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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1889-2-7, Page 2YOUNG FOLKS. Buth'S Birthday. My little girl is eight to-dey-- That is she's just twice four: Or four times two, perhaps you'll say; And maybe that's a better way Wei:mire my love mem more. For when my pretty Ruth was two— When she was just half four— It seemed aa if the love I knew Had grown—or, as 'she'd say, "had grew"iVill it could grow no more. elks was a little midget then, When she was only two, And need to say " Dear,Lord, emen ; Braga papa, mamma, 'n me again"; TWaS all the prayer she knew. And now she's four times two 1 dear me. • And writes a, big round hand; And when they're pissed a cup of tea Atha moles her done exclaim " Merci 1" Which French dolls understand. When eight ? or two ? I scarcely know Whioh birthday I would choose. At eight I'd have, keeping her tio Misr timee mugh to love --but 1 Four times as much td lose. At what age did she seem most dear? Ah, well, to tell the truth, . • A different blossom bloomed each year; Whey all seemed sweet; but this one here, You know, is really Ruth. ROW THE GOOD NEWS CAME OUT EOM THE WEST. :Edison says he will work at his latest in. wention, " until it registeris sounds now lost to our grosser senses." I would like to tell you of a singralar trans- mission of knowledge between far distant points, whioh he may yet be able to explain. For it was akin to the telephone, only sub- limated. It would have been a ghost story pure and -ample in older times ; but to be in !teeming with to -day it is but a beautiful fact, which &knee may yet reduce to useful practice. I was so used to his safe returns from every danger that I had become fairly rea- sonable about Mr. Fremont's journeys, and •my wise loving father took care I should _ave my mind and time usefully filled. We could notlook to hear from Mr. Fremont on the unoccupied line of country he was ex- ploring that winter of 1853-54; he must first reaoh the elm° at San Francisco, and our teat news must come by the Isthmus route of Panama ; at the earliest, midsummer. But in midwinter, without any reason, I became possessed by the conviotion that he was starving; nor could any .effort reason . this sew. No such impreemon had ever eorne to me before, although more than once dreadful suffering, and even deaths from enervation, had befallen his other expedi- This time it came upon me as a fact I mould not turn from. It fairly haunted me for nearly two weeks, until, young and ab- solutely healthy as I was, it made a physi- cal effect on me. Sleep and appetite were broken up, and in spite of my father's and my own efforts to dissipate it by reasoning, . by added open-air life, nothing dulled my sense of increasing suffering from hunger to Mr. Fremont and his party. Thies weight of fear was lilted from me as ...redden* as. iti had COMES. My house wee near that of my father's, and the younger part of his family when re- turning from parties often came to me for the remainder of the night that the elders might not have their sleep broken. In this -way one of.my sisters and a cousin came to me after a wedding ball at General Jessup's. The drive home was long and over rough -frozen 'streets, and it was nearly one o'clock when they came in—glad enough of the bright room and big wood fire waiting them. As girls do, they took off their bali dreases and made themselves comfortable with loose woollen gowns and letting down their hair, while I, only too pleased just then to have an excuse for staying up with others, made them tea as we talked over the evening and the bride. The fire was getting low and I went into the adjoining dressing.room to bring in more wood. It was an old-fashioned big fireplace axed the sticke were too large to gasp with the hand; as I half -knelt, balancing the long sticks on my left arm a hand rested lightly on my left shotilder, and Mr. Fremont's voice, pleased and laughing, whispered my name. There was no sound beyond the quick -whispered name—no presence, only the touch—that was all. But knew (as one knows in areams) that it was Mr. Fremont, gay, and intending to startle my sister whose ready scream always freshly amused him. Silently I went back into the girl's room with the wood, but before I could speak, my sister, looking up to take a stiok front me, gave a great cry and tell in a heap on the rug. " What have you seen ?" called out our teousin, Mary Benton, the most steadymerv- ed, even -natured of women then as now. I had not yet spoken ; this was all in a flesh together. When I said it was Mr. Fremont—that he touched my shoulder for me to "keep still an•d let him scare Susie" —then the poor child screamed again and again. We ;meshed her ball dreas over her head to keep the sound from the neighbors, but it was diffioult to quiet her. The girls had been distressed by my fix- ed idea of danger to Mr, Fremont and knew how out of condition