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somwe t-r. " r or great things,
__ mg. ewere t, .,r nmall;
t Uncle a was OrrT,::. I hcha legitimate
Some wdborn lith : talent,
_ lal pian,i land;
owm l I rpa ýi , ut -dyer,
An with p d threat brand;
But uncle e canc ,t hulg an argument in
oh and.
Arguments airr, I,1 within him,
IwlaLbwI*h. ii, hi, little eye;
He ly and cal erl Iat. sted
When averagt l, Ilbes cry
And simeid to be py,dlr,. gravely whether to
live ort'ylz,.*
But Plll ic.l ot ,at question
H yW frmn i to day,
And 1hII' l,·.'ludedl
'1 ia,;tt. .aim tostay;
And 5into lirfe. !-. ialon he reas6ned and
rea-.med his way.
iThlea childhood, through y uSl, into
And married a siple maiden
TIhoehh carcely in love was she;
But he reasoned the matter so clearly, he hardly
could help but agree.
And the new firm started strong
And thou Unel anrmy Ioned her,
And trid to help her a g. ..,
She ed away in alieee, and 'twas evident
something was wrong.
Now Uncle Sammy was faithful, I
And various remedes tried;
A He gavveher the dotor' precriptions,
And pltenty of logic beeide;
Bt logic and mediane tailed him, and so one
day she died.
He laid her away in the church-yard,
.o aggd and crushed and wan;
And reared her a costly tombstone .
With all , her virtuee on; t
And ought to have added. "*A victim of argu
ments pro and con."
For many a year Uncle Sammy
Fired away at his logical forte t
Dicuselon was his occupation,
And altercation hs sport;
Be argued bhmltf out of churcbes, he argued C
hself Into court.
Bat alas for hi peace and quiet,
One day, when he went it blind,
And followed his singular ancey, 8
And slighled his logical mild,
And married a ponderoua widow that wasn't of
the arguing kind!
Her seatLment all were settled,
Mer habits were planted and grown,
Shst was a starved little creatus
That Blowed a will of her own;
And she raised a high hand wih Sammy, and
poeeded to play It alone.
Than ayhe charged dowaupons er
With all of his strength and his wit, G
And may a dernots anaomter, 0
But vain wen hi blows sm his btiowngt he
never weold bedgehera hit.
e aid dow his premseand her,
A rd her the marriae Iaws;
But the harder be tried to conviaee her, the harder
and harder she was.
She brought home all her preachers, d
As ssy as ever she could
With stesm ta terribly settled,
And appetites horribly good- a
Who st with him long at his table, sad ex
plaiaed to him where he stood.
Ald / e w not long ilean ing I
'lbotlnthe wyiagu feruswg,
And me e taithbu in wathing
T. phams . her smle and her frown;
And Is, wibi thesotssetie sen tramped 8l
all his rgmests down. tl
And as, with his tI-aprtlo
mis suddenly brought to check
And, wit hte s t ot hil vles k
Be wm an le dog " sad -
wrealo al kwek. 0
An fifa s, whoembe had argued b
Toe eener tighlbt and st
Weuld wlh at each other and cheile, ij
And gin at im a he nseed
As tosy, "My mbtio Uold fellow your whip
pblo 'a strllgpteed at fat. "
Old VUss ammyl one morning
Lay down on his com'te bed,
And Death ad e had a discussion,
And O wthe ets ILUd to m bia deawn only 0
bom hme was d45d.
Tlhean ghw ut irold neighbor, 1
For the ý y ass a s uaguardedly
thewn toss hi bes . Ih t
But en his busthen em esan u
And -a maw-mlney o lay
a s._i_ Hasb .th .s am ty
Au wiy uN,.m 4 1rr dbtjbr i
ee _. l. I
Sd uu aradd* drug.~ i
_!~ I..o .mi of 7m ly _-its ot .
dh tame adrelem sdl law C
And ve a short thee, how cnn
SAshI i se h tst m ie e I
hmi'inz hwm. Webedlha
Vt a b i ar i et b e
a , Ia re am we a toe Il
-a b igh ha OIn #hete
lUkm the u ethernw~w we d "elMl m
whe s - hmil t shd vmes eb e er.
pher and thiteled byr o eak and
another, mmtl a be bad settle! down
ha the mmes. L was a moos story
the beginning of his life with us, he might
have been often heard hilariously chant
ing in a hig-pitched nasal tine:
' lT and with gold dast is thick,
Hio, boys, bo!
l'iek up lumpl abig as br ek,
Of t Cllfory gold.!
lHumorous, easy, and with a strong dash
of egotism, comldnd with persistent good
nature and lively ereduity-such was
Lot, as we first knew him at the mines.
Eventually, however, his enthusiasm died
out; for, as Lo: himself feelingly ex
pressed it : "'The darn thing was e'en-a.
most gin eout !"
As I have before stated, for some rea
s,.n best known to himself. Lot had con
sidered it expedient to r:,main behind, at
the time his partners abandoned his claim.
