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Home My WebLink AboutThe New Era, 1884-05-30, Page 97 8° , • , , NovrOse Accepted Irises., Wittmourn for the iirda that /MVO tlown far away • The?re are plenty hi summers ahead; 'Why CUES IOP the 'flowers that erewhile Were ? Others bloom, just as sweet, in their ead. CO ! fair were the yesterdays, bright were their hours, And precious their histories O'er; Yet sing a the now, with ite laWess of powers, The sunshine and joy at the door. Though great were the heroes that suffered Of old, And many the noble ones gone, As true still remain with their story untold ; All hall to the heroes unborn! ,sejoioe in the past with its inemories sweet Bejoice in the presentas well; -Bonn day With fond tears well its story re. ,peat Ana all its proud victories tell, 'When cherish the heart that now fainto in the strite, lass lips ghat now offer good cheer. Be kind_ to the one who is nearest thy life, Theban d that now toileth, 0 van lienie day you may yearn for response to your When the heart that now throbs will be cold; 'Then lavish the sympathy needed so much, , And whisper the love long untold. Ah, the present! Its page presses close to our face, And we miss the sweet lesson it reads; .Ah, 'the past! It is far, and we study its grebe, And ponder its words and'its deeds. And yet they are one: We are elasping to -day When to.morrow we'll sigh for in vain; Then gather the suoshine, rejoice in ite ray, Ancl banish the sorrow and Pain- • An °id Bachelor to an Old nom. In early spring the songbirds sing* This is Love's season. Soon shall spread A. carpet green beforehis feet .And crocuses and snowdrops bring a. wreath to crown his lovely head— . This is Love's season—sweet, sweet, sweet 1 Then youths and maidens, while ye may, Your sweethearts choose before the light That shines on spring -time shall retreat; _Life knows again no hours so bri t, For once that light has passed awF. So full og gladness—tweet, twee , sweet .Now / believe the birdare wrong— * That is, not altogether right— ' _Love may with partial eyes. behold The sprint, but yet the wbole year long He smiles with tenderest delight *On all true lovers, young mid old. .And though your early summer's fled, And though my autumn's almost here, The lilies—bleesed with love divine—. AN ;Shall take the place of roses dead. Will you consent to pluck them, dear,. 'With me and be my Valentine.? To Her. • • I live the days of long ago, ' • Because—because I love them so* And love them so because that she . Was of them so entirely. I lift these lines, a moment, • - • Above those dear, dead buried days, 'When love led 'on which way we went, When flowers bloomed in all our ways. Ger face, her earnest baby face, , Her young face, so uncommon wise— • The tender love -light in her eyes— Two stars of heaven out of plaoe. Two stars that sang as stars of old— Tneir silence eloquence of song— From skies of glory and of gold, i Where God n purple passed along. That silent, pleadini face; among. - Ten thousand faces just the one I still shall love when all is dont* /And life lies by, a harp unstrung. • That face, likeidnining sheaves among; ' That face, half hid 'mid sheaves of gold ; That face, that never can, grow old, And yet has never been quite young. GiAtmattesTlic to vet eivvventGlig. . vile Ever -Prevalence ot the Great Thotigh yonsparaiir,ely Lucie used rower, Owing principally to •the ignorance of writers in the newepapers, to the artifioial system of education imposed upon ole. mentary school -masters by .be existing 'system, and also perhaps to the rate a which mein live, the1iniveraaIity of eleotrio phenomena iie but ttle understood, The servant brushing opat, cleaning windows,. beating a carp t, placing a kettle on the fire to boil, sifting cinders, etc., the carpen- ter using his plane or briish, the eohoolboy or girl rubbing out the linee in his or her book, the master making or mending his pen is, during the time he or she is so employed, as •effectually an electrical anaohine as the most elaborate apparatus made by the art of Elliot or Holtz. Many Manufacturers find "eleotrioity " a nuisance. In the weaving of various fabrics, such, for example, as those in which silk and wool are -used, tbe work id