Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 1, Number 29, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 14 January 1871 — Page 2

Rural.

IMONTHOSE FARMERS' CL V%. MoxxnosK, Jan. 2,1871. TbftClub met at the usual time and ^lackl-President J. I). Parker in the

The minutes of previous meet-

"y ing were road and approved. Tho time of officer* having expired, the incumbents were re-elected for ensuing term. Then followed Mr. Brown with tbe subject, "Who is the best farm-

er?»

Mr. Keith—To determine who is tlie 4 best farmer involves many ifs. Indisposing of this subject we shonld consider who is thT most successful producer of grain. Stock raising belongs to a different branch of business.

Mr. Brown—Best in farming can be made to imply main' things. Mr. Barnes—Best farmer means the most suecesslul farmer. We do not mean the man who has succeeded for a few years in spite of himself, and as tho result of causes over which he had no control. But tho best farmer is tho one whoso efforts in farming are uniformly crowned with succors as the result of his own skillful management, and of his knowledge of how to produce crops of all kinds and in the greatest quantities* He is the man who realizes much gain out of all things pertaining to tlie farm, including the keeping of live stock.

Mr. l'arker—The man who raises the iK'st crops, who lins the best fences and keeps them free from briars and weeds, who keeps the best stock, who keeps up gates and other necessary repairs about the farm, and who attends to all things in due season, pushing hie •work rather than having his work push him. I believe to bo the best fanner.

Mr. Keith—There are two classes of farmers, tho router and the owner of the land. The renter will not keep up repairs. The owner has great advantage over his tenant. Tho best farmer keeps no niorfc stock than he has land to sustain in good condition. Tho farmer should keep a regular set of account books, for the purpose of learning exactly his losses or gains on tlie various farm interests. Farmers should not be too oager to break up their pasture lands. Hogs should always follow cattle on pasture. 1(J0 acres should constitute a farm.

Mr. Brown—1() acres do not constitute tho best farm. Thousands of good farmers have a loss amount of land. Men have been known to succeed admirably on even loss than twenty acres. And somo thero are who farm live acres only. Tho best fanner is ho whoso stock raising, grain producing, soil fertilizing, and money making efforts aro tho most uniformly successful. Too many overstock themselves with land. Tho bestfsrmer can realize

40 acresto

tho point that will yield 80 bushels per acre, than to realizo but 10 or ]." bushels per acre from 60 acres. It is bettor, by proper cultivation, to get 7" or SO bushels of corn per aero from 10 acres, than, by improper cultivation, to realizo a less number of bushels per acre from 100 acres. The' best farmer can, on -10 acres, keep two horses, two to four cows worth to floo each, and four pigs that will gain pounds per dav. lie it is that can get thegreatest results from the smallest number of acres-.

Mr. Keith—The best firmer will bo («areful in the selection of his laborers, lie knows that it costs no more to plow the best land than to plow poor land. Mr. Morgan, of Middletown, is a good farmer. lie inns 2."0 acres, partly bottom land, and keeps a set i| farm books, lie succeeds best bv employing men and theirteams by tho month, lie buys his neighbors' corn to feed cattle. His tenant neighbors barely support their families by thus selling their corn. The owner of tin1 land always keeps ahead of the tenants in this way.

Mr. Brown--t do not agree with Mr. Keith in all that he has stated. A nun can be a good farmer without owning land. Luge land owners are not the bent farmers, it does not necessarily follow, because heavy crops grow upon new land, that the owner Is a good farmer. Ho who can so fertilise the poorest land «s to roalizo the greatest results Is the liost farmer. I doubt whether any man can or **ight to succeed without doing his duty.

Mr. lhirnes—I must disagree with Mr. Keith, too. The Middletown man

alluded to owned a large farm and was torv, so far at least onintfod in stock raising, not farming, the grasses that A stock raiser is one thing and a fHrm- side. aiuUhe little wi oris another. A man may foe successful in raising an abundance or grain. v^c., and at the end of tho year hare but little money, mvinu to extravagance of his family, lie allows his family to squander his hard earnings in the useless fashions and follies of the dav. A good, industrious farmer with frugal tamilv can soon be able to buy himself a farm. He can make money by raising wheat, oats, corn, barley, tiix. A*e., without impoverishing the soil.

