Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1879 — Page 4

TH« DEAD STUDENT. BT WILL CABLKTOH. It doesn't seem—now does it. Jack? —ss if poor - Brown were dead; Twaa only yesterday at noon he had to take his bed. The day before, he played first base, and ran McFarland uowu; And then, to Blip away so sly—'twas not at all like Brown. The story seems too big to take. 'Most any one will find It's sometimes hard to get a man well laid out in bis mind. And Brown was just afire with life. 'lwouldn't scare me, I avow. To hear a wnoop, and see the man go rushing past here now. Boor Brown! he’s lying in his room, as white as drittedsnow. I called upon him, as it were an hour or two ago. A-rusbing into Brownie's room seemed awkward lise and queer; We haven't spoken back and forth for something like a year. We didn't pull together square a single night or day; Howe’er 1 went, he soon contrived to find another way. He ran against me in my loves; we picked a dozen bones About tnat girl you used to like—the one that married Jones. _ He worked against me in the class, before my very eyes. He opened up and scooped me square out of the Junior prize. In the last campus rush we came to strictly bust ness blows, And lrom the eye he left undimmed I viewed his damaged nos ■. In fact, I came at last to feel—and own it with dismay— That life would be worth living for if brown were out the way. But when I heard that he was dead, my feelings tacked; and tuen 1 would have given half my life to get his back again. I called upon him, as it were, an hour or two ago. The room was neat beyond excuse—the women made it so Be sure he had no hand in that, and naught about It knew. To see the order lying round had made him very blue. A sweet bouquet of girlish flowers smiled in the face ot death. Straight through the open window'came the morning's fragrant breath. Close-caged, a sma.l canary bird, with glossy, yellow throat, Skipped dreariiv from peicli to perch, and never sung a note. With hair unusually combed, sat poor McFarland near, Alternaieiy perusing Greek, and wrestling with a tear A homely little girl of six, for some old kindness' sako. Was sonbiug in the corner there as if her heart would break. The books looked worn and wrctehod-like, almost as if they knew. And seemed to be a whispering their titles to my view. His rou aud gun were in their place, and high, where ail might-ee, Gleuin- 't jnb tily the boating-cup he won last year from me. I lifted up the solemn sheet. That honest, earnest lace Showed r-igus of culture and of toil that death would uot t rase. As western skies at twil ght mark where late the sun has been. Brown's face revealed the mind and soul that once had burned within. He looked so grandly helpless there, upon that loueiy bed! Oh, Jack I tin sc manly foes are foes no more when tuey are dead 1 “Old boyi” I sobbed, “ ’twas half my fault. This heart makes late amends.'’ I took the white, cold hanus in mine—and Brown and I were friends.

A BRAVE BOY.

BY C. S. SLEIGHT.

“ Speaking of courage,” said my friend, Tom Barton, as we met one day after a long separation, *‘ reminds me of an incident that happened at the doctor’s school the first winter after you left. “It was during the Christmas holidays, and all of the boys had gone home except two brothers, named Fred and Albert Kobb, and myself. They were obliged to stay during the vacation because their pareuts were spending the season in Florida, and # I —well, as you know, my home was at a distance, and we were poor, so 1 remained at school. “ The brothers were very unlike, both in appearance and character. Fred, the elder of the two, was a large, muscular, ruddy faced boy, not much in love with books. He was of an overbearing disposition, and had a great deal of conceit. “ Albert, on the contrary, was pale and slender. He was very quiet and studious, and had such a love of honesty and truth, aud such detestation of meanness and wrong, that we boys bad dubbed him the ‘ Parson.’ “ It was the Saturday night between Christmas and New Year’s. We three boys were hugging the stove in the little room adjoining the doctor’s study. Doctor was in the study writing a sermon for the following day, as he had to preach at Militown. “We could hear his pen scratch over the paper during the lulls in our conversation. Occasionally that ‘ ahem! ’ of his would come through the partiallyopened door; but somehow his ‘ ahems’ seemed to lose their omiuous character during holidays. “ The subject of our conversation was a robbery that had been perpetrated at ’Squire Little’s store the previous night. “ Robberies, as you know, were unusual occurrences in the little village of Acme. Of course this one furnished a topic for abundance of talk. “ Wtierever we had been that day we had found some groups of men and boys talking about robberies in this one in particular. “It was but natural that in the evening we boys should discuss the same svrbject, and each of us offered various speculations as to who the robber was, where he had gone, and whether he would be captured or not. “ Then we told stones of all the daring burglaries of which we had ever heard or read, and finally described such as had happened in our own houses.

