Halletsville Herald. (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 3, 1888 Page: 3 of 8
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THE FARMER'S DAUGHTER.
“Who is this, with her pretty face.
And silken curly hair.
Half child, half woman, full of joy,
Without a seeming care*'’
She is. my friend, (ok* blessed lot !>
. A farmer s daughter, fair!
Her small brown hands afe shapely ones,
Trim are her little feet
That trip a-doWn the meadow path.
Or through the village street;
And when she »ings at morn or eve.
Her sorig is very sweet.
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She seems so like a tender plant,
Grown hardy in the sun.
Her woman’s graces coming in
So softly, one by one,
Phe while her eyes, still like a child's,
AreJbrimmlng o'er with fur.
What would the old gray farm-house >:
^ Without this daughter dear—
Her merry song, her loving heart.
Her happy woods of cheer,
‘ This rosebud in her rural home,
Expanding every year!
Kich are you, little country lass, ,.
In iqpre th in yellow go\d;f
Tour father’s acres spread abroad.
But yours is weal h uiitold—
Beauty and nature's grace scarce found
In cities new or old.
thank you, Mr. Kane, but powerful
skeert” • C'
No wonder that the service rendered
should make Kitty regard .Peter with favor,
sand give him romantic interest in the pretty
girl Whom his timely presence had preserved
front cruel death. Ignoring the buck, Peter
walked on with Kitty, escorting her to with-
in sight of hy father’s house,, and then re-
turning to a •Celling, which, in spite of his
dogs and his hired people, seemed more
lonely than ever. • '• -
“They met- by chance, the Usual way,”
again and again, and the old story, ever bid
and ever new: was told and listened to.
Peter neglected the suit he had- brought in.
one cou t, to prosecute a suit in ariofc'tien
and when the great case'of Kaneter*u« ASbU
came up before „the i^ounty-Couri, Kaue was
absent beat pn a final verdict in an other
yuit, one of mbre importance, with a jury of
one biased in his favor. ‘
The fame of this ca isb. the {importance of •
the points involved, and the antagonism of
the parties, brought a large concourse to
the county town. .The day of the trial flo
living being could be seen; ^very.o^ne was
in the.courtrtiouse.. But horses there were
every where, t'thered to posts, pickets,
porch-postsand the swinging limbs of trees
—horses of all kjnds from the humble clav-
bank farm drudge to the mettled 'pod
blooded roadster, and with a variety of sad-
dles and bridle?, not »all saddled.- however
which was wonderful to see. A deal of
whisky had been furnished in-the rft rtiing,
Tour blue eye* scan the mountain tops '
And take In valleys rare:
Yen’ll never lose yont sweet grand-thoughts
In after years of care. *
Heaven bless you in your happy home,
O, fanner's daughter fa;T! -
Mrt. Wi Kidder, in N. 7. Ledaer.
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KANE VS. ^BELL.
Xhe Happy Ending of a Suit
Damages.
to break down the' fax as swo’n to by re-
spectable witnesses, some of ’em akin to
yer, gentle/aw of the. jury? The case is
cl'ar. AVe stan’ for law an’ jestice.-” *
The presiding justice asked if “both^ides
air into cote?”
bi-ittN MANURING.
MISCELLANEOUS.
le Vippa ??
•the plaintiff seems lobe ashamed of hissuit,concIusj,,n that tl,e-v couI(l raise corn
and is absent.”
‘•"Good reason tharfor,” said' the foreman
One of the Essentials to Producing a Large —Durirtg.the past Season two natural*
, cn.p «.f corn. fsts have found that wasps remember
Tlic fir-t scltlers on the prairies after the locality of their nests for ninAty-six
a few 'years’ experience came to the hours.
—A negro-.who was on trial in New
; indefinitely on the same sod without York the other day on being asked if
appl\ ing immure to it. They, had some he was a man of family, replied that he
of the .jury. “1 seed him on hossbaek when reason for Relieving that they eonlddo
T vxrnc r>sxrr\ i r>1 to r» TT’i'ftxr A Koll ... mi . * ** - .
I was cornin’ to co.te, With Kitty Abell on
behind, a-hedfdin’ for Preacher Grimeses.
Gwine tO git iparried; I'allow.” .
This startling announcement was- sue- •
ceeded by another, made by a small boy
perched in one of the windows: ■ .
