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About The Eugene City guard. (Eugene City, Or.) 1870-1899 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 25, 1882)
AT Til K MEMTABt.K. Al tbt meat table hromln aileur Anil llii fir flirktiwl low, And tli (UtU aremed tbinking sadly Of lioni and lDf airo; And th 'Mineral bed the Captain, Utahled tad brunml and bale, -imf, ire ua out of your inn,' And llic Ceisjia told initial; tmi ratiroM or tbi rut). "It iui tultrv ummerjHim twenty rears ato. Wben ibe emigrant traio left Tie bound fur ew M ci 100. Strong nixn aud rent! woman there-Boor wer in lb band. And nigh aa nunr children left we foot-printe in th Mod. "Northward they traveH ilowlrnd bilterwa tha rJ. The tun, a ball of fire in th braien heaven flowed; The aanli were like ml plowaharea beneath martvr'i feet: And th thorny spikt of caHut drooped, ehrir tied In lb beau "There wm no wind till eveoinj, and then iu fverrl brektb Uke that was of the angel that bean the brand of death: And the rauon. a flerr ereicent. wooud ia the ikf fr. Ai it had been the reddened blade of hi baleful ecimetar. "And a they traveled northward, within it undr bed The rirer ahrank away fiom them, a if with cuiltr dread. And narrower fiew th water and lhallower, until Th river bad dwindled down to a creak, and th . rreek to muddy rill. Then bur and there a languid pool Id toot aocurttd landa. And lha rirer bed wii naught but rock and and aandi. And th little water they found by digging long and deen Wat a bitter that on aeuld rwki when the tide i en the neap. "And a iut th flinty earth the lreaebrou rirer tank. Fewer th following foot-prints wer upon it Hi mi 11 if batik: -Twenty beheld the red un riae, fifteen flagged faint at noon. And onlr ten went into ramp under tha lurid loonu. "And twire again th red moon eank, twice ro the eoirner un. And th ten that ataggered on wer eight, wer fir, ware three, wer one. One man waa left of th (migrant train that two abort werka aaxi Had left tha Texan ralley bound for New Mexico. "And h tottered northward acnaa th cndlcea aandt. Hit blonj-tbot eretatill ahidini with thin and blinlered handt, Huddeo from out the daaert up to thteloudli akiea, ' A rati and aeful flgur the trareler aaw arise. "It waa the watery inirag. There ttiinituer to bit view r'leety caaoade down-falling and lake of d eat blue; But though he atraint to reach them, anJ de emteaUiirera on, Ever a ttp beyoud him the rition if withdrawn. F.rer before bint horort, and aoeiu to bar th war, Th Phantom of the I'eena, a eloud of dutty erayt lu mocking eye glare on him, and through the lenrid air lit rote of doom make aoawer to bit rpieation of den pair. "Tlie dying wanderer Intent tna rbaiitotn cak hia name, And moroa hir cracking lipt in rain one piteout prayer to frame; And the awful vitiou nitittera en tlieaalt tend aa he aiukt: 'Don't you think that it a loug time a long time between driukj ?" Th Central atartod from hia chair An be bad felt a wound, "t'eptaia." be (aid, "you're right, I twear Send th decanter round." (TO Uuigau. TrTO DOZEJ BUTTOS. Betty sighed. Now why nhe should have sighed at this particular moment no one on earth could toll. And it wm all the moro exasperating because John hud just genorously ut into her little shapely baud a brand new (10 bill. And hero began the trouble. " Whit t'a the matter ?" he said, his face falling at the faint aound, and hia month clapping together iu wbut those who know him but little railed nn "ob stinate pucker." 'Now, what is it ?" Dotty, who had just begun to change the sigh into a merry little laugh rip pliug all over the corner of the red lips, stopped suddenly, tossed her bead aud, with a small jerk no way conciliating, sent out the words : " Yon needn't insinuate John, that I am always troublesome!" "I didn't insinuate who's talking of insinuating?" cried he, thoroughly in censed at the very idoa, and, backing away a few steps, he glared down from his tremendous height in extreme irrita tion. "It'syou, yourself that's forever insinuating and all that, and then for you to tint it on me it is really abomin able !" The voice was harsh, and the eyes that looked down into hers were not pleasant to behold. "And if you think, John Peabody. that I'll stand and hare such things said to me, you mix your guess that's all?" cried Betty, with two big red snots com ing in her cheeks as she tried to draw her liUle erect figure up to its utmost dimensions. "Forever insinuating I I guess yon wouldn't hare said that before 1 msrried you. Oh, now you