Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1879 — Page 3
The Rensselaer Union. 1 ’ RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA.
THOUGHTS IN MY HARDER My faultless friends, the plants and flowers. Have only smiles for me. Whetrdrouth withholds refreshing showers, 'J hroutfh hot and dreary summer hours. They then droop silently. When tired and worn with worldly care. ‘ Their fragrance seems like praise, A benediction in tlie air; I’ureasan unfallen angel’s prayer, Bweet niug the saddest days. No frowns, no pouting, no complaints, In my bright garden fair, A colony of sinless saints. Whose beauty Nature's pencil paints. Are my fair darlings there. No inattention can awake Envy or Jealousy. Their alabaster boxes break. As Mary 's did. and 1 partake Of their rich frngrancy. Hometimes with weary soul and sad, 1 taste their sweet perlume; And then my soul is very glad, 1 feel ashamed 1 ever had A hateful sense of gloom. Flowers are the sylvan syllables, . In colors like the bow. And wise is he, who wisely spells The blossomed words where beauty dwells. In purple, gold and snow. 0! sacred is the use of these Sweet gifts to mortals given. Their colors charm, their beauties please. And every, better sense they seize. And bear our thoughts to Heaven. —(ico. IF. Hungay, in Hot'. llhutrated Magasins. “SHE WAS A BEAUTY." Hhe was a beauty in the days When Madison was President; And quite coquettish in her ways— On cardiac conquests much intent. Grandpapa, on his right knee bent. Wooed her in stiff, old-fashioned phrase— Hhe was a beauty in the days When Madison was President. And when yonr roses where hem went Hhall go, my Lili, who date from Hayes, I hope you’ll wear her sweet content Of whom tradition lightly says: She was a beauty in the days When Madison was President. —ll. C. Uunner, in Hcribner’t Monthly.
TEN DAYS IN LOVE.
It was a cold night in January. People were hurrying along through the blinding snow-storm, battling with the wind that howled and moaned out by turns its story of woe. Hugh Remington and his friend Williams, glad to be out of the storm, had settled themselves in gown and slippers for a quiet evening at home. The shutters were closed and the curtains drawn, and on either side of the hearth was placed the favorite chair of each. These friends had lived together in their bachelor quarters for more than two years. Everything in the Apartment showed refined taste and wealth. Some said that it all belonged to Hugh, and that he made it a home for his friend. No one, however, knew this to be true. Hugh was quiet and reserved, seldom spoke of his affairs to anyone, never laid any special claim to anything, but allowed it to appear that all things were equally shared. After the evening papers had been read aud discussed, the two sat talking of days gone by, of little episodes in their lives. Hugh was in a talking mood, and had told several good stories of his past life; stopping suddenly, he exclaimed: “ Did I ever tell you of my love for the widow?” “No,” replied Williams. “Let’s have it.” “Well,” said Hugh, taking another cigar, and looking very serious as he leaned back in his great easy-chair, “ I met her in Paris.” “Met who?” “Oh, never mind who. Be content that ! am telling you the story, and don’t ask for names. I thought of her as ‘ the widow.’ It is a sufficient title.” “Well, I won’t interrupt. Goon.” So Hugh continued: **l was calling upon my old friend, Mrs. Lee, and while waiting for the servant to take her my card, an odd piece of bric-a-brac standing in the corner of the room attracted my attention. I got up and Went over to examine it. While thus engaged, the door opened. I turned, thinking that it was Airs. Lee, when, oh! what a beauty met my sight!—so small that she looked like a child, large, deep blue eyes that came out from under a mass of light, golden curls, a small nose, aud a rose-bud of a mouth. She was dressed in deep iuouming> and I thought, as I looked at her, that I had never seen a more beautiful picture. She didn’t see me until I made a slight movement, which startled her. Coming forward, I said: “ ‘I frightened you, did I not?’ “* Yes; I was not aware that there was anyone in the room. You are waiting for Mrs. Lee?’ And she gave me the sweetest of smiles, showing a most perfect row of teeth. “Before I could answer, Mrs. Lee appeared, and introduced us. Mrs. was making Mrs. Lee a short visit prior to her departure for America. I. was glad of that* as I shouldthen_have the pleasure of seeing her again. “The evening passed only too quickly, and I arose with an apology for staying so late. Mrs. Lee invited me to dine with them, informally, the next day. She said her friend preferred being quiet, so they should be quite alone. You may be sure that I accepted the invitation, and was there promptly at the hour. The widow was more charming than, on the previous evening. I longed to stop the hours from rolling on. Having been in the habit of dropping in at Mrs. Lee’s at all hours; my frequent, almost daily, visits were not noticed as anj thing strange or unusual. Mrs. Lee thanked me far.
