Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 1, Number 44, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 29 April 1871 — Page 2

•j (For the Saturday Evening Mail.] a MY POTATO PATCH. Everybody 6ught to plant potatoes, they're a good thing especially if they grow. I have periodical attacks of making garden about o'.ice every two years they're never dangerous however, for usually they go off with th6 first appearance of hot weather and leave the crops to struggle with the weeds, which struggle often terminates with material detriment to the former. I had a luri ous attack once, aud it was all about potatoes, I had tried all other kinds of "garden seeds" and always succeeded In making a failure, and when I heard how prolific potatoes wore, and how easy to raise, my courage revived and I determined to make one more garden before I died. As the attack was rather sudden 1 feared it might gooff and procured my seed immediately, knowing that if I was net in the humor to plant them 1 ooold dispose of them otherwise without much difficulty. The seed was remarkably fine and I felt if ever I was to be a success now was the time. As the weather was a little cool I put my embryo crop in a safe place and waited. In the meantime I discussed potatoes at the table, in the store, on the street and even my nights were cheered by visions of the monster bulbs laying around in mountainous heaps, or rendered hideous by armies of potato bugs creeping over me in their reckless haste to secure the last green sprout. The result of my investigations was, that they should be cut into bits and planted in the moon. The last suggestion I considered of great importance for I had noticod the powerful influence of the moon in expanding the hearts of young men and maidens so that they felt as if they could easily embrace the whole world as well as a limited portion of it, and why would it not havo the same effect on potatoes. To bo sure of making no mistake I waited until a clear night when the moon shone bright and full, then considering that now was the time to plant if ever, laid my plans accordingly. The next day I prepared the ground and brought out my potatoes, which in the meanwhile had changed their appearanco remarkably. On nearly every one was about a half dozen or moro white things resembling worms. Of course I couldn't leave them there and run the risk of losing all my crrip, so I took my knife and cut them all out carefully and wlierevor they looked as if another might come, I cut out the ejjg, I have since learned that those "white things" wero sprouts. I congratulated myself that I had mado way with the bugs this time sure. After cutting them into suitable sizes I placed them very carefully in tho ground and waited. IIow long I waited it is needless to state. For all I know they are there yet and whon I plant potatoes again I'll let somebody else plant them. I didn't uso strong language towards tho man who sold me the seed, but quietly arrived at the conclusion that as a garden1st I was a failure. This is why I re--mark that everybody qjight fo plant ^potatoes- F.

"V us IN OncfixtiDsl—Tho pnbl ic has yet to loarn the full advantage of keeping poultry. Few seem to appreciate whaf they may do among trees in an orchard of a quarter of an acre, where they may bo kept by a picket-fence four or fivo feet high, putting up, say 125 fbwls, to observe the result.

He will avoid the annoyance in the garden of which so many complain, while they will work among the trees, doing lust what is needed, keeping the ground well cultivated, and destroying evory thing that can injure the fruittrees in the shape of bugs, worms, or any other insects, and lay a large number of eggs, which area cash article, to sav nothing of the chickens, which pay well for the raising at the present time. 1 have tried it, and know it to HO.

I havo aliout one hundred fowls, which havo worked admirably among my trees, keeping tho ground in good condition, keeping oflTho insects, and

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Rural. Young Folks.

the growth of tho orchard.

am satisfied Mint wo have yet to learn tho full benefit which may be derived from the management of fowls, and it is quite possible thatthe method I haye suggested may offer the best way of getting our apple orchards into, good bearing condition again.

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To KEEP OUT BORERS.—A discussion, tho substance of which is iriven bolow, took place on the subject of keeping lorers out of fruit-trees, at a recent meeting of the American Institute Farmer's ("Hub:

Mr. Heed, Perth Atnbov, N. J., said that he kept out borers by nutting a little jacket of tarred roofing-paper nlniut the base of tho tree. He digs the earth awav from the crown, ties tho top of a strip of this paper about the tree, and hauls earth up around the base of the paper, and is not troubled with borers. lie takes it off in tho fell. Thus treated, the borers have disappeared from his orchard altogether. Mr. Quinn said it might keep the borers out of the crown of the tree, but not out of the limbs, where ho had often found them. Mr. Fuller said farmers are careful to hoe a hill of corn, in an orchard, that is worth alout three cents, but too few of them ever think of hoeing away, the grass from the roots of tho tree, that is worth 110: if they would only keep the grass from the roots of the tree, they would have less trouble.

