Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1877 — Page 4

THE FARMER’S WIFE. The farmer came in from the field one day ; Hie languid step and hie weary way, Hia bended brow, hie sinewy hand, All showed hie work for the good of the land: For he sown, *- And he hoes, And he mown, Ail for the good of the land. Uy the kitchen ftre'stoodjthe'patient wife, Light of hie home and joy of hia life, With face all aglow, and busy hand, Preparing the meal for her husband’s band, For she must boil, And she must broil, And she must toil, AU for the good of the home. The bright sun shines when the farmer goes out; The birds sing sweet songs, lambs frisk about; Tlie brook babbles softly in the glen While he works so bravely for the good of men ; For he sows, And he mows, And be hoes, AU for the good of the land. How briskly the wife steps about within, The dishes to wash, the milk to skim ; The fire goes out, the flies buzz about; For the clear ones at home, her heart is kept stout; There arc pies to make, There is bread to bake, • And steps to take, All for the sake of home. When the day is o’er, and the evening is come, The creatures are fed, the milking is done, He takes his rest ’neath the old shade tree, From the labor of the land his thoughts are free ; Though he sows, And he hoes, And he mows. He rests from the Work of the land. But the faithful wife, from sun to sun, 'l akes her burden up that’s never done ; There is no rest, there is no play, For the good of her home she must work away ; For to mend the frock, And to knit the sock, And the cradle to rock, All for the good of the home. When autumn is here, with its chilling blast, The farmer gathers his crop at last; His barns are full, his fields are bare; For the good of the land he ne’er hath care ; While it blows, And it snows, Till winter goes, He rests from the work of the land. But the willing wife, till life’s closing day, Is the children’s guide, the husband’s stay ; From day to day she has done her boat, Until death alone can give her rest; For after the test, Comes the rest, With the blest, In the Father’s heavenly home.

THE STORY OF A RING.

It seemed to me the most unfortunate position in the world. I had arrived, about ten minutes before, at the house of an aunt whom Iliad never seen, and who was sick. I was to be her nurse and companion. Her servant had shown me into |his wretched trap, as I now called it in anguish of spirit, though it was really a pretty, cheerful little room, opened by a curtained arch from the parlor, informing me that the, housekeeper would be there immediately to conduct me to my aunt. And here was I, an utter stranger, assistin'* at a lover’s quarrel. Two persons had entered the room an instant after I seated myself. It was twilight, and the lamps were not yet lighted, I was wholly invisible, and they evidently imagined themselves to possess the solitude befitting their conversation. “ This farce may as well end here,” had said a woman’s voice at the moment of her crossing the threshold. “ For my part lam weary of the play. Ino longer love you, and I will not pretend affection merely to flatter your vanity, which is as limitless as your impertinence in persisting in attentions that you see I detest.” It was the most intolerably proud voice that could be imagined. “ I still love you, and you know it. And I have far too much faith in your former professions to credit the words put into your mouth by the anger of an unfortunate moment. You are utterly mistaken in your supposition. My love for you is always ” “ Your love for me ! Your love !” with an accent of angry scorn that defies description. “Never dare to mention to me again a word that you cannot comprehend. It is an insult to me to hear it —an insult that I will not-endure. And to'Ciire your apprehension of my repentance, let me tell you that I, who know the meaning of this word that you utter so glibly—l love some one else.” She stepped swiftly to the window and threw it open. There, was an instant’s silence. There was audible the rustle of her sleeve as she tossed something from her with force.

“ I have thrown your ring away,” she explained, with a nonchalance in extraordinary contrast with her former violence. “I threw it toward the cistern. Possibly it has slipped through some ere vice or other, ami gone down into the water. I hope so. In that case it is impossible that the sight of it can ever again insult me with the remembrance that I have worn it. Permit me to wish you an exceedingly good evening.” It was easy to imagine the mocking reverence of the courtesy she now swept him; tljen she was gone. Immediately altar, and silently, he also left the apartment. They did not go too soon, whoever they were. A cold perspiration dampened my forehead; I really trembled. The vehemence of the feeling engaged, the certainty felt by the actors of their complete isolation, and my own iniiocent guilt in overhearing, all quite overpowered mo.

