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The Hickman courier., 1877-06-29

long-horned animals reared for so long
and in such large herds by the Moors on
the plains of Andalusia. The Spaniards
who discovered Mexico, and afterwards
settled in Texas, brought cattle with
them, and so exclusively have the de-
scendants of these been reared in Texas
that the Texan cattle of to-day may be
called full blooded Spaniards, inheritIng
and displaying all the characteristics OF
the fsrds that roamed On their native
plains In Texas these imported cattle,
though comparatively tame a4d quiet at
home, had such unlimited ranges 10 wan
der over that they very soon became per-
fectly wild, bounding off with fury at
the sight of human being; and even yet
many herds are in a semi-wild state, and
so furious that man on foot could not
venture to approach them, The herek
boys are all mounted, and the wildzlSa.ss
sgloE 1 nlan.on- horseba.s aqs : 7,
nm; bat man on foot . Il fsscfsss. u y
an enemy to them, and they at once 80
battle. Under these circumstances, it is
not at all wonderful that the millions Of
cattle now roaming at large in Texas de-
serve no higher praise than was bestowed
on the original breed. The characters
tics of the Spanish breed, as generally
recognized, may be summed up thus
long, spreading, halfturned ba - horns;
long legs, thin lanky body, big, ill-put-
together bones, throwing the body high
at the hooks and low on the rumps and
loins; coarse head, thin thighs, light
waist; a great amount of ofal compared
to the weight of beef; and various colors,
generally yellow, red, roam, dun and
black, with very often an iron colored
stripe along mixers, and their beef, as
rule, is inferior I have already seen
nearly twenty thousand cattle, and
though there certainly were a few very
fair beasts among them. I could not
modify any of the above terms in describ-
ing an average specimen.-G Cohesion Cor.
of the Scotsman.
The Hickman courier., 1877-06-29

PIG IRON SHIPMESTs--1he nls. ~. .-r
ment of pig-iron form Amsrica '. % I-.s .','s
has been made. Five tons nass '...', &
from Pittsburg to Antwerp. Be's.n Bea'.n
importing AnlIrican car-whoel', ;, ~ ns' h
seem likely to come int" ex'eqqas, ext: q'.., hs 4
that country. That viii ino' ,,... Is
commercial revolution when Y Y. ~, N. 81
be dependent on fO1sign '. ropla'
ron and steel Such fr IA 1e
however, knock away ono =
traders strongest Pr0p@
The Hickman courier., 1877-06-29

CADET FLIPPER, the eolored graduate
at West Point, stands sixty-third IN
class Of sixty-seven. And white boy,
the son of an eminent general, too, stands
ouIv seeonj
The Hickman courier., 1877-06-29

THE streets in front of employment
offices in San Francisco are so obstructed
with men seeking work that business
Grms lately petitioned the chief of police
to keep passage clear.
The Hickman courier., 1877-06-29

GEN. GRANT will not be the first
American to receive the freedom OF the
city OF London in a gold box. Mr..
George Peabody received it for his ser
vices to England, and TO London par
ticularly.
The Hickman courier., 1877-06-29

A BOY in Salem, Massachusetts,; died
last week from lockjaw, resulting from
the filling of tooth.
The Hickman courier., 1877-06-29

IN an election for school trustees in
Denver, Colorado. votes were cast by
three hundred and twenty three women.
Only one was challenged, Miss of
eighteen, who knew she was old enough
to marry and thought she was old
enough to vote.
The Hickman courier., 1877-06-29

IT is reported in London that Sir VIII
liam Vernon Harcourt, after the close OF
the session of parliament, will proceed
to the United States to prepare the
biography of his father-in-law-the late
John Lathrop Motley.
The Hickman courier., 1877-06-29
cURRENT PARAGRAPHS.

