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The Exeter Times, 1886-12-2, Page 7FARM. That Line Fence. Old Farmer Smith canto hoine in a milt From hie field the other day, While ble ewt little wife, the pride of hie life, M her wheel %mu spinning' away. Arad ever and anon R gay little song With the bun hor wheel kept tine; And hie wrathful brow it clearing now, Under her cheerful rhyme. "COMO come, little Turk, put awaY your work, And listen to what I 66y; What can I do, but a quarrel brew With the man across the way 1 "1 have built my fence, bat he won't commence Te lay a single rail; We calk get in and the feed gets thin - 1 am tempted to make aside 1" " Why, John., dear, John, how you do go on 1 I'm afraid it will be as they say. ' "No, no, little wife, I heard that strife In a lawyer's lmnds don't pay. ' " 18 picklia flaw, to drive me to law— aln toid tha he said he would— And you knovi;,long ago, law wronged_me so, Vowed that I'ver should. So what can I do, that I will not rue To the man across the way?' " If that's what you want, I can help you haunt Tlaat man with a scepter gray. "Thirty dollars wiN do to oarry you through, And then you have gained a neighbor, It would oost you more to peep in the door Of a court, and as mueh more labor. "Just use your good sense—let's build him a fence And shame bed acts out of the fellow." They built up Ids part, and sent to his heart Love's dart where the good thoughts mellow. That very night, by the candle light, They opened with Interest letter; Not a word was there, but three greenbacks fair Said—the man was growing better. Timely Suggestions. A little milk and meal will keep the calf growing. The beat butter is worked the least. Dough may need kneading, but butter needs it not. Sons and daughters are the most valuable products of the farm. Treat them a accord- ingly. The influx of grain into the cities of Minnesota and Dakota is so great as to cause a blockade. It is claimed that the world's supply of wheat is shorter than the average, and that prices will be higher. Wash the work horses' necks with salt and water morning and evening. It hardens the skin and prevents galling. The largest peach orchard in the world is that of Mr. J. D. Cunningham, Orchard Hill, Ga. It contains 84,000 trees and occu- pies 790 acres. In Europe farmers prefer to keep sheep for wool on soils containing lime, as they say on such soils the quality of wool is bet- ter. A ton of forest leaves on a garden in Au- tumn to remain throughthe Winteris worth much more than a ton of the best barnyard manure. The man whoiarrat anything to boast of but his illustrions ancestors is like a potato —the only good belonging to him is under- ground. The effect of stagnant water on cows is not different from its effect on human beings— malarial. It makes them feverish and causes them to give unwholesome mint. There is a strong favor growing for the white breeds of poultry, as such fowls dress well for market, the pin feathers not show- ing as clearly as on black -plumaged birds. A century plant at Auburn, N. Y., is thirty feet high and the stem is six inches thick at the base. It has tlitisky:two flowering branch- es, with over five tbAisand buds and.flowers. It is about sixty years old. The eleven greatest daily states, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Michi- gan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa Minnesota, Mizsouri and Kansas. had, as Iowa, by the last census, 7,524,643 cows used in dairying. Better dispose of honey as it comes in at a fair price, than wait for better market and run all. sorts of risks of losing or injuring the honey. Keeping the market full of old stock does much to destroy the demand for any kind of honey. The number of fruit trees in California is given as follows: Apple, 2,700,000; peach, 1,200.000; pear, 500,000; plum and prune, 600,000; cherry, 400,000; apricot, 400,000; orange, 1,000,000; lime and lemon, 600,000. It is estimated that there are 70,000 acres of grapevines. A gentleman writing from South Wales to Mr. Gilchrist, Fishery Inspector, Port Hope, says he has thoroughly acclimated some wild rice, sent by that gentleman from Canada and Mr. Gilchrist has a quan- tity of highest grade seed now on hand. His advertisement will be found on another page. W. P. Elliott, of Moberly, Mo., owns a and improvements are being constantly Jersey cow not yet five years old, that made." yielded 3224 pounds of milk in ninety days. 41—elemieliaa Sixty days of that time three pints of the Millions In It. whole milk was furnished a neighbor, Mr. A despatch from Tahleguah, Indian Terri- Elliott's family using cream the whale time, tory, says that the greatest wild pigeon the remainder was churned and produced roost in the United States is just now load 127 pounds of gilt-edged butter. ed about 20 miles north of there. The trees No class of men are more in. debt to their covering a mile square of timberecl land are wives for the success that comes to them literally as full as the limbs