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Year: 1869

WE think the following story too good
to keep" and, as we promise not to betray
the herO's name and place of residence, we
hope he will forgive us for telling how he
got lost in snow storm.


1t was pleasant place-the home of the
DOctOr-jnst in the edge of the woods.
The house was one of those neat little cot
tages where one always expects to find
comfort, peace and happiness.


Itwas almost hidden among the trees,
with which the ground had been so Law
ishly adorned. Some were so large that
you would think they must be centuries
old


The Doctor and his wife lived here
alone, with the exception of boy whom
the Doctor had taken TO do chores for him,
and To be company for his wife when he
was attending his patients; for although,
as | said, he was getting old, the people
of the little village near could not have
been persuaded to give up their faithful
physician.


One day it had been snowing-such a
snow storm as You Western people seldom
see. The beautiful white flakes seemed to
vie with each other to see which should
reach its destination soonest, and the sky
above seemed one endless sheet of snow.
wen, Salu the DOcJOf 10 his WIG, rs
he returned from his round of calls, al am
glad there are not many sick just now, for
| think home is the best place fcT an old
man like me-" and he shook the snow
! from his great coat and handed it 70 Bruce
to hang up, saying that he should not
| need it any more that night.


| just az he had seated himself at the tea
table and his wife was pouring out his tea,
| a loud rap was heard at the door,
! at is some belatcd traveller" decided
the Doctor as he arose to open the door.
! 81 want you to go and see my wife,
Doctor" said the visitor as he seated him
self by the fire. ..la afeFf7
| "Whatl go ten miles such night as
this? 1t is impossible" retorted the Doc
tor. rt.


"I fear she will die" said the man, "un-
less you do. have a man here with me,
and we have shovels; we will see you
safe through, if you will CO."


The amount of it was the Doctor went.


1t is not my purpose to dwell on his ride
there; for it was made comparatively easy
by the aid Of strong arms and shovels
! nor of the sick woman, but of his journey
home. The snow was still whirling thick
and fast as the Doctor tucked himself
snugly IN his light cutter for the home
ward trip, and started off briskly; for
Nellie was anxious To get home to her
warm stable. So,


r The Doctor was not very well acquaint-
| cd with the roundabout way he came, AID
! with the darkness and binding snow he
soon became bewildered. So after While,
Year: 1869




WHEN / was boy, my father was a
farmer, and | had three brothers older
than myself They were full of their
pranks and seldom allowed an opportuni-
ty to pass unimprovcd, Ia play off some
Joke on one another / remember one
night while lay in my trundle bed in
lower room, The brother next above me
went up to his chamber TO go TO bed, but
presently he hallooed and screamed
in great fright, and came rushing
down stairs with all possible speed.
The older boys had prepared fright
for him in this wise: One of them
had been plowing that day in stumpy
lot, and many decaying roots were brought
up by the plow and they ascertained in
the evening that many pieces were phos-
phorescent.


PhOsphOresccnce is the quality of emit
ting light without heat There are many
substances that possess this quality, and
among others, decaying fish and wood.
Under favorable circumstances they will
be nearly as luminous in the dark as a live
coal. Decayed wood in this condition is
commonly called far fire.


They brought their pockets full of for
fire TO the house, and slipped up to his
chamber unObserved; they cut it into suit
able pieces and strips, and then arranged
them in the form of Il skeleton on the top
OF his bed. The head was very large,
with an enormous mouth and trightful
teeth; and in general outline the whole
resembled the human form. 1t was
dark night, and brother William-he was
the scared one e-approached his bed un-
suspectingly, and as was his wont, with
out a light. He was naturally rather cow
ardly in the night, and then in those days
we believed in witches, gobblins and
spooks. Young people nova days are
more correctly instructed, ard scarcely
one can be found simple enough to cherish
such false and superstitious notions.


Suddenly the fiery picture fell upon his
sight, as he turned around the large CHM
ney to approach his bed. His excited
imagination filled out what may have been
imperfect in the image, and ii seemed to
him like a veritable ghost, which he de-
clared it to be upon recovering his speech
after he came down stairs. There was a
great uproar in the family for a few min
utoo, but of onureo IL -voo oOvn all iiiado
plain, and William crept under his COM
| fortables, veXed at himself that he should
be frightened by so familiar thing as
for fire, or spoke rood as we used TO call
IL.


