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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1888-5-31, Page 5HEA.111113. Sone Simple Remedies, At thiS Season of the year boils frequent- ly breek out upon the face and body. The Ileum thus affected should eschew rich pastry, gravies and every kind of meat QX, cepting lean mutton. The boils may be brought to a head by using a warm poultice of camorn•le flowers or boiled white lily eroot, by fermentation with hot water or by nitimulating platers. A severe cold and perhaps an attack4Q pneumonia iney be prevented if premonitory symptoms are heeded. A °hilly sensation along the spinal °elution, a cold, clammy feeling %cross the chest are sure indications that a severe cold is trying to settle in the system. Pour boiling water upon equal parts of eetnip, spearmint and sassafras, steep but &mot boil rhe tea. Put the feet in a tub Ailed with hot water to which a teaspoonful of mustard hoe been added, and while soak- ing the feet drink freely of the tea. Another excellent remedy for a oold is the "vapor bath." Take a pail about half full of lot, but not quite boiling water, which ahould be placed under a cane bottom chair. Seat the patient in the chair and encirole bath, chair and patient with a heavy blanket reaching to the floor. When prouse per- spiration starts from every pore, remove . from the chair into a laid that has been thoroughly aired and warmed. Additional -.covering must of course be placed open the •body to prevent a chill. Simple remedies are within the reach of ,every one, and If resorted to in illne Mine niany a dollar in doctor's bills. The money thus saved will prove a blessing to =an negenie Who, in order to rattle the .1'a -footer's clain are obliged to dety them- eelves that which is necessary to their cone, • fort. . Cold in the, head is not only annoying, but likely to develop into catarrh. One teaspoonful of mustard dissolved in a eninblerful of cold water and used as a gargle three times a day, will often effeot a speedy cure. In more obstinate cases equal parts of loaf sugar and pulverized alum used as a snuff will give instant relief. , Fever and restlessness in children is fre- quently caused by indigestion. If you find the skin of the little one hot and dry, re- member, if you can, what she ate for sup- per. Give the child a warm bath, then give it a cup half full of warm water to drank. In a few 'minutes the undigested food will be thrown off the sterna& and the child will soon be sleeping soundly. A dose of mag- nesia, about half a teaspoonful, given in the morning before breakfast will probably re - tore to the child its usual health, but should fever and nausea continue during the day following the attack, send for a playsician, who will undoubtedly approve of what you have done and should the symptoms develop into scarlet fever, measles, chicken pox or ,any of the diseases to which children axe liable, the attaok will probably be of a mild nature. Nearly one-half the population are more or less afflicted with neuralgic pains. In- stead of sending for the doctor, who will probably prescribe a plaster and a dose of medicine, we advise the sufferer to heat a ilat-iron, put a double fold of flannel on the painful part, then move the iron to and fro on the flannel. The pain will cease almost immediately. We have seen the most pain - Jell came of neuralgia • relieved in less than • ten minutes. • Sprains are among the most mire acci- dents to which we are liable. Whim a joint ire sprained swelling comes on gradually. In dislocation the swelling and loss of motion • of the toint happens immediately after the Accident. A sprained limb should be kept perfectly quiet. To prevent inflammation, zee poultices of worm -wood, hope or tansy. Every effort on the part of the patient to repeat in detail the cause of the accident, themmeatione, experience, etc., should be discouraged. Cheerful conversation upon other subjecta and perfect • rest, •will bring about speedy recovery and strengthen all manceirned in the belief, that it is not always necessary to send for the doctor. Remedy Tor Croup. "Croup caused the death of siac of my children, can you wonder that I feel alarm. ed when my, only remaining child exhibits • the •elightest symptoms of a cold 1" asked a mother sorrowfully. Sometimes the doctor could not come at once, I was afraid • to apply remedies without being advised • • While the mother was speaking, her only ' a pretty little girl eenen year's old came manning towards urieuith hands up- lifted gasping for breath. • "What shall I do ? The doctor is out of town—will not be back until this evening 1" cried the mother frantically, . Remembering a child of our own. who vras attacked in a similar manner, we prooured pail, filled it with hot water and quickly removing the little one's shoes and stockings placed her feet in the pail. We lost no time in roasting three onions, then mashing them, spread them upon a folded napkin, pouring over the whole a tablespoonful of goose - grease ; [lard or