The National Banner, Volume 13, Number 36, Ligonier, Noble County, 26 December 1878 — Page 1

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LIGONIER, NOBLE COUNTY, INDIANA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1878,

THE PARSON’S HORSE-RACE.

BY HARRIET BEECHER STOWE.

“Wal! now this ’ere does beat all! % wouldn’t ’a’ thought it o’ the Dea0.D." : ;

\.So spoke Sam Lawsen, dropping in .a discouraged, contemplative attitude in front -of an equally discouraged loeking horse, that had just been brodght to him by the widow Simpkins for medical tréeatment. Ameng Sam’s many accomplishments he was reckoned, in the neighborhood, an oracle in all matters of this kind, especially by women whose helplessness in meeting such emergencies found unfailing solace under his compassionate willingness to attend to any business that did not strietly belong to him, and from which no pecuniary return was to be expected. ! ’ The widow Simpkins had bought this horse of Deacon Atkins, apparently a fairly well-appointed brute, and as capable as he was good looking. A short easy drive, when the Deacen held the reins, had shown off his points to advantage, and the widow’s small stock of ready savings had come forth freely in payment for what she ‘tho’t wasa bargain. When, soen after coming into possession, she discovered that her horse, if driven with any haste, panted in a fearful manner, and that he appeared to be growing lame, she waxed wroth; and went to the Deacon in anger, to be met only with the smooth reminder that the animal was right when she took him--that she had seen him tried herself. The widow was of a nature somewhat spicey, and expressed herself warmly: “It’s a cheat and -a shame, I'll take the law on'ye.” . ] : “What law will you teake?” said the unmoved Deacon.: “Wasn’t it a fair bargain ?” ' “I’ll take the law of God,” said the widow with impotent indignation, and she departed to pour her cares and trials into the ever-ready ear of Sami. Having assumed the care of the animal, he now sat contemplating it in a sort of trance of melanchely reflection. i

_“Why, boys,” he broke out, “why didn’t she come to me afore she bo’t this critter? That ’ere critter was jest ruined a year ago last summer, when Tom, the Deacon’s boy there, come home from college. Tom driv him over to Sherburn and back that ’ere hot Fourth of July. ’Member it, ’cause I saw the critter when he come home; I sot up with Tom takin’ care of him all night; and that ’ere critter had the thumps all night, and he bain’t never been good for nothin’ since, I telled the Deacon he was a gone hogs then, and weuldn’t never be good for nothin’. The Deacon he took cff his shees, and let bim run in the pastur’ all; summer, and he’s been a feedin’ and nussgin’ on him up; and now he’s put him off on the widder. I wouldn’t ’a’ thought it o’ the Deacon. Why, this _hoss’ll never be no geod; that ’ere’'s a used up critter, any. fool may see! He’ll mebbe do for about a quarter of an hour on a smooth road, but come to drive, why, he blows like my bellowsis; and the Deacon knew it—must ’a’ known it!” ;

“Why, Sam,” we exclaimed, “ain’t the Déacon a good man ?” : “Wal, now, there’s where the shoe pinches. In a gin’al way the Deacon is a good man—he’s consid’able more than middlin’ good, gin’aliy he adorns ‘his profession. On most p’ints I don’t hev nothin’ agin the Deacon, and this ’ere ain’t a bit like him—but there 'tis! Cometo the hosses, there’s where the unsanctified natur’ comes out.— Folks will cheat about hosses when they won’t about ’most nothin’ else.” And Sam leaned back on hig celd forge, now empty of coal, and seemed to deliver himself to a mournful train of general reflection. “Yes, hosses does seem to Dbe sort of ungenerate critters, he broke out. “There’s suthin’ about hosses that deceives the very elect; the best of folks gev tripped up when they come to deal in hosses.” “Why, Sam, is there anything bad in horses ?” we interjected, timidly. “’Tain’t the hosses,” said Sam, with solemnity. Lord-massy, the hosses is scriptural animals. Elijah went up to heaven in a chari’t with hosses; and then all them lots o’ hosses in the "Revelations, black and white and red ‘and’ all sorts ¢’ colors. That ’ere 'shows hosses goes to heaven; but it’s more’n the folks that hev ’em is likely to, ef they don’t look out.” “Ministers, now,” continued Sam in a soliloquizing vein, “folks allers think it’s suthin’ sert o’ shaky in a minister to hev much to do with hosses—sure to get ’em into trouble. There was ‘old Parson Williams, of North Billriky, got into a dreffel mess about a - hoss.” Lordy-massy, he wan’t to blame, neither, but he got into the dreffulest scrape you ever heard on—come nigh unsettlin’ him.” | ' “Oh, Sam, tell usubout it,” we boys shouted, delighted with the prespect of a story. - ‘ W “Wal, wait now till I get off this critter’s shoes, and we’ll take him up to the pastur’yand then we can kind o set by the river and fish, Hepsey ‘wanted a mess o’ fish for supper and I was calculatin’ to git some for her. You boys go and be digging bait and get yer lines.” e

