Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1882 — Page 4

FAME. by mKERu nri. ** I don’t want to discourage yon, hot lately I’ra bren filled With ci rtain strong misgivings, aon, that aomchov won t be stilled; There’s something tell* me plain as words that yon, ■rarlte all your wit. Have erred in marking out your course, and you’ll repent ot it. “ The time will come when you will sigh ‘had I but only known Whit I do now, the good old farm, with all its hills and itone. Would not have driven me away to find, when hope is deati. That Fame dees not bestow her wreath on any sort of head.’ “I’m talking plainly, that I know, but, Beuben, mind you this, That Fame’s a far-off target that a million marksmen mi* a. Then, some fine day a shot is heard that rings throughout the land, • And Genius pops the bu.i’s-eye, square, with steady eye and hand. “You may turn out a genius, I r’sly hope you will; You know Fame's temple crowns the top of an enormous hill, . , And tens of thousands bound that wsy, with resolution stiff, Have found their way completely blocked by a stupendous ' If.’ “ This 4 lf’ is very hard to climb —it seems to touoh tee moon . Montgolfier went over In his primeval balloon—liut all a:ong the way this side you’ll hear tee dreary moans Of the 4 ri'irig’ Smith and Jenkins, and the ‘gifted’ Brown and Jones. “Now, Beuben, when you reach that ‘IF you’ll show good judgment, son, By striking cross-lots for the farm and homefolkson a run; Stay there and toil as I have done, and you may get to be A deacon in the church, perhaps, or, may be, a school trustee. “‘All that be blowedl’ Well, go your way, you’ll have mv earnest prayers; We’ll always keep in order, son, your oozy bed up stairs, ✓ For yih m»y yet return, convinced that wreaths of Fame are rare. And ttiat your old straw bat best suits the color of your hair.” —Detroit Fr<e Frees.

A FAIRY GODMOTHER.

Madame Dupont, wrappod in a loose robe of some gray material, a faded cashmere shawl partly covering her, lay on the lounge before tho bay-window that formed almost the entire front of her tiny cottage. Her large black eyes, their brightness somewhat dimmed by her long sickness, dwelt with dreamy Eleasure on the landscape spread before er.

It was a very common landscape, such as can be seen in any country place on any summer day—only a broad field, white with daisies, among which two or three brown cows patiently sought for tender blades of grass, with one tall, stout tree standing midway, solitary and sione, and a background of dense, tangled brushwood. To oareless eyes, scarce werth a careless glance; but to hers, so long shut out from sight of earth and sky, a scene most beautiful. The slender, white, wrinkled hands folded upon her breast were yet too weak to hold even one of her beloved bo«ks, and the small feet still lacked sufficient strength to sustain the frail body. But—thank Heaven—the cruel pain had gone, and in its stead had come a blissful rest.

All through the fickle months of spring, taking no heed whether they smil dor wept, she had never raised her weary head from the pillow. And the snow-drops and crocuses and scillse and hyacinths and tulips had grown and budded and bloomed in her little garden, and she, who had hoped to watch them grow from the first green leaf to the perfeot blossom, had only seen the few Viola had plu-ked and brought to her bedside, where, seen through a cloud of suffering, a shadow had fallen upon their beauty, And now it was the heart of June and the ros s, gay in every shade of pink, olimbing about the window, looked in, and entreated her to come out. But no ; she could not hope to walk again among her flowers until the roses had faded and the lilies had begun to reign. And perhaps even this hope would not have been hers had it not been for the love and care and cheering words of Viola, the eldest daughter of the many daughters at the big farm house. Kite, the strong, rough, Irish servant maid, was kind and faithful in her way ; but hers was money service, and, left to it alone, she might have died ; but Viola served for love (she h id loved the pretty old madame since first they met), and love brings faith and hope and patience, and many other beautiful things For weeks the young girl came morn, noon and eve, to Btay an hour each time, and her visits were the only gleams of brightness that lighted that dark room. And many the wee loaf of whitest bread, and golden pat of butter an l drink of sw’et rich milk, and fresh-laid, pinktinted egg, she brought to tempt the languid appetite; and many the song she sang, soft and low, to woo for the sick woman the angel of sleep. And yet not only were they neither kith nor kin, but she knew naught of Madame Dupont save that she had built the fourroomed cottage the preceding spring, aud had lived there since the last Juiy in the humblest way There was a large family at the farm house, and much work to be done—hard, unlovely work, the very thought of which often male the young girl, waking in the gray morning from pleasant dreams, clasp her hands and cry out, “Is Ibis to be my life forever?” Aid had it not been for the glimpse of beauty she caught about her home —the far-off river gleaming in the sunlight or moonlight, the orchard trees white with blossoms in spring, and laden with fruit m summer and autumn, the shady woods where countless shy wild flowers hid from the glare of the world, the songs of the happy birds, and the grand sunset behind the distant hills —she would have been heart-weary indeed. For she loved everything beautiful. And especially did she love music with all the tenderness of a creator, as Madame discovered one day—the day they fi st saw each other, in fact, when Viola, coming on an errand to the cott ige, stopped entranced on the threshold of the door to listen to the plaintive melody in a minor key, feeble but beautifully played on the old-fashioned upright piano. “You love music?” said madame, turning slowly and confronting her. “With all my heart,” answered the girl, the vivid blush that was ever ready to appear flushing her sweet young face.