. * -'TinEr come? Pete Kane on his black hoss,
with Kitty-Abdl'a-holdki' onto him.:
In vain the sheriff called for order. Abell
this. They raised several crops in im-
mediate succession, a-ipl the yield did
not diminish. t They Therefore let dung
accumulate about their barns and
stables, allowed it to wash away, or
threw it’ into streams. They did not
think it was worth the labour required
■and his two sons went qu£ followed by spec- .-; ^ haul it . to a field that was to be
tators, lawyers; judges and ‘jurymen, And jit • planted to corn. Sonic farmers in the
lasf by the sheriff himself, Who wanted to black prairie i
was the father of thirty-two children,
—A Water bury dry goods clerk had
a dream the other night. He was
measuring off dress goods and actually
tore the-sheets of his bed to’"pieces, so
real was his dream. But that is not so
bad as if he.had dreamed lie was wind-
ing up a Water bury watch. r
— “Talk ’bout dem Genl’ Wash in''ton
but not even the charms of .corn juice could
keep the mountaineers outside of the Court-
Law is very uncertain—^specially in a
Wooded country. Sometimes a suit is lost
In one court and gained in another. The
great case of Kane versus Abell Adam f r
plaintiff. Eve for defendant, is an illustra-
tion. Nor did it happen in the Grarden of
Eden, as might be supposed from the sound
of the names, but in Mountain County,
which the Inhabitants suppose to be a much
finer place than the other.
Down in ^fountain County, settled by
Irish mainly from Ulster, with a aprinklin#
from Connaught, the original manners ana
^ customs of the settlers are not only main-
tained by their descendants, but the Gaelic
spirit of clannishness exists In full force.
The old families have kept up the old stock
|>T intermarriages; and the only things
changed were the names, which were either
corrupted, or dropped their prefixes. Thus
the Mac Masons became the May horns; the
O’Kanes. the Kanes; the MacAdams, the
Adams; thy MacMillens. and the Mac Abells,
i the Millens and the Abells. But their High-
land-Keltic habits, filtered through the Irish
•ieve, "toere preserved in their vigor. Be-
tween the two leading families, the Kanes
and the Abells, there had been a bitter feud
^rom the beginning. As the rest of the peo-
ple were connected in one way or other, they
took their, sides, and, as they said, “stud by
the k*nexion.” Pretty far they carried it,
too. One fellow, who was puffing the Kanes,
was asked what connection he was. “Wall
•aid he, “not so very cioast, but Clarke
Abell he gin me a bull-pup.” If a Kane
married with an Abell, or vie* i»tm, the
woman In the case was adopted in her hus-
band’s family,. but cut off ffom her own.
But a single quarrel and a simple incident
Changed the current of affairs, and brought
about a truce which .may be considered a
a peace, leading both parties in possession o i
the uti pornddeiU.
As the eldest son in a straight line from
i the original Patrick, who had come to this
country from Ireland, and had settled here
under a land grant of a thousand acres,
Peter Kane was the recognised head of the
family. He was a good looking, childless
. widower, thirty-two years of age, very well
to do, and looked* up- to by his tribe, with
whom his word was potential He was a
famous bear-hunter, and kept up a stock of
worthless for any other purpose. Clarke
Abell who held a similar position among
curs, valuable for battling with Bruin, but
the Abells, was over sixty years old, tall,
athletic and as straight as a gun-barrel. He
did not look a day over fifty, with his iron-
gray hair, and smooth face where the
wrinkles had ooncentrated about the corner
of the eyes. These tw o, the gh living with-
in three miles of each other—their posses-
sions Joining—rarely sjvoke when they met,
and then in m nosyllables, eking out the
conversation by gesture.
It happened that Kane had seen bear signs
cne frosty morning in November, and laid
on the dogs. Bruin heard the having afar
off, and taking time by the forelock, made
his way over a gap and them down a dry
branch hollow, “In avoiding Rcyila, he fell
upon Charybdis.’’ and so on: tor old Abell
happened to be in his field, his rifle, a con-
stant companion, with him, when hq saw
the bear doing some tall walking In his
direction. He shot the brute, and with th •
assistance of. his sons, had skinned him
when Kane’s dogs, followed by Kane, came
•up. A demand was made for the bear.
house, which was filled with a dense mass
of auditors. . , , ■ ’ ;
The criminal business was* first disposed
of. The calendar had but two casqs, one a
“Trespass, Assault and Battery,” and the
other the stealing of some fowls by Silas
Washuigtou. a notorious coldred offender.
TheT. A, B. was disposed of by a confea-
^on of judgment and a light fine, and' after
an hour's trial, the scion ol the Washington
family got three months' imprisonment in
the county jail. Then came the civil calen-
dar, and the case of Kane versus Abell was
called.
It was a battle between the clans, and the
movements were watched-with keen inter-
est by the spectators, made up of those con-
nected in some way with the parties litigant.
The opening speech for plaintiff by Adam,
delivered in the vernacular, was admirable.
