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VOL. X. NO. 4.
THE MERR Y FIDDLER.
Sometimes if you listen listen
When the sunlight fades to gray,
Ton will hear a strange musician,
At the quiet close of day ;
Hear a strange and quaint musiclaa
On his shrill-voiced fiddle play,
He bears a curious fiddle
On his coat of shiny black, '
And draws the bow across the string
In crevice and in crack ;
Till the sun climbs up the mountain
And floods the earth with light,
Ton will hear this strange musician
Playing playing all the night.
Sometimes underneath the hearthstone,
Sometimes underneath the floor,
He plays the same shrill music,
Plays the same tune o'er and o'er ;
And sometimes in the pasture,
Beneath a cold gray stone,
He tightens np the sinews
And fiddles all alone,
It may be iu the autumn,
From the corner of your room
You will hear the shrill-voiced fiddle
Sounding out upon the gloom ;
If you wish to see the player,
Softly follow up the sound,
And you'll find a dark-backed cricket
Fiddling out a merry round.
Marrying Again.
BY HELEX FORREST GBAVES.
" Janie," said Squire Harden,
'have
I you fed the young turkeys ?"
"And looked alter the calves, and
turned the cheeses, and aired the feather
beds, and cleaned the cellar, and sorted
over the russet apples ?"
"Yes, Cousin John."
"Ah," said Squire Harden, "it'B a
heavy responsibility to put upon one
person, all these daily duties, Janie,
eh?"
" I hope I do everything to please
f on, John," faltered the quiet girl, who
at picking: over beans m a huge four'
quart pan.
"Yes, Janie yes, I've no cause to
complain," said the squire, thonght-
fully feeling of his handsome, smooth'
shaven chin, as he sat looking at the
slender, pretty girl.
While Janie Lee, conscious that his
eyes were upon her, changed from pink
to pale and then back again, and worked
more steadfastly than ever.
" Janie," saifi the squire, suddenly,
"I've something to say to you: and
there's no use in putting it off."
Janie glanced up, more agitated than
ever.
"I'm thinking, of marrying again,
said f"be squire, abruptly.
Janie tried to say, " Are you ?" but
her tongue clove to the roof of her
mouth. Poor, little, fluttering, shy
thing at that moment a flood of inde
scribable happiness seemed to overflow
her soul. Ever since her cousin (Mrs.
Marden) had died, four years ago, and
she, a girl of sixteen, had taken the
lntlzja o JionMpio into Iier atroug
young bands, she had been learning to
worship the stately, handsome, noble
natured squire. Nothing was too much
for her, when it was done for him.
Full of Carlyle's "Hero-Worship,"
Janie Lee could have written half a
dozen : volumes on the subject, and
taken Squire John Marden for the cen
tral point of every one of them. Now
and then, spurred by a kindly word, a
gentle tone, she had ventured to hope
she knew not what. Oftener still, she
had fallen into the depths of despond
ency until, at last, she had resolved to
spend her quiet and uneventful life in
Squire Maiden's service, whether or not
her efforts were rewarded by the guer
don she so craved.
But now now that he looked at her
with, those kindly-pleasant eyes now
that he had spoke of " marrying again '
her heart leaped high in her bosom.
Were those long years of conscientious
toil appreciated at last? Was he, in
deed, about to ask her to be his wife ?
" Marrying again I" the squire re
peated, slowly. " You wouldn't object,
eh, Janie ?" ' '-
"I?" she faltered.
"Your position, you see, would re
main just the same," said he. "Matilda
is a perfect child about the cares of
housekeeping and will, I doubt not, be
pleased to retain yon here as her right
hand in the house ; for, as you may
perhaps have guessed, I have proposed
to Matilda Kerr."
Janie's heart seemed turning to ice
within her. 1 Matilda Kerr the dashing
city beauty who had been spending the
summer at Mrs. Waller's the hand
some, dark-eyed Di Vernon of a girl,
who had made fun of farms and fanners,
avowed her ignorance of all domestio
details as if it were a merit, and dawdled
away her time in croquety lawn -tennis
and novel reading Matilda, who dressed
in the very extreme of the fashion, with
frizzled hair, stilted-heeled Frbnch
boots, pull-back dresses, elbow . sleeves
and long, wrinkle-wri3ted kid gloves
who declared that life wasn't worth
having .without archery-parties, cha-.
rades and chocolate caramels t The last
person in Ihe world whom one could,
have imagined John Marden to fancy!
"Don't fret, Janie 1" sail the squire,
kindly. "Your home is here always,
wife or no wife. I haven't forgotten all
that you were to poor Mary, before she
died!"
The touch of his hand upon her
drooping head seemed to loose the foun
tain of her tears, and flinging away her
work, Janie darted, sobbing, from the
room. - . j !
Squire Marden looked after her, in
slow, scarcely-comprehending surprise.
"Of all enigmas," he said aloud,
" women are the least comprehensible.
One would think she would have been
delighted at the prospect of some one
to keep her company in the house. Bat
perhaps she prefers being alone. Janie
always was a quiet little thing."
But when she came to call him to tea,
Janie Lee was quite calm and composed
again a little pale, perhaps, but other
wise entirely herself.
" Mr. Marden," said she, with down
cast eyes, "I am sorry I behaved so
foolishly, this afternoon; but I was so
taken by surprise. I I am sure I hope
that you will be happy !"
" You are always a kind little darling,
Janie," said Mr. Marden, with a smile.
" And I am sure you and Tillie will get
along nicely together."
