Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 23 August 1889 — Page 2

THE REPUBLICAN.

Published by

W. S. MONTGOMERY.

GREENFIELD. INDIA5A

ONE OPIUM-EATER CURED.

But It Took a Term in Sing Singr and Endless Agony to Do It. A confirmed opium-smoker was recently asked, says the New York Sun, whether he ever knew a person who had been cured of the habit "Only once," he replied, "and then it wasn't a voluntary cure by any moans. He was a man about 85 years old, who had been a slave to the habit for fifteen years. He was so given up to it that his business went to smash and he used to resort to a^l manner of things in order to get money to purchase a 'shell.1 Housed to crave eight shells or $2 worth of opium a day, and I have frequently met him in a joint that was run by two tough Chinamen on Marlon street offering to roll for "smokers ill Orflcr to share their opium. One day he had been without a smoke for about seven hours, and lie became

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desperate that he tried to rob the till in a grocery store. He was detected a,nil arrested. lie got word down to the joint telling of his misfortune, and begging for God's sake that sonibody would send him some opium. I bought some dry opium pills and got them in to him after a deal of trouble. The next day I called on him, and a more miserable wretch I never saw. lie was doubled up with cramps in the stomach, and the inevitable pain batween the shoulders, which feels as though, somebody was driving spikes into your flesh, was racking him. These tortures were joined to severe pains in all the joints, as though the limbs were decaying and would soon drop off. lie had been without opium so long that lie was fairly famishing, and the small quantity of the drii2' 1 had been able tc send was disposed of in short order. "There isn't a taste of it left,' ho yelled to me as I entered his cell in the Tombs. Then lie rolled his tongue around as though searching for any small particles that might- be hidden away in a tooth. 1 gave him the pills I had brought. He seized them like a •starving man would seize a crust of bread. He placed two of them in his mouth and rolled them around until they had dissolved and then washed them down with a mouthful of water. In a few minutes he was lying on his cot as placid and happy as a healthy baby. I kept him supplied with opium nntil he was tried and sentenced. I managed to slip a few of them into his hand as he was on his way to Sing Sing. I heard no more of him and forgot all about him until one day on f'~ roadway, several years later, .a stalwart, rosy-cheeked fellow slapped me on the shoulder and heartily shook me by the hand. I was nearly surprised into a fit when he explained that he was the opium fiend of a few years ago. He said that when lie got to Sing Sing the habit was on him very strong. The pills 1 had given him had crumbled to dust in his pocket and had become so mixed up with a lot of other stuff that' he could not use them. He was in a raging torment that night and cried for the drug. The keepers found him, and the prison physician who wad called fortunately diagnosed the case correctly. It wasn't oiueli credit to him, however, for every feature of the man's face and every motion of his body almost proclaimed him an opium liend. He was removed to the hospital and the physician was kinu enough to get interested in the case. He braced him up with hypodermic injections of morphine every time the craving came on, and by a liberal use of this drug linally wore away the desire for the other. Of course this treatment created the morphine habit, but this was more rc:idiiy cured and my friend soon lost all desire for drugs oT any kind, and is a prosperous, happy man to-J: y. if he had not been arrested lis ouid certainly have gone the way of all the fiends, and have ended his life himself or died miserably in some hole. He tried to reason the case with ine in hopes that I would surrender the drug and endure the agonies that such a privation would produce for the pleasures attending the feeling that 1 was no longer a slave to it. I have heard all of those arguments a thousand times and frequently I have lain in a joint with another smoker and we have both sworn off and the very next day we would both be in the same place again.

I am getting worse every year. The habit is growing more expensive and the longer I am o,t it the less disposed do I feel for work of any kind. My memory is failing me now and I atn already pretty well along on the downward road. I'll go a little further down and then good-by to everything."

POPULAR SCI BACK.

Waxed paper bags area new idea for holding coflee, fruit, confections, etc. They are also useful for packing furs and woolens away from moths, the paraffine coating rendering them both air and water tight.