“ Yon play? ” “A little—a very little; bnt I have had no piano for three years—since my own mother died.” “ Let me hear you.” "Oh, madame, I dare not try after you.” But the old lady rose and gently led her to the instrument. There were two or three keys entirely dumb, and the rest were not in pe feet tune; but the spirit of music so guided the long slen der fingers that they reproduced the minor melody madame had played, so daintily enwrapped in bird-like trills and rippling ruus that she, in turn, stood entranced. “ After me, indeed !” she sad, as the f'irl struck the last chord. “I had to earn, bat you—i*, is part of you. And you have no piano ? Ah, that is sad. Could I give yon mine, it should be yours. But it belonged to my dear husband, who died twenty years ago, and I could not bear to part with it. He was a Frenchman and a professor of music. I was an American girl and one of his pupils. When I married him I helped him teach others, and so came to be called * madame. ’ We loved each other very much._ But I’shall be glad, my dear—Very glad—to have you come here and play as often as you will.” “Could I come as often as I would,” said the girl, with a bright smile, “ I’m afraid I should soon tire you. But I will come as often as X can. And oh, madame*—suddenly kissing the soft,

wrinkled cheek—'“ I cannot tell you how much I thank yon »” But the “often” proved very seldom, (or some of the summer boarders staid until the end of October; and the butter had to be churned, and the fruit canned, and the younger sisters to be prepared each day for school, and the twin boys—nothing to speak of in point of years, but perfect Methuselahs m mischief—to be looked after from morning until night, and winter wardrobes to be made, and a thousand and one other things to be done. And then madame fell sick, and all the time Viola oould spare she spent at her bedside. *'Time that had much better be spent at home,” scolded her step mother; “ for there’s a servant there, and one servant’s enough to take care of two such houses as that, and their mistresses, too, sick or well. I have no servant.” “ You have me,” Viola might have replied, “and no servant ever worked harder or for less wages;” bnt «h« set her lips firmly together and said nothing. Bnt she rose earner than ever thereafter, that she might not leave undone the slightest of her tasks, and thus merit no reproach for the few hours each day she gave her dear old friend. And now madame was getting well, and, with the help of her strong servant-maid, could go from room to room; but she was best satisfied as yet to he in the wee parlor on the lounge before the big window.

