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COLI9ETTE. The maiden of the hostel Stands at the set of sun; The soldiers halt full gaily, She has but eyes for one. He drains the cup she brings him, His bearded lips are wet, "A kiss, sweetheart 1" he whispers, "No! no !" says Colinette. From out her green-leaved lattice She leans and looks below, Aa farther, ever farther, Away the soldiers go, His last few words reproachful Are in her sad ears yet, "Farewell, may be forever!', "Ah me !" sighs Colinette. The cruel war is over. Once more with her is he;- 4 "You've learn" d to love since last we met," He says, but nought says she. ~ "You'll wed the happy somebody, And me you'll quite forget! Would I were he, my darling !" "You are !" cried Colinette. —Loivlon Society. A Hatfifled Conadenee. There are a great many stories afloat about the punctilious observances of Sunday in Scotland ; but we remember none more illustrative of the absurdity to which the cuftom is carried than the following, which is told by the Count De Medine Pomar, in his newly pub lished work, "The Honeymoon."— It was at the hotel of Dumbarton. I had jnst got up and rung the bell for some hot water for shaving. A waiter answered my call. j "I want some hot water, if you please, I said. "And what do yon want the hot wa ter ?" "For shaving," sSid I. "Ye canna have the hot water on the Lord's Day for sic a thing as shaving," said the waitor, horror struck at the idea. I insisted again, but with the same effect. "Na, na," said he, ye oanna have it." Necessity is the mother of invention, 'tis said, and this aronsed mine. I thought that if I could arrange the order in such a way that it would not affect his religions scruples, he would bring it directly. I therefore proposed that I should like some toddy, and told him to bring me the materials for mak ing it, consisting of whiskey, sugar, and boiling water. These he brought without the least demur. I gave him the whiskey, which he drank, and I msed the hot water. So conscience was satisfied. The Winter Llle of the Bear. The Popular Science Monthly says : "One of the most curious character istics of the bear is its habit of hiber nating through the winter. Daring the autumn it becomes very fat, and about the end of October, com pleting its winter honse, ceases feeding for the year. A remark .. ably phenomenon then takes place in the animal's digestive organs. The stomach, no longer supplied with food, contracts into a very small space. A mechanical obstruction called the "tappen," composed of fine leaves, or t . other extraneous substances, blocks the alimentary canal, and prevents the outward passage of any matter. The bear continues in his den nntil the middle of April, in a dull lethargic con dition. If discovered and killed at any time in this period, it is found to be as fat as at the beginning. It is said how ever, that, if it loses its "tappen" be fore the end of its hibernation, it im mediately becomes extremely thin. Daring the hibernation the bear gainß' a new skin upon the balls of his feet, and daring the same time also, the fe male brings forth heryoung, from two to four in number. The latter act oc curs generally from the middle of Jan uary to the middle of February. The next pairing season occurs in the sum mer, from June to September. The period of gestation is about seven months, and the newly born cubs are scaroely larger than puppies." A Remarkable Pedestrian. A remarkable pedestrian (eat baa, aooording to the Finatiza of Alexandria, been lately performed by an Italian named Uiuaeppe ltiooi, who seriously seems to hare taken rather a long con stitutional. Having come some months ago from Alexandria to Constantinople in aearch of employment, bat being un saooeesfal in his object, ltiooi resolved to return to Alexandria. A alight diffi culty, however, at the very commence ment of his journey, owing to the fact of his having no money—a serious drawback to a bona fide traveler, for, notwithatanding the "wretched impo tenoe of gold," it is nnoommonly diffi cult to travel oomfortably without it. Riooi at first tried to work his passage back in a steamer or ship, bni failing alao in this endeavor, he set his face resolutely sonthward and determined to work or beg his way to Egypt He aooordlngly started off "with a light heart ana a thin pair of breeohes," and after marching for one hundred and fifty-eight days aoroes the peninsula of AJu Minor, and along the ooaata of Syria and Palestine, he arrived at Alex andria, where, by lateat. aooonnta, he waa enjoying the repose he was justly entitled to after his fatiguing walk. Hoy