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NO. 30.
VOL. VII.
MIDDLETOWN, NEW CASTLE COUNTY, DELAWARE, SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 25, 1874.
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SZLROTID VOS TIME TRANSCRIPT RY C. R. 8.
If I had known ia the morning
How wearily all the day
The words unkind
Would trouble my mind
I said when you went RWaj',
1 had been more careful, darling,
Nor given you needless pain ;
But we vex "our own"
With look und tone,
We might never take back again.
For though in the quiet evoning
You may give me the kiss of peace,
Yet it might be
That never for mo
The pain of of the heart should cease.
How many go forth in the morning
Tlint never come home at night !
And hearts have broken
For harsh words spoken
That sorrow can ne'er sot right.
We have careful thoughts for the stranger,
And smiles for the sometimes guest ;
But oft for "our own"
Tho bitter tone,
Though we love "our own" the best.
Ah ! lips with the curve impatient ;
Ah ! brow with that look of scorn ;
'Twere a cruel fate,
Were the aight too late
To undo the work of morn.
jsclert J^toru*
KITTY'S FORTY.
BY EDWARD EGGLESTON.
It doesu't do men any good to live
opart from women and children. I never
knew a boys* school in vhich there was
not a tendency to rowdyism. And lum
bermen, sailors, fishermen aud other meu
that live only with men are proverbially a
half-bear sort of people. Frontiermen
soften down when women and childreu
come—but I forget myself, it is the story
you want.
Burton and Jones lived in a shanty by
themselves. Jones was a married
but finding it hard to support his wife in
a down east village, ho had emigrated to
Northern Minnesota, leaving his wife un
der her father's roof until ho should be
able to "make a start." He and Burton
had gone into partnership aud had "pre
tMnptcd" a town site of 3*20 acres.
There were perhaps twenty families scat
tered sparsely over this town site at the
time my story begins and ends, for it
euds in the same week in which it begins
The partners had disagreed, quarrelled,
and divided their iutcrests. The land was
all shared between them except one valua
ble forty acre piece. Each of them claim
ed that piece of land, and the quarrel had
grown so high between them that the
neighbors expected them to "shoot at first
sight." In fact, it was understood that
Burton was ou tho forty acre piece, deter
mined to shoot J ones if he came, and Jones
bad sworn to go out there and shoot Bur
ton, when the fight was postponed by the
unexpected arrival of Jones* wife aud
child.
Jones* shanty was not finished, and be
was forced to forego the luxury of fight
ing his old partner, in his exertions to
luako wife and baby comfortable for the
night. For the winter sun was surround
ed by 'sun dogs.' Instead of one sun
there was four, an occurrence not uncom
mon in this latitude but one which always
bodes a terrible storm.
In his endeavor to care for wife and
child Jones was molified a little, and half
regretted that he had been so violent about
the pieoo of land But he was determined
not to be backed down and would tertain
ly have to shoot Burton or be shot him
self.
When he thought of tha chance of be
ing killed by his old partner, the prospect
was not pleasant. He looked wistfully at
Kitty, his two year old child, aud dread
ed that she should he left fatherless. Nev
ertheless he wouldn't bo backed down.—
Ho would shoot or be shot.
While the father was busy cutting woed
and the mother was busy otherwise, little
Kitty managed to get tho shanty door
open. There was no latch yet, and her
prying little fingers easily swung it back.
A gust of cold air almost took her breath
away, but she caught sight of brown grass
without and the new world Beemcd so big
that the little feet were fain to try and ex
plore it.
She pushed out through the door,
caught her breath again, and started away
down a path bordered by sere grass and
the dsad stalks of the wild flowers.
How often sho bad longed to escape
from restraint and paddle out into the
world alone ! So out into the world she
went, rejoicing in her liberty, in the blue
sky above and tbe rusty prairie beneath.
Sbe would find out where the path went,
and what there was at tho end of the
world ! What did she care if her nose
was blue with cold and her chubby hands
red as beets. Now and then she paused
to turn her head away from a rude blast,
a forcruu-'r of the storm, but, having
gasped a moinent, she quickly renewed
* her brave maroh in search of the great
unknown.
