Pike County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 16, Petersburg, Pike County, 27 August 1885 — Page 4

PIKE com DEMOCRAT. Xhibliethed Every Thursday. PETERSBURG. - - - INDIANA. DAWNING.S. 1,pht across the night " hich halt reveals aud half conceals the things that are! '.cneath that light and fop-wreath whito " hiehi comes and goes in ghostly shape And tloa^ Marl Against the sky Si? lines of lofty pines, >v hose ip/alion ueedle-leaves know how At times to sigh. And how to laugh; -but now are hushed As though iu fear; Or else that so they may not fail Some call to hear When heralds of the dawn appear. And how there comes a deeper gleam— Bright rays that seem ~ To steal apace to every place; A bat jerks west; Tin owl in quest Of hollow trees,drifts dowu the leas And hark! / , A blue-bird singsi its music rings ’Twixt day aud dark. And now the lines of sentinel piues That watch on high The glory see; for the eastern gates o « Je>i glitteriug pearl a — Where the morning waits Wide open whirl, ~ And billows of gold the earth infold. £0, half concealed and half revealed, By such a way has come the day. The living light Has blossomed from the darksome night. But uougth can show, and none can know The moment fair— All nameless now. All tameless now— Whose murky glow linked eloselv there 1 he darksome night with living light Yet give that moment now a namo 1 ea, give it now a nanio of lamo With bated breath -1 name it—Death. O soul forlorn. Know Death is DaYvn! For Death conceals yet half reveals The twilight way That men must go, twist starlit life And Heavenly day. Hark, hark! How near, how sweet and clcur That day-bird sings! As ’twere a song of Heavenly birth The music Hugs Above the earth. —Rev. Charles S. Xewhall% in Chicago Advance. [Copyright Secured. All Rights Reserved.] Driven From Sea to Sea; Or, JUST A CAMPIN’. • r . ,- BY C. C. POST. PUBLISHED BY PERMISSION OP J. E. DOWNEY & Co., Publishers, Chicaoo. CHAPTER XVIII.—Continued. t When this was all settled between them, and a memorandum of the whole matter made amt carefully deposited in the pocket-book of Mr, Blake, that gentleman returned the pocket-book to bis pocket, buttoned up his coat, and mounting his horse, rode back to town. When ho was gone Mrs. Parsons gave a sigh of relief. , ^ “Well, I am glad it is all fixed up,” she said, “and I shall feel bettor Still when the-deed is made and we are in possession. All the t^no he was here I was afraid that the "trade would fall through some way, aud 1 can not begin * to tell how anxious I am to get away from here, or how 1 dreaded having to rent a place. I’d rather live in a hut / aud have it my own, than in a palace f that belonged to Another, and 1 am like Johnny; 1 be<nn to feel as if this awful mass that is about us might raise suddenly aud swallow us all in a moment, i “Yes,” replied her husband, "itj is j better that we go, though it’s mortal bard to leave tliis place, which was the purtiest and best iu the valley. But it dpn’t make much odds, 1 s'posc, where one is, so they have enough to cat; and I guess we can git-that up there. “I'lV load up to-night, an’ start; tomorrow with the first load, it’11 take me two days to make the round trip, an’ hard days at that, but PU put on all four of the horses and take all I kin pile on the wagon. Then I’ll get Ritchie to help with the next load an’ we'll take Johnny in the carriage an’ make it all in two' trips with somebody to drive the cows. You’d better write Jennie and Lucy, mother, an' tell tern to come to Phipnsburg, so’s to meet us there when we go with the last load. That’ll save conin’ after ’em, an’ they’ll be tliar to help you fix things when we git thar. 1

