Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1882 — Page 3

> BEULAH. - W : JOHN AKENT. ■ When the autumn winds are roaring* And the autumn rains are pouring Unedi§ingly against the pane, Beating there a sad ref-aln; Whentneflre is burning dimly, And ttoe shadows waver grimly Along the chamber wail, Then on my heart 4ark shadows fall, All my joy to sorrow turning, AU my die wlthin hie burning, While my throbbing heart and brain Throb unto the sad refrain Of the rain Against the pane. For my darling, sainted Beulah, ■ Whom I loved—who loved me truly— Hath crossed the Stygian river, , And it gone from me forever. Ere the last fond word was spoken. The thread of life was broken, And la the misty, haunted twilight, , Between the sunlight and the starlight, Her spirit took its flight To the regions which are light, To be seen no more by mortals, Yet she stands within the portals Of that far-off silent land. Beckoning with her slender hand.

THE RED FLAG AT NO. 64.

Cousin Ned, from California, Nevada, New Mexico, and all other places beyond the Eocby Mountains, has been paying us a visit. You know what a jolly good soul Ned always wds and he is just as jolly now—as why should he not be, with an income of six or seven thousand a year? Beside that, my Roor George’s eighteen hundred hides its diminished head. He is handsomer than ever, too —the same merry brown eyes and chestnut hair; but, in addition an appearance, an air so altogether distingue, iha%our neighbors all go to their windows to gaze after him. Well, do you know, the moment he appeared I set my heart on him for our dear old friend Adelaide, who shall not waste her sweetness on the desert air if I can help it. You know I always had a fancy for making matches, though to confess the truth, I have never yet scored a success in that line; my two prede3tihed affinities always fly v off at a tangent just as I flatter myself matters are progressing beautifully..

But Adelaide and Ned have been corresponding a year or two; he speaks of her with great respect—as how could he otherwise, of course?—and I have fondtiy hoped that his mission to the east may nave more relation to the affairs of Ihe heart than to mining stock as he pretends. Well, soon after his arrival, three weeks ago, Ned and I were sitting in the dining room alone; the children had started for school, and George had kissed me and gone down town, after an hours’ talk about ranches, burros, gulches, and canyons. Now that I was alone with our visitor, the conversation took a confidential turn, bordering on the sentimental, and in pursuance of the idea, uppermost in my mind I told him I thought it mysterious,providential,that he had not fallen a victim to some bonanza princess, or some bewitching senorita with no dowry but her beauty. v* “And by the way,” Iwenton, “wMt was ever the trouble between you and the captain’s daughter, Ned?” You remember, of course Julia, how much we heard at that time about that affair —how duriug the war I used to read to you, even during study hours, the letters 1 bad received from brother Jim, statiomd at Fortress Monroe.giving the details in Jim’s rather satirical style, of the serious flirtation in progress between Lieut. Ned, of Company C, and Captain Carrington’s pretty daughter, ot the regulars? And afterward, how some way a shadow came between them—nobody could tell bow, only that Ned was hasty, and had exaggerated ideas of a man’s prerogatives perhaps, and Miss Darlington was prouct and shy. So it was forgotten. And now this same lieutenant, after hair-breadth escapes from shot and shell, and scalping Apaches, sat there iu an easy chair by my Baltimore heater, and actually turned pale because I mentioned the captain’s daughter! He had nothing to communicate, however; bade me consider that we were always great fools at 21, and likely at that time to get caught in a trap, or, on the other hand, to throw our chances of happiness away, just as it chanced to be; be became silent, and I had not the heart to jiiliy him as he sat there watching th# floating smoke of his cigar with a far off look in his eyes—knowing as Ijdid that he had gone back fifteen years, and that he was walking the mood-light beach with pretty Lottie Darlington, while he band of the regiment played in the distance. From the sublime to the ridiculous—it is always my fate. fiear Julia. Barney, the factotum of the neighborhood, tapped at the window, and as I raised the sash, said: “A foiue morning, mum; there’s a red flag out an number 64, and I thought I’d be afteir coming to tell ye. *Tis a foine house, and ioine leddy, more’s the pity.” You see Barney! knows my weakness, and he had keen me a few days before an animated bidder at an auction in the neighborhood. “Thank you Barney, I think I’ll be op band,” 1 replied, closing the window. “A foine leddy,” to be sure; I had often met her—a fair-faced woman, plainly and tastefully dressed, walking with two„children. Her house seemed the abode of peace and comfort, so far as the passer-by cohid judge, and what could have compelled the breaking up of so flue an establishment? At all events I would not stop to speculate—it was possible here was my opportunity to secure a handsome sideboard at a bargain. As I wished to be on band m time to look through the house before the sate begun, I asked Ned to have the goodness to excuse me lor an hour or so. * will’. go with you, Mrs. loonies, be said, quite gayly, an (Iran up-stairs /or bis bat add cane. So off we went to 64, where the flaming flag announced the desecration of household goods. We were admitted by the men in charge of the sale; and such a charming abode! Not a down-right curiosity shop, the effect of decorative art run ip ad, but such teste Mid ingenuity [every where visible. People with shrewd, hard fades, boarding-house keepers, “second-hand men,” eying the engravings and prettv water-colors on the parlor walk running their greasy fingers over the keys of the piano, turning chairs topeyturvey, and shaking tables to seefeow firm on their legs tnev might, be. Sitting by a window ! discovered old Mrs. «*T- - .vJT i.-.l f

