1878-08-23; Clare County Press

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Itizzie and I are one, and one we mean to be,
Seeing it's forty yea?s since she joined hands -with
me;
And this honeymoon of ours, I'm sure 'twill never
set,
For as it shone so long ago, 'tis shining on us yet.
We then were linked together- for tetter or  fo
worse,
She loc& me for a blessing—I might have proved a
curse;
Perhaps I've not been either, yet luck was on my
side,
For lizzie has been a blessing since the day she
was a bride.
I carry here her -Dicture, in a pocket near my heart,
And never truer angel face was drawn by human
art.
They maynot think it beautiful, but never do I see,
In throngs ef charming women, a face so dear to
me. ^_
And now as I'look on it I'm back at the happy day,
When lizzie and I, united, were smiling along the
way.
Hot "pompous was the journey, yet all the world
took part:,
"For each was truly all the world to the other's loving heart.
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jaunt it was, and my proudest day of
folks, to ehow my pre-
Our wedding
life,
For it led to the loving old
cious wife;
And a3 Old Gray jogged onward, all earth and air
and sky
Were naught to me, for heaven was there in lizzie's
beaming eye.
To her it seemed all nature in summer's richest
dress
Was thus arrayed in sympathy to greet our happiness;
And even wayside posies looked up as if to say,
God made us to shed fragrance on the holy marriage
day.
Yes, Bhe with sense superior detected in the air
The odor of each blossom, and knew 'twas blooming
there;
And oft Old Gray was halted in each elapsing hour,
That I, responsive to her wish, might cull the wilding flower.
The woods and fields and mountain sides for her
had wealth, untold—
A _ver flood the river ran, the eun cast rays of
gold;
With soul refined she saw and felt ten thousand
glories there,
While I—well, I could only see my wife so wondrous
fair,
Ah, me!  It was a tour of joy, an episode of bliss—
With earnest faith in every pulse, hope fervent as
a kiss;
And ever as the day wore on 1 seemed to love her
more,
Set now, with forty years agone, we love as ne'er
before.
Childhood has claimed materniy. car   that never
was denied,
As the gentle, tender mother followed the blushing
bride;  .
And all who grew around us with love reward her
care,
And think there's none so kind and wise as mother
sitting there.
The years have sped, and good and ill have met us
on the way,
But jointly we've kept moving on. as on the joining
day;
And still, for better or fcr worse, life's lessons we
have conned,
But never dreamed of learning how to break the
joining bond.
Yes, Iazzie and I are one, and two we'll never be,
Till death an arrow launches at "Lizzie or at me;
And though our heads are frosted, and the frosty
locks are thin.
Our hearts, liko winter fires, are  glowing warm
within.
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Stay by me, Armand!   I shall need you only
To-night!—to-morrow I shall not be here;
Ah, me! the place had been so sad and lonely,
But that I knew you, Armand, were so near.
I dreamed this morning of the summer pleasant
We passed together in the sweet last year,
And how the village dame and kindly peasant
Came to our cottage with their homely cheer.
Gaston and I were running down the valley.
And you were dancing, Armand, with Nichette;
And then you all sang out so musically,
'' Camille, Camille, we shall be happy yet!"
And so I thought, and umiled, and laughed as ever;
And then the dream changed, Armand, and you
said,
'' Camille, Camille, we Bhall be happy never!"
And I awoke with dreaming you were dead.
And I am dying!   Armand, I am dying!
And have no fears, but even wish to die,
If you will sometimes come where I am lying,
And promise sometime by my side to he.
Stay by me, Armand; I shall need you only
To-night!—to-morrow I shall not be here ;
Ah, njgl thapIsQe_hgd, been, so sad and lonely,
But tfisfi I knew yon. Armand, were so near,
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_   Wife's   "Narrative.
" Is tnat the last, Olaudy ?"
"Yes, mamma, the last—the
last." And Claudia poured the fine tea
from the .canister into the bright tea-pot.
"And there is scarcely butter enough for
breakfast, mamma. But then you know
I have made up my mind that butter
don't agree with me, and that tea makes
me nervous; so for the future I shall
have none of them."
And Claudia laughed a bright, rippling laugh, that sent the dimples trooping to her face.
-This Claudia was my only child—16,
beautiful, accomplished, and thoroughly
unselfish.
At the time my narrative commences I
had been confined to my room by nervous prostration three long months,
caused by my husband's failure in business and the embarrassments consequent
upon4t. We had moved in good society, "and I had looked forward with all a
mother's fond anticipations to seeing my
daughter " come out," and fill the place
that I knew her beauty and accomplishments fitted her for. But alas! my
hopes, by a lightning stroke, were scattered, and a cloud settled down upon my
soul that it seemed to me would never
be lifted.
We moved from our handsome residence, gave up horses, carriages, servants, and took lodgings. My husband
was gloomy, dispirited, and even at times
morose, and I, who should have been his
comforter, Bank down into a state of
apathy and listlessness tnat ended in a
nervous fever. I say ended, because I
got up from that sick-bed a nobler and
a wiser woman. All this time a bright,
beautiful spirit had been moving about
our humble apartments, comforting
father, consoling mother, arranging the
scanty furniture, and making the best of
everything.
