Evening Star Newspaper, January 29, 1881, Page 2

ACTION OF FROST O% Theory of Their Protectioa from old-The Effect of the Present Cold Scason—Interesting Paper by Prot. William Saunders. . The following paper was read before the Dis- trict ¢f Columbia Horticultural Soct+ty at tts @acual meeting on Wednesday, 26th inst., by Prot. Wm. Saunders. of the Agricultural depart- ment:— The unusual degree of cold which has been expertencea here during this winter, excites reasonable anxieties with regard fo 1ta effects upon veyeta'ton, and although It ts yet rataer early to decide upon tts effects on fruit or- charda, or upon vegetable growth fa general, the time fs quite opportune: for the coastdera” tion of some of the phenomena attending ths Gestruction of plants by frost. ‘4H& AMOUNT OF COLD which plants are capable of resisting Is a ques- fon especially interesting Lo the cuitivavor of fruits, and ft fs all the more Interesting when It 18 considered that the power of resistance {3 somewhat dependent upon circamstances which are, fo some extent, under the contro! of thi: cultivator. It frequently occius that a plant Will be destroyed by & less degeee of ther- mometric cold than it had previoisly endured Without sustaining any «pparcnt nj try, aod When this fatality takes 2 we conclude That the plant has beeu, by some means or other, reduced as to its po'ver of reststing cold, Or, Unat tue atmospherical conditions aff-ctiag plants are not alogether Indicate? by the ther mormeter, and LOth o7 Ines coaciusions may b+ corect. Tam not awari tt has ever been proved ‘Usat trost ts Beueficial to plants, but it fsa well established fact, rounded upoa ‘expertence aod observation, that miny of tbe diseases of pints regult from repeate2 injuries which they have received from the e‘Tecis of frost, or from tae extremes of temperature during winter ande carly spring. we exact manner fp which the death or piants Is caused by cold, s!though tt has been a subject of close investigation by puystologtsts, 4s sill apparently involved in some odsecurity: THR VHRNOMENA OF PLANT DESTRUCTION FROS The commoniy received opinion fs that frost acts mechanically upoo vegetable tiszues by ‘®xpanding their contained tlutds and bursting | ‘the vessels or cells in which they are eaclosed. ‘This cannot, however, be a suflicient reason to account for all the phenomena attendlag tae destruction of plants by frost. Doubtless many Plants, espectally those of a very suvculeat nature. are destroyed by the disrugtion of Ussues from expansion of tue sap tn freezing. But piants do not suffer tn proportion to tue Inteusity of cold as indicated by the thermom- @ter, 8. Dce it 1s observed that the greatest Jury to vegetation does not result trom the low- est temperatures, Plants will bear, without ‘apparent tojury, a zero cold In December, but wil succumb to the drytng winds of March, although the thermometer may not Indicate more than ten degrees below the freezing point. Jn such cases it is evident that destructios 1s caused by INTENSE EVAPORATION OF THR JUICES, Similar to what takes piace by an intensity of | ary alr during summer. Even after wlaters of Ordipary severity 1c will be found that Ube buds Of the grape, for example, which were full and Toundiy developed in November, have become Shriveied and polated by March, unless pro- ected trom the drying and exhausting intluence ‘Of arid. freezing breezes. Winter protection of even the st plants ts therefore of great value as affecting the results of culture: aad in the production of fruits, such as the grape, Strawberry, raspberry. ¢., where eflisieut pro: tection cab readily be «ppited, the quesitoa of PTotlt or joss wili trequentiy depend upoa the €xposure or protection of the plants dai lag the severity of winter. PLANT RESISTANCE TO TEMPBRATURR, AS formulated by andolie the power of E IaMtS to resist extremes of temperarure t: | First. In the inverse ratio of the quantity of | water which they coutato. Secondty. In pro- eee to the viscidity of thetr tlatds. Thirdly in the inverse raulo of the rapidicy with watcu Wetr uids ctreulate. Fourthly. fa proportiun tothe s7e of the Cells, 39 1s the Hability of Plants to freeze, and: Fitthly. The power of piants to resist the es of temperature 13 in exact proportion t2 tue amount of condned alr which the structure of the plants themselves evables them (6 conta! Although tue above | ‘Mey are Of Dut Ititle valur 59 far as they edavle Lhe cultivator to decide as to the hardiness of aplant. He cannot ascertain the dimensions of the cells, neither can he measure the quantity Or decide upon ihe quailty of the flatds wich Which they are tilled. THE WOOD OF THE ORANGE TREE fs to all uppesratce as close, compact and nard as that of the oak, Dal the orange tre: tender plant where oaks are har ‘The wood a it of the tree ts ligai tand our wialers hardy. Yet The pructt a be addavet frou. ole, for, aitsoash Phystolostst able to give ns Erosd and we sed distinctions, ic nile explanation Why one plant ( Rardier than another, Jey to state that is con- sutution Is adapted Te i's natural elwmate ieaim that ali plants are rendered iuce cap thle Of resishing extremes elt nat Wood ts soldilied. cr, as ii is properly ULorcugaly rpeted; we also snow that the plant growing in a Ury climate, or in a ¢ or ip asituation thoroushly drataed fre if durtog winter, Wil rests! much more cold iain if custivated tn & damp cilnate, or in wat sotl, or in @ place affected by water in win'e Whatever tends moist. or iu any degree succulent, will increas: dis power of conducting heat, and consequently abginent the su-ceptivility of growtas totus ii iluence Of frost, aud, on the other hand, Whatever (ends fo dimiatsh their numidity, will at the same time diminish the conductioag wer of Lue ti aud witht the suscepti lity to injury. Thus We cau Account for the destruction of Plants by frost Independently of taetajary which | Would result from: the wectanical expaasion of the sap, bursting of « and destruction of | Ussur; and the greater susceptibility to cold ta Spttng may be partly asertbed to the plants con- taining more a\jueous matter in thete stractare | at that period thac they contain during win- ye Ordiaary causes of the 2 alr which occasionaliy Jer, a8 well as from U! greater aridity of Cbtains during the m: nthsot Marea and April. IT Ip & PREVAL PALL. ‘Yo suppose that « corresponding degree of tatt- tudz wilt have 4 corresponding climate In all , oF that a plant will grow tes that bave a simflar | lemiperature to that | parts of the wor! equally well fn a minimum thermom: Of which It Is a n rant factors best in the atmosphere, tons fatorabie to the air. nt habitats endure as mu occasionally noted. 