Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1871 — Page 6

HORNS.

BY JOSH BILLINGS.

In writing the biogriphi ov horn*, 1 am astonished tew And ao uienny ot them, and ao entirely different in their pedigree and pretenahuna. “ Caj*k Horn."—Cape Horn Iz the biggnat horn known to man. It ic a native ot the extreme bottom ot Booth Amerlka, and gores the oahua. Cape Horn is hollow and aktaaa a phunnell tor the winds, which harry thru it in .mutch haste, causing the waters ot the sea for agnate distance tew bekum crazy, whienfrightens the vessels that go by thare, ana makes them rare and pitch tremenjua. Tikis hom is like a sour old bull in the hlway, and dont seem tew be ov any use, only tew make folks go out ot their . way tew git around it. “Horn ot a Dilemma."—Dilemma is derived from the Siamese verb "dUoss," which means a tits spot, and haz a horn on each end ot it There is no choice in these' two horns; if yu seise one ov them the other may perforate yu, and if yu dont take either both ot them may pitch into yu. I always avoid them if possible, but when possibility gives out, ml rule iz tew shut up both eyes, and Ate both prongs with my whole grit. Nine times out ov ten this will smash a dilemma, and it is alwus a good Ate if yu git licked in the tenth. Yu kant argy or reason with the horn ov a dilemma, the only way iz to advance in and fight for the gross amount. “Cow’s Horn.”—Two bony projeckshuns, curved, crooked or strate, worn by the cows on the aneks of their beds, for ornament in times of peace, and used when they go into war to stab with. These horns arc a kind of family rechord. At three years old a ring appears on the bottom ov the horn next to the head, and each year after a fresh ring is born. In this way the.cows kno how old they are. Sumtimes these rings fill up the whole horn and grow off'onto the adjoining fences in the pasture lot, but this only happens to very oidoows. 1 never knu it tew happen ip mi life, and I dont think it ever did, it is one ov them venerable lies that are handed down from father to son, just to keep the stock ov lies from running out; When I waz a boy I was told that butter cum from cow's hom—l hav since found out that this is another cussed old lie. This lieing tew children iz no evidence ov genius, and iz sowing the seeds ov decepshun in a soil too apt bi nutur tew covet what aint undoubtedly so. “ Dinner Horn.” —This is the oldest, and most sakred hom there fz. It iz set tewmusik,and plays “ Home Sweet Home” about noon. It has bin listened tew, with more rapturous delite, than even Graffula’s bond haz. Yu kan hear it further than vu kan one ov Mr. Rodman’s guns. It will arrest a man, and bring him in quicker thua sheriff’s warrent. It ken outfoot eny other noize. It kauses the deaf to hear, and the dum to shout for joy. Glorious old instrument! long may yure lungs last! “ Whisky Horn.”—This hom varys in length, but from three to six inches iz the favorite size. It iz different* from other horns, being ov a fluid natur. It iz really more pugnashus than the ram’s hom; six inches of it knok a man perfekly calm. When it knoks a man down it holds him thare. It iz either the principal or the seckond in most all the iniquity that iz traveling around. It makes brutes of men, demons of wimmin and vagrants of children. It has drawn more tears, broken more hearts and blited more hopes than all the other agencys of the devil put together. "Horn Comb.’’— This simple, little, unsophistikated instrument haz beheaded countless legions ov innocent children. I don’t mean that it haz cut oph their heads, but that it haz cut its way thru the hirsute embossing that adorns their skalps. It haz two rows of sharp teeth, and always haz a good appetite. It iz always az ready for a job as a village lawyer, and iz az thorough az a sarchwarrant. It iz an emblem of faith and neatness. When it gits old and loses its teeth, it should be cherished, hung up and labeled, “Well done, old mowser.” I always look upon an old and worn out hom tooth comb with a species of vencrashun, bordering on melankolly. It reminds me ov mi boyhood, and the boyish things that waz running through mi head in thoze days ov simplicity and innocence. Thare iz a grate money other kinds ov horns, but 1 Mint got the time to tell yu all about them now. Thare iz the “Powder Horn,’' the “Hom ov the Bull Head,” and the “Horn of Plentyand there iz also “Hom Tooke,” a celebrated writer of his day; but good-by for the present.

The New Cattle Disease in New York.

