1882-06-08; Saline Observer

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Saline
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NISSLY & EMMERT, Publishers.
SALINE, WASHTENAW COUNTY, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1882.
VOL. n. NO. 30.
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BUSINESS DIRECTORY,
PROFESSIONAL.
r\  C.JBJNKINS,
Surgical and Mechanical
DENTIST.
Office, 19 South Main Street, opposite First
National Bank,
AnnArtoor,   -  "MioJTa.
T\   P. Mc"LACHLAN,
Physician at\d Surgeon,
Office and residence opposite M. E. Church,
Adrian street, Saline, Mich.
Q   W. CHANJD3-EE, M. D.,
Physician and Surgeon.
All calls promptly attended to.   Office at residence, first door north of M. JE. Chureh.
TH JONES & SON,
Attorneys.
All kinds of legal papers neatly and correctly
drawn. Collections made and promptly remitted. Office on Mc Kay street, Saline, Mich.
E. Jones. JFrask E. Jokes.
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M. B. GIJLDAJRT,
Attorney at Law,
And Justice of the Peace.   Office overNiehols
Bro's. store, Chicago street, Saline, Michigan.
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E. HITMPJHBE'Y,
Real Estate Agent.
GovernmentJLands located. 20,000 acres of
choice wheat lands for sale. Correspondence
solicited.  Ellsimry, Barnes Co., JD. T.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Mrs. W. F. LARZELERE,
The Old and Eeiiable
DRESSMAKER and CUTTER
Again offers her services to the ladies of
this vicinity.
PRICES *E*2,E!J^SOISrJA.BI-J--5
and Satisfaction Guaranteed.     Shop at
residence on Henry street, west.
WHSS A. SV^IFT
"Would inform the people of Saline and vicinity
that she is now prepared to do all kinds of
BJ-iESS   MAKING,
Cutting nnd Fitting.    AH work guaranteed
to give satisfaction.  Boom on Main St.,
Jin residence of JIrs. Philo Fowler.
MRS. CHIPSVSAI- SMITH
has opened a
Millinery   Store
OverNiehols Bro's drug store.
Where she will "be in attendance herself, on
Tuesday of each week.
MRS. M*. L. FORBES
"Cavites the ladies of Saline and vicinity to
call and examine her elegant new stock of
Spring&Summer Millinery Goods
Booms over Davenport & Son's store.
CEO. R. SHERMAN,
The old and reliable
_^agon and Carriage Maker.
JfoO work and repairing promptly done at reas-
v- onaWe rates.   Shop on Chicago St., west.
MYRON WEBB,
JUSTICE  OF THE  PEACE,
And .Insurance Agent.
COKVEXAKCING ATTEXDED TO PROMPTLY.
Special Attention. Given to Collections.
Office 2d door west of the postoffice.
E. A. REYNOLDS,
Notary Public, Real  Estate,
IKSTHtAXCE A2JD COU^ECHON AGENCY.
Office over N. C. Putnam & Co's. store, Milan,
Mich.   Ad business entrusted to me will
receive prompt attention.
_?a,tro_ai-_© Tlie    Boys I
HAUSER & CLARK,
Proprietors of
THE NEW LIVERY STABLE,
 At the	
OLD AETEBICAN HOUSE BARN.
B. BIENEMANN,
Dealer in the celebrated
Meriden Co.'s Silver Ware I
And "Watches, Clocks & Jewelry.
Headquarters at Besidence, on Henry St., 2nd
door east of Baptist church.
THOMAS ECCLES,
The Pioneer
BOOT AND SHOE MAKER,
Ts now located in the Burg building, on
Chicago St., where he will be glad to see all
His old customers and many new ones.
Repairing "Neatly and Promptly Done.
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THE WAY-SIDE WELL,
He stopped at the way-side well,
Where the water was cool and deep,
There were feathery ferns'twist- the mossy
stones,
And gray was the old well-sweep.
He left his carriage aloie;
Nor could coachman or footman tell
Why the master stopped in the dusty road
To drink at   e way-side well.
He swayed with his gloved hands
The well-sweep creaking and slow,
While from seam and scar in the bucket's
side
The water plashed hack below.
He lifted it to the curb.
Aud bent down to the bucket's brim;
No furrows of time or care had marked
The face that looked back at him.
Hs saw but a farmer's boy
As he stooped o'er the brim to drink,
And rucidy and tanned was the laughing face
That met bis over the brink.
The eyes we-e sunny and clear,
And the brow nadimmed by care,
While from under tha brim of the old straw-
hat
Strayed curls of chestnut hair.
Ho turned away with a sigh,
Nor could coachman or footman tell
Why the master stopped in his ride that day
To drink at tbe way-side well.
—Good Company.
great a talent for smashing and break J and, with a tugging at his heart-strings,
ing, to say nothing of an equally great  went ofl to seek his rival.   He found
DE LAM' A SntAYJiN'.
[Exhortation at a colored camp-meeting.
The dialect iB that of a Mississippi plantation.]
Look out, backslider, whar you walkin?
Make a misstep, sho's you bo'n.
I tell you what, it's no use talkin',
Ef you slip up, chile, you gonel
De road is full er stumps an' stubble,
Ruts an' sink holes eberywhai',
I spec dey'll gib you heap er trouble,
"JE* you don't stop yo'foolia' dar".
It's dark ez pitch an* mighty cloudy,
Sp?c' de debbil'a walkin' roun',
j?u_' thing you know he'll tell you "howdy,"—
lAl' Ms hoof an' stomp de groun'.
