la-
' in our
It was
»go, but
t of the
It is one
on, and
le. Au
ndicates
i there
lat it is
f study,
sxaniin-
that in
dsion ia
school-
lly, In
twenty
fleeted;
portion
It is far
; reach-
leologi-
r cent
isieiana
pint ot
d habit
ms. It
exam
order
to pro-
grow-
une if
sighted
EST SIDE
M’MINNVILLE
ST SIDE 'TELEPHONE.
Isa ued-----
COACHMEN
AND
HORSES.
ON
THE
PLAINS.
k Theory That They Eventually Become ! Some of the Mistaken Committed by the
Early Katina« Cattle RaiMers.
<< the Same Diapodition.
During the winter of 1871 and 1872 I
The white-haired old man sat in his
usual place, with the ever-present pipe engaged in the handling of Texas cat
and tobacco within tho reach of his tle in the semi-arid belt of Kansas. 1
BV
hand. After the usual salutations of had provided no food for my stock. I
knew that cattle could and did winter
Talnuitie «V Turner 'lie day he went through the preface on
the plains far north and west of
of his discourse, which was to fill the
lublishers sud Proprietor».
old Turkish pipe and light it. Some where 1 was; but I did not know
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
how or other his tongue seemed more that there was a difference in the
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nutritious qualities of the different
■Kinonihs........................................................ I 25 obedient as the blue smoke curled up
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75 above his white hair.
Resting his left prairie grasses. Idid not understand the
peculiarities of the climate of the setni-
Entne.i in the
tti.- Postotilce
I’ust.Hile. at McMinnville,
lii jlimnille. Or., a in on the arm of his chair, he began
Entered
arid belt, nor the effects of rain falling
as secont 1-clasR matte .
rather more abruptly than usual.
I on dead grass. Stupid of me, of course,
“
I
stood
on
Summit
street
the
other
| but 1 had plenty of company. My
CATCHING EELS.
day and watched the horses as they neighbors were bright Germans, intel
The Ingeuloug Method Pursued by an Ohio were driven up in front of the differ
ligent Englishmen and keen Amiri-
Official.
ent establishments. Some were lean,
from almost every State in the
Eels in the lake, bay and river are some were rough, and some were fat | vans
I nion. »Ve were a hopeful band,
bee- >ming more plentiful each succeed and sleek. Some stood quiet and at young, strong and eager. When we
ing year. One weighing nine pounds ease; others were nervous and pawed gathered in our wretched hovels o’
WA- brought to one of the Toledo fish the pavement. Now, all these things nights, and the pipes were glowing,
to the
not without reason. Be'ng natur- ! our talk was of cattle, cattle, cattle.
lestion,
hdpses last fall. Many others of are
ally observing. 1 watched and began to
i other
smaller size were caught, and were look for the cause. I believe I finally '1 he sales of the steers off the range at
six cents per pound, live weight, made
readily purchased, people who come arrived at the proper conclusion as the previous spring, were strongly
IT.
from the East being especially fond of regards most of the horses. Now, dwelt upon. I was repeatedly assured
■al pal
them. The larger eels are supposed to nnnd you, I did not confine myself en j that the Kansas winters were so mild
mware
come from the St. Lawrence. The tirely to a study <Jf the horses, but sub | that 1 would not need a coat. The
lisease,
smaller ones are of those deposited in ject al ea h jehu or driver to a liberal ! height the new prairie grass would
irning.
the river, bay and lake by Mr. D. Y. and close scrutiny, and watched their ' surely be on the 1st of March was
synip-
(Dwell in June and July, 1882, while influence on their teams. And there, I measured on table legs by outstretched
ng D r ,
drug-
superintendent of the Ohio fish hatch think, lies the secret.
