Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1879 — Page 3

The Rensselaer Union. RENSSELAER, . - INDIANA.

WITH WHITE HANDS. fr* Ycitm she went About the world, Lovsly ey™ And Mailing tome, Urreeod and socnted, gemmed and curled— Always queen by right of grace. All the time there ws* a grave ’Neath the warm. Italian sky, By the Adriatic'* wave: She alone, of nIL knew why. He whoee dnat lay lonely there. Far from friend* and native land, Worked to win a name to wear • \ Till she let him' kia* her hand. Love and longing, pain and pride, l’a**ion hr*t. anil ooldne** next; When »lio went away he died. Being frail, intrnne and vexed. Unt the snow above her heart IMelted nuddenly one day. And, awakening with a start. She wrote, " Oh, forgive, 1 pray, “ All my coldne**, all my pride; 1, unwillingly, am true. When my lips said ' No!' I lied; j I have never loved but you I” Week* *he waited, then there oamo Tardily from that far land A brief letter to her name— Not hi* eignet nor hi* hand— Ju»t to say that he was dead; His light went out suddenly. Brokenly she bowed her head: , " All is said and done for me I” Then remembering life, as ’twere Just a burden at her feet. Heavily she stooped her there. Loathing what had been so sweet. “ And to-night there is a feast; I am promised, 1 must go. Might I seegrave at least! But the world would scorn me so. “ Well, it may be that some day, When I'm wrinkled, bent ana old, When my hair is thin and gray. None will think but I am cold. “ I may do then as I please. Cross the sea and Seek his grave. Linger near it at my ease—1, that Blew where I could save!” • Oh. she was so fair that night— Soft flushed cheeks and sweetest eyes, Shoulders so divinely white And a voioe of low replies! But the while she bent her head In the waltz's rapturous wave. She was thinking, “He is dead!” And' “ What flowers grow on his grave?” - llvwurd Ulyndon, in Lippincott' * for June.

A CURIOUS BOX OF BOOKS.

In this little sketch, I want to tell my boy and girl readers in what a remarkable way a certain distinguished man, who lived more than two hundred years ago, was helped by his books. He was a Hollander and his name was Hugo do Groot; but he was generally called Grotius, after the fashion of those times, which was to give names as much of a Latin form as possible. On the sth of June, 1619, this man was taken to Prison, in the Castle of Loevenstein, under a sentence which condemned him to imprisonment for life, lie was not an old man—only thirtysix—but he was one of the most learned men in Europe. His wife and his five children were allowed to come with him to this gloomy place, which was almost surrounded by the deep rivers Waal and Meuse, and, on the side which joined the land, had two immense walls and a double ditch. The poor prisoners passed over this ditch by a draw-bridge, and went through thirteen different doors, all with heavy bolts, until they reached the rooms where Grotius expected to be locked up for the rest of his life. This would seem enough to take away a man’s spirits forever. But Grotius was one of those happy people who do not stop to wish for things around them to be different, but just go straight on, making the best of matters as they are. His jailer was a hard and cruel man, who would not let him evbn walk in the court-yard for a littlo fresh air, so he could not stir out of his two small rooms. But Grotius sent for a giant top, and used to spin it for hours every day, to give himself exercise. Meantime his wife (who seems to have been as cheerful as he was), with her maid Klsje, took care of the children, cooked the food for all the family, and went backward and forward to the little town to buy what she wanted. Gorcum and Worcum are the two little cities opposite to the castle on different sides. These are real names, though they sound like make-believe, and it was to Gorcum that Madame Grotius used to go, to get food and clothing as they were noeded. There sometimes oame also to Grotius, from Gorcum, the things he most cared for, next to his wife and children. A friend of his, a scholar nhmed Erponius, would send him every now and then a great chest full of books. Think what a joy for the poor prisoner when he could open it, and spread out before him the books that delighted and taught him, that turned his thoughts from his troubles, and soothed him in the way that true knowledge always .can soothe and comfort! But this chest of books did more than merely comfort him in his prison; you shall hear how it helped him to escape from it altogether. Nearly two years had passed, when some men were sent by the Government to search the castle through, for ropes which it was said Grotius’ wife had been seen buying in Gorcum. They thought she was trying to contrive an escape for her husband. No ropes could be found, and they wont away satisfied that it would be just as easy for him to fly out of the castle like a bird as to escape with ropes, oven if he had any. This may have put tho idea into Mmo. Grotius’ head, for not long afterward she was in Gorcum one day at the house of a merchant named Dtetselair, who had been vory kind to them, and who always sent and received the chest of books. She asked Mme. Dtutselicr if she would be frightened to see Grotius mako his appearanbo there. “Oh no,”'she said, laughing; “only send him, and we will take good care of him.”' ■ Again, some time afterward, she was at Mote, Dictselicr’s, and asked her if it were not true that all exfthp and outlaws might come to the town the next day but one, the day of the yearly fair. “Yes, that is quite, said her friflml. “ Then my husband might comb too?” “ Yes, we shall be glad to have him,” said Mme. Dnitsoluer. “What « good woman you are,” said the visitor,, as she rose to go. “ But you know that nothing but a bird could fly out of the castle?” Next day was the 20th of March; and there was a fearful equinoctial storm. All at once one of the children, littlo Cornelia, said: “No matter how it blows to-morroW[ papa must be off to Gpreum.” Grotius and- h\s wife felt if the child wiere an angel sneaking from heaven, fot\ while Mme. Dretselser had though t,he< friepd waa ipkinst. aha had really been making a plan for him to get off Every limAthat she looked at

