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The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-18
An Unfailing Sign.

"What makes you think they're en-
gagged, Mrs. Berkley?" asked the
neighbor. "Has Julia's mother ever
intimated anything of the kind to your"
"Oh, dear, gracious, no. She never
so much as limited it," replied Mrs.
Berkley.
"Then what makes you think it's all
settled between 'em? 1t amt over
three months since he commenced
waiting on her."
"That don't make any difference
they've known each other for two OF
three years. She's as likely girl as
any-not bad looking, and he's"
"Yes-yes; all true enough. But
what makes you think they engaged
That's what puzzles me-"
"Why, la, bless you, l know it as
well as if I'd heard the whole bargain
with my own ears"
"Go on-go on"
eyes, as l was saying, last Sunday
afternoon, my Marthy met 'em out
walking together and stopped to chat
with 'em a minute. As soon as she got
home and told me they had both been
eating onions, knew it was all ar.
ranged, and 1 shan't be bit surprised
to hear any day that the cards are out
for a speedy wedding. A sign like that
never fails
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-18
A Useful Tramp.

Sometime ago about bedtime, a rather
seedy individual, whose outer garments
betokened an eternal estrangement from
his washerwoman, called at farmer BIS
in Berks county, Pa. and requested
lodging for tie night. Mr.. B. did not
have any rooms suitable for the traveller,
but offered some old blankets and the
hay NOW. These were thankfully accep-
ted, and the tramp was soon soundly
asleep in the hay. About midnight two
men, having only vague ideas of meum
and tuum, drove team and wagon to
the barn, and commenced stealthily and
noiselessly to fill the wagon with twen-
ty-two or twenty-three bags of wheat
which Mr.. b. had ready for market next
day. They had all loaded up save five
bushel sack, standing in corner, which
they had yainly tried to lift. 'Let us
go; we can't load it," said one of them.
The tramp about this moment happened
to awake, and considering the above an
appeal to his manhood, arose out of the
hay saying, ON help youw The men,
at the appearance Of the king of shreds
and patches issuing from the dark cor
ner, both flew from the premises, leav-
ing horses, wagon and all behind them
The tramp aroused up Mr.. b., who,
coming to the barn, at once recognized
the team as belonging to a man living
not thousand miles away. They are
still in Mr.. BIS possession.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-18
HuInming Birds.

The humming birds form one CON-
pact family named Trochilide. They
are all small birds, the largest known
being about the size of swallow, while
the smallest are minute creatures whose
bodies are hardly larger than bumble-
bee. Their distinguishing features are
excessively short legs and feet, very
long and pointed wings, a long and
slender bill and long extensible
tubular tongue; and these characters
are found combined In lno other birds.
The feet are exceedingly small and deli
cate, often beautifully tufted with down
and 50 short as to be hardly visible be-
yond the plumage. The toes are placed
In most birds, three in front and one
behind, and have very strong and
sharply curved claws, and the feet serve
probably to cling to their perch rather
than to support the weight of the body.
The wings are long and narrow, but
strongly formed, and the first quill is
the longest, popularity fonnd In
hardly any other birds but few of the
swifts. The bill varies greatly in
length, but is always long, slender, and
pointed, the upper mandible being the
widest and tapping over the lower at
each side, thus affording ample protec-
ton to the delicate tongue, the perfect
action of which is essential to that birds
existence. The humming birds tongue
is very long, and is capable of being
greatly extended beyond the beak and
rapidly drawn back, by means of
muscles which are attached TO the hyoid
or tongue bones, and bend round over
tho back and top of the head to the very
forehead, just as in the woodpeckers.
The two blades, or lamine, of which the
tongues of birds usually seem to be
formed, are here greatly, Heightened,
broadened out, and each rolled up, so as
to form a complete double tube, con-
nected down the middle. and with the
outer edges in contact, but not united.
The extremities of the tubes are, how.
ever, fat and fibrous. This tubular and
retractile tongue enables the bird to
suck up honey from the hectares of
flowers, and also to capture small in.
sects; but whether the latter pass down
the tubes or are entangled in the fibrous
tips, and thus draw back into the gullet
is not known. The only other birds
with similar tubular tongue are the
sun birds of the east, which, however
have no affinity whatever with these
humming birds.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-18
A Mistake.

