Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 26, Number 24, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 January 1877 — Page 1

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Come, brothers, fill a flowing bowl, Rin tli glavse, yours with mine, And let the chorus fuller roll. Cheering the heart, tilling the soulPass, the laughing, kissing wine! Overhead now owing your planne, Radiant with the rosy wine, Mirthful as oar loving lasses. Drink their health as round it pa.est fuuny aa the good old Rhine! We leave behind m all our books. All our tutors learning fine; We will not sit like ancient rook. Moping ever in dusty nooks We will qua AT the glowing wine. Let him who will read day and night From his bones the flesh will pine, And from his even will nee glad sight; Hut for utf tls Our delight To learn the lore that comes with wine? Now, brothers all, sing loud and long See the fflatwes bow they shine! '' Aud to old Bacchus cheers prolong i-"or all thoe glorious words of song ' 1 1 iirrah ! for the grand Rhine wine. 1 -

THE EDELWEISS. BT MA RG AK KT E. SANGST KK. Far upon the sternest Alpine crests, t, Where the winds of tempest blow, , Tliey say that, all unfearing, rests A flower upon the scow A tiny flower, pale and sweet. That blooms oer breath of ice. And glad are they, on any day, Who find the Edelweiss. Ah! far on heights of sorrows cold, Where tears are dropping slow, S:ne hearts have found, aud Unding, told, How fair a bower may grow. .t "With p tals pale, but perfume rare, It garlands days of ice: And blessed are they, who, weeping, pray. And find Faith's Edelweiss. For the Sunday Sentinel. OXE OF THE MAM'. BY MRS. lALUE A. RAM AUE. It was a bitter cold night, and the wind pierced the poor ragged boy who stood, half froren, at the street corner, lie was suffering, not only from the keen breath of the icy wind, but from hunger, for all day long he had walked up one street and down another asking for work or begging a few crumbs, only to be refused and turned away from the half opened door, for he was only one of the tramps, and they, the world says, are not to be employed or fed. He rubbed his rough liands together, trying to warm the red fingers and chapped wrists, but all in vain; they grew colder and stiffer. He held his tattered jacket closer over his breast, but the raps flattered with every- puff of the wind, so that the purpling flesh, was exposed. His boot? they were old soles tied with rags to his feet did not keep him from the icy pavement, and the blood was chilled if be stood still, and the rough bits of bricks or the. stones cut the' quivering skin if lie walked. His face was not delicately featured n'T 'possessed of ' manly beauty. Hi. ' hair--, laid ' in r great unkempt inav?es over bia browf , and he vis sadly in need of soap . and water He was simply a poor outcast boy, despite his sixteen, years of wretched life, living, none knew how nor cared to learn. He was one of tbe great mass of the nation, every one of whom might be saved when children, but are lst. almost always lost when the years have done their3 hardening work, and as men they have neither faith nor trust in any, and enjoy the confidence and love of none upon earth. Joe Smith was debating no question of past or future . life, of national or municipal treatment of the wretched poor, he was only trying , to solve the problem of when or where he would get something to eat, some place to sleep, something to wear, bat first of all something to eat. He walked along -.until he came to a bakery,. and the 'hot, rich odors floated fresh and ' delicious out of the door, and were like a sweet incense to the poor starving lad. People passed in and out carrying the warm bread, and Joe would have given his right hand for a single loaf, but nobody noticed, the gaunt white face pressed against the window pane, or the trembling body that slunk "back into the darkness when the light s' reamed across the pavement. It wast so bitterly cold that the tramp moved slowly on, pushed and jostled by the hurrying crowd. The1 streets soon opened into the broad country; the houses were farther, and farther apart, and the wind blew free and wild. Two or three times Joe fell, bruising his face on the hard clods, and once the warm blsod trick- . le-1 down his cheek froru a cut on his. head and-he grew faint and sick. He was a human being, you know, and could feel pain and anguish as sensibly as the more fortunate ones of earth. He stopped