Mute's Chronicle.

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED AT THE OHIO INSTITUTION FOB THE DEAF AND DUMB.

Vol. V.] COL.U91BVS, O., SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1ST3. [No. 17.

The Philosophy officer. sufficient quantity of ice will unques­ rom his department in confusion and oil Shopping. The current cry of the British beefs tionably solve the difficulty. In Russia panic. His "Roughing It" is wholly in­ It is poor economy or, rather, no econo­ eaters, like poor little Oliver Twist asking ninety live per cent of the beef consumed ferior to his other book, though it has sold my at all to purchase inferior fabrics be­ for "more,' 1 recalls SOUK- interesting fact- in St. Petersburg and Moscow is fro/.en largely. The public, are wearying of him a cause they are cheap. Persons in limited eoneorning animal food and itsrehilion to beef. Fresh beef costs more, though it is little and he must arouse himself if he circumstances often commit this error, civilization. It. has marked eras of nation- all comparatively cheap, but the pref­ cares for his laurels. if a calico at ten cents a yard looks about :i! progress and formed the basis of aristo­ erence for fresh beef ov >r frox.cn is not so Bret, Hart conquered attention by his as well as one nt twelve or fifteen cent-, crat!''distinction, and \vliere monopoliz­ great as to prevent a purchaser from choos­ extraordinary talcs in the Oarlanil and the prudent purchaser will often think i; ed hy a guild, as in the Klorentiiu; llo- ing a prime bit of the latter over a sec­ grew celebrated by his trille, "The Hea­ economy to choose' the low-priced goods. l>n!)lic, Ituoii an inilucntal organ of power. ondary article of the former. At the close then Chinee." Cit'icsand publications bid As it is low-priced, :.he may indulge in :; The meat-eaters have always been a pow- of the Winter those having a stock of for him, and Boston and the Atlantic car­ yard or two more for ruflles or bias folds, r in any community, and perhaps no beef on hand often keep it over Summer ried him oil. Since then he has been flattering herself that cheap ornamenta­ -oiii!try in the world has furnished so in the ice-houses, and we arc informed, stilled almost. We have had no really tion is an equivalent for line quality. largely this kind of aliment to its popula- by one of those who have tasted it, that clever thing from him, according to the Tliis mistake may lie seen permeating the lion as the United States, while in many even at the end (if the second Winter he critics, who consider his reign at il " entire wardrobe of many sensible people. older eonntries general impoverishment has had it as jrood, if originally first-class, end. The result is simply this : they neve- lias often i.iadc- it a rarity. as much that we buy fresh In Washington John Hay came home from Europe, have anything of really ^ood quality, an- In the dissolute days of Uome, when City. wrote "Little Breeches" and "Jim Blud- always shabby, anil always Inlying. her aristocracy reveled in th«i accumulat­ In bringing beef from Texas, an experi­ soe," and was made the theme of count­ None but. rich people can allord to buv ed spoils of conquest, and men like Api- ment already begun with some success, less paragraphs. His admirable book, poor goods. This rule applies to all s:»rt'^ oius and Hcliogabalus gave feasts, the. ex­ what is wanted in the vessel is slight "Castilian Days,1 ' gave him reputation of goods muslins, cloths, carpets, and travagance ot which appears to have heen draught of water and large refrigerating ninonir the cultivated, but they are the table linen. We grudge the ti lie we sec t heir chief merit, though still a matter of capacity. The ingenuity which has few. lie is doing line strong work on the women spend in making up muslins ot wonder, only the nohlcs were permitted given us Mississippi steamboats should be Tribune, but he is slipping out of the pub­ low grade for underclothing. There art tit use pheasants and other wild game able to supply these. lic eye. j s The privileged classes ot Europe have much as would feed ten head of herded songs are pronounced monotonous, and need to be. Hotter make three shirts o! preserved to this day the right to control cattle, will be a great Held of futurosnpply his genius a manufactured article. fine quality muslin than six of a lowc- .game; hut the distinction has heen pre­ for the United States; and the Indian Wo await, at this moment, another grade ot mu*lin. Just so in flannels. A vented them from learning long ago how question may yet be satisfactorily settled coming man somebody to put up ai.d lifly-cent all wool Shaker flannel wil. local their share of heef, mutton, and by making herdsmen of the wild trihes pulldown. He will be along anon. The wear two or three times as long as yoiu veal, while the poor class, who, for a pe­ and depriving them of their firearms. question is: Do our humorists and literary flimsy cotton and wool siutl'a few pennu^ riod covering centuries rarely tasted meat, They would take much more readily to lights decline, or do we declare them ex­ cheaper. Especially in a family of child­ have heen gradually growing ahlc to pro- this than to any manual labor such as hausted because they are such, or because ren, fabrics should be chosen for MTVJCI ' Ure it. Democracy, which I)e Tooquo- agriculture requires. we are merely tickle? Xnd' nt «Sl. Louitt (Jlobc. from one child to anotiiei, thus saving the to he gainsaid, however much disliked, is ing of beet-root snyar, which improves mother time to .stitch into her brain it .-[treading, and with it is coining greater instead of Impoverishing the soil, will little embroidery of thought and culture. equality of condition and taste. Rail­ furnish food also for an increased number Tlic Frozen IVrlls ol" Hrandoii. A few rules with regard to shopping itself roads and other means of rapid communi­ of cattle; audit will lie well to keep in About a mile Southeast of Hrandoii, may IK- in plaiv. First H.iVo a list of cation contribute toward the distribution view these sources of future1 supply. Vermont, there is situated a well forty- articles to uc purchased made out in black of articles of food among the many, and 11'«*/< in if ton Chrt»iMr. one feet deep, the water of which has the and while. By this means yon will be thereby stimulate production. peculiarity of remaining fro/.en all the saved from sudden temptation to buy In the United States, too, the people year round. In 1H.V.) the owner of the what is not really necessary, and forget who were; once great eaters of salt pork American Humorist*. property began the usual excavations for nothing that y« wide popularity Doesticks (Mortimer moved when the weather is quite warm, ind proprietors, of the "Red Jacket Bitter-, On the continent of Europe the great Thompson) gamed