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The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-02-05

A NEW cereal has been grown IN
Oregon which has puzzled the farm
ers, as it Is unlike any grain with
which they are familiar. From seven
to ten stalks grow from one root to a
height of about four feet, and these
stalks, or straws, thin and hard. The
radicals are tough, andspread widely:
The headsare six inches In length and
covered with heavy beard, each Ill
ament being five inches long. The
grain Is double the length of a kernel
of wheat, and, instead of being firm
and compact, Is hollow, the cavity
containing glutinous matter. While
the grain bears closer resemblance
to wheat than to anything else, the
straw looks more like that of rye or
barley. Its origin Is somewhat pecu-
liar, the first grain having been taken
from the stomach of o wild goose by
a farmer In Tillamook county nearly
three years ago. He was struck with
its appearance and planted 1t, and
the succeeding season s0wed the pro-
duct. He distributed portion OF
tho second crop among a few friends
in different parts Of the State, who
this year raised small quantities. 1t
will require another year to deter
mine the value of the grain.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-02-05

AT last / got to the land of the
midnight sun. i watched through
the first night, and remained there
nearly seven weeks. 1t bothered me
to know when to 60 to bed, my
watch being out Of repair. discover
cd the birds retired at eleven a. m,
and got up at two a. IN. Still further
north, and then mosquitoes Talk
about your New Jersey specimens,
pshaw! Why, they were SO thick
that you couldn, see man three feet
off. 1 saw long houses one hundred
and fifty feet long, some of them
seven hundred years old. To heat
them wood firesare built In huge fire.
places having very thick walls.
These are kept up two or three days,
and then they havenO fire for week.
Some of the farms have as many as
forty-five houses. There are houses
for cheese, and for butter, and this
thing and that thing--I don't know
what all. Each farm has two dwell
ing houses, one for winter and an
other for summer. Houses can be
rented for 30 year. Carpenters
wages are fOrty-five cents day, and
yet they strike. Everybody works.
Each house has its loom they weave
cloth and make their own garments.
There are no markets; nothing Is
sold. Whoever has more than he
wants for himself he gives it to who
ever needs it. The people are healthy.
They do not have consumption, and
you never see an emaciated form.
You never see beggar either. If
too poor to live they are too proud to
beg, and not mean enough to steal.
The subsistence is sour milk, coarse,
bread, meat twice a week, and fish.
Nearer yet to the cape, and tho
horses and the cows and the reindeer
live on fish, eaten raw. Still nearer,
and the cows have nothing but boiled
seaweed to eat. In degree sixty-eight,
farm horses are scarce, the travelling
unpleasant, and done on foot or by
boat. In the summer 1t Is wet, and
the mosquitoes leave no peace.
At length / reached seventy-one
degrees fifty minutes, the cape, the
northern end of Europe. The coast OF
Norway is magnificent, its harbors
lined with steamboats,; its mountains,
high and grand, are covered with
GLACIERS, its waters SO clear that the
bottom of the sea is discernible.
Sweden bears no comparison to it.
In going from the city of Tonjin, to-
ward Sweden, don't sleep under the
skins they offer. Such fleas, and such
numbers! GrOg shops are one hun
dred miles apart up there. They buy
whisky by the quantity, and keep
drunk while 1t lasts.-Puut de CHaitt,t.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-02-05
Borrowing Trouble.

BY all means borrow all the trOu-
BILE you can! If you can not borrow
enough by day sit up nights and get
somebody to help you.
You will have crOwsfeet mt the
corners of your eyes by the time you
are twenty-five, and you will need a
wig ut thirty, but never mind there
Is a satisfaction in knowing that
trouble has done it!
Always be on the lookout for some
thing to happen. Full half the trou-
bles in this life are purely imaginary,
and the more you worry the livlier
will your imagination become.
You know the story of the little
girl who wss found crying bitterly
before the mouth of the family oven,
which was being heated for thanks
giving sacrifices? When asked by
her mother what was the matter, she
replied, between her sObs:
"Oh, mama, l was thinking what
if 1 should grow up, and get married,
and have little baby, and the hot
oven lid should fall on it boo hoo
bOoW
Well, there are thousands of peo-
pie in this world just like that little
girl. They are on the lookout forhot
Oven-lids.
Something terrible is continually
staring them in the future. TheyeX
pect the cholera every year. They
look constantly for smallpox. They
shrink up and shudder at the thought
of comet. They expect to be
struck by lightning every time a
cloud passes over the sun. They
never go to bed without expecting to
be murdered before morning. If the
cat gets shut up I'm the pantry they
are sure there are burglars in the
house.
They are continually looking for
fits of sickness, and believing that all
ounce of prevention is worth pound
of cure, they employ the preventives
and their houses smell of onions,
camphor, hartshOrn and whisky in
about equal parts.
They are ready to meet all evils
half way. They do not seem to re-
alize the fact that most of the troubles
wehave are those which we never ex-
pected or dreamed of! What we are
confidently expecting to come, sell
dom does come, and the heaviest
blows fall upon us when we are most
at our ease.-Rate Thorn.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-02-05

