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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1888-4-12, Page 7The Water Mill,. Listen to the water mill Through the livelong day. How the clanking of the wheels We the hours away 1 Languidly the autuuxm wind Stirs the greenwood leaves ; From the fields the reapersesiug, Binding up the sheaves. Anda proverb haunts my mired, Like a spell is east : -- " The mill will never grind With the water that has passed," Take the lesson to thyself, Lexiug hearts, and true I Golden years are floating by, Youth is pasaiug, too ; Learn to make the most of :ife, Lora no Happy day ; Time will never bring.thee bast Chances swept aivtay. Leave no tender word unsaid ; Lave white life shalt last •„-- " " The mill will never grind With the water that bas passed.'" 1 or wu. ile yet the daylight ahiues, Man of strength end will 1 Never does the atrea nIet glide Ueelesa by the chill. Walt not WI to -morrow's sua Beams upon the way ; 4%.11 that time canet call thine own Lea in thy today. Power, intellect, and wealth May not always last ; " The mill will never grind With the water that has peed." Ob, the wasted bourn of life That have drifted by 1 Oh. the geed wo might have done. Leat without a sigh I Love that once we might have eaved By a single word ; Thcughte ceneeived, but never Horned, ,deriehleg tarihearc ; The ;eke the proverb to thy beast, Teke and hold it fast ; " The mill will never grind With the water that hen palled.' C F. ,Atte. MY MODERN GRAN]) DilAKIJI* #.i7 R• A stray black oat, which no persuasion in the way of stinks and atones could induce to retire, furnished many a nightly, alarm, and caused a more thorough nightly search. My plaid slept on the same floor with us, but the other servants, who, after the fash- ian of the country, were both nieon•eyed Chinese,; roomed in a small detached house at the end of a large, neglected 'garden, beautiful with feathery locust•trees, fan palms, greatrose•bushee, one or two orauge- treee, and beds of brilliant flowers, which grew with the wild luxuriance of a egad - tropical climate. The garden was full of fragrant charms— acid full of hiding -places I never dared even look into it after dark. It the evenings—it was now April—Ethel and I usually sat WI the upper veranda, and there spent the hours, drinking in the soft, delicious sir, and feasting our eyes, if it waa moonlight, on the lovely landscape, the val- ley clad in the tender green of early spring. The rounded, waving enthne of the Coast Range was lighted up oft in the western feat hike by the twinkling lights of a great turreted, pinnacled atracture that looked Mee same beautiful castle, transported Irma a foreign land, but was, alas ! only an asy- lum for the insane. One night, about ten o'clock, waren the early moon had already gone to sleep, and a Soft darkness covered 'eattey and hill, we went reluctantly to our rooms to prepare for the night's rest. Itwaa ao pleasant that It gave a guilty reuse of wasting time to speed it in sleep, I had just put en my soft flannel drreaaing= sack, and itepluned my l'atrnit la my Dan heir. toe—seed " for Ellett, my maid, to brush it nut:, when Ethel, with a light rap, opened the door, end atood there for a mo- enet, framed in the dark woodwork, with the dusky ball for a beekground, loolthig ratty as a yitoture." *Awl put on at tong white cashmere wrapper, lee down her bright auburn hair, which fallinourlli nasals to her waist, and floated woad her bead liko an aureole, A WAX taper, held high up he the air, threw a ]aright Hobe On tlz bloomioa' face, the annoy ne.e, a little turned up, and the rosy mouth; the ggraoofulfol la of the cashmere concealed the tact that ago baa "uo figure to speak of," and altogether MMP looked so cunning that my Heart warmed toward tier, trying es are come of Iter ways. " Coma, grandma 1" Raid she, gaily. "We haven't; looked for the 'azan-in•the•utoou' yen" his Is a sportise name ahe used to denote her cheerful aceptleiaua en the aubjeot of ray fears. S? a isn't afraid of anything. It doe"t took well for a girt to be ao courageous,Iu toy time girls were afraid of everything, even a mouse; nowadays they dissect mica. I ceugbz op the poker, and Ethel seized a lawn -teeing racquet that had been laid gable for repairs; fallen, my maid, brouht up the rear of the column, armed with a large, ivory.baeked bairbrush, and alto• gether we had quite the stir at that amtuing ',eluting