as a humorist. His the water remains fro/.en through the stood high am >ny; our best-known, mo»i deficiency in cultivation left large room Damphool was in everybody's mouth, and hottest months. During April last, ice i-nterprising and responsible firms, h. for improvement, which void is being rap­ in many persons* character. Hisskctches twenty inches in thickness was taken out, ulinost every ;viper of the country their idly tilled and notedly by one of the means wen- laughed at immoderately. He came hut as the atmosphere at that time was Advertisements Were to hi? set:n. Mr. I'ie­ of future supply; namely the cultivation from Detroit, Michigan, to New York and hilly, freezing a^ain took place. On July ters was a mui\ of tine abilities and be­ of beet-root sugar. the 'Ji'ibinir, and scintillated for a year or Kith, of this year, the temperature in the sides being shrewd and successful in bu-i The cultivation has developed into a two. Then he was pronounced wearisome, shade was h.'i degrees; at twt feet from ness, he was possessed of superior scholarly new industry, and proved a great source and ere long IK- sunk out of sight. He the surface of thk- ice in the well the mer­ attainments. His home was a.nonp, th, ofwcathjthe sugar being ol excellent wrote for flic weekly story-papers, but ho cury sank to ;>ii degrees. most elegant and retiuodjn the city, adorn - marketable quality, while the leaf and lost his attraction, and recently went to h\ IK(>0 four shafts were sunk in iinme- »'d in tne most ulwstii aiid beautiful man­ pulp left over from the manufacture feed j Mincapolm,incline Minnesota, to assi>t in edit- liato proximity to Mie well without ner, ami gracefully presided over by Ids and fatten cattle to such an extent that in j ing ? atl daily,da striking t'ro/.en ground ; a Hfth endeavor wife, an estimable and accomplished'l:id> certain previously barren localities of the ArtcimiH Ward followed. From a was more successtul, but the experiment While in the full tide of prosperity, wiiu continent the cattle have increased nine­ humble local reporter on a Cleveland (O.) was never completed, though we learn wealth pourin;; In upon him, Piefers fell. fold. journal he rose to more than national that it will lie oni-e more undertaken next He could not resist the temptation ottered The undeveloped source of supply for reputation. His phrases wore quoted by Summer. There is considerable specula­ by the demon conc.euled beneath the ros\ butchers' meat are as yet immense, chief the people, and his lectures drew crowds. tion in the scientific circles as to why this huw «>f the wine cup, and his imagination among which are our Western plains, the He suffered an eclipse, lie went to En­ particular locality, possibly two hundred was heightened and his bruin exhilarates pampas of South America, iand the island gland because, as it was said, his jokes feet square, should permit the Winter by the uparkliti;* champagne of his own continent of Australia. The mutton of were all known here. He died, »'id the o.old to descend through from twelve to bitters. Tins high reputation of nis firm Australia is excellent in quality, the sheep encomiums that had been suspended were twenty-nine feet of clay aiul gravel, and began to feel tho oM'oots of his downward being gigantic in proportions; while the revived over his grave. free/.e a mass of material averaging four­ course, and finally »jame the crash. I'ie­ hc.ofofthe pampas in South America "Nashy" (Ixteke) HIM- to fame Imme­ teen fr'et thick, and yet not allect uny ters was ruined; he struggled vainly fora would pay the producer at u cost of even diately after the war; had his culmination other spot composed of similar strata. time, but the power of the fiend with half-a-cent per pound; his present profit and decline. You seldom s«e his badly Professor linger is of opinion that the which he hud .so long tampered was tow being made from wool, hides, and fat. spelled screeds now, though he lectures phenomenon is due to glacial remains. great, and nerveless, ahd unresistingly The main difficulty is, how to get this with pecuniary proilt ; edits the Toledo The beds of clay which intercept the sun's he was hurried to tho consummation dt niutit to the mouths of the consumois fresh Ween the issue. leaving onlyily HHit moraines in the neigh- United State* service as a private noldiet, condition *»f the article when brought to Murk Twain (Samuel It. demons) wns borhood. Mr. Clarence Sterling, of and is now with his regiment somewhere murKot. People will not eat frwdi meat brought to the nurface by Ids "Jumping Bridgeport, Conn., who has already spent on tho Kr«-*t Plains of the Went. His with any peculiarity of taste or Minell FroK," and universally advertised by his Homo time In the Investigation of the sub­ broken-hearted wife han tiled a petition icMultUig from its mode of curing or pre­ extremely ludicrous "Innocents Abroad. ject, propose* next year to carry down the for a legal separation from him, alleging paration. the funny man on the Galaxy he wa/< Hfth well to a greater dlHtame. fhienti- that she has oeon reduced to utter pov«r- Prwi»crly-built iron Yesnelw currying Itronoanoiid »uoh n failure thnt lie retired flr American. uf Intoxicating drlok. The story of her lov<> trol of all depart incuts of the establish his life. He has guided the first steps in was so tantali/ingly pleasant. Saturday ty ami misery through her husband's tlie preceding duyn misfortunes is indeed heartrending, Mid ment, with u seat in the Board of Direction knowledge of many who never saw was much better than on itself. his face, by the text-books he prepared so far us the weather was concerned. A it'anything were yet Horded to urge been to the city on that t he friends of temperance and ivforn. t Mr. Peet entered on his new duties in with a keen insight into the peculiarities student who had i'.iti1 of New York on the 1st of February, fs.'ll, ol the doveolping mind, profound study day remarked that ho had the pleasure of would In- found in tlu> terrible girls on the street that Pietersund his innocent family. and practically inculcated that all the in­ of the dillieulties it encounters, and ju­ seeing many pretty mates of the institution formed hut one dicious skill in overcoming them. The wen1 invisible a few days previous. Per­ rn great family. He ever gave parental at­ Teacher, the Divine, the Philanthropist, haps the mi propitious state of the weather THE CHRONICLE, tention t.> tlie complaints and petitions of the Philosopher und the Statesman, are may be assigned as a reason for (heir non- alike indebted to him for the laborious uppeurance until Saturday. The weather .JAN. 11. his pupils, and devoted a lur^ie share of COLUMBUS, SATURDAY, his personal attention to inculcating and investigation and lucid exposition of was alternately pleasant and di.