Dear Claudia! what lessons of patience
and forbearance she was unconsciously
teaching her weak, selfish mother every
I have my pets, mamma," she used
to say—"my books, my piano, papa and
you. What more could any girl ask,
pray?"
In failing, my husband lost everything
except some furniture and our wearing
apparel, jewelry, etc., and these dwindled away little by little, until nothing
of value remained except Claudia's
piano, my engagement-ring and watch
—the latter the gift of an absent brother
whom I had looked upon as dead for
many years. What it was that had
sapped the foundation of my husband's
success, and caused our wealth to disappear so sut-denly, I was at the time unaware of, but by degrees the dreadful
truth burst upon me. Unfortunate
speculations in shares and stocks, and
the final crash came that made us almost
beggars.
I had been sitting thinking it all over,
when the merry voice of Claudia roused
jne from my reverie.
"Come,, mamma, to breakfast; the
toast i& made, and papa is here."
As I entered our little parlor I gave
my husband an inquiring glance, which
he" answered as silently by nodding his
head and looking in the direction of
0.audia.
"Knishing her breakfast hastily, she
ran to the piano to sing over her favorite
pieces,.as was her custom, before the
sterner duties of the day commenced.
"James," said I, looking my husband
steadily in the face, "are you still determines lo make the sacrifice you mentioned last night ?"
«* Xesj i§ must go,   There is no kelp
for it. A piano is- not much use, anyhow, to people in our circumstances.
"No gay company—no society. What
use is it ? Mr. Gilmore's friend will pay
a good price for it, and I must have
the money for a venture I am about to
make, and which I am sure will prove a
good one."
I saw by my husband's stern voice and
manner that it would be no use to argue
the matter, so I merely remarked, as I
leant back in my chair:
" The money will go like all the rest,
James, and we shall be poorer than
ever, beside leaving our dear child with
scarcely a comfort. You might have
spared her this."
The piano went that same day; and
how my heart ached for my innocent
darling as> ihe tears trickled down her
cheeks, hard as she tried to keep them
back.
"I shan't mind it much after a day or
two, mamma," said she, smiling through
her tears. "I can do more work than
ever now ; but we must fill up the vacant
place in the room with chairs or something, mustn't we ?"
And she bustled about to hide her
emotion.
But the music hi her soul could no
more be quenched than could the tide of
song that swelled the trembling throat
of her pet canary. Oh, in those dark
and never-to-be-forgotten days, and the
darker ones that followed, what a comfort my child was to me !
Spring, summer and autumn passed,
and we lived in still poorer apartments.
My husband had now surrendered himself to dissipation until everything had
been swept away. My watch and ring
had gone with the other things long
ago. Only Claudia stood between us
and starvation. In the spring, through
the influence of Mr. Gilmore, a wealthy
man who had taken quite an interest in
my husband, she obtained some pupils
for music, and her salary was about our
only support.
It was a cold, bleak day in "November;
thick snow-clouds mantled the heavens,
and the wind blew fearfully. I knew
Claudia had but one lesson to give that
day, and that she would be at home at 1
o'clock; so I was busy preparing her
dinner when I heard a knock at the
door. On opening it, I saw a servant-
girl, who, pale and trembling, said:
"Oh, ma'am, Miss Clauslia is very
ill, and has fainted 1"
. A mother's fears lent wings  to my
feet as I hastened to the house where
she was.
I found Claudia better, though very
pale. Sae was sitting on the sofa with a
note in her hand, which she handed to
me without a word.   It read as follows:
Nov. 5.
IteAB Miss "Lahgdon : I am sorry to be under
now lying at Hospital, in a very low condition.   Tours, in deep sympathy,
E. Th_eston.
It is impossible to tell how much the
stricken heart can bear. I had thought
my cup was full; now it was running
over.
Claudia took leave of her pupil, and,
after a brief preparation at home, we
set out for the hospital named in the
note.
Mr. Edward Tilleston (a handsome
young man of 25) was the assistant house-surgeon at the institution
alluded to. He was a stranger to me
then; but not to Claudia, as it seemed,
for she had often met him at some of her
pupils' houses. He now received us at
the hospital, and kindly preceded us to
the bedside of my husband, who had
been knocked down by a vehicle in the
street.
For weeks he lingered between life
and death; but his good constitution, together with the kind attention and skillful practice of Mr. Tilleston prevailed,
and he was soon pronrunced out of
danger. I may say it was a blessed
illness, for ever after he was a. changed
man—the kind, thoughtful husband, the
indulgent father, eschewing entirely the
sins and vices which had nearly proved
his rain.
One day Claudia came in, and I no-'-
ticed   traces of  tears  on  her cheeks.
When I questioned her, she threw her
arms round my neck and hid her blushing face oh my bosom. '
"Oh, mamma!" said she, "I have
had two ""such surprises that I could not
help crying tears of joy. This morning,
as I was going to give my first lesson, I
met Edward Tilleston, "who—what do
you think, mamma? Well—but he's
coming himself presently to see you and
papa—"
"Very good, my dear," I said. "I
can guess, Claudy, what it is all about.