2) dew Which, when grown in this Grstroyed When the tb freezing point. In this ¢ of the Influence which & DAY AND HIGH SOMWER TEUPEEG exercises upon the ¢ Plants. It fs well kno climate is at times ex high degree of heat, whi and hardens tue young shoots becom: = cual growths cha t cold. she temperature and physical condition ot ant controling ia- uence tn the coid-resisting power of piants. Uoless @ proper degree of motsuure ts furaished by Ue roots the more succulent branches will become dry and shriveled under the influence Itnough the ther- Tie solt have 50 an IMDOr bf cold, dry currents of air. mometer be above the,free the temperature of the sot! ‘inz polut: and wh: evaporation from tht Dranches and stems of the plants. Seeing that ‘the temperature of the sotl tn which plants are growing has so potent an tn- duence on their cold-resisting powers we real_ ize the value of the applicaiion of eaves, strawy manures and similar materials over the Foots of plants during winter. THE BEST SAPEGUARD. From what has been stated it is evident that, | ‘So far as concerns sot! and culture, the greatest Bafeguard agains! injury to plants from cold is | ahat ct having properly ripened or matured Rrowtbs. How much of the disappolatmeat in Truit culture ts the result of Immatured gro vths at wou d be dificult to determine. I have long ‘d this fo be cause of the disease known wonstd 23 yelloy ~ tn the peach tree. This disease 1s most prevsient tn locaitties where growth ts prolonge ¢ ‘Ul tt ts suddenly arrested by a kil- ug frost: ond t am not aware of tls existence neclimaty~ wiere the tree becomes deciduous a the ats: ce of frost. OW TO ASSIST NATURE. itis wk xuration of growth. The trutt grower will be careful to avoid setting his treed in wet sou, or m low, rich lands He will also prudeaaly al stain from the appitcation of stimalattag min- res which Ww‘ have @ tendency to encour. all cultural oj he soll when checked rather than encour- waged, and use every available means to secure gTOWLD should be y cessation of wood growth. isa) orender the ussue of plants | wh as the rain- staphical features of wlsive of all, the hy- allude to the on—The acaclas, encalyptt, {eh to thelr nave a5 (5 degrees, and, a3 es Of frost, ‘but ld-zesisting powers ot thatthe Austrailan eediogly arid, with a $0 thoroughly ripeas alte brittle wader Its fi Haenee, and vegetation ts thus fortitied agatust jwjury Com tke extremes ether of heat or Js low the activity Of the roots 18 correspondingiy decreased. ana | they are unabie to bee tue losses caused by extemal surfaces of the | @ Uke province of the cultivator to assist nAlure in the requisites for perfect ma- ‘When 8 fundamental prinwiple ia once deter. mined and fairly understood, operative de‘alls baged upon this kaowledge are readily deduc -d and appited. Asan example, 1 may alfute (0 the Well known fact that many of our beauti ful evergreen trees from the northwest-ra and California coasts, aa algo various Asiatic coni- fers, have a great tendency to commence a sec- ond active growth during the motst gental w3- ther which frequently occurs hera during the early fall months. This growth never ripens, and in consequence is destroyed by the drat | Trost, greatty to jury of the plant The mammoth tree of California and the Japan ce- dar may be clted aa typical trees of this class. ‘These fall L gebgcs may be checked by pruning the roots of the trees during September, wis wiil ensure matured wood: the young brancies | Will become solid and firm, tasiead of being noripe and filed with watery fluid. and are thus prepared to stand the winter without {n- jury. PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION. ‘Then agatn as to protection and the b2st means of preserving planta from tojury by freezing, we are guided by the knowledge of the action of the frost on vegetattor mn. Evapora- Non Of the sap being the result of exposure to | currents of froaty air, our efforts at protection | will De In a direction to antagonize this result. Practically, taking such plants as roses, grapa vines and raspberries as examples, the bait method ts to lay them on the surface of the ground and cover them with an inch thickness of cand or sotl, or, tudeed, any material that wil! protect them from direst contact with the alr and the rays of the sun. With regard to the general subject of pro- tecting Uhe plants, some persons contend that a fruit tree or plant to de valuable, or fited for general culture, inust be able to take care of itseif. This should be looked upon as a lame excuse for indoience and neglect. Li is the pre vince of man to assist nature in producing such results a8 he ads most desirable for his ae poses; and if he removes plants from natural conditions, and then abandon them, so to speak, he must expect to realize the ustial consequences of neglect. WHEN GRRBNHOUSE PLANTS, or those in parlors, are accidentally frozen, they should be carefully shaded from the sun until the temperature of the apartment ts raised to 40 degrees; then sprinkle them with water 8nd maintain a moist atmosphere until they recover. Ihave seen a greenhouse well filled with plants, many of them ofa very ten- der nature, where eight degrees of frost has suddenly obtained, freezing ‘succulent shoots ubtll they were quite a3 brittle and as easily broken a8 a@ delicate rod of yew yet by promptly shading the house and increasing the temperature slowly, copiously syringing with water after the thérmometer indicated above freezing, very few of the plants were injured. in cases where shading a large structure 13 impracticable, the beat substitute ts to fill tae house with vapor by throwing water on heated surfaces, A dark, damp atmosphere is essential to success. I have repeatedly tried the experl- ment of removing a plant when frozen, {nto a house where it was placed under the lniiuence of a dry heat and exposed to the sun wille in the frozen state, and tt always proved fatal to ‘the plant. IN SELECTING A SITE | for an orchard or vineyard tow situations should be avoided on account of the greater extremes of temperature prevaient In valleys than in places of moderate elevation, and the vonsequent probability of injury from lace oping. and early winter frosts. A sloping hill- side, Contiguous to a well defined valley, forms the choteest site for fruit trees. To secure the best advantages from position the trees should not be pianted below a point fifty feet above the general bed of the vailey. Tne cold air will then settle curing the nigat in a stratum below the trees, abd the warm air which has accunu- iated m the lowest potnt during the day will be pressed up to the higuer altitude occapted by | Uhe trees, and thus it will afford considerabie protection ta coid nights. A difference of 10 degrees may be detezied between a taermon™~ ter tn the valley and one 50 feet above it ina severe ffs y night. THE GENERAL DESIKE TO SHELTER ORCHARD TREES lias often led to the mistake of selecting low grounds for planting, because of their appar- enuly well protected position, but for rvasons just given such low positions are the worst pos- sible loculities. Even very bleak exposures have been found preferable to sheltered valleys, and with some persons this fact has led to the supposition that any kind of shelter ts injurious | rather than beneficial Observations and ex- | periments, however, prove to the coitrary. Tue ‘Mivacy of protection 13 generally well under- >tuod and recognized, but ‘the addition of snel- ‘er tO an otherwise judiclousiy selected site {3 altogether a different thing from that or en- deavoring to secure shelter by choosing a low station. The shelter requtred ts not $0 much to repel or alleviate mere tnermometric cold, a3 it is to arrest evaporation and its pocompaay tng -sbanstion of vitality, by ehecking the rap! abd penetrating action of dry winds. BVSRORSEN TREES afford the most perfect shelter in the least spice, A row or two of Norway spruces or Austrian pine trees,or apy other equally hardy evergreen ree, will give shelter fov a conslderabis dis tance; thickly planted betts of hardy deeiduo: Tees will also render effective service. Tow ir apart these belts aod hedges should be | placed, and tn what direction