It. dwelt upon the atrocity of detaining the
bear from its lawful possessor/the gross
violation of huAing customs, and the fact
that slaying the bear was almost as great an
enormity as the slaving of Abel. The facts
were then proven, by the admission of the
offender. There were no witnesses for the
defense. Eve claimed the right under those
circumstances to the closing speech, but the
worshipfuf court—the'-justices are worship-
ful not honorable—complied with Adam’s
demand to “rule agin him,” and Eve took an
exception which the_ court would not allow.
The magistrates happened to be blood con-
nections of the Kanes.
Ere spoke eloquently and ev n grandilo-
quently. He had received a collegiate edu-
cation, and he aired his classics for the edi-
fication of the court and jury, and aston-
ished the mountaineers with flowing Latin
and sonorous Greek. He held that there
could be no property in an animal which was
see thfe fisffit as muchias the rest.
Peter Kane had riddeh 'up tp the porch of
the village’ “store.” dismounted, tethered
his horse, and assisted Kitty to alight, be-
fore old Abell and ,hjs two, strapping boys
reache’d the spot. Every' one was excited
except Peter, who was quite’ cool and un-
moved. There was To be a fight, beyond
doubt, and every one prepared to take sides
“Why,.
“On a
, ... .. . . bodv-servhnts! I’slickedGenTWash-
tjllim.is deanml lk.1 the land «« ' bSwv 'thTT’nclf V"?’’
stalks were too.lar_‘e.. and because the . in the ground!—Z/orne^s tear. »*• if «• bai? hem.—JinjA/tmton Re-
land produced weds of <rreat sizp. The ' publican.
first settlers of other portion, of tl^JL —A peasant in Europe stared hard
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.
—It i$ a singular fact that the roan
who is always in a pickle doesn't pre-
serve his tefopetv
—Poker is always a fascinatinji frame,
provided you db not happen to pick up
the red-hot end.—American ArtvdUK
—Decapitation is sometimes (he only
remedy for that peculiar disease popu-
larly called “the big head.”—Spring-
field Republican.
•—While some ladies desire only the
latest novelties itl ribbons, there are
[ others who prefer those of a moire an-
j tique pattern. v . • .
—In the.Volapuk language the word
for dollar is “doab.*T But it wttl be
just .is hard as ever to borrow <mo.—
Pittsburgh Chronicle.
—A correspondent asks “if it is rekl-
ly true that Job was troubled with
boils.’V There can be no doubt that he
divides. The two Abell boys -‘shucked”
.their bunting-shirts in readiness. ■*.
“Stan’! back thar, boys,”, said old Abfcll,
seizing an ax-handle' from a pile that stood
n'ure to land intended 'for the prmlYie-
tion of corn. In Western New York
and Northern Ohio the pioneer farmers
country .also came to the conclusion 1 y ' , .? ... - , - j at a guide. “You’ll kuow mo again if
that ifc Tas uecfs;\7 to apply ma- j ^rtion of facts c:UculTedTo cSnvhlce 1 “'et me’” said th® guW«’
1
•Not
on the pqroh,T‘or I’ll lay ye-Out with this f largely engaged in corn-raising paid
ax-heive. This .-is' my beezness, not yourai no attention to paving and applying
•Pete Kane, ye ain’t - satisfied with gwiae to
|aw with me, but you’ve run away with .my j
idahter, unbeknownst. Air you .two- mar - u "!! , ,
riedi” j tiers of most parts.of the country cpn-
‘ ‘Yes, father.” said the blfishing fcitty. j'-eluded that it was not necessary to apr
manure.
It was rfot strange that the first set-
anv man that there’s nothing private
or reserved about it. But, when i t Comes
! to the age of an actress, woman’s arith-
; me tic gets involved.—Uufralo Express.
—There is a town in’^iississip^ii
j where the law is enforced in a rather
peculiar man nee. A man who ran a
blind tiger under the , very noftrils of
i i piyTu;,;;;;;z*Zni5^,1110 rWeni-v »»•
Ab*ll* *aroe crops without it, and contiruiqjl
has through three ginerations. It’s been
a scanuV yous beezness, in my jfedgment-
' You kin take- yer jedgment agin me for the
b’ar, for I broke' hunter’s law in, that, an’ j
acted ruther mean—’?
‘Yer welcome to the b’ar, Clarke Abell,” |
said Kane. ‘.‘I don’t want the money no-
how. It's John Adam's foolery.’’