lag A gala at Hope. Hoping for a servant who will be sat isfied with half the work being put out and all the wages doubled. Hoping for a friend to lend you fifty pounds without interest or security. Hoping for another friend to nay the fifty pounds you lent him on the same oon wHlMfc Hoping for the horse to win that you've backed with money en trusted to you for something else. Hoping the man you asked to dinner in a moment of enthusiastic want of re flection won't oome. Hoping when hie has oome that he'll go away again soon. Hoping the landlord won't oome for. nis rent just yet. Hoping there's another bottle left in the cellat, Professor Watson, at present one of the members of the tranaient of Venus expedition for this oountry, has found a new asteroid. This makes hi* seven teenth discovery of the sanuTkind. AGRICULTURAL. y SEASONABLE HINTS.— Among the hints most seasonable on either garden or the farm, few things are more servicea ble than those relating to the sharpen ing of tools. T>o often these things are not thought of nntil the articles are wanted, when much valuable time is lost in putting them in order which might as well have been done during the dull winter days. Even the smart est of ns do not think enough of these things, and indeed hardly know how much we lose bv having dull tools to work with. It has been tolerably ac curately computed that the same man can do as much in two days with a sharp scythe, as with one but compar atively dull and the same expenditure of force, could do in three. And it is j list the same in regard to all other tools or implements, whether operated by hand, steam or horse power. The engineer continually oils the machinery and a good saw or file is oil to hand implements. We know* one who his a great deal of handhoeing to do by hired labor, and he believes that the continued use of the file on the hoes makes a difference of one-half in the labor. His calculation is that every ten cent file he buys, saves him ten dollars in his laborers' bills. Spades, scythes, hoes, chisels, saws, this is the time to see to these things. A good grindstone and a set of files are among the best of farm investments especially at this season. It is always nice to be forehanded, to get things well ahead ; but the best of all fore handedness is that which prepares in advance a full set of good and well-re paired tools to work with. ABOUT SICK ANIMALS.— NearIy all sick animals become so by improper feed ing in the first place. Nine cases out of ten the digestion is wrong. Char coal is the most efficent and rapid cor rective. It will cure in-a majority of cases if properly administered. An ex ample of its use I The third man came in with the intelligence that one of the finest cows was very sick, and a kind neighbor proposed the usual dings ana poisons. The owner being ill and un able to examine the cow, concluded that the trouble came from overeating, and ordered a teacupful of pulverized oharcoal given in water. It was mixed, placed in a jnnk bottle, the head held upward, and the water and charcoal poured downward. In five minutes im provement was visible, and in a few hours the animal &/&B in the pasture quietly eating grass. Another instant of equal success oocured with a voung heifer which had become badlj bloated by eating green apples after a hard wind. The bloat was so severe that the sides were almost as hard as a bar rel. The old remedy, saleratus, was tried for correcting the acidity. But the attempt to put it down always caused coughing, and it did little good. Half a teacupful of fresh powdered charcoal was Riven. In six hours all appearance of the bloat had gone and the heifer was well. WHAT TO DO WITH SONS. —Fifty years ago a father was not ashamed to put his son to the plough or to a mechani cal trade ; but now they are "too fee ble" for bodily labor ; one has a pain in his side, another "a very delicate constitution," another is, very nervous; and so poor Bobby or Billy or Tommy is sent off to the City. It seems never to occur to their foolish parents that moderate manual labpr in the pure and bracing air o{ the country is just what these punny lads need, and that to send them to the orowded and un healthy city is to send them to small salaries and early graves, instead of beooming jolly, strong tillers of the soil, for there is room for all, and a good landlord can find room for the sons in nine oases out of ten. This is the idea of a correspondent, and al though not quite mathematically cor rect, there is a quality of truth in it still. Say that farmers would not ■be quite so high, and employ some of the son