Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1880 — Page 4

SILVER DIMES. BT law. NANNIE BTIELF, MOOSE. Posts mzjr sing of pleasures rare. And pen their lays in blissful rhymes, But glv» to me that good old fare, A pocketful of silver dimes. I love to read their works complete. And hear them sing of sunny climes, But Rive to me that musts sweet Of tinkliog, ringing silver dimes. I love to hear a good old song - There is sweet magic in its lines— But give me magic t at belongs To bright, glisteniDg silver dimes. I’m fond of flowers, rich and rare— For all thli.gs pure my spirit pines— But yet iay heart, I do declare. Is set on pure old silver dimes. Numerous friends will crowd your way That would not read your simple rhymes; But let them go or let them stay, Hold fast unto your silver dimes. While others climb lhe steeps of fame, And from its lofty summit shines, Just plod along all the same. And gather in the silver dimes. I love their chiming, tinkling sound, Friends! tried and true, i n these hard times; The heart ts light whea the purse abounds With good old friendly silver dimes. Then here’s a toast for all to-day. Home or abroad in distant climes, “ Let the wide world wag as it may,” Give me a pocketful of dimes. - Chicago Ledger.

THE LOST CHILDREN.

There were three of them—Kitty, Mary and little Tommy—the children of the station-master at Black River Junction, on the Great Southwestern railroad. The station stood alone on the open prairie, miles and miles away from anywhere in particular. Black river flowed through the mountains, a hundred miles away to the north, and on clear days the snowy mountains could be seen glimmering on the glassy horizon. The line leading to the Black river met the Southwestern here, and thus it was that the place was called Black River Junction. The station-master and his wife and three ohildren lived in the little depot quite happily, but there was not another family within ten miles in any direction. • At times the ohildren thought it rather lonely. There was nothing in particular to be done, except to watch the trains that stopped at the junction several times a day. Once in a while a freight car would be left on the sidetrack, and the children soon found that an empty freight car makes a capital playhouse. They could keep house in the corners and make visits, or sit by the open door and make believe they were having a ride. One morning they were awakened by a curious humming sound out of doors, and they all f-crambled up and looked out of the window. How the wind did blowl It whistled and roared round the house, and played upon tlio telegraph wires upon the roof as upon a huge harp. As the wires wore fastened to the roof, the house became a huge music-box with the children inside. After breakfast tho morning trains arrived, hut the wind was so high tho passengers wero glad to hurry from one train to another as quickly as possible. Then the trains went away, and the great wind-harp on the roof sang louder than ever. The Btation-master said it blew a gale, and that tho children must stay in the house, lest they bo blown away into the prairie and lost. The station-mas-ter's wife said that it was a pity the children must etayiu the house all day. There was an empty freight car on the side track; perhaps they might play in that. Tho station-master thought this a good idea, and he took Kitty by the hand, and Tommy in his arms, while Mary took hold of his coat, and they all went out to the empty car. Whew! How it did blow! They certainly would be lifted up by the wind and blown quite into the sky. The empty cav was warm and snug, and, once inside, they wore quite out of the way of the wind. Mary thought the rear end would be a good place to keep house, but Tommy preferred the other end, so they agroed to keep house at both ends of the empty ear. This was a nice place, for it gave them a chance to visit each other, and the opeu part of tlio door made a promenade to walk on. Louder and louder roared the gale. Safe and snug in tlio car they went on with their play, and thought nothing of the weather outside. Suddenly the car seemed to shake, and they stopped in their housekeeping, and ran to the door to see what had happened. “ Why, it’s moving ! Somebody’s pushing it,” said Mary. “ They’re taking us away on the freight train. Come, we mu3t get out.” “ I didn’t hear the whistle,” said Tommy. “ I guess something is pushing tho car.” 1 tThe girls leaned oat of the door te see what hud happened. Why, where was the platform? What was the matter with the station? It was moving away. No, it was the car. It had left the siding and had rolled out upon the main line, end was moving faster and faster along the road. “O, we must get out. They are taking us away.” “No, no,” said Kitty, “we must stay here till the brakemuu comes round. I didn’t hear them when they took us on the train.” “There isn't any train,” said Tommy, looking up aud down the line. “O, it’s the wind! It’s blowing the ear away. Wo must put on tho brakes and stop it.” This was a good plan, but how were they to carry it out? The brake wheel was on the top of the car, and they were inside.

