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The sua is but another sky,' The sky a sea as well, The which is earth, and which the heavens The eye can scarcely tell. So when for us life's evening hour Soft passing shall descend, May glory born of earth and heaven, The earth and heavens blend Flooded with peace the spirit float, With silent rapture glow, Till where earth ends and heaven begins TJt^e soul shall scarcely know. I a '4 4 a WRITTEN FOR THB ST. CLOUD JOURNAL.] THE VACAN PARISH. Story Fouaded oa Facts. CHAFER ^JH. IN WHICH THE STAGS BRINGS A COUPLE OF PASSENGERS. "WEy, Daught! how on earth did dressed to Miss Daught Skerret, the young damsel who had been sent to theJB^form.School^upon jth§ accusa ,fio)ttX)f th« ^utch.iH^^bu^ •innocence I had confidingly and un cloudedly believed, the evidence of Mrs. Wilkins to the contrary not withstanding. My beholding Miss Daught, in indubitable flesh and blood before me, as if she had come unannounced from the clouds instead of the rather less celestial source, the Reform School) was, to me, a kind of prophecy of some half-«xpected an nouncement of the fact that her maligned character had been com pletely vindicated and that W 1€W© T»as ihe consequence of this Bap-. py vindication. -"I soon, however, discovered my error forth© only account Daught could give of the mode of her release was, that the Superintendent had told her she could go, I "But how did you get here, my Lehild?" said I. "Surely you didn't walk all this way." *rNo, ma'am they gave me enough money there to bring me by thef stage." she repeated %€f*%»t«nem emp^a^ca^yrand I I marked to Ware-that the Superinten dent had "become very kindhearted, as well as generous, all at once," but he was too busy with his Edingburg Review to pay any attention to •. me, TahJ so I 3icl not repeat the question. I sounded the girl still further, but could get nothing more out of her than she had before deponed. She WaS either truthful or had acquired the art of dissimulation very aptly since I had last known her. The that she .had not only been re leased, but furnished with money for comfortable passage home, was so hard to realize, so utterly opposed to brutal Mr. Covington's usual treat ment (so said rumor) of his wards, that I at last turned to Ware, and right before the girl said, "Ware* do you think Daught ran* off?" "Betterask her" said he "if any body knows, she ought to," as he turned another leaf of his Review* "Now, Daught," said I, "say the ninth commandment." She said it. "What does 'false witness' mean She explained it intelligently. .) [. "What became of Ananias and Saphira She told the whole story, fluently and accurately. "Kqw, Daught, did you run off from ^ce school not Remember said I. "No, ma'am." I turned to ask Ware what he thought of the credibility of the wit ness, but he had tripped out so gent ly that I had not. missed' him and so, sending Daught to her home, promised myself to write at once to the Superintendent about the matter. Introducing Miss Waddington and the Rev. Mr. Cleveland, who had come in the. same stage with Daught, I, af ter a few minutes conversation in the parlor, left the room to attend to those extra little touches of table or sleep ing apartments that the advent of a visitor for the night necessitates. And here a word of the aforesaid Rev. Mr. Cleveland. was tall, fine-looking, and in his thirty-first year, and given, as 1 thought, to a rather lavish use of French exotics in the bouquet of his conversation. This was, however, the only affectation he possessed and I felt, in consequence, the more ready to overlook it. As neat as a pin in his dress, faultless in manners, and of a. sufficient dignity of deportment, he usually won his way rather by his social virtues than by his pulpit ability. Of course, need hardly say that he was att [East ern man, and I be, 4 ,by, any ff he were not out of place in a one Western missionary parish among the rude and the uncultivated, I an swer emphatically. "NoJ" Th.e rude even have an inborn sense of what is polished, N in a a of reprodupmg it, save ir^ reugh imi tations, themselves and. even the most uncultivated have discrimination enough to discern between the genu ine and the spurious gentleman. If I were Bishop, I should always send my most gentlemanly men to my ru- ST- CLOUDS MINNESOTA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1 8 7 4 But, not to leave Miss Wadding ton and his Reverence together too longSj ~1n the Course of half an hou r, the young lady iu question, excusiug herself, came out, on some entirely apocryphal mission, to the tea-room and, in reply to my question, how she found the Rev. Mr. Cleveland, an swered, to my great astonishment, "Horrid 1" "Don't like pictures at all," contin ued she. "I showed him my sketch of the prairie, and