“lu the descriptions of our personal experiences Fred gave a glowing account of an incident that had occurred in his father’s family. One night he said the coachman thought he saw a man prowling in the chicken-yard. He fired a pistol at him, and had summoned the other servants to go in pursuit of therohber. He told us how the brave men, armed with lanterns, pokers and blunderbusses, had reached the chickenyard, and there found traces of blood, which they followed up for a few yards, and found, lying in the last throes of death, the victim of the coachman’s prowess—a fine black Spanish rooster! “At length said I, ‘ What would you do if you should hear a burglar some night trying to enter your houce? “Fred straightened himself and squared his shoulders. ‘ I wouldn’t hesitate a moment to shoot him,’ said he, valiantly. ‘ I tell you, it would be a g 'od burglar that could get away from me.’ “A 1 rested his chin in his hands, and gazed thoughtfully into the glowing coals. “ ‘ Well,’ said he, slowly, ‘it is hard to tell what a fellow might do under such circumstances. I rather believe, though, I would take good care to keep out of his way. What would you do, Tom? "‘Me?’ I exclaimed. ‘Very likely I’d cover my head with the bedclothes and leave him to carry off house and all if he could.’ “Fred was about to make another remark, but was prevented by the doctor/ ■who appeared in the doorway. ‘Well, boys,’ said he, ‘don’t you think we’ve had enough talk about robberies for one evening? It is getting late now, and your continual talk has bothered me so that I have only written one page during the last half hour, and on that page I have written four times the word “burgulary” instead of “bravery,” ’ “ bidding him good-night we went up stairs, and were soon fast asleep. “About midnight | awoke with the

consciousness of haying, been aroused by some unusual Doise. Slightly raising my head I listened, and heard a scraping sound at the back hall window. “We three boys occupied the front room on the third floor, the same that you and Atkinson had at one time. It was a bright moonlight night. Glancing towards the Kobbs’ bed, I saw them both sitting up. The noise had aroused them also. “‘There’s some one trying to get in that hall window,’ said Al, in a whisper. ‘l’m going to see.’ “ ‘Wait and listen awhile,’ urged Fred. “ ‘And give the fellow a chance to get in?’ exclaimed Al. ‘No; we better stop him where he is.’ “ ‘Let’s call the doctor,’ said Fred. “‘There isn’t time for that. Don’t you hear him unfastening the windowbolt ? Come, hurry! I’m going to take the old musket; you take the bat.’ “ ‘The gun isn’t loaded,’ said Fred; and his voice actually trembled. Whether he was shivering from cold or fright, I don’t know. “ ‘lt will scare him just the same,’ said Al; and, taking down the rusty firearm, he hurried ont into the hall, followed at a little distance by his brother, armed with the base-ball bat. “I was never very brave, and therefore I took good care to keep as far behind Fred as he was behind his brother; in fact, to be more honest, I merely ventured as far as the door, and there peeped into the hall. “A man’s form was crawling through the window, but he seemed to be so occupied by keeping the sash up that he had not yet noticed the two boys. As he threw one leg over the sill, he thnist his hand into his breast pocket and drew out a small, dark object. “‘Murder! he’s drawing a pistol!’ roared Fred, in terror; and. turning hastily to fly, he ran against me in the doorway, and we both fell sprawling upon the floor. “ ‘ Robbers! fire! ’ shrieked Fred ‘ Here’s another one! ’ and, darting into an opposite room, he crawled under the bed there. “ ‘ Move another inch and I’ll fire! ’ cried Al, pointing the musket at the man’s breast. “‘Och! murtber! Masther Al, don’t be aftlier a-shootin’ me! ’ came a familiar voice iu broad Hibernian accents. “It was Pat, the doctors man. “‘What! is that you, Pat?’ exclaimed Al, lowering the weapon. “ • Sorra the day for me an’ it wur,’ said the Irishman, as he carefully deposited on the floor the pistol Fred had seen him draw, which was simply a small, flat bottle. He then lei-nrely lifted his other ponderous foot over the window-sill, shook himself, as if to ascertain whether he had a whole skin, and shut the window. Then he pi«ked up the bottle, and carefully replaced it in his coat pocket. “Meanwhile, Al had been quietly laughing, and I was btill on the floor laughing and rubbing the bruises on my legs, which had been caused by Fred’s collision.

