Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1883 — Page 7

The Republican. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. CL K MARSHALL, - - Publisher

Jbnnih Soott, 7 years of age, is lecturing in Texas. She will have a hard time getting a husband if she keeps on nt this sate. , The ®#lony of Russian Hebrews located os a farm of eight hundred acres in Middlesex county, Virginia, proved an utter failure, after $5,000 had been •expended, and the families will be sent back to Baltimore. Thh Sew. John Wilder ( colorecs has begun mot at Pittsburgh against three Reformed Presbyterian clergymen, asking sls#,oof damages, in that they asserted that he was a monomaniac, and this was a hindrance to his gaining a liveUbood. Snt Swafford North cote's ■visit to Ireland was successful, if in nothing else, in once more giving a good stir up to the miserable antagonisms between Orangemen and Roman Catholics whmk had of late years so happily subsided, and may very likely cost the taxpayers a very handsome sum in the cost of a special police and troops to keep order in Berry and Belfast. Thb growth of the railway system of New York State is shown by the report of the State Engineer and Surveyor. The first spike was driven on the Mohawk and "Hudson railroad in 1831, and fee growth of the system by degrades fe shown by the following table: MUes Miles Miles MiJee on all each on all each Year. roads, decade. lYear. roads, decade. 1831 IT 17 ‘862 2*599 672 1811 553 512 1872 4,659 2,051 1852 1,906 I,STS 1882..... 6,622 1,971 Is the oelebrated trial at Nyiregkyhaza, Hungary, where a number of Jews were falsely accused of killing a Christian maiden for sacrificial purposes, the coimsel for the defense alleged that the police commissioner had by torture secured the confessions :from witnesses and prisoners upon which the State had relied principally for a conviction. The two men fought a duel and the police commissioner was severely wounded in the che6t. Jay-Ewe-See, the fastest trotter of his age the world lias ever seen, stands but fifteen hands, and Robert Bonner declined to buy him one year ago on that account. He liked the form and breeding of the horse, but did not believe that he had size enough to make a world-beater. But, now that Jay-Eye-See has trotted a mile in 2:10£, the opinion that it is impossible to get length of stride for a fast mile without height of 15.3 to 16 hands falls to the ground. The English Ghost-Hunters’ League, which has been investigating all the ghosts aad haunted houses which come within its knowledge, and have absolutely nothing to show for two years’ labor* is becoming discouraged. It now prints a card asking all people with supernatural affairs about them or their houses to come forward, promising as an inducement that “nothing wilL in any cose be printed or published With or without names, except with the full consent of the persons concerned.” Ah umbrella to cover the city of Buenos Ayres is described by a writer as the newest thing proposed in the " Argentine Republic. Messrs. W. Bournhofer and John Fluckigen say in a formal letter to the authorities that for $5,750,000 they willerectin the Flazo de Lorea a base 674 feet in diameter and 1,500 feet high, tile ribs to be of cost iron and 31 inches in circumference. These ribs are to be eight feet apart. The lining is to be of wrought iron, an inch and a half thick. The Manitobans will probably soon come to the conclusion that the true solution of their present difficulties “consist ip. a frieddlv and peaceful separation from British connection and a union upon equitable terms with the great North American Confederation of Sovereign States.”. We can point to Dominion authority in this matter. ‘Senator McPherson, a supporter of Sir John Macdonald, hold that was the remedy for the Eastern Provinces against their harsh treatment by the British authorities in 1849. • , In York county, Me., recently, a man died who had had one doctor treating him for pyaemia and another for Bright’s disease. Each determined to settle the question of disease by a post mortem without letting the other know it. Just as the kidney doctor had, uncovered the coffin the blood-poison man drove into the graveyard with his assistants, and the two disputed so long over the question of possession that they were surprised and nearly captured by a party from the village who had been attracted by the light of the moving lanterns. ' Various are the methods of initiating Liras*' •• - » • *’"*' ' ■'< » •

