Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1877 — Page 4

POETIC PEARLS. Called from the November Magazines. A STUDY. Nay. sweet, we shall not drown In yon. I say What none before, perchance, have said to yon— Yes, you’ve good eyes, know how to use them, too; You go a little down a doubtful way, We scarcely follow, knowing all is play; You have a voice the laugh comes nicely through; But, sweet, for all that you can ever do, You will not made one heart your lasting prey. Just think how it will be in autumn-tiue, When all the glory of the year has passed, When gold turns gray, and Time has seamed your brow I For pity I could almost disavow What I have said, entreat you as my bride, To give the poor life shelter at the last. —Harper. MAKING IT SKIP. “ I’ll make it skip I” Cried Charley, seizing a bit of stone, And, in a trice, from our Charley’s hand, With scarce a dip, Over the water it danced alone, While we were watching it from the land— Skip! skip! skip! “ I’ll make it skip !” Now, somehow, that is our Charley’s way; He takes little troubles that vex one so. Not worth a flip, And makes them seem to frolic and play Just by his way of making them go Skip! skip! skip I —Joel Stacy, in St. Nicholas. A BONO. What time the violets bloom, my dear, in ways that you and I regret, I saw your gray eyes first grow clear With love I cannot fathom yet, Bill never may forget, my dear— But never may forget! What time the winds blows fresh, my dear— A fragrant balm was blown to mo ; I lek the b.ossom-time draw near ; My bioood, like sap in flower or tree, Swelled for the fruit to be, my dear '1 he hope of fruit to be! What time the violets fade, my dear, What time the winds blow chill and wet, Through changeful seasons year on year, Though moons may wane and suns may set, Oh, say you won’t forgot, my dear—uh, say you won’t forget! —Appletons' Journal. PEACE. The king encumbered of his crown, In cot content, can lay it down ; The bird far faring from her nest, Some kindly spray may rock to rest. The lark led on through upper air, At eve forgets his journey there ; And th’ eagle’s eyes on glories far, Ere long recede from sun and star. The leaves which people lofty trees ; The snow—shed toam of th’ over seas ; The rain that rings along the sky Together meet and lowly lie. Thou, too, O Soul, striving to soar Each flight beyond the flight before, blialt, past the vexed years that yearn, To Humbler haunts of Peace return. —John Vance Cheney, in Scribner. LOVE. 1 asked (tie Sun, “ Caust tell me what love is ?” He answered only by a smile Of golden light. I prayed the flowers, “ Oh, tell me, what is love ?” Only a fragrant sigh was wafted Thro’ the night. “ Is love the soul’s true life, Or is it but the sport Of Idle summer hours?" I asked Of Heaven above. In answer, God sent thee, Sweetheart, to mo! And I no longer question, *’ What is love?” The Galaxy. TO A SCHOOL-GIRL. Well, is it worth the winning, earnest eyes, This learning that the late age offers you ? Will it make bluer any winter skies. If Hchopenhauer, and not Paul, is true ? Will ever rule that Euclid finds complete Bid parallels of joy and duty meet ? Or can it charm a woman’s pain to know How Josephine and Juliet and the rest 1-aid their sweet heads upon some fateful breast, And drank a lover’s poison long ago ? A bird I watch is singing on her nest, Because no bird has taught her winds can blow. Your pardon, dear, some royal height is meant, Since One, wide-seeing, is the One content. —Harper. TO ONE WHO HAD CALLED A WOMAN A BUTTERFLY. ’■ Do ye not comprehend that we are worms, Born to bring forth the angelic butterfly That fPeth unto judgment without screen?" . —Dante. Thou, in thy scorn, hast given her a name Far better than was meant; It hints of highest glory, not of shame ; She ought to be content! Groveling in care, a creeping worm thou art, She bursts her chrysalis ; The emblem of our being’s deathless part— What nobler name than this I —Charlotte !