Man, can't you see a sto'm's a brewin'?
Hear de awfal thunder peal!
Look!   Blazin' light'nin' threat'nin' ruia—
Oh, backslider, how you feel?
Drap on yo' knees an' go to prayln',
Ax de Lawd to he'p you out.
Chile, tell him you's a lam' a strayin'—
Done got los' an' stum'lin' 'bout.
An' den you'll see de stars a-gleamin'—
'Luminatin'allde way.
Yea, 'bout ten thousan' twinklin', beamip'—
Smack untwell de break er day.
But ef you fall de debbii git you,
Fetch you slap! tight in yo' eye,
You'tf feel mos' like er grape shot hit you,
Drapp'd i'om half way to de sky!
THE LITTLE CHAHM.
talent for abstracting and devouring
both sweets and sours. Letty sprang
from the lounge, thrust her feet inte
her slippers, and hastened where duty
had been calling her for some time.
Baby sat, as good as gold, nursing a
bottle of tomato sauce, snugly wrapped
in a dish-towel, in the spot where she
had been, when Rick's ring summoned
her sister to the door. Only one small
flask lay broken on the floor. 'That
won't be missed,' said Letty. 'I thank
fortune, there's no worse mischief done.'
But the 'thank' was scarely uttered
when her eyes fell upon the last jar
of the famous peach marmalade, the
secret of the making of which died with
grandmamma, and which was being
carefully kept for Aunt Emory's (Aunt
Emory was an old maid worth $30,000)
birthday. There it stood directly in
front of baby, with more than half of
its thick paper hat torn ofl, and a yawning cavity made in its precious contents
by little scooping fingers.
'Oh, Baby, why couldn't you have
taken any jar but that?' asked Letty,
reproachfully and dramatically. But
Baby evidently had no excuse to offer
for not doing so, for she kept on crooning to her bottle-doll, while her sister
hastily fashioned another paper hat and
tied it securely over what remained of
the original covering.
Then said Baby, "Rick tiss I—nice
Rick!'
him, and brought him back. And what
do you think Aunt Emory did ? Aunt
Emory, who had declared over and over
again that only as Mrs. Brougham
Brown, Letty should inherit any of her
money. 'Left the house in a passion!'
Not a bit of it-. She laughed and laughed until she could laugh no longer.
•Now I shall have something new to
tell folks,' she said. 'They must be
tired and sick of my old yarns. I'm
sure t am. Love, gold pigs, jealousy,
and marmalade all mixed up together.
It's one of the funniest things I ever
heard in all my life.'
•I'm glad you think so,' said . Mrs.
Lounsberiy. 'It don't strike me that
way.   What are they going to live on?'
'Oh, I'll look after them,' said Aunt
Emory; and her remark makes a very
good ending to this story.
Robert Coilyer on How to Raise
Children.
The Great Ant-Eater and its
Young.
W. HELLER & SON-
Horse Shoeing & Blacksrnithing
If your horse forges, interferes or is irregular
In his gait, give us a call and we will regulate him so he will not anoy you.
Special Attention Given
To horses having weak and diseased feet.
SHOP ON ANN ARBOB STREET.
CEORCE   EHN-S.
Merchant Tailor and Cutter,
I have a full line of samples of goods carried
by a leading eastern jobbing house, which I
will furnish my customers at
*W*HOLjESA___iJ FJE^OE--
I tray my trimmings of jobbers and give my
customers the beneflt. Don't buy anything in
the clothing line untilyou have examined my
samples and got my prices. I will save you
money. AU work warranted. Shop over Davenports & Son's store.
A. 8. JBMTOJN. W. B. ISBEM-
BLITON & ISBELL,
PBOBBIETOES Off THE
Livery, Sale ancf Feed Stables,
STAGE AND DBAY LUTES,
Office,  South Front Street, West Broadway,
TOWER CITY, DAKOTA.
Stages to Ellsbury, Hope and JLybeck leave
every Tuesday.   Land Hunter's Outfits always furnished at reasonable rates,
QOJHAXBER & SCHMIDT,
Proprietors of the Union Block
MEAT  MARKET.
— AU Mads Of —
MEAT, POULTRY, FISH ETC
At IiOwestJLMngPi-ces.  No. 8, Union Block,
ft'-jae.JflcWfiran.
It was by far the worst quarrel they
had ever had, and they had many, for
she had a temper, and he had a temper,
and they were both of them impulsive
young people with very little self-control.
'You are a false, selfish, untruthful,
man-like man,' said she.
'And you a suspicious, unreasonable,
unwomanly woman,' said he.
'Take back your letters,' she cried,
flinging a parcel tied with hyacinth-
blue ribbon on the floor at his feet.
'I will,' h9 muttered between bis
clenched teeth, pickiBg up- the parcel
and throwing it into the fire, where it
blazed brightly for a moment or two,
and then flew away in thin uncanny
black fragments up the chimney. As
the last fragment disappeared, Rick
turned again to Letty, with frowning
brow, and asked, as he had asked before, 'Do you still persist in accusing
me of deceit and falsehood?'
'I do,' she repjed, 'unless you show
me the charm.'
'I will not show it to you,' he declared, with violent emphasis. 'If my
word be not sufficient, I refuse to give
you further proof. I wonder that you
dare insult me by asking it. And I also wonder how you, believing me to be
false and untruthful, can be willing to
trust your future tome. And, to speak
frankly, I begin to think we have made
a great mistake in supposing that we
could spend that future happily together. And, furthermore, I also begin to
think that perhaps it would have been
better if we had never met.
