The Corvallis gazette., July 10, 1885, Page 3, Image 3

SONG OF THE PRINCESS MAY.
Nora Perry in Outing for May.
March and April, go your way !
You have had your fitful day;
"Wind and shower, and enow and sleety
Make wet walking far my feet,
For I come unsandaled down
From the hillsides bare and brown;
But wherever I do tread
There I leave a little thread
Of bright emerald, softly set
Like a jewel in the wet;
And I make the peach buds turn
Pink and white, until they burn
Rosy rel withen their cells ;
Then I set the bloomy bells
Of this flowerv alder ringing,
And the apple 'blossoms swinging
In a shower of rosy snow,
As I come and as I go
On my gay and jocund way,
I, the merry Princess May.
THE APPOMATTOX APPLE TREE.
A -White Flag- Sent by the Bebel Oeneral
ixom Under an Apple Tree to Prevent an
Impending- Attack by Union Troops
The Baal Scene and Circumstances of the
Surrender.
From the New York Sun.
At the Chicago convention in 1880
Senator Conkling began the speech
with which he nominated Gen. Grant
for the presidency with a couplet which
was then believed to be his own com
position:
If yon ask us where he hails from, this our sole
response snail do,
That he hails from Appomattox and its famous
apple tree.
This was pronounced with the dra
matic force of which the speaker was a
master, and brought about one of the
most impressive scenes ever witnessed m
a political gathering. The allusion to
the apple tree revived the recollection
of the climax of Gen. Grant's career.
The homely, and, in fact, wholly hypo
thetical incident by which Gen. Lee's
surrender was typified, the Appomat
tox apple tree, has gone into history,
with those other dramatic symbols with
which people epitomize the careers of
their heroes. Wellington's "Up,
Guards, and at 'em;" Sheridan's "Win
chester Twenty miles away," and Sher
man's "Marching through Georgia,"
the only war songs that survives, tell
for the people the story of success in a
breath. Aside from his iaeomo utter
ances, Gen. Grant had given the peo
ple no single dramatic incident that
could be seized upon to tell his story in
a word, until this apple-tree myth at
the end of his military career. The dis
patch that set the country on fire with
its simple announcement that Lee had
surrendered to Grant was followed by
another asserting that the surrender
had been made uader an apple tree, aud
the country made for itself a picture of
the two commanders beneath the
branches of a blossoming apple tree,
the one extending and the other receiv
ing a sword, and thus ending the great
est war of historv.
When Gen. Grant was asked about
it some days later he said: "There
was no apple tree." But the soldiers
had selected one, had hewn it into bits,
body, branches, roots and all, and pre
cious relics they are now, scattered
throughout the country.
It was the opportunity of the writer
to meet two gentlemen on the Appomat
tox field some years ago, who, as civil
ians, witnessed the historic events that
took place there on April 9, 1865, just
twenty years ago. They were probably
the only civilians who were eye witness
es of those scenes. One was Mr. E. G.
Hix, the owner of the Appomattox farm,
and the other Mr. G. T. Peers, the
clerk of the Appomattox county court.
The Appomattox river threads a val
ley, very gently sloping. It is a small
and easily fordable stream. Half a
mile west of it, at the place where a
level plain stretches westward, is the
hamlet known as Appomattox Court
House. Here are the dingy brick
court house, a tavern, a country store,
a wheelwright's shop, and a brick house,
then owned by Major McLane.
Between his hamlet and the Appomat
tox river is the house of Mr. Peers. On
the easterly slope leading to the river
are fields, and one of them a seven-acre
lot, had at the time of the surrender a
shed on it near the road. In this lot
was an apple orchard. The Richmond
and Lynchburg turnpike road ran
through the village, and. a bridge over
the Appomattox river was about a
stone's throw distant from the entrance
to the apple orchard. On the morning
of April 8, 1865, the main body of Lee's
army appeared on the Richmond road,
about a mile east of the Appomattox
bridge. It went into camp there, and
the cavalry and skirmishers were thrown
rapidly forward through the village to
ward the depot on the Petersburg and
Lynchburg railway, four miles to the
west. They were feeling for Sheridan's
advance forces, and they found them.