will bear at than are farmers. The wife and the mother night -with these birds. Millions of pigeons who has the courage to go out with the are there, and when they come in to roost husband of her choice and commence the they make a noise like mighty thunder. struggle of life with him on the prairie, or Birdmen say there are only, two flocks of on a new farm, with but little capital ex. wild pigeons now in North America. This cept of head and heart, is worthy to stand is the larger one. A great mantpeople are by the Spartan women on whom the poets encamped around the roost engaged in trap. have exhausted their words of praise. ping, netting, and killing thorn for shipment, the thousands. A farmer i t a dollar for a lightning po- New.Ivbicil.91ely 17.icirgh by tota-bug killer., hieh he saw advertisedin a andothoe‘lacleisaint se States St. Loitteis 8,p,,, paper, and received by return mail two are renresented at this rc'essot. less note, ndoead blocks of wood, with directions printed on — . ones the slayers get an average of $2 per them as follows: "Take this block, which 100 ; for live ones the netters get $4 to $6 is No. 1, in the right hand; place the bug a hundred, as a great many of these are used on No. 2, and press them together. Remove in the East and ordered for shooting the bug and proceed as before." matches by sporting clubs. The nets are The United States signal office offers to placed at some point where a bunch water, send any farmer a hygrometer at cost ($7,) &PPP 41"41,41A104tOR, Europe liciabean Wit .4eagaed reeeritlar beading ,Donath the crushing weight 0 lier.arinor.P Certainly, afa We 1,0o1 from one le4nropean nation to the other, and bh- fierYe'the military aomements which each of them feels obliged to maintain, we may well believe.the to. impue altiost toe di& cult 'for the eeveral nations to support. lilaeh nation awls in jealous array, arnied to the teeth, in tho expectation or fear of a conflict, in which it might have to be the aggressor on the one hand, or, on the other, to defend itself from assault. A recent article gave the figures of the German and Vrench itriTliee respectively, as they stand on a peace and on a war footing. It appears therefrom that it is possible for each of these powers, in case of war, to put an army of two arid a half million of drilled soldiers into the field. The armies Of the other great powere— Russia, Austria-Hungary, Italy, and Great Britain—are smaller, but, if not compared with those a Germany and France, they still appear colossal. Russia supports near- ly eight hundred thousand soldiers in tixne of peace, and could put two million three hundred thousand into the field were hos: tilities to break out. Austria-Hungary has a peace armament of about three hundred thousand men, and a force of a little over a million for warlike purposes. Italy keeps only about one hun- dred and seventy thousand men with the colors, although what is known as the "per manent army" numbers more than seven hundred thousand. Great Britain provides for an army, ex - elusive of the forces employed in India, of one hundred and forty thousand officers and men. If, however, Great Britain were to be involved in war, her army could be swelled by the reserves, militia and volun- teers to a body of half a million of men. Let us see what these huge armaments cost. The total expenditure on all the armies together of the six great powers— Russia, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, France and Great Britain—is no less than five hundred and fifty million dollars a year. Of the powers,'Russia pays the most for her soldiers, expending upon them one hundred and sixty million dollars a year. The French military establishment costs the Republic one hundrecland fifteen million dollars a year. Great Britain spends eighty- eight million dollars for a similar purpose ; Germany eighty-six million dollars; Austria- Hungary, fifty million dollars; and Italy, a little less than fifty million dollars. None of these figures include the numbers and cost of the navies of the powers, which in Great Britain, Russia and France are very large, and which for the six powers aggre- gate more than one hundred and sixty mil- lion dollars annually; nor the great outlays of money annually made for the construction of fortresses and other defences, cannon, mortars, and other weapons of war, and mil- itary roads. It is thus that the nations of Europe have to pay for their -nearness to each other; their rival ambitions; the result • of their historic feuds and jealousies ; and the col- lision of their present interests. — The Rifle of the Future. Great things were expected of the new arm when "Brown Bess" was mustered out of the armies of Europe. Many good peo- ple were horrified at the terrible slaughter they thought would ensue, when, instead of killing each other at 100 yards, armies might present their leaden compliments to 1 each other at a thousand. Again, when breech loaders took the place of muzzle ' loaders there were those who thought