Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1879 — Page 3

The Rensselaer Union. RENSSELAER, . • INDIANA.

TW'O DREAMS. ■ Weary, the Kinatook off hh crown: In either bend ho poieed itaweight. “Tie etrnnge how henry it hen grown. He eaid, and with impatient frown He eyed it in a kina of hate» Then-on hie bod be laid him down And elopt, and in a twinkling dreamed. Oh! dream of ccwtimy and hili'.' Delight through all hie eeneen streamed; A raggod vagabond he seemed; < Free winds of heaven hie hair did kin; On hie bare skin the free run beamed. At mom ho waked, bewildered, first, -t Or who he was or where might be; Then naw the crown, and with a buret » Of sudden rage he swore and cursed: “ No beggar would change lives with mo! Of all hard fates, a king’s is worst!” Outside the palace, on the ground, Starved half to death and freezing cold, Dess sheltered than the meanest hound, A beggar slumbered, safe and sound, And dreams to him came swift and bold, As if a palace walled him round. He dreamed he was a king, indeed; Oh* dream of ecstasy aud bliss! Of food, he had bis utmost greed; Of gold beyond his utmost need; All men knelt low his hand to kiss And gave his word obedient heed. At morn ho waked, bewildered, first, Or who he was or where might bo; ** Thon quick, by hunger and by thirst. He knew groanea and cursed; ” No creature pity takes on me! A beggar's fate of all is worst!” —-V. K fndependent.

SAVED FROM SUICIDE.

A Thrilling Sketch of California Life Twenty-Five k'cara Ago. As I was coming out of the San. Francisco Postoifice one morning in the year 185-, a tall, dark-skinned man placed himself in front of me, and, fixing his intensely-glittering eyes upon me, said, in an excited tone: “ Sir, can you give me a half hour oEyour time this morning. ”»4“Yes,”l replied, “if I can be of any service'to you by so doing.’* “Not,here, but in your office, privately,” he continued. “I must speak to somebody, and, having heard you preach in the church' on Pine street, I felt that I could approach you. 1 am in great trouble and danger, and must speak tp some one.” Hfs manner was excited, his hand trembled, and his eye had an insane gleam as he spoke. We walked on in silence until we reached my office on Montgomery street. After entering I laid dowrrmy letters and papers, and was about to offer him a chair, when he hurriedly locked the door oq the inside, saying as he did so: “ This conversation is to be private, a'pd I do not intend to be interrupted.” As he turned toward me I saw that he Im iwpfbto'l in his hand, which he Ipiddn a desk, and then sat down. I i ’waiied for him 1 to speak, eyeing him and the.' pistol closely, and feeling a little uncomfortable, locked in thus ,vtitb an ,'armed madman of almost giant-like size and strength. The pistol had a sinister look that I had never before recognized in that popular weapon. It seemed to grow bigger and bigger. “Have you ever been haunted by the idea of suicide?” he asked, abruptly, his eyes glaring upon me as he spoke. “No, not particularly,” I answered; but why do you ask?” Because the idea is haunting me," he said, in an agitated tone? rising from his chair as he spoke. “1 have, lain, for two nights with a cocked pistol in my hand, calculating the value of my life. 1 bought this pistol to shoot inylelf with, and I wonder that I have not done it; but something has heiKima-back.” “Wimt' has put the idea of suicide irttb.your.mmdP” I inquired. y*) life’s a failure, sir; and there is itofliing else left for such a fool as I have been,” he said, bitterly. .“ When a’ man has no hope left, he should die.” , - ' T was making some reply, when he broke in: “ Hear my history, and then tell me if death is not the only thing left for me,” laying his hand upon the pistol ns -he spoke. When he told me his name I recognized it as that of a man of genius, whose contributions to a certain popular periodical had given him a wide fame in the world of letters. . He was the son of a venerable ‘New England bishop, and a graduate of Harvard University. I will give his story in his own words, as nearly as I can: “In 1850 I started to California with honorable’ purpose and high ambition. My father being a clergyman, and'>oor, and greatly advanced in years, I felt that it was my duty to make provision for hint and for the family circle to which I belonged, and of which I was the idol. Animated by this purpose, 1 was full of hope and energy. On the ship 1 hat took me to California I made the acquaintance and fell into the snares of a beauQpl but unprincipled woman, for whom 1 toiled and sacrificed everything fob eight years of weakness and folly, never remitting a dollar to those I had intfefliled tOf provide for-at home,-e&w>y~ ing all the while an uneasy conscience and despising myself. I made immense sums of money, but it all .went for nothing but to feed the extravagance and recklessness of my-' evil genius. ' Tortured by remorse, I made many struggles to free myself from the evil connection that blighted my life, but in vain. I had almost ceased to struggle against my fate, when death lifted the shadow from my path. The unhappy woman died, and I was free. I was astonishea io find how rapid and bow complete was the reaction from my despair. I felt like a new man. The glowing hopes that had been smothered revived, and I felt something of the buoyancy, and energy with which I bad left my New England hills. I worked hard and prospered. I made money and saved it, making occasional remittances to: the family at home, who were o.vqpjoyed jo hear from me after so long? and/ guilty siieuce. I hadn't the. heart t<<writ«-to ,them while .pur--BUing’>yleVil’iiff^r ‘ ~ JdJUpm .learned Wgamble, of course, but now I resolved to quit it. For two ,years I kent this resolution, and had in the over $6,000. Do you believe that'the devil tempts men? -T t«ll .you, sir, it is true! I began to feel a strange desire to visit some of my old haunts. This feeling became intense, overmastering. My judgment ■ and. conscience protested, but I felt like one under a spell. I yielded, and found my way to a well-known gam-bling-hell, where I lost every dollar cf my hard-earned money. It ’was like a dream-Al seemed to'be drawn onto my ruin by qome Invisible but resistless evil power. When I had lost all, a strange calm name over me, which I had never understood. It may have been the faction,* after. A night of feverish excitement, or possibly it. was

