The Exeter Times, 1886-6-10, Page 5HCUS1HoLD,
Maniac a Husband.
One of the greatest mysteries( of life to
me, and one that still remains eo after
muoh thought and study on the subject, de
just hew some women menage a husband.
eo obarmingly, while others make such dole-
ful failure% I was a ',leiter on one mom
lion in a oertatu honmehold, whioh, I will
not name here, where the man of the hone
was not an object of the least eoliotude on
the part of any member of the family ; in
fact he was simply tolerated as a sort el
draught -horse to keep the family machinery
moving. The In:Trenton seemed to pervade
the minds of wife and children that he
stayed down town all day "having a good
time" telling stories and having innumer.
able "nine" with that ,mysterious " other
man," and that. the hard, dull routine of
business waih
he last thing he ever troubled
bimaelf aboI used to feel really sorry
fohimo t nI ht
r whwould Dome home a
e
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B.
with euoh a careworn and troubled . look on
hie face, for I knew only too well: what an
exacting wife he had, who literally kept
hie nose to the ,grindstone, When she
would eye him aneplciouely, and in a handl,
fretful voice ask him "why he did not oome
home sooner,'' and then would commence
pooh a aeries of questioning and a regular
siege of systematio nagging that if I had
been a man and in his place it would have
driven me out of the bonne. Not a bit of it.
This wife knew her man, and the man was
used to this sort of "home rule," the one
objsot of his life being to keep peace in the
family, Instead of reading the riot not to
hie domestic tyrant, and asserting his
authority as I have seen other men de under
similar otroumatances, he was one of the
most amiable of husbands and complied with
every demand of his wife with the moat
loving submission, What le strong meat to
one would bo poison to another, and I would
not advise you to try this walk over eystem
until other means have failed.
Some men love to be petted and praised,
and if they don't get it at home they are
pretty apt to seek it elsewhere. Ail the
Drying and scolding you own do will not
"keep them In at night." They are jolly
and javial in diapoeitfon, and love good
company and congenial companionship, and
the woridia fall of jnat such "jolly fellows;"
and if the counter attractions of home and
fireside are not; brighter and better than
they can find outside, the lesser attraction
will go to the wall. These are the sort of
men who have been used to the gentle ten-
der ways of loving mothers—mothers who
used to look at them with tend, apprecia.
tive eyes, which even the film of death can
never blot from their memory, who had
always kind words of welcome, t r whom
they could always take their boyish nares,
disappointments and aapiratione, feeling
assured of that sympathy which was ever
alive and responsive, kindling a flame of love
that brightened' every shadow of their boy-
hood daye.
There are any number of men, eapeolally
among t e softhearted of their sex, who
dearly to be managed. They glory in
hearingt persuading voice in their ear
and to eel loving arms around their necks,
A petition, supplemented by glowing ten.
derneee, although the object of the caresses
may be well understood, will be granted
before it asaumea shape in words. They
take a pride in their quietness, enjoying the
situation immensely, frr m the very oon-
eoleusneas of their eupremaoy. Being mas-
ters of the situation, they observe with in-
ward amusement the little artifices and
wire -pulling of the fair diplomats and par-
don them for the mere pleasure it gives
them of yi 'idfng, They never lose eight of
the fact, 1a¢aysr, that if necessity required
it "they could kick over the traces and
smash the whole equipage into a thousand
splinters." Woe be unto the woman who
looses sight of thia faot herself by Chia
seemly emission please pace to be betray-
ed into drawing the reins too tightly and
rendering these Samson& restive, and force
them to the conclusionthat they have been
too indulgent and that it wasabout time
" to put a stop to this sort of thing."
When to draw a line requires the most
discriminating judgment on the part of a
wife in all matters pertaining to domestic
bliss, plan are perverse animals at best and
are dreadfully jealous of their perogativee
BB lords of creation, and being the heads of
at least their family, when they know their
power is recognized and prepsriy acknow-
ledged in the household, they seldom feel
there to any occasion to rise up in their
strength and assert their authority.