tho big ohest in,,her husband’s room, she thought that he might possibly get into it, and so be carried out of tne castle. It was scarcely four feet long, and not very broad nor deep; but he had tried it soveral times, me was a , tall man, but he found he could curl himself up in it, and lie still two hours by the hour-glass, with his wife sitting on tho lid. They now mado up their mind to risk the trial the next day, because it fortunately happened that the Commandant was away for a short time. They told Elsie—who was very quick, and bright, and devoted to them—all about it, and asked her if. she would take the ohest, with her master in it, to Gorcum. She asked if 'she would be punished in case it was found out; but though her master said it was probable that she would be, still she agroed to go. The Commandant’s wife consented to the chest’s being sent cut, in her husband’s absence, and now everything was arranged for the attempt. The next morning, Grotius rose early and prayed for an nour. Then he got into the chest, dressed in linen nnderclothes, and without shoes, so as to take as little room as possible. Under his bead was Erpenius’ big Testament, with some bunches of thread on it, for a pillow. His wife said good-by, turned the key in the lock, kissed it, and gave it to Elsje. Then she put his clothes and slippers in front of the bed, jumped in herself, drew the ourtaius, and rang the bell for the servant. He? brought the soldiers, who were to carry the chest to the boat, and one of them,” as he moved it, said: “The Arminian”—as they called Grotius —“ must be in it himself, it is so heavy.” Three or four times, as they dragged and lifted it through all the thirteen doors, they said the same thing; but Elsje passed off' all the questions with a joke and a laugh, and so they came safely to the boat. The plank for sliding tho box on board was weak* and she made them take another and thicker one; then the wind blew the sail-boat over so much that she was sure the chest would fall overboard, and persuaded the Captain to have it securely lashed. Finally, an officer sat down on it, and began kicking and drumming upon it, until she told him he might break some china inside, and begged him to sit somewhere else, and then she sat down on it herself.

