” “ I think not, uncle.” “ \\ h it’s the lassie ? ” “ Jessie Lorimer.” “ What fortune has she?” “ J list her beauty and her noble nature; she is of good family, too, and has had the best of education. Why, uncle she can do ’most anything— paints, draws, plays the harp, sings like an angel, and -” “ 1 in feared she’ll be a kind o’ matrimonial luxury, Robin. But she’s a bonnie lassie; I ha’e seen her. Yet L doubt if she’s fit for a puir man’s wife.” “ You 11 come to the wedding, unde?” “ Surely, surely.” It was a very grand wedding, and David Speers made quite a sensation by giving the bride a check for £SOO. Indeed, Jessie seemed to have quite captivated the old bachelor, and hi! soon began to spend a great many of his eveningsiji her pretty home.. Ivhree years passed happily away. In Robert’s home there had been some pleasant changes; and his unde danced a pretty l>aby Jessie, occasionally on his knee, or looked admiringly and wonderiiligly at his own wee namesake in his cradle. Down at the mill things were apparently equally prosperous. All the looms were at .work, and the very welfare of Kilmarnock as a communitv was sensibly connected with the business of Lang <t Raes Carpet Mill.” .But a great deal ol this success was only apparent, for it hung upon chances entirely beyond the control of the young partners in it.

They had been compelled to borrow largely, and had big interest acwunfs, to meet, and a great deal of their paper being from houses unknown to local bankers, had to be cashed at very heavy discounts, All \ these things were much against them, yet so great was their industry and energy that they might have; turned all into “happy circumstances,” and won in spite of the odds against them, if yarns had not suddenly taken a’ tremendous and quite unlookedfor fall. Di is, of course, was followed by a number of failures, in most of which they suffered. Sot all their efforts could now gather together their numerous lines of enterprise!, and they found it equally impossible to curtail them, and so, after a few months of desperate, anxious struggle, the firm became bankrupt. Old David had long foreseen, and resolutely refused to meddle in the matter. A. coolness had, therefore, grown up between uncle and nephew, and when the end camo David was not among t hose who offered Robert and Aleck advice and sympathy. The young men behaved well. They surrendered everything, blit creditors did not fail to stigmatize as dishonorable and unbusiness-like and speculative and risky the nature of the trade done by the brok en firm. Aleck at once sailed for Sidney, where he had a brother, and Robert took his wife and children to her father’s, while ho endeavored to find a situation. But week after week passed, another winter was ap*

proaching, and nothing had been done. Once again David was interrupted. This time it was his pretty neice Jessie. His face softened wonderfully when he met her large, tearful eyes. “ Oh, uncle,” she said, “we have sore need of you.” “ My puir little woman, sit, down and tell Davie what he can do for you.” Jessie’s tale was soon told—her tears told it best. Robert’s heart had quite failed him; they were almost penniless, and they had worn their welcome out at her father’s. I “ Then you’ll come here, you and Robert, and Jessie, and wee Davie; an’ we’ll see what your man is fit for. If he canna find his feet wi’ a wife like you, I’m sorry for him. ” \ So the next day the family moved, with their small belongings, to David’s house, v®ry much to the annoyance of Mistress Janet, David’s housekeeper. This lady, indeed, soon made things so unpleasant that it was evident to all parties there could be no delay in a decision, and Robert, almost in. desperation, resolved on trying his fortune in the New World. David, pressed by his housekeeper’s grumbling and by his affection for his nephew, knew only of one other way—he could advance Robert money for a new effort.

“ But it would be the ruin o’ the lad,” he said, thoughtfully. “ I’m doubting if he’s learned his lesson yet; he must e’en go to school again.” So lie praised Robert’s suggestion, and offered to pay the passage of the whole family and give him £IOO to start life with. The oiler was accepted, and in a few days they were on the ocean, not one of them aware of the real interest and affection which followed them. “■But they’ll write to me,” said David to himself. “They’ll write, for they ken I ha’e plenty o’ siller. ” Once on a new track, all ItoWrt’o ™ ergjy returned, rrovmetl with a letter to the proprietors of the Mattatok carpet mills, ho found his way there, and readily obtained work. A part of his hundred pounds ’was used in furnishing a little cottage, and Robert enjoyed a degree of peace and comfort to which he had long been a stranger. The next spring a lucky event gave him a special prominence. A large mill in the neighborhood imported some machinery for weaving a peculiar kind of rug, and no one could bo found in the locality able to make it run smoothly.

