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About The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 9, 1886)
V i. , A DESOLATE SCENE. a. Visit to the Region Affected by the Great Earthquake in Now Zealand. i Veritable Womlerhutl, Rich in the Molt Mcirvloti3 Omtion of ' Nature. , The Acid I'.lvor. 1 left Ohincniutu In company wltli Mr. Goldsmith, district surveyor, ami, tfter throe hours' riding through a aiountuinous fern-clay country, reach ed the survey camp at Harehcru bush, i few m les from the most southern jrator and close to the edge of the mud line. On the road from Ohinumutu very foxv indications of the eruption aan be observed. On the Moorangi ranges, at the base of which the track .les, the deposit ejected on the 10th of June still remains, giving a bluish tint :o the lofty hills. As Harehcru is ap proached, however, the signs of vol :anie action become more evident. The ground is covered with a depth of iovoral inches with scoria, ashes, and auul, and hero and there onithquake jracks are met with. These are caused oy a subsidence of the ground, and in tituost every case follow the Lues of former depressions which are a very inarkud feature yf the country. It is also noteworthy "that thev invariably run northeast and southwest the di rection followed by the great fissure or Jino of volcanic force. The cracks vary in width from a few inches to two or three feet, and in some places are from three to four feet deep. After a short rest at the camp 1 started for the southern crater, pasmg on the way a part of the bush whic.-t has the ippoaraneo of having been subjected to the full force ot a. scorching blast. About half an hour's walking brings you to the miul-l.no proper, Helmut you high brown fern clothes the ridges and val leys, while in front, as far as the eye can reach, stretches a mighty undulat ing ocean of dull gray mud, in the cen ter of which rises an enormous volume of pure vh to steam, while in the back ground 'J'arawera, gashed and broken lowers, If. 800 feet into the sky. It is a scene of fearful desolation, of which no one who has not gazed upon it can form the faintest conception. In most places the mud is consolidated, and is as hard us cement, but here and there one comes across nast. patches in wh.ch xou s nk at every step over the knee. Walk ng under such circumstances is excessively dillicult and fatiguing. The mud clings like glue to the fool and leg. and it re quires considerable physical strength to get through these places. 1 was fully an hour crossing a patch of soft mud, which under ont nary circumstances 1 could have walked over in live or ten minute;. Willi the exception of thesj places, which can not be avoided, walk ing, though laborious, presents no very great d llietilty. The surface is furrow ed in all directions, presenting a .simi lar appearance to plowed laud, while deep water course are frequently met with. The southern crater is formed in a high hill, the sides of which are covered w th fragments of rocs, prin cipally trachyte. From the lip to the hot lake at t;ie bottom of the crater is between live and six hundred feet. Very little steam arises from this crater, but the water in it was boiling furiously and landsl ps were constantly occur ring. A little to the northeast of this crater is a hot Ink.) of about an acre in extent. This has been called Echo lake, from tho fact of a remarkably distinct echo being heard here. In a large number of places it was bo'Iing with great fury, and its surface was covered with diny colored foam. The sides of the lake arc hiirh and steep, but at one po nt t hoy have been broken through, and three weeks ago the lake poured out enormous volumes of boiling water at this point, which formed a river of con siderable diinens ons, and its course can bo diat netly traced, tho banks be ing from twenty to thirty feet high in some places. Since then, however, the lake has fallen and is now several feet below ts former level. Divided trom the lake by a narrow strip of land is the Hole-in tho-Wnll crater, an enormous gap in the snlo of tho hill. It is an ugly an 1 fearsome place, lull of steam and water of mky blackness. Th s crater an 1 the lake have a playful habit of squirting water and throwing stones into each other. Fortuuutol , however, the day I stood between them the refrained from in dulging in this sport. All round tho hillsides right down to the margin of tho lake whero 1 was the ground was covered w th indentations, marking whero heavy stones had fallen and buried themselves in the mud, sp'.