There are many stupid husbands who do
not know they are being managed, and
many clever women who make their hus-
bands believe they are the moot oubmlesive
of wives, gaining control of them without
mace alarmmg or wtunding their self-re-
epeot or vanity, making them think the way
they are being led is just the way they had
planned, but I believe, after all, the best
advice I can give you, my fair bride, is the
same as a wise woman once said to her only
married daughter: "Give your husband
his own way for twelve months and you
will have yours for the rest of your life,"
keath of a Prince in Poverty.
The last Prince of Orueinien has just
died at St. Petersburg in very straitened
circumstances. Of, late years the Prince
lived quite poor in'' a suburb of the city,
Prince George of Grusinien was the last re-
presentative of a once powerful house, As
a youth he went to St. Petersburg, where
he antras ed mnoh attention throng% hie
beauty, the elegance of his carriage, and
the dp ender of his diamonds, He kept a
1;e honee and beam ie renowned for hos-
pita wand benevolence. On a single day,
however, hie w�lth lett him, and eventual•
ly he took to a cdnple of small rooms and
Uve on a modest' penelon allowed him by
the Government. He bore his reverse
of fortune without complaining,,even man
aging to devote a portion of his email pen.
don to the maintenance of leas favored
friends. A Court lady of hie mother, for
instanoe, was provided with both home and
necessaries for along time, and this de-
pendent, 90 years of age, ministered to the
Prince during hie last hours
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The; Other Fellow.
" It's awful 1 awful 1" groaned Smith,
with despair in his voice, "Note due to-
morrow- $300—can't pay it. What on
earth I am to do is more than 1 know."
.. " Why not let the other fellow walk 7'
inquired Brown.
" Let the ether fellow walk ?" f
" Certainly. Why not 2"
" Why not 2" repeated Smith, striding
np and down in great nervous excitement.
" He is walking, II'm the other fellow,"
The most terrible weapon of the American
Metall/it is hill jewbono. He has the same
variety of jawbone, too, with whioh Satnp-
eou did such execution among the Philil-
tines,
There are two *Inge whioh 1 positively
will not eat for supper," said Gabbro,. "And
what aro they 2" asked hie friend. "Break-
fast and dinner," was the reply.
FORESTRY IN EARLY JUNE.
$Y R. w.'PHIPPS,
As the pretest is the season for taking
notion in the matter, I should like to lug-
goet to the landowning readere the great
necessity which exists in this oountry,
that we should pet' some attention to tree-
planting, and, where praotioable, to forest
preservation. There is also one meant of
proceeding to be mentioned which, porhnpe,
of all others, :promises greater returns for
the labour invested.
•First, as to the importanoe of the move-
ment, This Proving° of Ontario needs,
more, probably, than any other part of
hiorth America, to retain a considerable in'
terspperslgn of forest for climatic purposes,
or in other words . a rioulture will net,
here, in the opinion of those who have eine
-
ied the subj eat, oontinue to prosper if we do
not contrive to so retrain a fair proportion
of woods among our farming lands. The
urgency of Ulla necessity has net yet forded
itself on popular attention, bemuse every-
where, as yet, we retain portions of the ori-
ginal forest, which portions have served and
as yet serve an exoellent purpose, But • no
one can travel over, the ooantry, without
observing that these remaining portions are
every year becoming less and leen, and that
what with thedestruction by the axe, by
grazing er rather browzing cattle,and by
wind, it, is full time to preparm for the con
clition whioh shall occur when thesemat-
tered woodlands are much lase in number
and smaller in individual area than at pre-,
sent,
It is unfortunately our fate to retain what,
forest we preserve in large massae to our
north, But this le not the position—it ie
the very opposite of the position required
to assist and dietrfbute our rainfall. What
is needed for that purpose is maanes of .for-
est. at some distance to the south, which eon.
donee and precipitate the moisture moving
northward from the equatorial regions.
There is no doubt that the central Stato+ of
the Union, between us and the Gulf of
Mexico, owe much in this respect to the
immense foveae yet existing in the, South-
ern States. Those woods which formerly
covered the Northern States In their day
performed the same service for Ontario.
But these are gone ; our climate is feeling
the ill effects of their loos, and as our small
reaervee vanish will feel it still more injuri.
ously.