Faster and faster rolled the car. It began to roar and rattle, as if dragged along by a swift engine. In a moment Tommy began to cry. Mary tried to look brave, and Kitty stared fast at the level prairie Hying past. It was no use. They all broke down together, and had a hearty cry alone in the empty car, as it rolled on and on before the gale. The station-master’s wife rolled up her sleeves to put the house in order, while tho children were safely out of the way. Tho station-master, feeling sure the children were safe in the freight car, sat in his office nearly all tho morning. At last the beds were made, the dinner put on the stove, and the mother wondered how the girls were getting on in their play-house on tho track. She threw a shawl over her head and went out on the platform. At once the wind blew the shawl over her lace, and she could not see exactly where she stood. Turning her back to the wind, she began to call the children. How loudly the wind roared through the telegraph wires! Perhaps they could not hear her in all this din. Maybe they were inside the car, out of hearing. She walked on toward the sidiDg. Not a thing to be seen. She wondered if there had been a mistake. Perhaps the car was on the other side track. No, the rails were unoccupied as far as she could see in every direction. What did it mean? What had happened? She staggered back into the station and startled her husband with a cry of despair. “ The car! The children! ” The station-master ran out on the* platform and looked up and down the line. Not a car in sight! It had been blown away by the terrible wind, and perhaps at this instant was rolling swiftly onward with its precious load to destruction. What would happen to it? Would it meet a train, or run into a station? Would the children try to get out, or would they stay in the car until it was wrecked ? He sprang to tho door of the depot

to telegraph the terrible news down the line, but, just as he opened the door, he saw a faint white cloud on the western horizon. It was a train. Help was coming. At the same moment his wife appeared with a new grief and terror in her eyes. “ I cannot get a call in either direction. The wires are blown down.” This only added to the danger, for there was no means of sending word in advance of the runaway car. It must go on to its fate without help or warning. “ Help is coming, mother. Hero’s a tiain bound east.” Nearer and nearei came the train, and the father and mother stood watching it as it crept along the rails. It seemed as if it would, never come. ‘At last it reached the platform, and proved to be a passenger train bound up the Black River road, and not intended to go in the direction in which the car had been blown ' away. The instant it stopped the station-master ran to the engineer and told his terrible story. The mother, with quicker wit, found the conductor and demanded that the engine be taken off and sent after the children.

The conductor was a man of regular habits, and such a bold request struck him as something extraordinary. Take the engine off, and leave the train and passengers waiting at this lonely station ! The idea was preposterous. Some of the passengers gathered near and asked what was the matter. “Three children loot; blown away in an empty car.” Some one said, “ Yes, go at once. We can wait here till the engine returns.’ The conductor said that ho must telegraph for instructions; but some one said, “'lhe wires are down,” and the people only cried out the more, “ Let the engine go I” so the mother ran to the tender and began to pull out the pin, that the engine might start. “Hold on, marm,” said a. brakeman; “I’ll cast her off. You jump aboard if yon want to go, too. Fire up, Jack, and make her huml ’

It was all done in a moment, and away flew the engine, leaving the conductor and station-master staring in surprise at this singular proceeding. The station-master did not feel very happy. Ho had half intended to go with the engine, but it would never do to leave his post. “Fire steady, Jack,” said tho engineer to the fireman. “It’s no use to get excited, for we’re in for a long race.” “It’s enough to make a fellow excited to see that woman,” said the fireman. The engineer turned round,and there by his side stood the mother, her eyes straining ahead down the lino in search of the missing ones. “ Oh, sir 1 open the throttlo wide. Don’t try to save coal at such a time as ♦ his.”