very eleotrical. Mr. E. Bright's paper. -before the Sooietr of Telegraph Eingineers will givelull details of the troubles arising in weaving and the methods of overcoming the diffioulties. In making chocolate; seal- ing wax, in the manufacture.of glass, in the grinding of coffee, and so on, care has to be exercised, or instead of the pure article we should obtain one highly charged with dust, not useable, and therefore unsaleable. Even the glamour of the action of electricity must be taken into our corn mills, for elec- tricity is one of the principal causes assist- ing to make the miller white. When we 'brush our hair, or walk over the carpet, we are generators of sileotrioity. In fact, it would seem that the greater portion of the work of the world is done in rendering 'electrical phenomenacognizant to our 'senses. Friction is largely or wholly an 'electrical phenomena. it must not be sup. posed that eleotricity is always in the way. %the gliders, if they only knew, could tell a different tale, for their .worli is °Mimes OIL aided by electricity, as in that of various workers with paper and so on. Electricity ie as universal as gravitation.—Electrician. Long:tette* ns a Relic 1 . The following story of Longfellow is told in the Critic Hearing 'a domeetio talking at the front door with a person who seemed very much in earnest, he Went into the hall and found an Englitihrnan and his wife. '"She," said the nook "was a thorough specimen of an E-nglish matron stout, tall and substantial. He wari—we • one of the real terrier sort—in, looks—an carried a silk, umbrella, neatly oovered,. evidently -intent on doing' this country in the shortest poasible 'apace of time. On seeing me he, said (and the way in which the" poet repeated what followed was in imitable)--, Awl Mr, Longfellow, aw —we—supposed you had no thine in thin country, and, aw I we thought we wow aw 1 like to see, awl you 1'" . A Clever Bing ilwindte. A, few days ago four well.dressed men entered a London tavern ard had dinner. Whah the moment canoe to pay they said that they had nsa money with them,' but wotold leave a valuable diamond -ring. A few days later they celled, settled the preVious soomInt, had another dinner, talked to the proprietor, and finally Old him the ring for £56. Ete considered that he had made a good bargain, becautie while it had been in hie possession he had taken it to a jeweller, who prononnoed it to be -worth £100, Theguests, however, had on their second visit subetituted an imitation fao-simile for the genuine ring. , The Araba in Algeria learn Englieli, but wiil not, or cannot, learn Frenoh. St) nays Gen. Faidherbe in the 'let= Seientifigue. • 1 s*i4W4.0 ;11M41 °' ?NO ' 114‘W tO Feedfillni, .R1111104 0101.lid cattle and Destroy' Inside. OrRiNo AND SUMMER HINTS. (llompile4 br a'Praotical Agriculturist) Ipluern Slowly. A little maid in the morning sun Stood, merrily singing and churning— b, bow I wish this butter wag done hen oft to the %lids I'd be turningl" be hurried the,dasher up and down the fernier called with half -made frown, * Churn elowly 1'1 Don't ply t4e dasher so fast, my dear, It is not good for the butter, And will make your arms ache, too, Ilear, And put you all in a flutter— For this ie a rule wherever we turn, Don't be in haste, whenever you churn— Churn elowl.,3* 1 • If you want your butter to come nice and sweet Don't churn with a nervous, jerking, But ply the dasher slowly and neat— You'll hardly know thatwou're working; And when the butter has come, you'll say, "Yes, One is urely the better way Churn elowly.I Now, little folks do you think thal you A lesson can find in butter? Dont be in haste, whatever you do, • Or get yourself in it Rutter •, And while you stand et life's great churn* Let. the termer's word to you return— .' Churn slowly Hot Water or Destroying Insects. A. correspondent of the Gardner's Monthly tale in the following lines how he offal- tually rids hie green -house plants of inseot pest,whioh remedy would be equally eget). tive if applied to house -plants: Hot water at a temperature of about 120 0 11800 the moat effeotive remedy I have ever tried for destroying ineeots on plants in the green - holm.. The plants may be eitber immereed in it, or the hot water may be appffed