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TURXIXC CJKAV.
Life's sands arc running fast away.
The buoyant stop of youth has gone.
The falling hair is turning frray,
And time seems now to hurry on
More fleetly tlian in days of yore,
Peforc the heart became its irey,
Hofore 'twas saddened to tiie core,
lie-lore the hair was turning gray.
Yes, turning gray! age comes like snow,
As still, and curves each care-worn line
Its wrinkles on the hrow will grow,
Ihe hair with silvery streaks will shine, I
The eyes their brightness lose, the hand i
(Jrow dry and tremulous and thin ;
For life, alas! is quickly spanned,
And Death its gates soon closes in !
Ah, turning gray! wo fain would hide.
This sign how long wit h t hue we've been ;
Thes; deepened wrinkles side by side
Cut by the sorrows we have seen.
For feeble- beats the heart as years
More thickly cluster on our Lead,
As autumn raindrops hang like tears,
On some fair flower that's nearly dead !
Like perished petals from the flower
Our hopes and wildest jo s are laid,
Horn only for a day r.r hour,
Sweet gambols by the fancy played.
As age comes on, we long tor rest,"
As saints near shrines will long to pray;
But still! we love that timethe best,
Before the hair was turning grav !
3icnioir of General. Custer.
A few days before the graduating
exercises of his class were to take
place, Custer was thrown into the
guard-house by order of the com
mandant for having permitted a tisti
cutt" encounter between two under
class men while he was oilicer of the
day. lie was not permitted to take
part in the graduation ceremonies,
and when his class left the aca..emv
for the regiments to which they were
assigned, he lay in disgrace awaiting
a court martial. This was in June,
lbtil. The war had just begun, and
the armies were organizing. There
was a great want of competent drill
masters, and some one suggested to
Gen. Scott that there was a superior
drillmaster in the guard-house ai
AY est Point.
f-o Young Luster was
sent for, and placed at one of the bar- I
racks near Washington to instruct
the green volunteers in tiie manual
of arms. Just before the battle of
Bull linn, McDowell, who was iu
command of the Army of the Poto
mac, asked for an engineer. Custer
was detailed to act tempo arily in
such a capacity on McDowell's staii,
and took an active part in the battle,
distinguishing himself for hraery,
coolness and eiiiciency, and aiding
materially in the reorganization of
the army afterward. His service
was so important that (lie order for
his court martial was revoked, and
la? was sent into active service with
tho 1 ill. regular cavalry under ?-Ic-Clellan.
It was not difficult in those
days f'M' a young man of his ability,
enterprise ami daring, to rise, and in
lN'o lie found himself a major-general
at the atro of twenty-two.
1 have he:ird from his own lips the
story of his courtship, and it was so
characteri.-tie of the man, so illustra
tive of his eau't-bo-be;.teii disposi io:i
that it must be told. During Ids
al.sence at West Point, his famiiy
moved from Ohio to Monroe, Midi.,
where they now reside, and after one
of his campaigns in Virginia, the
boy-general went home on furlough,
lie was fre-di from some of his raid?.,
and he had already captured more
llags and prisoners than any oilicer
in the war. There was an ovation
for him at his home. The people of
Monroe rejoiced iu his successes
then, as they are mourning for his
fate to-day But there was cum gen
tle maiden in that town, a Miss D.t
con, the daughter of one of his fath-
er'e neighbors, who had no taste for
! soldiers, and who rather frowned
than smiled upon the gallant young
cavalier. As late would have it, Cus
ter was more attracted by her than
by all the other ladies in this new
home he was visiting, for the first
time, and her repulses aggravated
him till his obstinacy was aroused,
and he determined to conquer this
haughty country girl, who refused
to smile with the rest of womankind
upon him. I remember how he de
scribed his feelings; how he proceed
ed in his suit, inquired about and
ascertained the characteristics of the
lady, and how he lesolved to lay c,
deliberate siege for the occupation
of her heart. He called upon her
one day, but the servant w as instruct
ed to ask that Miss Bacon mig t be
excused. He called again, and
caught her at a window unprepared.