The wind was favorable, and soon blew them over to Gorclim. Elsje paid some money to tho skipper and his son to carry tho chest up to the Daitselmrs’. On the way, the boy said he was sure there was something alive in the box. “Yes, yes,” said Elsje, “Arminian books are always lively and full of spirit.” They reached the house and put down the chest in a back room; Elsje paid them, and then flew into the shop to Mme. Uietselmr, whimpering in her car: “ I have got my master here in your back parlor.” The good dame turned pale, arid looked as if she would faint; but she recovered in a moment, and went into the other room with Elsje. “Master! master!” cried ElsjaAut no one answered. “Oh, God!’’THr.l the poor girl, “ my master is deadly* Just then there came a hard thump on the inside of the lid, and Grotius called out: “Open the chest! I am hot dead, but I did not know your voice at first.” The box was unlocked, and he came out in his white clothes, like a dead man out of his coffin. The dame took them through a trapdoor into an upper room, and brought him some wine to drink, for he was very weak. She next ran to her brother-in-law, named Van der Ween, and found him in his shop, talking to onoof the officers from the castle. She whispered to him to follow her, which he did at once. When he saw Grotius, ho said: “Sir, you are the man of whom all the country is talking.” “I put myself in your hands,” answered Grotius. Van der Ween said there was not a moment to lose, and hurried off to find a mason, whom he knew he could trust. He asked him to get the dress of a journeyman, and this they put on Grotius, smearing his face and hands with plaster, and slouching his hat over his face, and so they passed safely: through the crowd, many of whom knew nim, and would have given him up. Two days from that time he reached Antwerp safely, after some dangers and difficulties on the road; but they were nothing compared to what he had already gone through. At Antwerp the Chief Magistrate, who had the strange title of Bed Rod, welcomed him kindly, and from that time he was safe. When the Commandant returned to the castle, Mme. Grotius met him with a smile. “Here is the cage,” she said, “ but your bird is flown.” The Commandant was in a terrible fiassion, but it was of no use; his bad anguage could not bring back the prisoner, and after a time Grotius’ wife was set at liberty, and allowed to join him. As he was not allowed to work for his own country, he spent the rest of his life in the service of France and Sweden, and became more famous than ever, as an embassador, a poet and a historian. Elsje, the brave girl who had done 'so much for her master, married Grotius’ servant, who had learned Latin and many other things from his master, during the two years he had been serving him in prison, and who afterward became a good lawyer in Holland. This is tho story of the escape of Grotius. He lived to be quite an old man, but I think that there were certain books he never could sec without going back in his thoughts to tho Loevenstein castle, and feeling heartily thankful that he had loved to read.— SI. Nicholas for June.

Obituary.

Gen. James Shields, the old veteran of two wars, died suddenly at Ottumwa, lowa, on Sunday evening last, where lie had been visiting relatives while engaged In the duties of his lecture course. The news of his death will carry sadness with it throughout the entire country, which had conic to regard the brave old soldior with feelings of kindly admiration and respect. Gen. Shields was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, in 1810, and emigrated to the United States in 1827, settling ig Illinois about tlie.jroar 18:10. Prior to the outbreak of the Mexican War he held several offices, although lie was not naturalized until 1810. In 1834 ho was sent to the Legislature from Randolph County, subsequently was appointed Auditor by Goy. Carlin, and in 1843 was ejected a Supreme Judge•.». JH« appamtarl Con*missidner of the General Land-Office by h Weßident Polk, and, when theMexi-

can War broke out, by favor of the President he entered too servioe as a Brigadier-General, and made for himselfa record of soldierly skill and eourago that has rarely been surpassed by any American soldier. At Cerro Gordo he was shot through and through and reported as killed, but he recovered fn time to take a distinguished part in the closing events of the war under Gen. Scott, and was the recipient of a sword from the Slate of. South Carolina. On his return to Illinois, in 1849, he was elected to the United States Sen&to, but, only having been naturalized in 1840, the time required to make him eligible had nbt expired, and his seat was declared vacant. As soon as he beoame eligible, however, ho was again elocted, and served until his'tcrm expired. He subsequently mado Minnesota hip homo, and in 1857 was elected to the Senate from that Stato, and served two years. During the War of the Rebellion ne was given a commission in the Union Army, and served with great gallantry in the Department of West Virginia until he was again severely wounded. Meanwhile his old wounds broke out afresh. He became deaf and almost lost his eyesight. The combination of physical ailments compelled him to resign,. After the war he moved to Missouri, which has since been his home. With the events of his life during tho past few years—his election to fill the brief remainder of Senator Bogy’s term in the Senate, and his brilliant success as a lecturer—the public is already familiar. - In his death the country loses one of the mopt gallant and brilliant soldiers on hes rolls; an officer who will always be held in grateful remembrance for his distinguished public service; a gentleman of the highest dignity and most spotless character; a scholar of excellent cal tore; and a,, pa an of thosa genial and humane characteristics which apEealed not only to his own countrymen ut to the whole public. Chicago Tribune, June 3.

