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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1879-06-11
Influence OF Religion.

ligion operates as curb upon these
and reins them in. But it has other
and larger uses than this. Fetters
and cords and gags do not represent
it. II plants more than it uproots.
When the work of correction is end
ed it has only just begun its opera
tons in the soul-operations which
will continue in force eternally. Neg
atives do not express religious duty.
We love to think that religious life
means the growth Of all faculties, and
not slow strangulation OF them.
Religion no more cramps a man than
wings do a bird, or fins do a fish.
Piety is not ship at anchor on a
level sea it is ship in motion, with
every sail set and swelling with the
wind, and the waters around it
crested with white. Christianity
makes man active, vibrant, tense.
Great injury has been done religion
by teaching people to regard it as a
mild form OF slavery, in which people
consent to be tied ul that they may
not hurt themselves or others. But
there is no such religion as this, at
least in the New Testament The
gospel of Christ taught is gospel of
liberty. 1t is a stimulant to mans
energies, not narcotic. 1t makes
him a doer, rot hearer.- Wayla7ad
Hoyt.
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Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-12
How a Frontier Lass Captured Big
Snake.

Zoe Merceau is girl of seventeen, of
mixed blood, beautiful and bold and a
daring rider. On Tuesday of last week
she performed a remarkable exploit:
While out looking for some of her faith
er's missing ponies she encountered a
monster rattlesnake, a warning from which
caused her horse suddenly to shy, nearly
dismounting her. Getting command of
her animal, she reined up short distance
from the reptile, which angered at the
intrusion, coiled itself read y for battle.
Cool and collected, the girl, swinging her
lariat, hit it a sharp blow. Maddened
the snake several times struck at her.
Dexteriously swinging her supple cord
again, she "noosed' the reared head of
the snake, and wheeling around pore rap
idly off for home, dragging her prize af-
ter her. 1t was undoubtedly the liveliest
"snaking" ever done in Montana. Ar
irving at the house, her father and sever
al cowboys stepped out to to greet her,
and to them she proudly exhibited the
monster, its life now extinct. Its length,
by actual measurement, was ascertained
to be seven feet and eight inches, and its
girth at the largest part, sixteen inches
The rattles numbered twenty-nine com
plete ones and 'button" This string
of rattles was sent into Helena and
in compliance with an order accompany.
ing it, an expert jeweler has for several
days been forming the most unique neck.
lace probably ever made in this or any
other country. It is intended as 9
present to Zoe.-HezenG (Mo1atana) Her.
| aid, September 7.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-12
Selling Sweetheart.
From the Denver News.

From the Denver News.
It has grown into a fashionable custom
OF late to have a mock auction sale of the
pretticst girls at church festivals. It
tends to increase the resources Of the
church and at the same time very clearly
demonstrates in which way the affections
| OF youth are bent. For it is reasonable
to expect that no ambitious young man
will permit his sweetheart to be knocked
down to a rival until he had expended
his last cent in the effort to become the
fortunate purchaser Acting upon this
idea, a fashionable church in Denver is
preparing for a festival in which the auc-
ton business forms a prominent feature
1t has put the young ladies in quite a
futter Of excitement, and unhappily
at this early stage Of the novelty-for
| however common in the east, it is nov
city here-has come very near wrecking
the happiness. of two estimable young
creatures. The facts are these. A gen
tleman who cofesses to an amiable weak.
ness for one Of the young ladies to be dis.
posed OF On the occasion referred to, call
ed on his dulciana few evenings since
and very naturally the subject of the festi
val came up.
I'm to be sold, Charley, did you know
it?' asked the fair enchantress.
mo, are you though? 1 suppose
shall have to. buy you?''
"Of course. But how much do you
reckon Will sell for?''
This was maive inquiry but it led to a
moment OF brief but sagacious specula-
ton: If he had any rival, the girl was
likely to go hight he didn't have any,
1t would appear as if he was investing in
an exceedingly cheap article.
II don't know" the words were long
drawn out, and his face was grave. Il
suppose dollar or twon'
If he had reflected a moment longer he
never wonld have made this observation
It was born, however Of sense of econ
omy, and he had no idea of what it would
lead to. But as the words fell from his
lips he looked at his Snnnoratn and
caught the flash Of indignant b lue eyes
which made his heart sink
Gone or two dollars--indeed! I'll sell
for fifty at the lowest
81 can't buy you then"
"Sir, and the lady's face was rigid
with amaZement.
"That isl mean to say-confoundgi
Maria, can't spare that much money,
and the poor fellow looked appealingly
at his divinity which was about to shape
the end of his purse. The young lady
rose from her seat like a queen, and Will
the cruel remark that gentleman who
thought so much of fifty dollars was no
a suitable person to encourage as lover
sailed majestically from the room.
And now that young mans soul is con
vulsed with anguish, and his remarks up
on church festivals are fearful to con
template.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-12
Health Hints.