Half a minute did not elapse after the last, sound of the gentleman’s footsteps before the parlor door again opened, and a prim little woman entered, with a lamp in her hand. She looked in all the corners, as one might search for a pockethandkerchief, and at last perceived the newcomer. “Ah, miss, I have kept yon waiting quite a time, to be sure ! But your aunt took a sudden notion to put mustard draughts on her ankles—though Dr. Richardson had just gone, and he never thought of ordering them ! —and have ’em she must. And I supposed you’d be comfortable here. ” “ Quite comfortable, thank you. The servant said you would come presently.” “Well, you’d best have some tea before you see your aunt. She told me to give you some. I shall try to find something you like, though what with all these people flying about the house th;d nave got no business here—this company, I mean—l don’t know whctheJl I’m on my head or feet.” I received the refreshments she brought me gratefully, after which I was conducted to my aunt’s room. Consideration for’the feelings of other people was not one of the old lady’s characteristics, and, after a few disparaging remarks on my personal appearance, I was dismissed for the night. The sun was just rising next morning when I took courage to step outside and look about me. The grass was very wet with dew, but how it sparkled in the fresh light I AU at once I stopped and stared before me. There, glittering in the grass, lay the ring. I stood like one fascinated, gazing at it very foolishly, for I knew well what ring it was. Presently, I heard some one calling far off, and, not stopping to think, I picked the ring up, and ran back to the house, all trembling. At breakfast I endeavored to discover the hero and heroine of last evening’s drama. Two of the ladies were sisters, tall, languid blondes, very beautifully dressed and very dainty. They trifled elegantly with their knives and forks, and carried on airy, summer morning flirtations with two gentlemen who were each dark, and, like the ladies, dressed with care a little too exquisite. The third lady, Miss Huntingdon, was alittle person, with soft, pleasant, vivacious manners, in whose conversation was always a concealed sarcasm. But it was far too indifferent and too good-natured to belong to the lady of last night. Besides, her sweet, mocking voice was as different as possible from the deep, passionate tones that had so thrilled me. And of the four gentlemen present, eer-

tainly neurone of them at all resembled the portrait I had painted for my hero. I was puzzled and felt sadly guilty again, as I thought of the ring laying all silently there in my pocket, and carrying everywhere with it a story which I knew and had no right to know. Day followed day, and the days melted gradually into weeks. When the novelty of my position was over it proved not nearlv so terrible as it had seemed at first. Aunt Agnes said many harsh things, but she did not mean them all, and the goodness of her heart compensated in some measure for the asperities of her tongue. I saw a great deal of Dr. Richardson. He was more than kind. He thought my life lonesome and joyless, and brought the many books that I had longed for, and interested himself in the little things that happened, talking with me often, and always leaving me happier than he found me.

But there was one thing that troubled me much. I sometimes fancied—and with unaccountable distress—that in Dr. Richardson I had discovered the owner of the ring. Certain tones of his voice pierced me like a sudden pain, they carried me back so vividly to that unfortunate hour in the dim little alcove. Yet, when I looked into his face again, and into his eyes, so content, so frankly happy, this imagination melted into a sweeter dream. But it returned again and again, and always with deeper pain. The visitors I found on my arrival were long since gone. Miss Huntingdon lived in the neighborhood; and it would, perhaps, be proper to say that we were become quite intimate, had not all the talk and revelation been on her side. I, for my part, had had no adventures, and it seemed to me not interesting to offer theories to one who could narrate facts. One day she upbraided me for my want of confidence, but I really had nothing to tell, until at last I bethought myself of the story of the ring. “ How very curious,” cried Miss Huntingdon, when I had ended, her brown eyes opened wide. “Do let me see it. I shall certainly know it if I have ever seen it before.”

So I took it from the case where it lay glittering, and put it into her hands. And it was with a strange, foolish pang that I saw het 1 examine it, and heard her chatter concerning it. She looked at it with unfeigned interest. “It is really beautiful,” she said, “and most uncommon. No, there is not one among my acquaintances that I have ever seen wear such a ring. It is the oddest thing ! And it all happened the evening you arrived ?” She had turned quite away from me, and was looking out of the window. I could not see her face at all. “ Miss Huntingdon,” I said, gravely, with an emotion which I concealed as well as I was able, “ will you answer me a question trutlifully ?” “Any question that a friend should ask, I will answer truthfully.” She did not turn toward me as she spoke. “ Well, then, was it not yourself who threw this ring away ?” Now she did turn, and looked me frankly in the eyes. “Truthfully, it was not I.” “ Thank you—oh, thank you !” Why did I furtively kiss the ring ? Why, if she had said “Yes,” would I, in turn, have thrown it passionately away ? Ah ! the reader guesses. It was perhaps a fortnight after that that I sat alone at my window watching the sun set beyond the hills, white with snow, but seeing it as one sees in a dream. All my thoughts were wandering toward a happy hour last evening, when Dr. Richardson had asked me to be his wife.