at the gates of splendid mansions, but lie was afraid of the growling, fierce dogs, and he went on, not knowing nor caring where. Far ahead, on one side of the broad -turnpike, he saw the lights of another - home, and he deter mined, even if he was torn In pieces, to ask for food, believing it better to die pleading for help than to , perish . out in the fields alpne. He .dragged his stiffening limbs along, warming his hands .under, his jacket the best he could, hoping; praying if he rejuembtredhow to pray, that somebody would .give him a bone or a crust, anything to stop the fearful growing of the unsatisfied appetite that was making a maniac of him, dethroning his reason and. wilt ( Food he mu( have, and the long fingers pltirched the rags - that wrapped hitu.and heldtighfry to them, as If strength lay, in the grasp. There were m many bdys,' he had seen dozeas and scores of them, who had all they needed or even wanted food, clothes, books, friends, home and lie, well, he hafl nothing but life, and Just now he reckoned that more of a curse than a blessing. Have you ever watched every hope die, every avenue to - happiness barred, every friend perish or kn2;wtt2l Tj"iji, sonfcc pray,

o die? Then you can in a. measure feel for the poor outcast this winter's night. Just as he approached the door of the cottage, a man came hastily but on the porch and said to the lady at his side: "Now, Mary, keep the doors ' locked until I get back, for I hate to leave you alone with the children. Do not let any one you do not know come in, and for heaven's sake do not admit any tramps. A cool two thousand is more than I could atlord to lose now. I will be back in two hours. Keep close by the fire," and, without seeing Joe, he was off, the door was. closed, and the cold and darkness came back more intense to the boy. There was no hope for him here "no tramps." Ah, he was 'one, you could tell at a glance, and he stole softly to the side of the house and looked through the shutters. A cosy, warm room, bright and cheerful, with a tea table standing in the center. The supper had not been cleared away, and the slices of ham and the glossy browin rolls were even yet 'tempting, while dishes of fruit and the steaming tea completed the feast, for such it seemed to the starving watcher. Two little children a boy of perhaps five years and a chubby girl of three or four played before the open fire, or romped with the kittens rolling about on the rug. Joe did not know much about children. Those he had spoken to or touched in the last few years were dirty and ragged and hungry, babies'crying for food or prematurely aged boys and girls learning to steal and beg on the streets. ."When you kissed the pure white brow of your darling for the last lime, and tearing your heart in twain buried the better part of it with your child, you thought that that was the worst, the most terrible decree of fate, hut poverty and crime could show you victims that would make you thank God for the coffined sleep of your little one. Joe knew all about the inmates of hovels, and but little of the people in homes. The lady he had seen at the door sat in a low chair counting a large roll of bills, and seeing this, the devil or one of his angles took complete possession of Joe Smith and he forgot hunger, cold and suffering. It would be so easy to knock at the door and if it was opened force the money from this slight, ' delicate woman, or fling open the loo.-e shutters, grasp the package and run out of sight or following before she could summon aid. . He would go far, far away from this part of the world, he thought, buy him some new clothes, get into business and be a rich man, not a poor, miserable outcast' He would have a house and plenty ito eat, and a big fire and gas lights all his plans were for his physical comfort. No need for him to hurry, 1 had two. hours beforehlm, and unconsciously his eyes wandered to the little ones romping over the floor. . They laughed and shouted In their Innocent glee, stopping now and then for a kiss or caress from their mother, and thus for half an hour Joe stood, forgetting his weariness and hunger-,' At last tired with their play they cuddled down on the floor and were going to sleep. The mother gently aroused and. -undressed them and they knelt at her knee. Joe held iiis breath; memory had a picture for his sight now that for a moment blotted all else from view. A little freckled faced girl, waiting for the good-nightkiss from brother