it had made me. Their first thought now was that my mind had broken down. They actin realized this was not so as we discussed the strange fact of my knowing--knewing—and so surely that peace came back to me—that whatever he had had to bear was over; that he was now arife and light of heart ; and that in some way. he himself had told me so. We talked long and the girls were too excited for sleep, though the unreliable little Freuch clock chimed three, But a blessed rest had fallen on me and I went off tie a "sleep that sank into my soul" deep and detention, from which I did nett wake until tet the next day, when my eyes opened to nee my father sitting by my bedside. He had been guardietg my sleep a. lorig time— in feet the whole household were protect- ing it as the °retie of a fever. The girle had watched near rne until morning when they went over eted told my father, who had he our family physician, Dr, Lindsley, to look at rnit. Bub both re, cognized it to be healthy refreshing sleep; ray color had returned and the etrained aneiting expreesion was gone—more them any words this told to practiced errs that tome electrio °henget had natored. the peaceful curtain of the blood." With sleep and appetite etrength soon re, tureed, but the true good Medicine was ran abeolate certainty of oafety for Mr. Fremont. My father's finis *Ode bo me had heee, "Child, you have thent a vision?" Mid line. yet -like he queetiontel end oreneineetiotecl me thorough* (es he had elreedy the te o our liver and Weiner, If it wiien't for our girls). This Nemeth as he named it, inter- estee him deeply, Pie knew me to be munch ly healthy; had seer the sudden genuine fear holding and altering me as an ifineee would, and now, as suddenly and complete- ly as a eorthweet wind clean the air and leavers it fresh, cool and life. giving, this "vision" had swept Away all clouds iof tear aeld brought me new We, We all talked it over with friends, often. 'There was no way to verify what Mr. Fre. mont's past had been during timee two weens. We must wait 'until, his journey over, by aummer at the earliest, he ehould reach San Francine, arid, then the only mail was nearly a month, in the Isthmus. But in early Alien there came to Washing- ton, overland, a Mormon elder, named Babitt, from the settlement of Raman in (now) South Utah. Mn Babibb brought us lettere from Mr. Fremont written at Pero - wan, and added many details of personal intelligence. The whiter had been very haven and much snow falling drove off the game. Mr. Fremont had in his party but few of his old companions—,men whom experience and nerve grevellem teliOnEee staying power in emergencies. The new men became near, ly demoralized under the trying ordeal of cold and hunger and were Almost given out when after forty days of inoreasing want they reached this mall Mormon settlement. There they were taken care of with a true hoapitality and kindliest; whioh none of our family ever forgot. One good man, Fuller, had died the day before, but they brought him in fastened on a horse, and Christian burial waa given him while men and women with true Christian kindness patiently nursed back to life those nearly exhausted. Most of the party were uuwilling to go farther, and remained there, for whites and Indians agreed that no one had ever been heard of again who hed tried to oross into California on that line. As Mr. Fremont persevered, Mr. Write aided him in all ways to refit, and coshed' his personal draft on a San Francisco beak, a trust never before li.shown a Gentile by a Mormon, Now the fact was verified that there had been a starving .titne ; that it had laded through January Into the next month; that the last fortnight had been desperately, almost fatally exhanating—quite so to poor Fuller. This fortnight was the period during which Iknew of their starving. The relief came to them when they got into Parewan—the evening of the sixth of February—when I was made to know that else, that same night. Every family took in some of the men, putting them into warm rooms and clean comfortable beds, and kind - faced women gave them reviving food and pitying words. Mr. Fremont's letters could not say enough of the gentle, patient care of these kind women. And of his own "great relief of mind." After this we heard no more until the twenty-fifth of May when he telegraphed from New York as his steamer got in from Aspinwall, and by set of sun he was again at home. . Soon he was told by my father of what I have been telling you here. His lawyer - habit of mind had made him minute*. verify what we three vvomen had to tell, but there was a point beyond on which the geographer - astronomer -mind fastened -- the point of Time. .Aa nearly as we could settle it, two A.M. was the hour I had the flash of information that all was well again. The girls had Maya& out later than usual meet wm an assembly of family friends for a marriage festivity, and the long rough drive over frozen