'Oh, indeed, sir!'—with great assumption of dignity. 'Have you just arrived at that conclusion? I have long
been sure of ifc. But there is nothing
easier than to part. Tour letters are
already disposed of. To-morrow I will
send back your ring and picture. And
then, when I am free once more. I can
try to please my mother (our acquaintance, as you are well aware, has never
pleased her) and in pleasing her 1 may
find I am doing & pleasant as well as a
wise thing for myself.'
'Are  you referring  to  Brougham
Browns'-
'I am referring to Brougham Brown.'
Rick, seizing his hat, said, 'this is too
much.   Letty, good by forever.'
Bufc Letty began humming an air,
drumming an accompaniment on the
window pane, and vouchsafed no answer. Rick rushed from the room.
The humming and drumming ceased
instantly, and the whilom performer listened intently. Five minutes passed,
and still the street door did not slam.
'He is waiting for me to come out into
the hall and beg his pardon, I suppose,
but I Won't,' and? she turned again to
the window as the door shut with a
bang.
And then she flung herself on the
lounge, kicked off  her slippers, and
cried like a summer shower. Rick gone,
and gone   'forever'—Rick whom she
had loved so dearly, and who had loved
her so dearly, for two long years.   And
why? Just because that silly, giggling,
Lena Marian, with her pale blue eyes
and straw-colored hair, had chosen to
tell fibs about him.   And shaking the
water from her lashes, she began scolding herself just as hard as| she had
scolded poor Rick.    'The idea Letty
Lounsberry, of your believing that girl
before him I   What possessed you? He
did flirt a little with her, that is true ;
but all men flirt a little with girls who
persist in admiring them and flattering
them.   Bufc he never gave her the little
gold pig—your Christmas gift to him—
never I How she got it I can't imagine,
bufc he would have explained it if you
had given him a chance." And then the
absent mother, gone to Aunt Emory's
for a two days' visit, came in. for a share
of reproach.   'If she had only let our
engagement be known, instead of insisting upon our waiting until Rick
was 21/   And Letty suddenly remembered that ever since Rick came in to
make a morning call, knowing Mrs.
Lounsberry was absent, baby had been
sitting alone in the dining-room in the
middle of the big dinner-table, surrounded by all the pickle and marmalade jars
and fruit cans and catsup bottles and
jam pots out of the store-room.   Eor it
was the monthly house-cleaning day,
and the store-room fell to Lefcty's share,
he foreign help being gifted with too
'Oh, that is what he was doing when
she foolishly imagined he was waiting
for her to come and implore his forgiveness—bidding good-by to Baby. She
might have known it, for he had always loved Baby dearly.'
•Yes, Baby; nice Rick, good Rick,
dear Rick; but, for all that, the ring he
gave me goes back to him to-morrow
unless I hear from him to-night, How
dare he wish that we had never met?'
But she did not hear from him that
night, and the little band of gold was
placed in Rick's hands as he left his
place of business. But ah, what a silent,
sorrowful maiden wandered about the
Lounsberry dwelling thereafter! What
a listless, weary voice repeated the
nursery rhymes that Baby demanded
fifty times a day!
'No nice—no more,' said Baby, missing the merry tones and the happy lajigh.
But Mrs. Lounsberry was not at all displeased with the turn affairs had taken,
Broughman Brown suited her much
better as prospective son-in-law than
Richard Creighton. One was a wealthy
young brewer, the other a poor clerk in
a counting house.
'Letty will soon get over it,' she said
to Letfcy's father, whose heart ached at
the sight of his daughtei's sad face.
'A first-love disappointment is alwayr
hard to bear for a while. I thought s
should have died when Stephen Ford
married my cousin, bat I didn't; I lived
to marry you, and I have a seal-skin
cloak, and Mrs. Eord hasn't even a
jacket.' And so Broughman Brown,
who was really a manly, generous, good-
hearted fellow, in spite of hid beer and
wealth, encouraged by the maternal
head of the house, began devoting himself in the most ardent fashion to Letty,
and she, seeing her mother's pleasure
thereat, and hearing no word from Rick,
received his attentions in a passive, unresponsive way.
Three months went by, audit was
Aunt Emory's birthday, and that eccentric old lady had decided to divide
it among the family, lunching with one
portion, dining with another, and supping with a third. The lunch party
was given at her sister Letitia's (Mrs.
Lounsberry), and some half a dozen old
friends and some dozen relatives were
bidden to the feast. Letty, in a sea-
gown with a spray of pink hyacinths
in her hair, went quietly about welcoming her guests, Brougham Brown
following her like her shadow, until
lunch was announced. Then, taking
her place afc the table, the young man
still near her, she raised the cover from
and dipped a spoon into the last jar of
grandmama's famous pc ich marmalade
(she had had it placed b. fore her, trusting to be able to hide the mischief Baby
had done), when somebody said, addressing her mother: 'Have yo u heard
that Richard Creighton is going abroad
for his,ghealth ? He has given up his
situation, and sails in a day or two.
They say he has failed fast lately.'
And the very nest moment Aunt
Emory fixed her spectacled eyes upon
her niece's pale face, and asked, sharply: 'What's the matter, child? Do
you see anything dreadful in the
sweets?'
'No, ma'am,' answered Letty, with a
pitiful attempt at a smile, when the
spoon struck something harder than
preserved peaches should be.
