Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1877 — Page 4

A PORTRAIT. BY CLARENCE COOK. I know not wherein lay the charm Rhe had In those remembered dayn. The Olympian gait, the welcoming hand, The frank soul looking from her face, The manly manners all her own— Nor yet coquette, nor cold nor free ; She puzzled, being each in turn; Or dazzled, mingling all the three. Out of those gowns, so quaintly rich— They grew unshaped by Milan’s shears! — Bese, like a tower, the ivory throat Binged with the rings the Clytie wears. But, when you sought the Roman face That on such columns grew—and grows I You found this wonder in its stead— The seashell's curve, the seashell’s rose I Her eyee, the succory’s way-side blue; Her lips, the wilding way-side rose; Bid, Beauty dreamed a prouder dream, Throned on forehead's moonlit snows. And, over all, the wreathed hair That caught the sunset’s streaming gold, Where, now, a crocus bed was set, Or violet, hid in the braided fold I But she, so deep her conscious pride, Ho sure her knowledge she was fair— What gowns she wore, or silk, or serge, She seemed to neither know, nor care. She smiled on cat, or frowned on friend, Or gave her horse the band denied. To-day, bewitched you with her wit, To-morrow, snubbed you from lie Loyal to truth, yet wed to whim, Hhc held in fee her constant mind. Whatever teu>pants drove her bark, You felt her soul's deep anchor bind. In that dark day when, fever-driven. Her wits went wandering up and down, And seeming-cruel, friendly shears Closed on her girl-head’s glorious crown, Another woman might have wept To see such gold so idly spilled. She only smiled, as cnrl and coil Fell, till the shearer's lap was filled ; Then softly said : “ Hair-sunsets fade As when night clips day's locks of gold I Dear Death, thy priestly hands I bless. And nun-like, seek thy convent-fold I” Then slept, nor woke. O, miser Death, • What gold thy hldest in thy dust! What ripest beatify there decays, What sharpest wits there go to rust.' Hide nos this Jewel with the rest— Base ggjjj>jL.whose color fled thy breath— But, worn on thine imperial hand, * Make all the world in love with Death I —Scribner f<rr .September.

A QUEER COURTSHIP.

Yon know how it is in a letter (began the little shop-keeper, rubbing her thin hands together helplessly). I was writing tq brother Joshua, away down East, hundreds of miles from here, and happened. to toll him, amongs.other things, •that the widow lady thitt iielped teach school hero, and boarded with me, was going away. I didn’t say a word one way or the other about Mr. Steele, for what did it matter to them whether he was a tyrant or not ? I only wanted to tell them I’d been at a good\leal of expense in fitting up the room, and I didn’t mind her board money so much as I did tp have the chamber idle again, and nobody about the house but myself, though she was poor company at the best, being sickly in constitution and low in spirits the most of the time, and after a while nearly driven crazy .by the continual badgering and bickering of Mr. Steele. She used to come home at night that worn out, what with the wickedness of the children, and the eternal nagging of the schoolmaster, that’ I’ve seen her put her head down on the table and cry fit to break her heart. She said she couldn’t please him, do what she might, and it was ruining her nerves to see him beat the boys in the way that he did. She was sure he’d break some of their bones. I tried to.cheer her as best I could, telling her that boys’ bones were tough, and the little rascals deserved to be paid up for some of their deviltry. After an hour or two she’d come around again and be comfortable, but, la me! what was the use? The next day, perhaps, she’d be worse than ever, and the creature’s health began to fail so, I was glad when she gave up and went away. She was very down-hearted, Sam Riley, the stage-driver, said, all the way down to the train, and he gave it as his opinion that Mr. Steele was no better than a blackhearted tyrant. Sam is such a good-natur d fellow that it quite wore upon bis mind, ami he stopped a bit with mo on his way to the evening train to talk it over. I wanted him to get some little tilings for me at Pikeville, and, while I was making out the memorandum, Sam told me how he pitied whatever poor body was to take that poor creature’s place. You can just fancy how 1 felt when Sam drove up to the door that night, and 1 went out to get the package, to see brother Joshua’s daughter Jemima on the seat with Sam, chatting and laughing away as merry as a cricket. I was powerful glad to see the child, but dreadfully mortified to find her tucked in there witii the driver. I told Sam pretty sharply that he ought to know better, for there was plenty of room inside, and I didn’t know what the boarders over the way would think of it. “ She was bound to ride outside,” said Sam; “ and a willful woman must have her way.” “Mhy, it s all the fashion up our way, ’ said Mime. “ The summer boarders swarm all over the tops of the coaches hke so many lively bees; but if it hurts anybody’s feelings I’m sorry. A schoolmarm mutt mind her p’s and q’s.” “ A sehoolmarm ?” I said, wondering what the child meant. Then she told me she’d come out to take that poor little woman’s place; that she’d written to Mr. Steele as soon as my letter was read at home, fofr she couldn’t get along at the school there. It would take a saint to put up with their airs and their interference, and you know I like to have my own way ” said my niece Jemima. “ Yes,” I said, fori had known Mime’s temper from a child. Anybody could see from her hair how fiery she was; but the dear child'was just as the good Lord had seen fit to make her, and I, for one never hold red-haired people accountable for freaks of temper. Only you can see how ridiculous it seemed to me for her to teach under Mr. Steele. “ Out of the frying-pan into the fire, Mime,” I said. The schoolmaster has it all his own way here, and he’s little better than a brute. I’ve seen under my own eyes a woman’s heart almost broken with him.” Then I went on to tell how he’d torpiented that poor widow into, giving up the place, and how I’d seen her worry and fret till the skin fairly dropped oft' her bones. “Pooh! po«h!” said my niece; “the skin won’t drop oil my bones, aunty.” And I couldn’t help thinking what a pity it would be if it did, for whiter and finer and wholesomer skin I never did sec. It was the kind that so often comes with red hair, and a lovelier color never was in a blossom than bloomed in Mime’s cheek when she cried out: I ve got to fight it out somewhere, aunty; let him mind . his business and 111 mind mine !”