The twenty pound Emma mine shares
have been sold in London at one shilling
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The Hickman courier., 1877-06-29

"A POOR, unfortunate tramp, weary
of life, John ]. Wilson, 14S Washington
street, New York--two months in this
state-can not get employment, was
found on slip of paper, together with
bottle OF strychnine, on the dead body of
man on the east bank of lake Merritt,
Oakland, California.
The Hickman courier., 1877-06-29

The chiefs of the Cherokees, Della
ware and Seminole Indians are all mem
bers Of Baptist churches.
The Hickman courier., 1877-06-29

A THIRSTY fellow iDsulted widow
for not selling him liquor on Sunday
morning. Her preacher instantly knocked
him down. Whereupon the widow
clapped her hands and shouted, ''Thank
i1e Lord, the preacher can take hand
at most anything" Such is the case
with Judah p. Benjamin. He was,
before the war, one of the ablest senators
in congress. During the war he was
JEFF Davis secretary of state. When
the southern confedaracy collapsed M
made tracks for London, and there set ip |
his legal shingle. Now, Olive Lgan
says in one of her London letters, he Is
literally run down with busipss, and
turns people with their haris full OF
gold away from his door evry day sim
ply because he has no TIM to attend to
their cases. He earns matter of one
hundred thousand dollars every year,
and could earn more # he could put a.
legal extension on the twenty-four
hOurs.'
The Hickman courier., 1877-06-29

Mss IDA HAwLES, wno ommitted
suicide in Hornellsville, y. Y, recently.
left the following explanation of the act:
"The cause is not modification or dis
appointment, dread of the future, or i'll
health, or lack of friends or work. | am
young-twenty--healthy. L have had
always friends-never enemies. ] never
have known lack of food, or clothing, or
love. The cause then arises from a deep
seated conviction that this life is not
worth living for the prospect of life
beyond the world, which this is bps
preparation for, is too vague and chim-
ericai the aspirations uDfilled--the strug
giles uldeserved which the best of man.
kind must needs experience (and the
best lnost) t)-worth the repetition by
each Individual" ("
The Hickman courier., 1877-06-29

A GROVE of the great trees of the
Yosemite has just been explored 1t is
of an altitude similar to that of the other
groves-six thousand feet. Instead,
however, of being only cluster of forty
trees, it is sixmile square collection OF
tenrpheuseaAke Tho age. tRees saiEs z
..-s s.se.s 81, y fronf one hundred % four
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thousand wears old.

PETRIFIED sea-turtles and cocoanuts
have been found in earth mounds in
southern Colorado. These mounds form
a vast range, and are fifteen miles from
the foot of the Rocky mountains. One
is four miles in circumference at the
base, and has a thrifty growth of trees.
Petrifed and agatized wood is beneath
the surface. The mounds are thought
to have ages ago been islands of the sea.
A MAN has been swindling Alabamians
by new device. He advertised that he
would loan money in sums of three thou
sand dollars on good mortgages, to be
secured by real estate. Many persons
called on him to borrow, and to each he
said he would require from FIVE TO
twenty dollars to cover the expenses of
ghe search. He thus secured about a
thousand dollars, and then ran awsy.
The Hickman courier., 1877-06-29

OF late years the st. Petersburg
academy has endeavored to find second
complete specimen, having sent several
expeditions out for the purpose. We are
glad to learn that quite recently we'll
preserved body, with the flesh and skin
entire, has been fouad on the banks of
the Obi, near the Marinisky gold-wash-
ings, as announced by telegram of March
Is, from Tomsk. Further operations in
regard to this specimen have been post
poued until the receipt of instructions
from st. Petersburg.
The Hickman courier., 1877-06-29

A BUGo-LoGIsT in New York state has
discovered a new insect. and we think he
might have turned his attention to moro
profitable employment. We have insects
CROUCH in this country. When an editor
sits up on hot night writing by gas
light, with the windows of his room
open, he receives visits from four thou
sand different kinds of bugs and insects
in les than half an hour, and now this
New York fraud must go and discover a
new specimen to help to torment hirl
The Hickman courier., 1877-06-29

Mrs. Quincess adj ises young men 20
marry the women they love. and TO love
women not cause they are hansum or
know how to play the pianer, but be-
cause they can cook, an air satisfed 10
eat a plain dinner and hev an idee of
religion and the valy Of truth.
The Hickman courier., 1877-06-29

Florence" have news for YOU,
dear; Harry Burton has got command of
the Spit-fre." Estella-And who on
earth is Harry Burton?" Florence
Who? Why, you were dying for him
when he sailed two years ago" Estella
-" Two years My dear girl one dies
great many times in two years."-Alay.
fo;r
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-12-12
The Ladder on the Cliff.