An antiseptic whiting has recently been introduced and is recommended by the makers for hospitals, ships, stables, kennels, and so forth, in order to keep them free fiom insects. Th compound, which appears to contain some camphor, is also useful for cleaning silver plate and articles of domestic

use. The aroma is said to be not unpleasant, while the compound is nonpoisonous and will not injure colors.

A self-counter sinking .screw is a novelty. It is simply fitted with cutting teeth on the under side or bevel of the head, which cut into the wood as the scxew is driven home, thus enabling the head to counter sink itself. The channels and the teeth are both wider as they near the top of the head, thereby allowing the sawdust to escape.

In answer to the question as to the best means of bluing steei the American Machinist saye: "The best process will depend upon the nature of the pric^J to be blued and the object of the bluing. It is usually done by heat, and if the pieces are small enough to admit of it they can be put into an iron vessel containing sand and heated, while at the same time the vessel ia kept in motion in order to keep the heat evenly distributed throughout. If the pieces are too large for this they may be heated uniformly by Buneen burners or upon a heated plate, until the desired color is produced, The high©* twS finish the brighter the color will bet's

The following mixture has been used with the greatest possible success for the cementing of iron railing tops iron gratings to stoves, etc., in fact, with such fleet, as to resist the blows of a sledge-hemmer: This mixture is composed of equal parts ol sulphur and white lead, with about one sixth proportion of borax, the three being thoroughly incorporated together so as to form one homogeneous mass. When the application is to be made of this composition it is wet with strong sulphuric acid and a thin layer of it is placed between the two pieces of iron, these being at once pressed together. In five days it will be perh ctly dry, ail traces of the cement having every appearance of welding.

MEXICO'S WHITE HOUSE.

The Magnificent Pile of Marble That Maximilian Once Occupied.

President Diaz has moved his official residence out to the eaetle of Chapultepec, says a Mexico letter to the Omaha Bee, which becomes once more —for the first tims since the unlucky Maximilian and his charming wife lived there—the '"white house" ol Mexico. Chapuitepec is one of the loveliest spots imaginable. It is unique in itself as weil as in its name —"The Ilill of the Grasshopper."

Montezuma made his summer-housw here, and an underground passage still in existence was made, by his direction, to a point in the valley below, so that the Aztec chieftain could go and come as he pleased. Under the old cypress trees in the park the conqueror Cortez pitched his tent after the cele« brated "Noche Triste," or night of sorrow, when the Aztecs fell upon the Spaniards and massacred them. Here Maximilian and the unfortunate Charlotta made love as they promenaded the magnificent marblo terraces which were built by order of the "Austrian grand duke." Here the American army fought a bloody but decisive battle—ono which has made the queer word Chapultcpec familiar to American ears.

Imagine a park of 1,000 acres, covered with a dense growth of cypress, many of the trees 500 or 600 years old. The gray Spanish moss festooned from limb to limb adds to the picturesqueness of the scene. In the center of thii park—which is surrounded by massive walls on three sides, the old aqueducl forming the barrier on the fourthrises a precipitous mound, if such a term will express the idea. This mound is composed principally of rock, and is probably 200 feet in height. There is but one road to the top, the summit being inaccessible except by this single route.

Upon the very apex stands the castle, completely covering the space, so that no matter from which direction you look there is a sheer descent oi nearly 100 feet. The castle was buill in sections and presents no singular feature of architecture, except a peculiar double staircase that seems to hava no supports. When Maximilian firs! saw the staircase he remarked to the architect that he would not trust hid own weight upon it, whereupon the designer, with his majesty's permission, brought a regiment of soldiers and marched them up and down the stairway ten abreast, thus demonstrating its strength. This staircase is the onlj one of its kind in existence and is built of white marble and brass.