Janie did not reply; but after the
housework was all done, that evening,
and she was in her own rood, she set
herself diligently to work, writing out
an advertisement "Wanted, a Silua-Hon."
" For I never can live in the same
house with the haughty beauty who has
stolen John Marden's love away from
me," she thought, with a cruel pang at
her heart.
So the lovely September days went
by, and the colored leaves began to fall,
and the nuts to drop softly in the woods
at night; and when October reigned it
rovally over hill and mountain, the
wedding-day drew near.
Tillie Kerr had been to visit the farm
house. A hard, hard day it was for
Janie when she came with her black
silk dress, with its fan-shaped train and
plumed Rubens hat, and white blonde
scarf, wrapped like a fringe of sea-foam
around her neck, to criticise and find
fault, and stare in a curious, listless way
at the rooms which had been Janie's
pride and care so long.
" This hall is so ridiculously narrow,"
said the bride-elect; " and the idea of
such funny little winding stairs ! Why,
they make me think of a corkscrew !
John Marden looked at the staircase,
down which he had been carried a baby,
It had never struck him as incongruous
before.
"And, of course," rattled on Miss
Kerr, "you will have the partition be
tween these two rooms taken down, and
an archway put up ?"
"Of course," echoed Squire Marden.
But he didn't know why he said it
Janie was loosing on, and there was a
pained look in her face. She was think
ing of how poor Mary's corpse, crowned
with white flowers, had lain there so
short a time ago how the dear old
mother, whose memory John soil so
tenderly revered, died in the sunny
back-room, just when the March snow
drops were bursting through the frozen
ground.
Though I don't know," added the
bride, playing with the ivory top of her
carved parasol, "but that it would be
really cheaper in the end to pull the
whole thing down and build something
to suit one's self exactly."
"The house is over a hundred years'
old," said Squire Marden, gravely.
There is no other house in the country
so old."
'Oh, horrid !" cried Matilda, reooil'
ing with a little theatrical cry. "The
idea of living in a house that is a hun
dred years' old !"
And she laughed and rustled away,
with her jet chains sparkling, her pres
ence leaving a faint perfume behind her
of patchouly; and Janie had secretly
felt that, if she saw much more of Miss
Kerr, she should learn to hate her cor
dially.
The wedding evening came, and all
the country people, high and low, were
invited to participate in the festivities.
Mrs. Waller, from whose house , the
bridal was to be celebrated, had done
Jn r beet -to priva her frittna what alio
cabled "a tiptop wedding." The village j
band was engaged ; the walls were
decked with autumn-leaves, scarlet Toer-
ries
was
aud evergreens ; the bridal-cake
a mountain of snowy perfection ;
and the old clergyman, in his robes,
stood waiting at the door, when Mrs.
Waller oame hurriedly in, with a pale,
frightened face, to where the bride
groom stood, stalwart and handsome,
with his i.'best man" at his side.
"There's no use trying to hide mat
ters any longer," said she, hysterically.
"Tillie has gone! Gone with Captain
Swedenborg! She went riding with him
this afternoon, and I made sure she'd
come back. But she hasn't ; and here's
the telegram from New York. Bead it,
some one. I haven't the face to do it."
Judge Toucey, who stood next to
her, put on his spectacles and leisurely
perused the telegram.
"Good-by, everybody!" it said, sauci
ly. "I am married to Captain Sweden
borg, and sail for Europe at noon to
morrow. Every woman has a right to
change her mind, and I have changed
mine. Tillie Swedenbobo."
There was a brief silence of a second
or two, and then Squire Marden spoke
out. -
," "Changed her mind, has she?" he
eaid, in a clear, ringing voice. "Well,
I haven't changed mine. " I came here
to be married,, and married I intend to
be! If it is not to one bride, it shall be
to another. Little Janie" to the pale
girl in the dove-colored silk dress, who
stood at his side :Vwill you take the
place, in my love and my home, which
this heartless woman has left vacant?
Will you be my wife ?"
To tho day of her death, Janie Lee .
never knew exactly what she answered.
She only knew that she was gently led
to the bride's place ; that Squire John's
strong hand held hers ; that his clear
voice spoke the responses; that she
murmured her share, feeling, all the
while,'' as if she were in a dream.
But when the ceremony was over, and
the guests crowded around to offer their
congratulations, the mists all cleared
awayzrom ner neart ana 'Drain, tne
tranquil light came back to her eye.
John Marden's wife I What higher
happiness had life to pffer her ?
And when they were driving home, in
the .soft autumnal moonlight, she
looked wistfully into his face.
" John," said she, "are you sure that
yon do not regret this sudden step of
yours?"
" Begret it,- sweetheart ?," he said,
tenderly pressing her hand. " Regret
that 1 have discovered, ere it is too late,
that false, fair Woman's crafty nature?
Regret that I have found my sweet
guardian angel at last ?"
And so the nine days' wonder of
Squire Marden's marriage died away.
Mrs. Captain Swendenborg never re
turned from Europe and Janie and her
husband live happily in the old farm
house, which never has been altered,
and never will' be.
'It is good enough for us," says
Squire Marden, when people talk about
" modernizing " the place.
"It is home!" Janie adds, softly
"Our home!" .
And the words are full of the sweet
happiness of her heart. Saturday
Night.
Os the TbaiIi. Cows on the prairie
get accustomed to the noise of locomo
tive bells rod whistles, and do not al
ways clear the track until thrown off
by the cowcatcher. A patented devise
is described in the tscienvjio American
for squirting hot water twenty rods
ahead. It is calculated that this would
stimulate the laziest into action.