Tbe mother missed her, but supposed
that Jones, who could not get enough of
the child's society, hsd taken ths little
pet out with him.
Jones, poor fellow, sure that the dar
ling was safe within, ohopped away until
that awful storm broke upon him, and at
last drovs him, half smothered by snow
and half frozen with cold, into ths hoase.
Whan there was nothing left but retreat,
he had seited an armful of wood and car
ried it into tb" house with him, to make
sure of having enough to keep his wife
end Kitty from freezing in the coining
awfulness of the night, which now settled
down upon tho stormbaaten and boow
blinded world.
It was the beginning of that horrible
storm in whieh se many people were fro
zen to death, and Jones had fled none too
soon.
When once the wood was stacked by tho
stove, Jones looked around for Kitty. He
had no mort than inquired for her when
father and mother each read in the ether's
faee the fact that she was lost in this wild,
dashing storm of snow.
So fast did the snow fall and se dark
was the night that Jones could not see
three feet ahead ot him. He endeavored
to follow the path which he thought Kitty
might have taken, but it was buried in
snow drifts and he soon lost himself.
He stumbled through the drifts, calling
out to Kitty in his distress, but not know
ing whither he went. After an hour of
despairing, wandering and shouting, he
came upon a house, and having rapped on
the door he found himself face to face with
his wife.
Ho had returned to his own house in
his bewilderment.
When we remember that Jones had not
slept for two nights preceding this one, on
account of his mortal quarrel with Burton,
and had now bceu heating against an aro
tio hurricane, and tramping through
treacherous billows of snow for an hour,
we cannot wonder that he fell over his own
threshold iu a state of extreme exhaustion.
Happy for him that he did not fall be
wildered on the prairie, as many another
pour wayfarer did on that fatal night.
As it was his wife must needs give up
the vain little searches the had been mak
ing iu the neighborhood of the shanty.
She had now a sick husband, with frozen
hands and feet and face, to care for.—
Every minute tho thermometer fell lower
and lower, and all the heat the little cook
stove iu Jones' shanty could give would
hardly keep them from freezing.
Burton had stayed upon that forty acre
lot all day, waiting for a chance to shoot
his old partner, Jones. He had not heard
of the arrival of Jones' wifo and child.aud
so he concluded that his euctny had proved
a cowaril and hud left him in possession,
or else that he meant to pay him some
treacherous trick on his way home.
So Burton resolved to keep a sharp look
out. But he soon fouud that impossible,
for the storm was upon him in all its
blinding fury lie tried to follow the
path, hut he could uot find it.
Had he been less of a frontiersman he
must have perished there, within a fur
long of his own house. But in endeavor
ing to keep the direction of the path he
heard a smothered cry, and then saw
something rise up covered with snow and
then fall down again. He raised his gun
to shoot it when tho creature uttered
auother wailing cry so human, that he put
down his gun and went cautiously for
ward.
It was a child !
He did uot remember that there was
such a child among all the settlers at New
ton. But he did not stop to ask questions
Ho mutt, without delay, get himself and
child, too, to a place of safety, or both
would soon be frozen.
So he took the little thing in his arms
and started through the drifts. And tho
child put its little icy fingers on Burtou'a
rough cheek und muttered "Papal" And
Burton held her cleser and fought the
suow lucre courageously than ever.
He found the shauty at last, and rolled
the child in a buffalo robe while he made
a fire. Then when he got the room warm
he took the little thing upon his knee
dipped her aching fingers in cold water,
and asked her what her name was.
" Kitty," she said.
" Kitty," he said, " and what else?"
" Kitty," she answered, nor could ho
fiffd out auy more.
" Whose Kitty arc you?"
" Whose Kitty," she said. For she had
known her father but that one day,and now
she bolieved that Burton was he.
Burton sat up all night and stuffed wood
into his impotent little stove to keep the
baby from freezing to death. Never hav
ing had anything to do with children, he
firmly believed that Kitty, sleeping snug
ly under blankets and buffalo robes.would
freeze if he should let the fire subside in
the least.