The terraces at Chapuitepec are one of the sights of Mexico. They are floored with white marble, with brass balustrades, and lighted by electricity. The upper terrace extends the entire distance around the castle and is twen-ty-four feet broad. Lovely little flower gardens are located at frequent intervals, and here are blooming geraniums, fuchsias, heliotrope, and mignonette, making the air rich with perfume and adding to the brightness of the scene.

The furnishing of the castle for the recoption of President Diaz has been very elaborate. The private apartments are in the northwest wing. Each room is frescoed appropriately. The chess-room has a chess-board in the center of the ceiling, with the bishops, kinirs, and queens in a merry dance abr ut it, the pawns furnishing appropriate music from the four corners ol the room. The private reception parlar i' the president's wife is "done up" in -ink silk with plush and brocade hangings to match. Every wall in the entire suite of rooms is covered* with silk brocade instead of paper. The bedroom occupied by the president and his wife was decorated and furnished at an expense of JfrJO.OOO. The diningroom has a seating capacity that is

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to thirty persons. The mag­

nificent solid silver that once belonged to the Emperor Maximilian is to be used, but the china and glassware are Dot in keeping with the royal magnificence of the silver one of the soup tureens requires four men to carry it wb«n filled.

LEARN TO SWIM.

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DR. TAIiMAGE ADVISES IT THAJE YOU MAY NOf DROWN.

The Present Is the Season For Physically, and Also the Time to Accomplish It Spiritually—God

Stretches Forth His Strong Arm To Aid You.

Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at Seattle, Wash. T., Sunday. Text, Isaiah XXV., 11. He said:

At this season of the year multitudes of people wade into the ponds and lakes and rivers and seas. At first putting out cautiously from the shore, but having learned the right stroke of arm and foot, they let the waters roll over them, and in wild glee dive, or float or swim. So the text will be •ery suggestive "He shall spread forth His hand in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands tg swims'1

The fisherman seeks out unfrequented nooks. You stand all day On the the bank of a river in the broiling sun, and liing out your line and catch nothing, while the expert angler breaks through the jungle and goes by the shadow of the solitary rock, and, in a place where no fisherman has been^or ten years, thro\vs out his line and comes home at night, his face shining and his basket full. I do not know why we ministers of the Gospel need always be fishing in the same stream, and preaching from the same text that other people preach from. I can not understand the policy of the minister who, in Blackfriars, London, England, every week for thirty years, preached from the Epistle to the Hebrews.

It is an exhilaration to me when I come across a theme which I feel no one else has treated, and my text is one of that kind. There are paths in God's Word that are well beaten by Christian feet. When men want to quote Scripture, they quote the old passages that every one has heard. .When they want a chapter read, they read a chapter that all the other people have been residing, so that the church to-day is ignorant of threofourths of the Bible. You go into the Louvre at Paris. You confine yourself to one corridor of that opulent gallery of paintings. As you come out your friend says to you: "Did you see that Rembrandt?" "No." "Did you see that Rubens?" "No." "Did you see that Titian?" "No." "Did you see that Raphael?" "No." "Well," says your friend, "then you didn't see the Louvre." Nov/, my friends, I think we are too much apt to confine ourselves to one of the great corridors of this Scripture truth, and so much so that there is not one person but of a million who has ever noticed the all suggestive and powerful picture in the words of my text. This text represents God 'as a strong swimmer, striding out to push down iniquity and save the souls of men. 'He shall spread forth His hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim." The figure is bold and many sided. Most of you know how to swim. Some of you learned it in the city school, where •this art is taught some of you in boyhood, in the river near your father's house some of you since you came to manhood or womanhood, while summering on the beach of the sea. You step down in the wave, you throw your head back, you bring your elbows to the chest, you put the palms of your hands downward and the soles of your feet outward, and you push thrv jgh the water as though you had bee?i born aquatic. It is a grand thing 10 know how to swim, not only for yourself, but because you will after a while perhaps have to help others.