labor themselves—not in man ual work, but in making high class work—how would that be? There is really plenty of high class work to be done on farms. To MAKB AND KRET SAUSAGE. —For one hundred pounds of meat, two and one quarter pounds of salt, one half a pound of pepper, and one half a pound of sage. Some vary this by putting in a little more sage and a little less pep per, but the above rule is a very good one. When chopped and seasoned pack the meat firmly in tin pans or small stone jars ; take lard melted just enough to spread with a knife and oover the top with lard an inoh thick, to ke p out the air. This will keep nioely all winter, unless it freezes or thaws Uxf often. Some make balls and fry sausage, packing them and covering with melted lard, but it is some labor to prepare a large quantity that way more than most people would relish.— Farmer's Wife. Sauiage. —Good sausage can be made better by mixing, thoroughly, one tea enp Indian meal to four ponnds of sausage. Mix only enough to last four or fire days at a time, aa it might soar. ROOTS FOB SHIKP.— It would be well to use caution in feeding root* to breed ing ewes. A "belly-fair* Of turnips or mangier upon a' oold wintry morning abstract* a large amonnt of heat from the animal. This results in decreasing the vitality and vigor of the ewe, and consequently injures the growing lamb. The loss -is never regained. Conse quently at lambing time, more espe cially when that eomss early, a number of weakly or dead lambs are produced, and the ewes themselves are too much weakened to reoover as quiokly as they should do from the shook of yeaning. Experience haa taught us to be eautioua in the use of roots, especially of man glee or white twuipe. Sugar beets, carrots, and rutabagas, whioh contain much sugar, are less injurious; but even these should be used with oaution and never without meal sprinkled upon them. •- ** "J * ■in ■ i I _ / To WU4TOB apples in the crib multi ply the length, breadth, and thickness of the bin, and this product by eight, and point off the figure in the product for decimals. "Asparagus in August," by the author of "A Rose in June." v SCIENTIFIC. MONSIEUB ROFFINV a French chemist of eminence, believes that he has dis covered a means for the prolongation of life in the plentiful use of buttermilk with the advance of age. At one of its recent sessions, he presented an essay to the Paris Academy of Science, bring ing forth the arguments on which he based his reasons for this belief, as foI IOWB mineral matter which con stitutes an important element in most of the food consumed by the human family, after the combustion, remains in the system to incrnst and stiffen the differept parts of the body, and tends to render imperfect many of its vital pro cesses. Human beings, he says, "are like furnaces, always kindled, life exist ing only in combustion, which leaves a detritus iatal to it." Lactic acid with ordinary food, M. Roffing believes will counteract this effect, since it possesses the power to remove ancj destroy the incrustations that form on the arteries, cartilages and valves to the heart. Buttermilk is almost wholly composed of the component parts of this acid, and its habitual use is therefore calcu lated to free the system from those causes which usually produce death between the seventy-fifth and one hun dredth year. Therefore, those who desire to become centenarians might as well begin to drink buttermilk at sixty five, and not wait until ten years later for the growth and development of the incrustations on the arteries, cartilages and valves of the heart. ELECTRICITY AND MECHANICS. —ln consequence of certain phenomena of electricity of tension, observed in leatber belting, M. Joulin, the eminent physicist, made the subject one of spe cial investigation. He has constructed machines in which the mechanical ten sion of the belt can be varied at will, and has used for conducting pulleys the following materials : Iron, brass, zinc, red oopper, white iron, lead—the last four metals applied in the laminae to wooden pulleys ; the imperfect con ductors, walnut wood leather, hardened rubber in sheets of 0.36 inch, applied to wood ; cloth and silk, fastened in form of cushions, also to wooden pulleys. In the machines formed 01 metal and leather, —in the latter body elestrio tensions of surprising intensity were found ; and, independently of the long sparks obtainable, a metalic wire brought near the belt was traversed with a continuous current powerful enough to deflect the needle of a gal vanometer, with electricity of tension to weakly decompose water, and, in Blightly modified Geisster tubes, to produce a distinot stratification of the electric light. These experiments are the most definite and important of any that have yet been attempted in this direotion. COLORED INKS. —The following re cipes have been well tested and are commended by good authorities as pre ferable to the solutions of anilin dyes which are now so extensively used as colored inks : Green . —Two parts acetate of 1 part carbonate of potash, and 8 parts water. Boil till half is evaporated, and filter. Blue.