From thence the days flew by like a dream. They were so happy, but so short—that was all I had to complain of ; and they too rapidly brought near a day that I longed for and yet dreaded. And—it is a sad confession—for the first time in my life I looked at myself often in the mirror. It seemed as if I had suddenly grown almost pretty. There was a pink color in my checks; my pale eyes had darkened and brightened. One day—think how foolish ! —I really leaned over and kissed my own lips ; it seemed so delightful to be a little handsome that I felt grateful to the mirror. “Do you wish I were beautiful?” I said one afternoon to Dr, Richardson, with a wistful longing that he should tell me he thought so. We were standing near the open door of the parlor, just as he was taking leave. “Indeed I do not,” he answered frankly. “ I love you just as you are.” That was pleasant, but not what I wished to hear. “ But do not you wish I wore as handsome as—as Miss Huntingdon, for instance?” I persisted. “Think how bright and laughing her brown eyes are. And what a gay color rises in her cheeks when she is excited I iShe looks aflame sometimes.”

“She does, indeed,” said Richardson, smiling; “but lam not a salamander. I have no wish that you should resemble her. Miss Huntingdon is too—” “ To excellent for this.world?” cried that lady’s laughing voice outside. She had just entered the hall, and stopped a moment at the parlor door. * ‘ Good afternoon, Dr. Richardson. Is the patient up stairs better to-day ? I am on my way to see her. I shall not take you with me, Agnes, in order to earn Dr. Richardson’s good opinion over again—for once he had a good opinion of me.” She looked in at him sideways and laughed. She was wonderfully pretty this afternoon—all sparkle and glow. There was an instant's, but only.an instant’s, odd restraint in Dr. Richardson’s manner ; then he said, quite gravely, “ You have not forfeited my good opinion, Miss Huntingdon.” “The truth is, Dr. Richardson,” said Miss Huntingodn, her face all lighted with saucy, inward laughter—“ the truth is, vou owe me a debt of gratitude deeper than you can ever repay. Tell me now frankly, if it were not far me, would you be at this moment the nappy man you are ?” “.Frankly, I would not.” Dr. Richardson was very serious. Even Miss Huntingdon seemed to veil some feeling under her gay manner. I was troubled.

“Why do you talk in riddles?” I asked. “Do not you know that I have no talent for guessing ?” “At least you shall not cultivate it just now, dear,” said Miss Huntingdon. “Dr. Richardson will tell you when I am gone. I must go to your aunt. Jt docs her good to scold me.” She turned away and moved a step or two, and then looked back with a changed face. “Agnes,” she said, wistfully, “would you mind kissing me ?” “Mind kissing you? What a question. But you are not going away immediately?” “ Oh, I don’t know. Perhaps I had better bid you good-by now.” She kissed me twice. “Good-by!” she said. Absolutely, the spark in her eye was quenched in dew. “Agnes,” she said, with a.n odd sort of half-laughing seriousness, “if you should ever come to think that Ananias was a moral character in comparison with myself, it would be impossible for you to love me any more, would it not ? But let me assure you, my dear, that some stories are told with the best possible intentions.”

Then she left us. “ What can she mean, dear ?” I asked, turning in wonder to Dr. Richardson. He led me to the chair I had quitted, and placing me there again stood before me. “Agnes, she means me to confers to you something that you need never have known. And yet, perhaps, it is better that you should. She means (hat I oilec loved her.” '' . (J

He went on talking for alew minutes, but Ido not know what he said. My hands were cold, and objects before my eyes were blurred. She had deceived me. It was to her and to him I had listened that evening so long ago. He had loved her. I, who had heard him declare it, knew the depth of sincerity in the voice that told her so. Had he sought my love only as a solace for the wound that she had inflicted ? Friend and lover—were both to fail me ? “Have you nothing to say, Agnes? Why do you not answer me ?” “ Wait for one moment,” I replied, hearing my voice, but hardly recognizing it. “I will answer you when I return.”