Mr. Keith—We should Is? able to advise voung men as to the proper cultivation of TflO aero furnis. There is too much ragged farming in this country. A good tarmer should own the land cultivated bv him. He should be able

surp'M* eash *mves!«rnl farmer who permits hl» wife to usurp thf» anthorlfr belonging only to hlma«!f. Wives will find enough to oeoup.v their lime and attention within their own sphere of action. The best

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affairs that he may be able to la} something for a rainy day. has a higher appreciation of the Indies than myself, «6 long as tlu^ttonot transcend their bounds,

anscend tlieir nounus. Mr. Parker—The best flu-m or flood not necessarily own the land cultivated Jy

Parker—The arily own the 1

him. The tenant usually realises more clear money than tho owner. -It

times happens that the rents fail to l»a\ the taxes. Like Mr. Brown, 1 behevo the good farmer can manage his family as well as his farm.

Then caino tho Committee on 1 ublic Speaker, reporting as follows To the Members of the Mont row Farmer.sTlnb: Your Committee to whom was assigned tho duty of procuring a speaker to address the Club on some topic of interest to farmers, would report that the services of Prof. Jones, of the Normal School, have been secured for Monday evening next, at 7 o'clock. And we recommend that the ladies, both old and 3*oung. and the public generallv, be, and are, hereby invited to attend and that the Secretary be re

quested

to give publicity to this thro

the city papers. All of which is respectfuily submitted J. I). PARKEH,

W. M. Leh,

The Club,upon motion, then adjourned. fV-*

SLIPPERY PLACES.

Thero are a good many people who will appreciate, just now, tho following from the Hartford Evening Post:

Suddenness is, after all, tho disidoratum. Suddenness and unexpectedness arc the essential qualities of wit. A joke to be thoroughly enjoyable must bo sharp, sudden, and unexpected. So also must a seat on tho sidewalk. That is the reason

why

a seat on the sidewalk

is so much like a*good joke is itself, in fact, a good joke. Anything, therefore, that promotes it is commendable. And so we always view with admiration these little slippery places that cross the walk from eaves, troughs, and water conductors—thaw in the sun, you know, and freeze at sundown. Wo admire them ever so much—go way round them to admire them. They are such good things to happen on as you are going home late at night thinking of your Mary Ann, or your quarterly dividend, or your starry days, or who is going to make you your next present and what it wilt be you strike one of those oases, so to speak, in a desert of blue stono, and with scarcely an effort on your part you sit down. There's something about it so easy and withal so kind of sudden like and its so quick over, and you don't have to stand round getting ready for it and shivering over it as boys do when they go in swimming on'a cold day and it is so warming when you get there, and so cooling it you stay there a 1 ittlo while and it is so encouraging, too, about your teeth, if you've ever had any doubts about their being set in strong and it excites such a lively sense of.gratitude that nature has provided something for you to sit down on and then it's so smooth and so slippery and if you don't tear your clothes it's so easy to get right up and smile, and even if you do tear your clothes the present fashion of overcoats is so much better than short jackets for adjusting to new relations of that k'ijid and then abovo all there's an awakening of a sei.se of feeling of superiority to earth that getting up abovo tho'world and sitting right down on it, that sometimes wo hanker after and don't have that ou the whole we aro inoUned^thliflMheslimKJiy pluses are a mean* of grao^ We ought to have mort ofcthem.

THE SIZE OF Ol'R SENA TORS.

Howard, Nye, Sumicr, three hcavv weights, sit side by side, sustained by Kellogg and Yates, who complete the row. tin1 fifteen Senators named, there is not one weighing less than lt() pounds, and all but three or four will acknowledge 2K1 and upwards. So, siz" in body and head does really give evidence of power. In tho House there is not so marked a distinction. The Representatives will average better, and there are some little

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froni education to tell what his soil is Otrtylt, in the IMwffurgh q»ron/. iPod for. Mr. Brown—My advfeo to the young farmer Is, not to spen er than he makes this If he would nww. r. Bsmes l»e a good farmer and not be able taj tho gridiron and prevent his fHmilv from squandering She then placed the live lobster on the the nrocwis. I wish t* enter here mv gridiron. Intermission of five minutes, humble rvftoHt niralnst thfa* orroiMKUis JiHor which thf* following took _.

it to

farmer will enforce this condition of like a wild maniac that helm*!"

