Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1877 — Page 3

The Rensselaer Union. RENSSELAER, . - INDIANA.

TWILIGHT. ' Arm the french or victor huoo. Child, go and pray—for nee! the night ia here! Through cloudy Hft» the gulden. lighta appear; The hills’ faint outline trembles in the mist;, Scarcely is heard a distant ohanot—list. The world's at rent; the tree beside the way Gives to the evening wind the dust of day. Twilight unlocks the hiding : phwe.of stare: They pleam and glow behind night s shadowy The fringe of carmine narrows in the west. The moonlit water lie* in shining rest; Furrow and foot-path melt and disappear; The anxious traveler doubts the far and near. It is the hour when angels stoop to earth To bless onr bailee amid our careless mirth. The little ones with eyes upraised in prayer, With tiny, folded hands and white feet bare. Ask nt this twilight hour a blessing dear Of Him who loves His little ones to hear. Then, while they sleep, a cloud of golden dreams, Hom in the calm of day’s declining beams. Waiting in shadow till the hour of night, Fly to each couch and scatter visions bright; As joyous bees seek honey-laden flowers. Dreams hover near in slumber's peaceful hours. O cradled sleep! 0 prayers of childhood blest! O tmhy-voice, speaking a loving breast! Thy happy prayer the darkness maketh light, Tnmeth to song the solemn sounds of night. As 'neath his wing the birdie hides his head. Thou shcltcrest by thy prayer thy oradlc-bod. •—Appleton's Journal.

“OVER THE WIRES.”

BY S. ANNIE FROST.

First, I must tell you who I am, and how I came to be in the Baysvilleßank in the “ wee sma’ hours” one dreary December‘night, some three years ago. My name then isOlive Hudson, and I was seventeen years old that same December night, and so very small that Mrs. Knight’s Dolly, who was not twelve, was half a head taller than myself. We were rich folks once, but father died and left us very poor. Mother struggled along in a weary hand-to-hand fight with poverty till I was sixteen, and died. She had rented two rooms of Mrs. Knight, a widow also, with two stalwart sons, an aged father and two daughters. After mother died, I was adopted by the Knights, and although I was earning a support as music teacher in the Baysville Academy, I was like one of the family, when I was In my good landlady’s homo. They were all in good positions, although by no means an aristocratic family. John, the eldest son, was in New York in a wholesale sugar house; Tom was the night-watchman of the Baysville Bank building, and grandpa—we all called him grandpa—was telegraph operator of the town, while Mary was a milliner and Dolly still at school. Baysville Bank building was a large granite structure, containing the Postoffice and bank on the first floor, and other private offices on the third floor. In the basement were Postoffice rooms for sorting the mail, and also the large bank vaults. I knew the building well, for I was fond of telegraphing, and spent half my leisure time perched up beside grandpa in his office, sending and receiving messages, while he slept peacefully or read the newspapers. And that was the beginning of my amusement at Dryden, the next station. The operator at Dryden was a wit, and flashed nonsense to our office when business was dull. It fell flat when grandpa was in the office, but if I were there, I sent back jest for jest, and sometimes an hour slipped by like a minute as we talked over ’ the wires of every topic under the sun. He called himself “Lion,” and I, for nonsense, signed myself “Elephant,” laughing while I did so at the reflection of my tiny figure in the office mirror. Beyond Dryden, and only five miles from Baysville, was C , a large commercial town, the nearest railway station, and where an office was always open for the accommodation of travelers.