I and dirty index fingers for my instruc
Front
eries. This gentleman made a study
*■• ‘As the twig is bent, the tree in tion and encouragement. There was
of the habits, growth, etc., of the eel. ! clines,’ I was taught by my mother not one of all the band of eager men
and concluded that it would thrive well years ago, and I have found the appli who rode the Kansas plains in those
ir boy
inp Western waters. He accordingly cation of that old saw very many times days who did not firmly believe that
started for Troy, N. Y.. where millions and in very many different cases,
cases. In our fortunes were made. The country
riojti
of voting eels make their wav up the most cases a child partakes of the na was full of cattle. November came in
If the
Hud son. When lie reached Troy he ture and temperament of those to with a blizzard, and, with slight inter
of Dr.
found superintendents from Wisconsin. whose care he has been intrusted. A ruptions, kindly allowed by nature for
," and
Illinois and several other States en young dog, if properly managed, learns the purpose of affording us opportuni
run its deavoring to get a supply of eels fot
many cute tricks; if he is treated well ties to skin dead cattle, the blizzard
rerless
s a pa- thieir respective localities. They found lie is a good dog, but if he has a vicious lasted until March, and the cold,
for the the process of capturing eels quite master, the dog becomes a sneaking, stormy weather for two mouths longer.
lolden slow and tedious, and willingly paid vicious deg, So in all things. Experi There was
~rass until the
is no . —
new gr
inds of btJys a cent apiece for each eel fur ence is every thing, and surroundings
<
May.
Ii In all Texas
led to nished them. Mr. Howell saw that to have considerable to do with the case. middle of
herds held in Kansas the losses
id two get. eels in the way named would not
So
you
will
find
it
in
the
matter
of
reatise
were heavy. Hardly a herd lost less
st Imo- - answer. He therefore went down along horses and their drivers.
than fifty per cent., and sixty, seventy
’
the
bank
of
the
river
and
sat
down
ttn-
“The coachman in a wealthy family
r Med-
per cent, losses were com
:ier a shade tree, in the river near by has sole charge of the horses, and the and eighty
By spring we learned that great
WAs a large willow limb. He carefully greater part of his time is spent with mon.
tar St. Witched the entail eels as they passed them. They, in fact, become compan herds of heavy beef cattle, held on the
wiled. along, and saw that they would stop ions, and l hey learn to know their mas Smoky, Cottonwood and Arkansas riv
been frozen on the range, and
and cling to the limb to rest, and then ter and what to expect of him. Now, if ers, had
the Texans had saddled their
shoot away up the stream. The fact you will notice a round-faced, round- that
and gone home. The creeks
that they rested on some object when bellied, jolly-looking coachman, whose horses
were dammed with the decayi"
tying car
an lopportunltv occurred was an rnai face is red and full of smiles, and then casses of cattle. The air was
ras neavv
Mr. i Jowell required to devise a plan run your eye down the ribbons to his with the stench of decaying animals.
for catching them. He cut several team, I will warrant you you'll see a The cruelties of the business of starv
small willow twigs and tied a string pair of fat. sleek, healthy-lookinghorses. ing cattle to death were vividly im
around the top of them. This made Watch them more, and you will see that pressed on me. Every wagon sent from
thtitwigs flare out at the. bottom. He no 2:40 gait is theirs. They amble con the cattle ranges to the railroad towns
then made a string fast to the bundle, tentedly along, and the driver doesn’t was loaded with hides. The next sum
I
and dropped it into the river. He want them to go any faster. Is good- mer, bankruptcy stalked over the Kan
waited patiently to see if the eels natured and easy-going. So are they. sas plains and struck men down. Our
wculd enter it. He was disappointed Doubtless those horses were once as
was that none of us knew that
to»ee but two or three eels go into the frisky as most colts are, but their dispo trouble
the tall blue-joint grass was worthless
trench After waiting for two hours sition was molded by their master and for
winter feed unless it were made
he (concluded to lift the bundle of companion.
into hay, none of us knew that the fall
twig, When he did so, hundreds of
•‘Next take a look at a small and rains had washed the nutriment out of
eels were seen to swim away, nervous driver, who is sharp-featured, it, and none of us knew that about once
Mr. Howell then made several angular, cross, aggressive and thin in ten years there is a hard winter in
small bundles, and got a fine wire lipped. There you see the embodiment
far West, during which the mer
gras- scoop prepare. ed for the pur of nervousness, restlessness and discon the
modestly retires into the bulb of
pose of passing it under the bunches tent.. He hasn’t much control over his cury
thermometer, and blizzard chases
of twigs suspended in the river. The nerves and they lead him a wretched the
blizzard over the plains in quick suc
others superintendents asked him how life. When he is with his horses at. the cession.