Here the siege began ; her aversion
was conquered, and when he went
back to the army in Virginia he took
her with him as his bride. She rode
beside him in all his marches, after
ward, in the war. She dept beside
him many a night when they biv
ouacked with no coverlid but tho
stars; she watched his departure for
many a battle, and welcomed hifi re
turn. She was the patron saint of
his army, and her gentle sympathy
and kindness are remembered by
thousands of soldiers to-day. At
the close of the war she went with
him to Texas, and accompanied him
on several severe campaigns. In
1872 she rode with the regiment from
Texas to Fort Lincoln, Dakota, a
distance of 2,000 miles Custer had
1ii4 fiT1i1f lnf if i u-i(Yl: unra lo-rf
and a character that meets the type
of womanly nobility, puritv and
coodness can encircle in its halo an
object loved, Custer can partake of
her salvation, for she, if a woman
ever did, has plenty of grace to spare.
Liong association with danger, long
experience with the privations and
annoy ancey of a frontier life have
sweetened rather than poisoned her
disposition, and she was as well pre
pared as a wife ever could be for tho j
pain sho is suffering to-day. j
While I was the guest of General '
Custer at Port Lincoln in 1S71, I was ;
witness of an incident that impressed '
rue. I entered his library one even-
ing. and found him sitting on a low
stool by his desk, with a spelling
book in his hand. Before him were
two little girls, one white and tiie
other colored, the children of his
LTjiuu. Apologizing tor my inter-
rnption, I started' to withdraw, when
he cru-tl oul in his hearty way:
"Don't go! Come in and see my
school," ami I found it was his cus
tom daily to spend an hour hearing
the recitations of these children, for
whom at the post there were' no
schools.
Custer's pretentions to literature
were not great, although ho wrote a
great deal for publication and wret
?vfoi tt: . iwu- " -r -
f V' lllsbook. Life on the Plains.
which was originallv py. hlished i
to
Dr. ii istii-ii in
j the form of monthly papers for the
J Gala.n, was a mere pastime to oceu
I py t!iu lonely days of a winter's i:o-
prisoninent on tl.e frontier, and his
snb-equent publications were made
merely for the sam:- reason. His life
was a succession f novel and inter
esting experiences, and he had the
faculty-of tolling them graphically.
It was his inteiiif n to write a series
of personal remini conces of the v ar,
the first chapter f which a sketch
of the battle of i "nil V. h is a -
ready been priuied. C
O.'C'Clll.
li iut''
The Ilnssi-Jii Czar.
Everybody remembers the story of
the Ilussian Czar, who, discoursing
to a brother sovereign of the knowl
edge of the virtue of obedience in
Russia, told him hat if he (the
Czar) were to command his general
to jump into iho f,ea from the high
dill' upon which they were standing,
the oHicer would obey. The poten
tate addressed sigr.itied his incredul
ity. "Jump into the sea!" said the
Czar to the general. The latter
obeyed instantly, and was dashed to
pieces on the sea-b.-aten crags below.
Aurelia School tells, in the ene-
ment, a fctory of Russian obedience j
!...i. j... ;.. . '
results than this. The Czar Xicli las
once held a re vie i; of his army in
honor of a lady whose beauty had
onarmed mm. JJtiring the mreo,
his cavalry came up ou a trot. The
Czar desiring to improve the efibet.
gave the command to gallop. Rut
the colonel of the regiment who had
not understood the order, eoni i j i i
the tile past on a trot. Nichoia-, ; n
raged, advanced toward him and
shouted, "I say g
road to Siberia!'
llo
and take the
time tiie col
onel understood, and started ou ;
brisk gallop to Siberia. Some mo- j
ments after, the Czar recounted, with i
much hilarity, this eirciiuitaiiee in j
the hearing of tho Luly in uiut.se j
honor the review was held. Si.e was
m'.c!i troubled, and b
d him.
w
lit tears in her ;. e.--., to pardon the
regiment, lie oons used, and dis
patched a squad to call the exiles
back. But the regiment had obeyed
the order ;; well that it was impos
sible to overtake it. Ihe scuad i;t i
out, i f course, continued, ihe pur
suit, and to thto day nothing has
been hoard of the regiment or squad.