Our explanation of this was,that to his easy
disposition it seemed less dflelt to "bear
the ills he had" than to subject himself
to theexertion of seeking those he "knew
not of." Subsequently, however, consid
erable additional light was thrown on the
subject.
One afternoon-it might have been
three weeks after the exodus of Lot's
partners-one of our eilghbors, engaged
in mining three miles further up the
gulch, remed into camp on his way back
from the city, where he had been to de
posit his dust in the Miner's bank, and
get out a lot of supplies.
"Ialloo! George ! Chris ! Here are
letters for you 1" he cried, tossing us the
welcome missives.
Lot, loitering up, with quizsical smile,
perpetrated his standing joke:
" Wall, sany, ye ain t got nothin' fhr
me, now, ain't ye?'
'" No, I guess not," returned the other,
with a peculiar twinkle beneath his bushy
eyebrows ? "but thar's a woman an' four
small children on the way, asking fuhr just
sich a looking feller as you."
Lot's Jo ar vanished in an instant;
his jaw droped, and with visible agita
tion he bl rt out:
" Come, neow. none of yer foolin' ! Ye
don't pull that on with me!"
"Fooling? Nary tinme It's sober
truth."
A sickly pallor swept over the man's
countenthee, .fnd he seemed to shrink
within himself until dwarfed much below
his usual diminutive stature.
"What ? what's that yeou say?" he
stammered wildly.
"'I say a woman an' four small children
r' mn this way, searehing for a hus
hand andathe"
" How fur behindP" gasped the anxious
Lot, whose legs were fast getting tremu
Lous under him.
" Oh, a matter of three mile, or there
sbouts!" and with a nod and knowing
plance, and "No fuarther news, boys !"
wo us, the little mule, answering the sur
f his rider struck into a brisk galop,
which speedily carried them bath out of
light.
There we stod,iaqululaiyhing Lot.
lie gulped awhile; but hyout with
"The fed Is, bo-Ps  rrled!"
And with this ud phs M n, Lot,
with rapid and so .w t nseady step,
lsappea l within his caris.
MAfer a ew secomnds hhasem erged,
bearing in his haft pt thumbed
md greasy cards, t of dice, several
worn "dime novels,"l ad an old " Com.
ique Soegater."
" I guess, boys, I shm't ens these any
longer," he said, Mss lg ifully-al
ternately standing dae ft and then
shifting his t to trhe otar; "so I
thou til'd 'em esoe Sotne wim
men folk is pertiekerir ye know."
Chris took te artle, and offered to
teep them for him.
"Wa If ye'ves mind to. I'd be much
)bleteed to ye. It monght be possible
orely pssible., ye know-they'd come
eandy m te dine." And Lot, his neck
ust bending to'eaeive the yoke, looked
orward 'with wue expectancy to a dim
shance of hfuture release.
Pitying the poor fellow's evident dis
mfftun we refraned fm joking or
ueatii ag him,nd impatiurb awakited
usee "eoming events" which bad so un
nistakably "cast their shadows before."
Just at sundown, a novel trahin was seen
wending its way toward the camp. Lot
Mtood it the door of his cabi, while we,
irawn together a littlela the background,
watched for developments. In advance
ode a figure in female appanre perched
poo the back ofa gaunt palt-orse, a
_1_d, Just past the theshod of infnc
sp by m arm, sad another, also of
Syears, stting astride the pillion,
it limited embrace aspirlag to encircle
the matal walat. A tr ia the rear
me a rolmh m anitanser, a theeapacty
)f guide, sandwiched between two ceb
lren of a .iiet pgowth. the eider of
Brnard breed fbrmed, e eeeudvely, Sank
nd rear.
Cheldklthi beast wlfMn a fw rods of
us, the woman ave a keen, ascrutinizing
g-hhetsnd,isdeh at fitedly
-pon the eadtmenance I.
":-That's hblt" he exelaimed, in a
--wed,  thghwnt .uamm.al
.im, down sheslid, liise as a ynng
:;sd in a twinhing bud the three
o en thir feet, ad the young
ast tmbrtd Wsthe in.etth m tumyar
old.
oo joeIdm wy biniar iu d,
"I mam espe Marer!"
A-n-d the do sedu wge I, and Ms
d r "l t u m raeer np Ds ti
e I ndy - we e abal .
tbeangea d a t Uo tha in f ethe
e5alitm, mar .s. ea gpi srd
tm stu tk s s, y aLnr
*Z wah evs dmm h ha f tem a
FrroadUot b oerd, and a a d a
flbthain kmi h steat es hshe ete
netst. as . qa, abese
with , w e rt, to sthe
alo o- f the mo ter sa wunm a
on4 uuate orse u tcommea.Even
I*om, te tmni, he
at Me aalag sad
dduas e ther a ether; am ow ewe a
easyi futbe shet ateturmadel. Even
L at Le me hatd to
my firt baby. Be~jnstiawenytdln
thing, got out of the door, and down to
the creek : and the first thing I saw was
the dog, bringing him out, strangled and
dripping in his mouth. I wouldn't part
with that dog for his weight in gold ! '
Whatever Lot's inmost mind or secre.
repinings, his outward life bore evidence|
ot a marked revolution toward the sklie of
frul fAl and virtuous indumtry. No more
loiterings at tasks or levity of demeanor;
no judicial magnate ever clothed himself
in dignisy and reticence more severe than
characterized Lot under the rew almin
istration, at whose head stood his brisk
little wife.
