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Eaton Weekly Democrat L. G. GOUU), Publisher. Deroted to the Interests of the Democratic Party, and the Collection of Local and General News. Two Dollars per Annum, In Adyancc, VOL. V.-NO. 16. EATON, OHIO, THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1872. WHOLE NUMBER 247. Sue Sanders. Eue Sanders wan a country lass. With eyes as brown as buns. And cheeks that held the peaohy bloom Of eighteen summer suns. She never owned a silken dress. Nor dreamed of Mechlin laoe. xet wore her tidy home-spun gown ' With suoh bewitching graoe. That scarce the merchants' gayest goods Had made her seem more fair No princess with a sweeter grac A royal robe oould wear. One day there came a city man. With wealth and honors rife And asked sweet Su&y Sanders soon If she would be his wife. Now Sue a country laddie loved. With scarce a dime to show. But Susy loved him none the less. And so she answered " No." The rich man bit his bearded lip . And bent his haughty head : But, hoping by his wealth to win. He waited still and said : Your country lad is rude and rough. . With brawny, sun-brewned hands. And offers with his clownish name Nor gold nor goodly lands ; While wealth and gems, a stately house.' And name of ancient pride. Are mine to offer to the one I ask to be my bride." Then redly flushed her rounded oheek. And like queen she said : " To plow and sow and reap the field. And earn one's daily bread, " I think is nobler than to sit Content life's cares toshirk. And ne'er a jeweled finger life To any worthy work. ' To memy Willy's toil-worn hands, Bronsed by the summer sun. Are dearer far than if they had Ne flush of labor woo. .. - - , " And pray, good sir. have yon not learned Love is not boueht or sold T . ' Whene'er wed, I'll wed a hak, -And not his lands or gold." With sullen brow the suitor grand Rode fiercely back to town. - And one May morn Sue wedded Will, Hearth and Home. THE DOUBLE DANGER. Among the earliest settlers of Wood stock, a beautiful town in the Green Mountain State, was a man by the name of Silas Sloey, who had left h is early home near the sea, and following the windings of the new Connecticut, had at last pitched upon a place in the wil derness, where he erected his cabin, and then commenced an onslaught upon the giants of the forest that reared their heads in stately grandeur about him, but gave way beneath his relentless strokes, and in a eouple of years he had quite an open space encircling his cabin. During this time he had lived alone, but when the second autumn came another journey was undertaken to that old home by the sea, and when he returned & young wife bore him company, to share -with him the joys and privations inci dent to a pioneer. Three years came and went, and the clearing had greatly enlarged its bor ders, although no arm but his own la bored within its bounds. Tke trees that - at first had come close up to the. cabin, had now retreated to a respectable dis tance, and the ground they had once occupied was now usurped by flourishing crops that cheered the heart of the set tler, and encouraged him to still greater exertion. The three years spent in the forest by .the young couple had been those of peace and contentment. A son was liorn to them at the commencement of the second year of their married life, and who was, at the time the adventure) we are about to relate transpired, nearly two years of age, and as bright a little fellow as ever cheered the hearts of pa rents, whose very life seemed bound up in that of their child. The nearest neighbors of the Sloeys were' more than three miles away through the forest, so it was seldom that they saw others than themselves. The settler was too much occupied with his work to pay much attention to making visits, and the distance was so great that , it was not safe for his wife to go alone, as the forest swarmed with wild beasts, which rendered the night hideous with their cries. Bears - and panthers abounded, but the wolves were most to be dreaded and proved the greatest an noyance: for often they would gather around the cabin at early dusk and keep up their horrid cries until the arly gray of the dawn sent them howling into the dim aisles of the forest and up the dark ravines among the mountains, where shadows almost like those of night lurked all through the day. One day late in October business called the settler to the nearest settlement of importance in that section, which chanced to be some eight miles distant ; and he sat out early in the morning, telling his wife she need not look for him before nightfall, as it was very un certain what time he would be able to accomplish his business, and it might be that he would not be at home till late in the night, but come he would before he slept, unless some unforeseen event interposed to prevent. Bending over his child that was sleeping in the bed, he kissed it, and then having bestowed the same mark of affection upon his wife, he bade her be careful not to stir from the cabin or to allow the child to wander from her sight for fear that some harm might come to them from the wild beasts. "With this caution, which ' she promised readily to observe, he threw his rifle. over his shoulder and took his way across the clearing, and his wife watched him from the doorway