Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 28, Number 17, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 April 1880 — Page 9

TELK INDIANA STATE SENTINEL," WEDNESDAY. APRIL 28, 1880H3UPPLEMENT.

"WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28.

Sah Francisco is t-rriblj excited beceusa one bad man has killed another bad man. It would be far better to give the killer a fair trial, and then break his neck according to law, without bo much talk and bluster about it Spriko is here. Ni mistake. m There are wallows and bluebirds. The forest trees are robing themselves in holiday attire; the fruit trees are in full bloom, but to place the fact that spring has come beyond question the boys have laid away their shoes and axe Indulging in barefoot luxuries. CoicKUiro declarrs against Washbume on any terms,' and that probably disuses of Washbnxne'a candidacy. The Republican party will not dare risk a candidate against whom Lord Conkling stows an implacable hostility. This is a contemptible position for a party to be io, but it's a rather con temptible party anyhow. From every section of Jhe Union conies loud, earnest call for relief from the oppression of so-called protected industries. The demand is swelling almost into an angry roar. The people are thoroughly in earnest, and they are in no mood to deal leniently with those who balk their pnrpose to abate, at least, a portion of the excessive burden. Ex Skxatob Barncm, Chairman of the National Democratic Committee, referring to the refusal of the Cincinnati Common Council to grant adequate telegraphic facilities 1 3 the hall io wbic'a the Democratic Convention is to be held, sij-s that he w li give the Common Coatcil sufficient time to change its decision, but if the Cjuicil thould till refuse, ha will eanimou tue National Committee, and a dill-rent place will be selected for holding the Convention. The American war ship Constellation, a grand old ship of the olden time, af'er a tempestuous voyage of twenty days, arrived safe at her port of destination with America's contribution of foad and clothing for the famine scourged people of Ireland. No grander spectacle was ever presented for the contemplation of the world. A saip built for war, for death and carnage, goes forth without her engines of destruction, to carry across the ocean food for a famishiog people; famishing because they are denied tho rfgM to eat the fruits of their toil. Eagland, the richest Nation of the earth, refusing to pro Tide food for her starving children, is a picture of callousness to be looked for elsewhere only among barbarians. "Philanthropist and mlssioaer lives on Ht. tieorge'u Channel Send Hi biu a to the Pope of Rome, and to the tropics flannel I Prays Godly prayers tot foreign sin before her holy aitar. The while her hands twist at her back for Ireland's m-ck a halter! In Jiyreign lands protect the weak, with treaties or wltn cannon! "And tarns the dagger in the heart of her sister on the bhaunon ! So generons to her foreign foes they praUe her to the sky And leaves her Irish Bubjecta one privilege to die! Come, nations of both continents, behold a Land of Graves! Come. Kami a, with Siberia! France, bring your galley slaves ! Come, leerlug Turk, with drlpp.ng knife, refreshed In Christian gore ! Bashl-bazous:, hold up your head. Be ye ashamed no more! O, Empires of a humane world! behold this Christian nation. That -make her people paupers and grants them then starvation!" But to turn from such a picture to the Constellation, and the open-handed generosity of America, helps to restore faith in Christianity, and to believe that the good in the world will eventually triumph over the evil. Johjj Shekman went down to New York the other day to fix up Lis boom, and had an ovation. He had a reception by the Sherman Club. There were present Collector Merntt, Surveyor Graham, Naval Officer Burt, Appraiser J. Q. Howard, Deputy Surveyor Kibbe, Assistant Appraiser Simonson, Colonel Coster, Pension Agent, and about 150 other fellows, who, In some way, suck Government teats, syndicates. National Bank pets and pals, hangers on at the Custom House, deputy marshals, etc One fellow toasted Sherman, and said "Long miy he live," and then John made a speech, and it may be strange, but it is nevertheless true, that John credited "the Supreme Ruler of the Universe, who doeth all tbiLgs well," with a slight share of praise for bringing about a change from industrial death to something like prosperity. This is the first time that John 'Sherman has been willing to give Jehovah any credit at all for sunshine or shower and abundant harvests. Hitherto John and the Republican party have taken all the credit. John said that "the life of a publia man who does his duty ig fall of labor, of care, and of responsibility. He is not always understood, and sometimes he may die before even his work is remembered. -Therefore mast a man do that which he " thinks is right, trusting to and receiving the reward of his own conscience. If his conscience telle him he ' has done the b-sthe can, that is his highest reward." Manifestly John's life his past record perplexes him not a little. 8 jme times his Louisiana ex ploits come up before him the Louisiana liars, the thieves, the perjured scoundrels with whom he traded Mrs. Jenks, Wells, Cawenare, Anderson, the beetle-browed villain! who art; now quartered upon the Federal J Government ' because they defied Heaven 1 and ' lied - like devils, for pay. John Sherman did not die 'before, his','' work Is remembered." John Sherman and his b'asphemoui work will never die. His name is as indlssslubly linked with the crime of perjury and fraud a that of ; Jodas Is welded to the betrayal of Christ. 'As for conscience, John Shermsn has about as much of . that commodity as a

brass monkey, and if what that tells him is his highest reward, then there la not a devil damned who will envy htm all the comfort he may be able to extract from his con science.