'Let me help you,' said Brougham;
and with one turn' of his wrist he
placed upon the dainty china shell before her—a wad of paper.
'And so that; is the last of the celebrated marmalade, id ,ifc?' said Aunt
Emory. 'I prefer my sweets unmixed
with any foreign substances. Take it
away, Norah.'
But Letty was already unrolling the
paper (it proved to be the missing part
of the jar's original hat)—a rather difficult thing to accomplish, as it stuck
persistently to her small fingers, but
accomplished at last, when out rolled
the little gold pig. And on the inside
of the paper in Rick's bold hand were
these words:
'My Darling. How foolish we are
—I mean, I am! Here is the charm.
Miss Varian had it about ten minutes
lastnig'.it—only long enough to show
ifc to you and tell you a story about it.
Baby will give it to you. Had no paper, so I tore a piece off one of your
jam pots. Will see you to-morrow
evening. Rick.'
Never did any young lady so suddenly break through ailthe conventionalities of society, never did daughter so
quickly forget the wishes of her mother, never did niece so unflinchingly
brave the displeasure of a tbirty-thou-
sand-dollar aunt, as did Letty Lounsberry the instant after she had read
this note.
•Brougham,' she said, looking at him
with beseeching eyes, 'I must seeRiflk.
You will go and bring him?'
For a moment he pulled his long
moustache nervously. 'We are not
very good friends, you know, afc last he
said.
'Yes, I know. But I am to blame
for that. Brougham, but I must see
Rick.'
And the good fellow, hesitating no
longer, turned from the imploring face,
It was one of the secrets of my
craft, in the old times, when I wanted
to wield iron and steel  and make a
good ax and hammer, to begin gently,
for I found out in time that if I began
to strike hard at first I might make a
bad job where I ought to make a good
one.   So I found it was the first condition of good work to begin gently,
then by and by I could come down
with a more forcible stroke.   And I
used to notice this trouble in the great
iron mills, and I found that the reason
why the great hammers could come
down so gently as not to crack an egg,
and then come down  like an earthquake, was that there must be in the
machinery a combination of force and
gentleness to make it effective.   Machinery in the hands of the mechanic
was his child in a certain sense.   If
there was a screw loose he got a little
purchase to turn it to the right, and so
at last ifc worked well and there was
no trouble.   Gentleness was master of
the situation.   So, said the preacher,
I have watched the development of
little children.   There must be a right
way and a wrong way to train little
children.   They must not seem to us
like wrought iron, or brutes that we
can break to our will.   Children are
tender; you must lead them tenderly
on.    Solemon's doctrine   "Spare  tho
rod and spoil the child "is an abhorrent doctrine—a doctrine that I will
not, have about my house.   I took ifc
out of my eldest son when he was a
little fellow, thinking he had told me a
lie, and I felt as if some one would
take ifc out of me, and I found at the
end of the week that the child had
told me the exact and simple truth.
We should cultivate the virtue of the
wisdom of  infinite love  with  little
children.    Children   are  hot   things,
but human beings possessing powei
we cannot even guess at.   We bend
over these little ones and seek our image in them.   If we detect a fault we
probably say:   " Oh, he has taken that
from his mother."   We always walk
softly when we don't know our way,
and particularly when  we  walk  in
shadows.    The child is  tender;   we
should lead on softly.   Hold your hand;
if you must whip somebody turn the^
lash to your own shoulder.   Don't sap
the flower in their live3 by trying to
pluck out the weeds.   A great many
fathers ahd mothers lay heavy burdens
upon the backs of their children.   I
remember when I was a child how
glad I used to be to get half a day to
go into the woods to cut hazel rods Eor
our master.    We knew  what they
were for, but we didnt care.   Children
will sometimes get into a little mis-
have known children
wrong to go and tell
mother.   Well, I was
to that.   Children, no
more than grown-up-people, like to be
caught in a naughty act.   Sometimes
people are inhuman when they detect
their cliildren wrong-doing.   I said to
Lucretia Mott once:   "How do you
manage your chileren? "   "Well," the
old lady said, "I never touch them
with my hand, but tell them to go into
the room, aud after reflection, tell me
what they think about ifc."   In all our
dealings with little children we must
be gentle, patient and forgiving; win
them with our love and not terrify
and repel them   with   harshness  or
severity.
chief. Now, I
when they did
their father and
never addicted
Salt for the Throat.
In these days when diseases of the
throat are so universally prevalent,
and in so many cases fatal, we feel it
our duty to say a word in behalf of a
most effectual, if not positive cure for
sore throat. For many years past, indeed, we may say during the whole of
a life of more than forty years, we
have been subject to a dry, hacking
cough, which is not only distressing to
ourself, but to our friends and those
with whom we are brought into business contact. Last fall, we were induced to try what virtue there was in
common salt. We commenced by using
it three times a day, morning noon,
and night. We dissolved a large tablespoonful of table salt in about half a
small tumblerful of water. With
this we gargle the throat most thoroughly . just before meal-time. The
result has been that during the entire
winter, we were not only free from
the coughs and colds, but the dry,
hacking cough had entirely disappeared. We attribute these satisfactory
results solely to the use of salt gargle,
and most cordially recommend a
trial of it to those who are subject to
diseases of the throat. Many persons
who have never tried 'the salt gargle
have the impression that it is unpleasant, but after a few days' use no person who loves a nice, clean mouth, and
a first* rate sharpener of the appetite,
will abandon it.—-*SreZec_e-"J.