-urceuble enforcing habits of order and neatness, many mutters of the highest importance throughout the remainder of the holidays, lie conducted the religions exercises, and to the moral und physical welfare, Un­ the snows remained on the g:ouml until on Sunday he delivered two religious social and legal stutiw, of the deaf and we returned to our books. The students lectures in signs. dumb. From all who knew him, his who remained at college spent the rest of of 1814 he published A lofty character commanded sincere re­ their tini" in such amusements as could In the Spring much fre­ • ' t. ''';•'. t|.jW»V.W-i,j ... V»f(i!ini;.'il1^ f Illllll'^ ! t/if !/<«/v' rillllll', chess. Nothing of an unusual nature Inn'.. , ,jj,i i mill!.''.'. •, and is still the only text-hook in gencril followed his pupils out into the world. use lor the younger classes in the Ameri­ His generous sympathies were open toiill. transpired to murk the occasion. A few can institutions for the c'euf and dumb. In his labors lie wusactuuted by warm und students mad' 1 calls. On Thursday the A second part, was published in ls:!.">, a pure Cnristiaii principle: adding to his students assembled in the chapel at the little volume of Scripture Lessons in IKjiJ, earnest and eloquent exhortations ihe usual hour; and pitched into their studi the new edition of the first part, and the force of a consistent example in all tin witli u "vim." Some were disgusted 'I'III'. rlll'itNli'l.K will lie i-', rclali'iiis of life. Honored and beloved, with the holidays and were glad to be once ii\ ''M ti> nil and more engaged in study. ;'. I unit tin' liiiiKi' w'liocnn ri':nl it. T" ntli'TS tin1 Mili- the title of President was. (.y general con­ he leaves none who do not mourn .-rri|>tini\ prii-i' fur tlio year i* OIIP ilollnr in :ulv:i!ii-<>. sent, conferred on Mr. Peet. The degree revere his memory. D. W. . A l>. lust. gt nts of ihe university three or four years mutes, b uid"d together for our mutual Year's (.ii-celiitK oJ'tlie I5««:il' later. Dr. Peet has passed his declining good, we have especial reason to cherish J!ut<; Advance. WKST YA. There are fifty-nine pupils veal's in the enjoyment of the rest he has the memory and oiler homage, to the To natron . , readers, friends and all oth­ in the institution forty-nine mules and so well earned. Not the least of the re­ name of Dr. Peet. ers a Happy New Years! \Vo cannot hel­ labors our Society mig t ten blind. wards he enjoyed for his long und arduous 15iU for his ler propose a sentiment tor this occasion labors, was the privilege of seeing the In­ never have arisen ; its field might have (hail by introducing to them a weekly stitution to which his life was devoted for been small, or the laborers lew. Our visitor 'instead ofu semi-monthly one in The boy, .losiali liovt, reported us he- so many years, flourishing beyond ex­ great objects arc the cultivation of the ! the form of tlie A'tro/n-'. We are proud ing in tin1 station hous'» proved to be :v ample under the c ire of hi* only surviving virtues; manly ind.'jieiidcnce, enlarged' to say that, we have made it worthy <>f stray boy from the Idiotic Asylum. son, Isaac Lewis IVet, LL. D. minds, faithful, generous hearts, which their liln-ral .-upport. A-< un evidence «f he strenuously inculcated, and which its necessity the demand is fast increas­ Tin; AUVANCI-: F-NKAIMIKP. Tlie l>xtf\ or* i shone conspicuous j;i hj.s own character. ing ; yes, it is unparalleled. licttcr than N. Y. IXST. i'oi: TIM; lNsfn;rcrio\ Jf''tiu(ftd, thattheOrand Lod^e extends a good Jfitlc Advance mukes its New Yeui's! Tin: D. iV D., N". YOUK, Jan. 1, '« '!. J thill. Tlie Atlt'nn<'<- has earned to the family, thus suddenly bereaved of mime, after u three years' struggle h:< bow as a -weekly, and enlarged to .-:ix \ At a meeting oft be F.xecutivc commit - it) venerable In-ad, the profound and re­ tested its existence. It has won its lau­ twenty inch columns. ; tee of tl\i- Fan wood Liicrtiry Asshciatioii spectful symaputhy ofthe Society. Theirs rels fur being the only paper of its kite! of tiie New York Institution for tn<> In­ is the heaviest loss the bitter'e't grief; (hut has been published with great reg­ CI.KI.V MI-:M<»I:IAI, Fi'M>. From the | struction of the Deaf and Dumb, held on may theirs ba the t;:iidei"est con.v>lulion ularity. In the future we must expect of.January ls7:>, a committee1 was Advance we cull the item that *171i! has | the 1st iVom on high. that our bruin-work, cares and anxieties, appointed which pi'"piri'd the following F<»r the widowed wile, flit1 associate of may b<- typo­ been raised from the following sources; in or.le>- thai the A>lv"nrr. n solution". his labors and Cue solace of his last years, graphically c.r.vect und also as regular a FunwMod Association, So'tn Whcrcu.'i, It has seemed fit unto our we invoice in an especial degree heaven­ visitor us heretofore, will be h<\ivil.v New York, " "if) Father the Almiulity Uuler of Heaven ly comfort ; and for the son whom he taxed. Let u-* give our pupils u patient and K.irt'n to remove from our midst, Pennsylvania, " :;i;| trained up t i he his .successor, grace to and fair tiial in printing for us another Harvey Prindle Peet Pii. D. LL. D, our his mantle, and to prcs.-. mi .Michigan, " ]i'() bear worthily year. l;i ju-l.'i-j; to them, we sa\ that much tieloved friend, and venerate I ben­ in his footsteps. they have done very well for Hit past, Illinois, " ]t;o efactor, therefore lit? it /,'t:xn(v('i(t That (he (<;".md Lodge wear, yc.u-, considering fief, that they ur. Ohio, " :;:> J!cn\VI.AXI> !'. LI.OVD, any other national paper of thai und pci'si'de for debate this evening U YVis-i cf (he deaf-mute!-', during his long Kind, if in existence : it may he well to question well-spent life. uom versus Wealth. say that we li-ive nut controlled these ViYxo/iv/, That we will cherish the events, hut they have controlled n.;. J. PKI.TO.V, M'f'y. memory of this, our deceased friend und ( Iirisf iii:j.s EIolii(!:i.VN »t tltv, i'ol- We owe ua correspondents ,i\n ever­ will each of us «ry to imitate him by l« v,f. lasting debt of gratitude for the •/.•-.\\ they The following tribute to the lute I)r% leading a noblv, useful, and christiun life. have munil'i'sicvi, b yond MIC question of Jtcxitd'C'l) That u copy of these resolu­ Perhaps many readers of the Chronicle Peet is from tiie Now York Times of are av.are of the ub-eiiee of the regular salaries, in helping 1o make it a go,id uitd tions lie presented to the widow and son of reliable paper. We firmly c mfnic in January L'nd: our late friend an-! bei:iefae[or, and that u college correspondent i Barney) troni our College. 