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II may not b our lot to wield
Tl wclri in tlia rijjened fild;
; Nor unn to bear on autnnier ve
' TU ruftjier! aong tinong tlx ahevei.
Yet hem our duty' task ii wrought
' la uniwn with Ood'a great thought,
Tht war ami future hlnad in one,
A ad wtutarw'er ii willed is done.
And our the grateful aorvioa whonoa
rvmM. itav b div. the reoouinenaei
Tha hope, the trut, the purpose eUyed,
T' MiMftin ana me noonaaj aueuo.
And were thlelife ths utmoit ipau,
The only end and aim of nmn,
Better tba toil of fioldi like the
Than waking drcarui and ilothful oaae.
But life, though falling like our grain,
: Like that revive and ipringt again;
' And.evly called, how blutt ara they
Who wait in hven their harveat day I
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-.5 Bupiratitiun in India.
.,,. There is scarcely any country in tho
world to blinded by superstition oh in
dia. Tie wind of a Hindoo is tinctured
to such an extent with tho conviction of
a snnernatural agency directing his
everj step, whether for good or for ovil,
that each moment almost of his lifo ho
look for aome ouion indicating approval
or ditxrmrovftl of what ho might at
Another Ireland.
the other, it ia bolioved an onion that the
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really meditate a Journey, Lo allow the Nobody connecU the aturJy Boe,
hoe to remain in that position; if not who are just now whipping the British
he put thou straight and ia supposed forc(,, j tho Transvaal and silencing
thu to prevent his journey. A person ....tiiinrr narks with riflo bullet, with
meeting a severe low or gotting into ,ntLing like the misery of Ireland,
tome tronble ia often known to attribute yom9 0f tho moat distinguished British
hi misfortune to having soen some un- tidier ard aome English statesmen and
lucky face in the morning, ench a that jtors icuk out plainly enough, and
of an oilman or a man of notoriously bad cau tua Uoer' revolt by its right name, a
character, or one who has aome bodily Wflr 0f independence, and a righteous
deformity. A person blind of one eye WSr in this viow. But it take a broad
is considered exceptionally unlucky, and vew jo put certain thing together and
is avoidod by all in the morning or when jo gl0W that the policy of England ha
a journey is about to be undertaken. iM,on( j thi Wuolo South African affair,
Among othor bd omens may be men- ppy an eviction of rightful govern-
tionod a snake or jackal crossing one' ment to place barren acoptrei in un-
path;hcaringaperoncry when you are jjDeai hand. The last in tlie serios
going any whore; the cawing of a crow wa the turning out of the Ooternment
and the crying of a kite; a cat cross- 0f the Transvaal and flying the British
log one'a path and the aceing an flag over tho Dutch State by a pretended
empty pitcher. It is strange as compar- trausfer. The first was an actual eviction
od with the bad there are but few good 0f tho Dutch settlors fiom Cup Colony
omen. Among tnose may ue menuoneu jtafllf and from other stations, Iheso
the following: The meeting of a dead
body being carried away and no one cry
ing with it; seeing a pitebor with a rope
attached to it, or a Brahman carrying a
jug of holy water from the Oangoa; a
lizard trooping nn one'a body; hearing a
bridu cry when alio is leaving her par
ent and going to live with her husband;
thrifty, poacoablo pooplo have been com
pelled to move on and out, preciiely as a
blanket Indian has to "got up snd got"
beforo tho polished revolver 01 me lunti
grabbcr; and if tho strong Dut'! settlors
haveneithor died out by whisky ana
small-pox, nor starved out on potatoes
and typhus ii tnoy noi.i tneir own as
noitlmr Indians nor Irish have been
hearing the boll of a temple strike or a
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tl.e time bo engaged in. or be about to ' " "u able to do, there is something Kinarxaoie
,vw rin & lriii niiiv - m. itiiw iiiri' 11411 mi m. iikii.ii i i . - -- .1 ai. . 1 m u-nii a a
An auspicious niomont is rrr i V-." 7t. "-.": in 1110 connirjauu iuoji"io "-"
. engage 111.
chosen foe tho performance of ovory im
nortant duty in life, and in reference to
then occurrences, beyond the control of
niau.Hteps are instantly taken to ascertain
whether thoy are likely to prove lucky
or unlucky; if the lulter, such measures
are adopted bv way of propitiutory sac
riilce to tho god as may oporato to
avert tho impending evil. No sooner is a
aon tiorn than the uruiimun, wno is mo
family priest, draws np Jus horoscope
and is ablo to announce whether tho path
in life of the child will be smooth and
unruffled, or if bo is destined to a rough
and stormy future. When ho ho
reached a marriageable ago, the Brah-
mans again appear on tho see no anil aro
Bskod to fix an anapicious day, nay, even
tho hour and minute when tno nuptial
knot is to be tied; and should, through
aomo mischance, that particular moment
bo allowed to pas away without tho
ceremony being informed, the inurriugo
lias to be put oil till some propitious
day, that 1ms subsequently to be Died
upon, and which in some cases might
not occnr for a year or two
body floating down the river, and a fox
crossing ono a path. I A. n. in Jour
nal of Indian Association.