Perhaps they were overwhelmed by
Siberian buouv.. Perhapa they per
ished -of r-tarvatio:i. I'ethaps tln-y
are galloping yet. Perhaps the story
was a lie.
The Iirst f iraoe-ViJie.
When aechus was a boy, he
journeyed through Hellas, to go to
irasiii; and, an tho way was very
long, he gre.v tired, and fiat down
upon a stano to rest. As he sat there
with his eyes upon the ground, he
saw u little plant springing up be
tween his feet, and. was so m eh
pleased with it that he determined
to take it with him and plant it in
Naxia. He took it up and carried it
away witu him; but as the sun was
very hot lie feared it might withe
before he retched his destination.
He found a bird's skeleton into which
he thrust, the plant, and went on.
But in his hand the plant sprouted
so fast that it sprouted out of tiie
bones above and below. This gave
him fear of its withering, and he cast
about for a remedy. He found a
lion's bone, which was thicker than
the bird's skeleton, and stuck the
skeleton, with the plant in it, into
the bone of the lion. Ere long, how
ever, the plant grew out of the lion's
bone, likewise. Then lu; found the
bone of au ass, larger still than that
of the lion; so lie put the lion's bone,
containing the bird's skeleton and
the plant, into the as's bone, and
thus he made his way to Xaxia.
When about to tet the plant, he
found that the roots had entwined
themselves around the bird's skele
ton, the lion's bone, and the ass's
bone; and, as he could not remove it
without damaging the roots, he
planted it as it was, and it came
speedily, and bore to his great joy
the most delicious grapes, from
which iie made the first wine, and
gave it to men to drink. But behold
a miracle! When men drank of it,
thev first sang like birds; nex", after
drinking a little more, they became
vigorous and gallant like lions; but,
when they drank more still, they be
haved like asses.
DEsntiNG to Make ax Impassion.
Self-importance or, rather, a pie-
j vailing conciousness of self, is the
' most universal hindrance to the at-
! tainment
f agreeable manners. A
woman of delicate feelings and cul
tivated mind, who goes into com
pany determined to be interested
rathe than to interest, can scarcely
fail to please. We are assured, how
ever, tiiat in this respect there is
something very defective in the
present state of society. All desire
.... ,t-n on nimn'ssinn. none to be
impressed; and thus the social in
tercourse of every day is rendered
wearisome, if not disgusting, by the
constant struggle of contending par
ties to assume the same relative
position
,T. H. Settlomeir, near Hubbard,
conntv. has raised some corn this
rear the stalks of which measure 12
feet in length,
COURTESY
A 3loJr:i Evil.
David Swing: "Wine is not half so
dangerous as lace cr furniture.
When a taste or fondness for display
comes in, then the love of the beau
tiful has gone mad, and the fashion
able lady is no longer a student of
God's gilts and man'a art; she has
become an unstrung harp. Taste
has hecoiue a passion, and instead of
lighting the e o it eo'usumea the in
tegrity. AVhiie a tasu Hows within
lawful banks it eau atf vd to wait, for
honorable means f..r it. graiilieaiiou
to come. The tr?i; J.-!y heart i-;
iOt'.g-sutlVring, lit when a taste be
comes a l'.v.idness then money must
come, even if it must be bought by
the sale of morality. Great as are
the i ils wli eh result from the use
of strong drink, yet, could wo see
cleat ly the fountains of human ills,
we should discover that, in the pow
er to injure society, the thirst for
ardent sj-.iiits has been f-urpassed of
late by the longing for eh-gant homes
ami elegant furniture, and what are
euiUHi tno ai)Hnnuit'Mts in tho
fashionable tongue. It is unite
probable that the "appointments' of
former times, a decanter and a glass,
injured the world less profoundly;
for intemperance has often left the
conscience and all the moral senti
ments noble, but the love cl display
seems always to drag the mind ami
soul into mill, leaving no sentiment
in full vit;or except vanity. At least
this is true, that ii. temperance is a
known, a confessed evil, and men
have learned to bo cm their guard,
whereas this passion for display is
it balf-eoncoalcd enemy, hiding be
hind such saints as taste and beauty.