Ouk readers will remember that the Commercial called attention not long ago to the breaking oat of a new disease among the cattle of Dutchess county and that vicinity. This disease has assumed such a formidable shape that the Secretary of the State Agricultural S ciety has felt himself called upon to put the fanners, who reside along the line of the cattle traffic, on their The new scourge which is making such sad havoc with cattle, is known as the “ foot and mouth” disease. Its ravages are more extensive and fatal in Great Britain than in this country. It is in the highest degree contagious, and can be very easily spread throughout a sound herd of cattle. The contagion may be conveyed bv those who have had charge of the diseased ani-. mats, as well as from the manure and litter which is thrown from cars or pens in which any of the afflicted beasts may have beep confined. During the prevalence of this disease the milk of cows exposed to its influence should not be given to other animals, or be used as human food. Professor Low, of Cornell Univereity, has made the new disease the subject of examination and study. He has prepared a brief statement of its symptoms, and we herewith publish them for the benefit of this community and neighborhood: “ 1. Prom one to two days dullness, loss of appetite (and of milk,'in cows), hot, dry month, with a tendency to grind the teeth and to slaver, heat and tenderness of the udder and teats and of the feet, with frequent shaking of the feet, as if to get rid of same irritating matter. “2. On the second day, abundant frothing at the mouth, loud smacking of the lips and tongue, lameness, and the formation of blisters of various sizes, up to an inch across, on the mouth, udder and teats and between the hoofs. “3. In one or two days more these blisters burst, leaving raw sores and shreds of loose skin inside the uprer lip, on the roof of the mouth and the tongue, on the teats and between the hoofs. These discharge an irritating fluid for some time, then scab over and hea) up, in favorable cases, in from ten to fifleen days. -■lt should be added, that the milk should be drawn by tubes or syphons in case the udder or teats become so sore that the cow cannot be milked as usual, and that the sick beasts should be well jaursed and nourished with soft mashes pad gruels. Cooling but not purgative medicines should be gives, and the sores washed with some mild carbolic add prep-

•ration, or with a weak solution of sulphate of zinc (white vitriol)." Up to the present time this alarming epidemic has left traces of Its work In both Canada East and Canada West. In thia State Its worst ravages have been confined to Oneida and Duchess counties; from the list vicinity 115 cases have been reported. —Buffalo Commercial Adrertiter, Dec. 15.

The Absorptive Power of Soil.

It is an important discovery of recent date that soils have the power of separating, not only ammonia, but other l>ases also, from their solutions, and of holding them with great tenacity after their absorption. Thus 100 grains of clay soil, taken from the plant ie clay formation of England, absorbed 1,050 grains of potash from a solution of caustic potash containing one per rent, of the alkali. It is interesting to observe that the liquid was not in this cAse filtered through the soil, but the cold solution was merely left in contact with it for twelve hours. It has been ftirther shown that soils have the ability to separate tlie alkaline bases from the acids with they are combined. When saline solutions were slowly filtered through soils five or six inches deep, the liquids which irnssul through were deprived of their alkaline bases, as potash, soda, ammonia, and magnesia, and only the acids were to be found in combination with some other base. Thus when muriate of ammonia was filtered through the soil, the ammonia was removed, and a corresponding quantity of lime, in combination with muriatic acid, was found in the filtered liquid. In the same way sulphate of potash was deprived of its base, nnd the liquid collected gave sulphate of lime on analysis. Those soils which have the greatest amount of capillary porosity will condense the greatest amount of manorial substances on their internal surfaces; will retain them longest against the adverse, solvent action of water, and will give them out most readily to the rootlets of the growing plant. A mass of adhesive clay will absorb but a very* slight amount of available manure; but if this same mass is rendered friable by processes, its power of absorption is amazingly increased, in view of what has been stated, it is very' clear that one way in which plowing increases the fertility of land, is by increasing its porosity by pulverization. Again, many manurial substances exist in the soil, which, being insoluble, exercise no action on the growth of plants, and contribute nothing to their nutrition; but by the slow, though regular action of the frosts and the rain, the air and the sunshine, insoluble and refractory compounds, are reduced to a soluble state and are appropriated and held on deposit by the soil to the credit of the next cultivated crop. This explains the well known fact that soils that have been cropped to the very verge of barrenness will recover their fertility, if allowed to remain long enough under the action of climatic influences, to saturate the soil witli the necessary plantfood which they have unlocked from their chemical combinations, and given to the soil in a proper physical condition. These changes are brought • about more rapidly when certain mechanical changes of condition are wrought upon the soil. Carbonic acid is one of the most active of the agents employed in bringing the insoluble organic matter in the soil into that physical condition in whicli it becomes available as plant food; in order that this acid may be formed it is essential that the carbonaceous matters in the soil should be brought into direct contact with the atmosphere, from which they procure the oxygen necessary to convert them into carbonic acid. So long as stagnant water remains in the soil, or so long as the soil is in a dense or a very com|iact condition, it is impossible for the carbon to lie converted into acid.— Bouton Journal of Chemistry.

Food for Fowls.

A change of food, summer and winter, is just as essential in the management of fowls as any form stock. While oat meal ar.d middlings contain a high per cent, of flesh-forming material, gluten, etc., Indian com has the greatest per cent, of oil-mak-ing or warmth-giving qualities of any of the grains; and while oat meal is one of the best summer foods, iu winter it should not be fed alone. Potatoes and rice contain a large amount of starch and are excellent winter feed. Wheat is never profitable as a poultry feed compared with oats,- it contains a less amount of flesh-forming and fat-making ingredients. A change of food, frequently, is desirable, and we prefer for winter alternate messes of mixed oat and corn meal, nnd corn meal and mashed potatoes. Middlings may be used with equal profit in place of the oat. meal. In mixing soft foods they should not be made very wet, but kneaded up as dry as possible, for forcing an excess of water into the crop is very liable to cause diarrhea. Fowls must never be left without water, but we would advise letting them take it in such quantities and at such times as their natures demand. Give fresh water, and see that there is no snow in it. Experience has taught that snow water will reduce poultry in flesh. — Ohio Farmer.

