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The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1872-03-28

euco luquiIye3, Atcote0dnSy oolO uoys AMER
moments thought. Il do not therefore
know how to reply to you: Iehould like to
know tie name Of your friend whom re-
semble, but for an answer 10 your inquiries I
must refer you to my brother"
Gay Heber feized the first opportunity to
inform her adopted brother of the particulas
of her singular interview with the falss Lieut..
FalIon. no b. -s.s-tr-. ~, g. -
IL told him to speak 10 you, MARX she
said, ''but my heart has been On fire ever
since. What il be should hare known my
moiher?' rs--l +r..r...I y-sf--- :.
''He looked like death when he 6rss saw
youpface, Gay, " said Mark thouehtfully. SIT
was - il he had seen = ghost"
Gay started, and exclaimed:
'.From the moment I beheld the man I
ehrank from him. had an inetincsive fear
and adherence Of him. Oh, Marx, dear
Mark, don't let MIN know ary more about
me than he knows now"
Il will not, Gay" said Mark soothingly.
"If Ne is your father, he shall not know that
you are his daughter"
The promise comforted Gay, Who smiled
family through the gloom that had fallen
upon her.
As some young people csme toward the
Hebers, Marx arose abruptly, and went to
look after his oxen.
Gay was about to join Mark, when the
false Lieutenant Fallon approached him,
offering him cigsr.
"Fine evening Mr.. Heber," said the Dis
guised Blue Jack courteously. "Whai! Yoa
don't smoke? Smoking il vice. ! wish I
could break myself Of il. Your ulster Is .
lovely child, or girl, l should say. She
must be fifteen years old. Is she not?"
''Shs Is but child YET, lieutenant only
fourteen-yet she is more womanly than
many girls of eighteen
"Only fourteen" said the pretended lieu.
tenant musiaely. I'll bad . fancy that
she was fifteen. / knew 1 child once-per-
haps she's dead now-but IL abe were Living
she would be fifteen years Of age, and he
very picture Of your sister. And, oddly
enough, that childs name was the same q
your sister's-Gabrieller'
Mark repre2ed start, and turned away
his paling face from the keen scrutiny of the |
villain.
"The child alluded to-" coatinrel tie |
false ieutenant, had black hair and brown |
eye; rather singular combinatiou; but her |
mother, poor creature, had had the same
features, and had been great beauty in her
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1872-03-28

