Bloomington Courier, Volume 14, Number 10, Bloomington, Monroe County, 31 December 1887 — Page 2
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THE: COURIER.
BY H. J. FELltTS-
BT OOMTK.GTON.
Hon. John S. Barbour ra& 1 week elected to succeed RidcrlVrer in the United Stated Sen Ue, reeaivinz 91 votes to 35 'or ex-$eiafor Mahvae.
Thw meeting oi the f nftan& Republican: test week, and the proposed meet-ing-ot Indiana Democrats a week or two hence, ievidenc" enough thn5 ImKana soil wilt be coveted with political gore in the yr 1S3S The State will have a sympathetic nation, aisa, viewing the battle from afar.
THE GAMES WERE SJSlOlTING.
44 What, lost an eye, a leg. an arm, And of your nose bereft? For veterans, sir, ray heart is warm ; let's shake the hand that's left, "A comrade t am prond to see, A comrade of the war; Jray, tell me, ir are you Uke me, One of the G. A. J3L.V i hever joine-l he G. A. . The stranger thus began. And I became not in tho war .k mutilated man." He drew his form erect with pride, And flushed his yisnge pale, And in cxultiug tones heoried, "I Used to kiek with Yale."
A jrsMOKiAL presented to the Senate, asking for a new extradition treaty with Can atlac covering cases ofem be tilement, gave a list of fifty-three Jerabezate moots and the amounts in eaoh case. The largest is tha t of Bartholomew, the insurance man of Hartford, for $1,000X00, and the aggregate embezzlements foot Up tho sum of $840,570. This represents, says an exchange;1 a pretty steady flow of capital from the United States to Canada, without any apparent compensation1. There ought to be reciprocity ot some kind. ....
fi Tra revolutionary war wasn't fought yesterday, and yet there are thirty-eight-.old ladies, averaging 85 years, who, are still revolutionary pensioners. Nancy Raina, of Carter's Furnace, Tenn., is the oldest, age, 95; Betsey Waliingford, of Mankato, Minn , is nextj at 91. The Illinois pensioners are Sarah Dabah Dabney, of Barry, and Jane Harbison of Pinkneyrille. The old veterans must have taken young brides or there WOtd not be on Uncle Sam's books eveiutWs small roster of dependents whom it isahe pleasure of our Government to provide for.
THE SHE
RIFF'S DINNER
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BRAWBATOH LATEST. An Invention That Discovers the Movement of Bodies Miles Away. Additional details of the invention of Daniel Drawbaugb, of Harrisburg. - Pa., by which the presence of large bodies of men tm land or of ships on the ocean can be detected have been made public 4by the inventor. The instruments eonsmt of what Drawbaogh calls a microphone and a registering dial. The microphone, an extremely sensitive combination of wire, is placed in a hollow iron vtube, hermetically sealed. The micro pnone, when used on land, is attached to an iron screw with a very wide thread by means of which it is sunk firmly into the earth. An insulated wirej 'which may be buried or run over tree tops, connects with a galvanic battery and the - registering dial, which may be placed miles away. The registeriag dial is surmounted by a needle which works from a zero point. Underneath the dial in a small, areolar brass box is another needle in the form of a walking beam on aide wheel steamboat s. When" the vi
brations of sound, either by the medium of earth, water, or air, the waves affect the sensitive microphone, a ad the needle beneath the dial is at once caused to dip. The dipping puts one end of the steel
into a diminutive pot of mercury, and a
new local current of electricity is started
wiucu; moves tne nee&eonL the face of
the dial and eerves' lo give the alarm.
The practical working of tbe instrument ia intended to do away almost entirely with the picket lines of an army. 1;he
instant the air or earth vi bra: ions,
caused by the tram of feet or sound of
voices, affect the microphone, that in
stant the effect is shown on the face of
the dial by the turning of the needle from the zero point. -
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Jotof the Dispatch Announcing the
Result ana Che Route It Came. Philadelphia Press. ' i, The dispatch from ew South Wales announcing, the -victory in the sculling
riT??" wwo'vi -Dtraca came over
12,000 miles and cost $247 a word to
send. It passed through several cholera-infected districts without being quarantined, and after being "relaid." or given a fresh, start, hilf a dozen times, arrived in. Philadelphia a few minutes after it had been senti toe dispatch originated at Sidney, then it went to Adelaide, from there
true rnoTtn, oirectly across Australia
to Port Darwin, there it divided into
the ocean and took in Singapore, Pen-
ang, Madras and Bombay, passing through, telegraph stations run by operators -f every degree of black and shade of yeUow, manyiof whom do not know who Beach is. In some places, the wires are strung on palm trees, then again they so through sandy deserts and under the feet of caravans. Some of the people among whom the message passed were baking in a sun as hot as Philadelphia's hottest August, and others were shivering in November ulsters. ; The news did not stop to spread itself among the- worshipers of Buddha, over whose temples it passed, but dashed northward to the more hardy and athlettQ believers ih Christ From Bomlmy the electric duid went to Aden, through the Bed sea, skirted the Suez canal to Port Said, back to Alexandria, through the Mediterranean to Bona, in Algeria, by cable - to -Marseilles and then on to London. Its route thereafter became more commonplace, for an every-day-sub-Atlantic cable brought it to the United States.
Coons Jn Connections, KewYork Bun. v
Connecticut has long been famous for
raising very big crops of big, fat coons, but the magnitude of the yield this season causes e ven , ihe veteran coon hunters to open their eyes in astonishment and to comment: never saw the like of it afore.' :- . Coons are everywhere. A patch of woods big enough to support one gray squirrel and -family is compelled this year to snstainone coon and family, too. There is sometfa ing the matter with the dog, or the tracking is phenomenally
poor, ilthe hunter cannot bag a coon any night within a mile and a naif of this city; and a dozen miles to the westward, in the craggy valleys of Salem, the Lymes, and in East Haddam, a dog thai shows hisnaster less than four or five coons after a night's hunt is thrashed and semualy informed that he is a euri, ' ' . Detroit Free Press: Sailors are crarWmen ? "V '
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A New Tar' Experience. I expect to have a tolerable good
New Year's dinnor," said the Sheriff, as
he came into the tavern, borrowed some
tobacco of one of the boys, slapped the
Old Settler on the hack so heartily that
his fur hat fell off backward, and then
howled in hi9 ear:
'Hullo, Major What?s the bait you're
jumping at to day?"
