Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1876 — Page 7

Terrible Trial of Two Berry Pickers.

A (N. Y.) paper saya; On Tuesday last two brothers named Taylor, aged respectively twelve and fifteen years, who reside a few miles ilorth of Lansingburg. started at an early hour on the quest for raspberries. Up the track of the Troy & Boston Railroad they trudged wearily, at times striking across fields, along the fences and into the ravines, whenever boalies looked promising. Theirs was no holiday excursion, no pleasure trip undertaken to while trwuy the day, but work rendered neoessary to procure the necessities of life for themselves and the loved ones at home- The day wore oh, the hour of noon drew nigh, the hot, scorching sun shone down upon them, but their success had been poor tltus far, and they must work on to, if possible, fill their baskets before they turned their weary steps homeward. It was about five o’clock to the afternoon when the disaster of the day came upon them. They were then about six miles from Lansingburg, iu a deep ravine on the west side of the Troy & Boston Railroad track. They had their baskets nearly filled and were waiting till they had picked the spot clean, when they proposed returning. There was no air where they were and the sun shone down upon them with a fierce glare, and, as the elder one said to his brother, it seemed like a furnace. (Shortly after speaking, the younger dbc, who was picking berries a short distance off, saw his brother reel and fall. Hastening to his side, he called him by name, but received no response. His idea then was that his brother had fainted, and he did the very best thing he could under the circumstances. He hastened to a brook near at hand, and, dipping his cap to it, he dashed tii£ contents in Ins brother’s face and on his head. Seeing no sign of returning consciousness, he again and again returned to the brook and bathed his brother’s head. At last the truth dawned upon his young mind that this was no ordinary case of fainting. He had heard of sunstroke and its fatal effects, and he knew that his brother had been prostrated by it. .Almost wild with alarm, he knew’ not what to do. There was no help nigh, and he dare not leave the sufferer to seek it. Naturally self possessed and reasoning, he exerted all his strength and took his brother in his arms; and between carrying and dragging him, reached the shade of a large tree that was not tor away. Here, lying him down he kept his head continually moist with w-ater, and taking his brother’s straw bat, he alternated the time with fanning and shouting for aid. The shades of evening gathered around him, and still no sign of consciousness greeted his anxious eyes. A little later the stricken lad moved uneasily and moaned. Even this manifestation of life was hailed with gladness by the watcher. Later still, he did not know how long, his ears were greeted with the feeble utterance. “ Where am I?” When informed, he attempted to rally and walk, but was unable, and he reluctantly made up his mind that they must spend the night there. Then the thought arose in their minds of the anxiety of the mother and sister at home, but there was no help for it, the elder was upable to walk, and he dared not trust his ‘brother alone in the darkness for fear he would lose his way. They were therefore obliged to spend the night there. Lying down, they- slept quietly until the first gray streaks of dawn were visible in the east. Arising, the elder brother found himself able to walk, and securing their baskets of berries that had cost them so dearly, they started homeward. When about half way home they met their mother and sister, who, having passed a night of the wildest anxiety ana alarm, had impatiently awaited the morning light and started forth on a search for the wanderers. Their joy on meeting the boys safe was unbounded. On the return home the story of the day’s adventures was told, and the mother there and then resolved that, come what would, berry picking in the future must be abandoned.

Devastation of a Village in India by the Cholera.