A little bird had already whispered to
me that he was fond of you; and, if I
mistake not, my little girl will not make
an unwilling bride. I know him to be a
young man of good family and sterling
worth. His father, Gen. Tilleston, used
to visit us some years ago, and has always proved himself a friend to your
father since his failure in business, although I was unaware of the relationship until lately. But what is the other
surprise that you have had this morning?"
"Oh, mamma! just at the very moment I was coming in," replied Claudia,
"there was a large van at the door—and
something had been lifted out and
placedin the passage—and there it is
now, ready to be brought up stairs.
Well, I looked—and there was a piano;
and, on opening it, I saw it was my own
dear old piano! Inside was a paper
marked 'Erom Mr. Gilmore's friend.'
"Now who is Mr. Gilmore, and who is his
friend ? But, at all events, is this not
a great surprise also, mamma?"
What a picture of domestic comfort
was our little sitting-room in those long
winter evenings that followed !
Edward Tilleston (who proved to be
Mr. Gilmore's friend) spent most of his
spare time with us now, as Claudy and
he were to  be  married  early in  the
and a note accompanying them addressed
to me.   It read. tlruWi
My Djsak Luci*: EveFsince your friend, Edward Tilleston/ bougbjt the ring, watch and
piano from y/nr husBand (rather than see
them sacrificef CI hav&h.eriBhed in my heart
a happy secrt^S and tip "^is that you are my
beloved sister, whom I ll^Jiot seysn for thirty
long years. Thetfwatch revealed it all. On returning from India a ye
change my name for«
the memory of old frieij
and to spare, neither yo
know want agt m.   You
,r ago, L determined to
time- in order to test
Is.   As I have enough
nor yours shall ever
loving brother,
v .-*       John Wabwick.
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I am an old womjtn now, with si^ery
hair. My Jflear hiisband has long heen
dead, and i*jan see\?rom my window the
white stone that'-jpnarks his grave.
Brother John, toojsleeps the sleep of
the just. But I ha"fe no time to mourn,
for a troop of merry grandchildren claim
most of. my attention; and my dear
matronly Claudia and her devoted husband make my home ay pleasant as a
home could be madc^this sid6 of para
dise.
LAHU JFOB THE-;^A"fBLESS.-
Hoines for the Homd|*Bss—Farms for
"Whoever -will Take TU^m.—An Abstract
of land. JLaws. '?
Secretary of the Interior Schurz has
recently rendered a dfcidsion directing
that all the lands donajpd by the Government to the Pacific^*Railroad Companies shall hereafter b> open to preemption and private e:ajjrv at the rate of
$1.25 per acre. This, fciys the Chicago
Jribune, will open to iMvate purchase
about 28,000,000 acres^f land at #1.25
per acre. It is supposed by many that
these are the only landj^yow obtainable,
or that are open to oceapation by put-
chase, pre-emption, or tjider the Homestead or soldiers' laws.1 As so much is
said about the mabihtyJ|of poor men to
\ matter of in-
spring, and there were many arrangements to be made that required more
heads than two.
Mr. Gilmore was introduced to us,
and sometimes admitted to these conferences, as he declared he had aright to
be, and would prove it on the wedding-
day.
The eventful morning arrived!, and
with it a check for „1,000 for Olaudy
and a packet for myself, containing my
long-lost wateh md. ©agagement-dngs
Hints on Morse Keeping,
The wide stall is a luxury, and ought
to be sis or even ten feet wide, if room
can be spared.   Loose boxes are important fcr horses of great value; in such
stalls they can get perfect repose by
changing their position, recover from the
fatigue of a hard day's drive, and be
ready for their task the next day.   The
food best adapted to the horse is oats
and hay of the best quality, occasionally varied with a bran mash, with turnips
or carrots as an alterative.   The growth
and development of bone and muscle depend greatly upon the food they eat.  It
is important to select such as contain
all the elements needed to form the bone
and muscle of the horse.   It is self-evident that the nutritive matter supplied
by the food must be equal to the exhaustion, or natural waste of the body, to
keep up condition.   Prof. Playfair has
made some interesting and instructive
experiments upon the nutritious matter
contained in different kinds of food. He
has demonstrated by analysis  " that in
100 pounds of oats, eleven pounds represent the quantity of gluten wherewith
flesh is formed, and that an equal weight
of hay affords eight pounds of similar
substance.     Both hay and oats contain
about 68 per centum of unazotised matter identical with fat, of which it musi be
observed that a vast portion passes off
from the animal without being assimilated.   By  this calculation it appears
that if a horse consumes daily four feeds
of    oats   and   ten   pounds   of    hay,
the    nutriment    which    he    derives
will   be    equivalent    to   about   one
pound eleven ounces of muscle,  and
thirteen and one-half pounds of superfluous matter, which, exclusive of water,
nearly approximates the exhaustion of
ous evacuations." The horse that is
about to be driven on a journey needs
hardening by eaercise—preparing by
sweating out the body to purify and increase the circulation of the blood, and
also by hand-rubbing the legs to make
them firm and elastic—a preparation in
some degree corresponding with that attained by ahorse that is daily driven on
the road for ordinary work. Eor one
week previous to the start tbeyneed
daily exercise, commencing wiCh eight
or ten miles, and gradually in sreasing
to twenty per day. This esercise, with
appropriate food, Till harden their
muscles, strengthen their limbs, and
prepare them to perform their tasks
without giving out on the road, materially declining in flesh, or seriously exhausting their physical powers. If we
perform long drives, with horses accustomed to short work only, the sudden
transition from indolence to great exertion will rela_ their muscles, weaken
their joints, depress their spirits and
break down their constitution. TV
leading cause of so many valuable
horses being spoiled by long drives is
from being short of work. They are
not prepared for such severe exertion.