Robert heard of the dilemma and offered his help. The loom was familiar to him, his success easy. He had found his place, and ho knew it. Day by day lie made his skill and energy felt. He rose to be overseer—business manager—partner. Still he varied very little the quiet simplicity of his home. Jessie and ho had found how little they really needed for happiness, and so, year by year, whatever they saved was invested in land, which grew in value while they slept, and worked at other things, and ton years after Robert’s first investment he, found himself, by the simple growth of the village, a very rich man. Just about this time David sept them a very urgent request to come and se6liim,aiid, as lie offered to pay all expenses, it was accepted. The old man was now nearing 80, yet he was wonderfully hale and bright, and met them at the steamer, apparently little older for the ten years that had elapsed since he bid them “ good-by” on the very same spot. He liked Robert’s way at the very first glance. “He has the look of a man wi’ siller, an’ he bears himsol’ well.” Another thing made a still more favorable impression on David. Robert was not anxious to speak on business. Indeed, David had at last to ask bluntly : “You’ll ha’e done wool, I suppose ?” “ Very well.” ‘ • You’ll no be needing ony help now ? I have money lying idle.” ,‘ Thank you, uncle; but I have £lO,(100 lying idle myself. I thought of investing it here, if I can find just the machinery I want. ” “You’re gaun to manufacturing again?” “ Yes ; I know all the ins and outs of the trade—there is a good opening in our town. Yes, lam thinking about it.”

“ You'll not be wanting a, partner, eh ?” 4 “ If I can got the right kind.” “ Would I do ?” “You, uncle?” “ Well, yes, laddie; an’ you needna scorn at me. I’ll put a hundred thousand to your fifty, an’ we’ll ca’ the firm ‘ Rae & Speers.” “ You could not leave Scotland, unde. ” “Was I thinking o’ sic a daft thing? I’ll trust my interests i’ your hands. I’ll ha’e my full rights, mind ; an’ you shall ha’e a fair alloxvance for doing my wark ns well as your ain. We’ll put everything on paper, and I’se hold you strictly to the bargain.” The proposal, made half in banter, finally assumed a very real shape, ami it was agreed that when Robert returned to America he should start a new manufacturing firm under very different auspices to his first venture.

But the past was only once alluded to, and then David introduced the subject. “You’ll be thinking, Kobin, very likely, o’ the day when I wouldna lend you the twa thousand pounds.” “You were quite right, uncle; no man ought to borrow money until he knows the difficulty of making it—and of saying it; young men can’t know these things ; they belong to experience.” “ You had that lesson to learn then, Robin’, an’ 1 thought ye might as weel learn it o’ ither folk as o’ me. Ono fool whiles teaches auither fool, an’ both grow wise thegither. Sandy McClure lent ye that twa thousand, and ho was nane the waur o’ the lessons ye gave him. There would be fewer young fools if there were mair wise elders.” So Robert’s visit was a great success, and the old man shed the last tears he ever shed on earth when he bid the children good-by. “ You take care o’ wee Davie for my sake, Robin,” he said, tenderly, holding file lad proudly by the hand, “for when I’m no longer to the fore, you’ll let my name stand i’ the firm till he’s ready to take my place; so then the hundred thousand will aye be in David Speers’ name.” And to-day the house grows and prospers, though old David has long been gathered to his fathers. Robert’s early failure has brought forth a late and splendid success.

A Revolting Murder.