“We must keep cool, marra, and go steady, or we shall run out of coal and water, and come to a standstill on the line.” The woman said not a word, but nodded mournfully, and leaned against the side of the cab for support, and the fireman gave her his seat, where she could look out ahead over the line. How the engine shook aud roared. The little finger of the steam-gauge trembled and rose higher, us the steam pressure increased over tho raging fire. The engine seemed to be eating up the track in front, and behind the rails spun out like shining ribbons in the sun. The station and train had already sunk down out of sight, and the grassy horizon on either side seemed to fiy away in a kiud of gigantic waltz. The wind died away to a dead calm, and in a few moments a little breeze sprang up, and blew in at the front windows. “Wo are beating the wind,” said the engineer. "If we can keep up this pace, we shall coon overtake them.” “How long have they been gone?” shouted the fireman, above the roar of the engine. “I don’t know,” screamed the woman, without taking her eyes from the horizon where the rails met the sky. “It may have been two hours or more. They were playing in the empty car.” “How did she get out of the siding? ” (He meant the car.) “It’s one of tho new switches,” said the engineer. “ Cars can easily jump out upon the main line.” Ah! something ahead. Was it the runaway car? No, the next station. What a terrible pacel Twenty miles already. “O, don’t stop,” cried the woman, as she saw the engineer put his hand on the throttle-valve.

“ 1 must, marm ; wo are getting I out of water. And perhaps we can I learn something of the runaway.” The sudden arrival of a solitary engine containing two men and a woman startled the station-master, and he came out to see wh&t it meant. He seemed to guess at the truth, for he said: “After the runaway car?” ‘‘Yes, yes. There aie three children inside.” “O. marm, I’m sorry for ye. It went past here, going twenty miles an hour It came down grade all the way, but the up grade begius about two miles out. I was inside when it passed, aud didn’t see it till it had gone past the door.” How long it took to fill the tender! The engine stood hot and smoking by the water-tank, and the water came out in a slender stream* while the . poor mother stood looking on, tearful and impatient. “ Good-by! I’ll put up my pipe Heaven help ye!—the up grade—” The rest was Jost, for tho engine shot ahead on and on over the open prairie. The water-tank seemed to sink down into the earth, and the shining rails stretched longer and longer out behind. Ah! what was that! A cloud of steam on the horizon far ahead. The engineer took out his timo-book and studied it carefully. “ Freight No. 6, bound west, stopping on the two-mile siding.” How swiftly freight No. G rose above the grass and grew big along the way. Listen I A whistle! The engineer whistled a reply and shut off steam. Their engine slowed down, and they could nee men leaning out from the other engine as if to speak to them. “It’s ten minutes back. Running slow on main line—road—clear—” “Thank Heaven!” said the woman. The engineer said nothing; but, at that instant, the engine gave a great leap and shot ahead at the rate of fifty miles an hour up the easy grade. How long the minutes seemed, and yet each meant almost a mile. Ah! a speck—a black dot on the horizon! The car? Yes, it was tho car. It grew bigger and bigger. Now they could see it plainly. But the children! Where were they ? The fireman sprung out through the forward window and ran along the engine and down upon the cow-catcher. The monster began to slaken its terrible pace, and in a moment it struck the car with a gentle jar ana stopped, The fireman thought himself a lively man, but the woman was before him, and sprang, up into the car. There they lay, safe and sound, in a corper of the car—Mary and Tommy fast asleep, and Kitty watching over them. “Oh, mother! I knew you would come. Mary and Tommy cried themselves to sleep, and I —l—” > Nobody could say a worJ. The fire-

man tried to rub hia eyes, and only marked his face with black streaks. The mother laughed and cried all at once. The engineer picked up the little ones and quietly took them into the cab of the engine. • “ There, now, my hearties, yon have had a risky ride; but it’s all right. Gome. We’re more than thirty miles from home, and it won’t do to be late for dinner. Fire up, Jack.”

FARM NOTES.

The rain annually pours into the soil a quantity of nitrate of ammonia fully equivalent to three pounds per acre. Damaged com is exceedingly injurious as food for horses, because it brings on inflammation of the bowels and skin diseases. Guinea fowls will keep all bugs and insects of every description off garden vines. They will not scratch like other fowls, or harm the most delicate plants. The average butter yield of the Ayrshire cow is one pound from twenty to twenty-five pounds of milk; from the Jersey it is one pound of butter from eighteen pounds of milk. * Turnips are healthful for horses. They should be cut in slices, or, what is better, pulped finely and mixed with a little meal and some salt. Rutabagas are better than white turnips.' Keeping sheep is pleasant and profitable, if attended to properly. Wool is a sure thing every year and brings cash. It has its ups and downs, but let any man make up his mind that none but his wife or his administrator shall sell his wool for less than 50 cents per pound and he will come out all right.