of Toby Iioaentbat's, "Tho Semis- ary Alarmed." "Ill tell you what I 'ball do, grandma, if the 'rean.in•tgo•moem' ever does coma doyen," mid Ethel, "Just feel of my tr . cepa" (or biceps), and, doubllug up her arm, age put my hard on it to feel a pleeo as bard es a doorknob. She got that going to the gymnasium, climbing upstairs on her hauls, inetitead of her feet, throwing dumb•bel.le, just like le boy. I don't approve of nth' things. In my day gide deuced the minuet, "1 ehauld just strike out from the aboul- der, so 1" And, suiting the motion to tho words, she "" struck out.' Away watt the racquet right through tho mirror, shivering it into A thousand!frag- ments. We all stood aghast, but Ethelre- covered herself at once, "I toll you, grandma, If I should do that, it would be the lent of him, wouldn't Itt Come, let's go on, and then 1'll help Ellen gather up the fragments." Here Ethel dropped on her knees, and ex- plored with the offending racquet every nook and corner of tho dim receaa under the bed. " Mr. Nobody hero, now," said she, got- tingup with flushed faco and tumbled hair ; " don't say after this, grandma, that I'm not attentive." Wo then gave the closet a thorough inves- tigation, thumped on the walls with the poker, shook out the waterproofs, that aro cortuin to look as if the sleeves were stuffed fall of arms, looked in old shoe -boxes, and finally, standing up in a chair, I rummaged along a shelf running the length of the closet, where I was always afraid that some tramp would lay himself away through the day. Satisfied, at last, we took up the line of march, in and eut of the winding halls, up and down through vacant rooms, shaking old clothes, tkumping dead walls, poking into broken boxes, and opening invaded trunks, until we reached the last room. a little bedroom, with a shelving roof, at the end of which was a low door, leading into a small closet, half-filled with a box of worm- eaten books. " Thus ended the farce," said Ethel, throwing wide the little door, and— There he was 1 Low-browed, villainous, a shook of coarse black hair bristling on his bead, a fierce black eye glaring out of his head, a bunch of false keys in one hand, and a pistol in the other. Ethel entirely forgot about "striking out from the shoulder." As for me, the poker fell from my limp and trembling hand, and I said—of all the absurd things that a woman could say on such an occasion—I said, as if he were a long -expected friend, "H -o -w. how—do you do ?„ At this strange salatation, a grim smile lurked round the corners of the man's mouth. "Rather warm in bore, thank you," he replied, with a mocking air of politeness. " With your permission I'll step out." There was an ominous click of the pistol, and—the man stopped out. " The Howly Virgin save us 1" cried Ellen,—she wears a French cap, but speaks with a Dublin accentr,—and she forthwith fell upon her knees, and began to " tell her beads." The burglar wiped the drops of sweat from his ugly brow, and looked, greedily at the diamond scarf -pin which fastened my lace kerchief. " Don't be afraid, old lady," said he, familiarly ; "I sha'n't hurt you, but I'll trouble you for that pin." If it had been to save my life, I could not have moved my trembling hands ; but Ethel stepped forward to unclasp it, and, if you'll believe me that child was as cool as a December morning. I am azm old lady,—no matter hew old, -- but not infirm ; and .1 nisi also old-fashioned enough to prefer the eke .stannic to the new. I never lean agaiiet the back of my direr, nor appear et the breekfaendebte in my wrapper. and no one, except my maid, ever sees my curl -papers, I was "" brought lip" not to take my cane in public. But my granddaughter Ethel Is very Mei'- forent, She says, " Oh, letlsbecour,.'ortaf7e, grandma 1" She bas" given up';•• -actually given ep-,wearing careen. "They're uet.hyglenic, grandam." " Ity bienio "" to a women of my age, who never ad a hoadache 1 "" What kind of a figure do you expect to have I talked, severely. " Grandma," she answered, shaking liar pretty head,—it w pretty,--" my waist measure* jilt three Imobea lets than the Venus de Media's,,, " Them all I Can, say ix, that Misa do Medici would Iwo been couaidered t► very * dumpy' young woman in my day," I an - memo. Ethel laughed.. Times aro sadly ohanged. The macro younrr girl laughs At her grand- mother, and does teeny other curious thinge, Silo ]earna ourtoua things ab wheel, too, One