My heart fairly warmed to the girl as she sat opposite to me at the table crunching slice after slice of toast between her white teeth, and devouring the dainties one by one. The little widow had been so finicky, and I had such a poor appetite myself, that things came and went upon the table, and were warmed up and fussed over till a body got tired of seeing them. Then she was mv own flesh and blood, snd had the Schoonmaker nose, a little high with Mime, and ireckled over the bridge»a bit but she was a bonny, blithe, freshlookmg creature, so different from the ■wretched little woman that had just gone ' away. I couldn’t bear the thought of her spirits and health being broken bv that dreadful Mr. Steele. “I’ll tell you, Mime,” I said, as she dried the dishes for me, “what we’ll do. You shall stay at home with me and help about the shop ; there’s bonnets now amJ then to trim, and lots of

little knick-knacks in worsted-work to be made.” “ Now, aunty,” said Mime, “ a buffalo would be less clumsy at trimming a bonnet than I would, and as for worsted-work —” “ I suppose so,” I said, for I could see she was determined to teach. The next morning she went to school, and for a month or so everything went right, and I didn’t hear a word ‘of complaint from her. She made fun enough of the schoolmaster, and said he didn’t know how to manage the boys, and made himself more trouble than was necessary ; that a coaxing word of hers went farther than a dozen slashes of that rod of his ; but everyone had their own way, and it was none of her business. She was getting along splendidly, and the smaller children were quite delighted with a way she had of picturing out things on the blackboard. Mime was quite ready with her pencil, and had made us laugh, Sam Riley and me, many a time, by scrawling off funny conceits on paper. Sam Riley began to drop in at night, and I noticed he was quite taken with Mime. Sam was well to do, and, outside of his line of stages, owned a fine house down on the main r<.id. Sam didn’t mind being hit off himself once in a while—him and his horses and passengers and all; he used to sit back on his chair and laugh till the tears rolled down his cheeks, and look over at me, winking and blinking, and whispering, under his breath, what a wonderful woman she was. “She’s as fresh and handsome as a rose,” he would say when Mime was out of the room ; “and what health she’s got, and what spirits !” I could see how things were going. Dear ! dear ! I used to sit and picture it all out to myself, and think how nice it would be to have Mime settled near me for life. So when she came home one afternoon from school, with a bright spot burning on either cheek, an angry flame in her eyes, and said to me that war had begun between her and Mr. Steele, I didn’t so 1 much mind, for I thought the sooner she got discouraged the better. Sam was well on to 30, and, though Mime’s skin made her look younger than she was, there wasn’t so much difference as you’d think between their ages. ‘ ‘ He’s forbidden my illustrations on the blackboard, aunty,” said Mime; and though I didn’t know one bit of board

from another, I could see by the way she felt about it that it was a great spite to Mime. “He calls them pernicious and exciting to the imagination, and injurious to more practical requirements,” said Jemima. And I couldn’t quite get the hang of h s objections, for every word of the schoolmaster’s was as long ’as the moral law, but I could tell it was some imposition of his. “He’s a nar-row-minded idiot, and I shall tell him so if he persists in this notion,” said Mime.