MORRIS VILLE AND HYDE PARK, VERMONT,
UXITED STATES SUPREME COURT,
Pen and
Judges
Cleric
Ink
and
Photograph of the
their Wonderful
The clerkship of the United States
Supreme Court, says a Washington let
ter, is worth more than the salary of
four of the Justioes, as it is said to fre
quently pay over $40,000 per year. The
charges are 6imply terrible. It costs
about a dollar for the clerk to look at
you, and another do'Iar to get out of
his sight. They have a little talk then
of keeping the decisions back as loEg
as possible, often a couple of months,
and in the mean time if any one wants
a copy of the decision it costs $2 for
each page of one hundred words.
When Belva Lock wood, the female
lawyer, applied for admission to prac
tice before the court, the Justices were
shocked and the clerk horrified. The
court considered the application, and.
after holding it under advisement for a
month or bo, gravely declared against
her, on the ground that it was against
the custom, if not the law. Belva in
reply said it was against the custom
once to ride in a railroad car, or to
light up a house with gas, but those
customs were not in. keeping with the
progress of the times. The reply was
that there was no help lor her. Belva,
being practical, slipped over to the
Senate, drew a bill giving women the
right to practice law, provided they
were competent, and had it introduced.
She had a similar bill introduced in the
House, which body passed it The
Senate in turn passed it, and lo ! the
custom was a thing of the past. A law
took its place, and she or any other wo
man is now perfectly free to get a big
fee for appearing and arguing a ease be
fore the Supreme Court, provided she
is fortunate enough to get emploved,
It is against the custom, and no one
is allowed to do it under penalty of be
ing put out of the court room, for any
one, newspaper reporter or lawyer, even
to write a word in the court room, or
take a note of any point in a decision or
remark of any of the Judges. This ap
pears strange, and yet it is a fact, and
there are hundreds of newspaper oorre
spondents who know it from being pre
vented. The custom is to go to the
clerk, and wait a week or so for him to
make such extract of an opinion as are
wanted and pay him his fees. The
only way to get over this is to keep the
points in your head and write them out
after coming out of the court room,
which has to be done on what is called
decision day. '
The opinions of the Supreme Court
are much too long. They go into a
history of every case, and often a per
son has to read a half hour or so before
the point in the disoision is reached.
Bat ail this plays into th hands of the
clort. - He geta wealthy in consequence
of it.. Imagine the readers of a paper
in these days of telegraph having to
wait three or four weeks for a decision !
The Judges are too slow. They don't
intend to be slow, but they are without
knowing it. It is seldom that a decision
can be had in less than a month after a
case has been argued. In similar courts
in England a decision is given in five
minutes after a case is argued. This is
as it should be. The Judges, in hold
ing off their decisions, without knowing
it, are enriching a certain number of
resident attorneys at the expense of
other attorneys, who do not reside in
Washington; for, knowing the delay,
the expense of waiting, etc., non-resident
lawyers are frequently retired to
secure the assistance of resident attor
neys to argue and look after their cases.
One of tho customs is that eaoh Jus
tice has a body servant. The Justices
get money for their own body servants,
but the custom is otherwise, and the
body servants are paid $1,200 per an
num by the Government. Some of the
Justices want to select their own body
servant, but they are not allowed to do
it by the other body servants, for the
custom is that the newly appointed
Justice retains the body servant of his
predecessor. The body servants have
never been known to allow a Justice to
violate this custom.
Mr. Justice Woods, who was ap
pointed by Garfield, in speaking to
some gentleman of this custom, said :
"My body servant is the most annoying
thing 1 have yet experienced. The
fellow is the first man 1 see in the morn
ing and the last I see at night. He
forced his way into my room at the El
liott House, ordered me to go down to
breakfazt and then asked me what I
would have for breakfast, taking my
order to the cooks himself. I could not
get rid of hiii in any way. He haunted
me all the time. That fellow will be
the death of me. I have this satisfac
tion, however, the other Justices are
tortured in the same way."
When Mr. Justice Gray of Massachu
setts recently went on . the Supreme
bench, be had an idea he would do just
as he pleased ; but after a trial he finally
had to yield, and is now as completely
in the power of hia body servant as any
of the others. He not only was not al
lowed to select a man for himself, but
was forced to accept the services of a
fellow he does not like.
They are death on custom ; they live
on custom, and not one of the body ser
vants does a thing different from what
he did years ago. As a rule, the body
servants are past middle age. The
fathers and grandfathers of some of
them' served in the same capacity (j for
they never let anew man into tho ring.
A Tramp's Awful Fate.
Peter Brown, a tramp, asked two men
employed at Thompson's Steel Works,
in Jersey City, for permission to sleep
in one of the empty sand-pits in the
foundry. He said he had applied in
vain at the police stations for lodgings,
and the men, out of pity for his condi
tion, granted his request. He laid down
on the 8 and and was soon sound asleep.
At three o'clook in the morning the
report of a loud explosion in the works
attracted the attention of the people in
the vicinity. Upon reaching the spot
a terrible sight met their gaze. A cru
cible filled with molten steel had ex
ploded, and its contents had flowed
down into tho pit where the tramp was
sleeping. He had been unable to ex
tricate himself, and the fiery liquid had
burned all his clothing off as well as
the flosh from portions of his body,
leaving the bare bones exposed to view.
The man died shortly after being taken
to the hospital.
AND
Central America.
EABTHQTTAJiHS THAI HAVE
ITED THAI IjOCAHTT.