The court of Aix, in France, has recently finished a most revolting trial. Vitalis and Marie Boyer were accused of having assassinated and cut in pieces the Widow Boyer, the mother of the female prisoner, who objected to her daughter marrying the male prisoner. Vitalis determined to get rid of the old woman, and so fell upon her with a knife. During the severe struggle which took place, the assassin called out to Marie, who remained in the adjoining room, “ Quick, get me the gruyere knife ; she has caught hold of mine and is cutting my lingers.” And Marie brought the knife, but turned away her head so as not to see her mother, who was lying half dead in the grasp of her murderer. When the crime was accomplished Vitalis took the body into the cellar and cut it up, Marie keeping guard at the top of the stairs. At one moment she cried out, “Where are you n6w?” “At the second arm,” replied Vitalis. The trial was replete with horrors like this. Vitalis has been condemned to death, and Marie Boyer to hard labor for life. The pottery production of Akroi), Ohio, is 4,000,(MX) gallons a year. '’ *"

AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

Farm Life. Saw ye the fanner at his plow, Ab ye were riding by ? Or wearied ’neath the noonday ten, When attmtnei* QpiUi Wfcfb high ? And thought you that his lot was hard. And did you thank your God That you and yours were not condemned Thus like a slave to plod ? Come, see him at his harvest home, When’ garden, field and tree Conspire with flowing store to fill His barn and granary; His beautiful children gayly sport Amid the new-mown hay, Or proudly aid with vigorous arm His tasks as best they may. The Harvest-Giver is his friend, The Maker of the Soil, And earth, the mother, gives them bread, And cheers their patient toll! Come join them around their winter hearth, The heartfelt pleasure see—- \ And you can better judge how blest The farmer's life may bo. —Mr». Sigourney.

Aronnd the Farm. W. F. Dodge, of Hopkinton, N. H., who has tried it, says a bath of strong brine is as good as tobacco- wash for killing ticks on sheep, besides being cheaper and less injurious to the animal.— Mirror and Fanner. Lime for Slugs.—Pear trees may now be expected to be infested with slugs, which tliay be destroyed by sprinkling the trees with fine, dryslacked lime. Put it in a bag made of coarse, open material, tie it to a pole, and shake the bag over the leaves of the trees when the dew is_OD them, or immediately after a rain. Eggs at Abd Seasons.—ls we would have eggs at all seasons of the year, we must have hens that arc in a laying condition at all seasons. Of course, this is impossible with the same individuals, as no fowl can lay all the time without intermission. Mature fowls have their breeding seasou and their moulting season every year, when few or no eggs can be produced— New England rarmcr.

It costs no more to produce a pound of wool than a pound of cotton, and the wool sells for three times the price of cotton. Again, the 100,000 dogs in Georgia consume and destroy food, either already fit for human use or suitable for feeding to productive animals, an amount which, estimated in bacon, would supply perhaps 50,000 laboring men.— Georgia Agricultural Report. Mr. Bradley, a writer on gardening and husbandry, informs us that a pair of sparrows once carried to their nests, on an average, forty caterpillars every hour during the day. Hence, nearly 500 of these destructive insects were disposed of in twelve hours by two little birds. Ten pairs of sparrows would therefore destroy 30,000 caterpillars per week—enough to ruin any garden or fruit orchard in the land. How to Burn Stumps.—Pile about them a lot of dry rubbish (there is nothing better than dry stable manure), and after setting this on fire cover it with damp or wet manure. This is upon the plan of a coal kiln, and if one wants pay for his labor he can put out the fire at the proper stage and make a few bushels of charcoal; if not ho can let the whole thing burn to ashes. One who has tried this plan says it is a perfect success. It is worth a trial.—A'anto Rosa (Cal.) Democrat.

Corn in Hills and in Drills.—The Kansas Agricultural College last year instituted careful experiments to determine the relative advantage of planting corn in hill and in drills. The plants in the drills were cultivated ten inches apart, and in lulls the same number of stalks to the acre. Both were treated in the same ■waxy, hoeing once ami cultivating twice. The corn was husked in November, and that in dri’ls yielded seventy-one bushels to the acre, while that in hills yielded only sixty-two and a half bushels. Care of Harness.—The practice of washing harness with warm water and soap is very damaging unless, a coat of oil is applied immediately after. No harness is ever so soiled that a damp sp'onge will not remove the dirt; yet, even when the sponge is applied, it is important to apply a slight coat of oil by the use of a second sponge. All varnishes, and all blacking that contains the properties of varnish, should be avoided, When a harness loses its luster ami turns brown it should bo given a new coat of grain black ; first wash the grain ‘surface thoroughly with potash water to kill the grease, and, after the application of the grain black, apply oil and tallow to the surface. This will fasten the color and make the leather flexible. Neatsfoot oil only should be used on harness, and no more should be applied to the leather than it will readily absorb. A superabundance works out to the surface in hot weather, catching dirt and in a short time looking very mean.— American Stock Journal.