i he unnatural calm that follows the death of hope., My self-contempt wfis complete. No language could have expressed the intensity of my selfscorn. I sneaked to my lodgings, feeling that I had somehow parted with my manhood as well as my money. “ The very next day I was surprised by thd offer of a lucrative subordinate fositlon in a Federal office in San rancisoo. This was not the first coincidence of the sort in my life, where an unexpected influence had been brought to bear upon me, giving my plans and prospects a new direction. Has God anything to do with these things, or is it accident? I took the place which was offered to me. and went to work with renewed hope and energy. I made a vow against gambling, and determined to recover all I had thrown away. I saved every dollar possible, pinching myself in my living, and supplementing my liberal salary by literary labors. My savings had again run high up in the thousands, and my gains were steady. The Frazer River mining excitement broke out. An old friend of mine came to me and asked the loan of a hundred dollars to help him off to the new mines. I told hip he should have the money, and that 1 would have it ready for him that afternoon. After he left the thought occurred to me that one hundred dollars was a very poor outfit for such an enterprise, and that he ought to have more. Then the thought was, sugfested— yes, sir, it was suggested— that might take the hundred dollars to a faro-bank and win another hundred to place in the hands of my friend. I was fully resolved to risk not a cent beyond this. The idea took possession of my mind, and when he came for the money 1 told him my plan, and proposed that he accompany me to the gamblinghell. He was a free-and-easy sort of fellow, and readily assented. Wcwent together, and after alternate successes and losses at the faro-bank, it ended in the usual way: I lost the hundred dollars. I went home in a frenzy of anger and self-reproach. The old passion was roused again. A wild determination to break the faro-bank took hold upon me. I went night after night, betting recklessly until not a dollar was left. This happened last week. Can you wonder that I have concluded there is no hope for as weak a fool as I am?” He paused a moment Jji his rapid recital, pacing the floor, with his hand on the hammer of the pistol, which he had taken np. “ Now, sir, candidly, don’tyou think that the best thing I can do is to blow out my brains?” said he, cocking the pistol as he spoke. The thought occurred to me that it was no uncommon thing for suicidal to give way tp the homicidal mania. The man was evidently half mad, and ready for a tragedy. The pistol seemed almost instinct with conscious evil intention. If a suicide or homicide was to end the scene, I preferred the former.