1 sliallutti mp! togivcu graphic | their friend-hip, rely upon their enc.uir- Haa-icy Prlntllc , I.j,. l>. copy of the same he sent, for publication, which we } agnicnt by ei.niributing t;» the ,{, 17ii(. His facilities for education A. P. KM<;HT, edged National Organ ot the Deaf and but his mental improve­ anxiously looked for day we retired, were limited, to drcuin of the tixins of old St. Nick Dumb, seeking to attain the greatest po<- ment was rapid, and at the age of sixfee i At u Special Meeting of the (jrund stockings, for there was no j slble variety of departments which havi he h'.-gun teuching in a district skilled in our years Lodge of ihcS. K. Society, held at New apirlurc in the wall-- of the C.illenc for been long meded. We shall he careful school, in wliich he engaged until IS1."), York, January 1st, 1S7-.,' the following morning not to insert all foreign matters, but lwi> when he entered upon higher duties. his admission. On * 'iiri-.tmu.s Preamble and Resolutions were unan- v.v awoke ht find the thermometer ul /,cn» or three which will be ot great importance While thus employed he studied Latin imou-ly adopted ; as will as of interest to 'he deaf-mute pco- he went to Andover and fitted f( ,r or thereabouts, und ihe ground covered In ls|(i \Vlifi-ffin, It has pleased Almighty of doing good to our dumb Dr. Peet l:y nearly every member commenting on the eccentric ty of "tlie gage us ii!i instructor of the dcafund Society, and the great value of his ser­ dH'tgrceublc .bcrthren. Let us ask (! »d 's blessing on American Asylum at Hartford, weather-el -rk" in giving us in the vices to the deaf und dumb, render fitting weather during every holiday we have, our own work, and let us go about it in gave him an opportunity of discovering he taken by the That is your right, your pro­ that notice of his. decease and trying to keep warm by piling shawls good earnest. his special fitness for this then new (Jrand Lodge, in behalf of the Society : Per­ privilege,your duly, aye your opportunity fession. Within two years after be joined und oven-oats over their shoulders. therefore be il haps some eccentricity may appear on our to carry intoelleet the great objects of the Asylum, he was selected as its stew­ /i'c.nu(r«l, That the (irand Lo Ige de­ hut the Adi'UHCi; that the labors oHial'landc!- office giving him thcsole control pan from wearing overcoats indoors ; ard, tin plores in the death of Dr. Peel, the loss it is pardonuble when we recollect that und Clcrc may he y >ur immortal monu­ of the household dcpurtniciit. und of the ofu whole-souled and eminently valuable ments of humanity, intelligence, useful­ hours. The duties of our heating uppuratus fulled to work. At pupils out, of school friend of tin,- deaf und dumb, lie dcvoleu two o'clock (Mine the event of the duy- ness, und morality. Header, we greet this post were supperudded to those of the rure ubililic.s with singleness and stead­ you. of u class, cither alone this was our Christmas dinner. To «ay dully instruction iness of purpose through u long life, to llu- least it was superb. The remainder mifllcicnt to occupy the energies of an or­ their education ami elevation. AS u Tm> Silent World ti> U* K< Shortly before assuming of the evening was tijienl in u manner dinary man. teacher he was successful and beloved. almost similar to that in which the fore­ With this number the Kilt-nt \Vuiidu\\- the duties of steward, he had married his An Ihe head of what under hi.s wise fo,s- Miss Margaret M-iriu Lewis, noon was. Next day we found this ter.s upon Us third volume. Most of our first wife, tering grew to he the largest institution disagreeable htute of ufl'ilrs but little subscribers already know that since its daughter of Ilc'v. Isaac, Lewis, D.I). in the world, he displayed high executive us the directors of the New York betten-d, the snow being u« obstinate establishment it has never paid its way. In 1H.'5(), ubiliti"s and rigid integrity. The writ­ ever. Some of UMJgot disgusted und deter­ Many have IICIMI tne discouragements Institution for the Deaf and Dumb tend­ ings for which he found time amid his the ob­ office of Principal to Mr Peel, and mined to go to the city in spite of which we have met with, many the ered the varied duties, extended his ii.sefnlnes.4 far snow which fell all day. As n punish­ stacles will- h we have had to overcome : he held it for fourteen years, when he be- beyond the walls of his own school, aird that hud hud 'immediate con­ ment for our imprudence some of us were but we are still strong in the belief euinc President, will continue it far beyond the limit* of taken sick with cold the next day, which there arc throughout the country u HU(- llcienl number of intelligent and educated ! coal is not sull'icient. In passing through ] pcr announcing that another mule has j Tln-«^«' .1!<-:i S'r>clj;jl<><3 deaf-mutes (o carry forward a llr.-t-class j (In; ^lowim; coal it is roboed of so much | l-OKf l)ecii run over by the cars. I once read ! SliH'l*'*) I9otvn III* i> of journal of their own, and that success of its oxygen lhat \vlien it readies the sur­ that a railroad 'engineer said that if a j tin 2}lt:%utor ill t' will conic' in the end. Almost evc'i'.v mail face- of the fuel sullicient only islett, under mute knew of a railroad within a mile of | Yesterday at. -1: lias brought us kind tellers of cnc<>iiniu;c- ordinary circumstances, to form carbonic at. 4: ".') |> in., while Jacob him, lie would go out of bis /oute foror tinth JHeterle, Loiii:< IJively, Ferdinand Urowii, nient, freighted with we'.l-wi-Uic-; and oxide, or equal purls of oxygen and carbon. pleasure of walking upon it. Very queer, testifying tin- appreciation of oui'subscri ti­ In this stale it passes olr' a.s MIIIOKC unless and Frank llaine were ascending on ;::. idea of pleasure such a man must have, j ( Icvator. whicii they had been i-onstruc;- ers, and sii>uifyin;r their willingness to co- sullieicnt oxygen is added whilst the gas It is downright folly. I have walked on op-.'i-ate wiih n.-i in our work. is siill healed lo change the carbonic ox­ iii l,r to the. upper floor in (he wholesni railroads, but always with a sort of sink­ ir|-ii"ei-y liou>e of liabhitt, HarkuessA Co., Hereafter' as ).ef;)re, it shall he our on- ide lo carbonic anhydride. Once the ing of the heart, and great joy when I gef > make the Si!< nt World worthy of temperature of the gas i,s lowered by pass- oil'I he road. I never do it, however, un­ and just as they had reached the lifth,t!oor, tlie praise bestowed upon it. We. siiall uway I'ro:u t:ie Mr. 1 laine felt, somethiny; "(iiviiijr way.' coals the less I am prelty sure no (rain will pass in He im mediately .M-i/.eil a rope not direct ly try to give ail the news from the various | union cannot be etlected and combustion J less than half an hour after I start. A Institutions, to (ill our columns with such cannot take place ; hence the fallacy of) eonnectinv; with the platform of the ele­ deaf mute once prop'i-cd that all mutes, vator, and was saved. The rcniainin a I tcr ax will in.