Parsnips, carrots, Swedish turnips and especially mangel-wurzel, will all fatten pigs. These roots ought not to be given in a raw state, but always cooked and mixed with beans, peas, Indian corn, oats or barley, all of Which must be grouud into meal. When pigs are fed on such cooked food as we have stated, the pork acquires a peculiarly rich flavor, aud is much esteemed, especially for family use. Horse Hints.— Rubber bits are the best for winter use on your horses. The mortality among horses is greater between the ages of 4 and 8 years than at all other periods of life. Warm the bit on your bridle in frosty weather before putting it in the horse’s mouth. The bit full of frost, coming in contact with the tongue and lips, adheres to these soft tissues the same as it would do whiJ'n red-hot, leaving the animal with a sore mouth. If you do not be lieve it place your own tongue on a piece of frosted iron some cold morning and be convinced.

A good workshop containing such tools as can be nsed to advantage by the fafmers should be found on every farm. A room with a stove in it and large enough to permit of the construction of a hay rigging, a gate or portable fence, will furnish a place where many hours may be healthfully aud profitably spent m the most inclement weather of winter. Here a great deal of repairing may be done that would otherwise find its may to the professional mechanic. New tools may be built, that will be needed on the farm, or harnesses may be oiled and repaired aud a great many things that will suggest themselves may be done. In mild weather tho thoughtful can find profitable out-door work, such as repairing outbuildings and cutting up falling branches from trees. —Bural New Yorker.

Large numbers of cattle die annually in the West from the lack of water when feeding in the cornfields. Dry corn-stalks, as compared with grass, are constipating food; but smutty cornstalks are especially liable to cause impaction of food in tho stomach, and disease of the brain. The risk is largely or entirely obviated if tliero is a sufficient supply of water; but when the water is frozen up the animal can no longer chew the cud from lack of water in the paunch to separate and float its contents, and impaction and a whole train of evil consequences follow. If water can bo supplied so that the cattle can drink at will, it is better; but if not, it should be allowed abundantly at any cost twice a day. While in many-cases no other than iced water can be had, it is all-important that stock should not be left to become so thirsty that they will fill themselves when driven to driok, and then stand shivering in the colu stall or stanchions, where they are denied even tho privilege of stimulating their circulation by walking about. —National Live-Stock Journal.

HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY,

Dressing for Roast Pork or Goose. —Make a dressing as for goose, and ore teaspoon of mustard and teaspoon salt, with a wineglass of claret, and mix with tho dressing before putting in the goose or pork, or pour this into the gravy. Roast Goose. —Two ounces onion and half as much grepn sago chopped fine; add one coffee cup of bread crumbs, a little pepper and salt, the yelks of two eggs. Do not quite fill the goose, but leave room to swell. Roast from one hour and a half to two hours, and serve with gravy and apple sauce. Sw!eet Pickles.—To every seven pounds of fruit put four pounds of sugar, one quart of the best vinegar, an ounce of cloves, ounce of cinnamon, a dozen -pieces of mace. Put tho sugar and spices in the vinegar. Let it boil, tlien.pour over tbe fruit; let this remain till next morning : boil and pour over for three mornings. The last time boil the fruit in it. Is a Brass Vessel Safe for Cooking In?—A brass kettle maybe used for cooking with safety, if thoroughly well scoured before being used. The scouring should be done with fine bath brick, and afterward with.hot water. No acids, such as vinegar, should bo used in cooking in a brass kettle. When the kettle is done with for the time, it should be scoured and put away in a dry place, where it will always be ready for use after simple washing. Celery Cream Soup.— To make celery cream soup boil a small cup of rice'in three pints of milk until it will pass through a sieve; grate the white part of two heads of celery (three, if small) on a bread-grater; add this to the rice milk after it has been strained; put to it one quart of strong white stock; let it boil until the celery is perfectly tender; season with salt and cayenne, and serve; if cream is obtainable, substitute one pint ot it for the same quantity ol milk. * \ Coffee Custard. Make a good, strong extract of coffee—by dripping it as slowly as possible—for ten people you will want two cupfuls; take eight of the same measures of milk, and beat mto the milk yelk of six eggs; add three ounces of powdered sugar.; mix into this the two cupfuls of coffee; as coffee differs in strength, better taste to see that is sweet enough; pour the mixture into cups, and put the cups in a not-too-deep pan with boiling water; the level of the water ought not to stand higher than the cup; do not try and boil the water too hard; about 15 minutes of boilingis necessary. SwjSet and Sour Cabbage.—My pickles gave out t@o early this winter, and I used this old receipt, which is Dutch, for an old woman gave it to me