•’. Dates, in Scribner. HONG. Sweet wind that blows o’er sunny isles The softness of the sea 1 Blow thou across these moving miles News of my love to me. Ripples her hair like waves that weep AlKiut this pleasant shore; Her eyes are bluer than the deep Round rocky Appledore. Her sweet breast shames the scattered spray, Soft kissed by early light: I dream she is the dawn of day, That lifts me out of night. —Oxcar Laighton, in Lippincott. A DOLLAR OR TWO. With cautious steps as we tread our way through This intricate world, as other folks do, May we still on our journey be able to view The benevolent face of a dollar or two I For an excellent thing Is a dollar or two ; No friend is so true as a dollar or two; Through country and town, As we pass up and down, No passport's so good as a dollar or t wo. Would you read yourself out of a bachelor crew, And the hand of a female divinity sue ? You must always be ready “ the handsome ” to do, Although it should cost you a dollar or two. Love’s arrows are tipped with a dollar or two, And affection is gained by a dollar or two. The best aid you can meet, In advancing your suit, Is the eloquent clink of :» dollar or two. —Harper. “ AH, CHASMS AND CLIFFS OF SNOW.” Ah, chasms and cliffs of snow ! Down the dim path so many feet have beaten Need it be hard to go ? From bitter bread, from fruit the frost has eaten, From bloom the rain has shaken, From wings the winds have taken? A few gold grains of corn To plant in that strange soil, some hill-bird’s feather, A broken branch of thorn From some dead tree where two have watched together ; 'These, for the heart’s close keeping Through waking or through sleeping ! One moans with homesick breath, Here, for cold crag and cloud, where vales are sunny; What then, if after death One thirst for water, having milk and honey? Sweeter divine regretting Were than divine forgetting! Mrs. S. M. 13. Piatt, in A tlantic Monthly. EGERIA. What whispered she to him Beside the water dim, Beneath the misty shade of leaves that clung So thick about the fountain ? Dark and sweet The summer night in silence o’er them hung ; No sound of wandering feet Nor stealthy step of sylvan creature stirred Among the wood-paths ; far away he heard Rome’s midnight pulses beat, But heeded not. What whispered she to him Beneath the leaves beside the water dim ? Some secret dread and eld From mortals overbold Hid by the high and jealous godi away— Some rune of things that were or things to be, Or sage enchantment wherewith princes sway The round earth and the sea, And happy heants of men—so legends say ! Was it for these their pale king stole away From pomp and revelry To that green dell whore, by the fountain’s brim, His dewy-sandaled love kept tryst with him ? Ah, but the place was sweet! About her mossy seat Breathed spicy fern and dark, delicious bloom Of violets; sweeter to his soul her kiss, Her arms that clasped him in the fragrant gloom, Her sigh of timid bliss ! Discrowned awhile, his brow upon her breast Forgot its burden ; dear he was and blessed. Perchance she whispered this ’Twas all she knew ; and yet no king more wise Than he lives sceptred in men’s memories! Mary Keely Houtelle, in Appletons'.