that ' the loss of life on the battlefield would be greatly increased. But such has not been the case. In fact, it has been demonstrated that the per centage of loss of life in war to- day is less than it was a century ago. Now an army may be defeated• by being outman- ceuvered, and that possibly without firing a shot. Every improvement in firearms tends to make war more expensive and, therefore, less ikely to be entered upon. Military men have seen for some time that terrible as the breech loader is, its day is done. The coming arm is to be a repeater. Hitherto the objections to the repeating rifle as an arm for our troops have been its weight and complexity. These, however, have been greatly reduced. Germany is the first European nation to adopt the repeater. She is now making from 2000 to 3000 per week. It is heavier than the old service arm and will prove a severe strain on the soldier. Col. Arbuthnot, chief of the Govern- ment Small Armsfactory atEnfield, in speak- ing of the proposed new rifle for the British army, said : "The great point we are striving at here in Enfield, and the one which has engaged most of our time, is to modify the trajectory so that it will enable aiming without, or almost without, sights. I believe our new weapon will be the best single -shooting rifle producible, but it has not yet reached beyond the experimenting stage. • Our committee of experts sits daily, with & pamphlet containing directions for its use. Any one who studies it carefully and uses it intelligently will be able to get early information as to frosts. The garden- er or vine dresser, Warned in time, may save a valuable crop: Could not our own meteorological office in Toronto do some- thing of the same kind? Improvenient of Others. NO one is able wisely to correct a fault, either in himself or in others, unless he has a fair conception of the virtue which has been tranagressed. It is by raising and purifying their ideas of truthfulness that ated cunt untrue proportions, and renders 'men learn how to regard deceit and what ! them wholly unable to cope with it • if they weapons to use against it. It is by uphold- were more occupied with the right, the ing the charaeter of honesty that they cart good, and the beatitiful, however, they truly battle against fraud. It is by elevat- wonld be in a calmer and happier frame of ing their notions of benevolence that they mind, and would be far better fitted to rem. combat selfishness. It is by contemplating edy the evils they vainly deplore. In look - man as he should be, and becoming familiar ing down upon and lamenting the dust at a,nd sometimes as many as forty dozen are caught in one fly of the net. This makes several years in succession these birds have come to this place to roost, after nesting and summering away up among the lakes of Minnesota and adjoining country. A great many Indians are making from $2 to $3 a day in the pigeon business, while the specidators and shippers from the cities are making from $20 to $25 daily when they have anything like luck. .6.4,111-.1•01.4111.4 .41111ft•ersp.. • Surrounding Evils. If people fix their attention upon what is wrong, it looms up before them in exager- YOUNG FOLKS. Two Birds With 011P. Otelle Bente had tt, very had habit. She loonk? eat the jinn off the top of her bread, instead of biting clear through—breed, jam and all. And every day this habit grow upon bor. Per you know, bad habits do grew, , and very fast sometimes, too ; j1let as iast as liollyhooka in summer, or toad-atoele in winter. And the faster they grow, and the bigger' they get, the worse it is for the person who has the habit, and the better it is for the habit that has the person. When Rollie first got into her bad hs,bit, she was visiting her grandmother in the country. And her grandmother had such a wonder- fully good-natured hired girl ia the kitchen that she would always spread Renie's bread over again for her with more jam, no matter if Rennie mime running back as many as five or six times for every piece of bread. Renie stayed in the country about three weeks, and of course she ate a good many pieces of bread and jam in that time. But the bread and jam Pm, talking about is what she ate between meals, for at regular meal- time she preferred other food. She had, let us say, five pieces of bread a day ; two between breakfast and dinner, two between dinner and supper, and one piece at last after supper. And they were all spread, I'll say four times a pieue, so as to be sure and not exag- gerate, though I really do think that good- natured hired girl frequently spread them more times than that. Now as one piece of bread spread four tinies is equal to four spreads, five pieces of bread spread four times is equal to five times four spreads, equal to twenty spreads. Just think 1 Fifteen more spreads of jam a day than she ought to have had And of course in three whole weeks of time—but I did not start out to make you get the headache over a question in mental arithmetic, so all I'll ask of you is