mud of the Old Washington streets Wee necessarily slow. Our old ooaoh man objected to being out after twelve and we saw with a little quake that it was near- ly one when they came in. After that came the undressime the leisure- ly hale -brushing, the long. gossip over the evening as they took their tea; ard this brought it to about two o'clock. Time did ot enter much into one former easy-going Southern lives, and we were three young women amused, comfortable—and what did it matter an hour more or leas! After the shock we were too deeply moved to do other thanfeel. Properly, weishould have looked at the clock, made a minute of the facts, signed it, and put it on record. But we did not know about all that, those days. We only knew it 468 "nearing one' when the girls came home, "about two" when the fire grew low, and "quite three" when overpowering sleep sent me off to bed. Next momiing when the baggage came, the journal of that time was taken out and we read the entry for the night of their arrival at Parovian, the bringing up of the journal to the latest waking hour being a fixed habit. We read: " Farman, February arw, 11w. 30m. P. at.," and the brief record of the arrival, their safety and comfort, and the goodness of everyone to them. He had been around to each of his party for a thankful good -night, and had seen them Mole in warm beds; he wrote of the contrast to the bad days just past and of his own quiet room with its fire ot logs and "the big white bed" waiting him, to which he meat go now for he was "fetigaed " and it was near midnight Then there followed the wish that I could know of this comfort and of his mind at ease. And, at that moment, I did know. For the difference of longitude makes Washington two hours and twenty-three minutes later. that Parowan, so that lilt. 30m, e. Ise there, would be in Wash, ington lh. 53m. A. about " two o'cloch 1— [Wide Awake. FUltNY LITTLE STORIES. Little Dot—IVIamma, papa was readin' in the paper bout a oatmeal mill that exploded awful in Chicago. Mamma—I-1—suppose the meal was not managed carefully. Little Dot—I dem so. May be they did& put enough sugar on is. Little Toe, who lives next door to me, is a queer chap, about three yore old. The other morning my door.13ell rang, and as was in the front hall I opened the door. There stood .Joe, his eyes blazing and oat breath, and before I could think twice he "I've got my flannel drawers oh 1" I told him I was glad to hear it, and inquired after his health with so much kindhess that hceproinieed to call again. A very little girl in the infant class came 'mem last Sunday and told her mother that the teacher had taught them a new song. On expressing a Wish to hear it, the mother was much astonished at the following gent. woe, which nete all the ehild could rennin. ber "Fin a little greenhorn among a half a cheerio." Whe weirdo which had been Mite usideratood by the child were these: am a little gleaner among the haevest eheeeres." A boy fourteen yeate eta, recently import- ed from' kentuolty, handed the followihg fii AS a conspositiOn on 44 Breathing.," The in- otruotion was : " Toll all lyou can about the breathing." eaid "'Breath is nide of air. We breathe with our lunge, out beeath we would die when we alept. Our breath keeps the life aogoing through the nose when we are asleap, Boys that etay la a room all day olloald not breathe. TbeY Germany and Ellahlad—The Samoan and should wait till they get out of doers. BoYo " - East afrioan Incidents. Gerineny's sudden determination to out LATEST 13Y CABLE. In a room make bad, unwectleemne air. They make carbonioide. Carbonicide is poisoner than mad dogs A heap of soldiers was in a blade hole in fiedia, and carbon. Mille got in that there hole and killed nearly every one afore tnorning. Girls kill the breath with corosits that squeezes the dia. gram. Girls can't holler or run like boys bectause their diagram is rqueezed too much. If I was a girl I'd ruttier be a boy, so I can holler and run and have a great big dia. ereen." GORDON'S MONUMENT, The Work ci mmemorating the Christian Hero. eine monument of General Gordon, recently erected in London, is by Thorneycroft, who thus degoribee his o wn work "The Gordon monument consists of a bronze statue of the hero, ten feet six inches high, and a lofty decorated pedestal, con- taining. on two !Ades of the shaft breeze panels in low relief. The suojeote are elle. goriee—the one 'Fortitude end Faith,' and the other.' Charity and Justice.' "Gerdon appeare as an Englith staff officer, wearing a patrol jacket, but without belts, mord, or weapon of any kind except his famous short rattan cane, or 'Wand of Via - tory,' es it came to be called during his celebrated China campaign. Weapons he never wore, even in his most daring undertakings. His arms are ahnost in a folded ponder., but the right hand is raised up to the chin, while the left firmly grasps a Bible beneath his right elbow. Slung at his