I received a letter lately from a farmer
of long, riaiidence on the shores of Lake
Erie, in which he .remarke that years ago,
when the farms near the lake had yet plenty
of woodland, the resldenta could often in
*summer, see, as he expressed It, the clouds
rise from the lake,come towards the shore,
and fall In refreshing 'showers on their
farms. But of late years, since all has
been cleared, the rale clouds pass over them,
and descend, some distance Inland, in tor-
tante so ,heavy as to do more harm than
good. The forest is, in our country es-
pecially, the distributor of rain, and this
tarmer'a exl:erience is that of many other,,
What seemed to be the raln-oloude rising
from tho lake were rather donde becoming
visible there, the principal material to term
which had been borne thither from the
south.
I was informed last week by a farmer
who I know to be a person sf eonnd judg-
ment, and to have .followed agrioulture, in
the locality in which he speaks, for over
thirty years, that -"In this part of Ontario,
in my opinion, a marked effect on the crops
can be seen in consequence of the wholesale
destruction of timber. Fifteen to twenty
years ago, when there wore large patches of
timber, in croppnig new land, or land first
plowed after the removal of stumps, we
were sure of large results in grain, often
twenty-five up to thirty•five buskela of
wheat per acre. Now, on the same quality
of land, that le, new or almost so, wo have
very poor crops, seldom: more than fifteen
bushslsper sore. If this difference is not
caused by the comparative scarcity of tim-
ber, I do not know. where to look for the
cause,"
Let us look to those portions of North
America which, cleared and settled hundreds
of years before our own, render their resi-
dents better able than we to judge of the
evils of disforesting. Here is what the
Commissioner of Agriculture of Kentucky,
J, F. Reale, Erq,, this year says : "The con-
tinued deatruotnon of oar forests, history
prove+, will result ultimately in making
even this boasted Eden of, the New World,
a desert. First, the springs and smaller
streams will dry up ; increasing and more
protracted droughts will follow and destroy
the farmer's crops ; next, great and sudden
freshets will oome to wash away the soil,
sweep away mills, factories, bridges, cattle
and dwellings—and eo en and on m an
ever -widening course of blight and desola-
tion, until finally our once favoured land,
of every land the pride, is brought to the
same pitiable oonditton that Palestine finds
herself in to -day, and to whioh she was re-
duced by this self•&ame madness of forest
deatruotion. And, it was this, not total
but only partial destruction of the forests,
that turned, not alone Palestine into a com-
parative desert, bat also large portieres of
Italy, theianish Peninsula, Sicily, Asia
Minor, ?; a and Persia. A large portion
of the ferti e and sunny land of France was
found to be rapidly going the same easily
demanded road, when her sagacious land.
owners,• fully recognizing the danger, palled
a halt, and by.the enactment of judicioue
Forestry laws, and the adoption of energetic
measures of reforesting,'gradnally-but surely
remedied the gigantic evils which nad begun
to envelop and destroy the prosperity of
one of the fairest and moat fruitful coun-
tries en the globe. The eamo danger begins
to threaten—the same evils' begin to afflict
many portions of our own highly favored
country ; and it behoves each State, in f s
own proper sphere, to adopt the requlsite
measures of prevention and protection,"
I wish to lay one point in connection
with forestry prominently before my farm-
ing readere, and that is, a partioular epo-
des of injury inflicted on crops • by the ab.
mace of'shelter, It is a point not very gen-
erally understood but when considered its
importance will at once appear to be very
great.
We have all noticed, of sou rme, the great
value of timely showers to the growing
crops, and have observed that a day or eo
after such rain has fallen, the advance, of
vegetation was very rapid, and the farmer
is apt to say, "If it would only keep grow-
lug like this for a week or two, what crops
t should have," We shall find, on relicts -
tion, that this rapid growth occurs while
the surface of the earth is yet partially sat-
urated with the lately fallen rain, and that,
while heat and molsture continuo so to work
together, growth is rapid, (t mean on ordin-
arily drained lend;) on low-lying lands
there le a stagnation of moisture, which
gives a different state of affairs.
But on ordinary land thin state of healthy
warmth and moisture can be continued for
a much longer period than it be usually en-
joyed, by the simple expedient of giving
shelter from the wind. Soft, gentle tome
mer breezes do no harm, but great good.