The ant-eaters form one of the most
interesting families known to science,
and comprise a number of forms that,
as their name indicates, gain a living
by assaults upon the nests of antsf ound
in the countries to which they are indigenous.   The largtsfc and besfc known
of the family is the great ant-eater, or
ant-bear, which is covered with long.
coarse, shaggy hair, except the head,
where it is short and close; it has a
very long and slender head,   and a
bushy black tail of enormous size and
length, the whole animal measuring
often eight feet from the tip of the
snout to the extremity  of  the tail.
Being plantigrade, it stands lower on
the hind legs than before, which is the
case with bears and other quadrupeds
similarly formed.   It has four tees on
the four feet, the second and third being provided with long, sharp-pointed,
and trenchant claws; so that nothing
upon which it has an opportunity of
fastening can escape.   The hind feet
have toes, furnished with short weak
claws, resembling those of  ordinary
quadrupeds.    In the fore limbs  we
notice that the ultimate phalanges of
the toes, which support the claws, are
so constructed as to allow the movements of the latter being restricted to
flexion inwards; and in order to maintain this position there are powerful
ligaments which keep the phalanges
directed toward the palm, and never
allow the digits to be stretched out in
the manner of the  plantigrade car-
nivora.   The relative size and strength
of the toes are also very significant in
this family; in those which have five
toes the central digit attains an enormous bulk, while the outer pair are
comparatively small.   And in order to
afford adequate power for the digging
and burrowing propensities of these
animals, the phalanges are all closely
connected together up to the base of
the ultimate phalanx, converting the
hand into a kind of trowel, similar to
that found iu moles.
From what has been advanced, ifc
will readily be remarked that ant-
eaters do not walk on the soles of their
feet; neither do they tread on their
strongly-curved toes, which would
damage the claws, but, in the fore
feet and the anterior part of
the body is seen to rest entirely
upon their outer edge; and that part
of the hands thus subjected, as it were,
to an unusual pressure, is, in those
creatures, supplied with an efficient
callous pad to protect the outer
phalanges from injury.
The prevaling color is a deep gray,
with a very broad band of black running from the neck downward on each
side of the body; its habits are slothful and solitary; and it sleeps during
the greater part of the day. It lives
entirely upon ants, to procure which
ifc opens their hills with its powerful
crooked claws, and draws its long flexible tongue, which is covered with
glutinous saliva, lightly over the
swarms of insects who flock from all
quarters to defend their dwellings. It
is a native of Brazil and Guiana.
It seems almost incredible that so
robust and powerful an animal can
procure sufficient sustenance from
ants alone; but this is nothing strange
to those who are acquainted with the
tropical parts of America, and who
have seen the immense quantities of
these insects, which swarm in all parts
of the country to that degree that their
hills often almost touch one another
for miles together. The favorite resort for the great ant-eaters is the low
swampy savannas, along the banks of
rivers, and stagnant pools.
The enormous claws of the forelegs
are terrible weapons. Waterton records an instance of their power in
his " Wanderings," and in Brown's
" Canoe life in Guiana " there is a similar account. He says: "We had not
gone mauy miles before the guide lost
the path, and we all scattered to look
for it. In doing so, I almost walked
on the top of a sleeping ant-bear
which, springing up, sat on its hind
legs, and grasped at me with its huge
fore claws. I sprang quickly to one
side, and thus escaped. Thinking that
it was good eating, I shot it, bufc the
Indian said that it was not wholesome
food, although, from the great interest
they took in seeing it killed, I thought
it was." (Waterton says that its flesh
is good eating.)
These large ant-eaters are very dangerous   customers,   and   have   been
known to kill men.   Williams told me
that an Indian, living near Roraima,
was hunting in the forest to the north
of that mountain with some others.
armed with his long blow-pipe.   In
returning home, considerably in ad
vance of the rest of the party, it i
supposed that he saw a young ant
eater, and, taking ib up in his arms
was carrying it home, when its mother
gave chase, overtook, and killed him;
for, when his companions came up,
they found him lying dead on his face
in the embrace of the ant-bear, one of
its large claws having  entered Ms
heart.   In the struggle he had managed to stick his knife behind his back
into the animal, which bled to death,
but not before  the poor fellow had
succumbed to his terrible hug.   It was
evident that he had only heard the
ant-eater coming when ifc was close upon him, and in turning round to look,
his blow-pipe got caught across the
path in front of him; then, as he turned to run,  it  formed a bar to his
progress, and he fell over it as the
An old-fashioned social club formed
in Baltimore fifty years ago under the
name of "Millers and Trau-pers," is
about to be rejuvenated by the thirty
members of whom it now consists. The
principal treasure of this ancient organization is a gold-headed cane which
descends in succession to the oldest
member, provided he is not less than
seventy years old. Where this condition is not fulfilled the heirs of the last
possessor hold the cane until his successor has attained the prescribed age,
A wag, who thought to have a joke
at the expense of an Irish provision
dealer, said: "Can you supply me with
a yard of pork ?" "Pat," said the dealer
to his assistant, "give this man three
pig's feet.
Students of Moscow University went
into mourning for Darwin.
animal seized him. So firmly had the
animal grappled him that to separate
it from the corpse the Indians had to
cut off its fore legs.