A warm bath on gong to bed is the
best aid to sleep. A woman under fifty
should have eli ht hours of sleep.
10 cure earache, take one drop of
watchmaker's oil and drop it in the ear;
II that is not to be had, pinch OF black
pepper, put on a small piece of cotton
batting and dipped in sweet oil, placed
IN the ear and a bandage tied around the
head, is said to give almost instantaneous
relief
A very simple relief for neuralgia is to
boil handful of lobelia in half pint
OF water till the strength is out of the
herb, then strain off and add teaspoon
tut OF fine salt. Wiring cloths out of the
liquid as hot as possible, and spread it
over the part affected. It acts like a
charm. Change the cloths as soon as
cold till the pain is all gone; then cover
the place with soft dry covering till per-
SEPARATION is over, so as to prevent taking
cold. -
The following prescription for the cure
OF asthma was given a correspondent by
Hon. E. B. French, of the United States
treasury department.: Iodide of potas-
SUM, two drachms; tincture of lobelia.
half an ounce; syrup Of senega, two
ounces; camphorated tincture of opium,
halt an ounce; water suficient'to make
four ounces. A teaspoonful every half
hour until relieved. The above cured
the above named gentleman, and has
been used successfully in the correspond
ent's own family.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-12

told Nine. dc Remuset that the duke
would be shot at Vincennes. She added
that Alurat was constantly exciting the
First Consul against the Duke, and sug-
costing to HIM that the Jacoblns were fu-
rious at the moderation shown by the
Government. At dinner Bonaparte remark
cd that Nine de Remusat looked very pale
and asked her why she did not put on
rouge. s'There are two things he said,
(which arebecOming to wOmen-rouge
and tears" He seemed in very good
spirits, and joked with his wife 'with
more freedom than propriety." Next
morning M. Savary came to tell Nine.
Bonaparte that all was over. The Duke
behaved with great courage, refusing to
have his eyes bandaged, and only beg
ging the soldiers not to miss him. Sever
al Generals approved Of the execution,
and the leader of the Jacobins said of
Napoleon, Nov he belongs to u.s.
Bonaparte afterward asked his wife
whether Nine. Gle Remusat was much i'm
pressed with the news, to which Jose
phlne answered, that she burst into tears
on hearing it. "That is NATURAL" p. he
SAID, ''she did what woman ought to
do; but all will soon be quiet again, and
people will admit that did not do
foolish thing" General Hullin, took the
principal part in the arrest and execu-
ton. was richly rewarded by Napoleon,
who, however, always disliked him after
ward, saying: ellis presence disturbs me;
1 do not like the recollections he awakens
in me-"
On the day after the execution Ma
poleon was silent during dinner: but
when it was over he said, as if answering
himself: cat any rate they now know
what I am capable of, and it is to be
hoped they will leave me alone" After
dinner he spoke with M. de Fontanes
about various French Kings. Henry w.,
he said. was not great man, for he
wanted dignity. "a sovereign must
avoid being good-natured. It is foolish
to remind people that one is a man like
themselves. Alexander the Great showed
trne political instinct in tracing his
descent from a God.''
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-12
How Old is Glass?
From the Saturday Review.