rerlodlcal Falls lu Temperature.
bis death a man cannot bo aecuro from
being mode Die victim to omens, for
when that evont does happen, tho priosts
are at work to ascortain wuethor tho day
he diod was favorable to his happiness
horouftor or othorwise, and according ns
thoy ducido are regulated tho oeromouies
to bo iieriormoit ami mo aucri
lice to bo offered for tho
' rcleoHO of hia soul from pur-
. gatory. But it is not in important
event of his life only that a Hindoo will
Four epoch in tho year are remark
ablo for a full in the temjieratnro, and
atmospheric perturbations caused there
by, viz.: About the lztu ol rebruary,
tho 12th of May, the 12th o' August and
the 12th of November.
The periodical cold of the month of
May is a popular tradition. Horticul
turists term Ht. Mamest, Ht. Fancrusand
Ht. Hervais, whose anniversaries are on
the 11th, 12th ond 13th of May, tho three
"ico-Bnints."
In February thcro are the aamo indi
cations, but thoy aro more marked. Tho
fall after tho 7th of February is very
sudden, ami continue to the 12th,
which gives but a ample minimum even
in the middle of the ico-saiuts of Febru
ary. A rebruary with us represents
northern climates, everything will be
extromo, tho rise as well as tho fall : iu
Even after August, on tho other hand, which givos
usuniileaof the tropical climates, the
changes aro lcsn sudden, and the slight
movement corresponding to that of tho
10th to the 1 tth of May, or in another
form of the August ico-aaints, coutinuos
until tho 10th.
In November, as in Ancust. tho do-
clino of the tomperature is aocn to bo
struggling against lntluences which tond
to ou abnormal latum of heat; the
points of inflection correspond precisely
to thnH4i of thn iillinr tlirnu mmitlm nml
look forward to and bo guided by omens; one of tho Inst of them produces, on the
it is huuentublo to notice tho extent to 14th, tho Martinmas suiuuior.
which, in tho ordinary affairs of every
day lifo, he allows this superstitious be
lief to gain an oscondoney over him. Ho
will not nndortake a journey unices on
an auspioious day, and oven after ho has
onco stTcd ho will perhaps return, hav
ing on The road perceived somo omen
that b9ournoy will nut bo prosperous
Tho careful examination of a large
number of years shows that at London
ami Berlin, as at Furis, there is a cer
tain agroemeut between the four days of
tho sumo dato, as exhibited in thoir
mean temperatures. M. Devilie ascer
tained that these curious periods are to
bo loumi in the most ancient of known
inlhe iuntico of thoir cuuse.
In tho first placo the inevitable con
llict and dissatisfaction and friction with
the British occnimnt of.bouth Africa
which these Boers have kept up now for
forty-fivo years, shows that it is not only
Ireland that get into constitutional op
position with Downing street and British
headquarters and that it is something
more than a difference of religion and
chronic hatred that is the mutter. Il tho
socond uluco it is not only Irish poverty.
the failure of tbo potato crops, and tho
water logged soil of Ireland, that rakes
it people rebellious; lor the ciimineanu
soil and material prosperty of those
South Amorican Colonies are wonderful,
vot still there is war. As Colonel Butler
romarks in the last "Contemporary Ito
view," if South American rivors do not
yield a continuous water supply to tuo
countries in which they lio, nor the
Drakensberg a permoneut water-sited,
there is a never-faihug out now of blood
shed to mako un for it.
For fortv-flve years tho Dnteh have
boon "evicted" from ono settlement af
ter another, and tho foot that ah ofilcer,
of the British Army has tho courage to
number thoso "rack-rents,', ami to put
the blamo whore it belongs, should help
ns to sco the mixed Transvaal mutters as
they roally are. In 1835 them was a
"trek." or emigration of a large buniber
of Boers from tho Capo IJolony, ovor the
unoxplorod territory across tho JOrango
lliver to tho north and cast. Tjiey did
not fancy British rnlo, so they sild out
thoir farms and houses, went f aim tho
onco Dutch Colony, and started (jut into
the wilderness. Then they issuoda part
ing adrens, which rnn thus: "Wo quit
this colony under the full assurait-e that
the English Government has liithing
more to require of us, and will allow ns
to govern ourselves without its inter
ference in the future." Tho Attprney
Genorul of the Capo Colony Bummed up
that they had, as emigrants, a right
Lexington. The anoestry of this partio
ular section of the South African Dutch
is interesting. They ooniu from another
great "trek" or emi'ration in Europe.
