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Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-07-21
A Strange Story.

A fresh breeze of north wind was
blowing up Loch Sunard. We went
rattling along under snoring breeze
passed Mingarry Castle and Sthrone
Mclean, connected with which there is
sad story. Mclean was famous
freebooter when McIan was in posses
sion of Mingarry Castle. McIan's
wife was fair and vain. Mclean was
handsome and cunning. He, the enemy
of her husband, won her affections. She
agreed to admit him to the castle, upon
certain night, to murder her husband,
on condition that he would marry her.
Mclean accordingly entered the castle
at night and murdered the old chief.
McIan, however, left an only son, and
Mclean insisted upon the woman put
ting to death the son, who alone seemed
to stand in the way of his subjecting the
district to his own sway. The woman
agreed to this, and, accompanied by
Mclean, reached the wild precipice to
throw her child over into the ocean
which foamed below. The mother took
the child in her arms. She twice swung
it in the air to cast it from her but not
doing SO, she was asked by Mclean why
she delayed.
"The child" replied the unfortunate
woman, "smiles in my face whenever I
attempt it,"
"Turn your face away and look not
at its smiles," was the bandits reply.
The woman did SO, and the child was
thrown over the rock. She had no
sooner accomplished the deed than Nc
Lean turned upon her and said:
"Away, horrid woman You, who
could thus murder your husband and
child, might murder me. "-Memoirs Of
DR.. Macleod.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-07-21
Reading at Leisure.

Probably the most economical, pleasant
and profitable employment for leisure is
reading; it is q safe investment. upon
which we may assuredly calculate our
profits upon the principle of compound
interest. And, when we reach that
stage at which the eyes shall have grown
too dim for the open page before us, we
can still revel in the delights of memory,
when the treasures we have accumulated
in the hours of our youth shall gladden.
the otherwise tedious days of illness or
81 age.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-07-21

Your chicken has what is called "scur.
vy-leg," disease somewhat analogous to
itch in other animals. 1t is likely to
prove contagious, and will often spread
through an entire flock unless checked at
its first appearance. Remove the affected
fowls or fowl from the others and put in
dry pen; then wash the legs with q
weak solution Of sugar of lead, say piece
as large as good sized pea in teacup
Of water. Then anoint the legs with m
ointment made Of clean lard, and a little
creosote or -four Of sulphur. Keep the
fowls out Of wet grass, and housed during
rains, and cure will soon be effected.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-07-21
Grandfather's Pet.

GrAnulAther'S ret.
This is the room where she slept,
Only year ago
Quiet and carefully swept,
Blinds and curtains like snow,
There, by the bed in the dusty gloom,
She would knee with her tiny clasped hand,
and pray
Here Is the little white rose Of room,
With the fragrance fled away.
Nelly, grandfather's pet,
With her wise little face
seem to hear her yet
Singing about tho place,
But the crowds roll on and the streets are
drear
And the world seems hard with bitter doom,
And Nelly Is singing elsewhere--an here
Is the little white rose Of room.
Why, II sho stood just there,
As Aie used to do,
With her long light yellow hair
And her eyes of blue
II she Stood say. at the edge of the bed,
And ran to my.side with living touch,
Though know she is quiet and buried and
dead,
l should not wonder much.
For she was so young, you know
Only seven years old.
And she loved me. and loved me 30.
Though was gray and old;
And her face was So wise and so sweet to see,
And it still looked living VIXEN she lay dead,
And she used TO plead for mother and me
BY the side of that very bed
l wonder. now il she
Knows am standing here,
Feeling, wherever she be.
We hold the place so dear!
1t cannot be that she sleeps too sound.
Still in her little night gown drest.
Not to hear my footsteps sound
In the room where she used to rest.
have felt hard fortunes stings,
And battled in doubt and strife.
And never thought much of things
Beyond this human life
But cannot think that my darling died
Like great strong men, with their PRAYERS
untrue
Nay. rather she sits at Gods own side,
And sings as she used to do.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-07-21
Beauty.

Beautiful, yes but the blush will fade
The light grow dim which the blue eyes woar;
The gloss will vanish from curl and braid,
And tho sunbeam die In the waving hair,
Turn from the mirror and strive to win
Treasures Of lovliness still to last;
Gather earth's glory and bloom within,
That the soul may bo bright when youth
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-07-21
Scurvy.Leg Among Chickens.