Some of us learned the lesson
n Oak
he
was
getting
along.
When
they
were
barn
begets
roiled
easily,
and
perhaps
elieves
at once; others, who claimed that the
kZEL- told that lie had not got a single eei
now and then hits or kicks them. They cattle
protection, not food,
poison after being there three days, they con
glow nervous when he approaches the erected needed
»on as
sheds,
which proved to be
sider
ed
the
Ohio
man
a
rather
slow
su
stall because tney don’t know what to
e( will
25 ets. perintendent.
Mr. Howell is an early expect. Like human beings, they fret death-traps, the cattle “stacking”
riser and was at his work early in the and worry their flesh off and grow thin; under them during cold weather, and
morning. He placed his bundle of they become nervous, fretful and full of tried it again, and went into bank
IY.
twjgs, and when the time for the first lire; they champ and paw and are al ruptcy promptly after the second ven
lodorn
lift [came, he was rewarded by catch- ways heated up with cxeitemeht. When ture. As it was in Kansas, so it is, in
:■ thi ing thousands of the slippery little fel- you enter the carriage they want to start a less degree, in the so-called “cattle
death ’ lows
■ 8
—
■
•
‘1 y. in small
’ A wet autumn, followed
These he
deposited
off before you are ready. They can not country.
I cure
by a hard winter, kills the cattle held
with trays sunk in the river for the purpose
stand still and be at ease. How differ on
Northern ranges by the thousand.—
of Receiving them. He kept at his early ent from the fat, healthy team? Is not
morning work for three or four days. the driver chargeable with this? Is it Frank Wilkeson, in Harper's Magazine.
Byt this time he had captured fifty thou not reasonable to suppose that they par
FORGOT HER FEET.
sand and was ready to ship his eels to take of his character or disposition? I
Toledo. He then exhibited his eels to think so, certainly.
The Inexplicable Abseut-Mindeduess of a
thef other superintendents, who were ut-
“Now. in many cases, you will find
Chicago Society Lady.
teri!} astonished to see so many of the my theory very plainly visible, while in
A
boy
being asked what his name
wigglefs together. When he began to others you may have to look for some
put the eels into boxes with a hole at time before seeing clearly where the re was, on the “first day of school,” re-
plied that he “left it to home." An
the! top and center, with flannel bot lationship has affected the horses.
tom he was told that such athinv would
“I also observe that a white coachman absent-mindedness quite as mortify
never do, as they would surely die. has more control over a horse than a ing sometimes affects people so that
“Never mind, gentlemen,” said he, “I colored man. The horse is not a dumb they wish they bad left certain things
have been testing this question. For boast by any means; it is one of the most at home. A Chicago gentleman,
the past four days I have had eels in a intelligent of anima’s, and at times the
less favorable position than these, and intelligence of a horse is akin to that of speaking of absent-minded people, re
-
they are as lively now as crickets.” a Ini man being. It takes a man with a marked that his wife was one of the
J, “Pack them in moss; wet sawdust; good head to know how to properly most thoughtful women in the world,
but one night recently they both dressed
ot a keep them in water,” and such ad
handle them.” Toledo Blade.
very carefully to attend a large party,
reise vice was given him, but he said the eels
the
being anxious, for special reasons, to
IN'S would reach Toledo all right as he was
A PUZZLED GENERAL.
appear well.
live putting them up.
And
they
did.
Not
frill
••My wife,” he said, “was greatly
a single one died, and they were all A Soldier’s Reply Which Considerably
concerned about me, as I am the ab
Bothered General Buell.
safely deposited.
An ex-army surgeon tells the follow sent-minded member of the family, and
' When Mr. Howell left Troy he took
the Wisconsin superintendent aside and ing story of General Duell: “On one looked me over critically and carefully
told him how the eels were caught, at occasion, near Cave City, he ordered the afler 1 left the coat-room, and before I
""¡the same time making
present of men kept away from a fine spring, bu went down stairs to the drawing room
„ him
linn a pre
the willow bunches. The Wisconsin the guard was overrun by thirsty men, where the guests were. She was her
self all right, of course, and superbly
■urn afterward wrote to him saying
man
£ ths'
that it was s simple wonderful how and Buell rode with his stern, official dressed.