Keep the Small Potatoes until Spring.

Farmers frequently feed tlieir small potatoes to fattening pigs in the fall. It would be much better to keep them until spring, and then cook them, mix them with a little meal and feed .them to suckling sows and young pigs. In the spring, before the clover is ready to turn into, we are generally short of succulent food, whereas in the autumn we have apples, pumpkins, cabbage leaves, and a variety of vegetables that will not keep Until spring. The value of potatoes as feed for stock does not lie so much in the mere nutriment they contain as in their giving tone to the stomach; and they will prove much more useful when fed out to young pigs and breeding sows in the spring, as is usual, than when fed to fattening pigs in the fall. —American Agriculturist. —Captain McArthur, of Kinston, Canada, recently had a fearful adventure on the Grand Trunk He got up from his seat and walked out to the platform when the train was near Lancaster, to find out how near he was to the station. He overbalanced himself and fell, but managed to save his life by catching the coupling, and there he hung by his arms in a position which offered him very little hope of recovering the platform above, in the one case, and a sure and awful death, were he to drop off, in the other. No one could be placed in a more agonizing position. Through his great strength, being of strong muscular power, he held himself up while the train traveled four miles, undergomg the greatest mental as well as bodily suffering. No one discovered his danger, as it was night and very dark. When his strength was exhausted, and he saw a bridge or a tunnel on the track ahead which would increase the danger of his situation, he prepared for the inevitable plunge, and, with a prayer of despair upon his lips, he let go his holdi Instant death would have followed in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, but, providentially, Mr. McArthur fell, more dead than alive, into a hollow or excavation in the track. , The train passed over safely, and he . laid there unconscious from his injuries and sufler--ings for seven hours. . A blind girl, sixteen years of age, an inmate of the Blind Asylum at Jackson, Miss., learned the alphabet in raised letters in four hours, and was'able to read well in one week alter bar admission.

TRESSILIAN COURT; OR. The Baronet's Son.

By MRS. HARRIET LEWIS,

AUTHOR OP “Till DOUBLEfLirE,*' “Tfi* IUILIPP'H M II KM C," “THE M'NnffRED IIEARTK.” n ‘ Til* LADY OT KILnAJUL” “A LIP* AT VTAKE," *) “ TUI UOIBE OP Nf'KET*, M ETC’., ETC., ETC. cn l A rATEWI. CATASTROPHE. A wild storm was racing upon the Mediterranean Rea, near the clone of a dreary November day; and eky and watera were black with the gloom of the sadden and fnrloua tempest, before which a small sailing vessel was scudding under bare poles. Iler build and rigging proclaimed her Sardinian. She was The dull. Captain Varino master, on her way from Cagliari to Palermo. She had on board two seamen and two passengers. These passengers were Englishmen, who had procu red passage on The (full to Palermo, whence they Intended to embark by steamer to Marseilles, the following day. While the Captain and his assistants were attending to their duties, and expressing apprehension.. as to their safety, the two Englishmen stood apart, leaning against the low bulwarks, and surveying the wild scene around them. These men were both ymtag, apparently of the same age, about threo and twenty, but evidently they wore not of the same station (n life. One, the more striking of the two, was aristocratic In h!« hearing, tall, slender and handsome, with a frank, smiling month, a pair of fearless blue eyes, set under a wide and massive forehead, and tawny hair blowing back from his face. Noble, generous and klndriicarted, he had an adventurous disposition and a dauntless courage. , He was Otty Tresslllan, the only son and heir of Sir Arthur Tresslllan, Baronet, of Tresslllan Court, England. iris companion presented a remarkable resemblance to him. lieing also tall and slender and fair, with tawny hair ami mustache, but he had not the frank smile, the bright, fearless look, or the joyous spirit that characterized young Tresslllan. Young as he was. he had seen much of the dark side of life, and Ids ex|ierience* had been such us to develop In hint some of the worst qualities of his nature. He was Jasper Louder, Guy Tresslllan's hired travelling companion and bosom-friend. The meeting and connection of the two had a touch of romance. Young Tresslllan had spent four years iu a German university, whence he had been graduated with honor. On leaving'the university, in obedience to his father's written command, he had undertaken a tour of the countries Inclosing the Mediterranean Sea, in company with one of hts late tutors. This gentleman being unexpectedly promoted to a professorship, abandoned Tressillan at Baden, leaving him to lind another travelling companion. On the evening of the very day after tills desertion, as Guv Trcssilian was sauntering through the streets or Baden, he had been assaulted by a trio of his own countrymen, all more or less intoxicated. It was apparent that they took him for ancther. and intended to wreak vengeance upon him. Without allowing him to speak, they forced him to defend himself. Guy- wag getting the worst of the conflict, when a stranger came running to his assistance, and In a few moments the two had put the ruffians to flight. This stranger who came so opportunely to Guy's assistance was Jasper Lowdcr. Ills resemblance to yonng Tresslllan awakened in the latter a romantic interest. lie questioned Lowder, learned that he was poor and alone in the world, and took him with lilm to hts hotel. Believing that the similarity of features indicated a similarity of tastes and natures, he engaged Lowder as his travelling companion, and the past year they had spent together more like brothers than like employer and employed. “ This storm Is a regnlar Levanter,” said Lowner, clinging with both hands to the bulwarks. “Do you tlflnk the craft will stand it, Tresslllan’” “ Oh, yes,” answered young Tressillan, wiping the salt spray from hlq/ace. “The captain knows the Sicilian coast perfectly. In two hours, or less, we shall be In the hay of f’alermo. In three hours we shall be domiciled In the best rooms of the hotel Trinacria, with the best supper which Messer Kagusa can furnish. And so-morrow, at no6n,” he added, “ we shall embark for Marseilles in a Messageries steamer.” “ And from Marseilles you will proceed to England and to Tresslllan Court,” said Lowder, with some bitterness. “And/—what is to become of met I have had a year of unalloyed happiness, and now comes back the drudgery, the hopeless toll, the anxieties of the wretched old life. Yon picked me np at Baden, a poor adventurer seeking to gain a living by teaching English, and the same destiny Is open to me now.',’ Treseilian turned his handsome face upon his companion In surprise and affectionate reproach. “Jasper!” he exclaimed, “yon talk strangely Do you suppose I have called you friend and brother so long, and loved you so well, to lose you now! I meant to have written to my father concerning you and your future, Jasper, but his sudden recall, receivea yesterday, causes me to return home without writing. I shall telegraph from Marseilles that you will come home with me. And yon will, will you not? You will ndrabandon me, my friend’ I will charge myself with your future. I will see that you obtain the position to which your talents entitle you. You have no ties to keep you on the Continent?” A strange expression passed over Jasper Lowder's face. -«*. “ No. I have no lies,” he said, huskily, “ And you will go home with me?” “ What will yonr father say to my coming?” demanded Lowder. ”He will think your generosity Snixotic. He will dismiss from his house the red companion who dares to resemble his son ”