The Bombay Gazette describes as follows a calamity which has fallen on a village in India through the ravages of cholera* One of the dark spots in Indian village life is the periodical visitation of gome epidemic which enters almost every hovel and carries off one or more of the occupants. The villagers may have been living happily together, their minds perplexed about nothing more serious than the state of their crops, their cattle, or the ordinary gossip of their little community, when suddenly the destroyer appears, and the scene instantaneously cliapges from peacefulness into terror and confusion. A sad instance of this fact has occurred in this presidency within the last few days. Where there was once a thriving pleasant village situated on the sea shore, there is now a deserted collection of huts. Not a human sound is to be heard in the place from morn till night. Most of the inhabitants are dead, the victims of a terribly sudden invasion of cholera, and the survivors have left everything in their huts and fled to the adjoining mountains. It is one of tint most alarming and we might almost say awful visitations which we know of in the history of any village in this presidency. Golwood, the place we are referring to, is midway between Bombay and Surat, and on the Bombay, Baroda & Central India railway. Being close to tire sea, the officers of the company have hitherto looked upon it as a kind of sanitarium, as it possessed many of the advantages enjoyed by Tbeethul and Bulsar, the recognized sanatoria of Guzerat. Here the guards of the goods trains used to change, and many of them had their residences near the station. Altogether the population of Golwood could not be more than 200. Last week cholera, which is now preying around Ah. medabad, suddenly entered the village, and slew victims right and left. On the 4th inst., the first day of its appearance, no fewer than fifty-seven people out of the small population died; on the next day twenty-three died; twenty more died on the 6th; and when we had our last advices from Golwood there were eighteen new cases, of which three-fourths were hopeless. ’Jhe few survivors and every poor wretch who could move have fled to the adjacent hills, where they are now, huddled together and struggling to exist on soeh food as they can find in that barren localily. Such was the terror and helplessness of the people when the outbreak occurred that they aid not bury their dead, and bodies Jay rotting in the streets for two whole days, during which the stench was abominable. No reason for the outbreak has been assigned, and the fate of Golwood furnishes one more instance of the mysterious movements of cholera. The misery of the people was aggravated by the fact that there was no doctor at hand. A Mr. H. B. 'Wharton, permanent way inspector on the B. B. &C. L line, has a house close to the village, and when the epidemic appeared the people ran to him for help. He was the only European in the station, and they naturally thought the

takib might be Able to help them. He happened to have a small supply of cholera mixture and chlorodyne, out it was soon exhausted among so many applicants, and Mr. Wharton could do nothing but listen (helplessly while the tales of death were being told him op every side by panic-stricken people. Mr. Wharton saw that the cholera was the most virulentjie had ever seen in the course of a long experience. He saw people die within thirty minutes of the momentof attack. The village was filled with lamentations, and natives lushed wildly hither and thither. Many people died in the streets; while running away they were seized with the pangs of the disease, and dropped on the spot and soon expired.

Chasing a Phantom.

There were three others on the loco* motive, whose names were Thomas, llichard and Henry; I may abbreviate these appellations as I proceed with this sad narrative, We jogged along quietly to Bt. Thomas, the only excitement being running into a cow, and then the excitement was monopolized mostly by the cow. It was dark when we left St. Thomas and the night w’as wet. So we crowded into the engine-cab. We rattled along through a Canadian wilderness and the engineer kept his arm over the bell-rope and lazily pylled the bell to and fro, for the track was unfenced and we had to give continued warning of our coming; besides, the engine was running backwards, as there was no turn-table at Bt. Thomas Besides, the ordinary headlight, there was one perched on the top of the cab which shone backwards, ana by the light of this on the glistening rails we now traveled. When we struck into the forest primeval the woods were cleared away just enougli to allow the track to be built, and the wet branches of the overhanging trees scraped along the engine, and the headlight illuminated a long arcade ahead that looked like a green tunnel, and once a herd of startled deer jumped across the track one after another looking like thq pictures that follow each other in a magic lantern. Dick was just commencing to tell about how he chased a buffalo once, on the Union Pacific, when Tom cried out: “ There’s a squirrel or something on the track; let’s run it down.” A few rods ahead of the engine was some small animal jumping from tie to tie and running about as fast as we were. We all commenced throwing sticks of wood at it, and succeeded in missing it. The engineer laughed at our efforts, and drew on a couple more notches of steam, but the little creature crept ahead. Sometimes we seemed almost up to it, sometimes it disappeared in the darkness ahead, but it never left the track; some fascination kept it between the rails, running its wild race for life. The driver, with a keen eye ahead, gave the engine more and more steam, till our pace became terrific. Old No. 1 swayed to and fro like a ship in the storm, the bell rang out of its own accord as w T e rushed along through the night, each of us clinging to some object in whose stabilitywe had confidence.