Twelve years ago Daniel Wet, O
farmer living near Hope, I'm New Jer-
sey, made his will, and deposited II
for safe-keeping with Samuel Albert
son, his relative and neighbor. He
had two sons and three daughters, the
latter;married tOmen In good circum-
stances. To these he bequeathed
$1,000 each each, and to his sons the
residue Of his property, some $15, 900,
and all his real estate, except life
interest for the widow. Nobody was
supposed to know anything about this
Will but the two men, Daniel Wet
thinking that the discrimination be-
tween his children would produce an
unpleasant condition of affairs which
was quite probable. In 1869 old
Daniel Wet died, and when Samuel
Albertson brought out the will from
his old farmers desk and produced it
before the heirs, 1t was found to be
only sheet of blank paper. Every
body was astOnished, and nobody
more so than Samuel AlbertsOn, and
the suspicion grew that the will had
been distracted by some interested
persons, who were not satisfied with
the conditions of the will. Suspicion
attached to the daughters of the hus-
bands as the parties to be benefited,
and after quarreling for two years the
sons paid over to them as a compro-
mise some $4,000. At last, however,
the mystery about Daniel Vlet's will
has leaked out. A dissipated COM
panion of young Albertson having
quarreled with him, divulged the
fact that young Albertson, for bride
of $500, paid to him by two of the
sons-in-law, stole the will from his
fathers desk and substituted the sheet
of blank paper. Young Albertson has
confessed; there will be new divis-
ion of old Daniel Vlet's money, out
of which will grows family fued that
will last Lifetime, and perhaps be left
as legacy to the next generatin.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-02-05

The following hint, given by a cor
respondent of the tribune, relates to
an exceedingly simple method of pre-
caution I'm the use of kerosene and
other cheap oils, and may be worthy
of attention. His plan Is to fill the
lamp lightly with jewelers. cotton be-
fore pouring in the oil. The cotton
absorbs Il good deal of the oil, and, In
case of accident, the latter does not
flow about and can thus be easily ex.
tinguished. On one occasion his kerr
osene lamp burst, and a mass of flame
jumped out, but being in a compact
body he covered it instantly with a
bucket and, with the help of water
pitcher and few wet towels exiting
uished it before the slightest damage
was done. Had 1t not been for the
cotton the flaming oil would have
flowed in all directions.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-02-05

A recent volume of poems contains
some verses, entitled "By the sea-"
I'm which the poet says:
con the foaming white of the misty light
Ny lover seems to ride:
And think how lone In his billowy home
Upon the silver tide"
There can be no doubt that a man
would be lonely riding out on the
foaming white of the silver tide, and
under the circumstances would seem
as II the poet would have been In the
line of duty to have padded out to
that lonely lover I'm skiff, instead OF
sitting on the shore and being bitten
by the greenheaded flier. But the
thought of his loneliness would not
have occurred to us before anything
else. Our first thought would have
been that unless that idiot out there
on the foaming white had on India
rubbef overalls he would be positive.
ly certain to get his pants wet, and
to suffer ultimately from rheumatism
in his legs. And then we should
have borrowed a boat and dragged
him ashore by his hair, ifhe had any
Perhaps this Is not a poetical view
but lover with widowed breeches
and a cramp In his shins is not poet
ical either.-Mdr Adeier.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-02-05
A HindOO Story.