We can never be placed in such straits of
difficulties that the Lord caunot help u.s.
Years before the emergency happens he may
have set on foot a chain OF circumstances
that will lead to our relief at Just the mo
ment we need it. We should learn 10 ac-
knowledge thankfully the source whence the
blessing comes, just as we would il he had
sent an angel down from heaven to give us
help. Que dark and stormy night a vessel
was wrecked on rocky island off the coast
of Scotland. The crew had watched with
terror the white waves as they dashed on the
stately cliffs, and felt that TO be driven on
these rocks was to seal their doom. The
cabin was filled with water, and the captain S
wife was drowned The sailors climbed
into the rigging, aud prayed, as they never
had before, that God would have compassion
on them. That he would save sthem from
temporal death seemed almost incredible.
But the cruel waves drove the vessel on aud
on, till the very foot of the awful cliff
was reached Oh, If they could only reach
its top! There would be safety, aud, no
doubt, friendly hands To help them. Just as
they struck the rock they espied on the face
OF the cliff ladder. Here was their despair
changed to joy. They sprang from the
rigging, and climbed the ropes as rapidly as
their Denumbed fingers would periniL and in
few minutes more the vessel went 10 pieces
The ladder seemed TO them almost miracle
Yet its presence there was easily explained
1t was used by the quarrynen as they
climbed up and down To their work every
day. Though usually drawn up when they
lett the suddenness OF the storm that night
had caused the workInen to hurry 10 tn,
shelter OF their humble horles, without
taking time to remove the ladder. 1t wa
God who had ordered this seemingly triilinl
matter for the preservation OF all their lives
Some writer has well said, However lonl
the chain OF second causes may be, the firs
link is always in Gods hand" Learn TO Oh
serve this loving Fathers hand in all tn,
events OF your lille, and it will save you from
many dark hours.-fresbyerian.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-12-12
Second Youth.

There is an uncomfortable conviction that
when man arrives at the age of forty he
has seen his best days, and that henceforth
he must expect TO go down the hill. The
same argument applies to women, only much
more imperatively. Injustice is done to
both sexes by this method of reasoning. The
habit of thought which pronounces woman
old at thirty-tive and man getting old at
forty-five is a very sickly and puerile habit
o. thought, unless the parties thus criticised
and showed aside betray an imbecility that
justifies the action. 1t often happens, for
instance, that man of forty has only just
begun to live, in the truest and best sense OF
that term. Provided he has a good consti-
tuition to begin with, and has not irremed-
iably injured himself by early excesses, he
has now entered upon what, in some re-
spects, may justly be considered the best
part of his life. True, youthful enthusiasm
has IN great measure vanished, but in its
place he has the judgment which experience
alone can give, and which assures him that
enthusiasm is very dangerous stimulant
unless the cause in which it is employed is
righteous. lie is now in his second youth,
which, with prudence, he can prolong up to
the period which is usually called old age.
The same is practically true of women,
though they have certain prejudices to con-
tend against. When woman reaches the
age OF thirty-three she is generally pro-
nounced to be on the border-land which for
ever precludes her laying any claims to
youth This verdict is grossly unjust. Many
woman OF forty is at the most charming
period of her life. Who has not met the
fascinating woman of the world, with whom,
despite all her forty years, one would rather
talk and tlirt than with the most brilliant of
crude beauties yet III her teens. Generally
YOU will not find men of intellect subjugated
by pretty face and nothing more. A
pretty face will have its devotees, of course,
for beauty is beauty, and the possession OF
a pair of eyes that melt and flash by turns
cannot be despised. But your young beauty
is held in bondage by certain notions OF
primness and propriety installed by mamma
Your older beauty, who has bruised her own
heart and broken good many others, knows
perfectly well that portion of her attrac'
tion must reside in her intellect, and she
never presents you with monotonous insipid
ity. At forty she may be said still to be in
her second youth, and if she is very clever
and knows how to take care of it, she may
even manage to preserve it up to fifty oil
sixty
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-12-12