in Albany just forty yeans ago: Take a cabbage-head and cut it down into eight pieces and covgr it with coarse salt, lettingit remain in a jar twelve hours; take it out, squeeze it, and chop it fine with two onions; put it on the fire in a chinalined vessel, covering it with vinegar, and boil for a full hour; add to it then one ounce of tarmeric (a teaspoonful of curry will do instead of turmeric), one toaspoonful of ground pepper, a teaspoonful of celery-seed, a table-spoonful of allspice, two tablefspoonfuls of ground mustard, and half an ounce of white mace, with one and a half pounds of brown sugar; cook one hour more.

SOME INTERESTING DATES.

Muskets in use, 1370. Pistols in use, 1544. Spectacles invented, 1280. Paper made of linen, in 1300. Printing invented at Metz by Gutenberg, 1450. Printing introduced into England, 1471. Tobacco introduced into France by Micot, 1450. Linen first made in England, 1235. Clocks first made in England, 1608. Potatoes first introduced into Ireland in 1589. The art of weaving introduced into England, 1330. Musical notes, used, invented, 13S0. Cannon first used at the siege of Algesiras, 1342. The first public library was founded at Rome, 167 B. C. Plays were first acted at Rome, 239 B. C. The fifrst public library was founded at Alexandria, 84 A. D. Paper was invented in China, 170 B. C.

The calendar was reformed by Julius Caestfr, 44 B. C. Insurance on ships and merchandise first made, A. D. 43. Saddles came into use in the fourth century. Horse-shoes of iron were .first made, A. D. 43. Stirrups were not made until a century later. Manufacture of silk brought from India into Europe, 551 A. D. Pens first made of quills, A. D. 635. Pleading in courts of judicature introduced, A. D. 788. Stone buildings and glass introduced into Engiand, 674 A. D. The first regular bank was established at Venice in 1157. Astronomy and geometry brought into JEngland, 1230The degree of doctor first conferred in Europe at Bologna, in 1130; in England, 1208. The figures of arithmetic brought into Europe by the Saracens, A. D. 991. Paper of cotton rags invented toward the close of the tenth century. Comedy and tragedy were first exhibited at Athens 247 years B. C. Postoffice established in France, 1464; in England, 1581; in Germany, 1641. Turkeys and chocolate introduced info England from America, 1529. Telegraphing introduced by Prof. Morse in 1844. The telephone invented by Edison in 1877.

The Justice Saw the Point.

Dr. Washington, a colored man, was arraigned before a Justice of the Peace, charged with something like mal-medi-cal practice. He had given a colored man a dose of medicine, and the colored man didn’t live but one hour afterward. The Justice was a colored man, and probably knew as much about law as the doctor did of medicine. When the doctor had been arraigned the Justice asked: “Dr. Washington, how long is you been practicin’ ob medicine?” “Sence de wall, sail.” “ What books on do fisick an’ de human reconstruction did ycr study?” “Oh, I studud ’null—Oornsta'ks olosophy ’mong de number. Now, Jedge, let me ax you one pint. What books on de law did you study ?” “I’se keah, pris’ner afore de bar, to try dis case, and not to stand a ’zamination. Cornin’ down from de law language to plain nigger an’ mule, wot de h —ll made you kill dat man ? ’Splain yerself, sah, or I’ll put de clamps of my thority on yer.” “Es dar’s a man in dis what can ’splain liisself, I’se de man,” said the doctor, arising. “Some few days ago I ’vented a new medicine from roots dug outen de groun’. Hit struck me dat de medicine would cure de rlieumatiz, and when I wen ter see de man what is dead now I concluded to ’speriment on him. No medicine . ain’t no ’count till you ’speriment wid hit. All medical ’ventions has ter be proved. When Bright ’vented tier kidney disease lie didn’t know hit would work till he tried hit. I figured it up jus’ dis way. Says Ito myself, if dis medicine cures dis man hit’s good ; but if hit kills him lilt won’t do ter tamper wid, or let lie roun’ loose ’mong childun. Weil, I gin him der medicine, and about a hour afterward he was dead. How would I know dat de medicine was fitten for use es I hadn’t a-tried it? Don’t yer see de geography of my egement? Science must Le ’vanced, yer know.” “Dat’s a sack,” said the Justice, after inuring a while, “de pint are well sustained. Mr. Constable, turn dis man loose an’ caution him not to ’vent any inoak medicine in my township.”— Little Bo<k Gazette.