The night before, Sheridan, with Cus
ter's cavalry ahead, had reached the de
pot, and during the night a large body
of infantry had come up. Sheridan
knew that he had headed off Lee's army,
and sent out his cavalry to find it. The
skirmishers met on the Lynchburg road,
about a mile west of Appomattax Court
house, and a very brisk shirmish follow
ed. Lee's forces withdrew, as did Sheri
dan's, and Lee was informed that the
"Union troops were ahead of him and
commanded the Lynchburg road. The
confederate general's last slim hope
was gone. He could not reaeh Lynch
burg, and he knew, though his army
did not at that time, that in a few honrs
all would be over. Gen. Lee had al
ready been in correspondence with
Grant relative to surrender, and when
he found that Sheridan had cut him off
he determined to surrender there at
Appomattox. The confederate pickets
were thrown out on the west side of Ap
pomattox creek, crossing the road di
rectly opposite Mr. Peers" house.
Through some misunderstanding on the
morning of the 9th of April Caster's
cavalry and Gen. Chamberlain's bri
gade advanced toward Appomattox Til
lage to make an attack, though it was
not the intention of Gen. Grant or of
Gen. Lee that there should be any
fightuc, that day. Gen. Grant
having ridder pretty much all
night had arrived before morn
ing of the 9th, and had made his head
quarters in a grove of pines just off the
Lynchburg road about a mile west of
Appomattox Court House. The spot
is now the site of a negro hut.
Gen. Lee, whose headquarters were
about a mile and a half east on the
Kichmond and Lynchburg road, sur
prised that fighting was being forced
by the Union troops on his left, decided
to quit his tent and ride to the front.
He believed that Custer and Chamber
lain must have been misinformed about
Gen. Grant's purposes, or had failed to
receive orders suspending fighting.
Gen. Lee was dressed in the uniform of
a confederate colonel, and calling his
staff he mounted his iron gray horse
and rode slowly forward down the
slope, toward the Appotomax river.
He turned into the apple orchard, prob
ably thinking that the shed there offer
ed shelter for the horses, and because
from that field a good view could bo ob
tained of the entire country. Dis
mounting, he with his staff, gathered
under an apple tree, while the
horses were led to the shed.
Gen. Lee swept the country
with his field glass for a moment,
and then he sat down on an improvised
seat made from fence rails by one of
his orderlies. Here he saw Gen. Cham
berlain's brigade coming through the
woods ready to attack his advance.
He at once percieved that there would
be more bloodshed unless something
was done, and gave a hasty order to
one of his aids. That officer, with a
piece of linen, either a towel or a hand
kerchief, fastened to a stick, advance J
at once to meet Gen. Chamberlain.
Thus from under that tree went the j
white token of surrender, and Cham- j
berlain's men supposed that there the I
surrender was made.
All hostilities at once ceased, and in j
a few moments the federal pickets were
advanced beyond the court house, and j
the confederate pickets were withdrawn j
nearer the Appomattox. Thus the j
house of Mr. Peers stood on neutral !
ground between the two picket lines. I
Soon after a federal officer passed
through both lines of pickets. It was
Gen. Babcock bearing a message for
Gen. Lee from Gen. Grant arrang
ing for a preliminary meeting. It was j
arranged that the two comanders should i
meet within the lines within an hour, j
At the end o that time a number of
Union officers passed through the feder
a picket line and rode slowly toward j
the slope that stretches down to the
Appomattox river. In the highway,
just opposite Mr. Peers' house, the mud
was very deep, and the Union officers
turned into the vacant field adjoining to
avoid it. Mr. feers saw one man,
dressed in a rather shabby blue uni
form, and wearing a felt hat, ride a lit
tle ahead of the rest and then rein in
his horse nearlv under a locust tree,
which was the only tree in the lot.
