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So the fruit brought in half triumph was given
In whole Kindness
"God bless you" said little Boggs, reent-
ing at her tear-stained face. Then she hur-
ried from tho room, and he went on tiptoe to
Stretton's bedside.
"Well, old fellow, how do you feel nowY'
"Eh2" said Stretton, languidly.
"How do you feel?-never mind; you
needn't speak, old boy. Who do you think has
been here? Miss Grierson .-'E. g. you
know, old fellow and she has brought you
these grapes-arent they jolly, old fellow p
and she's coming tomorrow. Don't You think
you'll be able to see her, old boy?"
"I know SHALL" said Stretton, slowly.
The rest OF my story is soon told. Edith
and her mother came the next day, and the
next-in fact, every day; and though kind
friends hocked to the sick bed as is the wont
OF Englishmen, only too anxious to do any
thing and everything, they constituted them
selves the chief ones. And after q while peo-
pie began to understand; and by-and-bye,
when quiet little wedding took place in the
old church at Noting Hill, don't think that
any one was very much surprised.
Stretton and his pretty wife-for Edith was
pretty, though have never mentioned it be-
forc-have never had q disagreement but once,
and that was when he wanted tho "Scene from
Macbeth hung in tho drawing-room, and she
would not have it, because it was too abom-
inably bad. ."-Hd,per's Weekly.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-07-07
American Fruit in EurOpe.

Europe is now taking surprising
quantity of American fruit. The pur-
chases have amounted to over two mil
lion five hundred Thousand dollars worth
since last June, compared with six hun
dred thousand dollars in the same period
the year before. Dried apples figure
largely in this movement. This country
has exported twelve million pounds of
them since last June, as compared with
five hundred and twenty-five thousand
pounds the previous year. This new ad-
dition to the trade of the United States
is due to the invention. which has oc-
cupied itself of late with improved
methods for drying and preserving for
transporting fruit. The greatest pro-
gress has been made in the way of dryers.
Within year some notable inventions
in this line have been perfected. which
are a great acquisition to the resources
of the country. TIE fruit dryer bids
fair hereafter to be as much OF a necessity
to every farming comm unity as the cider
mill md the cheese factory.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-07-07
The Gentleman.

The gentleman is by no means COM
mon, even among the better classes.
The character belongs to individuals,
not to grades, orders or professions. It
does not depend on circumstances, train
ing, or fortune, not necessarily on edu-
cation, for education makes not, it
merely develops, the man. Men who
are ignorant, who have had no advantages
whatever, are sometimes the superiors
of those of nice culture, good birth, and
favorable surroundings. The gentleman
comes from within, not from without; he
is such by reasons of his convictions,
sympathies, aspirations. He demands
something of himself necessarily, and
sees that the demand is met without
diminution or shrinking. He walks by
the light of ideals; he endeavors, so far
as in him lies. to make the world better
rather than worse, he respects himself
too much to be capable of meanness; he
reverences the feelings of others; he
will not Willingly do wrong; in a word,
he is thoroughly human and strictly
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A Swarm of Water Rats.

On one occasion we had curious ad-
venture, says DR.. Van Der Hork, the
German traveller to the Arctic circle.
While crossing swampy part of the river
called Kjoalmejaure, in the early part of
the night, we were surrounded by swarms
of lemming, al animal like the mountain
rat. They swan around the boat and
attempted to Chamber into it, SO that it
was with the greatest difficulty that we
could keep them from boarding us by
beating about with the oars, at which
they would set up sharp, shrill screams
similar to those of the muskrat. The
poor little creatures were fighting for
life. These little animals come unexpect-
edly down from the mountains-no one
knowing exactly. .where-and appear in
millions, swarming over the whole couu-
try, eating up almost everything that
comes in their way. Neither rivers nor
lakes seem to deter them, both of which
they swim easily, usually keeping on their
destructive path until they reach the
open sea, which they vainly endeavor to
cross, never swerving from the direction
once taken until they sink exhausted be-
meath the waves. Thus perish countless
They commit great ravages,
and are dreaded in the North as locusts
are in Egypt. Years, however elapse
between their temperance, or until they
suddenly descend from their rocky re-
treats. The Lapps tell us they rain from
the sky, many of them stating that they
have actually seen them fall.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-07-07
Cunning Ravens.