FOBMEB
na-
The mountainous ridge of Centra
America has long ' b een known to be a
region full of voleanoes and subject to
shocks of earthquakes to an ex
traordinary extent. The last great
earthquake which visited the locality,
previous to that lately reported, was on
March 19, 1873, when San Salvador was
totally destroyed. That disaster was
not so fatal as tba present one : for
though three successive shocks were
felt, the inhabitant, warned by pre
vious noises, were able to fand places of
safety, and only about 500 perished,
Earthquakes have been so frequent in
the Central American -States that the
Indians are accur.toijdtgjay it is "the
land that swings like a hammock."
Costa Rica is the most southern Repub
lic of this disturbed region, and the lit
tie State is filled with extinct and active
volcanoes, among wliioh are Orisa,
Votos and Cartago. The population of
the Republic is about 180.000. The
Pacific coast of . Central and South
America has previously been visited
with several notably disastrous earth'
quakes. The first shock mentioned by
the historians of Chili occurred on the
8th of February, 1570, destroying Con
cepcion, then the moist promising and
flourishing city of the infant colony.
More than two thousand persons per
ished. In 1647 an earthquake occurred
which was felt throughout all South
America. Without any warning, and
in a single instant, it leveled the city of
Santiago to the ground. Ten years
later Concepcion was again overthrown,
In 1751 the same town was visited by
an earthquake accomp inied by a tidal
wave, which, on retiring, washed away
the entire place. The city of Caracas
was entirely destroyed m mty-six
seconds on March 26, 1812. Quito, in
Ecuador, was almost destroyed on
March 22. 1859. in 1'eru, caiiao was
destroyed in 1586, and the accompany
ing sea wave was ninety leet high, it
was again destroyed in 1743. An earth
quake which will be readily recalled was
that of August 13 and 1:1, 1868, in which
Arica suffered severely. The tidal wave
carried a number of ships inland, among
them the United 1 States steamer
Wateree. A United i3tates storeship
was also lost by it. The seaport of
Arica suffered severely. The earth'
quake sea wave sped thence across the
Pacific, reaching the Bawaiian Islands
on the 14th and Yokohama on the 15th.
It was also felt in Australia and Alaska.
In Argentine Republic, Mendoza was
overturned iu March, 1665. The shock
extended over the entire Repubb'oand
12.000 persons are estimated to have
perished. An earthquake in Chili in
18?q nuii DermcU-- elevation to
an extent or from mutw asTen feet .01
fully one hundred thousand equare
miles of land lying bitween the Andes
and the coast. Febraary 20, 1835, the
city of Concepcion was destroyed for
the fourth time : there were felt over
three hundred successive shocks within
two weeks. April 2, 1851, a severe
shock was felt at Santiago.
"It Was the Cat."
A good story is told of an Orange
County boy who drives it milk route m
Sew York City. It seems he had one
wealthy customer that lie served early
by lifting a barred basement window
and pouring the milk into a pail with a
long spout. One morning when he was
late, in pushing the pail, back to olose
the window he upset it, the pail falling
into the room and the milk spilling all
over the floor. He was in trouble. He
had no time to call the giil and wait for
her to appear. He started on his route
expecting to lose that customer surely.
But while serving his next customer he
saw a cat in the area way. An inspira
tion seized the milkman. The milkman
seized the cat. He thrust her between
the bars into the room where the
spilled milk lay, and drove on. Later
in the day he returned to the house, as
requested, by a note in the pail in the
morning asking him to "leave tickets.
The servant girl came running out,
saying : "Oh, Johnny, we must have
four quarts more of milk. A nasty
cat got iu the house and spilled all the
milk you left. Just look t,t that carpet.
The mistress was awl ully mad. I thought
I should lose my place." The milkman
looked his blankest amazement, and
sympathizingly counted out his tickets
and measured out the milk, saying
Accidents would happen sometimes.'
The customer was saved. Middletown
Press.
A Mormon Stoi7,
A man who claims" to be a Mormon
elder, in a letter to the PiUtsburg Com
mercial Gazette over the assumed name
of Joseph Smith, gives a detailed ac
count of the scheme for stimulating the
faith of Mormons and overwhelming
the Gentiles by the resurrection of
Brigbm Young. He says that the plot
was laid about a year before the an
nouncement of the .Prophet's death,
and that the originator of it was
Brigham himself. The writer was one
of the five persons admitted to the con
spiracy, and his conscience will not
keep the secret any .longer. Having
spent several yearn in comfortable
seclusion, while a wax efhgy reposed in
his coffin, the Propbet is about to
emerge and electrify the fidtbful. After
this frank exposure the writer s only
chance of safety is in concealing his
real name, and, as it is. he expect to
fall sooner or later " by the death shot
or the mortal stab of the Danites." This
fate would indeed be calamitous, for he
has nine loving wives and any number
of children in Salt Lake City. Resurreo-
tion might prove to be the strongest
card in the Mormon pack at this stage
cf the game, and, absurd as these stories
seem, a good many persons are dis
posed to see some truth in them.
Tbotjble When a burlesque com
pany recently played in Indianapolis
the corps de ballet was recruited, as to
the unimportant oacK row, irom reti
dent young women. A fellow in the
gallery recognized aa acquaintance
among them, and cried out, " Hi, Sallie
Jackson!" She looked up in quick
response, and the hilarity of the audi
ence drove her from the stage.
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THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1882.
TRAOIXU CHILDREN.