“‘What’s the meaning of this?’ whispered Al. “ ‘ How is it, Pat, that you come into the house in this way instead of by the door ? ’ “ ‘ Well, you see,’ said Pat, ‘ I just wint the night to say me cousin, who is a-workin’ at the Smit’s, an’ not moindin’ to disturb the docther an’ his wife, sure didn't I put the long laddher forninst the winder, intindm’ to take out that new pane of glass that was raycintly tacked in, an’ inter in as nate an’ quiet as ye plaze; but the lad was scared a bit. Where is lie? ’ “‘Who? Fred?’asked Al.

“ ‘ Ay, it’s Fred I mane,’ said Pat. “Having by this time rubbed my bruises Sufficiently and picked myself up, I led them to Fred’s place of concealment. His feet and legs were in plain sight, for, ostrich-like, be seemed to have imagined that, if his head alone were covered, he was perfectly safe. Pat grasped him by the ankle, and despite of his kicking hauled him out. “ ‘Oh,’ cried Fred, in abject terror, supposing it was the burglar who had caught him, ‘don’t kill me! don’t kill me! My money is all in the trunk in the opposite room!’ “ ‘ Do keep still, and don’t make such a fool of yourself! It’s only Pat,’said Al, with suppressed laughter, while Pat and I indulged in laughter that was far from suppressed. “In the midst of this racket we heard a door open below, and the doctor’s voice called: “ ‘ What is the matter up there ?’ “ ‘ Nothin’, sur,’ replied Pat, with Irish readiness, ‘ only the lads got froighted as I was cornin’ to bed.’ “ ‘ Tell them to be quiet, or I shall come up,’ said doctor. “‘D’ye hear that, b’ys?’ said Pat. ‘ Get to bed now; ye’ll tak’ your death runnin’ round in the cowld without your clothes on.’ “In our excitement we had forgotten that the mercury outside was nearly down to zero, and had not noticed the cold; but Pat’s words quickened our sensitiveness, so we hastened shivering to bed, and the house was again quiet. “ Monday morning the doctor summoned us all to his study, and there instituted one of his usual courts of inquiry. He was Judge, jury and counsel. Pat was the principal witness, aud we boys were there in order to corroborate or refute Pat’s testimony, and also to sustain somewhat the respectability of tlie court, I suppose.

“ ‘Patrick,’ said the doctor, in opening the case, ‘ what was the cause of that noise up stairs Saturday night?’ “ ‘ Well, your Kiverence,’ began Pat, and his small gray eyes twinkled as he cast a sly glance at me, ‘ Hathurday weight l t ought I’d call cn me cousin, who has just coom from the ouldcounthry, an’ is workin’ in the village—’ “ ‘At Smith’s,’ put in Al, by way of explanation. The doctor was not very strict when he held court during holidays, otherwise he might have told Al to remain quiet until he was questioned. “‘At Smit’s,’ repeated Pat, ‘an’ moindin’ not to disturb yez by cornin’ in la‘e, sure I just climbed up to the hall winder, an’ as I wur half t’rough, an’ wur takin’ somethin’ from me pocket—’ ’ A flat bottle,’ interposed Al. “‘A bottle, eh I What was in it?’ asked the doctor, suspiciously, in an unprecedented manner beginning the cross-examination before the direct was concluded. “ ‘Only a wee dhrap of medicine, sur,’ said Pat. ‘Me cousin was afeared I had the influenzys, an’ gave it to me for it.’ “ ‘Go on,’ said the doctor, with a smile “ ‘As I wur a-sayin’, sur, I dhrew forth the bottle, whin there came wan yell from Masther Fred in the back part of the hall, an’, says he, “ Och! murther! he’s dhrawin’ his pistol!” an’ thin he run like—like- -’ “‘Ay, ay!’ exclaimed doctor, warnin'gly. ’“Like a deer,’said Pat;‘an’, as I wur a-sayin’, sur, I looked up and saw Masther Al forninst me, with a gun dhrawed up to his shoulder an’ pintin’ at me, an’ says I, “ Don’t murther me!” “ ‘ An’ sure, sir, he did not, an’ thin we wint an’ pullt Fred out from under the bed, where he’d crawled wid his two legs stickin’ out in the moonlight, an’ Tam an’ mesel’ wur smilin’ quiet like, an’ your riverence towld us to shut up,* an’ we wint to hed, sur.’ “‘And how did Tom act?’ said the doctor. * Eh, Tom, you young rogue, vfeftt ftre/ou snickering agfl gigging at