This was Grant. Looking down the
hill Mr. Peers saw Gen. Lee riding
slowly up. He knew the confederate
general but did not know Grant. Gen.
Lee's face was partially hidden by a
gray felt hat. When within hailing
distance of the Union commander,
Gen. Lee's staff felt back, and Lee
slowly rode forward to meet his con
queror. Each saluted at the same mo
ment and then began a short conversa
tion. They appeared to Mr. Peers as
men who had met by chance and were
discussing some trivial matter. In less
than ten minutes they saluted, turned,
and each went his own way.
It is now known that at that conversa
tion the two generals agreed to meet an
hour or two later and sign the articles
of capitulation. Gen. Lee rode to his
headquarters and dressed himself in
his best uniform, and after a hasty
lunch, started with his staff for Ap
pomattox village. On his way there
he met near the court house Major Mc
Lane, whom ho knew personallv.
Reining in his horse, he asked Major
McLane if he could tell him where he
could find a room with a table to write
on, and Major MsLane at once led the
general to his own house. Word was
sent to Gen. Grant that Major McLane
had offered his parlor for their con
venience, and in a few moments Gen.
Grant arrived. He had no sword and
seeing Lee in his finest apparel, sword
and all, Gen. Grant at once explained
the seeming discourtesy of appearing in
rough clothes by saying that he had ar
rived ahead of his effects, and had n
other clothes with him.
After the articles of capitulation were
signed, and Gen. Lee had been visibly
touched by Gen. Grant's consideration
for the confederate soldiers, especially
by Grant's suggestion that the soldiers
should keep their horses for they would
need them for their spring ploughing,
he saluted Gen. Grant, quitted the
house, mounted his horse, and rode
away. Gen. Grant rode leisurely and
without apparent '.-motion back to his
headquarters, gave a fev necessary or
ders, and then started for Washington,
leavine the field forever.
Soon there went up tremenduous
cheers all along the Union line, and
blazing fires were kindled that were
kept burning all night, for the men
knew that they had fought their last
battle and had won. Next morning
Gen. Lee had his army drawn up, and
standing under an old poplar tree,
read his short, sad farewell to his men,
and then mounting his horse left them
forever.
The federal soldiers got word from
Chamberlain's advance that Lee had
surrendered under an apple tree, and
they were shown the tree under which
Lee sat when he sent out his flag of
truce. In an hour not a trace of it was
left. Even the roots and tendrils were
dug up, and a great hole was left there
where they had dug, the marks of which
are seen to this day.
NOTES FOR THE FARM ASD HOME.
Dr.
Shorter Things.
Henrv Stewart characterizes the
enormous crueltv of the Western sys
tern of stock holding, without shelter or
Food as "a horrible and gigantic re
proach to humanity.
Take the weak sheep, pig or other
animal, that is slighted by not getting
its full share of food, away from the
herd, and give it a fair chance by it
self.
Mention is made in The Medical and
Surgical Reporter of a man who has
"had no bad" colds since he learned to
sleep with open windows."
The Iowa Homestead hopes the day is
near when farmers will cease shipping
a bushel of gram out of the State.
Mr. John Eastman, Mil ford, Mich
has contracted to raise seventy acres of
cucumbers for the Highland Pickle
Factory, at 42$ cents per bushel, de
livered.
It is estimated that forty thousand
sheep have died m Greene county. Pa.
in the last three months. The scarcity
of feed and the unusual severity of the
winter and spring weather have com
bined to bring about this result. Far
mers say that the wool industry has re
ceived a backset that it will take years
to recover, and they are very despon
dent concerning the future.