back ie a • bine° ilar field -glass. fie stands firmly on the right foot, the other is raised on a broken cannon. The latter introdnoe to give a military enviromeni to the figure, and at the same time to ex - pens his dislike to bloodshed and war—as if, so to speak, he would wish to put his heel neon it. The whole inspect of the statue I wish to be resolute, sentare., but not Bad. "I have had the advice and assistance of Mr. Waterhouse in the design of the a ed- estal. This is composed of hard Derbyabire limestone, known as Ho.ptonwood atone which unlike the depressing, interminable, never -changing gray granite all around,lends itself to the sculptor's chisel, so that the cap, or cornice, of the pedestal is here carved with appropriate ornament and scroll, giving the names of Grordon's tamous campaigns and victories. The upper pedestal, or subplinth, to the statue, is enriched with b :anza wreaths and festoons of honor to line man above. The proximity of the hign teirace at the back required that the pedestal should be high, so that the whole monument meas- ures twenty-five feet in height." , London Bogs. A recent paper in "Nature" discusses the formation ot fogs over large oities like Lon- don. These fogs are found to be produced by the mechanical mixture of soot with particles of water. The essential conditions are a still air, a temperature lowest at or near the ground in comparison with the temperature at a height of some hundreds of feet,. the sat- uration or partial, saturation of the air within a moderate distance of the ground, absence of clouds overhead, and free radiation into apace. nese conditions are curiously related. To secure a lower temperature at the surface of tho earth, it is necessary that radiation of heat be unimpeded. If there were cloucie over the spot, the radiated heat would be re- flected back to the earth again, and the oaol ing process would not go on to any great extent. This is why frosts do not occur upon cloudy nights as when the sky is clear. Few people would interpret a local fog as a sign of a cloudless sky overhead. The basis of the fog is the mist of early morning, whioh, of itself, would not intercept very much of, the light of the BIM ; but at about six o'clock something like a million of domestics fires are kindled in London, and a large volume of smoke is poured from the chimneys of the city. This smoke is made up of .partioles of car- bon, to which parades the minute globules of water attach themselves until they form a mass ot such bulk as to be perfectly opaque. It is the adhesion of water to carbon which constitutes the mechanical mixture. The accumulation of fog from the causes named cannot go on for many hours without disturbances arising which tend to lessen the evil. In winter the fires of London keep the temperature of the sir over the city two or three degrees higher than it is in the sur- rounding country. The result is an upward current of air !til- ing to a considerable height, and carrying a olond of smoke which spreads out in the upper strata. Surface currents of air are set in motion and the fog is driven away. The evil of fogs would be remedied in a measure by substituting for the bituminous coal now used anthracite and wood. New AUSTRIA IS IN MOURNING. -- Death Of.Crowa Prince Rudolf. VIENNA, FEB. 4 --Archduke Rudolf, the Austrian Crown Prince and heir apparent to the crown, died suddenly the other day at Meyerling, near Baden. His deathles sup- posed to have beencaused by apoplexy. A later despatch es ye ; Nothing definite as to the crease of Crown Prince Rudolf's death has yet been learned. By some per- sons it is believed it was due to heart dis- ease. He Was found dead in bed in the morning by his valet. The town of Baden, where he died, is twelve miles from Vien- na, , Raw HE DIED. Tim Gazette narrates that the Crovvn Prince on Monday went ou a shooting exoaraion to Meyerling, aocompanied by ;leveret guests, including Prinoe Philip of Cobourg, and Count n >ye. He felt somewhat indisposed yesterday and therefore exoused himself from attending the family dinner party at the Bellow& When the shooting guests aosembled this morning the Crown Plinth dM not appear. Immediate enquiries were madei and the guests were overcome by the news that the Crown Pkieee WO.13 dead from a strohe of apoplexy. The shock of the calamity strives the Hofbury like lightning all 6.45 a.m. The official announcement that apoplexy was the creme of death modified the alarm of the public arieing from toreio ruiners that the Prince had beeu killed while shooting. Lerma crowd traversed the main streets and assimilable(' in groups dis- ousaiing the event. What He Took It For, Poliee Judge (to przoonor)--" You 'found 6 young lady oitting on a bow& in the park weeping bitterly," Prittener-- 'Yea, air," "And, pretext) of consoling her and, Wiping away her tears, you stole her round silver Watch, What di•I you take it for!" I "What did I take it ? Why I thole it for an onion that Wao making her „eniy• , WAS it really a watch ?"