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I. . . . "- 1 .... . i-r-x. jmntimiit,i ii iyywywMwwgWBWW!lif Wi f 2 WILLAMKTTE FARMER. i i i I P se ri IlliV.'fi, i; ., Thi HMk Ciucli. A Song of the Early Autumn. wnr n In late summer the streams ran yellow, Bnrsl the bridges and spread Into bajs: 'When bar lea an black and 1 eachea are mellow, And bllla are hidden by rainy bate; When the golden-rod la golden atlll, But tbe heart of the sunflower la browner and Hidden When the corn la In stacks on tbe slops of the hill, And over the path slides the striped adder. When butterflies flutter from clover to thicket, Or ware thrlr wluga on the drooping leal, When the breese cornea shrill with tbe call of the orlcket Grasshopper's rasp, andruatleof shesf. When hlxh in the fields the fern leaves wrinkle, And brown is the grass where the mowers bare mown, Wren low In the meadow tbe cow-bells tinkle, And brooklets crinkle oVr stock snd stone. When heavy and hollow t je robin's whistle, And thick lies tbe shade in the beat of noon; When the air is white with tbe down o' tbe thlstb, And tbe sky Is red with the hsrvest rooom O thn bo chary, young Xtobert and Mary: Let no time slip not a moment wsltl If tbe fiddle wonld plsy It must stop its tnnlng, Aod they who would mirry must be done with their mooning; Mind well the cattle, let tbe churn co rattle, And pile tbe wood by the birn-yard gatel R. IK. O., in Saribnrrfor October. If I Had Leisure. " If I bad leisure I wonld repair that weak place in my lence," said a farmer. lie had none, however, and while drinking cider with a neighbor, the cows broke in and injured a prime piece of corn. He had leisure then to repair his fence bat it did not bring back bis corn. "If I bad leisure, " said a wheelwright last winter, "I would have altered my stovepipe, for I know it is not safe." But he did not find time, and when his shop caught fire and burnt down he found time to build anotner. "Ill had leisure" said a mechanio, "I should have my work dono in Beaton." The man thinks his time hag been all occupied, but he was not at work till after sunrise; he quit work at five o'clock, smoked a cigar after din ner, and spent two hours on the street talking nonsense with nn idler. "If I bad leisure," said a merchant, "I should pay more attention to my accounts, and pay and collect my bills more promptly." The chance is my friend, if you had leisure you would probably pay lo ip attention to the mat ter than you do now. The thing lacking wiih hundreds of farmers who till the soil, is not more leisure, bat more resolution the spirit to do; to do now. If tho farmer who sees bis fence in a poor condition would only act at once, how much would bo saved? It would prevent broachy cattle creating quarrels among neighbors that in many cases terminate in law suits, which take nearly all they aro both worth to p ty for. The fact is, farmers and moihanlcs have inoro leisure than they are awaro of for study and improvement of their minds. They have the long evonings of winter in which they can post themselves upon all the improvements of the day, if they will take ably-couductod agri cultural journals and rend them with care The farmer who falls to study his buslnet.8, and gets shaved, has nobody but himself to blame. Jf. Y. Farmer. Last Woman. Has it ever ooourred to you what a commen tary on our civilization are these lost women, and tho attitude- of sooiety towards them? A little child strays from the enclosure, and the whole community is on tbe alort to find tho wanderer and restore it to its mother's arms. What rejoicing when it is found, what tearful sympathy, what heartiness of congratulation? There are no harsh conimonts upon tired feet, be they ever so mirey, no reprimand for the soiled and torn garments, no lack ot kisses for tbe tear-stained face, lint let the child be grown to womanhood, lot her be led from it by the scourge of want what then? Do Christian men and womoii go in quest of her? Do thoy provide all possiblo help for her return, or if she returned of her own notion, do they receive her with Buch kindness and delicacy as to secure her against wandering? Far from it. At the first step she is denounced as lost lost I echo frionds and relatives we disown' you; don't over come to us to disgrace lis. Lost, says sooiety indifferently. How bad these