It is not advisable to give horses or
cattle food in such a way that they will
have it always before them. They will
then foul what thev do not eat, and
! eating when they are not hungrv, keep
j the stomach overloaded, and so suffer
from indigestion. The food is thus
j doublv wasted. A good ration for
j working horse is three pounds of cut
1 hay and four pounds of ground oats and
! corn given three times a dav, with
! little long hay in the evening. They
i will do well on oat or rye straw cut m-
stead of the cut hay.
Pigs require a little salt, as all other
animals do, but not so much as the
j wholly vegetable feeding animals.
When pigs run in fields or wood lots
' thev gather manv grubs and other in
1 sects and swallow some earth, all of
j which contain saline matter; but when
they are confined in pens they ' need
1 some salt given regularly, and it is for
! the neglect of this needed salt that they
: are induced to swallow filth which
; otherwise they would reject, so that
supplv ot salt is not only iieatfilul in
' itself, but it avoids a source of unhealth-
! fulness.
The Sew Hats And Bonnets.
From a Late Fashion Letter.
There is little that is new in shape In
bonnets, but much that is new in trim
ming. The small capote still lingers,
but shows many varieties of brim.
Some are curved in at the top and flare
like little outspread wings. Others
copy the Marie front of the Marie Stu-
ait head-dress. Still others show a
modified poke. All have a brim of
some kind, and aro not mere crowns
fitted to the head. The hats are the
more aggressive in appearance. The
l majority are so unlike what one
j would naturally select for a modest
girl to wear that it is surprising
how thev could have been manufactured
for such use. The crowns are enor
' mously high and are still more exagger
ated bv the arrangment of the trim
ming. The whole effect is bold and
very pronounced, and for such costumes
I as will not tolerate stvles of this de
scription the milliners are using all
their ingenuity to tone down and mod
ify by a simple arrangement of quiet
materials and softly blended tints and
colors. The general impression of the
i bonnets for spring and "between"
wear is not very diflorent irom tnat
of the autumn. Indeed, the styles
might very well be interchange
able. The same netted gold and
embroidered crowns; the same gold
wheat and balls of pins and other or
naments; the same gold lace, and the
same dark shades of colors. There is
an entire absence, as a whole, of the
freshness that one welcomes and craves
in the spring, and it is only a critical
examination in detail that reveals here
and there a quaint little bonnet of pale
ecru straw or transparent lace, the
former trimmed with the new, wide rib
bons in soft colors and mediaeval designs
set up on the top of the crown in loops!
after the Alsatian fashion, the folds
pinned down with small gold pins with
tiny hammered heads or scorn tops in
miniature. The interior of the brim is
faced with a scant puffing of soft plain
silk, the tint of the ribbon ground, but
there is no other trimming except the
strings, which may be of velvet, and tie
at the side.
In a reminiscence ol Fletcher Web
ster, published in the Bay State Month
ly for April, I find quoted an expression
that Daniel Webster used regularly
every day to his son. "Fletcher, my
son, "ne would say, "let us go up to
Franklin to-morrow; let ns have a good
time, and leave Ijte old lady at home.
Let us have a good old New Hampshire
dinner fried apples .and cnions and
pork.
Women's Bead Gear.
The venders of bonnets say that this
season's millinery is more tasteful than
ever, and so they will continue to do to
the end of time. Those dealers who
may be regarded as endowed with
prophetic wisdom insist on the superior
claims of the Milans among the straw
braids, with a kindly word for the Eng
lish split varieties, when the more deli
cate straw braids are being considered.