As the storm prevailed with unabated
fury the next day, and as he dared neither
take Kitty out nor to leave her alone, he
stayed by her all day and stuffed the stove
with wood, and laughed at her droll baby
talk, and fed her on biscuit, fried bacon
and coffee.
On the morning of the second day the
storm had subsided. It was forty degrees
cold, hut knowing somebody must be
mourning Kitty for dead, he wrapped her
in skins, and with much difficalty reached
the nearest neighbor's house, suffering on
ly a frost bite on his nose by the way.
"That child," said the woman to whose
house be had gone, "is Jones'. I seed
ein take her outen the wagon day before
yesterday."
Burton looked at Kitty a moment in
perplexity. Then he rolled her up again
and started out, "travelling like mad,"
the woman said, as sho watched him.
When be reached Jones' be found Jenes
and his wife sitting in utter wretchedness
by the fire. They were both sick from
grief, Bnd unable ta move out of the house.
Kitty they had given up for buried under
some snow mound. They would find her
when spring should come and melt the
snow cover off.
When the exhausted Burton oame in
with his bundle of buffalo skins,they look
ed at him with amazement. But when be
opened it and let out little Kitty and said
"Hare, Jones, is this yer kitten?" Mrs.
Jones couldn't think of anything better to
do than to scream.
And Jones got up and took bis old
partner's band and said, "Burton, ole fel
low !" and then choked up and sat down,
and cried helplessly.
And Burton said, "Jones, ole fellow,
you may have that forty acre patch. It
come mighty nigh makin' me the murder
er of that little Kitty's father."
" No! you shall take it yourself," cried
Jones, "if I have ts go to law to make you."
And Jones actually deeded bis interest
in the forty acres to Burton. But Burton
transferred it all to Kitty.
That is why this part of Newtou is
called to-day "Kitty's Forty."
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Antiquity of the Scriptures.
Few of us ever stop to think how old
the Bible is. Yet tha scriptures are be
lieved by candid critics to contain the
moat ancient forms of truth now known to
men. With the aid of chronological ta
bles, any one may easily make profitable
comparisons between the antiquity of its
hooks and that of other writiugs and
events. The Scriptures oontain tbs only
authsutic history of the world before the
flood. We find in the Pentatouoh one or
two stanzas of poetry composed in the
antediluvian world. The Hebrew statutes
were enacted a thousand years before
Justinian reformed the Roman jurispru
dence. In the Bible we have the record
of chartered rights secured to the people
more than two thousaud yoars before the
Manga Charta. What a sensation would
be produced if the first chapter of Genesis
should appear for the first time in one of
the uewspupers to-inorrow ! Yet there
can be no doubt that that chapter contains
the oldest writing, twenty-five hundred
years before the invention of printing.
Xenophon's record < f the conversation of
Socrates, in his Memorabilia, seems an
old hook to us, yet the hooks of the Old
Testament are older tbun thoy. As to
the book of Job, its age is beyond con
jecture. Thoso who make it as modern as
they can are compelled to place its origin at
least one thousand years before Homer.
When Priam was kiug of Troy, Job was
iu remote antiquity. The uame of Alex
ander has no modern sound fur us, yet
when Alexander invaded Syria, the book
of Job might have been read before him
us the work of an author more time-honor
ed than the name of Alcxauder is now.
The writings of Confucius are modern
when compared with most of the Bible ;
uud tho most that the Hindoos cuu justly
claim for their sacrod hooks, the Vodas,
is that they were written five hundrod
years after the death of Moses. The
Koran is a book fresh from tho press com
pared with the Scriptures.
"Oklahoma." —Oklahoma, tha Indian
Territory, contains an area of 7t),UU0
square miles—whieh is larger than all
New England—and is ut present inhabit
ed by about 58,000 Iudiaus who aro by
courtesy classed as civilized, aud some
•JO,000 who are unquestiouably savage.