“John Adam was right,” returned Abell,
“an' I'll pay. But, Kitty, gal. why didn't
to raise them during a succession-of
years. The land was very rich in Veg-
etable and mineral blatter. The ele-
ments of fertility had been accumu-
lating for ages. In the West a tui;f had
been formed that was several inches
thick. By its decay food for several
, non heed that he had become, an evan-
gelist. The next day he was arrested
for preaching without a license.—
Ark'ansaw Traveler. , . • '.
—Several' thousand dollars in gold
coin in earthen pots were ejetnimed by
Lorenzo Mear^ on his farm in Accdtnac
County, Virginia, a few days since.
crops of corn was furnished. The thick ^ trad^on the, neighborhood says a
>d was several years in decaying^ so
you let me know the pur’l you was in. an’ that all the plant food* it contained was
how Peter saved you i I only larned it to- * — - -
day. You mought have been' dead but for !
him. Why didn’t you ax for the gal like a
man, Peter Kane?”
The young folks stammered their regrets.
, “Jeems Abell,” cried the old man to his
eldes> son, “don’t stan’ thar glowrin’, but
jest go into the store, and g;et a quart of the
not available at one time. * As the hflls
of corn were generally about four feet
apart, the same-soil Was not likely to
beroccupied by plants two or more years
in succession. Three-fourths of the
soil in a corn field remained fallowr
large amount of money was concealed
on the farm during the American Revo-
lution by its Tory proprietor, who went
to E gland and died there.
—Burt was twelve years old. He.
came home from Sunday-school one
day and said he had taught a class of
little boys. “What possessed you to
the Abeiis is busted Buss me, Kitty, gal, I
run at*»y with yer mother myself.”
Off went James Abell on horseback, with
his black bottle of whisky, followed by
hastily mounted horsemen, the foremost to
obtain the privilege of bussing “black Bet-
ty,” the whisky-bottle, an old Irish custom
st fU kept up in the section.
There was-a bounteous “infare” at the
bridegrpiaih’s bouse,' and a good time. The
„ . , oply <&a»,tt» icar it wgs the prospect of a
,«a there would be in one do-1 fisht-^^h- James Abell and an Overton
mestidated;. that the wild animal, having*
been killed while trespassing on the domain,
its carcass had become the property of the
owner of the fee; that it had broken into the
-close of. Abell—“socked his claws into his
trowsers.” as one of the jurors explained
afterward—and was properly held for dam-
ages; that bring in a state of nature, prop-
erty in him only vested by the fact at the
time of killing; and that Kane had no right
in either bide., hair, hoof on meat of- the
bear. To siippart this he quoted Blaekstone,
with some side references to Grotius. Puff
endorf. Vafel and others, and cited a case
from Johnson’s Reports, which, in his opin-
ion, covered the ease. Then he wound up
by an appeal tq the jury to stand by their
qltars and their fires, the green graves of
their forefathers, the constitution and laws
of the commonwealth, and find' for the de-
fendant. *
It was admitted that the ydung counselor
had made a great effort, and his .overwhelm-
ing weight of authority, Latin, Greek and
Kane’; b^.ths. oki man Abell appeared with
a hie^^^W and persuaded the two to stop.
The trial jreyer Was really concluded, bui
harrow employed in tenflT
ing the corn that occupied but a small
part of the land. While a fourth part
of the land was furnishing food for
corn phmt^ the rente’ ier was being
putin a condition to produce crops in
the future.
- But the time came at leng h vrlven
this land would no. longer produce
large crops of corn. The reason was
obvious. Every portion of the soil had
didn’t quit it'I would lick every,last one
of them when Sundav-school was oat.
if you wash your face, ” replied the
peasant.
—The old. old story boiled down :
‘ She (eat'lv in the evening) — “Good
evening, Mr. Sampson.”, Same sh»
(late in the evening)—“Good night,
George.”— N. 7. Sun* *
-—“There is uo virtue in vinegar/*
savs a scientist. None, eh? It does
what many so-called virtuous people
do not do—supports its aged mother.
—Binqhamton Republican. /
—There is great virtue in horse
shoes.. A woman who had a trifling,
drunken husband for years, nailel &
horseshoe over her do >r, and ht*r hus-
band ran away with the hired girl be-
fore a month.(
—Ifc is always one of the really inter*
esting things in this world to hear &
young woman express her candid opin-
ion of the other young woman whom
her husband might have married.—
Journal of Education.