until the forest thicket hid her from his sight. -. - . - The morning had given promise of a tieauuiul day, which assurance was wen kept until a little past meridian, when the -wind chanced to the east ward, and dark clouds began to obscure the sky to the south and east, giving strong indications that a storm was nigh c t hand. Busy with her work and the care of her boy, Mrs. Sloey did not no tice the approaching storm until near nightfall, when the sudden darkness that seemed all at once to throw a deep loom about the cabin reminded her that the night and storm were dose at hand, and going to the door way she gazed ; anxi usly - toward that i roint in the forest whence she expected . . . i . , . f i i i j to gee me nrst eigne 01 ner nusoana. Although her gaze was Ions and ear nest, it was not rewarded by a glimpse of her husband ; then with a g.ance the dark clouds that seemed tohem the little clearing in as if with a huge pall i he tried to calculate how long it would be before the rain would begin to tall and to guess the distance her husband might be away, and the chance he had of reaching home before the storm. ' ' at Standing in the doorway the gloom seemed to her to deepen every moment, while the wind that had been sighing dismally in the forest died away, leaving everything almost as still as death. The kettle singing on the hearth re called her to the fact that she had com menced preparing supper, and turning away from the door, sheapproached the rude stone fire-place, and after paying due attention to what was cooking there she approached the bed upon which her boy was sleeping, and found the air of the fast deepening night ap peared to strike him where he lay. Not caring to close the door, as she wished to catch the first Bound of her husband's footsteps on his return, she bethought herself of a quilt that was in the loft, which she could spread upon the bed without disturbing her little son. Listening for a moment, to make sure no footsteps were approaching, she as cended the rude ladder, and felt her way along in the darkness the loft was unprovided with windows to the spot where she supposed the object of her search to be lying, but it was not there. Either she or her husband had moved it, and groping her way about in the darkness, she after a few moments' de lay, succeeded in finding it, and taking it cn her arm, she approached the lad der and was about to descend when she caught sight of an object in the room that seemed to turn her blood to ice, and for a moment rendered her incapa ble of thought or action. Standing in the center of the room, with its head upturned, its fierca eyes glaring around , in every direction, its long red tongue partly protruding from its half-open mouth, in which the white fangs were visible, was a huge, lank wolf, that despite the timidity of its race, had ventured in through the open door in search of food, attracted by the odor of the meat that was cooking upon the fire, as it had been prowling about the cabin, as was frequently the case at this season of the year. For a minute, Mrs. Sloey was so para lyzed with horror that for her life or her child's she could not have moved ox ut tered a word, and the wolf also remain ed stationery, snuffing the air, and then moved cautiously toward the fire, to the momentary relief of the mother, as she saw that he was farther from the bed upon which her boy was sleeping, yet whom it seemed as if no power on earth could save. Slowly and shyly the wolf approached the fire, sniffing the air as it did so, but not fancying the strong light thrown out by the embers, or the heat that as it approached began to be rather un comfortable ; and as the monster would dart back a new pang ot horror would assail the heart of the mother, who, with feelings that cannot be described, was watching any motion on which de pended the life of her child. Suddenly one of those wild fitful gusts of wind that sometimes precede a storm, came whirling down the chim ney, and scattered sparks about the room, to the visible terror and disgust of the wolf, who sidled toward the door, and just as Mrs. Sloey was experiencing a delightful nope that the monster would go away, the fierce gust slammed the door to with a loud bang, and the heart of the mother sank within her as she saw that the wolf was a prisoner in the cabin.- Horror stricken at the situation of af fairs, Mrs. Sloey watched, with a sink ing heart, the movements of the wolf, who, finding himself thus caged, began to move anxiously about the room, no longer seeking so much for food as for a chance to escape ; but, at this moment, what was the horror of the mother to see her boy awakened, no doubt by the noise made by the slamming ot the door, rise up in bed and call her to come to him. At the sound of the child's voice, the wolf paused near the centre of the room, and fixed its eyes upon the little fellow, who, all unconscious of danger, was calling for his mother. The red tongue still protruded, and the white teeth glistened in the fire light, as the monster, half fearing to spring, crept nearer the bed to tae a better look at his prey. Half frenzied with the terrible danger f her child, the mother determined to sacrifice her own life, if need be, for that of her boy. A plan had suggested itself to her, a mere hope as it were, and