behind Pat's back? Are you laughing at him or me?’ “ * Neither,’ I replied; ‘ but the truth is, doctor, that Pat told me he might be out late Saturday night, and that 1 needn't be frightened if I heard any unusual noise. But I forgot to tell the hoys, and was so startled and confused in waking from a sound sleep that I at first thought it was a burglar, and after I did recollect that it was only Pat I concladed not to say anything, but test their courage, as I supposed there was no daDger in it.’ “ ‘ Well, Pat,’ said doctor, ‘ when yon visit your cousin again, don’t climb through the window on your return. And, boys, the next time you hear any suspicious sound at midnight, come and call me the first thing you do.’ “ So, having brought in a verdict of ‘ not guilty of any evil intentions,’ the doctor adjourned the court. “ Poor Fred was never heard to boast of his bravery, or even to mention the word ‘ burglar,’ after that. So true it is that boasters usually prove cowards when put to the test.”

Western Fducational Institutions.

No greater truism was ever written by pen or uttered by lip than that “Education is the lever that moves the world.” And no people in the wide world seem to have a truer appreciation of this fact than the dwellers in that grand region denomipated “the West.” In the giant strides which that section of our country has of late made in population, wealth and material progress, no interest has improved and expanded with more rapid pace than her educational institutions. It is only a few years since parents living in the West who desired to give their children a thorough education, preparatory or collegiate, were compelled to send them to some Eastern sehool, college or university, hundreds of miles away, thus eutailing the additional expenses incident to traveling, besides the unpleasant feature of having them so far away from home. Happily for the West, this difficulty has been removed. Her institutions of learning to-day will compare favorably with those of the older States, and her preparatory schools are equal to any in the country. Many of her universities are richly endowed, and have professors who, for deep learning and capacity for dispensing knowledge, are unsurpassed anywhere in the land.

The educational facilities of the West being fully equal to those of the East, there no longer exists any reason why parents should send their children so far away from home to educate them. On the contrary, there are manifold reasons why they should look nearer home for fountains of knowledge. In the first place, when the expense of getting to and from the Eastern schools and colleges is taken into consideration, the cost of an education acquired in Western schools is much less than in the Eastern. In fact, the difference is so very great that it will in future figure as a very important factor in influencing the public in favor of the Western schools. Again, those who patronized the Western colleges will enjoy the advantage of having their children nearer home. They will be enabled to see and converse with them frequently, and refresh their minds regarding their morals and the duties devolving upon them as students and seekers after knowledge, and in case of uckness they can be more readily reached and cared for. Fiually, the schools and colleges of the West are comparatively free from many vicious practices that have grown up in the old universities of the Eastern and Middle States, and which seem to be a sort of second nature with the students in those institutions. We allude to the disreputable and dangerous pastimes known as “hazing,” “rushing,” and occasionally open rebellion against the authorities. There is none ot that petty spite and animosity against their instructors winch, in many of the Eastern col.'eges, is so deplorably prevalent. Parents living in the West who contemplate giving their children a liberal education ought to take these facts into consideration and patronize home institutions.