Its queer-sounding name, by the way, is
Choctaw, aud signifies "The home of the
red man." Among tho large tlibes of
Choctaws and Chiekasaws, who belong to ■■
the most civilized class, there are also ,
about 5,000 negroes, formerly slaves to
tho Indians, but now fret. In all, then,
the new Territory can be started with a
population of 83,000 persons, whieh is
quite enough for a good start. But if the
experience ef our country has conclusive
ly demonstrated anything in particular, it
has shown the utter impracticability of eon
ducting elections without whiskey, and
we cannot calmly contemplate the intro
duetion of this necessary element among
our red brethern amid the excitement of
a political campaign without feeling that
the combination of oircumstancus would
be such as might well incite in the breasts
of timid people un irrestruinable longing
to get away from Uklubomu .—San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
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When a minister in Scotland died it
was found in his will that hu bud express
ed a desire that auy of the parishoners
who wished might ask and receive from
his wife somo small token of remembrance
of their deceased pastor,
ly after the funeral, an old furmer in the
district called, when the widow, remind
ing hitn of the desire of her husband, ask
ed John what he would like to have as a
memento mori. " Weel, ma'am," replied
JohD, stroking his chin, and scratching
his head, " I hardly ken what sort o' a
memento mori, as yo ca' it, tao hae ; but
if ye hae nae objection, I wad tak' that
lump o' guano yc hae i' the back yard."
Ono day, short
The King of Persia once ordered his
his vizier to make out a list of all the fools
in his dominions. lia did so, and put
his majesty's name at the head.
King asked him why, to which ho im
mediately answered : Because you entrust
ed a lao of rupees to men you don't know,
to bay horses for you a thousand miles
"Ay;
"Then I
off, and who'll never come back,
suppose thsy come back ?"
shall erase your name and insert tboirs.
Terre Haute Express; "Gimme 3
oenta worth ef ginger-pop and a nickel's
worth of ginger-bread," exclaimed a rural
rooster from Lost Creek, yesterday, as he
rushad into a confectionery. "Dad died
last week, and since I've come into my
torture, I'm kinder reckless."
THOU SHALT NOT STEAL.
An Old-Fashioned Gospel Good for the
Bars of Modern Office Holders.
Sunday morning the Rev. William D.
Mackey preached in White Clay Creek
Cburoh on the eighth commandment. He
preached the same sermon in the same
church early last spring, and the people
were so much pleased with it that they
requested him to repeat it. His text was
Exodus xx, 15; " Thou shalt uot steal."
It is very important, said the speaker,
for the welfare of a community, that indi
viduals be protected in the possession of
their property. Wherever property is in
secure, industry is discouraged. The
right of individual possession is recognized
by the law of God and is one of those
foundation principles in morality against
whieh no valid objection can be urged.—
The extensive frauds and defaloutions
which have taken place throughout the
country during the past few years bave
caused great distrust and alarm, and it
seems necessary that this subject should
bo discussed, and every means employed
to elevate the tone of publie morals. Let
crimes be called by their true names. Let
condemnation be uttered iu distiuct terms ;
and wherever opprobrium belongs, there
let it be affixod.
The speaker defined the thief as one
who takes property without tbo knowledge
and consent of the owner and tho robber
as one who takes the property of another
by force. Fussing by the plain violations
of this commandment, he proposed to dwell
upon shortcomings which arc more com
mon aud which evidently are to he classed
under this preoept.
1. This commandment is broken by
those who borrow aud do not return. It
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may be a great convenience to procure
from your neighbor, fur a time, tho use
of his money or other property,
be able to spare it without any loss to him
self, aud it may afford him great pleasure
to accommodate you, but when, failing to
keep your promise, you retain his proper
ty, you arc guilty of both lying aud steal
ing, aud you are giviug your influence to
render your neighbors more selfish, since
your conduct teuds to convince them that
they cunuot gratify their kiud feelings to
wards others, without being imposed up
on and injured.
The Bible uses plain language and tells
lie
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" The wicked borrowetb aud puyeth
net again."
2. Those who buy and never pay are
breakers of this commandment. Those
who have good reason to believe that they
will be able to meet their obligations aud
who afterwards encounter misfortunes
which rcuder this impossible, must bo ex
cepted from a sweeping condemnation, but
those are justly liable to tho charge who
have no intention of paying a debt when
they iucur it, or who do not make great
effort to pay it. Proper views ou this
subject will cause great caution in regard
to going into debt, and will promote in
dustry iu order that tho means may be ;
had to meet necessary expenditures.—
Buyiug is, iu some cases, ouly another !
name for stealing. Notes for value re
ceived havo bceu drawn intentionally iu
au illegal manner and afterwards that ille
gality has beeu plead iu bur of judgment.