sweet oil will do as well.] The poultice was applied as hot as it could be borne to the throat and upper part of the neck. In ten minutee the quick, short gasps: ceased and at the end of half an hour the ,ehild, warmly wrapped in a soft blanket, was sleeping soundly. The akin was moist and the breathing natural, all symptoms of the dreaded scourge had disappeared as if by magic. For thildren who are subject to croup, make a little bib out of chamois skin, out the neck and sew on tapes to tie it on then melt together some tallow and pine tale rub some of this: in the chamois and let the child wear it all the time. Renew with the tar occasionally. • How to Act in Emergencies, If an individual is endowed with common sense mad oart exercise self-oontrol when necessary, a slight knowledge of physiology will enable him to act in emergency. A boy is brought home with a severe cut en his arm. The blood spurte out Of the Wound showing plainly that an artery has been severed. It is fortunate if a rnemner of the family can come forwerd and bind two pieces of cloth tightly areitud the limb directly above and below the wound, the blood will cease to flow and even if there should be unavoidable delay in the arrival of the doctor he will be able to save a life that would cettaitly have been sacrificed if the prompt treatment mentioned had not been resorted to. .A whole family were thrown into a state +of excitement by the youngest child rusting into tho Mamie, and declaring that a big • blear Malte had "bited" him. The Mother • eWoorted, the father paeed the floot frantic- • ally, while the rest of the family elate:nal the child and cried over him until, betWeen the wetted and the excetemeht, the little fellow Mune neer being thrown nate eonvul- Wile. A amsible neighbor, bathing the ea- ' )lit0 the robitti and Okla k encouragemertt, then turnieg toward a mem- ber of the Manny the stilted fen carbonate of wide. Moistening a email portion of tbe soda with water, she applied it to the wound; when the soda became nu she moistened it again and at the expiation of au hour was overjoyed to see upon the white surface of the application unmistakable evinence of snake virus. Rusty nails make ugly wounds, which if net attended to at once may came great suffering—perhaps death.' Smoke the wound • vvith wool or weollen cloth, fifteen minutes in the smoke will remove the worst elass of inflammation. The terrible pain caused by being severely burned may be almost instantly relieved by applyintt a mixture of strong, fresh, clean lime water, mixed with as much linseed oil as it will cut Before applying, wrap the burn in cotton wadding saturated with the lotion, Wet as often as it appears dry, with- out removing ootton from burn for nine days, when a new skin will probably have formed. Bleeding at the nose frequently causes extreme prostration. If the nose bleeds from the right nostril, pass the finger along the edge of the right Jaw until the beating of the arterwis felt. Press hard upon it for five minutes and the bleeding will stop. A child who has a morbid propensity to force buttons beans, etc., into his nostrils keepe his whole family in a state bordering on terror, for they never knew at what pre- otse moment: they may be called upon to perform an operation open Master Harry's natuti appendage. Pressure agaiaat the empty nostril and quick, strong breathing into the open mouth will dislodge the for- eign substance and send the suffering young - liter upon his way rejoicing. Sending for the Doctor. "I have established a rule never to go to see a patient at night unless I feel fully satisfied that the case requires immediate attention," said a well-kno wn physician. Many. doctors would gladly adopt the above deoisron, but they hesitate for various reason. Some are just starting out in life, others find the build- ing up of a lucrative practice such slow work, that an assumption of 'independence on their part, is not to be thought of. It is only by hard work and many sacrifices that a physi- cian can ever hope to have his claim to inde- pendence recognized. Many people are constantly inviting dis- ease—for instance a supper of fried oysters, hot biscuit, rich Cake and strong tea or cof- fee will, in nine oases out of ten, ruin the strongest digestion, and the individual who is in the habit ofgorging him iself with high- ly seasoned food, late n the day, will proba- bly spend a great portion of his life regret- ting that he did not heed the warning when his over -taxed stomach cried "'Hold! enough 1" Fancy a tired, worn out physician plod- ding through a blinding siaow storm, or drizzling ram at midnight to attend an indi- vidual who, doubled up with cramp and parched with fever, imagines that he will surely die 1 • , The doctor places his hand upon the patient's wrist, examines his tongue, then, with an expression of disgust upon his coun- tenance,whioh he cannot conceal, prescribes a dose ooil, orders a warm bath, and rest. "1 would advise you to eat very little rich, heavy food. If you keep on