“ How old are you?” aiming to create a diversion. “ 1 am forty-five,” he answered, apparently brought to a little more recollection of himself by the question. “I should think,” I continued, having arrested his attention, “that whatever may have been your follies, and however dark the future you have to face, you have too much manhood to sneak out of life by the backdoor of suicide.” The shot struck. An instantaneous change passed over his countenance. Suicide appeared to him in a new light—as a cowardly, not an heroic act. He had been fascinated with the notion of having the curtain fall upon his career amid the blaze of blue light and the glamour of romance and the dignity of tragedy, amid the wonder of the crowd and the tears of the sentimental. That was all gone—the suicide was but a poor creature, weak as well as wicked. He was saved. He sank into a chair as he handed me the pistol, which I was very glad indeed to get into my hands.' “ You should be ashamed of yourself , sir.” I continued. “ You are only forty-live years old; you are in perfect health, with almost a giant’s strength, a classical education, extensive business experience, and with a knowledge of the world gained by your very mistakes that should be a guarantee against the possibility of their repetition. A brave man should never give up the battle—the bravest men never give up.” “ Give me the pistol,” he said, quietly;, “you need not be afraid to trust me with it. The devil has left me. I will not act the part of a coward. You will hear from mo again. , Permit me to thank you. Good-morning.” I did near from him again. The devil seemed indeed to have left him. He went to British Columbia, where he prospered in business and got rich, became a pillar in the church of which his father was 1 one of the great lights, and committed not suicide, but matrimony, marrying a sweet and cultured English girl, who thinks her tall Yankee husband the handsomest and noblest of men.— Rev. Dr. O. P.. f'itzgerald, in “ California Sketches."

Buried Alive.

A dispatch from Parkersburg, Va., to the Cincinnati Enquirer says: “An affair which, although it may. have had the appearance of a joke to some of the parties interested, came very nearly proving fatal, occurred a day or two since, on Slate Creek, several miles above this city. My informant said it was rumored that three boys, or rather young men, determined to have some spert at the expense of a man named Crouser, for whom they have a dislike. They dug a grave in a hollow between tho hills, and sent one of their number to 1 a field whore a thrashing-machine was at work, where he founa their victim. Crouser was told that two boys wished to see him over the hill, and he unsuspectingly followed his conductor until he came in sight of the other boys and the newly-maao grave, when he asked one of them what ‘that hole was for?’ ‘To bury you in,’ was the reply; and taking hold of him they forced him into’the hole and covered him up with earth and brush, and then left. Fortunately, a man named Melrose, a few minutes later, had occasion to-, pass that way, and found the grave, fvith Grouser’s feet projecting above tho ground. Ho immediately went to work and dug the unfortunate victim from his living tomb, andwvith considerably difficulty succeeded in resuscitating him.” ' , ■ —Dn. Foote says, in the July Health Monthly, that all elirqnic skin diseases are invariably due to a scrofulous taint in the system. This view was also taken by Dr. L. P, Yandell, of Louisville, Ky., a late distinguished allopathic practitioner. , k » ’ ■—Denis Kearney has kent one hundred dollars to the striking spinners, at Fall River.

HOME, FARM AND HARDEN.

—One-half of every farm at least should be ip tame grgss. Much labor is saved, grass grows when you sleep, and cattle fatten.— Wilson. One of the most injurious dietetic habits of Americans is that of eating fresh hot bread, cake and biscuit. The Prussian Government compels bakerff to keep their bread at least orm day before selling. If Americans would follow their example there would be fewer dyspeptics than at present. — Detroit Post and Tribune. —How to Prepare Oat Cake. —A native Scotchman says in the New York TWftwne: “Soak a teacupful of meal over night that it may swjl, with salt to taste, but don’t put on more water than the meal will absorb, and don’t take dry meal; stir with a spoon until you can mold with the hands, add just enough wheat flour to make the meal adhere together, roll with a rolling-pin till the dough is not more than a quarter of an inch thick. Cut in forms and bake in pans in an oven not too hot; you might say only dry them out; they do not need much baking, as the meal has been already dry-cooked in a kiln. Herein lies the difference between American and Scotch meal. As they burn easily bo careful not to scorch them.”