I left him abruptly, going slowly up stairs, my heart feeling broken. I got the ring and came down, not trembling at all, quite quiet, with that dreadful calm which accepts despair. In the blind jealousy of the moment it seemed impossible that he could really love me, having once loved her. “It is usual, I believe,” I said with some sort of a smile, “to break an engagement by returning a ring. Would you like that ours should be broken so ? Tliis is your ring; is it not?” “ What do you mean, Agnes? Where did you get this ring?” cried Dr. Richardson in great surprise. “ 1 was in the alcove there the night that Miss Huntingdon threw it away. I found it in the garden next morning. I heard all that you both said. But she has deceived me. She said, when I asked her, that tliis ring was never hers. And you have deceived me; you told me you loved me.” In another moment the sob in my voice would have given way to miserable childish tears. But Dr. Richardson folded nJfc in his arms and kissed me, laughing. > That comforted me more than any weirds could have done. Yes. When he had talked to me an hour or two, particularly when he had reassured me as to the grounds upon which I held his love, I freely forgave her. Sitting there in the delicious twilight, with that dear voice sounding so lovingly in my ears, whom and what could I not have forgiven ? And then, in the dusk, I hear her light footsteps on the stair, and the rustle of her dress. “ Poor, trusting little one !” he cried. “ The whole world is in conspiracy again st. you; is not it? I shall play my role to the end, however and say that I love you forever. And cannot you forgive Miss Huntingdon ? Is not she right when she says that I owe my happiness to her ? And she may have told the story that grieves you for the very purpose of making us happy. Cannot you forgive her ?” “ Come in, dear Miss Huntingdon,” I cried, “ and let me kiss you once more. I have your ring on my finger, and love you more than I ever did in my life.” And we have been friends all our days until now.— Harper's Weekly.

A Boy’s Composition on Babies.

There are four or five different kinds of babies. There is the big baby, the little baby, the white baby, and the poo lie dog, and there is the baby elephant. Most of these babies was born in a boarding-house, ’cept the baby elephant; I think he was born on a railroad train, ’cause he alius carries his trunk with him. A white baby is pootier nor a elephant baby, but he can’t eat so much hay. All the babies what I have ever seen were born very young, ’specially the gal babies, and they can’t none of them talk the United States language. Aly father had—l mean my mother had a baby once. It was not an elephant baby; it was a little white baby; it corned one day when there was nobody home; it was a funny-looking fellow, just like a lobster. I asked my father was it a boy or a girl, and he say he don’t know whether he was a father or a mother. This little baby has got two legs, just like a monkey. His name is Mariah. He don’t look like my father nor my mother, but he looks just like my Uncle Tom, ’cause the little baby ain't got no hair on his head. One day I asked my Uncle Tom what was the reason he ain’t got no hair, and the little baby ain’t got no hair. He says he don’t know, ’cept that the little baby was born so, and he was a married man. One day I pulled a feather out of the old rooster’s tail and stuck it up the baby nose and it tickled him so he almost died. It was only a bit of a feather, and I didn’t see what he wanted to make such a fuss about it for. Aly mother said I ought’er be ashamed of myself, and I didn’t get no bread on my butter for mor’n a week. One day the Sheriff come in the house for to collect a bill of $9 for crockery. Aly father says he “ can’t* pay the bill,” and the Sheriff’ he say, “ then I take something,” and he took a look around the room an’ he see’d the little baby and he say, “Ah, ha! I take this,” and he picked up the little baby, and he wrap him up in a newspaper, and he take him away to the station-house. Then my mother she commenced to cry, an’ my father say, “ Hush, Alary Ann, that was all right. Don’t you see how we fooled that fellow ? Don’t you see the bill for crockery was for $9, and the little baby was only worth two and a half.” I think I’d rather be a girl, not a boy, ’cause when a girl gets a whipping she gets it on her fingers, but when a boy gets a licking he gets it all over. I don’t like babies very much anyhow, ’cause they make so much noise. I never knew but one quiet baby, and he died.— Troy Budget.

Natural Gas.