“If he persists,” I said, “you’d better give it up. He’s so set in his way, there’s no use crossing him. ’’ “I won’t let him cross me,” said Mime, and she didn’t. She went on with her pictures on the blackboard for a full week or more, till one night there was a rap at the sitting-room door, and it gave me quite a turn to see the long, bony figure of the schoolmaster standing on the threshold. Mime started up, a hot color leaping into her face, and stood there confronting him like a young Jezebel. The man looked pale enough himself, sinking into the chair I set for him as if he was quite worn and spent like, and he seemed boat out in some way; for, though he fixed his eyes savagely on Mime, there was something in ’em that looked tired and hunted. “I have come here to remonstrate with your niece, madam,” he said to me, * ‘ though I’ve found it of very little use and profit heretofore; but however capable and efficient she may be, and however judicious it may seem to retain her services, her spirit of insubordination is top dangerous an example to the naturally rebellious and headstrong temperament of youth. She must confine herself strictly to the rules that govern the method of instruction. The trustees-—” “ Don’t put it on the trustees,” broke in Mime; and I was glad she took it upon herself to answer him, for I couldn't make out head or tail of what he was saying, what with his long words and the fluster I was in. “ The trustees are mere lay figures for you to dress your petty schemes of conceit and tyranny upon. ” Ho his hand impatiently, and went on: “It is the will of the trustees that you shall put aside the puerile and reprehensible course you have taken in exciting the imagination and creating frivolous -and mischievous embtrons. The pursuits of my own class have been interrupted, their attention distracted —” ‘ ‘ Why don’t your class mind their own business?” said Mime. “ Why do you look at me, or listen to me, or bother with mo at all? It is not your class that is disturbed, Mr. Steele it is you.” The schoolmaster’s face suddenly reddened, then grew paler than before ; he wiped the perspiration from his long high forehead, and his bony fingers actually trembled on his knees. I don’t wonder he was mad, for Mime went on in the most outrageous way. Her spunk was up, and she wasn’t a bit afraid of him. ‘ ‘ You can’t bear to see knowledge made easy and pleasant,” she said. ‘ ‘ You’d like to knock every new idea into the brain with a sledge-hammer ; you hate to look over at the Children and me, and see us making light of our task—it’s gall and wormwood to you, Mr. Steele.”

“ Hush, Mime !” I said, for I could see that he was getting more and more excited, and I didn’t know but what he’d fling the lamp at her head, or something. But lie mastered himself, and up he got and went away without another word; and pretty soon Sam Riley came in. I thought we’d have a nice evening, for Mime was in high feather; and sitting down to the table she caught up a pencil and made the schoolmaster take every ridiculous shape that she could. Her eyes shone and her cheeks glowed, and I didn't wonder Sam couldn’t take his eyes off her face. “Say the word, Mime,” said Sam, “ and I’ll punch the idiot’s head.” “ Who are you calling an idiot ?” said Mime, turning straight upon Sam. “If you had the hundredth part of his intelligence, you might be glad.” “I thought you called him so yourself,” said Sam, meekly, for he was head-over-ears in love with the young termagant. “If I did,” said Mime,” “it was absurd, and I’ll never do it again. No, Sam, I’ll beat him with his own weapons. I’ll go to the trustees myself. If he can wheedle and coax them, so can I; and, if he can bully them, perhaps I can do that too.” •