girls aro. And lost irretrievably lost is tbe prompt verdiot of conventional morality, while one and all unite in bolting every door betwoeu her and rcsptotability Ah, will not those lost ones be required at our hands here After. Mrs. llurlelgh. In the way of adornment for tho pedal ex tremities of the ladies, perhaps tbe most stri king shoos are the "MiuseillesExtonsion Boot." It is a square, box-toed, sole extension boot, with a doublo row of stitching on the extended sole. Tho "Ohinque Mars Sandal," for its neatness and beauty destrves to bo mentioned. It is a high-cut slipper, having four sandals aoross tho instep, trimmed with square buckles and lace to be worn over a handsomely em broidered (.ticking. It is made with either plain or Frcuob heol. Tbe invontress guards it very closely for fear of Its being copied. Tbe "Nav HfllliirA.tnAfl ftlltiiiAC ' Alii 1ii1-c- !. the ordinary slipper, will be worn for tbe house. It is trimmed with a large velvet bow and stoel buckle across tbe toes. This slipper, like all fashionable shoes, is square box-toed. Black satin and bronze boots will again be revived and become the rage. We doubt if the women of America will for give Mr. Stoddard for penning the following lines; Was ever yet a man, Hince this old world began, That look'd upon a woman bewitched not of her eyeil Mating or separating, Or loving her or bating, In all his commerce with her tbe fool was never wise. llelghol it cannot tw, fir, seeing she Is she. She bas him at advautagela body and la mind: Pursuing or undolug. She still compels his wooing, And therefore l It, ladles, that Love Is painted blind I Tuts story cornea all the way from Atlanta, Georgia: " Uncle Peter " was asked to sub scribe fifty cents to bis parson's salary yester day, " Can't do it, I tell you; kase dere's mighty hard times 'proaobin'. on by at I" , "Ob, nojK'te, de craps it good, and we hub plenty money dls winter." " You'ae a fool! How kin dat be when I beer Mr, Jeeniea up der at de bank say dat de Chlor aforoey lunk done basted, lis like dat Freed- man bank did? uaut 'scribe uutuiu , noney, bat I'll lend de preaober my wood saw and book ef be wants to yearn souieun." This proposition was not aooepted. Nothing is so discouraging to a young lawyer Jost as be waxes eloquent about angers tears, auniaif willows and tombstones, as to be in- - terropttd by "Yos'r off yo .a 1 .! ..aI.1 ltl....!.. Inaft Hiitla ' IUO IVlU-VIUt'UVU JH.UW WkU roar ut, bub; this is a mm of l 4-'i A Lost Method of Expression. It has been too much tbe fashion of late to decry this department of tbe work of house keeping as useless and menial, and to insist that money ought to buy its result, leaving to the wife and daughter time for self improve ment and higher duties There can be no doubt that tbe average American housekeeper otten becomes a slave to ber store closet, one-third of the year being (.pent in preparing food for the remainder; canned vegetables, salted meat, pickles and preserves are often tbe millstone which drags her soul and body down to a very low level. But there is another side to tbe sub ject, and we may strike tbe just middle ground on it as on any other. Nobody wants a George Eliot, Florence Nightingale, or Jessie Fremont, to give ber time to compounding piccalillis or fireserves. Bat, while one woman is a leader n society, literature, or philanthropy, ninety nine adopt some smaller way to make them selves UBoful and helpful in bettering and brightening the little world about them, and these, smaller ways in city life are frequently incessant devotion to visiting, to mnsio, to m iking horrible and exhausting efforts at house decoration. We confess that when we have sat down to feasts where the vegetables smacked too Btrongly of tbe professional canner's art, where tbe meats were ill cooked, the offense of the pickles was rank with vitrol, and the des serts bore that inextinguishable flavor of the confectioner's shop, and when, after dinner, we have been called on to listen to fe-ble strum ming of the piano, or weak criticisms of the last exhibition, or to admire works of art that were spatterdash, or Per sian embroideries on Turkish towel ing, we have remembered the busy Pennsylvania kitchen and the bonnliful tables of old Virginia matrons; the delicious flavor, idiosyncrasy, if we may call it so, of every