-.lruc! oramtise our read­ attempting to " bum thesmoke.. 1 ' U niu.st when on lhe irai:i at night, should carry ers whe) tier it. h:> original or sel.- 'ted, to be preveiiiod; it calilioL be consumed. | three were precipitated to the first (loo,-. a long pole. It, would do no good in the During the descent Mr. Die erle received encourage dcafmntc talent, and to keep liitlierto all experiments have been I Cii.-e of ihe ears, (he best plan would lie constantly in view the highest welfare of a violent blow upon the head, causing cou- confined to admitting above the coal the not to walk mi a railroad. etis'-ioii of the l»ain and death at!' o'clor-!;. the dwellers in the "silent world.'' We proportion of atmospheric: air required in J <;i.ouie!erle \vas .'!!»years aire, and ivside.l j^eiierul an inu'i'inent of the paper, except lire grille, or mechanical contrivances lor It i.-i perhaps needless to .-ay thai the at Xo. 14'i < 'iiarloft.'- sf.rect. He leaves :-, that le.-.-i attention will !» ' .u'iven to adver­ increasing Uie, draft in-low, or, for a more views e-xprc'-ed above meet our hearty wife and fi.ur small ehiidren. ?dr. Ilively tisement;,, and < nly tho•••> admitted which ular and even supply of fuel. Some concurrence. -Xo mule should under any was badly bruised (.11 the back and limbs, come to i;.--. unsolicited. After our present ! of them have been reasonably suecesslul, circiim.-'fanc: ; ever walk on ,-: railroad and it is feared received verv seriosi.s ii!- contracts \v;i h advei tisers expire, it there whilst, others and especially many ol tiie. track. 11 he 'dm ; -, the const title m-;- be i,i-, ternal injnriis. lie is a single man, a,ne-! are not enough new ones to lil 1 four pages mechanical contrivances were mere ( own, the c: »!M | u iy is not responsible, and, ol, b )tirdiii'r at Xo. '1 Mooi'e street. ihe it statut f.irbiddinv Mr. Ilrown, sh'a!i'j;:'!y en >'i ^!i, escaiic ! an usual t:i« out.-'..I.,- coves' \vill be removed j quack devices. Tiie di-eovery of -Mr. 15. | ii''','!',". V.'i1 any severe bruises. Die reading matte/ will not be I-'. MctJai'ty, which is in tito Jiit'nhl \ the use or V'.ihvay tracks as public ave «lll(-ed by (hi, e-hallge. furnace, i.s'm an altogi'ther dillerent line, j Jo»ntrt'. Jicfore ii):ii;in.i; Ihi) a ;i-enl, Mr. ir.'dm-- As pcciini iry proiil \va ; neve:- <-::p"cted .Mr. .McUarty was Jooiui.g after a bitter j stabs that lie noticed the wed.n'o whicii from the paper, our tno.-t s;'.ir.fuiun hopes fastens the rope to the wi:idla-s was se­ draft for a sluggish lire and the thought j curely driven in its place. It transpires, will he realixed \vhen th" r;-ceipt,< equal occurred to him, altei1 other devices failed, lA'saiiiu.- was however, titat !>e was mistake:), for it wa-> the expcniiiliire.s, and it will then be fixed that he would Iry the. effect of steam. A th , but a name- by the Joo-ii-nin^ i slip ar.nind on th" this time will soon come, v. c wish you all steam" from the top of tii:,- boiler (.> the county seal of Dicl.inson county, in mem­ windlass and flu- elevator (" fall. . S'okcs \va h rough. interest (he readers of the Herald to i j ito the-Over and Tcrmin.'i- Court tlii- bright, yellowish and intensely hot Maine poru-e. some joltings conce-rnim. |:n> re- : plication loiiu- Jfarn'd. steam apparatus j,liFn" t:\c- whole furnace wilti a Inid-roar. moniin:; i > receive- his sentence. Mr. the " hereaboe.t-i, which e termed j Tre'.uaii!, of his i-i.im-icl, mai'.e an addre-s-; Th«- nd a.>ii-/iit strong draft was at- us of old, Abild-lands. A fe year-i ago lion, or rather for the prevention, of taineil, and in addition (he long .--ought in relation t r » a. bii! e.f exi-,-p!ions to th.. smoke. At the lime we merely mention­ this was far within tiie terrible lie of i Judge's rulings, which he piMp isi-d i<> . .' de ideratum of a waiokcicss ihv. .dr. ih,- "(Jreat IK':<..-rt," wli-.-ie m-iliier fruits > ed the fact without desr-rihinglheme'.hod .McCarty appiie-el iiis simple apparatus i-> fer. Thepri.-oner was then a.-ked \."! <>; attempting to explain UK- philosophy nor (lowers could jio^sibly exi.-t, a 1 ind m' had to.-ay why sentence of death shuuM the furnace of the JR /a/ea-s giiic, ai.el the "gorgoiis and chimcuis dire,' 1 ; a full gen­ miles in breadth, the Smoky 11;!! or convicted was inannfacinr'-'l and perjun d. house, and il .-MI has eoiiiiiuieil save win-n more ln;ly the Kaw <-our-inv alon;;- the t-ration, and yet tin- problem has not been the steam has in-eii Mimed oil' for the >:ikv .JndLre iS.iardman then, in a feel in.; fully solved. Niuiiherlscs plans have southern .-ii'.e. A small affluent entering adilre.-s i-i \vhich in- alhule-d to tin- of experiment and c.»m;i,iii-on. (he river here forms a n.-sttir,.! ;-.'tit f..r a been trii-l, lr.it n >ne provt d eiTcciual un­ Tne e-xaei chemical preH-os is not yet |n-i"<>:ier's youth and social -.'urroundingr, der ail cir-cm -iaiicc-., and the workofin- (own and one of l!!.iO p.ij.'iilati.in has rapid­ st-ntenci'd the prisoner to b.- hanged i-:i clearly elctcimin.'d. Tliu mo.-«t piobanle ly siM'iing m>, partly built in the bottom and vestiguion and experiment still goes on. expSanalion is inal he agitation caused ! I'riday. the Usth diy of I-'ebrnary ncx', In order to fully understand the, methods p.n'ily leaning against the "blul!" \\nie-h being the s!r»rtest tini:- that could In- al­ by the violent injection of the partidcsof hu'c rises at an easy gradient, io the up­ adopted it i.-. necessary to properly com­ steam brings the oxyg<-n of the air into lowed tl:c e-onvi'-ted man. prehend the nature of perfect combustion land.; . The Kun.-f'is J'acilic U:iilway Stoke:-.'counsel were in consultation [: - moiv rapid combination with the. coal gas passes through Uu place, bi'iagiug sis into and tiie cause <>f the imperfect combus­ a i n I so facilitates combustion. Tin .-team eve-niug. They were- gn-atly surj rised a 1 tion that makes itself manifest in smoke. close e-onne-ctioM \\'itli :'ll the World. the verdict, and e:;p;v ;si'd their purp >-' i!>elf may decomposed and so furnish IJoiids Io Ihe amoiinl «.f .-^Mt.til 0 have Vv'aen coal U in a state of >mc, oxygen, hut lliis does not adil to the i>f applying at one" for a sta\ of procci !- the p!i'ii:cipal r.c,pal gases evolved are hght , f <>' ' { am,,illlt lhe heal been v -ted, lo secure :he sprcdy comple­ KILTS, and ultimately, if p:>;-',i.t led to the rail food comiany i! i-i not m-ces: iii-y to go into an examin­ ,. ,, K. ,., -,-!. mcd, which sible for th* adverse verdict. They should ation of any of Ihe latter gases, ami we ! are for sale at (rom -S.'.oO to S'i.Oil pel1 acre, base elel'i-rred lhe trial of (he-case at t!ii- ^, ;iu< iUU our inquiry to the union of (!K . , ,r , k ,; M|, ,. u., , s time but for the ilemaniN of ihe pri-o:: caibmvtlcd hy,h'o;cc,, uiti, the OS.VK.MI ot , , j ^...n-jvaiK-e the e-oimty seat. The-c laud-i are very an 1 his re-laii vc". wni,-ii he ha> s- de.