Young

niul

who hold

large places ability, not .experience, perhaps, is as grout.

SrritT pv XATUHAI. HISTOKT.—For many years it has been on of my constant regrets that no schoolmaster of mine had a knowledge of natural hisso far at least as to have taught grow by the waynged and wingless neighbors that are continually meeting me with a salutation which I cannot answer, as things are. Why didn't SOUIOIKMIV teach me the const el lat ions too. and make me at lioniein thestarrv heavens, which are always overhead, and which 1 don't half know to this dav? I love to prophesy that there will come time when, not in Edinburgh only, but in all Scottish and European towns and villages, the schoolmaster will bo strictly required to possess these two capabilities (neither (Jroek nor Latin more strict), and that no ingenious little denizen of this universe IH» thenceforward debarred from his right of liberty in those two departments, and doomed to look on them as if across grated fences all his life!,'—

COOKixrt A IxnsrKR.—"Bridor«t.

m. Mt Smlolt he^l /bnrso men of hia the Are the mow ho walked oil. The me. Polly shrieked, she did. to be abuf ed

gnd will wtw fhwrwnWnc a dhM»g like that." ater?" "Divll a last I saw of him he gofaty out of you. at ttnf h«» hick door with his fesHaf

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/. CHARADE.

Mounted on curbed, impetuous horse, Roaring "loft his plumed head, Holding hi own with stalwart force, wanders my first, by fortune sped.

Under my second's lowly roof Enters "my ,/ir.s/ with lordly mien, Whilo through the night my third givos proof

Of Nature's wrath in stormy seeno.

Now comes a lull, and through the air Echoes a song of sweetest strain Hark 1 'tis my u-hole rejoicing thero,

That shine the gontlo stars again. CAULOTTA.

N \MKS OF PLACES ENIGM ATICALLY EXPRESSED. 1. pmctico economy, Annie. 2. A boy looking into a sugar-bowl (eitv and country). :C Part of the human frame, a metal, and a conveyance. 4 girl's name and a garden-nnplo-nie'nt. Jo KINO.

LOGOGRIPH.

Entire I am a fragment of music behead me, and ladies sometimes wear mo- again beheaded, I am an element behead me again, I become a familiar Scotch word once more, and I am a preposition. Wiui'-Poon-Wirx.

PUZZLE.

Five letters will my whole express: I am connected with a dress. Now the first letter please take thence, You'll find mo somewhere in the fonco Behead again, and what remains Oft tills tho sufferer with pains Tho second item now transpose, And sure tho sinner 'twill disclose.1

BURIED CITIES.

1. Some men complain tnat {he east wind sorely troubles them. 2. Amber lines tho shores ot the Baltie. 3. Do you cat hens, chickens, or turkeys 4. I think lio is tho best man I know. f. Papa rises at six o'clock. 6. He said: "Madam, as cushions are made to lio on, I will improve tho opportunity." M. McG.

CONCEALED NAMES OF WELLKNOWN MEN. :4 1. "A cobweb," Sterne says,

,fis

Miss MITTEN'S STORY.—M Miss Mitten. I'm a kitte talk a great deal in the guage, but Uncle Tom people don't understand^! Roiiy. roil*-Rosfe ie-» longs t& me, ani ly pretty often*, feeds me out of oriWof Mai na dishes, and plays with'

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Tho Washington correspondent of tho Milwaukee Sentinel writes: One cannot help recallingthe phrenological dictum—"that other things being equal, size is the measure of power"—when looking on the Senate assembled. There is a good deal of head here, and proportionally a larger amount of belly also. Small men are by contrast at a great disadvantage. Look over the outer circle to the 1 olt of the Vice President, as an illustration. There aro no small men in it, though some are not fat ones, vet the lean men, however largo of brain, are made to look small bv contrast. Thei\« ane Hamilton and Flanagan, of Texas, "li'jyi and hungry kino," tall and lank, men of the Cassins stripe. Next conies your goodly proportioned Senator,both physically and mentally, Matthew II. Carpenter, one of the strongest men in the Chamber. Scott, ol Pennsylvania, sits next to him—a man of moderate stature and weight. Kiee, of Arkansas, long-headed and long-limbed, follows his colleague is by his side, McDonald, younir but weighty in avoirdupo,s and sagacity then Hanisey, handsome and stout, tlanks ('handler, homely, coarse, largo in frame, and heavy in llesh.