i oor tilings, what a honie^coimng it will be to them,” sighed Mrs. Parsons Nevertheless she "wrote telling the girls what had occurred and how they must take the boat on the night of the day pn which they would get the letter. They were to get off at Phippsburg instead of the old landing and wait at the hotel until their parents called for them on their way to the new home up in the mountains. This letter John Parsons mailed the next day, while his teams were eating and resting from the pull over the hills with their load of household goods. That night he slept in the shanty upon the place which he had bought, and the following day returned to his family and the doomed cottage. With the help of a neighbor he loaded tho remainder of his worldly possessions upon the two wagons, the heavy one and the spring fruit wagon. This neighbor was to drive one team and Mr. Ritchie volunteered the use of another animal to attach to the carriage ir which was Mrs. Parsons with Johnny propped up among his pilloyvs. , It was a sad leaving of the old home. The muddy water yvas now entering over the front steps and beginning tc form - pools on all the loyver floors. Only the topmost twigs of the apple and pear trees, which were in loWei ground tljan tho house, and portions oi evergreens in the front yard yverc above the^deposit. Every other green thing ' upon the valuable portion of the ranch had disappeared entirely from sight Martha Parsons yvept as she took a last loek at the place, and yet she want heart glad to get away. It was like a nightmare, staying there and seeing that mass of mud and water rise day by day. And besides, lioyvever poor their home might be, it was henceforth the onh'one they were to know, and she yvas anxious to get into it and begin the work <*f improvement. As for John Parsons,he looked noither to the right nor to the left. He did not even turn his head for a last look at the old place as he rounded the hill that shut it from their view. Pride iynd ambition were well nigh dead within him. and he hoped for nothing beyond a bare existence for the rest of his life. He would come back, he thought, when the roads got good again, and if the buildings wore not burned down, would tear off some of the boards from such portions as were not buried by the overflow, and use them to help patch up with, on the new ranch. Beyond that the place was absolutely worthless, and probably some tramping miner wOuld carelessly set fire to the buildings after having camped in them over night The fleeing family had perhaps placed a distance of three miles between themselves and their ruined home when from the other direction appeared two horsemen. . As they came opposite the cottage, they looked for evidences of the presence of its former inmates but did not pull up their animals. “Evidently, they, too, have pulled out,” remarked one of the horsemen to his compaulon. “I say, Jobbers, it’s pretty hard, now, on the poor ranchers, and I’ll be hanged if I don’t wish there was some way of getting out the gold without ruining then- homes. Look there noyv; finest ranch and finest family in the whole country. Ranch gone to

the dogs and the family gone, God only knows where.” “Oh ’e’s all right,” returned the other. “ ’E’ll get another bit of land some’er’s and go to work again, and in a few yearn ’e’ll ’ave it all set out with trees and grape-vines. Great country, this for, a man as ’as to work for ’is livin’; great country, and w’enI return to Hinglaud 1 intend to hadvise all my farmer hacquaintances to immigrate to California. ” And then the two men relapsed into silence and rode on. The next day Mr. Jobbers took the boat for Sacramento, and from there went to New York, from whence he returned to his own country, fully impressed with the idea that however rough a life it might be in the mines for gentlemen, California was a great place for men who work for a living, and is to-day probably advising every farmer whom he,meets to “Immigrate.” ’ ’ chapter' XIX. THE MOUNTAIN RANCH. It was high noon when our friends reached Phippsburg, and they were still fifteen miles from the new home to which they Weregoing. The girls had not yet arrived, the steamer on which they had taken passage having grounded upon a bar formed from the washing from tho mines. Johnny, too, was complaining of his back, and his parents feared to take him further that day over the rough roads. It was decided, therefore, that Mrs. l’arsous and Johnny should remain at the hotel in Phippsburg, while the men went on with the goods, and that on the morrow when they returned, the heavy wagon and carriage with the team which Mr. Blake was to have should be turned over to him and the family should go on in the spring wagon. •— Small as it was, the expense of remaining at the hotel was a sad draw on the few remaining dollars in the possession of John and Martha Parsons, but it coukl not be helped and the teams drove on and left them. Towards evening the boat arrived, and dn it came Jennie and Lucy. Mrs. Parsons coulc^ not leave Johnny to go down to. the landing, but watched at the hotel window and beckoned to them as they came up the opposite side of the street. When the girls saw their mother they hurried across the street to the hotel and into the sitting-room where she awaited them, and in another moment all three were crying upon each others’ shoulders. “Oil mother, mother, it’s awful to think that the old place is lost, buried by the overflow from those mines; is there rut) way to save it? Can’t it be floated off again?” sobbed Lucy, her whole frame shaking with excitement. “I can’t bear to live and know that you and father are driven out of your comfortable home and forced to begin on a piece of wild landjigain. I wish you would go to town and live and let me teach school and support you. I’m sure I could do it.” “You must not take it so hard, dears,” returned their mother, still holding the girls close to her. “True, it is very sad to be obliged to give up the old home, but no doubt we shall be very comfortable on the new place when we get it-fixed up a little. What hurts me most is the knowledge that we may never be able to visit you if you go so far away as I suppose you wiil do when you are married to Mr. Annelsey.” “I’ll never marry, mother, never,” sobbed Lucy. ,“I have written Mr. Annelsey and broken off our engagement, and am going to stay with you and father and help take care of Johnny as long as I live. You need not say a word against it, for it is too late; the letter is half way to New York by this time.” , To say that Mrs. Parsons was greatly surprised at this would be but to state the truth. To'say that she greatly regretted it would not be so true. She had felt a certain degree of pride in the thought that Lucy would marry wealthy, and had sought to obtain comfort for the supposed coming separation in tho knowledge that her daughter could want for nothing which wealth could buy, yet at times had feared that Lucy might not find happiness in the union, and wondered if it would not have been better for her to have married Erastus. Especially since the last great trouble had come upon them, and she saw how her husband was breaking under it, she could not help thinking how much comfort it would have been to him. and to herself, if the young folks, could have found their happiness in wedding each other and remaining with or near them in their old ago. And now, while she scolded Lucy a little for her haste in the matter, she could not but feel thankful at heart that her child was not to go from her, at least for the present. Jennie joined her sister in deploring tho loss of their old home, and wept | aloud and violently when her mother spoke of separation, but she did not offer to teach school to support her parents, and when her mother gently bade "her cease tp weep she wept tho harder and clung the more closely. “Come, Jennie,” said Mrs. Parsons, finally, “you really must cheer up, dear. It is not so bad but it might be worse. We have each other yet and no doubt shall get on nicely in the new home, and when Mr. Ensign gets ready, you and he can be married and live in San Francisco, which is not so far away but that you can come home and see us .once in awhile, and maybe we can visit you,—why Jennie, what is the matter; have you broken with Mr. Ensign also?”