As I have said, Tom Knight was the night watchman of Haysville Bank building and a lonely time he had of it. The last mail came by stage at four o’clock in the afternoon, and the Postoflice was vacated at six. The bank closed at three, and by six every office was deserted for the night. At seven Tom was on duty, and grandpa, who was restless at night, was in the habit of taking down some coflee and luncheon, as the building was only a stone’s throw from our house. On the December night I have already mentioned, it had stormed heavily all day, and I had taken a new class at the academy, coming home later in the day than usual, and excited over my increase of salary. Everybody else had gone to bed, and I was lingering over the kitchen fire with Mrs. Knight, dreading the plunge into my cold r®sra? whore I bad- allowed the fire to go out. The clock struck twelve, and Mrs. Knight, lifting her face from over the fire, said: , “Do call grandpa, Olive, he’s asleep on the sofa in the sitting-room. I’ll have Tom’s basket ready by the time grandpa has his hat and coat on. I hate to call him, for he was complaining of rheumatism to-day, and the ground is very wet, although the storm is over.” “Let him sleep,” I said; “I’H run over with the basket. It isnotastep.” “ But it is so dark. Are you not afraid?” “Not a bit. I’ll slip on my waterproof and rubbers and draw the hood of the cloak over my head.” “ Well, if you will. Though I am afraid Tom will scold at my letting you gO?*' “I’ll put the basket on the table and run, ana he will never know who left it.” “Go into the rear basempnt door. He leaves that open for grandpa.” “I know.” ? I grasped the handle of the basket, hurned across the space between the buildingand the house, and st ole softly in at the basement door, in pursuance of my plan to drop the basket and run. . In my rubber shoes my stepp jjwere noiseless, and I had scarcely passed the threshold when I stood rooted to the floor in terrified amazement. Somebody was talking! I crept forward and listened. There were men in the bank vault, and a light shone under the door. ' While I listened some one-said: “ There’s a confounded draft here. Did you shut the door. Smith?” “Yes, but the wind may have blown it open.” I had just time to dart under the staircase and crouch down, when the door of the vault opened and a man came out. He crossed the entry, drew the two jieavy, poisy bolte, fastening the door

by which I had entered, and returned without closing the vault door. I could look in by the dim light to see two men working at the safe locks by the stream of light thrown from a dark lantern. There was the outline of a man bound and gagged upon the floor, but I could only conjecture it was Tom, for I could not see distinctly. There I was, nicely caged, for it would be impossible for me to draw those heavy bolts without attracting notice. And the bank was being robbed that was evident. Howcoulul preyentit? I could-not get out; I could not reach Tom. Suddenly I remembered the telegraph office on the second floor. If I could summon help from C ,it was only five miles, and there was a long job for the burglars before they could open the safe. Could I creep around the staircase? If one of those busy men turned his head I was lost. I softly crept out on all fours, slowly,watchfully and gained the stairs. Up I darted, blessing my Indian rubber shoes, till I gained the door of the telegraph office. All dark there, and I dare not strike a match. I listened, and then leaving the door open, groped my way to the wellknown desk, and gave the signal at C . I could hear my own heart throbs as I waited for the answer. It came! Still working in the dark I sent this “Burglars in the Baysville Bank vault! Watchman gagged and bound! Can you send help?’” Again the agony of suspense in listening, but at last the sound reached me : “ Will send help immediately!” I crept to the nead of the staircase, afraid the clear ring of the instrument had been heard in the vault; but no one came up-stairs. The window of the telegraph-office faced the street, so I returned, bolted myself in safely and sat down to watch. The town clock gave one resonant stroke, breAing the deep silence, and no signs of life were visible on the long stretch of road leading to C . I was numb with cold, wishing heartily that I had not left Tom’s basket under the staircase, thinking regretfully of my own cozy bed, when I heard afar off the sound of horses’ feet. No Sister Anne, in Bluebeard’s tower, was ever more watchful than I was then. Would the burglars take the alarm? The building made a corner of two streets, and I saw eight mounted men dash up the road, separate, and while four dismounted in front four went to the rear. The burglars were unprepared for this flank movement, for while the police in front were thundering at the main entrance, the robbers rushed to the rear basement door, right into the arms of the police stationed there. I could hear the hubbub, pistol-shots fired, the scuffle of feet, cries, oaths and general confusion, and I slipped down stairs, out of the now deserted main entrance, and ran home. Everybody was in bed, and I wont to my own room, had a good oryingspell, and comforted my half-frozen body in double blankets, where I soon fell’asleep. All this was on Friday night, and I had no teaching to do until Monday, so I slept late; but coming down found all the family prepared to make a heroine of me. “ I never knew until mother told me this morning,” said Tom, “that it wasn’t grandpa who sent the telegram to C .By Jove, Olive, you’ re spunky if you are little.” “I gaveupwhen four of them pounced on me from one of the upper rooms. They must have got in through the day and hid there.” I tried to make the Knights promise not to tell my adventure, but could not. Before night all Baysville knew how Olive Hudson caught the burglars. I was in the office with grandpa, when over the wires came this message: “ What does Olive Hudson look like? Everybody in Dryden is talking about her great exploit.” I flashed back:

