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aid as she was picked up she clung on TO a
handful, saying. "Dese sells for mamma"
With the prize all returned to the loats.
There sat Mr.. Voorhees, with death-like
palor on his countenance, and when told
that he had saved thc babe unhurt, his tender
heart gave away and he wcpt like child.
"All aboard and back to Morchead" shouts
Capt. Dixon. The boats were rapidly gotten
under way, and each wanted to be the frs,
TO convey the glad tidings, but they all ran
near together, with hats and bandkorchitfs
flying amid the cheers and screams OF sew
eral hundred people. The excitement OF
landing surpasses description. AT the wharf,
after everything seemed safe, little Birdie
came the nearest to losing her life. Col.
Whitford, man OF generous impulses,
seized the little angel in his arms, and at a
lightning speed started for its mother, who
was then lying In an unconscious state,
under the skilful care Of Drs. Haywood,
Arendall and Kendall of Louisiana. But be-
fore the kind hearted colonel had gone far,
amidst the dense crowd and confusion, he
ran off the wharf into water over eight feet
deep Several jumped overheard and aided
him in landing his prize. The child was
none the worse for the duc!sing.
BY o'clock Mrs. Elliott became conscious.
The guests of the house assembled III the
ball room at 8 p. m. to return thanks to MIR.
Voorhees, and the noble boatmen, and ex-
press coincidence and sympathy for Mrs. EI-
lott. Maj. Hawkins came forward and
made few remarks but was too much cx-
cited to speak, but says he, had that babe
been lost, my mind was made up-1
would have rested tonight in the sea-"
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some, coaxing others, playing with the little
fellows, and wheedling the blg-gviDg TO all
personality. The cantemen had no more
trouble with logs. They found that by nusl-
ing 1t end on they could move the most z 1lk-
ing log as they pleased. mo wonde1 ,he
osgors personify thcm," says Mr.. O1S.Ily.
why, they are like ignorant men yo' can
not crowd or force them, but you can iide
them gently wberesoever you will" from
fearing the logs they grew to Ike them and
low they consider their presence in the Con-
necticut by no means against 1t as canoe
sts stream. "Frst OF ALL according to the
canoeing poet, "a canoeist must know how
to swim #; secondly, be must master the hab-
its and disposition of logs"
The next serious adventure came in the
night Of Sunday, the 10Th. All along the
full moon had tempted them to keep their
seats till a late hour. The sudden storm of
that night, which was felt here, caught
them In the midst of rapids, hid the shore in
darkness, and blinded them totally with its
driving rain. Unable TO make the shore, they
we're forced to go on with the current. Sud
denly a drive of logs came down upon them,
and before they had time to speak or plan
for safety the end of big log swept over
the boat, striking both men and upseitiug
the canoe. DR.. Guiterass legs were tightly
wedgcd in by new stock OF provisions.
After sinking several times and almost Civ.
ing up hope, he freed his legs from the canoe
and swan ashore. When Mr.. ORcilly
arose after the tip-over his head bumped
against logs aud he finally came TO the sur
face at some distance from the boat. Diving
again under the logs, he got hold of the boat
and clung TO it, being swept down with the
current, till his friend had run half mile uT
stream, swan across, borrowed n farmers
lantern and boat, and rowed down to the res
cue, picking up paddles, coffce-pots, and
stray bottles on the way. This accident cost
them their chart of the river and many ol
their traps.
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are broken down by the winds. All such
infested canes should be gathered and
burned.
The leading enemy TO the raspberry is
the orange rust. This is parasitic fun
gus that grows within the substance Of
the leaves, and produces large crop Of
orange colored spores or seeds upon the
rnptured surface. The pest is not easily
detected until its destructive work is done
and the only way is to dig up the infested
plants iand burn them. To leave rusted
plants III the rows is Il great mistake, as
the trouble will spread and soon the
whole may become worthless.
There is "a small cricket that prefers to
lay its eggs in the pith of the raspberry.
The eggs are deposited in a neat row and
the punctures SO weaken the canes that
they are easily broken off by the wind.
The mature insect eats the foliage. The
only method thus far found of destroying
this pest is to burn the eggs.
Tho currant or gooseberry bushes
should have been thinned out early in the
spring, and ought to be clear of all grass
or weeds with good mulch of cheap dirt
placed around them. The leading insect
pest is the currnnt worm (iicmdtus cen.
tricosiS). This is the worm of fly in
troduced from Europe about 1867. The
insect appears when the leaves unfold,
and the female deposits its eggs along the
principal veins on the under side of the
leaves. In about ten days the small gray.
ish worms begin their work and if left
undisturbed will soon defoliage the bush.
es and spoil the crop. This pest is now
so common and widespread that the rem
edy is not unfamiliar to many With til,
proper use of powdered white hellebore
the worms may be subdued with LITTLE
trouble.
The powder may be spriukled on til,
bushes with sitter, but it is not so pleas
ant or effective as to mix it and appl,
with water. Place Tablespoonful OF til,
hellcborc in bowl Of boiling water, ant
afterwards turn the scaldcd powder into
watering pot and fill with cool water
Wet every leaf thoroughly with the mix
ture. Repeat the application as frequent
ly as it is found necessary. The rain
will wash off the poison, and two or tire
doses may be needed in stormy season
The hellebore is not dangerous poison
like the arsenic compounds, and n
| trouble need be feared from its use upol
the currant or gooseberry bushes.
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educated bridegroom. "Don't soy thom