The Oldest specimen of pure glass bear
ing anything like date is a little mould
ed lions head, bearing the name of an
Egyptian king Of the eleventh dynasty,
in the Slade collection at the British mu-
scum: That is to say, at a period which
may be moderately placed as more than
1900 years B. c., glass was not only
made, but made with skill which shows
that the art was nothing new. The var
nish OF glass is so old that among the
fragments which bear inscriptions Of the
Egyptian monarchy are beads possibly of
the first dynasty. Of later glass beads
are numerous examples, such as the bead
found at Thebes, which has the name of
Queen Hatasoo or Hashep, of the eigh-
teenth dynasty. OF the same period are
vases and goblets and many fragments.
1t cannot be doubted that the story pre-
pared by Pliny, which assigns the credit
OF the invention to the Phoenicians, is so
Tar true that these adventurous merchants
brought specimens to other countries
from Egypt. DR.. Sehliemann found
disks OF glass in the excavations at NV
cene, though Homer does not mention it
as substance known to him. That the
modern art OF the glass-blower was known
long before is certain from representations
among the pictures on the walls af tomb
at Benz Hassan, of the twelfth Egyptian
dynasty; but much older picture, which
probably represented the same maunfac-
turc, is among the half-obliterated scenes
in chamber OF the tomb of Tuy at SAX
kara, and dates from the time of the fifth
dynasty, a time 50 remote that it is not
possible, in spite of the ass1duous research
es OF many Egyptologers, to give it date
in wears
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-12
A Female Blacksmith.

A woman died in Richmond, Va, a
few days ago who had chosen the black
smiths forge as means of earning her
living. Her name was Rachel Vent.
Her father came to this country from
Germany and opened blacksmlth's shop
in Richmond. She learned the trade in
her girlhood and became as good work
er as any man. As her father grew old
she took control of the shop and support
ed the family by her own labor. She
wore tight-fttlng wooden dress and a
blacksmith's leather apron, and frequent
ly smoked short clay pipe as she toilcd.
When the old man died she still stuck
to the trade, but few months ago she
grew enfeebled and rapidly sunk. Her
work had given her in her best days the
muscular strength Of a man. She had
eligible offers Of marriage when young.
but preferred to remain single and pro-
vide for the family.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-12
Swiss Dairymen in California.

Fully two-thirds of all the dairy bust
ness of the upper coast counties in Cali
tornia, says the San Francisco Chronicle,
is in the hands of Swiss, either as renters
or owners. |'They seem to be peculiarly
adapted to the business and are turning
out a very good imitation of Swiss
cheese. Most Of the prosperous dairy
men in the State are men who but de-
cade since came here without money, and
have made valuable homes, and stocked
their farms with the best breed Of cattle,
by their own industry and economy.
One of the peculiarities of this people is
their disposition to assist one another. A
Swiss settlement takes the form of a
practical mutual aid society, and the sys-
tenn is to be commended all the more on
account Of the absence Of all selfshness.
A poor boy comes from his native land
and begins by working in one of the
diaries by the month. By scrupulous
economy in two or three years he has &C
cumulated money enough to rent piece
OF land and few COWS. His country
men take a practical interest in him,
loan him money as he needs it, and in
every way assist him to become the own
er instead of tenant, and when he has
achieved that result, he in turn helps the
poor countryman who shows willing
ness to work. The Swiss dairyman pre-
fers small farm, kept in a high state Of
cultivation, on which he raises the finest
stock and the best Of feed for them. The
average California dairyman figures on
from four to seven acres To Sl1nn0rt aach
COW, while Swiss dairyman will reverse
the order of things and keep seven COWS
on one acre, very soon."
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-12
THE END.

The course Of the weariest river
Ends in the great gray sea;
Inc acorn, for ever and ever
Strives upward to the tree
me rainbow, the sky adjoining,
Shines promise through the storm;
me GUNNER of coming morning
Through midnight gloom will form.
BY time all knots are riven,
Complex although they be,
Aaad peace will at last be given,
Dear, both to you and me.
Then, though the path may be dreary,
Look onward to the Soal
Though the heart and the hand be weary,
Let faith inspire the SOUL
Seek the right, though the wrong be tempt
ing;
Speak truth at any cost;
Vain is all weak eNempting,
When once the gem is lost,
Let strong hand and keen eye be ready
For plain and ambushed foes
Though earnest and fancy steady
Bear best unto the close
The heavy clouds may be raining
Bat with evening comes the light;
Through the dark and low winds complain.
ng,
Yet the sunrise gids the height.
And love has his hidden treasure
For the patient and the pure;
And time gives his fullest measure
10 the workers who endure
And the Word, that no law has shaken,
Has the failure pledge supplied;
For we know that when we awaken"
We shall be tiSted'
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-12
Butter.