“ What do you suppose such a woman would look like? She is nearly six feet, broad-shouldered and loud-voiced, a perfect Elephant.” “ Was it really yourself. Elephant?” “Dear Lion, it really was!” “Do you know, i want to see you. I am going to New York to-day; but I’ll be back next spring.” If he came to Haysville he did not see me. I ran away in a fit of shyness. In March a wonderful thing happened. My mother’s brother, who had been seventeen years. nearly all my life-time, jn Cuba, came out to New York, found me out and took me into a life of case and luxury, making me his pet in his splendid house. He was a bachelor, over fifty years of age, handsome and well informed, and with large wealth. He introduced me to old friends of hi», own, JxncL my. circle yf acquauitance widened every day. I was entirely happy, for we loved each other well. One day Uncle George brought home to dine, a stranger whom he introduced as: “ The son of an old friend, Olive, Mr. Roberts.” I made myself agreeable, as in duty bound, to Mr. Roberts, a man of thirty or thereabouts, with a face that wat downright ugly, but pleasant from the expression of frank good humor and intelligence upon it. We talked of everything, and I was surprised at the congeniality of taste we soon discovered. In an animated discussion of heroines, Mr. Roberts, turning to Uncle George, said: “ You were kindly inquiring this morning about my fortune since father died, but I did not toll yotr one little episode. Before I was fortunate enough to obtain my present lucrative situation, I was for a time telegraph operator in a small place called Dryaen, and then I heard of a real heroine, of whom the world will probably never hear.” I knew what was coming, but I kept my fate perfectly com posed to listen. When the story was finished, giving Uncle George a sly pinch to keep him quiet, I said: “ What kind of a looking person was the wonderful heroine?” “ I never saw her; for although Baysville was thq next village to Dryden, I never went there. But she was described to me as tall, strong and masculine." - • ■ 7' “In short, my dear Lion,” I said, gravely, “she was a perfect Elephant.” Such a stare as greeted me I am certain novel’ came upon Leo Roberts’ face before or since that hour. His eyes dilated till I thought that they would pop out of his dear, ugly face, and his mouth opened in utter amazement. Finally he remembered his manners, and gasped: “ Pardon me, I—-was it really you?” f Uncle George,” I »»id, “ wifi yoy

please introduce fme properly to Mr. Roberts? I believe he thinks your niece must share your name.” With a flourish Uncle George arose, and gravely introduced: “Mr. Leo Roberts, Miss Olive Hudson—Miss Hudson, Mr. Roberts.” . After that we could not certainly be strangers, and Mr. Roberts came “many a time and oft” to dine with Uncle George. \ And one day there was a wedding, whore the bride was very small, buried in lace and orange blossoms, and the bridegroom was ugly and good-natured; but it was a true love match, a fit ending for the flirtation commenced at Dryden and Baysville, “ over the wires.”

The Conviction of Robert L. Case.

As we read the reports of Robert L. Case’s conviction yesterday on a charge of perjury, and see him in imagination as he enters the City Prison to await his sentence, an old man, long an honored merchant of this city, now bowed and broken under his crime and his conviction—as we see him thus our hearts are moved to pity, and truly we may give him some part of our pity as his dessert. We pity his condition and his sorrowful future; still more we pity him for his guilt, which is a heavier burden than any load of punishment can be. 'He is a wrecked fife, and worse still, it is a life wrecked in port after the voyage has been successfully made. It is a sad spectacle which wo see, in whatever way we may look at it. It is sad to think that so old and so long honored a man must go to prison and wear the livery of proved guilt, but it is infinitely sadder to know that this old man, after leading an honorable business life, passing safely through all the temptations which beset men in mid-career, and arriving at a time of life when the serence contemplation of the past ought to have brought the richest contentment, has deliberately fallen into sin and made himself a felon for gain which he did not need. His case is a tragical one, and we can well afford to pity him, but it will not do to forget that some pity is due also to the victims of his crime. It will not do to forget that to the sin of false swearing he has added an attempt, by false swearing, to delude men to the ruin of their wives and children, to induce men to place the money that they can lay aside for the support of their widows and orphan children in the keeping of a rotten and dishonestly managed corporation. lie has not only attested a false statement under oath; that only is the offense for which the law punishes him, but that is not all of his offense. He has betrayed one of the most sacred trusts- that it is possible for man to assume in business. He has lent himself to scheme to deprive widows and orphans of their substance. Hismoral crime is a crime against society, and his punishment is not only deserved, but necessary. In this matter of life insurance even more than in other business affairs, integrity, frankness and truthfulness are necessary to the well-being of the community; and in their steaa falsehood has been put forward so frequently of late that a rigorous enforcement of the law is peremptorily necessary. We are sorry for Robert L. Case because he must suffer; we are sorry that he has forfeited his reputation and his liberty; but we sorrow more for innocent women and children who must suffer through the wrong-doing of such men as he, and we rejoice to know that offenses like his can be sternly punished by the courts. —N. Y. Evening Post.