what do you think he did? Why, yawned and looked in the wrong place, all the time I was trying to give him the points of it." "Well, if he doeshot like drawings that's his misfortune not his crime. Some persons don't, you know." "But he don't talk. Just sat and stared out of the window the whole time I was describing our ride yester day." "Well, you must remember that so inany miles [staging is hardly a likely source of conversational -inspi ration, my dear Miss•• Waddington. sure he'll do better after tea," S a Whether Mr, Cleveland retrieved his reputation for agreeablenessf and vivacity of conversation before the bell rang or not, an not say, but at table he did as ample justice to him self as he did to the viands. After adjournment -to the parlor, the current of conversation was quite rapid enough for safe passage from one topic to another, and both Mr. Cleveland and Miss Waddington appeared to have embarked upon its bosom upon the voyage of a mutually, pleasant ac quaintance. The next morning (Sunday) after breakfast, we four assembled in the parlor. Mr. Cleveland had under stood from Mrs. Anglesea that Miss Martin, the melodeonist, was absent, «ud presumed that Miss Wadding ton would take her place to-day. Miss Waddington would hot. A which Mn Cleveland was greatly surprised was Miss Waddington not well Miss Waddington was well/but the truth of it was, was not familiar enough with the style of music. "But, Miss Waddington," rejoined the Reverend, "pick out the sim plest Te Deum, and so on those they are used to singings here, and I'm sure you'll have'jcuy "Mr. Cleveland, you know I'm. not acquainted with: the- music of your church." The last two words of this sentence were pronounced with such a reluct ant, yet decided, emphasis, that he looked at both of us with an interro gation point in every feature. l"Now, Fa^elfpblb^Rsssor^ said I, "I must tell you the whole story and I did, amid much laughter. '•The ignorance of the people here is so great that if it were knojvn that a Congregationalist was teaching in the school, I should have almost the entire set about my ears like a nest of hornets and I must have Miss Wad dington's services, especially in the music, this summer." ll"And that's not the only reason I want to have Miss Waddington in terested in the church/' said I to' him aside, later in the morning. After my full andj^confessioh, I left the two, in order to attend td my htJhse hold affairs. Hearing1 the hum of quife'^eaxhest' conyersation I deter mined not to break in^ ttpon it, and so at least an hour passed, and it wore on towards the time for service. Meeting Miss Waddington in the hall^ as she passed up for her wraps, said she, 4 'learned a good many things about your church that I never knew before." "And there are a great many more equally interesting that I .hope you' will know in time." There was no instrumental music at the morning service, and only the psalms and hymns were suhg^ Mr Cleveland's fine tenor and Miss Wad dington's clear soprano mingling well, and the rude Voices5 6f the congrega tion, not always" either true or in! time, gave at any rate a heartiness to this! branch of the worship. Mr. Cleveland's text.was. so singular a one that I remember it to this day— "What will this babbler say Mr. Cleveland required very little inducement to remain over Monday at Hazzle Hill House. Thought I, he is determined to be of the most service he can to our mutual friend. And, perhaps, continued I in my mind, as his Reverence and our mu tual friend re-entered the house, after a short ramble around,the" brow cS the bluff, perhaps it may be something else that keeps him for Miss Wad dingtbn is certainly a very sweef^irl. "Do you think Mr., Cleveland 'hor rid' yet, Miss Waddington?" inquired I after his departure by the Tues day's stage. Miss Waddington ac knowledged that^he "improved Tipon acquaintance. -.-, ,1'fs that all& I^asked But she »»D^^„«iTr engaged with her basket thai she appeared not to hear and I wasjlHl(e!enough6fl#^tji! repeat 'the question. I observed that her cheeks colored a little as she bent over her work. It was perhaps the reflection from her crimson worsted. After tea that evening I felt re minded th atX^. 'e^tirely, forgotten to jwri^-jtoraifir. Covington about Daught Skerret, and excusing my self, went up stairs for my pen and rVtidfy'Mf. '*tnrn to the 'parlor, to which the other two had adjourned DEFECTIVE PAG E during my absence, "Who, tolct'yW that asked Ware of Miss Widdmg ton, as I tripp^' abwricHher/stSrif. 