There sailod from Holland in four ships
to South Africa, 150 Frenoh Huguenots,
exiled by the revocation of the Edict of
Nantes. They intermarried amoug the
Dutch at CaH Colony, but aome of the
prominent Boer of the African revolu
tionary war bear tho old French names.
To-day a Joubert is the moving spirit
of the Transvaal war. Philadelphia
Ledger.
TTliat the HryaB,, Means.
We have to inquire into tho meaning
of the word Aryan, and this is not a diffi
cult matter, or ono about which there is
much question. In Kunskrit the word
arya, with a short initial a, is applied to
cultivators of the soil, and it would seem
to bo connected etymologically with tho
Latin araro and the i.nguxii ear to
plow." As men who huvo risen to au ag
ricultural stage t civilization, tho Ary
ans might.no doubt, fairly contratt the in
selves with tho nomudio Turanian noigh
'bors. who. as Huns, Tartars, and Turks,
have at different times disturbed the
Indo-European world. But for tho real
source of the word as applied to tho nice
we mnst look further.' Tho word avra, a
cultivator of the soil, camo naturally
enough in Sanskrit to moan a house
bolder or landholder, and hence it is not
s'rauge that we find it reoccmiing, with
a long initial a, as.un adjective, meaniug
"noble," or "of good fuuiily."
As a national appollutivo whether
it is in the Sanskrit, or in Zend
this initial a ia always long, and there
can be no doubt that tho Aryans gave
themselves this title ns being the uoblo,
aristocratic or ruling raco, iu contradi3
Unction to tho uboriginnl races which
they brought into scrvitmle. In this
sense of noblo, the word frequently oc
curs in the composition of rorsiun
proper names, such as Ariohurzam s,
Ariuruuincs and Ariarathes; just as
Old English we huvo an equivalent word
ethel, or noble, in such uatues us Etlx-l-
wolf uud Lthelrcd. As an tthnic mine.
therefore, tho name Aryan seems to have
a tiugo of patriotic or clannish self-satisfaction
about it. But we shall find, I
think, that such a shade of meaning has
been more than justiiiod by luutory, for
we have now reached a point where wo
may profitably eulargo tno scope of our
discussion, and show how the term
Aryan is properly npplieablo.not merely
over an lndo-Perxian, but over an Indo
European area, comprehending tho most
dominant races known to history the
Greeks and Romans, Slaves ana Teu
tons, with the highly composite English,
whose language and civilization are now
spreading themselves with unexampled
rapidity over all the hitherto unoccupied
regions of the earth. robruary Atlantic.
Garfield's Mother.
The Romance of the Tern;.
Every mother should read a recently
. .. J r .l ;.l.l 'IVnm the
England's Latest War.
Belief fu onions has so firml'v implanted meteorological documents; for instance, go away and bo no longer British sub
ltaoir m the mum ol a Hindoo a to ro
Hist every attempt to root out by nrgu
mont the folly of this hi great weakness.
nnd I have noticed with much surprino
that, though a man has relinquished tho
religion of his fathor as being luluo and
puerile, his faith iu onions has remained
unchauml, or, rather, It has taken such
strong Cold of him that frequently, in
spite ol hlmseu, lio is Inllueliecd by
them. And more astonishing still is the
fact that Mahometans, though they pro
foss to have a oontenipt for Hindoo su
perstitious, nro, in this rospect, in no
way superior to tho lattor, liavmg as im
plicit a faith in thoso ridiculous prognos
tications as thoso whose religion
thoy affect to despise. I shall now con
cisely notice a few omens which uro
till very commonly buliovod in. Should
in the observations of the pupils of Gal
iloo and of tho Academy of Cimento.
Thoso observations extend over fifteen
years ,(lb.)3-lU7U). The minimum of the
ico-saiuts is found to occur on tho 12th
with a remarkablo regularity.
vermin astronomers, juruian nnd l'etit
among the number, have attributed
these friuorifle tihonomcna to niiuuu nf
asteroids, 'which in thoir orbit some
times comna betweeu the sun nud eurth.
Camilla Flummarion.
Bosslul's lllystlc Tfutcli.