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—A funeral procession at Westfield, Mass., recently stopped in front of a photograph gallery and waited while the bearers carried the corpse up stairs to have its picture taken. The funeral then proceeded. - —A Vermont paper says that a few Sundays ago, while Mrs. Mary Fulford,* of Peacham, was playing the organ in church, she was taken With a partial paralytic shock, and was unable to take her hands from the key-board, keeping one chord going until the choir was compelled to stop. In an hour after the service she seemed to be as well as ever. —A Farmington (Me.) man caught a young woodchuck last summer, and kept it until it was as tame as a dog. Last winter it took to the ground and spent the winter like others of its kind. During the time the family moved to anot her part of the town, but on going back to the old place, the other day, the woodchuckwas out, and seemed delighted to see his old friends. —The other afternoon a lady called at a jewelry store in Portland, Me., and before entering she left her baby in its carriage at the door. Having finished her purchases she went home. The jeweler finally was attracted by the child’s crying and took it into the store and amused it with some trinkets until its mother missed tho baby and returned. . —Joseph Casey, a boy eleven years old, who was employed in filling and lighting'street lamps in Bellevue, a suburb of Scranton, Pa., the other night, while on the ladder, upset the oil can and spilled the oil over his clothes, when, as it is alleged, another boy applied a match to him, enveloping him in (lames from head to foot. He rushed for the river, a quarter of a mile away, and had nearly reached it before lie was overtaken by citizens, who threw parts of their clothing over him; extinguishing the flames, but not until he had received fatal injury. —Tho other day a four-year-old child in Cincinnati fell from a balcony fifty feet above a brick pavement, and went whirling toward the ground. On the porch of the story below stood a little girl ten years old, who saw the child fall and put out her arms in an attempt to save him. She did catch him, at the risk of being dragged over also, and though she was not strong enough to hold such a weight, she was able to turn the course of the boy’s fall, and he landed at her feet on the floor of the porch. His head was somewhat cut, but his life was saved, and the little girl’s arm was lamed, but not broken. —A singular and serious accident happened to John Hoffman, an employe in the Capital City flouring-mills, in this city. _ Hoffman was engaged in sacking flour, having the strings used tied around his body, while at his work. He felt the strings tightening around his body, but supposed it was one of the men, and paid no attention to it for a moment, but the strings steadily tightening around him he looked around to find that the cords had been caught by the shaft. In answer to his cries one of the men started to stop the machinery,Hinit another, more thoughtful, proceeded to cut him down, which he succeeded in doing in a very short time, but not before Hoffman had become unconscious from his injuries. He still lies unconscious, and it is feared ho has suffered serious, if not fatal, injuries.—St. Paul (Minn.) Telegram.

Under an Avalanche.

A correspondent of the London Daily News writes: Only a few hours journey from the spot where her Majesty has been enjoying her villeggiatura occurred a scene of disaster and death rarely paralleled in these regions of’ snowdrift and avalanche. The Simplon Pass is the route by which more than lO.OOt) ' Italian workmen annually make their way into Switzerland and France in quest of employment, and it was oh some l thirty-two of these wayfarers that the visitation descended. Such was the snowfall on the second instant that the courier could not pros-ecute-his journey with sledges. A stalwart pedestrian offered to take the letter bags, and, after herculean efforts, he reached the hospice at eleven a. m., and-there found seventy Italian workmen on their way partly for Switzerland, partly for France. He said that if they wanted to start they must do so that very day, as every minute’s postponement increased the risk from the snowfall. Accordingly, three companies of there Italians set out at once, and by one in the afternoon arrived at .Refuge Six, where they rested, as the snow was coming down with increased force and density. Two sturdy Swiss Souths attached to the refuge offered to conduct the travelers, and off the three companies set once more, with their two guides at the head. Hardly, however, nad they emerged from the