To us. the advent of Lot's wife marked
the commencement of a new era; whole.
some food, a tidy cabin, and, above all,
no more darning of socks, or washing
days. The wilderness bhad begun to blos
som. We even attained to, now and then,
the luxury of a " bled shirt." We were
opening up a new and richer vein in our
Wlam, and prosperity and contentment
smiled upon us.
It was an evil day that dawned upon
our camp in the gulch, when one of the
boys, ten miles above us, turned in on his
way to the city, almost prostrate from a
sudden attack of mountain fever, and
with money to pay a note which had be
come due on a quartz mill. lie wanted
to know if any of us were going in. as he
could make it worth our while to do the
errand for him, he remaining at our cabin
until the messenger's return. As it hap
pened we were not intending to go for
several days,. our btock of supplies on
hand being considerable, and not having
enough dust to pay for carrying it to the
Lot's wife, however, on learning the
state of affairs, was observed to commu
nicate some instructions to the ten-year
old, who immediately "lit out" in the di
rection of his father's claim. A few mo
mentrs, and Lot himself came in. lie was
willng to aecomodate, and would go to
the city. Ills claim wasn't paying him
much; and he might as well look about a
little. All of which familiar terms might
have been translated to meanthat his wife
was not at all averse to earning the
"something" before intimated, which
should "make it worth his while." None
of as questioned Lot's honesty, and we
made haste to get him off as soon as pos
sib!e.
It was after nightfall of theensuing day,
when he was seen riding furiously toward
the camp, looking neither right nor left,
bating neither breath nor speed, until, op
posite his own threshold, he leaped to the
ground, dashed inside the cabin, and
slammed to the door.
We had scarce time to wonder at this
strange and unusual procee.dng, when
there swarmed upon us a party of men
armed, and stern, members of a vigilance
committee.
Their errand was soon made known ;
they were in pursuit of the unhappy Lot.
A party instantly surrounded his cabin.
Then the whole of the unfortunate affair I
came out. Lot's spirit, released from itsI
accustomed restraint, had rebounded like I
a balloon that has thrown over Its ballast. I
"Marier's" last words were useless as the
wind against this sudden and overwhelm- I
ing elation, born of renewed liberty. His
ourney furnished him a golden opportu
nity, though brief, for the renewal of those
harmless indulgences of late so religiously i
foregone.
A chance acquaintance, met just in the 4
edge of town, easily led the way to a 4
friendly tipple in the nearest saloon. This
exchange of goodlellowship eventually c
resulted in many more, under the com
blned influence of which, no Rothschild
ever felt richer than did Lot with the
trust-money in his hand.
What occurred thereafter, passed to Lot
like a troubled dream. There was a vague 1
remembrance of all hands at the bar, a
scufme. a pistol-shot or two' and then the
mad race home, a trust betrayed the
stain of blood on his hands. and the "Vig
lantes" close upon his heels.
They were sure enough of him now-12
men to one, and he trapped like a prairie
dog in his hole.
Lion, the huge St. Bernard, came smell
ing at the garments of the invaders, look
ing up with large Inquiring eyes. Halt I
unconsciously,the leader patted the rough
head carressingly, as it rubbed against
his hand. The dog, friendly to the friend
ly, reared upon his hind legs and placed
his fore-paws on the leader's shoulders
standln a half head taller than the man
himself.
Meanwhile, neither sound nor lighti
came from Lot's cabin. Lion, goIng
over, pushed at the door with a low
whine. Speedily following, the leader,
with three of his man, knocked for admit
straightway in the door appeared Lot's 1
"Gentlemen, what will you have?"
"We have business with your husband,
madam. Will ye akhimsto stepout-,
" My husband is not abletosttendtoi1
bsaless to-n4ht."
"But our mbusiness is important, and
Mnnot wait. If hedoes not come out, we
must come In."