1 have chicken that is very much
troubled with sore leg. At first the
part around the spur began to swell; in
the course of week or so, on this place
grew heavy scales; it remained in this
condition about two weeks, when the
swelling increased, and the scales con-
tinued to grow until the swelling covers
the whole leg. Now and then these
scales d1op off, but others come on in
quick succession. 1t seems to be ex-
tremely painful for the chicken to put its
foot on the ground. I think it has been
in this condition nearly two months. Ii
you know anything that will cure IL,
please let me know.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-03-15
The Fatted Calf.

A good story is told by an English pa
per concerning town-bred curate, who
had consented to do duty on Sunday for
his friend, the rector of country parish
in the midlands. The subject of the
morning sermon was the Parable of the
Prodigal Son, and in the hope of impress
ing upon his hearers the joy which the
patriarch felt on the return of his son, as
instanced by his ordering the fatted calf
to be killed, the young curate felt par
donable pride in dwelling upon subject
which could not fail but be comprehen.
sible to the dullest plowboy in the con-
gregation. Remember" said he, "this
was no ordinary calf which was to be
killed; it was no common calf, or beast
suffering from murrain; no hslfstarved
calf slowly awaiting death. No! it was
not even merely fatted calf; but"
becoming more impressive, lit was the
fatted calf, which had been priced and
loved by the family for many gears" A
sea of wide eyes and gaping mouths ar
rested for a moment the eloquence of
the fedgeling parson, and in the next
there was such chuckling and grins and
futtering of old heads below as had not
been witnessed, even in the memory OF
the quaint-legged sexton, for more than
"many years"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-03-15

81 say, wife, it's growing warm!
Shouldn't wonder if the sap would run
such weather as this; guess l must tap
one tree and see."
So Farmer CHEEKY took his auger and
went out into the maple orchard. 1t
didn't take him long to make little hole
in one of the tree trunks, and put in a
little spout; nor was it many minutes
before drop by drop came the sap.
"Ah! that's fne" said Farmer
CHEEKY, and he went home in haste.
The next we saw of him, he was driving
out into the orchard with a load of one
hundred and fifty clean, bright, tin sap
buckets and one hundred and fifty fresh
little troughs. Then, in each one of his
hundred und fifty maple-trees he bored
hole and put trough in, and bucket
beneath to catch the sap as it came
dropping out.
"Didn't it starve the poor little
branches waiting for their food 7"
Oh, no! There was enough for them
lett-all they needed to keep them very
fresh and make them grow. So many,
many pailfuls ran up and down every
day, that the one Farmer CHEEKY took
would hardly be missed.
Every morning and night for two or
three weeks, the good farmer might have
been seen with his great tank, clean as
could be, driving around to collect the
sap that had run out. He knew that
one reason why maple sugar is sometimes
dark. colored is because the pals and
tanks that hold the sap are not washed
| Thoroughly; so he took great pains with
his. He knew, too, that if any water
gets in, the sap must be boiled longer to
make sugar of it, and the longer it bOils
the darker it grows; so, If he saw storm
coming, he collected all the sap, and
turned the buckets upside down till the
rain was over.
Farmer CHEEKY had great iron pan,
which would hold-eh, l don't dare tell
you how many pailfuls--a great, great
many; and this very large pan rested on
some stone posts about two feet from the
ground. Under this he built fire,
and into it he poured his sap, stirring ii
while it boiled almost all day. When he
drew it of, such beautiful clear strip
don't believe you ever saw. This he
did two or three times each week fol
nearly month; after that, the sap was
not as good for people to use, though
just what the little twigs needed as
they grew older.
Some of his strip the farmer put ur
in cans to send to the cities; some of il
he boiled more and more, so that il
should be sugar when cooled. Then be
poured it into pretty scolloped tins, to
harden it into the round cakes you like
so much and some of it hislittle grand
children waxed on snow.
You don't know how that is?
Well, May packed handful of snow
Just as hard as she could crowd it in
then she smoothed of the top as even a!
a marble table, and she and Sally carried
it to Grandpa CHEEKY, who dropped
upon their snow a spoonful of the ho
strip here and there. The little thin
waxy sheets of suddenly cooled strip
picked up with fork and eaten as sool
as cool, made an excellent luncheon ; anC
the children tugged their pan of snow
around to give every one taste, declar
ing that "sugar season" was the yer,
best time in the year.-Ruth Kenyon, 81
| Nicholas
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-03-15
The Aquarium at the Paris Exposition.