-i-h-ing in all droclions. and g ving tho side of tho hill the appearance of hav ing been bombarded. These depres sions are ercular in form and vary from lour to thirty feet in c.rciinifor enee. Tho Rothomanana craters which lie beyond were sending up u beaut ful oloud of steam and thunder. ng away with great act vity. The wuul was bitterly cold and swept over tho bleak mud-covered hills with tremendous force, earning with it clouds of pebbly dust. Hound I ho cone of the southern crater the surface is br.lliantly bujow elud with beautiful white crystals, xvhiuh sparkle like diamonds in the sunshine. Tho return to camp was a fatigu'ng journey, ami crossing the soft mud which had grown softer and sticker than over, "wits a toilsome pioce of work. Dur ng the night several shocks of earthquake were experienced, and. the d. slant rumbling of tho craters sounded oloar Htid unenunv in the still nwss of lh mid. light. In tho Wai.uapu valley, w10i, nos botwoun these two gint peaks, there k u new wonderland, r eh in tho most marvelous erent on of a tmstor.ous nature, and hitherto unexplored by tourists. There aro hundreds of ltunarbies, hot .priugs. stoum holes, lakes of the mot lov ly tints -front rich green to deep blue nat " biulin, clour us crystal, and luiuu.urc terraces of great beauty, although falling far short of tite matchless charms of the p nk and white terraces. At present there are no tracks in this new won derland, imd traveling is consequently somewhat dillicult. but 1 bolievo it is lite intention of the government to con st ruet a good track through the valley, the whole of which ought certainlv to be procured for the us.s of the public. When projerlx opened out the region will beyond quest on become the chief attraction of the lake distrct At present, however, the volcanoes aro the "Teat s ght, and will long continue to Tie so to the scientist and the mere sight seer. They are objects which are unique in the world. 1 have traversed tho whole of the northeast side of the enormous fissure front near Lake Okaro r ght to the top of Mount Tarawcra. and can therefore speak with some amount of authority of tlioextraordinary character of thecoun try. The journey occupied two days, but it is possible to "do it in less lime. Fol lowing the edge of the tissurc. after crossing the Keho lake, we reached a high hill overlooking the Hotoinahana craters. Standing upon this lofty em inence, wh.ch 1 may name hero as Mount Herald, one had a splend d view right down into the craters, many hundred of feet below. The dense volumes of snow-1 ke stream rising slowly from hundreds of d lie rent points, and merging into one enormous cioud, formed a kaleidoscopic picture of indeseribablo beauty. Continuing our journey northward we got into a deep water-course, the banks of which r.so on either side to between fifty and sixty feet. Getting down the narrow channel, which in places made a sheer descent of from twelve to twenty feet, was not a very agreeable experience, as the overhanging masses of mud threatened to come tumbling on the to of us any moment. However, slid ing, dropping, leaping, and scrambling, wo succeeded in getting out of it m safetv. It led us into an enormous ani ph theater which has been blown out of the sloping ridges formerly ran down to the margin of Uotoniahiia lake. The wall-like back of this amphitheater is formed with marvelous regu larity. This great arena is filled with huge bowlders anil tremendous masses of rock. In tho center, h.ss ing out from a pile of broken rock, is a stream of boiling water, which rushes with great velocity over tho fragments of trachyte which lie in its course, tinting them a rich brilliant red, and winds along the arena and pours into one of the craters, where it is evaporated. Crossing the veritable Waiwora river which is about twelve feet wide, required great caution to avoid getting scalded. We next cross ed the lied river, a. stream of cold wa ter highly impregnated with iron and t nged the color of blood, and pitched our tent on a mud ledge on the banks of what