There aro cases where men seem to aim to
of gaiuiog an opportunity to defraud.—
not surprising
us :
build up a reputation for the very purpose
■■ Whilst aiming at this object they will be
, very punctual as to their obligations, enme
times paying tho cash, at other times
meetiug a small debt promptly, until, be
a lieving that they have established their
credit and that tho person with whom they
have been dealing would very reluctantly
deny them a favor, they make us large a
it hill as they can safely venture to ask, aud
return no more,
that persons thus treated should consider
themselves defrauded, and should regard
the mau who is guilty of such transac
tions as no better than a thief. Many
varieties of fraud, and even boasted ex
amples of shrewdness, in a moral point ot
view, arc no more justifiable than to pick
a neighbor s pocket, or creep in at his buck
window and carry off his property. No
resort to bankrupt laws can release a mau
from his moral obligation. Bankrupt
laws aro not wrong in principle ; a Chris
tian may keop a clear conscience and avail
himself of their provisions. He who pays
his debts merely because he cau be com
pelled to pay them is not an honest man.
We should not rashly pledgo ourselves
for the payment of the dohts of others,
and thus expose ourselves and those de
pendent upon us to tho danger of being
suddenly impoverished. When, however,
security has been given, there is a moral
as well as a legal responsibility.
3. The employer who unduly retains
the hire of the laborer is a breaker of this
commandmeut. Perhaps the man who
has been working hard for you all day
has a family to support, and can, with
great difficulty, provide for them a scanty
subsistance. If, when the evening oonyis,
you disappoint him in his payment, you
know not with how heavy a heart you
send him home to those who tnay be suf
fering and piniog for what they expect
him to bring on his return. Tho Mosaic
law enjoined, " The wages of bitn that is
hired shall not abide with thee all night
until morning." The sun was not to go
down upon it. A man with a compassion
ate heart and with a true sense of justice
will pay both fully and promptly for
work dono.
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4. Those whe make a living off the
community without conferring a benefit
in return, aro breakers of this command
ment. Here the speaker alluded to va
rious vocations which afford a livelihood
to those who proseouto them, and are, at
the same time, a benefit to the communi
ty, and then treated of others which are
an injury, which just in the degree in
which they sucoeed indicate an evil Btate
of society, which promotes idleness, beg
gar families, engeuder disease, multiply
crime, and ruin the bodies and the souls
of tbeir victims.
5. There is another class of persons
who may be surprised to be placed under
this condemnation : Those who refuse to
do their share of the work or to defray
their share of the expense iu accomplishing
an important enterprise, and yet are eager
ly watching and anxiously waiting to sec
it dono, and who rush in to secure their
full share of the profits. This is ungene
rous and unjust. It is appropriating to
ourselves the results of other people's la
bor, and drawing for our use the prooseds
of tbeir capital. Does not that ootne un
der the Eighth Commandment ?
C. This Commandment is also broken
by those who depend upon the charity of
others, when they might earn their own
living. Thera may be a constrained
charity and a constrained hospitality.—
Many Soripture precepts enjoin hospitali
ty, and the principles of the Gospel lead
to it. It is good to give and receive kind
ness. It is good to exteud a friendly
greeting. It is good for heart to speak
to heart. It is good to visit the table and
fireside of your uoighbors, and to welcome
them in return to your house. Yet there
may be occasions when the proverb comes
in point: " Withdraw thy foot from thy
neighbor's house, lest lie may be weary of
thee, uud so halo thee." When hospitali
ty is extended of necessity, and by those
who are perhaps under such stress cf pov
erty that they oau ill affi.rd it, it is good
neither to the giver uor to the receiver.
7. Gambling is a breach of this Com
mandment. It is injurious to society in
many respects. It is a making hasto to
be rich. It gives those who engage in it
a distaste for the ordinary and honest pur
suits of life ; they cannot endure the slow
processes of daily toil. It plunges them
into excitement, and, by blunting their
moral sensibilities and withdrawing them
from hotter influences, prepares them for
the commission of flagrant and tragic
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crime.