A project of NJ. Toselli's for grand
aquarium at the Paris Exhibition in
1878 is given in Les Mondes. The
aquarium will be formed of an immense
iron case, on the bottom of which will
be rocks, sand banks, aquatic plants, etc.
Around the case will be several galleries
by which the public may walk and view
the interior with all its aquatic animals.
You visit first the top story and see
M. Toselli's "marine MOLE" or diving
bell, 60 down and come up indepen.
IDENTIFY of any cord or air-tubs. Then
you go down to the four lower galleries
in succession. From the interior OF his
mole NJ. Toselli illuminates the water at
the bottom with an electric light, show
ing distinctly the rocks, sponges, corals,
oysters, and various zoophytes. He will
also exhibit in use the various grasping
instruments and organs of locomotion
connected with the mole. A boat loaded
with eight or ten tons of stone will be
sunk from the surface, and M. Toselli
will recover it by pneumatic method,
without cords or chains. The marine
mole will be capable of containing four
persons who may wish to make descent
i'm it.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-03-15
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

DIR. Brown -SEQUARD says that
coughing may be prevented by pressing
on the nerve of the lip near the nose, by
pressing in the neighborhood of the ear,
and by pressing very hard on the top OF
the mouth.
The luxuriant Redpath writes that
Grant listens like loaded mitrailleuse.
As soon as he answers a question or ends
topic his lips bang together; he reaches
out for a match, lights his cigar again,
faces you and never interrupts you.
DIR. SoHLIEMANN has discovered the
mouth of double circular metropolis at
Mycene, and has found in a tomb four
golden vases, eight inches high, richly
ornamented; also, two golden signet
rings, representing a palm tree and seven
figures of women.
WILLIE BROWN, "boy orator." died
recently in California. He was only
eight years old. His memory was 80 re-
markable that he could recite long pieces
after hearing them read several times !;
and he showed this power when five years
old. Spiritualists claimed that he was
controlled by spirits.
SEVEN years ago Lena Grape drank
from the waters of babbling brook
near Troy, New York, and while doing
so, felt something live slip down her
throat. A few days ago she drew forth
from her throat dead frog The animal
had remained all the time in her stomach,
and in a sudden fit of sickness she was
able to make it rise to her throat.
MRS. Woodruff and Miss Clafflin
have conceived the ambitious project OF
making an appearance on the stage in
London. They have had play entitled
Napoleon and Josephine" specially
written for the occasion, and it is said
to be the intention of Miss Tennie to
personate Napoleon, while Victoria will
shine as Josephine. A daughter of Mrs
Woodruff will undertake the part Of
HOrtense.
Mr.. E. @. STEDMAN has lately written
"Creole Lovers Song" which Mr.
Dudley Buck has set to music for the
April number of the atlantic Monthly
While there are undoubtedly more good
baritone than tenor voices, it is a curious
fact that the majority of songs written
are adapted for tenor voices only, and
Mr.. Buck has therefore arranged thi,
for baritone or contralto Voice. Mr.
Stedman is greatly pleased with the re
suit, and says poet is rarely go well un
derstood and interpreted by musician
as he has been by Mr.. Buck in this in
| stance
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-03-15
Household HELPS.

QUICK WEDDING. CAKE. Two and
one-half cupfuls -four, one and one half
cupfuls sugar, one cupful butter, three
quarters cupful milk, two eggs, one-half
nutmeg, one-half pound of raisins, one
quarter pound currants, one-quarter tea
spoonful soda.
MINUTE PUDDING.-Eight even table
spoonfuls of -four, one pint cold milk,
with a piece of soda the size of pea
dissolved in it; stir in the -four grad
ually with the milk to the consistency
of thin starch; add four well-beaten
eggs; on sitting down to dinner put it
in the oven; butter the dishes well, and
put the mixture in one-eighth of an
inch thick, as it rises 30 rapidly; serve
hot from the oven with cold sauce.
Down EAST BREAD.-One and one
half pints sweet and very fresh milk,
lukewarm three tablespoOnfuls yeast in
the milk, a scant teaspOonful soda If the
yeast is sweet, a full teaspoonful if it is
at all sour, and little salt; add -four
while it stirs easily. and little -four on
top at last, to prevent the cloth from
sticking; cover, and set it in a moder-
ately warm place to rise over night.
One pint of milk makes a large loaf, and
half pint makes dozen biscuit. In
the morning roll your biscuit and cut
them, then place before the fire to rise
half an hour before baking. Allow
your loaf, after it is in the pan, to rise
from one half an hour to an hour, turn.
ing it round, 80 that it may rise evenly,
This receipt is equally good for Graham
| bread.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-03-15
The Boss Rat Killer.