If he had exercised presence # mind, he
would have prevented the most of his
fright, and his subsequent modification.
4 second thought would have revealed
the whole plot to him, but he was too inn
petuous-he could not wait for a second
thought. This is failing in many people,
and all should watch and guard against il.
We often hear girls, and even young ladies,
shrek as if mortally hurt, from very slight
cause. This infirnity can be TO a great
extent controlled by habit of thOught-by
cultivating selfpossession-presence of
mind. We should all try, and that con-
tinually, TO not be frightened-not to be
caught off our enthusiastically Visitor.
Year: 1869

as his own personal experience:


left New York for Albany in no very
pleasant mood. Getting up for an early
train is neither customary nor agreeable
with me; the coffee was muddy and the
toast abominable. / got into muss with
a hackman about my fare to the depot, my
finger was jammed i'm the car door, and a
fat man stepped on my toe as / moved to
my seat My face knew looked forbidding,
and, though the car was full, the seat beside
me was not taken. We had gone past one
or two stations, when a tall, broad-shoul-
dered, farmer looking fellow got into tho
car, and without a "By your leave" or
Is this seat engaged?" down he sat by
me. j gave him a severe look that ought
TO have annihilated him, but it didn't
Then | looked out of the window, and the
Year: 1869

U FOR one hour of such enchanted light


As made a fairer daytime in the sky,
When on the willow bank sat that night
Ny Old-timc love and L -se
while we talked 80 low and tenderly


We felt the listening trees above W. lean:
And louder far the silence seemed to me
That fell at last between
Her heart lay floating on its quiet thoughts
Like water lilies on tranquil lake.
And Love within, unknown because besouoht.
Lay dreaming half awake
All, Love II liShtest sleeper ever known!


whisper, and he started plain to view;
Old as the heavens seemed our story grown,
While yet the moon was new
And when she spoke her answer seemed the while
SwcctCr for sweetness of the lips that told,
Setting precious word within a smile


n diamond tingcd with gold.
Then bloOmcd for Us the perfect century flower.
Then filed the cup and Overrun the brim;
And all the stars professional that hour,


Chanted bridalhymn.
An, Time, all after-days may fly away,


Such JOY a. that thou hast but once TO give,
And Love i royal from his crowning-da


Though kinsdOmless he live.
Year: 1869

Fair exchange is no robbery" The
following transaction has come to light i'm
New Fairfield. Conn. Two dairymen
who use the same spring for the purpose
of cooling their milk, recently discovered
that their milk was unproiiiably thin, and
came TO the conclusion that somebody was
rcbbins them. The ether night hey hap
pened at the spring, and each discovered,
TO his utter astonishment, that the milk
was being stolen, and the vacuum being
supplied with water blythe other,
Year: 1869

Two hundred and ninety thousand
four hundred dollars! read this bill over
deliberately six or seven times, and never
said word. Then said would step out
and get breath of fresh air.
Year: 1869

A SUBSTITUTE FOR CARPET.-Save all
your old newspapers, and when you get
enough for the purpose make a paste the
same as for putting on the wall, and lay
them down one by one, pssting them, till
your floor is covered, then let it drv; then
lay down another in the same way When
again dry get some wall paper of a suitable
color and paste all over it. When dry, 60
over it with good coat of varnish, and you
will have a nice covering for Jour floor,
which will wear IS long as carpet, and look
as well as oil cloth. This is a cheap method
of covering bed room floors and other rooms
which are not much used. When required
TO be cleaned, wipe it off with wet cloth.
Year: 1869

CAT IN THE MEAL TUB The Lower
House OF the Legislature of Rhode Island
has postponed action upon the Fifteenth
Amendment of the Federal Constitution un.
til next January. The republicans in that
State do not like Federal interference in the
affair of suffrage there. The cause of this is.
that the republicans have been able to main
tain their supremacy in tha! State by ex
Guiding from voting large class of its citiz-
ems. Under the Constitution of Rhode Is
land, no person can vote there unless be
holds real estate, the assessed value Of which
shall be one hundred and thirty-four dollars
over aud above all incumbrances and liens
upon it." This excludes thousands of me-
chanics, clerks, artizans, and laborers from
the privilege of voting. The passage of the
Fifteenth Amendment removes this re-
striction, and will give this large class the
right to vote. The republicans fear that
this will give the State to the democracy.
norant blacks of the South shall be allowed
&c vote, are unwilling to surrender their pow
er in Rhode Island to accomplish that object.
This is the secret of the postpouement in
that State They don't want the eight or
ten thousand democrats who are now ex>
cluded to have the right of voting IN y
World.
Year: 1869