day she rushed home from school, her curia all fiying. in the breeze, "Grandma," she orieci, ,.I've .tcarned something wonderful to day 1 If you should out your brachial artery "— " fiat I don t 'intend to out my 'brachial artery at my time of life," meld I,. with come dignity. "But if you should, grandma, I could atop the flow of blood instantly, and sates your life. See here .I" and beton I knew what the child was doing, aha had my arm. all tied up in a knotted handkerchief, with a broomstick twisted through ono end so tight that I thought she would amputate it on the spot. That is a very strange sort of knowledge to give a young girl. It don't seem ladylike. Then, too, she has.snob perfect self-re- liance 1 Why, my granddaughter, Ethel Starr Raymond, sits down sometimes and looks into my eyea with ouch a level gaze, and talks to mo with such entire reliance on the accura;y of her own views, that I might bo the school -girl and ahe the old lady, for all the deference she pays to my views. Moreover, something that happened recently gives tho child a great advantage over me; and as sure as I say, ""Ethel, do be a little more feminine 1" she has a roguish gleam in her brown eyea, and is eure to nay : "But, grandma, if 1 must ba ao soft and feminine, what will you do if the "man -in - the -moon' comes down again?" I suppose I must tell the whole story. I have been a great traveller in my day— north, south, east and west. I havn't been to Africa yet, but there's no telling but that I yet may round the Cape of Good Hope. Last autumn, when Ethel book a bad cold, which gradually developed into bronchitis, I thought nothing of packing up and start- ing ofl for California with her. We stopped at a beautiful little town, situated in a val. ley not far from San Francisco Bay, with the 'oft hills of the Coast Range all around us, and, taking a furnished house, settieal down comfortably for the winter. Now I have spent a great deal of time in my life looking for somebody. Itis a Man. No matter how inconvenient it might be, neither heat nor cold, late hours nor early, company nor lack of company, could ever induce me to neglect the time-honored cus- tom of looking for "that man" who hides ander beds', shuts himself up in closets, folds himself up behind doors, or doubles up in dark corners for the sole purpose of robbing and scaring peaceful and unprotected women. If all the precious hours that good women are forced to spend in this pursuit could be added up, turned into dollars, and put out at interest, I am sure they would pay the national debt, with something left over to put into the bank. Well, the house we took for our California winter was an old-fashioned, rambling house that had been "brought around the Horn in '49" in piecee, and was full of hiding -places.' All around the front and sides were wide verandas, shaded by great acacia and ever- green trees ; then the original house had various additions, wings and Le up one step, or down'two,. or :attached by long, narrow halls, full of dim outline,, that a lively fancy could easily turn into the shadow of a man. • " First water," said the burglar, greep-1 $O111TH> IIN a IFO$11i • ing the pin, looking at it, and then atufiing it into bispocket. IgA climate slid RrSotirceb—!<he Ciao; of n New, old lady, your watch." Time cut xne to the heart, for Ethel'a grandfather had i People wlto should l migrate There* given me that watch for a weedding.present. B. 5. ACicEItmAN. It was set with pearls all around the face, and on the back, enamelled in blue, was a, forget -me not, in small diamonds. I valued As doubtless many of your readers would it next to my is eddfng•ring, bat iuercy 1 in like to have same authentic iuformttion re- n twinkling thatwent ton. ' gardicg Snimhern C.ififoreia—other than lie "Ranter thin," said be, blit still do to climate —1 have taken the trouble during nue?l tip."' near me ! 