A tall man with nose like muffin
went into a Main Street boarding house,
one day last week, and asked for din
ner.
Sowing TO the general depression of
business and the consequent scarcity of
the rhino," said the proprietor, looking
the tall man over, "a dinner will cost
you thirty-five cents, in advance"
al have nothing with me but check
on Boston bank" observed the tall
man.
"Checks on Boston banks amt worth
a "copper"" remarked the landlord; 81
guess you'll have to dine more stump.
tuously elsewhere"
Cant do something for my dinners"
asked the tall man, as hungry paug
gripPed him.
"You can pay" said the proprietor,
impressively.
"You give me my dinner" said the
tall man, "and I'll agree to clean your
house of every rat in it. | have per-
formed the feat in many hotels through
out the country, with most satisfactory
results"
The proprietor accepted the bargain,
40 a. blDob lufdhOoBOOAN OhO w iinloCliy
and the tall man seated himself at ihe
table, where he did fearful execution
among the vjctuals. He finished his diu-
ner in haitian hour, picked his teeth with
fork, called for cigar, and proceeded
to enjoy it.
Nov then" said the proprietor, when
the tall man had flushed his smoke.
Lets get to business. Go for the rats"
"Ah, yes" returned the tall man !;
with pleasure. Procure me a light iron
bar, about four feet in length, and will
proceed to business"
The bar OF iron was produced, and the
loaiers gathered around to witness the
interesting proceedings.
Now, begin" said the proprietor.
"Wherc'll you commence first2'
Right here" replied the tall man. as
he carefully rolled back his cuffs, spit on
his hands, and grasped the iron bar firmly,
while the proprietor stood by with great
anxiety depicted on his countenance.
"Now," said the tall man, impressive
ly, as he slowly elevated the bar, "are
you all ready?"
"All ready" returned the proprietor.
excitedly.
"Then," said the tall man, "bring on
your rats"
For the next FIVE minutes the excite.
mept of an entire presidential election
filled the room. When it subsidized the
tall man was nowhere tn be seen, and
the proprietor was standing before a
glass, tying an oyster over his left eye.
The rats still revel in their native free
dom.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-03-15
THE common asparagus grown in pots

The common asparagus grown in pots
makes pretty plant for house decora-
ton. The roots should be potted in i've
or six inch pots, in compost of well
enriched sandy loan, and placed on the
front stage OF warm house; and the
earlier shoots may be cut for use, If
drawn up by covering the crown with
an inverted pot. One shoot only should
be allowed TO grow, either the strongest
or a weak one, as large or small plant
may be desired. As soon as the foliage
begins TO open, the plants should be
placed in cooler part of the house, 10
harden of a little; and thence may be
taken in dc, rs, as required. The foliage
being of bright, rich green, and the
plants forming cone OF foliage, they
are, when laden with berries, really
beautiful.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-03-15
Five ThOusaud Books Given Away for the
Asking.

While DR.. III. James was attached to the
British Medical Staff in the East Indies, his
high position enabled him to call about him
the best chemists, physicians, and scientists
of the day, and white experimenting with
and among the natives, he accidentally made
the discovery that CONSUMPTION can be pos.
itively and permanently CURED. During
the many years o. ms sojonrn there, he de-
ease, aud upon his retirement lie left with
US books and papers containing full partic-
ulars, showing that every one caa be his
own physician and prepare his own medi.
cine, aud such inforMatIon as we have re-
ceived we now offer to the public without
price, only asking that each remit three.
cent stamp for postage. Address GRAD
DOCK & co. 1882 Race ST., Philadelphia, Pc.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-03-15
THE YOUNG FOLKS.
The Ffrst Pocket.