“We went down in high feather, and
Mpily the eels were caught by Mr. dignity to tlac spring to stand guard
Howell’s simple device, and warmly himself. He wore at the time a little had passed through the parlors, and
thanked him. He asked for the privi straw hat and h's fatigue uniform, A spent a delightful half hour on parade
lege of imparting the secret to other large six-footer came up, very thirsty duty, as it were, when my wife sud
snyerintenaents, which was granted, and impatient, to till his canteen. He denly turned pale, in what 1 thought
and all soon had as many young eels as rubbed against Buell as he passed, anil was a fainting lit.
stepped with one foot in the water, to
“I hurrieu her from the room, and
tbty needed.
It was quite ? sight to witness the per- fill his cup. Buell said quietly, but de was about to turn the house upside
ftwmance of eels when deposited in cidedly: ‘Take your foot out. sir.' Still down for restoratives, when she
tank-, partly filled with water, in To- stooping, the six-footer looked up, and clutched my sleeve and pointed to her
•» ■Ro Fresh water was constantly s>id: ‘You go to Greenland's icy moun feet. She had, before leaving home,
kept in the tanks, and the eels tried ts'll«. I don't want any quartermas drawn over her shoes a pair of my socks
k their best to climb up the sides of the ter's clerk ordering me around.’ For and had forgotten to remove them. The
instant the < ommander of thought she had been parading before
tanks. Sometimes they would get an
nearly to the top, when they would the Army of Ohio was stunned by three hundred people with those socks
fall back in the water. A fresh white the unexpected reply. Then he said on was too much for her."— Youth'»
fish was dropped into each tank, the quietly but emphatic'iDyt ‘General Companion.
»
*0eh from which was quickly stripped Buell orders you to take your foot—out
—A Waterbury gentleman was sur
—of—that—water.’ The man gave the
fron. the bones.— Toledo Blade.
General a glance of unmistakable ad prised while out for a drive on ’he
Wolcott road recently by the conduct
A man named Spencer settled tn miration, and said quickly: ‘I'll do it, of
whom he asked to ride. The
North Gainesville, Ga., recently, to- sir. If General Buell would order me boy a boy
refused obstinately, and when
with his wife and twenty-four to jump he ni first into a cannon. 1 prevailed
rpon for a reason said he
, trav- would do it. Out comes the foot. Why
children. Nine of I-~
their off-spring
a whipping when he got
eled in a wagon from their hi ormer didn't you say so before?' This reply expected
anil was in no hurry.— Waterbury
Mb>e
• and arrived at their bothered the General a good deal, but home
—:e f in ~
Kentucky,
I —
iCw » American
8a a«id nnt.hiniy
rV. 1’. PosL
dabti nation looking- well
I
I ULY 9, 188G
MATERNAL DUTIES.
low • Good Mother Should Bring Up Her
Children.
NO. 8
THE
AMOOR
DIGGINGS.
A <1 venturers from All \a1ion« Hunting
Gold in a Chinese Valley.
If »he is educated in the broadest ' There is considerable excitement
siise, if trained by self-culture, bydef- i here regarding late gold discoveries in
a . • discipline in her department of the valley of the river Djolgonti. This
hi bor »nd influence, she is in possession | vale is located on the Chinese border
>f the true “philosopher’s stone,” of the Amoor river, directly opposite
L: insmuting all under her control with the Russian colony of Ignachino.
in the range of her influence. And There is no highway whatever to it,
even though a bad man may oceupy and the marshy nature of the soil ren
the piece of a father, with almost su- ders the country almost inaccessible,
p (natural power she may guide the except in winter. The first evidences
little domestic bark away from the
maelstrom of vice, and thoroughly ot gold were discovered in May, 1884,
appropriate that family, as cer and since that time there has been
tainly end fortunately making those drawn to this desolate region very
children hers in all respects as if she many persons. The first who arrived
were the only claimant of authority. were Russians. Then came some
She is and must be, in a great measure, escaped Siberian convicts and colonists.
in the domestic hive what the qu<- u These were followed by crows of Cos
bee is in the apiary. Like a queen she sack deserters, vagabonds, Siberians,
sits in judgment, sways a mighty scep some Yacouts, Ostiaks, C'oreans, etc.