“You can do anything,” said poor Sam. And soon after that Mime said she was tired and sleepy, and sent Sam off, as cool as you please. Then she got upon her feet and walked about the floor, and I could see she was terribly put out and excited by the schoolmaster’s visit. “ You’ll wear yourself out for nothing,” I said, for it vexed me to see her all in a fret that way from pure spite. “ He’ll break your health and spirits like he did with that poor little body that was here before you.” ‘ ‘ I don’t believe all those stories about that woman, aunty. I’ve found out she had heavier troubles than those put upon her by the schoolmaster. You mustn’t believe all that you hear.” That was the way with Mime—she was that contrary when she was vexed that she d swear black was white, and take the part of the JSvil One himself. |*De began from that time out to fight;

hard for her own way, and iKfot to be pretty well known that she was winning over the trustees. The children never liked anybody as they did Mime, and little Bill Pritchard, that used to play truant half the time, and would rather take a beating any day than be pent up in school, went there as regular as clockwork now, and began to mark out horses and dogs with a stump of a pencil himself; and Mr. Pritchard he was one of the trustees, and he thought the world and all of my niece Jemima. But somehow or other, just as I said, the continual worriment of it fretted Mime, and she got thin, and lost her pretty color; and the night she came home and said she had got the best of the schoolmaster, and the notice had been served on him that day that he was to let her have her own way of teaching, that night I made up-my mind that it was about time that it was settled in some way, for Mime was more fidgety and contrary than ever; and I don’t believe everything would have turned out as it did if Mime had been in her sober senses. The girl was about half wild, and I don’t believe she knew what she was about; for it stands to reason that she must have hated the schoolmaster, and yet when I began to glory over his defeat, and say how glad Sam Riley would be, she shut me up in a minute. “Sam Riley and Mr. Steele,” she said, “ are two very different men.” “ I should hope so,” I said. ‘ ‘ Sam is made of a different stuff, ” she went on to say. “ The little pricks and torments that sting the soul of Mr. Steele to madness would be utterly unfelt by Sam. Sam is a good fellow—” “ Thank you for Sam,” I said, for she was enough to provoke a saint. “ But he has not the capacity for suffering that, Mr. Steele has; and oh, aunty, he cloe? suffer ! ” “Serve him right, the monster,” I said ; and had scarce got the words out of my mouth when there was a rap at the door. I went over, thinking it was Sam Riley, when there was the thin, gaunt face of the schoolmaster again. He came in and bowed as grave as an 4 owl, and sat down on a chair by the door; his cane rolled down beside him on the floor, and for a full minute or so he couldn’t find a word out of that long dictionary in his head. I was glad to see that Mime’s spunk came back at the sight of him. Her eyes were as bright as they could be, and her cljeeks like the heart of a hollyhock.

“My errand here, Miss Jemima,” he began, “is altogether a friendly one. You have so much spirit and determination that I think your present subordinate position is unfit for you. I know of one that will be shortly vacant, which you can fill with great credit to yourself and all concerned.” “I’m much obliged to you,” said Mime, her lips beginning to curl, and the color in her cheeks deepening, to a flame, “but I’m quite satisfied where I am. I can well understand that you’d be glad to be rid of me, but I must beg to decline. I’m not going away from here.” “But Tam going away from here,” said the schoolmaster, getting upon his feet. “It ism// place that will be vacant, and that I think you may have if you choose. ” “ You —you ! ” said Mime ; and I don’t wonder the child was astounded at the news. I was quite flustered myself. “Yes,” said the schoolmaster; “you can have your own way now. ” And he went out the door, bowing awkwardly as he went, a queer, miserable smile struggling into his face. Dear! dear ! the contrariness of woman ! No sooner was the door well shut on him than Mime put her head down on the table and began to cry, Her hair got loose and fell all about her, and, to make the matter worse, I heard a footstep outside, and this time 1 thought.it must be Sam Riley. “For goodness’sake, Mime,” I said, “don’t let Sam Riley see you in this way!” But the door opened, and there stood the schoolmaster again. He said he had come back for his cane; but he never even stooped to pick it up, but stood staring at Mime as if she was a. ghost instead of the- fresh, pretty, wholesome creature that she was. She raised her head, and, though her face was half hidden by her hair, her eyelashes were wet, and the tears not dried yet on her cheeks. The schoolmaster, not minding me any more than if I was a block of wood or something, walked straight over to Mime.