— Three parts Ptussian blue, 1 part oxalic acid, and 30 parts of water. When dissolved, add 1 part gum arabio. Yellow. —One part fine orpiment, well rubbed up with 4 parts thick gum water. ; Red.— With the aid of a gentle heat, dissolve 4 grains of carmine in 1 ounce of aqua ammonia, and add 6 grains of gum arabio. Gold. —Rub gold leaf, such as is used by book binders, with honey, till it forms a uniform mixture. When the honey has been washed out with water, the gold powder will settle at the bot tom, aqd must be mixed with gum water in sufficient quantity. Mack. —Three ounces crushed gall nuts, 2 ounces crystallized sulphate of iron, 2 oances gum arabic, and 24 ounces water. STRAW A PBOTECTION AGAINST LIGHT NING. —An extraordinary account has appeared in a French agricultural jour nal, to the effect that straw forms an admirable lightuing-oonductor. It had been observed that straw had the effeot of discharging Leyden jars without spark or explosion, and some one in the neighborhood of Tarbes had the idea of constructing straw lightning-conductors which were formed by fastening a wisp or rope of straw to a deal stick by means of brass wire, and capping the oondaotor with a copper point. It is asserted that the experiment has been tried on a large scale around Tarbeß, 18 communes having been provided with snoh straw conductors, only one being erected for every 750 acres, and that the whole neighborhood has thus been pre- I served from the effects, not only of lightning, bat of hail also. The state- I ment comes from a reliable source, and, I the apparatus being extremely simple [ and inexpensive, it is at any rate worth ; a trial. Coppfer conductors are out of | the question in ninety-nine cases out of 1 a hundred, but every oottager almost could set ap a straw one. EFFECT OF AMMONIA FUMES OH FLOW ERS. — Professor Gabba has been exam ining the effects of ammonia on the oolor of flowers. I* is well known that the smoke of tobaoco will, when applied in sufficient quantity, change the tint of flowers ; but Professor Qabba expe riments by pouring a litUe ammonia liqnor into, a sanoer and inverting a funnel over it. Placing the flowers in the tube of the latter, he finds that blue, violet, and pnrple oolored blos soms become of a fine green ; carmine and crimson become black; white, yellow ; while partioolored flowers suoh as red and white are changed to greet and yellow. If the flowers are im mersed in water, the nataral oolor will return in a few hoars. Professor Oabba also found that asters acquire a pleasing odor when sabmitted to the fames of ammonia. .1 THE lambent blue flame from a coal fire (carbonic oxyde gas) hss a tempe rature of 5,500° Fahrenheit. The flame' of hydrogen of nearly 6,000°, and of oxy-hydrogen, 9,500°. The -tempera ture of the eleotrio spark is unknown, bat is supposed to be abonf 22,000° Fahrenheit DOMESTIC. HINTS ABOUT CLOTHING AND VENTILA TION. —The New England Homestead contains these timely hints : It is much to be regretted that women do not al ways wear woolen next the skin, whether in Summer or Winter and still more so that there are men who are much ex posed to cold and do not wear it. All persons should wear it from infancy. Clothing at night is also worthy 6f at tention. A thick and heavy ootton counterpane weighs down the body without giving much warmth, so that the body is working during sleep, and is less refreshed in the morning. Ex cept the sheets, all coverings of the bed should be oL. wool, which gives the greatest warmth in> proportion to its weight, and the counterpane should be either equal to a blanket or a blanket should be substituted for it, and a thin, light covering like a sheet thrown over it. If there be too much warmth the body is relaxed, the skin made sensitive, and health is impaired. If too little warmth, the body iB unnecessarily wasted by loss of heat. The rule is, however, a good one, viz., to keep the feet warm and the head cool. Hence the number of blankets to be used must vary with weather and season. Young children and old people need more clothing at night than those of middle age, and