Blue JACK. They had found no trace Of the
despersdo o. hin companion.
''No use locking for "Biue Jack" said
the oficer in charge Of the party, addressing
Landlord. ''Thefe has been . party Of
Sioux shout this quarter for . few days past,
and no doubt Bloc jack has fallen in with
them. The party il hardly large enough to
attack your train, and understand they
have gone up toward Dakotah. Blue Jack
has wife somewhere Up there"
Upon the second day amer leaving Forh
NcPherson, the emigrants made their mid
day halt in q grove Of cottonwoods, upon
the hank of the south ford Of the Platte, at
it, junction with vide, tree fringed river
which descendsd from the northWard, and
The sight Of the village vas eelected ex-
actly at the junction Of the two rivers, upon
. low bluff overlooking the two streama
Thea public square was carefully laid
out with mathematical exactnea.
Then eeeh mans lot vss asigned him.
Marx Heber's was next to Whitman's, ON
the eastern ids of the square, facing west,
and his future garden ran back to the edge Of
the low bluH.
Marx Heber did mans work, and from
The 6ut day of this hard toll Whitman
ceased to clas the youth among the boys.
In The couE.s of week, eight Arong log
houses, each . Story in height, and pierced
with loop-holes, and each provided With .
siaeIs oapacio0 cAimsey, vefe finished, and
fonted the Little naked square.
Marx Heber's hoos was simply arranged,
bailt upon The plan generally adopted BY the
settler. There were but two rooms, one
bsing entered through the other. The inner
room Va to Be Gays. The outer room was
to Be- parlos, dining room, kitchen, Library,
and Marx . bedroom. IL
ssThe houss i yosr province, Cay" said
IL youth. upon the norning sller Tie house |
- 6n.bed. II shall leavs yoa 70 fnish II
snd trapsforn Il into ho0s while I work
upoa The aoekads. II yen 1sed my help
vken the aoekade and hlock-house are
6nished, I will turn ny.elf into hosse-car-
pentsr."
II sha'1t sesd you. mr." MD Gay
,aucily. 'Yoa sEt0d to thehrn. md leave
he hoa0 70 ma" ~. -. |
Ths ahelaer pessidsd. he eight hos.ss
vas II entirely 70 he na.aC01 u the
women, The nss working upoa Tie stoeksde,
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The next moment q shower Of bullets cam
hurting toward the defenders of the camp.
1.-THE gum cried Landlord. "Give it I.
'em, Whitman" q
Whitman did "give it 10 them," moving
down three mounted savages, horses ana
riders rolling over and over in horrible deati
agony.
The remaining savsges again came to +:
halt, but only for an instant. With a ter
rife war-whoop, they came on again to tn,
onslaught, firing a. they came, and looking
like incarnate demons.
"All together" cried the guide.
The other men and all the boys fired, each
with especial aim. Six mounted savage.
fell before the deadly rain.
A panic Immediately seized upon
the survivor. In the midst Of it, Whitman
grimly touched of his feld-piece anew.
This ended the conflict. The savages with
horrible yells beat an instantaneous retreat,
leaving their dead upon the field, and drag
ginx away their wounded.
Amory had bullet wound in his shoulder,
and Arnold's eldest son had q flesh wound
in his arm, but neither Of these injuries was
serious.
"Are you safe, Gay" demanded Mark,
coming toward her.
"Yes, but I'm almoet smothered," an.
svered Cav. "Have the savages surely
gone, Mark
Gay cautiously crept forth while she was
speaking. Tie remaining wagons disgorged
their crouching occupants, women and chill
dren coming forth pale and trembling, but
full of joyful gratitude at their escape from
death, or fate wore than death. The camp
took on it usual appearance even before the
relreating savages were entirely lost to view
in the far distance. That night they en-
camped upon the prairie, and met with no
adventure. A guard was maintained as on
the previous night, but no Indians were to
be seen.
Every day for the week that followed the
on the Little Blue was full Of
incident but al Of the pleasant sort, nothing
occurring to alarm the emigrants.
And 1t the end of the week, to their great
Joy and relief, they arrived at Fort Kear-
ney.
but pressed o. to Ksar1ey City, where they
just At nighffali.
Here Cooductoe Landlord found another
nan, the guide Of which had been stabbed
he night before BY notorious man, who
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-06-24

LITTLE THINGS AS TEsTs.-Little
things for Christ are often the best tests
of the truth of our religion. Obedience
in little things has much to do with the
character of a servant. You engage a
servant in your own house, and you
know very well, whether she be good
or bad servant, that the main duties of
the day are pretty sure to be attended
to the meals will be cooked, the beds
will be prepared. the house will be
swept, the door will be answered; but
the difference between servant who
makes the house happy and another who
is its plague, lies in number of small
matters, which, peradventure, you could
not put down on paper, but which make
up very great deal of domestic comfort
or discomfort, and so determines the
value of a servant So I believe it is
in Christian life do not suppose that
the most of us here would ever omit the
weightiest matters of the law but it is
the looking to the Lord upon minor de-
tails that in the spirit of obedience is
most displayed; it is seen in our keep
ing our eye up to the Lord, as the eyes
of the hand-maiden's are to their mis-
tresses, for daily orders about this step
and that transaction.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-06-24
@elieio,ts Department.
Rev. J. w. MALCOLM, Editor.
A TEST OF BUSINESS CHARACTER


A TEST OF BUSINESS CHARAcTER.-I
had been taking tea at the house of a
highly intelligent Chaistian lady in an
interior city, and talking, among other
and higher things, abouther beautiful and
commodious mansion, and the building
by whom it had been most skilfully and
economically rearranged and almost re-
built since its purchase. We soon went
to the weekly prayer meeting, and that,
by the way in stormof wind and rain
which might have furnished an excuse
if not a good reason, fora ladys staying
at home. | had seen the builder refer
red to, and was quite struck at finding
him in the desk, to take his turn, accord
ing to the custom in that church, in con-
Quoting the meeting Your friend
Mr." 1 ventured to whisper to the
lady. "Yes," she replied, "and l am
as willing to hear him pray as before
our business transactions together" The
topic of the evening favoring, l repro
duced the remark as one | had 'once
heard" Whether its origin was under
stood beyond Mrs.-and myself, l do
not know but told her at the close,
that Judging by the visible effect of the
remark on theslittle assembly, she had
made the speech of the evening. When
shall the time come that the prayers
and exhortations of all church members
shall be no less acceptable to their
brethren and sisters who have had init
mate business and social relations with
them, than to others? 1t would be a
'good time; perhaps the Millennium.
-Erchange. n p n.-..-ss eHg
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-06-24
HARD TIMES AND THE CAUSE.