"'Gent , you cannot see my has.
band to-ithI" Her voice was Arm,
m ,mJ; rhap a trlde more deb
dive than um
-The dor, eachlag t her bet, gave a
,WesD, we have no time to bandy
words Let upssP"
Tir dog rse -tly up, with a mene
Mlg growl. The woman behind him
seemed to rise andexpand in the white
heats r ne uuuud! her. Her
wlmig Iash ysa -
Ad sea shaLl wse psuet yehthat
o-a', iS arm av yn w m the follds e
hear mr the ad iot atfat ma okt oar
amn ae -them but wastoebed atthe
alght tbs dmltlem devotion; yet
m sr amast ntprsnmst the dimscarge oc
ths a has committed murder
ser or thalaw" so lower,
A aupb mu an ir so reMa woman's
bataures. a to touch tdi with
her head, rtem hereh dr ia-
tDoe that m looa k fim a etethrmetb
to hi we d bdly trownbg oae tas
r, m momeant, dlyn g swiftly
eldse lpon her The hauwit.n sthow
nged Lot, emroupt mng upon row or p-s
n disordered , alood shaking inside this terrorain,
clng mein his a aarms the youngest-bopare ni
to h i risf adrm anildreals this e last
mother, were planted at his knees; while
between him and the door, the ten-year
old, with a dilapidated chair, as a rest,
stood behind his father's rifle.
The she-bear and her cubswere grit to
the backbone.
" Who are you?" she cried, eloquently
gesturing to the crowd with her unoccu
pied hand, " that take the business of the
Almighty Into your own hands, and send
the souls lie has made unbidden into His
presence, without a prayer for mercy ?
Which would be the twbtter, you or himl?
Leave him to us this night. and as surely
as there is a heaven above us, in the morn
ing you shall come in without hindrance?
You can guard the cabin. There is no
danger he will escape yo !"
There was a murmur among the '" vigi
lantes." Their task was a harder one
tian they were prepared to execute ; and
perhaps a thought of wives and children
at home moved them a little to this un
wonted lenkiency. A brisk conference, and
the leader said :
"Have your way. Make the most of
your time. We'll not disturb you until
morning."
"" You are not deceiving me?" she said,
watching the while with eyes whieh
seemed to pierce like sharp steel points.
A hoarse murmur ran through the
crowd.
"No! no! Fair playI"
For a moment the woman's strength
seemed to fail, and she leaned heavily
agalnst the casement; another, and she
disappeared within, the faithful dog fol
lowing, protect;ngly, close behind.
The men bivouacked around the cabin,
disposing themselves for the night, two
or three appointed sentinels keeping vigi
lant watch. The other members of the
camp,. unable to sleep, had kept wakeful
viil, using our little Influence and knowl
edge of the accused's inoffensive dispo
sition to mitigate, if possible, the preju
dice which we found greater than the real
weight of evidence arainst him.
1:º an affray. two men had been st.-bbed
-one seriously, one fatally; and Lot's
hand held a bloody knife. Innocent men
have been hanged, even after full judicial
trial, under circumstantial evidence far
less convincing than this.
As the night wore away, I restlessly
paced the camp. An occasional sound
came from the guarded cabin, but other
wise all was still.
Once, about midnight. after a prolonged
scratching at the door, it was opened to
let out the dog. A stream of light flashed
out; but I caught no glimpse of those
within. The dog, poor fellow, as though
his canine spirit seemed to comprehend
the fatal danger impending over those he
loved, with droopi head and pendent
tail. slunk through the open space.
"Good Lion! Poor fellow! Comehere!"
I called.
lie lifted his head at the sound of my
voice, raised his muzzle mournfully in the
air, then droopingt again, went on, soon
disappearing in the ad scent chaparral.
At the first faint streak of day the "vig
ilantes" bestirred themselves, and in
knots discussed the grave business before
them. The excitement of the past night
had worn away, and in these calmer mo
ments not one of those most eager for
duty then, but wished himself relieved
from the painful responsibility devolving
upon him.
There was yet no ai jof life about the
cabin.
Never, I think, did the solemnity of the
occasion appeal more forcibly to the hearts
of the "gilantes." They were confi
dent-terribly confident-that the prison
er would be found guilty. With voices
subdued, and quiet mien,they awaited the
action of their leader, who humanely
postponed, to the last possible moment,
his ofldal summons.
Just as the sun's disk appeared above
the horizon, three of the committee ad
vancin knocked upon the door. With
eyes red and swollen with weeping, Lot's
wife opened it wide.
With a sickening sensation I fidl to de
scribe, I awaited what was to follow. A
suggestive rope lay where it had been
thrown, at the footof a neighboring tree.
With a shudder I recalled the many times
Lot had sat under the shadow of its
branches, his children playing about his
knees.
Chris and George had followed at the
heels of the other party.
A resounding slap upon the shoulder
nearly sent me reeling to the earth.
"By the great Moses, that little woman's
a briek!"
"Wnat is it, Chris?" t asked in aston
ishment; for his lively tone was anything
but appropriate for the occasion.
"Come and see!" and seizing me by the
arm, he commenced dragging me toward
Lot's cabin.
A sudden revelation came to me. Lot
had committed suiiede! Well, better so
than the hangman's noose !
Entering the cabin prilon, a aingular
spectacle presented itelf. The commit
tee stood in a dismayed gmap in the cen
ter of the room; while -Lot'i wi stern
and resolute no longer, beut over the
ubae dismantled earass of poor Lion.