—ll'eXali Siftings. dash among the nations of the earth has ites picturesque aide, no doubt, but tbe manner in which it is being carried out does not cm - mend itself to European taste. So long as the Empire was merely a strong and self- contained power betvveen the Rhine and the Vistula, armed to the teeth tor self-defence and resolute to play a controlling part in European diplomacy for selepeotection, but minding its own businees in all other mattere everybody was bound to recognize much that was admirable and good in the colonial imperial structure Bismarck created; but now that this mailed giant has started to walk around and put himself in evidence, it is felt with increasing discomfort that he is likely to be a public nuisance. The London papers are printing a good deal about the Samoan Lushness, but with- out much infornaation or comprehension of what is really meant beyond illustrating, in a general way, the queer notion of in,. ternational ethies and manners now prevail- ing in Germany. The English themselves are muoh more concerned enth the miser- ably gratuitous and wanton reign of terror which the Germans provoked on the east coast of Afrioa. The stories of outrages on unoffending and peaceful communities, of wholeaalci plunder and the arbitrary as- • sumption of authority, and of incredibly brutal behavior generally which now come from Zanzibar against the German conepany and Gerraan naval form fill columns in the journals and excite the greateatindignation. There seems to be no room for doubt that they created the whole disturbance, and went out of their way to do it. In fact, the English feeling against the new order of things in Germany has grown so atrong that it threatens to amen instill in unlooked-for direetion, and by the sheer weight of national opinion to transform the balance of power in Europe. Three years ago England and Russia were working with feverish rapidity by day and night to get ready to fight each other. Now nothing seems more likely than their coming together as allies and friends. It is the belief of eminent men in London who are in the close confidence of Sir Robert Marion that this may be brought about and be the first step toward the eventual formation of a European league against Germany. Soap vs, Law. A Missouri constable rode out on a farm near St. Joe, armed with a subverts for a woman vile° was wanted as a witness in a cam in court. He found her in her back- yard, busily engaged in stirring a boiling, bubbling mass in a large black kettle. He stated his business, and she said "I can't go to -ay." "But you must." "What's the hurry ?" "Why, courns in session, and the case is now on trial. They want you by- noon." "Well. I aint going. You think I'm going off and leave this hull kittle ohaft soap to spite, just to please your old court? No eirree 1" "Why, my dear madam, you must. You really don't seem to understand -----e' "I understand that I've gott a big kittle &splendid soap ,grease on the bile, and it'll make a thin, sticky soap if it ain't finished to day. You go back and tell the jedge eo." • "You'll be fined for—" "Pooh! I'd like to see the Missoury jury that'd fine a woman for not leaven' her soap bilin' when it was at a critical Vint, as one might say. Tell the jedge I'll oome to- morrow, if we don'o hatcher our peegs then; an' if we do, I'lf come some day next week." "But I tell you that.won't do, You must come now." "Lookee, young man, you think l'm a fool! I reckon you never made any soap, did you? If you had, you'di know that "What does the judge care about your soap ?" ., "Well, what do I oare bout the jedge, if it comes to that! law's law and soap's soap. Let the jedge 'tend to his law, an Pit lend to my soap. The good book says there's a time for everything, an' this is my thee fer a bar'l o' saft soap. "Well, madam, if you. want to be fined for contempt of court, all right. You will be fined sure as---" "Bah ! I know all 'bout the law, an' there ain't anything in it, nor in the !Con- stitution of the United States, nor in the Declaration of Injeependence, nor in nothin' else, that says a woman's got to leave a kittle o' half -cooked seep, and go off to court when she mint a mind to. l. guess I know a little lavr myself."