mu jonnic 0:113' criett tlio harder and clung the closer with her face hidden upon her mother’s shoulder. Seeing the inability of her sister tp speak, Lucy said: “Jennie is married already, mother, and she and Mr. Ensign are to start fort Chicago next week. “Mr. Ensign came to see her the night that we got your letter telling us of the breaking of the dam, and found us crying, and when we told him about it he urged Jennie to marry him at once, and finally she consented, and he went and got a clergyman, and we all went down, into the Professor’s parlor and saw them married.” “I sh-shall ne-nevcr forgive myself inin the world if you are angry with me," sobbed Jennie. “You know 3'ou-you wrote in the letter that-that we—” “Yes, dear, I know,” said Mrs. Parsons, soothingly, stroking Jennie’s hair the while, ‘T wrote you that if your lovers urged a speedy marriage your father and I would not object So you have done nothing wrong, and 1 am sure Mr. Ensign will make you a good, kind husband, and I hope you will be very happy. I am only sorry that you are going so far awa3:. Can not Mr. Ensign find work in San Francisco?” At this Jennie began to check her sobs, and from the two girls their mother learned the whole story. Ensign had chanced to meet a gentleman from Chicago for whom he had worked before he came to the coast and who now offered him a position at good wages with the prospect of a foremanship in a short time, if he would return to Chicago and the old shop. As wages were not so good in San Francisco as formerly, and there were rumors of the factory shutting down entirely, he had decided to accept the offer, provided Jennie would go with him as his wife, and going to consult her with little hope that she would consent to so hasty a marriage, had arrived just as the girls were in their deepest distress over the news from home. Taking advantage of the situation he urged an instant marriage, which ended in Jennie’s sobbing out a

consent upon his shoulder, and tho young man had cone at once for tho pastor of a church and had tho ceremony performed in the presence of the family with whom the girls were ingHe was to come for Jennie in a few days—as soon as he could arrange some little matters of business, and they were to go to Sacramento by boat and from there by rail to Chicago. “And so I am to lose one of my girls after all,” said Mrs. Parsons, when they had finished. “Well, if you are only happy, dear, 1 will try and not be sorry that you are going.” The next day when Mr. Parsons returned he hugged and kissed the girls in a boisterous manner, which he intended as a cover for his feelings over the loss of the old place and their changed circumstances. Then he went to Mr. Blake’s office, delivered up the horses, wagon and carriage, and gave him a bill of sale for the hogs and the houshold goods which he was to have, and which he had left by agreement at a neighbor’s. In return he reeeived a warranty deed .to the new place, made by his request and without her knowledge in the name of his wife. He did not do this for the purpose of defrauding any one, for he owed no man a dollar, but he had lost all pride in ownership, 'and somehow felt that honor required that, having failed to protect his own rights and guard his family from suffering, he should now resign all claim to the direction of affairs and place what little was left ot their fortune in the hands of her who, equally with himself, had aided in accumulating ail that was lost, as well as all that remained. Accompanying the deed was an abstract of title signed by the Recorder of Deeds for the county, showing that there were no mortgages on record against the land therein described, and that the title thereto Was in the name of Mr. Blake. ’Not daring to trust to his own knowledge of such things, Mr. Parsons took the abstract and deed to the landlord of the hotel, whom he thought a man likely to be possessed of some knowledge of business. The landlord looked them over and pronounced them all right. Determined to have no • lingering doubts to worry him hereafter, Mr. Parsons then sought out the villago lawyer, and submitted them to him also. That gentleman glanced them over and replied: “It’s all right, sir; all right.” “Land entered by John Smith, who sells to Peter Jones. Deed signed by John Smith and Hannah E. Smith, his wife. They sell to Thomas R. Blake. Thomas R. Blake and Mary S. Blake deed to Martha J. Parsons. “No mortsnRe appears upon tho records in my office asainst the above described land. "Enos Pcterbaugh, Recorder." ‘ •That’s all right Title in your wife. Nobody can get it away from you, sir.” “That’s what I thought every time afore,” muttered John Parsons-to himself as he left the office, “but they' did it all the same. But may be as this place ain’t worth much and ain’t never likely to be, they’ll leave ns in peace the rest of our lives.” It was near the middle of the afternoon when the family found themselves in the spring wagon and on their way. The road wound round and round the hills, now up,, now down, rocky and full, of gullies washed by the rains; never being repaired except when it became absolutely impassable, and in spite of the careful driving of his father the . rough jolting hurt Johnny, sometimes causing him to cry out with pain. Night overtook them when they were several miles from their journey’s end, making it still more difficult to travel with any speed, so that it was ten o’clock when they turned their tired and jaded horses off the main road into a by-track to the right, and a quarter of a mile further on pulled tip in front of a cheap, unpainted board shanty—~ their new home upon the mountain side. It was too late to think of doing anything except to mako a cup of coffee and bunk down in the easiest way possible for the night. Mr. Parsons, with the assistance of the neighbor who came with him the day before, had put up a eook-stove and made a bunk for themselves On the floor, which remained just as they had crawled out of it in the morning. Another similar one was now made up in another corner of the room, and upon these the family slept, except Johnny, who occupied liis wheeled cot, it having been the last thing packed ou the wagon before leaving the old home. When they arose the next morningthe sun was shining over the mountain tops, and doing the best it could to make the scene a pleasant one. Mr. Parsons hastily slipped on his Clothes and went out to look to the horses. Mrs. Parsons and the girls also dressed hurriedly and then stepped to the door and looked put. It had been tot) dark to see much the night before, and they had been too utterly tired out to try to see even the little that might have been seen, but now they were eager to know how tho place really did look. is. _