About the House. A cement for meerschaum can be made of quicklime mixed to a thick cream with the white of an egg. This cement will also unite glass or china. Cup Cake.—One cup of butter, two cups of sugar, three cups of Hour, four eggs, spice and fruit to your liking, onehalf cup milk, three-quarters teaspoonful of baking powder. Curbant Catchup.—The juice of nice, fully ripe currents, four pounds; brown sugar, one and a half pounds; ground cinnamon, cloves, pepper, and salt, one table-spoonful; one pint of vinegar; boil until as thick as is desired. Steamed Brown Bread.—Ono cup of sweet milk, two cups of sour milk, three cups of corn meal, and two cups of flour, one cup of molasses, one teaspoonful of soda; steam three hours. Cleansing Metal Surfaces.—Silverplate, jewelry, and door plates can be beautifully cleaned and made to look like new by dipping a soft cloth or cha-mois-skin in a weak preparation of am-monia-water and rubbing the articles with it.— Economist. Care of Straw Matting.—A thin coat of varnish applied to straw matting will make it much more durable, and keeps the matting looking fresh and new. White varnish should be used on white matting. If thus varnished it will not need to be washed. Be sure and have the varnish thin or the matting will crack.— Christian Union.

Remedy for Insomnia.—ls much pressed with work, and feeling an inability to sleep, eat two or three small onions, the effect of which is magical in producing the desired repose. Such a remedy has a great advantage over the stupefying drugs commonly resorted to for this purpose, and is ever preferable to the liquor opii sedat, and chlorodine of medical practice.— Family Doctor. Stove Blacking.—We hope the following recipe for imparting to stoves a fine black polish, which will neither burn off nor give out an offensive smell, wijl prove acceptable to some of our readers ; Lamp-black is mixed with waterglass (a solution of silicate of soda) to the consistency of sirup and applied with a brush as a thin and even coating, then left twenty-four hours to dry’ Afterwards graphite, or black lead mixed with gum water, is applied, and a polish obtained by rubbing in the usual manner.— Scientific American.

British Coal Production.

The quantity of coal raised from the mines of Great Britain reached 100,000,000 tons in a year for the first time in 1866. In 1876 it amounted to 134,125,166 tons, namely, 115,334,359 tons in England and Wales, 18,665,612 tons in Scotland, and 125,195 tons in Ireland. Durham, the greatest coal field, keeps its lead, its year’s product now approaching 26,(MX),000 fond. Wales

produced aboVe 19,000,000 tons. Nottinghamshire and Cumberland alsopresent a substantial increase. Lancashire, Yorkshire and Staffordshire ahoW a con* ftideirable falling off, as compared with the preceding year ; and there is a noticeable decline also in Derbyshire, Northumberland and Leicestershire.

A Duel to the Death.