ter, when that scepter is wielded by in January, 1885, there were more than
the true womanly spirit—controlling, nine thousand Russians on the ground,
leading, molding, as no other can. and since that time the crowd has
not so much by ordinary authority as been largely augmented. Adventur
by the influence and sanction of her ers have flowed to the region with as
position as the mother, commencing much earnestness as they did in the
and vitalising her influence on the very early days to California. In addition
threshold of existence. Indeed, the to the Russians there is a colony ol
mother is the first teacher of her child about six thousand Chinese and about
in all respects, and though she need one hundred and lifty Americans,
not assume undue contral of the educa These latter liave joined their
tion in the schoolroom, need not dic fortunes with the Russians, and
tate. assuming authority, vet. if she un they play a grand role in the working
derstands her duty and privilege, she and
management of the
dig-
will not allow another to wholly con gings. The organization of this
trol the training of her child. She is Russo-American association is essen
and must ever be the educator of that tially Russian. All the gold-seekers,
d, giving it her style of language, except the Chinese, are formed into
child,
her type of mind. seven hundred and twenty-two little
her 1 line of thought,
_
and, to a great extent, her mental and associations, called “artels,” and each
moral peculiarities. The child's first man has equality therein. There are
lisping» will ordinarily be nut the twelve men, called “the elders,”
echoes of her style of speec. . while she who do not work themselves, but give
must give form and direction, in a great their time to the maintenance of order.
measure, and might to a far greater They each receive two hundred rubles
extent, to the whole course of educa per month, and are elected by the parent
tion. It is an easy matter for the in- organization. These twelve “elders”
iclligent mother to teach the relations form the local police, and are selected
of numbers, etc. (arithmetic), in con from amongst the dust purchasers, sup
nection with even the toys with which ply merchants, etc.
early hours are beguiled, while a love
The diggings are on Chinese soil, but
for the beautiful is easily imparted by I the seekers do not fear interference
the lessons taught by the display of from the authorities of that country,
pictures, flowers, works of art, and the because "their” rich valley is totally
like, given at a time and in such a man inaccessible to troops. Neither do these
ner that their memory will not be far-away gold-hunters trouble them
eff aced till the brain ceases its labors. selves as to what llu-sia may say. They
A slight effort, a casual remark, a brief fear nothing, ami are governed by their
lesson in any direction of elementary own laws, which are exceedingly sim
instruction, may turn the whole cur ple. Bui they are severe. Cheating at
rent of thought in the child, aiding the garni ling: tic adulteration or misrep
future teacher materially, while utter resentation of the richness of dust of
inattention to the meutal state of the fered for sale; theft or pillage; drunk
young, on the part of the mother, may enness during the hours of labor; are
determine the ignorance, vice and ruin offenses punishable by death. Insubor-
of an immortal mind.
dination and quarreling are punishable
It is well known that teachers often I by compulsory labor. With such laws
find their hardest tasks in “unlearn there is good government, and very
ing,” or destroying false teaching, in gene: .illy peace and industry reign.
eradicating errors and in turning the
Th,". Russians, as a class, are peace
currents of thought into the true chan able enough, but. when aroused they
nels. The true mother, therefore, the are ferocious. Already there have been
intelligent, thoughtful, conscientious three deaths by assassination (on ac
and faithful, may do much in the mat count of Chinese women) and two
ter of educating her child at home, criminal deaths, one by hanging and
where the foundation must be laid, and the other, an inventive Hebrew who
in the school-room; while one of the mixed brass filings with some dust he
opposite character hangs as a dead sold, and was ordered beaten to death
weight, an incubus, obstructing the with thin iron rods. The fellow who
progress of the schools, retarding re was hung was convicted of cheating at
form and progress, dragging down tlm cards. There are five “hotels” and
aspiring, turning back civilization and twenty-two shops of various kinds in
poisoning tne streams of life to their the diggings. The prices for provis
very fountains,— Dr. Hanaford, in Gold ions and necessaries are not high, save
en Rule.
for strong drink, which, as in all min
ing countries, is looked upon as one of
WHAT HE WANTED.
the "necessaries.”