“You know very well,” he said, “that I am only going away from here because I love you. Because it was not the class that was distracted by your pretty ways and devices; it was I. You know all this very well, and can tell me whether I had better go or not. Now tell me, shall 1 stay ?” You might have knocked me down with a feather when I saw Mime put her hand out timidly to the schoollmaster, and ho turn pale and catch it in both his own. “ Of Course not,” I broke in, for I was near distracted by the way things were going. “If you’re an honorable man, and got any sense left, and an eye in your head, you’d see that my niece is as good as engaged to Sam Riley. ” “ Sam Riley !” said Mime, as scornful as if poor Sam was a toad or something, and holding on to the schoolmaster’s horny hands as if she was drowning. Like enough they’ll beat her some day, and if so she’ll like him all the better for it, for before I’d got out of the room I heard her tell him she’d teach any way that suited him best; and my only hope is that he’s got a little money laid by, for he said he didn’t intend she should teach at all. But, dear! dear ! when I heard the crack of Sam Riley’s whip outside, and knew the evening stage was in, and poor Sam not knowing what was in store for him, I had to go up stairs and have a cry all to myself. And all I can say is, if Mime marries the schoolmaster, it’s a mighty queer courtship.— Harper's H eekly.

A Minister’s Joke.

A clergyman, a widower, recently created quite a sensation in his household, which consisted of seven grown-up daughters. The reverend gentleman was absent from home for a number of days, visiting in an adjoining county. The daughters received a letter from their father which stated that he “had married a widow with six sprightly children,” and that he'might be expected home at a certain time. The effect of that news was a great shock to the happy family. The girls, noted for their meekness and amiable temperaments, seemed another set of beings; there was weeping and wailing and tearing of hair, and all manner of naughty things said. The tidy home was neglected, and when the day of arrival came the home was anything but inviting. At last the Rev. Mr. came, but he was alone. He greeted his daughters as usual, and as he viewed the neglected apartments there was a merry twinkle in his eye. The daughters were nervous and evidently anxious. At last the eldest mustered courage and asked, “Where is our mother?” “In heaven,” said the good man. “ But where is the widow with six children whom you wrote you had married ?” “ Why, I married her to another man, my dears.” A few days ago the perishable property of a man lately deceased was to be sold in Columbus, Ga., by the administrator. Among the assets were two barrels of whisxy, worth about SBO. Just as these were reached the internal-reve-nue agent forbid their sale until the ad-minjsi-ator took out,, wholesale Jiquorlicense, which c<£t SIOO,

AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC.

Around the Farm. If cabbages do not head properly, a pinch of salt to each head will be beneficial, or, better, give them a alight watering at night with weak brine. Thia may be again repeated later in the season. A single watering with quite weak brine is also excellent for watermelons, about the time the fruit is setting. The farmers and fruit-raisers of the United States ought this season to take better care than usual of their apple orchards, as there is a reasonable probability that hereafter the European demand for this fruit will generally obviate the danger of a surplus in this country.— Boston Commercial Bulletin.

The Farmer's Union, on the authority of the St. Charles Union, reports that Minnesota farmers are many of them destroying Colorado potato beetles with good success by the use of alum water. Between four and five pounds is put in a barrel of water, and when the alum is dissolved the liquid is sprinkled on the potato-tops, and the festive bug soon after retires from business. The Danger of Forcing Dairy Cows. —President Parcell, of the Union County (N. J.) Farmers’ Club, thinks that cows kept fat and fed high in order to force them to give large quantities of milk prematurely wear out, and are subject to attacks of milk fever, abortion, garget, sterility and sudden death. He has lost four or five in this way within a few years. The most successful fruit-growers, East and West, have decided that there is no better remedy for the coddling moth than to pasture hogs in the orchards, to eat the wormy apples and the worms therein. If the orchards are too large for the number of hogs kept, sheep are turned in. If we all unite in this system we shall soon see its good results. There can be no doubt about its being effective.— Rural Home.