Tho foundation for all profitable crop-

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lng is in the home-mado manure pile. no farmer neglect it. Lot no one think that labor in this direction is lost. A hand and a »rt employed on this work alone, on gathering up all arailablo material and building up heaps of manure, would make more than at any other labor. How very much might be gained, or saved, if every planter made manure-saving a distinct ousiness, instead of a mere incident of tho fartn^jrork.

In thickly settled countries, like England and tho Continent of Kurope, where the highest system of agriculture prevails, the very men who tnako the most of home manure, buy also the most fertilisers. .The fertility of the noil wit**! be maintained, or else no ferming will long prove profitable. Manure tmtxt be had, and he who see# and feels this most is he who will first saveevery resource of fertility at home, and then buy liberally to feed his land.

In Los Angelos, California, there la a pepper-tree grown from a seed planted three

years

ago, the trunk of which

aeararos over eighteen iuchea in diam

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MISCELLANEOUS ENIGMA. I am composed of 88 letters* My 1, 21. 34, 25, 62, 85 is a bird. My 4, 20, 54, 08, 39, 49 is an animal. My 8, 63, 17, 25, 68,40 is a reptile. My 11,6, 24, 40,64,82 ia a fruit. My 12, 7, 26, 68, 25,2 is a vehicle. My 15, 21, 27,8,18,07 is a bird. My 19, 3, 22, 61,89,63 is an animal. My 23, 3,17, 9, 28,14 is a plant. My 28, 30, 47,60, 20, 6 is a relative. My 81, 24, 55, 56, 54, 7 is a tree. My 32, 52,17, 51, 67, 6 is a bird. ,f. My 33, 24, 4, 53, 3, 21 is a rope. My 37, 54, 32, 61,14, 16 is an insect. My 41.17,59,10,22, 40 is a flower. My 44, 20, 24, 29, 26, 5Ms a water fowl. My 45, 43, 63,13, 18, 39 is a plant. My 56, 27, 36, 8, 46, 40 is a Wrd. My 57, 54, 6, 35, 42, 48 is an animal. Mv 66, 30, 50, 49, 52, 38 is a flower.

My whole is a poetic quotation, ,i. -i ISOLA.

CROSS-WORD ENIGMA.

My first is in oak. but not in tree, My second is in mate, but not in spree My third is in rat, but not in mouse, My fourth is in hat, but not in louse My fifth is in coat, but not in vest, My whole is in a thriving young city out

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W BOTANICAL ENIGMA. I am composed of 29 letters. My 3, 29, 16, 28, 22, 2, 8 is a common, smooth, tall inhabitant of marshes, much sought after in boyheod. My 6, 21, 23,10 is a most important cereal, upon one variety of which is found my 27, 9,15. My 13, 24, 4, 7, 9, 17, 11, 26 is a North

American herbaceous plant, having a very large root, ana bearing, in autumn, long racemes of dark purple, juicy berries. My 20, 11,18, 28, 14, 1 is a very valuable grass. My 25, 5,19,12 is of the order of the grasses—an aquatic, growing from five to twelve feet hign. In our Western ponds, in summer, the violet-blue spikes of my whole—"a fine, conspicuous plant"—form a beautiful contrast with the large white blossoms of the sweet-scent-ed water lily. F.

PROBLEM.

A well is deep threo-'n'-thirty feet',' ,r/( A frog does at the bottom croak Compassion has he nono that's meet,

And longs he for his own dear folk. If now Batrach should upward leap Each day three foot two feet each night Fall back and when once out should keep

On jumping, toward his native bight

How long, I ask,how many days,, Would he require his home to reach (From the well's bottom, if you please,)

Provided that his leaps be each Six feet, now that he's out the well That, falling back no moro at night, Each day h© makes ten leaps to tell

Upon his distance from the bight

And lastly, that his home be from Thfe place where he did upward come, Ono furlong, minus sixty feet.

The question now you have complete. FOURTEEN.

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

Cross-Word Enigma.—Hvacinth. Names of Animals.—1. Panther. 3. Roobuck. 3. Badger. 4. Goat. 5. Mastodon. 6. Donkey.