Inc EIEBt - WV.
What IN this tremendous noise7
What can be the matter
Willie's coming up the stairs
With unusual chatter.
Now he bursts into the room,
Noisy as u rocket:
t" Auntie I am Ave years old
And I've got pocketl"
Eyes as round and bright as stars;
Cheeks like apples glowing;
Heart that this rev treasure flls
Quick TO OVERLOOKING;
" Jack may have his squeaking boots,
Kate may have her Iocket;
I've got something better yet
1 have got pocket ~
All too fresh the joke 10 make
Emptiness q sorrow;
Little hand Is plump enough
To fill it'll tomorrow.
And ere many days were Ger,
Strangest things did stock 1t
Nothing ever came amiss
To this wondrous pocket.
Leather, marbles, bits OF string,
Lic0rice-sticks aud candy,
Stones, ball, his pennies, too;
II was always handy.
And, when Willie's snug In bed,
Should you chance TO knock II,
Sundry treasures rattle out
From this crowded pocket.
sometimes Johuny's borrowed knife
Found place within II;
He forgot that ne had said,
want IL just minute"
Once the closet key was lost
No one could unlock It;
Where do you suppose II was2
Down In Willie's pocket
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-03-15
Useful Information.

To find the number of tons of hay in
old stacks: Find the area in square
yards of the base, then multiply the
area of the base by half the altitude of
the stack in yards. and divide the pro.
duct by fifteen the quotient will be the
number of tons.
10 remedy the fault in horse which
carries the tail on one side, simple
operation may be resorted to, which is
neither painful nor injurious. 1t is to
cut through the skin, on the side of the
tail to which it is DESTROYS to draw it
over, few scores close together, remov-
ing the skin between two or three of the
scores, or, the skin may be fired with
sharp edged instrument, and few
scores made close together upon the side
required. Then a thick pad should be
placed on the crupper, SO as to force the
tail into proper position and keep 1T
there until the skin on the side opposite
to the pad is healed. After that the
tail will keep its proper position.
AT his nursery in Germantown, Penn
sylvania, Thomas Meehan exhibits trees
of different species which have been re-
peatedly transplanted with entire sue
cess, the last time when three inches or
more in diameter. Abiding to the diff
Guilty in transplanting the oak, he says
"If removed when two years old, cut
ting off the tap root and again after
ward when the roots have again run
downward, there will be no difficulty
and I have seen hundreds trans
planted when twelve feet high and
three or four inches in diameter, with
little or no loss" Those who admire
the beauty and grandeur of oaks should
bear these facts in mind.
In answer to q correspondent who
wants to know how much a fowl will
cost annually to feed, the Poultry World
says: In round numbers, two and hall
to three cents week. In summer not
so much; in winter little more. This
is calculating corn at a dollar to dollar
and quarter per bushel-the standard
food. With boiled vegetables half the
time (mixed with meal and shorts) the
expense will average about the same,
A good laying hen will give from one
hundred to one hundred and fifty eggs
in year, say ten dozen, which at thirty
cents average, will net three dollars.
This will pay good profit over cost OF
keeping in moderate numbers. Where
eggs average fifteen, twenty or twenty.
five cents a dozen, wheat and corn are
proportionally cheaper. If emily two OF
three dozen fowls are kept on a place
the scraps from the family table will &c
a good way toward helping out the feed
of the poultry. But from one to two
dollars, according to locality, per yeal
each will fully pay the cost of food, i
it is all purchased at ordinary market
prices.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-03-15

NINE. DEMoREsT's reliable patterns Of all
the lat. st and best spring and summer styles.
Send stamp for catalogues. What to Wear,
with full information, 10 cts. Portfolio OF
Fashions, with large illustrations, 10 cts.
Quarterly Journal O Fashions, cts; yearly,
10 cts, post-free. IL East l4th st., N. u, or
any of the agencies.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-03-15

THERE are probably hundred or more
persons 10 this and neighboring towns, who
daily suffer from the distressing effects OF
kidney troubles, who do not know that
Johnsof's Anodyne Liaiment is almost GER
tain cure. Ia severe eases great relief may
be Obtained, il not perfect cure.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-03-15

A BILL making women eligible for po-
sitions on School Boards has been intro
duced in the Senate of the New York
Legislature, and has already attracted
special attention to the subject. Me-
MORALS and petitions have been for
warded to Albany, praying that the bill
may pass. The strongest argument in
its favor seems to be that women are
needed OH the School Boards to provide
for the necessities of the female teachers
and pupils, whose wants men are fire.
quently unable to appreciate from sheer
ignorancs of the sex. Women have
served with success on School Boards in
Massachusetts,, Illinois, Indiana, Michi.
gan, Wisconsin, aud other Western
States. in Michigan women not only
serve on the Boards, but vote for the
officers.