"A tiger, prowling in tile forest, was
attracted by bleating calf. 1t prov
ed to be bait, and the tiger found
himself trapped in a spring cage.
There he lay for two days, when a
Brahmin happened to pass that way.
so Brahmin!' piteously cried the
beast, shave mercy on me; let me
out of this cage" "Ah but you will
eat me-" "Eat you! devour my
benefactor? Never could l be guilty
of such u deed" responded the tiger.
The Brahmin, being benevolently in
clined, was moved by these entreaties,
and opened the door of the cage.
The tiger walked up to him, wagged
his tail, and said "Brahmin, prepare
how ungrateful how wicked am /
not your savior?" protested the
trembling priest. "True," said the
tiger, livery true; but it is the custom
of my race to eat man when we get a
chance, and can not afford to let you
go." "Let us submit the case to an
arbitrator" said the Brahmin.
''Here comes fox. The fox is wise
let us abide by his decision" "Very
WClly ISpllCN tSCis IVA,
assuming a judicial aspect, sat on his
launches with ali the dignity he
could muster, and looking at the dis
putants, he said: "GOOd friends, !
am somewhat confused at the different
accounts which you give of this mat
ter; my mind is not clear enough to
render equitable augment, but If you
will be kind enough to act the whole
transactions before my eyes, l shall
attain unto a more definite conception
Of the case. Do you, Mr.. Tiger, show
me just how you approached and
entered the cage, and then you. MIR.
Brahmin, show me how you liberated
him, and 1 shall be able to render
proper decision" They assented,
for the fox was solemn and Oracular.
The tiger walked into the cage, and
the spring door fell and shut him iu.
He was a prisoner. The judicial ex.
preston faded from the fOx's count
enance, and turning to the Brahmin,
he said: 81 advise you to go home as
fast as you can, and abstain, in future,
from doing favors to rascally tigers.
Good morning, Brahmin good NOR
ming, tiger"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-02-05

A WRITER in London Society pro-
pounds the following plan Of silencing
that worst of social bores, the anec-
dote monger "Cross-examing him, !"
he says, con all the salient points of
the anecdote. Demand the way, the
how, and the when. Suggest that
some other course than the one pur-
sued ought certainly to have been
taken, and sift the affair as IL you
were the sternest historical critic.
If the reIator and his friend, Fred.
Cooper, were thrown out of dog cart,
inquire whether they were driving
horse or q mare ask who made the
dog cart, and what was the height OF
the wheels. Request him to draw q
plan of the spot at which the upset
occurred, and be particular in your
curiosity as to the harness and the
weather. lean confidently, and from
experience recommend this as the
most effectual course"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-02-05

A DETROIT newspaper tells this
little story: A boy about ten years
of age, leading lively dog, called at
the central station and asked If that
was the place where they shot dogs.
being answered in the affirmative,
he said: "Well, please shoot my
poor little Dan. He's an awful good
dog, and plays with the baby every
day, but father is deaf, and mother Is
sick, and / can't raise the money to
get license" Then turning to the
dog, the boy lifted him up tenderly
and stroked him, saying :-"PoOr
Dan how Billy will cry when i tell
him you are deadv Great big tears
rolled down the boys face, and in u
little time those around him had
made up purse sufficient to save his
dog, and a good natured person
went with him after the license. The
boys eyes fairly sparkled at this un-
expected luck, and speaking to the
dog, he cried out. "You are saved,
Dan! You're saved: let's go right
home to Billy ~
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-02-05
Light Words.

Nothing Is fraught with more sig.
nihgcance than the interchange Of
words that Is going on In the world
Indicative of thought and expressive
OF ideas, or idle, careless and light ms
wisps before the wind.
Words, words everywhere, but SO
few ideas among them! People re-
fleet little before speaking. 1t Is not
strange when, once spoken, not q
word can be recalled or blotted from
existence?
Harsh, where gentleness were bet
ter deserved kind, where reprOOf
were but just to honor and thought
less where earnest consideration were
necessary-this Is the way things
work at cross purposes and the ends
of ultimate good to all are Temporal
rily COMPOUNDED.
There Is SO little earnestness and
singleness of purpose in the human
heart, that almost every one drifts
with circumstances and thinks and
speaks from impulse, or speaks with
out thinking.
There are times when light words
sink deep and prevent to bad uses
that which might have been given in
a good cause. Happy hearts are
often saddened, bright homes dark
ened and sunny days made tedious
and lonely by words which might
never have been spoken had but one
sober thought INTERVIEWED.
1t Is so easy to make people happy
and so difficult to eradicate trouble
and drive away care, that light words
which convey discomfort ought al
most to be cause for criminal action.
If thief steals your cloths, furni-
ture or stock, the law affords redress;
but an idle Drained vender of gossip
can walk in and demOlish your house
hold God of Love and Affection,
leaving the sacred fires smoldering to
ashes on the earth and there is no
help for it.-Elm Orlou.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-02-05