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A stitch in time saves nine. When the cat's away the mice will play. Little boats must koep near shore. Jack of all trades. ii Pride goeth before a fall. Fools and their money aro soon parted. Anew broom sweeps clean. H] Little pitchers havo long oars.

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Square Word.—Mice, iron, cold, ends. Enigma.—Bonjamin Franklin. •, Jpt'U,' f't :f THE FRENCHMAN'S SON.—Upon the banks of the Mississippi, in tho State of ftennessee, there once dwelt an old «hp by the name ot Yadge—Tom Yadge. Now, Tonrhadbeen an honest, hard-working man all his life, but he had meter tymed a saddle but as Tom new old, fits wealth and importance FneftiSbd, ft rid with ft a desire for a hog skin so ho one day packed up a clean shirt, stuffed a hundred dollars into his wallet, stepped upon a steamboat, and away he started down tho river for New Orleans, to buy a saddle. Now, this was tho first trip Tom ever made ho had livod all his life where ho was born, and never heard any other language than that of his mother tongue. In tho course of a few days he landed upon tho levee at New Orleans.

Poor Tom! little did he know what he had to encounter. The Frenchman was there, the Italian was there, tho Spaniard was thore, tho German was there—some from all parts of the world wero crowded upon that levee—and there was Tom, with his eyes stretched, and ears open, completely mystified and bewildered at the strange jargon going on around him. Ho stood if as long as mortal man well could, and at Inst struck out, with his mind tally prepared to be surprised at nothing he saw. upon his errand of the saddle.

After meandering about the city for some time, he at length found a saddler's shop Tom, with heart elate, walked in.

The first and only living creature which met his vision was a baboon of the largest species sitting upon the counter, playing with the girths which were hanging from a saddle immediately over his head. Tom very politely addressed him:

How do you do, sir?" Tho baboon grinned and nodded. I wish to buy a saddle," says Tom. The same expression from the monkey. In a louder key from Tom—

I want to buy a saddle." A verv polite grin from the baboon. "I will give vou twentv dollars for that saddle," says Tom, at the same time handing him a twenty dollar bm-

The animal, having seen his master put money into the drawer, took it, and hopping along the counter, made a deposit of Tom's twenty dollar note. Ho returned, however, immediately to his former position.

Well, hand us down the pig skin," savs Tom. Very little notice .from the baboon.

Hang it. why don't you give me my saddle I have paid you for it. so hand it down, or I will take It myself."

An awful chattering from the baboon. Ttora, not intending to be fooled with any louger,

reached

with long moustache, came rushing in-

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WhSt you do, sareT What do you want in here, you old rasca^T By gar, von shall givo me satts/aeshune

Am%ot in the least daunted, but very much

exasperated.

riDped out.

"YOU infernal old nairy-mouth scoundrel! I believe you wish to steal mv twenty-dollar bill! I came in here, bought a saddle, paid the moneydown for it, and now, when I want to be go inir with it, your son there has reftised Wt me Say. II, and has kickod up fuss about it!" ...

Tom, however, got his saddle, ana returned the next morning in a boat going up the river but has been heard to swear it was the last ono he ever wished to purchase.

RAILROADING IN THE OLDEN TIMES. William Hambright, an old conductor on the Pennsylvania Cent nil road who, we are told, is femiUarly^known throughout the State as Cap, Die" "Pap," or "Conductor HamDright," has given to the Columbia (Pa.) 9ourant some account of his

Mr. Hambriglt commenced his career as conductor by taking the first train (horse cars) out of Lancaster, in l&w, after which time he ran ^gularly, has been employed nearly all the time since as passenger conductor on tne Pennsylvania Central Railroad. then acted as conductor, brakem an, ana greaser his compensation was eighteen dollars

per

month—which wasconsider-

ed good wages at that time. His train of horse cars would leave Lancaster at five o'clock, P. M., and arrive at Philadelphi at five o'clock the next morning making twelve hours for the journey and the fare charged was 33:50. Stoppages were frequent, fresh horses being employed every fifteen or twenty miles. At times they would be greatly detained by the severity of the weather, the winters in those times being much colder than at the present day.