On the contrary, a etrong wind dries out
the land far too rapidly, and will often re.
duce the period of rapid growth following
a shower to a couple of demi or less, when
it might bane lasted it week, . The meolry n-
ioal operation of this drying premiss, le
plain, As a stratum of dryer air passim
over the ground rapidly it withdraws a cer-
tain portion of moisture. pt Is immediately
followed by another, equally dry, which
absorb4 more, and theee emceed mole other
it may be ell day lazy, and carry away a
vaat amount of armature, which had far
better been allowed to remain until it rose
in the crops or sank slowly into the ground,
In properly sheltered land this is net so;
the local climate, so to speak, is more Iav-
ourabio to agricultural operations, •Thief
was an advantage once given us by our ia-
terepersing forests—an advantage, whioh,
as I laid, much of Ontario has lost—mnoh
is toeing. Bat there is a cheap expedient
by the use of which we : `might again enjoy
this vanished or vanishing benefit—an ex-
pedient itis tbe prinoipal object of thle,
letter to suggest to my readers.
Thin is simply the ,planting of lines of
evergreens along the north ana west sides
of farms, This can be done with the native
pine, oedar or apruoe, with the Norway
spmoo, and many other evergreens. Ever-
greens are better for this purpose than de-
ciduous trees, beoanee they serve a valuable
purpose in winter as well as in summer, pre-
venting snowdrifts, greatly mitigating the
severity of the cold winds, and benefiting
the °rope of winter wheatand clover to a
very importent extent. I have no doubt
that were this measure generally carried
out, larger Drops would be obtained with
lees labour; in other words, all farms would
yield a much better return for the Inset:
meat. It is a benefit which could be pro.
cured at very slight expense of time and
trouble,—putting in and oaring for a line of
trees is a small matter commend with start.
ing a broad plantation. From tho middle
of May to the tenth of Jane will be found a
good time to plant them. A3 for the young
trees they can be had, when email, cheaply.
of nuraerymen, or they can be had sometimes
for nothing in our woods and fields, Those
who own them often set too little store by
them; 1 saw last week in one field, which
was being cleaned up. thousands of beautiful
young pines, many of them just the size for
planting plied up In heaps to burn. The
owner never seemed to think of planting
them along the borders of hia farm,on which
he seemed scarcely to have left a tree, It
may be well to mention that anyone who
plants evergreens should keep the roots
moist and covered from digging till plant-
ing. A few minutes' exposure to the son
might dry the resin in the roots and kill
the tree, This proposal demands no great
labour, but it would, if adopted, change
for the better the whole of Ontario. It
is hardly to be expected at once that
vast forests should be planted here. But
surely every farmer could easily grow a
line of evergreens along toe exposed sides
of his farm. Nothing will pay him half
so well.
Always in Danger.
A certain Dr. Ball, in New York City, be-
came a confirmed inebriate, and was proved
to be so irresponsible that hie family
succeeded in having guardians appointed
to take care ofhie property. In the course'
of time Bull applied to the courts to give
him back hie estate, as he claimed he had
overcome hie thirst for alcohol. Mnoh in
tereating teatimony was produced as to
whether the attraction for . strong drink
could ever be entirely gotten rid of. It was
conceded that there were such persons as
reformed drunkards ; men who had lived
sober lives after having been, apparently con-
firmed sots ; but several physicians gave it as
their opinion that after a drunkard had an
attack of delrium tremens the appetite never
really disappeared, though it might not
manifest itself' if the patient was surround-
ed by favoring circumstances. The late
John B. Gougn who had not touched a drop
of liquor for over thirty years, said he dared
not eat a piece of mince pie away from home,
for tbe brandy er ,wine it might contain
would awaken the dormant demon, the thirst
for strong drink, which had made hie life as
a young man so unhappy. One of the strong-
est arguments for prohibition is that
the absence of a temptation to drink is es-
sential for the protection of the vast army of
people who are ander the spell whioh
liquor fastens upon its devotees, Young
people should be careful how they form the
habit, for once acquired one's future life
is a constant straggle to resist the appetite
then acquired, as the allurements of the
gilded saloon are far more effective and
numerous than opportunities for healthful
recreation.
An Iowa cattle grower hoe dehorned 125
cattle with no bad results, and regards it as
great economy. He thinks that horns do
$1,000,000 damage annually in Iowa alone.