dish; the care with which tbe father's taste in soaps and the boys' fancy for certain jams were re membered from year to year; the thousand ways in which skill snd good taste and affec tion were shown in this base art of cookery; tbe genuine home made fl tvor of tbe dishes, the talk, the very fun we are not at all sure that women, in ignoring this ancient craft so utterly, have not slighted one of their strongest modes of expression. "Home and Society," Bcribnerfor October. Husbands by the Bunch. Bundy has been married two weeks, and has left his wife. Bundy is a little man, and bis wife weighs two hundred and forty pounds, and was the relict of tbe late Peter Potts. About ten days after marriage Bundy was surprised, on waking in the morning, to find his better half si ting up in bed crying as if ber heart would breaK. Astonished, ne asKeu me cause of her sorrow, but receiving no reply, he began to surmise that there must be some secret on her mind that she withheld from him, that was tho cause of her anguish; so ho remarked to Mrs. B. that as they were married, she should toll him tbe cause ot ner griet, so, it possible, he could avert it, and after considerable coax ing he elicited tho following from her: " Last night I dreamed I was single, and as I wnlkul through a wed lighted street I came to a store where a sign in front advertised hus bands for sale. Thinking it curious, I entered, and ranged along the wall on either side were men wiih prices fix-d to them. Such beautiful men, and some for $1,000, some for $500, and so oa to $150. And as I had not that amount I could not purchase." Thinking to console her Mr. Bundy placed his arm lovingly around her and asked: "And did yon see any man like me there?" " Oh, ves." she replied, drawing away from him, " lots like you; they were tied np in bunches like asparagus, and sold for ton cents per bunch." Bundy got up and went to soe his lawyer as to whether he hadsufflcient'ground tor divorce. Califobnia bas no Vassar College, and the opportunity is yet open for some of our bonanza princes who are opposed to co-education, to fol low the oxample of Vassar, and place our girls on an equality with those of New York in hav ing an institution of. tbeir own, wkioh combines all the masouline advantages with the feminine graces and accomplishments in the system of education. But the girls at Vassar have somo queer ways. Among other things, they fall in love with one another, and some of the students get the reputation of being regular "lady killers, " though they are not known by that term there, but by one less delicate if more euphonious, " smashers." One of the young lady graduates lately wrote an interesting letter to a Buffalo paper about these "smashers." She says: I have seen girls' cry themselves sick, because their loved one smiled more favorably on some rival than on them. I have known of $C boxes of confectionery, and $15 bouquets being sent' through some zealous friend, by tbe victim to the victor. And speaking of these tokens of pure, unadulterated affection, reminds ms of something quite funny. The offerings are often more practical than poetioal. Dishes of pine apple, hot lemonade, fried oyBters, etc., are common, and one young womin of an in tensely practical turn of mind, sent to her adored one a hot boiled sweet potato! It is quite the thing at Vassar to have the reputation oi being a suocessiai "smasner.-- une enter prising young woman boasted of her three nuudre limited and flflv victims. Sim wah Malnn girl, and her charm lay in the faot that she was quite gentlemanly in appearance. Very few reach the zsnith of two dozen, and if one were to successfully aspire to more than that I think she mlcht sav: "Now let thv servant denart in peace." I think, also, that under the circum-1 stances it would be the inot laudable petition she could possibly'put up, Rural Press A lbttkr from Norwioh, Conn., to the Hart-1 evaporate for years. It is pleasant either to ford Times, contains the following story as told nave on one's parlor mantel or chamber toll by George W. Fuller, a submarine diver, who ' ette table. As a perfume for monchoir cases is now in the former oity: "While performing ' r scent bags it is unrivaled. Let thehonse somo work for ' Uncle Sam ' in oue of tbe i keeper also try laying it among the stores on Southern