coming to them in their loneliness, and the widow would give me one of her sweet smiles, and Iwas thankful in my inmost heart that they were lonely, and that it fell to my Iqt to cheer them. So the weeks passed, until the time came for the departure of Mrs. Lee’s friend. “ Now, .1 had intended passing a month or two in England before coming home, but when 1 found that the widow w.as to return in ten days, I began to think that my duty called me back to my business. The more I thought of it,’the more important it seemed to me to go. •• Do you know of anyone going on the fifteenth?” the widow asked me, one evening, in her dove-like way. “•No one but myself,’ I answered. * Business has called me sooner than I expected.’ •• ‘How delightful!’ from the widow; while Mrs. Lee exclaimed, ‘Oh, Mr. Remington, 1 am so glad! 1 couldn’t bear the idea of my friend going entirely alone, and you of all Others will know/ best how to take care of her? “We tyien began to make our plans. Mrs. —— intended making a visit of a few days to some friends in London. L -•fit going direct’ to Liverpool: "firs. Lee and I drove down to see our friend off, and I looked forward to the pleas—uro of meeting her on board the steam-
er. My last days in Paris were spent in saying * good-by’ to old friends, and buying presents for Sister Nell and the children. I got every nouveaute that 1 oould find, and felt well pleased with my selection. At last I was on the steamer, and stood looking at the ship move away. By my side was the widow, and I thought that 1 had never seen her look, ao lovely. I exulted in the knowledge that she knew no one on board, zwas her only friend, consequently/should have her all to myself; this was (so I said to myself) what I had for weeks been longing for; Was lin love? That question had not occurred to me. 1 felt supremely happy, and thought the situation delightful. I was ready to do anything for this fair creature. She had only to command; 1 was all eagerness to obey. I soon had opportunities of showing my devotion. “ The following morning I came out on deck very early, and was surprised to find my little lady already there. She looked very miserable and very pretty. The morning salutations over, I asked her how she had slept. “ * I haven’t slept at all,’ she said, in a fretful, childish way, which I thought charming. * Such a noise all night,’ she continued, * I could notget to sleep; and the smells are simply dreadful. I must have another room. I’d rather sit up here all night than sleep in that horrid place again. Don’t you think, Mr. Remington, if you asked the Captain or somebody, he would give me another state-room?’ and her big eyes looked inquiringly into mine. “‘Certainly, 1 said. *1 will go at once and see about it, and if there is no other, you shall change with me. Take my room, which is a good one, and as I don’t mind either noise or smells, your room will suit me well enough.’ ” Here Hugh leaned over his chair to knock the ashes off his cigar, and said to his friend: “I must have had it pretty bad—eh, Williams? —to have said that, for you know that I can’t endure either a bad odor or a loud noise. But I forgot everything when under the influence of those eyes, and when she exclaimed, *Oh no; I couldn’t let you do that,’ I felt that my fate was sealed, and that I should take the noise and the smells.