And here Viola made her appearance the day the roses were beckoning, with a merry greeting and a dish of luscious red strawberries smothered in cream; but in spite of the merry greeting there was a hint of a shadow on her bonny face that did not escape madame’s keen black eyes. “ Tell me about it, my dear,” she said, in her sweet, trembling voice. Viola knelt beside her. “ You must be a fairy, madame,” she said; “for none but a fairy could have guessed that I was a little sorry to-day. And for such a trifling cause I’m ashamed to speak of it.” But, the old lady insisting with gentle persistence, she began: “It is a ball I would like to go to, but cannot. I have never been to a ball, and this one—you remember the young lady who boarded at our house last summer, with her father and sister—” “And brother,” suggested madame. “And brother,” repeated Violv, never lowering her frank blue eyes, but blushing from the tip of her round chin to the curls shading her low fair brow. “Well, she and I were good friends then, but I never dreamed sue would remember me after she went away, for be —she, I mean—is rich, and I am poor, and our ways in life lie very, very far apart. But she has not forgotten me. See, madame, here is an invitation to a ball to be given on her 19th birthday at her aunt’s house, only a few miles away. And —and her brother signs it too. He writes a handsome haud, does he not, madame ? ” “A strong, handsome hand, my dear, and he is a handsome, manly fellow. I do not forget the messages he used to bring me from you and deliver with such oourtly grace. You must go to the ball.” “Oh, madame, it is impossible. I could not go if it was the simplest of parties, and it is to be a fancy dress. I nave nothing to wear. You know the crops failed last year on account of the drought? But what folly for me to let so slight a thing distress me for a moment, when all at home have strength and you are fast getting well. ” “For which we should be—and no doubt wo are—devoutly thankful,” said the old lady, “aud all the more reason why you should go to the ball. You said just how I must be a fairy. I’ll prove my right to the title by being a fairy god-mother. You did not kuow that my name was Violet. Take the key that yon will find under the clock on the mantel, and open the ottoman standing yonder.” “ Open the ottoman, madame? ” “ Yes; it is simply a chest in disguise, and in it lies your bail dress.” The lid of tho disguised chest was raised, a long box lifted out and opened. An exclamation of delight burst from Viola’s lips. There lay a satin dress of creamy whiteness. It unfolded into a miracle of old-fashioned loveliness. Purple violets were scattered here and there upon the scant skirt, as though dropped from some careless hand, and the puffed sleeves and shorl waist were made of a wealth of amber-hued lace. And then came a large, quaint fan of sandal-wood and peacock feathers, a necklace of pearls, a high tortoise-shell comb and a pair of satin shoes with low, flat heels and queer pointed toes. "But you never mean that I should wear these, madame ? ” said Viola. “That Ido, most surely,”said madame gayly. “I wore them, child, many years ago. And now another Violet needs them. There is fate in it. And I will put a spell upon them ; and—who knows ?—they may help you win a true lover, as they did me.” “ But the shoes, madame—they are too small I’m sure.” “ Try them, my dear.” Viola slipped one on. “It binds across the instep,” said she “Just take the scissors and cut it, then.” “ Oh, madame, I know it would spoil it.” “Doas I bid you. Fairy godmother must be obeyed. Now take the rosettes still remaining in the box, and fasten one over each shoe to hide the damage done.” And, with the beautiful rosettes of satin and lace, with a “ V " encircled in seed-pearl in the center of each, hiding the gaps the scissors had made, the toilet was complete. And so Viola went to the ball, not in a fine carriage drawn by prancing steeds, but in her father’s covered wagon, behind the old farm horse. But when she appeared in the brilliantly-lighted room it was rather late, for the old horse traveled slowly—the creamy-white satin dress clinging to her slight, graceful figure, her pearls clustering around her smooth throat, her golden hair wound about the tortoise-shell comb, her dimpled arms and shoulders just showing through the ancient lace, her innocent blue eyes looking shyly over the quaint fan, ayd her feet clad in the pointed shoes, half hidden by the gay rosettes—the gay crowd felt, some of them (the fair maidens these), with bitter envy,that an unknown Princess of beauty was among them. And the Prince of the reigning house quickly followed his sister to welcome her, leaving a Night with diamond stars to sparkle for some more faithful worshiper. And again and again he and the unknown Princess danced together until nearly daybreak, when, a servant summoning her hastily—foi* the farmer father was tired of waiting—she flew to the dressing-room, and, one of the rosettes bursting from its fastening on the way, away went the shoe it had helped to hold in its place, down, down through the well of the winding stair-case, to regions far below.

And Viola, hawing the enohantment of the night still strong upon her, never missed it, but, hastily drawing on her stoat boots, ran to the old wagon, jumped in and drove away in the dim first of moruing from the Prince and fairy land. But when she awoke from the deep sleep into which she sank as soon as she reached her home—the sun was then on its westward way—she discovered her loss, and, while she was bewailing it, the Prince rang at the door. “I have found a slipper, or shoe, or something of the bind, ’ he said, taking it from the breast pocket of his furtrimmed coat; “and as it will not fit either of my sisters, or my cousins, or auy of my lady friends who with them bide, I thought it might fit you/’ “it does not really/’ said truthful

Viola, with her lovely blush. “ I could Hot have worn it had it not been oat open at the instep—l have not an aristocratic foot—and that is how, the stitches that held the friendly rosette giving way, I came to lose it.” “ That I—thank fortune I—might find it And now, Viola dearest—” Bat what need of saying more ? Yen can all end the story yourselves, I am sure, even to guessing that madame lived to be 100 years old, and that never was fairy godmother so loved and petted as she. —Harpers Weekly.