In order to understand the full force of this figure you need to realize, first of all, that our race is in a sinking condition, You sometimes hear people talking of what they consider the most beautiful words in our language, One man says it is "home," another man says it is the word "mother another says it is the word "Jesus," but I will tell you the bitterest word in all our language, the -word most angry and baleful, the word saturated with the most trouble, the word that accounts for all the loathsomeness and the pang, and the outrage, and the harrowing and that word is "Sin." You spell it with three letters, and yet those three letters describe the circumference and pierce the diameter of everything bad in the universe. Sin! it is a sibilant word. You can not pronounce it without giving the siss of the flame or the hiss of the serpent. Sin! And then if you add three letters to that word it describes every one of us by nature—sinner. We have outraged the law of God, not occasionally or now and then, but prepetually. The Bible declares it. Hark! It thunders two claps: "The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked." "The soul that sinneth, it shall die," What the. Bible says our own conscience affirms. After Judge Morgan had sentenced Lady Jane Gray to death his conscience troubled him so much for the deed that he became insane, and all through his insanity he kept saying: "Take her "away from me! Lady Jane Gray! Take her away! Lady Jane Gray."

It was the voice of his conscience. And no man never does anything wrong however great or small but his conscience brings that matter before him, and at every step of his misbehavior it says: "Wrong, wrong." Sin is a leprosy, sin is a paralysis, sin is a consumption, sin is a pollution, sin is death. Give it a fair chance and it will swamp you, body, mind and soul forever. In this world it only gives a faint initnation of itS virulence. You see a patient in(the first stages of typhoid fevar. The cheek is some-

What flushed, the hands somewhat hot, preceded by a slight chill. "Why," you say typhoid fever is not much of a disease." But wait until the patient has been six weeks under it, and all his energies have been wrung out, and he is too weak to lift his little finger, and his intellect is gone, then you see the full havoc of the disease. Now, sin in this world is an ailment which is only in its very first stages but let it get under full way and it is an allconsuming typhoid. Oh, if we could see our unpardoned sins as God sees them our teeth would chatter, and our knees would knock together, and our respiration would be chocked, and our heart would break. If your sins are unforgotton, they are breaking down on you, and you are sinking—sinking away from happiness, sinking away from God, sinking away from everything that is good and blessed.

You have noticed that when a swim mer goes out to rescue any one he puts off his heavy apparel. He must not have any such impediment about him If he is going to do this great deed. And when Christ stepped forth to save us He shook off the sandals of heaven, and his feet were free and then He stepped down into the wave of our transgressions, and it came up over His wounded feet, and it came above the spear stab in His side—aye, it dashed to the lacerated temple, the high water-mark of His anguish.

If you ever have watched a swimmer, you notice that his whole body is brought into play. The arms are fleshed, the hands drive the water back, the knees are active, the head is thrown back to escape strangulation, the whole body is in propulsion. And when Christ sprang into the deep to save us, He threw His entire nature into it—all His Godhead, His omnis3ience, His goodness, His love, His omnipotence—head, heart, eyes, hands, feet. We were far out in the sea, and 30 deep down in the waves and so far out from the shore that nothing short of an entire God could save us.

Christ leaped out for our rescue, saying: "Lo! I come to do Thy will,"'' ind all the surges of human and Satanic hate beat against Him, and those who watched Him from the gates of heaven feared He would go down unier the wave, and instead of saving others would Himself perish but, putting His breast to the foam, and shaking the surf from His locks, He came an aud on, until He is now Avithin the reach of every one here. Eye ornnisjient, heart infinite, arm omnipotent. Mighty to save, even unto the uttermost. Oh, it was not half a God that trampled down bellowing Gennesaret. [t was not a quarter of a God that mastered the demons of Gadara. It was aot two-thirds of a God that lifted up .Lazarus into the arms of the overjoyed Bisters. It was not a fragment of a &od who offered pardon and peace to fcll the race. No. This mighty swimmer threw His grandeur, His glory, His might, His wisdom, His omnipotence and His eternity into this one act. It took both hands of God to save as—both feet. H$w do I prove it? On the cross, were not both hands aailed? On the cross, were not both feet nailed? His entire nature involved in our redemption!