They also admit the possible popularity
of the small and medium bonnets in
Tuscan braids, lace and other fancy de
signs, for summer wear. The materials
showed are scrim, a canvas-like tenture
of the softest and most beautiful wool,
tricotines, or stocking-net jersey tex
tures in soft wool or tinsel, closely
resembling samples of ancient manu
facture shown by our grandmothers, of
tricotines made wholly of tinsel. Em
broidered grenadines will be seen in
French and oriental designs, as well as
printed and embroidered crepe de chine,
Brussels net in black and white, em
broidered with gilt and silver. Indeed,
Brussels net is found in all colors, and
many curious interweavings of silk
and wool with gold, silver and steel
thread are fashionable. Ribbons are
to be from one to twelve inches in
width, plain ottoman and satin lined,
with pldk. eolors. Striped and plain
satin ribbons from three to eight inches
wide will also be the correct thing
to wear. himbroidered and plain
gauzes are from six to ten inches in
width. Embroidered scarfs of scrim,
surah and velvets will take the usual
place of ribbons for hat trim
mings, and embroidered, printed
and bordered kerchiefs of surah crepe
and other silk textures are used for
making bonnets, the brims being of
fancy Tuscan braid, lace or bead work.
This season favors flowers in a remark
able degree. Among the novelties in
ornamentation are metalized bird wings,
birds and butterflies in various colors,
piquets of gilded and chenille leaves
mounted alone, with gilded humming
birds, and butterflies, bunches of green
and gilt oats, gilded piuqets with velvet
poppies in new and popular colors, such
U3 frog, absinthe, cork and mandarin.
Ostrich feathers may be in favor for the
warm season. The styles shown now
may be somewhat modified later on, bat
the dealers say that they cannot afford
to delay their opening beyond May 1,
for the longer they put them off the
longer their customers delay buying.
Cure for Pneumonia.
Pneumonia, writes a gentleman (to
the New York World) who says he has
been twice down with it, can be cured
if the person "will apply promptly over
the lungs a poultice or draft made of
mustard and flax-seed meal, keeping
quiet and warm in bed. Prompt action
is of vital importance, and there is no
occasion for waiting for the arrival of
an 'old-fashioned' or 'new-fashioned'
practitioner when so simple a remedy
may be applied by any one, and if
taken in season will, I think, always
be effective. In my first per
sonal experience, my determina
tion not to give up business, even for a
day came near costing me my life. The
case was neglected till an eminent Bos
ton physician said that my right lung
would be of just as much use to me out
on the table as in the condition it tln-n
was, a fact of which I was already pret
ty well aware, but the mustard and flax
seed poultice mastered the disease and
restored my lung to its normal condi
tion, as good as new. In the second
attack, a year later, the case was taken
in hand promptly, the poultice applied,
quiet warmth maintained, and speedy
recovery ensured without a physician
being called.
Sheep Husbandry.
It has often been asserted by those in
the best position for obtaining informa
tion that a pound of mutton can be
produced as cheaply as a pound of beef.
If this is true the sheep raiser starts on
very nearly an equality with the cattle
raiser, so far as meat production is con
cerned. The difference lies in the
prices obtained for their product. Any
advantage the beef-raiser has in this re
spect is certainly counterbalanced by
what the sheep seller gets for his
fleeces, even at the ruling low price of
wools. This must be admitted as true
of all the so-called mutton sheep.
As to those Hocks kept primarily
for wool-growing, the case differs
somewhat. With these the carcass
is of less relative importance as it sup
plies a small amount of mutton, and
this of comparatively little value. Own
ers have allowed themselves to overlook
the importance of meat production, and
have so long refused to hearken to the
counsel of lteason, that dame is
now vigorously rapping them over the
knuckles for their negligence. They
have persisted in putting their eggs in
to the one basket of wool-growing until
the existing low prices for that product
nnd3 them on short rations, though
with necessities by no means diminished.
These facts are enumerated, not for
the porpose of casting imputations on
any locality or class of breeders. They
are recited onlv because they are be
lieved to indicate the avenue of relief
for the owners of many admirable flocks
from present embarrassments, and as
providing a safeguard against the recur
rence of such embarrassments in
the future. If good mutton can
be made from fine-wool sheep,
and the owners of fine-wool
flocks omit to avail themselves of the
advantage its production brings within
their reach, they have only themselves
to blame for the resulting shortness in
their bank account. That a good sell
ing carcass is not inconsistent with a
fleece combining the more desirable es
sentials of fine wool, mav be made ap
parent to any man who will look through
the more prominent Eastern and Mid
dle State markets. Pittsburg is one of
the best mutton markets in the country.