MISSISSIPPI FLOODS.

Lieut. CL B. Satteblee, who was spedsßy detailed to go through the overflowed districts in the vicinity of Arkansas City, has examined the Arkansas and White rivers and points sooth of the Arkansas. He reports that nineteen* twentieths of the country is under water, and a considerable portion of the colored population is in destitute dreams* anoea. L<ent 8 utter lee estimates that fully 3,600 people have no means of subsistence. The Biate authorities are doing nothing to alleviate the Buffering, trusting to the sufficiency of the Government bounty. There will be little or no stock left in the flooded district. A gentleman who made the trip from Vloksburg to Yazoo City reports the condition of the inland districts as bad or worse than reported. Sunflower, Laflore, Bolivar, Coahoma, Tallahatchie and Tunica counties are entirely under water. Issaquena, Yazoo. Holmes and Washington connties are about one-half and Warren county about one-quarter so. The total population of these, by tie last census, was J 62.442, and of these at least 100,(XX) are colored laborers made absolutely destitute by the flood, and who must be supported by outside contributions until the river falls and work is resumed. The region south of Memphis is swarming with l nff«io-gnats, which are killing what little stock was saved from drowning. One result of the overflow has been to prove to the satisfaction of the natives that the levee system is a failure. Millions of money may be spent tn repairing the damage already done, Dut, in the opinion of tbe knowing ones, it will be thrown away. Reports received at the War Department in Washington estimate that there are 80,000 destitute sufferers m the flooded regions between Cairo, IQ., and the Gulf of Mexico. It is beUeved that an appropriation of $1,000,000 by Congress will be required before those people oan again become self-supporting.

In the Louisiana Sugar Region—A Discouraging Picture of Ruin and Desolation. [Baton Rouge Telegram to Chicago Times.] Your correspondent has been drifting down the great river for more than a week, and reached Baton Rouge to-night There is a sameness about the speotacle, but it does not grow tiresome. Something is constantly arising to relieve the monotony of overmuch desolation. Villages, settlements, plantations and corrals of cabins are to be seen every few miles along the banks, half under water. Bulldtugs on ground forty feet above the river at low water can scarcely be seen now, the flood having enveloped them. Great steamers drawing ten feet of water plow across bars and banks the tops of which could be seen from the pilot-houses in summer time. The inhabitants of the submerged settlements cling to their homes with tenacity and desperation, determined not to go as long as there is a plank left to float on. At every landing rerfu pees from the interior are taken on board. Tueir recitals are distressing in the extrema Many say they are ruined, and that they will never return.' Otherspcurse their luck, but say they will try it again. At Natchez the river is only twenty-five miles wide, narrower than at any point south of Columbus, Ky. The effoots of the big breaks about Mllliken’s bend are felt for seventy-live miles down the nver. and near Vidalia, opposite Natchez, other crevasses let tbe water through ou the land further down. For twenty miles north and south of the month of Red river the spectacle is even more appalling than at the mouths of the Arkansas and St. Francis rivers.