we named the Acid river. The water was tepid and had an alum taste, and, as we d.scovercd later on gives oil' suffocating gases. Wo were able to procure some firewood, and after some d llieulty succeeded in finding cold water the color of the mud around us. We had lea, and when it grew dark, we turned in for the night. None of us slept verv souudlw The tent got lilled with the fumes from the river, which caused a stilling sensat on. The craters close to us kept warning inces santly, and the spring wh eh fed our Acid river worked itself up now and then into an alarming nlnte of activity, threatening to send the stones which blocked its vent living around. To in crease our uneasiness we could hear tlie mud banks on the sides fall.ng with a loud splash into the river at intervals. During the night it was cold and our bed of mud was painfully hard. Soon after daylight we were up. and as wo had slept n our clothes some of us in our hats and mittens our dress ing did not occupy much time. After bicakfast Mr. Smith and myself, accom panied by Harry Lunditis. started to ascend Tarawcra. The sides of the mountain were covered with fine scoria ash, as hard as rock, rendering it dilli cult to got a footing. When near the top of the mounta n we came across a frozen lake, and in the crevices there were snow and ice. Tho top of the mountain is beaut fully colored by lite fumes from the steaming holes wh oh line tho edge of the fissure. The de posit is quite .000 feet in places. Stand ing on the edge of tho fissure, we could look down into tho craters, winch arc now quiescent. They aro d vided from one another by narrow ridges. Great cracks run along the edge in some places, threatening a trein ndous laud slip. Gigaut.c bowlders lie on top in all directions, having been thrown out of the craters, and, looking at these enormous masses, some idea can bo formed of tho tremendous force which must have been tit work to throw them up from a depth of 700 feet. The descent was accomplished in safety. On the way down wo witness oil a fresh eruption between To Hupo o Toroa and Kom ti. This new volcano was ejecting stones and mud to a great height and omitting a hirgo cloud of steam. Previously there was a small tepid lake hero, which looked innoconl enough, and no ouo would have sup posed it likely to be the seat of a fresh outbreak. At the fool of Tarawcra, in the line of the chasm, a beautiful green lako has been found. Hut I must re servo a detailed account of all we saw until another time. Wc reached our tent on tho Acid river, and as tho weather looked threatening wc decided to push on to camp. We therefore packed up, and each with a huge swag on his back started for Paroheru. which we reached nt dark, and just as tho rain began to couio down in torrents. llotorua Cor. Auckland Herald. A Delicate Sense. Tito spoctroicopo capable of indi cating tho millionth part of a milli gram of sodium has Ihjoii regarded as tho most delicate of all moans of anal ysis. Its keenness proves to bo far surpassed, hoxvovoi by that of tho sense of smell, late European investi gation having shown that the nerves of the nose aro sensibly afl'ected by one four-hnndrod-and sixtieth part ot a m Jligram of liiorcaptaii a milligram boing .0151 of a grain. And if such be the delicacy of human snioll, what must be the minuteness of tho smallest part clo which max produce n 'jnnrea tiou on the uoso of u dog! NO HArtM IN KISSING. The w.itr tli. jvl blv ,liore, Tlie wind ' k; tin li'!li; Tlie untx-nms .s the tulip buii For the o.lor It distils. The drwdrojH kiss tli roc at mora, The i-ereons iew at ev"; Tlie fern mid flown- enrircllug clasp Iu mystic leant ies weave. The moonbeams kiss the rlmnl t night. The star cem kiss the sea, While shadows, dieiimily and soft Are k is.i i,T oa the sett. The 8Purs kfs the Imilrilmc pink That blooms en Ix-anty's !ln, The ruder Wrists though cold aud clilU, Its ruddy nectar tip. The wind, the wave, tlie huddli!)' tloxx'crs, The latiiililnir. inorrv rills. Are Ulsiiie all IYomi morn till eve, And clouds still Mss the hills. Even Heaven and earth do meet to kls Through tears of sparkling dew; lu Uhslug then, can there be harm! I don't thluls so do jouj A Family Man. ' One of the patty hail just road a newspaper paragraph concerning the prolilicness of a Georgia family, when old General Madtield said: "Yes, twenty-one children are surely enough for any one family, that is. if the father anil mother are not very fond of children. 