they will be most iseful, will depend upon the surroundings and sccal specialties. AS the best mode of drata- ing a fleld will depend npon its surface undula- Mon, 80 the best mode of sheltering will be guided by the general aspect and positioa of tbe ore! What Should Children Eat and Drink? Dipner for children should always be eariy; and about this let me remark that if bect or sautton be given, both of which, wiether botied or roasted, are highly nutritions, it should be ent up very finely, or even minced, and the ‘hild should be taught to eat very s’owly, and O masticate the food well. Children’s 100d, like that of grownup people, ought to be varlet; cuange 18 always agreeable, and condicive tO sood digestion. I like to see cufldren sit down 'O a good dinner, and I delight to see them njoy it, but hurrying over tmeals—and they are greaUly prone to tnis—sbould always be discouraged, while, on the other hand, nothing digestible should v2 placed before them. ame Of various kinds, a3 well as fowl, pizeon, tnd rabbit, make a very nlce change, and so oes white fish, with the exception of herrings spd mackerel, or any other strong-tasted and olly fish. Although a little salt should always be sprlokled over a chtid’s food, he should not ve | permitted to eat salted provisions of any kind, Hor any such Indigesitbie food as pork, goo: or even duck, and turkey showld be given bit searingly, The stuffing generally used with. ! these Tater 1s very llkely t9 produce a nit of indigestion if given to a child. ‘There are vege- tables that a child may eat, and others that ue ‘Phere are other fa, | CUSRT NOt to partake of; potatoes, for example, ‘urpip:, and roots generally, ara very whole Some, but cabbage and greens are provocative of internal disturbance. Even potatoes, wir- nips, aud parsnip3, however. should be mash: And here let me give a word of warning: they cught not to be masied on the plate with the back of a fork; they will be limpy it they are, The masbing oust to be complete aad thorongh. Puddings of sage, rice. or semoltna, | or even corn flour, should always form put of the child's dinner, and swt dampltag, if eaten with syrup, makes a very nice chang What should achiitdrink? Mt Or inflk and water, with meals, ora vo ‘wa or coffee well diluted with mi'k. roost nourishing; | can not, inde2d s highly tn its praise. As 10 beer or orders or sanction of a medical man. ‘The sup per should be early, say six o'clock, aad may be ight pudding of any kiad, porridge and mitk, ot bread and butter with miik-diluted tex « buidren live fast, and be ® rememberei that they require more food in comparison to their size thau grown-t9 people do, for they have uot oaly to repair the waste of tissue, but to build and feed bone and nerve and muscle, ven between meals, therefore, if occasion de- mands {t, do not deny them a crust of breai. here 13 little need of physic where chtld-en ure well cared for, well clothed, ani well fed. if a laxauve be needed, either a teaspoontul of manesia May be mixed in the pap, or a little iluid magnesia administered, bat remember that agnests too often given fs apt to form concre- tons Of a dangerous kind. Custor oil warmed, £0 a8 to make it ran easy, is sometimes god) pelag, that force 18 required, and I know by expert ence that a child wiil sometimes struggle 89 against swallowing medicine a3 to caus» itself mischief, Syrup of rhubarb ts another harmless sperfent, and one which will not weaken tie child; but, after all, the less mediciue you giva, the Detter, Unless Uhe child be actually feveral, snd (hen it is time to send for the doct ar.— Zar the only objection to tts ‘aamintstration u pers Week ‘The + This is what the Graphic says:—" ‘Siep uy room in the middie ot com | idan Dab eh pte Di the latest comers ‘step up.’” Secretary of the Navy Gof fs a fis argh Erchinge. Thet we withdraw all object Lis appointment. All we ever did insist on in tis matter Was the selection of a man wao Weula know water when be saw {t—Bygion @ RELIGIOUS Bishop of Maryland, the Right Rav, Willtam Pinkney, atsisted by Rev. Messrs. Av- elit, of Montgomery county; C. D. Andrews, of ‘Unis City, and J. B. Perry, of Prince George's county, closed last night a successful mission in St. Luke’s Church, (colored) Tais work among the colored Episcopalians of our city is {n the line of a new departure among the mul- tiform labors of this distinguished from their nature of reiterated effort in the Spread of the Gospel must do much good. —The Calvary Baptist churcti, New York pity, Kev. Dr. McArthur, pastor, have just sub- ‘sertbed $24,000 for Unetr city mission work. — St. Ann's church (Kpiscopal.) New York, Provides services in the sign language for the adult deat mutes of the city and viclaity. — Mark Firth, a prominent Methodist of Great Britain who has just died, is said to have given $1,000,000 to the various evangelical mctices relating to proceedings “ube publication of which is required by law or by rules of the court,” to be pubilshed tn the Washington Lar Reporter, &., &2. A3, in former articles, you have shown that this rale, to-day, {8 abused, in that publication In sat Reporter 13 too frequent y resorted to. without Leepgis tm any other j uraal, and, by reason —The Congregationalis! knows a leading | member of a church who fs very bitter in her | subscribers of this Lave Reporrer. cepunciation of theatre-goers, but who buys ickets. — Archbishop Pur-ell’s beaith has improved ofiate. He stood with head bare tn the Cin- empati Convent cemetery during the services at the grave of his brother. —It ts remarked that in Catcazo, Bernhardt f.tled to encoun'er tae customary clerical oppostiton, the nigatly receipts sbow were th? smallest tau; far rec-ived in — By way ofa novelexperiment tn evangel- ‘cl work the Americ in Tract Society has pab- ll-led In the H-brey lauguas: a “A Life of Christ." ‘Thia tsintend -d as a help to the con- version of the Jews. — Th» Rev, James Fre2man Clirke d93 not believe that Moses was th) author of rhe Pen- fateuch, but admits that he may have givea tho revision of the writings containe! thereta nis sanction and authority. — Says Prof. Phelps of Andover: half awake to the fact that, by our laws of di- vorce and our toleration of the soctal evil. we are doing more to corrupt the nation’s heart than Mormonism tenfold.” — “Ihave fought a good fight; [ have finished my course; I have kept the faith,” was the text of the Rev. Wm. Bedell of Troy, last Suaday morning. On entering the church on Suaday night he was stricken with paralysis. —Some uneasy souls in the Presbytorian chureh of England want a liturgy. A recent di-cussicn of the question in the Birmingham Presbytery disclosed the fact that there was no general desire manifested forsuch an ald to er —Thenew hymnal for the Frae Church of Sectland, which baslately encountered so much 6 hymns, including 13 10 metrical doxologies, and 49 je young, 2 ancient hymns and 32 Scripture sentences aud prose dox dlogies. — A mortgage of $10,000 held by a Boston man on the farm of the Kev. W. H. H. Murray at Gull. ford, Conn., has just been foreclosed, Mr. Mur- ray having taken no steps to stay the execution. ‘The stock once on the place {3 scattered allover the country, and the famous “Murray farm’ exists only in memofy. — Richard Ruzey, a life long anti temperance “burch orator of Danville, Iiinois, having ‘tly Changed the course of his life, at the has been licensed by the ly Contereace to His debat tots week