can, of course!" "Didn't you you say it first, I'd like to know?" cried John iu great excite ment, drawing nearer to the small eica ture he called "wifo," wh was Raxing at him with bUziug eyes of indignation; "I can't endnro evorvtuiugl" "And if you bear more than I do," cried Betty, wholly beyoud control now, " why, then I'll give up," and she gave a bitter little laugh, aud to&sod her head again. And here they were in the midnt of a quarrel! Theae two, who but a year be fore, had promised to love aud protect and help each other through life I "Now," said John, and he brought his hand dowu with such a bang on the table before him that Betty nearly skipped nearly out of her little shoes only she controlled the start, for she would here died before she had lot John see it, "we'll have no more of this non sense!" 11 is fay-e was very pale, and the lines around the month so drawn that it would have gone to anyone a heart to bare seen tni ir expression. "I don't know how yoa will ehangs it. or help it," said Betty, lightly, to eon- real ber diarnay at the turn affairs hail taken, "I'm sure!" and she pushed bsck the light, wsring hair from her forehead with a saucy, indifferent ges ture. That hair that John abays smoothed when be petted her when tired or dis heartened, and railed her "child." Iier gesture struck to Lis heart as he fe lanced at her sannr locks and the cool, inuiner ent face underneath, and before he knew it he was earinir "There is no help for it now, I sup' pose? "Oh. ves: there is." aaid Betty, still in the cool, calm wsy that ought not to bare deceived him. Hut men Know so little of women's hearts, although they mar lire with them for years in closest friendship. "You necdn t try to endure it, John l'eabody, if you don t want to, tin sure I don't csre." "What do too mean?" Her husband (rrasned her arms and compelled the merry brown eyes to look no to Lira. I can go back to moiuer s sain uoiiy, provokmgly. "Sue wanu me any day ami then von can live quietly and lire to suit yourself, and it will be better all round. Instead of bringing out a violent pro testation of fond affection and remorse, hich sho fully expected, John drew himself up, looked at her fixedly for a long, long minute, ana tnen dropped ner arm, ana said tnrougu wuite lips very slowly: les, it may be as you say, uetter an around. You know best;" and was gone from the room befoie she could recover from her astonishment enough to utter a sound. With a wild cry Betty rushed across the room, first toesing the flO bill sav agely as fur as she could throw it, and, flinging herself on the comfortable old sofs, broke into a flood of bitter tears the first she had shed during her mar ried life. Bow could he have dono it oh, what have I said? Oh, John, John!" The bird twittered in bis little cage over in the window among the plants. Betty remembered like a flush bow John and she filled the seed-cup that very morning, how he laughed when she tried to put it between the bars, and when sheeouldn'tjreach it withont getting upon a chair, be took ber in his great arms, and ho!d her np, just like a child, that she might fix it to suit herself. And the bit tbst be saia in bis tender way, they had gone down to the depths of her foolish little heart, sending her about ber work singing for very gladness of spirit. And now! Betty stuflea ner rangers nara into ner rosy ears to shut out the birds chirping. If be knew why l signed, she moaned. "Oh. my husband! Birthdays nothing will make any difference now. Ob, why can't I die?" If ow long she staved there, crouched down on the old sofa, she never knew. Over and over the dreadful scene she went, realising its worst features esch time in despair, until a voice out in the kitchen aaid, "Betty!" and heavy foot steps proclaimed that some one was on the point of breaking upon her ucin- VI ited. The visitor was the worst possible one she could have nnder the oircumstanoes. Crowding herself on terms of the closest intimscy with the pretty bride, who with her husband bad moved into the village a twelvemonth previous, Miss Elvira Simmons had made the very most her opportunities, and by dint of making great parade over helping her in some domestic work, such a house cleaning, dressmaking and the like, the maiden lady had managed to ply her other vocation, that of news-gatherer, one and the same time, pretty effectually. Khe always called her by her first name, though Betty resented it; and she made a great handle of her friendship on evory occasion, making joun rage vio lently and vow a