Corn and Corn Cribs.

The severe and prolonged rains over a large area of tiie corn zone of the West is very seriously injuring the crop standing in the fields. The excessive and continued saturation of the soil, together with the sweeping wind storms that have prevailed, have caused much corn to fall. It has also prevented its drying off properly, so that the' corn already cribbed remains damp, and unless hard freezing weather occurs to dry it out, very serious loss will ensue. As a means of cheapening the cost of storing corn on the large farms, it is usual in the West, to make cribs eight, ten and even twelve feet wide. When corn is put in such cribs thoroughly dry, and well covered from rain, it keeps well enough. Many who have smaller areas to gather, store it in square cribs, made of ten or twelve feet rails, broadening the crib at the top, so that there the entire length of the rails are used. If well covered, these pens will keep corn intact, unless the season be very unfavorable, or unless the corn is put in early and wet. The difficulty is, not one farmer in ten properly covers these cribs. Many leave them entirely exposed to the weather at top, contenting themselves with rounding the corn up more or less. In such temporary cribs the corn should be piled on as long as it will lie, being brought to as sharp a cone as possible. Then, beginning at the sides, lay straight corn stalks all around; over these, Jay others, as in placing shingles. When covered to the top tie securely, and no rain will enter. If. is objected that this will form a harbor for rats and mice. Rats, however, are seldom found permanently in the body of a crib, and tne mice may as well be in the top as through the body of the corn. * To save corn in the most perfect manner in such cribs, set rails endwise in the middle of each crib, in the shape of a sharp cone, tying at the top, and you have one of the most perfect ventilators known. A better way is to slit eight-inch boards, leaving each piece running to a point, then, by reversing, alternately, as they are set up, and bracing at the middle, leaving the spaces close enough so the corn will not pass through, you have a perfect ventilator to each crib. With the long board cribs in general use the means of ventilation is still more easy. All that is necessary is to arrange a number of A-shaped strips, upon which to nail fence boards. The distance apart at which the boards are nailed need not be ntore'than six inches, since very little corn will pass through in shoveling into the crib. These ventilators must be width 1 or narrower to correspond with the width of the crib; for a twelve-foot crib about four feet wide and five feet high. These arc placed along the center of the crib and give excellent , ventilation. The writer oncasaved a large crop of corn by this simple means, and the lumber was not injured for other purposes. The present season would seem to be so adverse to the drying of corn that much danger of injury in the cribs is likely to result. Hence these hints in relation to a cheap and economical means of arranging the cribs in ordinary* ww.—Prairie Farmer,

DOMESTIC BREVITIES.

—Very clear apple jelly can be made from the cores ana parings of nice apples; cover with cold water and stew gently; strain, and add a pound of white sugar to a pint of liquid; boil half an hour. —Macaroni and Cheese.—Put one quarter pound macaroni (broken in pieces) in salted boiling water; boil till quite tender; place the macaroni in a buttered baking-dish; pour over onehalf cupful milk, and put small pieces butter on the top, and cover thickly with grated cheese. Bake In the overt until the milk is absorbed, and the top is brown] —Liebig suggested many years ago that the use of cod-liver oil would have a tendency to promote a distaste for alcoholic stimulants. A well-known man of science, Mr. Charles Napier, has tested this assertion, and in twentyseven instances found it, within limits, to ho true. The discovery is an important one, and ought to commend itself to victims of inebriety. —A lady who has been troubled with the neuralgia in her head, used a bag of hot oats at night, as a pillow. She says: “ Heat the oats in a kettle over the fire, or in a pan in your oven. I have never been troubled with neuralgia any place but in my head, so I cannot say how beneficial it would be for neuralgia in other parts of the body. Another cure is drinking hot lemonade.” —Spice Balls.—One-half cupful good butter and one cupful sugar, creamed; one well-beateQ egg, half cupful molasses, half cupful sweet milk, one cupful chopped raisins, teaspoonful of ground cloves; one grated nutmeg, teaspoonful of soda; mix with sifted flour enough to roll out; cut up in pieces and roll up in a ball; do not let them touch each other in the pan; when baked, frost; flavor the frosting with lemon. —Clam Soup.—To three quarts of cold water add sixty clams, chopped fine; boil one hour with a little salt and pepper, and two large whole onions; then add one half-pound of butter, blended with one half-pint of flour; boil fifteen minutes. Toast bread, cut in small squares; take out the whole onions, and pour the soup over the bread in tureen. The flavor of the soup may be varied by using several stocks of celery, in place of the onions. —Rice Waffles. —Put three pints of flour and one pint of rice, boiled soft, into a large bowl. Beat the yelks of four eggs into it, with a little salt; put to this one quart of new milk; beat all very thoroughly till the rice and flour are well mixed and free from lumps, then add half a pint more of milk to thin it. Beat the whites of four eggs till very stiff, then add to the batter, and beat all well together till perfectly light; then bake. —To Color Green.—For four pounds of goods, one ounce sugar of lead, two ounces bichromate of potash. Dissolve the sugar of lead in a tin or brass dish, and the potash in a separate dish; dip from one to the other until a bright yellow is obtained, then, in another vessel, in which two ounces of prussian blue are dissolved, dip till suited. Two ounces of prussian blue and one ounce of oxalic acid will make a permanent blue. Dip from the blue to the acid.