ebe grasped it with all the eager ness that only those so situated can know. Unfolding the quilt and laying it across her arm, she prepared to de scend the ladder. The wolf was almost at its foot, and the bed but a short dis tance away. The monster saw her coming, and withdrew his gaze from the child, and nxed it upon his new victim. When half way down the ladder, the wolf made a spring at her ; this was the moment for her to execute her- hastily formed plan, and throwing the quilt, she enveloped the wolf in its folds,who, not fancying this covering, commenced backing toward the other side of the cabin, striving to get rid ot it, out in vain. Now was her moment for action: and springing to the bed, she clasped her child in her arms and sprang up the ladder, unharmed by the wolf, who was still struggling in vain endeavors to rid itself irom the quilt. With one hand she threw the ladder back into the . room, and then a cry of thankfulness fell from her lips at the success that had attended her efforts to save her child. " The boy, not knowing the meaning of this behavior on the part ot the mother, and eomewhat frightened withal, be gan to cry : and while she tried to hush him in silence again, she did not take her eyes from the wolf, who, completely blindfolded, was spinning about the room in the most eccentric manner. It was more by its subsequaofc-action than the fortunate throwing of the quilt by Mrs. Sloey that the wolf be- came entangled so hopelessly in it. At first she watched its actions with satis faction, but as each circle brought the wolf nearer to the fire a new terror took possession of her heart. Should it blunder therein, as he seemed fated to do, would not the cabin be set on fire thereby and a death as horrible as the one from which sho had just rescued her child be their fate.. Trembling with tear she watched every motion and at last that which she had feared occurred. Each circle, as the wolf frantically en deavored to free itself from the cover ing, had brought it nearer to the h re place, under the mass of glowing em bers. A howl of rage and pain followed as it sprang out again upon the floor, its covering a sheet of fire. Another bound and it landed upon the bed. where, by a frantic effort, it threw off its fiery cover, and uttering yelps of pain it sprang again fo the floor and rushed around the room for a chance to escape. the bed was all afire in a moment, and Mrs. Sloey uttered a cry of des pair as the flames caught in every di rection and a dense volume of smoke rolled up through the aperture in the oft. " Father in heaven, must we perish 1" exclaimed the mother, as she pressed the child to her breast. " JtLusband, husband I why kdo you not come and save your wife and child from this hor rible fate ?" No answer to the frantic ejaculation came to the ear ot the distracted wo man save the crackling of the flames as they caught upon the dry wood ot the cabin, and sent their forked tongues up to the spot where she stood, wnue ner ears wero hlied witn tne snarp cry or the wolf as it ranged round and round in its vain endeavors to escape, wnue ever and anon the flames would catch upon the fur, where it was already scorched off in its first contact with the fire, causing it 'to utter a howl of agony. Although death stared ner in tne face, Mre. Sloey was not a woman to give up so long as there was a chance for life left to her. As we have already said, there were no windows in the loft, so that avenue of escape was denied her. The roof was covered with hewn plank fastened to the ridge pole and the top log of the sides by means of stout . ooden pins. To remove one or more of these was her only chance of escape, but to do this with her own un aided hands seemed to be impossible. Half choked by the smoke and her child clinging to her and crying with all its power, she felt about her to find some instrument to aid her in the ac complishment of her purpose; but all she could find was a stout stick of wood that her husband had placed there to season for an axe-helve. Inserting this with all her strength between the log and one of the planks, she essayed with all her strength to raise it from its place, but without success. Finding this one immovable, she tried another and another, with like result. . Hotter and more stifling grew the air about her, louder crackled the flames below, and fiercer became the cries of the imprisoned wolt, while the cnes 01 her child rang above all, and rendered her well nigh desperate. Hope was fast leaving her. But one more plank re mained untried, and she had gone the length of the front side of the cabin. With the- energy born of despair Bhe inserted the stick, and pried upward with all her strength, and to her great joy it moved slowly and the welcome tresh air ot heaven came pouring in upon them. Inspired by hope she attempted to start another one by its side, but, with all her strength she found it impossible, and yet the aperture was not large enough to admit her passing through, and again the pangs ot despiir seized hold upon her heart. The heat was becoming terrible, and the opening she had made in the roof seemed only an outlet for the smoke, which, as it poured out, well nigh stifled her. Clasping her child, she thrust him through the opening, and holding him on the roof for a moment, she