1 have known of families, however, where you might take txvculx-onc out of tho llock aud then some one, look ng at tho rest, would say. 'my gracious 1 never saw the like of children.' Some time ago I traveled on horse back through tlie northwestern part of the state. One dav 1 fell in with a rather companionablo old fellow who jogged along on a pony. At night, on on occasion, we stopped at a house and requested accommodations for tlie night. The owner of the place, a newly married young fellow, treated us with much courtesy, and tho next morning when we proposed to settle, he would not accept a cent. While we were standing at tho gate, my compan ion, addressing our host, said: "It scents to me that I have seen you before." 'Is it possible that vou don't know me?' I know our face, but I cannot re call your name.' "W'y, I'm your son Hill, the one that married last week.' 'W'y, how aro you. Hill shake, old fellow. 1 knew that one of my boys got married, but I'll be dinged cf " I did't forget which one.' " 'Ann's married too.' " 'Ann who?' " 'W'y, sister Ann married vcslor day.' . '"Your sister Ann! Oh. yes,' ho ex claimed, with suddenly recollection, 'the one with long, light ha.r with one eye a little out of plumb.' " 'Oil, no, you aro thinking about Jane.' ' 'That's a fact, I have got them mixed. Let me see, Hiil, what was your mother's name?' " 'Emily; was old Archie Smith's daughter.'' " 'Ah, hah. but do you remember which one of my wives she was?' " 'The fourth'ouc, 1 have heard her say.' " 'Yes, so she was. My stars, how t'lno does lly! A family grows up around a man before ho can scarcely realize it.' " 'How mail)- times have you been ntarriedl1' I asked, as we rode along. "He took out a greasy old account book, turned to a page covered with figures, and said: 'Ten t mes. Haven't had the best of lueic with inv wives.' " 'How many children have you?' "lie scratched his head, in an em barrassed way, and repl cd: 'Now ou've got mo. Hill, back .winder, is putty good at figures, but I never could do much iu arithmetic' "Arkansuw Traveler. Open Wide tho Windows. Directly tho sun begins to decline, let every midden and housewife, and man aud woman and child with an eye for tlie p cturesque, and a feeling for health cud bounty, throw up the Venetian or I'ar'sian bl.nds. Open your rooms to the glories of the evening; throw up and pull down the sa-hes; open wide all your doors. Let cool breezes enter tint corridor and cellar and garret and room; let the 'caller" air circulate through every inch of tho house hour after hour, while you are getting your evening meal, while you say your pray ers, while you think of others after the toils of the day. If it be your priceless lot to dwell apart from city life, and have outside your cottage or villa or mansion, flowers, those lovelv gifts of Dame Nature, lot scents of roses and thymo couio in at everv gap in Hie hedge, at every rift of the wall, at ev ery cranny of the house scents of rose mary and mignonette, and lavender and borganiot. and lil' and elderborrv. Welcome tho del cato perfume on its cooling, refreshing, heallhv m ssion. It is Ilvge.'s gift a superlative boon for tho dog days. Dc3 Monies Mail. Altogether Too I'urticular. A guost at a hotel iu Florida taMcd of the butter and asked tho waiter what it was. Tho servants didn't know, and tho head-waiter was call ed. He professed his ignorance, aud the guest sought tho landlord. "That." said tho host as ho tasted it, "probably represents butter." "Hut don't you know?" "Not exactly. I've got a steward who is groat" on experiments, and whether this is crenmory, dairy, com mon, artificial or tho Chicago buttorino J can't say. James, take this gentle man out and introduoo him to tho stew ard, and see that it is charged extra iu ids bill." Wall Street News. What tho lieu Thought. "Mama," saiil a little girl, "I love hens, boouuso they think of their pray ers evory day." "Dumb animals never prav, Lucv." "Hut a hen always thinks about it; tho first throe words of it, anyway." "What are the llrt thrco words, Lucv?" Now Hay." Carl J'ntsel a Weekly. nnr,mjtri THE IDtAL. NEWSPAPER. An Ititerottiitr