On Saturday last, about dusk, Daniel Brown and Byron Yount met at Cropper’s and engaged in one of the most desperate encounters that ever took place in Shelby county, both parties beingkillech • i The particulars are as follows: Darnel Brown, who was a local reporter for the Shelby Sentinel, two weeks ago burlesqued through the Sentinel a younger brother of Yount’s, who had had a fight with a younger Perry—both boys being under 15 years of age. Saturday evening last John Yount, the burlesqued boy, met Mr. Brown at Cropper’s, and, taking him aside, asked him something in regard to the article in the Sentinel. Brown not making the matter satisfactory, John YoUnt expressed his boyish indignation at BroWfi, who resented by slapping Johnny over and walking off. John reported the affair to his older brother, Byron, who espoused liifc cjdatrel, and during the evening he and Brown passed some high words. Each knowing the other’s disposition well, and being stout, able-bodied men, they parted and prepared themselves for the next meeting. Brown borrowed a little fourshot pistol from his friend, J limes Edwards, and Yount, after seeking in vain for a weapon, finally forced himself into Alexander’s store and took a pistol from the private drawer. Thus prepared, the two walked toward each other, and met at the railroad, one on one tail and the other on the opposite tail. In this position Brown asked Yount when he was ready. Yount replied. “ Now.” and both fired aimxiltaneously into each other,only five feet apart. Yount’s ball entered Brown’s right breast just below the nipple. Brown’s ball entered the lower part of Yount’s abdomen, and ranged downward into the leg. Brown continued to fire, and emptied his four barrels, one ball entering Yount’s wrist; another, entering his right side, ranged aronnd on the outside; one missed entirely; Yount’s pistol refused to revolve, and while under fire he spat on his thumb and endeavored to wrench -the cylinder around, but failing, he closed with Brown, and they pounded and pummeled each other with their pistols until they were parted; they again ran together and fought until both fell from exhaustion. When taken apart, Brown’s grip was still upon Yount’s arm, which had to be loosened by friends forcing open the hands. Both parties were laid upon the platform, a short distance from each other, and five doctors summoned; but no relief could be afforded Brown. While lying thus, Yount, it is said, swore at Brown, and said to him if he could only reach him he would soon put him out of the way. Brown died at 2 o’clock Sunday morning, and was buried at Pleasureville Cemetery on Sunday. Yount lingered until Sunday evening, when he, too, died, after suffering great pain. Brown w.as a graduate of Eminence College, was a member of Christianburg Baptist Church, ami was well beloved and respected in his section. Yount was the son of George Yount, a well-to-do and highly-respected farmer of Shelby county.— Frankfort (Ky.) Yeoman.

A Ghastly Picket Line.

Judge Rowe, writing in the Philadelphia IPecAZy Tinies, relates the following incident of the night after the battle of Fredericksburg: “When, on the return to Marye’s Heights, the command first filed in from the road, there appeared to be a thin line of soldiers sleeping op. the ground to be occupied. They seemed to make a sort of row or rank. It was as if a line of skirmishers had halted and lain down; they were perfectly motionless; their sleep was profound. Not one of them awoke and got up. They were not relieved, either, wlien the others came. They seemed to have no commander—at least none awake. Had the fatigues of the day completely overpowered all of them, officers and privates alike? They were nearest the enemy, xv ith in call of him. They were the advance line of the Union army. Was it thus that they kept their watch, on which the safety of the whole army depended, pent up between the ridge ami the river ? The enemy might come within ton steps of them xVithbnt being seen. The fog was a veil. No one knew what lay or moved or crept a little distance off. The regiments were allowed to lie down. In doing so, the men made a denser rank with those there before them. Still those others did not waken. If you looketl closely at the face of any one. of them, in the mist and dimness, it was pallid, the eyes closed, the mouth open, the hair was disheveled, besides the attitude was often painful. There were blood marks also. These men were all dead. Nevertheless, the new-comers lay down among them ami rested. The pall of night concealed the foe now. The somber uncertainty of fate enveloped the morrow. One was saved from the peril of the charge, but he found himself again on Marye’s hill, near the enemy, face to face with the dead, sharing their couch, almost in their embrace, in the mist and the December night. Why not accept them as bedfellows ? So they lay down with the dead, all in hue, and were lulleil asleep by the monotony of the cries of the wounded scattered everywhere.”

A Cool Culprit.

Jules Guidry, a white man, was hung recently at Lake Charles, La., for the murder, in 1875, of James Beale. Guidry mounted the gallows with a firm step. He then turned to a friend and said, “I am firm.” To the Sheriff he said, “ The fall will not be enough. I want a real breakneck fall, about ten feet,” upon which the Sheriff lengthened the rope, which did not seem to satisfy the hardened culprit. Guidry now took the rope in his hands and examined the noose and tried if it would work easily, and said, “I don’t care to die,” and laughed daringly. The Sheriff began to pinion his arms, when he talked very loudly, saying, “I don’t care to die. I am a man. Friends, lam about to die for a crime which I do not regret. I would do it again. I don’t care. lam a man.” The rope was adjusted about his neck, and the black cap drawn over his face, when he exclaimed derisively, “I can see through it. ” The Sheriff drew the noose closely around his neck, and he exclaimed, “ That is too tight; put the knot on the side of the neck.” Before the cap -was put on he bade adieu to his friends and the priest, and said to the crowd, “God bless you all; I don’t care to die.” Then looking at the Sheriff he said, “ I can sec you. You are going to cut the rope.” A second more and the ax severed the rope, the drop fell, and Guidry died without a struggle.