The Kind of a License Desired by an En
These mines, or rather placers, are
amored Old Bachelor.
exceedingly rich, and, with even the I
The following story is told of a well- primitive pan-washing, some workers
known gentleman of this city who re have secured over one hundred and
cently married a belle from a neighbor fifty dollars per day. No work, it
seems, can be done in summer, in con
ing Pennsylvania city after his case sequence
of an overflow of the rivers
had been given up as hopeless by all and streams.
In winter, however, labor
the managing mammas of Buffalo. It goes on with great vim.
seems that the gentleman in question
The Chinese Government has de
regarded his abnegation of bachelor manded of the Czar of Russia that he
hood with a sort of rueful misgiving, withdraw all his people and those of
which increased as the days of his lib other nationalities from the country,
erty waned. His last revolt against and Alexander has requested the ad
the shackles of matrimony occurred venturers to withdraw; but they do not
when he was sent to procure the mar heed the order. What the upshot is to
riage license, a few days before the be no one can tell. Russia has no
ceremony. He sought the city official power over people not on her soil, and
who presided over the license depart China does not appear to be able to re
ment and asked gravely: “Is this move them. All along the Amoor are
where licenses are kept?” “Yes, sir,” hosts of Chinese, but they and their
answered the clerk, politely; “what women (of whom there are many)cling
kind of a license do you want?’’ “Well, to the "adventurers” as against their
w hat kind have you got?” rejoined our ruler. The Americans are reported as
friend with superhuman gravity. The being the real opponents of both Russia
clerk had begun to look upon his vis and China, and their dailv advice is to
itant as a lunatic, but iie obligingly “hold the fort.”— St. Petersburg Cor.
rattled off the list. “Give you a license Chicago Mail.
to drive a hack, give you a license to
pull teeth or practice medicine, give
Pittsburgh'» Little Chief.
you a pawnbroker’s or huckster’s
license, give you a license to keep gun
Louis Hahn, of Pittsburgh, is well
powder in the house—” “Stop,” said
our friend,
" iend, quietly; “that’s what I known there as “The Little Chief.”
Whenever there is an alarm of fire, the
wi.nL” 1 - —Buffalo Courier.
— A writer in Mature gives an in* boy, clad in the garb of a fireman, is
Fiance of remarkable adaptation in always seen dashing to the burning
elephants. He observed a young one building. He is almost a monoma
go to a fence and null out a bamboo niac on matters pertaining to the fire
stick, which he broke in pieces, but he department, and knows more about
threw all the pieces away. This he re the department than most of the fire
peated till he found a piece that suited men. He can do what every member
him. This lie passed under his arm of the department confesses himself
pit and began to scratch. Down fell a unable to do, and that is, to be given
great elephant leech, six inches long, the number of a box, and then tell its
and that withou.. a scraper could not exact location and what engines will
have been dislodged. The writer adds respond to the. alarm from it. Time
that the custom is an established one ami again, when in an engine house,
among elephants. They will also this test has been made, and young
break oft’ bushes, strip them neatly Hahn could never be deoeived. He
down, and use them to whip away keeps posted on every new box. In
flies.
hi« loom he has fixed up several wires
and gongs, and often enjoys himself
—The city of Newark, N. J., was in in practicing on them. So far has his
corporated on March 18. 1836, and th< fire
proclivities gone that
a- t went into i fleet April 15. The vil it is department
great desire to have n wire run
lage of less than twenty thousand in to his his house
and a gong placed therein,
habitants in 1836, is now a cosmopol
he may hear each alarm of fire.
itan city, and the home of more than that
He knows every fireman, and fre
one hundred and fifty thousand people. quents
every engine house.— N. Y. Run.
•
MISCELLANEOUS.
- An American livingin Kobe, Japan,
has engaged thirty very skillful Japa
nese ivory-carvers to introduce the art
into this country.
—The locomotive headlight, which
is so universally employed on railway
engines in this country, is said to be
losing favor among experienced rail
way men. They regard it as of little
or no utility, while its powerful illu
mination tends to render indistinct the
colors of signal lights on the track
ahead.— N. Y. Examiner.