Too Mncn Fault-landing and not
Enough. Encouragement for
the Little Ones.
ajab iUADAM : supposing a per
son has committed an error and ao
knowledged it and believes himself for
given, will the knowledge that because
of this fault his every action and word
are watched with suspicion, and, if pos
sible, oontorted into something wrong,
act as a stimulus to do right, or as a
temptation to do wrong, either in the
same way or some other. If you were
training a child would you cultivate
honesty and truthfulness by allowing
him to see that you did not trust and be
lieve him, and by telling him he spoke
untruths, and by suggesting wrong mo
tives for his actions Y -
It is a sad faot that these questions
are very pertinent, and that a great
many parents train their children as
though the affirmative answer to them
was the correct one. There are very
few children, and very few grown peo
ple either, for that matter, who " can
not tell a lie," who cannot deceive, who
cannot depart, in one way or another,
from the line of strict integrity, and it is
very little help, when one is overtaken
in a fault, and is sincerely sorry, or
might be, with proper treatment, to be
told : " There, that's iust like von I"
I knew you would do just so." "I
told you so."
"The way of the transgressor is hard,"
and in nothing harder than in the dif
ficulty of getting entirely away from it.
and forming new habits, new associa
tions, new horizons. The environ
ment of crime clings to the vicious with
such pertinacity that reform becomes
possible only when partially or wholly
new surroundings are formed. We
strive, when reclaiming the inebriate,
to take him away from his old associ
ates and to surround him with new ones.
We do not taunt him with being a slave
to his appetite, and with all the dread
ml consequences that slavery entails
on him; he knows the truth already,
and too well ; but we strive to make
him forget the things that are past, and
reach forward to the good things the
temperate man may enjoy. If on occa
sion he is overpowered by the might of
his thirst for alcohol, we lead him gent
ly back and throw around him such
safeguards as we hope may keep him
from falling again into temptation. He
needs no reminders of the dreadful fate
of the drunkard, of Ids misery, his
degradation; he needs to look away
from that, and to forget it in the strug
gle to go forward and away from it.
Those, young or old, who wish to lead
a new life, mut be treated in the same
way. The vice of lying or deceiving
can be rooted ont of the character, not
by keeping it, before the eye, but by
forgetting it in tbe purumt of what is
true, honest, trustworthy. And so of
any other vioe. "As a man thinketh in
his heart, bo is he." There is no'surer
way of making liars of children than by
accusing them of lying, and allowing
them to feel that they are believed to be
liars. There is no surer way of making
them disobedient than by accusing them
of disobedience and making them regard
themselves as disobedient. On the con
trary, those who intelligently cultivate
iu their children truthfulness, obedi
ence, fidelity, are very slow to admit
intentional departures from perfect rec
titude in these respects. And when
such departures oocur they are met not
with taunts but with teare, with Borrow,
and with earnest endeavor to induce the
transgressor to "wipe out the slate," to
"turn over a new leaf," and begin again.
That petition of the lord's Prayer,
"Lead us not into temptation," is never
absent from the mind of the thoughtful
parent. He removes so far as possible
temptations from the path of the child,
he builds around him bulwarks to keep
him in the path of right, and, so far as
may be, the path of right is made pleas
ant to the fee.t. Its rugged places are
smoothed by sympathetic companion
ship, by cheering words, by inspiring
hopes, by a sunny and serene atmos'
phere.
The laot that a child 111 trusted wi
often make him worthy of trust, ever,
though he may have many times failed
iu guarding trusts confided to him.
How does God deal with us ? Does He
cast us off when we have sinned once or
twice ? We are to forgive the trespasses
of another against us though they be
seventy times seven. . God does not
count the number of times He forgives
us. Whenever we turn toward Him
with penitent hearts He is ready to re
ceive us. He never taunts us with our
faithlessness, our ingratitude, our trans
gressions, but showers His mercies on
the evil and the good, the just and the
unjust. Here is an example.
Children may be stimulated to the
cultivation of the highest virtue by
reading the lives of great men, and the
history of great actions, and, being thus
lifted out of the region of. petty deoeit
and envy, they breathe the air that
makes heroes and noblemen. Weekly
Tribune.
John Benninghoff Dead,
The Bradford (Penn.) Star says:
John Benninghoff, famous for his wealth
more for that which was forcibly taken
away from him than for that which was
left died at his home at Greenville,
Penn., Monday, aged eighty-one years.
This event will bring to mind "the
Benninghoff robbery" of fifteen years
ago, whioh was committed in the oil
regions, where he then resided with his
family, on the farm that poured wealth
into his pocket faster than he could take
care of it. The robbers surrounded the
house, then entered, gagged the old
man and other members of the family
present, proceeded at their leisure to o3
through his strong boxeii, and stole
about $200,000. The intruders got away
with their plunder, and as far as its
history is known, lived to enjoy it.
After tho robbery Mr. Benninghoff re
moved to Greenville. To have seen
him on his farm, or on the street, one
would never have picked him out aa a
millionaire. It is understood that he
died worth half a million, notwithstand
ing the loss.
A ooommodattno. He was an accom
modating conductor who stopped his
train long enough, at MayBville, 111.,
for a village clergyman to pronounce a
hasty marriage ceremony for two elop
ing passengers.
A Polut in Law.
Few litigants, says an exchange, ever
sit down to count the cost of a lawtuit
in advance even the money cost. Let
us be among the few prudent, and
reckon up the costs of an ordinary case,
Suppose Brown's cattle have broken
into Smith's corn and destroyed corn
valued at, say $100. Smith demands a
settlement. Brown replies that the
fence was poor, that Jones's cattle got
in afterward and did mo3t of the dam
age, and that the real damage done was
not half so great as Smith claims. Here
are issues for a first-class suit. If
Brown were properly approached he
would probably pay $10 possibly $20
but Smith is sure he has lost $100,
and that Brown ought to pay it all. He
decides to enforce his rights. The law'
yer will begin a suit for $10. When it
is ready for trial he wants $15 more.