-irabh- for men who may b,> in possi-s- tlieatomosphencair. '1 he !,^:, carouiytt- \ ,., ,!,! . u. lftlt _ lhlll . ., ,/ .,;VVtS nillill . v - - - - t*^-- ~ <,1 (( hydro^nhvdi'ogcii ,.sis composed lhcc,;mva- ;i , Vonsumption ,.t 'less f.a-l; it 1,0 si'in ofi'rom .*s !,'M!0 to s"».iii;o. A man wit h Tlie new Iliissi:-.n si-:i-goin:r turr.-t -hi!, letMit, ' ot" liy, " rojre . an, one ol «-arbon; the j ,; . »s lu. lKh ,,():.s v, iu , \ ,,o ltl l some means at comma ud, mr.v be IMO"C "1'etcr the (Ireat," recently lauiie-hcd : : he,eavy carbuivttcd hydro;.,-,, of equal 0 fi >Ul. k Klllf,k L., even when lVt-sl, coat is proiita'oly am 1' ]>lcasantly Milled, where Si. J'eler.-1-urg. is ,'rjii f.-(-t s incbo jong, artso hydn.Kj'H and carbon. l',y wei-ht tIll, tW|| , m tjl(. ilv ,, ni .. ^i^v re- schools and e-hurche->are-established, and and hasaii mu-idc breadth of<;;; feet. '1 he neighborhoods formed, by payiny for lhe light gas has three times u-4 much ! I.""..."! ",7....' i, . ... an t Up steam qu:<-!> hiiild.'-r's me-a-tircmcnt is ",;:.",j (ons, a,pi weight of e-arb<> n jisof hydroiren, and the' ',.,'?.,, i ,( ',. land at this price, than he could he by the d'Nplae'e-nii u! wiih <-(,als, -tores :IIP! going to the front and taking1 lan.l at heavy gas six times the weight of carbon j " NVc ha ve ml v om thing more I > ndd : water in b'lilers \\ill be !iiii;i tons, at :. there is ol hydrogt-n. io prodr.ee perk ' nothing. Nov. is tlie time for men of nic::n dra)'! of:.'1; fee-i ii inches. The ship our engine is run a careful man, \vno active brains and small or large fipital. oxy.u-n must be iii- t makes il a study V (o gel the greatest dill'i-rs in many re-speets fi-on the lOmrli- ii trod need to eoniliine with the carbon and A man u'ho has40acres in Ohio, which lie and American (-.irret ships. She will In- | amount of work out of lhe. 1. asl amount can sell for from :>'.<) t'» ^"."i pi-:- acre, ca.i oxy::e-n to, converti .... Uiceoinpoundi i, i intocar-i . i ,,(.sl ,.u ., iri v;: nce in the world, a good start. The proprietors of Ahili'ne are plated with I 1 ! indies of iron, and oh"*'!1 very favorable indiiccKu-uls in IDH The neeesf.ary oxygen is supplied fr.iiu perk-el combustion will di-peml to some e-ach oftlie four guns she is to carry is i-f lhe atui"sp!i<-r<- 1'ul. atmospheric jdi' is and lands lo men who \\i-h t<> impntve steel, brcecii-lii:idlng, with a IJ-inch bore. dcgice on lh>- caicful nrinugmeiit of (he their purchases. Arrangements have al­ composed of two [larls iivatc.-t amount of fresh coal lie-are.".! Ii:. will be e-rccte-d next sea.-nn. A line brick ('j.NTiwvn, Jan. u. -Advic from the atmosphere necessitates hiking door, MI that the ;;a:* evolved m.:y he kept HIin tnethe mnitrogen roge,, aalso, so, am.and as misIn is tenetscj.eis ioi iu.., tl.4 i 011 lts ,,as-.r. ,- toward the lire and I lock has been recently erei-tcd by Ail- \ !li<' river convey the intelli.srence that thl- and SelxiliI which, presents quite | i iv«-r i- t'ull of heavy si.ore ice, which i- deaden the- lire-a larger a mount ol oxvge'ii ,,,,,..,nus u>i.,. ini,. j,,.;,,,,.,.i,,-.,,..v'....n.iiii.,,, ,.un( ,iii u!1 loi,, combine,.,,,,,I, n.. is nece-s-iar.). Kil'tcee-n lo one is held to he- a nn.'tropoliian aspe-ct. So far as society ,^ much damage. It is cstimate-d with the oxvyeii supplied. ('!<•!•< !- and tiu-iness sire e-oiiccrneel, e>ne> would that e-ne huiidreil e-rafts, eonsisting of die (rue prop-irlion of atmospheric air re­ < I . quired loruttainingthe-perfe-ct combustion hardly imagine- himse-lf one* hundred and slvil'.j, raflsand empty c«al barges floated sixty miles west eif Mis-oun Il;ve-r. I past this city to-day. Six e-mpty coal of coal yas, and for reducing (lie gases to «:3 eiu- lliaiiroad Ta:-.; I.. Iheir ultimate- products of carbonic anhy­ pre-dict great things in the- '.uiure nf this : barges at ('Jicinuafi were damaged se­ dride- and water. Te» ensure pe-rteet e-om- Another deaf and dnmb man in Indi­ e-oimly, nn e-mpire in itself. Here is the | riously by (he-ice. Two barges h.ive-beeli biisii.in the two points necessary are- the ana Went 10 sleep on a railroad, and fail­ lilae-e to secure a home, and to start, anew i sunk,'one- of which contained MUM hushd- :idmi--i'iii of the right quantity of air in ed to wake up a'.;ain. Ar. >'. J-'.c nhn/ in life; with something like an equal j ofeoal. 11 is rumored (hat K.-win ('rail the lirst place, and the supply of an ade­ Mill. chance-. Tin->aluhrity eif (he- eTiinalc is | had sixtci-n empty coal barges carried quate' aniouni ol' lu-at to secure igidlion 'themcanin;; of this is, I think, that un-iirpasse-el; the fertility of ihe- soil tin-i elown (lie- river from here-, ami Thoina- in the second, inasmuch as all smeike the man ;.'."t- drunl., and mislaUin^ the excelled anvwhe-re- iii ihe world. Ohio is I 1>. idsworth one- loaded e-oal barge thisc\v- e-onsi.-lH of a portion e.-f the* carbon of the railroad For his bed, went to sleep with lar e-ly vepresenu-el in this State, and 1 ninu'. Many of tin- m.iy l'iie-1 )iassing e>ll unburnt. As the true jn-e»- the above result. When will the mules write-that otlu-v-i ofher worthy sons may sa\ped poriion of oxygeii to e-oal gas to produce learn that it is as to walk on come- and possess the- land, where every­ pe-lTe-i-l eeinibiislioii is e-ight let eme, eir of a railroad, as it is to sit on a barrel full of thing waits like- another new worhl for About seventy-five car-loads of Itemes, t he coming man. C/'T' 'unit Jl< r«t gathered from the plains of Western lows (hat i^houli) le.ss than that amount mouth. They may escape without bcinj; Kansas, the frames of de-funct huHaloes he introduced tlie-re will be- a waste of ear- injured ; 'but, in both cases the chances One eif the large-st iron work- in Scot­ ami Texas catfle-, have been se--.it over tin- lion ill smoke- ; and should (here hi' an e.\- are equally in lavor of their taking Iheir land has orders on its hooks io last four Kansas Padllc, ami (he- Ate-hjnson, To- oess the elleet will not he- smoke but an last lonjijouruoy. They (the mutes) seem months, and ivecntly refused olio large pe-ka and Santa Ke- railroads during the- additional expenditure of fuel to supply to think it a proof of courage t'> walk on orele-r. These e-xten-ivc works, which are past se-ason. A large part of (hem have- the loss ol heal which this excess eil air railroads. .No truly brave man ever ex­ ne-ar (Jlasgow, employ ;!iinii men, have ">.'! gone to Wilmington, Del., where- the best would retjuire lur absorption, rarefaction, poses his life needlessly. A broken Ic^ ste-'im e-nghies of ditleri-nl si/.es anil are- are se-le-e-teil foreombs, knife-handles, iV:c., Ac, can lie mended, but no remedy has ever now turning out from l.'i'M) to I.MHI tuns e>( the next best are ground into dust, ami Tho air which eaters the tire from be­ been discovered for a broken heck. Hard­ llnisheel Iron i>i-r wee-!;, prlm-ii'ally i»late-s used in refining sugar, and the refuse i- low and passes up through the, burning ly a month pa.