Of the hundreds of eases of fraud
that a year or a month reveals, not a
teatii puit ef them fquh g from the
old passions that once wre wont to
devastate i oeiefy, but from a new
madness the frauds spring a li linger
for home magnificence. The ltoman
ll'.'l ubiio whs compelled oreetopass
a law forbidding the Consuls from
going in processions with hile hors
es to their ears. The empire had
done enough of that. The people
had sei li the tax-lists ami the wars
and tl.e bribes that came from splen
dor, and they ordained by law that
tie ir republic should make an exper-
1 1 1 m
v. as vain.
play was all through and through
the people. To gratify their taste
they would sack any eitv and strip
tiie rings fnuu the dying women or
gold from the alt-irs of the gods.
When Borne died it v. as full of fur
niture and tape.-try and marbles, but
empty of soul. No men or women
of mind or virtue had trodden its
parlors for a hundred years. When
high t.fyle eofuea in at tho door, reu
(!'.; llu-s out at the window.
ii:t:;ii'ii i to'iihlp Again.
The Xew York 7V.TV, Sept. 17th,
coniain.s the following: About two
o'clock yesterday morning a young
man, w hose name is said to ho Wood,
hoitl'ded the iir-t Atlantic Expfo.s
ear on the llud-on Kivcr Baiiroad at
Albany, ami asked the poster for a
1 tdy whom he described, that was on
the car. Tin? stranger said the l.idy
was his wife, aad tint he had come
from Xew York to meet her. The
purler gave the stranger the number
of the lady's berth in the sleeping
car at Plattsbnrg, and ente ring the
car. which was dimly lighted, Wood
groped his way along till he came to
Ihe berth indicated, and drawing the
curtains aside put his hands towards
his wifj. He, however, struck a
man, and the stranger, thinking the
porter might have made a mistake,
hurried back to him and told him
there was a man iu that berth instead
of a woman. The porter said there
was a woman in the berth when lie
left the car, and when the two went
back, the stranger found his wife in
t:.e berth, but it is alleged that, ho
a!-o found Theodore Tilton there.
A sceae followed, the strangerthic.it
euing to shoot Tilton. Mr. Tilton
motioned him away, and excused his
predicament by saying that he had
been very sleepy, and having occa
sion to leave ids berth, on his return
made a mistake. Suddenly the hus
band of the woman struck Tilton a
blow in the face, and then a, brake
man interfered and parted the two
men, and Mr. Tilton got into the : p
per berth, the husband sitting on the
edge of the lower one. All the par
ties concerned came on to this city,
and pnrted nt the (irand Central de
pat; Mr. Wood walking away arm-in-arm
with Ins wif., and Mr. Tilton
it is said, bidding them a polite
"Good morning." A reporter called
upon Mr. Tilton at his residence in
Brooklyn yesterday, and ask d him
if he desired to make any statement
contradictory of the charge made
against him, or explanatory of it.
"1 am very much obliged to yon,"
said Mr. Tilton in reply, "for afford -ing
me an opportunity of speaking,
but I prefer not to speak. I partic
ularly request that you do not make
the sligiitest effort to interview me."
A Frz.T.E r ok the Pjtvstcians. -The
New York IL rald of Friday says the
ca.se, of llobert C. Newell, known in
Ii'etniry circles as "Orpheus C. Kerr,"
has assumed a" most ext raord : -t i ry
phae. It has more than om" h-en
announced that he? had been confined
to his bed for nearly three weeks in
Jersey City from inability to eat.