And so we were sitting tranquilly beside the Charles riyer, Sam’s narrative began: . ' “Ye see, boys, Parson Williams—he’s dead now—but when I was a boy he was one of the great men around here. e wrif books. He writ a track agin the Arminiars, and put ’em down, and he writ a big book on the millenium (I’ve got that ’ere book now), and he was a smart preacher.— Folks said he had invitations to settle in Boston, and there ain’;, do doubt he might ’a’ hed a Buston parish ef he’d ’a’ been a miod ter take it, and he’d got a good settlement and a handsome farm in North Billriky, and didn’t care to move; thought, I s’pose, that ‘twas better to ‘be number one in a little place than number two in a big.un; anyway he carried all be-fore-him where he was. - s

“Parson Williams was a tall, straight, personable man, come of gooed family —father and grandfather befors him all ministers; he was putty up and down, and commandin’ in his ways, and things had to go putty much as he said. He was a good deal sot by, Parson Williams was, and his wife was a Derby, one o’ them rich Salem Derbys, and so they lived putty easy aud comfortable so far as this world’s goods goes. Well, now, the parson wan't reely what you call worldlyminded, but then he was one of them folks that knows what’s gocd in temporals as well as sperituals, and allers liked to hev the best that there was goiu’; and he allers had un eye to _ "Now there was Parson Adams and Parson Seranton, and most, of the otheß e e they ggm

didn’t care what hoss they hed; jest jogged round with these ’ere poundin’, pot:bellied, sleepy critters that ministers mostly hes, good enough to crawl round to funerals and ministers’ meetings and associations and sich; but Parson Williams he always wo'd hev a hoss as was a hoss; he looked for blood, and when these ’ere Vermont fellers would come down with a _dro?e. the parson he had his eyes open and heknew whyt was what. Couldn’t none of 'em cheat him on hess flesh; and 80, one time when Zack Buel was down with a drove, the doctor he: bought the best hoss in the lot. Zack ‘ said he never see a parson that he couldn’t cheat, but he said the doctor ! reel{ knew as much as he did, and got ]'l the very one he’d mean’t to a kept fer: b-imj?elf. e ,’l “This ’ere hoss was a peeler, 111 tell’ you. They called him Tamerlane, from some heathen -feller or other ,h the boys called himx Tam, for short.— Tam was a great character. All the fellers for miles round knew the doctor’s Tam, and used to come clear over from the other parishes to see him. ; 2 | “Wal, this ’ere sot up Cuff’s back high, I tell you. Cuff was the doctor’s nigger man, and he was naturally a drefful proud critter! Theé way he would swell and strut, and brag about the dector and his things! The doctor used to give Cuff his cast-off clothes, and Cuff would prance round in ’em and seem to think he was a Doctor of Divinity himself and had the charge of all natur’. : “Wal, Cuff he reely made an idoi of that ’ere hoss, a reg’lar graven image, and bowed down and worshiped him; he didn’t think nothing was teo good for him; he washed and brushed and. curried him, and rubbed him down till he shone like a lady’s satin dress; and he took pride in ridin’ and driven’ him ’cause it was what the doctor wouldn’t let anybody do but himself, You see, Tam warn’t no lady’s hoss. Miss Williams was afraid as death of him, and the parson be had te git her. a sorf of low-spirited critter that shei‘*~{ could drive herself, but he liked to drive Tam; and he liked to go round \ the country on his back, and a fine figure of man he was on him' foo. . “He didn’t let nobody else back him ‘ or handle the reins but Cuff, and Cuff was drefful set up about it, and he swelled and bragged about that ar hoss all round the country. Nobody couldn’t put 1n a word ’bout any other hoss without Cuff's feathers wo’d be all up—stiff as a tom tarkey’s tail —and that’s how Cuff got the dacter into trouble. v “Ye see, there nat’lly was others that thought they'd got hosses. and didn’v-want to be crowed over. There 'was Bill Atkins, out to the west parish, and Ike Sanders, that kep’ia stable up to Pequot Holler; they was down 'a lookin’ at the parson’s hoss, and a-bettin’ on their’n, and a-dario’ Cuff to race with ’em. ' - 4 “Wal, Cuff he could’nt stan’ it, and when the doctor’s back was turned | he’d be off on the sly and they’d hev their race; and Tam he beat ’em all. Tam, ye see, boys, was a hoss that couldn’t and wouldn’thev a hoss ahead_ of him—he jest wouldn’t! Ef hedropped down dead in his tracks the next minit, he would be ahead, and he allers got ahead, and so his name got up: and fellers kep comin totry their hosses, and Cuffid take Tam out to race with fust one and then another till this "ere got to be a reg’lar thing, and begun to be talked about. i “Flolks sort o’ wondered if the doctor knew, but Cuff was sly as a weasel and allers had a story ready for every turn; Cuff was one of them fellers that could take a bird off a bush —master he was to slick things over! “There was folks as ‘said they believed the docter was knowin’ to it, and that he a sort o’ carnal pride, sech. as aiminister oughtn’t fer to hev, and so shet his eyes to what: was a-goin’ on, Aunt Sally Nickergon said she was sure on’t; ’twas all taiked over down to oid Miss Bummiger’s funeral, and aunt Sally she said the church ought to look; into it. But everybody knew aunt-Sally; she was allers watchin’ for folks haltin’ and settin’ on herself up to jedge her neighbors. ' “Wal, I never believed nothin’ aginPargon Williams;. it was all Cuff’s confrivances; but the fact was the fellers all got their blood up, and there was hoss-racin’ in all the parishes; and iit got so they’d even race hosses aSl{?day. . B : “Wal, of course they never got the ‘doctior’s hoss out a Sunday. Cuff wouldn’t *a* durst to do.that, lordy‘massy, no! He was allers there in | chufch, settin’ up in the doctor’s clothes, rollin’ up his eyes and lookin’ as pious as ef he never thought o’ racin’ hosses; he was an awful solemnlookin’ nigger in ehurch, Cuff was. “But there ;was a lot o’ them fellers up to Pequot Holler—Bill Atkins, and Ike Sanders, and Tow Peters and them Hokum boys—used to go out arter meetin’ Sunday afternoon and race hosses. Ye see, it was just close to the Stale line, and, if the s’lectman - was| to come down on ’em, they could i jest whip over the line and they couldn’t take em.- - '