In the narrative of the Arctic voyage
of Captain Mcclure, of the British navy,
is the following story of the two ravens
which became domiciliated on board the
Investigator. The raven, it appears, is
the only bird that willingly braves a
Polar winter; and, in the depth of the
season, he is seen to fit through the cold
and sunless atmosphere like an evil
spirit, his sullen croak alone breaking
the silence of the death-like scene. No
one of the crew attempted to shoot the
ravens, and they consequently became
very bold, as will be seen by the narra-
tive:
"Two ravens now established them
selves as friends of the family in Mercer
bay, living mainly by what little scraps
the men might have thrown away after
meal times. The ships dog, however,
looked upon these as his especial per-
quisites, and exhibited considerable
energy in maintaining his rights against
the ravens, who nevertheless outwitted
him in way which amused every one.
Observing that he appeared quite willing
to make mouthful of their own sable
persons, they used to throw themselves
intentionallyin his way, just as the mess
tins were being cleaned out on the dirt
heap outside the ship. The dog would
Immediately run at them, and they
would just fly few yards; the dog then
made another run, and again they
would appear to escape him but by an
inch, and SO on, until they had tempted
and provoked him to the shore, a con-
siderable distance off. Then the ravens
would make direct flight for the ship,
and had generally done good execution
before the mortified looking dog detected
the imposition that had been practiced
upon him, and rushed back again."
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-07-07
The Sick MINIS Uneasy Throne.

A correspondent of the London Daily
News, at Constantinople, predicts that
if the present Turkish government can
maintain itself it will make peace with
Russia rs soon as the people have been
sufficiently humbled by one or two
crushing Russian victories. The Rus
slams, he says, will be content with the
cession of Batoum and of portion of
Armenia, and with the free passage of
the Dardanelles, but they will be con-
tent with nothing less. If they are verv
successful, and the Turks are very much
depressed, they may demand large por-
tion of .he Turkish iron-clad fieeJ. It is
probable that they will be moderate, and
equally probable that the Turks will be
yielding. 1t will suit Russia, who has
been striving to win Constantinople for
$50 years, to advance some ten or fifteen
years nearer to the fruition of her wishes.
1t will suit the present rulers of Turkey
to get fresh lease Of power, at no mat
ter what sacrifice. The discomfort in
the provinces, he continues, is immense.
The entire provincial population is ready
to demand the dismissal of Redif Pasha,
the war minister, and Mahmoud Damad,
the marshal of the palace. The sultan
knows not what to do with regard to
these men. He dares not dismiss them;
he dares not even accept their resigna-
tion, lest he should lead the populace to
demand still further concessions. On
the other hand, he breads popular out
break, which must be crushed with such
cruelty as would still further ALLEVIATE
from Turkey the sympathy and support
of the Western nations. The thoughts
of the people turn continually toward
the ex-Sultan Mourad. They know that
if his health is not absolutely restored it
is greatly improved. The widest ru-
mors are in circulation as to the conduct
of the present sultan, as to his legitima-
cy, which is publicly questioned, and as
to his. capacity. Mourad was desposed
solely for assumed incapacity. If he
were to present himself to the public his
deposition would become dead letter.
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A GymnaStic Pig.

A Kentucky pig has suddenly devel-
oped genius for gymnastics and en-
gineering which eclipses the proudest
previous achievements of his race. The
eminent pig was recently placed by his
owner in a pasture surrounded by a high
wall, and ornamental by elm trees
festooned with wild grape-vines. The
walls, however, could not confine his
bold and vagrant spirit. Selecting q
tree standing near the western wall of
the pasture, he carefully bit loose the
lower end of the stout grapevine, which
was attached by its tendrils to limb on
a tree, and taking this improvised rope
in his mouth, swung himself in the air
until he had gathered an impetus which
sent him entirely over the wall, and
landed him in the next field. Though
often recaptured he has constantly re-
peated this extraordinary feat, and his
intelligent owner, instead of cutting
down his elm trees to restrain his pigs
wandering propensity, has decided to
educate him for the trapeze business,
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-07-07
The Peach CrOD.