And still that strange object kept ahead of us. Some one suggested'that it might have been a ghost luring us on to destruction, but the driver resolved, like Hamlet, to follow it, and probably make four ghosts where one would have done just as well. So he threw on all the steam the engine would take, and then we fairly flew over the track; onward, with the speed of the lightning and the roar of thunder, scattering fire in our wake and piercing the gloom ahead with our quivering headlight, while the shriek of the whistle startled the country for miles around. Now tearing through the forest, then rushing out into the open fields, and the swaying bell rang out a wild alarm as we sped onward through the night like a tornado. Suddenly Tom shouted out, “There’s the end of the track!’’ Instantly the engine was reversed, and old No. 1 ground and groaned in its efforts to stop. We stopped; that is, the engine stopped when it struck the boarding-house train,but induced us to perform the most brilliant doubld somersault act ever seen outside of a circus, and also knocked the headlight from the top of the cab, and as it lay on the ground we noticed some wet leaves sticking to the face of the lamp, and after some minute’s deep study we came to the conclusion that this accouted for the ghost on the track that we found it impossible to overtake. As we all stood around that flickering lamp we clasped hands and solemnly vowed never to let the outside world know of our midnight ride, I would never kave hinted about it were it not that I believe we beat the tjme of Jarrett & Palmer’s fast train.— Cor. Detroit Free Prm.

A Truly Grateful Widower.

Sir Walter Scott used to be fond offtelling the following story of his cousin “ Watty.” Watty aforesaid was a Midshipman in the British navy. On a certain occasion he and his messmates ;had gone on shore at Portsmouth, and had overstayed their leave, besides spending all their money and running up a bill at a tavern at the Point. Their ships made signal for sailing, peremptorily calling all hands on board, but when they would have started, the landlady said: 7 “ No, 'gentlemen, you cannot esthpe without paying your reckoning.’* An| to confirm her words she called a bailiff ind his posse to take charge of them. The Midshipmen felt they were ij a bad scrape ana begged to bo released. “ No, no,” said the resolute matron; ‘ I must be satisfied in some way. You n ist be aware, gentlemen, that you will be totally ruined and disgraced if you do pot go on board in time.” They groaned bitterly, for they kiiew she spoke the truth. ,» “ Well,” she continued, “ I will jive you all a chance. lam so circumstanced here that I cannot well carry on my business as a single woman, and I must contrive somehow to have a husband, or, at all events, I must be able to producf a marriage certificate. Now the only teins upon which I will set you free are that One Of you shall consent to marry me! I ddta’t care a snap which it is; but, by all th 4is holy, one of you I will have for a husband, or else you all go to jail and yfur ship sails without you.” The vixen was not to be coaxed or |ntreated. Tears and prayers were of no anil. After a time the poor middies agreed to draw lots. Watty drew the matrimm al slip of doom. No time was to be lost. A marriage license was speedily proem id, and they went to the nearest church, wt re the knot was tied. The bride on her ret m to the tavern gave them a good dim nr, with plenty of wine, and then sent tl m off in her wherry. Of her own acc rd she had proposed to her husband that is the marriage certificate was her cl *f prize, he was at liberty to live apart fr a her forever if he so chose. The shin sailed, and the young genl tmen religiously adhered to the oath of crocy they had. made previous to drawl j lots. A year after, at Jamaica, a file f English papers reached the luidshipmai g

berth, and Watty, who waa carelessly looking them over, was attracted by the account of a robbery and murder, and the execution of the culprits at Portsmouth. Suddenly leaping to his feet and waving the paper above his head, forgetful of his oath iti the excitement of ecatacy, he cried out, “Thank Heaven! My wife if. hanged!” * _

There is Death in Your Well.