There was no fire in the cars, ana when a stop was made to change horses, the conductor would make for the nearest haystack or barn for the purpose of procuring straw or hay to strew upon the floors of the cars in order to make his passengers more comfortable ho ridin" outside, the cars generally being packed so full that he could scarcely gain admission. Down grade the horses were always kept at a full run. Horseflesh was very cheap then—sometimes five good animals could be purchased for §100. In the year 1835 a locomotive, built by Norris, was brought from Philadelphia to Lancaster, in wagons (why it was not brought by rail we did not learn) however, the wonderful machine was put upon the track and fired up in presence of an immense assemblage of spectators. It appears the enterprise was not very succesful, as it would run a short distance and then halt then a number of muscular men would lend their assistance by pushing. Every device was resorted to, to make the "critter" go, but to no purpose. Some time after this, three small engines were purchased in England and sent over, which answered all the purposes for which they were intended, one of which is in use at the present time in York, Pa., sawing wood.

The Harrisburg and Portsmouth Railroad, as it was then called, being laid upon strong pieces of wood, iising flat bar iron fastened down with sjjikes —it was necessary to carj and spikes on the engine. spikes would come out fro the bar, causing the end o. stick up, wjjte? ..." heads,'^piTrt^rthe' obliged to stop and spike dowto before attempting to pass over. Information had to be given the engineertJ before starting, wnere stops were to ber maue.

Here we may state that td Mf. Hambright belongs the credit of inventing the bell and rope system for signalling engineers. He got permission from his "boss" to put his idea of the thing into practicable shape. Procuring a rope and common door bell, he attached the latter near the engineer—no house being over the locomotive at that time— and then stretched the rope over the top of the oars. Ever after that, and up to the present time, bell ropes have been in vogue, though in a more approved style than tho one just described.

Conductors were not required to make reports at the end of each: trip, aaia now practiced they would hand oyer the gold and silver—perhaps two or three hundred dollars or more—'to the clerk, who would enter it in a book provided for tho purpose, somewhat in thiswise: "Conductor Hambright, so many dollars," and that was all the formality about it. Checks for the baggage were not used, but when tho cars arrived in Columbia or Philadelphia, the conductor would open the car door for. tho delivery of baggage etc., to the passengers who crowded around and secured their parcels by answenng, "mine," to the conductor's interrogatory "whoso trunk is thisT" which was kept up until all disappeared. If a trunk was market "B" it was to go by boat if "S," it was to go by stage line. Strange to say, there was not as much baggage lost then as now.

Very often the conductors would help the proprietors of the lines during harvest, and assist at other labor when off duty.

ANECDOTE OFBEECHER AND CHAPIN. During their Summer vacation, Henry Ward Beecher and E. H. Chapin were traveling a short stage route together, and, according to their wont, rode upon the outside, passing the time most agreeably in genial conversation and in admiring the scenery. At one of the stopping places on the route, a countryman asked them, "Can yon make room for mo up there?" which they cheerfully did. Soon after taking his seat, Mr. Beecher entered ilrto conversation with him, and flndTbftlat he had recently returned from a visit to New York, and, to use his own ex-

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out and caught hold

of "his property but no sooner had the poor fellow done so, than the nails and teeth of the monkey were driven into his arm. Tom kicked and swore—the baboon bit and screamed—until, at last, the ewner of the shop, a Frenchman,

ression, had seen enough of it, asked if he stopped over Sunday, and went to meeting there. He said he had, and went over to Brooklyn to hear a fellow preach he had forgotten his name. "Henry Ward BetStJher?" suggested Dr. Chapin. "Yestnat was his name." "How did you like him?" said Dr. Chapin, slyly winking at Beecher. "Oh, very well," said the countryman. "Did you go to hear him in the afternoon said Mr. Beecher. "No I went up town to hear another big fellow." "Dr. Chapin?"suggested Mr.Beecher. "Yes, that was his name." "Ann which did you like best?" said Mr. Beecher, winking at Dr. Chapin. "Oh, thunder!" said the countryman, "Dr. Chapin can preach Beecher right out of his boots!"

You had better believe there was a pretty loud shout went out from that coach for a little while—a ahout that astonished the countryman, who tailed to recognise his jovial fellow travelers.

SATURDAY EVENING MAIL. APRIL 29.1871.

Htflmer

AN ASSASSIN.