thousand tiuios tue old maul should walkl But she nover had and now, scenting dimly, like a carrion after its own prey, that trouble might come to tho pretty littlo white house, the make-mischief hail oomo to do her work, if devastation had really commenced. "Boon crying! she said, more plainly than politely, aud sinking down into the pretty chinU covered rocking chair with an euergy that showed she uioant to stuy, and made the chair creak fearfully. Only folks do say that yon and your husband don't live happy but la! I oitldu't mind-1 know 'tain't your fault." Bettv'a bear stood still. Had it oome to this! John and she not to lire happy! To be sure they didn't, as she rem em- bored with a pang tbo dreadful scene of words and hot tempers; but had it gotten around so soon a story in everybody's mouth. With all her distress of mind she was saved from opening her mouth. Ho Miss Himmous, failing in that, was forced to 8on- "An I tell folks so, sue said, rocking herself back and forth to witness the effects of her words, "when they git to talkin , so you can t blame me if things don't go essy for yon, I'm sure!" "You toll folks?" repeated Betty, vaguelr, aud standing quite still. "What? I don't understand." "Why, that the blame ia all his'n," cried tho old maid, exmperatod at her strange mood and her dulluosa. "I say, says I, why they couldn't no oue live with him, let Mono that pretty wife lie's got. That's what I say. Betty. Aud then I tell 'em what a queer man he is, how cross, an'" "And von dure to toll people such things o) my huhband?" cried Betty, drawiug herself np to her extreiucst height, and towering so over the old woman in the chair that she jumped in confusiou at the storm she bad raised, and stared blindly iuto tho blsiug eye and face rosy with righteous indigun lion her only thought was how to get away from the storm she bad raised, but could not atop. Hut she was forced to stay, for Bcttv stood just in front of the chair, and blocked up the way, so she slunk beck iuto the smallest corner of it and took it aa best ahe could. "My husbaud!" cried Butty, dwolling with pride upon the pronoun at least.if they were to part, she would say it over lovingly aa much as she could till the last moment; and then, when the time did come, whr, people should know that it wasn't Johns fault "the beat, the kindest, the noblest husband that ever was girtn to a woman. I've maJe him more trouble than you can guess; my hot temper baa vexed him I've been cross, impatient and " "Hold!" cried a voice, "you're talking against my wife!" and in a moment big John Feabody rushed through the door, ?; rasped the little woman in nia arras.anu olded her to his heart, right before old maid and all I "Oh!" said Miss Simmons, sitting np straight, and setting her spectacles more firmly. "And, now that you've learned all that yoa can," said John, turning round to her, still holding Betty, "why yon mar (to! The chair was vacant. A dissolving view through the door was all that was to be seen of the gossip, who started np the rood hurriedly, leaving peace be hind. "Betty," aaid John, some half-hour aitorwaru, wuai was me aiua iorr i . . . . . i i .1 . ' i a ., T don't care now, but I did think, dear, and it cut me to the heart, how you might have married richer. I longed to put ten times ten into your hand, Betty, and it galled me because I oonldn t. Betty imilod and twisted away from his grasp. Running into the bedroom she Dresentir returned still smumsr. with a bundle rolled dp in clean towel. This she pnt on her husband's knees, who stared at her wondenngly. I didn't mean," she said, unpining the bundle, "to let it out now, but I shall have to. Why, John, day after to morrow is your birthday." 'So tw. said John. "Uraoions! bas it come around so soon?" And, you dear boy, said Bettr.shak- inc out before his eyes a pretty brown affair, all edged with silk of the bluest shade, tbst presently assumed the pro portions of a dressing gown "tuis is to be vonr present. But you must be dread fully surprised, John, when you do get It, lor, on, l did not want you to snow anything shout it!" John made an answer be thought best. When he spoke again, he said, perplexed, while a small pucker of bewilderment settled between his eyes. But I don t see, Betty, wbat tbis thing." laying one finger on the gown, "has to do with the sigh. "That," said Betty, and she then broke into a merry laugh, that got so mixed np with the dimples and the dancing eyes that for a moment she could not finish. "Oh, John, I was worrying so over those