Fo:-tiie first week he retained tho
tiudi of health, hut he became grad
ually emac'ated. lie wr.'ded she.viy.
never f tiding the least appetite. A
few days ago he experi'Tced a change,
and was given a peach, lie tried to
swallow it, but failed. The follow
ing day he tried hn'f a peach, and to
liis astonishment retained it on his
stomach. Next day he sat down to
supper with his family and is now
rapidly convalescing.
OF BANCROFT LIBRARY,
Tanners'' Visit !);.
In ihe first days of August there
is a hegira of the townpeople toward
up country farms. It is the month
when school children are every
where, free and when fruits are ripen
iug. lie who has a wiie's cousin in
the country now resumes his ac
quaintance, to drop it again with
the advent of colder days. Country
relatives are bores in spring, nuis
ances in autumn ami utter evils in
w inter. August alone shows them
in all their rural loveliness. We
hope
ear reader had a distant rela-
J " . 11 ' 1 ii
all j our white duck clothes, so that
the farmer's wife may enjov the hot
wash uavs. A i;irc:o oniptv hasket
will be handv, for when you leave
you miiy bring with you the only
half bushed e;f pears the poor fellow
has been able to rai.se. For real
country pleasure a long, thin walk
ing stick is desirable, and with it
you may poke down the few peaches
that the poor, rod -faced woman lias
been watching all summer long and
hoping to brandy for winter use.
Nobody goes into the country with
out wishing to get i'at on pure
cream; so every morning at ten,
w iicn you rise for tiie second break
fast, which has to bo prepared for
your sake, go into the cool cellar,
skim t ho cre.vm wh ich i.; vising for
the churning ami do not forget to
leave a city dike taste of cocktails - ii.
the cup and pan. It would be well
to go into the lieid at any time and
ask the farmer to take you to the
town for you letters, and if you can
invito some fellow citizen to visit
you the farmer will go down for him
with the best buggy. He will be de
lighted to leave his work and go if
you will only pay the six cents toll.
Sometimes the quiet farmer has had
the wisli to give his children a friste
of watermelons, and, as he. has suc
ceeded in raising; live or six, to the de
light of the ;oor youngsters, who go
dow n into toe patch every day to see
th
e green monsters grow, have
no
hesitation in plugging every blessed
melon until you get one to suit you,
then sit on the fence and eat it in
sight of the little ones and spurt the
pits at them. They think city men
are so idee. Melons are country
productions, ami you must not for-g-'-t
that you go to get country food
and luxuries "plain, healthy coun
try fare, you know." Country peo
ple g'l so used to melons and plums
th.it you ea.. take them all for your
self. l"ou had better go to church
on Sunday, when the farmer's wife
stay at home, end slews over the
kf'Ao. boiling pears and getting up
a nice tea ag.tin.st your return. Be
fore you start y-k her to wash and
icon a white necktie for yon. When
you come back from church make
fun of thy music; it may be her sis
ter alio plays the melodeon. Last
of all, when you are leaving with
that basket with the only half bushel
of pears tucked between your knees
ami you are hinting that you do not
hold baskets in the city, be so good
us to tell t ho yoor woman as to tell
the poor woman that you do not sup
pose she ever comes to tiie city, but
thai if John happens to be in Xew
York you hope he will run into the
stole for a minute ami let yon know
how they all get alorg. Do not re
fuse the big piece of sponge cake
she has put up for you: it is easy to
throw out or the. car
When yen reach the depot
flask iiiled, and tell John
suppose with that currran;
WlliuOW.
get vonr
that you
im:i, Willi c o ti. l v in i i an j u uti mo
w ife has made he does not care for
whisky. Do not ask him to come to
spend a week with his poor, tired
w ife, at'your house; but with the joy
ous exclamation that tiie first thing
you propose to do the minute you
reach the city is to get a lirst-class
beef-steak, which you have been
hungering after for a month, waft
your hand grandly, and sing out.
