Pike County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 13, Petersburg, Pike County, 10 August 1883 — Page 4

PIKE COUNTY DEMOCMT. Published Kvery FridayPETERSBURG, - INDIANA. BE CAME TO PAT. (AFTER "THE •T BRET AGED STRANGER,” HARTS.) wt with his head in his hands n? ™ ““ e‘boys?t f«st on his knees; ruT??*- of ever-increasing1 demands and he looted for esse meer’ Just heart,0” the Btair-way a footstep was a ^p?,.a tap-a-tap loud at the door. &fe^derinK hope that ha<J long- been a like.® beacon once more; And there entered a man with a cynical smile WhnilSf, “ stubble of red. . £? rked as he tilted a sorry old tile Xo the back ©t an average bead: “* haeried^me hero *° Pay”-Hore the edito: Hh X.™1? “syolcome as flowers in spring! a “own in this easy arm-ohair by mj side. And excuse me awhile till I bring A h'!!on5do hashed with a little old wine a And n dozen cigars of the best. * * * wo This, I assure you, is fine; Help yourself, most desirable gii est.” T^i7l.?Hr drank with a relish, and smoked * A „„ Kis face wore a satisfied glow, »4 jokededit0r’ beamtost with morrimon .Jo a joyous, spontaneous flow: And then-whon the stock of refreshments wa His guest took occasion to say. In accents distorted somesvhat by a yawn: My errand up here is to pay—’* BUt ‘tnT6™8 scrlbe> with a wave of tt A^a1l.a„StoS.tPfhe speech of his guest, A,‘d brought in a melon, the finest the land a„l!w . uQlts^©nerousbreast; *^§2*23 ^earlngr a singular grrin, h?heavi?8t half of the fruit. AUd chinUlC°’ 0811 ra“ *“ a 8treiun from h Washed %0 mud of the pike from his boot. “°PPln» his face on a favorite sheet tim YT. i BCI,'lbe had la d carefully by. azily rose to his foot . '',n,h the dreariest kind of a sigh, Inhh>wvas.tJl?. editor sought hisaddre M 11 books to discover his duo: AC,?rt\° ,ere t0 pay—my respect s to the prei Aud to borrow a dollar of you l" Farmenas Jffcr, in Century Magazine.

CAPTURING A DESPERADO. In the far West, particularly in the far Southwest, the newly-arrived settler often finds that he has strange neighbors —not only Indians, but white desperadoes, who are more to be feared than even Utes and Apaches. ■ ' T'y° young friends of mine—good, steady, hew-England-born young men —were so unfortunate as to buy land in the vicinity of an especially ugly member of this outlaw fraternity. ° i i se young men had been brought up to obey the law, and to respect the property and rights of their neighbors. I hey could be brave enough in the defense of any just cause, yet they dreaded and shrank from the use of deadly weapons against a fellow-being, from si keen sense of the saeredness of human life, and the criminality involved in such acts. Such were Gilbert and Charles Smal Plain, farm-bred boys, they had, b steady labor and economv, saved up capital of seventeen hundred dollars With this they had emigrated to Co orado and started a small stock-farn fifteen miles from Alamosa. By availing themselves of the Home stead act and the Pre-emption law, the secured a tract of three hundred an! twenty acres of land, lying upon a creek with a range extending back over the hills, which was not likely to be taken by other settlers. At a point a short distance below, where a mining trail passed them, and Where they judged there would in time be a railroad, they built a frame house, whieh they opened as a hotel, and in which they also kept a stock of groceries. For, fike many other enterprising young immigrants, they had an amb£ tion to found a town and grow ud with it. 1 Some eight or ten miles from them lived a man named Peter Hergit, who professedly worked a mine, but whose place really was a kind of rendezvous tor renegade -‘cow-boys,” and other desperate characters of the Jesse James Wpe. It was intimated that several daring tram-robberies had here been planned, and also that “Clate Walker” made it one of his stopping-places. This Walker was a notorious gambler and dead-shot. He was supposed to be the leader of a band of train-robbers, and was said to have killed not less than ten men in various affrays. It was said, too, that occasionally, when times became too monotonous because of the lack of excitement, he would kill a man “for fun ” just to keep his hand in. H® had a habit, also, of riding through small towns and camps, shooting ptomiscuously at everybody he saw; to keep up the terror of his name, a matter he appears to have been vain of. It will seem well-nigh incredible to people in the East that such a man should be allowed to escape justice and to run at large. Such is the ugly fact, however, in scores of cases, owing probably to the circumstance that no officer likes to attempt the arrest of these desperadoes, who generally carry two and sometimes three heavy revolvers, and are marvelously quick and sure of aim.