buttons! They wern't good, bat they were the best that I could do, then. And I'd only bought em yesterday. Two whole dozen. And when you put that $10 bill into my band I did'nt hardly know it, but I suppose I did give one little bit of a sigh, for I wss so provoked that I hadn't waited buying them till to-day. John caugnt up the little woman, dressing gown and all. I don't think they bars quarreled since at least, I have never heard of it. Iteal Sources or the SflssUslppl. The new found source of the Missis sippi is the sparkling little gom of a lake situated above and lieyond Luke Itaska. It nestles among the pines of an unfre quented and wild region of Minnesota, many miles from the nearest white at mo ment, and just on the dividing ridge which forms the watershed of North America. Within a few miles of it can be fonnd lakes and streams whose waters are tributary to the Red River of the North and the Yellowstone, thns reach ing theses thousands of miles from the mouth of the mighty Mississippi, which flows in a trickling brook from Lake (Hazier. The lake, discovered to be the source of the greatest rirer in the world by Capt. Willard Olazicr, on July 22d, 1HW1, ia about a mile and half in greatest diameter, and would Be nearly round in shapo but for a single promontory, whose rocky suorei give, it an outline the shape of a heart. The waters of the lake are exceedingly dear and puie, coming from springs, some being at tue bottom, but the three most prominent rise a few miles back in low, wet land, and flow into the lake in littlo rills. On the very poiut of the promontory is a spring whose waters are as cold as ice, and at which Captain Glazier's weary party slacked their thirst while exploring the shores of the new lake. Bo lonelv is the region arouud the lake that for fourteen lavs not even a redskin was seen, and. wearied by tho hardships of this rough country, yet with a feeling of having added something to geographical knowl edge, Captain Glazier and his party wore glad, indeed, to come into contact again with their lellow creatures. tot. Louis Republican. Tbk Cominj Aqomt. It is stated as a fact that tho ultra-fashionables of New York will model their evening costumes after the style of that just introduced by Oscar Wilde. That costume will consist of the regulation claw-hammer coat, a double -breasted white duok vest cut low, broad expanse of pique shirt front. black doeskin knee-breeches, black silk stockings snd patent leather pumps tied ;.i t i i i l i m . . i wuu uroau discs notion, xue anirt col lar is a broad roll and the cravat is a two inch band of white cambric. For our part we have no earthly objection to this sort of rig. We have always consid ered the old style knee-breeches costume the most becoming one that a well- formed man could possibly wear. But we have in our eye certain local swells who msy not take so kindly to the inno vation, and we sound the alarm in ad vance so that they may make up their minds whether to Brave the storm or em igate. The wave is coming we can see that very clearly. The question then is, Shall we flee or shall we breast it? Au unusual number of accidents have recently occurred in the hnnting-fleld iu Kngland. Lent John Manners fell from his horse while hunting with the Bel vuir houuds, sprained his wrist seriously and slightly injurvd hi neck. The Rev. lleathcotn, while following the Duke of Rutland' liouudi, came to au uu- usually foul feuce, his horse at tho same time slipping into a ditch and pitching him over the fence into an adjoining field. From the fevere shock which Mr. Ileathcote revvivcd hia limbs be came paralysed, aud he remains in a precarious condition. V bile Lord Urey de Wilton waa out with his hounds his home suddenly threw up its head, strik ing him on the eye with great violence. Mr. Braggs, who for the last seven years haa hal large stud, of hunters at Whiteohurch, sustained a fractnre of the collar bone by being throws from hi horse. AtiRltlLtCUAL. It can be shown most conclusively that a cow can be raised for less money then one can be bought, and just aa certainly that one can raise a better cow than he can buy. This should be obvious at the first thought, because no man will sell a thing even a cow for less than it cost him. and if one man can produce a cow for a certain price ataproflt.another man should; and also when a dairyman gives his mind to the improvement of his stock bv selecting the best and breeding carefully, be cannot iaii w pro duce better cows than another man who merely takes ordinary care or