The following Rossini anecdote is do
ing tho rounds ol tho foreign press:
In tho year IH'X) King Louis l'hilitio
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presented uossiui with a magnilicout ro-
neater, which tho luttur un OYtrnmnlv
a person about to undertake a journev or proud of, and carried in his right waist-
commonco any work, hoar another coat pocket every day for six years. Oue
sucezo, no win consider u a good or tiiut aiternoon, as lie was showing? it to some
, omen, according as the latter hut sneezed I acquaintance in the Cafe Helder, a
once or twice. If once only, ho w ill do- straugo goutleiuau walked up to tho tublo
lay His departure lor a lew minutes or at winch ho was sitting, and addressed
put off his work till somo other day. So him with tho words, "M. Honshu, you
strongly and so generally is tins be
lieved iu that ofteu serious consequences
follow on a purson sneezing inoppor
tunely. Servants havo beeu known to
Ik) dismissed by their musters, courtiers
to be deprived of the favor of Friuees
and luijulis for having beeu inadvertent
ly tho medium through whom an un
lucky omen was displayed. Tho screech
ing cf an owl is believed to portend
death.' So thoroughly are the people
convinced of this tlmt no sooner its dis
mal note are heard than quite a oommo-
do not know tho secrets of your watch,
aiuioitgii you have worn it for such a
loner time. Will von iwrmif. inn lii m.
veal them to you?" ltossini. with an
ironical smilo, handed him tho watch;
when, greatly to his surprise, tho
stranger touched a hidden spring
nnd a fata lining to tho back of
the watch How own. disetasinnr
joets, and so thoy journeyed away, with
even this old shoe for good luck throw
after their "exodus" by tho British Gov
eminent at the Cape. They sot tied in
the district that is now Natal. Thoi thoy
fought tho Zulus and conquered Itnoni
and when they hud peacefully es
tablished .a government, laic out
towns, and were about to pos
sees tho country, down swoopel the
Capo Colony Government upon Natal
with a iirotoctinir detachment of t
hundred British soldiers, and undo an
entering wedge ry lmtting a Bntsh fin
ger in tho pio. In tlirce years tlx "Ko
public of Natalia" prospored tlo Brit
lsh one hundred laid been noarl with
drawu ana tho town of Pietemiaritz
burg was a flourishing settlemert, when
in IU 12 tho port of Natal wai taken
possession of in tho Queen's mine, on
tjie pretense of "protection" in o tiuio of
peaoo. hat was really dcsird to be
protected was the growing importnnco of
Fort Natal. Expostulations were not
even entertained at tho Cape Colony,
and instead of fighting tho invaders the
peaceful and religious Boers started out
again to go. They crossed the mountain
again into tho wilderness, and attempted
another settlement south of tho Vaal
river, and were met bv another i:rochi
li'rttiun, declaring that also to be Iritish
territory. Then they fought iu lsl'.l at
Hoomplatz, wore routed, and tied across
tho Yaul. Here they found a partial rest
tion is created, and it often happona that , tho watch's secret, theexistenco of which
tho maestro' portrait, painted iu minis- and prosperity, and here, finally, a guar
uiro au j surrounded iy a wreutii of en
ameled Arabic character. Interrogated
as to bow he came by his knowledge of
at dead of night tho whole vilhtgo turns
out to drive away this bird of ill omen.
Great caro is also taken not to mention
tho name of a ohihf in tho night, for fear
an owl should hear it, the popular belief
being that it would iu that case
repeat the name every bight and
the child, iu fonscquenco, would
pine away and die. Tho scratching
of the palm of tho hand is believed to
prognosticate that the person will roccivo
some money, while the scratching of the
sole of the foot indicates that a long
journey will have to be undertaken. To
Wr the word "bunder" (monkey) early
in lio morning is considered very uu
luckj, nd evils of ovory description ttro
looked forward to at likely to happen
dnring tn, jBy, ni yet a monkey is
one of the Herod auiiual of the Hindoos.
At Benares housands of them are al
lowed to live -j gnrdens Kpcoially set
apurt for thorn, M. ft.j by ttu classes
of people, who in soloing cousidur they
are performing an ock 0f groat charity
and dovotion. Tho sua, j, novr men
tioned at night, the popular belief being
that it i ur to mako it a,nmanoo ,
his name be uttered. If thera u occasion
to speak about it, the word koet (rep
tile) is used instead. There exi
superstitious belief that, should crerr
be given for the first articlo sold in the
morning, that day' business will be
attended with great loss. Even if the
purchaser be the best customer, the
shop-keeper will cither ask him to
oome again or to buy a trilling article
pay the cah for it, thus enabling the
person to perform bis bohre. or first
eish transaction. After a person has
taken off his shoes, should one fall over
Kosami had never beforo suspected, the
stranger avowed himself tho maker of the
costly toy, but oddly onongh positively
Inclined to cxplaiu tho signification of
'.ho Arabio words encircling tho likeness,
although repeatedly and urgently solic
led by Uossiui to do so. From that mo
uent llossiui, convinced that some evil
)oll must bo contained in the mystic
eluraetors which their author stead
fastly refused to interpret to him, con
ceded so unconqiieralile a fear of the
watdi that ho never again wore it. After
his tenth it was found by his heirs so-ojirvk-
sealed up and hidden awav in on
old nmmoile which apparently had not
won jpenea lor several years, a its con
touts re covered with thick dust.