with O plant -syringe which is the more con- venient of the Apo modes of applying it. If applied with a . plaint -syringe the water may he a ,feW, say l0°, hotter. While death to insects the hot water Seems notIo injure the plants in the' least. I find one drenching of hot water with a Want syringe has been euffi- °lent to rid plants of ted spider, where time after tinae cold water drenohings had been in vain. At the last meeting of the Indiana, Horticultural Society, in December, an extensive amateur fruit grower of this viol. nityspoke of having used hot water— pouring a quart about the root of eaoh tree '—for the borer, which of course was done in early spring while the trees were yet dormant. In thie manner he went over his young peal* orchard of several thou- sand trees; and while the trees had pre. viouely Buttered badly from the borer, he never saw signs of them afterward. Relieving Choked came. I read the articles under this, t in a late Rural and' thought; if I Was nly an old , grandmother, t knew a better way than any yet given; better because it is quicker, easier and doesn't hurt the poor creatures in the least.. I remember when I was a little girl that our cow got chokedi with a potato, and father hired me to run my hand and arm down Bosey's throat and pull out the potato. It was not a bit pleasant. We have a better way now. If a creature gets choked, take some cold water and a rubber syringe and squirt a d1 stream of' cold water into one of his ears. It gives the animal a surprise, and it shakes its head with a vengeance, that startsthe obstacle from its throat with a jerk.. I have 80011 it tried' loth of times, even after hoe handles and brow:widths and divers, other plans. have been tried ineffectually, and I never knew the cold Water stream, to fail on cattle or horses, or even, hogs. -- Grandmother, in .Rural New Yorher. • Feeding Troughs 8 or Rens. The practice' of throwing soft feed directly on the ground should at once be abandoned 14 every, farmer and poultry keeper. It is extremely wasteful so well as filthy to throw their food on the ground when it is soft or covered with poultry droppings. Whole grain, however, may be scattered on clean ground, or, perhaps better, it the hens 'are confined, it might be slightly covered with the eon, if it .is dry, or with some other clean; dry material, and let the fowls ecratoh it out, as it will give them exercise. Feeding troughs ehould be oonstruoted in such - a way that the fowls may eat soft food without being per- mitted to get into' it, to scratch or /milt in any manner. These troughs nosy be easily and cheaply made • by the exercise of a little ingenuity, , and the use of a few pieces of board'', lath and a few nails. Grafting Wtix' _-• Poin parts of rosin and One part each •bees -wax and tallow make a good prepara- tion. If too hard, add more tallow, or if too soft, take less. The beet way of using it is upon cloth. Take an old sheet or the skirt of a well worn diem ; tear it into strips two inches wide, make the strips into 'rolls, and let them remain in the melted wax until thoroughly soaked through; remove and let them, drain and (Mel. This waxed cloth may be torn off in pieces of nonvenient size to cover the wounds, and can be applied to make e, complete covering. SqUaslies are a good otop for a young orohard. . Potatoes, mange's, turnips or other roots may be grown between the rows 01 fruit trees. ' Vsetul mind Suggestive. . Fat hens lay small eggs. Pruhe regularly once a year. Pear trees require a very rich soil. Churn often if you want pod butter. Feed growing °bloke all they will eat. Raise plenty of oarrote for your horses. Imperfect salting causes streaky butter. Apple treea 'Mould be mulched in dry weather: „ Give the stook a little bone meal was - 'density. - Hungryrats will eat- borne's. .Hang.it out of their reach.' Perfect and a:intim:owl smothering Will eradicate Canada thistles. -- Never clean a horse in his stable. Dust fouls the crib and makes him loath food. • All flower poto. aliould have drainage holes, but it does not matter if they are in the bdtton2 or the side. Young olover should never be pastured It is so tender that the trampling of bode will greatly injure, if not destroy, it. ' The noon meal