It is very rarely that an opportunity
offers to observe in this couutry the
habits of one of these curious creatures,
but recently an ant-bear was brought
here alive from South America, and on
the passage gave birth to two young,
which the writer afterward saw, and
watched  with   great   interest   their
movements about the  mother.    The
poor creature fared badly on the voyage to the United States, as the sailors
were ignorant of the nature of the
animal, and its  curious  appearance
impressed them with such a feeling of
aversion that no one could be found to
approach the family  of compulsory
immigrants, and they were only kept
alive by the boiled  eggs  that were
tossed them by some of the more humane of the crew.   The little ones, as
we saw them, were about a month or
six weeks old, and were perfect images
of the mother, with the exception that
the tail was not so large in proportion
to the body, and the curious color
markings were nofc so pronounced as
in the adult. As we approached the
cage, nothing could be seen but a
bunch of coarse grizzly hair; bufc a
word from the owner, and the enormous tail of the parent was raised,
and the young were seen. She was
lying on her side, the young embracing
her abdomen, after the fashion of
young monkeys, and over all came the
tail of the mother, shutting and enclosing them like a lid, forming
effective protection. As she clumsily
rose the young scrambled over and
attained a position on her back, clinging to her with long claws, their bushy
tails in air, lost in the voluminous
folds of the mother's that covered
thera even now as a canopy, being
equally protective.
At a word from the keeper she came
laboriously torward us, walking on the
•outside of her sharply clawed feet, and
the long noses of the entire family
were presented and rubbed against our
hands with every demonstration of-
frendliness.
The tongue is extremely long, and
below its roots are two large glands
that emit a glutinous secretion that is
so effective in conveying the swarms
of ants to its mouth. They were fed
exclusively upon hard boiled eggs,
upon which we were informed they
thrived. The climate, however, is
against them, and since our first visit
one of the young has died, and the
other will probably follow.
The little ant-eater occurs also in
Brazil and other countries of South
America. Its habits are similar to
those of its more powerful species,
Von Sack, in his " Voyage to Surinam,"
gives an interesting account of the
tame ones in his possession; and, after
describing their characters, he tells us
that the inhabitants of that country
aver that when captured these animals
cannot be induced to eat, and only
lick their paws after the fashion of a
bear. ."When I obtained the first,"
he says, "I sent to the forest for a
nest of ants, and during the interim I
put into its cage some eggs, honey,
milk and meat, but it refused to touch
any of them. At length the ant's
nest arrived: but the animal did not
pay the slightest attention to it either.
By the shape of its fore paws, which
resemble nippers, and differ very much
from those of all the other species of
ant-eaters, I thought that this little
creature might perhaps live on the
nymphse of wasps etc. I therefore
brought it a wasps' nest, and then ifc
pulled out with its nippers the nymphse from the nest and began to eat
them with great eagerness, sitting in
the posture of a squirrel. I showed
this phenomenon to many of the inhabitants, who all assured me that it
was the first time they had ever known
that species of animal to take any nourishment. The ants with which I
tried it were the large termites upon
which fowls are fed here." According
to Von Sack and most observers, the
tail is employed as a prehensible organ.
It is larger than the body, very stout
and broad at its origin, thickly clothed
with short hairs, and much attenuated
toward the extremity. Generally
speaking, the fur displays a thick, soft,
shining, woolly texture. The female,
it is said, produces a single young one
at a birth, although it is furnished
with four mammae.
In the Old World the ant-eaters are
represented by the aard-vark and spiny
ant-eater the latter a curious creature
with a long, slender, toothless bill,
with a palate armed with rows of
strong sharp spines; the tongue is similar to that of the great ant-eater of
South America, while the body is
covered with quills like a porcupine.
Ifc is common in various parts of
Australia, Port Moresby, New Guinea,
and quite recently a new species has
been discovered in Northern New
Guinea.
The aard-vark, a South African ant-
eater, is a   strange-looking creature,
and a very distinctive character is seen
in the head, which has long-pointed
ears; while the tail, being of moderate
length, not so long as the body, is very
thick, rounded at the root, and densely
clothed with hair.   Altogether it is a
stout, heavy animal, the large bones of
the neck in particular, demonstrating
its   strength in the  cervical region.
The fur, which is very scanty, is generally of a grayish-brown color.   The
permanent teeth of the adult, twenty
in number, have a simple form and
structure, being made up of rootless
cylinders, those in front displaying a
slightly flattened aspect at the sides.
It is rather larger than the common
badger, attaining a length of upward
of four feet.   Its habits are nocturnal,
and it constructs large subterraneous
burrows with extraordinary rapidity.
It appears to live entirely upon ants,
and for this   purpose the tongue is
largely developed, and armed with a
glutinous secretion.   It is not so long,
however,   as in the  true ant-eaters,
while it is at the same time more flattened and attenuated.   The aard-vark
invariably fixes his retreat   near to
some large ant's nest, which he ventures only to attack after dark.   He is
a timid creature, and does not move
far from his burrow; and when attacked, should he succeed in gaining access
to bis abode, it is next to impossible to
get him out, for it is said he can burrow faster than his enemies can dig.
According to those who have witness-
'ed its method of procuring food, the
aard-vark, having approached an anthill, forthwith proceeds to scratch a
small part of it, just snfficient to allow
of the introduction of its long narrow
snout.   These ant-hills are sometimes
three or four feet in height, and contain myriads of insect inhabitants—
strongly ensconced in fancied security
complete!
" Here," observes Mr. Ogilby, "after
having  previously  ascertained   that
become exceedingly fat, and their-flesh
is considered to be wholesome and
palatable food. The hind-quarters
particularly, when cut into hams and
dried, are held in great esteem."