to just consider for one moment what a monstrous habit that jam -off -the -top -eating habit of Renie's must have grown to be in the three weeks' time that she spent at her grand- mother's ! Her mamma was shocked enough when she found it out, and no wonder. For by the time Renie got home, the habit had taken such deep root, and become such a regular thing, that Renie herself was hard- ly conscious of it. She would eat the jam off her bread, and leave the bread without eating it, just as you would eat the mashed potato off from your plate, and leave the plate without eating it. So her mamma set out right away to cure her, but she found it was not such a very easy thing to do. For habits are hard things to cure, especi- ally such a big one as this one was. She gave Renie some bread and jam one morning, at half -past ten, and she said, "Now, Renie, if you eat the jam off the top, I shall put no more on for you. You'll have to eat the dry bread, or go without till dinner -time. :Do you hear ?"• Renie said, "Yes, ma'am," and ran out to the gate with the slice in her hand, and then, in about one minute, she—ate the jam offthe top. And don't you think ! She didn't know she was doing it until the jam gave out. She was so used to doing that way She started to run straight in, as usual, to get her bread speed again, and then she remembered that there was no good-natured hired girl in her mamma's kitchen. Only just a firm, solemn -looking mamma, and a dreadful cross John China- man So she laid the slice of bread on the fence, and left it there. .And the next day she did the !same thing over again, and the next day, and the next day, and the next day, and the next day. The fifth day her mamma was out in the yard, when she saw the five slices of bread lying all in a row on the fence. She felt very much provoked, and she saw that her little daughter was not cured yet, by any means, of the jam -off -the -top -eating habit. So she said, "Renie, you need not ask me for any bread and jam after this to eat between meals, for I shall not give you any. I see you don't really need anything to eat between meals, anyway, or you would have eaten this bread. I will cure you of two bad habits at once; eating be- tween meals, and eating the jam off the top.. It will be killing two birds with one stone, you see." And so Renie got cured She could not help being cured, could she, with no jam to cut off from the bread, and no bread to eat the jam off from ? But I think she was a lucky girl that she had a mamma to cure her of her bad hiibits, for I'm really afraid she never would have cured herself. Exercises for Articulation. At the close of a session at a Virginia nor- mal school, the principal called for such examples in difficult articulation to be hand- ed in as the pupils could find or remember. Of course the result embodied all the old familiar verbal tangles, but some were brought out which were not so familiar, and the collection makes a rather comical budget of phrases : " Amidst the mists and coldest frosts, With barest wrists and stoutest boasts, He thrusts his fists against the posts, And still insists he sees the ghosts." "Of all the saws I ever saw, I never saw a saw saw as this saw saws. " Thou wreath'd'st and muzzl'd'st the far- fetched ox, and imprison'd'st him iu the volcanic Mexican mountain of Popoeittapet1 in Cotopaxi." " When a' twisier, a -twisting, would twist him a twist, For twisting a twist, three twists will be twist ; But if one of the twists untwists from the twist, The twist thus untwisting untwisteth the twist." " Robert Rowley rolled a round roll round ; a round roll Robert Rowley rolled round. Whore rolled the round roll Robert Rowly rolled round ?" " Theophilus Thistle, the successful thistle -sifter, in sifting a sieveful of unsiftecl thistles, thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb. If, then, Theophilus Thistle, the successful thistle - sifter, in sifting a sieveful of unsifted thistles, thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb, see that thou, in sifting a sieveful of nnsifted thistles, thrust not three thousand thistles through the thick of thy thumb." , " Villy vite and vife vent on a voyage to Vest Vindsor and Vest 'Windham Von Vit. sun Vednesday." " Bandy-legged Rorechio Mustaohio WhiskeriftisciuS, the bold but brave Bona- bardine of Bagdad, helped Abormilique Bluelieard, Bashaat, of Babelnia,ndeb, to beat down an abonlinable bumble of Btu - thaw." "1 saw rasatt aissieg,Kate The fact is, ,we all three saw; Per I saw Egan, he saWine, And she saw I saw Egan." INTERIM* ITEMS. Work has begun on the permanent Menu.. ,rnent (Arar the tetra) of Viet0 Einmannel.in the Pantheon at Rome. ' Astronoiners tell us in their own simple, intelligible way that the gradual lengthening 'pf the days IS due to the 4' ohlionity Of the eliptie of the terrestrial horizon." This ought to act at ret the foolish idea that the dap are longer because the sun rises earlier and sets later. It is said that General Jackson,. of Tennes- see, who