"Good-bye, John." X. Y. Herald.
An Aid i-Tcbacco Ladies' League.
If theie is nothing new under the
sun, there is a remarkable euort this
year to revive old customs. A lady,
while engaged in passing her time
vigorously doing nothing this sum
mer, conceived the idea of trying to
enlist her sisters in tin organization
for suppressing the use of tobacco
among gentlemen in tiie presenoe of
ladies. She is a well-known society
lady, and had succeeded in stopping
her husband in the use of the weed.
There was no diilieulty in starting it
at Saratoga, and ere 21 hours had
passed, she had the names of 51 la
dies, married and single, who .all
agreed that they would not tolerate
the use of tobacco in any form in
their presence, and that they would
cut the acquaintance of any mascu
line who inflicted it upon them, hus
bands of wives present only excepted.
It was a complete success for about
10 days, when the parties began to
separate. '1 lie new unli tobacco de
eiplo has now set her wits to work to
apply tho same principle to her own
circle of society in New York. She
has already had a meeting of a select
f--w a Iter home, and ha--, been prom
ised the co-operation of a large num
ber of her acquaintances. This is
very interesting for the ladies, but
what will be the. effect upon the gen
tlemen ?
A Washington special says: The
total coinage at the mints during
September was i:70.tK.iOO. inciud
i.ig s-JojiOdX-'O gold coin. C;oOd,0!0
tiade dollars and 822,000,000 subsid
iary
silver.
u e ewiby in voiu.im luxuiy upon I cepu o eye, no amm.'to i answering
some green, doping hillside, whore ! face, so that however magnetic he
fishing is good, cue ambers brittle, j may himself be, there is but a feeble
bait easy to dig and horses easy to current of sympathetic feeling bo
ride. Jf by any possibility it is nn- ! tween him and his hearers. I would
certain whether you are related to J not by any means intimate that some
your lii.-dant cousin or his wife your ! are not listenh.g, contrary to appear
we'eome will be better, beeause each ance. Jveruan, of Xew York, is
will treat you well for the sake of I busy reading the ( 'otiyress'iOnul liec- j
the other. Re sure to lake with you ' on; another is wiitins; Morrill, of ;
A Scene in the Senate.
The occasion was ihe trial of the
impeachment of Relknap, one of
whose counsel was addressing the
Senate silting as a Court of Impeach
ment. The description is from "A
Woman's Detter," in The AJrooS.-:
One cannot but notice that, dis
tinct nod obvious s.s are the state
ments of the distinguished counsel,
and forcible and natural as are his
. i , ...
conclusions, no v t labors under a
difficulty, the
same as a preacher
must suil'.-r when it is his lot to speak
to an audience vh"-re he sees no per-
' i - .i
Vermont, reclines his
indent attitude: Kellv,
mut m som
the stout, of
! (.)rton, recks his rhrur on snriacfs;
Anthony, of Bhode Tshmd, is fast
j asleep; West, of Louisiana, writes
i his name in the autograph album of
some lair applicant; lhurmans red
bandana is even more musical than
usual; Irish-Confederate Jones, of
Florida, stretches his awkward gigan
tic form acroLis two chairs-
way win
crnstean rule? and another Senator
tries to adjust his centre of gravity
by resting his chair on the rear posts ;
Conkling seems anxious in regard to
ihe condition of his linger-nails. and
good old Hamlin is evidently anlict
t4d with loosened fangs, ami is, ;;s
usual trving the experiment of every
man Iiia own dentist; while Falmunds.
of Vermont, the exacting, upright,
downright, hair-split ting, legal-minded,
valient Xestor, has just became
interested in the symbolic paintings
on glass in the panels of the lolty
canopy overhead, his lace horizontal
ly tixed, and as if conscious that the
Dsn might not be impressive, with
hands raised as if in devotion. The
only Senator who looks uttent, sit
ting erect and eyeing the speaker, is
the colored Senator Bruce, who
seems really happy to be instructed
and, anxious to catch every point, or
else he is too polite not to appear so.