BROTHER PHIL.

Edith Forrest lifted a pair of pretty . blue eyes to her husband’s face—pretty, post eyes, with wistfulness all among their velvety shadows. “It is so lonesome of an evening, Harry ! Please stay at home to-night or take me with you for a change, dear.” Mr. Forrest smiled in a very superior sort of way—a sort of patronizing, indulgent way, as though it was the height of absurd womanish folly for Edith to have made the remark. “ That is nonsense, Edith. You know perfectly well how ridiculously impossible it is for me to be either always at home, or take you out somewhere. You must remember that because a man is married he does not expect never to be anywhere but where his wife is, if she is

the sweetest, prettiest little girl in the world!” He bent forward to kiss her, and Edith smiled—a suspiciously tear-flavored smile it was, however. “ But I do get so tired of staying so much by myself, Harry. lam almest a stranger in London, and I am sure there are only two ladies in the house whom I know, and don’t like to be always running to their rooms. Harry —really I did not think you would get tired of my company so—so soon. It hasn’t been three months since we were—married— and-”

And little Mrs. Forrest’s sobs and tears overcame her entirely, and Harry’s face grew vexed and stem. “You are romancing, Edith. You know perfectly well I have never thought of such a ridiculous thing, and Ido not want to see such childishness on your part.” And, to further enforce his assumption of marital dignity, Mr. Forrest walked out and shut the door very emphatically. Then, of course, Edith’s tears came in good earnest. “ It’s too bad, too bad! Harry is getting tired of my society, I know he is, and I wish—l wish—l had never married and left home, where everything was so gay and pleasant, and there were never long, lonely evenings. Oh—dear 1 ” It wasn’t a very good thing for Edith to be thinking—this regret for a life, which, undeniably pleasant though it was, had never been so beautified and glorified until Harry’s love came to her. But it was pitiably true that her husband’s neglect of her of late had more than once made such thoughts, more than once had brought hot tears of wounded pain and regret to the blue eyes that other young men than Harry Forrest had thought worth their while to have smile in theirs ; and Edith was certainly very lonely. The great, fashionable boarding-house to which Harry had brought her, and installed her in one of its most elegant rooms, was not such a home as she had been accustomed to, where everything was gay cheer and girlish frolic. The boarders were, of course, utter strangers, and haughtily exclusive. Edith was reserved and shrinking, and, with the exception of Mrs. Thistle, a gentle little widow, who was almost as shy as Edith herself, and Mrs. Worthington, who was jolly and gay as she could be, little Mrs. Forrest had not an acquaintance in all the city. “It’s too bad,” she sobbed, bitterly, as she lay on the little crimson silk lounge, with her face all tear-flushed, and her rose-bud mouth quivering. “I can almost see them at home now—Sue, and Jennie, end Sil, and the parlor lighted up, and perhaps Howard singing one of his lovely tenor solos to Sue’s accompaniment; and Frank Morrison will come in, and they’ll have a delicious waltz, and then Phil will speak of me—dear, darling old Phil! He always thought more of me than any one else ever did—even Harry Forrest! I wish I hadn’t ever married him, and then ”

There was a little expression of discontent and indignation coming on her lips memories that would not bear comparison with her present gilded loneliness called them up, and it wasn’t a good sight to see on a pretty married woman’s face. For an hour after Harry had gone out Edith lay on the couch, all sorts of thoughts running riot in her brain, until they were dissipated sharply by a rap on her door, and a card that sent all expression out of her face and eyes except surprise, that quickly changed into an excitement of delight. “Tell the gentleman I will be down in a moment,” she said to the servant. Then she flew to the dressing-mirror, and saw that she was in a presentable condition, and then went down stairs, with a smile and three unspoken words on her lips : “ Dear old Phil 1” * * * * * Three weeks later Mr. Forrest came in somewhat unexpectedly—just in time to see Edith standing by the window kissing her hands to a gentleman driving by in a carriage—a handsome, dash-ing-looking fellow, with bold black eyes and drooping mustache—just in time to see the sparkle in his wife’s eyes and the heightened color in her cheeks. “ Well, who is he ?” He asked the question so suddenly that Edith gave a little cry of surprise. “ Oh, Harry, I didn’t know you were here ! How you startled me !” “ Doubtless. But that doesn’t explain why you were kissing your hand to—whom ?” The blush on her cheeks deepened until her face was scarlet. “He is—a—friend—acquaintance of mine,” she stammered. He looked angrily at her—angrily, with a faint sense of pain mingling with the anger. “An acquaintance! Since when, please? Edith, do you know you are doing a terribly risky thing in answering any salutes from bold, fast men who, in driving by, may have been fascinated by your pretty face ? Edith, I won’t ask any more questions, but I insist upon you obeying me in keeping away from those windows.” And for the first time in their lives they sat down to their dinner with a cloud between them.