Gone was the nerve, the passion and
power, which had, the night previous,
s rted and lifted her above her .
1usual, there was yets Imeng toehing
in her weakness; perhaps becanse it was
s foreign to her nature.
Lifting her woebegaoe countenance a
I approached, sbe exclaimed, broken
ly:
"rPd a'most rather died than a' done it;
but there wasn't no other way!"
Hardly hbad the news of the escape
spread through the emp, wn a horse
t i'a of cloud of dust, lying p te
tral. I ishaLd bhe uore a white ignal,
wirldh he aperaatIly waved as he bhad
'dvaned. vaaf in cemp, he threw
blardf kselt l y at the midst of the
"Vigilantes."
"Where's the man you were poing to
"T kGod! her dida't dolt! 'Fris
co Bill has confeeosmed the deed!"
Then the cheers that rang out miht
almost have reat tbhe heavens tin
but Los's wife, alone with her sleeping
childres, crouched is nmouranhl sience
over the form of her poor, dumb saerlace
-41ret and thl eve unto deatl.
PIcKLas, aooearding to Dr. all, me
good for those whbo erae hem, He rs
ma that lofte the system aneeds a md
-that acde promote the aecraden of bie,
ad that when a person craves somathing
Sit is nature caltig for a r edy for
oer, or Wiomnems, or indlg o I
is the vinetgarthat dometh ood There
ore t Iisn sessry that picls should be
made of pare vegetable viar
Paor. Hra sa mys that fafteen tons of
anthracite coal burned in the furnace of
one of our best enines, exerts an energy
equal to that of an a-bodled slave t
woriking ten hours a day for thirty years
of his active life.
Taman American gardeners will be
allowed to. raise vegetables in Austrian
soil to compete for the agricultural pre
minms at the Vienna Exposition.
THE police of New Haven are no longer
to be permitted to carry umbrellas.
NISCELLALEOUS PARAGRAPHS.
ALAnAMA com iS up and ready to be
hoed.
CoLL'MusLs County, Ga., is hunting an
escaped tiger.
FLORIDa grows five hundred bushels of
swet potatoes to the acre.
An Indianapolis ben thinks two eggs a
day something to crow about.
Wny is a newspaper like a wife? Be
cause every man ought to have one of his
own.
A YrOI'.w woman's conundrum-Who
is our favorite Roman hero?--.anser:
Marius.
A PHYSICIAN says mosquitoes have in
their veins some of the best blood in the
country.
Mxico is sakl to be like the earth, be.
cause it has a revolution every twenty
four hours.
You'as a fool if you're a walker in a
pond, you're a philosopher if you ponder
in your walk.
A DlsroTrc Delaware judgelfined a law
yer one dollar for merely calling him "a
bloated old rhinoceros."
A DI)aynrcr man was much relieved to
find that the term Credit Mobiller was not
a name for hog cholera.
P'noP. Menox savs that, as Kansas be.
comes more thickly settled, many fossil- I
ized elephants will be dug up.
A Nsw HAxrsemna woman who re
malned a spinster until she was sixty, has
just buried her fourth husband.
A navna charge has been made againt
a young lady of Augusta, Ga. She is ac
cused of stealing flowers from9 icmae
rius extensive condensed milk fae(ories )
in Switzerland use 40.000 quarts of milk
daily, and four-fifths oftse product is ex- c
ported to England.
A HocRn is never perfectly furnished
for enjoyment unless there is a child in it
rising three years old, and a kitten rising
six weeks.-Southey.
Nxw England farmers believe that the
immense abundance of maple sugar this
season will compensate for the severe
Winter they have suffered.
By carefully computed estimates it is I
ascertained that England Is now as fully
supplied with breaustuffa as she ever was I
at this season of the year.
A VASiIONAstL New York gentleman I
thinks that if ladies would only use their I
powder-paffs more sparingly, men would 1
get through the season with only one
tress-coat.
A raaSnIOtwnA young lady of Phila
delphia dropped one of her false e ebrows
in a church pew, and badly frightened a
young man next to her, who thought it
was his moustache.
AN aged negres in Delawareis said to
have turned white recently.--[Escage.]
Yes, she married afellow named White,
and then turned him out of doors three
weeks after the event.
A CULTIVATED showman propounds the
following conundrum: Q. What trans
formation takes place in an infuriated ele
phant when he charges upon a crowd of
people? A. Hle becomes a turner in
ivory.
WEALTH has now'all the respect paid
to it which is due only to virtue and
talent, but we can see what estimate God
places upon it, since He often bestows it 4
upon the meanes and most unworthy of
all his creatures.
Dm our readers ever hear their young
lady acquaintances ask each other:
-What's your politics?"' and then giggle?
The question has a hidden meaning. For
explanation apply to the first lady you
know who wears a large bustle.
No mAx, when he violates the truth,
can tell of what sin he s rguilty; where
his falsehood will penetrate, and what
misery it will create. It may culminate,
it may kill, it may embitter, it may impov
erish. What evd It may prove you can
not tell.