The quantity of bad butter made in
this country is surprising, not in the
West and South only, where farmers and
planters do not understand, and do not
care to learn the art of making it; but in
the Middle States, and even in New Eng
Ian, where it is better made than any
where else. The chief trouble is ignor-
ance as to the method Of working butter.
Comparatively few work out the butter
milk, and consequently the butter, how
ever sweet at first, will not keep. A great
many people, Fortunately for their palates,
have no idea what good butter is, being
actually incapable of telling good from
bad: But great many others know so
we'll that they cannot eat any but the best,
and the best is very hard to get. and very
expensive also. Even in great cities like
New York, Boston, Chicago, and Clncin-
natl, good butter cannot be had except at
what is called a fancy price. Here, for
example, many families are obliged to
pay 80 cents a pound for butter during
Spring and Summer, 81 pound during
autumn and Winter, for prime butter,
Philadelphia butter, as it is named, COM
mands from Is cts! to 81 pound; the
tlrst-class hotels and restaurants al WAYS
have excellent butter; they are Obliged
to have it. But the moment YOU leave
them, the butter is precarious, even sus-
P1clous. Indeed, you very rarely get it.
Not nearly enough good butter is made
to supply the demand at any ordinary
rates. You must pay double price to
secure it. It is nearly as easy to make
good as it is poor butter; but farmers
have not yet found it out. If competent
persons would go through the country,
lnstructing others how to make butter.
1t would be an important and benevolent
work. What the quality Of butter was
IN ancient times is unknown. Many
people think it modern article of food :
out 1t seems to have been used LARGE
ly by the ancient Hebrews. The earliest
distinct mention Of it is by Herodotus,
ana frequent reference IS made to it by
writers OF the same age. The old Greek
and Romans employed it as an ointment
in their baths; the former gaining their
knowledge of it from the Scythians, Thra-
clans, and Phrygians, while the Romans
got butter from Germany. In Southern
Europe it is now very sparingly used, and
In Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Southern
France it is sold by apothecaries medical
~ tor external application. This is the
greatest butter-making State IN the
Union, about one-fourth of all the butter
IN IN the country being produced by New
4oar,k-Chautauqua, Delaware, Chenango,
Jefferson, St. Lawrence, Orange and Of
sego exceeding all other counties. Some
thing like 140,000,000 pounds are said to
made IN the entire country, and its value
IS estimated at some $70,000,O00. If but
ter was properly made, the value of the
product would be nearly doubled. We
sorely need missionaries in the ceuse of
good BUTTERFLY. Y. Times.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-12
A Heritage Of Ruin.

A generation ago there lived IN West
ern city wealthy English gentleman,
who was what IS called "high liver
He drank his toddy in the morning,
washed down his lunch with champagne
and finished bottle Of port for dinner,
just as he had done in England, though
he had complained that heavy wines dis
agreed with hun here, owing to the eli
mate.
He died of govt at fifty; leaving tou1
sons. One Of these was an epileptic; two
died from drinking. "Good fellows, .
generous, witty, honorable young men
but before middle age miserable sots.
The oldest Of the brothers was man
of fixed business habits, occupying a
leading place in the community from
his keen intelligence integrity and ire
proachablc morals. He watched over his
brothers, laid them in their graves, and
never ceased to denounce the vice that
had ruined them.
When he was long past middle age
financial trouble brought him into a low
nervous condition for which wine was
prescribed. He drank but one bottle
Shortly atterward his affairs were right.
ed and his health and spirits returned
But after this time it was observed that
once or twice a year he mysterlously dis
appeared for month or six weeks.
Neither his partner, wife nor children
knew where he went. He continued tc
occupy the foremost positions of trust il
his native town; but, at last, when he
was all old gray-headed man, his wife
was telegraphed from an obscure neigh
boring village where she found him dy
ing Of mania-a-potu. He had been II
the habit Of hiding there when the de-
sire for liquor beca me maddening, an6
when there he drank like brute.
It is a recognized physiological fac1
that in many families dypsomania is he
reditary as consumption is in others
The children of moderate drinkers" al
most invariably receive from them Thu
heritage of ruin. They should ayoie
stlmulants as the consumptive does tn
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-12