Joe. He could see the clear gray eyes and brown hair, the plump cheeks and tanned forehead of Bessie, his little sister, as 8he followed him to and fro from the barn to the orchard, then out to the meadow, and when she would get sleepy she would lie on the soft neW hay until he was ready to carry her home. Then her prayers, the echoes of her sweet voice, came to him clear and loving as of yore, "Please, God, bless brother Joe." '.She always gathered the first flowers for him and the smell of lilacs or wild violets would ever recall the tiny fingers fastening the sprays in his jacket. But one more-picture did memory paint a little sun browned face, drenched with tears, a grasp of dimpled fat hands, a - flutter of - a scarlet dress as his sister told him good-bye when he left her, and her last words so long for. gotten were vividly clear,' "Be a good boy, Joe, and God will love you." The tears were falling fast from eyes unused to weeping as. Joe pondered. He did try till she died seven years ago, wnd then he went to the bad headlong, he guessed; anyhow, with Bessie dead, the world was a blank. The little ones were sleeping en the sofa now, but the -demon had fled from the waiting heart outside the window. God's angels had entered, and the poor, miserable, suffering tramp determined to die rather than break his promise to the little sister he had so loved. The door was opened timidly in response to his knock, and the lady started when she saw . his condition, hut after a few questions she took him to the fire and gave him . some warm water and soft cloths to bathe his aching bruised, faee and the gash in his head. - She let him eat freely of . the food ' on the table chatting pleasantly with him all the time. His heart was mellow with the tears he had shed, and he told her all about himself. When he had finished he arose as if to go, but hesitated a momentj'.' then gathered courage, went to the sofa, raised the white hand of the, baby girl, looked at it longingly, and then, gently kissed it. That . touched . tb mother."1 She remembered her own boy, his untried future, and determined to do something for this ' motherless tramp. .' She told him her husband was a phy,tlan and needed a boy to takcare of and ' drive the horses, and that if he desired he might stay with them, and she would try to help him to be a good man. '". 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not have revealed to poor, homeless Joe a brighter prospect, he fondly believed. He have a home and friends? It seemed too good to be true and he could not frame the few sentences of acceptance, . but the ' lady understood him perfectly. She let him go into the kitchen and wash and gave him some clean, warm clothing, and you would not have recognized the dirty, ragged beggar lad in the boy who sat by the fire watching the sleeping children or springing to assist as best he csuld in evening chores. . It was an experiment to benefit a poor, mis erable tramp, but it succeeded, as projects that have God's approval always do. An immortal soul was saved and Christ fold the worth of that. 1 :

EWrCATIOXAL ITF..MS. i 1 Professor Beers, of Yale, who has been absent n Europe since last June, returned home at the close of the last term, 'and will teach this term cut usnal. William A. Houghton, who was the 'class orator of the class of 1873 in Yale college, has accepted the position-of professor of literature in the university lof Yeddo, Japan, at an annual salary of $H,600. . : , The Rev. "William Bodine, a graduate '. of Princeton college, has been elected president of Kenj on (Ohio) college and deam of the the theological seminarr (Episcopal I. He has accepted, and entered" upon his duties January 1. Ex-President Woolsey, of Yale, notwithstanding that he is a "graduate of over 06 years' standing, is still engaged in1 literary work. He is now at work on a new hook, which will be published sometime- next spring. It will be called "Woolsey's Political Philosophy." f A few days ago. as Ptsident Chadbourne, of Williams college, during a lecture, was telling the freshman class that the notion of allowing girls to enter the College '. for the sake of their good influence on the boys was not as sound as it might be, a freshman raised hishand and eagerly inquired "Don't you think it would have a good influence on the young ladies?" .. .' , . A professor of agriculture has been secured by. the Illinois industrial university, to succeed 1'rofessor Miles, in the person, ' of Professor George E. Morrow, lately professor of agriculture in the Iowa agricultural college, formerly secretary of the northwestern dairymen's association, editor of the-Northwestern Journal of Agriculture, the Western Rural, etc. The Yale freshmen last week received a-l challenge from the freshmen of Harvard to "row an eight-oar race with coxswain; distance, three miles straightaway." Though a strong sentiment in New Haven against freshmen races, because of the extra expense and for other reasons, is developing in college, the challenge will probably be 1 accepted. 