The Audiphone.

Prof. Calladon’s improvements upon tho audiphone, of which the cable bears record this week, seem to have boon anticipated by Philadelphia investigators. At tho last meeting of the County Medical Society five or six cheap and ingenious substitutes for the costly india-rubber contrivance were proposed and tested. An ordinary palm-leaf fan, or a piece of pasteboard, bent into tho form of a shield, was found to answer in an emergency; and a piece of card-board coated with shellac and perforated by a steel rod—the whole costing about 5 cents—gave better results than the original audiphone. It must not be supposed that only those who have not lost their teeth can receive any benefit from this wonderful invention, or its more wonderful substitutes, for it will act equally well, whether held between the gums or artificial teeth, if care be ouly taken by previously applying a vibrating tuningfork to them to impress upon the person’s mind that he must expect to heaf the sound, not through his ears, but through his teeth and gums.— New York Tribune.

An Experimenter.

Two of those ornaments made of plaster of paris, flavored with sugar, were bestowed upon an urchin, with the usual warning, “Don’t eat them, whatever you do; they will poison you.” For some time they were regarded by him and his younger brother with mingled awe and admiration; but at no distant day their mother missed one. “ Tom,” said she to the owner, who was just setting forth for- school, “what have ’ee done with that figure?” “ Giv’d it to Dick,” was the reply, “and if he’s living when I come home I mean to eat the other one myself, I can tell ’ee !”-—Lo n don Fun eh . A Hartford/druggist draws beer from a soda fountain, and sells it under the name of German tonio,

YOUNG ALVAH EDISON.

The Wizard or Menlo l ark as a Boy. [From Hie Philadelphia BuUet'n ] “ WhilewAt Menlo Park,” said Mr. Bentley, “I met Edison’s father. He is a plain, matter-of-fact old gentleman, and said that he had* heard of the doings of his boy Alvah (he always calls him Alvah), and thought he would come from his home in Michigan and see what it was all about. When he saw the brilliant lights burning he remarked that he could tell better what it amounted to if it was up in Detroit, where he knew people and could get a better look at it. I asked him what kind of a boy Alvah was, and whether he had ever given him trouble. “ ‘Alvah was a good boy, and I can say that I never knew him tell a falsehood.’

“ Edison looked up at his father and said: ‘But you must remember, father, I have been away from home for some time,’ at which both the old gentleman and I had a hearty laugh. “‘ I remember,’ continued the old gentleman, * that, when he was 12 years old, he weighed just sixty pounds. I would have forgotten it, but tho little scamp insisted on going with me for some wheat, and, after weighing a bushel, he jumped on the scales and he weighed the same as the wheat. He was always an active boy, though small and very thin. Once I went down to Ohio for some goods and brought them to Sandusky to have them transhipped to Michigan. Alvah was with mo, and, after unloading, I was looking for a marking-pot to mark tho goods, when he insisted on doing the marking. A gentleman standing by watched him and asked me if that was my boy. On being answered in the affirmative, lie said: ‘lf you’ll let me have him I’ll give you S3O per month.’ That was good wages for a boy in those days, but bis mother thought he was too little to go away from home, and so wc refused the offer.