“The next thing I discovered was that my lady had no sea chair. There was only one left, and that had been spoken for; but I paid double the amount, and the chair was mine. “ ‘ You are so kind, Mr. Remington,’ she said. ‘ I don’t know what I should have done without you. I am not fit to travel alone,’ she added, in childish tones. _ “ I longed to press her to my heart and tell of my love; and if she would but let me, it would be the joy of my life to care for her. I looked aM this; I am sure I 4i<L—ButTthere were too many people around for me to speak. She sat with her hands folded in her lap, and looked divinely unconscious. “The third day out the weather became bitterly cold. •“I am almost frozen,’ said Mrs. ing to wrap around me, and shall have to stay below, and, oh dear! it is so uncomfortable there!’ The face turned up to mine was that of a spoiled child. “Now I had a fine English rug, which I had used at night, for you know everything at sea is so horribly damp. It had been a great comfort to me, and I knew that I should miss it. But what of that? I couldn’t see the woman I loved suffer. So I got it, and tucked her all up in it. Her delicious smile repaid me for the sacrifice. “ * Oh, how nice!’ she said, as she put her hands under the warm rug. ‘lt seems to me, Mr. Remington, that you have everything to make one comfortable. I never heard of such a man. I am so glad that 1 came under your care!’
“Iwas so love-stricken that I did not reflect upon her apparent unconsciousness of the fact that I had deprived myself of these comforts in order that she should be made comfortable. She l seemed to take it for granted that I was a sort of traveling missionary, with extra wraps, state-rooms, chairs and anything else that one might need; and I was such a slave to her fascinations, that, had she asked me to do the impossible, I should have attempted it. “ Every day I had it upon my lips to tell her of my love. Each day courage forsook me. We walked the deck day after day. She would put her little soft hand on my arm in the most confiding way, look up from under her curls, laugh her low, sweet laugh, and ask the most childish, innocent questions.
“We were walking this way on the sixth day out. I had carefully rehearsed my part, and was about to tell my story. Her conversation seemed to lead to it, for she said: “‘You will come to see mewhen you are in New York, won’t you, Mr. Remington?’ “ ‘ Nothing,’ I said, ‘ would giye, me greater pleasure.. L - . “-• You will come often? Promise to dine at our house once a week. You won’t forget me?’ and the blue eyes sought mine. “I looked into them, and my look told what my tongue had refused to say. I pressed the little hand close to my heart, and after a pause said, below my breath, ‘Forget you!’ and I was about to pour forth my love when she gave a little scream, and cried, ‘‘Oh, my veil!’, There, sure enough, was the confounded blue thing sailing before the wind, and all the passengers, it seemed to me, after it. Of course 1 had to go too, and make believe try to capture it. I never hated anything spjmuchas 4 did that yard of ..blue gaffze. I couldn’t go back and continue my story from where it was so suddenly broken off, and indeed the widow seemed quite shy of me. “The incident had given the passengers an opportunity to speak to her, and when 1 joined her (without the veil, for it had, I hope, struck bottom) she was surrounded by a grottp of people. I had no chance that day, per the next, to get her to myself. I tried to think of something that I could do or show her that would amuse and detain her. It seemed as though I had exhausted all my resources, when at last a brilliant idea occurred to me; I would show her the presents I had brought for Sister Nell. They were all in my little sea trunk, and I knew that she couldn’t resist their attractions. She came up on deck bright and beautiful as ever. •
‘“lsn’t it delightful,’ she said, ‘to think that to-morrow .we shall be at home? I can hardly wait for the time to come; and yet’—and het voice dropped into the dearly-loved soft tone —‘the voyage has been a most charming one, owing to your kindness,’ she added, brightly; -"llonged to launch forth my tale of love, but thinking it more prudent to wait until 1 had secured her wholly to myself, I asked her, in the most ordinary manner, if she wouldn’t enjoy
looking at some little- trinkets that I had picked up in Paris. Her eyea sparkled. “‘Yen, indeed,’ she said. ‘Nothing oould be more delightful than to get a glimpse of Paris while at sea.’ “T went below and got all my pretty nouveaules, and brought them up to her. Placing a chair in a quiet corner, and well hid from the other people, then drawing mine up beside.her, I began showing one by one my collection of odd things. “ ‘Where did you get them, Mr. Remingtonß I I hunted all over Paris, and found nothinghalf so pretty. What exquisite ports bonheurs!' and she slipped one after another of my carefully chosen bracelets onto her little plump wrists, and turned them first on one side and then on the other.