Freckles and Sunburns.

First, bruise and then squeeze the juice out of the common chick weed, and to this juice add three times its quantity of soft water. Bathe the skin with this for five or ten minutes, and wash afterwards with clean water night and morning. Second, elder-flowers treated and applied exactly in the same manner. When the flowers are not to be had, the distilled water from them (which may be procured from any druggist) will answer the purpose. Third, honey, one ounce, mixed with one pint of lukewarm water ; when cold it forms a good lotion. This is commonly called honeywash. Fourth, take carbonate of potass, twenty grains; milk of almonds, three ounces; oil of sassafras, three drops. Mix and apply two or three times a day,

BREAD AND WATER.

Hbiirj Watxl Beecher oil the tabor Trouble.—« A Man That Can’t Live on Bread is Not Fit to Live.” [From the New York Herald.] Rev. Henry Ward Beecher preached upon the subject of the strike Sunday night in Plymouth Church. The reverend gentleman proceeded to denounce trades unions, the tyranny of which he said was greater than that of the most bitter monarchy in Europe. •‘What right,” he asked, “had workmen to dictate to employers how many apprentices they should have, and how they should manage their business generally ?” Only those, Mr. Beecher strid, Who had Studied statistics and political economy could fully appreciate the wholesome effect which the civil war exerted upon the industry and the habits of those misguided men. The reverend gentlemen here went over the ground he so frequently traversed last winter in his lecture upon “ Hard Times.” He spoke of the stimulus given to trade by the immense influx of capital that followed the beginning of the civil War. Gold, he claimed, was the universal standard of values, and he referred to the fluctuations that occurred in the greenback currency with considerable humor. This impetus to trade led to sash speculation alid extravagant living among all classes ; but it also resulted in pushing commerce and extending the railway system of the country farther than it would have otherwise been carried for many years to come. But there came a time when the overstrained string snapped. A shrinkage occurred ; things had to go back to the gold standard, substantially. As a result, everything had fallen in value and bad continued to fall since 1873. Everything had gone down, and everybody had to take part and lot in the fall. It was not a special thing that railroads found themselves hedged in. Nearly all those great roads had felt the pressure, and some of them had been bankrupted outright. It would have been better for others if they had been bankrupted, too. They were built in such inflated times and at such high cost that they never could earn dividends on the stock until they should be sold under the hammer for about one-sixth of what they cost, or were alleged to cost. They were all now obliged to manage with the utmost care and economy, paring in every direction and reducing every expense. The consequence of all these shrinkages and the reductions that followed them was that all citizens had to live more economically and to do as the corporations had done by reducing expenses in all directions. It was at th is time, then, that the railroad operators had conspired and rebelled, because their wages were cut down. As if they were the only men who were cut down ! They declared that they could not support their families upon the new rates. Very likely not —not as they would like to support them. • It was said that SI «■ day was not enough to support a wife and six children. It was not enough if the man smoked, if he drank beer, and if he and his family wanted superior food, clothing, and shelter. “But,” said Mr. Beecher, vehemently, is not $1 a day enough to buy bread ? and water costs nothing ; and»a man that can’t live on bread is not fit to live. What is the benefit of a civilization that simply makes a man incompetent to live under existing conditions? Education and civilization are designed to make a man a universal instrument of improvement, and to make it possible for him to live under any conditions. The man whose culture has lifted him away from the power of self-denial is falsely cultured. And if men are cultured and live in comfort the very culture that brought them into that comfort ought to teach them to live under any conditions. A family may live, laugh, love, and be happy that eats bread ami good water in the morning, water and good bread at noon, and good bread and water at night.” The congregation evidently regarded this proposition as a huge joke, for they laughed loudly. Tins might be called the bread of affliction, the preacher admitted, but it wus food, and sustaining food.

The Maine River Drivers.