“And I don’t care,” Edith said to herself. “If Phil is kinder to me than Harry is, I’ll like him best, that’s all. He wouldn’t leave mo alone as Harry does, and this very night we are going to drive to the park if the moon is bright. ” And when Mr. Forrest came in that evening, about 10 o’clock, he was again fortunately in time to catch the blackeyed, black mustached fellow going down the front steps to the chaise waiting at the door, and just in time to find Edith folding away her jacket. But he said nothing. His whole soul was beginning to be on fire with fury and jealousy, and he found it remarkably easy to stay at home, when Edith was so winningly sweet and charming that he wondered whether or not she meant it, or was only trying to cheat him into a disbelief of her recklessness. But Edith's curious conduct—times when she was extravagantly gay, times when she was dull, pale and sad—worried him. She never asked him to stay at home in the evenings now—of course she preferred to have him out of the way, so that she could have her own good time with her—“friend,” Harry said to himself, ironically, for in his very lieart of hearts he could not bring himself to say “lover.” His faith in his wife was too strong to admit of a doubt of aught beyond indiscretion, and yet he was agonizingly jealous. Then one evening the climax came, when Harry came home to dinner half an hour earlier, and found Edith reading a note, which she tore into fragments the instant he crossed the door-sill—tore and threw it in the fire with flushed face and startled action. “Mrs. Worthington wants me to goto her room to-night. I suppose you will be going out, Harry ?” He knew she was telling what was not so. “ Yes, I am going out to the club.” In his heart he hated himself for the falsehood he told, for he. knew he had made up his mind to watch his wife well that night, and see if his jealousy was warranted or not. Edith’s cheeks glowed and her eyes sparkled, and she seemed in a state of delicious excitement at dinner. Then she dressed in a becoming

toilette of black silk, with filmy laces at wrists and throat, and rich jewelry—rather elaborate for a tete-a-tete with Mrs. Worthington, Harry thought, as he smiled bitterly behind his newspaper. He purposely prolonged his stay half an hour beyond his usual time, and then was vexed that Edith should show no signs of perturbation. “ She’s already so versed in deceit that she can control her fear and impatience.” Finally he put on his overcoat and gloves, and went out, to take up his position on the opposite side of the street, where he commanded the doors and windows; and ten minutes afterward a tall, black-mustached gentleman drove uj) and rang the bell, and in a moment more his wife—his sweet, beloved Edith, whom he never loved so well as at this moment of her falsity—lds wife came down, and the two were driven away. It was the work of a moment to hail a passing cab, and the chase began, and ended at the door of Exeter Hall, and Harry bought his ticket and took a seat as near as he could get to Edith and her —her— ‘ ‘ friend. ”

It was a pale, haggard face that watched them all that evening, and a pair of eyes that were pitifully pained and indignant and passionful as he noted how perfectly happy the two were—how Edith, whose sweet reserve and shyness had been one of her greatest charms to him—how Edith was so free in her manner to him, and how admirably the gentleman returned her pretty little familiarities. It was an hour of torture to him. He sat there, remembering all the times he had neglected Edith—how she had coaxingly asked him to “stay at home” or ‘ ‘ take her. ” He realized, as he had never done before, what a sudden and great change it had been to her to leave her home where there was such a large family of brothers and sisters, and, consequently, a great deal of young company. He began to appreciate how careless he had been of the happiness entrusted to his keeping. He sat there, repentant, indignant, jealous, remorseful, ready to fly at that handsome, dashing fellow who assumed such an air of proprietorship over his foolish, silly little wife—the lovely little girl, who, not having her husband’s society, had sought companionship elsewhere. He never heard a chord of the divine melodies—he never heeded the storms of applause. All he heard, all he saw was Edith’s occasional low laugh, her beautiful flushed face as she turned her profile toward him.

Then the performance was over. He followed them closely as he dared, until he saw them take their carriage, and then the second chase began, that ended—at the door of their house, and then, from inside his own cab he saw the black moustache sweep across Edith’s mouth—and he heard her low, sweet good-night. “And Phil, don’t forget to drive to the park to-morrow—at 5 to-morrow.” “Phil, Phil!” “It has come to the permitted familiarity of names, has it? ” And Harry thought, as he dismissed his cab, and ran up stairs, two steps at a time, that if ever a man had just cause to shoot another, he had. Edith stood before her dressing-case, slowly drawing off her gloves, when he dashed in, pale, wrathful. ‘ ‘ What does this mean ? Where have you been ? ” H he thought to confront her in a falsehood he was mistaken. She flushed crimson, but answered promptly : “ I have been to Exeter Hall. Have I committed an unpardonable sin ?” “ You have done the next thing to it. Who is that—that man with whom you dared to go ? Do you know you have run the risk of losing your character—you, a married woman, going to a place of public entertainment with a man who is almost a stranger to you? Edith! have you any idea of what you have done ?” She turned her face, pale enough now, to him.

