Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1883 — Page 7

JOHN KNOX’S COURTSHIP.

A carious anecdote oi Knox’s marriage to Loid Ochiltree’s daughter is contained in a letter written by Mr. Robert MiHer, Minister of Paisley, to Wodrow, the historian of the sufferings of the Church of Scotland, dated Jfov. 15,1722. It is as follows: John Knox, before the light of the Reformation broke up, traveled among several honest families in the West of Scotland, who were converts to the Protestant religion. Particularly he visited oft Lord Ochiltree’s family, preaching the gospel privately to those who were willing to receive it. The Lady and some of her family were converts. Her Ladyship had a chamber, table, stool and candlestick for the prophet, and one night about supper time said to him: “Mr. Knox, I think you are at a loss by want of a wife?” To which he said, “Madam, I think nobody will take such a wanderer as L” To which she replied, “Sir, if that be your objection I will make an inquiry to find an' answer against our next meeting.” The lady accordingly addressed herself to her eldest daughter, telling her she might be very happy if she could marry Mr. Knox, who would be a great reformer, and a credit to the church; but she despised the proposal, hoping that her Ladyship wished her better than to marry a poor wanderer. The Lady addressed the second daughter, who answered as the eldest. Then the Lady spoke to the third daughter, about 19 years of age, who very faintly said, “Madam, Til be very willing to marry him, but I fear he’ll not take me. ” To which the Lady replied, “If that be all your objection I’ll soon get you an answer.” Next night at supper the Lady said, “Sir, I have been considering upon a wife for you, and find one very willing.” To which Knox inquired: “Who is it, madam?” She answered, “My young daughter, sitting by your side at the table.” Then, addressing himself to the young lady, he said: “My bird, are you willing to marry me ?” She answered: “Yes, sir; only I fear you will not be willing to take me.” He said, “My bird, if you be willing to take me you must take your venture of God’s providence As I do. I go through the country sometimes on foot, with a wallet on my arm and a Bible in it. You may put some things in for yourself, and if I bid you take the wallet you must do it, and go when I go, and lodge where I lodge.” “Sir,” said she, “11l do all this.” “Will you be as good as your word?” “Yes, I will.” Upon which the marriage was concluded. She went with him to Geneva. And as he was ascending a hill she got up to the top of it before him, and took the wallet on her arm, and sitting down said: “Now, good man, am not I as good as my word?”

EARLY PLOWING FOR FALL WHEAT.

The American Agriculturist s vs: The first object gained by early plowing is time for the proper preparation .of the seed-bed. All possible fertility should be made readily available. To be so, it should be soluble, arid division aids solution. The ground becomes hard in July and August, and, if plowing is delayed too long, the Boil breaks up in hard lumps. If plowed early, it will turn up moist and fine. Rain and air are nature’s two great disintegrating forces. # Seeds germinate quickly and plants grow rapidly in a firm seed-bed. The increase of insect enemies of wheat makes late sowing, coupled with rapid, vigorous growth, desirable. Hence the importance of a firm seed-bed, which also prevents much freezing out of the plants. To make the seed-bed firm, it must first be fine. It is not hard soil, but compact, fine soil that is desired. It may be compacted with the roller and harrow; but if the farmer, by early plowing, can gain the aid of a heavy rain, it will save him mnch labor, and it will do the work of preparing the soil far better than he can alone. Another object gained by plowing is the destruction of weeds. They are robbers of the wheat, and the sooner, their growth is stopped by plowing, the less plant-food they will take from the soil. Early plowing will destroy them before 'they mature their seeds, and thus prevent perpetuating their kind. Late plowing permits of a large growth, and when this is turned under by the plow, it is impossible to compact the seed-bed, and the green manure affords a harbor for enemies. Early plowing admits of a better application of manure. Manure is most needed in autumn, and to be at once available to the roots of the young plant, it must be fine and near the surface; not on top of the ground, but thoroughly incorporated with the upper layer of soil. If the ground is plowed

early, the manure can be applied io the Surface, and the work of preparing the seed-bed will fine it and mix it with the Boil. Commercial manures-should be sown with the grain. Early plowing admits of atmospheric fertilisation. Whether it directly adds the elements of fertility to the soil or only frees and unlocks that which it already possesses is immaterial. Plowing the land exposes a greater surfaoe and permits of the easy passage of the air into the interior of the soil.— American Agriculturist.