“ ‘lt was not long afterward that he got a position on the railroad to sell papers, etc , on the cars, and ran a distance of 200 miles each day, being home at night. In the baggage c.ir he had rigged up a telegraph instrument, and every spare moment was spent in practicing. One very cold winter night, when tho wind was howling and the snow falling, I had occasion to go to the part of the house where he slept, and, seeing a light in his room, had curiosity enough to look through the keyhole, aud there Alvah sat bundled up in a huge overcoat and a handkerchief around his head, with a lot of b ttles he had gathered from a drug store. He always was a queer boy, and I knew there was no use scolding him, and so just let him alone and gave him the room to carry on his experiments. Three months from that time he had every nook and corner of the room filled with shelves containing bottles, stones, chemicals, etc. At last he had learned enough telegraphing to branch out for himself, and he left us to push ahead for himself. When I came to clean up that room and emptied out a lot of stuff which no human being could tell what it was, I got over S3O for the empty bottles. He was not 14 years old when he left us. Yes, Alvah was a queer boy.’ “ ‘Well,’ said I, ‘Mr. Edison, the general opiniqnj of the world is that he is indeed very queer, but if we had a few more such queer people, science would soon enlarge.’ ”

Infanticide and Tight Shoes.

There are districts of China where infanticide prevails to -an incredible extent—a murder of female children mainly. The higher estimate of women is the product of Christian teaching; and, though women in Chinft are comparatively free from seclusion, and have been regents of the empire, and eminent for literary accomplishments, and although a son pays profound regard to his mother, even the Emperor kneeling before her, yet the woman is despised, and female life is cheap. “When little girls die, alio same chicken,” the Chinaman says; “when the little boy die, too bad;” and, notwithstanding that the traveling vaccinator charges a shilling to vaccinate a boy and only sixpence for a girl, parents wili rather let their girls run tne risk than pay the lower fee. Women will confess to the number they have destroyed. An ayah where we staid had killed two. A man will sometimes carry the child in a basket along the roads with perfect unconcern, though his destination is the nearest pond, and the babies’ pond is sometimes a village institution, and “it is no uncommon thing to see the bodies floating upon its green slimy surface.” Parents have been asked to take back a child that, was exposed to die, and have absolutely declined. There are districts where only seventenths of the female children are ■ kept alive, and others where, notwithstanding the immense emigration of men, there are not enough women to be wives for the men that are left. Of course a sin like this ceases in a Christian congregation, but the reformation is not stayed there, for in many neighborhoods there is a growing repugnance to the practice, a weighing of it in quite other scales, aud what the protest of many of the best men in China failed to do is being already silently done by the influences that spread from the mission. There is another practice far more universal, but which some suppose to be connected with infanticide, the barbarous fashion of binding the feet, so as to render them not only useless, but diseased; for girls thus treated are,of course, a useless burden to their parents if not married. The Chinese themselves have tried to deal with this habit. It is a huge tyranny of fashion, and cannot even plead royalty in its favor, the present dynasty not binding the feet of their women; while one of the Emperors even issued an ineffectual edict against it, aud would have issued another weighted with heavy penalties, but that his throne would have been overturned. The native churches are now taking the matter in hand, and are here and there forming “Anti-foot-binding Societies,” and sometimes the matter is discussed in the Church Synod. “Mr. Z. can easily speak against it,” said a native pastor, “for he has no daughters; but I am not so; it is in the hands of my wife, and I cannot prevent it;” and that really tenches the root of the matter. It is for the nat.ve Christian mothers to take action as they are doing, and neither to torture their daughters, nor, “in selecting wives for our sons, if the girl is intelligent and in other respects suitable, should we reject her because she has large feet;” and the custom of 1,000 years, a custom stronger than the throne, is already in some Christian centers yielding to the influence of Christian principle.—Good Words. .

Woman’s Softening Influence.

“ It’s astonishin’,” remarked the old forty-niner this morning as he nodded over bis glass, to our reporter. “ It’s astonishin’ what a coward a man is at home—a reg’lar crawlin’ sneak, by Jove! I’ve traveled a good bit and held up my end in most of the camps on the coast sence ’45). I’ve got three bullets inside o’ me. I’ve shot an’ been shot at, an’ never heard nobody say I hadn’t as good grit as moat fellers that’s goin’. But at home I’m a kyote. Afore I’d let the old woman know that her hot biscut wasn't Al. when it’s like stiff amalgam, I’d fill myself as full as a re-

tort I’ve done it lots o’ times. Most o’ my teeth is gone from tnggin’ on beefsteaks that the old woman has fried. D’je think I roar out and case when I go over a chair in the dark? No, sir. When I’m xubbin’ my shins an’ keepin’ back the tears, I’m likewise sweatin’ for fear the old woman has been woke by the upset. It didn’t use to be so,” sighed fclie. poor fellow, thoughtfully rubbing his shining scalp. When we *as first hitched I thought I was superintendent, but, after year or two of argyin’ the pint, I settled down to shovin’ the car at low wages. I can lick any man o’ my age an’ size,” cried the old gentleman, banging the saloon table with his wrinkled fist. “I’ll shoot, knife, stand up or rough and tumble for coin, but when I hang my hat on the peg in the hall, an’ take off my muddy boots, an’ hear the old woman ask if ■ that’s me, I tell you the starch comes right out o’me.”—Virginia (Nev.) Chronicle.