--[Tid-Bits. SHOT HZ AN INDIAN. Tragical. Occurrence at AltenfOrd. Ownst SOIngis Jan. 29.. --Word 011610 in to Owen Sound ithiturdey attention that an Indian named Mom Moon bad shot a plan named Harkness, in the employ of Mr. T.homas Warrillow, of Allonford, hotel - keeper. It appears, from all that, can be learned, that Moon and two other Inclines, of Cape Croker, Mete to Allenford. in the morning. They were well Blip. plied with whiskey and were pretty drunk when they arrived, but wanted more fire water from Mr. Warrillow, who refused them. He let them have eigars and other supplies, but nos a drop of anything intoxi- eating could they get. They went to din ner and there Moon amused himself by throwing potatoes and other eatables up against the ceiling, until at last Mr. Wenn- low put them out. They then danced around, playing the big brave racket, and Moon said he had with him what would kill white roen. The man Harkness was working in the stable and those inside the house mew A suoT,I when Harlinees came running in telling them to get a. dootor as he was shot. There was blood pouring from hie breast and he was suffering terrible agony. He said Moon had shot him aud the people runnisig out found the Indian. Fie said he had thrown the gun on the floor. A large pistol wee found under some hay. Moon was put in it room, and while ins w.atoher a back was gradually developed method that the Ger- scan army has become the paradigm of the world. It is not there we must look for Imola- taneous originality and inspirer' conceptions. In lime of peace the German officer is still oitaipaigning. The menabers of the grand central staff are perpetually concent- rating their attention upon every possible theatre of war, mentally participating in contemporary conflicts, keenly ocrutinising the acts and capacities of their possible fut- ure enemies, and critically studying the military institutions °tall probable belliger- ents. Not an article bearing on the subject in any foreign journal of authority is missed. The following example of Idoltke's cold method is possibly known to the reader. In A Farmer's Daughter's Domestic Re- anrtanloolpae, a tiobnevyof of offieeuier eontbreawkoedfwezttohewitdh F me% into her peace -wrapped territories, where they surveyed future positions of offense and defense, placed imaginary armies in scenes undyed -with gore, made their observations, met and compared notes, and returned to make their reports. And when that terrible event occurred, who would have supposed that ouch re- sults had been obtained within the walls of a study.! For several years before the note of war sounded, the pensive scholar and mathematician with a deep intuition of the coining conflict, was already at his work. Nothing was left out ein account, nothing • held too trivial, noehing un - weighed. Every by -road, everytelegraph office, every ford, every appropriate camp- ing -ground, every vulnerable point, every contingency, was brought into the prob- lem. In silence and gloorn the gigantic army was mobilized inn the min' d of its chief long befure the pulse of war beat in • its veins. If I were to seek to clay him in a phrase, I should call him a actical philosopher. The intellect Which hati achieved suoh stupendous results is of the cold, retinue late, meohanioal order; constructive but not oreatiye; centered upon the insitinct for method, precision, and definition; fur- nished with a most acute sense for local- ity, highly developed powers of observa- tion, an infinite capacity for detail, a per- fect memory ; a hard, inductioneel ee gence, wieh little of the German e' senee;" an iinperturbable routine mind, constituted to move under definite con- ditions in a fixed groove with a glacial regularity and silence; revolving upon a. single axis,—a narrowly specialized mind, devoid of the higher intuitions; irresponsive to the larger sympathies ; deficient isa im- agination; resting aim chiefly on the exter- nals of life, and petrified into established forms; incapable of those saltations, those vivid fulgurations, whioh 'characterize the highest military genius. Thia is a brain in telleot rather than a heart intellect; never-,„ theleos, Moltke has given many evidences of the ppeassion of a rare penetration, and it prescience higher and deeper in its deriva- tion than mere calculation He even ack- nowledges to presentiments. ,---,— ‘rrell'il and german lie%lere. As an officer, the capacity of the Gere man roles more upon odeoation, method, thoroughness and familiarity with hie part ; more on tuition than intuition. go Is um queetionably not poseessed in any like degree with hie neighbor of that) vitel open, that spontaneous anthem, which moves to brillierat eiceOutien, .Be ie more a made soldier than a born Que. Executive inetinot is not a German quality. It is in organization, which Is another thing, that he is aupreine. The Frenth are infinitely more sueoep ible of ;military genius, in ies true Benue, them their eeetnyoThe Frani; is a born tactician. Executive cleverness, smart response to oirournetance, prctoticel aptness, Mot, and adroitness are Frenoh qualities. These are just those which the German does not ponces. His mental movementri'are slow c and indirect, compelling hire to lean more fully than his agile nei hbor on knowledge and training. He requires to be thoroughly versed. Let us again lay stress on the truth that German genius is for organization, the French for execution, and that the two are quite distinct. The . Teuton will always rise superior in the first, and the Gaul in the