'OldMM:QMvfflxWjm she, 'and ivhen I entered, Arma'was'ibusV with when her!sewing and Ware the editorial columns of the Chatterwild Index. As he heartily despised the editorial Englibh, and the politics as well of the Index, I was surprised to fiud him so deeply immersed in the paper, but concluded that it contain' ed something unusually jhiteresting, and so,, in silence, prepared to write my letter. •"'Margaret," said Ware, "are you quite certain that Mr. Covington would like you to meddler with hi business by writing to him about tins Daught of yours layingdown hispa per. Perhaps, thought!, the editor was not as brilliant as I gave him credit •for. The apron finished, folded and laid aside, Miss Waddington laid aside her work also, and fiivored us with several recitations which she rendered, Ware and I both voted that night in solemn council of war upon the sub* ject, exquisitely indeed. Portia's ap peal for .'mercy Hamlet's address to the players, and Pickwick Bardall were among them. I remember to. thiB day how pleased your Uncle Ware was and I told him, PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 17.—The Philadalphia Inquirer xf tomorrow will contain a full expose of the Katie King swindle, the facts having been obtained from a*gentleman who un-r earthed the fraud. traced the supposed Katie to a boarding-house, and after a long-continned effort per suaded her to confess the deception she had been practicing, and to pro duce the gauzy dresses she wore at the manifestations. The productions of the latter, with a large quantity of jewelry, etc., that had been presented to Katie at the seances, induced Robert Dale Owen and Dr. Childs, two leading Spiritualists of this city, to publish and repudiate the swindle. From the Banner of Light. CARDS FROM ROBERT DALE OWEN AND H. T. CHILD. M. D. Circumstantial evidence, which I have just obtained, induces me to withdraw the assurances which I have heretofore given of my confi dence in the genuine character of cer tain manifestations presented last summer, ip. my presence, through Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Holmes. TTToT !i':' "Perhaps not, and on second thought perhaps I had better riof meddle/' I replied, laying aside my materials and taking up a halffln ished apron I was engaged upon ¥of one, Miss Sophronia Amanda Jud kins, aged six, so as to enable her to appear at Sunday School upon the next Sunday. tlaugh- ingly, when alone together, that'I be gan to fear that Miss Wadduigton was too fascinating to be kept in the house with safety to my own place in his dear old heart, and all that. Miss Waddington's portfolio was next voted in order and she exhumed from its depths several sketches she had made since her arrival, all show ing a true artist's hand in every stroke of the pencil. (CONTINUED NEX W E E -s» KATIE KING A HUMBUG* a O a E A E O S E ROBER A E OWEN I A E I A, December 6,1874'. I give notice that I will, no longer receive applications connected with^ the seances of Mr. and Mrs. Holmes, now in Philadelphia, the manifestations being unsatisfactory. E N CHILD M..D, 634 Rice street, Philadelphia. f'But, appointed, —Women have Justices of the Peace several executives,, commencing, with Govl Chamberlain, but the Supreme Court has just decided, in response .to •anihquiry from Gov. DIngley* that women cannot hold that position,, or, any other mentioned in the Constitu tion. Justice Dickerson, however, dis sents from this opinion and thinks that there is no constitutional objection to having women act as Justices of the Peace, and the Justices all agree that the Legislature may authorize women to hold any office created by that body. This de cision of the court renders void con siderable business, and perturbes the minds of various people who have been married by the feminine justices and it really wouldn't have been a bad plan if the legal aspect of the matter had been inquired into a little earlier.-—Springfield (JMOSS.) Ifaim.' in Maine by '. A editor relates how a colored barber made a dead-head of him. offered, him the usual Idime for shaying, when the fellow drew :him Iftlf up with considerable pomposity, andsaid: ". .-., r, T„ I a "t understand, datyoi^ is an editor." "Well, what says we, •,,{'• "Weneber charge editors nuffin." my worthy friendj" Wei con- tinued, "there are a good many edi tors traveling now-a-days and such liberality on your part would prove a ruinous business/' fl .BO uauii "Oh, neber mind," remarked the barber, "we make it up off de gem ..Mjfh." .^rtr-i—. m. maawe ft (•...,..'* »iiT- GEREIT SMITH. W a an A to Says of •VUrtUk »Hl Prospect* sroW^f frf!