We are fast becoming a nation of
schemers to live without genuine work.
Our boys are not learning trades; our
farmers sons are crowding into cities,
looking for clerkships and post Offices;
hardly one American girl in one hun
bred will do Homework for wages, how
ever urgent her need; so we are send
ing to Europe for workmen, and buying
of her artisans millions worth that we
ought to make for ourselves.
Though our crop of rascals is heavy,
we do not grow our own hemp; though
we are overrun with lads who deserve
fagellation, we import our willows.
Our women (unless deceived) wear
European fabrics our men dress in
foreign clothes; the toys which amuse
our younger children have gene rally
reached us from over the sea.
Hence tits that we plunge deeper
and deeper in debt to the Old World.
We are like the farmer who hires his
neighbours sons to cut his wood, feed his
stock and run his errands, while his own
boys lounge at the grog-shop, playing
billiards, and then wonders why, in spite
of his best efforts, he sinks annually
deeper and deeper in debt, till the sher-
iff cleans him out, and he starts West to
begin again.
We must turn over new leaf.
Our boys and girls must be taught to
love labor by qualifying themselves to
do it efficiently. We must turn out
fewer professionals and more skilled
artisans, as food growers. We must
grow and fabricate two hundred millions
worth per annum, that we now import
and so reduce the foreign debt that We
have SO long and successfully augment
ed year by year. We must qualify oul
clever boys to erect and run factories, fur
naces, rolling mills, tanneries, machine
shops, etc., to open and work mines, i'm
prove and fashion implements, and doub
lie the present product of their father
farm. So shall we stem that tide o
debt that sets steadily against our shore
and cease to be visited and annoyed b,
hard times.-Eachange.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-06-24

The HIGH CALLING OF TILLERs OF
THE SoIL.-Ralph Waldo Emerson once
said that the farmer has grave trusts
confded to him. In the great house.
hold of nature the farmer stands at the
door of the bread room and weighs to
each. his loaf. The glory of the farmer
is, that in the division of labor it is his
part to create. All trade rests at last
on his primative authority. He stands
close to nature he obtains from the
earth the bread and the meat. The
food which was not he causes to be. The
first farmer was the first man, and all
historic nobility rests on the possession
and use of land Men do not like hard
work, but every one has an exceptional
respect for tillage, and the feeling that
this is the original calling of his race
that he himself is. only excused from it
by some circumstances which made him
delegate it for time to other hands.
If he had not some skill which recon-
mended him to the farmer, some product
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-06-24

HOME WoRK.-In 1915, while in
Stockton, | taught a young Chinaman,
named Tam Chow, to read and write,
the way of life, and to pray. He re-
turned to China. Four years ago he
returned from China to San Francisco,
where he has tea-store. Hearing of
my being in Wilmington, he sent me a
chest of tea, and well-written letter,
in which he says he has never forgotten
my instructions, that he reads the Bible
daily, and daily prays to God to make
him good man, and keep him from
evil. He asked me to continue to re-
member him, and pray for him. How
true is the promise, "Cast thy bread on
the waters" etc.--Pres1yterion Record.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-06-24

How farmers BOYS GET RICH.-The
truth is that boys have always been so
plenty that they are not half apprecia-
ted We have shown that farm could
not get along without them, and yet
their rights are seldom recognized. One
of the most amusing things is their effort
to acquire personal property. The boy
has the care of the calves they always
want feeding or shutting up or letting
out when the boy wants to play there
are those calves to be looked after-un-
til he gets to hate the name of calf But
in consideration of his faithfulness, two
of them are given to him. There is no
doubt that they are his, he has the en-
tire charge of them. When they get to
be steers, he spends all his holidays in
breaking them in to a yoke. He gets
them so broken that they will run like
pair of deers all over the farm, turn
ing the yoke and kicking their heels,
while he follows in full chase, shouting
the OK language till he is red in the
face. When the steers grow up to cat
tie, drover one day comes along and
takes them away, and the boy is told
that he can have another pair of calves !;
so with undiminished faith he goes back
and begins over again to make his for
tune. He owns lambs and young colts
in the same way, and makes just as
much out Of them.-C. A. Warner, IN
| Vt. Farmer.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-06-24
A Blow AT POPULAR FALsEHoop.-

