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Year: 1874

"Don't you dare to deny it, or you
and all your tribe shall pay more dearly
than you think. 1 am the father Of
that girl, Eoaded TO Vengeance by
seventeen years of unsuccessful search
ing. 1 might take her from you and
imprison you all, but I don't want the
trouble and the publicity. Call that
man. and go down in the tent, and l
will make terms with you


"He knew it was true then, and
he was right, by the instant submis-
sion of the head of the tribe. They
went into the tent at once and settled
it, he agreeing to pay handsome sum
of money.


"Then came the strangest scene of
all. The girl refused to know her
father, and wept as if her heart would
break over the parting with those gypsy
wanderers. A few months, however,
sufficed to conquer her strange instincts,
and two years later she married young
Englishman, who is now living in
Washington" l t-l,s-.tLE..


We we're, of course, eager to see her,
and the next day we were favored with
jill lhbIOuuCJlOu W ulIbs hluolOJ , ANU
no one, to look at the graceful woman,
would ever imagine that she was
brought up under the greenwood tree.


She confessed that she had never
quite conquered her prediction for
the wild woods, and gave us an insight
into the mode of the gypsy's life, which
was new and interesting.


She herself had known of four chill
dren the gypsies had stolen, though
she had never dreamed that she herself
had been kidnapped. They generally
sold them, she said, capturing hand.
some children for that purpose, and
having their agents in every country.


She supposed that becoming at.
tached to her, they decided not to part
with her, as she was very lively and
merry, and the life of the camp.
Year: 1874

The following was related to me re-
Gently of noble woman whose name
should live in history. She, together
with her lover, a young surgeon, had
taken care of the wounded Communists
during the days and nights of their
fierce fighting with the Versailles
troops. Upon the entry of the latter
into the city, when excitement was at
it's height, and when every one suspected
of completely with the Commune was
shot without question being asked,
the surgeon was arrested and brought
before the drum-head tribunal, in the
Place du Chatelet. His life trembled
for the moment in the balance, but was
finally saved by the intercession of one
of the judges present, who was an in
innate friend of the accused. AS the
latter was being led from the room he
met the woman whom he loved, who
had helped him in the care of the
wounded, and who was now accused of
the same crime as he himself had been.
"Good God, Marie !" are you here,
too ?" The woman took in the whole
scene at a glance, saw the danger into
which she would plunge her lover
should she recognize him, and drew
herself up coldly, saying, "You are
mistaken, sir. ."-NeaO York EUening
Post,
Year: 1874

He was never to come come. A hun
dred times q day the wife uttered a
silent prayer 5hat he might be spared
to those that loved him, and when dusk
came the children waited at the gate as
in days gone by, and watched for him
to come. 1t seemed to them as if all
the sunshine had left the world. Fever
came, cold came, and the children saw
more tears than bread. Only in sleep
did they forget their loneliness and
their woes. Who can tell the mothers
sad thoughts Who can feel her heart
aches and griefs! Each day was a
struggle to keep starvation away-each
nightshe thanked God that her husband
was still alive, even though in the
shadow of death.


And the end.


Yes, the end came one day, and her
wounded heart was to be pierced still
deeper. and the children's pale faces
were to grow paler. War demands VIC
Tins, and he yielded up his life.
Down where the blue Potomac winds
around hills and rushes through be-
tween the mountains they laid him
away to sleep his last sleep--he with
hundreds of others who ATE now dust.


The hearts that grieved had new
cause for grief. They panied and ached
when they knew that the fathers foot
step would never be heard again, and
they grew faint at the thought that
the struggle with hunger and cold had
only just commenced. Wife nor chill
dren have ever looked upon his grave.
No word of farewell from his lips ever
reached them. The paper recorded his
name with the list of the dead, and no
other news ever came. He slumbered
with the great army of the dead, for
cotton by all save those who knew his
love and tenderness.