We are glad to note a change in some quarters on this question of pedigree, which has been run clear into the ground of late years. Thirty thousand dollars paid for a single cow because she was a Duehess, with the known fact that she was a poor breeder, while infinitely more perfect animals went to the shambles for beef because they were “Seventeens,” is evidence that the people are either fools or are going mad.— Pioneer Press. Lime Dust.—The following has been recommended as the best mode of preparing lime dust for slugs, mildew, etc.: Take a peck of fresh or sharp lime, broken into small pieces, and add to it four pounds of flour sulphur. Add onethird as much boiling water, or just enough to slack the lime to a dry powder, and cover the vessel as soon as the water is poured on. By adding water it may be made into an excellent whitewash for trees, the sulphur increasing its efficacy.. Making a Cow Give Down.—To persuade a cow to give down her milk against her will is a difficult and sometimes a hopeless task. A plan that has been highly spoken of is to lay a heavy chain across her back while milking her. It is very certain that harshness and impatience will only make matters worse, and that kindness and petting will have the best effect. The use of milkingtubes might be effective. A poor cow, free from this vice, is better than the best cow that is afflicted with it.—American Agriculturist. Breaking Colts. —The best time for breaking colts is at the age of 2 or 3 years, as you will find that they are less inclined to have a will of their own ; but a horse of this age should never be allowed to do much hard labor. Colts that are intended to be put to work should be stabled during the months of February and March, with an occasional drive of several miles. This will be an excellent way to break them, and at the same time toughen them for spring work. Colts require a more frequent change of diet than older horses. When new grass is plentiful they should have an occasional pull at it. At the time of stabling they should be allowed two or three mashes of bran, followed by some condition powder. For the same reason that the young colt should be allowed the milk of the dam directly after parturition, other colts should have their cleansing powders; they will carry off gross humors and purify the blood. Next, it is necessary to have a collar that will fit, for a great many colts have to work in too large a collar.— JI r 6stem Rural.

About the House.

Mocking-Bird Food.—One pound hemp-seed, one-quarter pound butter crackers, one-quarter pound rice, onehalf ounce lard; grind seed, crackers, and rice ; mix ; melt lard, and pour over the mixture. It is a mistake to wash glass tumblers, goblets, and the like in hot water; if cold be used a brighter and clearer appearance is left when the glass is wiped dry. If the glass is particularly soiled, a pinch of soda in the water will cleanse it easily. Huckleberry Cake.—Two cupfuls of sugar, one of butter, five eggs, one cupful milk, one teaspoonful soda, one small lemon, a little nutmeg, a wine-glassfull brandy, three cupfuls flour; dredge a quart of huckleberries thickly with flour and add the last thing. Mint Sauce.—Take some green mint and chop it fine ; for every heaping tablespoonful of the chopped mint add one even teaspoonful sugar and a wine-glass-ful cider vinegar ; put the vinegar and sugar in a sauce-boat, then add the mint; let it stand fifteen minutes before serving. French polish for furniture can be made by putting half an ounce of shellac, the same quantity of gumlac, and a quarter of an ounce of gum-sandarac, into a pint of spirits of wine. Put them all together in a stone bottle near the fire, shaking it very often. As soon as the gums are dissolved it is ready for use.

Raspberry Jam.—Make By itself, or, better, combined with currants in the proportion of one-third currants to twothirds raspberries; mash the fruit well, and proceed as in currant jam. Make blackberry jam like raspberry, except that it should not be mixed with currants. Strawberry jam is made exactly like blackberry. Pltjm Jelly.—This can be made in the same manner as currant jelly, only a little water must be put with the plums to burst them and get out the juice; granulated sugar or white crushed sugar is preferable for preserves; and the pulp left from the plum in the sieve can be pressed through and boiled with a little sugar, making a rich, stiff marmalade. A new drink to supply the place of gruel or barley water is recommended by the Times of India, “congee water,” or the liquid in which rice has been boiled. This drink has three excellent qualities—it becomes impregnated with the properties of the rice boiled in it, and thus satisfies hunger; it quenches thirst, and is a capital draught in fever attacks; and lastly, when taken warm in bed, it is good for bad colds and influenza.

Silver Passing Safe Through the Pittsburgh Riot.

Among the cars which were destroyed during the prevalence of the riot were ten or twelve which contained freight shipped by the Pennsylvania Lead Company of Mansfield. It was generally supposed that all these cars contained pigs of lead, and, in the surfeit of other more valuable and more easily transported goods, no one thought of loading himself with this heavy metal After the fire, it was discovered that three of the cars contained pure silver, which had been smelted at the Mansfield establishment, and which was op its way to

the Philadelphia mint. The silver was in the form of pigs, a little smaller than pigs of lead, and, like the lead, it has melted and run down between the ties and in the gutters. Of course there was no effort on the part of the company to dissipate the impression that the ears contained nothing but lead, and as the metals look much alike there were no attempts to steal any of the more precious substance. The value of the silver that was in the cars is not definitely known, but the amount was several thousand dollars.— Pittsburgh, Telegraph.

Curiosities of Crime.