—Professor—“Perpetual motion, in
the accepted sense of the terra is impos-
sible. Can youThink of a piece of ma
without an im-
“VVhat ia
'Annolm'
naL
,'.3
I —It is the most , wideawake giri that
The snperintendentsaid it was the still- aever think^ of tilling the lamps until
est class there was.”—Golden Day. after dark. She is never so absent*
—A pair of tiny buskins was privily winded as to forget that it is her aft-
exhibited by a New York shoemaker
the other day. They were lined #ith
whitegoats’ furand finished with white
satin on- the outside. They buttoned
with real gold buttons, and there was
been occupied b}*. hills of corn, whose, a cord and tassels twisted ^of gold
roots had drawn the elements of fertil-
Bete'r Kane jve.ni over next, morning, and ' itv from it.. The exhaustion of the ma-
was'elosetofl with the county clerk. The tei'inl needed for plant growth was
redord boars the'folio wing;
“Katie J-T
5aaeT\ ' v
Ab#U f 'Detin^e Damages. tlOO.OO.
slower than when the surface was oc-
cupied by sm ill grains like wheat and
rye, because these plants are distribu-
‘S„ .. by v°vPT te 1 OVfcl the whole, of it and their r ots
costs. —Thuffta* Bunn Engheh, m X. Y. In- . , - .. ...
dependent. ' penetrate every portion of the sod.
—•—:- ■ They are not as gross feeders as corn
• HORTICULTURAL HINTS. plants are. but there are many more of
How to Beabtiry I'obi-c Omoniis in Conn- them and they are more dainty in their
thread somewhere about, the top..
They were for the only baby that wears
such things, the pride and hope of the
Gould- familj', Edith Kingdon’s little
boy. . /
— The Indian Territory embraces
63 000 squ&re miles of the best land in
the world, and is inhabited W not ex-
ceeding 75,000 Indians or alleged In-
dians. for among the civilized tribes a
pure-blood Indian is said to be very
noon off and go right on scrubbing un-
til the stars peep out above the distant >
hills. — Puck.
—It is related that “Maria Mitchell -
has discovered eight comets and bus
never worn a Worth dress.” Ak,‘:
show us the woman who has worn eight
Worth dresses and has never discovered
a comet, and we will show yon tFne
feminine happiness. — Kansas CWy ’ .: ‘
Times. *
— “Is there any such thing air liaw in
this country?” asked a man excitedly
aftfcr a verdict had been rendered
against him. “Certainly there is,”
was the soothing reply. “Weft, I’d
like to know what it's good for?”'
t
rare.
try ana village. | appetite. Corn, like red clover, is a
The horticultural artvanfce to be made scavenger. It will devour almost every use of thi3 ant^ eVf*n the use
The .Indians make little or no’I ‘for the lawyers to make a living out
of.”—Merchant Traveler*
at the present time,'winch would prob- thing found within reach of its roots. wh’eh they would have made of it by
logic, seemed to impress »the jury as it did
tlreiauditors. The Abell s
which was denied. There was no fighting, a British jedge. Oar anthistors”fought agin
. t
the matter there—three to one wa* too great
odds, so Kane and his dogs went abont their
business. But the matter rankled. A well-
known pettifogger of the section, John
Adam, beard of it and offered flis services.
The end of it-was that Kane brought suit
before a country justice of the peace, and
After various misadventures the case was
beard. It was an action in detinue, and
J&dgmenl was given for thirty-five dollars.
Abell secured.llfr services of Cecil Eve, a
•bright young 'lawyer lately admitted to the
bar, and the case was removed to the County
Court held by four justices. Adam was not
a regular practitione . but the County Court
was a sort of free-and-easy tribunal, with a
roll of its own^and Adam was licensed by
custom. He brought suit* for damages, for
that he the party afo’s&id had detained
•Mh’ar.” ,
It was some months after the event when
the County Court entered on its half-yearly,
session. In the meanwhile a little incident
Occurred, of the Romeo and Juliet "pattern.
Which complicated matters. Abell’s only
•nmarried daughter was a good-looking
young woman of twenty-two, and. like her
kinsfolk, “hated that Pete Kane like pizen.”
But one day she chanced to visit a neighbor
sit some distance, and on her return met
with a wandering four-year-old buck. It
was at the season of theye-’r, when the ani
maL4nsually so timid, is both bold and ag-
gressive. He charged at Kitty, who dexter-
oosly dodged behind a tulip-tree—poplar
they miscall It there—and so evaded the
thrust of his antlers. But he was persist-
ant and kept her so constantly shifting her
position that she became exhausted. Hhe
was jast about to drop, which would.-have
txisured ber death, when the crack of a rifle
and the dropping of the bock, dead, saved
ber. The next moment she heard the voice
ITaVIA • ^ ' ■ <
side was .jubilant,
add the Kane side correspondingly de-
pressed. But it made no impression upon
Adam. That practiced and serene counselor
roee in the consciousness of power, and he
rose to the level of the occasion. His speech,
written out in full'from copious notes taken
by a young member of the bar, we are
enabled to give as a specimen, of forensic
power. It was as follows: ,
“Ef it please yer wurshups, Gentlemen
of the Jury, I ain’t gwine to waste the time
by makin’ a long noration. The counsel for
the defendant has had his sheer of that,
and considabu’ of mine, too. He is a young
man. peert an’ spry, an’ of a most pleasin’
disco’se. He has spread hiss^lf on things
in ginnal. like a banty hen tryin’ to kiver
fourteen duck-aigs. But he hasn’t tetched
the subjecly He has given you a heap o’
lamin’, an’ enough Greek an’ Latin to set
up a doctor’s shop. He sot' out to sock with
j Socrates, rip with Euripides, an’ hurk with
I Hercules, an’ I don’t know when I’ve been
Lmore pleased jneself. But it didn't edzaetly
Retch the sore spot. He quoted from Grotius
I an’ them, but it was lamin’ an’. not law.