was tems by ali his auditors a splendid effort. — Archbishop Purcell’s affatrs ara still unset Ued, and about four huadred of his five thoa- sand creditors have held afme-ting in Cincin- gall, and yoted to employ additional lawyers, in order that the sult against the church pro; ‘rly may be prosecated more vigoroasiy. the sult should be successful oue luadred con- gregations would lose their church property. —A Scotch clergyman, the R2v. A. Bissett, of the Free South Church {a Peterheid, has retired from the presideusy of tue lozal tem- perance society for the curiou3 reason some members of hts choir appeared as “nigcer™ minstrels at the resent anuual fes:tval of ths Be stated that be woild not have ) the singers app2aring ‘ta tucir nat- Opposition, contains 2 of eighty-three, thodist Quarter! —Up to the beginning of thts month the Kev. Dr, Todd’s Congregational church, io th city ot New Haven, professed in its Manual to velleve In “the condemnation of the wickel to «Verlasttng punisiment.” ‘his formula, and leaves the future fate of the vicked an Open question. cyateating itself with professing @ belief that the Lord will com? to Judge the world tn righteousness. ~- The late general conrention of tue Epis sopal chureh, ft will be remembered, appointed ‘to consider the feasibtiity ot se- ing for the Book of Common Prayer Ittur- sléurichment, and tucreased flexibility ot “ Tbat committee hare hada conterence, © result of their labor ts substantlally vodled in twogresolutis: Tt has now discarded The first asserts erations shoult be | node touching cither statements or standards | d, That in all its 3 ets if shall be guided by t. eal Cops oruetion and rina compiiation and wn Laments of the Beok of Common Prayer, td have Diade it wisat tC is.” Mr. Mooly spok> faon> of his San Fran cleo exhortatiois of Uh-ugh otherwise g 10d persons, were not regen- erated by divine grace. st Gear gran imother wh bad dled unz.averted, “Aithougn sh> Was guod aad dearly lovei by me. J feir sae has m* w! reward of all wno die not owaing Christ. know she isin hell.” At tnat moment a young rose and Walked dowWa the “Tuere 13 a gentleman,” sid th+ resivalist, “who 1s Cred of Msteaing He ts going stralght t> hell.* Paolic rebuke ti eat voice: **W st ise which hav He referred feellogiy to was near the front a: als'e toward the door abdomt Christ. Tac object of this sed cantake to your ¢ told Mn J. — An eminent British clergym in was severely, opposed to what h> called sensational me aods of gathering collections. practice of ‘passing esllection boxes or baskets ation, aod sald tc was He believe 1 that givin lone on principle, without special im ulse, ind without appeal tothe feellags, Hd i'ned to pat his views {nto practical operation 1: hi30wn way. S9 he told his people that ror ear they might pat thelr donations foc onary work Into two large, strong boxes, he placed for the purpose in the caurch ; “estibules. Thes2 boxes, which were mae of tont oak, were securely locke: ne opened until the close of th ed they would b> full of money. le quietly and unostentatior Ritts ta the opeatags ta the ‘3, in the sight ofthe Lord er, Of men,” ‘The boxes were recently opened. du carefully counting the contents of both the | tal Sum was found to be somewhat 1e33 than wo shillings, all in copper coln, — Rev. Sylvanus Stall, of New York, has late- y written and pudtished an elaborate trea'ise, ntiled “How to Pay Church Debts and how » keep Churches out of D2v1.” irimge that so much writing should be re- uived toexplatn what to the most ordinary ‘oipprehension ought to be the plainest and + asicst thing In the world. The best and only ay church debis ts f hers to put thelr hands in their pockets and plank down the money. He deaoiaet the | {hey seat a ard to Turough the congre eee said he woulds nd the foreman. | and would not e year. when he dids’t you sead for me first-off?” All tl 35 two cents worth 0’ solder. Here y’are.” es, I should say never under any circumstances allo ¥ «child to partake of them, except under the The m thod of keap- ag Churches out of debt is still more simis. \ll that is required is, that no church editic> hall be erected until the money re complete it is subscribed and collected, - ard to the curreat expenses of the cutiren, the way UO keep out of d-bt ts to Unit the expendl- i ares tothe revenue-—in other word3, not to >pend unl) they have the money. porations, churches are generaily tha worst A church without a large or small, 13 almost an anomaly. ‘I bere are those that pay as they go; that fol- jow Paw’s injunction, “Owe no man any- ‘atng;” but their name is not legion. cenominations insist upon having their church editices pald for before they are dedicated. ‘als was the general rule there would be no oc- c aston for such essays a3 tat of Mr. Siall.— inauaged, financially, ish Deer Forests. People who have never visited deer forests “reapt tO picture grassy glides, paradis23 of fern, glant oak3and shady beeches, and the Geary reality ts usually a fearful dizapp ia‘ ment, for a “forest” ts nothing but a vast tract ot moorland, which bas been “forested” £. ¢, Yom which the sheep have been removed: ‘The deer would get on perfectly welt the sheep if the latter were left aion>, bat tuey hive the greatest aversion to the shep- Who are contionally comtng oa here 18 no sport in “driving” de+r— itis mere stuptd butchery; but stalking 1s not only splendidexercise. bu! the most exciting amusement conceivable. It has generally been. estimated that the lessee of a forest Should reckon that each stag shot costs him 59, and a brace Of grouse !s supposed to cost £1; bat Unis fs an exaggeration in these days, as maay game books would show. t, during the past season at Glentesnle, Badenoch district at Inver- killed over 4,000 head of g: 132, 105 40 roe deer. re i ep Up” Business in Strect Cars. ip there, gentlemen! Step up! There’s plenty of ‘4 the car!’ is the regular ery of conductors for crowded ‘L’ road trains. And peopie move responsive to the conductor's mands like 0 many weak sheep. When the train stops the passenger, shoved up to the middie of the car, squeezes his way out with great difficulty, and perhaps does not sque-ze out in time to get off. Now, no passeag2r wo frst gains standing room near the car duor ne2d ‘otep up.’ The place belongs to him as much as would the seat he chooses. He chooses that locality for nis own convenience and haz a Tight to keep it. The ‘step up’ business ts sim- ply & means of tyranny in the company’s inter est. The man near the car door has aright to Sir Charles Mor- his it Let daunt Slot leew apr mostot then She ren's@ien- feshie from Mr. G. M. Grant.menoer of pirila- ment,and The Mackintosh, at £3,300 a year, (tis, clear that the berks is la las far too Secret “Advertismmg.' THE “LAW RECORTRE” SCHEMES. Edtlor Sar :—The press has commended ttseif to the public by so many vigorous editorial ex- positions Of selfish schemes that It 1s now looked. upon as the people's mouthpiece. This week ‘ther with the other dailies had oocaston, toge! of this city, to Gall’ attention. Coan arolcrary and unrighteous rule of our District Supreme Cred in reference to publication of lezal ao- uces, The rule, (12t.) heretofore quoted, requires all in our courts, said Reporter's imited circulation, the notice 1s Only served upon members of the bar, hs only su¥scribers. ‘T'hus too frequently divorcs cases, and causes of great Importance relating to property, or, as the