A bkiryt told of Van Autburgh, the
grein) lion tvmor, now dead. On ono oc
Ca?io, HN bur-room, he was
asked tow ho s.0t hi wouderfnl power
over annuals. J. ..It j8 by Bhow
ing them that I u uot tho least afraid of
y on
the
fellow who was sUrHill(r uw hjt he
u-,V"";i'ow? Ilea
. .. uiuiou come across
r"r:iTTl -tear word
o him " Sitting do he.ri,;..
Wadyeye on the m,n. Sr-Mnfi- '
them, and by keepng mjeye 8toaailv
theirs. 1 11 give vo, ,u example of I
telKw .tightened haliVlr
m. IPAmAmli... 1.1
mt wwlWH U1UW 11 n A k. a
knocking bin. clear over C cL9if "ft
U.e remark. 'Vou'll ta,lchi,'Ji ft
-- -ijvui
nntee was signed in LSo2 bv tho
British Government a trading and
friendly agreement that acktowl
edged tho independouco of the
Transvaal, nud, two years later, the
Orange lliver State, lyiug south, was ae
knowledged to belong to tho Dutch
farmers who bad settled there. For
twenty-five ycaxs tho Transvaal managed
its own affairs, until it began to grow
too rich as a neighbor. In a single year
12,(HKj ounces of gold had beou dug out
by the miners; copper, cobalt, coal ami
iron mines were opened, and, as with the
discovery of tho diamond fields iu Gri
qna Laud, there was a rush of adven
turers iu that direction British, carpet
baggers.
It wim about this time that tie Presi
dent of tho Transvaal undertook to buy
a seaport. The only outlet was a long
road through Natal to Durban. Nego
tiations to purchase Delagoa bay were
undertaken, liy arbitration it has beeu
divided (by Marshal McMahon) that
Delagoabay belonged to Portugal. If
the Boers bought this, and made their
railway from Pretoria to the port, there
was a "menace to the tnde of Natal. Eng
land lines "free trado that no one
-iso shall interfere with, but it
must be in British ships to
British ports, and there must be no
other port in the neighborhood if she cau
shut it. So tho same trick of a proclama
tion was again put to work. The Trans
vaal was aunexed not by a voto cf tho
Boers, but by a purchase, it is supposed,
of a Boss or two under the same old
shadow of British "protection" against
the natives that had served before. But
the Transvaal bad bred up by this time a
body of people not weak, but brave and
determined. They are in earnest in their
fighting this time, and they are in the
right, as much so as the farmer were at '
Another African "difllcnlty" ha just
arisen. It is stated that King Ctffee of
Ashnuteo has "declared war" against
England. Whether that be so or not, ho
swoms to have taken a long strido toward
the offensive. Telegram from Cape
Coast Castle report that his '.'ambassa
dor" demanded from the local British
authority the surrender of a refugoo na
tive chief, grandly notifying at the same
time that if tho request wore refused
"the colonial government must take the
oousoqueuces. The governor, of course,
politely declined to gratify his sable mai
esty of Coouiassie, who, if he keeps his
word, will forthwith mako war. 15v way
of precaution the governor had placed
"a company of Houssas, with three guns
at Prahsuio," and no doubt the west
coast squadron has, by this time, put
itself into position to reudor help, should
the bellicose monarch fulfill his
threat. The nows is vorv disairree
ablo, not only iu itsolf, butbecauso
thero are so many troubles, actual
or imminent, within the largo sphoro un
der tho control of Her Majesty's govern'
mont. W'e are tempted to ask whether
King i olleo rends the nowspapers, keeps
his eye on affairs in Europe and Asia us
well as Africa, and whether he bus
chosen his time for "tho great revanche?"
l-oi haps he has heard of the Greek,
Boer, Irish, Afghan and Turkoman
questions, and hopes by striking in now
to compel the restoration of the famous
umbrella which adorns tho South Ken
Bingtou Musoum. At any rote, his
audacity may be most vexations, should
it load him to iuvado tho colony. One
Ashnutoe war in a generation is more
than enough, and wo may hope, for
everybody's sake, that meaus will bo
found to restrain tho African savage.nnd
avert the necessity for a second edition
of the brilliant march to Coomossie.