ports, where it was oustomary for tbe shelves ot her linen closet. those who supplied the market with early garden-truok to load their boats and row tbem around to tbe wharf, it happened that one day a burly negro loaded bis boat with water melons, and bad just reached the dock where tne usual number or loungers stood watcbing tliA AlUMtlnii. ftt ill iliv., rT'I.A am-n nil cnina i . jj ' unconscious of bis situation.' was zealoaslv en- UUVUUBU1UUS Ul UIB VUUttUUU, WttB ZrUIUUBJT 611 deavoring to disposs of bis cargo, when Fuller I suddenly emerg&helmet nr?t.Bfro.n the water, thrusting his goggle-eyes and ugly bead before the astouished occupant of tbe boat, and, seiz ing one of the largest of the melons, 'Bank im mediately. Tbe darkey, with a yell and a bound, reached the dock, and neither stopped miT iilrliiwt until ha v.ua)ia1 ItnniA ulth tl. tidings that ' de debble had 'nsoited de melons ' aud was taken urn down, ' " In tbe following lines, tbe word "that" is used to exemplify its various significations: Now ttai Is a word which ma often U J olned, Yot M tat mar ttt doublsd la clear to the muni j auii uoi hu hu m risni is a Plain 10 in view Aa tat Mot nil ( we uaa la rightly uwd tool and Uil Mai Ual ttiat ttaf lint has. Is rlftit In aooordanoa with grammar la 1'laln In oar sight. A MawAUKKC man says he wonld like to -be wrecked as Enoch Ardeu was and come home and And hi wife re-married. He'd go oat o( ths garden with hop and skip instead of breaking his heart. Mu tv ' -' ' - -'"- -" ' V)'T'i aAani.'Ti.ilinairiin.'f" -'-JftiMf;T- TfrTClg"' The Next Duty. This is an epoch of elevators. We do not climb to our rooms in the hotel; we ride. We do not reach the upper stories of Stewart's by slow and patient steps; we are lifted there. Toe Simplon is crossed by a railroad, and steam has usurped the place ot the Alpen-stock on tbe Bbiui. Tbe climb which used to give us health on Mount Bolyoke, and a beautifal prospect, with the reward of rest, is now purchased for twenty-five cents of a stationary engine. If oar efforts to get oar bodies into the air by machinery Were not complemented by oar efforts to get oar lives ap in the same way, we might not find much fault with them; but, in truth, tbe tendency everywhere is to get ap in the world without climbing. Yearnings after the infinite are in fashion. Aspirations for eminence even ambitions for nsefulness are altogether in advance of the willingness for the necessary preliminary discipline and work, The amount of vaporing among young men and young women, who desire to do something which somebody else is doing something far in advance of tnelr present powers is tearful and most lamentable. They are not willing to climb the stairway; they must go np in an elevator. Tbey are not willing to soale the rocks in a walk of weary hoars, under a broil ing sun; they would go np in a car with an umbrella over their heads. They are unable, or unwilling, to recoznize the foot that, in order to do that very beautiful thing which some tuuer ujuii in uuiuq, luey juusii gu niuwiy through the discipline, through the maturing processes of time, through the patient work, which have made him what be is, and fitted bim for his sphere of life and labor. In short, they are not willing to do their next duty, and lake what comes of it. No man now standing on an eminence of in fluence and power, and doing great' work, bas arrived at his position by going up an elevator. He took the stairway, step by step. He climbed the rocks, often with bleeding bands. He pre pared himself by the work of climbing for the work he is doing. He never accomplished an inch of his elevation by standing at the foot of the stairs with his mouth open and longing. There is no " royal road " to anything good not even to wealth. Money that has not been paid for in life is not wealth. It goes as it comes. There is do element of permanence in it. Tbe man who reaches his money in an elevator does not know how to enjoy it; so it is not wealtd to him. To get a high position without climbing to it, to win wealth without earning it, to do fine work without tbe discipline necessary to its performance, to be famous, or useful, or ornamental without preliminary cost, seems to be tbe universal desire or the young. The children would begin where the fathers leave off. What exactly is tbe secret of true