Mr. Grotius an’ the rest are furriners%
writin’ on furrin law. What has furrin law
to do with uS* As for Blackstona—why,
gentler«« <, .Blackstone was a British, jedge—
British tyranny an' oppression—fit an’ died
agin it.. Is the say-so of a British jed te
to overrule law an' jestice here? I alldw. not.
“Ther ain’t no disputation as to the fax.
The defendant takes tfje f ax as they air* An’,
they air as plain as noonday. We had no
proputty in the b ar. eh > Why that’d make
a hoss laugh. The young man is noo to the
bar, but the onwritten b ar law o\ this coun-
try's nooer to him. an' that goes back so fur
that no one-knows to the contrary, That
gives the right o’ possession to the man
that starts the game. The b ar wan t in.pos-
session, of Kane in one sense,, but he had
started to reduce it to possession, and Abell
comin’jin an' .sfiootin’ it, put it into possess-
ion at wunst, For he was eyetjier an agent
of Kanq, an’shot it for him, or he was a
trespasser—an' he couldn’t take advantage
of his own wrong, could he? That’s law.
ain’t it? The moftient the defendant shot
the annmal which we had started, .it become
our b’ar; Ther ain’t no. propdtty in a live
,b’ar, but there is in a dead b'af We ain’t
detainin’ ,nqbV»dy’s live b’ar, but our dead
ably be most beneficjal, especially in Its appetite Is keen and it requires much
country villages, is to go outside of our to satisfy it. It does not leave much,
indhidual premises and ,to take nn»re ,in thq soil for plants having shorter
interest in the -streets, the school roots to subsist upon. One who looks
gfounds, f^e churchyards, the ceme- upon a tine field of corn after it has at-
teries. the public squares or parks, the tained its full growth can see how much
Railway stations, grounds of public • material has been taken from the soil,
buildings, and oth -rs of^(his nature. After m iking due allowance for mater-
bome may think it is enough !for each * ials obtained from ihe air, it is obvFqits
renting to cattle men, they have been
denied, and the cattle men driven of)
of the reservation. e
TRANCE SENSATIONS.
to sweep before his own door-yard; lyut that toqs of plant food have been se*
this can not hb true,, fpr there is nia ii-t cured frorh the earth.
fe>rly a public duty in this respect to j Granting that good seed is the first
The Feeling* of Horror Experienced by a
Seemingly Dead G rk
/The sensations of( a seemingly dead
person, while confined in the coffin, are
mentioned in the following case ol
trance: “A young lady, an attendant
on the Princess-, after having been
FISHING ON THE ICE.
be discharged if we would give horti- essential to producing a good; crop of ctmfined to her bed for a ereat length
culture in<» sen no that n.lhirolln . . . . . . ’. ..t • ■ . ~ ,,
culture the scone that n-.iturelly belongs corn, it must be admitted that a boVin- of time with a violent nervous disor-
to it. Now, wbatis every .body's dirty tiful supply of feitilizing material is der, was at lasL to all appearance.de-
Hew Grent Cafrhe* are Made »■
Erie in Cutd Weather.
The Buffalo fishermen spend the ma-
jority of their time during the winter
months in their primitive hate on the
ice. and watch with peculiar interest
tbeir “tip-ups” scattered here and the
over the lake for *everal hundred
The “tip-ap” is a contrivanc* made
sticks, so arranged over a hole in tire
ice that when a fish bites on a line th*
good news is made known at on.ee.
Some of the fishermen have thirty or
forty lines and their “catch” some?