Itsiny on Journalism bj tlenry Wnttcrsoti -1 ho Three tniilliiiil Vrlnelnlos of l)ls lntoresteUucsx. ( leanll-. ness, nml Cnnnvlty. In a letter to The LomsviUc Courier John.nl from Lausanne Henry Watter soti writes: Yet, after all. has not lit erature, and particularly fictitious liter ature, under its old forms, very nearly run its course? is there anything iu books which the newspaper, adequate ly rendered, can not better produce and supply, except the records of times when there were no newspapers ad milling that works of the imagination have exhausted their possibilities and spent their force? Mind you, no man thinks less of the current newspaper than I do. It is a vast power minli reeted, and, 1 was almost going to say, wasted. Hut 1 have in my fancy a newspaper not so misdirected or wasted, conducted under flic largest sene of public and personal.responsibiliiy. cd t cd with tact. ah. lily, and care, intelli gently and cleanly, and, where the oc iiision requires. brilliantly written, .uul yet furnished with all the re sources of modern enterprise and or ganization. Xo newspaper answering this de scription now exists iu the world, and perhaps none is likely to exist for a long time to conic. Hut ouo will exist as soon as the experiment is tried bv a man equal to the task aud master of the situation immediately at hand. Then the public, seeing what a news paper can be, will not hesitate to make its choice; and. after that, it will pav no man of brains and ambition to lish mud out of the sewers. Hut, it may be asked, what ought a newspaper to be. and what can .1 be? It should, to begin with, bo a history, nnd a complete history, of yesterday, neatly and justly told. It should, to end w th. be a chronicle of the life and thought, and, as far as may be, a ic llectiou of the temper and tone of tho people, done with absolute fideli'.y. I'he newspaper which first achieves Ihe.-e purposes will be the greatest of practical successes, just as those news papers which have approached litem nearest have been tho greatest practi rnl successes. At tho bottom of this seheino lio lliree cardinal principles. They are: Disinterestedness. Cleanliness. Capacity. The ideal editor need not be nay, ho must not be a neutral, or a ''free lance," Often the worst kinds of ser vil ty and corruption are found nias querating under the pretense, and -oinetinies the actual belief, of "inde pendence." No man can amount to much in this world who does not be lieve in something, and who lias not some method in his believing, aud to say of a man that he is not a partisan is to imply that he is either a scamp or a skeptic. The ideal cd tor maybe as partisan as he pleases. Hut he must be disinterested; thai is to say, ho must Do what he claims to be, and must seek ,o r. present the truth, as ho sees it, for truth's sake, and not for the sake of an olliee or a job. lie must deal fairly and frankly by the punlic. Even the professed nd orates of special interests by do ng so have gained great ered t; how much more credit is to be gained and merited by one who dedicates him self wholly to tho general interest? Too honest to be bought and too bravo to be bull cd, such an one needs only capacity to compass every end possible to the reason of li s being, lie will es U.blish between his re a lers and him self a perfect understanding; just such an understanding as is established be tween the upright, banker and his de positors or the honest lawyer and his clients. Journalism, if journalists would only sec it, is qu te as exact a science as law and bank ng, and to if the same gener al prine pies should bo applied as aro ajipl cd to other professions which de pend upon the faith and credit of the many, and which look for tho.r re wards to the service they render the public. Tho banker who neglects Ins bank, tho lawyer who quits li s ollico to seek other kinds of profit, or fancied profit, political or otherwise, than be long to his legit mate business loses no matter what ho may gain by his venture professional charaeier anil custom. So will and so doos the journalist. Journalism is no less n jealous mistress than law, and will as reluctantly div.de her favors with an other. Indeed, iu public life the best, and all, that any man can huvo is a constituency; and this, once inquired, may