“ Within two years,” says a tourist in the Pennsylvania oil region, “this village of Bradford has, grown from about 250 to 3,000 inhabitants. The streets are lighted by gas from one of the wells, which also affords fuel for fifty-five steam engines sinking fifty»-five other wells or pumping those already sunk. Besides, lights for night-work and fuel for many kitchen stoves come from the same source. Yet there is no sign of exhaustion in this even, constant, powerful flow of gas. Indeed, this well affords abundance of fuel sufficient to run engines to put down 100 more wells all at once. The oil discoveries have resulted in a transformation of the landscape quite bewildering to the old inhabitants. They hardly know their little farms, and the heretofore pure air is impregnated with a bad smell, but with these little inconveniences have come riches, and in our fast age wealth is an antiddte for many ills. The bad smells, the tramps, the eighteen groggeries where before was but one, the free fights, the lawsuits, the drunken brawls and sounds of revelry by night, are all borne with philosophical resignation.”

The Size of London.

London covers nearly 700 square miles. It numbers more than 4,000,000 inhabitants. It comprises 100,000 foreigners, from every quarter of the globe. It contains more Roman Catholics than Rome itself; more Jews than the whole of Palestine; more Irish than Dublin; more Scotchmen than Edinburgh; more. Welshmen than Cardiff. Has a birth in it every five minutes; has seven accidents in it every day in its 7,000 miles of streets; 123 has persons every day, and 45,000 annually, added to its population; has 117,000 habitual criminals on its police register; has 23,000 prostitutes; and has 38,000 drunkards annually brought before its magistrates. Two granddaughters of Danton, the famous French revolutionist, were married lately jn Paris,

AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

Aromd the Farm. .. M The feeding roots of trees come near the surface; therefore, plant no deeper than necessary io keep the tree in the soil If there is danger of its blowing over, stake it, but don’t plant deep. The Rural World suggests a simple means of protecting young, fruit trees against rabbits, which is to place a few cornstalks about the stem with the lower ends tied near the ground, and the other end tied as high as the protection is needed. This application is found as good as paper, and more likely to be ready at hand for farmers. I would rather have forty acres of land and a log-house with one room—yes, and the woman I love, and some lattice-work over the window, so that the sunlight would fall checkered on the baby in the cradle, and a few hollyhocks at the corner of the house—l would rather have that, and a nice path leading down to the spring, where I could go and hear the water guggling; would rather live there and (fie there than be a clerk of any government on earth.— New Orleans Times.

Transplanting young raspberries, when only six or seven inches high, and in full growth, in the early part of summer, is as safely performed as setting tomato plants, and they make a fine growth the same season. Take a pail to hold the plants while digging them; take up with a fork, bo as to save a large part of the cross root; mud the roots well, and set out near evening or on a cloudy day. The mudded roots, packed in moss, may be sent long distances by express.

Tuts matter of windows in stables is one of vastly more importance than some farmers think. Animals, no more than vegetables, can thrive in the dark. Our long winters are sufficiently trying to the constitutions of our farm-stock, under the best circumstances, and an animal upon which the sun scarcely shines at all for five or six months will come out in spring in a bad state of health, even though the feed, and the ventilation, and the temperature have been all right. The sun is the great life-giver.— Vermont Chronicle. Keeping Hogs Clean.—The floor cf a hog-pen should be of plank. The pen and hogs can then be kept clean. If the animals are permitted to root up the floor of the pen and burrow in the earth, they will always be in an uncleanly and unwholesome condition, and much food will be wasted. It is quite unnecessary for either the comfort or health of the hogs to let them exercise their natural propensity to root in the ground. The exercise is really a waste of food and takes so much from their growth. Hogs will fatten most quickly when they eat a and sleep and remain perfectly quiet, as they will do in a dry, warm pen, with a clean plank floor, and bedding Qf clean straw and plenty to eat.— American Agriculturist.

Early Chickens.—The first eggs are always the best for hatching. They produce the finest and most uniform chicks, and are truer to the breed; show all the finer points and develop sooner, where the breeding birds are chosen with an eye to the nearest possible perfection. Very early hatched pullets commence to lay too early for breeding purposes, unless one has warm shelters and heated enclosures for the chicks in our latitude. With the first clutch the hen spends her strength and ability to stamp her progeny with that degree of uniform! y and perfection which we aim to establish. The cock always becomes weakened with over use, and his chicks are weak, and therefore more prone to diseases. Good strong birds that inherit constitutions withstand all minor evils and grow rapidly.—American Stock Journal.