A Remarkable Ivy.

The property ivy has of adapting itself to circumstances is most strikingly illustrated by aa incident related by Miss Strickland. The body of Catharine Parr, buried at Sudley, was disinterred, through curiosity, on several occasions. The last time the coffin was opened, “it was discovered that a wreath of ivy had entwined itself around the temples of the royal corpse. A berry Lad fallen there at the time of the previous exhumatioD, taken root, and then silently, from day to day, woven itself into this green sepulchral coronal.”— Chambers' Journal.

The Best Rubber Boot.

There is nothing better for a farmer or outdoor man than a good rubber boot, and nothing so exasperating as a bad one. Competition among manufacturers has led to such a cheapening of quality that until lately it was a hard thing to find a rubber boot really worth the money asked for it. The Candee Rubber Co., of New Haven, Ct., however, has lately put on the markets boot designed to meet the call for a real good, substantial article, and to denote its freedom from adulterative mixtures it is called the “95 Per Cent. Sterling Boot.” It is made, on honor, as pure as can be made, and is warranted three moDtbs. By an ingenious contrivance a space iB provided at the top of the leg for recording the date of the sale, by punching holes in the spaces provided—like a railroad ticket—so that there may be no trouble about the warrant. The upper and leg of the “95” Boots are doubled, ana the sole are one-half inch thick, of solid rubber from toe to heel. Ordinary rubber boots are barely a quarter inch thick in the thickest part, and only one-eighth at the shank. A descriptive circular can bo obtained by sending a postal direct to the company; or the “95” Boots can be found at most of"the stores.

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Sherman & Co., Marshall, Mich., want an agent in this county at once, at a salary of $llX) per month and expenses paid. For full particulars address as above. Foe one cent purchase a postal card and send vour address to Dr. Sanford, 162 Broadway, New York, and receive pamphlets by return mail, from which you can learn whether your liver i 3 out of order, and, if ont of order or in any way diseased, what is the best thing in the world to take for it A Boston pickpocket appealed from a sentence of four mouths, and the new trial sent him to State prison for four years. Thousands Speak.—Vegetine is acknowledged and recommended by physicians and apothecaries to be the beet purifier and cleanser of the blood yet discovered, and thousands speak in its praise who have been restored to health. We call the attention of all lovers of the violin to the advertisement in thrs paper of the Patent Violin Company, New York. The habit of running over boots or shoe, corrected with Lyon’s Patent Heel Stiffenera.

THE DEAF HEAR THROUGH THE TEETH Perfectly, all Ordinary Conversation, I.ectures, Concerts,etc., by New Channels to the Nerves of Hearing by means of a recent wonderful scientific invention —the Dentaphone. For remarkable public tests on the Deaf, also on the Deaf and Dumb, see the New York J ter aid, Sept. 28; the New York Christian Advocate, Nov. 20, etc. Every deaf person should send for free illustrated descriptive pamphlet to the American Dentaphone Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. Consumption Cared. An old physioian, retired from practice, having had placed in his hands by an East India missionary the formula of a simple vegetable remedy for the spfeedy and permanent cure tor Consumption, Bronchitis, Catarrh, Asthma and all Throat and Lung Affections, also a Snsitive and radical cure for Nervons Debility and all ervous Complaints, after having tested its wonderful curative powers In tnousands of cases, has felt it bis duty to make it known to his suffering fellows. Actuated by this motive, and a desire to relieve human suffering, I will send free of charge to all who desire it this recipe, in German, French or English, with fall directions for preparing and using. Sent by mail by addressing with stamp, naming this paper. W. W. SHI4RAR, lASI Powers’ Block, Rochester, N. Y.

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