1 ' ' The subjects for the commencement orations at Yale have been announced .They are as follows: (1) Arthur II, Ilall?m.' (2 The Spirit of Carlyle' Writing. (3) Macauley and Hal lam Compared. (4) The Iectoral System for Choosing a President. ?) What Science Does for Agriculture. (C) Theodore Parker. (7) The Poet Keats. (8) What Art Ii as Done for Italy. (9) Mountaineers in Fancy and in Fact ' (10) The Stability of the Present Government of France. There are im New York ia present active operation twenty incorporated colleges and universities. Some of these institutions have other departments or colleges more or less intimately connected with them. -The Columbia college has a large school of mines and an associated medical and law school ; Union university has connected with it the Albany law school and Albany medical college; the University of the City of New York has a law department and a medical" department, and the Syracuse university has connected with it a medical college and a college of fine arts. - President Eliot, of Harvard, in his report of that institution, mentioned, among other pressing wants, several new professorships, lie believes, that all things considered, there is no form of endowment for the benefit of mankind more permanent, more secure from abuse, or surer to do good, than the endowment of public teaching in a well organized institution of learning. This truth is beginning tobe discovered by intelligent men of wealth. A well endowed chair in an established institution of learning will not only be the imperishable monument of the '.donor's name and generosity, .but continue, generation after generation, to shape the thoughts and usefulness of immortal minds. The annnal meeting of the Yale alumni association took place last week u New York. It was expected that Mr. William M. Evarts would be present and deliver an address, but he was unable to attend. In his absence Mr. Albert Matthews presided and introduced Professor Sumner, of Yale, who delivered , an interesting address on the present condition of the college. He condemned the clamor for innovation in the curriculum by the introduction of new studies, which had the effect of producing only superficial learning. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, William M. Evarts; vice presidents, Charles Tracy and William W. Phelps; secretary. Robert W. De Forest; treasurer, Joseph C. Jackson: executive committee, A. Dewitt Baldwin. W. B. Rose, E. C. Stedman, Mason Young, W. R. H perry. A banquet followed the business meeting. The following statistics concerning Harvard college are given in the president's last report: In the four years from 1873 to 1876 inclusive, 955 persons were admitted to the college, while at the present moment there are only 821 undergraduates. The Joss suffered in three years is, therefore, 1-4 per cent. Tne number of persons admitted in 1870, 1871 and 1872 was 37, while the number graduated in-1374, 1875 and 1870 was 422. The loss of numbers between entrance and gradation was, therefore, S3?i per cent, in these three cases. The proportion of candidates admitted without conditions has increased during these seven years, while the proportion of rejections has not increased. The number of undergraduates at the beginning of the year was 776. being an increase of GO over the number at the beginning of the preceding year; 148 were seniors! l'Ji were juniors, ld'2 sophomores and 252 freshmen. Five seniors, 7 iuniors, 9 sophomores and 10 freshmen withdrew from the college in the course of the year, and 1 sophomore and I junior died. Of the withdrawals 13 were in consequence of ill health, 8 were the result of an unprofitable use of time and opportunities and 10 were caused by changes of plan on the part of the student or by other circumstances..Of the whole number withdrawn have returned to coli le;e sai Jcisel Iqth: classes, . . .

ALL SORTS.