“Wal, it got to be a great scandal; the fellers talked about it up to the tavern, and the deacons and the tithingman they took it up and went to Parson Williams about it; and the parson he told ’em jest to keep still, not let the fellows know that they was bein’ watched, and next Sunday he and thetithingman and the constable they’d ride over and eatch them in the very act. s . “So, next Sunday afternoon Parson Williams: and Deacon Popkins and: Ben Bradley (he was constable) they got, on their hosses and rode over to Pequot Holler. © The doctor’s blood ‘was up, and he ment to come down on 'em strong, for that was his way of «doin! in his parish; and they was in a sort @’ day-o’-judgment grame o’ mind, and jogged along solemin as a hearse, till they come to rise the hill above the holler they see three or four fellers with their hosses gettin’ ready to race; and the parson says he,’ ‘Let’s coma on quiet and get behind these ' bushes, and we’ll see what they’re up to and cateh ’em in the act. : . “But the mischief on it was that Ike Sanders see ’em comin’, and he knowed Tam in a min’t’—lke knowed Tawm of old—and he jest tipped the wink to the rest. *‘Wait, boys,’ says he; ‘let ‘em git close up, and then L'l give the word and the doctor’s hoss -will be racin’ ahbpg like thunder.” - “Wal, so the doctor and his folks they drew up behind the bushes, and .t%q-d‘gresﬂﬁa 19&{?@;@#&- as. agum be, and saw ‘em gettin' ready to start. ‘Tam he began to snuffle and paw, but ‘the doctor never mistrusted what he was ap 4o antll Hee sung opt, IGo s, | boys!’ and the horses all started, when, m! Ve .&i it §ate one

‘nin’, ahead of 'em all. - ‘ . “Deacon Popkins and Ben Bradley jest stood and held their breath to see ’em all goin’ it so like thunder, and the doctor he :was took so sudden it was all he could do to jest .hold on any way, so away he went, and trees and bushes and fences streaked by him like ribbons, his hat flew off behind him, and his wig arter, and got catched in a barberry bush ; but, Jordy_massy, he couldn’t stop té think o’ ‘them. He just leaned down and caught Tam round the ueck and held ‘on for dear life, till they come to the stopping place. ‘ : “Wal, Tam was ahead of them all, sure enough, and was snorting an’ snuffling as if he’d got the very old boy in him, and was up to raciug some more on the spot. ? “That ’ere Ike Sanders was the impudentest feller that ever you see, and he roared and hawhawed at the doctor. *‘Good for you, parson! says he.