J? ~ — w wio wonaeriuily rapid and accurate shooting of some of these frontiersmen, the writer remembers seeing a ;«cow-boy” at Raton, I«ew Mexico, ride his horse at full gallop past a telegraph-pole, to which was pinned the round white cover of a ^-collar box, and lodge four balls Ins Colt s pistol in this small mark while passing. Afterwards he entertained us by throwing into the air, one after another, a handful of pig-nuts and cracking each as.itfell with a single bullet. Then he did the same thing again, tossing the nuts up rapidly and twirling the revolver round his forehnger after every shot. Finally, throwing the nuts up more slowly, he replaced his pistol in its sheath at his hip after every shot, drawing it for each succeedlnS,n.ut’ a°d not miss ope out of six. This shows the accuracy and quickness of aim of many of these lawless fellows, and such a marksman was Clate Walker; who added to this reputation, moreover, the more murderous one of being a ••killer,” which in the phrase of this section means a desperado who will shoot a man upon the least provocation. Our two young stockmen had heard of this border monster, but their first actual acquaintance wilii him began the week after putting up their sign of ‘‘Small Bros., Hotel and Grocery.” Walker chanced to pass one morning, and, seeing the new sign, reined in his horse, and by way of c alling the attention of the landlord to his arrival, drew his revolver and opened fire on the sign, shooting the first letter S to pieces. Then, dismounting, he kicked the door open, and, walking in, demanded a ‘‘cock-tail.” Gilbert, who chanced to be inside at the time, told him civilly that theft was no bar connected with the house; for, true to their home principles, the young men had determined to keep a “Temperance house” — a greater anomaly in the West than many may at first suppose. “ A Temperance house!” shouted Walker, and he vented his astonishment and disgust in a ferret of oaths and revilings. “Ho man" shall keep a hotel with nothing to drink in it in these parts!” he said. “ If yon don’t have liquor, and good liauor, too, the next time I call, ! won’t leave a whole dish or a whole bone here!” And; as a foretaste of what he would do next time, he kicked over the table and smashed three or : our chairs, by wav of leave-taking. With such a customer on their hands,

it ia little wonder that our two young fnends felt very ill at ease. Still, they were bold men, and were determined not to be bullied into keeping rum; so they went about their business ns usual. Nothing further was seen of Walker for a fortnight, when he again appeared early one morning while Charles was getting breakfast, Gilbert having gone out to look after the cattle. The first hint that Charles had of his visitor was another volley of shots into their signboard. s This time Clate bad shot the second letter to pieces. It was apparently his wav of knocking. Immediately he kicked the door open as before. Under the circumstances it is not very strange that Charles stepped out of a back door at about this time, and went behind the corral, from whence he heard Walker firing repeatedly, and making' a great smashing noise. When at length the desperado had taken his departure it was found that he had made a complete wreck of the crockery and furniture; and in the gro-cery-room he helped himself to tobacco, and emptied his revolver at the kerosene barrel, which, tapped in half a dozen places, was deluging the floor. . I shall not undertake to say what the duty of my young friends was—whether they should have resisted outrage and defended their property at the risk oi their lives, or moved away from so dangerous a neighbor. What they did was to get out of sight whenever they saw Walker coming, and let him do hie worst. ^ It chanced that after a time a secondcousrn of my young friends came West to see them. " His name was Forney, and he was then a student at the military academy at West Point. I am not sure, however, but he had just graduated, though that does not matter. He dropped in upon the Small bro thers quite unexpectedly one afternoon, and it is needless to say that they were glad to see him, and that they passed a very pleasant evening. Nothing was said about Walker, for Gilbert and Charles, having an honest pride in their ranch, were loth to let Lieutcuaht Gerald know how badly they were off in respect to neighbors. The desperado happened to come along, however, the very next morning. Charles and Gerald were sitting in the dining-room, when Gilbert, who had seen the gambler coming up the road, suddenly rushed in. “Old Clate Walker’s coming!” he exclaimed. “ Put out at the back door!” Charles leaped to his feet, but our young West Pointer arose more leisurely. “Who the dickens is * Old Clate Walker?”’he asked. “ A regular border terror! A desperado! A ‘killer!’” exclaimed Gilbert. “He’s likely to shoot any of us at sight Come on after us!” “What! run out of your own house!” said Forney, surprised. “Why, whal hold has this fellow on you?” “No hold whatever, but he’s adeac *. ■ .»>»

witn nis cusiomary oath tne gambler and dead-shot kicked open the door and strode in. The young Lieutenant sat on the high stool behind the desk, apparently reading a newspaper. He did not look up. “Hello, you sneak!” shouted W alker. “Where are the tender kids that keep this blasted Temperance hotelP” “I think they’ve gone out to hide,” said Forney, carelessly turning his paper. “They said there was a maneater, a^egular anthropophagus, coming, and that they were going to hide somewheres.” Walker stared. “Well, well!” he ripped out. “If you aint the freshest kid I’ve struck in ten years! Riwht fresh from the East, aren’t ye, young feller?” J J 8 “Yes,” said Forney,^moving the paper, “I’m from the East, and I’m pretty fresh, I suppose. I’m a younw fellow, but I’m a pretty nice one.” ' “Don’ t you give me any of your lip!” thundered Walker. “Do you know who I am?” “How should I?” said Forney. “It’s none of my business. Tm only here on a visit. I don’t care who you are.” The bully flushed, stung by the careless contempt in Forney’s tone. “Suppose, ”he muttered, taking a step toward the counter, while a murderous gleam crept into his eye, “suppose I were to tickle your Adam’s apple with my dirk, what then?” “ Then I’d shoot you dead for the scoundrelly houn^ you are!” exclaimed the young cadet, suddenly presen ting his cocked revolver full in Walker’s face. ‘ ‘Move—stir a hand, and I’ll shoot you like a dog!” “The first man that ever got the ‘drop’on me!” gasped Walker; “and you a little whipper-snapper from the “No matter what I am,” said Forney, sternly. “If you move a hand, Til shoot you! Gilbert! Charlie!” The two brothers who, from the kitchen, had heard the above dialogue, and were several times on the point ol taking to their heels out at the back door, now entered, guns in hand. “Cover him, Gilbert,” said Forney. •‘If he stirs a hand, put a load of buckshot through him! Now, Charles, come and take his pistol and his knife.” A deep red flush mounted to Walker’s face. But he knew that the slightest movement on his part would send two charges of cold lead through his body. He gritted his teeth, but stood motionless. They disarmed him, then marched him out of the door and round the house into the cattle corral in the rear olf it. This.corral was built of adobe bricks, the wall being from seven to eight feet high, and inclosing a space of eighty feet They gave him no chance to get the start, but kept him covered with lioth gun and pistol constantly. They gave him a chair to sit on, however, and therche sat all day, watching the cadet mm Gilbert, and they him, while Charles rode post-haste to Alamosa to swear out a warrant for his arrest, and summon the ohenff and his posse to take him. The officers, hearing that so dangerous a ruffian was really waiting their disposal, were not slow in responding to Charles Small’s summons; and! by three o clock that afternoon the young Lieutenant had the satisfaction of seeing the “border terror” taken into legal custody and marched off to jail. But, as is too often the case in the far West, the prisoner was lynched instead of being fairly tried and convicted of his crimes. He was taken forcibly from jail by a masked party from one of the neighboring mining camps the third night after being lodged there, and hanged without any form of trial to the nearest tree.—Youth's Companion.