A Frightful Fall

Three miners in the Savage mine at Virginia City Nev, started up the shaft just as the 6 o’clock morning whistle blew. They were Nicholas Dickmon, John Champion and T. K. Johnson. They had worked all night. When 50 feet from the surface and 1.300 feet from the bottom of the shaft they raug for the cage to stop so that several articles might be thrown into a compartment. Dickmon and Champion were leaning with their backs against the wall plates and their feet on the cage. Suddenly without warning the cage began to go up. The feet of the two men were thrown upwards in an instant, and botli slipped backward between the cage and the timbers. Champion caught one edge of the cage and saved himself, but Dickmon fell the 13JO feet to the bottom of the shaft. Johnson says that when Dickmon was falling he uttered not a word, but gave him a look that he will never forget till his dying day. When his body was recovered by the men working below it was mangled beyond the possibility of recognition. The left arm and right leg were severed from the trunk, the abdomen was shockingly lacerated and the head was utterly annihilated. The body was gathered up piece by piece and placed in a sack, in which it was earned to the surface. The accident was brought about by a blunder on the part of the engineer at the mouth of the shaft.

He Got Off.

A little 6-year-old boy in Natchez, Mass., had been listening to the remarks of a legal-minded uncle in regard to the prospect of an indicted person getting clear by securing a CoutiUuance of his case from time to time. Shortly after the little fellow got into a scrape, which secured for him from his mother a promise of a little dose of slipper at an early period. He anxiously sought his unde for advice on the subject, but could get sympathy only, with no prospect of relief. Finally, said the younster: “Uncle, don’t you think you could get mother to continue the case? If we could get a continuance, I think I could get off.” He got off.

How She Lost Her First Husband.

Mrs. Mary Ludy, of Frederick county, Md., died last week, aged 92 years. Her first husband, John Warrenfeltz, was killed fifty years ago while climbing a tree for a coon. A neighhor came on the scene after Mr. Warrenfeltz had ascended the tree, and, asking one of the latter’s sons what they were after, the boy replied that a coon had been treed. Noticing a movement among the boughs, the neighbor fired, as he supposed, at a coon, and Mr. Warrenfeltz fell from the tree, shot in the head. He died almost instantly. —Baltimore Sun. Mr. Crawshav, the iron master, left property in England worth $6,000,000. Ten years ago it would probably have been far larger. The comparativelysmall amount ($13,500,000) under which Baron Rothschild’s personalty was sworn —less then half that of the late Mr. Brassey—is doubtless due to a large proportion of his wealth being in other countries. Only two British personal estates have ever reached $20,000,000, and there is but one instance of ft direct legacy pf f 5,000,000.

FARM NOTES.

The cow which can manufacture the most food into the best milk is the best cow. The Holstein cow is neither nervous nor excitable, and is esteemed for her easy keeping qualities. Those who would enjoy beets in their perfection should keep up a succession of the Egyptian, to use while they are still young. Thinnings of these and of' the late crop make an excellent substitute for spinach. All plants are benefited by having the ground stirred around them.—there is no exception to the rule. The use of the hoe, or some similar implement, is generally the easiest mode of keeping the gronnd free from weeds or grass.— Bennie. Asparagus must be allowed time to grow its foliage, and prepare the nourishment for next year's crop. From not understanding this, maay exhaust their beds by cutting too late. The old rule to stop when green peas come is a good one. When cutting ceases, let the tops grow; their shade will keep down the small weeds, and the few large ones that may appear are to be pulled by hand. In curing clover-hay our own plan is to start the machines in the afternoon and keep cutting until dark. Dew or rain will not hurt grass while it is green. The next morning, after the dew is off, rake the partially-dried grass into small windrows after dinner, and toward night rake into large windrows and put into cock. Turn or spread out the cocks the next morning, and draw in the hay in ihe afternoon. —Des Moines Register. To kill the peach-tree borer, ute fish brine diluted with an equal quantity of water—a pint around each tree in spring and fall. For very small trees use less. Excessive watering is bad for geraniums, and will cause tbe leaves to turn yellow and fall off. Water Well, but not too often. If the pots stand in saucers the water must not be allowed to stand in them, for plants, like persons, cannot be healthy with wet feet.— Rennie.