School teacher—" What 1 a boy of your age
doesn't know the parts of speech 1" Boy—
" No'm." School teacher—" Haven t you
ever heard of a noun 2" Boy—" Oh, yes'm."
School teacher—" Well, what comes next?"
Boy-" Don't know." School teacher—" A
pronoun, Now please remember that, Then
there's the verb. Now what followe that 7"
Bay-" A proverb,"
WHAT WOMEN ARE DQINO.
Thirteen years ego only three girls were
employed In. theLumbeth potteries of the
,Messrs. Doulton ; now there are three hum
dred,
The Virginia Lancet, of Petersburg, Va,,
is said to be the only paper iu thin country
eonduoted by a catered woman, Her name
fa (Ixrrie Bragg.
Mrs. Emily Fifield has been ohoeen so
member of the Boeton School Committee
She is the wife of De. W. C. B. Maid in.
the Dorchester .Distr'c t, has .served several
yearn on the School Committee, and is well
qualified for the position.
The French national printing
office em-
ploys girls itls aa type-foandere, printers, spot•
sewers, bookbinders, etc„ the wages rarg.
Ing from fifty vents to one dollar per day,
After thirty years' service both men and
women are retired upon a pensien,.
Mise Mary Andersen, who recently re•
turned to the city of Louisville, in whioh
she spent her early years, was honored by a
mamba vote of congratulation, passed by the
Kentuoky State Legislature, and presented
to her on the stage is the presence of the
andionc
Miss Ae.ugusta Holmes has nearly finished
the opera she is composing on an Irish theme,
An antigne legend of Erin to the subject
chosen by the lady, who: has composed
her own libretto, Mies Holmes spent last
autumn in Lendon, studying the ancient
Irish M.S,S, in the Brltleh Museum.
The Lancet segs' that a maiden lady,
named Heathen', who is known as " The
Maid of Kent," has just completed • her
1031 year, having been baptized at Maid.
atone in April, 1783, The venerable lady
poseesses all her facalties, and is reported to
have indorsed a check without the aid of
glasses on. her birthday, whioh 'mooned
lest montb,
The U, S. Ladies' Health Protective As.
notation has ind aced the owners of slaughter•
houses to make the improvements reoom-
mended by the ladies, These consist of
pitting in asphalt floors, having the freshly
slaughtered meat kept away from theedge
of the eidewalk, keeping the avenue clear of
truoks, and keeping the hones shut np so
that the ohildren in the neighborhood can.
not see the cattle slaughtered. •
No Russian lady can travel without her
husband's assent to the hone of her passport,
but in Aaetria woman's right to a vete has.
jaat been recognized. It is stated that a
decree has recently been promulgated to
the effect that ne married Austrian snbjeot
shall henceforth receive a passport for
journeying beyond the frontier, without the
exprese comma of hie wife.
We have before now had occasion to notioe
the excellence of the work accomplished in
Paris by the ladies forming the Society
of the Liberties de St. Lezare, the great
female prison. It is well known to what
depths of misery the women prieonera in St.
Lamm were reduced before Mlle. de Grand -
pre began her beneficent work. The work
of assisting the dfeoharged prisenere ham
now been carried on since 1870 with contln
nously increasing snocees. Daring the pact
year three departments of work have been
organized ; the first is that of the lady pat
ronessee who receive the women on their
release from prison at 28 Place Dauphin,
distributing clothing or rations of food to
them, and endeavor to procure employment
for them. The second branch is the Bitten -
court Asylum, where the children of the
prisoners are taken Dare of during their term
of punishment. The third branch to that of
the lady visitors, who last year obtained
permission to enter the prison and vI,it the
women there. They can thus learn their
wishes, ascertain what work they are capable
of, and obtain employment ready for them
at their discharge.
The Color of the Eye.