Driving Dice from Leaves.—The syringe will do this with cold water alone, if applied forcibly and from beneath, and still more easily and thoroughly with water at 130 degrees or not over 140 degrees, or with copperas and water, half a pound to the gallon, or soap and water, with as much carbolic acid or coal oil as the soap will cut completely, leaving some floating. These are effective, but the rose bushes should be rinsed afterward with pure water to prevent stains, which would mar the beauty of the foliage nearly as much as the insect ravages would. For cabbage worms use hot water with some saltpetre dissolved in it. In using the syringe never draw the water from the bottom of the bucket for fear of taking in sand, which would soon wear the bore unevenly and so do injury that cannot be remedied, but will cause troublesome leakage.— New York Herald.

About the House. Boiled Cabbage.—Take oft' the outer leaves ; cut the head in quarters or halfquarters; cook in as small a quantity of water as possible until thoroughly done. It should be cooked in a tightlycovered kettle. Care of Straw Matting.-—ls white straw matting is washed twice during the summer in salt and water—a pint of salt to half a pailful of warm, soft water —and dried quickly with a soft cloth, it will be long before it will turn yellow.— Economist. Cleansing Paint.—ln cleaning paint, put to two quarts of hot water two tablespoonfuls of turpentine, and one pint of skimmed milk, with only enough soap to make a weak suds, and it will remove all stains from the paint and leave a fine luster almost like varnish.— Christian Union. To Make Mustard. —Mix the best Durham—as many spoonfuls as are needed for immediate use—with some new milk. Mix gradually until perfectly free from lumps, and add a little cream. The addition of half a small teaspoonful of sugar is thought by many to be an improvement; Mutton Sausages.—Take cold roast mutton in large slices. Make a dressing of bread crumbs, thyme, summer savory, salt and pepper. Moisten them with an egg, and put a little on each slice of the mutton. Roll it up tightly as possible and tie. Fry them in ho melted butter until brown and crisp. To Upholster an Old Cane Chair. — After removing the surplus bits of cane, cover the space with matting formed, of three-inch wide canvas belting woven together. Tack it temporarily in places. After placing over this some coarse muslin, draw both smooth, and secure at the edge with twine, making use of the perforations. Remove the tacks, turn the raw edge over toward the center and baste it down. Arrange the curled hair and wool, or whatever you propose to use for stuffing, and keep it in position by basting over it a piece of muslin. Then carefully fit the rep, pin it in different places until you are certain it is in perfect shape, and tack it permanently—following, of course, the tracing made for the cane. Cover the edge with galloon to match the rep, using tiny ornamental tacks, and tie in as many places as is desirable with an upholsterer’s needle, leaving a button on the upper side. When the back of the chair is to be repaired, a facing must be tacked on the outside. _

The New Russian Levies.

The Russian militia, which has been called out by an imperial decree, was organized late in 1876. Every man between the ages of 20 and 40 belongs to the militia ; and soldiers of the regular army, after completing their period of service with the colors and in the reserve, are also embodied in it. The whole force is divided into two bans. The troops or the first of these divisions may either be formed into militia corps, or, in case of need, may be employed as reinforcements for the regular army,

should the regular reserves ci this latter become exhausted or prove insufficient. The first ban consists of men of the four youngest classes and of the first four classes of men who have passed into the militia out of the reserve. The second ban comprises all the remainder of the force, and is used to form militia corps only. The present levy is set at 188,000 men.

THE LABOR QUESTION.