The Old Settler had a notion to get anjrry, but the tenor of the Sheriff's in
terrogatory was more potent than the robustness ot his greeting, so the Major drew his bandanna across his lips and
remarked, gently but firmly? "Rum and 'lasses.1' "Thatfsa killing bait this time o
year," said the Sheriff. "I guess I'll
smseatit myseit. 'squire, coma you
strike up enough couraee to rise and
nibble?"
"Wall, Shurf," said the 'Squire, show
ing no timidity in the way he "rose, "th'
hain't nuthin' ez is brewed or b'ilt down
or 'stilled or mixed t'gexher th't's proper
fer a cold ez rum an' lasses. I hain't got no cold, out ef'I had one I'd ram a
few fingers o1 rum and" 'lasses inter me
sure. Argyin' furder, I hain't the feller
w'en I'm wellj to go back on nuthin'
ez d stand by me at 1 was mj'ym poor health, and so, 'Shurf,' Dl put a lip inter
some o' th' same bait."
"Thuz one thine th't I've diskivered
'bout rum an1 lasses,"said the Old Settler
after disposing of his share of the tipple
"an' that is thet th' sniff o' the 'lasses
kinder lana itself aTOund th' sniff o' th'
rum, so deceivin' like th't M'riar hain't
never been 'xactly settled in her mind yit wuther to set me down ez havin' beenargyin' politics over to the Deacon's store or tal kin 'ligion with the boys 'round to the tavern. The way M'riar kinder studies onthe subjec' every time I eo hum caTryin' rum perscribed with ekal parts o' 'lasses, I ruther s'pect th't she thinks the Heft o' evidence favors 'ligion and the boys; but she hain't just ciphered up the p'nts sartin enuff yit to cum in with a verdict. Ye mowt ha' noticed, 'Shurf, th't I tempered my drink just now with a 1 e-e-t-i-e more 'lasses than the prescription calls fur. 'Tain't 'cause I think it betters it, not by a long shot! But, ye see, it's to my in terest, b'gosh, to put off the findin' o' that verdict ez long ez Providence is willin', an' longer, too, Shurf, purvidin' I don't hev to crowl th' mourners too much on' 'lasses. So ye 'spect to hev a tolable good. New Year's dinner, hey, Shurf F "I do, for a fact." replied the Sheriff, "but good as it'll be, I don't expect to enjoy it like I did the one I had on a New Year's Day, fifteen years ago, up in the Pocono lumber woods. "I was getting the lumber off of an old bush-whacker's tract over there, and was hurrying it up before he found it out, and maybe made a fuss about it, and had a couple of fellows helping me. We had a cabin built in a nice little spot, about half way between two creeks both of 'em may be a half mile away. We had the lumber so near cleaned out
that we calculated to set out of tbe
woods so as! to be home by New Year's.
aowe let our provisions aina o ooze
away without sending in for supplies,
oecause we Knew tnac we coma squeeze
along on short rations, if necessary, and
save the trouble of lugging a lot of stufi
in to o to waste The third day before
New Year's we had got down to some sour bread, a hunk of salt pork, and a half bushel-of dried apples. One of my men was a regular fiend on dried apples sauce, and he had the fruit brought in for his own accommodation. The bovs
were in' for striking 'em inffor the clearing at once, but I said no. There was only a day's work left, and our proven
der was good enough for a day, and then
we d have so much better . appetites
when we got home. "That was all right as far as my judg
ment went, but I hadn t any weather
predictions with me, and didn't know that a rain the like of which we hadn't enjoyed for many a day was on its way to make it pleasant for us in camp. It got there in the evening It was there next morning, and kept a coming. It stayed to supper with us that day, went to bed with us, and next morning didn't seem to have any idea of going away at all But it gave out all of a sudden that forenoon, and so did our last frying of pork and crumb of bread. The next day
was to be New Year's, and, if it hadn't
been, it behooved ub all the same to get
out of the wilderness and hnnt for
bash. As soon as the rain quit we start
ed. We hadn't thought about the creeks.
We came to one of them about a quar
ter of a mile nearer than it had been before, and it was tearing along like a
young Niagara broken loose. We took
the back track, and found the creek on
ine oiner siae on tne rampage worse than the first one, We were just as good as cast away, and liable to be for two or three days, and all we had to rely on to carry ns through was two bushels of dried apples. " 'The only thing we've got to do,' said I, is to go out and . get a bear or a deer. A New Year's dinner of dried
apples am' t just my notion of good cheer and festive mirth.' "All right, the other fellows said, we'd go out and kill something. We
went out. We only had two guns, and
I walked along with the boys to keep
their spirits up. Oar h unting ground was limited, as the two swollen creeks
had a peculiar way of shutting off our
boundary on every side. We went out, but we didn't kill. We came back. The fellow that Hked dried apple sauce made a tolerable fair supper and bunked in. I wasn't quite equal to that diet as yet, and went to bed supperless. We got up next morning, and the two boys went out again to kill something. I stayed in camp. They were gone two or three hours, and then I made-up y
mind that I'd have to come to the dried
apple sauce, and went to work to cook
a big batch, for fear the hunters would come back empty handed. I took the
half bushel of dried Apples, and they were big on 38, and duraited them on a slab in front of the cabin. Then I hung
the big kettle oh the cfane and began to heat the water to stew ho apples in.
When the water was half hot I poured
about a gallon out ill our oig camp basin
to kind o wash our tin plates in, I was coming out of the cabin with the
plates, when what should I see but a
biz bear come alouohins' alone: about
three rods away, square for the cabin.