A few days since I was spending a short vacation at the cquntry residence of a friend whose well usually yielded pure and cold-water. But- his wife saM that 1 every season there would be a few 1 weeks when the water would smell and taste so offensively that it was almost impossible to drink it. While 1 was there the water fairly stunk. I assured my friend that I was satisfied there must be some dead animal in the water. I told him to procure two mirrors and wc would look down to the bottom. If anything were there we could see it. Don’t let the women know what we propose to do, or they'll all be sick for a month. It was Sunday. We told them we would walk leisurely toward the church and they could come at , their convenience. By this stratagem we induced them all to leave the premises. Then, with the two mirrors, we threw the light of the sun to the bottom of the well. The sight was appalling! Close to the end of the pipe through which water ,is drawn into the kitchen, where fll the drinking water is obtained, lay two large dead toads, half decayed, while three others were floating on the surface of the water. Well, what could be dene? We commenced pumping the water out, but the well was so deep and the water so abundant that after we had pumped and pumped until the water was only four feet deep, it would flo\y in as fast as we could draw it out. Thewell was bricked up on the sides, so that a person could not go down into it as one can descend from stone to stone when the well is stoned. More than this, he said that there was not a man in his vicinity who could be hired for gold to go down into such, a deep well and take out those dead toads. I told him that I was not afraid to go down into a well twice as deep. So we searched the premises and found an old pulley and a rope of sufficient length to extend to the water when doubled. We then set up three rails over the well with the upper ends lashed together with a rope so as to form a tripod, to the top of which a single pulley was secured. A rope was then put over the pulley, and at one end .of the rope a loop was made of sufficient size for a man to sit in. After fixing a small piece of board in the loop I sat astride of it and let myself down into the well by taking hold of the slack rope on the other side or the pulley. As soon as my feet touched the water I tied the slack rope to the loop in which I was sitting. There I sat, like a boy in a swing. Then, with a long stick tied to the handle of a tin dipper, the dead toads were fished up. By throwing the sunlight down to the bottom with the mirrors f could see distinctly whatever was qt the bottom of the water. The person at the top of the well let a pail down, so that whatever was dipped up could be poured into it and drawn to the surface of the, ground. It required about half as much muscle to draw myself up out of the well by hauling on one branch of the rope as it would to climb a rope. But, as the man at the top assisted, I came up out of that deep well with ease. I, have penned the foregoing details for the benefit of those who have never heard of such appliances for letting a man down into a deep well. A long rope and single pulley are. all th§| one needs. Well, I had scarcely changed my clothes when all the women came from church, parting and thirsty. Of course we kept our own counsel, while they went f6r water, which, they all admitted, was never more agreeable and luxurious. “Why, this morning,” said they, “we could scarcely drink it; now it is not the bit offensive. What has caused such a change?”* Echo answered, “What has caused it?” Reader, examine yourwells.— Agricola , in N. Y. Herald.

Military Executions in the Servian Camp.

The Servian correspondent of the Paris. Etenement, after relating how he was turned out of the camp at Alexinatz by order of Prince MHan, describes a double execution which k§ witnessed. A soldier who had deserted his post and a gyps}' woman accused of being a_ spy were ordered to be shot. The sdldier demanded that be might be executed musket iu hand, and his request was granted; he walked quietly up to a large tree and leaned his back against it. The firing party, took up its position at ten paces distant, and were about to level their arms when the condemned stretched out liis-hand and cried: “Michel Branicovanowitch, forget not that you promised my sister a silver chain!” “I remember, and will keep my word,” answered the man in the firing party. “Thank you. Render me also another service, and cut my throat before lam buried.” “It shall be done.” .The officer gave the command to fire, and Joblinowitcli fell, but only wounded. A man stepped forward to finish him, but he cried: “Not that one—Michel.” And Michel Branicovknowitch approached and blew out the wounded man’s brains. Then came the turn of the zingara, whom the soldiers hung to the branch of the tree. She never uttered a word while the preparations were being made, and merely followed the movements of the executioner with her glittering eyes. —Pall Mall Gazette.

vs. Profession.