How the heart of the orator must
warm toward this sole, good listener.
All others lounge, or recline, listen
ing, perhaps, all tiie same.
;.lnglishnie:i and their Manners.
Notice a thiong of persons in any
street, says L. J. Jennings's London
letter, no matter where and it will
be found that they have a rosier,
more cheeful, better-fed appearance
than an average concourse ed' Ameri
cans the people somehow look as if
their food did them good and as if
they found time occasionally to enjoy
themselves. A good-natured set tbey
seeui to be on the whole, although
by no means courteous or polished
in manners. I doubt whether the
English will ever be a polite people
it is not in their biood. When I
see a dozen of them together wheth
er in the country or in town, in a
drawing-room or a theatre, at a club
or a hotel I am always struck by
their rudeness to each other. They
will scarcely answer a question in a
civil manner. They walk into the
coffee room of a hotel, where ladies
are present, with their hats on, and
shout out for and to the waiter in
their loudest and most commanding
tones. They stand all across a door
way, and will not make room for
anybody to pass, and if you enter a
railroad carriage where a few of them
are, they glare at you in a manner
which speedily convinces you that
you have no right there and have
been guilty of an unwarrantable in
trusion. Yet this bearishness is chief
ly on the surface, and underneath
the Englishman is a kindly-hearted,
hospitable sort of a man, although I
must say that he manages to disguise
it pretty thoroughly.
A Tofcmxii Incident. -One day
some men who had been condemned
to hard labor on the public works
for various crimes, were occupied in
repairing one? of the Vienna str ots.
There passed that way a good look
ing, well-dressed young man ; he
stopped near one of the convicts,
embraced him aftectionately, ancl
went on.
A State official had been at his
window during this scene, and was
much astonished at it. He had tiie
young man brought to him. an t said :
"My friend, there is something very
peculiar iu embracing a comiet in
the street.
What will people think
of von?"
The young man said nothing for a
few moments, but soon recovering
himself, he replied:
"My lord, I only followed the dic
tates of duty and my heart, for the
convict is my father."
Touched by these words, and ad
miring the nob!e conduct of the
young man. the official hastened to
tell the emperor what had happened.
i he sovereign recognized the beauty
of the filial act, and gave the con
vict's son an important post.
IiEMEiir for Bad Bnr.ATn. Take
five to ten drops of hydrochloric acid
in half a tumbler of spring water, a
little lemon juice, and loaf sugar
rubbed on lemon peel to flavor it to
suit the taste. Let this mixture be
taken three times a day. for a month
or six weeks, and if useful, then con
tinued occasionally. It is a pleasant
refrigerant and tonic draught.
The fruit judges at the Centennial
have refused to enter California
I fruit for competition exhibition, be
j cause it was sold in the hall, l'lor
'; ida shaddock were exhibited as Cal
i iforuia oranges, and much Eastern
i fruit used in the display.
Ihj ii ice of Wool una Wool
ii row in s?.
The prices of wooldiave not been
so encouraging as was desired by the
growers of t..e sta e in the Uuited
States. The periodical cry of the
manufacturers and middle-men, that
the clip was an unusually- heavy one,
may have had some eileet but wo
look for the principal cause iu tho
general business depression that pre-
vails throughout the country. Mon
eyed men have plenty of money any
body can get it who stands ready to
mrtgaee ins farm or house and lot;
but eapital manufacturing invest
i ment is scarce. Many woolen mills
have bee n idle or running ou short
time, while the exigencies of busi
ness compel the holders of cloths to
realize at prices that will not justify
them in laying in stocks of raw ma-
terial. As has always been the case,
we may look for discouragement
amoung such wool-growers as have,
not " enlisted for the war" men.
who hoed to get rich and retire be-
f.xv t .i.., i
ows of hard times"
fell across their pathway. To such
we would say, don't sacrifice good
sheep. If you have more than you can.
keep well, cull out the less desirable
ones, and get them into mutton con
dition as soon as possible. Grass
and grain are comparatively cheap,
and ::oo;i mutton will buy all that is
needed, and leave a profit besides,
li you would winter the remainder
cheaply, be careful to get and keep,
them in good condition. Fat sheep
wiii l.ul require so much attention
as po.ir ou.'s, ;.ud the percentage of
losses w ill be much smaller. Begin
to winter your sheep now.