success in life? It is to do, without flinching, and with utter faithfulaess, the duty that stands next to one. When a man bas mastered the duties around him, he is ready for those of a higher grade, and he takes naturally one step upward. Whoa he has mastered the duties at the new grade, he goes on climbing. There are no sur prises to the man who arrives at eminence legitimately. It is entirely natural that he should be there, and he is as much at home there, and as little elated, as when be was working patiently at tho foot of the stairs. There are heights above him, and he remains humble, and simple. Preachments are of little avail, perhaps; but when one comes intooontaot with so many men and womeu who pat aspiration in tbe place of perspiration, ana yearning' lor earning, and longing for labor, he is tempted to say to them: " Stop looking np, and look around youl Do the work that first comes to your hands, and do it well. Take no upward step until you come to it naturally, and have won the power to hold it. Tbe top, in this little world, is not so very high, and patient climbing will bring you to it ere you are aware. Dr. Holland, in Scribner. " Next Winteo's gwine to be a mighty hard one, ef ye b'lieve me," said a steamboat rouster on the elevator yesterday. " Why sot" a Herald reporter asked. " Look at de mus-keeters. " "Well?" " Y'ever see 'em so thick ?" " They are 'rather numerous." "And dey don't sing a bit." " Maybe they're oat of musio; besides, you know, tbe acoustics of this building are bad." "Cowstics?" "Noj.acoiufigure, sounds, you understand. Throats of the little warblers out of ord-r; ceiling of the building phonocamptic. Their little songs melt away in the distance, as it were; the sound is refracted, and " " Well, I don't know nuflia' 'bout dat. bo3s: nut x tell you's gwine to be a nard Winter. When you see so many sketers not singin' a bit. but iest cettin' down richt souare to hnsi. ness, you may know dey's layin' in a supply of pervismons lor a nara winter, uat s my sign," Vicksburg Heruld, Consebve of Rose Leaves. Gather the leaves of any s veet-seented, fresh, full-blonn roses, early in tbe morning, while tbe dew is still upon them. Have ready provided, equal auantities of cloves, mace and nutmeg, nrinklfl wiih suit, than with tliA nnippa tifa ' Dared. Take a box of anv hind (hut la rmhnr Bhallow, plaoe in the bottom a laver of rose leaves, sprinkle with silt, then with the spicts prepared; then put in another laver of rose leaves, then sp:ces, etc., nntil the box is filled, Lastly, tie on tightly a cover of sheer Swiss muslin, and expose to tbe sun daily until per- fectly dry. You may then pack the conserve in pretty china bottles, with wide mouths bat close stoppers, and you will be provided with a delicious perfume, whose sweetness will no: When ChildbknGbow Most. An old citizen ot Dayton, Ohio, who has raised two families, has been for many years in the habit of ob- 1 serving among other things the growth of tliAlinvn Anil oirla. Anil friAltAfl cnmA smnrtfilnrr .v .".. .. t .r.. B assertions, ne taxes tneir measures in Jan !)'u Julv ?na n8 discovered that growing . ,1 ' i V . -i " ? ,h fdf!n " far more between Jaunary and $ Jtth.0 1h.ehA1' ' he.v. J6?' ,,. during tbe former period. Tbe pbibjopber inters irom mis tnat an nature is uarmoniona, and that the physical growth of humanity is governed by tne same laws which prevail over tbe vegetable kingdom. Incident at a Pcauo School Examination. Philosopher to sharp bay What are the prop erties of heat. Boy The chief property is that it expands bodies, while cold contracts them. Philosopher Very good; give me an exam ple. Boy Iu summer, when it is hot, tbe days are long; in winter, when it is cold, tbe days are short. What is that doj barking at!" asked a fop, whose boots were more polished than hi ideas. " Why," aald tbe bystander, " he eea another puppy la your boots." KtcraM: Offensive People. If to be a good man and a snocessfnl man is offensive to tbe world at large, to be praised is exasperating. No greater dnkindness can be done to any man thsn to praise bim much. People generally will stand a moderate compli ment paid to a neighbor, while they are left to qualify it, or to admit it as a matter of gene rosity or courtesy: but praise persisted in will ruin the reputation of anybody. There is