Wiggan, with whom 'I had a little acquaintance. '•mrrammtm “Such a charming house!” said I. “Is it not a pity to break np this charming nest. Do ,you . know the. family?” ‘‘Poor Mrs. Graham! „ She lived her*, with her children so comfortably and happily, two or three lodgdra on her upper floor, until a few ludnths ago she lost everything by the iailure*df ia banking-house. She'had uo relatives in the city; has struggled on, tried so get boarders, but the location is too remote; she sees uo way but to give it -up, place her children with friends in the country,' and tty to earn ft livelihood bv painting.” j C My eyes were dim,and I \fould gladly at that moment have relinquished the best bargain in sideboards. Ned.; too, looked awful sorry, as 1 he gazed meditatively out of the window where the bright-eyed little girl and boy were loading dirt into a tiny cart' with a miniature shovel; From the floor above came the sharp ring of the auctioneer’s voice. , “How much—how much? Six dollars—did you say s7—gone at $7!” , The auctioneer descended with his followers into the front chamber* Before I knew it Ned was there, and, in his impetuous way, was bidding in a fashion to astonish the “second-hand men.” “Was there insanity in his family?” I asked myself. He made a brave stand for the sideboard, but it was of no avail. Every article from the second floor down was purchased that morning by the distinguished stranger. All had gdne but Ned, myself, and the auctioneer. The latter knocked at the door ;of the back parlor.“ Come in,” said a voice, and the. burly man swung the doors aside. The mother was making an effort to rise, but the little boy was clinging so closely about her neck that she could not readily free herself. As she arose and came forward we saw the traces of tears, the paleness Of her face, the tremulousness of her whole form.