I had no gun, and wasn't in a condition
to have a Wrestle with a bear just then,
and so I stepped back in the cabin and
shut the doOr. I peeked through a
chunk. The bear came up, sniffed around awhile, and then got on to the half bushel oi dried apples. He seemed
to like the smell, and pitched into them
with a gusto. He mowed them apples
away a quart at a time, and grunted and snorted in a way that showed how
much he liked them.
tf There goes our New Year's dinner!'
Isays. Then I hollered Shew!' at the bear, and hamuiered on the side of the cabin, and clattered the things around,
and danced, and howled; but the bear
didn't scare anv more than if he'd heen deafer than a mile P03t. He chawed
and ernnted and growled until he had
... ..... put everyone of them dried apples in
side of him. then he lay a own ana
rolled, and rubbed his sides, and lolled his tongue, and had a jolly time generally. By and by he began to nose around again, and ran agalost the pan of hot water. That seemed to he something a little extra to him, and I'm jiggered ti he didn't absorb that whole gallon in less than a minute! 'Then he waltzed around again, and began to make his way back into the woods, leisurely and by degrees. "'Where in the blazing bush are those fools of hunters?' I yelled. 'Why don't they hunt where there's game?' "Then I tore my hair and bawled Help! Murder! Fire!' in hope that my fellows might hear me and come tearing with the guns. I went out of the cbin, and in my desperation actually followed that bear, hoping I might drive
rum against the hunters, fretty soon the bear stopped. He cocked his head on one side. He seemed to be pondering. There was a look of surprise on his face. He rose up on his haunches and looked around kind o' queer. He put 6ne paw on his stomach, moved it up and do,wn, as if trying to satisfy
himself on some point or other. , Then
he got down and starred on. He didn't go far. He got up on his hind feet again. He put both paws on his stomach. There was a look of pain on his face, and his mouth looked exactly as if he were saying: 'Oh-h-h!' "He dropped again, and started on a trot, but in a few seconds he yffes up agin, and his looks said plainly that he was satisfied there wa3 something serious. He pounded himself ou his stomach, doubled himself up in a ball, sprung himself oper. again, and rolled and whined and looked sick. " 'What's the matter with the bear?' said I. 4Blowed if I don't feel sorry for him.'
"Then I noticed for the first time that
he was growing larger around the stomach. As I gazed with bulging eyes 1 could see his girth growing bigger and
bigger. Pretty eo&rt it got so that the
bear couldn't roll any more, and he as
sumed the Bhape of a big puff ball . His paws stuck out stiff, and looked like four
sticks stuck in a goose egg. The bear lay there and swelled and howled. Then
all of a sudden it struck me what the
trouble was. The dried apples and warm water were getting their fine work in. When a dried apple comes in con
tact with warm water, that dried apple haB to have room to expand in, and if
it can't find room, it'll make it. That
is what these dried apples, entombed within the bear, wore doing just then.
They were finding room. There wasn't
enough room inside of the bear, and after it had all been exhausted the apples kept on swelling, and as I, gazed, "B-o o-m!' went something. The ground shook. I was Beared. Then here, there, all about me. fell masses of bear. The diied apples had burst from their confinement "Well, it is hard ty necessary for me to say " "No," exclaimed the Old Settler. " 'Tain't a dura bit necessary! Nor 'tain't necessary, b'gosht'imighty, fur me to " The Old Settler was hot. He intended to express a decided opinion. But the Sheriff walked toward the bar, and beckoned smilingly to the Old Settler. A smile stole presently over the Old Settler's face He arose and walked forward. "Nor 'tain't necessary fur me to say, Shurf," said he, continuing his previous remark in a different tone, " 'tain't necessary fur me to say, Shurf, that
truth is stranger nor friction, an' alius were, b'gosht'imighty!" En Mow
I CHRISTMAS SERMON.
Lesaohs Dratvni from the Birth
the Savior.
of
A Cradle Tf Jiioh. Was to Mean More than
the Grave A Prayer . for 3Uroy and Kiitduejig to All Xtfviojs Things 11 leased Motherfeoad. Rev. Br, Tnlmsge preached at the Brooklyn Tabernacle on the 35th, taking
as the subject of his sermon, "The Barn
and Its Surroundings." Text: Luke ii.
15s "The shepherds said one to an
. . . . . - ; other, Let lis now go even into Bethlehem, and see tins thing which ia come to; pass," He said: tme thousand years of the world's existence rolled painfully and wearily along, and no Christ Two thousand years, ana no Christ Three thousand years, and ho Christ Four thousand years, and no Dhriot "Give us a Christ!" had cried Assyrian and Persian and Ohaldead aud 3Cgyptian civilizations,but the lips of the earth and the lips of the sky made no answer. But the slow century and the slow year and the slow month and the slow hour at last Arrived. The black window-shutters of a December night were thrown open, and some of the best singers of a world where they all sing, stood there am:., putting back the drapery of cloud, cheated a peace anthem, until all the echoes of hill and valley applauded and echoed the hallelujah chorus. At last the world has a Christ, and just the Christ it needs. Come let us go into that Christmas scene as though we had never before worshiped at the
manger, riere is a Maaonna wortn looking at. I wonder not that the most
frequent name in all lands and m all Christian centuries is Mary. And there are Marys in palaces and Marys in cabins, and though German and
French and Italian and Spanish and
English pronounce it differently, they
are all namesakedof the one women we find on a bed of straw, with her pale
face against the soft cheek 01 Christ in
the night of the Nativity. All the great
painters have tried on canvas to present
Mary and her child and the incidents
of that most famous night of the world's historv. Raphael, in three different
master-pieces, celebratea them. Tinto
ret and Goirlandj o surpassed them
selves m the AOoration ot the iviagi.
But all the galUries of Dresden are forgotten when I think of the small roo m
of that sailer v containing the Sistine
Madonna.