A Portrait. Red appl in a sleepy orchard. Whose trees have branches gnttrled and tortured By slow webt wjjds that never cease; V arm cocks of corn, well capped and steady, For mow hung garners brown and readv. Tall tokens ol the years' increase; : Green lllly leaves whoHe parent river Septembar winds forget to quiver In shallow Kilver pools of peaee. An autumn face, half gray, half rosv. And Muttering, like an autumn posv. With JiueieHS Ktrips of fading liair; A firm, sweet mouth, whose utmost bliss is To drink the light of children's kisses, Half dreaming of the years that wer-; Soft looks that melt all eyes that meet her To something purer, something sweeter, fck) kind they are and debonaire. A Ufe whoNe silent day has wasted. And left undreamed of and uiitusU! The fruits of all extreme dire; A matron lif whose sriiy fashion No frantic hopes, no scathing passion Has worn Willi tears or seamed with fire; A life so calm that when it passes Its fame must be h breath on glass Is, . And in a ftjlnltss mist expire. , -. - Bulgaria n. ' : ; . Young Mr. Dana, whom the poet Longfellow's daughter Alice is to marry, was captain of the Harvard crew in 1975. Hardly anything new in America. Even St. Augustine and Pl3mouth Rock are fresh and recent; but a Detroit man claims to have a portrait of Washington which is 300 years old. ... A preacher in Arabia, having for his text a portion ' of the Koran "I have called oah after twice repeating his text, made a long pause, when an Arab present, thinking that he was waiting for an answer, exclaimed: 'If Noah wilrnot come call somebody else!" A litfle granddaughter of the late N. P. Willis, only sight years old, has written a play in four acts, et tied "The Play of the Two Lovers," in which, she takes the leading character. The language is said to be immensely funny and conventional, but entirely original, and was composed without the least assistance. , Chlorate of potassium and iodide of potassium are separately harmless medical doses, but the Journal of Pharmacy warns physicians not to administer them together, because in the stomach they combine to make iodate of potassium a poison. Mixed in any other way they do not act thus. Another of the pope's neat little jokes is recorded. A j-oung American girl, six feet high, had just received the foje's blessing at a reception, and as she rose from- her knees Pope Pius began to smile at her I'f". ; 4", . L. T.k"T r'L"J"'"- ."T.l.. height, and made her kneel and a half." . . Mrs. Jane G. Swis-sheliu, of Pittsbnrg. Pa., publishes a remedy for hydrophobia, and which she claims to be a perfect cure for that terrible disease. She says: ' "Take the root of ' elecampane, boil it in new milk fresh from the cow, and give to the patient a dose every alter iate day. It will never fail in effecting a cure." Castor oil, in which a small quantity of lampblack lias been stirred, is an excelleut air and -water proof composition for boots and shoe in winter. It closes the pores of leather, excluding both air and water, conseTuently making the feet very much drier and warmer. This has been tested for many years and can be confidently recommended. At one of the meetings of the New York Central directors CommodoreVanderbiltsaid he didn't see how it was that Jay Gould got all the facts and figures about New York Central. ' "I'll tell you how you can prevent his knewing anything about your roads," said , Sam Barger, one of the directors. "How?" asked the Commodore. "Elect him a director," was the reply. Some clerical errors are at once pardonable and amusing, but others at times are hard to endure. A parishioner who never went through a summer without complaining bitterly of the heat, much to the annoyance of his friends, at last took sick and died. His pastor was absent at the time and did not hear of the sad eventf On his return he met the son of the deceased, and unwittingly inquired, saying: "Well, my friend, how does your father bear the heat now?" Imagine his surprise at being told that the father had been dead two months. The Rev. C. F. Deems, D. D., of the Church of Strangers, New York, seems to have become proud and "lifted up" sjnee Yanderbilt left him $20.000. He told his congregation last Sunday that his Monday receptions were suspended. "His house was neither an intelligence office nor a bureau of philanthropy. If people didn't stop asking him to get them work or give them money "he would move into the