From Ned, who was standing just behind me, I suddenly heard the words: . 1 “My God! is it possible!” Turning, I saw him with a face taost indescribable in expression. Of course there was no doubt about his being out of his mind—too much auction had made him mad. The auctioneer, after opening the doors,had been called suddenly away, and we three noyy stood there—those two gazing at each other, and I at both. “Edwin!” at last said Mrs. Graham;. “Edwin!” with a voice and smile so sweet and sad that I did.not wonder at what followed. Ned’s ashen face suddenly flushed all over. “Lottie!” he cried, stretching his arms toward her. “Lottie, my beloved, have I found you again and he clasped her to his heart. The queerest termination to an auction! I have seen many in my capacity as housewife, but never one like .this. Mrs. Graham was the “captain’s daughter,” and the generous impulse of the honest Californian had restored his old sweetheart her home—yes, and the heart of her faithiul lover. “Mamma,” said the little fellow, shyly, “is this gentleman the .auctioneer, and will he take away all our pretty things?” “No, my darling,” said Ned, lifting tbe child Jar above his head, and then bringing tbe round cheek to a level with his own lips, “all your pretty things will remain—you and mamma, too.” “And you, too?” said Bertie, cordially. “Hike you.” i 1 And so these two, after years of separation were brought together again. And in such an odl manner, too! I couldn’t help thinking how differently I should have managed it, had I been writing a story instead of acting a part in real Urn. 1 should have found Mrs. Graham first, and sympathizingly got her to tel) me the history of' her troubles. Of course she would have mentioned Ned, and of course I should have seen at a glance that she loved him still. And then I should have seen the good angel to bring them together, and merit and receive their life-long thanks; but instead of that, here was Barney acting the part of the angel without knowing it, and my one chance for a romantic adventure spoiled for ever. It is shatheful, abominable! And then my plans for Adelaide, a nd Ned—of course it was clear they never could succeed now. And yet I felt delighted. I went home, leaving Ned at No. 54. Wha,t a heavenly change for Mrs. Graham! How dffferent from that of the morning looked the sunlight of this afternoon! Her home intact —her little ones safely near—the pros Dec t of the lonely garret faded away ’ like a frightful dream. And Ned was as happy as a clam for having remembered the widow and th« fatherles3s, I had them all to dinner that night. Mrs. Graham is charming; I will say it, even if Adelaide dies an old maid. There will be a wedding soon at No. 54. I have already received as a present a sideboard much handsomer than Mrs. Graham’s. Barney will be provided for, and we shall all bless the day that Cousin Ned went to the au<w tion and bought upthe entire establish-ment-including a widow and two children not on-the list. It Is time, my deal 4 Julia, for me to look after the dinner; but I thought I must write to you this little romance of my humdrum life. „

The Paintea Caves Of Texas.

Mr. J. Vau Wie informs the reporter of the San Antonio Express that his grading forces on the Mexican extension of the Sunset Rail way are now at Painted Cave, on Devil’s River, or about two miles beyond. There are three caves at this locality, all of which are painted, the figures being buffalos, bears, Indians with bows and&rrowS in warlike attitudes, Indians mounted and on the chase, squaws, etc.. The caves have been tattooes! entirely within'rhnd many, of these figures are still in a'good state <Sf preservation.. This Work was done by the red men in years long gone by, as the oldest white citizens remember these pain tdings, and say they look very mnch now as they appearer thirty and forty years ago indicatingtbe great age otihe paintings. Mr; Van Wie has occupied one of these for kitchin and diningroom purposes. It is about forty feet long and ten feet wide, ft is approached by climbing a hill, when the oave Is entered by the side of the hill. Its month is covered by cluster? of vines pendant from the branches and boughs

’of a clump of blackberry tJfees. In the the surface, through which Mr. van • Wie bas run twbstove-pipes. Another cave still, its shape beiug round, Mid of flora 1 Evenly of eighty people » used for storage qurposes. The third cave opens in a solid rock bluff, beiuglabout six feet in diameter at the mouth, andextenfls backward a distance of about 150 feet

Selected Miscellany.

The qualities we possess never make us so ridiculous as those we pretend to have. No principle is more noble, as there is none more holy, than that of a true obedience. *. , r Youth is the tas3el and silkeu flower 6f life; age is the full corn, ripe and solid in the ear. We carry all our neighbors’ crimes in the light and throw all our own over out shoulder. Educatfon begins the! gentleman, but reading, good company And reflection must finish him. No life can be utterly miserable that is heightened by the laughter and love of one little child. Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow and remorse. The praises of others may be of use in t< ac hing us, not what we are, but what we ought to be. Though avarice will preserve a mau from being necessitously poor it generally makes him top poor to be wealthy. He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will see the effect when the weaving of a life time is unraveled. A great many people’s lives are like the blunderbuss that had a rusted load in it. At the discharge tile owner is himself kicked over. It is better to yield a little than quarrel a great deal. The habit of “standing up,” aa..-pspple call it, for their little slights, is quo of most disagreeable apd. undignified in the vgbrld. No ou<£heed hope to rise above his present situation who suffers small things to pass by unimproved, or who neglects, metaphorically speaking, to pick up a pehny because it is not a dollar.