nothing more off nsive to the average human being than persistent laudation bestowed upon another. To bear a man warmly praised is sufficient usually to make us bate him; and it is only necassiry to have the praise repeated often enough to make us desire to shoot him. Praise is one of the articles we would like to have distributed a little not that we want it, but the object of it is not the best man if we know ourselves. Virtue is a good tbing, tern peranoe is a good thing, genius is not a bad thing altogether; bat no man is to be mentioned so many as ten times as having either of them in possession without making his name a stench and an offence to the nostrijs of a sensi tive world. The true way of getting along well in the world is not to make one's self offensive to one's friends by excellence of character and habits of life, by success, or by doing any tbing praiseworthy. Lst us strike tbe average as nearly as possible. Let ns be good fellows rather than gond men, and choke the first man who dares to asoribe to us a single virtue. Let ns all keep down and out of sight. All that we do for ourselves, and all that we do for man kind, only feeds hell with slanderers, and so betrays the baseness of human nature that we may well blush to think that we are members of the human race. Dr. J. O. Holland; Scrib ner for October. AWbinbxe about Obass." That's a new wrinkle, sure enough," said a friend who had been cultivating pasture and hay-fields all his life, yet had never notioed the faot of our com mon green grass shedding its roots in the winter, just like it loses its tops. Everyone who has given a strawberry bed a spring weed ing has noticed how very easy shoots of grass are pulled out then, although in tbe summer and autumn tbey are so very tenacious of their ground. In mellow soil grass sod can be rolled off with a prong hoe, and we know bow it is turned over with ease at the same season by bogs. This has much concern with grass cul ture, for in the short term which our climato allows for the growth of grass it is plain that a dry spell in April or May must be especially trying to grass, the new roots of which are then bnt issuing from the subterranean stems which lie in the soil very near the surface. Repeated trampling on lawns or pastures is at that critic 1 time especially injurious, although a single pressing or rolling is quite advantage ous by closing the earth into contact with all parts of the stems which are about to send down fresh roots. Where fresh sod is to be laid, the policy of paring it and placing it quite eirljr in the spring becomes, in the light of this " wrinkle," very obvious. Ex. Men and Their Faces. The life and works of Dante tally with his face. In the face of Cromwell the great front U miss of his brain, as left in his mask, and the power of his lower i'aw, are the upper and nether mill-stone3 of lis history. In modern portraits Garrison's lamb-like face has abolition; Grant tho grip, fighting it out on this line if it takes all sum mer, and leaving not a crow's ration in the valley; letting ns have peaoe in unconditional surrender. A true portrait is that incorrigible page of history which neither justice nor meroy invalidates. It is tbe dead-level of man 'mid fluc tuating fashion and fickle opinion. Oar national portraiture, though likely to be hang for a while in the Rogues' Gallery, is incorruptible history, every truly rendered face proclaiming, " Enow all men by these presents, ' as untying as light itself. A good likeness is a rogue's worst enemy. It will surely betray him, and anon retort on his alter ego, ' I told you so." God made man in bis own human image. So tbe soul creates its outer shell in likeness to itself. If the man is hid in his stature, it is the duty of tbe artist to pick him out. Scrib ner. Goino Abboad to School. As It is now the fashion to send children abroad to be educated, many parents will be glad to learn that an American school has been established in Ger many, at Stuttgart, where, with all tbe eclat of a European residence, young ladies and gentle men can be taught the same things as if they had stayed at home. An Exchange says "the Sandwich Islanders believe that Beelzebub walks the earth in the form of a woman." And now and then you will nna a man in tnis country wno believes so too, and that be has inarriei