No better mutton gets into that mar
ket than some which comes from flocks
in Washington Co., Pa., whose owners
have learned to look for money under
the fleece as well as in it.
There seems no good reason for
doub ting that just such knowledge as
this must come to all the man
agers of fine-wool nocks before
the maximum of profit is secured from
them. Possibly fewer sheep certain
ly better ones and these handled "for
all they are worth, " is the key to the
problem jnst now engrossing the atten
tion of many flock-owners.
Wool prices, now low, will probably
remain so for some time to come, cer
tainly so long as other products of the
farm and factory are cheap and slow of
sale. From the present out-look how
ever, farmers are JiKeiv to get quite as
well paid for wool-growing as for corn
and wheat-growing, if selling on the
ruling market. If all determine to
hold for better prices, in the economy
of storage and the facility in securing
necespary money advances the advan
tage is certainly with the wool-grower,
who, in the final round-up from hard
times, will probably not be so much
worse off than his neighbors as many of
his self-appointed adviser3 have taught
him to believe. The Breeder's Gazette.
Health In Bain Water.
The question, "how may we get pure
water?" becomes each year more im
portant, we must look to the clouds.
Rainwater has no taste if rightly man
aged, and may be pure as the outgush
of the most limpid mountain stream,
and there is scarcely a roof which will
not intercept enough to quench the
thirst of the dwellers beneath it. These
points he illustrates from suggestive
personal experience:
"I built two cisterns, side by side.
One, six feet in diameterjand twelve
feet deep, received the ordinary flow
from the roof, and furnished washing
water. The other, eight feet in diame
ter, and sixteen feet deep, was design
ed to hold water for drinking and cul
inary use. It was rigged with a chain
pump. The spout from the roof was
arranged so that the flow could be turn
ed, at will into either cistern.
"When the cold November rain came
and the windows of Heaven were fairly
opened, after the atmosphere was wash
ed clean, and the roof also, the spout
was turned into the large cistern, and it
was filled with pure cold rainwater.
This was a supply for two years.
"Never was the water more pure, lim
pid and tasteless. It was cold enough
even in summer, and from strangers
who drank of it I often ' heard the re
mark, 'What a nice well you have!'
When told that it was rain water they
were incredulous until they saw where
it came from, and then wanted to know
how I managed to have "such delicious
rainwater.'
' "The 'how' was in having a deep cis
tern, in never permitting water to flow
into it except under the conditions above
named, and in having a chain pump,
which, where it may utilized, is far the
best means of drawing water. The chain
pump is a constant and thorough aera
tor. Its action keeps the fluid through
which it passes lively and sweet.
"Where it is impracticable to exca
vate a cistern a tank above ground may
be substituted. I have one of cedar
holding 1,500 gallons. Its interior is
varnished with shellac (insoluble in wa
ter), which prevents contamination of
taste of the wood. There is but one ob
jection to this tank, the water becomes
warm in summer.
"Even a room within the house may
not be devoted to accommodation of a
more profitable tenant than a big tank
to hold the family supply of rainwater.
From any roof it may be collected satis
factorily by observing the proper pre
cautions. These demand attention and
trouble, not so much, however, as the
nursing of a case of typhus, to say noth
ing of contingent expenses of doctor
and undertaker.
"If tank or cistern water become im
pure by the accidental presence of or
ganic matter, the addition of a solution
of permanganate of potassa will pre
cipitate this, leaving the liquid pure.
This efficient oxygenator, with direc
tions for use, may be had of any drug
gist. "The best safeguard against impurity
however, will be exclusion from the
cistern of all but the late autumn and
winter rains, and to defer admission ol
these until after rain has fallen steadily
at least an hour. In cities even longer
than this may be requisite to wash
thoroughly from the atmosphere all the
impurities suspended.