The badland vicious may be boisterously gay,‘and vulgarly humorous, but seldom or, never truly cheerful. Gen? uiue cheerfulness is an almost certain index of a happy inind and a pure, good heart. “A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against and not with the wind. Even a head wind is better than none. No man ever worked his passage anywhere in a deaH calm. * / Health is the bed-plate, on which tbe whole mental machinery must rest and work. If this is cracked, or displaced, all the mechanisip that stands on it will be jarred and'aisturbedi and made ineffective. The victory in a debate lies not in lowering an opponent, but in raising the subject in public estimation. Controversial wisdom lies not in destroying his error; notin Making him ridiculous, so much as in making the audience wise. Cold is not kept olut with a fFor God’s sake!” or “Forftthe prophet’s sake!” but with four seers of cotton.— Ajgan. A learned man without works is a cloud without rain.—Arabic. Worship without laith is a waste of flowers. —Teligu. | He who lives happily through the sfoort rosedays of his youth, and, far away from envy and complaining, strives to be good, still enjoys the days of his youth when tbe winter of life approaches, aud contentment and virtue scatter flowers along his path. Without fear, he can look before and behind.

Flaying Euchre For Kissses.

Kingston, if. Y., Freeman. * An up town young lady and gentleman playgames of euchre nights in the young lady's parlor, under the agreement thatiwhen he wins he is to kissjher and whenj she wins sbe i$ to kiss him. The arrangement seems tc have been very satisfactory, and it has astonished the rest or the folks who are not in the secret why it is that they do so love to play euchre. If one of the members of the family happens to be in the room when games are won or lost why the fulfillment of the contract is put off una kissing opportunity occurs, and it is said that jin some instances when a large number of forfeits become due it requires almost a Continual kiss and return for half an hour or more to finish up. This praclice a person would suppose to be quite weaiiugaud exhaustive -jone, but the young people bear up under it wonderfully and seem quite cheerful andl happy. Had it not been for some jealous chaps that secret compact betwen the two probably would never have been khown to the woHd and thus other couples deprived of the chance to test' it themselves. The jealous yopths, while looking at, the window one«iight,Jsaw the form. 1 - of the couple shatjowed on tlflf window shades, and as they could see them play cards, and then, as the last card was slapped doWn, hear one or other say, “Oh ghny, it’s toy turn!” or,“Oh cream and peaches, I will try it this time!” and could see th 9 shadowy motions os of kissing they surmised "the whole they and tftld it as big joke, when they were only sighing that they have part iu the contract. -

He Did Not Advertise.

Bom fort’s Circular. * ’ A nervous-looking man went into a store the day and sat down for half an hour or so, when a clerk asked if there wai anything she could do for him. He said no; be didn’t want anything. She* wept away, and he sat there half an hour longer, when the proprietor went to him and asked if he wanted to he shown anything, “No,” said the nervous man, ‘*l just wanted to sit around. My physician has recommended ! perfect quiet for me, and says, above! all things, I must avoid being in erpwds. Noticing that you did advertise any in the newspapers, I thought it would be as quiet a place as I could find, so I dropped in for a few hours of complete isolation.” The mercnant picked up a bolt of cambrick to brain him, but the man went out. He said ail he wanted was a quiet life. , ■ T ir- -- "j - m» » -- " We are no longer happy so soon as w. 1 wish to be happier.

A SOUTHERN ROMANCE.