Milk is undoubtedly improved by aeration. If applied t-*e surrounding atmosphere should be sweet and free from offensive odors. Milk aerated in tbe atmosphere loaded with the emanations of putrid matter—vegetable or animal—would be likely to absorb odors, and hence caution should be taken that the aeratiou be Dot made in tbe stable or other places where the air is tainted with disagreeable odors. There have been a number of devices for aerating the milk, but perhaps the simplest aud most easily applied is Bussey’s deodorizm f strainer and cooler. It is simply a strainer pail raised two feet above the can, and so arrauged that the milk falls into a spray into the can. Willard's Butter Book. Have a distinct understanding with the hired help—both those on the farm and those in the house —as to term of service, amount of wages, time of payment, hours of labor, and the usual duties to be performed, so far as they can be outlined. Leave nothing unsaid or undone at the beginning of the season that may lead to misunderstandings, hard feelings, or the breaking of contracts when in the midst of hard work. In bargaining with them, do not ask of help to promise things that you know to be over-exacting. Demand a full day’s work every time, and pay for that work promptly at the time specified in your agreement. Give help good tools, and exact good usage and care of them. Instruct men who handle teams, or who have charge in any way of the domestic animals of the farm, to treat them with kindness, feed them properly, and care for them as if their own property; and discharge those who disobey such instructions, for they are costing you money they do not earn. Cruelty to animals is an expensive indulgence. Impress upon hired men, and upon your own sons, the importance of thoroughness in their work. It is not alone how much they accomplish, but how perfectly it is done as well. Slighted crops give slight returns. Set a good table for farm hands. It is not cake, pies, and sauces, but good bread, a variety of meats, and plenty of vegetables and fruit that they crave, and they constitute the most healthful and strengthening diet.

Too Close a Calculation.

“Get your ticket at the wagon!” screamed the doorkeeper of the circus to a young man with a girl on his arm, who had a handful of small change. “This is the third time you have come here without tickets, when you know I can’t take money/’ The young man and his girl fell back, and as they did not go near the ticket-wagon, and yet seemed very anxious to see the circus, a curious-minded citizen edged around and inquired of the young man: “ Why don't you buy tickets if you want to go in ?” “ ’Cause I’m short! ” was the whispered reply. “ I didn’t ’low enough -for incidentals when I was figgering on the cost of this thing, but I don’t want the gal to know it! ” “How much are you shore? ” “Only 5 cents. I figgered that 10 shillings would, pay all expenses, but I got left. We spent 10 cents for peanuts, 10 cents on the street cars aDd 5 in candy I had just $1 left to pay our way in, when the gal got a peanutshuck in her throat and I had to buy a glass of lemonade to wash it down. Didn’t do it, though, till I had pounded her on the back more’n fifty times, and tried to puli one of them fire-hydrants up by the roots.” “I’ll lend you 5 cents to make up your dollar,” said the citizen. “You will? By gosh! But that lets me out! I’d made up my mind to tell the gal that the tigers had gotToose and the hyenas had run mad, but she’s long headed and might not have believed it. Thankee, Sir, and the fust time I’m in town I*ll pay it back. Hang it, I orter figgered on 11 shilling ’stead of 10, but you’ve made me happy for life. Come, Bets.” —Detroit Free Press.

She Didn’t.

It was plain enough to all other passengers on the ferry-boat that the two were in love and engaged, yet the girl seemed to doubt his fervor, just a little. Therefore, as the boat reached midstream, she leaned over, and tenderly said: “Johnnie, I am going to test your love. lam going to jump overboard, and, if you really love me, I know you’ll jump after me and save me.” “Yes; I’ll jump after you,” he slowly replied; “but—but—” “But what, Johnnie? ” “But, if I were you, I’d take off my shoes first. Just the minute they haul you out of the water, every woman in this crowd will rush to see whether you wear No. 2’s or No. s’s, and, if you are in your siocking-feet, they can’t get the size.”. The girl drew her feet under the chair, sighed once or twice, and did not regain her old enthusiasm until the boy came along with peanuts.

A Long-Lived Family.