lawyers teri them, actions in rem, are ki ‘nown only to the small number of ‘That the court, ag at present constituted, and, indeed, at date of adoption of this rae 121, never Intended sich abuss, 1s apparent to_all right-thinking men and all good lawyers. Tno history of the rule ts well Knowo. A member of the bar, of undoubted ablity, and greatly be1oved by his brethren and the judges, was the editor of the Reporter in 1876, and it wa3 on their petition or request, and with the hearty concurrence of the court, that the rale was adopted, both bar and court hoping for the suc- cess of the ies journal, and never dreaming of an abuse of fined to the Orphans’ Court. and soon a‘ter- ward was adopted as applicabie to all pubiica- tions required by law or rule of court. The late distinguished jurist, Judge Oltn, holding then the special term for probate buiiness, was the mover. Subsequently, one of our brightest le- gal =~ literary judges published through tne m is privilege. At first tt was con- edium of this Lar Reporter, the opinions of the Supreme Court or the District; but this feature has long since been omitted, and the occasion for the rule long since pased, {te abuse for years past well known to the bar, and ts abrogation prayed for. | Even justices of the peace, with vhetr limited powers and jurisdiction, have until withia a term or two past, acc*pted this Rule 131. ant advertised in the Reporter for absent defead wits. Of course, to well meaning practitioners thls Was regarded as a farce, but the practice was continued through ignorance and by shysters unul some were mulcted with costs by the | Court, on certiorart writs to justices. command- | ing case3 to be sent upto court. No doubt bur any of our lawyers are ready to-day to move that this much-abused rule shall be rescinded, and the court will ae to grant the motion, we do not doubt. zi i8i6, includes the order of Judge Olin of 23th January, 1874, requiring publication, ta notices of dceedents ‘estate, for next of Kio, &¢., and makes our Orphans’ Court a cover for whit ought to be known, as doubly expensive, for what should be free. In short, the rule {s an bomInation and should be abrogated at once, as it affords too much secrecy to the shyster3 and Wo little faformation to the pubile. © X. ‘ule 12i, adopted tn May, At the Water Office. He stalked in early yesterday morning. Oae could see that he had something on his mind and that he intended to have justice If It brove bis neck. Walking up to one of the windows tn the long rating he boldly demanded: “ T want to Know of some of you folks in here if the river dried up last night?” It was a long Ume before any one replied. Tien one of tbe clerks sald that while it was barely possible that such an event had taken place, Le Lad recetved Lo direct Lnformation to thet effect. ‘Ob, you Paven't! Then, perbaps, your old puruping works have been olown u; DP “May be so, bus it seems 2s lf they would have tel: ph ned down.” “Weil, then, if the river dido’t dry up ani the pumping works sre all right, how happeasd {t tnat I couldn't get aby water at9 o'clock last evening 2” “Cold or bot 3” “Cold, of course! Who said anything avo it hot water?” “Then you couldn’t get any 2” “Didn't I say I couldn't? I pay my water tax, and as a ratepayer, @ taxpayer and a citl- wh T demand my rights. Now, sir, why couidu't { get avy Water at my house last evenias?” “It wonlda’t rua, eh?” “Wouldn't reo! Why, blast your cars! Haven't 1 beea telling you that ft woulda’t Tub? Suppose there had been @ fire in my house?” “In what part of your housc?” absently querted the clerk. “In any part, sir, from cellar to garret! Sup- pose I had wanicd a pall of water to drown an lent conflagration?” You couldg’t have got ir.” ‘ures In pencil on the desk. * Yes, si tax cle! “ and you take notice that if thts thug hip. pens agatu this winter I'll make ths Wi Board sweat!” “Perspire.” suggested the clerk, “No, sir.” “Te it wasu’t winter I'd sink a well” “Yes, sir.” 5 “And be tidependeut of this monopoly.” “Yes, sir.” “and 1 want tt understood’—he was going op, when the door opened and tn walked a et {ven who began: Det Ott Free Pri The Proud Piumber. Las" week's Puck has a thrilling tale enfttled “The Proud Plumber—A True Tale of Mr. Ji2- bendoom’s Bathroom.” Ic seems from tue opea- ‘ng chapter that Mra. J. discovered a leak and Two days later the superintenden® cilled,and cal d next dsy, and had ali the family engaged in carrying hol water to thaw out the pipes, ‘vhe Journeyman came tate in the afternoon, * chopped upall the wood work of the bashroom aad cut theugh ch? ptasterlag.” Tasy sav that the one thing needful wa3 “the boy.” mance The last clapter of thta tasiructtve r we give entire: “CiApTER IV. “The boy came, tea minutes later. ““Why, thisis just my style,’ he “Phe boy soldered up the pie, aad stoped the leak Mr Jipben boom sent for a carpenter 4nd a plasterer, and paid $10 to hava the bath. yom rs‘ored to its original condition. caldren escaped the diphtnerta, ew York, Jan. 32nd, 185), . tO P. MaLLoy, Plumb +r. $5) 09 —JipsRNBOM, D Tsona\ examiuatton of plumblag ime of superintendent... : im of foreman... ‘Thawing out pipe: STD 10 00 ‘Time of jouraeymen, 2a¥7.50 per hour.... 15 00 Use of axe....... . . 500 | Catting plasieniag 500 Catung woodwork ... 5 00 ‘Time of boy. ~ 10 Solder, + 08 $135 i A ew Weeks Aqo a trata over one of the | Pel railroads running west ran over a cow just be- youd the Grand Trunk junction. Tue matter | was reported at headquarters, but tha owner of the mangled bovise was not heard of until Tuas- day Jast, when he entered the presiien '3 of- Ifve and remarked: “I guess we'd better settle Up now for that cow.” “Ab, you owned the cow Kul y one of our trains in November, dli your” “Lexpect did.” “and what did you value her at?” The mao scratched his nead, Litched on his chair, and finally repited: “Well, 1duo no. My brotvher-ta law sad [ had the company tighter'n blaz2s, and he toid m2 to say she was a pew milch cow and lay dimizes at $70.” Yes.” “But my wife satd 1d b+tter Say Chat the cow Was Lot Worth over $50.” “Yes, Well, how was tt?” “That's where the stick comes in, you see. I want all she was warn, Fact js, she was an Old cow,dry as a bone, and worth she was took away kinder sudden, and it maia a bad muss around the place, and I reckoned you might add 4 little extra” “Let ug say $25.” “Thats plenty. I ‘spose I might have had fifty Just as well as not, bat I didu’c wantto lle about it.” “No; never tell a lie.” “On, I woulda’t have lied, ‘cause I knew you sent a man out there to git all the facts in the case!” repited the man, as he received an order on the treas~ and yet I doa’t want toswindle anybody. atout $15 for boarding house beef. Yu urer for his check. {Detroit Free Press, A Fair Youna MorpsR with a crying babe in her arms, sat in a Western st ta was @ prominent politician of 8 0} a posite Beat WAS: a engaging By and by he ers. me hold your baby; perhi 1 can soothe him.” aT ar fatto iad; you coulda’t nelo Buc," be pers'st 2d, “You are very Kind; but 1 know 30u couldn't help me, for ho 1s hungry," replied the blushing mo! “Ob. BO; T am much onliged; me any,” was the answer. “you had better I-t me trv.” 01nOr, CLABA BSEL.LE’S Eres. A Bac Where Fashion Stand Up ana Like Litue 0 (N_ ¥. cor, Cra Fashicnable ciothes ocoupy the min4s, often to the exclusion of everything else, of those New York women who are foanciaily able to gratuity their longiags. Shooping fs (hair diver- Taey spend the live-long day ofe, whether they tatend They do not stop toy) but day a luca rhance to de whon eating time Ia one of the largest fancy goods esiad- ts in the city. a restaurant fMtty feet ag Dusiness,and a soda water But the lat-st Able Women 3 client sion and delight. = | Zolng from score to to buy anything or home for hemeaay | Square does a rusbin fountain fea co: Project for the refresument of fasatonanie Now, Dar rooms [1 which men drink are no novelty; but It ts as respectadle as | dway, Close LO Stew. iack’s Theater, in the estavishments, Tae women {8 a ba | this {8 no such. | it ts untque. It is ta Bro. | art’s great mart and Wal midst of handsome retail front is resplendent with piate-giass, and the leep and elegantly fitted up, ig Are frescoed, and the {or ismarble. One side Is devoted to the sale of ‘That shows the store Itself 13 wide. di The walls and cetiln, | confectionery. nothing but the opposite side, ard is about the sams Style as those of the bes! marble counter is a ltt | mirror faces the drinkers, and the back bar is adorned with cut glasses and decanters, | Stead of a beer pump, however, there 13 a soda lemons, an ornameatai | lemon squeever, groups of ginger ale botties, and pyramids of silver Tom and Jerry c19s, make a display’as go) MS a3 Can be found on 'wo bar tenders, of the regulation pattera, with their hair and mo 1s- brushed, diamonds on thelr polished shirt fronts, aud t coats turned up to the elbo vz, ‘The women walk up JUST LIK® LITTLE MEN, drinks with the careless alr of veterans, The euterprise has deen under Way only a few weeks, and is already an es- ed success. Tho beverages are about “Hard liquors” are 2 t cafes, though the fountain. Piles of any bar in the city. taches carefully of their white | are constantly o | ana order ¢ what might be expected. not sold, except 1a mixed drinks, as in Tom | and Jerries, on whico the run during the | present cold weather ts brisk. They are made hot and sweet, and the women dote on them. ‘The next most popular drink just now 15 hot | Punch, composed of rum, lemon-jutce, water | anda dash of brandy. Ordered in place of the water. chocolate and lemonade quantities, On days of moderate temperature the call is for cola lem: ginger ale and soda water. yesterday the mentary and U Sometimes seltzer ts | are al3> sold in large nade, claret puch, While I was there of the ale-bottle was mo- lever of the lemon-sqeezer was in almost constant motion. Women stand three feet deep in front of the bar. Twocon- ther, and each paid for her ut as @ rule the gent tip lers gracefully imitatea polite bat ners though they were beverages slowly, tnstea their mouths like 80 much medicine. “What are you going to drink?” said a tmitd- faced sapling of a girl in a Cloak of satin mate- lasse and a Dlue capote. “IUs my treat this time,” replied a cherry- | wpling of a belle in marooa veivet. you bought yesterday. whavil you taker” seltzer lemonade.” “ Make me 4 Tom-and-Jerry, sweat.” So the contusion of orders and the eager drinking went on. 1 aske ers why he didn’t keep lag: New York women drink it at home am: concert gardens so generally. Want to go slow at Mrst—don’t want to startie Our customers too much; bu ‘Deer a3 soon as Warm weather comes,’” Panlons drank to; own dissipation; ‘iven to sipping their of tossing them tuto one of the barte ni Hg said: “O, we ‘The Art of Fence, {London Globe.) Al almost the same time when the French Chaimplon at billiards was engaged with his rival from the United States, a celebrated re resentative of the French School of Fencing met In friendly contest with the foils a challen- ‘The victory of the Parisian was far more decisive tn the latter than tn the for- | mer trial; and whatever may be thought of the eaux to be called the best bil- In the world, there can be littie ation In saylag that France has esta Ushed her supremacy in the chief exercise of the sail? Warnes, ‘The art thus again brought prominently into | public notice in a more pleasing way than by iil-fought duels, is one te which our puxaactous neighbors have loug appropriated Us: eptihet of “noble.” Yet it would be a great mistake to suppose that fencing in anything like its pres- ent form was an accomplisiment or practice of very early date in that country. Suggested, with much appearance of t that the small sword, or at any rate a thi some kind, began the time when defensive to be worn, The disuse of breast, ‘3 und Coats of mail would, Indeed, for the | Hirst Ume afforda chance for poinied weapons 1S» formidable than Lue lance to Laiiiet a mortal wound; and it would be alingst absurd to sup- poss Liat the sword worn anctent or modern umes, ¢ ed for thrusting alone. It must, ther be regarded as one of the many instances of anachronism In Shakspeare that he makes Pence Hamlet, six centuries ago, a prolcts: with the rapier, and Introduces a scene la which «he fotis are ised according to the approved aster’s art. The reign | accoring to the most | ger from Italy. No, Icoulcn't; and 1 want to tell you right | Bere aud rgb! now that I figure my damages at $100! “Ore hundred,” repiled the clerk, as be | Marked Une | ing sword of ud { won't pay my next quatler’s | invo “use only at * Won't pay next quarter's tax,” wrote the Tk. vel, perspire, then, and don’t you forget les of the fencing of Queen Eltzabeth may, ‘rastworthy authorities, be accepted as the date of the first introduction of ln Euglard. It is, fudeed. supposed to have pre- valled In Spain at a rather earlier from thence to have made tts way in the first But as regards Engiand aad | France at least the weapons then Usea were of very different size and shape from the court Sword now associated in our minds | with the name of rapier. They were of vari- ous and often extraordinary length, and capable of being used with effect for vatting as weillas thrusting. A proclamation of the Ush Queen pronibits the wearlng of swords Toore Wan a yard long, and atone time duriny herreign men were appotated at the town! gates to Break the weapons of all persons which exceeded that lmit amount of opposition was also shown by the military men and gallants of the old school | rnictous fashion of fi led a trucke, ft on thrusting.” In the reign of Louts XifI, of France, there was still no regulation In that country as tothe size or shap2 of the blade, which was often of tremendous length, so that the tall and strong man haa great advantage overasmaller antagonist. The thrusts were pairied with the left hand, armed with a dag- ser, and there were no set rules Of Was Ot a fair method of atta: out the ith and part of the Staly still meld the palm; and it was not till the latter part of the last-named century that the Skill of La Boessiere and bis famous pupil, the Chevalier de St. George, triumphed over the ec- centrictites of the transalping school, and re- duced the art to a more regular and’ seleatine Yhat in blazes afig your o:d pumpinz- sma'lsword fguting works?” Aad the clerk with the far-away look in his eyes had to leave his ledger and coms forward snd explain that the pumping-works were all ight, the rver was all rigut and the Board was all right, and that if the water wouldn't run it Was perhaps because it had got tired.