wonderful thing." 2. Did you ever hoar of a vocal hound 3. Then Ryistone answered him, yes. 4. Yes, madam, said he respectfully. 5. Solomon, Roomer's remark was wise. (5. Mad! Is one mad because ho is just? V~ Ron ROY.

ANSWERS TO ENIGMAS,. CHARADES AC. IN LAST WEEK'S PAPER.

Enigma.—Edinburgh. "Word Puzzle.—Missouri. Problem.—52, 104, 115 24-100 Logogriph.—Dray. Charade.—Ca r-pet.

lie is lould lanon ut

Mary Ann is—well—she' ny Always staring right her, and her back is as stiff ai and she wouldn't lift a lingei' herself, no, not if the sky was It's my opinion—and I'm a kitfc come close, so that she can't don't want to hurt her feelings, if slio hasn't got anv—it's my opinion Marv Ann is what they call shoddy—all over.

—but

Uncle Tom is a genius in his way. He is president of the Cat-ogorical Society and at thoir great concerts you ought to see how it moves all the felines when he scrapes tho tiddle. Ho says, too, he's very fond of ratiocination. And "Mittie," says he, stroking his whiskers, "only think what it is to have nine lives to live, all in a row, without stopping There's experience for you. Come to me, mv dear, whenever you get into trouble."

Pshaw ain't I a kitten eat Dear—()h—rue! I keep still any longer where is the end of mv tail I thought I saw it llirt by a minute ago. Whiz, whir, thero it goes! no it don't now I have it—no I haven't Whi-r-r, buzz,thump, bunipety, bump! Who would have thought 1 was going to run my cocoanut against the chimney jamli? Chimney jambs aro a nuisance.

Well that makes mo think of the time when I tirst saw my little girl. It was away off in another place. There were six of us, and mammy besides, all snuggled down in the bottom of a barrel. One day we saw them peeping over the top of the barrel at us Polly and t'other one. Polly's eyes were so bright, and her hair so yellow, that Cripsey thought it was sun-up, and began to crv for his break-fast. But I knew better. kurtr it was J'olly. "There they are," said t'other one "ain't they the sweetest, prettiest, eunningest"—but I'm not going to tell all that nonsense. "To be sure they are," said Polly. "But how are we to get at them?"

And with that they clambered upon a pile of boards close by away went the Niards, and down they camo, crish, crash, in tho midst of us, and what a mess we had of it. Mother Crump, and six kittens, and Polly, and t'other one, all in one barrel, and no Itones broken only 1 am sure, to this day, that I never shall live out half my nine lives.

O. but wasn't that mouse the other day! Half as long as your arm. and twice as big as lie wsis long. I ch:«ed him under the chairs, over the cupboard, across the table, round and round, up and down, half way to the moon and back, and just as I thought 1 had him, he wasn't there! Nothing in tho world to lie saen but a little bit of a knot hole, no bigger'n Polly's thumb!

Now was there a mouse, or wasn't there?" said I, "tell ine quick. Uncle I I a a a a

what thinkof whirling round and round like

Wt»«re is tbe lob-) the dirty pine know 1 know I The

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id a I to of I if I 1 1 and tho broil* Tho morel pokeil! prei aw*y till Polly camo and fetched EsoixsH.-Their i* no languMoaa,

Vo man can become a haste'sdaunted I'll try no more. No "»h pitch tor turpentine and lum- manage skillfully, as the It is like'a perpetual ba wo man can uwwn .... i. a'nwl- ber," she said "if you arn't all glned is a composite language, a sort of Mo- Ji.i\ a dog. It is like a ptrpcvu

board

sweetv, tweety, pitty, -. yon.* ms*i,t And tken she dressed me

scarlet flannel jacket, and white petti

coat, and high crown, muslla cap, with tho blue ribbons and sett|s0littletahlo all out with Mary Ann's abina dishes, and put me in Mary Ann's chair, and said her "deaf, little, old Granny

Or urn p.

should have cup or tea, sojsneHoould," Mary Aj»n was ilfeatmilhT joyous.--L",u a*,,ecu.