"Mistakes will happen in the best of
families" A man with a basket on his
arm stepped into a store yesterday, and
asked the clerk: "What is the price of
spring chickens?"
Clerk-$l.50 for good ones
Man-Do you know, my fine fellow,
that you made mistake this morning
when | was trading with you?
Clerk-A mistake!
Man-Yes, sir; very serious mis-
take.
Clerk-Why, don't remember what
it was.
Mana mistake sir, that your en-
ployer would not tolerate for mo-
ment.
Clerk-Well, sir, what is it? Spit it
out.
Mana mistake, sir, that would be
considerable, if it had happened to any
other man, but, sir, have always made
it rule to correct mistakes, even if
they are in my favor.
Clerk (eXcited)-For goodness sake,
what's the matter?
Mani have been put to considerable
trouble to rectify it,
Clerk-What in thunder is the mis-
take?
Man-You know | purchased this
morning one dozen eggs?
Clerk-Yes.
Man-For which | paid you eight
cents.
Clerk-Yes.
MAXWELL, sir, when l arrived home
discovered that you had made mis-
take.
Clerk-Well, what is it?
Man-Instead of dozen eggs you
had put up dozen spring chickens (un-
covering the basket and showing doz-
en- broken eggs in various stages of de-
velopement), and as the price of spring
chickens is $3.50, and eggs only 8 cents,
clean difference of $l.42, and not
wishing to wrong you or your employ
er, nor having any desire to go into
the poultry business, have brought
them back, and will gladly exchange
them for eggs, as l consider it only a
mistake on your part
Clerk (takes the basket and empties
the contents in the street, puts in a
dozen eggs and hands the man a cigar.
The clerk winks out of his right eye)-
Don't say anything about this.
Man (winks out of his left)-Oh
that's all right. (Exit.)
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-18

This people have always been puzzle
to ethnologists. They are sort OF
Pariah race, Outcasts, living in the
northern slopes of the Pyrenees. Since
tile Middle Ages they have beer a
stunned race, and the objects of gen.
eral aversion. They were kept separate
at church and at market. 1t was even
said that they differed from ordinary
men; it was believed that their ears
were of peculiar shape. These out
casts lived in a distinct quarter. In
some churches they entered at special
door, and the beadle served them holy
water at the end of stick. Their con-
tact was pollution, and whatever they
touched was unclean. They were COM
PEELED to wear the badge of ducks or
goose's foot, in red cloth, on their dingy
gaberdines. A Cagot who dared to
touch sacred vessel in church, had his
hand cut off and nailed to the church
door. They could not intermarry with
their neighbors; and lord in the
eighteenth century committed a mortal
offense by marrying a pretty Cagot girl.
Their oath was scarcely allowed in a
court of justice. Up to the time of Louis
XIV. they were such outcasts that they
were not taxed.
Their condition is ameliorated now,
but they are still separate people; they
are strictly "endogamous' and the
reason is obvious no girl of the district
will marry Cagot. If he would shake
off the curse he must emigrate. But
they may freely 20 to church. One
tradition of the origin Of the Cagots Is
that they are defendants of the wounded
men who fought in the great battles In
the passes of the Pyrenees, who never
found their way out Of the valley that
their ancestors were In the fight OF
Ronccvaux: where Roland fell. Some
historians trace them back to Clovis's
time, and make them "dogs of Goths,"
descended from the men defeated In the
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-18
CLEVELAND, TENN, APRIL IS, 1878.

battle Of Vouille. The suggestion that
they are Albigenses is negatived by the
fact they were Cagots before there were
Albigenses heretics.
Light Is thrown upon the origin Of
this singular people by the investigation
of M. De Bocbas, published recently in
Revue des Deu1 Moudes. The Cagots are
not confined to the Pyrenees. They are
found In Brittany and in POitou. They
were called "gafos" in Spain, and
"cacous" in Brittany. 1t appears that
"gafo" in Spanish means leper aud
that "kakod' has the same meaning in
ancient Breton. 1t is, therefore. now
suggested that they were once either
lepers or suspected ofleprosy. Leprosy
was disease that ragged in the medieval
ages and the persons afflicted were out
lawed. NJ. De Bochas believes that the
Cagots are defendants, not exactly of
lepers, but the persons outlawed, be
cause they suffered from a feebler type
OF disease into which leprosy degener-
ated.
But the most curious physiological
fact in connection with these people
remains to be stated. A London paper
says: sit is held by some authorities
that maladies do tend TO work them
selves out, and thus leprosy dwindled
into unseemly but not deadly forms,
which, in their turn, have quite disap-
peared from among the modern Cagots.
This hypothesis mas much to recommend
it. 1t is strange, however, that in COM
munities of some three hundred people,
who have married in and in from time
immemorial, the average of health and
vigor should be high. All Cagots are
nominally. cousins of each other, and
there may be theorists to whom the
continued existence of such a stock will
seem not less mysterious than the origin
Of their out.awry." This fact would
seem to upset some theories about
heredity and breeding in"
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-18
Instinct of Birds.