—Near Baton Rouge, La., a large field of corn was waving with the passing breezes the other day, when a windstorm came from the east, and laid it over westwardly. Then a gust came from the north, and sent it leaning to the south. A third pushed it to the east, and the final attack was from the south which left it prostrate and pretty well used up, with its head to the north. This great variety of attention was bestowed upon the field in the space at twenty-eight minutes.—Detroit ibsb

Eggs hr Use la Winter. It is as difficult to preserve eggs 10 that they will have the freshness they possessed when they were laid as it is to protract the health and vigor of youth. An egg is a very complicated organic structure, and consequently very liable to pass into a state of decomposition. When impregnated, as it usually is, it is endowed with life, and it is still mote difficult to preserve. It is entirely sale to say that no egg was ever kept several months in the condition it was when first dropped by the hen. If it is kept in dry air a portion of the water which it contains will evaporate through the Cores of the shell. If it is surrounded y a liquid the chances are that a portion of the liquid will pass through the shell and combine with the albumen of the egg,while a portion of the albumen will pass out ana mix. with the liquid. This action is constantly going on between liquids separated by a thin and porous partition like that £iffordeu by the shell of an egg. Air will also circulate through the liquid and the pores of the shell, and be likely to produce incipient decomposition. If any of these things occur the condition of the egg will be changed. It may not be rendered unwholesome or very illfiavored, but it will be wanting in the property known as “freshness. ’ The white will no longer have the peculiar glistening appearance it had when it was a few hours old, and it will be likely to haTe a slightly unpleasant taste and odor, derived from the air and liquid that circulated through it. The yelk, too, will be found to be changed, but in a slighter degree. The methods that have been employed for the preservation of eggs consist in the use of antiseptics ana the exclu

sion of the air. halt, boracic acid ana some other substances have been used for preservatives. For the purpose of materials have been applied to the shells. Different kinds of varnish, paint and f at have been recommended for this purpose. Most of the fats are liable to decompose, and to produee bad tastes and odors which injure the eggs. Silicate of soda or water-glass has been used, but it is not satisfactory, as it ordinarily contains free soda, with which carbonio acid unites to form a carbonate which is soluble. Probably melted paraffine is the best substance to employ for coating eggs. It is cheap, cleanly and not liable to become rancid.- Some have preserved eggs bv putting them in a suitable vessel and pouring melted laid or tallow over them till the vessel was filled. Packing them in some substance that will partially exclude the air, as wheat bran, fine salt or pulverized charcoal has been found to assist in the preservation. It is the practice to entirely fill the package and to close both ends, so that it may be inverted occasionally and thereby prevent the yelks from settling through the whites and coming in contact with the shells. Dipping the eggs in boiling water and allowing them to remain about one minute, so as to harden the outside of the albumen, has , been practiced to some extent, but the process has not given good satisfaction. Eggs are in no condition for the market when treated in this way. The following directions for preserving* eggs are fiven by a prominent dhafer in New 'ork: To make pickle, use some lime, fine salt and water, in the following proportions: Eight quarts of salt and twenty-five tin quart pails of water, one bushel of lime. The lime must be of the finest quality, free from sand and dirt—lime that will slake white, fine and dean. Have the salt clean and the water pure and sweet from all vegetable or decomposed matter: Slake the lime with a portion of the water, then add the balance of the water and salt. Stir well three or four times at intervals, and then let it stand until weH settled and cold. Either dip or draw off the clear pickle into the cask or vat in which it is intended to preserve the eggs. As soon as the caslt or vat is filled to the depth of fifteen or eighteen inches, begin to fill in the eggs, and when they lie, say about one foot deep, spread around oyer them some pickle that is a little milky in appearance, made so by stirring up some of the very light lime particles that settle last, and continue doing this as each foot of the eggs is added. The object of this is to have the fine lime particles drawn into thepores of the shells, as they will be by a kind of inductive process, and thereby completely seal the eggs. Care should be taken not to get too much of this lime in—that is, not enough to settle and stick to the shells of the eggs and render them difficult to olean and take out. The chief cause of thin, watery whites in limed eggs is that they are not properly sealed in the manner described. Of course, another cause is the putting into pickle old, stale eggs that have thin, weak whites. Nearly all who have experimented in preserving eggs state that those laid during the spring and early part of the summer will keep much better than those laid during July and August, Eggs intended for preservation should be taken from the nests as soon as they are laid and put in a cool place. They are very liable to be injured if they remain in a warm nest for some time or are subject ed to several removals. Unimpregnated eggs keep much better than others. The thicker the shells the more likely they are to preserve their contents m good condition. A constant temperature is better than one that is changeable. The nearer it approaches the freezing point the better.— Chicago Times. coatings of various