let ns say exercises ordinary carefulnesa in raisins: his calves. A . calf is consid- bered, aud thought of and prepared for berore it is brought into tbe woriii, ana perhaps the most important part of the business of rearing good cows is that preliminary to the birth of the calf its breeding, in fact. For if the stock is poor to begin with the produce will be noor: but if one has but poor cows aud will yet select the best and take especial care with the produce of these he cannot fail to effect a great improvement in course of time and with patience and persistence. Bnt how much time is saved by making a good beginning and to begin well should be tbe aim oi every owner of cows. The first step in im proving a dairy herd is the introduction of a good bull, selected for its inherited dairy qualities. Then one has a good foundation to build upon. The rearing of a calf should begin as soon as it is in embryo, and this ia done through tbe dam. ine uam snouia do well fed. kept docile, and petted so that nor aisposiiion may oe quiet, geuue anu friendly. Ber milking capacity should be encouraged in every possible wsy and . ... t Ti ..! extended to within a few weeks only, and not more than bix at the most, of the birth of the calf. It is a maxim among breeders that the dam confers upon the offspring the constitu tional peculiarities and tho mental, or rather tbe instinctive, characteristics, while the sire gives the form and outer qualities. So that tbe future con dition and character of the progeny in reeard to temper and general disposition, and also in respect of the inherent quali ties of the constitution and the internal functions, among which digestive and assimilative capacity and capability of milk and butter produotion must be in cluded, are inherited from the dam. The training of a pregnant cow is therefore of importance as affecting the value in all desirable qualities of the progeny. And this point suonia tie wen considered in the general treatment of the dam. Persistent milking is one of tbe best qualities of a cow ; rich and copious milking is another, and these may be en couraged in a cow by liberal feeding np to within six weoks of the time of calv ing, np to which time, too, the milk should be drawn, or even coaxed, from the cow, if only a pint can be had. Dur ing this interval the feeding should be such as will keep the cow in good condi tion, but will not make mUk. In the summer pasture alone, and in the winter clover or mixed hay only, should be pro vided. No grain food at all should be given during this time. If the dam is a heifer she should be handled and taught all the discipline needed for quiet and easy milking. She should be made to stand in the right position ; to put the near hind leg back when told ; to stand quietly, and Bubmit to have the udder rubbed and the teats pulled. Tbis, in fact, should be done when the heifer js but a few months old and continued at intervals up to the time when the calf is expected. Frequent manipulation of the udder encourages its development, and it is not at all infrequent for a calf to be brought to give milk before it is a year old, and even before it bus been bred, by the constant sucking of another calf. This training is therefore very valuable - t puysicany, as wen oseuccuve in iorming the disposition of the cow. A Young animal thus educated comes to the pail without any tronblo ; she knows her bus iness, and there is no fright or nervous ness when her accustomed attendant removes her calf and begins to milk her. A calf should be removed from the dam before it has Bucked, or at least before the fourth day, when the milk comes to its ordinary quality. It is a doubtful point whether it is well to iiermit the calf to snck at all or not, but this relates more to the cow than to the calf, and may be left out of present consideration. Tbe whole milk should be given to the calf np to the time when it is fit for use in the dairy and is set for croam. A calf does not require cream; milk alone con tains every necessary elemeut for the growth and healthfulness of the calf. It may be that the cream of the new milk exerts a mechanioal effect upon the milk when it is curdled in the calf a stomach, forming as it does a vast number of minute oily particles iu the curd, which, when they are dissolved out of the mass, leave it more porous in texture and more easily acted upon by the solvent juice of tue stomaoh. xsnt aa calves have been raised with perfect success on skimmed milk from the time when they were five days old, this question does