;:i
is nobody s, and unless sortie- public- j second. Corn will not gro>y tp a size ‘ prived of life. Her lips were quitt- j yieldTthem a goodTinoc^a^from:
pale, her face resembled the counte- Wholesale dealers,
nance of a dead person, and the body
spirited persons wi.J take the ipad it is to produce ears iu a poof soil. The
evident notinn'^ will . be d me. Is it . plants must be well fed or they will not
necessary.!». bring forward here the produce grain |bat can be^used for
^ i^Freased value ol feeding animals. New” prairie-'soil will
inclH»d&aI real property-to enforce this produce several crops of corn without
t ought. VVe trnst not, though it may the assistance of manure,, for the rea-
,, , . All told, there are probably 1*500
grew cold. She was removed Iron- fighermerV ib citr> - l r. .J9
the room in which she died, was laid , Xhe fishermen all ba*M long,
in a coffin, ami the day 6f her funer* drawn byd'igs, and while waiting for a
__ rej,-,;.' |v ^-11 1 v a - u JUL me iciv tix^don. The day arrived, and. ac- bi:e. if they have no shantv. cnrl^ theiu-
go wiitre u wtl.l have its influence. 9ons already given. But land that has cording to the custom of the country, | sejF#s upon their riede hoist as&il as a
How are These -limuovemente tn given.up much of its 'fertility .-'to crops' 'funeral songs and hymns were $ung wind-bre*ker, and
that have been removed from the -soil ^ before the door. Just as the people dogs^ and
must be supplied with materials that y were about to nail down the lid of the
will prcxluce eorn. The best generab **'®,*f1* a kincl of perspiration Hvas ob-
purpose fertilizer fn* corn is stable or served to appear on thfe surface of her
good barn-yard manure. At 'one time body. ^ It grew greater eyery moment,
it was thought that tlie ilmig of arii-;f'hnd at'last a kind of convulsive motion
mnls should be well rotted before it was was observed ip the hands abd feet of
il.sed on corn land, an.l that it should be ‘.the corpse.. A few minutes after, dur- UU11UI1
thing be undertaken at ait,iine, and that applied directly to the hill. This is ing which fresh signs of returning life rjtorv>
one which in most cases will elicit the still the f»ra6'riee in some of the Eastern > appeared, she at once opened her qyes It jj a at to nee a thonsand
greatest sympathy and aid will be the -States, where the soil is. of little value, “had uttered a most pitiable shriek. or mon} ^en fishin«- on the laknad^™
improvement of the school grounds, except as a receptacle of manure. Old Physicians were quickly procured, and once It is somedlnes terribly caW, *
and wi-U rotted manure, applied to the iQ the course of a few dajs she was but their sail wind-break protect* them
hill, is ,-ertainly of great advantage to considerably restored and is probabij to a extent l0 f»xct, if it were
corn in tin early stages of its growth;' alive at this day. , 1 not for these contrivances they would
made? * In the fiisst place they are'
to be made .in the minds of those
who: desire them; a number of
persons shouid be interested, the more
the better, hut . sdnie;.'one' must first
think aboqt them.- desire them and de-
termine to work for them, and must
interest others in the subject. Let one
smoke, pet tbeir
patiently watch the “tip-
up,s.” Sometimes four or fir# of (W
“ti|>-ups” will go up at once, signify-
ing good bites, .and then there are lirqly
times, for the bov» are always anxioos
to catch the biggest fish and best their
neighbors, who are stationedtebout five
hundred feet away on their own ter*
1
at '
ThissbQtild he nicely furnished with
grass-, any disagreeable objects should
be screened from sight by proper tres
planring, the margins of the grounds
lwit it is impracticable to. use it iu this
should , be supplied with trees ami; r manner in large field*,
ft.wering shrubs, ami the fences, when &„thscientific and practical farmers
not *).V t*,e ha ter, arc now convinced that green manure
should-be^yiiveredwith-ffowering vines. hI)re;U, ,m„. t!lP emire surf;ic<. uf lf>
ihe , orn-amentatnm of the.: school
grounds,'in this manner will commend
“The description which she gave of freeze to death out there some dava.