abusing your stomach in this way,. I will not answer for the consequences," says the doctor in a tone of annoyance. • The panient,with lamb -like docility, prom- ises immediate reform, and while hie body is racked with pain and his throat parched with fever, he vows to live on oat meal, dry Oast and " cambric " tea henceforth and for ever. Recovery from the " spell " usually renders the' individual entirely oblivious to the good resolution and ere long he is again called upon to pay the penalty of indiscre- tion. As the doctor tramps or drives homeward through the storm we cannot blame him for lapsing into a state. of mind similar to that of the'druggist, who was aroused at twelve o'clock on a cold winter morning by a man who wanted to buy a—postage stamp Rough on Gophers. A writer in the North Dakota Fax9nEr says "Three years ago this spring I wished to plant a few acres of corn, but dreaded the ravages of gophers and gray ground equirrels. I procured fifteen cents' worth of Rough on Rats, and according to di- eetions dropped a half dozen geeing of corn in each hole; on my way home I saw some of them eating their last meal, and no gophers were :men for two years. Last year I planted ten acres of corn, over a half mile from the field mentionen above, and used the remade as before, and did not discover the loss of a hill of corn by gophers. I can clear a whole seotion of land of rohers in one day with from thirty to V cents worth of 'Rugh on Rate' and from a peck to a half bushel of corn" Here is the planfolloitedtby a farmer out west on the C. 2 R : He inaceda large pack. ing ben upside down, a hole being out out on each side the size suitable for a gopher to paw through, but not a cat or fowl. Inside this he placed a small shallow box, which was fastened to the large box on a level with the ground, and in this he placed cornmeal mixed with strychnine. The gophers came from all sides and were settled in grand shape. One of these boxes on cull side of a field would be sufacent. • The municipality of Medora has bought aid of strychnine and proposes to use it in this way: Dissolve one drachm of strychnine in acid—common vinegar will do—then add three gallontnof water, after standing a while add itufficent • bran or aborts to absorb the moisture, and place pieces of it in the gopher holes. Put Water' in the Pipe. When Sir S. W. Hiker was travelling in Central Africa some of the native chiefs paid him a visit, and one of thorn eecived a les- son in good manners, which knight some- times be repeated to advantage in more eiVilized countries. • As they were sitting before me, Lokara lighted e huge pipe and began smoking. This was e great breach of etiquette; as smoking te strictly forbidden in the presence of Kabba Raga, My old Cairo dragoman, Mohammed, who was now throughly installed as one of the expedition, was well up in the custom of the country, • and quietly reriented the insult of the pipe. He gently approached with a bottle of water, whioh. he poured politely into the bowl, as though he were eonfeering a great favor; at the seine time expleining that in my presence every orie smoked water ihstead of tobacco, The hint was immeniittely teken, and the hag° pipe, thus surnitiarily extingnished, Was handed to a Weird in attendance. The way of every man ie declaratire 61 the end of every men.--tedell. t/fost people believe in "the greateet good for the atest number ;" awl their greettet EVENTS IN EUROPE Newspapers Attitoking Ruesia—The Eng- hsh Beare Not Yet Selbsided. The North, German Gazette and other government organe have received inepiration for a vigorous renewal of the ttacks on Russia, hence the accusation that the Czar's agents are seeking to foment a revolt in Macedonia. The Gezette, in an article heed- ed "A Ruesian Fortrees on Tarnish Terri- tory," denounces the celebrated conventa on Mount Athos as the centre of a Pauslavist conspiracy, and states that Russian pilgriins, who are really veteran soldiers disguised, crowd the convents to the number of ten thousand. Supplies of arms arms and munitions of war are hidden in the vicinity. The Porte has been cautioned to maintain a close watch, as at any moment the signal may be given for insurrection, preceding a Ruesian entrance into Bulgaria. .Clee Russian activities centre in the mean- time in Southern Russia,. Masked batter- ies are being rapidly constructed along the shores of the Black Sea between the mouth of the Dniester and Odessa, and imnaense stores of munition are being collected' at °deem where even the premises of the yacht club were brought into requisition as etoe end coaling point, Engliehmen continue to worry desperately about their lack of preparation for war. One cry is for a new fleet bigger than ever was thought of, and another demands the formation of an enormous army to prevent the landing of an enemy on the British coasts, for the anxious father of the family already pieturee a ghostly fleet creeping through the fog to the land, bringing 100,- 000 men to his door. FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN. Women