—A youthful theological student, so
minute in stature that he ordinarily
can not make himself seen when
behind the pulpit desk, recently
preached near Exeter, N. H. An aged
woman sat in the front pew, and was
greatly concerned to see a boy in place
of the expected minister. So Bhe
»lipped on tip-toe to the pulpit stairs
and beckoned to him, whispering
loudly: "Come down, my boy; you
mustn't sit there; that’s the place fot
the minister."— Springfield (Jfas.i.)
Republican.
Mrs. Elizabeth Chambers, of Mis
souri, made her will in 1862, and be
queathed her slaves to her children
equally, with the exception of one to
whom she gave her freedom. She
lived a number of years afterward, but
steadily refused to recognize the results
of the’war and her will was admited
to probate at St. Louis this week, just
as it was originally written. But the
slaves which she desired to divide
among her children long since walked
off on their own account.— St. Louis
Post.
—Henry L. Ebbecke, of Dpper Naza
reth township, Northampton County,
Pa., is the owner of three horses, the
like of which are seldom found. One
of the animals is thirty-eight years old,
another twenty-eight and the youngest
twenty-six, their combined ages making
a total of ninety-twO years. They are
the only horses Mr. Ebbecke owns and
all three are in constant use on that
gentleman’s farm. Even the oldest is
still able to do a solid day’s work, and
all promise to be good for some year»’
service still.— Philadelphia Press.
A HOLY CITY.
Strange Sights on the Banka of the Ganges
at Benares.
The most remarkable part of the
spectacle presented by the river face of
Benares is its population, resident and
immigrant. Throughout the length
of this northern shore, where the
flights of steps and the slopes of the
temples come down to the Ganges,
is seen all day long an immense crowd
of devotees, of all ages, ranks and rai
ments, and of both sexes, bathing in
the sacred river or praying by its edge,
or washing their robes of pilgrimage,
or bringing their dead to be burned.
Imagine what an artistic effect results
from such a fringe of life and of color
between the steep multi-colored back
ground of the steps and temples and
the shining waters of the stream.
Throngs of brown-skinned men and
women, of boys and girls, stand waist-
deep along the bathing stations,
whispering their supplications and
pouring the holy liquid over neck and
lireast and loosened black hair. Groups
of bright-clad women, led by their
Brahman gurus, come joyously down
the stairs from far-off towns and
jungles, to lay their scarlet, saffron,
grei n and rose-color saris aside with
the ghat-keepers and wash their inno
cent sins away in Gunga. Big umbrellas
are everywhere erected in the sand or
mud, inscribed with "Ram, Ram,” and
under them, shaded from the sud , fam
ily parties sit and chatter, or pray in
silent accord, arrived, after immense
marches, to be laved in and saved by
Gunga. Sick people lie, wistful and
wan. on charpoys. brought to her bene
ficent side, that they may hear the
ripple of the "Great Mother,” and feel
the healing wind blow from her waves;
while, at the foot of the burning Ghats,
where the people who sell the “death
wood” are raking for white bones in
the heaps of hot ashes, and piling up
fuel and cow-dung for their next batch
of funeral pyres, lie three still figures
covered with white and red cloths, from
which protrude only the fixed, cold feet,
washed by the outer edge of the tide.
These are the dead of to-day, happy—
thrice happy—to have passed to tho
gate of Swarga, close to Gunga's good
waves. Their friends sit near, well
satisfied even amid their natural re
grets; and, very soon, three blue curls
of smoke wafted among the temple
roofs from three crackling fires upon
the platform of the Ghat will tell where
those votaries have finished their pil
grimage for once ami all. Wonderful
is the fervor of belief among these
gentle, metaphysical Hindoo people.
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Milk-Weed as a Rival to Cotton.
American inquisitiveness and inge
nuity united hate produced thread made
from the blossom of th- common milk
weed, which has the consistency and
tenacity of imported flax or linen thread,
and is produced at a much less cost
The fibre is long, easily carded, and
mav be readily adapted to spinning upon
nn ordinary flax spinner. It has the
smoothness and lustre of silk, rendering
it valuable for sewing-machine use.
The weed is common throughout this
country, but grows profusely at the
South. The material costs nothing for
cultivation, and the gathering is as
cheaply done as that of cotton. Samples
are being introduced into this market.—
Roeton Tranerrif.i
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