her situation is extremely remarkable, j : When In need of A dog* and a genuine
and feronis a curious and authentic ad- fieViai-„»an nna mr.r* k*
s
he
street
riself io- the public.* and will; not. -be
difficult or expensive, rtf propfrly iit-
UmipteffiTile villAigo improvement
.society, as the club inqy be called, can
an<^ authentic ad- fisheraian. always wants one more,
dition to psychology. *8he said it seemed simply “nabs” the-first on the
to her that she was really dead, yet sbe.f catches his eye, and puts tfe*'-:
ground ;rnd covered vvith plow harrow Or was perfectly conscious of all that hap- j canine at work. Let a fisherman JA*
cultivator is of more value in producing penedaround her in this dread(ul state. ey.e on a dog and he’s good AAerj
a crop of corn hant the sauie.quantitv distinctly heard -her friends speak- j clip, no matter ho-W sagacious he may ’
fermented and a;.oli.-d in anv oih< ing and lamenting herdeath at the side
wav. If applied green, it has been, pf her coffin. She felt them pull dry the j It is amusing to watch the old trained
i*,v uvyaiioi,. ri;u . •• » *— ill ,1, . 1 , , . ", 1 ^ — —»--------r* —------- - *—
next- turn, its atimitipu tO sornetbrfig ^ubjcctiMl tp; no losses from washing or. Heait-clothes and lay her in them. This |dogs When the master is ready to start
-in- .....1 JV. • J_ _____ “ '-i l...,—>1... n* ... o ____ ;i. ...... . fecH.Ug produced a mental. anT-tai* a__t_*______ nm_______t___‘___
else, and ( before niarty r years hayei evaporation. It will s ion decompose feeling produoetl a mental anxiety for home. They seem to know by his
____ _____v ______ u u . elapsed it will have r wrought won U-rs. ■ when nrxed w-ith the soil and'snbjeeted ' which is indescribable. She trie»l to ! actions that the day’s work is doitfll
one, a fthat's what we sue for. moiiVht This h a society in which all may join/jto woiking wi,th tools emploved- in cul- cr>; but her soul was without power. aQli wiu whine and yelp for kta t<
have charged for-his sarvioe, but he didn't. J nM‘H. women and youth* and Juany • titrating feeonn orop. If. its effects an<* c,,ukl not act in ber btoly. She | horrv ap Onoe readv. a crack of Ori
He’s kilt oyr prppatty agin us, and we’ve pl' Hsant social gatherings may be held. ar,j nrit 1%1>p:<rent as those of old • M contradictory feeling as if » »e*| whip al,j awAy they horn-ward
JSS? ^ f0rI ^ ^ >"'• l»H ... Ih„ X,.. HI ,k. U-ly »„a yet' not in iu J X. £ <£ We.; Tg
“One more pint, an’ I’m done, an’ than obtained l.v the ideasant devices the *m. Uh!Y l!ir® m'>re apparent in rnWsiim- i one and the same time. It was equally i „n„iA Aio*.*** a Kama -ndfc—
uiiderstand. —'Vick's-- n,*“.r "’lieu there is a deficiency of rain.
i The manure is in a conditionrto be ap-
v*
I ax a vardiek from you. The larned counsel
on the t’other side, knowih’ of the weakness
Jl ^1. ^ cnm |,1,rat5 “
ladies so
Magazine.:
well
. * -
impossible for her to rtretch out her, np a cminuous barking. Poidiap
tiine vyhen they are most in need of
eycther, but his Repute! This is the most hiifa » field the ipi-rease of yield will ' ^ A*monia bcCon,f |volatill° As
pus,lllanomoup attemp to warp^estioe I .. ............ f. . ;...........: ‘ soon as the temperature of the soil is
raised by the heat of the sun, ar.d i-t
per.’to decide a case* here. Npt his opinion * ng seeil p it atoes, fro n'"the m t prolific f )J(|
ever kqowed* of! JoL^’^’fte,LTte'V I be =‘*^t‘«aHy-greater. -‘It is an eXperi*
of Peter Kane:
*-You ain’t hurt, air you. Miss £ itty *”
warp •jestioe
needn't tell ver frentle-ors of the jury—I raent worthy of tkial.
thet h^irsay is not evidence. Wliat’s John >( 1fliaii w hen it ts postponed
*bn—sAo is this Johnson, that his hearsay beyond the proper time, fore it is then
shoujf Readmitted in this wurshuuf'ilcote apt to become a fruitless.task.
ininiediatelV taken up by the roots of
the corn. This manure attracts moist-
ure and retains it till the soil with
which it is mixed becomes dry. — Chi-
caaij Times, *’ , .
arm. or fo open her eyes, or Jo cry, al
though she continually endeavored tc
do so. The' internal anguish' of bet
mind was, however, at its utmost
height when the funeral hymns were
begun to.be sang, ainfxvhcn'the lid. of
the coffin was about to be nailed down.
The thougnt that she was to be buried
alive whs (lie one that gave activity tc
her mind, and caused it to operate oc
bet corporeal frame,”—A[. Y. Ledger.
there are three or four sled-* in a Ima
Then ttiere is fuq. The race hprne i«
always a hot one, and the dogs«e«m to
enjoy the sport just as waU as their
masters.
It is surprising what loads these dogA
will draw with apparent ©mua F air
hundred pounds ett a Sled does not 1
tard their speed in. Che least whew
started over the smooth ice;—An
Angier. • > ’V . ^
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