are naturally truthful, especially when they are talking about another wo- man that thay don't like. • A bright scholar in a Vermont school re- cently stated in a composition that dough- nuts were first made in Greece. Of the two hundred gold -beaters in New York, not one is a woman; while, of the nine hundred gold -cutters not one is a man, A Chicago woman has not spoken to her husband for three years, and he wants a divorce. If that is not ingratitude, what is? The friends of the late Dinah Mulcck Craik, author of "John Halifax, Gentle- man," are about to erect a marble medallion to her memory in'Tewkesbury Abbey,Tewk- mtbury, England. Miss Linda Gilbert has devoted fifteen years and most of her fortune to prison re- form. She has establishd twenty-two li- braries in the prisons of different States and found employment for ex -convicts. Laura M. Royce, one of the heroines of last January's terrible blizzard in Nebraska, is said to be destitute and dying. She lost both feet and one hand in her effort to save the lives of the wheel children in her charge. The feathers andwings of birds are almost wholly discarded now on ladies' hats and bonnets. Ribtions and Rowers are need al- most to the exclusion of everything else. Oh some of the big hats buckles are being re- vived as ornaments. Miss Frances Willard advises all girls who "feel a call," as she once did, to the minis- try to enter a theological seminary and pre- pare for the work, undisturbed by the al- leged irreconcilability of the vocations of • minister and mother. The day of woman's complete indepen. deuce of man is coming with slow but sure stepia says The New York World. The signs multiply. Now comes word that Miss Ida C. Allen, of Dover, N. H., has been of- fered the position of teacher -of literature in Smith College, at Northampton, 'Vises., at a salary of $2,710. A Brooklyn woman is an undertaker and embalmer. It was her husband's' business, and she Moak it up after his death and is making money at it. She says that many families like better to have her around than a man, espeoially if the person to be buried is a woman or a child. The windows of her establishment do not display the usual mor- tuary emblems, but are full of flowering plants instead. A lady informs a New York paper that a kin on the forehead denotes reverence for the intellect; a kiss on the cheek, that the donor is impreesed with the beauty of the kissed one; but that a kiss on the lips is a token of love. Kissing the hand of another expresses willingness to serve her; but hie - sing your hand to another is a love etoken, signifying that you would kiss her with your whole affection and grace if she were near enough. The recent convocation of McGill Univer- sity.marked another step in the history of the higher education of women in the Pro- vinee of Quebec. The occadion was one of sprial interest, in as much as it was distin- guished by the graduation of a number of ladies. One of the graduates, a Miss Ritchie, delivered an address tracing the progress of the educational movement among women, and demanding the further right that the medical classes be also opened to the fait Pleasithee Of Public Life, "Talk about the pleasures of public life 1" exclaimed Spouter ; "why, man, you don't know anything about it. It is no bed of roses, I can tell you. Now lot me give you a case in point. Old Joe Brawn wanted to build a bridge ACrOSS Puddle pond, and I made a big speech in favour of the improve- ment, which I told the Legislature was in the interest of the labouring classes ; that it would inure to the welfare of the agricultural population; and that, in short, it was de - mended bwevery right,minded man who had the welfare and prosperity of the country at heart. Well, what then ? Why, Bill Jones: —Bill is cue of my constituents, you know —came and said that a bridge across that pond would frighten hie ducks, and he wanted me to stop it. Then I had to go to work and prepare another speech, in which I said 'Hutt fret additional information just received, 1 found that the proposed bridge was a move on the part of a capitalist to rob the labouring °lames of their nights, that it would be the death knell of the farmer, and that no one who really loved his country could vote for it. Ws awfully wearing on us public men, to walk on both sides of the fence, but We have to do it; our constituents deramid it, yea see ; but as I said before, it's terribly Wearitig."