“Y ou beat usall-holler; says he;’takes a parson for that, don’t it, boys?’ he said. And then he and ke and Tom, and the two Hokum boys' they jest roared and danced around like wild critters, Wal, now, only think on’t, boys; what a situation that ’ere was for a minister—a man that had come out with the best of motives to put a stop to Sabbath breakin’!

“There he was rumpled up and dusty, and his wig hangin’ in the bushes, and these ’ere ungodly fellows gettin’ the laugh on him, and ali acause that ’ere hoss. There's times, boys, when ministers must be tempted to swear if there ain’t preventin’ grace, and.this was one 0’ tuem times to Parson Williams. They say he got red in the face and looked as if he should burst, but he didn’t say nothin’; he scorned to answer—the sons o’ Zeruiah was too hard for him, and he let ’em hey their say. | But when they’'d got through, and Ben had brought him his hat and wig, and brushed and settled him ag’in, the parson he says, ‘well, boys, ye’ve had your say and your laugh, but I warn you now I won’t have this thing going on here any more,’ says he, ‘so mind yourselves.’ Hanieey i

“Wal, the boys see that.the doctor’s blood was up, and they rods off pretty quiet, and 1 believe they never raced no more in that spot. - “But there ain’t no tellin’ the talk this ’ere thing made. Folks will talk, you know, and there warn’t a house in all Billriky, nor in the north parish nor center, where it warn’t- had over and discussed. There was the deacon, and Ben Bradley was there to witness and show just bow the thing was, and thdt the doctor was just in the way of his duty; but folks said it made a great scandal; thata minister hadn’t no business to hev that kind o’ hoss, and then he’d give the enemy occasion to speak reproachfully. It reely did seem as if Tam’s sins were imputed to the doctor’s, and folks said he ought to sell Tam right away and get a sober minister’s hoss, L . “But others said it was Cuff that had got Tam into bad ways, and they do say that Cuff hadto catch it pretty lively when the doctor came to settle with him. Cuff thought his time had come sure enough, and was so scairt that he turned blacker’'n than ever; he got enough to curg him o’ hoss-rac-in’ for one while. But Cuff got over it arter awhile, and so did the doctor. Lordy massy, there ain’t nothin’ lasts forever. Wait long enough and most everything blows over. 8o it turned out about the doctor—there was a rumpus and a fuss, and folks talked and talked and advised; everybody had their say, but the-doctor kep’ his hoss all the same. .

“The ‘ministers they teok it up in the association, but, come to tell the story, it sot’ ’em all a laughin’, so they couldn’t be very hard on the doctar,

- *“The doctor felt sort o’ streaked at/ fust when they told the story on him; and, finally, when he was twitted on’t he’d sort ¢’ smile and say, ‘Any way, Tam beat ’em; that’s one comfort,”—— Atlantic Monthly. :

Mulberry. There are several varieties of the mulberry, nearly all of which seem to be native to this continent. The red and black sorts are so nearly alike, that it is scarcely worth while to discuss whether they are so or not. The mulberry is a very preeocious tree in suitable soils, and it seems to be well suited everywhere. It is usually propagated by cuttings, both from the root and limbs. Those from the latter grow almost as freely as if they had roots, and none may be said to fail. Mr. Browae, in his “Trees of America,” asserts that if a limb several feet long is driven into the ground where it is soft in the spring, 1t will bear fruit the next year. - The fruit is a smalil, oblong berry, containing small seeds like the strawberry. The seeds grow freely, but are se small as to require considerableskill to'succeed with them. Hence growing from cuttings is usually preferred. Of the durabilily of the timber we have the most ample testimony. The writer has fence posts on his place, yet on duty and apparently sound and perfectly good, that are certainly 40 years old. Posts of this timber are always prefeired, and usually bring double the price of posts of ordinary timber. They are worth much more than that, compared with the common artiele. : - : .