aid $20,000 for Irognois at the eel° of Pierre rillard's thoroughbreds the other day, didn't want the noble animal, but put in the bid in order to prevent the Derby winner from going over to England, the next highest bid having been made by an English re presentative. A newspaper man in Minneapolis one day caught it young woman as she was fall- ing in the street. A few days after he met her at the house of a friend, and they were introduced. A few months after he asked her to marry him, and she said "yes." A few hours after they were married, and not until then, he learned that she was worth $75,000 A new alloy is announced which is espe- cially adapted to various important uses in the arta. It melts at the low temperature of 116 degrees Fahrenheit, the temperature of moderately hot water, and considerably be- low that at which the magic spoons of long ago melted in a cup of tea. Its composition is : Bismuth, 48; cadmium, 13 ; lead, 19 ; tin, 20 ; and it is said the alloy will with- stand quite a severe pressure. A great many people do not succeed be- cause they are afraid of making blunders. They are by far too cautious and pay no at- tention to the old saying "Nothing ven- ture nothing win." It is only through fail- ure that we ultimately attain success and our mist es if rightly interpreted, sup- ply the stepping stones by which we rise to higher things. We learn much through our errors that would otherwise be a sealed book to us. The man who hesitates through fear of the laughter of his fellows in case of failure must content himself with the outside of the track. If Disraeli ha.d been frightened by the failure of his maiden speech in Par- liament we would never have had a Lord Beaconsfield. A shipment of cattle was made the other day from Maple Creek over the C. P. R., by a firm from south of the Missouri River. Several ranchers in Montana are talking of removing to Canadian territory, thereby saving the duty they have to pay on every horse brought into the territory. A Mr. Thebo from the Sun River has been looking up a suitable location in the Cypress hills. Several theories have been advanced why people are generally right-handed, but with what reason scientists have never taken the trouble to demonstrate. Whatever the cause may be, those who, in youth, have trained themselves to using the left hand, experience no difficulty or inconvenience. When a child is sinistrously ' inclined and takes to*using the left hand by such natural inclination, it is not because of any malfor- mation or displacement of the heart or brains, it is all a matter of training. To judge from the advertisements of certain Western railroads, no sensible man would think of making a home for himself anywhere but in some part of Uncle Sam's western paradise. Strange to say, however, there are some sensible farmers north of the International boundary who are quite satis- fied to stop where they are and trust to their newspapers for an idea Of what cy- dones, and other interesting atmospheric phenomenon are like in the land of promise. For instance it would require a particularly smart land agent to induce the farmers in the neighborhood of Edmonton to pull up their stakes and steer southward, if one may judge from the display at the Edmonton Agricultural Show. They had on Exhibi- tion, cabbages, 4 ft. 1 in. in circumference, cauliflower, 3ft. 1-.1 in. ; pumpkins (perfectly ripe), 4 ft. 1 in. ; turnips, 2 ft. 4 in (weigh ing 23 lbs.) ; squash, 41 t. 3 in. ; vegetable marrow, 2 ft. 1 in. by 3 ft. 7 in. ; beets, 1 ft. 8 in. ; potatoes, 1 ft. by 1 ft. 8 in. ; white onions, 1 ft. 2 in. ; red onions, 1 ft. 14 in. ; celery, 3 ft. 241 in. in length ; par. snips, 3 ft. 7 in. ; and beets, 1 ft. 41 in. The Candidate. "Father, who travels the road so late ?" " Hush, my child, 'tis the candidate : Fit example of human woes— Early he comes and late he goes. He greets the women with courtly grace, He kisses the baby's dirty face, Ile calls to the fence the farmer at work, He bores the merchant, he bores the clerk, The blacasmith, while his anvil rings • Be greets, and this is the song be sings : "Howdy, howdy, howdy -do? How is your wife, and how are you? Ah I it fits my fist as no other can, The horny hand of the working man." " Husband, who is that man at the gate r " Hush, my love, 'tis the candidate." " Husband, why can't he work like you?" " Hy dear, whenever a man is down, No ca.sh at home, no credit in town; Too stupid to preach and too proud to beg, Too timid to rob and too lazy to dig, Then over his horse his legs he flings,. And to the dear people this song he sings : " Howdy, howdy, howdy -do? How is your wife, and how are you Ah I it fits my fist as no other can, The horny hand of the workirg man." Brothers, who labor early and late, Ask these things of the candidate : What's his record? how does he stand At home, no matter about his hand. Be it hard or soft, so it be not prone To close over money not his own. Has he in view no thieving plan? Is he honest and capable ?