— place to Itaiy. He wanted to Know whether It would not dato wrap a rag around tt, but tha lady was aftald of diphtheria, which she had | heard was caused by defec‘ive plumbing. S> the proud plumber, and ft was delivered to his chief clerk, who handed it fo hls pire secretary. Within two or three e plumber klodly 10 >ked in, and Mr. Jiobendoom took him tO the bathroom. The plamber sat@ if was “‘naathin’ for me,” and Vhat he would send the supariatendent. with a rapler, The foreman 3th centuries The English were always backward to prof- “tency witb the smali Frenchman who was an iostructor at the Wool- wich Academy in the beginning of the preseat century declares that ia his opinion they are peculiarly adapted by their temperament to excel, possessing as they do “a cool, calewlat ing mind and preseveriag disposition, com- bined with great activity and strength, and an innate love of competition.” qnalities are as valuable as qaickness of eye and nerve, and the elan of the French chatacter, perhaps, be a doubtful question; but it ts certain that our countrymen have never be- stowed all the attention u| physical education which iight have been ex- Thus it is that Waiter Scott speaks of Fit, James as “trained abroad his arms to 30 able to use his blade “as sword a ld.” The exotic orizin of the art tn thee, meeeors is, moreover, Sword, altnoazh a ‘Toe | e Whether taese 25 00 + 2000 | a this branch of “parades” of “quarte,” “tlerce,” and “sec- o1 ‘re obvious examples, as are the “‘ap- the “flanconnade,” and even that ele- mentary term the “longe.” In France the art 4 ed of 90 great national !mport- ance that no one was allowed to teacn it with- out having served a sort of ap; Some proper salle @ aries, ai wards proved his efficiency in two pubile exil- ditions, in which he was opposed by the masters iy licensed. It is thus that even tn the present day there may be seen in the rooms ot Some London professional fencers a framed certificate testifying that they have been passed jualitied by a Parisi ‘Those who had thus graduated 1a France were e old laws entitled for a whole year the right of free entry amusement in the capl- he privileges they then enjoyed recall to mind the custom once India, where only princes and nob ed to teach and to wear the honorable bedge entitled essaru. ‘Yet until the times of the younger Pitt,whose father Was “glad that he had taken a fenciag master,” the art was still deemed even ta Eug- land a characteristic education. Ita praises sorts of writers on almost all sorts of subjects. ‘The rbetorician is recommended to eng: 0 as to acquire ease of gesture, the mantoimprove his circulation, eumptive ent SO as to recover the use of his. ee right, eed of phe Sones Orator,” declares that Muses elegance ai ease all over the body, and even “characterizes the look aoa gesture with an tellectual vigor.” ‘These seem to some modern crit ted; Dut a consensus of opinion on the very impartial critics has maintained that e1 in this age Of multitudipous athletic exercises there is none which is 80 free from dat at the same time 80 this once “noble art, renticeship in having atter- ian master of rt of every gel a Deen “su entary and the con- appearance of In- raises wil aad bencficlal to the body. aS Geo AND StLVER. Some Curious Stories of Lucky tude | vt Precious Meta t. {Omaha Bepablican.; 7 bs! rok mines are ofien discovered Dy a history. both anctent and modern vei {ks Numerous Instances Of (his kind, come uader my OWn observation. This {s sald to be fuck, but © matters not whether it is luck OF setanee, 86 long as the “flad” ts a Kood in such cases $0 would seem tant tC «¥en beter to be born lucky than indusiriors. Ony tast spring a prospector, nut tweniy mLes trom heye, atter hunting mauy days f queitz ledge, tied tm his search, and tare down his pick and shovel tn dtsivast, and took vp bis rifle, end sauntered fora for game. dt: Fornne fav ad him: u of @ g00d Found sim 1OL stated. Ie the earty days of California a poor pr pector, sadly out of luck, was returning (0 lits camp atter hight, when he was assatied by a stand off his enemy, he felt arowad tn t a ang laid bold of the tirst Uning ne could catch, which was a hefty rock. Tne dog nad sioj course, and the man kep tows dth Ube bunch grass was few and far betwee any rate, {ke prospector desired to move ¢ but couid not do so without the assistance his bay companion. He must needs flua nim. He was at last successful, and while recarniag with the truant he noticed the bead of a monn tain ram sticking in the rocks. Stopping asinine tt, he saw rich looking quaru: scattered | about, and fol.owing it up, he bit upon whai is row the noted Kamshora mine—the longest a d richest silver ledge that we know of. The di: trict was named Bay Horse, aS it should have | been, and is the richest silver district in the Salmon river country. 1 knew @ man once who followed mini: eee 2 tor # period of forty years. ‘en ajl irough California, Colorado and Mon- tana, and had prospected twenty-five years in Georgia before coming west. He was not much on digging deep holes, but he would go round hunung for shallow diggings so long boys would “stake” him. He was vetUing worn nd When, ou | 24Uh day of July, 1564, he camped on a tribatary of Prickly Pear Creek, 1) northern Montans, he | Said to nis three companions, “Lets sin! | om this bar; It’s the last chance; If we can’t tind (don’t know where next to prospect.” ounger members of the party put the hole to bed rock, the diggings were named Last Chance, and two years later the old maa turew cut prospecting out of luck, it he! ‘The y away his tools, and went home to eorgt a joyful heart ard $100,000 {in clean gold dust, put not until he had seen the city of Helena, the metropolis of Mouiana, spring up aboat h Ouly iast August a prospector in the Lower , Wood River country mot with an unexpected | Streak of luck that astonished him. While on bis Way across from Bellevue to Croy Canon th: pack on the horse he was leading became loose, and in order to adjust It he dismounted. While © | Teartapging it he saw something at his fet that resembled rich silver *Noat.”” He traced it up tothe ledge, which was only a short «is- ‘abce away, aud found that he had one of tue best “prospects” in Wood Itiver. He located “he origina! and two extensions, and Us bes ore in the vein assays up into the thousand, Kecenty he sold out for a snug litte fortune, On a mountain trail in Calffornia there used to bea big boulder which furnished a favortie Testing place for tired footmen. ‘Thousand: of men bad sat on that stone and rested thelr weary limbs. In fact, It was of 80 peculiar shape that tt scemed to it every one who tricd i. With long usage ft had worn as smooth as ivory, and Was as greasy with frequent contac’ with miners’ clothing. One day an old pros- pector squatted himself upon this favorite rest- ing stone, and while getting his wind he care- les:ly and wncoasclously pecked away at the boulder with his pick. A plece of rock flew off and reveaied to him the surpristog trath that | he was sitting on # rich chunk of quart. He at | once proceeded up the bili and found the ie: and it was fall of gold and brought him mu wealth. We are told that once upon a timea youog | man lett the home of his caildhood, bade fars- well to his weeping mother, Kissed away tie . aud went out into | the wilds of the west Co become a miner. tradition goes that he at length strack a mintug cufp, and, being inexperionced, he s ighted Veteran for advice as to the best place 10 Seeing his visitor was a “tendertoot” dress: In store clothes, the old man in kledaess of Young man, go 1p oa the hiliside ‘in the shade of youder grvea tre ue 5 tothe