Harvard students into the secret societies. All aspiring young men are put through, for two weeks, a series of menial and humiliating drudgery and subjection. One New Yorker' is said to have been lately made to sell papers for a week, dressed in striped bed-ticking. A well-dressed young man obediently dashed through Harvard square, holding out a long-handled tin dipper, and pathetically imploring,, “Won’t yougiva me a little something?” at the same time devoutly crossing himself. Others were fantastically dressed and placarded, and sent on ridiculous errands. The penalty of disobedience is a closing of the doors of the societies forever to the candidate. Violence is not resorted to in the initiations which are curious and ingenious methods for making the candidate ridiculous. \ Thomas Hughes, relating an experience in organizing the Rugby, settlement, in Tennessee, says there was no ordained minister among the settlers. The most suitable man was a Methodist, who conducted the English Church service in the morning, and accommodated those who were otherwise inclined in the evening. Hughes was rejoiced to see the denominations inextricably mingled, the settlers attending both services with perfect impartiality, as convenience might dictate. This man was soon ordained by the Protestant Episcopal -Bishop of Tennessee, who wrote in reply to Mr. Hughes; “He need not rub up his Greek. Of course, he must undergo examination in tlie Bible and prayer book, as - there are certain canonical examinations which cannot be dispensed with. I ain willing to go very far to satisfy the Nonconformists, and am willing to compromise anything but fundamental principles.” ’LoimviM-H Courier-Journal: A most interesting colloquy took place yesterday in the Tennessee Department at the Exposition between Dr. Graham, who is in his 100th year, and Mr. Horst, aged 85., Old times were recalled in all their glory, and many reminiscences recited. The picture of Gen. Jackson hanging in the exhibit was framed by Mr. Hurst in 1836. The frame is of hickory branches, and was fashioned by his own hands. Dr. Graham Tuesday last arose at early dawn and went out fossil-hunting more than 100 miles- in Indiana, returning the same day. He expressed himself as feeling just as well as possible after his trip, said such journeys might fatigue young men, but could not tire him. In fact, he felt just as spry as he did when he went to the dancing-party in 1806 with Nancy Hanks and Polly Hobbs. All three were members of the Methodist Church, and were arraigned for breaking its rules. Poor Polly sobbed and dried bitterly, and begged not to be turned ont of the church, but she was a culprit and they dismissed her. Nancy Hanks said she did not propose t® hava them direct her conscience, that she saw no harm in dancing, and that she would do it again, so they turned her out. Young Graham protested his ignorance of the regulations on that point, and promised he never would do so again, and said that he regretted his course exceedingly, so he was allowed to retain his membership. In a few months Nancy Hanks married Mr. Lincoln, the father of the President, and Dr. Graham attended the wedding. He tells many interesting stories of the days of Daniel Boone—of times when the State of Kentucky was only a back county of Virginia; of life on Corn Island and in the wilds among the red man of the forests.

Old-Time Letter Writing.

It is a common but unjust complaint tliat cheap postage killed the art of letter writing. In the last century the dispatch of an epistle was an affair of some moment. The expense of the post was not to be incurred without consideration; and since it was the receiver nf the missive who had to pay for” it, every gentleman who valued his reputation was anxious that his friends should find his correspondence worth the money. The knack of composing an elegant and entertaining letter was one of the first accomplishments demanded of a man of wit and culture. The broad pages upon which he expended his pains took the place, in some degree, which has since been fill-*, ed by the newspaper and the magazine; every letter-writer tried to be an essayist, a chronicler of politics and business, a critic, a gossip, Hundreds of volumes of private correspondence have been oolleoted and printed in our time, which rank with the most "valuable materials for history and the most entertaining illustrations of the tastes, opinions and manners of pa;#generations; and no inconsiderable part of them possess besides a positive literary quality. It is true that as soon as we go back to the fashionable era of lnffnr-iyyifinff in ilin iimo nf Walnnlo letter vv r loiugi w exit? eiuiu ut tt uiiruitJ and Pope, we find ourselves, in the midst of insincerity and artifice; but these were characteristics of the society of that day, and the letters would not be prized so highly as they are if they were not faithful reflections of the life from which they came.— New York Tribun ?. - If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest— Frank' l in. , .. .. * : H ■-v |V • -w*r-- . . J.■ “S'" “'.nl .... A

CIVIL RIGHTS.