(London Telegraph.
The Dysart Scotch Pee race cassU J
" I . . 1 ,. -m til l .
published volume entitled "From tht ceoding before the coraimtteo of VtM
Log Cabin to the White House," by eges of the House of Lords, of which til
iir-fi.-M xr ti,..i. hinh is dedicated Lord-Chancellor, Lord EodosdMn ..
milium i -. - . i t 1 t)ll.l i....,
to the boys of the United estates, it is a xu ' . nown 0et
ir'Vii.-. ' ii,,t -thrt mother molds bors. AVilkie Collins is said to ba J
the man " and this book proves it. Those structing a ner novel. He will hardly J
who read, it-and it should bo read by able to invent a more surprising plot fl
r hov as well as his mother-will man mo Btory oi tuo dysart peeranJ
not be surprised that the son of such a case already reveals in real lifo. Inf
.nnil.r .fm.ild. bv uheritaiico and ex- one niigui iancy uie irmi 10 ue proceed
i tUn n.d.la nlmracter. the ing on tbo lines of ilkie Collins' n.
indomitable energy and courage, mid the drama of . "Man and wife." Willie
imrity of life that has characterized Geu- John Manners lollemivche, a youth h
A-n..u l.ia vntitii nn to this appeors m the Bntibh Feoi-age as ErK
time. ' Mrs. Garfield's maiden uamn was Dysart, succeeded his grandfather in flj
Fbza Ballou. Sho was A ilescendaiit ol una nupiomour io)0, uu came ol g.
-vr....i n.. . lTiirrpnnt of IVuuco. lust year. His right to bis poonyre ami. 1
driven from his country upon tho rovo-- r.ngusa estates w uiuru ui nearly XoO,
cation of the edict of Nantes. "y". a your w cuuiioubbu a minor
Ho joinod the colony of lioger v, a- cntims um uuu o.r nuj w un aucge,
liams.came to America, and settled in oic" marnaBu " moiateio;
f:.,ml,nrlaml. R. I. There ho built a andncir oi iueiasii-.arjoiysart.kno:
ill carefully nreserved In his lifetime as Lord Uuntingtowcr-
as a rolio of the past. It is known as the and the minor's mother. The repute
Elder Ballou Muctmg-liouse. w nen u '"" """H" muuuu mur
i;it wtrn wnrn no saw-mil s. no in inpiana oi uisiuiuur, jaw ijoru ilun.
-- . i. . .., t- .i ,
ingiowcr, witn nis raoinor, wno wai l
daughter of Sir Joseph Eurko, a G a wit I
Baronet nnd a cousin of Lord Huntipv l
tower. Tho late Lord Iluntingtower I
a wild and always impecunious persoa I
who certainly contracted illicit relation
in 1843,Bhortly after he came of age,wit
one of bis mother's servants -a Mis
Elizabeth Ackford with whom he lived,
sometimes openly and sometimes olaadeJ
finely, iu Seotlaudand in various ports of!
London under his family name of Tolls
macho. She swears that in July, 1844
Lord Huntingtower married her in Scot J
land, his valet being tho witness to tit I
ordinary contract of words, but thatl
afterwards his Lordship disowned th.
marriugu and made her a sottlomont ia
anticipation of his open marriage cere
mony with his cousin, Miss Burke, it.
1851. She also swears and circum
stances and other testimony seem to cor
roborae her that when on one oceasiou
an action was brought by her upon this!
settlement Lord Huntingtower prevailed 1
in tho action by proving the Scotch mar
riage, tier son, tho challenger of the
title, was not born until ISott, twelve
years after tho open marriage with Miss
Burke. Tho issues, therefore, are stated
by the Lord Chancellor to bo double, for l
if tho Scotch marriage bo admitted so as I
to bar the petitioner there remains the
proof of the paternity beforo the chal
lenger could succeed to the title. Al
though "General Plantaganet Harrison."
himself a person of a romantic history,
who swore that "he hud army rank
obroad," but who was not cross-examined
on its whereabouts, testified that in his
was
tuiils, nnd few tools in the country. . Its
galleries and pews, even its floor itro
hewn out of solid logs, and put together
with wooden pegs. . Here Matnriu Bal
lou preached the gospel and his son, and
grandson, and great grandsons after him
to tho tonth sronerution. A race of
preachers npraug from thW pioneer min
ister, an well as many lawyers, doctors,
and other onblio men, eminent for their
talent and force of character. Somo of
thorn llirured iu tho American Involu
tion, as heroio in war us they were re
nowned in neace.