Here the damage is very great, not only to stock and machinery, but the growing crops as well. It takes three years to make a sugar crop, and an overflow means Its entire ruin. That is what has come upon the distrust described. Tbe water is by no meaus confined to tbe limits pointed out, but that is as far as the writer has been able to reach by personal observations and inquiry. The lower delta of the Mississippi, from Baton Rouge south, is all bottom or flat laud. The river at Baton Rouge has an elevation of less than fifty feet above the 6ea-level, and wat- r emptied in upon tbe land below that point would sc&roely know whether to run up niff or down, unless pushed by a power behind. The force of the volume coming up behind is all that keeps the drift moving toward the gulf, and the motion is oftentimes scarcely perceptible. The sluggishness of tho lower waters is the reason why the drainage of the upper river is not more rapid, and explains why the river is so much slower falling than it is rising. The basiu is full, and the incline is so very slight that the water merely dribbles out over the top, where the crops are m the ground in Arkansas, Mississippi and Upper Louisiana. The lower parishes will still be inundated. FEARS FOB THE FUTURE—WHAT WILL FOLLOW THE FLnOD. Daily contemplation has robbed the flood of many of the hortors that appalled the residents in the early stages of the deluge, and the people are already laying plans for the future and determining what they will do when the waters subside. What will be the result of it all ? is the question the Times correspondent has been asking everybody with whom he has been in contact whose views were worth liaviug. Will the planters lie down, or will they raise a cotton crop this year in spite of tho calamity that has visited them? In many instanoos the repfy is that the country is ruined, and that nothing remains to do but move out aud abandou the fight. The cooler-headed aud more thoughtful men talk differently, aud are not so cast down. They look the catastrophe squarely in the face and oanvass the situation logically! As long ago as last July, the banks of New Orleans, 8t Louis and Now York ent down their lines of discount with the Mississippi valley and other ootton-raising districts about one third. Borrowers in the overflowed stations may look for a still further drawing of not less th an 20 per cent., making & curtailment of at least 60 per cent on their borrowing leverage in nine months. Beside this, many are disposed to anticipate an entire failure of this year’s crop. Thousands and tens of thousands of hr.ad of stock have been entirely destroyed, and fences and buildings aud farm machinery washed away or ruined by tne wholesale. That is the bleak and discouraging side of the picture. There is another and brighter side. Unle s there should be acontinuation of the extraordinary and .protracted rainfall that oooasioned the flood the water at and below Cairo will pass away by tho Ist of May, leaving the land m splendid condition for planting. It is an established fact that cotton on overflowed land will require a full mouth less time to mature than that planted on drv land. The sediment left by the receding water imparts a marvelous germinating force to the soil, and vegetation advunoes with astonishing rapidity. The water leaves the land in splendid condition for cultivation, aud but 50 per cent, of tho labor usually required to plant a crop will be needed this spring for the wore. There is the best authority for the statement that cotton and corn planted on overflowed land aboHt the middle of May will yirld a tine crop, unless something unusual should arise to prevent its natural development, It will be soen that the situation, while full of discouraging features, is by no means desperate. The river country has amazing recuperative power, and a good crop will go far toward repairing the damage resulting from the flood and restoring the credit of the landowners and producing classes.

The Stupid Joke.

A napkin ring—Ring what?—Exchange. The above is the style of a joke that is making our beloved land the corral for a vast herd of idiots, who onght to be poisoned and thrown into the moaning sea. The class of facetious individuals who do not know enough to die of remorse is gradually inoreaSing. The country is cursed at present with a vast epidemic of this kind of mirth that makes perdition yawn. Most any kind of a criminal can be brained with a piano leg and thrown into the yielding bosom of a cranberry marsh, but how are you going to brain a man with a head like a peanut, and who don’t know a wedgewood joke from a moss-covered sarcophagus? How are yon going to brain a lardy-da man who ever knew what a brain was ? How can yon knock a poor worm of the dust senseless when he hasn’t been any other way since he was born? About the only way we see is to drain Lake Superior and then collect these gibbering idiots in the deepest place, spread about four acres of boiler iron over them, and then left the water back nto the lake.— Nye'ft Boomerang. He who tnrns against one who has done him personal favors and oft befriended him is worse than the one turned against, no matter how bad the latter may be. No patent required to catch the rheumatism. A cold and inattention to it, and yon have it—the rheumatism. We cure ours with St. Jacobs Qil«— Chicago Inter Ocean.

An Ex-Consul's Story.

to the Editor of the Brooklyn Bag le i A late United States Consul at one of the •Rnpliab inland ports, who is now a private resident of New York, relates the following interesting story. He objects, for private reasons, to having his name published, but authorize* the writer to substantiate his statement, and, if necessary, to refer to bimj in his private capacity, any person seeking such reference. Deferring to his wishes, I hereby present his statement in almost the exact language in whioh he gave it to me. C. M. Farmer, 1690 Third avenue, New York. “ On my last voyage home from England, some three years ago, in one of the Canard steamers, I noticed one morning, after s few days out of port, a young man hobbling about on the upper deck, supported by crutches and seeming to move with extreme difficulty and no little pain. He was well dressed and ot exceedingly-handsome countenance, but his limbs were somewhat emaciated and his face very sallow and bore the traces of long suffering. As he seemed to have no attendant or companion, he at onoe attracted my sympathies, and I went up to him as he leaned against the taffrail looking the foaming track which the steamer was making. “ ‘Excuse me, my young friend,’ I said, touching him gently on the Bhoulder, 4 you appear to be an invalid and hardly able oi strong enough to trust yourself unattended on nn ooean voyage ; but if you require any assistance I am a robust and healthy man and shall be glad to help yon.’ “ 4 You are very kind,’he replied, in a weak voice, ‘ but I require no present aid beyond my crutches, which enable me to pass from my stateroom up here to get the benefit oi the sunshine and the sea breeze. ’ “ 4 You have been a great sufferer.no doubt,' I said, * and I judge that you have been afflicted with that most troublesome disease—rheumatism, whose prevalence and intensity seem to be on an alarming increase both in England and America.’ 44 4 You are right,’ he answered; 4 1 have beeti its victim for more than a year, and, after failing to find relief from medical skill, have lately tried the Springs of Carlsbad and Vichy. But they have done me no good, and I am now on my return home to Missouri to die, I suppose. I shall be content if life is spared to me to reach my mother’s presence. She is a widow and lam hei only child. 4