"It has been remarked that those
using pure rain-water are generally ex
empt from epidemic cholera. There is
scarcely a doubt that this pestilence is
about to visit us again, and it is proba
ble that our liability to its attack will
be essentially modified by the water we
drink."
Front In Fruit Balslng.
With all the tons of grapes raised,
how is it there is not a grape syrup to
be had for love or money in market
If you don't know that grape juice
boiled down to a clear syrup is the mo6t
relishing thing in sickness or health,
for consumptives, and to keep people
from getting consumption, to be eaten
as food or diluted for drink that would
banish wine sooner than the temper
ance societies, you have something
to learn. This article once known,
would prevent all danger of an
over-crop of grapes, for it would be
made and kept by the barrel, and ex
ported for use in all climates. The
new production of cider jelly, which is
merely cider boiled down, without any
addition till it is a solid, dark jelly, is a
great gift to the housekeeper, and will
be the salvation of the apple orchards. !
What if apples are fifty cents, a barrel j
in October ? Set the cider mills going,
and the huge enamelled evaporating
pans. Perhaps cider jelly at 12 cents a
pound will pay you, as there is no sugai
to be used. Susan Power in Vick's
Magazine for March.
Sobert Bonner and His Success.
N. T. Letter in Galveston News.
Mr. Robert Bonner is not making as
mach noise in the world as he was ten
or fifteen years ago, when he was push
ing his story paper in every possible
manner. He has become very rich, and
may be pardoned if he slackens some
what from the very rapid business pace
at which he for so many years lived.
There are plenty of printers in New
York who set type with Mr. Bonner on
the old New York Tribune, and some
of them told Mr. Bonner that he was
making a grave error when he threw
up a good situation to embark upon
an uncertain enterprise. Yet these
men are setting type yet, and Mr. Ban
ner is worth well on toward $5,000,000.
His scheme was a good one, and it paid
from almost the very start. It succeed
ed more through the business tact of
its proprietor than in consequence of
great excellence in the publication itself,
although Mr. Bonner spent money for
good matter with great liberality, just
as soon as he got the money to spend.
His advertising methods were new at '
that time, and once under headway the
business grew with great rapidity. Mr.
Bonner still goes to his desk every day
and looks with the same care after a
thousand details, but he is also taking a
deal of enjoyment out of everyday life.
He is a very benevolent man, and be ia
.constantly helping persons whom he
knows to be deserving. He delights in i
nothing as much as his horses, howev
er, and he does not let a pleasant day
pass without going out for a whirl
through the park and up the road, as
the drive above Central Park is called.
He is very much of a student, and be
enjoys his home and books almost as
well as his drives and his horses:
Bonner lent to Charleu A. Dana the
money that enabled Mr. Dana to pnr
chase his share of the stock in the Sun
and the two have been the best ot
friends ever since. After the Sun had
been going under the new management
for a time and before any dividends bad
been paid, Amos Cummings, then the
Sun's managing editor, went to Bonner,
and said : "See here, Robbert, here ia
the Sun going to be a big paying con
cern, and I have no stock in it. Why
can't you buy me some, and let me pay
you for it when I can?" Cummings
and Bonner had set type in the same
alley in the Tribune office, and Bonner
liked him. He told Cummings that
he would lend him enough to buy
ten shares, but as they were selling at
$600, Cummings did not care to as
sume so much, and they final
ly agreed on five shares. When
it came to the transfer of the
money, Cummings began to talk about
borrowing money on the shares and
making part payment to Bonner, but
the latter simply said : "No, 1 will lock
them up in my safe, and you may pay
me for them out of the dividends they
earn. " In three years they had paid for
themselves, and Cummings took them,
under his wing. In three years more
they were worth $5,000 a share. Bon
ner has helped a score of newspapex
men in a similar manner. He is liked
by the printers, and is adored by tha
members of Dr. John Hall'3 church,
with whom he worships. His paper is
yet very prosperous, and in ten years
more Mr. Bonner will be worth $10,
000,000. .