The Heroine a Daughter of AntiBeilum Cabinet Officer. < *\ ril -i New Orleans Democrat. Toward the close of Pierce’s administration society in Washington was much! agitated and interested by a oriiliaht marriage of the daughter of a member of the cabinet who then enjoyed b world-wide fame as a financier and political economist. > This! was Robert J. Walker, a manof remarkable intellectual acuteness, great ijesearch and indefatigable Industry. 1 There was no lovelier or more attractive young woman than his daughter. Her mother, a lineal descendant from Benjamin Franklin,had contributed, by her talents and charms, largely to the success of her husband in politics, law and social advancement. The happy bridegroom on the occasion was a naval officer of one of tue oldest creole families of Louisiana. The marriage ceremonies were of the most brilliant character. The President, every member of the cabinet, the foreign ministers, the senators, in fine, all the notabilities of Washington, attended, blessed and were enthused by the happy scene ot a marriage that seemed so congenial, suitable and felicitous. After their marriage the young couple went on the grand tour to Europe, and took up their residence in Paris, where they sojourned lor some months. Their means were ample ami their circle of friends and associates . were of the highest social class. And so for many years Ihe course of their marriage life ran smoothly, until disasters, political, sectioual and financial, fell upon them and their families. At j the breaking out of btir civil war, Robert J. Walker attached himself to the fortunes of the North and became a bitter enemy of the Southern struggle for independence. His soh-iu-law was compelled, by every obligation of honor, State pride and duty to the Ancient family of whisk lie was a member, to identify himself with the South. The consequent altercations and discord led to their permanent separation. The young wife retired with her child to her mother and family in Philadelphia, and there for several years in seclusion". In the meantime Mr., Robert J. Walker had lost by the investment in a railroad enterprise the large fortune he [had acquired by bis professional success, and at his death left a widow in narrow circumstances. His widowed daughter, despite her extreme reserve, could not fail to attract the attention, sympathy and interest of the friends of the father and mother.. Many ailvances were made by gentlemen of wealth and prominence to enguge her favorable consideration of proposals of marriage. She resisted, for some time, all such advances. At last, however,her friends and society were a tounded by the report that she had accepted the hand of a gentleman distinguished in the professional and political world, but cursed with a deformity and mutilation as repulsive and revolting as that of the veiled Mokanna of Moore’s Lalla Rookh. in boyhood he had fallen into the fire on his lace, and so burned it as to present even now, in advanced age, a most pitiable and hideous aspect. Those who are accustomed to make summer visits and sojourn? at Long Branch have not failed to observe in the parlors of the West End Hotel, on the promenades and drives of that delightful resort, the unhappy victim of this cruel mistortune, in astoutgeutleman of good figure, of dignified and graceful carriage, but wim a face so blurred, scarred and distorted as almost to conceal and abolish all humun resemblance, and repel with disgust all advance to closer observation and acquaintance. Upon that gentleman's arm leans a lovely woman, whose pale face still retains the most refined and beautiful expression, and whose harmonious features and lithe and graceful figure may be quickly recognized as those of the beautiful Miss Walker, who twenty-fife years before, had enthralled all beholders and had given her the unquestioned! title to the siweetest and prettiest girl in Washington city. The marked attention of the brilliant company at thje West Erid, through wh'ch they passed, and tne eagerness of all persons to exchange courtesies and engage in conversation and tbe n spent with which everything which fell from the [gentleman was received by aJI listeners, betokened tbe high consideration in which hfe was held. To draw him into conyeiisation and drink in every utteraqop *jpp£ared to be the ambiton ol every jons. “Who is that ciauple?” would be the natural inquiry o ’ till strangers; “that, terribly mutilajted and defaced gentle-

man and that unhappy daughter who hapgs upon hb* arm.” r lhe ready answer would be ? that gentleman is tbe ablest, most eloquent and impressive lawyer and orator of Philadelphia, who for many yelps has led that bar, and is the most agreeable and captivating gentleman of the very polished society of that refined city. The lady is the daughter oi Robert J. Walker, so distinguished fin our ..political aud financial history.l The >spitlemau is spoken of iis t. prominent for the position pf Attorney-genera’, and as likely t'» sdeure that high office, should the opposition to Howe, being" developed, prove Successful.

Farm and Workshop Notes.