There are some ants that these animals cannot face, and the so-called
fire ants of South America will put to
flight the largest ant-bears. To any
one who has handled the soft, velvety
nose of these animals, it is a mystery
how they are able to withstand the [
savage attacks to which they are subjected. The rapid movement of the
snake-like tongue, however, is probably the secret of its boldness.—Scientific American*.
becames very fond of them, and they \
are much eaten by the Italians, who I
will make a meal from a handful of;
olives, a piece of bread and a glass of
wine. s
SMALL-POX PREVENTION.
An Immigrant Inspection Service
Discussed-Our Present Quarantine Insufficient.
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there is no danger of interruption, he
lies down, and inserting his long slender tongue into the breach, entraps the
ants, which fly to defend their dwellings upon the first alarm, and, mounting upon the tongue of the aard-vark,
get entangled in the glutinous saliva
and are swallowed by whole scores at a
time. If uninterrupted he continues
this process till he has satisfied his
appetite; but on the slightest alarm he
makes a percipitate retreat, and seeks
security at the bottom of his subterranean dwelling. Hence it is that these
animals are seldom seen, even in those
parts of the country in which they are
most numerous. Like other nocturnal
animals, passing the greater part of
their lives in sleeping and eating, they
Olive Growing in Italy.
By far the most important product
of the land along the entire Riviera is
the olive, and its culture demands the
industry of a large proportion of the
peasantry.   The soil is owned entirely
by the Government, which acquired
it by confiscation from the church,
when a few years ago it absorbed so
much of the property of the church of
Rome, or by the nobles. The peasants
rent the soil and the olive grove3 upon
equal shares, furnishing all the labor
and manure. The culture of the olive
is accounted a special trade by itself
and is taught by father to son, so that
in some instances the same trees have
been cultivated by the same family of
peasants for many generations.   I saw
one family who had farmed the same
plot of fifty trees from the same family
of noblemen for more than 600 years.
The trees grow to an enormous age,
well   authenticated   instances   being
known where the trees are more than
1000 years old.   The hills are so exceedingly steep that the trees could
obtain no foothold naturally,and therefore they have terraced them far up
the sides ofthe mountain, afc a distance
of 2000 or 2500 feet.   These terraces
are from six to sixty feet in width and
the retaining walls of solid stone vary
greatly in height, from two or three
feet to twelve or fifteen.   The soil is
carefully scraped together in between
these retaining walls, and the olives
are planted about twenty-five or thirty
feet apart.   The habit of the trees is
somewhat similar to our apples, and is
the bark, but the trunks which often
grow to an enormous size, are most
grotesquely gnarled and t'lvistsd. Tne
foliage, which is perennial, is not unlike that of our willow, though the
leaves are not quite so long and are
a peculiar grayish green which at first
give the country an air of gloom, but
after a little this feeling wears off and
a walk am*ng the olives is one of the
most delightful of the many pleasant
things onehas to remember of Riviera.
The olive takes twenty or thirty years
to come into bearing and whenever an
old tree begins to show signs of decrepitude a young tree is at once planted near it to take i!s place.
Owing to the age which the trees
reach and the stable nature of their
product, mortgages are often given on
the  trees themselves,  and regarded
with nearly as much favor  as our
mortgages on land.   Iu the winter,
after the crop is gathered, the trees
are looked over with a painstaking
care which we Americans can hardly
realize.   AU boring insecis are destroyed and every decayed spot pared
away.   All unproductive snoots are
pruned off", and the wood thus obtained
is saved for fuel to the smallest paring
After the pruning and paring, which
occupies several months and is performed by the older men, trenches are
dug around each tree at a distance of
from six to ten feet, depending upon
the size of the tree.   These trenches
are about a foot in width and from
four to six inches in depth.   They are
then filled with a compost of night
soil and house droppings, and covered
again with soil.   It is a common and
almost constant sight to see the manure gatherers in the streets of the
cities and towns and along the Cornice
road carrying coarse bags of gunny
cloth, and oftentimes holding the bag
open with their teeth and one hand,
while with the other they gather up
the  freshly-dropped   manure    from
horses or donkeys.   The night soil
which to one's disgust is only too plentifully deposited by the side of walk,
and in every lane and alley-way, is
gathered by girls, who carry on their
pretty heads a pail, and pick up the
night soil with a short paddle.   They
look like Hebes and smell like—well,
we never allowed ourselves to get any
nearer to them than we were obliged
to, and always passed them well to
windward;
In between the olive trees many
other crops are raised—wheat, pulse
and various kinds of garden vegetables, three and four crops being taken
off in a year.   The soil is seldom or
never plowed, hut is turned over with
a clumsy kind of hoe or mattock. The
shovels used by the Italians differ
greatly from ours; they are about the
shape of our long-handled shovel, so
far as the blade is concerned, but the
handle is short and fastened to the
blade as though it were a hoe; in fact,
it is an exaggerated heart-shaped hoe,
and is used even in Joadihgearthinto
a cart exactly as we would use a hoe
for a similar purpose.   The olive produces a full crop not oftener than once
in about three years, though there
may often be two or threeyears' good
crop in succession, followed by a correspondingly long   period   of  poor
years, but the average of a longperiod
of years is always about the same.