Ix-a Chicago court of justice they tried,
the other day to decide how much weight
constituted a load for a horse. The ques
tion is Just as easy to decide-and no
easier-as how much a man ean lift, or
how much a man ean do. It depends
upon the horse-slightly.
II ever household affections and loves
are graceful things, they are graceful in
the poor. The taes that bind the wealthy
and the proud to home may be forged on
earth, but those which link the poor
man to his numble hearth are of the
true metal, and bear the stamp of heaven.
A Naw Eat.aol afrmer seat to an or
plan asylum fo a boy thatw " 'tý
active, brave, tractb pOe pt, indus-I
trious, cn, pous, intelligent, good-look
ing, reserved, and modest" I'hesuper
intenadent wrote back that nmoruately
thy had only hma boys ain tlhat Itlt,
EvERnvDor ats peauat, and every-I
body knows that some are full and plmp,
while others have littie or Inotlhi in
them; but evmybody does net know that
before the re g-ets his peanuts they
are separated, th etall fro the empty
mby mesas i a , ad soMid at di t
"Gmrrmauu of theoJry," aid a Judge
in srmming up, "In tH ease eonsel on
both sies a mpn t and Inredible;
the witnesses onb ide ma lardecent
and inmdible; and the palnf and de
fondant both stead suh seanoedged
ro, th it li to mi.ryadiferent
--hU wy yo i~ve a vre'
T- last dog atr : A New BEasie
tespt to eatch a weeldeuh Ia hag
dra asit made Its exit atthe etherad
as thed hb wed thr h, brought a
 doh aoad 6 hm at the
o(, ens d tb draln. He tbe drove
the woodehuek through, and he was
Ts hoe Ly, s s e ribly at,
" sad wl ecoas d the pI
m that it eased him with all Its
A arawar y rng tle, who was
kaewn as rL epuru r la a rUee
dght," had Just married a bleouls and
r lad t the a a b
out and ksed exe Mrs. B---, the
though there was neta yougter present
who was not "dying to tUase her lipa,
hetion. They mistook the cause of his
anger, however, for. suddenly rolllnar up
bis sleev.-s, he stepped into the middle of
the room. and, Ini a tone of voice that at
once secured marked attention, said:
"Gentlemen, I have been notlicing how
things have been worldng here for some
length of time, and I ain't half satlsftled. 1
I don't want to raise a fhbs. but--"
"Whit's the matter, Johat?" inquired
half a dozen voices; "what do you mean;
have we done anything to hurt your feel- 1
'"Yes, you have, all; all of you have
hurt my feelings. andl l'v. got just this
to say about it: here's every gal in the I
rorm been kisadl nigh a dozen times
apiece. and here's my wife, who I conaid- i
er as likely as any of 'em, has not had a t
single one to-r:ight, and I just tell you, I
now, ifshe iion't get as many kisses the I
baiance of the time as any gal in the I
room, the man that slights her has got c
me to tight, that's a 1. Now go ahead with
your play*."
Beet Sugar.
Now that the subject of beet sugar is
eugrossing the attention of so many farm
ers. everything from which informaton i
can be gained on this point, is of Interest. t
We extract the following from a lecture
delivered before the Oakland, Cal., Farm- I
ers' Club, by Prof. Partz:
In the year 1747, Margraf, a Berlin I
apothecary, discovered In a plant growing
wild on the shores of the Medliterranean.
a certain amount of sugar identical with
cane sugar. le communicated the fact to I
the Berlin Academy and recommended
the cultivation of the plant for the extrac
tion of sugar from it; but at that period
eihqIstry was just struggling forth out a
of a hi.my and the time for the realization
of much a plan had.not yet dawned. Since
then from that wild plant has been devel
o@ the present sugar beet. and out of a
t little discovery by Margraf, has
AC'gwn one of the greatest industries of s
'tie present day. an industry which has
'spread all over Central Europe and is evi
dently destined also to spread over a large t
portion of this continent.
In 1773 Achard, another Prussian, re
vived Margraf's project. lie carried on a
series of experiments in raising beets and t
making sugar on his farm at Caulsdort,
near Berlin, and aided by the government d
he founded in 1796 upon the domain f
Cunern in Silesia the first beet sugar ho
tory. In 1799 he presented several loaves b
of beet sugar to the king of Prussia; a
however, the enterprise not being remu. o
nerative -and giving too little promise of r
becoming so, was abandoned. (
After Achard had publis l in 1797 his t
first report of making sugarrom heegs, a
the English government, frightened at i
the prospect of a competition with the ,
care-sugar of the West India colonies,
offered him a large sum of money to ac
knowledge publicly that he had been mis- a
taken in the results of his trials; but he j
indignantly refused the offer. The state
ments of the amount of sugar obtained by j
Achard vary between one and three per j
cent.