1 would atmos., as soon the past week or two of gathering together have nmy withered old heart melted up. such facts and figures as in ring judgment "Now," Baia he, turning to Ethel, "We'll mi;;bt proveintereetiog to them, take rho bureau drawers. ! l llen waa ort the Poor where aha vaie resources, geographical and railroad Y x taasatrtP;sa of guy country form the true had gone #roan devotion to insensibility, xo basis o£ u growth and coxatinued prosperity, Ethet lighted the wary back to my room ; end it is therefore neeeeeery that inteadlug and, if aver a woman suffered, 1 kuffered, emigrants to l;aliforaie should first become while this thief s eoaree hands teased nbont atlueesl seed with rho facts before arriving at the cherished keepaahes of my life. " unjust and absurd eoi Zusios s regarding its "Spoiling the Egyptians, said he, with posaibilitiea,and the Advantages haus for clumsy wit. "And now, old lady, I'll take settlers, that bag of twenties you got at the bank this L m Angeles county may be taken as a unorniug," fair sample of the counties forming Souther 1 Too tine ! I had that very numb gdrawn California in regard to eoi! products and a quarters income -all in double: eagles. i,general reeource9, and the facts Iive in re - How had the wretch found it cut 2 For a latiou thereto may be taken as a fair basis moment 1 hesitated, but that oaainons click i for rho whole. Tine axil is principally candy and quick ly the canvas bag came from its loam of great depth and va far as .1 can hiding place, the middle of a. Lang bolster, learn of Muni always slept on.. The bleeder coinz t• m; NSivmct"eseeD eines nate ed: it Itisnrety- - e as rn no buzry. « ".• g 3a an evidence of this, three crops "Axid now, itt a rues', sad Ime, 111 have been taken off one parcel in ono troubleyon to show me the family silver. year, To illustrate goo3 crop a bar - Without a moment's hesitation, Ethel led ley eaR be Iaarve$ted in ,l'4Le, &eccee3ed the wretch. dawn the winduig arairenar, by a crop einem and than a erop of Irate• through the *wore hall, with its: dark red latae,eli from the Sanaa field and itt alis tyalla, mato the parlor, a diem, old fa.sbiou.ed 1 acredibly Wormed that itis a root, with a great, open lirep".ttce, in which ni manatee occurrence ter ranchersto raise two a wood•flre still euwiildered en the brace crops et ffield } "tarns m one season, realizio andirons. tgert frame $lila co rlaI1 per eery Avork,"r Q4eaeehtilde of thefireplacewee .an arched crop of pereunlal and prcdfgfoue grawth is niche; ane filled with the books of a lethall alfalfa, which Killgrow ip Stu lest every copy t Daae oI Rt ha 1 erinhhada n esquiaito kind of soil in Seuzbeent Califorula, and pro- 11°ill you believe mo 1 ,ds fila eyes caught duces firoan slut to eight crops per 5erar, mg• f tg Virgin, this robber-�ltiz* Fleets legating ulna to t,selve tone per sere, tact• tail of stolen gnnthl -made a, sign of t xe ;t letci the smile from g eeb ersere ernes, and muttered an lire .�i�feri::n. R, y The parlor led into a long, oak -panelled horses, is idea hogs or peal-ry. Corn le of pro. dining•roore, divided through the middle by duet iii tbiaepart of thetSttate aattle nd par leu - e. criraaeu portiere. Twolargecloseta open• laxly in Ibis county. The crop of 2S13: ag. ed from for tl;ouo, he the Oren r the it ally., i hew -limo. d the gregated 2,500,Oi0 bushels, and it ie coati• my surprise,. it wee the door of title irecond tautly expected (ewiis to the very generous rams•#all this Reaason) that the eropof .1585 claret. that Ethel opened and pointed to a .will be about double these 44titea, The rem@ e . a part best corn lands .iu the Weetezn Shares, fre. faumf to 1 ver` et been red Cheer t h"" quentl7 reechlog 122 , bushels to the sore naed to y int'' year atter year in the Sant. Ave and other eighto .e. po h f . . r f: '100 It is an invaluable feed—green. or r •�#or black box, obeyed back on the top then, I utbex d thee that a,mall art of the revenge per acro is paid to ]aa mom then than the betee sent, bye the family who owned the vaiie s. house, to tato Sate l�paeit. Wh Ia rho corner aoa;t the cdoor iraa a step-' ext• barley and other cereal eared/4o lender used rgl ttonsa•cleaniu},« }iurpcsea. tailtspa%u the Staten emit of tto the he Recldetoi. Ju Just as the burglar seized tout, . tie tom o, this county is 1857 the yield of wheat wee, noir lik8 tiro tramping of armed then and ental, lines, stretchiwg Eton; ocean to ocean,, Rid no leas then nix other linea centre /ogee' with several ethero now building or en.. prospective throughout the country. The business done at the harbor (,Sen Pedro.) exs aeeds in volume and aggregate more than may other pore can the const save Ssn Frauk, cIteo, and will uninubtedly Fe further eree.eed. as he distance from See Pedro and Lae. Angeles acrAas the continent is the shortest and has the eaeiesb grades of any of the trans -continental "loon. And now for a few figures:—The a sewed valuation of Ina Ai,gelescouotyin 