in Winter the most is required for all ages at about four to six in the morning, when the cold is the greatest. The sick demand great consideration in this matter, and unusually need more clothing than those who are well. Pay attention to the ventilation of the bed room, and see that there are two open ings into it through which air may pass all night. The chimney of the bed room is often stopped up to prevent dust and soot falling, but as this pre vents ventilation it is very improper. Better to have dust, which-can be cleared away, than bad health and fever. It»is often very difficult to ventilate a bedroom without giving colds, because no one should sleep in a draught, and disease is sometimes produoed by thoughtlessly having too much ventila tion. If the door be left a little open by using a peg or ohain, and the window be opened at the top half an inch, it will usually be enough to secure moderate ventilation, and the bed should be plaoed out of the draught; but the amount must be tested by the smell of the room, and if in the mornioa it is disagreeable it will be necessary to have more ventilation. Neither put the bed in a draught nor in a corner so far away that the air about it cannot be purified by ventilation, and take care that there is bed-olothing proportionate to the ventilation. Never let a bedroom or any room beoome too warm for want of ventilation and then open a door or window to cool it, for by so dding you will be sure to give colds ; but keep a proper temperature from the beginning. Take care, also, that the Tooms are not too cold by ventilation, or you may greatly injured tne health of children and old people, but let everything be done with judgment and moderation. EATING Eaos.—An English paper very consistently recommends an in creased consumption of eggs as food. It says : "excellent sandwiches may be made of hard-boiled eggs and brown bread and butter ; eggs spread on toast are fit food for kings ; a poached egg— that is, one dropped from the shell into hot water—is not only clean and hand some, but a delicious morsel; eggs are better flavored without salt or pepper, a little sweet butter being' the best dressiug; persons who eat eggs freely may live to the age of 80 or 90 ; and lastly, eggs contain much phosphorus and are the best food for those persons who are deficient in brains." This last idea is of the utmost importance of many persons. BOILED TURKEY. —Hen turkeys are preferable for boiling, on account of their whiteness and tenderness, and one of moderate size should be selected, as a large one is not suitable for boiling. After having dressed, trussed and staffed the bird, put it into sufficient boiling water to cover it. Let it come to a boil, then carefully remove all the scum. Let it simmer very gentlj from one and a-half to two hours, according to size. Serve with melted butter, as with oysters. In the latter case the turkey should be stuffed with oysters, and the sauce be made acoording to recipe for boiled ohioken with oysters. PURE, soft water is the best of all blood-purifiers. It dissolves almost every impurity that may find its way into the blood, and passes it off through the skin, lungs and kidneys, thus wash ing out the blood without any irrita tion in passing through the system and without those chemical changes and deposits which are likely to arise from the action of drugs. Why then use doubtful, dangerous, ana often in jurious drugs for purifying the blood when pure, simple, sue, pleuant and far more effectual water may be had without money and without price ? . QUEEN OF PUDDINGS. —lnto one quart or milk pat on* pint ot fine bread crnmbs, batter the size of an egg, the well-beaten yolks of five eggs, sweeten and flavor as for costard, and mix the whole well together, while the above is baking; beat the whites of five eggs to a stiff froth, and add one teaonpful of sngar, poor it over the hot padding when oooked, return it to the oven ana bake a delicate brown ; a layer of jelly pat on the padding before being frosted is very nice. HAM CAKE.—A capital way of dis posing ot the remains of a nam, and makijK an exoellent dish for breakfast, isTake a pound and a half of ham fat and lean together; put it into a mortar and pound it, or pass it through a sausage machine boil a large slioe of bread in half a pint of milk and beat it and the ham well together; add an egg beaten up. Pat the whole into a mould, and bake a rich brown. COPPKB n» PICKLES.