educated bridegroom. "Don't soy them
'uns. Say these 'uns."
81 don't take back talk from none O.
you uns," retorted the minister and 1
say again "them 'uns y
"These 'uns' p repeated the groom.
drawing six shooter from his hip pocket.
"Them 'uns," shouted the minister,
firing through his surplice and winging
the grooom.
Then followed volley Of shots, DUR
ing which the bride retired to an adjoip-
ing room. When quiet reigned once
more she emerged from her concealment
and remarked to the assembled crowd 4:
These here grammars is playin' tn very
or Nick with my prospects"
Both the men lived, though they have
not met since; the minister still says
them 'uns," while the layman declares
that as soon as ne can get some of the
cold lead out of his body he will demon
strate that "thesc 'uns" is correct.
There are cases reported occasionally
where one of these "crackers' makes his
own divorce laws. If his wife does not
suit him lie trades her off to neighbor
either for another or for provisions. This
is not often done, fortunately, although n
case occurred in Chesterfield county some
six weeks ago and another in Lancaster
county about a year ago. The Chester
field man got bale of cotton, n cask of
corn whiskey, pair Of boots and dog
for his wife, who is said to have been a
good looking woman, while the Lancas-
ter man traded for another wife and a
kerosene lamp, with hand painted shade
''to boot" Two weeks later the other
man came to him and offered him S1.5O
to trade back again, saying that the wo-
man not only ate too much, but she stole
the furniture and pawned it for whiskey.
These stories are vouched for by local
lneWspApers.
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see that mountain Of exchanges on his
table Well, before you get down stairs
that young man will lean out of the win
dow to watch your appearance at the
counting room door, and he will say. I'll
bet dollar that old cuss stole the Bos-
ton Transcript and the Denver Tribune.
He is superstitious about everything that
happens and every man that comes in.
He believes it is bad luck to drop the
scissors down the elevator well. Did it
once, and they straddled right into both
eyes of regular advance paying sub
scriber who was looking up to see the
elevator come down. He believes in
Mascottes. Gets five letters week from
somebody, and the boys believe he has,
one. He won't work on Sunday or the
Fourth of July. Says when man works
he wants to get anything out of the libra
es the room before he takes down the
book. Crosses it again before he sits
down. If we run out of paper, the
pressmnn believes it is n sign that the pa
per won't be out. If n printer asks for
money before pay day, it is a sign he
hasn't been on the paper quite one week.
1t is also sign that he'll never do it
again. Ii the pressman asks printer
for dollar it is a sure sign that the print
er hasn't cent When the foreman finds
a handful of pi with his quoins, and picks
up n sidestick and starts down the room,
making loud remarks, it is sign he is
going to land for) the devil. Oh, news
paper office is the most superstitious
place you can come to.
"And yourself p said the old subscrlb
er. "Now, do you believe any of these
things?"
"I?" said the solemn editor. ooh,
believe it's about time-???"
The old subscriber nodded three, pu'
on his hat, rose to his feet, and the ole
one and the solemn one passed slowly, bu
not too slowly, down the winding stairs.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-08-03
AtTiber Mouth.