A Blow AT POPULAR FALsEHooD.-
New YORK, June 9.-The warm wealth
er caused drowsy feeling to pervade
the congregation at Plymouth Church
this evening, but Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher aroused his hearers from their
lethargy by telling them in substance
that they were all liars. SAID he: IF
you do not lie in word you tell falshoods
in deed and action in all the walks of
life. Do women tell the truth when
they try to make themselves appear
more beautiful than they really are by
resorting to the acts and tricks of fash
ion? Does the merchant tell. the truth
when he puts sand into his sugar, or adj
justs his scales to give short weight? ?
The lawyer. the doctor and even the
preachers lie; but the most mischievous
falsifers are the editors of newspapers"
Mr.. Beecher advised that the people in
culcate love for truth among their
children by telling such stories as that
of George Washington and his little
Ratchet. When any of us chop the fig
urative cherry tree, we should be willing
to own the fault. The sermon closed
with scathing rebuke to political
thieves and tricksters, and the expires
sion of hope that falsehood would not
prevail in the coming Presidential con-
test.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-06-24

ALL IN ONE WoRD.-A minister had
brigh little boy who used to get very
tired of sitting still in church. He
once proposed staying at home, because
he knew everything in the Bible and
could not be teached any more but his
father smiled and said: ~suu I'D
Then you must 60 to set good ex-
ample, Jamie" su'4trug
And so Jamie had still to 90 and still
to sit, too. One warm Sunday after
noon, as he trudged along by his fathers
side, he drew sigh of some size and
said:
otis pretty hot to-day, papa. If I
was you, I'd preach awful short ~
81 think l shall, jamie" was replied.
Papa, don't Gospel mean all the
good there is in the Bible put together ?''
"Yes, my son; think that is a good
definition of Gospel"
Then papa, why can't you just say
Gospel, amen 2 That would be preach.
ing all there is, without firing folks tc
death. Penn. Temp. Vindicator.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-06-24

GUARD THE WEAK SPoT.-All men,
however strong. have weak spot, like
the rkinoceros. which, though planted
like monitor, is vulnerable to spear
thrust below the plates. Satan is not
such fool as to attack the strong de-
fences he would be sure to thrust at
the vulnerable points. Some, indeed,
think they have no weak place and
such people are right, for they are weak
all over, and no part, therefore, could
be called weak in particular. The po-
lar bear has a weakness, which is for
Dlubber, and the hunters knowing this,
coil piece of whalebone like a watch
spring, wrap it in blubber and freeze
it. Then they drop the tempting NOR
sci in the way of the bear, who swallows
it greedily; but as soon as the blubber
melts in his stomach, the whalebone
springs out. The bear then rolls over
in agony, and they come up and kill
him. Thus it is when men yield to a
easily besetting sin; it will cut them
asunder.-Dr. III. NJ. tScudder.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-06-24

1 never knew a good horse which had
not some odd habit or other, and new
er yet saw a minister worth his salt who
had not some crotchet or oddity. Now
these are the bits of cheese that cavaliers
smell out and nibble at: this man is
too slow, and another too fast; the first
is too fowery, and the second is too dull.
Dear me, if all Gods creatures were to
be Judged in this way, we should wiring
the doves neck for being too tame, shoot
the robins for eating spiders, kill the
COWS for swinging their tails, and the
hens for not giving us milk. When a
men wants to beat a dog he can soon
find stick, and at this rate any fool
may have something to say against the
best minister in England.-Johm Plough
man.
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for which the farmer gives him corn, he
must himself return into his due place
among the planters. And the profession
has in all eyes its ancient charm as
standing nearest to God, the first cause.
Then the beauty of nature, the tran
guilty and innocence of the countryman,
his independence, and his pleasing arts
the care of bees, of poultry, of sheep,
of COWS, the dairy, the care of hay, of
fruits, of orchards and forests, and the
reaction of these on the workman in
giving him strength and plain dignity,
like the face and manners of nature-all
men acknowledge. All men keep the
farm in reserve as an asylum, where, III
case of mischance, to hide their poverty.
or a solitude if they do not succeed in
society.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-06-24
2feric,tlfural Department
I. D. r. COLLINS, Editor.
OILING AND BLACKING HAIR
NESSES.