— [Boston Transcript. A Disgraee to Hie faMily. Magistriete (to priemer) — The other meni. bars of your family are all respectable, are they not? Prisoner—Well, my brother Jim ie 801Tie, thing of a disgrace. Megietrate—What deee Jim do? ' Pritioner--Jim's a Prohibitionist end'. Ives 1 » SI, Leith Eeeentrie Willa. Eocentric will have beeu met with even since wills were in fashion. Men soinetimest are ready to say after they are dead what they never hen the courage to amert as long as they were alive, It is well when truth ie at laat reached whether in a. will or on a tombetone. For instaxace,whet do the mem- bers of the Fourth Estate :my to the follow- ing rather hard and pitying verde from e New York lawyer? Perhaps there is mote truth then poetry about them :-- " I am iaformed there is a rieciety cow - puttied of young men connected with the public press, and, as in early life 1 was coin netted witn the papers, I have a keen recta- leetion of the toile and troubles that bubbled then and ever will bubble tor the toilers of the world in their pottage cauldron, and as I desire to thicken with a little savoury herb their thin broth in the shape of a legaoy, I do hereby bequeath to the New York Press Club, of the city of New York, 1,000 dollars," What with itenehunting, interviewing, re- porting the speeches of pretentious block- headand praising the 'doings of pompous rascals who deserve to be crucified or at any rate forgotten, the life of many a reporting Bohemian is not a particularly happy one or dignified to any great degree. But still it is all a matter of taste and no doubt the brotherhood will receive the thousand dol. lars with thanks even though accompanied with words as pityingly contemptuous as cm be well imagined. The French lawyer who put the following in his will was as bit- . ing hiss way and perhaps upon the whole -even mete truthful - " I give 100,000 filmes to the local mad house. I got this money out of those who pass their lives in litigation; in bequeath- ing it for the use ot lunatics I only make restitution." Those who go to law are generally mad as March hares and it is well when appropriate asylums are ready for them when the law- yers get all their cash. At the same time the desire "not to be beat" is often very strong as it is very natural. Every man's ease is right in his own eyes and naturally he is anxious that iniquity Should not triumph. The other man, of course, thinks and feels in exactly the same way. Hence the legal duels and the lawyer's gains. Fancy a lawyer advising a client not to go to law. Some few cases of the kind have been put on record. But, one swalle w does not make summer. When will men be so rational and Christlike as to submit their differences to arbitrae and to abide by the award? .n• Workingmen and Church -going. Workingmen are often blamed for no going to church and are often spoken of as if they were the greatest heathens and the most immoral men going. Such charges are very offensive and untrue as well. Would not ministers and home missionaries and temperance advocates be a great deal the better of taking a hint or two from the following defence of his fellow workingmen by a Christian mechanic :— There are many other reasons why the working classes do not attend places of wor- ship, listen to open-air preaching, show any interest in teetotal lecturing, and other work of that kind, from the fact that we are made the scapegoat for all the sins of the nation. Take, for instance'the usual kind of preach: ing in our placee ot worship a it is about the trouble e and joys of the ohildreia of Israel, and the wickedness of the working classes. In the religious trade we find the working man is made the sabject to represent every- thing that is vile and loatheoine, and the manef broadcloth and tall hat is represented button -holing him about his soul and eventually is the mewls of leading thatwick- ed one to be a Christian. The teetotal lec- turer is most offensive to us working men, also, in his manner of conducting a campaign against the English Devil—strong drink. According to his narrow way of treating that evil, he would lead a foreigner listening to him to believe that the working classes of England were a drunken, dissipated, and hopeless lot; but as far as he could infer from the teetotal lecturer, all other classes in England are very good as regards abstaining from partaking any alco- holic drink. As to open-air preaching of the gospel? What a burlesque on the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, the carpenter of Nemeth, who went about doing good, and always had compassion on the people 1 Street preachers preach an unsympathetic 'gospel in the most unnatural tone of voice to a peo- ple who are hungering and thirsting for Christian sympathy. They preach hell and damnation most furiously t� us who have to toil, toil, toil from early morn till late in the day under a system of competition between our employers for orders. My advice to preachers of the gospel, in order to induce us to become church -goers and in Christian fellowship with thein, is simply this: come down to us, talk with us, live with us, be as of us—in short, do as near as they can for our spiritual and temporal, welfare, as our blessed Jesus did for the working classes of His days in the flesh. Some London Hats. Some of the new hats are the wildest things yeti can imagine. They make the wearers look all head. InTicoadilly, yes- terday, I saw a girl in a very large, high - crowned hat made of black velvet, bound all round with a rim of grasshopper green. Oat of the top of it floated a pink feather, looking