113+:0 Was.. $15,003,7',.3 ; in 1885, fr35,4$1 f 27; in 1537, s91,41fr,4llea The area et Southern ferrite ie S',.S00 rquere wilco ; of L"J3 i'OELrS cootie; 4,7;0 square miles. The number of acres' of tillab-e 1 and in the county is 1,300,04 t, The popitlatiori of Southern ^Caliloraie int 1SSG was 170,110a. The population of Ilam Angeles county in 15d0 waa 33,000.; in 1857 100,000, Tile papulation of .Loa Angeleaa City in 1850 wire 11,000; in 1857, 70,000. Peal estate sales for i1,S3 were 497943,03.2e for ISSO, a23.204,7.i9, and for ,18-$7;over u0,000,00(1 There are over three hondred, miles of rR ilway hi the county of bus Ange: les, end fifty miles of street railway. The county has two good berbors on the Pacifica Octal. `TAA city hire ten batiks with rip - ward. of Si0,000,1A00 eateze; leer heck:nig endovaed. universities; eighty buainesa in- corporations, with an aggregate etpital el rcpsvards of S2;,ti0'..0G0; has a Splendid e1evtrhi tight aut1 water eysiem, end a Fla• M t surpaeeed probably is the world. 1 have been asked if I would adritm per, solea in the en t to emigrate to California„ end I answered, "" 1'e r," to certain elan, classes under certain conditiena. A Carie dine farmer to chane here with einfieieaat capital to purchaae land, and who exerriieett judgment and thrift, will aecatnulatoweeltb, to one•half the time he cau eta Canada, with• ant any of the anuoyaucea and expense of ir! Canadian winter. Stork num oat the year round. But to the meehanie who le WELL. SITrArSP IN CANADA I would nay "stay there." There are plenty of opemmiiga here for men of path and enter. prise, it m true, but for every openiug there are about a dozen men ready to snap it up. A matt of meam will here find plenty of scopic for the lavestumeut of his capital, ,and ifbe ievesta rG{fir she le almest certain of deubiirug heir vile ie a xeutsrkabty shorb ewe of time. Bet "" beware of the slaaritti,°" aw a certelet noted person twee Rafal to "" lra. vire of de vidders." tate msci rotting et a agmen Laps, made him 4"000,n00 bushels, and of barley 2,1.00,000 drop the ladder and cock Iiia pistol quickly, busy el ,zdgreeter elii s lean th oyield hese},irabe. ZVo thought of ret a .bur the trona came fall. I have never moon plumper or better from a colony of rats in postmaster; of the looking grata in Canada than that shown neSeizI rlug;Atte, hero et t.ho above, kiids. Seizing the ladder again, the burglar set g e oats, hops, lax, Kamp, beano, castor - the a slant the shelves in the further corner beaue , olu all ether farm products will of Arlin climbed heavily to the to of t P it. and laid hie hand en the hex, when,omppare quite favorably as to quality and yield unoro to the sora koro than to any of preen, I champs 1 quick m ]igbtntnq, Ethel the cou ntiea erne of the Panicles, and rho li prices obtained koro aro Mao in advance of then) aeeured cast. And now an regards vegetablca ; and when I refer to tbie clam leant keep well within the mark, for fear some of your readers might uncharitably suggest that I waa "STRRScitrzw" XATTxn9, shut the door with a e , turned the key, Rhoved the bolt, and there he wee, a prisoner. "" Die got him, grandma 1 I've gotbim I" she cried. "I meant to got blue all the time 1" The man struggled like a caged Bon. Kicks and blows rained on the door, curses loud and deep filled the little room ; frantio poundings with hie Inige 1'I.sts were thrown away on oaken planks felled in the old Bay State, and thoroughly aeaaoued by coming "around the Horn in '40." Brit what should we do, now 1 Ellen, who, at the oulmination of Ethel's daring, had sat down on the floor, and bumped her bead, not very gently, :against the wall, now atruggled to ]ter feet, and we held a council of war. It was half past cloven. Tho night was blaek, the streets dark; the supervisors had just decided, in a fit of economy, not to light the street -lamps for the next six mouths, and our boos° was the only ono in the fiftyvaralot forming the square. The garden waa full of hiding -places, wbore somo confederate might even then be lurking ready to pounce upon us, if we ven- tured out. On the whole, it seemed beat to hold our prisoner until morniug, when we could arouee the Chinese servants sail send for help. So we brought out the lamps and victualled the garrison. Ellen made some strong coffee over a spirit -lamp, .nd tresat there all night and waited, paying little attention to the fierce threats and thundering