In view of the enormous Democratic majority in the House and the close division of parties in the Senate of the present Congress, it may not be possible to obtain the necessary two-t'hirds rote to submit the ciyil-jights amendment for the protection of the blacks proposed by Senator Wilson, of lowa, or any other similar in purpose. But it is nevertheless the duty of the Republicans to urge the amendment earnestly snd make it clear to the public that the Democrats stand in the way of a complete vindication of tlie United Stated Government’s power to protect all its citizens in the exercise of their rights. The constitutional amendments adopted after the crushing of the slaveholders’ rebellion were undoubtedly intended to repose in Congress ample authority to pass all laws necessary to that end, but they have proved inadequate in many particulars, and the late almost unanimous decision of the Supreme court of the United States has served to rivet public attention to that fact. But it is not only in order to give Congress authority to pass such a law as that which the Supreme court has recently set aside as not authorized by the Constitution that a supplementary amendment is necessary, but still more to take measures for the protection of citizens in the exercise of political rights which are denied in certain States by mob force and partisan violence, and also to establish the broad and essential principle that the United States Government may extend the same protection to ull classes of its citizens everywhere within its jurisdiction which other nations enforce in behalf of their subjects. The amendment proposed by Senator Wilson is brief and comprehensive. Its full text is as follows: Congress shall ha7e power, by appropriate legislation, to protect the citizens of the United Stares In the exercise and enjoyment of their rights, privileges, and immunities, and assure them the equal protection of the laws. This sentence expresses precisely the aim which the later amendments to the Constitution had in view, and it will apply to the protection of naturalized citizens when abroad as well as to colored citizens at home. The intimidation so widely employed in the South and the construction of the amendments adopted by the Supreme court have made it necessary to attach a clearer and more explicit expression of the purpose to the Constitution. The Wilson amendment will complete the conversion of the United States from a league of independent sovereignties, according to the old Calhoun doctrine, into a nation—a revolution which began with the substitution of the present Constitution for the original articles of agreement, and ought to have ended with the rebellion war. The authority of the nation has been vindicated by a successful defense of the Government against treason and armed rebellion. The nation now exercises the right to declare who shall be citizens of -the United States, and it is a solecism that its authority to protect such citizens in their rights and privileges should be denied or even questioned. Yet there are to-day 500,000 citizens in the South who are denied a right'to vote whenever they attempt to vote against the Democratic party, and the nation’s hands are tied in such maaner that it cannot come to, their rescue. The constitutional amendments which were designed to enable the Government to protect these citizens, and all whose privileges are abridged, are directed against the States, and the. States set up that they have passed no law denying the political and civil rights of the freedmen. It is the mob which does all this by means of trickery and violence; the States in, question will do. nothing to discipline the mob, and tlie United States Government has no authority to deal with it. It is only at Congressional elections that the United States has the right to appoint challengers, who are generally helpless where their services are needed; citizens are excluded from the polls, swindled in their contracts, denied the civil rights which adhere to citizenship, anjj,there is no remedy for it. When these discriminations are practiced and an appeal is made to the United States Congress and the United States courts the answer is, that the outraged citizen must look to his State and its agents for his relief. Getting none there, he finds hiinself a citizen of the United States merely in name. The Government which was able to put down rebellion in nearly one-kalf of its political districts, to free 6,000,000 of people who were slaves, and to declare that they should become citizens of the United States and of the States in which they reside, has still no power to guarantee ship by its own legislative, judicial and executive agents. The abridgment of the social privileges of the blacks which Congress is powerless to prevent under existing constitutional amendments is .trifling by comparison with the practical denial of political and civil rights by the controlling elements of Southern society who hold themselves independent of governmental authority. The people of this country are still bound up in the logical results of the war which established the supremacy of the United States government, and are still determined that this supremacy shall be used to insure equal protection to all citizens. If the constitutional amendments already adopted are not sufficient to enable the Government to exercise the National function the people will be in favor of extending and enlarging the constitutional powers of the Government. The agitation in that direction comes property from the Republican party. If thfl„ Jlempcr&tic party shall use its temporary advantage in .Congress to check tlie progress of Nationalism it will have to answer to the Amieriean people for its interference. —Chicago Tribune.