Some curious researches have recently
been undertaken by Swiss and S wedish phy-
siolane en the color of the eyes, but without
any apparent purpose. For convenience all
eyes wore divided into blue or brown, the
various shades of gray eyes being olassified
according to the prominence of bine or brown
in their Dolor. Some of the conclusions from
a great many observations are these : That
women with brown eyes have better pro-
spects of marriage than those with bine ;
that the average number of children is
greater with parents whose eyea are dlsaim-
iiar. In children both of whose parents
have blue eyes, 93 per cent inherit blue eyes ;
but in children both of whose parents have
brown eves, only 80 per Dent. have brown
eyes. The above results were reached in
Switzerland. In Sweden the discoveries
were not quite the same. The women with
brown eyes were more numerous there than
the men with brown eyes, but brown oyes
are apparently increasing there as in Swit-
zerland.
.A three•year•old youngster near Appo
mattex, Dakota, was lost, and, . after a
search of twenty-four hours, was found near
his home In a badger's hole, into which he
had slipped feet foremost, and whioh was
deep enough to quite conceal him.
TRAGEDY" PON T'HAGEDY-
Dreadrul'Tale et Six Warders in. Southern,
JarWsia.
inA
thtragienecal eerleepers. o1, murders are ll "reportedtrekwspa.,
tir," or whiskey shop, int the road to dike•
pal, near Krementsonuk, three moujioka, or
peasants, galled and drank a' considerable
quantity of oadkha. Under the influence
of the spirit they became noisy and threat-
ening, but, unfortunately, there were only
the wife; a little three-year-old child, and
servant of the inn keeper, is charge of the
inn, the husband having gone to town: to
buy suppiiee for jail stores. The inn being
in a verylonely spoti the three ruffians de-
manded of the woman where the money was
kept. She, naturally frightened and being'
helpless, gave them all her taking that day.
Time did not satlsify them, and they furious-
ly demanded all the cash that was inthe
house, threatening
TO MURDER 8E$
and the
servantof she did not without out de-
lay deliver up tthemuwhat
they asked for,
The poor woman did not know what to do,
but told themthat she would go and get the
money, and be back direotly, Theservant
meanwhile went out of the book of the horse
and hid herself, and the woman who went
up into the loft for the money, seeing the
scythe there, armed herself with it and
awaited events. The men waited some
time,, and thinking the woman, had perhaps
got away somehow, one of them went up
the ladder to the loit, but no sooner had he
got there than he -received a terrible blow
on the head with the scythe that sent him
tumbling dead down the ladder. The other
men dare not go np:for (ear of the, same fate
befalling them, so they called out to the.
woman to Dome down, or they would murder
the little ohild lying in the cradle down
below, The woman would not come down
and the infuriated villains actually
TORE THE BABY IN TWO
before the mother's eyes. Just then a land
proprietor drove up and sent hie driver into
the inn to get some refreshments. The two
murderers despatched the new comer with
an axe, and the proprietor, tired of waiting,
went to look forthe driver, and seeing the
state of affairs pulled out his revolver, and,
shotthe two mien dead, not before, however,
he had been rather severely wounded. To
complete the horror of this tragedy the inn-
keeper arrived just as hie wife had oome
down from the loft, and had thrown herself.
at the feet of her deliverer, thanking him
with tears in her •eyes, and be, seeing a man
standing over -hie wife with a revolver in
hie hand and imagining this to be the whole-
sale,mnrderer, raehednp to the land proprie-
tor, and felled him with an axe' before the
woman . could make him understand the
actual state of things. In a very short time
there was no less than mix persona murdered.
The story is almost incredible, but it is
stated as a fact, and has created an immense
amount of exaltement.
A goaialistio Newspaper.
Le Penple is: ene of the moat astonishing
aurnalistic productions of modern time
Is.
It is the organ of the Brussels Soolallsts,
and Is managed on purely Communist
principles, The editor, the manager,
and the reporter, who .constitute the
'staff of this little journal, reoeive exactly
the same pay as the compositors. All per -
sops concerned, whether workmen or jour-
nalists, are paid at the rate of 51.50.). per
day. The paper is sold for the fabulously
low sum of 2o.; five copies for one penny.