All accounts agree that the peach crop
will be larger this year than ever before.
Not one-third of the immense yield in
Delaware will be sent to market in the
natural state, owing to lack of means of
transportation, and the great excess of
the supply over the demand. Last year
experiments were made in drying the
fruit by intense heat, and this year that
branch of the business will be prose-
cuted extensively, expensive machinery
being used. A bushel of peaches con-
tains two gallons of water, which can be
driven out in few hours by evapora-
tion and the slices, when brought into
contact with water again, are found to
be not materially altered in taste.
Europe is tho market to which the dried
peaches are TO be sent
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the only buildings in the burned district
AI,aA

the only buildings in the burned district
that escaped.
Mrs. Reed, mother Of ex-Mayor Reed,
and her two sisters, Misses Clark, who
were burned in their residence, were
aged ladies'. slow to leave home, and
were caught by the swiftly moving fire
ere realizing the danger.
The remains of one lady were found in
the doorway.
John Il. Turnbull and son attempted
to rescue partly insane lady from the
flames. She struggled and held back,
until her clothes catching fire, they were
forced to drop her to make their own
escape. She was burned to death.
A drunken man left in Prince William
street is supposed to have persisted.
In Smith street face appeared at the
upper window, the form of child seen
in her arms. A wave Of flame swept
past the window and mother and child
were seen no more.
Several lives were lost, while the de-
struction to property involves nearly all
the public buildings, newspaper Offices,
fourteen churches, and all the prominent
business houses. Fifteen Thousand peo-
pie wandered through the streets home
less and starving, and a great deal of
suffering prevailed.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-07-07
Too Thankful.

During the session of a temperance
meeting in neighboring town, one of
the persons who occupied the stage was
an enthusiastic deacon who frequently
interrupted the speakers by yelling !:
." Thank Heaven for that !" One gentle
man was called upon, who arose and
said: "Ladies and gentlemen, I am heart
and soul in this cause, and feel that it
will be great benefit to the people of
this place" "Thank Heaven for that I"
yelled the deacon. "But, ladies and
gentlemen, he continued, 81 am going
to say that it will be impossible for me
to address you this evening" "Thank
Heaven for that |" said the absent
minded deacon; and then the chairman
took him outdoors and had two men sit
on him,
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Items OF Interest.

An old farmer near New York has not worn
hat for twenty-five years.
When young woman bushos and weeps,
can she be said TO raise a hue and cry
The Turks are reported as having disap-
p0ared from Promisori. That must bo place
Of note.
There is one thing in which little girls and
murderers alr,r they are equally eager to
skip the rope.
| Telegraph dispat hes say Greece is excited.
We should think that Greece would simmer
down this weather.
There's no man, considering the wants OF
summer resorters, who sets better table than
good compOsitor.
Out in Nebraska there are 44O,37s, $50, ,23l,-
$50 hoppers to the square mile without counb-
ing those that roost in the trees
A bachelor editor, who had pretty.sunmar-
ried sister, lately wrote to one similarly cir
cumstanced: "Please exchange"
In London old graveyards are turned into
vegetable gardens and the dust of past gem
erations lives again in asparagus and cauli.
flower.
Every Turkish soldiers ambition is to grow
mustache as big as q gray squirrels tan
When that has been. accomplished he is great
soldier.
Mr.. Tyndall has invented respirator for
nary boon to them. In company with Gen.
Shaw OF the London fire brigade, ho has tested
it with entire success.
A man in Warsaw Ark has killed four men
on as many different occasions. In each case
he proved beyond question that he acted in
self-defense, and was acquitted by ajury. He
is not often assailed now.
Baltimore has a queer old man who, every
day at one o'clock, goes through certain streets
and takes his stand near pump. There he
remains, counting aloud the persons who come
for water until the number reaches seventeen,
when he turns and goes the way he came to
his home.
was somewhat shocked when young man
got up in our young converts meeting and said
he had carried pocket pistol ever since he be-
came converted But when he drew it out it
was Testament. I hope every one of the
young converts will carry pocketpistol Of that
kind.-Moody at Boston.
The sllrmse that many of the persons run
over by railroad trains have been previouly
murdered is usually not susceptible Of proof.
An engineer on the Louisville and Chicago rail-
road, however, applied the brakes 80 promptly
that the body he saw ahead on the track was
not struck. 1t was found that the man had
been robbed, almost killed, and then placed
where q train would be likely to obterate all
evidence of the crime.
Miss Emma Pearson and Miss Mclaughlin,
the two English ladies who went out with the
ambulance service in the late Servian war, say
that the Russians do not care for English help
of any kind, and it is not likely that any
Englishwomen will attempt to work with them.
Tho Turks, they say, do not display any national
animosity toward the English but they are 80
utterly destitute of any feeling of respect for
women that ladies' shrink from hospital service
among them.
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A Turkish Prison.