In the United States Patent Office report for 1844, it is stated that the steamer Maryland was 25 years old then, and perfectly sound. All the timbers were mulberry. - On the Mississippi river the mul- - berry is perfectly at home on islands that easily overflow, and in other wet localities, where little else will grow, -and that is of little value for any other purpose. The timber, too, that grows in such places is the very best and most: durable, a 8 the experience of nearly half a century has proved. In planting trees, it is certainly advisable always to plant the best. As the great majority of the planting people do not always know what is best the writer thinks he is fulfilling a public duty in making known facts like the -above. At the very head of hardy, durable, cleanly, beautiful, easily propagated, rapid growing trees, he would name the catalpa and mulberry.-—Prairie Farmer, : % »—f———-!‘-"-l-r—-*—-» . Economie Aspect. S - The ecumomic aspect is a strong point in favor of Dr. Price’s Special Flavoring Extracts, Vanilla, Orange, Rose, Almond, Lemdn, ete. They are three times the strength of the ordi‘mary extracts; the bettles hold nearly twice as much as those sold for the m38i38- o i ‘lfi\ir k | There is to be a Democratie rexiion el aﬁ»ﬁi@?@‘ R [isgpthe Blate, = = e - 0

. EOn Growing Fat or Lean. To the Editor of the N. Y. Sun. : Having paid some attention to the subject of increasing and diminishing the amount of adipose tissues in the human frame, perhaps I may be permitted to say a word on: the matter. 1t is quite true that certain kinds of diet are more fat forming than others, but it does not therefore follow that a person living on this kind of diet—say, for instance, buckwheat cakes and Barbadoes sugar—will become fat. In many cases which have come under my own observation, all attempts to increase the amount of fat by means of a special diet '(carbtonaceous) have ended in the person ‘becoming bilious and suffering from. & congested liver and constipation. On the, ‘other hand, 1 have kniown persons fatten on bread and water. The late Mr. Swain of Philadelphia for many years of his life ate nothing but bread and molasses, yet he was a stout, healthy‘looking man. Mr. Mechi, the eminent English * agriculturist, according to his own statement, ean increase his weight materially by merely taking an extra lump of sugar in his tea. Another gentleman became fat and ruddy cheeked by adding a pint of ale to his midday repast. But these are exceptional cases. As ageneral rule, if a person in goed health, obtaining seven or eight hours’ sleep per night, and not overworked, does not get fat on a mixed diet, he wont get fat at ali, and neither buckwheat cakes and Bardadoes sugar, nor ced liver oil, nor any other fat producer will fatten him. Sound sleep is one of the best fat producers that I know of, and then it has the advantage of increasing the general health and strength at the same time, Beware of altering your diet for the mere purpose of gutting onm more flesh. Results may follow that you dream-not of. . : It is easier to reduce flesh than to increase it, as a general rule.. But there may be danger even here. ﬁdany of those obese gentlemen who follow the Banting system, and tried to liye on lean meat, a very little bread, and @ glass or two of sherry per day, found themselves with seriously disordered kidneys, the result of a highly nitrogenous diet. They might have obtained that leanness for which they gighed, and retained their health, had they reduced the total quantity of food consumed, and eaten less bread, potatoes, and starchy food, and more turnips, cabbage, beets, cucumbers, tomatoes, melons, and others watery articles of diet, and taken more exercise and less sleep. As a rule, fat people are large eateys. They will tell you they are noﬁ.; Don’t believe them. Flesh and fat are not formed out of nothirng. A ‘stout youth of my acquaintance told me that he ate “a mere nothing,” and only slept four hours per diem. I found that he really ate as much at one meal as I cculd eat at three, took little or no exencise, and slept nine or ten hours out of the twenty-four. ‘‘Laugh and grow fat” is an old saying; but I have not found fat people, as a rule, mirthful, but, on the contrary, rather grave, I mean the very fat, not the merely plump. I have, teo, met with fat people who were exceedingly nervous, though it is generally suppesed. that nervous people must necessarily be lean. : M. D.

Too Poor to Yote., | " {Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot.] - | Some 12,000 Democrats were disfranchised in Philadelphia at the late election on account of non-payment of taxes. The Americus club is about to take the matter in hand and will undertake to raise $20,000 for the payment of the taxes of indigent voters. The payment of this sum will enfranchise 50,000 voters for two years so far as the tax qualification is concerned. The Republican committees, it is ascertained, operated|in this way in Philadelphia during the recent canvass: The names of residents of an election precinct were filled in the stubs of the tax collector’s books and the receipts issued in blank, The monrey was paid into the county treasury upon the mames borne upon the stubs which of course satisfied the controller that everything K was regular. The blank receipts were then issued on election day by filling 1n the names of such persons as required them. In titis way probably 15,000 votes were securned for the Republican ticket which otherwise would have been lest. It is gratifying to know that the Democrats of Philadelphia are waking up to the importance of this matter.