THE TWO-THIRDS EULE. In the year 1832 the first Democratic National Conrention was held in Baltimore. General Jackson was then nominated for the second term, and the two-thirds rule was then adopted, and baa been adopted by every succeeding Democratic Convention. In 1835, Martin Van Buren was nominated at Baltimore, when the rule was adopted that two-thirds of the whole number of votes should be necessary to a nomination, or to decide any question connected with a nomination. In 1840, Mr. Van Buren was unanlmouely nominated, but, owing to the number of candidates for Vice President, no nominstion by the Convention for Vice President was made. In 1844, Mr. Polk was nominated after a stormy session of three days. Folk receiving 233 votes, Cass, 29, and Van Buren, 2. In 1818, General Cass was nominated by the two thirds rule on the fourth ballot, though he received a majority on both the second and third ballots. General Pierce was nominated in Baltimore by the two-thirds rule on the forty-ninth ballot In 185G Mr. Buchanan was nominated at Cincinnati, and the ballotings show that the t vo-thirds rule was in force, for he was not declared nominated until the seventeenth ballot was declared, though he received a majority on the sixth, tenth, thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth ballots f.n 1?00 both of the Damocratic Conventions adopted the two thirds rule which nominated Douglas and Breckenridge. In 1664 McCiellan was nominated on the first ballot, receiving 202 votes, all others receiving 28 XA. In lSfiS Governor Seymour was unanimously nominated, receiving 317 votes. In 1872 Mr. Greeley was nominated on the first ballot, receiving 6t votes. In 1876 Mr. Tilden was nominated on the second ballot, receiving 534 votes, and all others 204 votes. Thus it will be eeen that from 1832 to 1876, the two thirds rule prevailed, but at the St. Louis Convention the following resolution was adopted by a vote of 379 for to 35'J against: Resolved, That it be recommended to future National Democratic Convention, as the seuxeol the Democracy here in Convention assembled, that tue so-oalld two-tnlrds rule be abolished as unwixe and uuncessary, and that the 8iates be requested to instruct thtlr delegates to the National Democratic Convention to be beltl in leo whether it be desirable to continue the two-thirds rule longer In force In the Mational Convention, and that the National Committee insert such request lu their call for the Couventlon. The indications are that the two-thlids rule will he continued. THE STATE PKESS. The Crawfordsville Review, from Senator McDonald's old home, thus pays the following handsome compliment to our Senator. The Review saya: East, West. North and South Senator McDonald is conuln.rfHi nn nf t.h 9 m or the United States Senate, ills opinions on all questions before that body are eagerly anticipated and carry great force, not only with his colleagues, but the thinking men of the Nation, lie Is not a trimmer. His opinions are houest convictions, and when once formed nothing can turn him to the right or the left. Senator McDonald U a statesman, not a politician, aud the Democracy of Indiana are proud of him. The Rechtster Sentinel says: The Democracy muRt now follow the anything to beat policy" this year. Let them unite upon a man of integrity , and make a square fiht on principles aud not for spoils. Tue world Is itovemed by Ideas, and not by humbug. It Is the occasional misfortune of parties that humbugs lead them nearly always to disaster. The Pike County Democrat, in referring to the usual, misrepresentations made by the Rrepulican press regarding Mr. Hendricks, and more especially some recently made by the Princeton Clarion, a Republican paper, says: It Is surprln'ng, the persistency with which Mr. Hendrlck-' is misrepresented by his opponents, tie is constantly charged and has be n for twenty years, with straddling every publlo question, waiting until the drift of public opinion Is fully ascertained and then molding his opinions to suit the popular notion. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Mr. Hendricks is eminently a conservative man, reaching his conclusions by a careful and logic il consideration of all the facts, and, when once reached, they are usually found to be correct. He thus makes fewer mistakes than most other great statesmen. He Is unobtrusive, but when bis opinions are sought by anyone htvlng the riht to ask them, be never hesitates to give them, and that, too, in Kuglish so clear and unequivocal that there is no possibility of misconstruction hlra. It is observed that those who charge Mr. Hendricks with timidity and "fence riding" never take the pains Vo polntout specific instances of vacillating and dodging on the part of that gentleman. We challenge the Clarion to recall a single public question upon wMch be ban not been outsp ken and decided in bis opinion. All such charges have no better foundation than the one quoted above. Mr. Hendricks always has been tn favor of requiring a fixed period of residence, and on uiflereut occasions recommended to the Legislature the advisability of preparing an amendment to that effect, and he has always been opposed to a registry law The article quoted Is uu worthy ol the Clarion. The Bioomington Courier appeared, on Saturday, with s creditable wood-cut of Governor Hendricks at the hesd of its editorial columns, and his name for the next Presidency. The Windfall News says: Thomas Hendriaks is our first choice for the Democratic standard-bearer for Pres! lent. If we can t get him, we re for the nominee, who ever he may be. The Princeton Democrat says: ''Klug (?) Bill llellman publishes a card In Thursday mornlng'B Evansvllle Journal, In which he emphatically declines to allow his name to be usrKl as a candidate for Governor on the Republican ticket this year. It King (?) iiltl thinks he is going to have a "walk over" fur Congress In this District, be Is mistaken. His opposition to the building of the straight Line, and other railroads which would be a benefit, not only to Evansvllle, but to Southern Indiana, will lose him hundreds of votes. William has gone as hUh as he ran go on the political ladder, and will now have to come down. The Lafayette Times thinks that it dealt the death blow to the Streicht boom. It says: The first exposure appeared In these columns and was based upon Information to the effect that tne agents of Btrelgbt were visiting every County in the State armed with complimentary notices of the M candidate" for republication In the Republican County ''organs," the "consideration' being the purchase by strelght o from five hundred to a thouland extra copies nf the paper at a large price. These papers strelght would distribute through bis "bureau" at Indianapolis to Republicans In various parts or the state, an1 in this manner the unanimity" of the press was created. Kor weeks hardly a Republican newspaper la the state failed to have "Strelght boom" articles, copies being regularly mailed by the bureau" to various Republicans in this County particularly to those recently appointed d sleyatee to the State Convention.

THE TEMPLE OF HOME. One Itnllt With tiands and Ilearts T Near Approaches to the Ideal Home. Siznor Max, in Detroit fr Press. Home ia a temple made with hands ax hearts. In it are centered the least selfish f human aspii ations, and there arises from i altars a kind of incense, through the pe fumed clouds of which those who people tl sacred temple seem to see each other i aspects different and better than those the were otherwhere. It is Love's transfigurinj There lies the secret, and out of that gprin all the sweet and dear impulses that mak up the sum of domestic joys.

