Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 14, Number 1, Jasper, Dubois County, 9 February 1872 — Page 7

Horn and Frieud. O there' a lnwer U make each hour A.sweet M heuven designedit; NW wer". "'".'"".iTThough l. w thrre le lhl find it. We geek tuu high for things c , by. And loe what nature found us : For life htti her M friend, ho dear As ioaiaaiid friend around u. W e oft destroy th e present for future hope -mUwnkm them. While flowers waet bloom at our feet. If w'd but itoop to rake them ; For tliirnt afr mill sweeter are When youth' brifhtupell hath bound u; Uutioon wo're taught the earth hath naught Like home and friend around u. The friend that apeed in time of need, When hope' laft reed t haken. Do how a tili that, come what will. We aj not quite forsaken. Though all were nlht. if but the light From friendship' altar crowned u. Twould prove th bim of earth u th : Our home and friend around u. Farm and Garden. The Agriculture of To day. What wo realize to day in the homo life of the industrial men of America; in their methods and in their relations to each other; in their independence, thrift, culture and intelligence, is so different from that of twenty years ago that to close our eyes and strive to recall the past and then open them upon the present, is like waking from a Kip Van Winkle slumber. The then and now are connected with a chain of industrial events, too long to be catalogued, that have brought to the working people of this country elements of iower and prosperity which they have not been glow to mould for their own use. Then it was common to talk of the dignity of labor to preach that it was honorable, as if it were doubted; and it was doubted then. But now the politician does not use that palate-tickler. The dignity of labor depends upon the accomplishments of the laborer. Labor does not necessarily dignify any one ; but it is always honorable if honorably performed with an honest purpose. Upon the man depends the dignity and honor of the work he does. And to-day agriculture is more honored because agriculturists are more intelligent, cultivated, and better business men than they were twenty years ago. Life to day in rural homes and on American farms means and is more to our people than ever before. Culture and refinement are rapidly taking the place of ignorance and boorishness. Our school system and the cosmopolitan character of our life innovate upon the old time traditions and habits and break up the trammels which within our memory, bound men down to a plodding, dreary, and almost hopeless life of toil. There are brighter Lome and happier faces in the country to-day. Social life has assumed new phases and we begin to see the dawn of what is to be in the future a higher and better typo for the American farmer. There are too few thinkers, too few calculators, too few disciplined minds among agriculturists, although the necessities of modern business are fast begetting them. We cannot help congratulating the young men upon the farms and in the gardens of to-day, upon their better opportunities, and the young women upon the rapid decrease of the social chasm which separates them from those who occupy the highest positions in American homes. Rural New Yorker. Treatment of Bees. As it is impossible to obtain queens early enough in spring to save queenless stocks, it is advisable to unite such stocks with other stocks that are weak, or rather with stocks that have become greatly depopulated during winter. This will often prove of great benefit to a stock weak in point of numbers. The addition of more bees increases the heat in the hive and causes the queen to lay a greater number of eggs, and the stock increases in numbers far more rapidly than it otherwise would have done. The hive and combs which contained the queenless stock should be well ' leaned after the bees are removed, and carefully saved for another swarm. A hive well filled with combs is of great value, as a swarm put into such a hive is at once prepared to gather honey and store it away. The old combs are cleaned very rapidly, and as there is no comb to build, nearly all the bees can go to the field for honey, bee biead, etc.

Hiits for the Housewife. To Remove the Taste of New Wood. A new keg, churn, bucket, or other wooden vessel, will generally communicate a disagreeable taste to anything that is put into it. To prevent this inconvenience, first scald the vessel with boiling water, letting the water remain in it till cool. Then dissolve some pearlash, or soda, in lukewarm water, adding a little lime to it, and wash the vessel well with this solution. Afterward scald it well with plain hot water, snd rinse it well before vou use it. To Make a Washing Fluid. Take salcoda, 1 pound ; unslacked lime, pound: put them in five quarts af water, and boil a short time, stirring occasionally; then set off to cool, and after the liquid has settled, pour it into a stone jug and cork for use. Soak your white clothes until they are wet through ; wring out, and soap the wristbands and dirty places. Have your boiler or kettle half filled with water, and when at scalding heat put in one common teacupful of the fluid. Stir it well, then put in your clothes and boil half an hour; then take out and rub through one suds only, rinsing well in the blueing water, and your clothes will look better when dried than if rubbed through two suds before boiling. Painting Roofs. A correspondent relates his experience n psmting roofs as follows: To me ther? seems to be no doubt that it is economy to paint the roofs of all buildings. Five years ngo I built a barn and jgP! lce hou8e l'1 standing in the shade of laree tree. The ice-house

