Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-03-31

How TO DRIVE OxEN.-One of the best
things in the world to be is boy; it requires no
| experience, though il needs some practice to be
| good one. The disadvantage of the position
is that it does not last long enough; it is soon
| over; just as soon as you get used to being
boy, you have to be something else, with good
deal more work to do and not half so much fun.
And yet every boy is anxious to be man, and
is very uneasy with the restrictions that are put
upon him as boy. Good fun as 1t is to yoke
up calves and play work, there is not boy on a
farm but would rather drive yoke of oxen at
real work. What glorious feeling it is, indeed,
when boy is for the first time given the long
whip and permitted to drive the oxen, walking
by their side, swinging the long lash, and shout
ing Gee, Buck!' "Haw, GOldenp "Whoa,
Bright! and all the rest of that remarkable
language, until he is red in the face and all the
neighbors for half q mile are aware that some
thing unusual is going on. If | were boy,
am not sure but would rather drive the oxen
than have a birthday.
The proudest day Of my life was one day when
| rode on the neap of the cart, and drove the
oxen, all alone, with a load of apples to the
cider mill. was so little that it was wonder
that didn't fall off aud get under the broad
wheels. Nothing could make boy, who cared
anything for his appearance, feel flatter than to
be run over by the broad tire of a cart wheel.
But never heard of one that was, and don't
believe one ever will be. As | said, it was great
day for me, butt don't remember that the oxen
cared much about it. They sagged along in
their great clumsy way, switching their tails in
my face occasionally, and now and then giving
urch to this or that side of the road, attracted
bya choice tuft of grass. And then came the
Julius Cesar over them, if you will allow me
to use such a slang expression, a liberty never
should permit you. l don't know that Julius
Cesar ever drove cattle, though he must often
have seen the peasants from the Campagna
"haw" and "gee' them round the Forum (of
course in Latin, a language that those cattle
understood as well as ours do Englsh); but
what mean is, that stood up and "hollered"
with all my might, as everybody does with oxen,
as if they were born deaf, and whacked them
with the long lash over the head, just as the big
folks did when they drove. l think now that it
was a cowardly thing to crack the patient old
fellows over the face and eyes, and make them
wink in their meek manner If | am ever boy
again on farm, l shall speak gently to the
oxen, and not go screaming round the farm like
crazy man; and shall not hit them II cruel
cut with the lash every few minutes because it
looks big to do so, and cannot think of any
| thing else TO do. l never liked lickngS myself,
and | don't know why an OK should like them,
| especially as he cannot reason about the moral
| improvement he is to get out of them.-ChdTleS
| ID. Warner IN Work and Play.
The king of Denmark, who has been in very
| feeble health for some time past it is said at
| Copenhagen, intends to abdicatc his crown in
| favor of his son Frederick.
|
Of Orleans, to revive the order of Jehu, a secret
society, formed during the occupation of France
| by the allied armies, by Frenchmen who had
| sworn to kill as many Cossacks as possible
| This time the victims of the Jehus were to be
| the PruSsian uhlans. But the first raid which
| VallOn and his JehuS made upon a village occu-
pied by thirty ublans proved disastrous to them
| and their order. The uhlans had been warned
| Of the approach of the enemy, and suddenly sur
| rounded VallOn and his men. After a slight re-
sistance they surrendered. Vallon and his two
aids were shot on the spot, and the other JehuS
were sent home, after being severely foggcd on
| the bare back, After that nothing further was
| heard of the order.
On receiving the news of the death of Mr.. Chas
NJ. A Gauren, late graduate of the College of the
Holy Cross, and ecclesiastical student of the grand
seminary of Montreal, the class of 49, of which he
member, decided to offer the following tribute
| to his memory:
| Whereas, God in the plenitude of His wisdom and
the inscrutabe workings of His providence has de-
pryed the class of $50 of member esteemed for the
briliancy of his parts; of brother loved for his
warm and and afable disposition; be 1t, therefore
| Resolved, that though we weep not, like those
VINO have no hope, yet we heartily and sincerely
mourn the death of our departed brother and class
mate.
Resolved, that we deeply sympathize with his be-
reaved parents and mourning relatiOns and that we
| bow in silent respect before the domestic hearth,
| grown dark by the loss of its brightest gem, and
made desolate amidst the ruins Of its blighted
| hopes.
Resolved, that these resolutions be sent to the
family of deceased and that a copy of the same be
published in the Boston Pilot and Worcester Spy,
DANIEL f. CRONIN,
JOHN f. MuNDY,
MICHAEL Z. KELLEHER,
Committee on Resolutions.