Condition will prepare them to perform
their work cheerfully, last out with
;Sound limbs, and preserve their constitutional vigor for future usefulness.—
National Live Stock Journal.
get lands, we give,
formation, an abstract l-I the land laws
as they now stand. T<€*)mderstand this
the better, it should be* stated that in
the grants to railroads-»%e Government
retained each alternate^section of land,
which sections are nowJ|nd have always
been open to purchase tad. pre-emption
at $2.50 per acre. """Sere are several
modes of obtaining Gflfernment lands:
(1) By purchase, by ^private entry"
or location; (2) locatic't'- by land scrip ;
(3) by pre-emptions; (^ by entry under
the Homestead law; (l^ by entry under
the special homestead*^**ovisions in the
case of soldiers of the^""late war. The
proceedings in these <pi8s are as follows : *f)
1. Any person havi% Selected the'
land he desires makes .V<,7ritten application therefor, describing it. If this land
be of the character opeC*k> private entry,
his application is reeor«jjs.d, and he pays
the purchase money, $£?s£5 per acre, and
receive^ a patent therePjr. Under this
form the quantity is £„t limited, and
there are no restrictions "jo to occupation
or cultivation.
2. Congress has gr :uted at various
times land to States fort jlleges and other institutions, and scrfc -lias been issued
therefor, which may hi* located on any
land subject to private *'* .iry. The warrant or scrip is acceptet, m place pf the
cash at the rate of $I.2f;* ;oer acre.
3. The pre-emption^ 'rivilege is restricted to the heads off. _ilies, widows,
or single men over 21 y  srs of age, citizens of the United St: - ;3, or who have
taken steps to be ne:,,
right extends to 160 c
acre on general public 1
per acre on the alternate
along the railroad .roufc'
must go upon and .ocot_ ? ihe land, and
within three months fil^ ', declaration of
his purpose to purch". / that quarter
section, and wiiMn iVDj months, or
two years and six m(>_,. .$3, thereafter,
must file proo!! of his orf^fianey and set-
f.lfirrifinf. n-n/*"   r>z?& M^ ^'■ice^^mr^^^'S^
i_e_
, i'clized. This
;es at $1.25 per
ids, or at $2.50
setions of land
.,   The person
'&y. :ihey0-te®-
Yellow ffever.
Concerning the yellow fever, a New
Orleans correspondent gives the following as some of its chief characteristics :
"About the fourth or fifth day
the eyes turn yellow. The skin,
also, assumes a yellowness like that of a
bruise, or a bright jaundice yellow.
However, the patient does not turn yellow in more than one case in six. As to
the causes of the scourge, the old atmospheric theory has gone by the board,
and the best writers seem to have settled
down to the belief '"hat the poison is of
animalcular origin—these animalcules
generating and spreading over surfaces
like grasshoppers or caterpillars, and
being introduced into the human blood.
If they exist, the most powerful microscope has hitherto been unable to discover them. One fact that seems to
point to their existence is that the same
extremes of heat and cold that kill other
insects also kills yellow fever, whose
contagion cannot exist and becomes innocuous at 32 degrees and 212 degrees.
Yellow fever is always killed out after a
good freeze. Yellow fever never spreads
above 600 feet above the sea leveh Acclimatization does not prevent, and no
person has a second attack. The period
of incubation is generally four to nine
days, though persons have been known
to carry it in their systems twenty-three
days and then take it. Without treatment, seventy-five out of every hundred
will die. With treatment and good
nursing, however, about one in three is
the average mortality. In the great
epidemic of 1867, in some Texas towns,
one-half died who took the fever. As to
the cure, no remedy has yet been found,
and all treatment so far, even by the
best physicians, ■ is as empirical as the
causes of yellow fever are unknown beyond conjecture."
The laws of Mississippi forbid the
marriage of a widow and her father-in-
law. Therefore, Alfred Boyce, aged 60,
and Mary Boyce, aged 19, were com
pelled to go to Illinois to have the ceremony performed. He is sickly, and may
die soon. His father is alive, at the age
of 82, and Mary says that she would as
lief marry him, she likes the family so
Element and
casn.   xa^JwkB^W0^^.yf^^m'S~Tsmij.
maturing his claim, all" Ms rights succeed to his widow or heirs. Actual settlement is the essential, feature of this
privilege, there being a credit of thirty-
three months for the purchase" money.