not seem to nave any important significance. A strong, bony frame, a perfect muscnlar development, and a large capacity for digestion and Assimilation are the chief requisites for a dairy cow, anu a liberal aupply of warm skimmed milk will un doubtedly produce all these. At first the mother's milk only should be given, or at least that from a fresh cow. The milk from a cow long since calved will always be found indigestible at first for a youug calf, and if it is given freely pro duces diarrhea. Tho milk should be warnied to its natural t"mieratnre, which is about .S. It should feel hot to the finger, but not more than a comfortable heat. This is more important in the winter time than in warm weather. In a butter dairy the skimmed milk can be fed to calves more profitably than to pics. and it will lie a wise thing to do for a dairyman to bo on the look ont for any choice and promising heifer calves that can be picked np from neighbors or res cued from the butcher, although they may be but a few days old. It frequently occurs that a week-old calf can be pur chased from persons who cannot raise it for a tnning sum, and such opportuni ties should be availed of. A calf should have as much milk as it ill take comfortably. A three-month old calf will sometimes take ten, or even twelve quarta of milk a day, and do well on it. So long as it ia doing well and growing and tha milk ia to spare, the alf should bsve it, even up to the age of six mouths. Tbenulkbeips to J- he stomach, and as long it & j -gestcd it increase the capacity of the di gestive organs. But the suppjj -hould notjbe suddenly cut off. When the calf i. eating solid food and milk U .getting scarce, It may be reduced and the quan tity made np by the addition of water, gradually mincing the temperature in the summer, but keeping it nn in the winter. It will psy to have a few bush els of osU coarsely ground or crushed at the mill especially for the use of the ..i. n.i tn o-ivft each of them a small daily supply. This may be given at noon. It will be convenient to have a part of the stable set off for tbe calves, in which a few jens msv be made for them. Each calf should have a pen to itself, and be tied by a strap around the neck in the same manner the cows are. If they can have a yard to run in it will be all the better for them, even in the cold weather, as thev will be warmor and digest their food better with plenty of eiercise than if kept confined closely. When the supply of milk is etopped the quantity of food is to be increased, and the best bone and muscle-forming substances are not only tbe best, but tbe cheapest. Oats and wheat bran, with hav or srass.will build nn the frame and produce abundant musole, but too much concentrated food will not be aesiraoie. Hay and corn fodder will make a good' sized calf, but will not alone produce a good, prolific cow. In the writer s diary there are four young cows which were raised at home, and four which were boarded out and pastured for fifteen months, getting nothing but grass in the summer and hay and corn fodder in the waiter. The first 'our were given a few oats every day after they were three months old, and were fed a quart of mixed ground food daily in the second year, ibese lour cows, witu tneir nrst calves, are now averaging forty pounds of butter weekly, and are giving from twelve to fourteen quarts of milk daily. The otheis, fully as lurge and as well grown, are not giving more than half so much as the first lot, and one, although a very promising calf, is not paying for one-half her feed,although butter ia sold at fifty to sixty cents a pound. No ap parent reason can be shown for the difference in these cows except the man ner of feeding tbem when calves are heifers. It is reasonable to suppose and believe that this difference should result from the manner of feeding, else good feeding would be thrown away upon an animal, and we know it never is. Cornmeal is one of tbe best foods for making fat healthfully that we possess. and a moderate quautity of it may be nseully and beneficially given to a pregnant heifer. We need to encourage the assimilation of every element of rich milk, and this oannot be done except by gradual use and troiniug. We cannot merely support the life of an animal for a time, and then afterward, by suddenly increasing or varying the food, tnrn her intoa sort of mill for manufacturing pro ducts. The productive habit must grow with au animal, and must be built np by a judicious previous feeding. So that the feeding as well as the training of a calf