A CLERGYMAN I'm the north Of
Scotland was riding along the road
one day, and had on a cloak (Which
he wore when the elements without
seem to wage war and dispute their
claims to superiority of rather an
extraordinary make and pattern,
cape upon cape, like the outworks
in a regular fertilization, so that when
the rain had got possession of one
fold, it had fresh one to encounter.
The winds were trying to barricade
into ridicule, and were assailing the
shoulder turrets In all directions,
when an English gentleman came up,
mounted on a very spirited horse,
which had never been trained to such
sights, and took alarm, and almost
threw his rider. "Why, man." said
John Bull, "that cloak OF yours would
brighten the devil" "Weel," replied
the minister, "that's my trade"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-02-05

An exchange says thesubject of Dor.
rowing and lending came up In the
course OF conversation with one of Its
subscribers, the other day, when he
suddenly recOllected a funny occur
renee of that character that had hap.
pened In his neighborho0d. He said
he had neighbOr whose family were
great borrowers, but seldom, II ever,
returning the exact amount borrowed.
An old Quaker lady, another neigh
Dor, who had endured these invasiOns
for a long time patiently, hit upon a
very philosophical mode OF eventual
ly putting a stop to this nuisance.
Keeping her own counsel, the next
time her good man went to town he
had a separate and express order to
purchase pound of the best tea, and
also a new canister to put 1t In. AS
he knew already she had plenty of
tea, and also u canister, he was
puzzled to determine what the old
lady wanted of more tea and a new
canister, but his questiOningsand rea-
sonings elected nothing more than a
repetition OF the same order.
Jim, did / not tell thee to get me
pound of the best tsa and q new
canister? Now go along, and do as l
bid thee"
And go along he did, and when he
came home at night, the tea and new
canister were his companions. The
old lady took them from him with
an amused expression on her usually
placid features, and depositing the tea
in the canister, set it on the shelf for
special use. 1t had not long to wait,
for the borrowing neighbOr had fire.
quent use for the aromatic herb. The
good old lady loaned generously,
emptying back in the canister any
remittance of borrowed teas which
the neighbours conscience inclined her
to make. Time went on, and after
something less than the one humid
redth time of borrowing, the neigh
Dor again appeared for "just another
drawing of tea," when the oft-visited
tea canister was brought out, and
found to be empty, and the good old
lady and obliging neighbor was just
one pound of tea poorer than when
she bought the new canister, which
now only remained to tell the story.
Then she made little characteristic
speech, perhaps the first in her life.
She said: "ThOu seest that empty
canister. L filled 1t for thee with
pound of my best tea, and have
lent it all to thee in driblets, and put
into 1t all thou hast sent me in return,
and none but thyself hath taken
therefrom or added into 1t, and now
thou seest it empty; therefore l will
say to thee, thou hast borrowed thy
self out, and l can lend thee no
more"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-02-05

ALL animals are provided with a
certain store of nutriment, to assist
in their growth, until they can obtain
sustenance for themselves. In the
eggs Of all living creatures, the bulk
contains three-fourths of such stored
up material, which Is unconsciously
and imperceptibly absorbed into the
structure of the newly developed ami
NAL. Similarly, as Is seen i'm our
beans, peas, ac0rns, etc., there Is q
supply of alburnen and starch for the
nourishment of the young seed germ
until Il can strike root into the ground
on Its own account, assimilate the
soluble mineral matter it finds there
and deoxidize the atmosphere of it,
necessary ailment. It Is this surround
ing Of the embryo plant, or "seed" as
we term Il, with certain organic sub.
stances, which gives rise to what we
call fruits.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-02-05
Dead.HeadIsm.
Is. +. Taylor thus explains the let