Notwithstanding many opinions to
the contrary, it seems certain that birds
often die natural death. One reason
why their bodies are so rarely found is,
that on the approach of death their in
stinct prompts them to keep away In
some hole or under cover, where there
would be least liable to fall prey to
their natural enemies. 1t is doubtful
if any of the game birds, like the pi-
geon and grouse, ever die of old age,
or the semi-game birds, like the bobo-
link, or the "century-living" crow
but in what other form can death over
take the humming-bird, or even the
swift and the barn swallow? Such arc
true birds of the air; they may be oc-
casionally lost at sea during their mi.
grations, but, so far as | know, they
are not preyed upon by any other spe-
cies.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-18

In looking through many volumes of
county records, have, Of course, seen
many thousands and tens of thousands
of proper names, belonging to men of
all ranks and degrees-to noblemen,
justices, jurymen, witnesses, sureties,
inn-keepers, hawkers, paupers, va
grants, criminals, and others-and in
no single instance, down to the end of
the reign Of Anne, have | noticed any
person bearing more than one Christian
name. The first instance occurs in
17l7, when Sir Coplestone Warwick
Bamfleld appeared among the justices
who attended the Midsummer Sessions
at Exeter. The first instances which
have met with in any other place are
those of Henry Frederick, Earl of Ar
undel, born in 1908, and Sir Henry Fred
erick Thyme, who was created bar
onet in 1641. Both these must have
been named after the eldest son of
James l., who was Of course, born in
Scotland. No other child of James
bore two Christian names, nor did any
child of Charles l., except Henrietta
Maria, named after her mother, who
was a French woman. No king of Eng
land bore two Christian names before
William H., who was a Dutchman.
1t seems probable that the practice of
giving children two Christian names
was utterly unknown in England be-
fore the accession of the Stuarts; that
it was very rarely adopted down to the
time of the Revolution, and that 1t new
er became common until after the Han
overian family was seated on the
throne.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-18
A Historic Duel.

In 1924 John Quincy Adams was
elected President, and Henry Clay, who
had been one of the rival candidates,
made Secretary of State. Thisappoint-
ment aroused John Randolph's indig-
nation, and he publicly denounced it as
combination between the Puritan
and the blackleg." Clay could do no
less than send challenge, which was
accepted, and yet both were old enough
to know better, for Randolph was fifty
three, while Clay was only four years
younger. The evening before the duel,
Randolph sent for Gen. Hamilton of
South Carolina, and told him he in
tended to receive Clay's fire without re-
turning it, adding, "nOthiDg shall in
duce me to harm hair of his head. /
will not make his wife widow nor his
children orphans" His eyes then filled
with tears, and after a brief converse
tion his visitor took his leave, but re-
turned at midnight. He found Ran
dOlph reading Paradise Lost" on
whose beauties he began to expatiate in
his usually eloquent manner. The
duel was then mentioned, and Ran
dolph's decision was objected to, since
his second had refused to see him shot
down in such a manner. swell, sir, "
said Randolph, elf | see the devil in
Clay's eye and malice prepense to take
my life, then / may change my mind"
The next afternoon the meeting
took place on the banks of the Potomac:
Randolph saw no "devil in Clay's eye
but the calm expression of a man who
felt the Importance of his honor. Says
Hamilton, 81 shall never forget the
scene as long as live. Here were two
of the most extraordinary men our
country had produced, about to meet in
mortal combat. | took RandOlph's
hand while the pistols were being
loaded, but felt not the quivering of one
pulsation. He turned to me and said,
CLAY is calm, but not vindictive.
hold my purpose, Hamilton-remember
this The meeting was soon consum-
mated. Clay fired without effect, and
Randolph discharged his pistol in the
air. As soon as Clay saw this, he in
stantly approached his former antago-
mist and exclaimed with ill-cOncealed
sensibility, 81 trust in God, my dear
sir, you are untouched. After what
has occurred / would not have harmed
you for thousand WORLDS" They
parted, and never were embittered by
political strife. Soon after Randolph
retired from Congress, and on his last
visit to Washington he held final
interview with his former opponent,
which was of tender character.
Randolph claimed Pocahontas among
his earliest American ancestry. He was
conscious of his own vagaries, and lived
in frequent dread of insanity. Both he
and Clay died in the communion of the
Episcopal church, and are buried, the
one at Ashland, and the other in his
native Roanoke. 1t may be added that
John Randolph was foreman of the
grand jury which indicted Aaron Burr
for treason at Richmond more than
seventy years ago.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-18