a sail enougn contrast it was t old home. Instead of a white coti with its green blinds and wide opei randas, their dwelling was a r< shanty of boards nailed perpendicu to the; framework, resembling in respect the one which they had pied for a few days on the S ranoh. But instead of being six| feet in length, these boards were ten feet long, and as a eonsequi there was no loft above as in the Si cottage. The interior was ceiled with ci cloth, but there were no little i made conveniences: no sink; ho board; no partition; no porch ovei door. All was in one room and al" cheap and rough. Outside, the view was no more cl ing. The shanty stood well up 01 hill or mountain. Below, and for tie distance, both in front and ii rear, was a piece of tolerably ground, perhaps forty acres in all, declined gently to the-west, ending ravine, beyond which the earth be broken and rocky again. Above the shanty the ground sloped upwards with a sharper pitch for a few hundred feet and then rose rapidly, becoming more and more precipitous, until it reached the summit a third of a mile away. In places portions of the solid rock foundation projected through the barren soil, while in others immense detached bowlders, weighing hundreds of tons, lay only slightly imbedded in the earth and looking as if a push would sehd them crashing down the mountain side. Here and there stood a digger pine, its blue-green spines looking, in the distance, like bunches of thick smoke. These, with a few scattering white oaks, half denuded of their limbs by the tempests, and an occasional clump of manzineto bushes, were the only vegetation which grew here, except where some large bowlder formed a slight protection from the wind, and prevented the rains from washing away the thin coating of earth below it, might be found a few bunches of coarse wild grass. A fence of boards had been thrown around the tillable ground bv the last occupants, but this was down in places, and only added to the general look of isolation and decay. [TO ®E COMlNUED.j

RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL. —One hundred and two ministers of %rPresbyterian Church died last year. / —Yale College has adopted the entire revised version of the scriptures for chapel readings. —The Salvation Army of England is to start an auxiliary branch under the name of the Salvation Navy. —There are at present in the United States 116 medical schools, and there is one physician to every 680 inhabitants. —In some sections of New Hampshire children of school age are remarkably scarce. In Warren there is one school district which contains but one pupil; four districts have but two pupils each, and two have only six between them.— Boston Globe. —A young lady teacher near Mitchell, I). T„ on the approach of a storm, dismissed her school in a body to a neighboring tree claim and stationed each pupil at a stout cottonwood, with instructions to hold on in case of a Mqw. —Chicago Inter-Ocean. —According to the Moskoiv Viedomoski, only 21 children out of 100 attending school in Russia are girls. The proportion varies with the religion- Thus of Protestants the number was greatest, viz.: 45.4 per cent., of Jews, 34.1 per cent, of Roman Catholic, 14.4 per cent. The number is lowest among Greek Catholics, viz.: 12.3 per cent. —The Indian R7/«css>says:“All friends of missions will rejoice if, by the terms of peace between France and China, the island of Formosa is left in possession of the Chinese. The English Presbj'terians have flourishing missions on this island, and, grange as it mav seem, the interests of these missions will probably be more /secure under Chinese heathen rule than under that which the French term Christian. —Rev. W. De Witt Hyde, recently chosen, is Bowdoin College’s seventh President, his predecessors having been Rev. Dr. Joseph McKeen, 1802-1807; Rev. Dr. Jesse Appleton, 1807-1819; Rev. Dr. William Allen, 1820-1839; Rev. Dr. Leonard Woods, 1839-1866; Rev. Dr. Samuel Harris, 1867-1871, and Hon. Joshua L. Chamberlain, 1871-1883. H« is said to be the youngest college President in the country.—Boston Post. —Church-going in the South—The Catholic churches are well attended after the people have attended market and visited the grocery. With one or two exceptions the Protestant churches are sparsely attended, and the churches are antiquated and so are the sermons. The most thriving churches in the South are the colored churches, and in them I have heard some of the most earnest and practical sermons. It was not all about ‘‘Detu Tlolden Slippers” or “Swing Low Sweet Chariot, but real practical morality.— uor. Pittsburgh Chronicle. j WIT AND*WISDOM. —Men who have fallen from great bights and lived to tell of it-agree that the fall is exhilarating, jit seems as if one were floating a bout on a feather bed. Try one bottle and be convinced.—Detroit Free Press. —When a tramp sees a woman with a pistol or gun in her hands he goes right on without winking, but let her appear on the scene with a dipper of hot water and he makes tracks like a kangaroo.—Burlington Free Press. —A man may have a head so stuffed with knowledge that his hair can’t grow, and yet have his feet knotted clear out from under him by a question or two from a little midget too small to know an idea from a gooseberry.—Chicago Ledger. —“Wisdom will never recommend men to retire from auy business that will beneflt mankind. Ho who withdraws from the active business of every day affairs, and' crawls into tire slum of idleness or conceals himself in a her mit’s cave, makes a sad blunder. No man is strong enough to resist the moth of sloth.”—Toledo Blade. —The only wit. When lovely woihaii pines in folly Because her hair is turning gray, What charm can soothe hermelanchotj What art can drive her grief away? The only art her woe to cover. To hide her ago from every eye, To come the gum-game o'er her lover And make her happy—is to dye! —Boston Gazette. —Your poem, Vashti, would have been published but for the fact that its “words that burn” scorched the lingers of the printers so that they could not put it in type. Sorry, Vashti, but until we can secure a fire-proof type-setting machine, it will be impossible to ventilate your fervid thoughts in these columns. —The Hatchet. —Young artist (to friend who has recently furnished bachelor’s apartments)—Charley, dear boy, I admire your taste. 1 see you have a little thing of mine hanging" there. Friend—No, did you paint that? Young artist—Yes; I’m proud to say that it’s from my brush. By the way, Charley, if it’s a fair question, what did the dealer charge you for itp Friend—Well—er, to tell you the truth, old man, the dealer threw that picture in.—jV. Y. Sun.

JAPAN. Tlie Cause of the Financial Distress in the Country of the Mikado. —Xliata-is, undoubtedly nine!, misery

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nese . __ . Iking lfttle thought for the morrow. This trait has probably much to do with the pleasing impressions they make on most foreign observers, and we are far from wishing them to become heavy-hearted and penurious. Philosophers outside of Japan have called economy “a questionable virtue,” and it may no doubt be carried too far. Still, when one comes to deal with economical questions, the frugal or lavish disposition of a people becomes an important consideration; and, in these modern days when capital is power, even more than knowledge used to be, frugality and industry, which are the roots of capital, are practically indispensable to the national welfare. For indolent and extravagant communities have no chance in the race with those who gather and honor wealth. But the Japanese, as we have said, made little provision in their prosperity for possible adversity, and the consequence of this want of foresight became apparent and troublesome when the Government decided at last to call in the paper money. Prices then began to fall, and debtors to feel the pressure, and when poor crops came, and the «alue of Japanese products in foreign countries also declined, the effect proved very severe. This, too, is traceable in the statistics of foreign trade.— Japan Mail,