The death is announced, at Woburn, Mass., at the venerable age of 99 years, of Mrs. Damaris Boutelle, relict of the late Col. Sylvester P. Flint, of Fitchburg. This extraordinary longevity is a, characteristic of the Richardson family. of Leominster, of which Mrs. Boutelle was a member. Two of her brothers died a few years since, both, singularly enough, op the Bth day of August,

at the ripe ages of 82 and 86 respectively. A large number of the family have died at ages varying from 80 to 92, Mrs. Bouteile leaves a brother, Mr. David BontelJe, of Fitchburg, now 88 years old, and twin sister, aged'Bl, namely, Miss Bouteile, of Fitchburg, and Mrs. Boynton, of New York. Mr. David Bouteile secured only last year his pension as one of the veterans of the war of 1812. —Boston Traveller.

WILD LIFE.

Some Stories About Wild Beasts, Serpents and the Like. AN AVERAGE RATTLESNAKE'S APPETITE. [From the Fort Payne (Ala.) Journal.] A rattlesnake was killed at Red Hill that swallowed two rabits, one frog, and two mice. [From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.] Dick Roberts, of Dent county, killed a rattle-snake with fifteen rattles. It contained five young rabbits about onefourth grown, and a full-grown mouse. A CHICKEN SNAKE GOBBLES A TURKEY'S NEBT. [From the Dallas (Texas) Herald.] The other day, on the farm of a citizen named Wallace, in Grayson county, a six-foot chicken snake coiled itself in a turkey nest while the old hen sat thereon, swallowed all the eggs and a door-knob besides, which happened among the eggs. A CHILD KILLED BY A BAT. [From the Ellsworth (Kan.) Times.] Joseph Simmons, merchant tailor, of this place, was awakened on Monday morning by the crying of his 2-months-old child. He turned up the light and saw a large rat leap from the bed. The child’s face had been cmelly bitten; and the poor baby died on Monday. AN ALLIGATOK’s APPETITE. [From the Orlando (Fla.) Beporter. ] C. R. 'finer brought into our office, last week, a flint r bout two inches across and a half in,ch thick, and a lightwood knot, which he took from the stomach of an alligator killed by him about two months ago. His ’gatorship measured a iittle over fourteen feet in- length. A SNAKE WITH A HEAD AT BOTH ENDS. [From the da.re de Grace (Md.) Republican.] One day last week Mr. Will Bosley, while at work on his farm at Oakington, Harford county, discovered a black snake, which he made haste to kill. On examining the reptile, after he bad killed it, it was found to measure four feet in length and had two heads, one on each end, and both regularly proportioned. The animal was noticed to run backward, and Mr. B. says it could go as fast one way as the other. This would have been a sight for Barnum.

ATTACKED BY A WILD CAT. TFrom the Sri Joseph (Mo.) Gazette.] On Wednesday night of last week Josiah A. Dean, residing nine miles northwest of Perryville, was awakened by the barking of his dog, and, donning his clothing, he went out to see what was the matter. He no sooner arrived upon the ground than the dog deserted the field, when a large wild cat attacked him. After considerable fighting Mr. Dean put the cat to flight, though at one time the vicious animal threatened to be master of the situation. THE TEAKETTLE AS A WEAPON AGAINST SNAKES. [From the Easton (Md.) Ledger.] Mrs. James H. Wooters, living near Manassas, Trappe district, had an encounter with snakes a few days ago that would have tried the stoutest heart, even of the masculine gender. Entering her hen-house she saw a huge black snake, between five and six feet long, which she attacked and killed. Looking around she saw two others about the same size on the joists above her. Having a greater love of her chickens than fear of snakes, she went to the house, procured some boiling water, and, throwing it upon them, brought them to the ground. These she also killed after a desperate fight, and then escaped unhurt. Few women, or even men, but would have let their snakeships severely alone.

CATCHING FISH WITH A RAKE. [From the Danbury (Ct) Republican.] For about two weeks the shores of the pond at New Fairfield have been lined with men and boys, both night and day, armed with fishpails and spears, the occasion being ttie opening of the bullhead season, in numbers such as were never seen before. On some of the recent rainy days the banks of the pond were lined with teams and single rigs, boys on foot and boys on horseback, all ready for piscatorial action. The number of fish seemed to be incredible—one man waded into the water and with an iron rake hauled them ashore by the scorces. Others being unprovided with tackle have killed them with stones, or caught them with their hands. A party of three persons in one day took nearly 500 of them. It is estimated that in one day about I,OOiJ bullheads were taken from these waters.