Tho Duke de Berry was of rough and coarse conversation, licentious in his habits, violent in his behailac. Before the Restoration, ho serve, 1* the army ot Conde, and held a ^Stuaslan commission but in 1802, or thereabouts, he went to London, the undenominational refuge of prlnees of all persuasions. There he availed himselfof that singular privilege possessed by princes of rovalhood, of marrying for love and sending his wife away when he got tir ed of her. He married a Miss Crown, by whom he had two children. Pretending that his illustrious uncle, the king in posse, would not sanction the marriage, he left his wife, and married, sometime after—with the gracious permission of his sovereign—Caroline, grand-daughter of the Bourbon King of Naples. In 1820, as he was assisting his wife into her carriage, after the opera, a wretched man, named Louvet. rushed forward before his troops and stapped him to the heart with a knife. Never was an assassination more delib erately planned Of longer reflected. Louvet had been a saddleftto the Em peror Napoleon. After his fall he was observed to become distrait and gloomy. He was already meditating his crime. In 1815 he had a knife made at Lyons— long, narrow and sharp-rafter a fashion which he himself designed. This knife he always carried about with him, waiting his chance. He had no animosity against the duke: but, as it was his fixea intention to work off the whole Bourbon royal family with this long knife of his, bethought it well to begin with the youngest. He kept his purpose steadily before him, watching his opportunity year after year, day after day. More than one occasion presented itself but in each his courage failed him. He wished to strike the blow, but could not—until the fatal evening when the duke gave him not only opportunity, but courage to take advantage of it. Of course ne was guillotined.

BEEGHER'S PECULIARITIES. The New York correspondent of the Boston Journal writes:

Mr. Boecher's colloquial gifts are among the elements of his success. Ho treats his Church like a family. He gives utterance to his feelings as he would at his own fireside. To him the Sulpit is no more sacred than the pew, [e has none of the convent ialisms of his profession. He puts on no austerity and no outward marks of devotion. He comes on to his platform, flings down his hat on the floor, picks up his Hymn-book, manipulates it, as a mechanic would a tool before using it. What other ministers would say to half-a-dozen brethren around the pulpit, Mr. Beecher would say to his whole congregation in tho pulpit. In the lecture room he comes into the side door, and if it is cold stands awhile over the heater, tumbles up his hair, washes his hands in invisible water with face toward the congregation, mounts his plat form, and takes his seat with neither table nordesk between him and the people. He begins the service abruptly, without prelude or introduction. He does not sav "Let us sing," or "Let us praise God," but simply says, "434." He sits during the entire performance, except when he leads in prayer. His talks are given in a sitting posture—he Euts one leg up over the other, tilts ack, puts both feet on the rounds of the chair, and takes his ease during the service. The other Sunday he undertook to give out his text but could not find it. He had made a wrong entry. Most ministers would havo been em-

Not so Mr.

Beecher. jTcFliunted round a while, frankly told his people what the trouble was, and took the edge off by remarking that he had "known a grqat many ministers to lose their text after they had oegun their sermon, but he had lost his oefore he commenced." ..L

CUPID ON A STREETCAR. Tl is a queer peculiarity of that mythicHPessence whom the ancients denominated Cupid, to bo always around where he it least expected. It may bo that his planks are excusable when played on yohth alone, no matter how mortifyinglhey may become but to make a respectable spinster passed the age of three ftoro and ten a victim of his delusions, is monstrous. Yet lias that very fat been accomplished.

Ridiniin a Camp street car yesterday, an ttderly lady, clad in a dress of clasieal lattern and yellow flounces, was engfted in caressing a curly headed pood dog. The operation was watched lkr a dandily dressed youth, who assuned an air of well-countor-feited dis«st. Evidently ho wished to impress alaround him' with the exceeding ddlcacy of his manners, and great refinement. Finally, as if wishing to attraa more attention, he whisEered loud qiough for the lady to hear im

It is something pleasant to bo loved. I wish Ilwere a poodle," and ho looked impiioWitly at the lady.

Sir, if thafEg all the requisite to obtain affection, Vu shall bo happy. Be patient you ai^apuppy now—you soon may become ad

Evidently thk was a retort that he had not anticipated. His attempt to laugh was a failb-e, and availing himself of the first Ibcasion to leave tho car he hastenedto find appreciation elsewhere.—N. 0.]Pieayune.