CONCENTRATION. Am Important Element of Success In Every Occupation. Among the powers of the human mind that seem of themselves to make life worth living, that of concentration occupies a prominent place. To be able to fix the thoughts or the attention exclusively upon one subject, and to keep them there without wavering as long as is necessary, is a most important element of success in every occupation. It is a common mistake to think that although this ability is essential in professions, in literary pursuits, in tho management of large enterprises, or in any position involving the laying ol plans or the carrying out of systems, for the ordinary and common place worker, especially if his work be chiefly manual, it is of little consequence. This is one of those fallacies which lie at the root of much of the poor, inefficient, and inferior quality of work which is offered to the world in quantities far exceeding the demand. It is a well known fact that while hundreds of unservicable men and women stand idle, waiting for employment which does not come, every one who is able and ready to do superior work ip any department is eagerly caught up, and may almost command his own terms. One of the most radical differences between these two classes of workers is this very power of concentrating the energy and strength of both body and mind upon the work immediately at hand. Two men, working side by side in the field or the factory, may be equally competent as far as knowledge or physical strength or previous training go, to perform the labor before them. They begin with equal promise of good success, but in a short time, while one is persisting, the other is relaxing in effort. One pursues his work with unremitting zeal; the other spasmodically, with intervals ol wandering thoughts and flagging attention. It is already an assured fact that the one who has acquired the habit oi concentration will be the successful competitor. He will be anxiously sought for and re-engaged, while the other will sooti go to swell the ranks of the unemployed. It matters not what is to be done; from the simplest mechanical work to the most abstruse and complex mental operation, the power of putting all the thought, energy, and attention on that and nothing else for the time being, Will very largely determine the quality and amount of labor performed. To some extent this is a natural gift. We see children at play who, without other motive that their instinctive tendencies, persist continuously in any effort they make, or piwpose they form, with a perseverance and earnestness which may well shame many of their elders, while others will be distracted by every passing object, and forget their determinations as soon as they are formed. Yet here, perhaps more than in most tendencies, culture and practice come in to strengthen what is lacking. The discipline of the schools is most valuable in developing the concentrative-’ power in the province of thought, and it would be a blessin/g to every child if, in some way, alike discipline helped him in the work of his hands. Like every other faculty, this, too, is strengthened by exercise. Each time we recall bur scattering energies and wandering thoughts, and force them resolutely in one direction, we increase the power and develop the habit, and the exertion, at first painful and laborious, becomes in time easy and agreeable. Mr. Thomas A. Edison attributes his success as an inventor largely to this faculty, which he gained by steadfast exertion, once being able only to think upon a given subject for ten minutes befpre something else would come into bis mind, but gaining by long practice the power of continuous and uninterrupted thought for hours on a simple topic. At one time he worked with his assistants in trying to connect a piece of carbon to a wire. Each time it would break, and they would spend several hours in making another, until after working in this way one day and two nights they finally succeeded. This habit does not necessarily make a person so absorbed in one thing as to become narrow and one-sided. He may become so by yielding wholly to a> native impulse of dwelling on one thing; but the same self-control that concentrates his energies at will can also 'divert them at will into another channel when the proper time arrives. Many things rightly claim our attention, but none of them Will receive it aright if our thoughts aimlessly wander from one to another, without compass or guide.— Philadelphia Ledger.

CUT FLOWERS. Some Suggestions Relative to their Preservation. e. regarded, is never to cram the vases with flowers; many will last if only they have a large mass of water in the vase, and not too many stalks to feed op the water and pollute it. Vases that can holdTa large quantity of water are much to be preferred to the spindle-shaped trumpets that are often used. Flat dishps filled with'wet sand are also useful for short-stalked or heavy-headed flowers; even partially withered blooms will revive when placed on this coo! moist substance. Moss, though far prettier than sand, is to be avoided, as it soon smells disagreeably, and always interfers with the scent of the flower? placed in it for preservation. In the case of flowers that grow only in a cool temperature, and suffer when they get into warm and dry air, all that we can do is to lessen evaporation as much as possible, and when such flowers have hairy stems and leaves, to submerge them for a minute, so that by capillary attraction they may continue to keep themselves moist and cool; but this is dangerous to table-cloths or polished surfaces, unless care be taken that the points'of the leaves do not hang down to prevent dripping. Another means of preventing delicate and sweet-scented flowers from flagging is to cut. them with several leaves on the stem, and, when the flower head is placed in water, to allow only this head to remain above the water, while the leaves are entirely submerged; by this means the leaves seem to help support the flower, which will then last for three days in a fairly cool room. Frequent cutting of the stem is of great use; but with all flowers by far the best plan is to put them outside, exposed to dew or rain, during the night, when they will regain strength enough to last on for days. All New Holland plants, particularly flowing acacias, are benefited wonderfully by this apparent cruelty and will even stand a slight frost far better than a hot room at night indoors —American Garden. An important rule, 'though

—On investigation the alleged finding of ft bird in the middle of a boiled potato by ajlady at the Highlands, turns out to be something like the ol(T story of the “Three Black Crows.” The lady who was named as the finder was called upon by a Journal reporter, to whom she said that the substance found in the potato was not a bird, but was in form very like one. There were no eyes or feathers, but the general outline of a bird was reproduced in such a way as to make an object so strange in itself fts to need no exaggeration to make it interesting. —Boston Journal.