the woman. Courier Journal. The Late Texas Cyclone and the Signal Service Bureau. The efficiency of the United States Signal Service department has been clearly displayed on a great number of occasions, and one par ticularly on this coast, whereby, no doubt, much damage and disaster was saved to ship ping in this harbor. Tbe last, and perhaps one of the most notable instances of its efficiency, was evinced on the occasion of tbe late cyclone, which barst with such terriflo violence on the coast of Texas. This storm originated, probably, in the Car ribean sea, or to the eastward thereof, and tbns mostly outside tbe stations of observation, either under the direction of the Bureau or connected with it. Bat certain marked atmos pheric disturbances were noted upon its north ern margin in Georgia and Florida, from which it was inferred, three days before it bad reached Texas, that a cyolone was raging somewhere in the neighborhood of Cuba. The indications grew quite decided on tbe 13th nit , and danger signals were ordered np along tbe Atlantic, coast from southern Florida to Cape Hatteras. On the Hth tbe indications were still more de cided, but it was evident that tbe cyclone was moving more directly west than was at first supposed, and it was ordered that the signals on tbe Atlantic coast should be lowered and those on tbe Golf from Mobile to Texas should be raised. Had there been stations at Galves ton and Indianola, danger signals could have been ordered np there also. Tbe next day, Sept. 15th, tbe storm burst with the most in tense fury on tbe coast of Texas, where it wrought the terrible destruction, the fall par ticulars of which are now reaching ns by mail. Rxubeb rnoM Milkweed. A substance simi lar to and answering all the purposes of India rabbsr, has been produced from the common milkweed ascleplas cornatl. By tbe action of fermentation on this weed, the yield of elastio valcanizible gam is largely increased and very much improved in quality, aa compared with that obtained from the unfermented weed. The result of exneriments civs a vield of five ner cent, and it is thought the yield might be in creassd if the waed was ground to a greater de gree of Inenesa before fenaeatatloB. - 1.- :.'.jj!',,ti.m Yoil(Q Folks' V A Manly Boy. What is it makes a boy manly? sizs or weight, for there are some lat boys that are any tbing bnt manly . Wi once, a big, burly fellow about fourtesi old, with a fist like a small sledge bammi a voice as load, almost, as that of mul we did not think he was very manly whe saw him pick no a small boy, who was qui E laying with a little wooden wagon, lift abo Is bead, while be soreamed in his ear as lou as be could, and then set him down. The little fellow was pale with fright, and cried; the big fellow went his way, ha-ha-ing as he went, no doubt thinking he had done a very fine thing. But he was not manly. Nor does the power to smoke cigars, without getting sick, make a manly boy. Some boys think so, we know. We have even seen small boys, nine or ten years old, pick up stumps of cigars whioh men bad thrown into the gutter, and puff away at them, hold ing np their beads and stalking along, as if to say, "Ladies and gentlemen, look at us. We are men, we are. We smoke" and we don't get siok." Bat tbey are not men. A manly boy is one .who shows good manly qualities. We do not expect him to be as wise as a man. Bat he will be truthful, honest and well behaved. He will never speak of his father as tbe "governor," or the "old man," nor will he speak of ' his mother as the "old woman." He will not be ashamed to have it known that he loves both his father and mother; nor will he be afraid of all the ridicule which silly boys may heap upon him because of this love. They may call him a "baby," and say what they please about being "led by his mother's apron strings;" he does not mind that, for he knows he is right. He will never engage In low, mean sports, bnt will do noth ing for fan that he would be afraid to tajk about at the dinner table. He does not tor ment small boys, but is ready to help them when he can. His sisters are not careful to hide their work, their books or their toys from bim, lest he should disturb or destroy them; he wonld never think of that. He is careful not to ba greedy at the table, or rode in oompany, but remembers that others have