that which we ordinarily call pleasure i not often associated with the calm happine of home. There is in mere pleasure in th gratification or the sensuous instinct a gic dinesa of which we soon tire. Complete u lief from the weariness that waits on eelfls and physical indulgence is found nowhei but in the placid retirement of a well-ordere home, wherein that which is merely earthy . noi sunerea 10 come, iiere all grossness bor of the selfish; !1 that has the vulgar t&inl all violent and disturbing rebellion agaim the law of love is forbidden. Every devotee 1 the home altar is armed against invasioi and all are bound in loyalty to the commo weal. Such conditions are the foundatio: on which the superstructure of the idea home is reared. It is a happy thought t me that they are not uncommon condition and when I remember how much depend upon them I wonder that we do not aim a u : . 1 !. ) j. lUBui wim greater eteauiasmess ot purpose The dimples of which the happiest homes ar compounded are lying all around at han for those to take wno will. They cost noth ingand their value is beyond computing io epeciai euucauon is neeaea to enable ui to get the greatest possible good out of thii universal largess. It is man's best inherit ance, and I should have no hesitation ir signing a quit-claim to all contingent pc essions ior a consideration ot such wortt The dear joys that bloom and bear fair fruit h such homes as 1 have in mind are not possible ideals; not the product of fancy; no an intangible dream; but the very natura encets ol very common causes. I am aware that all homes can not be mad happy in like degree, but the mass of met ana women can make themselves the ruvott around which revolve bo many joys of home mat complaint or discontent were mean in gratitude. The laborer can not afford a costly conservatory nor walk on Persian rugs. At a matter of fact he does not need them; bet ter still, he does not want them. The breath ot spring, the summer's perfumes and th velvet earth are his in ennnl V, ro with TV rna who spends his surplus income for artificial luxuries to stimulate a jaded sense, and whc vainly regrets the far richer happiness ht knew when his "feet were bare and his cheeks were brown." I have seen the street laborer eating his homely dinner on the curb with his wife or child sitting by him in content, when he seemed to be embodied happiness. I have known his coming home at niirhtfall the signal for a chorus of glad welcomes that minions 01 treasure could not buy for the childless man that even he would not forego for Dives' Persian rugs and gilded state. juai summer j. was sauntering alontr a street a little way out of the current of the city's busy trade. I noticed a cottage with a latticed porch, over which ran a mass of dark rreen vines. A flowr wH flu -1 space between the house and the neat fencethat shut it from the street, and a pretty walk bordered with common white shells led up to the side door, through which 1 saw the din ner table spread and evidently waiting somebody's coming. I confess that the white cloth, the tasteful arrangment of the dishes, and a bunch of lilac blossoms (all of which I saw at a glance) impressed me as in charming keeping with the clean and cozy aspect of the surroundings. I was so full of these thines that I did not at first notice what I now recall with a glow of pleasure, and which made me young again for a mouth after the event. Standing by the open gate was a woman of perhaps twenty-three. Her face was eloquent of health and radiant with the double joy of happy wifehood and motherhood. She wore a neatly-fitting calico dress, her hair was coquettishly arranged, and her well rounded, erect figure expressed the organic grace and elasticity which belong in the highest degret to the type of woman of which she is a striking representative. Held high up in her arms was a baby girl that might have been two -years old. It was obviously her first baby. The soft hair was carefully brushed, and a dainty white dress was Bet off with a pink knot at either shoulder. It leaped in its mother's arms and clapped its hands with eager delight on catching sight of a figure coming down the walk nearly a block distant. 'Sou," said the mother. ' Baby's papa's coming." And Papa! papal papal" answered the child, accompanying each repetition of the word with an effort to spring into the air. The picture held me rooted to the spot, and when the husband and father approached near enough I saw a manly, proud and happy face, the sight of which sent the blood dancing through my own veins and revived recollections of the time, long gone, when I might have been one of a like radiant group. He wore a blue jean oversuit and his face was swart with the soot exhalations of the forge; but his square shoulders, firm tread, clear eye and unconscious strength were his unmistakable patent of manhood. It was not strange that the pretty mother at the gate hailed his coming with a beaming face and bounding heart. I did not wonder that his ringing step quickened at the sight, on which even a stranger, with frosted and sluggish blood, could not look without ple&suraole emotion. One need not enter that cottage to know that in its sweet and wholesome air thrives a blest and holy union of hearts and hands. I shall never forget that summer noonday picture, nor