RESPECT TyE A BSENT. The man who is tlaroughly courteous, a gentleman all the %ay through, a man really polite, not frofe external polish, but by virtue of theWrfect material, susceptible of a perffe polish at any section and at any deuh, i« courteous and respectfnl, as weljas just, to those who aro present. It i»iot much of an effort to oe polite to pefcle before their faces, if to avoid direct Wcnse can be reckoned as politness uit the faculty of bringing the absent oje back to tho mind and memory, andUreating his good name and feelings precisely the same as if ho wero present\ is ono too hen found envy, an delieate

lordly to be often found. It means much—an a' educated sense of respect for reputaiwo, a spirit of courtesy, A refined a knowledge that fe3» tho 11' of words, a practiced*^ over the "door of the 11'k that might have won a sm. to, a charity that might have stirrei the heart of St. Paul. One may only lope to find a few such in a lifetime, but when fbund he may be sure of them as owners of spirits which are pure and noble, free and true.

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Itiyated ^respect, qig forte watch iwsophy from Pla-

A SINGULAR SPRINO.—A local paper calls attention to a singular spring in Kittery, Me In haying time last .summer there were no signs of water, but as the drouth became severe, good pure water welled up. sufficient to supply a whole neighborhood. It did the same in a very dry season some years since, but as the rains come the spring dries

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A voung lady of Troy advised a |»ntleman friend not to take flat irons to bed with him, aa they would warp his feet!

[From the Herald of Health.]

HOW TO LIVE LONG AND WELL.

A Letter from William CuUen Bryant— fe He Describee his Mode of Life. NEW YORK, March 30,1871. To Joseph H. Richards, Esq.

PEAK Sin: I promised sometime since to give you some account of my habits of life, so flir at least as regards diet, exercise, and occupation. I am not sure that it will be of any use to you, although the system which I nave for many years observed seems to answer my purpose very well. I have reached a pretty advanced period of lite, without the usual infirmities of old age, and with my strength, activity, and oodily faculties generally in pretty good preservation. How far this may DO the effect of my way of life, adopted long ago, and steadily adhered to. is perhaps uncertain.

I rise early at this time of the rear about 5:30 in summer^half ah hOftror even an hour, earlier. Immedww^ with very little incumbrance of clotlP ing, I begin a series of exercises, the most part designed to expand the chest and at the same time call into action all, the muscles and articulations of tjtt body. These are performed with dum®

My breakfast is a simple one—hominy and milk, or, in place of hominy, brewn bread, or oat meal, or wheaten grits, and, in the season, baked sweet apples. Buckwheat cakes I do not decline, nor any other article of vegetable food, but animal food I never two at breakfast. Tea and coffee I never touch at any time. Sometimes I take a cup of chocolate, which has no narcotic effect, and agrees with me very well. At breakfast I often take fruit, either in its natural state or freshly stewed.

After breakfast I ocQupy myself for a whilo with my studied, and then, when in town, I walk down to the office of the Evening Post, nearly three miles distant, and alter about three hours return, always walking, whatever be the weather or the state of the streets. In the country I am engaged in my literary tasks till a feeling of weariness drives me out into open air, and I go upon my farm or into the garden, and prune tho trees, or perform some other work about them which they need, and then go back to my books. I do not often drive out, preferring to wtilk.

In the country, I dine early, and it is onlv at that meal that I take eithor meat or fish, and of these but a moderate quantity, making my dinner most of vegetables. At the meal which is called tea, I take only a littlo bread and butter, with fruit if it be on the table. In town, where I dine later, I make but two meals a day. Fruit makes a considerable part of my diet, and I eat it at almost any hour of the day without inconvenience. My drink water, yet I sometimes, though rarely, take a glass of wine. I am a natural temperanco man, finding myself rather confused than exhilarated by wine. I never meddle with tobacco, except to quarrel with its use.

That I may rise early, I, of course, go to bed early in town, as early as ten in the country, somewhat earlier. For many years I have avofded in the evening every kind of literary occupation which tasks the faculties, such as composition, even to the writing of letters, for the reason that it excites the nervous system and prevents sound sleep.

My brother told me not long since that he had seen in a Chicago newspaper, and several other Western journals, a paragraph in which it.was said that I am in thehitbitof taking quinine as a stimulant that I have depended upon the excitement it produces in writing my verses and that, in consqufciiuu oi using it in that way, I had become as deaf as a post. As to my deafness, you know that to be false, and the rost of tho story is equally

so.