Underdrainage.

This is principally needed on land that floods in the spring and then bakes hard and dry in the summer, and the object of underdraining in this case is more to moisten the soil in case of drought than to remove the surplus water in spring. It is a fact, well established by experience, that underdrained lands suffer more readily from drought than those thoroughly drained. The former, in a dry time, do not absorb the moisture from the atmosphere; owing to their baked and compact state, while a well-pulverized soil receives and absorbs the dew and vapor in the air. Thus deep or subsoil plowing is employed in connection with underdraining with great advantage. The hardness of the soil, which will not allow water to penetrate, also keeps near the surface all fertilizing substances, and these waste by exposure to sun and rain. Crops are sometimes spoken of as “ water-killed;” this can happen only on wet ground, which has frozen while saturated, and when the frost eomes

out of the ground the soil is so broken up that the roots of the grass and winter grain are thrown out and the plants destroyed. Draining and subsoiling allow the moisture to sink below the reach of frost, and the soil is left too dry to be injured by the thaws of spring. Wet lands not only fail to produce large crops, but such as are grown on them are of poorer quality and more subject to disease than those raised upon drier soil. Actual experiment has proved that by giving water a free passage through a cold soil its temperature may be raised ten degrees above underdrained land of the same quality in an adjoining field. This produces the effect of a warmer climate, not only because of the warmth extended for a longer period, but by preparing the soil for cultivation earlier in the spring. Cattle and sheep pastured upon wet lands are subject to many diseases from which those in dry fields are free, beside being annoyed and worried by the swarms of gnats and mosquitoes common to wet soils. It is not only the farmer’s stock that suffers from a marshy field. Many a one is hampered all his life by the ill-health of his family, the cause of which is perhaps lying at his very dooryard. Fever and ague and consumption are engendered by marshy lands and stagnant pools. Mere surface draining is insufficient. Open ditches will convey away the surface water, but cannot reach the cold stagnating repositories beneath the soil; they are useful on the lowest grounds as brooks to carry off the water emptied into them by underground drains coming down a hillside. Tiles are now used extensively for drains, having been found to answer the purpose much better than any sort of ditching. There must be sufficient slope to prevent sediment accumulating. They * Should" Jrt laid at least three feet below the surface, and, in many instances, four feet will be found better, ‘as they must be out of reach of the frost as well as ( the subsoil plow. The cost of laying tiles may be greatly lessened by doing as much work as possible with horse plows and subsoil ditchers. Spring is the most economical season in which to undertake this work, when the subsoil is moist. The distance apart of the tiles must depend upon the nature of the land. In compact soil they may be set within twenty feet of each other. If the subsoil is very porous they may be placed forty feet apart. A.Jail of one in 200 is advisable, and one in 500 is the least fall admitted by the,best authorities. The least expense per acre for Siroper drains properly constructed, is rom $35 to $45. *

A free use of cloverenftbleathe fanner to dispense with many of the under drains that would otherwise be necessary. The deep roots of the clover penetrate so far in the subsoil as to make a sort of natural under drainage through the crevices of their roots. Farmers need not be frightened when they read of the costly work necessary in market gardening. A few under drains will be sufficient to make the soil dry enough in ordinary fields for most farm crops. In stiff clay soils the operation which appears so difficult is greatly facilitated by the very nature of the soil, which causes it to shrink and open in cracks when passing from a wet to a drv state. — N. Y. Herald. . , -+ ++- Queen Victoria’s crown is composed of 1,363 brilliant diamonds, 1,273 rose diamonds and 147 table diamonds, one large ruby, seventeen sapphires, eleven emeralds, four small rubies and 227 pearls, all set in silver and gold.

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