—Tomato Catsup.—One peck of ripe tomatoes, one ounce of salt, one ounce of mace, one tablespoon of black pepper, one teaspoon of Cayenne pepper, one tablespoon of cloves (ground), seven tablespoons of ground mustard, one teaspoon of celery seed, tied in a thin muslin bag. Cut a slit in the tomatoes, place them in a porcelain kettle and boil until the juice is all extracted and the pulp dissolved; strain through a colander, return to the fire and boil at least four or five hours, watching carefully. Boil so that it will be thick and rich; pour into a stone jar and let it get thoroughly cold, which will not be until the next mofning; then add one pint of the best strong cider vinegar, bottle, cork tightly, and keep in a cool, dark corner. —The lowa State Register says the lampas is a very common trouble in the mouth of horses and colts. It. is where the gums or bars rise to a level with, and sometimes even beyond, the edge of the teeth. They are evidently painful, as the animal will frequently suffer for food before he will eat. The common term for it is tampers— but it is spelled lampas. It is from various causes', inflammation of the gums, shedding of teeth, from a febrile tending in the constitution, or from the change of green pasture to dry food. Of it, Youatt says: “A fdw slight incisions across the bars with a lancet or pen-knife will remove the inflammation and cause the swelling to subside; indeed this scarrification of the bars in lampas will seldom do harm, although it, is far from being so necessary as supposed. The brutal custom of the farrier who sears and burns down the bars with a red-hot iron is .most objectionable. It is torturing the horse to no purpose and rendering the part callous, on the delicate sensibility of which all the pleasure of riding and driving depend. In may be prudent, in case of lampas, to examine the grinders, and more particularly t,he tushes, in order to ascertain whether either of them is making its way through the gums. If it is so, two incisions across each other should be made on the tooth, and the horse will experience immediate relief.”

Why Farmers’ Wives Become Insane.

One winter I met a farmer’s daughter who had just returned from a visit to. some relative in another State. She was the farmer’s main stay, for his wife was dead, and all the other daughters married and gone. The family was not large, yet they kept half a dozen cows and made butter for the market, and kept farm hands enough to work their place. In fine, there was no lack of housework for two able-bodied women, and only one to do it. When I saw her in the winter she was rosy and plump and strong as any of her neighbors. I met her casually during the spring and early summer without noticing any change. But, toward the close of summer, I met her face to face, and was shocked at the tired, worn look she exhibited. I inquired if she were well, to which she replied, “Why—yes, I But it was very evident to me,that she was far from well. I knew ’’she had broken down before, and had gone away from home to recuperate. I knew she had had a cough which she assured ipe, voluntarily, “ was not the consumption,” thus betraying her fears that it was the consumption; and she had gone away for her health,, and had returned with rosy cheeks, ahd frosh, clastic manners. I compared the vigorous girl of eight months ago with the nerveless, tired girl before me, and involuntarily asked myself—because I feared being misunderstood if 1 asked anybody else —“ Why will they not see that they are killing that girl with work and worry?” And there the question rests unanswered.

' I* one of the late jmporls. on Insane Asylums, the statement is made that the largest proportion of female inmates is from farmers’ wives anil daughters. > Vvc have been so accustomed to think of ‘farmers, their wives and families, as the healthiest and sturdiest inhabitants of a country, that the statement astonished me. But I began to open my eyes and look around, and one of tbejirst things I saw was a buxom, fresh lass, full of life and vigor, transformed by farm-house work into a tired, nervous, pale, weak girl, in a few months. Are farmers’ wives cheerful? With ;the question in mind make an investigation. Some of them are cheerful. Those* are who have farms successfully carried on by careful husbands, who only demand of their wives supervision of the “help,” of which plenty is furnished. Bpt go through the country, observe thefarm-wife carefully, and you will see generally tired women—tired women with Careworn faces and mechanical actions, going about their daily routine of hard duties. I Is there any connection between this tiresome and unvarying drudgery and the meaningless jabber of an Insane Asylum? Perhaps there is a closer connection than farmers are aware of. Perhaps there is a predisposing cause of insanity in the Constant pressure of anxiety and the vexatious care of on unvarying round of drudge-likejduties which hurries farmers’ wives to the Asylum. <► Men may sneer at the idea of wornaniq wark- being so burdensome wjjen theV reniember their own laborious tasks. But sneeriMgdocsttot bring back the lost wits of the wives to whom kitchen, pantry, milk-room,;- ditfing- | room, suggest drudgery.