A sudden lurch of the little vessel, a wave sweeping over the deck, interrupted the sentence. “Yon wrong my father," said Tressilian, his bine eyes kindling, whenOthe vessel had righted. “He is the noblest man in the world. He wilt welcome my friends as his own. Yon will love him, Jasper, as I do, when yon know him." “He doesn’t seeni very affectionate,” remarked T„owder. “Yen have Iteen away from your home for flte years, and he has bntjnst recalled yon!” Young Tressilian> cheek flushed, as Lewder saw In the lurid glow that momentarily lighted tip the tempestnone scene* “You know, or can guess, the reason, .Jasper," he said, with something of an effort. “My father has a ward, the daughter of an old friend. Ahl hear that wind shriek 1 The gale is increasing?'’ “Yes." assented Powder. “And the ward i« Miss Irby—the golden-haired Blancheof whom yotv have talked so much, and with whom yon have exchanged letters?” “Yes. My father formed a project to have me marry Blanche. He did not wish us to grow up together, lest we should learn to regard each other as brother and sister. When Blanche canto to live at the Court my father sent me to Germany. The night before I left home, he called me into his library and told me all his hopes and plans for my future, and entreated me to continue worthy of his innocent ward, and to keep my heart pnre for her. I have done so. Jasper. I have never yet loved any woman. And yesterday I received my father's summons to come home. He has recalled me after five years of absence. I know the wish that lies nearest his heait. He wants me to return and marry Blanche. I shrink from the proposed marriage. I dread going home. And I dread offending my dear father, whom I love better than any woman. It is hard, Jasper, to revolt against the'hopes and plans of a kina and generous father, whose very love for me causes him to urge on this marriage ! ” “Is it? ’’ said Lowder, dryly, and with a strange smile full of sneering bitterness. “My experience has been widely different from yours. Tressilian. Did I ever tell you of my father?” “No. I took it for granted that he is dead." Perhaps he is. I don’t know,” said Lowder, with a reckless lan£li. “ But if he is living, he is a sconndrel. Don’t start, Tressilian, at my unfilial speech.. Wait till you hear my story. I am in a desperate mood to-night. This storm stirs np all the had within me. As nearly as I can discover, ,my father was the younger eon of a prond old bounty family—” “You do not know, then?” asked Tressilian, pressing his companion’s hand. " I have no proofs of it. All I positively know is this. My mother was of hnmble station, pretty, with bine eyes and an apple-blossom face, atid tender, appealing ways. She was the daughter of a widow, residing at Brighton. The widow, my grandmother, kept a lodging-house, and my father, a gav, dashing young fellow, came to lodge with her. As might have been expected, he fell in love with his landlady’s daughter. He offered the yonng girl marriage, on condition that the nnion should be .kept secret nntil his affaire brightened and he chose to divulge it. The young girl loved him. Her mother was ambitious and pennrions. The result was the lover had hts way, and married the danghter of his landlady quietly, almost secretly. Then he took his bride to London, to cheap and obscure lodgings, where, a year later, I was born." The wind for a moment drowned his voice. As it presently lulled, he resumed recklessly, and with passionate bitterness: L “ For years my mother and I lived in those stuffy, obscore lodgings nntil her bloom had faded, and she had grown thin and wan and nervous. Mv father visited ns at stated seasons, once or ! twice a week, but he never brought any or hie family to call upon ns. I doubt if his aristocratic relatives even suspected the existence of the faded wife and son of whom he was secretly ashamed. I have good reason to believe that he had fine lodgings at the West End, where he was supposed to be a bachelor, and that fife went into fashionable society, while my mother and I lived obscurely, lie was a profligate and a roue, hut be had an air of fashion that awakened my boyish admiration, and aroused my mother'e-affec-tionate pride in him. She was always pleading to be introduced to his relatives, and to nave her son publicly acknowledged. ®ut my father always put her off, saying that he was not yet ready. Worn- out and despairing, my mother died when I was ten vests old." Again'tbe wind shrieked past, again the little vessel lurched, the sea sweeping her deck. The captain screamed his orders to his men, and for a few moments disorder reigned. "A nasty hit or weather," said Lowder. “And a bad sky!” “ Yes, bnt I've seen as bad," returned Tressilian. “We shall make port alt right, never fear. We meat be well on toward the Cape di Gallo. And it’s only seven miles from the Cape to Palermo.” “Bnt the seven miles In this storm are worse than seventy In good weather. , The coast* are dangerous, Tressilian.” '