and a heifer must be habitual from the first, so as to form tbe habit we de sire. When the frame and constitution have been formed, then the fat-produo-ing food may be given, but with careful moderation and gradual increase, step by stop, as the bone and muscle-making food may have been previously sup plied. lbe cot of all this, and the trouble of it will he found surprisingly small if these are figured up, and a large profit will be realized. If one should go about among his neighbors and try to buy thoir best cowa they would find how highly they are valued. A dairyman soon discovers that he has two cowu in one, aud is very sharp to fix the double value on the animal, and add besides the cost saved of feeding the second cow, and if 100 a head were offered for all tho choicest cows one could meet with in a day's travel there would be very little trouble in driving the herd home. A hundred dollars is a small price for a cow thot will make 20 pounds of butter in the season of ten months. The extra $50 of her value will lie repaid over and over again in the 10 years of service by the excess of her product over that of a cow that yields 150 pounds. And if we have such cows and will set about ruis ing them, we can hare them, but we ran not buy them half as cheaply as we can produce and rear them. N. Y. Weekly limes. The First Ma. Learned men bavn wrirtnn mimli nf the Talmud, an old work of the TTelr laws, traditions snd commentaries. The iincyciopedia Uritannica thus renders the Tal 0111(111 Kiflti-irv nf Alam with ;ta .j vs ouhui wmu a legendary adornmenss: "He was made as a man-woman out of dust colleoted from every part of the earth, bis head reached to heaven, and the snlnn.l t is face surpassed the sun. The angels reared bim, and all creatures hastened to par him devotion. Tim I nrA in er - - mv, a viiici to display hia power before the angels, vauaea a uoep sieep to loll upon him, took away something from all his mem bers, and when he awokn the parts that .hat! been removed to be cispersea over the globe, that the whole earth might be inhahited by his seed. Thus Adam lost his size but not his com pleteness. His first wife was Silith, mother of the demons. But she flew away through the air; and then the Lord created tve from bis rib, brought her to Adam in the most beautiful dress, and angels descending from heaven played on heavenlv instruments- aim nmnn .n.i stars dancing. He blessed the pair and gave them a feast upon a table of pre cious stones. A nereis nreimra.l tl,o in.i costly viands. But Adam's glory was envied by the angels, and tho seraph Sammnel succeeded in seducing him. The pair were driven ont of paradise into the place of darkness, and in,iun.i through the earth." Red tute flonruliM in all i;.o ci.. tion Master Poulsen, at the Danish rail way station of Barrie, was on December 14 appointed weigher bv the eovem. ment. As it happened he waa WI in . week, but until the fact had been offici ally attested and reported the appoint ment remained in force. Hon. John Weatworth ,i w. Rebecca Heald, wife of Captain Nathan uoaiu, iu aavoua commandant of Fort Dearborn.waa tha finl Pmi.i..i -i . -- . ... uuurca member ia Chicago. She was a Baptiat 1 Jidge Tourgee American L'f0 fx uhuuivu, ii vtcii uu. years tan en fifty. tale of horror died of old a horror died of old ag befnr. a crowed another State line. Now th. 1 1 i . i , i -. . fcue uioou uu ujuruerure aune la Dot drr before the people all orer the world have their opinion of the criminal's guilt. The whole life of the whole world comoi into every life to-day, and we bear its pjD its knowledge. A man to-day at twenty must know more facta than his grand father at eighty. If he doesn't, he ia pretty sure of coming np at the poor Louse. We get ont of our cradle in a hurry. Well, I read of a baby In (Jin ciunati who at the age of five month started on a heel-and-toe race through life. Only think of tbo way our youth are treated. We stand them on end and stuff them like a sausage, and expect to make men and women out of them. Perhaps yoa think I am too severe. I remember a few weeks ago I attended a school exhibition, and a little gin, wno looked too small to be a saint and not big enongh for an angel recited the names of all the kings and queens of England. Wouldn't it have been better if the girl had spent her time firing pajier wads at her teacher? I have a friend in Philadelphia whose daughter used to go crazy every Tuesday. She hod recurrent insanity not temporary. Her mother investigated the cause and discovered that