shall I ever cease to be grattul for the chance that led me near that cottage gate. The treasures of the Louvre could not move and thrill me as did that simple fresh and bloomful touch of nature. It was like an unexpected waft of the odor of new mown hay in the heart ot the blistered aad reeking city. There is in my gallery of happy homes another picture, a glimpse of which I shall try to show you as we pass. The house is old and queer and roomy, abounding in odd nooks that seem to be a happy mediun between the cozy and the ghostly. Once it was full of children. A boy, the pride and dear hope of this home, went forth in early man hood and never came back. There is on a wall of the family room, a portrait of a handsome, dashing soldier, who perished in one of the wild calvary charges of the American Civil War. The silent shadow, and the spurs and saber of the gallant officer, that hang just under it, tell the pathetic story of this home's bereavement. There -was sad and troubled hearts

there for many a , day, but time and duty to ' the ' living have amiaged their anguish, , and they are patient. If other gloom passed over this household it left no sign, and I believe that

there is not in all this land another home so busy, so cheery, so attractive and peaceful as thi. I am afraid to say how many girls it holds, all winsome, and all quite untram. meled by the cant end superstition that dvarf and crook so many women's lives. TLey adore tneir mother, with whom it is a standing pleasantry that she can not drive them out ior a halt a aav because they are so fond of her. Dear heart I She some times forgets that she is worthy of her girls adoration. I can not resist this tempting opportunity to betrav one of the closely guarded secrets of that happy home, but the truth is, the mother has somehow always managed to keep just a little in advance of her children in the intellectual race. Her heart andbrainare stamped upon all her dauehters. now trrown to splendid womanhood and some of them mothers and she has in ber husband a lover as devoted now as when the unbroken romance of their loves began. He recently said to me with a kindlintr face, "We have been married more than forty years, and, old egotist that 1 am, l think mv witeis an angel now. It is an inexpressible satisfac tion to me to be able truthfully to say that in that long lapse of vcars no shadow of misunderstanding has disturbed the current of our.affection. I 8a v this proudly perhaps, but not loss humbly and gratefully. 1 had a dying experience a lew days ago ( don't start in that incredulous way; it's a fact) and out of that experience came a won denul confirmation of the belief I have long cherished; that an old fellow may doachiv a!rous and lovtr like act as v -11 as those wh tmnk they monopolize all the romance. 1 was visiting a friend when a sudden stroke (I'm told it was apoplexy) felled me. A physician was at hand, fortunately in a mo ment, and did that which saved my life. I remember that when he came he said that I could not live ten minutes. Believe me, my only thought in what I then had, no doubt, was my dying hour, ran through the little remnant of my mind in the form of a most anxious wish that they would break the news my death to my wife gently. Could there be a more touching or convinc ing proof of supreme unselfishness? That is the key in which all the exquisite music, the divine harmonies, of that house are sung. The only joy which any member of the fam ily reserves for self is that of seemjr. all the others happy. "All this house of love is peopled fair With iM attendance, ao Mint in mich part Witb lorely aigbt are gentle face found. Soft apeech and willing rervlce, each one glad To gladden, pleased at pleasure, proud to obej; And life doth glide beguiled, like a smooth stream Banknt by perpetual flow'." The Maddest Woman. Probably there have been madder women than this one was, but we have never seen one near as mad she seemed to be. She was going along down street on Thursday when it was raining, ana she had an umbrella, two I packages in yellow papers,and a shoppin On Diddle street there was a place whe g-bag ere the sidewalk had been torn up to allow builders to haul out clav for a cellar. The workmen had gone in somewhere out of the rain, and nobodv had thought to put down any loose boards. Xhe clay was fresh and sticky, and about four inches deep. She hesitated, and looked back as though she thought it would be wise to go back a block and go around the mud, but finally concluded to go through it. Putting her packages under her arms. and holding the umbrella firmly, she stepped both feet into the clay, lhat was easy enough, but when she undertook to remove one foot the rubber shoe came off. She be gan to look mad then, but she was not half as mad as she got to be in a couple of minutes. She tried to get her foot back into the rubber as it stuck in the mud, and came near tipping over trying to balance on one foot, but by jabbing her umbrella into the mud she saved herself from sitting down sideways. Then she got both feet into her overshoes and tried to step. She couldn't rescue those shoes to save her. Then she looked around to see if anybody was looking. She bent over and took hold of one of the rubbers with her hand and finally coaxed it to come along with her foot, but