Sunflower fed in small quantities, impart a [beautiful gloss to the plumage of poultry. “ 1 ; Remember this, that apples keep letter in damp, cellars than in dry ones. In the'iattejr they become dry and shrivelled; in the former plump and juicy. Wild birds are uniform in colbr. Domestication causes a breaking ut> of col-'randa variety of shape. When an individual commences breed'rur to a staudard by selection he secures uniformity again. j A veterinary writer condemns h’gh mangers for horses, claiming tuat they irritate the fihrOa&and create a tendency to heaves. He says the manger should be on a level With the feet, as that is in accordance with nature. It is the opinion of many that a fowl fattened quicklp 'Will make a far more juicy and toothsome meal thau a chick. One thing is certain, a three-year-old fowl will make much better brlMfc for an invalid than a six-months cbickeb. The weight of hens’ eggs range from fifteen to twenty-four ounce* dozen.

’A weight es twenty-two and a half ounpes may be rakeh ftaAiair average for good-sized eggs, although a weight of nearly four ounces is Rot unknown for single specimens of eggs, j --i/., The largest cotton producer in the world is Mr. E. Richardson,'! of Mississippi. He ha? 52,000 acres of land, and raised last season 12,000 hries of cotton. He expresses the oil from his cotton seed, obtaining thirty-five gallons from a tou, worth $12.25, whlle.the cake sells at from $8 to $7 per ton. Sheet zinc is largely, used for ceilings in Germany, especially where the beams of the upper floor are made of iron". The use of wood is eutirelv dispensed with, and excellent decorative effects are pro iuoed by stan ping,|patntiug and gilding, or bronzing a part of the ornaments. Stable manure is preferable to any other fertilizer. No farmer can .afford to waste his manure. AU of It Should be saved aud untilized. In many casss farming would be more profitable if less land was cultivated, with h'ghn: fertilizatiou. One acre highly manured should pay better than three but halt manured aud half cultivated. Why will grass not grow under our trees ?M. Paul Bert hasshoWn that green light hinders the development of plants. Plants inclosed in a green glass frame wither and die as though they were In darkness. M. Rsgnard finds thatplauts specially require the red rays. Ir sunlight is deprived of the red rays the plants soon cease to thrive. / Professor Voelcker pays \: “Bones are the first manure which a farmer usually buys and wlffoh.farmifigcomniHui - ties demand. Wherever agriculture Is improved th»-ough-out the world the first lack of the farmer 1b phosphates. The easiest sotirce of supply Is bones, and not until, that lack has been supplied in the soil does he begin to search for ammoniacal manures.” Design and Work days that grease for belts, which readers them moreadhesiv- and more durable, can b* obtained oy mixing off of resin with 10 percent, talc. The grease is spread On the belt with a brush several times, or until the leather will not absorb any more. The operation is repeated after some weeks, a smaller quanlty of grease beieg used. The belts retain more flexibility aud resistance, adhere better to the drums and do not slip. The greasing Is only required every few months. ; Danish butter, perfectly worked but never receiving a panicle of salt, proves that salt, so far as butter is concerned, is not ft preservative agent. No amount of salt will preserve butter when proper working has been neglected: neither ia the washing of butter at all requisite to the preserving of butter. Washing saves working, but the best butter is made without washing. The great object in working butter is to extact the buttermilk, because it contains cheesy matter in which putrefaction ?oon commences, adding the production of rancidity in the fat of the butter. When young poultry have bee® allowed to contract the habit of roosting in the treta no time should be lost ip' breaking them Of it. Confinement to the poultry house aud yard for/a day or two will generally effect a cure. Get your dust baths ready for winter. Sand and finely-sifted coal ashes, with a pound or sulphur to each bushel of the mixture, is the best. Tnls should bp put in large boxes aud kept out Of thp rain. Whitewash the houses, putting in a gill of crude carholic acid and* a pint of common kefoseuepit to each pailfuil of slaked lime. |, | ,i F

An Indiana Romance.