KVKNINO GAMIV—1THKHPASH.—AS the long evenings and tho "cold snaps" came on, we opmi again our corner for social games. This week wo offer one for tho smaller boys and girls, called Trespass.

The room being divided by a fixed lino, all but ono take possession of one part. Tho solitary person lea out is seated blindfolded'in tho middle of the vacant lot, and some twelve or fourteen small articles aro scattered about before him on tho floor. Tho objoct of the game is to steal these articles one by ono, so softly as not to bo caught by tl'io blind man, who as soon as ho hoars a sound approaching, is at liberty to pursuo tho offender. If caught on tho owner's lot, he is put into prison—that is, behind somo table until tho game is ended. Here, also, aro banished all similarly taken but should tho blind owner not succced in taking a single prisoner bofore his gamo is all gone, then ho is bound by tho rules of the gamo to play tho owner over again. Of course, tho trespassers aro safe the moment they cross tho boundary line and arrive in their own territory. The ono lirst caught becomes tho owner tho next time. •,

A BACHELOR'S DEFENSE. Bachelors are styled by married men, who have put their foot into it, as only half-perfected beings—cheerless vagabonds, but half a pair of scissors, and many other titles are given them while on the other hand they extol their state as ono of such perfect bliss, that a change from earth to heaven would be somewhat of doubtful good.

If they are so happy, why don't they enjoy their happiness, and hold their tongues about it? What do half the men get married for? Simply that they may have somebody to darn their stockings, sew buttons on their shirts, and trot their babies—that they may have somebody, as a married man once said, "to pull off their boots when they area little balmy."

These fellows aro always talking of the loneliness of bachelors. Loneliness indeed! Who is petted to death by ladies with marriageable daughters?— invited to tea and to evening parties, and told to drop in just when it is convenient The bachelor. Who lives in clover all his days, and when ho dies has flowersmrewn on his grave by tho girls who couldn't entrap him? The bachelor. Who strews flowers on the married man's grave? his widow? Not a bit of it sh6 pulls down the tombstone that a six-weeks' grief has sot up in her heart, and goes and gets married again, slio does.

Who goes to bed early because time hangs heavily on his hands? The married man. Who gets a scolding for picking out tho softest part of the bod, and for waking up the baby when he turns out in tho morning The married man. AVho has wood to split, house-hunting and marketing to do, the young ones to wash, and the lazy servants to look after? The married man. Who is taken up for whipping his wife? The married man. Who gets divorced? The married man. Finally, who has got the Scriptures on his side? The bachelor. St J?!,ul know what he was talking about—"He that marries docs well but h© that marries not does better."

GIANTS.

Garapin saw a girl that was ten foot high. Tho giant Calabria, brought from Arabia to Roino, under Claudius Ctesar, was ton foot high.

Fannum, who lived in tho time ot Eugene II., measured eleven and a half l'cet.

Tho Chevalier Serog, in his voyage to the Peak of Tencriffo, found in one of the caverns of that mountain the head of the Gunich who had f-ixty tooth, and was not less than fifteen feet high.

The giant Farragus, slain by Orlando, nephew of Charlemagne, ws twenty feet high.

In ]"iH). near Roune, was found a skeleton whoso skull held a bushel of corn, and who was nineteen feet high.

The giant Raeart was thirty-three foot high his thigh-bones were found in 170:t, near tho llivor Moderi.

In li2.}, near tho castle in Dauphine, a tomb wasthirtv feet long, sixteen loot wide, and eight feet high, on which was cut in gray stones these words "Kentolochus Rex." The skeleton was found entire, twontv-five and a fourth feet long, ten feet i".cross tho shoulders, and five feet from the breast bono to the back.