“ Harry, have you any idea of what you have done ? Night after night I have stayed here by myself, until I wonder I did not run away and go home. I begged you to stay, or let me go sometimes—not always, and you laughed at me. And, then, when I found some one who paid me the attention you should have done, you talk to me this way ! I will tell you, honestly, the gentleman who took me in is very, very deart© me. I love him ! There ! And if you won’t be good to me, he will 1” Forrest stood dumbfounded. “ Edith, do you know what you say? Oh, Edith, wife ! are you mad that you dare speak such awful words ? You love him ! ” He staggered to a chair, pale as death. This, then, was the end of all. For a moment Edith kept her ground; then her lips began to quiver, and her eyes filled with tears; then she went up to him and knelt beside him. “ Harry, Harry darling, I do love him, but not as Ido you ! He is my brother Phil, Harry—the one you never saw. He came here several weeks ago, and—we planned it all to make you love me more, dear. ” And the lesson had its effect, for Harry Forrest remembers what agony of mind he suffered when he feared the worst. And he realizes that it might all have been as he feared.

Skobeleff.

The Skobelefi's have a singular origin. In 1839 the Emperor Nicholas, while at a review of hi-, whole army, ordered a Gen. Skobeleff to sei eit the finest men in the army to form into a body of Imperial Guards. In the first regiment examined the General came across a stalwart young soldier, who far surpassed his comrades in appearance. The soldier said that his name was Kobcleff, and that he came from a village in the province of Novgorod. The General, upon hearing this reply to an inquiry he had made, seemed greatly interested, and, being told that it was only the youth of Kobeleff that had hindered his advancement from the ranks, at once gave orders that he should be made a non-commissioned officer. That evening Gen. Skobeleff, at a dinner given to the officers of the regime nt to which Kobeleff belonged, told an anecdote. He said that many years before, when he was a private soldier, he was on guard one day at the Winter Palace. While keeping guard the Empress passed by, and, after looking at him a few moments, asked him his name. He replied that it was Kobeleff. “Kobeleff,” said the Empress; “I don’t like the scund of that name ; for the future you are to be called Skobeleff. ” From that time the Empress took an interest in bis welfare, and eventually, through her favor, he became aide-de-camp to the Czar. “ I have only one remark to make,” said the General, “and that is that the young fellow whom I raised to be an officer to-day is the son of the brother I left at home to look after our village homestead.” The nephew took his uncle’s name, and subsequently himself became a General. It is his son, “Skobeleff the younger,” who has just distinguished himself before Plevna. A parrot which had been in a family at Clinton, Maes., for thirty years, died recently. It was believed to be 90 years old, its former owners having been traced back for fifty years. It could talk until within twenty years, but in that time has said onlywone word distinctly, that being the name of a former owner, “Harriet.” It apparentto died of old age, showing all the symplyjpp of a very aged person.

SITTING BULL AND HIS POWER.

How He Maintains His Control of the Several Sioux Tribee. [Fort Walsh Cor. New York Herzld.] Sitting Bull has never been either a chief or a warrior, and yet his influence over his tribe is stronger than that which he would exercise in either of these capacities. The head soldier is not Sitting Bull, but Long Dog, one of the most notorious of the Sioux chiefs. Though he is neither a chief nor a warrior, Sitting Bull is a necromancer. He is a “ medicine man ” of such uncommon ability as to have retained his power for ten consecutive years. In this respect his position as the counsellor of his people is greater than thatof any Cabinet Minister in the civilized world. Yet his course has been extremely simple. He merely marked out a clear line of policy and had the pluck to pursue it under all circumstances. He said in 1867: “Let us have nothing to do with the Americans; let us make no peace with them; let us live and die like Indians.” Adhering to this policy, never swerving from it, always succeeding with it, he has naturally carried his people with him. This is the secret of his power and of the apparent infallibility of his advice. His dictum is t relied on in every emergency, his dreams are reckoned by the Sioux around him as more infallible than Newton’s tests or Herschell’s observations. His omens of the war-path, his prescience regarding the buffalo and other game have never failed him. Consequently he is to-day as secure in his dominion over the minds and fears of those about him as the war chiefs are in the confidence of their followers in battle. Indeed, he directs the events of war and peace with the skill of a Senate and the authority of a President united in one man.