At the first the circulation did not exceed
12,000, and this occasioned a logs:; but singe
the riots the sale has risen' to 30,000 copies,
and this meant a daily net profit of 251,
The repartition of the profits is equally ohar-
acteriatio. Half is put snide to form a re-
serve fund, a quarter is to be spent in Soot-
alietio propaganda, and only the remaining
quarter is added to capital, With this the
capital advanced is to be reimbursed, and
this small sum is also to supply the interest ;
but, according to the rulea of the association,
such interest shall never exceed three per
cent, Thus, these who were euifiolently de-
voted to advance the necessary funds ran
considerable risk of losing their money ;.
while, on the other hand, the success, how-
ever, great it may be, can only result in re-
imbursement and three per cent. Interest
pending the completion of the amortization,
Pelltically this little paper will doubtless
exercise great influence, particalarly if It
can promulgate a constructive policy to meet
the economical crisis. As yet, however, it
has not enccaeded in spreading any very
definite notion as to what ehonld be dune,
The gravity of the Situation is acknowledg-
ed en all sides. The difficulty consists in
suggesting suitable practical remedies.
At the Race Fair, Thornhill, in Upper
Nithadale, England, a farmer was trying to
engage a lad to assist on the farm, but he
would not finish the bargain until he
brought a character from his last place, se
he maid, " Run away and get it and meet
me at the Cress at four o'clock," The youth
was up to time, and the farmer Bald. "Well,
have you got your obaraoter with you 2"
" No,' replied the youth, " but I've got
yours, an' I'm no coming,"
Our Friend Trreverte : VVzrAT A
WOULD BE SO EFFECTIVE IN 0000115, 1
Tb MORROW AND PAINT IT,
Appreciative. Owner : WELL, NOW, I'm CLAD TO BEAR YOU
SAX 90. I alt 1$-4LSItS TIIOUGIsT MYSELF IIOW NINE IT WOULD
tam IN OOLoIi,
THE PUBS ame
]FINE OLD WELL, IT
SIIOVLD LIES TO GALL
OF ART.
TERREVERTE OWLL9 THE NEXT DAY TO FIND 1eaE OLD LADY
IIAS ALREADY OIVI Di IT A 00AT OF PURPL1t, 80 THAT HE CAN'
HAVE A "GOOD ,FOUNDATION TO WORK ON."
EQU,D THH WOE,LD:.
Portsmouth ,members of the crew of the
famous warship Kearsarge at the time eI
her battle with the Alabama are planning tel
celebrate the 2?d anniversary of the, night at
Boston, .Tune 17.
The snapping of a dog at her legea,,though
no bite was fainted, so frightened a little`
birl in N4w Haven the ether day that oho
ecamell effusion of blood to the head en-
d
e, and she died in convnis on
eu nl e befe7re
..
morning..
The so.oalledp eanut factories of Norfolk,
"Vat, handle and put on the markets million
and a half dollen' worth of peannte each
year, The factory is simply a cleaning, poi-
iehing, and sorting establishment, and the
work is all done by machinery,
While a young woman was being taken ing
an express train from Bracton to a reform
school the other day she eluded her guardian,
and jumped through a window while the
train was at full epeed. The ttain was stop-
ped, but no gull was found, nor has been
yet.
Until very lately only one copy of the
first edition of "The Pilgrim's Pregress"
was known, but recently two copies more
have been picked up in Landes at sixpence
each. ; One was immediately sold .to the
British Museum for £65, and the other: to a.
London publisher tor n25.
The Kama City Times does not hesitate
to say that the coming match between Sul -
liven and Mitchell 'will be a hfppodroming.
fizzle for gate money, and remarks with con-
siderable wisdom that " standing up against
Sullivan for thirty per cent, of the 'gate
menet' Is much safer than facing 'Dempsey
for blood,"
It appears from a rodent book on sea le-
gende that their are many ways to raise the
wind. You may suspend a he.goat shin at
the mast head, you may flog a boy at the
mast, you may burn a broom and let the
handle turn toward the desired quarter,
you may blow cut to sea the dust from the
ohapel floor, you may stick a knife in the
mizzenmast or scratch the foremast with a
nail, and so on.
A small Waterbury lad said to a police-
man the other day : ' 3f 'yon see a ladder
up to my bed -room window to -night please
don't say anything, or take it down. A let,,
of ns boys are going to sleep together to-
night and get an early start to see the arouse
oome into town, and I want to get out efi
the house on the sly." The policeman ie.