Advantages of Weeping.
A French physician gives a long dis
sertation on the advantages of groan
ing and crying in general, especially
during surgical operations. He con
tends that groaning and crying are twe
grand eperations by which nature allays
anguish ; that those patients who give
way to their natural feelings morespe3d
ily recover from accidents and opera
tions than those who suppose it un
worthy in a man to betray such symp
toms of cowardice as either to groan oi
cry. He tells of a man who reduced
his pulse from 126 to 60 in the course oi
a few hours by giving full vent to his
emotions. If people are at all unhappy
about anything, let them go into theii
rooms and comfort themselves with a
loud boo hoo, and they will feel 100 pel
cent better afterward. In accordance
with the above, the crying of children
should not be too greatly discouraged.
What is natural is nearly always useful,
and nothing can be more natural than
the crying of children when anything
occurs to give them either physical oi
mental pain.
Horace Howard Furness of Philadel
phia claims to have in his possession a
pair of gloves once worn by Shakes
peare. They were given to Garrick at
the Stratford Jubilee in 1769 by John
Ward, the actor, who had received them
in 1746 from a cousin of Shakespeare,
with the assurance that they were gen
uine. On the death of Garrick the
passed with all other personal effects
to his widow, who at her death be
queathed them to Mrs. George Combe
of Edinburgh, her daughter, who be
queathed them to Mrs. F. A. Kemble,
who gave them to Mr. Furness.
Germany's Strongest Man.
There was a wrestling match in New
York recently between Prof. Wm.
Hcefler, a well-known scientific wrest
ler, and Carl Abs, champion wrestle
of Germany, who arrived a few days
ago. Abs stands six feet, weighs 230
pounds, and is 33 years old. Hcefler ia
an inch and a half shorter, weighs 190
pounds, and is 28 years old. Abs had
the reputation of being the strongest
man in Germany. He had thrown the
best wrestlers, lifted 230 pounds witij'
one hand, and carried 1,500 pounds up
stairs to harness. The match was Grae
co Roman, the best two in three. Inside
of two minutes from the first grip Abs
lifted Hcefler in the air twice in sac
cession as though he was a schoolboy.
In another minute Abs dropped hit
man on the stage and rolled on him
and pressed his shoulders and hips te
the mattress, and the fall was awarded
to Abs. The second bout showed the
great superiority of Abs, and in five
miuutes he had his opponent flat on hie
back, and was awarded the second fall
and match. It is said Abs is the most
powerful wrestler ever seen in America.
Plenty of sportsmen stood ready to
back him for any amount against any
comer. A challenge from the stage fc
a match for $500 or $1,000 was accepted
by Sorakichi, the Japanese wrestler.
The Art of Early Basing.
Popular Science Monthly.
The proper time to rise, says tha
Lancet, is when sleep ends. Dozing
should not be allowed. True sleep it
the aggregate of sleeps, or is a state
consisting in the sleeping or rest of aU
the several parts of the organism,
Sometimes one and at other times an
other part of the body, as a whole, may
be the least fatigued, and so the first to
awake, or the most exhausted, and
therefore the most difficult to arouse.
The secret of good sleep is, the phy
siological conditions of rest being
established, so to work and weary
the several parts of the organism as to
give them a proportionally equal need oi
rest at the same moment; and to wake
early, and feel ready to rise, a faint and
equal start of the sleepers should be
secured; and the wise self-manage
should not allow a drowsy feeling
of the consciousness or weary senses, ox
an exhausted muscular system, to be
guile him into the folly of going to sleep
again when once he has been aroused.
After a few days of self-discipline, the
man who resolves not to doze, that is,
not to allow some sleepy part of his
body to keep him in bed after his brain
has once awakened, will find himself,
without knowing why, an early riser.