“There was a pathos in this speech which affected me profoundly and awakened in me a deeper sympathy than I had felt before. I had no words to answer him, and stood silently beside him watching the snowy wake of the ship. While thqs standing my thoughts reverted to a child—a 10-year-old boy—of a neighbor of mine residing near my consulate residenoe, who had been oured of a stubborn case of rheumatism by the use of St. Jacobs Oil, and I remembered that the steward of the ship had told me the day before that he had oured himself of a very severe attack of the gont in New York just before his last voyage by the use of the same remedy. I at onoe left my young friend and went below to find the steward. I not only found him off duty, but discovered that he had a bottle of the" Oil in his locker, which he had carried across the ocean in case of another attack. He readily parted with it on my representation,and, hurrying up again, I soon persuaded the young man to allow me to take him to his berth and apply the remedy. After doing so I covered him up snugly’ in bed and requested him not to get up until I should see aim again. That evening I returned to his stateroom and found him sleeping peacefully and breathing gently. I roused him and inquired how he felt. 4 Like a new man, ’ he answered, with a grateful smile. 4 1 feel no pain and am able to stretch my limbs without difficulty. I think I’ll get up.’ 4 No, don’t get up to-night,’ I said, ‘but let me rub you again with the Oil, and in the morning ypu will be able to go above.’ ‘All right, he said, laughing. ”l then applied the Oil again, rubbing his knees, ankles and arms thoroughly, until he said he felt as if he had a mustard poultice all over his body. I then left him. The next morning when I went upon deck for a breezy promenade, according to my custom, I found my patient waiting for me with a smiling face, and without his crutches, although he limped in his movements, but without pain. I don’t think I ever felt so happy in my life. To make a long story short, I attended him closely during the rest of the voyage—some four days—applving the Oil every night, and guarding him against too much exposure to the fresh and damp breezes, and, on landing at New York, he was able, without assistance, to mount the hotel omnibus, and go to the Astor House. I called on him two days later, and found him actually engaged in packing his trunk, preparatory to starring West for his home that evening. With a bright and grateful smile he welcomed me, and. pointing to a little box carefully done up in thick brown paper, which stood upon the table, he said: 4 My good friend, can you guess what that is ?’ ‘A. present for your sweetheart,’ I answered. ‘No,’ he laughed — 4 that is a dozen bottles of St. Jacobs Oil, w'hich I have just purchased from Hudnut, the druggist, across the way, and I am taking them home to show my good mother what has saved her son’s life and restored him to her in health. And with it I would like to carry you along also, to show her the face of him, without whom, I should probably never have tried it. If yon should ever visit the little village of Sedalia, in Missouri, Charlie Tow nsend and his mother will welcome you to their little home, with hearts full of gratitude, and they will show you a bottle of St. Jacobs Oil enshrined in a silver and gold casket, which we shall keep as a parlor ornament as well as a memento of our meeting ou the Cuuard steamer.' “ We parted, after an hour’s pleasant chat, with mutual good will and esteem, and a few weeks afterward I received a letter from him telling mo be was in perfect health and Containing many graceful expressions of his affectionate regards.” —Brooklyn Eagle.

The Case of Cadet Whittaker.