The low plains stretch to the west with ellinmer
of rustling weeds,
Where the waves OF golden river wind home by
the maTshy meads
And the fresh wind hOrn OF the sea grows fdlni
with sickly breath,
As II stays In the frelting rushes and blows on the
dews OF death.
We came to the silent city, in the glare OF the noon
tide heat,
When the sound of whisper rang through the
length OF the lonely street;
No tree In the clefted ruin, no echo OF song nor
sound
But the dust of a world forgotten lay under the
barren ground.
There shrnes under these green hlllocks TO the
beautiful gods that sleep
Where they prayed in The stormy season for lives
gone out on the deen
Aud here in the grave street sculpturcd old record
Of loves and tears,
BY the dust OF the nameess slave, forgotten n
thousand years.
Not ever again at even shall ship sail in on the
breeze,
Where the hulls of their gllded gallcys came home
from hundred seas,
For the marsh plants grow III her haven, the iharsh
birds breed in her bay,
And mile TO the shoreless westward the water has
-Rsnsil Rodd.
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A QUEER RACE.
People who Had Six Fingers and Six
Toes.


Ancient ruins have recently been dis
covered in Sonora, which, if reports are
true, surpass anything of the kind yet
found on the continent. Sonora is the
northwestern State OF Mexico, and is bor-
dered by Arizona on the north andthe
Gulf OF California on the west. The ru-
ins are said to be four leagues southeast
Of Magdalena. There Is one pyramid
which has a base of ! $50 feet, and rises
to the height OF $50 feet; there is wind
ing roadway from the bottom leading up
an easy grade to the Top, wide enough for
carriages to pass over, which Is SAID to be
twenty-three miles in length the outer
walls of the roadway are laid in solid ma
sonry from huge blocks of granite i'll rub
bic work, and the circles are as uniform
and the grade as regular as tney could be
made at this date by our best engineers.
The wall, however, is occasionally expos
ed, being covered over with debris and
earth, ana IN many places the sahuaro
and other indigenous plants and trees
have grown up, giving the pyramid the
appearance OF mountain. 10 the east
OF the pyramid short distance Is small
mountain about the same size, which
rises to about the same height, and, II
reports are true. Will prove more inter-
esting to the archmologist than the pyra..
mid. There seems to be heavy layer oil
a species of gypsum about half way up
the mountain, which is as white as snow,
and may be cut into any conceivable
shape, yet sufficiently hard to retain its
shape after being cut. In this layer OF
stone people OF an unknown age have
cut hundreds upon hundreds OF rooms,
from Gx3O to l6 or Is feet square. These
rooms are cut out OF the solid stone, and
30 even and true are the walls, floor and
ceiling to plumb and level as to defy va
ration. There are no windows in the
rooms and but one entrance, which Is
always from the top. The rooms are
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sonnet,

Life, JOY and splcndor with the year awake,
The Young Spring smiles on Winter passed away
The AR is bnimy with the coming May.
bridal music rings from bush and brake,
All things tue glory Of the time partakc
would he hr gut aud Joyous even as they;
But fearful memory dms the golden day
the lig1i glHres sicSy while this heart must ache
For eyes long closed, that iOndly turned 10 mine,
And voices dear for ever dumb to me
Yet, MS the warm wind nurmurs IN the pine,
sorrow grows mihi aud suirrance less sore;
hear soft whispers from the unseen shore,
With promise Of eternal Spring to be.
Temple Bar.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-08-03
rive Lessons from Nature.

Ten years to build houseg The mushroom roof
liz one night rises,
AMI surprises
The shepherd lOut, ere crushed beneath his hoor.
Years TO wo!k one inom full OF tapestry?
The roses shoot
Has grown q foot
Since last nights rain. q Natures majesty
Three years TO nx on canvas dead saint
Careless tO-,ay
Through earth made way
The lily duarl learn from 1t TO subtly paint.
Poor prolgal YOU toss your gold In showers away'
Trc autumn tree
As rrCklessly
filings all lis leaves but they return In May.
Kind Nature Keeps for all of us a gentle school,
Even the wise
Through II may rise
stu wiser. sorrow and death alone can teach the
foot Nader Thornburv.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-08-03
CANOEING ON THE CONNECTICUT.
A Poets Adventurous Paddle Down
tho Historic River.