If you have lived much by the water pou notice also that if any one is going out to the rescue of the drowning he must be independent, self-reliant, able to go alone.

There may be a time whon he must spring out to save one, and he can not get a life-boat, and he goes out and has aot strength enough to bear himself up, and bear another up, he will sink, and Instead of dragging one corpse out of the torrent you will have two to drag out. When Christ sprang out into the sea to deliver us He had no life-buoy. His Father did not help Him. Alone in the wine-press. Alone in the pang. Alone in the darkness. Alone in the mountain. Alone in the sea. Oh, if He saves us He shall have all the credit, for "there was none to help." No oar. No wing. No ladder. When Nathaniel Lyon fell in the battle charge in front of His troops he had a whole army to cheer him. WThen Marshal Nay sprang into the contest and plunged in the spurs till he horse's flanks spurted blood, all France applauded him. But Jesus alone! "Of the people there was none to help." "All forsook Him and fled." O, it was not a flotilla that sailed down and saved us. It Avas not a cluster of gondolas that came

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was one person, independent and alone. Behold then to-day the spectacle of a drowning soul and Christ the swimmer. I believe it was in 1848, Avhen there were six English soldiers of the Fifth Fuseliers who were hanging to the bottom of a capsized boat—a boat that had been upset by a squall thre# miles from shore. It was in the night, but one man swam mightily for tho beach, guided by the dark mountains that lifted their tops through the night. He came to the beach. He found a shoreman who consented to go with him and save the other men, and they put out. It was some time before they could find the place where the men were, but after aAvhile they heard their cry: "Help! help!" and they bore

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very Avell that when one' is in peril help must come very quickly, or it Avill be of no use. One minute may decide everything. Immediate help the man Avants, or no help at all. Now, that is just the kind of a relief Ave want. The case is urgont, imminent, instantaneous. See that soul sinking! Son of God, lay hold of him. Be quick! be quick! Oh, I wish you all understood how urgent this Gospel is.

I want to persuade you to lay hold of this strong swimmer. "No," you say, "it iB always disastrous for a drowning man lay hoi* of a swim­

mer." There is not a river or lake but has a calamity resultant from the fact that when a strong swimmer went out to save a sinking man, the droAvning man clutched him, threAV his arms around him, pinioned his arms, and they both Avent doAvn together. When you are saving a man in the water, you do not

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to come up by his face

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to come up by his back. You

do not Avant him to take hold of you while you take hold of him. But, blessed be God, Jesus Christ is so strong a SAvimmer, He comes not to our back, but to our face, and He asks us to throAV ai*ound Him the arms of our love, and then promises to take us to the beach, and He Avill do it. Do not trust that plank of good Avorks do not trust that shivered spar of your OAvn righteousness. Christ only can give you transportation. Turn your face upon Him as the dying martyr did in olden days Avhen he cried out: "None but Christ! none but Christ!" Jesus has taken millions to the land and He is Avilling to take you there. Oh, Avhat hardness of heart to shove Him back Avhen He has been swimming all the

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God to where you are now, and is ready to swim all the Avay back again, taking your redeemed spirit. I have sometimes thought Avhat a spectacle the ocean bed will present Avhen in the last day the Avater is all draAvn off. It Avill be a line of Avrecks from be'ich to beach. There is Avhere the harp Doners Avent down there is Avhere the lino of battle ships Avent doAvn there is Avhere tho merchantmen Avent down there is where the steamers went down, a long line of Avrecks from beach to beach. What a spectacle in the last day Avhen the water is draAvn off! But, oh! IIOAV much more solemn if Ave had an eye to see the spiritual Avrecks and the places Avhere they foundered. You would find thousands along our roads and streets. Christ came doAvn in their aAvful catastrophe, putting out for their souls, "spreading forth His hands as a SAvimmer spreadeth forth his hands to swim but they thrust Him in the sore heart, and they smote His fair cheek, and the storm and darkness swallowed them up. I ask you to lay hold of this Christ, and lay hold of Him nOAV You Avill sink Avithout Him. From horizon to horizon not one sail in sight. May the living Christ this hour put out for your safety, 'spreading forth His hands in the midst of you, as a swimmer spreadeth forth hii hands to swim."