blows against the walla that emphasized the rage of our captive. • With the first morning light, we aroused Ah Lung, the cook, and having satisfied his moon -eyed wonder, sent out for the officers of law, who soon bad our prisoner handcuffed and caged in the county jail. You see how I find it uphill work to dis- cipline my granddaughter Ethel. I have told you what she answers me when I try to reprove her. But there's one comfort at least. " That man "-I bave been laughed at a great deal all my life for looking for him -was " caught at last." Bet I disclaim, ,in advance, guy such erten. tion. Vegotablee of every descriptiongrow to prodigious size here, and the yield per acre la far in exeett of test attained East, This la especially true of beets, pumpkins, squaaboe, water and other molest,. 1 have seen some " whoppers." to a shop window, on Spring Street, last week, 1 caw a beet', jnat taken from the ground that weighed zortyeigbt and a half }rounds. And I want; you to diatinotly understand it wasn't a two•footed "beat" either. It meaaared', something over four feet in length and had remelted its growth in less than two months. Small fruitaand vegetables grow all the year round, if the ground is carefully cultivated end watered. Tomatoes, atrawbcrriea, asparagua and such frequently net the pro- ducer from 14300 to $00 per acro per annum. I am credibly informed that shel- tered spots in the canyons and along the foothills produce small early fruits and vegetables aggregating 51,000 per acre per annum. Tho walnuts grown here equal the best in the world and are a very profit- able crop, netting the producer from 5200 to 5300 per acre when the trees are in full bearing. While the trees are growing the farmer can DERIVE A 000D INCOME from pumpkins, squashes, ate., raieed in the same orchard and directly under the tress. In addition to the above products might be mentioned oranges, lemons, limes, pears, peaches, plums, figs, apricots, nectarines, grapes and a host of other fruits, the profits from which are large, and the time they nature so diversified that some crop ripens every month in the year, rendering the work of harvesting very economical. The manufacture of wine is also a great industry in this country and a very profit- able one, too. The wine made here is grow.. KATE VIRGINIA DARLING, in Youth's COM' ing very popular all over the world, and panion. therefore the outlook for this industry is very bright. Phonographic Spelling. The raisin industry is one that is begin- ning to assume mammoth proportions, the product • of 1887 being 250,000 boxes, as compared. with 2,000 in 1S80. Tnis section of the country has an un- limited deposit of petroleum. The product last year aggregated upwards of 52,000,000, and yet this industry may be said to be only in its infancy. Crude petroleum is now used by all the principal manufacturers of Los Angeles and will undoubtedly become the universal fuel for manufacturing on this coast, owing to its cheapness as compared with coal. It also offers great inducements to the manufacturer to locate here and the diversi- fied character of the mineral resources of the ment country are suole as must eventually prove Liv for live, Vinyard for vineyard, Singl for a great boon to both city and country. single, Bronz_- bronze, Father — feather,,; SILVER, GOLD, COrrER,, IRON, Lether-loather, Jepardy — jeopardy, Le -1 pard• -leopard, g Abuv-above; Tun —tongne„ lead, tin, borax, antimony, goal, lime, salt, Sum—some, Ruf—rough, Garantee—guar- granite and other building materials abound antee,Cach-catch,Wioh—with,Ake—ache, in the hills and valleys of this fertile land, fluty -beauty, Rim—rhyme, Site—scythe, affording unlimited scope for manufacturing Bom—bomb,` Det— debt, Crum --crumb, industries.. . Duni—dumb Lam—lamb, Lim -limb, Thum• The geographical situation of this city is -thumb, and so on Thr—through the list . superb, as demonstrated by the network of in Webster's I7uabridged. railways it possesses, being in that respect Would such changes help in the alightest better supplied than any other place on the degree? Quite the reverse. Pacific coast. It has two great transcontin- The craze about phonographic spelling is pretty well played out. All aeheible men acknowledge that English spelling is a troublesome and most illogical affair. At the same time they feel that any change must come on gradually and all but insensibly, just as has been the case in days gone past. The phonetic men are not agreed among themselves and were any phonetic system adopted it would just add indefin- itely to the perplexity and confusion. Here is a specimen of the latest proposals as brought forward by Senator Voorhees from Washington Territory in a bill which he wants to put through Congress for adoption in all the schools under the Federal Govern- ,U'Flyun's Poultry Esperleuec. Q""i'i;kct" na PraIr» a Veneer) chert time ago I overtook Q'Plynn on Ms way to tont with a coop of pantry- " liow•do, FDyin";'' said I.