roof 1 had painted as soon a finished; the barn was not, and a ortioii of the roof is covered with moss, and the shingles almost rotted through, while those on the ice-house seem to be as soand as when tiiht put on. I have also tried the same experiment on buildings not shaded, and am convinced that a man cannot atlbr 1 to allow any chingle roof to go unpainted, at least if he expects to own it many years. Having just finished a new barn, I had my men paint the roof before the scaffolding was taken down, it being more convenient to do it before than after removal. I use for this purpose white lead and lin seed oil, adding coloring to give the shade desired.

New Anecdotes of Lord Byrou. At a time when Coleridge was in great embarrassment, Rogers, when calling on Byron, chanced to mention it. lie immediately went to his writing-desk, and brought back a check for XI 00, and insisted on its being forwarded to Coleridge. " I did not like taking it," said Rogers, who told me the story, " for I knew that he was in want of it him self." His servants he treated with a gentle consideration for their feelings which I have seldom witnessed in any other, and they were devoted o him. At Newstead there was an old man who who had been butler to his mother ; and I have seen Byron, as the old man waited behind his chair at dinner, pour out a gla-s of wine and pass it to him when he thought we were too much engaged in conversation to observe what he was doing. The transaction was a thing of custom ; and both parties seemed to flatter themselves that it was clandestinely effected. A hideous old woman, who had been brought in to nurse him when he was unwell at one of his lodgings, and whom few would have cared to retain about them longer than her services were required, was carried with him, in improved attire, to his chambers in the Albany, and was seen, after his marriage, gorgeous in black silk, at his house in Piccadilly. She had done him a service, and he could not forget it. Of his attachment to his friends, no one can read "Moore's Life' and entertain a doubt. He required a deal from them not more, perhaps, than he, from the abundance of his life, ireely and fully gave, but more than they had to return. The ardor of his nature must have been in a normal state of disappointment, lie imagined higher qualities in them than they possessed, and must very often have found his expectations sadly balked by the dullness of talk, the perversity of taste, or the want of enthusiasm which he encountered on a better, or rather longer acquaintance. But notwithstanding. I have never yet heard anybody complain that Byron had once appeared to entertain a regard for him, and had afterward capriciously cast him off. Years after they had met for the last time. Lady Byron went with Mrs. .lameson to see Thorwaldsen's statue of her husband,which was at Sir Bichard Westmacott's studio. After looking at it in silence for a few minutes, the tears came into her syes. and she said to her companion, " It is very beautiful, but not 60 beautiful as my dear Byron." However, interrupted by changes of caprice or irritability, the general course of her husband's conduct must have been gen tie and tender, or it never would, after so long a cessation of intercourse, have left such kindly impressions behind it. I have, indeed, reason to believe that these feelings of affectionate remembrance lingered in the heart of Lady Byron to the last. Not a fortnight before her death I dined in company with an old lady who was at the time on a visit to her. On this lady returning home, and mentioning whom she had met, Lady Byron evinced great curiosity to lean hat subjects we had talked about, te.id what I had heard of them, because I had been such a friend of her husband's." This instance of fond remembrance, after an interval of more than forty years, in a woman of no very sensitive nature a woman of more intellect than feeling conveys to my mind no slight argument in defense of Byron's conduct as a husband. The New Chicago. The work of rebuilding the "Garden City" is going forward with great energy. The new Sherman House will be of stone, in the renaissance style of architecture, more solid in external appearance, and more elaborate than before. It will be six stories in height, with attic roof and basement. The basement will be occupied for business purt loses, the first story for the office of the lotel. The contract for the stone work of the new Chamber of Commerce has been let for a little over eighty thousand dollars, the work to be done in June. The Common Council of the city are considering a plan for compelling all railroads to enter the city limits by the three main routes, one in each Division, giving to the companies room for two tracks and facilities for erecting commodious depots. A New Propelling Power. A BufJalo man mu ;t have the credit for tho most novel invention yet proposed for propelling boats on the canal. The power is not attached to the boat, and the entire body of water in the canal is moved, and the current thus created is used as the propelling power. The plan embraces a wall laid in the centre of the canal its entire length, dividing it into two equal channels. At tho head of each level is placed an immersed wheel of peculiar construction, which is moved by a stationary engine, and the action of which is to throw the water from one of the channels into the other. A current is thus created from the ma ','inery in one channel and toward it in the other. Tas New York World calls Congress the " Cave of the Winds."