Near Palinermo, in Sieilv, in l:il», was found the skeleton of a giant thirty foot

I) TSA PPEA It A 'E OF A NISL A NI. A large island is missing. Captain Flock, tho bark "Adolpho," bound from loiiHiue to London, states that while passing tho New Hebrides Islands ho discoven that Aurora Island had entirely disappeared, and no trace of it was to bo seen on tho face of the ocean where it was before situated. "W hat makes this occurrence more deplorable," says the Palf Malt (inze'te, "is that Aurora was one of tho most fertile of the group of islands of which it formed iMt'inbcr. It was I:ist seen in I uitU(le l." lis, longitude 1*8 2T K, it is described aw Laving been about thirty-six niilefi in length and upward of five miles in breadth. Any information respecting it will bo thankfully received, and it becomes a question whether a reward should not bo offered for its rccoverv. If large islands take to disappearing in this fashion, weshall soonceaso to congratulate ourselves on our 'insular position.' There is, however, this consolation—that if England were to disappear like Aurora Island, there would, no doubt, bo a rigid investigation made into the circumstances by the res. of the world. Franco would miss a useful depot for her refugees Ireland would suffer from ennui with no one to abuse and we may bo sure that, unless we had previously settled the Alabama claims, America would never rest until she had Ashed us up again." ,,. ,5

TIII: Denver News &aja: "The recent thaw was one of the most rapid we can remember In Colorado. During the elv ni'-iap-nearljr so here and wh

,ho.b*„7uw„TV"w„,ch.he boicIj*•"*

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other.

TIIE MAN WHO READ# THE PAPERS. Tho MuncM Telegraph tells of a farmer by tin name of James Fisher, who

VI IIISUIV V* A' IQMWI lives up in Grant County, hear Marion takes and

"UXCI-K DAD Moirrox," oT Vermont, who tells tho following storv, should possess, in connoetion with his invention, two or throe of our hen-pei su nil ers. His success would then bo complete: "Them ancestors of our 11 duln do nothin' half-ways. Rut, there's an awful fallin' off since them times. Why, in my time, when I was a boy, things went 011 more economical than now. Wo all worked. My work

WHS

THE EFFECTS OF PRUSSIAN WAlh OX TRY IN THE NO&TH

Well,

to take

care of the hens and cliickings, (l)ad is famous for his handling of the alphabet), and I'll ts ycr how I raised 'em. You know 1'sa very liinkin' child, al'as a thinkin' 'cent when I's asleep. Well, it came to me ono night to raise a big lot. o' cliickings from ono hen, and I'll tell you how I did it. I took an ole whisky-barrel and it up with fresh eggs, and then put it on the south side of the barn, with somo horse manure around it, and then set the old hen on the bung-hole. The old critter kept her sittin', and in three week I heors a little •peep.' Then I put my ear to the spigot, when tho peeping growed like a swarm of bees, ididn'sayanv tiling to the folks about tho hathchin'. for they'll all told mo I was a fool but tho next morn' I knocked the head out of the barrel, aud covered tho'barn-floor, two deep,all over with little cliickings. Now vou may langh as much as you please, but it's true."

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Tun PAi'AI. CITIKH

RKKI:OK.—If

the Pope does leave us, writes from ... Roiuo a-correspondent of the New York after these

Observer, he has a large choice of places

among which to make his new home.

Malta has been at his dis|osal for •ears. Then the Austrians offer him

him, Spain would give liitu Majorca, and Franco Corsica. Belgium and Holland are not to be outdone, so that rcallv he could make the world in general his oyster. Hut we hear that great preparations aro being made at tho atican for the comfort of its Inmates during the winter, which certainly does not look verv much like departure.

after thai! UUIJUrtyg.w "HI J*. rem.in. invmlbK tory^ ^'.ieicoukli dicate the presence of mombers of his

for a bit of fun.

STATES. I On entering Germany in Aufhstrpst the most naiolwervant of twtvclers could hardly fail to be impve*sS8 with the fact that war, for tho tinio being, had become tho first and almost solo business of the nation, or, more proporly, of tho Confederate Germanic States. Hi Rhenish and Northeastern Pru&sSn product ion seemed to have been