“I knew Nell’s taste, and had searched for something uncommon, and was well pleased with what I had bought. But Nell and everything were forgotten with this bewitching creature oy my side, and when she made a move to take them off, I’said, laughingly, of course, *Oh, don’t disturb them; they look sowell where they are, and it is so pleasant, you know, to get a glimpse of Paris while at sea.' “She kept them on, and lopened the other boxes. There were rings, crosses. medallions, chatelaines, and many other ornaments of curious design. The widow decked herself, and was in high glee. A child oould not have enjoyed it more. I watched her with loving eyes, told her where each one came from, and helped fasten them on. “ * I feel like an Indian Princess,’ she said, ‘ and ought to have a throne and a crowd of kneeling courtiers, and the picture would be complete.’ “ ‘ Can’t you imagine a throne?’ I said, ‘ and take me for kneeling courtiers. Wouldn’t my love compensate for the admiring crowd?’ “ She lookea up quickly, and was about to answer, when one of those eternal old bores that, no matter when you cross, are always to be found on shipboard, came up, and began telling of his early reminiscences; what the sea was twenty years ago—as though the sea had ever changed—and how, when he had first crossed, his friends never expected to see him again. He had maae his will, and they parted as though he were to be forever lost to them. I assure you that I silently wished in my heart that he had never turned up again. Without saying a word, I got up, took my boxes, and left my Indian Princess. I was thoroughly angry with the old fellow for interrupting our tete-a-tete, and seriously annoyed with Mrs. for listening to and answering him. I made up my mind that that game had been played long enough. I would ask her the simple question the first chance I got, and know my fate at once. But the chance did not come as soon as I expected it would. “ She went to her room with a sick headache, so she said, and I paced the deck alone. We were a long way up the harbor when she made her appearance the following morning. She said that she had hurried with her packing, thinking that we were nearer than we really were to the city. “ ‘ Oh, Mr. Remington, I had no opportunity of returning your jewelry, and so I packed them with my things. But you are coming, you know, to dine with me on Saturday, and I will then give them to you.’ “‘Certainly,’ I said. ‘There is no time for us to change them now. Wear them until I see you again.’ “ I had fully made up my mind that as I had been baffled so often, I would now wait until I had seen her in her own home before I opened my heart to her, or rather before I asked her my fate. She already knew my heart. There was no time to talk; all was excitement; we were rapidly approaching; handkerchiefs were waving from the docks. The widow was straining her eyes, and, suddenly leaving me and going farther forward, I saw ner throw a kiss. How I longed to catch it! I looked with jealous eyes to see who would take it up and answer it. Foremost among the crowd was a great big man—six feet and broad in proportion. It was he who was returning her kisses. Could it be her brother, or was it a friend, and this merely a pleasant greeting from a distance? “ I watched him come on board, and what did the big idiot do but catch her up in his arms—my sweet one, whom, though loving, I had never dared to touch—and kiss her over and over again! I could have knocked him down.
“On drawing near to them, I saw that ■neither of them noticed me. She had forgotten my existence. With a heart-sick feeling I turned away. Was this to be the end? Why had I come home? I could hear them talking, though too miserable to listen. They came nearer, and the same soft voice that I loved so dearly said, ‘ Mr. Remington, 1 have been talking about you, telling ho w good and kind you have been, and how utterly forlorn I should have been had you not always looked out for my comfort. I have come to thank you, and my husband wants to thank you too.’ “Her husband! Great heavens! And I thought she was a widow, and had made love to het! I listened as though in a dream, and a deuced unpleasant one it was, too. 1 believe he thanked me, and she praised, and he thanked again, and then they urged me to come to see them, and she said, ‘Don’t forget Saturday.’ “ Whether I said anything, or whether I remained mute, is more than I can tett.' "T was like a man asleep, and'Kad to give myself a good shake to come out of the nightmare that I was in. When 1 looked around, she—they—were gone.” Here Hugh stopped as though he had finished; but hisfrlend Williams, whose curiosity was aroused, asked: “ Did you dine with her on Saturday?” “ No; 1 sent a regret” Have you ever seen her since?” “No, never.” “ What became of your nouveaules de Paris?"