middle gallery, called La Vieile Calorie—tne most dangerous past of the Simplon route—before an enormous avalanche descended from tho mountain, carrying with it the two guides and an Italian Workman. The rest of the 'travelers who remained Inr the gallery were so far safe, but noth ends of the gallery were blocked up with snow. They were in despair, and already the cold was beginning to tell on the children of the party. Suddenly a man’s voice rose above the wailing: “We might as well die under an avalanche as under a gallery. Let us try and get out” He set to work, and succeeded in excavating a passage through the snow, and arrived half dead at Refuge Six, whence the alarm was passed on to the hospice. By this time it was 7:80 in the evening. The monks attaohed to the hospice repaired to the scene of disaster, and with the aid of two servants of Refuge Six they saved the inmates of the gallery and accommodated them comfortably at the hospice, leaving a few whose strength could carry them no further at the refuge. The three companies of travelers having been settled for the night, the monks were anxious to return and do what conld be done for the two guides and their companions who had been carried away by the avalanche, but the darkness and the constant succession of avalanches that were thundering at short intervals over the precipices forbade. One of the two guides, an athlete in strength and nimbleness, managed, as he rolled down with the avalanche, to keep his alpenstock in his hand, and when he came to a dead stop he felt that the point of his stick just protruded from the snow above him. Working away with what strength remained to him, he extricated himself from the avalanche, but here his powers failed him, and he was able only to call for help. His cries reached the refuge, and its inmate, with a servant of the hospice, set out in the direction of the guide. But they had not walked five minutes before an immense avalanche hnrled them to the foot of the mountain. The inmate of the refuge perished, leaving a young widow ana a two-year-old boy. The servant of the hospice, however, escaped; though, when rolling with the avalanche, he thought he must have died every minute from the snow and earth that found its way into his mouth, and was likely to choke him. He turned on his face, and relieved himself of the mauvaise bouche, till, the avalanche having stopped, he disengaged himself from the snow, and after severe efforts gained the refuge in a fainting state about two in the morning. During that terrible night he said that the roar of the descending avalanche was deafening. »

Girdling Fruit Trees.

The statement was made by some one not long since in the Register that it was advantageous in making vines and fruit-trees to bear sooner ana moro abundantly to girdle the trees. Since then we have been frequently inquired of how and when such girdling should' be done, as well as for a reasonable solution of why it should have that effect. The agricultural editor has never experimented in that way, but some ten years ago, on Melrose Farm, a span of spiritca horses, hitched to a wagon, got away from the driver and ran through the orchard, running over and badly barking some dozen trees. This was early in June. The next year these trees, and especially on the limbs most barked and scarred, were full ot fruit, while there was a very limited quantity on the balance of the orchard. But what is the philosophy of this girdling trees or vines to make them bear fruit? Trees and vines do not grow merely by the absorption of moisture and material direct from the earth. It is true the roots take up from the earth the water* and mineral matter necessary for plant growth, but it does not go directly to the part where it is to stay. But these go up, not between the bark and wood, out in the body of the tree or vine to the leaves, where it is combined with the carbon which is absorbed by the leaves, and goes through Nature’s secret laboratory of combining water, mineral and carbon, until they are sufficiently digested to be used as wood growth, when it passes downward and is deposited in the infinitessimal cells beneath the bark. So that the growth is made by the downward flow of this prepared material for wood growth. Now, if the tree or vine be girdled, on the body or limbs, this prepared sap cannot pass below where the bark is taken off, and consequently that part above the girdle receives more than its share of sap, while none is supplied to the body below the girdle. Thus the limbs are crowded with growth food, which causes the development of fruit buds —makes the limbs grow faster and the fruit larger. But this process, if the main body of the tree is thus operated on, will in the end ruin the tree. The body and roots must have nourishment as well as the branches, and this girdling deprive them of this support. If this system is practiced at all, it should be on only a part, leaving the ungirdled limbs to supply nourishment to the balance of the tree. June is the time girdling is done, which is only intended as preparatory to the ne*t year’s crop. It is claimed, however, that girdling in June makes a more perfect development of tho fruit then on the limbs. ; - >-.. ' Girdling is done by taking out I rim of bark entirely around the tree, limb or vine, not over one fourth of an inch wide. Sometimes this space is healed up tho first year, but certainly the second year, if the tree be not too feeble and sickly. We advise all to go slowly and carefully in this matter. But it is worthy of an experiment by all. But yet there are many things which ’heed studying, and diverse matters should be* reconciled. One contends that girdling stops the rapid growth of the tree, and causes a more abundant fruitage. Another that girdling oauses an abnormal growth of the limb, and the largely -increased production of fruit v Great are the mysteries of Nature. — lowa Stale Register. A man and bis wife can never agree upon what constitutes a tidy-looking room; a woman will grow * irritablewhen She finds half a dozen cigar stumps sticking to the scorched man-tel-piece, and he can’t be expected to keep calm when he finds a bunch of lonjs “ combings” in his shaving-mug. I*hky were strolling along in the moonlight. Something put Tt into his head that She wouldn’t be very angry, if he snatched a kiss; he resolved to do it, but in the ecstacy of the moment he forgot that he had a lighted cigar in his mouth, and they don’t stroll }n the moonlight any more.— New Haven Register. !