New Castle Cor. IntlliiuupollH Times. The circumstances of a wedding which took place last Friday could bd' made the theme of a thrilling roraaijteo. For almost a year Miss Carrie Bowen, a young lady of /Hagerstown, who stopped here with a/ married sister, has had two suitor?—one the pastor of a church in Howard county, tbe other an ex-teacher of this place, jf Some mouths ago it was give® out that of the two suitors the preacher seemed to suit her bept, and a wedding day, Sunday, October 16th, was agreed Upon. But, alas! Woman’s vanity, and a preacher’s sense of propriety met In conflict. Two weeks before the wedding day! the divine was here, and observed a burn upon the forehead of ids favored one ftnd asked the cause.i It was dono widi crimping irons, “Wbat, do you crimp your hair?” It was readily admitted, when the pastor delivered a lecture on vanity, ami said: “When you become my wife you must cease to do so.” Hhe had hot the forethought to consent, aml sweetly say “I will,” with the mental reservation of saying “I wont” when the knot should be tied On these crimps they parted two weeks before the wedding day. But in the meantime the teacher had put in a sealed proposal for the heart and band,,as a secondary offer, if the first missed by at y means. The wedding trosseau was ready, the wedding, had been set for fost Sunday,the teacher was accepted \gith ho conditions or ob.ections |regard!pg the crimped ba r being made, the marriage took place,' the father of the biride made a present of a rich eighty aicte farm near Hagerstown, and the preacher is left to look for a bald-headed wife.

The Substitute For the Cow.

This is what a big Boston milk deal er says, according to the Providence Journal: ‘ There is a .method of doctoring milk so; that ino one would know it. One contract I have calls for twenty, cans of milk per! day, and the price in cut down so low that I am obliged to adulterate it to the extent of ten cans, that is to say, the fluid I supply is half milk and half something else. What I put ip is not at all injurious. A baby might be fed wjth it Without harm. I sold the recipe in North Providence a short time ago fbr $26, and you may have it for the same price. I can assure you that no one in drinking it would know that it wa» not of the pure-1 and richest character. All the ingredients contained iu these ‘ added” ten cans cost only abdut five cents.

Too Soon.

[Teixa* Siftings ]j We regret to perceive a disposition on the part of some people in Aiwtin to belittle the efforts ot our Fire department ’ 'j Uv.. > Yesterday afternoon a % gentleman from Sau Antonio was examining a photograph of the rulhs of theburned Capitol. j ,( i- ■ - „ “I don’t see any firemen in the plo ture,” remarked the straDger. “Well, you,see, the picture was taken two weeks after the fire. The firemen havn’tgot there yet. That’s why they , are not m the picture,” said the artist.

TABLE TALK.