country." Ah! to think that $20,000 should have stirred up this good brother, once so meek and humble, ' and as poor as he was kind and gentle. An institution for the benefit of nervous persons is to be erected in Massachusetts in accordance with the will of Mr. Seth Adams. What the rules and requirraents of the institution will be is not known, but if the restrictions are not numerous the asylum will be overrun at once. The lines will have to be sharply defined if the home is not to be crowded before it is really finished, because there is an army within an army of people who will come under the head of nervous. The idea of a home for this class is so good that Mr. Adams ought to have imitators. A son "of Bishop Haven has been elected class orator of the senior class at Wesleyan university. A Paris- correspondent thus compares Croizette, the famous French actress, and the not less widely famous American actress, Clara Morris: "Croizette's repertoire is quite similar to that of Clara Morris; thero are many points of professional resemblance between them. They both belong strictly to the emotional drama; both best represent fiery passion smouldering under restriction and conventionality, the fierce antagonism between intense impulse and artificial corditions. As parallels they are an interesting study; they show that woman is woman wherever found; that her blood burns, and leaps and maddens on the Hudson as along the Seine; that while inheritance, training and habit are different, the mind and spirit are-essentially the same." The Rev. Henry 0. Spaulding, who ia g ing a course of lectures at the ltoston Lowell institute on "Old Roman Life " makes a large hole through Wendell Phillips's wellknown lecture on the "Lost Arts.' Phillips says the Roman theater could seat 100.000 people; Mr. Spaulding says there was no Iloman theater, but the Flavian arai.hitheater, which would seat only 87,000. Phillips says the emperor's box was elevated to the highest tier, and to look down to the center of a six-acre lot was to look a lone distance; but Nero had a ring with a gem inlt through Yitizh. -2 7vata:ci e nvsrd play ol iLz

gladiators; Mr. Spaulding says the emperor's seat was not placed in the highest but the lowest tier, where he was within a few feet of the combitants, and the amphitheater was not built till some time after Nero's death, which would give him only a ghost of a chance to watch anything done in it Mr. Phillips would do well to rewrite that lecture before he repeats it again. Mrs. Fanny Kemble says of Barry Cornwall and his wife Anne Skepper, that she was like a fresh lemon golden, fragrant, firm and wholesome and he was like the

noney oi liymettus; they were an incomparable compound. She describes a visit which Sotheby, the poet, once paid to Mrs. Joanna IVaillie, whose great and unavailingambition it was to be a successful writer for the stage. The poetess called him into her little kitchen (she was not rich, kept fw servants and did not disdain sometimes to make her own pies and puddings), and bade him. as she was up to the elbows in Hour and paste, draw from her pocket a paper. It was a play bill, sent to her by some friend in the country, setting forth that some obscure provincial company was about to perform Miss Joanna Baillie's celebrated tragedy of "De Montfort." "There," exclaimed the culinary Melpomene, "there, Sotheby," I am so happy! You see my plays can be acted somewhere!" A Boston publisher issued for the holidays an illustrated edition of that mournful monody, "Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud?" and a companion volume of the hymn, "Nearer, my God, to Thee." A lady on Christmas day sent to . her friend a copy of the first named book, and on New Year's dav received from her f ri n rl a rnnv of the last named, with the following explanatory lines: "Ol, why Khonld the spirit of mortal be proud ? It shouldn't if always kept under a cloud Like that which hangs over and In and around Your volume of verse of lugubrious sound, That I've carefully placed In a cold, clammy nook, . ' , . .. Just fitted to hold such a dolorous book ; And out of a sweet, sunny corner I've brought A volume for you, full of crystaliue thought. Cast away the dull dogmas or fear and distress. And behold the bright world in its holiday Enjoy the grand life by Omnipotence given, And, with Faith, Hope and Charity, draw nearer heaven ; As your days of earth's sojourn in