USEFUL. AND SUGGESTIVE. —-Fruit raisins' and' poultry keeping should go hand-in-hand, as the same land can be occupied for both purposes. —The farm fences of the United States cost more than the farm buildings. The length of fences is rated at 6,000,000 miles, 'and $2,000,000,000 is given as their cost.—CAicu <70 Tribune. —Mr- Seth Green thinks a profit can be derived from marshy lands by raising.frogs. He claims that they would destroy many insects, while in some markets the frogs are salable at good prices. —Whatever the stock and whether breeding or feeding, the owner should remember that grass, hay and grain, liberally but not unduly allowed, must ever be the basis from which real profits are reached.—Cleveland Leader. —Preserved Currants—Get your currants when they are dry; to every pound of currants put a pound of sugar in a preserving pan, with as much juice as will dissolve it. When it boils skin and put in your currants. Boil till the juice jellies. Can while hot or the same as any canned fruit. This is nice for tarts. — The Household. —Bread Pudding—Pour half a pint of beef tea, boiling, over the crumb of a French roll, beat well together and let it soak for half an hour; add two eggs beaten up in milk; beat all together,add salt and pepper, put the pudding into a buttered pie dish and bake quickly for three-quarters of an hour.—N. Y. Herald. —Soap bark is admirable for cleansing woolens of all colors. Take a large tablespoonful of the bark and simmer it for half an hour in one quart of water. Add this decoction to a bucket of warm water and w ash the woolen in it. This quantity will be sufficient for a dress. Iron on the reverse side before the material is quite dry.—Indianapolis Journal. \ —An acre of land will produce a burden of food just in proportion to its fertility and supply of water from above - readily percolating through the soil. Stagnant water in the soil is fully as inimical to the growth of the finger grasses as to the cultivated grains, and a soil that is not adapted to the growth of all the cereal grains is not so to the cultivated grasses.—Prairie Farmer. —Every crack and cjgyice in the ground is an exhaust pipe or flue to carry off moisture from the soil and convey away its gases. For that reason in the growingseason such apertures should not be permitted. The wray to prevent them is to roll the ground frequently or to work it shallow with short-teethed implements, as harrows, cultivators or shovel plows. But don’t go deep.—N. Y. Times. —Cheese cakes.—Take a quart of new milk; put it in a pan that will hold two quarts* let it merely boil; then pour in a quart of fresh buttermilk; let boil one minute, when you will have some fine curds; strain them and beat well and add sugar to taste, a few currants, four eggs, a scrap of nutmeg and a little new milk. A tablespoonful of either wine or brandy improves them. Make puff paste and bake in patty-pans.—Toltdc Blade. —Rugs of soft and pretty effect are made in this simple way: Take any desired colored worsted and coarse steel knitting needles, cast on thirteen stitches, and knit plain knitting to the length required; as each strip is finished wet it thoroughly and then let it dry. Take a piece of stout ticking the size the mat is to be, and sew each strip firmly on it with strong linen thread on the selvage side. Having done this, cut through the middle of the knitting, and thero will be a fluffy, curly carpet.—Ex. change. MILK FEVER.

How to Prevent This Complaint—The Starvation Plan. The way toprevent milk fever is to feed about two-thirds rations of fodder and half rations of. whatever mess they have been eating for a few days before they come in, and for two or- three days after calving feed sparingly with fodder; give ho mess at all for the first day or two after, except a half dozen potatoes or carrots, and take the chill off all her drink for forty-eight hours after calving. If the weather is hot keep her in the shade in the hept of the day, and she will not be likely to have any trouble. But if you are caught with a case of milk fever, don’t try to physic her, but empty the rectum and give an injection of laudanum diluted with thin starch, and keep giving the laudanum often enough to keep her easy, and in four or five days her bowels will move. When you Wish to leave her for the night, give an extra amount of laudanum. As she begins to get better she will look brighter, ana drink a little, and will not need as much laudanum. By the second or third day she will almost surely need a catheter to empty her- bladder. If there is no catheter near, a small rubber tube will answer. Your family physician can tell you how to use it if necessary. A little Weak saltpeter water for a diuretic is useful. Cows six years old and over are more likely to have milk fever. The writer says that he has never known a case with a cow less than five years old. Good cows that give much milk and are extra well fed are the ones that have it. A great many Jersey cows have died in that way. The directions Here given we have thought in the main were very good. The direction as to feeding before and after coming in is unquestionably sound. The suggestion, too, as to the class of cows that are subject or liable to have miik fever is worthy of attention. It is the good cow that • needs looking after carefully in this matter. Perhaps it would be useful to publish here what Mr. G. W. Farlee, a noted breeder, of Trenton, N. J., has to say upon the subject. He says: “It is the great bane of breeding for great milk and butter capacity. I have had some severe losses with milk fever, and can discover no other method of prevention than what Colonel Waring called 'judicious starvation’ for a month or two before calving. The calf is so far advanced in ' development that there is no danger of injury to it. Such a cow as Fadette it is simply impossible to dry, and besides, I questioned its propriety. In view, of the danger of milk fever it is often recommended to dry a great milker for at least a month before calving. I am inclined to think this is not wise. The disturbance to the system of making the new milk when a cow is entirely dry is, I believe, largely responsible for milk fever. Of course the malady is notoriously aggravated by a plethoric condition of the animal. My practice is to reduce the flow by short commons but continue milking" until the new milk comes, which is readijy recognized by its watery condition; I then cease milking. In three or four days I have the udder entirely emptied, care being taken to extract from the udder every particle of the ropy, curd-like substance which accumulates in the udder. After a like interval of time the udder is again thoroughly cleansed and the cow left to develop the milk in due course of time. I have had good luck thus far in my practice, but I confess the starvation plan makes sorrv looking cattle for ? time.— Hfefcrn hural.