Opposite to the mosque with the 81,
minarets, at Stamboul, there rises q
gloomy building known as the Central
Prison of the Ottoman empire. Admis.
sion to it is formally denied to strangers,
but no door can be considered inexora.
bly, closed in Turkey to visitors familia,
with the virtues of the silver key.
The fatal threshold being passed, cir.
culation through the vast building is
freely allowed, and also conversation
with many of its inmates. There is no.
much to interest the visitor in the prison
itself, the horrors of former days having
been put an end to, if they have not al.
together ceased, being now, at least,
very seldom and always very secretly re-
sorted to, and the chains with which the
prisoners were laden till lately fell at the
request of the British embassy extraordi-
nary at the time of the visit of Mr..
Philip Currie, Lord Salisbury's first
secretary.
1t is only the prisoners, or at least
some of them. who appeal, if to no bet
ter feeling, at least to mans curiosity,
and with these it is easy to be Oh friend
ly terms, as, although some Of them may
be kept secret or doomed to solitary con-
finement, they are all allowed long hours
Of relaxation in the ouloirs, lobbies or
passages, for the benefit Of air and exer-
else, where a visitor, upon the slightest
encouragement on his part, finds them
extremely sociable and communicative.
During these hours of promenade the
dwellers of the various cells are thrown
together pell nell, and, till the custom
has reconciled one to it, it is natural to
be shocked by the sight of State prison.
ers, sometimes men Of rank and educa-
ton, having to struggle through the
crowd of common felons and malelactors;
the journalist Cassapa, for instance;
Kemal Bey, literary man and politi-
clan, elbowing past such monsters as Mas
seily, the coffee house keeper, whose
murder Of the two sisters Samalik filled
Pera with horror year ago, OF the Cir
cassian, his accomplice, who, after the
enjoyment of twelve months impunity,
has just been sent to keep him company
after the trial in which he appeared as
witness.
Hardly perceptible in the throng of
common thieves, burglars and highway
men, there still linger here few score
of Bnlgarians, mostly simple peasants
and poor villagers, those who escaped
the massacres and the first wholesale
executions in that province, men who
were arrested at haphazard, their guilt
unknown to them as we'll as to those who
apprehended them, and brought here,
where no one ever asked their business
and where no one seems any longer to
trouble himself about them.
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A Noble Doctor,

Hon. Peleg G. Chandler communicates
to the Boston Transcript an appreciative
sketch of the life-work of the late DIR.
John D. Lincoln, of Brunswick, Me-, in
which he incidentally says: ellis daily
practice being in radius of twenty
miles, from early morning till night,
and not infrequently at night, he was
riding from farm to farm, from house to
hovel, not only giving advice and medi-
cine, but, by his genial presence, mirth-
full ways, and keen sense of humor,
cheering the sick room and giving i'm
pulse and new inspiration to all the
households he visited. He was ever
ready with his sage advice in practical
matters, and his long intimacy with fami-
lies made him frequent peacemaker in
social and public quarrels. His patients
comprised every class in the community,
for DR.. Lincoln was no respecter of per-
sons, he had seen too much of human
nature to be confused by externals or af-
fected by surroundings. No man called
on him in vain. No matter how stormy
the night, or how dark; no matter
whether it was the servant of some we'll
to-do neighbor, or the underfed son of
some poor fisherman, whose hut was on
some remote island in Casco bay. If
there was suffering humanity that needed
his skill and called for him, Just as
cheerfully and willingly as if for hope of
reward, he proceeded on his errand of
mercy without delay. Many and many
time has he driven at the dead of night,
in such storm as often Genes up on
our bleak coast, ten miles to the drear
shore and then been rowed by the strong
arms of Maine fisherman to some lone
island to tend sick child; no hope or
reward brought him there, and no re-
ward which this world affords can fulfill
the prayers of the mother who has seen
him tend her child and heard his wise
advice and words Of good cheer as he
wrapped his cloak about him and went |
out into the darkness, unpaid save in
thanks and the satisfaction to his own |
warm heart. The opportunities of his
profession for good deeds knew no limit.
nor did his practice Of it fud any,"
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The Way Of the World.