4. The Homestead law gives the right
to enter, free of charge, on any land
open to purchase, 160 acres; he or she
must be 21 years of age j the head of a
family, a citizen, or intending to become
one; he must declare that the entry is
for his or her exclusive benefit, and for j
"Republican district    100,000
Arkansas valley district 6,845.000
Wichita district.     750,000
Osagedistrict 1,0U0 000
Total public lands 16,945,000
Here are nearly 17,000,000 of acres of
public land, all open under the Homestead law, in farms of 160 acres, free of
cost, or open under private entry at
$1.25 per acre, for cash, or under preemption, in farms of 160 acres, at $1.25
per acre, with thirty-three months'
credit, without interest. In addition,
there are the 3,000,000 acres of State
lands, for sale on ten years' time, and
the 4,500,000 acres of railroad land on
eleven years' time. All this is in the
one State of Kansas. In Nebraska,
Minnesota and Dakota., the-lands of all
kinds—railroad, State and public lands
—are even of greater extent, and, for
the most part, all capable of immediate
cultivation, easy of access, with facilities
of travel, transportation, and postal and
telegraph service, wholly unknown to
the people yet living who filled up Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin,
Iowa and Missouri. Dakota is twice the
size of Minnesota, and as large as Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin.
An Editor's Experience With a Female
Book Agent.
The editor of the Santa Clara (Cal.)
Echo is happily deaf, and thus tells of
his adventure with a female book agent
(the book was not a female, of course):
We thought everybody in the State
knew we were deaf, but once in a while
we find one that i3 not aware of the fact.
A female book-peddler came to the office
the other day; she wished to dispose of
a book. She was alone in this world,
and had no one to whom she could turn
for sympathy or assistance, hence we
should buy her book. She was unmar-
married, and had no manly heart .into
which she could pour her sufferings,
therefore we ought to invest in a book.'
She had received a liberal education,
and we could not, in consequence, pay
her less than $2.00 for a book. We had
listened attentively, and here broke in
with:
5 - What did you say ? We're deaf."
Ske started in a loud voice and went
through her rigmarole. When she had
finished we went and got a roll of paper,
and, making it into a speaking trumpet,
placed one end to our ear, and told her
to proceed. She nearly broke a bloodvessel in her effort to make herself
heard.   She commenced:
"lam alone in this world "
"It doesn't make the slightest difference to us. We are a husband and a
father. Bigamy is not allowed in this
State. We are not eligible to proposals."
LECMi   LOSE.
her voice, " I d^h't want to marry you;
I want to sell-a-b-o-o-k!"
This last sentence was howled.
"We don't want a cook," we remarked, blandly; "our wife does the
cooking, and she wouldn't allow as good-
looking woman as you to stay inthe
house five minutes. She is very jealous."
She looked at us in despair. Gathering her robes about her, giving us a
glance of contempt, she exclaimed:
actual settlement and cultivation.   At I    /'L^SlJ SSS
the end of five years' settlement and! iet, °„.al°n1gs,lde ^t deaf fools head
J    - - -50*"JJ-C-U10-U_*- ""^  he'd think that somebody was knocking
at the door."
Interesting Decisions from the tatest
.Law Keports.
■The case of the young man who hired
a horse in Paterson, N. J., on Easter
Monday, to drive four miles to Little
"Falls, but drove ten or twelve miles
further to the great injury of the animal,
has attracted considerable attention on
account of the supposed novelty of the
decision that this was an unlawful conver-
.sion of the horse to the hirer's own use.
This is said to be a new doctrine in the
courts of "New Jersey? but it has been
distinctly asserted in at least one instance within our knowledge, by the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.
In 1875 that tribunal decided (Perham
vs. Coney, 117 Mass. E9p., 102) that a
person hiring a horse to go to a place
agreed upon, but driving him beyond it,
was guilty of conversion, and was liable
for any subsequent diminution in the
value of the animal, even though it proceeded from some infirmity of the horse
himself. It would be well for people
who hire horses to keep these decisions
in mind.
The idea that a notary public should
be invested with power to commit a witness to jail for contempt would strike
lawyers in this part of the country with
amazement. Different notions prevail
in Missouri, however, as we learn from
a decision which has been rendered by
one of the Judges of the Appellate Court
of St. Louis. A w^-ness whose deposition was being takei_hefore a notary in
that city refused to answer one of the
questions put to him. The notary held
that he could lawfully be required to
give the evidence which the inquiry
sought to elicit, and upon his refusal
committed the witness to prison for ten
days, or until he should answer. Upon
a writ of habeas corpus sued out in behalf of the prisoner, the authority
claimed by the notary was maintained,
and the release of the witness was refused. The Chicago Legal News says
of this case that it may do for a notary
public to commit for contempt in Missouri, but it would never be tolerated in
Illinois. We hope there are very few
States where it would be tolerated.