the soil permits water to rise in it to
supply deficiency at any point, and
hence to keep up a supply to be evapo-
rated from the surface. In general, the
timer the soil the greater the capiiiarty
down to certain degree of smallness Of
particle. 1t IS, OF course, that the pores
may be SO small as to retard the motion
OF the water. As regards texture, close
packing would, like greater 6neness, tend
to add capiliarity, until the pores become
SO small as to rctard the flow. In a loose
soil a great deal of water may evaporate
from points below the top. Commonly
the looser the soil is the more surface
will itexpose to evaporation
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-12

ed to aid in bringing up the supply trains
from Bridgeport, Ala, and held in cap
tivity for sixty-three days, during which
time he was kept on the move, until he
was at length paroled down near Talla-
hassc, Fla, and sent to Camp Chase for
exchange, which was not complied with.
Having captured this gallant little prize,
the rebels despoiled him of the compan.
ionship Of his little, bullet-torn cap,
which he endeavored in vain to retain as
a reminiscent in the future of the perils
through which he has passed, taking also
from him his jacket and shoes. Upon
reaching our lines, he found General
ThQmasin command of the Army of the
Cumberland, who received him with the
warmest enthusiasm, and made him an
Orderly Sergeant and attached him to his
staff.
In addition to the battle of Shiloh and
Chlckamauga, he was at Perryville, Stone
River sometimes called NIurfreesboro', )
Resaca, Kenesaw, Peach Tree Creekf At
lanta, Nashville, and others, where the
Army of the Cumberland covered itself
with so much glory.
! Besides the three balls that passed
through his little cap at CAickamauga
he was struck once with a fragment of
she'll upon his hip and once by ball.
! Upon the latter occasion, he was in the
act of delivering dispatch from General
Thomas to General Logan at Atlanta,
when ball struck his little pony OBJ
| liquely near the top of his head, killing
him and wounding his fearless little ri.
| der in the right ear. He is held In the
highest estimation by all the officers and
! men of the Army Of the Cum berland, and
General Thomas was his fast friend and
| correspondent up to the time of his
death.
After the war closed, Johnny Glen
| went to school and graduated at the
| Newark high school. In 1871, General
Grant, who had kept watch of the move
ments of the little drummer boy, appoint
| ed him second lieutenant in the army,
| and he was promoted to be first lieuten-
ant in 1874. He graduated at the artil-
lery school at Fortress Monroe in 1875.
His services in the army, with the excep-
| ton of the time he was at the artillery
school, have been mainly in the wilds of
Texas and on the lower Rio Grande Dor
der.
We have been thus careful in giving.
at the present time, this history-frst,
because it will revive pleasant recollec-
lions, and second, because, as before re-
marked, the little hero is now doins ex-
cellent work in Wisconsin.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-12
THE M0CKING BIRD AND THE DONKEY

BY W. G. BRYANT.
A mock-bird in village
Had somehow gained the skill
10 initiate the voices
Of animals at will.
And singing in his prison.
Once at the close of day,
He gave with great precision
The donkey's heavy bray.
Well pleased, the mock birds master
Sent to the neighbors round,
And babe them come together
70 hear that curious sound.
They came, and all were talking
In praise Of what they heard,
And one delighted lady
Would fain have BOUGHT the bird.
A, donkey listened sadly, .:..-.
And said: "Confess l must . ;.
That these are shallow people,
And terribly unjust.
Pm bigger than the mock-bird, -.
And better bray than he,
Yet not q soul has uttered
n word in praise of me-"
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-12

II suppose the bells are sounding an
alarm Of fire." sneeringly aaid msn as
the chnrch bells were calling the wor-
shippers one Sunday morning; to which
a clergyman who was passing repked:
eyes, my friend, but the fire Is not in
this world
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Capillary attraction in the soil.-Mr.
Armsby's studies on relation of soils to
water, at the Connecticut Experiment
Station, have proved that the most i'm
portant feature in evaporation is capii-
arity; that is, the rapidity with which