GERMAN BLACKMAILERS.

Inier Ocean: America is by no means the only soil on whioh a blackmailing press c'i grow. On the contrary, imperial Germany has developed a first-class plant of that genus, and that, too, right under the nose of the venerable William and the inexorable Bismarck. Not long ago the German capital was cursed with the Beichsglocke, and later with a similar sheet, the Unabhanigige or Independent. The object of this weekly publication was to select the black sheep of the flock and shear them in public, then grab the timid, without regard to color, and threaten to dye them ebony and hold them up to the popular gaze in their sable hues. Family garrets were ransacked for discreditable heirlooms, and highly sensational reports were written up with great care as # to plausibility and regardless of facts. Those who came down handsomely were let off, those who did not were persecuted. As a matter of course, many a faint heart purchased immunity at a great price, and these “independent” journal-' ists throve and waxed fat. In one case 10,000 marks was the sum paid for silence. But this sort of thing could not go on forever. The public is a worm that may turn upon the heel of persecution. The prosecutor got after the gang. All but one were captured, tried, convicted, and sent to the penitentiary for terms varying from twelve months to six years. The Berliners breathe freer now that the Unabhanigige is no more. This country has a few Dick Turpins and Jack Sheppards who are better adapted to cell than sanctum.

THE SECRET OF TRUE DIGNITY.

The common note of all men, says the London Spectator, who are remarkable for true dignity is, however, a conscious self-respect; and this is getting less and less common as the contemplative temper merges into the competitive temper of modern times. Mr. Arnold has, with more than his usual skill, described the dignity of the East, in its contrast with the restlessness of the West, in the lines in which he paints the scorn felt by the East for the Roman conquests: The East bowed low below the blast, In patient', deep disdain; She let the Legions thunder past, And plunged in thought again. You have been the whole secret of true dignity in that verse.. It is patient; it is inward, and it really prefers the inward to the outward scenery. Dignity cannot be impatient; it cannot be external; yet, even if a mind is both patient and inward, it will have no true dignity so long as its whole feeling for the inward secresy it contemplates is that <?f displeasure and disapprobation. A dignified man must feel a certain amount of interest and pleasure in expressing himself adequately in speech and conduct. He must keenly value the moral symmetry of his own thoughts, and also the symmetry of his thoughts with this action, and therefore it is that in the externality and hurry and irrita bility of our day, dignity is starved.

WOMEN BARBERS AND “ GUN-LOCKS.”

“I should like to see aPwoman get hold of an old “gun-lock” from Boston or Philadelphia. There would be trouble right away.” “What do you mean by ‘gun-lock?’" “Oh, that is a technical term we apply to wire-bearded old men from out of town. I don’t know why, but the term is used here, and we all try to fight shy of them. No, women will never be popular with a razor. They may do to attend to smooth-faced dudes, but a man with muoh of a growth of beard will not try them more than once. ” —Envious Man Barber, in Chicago News.

The Little Model Republic.

Valparaiso, Chili.— Senor Ricardo Stuven, a leading commission merchant of this city, after having exhausted all other remedies, has been completely cured of rheumatism by the use of Ht. Jacobs Oil, the great pain-banisher. He makes this public. Pbof. Schele de Vebe says that the sherry-cobbler was known in England long before it was fashionable in this country; but the sucking of the beverage through straws or slender glass tubeß is a genuine Americanism.

HOW HE GOT A BLACK EYE.

A William street saloon-keeper dropped into his store one morning. He had been absent for a week, and 'when he arrived his face looked like a chop-ping-block. “What’s the matter?” asked a friend. “I don’t see anything the matter,” he answered. “What you got your head bound up like a bass-drum at a soldier’s funeral for?” “O that’s all right.” “Where did you get that black eye?” “Now, see here,” said he. “For fear that you’ll go away with the idea that I’ve been splitting wood, or got up in the night for a drink, or that my moth-er-in-law is in town, I’ll tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me 25 cents! My neighbor’s cat eat up all my chickens, and I shot the cat.” And then the interviewer shook his head knowingly and remarked: “I see! The gun kicked.” “No,” responded the saloon-keeper, “it was the neighbor who kicked.”— New York World.

Shaken With Convulsive Tremors,

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