An Ohio bank has been defeated in a
somewhat remarkable suit brought tore-
cover damages for the non-delivery of a
telegraphic message. A person had applied to the bank to have a draft cashed.
Being doubtful as to his responsibility,
the officers wrote to a correspondent in
another place, making inquiries, and
asking aresponse by telegraph. The letter also stated that if the telegram was not
received by a given time the draft would
be cashed. A message was delivered to
the telegraph company to be sent in
JBIOW   THE "tfi^S&BMB,  W&E   ©ATSQ
BT VANDXKE BEOWiT.
Full tall was he, witn 'sinewy muscles,
And shoulders broad and full and square,
With limbs designed for mighty tussels,
And the regular prize-ring crop of hair
And he playf d, with skill exceedingly fine,
The catcher*s place in a Western nine.
He was rich in all of the manly graces—
A very Apollo from head to heel;
And, though he was gopd at the stealing of bsses,
He never was base enough, surely, to steal.
A foul, indeed, his pulses stirred,
But he never was foul in deed or word.
As fair was she as the sun uprising,
A blooming maiden, with luscious lips,
Whose dainty completeness was really surprisin
Down to her rosy finger tips;
And she often sat on the stand in the shade,
And saw the games which that catcher played.
And whenever he seized on a hot one nicely,
Or caught a foul with agility,
She clapped her hands, for that was precisely
The sort of thing she wanted to see;
For much did this blooming maiden pine
For the catcher who caught in that Western nine.
Wherefore it was meet, when the games were over,
The catcher, so brave and manly and tall,
Should frequently play the part o* a lover
In a game considerably older than ball;
And if an occasional error be made,
'Twas simply because with a miss he played.
For, spite of her luve, this maid was addicted
To ways most coquettis*i and nauehty and sly,
And the man of the diamond field was" restricted
To taking love's favors, as 'ta-ere, on the sly;
And, though she protested at kissing, 14oubt
If the maid by the catcher was ever put out!
At that .dangerous hour, while yet the sun lingers .
Above the horizon, and Nature is dumb,-
He would hold her small hand between his jai_**.cd
fingers
And stroke her soft hair with his stiff-jointed
thumb;
And often their walks were extended so late,
'Twas eleven o'clock when she crossed the home
plate !
At last he mustered up courage and told her
How fondly he longed to make her his wife,
And she rested her head on his manly shonlder
While he eagerly asked* " wou d she give him a
life ?"
And he hinted with emphasis, leaving no doubt
That, should she refuse him, he'd surely strike out.
'Twas the umpire Intra that gave the decision;
The maiden permitted har lips to be kissed,
And then, looking up with a slightly blurred vision
She   blushingly murmured:    " Why,   yes—I'll
assist!"
So the game to a right happy ending was brought,
And thus, as it happened, tiie catcher was caught I
PI EH AHB POlNTo
An Irishman wanted to know if the
hero of Greece, "Mark G'Bozgaris,"
wasn't a son of the old sod.
Among the disagreeable things of this
life is borrowing an umbrella and finding the owner's name on the handle.
THAB-'-izj-norgood substitute^for, w^
dum, but silence iz the l>est' that haz
been discovered yet.—Josh Billings.
When the summer sun begins to sizzle,
And hunks of ice begin to drool,
Life seems indeed a fearful fizzle
To him who would but can'o keep cooL*
A novejO is called " My Heart's in
the Highlands." That is better than
having your liver in the hands of a doctor.
The three degrees in medical treatment : Positive, ill; comparative, pill;
superlative, bill.—New York Medical
Times.
"I sat, waiter, I've just cracked this
fe^s^^ is glassin eyes, and l*h^thjBg
cultivation upon proof thereof, and payment of the office fees, the person is entitled to a patent therefor. The applicant for a homestead can select 160
acres of any land, the cash price o'l which
is $1.25 per acre; or he. may take eighty
acres of any of the reserved land, the
cash price of which is $2.50 per acre.
5. All the provisions of tiie Homestead l?w are extended io every soldier
and officer o'i the army who served not
less than ninety days during the late
war, and who was honorably discharged;
the difference fcsing that he may select
160 acres of any land, including the reserved lands, the cash price of which is
$2.50 per acre, and the time of the service in the army e lail be deducted from
the period of five years, required in all
other cases of homestead, for settlement
and cultivation. The benefit of this
law is extended to the widow of a soldier, if married, or, in case of her death
or marriage, the minor children may enter the homestead. If the soldier "died
during the term of his enlistment, then
the widow or children shall be entitled
to the benefit of the full term of the enlistment. The total fees and commissions to be p-*id in case of a homestead is
$18, of which $4: are paid when the final
certificate is issued.
From these particulars it will be seen
that ary adult person may pre-empt any
portion of the public land to the extent
of 160 acres of" land held at $1.25 an
acre, or eignty acres held at $2.50 per
acre, ard pay for the same, without interest, st the'end of thirty-three months
after taking possession.
Or, under the Homestead law, every
adult may e?iter 160 acres of $1.25 land',
or eighty acres of $2.50 land, without
cost, on tVe condition of cultivating and
occupying the same five years.