Lowder shuddered as he surveyed tea and sky. •* Bus about your father, Jasper?” said Tresslllan, who had become deeply lute reeled la hie companion's siory. " Wbat did he do after your mother's death r* " 1 remained at the old lodging* with our elngte old servant a month or more, my father visiting me several times, and expressing anxiety as to wbat he should do with me. A week after ray mother's death, lie told me that his brother was dead. A month later, his father waa killed by being thrown from bis horse. My father came Into riches and honor* by these deaths. At last, deciding to rid himself of me, he took me dpwn' to Brighton, to my old grandmother. Her sons were dead; she had given up keeping lodger*, and was grown miserly. Ho promised her live hundred pounds a year to keep me, and lo keep also the secret of iny paternity, solemnly promising to acknowledge me some day as his son and heir. The old woman agreod to carry out his wishes. She would have done anything for money. I never saw my father again. I went to school, grew np, and at the age of twenty-one came Into my grandmother's money, the fruits of years of saving, she dying at thut time. My father had deliberately abandoned ine I did not know where to seek him if I had wished to. I took my money and came abroad. I had been two years on the Continent, and had spent my little fortune when I met you. The rest you “An odd, romantic story! But why did your father abandon yon?" “ That lie might lie freed of encumbrance to make a grand marriage. From what my grandmothersaid at different times, I conclude that my father was in love with a titled lady before my mother's death. No doubt he married thia lady. If he lives, this lady’s son may he his acknowledged heir. My father has utterly disowned the son of his first hasty, ill-starrod marriage. I have a fancy that I shall meet him some day,” and Jasper's brow darkened to deeper blackness. ‘ However, I stand no chance of ever receiving ; Justice at his hands.” . ... , , “Wbat Is your father's name. Jasper?' asked Trcssilian. , Lowder** face darkened. He bit bin lip savagely. “ What I have told yon about my»clf I learned from my own ohaervailoh. or from chance wands of my parents and grandmother. My mother’s maiden name was Jeanette I.owder. At our I,ondon lodgings, my father bore the name of Lowder. I don't know his real name, but I should know his face anywhere, although I have not seen him in thirteen years. My mother was actually married, Trcssilian, hut I never heard my father’s name. The clergyman who married my mother was dead; the witnesses also. When iny grandmother was dying she tried to tell me tho story. She had nut it offtoo long. All that I oould understand of her mumblings was the name of Devercnx. I shall never forget that name—‘Devkbeux!’ Probably that was my father's name-my own rightful name. But as I should never find him if I sought him, and as he would repulse me If I did And him, I ntand no chance of inheriting his property. He may lie dead, lie may have other sons who have succeeded him. It Is all a mystery, but the prominent truth is that I am an outcast, poor, disowned and friendless.” . , He leaned over the bulwark, the spray dashing over his face violently. —TressHian’tr heart-warmed tohim ; “My poor friend I” he said. "Must I say again yon are not friendless while I live. My father has influence enough to obtain for you a government appointment. This tangle may straighten Itself out some day. But If It don’t you are reeolute enough to make your own happiness.” He grasped Lowder’s hand, and looked with warm Bright eyes, full of sympathy. Into Lowder's lowering face. There had been a temporary lull |n- the storm. But as the two stood there, the tempest revived and swept over the wild sea in maddened rage. There was no time for talking now. The wind rese so high that words would scarcely have been distinguished. The storm that had gone before had been but play to this awful outburst. The '-essel drove on, creaking and groaning, a mere cockle shell on the billows. * “ Mother of Mercies!” walled the captain. “It's all up with ns, signores. I can’t make out the Cape in this darkness. We shall go on tho rocks. St." Anthony save us!” The seamen echoed his cries. The two you n g Englishmen, comprehending their perfl, claspfcd%ands in silence. Lor the next few minutes it seemed that a Pandemonium reigned. Then a noise like the report of a cannon suddenly boomed through the storm and the darkness. The little vessel Bhivered, staggered, and careened upon her side. She had struck upon a rock. A moment later crew and passengers were strug gllng in the waters. ... A few moments of bufferings and tossings, of vain struggles and agonized, involuntary prayer, and then .Jasper Lowder felt his senses slip from him, and became unconscious. When he came to himself, he was lying upon a rocky beach of the Sicilian shore, sore, bruised, and weak as a child. ... He opened his eyes. The wind had spent its fury, and now moaned along the coast with a desolate, despairing wail. The waves beat against the rock-. Lowder struggled to his elbow. “ Wrecked 1" he muttered. “ I am cast ashore, while the others are drowned! Oh, this is terrible 1 I have lost my best friend to-nlglit 1” He moaned and wrung his hands. He is dead, who would have done so much for me, nnd Iso worthless am saved! All my hopes of an easy and luxurious life must be resigned nowl” At that moment he behold a dark object at a little distance in the water. The waves hurled this object against the projecting head of a sunken rock. At the same Instant Lowder recognized it as the body of a man. He crept toward il, nnd the waters dashed the body on the shore at his feet. He put his hands on the face. How cold and wet it was! It felt like the face of a dead man'. Lowder’s Angers came in contact with the soft, silken mustache, and he knew that the body was that of Guy Tressillan! Of the flve who had stood on the sloop’s deck a half hour earlier, these two alone were left. The captafu and his crew nad found their deaths among the cruel, yawning waters. Lowder thrust his hand under the waistcoat of his friend, but he could not perceive the heating of his heart. Despair took possession of him. “Dead!” he said shrilly. “Deadl And lie would have done so much for me If he had lived! And his father and the yonng girl he was to have married will wait In vain for his coming! His place at Trcssilian Court is empty. Who can All it?" It seemed to him that some demon at his side echoed the question: Who coiM fill the place left vacant by noble Guy Tremlian f A thought came to him—a thought so strange and sinister that he shivered involuntarily. Again he felt of Tressilian’s heart. It gave no throb against his hand. He passed his hand, over TressUian's head and discovered a gaping wound in the skull. The hair was clotted with blood. Patting his hand into his breast pocket, Lowner drew out his little water-proof match-safe. He opened it with trembling Angers and struck a right. The red flicker danced on young Tresslllan's fare. « How ghastly and terrible it looked I The eyes were closed, the smile was gone. The seal of death seemed set on the noble features. Low der examined the wound. It had been made by contact with the sharp rock, and even Lowder perceived its terrible character. “ If he is not dead he soon will he,” he muttered. “ His brain has received an awful injury. He will never know who he is again. He won’t live till morning, and he is perhaps dead already. He must be dead!” Again it seemed to him as thopgh some demon echoed his words.