Abraui Garfield and Eliza Ballon, both
emigrants from the State New lor
were married in loiil. Aiiey had gone
in IS.J0 to Orungo, Caynhoga county,
Ohio, where a jear after their son James
was born, beinir their fourth child. Their
lo house was built when the heavy
forest was but partly cleared away. The
fences were not yet luado about the fields
when tho father, in linht:ng a lorest tire
that threatened tho destruction , of their
home, overheated himaelf, was suddenly
chilled, and in a few days died. His
last words to his wifo, as ho looked upon
h:s children, were:
"I have planted four saplings bore in
this forest. I must now leave them to
your care.
A happier family never uweit in a
palace than had boen in that cabin
home. Littlo Janios was but eighteen
months old whon his father died too
young to understand his irreparable
loss, or feel the pangs of grief that well
nigh crushed other hearts, ihe neigh
bors came only four or fWo families in
radius of ton miles-and wept with presence the lato Lord Huntingtowerhad
the widow and fatherless. With thoir introduced Mrs. Tollemacho as his wife,
assistance the lifoless form was enclosed and although a daughter of the alleged
in a rough coffin ond buried in a Scotch marriage testified to her father's
corner of the wheat field near by. No living in 1802 and 1803 with her
sermon, no prayer, except tho silent mother, after incidentally testifying that
nraver that went u from nohing hearts, he wos separated from tho acknowl-
Winter wa3 upproaching. Could human edge may iiuntingtowor, tne aangnter
experience be moro dreary than a widow of Sir Joseph Burke, and was in many
left alone with her children in a ways a miscellaneous sort of a Lothario,
wildornoss swept by wintry storms, the cross examination of the alleged
The howl of the wolves and tho cry of "Scotch wife," searchmgly made by Sir
panthers never sounded so terrible as John riollier, the Jato Attorney Ueneral,
during thoso long, desolate winter has mode very sorious inroads upon the
nichts. It seenud to the weary ones consistency of tho story as to the Scotch
Warm Food for Few Is.
The Poultry Monthly says: "After an
experience of soveral seasons we have
adopted the system of warmiug the food
all through the winter and cold weather,
both morniug and evening, aud we attri
bute tho excellent laying quality of tho
to a-is, in a great measure to doing this.
Tho food, whether whole or broken.
grain or other food, either dry or mois
tened, should bo warmed well beforo
feeding. Somo breeders, as well as far
mers, mako a practice of parching their
whole corn and are assured it is benefi
cial. Where new, unseasoned corn is
used for chicken food, this parching is a
decided benefit, for it makes it equally
as good for feeding as old seasoned corn.
Ouite a number of poultry ailments are
caused by feeding the new crop of corn,
and parching it will effectually prevent
any trouble from that scoro. Wheat,
which is no doubt the best kind of graiu
for the laying fowls, much better than so
much corn, which latter fattens so
quickly as frequently to stop the pro
duction of eggs temporally, is much im
proved by being heated well beforo
being fed, and then given to the fowls
while yet warm, uot hot. In feoding
w heat, only about two-thirds as much.
by measure, should bo fed, a of corn,
and when fed in that manner is very lit
tle, if any, more expensive than corn.
Good, sound wheat only should be used,
for while we see no objections to
screenings on the score of unhealthinesa,
screenings give but little available
food.
Old and faded daguerreotypes will
often become a bright a new. if placed
in a weak solution of evanide of potassium.
that spring would never como again
But at last it did come, and swept away
the snow and ice. The dead things of
the field nnd forest returned to lifo, save
only the dead in the corner of the wheat
field, and hope was not revived in the
cabin. Thore was no money in the
houso, there was a debt on the farm, nnd
the food supply was limited.
Then Mrs. Garfield sought the advice
of a neighbor, who had been kind to hor
in time of trouble. He advised her to
soli the farm, pay the debt, and return
to hor frends, believing it impossiblo
for her to support herself nnd children
there. Her reply was characteristic:
1 can never throw mysolf and my
children upon tho charity of friends. So
long as I have health I believe that my
Heavenly Father will bless these two
hands and make them able to support my
children. My dear husband modo this
home at the sacrifice of bis life, aud
every log in this cabin is sacred to me
now. It seems to me a holy trust that I
must preserve as faithfully as I would
guard his grave."
Her neighbors never left her, and she
went to the inend that never fails, and
asked God to mako the way of duty clear
to her; and whon she came from her
marriage. Many of her letters wore read
which seem to seriously contradict her
claim. Oue was as follows:
SuF.unoRSE Street, Dec, 14, 1S59.