Two or three days prior to his departure from his own camp Sitting Bull had lost a son. He was therefore in mourning, which was signified by a red handkerchief, wound around his head, as he sat in a corner, mysterious as ever, among the shadows. Throughout the night—a bright moonlight one above the roof and walls that encompassed him and his chiefs—he made ‘ ‘ medicine” and told his dreams. Near him was squatted a solitary squaw, who moaned and groaned occasionally in response to his adjurations. In the meantime sentinels passed to and fro. The calls of the night sounded, and the decision between peace and war, on the part of 2,000 savages, Ishmaelites and outlaws, in respect to the people of the United States, waited in the brain of their ablest man. There he sat on a dirty floor in his blankets, in rapt meditation, mute and motionless. * * *

At 8 o’clock Sitting Bull entered, followed by Spotted Eagle and the rest of his train. Now for the first time was visible to white men since the beginning of the late Indian wars the most noted Indian of the period, and now was made rial Cooper’s often-derided vision of an Indian face. Neither ignorance nor cruelty nor savages as barbarous as any displayed in savage history has detracted in the least from the expression of manhood and womanliness combined in Sitting Bull’s physiognomy. Less rude than Satanta’s, less sharp than Spotted Tail’s, more intelligent than Red Cloud’s, his features, like Goethe’s, made music to the senses. He wore a quiet, ironical smile. His black hair streamed down along his beardless and swarthy cheeks over clean-cut ears not burdened with ornaments. His red mourning handkerchief was replaced by a wolf-skin cap. His shirt was a black calico specked with white dots. His blanket wrapped negligently around him revealed below its edge a pair of rich beaded moccasins, the only finery he wore. Silent, stately and impassive, this aboriginal leader, this scoundrelly “medicineman,” this rascally foe and treacherous friend, this model, in sooth, of Machiavelli’s own sort, squatted himself on a buffalo robe next the wall and took out his pipe and smoked it, and expressed, with his insolent manner, the following sentiment: ‘ ‘ This commission which has come to interview me can go to the devil.”

A Modern Arcadia.

The Department of State has received a report on the social and political condition of the Dutch from the Minister of the United States to the Hague. As an illustration of the carefulness and steadiness of the Dutch, the Minister says that there has not been a bank failure, in Holland during the last forty years, and that the paper money of the banks during that time has been equal to gold. In regard to fire-insurance companies there is no such thing as a failure on record, and, while the rate of insurance does not average more than onehalf of 1 per cent., the companies are m the most flourishing condition, realizing 12 to 16 per cent, per annum. Firstclass railroad travel is only 1 cent per mile, and yet the roads pay good dividends. Pilfering officials are scarcely ever heard of, and when they shock the nation by turning up they are severely punished and forever disgraced. No free passes are granted, and managers and directors have no power to pass anybody over the roads free; all must pay the public rates. Dishonesty of any kind or failure in business means public dishonor, and utterly bars the dishonest from any future public consideration. Four millions of people live within an area of 20,000 square miles, a fact unprecedented in any other country, and all appear to be happy, prosperous and contented. The secret of this prosperity lies in the fact that all live within their income, and that industry and honesty are principles so firmly established that their violation is looked upon as an outrage on the national characteristics. — Washington Cor. Chicago Tribune.

Catching Sharks in Florida.

A correspondent sends us the following novel and effective method of capturing sharks, as practiced successfully at Mayport, a watering-place at the mouth of the St. John’s: “ I procured a tight half-barrel, around which was lashed a strong rope, to which was attached three feet of chain and a shark hook, baited with a fat mullet. Securing my line to the apparatus, I moored it just outside of the breakers, and returned in my boat to the shore. Sharks are numerous and hungry in this section, and I did not have to wait long for a customer. It would done your heart good, Col. Thompson, to have witnessed the extraordinary gambols performed by that barrel. It appeared to have been imbued with life, and rolled, tossed and pitched in the most fantastic manner. Anon the blade-like dorsal fin of the monster would cleave the surface, while his muscular tail would lash the water into foam. I awaited the result with composure, feeling assured that the violent efforts of my captive would soon exhaust his powers. Finally his strength succumbed, and I drew him on to the shore with scarcely any exertion. The specimen was a fine one, and weighed between 200 and 300 pounds. I caught a smaller one six feet long the same afternoon, and hooked a ‘tarpon,’ which escaped by leaping clear out of the water, thereby detaching the hook. My method has stood the test of experiment, and I hereby give notice that I shall apply for a patent.”— Savannah News.