The match dropped from his Angers into the water. For a little while he crouched on the wet stones In silence, battling it may be with the better and nobier instincts of hia nature. At last, with sudden and abrupt stealthiness, hts hands stole into the breast pocket of Tressilian, and drew ont his private note-hook, a packet of letters, a few trinkets. He secured these among his own wet garments. Their possession seemed to give him courage, and his face hardened, and he knelt beside the body of his friend, and rifled his garments of all that they contained, bestowing hft plunder on his own person. Then he took his own purse, his note-book, a few receipts and trifles from Mb own pockets, and pnt them in the pockets of Tressilian. "It is done!” he whispered to himself,.looking with wild, defiant eyes through the darkness. “No One is harmed. lie is dead. If he had lived he would have provided for me. Ae he is dying or dead, I must provide for myself. This likeness b‘ticei nus will make my fortune. His friends will be spared a terrible grief, and I—l shall live tt jast! Fortune gives me a chance to gain name and Wealth at one lucky stroke I” j As if to give himself no chance, for repentance, he arose to his feet, and tamed his searching glances |n an inland direction. A light, 1 as from a cottage window, glimmering faintly through the thick base, caught his gaze. Raising Iris voice, he called loudly: "Helpl Ho, there! help I” The wind had abated, and his cries rang ont through the night with startling distinctness. The light he had seen moved and disappeared. A miniße later, answering cries reached Lowder's ears; tud he heard hasty steps, and saw the approach |ng light of a lantern, Dome aloft by a man’s upraised arm. “This wav!” shouted Lowder. We are krecked on the rocks I For the love of Heaven, fasten! ” The bearer of the lantern, attended by a male aompauion, came mnuing to him and was soon at IMs side. The lantern bearer was a rough Sicilian fisherman, a grade above hisclasa. His companion was also Sicilian, but evidently of somewhat higher degree. Both were all excitement, astonishment and sympathy. • In as few words as possible, Lowder told the story of the shipwreck, and called attention to the condition of his noble vonug employer. “I think he Is dead I" he said, in a choking voice. “ Carry him up to,your cabin. Let everything be done that can be done to save him. I will pay you well for any kindness to him. Poor fellow! He was my travelling companion. I lsted him as if he had been my brother. Instead of osiv my hired attendant! Poor Jasper! ” The two Sicilians lifted the helpless form of {for young Tressilian, and carried it between tem toward their cottage. Jasper Lowder fol--1 wed them, bewailing Ids loss. The aheve we u blish as a specimen chapter; but the continnat in of this story will be found only in the N. Y. .1 dger. Ask for the number dated January 7th, v tiich can be had at any news office or bookstore. I you are not witMn reach of a news office, you c u have the Ledger mailed to yon for one year, J sending three dollars to Robert Bonnet pub--1 her, 181) William street, New York. The Ledger Iys more for original contributions than any c her periodical in the world. It will publish i ine bnt the very, very best. Its moral tone Is t s pmest, and its circulation the largest. 1 Every»dy who taksc tt Is happier for having It.