The men w ho make money out of
sheep are not those who go into the
business when the products of tho
tlock bring good prices, and begin to.
get out as soon as a less encouraging
j outlook
kind of
is presented
JLhe right
neep
handled in the riedifc
way, may b
fair return
depended upon for a
throngh evil ancl
t hrough good report" from the wool
market. Those who make luoney
"in the long run," from sheep, aro
the men w ho ' hold fast that which
is good." and w ho, by judicious. (
breeding and liberal feeding, con
stantly strive to make it better. z.
Lice Stock Juitr.-.t!:.
.SoiisoiiabH1 Advice.
The Health Board of New York at,
a late meeting adopted the following
report of the Sanitary Committee on.
the prevailing diseases of infants, and
ordered 20,000 published and dis
tributed: Never neglect looseness of tho
bowels in an infant. Consult tho
family or dispensary physician at
once and he will give you rules alout
what it should take and howitshould
be nursed. Keep your rooms as cool
as possible; have them well ventila
ted -and do not allow any bad smells
to come from sinks, garbage-boxes,
gutters, etc., about the house where,
you live. See to your own part be
ing right and complain to the Board
of Health if your neigdbors' houses,
are offensive. When an infant is
cross and irritable in the hot weath
er a trip on the water will do it a
great du al of good, and may prevent
cholera infantum. Do not allow
your children to eat unripe or dried
fruit. An infant under a year old
should not have any fruit exceit by
a physician's orders. In very hot
weather dress your children in thin
clothing and bathe them with cool
water one, two or more times a day.
Children under ten months to a year
do not need anything but the breast
or goo 1 milk. Cow's milk, when
pure, is made like mother's milk by
adding one-third water to two-thirds
milk and warming to blood heat and
a little over one and a quarter ounces
of white sugar to a pint of mixture;
but in the city a good deal of tho
milk has plenty of water and too lit
tle cream. If yon do not nurse tho
child, see that the nursing bottle
tube and mouth-piece are kept in
clean water when not in use. Tho.
addition of a little soda will keep
them from turning sour. If the ba
by does not thrive well on cow's
milk, consult a physician and tako
him seme of the milk you are using.
The other morning as the conduc
tor of a train going west from De
troit was passing around after tickets
he came to a man who waived him
away with a very important air, at
the same time remarking:
"Pass on, sir, pass on."
"I want your ticket," replied tlio
conductor.
"Ticket, you hireling of an anar
chy!" shouted the man, purling out
his cheeks. "Sir, I own this road !
I bought it just before leaving De
troit, .and while I would like to retain
von in mv employ, you must bo
mot e civil" or I shall discharge you
on the spot, even if you have a doz
en children to support."
"I must have your ticket or mon
ey," said the crucial.
"Cousider yourself discharged!"
roared the man.
Ho was left on the track between
two stations. lie sat down on a log
to pin his paper collar on, and his
last words as the train moved off
were :
"Gentlemen, this outrage will
make the country shudder from Maino
to Texas. Detroit Pre'- Pres.
Ah Lee, of St. Louis, is what hi3
name implies a Chinaman. His
wife is Irish. Of their progeny, tho
bovs are as unmistable Pats as wero
ever baptized, and the. girls are as
clearlv little Celestials as ever had
their feet cramped in babyhoed.
The man who lavs his half-smoked
ci'-ar in an oKce arm chair while ho
looks for the dictionary does not ex
pect that any one will sit downn I5j
until the fire is out.
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