was about to let him slide to the ground, at the risk of dashing the life from his body, when the sound of rapid footsteps were heard, and the next mo ment the well known voice of her hus band sounded like music in her ears, as he came across- the clearing, and by the light of the flames that had begun to break out in several places, saw his child and the head of his wife on the roof. ' Quick, husband, for the love of God 1" shouted the mother, as she still retained a hold upon her child. And in hardly more time than it takes to tell it, he was upon the roof, and with his strong arms had torn up another plank, and sprang to the ground with ins child, and in a moment more nis wife was by his side, with a heart over flowing with joy at their escape. I he cabin was burned to the ground with all its contents, including the au thor of all the mischief. A new one was erected, and therein, in after years, the story we have narrated was otten rehearsed to those that claimed their hospitality. Cure for Somnambulism. The Vallejo (Cal.) Recorder has the following : " A certain husband living in our neighborhood has a habit of walking in his sleep, and his wife got so tired of having him frisk around the house during the silent watches of the night that at last she determined to tie him fast after he got to sleep. She fast ened a string to his ankle and tied the other end to what happened to be the most handy, which was her husband's double-barreled gun, behind the door in the corner ot the room. About one o'clock the somnambulist arose for the purpose of taking a ramble around the room. When he had taken about six steps, the artillery came out of its seclu sion in the corner, with a jerk, the load crashing through the panels of the door. It soon brought both parties to consciousness, and they begged lor God's sake we would not mention their names. Yesterday he was busy putting a new panel in the door, which is far better than digging a load of buckshot out of the baby. Abrasion of Coins. A statement baying been made that a single bank in London had lost $35,000 in one year by the abrasion of the gold coins, a practical philosopher visited the Bank of England in order to exam ine into the matter. This gentleman reports that the whole breadth ot counter, upon which the sun happened to be shining, displayed myriads of par ticles of gold, which had evidently been struck off, mainly, by the sharp edges of the steel shovels used to remove por tions of the heap of sovereigns. It also asserted that the milled edges of the sovereigns must assist in the natu ral raspings of the coin. MURDER OF COL. JAS. FISK. JR. Detailed Account of the Assassination— Origin of Difficulty between the Murderer and his Victim—Provisions of Fisk's Will, etc. THE SHOOTING. James Fisk, Jr., was shot twice, by Edward Stokes, at the Grand Central Hotel, New York, at 20 minutes past 4 on Saturday afternoon, the 6th inst. Fisk had just alighted from his carriage at the hotel entrance, and was ascend ing the stairs to his rooms, when Stokes came out of an adjoining passage way, unperceived by Fisk, unbottoned his coat, drew a revolver and rapidly dis charged three shots. The first lodged in Fisk's shoulder, the second whistled close by his head, the third, with more fatal direction, took effect in the abdo men, inflicting a mortal wound, risk evidently recognized his assailant before falling, but made no remark. Imme diately, after-the shots were fired the hotel employes rushed to the scene. While some cared for the wounded man. others seized Stokes, who, seeing escape was impossible, made no resistance. He was promptly handed over to the police. j? iBk was quickly conveyed to his room. where the surgeon of the hotel was soon in attendance upon him, and all that unremitting medical skill and attention could do was done, but without avail. He lingered until a few minutes before 11 o'clock on Sunday morning, when he breathed his last. THE PUBLIC FEELING. The news of Fisk's death spread rap- 1 idly, and everywhere produced a pro- j found sensation of deep regret. All the aspersions that his enemies had heaped upon his character were in a moment torgotten, and only his noble qualities of head and heart were remembered bis frankness, his generosity and " his charity. The scene in and around the room where the body lay was touching in the extreme. A very large number of the friends of Fisk and guests of the hotel viewed the body, and later in the afternoon, prior to the removal of the corpse to If lsk's residence, the general public were admitted. THE FUNERAL. took place at Brattleboro, Vt., on Tues day, at 1 o'clock p. m. The brigade to which the Ninth Regiment is attached escorted the remains, the Ninth acting as a special funeral escort. The officers of the brigade will wear the usual badge of mourning thirty days. PROVISIONS OF FISK'S WILL. Mrs. Hooker, his sister, receives $100,000 in Narragansett Steamship Company shares. His father and mother receive $3,000 a year each. To each of the two Misses Morse, his sisters-in-law, he bequeathed $2,000 a year. To the .Ninth Regiment, $11,000. To his wife he bequeathed the balance of his prop erty of all kinds. :. To Jay Gould, for whom he entertained the warmest and most disinterested friendship, he left his personal effects, and entrusted to