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

—There i$ as much nourishment in one bushel of beans as in fire' bushels of potatoes. •j-A drop of lukewarm water poured in each nostril will always relieve an infant Of snuffling.— Exchange. —A little ‘4hlt sprinkled in starch while it is boiling tends to prevent It from stioking; it is likewise, good to stir it with a, clean spermaceti candle. —1 never know anyone that was too good or too smart to be a farmer. The blue sky, the balmy breezes and green fields never tainted any pure man r 6 morality, or dwarfed any noble man's intellectual ability.— Lambie. —I find that lime, wood ashes and old iron put round the roots of declining fruit trees have a very beneficial effect. These fertilizers restore the trees to a healthy condition, and also greatly improve the fruit in quality and quantity.— W. A. London. ’ —Raise plenty of sunflowers. The seeds are excellent for chickenß and a valuable medioine for horses. Half a pint of flaxseed or one pint of sunflower seed in a horse's feed, three or four times a week, fall and spring, does much to keep them in good health.— N. Y. Herald. —Nothing will take the various social distempers, which the city and artificial life breed, out of a man like farming, like direct and loving contact with the soil. It draws out the poison. It humbles him, teaches him patience and reverence, and restores the proper tone to his system.— Clarkson. —The lemon syrup bought at stores can be made at home much cheaper. Take a pound of Havana sugar, boil it in water down to a quart, drop in the white of an egg to clarify it, strain it, add one-quarter of an ounce of tartaric or citric acid. If you do not find it sour enough after it has stood two or three days, add more of the acid. A few drops of oil of lemon improves it. —Exchange. —Strawberries—fine luscious, crimson strawberries—look well upon the table at meal time, three times a day, and they taste better than they look, and their fragrance is as captivating as their taste. Farmers’ cows give milk, which furnishes sweet cream, and with a little sugar added to the strawberries and cream, there is a dish that the most favored magnates of earth might relish. Strawberries are as easily raised as potatoes or cabbage, and every farmer’s table ought to be supplied with them in their season.— lowa Stale Register. When a young horse act* badly in harness, it is because he has not been properly taught his business. To whip and ill-use him is to spoil him. A horse is naturally willing and docile, if well used, and much may be done by kindness, patience and judgment in removing the ill effects of wrong treatment A colt should be trained when young, and gradually taught his duties; the greatest care should be taken to avoid 1 frightening or irritating the animal, ] ana much patience should be exercised. If the animal refuses to do what is required, punishment will make matters worse; something should be done to distract its attention, when it will generally become docile.— American Agriculturist. —To wash blankets, take half a cake of soap, cut it into small pieces and dissolve it thoroughly in not water. Pour this into enough cold water to cover the blankets; Md two ounces of borax (pulverized dissolves most readily) and put your blankets to soak all night In the morning take them out and squeeze most of the wafer out of them and rinse thoroughly in cold water, in which a little borax has been dissolved; put them through a second rinsing water and then through the blueing water. Do not wring them or squeeze them this time, but hang them up to drain and dry.* The easiest way is to take them, while in the last water, out under the clothes-line, as it is not convenient to carry them when full of water. It is best not to double them over the line, but hang by one end or side. Of course you want a sunny day for drying them nicely, and if you put them to soak at night and the next day is stormy, it will not hurt them to soak longer. If the wool is very greasy, use more soap and borax. Fine flannels and babies crocheted skirts and sacques are nice when washed in this way, and if you use cold water they will not shrink. Vary the proportions of soap and borax to suit the quantity of water. —Farmand Fireside. -—■ - ■- -