French Sardines From Maine. It is not generally known that very few, if any, sardines are imported. Nearly all the fish consumed in America come from the southeast corner of Maine. At Eastport there are nineteen Elaces where they turn out sardines; at ubec, three, and along the coast at different parts many others are found. To catch the fish small trees or brush are thrust into the bottom of little bays or directly into the main body of water. They are arranged in a line quite close together, running out from the shore some seventy-five or a hundred feet, then curved like a horses hoe, with a line returned to the shore. In this is placed a net. At the proper tidal moment the net is raised and the fish taken up in scoop nets. The fish are not sardines; at all; but small herring. After being placed in the boats they are at once placed in the packing place and laid upon long tables in heaps. The first step requires the cutting off of the head and the removal of the entrails, which is done entirely bv very young children. The fish are then placed in warm water, which is slightly agitated in order to cleanse them thoroughly. After this necessary precaution they are placed on very large gridirons, of which the bars are thin and wide apart, and are then suspended over a very hot fire, where they are partly broiled. These gridirons are called “flakes,” and hold about one hundred and twenty fish. The sardines are placed in position on the “flakes” by the little girls, who receive ten cents for filling every hundred. After boiling the fish are ready for the boxes. These are already preparedwith the attractive French labels. The oil is cotton-seed, pure and simple, and is not always of the best quality. The first quality of oil is used, however, for those sardines sold as prime. The actual cost per box, including' all expenses, is five cents. The profit made by the packers sometimes reaches seven and nine cents, but is of tener leisa. The difference between these prices sud the consumer's expenditure is Tost in the different hands through which the I5ab pamk—Obr. Philadelphia Prete.

USEFUL ASP SCG6ESTIYB. —There is as much difference in men ns in the soQ they till- Place a good, wide-awake farmer in one of the most; unpromising agricultural neighborItoods, and ne mil not only male his own farm better, but also increase the value of all the land in the vicinity_ American Cultivator. —Colonel Curtis says a patch of sorghum to cut in September to f»sd the pigs has' become a necessire. A quarter of an acre sowed in (bills will keep twenty pigs growing for a month: He also says it is good to induce a full flow of milk from the cows.—Troy {If. r.) Times. —Raspberry Vinegar: Take eight quarts of raspberries, and let them stand lor two days in a quart of Vinegar. Strain through a cloth stnfiner, ana to each pint of juice put three-quarters of a pound of white sugar. Boil for fifteen minutes; bottle while hot, and cork tightly.—The Household. —The Country Gentleman estimates that with a twelve-inch hand lawn-mow-er, in good order, sharp and well-oiled, a man can easily cut two acres in ten hoars. If cut seventeen times: in the season, equal to eight and a quarter full days, this would cost $1.25 per day, .only $10.31—a small sum for keeping an acre of lawn in good condition the entire season. —For codfish with cream pick onV carefully in flakes all the flesh from the remnants of some boiled codfish; melt a piece of butter in a saucepan, and add to it a large pinch of flour and a gill of milk or cream, with pepper, salt and grated nutmeg to taste: also the least bit of cayenne; stir well, put in the fish and gently shake it in this sauce until auite warm. If the composition be too ary add a. little milk or cream; then add, off the fire, the yelks of two eggs beaten up with a little milk and serve. —Toledo Blade. —Though rolling is of much benefit on light, porous and lumpy soils, yet it ..is injurious on wet clays, except in dry weather, when they are lumpy after plowing. Rolling a stiff soil when wet renders it more difficult of cultivation by pressing the particles still more closely together and preventing the admission of air. Even light, arable Hands require the ground to be dry when lolled, if for no other reason than that otherwise fho soil will adhere to the roller. Grass land, however, is best rolled in showery weather.—Exchange. —A writer in an exchange says: “ I discovered many years ago that wood could be made to last longer than iron in the ground, but thought the process iso simple that it was not well to makd a stir about it. I would as soon have poplar, bass-wood or ash as any other kind of timber for fence-posits. I have taken out bass-wood posts after having been set seven years that were as sound when taken out as when first put in the ground. Time and weather seemed to have no effect upon them. The posts can be prepared for less than two cei ts apiece. This is the recipe: Take boiled linseed oil and stir in pulverized coal to the consistency of paint. Put a coat of this over the timber, and there is not a man that will live to see it rot.”