The novelist who should make and tell in a romance such a story as that which Mr. Floyd tells of the recovery of his recently-stolen property would get himself into trouble with the critics. Mr. Floyd’s house at Englewood, N. J., was robbed recently. The detectives have been busy searching for the thief and goods, but have been able to make nothing out of it. Yesterday a man came to Mr. Floyd’s office, and, declaring his purpose to right the wrong, took Mr. Floyd in broad daylight to the house in which the stolen goods weise stored, and, within sight of a detectivo policeman, loaded the goods on a truck and sent them home. He declined the proffered reward, too, only asking that no description of himself should be given. Here is a strange story, whether we regard the strange recovery of the property, the strange conduct of the man who restored it to its owner, or the stranger inability of the detective police to in the case. Another story, not quite so singular, comes from Long Branch. A theft there, which had excited a great deal of comment, had been traced to a negro parson whose reputation was so good that no one suspected him; and we hear of another case in which we have a singular prayer-test to wonder over. A fire occurred on the evening of the 4th of July, in the village of Chester, in this State. It was at first believed to have been the result of a careless use of firecrackers, but after a while incendiarism was suspected, and, after the rural manner, the people of Chester made the matter a theme of town talk. One pious young man even made it a subject of prayer. In the weekly prayer-meeting of one of the village churches he entreated the Ruler of the Universe to bring the guilty person to justice; to bring about his detection, in order that he might be properly punished; and we now learn that the 7 prayer was so effectually answered that the pious young man is securely lodged in jail, with a fair prospect of serving a term in the State prison for arson.— New York Evening Post.

The Socratic Method.

As every one knows, who knows anything of the tricks and manners of Socrates, that remarkable philosopher never conversed except by asking questions. If he wanted to express the opinion that Xantippe had put too much lard in the pie-crust, he would begin by propounding to her a series of seemingly irrelevant questions, witu the view of ultimately leading her into an inadvertent admission of the evils of excessive lard. His famous conversation with Alcibiades, in the course of which he convinced the latter of the non-existence of his dog, furnishes a fair example of what we have come to call the Socratic method; and, as the dialogue has never been translated into English, a brief extract from it will not be out of place here. S.—“ They tell me, Oh, Alcibiades, that you have cut off your dog's tail.” A. —“It is true, Oh, Socrates; I did it with my little battle-ax.” S. —“ What is a dog ? Is it not an anmal with four legs and a tail?” A.—“ You say truly.” S.—“ Then your dog is not a dog, for it is an animal with four legs, yet without a tail.” A.—“ I sec that I must admit it.” S.—“ But will also admit that neither among Greeks, nor yet among barbarians, is there an animal which, having four legs, has no tail.” A. —“ Again thou sayest what nobody denies of.” S.—“ How then can you claim that you have the very animal which does not exist?” A. —“ By Zeus, I make no such claim.” B.—“ Then you see you have ner <s&■*.” It was by this method of cross-ques-tioning that Socrates achieved a tremendous reputation. It is to be regretted that in his later years he did not adhere to his early custom of always having three or four persons about him whose business it was to admit everything. Unfortunately, he fell into the habit of asking everybody questions, in consequence of whifeh his long-suffering fel-low-citizens had to kill him.— New York Times.

Scaring Away the Eclipse.

Soon after my arrival at Bagdad, on the evening of the first day in May, as we were dining on the terrace, we were startled by a most terrific din. We then noticed that there was a nearly total eclipse of the moon, and upon consulting an English almanac we found that it would be “ invisible at Greenwich, but a total eclipse in Australia and some parts of Asia.” The tumult increased, and soon the whole population seemed to have assembled on the house-tops, armed with pots, pans and kitchen utensils, which they beat with a tremendous clatter, at the same time screaming and howling at the top of their voices. Frequent reports of guns and pistols added to the turmoil, which was kept up for nearly an hour, until they had succeeded in frightening away the Jin, or evil spirit, who had caught hold of the moon. It was a most amusing scene, although it interfered seriously with the success of our dinner. Our own servants caught the excitement, and deserted the table without ceremony. Our host told us the next day that they wellnigh knocked the bottoms out from all his kitchen utensils. It was, however, a complete success, and when our servants returned to their duty the moon was shining brightly as ever, and upon their faces was an air of complacent satisfaction.— W. P. Fogg, in Scribner for September.