“Nell went without them, as I went without my English robe.” “ You don’t mean that she never sent them to you?” “I never gave her my address, and she was not supposed to know where I was.” ; Williams didn’t like to ask any more questions, and Hugh remained quiet for a time. Then rousing himself-'and getting out of his chair, he said: “I have never made love since, and” —with a bitter laugh—“l always avoid women in deep mourning. And now as the fire has gone out with my story, I think we had better go to bed.”— Harper’s Weekly. A bankrupt, condoled for his embarrassment, said: “-Oh, I am not embarrassed at aIL it’s my creditors that are embarrassed.”
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.
—Senator Sargent of California is in Florida, suffering from bad health. He will pass most of* the .winter at Nassau, New Providence Island, one of the Bahamas. —Spurgeon says thatgoing to America to escape excitement" would be like visiting the tropics to escape the heat He is suffering severely from rheumatic attacks and needs rest —The report that Jeese Pomeroy, the murderer, is failing in body and mind is emphatically denied. On 'the contrary, he is very fat and healthy, and is so cunning that a careful watch has to be kept on him by the prison officers at the State Prison at Concord, Mass. —lt is related of Sec’y Evarts that, as he stood dressed in plain black broadcloth among the much-adorned foreign diplomatists at the Presidents reception, the other day, an eight-year-old boy who had accompanied a gentleman into the rpom, pointed to the Secretary, saying," “ Grandpa, is that man too poor to buy a dress?”
—When Sierra Nevada stock began to go up, Mr. Mackey, the “Bonanza King,” made an investment for the benefit of Gen. Sheridan’s twin babies, moaning to surprise them with the gift of a fortune. For a while it seemed likely to become a goodly sum for the little pair, when it suddenly fell, and all that had been gained in the rise was lost. —The Misses Thornton, daughters of Sir Edward Thornton, English Minister to this country, have not heretofore taken part in Washington gayeties, because English etiquette requires that young ladies shall be presented to the Queen before they enter general society. During their recent visit in England, two of them went through the ceremony, and they are, therefore, now at liberty to accept social attentions in this country. —A remarkable convict in the Rhode Island State Prison is David Peters, a colored man, who, in 1860, received twenty-five years’ sentence for assault. He was ignorant, but when allowed the use of the prison library he soon made astonishing advances in learning. He mastered arithmetic, algebra and geometry, took a course in logic and rhetoric, and then turned his attention to languages. He acquired a fair knowledge of French, German, Latin and Greek, and then took up jurisprudence. He is now reading law, and for a change studies Hebrew. He delivered at a Thanksgiving celebration in the prison a year or two ago anoration which was pronounced a remarkable production.
The Age of a Planet.
In carefully tracing the conspicuous scenes which must mark the end of a planetary career, and thus obtaining a more correct interpretation of the rare and mysterious characters occasionally inscribed in our skies, very interesting information may be obtained of the diversified contents of space, and the long term of existence assigned to each of the numerous worlds of creation. If the dominions of other suns be equally rich as our solar region in mundane objects, it may not be extravagant to suppose that, in our universe, the large primary and secondary planets enlivened by the genial influence of more than twenty millions of stellar bodies might equal in number half the populaation of our globe. Now. the average mortality in the human family is about one death every second, while astronomical records show that only twentythree temporary stars appeared within the past two thousand years. Taking their appearance as records of planetai y fate, it would follow that a century is as small a part of the career of a planet as two seconds is of human life; and the few thousand years in which the history of our race is comprised is scarcely two minutes in the immeasurable age of our world. Yet these considerations will perhaps give an inadequate, idea of the long endurance of the great works in creation’s wide domam. According to the opinions of Laplace, beside the systems over which visible stars preside, there are others equally numerous in which tlm.central bodies, though of sunlike magnitude, are not’ self-luminous. Madler and Bessel embraced similar views. Those who believe, with Helmholtz, that a sun’s heat and light are produced by the contraction of its mass, and that solar activity has a limited duration, might be naturally led to consider dark systems a hundred or even a thousand times as numerous as those which are illuminated. Yet I think it more reasonable to take the moderate estimate of Laplace for the comparative numbers of the dark and the bright occupants of space. But it is, moreover, necessary to consider that great planets and satellites meet their ultimate doom by a number of dismemberments and great meteoric scenes, each separated by intervals of many millions of centuries. Taking all these circumstances into account, the age of the world, as inferred from the observed indications of catastrophes in the heavens, may reach as hign as 500,000,000,000 years.— Prof. Daniel Vaughan, in Popular Science Monthly for February.