SIMPLE VERMIN REMEDY "A corre-
spondent writing from Norfolk, Va, to the
Maryland Farmer says In the Carolinas
they regard mockiug birds hatched in June
as worthless for rearing. Tho secret is, all
birds are more infested With vermin in hot
weather than in COOL 1 learned the fact that
Knockers are not exempt, by raising a pair
balcbed in June, and taken from the nest
while young, and not knowing what to
do with them at night wrapped them in
a piece of flannel. The next morning. to my
surprise, found it covered with vermin: and
from an examination of the birds found they
had been completely relieved. The birds
proved healthy. l then tried the same on q
brood of chickens with like effect.
Year: 1869

For ten years past astronomers have
told us that during the months of July
August and September in this year, the
most wonderful comet the world has
ever known would reappear. This COM
et'is on time, 1t is now to be seen with
the naked eye, any clear night, in the
northern. part of the heavens, between
eleven and twelve O'Clock, and from
that time until the morning star rises.
A Astronomers assure us that this comet
will approach nearer the earth than any
comet ever did before, and that either
the earth or the comet will have to
change its course, or collision is inevi-
table, This comet is said to be many
thousand times larger than the earth.
It'll solid mass of fire that would reach
around the earth more than a hundred
times, and collision with our planet
is not an event to be very ardently de-
sired.
Year: 1869

A Tennessee correspondent of Hearth
and Home gives the following directions
in reference to putting up green corn
Tor winter use. Shave il from the cob.
and pack it In an open vessel with Law
e"s of salt. We never have fears of
getting too much salt, as we do not
think large quantity Injuries the corn.
In preparing it for use, do not soak it i'm
cold water, but have vessel of boiling
water ready, AMI throw your corn into
it. Let IL slmper few minutes. then
pour of and refill with boiling water.
Do this three times, and your corn will
be ready for cooking. The hot water
cooks the milk in the corn and prevents
its soaking away; whereas, if cold wa
ter was used, the milk, and, consequent
~, tne richness and flavor of the corn
would pass away with it. Corn put up
and treated in this way will be iust as
good, after having been Kept five years,
as 1t was when first cut from the cob.
Year: 1869

There is no disease with which calves


are SO much troubled rs scours, or diar-


rhe, and 1t not unfrequently that they


die with it, if neglected. The trouble


is usually brought on by exposure to


cold storms and irregular feeding, but


may arise from other causes; such as


feeding meal too freely in milk, or from


giving whey too plentifully. When


running with the COW it is caused some


times by the milk becoming uhwhoIe-


some by fever in the dams udder.
The mucous membrane ofthe calf be-
comes infiamed, and il not soon allayed
the lungs become affected, and death.
follows. The first Indications of the
disorder will be thinness of the dis
charges, changing in the second stage
to white, watery and often bloody
secretion. So long as the calf, after an
attack, appears lively, and eats with an
apparent relish, there is no particular
danger, but this is the very time that
he should be al tended to, for after the
disease has become firmly seated it is
very obstinate.


The first operation necessary is to
put him in some very warm, dry place
under cover, unless the weather is yery
fine out OF doors, and the sun not too
hot. and administer such remedies as
will remove the acidity cf the stomach,
Which may usually be done by giving
one ounce of powdered chalk in the
milk once day. Scalding the milk
will sometimes give relief. But this is
not to be depended upon in severe cases,
Two or three ounces of castor oil, with
flour Cruel, is excellent.


When calf running with the dam is
under treatment tor diarrh9a, and it is
supposed that the milk has a morbid
tendency on the calf, give the COW, in,
four doses, one every four or five hours.
.he following mixture: Charcoal, finely
powdered, half a pound; lime water of
moderate strength, four ounces; tinc-
ture OF matico, two ounces, in ore pint
of water.