Farming

The Maine Mirror gives the testimony of a New Hampshire boy, now a resident of Wisconsin, a line scholar, a graduate of Dartmouth, and a law student in Merrimac County, who, just previous to his admission to the bar, took a severe cold, which rendered him veiy deaf, and no medical skill was able to restore his hearing. The affliction compelled him to give up his chosen profession, and he went West veiy much broken down in spirits. For ten years he has been farming, cultivating about 200 acres of prairie land, and, as he expressed it, making a good living, and salting down something every year. And he declares that if, knowing what he now knows, he was to begin bis active life over again, he would do just as be was compelled to do so unwillingly ten years ago; that is, he would throw aside liis profession and settle down upon a farm. Said he: “There isn’t much glory on a farm, bnt you get a good, sure living. You are your own master ; you can’t be starved or be turned oat of business; and as far as the * work is concerned in these days of horse-power; a man needn’t kill himself farming any more than at any other business. It is brains that win on a farm as well Ss everywhere-etee, and the sm&rt man is going to ride, while the stupid one goes afoot, in the corn-field as well as In the bar or pnlpit. I should like to have my hearing again, 6ttt I wouldn’t leave my farm if 1 had it.”

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

—Tube rose is no roee, but the tuberous palianth ( palianthe * tub&rota). —Bicarbonate of soda, dissolved in water, used as a lotion, will remove prickly heat. —To get a fish bone out of the throat—swallow an egg, raw. It will be almost certain to take the bone with it. —To clean light-colored kid gloves dip them in camphcne (which Is made of two parts alcohol and one part turpentine), and squeeze them lightly in the hand, then turn them, and iiang them outdoors to dry —Those who are likely to have a deficiency of hay or fodder, caused by floods, or any other cause, can now sow corn on any idle land, and raise a profitable crop. There are plenty of such places in the lately flooded regions.

—lcing for Cake.—Beat the whites of two eggs to a stiff froth; mix in gradually half a pound of icing sugar till quite smooth. Lay the mixture evenly on the cake (after baking) before it is cold. Place it in a cool oven tot harden, but not long enough'to color. —To remove bugs—Take corrosive sublimate and dissolve in a bucket of water, and wasli the walls, being careful to get it in all the holes where they stay. Use about a dime’s worth of the corrosive sublimate to a bucket of water. In putting it on be careful not to get any in the eyes. I tried this in a house overrun witli bugs, and although two years have elapsed not one can be found now. —Neglects destroy farm profits. By neglecting to lock the stable door the horse was stolen; by leaving a lot of old rubbish in the yard one colt broke his leg and another got a nail in his foot; by neglecting to batten up the sheep-shed several lambs were frozen; by neglecting to kill the ticks on the sheep and the lice on the cattle, the animals ceased to thrive, lost flesh and became unprofitable. —Ooid slaw—Cut up a quantity of cabbage very fine with a sharp knife, and sprinkle upon it a teaspoonful of salt. For a large dish use two eggs, a piece of butter tpe B *ze of an egg, a half a teacup of water, and half a teacup of good vinegar. Beat the eggs, whites and yelks together, very light, add the water, vinegar and butter, and put all in a tin on the fire, stirring all the time until it is of a creamy thickness. Pour it hot over the cabbage, stir up well with a fork, and leave to cool.