The clerk's fees and jury fees are, say,
$6 more. The witness fees are 4.
Smith loses in all fourteen days' time,
worth $28. At the close of the trial the
lawyer wants $25 more. Total disburse
ments, Sir 8. The estimated loss was
$100. To this add the oosts of the
ao-
tion, and the total damage is $188.
Now, taking the average of cases of
his kind, Smith will be fortunate if he
recovers a verdict of $25. In suoh case
his net loss will be $143, or $63 more
than it would have been if he had kept
out of the court and let his "rights" go.
H he had compromised with Brown and
gotten $10 or $20, that would have been
clear gain ; his victory irrthe court has
been a clear loss, and a more disastrous
one than the original infliction. So much
for the plaintiff's side
Now let us see about the defendant.
He might compromise with his neigh
bor by paying, say, $50 ; but he will
not. He will fight the suit at whatever
cost. His lawyer's fees alone are $50 :
he loses time, worth at least $25, and
has $25 to pay at the end ; the total is
just twice the amount that the case
might been settled for. The original
damage was said to be $100. The two
men spend $189 in "lawing" it, and of
all this only $25 goes from one to the
other jr the other $163 is a dead loss,
which must be added to the original
$100 to show the real damage.
Raising Turkeys.
Select by weight the largest fowls to
breed from ; if possible, have the gob
blers from two to four years old. The
gobbler and hen should not be related
to each other. Have no more than four
hens to eaoh gobbler, and do not starve
them during the winter. Watch them
closely about laying time, as they nearly
always hunt a nest the day before they
deposit their first egg. Make a good
large nest in some building that you can
confine them in, and next morning after
they hunt their nest catch them, and
shut them np in the place where yon
made the nest, for after they have laid
one egg there they will always go back
to that nest. If they choose a good
place of their own accord I let them
alone ; though I put a few common
hen's eggs iu the nest and take out the
turkey eggs every day. and keep them
in a cool place, as heat id j ares them
quicker than cold, provided it does not
freeze. I let each turkey set the first
time she wants to ; but let no young
turkeys run with a common hen, for if
they do so half a dozen times they are
more trouble than fifty running with a
turkey hen.
The advantage of letting turkeys set
on their nrst laying or eggs is tnw :
The young turkeys are hatohed before
the weeds and grass get high enough to
wet and bofoul them in the mornings. I
watch them two or three days, that no
weak ones are lost ; then they get no
more attention, only feeding when they
come to the house. On no account give
them raw food when small. I feed mine
on corn bread ; sometimes soa& it in
sour milk, and sometimes give them
curd. Never shut them up unless it
rains hard.
I have been raising turkeys for sev
eral years, and have never had one sick
one yet. Most of my chickens died with
cholera last fall, and one of my turkeys
took it very bad ; his flesh had turned
dark colored when I found him. I gave
him a pill of assafcetida the size of a pea
and about a tablespoonful of equal
parts of sulphur, cayenne pepper and
rosin (thought it would either kill or
oure him), and he got well. I gave the
others sulphur twice a week for about a
month, and none of them took the
cholera. Rural World.
A Convict Camp.
The convict camps in Kentucky, ac
cording to a report made to the Legis
lature are worse even than those of
Georgia. The convicts are insufficiently
clothed and fed, and are worked to the
last point of endurance and inhumanly
punished. In one railroad tunnel,
where the air was so bad that the com
mittee could not stay for even five min
utes, convicts were compelled to work
twelve hours at a stretch, with but a
few moments allowed for the scanty
lunch, and this was sometimes continued
Sundays and all. The men are whipped
with a strap, lashed with a twisted line
of fuse, kicked and beaten with what is
called a " swab-stick " at the will of any
boss " employed by the contractors.
They are often disabled by the punish
ment, and the story is told of one con
vict, too ill and faint to work, actually
pounded to death in spite of his plead
ings. The committee estimated tne
death rate at 20 per cent.
An Early Spring and a Wet Tear.
A fisherman claims that the weather
invariably repeats itself, and gives the
following as the result of his observa
tions, viz. :
All years ending in 9, 0 or 1 are ex
tremely dry.
Those ending in 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 are
extremely wet.
Those ending in 7 and 8 are ordinarily
well balanced.
Those ending in 6 have extremely
cold winters.
Those ending in 2 have an early
spring.
Those ending in 1 have a late spring.
Those ending in 3 and 4 are subject
to great floods.
Hope is deserh bolted through the
sieve of belief.
TERMS S1.50.
LIKE A TAST ISL1SD SEA.
No Spot of Land Visible on the Blaclc
Jiiver water In the Fields Six
.r-eet ueep.
a mew urieans dispatch says: The
limes-Democrat steamer Tensas
arrived at Delhi, La., on Friday. On
the way up the steamer picked up
several families who were in seamh nt
high ground. After reaching the mouth
of the Black River the entire country
presented the appearanoa of a vast
inland sea, not a spot of land being
visioie anywhere. Only the chimneys
and roofs of houses were to be seen
above the flood. The occunanta had
ioDg since removed the stock and house
hold goods to high lands farther up
tne river. At least eight plantations
on the Black River have nothing to
mark their locality but housetops. The
water in the fields is six feet deep, and
the only means of communication is by
boat. Rafts filled with frightened
cattle, and poultry huddled together on
the housetopscaused the scene to be
one of utter desolation, and difficult to
describe. After leaving Troy and en
tering the Tensas River no land was
seen until we reached th
Macon . hills, a distance of
eighty-eight miles, and a trip
tnrougu mis section of the State" was
more like a sea than a river voyage.