—he is our man. Cheer such a one till the welkin rings, Join in the chorus when thus he sings : "Howdy, howdy, howdy -do? How is your wife, and how are yon? All 1 it fits my fist as no other can, The horny band of the working man." Capital Punishment by Electricity. There is now being exhibited at Leipsic an apparatus for putting criminals to death by electricity. So long as it is found neces- sary to retain capital punishment on our statute books it may well be that the elec- tric method is the most merciful and least repulsive process that could be devised for carrying the sentence into effect, But if such means are ever adopted in this country the details will certainly be carried out in the theatrical manner which cointriends itself to the Leipsic amateur, In this ap- paratus, behind the chair of which the con. demned man is to take his seat—and by means of which, as we need not explain in hit body is placed in circuit with a Rowerful coil --there stands it conventional figure of Justice with bandaged eyes, hold- ing the balance in her left hand and the sword in her right. The eriminal having taken his seat, the proper functionar3r is OTOE,IEF3 • 113,(3t SAVAGEES.',1203)8, some neminica101e iterles , Trim, Oleo, Haire frieli Veth.g. ' Travellers have toa many strange tale about new countries they have vierted. A 'greet many wonderful „yarns have been Spun by sailors and tot/Clem who are Often too ignorant to tell the truth &bent what they see even if they .can reit the tenIPts, don to tell a_goed story at the expense of aecuraey. Here is a striking instance of /mon by an ignorant and an intelligent man the differenc.e that may occur in the accounts of the same thing. Capt. Lancaster, many years ago, told of is wonderful plant he found on the sea sands of an island in the East Indies. He said he found the shore covered with small twigs growing up like young trees. When he tried to pull them up he was astonished to find that they shrank down to the ground and even. sank out of sight unless he held on very hard. In the course of time Mr. Darwin examined the wonderful products of nature which Capt. Lancaster had dis- covered. He found that the supposed plant did not belong to the vegetable kingdom but was a species of the animals known as zoophytes or seapens. "At low water," he wrote, hundreds of these zoophytes might be seen projecting like stubble. When touched orpulled they cuddenly drew themselves in with for8e, so as nearly or quite to disappear." Besides the travellers who wilfully or ignorantly distort facts there are not a few who could journey around the world with- out being able to tell ranch worth hearing of their travels. A while ago a man who had travelled a good deal in the Western Pacific was asked to describe the Solomon Islands. All he could say was that the water there was very blue, that the bathing was excellent, and that he saw many lovely sites for villa residences, It was learned that he had long been an estate agent in Mel- bourne. Mr. Romilly says that a few years ago a traveller who was addressing an audience in England which included many scientific men solemnly assured them that the natives of New 'Britian mended broken legs by insert- ing a piece of tortoise shell into the bone. The shell was neatly fitted into a groove that was cut in the bone, and the ends of the broken bone were in this manner kept together. His hearers never thought of questioning his veracity when he surprised them further by asserting that the science of dentistry was far advanced in New Britain. He said the natives made beautiful teeth of mother of pearl, which they attached to the jaw by fine threads of sinnet. Later visit- ors to New Britain have failed to find any evidence of these accomplishments. One of the funniest stories that ever gain- ed wide circulation was that about the bone - eating trees of the Louisiade archipelago. The story ran that during the night the branches of these trees bent to the ground, and that the leaves, like those of the fly. catching plants, closed about all bits of bone or flesh that they happened to touch. Be- fore morning all traces of the bones and meat entirely disappeared, the trees having completely assimilated them. The natives worshipped them as deities, and placed of- ferings of bone and flesh near them to ap- pease their appetites. This story was doubt- less derived from the fact that many of the Pacific islanders place thousands of bones in the crotches of trees, and in the process of growth many of these become imbedded in the wood, like the horseshoe which has long been on exhibition in a New York street window. The imaginative element is largely devel- oped in most savages, and they are always happy to entertain their white visitors with wonderful stories, some of which are after- ward repeated in civilized lands as solemn facts. There are many. sailors who believe to this day that there is a tribe in central New Guinea which is adorned with tails. Some of the natives of the southeast coast " Resolved, Dat dis club protest again sich are willing to swear by all their gods that distinction an indulges in de hope dat it they have seen men from the interior of whose anatomy tails are a natural and high - TEM LINE -WIT OW4 na.