When astringent medicines are given,
such as decocti0n OF oak bark or brake
root, care must be taken or the loose
ness will be checked too suddenly, and
the case made worse. 1t is the best 20
use heating remedies and those ofa
laxative nature. 1t is an excellent
plan to keep lump of common chalk
in the feeding trough constantly, after
the calves are month old; this will
correct the acidity of the stomach and
have tendency to keep them in heal
thy state.
Year: 1869

sUPTt is re Lated of the witty Domin-
ician monk Bocco, that he had great
dislike to tobacco, and when once
preaching TO crowd of Spanish sailors
he astounded them.by telling them that
but they smoked SO many cigars that
they made the Holy Virgin sick, and
them out. At length he proclaimed
that bull fight was to be held outside
the gates of Paradise. Thereupon
every Spanish saint, without exception
ran of to see the fight, and st, Peter tae,r
care lever to admit another Spaniard.
Year: 1869

urally wants those lovely shoulders to
be yelled from all but himself. and if
she loves him she VIII be jealous of ali
such unnecessary displays in future
She will be careful not to outrage alike
the unerring instinct of mans h n
orable affection and her own womanIy
conscience.
Year: 1869

AcAssEz AND THE GLAcIERs.-Professor Agas-
pet glacial theory at the Amherst agricultural
meeting, last week. He declared that all the
materials on which agricultural process depend
are decomposed rocks, not so much rocks that
underlie the soil, but those the surface and
brought from considerable distances and ground
to powder by the grasp of the glacier. Ice, all
over the continent, is an agent that has ground
out more sol! than all other agencies together.
The penetration of water apd baking suns heve
done something, but the glacier more. In IL
former aga the whole United States was covered
with'ice several thousand feet thick, and this
ice, moving from north to south by the attrac-
tion of tropical warmth, or pressing weight of
ice and snow behind, ground the rocks over
which it passed into the paste we call the
soil. These masses of ice can be tracked as
surely as game is tracked by the hunter He
had made study of them in this country as far
south MS Alabama, but had observed the same
phenomenon particularly in Italy, where, among
the Alps glaciers are in progress. The
stone and rocks ground and polished by the gla-
ciers can easily be distinguished from those
scratched BY running water. The angular boul.
ders found in meadows and the terraces on
rivers not now reached by water, can be ac-
counted for only in this way. He urged a new
survey of the surface geology of the State, as
help to understanding its constitueH elements
and paid high tribute TO the memory of the
late President Hitchcock.
Year: 1869

CoouETTE.-A female general who builds her
fame on her advances. A coquette may be COM
pared to tinder, which lays itself out to catch
sparks, but does not always succeed in lighting
up match. Men perverse creatures they
fly that which pursues them, and pursue that
which flies them. Forwardness, therefore, On
the part of female, makes them draw back,
and backwardness draws them forward. There
will always be this difference between a coquette
and woman of sense and modesty, that while
one courts every man, every man will court the
other. When the coquette settles into an old
maid, it is not unusual 20 see her as staid and
formal as she was previously versatile.
Year: 1869

While the Sorosis club on the one hand, and
the conductors of the Revolution on the other,
are agitatng for feLlale suffrage and universal
equality between the sexes, their sisters in Ger
many are about to give them a practical illus
tration of what a real woman's congress should
be, and should do. conference will ne held at
Stuttgart by the German ladies, and, though it
is difficult to realize, its object is not the asser-
tion of woman's rights, the denunciation of
that vile tyrant-man. The German ladies act
ually believe that they are in their proper sphere
now, ana they are going to meet, not for pur-
poses of revolution, but of reform The points
they intend to discuss are thus stated


L. To find out the best ways and teach young
children.


The establishment Of small museums of literature art
and industry These museums would not only contain the
best work OF literature and art especially adapted for women
bur they would principally be kind schools
Places meetings lectures and the like in which the ton
les such the education of children and domestic
interest," should be treated by competent and
can be prevailed upon to assist in the movement
There would also be Sunday schools for and girls
all classes saving banks, supply associations offices for
those that wanted places. etc


b. The commencement of reform in dress, chiefly d.
reeted against the yagares of fashion, and the best and
means to carry out this reform efectualiy As basis for
this reform the following points have been accepted: d


That nothing be declared od fashioned which
proved itself useful appropriate and becoming. o. That
nothing to be adopted unless it has proved itself to be
both to the puposs and the demands of good
taste te That all garments and objects of toilet that





saving might not be effected in things of Dress that the
expenses might be made more appropriate to the income