The Coming Revolution—Confessions of a Communist. An “ Internationalist ” has addressed the following communication to the Philadelphia Times: “Your recent articles on the labor question show that you are utterly ignorant of the great movement—world-wide —which labor is making to emancipate itself, and you are no prophet and entirely deaf to the sullen murmur of the masses when you say that labor strikes are over in this land. The labor movement is communistic, but it must not be confounded with the uprising in Paris in 1871. That was a struggle simply for local self-government; it was Paris against Versailles, republicanism against absolutism, and it necessarily attracted to its ranks the flower of France, its brain and sinew, the men who have made that nation prosperous and enabled it to wipe out its crushing load of debt to Germany. That movement for local selfgovernment did assume genuine communistic phases, and in doing so gave the world the grandest example since ’93, when Paris and a mob and Danton, Marat and Robespierre took up the cause of civilization and of freedom. It abolished all aristocracy in Paris ; it eradicated the blighting evil of prostitution, legalized under your stable Government, the empire which was * peaceit made the streets of Paris as safe at midnight as midday; it destroyed priestcraft and replaced religion with morals, and had it not been crushed it would have revolutionized France, and, to paraphrase Bulwer, from the decrepit and feudal ashes <>f the past would have risen a structure,dedicated to liberty and progress, which would have been the fairest the sun ever shone on. Look at its last victims, and, from their character, moral and religious, judge its purposes. Rossel, the Scotch Presbyterian, who died with the Lord’s prayer on his lips; Cremieux, the Jew, and Arnault, the free-thinker, who coolly walked to death smoking a cigarette. These men were heroes, martyrs in a cause which is not lost, but forever gaining ground. “ And now for what the labor movement intends to do. All through the world there is a secret, all-powerful, ceaseless organization, which cannot be suppressed. Two Emperors and any number of Kings have tried to stifle it, but, like Banquo’s ghost (and it represents the ghost of starving millions), it will not down. It is pledged t<»the abolitibn of wealth, to the elevation of the lowly. It wars against the strong and would protect the weak. Starting twenty years ago in Germany, the creation of Karl Marx, it now numbers 4,000,000 members, as large as all the standing armies of the world, and it is resolved to see justice done even though the heavens fall.”

Cattle Slaughtering.

An interesting experiment was made last week at a horse-slaughtering establishment at Dudley, with a view of testing a new system of slaughtering cattle by means of dynamite, and thus putting them out of existence more speedily and with less suffering than by the ordinary pole-ax. Two large,powerful horses and a donkey (disabled for work) were arranged in a line about half a yard apart, under a shed, the donkey being placed in the center. A small primer of dynamite, with an electric fuse attached, was then placed on each of their foreheads and fastened in position by a piece of string under the jaw. The wires were then coupled up in circuit and attached to the electric machine, which stood about five yards in front. The handle of the machine being then turned an electric current was discharged, which exploded three charges simultaneously, and the animals instantly fell dead without a struggle. The whole affair was over in ten minutes, and the experiment appears to have been a perfect success. By this means, it is stated, even a hundred or more cattle may be instantly killed by the same current of electricity. There cannot be a doubt that the present system of slaughtering cattle is open to the charge of being cruel and barbarous, and the slightest want of skill on the part of the slaughterer often subjects the unhappy beast to horrible torture. Ary attempt to extinguish life painlessly is a step in the right direction, not only as regards cattle but also as regards criminals sentenced to capital punishment, whose case equally deserves consideration.— Pall Mall Gazette.

A Hole in a Pocket.

The mean small boy is different from the mean big boy, because all his tricks are calculated to make other hearts ache. He now takes a silver quarter and makes it fast to a string, and to see him hanging about the Postoffice one would set him down as a boy who never had an evil thought. He selects a victim and drops the quarter where it will do the most good. The ring of the metal commands attention at once, and the programme is carried out as in a case yesterday. The victim was a short man with a very red neck, and, when he heard the quarter drop, he clapped his hand on his pocket and looked around. “Didyou drop a quarter?” mildly asked the mean small boy, pointing to one on the stone floor.

“Ah ! must be a hole in my pocket,” replied the fat man, as he pulled up the knees of his pants and bent over to pick it up. He had his fingers on tire money when it slid away, and, as he straightened up, he was • greeted with fiendish chuckles from half-a-dozen mean big and mean small boys, one of whom inquired : “ Which pocket has a hole in it? ” The man didn’t say. For some inexplicable reason he refused to enter into any explanation, but hastened away.— Detroit Free Press.

Marine Disasters.

Official reports show that during the fiscal year ending June 30, the total number of vessels driven ashore by stress of weather was 120, and that they had on board 1,253 persons; of this number of lives there were 1,214 saved and 39 lost; the number lost being about 3 per cent', of those imperiled. The estimated value of the vessels wrecked is $1,746,464, and of their cargoes $1,348,876, making a total property valuation of $3,095,331. The total amount of property saved, so far as reported, is $1,554,506, and of that totally lost $1,053,826, leaving $487,000 not yet ascertained whether saved or lost. Upon fifty of the occasions of disaster, the life-saving service' apparatus was successfully used, and 838 persons were rescued tnrough its instrumentality.