forworking horses ahould be principally grain. It can be quithly eaten'and will not disturb the otornath. An exchange 101,341: "An animal teltdSt to Ole from over -feed, or a stolen visit to the feed,bin may be saved by,a dose of four tosix quarts of bread yetis*: Mulching is far better than watering to savenewly planted trees. Cover the grounn over the roots with bog hay, Old Orem, or litter of any kind,' From every quarter comes the evidence of usefulheas or skirrt-milk for laying hens, and !wimp who have not tried it should give it a hearing this spring. Bens will coneurne an immense (panting of it if allowed a full supply. • Strawberries,—Bob that were covered last fall should have the stranr left on.theno 1 antll after the frUlt is niolted. The straw should be pttlied away juat over the plants. Pull Up suoh °oars. maxi as appenr thretlgh the muloh of the bed. Tent-Oit18rpillars-611 any eggs eecapedii; their " tents" or webs will Peon appear the tree. Remove them whole amid . ()M- ention attaolt the young plums soon after the blowing fall, and the thorough lotting of the Steen should.begin early. Ivy may grow in boxes to make soreens which may be moved limn place to place. A. bit of trellis work is fixed firmly on the box, which is filled with gond earth contain. Ing manure and leaf mould, and in this the Ivy is planted. These boxes may be in. doors or out Planting ahould be finished as soon BB possible. If the trees have started, great care will be needed in handling them. Such trees should not be trimmed at planting. Gtafting for the renewal of old trees may continue, taking great care in cutting away the breathe!' to make no bad wounds, 1113 tbe bark now peels readily. In planting cuttings of gooseberries and currants, eingle.sternmed bushes should always be preferred; therefore, select the young growths tif last year, which ;Mould be at least 9 inches long, '12 inches or 15 inches not being too much. Cut out all the eyes qr buds except, two or three at top, and plant firmi ly n rowe 18 Moho apart, and 6 inches apart in the rim. Watch for the firet appearance of holes in the leaves of the currants and gotieebet- ries, and use white hellebore dusted on, or better mixed with water, a large table- spoonful of the powder in a pailful of water, and apply with a syringe or pump. Repeat a few day, later, to destrpy those which °soaped or have hatched aim the first application. Young grape vines Set thiespring should be allowed to push but a single shoot., If two or more buds were 1o18, to guard againet aocidente, rub off all but the strongest, and keep the shoot from this tied up to a stake. Rosebugs destroy the flowers of the grape, shake off these pests in early morning, catching them in a pan in,which there hi a thin Alm or kerosene floating on a little water. . • ,---'7'gr"111PP"'"r s The Country Gentleman says two things are necesliary for the growing of good asparagus, namely, plenty of room for the plant to grow and copious manuring. The latter is best applied to thick beds by oov- ering the whole eurfaoe with manure two or three inches thiok late. in the autumn and forking it very early in spring before the new shootstart. Thick beds, how. ever, should not be planted, but the plants allowed three or four feet -each way to each. Three by five is a 00Hlreell and suitable distanoe, andjarge stalks may be obtained in this way., ' ' A.eute senses. There are many good stories about the sharpneee of 00111313 of persons who have been trained in the exercise of them. That of the wipe -taster who declared, on sipping from a glass of wine taken from a butt, just brought in, that the liquor had a taste of iron and, leather, which. was justified when the butt was emptied, by the dieoevery of a small key with a leather tag, is apocryphal. Butit is hardly. morewonderful than what was recently related by' Mr. Charles W. Clarke, of Peoria, trt a scientifio lecture, in relation to the trained senolof sniell dogs and hunters. While we were talking, two young dogs had gone to a small emi- nenoe a few rode from the eld man'seabin, and, with their mem in the air, would at short intervals utter a low, warning ory. " The trapper soon noticed it, and Calling. 