—lces. —The making of ices is not at all difficult. The main point is to freeze them quickly, so that they will be smooth and firm when taken from the freezer. Lemon ice, the favorite, is made by taking the juice of six lemons and the grated peel of three, and the juice and rind of one large sweet orange. Steep all together one hour,, and then strain and add one pint of water and one pint of sugar. Stir well lintil all of the sugar is dissolved, and then freeze. If you open vour freezer three times during the operation, and stir up the contents well, it will improve the result. For orange ice, take the juice of six oranges and the grated rind of three, and the juice of two lemons, with the same proportion of sugar and water; prepare and freeze as lemon ice. Pineapple ice requires for a similar amount of sugar and water the expressed juice of one large pineapple, and the juice and grated peel of one lemon. For strawberry or raspberry ice the juice of one quart of berries, added to one pint of sugar and a half a pint of water, and The Juice of a lemon, makes a most satisfactory delicacy. But one of the most delicious ices is made by putting together the juice of one quart of red currants and a pint of red or white raspberries. To these add one and onehalf pints of sugar, and rather less than a pint of water, and freeze. Apple ice is good when made from the juice of finelyflavored ripe pippins, and the juice of pears sweetened and frozen is most delicious.

Stacking Wheat.

Now that the wheat crop has been harvested and gathered, the next thing to be considered is how to protect it from the weather. In the absence of barns this is done-by stacking in the open air, and to do which requires mi inconsiderable amount of skill and judgment. In preparing for this work first choose* level piece of ground, on which lay a foundation of rails some ten feet wide for a large stack, and so in proportion- In building the stack commence in the center of the foundation by setting up sheaves as if for a shock in the field, only placing the bundles more compactly together, and so continuing until the stack bottom is large, taking particular care not to.maxe it too small. As the butts of the sheaves will gain faster than the heads, by the time this bottom course is large enough to build upon it is flat. By this method the heads of the bundles will not come in contact with the ground; and as the center bundles support the greatest weight of the stack, and are kept (irmly in their position by the surrounding pressure, their firm condition will prevent the middle of the stack from settling as much as the outside, and consequently prevent the admission of water into the body of the stack. Now, get on the stack and continue building in this way, only keeping the middle a little fuller than any other part of the stack, kneeling down firmly every course and keeping the outside of the stack as near perpendicular as possible, until it. has attained a height of about four feet, when begin increasing the diameter, little by little, very carefully and uniformly, by adding on course after course, until the stack is about eight feet high, at which point should be its greatest diameter. Now begin contracting the diameter by “ drawing in” the outside course and keeping the middle of the stack considerably fuller than the surrounding parts. At this stage of the work cease walking on the outside course, and to prevent the outside bundles from slipping stick the butt ends of the bundles firmly in those of the course below it, and so on until the stack is finished.

It is not necessary to give the bundles much slant in the lower half of the stack, as they are not apt to slide out, but after beginning to “ draw in” from the shoulder or bulge of the stack, the slant should gradually''increase until the top of the stack is reached. Nor should it be forgotten that the sheaves as they come from shocks )n the field have one side longest, i. from the bands to the butts, and in commencing to form the swell or bulge of the stack the longest side of each bundle should be kept upward; but as soon as the “ drawing in” begins the short side should "be placed upward. One of the most difficult pkrts of building a stack is to know how to form the swell or shoulder, *. e , where the roof of the stack is to join its body; and unless the turn is made very gradual it will in settling be too abrupt, and thus not only affect the symmetry, bnt the safety of the stack. To keep the mid. die fullest from where yo# begin increasing the diameter until the top of the stack-

is reached is a direction which cannot be too rigidly fallowed. The stacker should, of course, always have some person to hand him the bundles, as it not only assists him very materially in his laborious and difficult task, but the very act of walking over the stack aids iu packing the bundles much closer in the center, and thus prevents its settling as much as the other parts of the stack. Is the above directions are followed, the stuck or rick will not only present a smooth, uniform surface, but never take WAter, and therefore escape all danger of loss from loose and careless stacking,— fll/W ■ , - iii .a ■■■ f ■-friim ..I ii. I,

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