From the Springfield tMass.) Republican,
People who have seen John Boyle O'Reilly
only on the lecture platform, recalling his far
skin and clean-cut features, would not recog-
nize the poet and editor in the athletic nut
brown canoeist of cropped head staying yes
terday at Father O'Keefc's in West Spring
field This change from the scholars delica-
cy to the prize-fghter's sturdness is largely
due, at least as regards the bronzed face, to
delightful eleven days voyage, without hat,
tent or umbrella, down the Connecticut, a
river that to us Springtielders regularly sug-
gests malaria, seldom pleasure, almost never
health.
MIR. OReillys voyage was full of advcn-
ture and interest. lie and his companion,
DIR. Ransom Guiteras, of Boston, also a
strong and experienced canoeman, launched
their boat July 10 into the upper waters of
the river. Their only guide was an imper-
feet chart Of the stream, and this they soon
lost in an accident. For propeing power
they had their paddles and small sail, but
logs in the river soon rendered the latter
dangerous and 1t was shipped to Boston,
Their canoe, light but strong Racine boat
in which they did the Merrimac aud rounded
Cape Ann, last summer, was packed with q
wagon-load of things needful, including
edibles, drinkabes, blankets, an oil-stovc. a
gun, and boxing gloves. Thus equipped
they proceeded rapidly down stream, shoot
ing almost all the falls and rapids in theil
way and sleeping at night in the opeu all
under the shelter of trees on the river bank
The beauty of the river scenery was con
stant surprise and delight. A hundred tim,i
a day, as Mr.. O'Reilly puts it, they cried
"This beats the Rhine" or "This is ahead o
anything on the Merrimac." But soor
J their attention was diverted iron
the scenery by the appearance
of numerous and troublesome enemies in tn
1 stream-rolling, pushing, stubborn logs. Tn
. two voyagers in all their canoeing had neve
] met and conquered logs and were at first ir
! rcsolute. If they tried To push a log iron
u their course 1t simply pushed them from it
G course. They noticed that the logging me
!, talked to logs as 10 persons, swearing Q
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The Dude in the Presence of Nature.
from the New York Journal.l

Nature smiled beautifully, yesterday,
and she was nowhere more pleasingly re-
hected than in Central Park. There the
fresh-opening buds were spreading into
crisp green leaves and the green sward
was never brighter The fountains were
bubblirg and the lakes were ripping.
Children in gay dress prattled and romp-
ed about. And amidst all this there
stood dude. He seemed enraptured
with the scene. Suddenly his lips parted,
and in accents mild he remarked, "It's
beastly gwand, isn't it? ?"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-08-03
AGRICULTURAL. A
Glover for swine.

There is no more economical or better
feed fer pigs in summer than clover. 1t
has been estimated on good authority
that an acre of clover will grow 500
pounds of pork, and that to a certain e1-
tent it is one of the most profitable meth
ods of using it.
Besides this it makes healthy, whole
some pork, which absolute confinement
in filthy pens must fail to do. Pigs
grown on clover will fatten on very
small quantity of corn and leave the main
portion of the corn in the crib for feed
for other stock. 1t is not enough that the
pigs have the run of the bare pasture,
but they should have good clover field
and not over five shotes to the acre.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-08-03

Times have changed since Pope wrote {;
"Then Worth made the man. Now he only
makes the women Wait.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-02-15
Loss from NEGLIGENCE,