There is more gambling than tho ma
jority of persons suppose. Here is the
true explanation of matly unexpected fail
ures nnd defalcations Lottery dealers
could not pay so much for their privilege,
nor expend so much for the distribution
of circulars if there wero not many buyers
of lottery tickets. On the very surface
of the whole business there is evidence
that it is conducted in a dishonest manner,
lie who addresses you the assurance—an
to hundreds of others—that on the pur
chase of a ticket you shall have a large
prize in order for effect in your neighbor
hood, professes himself to be a knave and
intimates that you are a fool,
; in the sale of jewelry and other articles
has become very common. An illegiti
! mate mode of conducting business should
not be encourged. Wo should know what
sve purchase aud be willing to pay a just
and reasonable profit to the sellor —
Churches ought to bo careful to do no
wrong in this respect. Wherever the
church itself does wrong, it loses the
power of restraining the world. As sure
ly as there is a righteous Governor of the
universe, neither corporation, communi
ties nor individuals need expect any per
manent benefit from wrong doing. A
celebrated editor of this country wrote,
somo years ago, to this effect: "It is a
sad day in the life of a young man when
he first entertains the purposo of making
money in any other way than by honestly
working for it."
After enumerating in a cursory manner
many other violations of this command
ment the speaker dwelt upon tho motives
which should cause obedience to it, aud
closed by saying that if there bo any
whom these considerations will not reach,
there is a lower motivo, selfish indeed,
but of great power and not to be condemn
ed unless it staud alone. " Honesty is
tho best policy." Integrity will have its
reward. A very important element iu
success is tbu reputation that your truth
aud honesty are firm as a rock, and the
only sure way of having this reputation is
to deserve it .—Every Evening.
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A Sf-rmox in a PARAQRAPn. —Presi
dent Porter, of Yalo College, gave tho
following advice to the students of that in
stitution the other day :
" Young men, you aro the architects of
your own fortune. Bely on your own
strength of body and soul. Take for your
guiding star self-reliance. .Subscribe on
your banner, " Luck is a fool ; Pluck is a
hero." Don't take too much advice—keep
at your helm and steer your own ship, and
remember that the great art of command
ing is to take a fair share of tho work.—
Think well of yourself. Strike out.—
Assume your own position. Put potatoes
in a cart, over a rough road, and the small
ones go to the bottom. Rise above the
euvious and jealous. Firo above thé mark
you intend to hit. Energy, invincible
determination, with a right motive, are
the levers that move the world. Don't
drink. Don't chew. Don't smoke.—
Don't swear. Don't deceive. Don't read
novels. Don't marry until you cau sup
port a wife. Be in earnest. Be self-re
liant. Be generous. Bo eivil. Read
the papers. Advertise your business.—
Make money and do good with it. Love
your God and fellow men. Love truth
and virtue. Love your country and obey
its laws."
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The Sootoh King and His Minister.
Generally speaking, the Scotch enjoy
persiflage, and the Irish are apt to take
fire at it. After a mess-dinner ef the
Twenty-first, (Royal North British Fusi
leers,) always a gallant and gentlemanly
corps, of a very national character, there
had been a good deal of proud reflection
upon the stern faith of the North Britons,
iu their treaties with other powers. A
lively boy, who had recently joined, ob
served to some of the elders-that he had a
legend in confirmation of the olaim, and
uarrated it accordingly.
Few of our histories refer to a very san
guinary war that subsisted .between an
early Scotoh king and a king of the Land's
End. Scottish valor prevailed, and news
was brought of the complete success of an
expedition against the Cornish strongholds.
The monaroh was elated beyond measure,
and sending for his principal adviser,Lord
Alexander
" Wool Sandy, is there any other king
I can bring to submission the noo?'l
"Au' it please your majesty, there is
but ans king whom you can na vanquish."
"Ane king that I can ua vanish ! An'
wliu's he mon?"
" I moan, your majesty, the King of
Haven."
"Haven! Haven! whar's that, San
, addressed him :
dy !"