Behold, in the first place, that on the
first night ol: Christ s life God honored the brute creation. Tou cannot get in
to that Bethlehem barn withont going
past the camels, the mules, the dogs, the
oxen. The brutes of that stable heard
the first cry of the infant Lord. Have
you ever thought that Uhnst came
among other things to alleviate the suf
ferings of tbe brute creation? Was it
not appropriate that He should, during
the first few days and nights of His life on earth, be surrounded by tbe dumb
beasts whose moan and plaint and bel
lowing have for ages been a prayer to God for the arresting of their tortures and the righting of their wrongs? It did
not merelv "happen so" that the un
intelligent creatures of God should
have been that night in close neigh
borhood. JSot a xennel in all the cen
turies, not a bird's nest, not a worn-out
horse on tow path, not a herd freezing in the poorly built cow pen, not a freight
car in summer time biinging the beeves to market without water, through a
thoasand miles of agony, not a sur
geon's room witnessing the struggles
of fox, or rabbit, or pigeon or dog m the
horrors of vivisection but has an interesc
in the fact that Christ was born m a
stable surrounded by brutes. He re
members that night, and the prayer He heard in their pitiful moan He will an
swer in the punishment of those who
maltreat the dumb orutes. They buto-
iy have as much right in this worm as
we have.
In the first chapter of Genesis
It was a child in Naainan's kitchen that told the great Syrian warrior where ho might go and get cured of 'ihe leprosy, which at his seventh plunge lu the Jordan was left at the bottom of the river. It was to the cradle of leaves, in which a child was laid,, rocked by the Hiie, that God called the attention of history. It was a sick child that evoked Christ's curative sympathies. It was a child that Christ set in the midst of . the squabbling disciples to teach the lesson of humility. Wo are informed that wolf and leopard and lion shall be yeteo domesticated that a little ehi-d shall lead 1 hem. A child decided Waterloo, showing the army of Blucber how thev
could take a shortcut through the fields,
when, if the old road had boen followed.
the Prussian General would hato come
up too late to save the destinies of
Europe. It was a child that decided
Gettysburg; ho having heard two Con
federate Generals in a conversation m
which they decided to ma rch lor Gettysburg instead of Havrisburg, and this, reported to Governor Curtin,the Federal
forces started to meet their opponents
at Gettysburg, aud the child of to-day is
to decide all the great battles, make ail the. laws, settle all the destinies, and
usher in the world's salvation or de
struction. Men, women, nations, all
earth and all heaven, behold the child!
Is there any velvet so soft as a child's
neck? Is there any sky so blue as a child's eye? Is there any music so sweet as a child's voice? Is there any plume
so wavy as a child's hair?
Notice, also, that m this Biblo night
scene God houored science Who are
the three wise men knee ling before the
Divine infant? Not boors, not ignora
muses, but Caspar, Belthasar and Melchoir, men who knew all that was to.be
known. They were the Isaac Newtons
and Herschels and Faradaya of their
time. Their alchemy was the forerunner
of the sablime chemistry of our day.
their astrology the mother of our mag
nificent astronomy. They had studied stars, studied metal s,studied physiology,
studied every thine And when 1 see
these scientists bowing before the beau
tiful babe I see the prophecy of the time when all the telescopes and micro
scopes, and ali the Leyden tars, aud all
the electric batteries, and all the observ
atories, and all the universities shall
bow to Jesus. It is much that way al
ready. Where is the college that does
have morning prayers, thus bowing at
the manger Who have been the great
est physicians? To-day the greatest
doctors and. lawyers ol Urook iyn and
New York, and of all this land, of all lands, revere the Christian religion, and
are not ashamed to say 30 before juries,
and Legislatures and benates. All eeolo
gv will yet bow before the Roci: of Ages.
All botany will yet worship tho Rose of
Sharon. All astronomy will yet recog
nize the star 01 isethlenem.
Behold also in that .first Christmas night that God honored the fields. Come
in, shepherd boys of Bethlehem, and see
the child. "No," they say. "we are not
dressed good enough to come in." "Yes,
you are, come in." bure encugh, the storms, and the nigh t dew, and the
brambles have made rough work with
their apparel, but none have a better
right to come in. They were the first to
hear the music of that Chiistmas night
The first announcement of a Savior's birth was made to tfciose men in the
fields, There were wiseacres that night
in isethJeheni and J erusalem snoring in
deep sleep, and there were salaried
officers of government who, hearing of it afterward, may have, thought, that they ought to have had the first news
of such a great event soino one dis
mounting from a swilt camel at their
door, and knocking till at some senti
nel's question, " Who comes there?" the great ones of the palace might have been
told of the celestial arrival. No; the
shepherds heard the first two bars of
the music, the first in the minor key, and the last in the subdued minor: "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good-will to men," Ah, yee; the fields were honored. Behold also that on that Christmas night God honored motherhood. Two angels on their wfngs might have
brought an infant Savior to: Bethlehem
without Mary's being there at all. When
II FARM.
t " "ZP"L"T tho villagers, on the morning of Decern-
SSSS and fowl
created the fifth day, and the quaaru
ped the morning of the Bixth dav, and
man not uatil the afternoon of that day.
The whale, the eagle, the lion, and all
tne lesser creatures ot their kind were
predecessors of the human family. They
nave the world by right of possession.
rhey have also paid rent for the places
they occupied. What an army of defense all over the land are the faithful watch docs. And who can tell what the
and in some unexplained way, the child Jesus might have been found in som comfortable cradle of the village. But no, no! Motherhood for all time was to be consecrated, and one of the tenderest relations was to be the maternal relation, and one of . the sweetest words "iQother." In all ages God has honored good motherhood. Come back, mother, this Christmas D.iy, and take your old place, and, 8
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The Germs of Consumption.