Be Kind to the Living.
We live in a world where nothing is sure. To-day our friends are about us, in the freshness and bloom of health and spirits; to-morrow we bend in anguish over their still forms; and it is well iFnobltter regrets mihgle~winr the tears we shed upon their white faces. Oh, life is insecure, and the brightest and most promising of all our treasures may, perhaps, soonest droop and fade. And when one dies, bow anxious we are to do him homage! We speak of his virtues, we excuse his faults, and spread the mantle of charity over his vices, which, while he‘ lived, we had no patience with. If we only had, we might have won him to a better life. Haa we exercised toward him a little of the forbearance and kindness with which we now speak of him, he had had fewer faults. How often his heart ached and cried out for human sympathy—for our sympathy — we may never know; and if we could, it is too late to undo the past, too late to Soothe and benefit him. We may not take up the broken threads of a life that is gone, and weave them into a web of nope and joy; but toward those who are still left to us, who have ears to hear, and hearts to throb with pain and'grief, we may be generous and just, forgiving, loving and kind. Do not wait till the faithful, devoted wife, who has tried so hard to make your home pleasant and comfortable, is dead, to show her kindness. No funeral pomp, no costly monument with loving words inscribed thereon, will make up for past neglect. Could the fond kisses that af&now imprinted on her cold llpq, and the murmured words of endear-
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It is a colty of massing the eouhttw, with j of English a U g population, to that an exact advertisement )e gC ci lre j ) j g perhaps close sffiT"\rin any case, and B * x diitricts with lew not only offers to gfive wiili less than 7,500, presses a willingness qo, and three with less beside. The contrast i >M)n dislriclg whu .li the custom in our own, ... marked that it never fafl” 0 1 the attention of the reader 1 ” t 0 a.senator cite comment. The idea of te etate. We ing oneself to a farmer for the 12,000 votpurpose of learning his “art” w w j,h over a very novel one to nine hund gil w | th ninety-nine young men out of ; sand in this country. Necessity f oo ’ mftk ’ gland compels a thorough knowt- 500 to of agriculture by those who propose* and follow it. The soil must be understood, -
and the most approved ways of tilling it must be adopted, else small is the hope of getting from the small-sized farms sufficient to remunerate for the time and labor expended and the capital invested, to say nothing of being able to compete in the markets with American products. The English farmer knows that we can raise beef on our Western plains cheaper than he can do it, and he distinctly sees in the near future a possibility of being wholly worsted in that competition any circumstances. To do IM' Itty best he can is his only alternative, and doing the best he can includes the keeping of his soil up to the highest standard of fertility and raising the very best cattle that the world can produce. To do this requires a high order of intelligence ana a thorough acquaintance with the general principles and with the details of farming. In this country there is no such incentive. Our prairies are vast, and as fertile as any soil in the world; and the country is not yet old enough for the soil to have become sufficiently exhausted to excite any apprehension for the future, especially among the unthinking. The more thoughtful, of course, deprecate our usual exhaustive system of cultivating the soil, and foresee trouble unless there is a reform. But no such fears will become with the masses while the erroneous 1
idea prevails that the country is nearly boundless in extent, and exhaustless in fertility and resources. Plow and sow, and the harvest must ripen, is really the belief of our people. They do not think that intelligence or even industry has any thing to do with it, except to perform these primitive acts. It is this belief that prompts the advice to the unemployed of all classes to go on the farm. It seems to weigh nothing in the minds of such advisors that those whom they advise have often passed the meridian of life when it would be thought the very height of folly to entej upon any new mechanical business, or indeed even to embark in any mercantile business in which they had no experience. Horace Greeley said that a man ought