\* fywi Letter. The an party, has fallen! It is hot, .howeyer, because another party h«s outvoted: it. It couldl not fall frpmany cause outside of itself It could fall only from it&. own mis^ -deeds and its own woakneaBes, As it copld succeed only by being true to itself, so it could fail of success only by being uh^ue to itsdf. I speak here of success not,in that low and Vulgar sense which counts success in 8UJh things as the winning,of wealth or battles or office, but I speak of it in that sublime and precious sense which makes it to consist in the doing of our.duty. It isrnplrpQasibletiiat any real suc cess can await the Democratic party --the party which Satan inspired to Uphold slavery and to strengthen the enemy and cripple the country in our fearful civil war. The good men in that party (and there are not a few such who have the misfortune to be in it-rborn into it or misled into it), $ when they break out from it and abandon it, achieve in that brave and honest act a grand success—and this too, though they may be in the minor ity, forever. But the party itself has been sujperlatively' wicked too long to be capable of repentance. A party, like an individual, can sin away its Tlayofgrace. The only thing for this thrice, guilty Democratic party to do is to break.up. It cannot break up in penitence. Let it break up in despair and so make room for an other party. tV ITS E E I N E N DEGEITFULNESS IT IS AGAI N SHAMMING E E N ANCE It shammed it in the National Con vention at Baltimore in J872, when^ in the face of its ever-infernal treat ment of the negro, presumed te make the following the very first article in its platform W recognize the equality of all men before the law, *nd hold that it is the duty of government in its deal ings with the people to mete out equal and exact justice to all, of whatever nativity, race,color, or persuasion,re religious or political. And yet, when the bill providing for the equality of all men before the law came up in Congress at the last session, it got not one Democratic vote. The excuse for this unanimous opposition to it was that it is for the States and hot for the nation to ren der this impartial and equal justice. How well disposed the former slave States are to render it may learned from E STATUTES E ENACTE IMME I A E A E E CLOSE O E CIVI W A North Carolina enacted that a col ored person is not a competent wit ness in a case where a white person is a party that in apprenticing color el person, their old masters are to be preferred for their new masters that the marriage between a colored and a white person is void, and that the per son who solemnizes it, and the clerk who issues the license for it, are each to be fined $500 and that for a cer tain offense, while the white offender is to be 6hly,imprisohed, the colored offender is to suffer death. (I would here remark that, as a general rule, if a person's blood be one«ighth Af rican, the law classes him with ne groes.) ^Mississippi enacted, as North Caro lina did, in regard to apprentices, and provided very .severe punishment for*escapingT apprentic«i, and very severe punishment of persons who give food or raiment to such escaping apprentices. It provided for the im poflition of heavy fines upon colored vagrants, and, of course, almost every colored person was liable to be ar rested as a vagrant. It provided al so that, in case of the nonpayment of their fines, they should oe hired soft word for sold) to such persons as would bid them off on the most favor able terms. It further enacted that no colored person should be allowed to rent or lease any land except in incorporated towns or cities?—and not there without the consent of the cor porate authorities and it further en acted that no colored person should be allowed to possess deadly weapons. Its enactments in regard to the in competence of colored persons in the matters of testimony and marriage were similar to those in North Care- Georgia made laws similar to those Tefeired to in the codes of North ^^-1°^. ^wW^KnI^P4iDft ^OFJeye, .wyerer penaltie^^ Alabama had some mild features in her pevege code. '. .• @pp|^ ^arolii^--rAlthpu^ehe air lowi4 colored persons to acquire, own, o|!pr^per^lL,her|c^e^w^,, in |the main, very severe. She a 4 otfender liable to, !." I I I II I I I II I 1 S several offen- ses for which the white offender was not. General Sickles, then, in com mand in that State, supplanted the wicked code with a manly and merci ful prtfe^, jin Which he^saysj "Ail laws ihall.be applicable alike to all the inhabitants." Florida—Her code was .quite as bad asthose of her benighted and be deviled, sisters. She rivaled, so far as blacks were concerned, even poor little Delaware in the he pillory and the whipping„ post —The elephant is said to bedying put sp you'd better & and see it at .