A Leap Year Story. It has lor.g been the custom among the young men that utt nd the Wextbrook (Me.; Seminary to secure the services of some good musician for Saturday evening sociables, und to pay him by contributions. A Portland musician has done the fiddling for this term, and though bis charges are moderate, the continual draw upon the slender purses of the boys at last so drained them that they concluded they could not afford to pay him last Saturday evening, but made arrangements to have piano music. The young ladies got wind of this, and, being unwilling to dance to the dull music of a piano when a violin could be had for ten cents apiece, they clubbed together, raised the required amount, and notified the same musician that he would be wanted. The time for the dance to begin came. The piano was in position and the pianist on hand, the boys being unaware that the girls had played leap year upon them, when, to their consternation, in walked the musician, and began to fiddle furiously. A more sheepish-looking set of boys cannot be imagined. They looked from one to the other in dismay, and involuntarily clutched their remaining five cent pieces, undecided whether to give up all or to throw themselves upon the mercy of the knight of the string, but finally deposited their co h balance in the hands of a deputy, with instructions to pay the bill or perish in the attempt, when they were informed that the young ladies had done that part for them, and were now waiting for partners. So, with a sickly smile, they crooked their elbows to the waiting damsels and walked on to the floor, inwardly resolved that they would never be caught in a similar manner again. A Novel Ceremony. From the Sao Diego (Cat.) l oion, Dec 31. The ceremony of choosing compadres and comadres for the coming year a custom peculiar to the people of Spain

and Mexico is to be performed upon the advent of the ew i ear by some of the ladies of this city. The custom is an old one, and its origin dates back many years. The manner of its performance is as follows : The names of ladies and gentlemen known to be mutually acquainted are written upon slips of paper and deposited in hats, the name of a lady being drawn simultaneously from one hat with that of a gentleman from another, the two whose names are thus drawn to be compadres MM comadres to each other for the year. The obligations incurred toward each other by the relationship are very simple. The gentleman is to be the escort of the lady on any and every occasion that she may desire : and she, in turn, must consider herself engaged for any .tnd every entertainment which he may wish to attend. Of course, the relationship can be dissolved by mutual consent, either temporarily or permanently, during the period for which the agreement is made. 1 tie custom is an agreeable one in this particular, that it insures to both lady and gentleman an escort or companion, thus doing away with the disagreeable incidents wnich sometimes occur through not having partners for an entertainment. And it also secures to the lady having a eompadre the positive certainty of having some one to dance with st every ball. How Connecticut Elects Her Representatives. A strong effort is to be made, at the next session of the Connecticut Legislature, to alter the existing basis of representation in that State. The singular fact is stated, that by tie Constitution, Representatives are elected, not from districts apportioned according to population, but from towns, with the proviso that all towns incorporated before 1785, whatever their size, shall have two Representatives, when all incorporated since have only one each. Thus Union, with 800 inhabitants, has twice as many Representatives as Bridgeport, a city of 30,000 people. The flagrant injustice of allowing a vote in Union to counterbalance 85 votes in Bridgeport i so evident that it seems as if the proposed return would be adopted at once. But the Land of Steady Habits clings to its reverence for age. Under the present system, the country towns control all the legislation, and their papers are bringing forward the specious plea that the large cities are so corrupt that it is necessary to keep power as much as possible out of their hands. Whether this application of the Jesuitical maxim of doing evil that good may come will be able to defeat the reform, is uncertain. The country voters will be naturally unwilling to give up their present advantages ; but the system is too unnatural to resist the pressure of public opinion long. Not so Poor as Ho Appeared to Be. A very Noah's ark of a vagrant was committed to the Pittsfield Jail on Saturday. I-ast spring he was arrested for vagrancy, and paid his fine and lawyer's fees and was clear, but for this second offense he was sentenced for six mnnih to the House of Correction. After paying his lawyer promptly, he was taken to the jail and searched. He was not a stout man to look upon, but he wore on his person seven shirts, five pairs of pants, two vest, and two coats. Every pocket of every garment that would hold anything was filled with all conceivable kinds of trash, little less than a bushel in all, consisting in part of psper, twine, thread, needles, pieces of cloth, handkerchiefs, mittens, gloves, a dozen half-munched apples, scraps of bread and cheese, lumps of soap, beeswax, scissors, rusty nails, old junk, etc. Besides this trash, there was found between ninety and one hundred dollars in cash, and a four-year check for eighteen dollars. Springfield (Mass.) Republican.