b. f. Taylor thus explains the let
tiers ID. III
Everybody knows what ID. III. is
He sees 1t on the telegraph that costs
him nothing. He sees It in the glass
when he looks at himself, if he rides
free upon the train-dead head. There
are ID. III. 3 beyond the meaning on the
railways. There was church in
OtsegO county, New York, with as
many brains and as much grace in it
as in any county church of its time
1t had q minister, faithful, able, earn
est, who preached out and out and
through and through sermons. He was
not "star preacher" He knew lit
tie about astronomy, save the Star of
Bethlehem. That man preached forty
years for that church, and they never
paid him dollar. He made "bees"
draw up his winters wood, and cut
his grain. That was all. Well, he
was gathered to his fathers, but he
had spoiled the church. He had edu-
Gated it to be ID. III. without knowing
it. After he died, the deacons went
looking about for two hundred and
fifty dollar minister, and you can get
as much minister for that price as you
can psalm-tune out of a file. Finally
they tried five hundred dollars worth.
1t was cheap article they got. 1t
was hard to hear him preach, but
harder for them to pay for it. They
had been deplorably educated. They
were dead heads. Their church edi-
flee stands to-day on hill like the
Celestial CITY, but it Is a very dilapi-
dated one. If you go there any sun
ny Sunday, you shall find it untenat-
ed save by the fowls of theair. They
had a funeral there last season, for
deaths open the building sometimes,
and on window ledge, near where
the gray-haired singers used to strike
up Near, and Corinth, and old China,
mother bird-a rObbin-sat undis-
turbed upon the nest. The good old
elders grave-across the road is sunken
and weed grown. $50 runs the world
away"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-02-05

TIE people of New Jersey are
making a great mistake in opposing
the taxation of church property In
that state. The church and state
should be kept separate in every par
ticular, and each denomination should
be required or left to support its own
organization without extraneous aid.
The exemption of church property
from taxation Is donation by the
state In aid Of the church deriving
benefit therefrom, and Is In direct OPP
position to the cardinal principles OF
our institutions, which demands that
church and state shall be kept separ-
ate.-&. Louis Globe.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-02-05

ONE of the first literary men In the
United States said to q writer, after
speaking on the subject of temperance:
"There is one thing which, as you
visit different places, 1 wish you to do
everywhere; that is, entreat every
mother never to give drop of strong
drink to child. 1 have had to fight,
as for my life, all my days to keep
from dying a drunkard, because l was
fed upon spirits when child, and
acquired a taste for it. My brother,
poor fellow, died drunkard. ]
would not have child of mine take
a drop of liquor for anything. Warn
every mother wherever you go, never
to givea drop to child.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-02-05
Russian Soldiers.

You would be delighted to see the
drill of the Russian soldiers. This
morning while was reading your
letter there was parading at the
Boulevard directly in front of this
legation, a regiment of cavalry,
about 800 strong, every horse black,
not white hair on all the number,
of the same height, size, and style,
standing like statues, while the riders
all large men and equal in drill, wore
hemlets and breast-plates of brass
polished to the highest perfection,
with drawn sabers of the brightest
steel, long, crooked and intended for
business. The exactitude of these
regiments Is wonderful. Most of the
horses are black, but there are regi-
ments of grays and bays, but no
mixture. Each horse must have
flowing name and tail. The infantry
and artillery are equally closely Sc
lected, no diversity of height in q
company, and they move like ma
chinery. Great preparations are be-
ing made for the festivities of the
coming nuptrals of the Duke OF
Edinburgh with the Russian princess,
and daily drills are taking place on
the "Champ de Mars" / should
guess there were out to-day 1000 OF
5000 cavalry, as many of artillery
10000 or $4,000 infantry. It's 9
splendid sight, such as is seen no
where else. Marching is very rapid
and mostly to trumphets, only some
times accompanied by kettle drums
and for show occasions fine milifar,
bands. The Emperor and all Of thu
imperial family are splendid soldiers
and always appear in the uniform o
their respective regiments, which
makes the military idea the promi
nent one of the Empire. / want (,
sedno such army In our country-ou
citizen soldiers are sufficient; but 70
absolute monarchy like this, IL ap
pears to be indispensable.-Lette
from Minister JetreU.