The years have gone by, and the dust
of time has settled upon our memory of
the days of battle, and wounds and
death. It seems like dream, broken
only when we see the sad face of those
windowed or orphaned by the shrieks
ing bullet, or the glistening sabre. We
forgot those who marched with us,
those who cheered us on our way. The
wild autumn wind sings its sad re-
QUEEN DER the turf covering the dust of
father, son and brother. who gave their
lives for liberty, and the pale faced
widow and the grieving orphan hide
their grief in their hearts, and we for
get that they grieve-that they cannot
| forget like us
Year: 1874

The mate OF Mississippi or Missouri
river steamer is a tyrant in his way.
His chief occupation is to stand and
curse and kick his roustabouts," or
deck hands, and the charm of his keep.
ing his place and being known as a
"bully mate" depends much upon his
ability to do this. A poetical fellow
after describing "bully mate" relates
an incident: ...r. ..
One day he said to a roustabout who had onto


his back
A four-bushel bag of corn-rather heavy, but


it's a fact
How that he thought his gait want exactly up


to railroad time,
When they got into controversy not put


in rhyme, ...
But I'll state thar want no more corn carried


on that boat that day,
For all the crew was occupied in seein' 'em


have fair play.
They shook things up lively for the first three


quarter of an hour,
An rammed their heads right into several bar


rels of flour.
An the corn an things that was split around


on the lower deck
Made it look as though the boat had struck a


snag an gone TO wreck;
An this yer mate, who hadn't never yit lost a


single fight,
Saw that his chances for kemin' out first best


in this here one was light.

So when he found he couldn't git away with


that thar roustabout,
He begun to get Uneasy; then he cussed and


hollored out:
" Say, ez you 'uns all goin' to stand round this


yer boat an SEQ
This insubordination 1 say, Yer stop this


mutiny!"
An that is the moral tha.t I've been tryin' fol


to paint:
When them mates lick man it's all right, but


when they don't it amt.
Year: 1874

1t is very singular how often people
claiming to be respectable take soap
and towels by mistake from hotel bed
rooms when they depart. In some of
the large hotels this thoughtlessness on
the part of guests has gotten to be a
great annoyance and something of an
expense to the proprietor. We fear that
it will come to this-that soap will have
to be charged and towels nailed TO the
washstands, and on the back of the
door an appendix to the usual notice
will request guests not to carry off the
bedsteads by mistake
Year: 1874

Exemplary damages have been given
by Baltimore jury, in case in which
q man shot another by accident. The
defendant playfully took up gun, en-
tertaining the common idea that no
gun can possibly be loaded, and play
fully pointed it at his friend. AS 1T al
ways happens in such cases, the gun
was loaded, and he shot and almost
killed his friend, only in fun of course.
The jury showed their appreciation of
such genial humor by giving verdict
for Sc, 900 damages.
Year: 1874

RoBBINa THE DEAD. old soldier
in Sicily gave his wife silk dress. His
wife died and was buried in the dress.
Some weeks after the old soldier saw
this dress on woman in the country,
and, making inquiry, was told she had
purchased it from the men who had the
custody of the village cemetery. He re-
POI ted the case to the police, who in
vestigated and made the discovery that
regular trade was carried on in effects
taken from dead bodies. There was
even a trade in hair.
Year: 1874

WHITING Down THEIR BILLs.-At
a late meeting of the Changers in Rus
sell county, il is said that lively and
amusing scene transpired, growing out
of an introduction of a resolution in
favor OF purchasing only home made
fabrics for clothing. A gentleman re-
pied, IN opposing the resolution, that
he favored economy, and for that reason
wanted the whole world as his market.
He would advise the mover to do as a
friend of his once did, who brought home
a duck and put it with his other poul-
try. When feeding time came he found
that the duck, on account Of its large
bill, gobbled up about three times as
much corn as the rest of bis fowls. He
at once remedied the difficulty by taking
out his knife and whitfield the ducks
bill down to sharp point. "Now SIR"
said the speaker, you have some little
ducks daughters at your home and if
you want to secure economy, you must
whittle down their bills! And you,
worthy Master, have a little duck at
your house, which makes it necessary
that should also recommend this pro-
cess of whiting down bills to your no
tice, as the best means of securing ecOno-
my in family expenditures Its need
less to say that this pointed and practi-
cal speech decided the question, and
opened the eyes of many parents whose
little ducks with their millinery and
dress-making bills, have gobbled up
more money than all the rest of
the family have used during the past
year. We commend this little speech to
the notice of all Changers who are seek
ing the quikest and surest way to recall
a rigid economy in their household mat
ters.-[ Troy Messenger.
Year: 1874