SULLIVAN CONVICTED. 'v

Sentenced to Ono Year's Imprisonment--* He Will Appeal.

At Purvis, Miss., Friday, the jury found John L. Sullivan guilty of prize fighting. Sullivan in ay be imprisoned in the penitentiary for a year. His sentence has not been pronounced.

Sullivan was sentenced, Saturday, to one year's confinement in the State prison. Referee Fitzpatrick pleaded guilty and Ava» fined $'200.

A special telegram from

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says: Sullivan refused to talk about tho sentence.

had all his goods packed up

in readiness to leave, and had indeed secured passage on the train this evening. Within an hour of his sentence he had told all his friends good-bye, mounted the Can-non-ball train, and Avas on his way for New York. He

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to them, and they saved them, and brought them to shore. Oh, that this moment our cry might be lifted long, loud and shrill, till Christ the swimmer come and take us lest Ave drop a thousand fathoms down.

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na,:i, reaching t,lio metropolis on Tuesday. Thence he goes to Boston to see his father and mother. The sentence Avas a surprise to nearly every one in Purvis, Avliere the idea prevailed that tho Judge A\*ould be satislied with

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subject Sullivan to a heavy fine and nominal imprisonment. The outlook is not promising, and it is thought both here and in Mississippi that only a pardon from the Governor can save Sullivan from the sentence Judge Terrell gaA-e him and imprisonment for a year. His counsel Avill, of course, make a legal fight for him, but the case is not strong one. There is practically no denial of the prize-tight. The conviction and sentence are in strict accordance Avith law, and difficult to overturn^ The points made by the defense in regard to the Judge's Charge to the grand jury, aud the admission of certain evidence, while sufficient for an appeal, will scarcely serve to reverse the verdict and the sentence, and even if they do the case at best will simply be sent back to Purvis to be re-tried, Avith no prospect of a different termination. In the meaiiAAiiile, hoAvever, Sullivan is released on §1,000 bond, under the provisions of the Mississippi code, which authorizes such release in case of misdemeanors, Avhere a suspensive appeal is taken to the Supreme Court. That court docs not meet until after the holidays, and the calculation is that tho Sullivan case will come before it early in February, when the champion Avill have to be present at Jackson. As he has been convicted, and is under sentence, no advantage is to be gained by forfeiting his bond, as he could bo extradited anyAvhere. Those best acquainted Avith the Supreme Court of Mississippi believe that it Avill sustain Judgo Terrell's vieAvs. The three Judges are all men of Governor LoAvry's Avay of thinking, and one of them is his brother-in-laAV. If they support Judge Terrell, and refuse to grant a

trial, Sullivan will bo turned

over to Sheriff CoAA'art, of Marion, to be Imprisoned in the county jail at Columbia. Governor Lowry

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be succeeded as

chief executive of Mississippi by cx-Gov" ernor Stone in January next, piwided Stone is elected in November, as is probable, so that the matter of a pardon will rest with the latter after the Supreme Co urfc has acted on the appeal.

Said Willi aQuiet Smile. The hole view of the Atlantic— through the cabin port.

Boston Post: No one has a right to complain when whipped cream turns eour.

Detroit Journal: If the Beer Trust includes tb.e sleeping car porter it will make the investors rich.

Baltimore American: The royal grant debate has gone all to pieces. By toe way, they are guinea pieces.

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LIJVC0L5I IX 1S«4.

Ee Felt That the Campaign Wa? Going Against Him--His 1'oSicy.