Along the Tensas River very little ac
tual suffering for want of food prevails.
The stock has generally been sent to
the hills. Prominent planters said that
they were opposed to the issuance of
Government rations, as there was no
destitution along that river so great that
the people could not relieve it. and ra
tions would demoralize the laborers.
Some laborers have already refused to
assist in saving stock, saying that the
Government would send them rations.
Other planters, however, said that un
less the Government furnished rations
there would be great destitution among
the colored people.
The Black and Tensas Rivers and the
Bayou Macon are rising rapidly, and
fears were entertained that the stock
scaffolded along those streams would
be drowned. The loss of stook is esti
mated at $50,000, and of fences $100,000.
Fifty-eight thousan people live along
these streams and cultivate a hundred
thousand acres of land. The overflow
In Concordia Parish extends from the
Black to the Mississippi River, a dis
tance of thirty-five miles; in Tensas
Parish, from the Tensas River and
Bayou Macon to the Mississippi, a dis
tance of thirty miles ; in Franklin Par
ish, from Tensas west to the Ouachita
River, a distance of ten miles ; in Madi
son Parish, from Bayou Maoou to the
Mississippi River, a distance of thirty-
five miles ; in East Carrol', from Bayou
Maoon to the Mississippi River, ten
miles ; in the nprer portion of Friu&Un
Parish, west of the hiiis of Tensas,
whioh skirts the Bayou Macon, the
flood extends to the Ouachita River,
distance of fifteen miles. The Tensas
River since Saturday has risen five feet,
aud is still rising at the rale cf eleven
inches in twenty-four hours, and the
Bayou Macon is three feet higher than
in IBa. xne unprecedented now is
accounted for by the breaks in the
levees at Milliken's Bend and Good
rich's Landing.
The Louisiana Commissioners have
asked the Secretary of War for 500,000
more rations, to be delivered at once.
The crevasse of the Mound planta
tion, Bayou Gros Tete, east bank, is re
ported to be doing great damage to the
sugar plantations in that district. The
overflow at Bayou Gros Tete is caused
by water from the Point Coupee
crevasse.
The Search In Siberia.
WHZBB ENGINKEB MELVILLE BELIEVES
THE MI3STSQ MEN OF THE JEAKNETTE
TO BE.
Secretary Hunt has received from
Engineer Geo. W. Melville, under date
of Yakoutsk, Jan. 3, a copy of a letter
of instructions sent by him (Melville)
to the local Governor of Verkhoyenek
regarding the search for the Jeannette's
men. In it he says:
Lieut. Da Long and his party, con
sisting of twelve persons, will be found
near the west bank of the Lena River.
They are south of the small hunting
station whioh is west of the house
known among the Yakouts as Qa Vina.
They could not possibly have marched
as far south as Buloom. Therefore, be
they dead or alive, they are between
Qu Vina and Buloom. I have already
traveled over this ground, but I followed
the river bank. Therefore it is neces
sary that a more careful search be made
on the high ground back from the river
for a short distanoe as well as along the
river bank. I examined many huts and
small houses, but could not possibly
examine all 01 tuem. xue
persons of the dead I wish to have car
ried to a central position most conven
ient of access to Belun, all placed inside
of a small house, arranged side by side
for future recognition, and the hut then
securely closed and banked up with
snow and earth, and to remain so until
proper person arrives from America
to make a final disposition of the bod
ies. '
Search for the small boat containing
eight persons should be made from the
west mouth of the Lena to aud beyond
the east mouth of the Yana River.
Diligent and constant search is to com
mence at once, and to continue till the
people, books and papers are found,
care being taken that a vigilant and
careful examination of that section of
the country where Lieut. De Long and
his party are known to be is mado in
early t pring, when the snow begins to
leave the ground, and before the spring
floods commence to overflow the river
banks.
Did not Know Hrsr. Dr. Oliver
Wendell Holmes once being on a lectur
ing visit to Haverhill, Mass., learned
that an old schoolmate 01 his was a
stove-dealer in the town and thought ho
would look him up. So iu the morn
ing he and a friend started. They
found the stove man ; asked him if he
attended such a school when a boy. He
said ho did. Asked him if he remem
bered a boy in the same class named
Oliver Wendsll Holmes? He did not.
Had ho ever heard the name einee? He
had not Without inquiring further
thav left the xl an to the congenial com-
I panionship of his stoves.
WIT AND WISDOM.
Wbapped in mystery a bone in the
comminuted food.
Red bronze is sew for buttons and
buckles on chameleon stuffs.
Life m so short that it is the worst
of stupidities to waste an hour of it
It is A most degraded nature that
will betray an honorable confidence.
Kisses by people who no longer love
eaoh other are merely collated yawns. '
A lapxdbess takes in twelve shirt
and has four stolen from her line. How
many are left and what are the loeera
going to do about it ?
When a light-haired man's locks be
gin to turn gry he's getting on to fifty.
When they begin to turn black he'
getting on to sixty.
A LOVER writes to his fair but fickle
fiancee: "I have wasted a choir of pa
per writing notes to you, and now it
musio be food for love' it's played."
It is the season for rawag thing.