Secrets of Masonry. Zach. Wheeler was quite a character in his time, being a clever, easy-going, confiding man, who managed to let everybody cheat him of his inherited estates. Just ss the farm was about to slip from his hands, he succeeded in raising money to Uft the mortgsge. Aaron Reenter, u prominent Mason, ac companied him to the town. As they were riding along on horseback, Zach. says to Aaion in a confiding tone: " Now, Aaron, as we are all alone, I want you to tell me the secrets of Masonry." 44 1 can't, Zach ; they would kill me." u Why, they won't know; they will never find it out." ' Yes they will ; you'll speak of it." " No, I swear I won't." "Well, if you'll ride close along side me, and put your hand on my thigh, and take the oath, I'll tell you the secrets of Masonry." Zach. was not slow to comply, and a most powerful iron-ciad oath was administered and taken. "Well," said Aaron, with much solemnity and secrecy, " in the first place, we Masons combine to cheat everybody as much as we can. This is the first grand secret. The second is like unto it. When we can't find anybody else to cheat, we cheat each other, but as little as we can." " Well," exclaimed Zach., with evident surprise, " 1 swear I'll join ; I wish I had done it twenty years ago 1 might have been a rich man before now." A Royal Divorce Suit. It is telegraphed that the Princess Teck is about to separate from her husband, in consequence of his alleged unfaithfulness. If, says the New York World, this be true, she will be introducing a novelty into court circles. It would seem as though the average princely husband considered himself above the ordinary restraints of marriage and acted upon the assumption that a royal birth exempted princess from the action of the seventh commandment. Certainly there would be a fine harvest of divorce cases were the empresses, queens, and princesses of: Europe to take exception to the marital improprieties of their husbands. The domestic troubles of the Princess Teck will be greatly regretted in England, where she has always been personally popular. As the Princess Mary of Cambridge, she remained single for a long period, her failure to secure an eligible husband being generally imputed to the fact that though she was undoubtedly good and sensible there was rather too much of her her weight being rather appalling. The German princeling who finally married her has never b en liked by the English people, and will now be more unpopular than ever. A Brief Courtship. At Manhattan, O., on Christmas eve, a young man from Toledo joined a small party lor the purpose of spending the evening in a social manner and enjoying the pleasure of " tripping the light fantastic toe." During a pause in the dancing, a male friend bantered him in reran! to his power to charm the fair sex and win their affection, finally declaring that he would wager $1 that no young lady present in the room could be induced under any consideration to marry him. The young man declared he knew better, and accepted the wager, when a young lady who had overheard the conversation said she would marry him. The novel offer was not made quicker than it was accepted. A Justic? of the Peace who happened to be present responded to the call, and in the presence of the astonished witnesses pronounced the couple man and wife. The husband, who, by the way, is not liable to be driven to insanity by reason of surplus wealth, chuckles over the fact that he won the wager so easily, and that thus far he has had no cause for repentance in regard to his hasty exit from the path leading to old bachelorhood. Elephantine Dentistry. One of the most singular operations in dentistry ever heard of was the removal of a large excrescence on the

back tooth of an elephant, which had grown into the poor brute's cheek, and almost prevented his feeding. One of the keepers voluntered to remove it. He got a good thick log of wood, arid made a hole through it large enough for his arm to pass. Outside he covered it all over with nails, leaving about a quarter of an inch of each sticking out of the wood. The elephant was made to lie down and fastened with hobbles, while the log thus prepared was placed in his mouth like a bit, and bound with roies across hi? neck. Twenty or thirty persons now sat upon his head and trunk (if these lie kept down an elephant cannot rise from his side), and the operator introduced disarm through the hole and began to saw off the protuberance. He took several houis to effect it, the elephant after awhile lying perfectly still, with the expression of a martyr in his upturned eye. The piece sawn off was as large as one's fist ; and the anirau. got perfectly well very soon afteward. A Honey Farm. C. Dadant, of Hamilton, near Keokuk, Iowa, owns forty acres of land, the the whole of which is cultivated with reference to the advantage of his honey gatherers. He raises clover, buckwheat, several garden flowers, and has a number of linden, willow and cherry trees Elauted, to supply food for comb and oney. At present there are 1G8 stocks of bees on hand. The past year he sold 4.000 pounds of honey at 25 cents, and about $700 worth of bees. The swarms are arran-zed in rows near the ground. The Quimby hive is used, and the settlement looks like a citv of dwarfs. The Italian queens are preferred.