(WePlarninypeW;e74" titbr=11 13141E,Ztil"ellisb(4s aftdillnearit W110111 I helt knowed fur a dozen y'arls as a4, 40404t, upright, hard-worldng citizen. He anifin ltiendwtootilaidie sweWe htiesnbcloerotisvitod V,71)4i4lderbotn., Dat'' has hin tie time in de •last fox or Saban Y'.13,1.8 did I wouldn't hey 1.3in glad to lend bun anything I had or to On? at undnight to de him A favor. De odder day he was put up as a eandydate fur someeinall office. If it had bin on my tieket it would hey bin all right, but it was on de opposishun, As it coneequence I Lev bin gout aroun' eallhe him a liar an' a hem -thief, wa,rnin' my friends dat if he am leeted dis kentrY am gwine straight to ruin at once. I wouldn't lend him my ex or shovel to save his neck, an' hev snapishuns dat he beats his wife an' starves his children. "In ray feelins I am exactly like de rest of you. De candydates on my ticket are all right; de candyclates on de odder am all wrong. Serieusly, my frens, what fules we make of ourselves pollyticks. We work longside of a man fur a y'ar—naybur wid. his family—like his principles—admit his worth—stand ready to fight fur him, if necessary, but all of a sudden it comes out dat he are put lip fur office. He am put up, probably, fur de werry merits we hev dis- kivered an praised, but dat settles us, 'We am ready to abuse him high an' low, an' to stoop to de basest trickery an' dishonesty—. to defeat him. "Simple cases kin be seen all around us to -day. A man may differ avid as on poetry, religun, an' all else but pollyticks. De werry minit he can't go our oandydates his goose am cooked. We say to ourselves when de campaign opens; Let us hope dat boaf parties will bring out deir werry best men. What we want am honesty an respectability in official posishuns." Good men are hunted out an' prevailed upon to come to de front, an' den onoparty square off to frow mud at one set, an' de odder party square off to beslime de odder set. Men who hev lived fifty years of honest, up- right lives am dragged frew de mud by loaf- ers only six months out of Stait Prison, an' we stand ready to punch de head of our best friend in case he can't agree wid us. .Ain it any wonder dat American politics am a cess pool, an' dat .Americans elected to re- present counties, districts, States an' de gov'ment am looked upon wid suspishun by de world at large. "I want to say to:each an' ebery one of you dat de bigotry of pollyticks am de dis- grace of the present generashun. A party must hey monumental cheek to argy dat it includes all de honest men in its ranks! A man must be leetle less dan is fool who rea- sons dat his way of thinkin' must guide all his friends An' yit, dat am de wevailin' idea of to -day, an' good men am being slan- dered au' lied about an' dragged frew de mire simply bekase dey differ wid us on whether de gov'ment should pull on its right or its left bute first! "1 has heard some of dis talk around dis hall. I don't want to h'ar any mo' of it. Work fur whom you please an' vote fur whom you will, but doan' be idiot enough to ascribe to one all de varchews an' to charge de odder wid all the crimes on airth. We am all heal]. wid de same interests at heart—all luvin' our kentry an' all anxious to put her ahead. If we differ in our theory of how it should be done it am bekase no two men kin agree on de best way to git a baril o cider down cellar." OUT OE ORDER. The Rev. Penstock sent to the Secretary's desk the following preamble and resolution: " Whereas, Sartin newspapers am in de habit of makin' a distinction in color when a man am arrested, as "John Doe, a col- ered man, was arrested last night for'—and so forth, and " Whereas, Dis distinction am a relic of barbarianism an' unworthy of de age, now darfore will soon be abandoned." ly ornamental feature. The sailors think At the President's request it was read a second time, and then he arose and said: they ought to know. Jack Tar has also cir- culated that other interesting yarn from New "Brudder Penstock, I shall hev to declar' Guinea to the effect that some of the natives bore holes through their left hands to fire arrows through them. Newspaper editea.s as well as statesmen sometimes make curious blunders on account of their limited acquaintance with out-of- the-way parts of the world. A while ago some Englishmen were killed in one of the New Hebrides islands. An Australian news- paper, in a burst of indignation, advised that a gunboat lying in the harbor be sent to draw a cordon around the island, drive all the natives into the interior, and there exterminate them. The gunboat force avail- able for this purpose was sixty men. The island happens to be forty miles long and ten miles wide. A mountain range about 4,000 feet high runs through it, and it has a fighting force of at least 1,000 men. If the sixty Australians had tried to fonn the proposed cordon they would probably have made a bad mess of it. A Young Wife's Views. I think my husband ought to do Exactly as I want him to, Especially where ieconcerns The money that for me he earns. If he and I are one, why do As if we were, and must he, two? For if our interests combine, What'er is his is also mine. I hate to ask him every day For little sums, and have him say, "My dear, where has that dollar gone I gave you only yestermorn?" 