The Election of Delegates.

On the fourth day of the Chicago convention of 1880, on motion of Mr. Boutwell, of Massachusetts, the following order was adopted: ‘ “The National committee shall, within the next twelve months, prescribe a method or methods for the election of delegates to the National convention to

be held in 1884, announce the same to the country, and issue a call for that convention" in 1 conformity therewith, provided that such methods or rules shall include and secure to the several Congressional districts in the United States the right tp elect their own delegates to the National convention.” Acting upon this, the National Republican committee met on Jan. 17, and adopted the following: “The Republican National convention of 1834 shall consist of four dele-gates-at-large from each State and two delegates from each Congressional district. The delegates-at-large shall be chosen by popular delegate State con ; ventions, called on not less than twonty days’ published notice, and held not less than thirty nor more than sixty days before the time for the meeting of the National convention. The Republicans of the various Congressional districts shall have the option of electing their delegates at separate popular delegate conventions, or by subdivisions of the State conventions into district conventions; and such delegates shall be chosen in she latter method, if not elected previous to the meeting of tue State conventions. All district delegates shall lie accredited by the officers of such district conventions. Two delegates shall be allowed from each Territory, and from the District of Columbia, similarly chosen. Notices of contests may be given to the National committee, accompanied by full printed statements of* the grounds of contest, which shall also be made public; and preference in order of hearing and determining contests shall be given by the convention according to the dates of reception of such notices and statements by the National committee.” At the meeting of the committee in Washington, this rule was modified so as to permit Louisiana aud Oregon to hold district and State conventions not longer than ninety days prior to the National contention.

War on Southern Bourbonism.

Gen. James S. Negley, the President of the Union League of America, has just returned from a meeting of the Executive committee of that organization in Washington City. He says the speeches made outlined the campaign for 1884, and were such as he has rarely heard; that while they expressed opposition to the further flaunting of the bloody shirt, they were permeated with -the idea that the rights of Republican voters in the South must be guaranteed them. He intimated that some attention would be given to the fact that in no Southern State ha* there ever enacted a law to abolish the abuses which have been so conspicuous a part of every political campaign. It is evident that, after all, the bloody shirt will be an element in politics next year. —Pittsburgh Telegram.

When the Bloody Shirt Will Be Buried.

So long as inoffensive men are shot down at the polls for the sin of proposing to vote the Republican ticket, just so long will the bloody shirt be a factor in politics. When the Democracy of the South cease to carry elections by fraud and murder, then will the shirt be buried, and not till then.— Clay County (bid.) Enterprise.

The Law of Trespass.

There seems to be a great difference of opinion in regard to the laws of tresjjass and the right possessed by tlie owners of property. Some people thipk that one lias the right to shoot a dog, a cat, fowls, pigeons, etc., coming upon his premises; but he has no such right. His remedy is to go to the law for damages, and he has no right to take the law into his own hands. Some time ago a person in a neighboring county poisoned a trespassing dog, and was arrested. He freely admitted doing it and attempted to show that he had the right to do so. The court and jury J disagreed with him, and, as he liad no money, he was sent to jail for three months. Another case occurred a number of years ago. A neighboring sporting citizen was hunting partridges wdth a fine setter dog on which he placed great store. The dog was shot by a nonsporting farmer while hunting on his premises, and the act, being proved, the defendant undertook to show that the dog was unknown to him, and at best was a nuisance. ~ But this Was quickly disproved, and after a trial of two or three days the defendant was beaten, the jury adjudging the full value of the dog, about S4O. The case at the time created a great deal of interest, as both parties were well known and respected in the community. This was the last case we heard of within the limits of Philadelphia county. How much better, all things considered, to settle all these neighborhood questions amicably. With a disposition to livtepeaceably and kmdiy in the same vicinity, and bv simply bearing and forebearing in all the little happenings of daily occurence, it would soon be found how- easy it was to be always friendly with everybody, and how pleasant it was to know that there was not a single person among all your ac quaintances with whom you were not on cordial terms of friendship.— Gei'mantown Telegraph.