The beet sugar project assumed adiffer
ent aspect when, by Napoleon's decree of
the 21st of November, 1808, the harbors of
the European continent were closed
against the products of British colonies, a
while England in return, prevented the c
products of other colonies from entering c
continental harbors: The price of sugar h
rose in Germany to over one thaler per
pound, and there, as well as in France, r
beet sugar factories sprung up and did a c
lucrative business, although the yield of
sugar scarcely reached three per cent. It
is no` In France from seven to eight, In t
Germany and Russia from eight to nine
per cent. A sugary working 500 tons of
beets In a campaign was then thought
quite extensive; there are now estabish- 1
ments working over 50,000 tons. Great
attention was paid to the agricultural
part of the business, especially to the
raising of the right kind of beets, since
experience had taught that beets were
wanted which were atch in sugar and poor t
in salts.
Although the sugar beet will grow in
almost any soil, a deep, sandy loam is I
best suited to its nature. In fact, good
g*ain land is also good beet land. In a
country where the summers are hot and
dry. a stronger and more retentive soil is
required than where they are cooler and b
more humid. Soil charged with mineral a
salts must be avoided for they are eater
1y absorbed by the beets and are a bn
dra'ce to the extraction of the sugar.
It is fit for cultivation nearly all over the
United States, so far as the soil permits.
smeeraing lDeer.i sts.
IT is reported from Philadelphia that
the noble little boy who, during the late
appalling pinter, stole three hundred and
ten door-mats, and with the proceeds t
thereof maintained his Infirm and irre
proachable mother, is at present seeking I
some new opening for honest industry. t
In calling attention to his se, we desire
less to advertise his individual worth than (
to remark that his theory oflife isby no
means unique. Indeed, hit appears toa tus
that American society, just now, has re- *
solved itself Into a vast organization to t
encourage the lftingof door-mats for ben
evolent puripses.
Eminentbusines mien who lend their
names to strengthen a rotten speculation,
and sell their preferred stock at a pre- t
lum, puttlng the money into the contri- t
bton-box, are followg the footsteps of t
the Illal little boy. Trdc who esl dis
bonest goods, and who live leanly nd
bauild churches; yong women who, with
out love, marry for money or a posltio
or ese,and never fort morning pray Is
prospects of tr sad sty brss ; der-e
gymes who, dipogh uouing ma
crple at to all thdr pews bydcharla
u, and raise cure fuds world I
y and ueanaetld means tbhatl
hole greedy pubMic which Maee
for money and geta to how it may, I
justIfied to itselfb the self-assumanee
that the base store ~rI be spent cnaly r I
humane ad auefl mds--euaeh d asll
thet are taking the door-mt, a thank I
ing heven r their eine tentbonaeo
eenrhag its dispositon.
There is somethlstgtraa In the
pesnt bindnes of so tit~e vhl of I
moral t oThel that the 1
outimort aen tree. t-he m estr-e
rmd 0 nesty. ItYer a becmes
asyI yes, dif a puti e mei or.
ea Iota nh ies note truly his w
ily maintained withut am abolute a
ciprecal roulisno on thimere word i
masters and mn. Commerce would be
disastrously handered if commercial ob
lgations were IIghty held.
Horace Man used to say that the I
miller maxim, "Let justlee be done,
though the heavens fall," ought to be
rendered, "Let justce be done, est the
heavens fll," since it is only justlee that
keeps the eternal arch self-poised. And
justiee means absolute honesty. Each of
us knows for himself wherein he is con
victed of the ihabitual taki g of door-mats
for noble ends. It is for each of us to
make private re~ttution, and toabjurehis
pleaspalt peculations.-Heart ald Home.
The English Pesisaer.
Is a late paper I read the trial and con
victien of the woman Cotton. who. I snp
pose, has poisoned twenty persons--some
husbands and many children of her own
among them-under direumstances of the
most serene and complaernt selflshness.
It is lifficult to imagine that this woman
should be a fellow-erature, and almost
makes oue wonder whether some of us
are not devils already. With respect to
this modern Brinvilliers, her c-as'seem
to contradict a very striking remark thnat
I once heard made by Mr. Delane. the
editor of the T,?'s. and one who by his
social position must needs be as well ar
quainted with our aristocracy aA most
men. lie said that more murders were
committed-quiet puttings away of lath
ers and elder brothers-in the few acres
on which stand our most fashionable
sqmuares than it any similar area in Eng
land. because the piosition of the inhabi
tants places them above the reach of a
coroner's inquest. The obsequieus fami
ly physician sees the necessity of avo!d
ing "exposure," and of 'shielding a no
bI.' house from scandal :" and giving the
fullest benefit of his doubts to the ease in
question, he signs his certificate of " died
from natural causes." This may perhaps
he the case; but certainly it seems that
the very poverty of a household may also
exempt what occurs in it from publie in
quiry, since Mary Ann Cotton has been
at her deadly work for these twenty years
with perfect impunity..' There was no
pretense of jealousy, hate, or passion to
account for any of her crimes; they UWre
all committed because the victim was
more or less a burden to her, or was in
sured for a few pounds in a benefit club.