second. Unquestion- ably, what is truly signified by military genius belongo. rather to the second than the first, and other things being equal the latter is probably a more potent potesession than the former, Germany has produced fewer heeven-born soldiers than moat countries, fewer executive men cf any sort; France, an mammal number, It is by deliberate and After a hot chase he was securer and brought back. There was no quarrel. Harkness had not even spoken to Moon when the latter drew thepistol and shot him. The doctor, on examination declared Harkness' wound to be mortal and that he oould not live over night. Preparations were at once made for taking his anteenortent steteraent. Moon said that he andHarknees were going to trade pistols and that) hie went off by aceideet, but as Harkuties had no pis - or anything else to trede the etory does not hold good. Word has arrived since writ- ing the above that Harkness is dead. Again we are round to the Christma holidays, and that "Dark side of farming, to me, the pig killing, is over at last. And it ia the worst time I ever remember, it has been eo miserable with extra work and dirty doors. Father knows I don't like to have the carcasses scraped near the house, and generally takes them out of sight; but when doing the work the other day the weather was drizeling and chilly, and he had them in the shelter of the shed before I knew it, and there were pools of gore all over the erase close to the woodshed door, and from there it would be brought into •tha house on the men's boots. I had not looked out of the door while the work was going on, for the eight of it always distresses me; but when they had done callingfor hot water and'seemed through the business I glanced out. There were Burt and liom, Diok Taylor, Rob Windless, Harry Brompton, all with their hands in their pockets looking on, and father finishing off the animal. But I did not take time to look at the boys, for the dirt and bristles and running red pools on long. Why white patches of snow caught my eyes, and I could have cried to think the nuisance had to stay there for ever so Why will the men folks be so careless of the comfort and happiness, in little . things, of those they profess to love? I try to for- get the matter and work hard at prep:wing sausage and potted meat, piokhe making and lard rendering; but that unnecessary blob on my housewifely pride ;seemed too much for me, and when, in course of a day or two, some of the girls came in to ask me to paint) them libtle things f or Christmas, they stopped dismayed, "Why, Charity ! why didn't you send themibehind the barn?" they chorused—"Beco,usie" I said, "I am not able to watch half a dczon men who have no more brains than as many celves, and don't care how dirty the door yard is," and then our indignation meeting passed several vehement resolutions: We tun ainmiously resolved, first of allethat there is no necessity for men being so selfish and heetlless, or thinking, as some do, that be- cause they are farmers they need not' be particular as to appearances either of per- son or property; secondly, that such far- mers' girls are glad to go to the city; that they are likely to detest the mountain of work that looms up all the year round, and is topped by pig killing. The oity servant has everything to her hand. There's a man to atterid to the furnace bread and butter, milk and everything efse are brought to her door; the fowls for the family are plucked and dressed: there is no thrashing to be done by half it dozen dirty boys and men, who come in full of dust, and leave their tracks marked with grain and chaff even in their bed -rooms when they take off their clothes. What we want is refinement among the young people of both sexes, and more thoughtfulness to save work. The Doctor's Bad Break. A young girl who was eluting in this Two agents for a new kind of churn came neighborhood last summer, in speaking of a to the house of Dr. L--, of Panola 001111- certain family, said--" The daughters mere- ty, Miss., in the evening and were invited fined and well read ; but the boys are boors," to spend the night. While one was caring and no one could deny that ehe was right, for the home, the doctor conversing with and I say that going behind the plow, feeding the other found the men were from a plat* animals, sowing or reaping, need nob make where he praoticed medicine in his youth. a man rough and coarse. This is doneby Inquiring about different ,persona, he at the company he keeps: men who do nob length asked: "And the Misses Brown, know any better, and who make out that where are they? They were without doubt farmers must be rough, and sneer at refine - the most ugly women I ever saw." menti till the boys learn to imitate them "Yea," said the agent. instead of aspiring better' things. I am tired "What became of them ?" to -night, There is little hope for anything "One is my wife." else for me than this weary round