<5 Costly Reading. Christian Good and wife, residing about two miles from Bainbridge, Lancaster county, Pa, have, it is alleged, violated the postal laws of the United States—imprudently meddling with the letters of a servant girl late ly in their employ, named Annie Dreher, It appears that Miss Dreher was employed 1n the family as a domestie, and that a young man—probably her lover—opened a correspendence with her. Miss Dreher’s letters were taken from the post-office by Mr. Good himself while receiving his own mail, and through ignorance or morbid curiosity, were opened and read by him. Not satisfied with this conduct, he began to slander the girl, it is alleged, whenever an occasion offered, making use of the language contained in the letters. . These facts coming to the knowledge of Miss Dreher’s father, he ‘had Mr. and Mrs. Good arrested and taken to Lancaster, where tgey entered bail before a United States commissioner in the sum of $5,000 to answer the charge of tampering with the United States mails—Allentown Feegister, I . G

Sambo, Come to the Rescue!l | A scheme is on foot to gradually but continuously import negroes into Indiana, from now until the election in' 1880. The plan was intended to be kept quiet, bué it has leaked out. The negroes will be induced to come to the State, by all manner of promises, and as far as practicable will be sent into districts and counties where they will'do the most good, 1t is exé pected that they will be employed by farmers and others who favor the movement. The Greencastle Banner has the following significant item: BSince the negroes or the SBouth have been deprived of their political rights, we suggest that they move to this side of’ the Ohio River and assist in maki a Solid North in 1880. Come to Ind"gfzm;» 2 :-7 "- ‘, ! % . Georgia women make good political 'helpmeets: Senator Gordon’s wife ‘advises her husband what to do in many important matters of State; Goverper Colquitt’s wife cenducts FR = pis business for him Oons ores| 1 Felton’ :‘ﬂ! ouight really to &@ he Congre| W?’

' The Problem of the Grog Shop, = [Harper’s Magazine.] Has not the temperance movement in this country been too exclusively a moral appeal? Has it not . forgotten | too much the nature and the circumstances of the evil? Temperance addresses are too largely descriptions of the effeets of drunkenness. They are tragi:comedies, in which the speaker seeks to make his audience laugh at the antics of the drunkard, and cry over the broken heart and ruined home of his wife and family.+ This strain is varied with thundering denunciations of “the moderate drinker,” compared with' whose insidious-infa-my the immoderatedrinker who totally imbrutes himself is an object of pity rather than of reprobation, and with ‘these mingled chemical and sanmitary statistics.. The appeal, hewever, is moral, and the remedy usually propesed is absolute prohibition. The friends of “license,” howeverstringently regulated, are regarded as mere Laodiceans, or worse. But this mere moral appeal to renounce drinkenness because it produces crime -and unhappiness and disease is too arid. It forgetsthe -person to whom it is addressed, and the conditions of their life. ‘Consequentlg' there are the excitement and fury of a revival, vast temporary enthusiasm, and swift backsliding. . For what is drunkenness? It is‘in its origin the perversion of a natural taste for social enjoyment, and it is most prevalent among those who have the least opportunity for such enjoyments. When it has fixed itself upon its vietim, it is largely deperident ups on physical conditions. The usual temperanceé appeal to him is by the mere main strength of his moral will to break up the habit. : His home is bare and desolate, and the preacher urges him to prefer it to the cosy and warm and social “saloon.” His, system, enfeebled by excess, craves the stimulant, and the exhortation is simply not to take it. He needs espeeially every kind of support and assistance and diversion,-and he is told te help himself. This is a relief which: forgets the mnature of the disease. That of itself suggests the remedy. The drunkard seeks. social enjoeyment illicitly. Supply it to him lawfully, show him that he can gratify his natu-’ ral tastes without shame torhimself or harm to his family or society. Give to the weak system nggh craves ‘“‘a little something,” a new something . that willcheer and not inebriate. The ‘drunkard'knows the misery that drunkenness produces, for he is its victim. He does not wish to hear ef that. The incipient drunkard knows it also. What they want 1s something to t‘gke.‘ the place of drunkenness, something that will help them to help themselves. If all the money that is yearly given: to support talking%‘ upon the subject were devoted to doing something in the: way suggested, the *“liquor interest” would be confronted with something that it would fear. “Holly-Tree” inns upon a great and ‘general scale, “public coffee houses” like those in Liverpool, neighborhood clubs which would develop and illustrate the neighborly sympathy which is now notsuspected, and the supposed absence of “which is mest mischievous—all these ‘and similar enterprises would be a temperance movement which w.ould -aid the moral appeal and the sanitary argument with thoss social sympathies and supports which are indispensable to the prosperity of the work.