while she was doing that one of her packages fell out from under her arm behind. She tried to turn around to pick it up, but her rubbers had become fastened in the yielding clay, and they would not move. At ,his point she began to get mad. Her warm colored hair flashed fire, her eyes snapp?d, her face turned the color of a red wheelbarrow, and she looked around for a man to kill. It was the most awful sight ever witnessed by mortal man. For fully three minutes she stood there, and then she took her feet out of those rubbers, picked the muddy things up in her hands and waded ashore, her delicate gaiters going into the clay clear up to her shoe strings. "When she got on to the plank walk on Van Buren street, she wiped her feet off on the fence, and after looking around for , the author of her ruin for a lew miuutes she went away, looking back at every step as though the fate of the person who left that sidewalk open was sealed. It is said that a woman has been seen for two nights walking up and down the street, with a mountain howitzer strapped to her back, looking vainly for game that is out of season. Well, she had a right to be mad. The Scales and the Sword. Prof. Too Ibering of tba University "f Goettingtu. All the law in the world has been obtained by strife. Every principle of law which man obtains had first to be wrung by force from those who denied it; and evry legal right the legal rights of a whole nation as well as those of individuals supposes a continual readiness to assert ti and defend it. The law is not mere theory, but living force. And hence it is that J ustice, which in one hand holds the scales in which she weighs the right, carries in the other the sword with which she executes it. The sword without the scales is brute force, the scales without the sword is the impotence of law. The scales and the sword belong together, and the state of the law is perfect only where the power with which Justice carrries the sword is equaled by the skill with which she holds the scales. Law is an uninterrupted labor, and not of the State power only, but of the entire peo pie. The entire life of the law embraced in one glance, presents U9 with the same spectacle of restless striving and working of a whole nation, afforded by its activity in the domain of economic and intellectual production Every individual placed in a positlnn in whinh he is comDelled to defend his i i ..l . : iv;. -r it. legal rigniB taxes yai iu tu is num 01 mo nation, and contributes his mite toward the realization of the idea of law on earth.

OUU GARDENER.

What lie Known About Onion -Spring Gardenlpg. The first, and one of the moßt important things to be done, is to turn the ground over. l he best way to do this is to take an Irishman and a spade. In two days, and for a jmpensation of about $3, he will turn over a plot of ground which looks small indeed to you, but which will seem almost as large as the Sxate of Iowa by the time you have, with hoe and rake got it into proper condition for planting. In ornamental gardening you have to mash up all the clods in other words get things down fine. In real farming this is not done the clods are merely pushed to one side or jumped over, whenco the origin of the term "clod-hopper," One of the first things generally put in the ground is onions. Now, the onion is a very peculiar article. The old savin c, "In union there is strength," is evidently a misspelling of this famous vesetable. The first onions in the "West were discovered at Davenport, but there is a legend that they originally came from "Wethersfield, Conn. The varieties of onions are innumerable almost as much so as the sands on the seashore. They all, however, agree in one thing they are al! strong; they also all smell alike, and there are people who dont like the smell Thero is the red onion and the white onion, the winter onion and the spring onion, the wild onion and the tame onion; the onion from the set and the onion from the seed : the top onion and the root onion, the silver-skinned ouion and the rough onion Some kinds you take a root, set it out, then pull it in the fall, take the top and shell out the seed, plant the seed next year, and from the seed you get a set ; put out the set, the succeeding season, and trom this set you will have, if the season is favorable, neither too wet nor too dry, hot or cold, and if you don't set it out too late nor too soon, and don't let the weeds get in it, and if you pull it when it is exactly ripe, in the course of just three sea sons, a good, solid, substantial on ion, at a cost not to exceed $ 1 per onion. If it costs you more than that, raising onions is not your forte, and you had better quit it. All the same there is great satisfaction in being able to say you raised it yourself. And if you do cat it up quick, you can taste it for a week afterward. The best way, however, to raise onions, is to go and buy your sets. 1 ou can purchase onion sets for about what the onions would be worth when they arrive at maturity, provided the set3 would all grow. The fact that they won't an come up, makes onion raising in this way, as Mrs. Partington would remark, "Somewhat coßtive. lhe onion a .a a sets are inserted in the prepared ground in straight rows, which rows are generally made with the handle of the hoe or rake. It is not very material