The Phenomena of Earthquakes.

In earthquake*, says the People t Mnqatine, we see the conservative agency of fire called in to "counteract the destructive agency of water. Wind and rain, heat and cold, are continually at work rending in pieces and grinding down the solid rock; the disintegrated portions of the rock form the soil of the lowlands, and this in its turn is eaten away by running streams, swept down by heavy rains, to be carried by the rivers and deposited in the sea. It is-thus that the shallows and great river deltas are formed; and the materials so brought down are gradually, by the action of the waves, distributed over the bed of the ocean. This action, if suffered to continue without interruption, would in time level the highest mountain ranges; and in the place of a varied surface of land and water there would be a uniform shallow sea covering the whole earth. Here the working of fire steps in to counteract the destructive agency of w T ater. It acts suddenly and with terrific force, nnd therefore it is more noted and more feared than the work which is done so silently and slowly, yet so irresistibly, by the gentle flow of the rivers. Of one thing we are sure, that they are caused by the internal heat of the earth. They usually occur in volcanic regions ; they arc frequently accompanied by volcanic eruptions; during their continuance flames arc said to burst from the earth, springs of boiling water rise from the sdil, and new volcanoes have been raised as their result. We know that at a com paratively small depth below the surface of the globe there is a temperature very far exceeding anything which w r e experience at the surface. Whether we accept the hypothesis of a vast central fire, or consider that this heat is generated by chemical .action or by electric currents, we know that there are stored up beneath our feet vast reservoirs of heat. What gases are stored under pressure in the cavities of the earth we know not. But we know that the increased expansive force of an elastic fluid under a comparatively small increase 01 temperature would be sufficient to rend asunder the solid rock and produce the effects we see. Perhaps a fissflre so opened may admit water to the heated nucleus, there to be instantly converted into steam with vast increase of volume. This exerting enormous pressure against the rocky walls of the cavity in which it is formed causes a wave of compression in the zone of the rock immediately surrounding it, and this wave is propagated onward through the rock, just as a wave travels through water. The confined fluid strikes the walls of its prison chamber a fierce blow, and this causes a shudder to run through the earth, which passes along the surface a shock, whose intensity is the only measure wo have of the forces causir git.

Hens and Cows.

A subscriber asks how many hers equal the profits of an average cow per year? That depends very much, perhaps chiefly, upon the management. Some farmers manage to get a profit of fifty, and in rare cases nearly a hundred dollars per cow, while others scarcely make a cow pay. Some poultry men and many boys who devote their time and attention to it make more than a dollar per hen, while others hardly do more than “make both ends meet. So you see it is hard telling. Taking the average of fair management we should say about twenty-five. But with first-rate management of hens and poor management of cows it would take a less number,. With first-rate treatment of cows and neglect of the hens it would take that many more. —Massachusetts Ploughman.

Fifty-two of the cities of the United States have the letter carrier system. Prussing’s White Wine Vinegar is a most superb article for table use. Warranted pure. Nbw Patent Law for 1870, published by Munn * Co., 37 Park How, N. Y., Bent free. For Coughs and Throat l)is. orders, use “ Brown's Bronchial Troches having proved their efficiency by a test of many years. “ I have never changed my mind respecting them from the, first, excepting to thirty yet better of that which / began thinking well of." Key. Henry Ward Beecher.