him the labor of love, as it is called in the will, of carrying out all his (Mr. risk's) projects in regard to public im provements. Mrs. Fisk inherits all her deceased husband's shares in the Erie railroad. ORIGIN OF THE DIFFICULTY. The origin of this difficulty dates back nearly two years. Col. Fisk and Stokes were interested in an oil company which furnished all the oil used by the brie Railroad Company. Fisk and Stokes became intimate friends. Stokes seem ed a smart, energetic young man, and grew rapidly in Fisk's favor. The profits ot the oil business became very great. Stokes became a frequent visitor at Col. Fisk's rooms in the Grand Opera House. They were continually together. So in timate were they that Stokes repeatedly dined with Col. Fisk at the house of MRS. JOSEPHINE MANSFIELD, who was Col. Fisk's mistress. The Col onel became acquainted with her acci dentally when she was in want, clothed her in silks and satins, sprinkled her with diamonds and other gems, gave her a rich mansion with a brown stone front, furnished it sumptuously, and placed carriages and servants at her dis posal. So infatuated did he become that he repeatedly appeared in public with her, despite the earnest protesta tions of his friends. He laughed at the newspaper exposures of his shame, and was finally debarred from fashionable society. CoL Fisk's friends were deeply grieved, but they remained true to him, for whatever may have been his faults, he always stood to his friends to the last. STOKES is about five feet nine inches in height. His body is well knit : his head is cov ered with glossy curls ; his complexion is clear ; his features regular, and his eyes dai k-blue. His forehead is wide, but not high. He dresses in the height of lashion, with a tendency to gaudi ness, and generally wears large dia monds. He is a fluent talker, and is very quick of motion. He speaks rap idly, and uses many gestures. Uol. r lsk seems to have confided entirely to Stokes's sense of honor, and to Mrs. Mansfield's sense of gratitude. Appar ently he had not the least notion that Stokes would endeavor to supplant him in her attentions. Stokes, however, ap pears to have fallen in love with Mrs. Mansfield at first sight. His attach ment was apparently reciprocated, and the readiness with which she transferred her affections from Col. Fisk to his as sassin gives an air of strong probability to the rumor that she had deliberately trapped Col. Fisk for his money. The attachment between Stokes and Mrs Mansfield was not discovered by Col. Fisk until weeks had elapsed. Mean while the Colonel was paying for the very dinners at Mrs. Mansfield's house to which she had invited her friend Stokes. Though warned by his friends of what was occurring, herefused to believe it, and it was not until he had assured himself from conversations with Mrs. M. that the reports were true, that his eves were opened. The first move the Colonel made with his usual energy. He forbade Stokes's visits to the house, and reasoned with Mansfield, but to no purpose. The next movement was startling one. Stokes was arrested on the charge of embezzling the oil com pany's funds and kept in prison two days. When released on bail he retali ated, and Fisk was arrested on an accu sation of conspiracy and false imprison ment. The fight was a bitter one, and benefited no one but the lawyers. Fisk then rescinded the verbal contracts by which the oil company supplied Erie with oil. Of course this forced the stock of the oil company down, and Fisk, it is understood, bought in Stokes's inter est for $100,000. Mrs. Mansfield now joined her energies to those of Stokes. She claimed that Fisk owed her some $40,000, and in proof of this claim put in copies of a batch of love-letters writ ten to her by Col. Fisk, which were said to expose all the secret operations of the Erie and the Tammany rings. Fisk se cured an injunction from Judge Pratt, forbidding the publication of the letters, a3 they were ruled to be scandalous and irrelevant. During the pending of cer tain suits between Stokes and Fisk, Mrs. Mansfield gave the original letters to Stokes, who immediately made use of them. He held them over Fisk's head, and threatened their publication. Fisk acted like. a diplomat. He sub mitted a proposition to Mr. Stokes for arbitration. Stokes, against the advice of his counsel, accepted Mr. Clarence Seward, one of Fisk's counsel, as an ar bitrator. The letters were placed in Mr. Peter B. Sweeney's hands for safe keeping. Mr. Seward found against Stokes on all points but one, awarding him $10,000 as the price of the letters. Stokes complained that he had been swindled, nevertheless he accepted the $10,000. The immediate cause of the assas sination was probably the reception of the news by Stokes that Fisk had. on Saturday, obtained an indictment against him for perjury, and that he was infuriated with the prospect of being put into jail a second time through his adversary's influence, and determined to avenge his real or fancied wrongs in a summary manner. Foreign Notes. A French woman, calling herself Madame Bricham Youns-. has been arrested in Paris for indulging in what she called tne Utah uancan" a per formance compared to which the Paris article is but a humdrum affair. In future, no white horses are to be employed in the French -army, they were found to be such excellent guides to the Prussians there to direct their fire, n t . : 1 ----- It has been ascertained that the Em peror Napoleon III. is very fond of drinking Johannisbergerwine, and that Prince Bichard Metternich, who owns Castle Johannisberg, in order to ingra tiate himself with Napoleon, allowed him to purchase, since the year 1860, nearly all the good wine raised in that famous locality. The outsiders, who paid since that time enormous prices for what they believed to be excellent Jo hannisberger may, therefore, take it for granted that the agents of the Prince took advantage of them. Dr. Balmanno, a London surgeon, has successfully applied the magic lantern to the study of diseases of the skin. A transparent photograph of the skin is taken, and then placed in a magic lan tern. A strong hydro-oxygen light casts the picture enlarged on a white sheet, and in this way the smallest details are brought out with astonishing minute ness. M. Goda.ro, the aeronaut, has just made an ascent at Toulouse in his new gigantic balloon, the " Union des Peu ples." Ten persons were with him in the car. It is said that ladies who visit the man-milliner, Worth, at his elegant house in Pans, for the purpose of buy ing a dress or costume, are very much surprised at his manner of judging what would be most appropriate ana becom ing to them. He sits down at a distance, and makes the lady parade herself up and down before him, closes his eyes half-way, puts his head on one side, and appears to be in deep thought, and then he seats himself at a table and throws off hurried sketches, from which the garments are modeled. Russia is the paradise of woman's- rights advocates. Man and wife always own their property separately, and in stances of wives suing their husbands for debt are of frequent occurrence. Still, Russia has no paper advocating woman's rights. The King of Denmark, who was twice shot at, came near losing his life recent ly at Darmstadt, in consequence of the careless manner in which he handled a loaded revolver. He escaped with the loss of three fingers of his right hand. A Handsome Compliment. up the events of last year, pays Chicago the following handsome compliment : t he most marvelous city on earth, in youth, in growth, in dash, and ener getic enterprise, met, in one terrible day, the most marvelous lata. It seemed the destiny of this wonderful product of the prairies and the inland seas, to mark its history with incidents which should always compel men to speak of it in superlatives. It had the most bril liant past, the most hopeful future. It was destroyed by the greatest fire ever known to civilization. Its burning ex cited the nation and the world to the most lavish and generous charity ever seen. But of all the scenes it has ever offered to the wonder and appreciation of men, the finest has been the constant heart, the undaunted, unblenching courage, the sturdy and resolute energy of its stricken but not broken peoplo. Brave Chicago I May the sun of the New Year shine brightly on its renas cent glories, and may the memory of its disasters be lost in the tame ol its achievements!" An Alexis Anecdote. A very pleasant incident in connec tion with the visit of the Grand Duke of Russia to the Massachusetts Histori cal Society rooms is reported by the Boston Traveller. Just as the party were leaving. Admiral Poisset took from his pocket a small envelope and handed it to Mr. Winthrop, saying that perhaps the contents would be ot suffi cient interest to entitle them to a place in the society's cabinet. On opening the envelope, three oak leaves and little twig were found. There were ac companied by a statement in Russian that the leaves and twig were taken from an oak tree in St. Petersburg, which grew from, an acorn planted by the Emperor of Russia himself, received from Sir. George Sumner, of this city. which he took from a tree which shades Washington's tomb at Mount Vernon, Farm and Garden. How to Make Sens Profitable. A cor respondent of the Massachusetts Plough man gives an account of the produce of his fowls in 1870. We omit his account of profits and expenses because prices were so different from those usual in the West as to make them valueless. The number of eggs laid, however, was very large. From an average of about 100 hens during the year he had 1,284 dozen or 15,414 eggs. He gives the plan of treatment as follows : , , I keep an exact account of all re ceipts and expenditures. I have upon an average through the year about one hundred hens, three-fourths Leghorns, the remainder Dorkings. I prefer the Leghorn to all other kinds for layers, as each hen will lay about two hundred eggs in a year and seldom want to sit. The Dorkings I keep for hatching and rearing chickens, though they are good layers and weigh dressed or alive nearly twice as much as the Leghorns. My plan is to dispose of two-thirds of my stock of old hens each year and rear othersjto take their place, as young ones are better layers than those two years old, and I consider poultry a year and a halt old worth as much, pound for pound, as younger ones. 1 feed them upon oats in the morn ing ; at noon 1 give them a mash made of cra and. wheat screenings and boiled potatoes about equal parts ; three or tour times a week l add a little tresh meat. I