Contraction and Coin Laws.

To the Editer of Cincinnati Enquirer:. . Please state.in your valuable paper the respective dates of the passage or appromg%f the law of 1866 or 1867 ordaining the eontraction of the currency at the rate of $4,000,000 per month, and ot the act of 1868 or 1869 repealing said law, and oblige yours respectfully, “CoLL F, ‘Secretary McCulloeh, in his first annual report, December 5, 1865, recommended that “the work of retiring the (greenback) notes should be commenced without delay, and carefully and consistently continued until all are retired.” On the 18th of December, 1865, Congress adopted a resolution cordially econcurring in the views of the Secretary. On the 12th of April, 1866, Congress passed ‘an act authorizing the Secretary to retire legal-ten-der notes, but not to retire more than four millions of dollars per month of greenbacks. - In January, 1868, Congress passed “a law’ declaring ithat from and after its passage the authority ‘of the Secretary of the Treasury to make any reduction ¢f the currency by retiring or canceling United States ' notes (greenbacks) ‘‘shall be and ishereby suspended.” " These are the acts to which *C, L. F.” refers.— Ep. ExqQ.] ; I ; ~ A Half Dollar on its Travels. '~ 0 (Cleveland TLeader) =i oo E A bad penny always icturns, it is said. but one instance 'is recorded where a good silver half dollar returned to its possessqr after a circulation of twenty years, - A° man living in Canton, 0., had in his possession about twenty-five years. ago, a silver halfdollar with the date of 1828, and that belng his natal year he cut .his name on it and thought to retain itas a relic. . But a few years after he paid it out by mistake, and for .twenty years it took its course in the general eirculation. - A few days ago he sent his little daughter to a neighboring town on an’errand,’and upon her return she ‘gave him the change, and with it was the identical half dollar. with his nameeutonit. - .

Negro Logic. ' Old Pompey came down to the vil-. lage the other day with a big brass watch key prominently displayed from a shoe string chain, . AR et “Whar’s your wateh, Uncle Pomp?” asked a young nigger. . - .. “Pun got noae, eoo o e “Youmngy - o Gl ~*No, chile” = B o= e “Den what, fo’ you kerry dat yere watch key roud’ so conspicuous?”’ Old Pompey chuckled. . . s o *Look E:re;'chﬂp.”f he said, ‘‘youse ain't no logican—got no head for de scientific side of matters. Do youse ’spoze dat if I come down here a totin of a stable door dat it would be a sign dat I owned a hoss? De two cases am prezactly parellelogram, sah.”” - - Doctors Gave Hum Up. ~“Is it possible that Mr. Godfrey is up and at work, and cured by so simple & reIORY. o ~ “I assure you it is true that he is'entirely cured, and with nothingbut Hop %M:gﬂﬂl? n d E, Tyl T s e this minute and get some for my poor George. I‘R OW M’*‘;’“‘"‘%’ e9t Tt B m\wj » %3%‘*{*?‘*&?«#‘““”%* & ‘

NO. 36. .

- Lice on Hogs—the Best Remedy. - . ‘(Courier-Journal.) = i _Don’t use coal oil. It soon evaporates. It kills only the lice, while it injures the skin and hair. Strong soapsuds or grease will kill the vermin as well, without any injury to the caticle. But these do not kill the eggs. Very much that is called hog cholera is the result of lice externally or worms ‘interna&}%{ﬁtopping one day with a friend, he told me his shoats were all sick, dying with chelera, and asked me to go out and see them. They locked sick and refused to eat.; Their eyes were mattery, nolding their heads to one side, etc. I told him they were covered with lice, and they were eating into theirheads dowa through the ears. “What must Ido for them?” he inquired. I told him they were too weak just then for a more vigorous treatment, but that if he-would make up a kettle of tepid soapsuds,” and wash them all over it would destroy what lice there were upon them, and then' in a few days treat them' to the following preparation:- Strong tobacco liquid, mixed in three equal parts with tar and grease, and . apply it thoroughly -with the ‘hand, and if he would clean out their beds theroughly he would not be troubled with these vermin any more for six months. The tar is good for. the. irritated surface, and, besides, holds the grease and tobacce in solution leng enough to kill the nits. My friend saved his pigs.’ e t Soon after that, I remember, I had put ‘up a sow to fatten. I saw she was dreadfully annoyed, so that she. ate but little and did not thrive. She was literally cevered with lice. I turned her out and threw corn to her, ‘but she was as frisky as a grass wid-. ow. I'applied the above remedy, and I never saw a hog improve more rapidly. :