so utterly extraneouit to its sur- roundings that I thought it must belong to some other :hat hidden behind the black velvet one. The desoription mamas like a mill-hand'a headgear, does it not? But the hat was worn by an otherwise very well- dressed woman. Shortly afterwards, in the Park, I saw a hat that almost made one scream. Indeed, I am not mire that 1 din not utter a email shriek of horrified sure prise. Imagine a frying.pan without any rim Cut a hole in the centre for the head, cover the remainder with copper -colored velvet, strap tip the back part with a loop of oreirecoloarect fztin to a crown composed of copper -colored silk striped with cream - color, and serving as a tort of flower -pot, out of which reed -like gramma and tinsel rosebildra with realistic foliage, seem. to grow. The front of the frying pan pited straight out over the eyes for &bout a quer- ter of a yard. Any number of brown beetles climbed all over the grasses arid rose.leaves,—fLotdon Truth. AdVertising for 'a Dog. Wile—" Be sure and. advertise for Fido in the tewspapere. Intithencl—" Never fear, tie a • knot in my handkerchief.' Next day the Wife reedit hi the morning newspaper "Ten Dollars Reward.—Lost—A measly yellow otit, with One eye and no toil, Too fat to walk, Answers to name of Viola.. Sinelle like a Cheap perfumery Shop after ilnotTf returned tittiffed, $10 reward," 8loo faints. YOUNG FOLKS. A ITIGair IN A BEATER TOWN. BY areeraan Means. Within a day's tramp trona the old French towa of Placentia on the Newfoundland comb is a region palliest entirely under the eveey of the beaver. On a late autumn morning I set out Widt companion and a guide for a place knowu as Upper Beaver TOW'S. We reached the place as the sun was setting. I put up our tent on the only dry piece of ground for milers around, and this was a birth hill thet afforded a good view of the region ttbrat. From the top of a. riven tree I viewed the place, and this is what I saw: about two miles of low-lying land, rough of the same being under water, the remainder threaded by innumerable shining brooks' and dotted with little ponds. At the footof the hill, and covering an area of eight or ten acres, was a lake of dark, shining water, and around the rim of this lake were many score of Mounds, which the guide informed me were the beaver's houses. By only one way, and that over the hill which I mentioned, could this community be reashed ; for the uneovered portions of the marehes below were spongy and sodden, and the rash intruder would speedily And himself to his ears among squelching lichen and liverwort, Down the main stream 1 saw two dark objects moving, but the re- mainder of the inhabitants were evidently lounging indoors to await the rising of the moon. Descending the tree, I cut a number of slight stakes, and under the guide's direction; drove them into the bank well down at the , water's edge,, and immediately in front of the largest house near our tent. The other men were busy constructing a raft upon which we might take passage to the main dam. "We will cut away the dam and create consternation through the town," our guide had said before starting. Before the raft was ready I had got my can to -day travel throughNew England and iinprisoning stakes in front of three beaver fail to note the changes which time has made doors, and I was assured by Nicholas that in the habits and characters of the people, the inhabitants were caged hard and fast. • Before night came we had out away tho main dam what was built about a hundred pacers below the outlet of the pond, and the almost wholly forgotten, anclthe state of life vast volumes of water went with a roar, over. in which the former inhabitants passed their flowing the stream's channel and flooding existence is o lssolete. The equality which the level marshes at either hand. We were once existed betweenrnan and man—between able however to return to our tent by the etnployer and employee—has been changed; bank of the lake, and having eaten supper there are fewer " helps" and more "ser - awaited. the rising of the raoon. Presently vents ' ; tlae native stock have been replaced a flood of yellow appeared on the southeast, hyi French Canadians; Scandinavians and and revealed clearly the waters of the sunk. Irish. These changes n New England are en lake, Taking an axe and a "grub" we the more important inthat they are typical of began operation upon the largest of the three the change which is being wrought in other staked mansions, but on reaeting the under. Sections of the coruatry where new lines of ground rooms found nothing but warm nests. sooial demarcation between classes are being Evidently. the ;family had taken fright at defined and castes are being formed. our coming, and gone out. When we look back on thosdgmenold dse s But our luck was different at the next when to be a New Englander veg4 to be a typical American, we can recall the pride that all men took in honest manual labor ; we oanxecall how xnen and women labored without their labor lowering them in the