The Real Vienna Bread.

Viennese bread is celebrated. It may interest you to know something about it. The excellence of the bread is attributed in Vienna to three reasons—the oven, the men and the yeast. I think another may be added, and that is the dry climate. An ounce of yeast (three decagrammes) and as much .‘•alt is taken for every gallon (one litre) ol milk used for the dough. The yeast is a Viennese known as the ■“St. Marxner Pres.sheffe,” and its con position is a secret. It keeps two days in summer and a little loiiget iii winter. The ovens are heated bv wood fires lit inside them, during four hours; the ashes are then raked out and the oven is carefully wiped with wisps of damp straw. On the vapor thus generated as well as that produced by the baking of the dough, lies the whole art of the browning and, the success of the “semmel.”—Notes and (Queries. Ax Albany, N. Y., butcher figures he has sawed seventy-eight miles oi bone in thirty years at his block.

THE BAD BOY.

-■Well, how did yon pull through Thanksgiving day?” asked the grocery man of the bad boy, as he came into the store looking as happy there was good skating the 'year round. “Have any fun ?” “Fun is no name for it, ” said the boy, as he took a knife and scratched some beeswax off the bottom of his boots. “I thought I had seen fun before, but that Thanksgiving day made me tired of laughing. You see, we all went to Deacon Perkins’ house to dinner. There is two kinds of people in our church. One kind believes that you must never have any fun, and always wear a long face, and sigh, and cry easy, while the other faction believes in doing np religious ehores and having a furlough. They believe that there is a time for praying, a time for dancing, and a time for all kinds of innocent fun. Deacon Perkins is the leader of the funny side, and he is the jolliest old dog you ever saw, except when he is serious, and then everybody lets up on any foolishness, and pays attention. The minister believes in Deacon Perkins’ ideas, but he don’t dare to take sides, though he winks at the fun, and enjoys it. The Deacon had onr folks and about a dozen other families to dinner on Thanksgiving, and we had a boss dinner. The Deacon and the minister were just too h »ppy, except when the Deacon asked the blessing, and talked about the poor people all around, that had no turkey stuffed with oysters, and then they were sad. Rnt after they got to passing plates for more turkey and things, there was fun nil around the board. But the most fun was after dinner. Wlien it began to get dark the Deacon came to me and said they were going to have a dance in the big room np stairs. They had taken np the carpet, and he said the floor was not just right, and he wished I would get a cake of beeswax and wax the floor the way they have it waxed down at the dancing school, and so me and my chum went np stairs and waxed the floor. I guess maybe we pnt on too much wax, for the first half hour it stuck to people’s shoes, butafter that it begun to get smooth, atid by the time they got warmed up, the floor was just like glary ice. * The crowd ,was all up stairs except the minister and two old maids that couldn’t dance. They was taking politics and things, but after awhile the minister said he didn’t mind going np to the dancing room to look on, so he took the two wimmen on his arms and went np. He came in the door just as a dance was over, and be started to walk across the floor to set the wimmen down beside the tiddler, when his left foot slipped sideways and kicked the feet out from under one of the wimmen and she started to fall, and the other one pulled the other way, and both the minister’s feet slipped and the whole three of them went down, and I snorted right out. Ma looked at me kind of sassy, and I shut up, but pa was walking across the floor with a lug woman to form on for a quadrille, and he said, ‘ the wicked stand in slippery