which. Thev are also to be planted "in the moon." Many of our readers may not know what this means. We are not proud, but if we were proud of anything it would be that we have a good, practical agricultural education. By "planting in the moon," is not meant that the roots are reallv to be deposited on the surface of the celestial orb, but are to be de posited in mother earth at a certain Btage or Ehase of the moon. The theory is, vegetales that are of a rooty nature should be planted in what is commonly known as "the dark oft hemoon;" those whi;h are reQtiiiwl to go to top In the licht of the moon." Now, the onion is ol a peculiar nature, Some people prefer the top, and some the root. Reasoning from analoev, vour duty is plain, xou want to and then you have it. Another thing must be borne in mind. More weeds will grow between and around onions than can be forced into the ground around any other vegetables. And the man who expects to raise onions without labor is apt to be mis taken. The way to pull onions is by the tops. The reprehensible practice indulged in by some of undertaking to get under the onion and uproot it or pull it down the other way can not be too severely reprobated. Another thing don't raise onions in a gar den to sell. But if you are fond of them you can probably make away with all you can raise. My sweetheart haa a red-brown beard, And bo n nie eyea of blue Of no ten men is he afear'd, To on wee maid he'a troe; For I atand lowly by hia aide, A lily by a yew. He took a bullock by the head, And bore the bollock down He threw John Plumber'a lamp of lead From Gallow'a-hill to towa And yet hia arm around my waiat, Is toft aa satin gown. Ton may hare brighter eyea than mine. And better-colored hair; Your hands may be more white and fine, Tour tightened waist more spare. Ton charm all other men I him, I want no charm you bear. Tinsley's Magatine. Prophetic Dreams. When we come to supernatural dreams, ays a writer in Temple Bar, we tread on dangerous ground, and must be cautious: for skeptics have eyes like the eagle, weapons of opposition keen and sharp edged, and are as jealous and solicitious about the uniformity of nature's law as a lover of his mistress. It must be frankly admitted that powers and influences of a natural kind may be at work in producing dreams of which we are igno rant, but which may some day be discovered bv the ever briehtenine eye of science. But provisionally, at all events, we must claim for some dreams a higher origin. By such dreams as these, great and crushing evils have been avoided, the innocent spared, and the euiltv detected. Some years ago, it is related. a peddler was murdered in the north of Scotland, and tne crime remameu ior a long time a mystery. At length a man came forward and declared that he had had a dream in which there was shown to him a house, and a voice directed him to a spot near the house where was buried the pack of the murdered man; and on search being made the pack was actually found near the spot. At first it was thought that the dreamer was himself the murderer, but the man who had been accused confessed the crime, and said that the dreamer knew nothing about it. It turned out afterward that the murderer and the dreamer had been drinking together for several days a short time after the murder. It has been suggested, as a possible solution, that the murderer allowed statements to escape him while under the influence of drink which had beea recalled to the other in his dream, thoutrh he had not the slightest remembrance of them in his sober hours. A gentleman dreamt his house was on fire, and the dream made so vivid an impression that he immediately returned, saw it on fire indeed, and was jutt in time to save one of his children from the flames. A lady dreamt 9 1).. un orraA fomtla rolativA bad hon muri " .v,.. . . dered by a black servant, and this dream was repeated so often that she repaired to

the old lady's house, and set a gentleman to

watch in the night. About Z o clock in the morning the black servant was discovered going to his mistress' room, as he said, w ith coals to mend the fire a sufficiently absurd excuse at such an hour in the middle of summer. The truth was apparent when a strong knife was found buried beneath the coals. The coincidences of dreams are very remarkable. For two persons to dream the same thing, al the same time, in different places and under dinerent circumstances exceeds the power of chance, boundless as that pretends to be. A Mr. Joseph Tavlor relates that a bov re siding at a school a hundred miles from home dreamt that be went to his lather s bouse, found all closed for the night but the back door, went into his mother's room and found her awake. 