London Standard. ,
Dr. Brown-Seqiiard, who has been
preaching that bad ventilation of sleeping rooms and poor and monotonous food are the great causes of phthi
sis, treated 01 that disease at the last
meeting of the Academy of Science in
Paris, taking many of his examples from
England. Wherever population is dense, and
sleeping rooms ill-aired or over crowded, consumption prevails. Dr. Bailey
reported that in Miibank prison there
were, out of one hundred deaths, forty-
fivejfrom this disease.
According to the illustrious French
doctor, a room in which a consumptive
person sleeps is reeking with contagious
germs, if the air he exhales is. not car
ried off. But how get rid of it in illbuilt houses, or very cold weather, when it is as dang erous to open windows as to keep them shut? To meet this difficulty Br. BrownSequard Bhowed the Academy an apparatus of his invention. A reversed funnel, the shape of a lamp shade, is placed at the end of a tube, so arranged
in its curves and angles that when it is placed beside the bed the reversed funnel will be above the sleeper aud draw up the air he breathes. The other end runs into the chimney of the room. If there is none it is taken .through a heating apparatus to an air hole. The beat ia great enough to burn the disease germs?
Christ on the one side and the speech
less creatures of God on the other, I cry,
Look out how you strike the rowel into that horn's hide. Take off that curbed bit from the bleeding mouth. Remove that saddle from the raw back. Shoot not for fun'tbat bird that is too small for
food. Forget not to put water into the cage of that canary. Throw out some
crumbs to those birds caught too far
north in nhe winter's inclemency. Ar
rest that man who is making that one
horse draw a load of heavy enough for three, l&ush in upon that scene where
hoys are torturing a cat or transfixing a butterfly and grasshopper. Drive not
off that old robin, for her nest is a
mother s crame ana under her wing
there may be three or four prima don
nasof the sky in training. And in your
families and m your schools teach tho coming generation more mercy than the
preBent generation has ever shown, and
m this marvelous Bible picture of the
Nativity: while you point out to them
the angel, show them also the camel.
and while they hear the celestial chant
let tnem also hear the cow s moan. No
more did Christ show interest in the
botanical world when he said, "Consider
the lilies, then he showed sympathv
for the ornithological when he said,"Be-
hold the fowls of the air and the quad
rupedal world when he allowed himself
to be called in one place a Hon and in
another place a lamb. Meanwhile;may the Christ of the Bethlehem cattle-pen
have mercy on the suffering stock yards
that are preparing diseased aud fevered
meat for American households.
Behold also in this Bible scene how on that Christmas night God honored
childhood, Christ might have made his
first visit to our world in a cloud, as He
will descend on tiis next visit m a cloud.
In what a chariot oi illumined vapor He
might have rolled down the sky, escort-
ed by mounted cavalry, with lightning
of drawn sword. Elijah had a carriage of fire to take him up. : Why not . Jesus
a carriage of fire to fetch him down
down? Or over tbe arched bridge of a
rainbow the Lord might have descended Or Christ might have had his mortality built up on earth out of the dust of a garden, as was Adam, in full manhood
aches enough,and bereavements enough, while you were here. Tarry by the throne, mother, till we join you -there, your prayers all answered, aud in the eternal homestead of out God we shall again keep Christmas jubilee together, But speak from your thrones, all you glorified mothers," and say to ail these, your sons and daughters; words of love, words, of warning, words of cheer. They need your voice, for they have traveled far, aud with many fa hearts break, since you left them, aud you will do well to call from the heights of heav en to the valleys of earth. Hail, enthroned ancestry I , We . are co ming, Keep a place for us right beside you at the banquet.
WARM WA'Tfcfc FOB ST0C. The subject of warming witter for stock during the cold weather is just now occupying tfte attention of farmers. The experiments made are interesting, and the reel id Is are almost universally reported in f ivor ti the use of warm water. A correspondent of the American Cultivator sums up the evidence on the
subject thus: "Stock kept in warm stables require warmer water Miftu ii thy are kept in cold etamVa, to that this subject is doubling in importance. A cow kept in a warm stable, and turned oiii; to drink
ice cold water, 32 degrees, being a tem
perature oi over 0 degrees lower than
that of the system, makes a great con-
rast which must give discomfort to the
ani mal and loss to its owner, Th e profits of farming are so small that it becomes necessary that all leaks should be looked
after,eyeu the small onesand especially
the larger ones, like the one under discussion.
1 n the reading of five agricultural pa
pars, ana in conversing witn many
farmers, I find a 1 are unanimous in the
opinion that our stock should be provid
ed with tepid or warm water, but the degree of teinpe:rature to which it should
be raised becomes a question u pon which
writers do not agee, though none seem to know, or are positive,varying in their
opinions from 50 to 118 degrees. An
average opinion, seems to be from 60 to
80 degrees. It is also agreed that in.
warming the water a saving is made in the feed, if nothing more. Nearly all believe there is a saving in ilesh, milk, and the manure pile, in addition to the feed. I have seen but one estimate of the value of the feed saved daily per cow, and that was eight cents, which would amount to several millions of dollars in every State yearly, a sum worth saving;
and this sum, be it remembered, is net
gain, after the expense of warming the
water is taken out. Une writer says
that he drew all the water that forty
cows drank for one winter one mile from
a spring, rather than have them drink
from a river near ty, and he thought it
paid him well.
The result of an experiment at an ag
ricultural school in France showed an
increase in milk of one-third, the water
being warmed to 113 degrees. Other parties claim .an increase of from 20 to SO per cent. At the Agricultural Col
lege in Kansas an experiment resulted in the increase of milk $i per cent.-, the
water being warmed to 65 decrees. An
other experiment in France showed an increase in milk of three pints daily per cow bv warming the water instead of
using pump water.
Professor J. P. Roberts, of Cornell
University, cays: "The water consumed
bvtwos6ts of cows, containing thrte
animals each, was weighed for a period
of thirteen days, une set qranK an
average of 110 pounds of cold water
each day per cow, and the other set an
average of 120 pounds of warm water
per cow each day." I have another statement that cows will drink one-
third more when wator ss warmed to
80 degrees than they will at 32 degrees
and that tho milk will increase one-
fifth to oii6-fourth and without deter!
oration. Another statement: A cow
that makes i3ix pounds of buttar a week on cold water will make seven pounds
if the water is warmed." As milk is
from 80 to 0 per cent, water, it is well
to look after the quantity, quality and
temperature of the water consumed.