we found quantities of fish, some fresh and socialscale or preventing the development some stale, and coveys of hazel nuts and of their mental powers, how the tquire left gowan berries. From this inner room, which the scythe in the field while he leaned teethe served as refectory as well as a sleeping fence and talked about orops,or iavesttents, apartment we cut along a narrow passage- or the last political news to the far, er or way; and at the end of this found the fam- farmer's hired man, who was hauling grist to the nearest nulL All this is changed. The squire has gone. The miller takes in city boarders and grinds younger ones. Before we could capture them no gram. The sturdy, independent farrner herself in with a, spiteli and was inetentlY 'Seinen out of sight. Around the margin of tke lake we held eur way nomeless y, and soon came in view of the general operationa below, So far as we could judge there were ma fewer than three ricer° of animels at work in builcling this huge dam. At the bottom we foaled tlaat they hacl laid in the heavier timber which consisted of the lower lengths of tree -boles ; and upon these were laid a number of heavy stollen I saw several brioging atones, and eometimes the load 'would roll out of the carrier's geese) and go with a sphieh into the water. We had our gags, end, at any time might get two large =hole at a Menthe - ramie shot; but we were loathe to disturh them in their gigantic ant baMreeting work. For the apace of two hours we lay concealed watehing them and wondering at the har- mony and the order that prevaileaa rough lla the enterprise. Every tree an atone brought was used, every animal s efaed to have its proper work, and eteryt ing done told in the accompliehment of the work be- fore them, When the dana had reached a point on a level with the banks there was a eessation of work, and tb.e builders turned away and made up -stream in little knots. A half- dozen old residents remained on top putting turf on the holes, or arranging the timbers more to their liking; but after a while they too desisted, and begun their descent to the water, We did not see, afterwards that night, any other sign of beaver, at we did not disturb the dam, and returned leaving this well•orderecl and public-spirited community in tamice, In the case of the two selfish ones who remained to re -build their own home while the rest turned out to re -build the city, we had proof that in beaverdom as well as amongst men, the proverb is recog. nized that " Charity begins at home." The Decline of New England. No one, knowing what the New England characteristics were two scores of years ago,. It seems almost as if a strange race had taken possession of the soil. The traits and traditions of the early aettlers seem, to be domicile. One cut the rude rafters, another pulled out sticks, bushes and compact naud. cakes with. the grub, till the inner apart- ment lay bare in the lanthorn light. 'Here ily(in the outer chamber) huddled together, and grovelling in terror. , There were four in all, the father and menher, and the 'two one of the stakes was displaced in the hnrly- burly and the head of the family escaped. In the third house we found only the head of the family, lying in great alarm in the an inferior, net an equal. Even in the outer chamber, and alternately looking at factory history of New Eagland there has ns with terrified eyes and trying to force his been a decadence, the native bornbeing sup - muzzle through the stakes. planted by the foreign born, and social de - Returning to camp we took a conveze gradation following the change. It is from ient watching place; for the guide in. the great west and the new south that the formed us that we shouldsee muck that was men now come who are typical Americans, has moved westwarci. The French Cana- dian or Swede has dispossessed the hired ` man, who is now a stranger, not a friend' ; interesting before we went to bed. And so it soon turned out. For after everything had become still scores of beaver appeared spread over the lake; and present- ly we saw that they were acting in concert If New England does not to day lead the country as she did once, it is because the characteristics and modes of life of her pre- sent population no longer make great men. • There is one change which, far more than upon some momentous enterprise. A little all others has caused the decline in the iter they all swain shoreward, and dragged sturdy independence of the New England thenaselyes upon the bank. Then we heard character. I mean the increased number of everywhere about us in the still wood a din rich and idle people who make New England._ , of sounds somewhat resembling that retitle- the camping ground of their summer days. ed if an armi y of men engaged in chewing When I mage New England as she was, I rubber. in half an houneve heard splashing see a modern Sparta constantly at war with sounds in the water and, making, saw that a a stubborn soil and a bleak climate and dis- number of the inhabitants had entered the eiplined in strengthening labor of mind and lake, and were:dragging sticks and trees of body; when I Image New England as she every size. All moved in the same direction, is to day, I see a modern Caput, a vast • andI am certain that there no feweethanfifty hostelry, orowded with servants whose lives at once, eat% heading down the lake, with are spent in catering for the entertainment his load in tow. of idle pleasure -seekers.