The annual coining of the river drivers, whose tents are now pitched near us on the banks of the Androscoggin, is an event anxiously awaited this year, not only by the lumber manufacturers, but also by the lumber consumers. And not by these alone; for thelumbermenwill soon be along in quest of new suits of clothes and the luxuries of civilized life. They are vigorous, energetic men, leading a jolly if a laborious and dangerous life. A glance at their style of doing things may not be without interest at this time. Three hundred men will cover and cut a section of about three miles square, taking off over 60,000 logs, which would measure about 10,000,000 feet, each season. Work begins at daylight and ends at dark; and, when the days lengthen, or the moon favors a long twilight or earlier morn, the men get the benefit in longer working hours. On the river, when the drive is started, work begins at 3 o’clock in the morning and ends at 9 o’clock in the evening, the men having five meals—breakfast at 3, lunch at 9, dinner at 12, supper at 5 and tea at 9. The meal consists of pork and beans, corn bread, molasses cake and tea or coffee.

No stint is given to a man’s appetite. The fare, such as it is, is abundant, monotonous, nutritious and cheap. A cook is provided for every fifty men. The beans are generally the large white bush, parboiled in pots holding about half a bushel, then ten pounds of pork is set in the middle of the beans in the pot, a quarter of a pint of molasses poured in, and then the pot is set in a hole surrounded with hot ashes and burning charcoal, the top covered with a stone, over which a heavy wood fire is built, and here they stay from five to eight hours, coming out a palatable dish. All the baking is done in rudely built stone ovens, which are heated, before the dough is. mixed, with a good wood fire. The loaves of biscuit or cake are set upon the stones and are cooked quickly and thoroughly. The consumption of axes and handles is enormous, an ax lasting a month and a handle three weeks. The axes are sharpened daily, some camps having regular sharpeners, while others require each man to keep his own ax in order. The old axes are never collected for the junk dealers, the distance to ship them being almost too great to make it an economical measure.— Lewiston (Maine) Journal.

The Russian Method of Attack.

A war correspondent with the Eighth corps of the Russian army writes: “To illustrate the method of attack in the Russian army, which is as in the German army by the company column, the Colonel called four of his orderlies, each one to represent a company, and stationed them in what is called the “ cross ” formation; that is, there stood a man representing a company at each of the four points of the figure of the cross. They moved forward retaining these relative positions; they changed direction to right or to left, still maintaining the same; in the former case the company which had been the right flanking company becoming the leading company; in other words, marching at the head of the cross; in the latter case, the .previous left flanking company taking the leading position. He told me that in each battalion there was one company of tirailleurs, or light infantry, whose duty it was more especially to skirmish. On occasion, the tirailleur companies might be if a rifle battalion or brigade were required; but this, in the natnra

things, would be seldom. There is, he siad, no cavalry attached to an infantry division of the Russian army, with the exception of a few Cossacks to act as orderlies and carry dispatches; all the cavalry of each corps is massed into the cavalry division of that corps and operates independently.”

Mind and Health.

The Science of Health says on this subject: “The mental condition has more influence upon the bodily health than is generally supposed. It is no doubt true that ailments of the body cause a depressing and morbid condition of the mind, but it is no less true that sorrowful and disagreeable emotions produce disease in persons who, uninfluenced by them, would be in sound health—or, if disease is not produced, the functions are disordered. Not even physicians always consider the importance of this fact. Agreeable emotions set in motion nervous currents, which stimulate blood, brain, and every part of the system into healthful activity; while grief, disappointment of feeling, and brooding over present sorrows or past mistakes depress all the vital forces. To be physically well one must, in general, bo happy. The reverse is not always true; one may be happy and cheerful, and yet be a constant sufferer in body. ” In the kingdom of Prussia, among 6,000,000 births, there were seventy-nine cases of four at a birth, and one case of five at a birth.

What Can Be Cured

Need not be endured, although what can’t must be. Among the bodily ills susceptible of complete removal by that benign tonic and alterative, Hostetter’s- Stomach Bitters, are general debility, malarial fevers, constipation, dyspepsia, liver disorder, and nervousness. Its remedial capabilities are, however, by no means limited to these maladies. Its properties as a blood depurent render it extremely serviceable in expelling the acrid impurities which produce those painful disorders, rheumatism and gout, and its invigorating and mildly stimulating effect upon the kidneys and bladder constitute it a useful medicine for impelling those organs to a complete performance of their functions when they are weak and inactive. In fact, there is scarcely any disease of which weakness is an accompaniment in which this admirable medicine cannot be used with advantage.

Light, Well-Raised Biscuits, Bread,

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