A few years since, a Mr. Dancei com
municated to the French Academy o
rkiiences an experiment to snow tne in
crease of milk bv the increase of water
consumed He found when the saine
amount of food was liberally mois
tened, it produced more milk than
when fed dry, and the milk was ad
judged to be of as good quality. Again,
Mr. Dancel asserts that the yield of milk from cows is in diiNact proportion to the quantity of water taken. He also says that cows which habitually drink less than twenty-seven quarts of water per day are necessarily pooreows; Such cows will give from five to seven quarts of milk daily, while cows , that drirk fifty qurats prove 50 be excellent milkers. This experiment was tried in the summer. . This 'subject is" fraught with much
Ahem, not very thickly with straw or leaves raked tip m the woods; throwing here and there a spadeful of earth on the top, to keep the covering from being blown off by the wind. Only put on enough of straw 01 leaves to hide all the green, leaving the cabbage roots sticking up through the cohering,
Stored in this way cabbages of all sorts will be found sd keep wel l through the winter. And not only do they keep
better in this than iri any other way, but they aAS at sAl times ready for use. They are never locked np by frost, as often happens with those pitted in ihe earth; and they are never foun d rotting, as is often the case with thoue stored with their headft upward and their roots in the ground. Ordinarily no reliance is .placed upon cabbages for use as a cattle food later than the month of December. The bul k of this drop is so large th at storing in buildings of any soft .is not to be
thought of. Besides, the cabDagcs so put together in large masses would heat
aiid quickly rot. In some gardens, in-
jdeed, cabbagea arc put into houses,
where they are hung tip by the roots;
but they wither in this state or soon putrify. By adopting the mode of
storing recommended above, however,
all these inconveniences are avoided.
Any quantity may bo stored, in the
field or elsewhere, at a yery trifling ex
pense compared with the balk of the
crop.
; BOUP AMONe FOWUIV ;
To the correspondent writing to
us
for directions for the cure of roup, we
REMARKS ii imipSa
The Aunoyances Whicli Ffiow tne?
Turning ioose or4 riienafOT.w ? .
. Worif. ... .j,. ;.,. .-1:V,..,V.'V;V; ' ' 3he late combined menagerie and 1" 1 L' - '-.-x l ,;j.-nnr.r t'.i.n -linear'
ana th Fire Fiend, ''i.:'
aoologicai panic, near t. -iios aoou the last da of Ocib of tlie
prescti fc voar, and w hi ch or cbu?s stili
fresh in the memory of those tra y ?sf to recapture some of the animals : J
On that date; ottiaw ; to mispv . switch and the mieplaaedcoMdenc oi; ; the eugin eer, ohi John ; jBinsoa'jp great aggregaiton 06s modesty atrd men agerie was ihrowtf ; itVcfci'- t&ei pcacfe quicker than; the proprietor , couidr pwftf noun ce h is o wn name'. As oon as the -cars were derailed cages begiit . w opent: ' up tike an insuUed ''ho:npo.f.y yield up various Ikindisof ; animals-ie . indigenous to Illinois; - - i t
Tigers with long, . hmber mis - ana:
mouths that open ii'Mk.3i-w
served seat lit lightly on- the-trembling
earth, defyrcracked their heels togeth
er two times iii rapid; successioh an
then moved softly ,W
primary schools of Sfe. . nis. j aguars:
bounded out of their hunting cages ana
proceeded to take m the town aub
scene beggared rescriptloa.'
n who aa a general thinsf; could
carry iu a hod of coal mr their poor, sielri;
husbands, slid casually up: a f reignj car, followed by fleecy clouds f ernT
broidery or shtfbk theirrparasola at th Numidian Hon ant ajvay from thereV .iV';..;'. Nine cages of animals were sb attered at once, and the deniaens -d? -thi forest for the first 1 ime in many vears felt the beautiful earth beneath their feet nd breathed the redolent air pi $ii&&uys. . v
nis snattereu caget n i?iy v carni emerging from the "mustache oi an V Anarchist, and softly ' went upstairs to the railroad offices to see about getting a pass, but did not find any one in. On the door he found a line written hastily by Mti Oill and pinued up: IgsUtt en follows i- S k'": 'M & :': rif ;
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Senators Evans's Daughter. Washington Special. Senator Evarts's house used to be full
of young girls, but they have married off with such surprising rapidity that only Miss Mary Evarts, the Senator's favorite daughter remains. Miss ISvarts, it is said, is quite willing to re
tire from gay society, and begins to find jt a bore, but the Senator insists that
she shall go every vrhere, takes profound interest in her toilets, aud complains
that she cannot get j?:- ough evening
tresses to please him". The Evartses
are as mucn . vvasmngton people m
New York people. The traditions of
he extremely good caste and perfect
simplicity of the biinging up of Senator
Evarts's daughters and Mr. Hamilton
Fish's still remain, and the way -in
which they were kept in the background
as half-grown girls is contrasted with
the present fashion of allowing school
girls all the privileges and pleasures among their own set of grown girls.
War on Carrier "Pigeons.
Modern Society.