I abominate

all drugs and narcotics, and have always carefully avoided everything which spurs nature to exertions which it would not otherwise make. Even with my food I do not take the usual condiments, such as pepper and the like. I am, sit, truly yours,

W. C. BRYJ

.ANT.

HOW DANIEL WEBSTER PREPARED HIS SPEECHES. In one the debates in Congress, which suddenly called Daniel Webster to his feet, he made a brief but most eloquent speech, apparently without any opportunity for previous preparation. In the course of ni'1 remarks, he threw out tho following suniencc, which has ever since been admired as one of the most harmonious and expressive in the English language. He was speaking of our military conflict with Great Britain: "Our fathers raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of hor glory, is not to be compared a power which has dotted over tho surface of the wholo globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drumbeat, following tho sun in its course and keeping pace with the hours, circlcs the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of martial airs of l-.ngland." As he sat down one of tho Senators congratulated him upon his speech, and, alluding to the above passage, said that to him it was inconceivable how Mr. Webster, in a speech so manifestly unpremeditated, could have formed so perfect and so beautiful a sentence, which with hours of study he could not improve. Mr. Webster replied that the passage was not extemporaneous that in his summer vacation he had visited Quebec, and while standing on the massive and almost Impregnable citadel there, looking out upon the wondrous scene of national grandeur and of nature's loveliness spread before him, the idea occurred to his mind. He immediately took his s^at upon a gun, and, with pencil and paper, sketched the thought in his most appropriate language he could at the moment command. Upon arriving at bis hotel he sj»t down at his leisure, and wrote it and rewrote it, with many interlineations and erasures, until he had mouldedit into the form of words which satisfied him. He then laid it aside in his retentive memory, to be used when the occasion should offer. The opportunityarose upon that day.

THE Texme Christian Advocate,Galveston, November 17,1870, contains an accouit of memorial service* the Kentucky Military Institute in honorof the late fbbert E. Lee, The following is a senterce of the concluding paragraph: "May he rest in peace and oe resurrected in .glory lo meet his right-hand hover. Stonewall Jackson!"

Was tiat an original or copied sentence? It winces, certainlv. a fair knowledge of tte^game.—Harper's Drawer•

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CLEANLINESS OF PERSON. There is no one cause so* productive of disease as the lack of attention to cleanliness ofpenon%n the part of such a vast majority of people. To keep the pores often, so the fetid matter discarded by the growth and progression of the Dody tnay not be retained in the system as the germs of disease, is not the only thing necessary in cleanliness but we should be careful how we take unclean substances into our systems, so the vitality required for. a healthy growth shall not be waited in throwing off these foul secretions. Iikno one thing do people display so much recklessness as in the uso of,tobacco. If "cleanliness is next to godliness," we are, as a people, far from eqjoying the felicity or having a heavenly Hebe ."lor a Ganymede of cleanliness as our cup-bearer, to minuter to our spiritual fife those subtlo essences of aesthetic enjoyment which jaiseua above the animal kingdom, and At us for better and purer lives than wflow can eirioy. James asks, "does a fountain at tne same place send forth sweet water and bitter?" and What would the apostle have said had kajlivad in our day. and had he seen a MOnth Employed at one time in squirt-

bells, the very lightest, covered with- JnytolMcoo juioe, and the next in kissflannel with a pole, a horizontal bar, and a light chair swung around my head. Alter a full hour, and sometimes more, passed in this manner, I bathe from head to foot. When at my place in the country, I sometimes shorten my exercises in the chamber, and, going out, occupy myself for hair an hour or more in some work which requires brisk exercise. After my bath, if breakfast be not ready, I sit down to my studies until I am called.

ing a Bdy, or in the maatiflcation of food "Lft all things be done decently," he wonld #have repeated. What an abuse to have one's mouth—originally pure, studded with pearls, and formed for noble purposes—converted into a smoke fectory, or, what is worse, into a fountain overflowing with a black stinking liquid! And how un-