Ways Over the Farm.

Others may acquire a right of way over your farm in either one or three modes: 1. By purchase or grant from you; 2. By long-continued use or prescription; 3. By actual necessity. As to the first method, to gain a permanent right by purchase or grant, it must have been by a regular and complete deed, executed in the same way as a deed of the land itself. If the bargain was only oral, or if it was even in some simple written paper, bat not in a formal deed under seal, it would, even though fully paid for, be in law revocable—a mere license, as it is called—and might be terminated, at the mere wish of the land owner, by a notice to the other party to use it no longer. Being a kind of interest in land, the strict law requires it to be conveyed by a deed (2 Gray, 302; 2 Allen, 578.) The second mode, by prescription, requires length of time—twenty years at least; and the way must have been used continuously, peaceably and under a claim of right to do so, and not by your permision or consent. If it was only very rarely used, if it was not peaceably used, but against your protest, or if used by your tacit consent, the use would not ripen into a legal right, however longoontinued (8 Gray, 441; 11 Gray, 148.) And if psed under all those conditions, it must have been in some regular and uniform place. No man can gain a right by such means to wander over your farm lust where he has a mind to or where iis convenience suits him; that would be an intolerable burden to the farmer (5 Pick., 485.) To gain this right by twenty years’ use, it is not necessary that any one owner should, have traveled it twenty years. If successive owners have unitedly used it for that period, it would be sufficient, so far as length of time is concerned (2 Allen, 277.) And if this prescriptive right of way was gained only by using it for some particular purpose, as for carting wood from a wood-lot beyond, that would not authorize the person to continue to use it 1 for all purposes, after the wood had been all cut off, and it had been covered over with buildings (11 (Jray, 150; 15 Gray* 387.) * • 4 The third iqojie, by necessity, arises when you sell a man a back lot, with no means for lym to get to any highway except over vour remaining landCT The law gives him a right to crps? your

land to and fro? otherwise his land would be useless. At present he can’t reach it by balloon to any practicable purpose, and therefore he must cross your land. So, H you sell a man all your front land, retaining the back part, and have no. way out except over the part sold, you retain a right to cross Ike lot sola, though your deed in such case says nothing about it; and this is so, even if in your deed you warrant the land to be free and clear from all incumbrances (4 Gray, 297.) It is a familiar maxim that “necessity knows no law.” But this right of way by necessity continues only so long aS the necessity itself continues; and if a highway is afterward laid out touching the back land on the other side, or ii the owner afterward buys a lot adjoining it and botween it and a highway, he can no longer cross over your laiid as before, but must go out the other way (14 Gray, 126.) And, to long as he docs have such a right, he must go in such place as you designate, if it- be a reasonable place. If you mark out a road or a way along the fence, or on tho poorer he should confine himself to that (2 Pick., 478.) And, if the way becomes miry or out of repair, he must keep it in good condition if he wants to use it. Your duty is done when you allow him to cross; you are nbt obliged to smooth his pathway for him, and rake out the sticks and stones (12 Mass., 69.) But if you actually obstruct his usual road, or if It becomes suddenly impassable by natural causes, he would have a right to deviate to the side until he has opportunity to remove the obstructions (2 Allen, 646.) All such rights of way are apt to be nuisances to the farmer, and notunfroquently lead to litigation. It is important to Know that, in whatever mode a right of way is acquired {over your land, you have ordinarily a right, in the absence of any stipulation to the contrary, to erect suitable gates or bars at the entrance thereto from the highway; and if the other party leave them open, the cattle get in, or yours get out, he is liable to you for the damage which ensues (9 B. Monr., 21; 22 lowa, 161; 44 N. H., 639; 45 Md., 367.) —From an Address by Judge Bennett, Before the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture.