- ¥or worms in man and beast there i 8 no.better remedy’ than copperas. Besides, 1t is a fine appetizer. Give a teaspoonful, mixed with ashes, salt and sulphur, once a week. o " These recipes, faithfully. carried out, will ve: worth a hundred dollars to.every farmer in the land. S

The best bedding fer hogs are dry | leaves, as they do not heat; they undergo the'ir chemical changé before they fall from the trees. Give your sows with pigs a rail pen covered over, and ~with a southern exposure.’ Let the roof, on the north side, come quite to the ground, so as to shelter them from the north wind, Sunlight is. @ God’s great prometer of. life and . health. A neighbor had two litters of thoroughbred pigs. One was in an old stable that fronted south, and they grew off finely.” The other was in a ' small sty built against the north side - of a brick building. *“I den’t know ' why these pigs don’t grow up like the ' : others,” he said; “they cough andlook - sickly.” “No wonder,” I replied,“they - get: the chill north winds instead of the warm southern sunlight. I tho’t y;])utwere a better southern man than that” o ;

Clean warm beds, clean water, keep out the worms and keep off the lice, and there will be little danger of the cholera. . - ZIGZAG. Lebanon, Ky. : : ;

Will Resumption Produce Inflation? . (N. Y. Sun, April 15, 1878.) o

The decline in the premium on gold to one-quarter of one per cent., and the approaching use of gold as currency which this decline foreshadows, have raised the question of the results likely to follow such a practical rev” sumption of specie payments. A cer« tain class of speculators are confident that when gold coin, which has for so many years been nothing but merchandise, bought and seld like iron or lead, shall have been restored to its former place as money, the consequence will be an inflation of the circulating medium, which will lead to a rise in the prices of labor, and of all kinds of commodities. The sincerity of their convictions is attested by the course of the stock market. Somebody has evidently been buying, in anticipation of selling out again at an advance, but whether or no this anticipation will be reali¥ed, yet remains to-be seen. ~ Our own opinion has always been that when resumption finally came, and gold was restored to use as money, there would be.a certain relief experienced in the money market from ‘the additional supply thus thrown into it. But we fear that the degree of ‘this relief is overestimated by those - who forget that gold is now, and has for a long time. been, indirectly emsployed as money, by forming a part of the bank reserves. The National Banking act requires national banks to keep on hand in lawful money of the United States an amount equal to ‘twenty-five per cent. of the aggregate. amount. of their depesits. All the rest they may lend out, and until lately have done so. The banks of this city, for example, showed by their last statement that they held $28,666, 100 in legal tender notes and $85,486,900 in specie, or $64,153,000 of lawful money altogether, against $201,925,600 of deposits. Sinee twenty-five per - cent. of these deposits' would be sso,+ 481,650, it is eévident that the surplus gold is ounly $18,671,850, and ‘would ‘not be sufficient to produce any strik--ing inflation. Against this, too, must - bée reckoned the necessity which the banks would feel of strengthening themselves to meet a possible runp, so . ‘that we cannot see how resumption would immediately cause any remarkable ease in the money market or any increase in pricest Trial -+ Oh, How They Wish They Hadn’t, ~ The Republicans enfranchised the ‘begroes in spite of their igneranceand Squalor, and against the urgent emtreaty of conservative democrats.— - ‘They felt, sure the negroes would vote their tic:%t‘evgrgé time. Now thatthe ‘negroes have begun to getfjtheir eyes ~open to the difference between an hon- - st Democrat and a Republican carpet- - bag-thief, and refuse to be driven up to the polls like so niany cattle, the ‘Republicans want to take the ballot ‘away from them. Timt 18 the mean}ﬁgnt the bill offered in the House by -Mr. Page. It is a beautiful illustra‘tion of republican ‘“j istenc %: % gurd o the negto~—New Tork Hoow. i ietian B it e