ainoug the Items which excited his interest, was ono which related how a man with a balky horso got out of his wagon when tho animal stopped, and sat ou a stump and read tho Bible until tho animal went on again, which h«*ttdiafcreat degree arrested few civilians in a very short tliuo. Mr. Fishojf bad a balky horse so he put a Bible Hn his pocket and went out to try the experiment. His horso^ftjppped right In the middle of the BtflHn refused to budms ah inch. Fisher got out and sat on Jj|ie curbstono and opened his Bible./' An immense crowd gathered arqujad and watched hint, wondering what in tho namoof common sense was tho matter with Fisher. But Fisher paid no attention to them. Ho begaa at'Genesis, and he read that Bible clear through to the end ot the Old Testament, including the Apocrypha—and thero the horaaatood**quiet a%a»tatue! Then he road on to the enfl of Revelations, and perused tho pre

were to be encountered, either upen the cars or at tho hotels while the trans-

Eoat,

ortation of merchandise ly rail or except for military purposes, was also apparently entirely suspended. Privato letters written as late as the middle of Octj"ber describe also the same condition of affairs, and make mention of the. difficulty of oven finding a blacksmith to shoo a horse in many of the Gorman villages with tho further incident that even tho sextons had left their chnrches and gono to tbe act nal war districts in the capacity of Krankenstager, or hospital attendants, whose special duty is taking care of the dead. .. ...

and Hil the' foot-notes, together witti more competent to judgo thana tr intho title-pago and the name on the baoR^%entobserver, and since comnnanicated ofthocovor! Still his horso clung to that ono spot, never moving except to bito a tiv off of his llank or kick one from his stomach I Then Mr. Fisher began ltevalations and read clear back to Genesis, including the marginal references. Fisher thought, if there were any good in the system, that must certainly start tbe steed but it didn't. It occurred to hi in that perhaps the horse might be encouraged to go forward if he would read a few chapters of Deuteronomy out loud to him. So he bexpn, and went over about six hundred hard names in fourteen syllables, whieh so discouraged the horso that ho began to back, and he kept on backing until he jammed the wagon through a pane of two-hundred dollar plato glass in a china store, and smashed a window full of crockery. Mr. Fisher remarked to tho proprietor, after he had paid the bill, that he did not regard the experiment as a decided success. He said he would put no more faith in the suggestions of newspapers. He was so mad about it that he stopped his English papers and began to take a German paper, which ho can't read so there is no danger of .his being fooled again.

THE A OED LO VEIL

"No longer a lover!'' exclaimed an aged iover. "Ah! you mistake mo if you think ane has blotted out my heart. Though silver hairs fall over a brow all wrinkled, and a cheek all furrowed, yet I am a lover still. I lovo tho beauty of a maiden's blush, and, abovo all, the silvery laugh of a child. I lovo tho star-like meadows, where the buttercups grow, with almost the same enthusiasm as when, with the ringlets flying looso in tho wind, and my cap in my hand, years ago, I chased tho painted butterfly.

Hove

the aged dame. Look

at her. Her faco is caro-worn, but it has over hold a smilo for me. Often have shared the bitter cup of sorrow with her—and so shared, it soemed almost sweet. Years of sickness have stolen tho freshness of life but, like the faded rose, tho perfuino of her lovo is richer than when in full bloom of youth and maturity. Together wo have placed flowers in the casements, and, folded the hands of the'dead! Together wept over little graves

Through sunshine and^storm we havo clung together and now she sits with her knitting, her cap faintly frilled, the old styled handkerchief crossed, white and prim, above the heart that has boat so long and truly for mo, the dim blue eye that shrinkingly fronts tho glad day, the sunlight, throwing her parting farewell, kisses her brow and loaves upon its faint tracery of wrinkles, angelic radiance. I see, though no ono else can, tho bright, glad young face, that won me tirst, and tho glowing love of forty years thrills my heart till the tears come. Say not again I can 110 longer bo a lover. Though this form be bowed God implanted eternal love within. Let tho oar bo doat, the eye^ blind, and the hands palsied, 1I10 limbs withered, tho brain clouded—yet tho heart, the true heart, may hold such victories, that tho gravo shall not bo able to put out its quenchless flame.

The opinion of German authorities,

to the writer, has been, however, to tho effect that prodnctionjs not really 111war in Germany, as whole, to a greater extent than 30 per cent tho interruption being greatest in Prussia proper, where the military conscription has boon the most extensive, and least in the allied States, as Saxony and Ilavaria, where a smaller proportion of tho young, able-^ bodied men aro drawn into the army and in tho German States and "free 'i cities" which, like Nassau and Frankfort, have been incorporated with Prussia since 1860, and where tho Prussian military laws havo only been made applicable to those who havo bocoiue of age sinco the date of incorporation.