'to an old dog in the cabin, he said: "Dave, ,go up yonder and see what those youngsters are making & fuse about." The dog, after reaching the place and standing a moment with outstretched nook and distended nostrils, gave a clear but low warning notioe,-such at I had never heard from a dog before. ' , • -"Is that so, Dave?" said the oidgnaan. He immediately went to the same place, and began to sniff the air,- much after the manner of the dogs. "Sure enough, Dave," he said, "you are right." • "What is it?" I naked. "The prairie 1/1 on fire, he said, " some thirty or forty miles northwest from here. I must set & hack fire on the north side of the creek, or my 'cabin 'and bees -will be ashes before morning, should the wind rise; and, by the way," he said, "you go back by the way you came, and tell the people no set baok-fires akonce, and have them send word'to the settlementbelow." Before starting, I tried my sense of smell; and although I imitated the' attitude of the trapper and the dog, I could deteet nothing but the sweet October air. The warning given by the dogs wasjustified in the event.—Popular Science Monthly. An Eccentric 011arOs Funeral. 'Jsoob Hufford, veteran pioneer 87Yeare of age, and who reeided about eight miles south of Toledo, in Wood county, was buried Tuesday. He died last Saturday evening after an illness of several weeks. During hie illnesele was twice -supposed to be 'dead, and, twice were arrangements made for his burial, when ho recovered. He was a Dunkard in hie religious faith and was highly, honored and respected by all who knew him. About 500 people ,attended the funeral, and pro- bably one-fourth of that number were relatives. For• half a century he has resided on the place where he died, and in some respects his funeral was some- what remarkable. ,Thirty-five years ago Io out down o walnut tree, which be had 'Jawed into lumber, a portion of which was placed in the loft of the 'Iv barn " that that he built at year, for th'r rpm of con. otruoting hiseoffin when e died. Here it remained until the time of his death, and, at his reqtaest, hie son-in-law, John Linamer; conatruoted the burial case in which hie remains were laid. In compliance with hie request; also, his remains weredonveyed to the grave by the 2/-year-ol1 pony that he had been in the habit of driving for so many years, and on eaoh side of the little animal, leading him by thebits'were, two old gentlemen of the Dunkard denonoina- tion, who were aged nearly four wore years.. Six old men acted as pall btrarere.---Cleve- 'lasul•Meraltl. 'The lLUtcst 4, Religion." Mary B. G. Eddy io the ohief apostle and expounder Of " Christian science." The exerciser] begin With singing a hymn. Then follow e a moment of silent prayer, and a remarkable paraphrasiog of the Lord's Prayer. • Atter °soh petition by the audienoe Ma. Eddy interjects one of her own. ' For example, after -the people say, "-Thy will be done," oho adds, "fay the supremacy of spirit appear, and the dream of matter disappear.' "Lead us .not into temptation " is followed by "Deliver us from the errors of personal sense." The sermon last Sunday chanced to be an ex. pOsition of the fourteenth of St. John. The firet two Verges were read, ,and questions asked: "What is meant by the heart physi- cally and nietaphysitially 2" Timid voices replied: "A bodily otgen," ulna Tlie seat Of the affeetione." Potatoes are a drug in the market in Cam- bridge County,New York. selling for 20 oents bushel for starch Mills. • 11111trit ON Witillli.Flf•ANTING. TJuIdy wwri. PireCa•ne 1 Ra***00011Y0 011so ITITOSSIII et an Aglow Dim The Quebeli Government has issued a renal ParaPtack 0„v track oontaining vela - able !suggestion!! 