erect and occupy house worth four times
what the cottage cost. But he loves the
place and cannot tear himself from 1t. lie
has added more than one i to it, and he
has refurnished it, and brought into it many
articles of taste and luxury.
When asked why he does not build a
house more in accordance with his means
he replies
"No house could be built which would be
like 'our house | can never forget the
night we and our mothers dedicated 1t to
God in prayer and simple trust and ever
since that night have felt as If we were
dwelling in the secret of his tabernacle, un-
der the shadow of the Almighty. We might
have larger and more fashionable house,
but it would bring weight of care on its
mistress, and steal the time she has made
sacred to others. No other house could
have the memories this one has of the little
boys in heaven no other house be hallowed
as this has been by the prayers of the holy
and the blessings of the poor"
And so the family still live on and are
happy in "our house" Still the pastors
weary wife is relieved of company, for, from
force of habit, all ministers and Others on
errands of good draw up their horses before
the wel-filled stable, and ring for themselves
at this open door. Still the poor are fed
from that store.closet under the back stair
way; still the wanderer-though he be o
wanderer in double sense-rests his weary
head in that shed-chamber still the Bird
come to the door and the windows for then
food, and still they pay with their songs for
all they receive; still the mistress of the cot
tage sits, as in the days of her youth, beside
the bed of pain through the long night
whispering of hope and comfort in the pres
ent and of joy and rest hey ond
The Squire wonders at the builder, be-
cause he lives in such modest way com
pared with his means, and says, 4" If | were
he, I'd be ashamed of that cottage which
was all well enough when he was young
journeyman."
The builder wonders what the Squire does
with all that great house, and why, when
half dozen rooms are empty there, he
doesn't allow himself the pleasure of com.
pany, and of sheltering strangers and getting
the blessing they bring.
The Squire's wife peeps through her
fine curtains, and says al wonder that
pretty and intelligent woman hasn't more
taste. She might live like a lady if she
pleased, and dress as | do; but she pokes
on just as she began, and dresses no better
than the minister's wife, and has a rabble
of poor, forlorn creatures whom | wouldn't
let into my house, nor into my wood-shed,
running after her for food and clothing, and
nobody knows what"
So, you see, my house " is literally my
house," and our house " is Gods house
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A Contrast.

If we were to be asked to say in one word
the quality that more than anything else
marks English towns and all public places
as compared with our own, we should have
to say neainess. English streets are well
paved and clean English roads are well
kept; English railway-stations are in perfect
order English fields are trim aud neat
English gardens, hedges, fences, lawns, all
exhibit care and oversight. English smoke
and fog blacken aud stain all the buildings
but English care more than compensates for
this unavoidable evil We are not so partic
ular here. We have clear atmosphere
and brilliant skies, but we are all, so far a
public places are concerned, sons and daugh
ters of Shabbyvile. This is the more
strange because in our households no such
reproach is true. There are no neater oI
better-kept homes anywhere than American
homes, nor are any people cleanlier or neatel
in their habits. 1t is wholly III public mat
ters that this shabbiness we complain of ex
lists and this arises, of course, first, from
the neglect of the official persons WE endoW
with handsome salaries for leaving undont
the things they should do; and next, from
strange Indifference on everybody's par
to everything that is not within his owl
private administration Appleton's Journal
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as If they were but mists and round about
is the green, the delightful grove, where the
sun shines between the leaves. And grand.
mother-yes, she is quite young she is
beautiful girl, with yellow hair, with round,
red cheeks, pretty and charming no rose is
fresher. Yet the eyes, the mild, blissfu
eyes, yes, they are still grandmother's BY
her side sits a man, young and strong; he
presents the rose 10 her and she smiles. Yet
grandmother does not smile so yes, the
smile comes, he is gone. Many Thoughts
and many forms go past That handsome
man is gone the rose, the rose lies in the
psalm-book, and grandmother, yes, she again
sits like an old woman, and looks on the
wthered rose that lies in the book
Now grandmother is dead
She sat in the armchair, and told long.
long, sweet story. And now it is ended
said she, "and | am quite tired let me
now sleep little ~ And so she laid her
head back to rest. She drew her breath,
she slept, but il became more and more
still; and her face was so full of peace and
| happiness-it was as if the suns rays passed
over it. She smiled, and then they said
that she was dead
She was laid in the black coffin she Law
swathed in the white linen she was so
pretty and yet the eyes were closed-but all
the wrinkles were gone. She lay with
smile around her mouth her hair was so
silvery white, so venerable, one was not al
all afraid to look on the dead, for it was the
sweet, benign grandmother. And the psalm.
book was laid in the coffin under her head
(she herself had requested it), and the rose
lay in the old book-and then they buried
grandmother
On the grave, close under the church wall.
they planted a rose-tree, and it became full
OF roses, and the nightingale sang over it.
and the organ in the church played the finest
psalms that were in the book under the
dead ones head. And the moon shone
straight down on the dead ones grave-but
the dead was not there every child could
go quietly in the nighttime and pluck
rose there by the churchyard wall The
dead know more than all we living know
the dead know the awe we should feel
at something so strange as their coming
to us. The dead are better than us all, and
therefore they do not come.
There is earth over the coffin, there is
earth within it; the psalm-book with its
leaves is dust, the rose with all its recolec.
tions has gone to dust. But above it bloom
new roses, above it sings the nightingale
and the organ plays. We think of the old
grandmother with the mild, eternally young
eyes Eyes can never die Ours shall once
again see her, young and beautiful as when
she for the first time kissed the blush-red
rose, which is now dust in the grave-HanS
Christian andersen
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-12-12
A Fact Worth Remembering.