feed but twice a day and care fully save all the manure, which I think many people do not understand the value of ; each hen will make from seventy-five cents to a dollar's worth in a year. . My hen-house is forty feet long and twelve feet wide, fronting east and west with doors and windows on either side, built in the cheapest manner to answer the purpose j it is divided into ten rooms, each six bv eight feet, connected fwith yards eight by twelve feet. . Each room is furnished with four movable nest boxes placed about two feet from the ground, over that a shelf two and half feet wide and the roost about one foot above the shelf. - ' i-ti; ,- Each room is furnished with a box containing sand and ashes for the hens to scour themselves in, a box of broken oyster shells, and a trough for water, which I am careful to provide fresh every day ; this I consider very impor tant. The food is placed in a rack made for the purpose. In the nests I keep sawdust with a little sprinkling of air slacked lime, the dust of which pre vents the hens from disturbing their nests. ... . . ...1 Lice very seldom make their appear ance, as 1 keep the house clean, well ventilated, and sprinkled every week with ashes and lime ; if any make their appearance I put four tables poonafull of sulphur to a pail of food and feed with this six days in succession ; this remedy never fails. Lice on Hogs. The Tennessee Agricultu rist says : " W. S. Swann informs us that he has an infallible remedy lor ridding hogs of lice simple and easy of application which is to take butter milk and pour it along the hogs, back and neck, and alter two or three appli cations not a louse will be seen. He has tried, and seen tried, in several cases, with the same success in every instance. Mr. Swann being a reliable man, we recommend its trial to our . farmer friends whose hogs are troubled with lice." ' Property fer Children. Every girl and every boy should have the care of some thing belonging to them, to grow or cultivate or improve. 1 When there 1b plenty " of room, as on - a farm, boy's Bhould own a horse, or a cow, or have a given portion of the garden to cultivate. Girls should be allowed to possess a bee hive, or a certain number ot Hens, or fruit-bearing vines. Something of value that by care and proper cultivation in creases and returns a value for itself. Children will acquire an interest, and derive a happiness from this form of industry that will repay the effort and trial. New Use for Fresh Eggs. The Maine Farmer says : " Mr. John Murphy, a gentleman of intelligence andjclose ob servation recently made to us some interesting statements in regard to the value of fresh eggs in affording nourish ment to weak animals, that are worth remembering by all farmers." He re marked that he had known a young colt which to all appearance was nearly dead, the breath of life being barely perceptible, to be- quite instantly revived by giving it one or two fresh eggs. The same results, in several cases to which he was knowing, have followed the administering of eggs to weak calves, and also - to feeble and chilled lambs. A remedy so simple, so easy at hand and so effectual m the cases mentioned which otten occur with calves and lambB should be re membered by all our readers." Frozen Apples. It is not an unusual thing for apples to be frozen after they are gathered, especially when they are for a time kept in an out-building, as it is the custom of many before storing in the cellar. It is not generally known that apples are not much injured from being frozen, provided they are kept in a dark place where ' they will thaw gradually. Frozen apples lying in heaps, in out-buiidingB, should be deeply covered to confine the air and perfectly exclude the light, until the frost is . out of them; besides this, when it can be done, the room should be darkened, or, what would be better, remove them to a dark cellar, in which the temperature is six or more degrees below freezing. We say six degrees, because sound ap ples not yet mature, will thaw out at a temperature less than this. -But wher ever they are kept the frost should not be extracted too suddenly, nor must the light be allowed to strike them while they are thawing, because frozen apples, from some cause not yet well under stood, if thawed out in the dark will remain plump and sound, while if thawed in the light, even though the sun should not shine on them, they will afterward be soft and spoiled. Again, it often occurs that apples get frozen in barrels on the way to market keep such barrels headed up, and i holes have been bored in them, close them up to confine the air and exclude light. The best place for these apples would be a cold cellar, because in such place the frost oould be more gradually drawn out- but it will answer, without removing them from the barrels, to store them in an out-building or shed, covering deeply with straw. So protee ted, they may be kept frozen all winter if desired, and will, when they come to thaw out, be fresh and sound. We have even known apples headod np in barrels and kept deeply covered in straw, but not bo deep but they were several times ' frozen and thawed during winter," and yet the following spring they were sound, and in quality equal to the same variety kept in a cellar. . . Frozen apples, however, must