Making Hay. There is still a great difference of opinion as to the best method of making hay so as to have it retain foe largest amount of its nutritive qualities. When haying was done entirely by hand work, while some would get the hay in the same day it was cut, others would make it at least three days; and while some would Spread it out very thin, that the sun might shine on nearly every stalk, others, after the first day]! kept it, in small heaps and let it make in the shade; eaeh contending that his way Was the best. Since the introduction of machinery farmers do not vary so much in their methods; in fro they can not if they use the machines. Under the old methods, the mowers, most of them, were in the field early in the morning cutting the grass when the dew was on, but now, with the mowing-machine, the farmer finds it for his interest to wait until the dew is oft'; when he rapidly cuts the grass, leaving it lying, not .in compact masses, but spread over tne land as even as it grew; from this position it is repeatedly turned over by the tedder, keeping it as much , as possible in the air and sunshine. Whether or not this .be the best, way it is evidently the cheapest. Fine grass no doubt can be cured in this way very well, but coarse grass, if kept in the sum all of the time, dries on the outside so hard as to prevent the moisture from escaping from the inside; so that when it is packed away in the barn it slowly makes its way out until the outside is quite damp, thus causing the hay to come out smoky. To prevent this it, should be heaped up in the field after having one day’s sunshine and permitted to stand over one day, when the moisture will come to the surface and can be at once dried off, Clover can not be well made by keeping it in the sun and air all the time; by this method many of the leaves are lost and the stalks do not, dry through. We have never found a better method to make clover hay than to open it to the sun six or eight hours and then rake up in heaps of about thirty-five pounds each when dry; let them stand one day, then make them over; in two or three days more, if the weather be good, it will be in a condition to get in, after turning the heaps over to the sun for an hour. Clover made in th is way will be very fragrant, all the leaves being on the stalks, and the blossoms almost as perfect in color as when growing.—Massachusetts Ploughman. When to Cut Wheat.

There has always been a good deal of speculation among good farmers as to the best time to cut wheat that it may retain those properties which go to make wheat valuable for human food, and also weigh well and look plu mp and bright. Whenever this discussion is going on illustrations will be given of very early-cut wheat which yielded well, ‘looked bright and plump, and belied the fear that it might shrink or get musty in the bin, and yet the fear that it may go back on its reputation and spoil on the individual's hands if. cut early deters most farmers from cutting at what experiment has proved to be the best time. For several years I have commenced cutting wheat before my neighbors, despite the warning often repeated that wet weather may come and cause it to grow and all tlie other traditions of possible disaster that are likely to beffU early-cut wheat; yet I have ne.ver had wheat shrink or be injured in any way from, early cutting. Wheat needs a little more time to cure in the mow or stack if cut early, but all the other fears are groundless, and the decided advantages <jf early-cut wheat overbalance all the riossible hanfa that may attend it. Wheat should be cut before the berry hardens; when the heads bend over, the straw is yellow, and the kernel will leave no moisture on the thumb-nails when crushed between them, then is the time to begin. Straw from early-cut wheat is worth double that which is left until dead ripe; it then has parted with all its juices and becomes woody fiber instead of nutrious animal food. So far ss the appearance of the kernel and the feeding value of the straw is concerned, any farmer of average penetration can discover that early-cut wheat is decidedly to be preferred to wheat cut when the berry is hard and the straw dry and dead_0&. Michigan Farmer

Religions Department. MY PART. That God hath need of eren me, I know; Afar He plans His palaces that rise In stately splendor to the shining akles, And day by day, more grand, more perfect grow; While I, in life’s dark quarries, toiling slow. Hew the unshapely stones, that yet no guise Of beauty wear to my dim, weary eyes— Neath my rude touch no grace nor glory show. Elsewhere shall hands more skillful carve and guild My rough hewn blocks, till they are meet to be A part of those bright walls that He doth build. Therefore, 0, soul, be all tty murmurs stilled— A place to work for Him, He giveth thee, And to thy poor toil, immortality. —CungrtqationaXist. EVIL SPEAKI5G. Among all the sinful ha,bits to which men amt women in all grades of society are addicted, probably there is not on<^ so deep-seateci and universal as that of evil speaking. The tongue is called in Scripture the “unruly member,” and it is no small part of seM-conquest for a man to gain and maintain a perfect control of its utterances. Rightly employed, it may be the means of untold good, but wrongly used, it can accomplish vast results in unhappiness and disaster. We do not realize now great a proportion of the unbroken friendships, scattered families, social dissensions, and even the sad records of lives that are crushed down in despair are due to evil speaking. It is a sad illustration of human sinfulness and depravity that the ear catches more eagerly reports of ill than records of good, and that the tongue is more ready to utter reproofs than to speak words of hopefulness and pity when some erring one has gone astray. By the family hearthside, in the social circle and in the thoroughfares of business, evil reports and slanderous tales are greedily heard and quickly passed from mouth to mouth. Yet often do we see companions meet, pass pleasant hours together, and part apparently in the deepest, truest .friendship; ami yet when once separated each may select and discuss every fault of the other, and display every imperfection in the eyes of an eager, curious1 and gossiping community. This is social treason—as unbecoming to upright manhood as is treason against the Nation. The influence of the slanderer is not only insidious, but poisonous and powerful, and while he seeks to blacken the fame of others he feeds his own evil tendencies, and becomes more and more destruct