not to change his business after he w i as thirty-five years old, unless he was a horse thief, and he stated a very excellent rule of life. By that time habits have become thoroughly fixed, and are usually too stiff to be bent to any new course of living. If our people were crowded upon -a small territory as the people of England are, and if the soil needed as much intelligent care as the soil there needs, the entire population would not think, as they now seem to, that anybody can be a farmer, and instead of urging an addition to our agricultural ranks from those who are inexperienced in that line, some of those who are now farming would find it necessary to increase their knowledge or leave the farm. This—would not only be found true of many owners of farms, but itwould be alarmingly true of farm help. If our farmers were compelled by the smallness of their farms, the constant necessity of feeding the soil, and bv a competition in which natural advantages were against them, to reduce agriculture to a strict science upon every farm, that every foot of lana should produce the very greatest yield in that which was most profitable, where would they look for competent help in sufficient numbers? How many farms are there in this country whose owners would be willing to leave them in charge of the help—the best, perhaps, that it has "been possible lot~them to secure. There are thousands of them- A man who can thus be trusted with the care of every department of the farm-rwho knows what to do and how to do it, in the field, in the barn, in the dairy and among the stock —and happily, although tod few, there are many such—need nevdr be without a place or to work for low wages. His knowledge of his business is real capital to him, and usually it is not many years before he is his own master and the owner of a farm. But when there is one of this kind, there are ten who take no interest in the dischargeof their duties, and lack of interest Is a prolific source of general ignorance of any business. The day’s duties are performed in a mechanical way and the work improperly performed. The eye of the farmer must always be upon such help even to insure the work being imperfectly done, and at the end of the season ■losses are found in the neglect to properly cultivate-the crops, to properly garner the harvest, in the rough handling of the cows and other sjock, and from the general incompetence of men who are as unfit for the farm as they would be for the pulpit, and perhaps more so.— JFwteni Bur al. A merchant down town sella more of Dr. Bud’s Cough Syrup than all other medicinee together. It surely must.be the best remedy for • cough.-- —7 '
and a handkerchief. He chewed ,on B uo for tbe one • ntl used h * B thumb swallt i»d ex finger in default of the latter, his mejnedium within then shouted for light, ing subho curtain being withdrawn, revealed more eas_ l)a ]|y encalo j j n the habiliments of £wiEn’E nor ' Faulkner or meat out, u P on t 0 assist, and the two state duce immediaid the medium up, still bound is prompt actiond carried him to the foot- • hen asked to unbind “ Why should we gracefullyton’s birthday more than miuv. ® , tUMed a teacher. “ Because he never” xuggea lie! 4 ’ shouted a little boy.
Benefactors.
When a board of eminent physicians and chemists announced the discovery that, by combining some well-known valuable remedies, the most wonderful medicine was produced, which would cure such a wide range of diseases that most all other remedies could be dispensed with, many were sceptical; but proof of its merits by actual trial has dispelled all doubt, and to-day the discoverers of that great medicine, Hop Bitters, are honored and blessed by all as benefactors.
A Sick Senator.
The excessive corpulency of a certain United States Senator has long been the butt of editorial wit and spicy bon mo(s from the pens of Washincton correspondents. Few ..persons have suspected that bis obesity was a disease, and liable to prove fatal. Yet this is the sad fact. Excessive fatness is not only a disease in Itself, but one liable to generate other and more serious ones. Chemistry has at last revealed a safe, sure, and reliable remedy for this abnormal condition of the system in Allan’s Anti-Fat. Distinguished chemists have pronounced It not only harmless, but very beneficial to the system, while remedying the diseased condition. Sold by druggists. Chbw Jackson’s Best Sweet Navy Tobacco.
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