not be trifled with. Ho who is true to it will stand, as ho who is not will fail, aud the rule works precisely the same iu tho press as in politus. There have been, of course, somo journalists who have shouo in ollicial I fc, but not many, because the condi tions that make a man brill ant iu journalism aro tho reverse of those which mako him brill. ant iu olliee. The business of the journalist is to arrest tho attention of the public from dav to day, and this puts u strain upon the in ventive faculties and tho nerve energy' which are at war with tho steady and Uurdy composure indispensable to sue cesssul administration. In his public intercourse tho journalist Is a ib-hatcr, not an administrator. Ho must bo ready upon tho instant for all comers, is allowed no time to rolled or prepare, and has to spoak to every disjointed thought, giving each its proportion. An event, an idea, no bigger than tlie first ray of tho morning sun, appears above tho surface of ulliurs; he can not wait for litis to disclose itself, bul'must deal with it nt once; it shows its face a little more, aud ho must murk tho change aud deal w th tl at; and, finally, by tho time it has reached its complete de velopment and is ready for statesmen to tako hold of it, tho journalist has put it before his roudors iu many ways, according as it may havo altered its aspects in tho process of rising above the horizon ami ascending to its zenith. He who is unwilling to submit him eolf to the limitation which such work ts this imposes had beat leave journal Am severely alone; but to those who Teal'ZO it and accept it there are lively times and plenty of uscfuluos ahead, for few puru t in the woiM are more var able and ecii ng than journal in. Hut I was speak, ng of literutfir'! and journal:sin. and Ihe gradual crowding out of the one b the ntber. Already the greatest publishing houc4 are the great newspaper oliiees. 'i'he eminent propagandists of Christendom no long er rely upon books. To lie ecluded from the nowspap rs or ignored by them, is to be lost. 'In Mr. Gladstone and to Dr. Doellingcr. to Mr. ltu-k n and to Mr. llenrv George the newspa per is a necessity. The press of lite world can anv day of the year, and by a Hash, as it were" supply fifty million of readers. Its wealth is proportion ate. Three or four newspapers can form a s ndicate to overbid anv possi ble combination of book publisher-. The end must be. therefore, that the best writing will find its best compen sation iu the journals, and. as time goes on, the journals will gradually draw to themselves the best writers. When that time comes, it will not be, as now in journalism, a contest of epi grams and epithets, in which those who are the sane est couio oil' victorious, but an open aud responsible competi tion for legitimate patronage, based upon the principles of supply and de mand which prevail iu other liiins of business enterpr.se. No until who has marked and consid ered the wontl rful progress of journal ism tlie lust forty yours can doubt this, or fail to. see that the journal of the future will surpass the journal of tho present day in character and tone quite as far as the journal of to-day surpasses the journal of yesterday in opportunity and equipment. The ideal journalist must be inde pendent of the political managers and the party workers. To be so independ ent lie must keep out of their company. He must bn independent of the ad vertisers. To be so independent he must give litem a medium of eoninuini calion which they can not dispense with. He must lit' . independent of money pressure. To be so independent he must mind his own bit-ness exclu sively, a process which rarely fails to secure pecuniary independence, the root of every kind of independence. Ten years of honest ell'ort in these di rections will establish him who makes it in public credit, and that alone is any man's fortune. King the Hell Softly. A drummer for an eastern houso sat amid a group of colleagues who wore admir.ng his veracious style of spin ning "calkers," when one of the gang said: "Tell us a fish yarn. Hob." "I'll go ye." said Hob, and forth with he' commenced: "I took my vacation last week and 1 ran across Grove.r, who was on a fishing excursion, i inv led myself to become one of the party aud had a good lime. While we were throwing ll es in the pools. G rover dropped li s seal ring in the water. He took it easy, as though he never expected to see it aga.n. About a half an hour later we hooked a line large trout wh ch, when he was lauded, we cut open, and what do you think was found u him?" 