The re are beautiful songs that We never sing
And names that are never spoken,
There are treasures guarded with jealous care
And kept as n secret token,
There are faded flowers and letters dim
With the tears that have rained above them,
For the tickle words and faithless hearts
That taught us how to love them.
There are slghs that come in our joyous hours
TO chasten our dreams Of gladness,
And tears that spring to our aching eyes
In hours of thoughtful sadness
For, the blithest birds that sing in spring
win fit the waning summer,
Aud lips that we kissed in fondest love
Will smile on the first new conner.
Over the breast where lilies rest
In white hands still forever,
The roses OF June will nod and blow,
Unheeding the hearts that sever,
And lips that quiver in silent grief,
All words OF hope refusing,
Will lightly turn to the Geeting joys
That perish with the using.
Summer blossoms and winter SHOWS,
Love and its sweet elysan,
Hope, like siren dim and fair,
Quickening our fainting vision;
Dropping spirit and failing pulse,
Where untold memories hover,
Eyelds touched with the seal Of death,
And the fitful dream is over.
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.Baby's Grave.

In u quiet English churchyard
Baby sleeps.
While the wind from wood aud meadow
Softly creeps
Ger the little mound We ma DO him
God knows best
With what aching hearts Wa laid him
Down to rest.
Many summers, many wlntars
He has slept,
While we lived, and loved, and suffered,
Smiled and wept
All the fears we can not number,
All the Woo,
Baby, in his tranquil slumbor,
Does not know.
The. Quirer.
Smyrna times., 1877-05-09
MARYLAND ITEMS.

The wife of Rev. C. l.. Riday, living just
over in Caroline county, has been bitten by
a dog known to be under the influence Of
dydrophobia, it is said.
About 100000 "smelt," a fish much
rcIishcd by cpicures at the North, have
been placed in Miles and Wye Rivers by
Fish Commissioner Furguson.
a new Court House is about to be con-
structcd at Salisbury. No public buildings
have been erected since Wicomic0 became
a county. 4 new Jail is nearly finished
a very worthy citizen Of Tcmplevillc was
some time since seized with an attack OF
hiccoughs, which nearly terminated his
life. For two weeks it held and snatched
and racked his frame sometimes almost to
exhaustion.
Dcah Of It LioncSS.-A lioncts belonging
to O Brien's circus died whilst the show was
at Ccntrevillc, Tuesday week. The skin OF
the animal was carefully taken off and the
flesh fed to the other animals This is the
third lion, we understand, this company
has lost in the last three weeks.
in E1haoritomy Hcla-The Baltimore
81" rectea the achievements of a wonderful
hen, owned by George w. Young, OF
Leicester, Howard county, Md, which ac
| cording to the Sm. laid III eggs from
April 4th to the 2jth inclusive. The hen
laid no eggs on Sundays. The Sim says the
truth OF the above statement is vouchcd fol
by number Of competent witnesses. One
day She laid twelve.
Smyrna times., 1877-05-09

PEACHES TO EUROPE.-We publish an arti-
Gle from the New York Herald, on the first
page of this issue, which intimates that
shipping peaches to Europe will most likely
be tried from New York the coming sum-
mer by the commission house of A. F.
Young & Co., of that city. This firm deals
largely in Delaware fruit, and are particu-
larly well known to many of the shippers
in this section. They are extensively en-
gagged the year round in importing and
exporting fruit, and if shipping peaches to
Europe by the refrigerating process can be
made feasible, as it is believed it can, they
are well situated to establish the fact.