The Russian Government has been
trying experiments in the capture of
importance to larmers, and . it should
on-rriAr rncrflorafl hv f nUniifl. and thev have
at the start, without the introductory proved as sTOcessfcil as the Minister of feebleness of infancy. NO, no! childhood Wo, flTOAftfftli Th falonn seea the
was to be honored by that event. He
must have a child's light limb's and a child's dimbled hand, and a child's beaming; eye and a child's flaxen hair, and babyhood was to be honored for all time to come and a cradle was to mean more than a grave Mighty God may the reflection of that one child facebe seen in all infantile faces. Enough have alt those fathers and mothers on hand if they have a child in. the house. A throne, a, crown, a scepter, a kingdom under charge. Be careful how you strike him across the head, jarring the brain. What yon say to him will be centennial and nifllenuiai.a and hundred years and a thousand years will not stop the echo and re-echo. Yea, in all ages God has honored childhood. He makes almost every picture a faihiro unless there be a child
either playing on the floor, or looking through the window, or seated oh tne lap gasmg into the face of it mother.
pigeon at a distance of a couple of kilo
metres, goes for it and captures it
promptly. The idea is to utilise the
birds in time of war to intercept mes
sages sent from tho enemy, and falcoury stations nro to be established at the
different iortifi cations in Russia.
Decrease of "Knglish Paupore. The English Board of Trade has made
a report in which it aueges that; the
number of paupers in the country now are only 24.7 to the 1,000, while in 1870
there were 40 to the 1,000, and that ihe total number has fallen from 900,000 to
697,000, while . tho population has m-
creaased by 15,700,000 In London, it is alleged, there aio now only 21 paupers to 1,000 inhabitan'ts.
receive due consideration. Here is an open field for some iiiyenjive genius to devise t ome apparatus for the warming of water for stock which shall combine four qualitiescheapness, durability, practicability, and safety. There are a few devices for that purpose aK ready before the public which no doubt have ments. CABBAGES FOR FEKPXNe COWS., The Fgirming World, of Edinburg, Scotland, discusses at some length the value of cabbages in feeding cows. The editor asserts of knowledge that this vegetable may be fed liberally to cows without giving any taint or HMlavor to the milk or butter. This in on the assumption, of course, that the cabbages aje fresh and in sound condition, for
rotton cabbages wouta he certain to
effect, the milk. The editor then goes
on to saj: It is astonishi-ag that cab
bages are not far more extensively grown as a field crop They are as easy
to grow m turnips, a . ill at least twice ia);
valuable when grown. For dairy cowm in winter and spring, and also for ewei and lambs, there is no feed to equ? them One of the hindrances to a more extended cult vation o! cabbages; is the mistaken idea that they can not te preserved against frost; except in a bam or other building specially prepared ffr them. The crop is one which can be perfectly secured in tho field or elsawhere without much trouble or expense. Taking them up and replanting then
in a sloping manner, and covering them with straw, pitting them; hanging the n up in a barn; turning them head downward, and covering them with earth leaving the roots sticking up in the airfare among the methods of storing- e have seen practiced. But every one if
these plattsis attended with great labor, and!S"e of them i'orbid the hone -of being able to preserve any considerable
; quantity.
Tho iri08t successfiol pJan in thin: Throw up a sort of land or ridge witri the plow, and make it pretty hard on top. Upon this land lay some stray. Then take the cabbages , turn the ui up side-dowc, and after taking ofi any. decayed leaves, place tliom, about s: t
abreast upon the straw. Then
commend the following remarks of the
Poultry World: "Misfortunes never come singlv." This is especially true
of the roup, for very seldom is it, either
because the disease is conts gious or be
cause the same operates to produce tbis effect upon quite a number of the fowls,
that t he roup attacks a single fowl.
Generally several are affected at once,
and the breeder has plenty oi trouble
on hand. without borrorinsj -any. Vigorous measures are strictly in order,
but after the removal of the affected
fowl or fowls, the first thin a; to be done
is to seek for the cause of the disease,
and when foupd to remove it.
Soup may generally be traced to
want of cleanliness, improper ventila
tion or undue exposure; aiad the poul
trynmu who has provided against these
causes is reasonably sate against the
roup. But it sometimes happens that
the cause is obscure and difficult to find.
In such cases the wants of the fowls
shouia oe csreniuy iooKea after, ana a
iittle tonic given in the food, with a few
drops of aconite in the water. ,. The diseased fowls, separated from the rct,, should be given comfortable quarters and be properly treated- Perhaps aft sensible treatment as any would be fh:st of all to cause them to inhale tha flames of cresoline; then to open the b owels with a good dose of castor oil; after which keep the eyes and nostrils washed put with chlorinated soda. diluted in water, an 1 admin ister German roup pills accordinf to directions. A few drops oi: aconite may be added to the drink. If a fowl is treated in this way it will recover from the roup if the case is curable. But no medicine and no system of treating can' cure every case of roup. Some will die; do what-
"tiver you may , : ; '
MANAEMEMT:OF apitBBS. - A professional horse 'trainer in cbnrereaticn with a New Oi'leims reporter
iiaid: 4 vThe t wd principal indications of
h horse's actions are the eye and the ear. If he is inclined to become sulky i;he muscles will be rigid and the ears 'motionless till he makes up his mind : what he is going to do, then they ears
will begin to work. If horse is 'mad
fchore ia a elassy look to the eye and the white will turnred. ........ Horses are naturally a;verse to the control of man. They Imow nothing of the various ways by which the are taught, only when they are shown. The
horse is easily encouraged in the right J
direc tion when fed and pet ted at the
proper time. - Kindness cannot be got
along without, but must not be administered at the wrong time. If a horse bites or kicas at you and yo d pat -him, he thinks that is what you want him. to do. If caught right iti the acli and cufftd, made to Straighten up is.ud behave him
self, then he learns than he is well treat
ed when he does behave and punished when he don't. Z'. . , - ; "I do not think that high breeding has any thing to do with, high intelligence. Take, for instance, a thoroughbred horse he will tak. as naturally, to cunning as a bulldog to watching. ' bulldog will take to watching readily, but it is hard to "each hi m tricks. V My ex pe i ience has been that horses that are bred for no particular purpose take to all kinds of.fetts .nd most readily. Horses ot difierent dispositions are taught different classes of-nricks. "Profeseor, did you oyer use any drugs in the. management of your horses?" J? "A good many year?, ago I tried 'Oil.