A Historic Letter.

Minister Washburne, in his examination of the archives of the French Government, has discovered the following interesting letter, which, by the permission of the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, he has caused to be photographed. A copy of this letter, with his certificate attached, was lately received at the State Department at Washington: Paris, December 23, 1876. Sib : We beg leave to acquaint your Excellency that we are appointed and fully empowered' by the Congress of the United States of America to propose and negotiate a treaty of amity and commerce between France and the said States. The just and generous treatment their trading ships have received, by a free admission into the ports of this kingdom, with other considerations of respect, has induced Congress to make this offer first to Franco. We request an audience with yout Excellency,., wherein we may have an opportunity of presenting our credentials, and we flatter ourselveb that the propositions we are instructed to make are such as will not be found unacceptable. With the greatest regard, we have the honorto be, your Excellency’s most obedient servants, Benjamin Fbankdin, Silas Dean, Abxhur Lee. This letter was in the handwriting of Benjamin Franklin, and the transmission of it was the first official act of the United States after the Declaration of Independence, the object of which was to secure foreign recognition of the infant republic. An enthusiastic Texas newspaper asserts that the census of 1880 will show that Texas has a population of 2,000,000, and will be entitled to eighteen Representatives at Washington.

Was This Donaldson ?

■ A Michigan trapper furnishes what may be a clew to the mysterious fate of Donaldson, the gymnast and aeronaut. He writes to the Chicago Inter- Ocean that while he was looking for trappinggrounds on the south branch of the Big Manistee river, soon after Donaldson disappeared, he found a piece of white ash about five feet long with five canvas ropes, and five feet of line, and “some other kind of goods made fast to that.” Not far off was “ a corpse lying face down, no coat or boots on.” Nearby there was an envelope post-marked “ Detroit, Mich.,” and addressed to some one in Chicago, and there were pencil figures upon it showing the direction of the wind. The trapper supposed at the time that the man had been murdered by the Indians.

A Lesson Taught by Experience.

Among the many valuable lessons taught by experience there is not one of greater moment to the invalid portion of the community than the following, viz.: That alterative treatment is only permanently successful when aided by invigoration. When the functions of the body are disordered, the use of a genial tonic with which corrective properties are combined is the speediest means of regulating them. Such a tonic is Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, the most popular as it is the best article of its class. For more than twenty five years it has been med with signal success as a remedy for, and preventive of malarial fevers, as a means of imparting strength to the debilitated, and as a curative of dyspepsia, biliousness, constipation, kidney troubles, and uterine weakness. Not only have multitudes of those whom it has cored borne testimony in its behalf, but it has been repeatedly commended by the medical profession and the press.

Plain Facts for Advertisers to Bead and Consider.

The Springfield (Massachusetts') Daily Union has a larger circulation in Springfield and within a radius of twenty-five miles, than any other journal. The Springfield. (Massachusetts) Weekly Union has a larger circulation, local and general, than any other weekly newspaper in New England, outside of Boston. The Union is not only the best advertising medium, but also the cheapest. For terms address Clark W. Bryan & Co., Publishers, Springfield, Mass., or write or apply to any of the leading advertising agencies in the United States ana Canada. Sample sopies of either the daily or weekly Union sent free.

Caution to the Public.

We understand there are unprincipled grocers and dealers who palm off on unwary purchasers Yeast Powder in bulk, or loose, for the genuine Dooley’s Yeast Powdeb. For the protection of housekeepers and the public generally, we are authorized to state that the genuine Dooley’s Yeast Powder is sold only in cans. Always refuse to take it except in cans, securely labeled. The sac-simile signature of Dooley <fc Brother, the manufacturers, is plainly printed on each label.

Thirty years' experience proves the Graefenberg Vegetable Pills to be the mildest and most effective medicine ever known for the complete cure of headache, biliousness, liver complaints, nervousness, fevers, and diseases of digestion. Sold everywhere; price 25 cents per box. Send for almanacs. Graefenberg Co., New York. CHEW The Celebrated “ Matchless” Wood Tag Plug Tobacco. The Pioneer Tobacco Company, New York, Boston and Chicago. Pond’s Extract. “ The Vegetable Pain Destroyer" never fails to afford relief from Pain. Try it once, and nothing could induce you to be without it. Hofmann’s Hop Pills cure the Ague at once.

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