always be handed with great care, for when hard frozen they are unyielding, and if rattled together they will be covered with shallow bruises, which, on being thawed first turn brown , and soon after ward decay. - , Waiting. BY JEAN INGELOW. Orand is the leisure of the etrth: -She gives her happy myriads birth, -And after harvest fears not dearth, -But goes to sleep in snow-wreaths dim. Dread is the leisure np above. The while he sits whose name is Lore, -, And waits, as Noah did, the dove. To see if she would fir to him. : He waits for us. while, houseless this its, ' We beat about with bruised wiigs - On the dark floods and water-springs. , The ruined world, the desolate sea ; ' ' With open windows from the prime, "' Ml night, all day. He waits sublime. Until the fulness of the time Deo reed from his eternity. . Current Items. - A ladt in Cleveland, Mass., . recently . gave birth to a child, perfect In every respect above the abdomen, but below representing two boys and a girl, having . six. legs. , Miss Charlotte Cushmaic is building ' a cottage at Newport, R. I., which is to cost twenty thousand dollars. It is w planned that all the rooms are oc-' tagonaL i - ' ,'..r:ov The business men .of Greenfield, O., have signed a card agreeing to publish in the papers all persons who contract ' debts and then plead the exemption law . as an excuse for non-payment. n M. Grabenstein, a harness-maker of . Pittsburgh, hps received intelligence that he is one of three parties who have been bequeathed upward of $600,000 by a relative in England. -' 1 '"'.;; Clams, alive and healthy, have been' dug out of the prairie one or two miles from Houston, Texas. They were found at a depth of several feet, and-the Houston people wonder how theygot there. ' . " " The champion experimenter of Indi- ,. ana; has ' brought himself into notice. His name is Kelloeg, and he touched a - buzz-saw in the stave factory at Indin- apolis, to see whether it was in mo tion. He was satisfied. Senator D. T. Corbin. of the South Carolina Legislature, has been dubbed " Multitudinous " . Uorbm irom the fnflin. itinnmat.MiiA Vi fa f. ta t. nnA tirns he had thirteen offices, the aggregate in come of which was $200,000. perquisites . not included. Another "mother in Israel" lives in Niles, Mich., who is one hundred and nine years old. -. In a recent . love feast . she declared that she had enjoyed re ligion one hundred years, and for that same period had been a member of the Methodist Church. The wife of Mr.' Thomas Ducey, of , Lowell, 111., presented him with a daughter on Saturday night last, being his thirty-fourth child. Mr. Ducey is 93 years old, and has received contribu tions in that line from three wives. A rktTTflVYT.T.K Itirlv TAfVT1 1 1 V HPT"! t TctT A surgeon in great haste, supposing she had been shot by an assassin through the window. Upon the arrival of Saw bones it was found that she had been struck by a cork from an ale . bottle in the room. . , The log product of the Menomonee River, Wis., this winter, will be about 150,000,000 feet. Of this ; amount t 50,000,000 will be burnt timber. In many places the fire has facilitated lum bering, burning off the brush and top limbs, leaving the bare trunks standing. Mr, Shanlit, of Kit Carson, lost his cow recently, and, after a long search, found her in the midst ox a nera ox 20,000 buffaloes. The bison community had received her on terms of absolute equality, and it took three men and three swift horses to induce her to re turn to her home. 1 The monument to General McPher- son at Clyde, O., his former home, will be ten feet high and the horse and rider about fifteen feet high. These are to be placed upon a granite pedestal, making the total height ot the monument about thirty-five feet. The Government has donated forty brass cannon lor It. Different Kinds of Engraving. " Line " engraving is of the- highest order. Great engravings are done in " line " simply straight lines. Next comes "line" and." stipple." "Stipple" means dots small dots like this ...... These small dots are used to lighten up the high parts of the face or drapery. It is very hard to engrave a face in lines simply, and only master engravers have ever undertaken it. The masters understand and practice both " line " and " stipple." In 1700 Clause -Mellan engraved a full head of Christ1" -with one unbroken l'ne. The line com menced at the apex of the picture. Mezzotint engravings are produced thus: The steel or-copper is made rough like fine sand-paper. To produce soft effects this rough ' surface is scraped off. If you want a white place or "high light" in your engraving, scrape the surface smooth, then the ink will not touch it. If you want faint color, scrape off a little. Such engray- -ings look like lithographs. Etching is adapted to homely and familiar sketches. Almost all the great painters; were etchers. Etching is done thus : The copper or steel plate is beaten and covered with black varnish. The en graver scratches off this varnish with sharp needles, working on the surface as he would on paper with a pencil. Nitric acid is then poured over the plate, and it eats away at the steel and copper whenever the needle has scraped off . the . varnish. When the 1 varnish is removed with spirt of tur pentine, the engraving is seen in sunken lines on the plate.