| Virginia did liot fall behind the once. jf81 other old slave States in the oppres- NO. 24. siveness of her enactments. General Terry wisely and honorably forbade obedience to her exceedingly cruel "Vagrant Act." In his order to that end he declares the condition of the freedmen to be worse than had been that of the slaves. Tennessee—Her enactments appear to great advantage by the side of many I have referred to, especially in their admitting colored persons to be competent witnesses. Nevertheless, she could not allow a colored person To hold office or be a juror. Texas allowed the colored man to hold property but in other respects her code was as severe as those I have spoken of. Louisiana—Her "Vagrant Act" was severe but it had not all the features jn the "Vagrant Acts" of some of the other States. Against none of these cruel and wicked enactments came there up one protest from the Democratic par ty. Let me now ask what would have become of the Southern blacks what of anv of the Southern people what, indeed, of the nation, had there not been a Republican party to an nihilate this infernal Democratic legislation This misnamed DEMOCRATIC A IB AGAI N FEIGN IN REPENTANCE and, this time, in the former slave States. Where it cannot gain black votes by intimidation, it seeks to gain them by professing a change of heart toward the black men and promising to be their fast friend in the future, instead of their atrocious enemy as in the past. The poor blacks, in that extreme ignorance forced upon them by their cruel oppressors, are but too easy a prey to this still atrocious enemy, who appeals now to their feare and now to their hopes. Bad, however, as is the Democratic party, there is one respect in which it ranks higher than the Republican party. It is more consistent and more steadfast. Asi old friend of my youth was wont to say: "I would rather see a man determinedly wrong than whifBingly right." The unflinching determination of the Democratic par ty, though it be a determination to serve the devil, commends a measure of our respect, whilst the "good Lord, good devil" policy, into which the Republican pary occasionally slides, does not fail toawaken our contempt. What, however, shall prevent the Republican party, if it. shall again plant its standard by the side of truth, from gathering around itself a major, ity of the American people NOTHING BU BEIN N E TO IT- SEL —to its origin, history, aims, and promises nothing indeed but its own treachery to the truth. I close with saying that if the civil rights bill, or one essentially like it, shall fail to become a law at the next session of Congress, the Republican party will be responsible for making Jive millions of our countrymen the everlast ing and unforgiving enemies of our country. —The Republic newspaper young. Let us hope the gods sed loved it. Man could not, for it lacked the first principles of a successful news paper. It was started by friends of the Republican party in whose mis taken estimation the loyalty of the New York Times was too lukewarm. The Times was and is a staunch Re publican paper, but not an organ. The' Republic was an organ of the most servile type, and as such did not deserve to live. It must be borne in mind, too, that a newspaper is not as easily established as a corner-grocery. It takes time and money and experi ence toplace'it on a paying basis. It must be built up, and gain the confi dence and respect of a constituency, which no mere organ can do.— Chi caga Tribune. —In measuring the sun's distance from the earth in 1769, an error iu the sun's parallax, almost immeas urably small—actually less, it is said, than a hair's breadth seen fifty yard off-—caused the error of millions of miles which is now known to exist. JBiit the vastly improved instruments wijh which observations are now made will, it is believed, enable the exact distance to be determined. Encke determined that it was about 95,274, 000 miles astronomers now only know that it is about 3,000,000 miles less. But the successful observations of the transit of Venus will doubtless suffice to fix this distance, and consequently the distances of all the other planets from the sun, and then to determine exactly the longitude of many stations now known only approximately. ^s» A mysterious basket, addressed to the stationmaster' at Clapham Junction, on being opened was found to contain a living child. The sta tion-master declining the gift, a porter volunteered to accept it, and took the basket and child. On lifting the child £800 was found in the basket. The story goes that the station-master then demanded the basket and its con tents, which the porter very properly refused to give up. One can hardly doubt to which of the two the moth er would intrust her child.