The first thing generally raised in the
spring is the rent. After that coma
spring radishes and greens. Graphic.
The English complain that our cot
ton has sand in it Lot 'em work it
right in, cdll it friction factory and sell
it for match scratchers.
A Stats Commissioner of life insur
ance said: "'Receivership' but half
covers the case. We need a new word
that shall signify both to receive and
devour."
It is beoause he has heard that closa
attention to small things makes the suc
cessful man, that a certain young clerk
in this city takes such good care of his
mustache. Laramie Boomerana.
A cobrespondent asks, "Can hens
be made too fat to lay ?" That depends
upon the lay. If it's to lay inside of a
lonesome stomach, we don't think they
can. Rome Sentinel
This is the season when the Florida
man, desiring to make a trip north.
puts two strawberries in his trunk audi
on arriving here sells them for enough
to pay all expenses. Philadelphia
News.
A few days sin 09 a barber offered a
reward for instantly removing super
fluous hair. Among the answers was
one forwarded by a gentleman in
Kingston. We give it: "Undertake to
kiss a woman against her wilL"
Tms is the young oottm speculator.
He is wearing crape on his hat Nona '
of his relatives are dead. Why, then,
does he wear crape on his hat ? Be
cause he got in front of the cotton mar
ket when it was loaded? Did the mar
ket go off? Yes, the market went off.
A ot btaxs young man walks five-sev
enths of a mile for seven nights in a
week to see his girl, and after putting
in 112 nights, he gets the bounce. How
many miles did he hoof it altogether,
and how many weeks did it take him to
understand that he wasn't wanted ?
A bell has been introduced iu tha
New York Legislature "compelling tha
repayment of fifty per cent, to persons
purchasing furniture on the installment
plan in case of the seizure of the f urni
ture by the dealer for breach of con
tract" Aocobdixo to the telegrama, the flood
carried off a lot of distillery cattle. To
save correspondents the trouble ot
writing to us to know what kind ot
stock distillery cattle are, we say right
now, that we do not know, unless distil
lery cattle ia a teolmioal terra tor corned
beef. Texas Si f tings.
Vkhixd tho dim mrtnemo
Standeth God, nituin Uia ihodow, kecjicg
WtituU Ifcljovo tils own.
tTi tbnt lias light wltliin lil own cJuat b.wl
May flit i' the centra and enjoy iwilit dti.
Bat lie ttiat Lido a dart soul aucf Sovil
though!?,
Benighted, wallu under the niiJdajr sun,
Himxel id hia oivn dungeon.
If a burglar ever eaters a room orna
mented with a Georgia man's alarm, ho
will hit a thread which is stretched
across it. This pulls the trigger that
strikes a match, that lights a wick that
fires a toy cannon and starts an alarm
clock. This is a hint to the burglar to
retire and let the inmates of tho room
sleep in peaoe.
The duties of the gonnint dyed-in-
the-wool, simon-pure editor are multi
furious and multitudinous. His work
is not only to " do a little writin," as ia
sometimes supposed, but to cull, to
glean, to select, to discriminate, to de
cide, to foresee, to observe, to grasp, to
explain, to elucidate, to inflate, to
boil down, "to be, to do and to suf
fer," and several hundred other verbs.
with a large number of districts to hear
from. Newsdealers' Bulletin.
Fooo "put his foot in it " badly the
other afternoon. It was rather dark in
the street car as he entered, but ha
thought he recognised his friend
Pingrey sitting in the middle; so ho
gave him a push, saying; " Come, mova
over ! Do you want all the car to
yourself ?" It was not Pingrey, It was
stranger. Fogg stammered out an
apology. " I thought," said he, " yon
were a gentleman " " Did you ?" in
terrupted the stranger. "Well, sir,
nobody will ever mistake yon for one."
M. de CaiiBtattx burns with the desire
to see America. He goes on board
hip, but before weighing anchor tha
weather suddenly becomes extremely
tempestuous. The passengers are
ordered below. M. de Oalinaux refuse
to obey. "Come, come," somebody
says to him, " you'd better do as they
say. If you don't they'll lock yon up
in your stateroom." "Lock menp?
yes," he rejoined, " that's just what they
want to do, and then sail without
me 1" French Paper.
Btjbjdettb writes from Nantucket
Many of the old houses in the town ara
hingled all the way over, reminding
one of the houses so common in St.
John. The shingler, when he shungle,
apparently began at the baseboard,
shongle right up the front ot the housed
over the cornioe, up to the ridge-pole,
where he crawled over, went right along
shingling, and shangle head first on
down the other side of the house to tho
ground. Perhaps it was not done in
this way. I do not assert that it was.
only say, and I say it very meekly,
that that is the way it impressed me.
and if any man says I am a liar, I will
take it back, right immediately, and ad
mit that the shingles were pasted on
with gum arabio or the white of egg."
Mast stories are told of the Earl of
Balcarres's kindness of heart, of which
this is a sample: Visiting a field of tur
nips on whioh he grot!y prided himself
he found an old pensioner of his busily
filling a saok with hw fine favorites.
He gave her a scolding, to which the
only replied with a curtsey, and he was
walking away, when she called after
him: "Eh, my Lord, it's unoo haavy
Wad ye no be so kind as to help me on
wi it?" which he did, and the old
woman trudged eff re joicing. One year
almost every important house in Fife
shire was attaoked by robbers, who
were at last carried before the county
court "Why did you never come to
me?" asked Lord Baloarres. "We
often did, my Lord," they replied, "but
your doors always stood open, and then
it is our rule not to enter. Templo
Bar.