Washington, March 22. At a Cabinet meeting yesterday tbe case of Cadet Wiiittaker was disposed of by disapproving tho sentence of dismissal from the service imposed by the court, on the ground that technical evidence taken at the trial was improperly introduced. The record of the court-martial of Cadet Whittaker will be made publio to-morrow through special orders of the Secretary of War. These orders will eet aside the verdict and sentence of the court-martial, on account of certain irregularities and informalities in taking evidence, and will release Whittaker from arrest. At the same time they will dismiss him from the Military Academy under tbe provision of section 1,325 of the Revised Statutes relating to the discharge of cadets if found deficient in studies. The action of the President in the case is based upon an opinion by Attorney General Brewster, to whom the Secretary of War referred-the report of the Judge Advocate General that improper evidence had been admitted in tho W litfoker trial. Mb. Samuel Dedron, of Loveland, Ohio, writes :“ I think 1 have cause to be glad. Afflicted for years with painful kidney troubles and chromic dyspepsia, 1 was induced to give Dr. Guysott’s Yoilow Dock and Sarsaparilla a trial. The very first dose seemed to reach the right spot I don’t know what a back-ache or sour stomach now is.” The novelist who wrote, “She took his haud ; it was cold and clammy like that of a serpent,” subsequently said : “He is the right arm of the minister, and that important personage has no eyes of his own, but looks only through has right arm.”

The Tide of Immigration.

New Yoke, March 22. The immigration of Italians is greater than ever before known. Within two days 1,670 have landed bere, and large numbers are on their way. Of other nationalities now arriving the German takes the lead. Since Jan. 1 nearly all of this class have been farmers with means. There is every prospect that, 'unprecedentedly large as the grand total of immigration was last year, it will be eclipsed by the figures of 1882. The records of the past two and a half months show this to be a fact. Since January last year the arrivals were 8,082; thiß year, 11,042 ; February, 1881, 0763 ; this year, 16,752; twentv days of March, K5Bl, 11,996; this year, 16,682; total three months last year, 29,881; totnl thus far this year, 43 676 ; increase, 13,795. The total for the month of March last was 27,708. It is expected this year it will be 40,000 at least This will make an increase of nearly 60 per cent for the first quarter, and, if it continues in the same proportion daring the remainder of the year, the population of the United States wall have been swelled nearly 650.000 bv people from the Old World 3 A dootoh at Richmond says that if people will take a bath in hot whisky and rock salt twice a year they will never catch a Cold. Until somebody baa tried this new remedy stick to the old reliable Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup.

SOMEBODY’S CHILD.

Somebody’s child is dying—dying with the flash at hope oa hu young fsoe, end somebody’s mother tlimiting of the time when that dear face will be indaeu where no ray or hope can brighten It—because there was no cure tor consumption. Reader, if the child be your neighbor’s, take this comforting word to the mother’s heart before it is too late. Tell her that consumption is curable j that men are bring to-day whom the physicians pronounced incurable, because one long bad been almost destroyed by the disease. Dr. Pierce’s “Goldmi Medical Discovery ” has oared hundreds: surpasses cod liver oil, hypophosphites and other medicines in caring this disease Sold by druggists.

Down in Florida.

The St. John’s River is a queer river, says a Florida correspondent. It is about 150 miles long, from four to ten miles wide, and averages about a foot deep. In the center, of course, the channel gets to be quite deep. Sometimes it has a depth of forty feet. Its current runs about a mile a day. I presume it would take about 150 days for a oork to float from the source of the St, John’s to its mouth. It is salt for fifty miks from its mouth, and brackish for 100 miles. It is full of shad, cattish, frogs, toads, eels, alligators, and cawi-fishes. I don’t know of any fish or reptile that don’t live in the St. John’s River. “ Call this a river ?” I said to an old alligator killer who was fishing for catfish off the pier at Palatka. “Why, it’s a great bay.' It’s no more a river than Lake Erie is. Lake Erie runs faster than the St. John’s River.”

“Thar you’s wroDg agen, stranger. She’s neither a river nor a bay; she’s a cow pasture. Don’t you see the cows standing all over the river?” That man was right. All the cows in Florida seemed to congregate in the St. John’s. There they stood in the water all day long, slashing the mosquitoes with their tails, while their heads are under water eating grass. It is a strange thing, indeed, to see droves of cattle feeding along a liver with their heads under the water. They look like a lot of 6attle without heads. They will put even their horns and ears under when the grass lays deep, §,nd keep them under sometimes two minutes. They get to be as amphibious as the orocodile. A submarine cow pasture is an institution enjoyed by the State of Florida.