cheerfulnss flee. Live nearer, oh! nearer, my God, unto Thee." twain Avn ins chum. When Mark Twain lived in Virginia he roomed with Dan De Quille. All the miseries which Quille ever endured, and all the bad characters he ever got. date from that time. They lived at several different lodg-,ing-houses and were turned out of them all, one after the other, all on account of Dan, who soon acquired a bad reputation, second to none in Virginia. No resectable family would harbor Dan who knew any thing abeut him. and the' very mention of his name would cause a landlady to hold up her hnds in virtuous horror. One morning Mark woke up and heard the landlady's cat mewing about the door, which was half open. Dan was fast asleep, and Mark, grabbing one of his heayy boot, threw it with fatal precision at the intruder. The cat limped oft' with a broken leg (the J boot weighed live pounds), and the lanalady secured the mi.-ile and waited for its owner to appear. Mark got up, dressed and went out with both boots on. The landlady greeted him with a pleasant smile, and when Dan got up and was walking about in his stocking feet hunting for his left boot, he received a scathing dressing down from his landlady, who, without allowing him to explain ordered him to leave the house. Mark condoled him in his troubles, and said, "I'll stick to ye. Dan." The next house they moved into had a pantry close to the room consigned to them. Every night Mark would steal two or three mince pies and eat them entire without giving Dan a sight at them. In the morning the landlady would be brushing about near the door, Dan would be asleep, and Mark would open out in a loud voice, as follows: "Dan, this business won't do. Those pies don't belong to you. In the first place it's petty larceny, and in the next place it gets crumbs in the bed. We'll get notice to quit pretty soon. Taint the square thing on the landlady. P don't wonder you've nothing to say. Now this is the last time I propose to speak about this." The landlady, who took in every word, would give poor Dan notice to quit, and never hear a word of explanation. "When you go I go, Dan," Mark would say, and his brotherly fidelity would touch Dan to the very core. The next place was an intensely respectable private family. When Mark expected to be out all night he would slip up to the room and strew a few hair pins round pwmiscuously, and scatter a lew down in the foot of the bed where they would be found when the landlady was making it up. It would all be laid to Dan, of course. "I've got a family here, arid I want to bring my daughters up respectable," would be the landlady's remark, as she ordered Dan to pack up. "When they fire you out Dan, it means me, too," Mark would say in tones of brotherly affection that melted Dan's inner nature, and caused him to think there were some true men in the world after all, and he used often to remark, in speaking of Twain, "A man who never shakes a friend in adversity is the noblest work of Sod." A Woman's Wraknf. Detroit Free Pre. Yesterday morning a woman living on Napoleon street was seen to walk in front of the gate, hearing the snow right and left, and she had only got fairly settled to work when a boy lounped up and remarked: "I'll clear off tne walk for ten cents." "I guess I m able to do it," she replied. "But see how it looks!" he continued. "Here you are.a perfect lady in look and action, highly educated, and yet you grovel in the dust, as it were, to save the pitiful sum of ten cents." "You grovel along and mind your own business," she curtly replied, still digging awsy. "It's worth 10 sents," he said, as he leaned against the fence, "but I'm a feller with some sentiment in my bosom. Now, we'll say five cents, or ju t enough to cover wear and tear o' my bones. Give me the shovel, and you go in, get on your sealskin sacque and best jewelry, and while I work vou stand out here and boss around, and talk as if you owned the biggest half of North America, while I had nothing, and was in debt for that." - Khe looked at him sharply, saw that be was in earnest, and when she passed over the snow shovel she put two nickles into his hand. He looked after her as she went in. and then sadly mused: "Oh! Flattery! thv surest victim is a woman homely enough for a scare-crow." Chicago Times; Manifestly the Springfield deadlock is the result of a conspiracy between cocktails and conscience between &e lc3cpwUaU aad tht gin n4a. .