She is deseribed as comely. quiet-looking.
and almost lady-like, yet very resolute
much the sort of person that one would
picture one of Miss Nightingale's paliant
bnd of hospital heroines to be. God
help the man or child, however, who
trusted to her tender mercies !
She who had seen so many little chil
dren die in agonies, and tended them from
first to last with her cruel, carefl! hands,
was, we are told, "excessively aofe'ed"
by her own sentence. and protested
against it in her quiet, salled way. Quite
otherwise did a certain lively young rep
robate behave on his conviction at the
Central Criminal Court last week, who.
by his careless abandon and close imitation
of "the Artful Dodger," won more of m
sympathies than I care to own to. le
was sentenced, notwithstading all his
gifts. to seven years' penal servitude; and
after he had heard his doom pronounced
made this astounding proposition to the
judge. " Look here, my lord, I'll toss
you, double or quits, whether it shal be
fourteen years or aotAing !"-London Cor.
Harpsr's Basar.
A Care fr Girdled Trees.
Stsc the winter of 1867 and 1868, there
have been none more favorable for field
mice, says the New York IHimas, than the
one just ended. Over a wide range of
country the ground was covered with a
heavy body of snow in December. This
Sas added to by frequent storms, and it
remained during the entire season. In
closely planted orchards, the snow was
piled in places several feet in thickness
for eight or nine weeks, and afforded just
the conditions most propitious for these
active pests.
Under such circumstances it will he
strange it on disappearance of nature's
blanket, thousands of fruit trees are not
found girdled, especially those standinr
in or near grass land. Trees from which
the bark has been gnawed all around and
six to twelve nloches in width, are sure to
die within a year unless prompt measures
are taken to make connection between
the bark above and that below the wound.
The prescriptions which have been pub
lished from time to time are as numerous
as fles in midsurer. and most of them
as unsatishectory. Where only a third or
a half of the circle has been made, leaving
a connecting strip. then, by covering the
bare part with a coating of cow roppings
and yellow clay, the young bark will
row over the wound much sooner than
If left exposed. Where there is no such
connection, however, the best and most
simple method of forming one-and the
method that never falls-is to insert scions
(one, two, or thre, as the ease may re
quirer), brkdgli over the barked part.
The method is iimpleand rapid,and most
any one can do the ob without dilculty.
Take the scions oa last year's growth of
wood, froyoung healthy trees, cut them
the right tt., bevel each on the same
side at both ends. Then, with a budding
knife, make an Incision In the bark of the
tree above and below the Ijured prt,
ad carefully press the scion in plac
Cover over where the Ineesion wa made
with graftaing war, amd tho wind amramd
the stem of the tree. at both ends of the
sdoaes, m narrow arlmp bmat-.
ting, which will keep Srml la
e. 1or trem from whleh the er hr
Saeen. r rawed half or twothirds the
wy aod, one or two dorne will be
seliceat; b when there noa onne -
tioa left, it will abe fmd advimnbie, par
ticuary a large clead tree, to pat in
H*sALr d and smetlmes ie Iitelf i
eae lost by lyig aside wintater clothing
too arl. Iala diaels aside In the
prta tm . angt - n-3.
ary. We can better do withoutwoolens
a-t the skim la md.wnlter than In mid
summer. We do not get overheated In
Mter; we do lai summer; and tbemmet
frequent exciting cause of coughs, auld,.
ald conuption Is a rapid illing o the
temperature of the body All are hmil
hr with the hot that a saduHa checking
Eauses us tod psraplsu i
smer, sad a r sbLtdra of air
checks the p pir n; e e, lament
French physlsas hav stated, tat ods
teae in summer excit the most hlocrs
bie forms of cou . White wool
- fannelis a most deten guerdalnet
these sddena ca es, bae It hshit
the beat of the body In, while t rep;i
the ezxeeve eLt umwithbet; iteo
Sthe water ef perrt e to Its otat
whldle thesurfocs net the kin· Is
drir. Weal luw the sdik, attoa and
ba eaxt the skln gt saturated with
water, and t hwr a sIa the slghtest
wLe tlhat material tumes the sla.
Tim rlt sheald ib to wear white woolE
e Sanel aext tbe skia all the yar
mrnd; thlck la wlnter, a itle tlinaser in
Aprl, a gap e mateial the arst day of
July; on the rst of October resume
whats laid slde ai Jily; oa the rst
of December pat on the thkest, extend
h to ankles and wrists.
k l m heaa o ne ae espeellly
necessary to all old people to all Invalids
and young children; , day laborr and all
out-door workers would be incaleably
benefited by the same observances.
Hairs Jourast of HeattA for ApriL.
Trxas is the third State in the Union,'
as a wheat-growing State. The wheat
crop of Texas was, in average per acre,
just equal to that of California last year.