-..-es without some newspu- and augU-H. grotmd into meal for fcrtili/ing purposes. BAREFOOT. nine they refused to leap, as, snorting The hoy is rather small of his age and Power of t'omprclit'iiNioit. Oil, non t yon remoml>cr the old lull-Aide farm. with terror, they seemed to wish to fly seems to have forgotten almost all the It was said of Thoreau, we believe, that And thefarm-house with clap-hoards so uray, away from it: but at last they were forced experiences of his e irly childhood. Ho he could take up any given number of With thf jinrdcn ot roses, :\ml yweet pinks, iind lj;iml I onward, and gained a foothold on the remembered his name', and when re­ lead pencils without counting. A celebra­ And the meadows with huttPrciips jfiiy ? And don't yon remomhor how, in-door* nnd out, opposite side in safety covered could talk u few words of Eng­ ted trapper once assured us that he could Am' under the o/d orchard Ircrs, Degol now breathed free anil kept an : lish. His grandfather savs that he picks jell how many balls he had in his bullet The K.'IV, Imi^hinu children were skipping nhout, ! his eastward course, seemingly forgetful up ivords in Kuglish very rapidly. Not­ pouch by placing his hand on it, without With'lwiro I'cnti as I'llsj us hecs ? HOM \\f. ;ill played toi-cther, the >;irls and thr l>oys, i that his own town w is far to the north | withstanding his long captivity, he is u stopping to count them, and added: "'I And hail houses, nnd workshops, and stores. i of the point he was aiming for Brother- i bright intelligent boy in the face, his can tell the number of bullets instantly. Itiii; lmliiei>, nnd " eurth' us," nnd just us much noise I town. He thinks that full another hour walk and actions being those ofan Indian, < without stopping, us you pronouiuv a As our \oices could make out of doors. Southey wns ilow \ve loved through the pastures and 'voodhind to and a half had passed away when he was and he talk.; Comanche like iv native wor,| without spelling it." roum, again suddenly brought to a stand-still by brave, lie being young, it will require a(.(.Ustom<'tl to take in the substanceofa To gather hrij>lit mosses and (lowers .' another fissure, this time wider than be­ but a short time to bring hack to his nicm- t,, )0 |< j n turning the leaves over contin- We tlion/lit then, as now, there HUM " no place like h»me," fore. ]?tit the sprirl of fren/y seemed t<> ory the recollections of the past, and to uoitsly,' , glancing down the pages,, llon- And IK. home so delightful as ours. have overcome both driver and team, for divcst himof tin-actions and habits ihe has , (j!l))( ' tm, ni:llrj(.i :l n, trained himself to with tin And don't you rpmeinlii'r the plcaiant school road. the driver goaded his brutes, and the leap acquired by his long residence quickness of perception, when a boy, by And the sohoolhouso HO sunny in .June, for life was made. Far up in the air they savage.-i. The mother of the boy died be­ running past a shop window at full speed, With tin- U-s-i.ns «e learned, mid the "mark" Hint wo The joy of his father and "toed" sprang, sled anil all, and eametlown with fore his capture. and then trying to tell what was in it. \nd ho.v «e played "pi/on" nt iH>r>n'.' a crash on the other side, nearly nine feet friends will be boundless on recovering We once saw a man on a canal boat who Our Mitilxmm-t.i, crumpled, hnn« over om-nock.*. away; but the ice broke! and the square their long lost boy. was amusing himself by going from pas­ The summer wind playd with our hair ; piece on which they landed separated senger to passenger and telling almost While tlr'-;:n paid our taees ,1^ \varmest respects, And kissed our white toes that went hare. from the rest and llWted clearout into the How to Read. every one where be had seen him be fore, chasm. The situation was one almost Thomas Went worth Higgiuson says in (.n such a train, in such a hotel, in such u How WP c';mli'-d the st'->op hillsides us ninihle aa^oats The weight And skipped o'er the ledges in [.'lee ; too fearful t;> comprehend.- a recent number of the WIHHIIH'* Jntirnnl : street,giving date and place to people wiJh We mimicked the unodlarli :md whipp'ioni ill' .- notes. of the team and sled sumncrgod the cake I was once called upon to prescribe in­ whom he had never'exchanged a word. And Mi'ii( uith tho ohick-a-dfo-dee. for nearly two feet, and it seemed as if tellectually for a young girl of fair abili­ 'I his training of the faculties in particular Wo wadoii (he lirook when tho water was low crack and scatter And .sh">:ted to make tho woods rinjz, that, too', might soon ties who 'showed no want of brains in directions is carried to a marvelons extent Or phiyrd on its l.anks in the summer's soft . them in i>ll directions: and the horses conversation, hut had a perfect indiffer­ iy backwoodsmen, trappers, and men Light li' .irtod us hii-ds on the win;;. snorted and screamed with terror, while ence to hooks. She read dutifully ami vho guess the weight -d' animals. Per- 'on rPiiiemlier tho pond where tho (.'"OK n-t .1 Degol himself tore his hair and raved like torpidly whale -'cr was set before her no­ inps the mo«l remarkable instances art- a maniac. The terrified emtines stood vels, travel, history all were the same; be markers who leap from log to log at- H'lirwc called il Hie onran so wide, statues, forbad they moved an iota And in :in i Id hat that was minus the lirim like each page drove otil the previous page, ihe mouth of ;t boom, standing on the log. We sail'-d our r»x dolls on its tide ? they would surely have stepped oil, so and her memory was a blank. Her pa­ Mid translating instantly an old mark into And whi'ii tney had cruised all the wide ocean thv ti:rh. small the piece on which they floated. rents a*ked me to teach her to read ; she v new one, rei'iemherini! what equivalent And outdone l.nth Magellan and I'ook. driver, suddenly gaining strength, We drew them all home in an old rii'gcd shoe, The joined in tho request, and I consented to :o give for each of a hundred marks, and And culled it a coach ride they took. stood on the- top of the wood-rack and the experiment, on condition th.it she hopping it upon the log in the lime that How we d i.-.c 'd in the mud with our hare, nakoi \ feet. leaped for the sound ice, but fell in the would faithfully read a single book in the t floats its length. It is said that Thoreau And played 'twas the Hutch way to churn .' water, d'rasping the sound Hoc, however, We made u- mud hiscuits and plimiriikoo sweef, way I should direct. She consented. knew the relative order of flowerinu, ofall Without am i-ook hook to !