places,’ and just then one of the women, who was trying to get up hit pa in the heel with her shoe, and his feet began to slide, and he grabbed the woman he was walking with, and they went down 730 the gas fixtures rattled. Pa struck on his hip, and one foot bit the minister near the.watch pocket and he grunted; and pa was so heavy he kept going, and ho plowed right through the two women that went down with the minister, and they called pa an old brute, and then Deacon Perkins and ma started to the rescue, and ma slipped and pulled the Deacon down, and I went to help ma and I met the fiddler and we both fell, and then everybody else laughed, and when the fiddler got up he found I ha<j set down on the fiddle and it was all broke np. I have never seen pa cut as many flipflaps as he did trying to keep from falling, and the minister was so annoyed at the spectacle he presented that I dare not go to church for a week or two for fear I shall think about it when he is preaching, and snort right out in meeting. We finally got them all on their feet and the dance was broke np, but they didn’t blame me and my chum, ’canse the Deacon told ns to wax the floor. Some of the sober ‘Deacons in the church heard- abouhite and they say it was a judgment on the jelly folks for dancing. Do yon think it was a judgment on us?” “Judgment nothing, ” said the groceryman. “It was simply too much beeswax. Lots of things in this world that are laid to Providence is the result of too much beeswax. A man gets to living high and drinking bard and some day he is found dead, and the people say it is a dispensation of Providence. Lc ia simply a case of too much beeswax. A man gets to doing an immense business on a small capital and he flies high, and people get to thinking if he didn’t make the earth he had a controlling interest in the contract. He walks proud and looks over his old friends and seems to be seeking new worlds to conquer ,and all of a sudden yon hear something drop, and the Sheriff has the key to the store, and the high-flyer finds that he is flat on the ground. It is too much beeswax. The beeswax was there all the time, but had not got ready to be slippery until the highflyer gbt too warm. It is just so. in every— —” “Oh, say,” says the boy, as he see Jhe grocery man was wound up for all day, "you make me weary. Did I tell you I was going into the show business V “No, you don’t tell me,” said the groceryman. “Wbat is it ? A circus ?” “No, not'' any circus. I have been looking the thing oyer, and I think there is more money in being a living skelefeendhfln anything there is going, and I have got an offer from a museum of S2OO a week as soon as I can get lean enongh, and I have quit eating since Thanksgiving. I have lost two pounds, and at that rate I will be ready to exhibit about Christinas. A living skeleton- can lay up all his money, ’cause he don’t have to eat, and lus clothes don’t cost much, and it is a regular picnic. They wanted me to be a man without I thought that would be bad if I should ever want to quit the show business, and then they wanted me to be a jorilla, but % jorilla

is only a mammal, and can’t ‘ go nt sod* etv. Thev offered to get z wax head for me if I would be a two-headed znln, but I don’t want to be a deception. I had rather be a freak of nantre. Pa ia encouraged sinco f have decided tp be a living skeleton, and say* I will ’mount to something yet. He thinks I better go and board at a cheap boardinghouse, in order to l>ecomea skeleton by the time I have promised to show, but I guess I can find all the facilities I want at home. Bay let’s go in partnership, and you be a jorilla or a wild pirate. Your bead is flat enough on top, and your eyes look like gimlet holes in a boot heel ” The l>oy got out of the store just ahead of a hatchet, and he went into a candy-store and bought some chocolate caramels to become a skeleton on.— Peck's Sun.

The Childhood of a Poet.