Hnntingtower: If you will give me
1000 1 can get married within a month.
and in case tho man might do as vou
have done, leave me to the mercy of tho
world, au outcast and a beggar, I will
thank you to have it all made over to
mypelf, so that I may do with it as I
think fit. Au early reply will greatly
oblige, ' Elizabeth.
P. S. I shall expect that yon will
allow tho children to write to me ou the
first of every month, without coming
through your hands. I ousrht to have
heard again from them by this time.
This was written by a third hand, for
the letters in her own penmanship were
exceedingly defective in spelling and
syntax.' A very long letter written by
her to Lady Dysart, the mother of her
alleged husband, was read by Sir John
Holker, which thus began:
Princes Squake, Feb. 5. 184j.
Madam: With thankfulness and grat
itude to you do I acknowledge the re
ceipt of your kind lotter with five
pounds enclosed. I will attend to all
place of prayer sho felt that new light your wishes in every respect and shall be
and strength bad boen given to hor. She (flad to inform you the moment matters
called her eldest son. Thomas, to her. his anally arranged on the uart of Lord
and, though ho was only a child 10 years H. if he will do anything for me I have
old, she laid the whole case bofore'him. no doubt Madam with your kind inter-
With the resolute courage of his race be fearauces hia Lordship's feelings may
gladly promised that ho wculd plow and aulter towards roe nnd his poor children
sow, cut wood, and milk the cows, if she I am 8'iU willing to give up the letters
would only keep the farm. So this brave as I do not wish to hold anny papers of
mother aud son commenced their work, "is ijorusnips mat I may the sooner lor-
She sold part of the farm and paid every g6' that I ever knew such an unhappy
dollar of debt. Thomas . procured a man but in the faces of his children do I
horse, plowed and sowed and planted. see tho very imadge of himself which
Iho mother, with her own hands, split calls to mind all my wickedness.
tho rails and completed the fencing. But The last word, "wickedness," the
tho harvest was still far away, and tho witness now says, was miswritten for
corn was running Jow. Iho mother
carefully measured her precious grain.
counted tho days to the reaping time,
and finding it would be exhausted
long boforo that time at their
present rate of consumptiom, she
resolved to live on two meals
a day herself, that her children might
not sutler, llien, as tho littlo store rap
idly disappeared, she ate but a single
meal herself, concealing her self-denial
from her children, until the blessed bar-
vest brought lehef. That year it was
very abundant, aud the wolf of hunger
never came so near their door again.
Still, there were many years of hard'
ship and self-denial, in which the brave
woman had to be father and mother,
toucher and preacher to her children.
Sho was the wiso and tender friend,
guiding them in tho right way. and in
spiring them to choose the best things in
l&e. She still lives to see her great re
ward, "and her children rise up and caU
her blessed."
The Nation's Capitol, honored as it has
been by noble women, has nover received
"wretchedness." TJnon this the Lord
Chancellor, after critically examining
the writing, quietly said: "The sugges
tion is a plausible one, though I still
retain my own opinion in tho matter."
The alleged witness of the Scotch cer
emonyLord Hnntingtower's valet is
dead, and there is only tho testimony
of tho alleged widow and some evidence
as to repute and ncknowledgment of
marriage to support the claim of her
son, now eighteen years old. From the
questions occasionally pnt hy the Solicitor-General
of Scotland, who is
watching the case for the crown, there
does not seem to be much doubt that
the acknowledged grandson of the lato
Earl of Dysart will miiintairi his claim.
The earldom was created by Chales I.
for one of the gentleman of his bed
chamber, who took for his motto two
Iiatm words, tue signification of which,
too liberally acted upon, it seems, by
the alleged Scotch widow, mnv be ren
dered as "I confide: 'I rest easy."
A devoted Methodic, it is said, asked
wimm its uoors a grander, more neroic, Joan Wesley what he thought as to mar
anil nooier woman man it will have in lying a certain woman well known to
the person of the mother of President both.
Garfield, and she is not only an object of of it.
the Nation's admiration, but the recipi
ent oi its homage
Wesley advised him not to think
"Why," said the other, "she is a
member of yonr church isn't she?'' "les"
wa the reply. "And you think she is
really a christian woman?" "Yes" said
esley. "1 believe she is " "Well then
why not marry her?" "Because," re-
It is said that pork fed on Cincinnati
whisky is never afflicted with trichinosis.
When the parasites get a whiff of the plied Wesley "been use, my friend, the
whisky they take pity on the pig and Lord can live with a great many people
a, uut ;va ana i cm i.