'or Arbor Day work, from whit* we mthe a few extracts for the information of intending tree -planter ; All trees do not suit all. soils; when restricted to a parthoular 'soil we muat plant thou trees which. aulti it, The fol. lowing trees and soils are eultect to each other; Sugar Maple—Gravelly, light, mountain- ous, stony, rich, dry soils. Silver Maple—Alluvium, damp, flat. Birches—Cool, sandy, shallow. Beech—Cool, gravel, mountainone, shal- low. White Ash—Cool, deep, rioh. • Blaok Ash—Low, damp, marshy. Elm—Alluvium, damp, fiat, rich. White Oak—Clay,. deep, dry. Pine—Sandy, light. Fir—Low, damp, manly. Spruce—Cool, gravel, shallow. White Cedar—Low, marshy. Small trees are much easier transplanted than larger ones, as they oaR be taken up without great injury done to the roots. The more roota and earth the better the tree will start in its new location. Great care Mnet be taken to prevent the roots, especially the rots of conifer% from drying before planting; if they come by mail or by express, prepare beforehand a thick mese of cow dung, olay and water, and as soon as the plants arrive dip the goote.in thia, and a layer of mud,itopervions to air, will be deposited on them. It a large number of trees are to be planted on a moderate sized piece of land, it 'should be ploughed and har- rowed carefully, but if Only a few trees are to' be set out, the spot where each is to be set may be treated with spade and hoe. In dry or moderately damp soils a trench 'should be made, just deep enough to receive the plant to the ,same depth at which it ItOod in the foreab, but in low damp sone, no trenohee are required, bat they should be set on the surface of the ground and their roots covered with mould and pieces - of turf taken from the adjacent soil. Two planters are better than one. While one solvate the plants and trims the roots and brancheii, the other makes a little mound at the bottom of the trench with fine mould taken from its side, He who holds the plant spreads, its roots on the mound, and the assistant covers them with earth, carefully filling up the interstices between the rootlets. When "the roots are well covered the, trenoh is filled, and the whole trodden down. If the soil is dry the earth should be watered before the trench ie completely filled, and then carefully trodden after the job is finished. A. stake to tie the plant with asitraw band compNtes the operation. If the season be dry the trees should be mulched—a layer Of straw, sawdust .and tanbark spread around it: -- thus preoerving the moisture. • TYING ILSE KNOT. * Customs ihs Regard to'llIarringe Celebra- .. . Gone in Civilized Countwes—Tb* Ques- tion ot Fees. • • From time .to time oases are brought before the civil courts of this and tither cities in whieh the 'validity of marriage without- ceremony of any. kind, oivil ' or religious,. is involved. 4 suit to prove parentage of a child recently' brought to light this very question, and showed only a 'ample agreement, between the ' alleged husband and wife to live in that relation. In all Christian communities, and in other ,civilized societies ,not Christian, this Con- sent and agreement, lies at the basis of "'regular" and "irregular" Marriages. 16 constituted the basis of Hebrew, Roman and, Greek marriagea 'in pre -Christian times, but the State in Greece and , Rome hada 'particular interest -in marriage be - counted on the male 'testae for its oivio and military officials. Legitimacy was, therefore, important to any num who aspired to be an offiee•holder or to occupy any position of eminence in the anoient republics or empires. ' Among the, ancient Hebrews,: as among the modern French; the consent of parents wo,f1 in most oases necessary, though there are, exceptions noted in the Soripturee where the marriage depended solely on the con- sent of the maiden, notably in -tho case of Rebekah's marriage to Isaac. In'many parts of the world to -day . tionsent'of the lamer. to conjugal' union with or without any ceremony conetitutee marriage.' With the advent of Christianity marriage in its relation to the State was changed, and for many long centuries was assumed ita'the sole prerogative of the Church, which so hampered and hedged the Telaticm with restruitione arid penalties as to compel the - English to resort to.the Gretna Green and "Fleet " weddings. And omme of those old laws remain unrepealed to this day— suoh, for 'example, as require, the °ere- mong to be performed before neon.' Civil marriages are not recognized in England. • ninanittait rzerrunstir yoga:ad-my. . " In conversation with ministers of . differ- ene denominations, it was 'ascertained that there is no fee establithed by law for eleri- • oirservioes at baptismsi funerale or marri- ages, but that custom almost nniversal, and to a certain extent having the force of law, compels the pdyment of a •fee at the nuptial ceremOny. The separation of Church and •State here and the prevalence of the volun- tary principle in ohuroh support :prohibits -the impooition =collection' of anything like a legal charge. In European countries; however- where Church and State are 'united, ihere ie a fee prescribed by law fot all oath services, atid zn most..instanoes Wag' said this is, paid, in advance. This is the cone in Germany and in Scandinavian 'obrintrien, where the Lutheran is the State religion.