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Sea Moss Farine (torn pure Irish Moss, tor Blanc Mamie, Puddings. Custards. Creams, Ac., Ac. The cheapest, healthiest, and most delicious food in the world. A morning Visit, Mrs. Graham.—Kate, where Is your mother, this morning? Kate.—She Is In the kitchen making mince pies. drs. G.—Why, Kate; you surprise me! Mrs. Crocker told me only a few days ago that she was quite sick, and not able to be about Kate.—Oh yes; she has been quite sick; but the day after Mra. C. was here, ma sent for a bottle of Plantation Bitters, and has taken it three Ames a day since. It worked like a charm, and ma saya she is better and stronger than she lias been for years. She thinks It the best medicine in the world, and wants me to take some; but It is so awlhl bitter Ido not Uke It. I have taken It several times, hut It gives me such an appetite that I tell ma her mince pies win not last long. Mrs. G.—Good morning, Ka’c. Give my love to your mother, and tell her she Is safe so long as she has Plantation Bittrrs In the house. Diseased Lungs abe Greatly on an Increase in this Country.— The sudden changing of weather has done much to give rise to Consumption. But there are thousands of cases who bring it on by their own imprudence—such as wearing damp clothing, and going from the warm room into the cold air, and checking the perspiration, which causes irritation of the Lungs, and then matter or phlegm will collect, which nature will try to relieve by coughing it np, to prevent pnstnles from forming. If natnre does not raise the matter with ease, and stop this Inflammation, tubercles will soon form, and Consumption will soon follow. Allen’s Lung Balsam will cure aud prevent thousands or cases »f Consumption If it is only taken in time. For sale by ail Druggists. I r yon do not feel well yon send for a doctor, he calls upon yon, looks wise, scrawls some hieroglyphics upon a piece of paper which you take to a drug store and there pay 50 cents to (1.00, besides the doctor's fee, for a remedy nine times out of ten not Half so good as Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills, which cost but IS cents per box. Do /op think tb* former die best, because yon P»y the

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In Tropical Mexico. , Finely Illantrated. A lix-rih, maculating nnd valuable book. Big Pay. Addrvws \S. K. BLISS, Publisher, Toledo, Ohio, qT 3 q q AN EXPECTORANT REMEDY WITHOUT AN EQUAL. Shun Worthless Nostromi. USE THAT WHICH Is GOOD Consumption Conquered, victory: victory: awarded to ALLEN’S LUNG BALSAM. Read the following letter, froma prominent merchant of Marine City, Michigan: Marin* City, Mich., .Inly 28, 1870. J. N. Harris & Co.-iv-sr Sirs: The Allen’s Lung Bajsam lias arrived, I would not like to be without It. lor it . has saved my life. I took a bad cold and a cough, and 1 Anally consumption was seated upon me. I was In a very bad state. I tried everything that was recommended, and spent a great deal of money and got no help. I had the Allen’s Lung Balsam for sale, but I knew nothing of its S«. I did not like to take it without knowing more It. I had not sold a bottle. When your agent bailed on me I told him t could not soli a medicine I knew nothing abont. He urged me to try it myself. I did so, and to my grateful surprise the (tret Imttlc stopped my cough, and tiefore the third bottle was taken my lungs were bealed and well, and I enn now sneak knowingly to my friends nnd customers of the good qualities of Allen’s Lung Balsam. I remain, yours respectfully, • L. C. COTTRELL, A. an Expectorant it ha. no Equal. ----- ALLEN'S LUNG BALSAM IS PERFECTLY HARMLESS TO THE MOST DELICATE. CAUTION. Do not be deceived. Call for and be sure you reedy. Allen's Lung Balsam. J. N. HARRIS Sc CO., Sole Proprietors; Cincinnati, Ohio tW Soli by Medicine Dealers generally.

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They nre the GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER and » LIFE 01 VINO PRINCIPLE, a perfect Renovator and Invlgorator of the System. No person can take tin* Bitters according to directions and remain long “ For INFLAMMATORY hud CItRONIO ItHEUMATIBM and GOUT, DYSPEPSIA, or Ntl IOSHON IiIt,HIPS, REMITTENT and lOTKRM rTENT FEVERS, DISEASES of the BLOOD. LIVER. KIDNEYS. and BLADDER, these Bitters have been m-.s* ""dyspepsia or INDIGESTION, Headache,. Pain in tho Shoulders, Coughs, Tightness of the Che: t. Dizziness. Sour KructotVons »»f the Stomuch, Bad Taster in tho Mouth, Bilious Attacks, Palpitation of tho Heart. Inttammutioii of the l ungs. Pain in the Region* of the Kidneys, and a hundred other puinful are the oft riprlngH of Dyspepsia. For SKIN DISEASES. Emotion*. Tetter, Salt Rheum, Blotches, Bpot 1 *, Pimples, Pustules, Boils, Carbuncles, Ring Worms. Scald Head, Sore Lyes, Erysipelas, Itch, Scurfs. 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Trrrr are a Gektl* prBOATrm as well as atoxic, ing also the peculiar merit of acting as a powerful agent in reliving ’ congestion or inflammation of the liver, and all the visceral organs.