'Tis strange indeed how in his eyes A sum will swell and swell in 8174 When once persuaded to resign It from his pocket -book to mine. He lets me run up heavy bills At two big stores, and thus fulfills, He thinks, his duties unto me; 13ut with him do not agree. I like to go from store to store (As bees the fragrant buds explore), And take from each whatever suits In bonnet, mantle, gloves, or boots. I think it "common drawer" would prove A means to strengthen faith and love; Or better still 'Would be were he TO bring his money al/ to ane; And safer. Then, too, he might learn To ask it little in his turn, And have a chance as well to set How rodrg generous I would be 1" Just as Mamma Does. Little Florence was 6 years old and her brother Willie two years younger. One evening their mamma wished them to go to bed, and knowing the little girl's fondness for playing mamma, she said : " Come now children, I haven't had time yet to look over the morning paper. Volt run right up to bed now and let mamma read, Florence, yon can lay mamma and supposed to read. over the record of his put your little brother to ed just as I do, crimes and. the sentence c3f the laNsik This yott know." ceremony completed, he folds un the docu- "Alt wight," Said Florence, sitting down with the conception§ that we arriVe at the their feet they forget to look tipWar s, The Roman tmpire declined and fell. In ; merit and places it in the scale pan, the and taking up is payer in imitation of het truest conclusions concerning what he is and and so do not see the glory of the sun over. this respect if differs from a than. If he de. arm W of the ant% ed descencloses the mamma ; " vnght up to bed, winte, r hew he May be improved. 'head and illuminating all around them, clines, he won't fall, • circuit and all is over, want to weed the morning paper," de resolushun outer order." "Fur what reason, sah ?" "Fur de reason dat no vital ishue am at stake, an' bekase your pint am not well tooken. De fack of distinction of color am a pint in our favor. So many pussons am bein' arrested an' held up in de papers dat if de term cull'ed' was not used now an' den de hull caboodle would be supposed to be- long to our race." "1 shall appeal from de decishun of de ch'ar," firmly replied Penstock. " Werry well. De Seckretary will call de roll on de appeal." This was done, and there were only three votes to sustain it. A vote was then taken on the resolution, and it received only two votes. Brother Penstock sat downvery hard, and during the rest of the meeting employ- ed his time in reading a patent medicine circular. THAN'XS. A communication from Halifax contained the information that a new schooner just launched there had been named "Brother Gardner" in honor of the President of the Lime -Kiln Club. The Secretary was in- structed to return the thanks of the club in carmine ink, and to forward by the same mail a horse -chestnut, which Brother Gard- ner has carried in his pocket for the last fifteen years for luck. rr WILL HAVE TO GO. The committee of civil engineers appoint- ed to make a survey of the stove and report its exact condition, now reported through its Chairman that they had discovered the following injuries : Loss of two legs and a compound fracture of a third. Two crevasses extending the entire length of the base, in an erratic manner. One door hinge carried away by a torna- do, the hearth broken in three places, and the door very muck demoralized by a colli- sion. The port side cracked in five places a,ncl. starboard in six, while the stern had been badly wrenched by getting aground. In their opinion Paradise Hall was in danger of being destroyed every time a fire was start- ed in the stove. The committee was dis- missed from further consideration on the subject, and Trustee Pullback and Whale- bone Howker were appointed a new com- mittee to look around and. repOrt prices oil another stove.' Samind Shin moved that they be instruc. ted to buy one with an angel in bronze on She top, and that it should not be less than four -horse power, but he was promptlyor- dered down and fined $400, and the com- mittee was left to use its own discretion. Reports from the librarian and keeper of tho minima were then submitted, and they meeting adjourned, The person who stole Sir Isaac Walpole's horn-handlad tnribrella was appealed to comeforward and give it up anti oitar away the dark mystery oflo Shrouding, the affair, but he didn't come worth it cent: The crusade against pool•selling is said to be a "rade" prejudiCe.