—N. IT: Telegram. , Record ot n Weliopent Lite. Jan Spier'', Wing neat here, completed his 106th year the first day of last January. Samoyed from Smith Carolina to this State with hie family in 1819. He' married hie first wife at the age of 21 years. She only • lived a few- months, however, and eiz months atterr, her death he married the mond time, living happilywith thin one to a ripe old age, when he died, leaving twelve children. P18010 man was then 94 years old, but poaoessed a remarkable degree of youthful nigot. Ile went courting . again an married hie third wife at the age of 95; and she only 15 years Old:. The following year she died. He makes yearly visits to Dooly county, a distance of 75 Miles, on foot. Ho ploughs any day now iis sprightly •as a boy. He has thirteen usefal teeth, Tho* enable him to 'meatiest° his food an well as anybody. He Sin see to shoot; a rifle aclourately, with which he has done great damage among the deer,having killed as many all thirteen in a single day. What is of interest in thia man hi that he never was intoxicated in hie life, never employed a doctor, and never was sick hut onoe, and that a alight fever. —Macon (Ga.) Telegraph. "Your happiness Hee at your feeti " ex. *claimed a lover, throwing himself before a 'Chicago girl. The girl merely booked down at her pedal extrenlities and remarked that some peoplebad queer ideas about bappi., nen. / r11111111111F- alinALING rooiono Ow T81M*430 Total Filhadueso From Accident Oared irattlilee• Gen. clludruan. Of North Carolina lo I 0 The Moravialle have blab haen acIPhratiug bY Edit= Tt=lr'y, Div °I intPalrerlt Tbe .119lAYIPIC Claim 40 be the olds* as Proteetant see* in Chrietendom. They ars an artkile Health and Home in Whicih relate,' wonderful SLOW Of otiree effect upon hit:1200R at _divers times by the iliMp lige Of MUM. /0102104 Were Man and ranged from gunshot wounds to corn The following is one of the mores r t summer of 1861, hi the city of New Yor as.I was riding in au onanibue, while loo ing out of an open window I twelve& heavy blow on my right eye from the wh of the driver, who had aimed the blOW the head of a horse which seemed about interfere with bit& He mimed the horse head and the full force of the end of the whip fell already on the centre of my open eye. The pain was exoeseive, and the eight of the eye was entirely taken away— absolute blackness seemed before it. Passen. gets in the atage mold to mo; "You bad better get out and reek relief, for you do not know how 'tthat eye looks." I MOH reached my hotel, and, on getting into it, sent one servant for a piece of tobacco and another or two physioians with whom I was acquainted. The tobacoo came first, and, just as I had placed on and secured it with proper bandages, the doctors came in. I told them what had happened and that I had just put on the tobacco. They Said tobacco would be ruinous. As soon RO I got off the bandage and they' Saw the eye their countenances seemed to fall (for I could see them with the left eye of eourse). They said, " It will be very 'difficult to save that eye." replied, that if it could be saved, the tobacco poultice would do it. They reiterated their objections, but I told theno I should try it, said aske them to come baok in the morning. After they left I restored the tobacco and kept it well wet by rutting my face from time Ito ime in a bowl of water, so as to retain the moisture steadily. The night was one of the most painful of my life, but as it pro• grassed, the pain seemed slightly tndimin- ish ; yet even in the morning I still suffered. About 10 o'olook one 'of ..the physicians -called to see me, and I took off the bandage, As soon as I did so, I knewthat the eye was better, for I could see the outlines of the open window before me. The doctor