sarvasm of the man at Went forth with joy 101 shade of the ‘great tree as direciea, dng, and found a fortune in less than an hour." at vats 1s a le—every word of If. I have heard the | Same old story told as having bappened In the iead mines of Wisconsin, ta the gold mine: Montana, Colorado, the Black Ail, tears of his little sweetbeat bis big heart, auswere: 6 and dig. and fortune will sintie.” aid not “tumb! of experience, California. and Ne t scene in Idaho, and forbearance will then ani there cease. A Possible Conflagrativa in Ger- errs It can scarcely be doubted that, ta Germany, there are all the elements of a’ couflagration ready tohand. Tais has of late been so appar- ent that We may fairly take {tito account in Ss policy. Bai the tal democrats in et in mod- Une thes- Tists begun to organize themselves wirh estimating Prince Bismare! growth cf the party of the Germany 1s iu itself a remarkable ern politics. For there alone have definite object, and there atone ure Sulicient.y educated, and, what 13 more to th purpose, suMicienUy trained in military aft airs, | lo be really formidable, Tals mUitarization of the mob, however viewed, 13 a sti of business fo ftgelf. On the one hand. strong | repressive measures have been passed whica | | keep turbulent Berlia in a permament stare of Siege, which render {t impossible for workmen to form any union, to publish any paper, to hold any meeting to canvass for poliiical pur- poses. Af the same time, the factory laws | which had been carted to restrain the undue employment of chiidrea, and to preveot the abuse Of thelr power by Capitalists, have bea gradually set aside. The pressure of the times has rendered the position Still more geave tian Mt would otherwise have been. And ye! men thus exasperated at the dental of all free. dom and the underhand suspension of laws Passed with difliculty for their benerii, tae military conscription is still in full foree. malcontents are paased steadily through the army exposed to the hated Prussiau discipline at ‘the hands of that hard-handed and hard-neaded Junker class whom they are learaing to took Upon as more bitter enemies than any foreiga foe, and return to their homes—such of them as fo not seek refuge across the Atlantic—to remember that a milion more trained soldiers hold Ube same opinion; that they do, and watt only a favorable opportunity to Show their real beea assert- ss83 are no loa- ger contioed to the capital or to the few man- ulacturing centres. Harimann the shosmaker's “ection at Hamburg, when lie polled Lwice as many votes as his two comp2ttiors, was more remarkable even than the mere numbers snowed, for his opponents were directiy antag- onistic To the socialist laws and were bath itn- erals. In thedebates, Liebknech', Bebel. Hart- mann, and wf other socialist deputies, are now listened to with attention, as representing a force which has to b2 reckoned with henceforth ‘They are the Tepresentatives not tnerely of thelr own citles, DUt Of That revolt of indastrialism agatnst mt!- itarism which can in the eud have bat one result. Not even the Prussian bureaucracy, with Its marvelous organization, can In Uhe long run make head agalnst the growing disconteat Which is now finding volve in 80 many quar- ters. All the repressive measures In tke world Will not prevent men from voting under the ballot in accordance with what they realiy think. The destre of excluding from tue polls all who had taken advantage of the free siate education did nol prevent the social democrats strength. AL tbe polls Cuey hay ing themselves, aud Uhelr suc’ € asa strong political lufluenc Trom casing 600,000 votes at the last election, hor ‘will prevent them from {a increasing that number at the next. Perse- cutlon has but inflamed the entnusiasm of the whole party. They are now striving, merely for the strange program which their fesdens put forward, but oa dehait of that com- mon freedom, that rigot to ordinary liberty, which can no longer safely ee dented either 16 Catholics or sectalists.—The Nineteenth Cru. wy. Booth’s Greatest Compliment. Eawin Booth says that the most genuine com- pliment be ever received was on the occasion of his playing Lago for the first time at Grass Val- Jey, then a new mining camp. The audience, wo hi ot Seen a play for years were so touch ‘a * his iene villainy that they jooters” In the middie of the re. away at Une stage. incensed and beg: ‘Othello had the up of his nose shot off frst volley, and Mr. Boot: Ubrouge a trap door. A 3 trom the mana- T somewhat calmed the house, but even ir, Booth t i It DESL Lo the night ta the theater, as 8 ate vet most ee ‘were mi uous eMforts SiS ee piaaat Maulane sods Interna: sneasing cass” cuureh fai heater rai Whove mairimonia: expenansd ‘Was certainly variad, did not enjoy single ute. hen Jane Seymour died upon the dirta ot par months afwer her marriage, say6 & writer in the iniermaiwns. & Mrst child, a few of cate Anne of Cleves, no: PArLIF, Mt SeEMS, DocaUse SHE was mo large Of statire, wie endation to Henry, and p taucied a Matlering portal. the *ocks and ro Wuen the buprer nd ft lying op the oat ma ‘edge, which ae |, ABd proceedings for divacor ately tustituted Mg, in old-fashion | Always used for a coarse earthenware jar or The story ts well know: natured chambermatd who sald to an Euglish lady Wu lalely arrived La xc Ume tn ter Ite, Wi s Having no weapon with whten to a, i Lhe Stone in hi hand wolll he was safc tn bis own cabin. Inthe ior oiog Le saw something bright on the mis suc of war, and au closer examination he fouad the! (he reek was fllof cold. fle returned and ledge from which the quartz. boulder bad tated, sold it for a large amount of money, returned to Lhe states, bought a farm, maiied abd raised a large family oF cniiaren About four sears ago a poor bul industriou: brespector In this Gsuuly had the misforvu (or good tortune) to lose Lis horse. It was an S10 Sy horse, aud, ike his taaster, was @ Wan ‘ering prospector, only (hat he prospacted for 1 Tavs, while Nis niaster prospect wor a i i bis particular day the ola bay wandered cur ther ban he was Wont to do, probabiy Decauss radth lady. “a pig, men, sa kh your Ded to keep you warm?” rom, young woman’ © Your Lisoleue .” Your misuress sa ali bear © at a low how to ren Sicep with the pigs oa the ‘lair DUL Lbs WAS sometain: Mer curiosity was o mon fn this country, my plgs tu Coetr beds? va a, When the weathers cay iy ould not put the pig Det “Ti you please, tem, 1C woo " “Batween the shes I T comida never siop for Ladies to b would dirty tuem, girl, | with a pig between the sheets” mem! you'll sleep far molr comfortable. oO" tightly, and Ue It up in 4 “Do you sleep wilh Ube pig yourseir “No, mem; ples are oaly © Seni lefolks that Ite on featuer bods. raul (chat in sack" steek the mout. cold weather” ng) with my veigavor-lass Do you sleep With a cait De sald the cockney . “No, mem; you're jokin’ Dow,” said Gzy; “we ie on Merny es the maidens Liftiux their cosy dreames Up trom their dainty feet Visions of stockings, embror In an expensive w teach us old boys the lesson That for such things we pay The publication in Albany vl takers Dil!s paid = county has brought 1 large amounts have been pald where all the ex- PLES Were borne by Lhe deceased persons iricnds or societies with which Uney bad boon ip some cases the undertakers never even saw the bodies for which they made ETTERS KEMAT IN CITY POST OF! 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