—Zondo/t Times. —i A man had better have a mill stone tied to his neck and be cast in to the sea, than to promise to marry a Texas'girl and then refuse. The whole country turns out to hunt him, and he is generally left to grow up with a tree. E E E E E W A Many of the colds which people are said to catch, commence at the feet. To keep these extremities warm, therefore, is to effect an insur ance against the almost interminable list of disorders which spring out of a "slight cold." First never be tightly shod. Boots or shoes, when they fit closely, press against the foot, and prevent the free circulation of the blood. When, on the contrary, they do not embrace the foot too tightly, the blood gets fair play, and the spaces left between the leather and stockings are filled with a comfortable eupply of warm air. The second rule is—never sit in damp shoes. It is often imagined, that unless they are positively wet, it is not necessary to change them while the feet are at rest. This is a fallacy for when the least dampness is absorbed into the sole, it is attracted further to the foot itself by its own heat and thus per spiration is dangerously checked. Any person may prove this by try ing the experiment of neglecting the rule and his feet will become cold and damp after a few moments, although, taking off the shoe and warming it, it will appear quite dry. »-^s»-^ O O A E E E E S Multitudes of men and women have made their eyes weak for life by the too free use of eyesight, read ing small print and doing fine sewing. In view of these things, it is well to observe the following rules in the use of the eyes: Avoid all sudden changes between light and darkness. Never read by twilight, or on a very cloudy day. Never sleepy so that on waking the eyes shall open on the light of the window. Do not use eyesight by light so scant that it requires an effort to dis criminate. Never read or sew directly in front of the light of a window. It is best to have the light from above, or obliquely, or over the left shoulder. Too much light creates a glare, and pains and confuses the sight The moment you are sensible of an effort to distinguish, that moment stop and talk, walk or ride. As the sky is blue and the earth green, it would seem that the ceilings should be a bluish tinge, the carpet green, and the walls of some mellow tint A I A SUGGESTIONS. Feed only meal to fattening fowls for at least two days before killing, and feed nothing for a few hours be fore killing. Chickens cannot be raised profit ably alone, but in connection with other farm operations nothing pays better. -3™. You can save feed and trouble by getting rid of your poorest stock now. This particularly true of sheep. Get rid of the miserable, scrawny ones that you know will not winter over, or if they do, will be worth nothing when spring opens. Better knock them in the head and sell the pelts than to feed them all the winter for nothing. It pays to keep good stock, but poor stock never. A good lubricator for wooden axles is made of six parts of clean tallow and two parts of fine smooth plum bago. Another is made of five parts of tallow, five parts of soapstone, one part plumbago, and nine parts rosin oil the tallow and the oil are heated and mixed, after which the soapstone and plumbago are added. s» O S E E E I N I N S Never put a particle of soap about your silver if you would have it re tain its original luster. When it wants polishing, take a piece of soft leather and whiting and rub hard. The proprietor of one of the oldest silver establishments in the city of Philadelphia says that "housekeepers ruin their silver by washing it in soap suds, as it makes it look like pewter!" Stove lustre, when mixed with tur pentine and applied in the usual manner, is blacker, more glossy,. and more durable than when mixed with any other liquid. The turpentine prevents rust, and when put on an old rusty stove, will make it look as' well as new. To extract ink from cotton, silk and woolen goods, saturate the spots with spirits of turpentine, and let it remain several hours then rub it between the hands, it will crumble away without injuring either the col or or texture of the article. s» —The real waste among well-to-do farmers, the Boston Journal of Chem istry says, "is the throwing away of house slops, and in allowing the liquid excrement of animal^ to be lost. It is better to advise farmers to save every drop of the liquids of the house and barn, than to urge them to pile up huge heaps of inert substances to be used as fertilizers. A. heap of dry muck or peat, which in itself has no special value, may be used advan tageously to absorb the valuable li quids of the house and barn, and in this way a farmer may hugely in crease his manurial resources with out incurring great expense." «••. s» OR CROUP.—Half a teaspoonful of pulverized alum in a little molasses. It is a simple remedy, one almost al ways on hand,, and one dose seldom fails to give relief. If it should, re peat it after one hour. -am- A writer in Seribner's Monthly thinks that the much-used expression "excuse my glove," when offering the hand is an absurd and altogether mistaken form of politeness. There is no impropriety in wearing gloves, and there cannot be any in offering the hand with one on. It would be just as reasonable to say "excuse my coat," or "my boots."