Or a soldier, or the widow of a soldier, or the minor children of a soldier,
can enter "" 60 acres of either description
of land, and have the term of service in
tlie army deducted from the five years'
settlement or cultivation. Land may be
entered for homesteads by a duly appointed agent. Lands acquired under
the Homestead law are not liable for
debts contracted previously.
The objection is urged that there is
no land now open for settlement under
these laws, and that all the good lands
have been taken up. This is not true.
No State has exhibited a greater growth
of late years than Kansas, and we have
before us a statement of the lands now
open to settlement in that State. "Prom
this we give the following summary:
Railroad Lands. Acres.
1. A., lopeka and S. F. B. B.lands 1,250,000
2. Kansas Pacific B. B 2,500,000
3. "Ml., Kansas and Texas E. B .•    350 000
4. Missouri Biver, etc., E. B    300.000
5. Central Branch U. P. E. B    150,000
Total in Kansas 4.550,00
These lands range from $2 to $6 an
acre, and aresoldonanaverageof eleven
years' time, with liberal discounts.
State Lands. Acres.
School and other lands 3,000,C00
These lands are sold at not less than
$3 per acre, on ten years' time.
Public Lands. Acres,
Northwestern district. 4,730,000
Western district 8,000,000
Saline district   600,000
You should have heard her slam the
door when she went out. We heard
that.    ' 	
A Story That Hayes "Narrowly Escaped
Assassination.
While it is fresh in my memory, let
me tell a story which came to me direct
last night from a party who was interested in the matter. We were discussing
the subject of the Lincoln assassination,
and the avidity with which each particular of that crime was now devoured by
the hungry public, and he told me how,
by almost an accident, the life of President Hayes was preserved on the day of
the inauguration. On the evening of
the 3d a young man went to a Catholic
priest in this city, and said he was in
great trouble and nad come for advice.
With afew words of encouragement from
the monk, he proceeded to state that he
had met during the day an acquaintance, a gentleman from Chicago, who
told him he was here for the purpose of
shooting Mr. Hayes the next day while
he should be delivering his inaugural
address, adding: " I have "known him
for some time, father; he means what he
says, and I really believe he has bro&d •
ed o long over the election frauds that
he will carry out his design. I am a
Democrat. 1 do not want Mr. Hayes
seated, but I cannot tolerate the idea of
murder, nor do 1 better like the idea of
betraying that man, who may or may
not be sane. What shall I do?" "Do?"
said the friar, "wait until I change my
habit for my coat and I will tell you."
He asked the young man to accompany
him, and they went to the residence of
McDevitt, a well-known detective, finding him at home. The priest told the
man to repeat his story, and to show
McDevitt where to find the would-be
assassin. The father left them, and four
hours later McDevitt came to his house
and informed him he had gone to the
hotel, found the gentleman in the midst
of a perfect arsenal of weapons, put
them and him in a carriage and conveyed both to police headquarters, where
they were kept until the 5th of March,
when the gentleman was sent with a
nurse to his home. His mind was quite
unhinged by political excitement, an-"'
he was in a condition most favorable to
emulate the example set by that crazy
actor, Booth.— Washington Letter to
Cincinnati Enquirer.
They were sitting on the piazza near
the seaside. He was her lover, handsome, and full of the ardor of impassioned youth. She was sentimental and
pretty, but the mosquitoes were buzzing
around her so lively that even love became monotonous. "Finally there was a
lull in the conversation, which he broke
by observing: "What are the wild
waves singiHg?" She smiled sweetly,
and, swinging one of her ivory arms
over her golden curls, lisped: "I think
they must be singing Home^ Sweet
Home."   He left.
The Canadian crops are reported as
very f averabl© and promisijBg,
paper turned out to be valueless, and
the bank sued the telegraph company
for the amount paid on it, claiming that
the draft would have been rejected if the
telegram had been duly received. The
langaugeof the message, however, wasnot
such as to indicate to the company the
object for which it was sent; and, under
the circumstances, the Supreme Court
Commission of Ohio held that the damages claimed by the bank—that is, the
amount paid for the draft—did not naturally flow from a breach of the contract
to deliver the telegram, and could not
be regarded as within the contemplation
of the parties, and hence were not recoverable.
The obligations of railroad corporations in respect to the delivery of baggage to passengers traveling by the
same train with it are clearly defined in
a case lately decided by the Exchequer
Division ofthe High Court of Justice in
England. A maid had been journeying
with her mistress on the Great Western
railway, and they alighted at Padding-
ton station in London, where she saw
all their baggage, including her own
trunk, taken from the cars and placed
together on the platform. She went for
a hotel porter to take the baggage to a
hotel, but it appears that he did not find
her trunk, for it was not among the
things which he brought to the hotel.
Upon the trial of a suit to recover $150
as the value of the trunk, the jury found
that the loss occurred through the negligence of the company, and that there
was no delivery to the plaintiff. They
rendered a verdict in her favor, which
was upheld on a motion for a new trial;
and Baron Cleasby quoted the following
passage from Bedfield's American work
on carriers, as a very intelligible and
convenient statement of the law: "It
is the duty of a railroad company, in regard to the baggage of a passenger
which has reached its destination, to
have the baggage ready for delivery upon the platform at the usual place of
delivery until the owner, in the exercise
of due diligence, can call and receive it,
and it is the owner's duty to call for and
remove it within a reasonable time."