How He Won Her.

A radiant young fellow shook our hand with a vise-like grip yesterday, as he ejaculated, in volcanic words: “Congratulate me! congratulate me! I am tne happiest man this side the Elysian Fields. At last, at last! Why, lam a walking lo triomphe! What is it? Won alottery prize? Faugh! She has consented—she promised to marry me—the prettiest girl in Kentucky—the girl who jilted me seven times before she said yes. Five long years have I loved her. I wooed her ardently, tenderly, gallantly. I had money; I was young. I was not bad-looking. But sne refused mo. I sought honors and eminence in my profession. I gained them: I laid them at her feet; she declined them. Seven separate times had I addressed her, and seven separate times had I been refused. I was in despair; I was losing my own respect, and probably hers; and" I determined to quit, to go away, to look upon'her face no more. I packed my trunk for Leadville. I started out to buy my ticket, when a plan flashed to me—a plan,-a plan, a plan! I went back. I tried it. 1 won!” “And this plan ?” “I hired myself to her father as a coachman!” —Louisville Courier-Jour-nal.

An' Important Event.

The recent completion of the Missouri Extension of the Chicago & Alton Railroad from Mexico, Mo., to Kansas City, Mo., is one of considerable importance, and makes this the only continuous line under one ownership ana management from Chicago to Kansas City. The Extension is commonly known as “ the Connecting Link,” directly connecting, as it does, the latter place with both Chicago and St. Louis, it was CQmpleted in less than a year from the time of commencement, including a magnificent all-steel bridge over the Missouri River at Glasgow. The entire trains run through without change from Chicago to Kansas City, and are supplied with all modern conveniences, notable among which are the Horton Reclining-Chair Cars, for which no extra charge is made. The road is thoroughly equipped, and doubtless will receive a very large share of the passenger traffic between the three rities it so uniquely connects.

A jGOOD many men would have more thart at |present should they earn half that'they yearn.—Boston Transcript. <T*“- A ' r The ForseWulneM of People. The Oxford I’rofeesOr who, to avoid the wind when taking snuff, turned around, but forgot to turn back, and walked six miles Into the country, was no more forgetful than those who still use the huge, drastic, cathartle pills, forgetting that Or. Pierce’s Pleasant Purgative Pellets, which are sugarcoated, and little 1 irger than mustard-seeds, are a positive and-reliable cathartic, readily correcting *ll irregularities of the stomach, liver and bowels. Sold by druggists. People residing in paludal districts, or removing to such localities, can place reliance iu the efficacy of Dr. If. Wilhoft’s AntlPeriodic or Fever and Ague Tonic, to prevent or rather counteract all malarial diseases. It never fails to cure Chills and Fever, Dumb Chills and Enlarged Spleen, and is guaranteed to contain no dangerous drug. The composition of this medicine is given with each bottle, and can be bad from all Druggists. TnE BirrALO Stakch Factoby—manufacturers of C. (illliert’s renowned starches—has always been conducted on the most honorable principles and is one of tbe first Institutions in every respect in tbe United States. With such an increasing demand for their starches, unequaled laellities, and an enviable reputation all over the world, the Buffalo Starch Factory deserves a boundless career of prosperity. • National Yeast Is guaranteed to be the best In tbe world? It always makes light, •weet, nutritious bread. Grocers keep It Gnaw Jackson’s Beet Sweet Navy Tobacco.

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