All harnesses that are in constant use
should be washed, oiled and BACKED at
least twice year Some harnesses
should be oiled three or four times
year, while carriage harness, which is
used only once or twice week, if kept
in clean harness-r room or harness closet,
will need oiling only once a year. There
is danger of oiling harness too much.
When the leather appears so thoroughly
saturated with oil that the oleaginous
substance oozes from the pores. and alb
serbs dust that may be floating in the
atmosphere, the leather does not need
oiling. The leather should always be
in such a condition, when oiled, that it
will absorb the oil and leave a clean
surface.
When harness is to be oiled, take it
in clean and warm room in cold wealth.
er, or on few clean boards out of doors
in warm weather unbuckle all the
parts, and wash the surface clean with
strong soapsuds. Wherever there may
be a coating of gum, if soapsuds will
not remove it readily, dipa coarse rag
in spirits of turpentine and rub the sur
face rapidly. A little turpentine or
benzine will remove heavy coating of
gum readily. Before the oil is applied
the leather should be warmed through
and through. AS soon as the harness
appears to dry on the surface, and be-
fore the leather has become dry as tin
der to the middle, apply the oil. Ira
ces, and some other parts of a harness
which are exposed to the wet and mud,
are not liable to have too much oil ap-
piled to them.
Neatsfoot oil is preferable to any
other, as it will keep the leather soft.
We once knew a farmer who, not under
standing that linseed oil when laid on
leather would render it hard and stiff,
applied coat of it to his carriage-har-
ness, which made the leather so stiff and
hard that the surface would crack badly
whenever the pieces were bent.
When the oil is about to be applied
lay piece of harness on bench Of
smooth board, and use paint brush
or swab to lay on the oil. Let the OF
be kept.in a large milk-pan, so that al
small pieces like lines and straps, may
be dipped in the oil and drawn slowly
through it. With the thumb and finger
slip the oil back on the straps, and LEI
it drop into the pan. By using larg
pan, one can oil harness in a few min
utes in neat and thorough manner
without wasting any oil. AS soon a
the oil has dried in, coat of leathe
varnish should be applied before tn
harness is used.-Industrin MonthLy
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-06-24

Remember that God is no curious or
critical observer of the plain expressions
that may fall from His poor children
when they are shut in their closets. 1t
is not flow Of words, or studied notions,
seraphic expressions, or elegant phrases
in prayer which take the ear or delight
the heart of God, or open the gate of
glory, or bring down the best of bless
ings upon the soul; but faith. upright
ness, holiness, heavenlihess, spirituality,
and brokenness of heart-these are the
things in the saved mans experience
that make a conquest upon God and
turn most to the souls account.
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NUTRITIvE VALUE OF MILK.-A chem
ist of Providence, r. l., states that milk
is more nutritious than meat. The nu-
tritive value of milk, as compared with
other kinds of animal food, is not gen
orally appreciated. There is less differ
ence between the economical value of
milk and beefsteak (or eggs or fish, than
is commonly supposed. The quantity
of water in good quantity of milk is
eighty-six per cent, in round steak sew
enty-fve per cent, in fatted beef sixty
per cent, in eggs about sixty eight per
cent. From several analyses made last
winter, [ estimated sirloin steak (reck-
oning loss from bone) at thirty five cents
a pound, as dear as milk at twenty -four
cents quart !; round steak, at twenty
cents a pound, as milk at fourteen cents
quart eggs thirty cents a dozen. as
dear as milk at twenty cents a quart.
Many laborers, who pay seventeen cents
for corned beef, would consider them
selves hardly able to pay ten cents for
milk, when, in fact, they could as we'll
afford to pay fifteen cents.
Milk is most wholesome and econom-
ical food for either the rich or poor. 1t
ought to be more largely used. If the
money expended for veal and pork were
expended for milk, | doubt not it would
be an advantage both to the stomach
and pocket, especially during the warm
season. Relatively speaking, then, milk
at ten cents quart, is the cheapest an
imal food that can be used. Whether
farmers can afford to produce it cheaper
is matter for them to decide, 1t il
very probable that were they to ash
twelve cents very large number of pool
people would refrain from its use from
!. mistaken notions of economy, notwith
standing they are excessive meat eaters