WOMAN KILLED BY A PANTHER. [From the L ttle Rock ( rk.) Gazette.] Mr. G. F. Martin, just returned to the city from a trip down the country, tells us of a terrible affair which occurred several days ago near the Warren and Pine Bluff road, about fifteen miles, east of Pine Bluff. A woman, whose name Mr. Martin has forgotten, went out to pick blackberries. Not returning, search was made in every direction and inquiry made at every house in the neighborhood, but no intelligence could be obtained in regard to the woman’s whereabouts. Finally, after loug search, she was found near a briar thicket literally torn to pieces. Almost her entire flesh was stripped from her bones. The opinion of the people is that she was killed by a panther. Those animals are not strangers in that neighborhood, and almost nightly their screams are heard.

A Bit of Moss.

To the eye of Him who watches over a sparrow’s fall there is nothing great, nothing small. The man of science trains his eye to a similar impartiality in looking at nature. A moss to the untrained eye seems insignificant. To the eye of the botanist it is a little world. A friend once complained to the great Swedish botanist that Sweden did not afford scope enough for the study of nature. Linnaeus laid his hand upon a bit of moss, on a bed of which they were reclining, and said: “ Undej this palm is material for the tutjy of a lifetime 1 ” One day, when lost in an African desert, Mungo Park came across a tuft of moss. This bit of green growing in an arid waste was a messenger from God to the desponding explorer. “ If God cares for the moss,” he said to himself, “ surely He cares for me.” And he went on his way, exhilarated by the sight of a bit of moss. Wordsworth speaks to ears that can hear: To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do otten lie too deep for tears.

Distressing Symptoms

In the stomach and bowels may announce the existence either of dyspepsia in the first or an obstruction in the second, or the approach of some choleraic complaint, or simple diarrhea. Colic, bitter or sour eructations, a pressing down of the bowels, a feeling of oppression or fluttering at the pit of the stomach, are among these unpleasant symptoms. They and their cause are speedily remedied by Hostetler’s Stomach Bitters, a single wineglassful often causing an immediate cessation of pain. When the difficulty continues, it is only necessary to pursue the use of this standard carminative and anti-dyspeptic medicine to obtain entire and permanent relief. Nothing in the composition or flavor of the Bitters is in the slightest degree objectionable, Medical men pronounce It eminently pure,

How Women Would Vote.

Were the question submitted to the ballot, and women were allowed to vote, every Woman in the land who has need Dr. Pieroe’s Favorite Prescription would vote it to be an unfailing remedy for the diseases peculiar to her sex. Dr. Pieros has received hundreds of grateful testimonials of its curative power. • lowa City, lowa, March 4,1878. Dr. B. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. Dbab Sib: For many months I was a great sufferer. Physicians could afford mono relief. In despair I commenced the use of your Favorite Prescription. It speedily effected my entire and permanent cure. Yours thankfully. Mrs. Paul B. Baxter. Malignant and Subtle indeed is the poison of Scrofula, and terrible are its ravages in the system. They may, however, be permanently stayed and the destructive virus expelled from the circulation with Soovill’s Blood and Liver Stbup, a potent vegetable detergent which eradicates till skin diseases, leaving no vestige of them behind. White swelling, salt rhenm, tetter, abscesses, liver complaint, and eruptions of every description are invariably conquered by it Druggists sell it Fincb the first introduction of Dr. F. Wilhoft’e Anti-Periodic or Fever and Ague Tonic, it has steadily gained in popularity with the people, bnt since its proprietors, Wheelock, Finlay & Co., gave its composition to the world, so that everybody can know wbat it is, the sale of it has doubled itself. It contains no da gerons drug, and yet it i< the greatest specific against malarial diseases, such as Chilis and Fever, and Dumb Chills. For sale by all Druggists. A Universal Remedy.— “ Brown’s Bronchial Troches” for Coughs, Colds and Bronchial Affections, stand first in public favor and confidence; this result has been acquired by a test of many years. 25 cento a box.. Dealers «ill, of course, often recommend an organ as best because they have it to sell, or can make more on it But it has been demonstrated at all world’s exhibitions for twelve years that those made by the Mason & Hamlin Organ Co. excel all others..

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