MAN AN INFERIOR ANIMAL.-The dis
coveries sand observations of the scien-
titic world are gradually, but surely,
bringing man to the conclusion that he
is a very inferior kind of animal after
all. AS a child he is perfectly helpless,
and were it not for the watchful eyes of
some tender adult, he would go on kill
ing himself with poisonous red berries
and stuffing solitaire balls down his
idiotic little throat from generation to
generation. When was an infantile dog.
usually called puppy" ever known to
go and eat anything that wasn't good
for him, OF to make donkey of himself
standing at the doors of religious edifices
and staring while grown-up young lady
dogs were returning from divine service
And yet the human puppy does all these,
and much more eabundantly. Now there
are ants-nOt human aunts, but the other
stinging things. Most sensible insects
they, are, too. They always keep on
hand stock of neuters, whose business
1t is to look after the grubs upon the
approach OF danger. There are two sets
OF neuters; one to care forthe more ma
ture, the other forsssthe Ifeebler larva.
Now what do our human neuters-un-
productive bachelors we mean-do? Do
they look after the babies and train
them up in the way they should 20,
allowing the fathers to go and provide
for the households Not % bit Of It!
They look after the g grub. sure enough,
and patronize the liquoi saloons and
steal all they can lay their hands on, and
are generally about the most useless
membranes ofthe human family. Such
are our neuters, and sorry pictures of
human intelligence they are, too. Well
might Solomon say to the neuters Of
this day and generation: "Go to the
ant, thou sluggard consider his ways,
and be wise. .1EInter-O Ocean.
Year: 1874




1t is very strange that people will con.
tlnue to grow trees year after year with.
| out any fruit, and yet praise their system
as the best possible one against anything
else that can be done. We have contend
ed for years that fruit culture will never
be successful until some very different
system than that usually practised shall
be adopted. The ground must be so dry
to grow good fruit that water will not lie
tWenty-fOur hours in summer Cn winter
1t is OF no consequence without passing
away; the tibrOus roots must be kept
as near the surface as possible and kept
shaded from the intense heat of sum-
mer. Then they must be kept highly
fed by occasional dressings of sur
face manure. These are the principles
without which, depend on it, American
fruit culture will, with occasional ex-
ceptiOns, always be d failure. i-. ....'
fpOssible, chose dry piece of ground.
1t not naturally dry, it is best to throw
the earth up into banks OF ridges and
plant on them. This is cheaper and
better than understanding. In plant
ing, IT the roots appear deep, cut away
some OF the deeper ones and shorten
some of the top of the tree at the same
time. This is particularly true of
dwarf pears, which are often grated
on rather long ounce stocks. Cut all
away OF the ounce root but about six
inches, and if this should be found to
leave few roots, cut away the top cor
respOndlngly. Most of the failures with
dwarf-pears comes from bad ounce
roots. So deep in the ground, the lower
parts decay, and this decay gradually
communicates upward until the whole
system becomes diseased. The more
tenacious the sub-soil, the more necces-
sary is it to attend to this matter. We
spoke OF pruning in proportion to injury
1t will be found that all trees are a
little injured by removal, therefore all
trees should be little pruned at trans
planting.


Trees that have long stems exposed to
hot suns, or drying wind, become what
gardeners call "hide bOund.n That is,
the old bark becomes indurated-cannot
expand, and the tree suffers much in
consequence. Such an evil is usually
indicated by grey lichens which feed on
the decaying bark. In these cases 4
washing of week lye or oflime water is
very useful indeed, where the bark is
healthy, it is beneficial thus to wash the
trees, as many eggs of insects are there
by destroyed. n.