Probably many of our readers have noticed
that words in the Bible are often printed in
italics, when there is clearly no occasion to
pronounce them emphatically; and yet the
common use of italics is to signify that
words so printed are to be made emphatic
in reading. In Genesis i 4, we read, " God
saw the light, that Il was good" aud in
Matthew ii 3, we are told that, "When
lIerod the king had heard these things he
was troubled" The italics here seem TO be
useless, even ii not positively misleading.
But words and phrases printed in this char
acter have no equivalent in the Hebrew and
Greek from which the Old and New Testa-
ments are translated, but are necessary to
make complete sense in English where the
expression in the original is elliptical, or
imperfect, 1t would perhaps have been bet
ter TO use brackets for this purpose, as is
usually done in other works. Thus, God
saw the light, that it was good would be
more Ineligible mode OF indicating the
incompleteness of the sentence in the orig
inal than 10y the use of italics, as in the
common version of the Scriptures But we
must take things as we find them
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Ghr Vome Gnrle.
THE MOTHERS COUNSEL.

They sat at the spinning together,
And they spun the fine white thread;
One face was old and the other young
golden and silver head.
And at times the young voice broke in song
That WAS wonderfully sweet,
And the mothers heart beat deep and calm,
For her joy was most complete.
And at times the mother counselled
In a voice 50 soft and low,
How the untried feet Of her daughter
Through this strange, rough life should go.
There was many holy lesson,
Inwoven with silent prayer,
Taught to her gentle. listening child,
A. they two sat spinning there.
And Of all that speak. my darling,
From my older head and heart,
God giveth me one last thing to say,
And with II thou shalt not part.
Thou wilt listen TO many voices
And, ah woe, that this must bel
The voice OF praise and the voice of 10 g.
And the voice Of dattery;
"But listen TO me. my little one.
There's one thing that thou shalt fear
Let never a word to my love be said
Which her mother may not hear.
NO matter how true. my darling one.
The words may seem to thee,
They are not flt for my child to hear
II they cannot be told to me.
" II thou'lt ever keep thy young heart pure
And thy mothers heart from fear,
Bring all that Is told to thee BY day
Al night to thy mothers ear"
And thus they sat spinning together,
And an angel bent to see
The mother and child whose happy life
Went on so lovingly.
And record was made by his golden pen,
And this on his page he said,
That the mother who counselled her child SO well
Need never to feel afraid
For God would keep the heart Of the child
Who, with tender love and fear.
Should kneel at her mothers side ut night,
with lips to her mothers ear. Selected.