His lordship pointed to the shy, and
then bowed becomingly to his royal mas
ter, who did not quite comprehend what
was meant, aud feared to betray a geo
graphical ignorance by inquiring more
particularly than lie had already done.
" Nao matter, Sandy; gang and tell
the King o' Haven that gin he does nao
surrender his dominions at once, I'll come
and bang him out of them. Au* mind,
my lord, you di
us till you have done our bidding "
as an embarrassing position for
the noble favorite, who knew that expos
tulation, or even explanation, was too dau
gorous to be attempted at such a moment.
He therefore retired submissively and con
sulted a priest. This progenitor of Loy
ola consoled him by tha assurance that, on
au occasion of the kind, it was quite allow
able to tranquilize a monarch of weak un
derstanding by putting an artificial con
struction en certain passages of scripture.
Lord Alexander appeared, accordingly, in
the royal presence, aud was iustautly
observed by his gracious master.
"Weel, Sandy, and what says tho King
o' Haven?"
show your face before
This
" Please your majesty, I have nae seen
himsel', but I bave conferred with ane o'
his accredited ministers, and he solemnly
engages that your majesty may hae his
kingdom for asking for."
"Was he sae ceovil?" inquired the
monarch, warmed to magnanimity by the
assuranoe ; " then een gang yer gait there
once more, aud tell the King o' Haven
that for his ceevility nao a Scotchman
shall ever set foot in his kingdom."
That Old Waoon and its Load or
Lumber. —Tho greatest curiosity iu Ham
burg, Berks county, l'a., isa wagou load
ed with building lumber, standing in the
wagon shed, on the premises of an old
citizen named Baily. This object has
been made one of comment and a target
for curious eyes, because of its having
held its present undisturbed location for
a period of fifty years. The way it came
about was this: Mr. Baily, a half a cen
tury ago took into his head an idea of im
provement, and hauled this load of lumber
home for tho purpose of consummating
his well-matured plans. Upon its arrival
the women folks of his household offered
some objections to the change which Mr.
B. had in view, which made him " mad "
and be then and there swore that the ma
terial might stand where it was until
" dooms-day." Thus tho wagon and
lumber stands to-day, in tho same placo
as on that particular "riled" occasion.
All is in a good state of preservation.—
Mr. Baily recently died, and since then
the wagon has been moved.
E
Sometimes, when we are not quiet ns
we should be, we are filled with fear on
account of our soul poverty. What a
poor thing I am ; how little grace I have;
liow weak in prayer ; how slow in ser
vice ; how frequently depressed ; how
easily tossed to and fro. IIow shall I
hope to hold on to the end. Hero is the
answer to it—"I shall be anointed with
fresh oil." I am poor, but I shall re
ceive my daily pension; I am weak, and
I have no strength in reserve, hut my
strength is laid up in God.— Spurgeon.
Murmsr at nothing; if our ills aro ir
reparable, it is ungrateful ; if remediless,
it is vaiu ; a Christian builds bis fortitude
on a better foundation thau stoicism ; be
is pleased with everything that happens,
beoauso he knows it could not happen un
less it had first pleased God, and that
which pleases Him must be the best. He
ia assured that no new thing oan befall
him, and that he is in the hands of a
Fathor who will prove hint with no afflic
tion that resignation cannot conquer, or
that death oaunot cure.— Colton.
Remember that the first spark burns
down the bouse. Quench the first spark
of passten, and oil will bo well. No
good oomea of wrath ; it puts no money
iu tbo pookot and no joy in the heart.
Anger begins with folly aud ends with
repentanso.
"The Living Link."—Dog
Agricultural. '
AN AGRICULTURAL ODE.
BT WU. C. BRYANT.
Far bark In ages
The plow with wreathes was crowned,
The hands of kings and sages
Entwined tile chaplets round,
Till men of spoil
Disdained the toil
By whieh the world was nourished,
And blood and pillage were the soil
In which their laurels flourished.
Now the world her fault despaii
The guilt that stains her story,
And weeps her crimes amid the cares
That form her earliest glory.