' ■Uountess'.fe Piorrefotfff* Is by which- the, ex-Empress Rqgeuie . wishes to bodesignated. J i .■■■■■?? The best photograph of the late Gfotti', Garfield is a three-quarter Jepgthtakgu by Brady of Washington. . f T,< A new law. ih Kansas TnrlVfdS‘’“atjy** person to marry within six ramuhan after procuring a divorce, j • A ydung mau rushed eagerly for a'** front seat In an Albany thoator gallery," fell over the Tall, and was killed by the fall. The bride and bridegroom of a wedL_ ing at Latrobe, Pa., were run over and'" killed on their way frond church to the 7 railway station. j 41 V “lam getting just what I deserve, was the last remark of Richard Jennings, a Nevada murderer, before being ' j Ranged by a mob. The Duke of Wellington is President 6t the British Goat Society, and actively promotes goat keeping among the peasantry on his estates. ' *, It said that three members of Clay Snell’s family, at Edgerton, Mol,Rave died of shame and grief since he was Rahged for murder a year ago. A physiclah at Douds, lowa, trusted to bis sense of taste in compounding a medicine, and swallowed a fatal dose of gelsemium, mistaking it for co«oa. At Zwlcken, 3axony, spectacles have cured a very abort-sigh ted mare of sbyihg. How many poor animals have been beaten on occouut of a natural defect in the eyes! Mr. Sala says that a blind man could, with good nose make a shrewd guess at at the value of Russian notes. A 100 rouble noteuJilberedQienf. of a fashion , able perfume, and so on downward. Some years ago Miss Liable Mlnkler of Rochelle, 111., lost ‘ both arms by falling/in front of a reaper. To-day she is earning a good living by oilpainting, holding the brush in her teeth.' The Duke of Marlborough, the sale of whose valuable and really priceless library Is making such a stir lh the bibliogical world, lias at this moment more than 6,000 acres thrown on his hands. Ballot boxes In which each ballot Was passed around a glass cylinder by means of a crank, which also rang a bell and recprtled the vote, were used in tbe recent Boston municipal" election/ M-alwd Morley was compelled to attempt her usual daily feat of walking a tihgt rope tothepole of a circus tent at Athens, Texas, though she declared she was dizzy from illness. She fell and was killed. F A watchmaker opened a shop at Lehigh, lowa, and repaired watches at such astonishingly cheap rates that over a hundred were soon on his bench. Then he packed them up in a trunk and travelled on. iln a kino room In Louisville one particular 1 card won for its holder several nights in succession,and the negro [flayers regarded It superatitlously as endowed with luck, fti a fight for Its possession one contestant was killed. The friends of a (poor man at Stillwater,' Minn.,'gratuitously dug a grave jI or Ills dead child, but the sexton Refused to permit the funeral procession to enter the cemetery, on the ground that he tiftd been cheated oltc ot the Job. l ' A Chicago druggist sold to a freckled girl a lotion which he wurrante l would i remove the blemishes from her face. And so It did, but it also burned away the skin, leaving scars that peroia-; ' pently disfigure her. She is suing for! $2 r l,ooo damages. s 4\ Pensy lvoinia lias a law requiring that bequests for reiigous purposes must be made, so bp valid, not less than tiprtv days before dpqth. A Philadelphia court ’ has decided that a provision in a tvff to ■ fit a young man for the mintstry -Is, under this act, Invalid. A writer In the Lancet sirongly advocates, open carriages for doctor?: “An open veblole enables the doctor to purify himself, even to his hair, after quitting each sick room, thus insuring safety not only to patients, but also to the members of his family.” ' ,4 1 New fashions for ladles were set in ,1! the last century by. dressing dolls in' the prevailing mode and distributing them over Europe. The custom is believed to date from Venice, wbefle the Government rigorously regulated drpss by meajns of a doll set up as a pattern. The silk trade of Lyons now occapiesisome 1,200 looms, of which only 80,000 are within the city. Including those who work in the silkworm establishments there are 800,000 persons employed in the Lyons silk trsde. In 1787 there were but 80,000 and 18,000 looms. . The Rev. Dr. Thomas, the Chicago expelled Methodist, has formed ,a people’s church, and|isipreaching to twice as many Deople as before, for twice as much salary. The only ereed the hew organization holds Is the Ten Commandments aud ithe .‘teachings of, Christ. ~i ---'F. ' ■*'

A draft of a bill - to f be submitted ti Congress is being circulated throughoyt Louisiana for signatures. It provides for the oonslruction of a canai or outlet from the Mississippi river, ten . miles below New Orleans, to, Lake Borgue, the canal to be half a mile wide. There is a superstition among Penn*, sly vania coal miners that if any person whistles In a mine some disaster Is, sure to follow. The theory te that whistling drives away the good luck spirit, leaving -the miners to the mercy of * evil. A whistler was lately mobbed iu a Lackwanna mine.' There is au extraordinary supply Wf* game in London this year, and. price* are very low A reason given is.that country gentleman are now looking to their game as a source of profit, and thus every one has an interest ip helping to preserve it. [ -

In the new city of Pullman, near j Chicago, a handaotne-looking' roolei, who for more tban ' tnree months has. done Work on tne highest* buildings with as much skill as the best work-, man, has Just been discovered tea. I young woman in disguise. •* The Rev. T- E. Aldrich, a pastor at; v I Middletown, Conn., has been arrested I for beating his J#ife. He Ilia been a f successful temperance, worker, but, it is charged, usually got, drunk af.ef every sermon, and' stripped his wife when he got home. , ,