immediately eaid': "1 never wino so astonished in my life, for your eye instead of being swollen and red, as 1 expected to 800 1*, hi shrunk and less than the other eye, s.nd the lids are white. • He insisted that he ought to be allowed to stimulate it by an application; but as I did not desire to have a premature reaction, I refused. •Though, the eye is not very painful,.I.kept 'the to. ba000 on it for the greater part of the day. On the next day, when he saw it, he said: "You will not lose your eye, but it will always be disfigured." On looking at it I saw the pupil seemed to extend moss the iris, and my whole eye looked black. On the fifth day no37. eye land ice natural op- pearance,and its eight was fully restored. I oallad at• the office of oily physicians, and they both said they had never seen suoh a he Able to go batik to the year 1457. ed General Grant has been plaoed on the le retired list with full rank and full Pay. A Too Willing Young Ilan. Do you love me as deatly as men have ever loved women 20' said Mabel, finding an • easy anthorage for her cheek about the latitude of his upper vestpooket and the longitude of his left shoulder. "More," said George, with waning en- thusiasm, for this was about the 214th eneoreto which he had responded ohm 8 o'clock. "Moro, far more dearly. 013., ever so much more." " Would you," she went on, and there was a tremulous impressiveness in her voiee that warned, the young man that .the 'otar was going to leave her lines and Opting sonoething new on the house; "would -you be willing to work and wait for ine, as Rachel waited at the well, seven long years 2" • • "Seven 1" he oried in a burst of genuine devotion. Seven! Aye, gladly Yes, and more 1 Even until ' seventy times seven! Let's 'make It seventy, anyhow, and prove my devotion I" &Imola& or other he was alone when he lett the parlor a few minutes later, and it looks now as though he would have to -wait about seven hundred years before he saves .fuel by toasting his shins at the low-down grate in that parlor again.—Burlington Hatokeye. As it by iftWitlo• "OW This is always the case when ,Polson's Nnaviraing is applied to any kind of pain; it is sure to: disappear as if by magio. Stronger, more penetrating, and quicker in action than any.other remedy in the world. Buy a bottle of Nerviline to -day, and try .its wonderful power of relieving pain of every description. Pain oannet stay where it is used. It ia just the thing to have in a house to meet a sudden attack of illnese. Only 25 cents a bottle. Sample potties only 10 cents at any druggist's. ' • The Duke of Northumberland has six country seats, the Duke of Hamilton, the Duke of Westminster, and the Duke Ration& three each.' • • What is the Esc ot Cryltest Now it is not implied that people literally cry, but they would if they could. For in- stance, you have the most painful corns that mortal ever suffered from. Well, you need not have them, for a bottle of .Putszam's Painless Corti Extractor will remove them in a few days without the least pain. ,This is a muolo more sensible procedure than making a'fusii over them. Therefore use -Putnam's Corn Extractor, and you will litugh and grow fat. - Unpresentable Hostess--" Mayn't I present. you to Mite, Bilden, Mr. Enna - love kullalove; '81 (disconsolate).— " Thank you very much, very much, but it's no IMO. She told me positively she wouldn't have me." ,--The old custom reqUiring saleswomen in dry • and fancy goods stores to stand all day Jong without rest or relief is being ,superseded by more humane rodeo In many, of our leading business houses. „Lydia E. Pinkham's :Vegetable Compound is highly praised by those who have not yet been freed from the old, neoedsity for constant standing; and is A genuine blessing 'in every Rich case, as well as to the tired -out housekeeper who must be on het feet all day. Reason is, so to speak, the police of the kingdom of art, eeeking enly to preserve order. In life Wolf, a cold arithmetician who sada up our follien. ' Sometimes', also 1 Only the acoonntant in bankruptoy of a broken heart. Love is 1.11. fountain• of pleasure, the pasakin which givea everything we do Or enjoy ito relish or agreesibleteee.—iliter • bury. 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