4I come to bid you good bye," he said, "I am going on along journey." She answered with great trembling, "O dear son, thou art dead!" And he awoke. Soon after he received a letter from his father making anxious inquiries after his health, in consequence of a frightful dream which bis mother had on the same night, and which was exactly identical with his. even to the very words of the conversation. Fortunately no sad results followed, though it may have proved a warning to the boy in some inscrut able manner unknown to his mends. The case of the gentlcniau from Cornwall who dreamt eight days before the event that he saw Mr. Percival murdered in the lobby of the House of Commons by Dcllingham, and distinctly recogniz'Ml from prints, after the murder, both the assassin and his victim, whom he had never seen previously, seems capable only of a supernatural explanation, especially when it is remembered that the gentleman was with difficulty dissuaded by his friends from going to London to warn Mr. Percival (known to him in his dream as the Chancellor of the Exchequer). He urgt d that it had occured three times in the same night, but his friends thinking it a fool's errand, he allowed the matter to drop till the news of the murder rudely resuscitated it. A lady of our acquaintance about to change her habitation saw in sleep an exact picture of her future home, and from her dream alone could recognize the rooms and passages. We tried to account for this to her by saying the dream really influenced her conduct, and that when she met with a house answering to her dream, 6he was naturally predisposed to take it. A gentleman from Yorkshire formed one of a party tor visiting the exrihition of 18G2. A few days before leaving for London he had a most vivid dream of the Tower, the armory and more especially the room in which the regalia and crown jewels are kept. He heard the old woman who showed the room address the audience, and treasured up carefully her very peculiarities of voice, dress, manner and features, and created considerable amusement among his friends by mimicking the phantom show-woman when he awoke. He went to London at the proper time, and of course visited the Tower, where he was astounded and somewhat sobered by the phantom's counterpart, which was identical in every respect. Several years ago the newspapers were filled with details of a horrible murder, of which the facts, related lrom memory, seem to be these: Mrs. Martin, the wife of a farmer, was in terrible distress of mind because her daughter Maria was missing. It was foarcd fhe had been murdered by her sweetheart in a fit of jealousy and hidden somewhere. For a long time no trace of the body could be found. At length the mother had a dream, in which it was revealed to her that the corpse of her child was buried under the barn floor. This proved to be the case, and the body was recovered, and the murderer detected. The mother of a medical student dreamt that ber son had got into serious trouble in London, and could not rest till she left her home in the Midland Counties and sought him out. To her sorrow the dream was painfully verified, and the consequences might have been serious if she hed not arrived in time. A barrister ot great penetration relates the story of a lady who dreamt that a railway guard was killed in a collision. She described the man and the circumstances so faithfully that there was no difficulty in identifying the guard (who was actually killed the same night in a lamentable accident) as the man she saw in her dream. The lady rarely left home, and the guard was quite unknown to her. Bonaparte and Poverty. A curious letter, said to have been written by Napoleon I. to his father, when the future Emperor was a mere child and a pupil at the military-school at Brienne, has just been published in France. It is dated April 6, 1781, and runs thus: 'Father, if you or my Erotectors can not afford me the means of ving more honorably in this house, bring me back home at once. Iam tired of proclaiming my indigence, and of seeing the sneers of insolent scholars, whom nothing but their fortune elevates above me, but there is not one who is not a hundred 'pikes' below the noble sentiments .which animate me. Is your son to remain the laughing-stock of a few paltoquets, who, vain of their own means of enjoyment, insultjne by smiling at my privations? If you are unable to afford me any improvement of my position here, take me away from Brienne, and put me into some mechanical position. From this offer you may judge of my despair. Please believe that my letter has not been dictated by the vain desire of indulging in expensive amusements, which I have no taste for. I only want to be able to show that I have the means of procuring them like my companions. Your respectful and affectionate son, Bonaparte." French Households. Stories of French life, when told by writers of real experience and sympathy, have often a peculiar delicacy and charm reflected from the simplicity of French domestic life and tone of frien dly equality which is so frequently found in the French households. This is of course most generally applicable to homes in the Provinces, but it is more or less true of the whole country. French servants can be admitted closer to the persons of the heads of the houses and are treated with more familiarity, because they are sure of their own position and do not want to overstep it. The general tone of the household is, as a rule, easier, more considerate, more goodhumored than we are apt to find it elsewhere. Naughty children are reasoned with rather than scolded, and in point of fact they are not often naughty. The mais, uionami, has a persuasive rather than angered tone with it. It may be only on the surface, but it gives a pleasant polish to daily life, and. makes it easier to be cheerful and gay. An Illinois racehorse is named 'ChicagoGirl." Of course it U very fast. Bostoa Post. . . s