PeopiiE whose farms are fenced with
wire will do well to note a recent decision of the English Common Pleas
Divisional Court. The plaintiff and a
Yorkshire iron mining company held adjoining premises under the same landlord, with whom the company had contracted to fence the land it occupied.
Por this purpose lines of wire rope,
supported by posts, were placed along
the border of the plaintiff's farm, which
was used for pasturing milch cows. The
strands of this rope were rusted away
by long exposure to the weather. Bits
of the wire fell into the grass on the
plaintiffs land, where they were hidden
from view and involuntarily eaten up by
the cattle grazing near the fence. The
result was the death of three valuable
cows. A suit was brought to recover
the value of the third animal thus lost,
and the County Court Judge held the
mining company responsible, on the
principle that they were bound to use
their own property so as not to damage
another's. His decision was affirmed
by the Common Pleas division in London, which declared that the injury to
the cow was the natural result of the
acts of the defendants. They knew the
nature of the wire; that it should fall on
the adjoining laud when it decayed was
to be expected; and the pieces, being
concealed in the grass, were plainly
liable to be swallowed by cows pasturing there. Upon the principle already
mentioned, the company was adjudged
, to be aaswerable for the loss of the cow.
very
Tiry'
the mosquito are
really enjoy hard
They are putting
Look at it." "Don't" look
nice at that end, sir, I must say.
the other."
The house-fly and
the only ones who
work this weather,
in their best licks.
A discomfited soldier,who found that
he had shot an Indian already defunct,
was overheard to murmur, "I didn't
know it was Lo dead."
"Ah," sighed a hungry tramp, "I
wish I was a hoss. He's nearly always
got a bit in bis mouth, while I haven't
had a bit in mine for two day^"
a very clever ono
want now is a conundrum, to fill it.
Go to the mosquito, ye shiftless; consider his energetic ways and learn
gumption. On second thoughts, though,
you needn't go.   He'll be apt to come.
Bestattbant patron—" These sausages
are hardly up to the mark ?" Waiter—
"They ain't, eh? Well, d'ye expect
Italian greyhound and thoroughbred
Scotch terrier for two bits!"
The older the seeds the more perfect
the lady-slippers will be. And the .older
the banana peel the less graceful and
the more perfect will be the gentleman
slippers.
A we_u-known dramatist can say rude
things.   Some  one said  to  him, last-
week,   "You want a new hat."   "Yes,
that's quite true," he replied, "butwhy '
say it ?   I never told you you wanted a
new head."
"I wondeb where the clouds are going," sighed Flora, pensively, as she.
pointed with a delicate*finger to the
heavy masses floating in the sky. "I
think they are going to thunder," said
her brother.
The things which people are willing
to give us are the things we do not
want. When .Lincoln was sick with the
small-pox he said to his attendant:
"Send up the office-seekers. At last
I've got something for each one of ■
them."
Did the prophet Isaiah ever eat at a
railroad station ? It certainly looks so,
for how could he have described it so
literally if he had not? "And he shall
snatch on the right hand and be hungry;
and he shall eat on the left hand, and
they shall not be satisfied."
A witty clergyman, accosted by an
old acquaintance by the name of "Cobb,
replied^: "I don't know you, sir."
"My name is Cobb, sir," rejoined the
man, who was about half seas over.
"Ah, sir," said the minister, "you have
so much corn on that I did not see the
cob."
A simpijE-minded man having ah attack of the gout wanted to know why he
should be so afflicted, as he had always
lived a temperate life. " It is probably-
hereditary," said the doctor. "Sure,
enough," responded the poor victim. 'f I
understand it now; my wife's father had
it awfully."
A " Busted -*-" Weather Froplie„
Couch, the Iowa weather prophet, has
gone clean out of business, hopelessly
bankrupt; can't pay 15 cents on the dollar.   And here is what "h'isted" him. ■"
This is his prophecy for July:
"July, 1878, will be windy, cool, and
during the last half quite showery. The
July harvesters should use extra care in
setting up the grain, and in stacking.
The storm periods will be from the 1st
to the 3d; 6th to the 7tb, cool; 12th to
15th, severe; 27th to 28th, severe; and
30th to Sist, cool. The ' marked cool
days will be near the 4th, 7th, 15th, 2Sth
and 31st."
Go West, young man, go West. Go
about 928,000 miles west.—Burlington
Hawh-Eye.	
Of One OpMoiio
A little 3-year-old daughter ol" one of
our citizens" while with.her grandfather
the other day, had been insisting on"
having something which the old gentleman did not think wise to give her, until finally he remarked: " Why, I
never saw such a grandchild as you
are." Yery sober and demure the little
one looked up as she repliedi "Ho
and I never saw sueh a gmudjpa ]"—«
Hartford Times,