Our Dor Nel. I always disliked dogs, and was one day quite disgusted when my husband came home with a small specimen of a rut terrier following him. She came up to me at once, and in her doggish way tried to make friends. In no very pleasant, and yet rather measured tones, I said : " Here, you go out of this room, and never come in again unless I call you." Nelgavemeone of herknowing looks, but waited, as much as to say, Do you mean that? " Yes, go miss, go now." She turned, and in a very subdued way trotted off, and never after would enter the room unless I called her. My husband at the time bade her come in, but she only came to the door, and looked at us both wishfully. Every other room in the house she entered freely, but the combined invitations of the whole family could not coax her to enter that apartment without permission, but if I said "Come, Nel," her joy knew no bounds, and she came to me at one: with very lavish caresses. This conduct so won my affection that I suffered her to remain with us, and she has now been for years a member of our family. Last summer I used to watch her as she brought up her young family of pups in our back yard. Whenever I made her a visit she expressed the most unbounded delight, and the little ones also joined in jumping and barking out a welcome. My visits had always been made in my working wrapper, so it chanced one morning when dressed for church, that I went to the back door, and the little ones faded to recognize me in my strange dress. Nel rushed forward with her usual welcome, but the pups barked angrily at me, until at length Nel lost her patience at their ill-manners, like any other respectable mother, and turned sharply round, and striking them right and left with her paws, sent them sprawling wherever they happened to fall a discomfitted but now quiet family. She then continued her attentions to me, quite regardless of the effect of her hasty but effective discipline. Youth's Companion, a Daring Aeronaut. Young Donaldson, who made a balloon ascension at Reading, Pa., on the 3uth of August last, and jef formed a series of trapeze faats when a mile or more from the earth, repeated his thrilling performance in Norfolk, Va., on Monday last. There was no basket to the balloon, but its place was supplied by a trapeze similar to those used by

circus performers, and above tne trapeze was placed a hoop, secured to which was a suit of heavy clothing to be used by the aerial voyager when he encountered the cold current. The Norfolk Journal, in describing the ascension, says that when the balloon was released from its moorings and reached a great altitude, Donaldson suddenly, and apparently with little effort, threw himself into a sitting posture on the bar, kissing his hand to the crowd below. Suddenly, pretending to lose his balance, he fell backward, sliding head downward until he caught by his toes on the side-ropes that suspended the trapeze bar. In this perilous position he swung to and fro several seconds a time which seemed an age to the awestricken crowd below. Throwing himself back in hiB seat on the bar, the aeronaut sat astride the same. Then began a series of gymnastic evolutions balancing himself on his back, turning over and " skinning the cat" by the side ropes, &c. Upward grandly and steadily rose the balloon, cleaving the air like a mighty bird. When the balloon was a mere speck in the distance, invisible to the naked eye, and almost through powerful telescopes, the man with nerves of steel and the heart of a lion repeated his daring trapeze feat of hanging head downward suspended by his toes. Such a scene was never before witnessed in Norfolk, and seldom anywhere in the world. Living on Sixpence a Week. Isaac Smalls, of urewick, near Wakefield, can live on sixpence a week. In a letter to a contemporary he ex plains how he manages to live on so small a sum. " Living in the country as I do," he says, " I am unable to obtain what are known as luxuries, even if mv means could afford them ; but I have the advantage of living near a mill, and from the miller I buy the refuse of his flour, for which I pay 4d once a week. This is the staple of my food. I make of this my own bread, the salt, j east, &c, cost next to noth ing. I vary this meal with occasionally apple dumplings, being able to buy about a dozen apples (windfalls) for Id; and, as a luxury, which I allow myself on Sundays, I buy a pennyworth of lard now and then. This amounts to sixpence a week. 1 do not include my elrink, as, being pure water, I have it for other purposes as well. I have lived on this diet for nearly twenty years, and am in excellent health, and esteem myself most fortunate that I am as badly off as I am, for I am beyond the reach of temptation." Brighton Guardian. Another Victim. One of the contractors under the iw.nl nf PnMie Works of Washincton is the latest victim of one of the New York firms that deal in bogus jewelry and counterfeit money. He reOttVM a nox on naturaay oy trxrici, charges $370. Paid them, took the box away, and soon came back in great excitement, with the box open, showing it to be filled with shavings and scrap iron. The Rejmhliean says the chances are that if the counterfeit money had been received, in a few days some of the hard-working laborers in his employ employ would have been partially paid for their services with it.