WmteWaSn is frequently resOrteu to
by farmers; but the great objection is it's
unsightly yappearance-there result isother-
wise good. The great opposition to
washes formerly was, that the pores of
the bark were closed by them-this was
on the supposition that the bark was
alive, but the external bark of most trees
has been dead years before the time of
application and " the breathing" if SO
the operations of the pores can be called,
is through the crevices formed in the
old bark by the expansion of the grow
ing tree, by which the living bark below
has chance of contact with the air.
No matter what kind of coating is ap-
piled to the bark of tree, it will soon
crack sufficiently, by the expansion of
Observation-Disclosures Monthly.
Year: 1874

A Milwaukee man has applied for a
patent on fountain pen, which, by the
pressure of the thumb ON a small rub
Der ball, projects a stream of ink through
the holder and into the face of the fel-
low who is looking over your shoulder
while you are writing. It lacks one, es-
ssentlal, however; it makes no provision
for the afterclap.
Year: 1874

Landlord Keith, of Sallina, was once
notified by a gentleman to please re-
serve him a seat at the table by tipping
up a chair, which he did. When the
train stopped for supper rush was M ade
for the table, and soon all were seated
except good sized Dutchlnan, who
was about taking the reserved seat,
when MI. Keith told him that it was
reserved for a gentleman. He replied:
Mine friend, he has Gomez - =.
Year: 1874

We once heard of traveller at a hotel.
who rose from his bed at night to ey.
anime. the weather; but instead of look
ing out on the sky, he thrust his head
through the glass window of a cupboard.
" Bless me !" he muttered, " this is yerv
singular weather. The night is as dark
as pitch, and smells of cheese
Year: 1874

The Cincinnati Enquirer offers to bet
i've hundred dollars that no fashionable
lady. eyer goes to bed without first look
ing IN her glass, and a rival is willing
to risk the same sum that no Cincinnati
edltor goes to bed without drinking out
Year: 1874

FIVE say, pa, you need
not pay lot of money for me to learn
the piano" Pater-" Why not, NV bow ?''
Five Year Old" Because all you have
got to do is to put handle to it; then I
can play all day long, like the men in
the street,
Year: 1874

This laconic but sensible German
ought to be sent out to lecture to the
people on temperance: 81 sail tell Won
how it vas. I drank mine lager; den /
put mine hand on mine head, and there
vosh Won pain. Den put mine hand in
my pocket, and dere vas noting. So. I
jine the demberance. Now dere is no
pain in mine head, and de pain in mine
body vas all gone away. put mine
hand in mine pocket, and dere vas TWEEN
tydollars. So stay mid de demberance.'
Year: 1874

given off to such an extent as to make
| explosions frequent and dangerous
| This first led to the use of iron tanks
| instead of wood, but it was soon found


that iron could not resist the expansive
force of this natural explosive COM
! pound, so dOmes we're placed upon the


tanks. This proved o valuable accessO-


ry; but it was soon found that some


thing more was necessary, and pecu-


liarly constructed safety-valve was


patented and put in use, since which no
explosions of tank-cars have taken
place.


There can be no doubt, whatever that
the thousands of accidents which have
occurred in all parts of the country are
owing to the ignorance of the average
person who uses Oil as to its properties
and peculiarities. When oil is properly
refined it gives off little or no gas; but
oil is not always properly refined. Oil
gives OFT gas much more readily when it
is being agitated than when at rest.


While oil will give off gas at all tenn
peratures, it gives it off much more
readily when heated than when kept
cold. Lamps should always, therefore,
be kept in as cold a place as possible.
Lamp burners should never fit too tight
or too loose if too tight, they heat the
oil and generate gas; if too loose, they
are liable to leak and thereby become
dangerous. But, however well the bur-
ner may fit, the person who uses petro-
leum OF such quality as is usually sold,
cannot be too careful in handling or
caring for these useful articles, which
are generally set aside with the least
possible attention. Care should always
be taken in getting wick that fits the
burner, for if too loose the gas escapes
and never reaches the flame if too tight,
it becomes veXatiOus. tits much better,
whenever a person can afford to purchase
a good lamp, to get the German Student
Lamp. In this simple device every pos
sible danger of the explosion of gas is
avoided, while the burner gives q clear
light fully equal to gas. This lamp is
easily cleaned and cared for, is safe, and
is a decided comfort to the fireside, and
will soon become q favOrite wherever it
may be introduced.