From Capt. n. Caldwell, who has
just returned from Kerr county, q
reporter of the STATESMAN learned
that there was great mortality among
sheep from the cold weather in many
places. Capt. Caldwell says that out
of over a Thousand head of graded
sheep, he lost only five. He says that
his small loss was owing alto
gether to the fact that he had
fed his sheep all during thei severe
weather, and that, in substantiatiOn
of the correctness of his position, that
sheep will suffer little il well fed in
cold and trying weather, the captain
says large number of sheep owners
in that country fed their flOcks and
none OF them sustained any loss to
speak of, while those who trusted to
a range that was unsurpassed in sum-
mer, to furnish subsistence during d
cold winter, lost very heaV-
ly-frOm twenty to fifty per
cent. When the reporter asked
Capt. Caldwell what feed he used,
he replied: Cotton seed. About one
bushel of seed per head will be all
that is needed during the winter.
The great quantity of oil contained
in the cotton seed makes very little
"a handful, suffice for feeding; and
it furnishes ample warmth for sheep
and enables them to weather the Sc
verest weather experienced here. My
opinion is, that if all sheep men would
lay in a supply of cotton seed, to be
given sheep during cold weather, very
little loss would ensue; besides, it
would make the sheep naturally
healthier and harder" The experience
of Capt. Caldwell may be of value to
sheepmen generally, especially since
such a large loss which occurred dur
ing the late cold snap, where the sheep
were neglected until it was too late to
help them.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-02-15
Competitive Cram.

In I'M Introductory lecture in physi,
ology at the university of st. An
drews, Scotland, Prof. Pettigrew
strongly denounced cram and the
competitive examination system.
Among other things, he said: The
ancients believed that men varied us
to the intellectual capacity and en-
dowment. and that it was the province
of education to draw out of the man
that which naturally inhered in him.
The more modfrn-and he believed
the lsss rtiiae: 1hic-Yiew takes for
grant eo GEl = vary little to begin
with, - everything might be
put into Unem by process of cram
ming. The ancients aimed at teach
ing men to think and judge; the mod
erns had no soul above passing exam-
nations and getting on in the world.
AS a Psychologist, my sympathies are
wholly with the ancients."
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-02-15
No Use for Them.
Concerning Certain Reflects or the
Past-Dogs That Have Had
Their Day.

George stephenson's Rocket" and the
magnificent locomotives of to day. are built
upon the same general principle, yet the ma
zine with which the great engineer aston
40 Fed his age, Is interesting now only rs an IL
iIstrstion Of the beginning Of the invention
There were plasters with holes in them long
before BENSON's CAPCINE POROUS PLAs-
TER surprised both the public and the physi-
clans; and the triumph OF the Capcihe Il
sounded upon the partial successes, OF .he
utter failures of its predecessors. Everything
of value in the old porous plaster Is retained
in the Capclne; but at this point all eoinparl-
son ends. and contrast begins. For example
The old plasters were slow in their action +;
The Capclne is quick and sure
The old plasters lacked the power to do
more than TO lmpart slight, temporary RELIEF
An cases easy Of treatment; the Capcine pene-
trates the system and permanently cures the
troubles for which it is recommended.
The old plasters depended for any good re-
suits they might attain upon an accident OF
their makers and the nsked faith OF theiT
wearers; the Benson's reaches its ends by
means OF the scientific combination OF the rare
medicinal ingredients which IL contains.
In brief, the old plasters, like stephenson
discarded engine. are switched oil the track
while the Bensons goes ON its way winning
golden opinions from all sorts Of people.
Yet In this very fact lies the leading danger
10 the people who buy and use this reliable and
scientific remedy. "Hypoccisy is the tribute
vice pays TO virtue" Imitation is the conees
sion failure makes to success Benson's PlaS-
iers are parOded In name and style.
Beware OF sWindles. The genuine have the
wore CAPClNE CUT In the center. Price q
cents. SeRbuTy & Johnson. Chemists, New
York. lanes
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-02-15
Denial of Justice.
american Register.


An average of five years elapses be-
tween the time when a suit is COM
menced in one of the inferior federal
courts and the time for its final dispO-
sition, provided it is taken to the tri-
bunal of last resort-the supreme
court of the United States. This is,
in many instances, denial of justice,
and in all, serious abuse. This
wrong it is not in the power of the
judiciary to remove. The remedy is
in the hands of congress alone. But,
unfortunately, it does not seemed to
have occurred to congress that the
improving of the judiciary system
will have any effect whatever upon
the result of the next presi-
Dental election, or upon the
party status in general. If re-
form in the civil service were IL thing
which our Legislators have really at
heart, here is a place where they can
put in their work with the assurance
That the rules which they establish
will be observed, and that the result
will be a benefit substantial and long
desired. The judges of the supreme
court have wrought faithfully to dis
pose of the cumulus of business with
which their calendar is encountered;
but the situation, they find, is hope
| less. Each term closes with ofteneT
more than less of the old arrearage.