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TRANSYLVANIA. The Singular Superstitions Which AM the People. The greatest luck that . ean befall a mortal is to be born on Easter Sundays. while the bells are ringing, but it is not lucky, to die on that day a The spoon with which the Easter eggs have been removed from the boiling pot is carefully treasured up and worn in the belt by the shepherd; it gives him the power to distinguish the brftebes who seek to molest his flock. Perhaps the most important day in the year is St. George’s, the 23d of April (corresponds to our 5th of May), the eve of which is frequently kept by occult meetings taking place at night in lonely caverns, or w t..m ruined walls, and where all the ceremonies usual to the celebration of witches’sabbat are put into practice. The feast itsblf is the great day to beware of witches, to counteract whose influence square-cut block of green turf are placed in front of eaoh door and window. This is supposed effectually to bar their entrance to the house or stables, but for still greater safety it is usual here for the peasants to keep watch all night by the sleeping cattle* This same bight is the best for finding treasures and many people spend it in wandering about hills trying to probe Hie earth for the gold it contains. Vain and futile as sueh researches generally are, yet they have in this country a somewhat greater semblance of reality than in most other parts, for perhaps nowhere else have so many successive nations been obliged to secrete their riches in flying from an enemy, to say nothing of the undiscovered veins of gold and-silver which must l;e seaming the countrv in all direct ons. Not a year passes without bringing to bght some carthCn jar containing old Dacian coins or golden ornaments of Roman origin, and all such discover.es serve to feed and keep up the national superstition. —Nineteenth Century. : —An indignant summer-excursion-ist writes that in looking over the side of his canoe, he espied a snappingturtle on the bottom of the lake, , and on the back of this attract on was the advertisement: “Gents’ ready-made clothing marked down low.”—Chicaqn Current. -, The Epidemic of Crime. Whence comes this epidemic of suicides and murders? Recent discussions have named Several causes. Hon. C. H. Reeve, of Indiana, charges it to iufidel teachings —holding that hopelessness of a future state cripples fortitude for bearing life's ills. Another declares suffering from the uni versal business depression the cause. A third writer attributes it to increasing insanity, a physician thinks much of the tendency is inherited* while temperance advocates lay the responsibility upon strong drink. free-thinkers have committed suicide, but so have orthodox churchmen: Financial straits have beset many, but the wealthy have also taken their life. Insanity and dissipation have preceded suicides and family murders. One feature common to almost every I such crime challenges attention. Well nigh every report of suicide add family murder mentions the perpetrator as having “for some time been subject to melancholy.” Whence comes this? All recognized medical authorities tcil us that the fire which consumes the brain is always kindled by derangements of digestion; that food digestion is impossible without pure lood, and pare blood is never known when the liver and kidneys are out of order. Under sueh circumstances, a preventive should be sought, and for this Warner’s safe cure is sovereign—a fact conceded by the best authorities in the land, and it is especially commended by the celebrated Or. Dio Lewis. —JSoehester Democrat. A Chicago firm is introducing wooden slippers into this country. The small boy is all in a sweat for fear that his mother will take it into her. head to buy a pair,— Burlington Free Press. [ " She tried her prentice hand on man, And then she formed the lassies, 01” “What is woman’s worth?” asked a fair damsel of a crusty old bachelor. He did not know, so she said: W. O. man (double you 0 man). But a woman feels worth Iittle.if disease has invaded her system and is daily sapping her strength. For all female weaknesses, Dr. R. V. Pierce’s “ Favorite Prescription” stands unrivaled. It cures the complaint and builds up the system. Send two letter stamps for pamphlet to World’s Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y. A poetess sighs: “I sit all alone, I sit by myself, I sit all alone.” If she would stop writing she mfght have more company.

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