Raid to have been worthy of the confidence.
thus placed in him,
Tnirty-twoyears ago the father of Alex-
ander Bailes died, and altar the estate bad,
been settled, as was supposed, some paperer:
and family relicawere locked ina chest and:,
givento the care of the boy's grandmothers,,
She died'and the chest went to the mother:
Baffles was married a while ago and went to
housekeeping in Greenville, Minh., and hie
mother sent the chest,to him. Hs opened
1t, sad in the old family Bible found docu-
ments whichmake him heir to proer
tF
worth $40,000.
California carries on a la*ga bneinese (yip
sea shells, which, are gathered :on its coast
and shipped to Europe. One firm has a con-
tract to ship forty tone of shells every sixty
days. They are worth from $700 to $1,000
a ten. They are need in all kinds of decor-
ative Industrie', retnrnirg to the United
States fres France vastly increased in price
when transformed into pearl battens, brooch-
es, shawl clasps,knife hanrles, or inlaid
work. Tabita Bleats, larges flat motber•r�
pearl shells, are worts from $1.5550 to $4 each,
and the finest eeleoted pairs a -e sometimes
sold for as much as $50.
Oliver Hughes and Steve Connelton, lads
of Sparta, Onio, went equine' hunttng on
Saturday. They happened to, getinte the
same woods, and when they were about fifty
yards apart Hughes eat dawn and b: gan to.
fan himself with a brown handkerchief.
Connelton, who had not'seen him, saw the,
flutter of the handkerchief and thought it
was a bird. He crept up, and when within
gunshot wan certain the flutter was made by
two big owls fighting. So he blazed away,
and peppered liughe's head full of bird shot,
Luckily his eyes were not hit, and the in-
juries were not harkens.
Burglars tutored several residences anal
Wilton, Conn., the other morning. At the
hous3of Mrs Clarime, Divenport•itaymond,
the aged lady whose 104th year was com-
pleted on Easter Sunday, the old lady was
the first to hear the movementsel the in-
truders. With her, staff, which always,.
stands at the head of her coach at night,,
she rapped the floor so vigorously that the,
burglars departed without securing any of
the family treasurer. She said that she wean
afraid they would steal her little Bible,
whioh contained the family record, inolud-.
ing her own birth at enamterd. Auril 25th,.
How to Write .tor toe' Press.
Ne doubt many who write for the preset
are discouraged because their articles do
not appear. Let us hint, to young aspir-
ants especially, how they may succeed in
being heard,
1. Have something to say, Some write
without having anything to say, nothing
of either point ner substance. Othershave
the faculty of 'saying something -a great
deal, perhaps -and saying It with grandilo-
quence, covering whole sheets—with me -
thing of importance. Keep silent till yon
have a thought well worth publishing, and
then—don't publish it, Walt till you
have theronghly matured it, and become' so
familiar with its advantages that you are.
sure the public will thank you for it. Many
from diffidence withhold what is important,
but others rash into print, as they crowd
to the front in oar conventions, to push
themselves into prominence rather than an
important thought.
2, Choose your words with oare. The
idea that'style is of little importance, if
your thought is good ; is pernicious. Take
plenty of time ; write and rewrite till your
thought is clothed as attractivelyas possible.
Many a goad thought fails to appear Iu
print, or if it appears, to find lodgment in
the reader's mind, because it is blunderingly
or offensively expressed. Don't get an stilts
and employ far-totohed and inflated phrases,
nor be so stiff and precise as to be •irksome.
In your style be terse but not stinted; in-
teresting but not diffuse, free but not '
turgid, full but not proplex ; and be quite
as careful to be plain ' without being
monotonous and brief without being
inormpleto. In other words, usoocommon,
straightforward language, easy "to write
and as easy to understand. Avoid that
going around Robin Hood's barn, called an
introduction, to get at your main thought„
Strike it squarely with your first sentence,
and stick to it in every sentence till ite
presentation is perfected, and then slop.
Strife out thole few sentences to 'close up
with, Stop the as bullet stops that has
hit its mark, andnot+sono that lice hit no•
tiring, and therefore keeps bounding and
rolling and tumbling on till it stops from
more exhaustion.
3. Confine yonreclf to one pro
thought. Bettor speak .:Meier' 1fn mbMin
than shaak too loiig, So in wriffng,