of duties • There was eilence. but even this montououe life would be rob! The doctor presently left the room. becnof half its pain and soreness if thoughtful Going to the stable he saw the other agent love on the part of the stronger members of and made a confident of him, winding up the tamily lightened its burdens. Burt, with," Veen, they were uncommonly ugly when he wants to go out early, never thinks women. Did you ever eee them V' of lightieg the fire before he cells me, or after, for that matter, though it would be it And he Married the other. great comfort) to me., and yet when he and Dr. L---- claim that this is the only father are away, or if they are all very busy break he ever made in entertaining tattling- at work, I do not think it beneath mydig• era, nity to feed the horses Or any other animal, without being asked, It is these mutual acts of intermit and affection that give one &mirage to face the troubles of lite that beset 118 alb; and this is one of the secrets of happiness in ever v home, „ The 116tel Clerk Snubbed. "Look here'young Wien.' said Fenner Slikens to the hotel clerk, "you needn't be worryin' yeraelf aloout ine, .f aint so green Mr. Imre Kirally will present his spore ari I look." taoular pieces, " Mazalm" and " txceloierp" 'Of course not," said the clerk politely. in the city of Mexico during the present " rhierely wished to tall your attention to semen. o • the ges burner—it turns hard and the Fanny Davenport hem 'had good lack. temptation to blow it eat is very strong." Vet long ago oho bought some land in the " Well, you dont want to get too fresh-- suburbs of Chiosigo klIOWti AS the Grant create. that's all. You doti't yvant to make up your to belonged to the late Gen. Grant, and or mind that nebody on earth is smart except it WOO Davenport paid $18,000. Last week you." And the good,,old gentleman took she reeeiVed it letter from her attorney en, him valise from the eletator boy, walked up °losing an offer al $50,800 for the property, SIX flights of stairs, tried to drink the fire Miso Davenport Will probably sell the 'land eXtbigUisher, And Wed to boa by the light real etlt inv:toet. the Preeeeda °titer Chicago of Match. a Mean, But Irresistible. It seems to be great sport foe some people te pin tage on other peepiees clothing bor- ing wine inscription intended to hold the victim of the joke up to the ridicule of all who see him. On INnig Year's Day the reporter B6W 6 gentleman of great breadth and oub. stance, weighing in the neighborhood of two hundred potindin coming down bolison otreet with "Pot Ho Bills 'placarded on the broad quartero of his trousera. Tliegentleman had on it short reefing jacket instead of an over- ooat, and had thus probably tempted the jokers. It was it mean thingo dotibtless, for theut to do. /6 Woo, so to speak, a hit below the waist. " Giuseppe Brentano a Milan hao tairen the eight-thotioand-dollar prize for thefieot design for the front to Milan Cathedral. It remains to be seen whether his jo Inn will folleWed or fuhtlier icorepention opened,. Developed by a Uanat7. Moses smote the rook and the pent-up waters gashed forth. The song of a canary made Louis Spohr a musician. Hie father played on the flats, his mother was ipianist and a singer, so that the boy lived Mtn at- mosphere of music. One day, when he was four years of age, a thunderstorm so impressed him that he retired to it corner of the room, sat down on the floor, and looked in mournful salience straight before him. Suddenly the roof of clouds that had dark- ened the sky was rent asunder by a sun- beam, vrhich as it entered the room fell upon the cage of a canary hanging before the win- dow. The bird turned ifs little head up to the beam, hopped from one perch to the other, and then warbled a joyous song. The boy, awahened by the bird's trills from his semi. stupor, listened with jpasaionate rapture, The tones touched nerve and brain ; his heart throbbed in musloal pnlaations, and at that moment all his world opened before him. Be never ceased to hear that canary's ringing trills, which then and there revealed to him his vocation. The Latest Dog Story. A corresPoiedent of the Boston Transcript tells this dog story ;—" Last fall I received a letter from niy son saying that he and his wife and daughter were coming to pay ueis visit; he concluded by Baying the fatted oalf and pat a bottle on I read the letter aloud to my wife, WA dog (an Itiola setter) sitting tip beaideme and look- ing so wise that I called my wife's attention to him, saying:—'Look at the judge 1' after 1 had finished reading, he barked to go out, and did not get home until quite late. Be came in the sitting,room where wag reading, and made euoh demonstrationo that' I knotted hini to the outside door, and in the porch 1 found the lower part of the leg of a calf. Be wagged his tail and jump. ed tap on me, saying as plaiuly isa ho could: b--Ot‘tTiehrh,del the calf, now you attend to the