Choked by a Beefsteak.

About 7:30 o’clock last evening Patrick Reagan, a stevedore, who had been on a big drunk for several days, and who was then somewhat under the influence of liquor, entered the New York lunchhouse on Front street, between J and K, and called for a beefsteak. When he was served with the food he cut the steak in the middle, put one piece of it into his mouth, and attempted to swallow it whole, but it stuck io his throat

and choked him to death in a very short time The parties in the room did everything in their power to relieve him as soon as they comprehended the situation, and summoned medical assistance without delay. When the doctor arrived. however, the unfortunate man was dead. The surgeon made an incision in the throat and drew from that organ a piece of steak eight inches long and on an average an inch and a half wide.— Sacramento Bee.

Clerical Statesmen.

There have been two or three members of the United States Senate who were preachers. Of these, we recall Everett, of Massachusetts; Colquitt, of Georgia; and Tipton, of Nebraska. In the House there have been a fewministers, notably Hilliard, of Alabama, and Seelye, of Massachusetts. There has been but one member of a Cabinet, besides Mr. Everett, who has added preaching to politics, and he is Secretary Thompson, of the Navy. The Rev. J. C. Fletcher, writing in reference to him in the Indianapolis Journal, says: “ When on a visit to Terre Haute a few days ago, I ascertained a fact about our Secretary of the Navy, which, though it greatly redounds to his credit, I have never seen noticed in print, and which, I have no doubt, so far as he is concerned, would remain forever unnoticed by the press. As I was on my way to church, in company with one of the oldest citizens of Terre Haute, I noticed a carriage driving in the direction of tne country, and my companion remarked, ‘ That carriage contains Hon. Mr. Scott and wife. Mr. Scott is the ex-member of Congress from this district. They are going to a little country Methodist church in the vicinity of Secretary Thompson’s farm. It is there that Ooh Thompson is in the habit,when at home, of each Sabbath expounding the Scriptures to his farmer neighbors. He is now spending his vacation with us, and every Sabbath he really preaches the Gospel. In this he is ably encouraged by his wife, who is one of the ‘salt of the earth.’” It is said, in an article in Harper's Monthly, by a writer who has lived ten years in Alaska, that the land there is worthless, and the seal fisheries likely to soon be exhausted. There are, according to this authority, onlj one hundred white persons in the country.

Forestalling Disease.

When we see that death is so often the penalty paid for a fatuous disregard of the symptoms of approaching disease, should we not be warned against the folly of neglecting defensive measures when called for in our own case ? Assuredly we should, and upon the first manifestation of ill-health or decay of physical vigor seek the aid of medicine. The fortifying influence upon the system of Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters entitle that medicine of many virtues to the highest consideration as a preventive, and it cannot be too strongly recommended as a means of arresting the progress of malarious fevers, dyspepsia, constipation, liver complaint, kidney and bladder troubles, gout, rheumatism, and other disorders which in their incipiency are far more easily overcome than in their maturity—albeit the great alterative has repeatedly demonstrated its power to vanquish them in their worst phases.

The Latest Fashion for Ladies.

Our attention has recently been called to the Raritan Matelasse Cloakings, something entirely new in the way of heavy, thick, warm, woolen goods, specially adapted for ladies’ wear during the cold weather now approaching. These goods are the handsomest and most stylish ever seen, and, so far as price is concerned, are a miracle of cheapness. They are intended for cloaks, sacques, dolmans, circulars and jackets, for both ladies and children, and are to .be found at aU the leading dry-goods stores in the country. Be particular to ask for the Raritan Cloakings, and take no others.

There is No Excuse for Poor Bread,

biscuits or rolls if Dooley’s Yeast Powder is used. A trial will convince you that it is the best, healthiest and cheapest baking powder.

Wonder Upon Wonder.

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