'Here! Here!" the crowd exela'nte.l. ".Somebody pull the boll." "You can l pull any lulls on me un less yon can guess "what was m the trout." "Spring something now, Hob. Tho ring story is too old." "I have said nothing about Ihe ring. When the trout was opened, we found the New York base-ball club ins'do hid ing away from ilio Chicagos." Van rrcUel's'Ucechf. A Hint (o Lovers. If any limit desire to know the char acter of his chosen future wife, let him tako her hand and hold it up between him and the light. If considerable In terstices and eh uks show themselves between the lingers it is a sign of n desperate inquisiilvonoss. Mrs. Hluo beard doubtless possessed such ill-lilting fingers. If on the contrary, the lin gers lit closely together, Ih-y denote avar ce. Secret hoard, cheese-par. ng tendencies, and a candlo-ond style of of liousekeep ng may be prophesied by tho light of ch rosopht in such eases". This may be one of tho instances in which the study is to bo found praeti cally useful. In the sum j way young women may bo advised to choose a hus band whose hands are naturally red. His d sposilion will then be cheerful, sanguine, hopeful. The man with dark colored hands w 11 prove an indifferent compan on. Ho inclines to biliousness aud melancholy. If the hands are wdtite, Ihuv denote a phlegmatic d spo sit on, one scarcely mora agreeable to live wilh than tho bilious and melan choly. .Siiin'H lleiul Level. Sunt Jones, the evangelist, has a busi ness shrewdness about hint that insures success'. Ho says: "I am worth $100 a day now, but if I got enough newspa per advertising I'llsoou be worth 81. 000 a day when 1 preach, and then I'll go to Europe." Many a merchant and manufacturer could profit by adopting a judicious system of newspaper udver tis ng. Let buyers know what you huvo to soil. Shrewd advertisers are aban doning all, other advertising mediums and devices except the well established newspapers. ISoalo i Jliulgct. A Productive Tree. "My son," said a father to ltls little boy, "what tree yields the most fruit?" "The apple tree?" said tho bow "No." "Tho poor tree?" "No.'' "Tho peach troo?" "No," "1 guess it Is tho axle treo then, papa." Carl I'rclzeVa Weekly. Ail Aid to Jloinory. Cimdlfato to voter I bollovo you promised to vote for me. Voter I don't recolluot. I've prom ised to vote for o nuiny fellers that I can't exactly remember. "Take sumethlng?" "Don't euro If 1 do. Hy the way, 1 bolievo I did promise to vote for you." Uoo'laU'a bun. PULLING FODDER. 1M11 Arp'8 Sketch of n Country S-'ccno Hulling fodder looks like a hard busi ness. writes Hill Arp to The Al'antt Constitution. My tenants get to tin field early while tho grass and tin weeds and the morning glory vines an all wot with dew. and tho ground L sticky with moisture. They aro toot wet up to their knees, and tite r pant Hop around their ankles and th-' d-nv drops fall iu their sleeves, but the.' don't seem to mind it. Hy and bv oi the situ mounts up over llietn the dev disappears, and the sultry heat coma' down and there is no chance for i breeze iu the low ground coin, but still they pull away, and talk and laugh at merry as if they were hav ng a frolic Then ho has to tie it up and carry i llirough long rows to tho cud of tin field, and the big pile of twenty o: thirty bundles is all over Ins head" anc his shoulders anil ho goes bump uj along the cornstalks anil gets tho trust all down his neck and in his exes, bin still he don't mind it, nnd brags hoxi many bundles he carr.ed and nevci dropped nary one. There is soniething mighty cheerfij about xvilling labor, toil that "is content cd sxveat that is no curse. 1 couldu' pull fodder if I was willing, bull ac not xvill.ng. If I had a step-lad lor am a boy to tote it along fri.iu stock ti stock and there was no dew .ill I the siis xv as behind :. cloud, 1 might xen uro I short row. Heiug xvilling is the grea thing about labor. He ng xv Hingis tin secret of success in anything. 