ive. We shndder when we see this evil in its worst forms, and behold its worst results, and yet it can not be'denied that it is known in many Christian homes. It is sad to think that one who bears the Christian name may have uttered some word which has given a pang of sorrow, or perhaps added to the sting of remorse or the desperation of despair. How careful should we be to “keep the door of our lips” each moment, that no word may pass which shall cause us regret or others pain! Let us recognize this evil tendency in our nature, and cultivate the habit, in speaking of others, to say only such things as are lovely and of jgood report concerning them. Another, and perhaps worse, form of evil speaking is the idle, vulgar and impure language that may be heard at almost every place where men are wont to meet. False and silly stories are told in the soeial groups, and pass for witty jokes; phrases of vulgar slang are used by the otherwise cultivated and polite; and impure words are passed around regardless of even common propriety. These seem but little things, yet in result they are vast beyond measure. They poison the fountains of thought; they narrow and demoralize the intellect; and, Tallin^ upon the yielding nature of childhood, they sully its innocence and soil its beauty. Fortunate, indeed, are they who from youth up have been shielded from the dangers of evil speaking; and strong and manly is he who has learned to resist and rebuke this sin, and who strives to keep his tongue from uttering words that are idle, low and vile. “For he that will love life and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil and his lips that they speak no guile.” But what shall be said of blasphemy? We talk of National morality and progress, but what Christian man will not shudder when he reflects that a holy God bows down His ear to a Christian land to hear His name hurled about in oaths and curses more frequently and more loudly than if ascends in prayer and praise! Strange problem of human nature, that one man can mock at and abuse those words and names which others breathe only with the deepest reverence and love—that the name of Him in whom we live and have our being should be heard in vulgar mockery in the hellish dens of drunkenness and vice! The wisdom of earth can never solve for the profane swearer the profound and awful meaning in those words: “The Lord will not hold him guiltless,” but every Christian,..j6ay\ refuse to listen to blaSphemouS'tallk, and may guard his own lips lesf they utter irreverently the holy name pf God. 9 Finally, let us keep pure the fountains of speech. Let us strive for high and holy thoughts and aspirations. Let Us cultivate the love of beauty, innocence and charity. Let us seek to scatter here and there along our pathway words that shall come with healing to some faint and wounded soul, or, in the fertile sail of some youthful mind, spring up by and by to crown our lives with blessing. Let us bear ever in mind the great respoijsibility whieh the very faculty of speech puts upon us, remembering that Christ has said: “By thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thv words thou shalt be condemned/’—Golden little.

TVliy Not* Hamlet's sword, reaching the heart of Polonins t hrough the hanging? of his mother’s chamber, transfixed that prudence which is only another name for cowardice; the prudence which distrusts principles and trusts to policies. It is only the true man who can he really brave; only the righteous man who can walk through the darkness and face the mystery ot life with a serene soul. Mean men, unrighteous men, small men like Polonins see what is right and knov that it ought to be done, but are tooeowardly to do it. They distrust the eternal power of truth and of the God whose life it is; they hug the shore and are wrecked on reefs arid shoals where the bold man, strong in faith and resolute in purpose, sets his prow to the farthest horizon, and, with God’s sea under keel and God’s heaven overhead, lea\es the perils and dangers of the treacherous coast far behind. If Columbus had listened to the prudent counsels tof he wise men of his generation his sailn would never have filled with the breezes of the new continent; he dared greatly, and he wears worthily the splendid crown of fame which the world l^is set upon his brow. Half the anxieties and perplexities of life would disappear if we only believed enough in God to take Him at his word and trust Him with our earthly hopes and fortunes. If we cast prudence to the winds wherever principle was involved, and held to the thing that was S' ?ht in the face of all manner of possie calamities, we should find ourselves involved in no mesh of compromise, weakened and paralyzed by no consciousness of unfaithfulness to great trusts and high opportunities. The boldway is almost always tfie safe way. At. the battle of the Nile, when Nelson ran. his fleet

between the French squadron and the shore, his apparent rashness was a grand institution of leadership; it is the great soul which looks over the whole field of conflict and divines bj instinct the daring movement which snatches victory at the point of greatest peril. Abraham was a rash and imprudent man when he forsook the pleasant land where his flocks had multiplied and his goods increased, to trust, through long and homeless wanderings, the guidance of an unseen Power; Moses sacrificed a fortune and the highest political opportunities when he exchanged the palace of a King for the tents of an ungrateful, undisciplined and half-civil-ized race escaping from slavery; Paul was au improvident man when he cast away the advantages of his position as a Jewish teacher to become the wandering preacher of a despised and rejected Gospel; Luther was, a foolhardy man when he left the peace of his cell at Erfurt for the seething turmoil of the Reformation; all men who set the impress of their personality upon history are imprudent men; they defy the precepts of a timid prudence, and throw themselves boldly Hpon the everlasting arms that uphold the universe. If you are in any kind of temptation in which prudence and policy draw you on one side and principle on the other, risk all for principle; if you are in perplexity or doubt, if past unfaithfulness has involved you in a network of embarrassment and entanglement,’ take the boldest and shortest way out; God is pledged to help you, and as He guided Abraham, Moses, Paul and Luther, so He will direct your path.— Christian Union.

“The Mistakes of Moses.” It is understood that great numbers of persons are still reading that purblind mass of erudition known as the “"Mistakes of Moses.” Does the author of that hook know what the Jewish system means when you get down to the soul of it? Does he tell you that its key-note is mercy, and that its method and aim are simply those of deliverance and freedom from the actual ills of life? Does he tell you that it is a system shot through and through with Seat redeeming ana liberating forces oes he tell you that it takes a nation of slaves, ignorant, barbaric, besotted in mind and degenerate in body, and by a shrewdly adapted system of laws lifts it steadily and persistently and bears it on to ever bettering conditions and always toward freedom? Does he tell you that'from first to last, from center to circumference, it was a system of deliverance from bondage, from disease, from ignorance, from anarchy, from superstition, from degrading customs, from despotism, from barbarism, from Oriental vices and philosophies, from injustice and oppression, from individual and national sin and fault? Does he tell you that then the nation was organized in the interest of freedom, planned to rescue it by a gradually unfolding system of laws, educational in thfeir spirit, and capable of wide expansion in right, directions? Nothing of this he sees, but only some incongruities in numbers and a cosmogony apparently not scientific.—Eev. T. T. Hunger. Choice Extracts. —Seeming difficulties generally vanish before faith, prayer and perseverance. —The clouds above us can not long conceal the heavens beyond them.— Edward Wigglesworih. —Flies spy out the wounds, bees the flowers; good men the merits, Common men the faults.—Hindu. i —It is better to believe that a man does possess good qualities than to assert that he does not—John Francis