TRUTH IS MIGHTY,

When Dr. Plcroe, of Buffalo, N. Y., announced that bis “Favorite Prescription” would positively cure the many diseases and weaknesses peonliar to women, some donbted and continued to employ the harsh and canstic heal treatment But the mighty truth gradnally became acknowledged. Thousands of ladles employed the “Favorite Proscription” and were speedily oured. By druggists.

Drinking in “Hood Society.”

A column in a Philadelphia paper headed “In Good Society,’' divulges the following: “The praotioe of drinking is more common among women than it was a year ago. The number of young unmarried ladies who drink wine with gentlemen is increasing, and, strange as it may appear, the effectual protection against over indulgence by young unmarried ladies upon which society de?ands, is the honor of the gentleman. oung ladies seldom are able to judge how much wine they onght to drink, and some wines have more intoxioating effeot than others. A gentleman who would persuade or deceive a lady into drinking more wine than was good for hex woidd be almost sure to forfeit her •esteem ever afterward, and in any event would incur the strongest displeasure of her relatives if they found it out. This is one of the reasons why, sometimes in taking a young lady heme, the gentleman has the driver to go a mile or so our of the way in order to get a little fresh air. Where there is dancing it is considered indiscreet to drink early in she evening, since if the lady falls by accident or has many oollisions she is sure to be accused of ‘taking too muoh,’as they say. For that reason drinking is usually deferred until after the danoing.”

FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.

Among scientific men who have made longevity a study it is almost unanimously agreed that it fruit and vegetable diet is conducive to long life and perfect health. And it is among vhe vegetable kingdom that we find our principal means of restoring health to the invalid, and strength to the weak. In olden times, when centenarians were common, and men of 60 years of age were considered youthful, lierb doctors were the only physicians. Dr. Guysott’s Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla, with tae exception of one uigredivut, and taat is iron, is strictly a vegetable compound, and is not injurious to the most deacute invalid. Its effect on the general system is most wonderful. It gives real strength to every p:<rt o. tue bo ly, and its soothing effect in quieting cue brain and nervous system is most remaikabie. Its principal ingredients are Yellow Dock, Sarsaparilla. Jumper, Iron, ffuobu, Celery ana Calisaya Bara. Where the disease is of an exhaustive nature, it quicklv checks all decay. In cases of dyspepsia it does not act as a severe cathartic, but gives real streugth to the digestive organs, and thus permanently cures this distressful disease.

Girls A fishing.

“ Oh, I see one 1” ** Where ?” “O, my, so he is 1” - “ Let’s catoh him 1” “ Who’s got the bait?” “ You lazy thing, your sitting on my pole!” “Oh, something's got my hook!” “Pull up, yon little idiot I” “ Oh, murder ! take it away. Ugh ! take it away, the nasty thing l” “ How will it ever get off ?” “ Ain’t it pretty ?” “ Wonder if it ain’t dry ?” “Poor little thing! let’s put it back again !” “ How will it get the hook from it’s mouth ¥’

Deathful Diabetes.

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If we were provided with a sense of smell as acute as many animals possess, it would probabiy lie a great aid m diagnosis, for there are some diseases that are accompanied by a definite odor, and possibly all are, to some extent. Apk your cirug* ist for “Dr. B>kos’ Sure Cure for Oularrb.” Don’t take siiy other. A Fbench manufacture claims the diaeovery of making use of leaves of the eucalyptus tree as a substitute for tobacco leaves in cigars. The eucalyptus leaves emit a delicious odor in bnruiug. Dr the bowels ore sluggish and the liver torpid use Kidney-Wort. *~.~ T One-third of France is owned in large estates, one third in estates of moderate size, and only one-third by the peasants.

D! BULLS COUGH SYRUP

Ik the core of severe coughs, weak longs, •pitting of blood, and the early stages of OontuuipHon, Dr. Pierce’s “Gulden Medial Discovery ” has astonished ;he medical faculty. While it cores the severest ooghs, it strengthens the system and purifies the blood. By druggists. A drunken man lay half a day in * gutter unarrested in Springfield, Mass., begums his big dog stood guard over him, growling and biting at everybody who earns near.

On Thirty Day' Trial.

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Quick Consumption.

Elm Halt., Mica., Dec. 2,188 L Piso’s Cure has been a great friend to me. I have used it in my fanuly for eight years. When I first heard of it 1 was in the last stage of quick consumption and was ready to die. Auer taking one bottle 1 was able to work, and am now entirely well. Jeremiah Harrington.

“Buchupaiba."

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