Tlie wind that goes blowing where it listeth, once, in the early beginning of this century, came sweeping through the garden of this old Lincolnshire rectory, and, as the wind blew, a stnrdy child of 5 years old with shining locks stood opening his arms upon the blast and letting himself be blown along, and as he traveled on be made his first line of poetry and said, “I hear a voice that’s speaking in the wind,” and he tossed his arms, and the gust whirled on, sweeping into the great abyss of winds. One might perhaps still trace in the noble familiar face of our Poet Laureate the features of this child, one of many deep-eyed sons and daughters bom in the quiet rectory among the elm trees. Alfred Tennyson was born on the 6th of Angnst, 1809. He has heard many and many a voice calling to him since the time when he listened to the wind as he played alone in his father’s garden, or joined the other children at their games and jousts. They were a noble little olan of poets and of knights, coming of a knightly race, with castles to defend, with mimic tournaments to fight. Somersby was so far away from the world, so behindhand in its echoes (which mnst have come there softened through all manner of green and tranquil things, and as it were hashed into pastoral silence), that though the early part of the century was stirring with the clang of legions, few of i;s rumors seem to have reached the children. They never heard at the time of the battle of Waterloo. They grew up together playing their own games, living their own life; and where is such a life to be fonnd as that of a happy, eager family of boys and girls before doubt, the steps of time, the shocks of chance, the blows of death, hare come to shake their creed ? These handsome children had beyond most children that wondrous toy at their command which some people call imagination. Tflfe boys plaved great games like Arthur’s knights; they were champions and warriors defending a stone heap, or again they would set up opposing camps with a king in the midst of each. The king was a willow wand stuck into the ground, with an’ outer circle of immortals to defend him of firmer, stiffer sticks. Then each party would come with stones, hurling at each other’s king, and trying to overthrow him. Perhaps as the day wore on they, became romancers, leaving the jousts" deserted. When dinner-time came, and they all sat round the table, each in turn put a chapter of his history underneath the potato bowl—long endless histories, chapter after chapter diffuse, absorbing, unending, as are the stories of 'real life of which each sunrise opens on a new part; some of these romances were in letters, like Clarissa Harlowe. Alfred used to tell a story which lasted for months, and which was called “Tlie Old Horse.” Alfred’s first verses, so I once heard him say, were written upon a slate which iiis brother. Charles put into hi* hand on! Sunday at Louth, when all the elders of the party were going into church, and the child was left alone. Charles gave him a subject—the flow ers in the garden—and when he camt back from church little Alfred brought the slate to his brother all covered with written lines of blank verse. Thej were made on the models of “Seasons,” the only poetry he had evei read. One can picture.it all to one’s self, the flowers in the garden, the "•verses; .~4heiljrtie-poefc.':with.„waitmg eye** and the young brother scanning the lines. “Yes, you can write,” said Charles, and he gave Alfred back the slate;- -—— ' — 77I have also heard another story of his grandfather, later on, asking him to write an elegy on his grandmother, who had recently died, and, when it .was written, putting 10 shillings into, his hands and saying, “There, that is the first money you have ever earned by your poetry," and, take my word for it, Ritchie, in Harper’s May mine .

Plantation Philosophy.

Bar’s some little truth eben in de bigges’ lie, eben es it is no more den de sack dat it is a lie. Poverty o’ body is bad, but poverty o’ mine is wus. I doan feel as sorry fur a po’ sensible man as I does for a rich fool. Be wust whuppin’ dat a man eber gits is done by a coward. Pen up a suappin’ cur an’ he ken whup all de dogs on de plantation, 12—|— Wid me, de ole man is more 'tractive den de boy. Be go]’ dat’s on a leaf jes’ arter de fust frost is puttier den do green on de leaf jes’ airter spring opens. Be sack dat a man is useful ter de curmnnity doan make him a ’zirabie member of s’ciety. We couldn’t liardly git along widout de buzzard, yet I doan hanker airter ’aoeiatin’ wid him. De mourners’ bench would do mo’ good fur de nigger es de? was fewer groans an* mo 1 saft soafran’ raia water dar. Fse seed many a nigger top dirty ter go t6r a dance, but I never seed one too dirty to Toss ’ligion. * . } Bar’s two kines o’ men what doan do business de right way: De man what ain’t got time enough an’ de man what’s got too much; fur de man what ain’t got time enough, rushes throngh wid de work, an’ de man what’s got too much time, waits tall it’s too late.— Arkansaw Traveler. A half-sick man is the sickest kind ofamaa. / J - - --i i,.--, * ■'^ T-'iM. i • ti. «■ .