jjums. —The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him, and to imitate Him, as we may, by possessing our souls of true virtue. —St Augustine. —Very mueh has been said about dying grace, or courage with which to arm ourselves for the last con3ict, and doubtless much will be said till the end comes. This appears to be a waste of time and thought; if we fashion ourselves according to the precepts of the Master we need not fear for the final moments. He will take care of us then. —Golden Rule. —It seems to me a fact, and an impressive one, that modermSJiscoveries, instead of detracting from, increase the significance of, the Bible symbolism. Every new revelation of the” beautiful or useful properties of light, for instance, adas something significant to the meaning of our Loras declaration: “I am the Light of the world,” and to Paul’s praise to the Philippians: “Among whom ye shine as lights m the world.”—R. B. Howard. —Would to God that our men could see that there is nothing on earth so regal as a true, pure manhood—nothing so really great; that they would despise the miserable scramble after office that disgraces our country, and aim, not at becoming position-occupiers, mere office-holders, but cultivated, holy men, an attainment that ijjnot dependent on the accidents of society, but up* on themselves, their own energetic endeavor, persevering industrv and the blessing of God—-Rev. G. C. Baldwin. Getting Her Father’s Consent. “I tell you, sir,” indignantly exclaimed Colonel Weblcy, addressing a young man who aspired to the hand of his only child, “that I shall never give my consent to a union which I know would be unhappy.” “We love each other,” replied young Balehuff. “Love be eternally blowed! So I could have said years ago. I was devoted to the woman I married and she was devoted to me.” “You have lived happily with each other, have you not?” “Happily!” the Colonel contemptuously repeated. “I didn't have money enough to ensure happiness. Even in Arkansaw a man must have money. His wife may be devoted to him, but if he fails to provide those little delicaoies whieh make life so enjoyable to a woman, she will sp^ak of this sad lack of comfort, and instead of attributing it to financial inability, will* regard it as willful neglect. At times she will be melting with affection and vow that your love is all that she cares for in this world, but when some one who in worldly goods seems no richer than yourself rides in a buggy with his wife, she loses sight of the great sustaining love and hankers after tangible affections, a street display of love.” . “I am a young man of energy and good business capacity. I can work and earn money.” “No use in prolonging this conversation. I have told you that you shall not marry my daughter. I shall keep a close watch, and if I see you here again I shall act with violence.” “Well, Colonel,” said the young man, with firmness, “as the gentler resources have failed, I am compelled to adopt the last resort. Some time ago, before you suspected that I was attached to your daughter, you borrowed ten dollars from me. Do not wince, sir; hear me through. You thought that I had forgotten tne transaction, but I haven’t. Now, sir, I intended to many your daughter. If you persist in annoying me I shall dun you for the money every time I see you.’-’ The Colonel sat for a moment in deep thought. Finally he said. “Say, Bob, don’ t say anything more about the tea dollars; lend me nve more and take the girl.”—Arkansaw traveller.

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THE MARKETS. NEW YORK, August A1883. CATTLE—Exports.*550 @<8 35 ct/rroN-Miodiina.... 10 FLOU H-G ood wfChoioe.. 4 SO 6 75 WHEAT—No. 2 Red... 115 m No. S lied...Ill CORN—No. 2.... 80 OATS—Western Mixed. S PORK-NewMess... 15 50 ST. LOUIS. COTTON -Middling.... REEVES—Exports.. 5 00 Fair to Good. 5 SO r Texas Steers. 3 75 HOGS—Common to soletfA... 5 35 SHEEP-Fair to Choice. 3 50 FLOUR—XXX to Choice.. 3 60 WHEAT—No. S Winter.. I 04 No. 8 “ “ CORN-jTo.a Mixed.. OATS—No. 8. RYE No. 8. TOB-►BACCO-Lugs......... .. Medium Leal HAY-Choice Tin&rthy......... BUTTES- Choice Omry.. BROOM-CORN—Prime........ EGGS—Choice................. FORK-New Mess............ 14 00 BACON—Clear Rib..... 8!LARK—Prime Steam....._ 8 WOOL—Tub-washed, medium. 30 Unwashed.IT CHICAGO. CATTLE—Exports_....... 515 HOGS—Good to choice. 5 35 SHEKP-Good to choice_ 4 00 FLOUR—Winter. JOe Spring........ 3^60 WHEAT—No, 8 Spring. 99 No. 3 Red. 106 CORN—No. a...... 49 OATS-No. 2..... 27 RYE.:.... 55 PORK-New Mess. 13 10 KANSAS CITY. CATTLE—Native Steers. 4 95 NativeCows........ 2 75 HOGS—Sales at. .. 5 00 WHEAT—No. 2............i SS CORN—No. 2 mixed. 36 OATS-No. 2.; 18 NEW ORLEANS. FLOUR—High Grades. 5 85 CORN—White... 60 OAT'S—Western..,.. 46 HAY—Choice...-..1900 PORK—Mess.15 00 RADON—Clear Rib.... 8* COTTON—Middling... 34 Hay-Fever. I was severely afflicted with Hay-Feyer for 25 years. I tried Ely’s Cream Balm, and the effect was marvelous. It is a perfect cure. YTjj. T. Carr, Presbyterian Pastor, Elizabeth, N.J. Price 50 cts. The impecunious man who married an heiress always spoke of her as a capital «wife, . “ Raj's blowing n is lor min; up as a business. It has always leen a phase of human nature to indulge in .blowing from a safe standpoint.—Pi 'tsburgh Telegraph. , An enterprising reporter, writing of a wreck at sea, stated that no less than fourteen of the unfortunate ere w and passengers bit the dust.