The Transformation of benevolent female institutions
into "selfsupportng and earning female institutions


There are so many good and sensible points in
this programme that we are at loss to pick out
the best. But perhaps after all, that resolution,
I" that nothing shall be declared 'old fashioned
which has once proved itself useful, appropriate,
and becoming" is the most sublime flight of
feminine sense that the world has seen for long
time. 1t seems almost to good to be true; but
we are only too glad to believe such things posi-
BILE, and therefore we accept it, and congratulate
the husbands of those heroic German wives.
Would that they might be enabled to convert
their erring sisters this side of the Atlantic
TO the views which they have so nobly espoused
San Francisco Times.
Year: 1869

Beat an egg well, and with brush or
bit OF cloth wet the crust of the pie with
the beaten egg, just before YOU put in
the PIE mixture. In making any pie
which has q juicy mixture, the luce
soaks into the crust, making it soecy
and unit to cat; the above will prevent
this.


For pies which have top crust also.
wet the top with the same before bak-
lng, whlch;give it beautiful yellow
brown.


1t gives beauty also to biscuit, GIN
ger cakes, and IS just the thing for rdsk,
3y putting IN little sugar.
Year: 1869

Wash the hands well, and without
using a towel, apply a small quantity
OF honey and rub in wen. Use once a
day, and it will make the hands very
soft, and cure as we'll as prevent chap
ped hands.
Year: 1869

Infuse three gllls of salt IN four quarts
ofwater put the calico in while hot and
leave it till cold, and in this way the
90 ors are rendered permanentJ and
Will not fade by subsequent washing.
Year: 1869

Tho people ot the Seventeenth Ward viii


remember on election day that Alderman
Theodore Schintz was the man who led the
battle in the Common Council In favor OF
The cityis getting the interest On its own
deposits instead Of the City Treasurer got
ting it, In our whole municipal history we
cannot recall more lucid exposition Of any
municipal question than Alderman Schintz
gave 10 this. He examined the
practice prevailing In nl tho largo
cities Of tho Union, proving that


with scarcely an exception, tho intercs. was
rnid TO tho city. He showed that even In
Now York, vhere oi1icial seoundro1isn Ia
the most bold and bare-faosa, the interest
on the eity deposits Is paid regularly into
the public treasury. He proved by ouz
own laws that it ought to be 80 paid it
Chicago. As 3 consequence, the Ring a1c
making The most tremendous efforts to
defeat his reelection. He is the particular
thorn in their ads, in the North Division o.
the city. he ought to receive the vote o'
every honest man in the Seventeenth Ward
Year: 1869

"And they took their journey from Sue
Goth, and encamped in Ethan, in the edge
of the wilderness. And the Lord went be-
fore them by day in pillar of cloud, to
lead them the way; and by night in pillar
of fire, to give them light; to go by day and
night: he took not away the pillar of the
cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night,
from before the people" Jehovah not
only selected path for His people, but He
also came down to walk with them therein,
and make Himself known to them according
to their need. He not only conducted them
safely outside the bounds of Egypt, but He
also came down, as it were in His travelling
chariot, to be their companion through all
the vicissitudes of their wilderness journey.
This was divine grace. They were not
merely delivered out of the furnace of Egypt
and then allowed to make the best of their
way to Canaan. Such was not Gods man
ner toward them. He knew that they had
toilsome and perilous journey before them,
through serpents and scorpions, snares and
difficulties, drought and barrenness; and He.
blessed be His name forever, would not suf


fer them to 60 alone. He would be the
companion of all their tolls and dangers
Year: 1869

yea, "He went before them" He was
ga guide, glory, a defence, to save from
every fear" Alas that they should ever
have grieved that Blessed One by their
hardness of heart. Had they only walked
humbly, contentedly and confdingly with
Him, their march would have been tri-
umphant one from first to last. With Je-
hovah in their forefront, no power could
have interrupted their onward progress from
Egypt to Canaan. He would have carried
them through and planted them in the noun
tain of His inheritance, according to His
promise, and by the power of His right
hand; nor should as much as a single Ca
naanite have been allowed to remain therein
to be thorn in their side. Thus it will be,
by and by, when Jehovah shall set His hand,
a second time, to deliver his people from
under the power of all their oppressors.-
May the Lord hasten the time!-Notes ON
Exodus.