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part, for kissing, should ever come in contaot with a lady's lips, loaded with thfif stench of tobacco! An arithmetical genius has estimated that there is enough of this foul liquid of to-bacco-juice every few years ejected from human mouths, to float navies, and well-nigh drown the world if it was collected in one shower of delugo proportions. Prof. Denton, in one of his lectures on geology, tells the story of a man putting a ouid of tobacoo in the mouth of a rattlesnake once, and the snake did not live to crawl its length. Had old heathen poets been acquainted with tob*ccof they should haye imagined that it was tobacoe juice, as squirted from men's mouths, that suggested to them their idea of such rivers as the Styx and the Acheron Another lecturer on geology, Prof. Gunning, recently offered an illustration to prove that species change, and that the organic world of to-day is the offspriug of organisms which lived through the geologic ages, whioh setve as a warning to those who make habitual use of tobacco. He mentions tho fact that a few years ago the Swiss Government published a report on the natural history of Switzerland. Two very distinct species of rats were pictured and described ono was large, plump and glossy: the other was lean, scrawny, and almost bereft of hair. They seemed two distinct species. In the second edition ot the report tho rats aro reduced to one. A naturalist has found how tho meanor rat was made. One of its ancestors—a good, plump, glogsy follow—had strolled into a tobacco warehouse and made his abode thero ho began to nibble, curiosity lod him on, ho went from bad to worso, till you see where ho turned up —so unlike his grandfather that a naturalist mistakes him for another specios. Those who think they can touch pitch and not become defiled, or use tobacco, and remain clean ana pure, should heed this. Wii

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Thero are often well authenticated cases, in which the ipstinct that some dogs possess in so wbnderful a degree rises to the sublime heights of a numanity that oven some human beings lack. A story of this nature is told of a couple of dogs, one of which was a Newfoundland, and the other a mastiff. They were both powerful dogs and though each was good-natured when alone, they wero very much in habit of fighting when they met. One day they had a fiorco and prolonged battle on a pier, from tho point of which they both fell into tho sea and, as the pier was long and steep, they had no moans of escapo but by swimming a considerable distance. Throwing water upon fighting dogs is an approved moans of putting an ond to their hostilities and it is natural to suppose that two combatants of tho sanio speciOH tumbling thomsclvos into tho sea would have the same oflect. It had, and each began to mako.rfor tho land as ho best could. Tho Newfoundland, being an excollent swimmer, very Kpeodily gained tho pier, on which ho stood shaking himself, but at tho satno tiino watching tho motions of his late antagonist, who, being no swimmer, was struggling, exhausted, in tho wator, and just about to sink. In dashed tho Newfoundland dog, took tho other gently by the collar, kept his head abovo water, and brought him safely on shore. There was a peculiar kind of recognition botween tho two animals tney never fought again they wero always together and when the Newfoundland dog had been accidentallly killed by tho passage of a stono wagon on the ralway over him, tho other languished and evidently lamented for along time.

A CLERGYMAN'S FUNCTIONS.—lie is, in fact tho town pound to which everybody may commit the truant fancies that nobody else will tolerate upon the

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asturcs and lawns of his attention. is the town-pump at which everybody may fill liiinsolf with advice. He is the town-Hell to summon everybody to overy common enterprise, llo is the town beast of burden to carry everybody's back. With all this he must have a neat and pretty house, and a comely and attractive wife, who .must be always ready and well dressed in tho

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although she tan not a fl'ord to iro sufficient And the good man's must bo well behaved and properly clad, and his house be a kind of hotel for the travelling brethren. Of course he must be a scholar and familiar with current literature, and he may justly bo expected to fit half a dozen boys for college every vear. These are but illustrations of the functions he is to fulfill, and always without murmuring and for all he is to be glad to get a pittance upon which he can barely bring the ends or the year together, and to know that if he should suddenly die of over-work, as be probably will, his wife and children will be beggars .—Harpers Monti tor.

Hum OLD DOCTORS.—'Tho M.D.'s In Peabodv must be a knowing set of men if we may indgo from a circumstance that recently occurred there. A man who has been treated for more than a year for paralysis of tho throat, and who was for sometime able to take only liquid nourishment, recently coughed up an upper set of false teeth, which he had swallowed in his sleep fifteen months before, and which, lodged in the lower part of the throat, had been the cause of all his troubles. Tho teeth were missed at the time, bunted for, but never found, and nobody had suspected the plseo of^ their,cpncealment.