1t should be borne in mind that the
oil never expl0des; it is always the gas
which is given off by the oil. When
people understand this, they can then
prepare against the danger. One simple
method is to permit all gas that has ac-
cumulated during the day to escape be-
fore lighting the lamp III the evening.
This can easily be done by loosening the
burner for few moments. The gas,
being lighter than the air, will escape at
once. A little intelligent caution on the
part of the public would do much to re-
lieye the anxiety of insurance men in
consequence of the almost universal
consumption of the "non-explosive
kind.n -
Year: 1874

An JIishman took the contract
to dig a public well. When he had
dug about twenty five feet below
the surface, he came one morning
and found it caved in, filled nearly
to the top Pat looked cautiously
around and saw that no one was
near, then taking off his hat and
coat he hung them on the windlass,
and crawling into some bushes, he
awaited the result Of events. In a
short time the citizens discovered
that the well had caved in, and
seeing Pats hat and coat they
supposed that he was at the bottom.
of the excavation. Only a few
hours Of brisk digging cleared the
loose earth from the well. Just as
the citizens had reached the bottom
and were wondering where the body
was, Pat came walking out of the
bushes, and very good-natured
thanked them for relieving him Of
sorry job. The tired diggers
were disgusted, but the joke was
too good to allow anything more
than a hearty laugh, which soor
followed.
Year: 1874

AMBITIoN.-That is the bravest
ambition which is vigorous enough
to overleap the little life here
The highest aspirations seek not
fame. Whatever we can do of
good in this world, with our facul>
ties or our affections, rises to God
as humanity's song of praise. Amid
the million tongues ever joining to
swell the holy music of that song,
are those which sound loudest and
grandest here, the tones which
travel sweetest and purest up to
the eternal throne, which mingle in
the most perfect harmony with the
anthem of the angel choir. May
not the most obcure life be digni-
fed by lasting aspiration, and
dedicated to a noble aim p Walkie
Collins.
Year: 1874

BRANDY FROM SAwDUsT.-Dry


Sawdust as it lies heaped up in the
saw-mill certainly looks innocent of
a capability to furnish " brandy


straights,'' but if We may believe a
certain German chemist it does
contain considerable of the inebria-
ting fluid. His experiment with
900 pounds of sawdust resulted in
81 quarts of brandy of so per cent.
at SO deg, perfectly free from odor
or taste of turpentine, and of very


agreeable flavor. He considers it
probable that the process might be
successful on a large scale, if the
amount of water and time of boil>
ing 1.-TWO important factors in the
production of sugar. were accurate
ly determined by experiments. By
conversion of all the cellulose into
sugar, each hundred weight of air
dried sawdust would yield at least
27.4 quarts of SO per cent. brandy.
Year: 1874

equal educational facilities with
the whites. Let them remember
that the taxes with which these schools
are supported are contributed almost
exclusively by the white people OF the
State-tbat the money does not come
fcom the federal government at WASH
ington. Let them remember that thou
sands OF property-holders of the State
OF the political party to which they are
In opposition have aided in establishing
our present school system, and without
the support of this class, In cooperation
with their white political associates, it
could not have been established.


Let them also remember that II is not
question as to whether we will have
nlired schools, but whether we shall
have any system of public instruction
at all. For it is not IN The power of
forty congresses to establish this mixed
school system in Tennessee.


If the civil rights bill should pass
without the mixed school feature being
stricken out, the whole school fabric in
Tennessee will at once fall to the ground,
as 1t will deserve 20 do. Then the ex-
penses of the education of their children,
if they are educated at all, will De borne
by themselves, and not by the white
people, as they now are.
Year: 1874

THE Civil Rights Bill now under dis
cussion in the House OF Representa-.
tiyes, has a more direct and disastrous
effect upoa the public school system in
the Southern States than upon any
ether interest. The admission o. negroes
to hotels and railroad cars and theatres
and churches and cemeteries upon an
equal footing with the whites, as con-
templated by the bill, may be submit
ted TO- The social caste which is above
law and which cannot be affected by
acts of Congress will still prevail in
tbese respects; but an attempt to com
pei the co.education OF whites
and blacks in the same schools
will have disastrous results. In
nearly all of the Southern States 1t
will paralyze the free echool system and
lead to the abandonment OF all schemes
Of public instruction. The constitution
and the laws OF West Virginia make
ample provision for the education OF
negroes, but prohibits mixed schools. v
II this prohibition be over borne by
congressional enactment, the free school
system OF this State will cease to COM
maud the popular support which now
gives it the chief place in public con-
c.rn, and will he abandoned as soon as
a legislature can meet for the repeal Of
the law.