Hard Lumps In Breast. Dr, R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.: Dear iSir—I wrote you some tjme ago that I thought I bad a cancer. There was a large lump in my breast as large as a walnut, and had been there four m< nths. I commenced taking your “ Golden Medical Discovery,” *• Favorite Prescription” and “Pellets” in June, and the lump is gone. Yours gratefully, His. R. R. Clark, Irvington, Mich. A fashion item announces that ladies are wearing V-shaped bodices. A Vsnaped bodice spoils an Y-shaped note.— Norristown Herald. Eay-Fever. One and one-half bottles of Ely’s Cretin Balia entirely cured me of Hay-Fever of ten years’ standing. Have had no trace of it for t wo years. Albert A. Persy,Bmithboro, N. Y. Price 50 cents If a man can Sot cut the grass in front of his house he might as well be no mower.— N. O. Picayune. The Monarch Right ning Potato Digger stands without a rival. Every farmer should have it. Read advertisement elsewhere in this paper. The chap who shakes the door-mat on the side-walk is the man who “fills the public eye.”—Golden Days. Paralytic strokes, heart disease, and kidney affections, prevented by the use of Brown’s Iron Bitters. “ Buchu-paiba.” Complete cure, all tutnoying Kidney Diseases, irritation. $1. There is said to be a jolly old dog?—a setter-Mii London, who is nearly eighty years old. He is a type setter. “ Became Sound and Well.” R. V. Pierce, M. D.: Dear Sir—My wife,; who had been ill for over two years, and" had ti led many other medicines, became sound and well by using your “Favorite Prescription.” Sly niece was also cured by its use, after several physicians had failed to do her any good. Yours truly, Thomas J. Methvin, Catcher’s Station, Ga. Light-houses, fron a theatrical, point of view, always indicate breakers ahead.— Dockester Post-Express. Wapley, Ga.—Dr. B. R. Doyle says: “I .consider Brown’s Iron Bitters superior a3 a tonic to any preparation now in use.” He said her hair was dyed; and when she indignantly said: “’Tis false!” he said he presumed so. Skinny Men. “ Wells’ Health Renewer” restores health and vigor, cores Dyspepsia. Waiting In vein—Blood. Suited to convicts—Stripes. A matrimonial city. Holyoke.—Boston Courier. Anamosa, Iowa.—Dr. J.'G. McGuire says: “ I know Brown’s Iron Bitters is a good tonic and gives general satisfaction.” Save trouble and expense in washing and always have nice fitting collars and cuffs by wearing Chrc lithion. “ Rough on Rats.” Clears out rats, mice, flies, roaches, bed-bugs, ants, vermin, loo. All recommend Wise’s Axle Grease.

s Or Lyon's Patent Heel BtHPeeers for tl new boots or shoes before you run them « Wells’ “Rough on Corns.” 18c. c_ Complete, permanent cure. Coras, 1 Glenn’s Sulphur No specific for skin ailments can with it. Hill’s Hair and Whisker S£W Wise’s Axle Grease never gums. TELEGRAPHIC MATTES. Oer latest correspondence. May It, IS the narrative of Ukxwr B. I.noeaj*. the General Superlntendent ol the Dtatriet Messenger Co. of New Haven, Cbnn. Mr Ingram says: "For many months I had been aorely troubled wither weak and tired trelIng across the loins, almost Invariably accompanied with a headache. I had noticed also that at stated periods following these pains my mine would be highly colored, and leave a heavy brick-colored sediment when allowed to stand In the vessel. 1 could not work, and I was discouraged to an alarming degree. Nothing helped me. I was prescribed tor by some of the best physicians in New Tork City, where I was located at that time, but derived no benedt or relief. When almost ready to give up In despair an acquaintance said to me. ‘ I want you to try Hunt's Remedy. ’ I did to, and hardly twenty-four hours had elapsed before I obtained relief, and In three weeks' time all the aforesaid ailments had disappeared, and I Improved steadily, and was Infused with new life, so that I could resume my business agato. which Is one that suhjects me to strains of all kinds, which are likely to affect the kidneys, namely: Erecting telegraph and telephone lloes. Hunt's Remedy now occupies the moat honored place In my cabinet of medicines. I would not be without It. and I cheerfully and heartily recommend It to all who are troubled with diseases of the liver, khlney, or urinary organs. It never falls to euro.” ' SfiCmrru Stsut. ,. TOWN CLERK FORTY-TWO YEARS. The following in from Mr. OTWsrnt. Gauss, the well-known and respected Town Clerk of Norwich. Conn. Mr. Gager Is 89 years old. and has held this posltton of trust for tl years, and his word la as .good as his bond. On May 5, 1S8S, he writes as follow*: "Far years I have suffered with disease of the kidneys anrl bladder, and have no heskaacy In recommending Hunt's Remedy as a specific for these complaints. It has not only been the means of relieving me of terrible pain, hut ha3 cured a number or my acquaintances. To-day I am performing the duties of the office of Town Clerk, which I have held for forty-two yean, which I could not be able to do were I not In a 4air state of health owing to Jhc use of Hunt's Rented- • Fast Potato Digging!

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