of Rhodium' and 'Oil of Oummm.' but
I never could discover the,t any benefit
was derived from either; t would rath er have apples twice 1 over than any drug that has over been advertised. Druga have as vicious effects upon ani: male as upon individuals, Eor instance, I have iried morphine hy podermically on some vicious horses ; with excellent effect, while on -?ot hers it has acted in
precisely an opposite way. rou can and that alrnost.everycage in the
never toil how it witlr operate until you have experimented,, wliich makes :4t
dangerous. "
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I Sone t 8ileria. Will bo ljek ln few minutes. : - '' 'i ' .r:..l.vtt--;.-....v"--.-..............'''...V Jf . . The leopard went in and tried to tejev phone to Indiarmpolis for n sleeperybuf as soon as nis hot breath struck' th transmitter the girl at theiCentmi office, went ani conceal h of a. nn who did not advertiseh " Wnen the train pulled' out it wy short one gnu; one leopardj one hyena, one deer, one ibexj one jenyots,
monkey s and two black .tigers; A moutt
tain lion esbapexL but was icaptnrea
afterwards Mr. Thornas.EUeyof NW Haven, Conn.is slaU s himself; which; he attributes mountain. Iioi0r Mr Biley stumbled while twistinc the tail of the lion to in-
auce nun to go. mvo juiiB vwgw
-A.n nni- lAtim in 4-ViA rtni,rt lYlOnth ' t'
OI tuts low vuo utw' . mArT: (r' railroad company will beliaoliJ; v ;.;J .V' B4r. Joseph Obaries wasr on ; hia way
down the stairs whence; met the liont
corning up. The stairway is- not verjp deand Mr. 0 bear tKe idea of irivinera dumb, anirnal needleia
pain, so he went tendent's ofnee about ; three quart of kn inch ! ahead Of'WtfdnV Gharlen"
shut the door and locteedifc just in
to prevent a scene Theierocioaaheasfc
climbed up and looked through
transom at Mr. Charles and the
One of the clerks -:iW9S mind to ring: for a imjV'-.;
' -1 -.-i J, aWa! lAih Knf. f hum . t&S&
was some delay about communicating
with the boy when he cajr and ' a.
peace was not r.eatored uktil the curcua
Amnloven came unstairo and cai
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M
the lion in a tarpaulin;
For several days; ; according to- re
.'i. .Ll wltji KmaI ; n.kHrirl fhaWV:'; J. ;.
were liable, tpaftover a black tiger-in front hnir or be shocked bv the
latest gnus. Farmers found hyenas ;4m
the hen house or ere met by belated
jaguars corning npme witn a jag Monkeys found thii; ay into homeirf , ; of affluence, and? nervous women required their iinfni t;4p w tfcejk
night m heir bare feet; to BearjcnKirj vamp res and boa constrictors. .iv'V-'.v?:' It .a disagreeable to aye.-., circup and menagerie turnel loose in j. fAvn aru Tiothino' wisl make a man de-
lunch down-;-j
5
cide Quicker to take his
town than to come -hornet and endn Bengal tiger on his front door step. No one enjoys watching the haughty sneer of a rhinoceros,' or listening t o the carol of a cagefui of tropical i trci fpeacocka and gumeahens lir th;'; L doy bn they ought to b made t6 know theiri place; I am also a v'reat:adirer of the
elephant, hayingne sodfeir-as to carry; water to alainre. Asiatic, -elephant -for
several hours, asking for ntvurthe re- .5
of dutv well done and a ticket1 to the
performance, but I don't want an eW? phant to come to my5 house; rin tnef
AnjKnil oivj) ckot'WA?""hoard himt S
until he can getnew:kaeria
Before closing, I jWish stQ,. state UWm'ttw
aI'TaU Rrthinflnn's rtirrn has not bean K Si"i&
m Rliy Wav uiiptureu ur iUD wuwwupim srg
out west hut ; tnat ntiwer ana
cover
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...A OouirteoiKs Act. , Boston Courier. ' ' ' ,. ,.. An American lady went ty London for only a day or. two for the sole purpose of seeing a friend, who, .by the way, belonged to the nobility. When strongly urged to meet a few friends at dinner next evening she. de
clined, and on being pressed for a good
reason was frank enough to say that she had with her no suitacle dress fvr
such an occasion, but only a black silk.
'Wear your black sill , and I will wear
oie too so you may f feel quite at ease,"
said the hostess, -and a . promise was given to be present. What was the aurpriee oi ttie BoBton, hidy, on entering the drr. u ng rois, to fir d all the ladies iu black silk gowns 'Lady Bash had written her guests, requ-ssting them to
Lwear black silk."
He Migrht Comefcalking! In,
Texas Sittings. , :
Customer in 0iove Departmcnt---
-fiavt mfc unv nnuresseu kids?'
Salmniiu--Yes, but don't talk so lou i, r you'll. Iave Oomatock pulling this establishment?' ;,.v
redder ; :rm
will contain an animal of same-kind.
desireajso to state
be no further apart M l!S..pratOiA', ;-: next year than ;-l:;.;Jtu:- 4;ifSj will be a choice aiid iabraK miiisel per "ft-:S
formance after the main show, and thp t higbiy connedl -btit tfmodetf ypunfff men will climb nVer th4 andice w refer t it during Mii I say this hoping thakj wtpte :Barrf nunv seems to almost fill the entir;:1 horixon. no onfe will lose sisht of old ;: ;-,
and longwaisted snakes hinve done 6,
much towmcwffi
Satisfactorily CKxp lauifidr
Mistress w hy, Maryv-i toia pww
make up my rborn an hour ago
it is in terrible disorder.
Mary YiSi tnum att 'jfiVi: up, but the master came in-to ut ;W4- ; v nlstno collar. mum.an? he ktst tHo button
St, PeteWHoldon, thtire.
New Splrili 4fLi
ilMy name is 4sv Goulds1 '
I V You" take that earth vifi-ht back
ucunnteand leave it pu ttf i