1 heart, an old man say that "any man couli quit drink ng xvhisky "or chexviu tobacco if he xvus xv Ming. He it. us get his own consent the lirt th ng, auc then it is easy to do. It is a man's nature to xvork up ox netly to h s lens. on. II. s task must b done. I'ullmg fodder is dis.tgre able but the fanner's m.nd has been xvurkei! up to that for years and so it is al right. It is part of his business. W all string up our nerves and our xviil tc the tension of our condition, our necessi tics. It is like luriiing a screw on a vio. tin to get the. strings up to tho chord. When they slacken they won't play it harmony and wo must tighten tin tension again. Dr. Felt on lives tw miles from toxvn, and I live live and my minor Wccms lix'cs ton 'J ho doctor's road is just as lonji to him as mine is to me, or as the tet miles is to Mabor Weenis. Wo have al got used to the task, the journey, and screwed our fiddles up to that tension, but I xvould get awful tired if I had to gc as far as Weems and Dr. I'ellon xvouldn't live xv hero 1 do for anything. The doctor is sorry for me, anil I aiu sorry for Weenis, and ho is sorry foi somebody beyond him, but our sympa thy is xvasted. There is lots of sympa thy xvasted in this xvorld, but it "shoxvi a good heart to have it. As the burden is, so tho strength shall be. If l.iboi is rewarded it is all right. Rowland says he don't mind pulling foilder at all if "it don't, get. wet and spoil in the curing. Contentment is xvnat xvo al xvant, and the poor man can In as con tented as tho rich one if his labor is ro xvardeil a reasonable reward. Then il is xvilling labor. Tho watchman gooi on duty xvillingly at midnight. The doctor hears the door-bell r.ng xvillingh when deep sleep litis possesst d hiin oti a cold and stormy night. Tho ni rht editor of the daily pap-r s a wimp slave to the lump. Every true mat. will serexv his courage up to thostiekinj point if the rexvard is iu sight. Hough I'Yeil Needed. Under this head, argues the Wash ivfjton Tost, all domestic animals noei rough feed, or "stover," in xed nlonj xvith tho lino food hos as well as tin rest. In the case of tho rtiiniiiatiu animals it is doubtful if gra n or men. fed alone goes to the first stomach a. all. A largo majority of tho expert moots made to determine this po nt, clearly show that lino tods do not, tc any material extent, go to tho lirsi sloiitaeh xvhon fed to cattle alone; am! if feed does not go to the first stoniaoli. it can bo only very imperfectly digest ed, since it escapes the maccral nj process of the runteii, and bo ng renins. t eaticiited and mixed xv th tho saliva. How true this is every feeder of cattle, iu the West at least, must know. A largo proportion of tho kernels of oori. cute. i by the animals is found in theii droppings, nomu xvhole, others broken, but all und gested. if thoy had passet' into tlio first stomach they xvould havi boon raised an I renmstiealcd, aud cer tainly xvould not havo escaped fhii pro ess scarcely broken. So it is xvlter meal is fed. It passes into tho thirc and fourth stomachs, a mass of dough into which tho gastric juices ciinuo1 penetrate. It is true that the muscu lar contractions of tlio stomach xvill give a gontlo motion to th dough; but tins xvill mako it more compact rat hot than of a iharaet r thai tho gastrii ju co can operate freely upon it. If, however, xvo mix this meal with cut slraxv or hav, the mixture xv 11 go t tito first stomach, and xvill. of course, bo reimisticatcd, wh to the bits of iitraxt or hay xvill allow tho gastric julco t circulate through tho mass and insurt complete digestion. Hair Lifters. "Yes, sir," said tho Groat Travolor, "I huvo Boon, with my oivn oyos, a xvlld Indian tako tho scalp of a xvhito man actually l.ft the hair from hit liead- and It made mv blood run cold." "Tlmt's noihing,""saId tho Sceptica. Honrd-sr, "that's nothing; right hero ic Lynn, on Market strcut, I have seen i man actually take thrco men in succes sion by the scalp and actually lift theit hair from their bonds." "Way, tho man must havo boon crazj drunk or a lunatic," salil tho G. T, "Perfectly sane and sobor as I am,' replied tho S. H. "Well, xvho hi the name of goodness was ho? ' "Ho xvus a harbor," solemnly said tho S. H. Lyn Uu on. Demlwooil l MifTcrlng from u lea fm!n there not bili) cuoukIi In tlio town to cool i xrliUii) covUtuil. Orcut fiulTt-rlnjf prevail. (itaux C'dy Jotteml, 1