When the fruit of the olive is fully
grown, but before the oil begins to
form, those intended for use on the
table are carefully gathered and pickled in brine.   They are not nearly so
large as the Spanish olives so much
used in   this country, though   the
French and English use them to a
great extent.   The balance, and by
far the greater portion of the crop/is
left on the trees to ripen. When fully
ripe it is of a dark, dull, purplish color, somewhat like a small damson
plum, but more pointed and not so
bright in color.   It is then quite soft
aud full of oil.   The taste is to a foreigner at first exceedingly nauseous,
but, like the green olives, one soon
xt
A meeting of the state and local
boards of health has just been held in
this city for the purpose of devising
means to prevent the introduction of
small-pox by immigrants into this country. In addition to the representatives
from our own state, among the persons
present may be mentioned Dr. Stephen
Smith of New York, secretary of the
National Board of Health, 3. M. Partridge, of the Indiana State Board of
Health, Dr. G. C. Ashmun, health officer of Cleveland, O., Dr. Rae of the
Ontario Board of Health, and Dr. Far-
quharson, secretary of the Iowa State
Board of Health.
After the meeting was called to order, |
Hon. Leroy Parker of Flint was chosen ■
chairman, and L. A. Sherman of the j
Port Huron Times, secretary. Consid- j
erable discussion followed. All seemed j
to be convinced of the desirableness of l
some action being taken in the matter.  !
Our quarantine laws were framed j
for a condition of affairs different from !
that which at present exists. Under '
our system of rapid travel a person i
might be expose^*"trs*"Siii*Mi'ipgx in the j
old world, cross the Atlantic, an-Hie^^-j^
the center of this coninentrwhen the |
disease was developed. For a long '
period our country was comparatively j
exempt, bufc with the increase of im- '
migration came %he introduction of |
small-pOx. A proper vaccination or in j
some cases revaccination would prevent
this. However, vaccination to be ef- :
feetive must be efficiently performed, j
A scar on the arm is not of necessity a !
proof of protection. This might result j
from any kind of sore, and in fact many
people though unprotected are trusting j
to such spurious cicatrices. I
To avoid this or to secure immunity \
to the immigrants and our people from j
small-pox thus transmitted, "ifc was i
deemed advisable to have in addition to \
quarantine requirements an immigrant I
inspection service organized on all the i
main trunk lines of travel. Under this j
system an inspectior could board a train
examine each immigrant and remove or |
isolate those infected. The work Of !
such inspection could be greatly f acUi- }
tated by having as many as possible |
vaccinated prior to embarking for this
country or on shipboard and given a
card for presentation to the inspecting
officer. Those who were removed from
the train should be cared for at national expense as it was unjust to ask the
localities to hear the burden of their
support. Their removal and isolation
was to the disadvantage of the places
where they were stopped, but was for
the benefit of the country as a whole.
Hence ifc was resolved that the National Board of Health be requested to provide such pesfc-houses as were desirable
and support the immigrants detained
in them.
As many immigrants come to us.,
through the Dominion of Canada, the
meeting resolved to invite the corporation of the Canadian authorities in inaugurating this inspection service. The
action of such steamship and railroad
companies as had established a system
of inspection was commended, other
companies requested to inaugurate a
similar system, and a resolution passed
to the effect that it is desirable to have
the proposed inspection service begin
generally throughout the country by
June 1, 1882. After memorializing
congress to pass the senate Mil amending the law establishing the National
Board, of Health and transacting some
business of miner importance the meeting adjourned. W. H. Smith.
Pobx Huron, May 18,1882.
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Mrs. Melville and Mrs. BeLong.
Captain DeLong and Engineer Melville, it is well known, were warm personal friends, making no secret of their
attachment. When they parted, De-
.Long directed Melville as to his-movements in case he reached land. Without waiting to search for others, he was
to proceed to the nearest settlement and
endeavor to send relief.
On Saturday morning, on hearing of
the death of Capt. DeLong, Mrs. Melville placed over her cottage at Sharon
Hill, near Philadelphia, a flag at half
mast. Speaking of Mrs. Melville's relations to Mrs. DeLong, the Philadelphia
Times says:
In the Saturday mail Mrs. Melville
received two packages. One was a
letter from Mrs. DeLong, acknowledging the receipt of a copy of a piece of
music which Elsie Melville, the intrepid engineer's little daughter, just 8
years old, had composed and dedicated
to the lady. This piece of music is a
weird march, very simple and sad, in
Which the child has expressed in music
her ideas of her father's tiresome search
for his loit comrades in the Siberian
wilds. It was composed about a month
ago, and since its publication under the
title of "Melville's March to DeLong,"
has attracted great attention. Mrs.
DeDong described how her own little
daughter, Sylvia, who is partially blind,
and has to be kept in a darkened room
with her eyes bandaged, had played it
over, and what pleasure and eonsola
tion it gave them. She expressed no
hope of hearing fromher husband alive,
but said she trusted Melville would
survive the search, whatever its end,
and be restored to his family.
Mrs. Melville's sympathetic pleasure
was turned to instant grief the moment
she opened the next package, containing the account of the finding of the
dead bodies of DeLong and his party
by her husband. She burst into tears,
and, going to her room, was overcome
with grief. She sat down as soon as
composed, and sent a dispatch to Mis.
DeLong, saying: "I would I could
take you in my arms and share at least
a portion of that great, unutterable
sorrow which I feel must bein your
heart.*' Even the children were in
tears, and tbe family from whom the
father has been separated for so many
years knelt together and prayed for the
other fatherless and husbandless ones
to whom they were bound by such close
and tender sympathy.
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