every Wednesday that girl of ten had to have an original de sign for a plaque ready! Now.it is all right for ns to know how to draw. It may be all right for a man to draw as weil as a mule, but I bet my right ear there is not a bald-headed man in the house who could draw au original design in three weeks. When a man takes his boy from the play-ground and sets him to study bis next day's lesson be 'is putting a nail in that boy 'a coffin. We huve got to havo the whole world at our finger's end if we live to-day. The young lady who graduates at eighteen has read more outside of her regular studios than Lady Jane Grey did in her whole life. We take a sup of newspaper before a sup of coffee. When I was a boy we used to hear of "nervous wo men." Now the men are bo nervous that a woman has a bard time to present a good case of nerves. The greatest cause of intoxication is the overworking of young lives. Onr life is of a terribly earnest tjpe. I don't often laugh at what I see in an English comic paper, for I think of all the solemn reading, that is the most solemn. But I did laugh at a cartoon recently printed in one of them. It represented a ferry boat inoident in New York. The boat had pulled out, and a man was pictured jumping from the wharf, while he called back, "Come on. Jim; there won't be another boat for nineteen seconds! That is American life as it is. Always on the jump. A Sweet Scented Official Aeconut. Pursuing an examination of the Clerk's aocount of the disbursements of the con tingent fund of tbe House of Represen tatives at Washington, which we began yesterday, we find the following fra grant items among a multitude of others almost, as sweet scented : Two perfumery casos, bought for a member, at $10 $20. Three fans, bought for a member, at $60 50 per dozen $16 C3. Three fans, bought for a member, at 159 per dozen $U 75. Three fans, bought for a momber. at $30 per doxen-$9 75. lwo necessaries, bought for a member. at $18 per dozen $3. Six toothpicks, bought for a member, at $56 'Ai per dozen $28 17. lwo fourteen carnt charm mngio pen cils, bought for a member at $187 60 per dozen $30 60. Six silver egg pencils, bought for a member at $30 per dozen $18. lwo bottles of oologne, bought for a member at $1 $2. Seven knives bought for a member $109 67. Threo card cases, bought for a member, at $41 33 per dozen $10 33. lwo handkerchief boxes, bought for a member, at $9 per dozen $1 50. Una odor case and vases, bought for a member $12 50. One fine opera glass, bought for a member $40. Ono shaving case, bought for a mem- ber-$13. One visiting list, bought for a member c Snrely Mr. Adams, the late Clerk of the House of Representatives, who fur- nisbed these extraordinary articles to "a member" at the publio expense, on the pretence that they were needful for the discharge of his legislative ' duties, does great injustice in withholding the "member s name from tbe ennous tax payers. Be must have been engaged in very dirty work to need bo much per fumery. New York Herald. Competitive Examinations. The nnndnnt nf nnmnt!tin nrnmina- tions in China seems to be further from perfection that might be expected in th case of such an ancient institution. The Peking Gazette contains a memorial from one of the conanra enmnlaininir that the matsheds which are erected at the entrance to the examination hall in the capital to issue tickets of admission to competitors are frequently overturned by the rush of applicants, that an nn seemly crowding and snatching of tickets from the officials take place, and then candidates break the- rule prohibiting them from leaving the compartments in which they are isolated during tho examination. Thev arn aUnuo,! he says,. to fetch their food themselves (ex aminauons in uuma last from 36 hours to 3 days at a stretch) from tho kitchens, and they meet and converse freely. Prepared essays, the memorialist fears, are passed in Irom outside during these hours by the student's friends. Again, When the lists of snncfliwfnl pun.li.Ufod are posted up, a tumultous crowd as- semuies outside tbe gates; bands of the unsuccessful ones obstruct the progress Of the oil 1 pf Hamina, .1. , and entreaties to prevail on Vim to alter "" ine censor also protested against the length of time frequently taken before the results of an examina tion are known. The Chinese examin ers, however, have an excuse for this which onr own snu r;. ""oers have not, viz., the number of tuucuis examined; at tbe triennial provincial examination held in Canton in 1879 there v.a in Ifll 3: t-. i -- degree.