Tbs man has a constant change of ■cone with all the excitement incident thereto. He goes from breakfast to the plow, the harrow, and the constant lyvarying duties of the farm. He comes in to dinner—if it isn’t on the table at the hour, he growls or looks sour—and to supper prepared for him, and after supper goes out to the barn or the neighbor’s dooryard to smoko a comfortable pipe and chat with the neighbor about the crops. The wife rises to kindle the fire, dress the children, cook breakfast, wash the dishes, send the children to school, got dinner, wash the dishes—and if there is* a moment to spare between dinner and supper, to spend it in sewing—get supper, was the dishos, put the children to bed—and if a moment more offers, to sew, beside taking care of the morning and evening milk, gathering eggs, churning and working butter, and a hundred things that must be done every day,.in exactly the same way and order—and then, perhaps, meet tho sour or disappointed looks of tho lord of the manor if anything is amiss in all this endless detail of drudgery. She does not attend any lodge or society meeting; she visits a neighbor but very seldom, “ she’s so busy, she does not walk out after toa to meet a friend, to drive away care by social converse; her duties vex her till bedtime, when, anxious and careworn, it’s long ere she can sleep, or if she can, the teething baby or the sick child demands her care; and she may spend half the night in quieting it, to be roused from a troubled sleep all too soon, to get breakfast, etc., etc. I have known farmers to sneer at the idea of indoor work being laborious and hard, and even be boorish enough to jeer tho - hard-working wife for “ making a mountain of a molehill.” But in point of exaction and wear upon thebody and mind, the farmer’s work, though laborious, is asily borne by the constant shifting of the burden and change of duty and neighborly chitchat in comparison with the wearisome sameness and petty drudgery of the farmer’s wife.

Farm life ought to be the healthiest and the happiest of all lives—and in tho story-books it is so. The books tell of arduous, tiresome work interspersed with recreation. A faithful portraiture of one year’s weary routine on the farm as it actually iff in New England or the Middle States, where the wife does all the housework and dairy-work and the man does all the farm-work, would hardly be a profitable book tp the publisher. But where Janet the maid does the dairy-work ,in a scrupulously-neat dairy, and the housewife superintends all matters connected with the house; where there are “harvest-homes” and excursions and visiting; where the dull routine of irksome duties is broken-lip and enlivened by recreation—there is a charming and attractive picture. And why should not this charming picture be a reality? The farmer who loves his wife and cares for her welfare sees with anxiety her cheeks losing their freshness and her spirits their elasticity. He consults the doctor, who recommends iron or quinine, or some drug; and the tonic seems for a while to be the very thing needed, but it soon loses its power, and he begins to think she is going into a decline, and she feels it. Happier and better advice than any prescription of iron or bitters for the overtaxed woman would be: “ Hitch up the bay mare to the wagon and take your wife for a drive, not once, nor twice, but often. Make recreation for the tired woman. Take her with you when you go to buy a new horse or mowing machine. Take her to the town. Break up the monotony of her life indoors. Relieve the constant pressure, and you will see the bloom return to her cheeks and the freshness to her spirits.” Endless monotony will wear the fiber of any mind and cause aberration, or else react on the body and create disease. Recreation for the farmers’ wives would not remove every cause of disease or insanity; but if farmers would plan recreation for their wives and families, they would remove one cause of despondency, gloom and sickness from their houses. They, would do much to avert the calamity of aberration of mind and prostration of bodily vitality. They would do very much also for their own happiness and the recommendation of the farmer’s life to their sons and daughters. —W. B. Cary, in N. Y. Observer.

Henry Clay and the Goat.

Henry Clay, when once walking homo from the Capitol at Washington, saw a frightened woman on the streets vainly striving to ward off the attacks of a sportive goat. He gallantly, in spite of his years and office, seized the goat by the horns. The woman t hanked him warmly and sped hurriedly on. Mr. Clay would have liked to move on ateo, but the goat had its own views about the interference with his innocent amusement. As soon as the woman’s deliverer loosed his hold on the two horns, the animal rose majestically on his hind legs and prepared for a charge. In his own defense Mr. Clay now took the animal as before by lift horns, and thus for a time they stood, while a crowd of street bovs gathered about, immensely amused at the unusual spectacle of a Senator and a goat pitted the one against the other in a public street. As long as Mr. Clay held the goat by the horns, all was well enough; but the moment the quadruped was free, came a fresh preparation for a charge. Not a boy offered assistance; but after awhile, one ventured to suggest, "Throw the Billy down, sir.” Mr. Clay at once accepted and adopted the report of that committee, and tripping the goat up, essayed to pass on. Before he could fairly turn away, however, the goat was up in lofty preparation for a new charge. Mr. Clay gave hi 4 enemy the floor or the pavement once more, and keeping him there, turnetj to his new adviser with the question. “ And what shall Ido now?” “Cut and run, sir,” replied, the lad. *

A Hint to Workingmen.

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