---" Arrab, an' eat that you, Ereynma1' maid be.—" Where are you takiii your Bxntios 1" I asked.--"" Ilan. ties I" he shouted. "An' is it Unties, ye may? ]Begone. thin, do ye cell that a banty t"and leo shook a nine pound cockerel et iso.—. " I beard thee you put a mow style ventilator in your pauttry bons°, whet is in and how dons .ltwork ?"—" Well," said he "Ie did, en" I rimy so well telt ye all about it, 1 deg a channel two feet deep from the middle o' ma hie house to tblrty fret beyant. Trion I put In 3•buch tile in the boucle am le, az made a little chimbley at eythor lad oaten the same stall: 1 gat the ideooutav4 paper, an it said the ;dr would flow in at the out ysat ate' get•warrnmed Inactin' through the pulp, au' thio the fowls wouldn't get their combs an' things froze, an' they'd layin' egg, ivory day. I thought.it was a: mighty toato lob, au' the lint oowld spell that canoe al nig I shut up are house, natih. up we ould vintilators an' pult fire plug out. o' the pompe, an' west to bed. An'begot), begot),the firat thing that Rowed throne% that poipo was A big mink, au' he kilt thirteen o' me feinest fowls. Tho next morning I tools the ax an' 1 smashed thim chimbleye into smithereens, dumped a wheelbarrer o' dirt into the howls, opened me ouid vintilatore at aytheir had o' the house, an' moinded me own business iver since. But, didn't the owld woman give inc a great rakin 1" '1 wo yearn ago Pat raised 230 mixed and mongrel chickens, and when he sold them in November they averaged four pounds all round. He received only five cents par pound for them, because, as the buyer told biro, they were au,rh a " scrubby " lot. " Faith," said he, " they cleated rue the maneet kind! They give another feller six, cents right before me ryes, 'cause, they said his chickens were better'° moine. I tow]d. him a chicken waa a chicken the worruld over, an' mine, were as goad as anybody's, but they towld me I could take foive cents or mothin'I" I whispered a hint into Pat'a ear, and after due deliberation be acted upon it. He immediate'y soli off alt fowls except twenty-five of the largest and nicest hens. Then, to the intense disgust of the " owld woman," he drove to a poultry fancier's es• tabhxhment 12 miles distant and pain 57 for two Brahma cocks. As a result of this reek, less epecnlation he sold, last Fall, 178 chick- ens for 61i Dents per pound, which was half a cent a pound above the regular market price. His birds averaged six pounds all round, and were such a nice lot that the buyer actually drove out to Pate house to secure then. His 57 conks brought him a clear profit of $i3 31. " Scrubby" fowls, such as he previously raised, brought only 5 cents per pound ; those he raised last year averaged two pounds more, and sold 1� cents per pound higher. " Begorra," said Pat, " blood tells ivery toime, as sure as you're borrun I" Pie Was Not Mad. Mr. David Gunn n rites to the .Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle : " In this morning's issue of your papermy attention was called to a piece in reference to David Gunn being struck by the fast train. As 1 am the party, and was wholly to blame, I write this in justice of said train. In attempting to cross the track in advance of the fast train, I was struck by the ' ooweatoher' or fender and thrown, about ten feet, but am happy to state very slightly hurt, having been struck near the heel and thrown forward. I, furthermore, was perfectly sober, and when the train backed to see if I was hur�t' was not at all mad when I answered nd, as I have an ab- rupt way of speaking. No, air, Mr. Editor, I followed the gallant Lee in too many hard-' foug.st and hotly contested battles with the boys in gray, and came out all 0. K., to Iet as small a thing as a locomotive simply knocking me from the track raise my ire." A priest in; Pennsylvania has declared war on bustles, but a bustle is its own fort rase.