only came to thank you sir, an to tell
you that it's all right about the pocket
book. The mans found it,"
"Where? HOwg" | asked, with deep
interest.
"Well, did it up, in my hurry to
get off that night, in one Ofhis big bun
dies that he bought. He didn't find 1t
for week, eos he didn't open the par
eel at home that it got worked into
somehow, | don't know how. But he
went and told my master about it-who
turned me off, you know, for stealth it,
when didn't know nOthin' bout it
and one of the shop-bOys told me Of it
yesterday"
congratulated the lad, and then in
duced him to give me his history.
He was now an Orphan-an intelli-
gent but uneducated boy, and one who
had been bred in poverty, but honestly
His good mothers cOunsels and teach
ings had had a salutary effect upon his
mind, and an influence which was last
ing, conceived. He was out of work
and wanted employment. / recon-
mended him to a neighbOr, aud secured
him a good place subsequently.
He was always very grateful to me
for the service | had SO accidentally
rendered him in court, and he proved a
thoroughly honest and good servant in
the years that followed that little incl
dent.
This event is ole which confirms me
in my opinion that it is unsafe to con-
vict upon circumstantial evidence only.
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The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-18
SUNSET.

How beautiful the quiet hour
Which closing daylight brings
When DER the earth golden shower
The gov ng sunset Aings
Upon the lofty mountains brow
A faded 6 ory liesi
Willis from Q tree-decked vale below
T Q deSy vapors rise.
A peaceful balm breathes through the air
That lulls the aching breast
ThAt soothes tho burden child Of care,
And gives the weary rest
The anxious thoughts that cloud he day,
L Ike startled shadows glide,
And fade beneath the softening ray
OF tranquil eveutlda
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-18

Ten persons, each over one hun
drsd years old, died in New York city
last year.
"A daughter of General Rosecrans
has Just died at the Ursuline Convent,
st. Martins, Ohio.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-16

appetites we had The bread and but
ter. the cold chicken, the potatoes, the
strawberries and cream, all rapidly dis
appeared. About four o'clock Uncle
Tim startled us by shouting, "Ail hands
on board p A sight breeze had sprung
up. We were soon all ready, steering
for home.
At the tea-table, that evening, Uncle
Tim said to father, ''Were you anxious
about the squall ?"
"Well, Tim," replied father. Il tele.
graphed to the lighthouse-man, and be
telegraphed back these words Boat
safe at Duck Island. With spyglass
can see crew eating dinner on rocks.
Mother and l concluded, after that,
that We would not be anxious. '-Nur-
SPTU
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-16

freely if it have plenty Of sunlight.
There is also the common Wandering
jew" which grows we'll in the shade
in vases of water, even in bottles of
water that you may hang behind your
pictures. so that the bunch of green
will hang from the side of the frame.
The Sweet Potato makes very pretty
vine and is easily grown. Set tuber
into wide-mouthed bottle let one end
of it just touch the water; and if you
keep it where the heat is steady and
strong. you will be surprised at the
rapi1ity with which it grows.
BULBS
Should be reckoned among the most
satisfactory plants for window garden
ing. They require little care and are
almost sure to do we'll. They must be
bought each fall from florist. and the
bulbs are of no value after once bloom
ing. Tulips, Narcissus, Jonquils and
Crocuses are all suited for room-culture.
They should be planted in fve-inch
pots of rich, sandy soil, and allowed to
stand in cool. shady place for several
weeks, during which time water SPAR
ingly, and do not take it into the heat
and light of the living-room until the
pots are full of roots. Then gradually
bring them to the temperature of the
window where they are to bloom. AS
they start into active growth. water
freely. OF Tulips, Hyacinths and JON
quils there should not be more
than one plant in each pot. Of Gro
cuses there may be half dozen. The
Oxalis is little bulb now much in fa-
vor, and deservedly so. 1t is grown
easily, blooms freely and continuously,
and if you start with one bulb this fall,
by next fall you may have score, and
it will not be too many.
So l have gone hastily on to the end
of my limit. There is so much more
to be said, and yet hope have said
enough to induce few readers, at least
to embark in the pleasant amaturship
of window gardening. Nothing that
will make home attractive is too trivial
for consideration. and certainly-the
items of expense and care being equal
there is nothing that will so brighten
and beautify home as a window full
of healthy plants. A few plain, prac.
teal, common-sense directions will bt
given in another article.-ObServer.
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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-12-16
ARE FAT PLOPLE HEALTHY

Why are fat people always complain
ing? asks some one who entertains the
popular though erroneous notion that
health is synonymous with fat. Fat peo-
pie complain because they are diseased.
Obesity is an abnormal condition of the
system, in which the saccharine and OLE
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In proof of this, it is only necessary to
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ly fat people are never strong, and sell
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