FARM AXD II OHE. - TO BONK A TURKEY. Buy a turkey.one that has not been drawn, so as to have no openings in it if possible; it drawn, sewing up openines firmly before boning; two chickens, one beef tongue, one can oysters, one pound fresh.lean, side pork. Have the turkey frozen and thawed, the tongue boiled and skinned. the pork roasted, the oysters taken out ot the liquor, the chickens cut in small pieces, and put on to boil with just water enough to cover. Lay the turkey on its breast: cut off the lees and

wings at first joint; cut down the whole length of the back, and with a sharp knife scrape the meat at each side from the bones, throw the bones in with the chicken to boil. Now for the filling: First, lay the whole tongue to form the the breast; clear all the chicken meat from the bones, cut the pork into small pieces, fill up your turkey, legs, wings and all (first tying ends of wings and legs tight) with chicken pork ahd ovsters and a little dressing. Have the chicken liquor well boiled seasoned and strain it into the turkey, which will form a jelley. Sew up the turkey firmly, turn it over and shape it nicely with the hands. Tie a cord tightly to the neck and draw it rou-nd and tie it to the right win? close to the body. Tie down wings and legs, inserting skewers if you have them: sew around it a piece of strong cloth and steam or roast and leave the cloth on till cold. Carve cold in round, thin slices, commencing at the neck. If the above directions are followed closely it will be delicious for supper. wivti;riu tooi. The Colonial Farmer urgs farmers to paint up their machines, tools and implements this winter, and thereby not only have them all ready when wanted in the spring, but actually add to their value and durability. It says, with much truth, that millions of dollars are lost annually in the United States, by neglect to paint farm wagons, plows, barrows, etc These things, if well painted and kept under cover when not in use, will last three times as long as they will when not repainted after two or three years use. Any farmer can paint these things. All that is needed is Venetian red and linseed oil, half raw and half boiled, then thoroughly wash the implement to be painted, and proceed to apply the paint. F1EL0 MIF, These jiestsof the fruit garden and orchard commit their depredations of "girdling" the trees during the winter, where the snow is banked up around the bodies. ' The damage is always done on fruit trees standing in grass. I have never known of an instance of "girdling" when the tree was in plowed ground. To guard against the danger of losing bearing fruit trees from such a cause, the best and cheapest thing to do is to turn over the ground for a distance of six or eight feet in diameter and at the Käme time clear away and burn any weeds and rubbish that may be in the vicinity of such trees. Te do this in a fruit garden calls for only a small outlay, and it will be found a sure preventive of the ravages of these little destructive pests. Scribner's Monthly. THE WIJSD OX CRKAM. A butter maker of large experience, rho has kept a. record of the influence of atmospheric changes on the rising of cream, gives the following as the result of a season's experience in setting milk for butter in cen tral New York. The milk ia treated on tb cold water plan, the temperature being held, as nearly as possible, at 60 Fahrenheit. When the wind is northwest or north, the most cream rises, and it is in the best condition when the wind is west; fbe third best condition is when the wind is east; the foiirth when it is south, and the worst of all when the" wind is southeast WHEAT IV CAXAP. A correspondent of the Canada Farmer, writing upon the grain crops there, says: I am not disposed to take a sensational view of the present state of our agriculture, nor to despair of our ability to compete to a certain extent with the grain production of other more favored countries; but I fully believe the farmers here have now to take into serious consideration what course of cropping and rotations are most likely to prove advantageous, and what diversion from the ordinary systems of heavy cropping with grain is likely to be most profitable. It ia quite evident from the facts presented that our most important cereal, wheat, has had its day in this country. The production of fall wheat is becoming necessarily precarious, while the spring variety that has succeeded so well in the past, has of late shown a decided falling otT in quantity and quality, compared with former rates of production. POISOXKD CATTLE. The Waterloo (Iowa) Reporter gives accounts of various deaths of cattle in Black Hawk township, supposed to be killed by smut, or bunt on corn. This fungi on corn is probably not poison, but indigestible, and it obstructs and clogs the manifold of the stomach of the animal in some way to cause disease and death. TIMBER IX IOWA, The Agricultural Society of Iowa offers & premium of $1,000 for the best 10 acres of timber plantation, the premium to be awarded in 1881. There are four contestants for this magnificent premium. The society also offer $2ö0 for the best five acres of orchard in 1878 two contestants. It 1874 there had been planted to timber in that state 46,007 acres. SEW MILK. 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