The "Life of Lincoln" will reach in the forthcoming Midsummer Holiday Number of the Century the political campaign of 1864, when he was a second time the nominee of his party for the Presidency. It seems that Lincoln felt that the campaign was going against him, and had made up his mind deliberately as to the course he should pursue, which, as stated by the authors, was as follows: "Unwilling to leave his resolution to the chances of the changed mood which might follow in the natural exasperation of defeat, he resolved to lay down for himself the course of action demanded by his present conviction of duty. He wrote on the 23d of August the following memorandum: 'This morning, as for several days past, it seems exceedingly ^probable that this Administration will not be reelected. Then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the President-elect as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration as he will have secured his election on such ground that he can not possibly save it afterwards/ "He then folded and pasted the sheet in such a manner that i'.s contents could not be read, a ad as the Cabinet canae together he handed this paper to each member successively, requesting them to write their name3 across the back of it. In tjais peculiar fashion he pledged himself and the Administration to accept loyally the anticipated verdict of the people against him, and to do the utmost to save the Union in the brief remainder of bis term oi office. He gave no intimation to any member of the Cabinet of the nature of the papef they had signed until after his triumphant re-election. "We copy from the MR. diary of one of the President's secretaries under date of Novemher 11, 1864, the following passage relating to this incident: 'At the meeting of the Cabinet to-day the President took out a paper from his desk and said: "Gentlemen, do you remember last summer I'asked you all to sign your names to the back of a paper of which I did not show you the inside? This is it. Now, Mr. Hay, see if you can open this without tearing it." He had pastedit up in so singular a style that it required some cutting to get it open. He then read this memorandum [given in the text above.] The President said: "You will remember that this was written at the time, six days before the Chicago nominating convention, when as yet we had no adversary and seemed to have no friends, I then solemnly resolved on the course of action indicated in this paper. I resolved in case of the election of General McClellan, being certain that he would be the candidate, that I would see him and talk matters over him. I would say, 'General, the election has demonstrated that you are stronger, have more influence with the American people, than I. Now let us together, you with your influence and I with all the executive power of the Government, try to save the country. You raise as many troop3 as you possibly can for this final trial, and I will devote all my energies to assist and finish the war.'"

Poultry-Keeping in Queensland. A correspondent of the Town and Country Journal, Australia, gives experience there that may be valuable tof poultry-keepers in the warm portions of the United States, Speaking of thel difficulty experienced from taking thel dictum of fanciers in cold countries, the. correspondent eavs:

Such a course is more than useless in the hot climate of Queensland, for the less fowls are cooped up and semi-sufio-f cated in a close building at night time, the better. All that is really required is a roof to protect the birds irom heavy rains and dews. A house buiit with a shingle or bark roof supported on uprights. and with the perches placed level. with the wall-plates, is the ideal sleeping house for fowls, in the experience of the writer. Let the Bides of the house be of wire netting, close enough in the mesh to keep out snakes, natiA7e or tame cats, and rats, but do notg board it up. The wind blowing under the fowls keeps the air all fresh, and vet| the birds are not in a draueht. Do not let the hens lav in their sleeping house have a separate house for this purpose, or else place boxes about the yard, garden or run. UeserA'e the sleeping house solely for this purpose, then it is an easy matter to keep down lice. Also, on no account let a broody hen squat down and nestle for days together in a corner of the sleeping house, and do not set any hen on eggs except in a box devoted solely to herself, placed aAvay from the others.

If you Avant to fatten fowls or chicks quickly, give them plenty of milk sweet, sour or buttermilk. A handful of bran stirred in the milk will be much relished bv them. Add to the mess enough salt and pepper to season. This fed with grain diet, counteracts all deleterious effects of either the grain or the milk.

A Misunderstood Excliiinal ion. Gentle Applicant—I read your advertisement for a governess, and I have called to sec about it.

Prot. Von Greutz-So? Gentle Applicant—Yes. a little, and I'm a daisy knitter, besides.