— [Geoffry Cham - "They are on for rebuilditig the dam," plain in North American Review. Nicholas whispered; " but I did not believe they would commence so quickly," While we lay looking in wonder at the concerted industry of these queer inhabit- ants a noise close by attracted our attention, and we saw two beavers close at hand' mak- ing for the water, andiatach dragging a large birch. They did not go into the lake, but left their loads °nate by the first house we had demolished; and we surmised that they were the heads of this establishment. Our attention was drawn away from the multitude on the lake to watch these two more selfish ones close at hand. The small- er one which we judged to be the female, returned to the woods and out a largewitch- hszel growing not ten paces from where we lay, Sitting upon her flippers she began gnawing the tree low down; and when she had cut the bole midway through, she began at the other side. Changing again she gnawed the side opposite and presently the tree fell, after having oecupied the ant, nil in all about ten minutes. Seizing the large end in her teeth she then made off towards her demolished home with her load. As for the male beaver, he had connneneed by digging up the clay and bog which had fallen into the apartments of the house ; and when this task was ended he selected such of the old rafters as had not been spoiled by our axe, and laid them across the opening. Whoa these rafters were used he eet at work upon the ft ershly out trees, gnawing off a branch, or taking a length front the bole as suited his purpose. Across these rafters he Mid a number of boughs and smaller limlnIengthe ; and when the roofing was compact enough he began to cover it in with mud and day. 1 have often read and heard that the beaver uses his tail as the meson domi hie trowel, to philter his house, but this one gathered the weft bog under his flippers and. simply had it upon the wood- work. 'Sometimes he paused to look at the progress of his work, or bent his head to lieten for a hostile sound sad a Fitrauge mad attraotive spectacle the (heaths pre, minted,resembling a little old nian, eager, industrious and cunning, under the elfin light of the moon, When the female had 'brought trees enough she assisted her partner itt putting on the, clay and when we left f r the Oboe 61 general operations, the mound was more ; than hall 001'11514NA, Wo no sooner Made man than the builders took f i$ 4. the male striking his tail sharply Opuntia :the water and disappearing, !the feitiale thre* The Potato in Civilization. A mercantile journal writes that the ow — -- tato has been a great °ionizer. It commen- ced its work three hundred years ago as A native American, and. it has gone all over the world, doing its work in all lands quiet- ly yet steadily, and in two ways --first, by being so oheap and abundant that everybody came to like it ; next by failing until every- body missed it and went to heating all over the world for it. In ISM this country pro- duced about 170,000,000 bushels of potatoes. To -day we are importing potatoes from Ger- many Belgium, Scotland, England, Ireland. Our potato mop failed in a great degree last year because of drouth in the West and long continuous rains in the East. Hence, we are now importing potatoes and paying a duty of forty-five cents on them beside freight. If there had been a total failure of the potato crop we would have lansacked the world for them, for now We MUSt have them however high they °bine. This shows how the potato has been a °vitalizer, We are short 20,000,000 of bushel, and must call on the world to make up that shortage. Generally, Eogland is short on potatoes. -- Luckily this year ishe and all Europe have a surplutt. Next year the situati inay be reversed. Ireland ran out of f-potoes in 1947, and commenced starving 'ne 1 we sup- ti plied her, Six years ago we had a greet failure and Ireland supplied, us. But the year before that England and Ireland had to import potatoes. SI the potato appeare and disappears, to teach the world mutual dependence. The original potato still flourishes in an reland off Chili, a gnarled and diminutive stook, the anceetere of a /troll& and beheneent How—American Pa- per. Not for General Perna]. Uncle Ragtag (in telegraph ofiace)---IIas yo' got a envelope, sal? Operator—What do you want of an en- veIoptiltirtneutletilaattes1 troxpatoh, oat, Amo of A wery private 'nature, and I wants it sent Ahnost aSure Thing. 1440ther—Lulu, didn't 1 hear that ycnwl. man kiss yon ii`le hall last night/ Lehi (shyne)eetYea, Mother—Thal lie has proposed? Lulu—o, maw, not yec, but I a sure he will.