No More Arms for Lo.

A general order has been issued by President Hayes prohibiting the sale hereafter of arms or ammunition to Indians in the United States and Territories, and revoking all licenses to trade with them in such articles. Military commanders are instructed to assist in enforcing this order. It is a prohibition which should have been made years ago. Hitherto it has virtually been the policy of the Government to arm the savages, and then send its soldiers against them to be slain. It is high time for a change in this respect. New York city paid $1,648,456 in damages for the draft riots of 1863,

THE TURK.

Uta Strongest Point In Wartare. The recent battles in Bulgaria, says the New York Ttmea, have exemplified once more the peculiar qualities of both combatants. The strength of both lies in defense rather than attack, and in this case, the Russians being the assailants, their weakest point was matched against their enemy’s strongest. In holding an intrenched position, the Turkish linesman has few equals and no superiors. In the field, where he is, and feels himself to be, at the mercy of incompetent officers, the occasional panics to which he is liable, in common with all Eastern races, have led many critics to undervalue the splendid fighting power which he really possesses; but behind a breastwork, where his stubborn valor is untrainmeled by any influence from without, he is emphatically “ the right man in the right place.”

It is worthy of remark that both nations have been almost uniformly victorious as defenders and unfortunate as assailants. Russia’s defensive victories at Poltava, Kunersdorf, the Trebbia, Heilsberg, Valentina, Smolensk, and her disastrous attacks at Narva, the Pruth, Zorndorf, St Gothard, Naefels, Austerlitz, Inkerman, Eupatoria, are familiar to every student of history. As instances ci the Turk’s aptitude for defense it is sufficient to mention the twenty months’ siege of Rnstchuk in 1811-12, the defense of the lines of Bassova against Gen. Aurep, in 1853, the stubborn resistance of Silistria in the same year, costing 8,000 men to the besiegers, the gallant defense of Kars against Gen Mouravieff, and the crowning victory of Eupatoria, which broke the heart of the Emperor Nicholas. On this point it is worth while to quote the words of an eminent military critic of the present day, whose long personal experience of Turkish troops gives special weight to his opinion : “In holding his ground against any odds the Turkish grenadier is unsurpassed. Were the enemy to come sweeping down upon him 40,000 strong, where he stands yonder, a solitary sentinel, he would fire his piece among them as resolutely as if he had an army at his back, and then fall where he stands, without yielding an inch. With his implicit faith in destiny, and his noble selfsacrifice in the cause of God and the Sultan, he is capable of endurance and effort that might put a Spartan to the blush—witness the wan, famine-stricken, hollow-eyed specters that manned so stapchly the walls of beleagured Kars. Take care of the officers, keep the Pasha’s hands from bribery, and you may trust the Turkish soldier that no Russian regiment ever reaches the gates of Constantinople.” The last clause sounds almost prophetic, in the face of the efforts now making to secure the services of the Hungarian General, Klapka. It is certainly a poor compliment to the native officers that, with a German at the head of the central army, an Englishman in command of the Black sea fleet, two Prussians prominent among the engineers, an Egyptian taking the lead in the artillery department, and another Englishman handling the cavalry, the Porte should beg another general officer from Hungary; but it must be owned that the two leading instances of “imported Generals ” recorded in history— Tyrtmus at Sparta and Xanthippus at Carthage—were successful enough to make the experiment worth repeating.

Symmes’ Theory.

Capt. Americus Symmes, the advocate of the theory that a navigable cavity extends through the earth from pole to pole, has contributed SSOO toward the Howgate Arctic expedition. Symmes says that all the results of the previous expeditions justify his belief, and he is confident that Howgate will be able to enter the cavity. In a letter to the Louisville Courier-Journal he says : “Did not Capt. Waddle go upon a south exploring expedition a few years ago, and found an open Polar sea, as in the north, and, when entering it found his compass had reversed its position, and was pointing north when he thought he was going southward, and became alarmed and turned back, when, if he had followed on as his compass directed, he would have come out at the North pole, and would have proved the theory true, which says the earth is hollow, and, no doubt, habitable within.

Don’t Poison Your System

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