The throne shall crumble,
The diadem shall wane,
The tribes of earth shall humble
The pride of those who reijja ;
And war shall lay
s pomp away {
fame that heroes cherish,
His
The
The glory earned in deadly fray
Shall fade, deeay and perish.
Honor waits o'er all the sarth,
Through endless generations,
The art that calls the harrest forth,
And feeds the expectant nations.
Merino Sheep Elsewhere than in
Maryland. —The breeding of sheep has
long attracted the attention of mankind hi
various parts of the earth. Abel appears
to have been a keeper of sheep in the ear
lier stages of the world. In the patriar
chal age, when Abram went up out of
Egypt, between Betb-el and Hui, as Lot
had flocks of sheep, their herdsmen and
shepherds were striving together, which
caused Abram and Lot to separate, that
each oould have room and no atrife.—
Again, when Jacob goeth to Padan-aram
he meetetb Rachel, the shepherdess of her
father's flocks. And again, after the birth
of Joseph, Jacob proposed to Laban to
send him away, that he might go iuto his
own country ; but Laban implored him to
tarry, and Jacob said to him " appoint
my wages." Here seems to be the first
history of a skillful breeder. Jaoob pro
poses to remove all the brown sheep from
the flocks, and these should be his hire as
shepherd ; and the mau increased exceed
ingly. His wages wero then changed
with like results. I am aware that mauy
attribute this to divine interference, and
yet the entiro history thereof shows tho
skill of a master shepherd. Hero teems
to he out first ideas of the wonderful re
sults of skillful handling of a flock of sheep.
Tho want of attention to this is a part of
the failure of Spnin to keep up with
America in breeding Merino sheep.
Shorten and Deepen the Furrow.-—
At the present time the average crop of
wheat per acre in Great Britain, on a soil
cultivated for year», is about double that
produced on comparatively new soil in
Ohio. Why is this? dimply because
the British are educated meu, and apply
their work wisely. They endeavor by
every means in their power to enrich
their laud, and in return it enriches them.
Why do not our American fa morn do tho
same, instead of laboring to double tho
number of tbeir acres, aud thereby doublo
their crops. .Many farmers never think
of digging ten inches into the soil, uulesa
they are in search of a lump of gold. If
every farmer would plow his land deeper,
ho would soon find that it would pay bet
ter than digging for gold.
It dou't pay to farm unless you plow
the ground deep and give it 6Uoh manures .
as it requires ; farmers had bettor sell off
one-half of their farms and apply the pro
ceeds thereof to the other half. They
would thereby put the balance iu a condi
tion to produce large crops. This is bet
ter than buying double the number of
acres they already have, paying largo
taxes on the same and getting nothing for
their labor, as is generally the case on
too largo farms and with shallow plow
ing.
IIixts for Stackinu Hat. —Make your
stacks long and narrow, as the bay will
cure better, and there is less danger of
its becoming musty than when built iu
the usual circling form; besides it will be
easier bailing. The press can bo moved
easier than you oau pitch from tha rear of
a wide stack. Iu bailding, unload on
different sections of the stack, which will
allow the air to circulate through each
load before it is settled duwn by another
being placed upou it. About three gal
lons of salt thrown into a load of hay will
preserve its sweetness. Three quarts aro
considered by seme hay farmers to be suf
ficient for an ordinary load. It might be
well for Colorado farmers to remember
these small hints, as the time for hay cut
ting, curing and gathering, is near at hand.
Fortunately, hay making in Colorado is
not attended by so many perils as it is in
the States, and with even ordinary care,
it may be cured and placed in keeping
order, either in barn or stack. Still, if a
a tiling is worth doing at all, it is worth
doing well, and onr farmers should, in all
kinds of work, practice according to this
rule, and thereby be tha gainers.—Cbio
raJo Agriculturist.
Windualls. —A correspondent In tha
Live Slock Journal gives the following
treatment: Givo rest and apply bandage
soaked in oold water; also give tbe parts
plenty of hand rubbing for two or three
weeks, and should this not effect a core,
apply an ointment ootnposed of biniodide
of mercury one part, lard three parts—•
The hsir should be dipped off before ip
plying the ointment, which should be
rubbed in for fifteen minutes. Applj
sweet oil or lard on tbe third or fourtl
day.