The general effect of the interruption of industry in Germany by reason of tho war may be inferred from the earnest appeals that havo recently boon inado to the eharitv of all Germans in behalf of tho working population of Rhenish, Prussia, Hanover, Radon, and Hesse especially. One of these appoals brought to our notice, under date orSeptember 28th, uses tho following language "Tho towns in these districts aro crowded with helpless women and children, coming in to beg for bread tho. fields aro loft untillod tho villages are swept clean of food while the prioo of all the necessaries of life havo gono up threefold."

At a period as early as tho last week in August tho appearance in every tierman city, town, or hamlet of considerable numbers of men in uniform hobbling upon crutches, or with their arms or heads bandanged, testified most eloquently to the terriblo results of tho recent battles whilo at tho rai'wav stations, or in tho vicinity ot tho rooms or buildings appropriated for uso as hospitals, tho spectacle ot women clad in mourning or weeping bitterly was not by any moans unfrequont. Thero is also reason to believe, owing to the practice of grouping tho local or district conscriptions into companies, battalions, or regiments, by themselves, that tho almost entire destruction in some instances of such military integrals has been equivalent to tho destruction of almost all the young, able-bod-ied men of certain small towns and villages. And as regards the comparative lossesgpf the Jaxmie&r' the ..opinion expressed to ihe writer By numDonjLof Prussian officers who wore wOunded in tho battles bofore Motz were almost uniformlv to the effect that tho losses of tho Prussians wcro greater than those of tho French, inasmuch as tho former were nearly always tho attacking party, whilo their opponents, until routed, fought under cover or behind buildings, hedges, or inlrenchmcnts.—

David A. WeU* Lippim-atCx Mtnjtt-

S N A E I A E

Among the sights bordering on the marvellous which attract, the traveler attention in Egypt, beyond even tho mysterious proceedings of the Caireno Magician who professes to summon tho dead to life, may bo mentioned the interesting performances of the snakecharmers.* These men belong to the order of Rlfaco Dervishes. They profess to discover the presence of any venomous snakes which may be concealed in the house, a very common occurrence in the warm climate of Egypt, aud, if there be such snakes, to allure them from their hiding-places.

The first measure! usually resorted lo by the wary spectator is to cause the performers to be thoroughly searched in tho courtyard previously to their being introduced into the interior ol the house, lest they may have snakt hidden either in the folds of their "caftans," or long flowing robes, or in those of their "libis," or baggy trowscrs. Sometimes they aro forced to deposit their voluminous garments in somo corner of tho court yard, and, as an additional precaution, they are undo to tuck up the loose sleeves of their kamis, or shirts, after these have been as closely examined as the rest of their clot lies.

When all possible precautions havo been taken, the snake-charmers aro allowed lo enter tho house. Immediately 011 admission they assume an air of mystery, strike the walls and Moor with a 'short palm stick, whistle, make a chuckling noise with the tongue, and spit on the ground, exclaiming I adjure ve, if ye be above or below, that ye come fortli, I adjure ye by tho most great name, if ye be obedient, come forth and, if ye be disobedient, die! die!" However close may have been the previous search in every corner of the apartment, ami in every piece of furniture and hanging drapery, in about tell minutes, generally speaking,

exclamations, a

dislodged

from one

eupboanls

I John lirown on |amiiv, and comes forth from his hidtiiat every family should j„g pfoe# to greet them. s?

en it betrays no secrets, ucv

questions, down

the

proj

with which nist rooms aie

lined, or drops from the wood work of tho collintr. The result of any incredu-

generally seizes one of the snakes by the neck, and, after displaying his fangs, tears him in pieces with his

toeth,

spitting out the bits on the floor with a highly excited, defiant air. The only solution of this mystery is, that as these dervishes mako it practice to tame snakes, live habitually with thein, and arc not very cleanly in their

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A listener complains that in tho bate at a late meeting of tho "Milk Producers Association," nothing was said about water.