rights as well as himself. , Does anybody say this is all very well to talk about, bat that no one ever yet saw such boys sb are here described? We answer, ''There are such boys, plenty of them." They are as fall of tun as othor boys; tbey equal anybody at tbe different sports in which boys ball, and roll hoop, and ran just like other boys; bat their behavior is gentle and kind. xnese manly boys, wnen tbey grow np, will make real men; they will be. in the best sense of tbe word, gentlemen. Ex. Childhood's Dictionary. George Macdonald says that "It is marvel ous how children can reaoh tbe heart of troth at once." And tbe author ot "Childhood" gives some beautiful children's definitions of simple things: Answer to prayer. "Mamma, did God say 'Yes' ?" Apple tree in blossom. "God's boquet." Apples. "Jbe babbles the apple trees blow.' r Baby. "A live doll." Baokbiter. "What does backbiter mean?" "Please, sir, it may be a flea." Baldness. "Isn't grandpa growing up through his hair ?" A boy who was sitting playfully on his father's bald head said, naively, "Father, I must get this seat upholstered." Baptized (mistaken for vaccinated.) "My boy, were ypu ever baptized ?" "Oh, yes, half a dozen times, but it never took." Bed time. "Shut-eye-time." Bill of a fowl. "Nose." "What's the matter with you, my pet?" "O auntie I I just went to tonch a little ohloky, and the old ben growled at me and bit me with her nose." "If You Please." When the Duke of Wel lington was siok, the last thing he took was a little tea. On his servant handing it to him in a saucer, and asking if he would have it, the Dake replied, "yes, if yon please." These were his last words. How muoh kindness and cqurtesy are expressed by them I He who had oommanded great armies, and was long accus tomed to the tone of authority, did not over look the small courtesies of life. Ah, how many boys dot What a rude tone of command they often use to their little brothers and sisters, and sometimes to their mothers! They order so. This is ill-bred, and shows, to say tbe least, a want of thought. In all your home talk re member "if yon please." To all who wait upon or serve you, believe that "if yon please" will make you better Berved than all tbe cross or ordering words in tbe whole dictionary. Do not forget these three little words "if yon please." A little Bangor girl, after returning from church Sunday, was found at tbe washbowl, sprinkling her doll's head. She excused herself to her mamma by saying that tbe minister told tbem that all children who would go to heaven should be baptized, and she was't going to risk ' Sissy' any longer. What Went Oveb thk Central Pacific Railboad Last Month, During the month of September the freight shipped over tbe Cen tral Pacifio railroads was as follows, tbe amounts being given in pounds: From San Francisco Wine, 387,391; rags, 7.7i5; wool 3,718,203 (7.300 bales) ; cigars! 5.373; cannld 522d.M'347i lnon, 1,162,656 cases; salmon 358 325 barrels; Beal skins, 493,333; fur seal' 8, 777; teajotter, 3,566; land otter, 245; beaver skins, 6,59a; mink skins, 614; deer skinB, 2,678: marten skins. 705; bear skins, 365; silk goods. 80',743iP le8' 3'833! refln borax, B Sf1"' A3iE0; ,ea- 3.109.786; Chinese merchan- !!' ?2?' -wheat' 2167'! bftriey. 507,821; lal, 19,496; ivory, 16,963; quicksilv'er, 98 070 leather, 23,759; hops, 57.426; brandy, 13 027 : antimony, 19 240; glue, 42,925; syrnp 42;i8oi tty hi?8!o232,495i woolen WaC 16900 K6 h3H'' To8"1' 5'392i Mk fruit, S'Togggfol' 2'985; ae"'""". a.: Amebican Stbeet Cabs Fob Russia. The shops of John Stephenson & Co., in New York have recentlv comoleted ami ihimuj ... ! . cars for the St. Petersburg tramwayoompany, of 6t.Petersbnrg. Russia. That companyhii also ordered several cars from English andBel gian makers, which are to be n sed-i noomDeti- lion Willi lO ln.... -..?'- 1 .7 . """"" ana tne nnal oontraot for a larce nnmhw nf .. -in t. iVT .1 oS1" wh0M work. P moit "tisfac. tory . The cars are somewhat different from those in use in this country. beincarranS V"."0." I0 "f? i.niiide' Md the number on the top. The length of the cars is twenty-sixtot! As no passenger will he lin.. ur"Xl cars, when loaded can be drawn by tn horses m sSSh.ff Ty- Bd the " top h.r!2?,!d b' tMy7 each end of tha car. The empty ,, wdgh mbont i m, Kaoiau, pnoarn, 91,135 each. i-. a&vf . a,