( arn. he succeeded in dragging himself out. It was the time of Kossuth's visit, when the plants in tho Concord woods, ami How we pi; ell the eliildren whosestocking* all The horses, seeing their master safe, seem- everybody was talking about the Hungar­ knew Hi" note of every bird, and a thou­ K'lri'.id" (hem to .-hale in oiirtnii! , ed suddenlv possessed of strength, and wax sand out-of-the-way things besides,. Wl.ilo H. -lined up our puidings, and pastne, m,d j h,,^(l a|fl(| ', t ,,,. ir ,.ak ,s t,,lt 11((t |,.IV. ian revolution. The book I chose ct "Hungary in 1H|S," by iJrace, of far more Jfrurfh ttnt( Home. And k; to cook :»the sun. I ing any firm footing to start from they interest then than now 1 pre.-cribed it in — Yol'TII* MI-AMON. j u|,(, , n jssp,| their muni, and, after tie daily doses of one chapter. If possible most strenuous efforts, the heavy iron-shod .4 MRht of Terror. she was to read that the chapters being A Wagon Load of Frozen llun'a. sled dragging them down they .were short but under no conceivable circum­ lo Hunters Terrible SullVi'liig. A:; AnvKXTruK o.v I-AKI: w i,\\r:i:A<;o drowned. stances was she toivad more. After each TJIK 1'KKILS OK TKAVKI.IXiJ ON ICK. Horrified almost beyond measure, Degol chapter she was to put down in a blank Kriiin thr- Lcavenworth Commercial ] [From tho o-hknsli Tinii.vj swooned, but, as fate would have it, was book I gave her, some remark suggested From parties just arrived from South­ The following startling story is given us soon after found by a parly that had been by it. She must mention something tluvt western Kansas, we learn that the weath­ 1>y a gentleman from Clifton, who vouches sent out to nim, but had also been stop­ had interested her, or si-em the explana­ er has been severe beyond endurance, and for its correctness! ped by the crack, and had wandered south tion of some word, or anything else she the suffering among the hunters beggars Our rentiers are aware that for years the to find a narrower opening. pleased. Her comment might In- only to description. wood choppers at Calumet con n't v ha\c, Almost fro/en stiff, Degol was carried say that («orgy was a traitor, or to inquire A fanner who arrived in Wichita on during the winter months, used Lake Win- home, where high fever attacked him, hoiv his name should .H; pronounced; but Saturday, reports having overtaken n nohugo u.s a high way to transport their but, with careful nun-ing, he is now rei-.ov- at least there should be one sentence of team loaded with lUitfalo skins, and cit loud.- of fuel and produce to I his city. A crh.g. remark per chapter. From time to time the wagon, stiff with cold, sat the driver, distance of over ten miles of waler'intor- A chill of horror comes over him when I was to see what she I. ad written, and permitting the team to wander at will vencs. but, in this northeniclime, the great he tells his tale the story of a winter's answer her questions, if any. This was over the prairies, nnd entirely unable ti expanse i.-generally (irmly fro/en over liv night on Lake Winnebago. the prescription, and she took it courte­ help himself. lie told the farmer lie was tin- 1st ( I' December. Still, great crack's ously. fro/.eii.and compelled to remain in the po­ anil tis.-ure.s will and have sometimes A Frontier Romance. I knew in advance what would be the sition he .vas, and at the same time beck­ broken <-peii ; and interruptc' 1 in a degree I'Vom the Topc-ltii (Kansas) Commonwealth. greatest difficulty. It was to keep her to oned with his head to the wagon box, the smoothness of travel. These cracks Many cili/ensof Topeka will remember one chapter. It seemed to her such amis- thus calling attention to the contents of are, hou ever, seldom over two or three a white-haired old man that represented fake, such a waste of opportunity, when the bed. I'pon looking over the side of feet \vide, and can he easily 'Scaled" in Hutler county in the Legislature two win­ she could so easily manage live or six the box, a terrible sight was In-fore him. the day lime, if the team and the wagon ters ago. This old gentleman, Mr. L. S. chapters in a day. Hail she done so, all There, lying side by side, were two hunt­ is stout, and the nerves of the tlriver Friend, a large Healer in Texas cattle, has would have been lost ; so I was inexora­ ers fro/en stiff in death, and as the wagon steady : lint the greatest danger consists for the la>t live years been unremitting­ ble. The consequence wan that she nevei jolted over the rough plain they knocked iti their liahility to spread in a single ly engaged in an endeavor to get his^grund failed to read her chapter ; ami when sin together like two great icicles. night, m.d as .suddenly close a train. chiM, who bits during all that time been got to the end of it, for want of anything The gentleman who brought the news On Kriday, perhaps one of the coldest it captive amongst theComanehe Indians. better to do, she read it over Again, or to Wichita had his hands fro/.en so badly lays of the season, two Germans, named The grandfather has in this labor of love went to work with her note-book. It as to make amputation necessary shortly respectively Lutke and D'-^ol, started traveled over fifteen thousand miles and was a very nice note-book, and she wroU after his arrival. He w-as unable to give from (Milton, each with a load of wood expended over £ ">,oy, most always there were questions, doubts fifteen men arrived during the night ot successfully crossed to our shore, and soon Leo Temple Friend, was living with his and criticisms, all of which I met as 1 the £td, all frozen. Some of them will had th'-ir loads on the market, after father, John Friend, in Liauo County, could. I found my own mind taxed by lose their feet, others their hands and lin­ which transact ion laitke and De^ol \vent Texas, in IHti.S, and was at tiiat time eiglil hers, ami finally re-read every chanter gers. around the town to "see the elephant." years old. The predatory C'omanches, carefully that I might be ready for her, The road between Wiehita and the buf­ Ni^'lit drawing on, the former went t->the made that region their raiding ground, And at 'the end she told me with delighi falo range is strewn with buffalo hides and li<»tel l>!i -u, where hot li team.- were lodged, nnd Mr. Friend finally had u fearful vis- that for the first time in her life she luu meat, abandoned by their owners to huvu and waited for his companion, whom he tation from them, in which the boy was read a book. themselves and teams. had got separated from during the course earied off. Mr. triend become satisfied Where was the magic of the process.' of the day. Lutke waited and waited in his boy was alive and was adopted I suppose mainly in the restraint, tht In'tched TKX COMMANKMKXTH OK TIIK viUii, :«.'.