— To detect copper in pickles or green tea, puta few leaves of the tea, or some of the pickle, cut small. Into a phial with two or three drama of liquid ammonia, dilated with on* half the quantity of water. Shake the phial, when, if the most minute portion of the oopper be present, the liquid will assume a fine blue oolor. R HUMOKOOB. A NKW ENGLANDKR, riding in a rail way car, seemed particularly disposed to astonish the other passengers with tough stories about Yankeedom. At last he mentioned that one of his neigh bors owns an immense dairy, and made a million pounds of butter and a million pounds of cheese yearly. This story produced some sensation; and the Yankee, perceiving that his veracity was in danger of being questioned, ap pealed to a friend as follows : "True, is n't it, Mr. P.? I speak of Deacon Brown—you know Deacon Brown?" "Y-e-e-s," replied the friend ; "that is, ves ; I know Deacon Brown ; don't know as I ever heard precisely how many pounds of butter and cheese he makes a year, but I know that he has twelve saw-mills that go by buttermilk." CDT HIS HAIB. —In the barber shop of the Metropolitan Hotel, in Louis ville, a tall, rough-looking man was leaning against the wall. A dandy oame in, took off his hat and ooat, and coolly handed them to the stranger, whom he mistook for the barber. When the dandy said "Trim my hair," he pointed to a chair and when he felt the hair being cropped close to the scalp, he leaped from the chair and ran to the mirror. "What have you done?" he shouted. "Well," replied the stranger, "you said cut it, and I wasn't going to refuse a little favor like that, nor make a half way job of it, neither." ."WALL, STBANGEB," said a back woodsman to a man whom the landlord of the hotel both were stopping at had detailed to sleep with him—"Wall stranger, I've no objection to you sleep ing with me, none in the least; but it seems to me the bed is rather narrow for you to sleep comfortable consider ing how I dream. You see lam an old trapper, and generally dream of shootin' and scalpin' Injuns. Where I stopped night before last they charged me five dollars extra, 'cause I happened to whittle up the head-board in the night. But you can come, stranger if you like, I feel kinder peaceable now." "WHY did you stop in the aisle to talk with those gossiping women, and keep me and Judge M waiting?" growled a husband to his wife, on their way home from ohuroh, ungallantly adding : "Nothing ever so much re minded me of Balaam and his ass." "I am very sorry," meekly replied the wife ; "but you seem to forget, dear, that it was an angel that stopped the way, and Balaam and his ass who com plained of it." AXCIBIADES had a shrewd way of diverting attention from his vices. He once paid seventy minse (about $1,400) for a dog of remarkable size and beauty, and generally admired for its tail. He out the tail off, and when his friends Scolded him and said that everybody was vexed about the dog and abusing him, Jie answered, with a laugh. "That is what I want; I wish them to talk about this, that they may say nothing worse of me." A YOUNG fellow in San Francisco suddenly snatched a kiss from a lady friend, and excused his conduct by say that it was a sort of temporary insanity that now and then came upon him. When he arose to take his leave the pitying damsel said to him. "If you ever feel any more such fits coming on you had better come ripht here, where your infirmity is known, and we will take care of you." AN EYE TO BUSINESS, —The superin tendent of the Methodist Sunday school in our place is an undertaker, and there is some talk of asking him to resign, not only because he makes the children sing, "I would not live alway," regularly every Sunday, but because on the back of the reward-cards that are given to good children he has had printed a gilt coffin with a list of his rates for funerals. —Max Adeler. A SOLDIER of a cavalry regiment was brought up for stealing his comrade's liquor ration. He was an Irishman, and his defence was unique : "I'd be sorry indade, sur, to be called a thief 1 I put the liquor in the same bottle, and mine was at the bottom : and sure, I was obliged to drink his to get out me own 1" THEY have a young lamplighter in Chicago who bids fair to be a richman. He not only receives a regular stipend from the publio treasury for lighting the lamps, but is also paid a penny a night by another youth who is ambitious to do the work, and finds his own matches into the bargain. A YARN is told of a pater fa milias who told his young hopeful that he oould not afford to furnish both butter and molasses for his cakes, and that he must choose one or the other. Qaoth the lad, "Pa, I've got two cakes. I'll take butter on one and molasses on the other, please." "BOY," RAID a traveler to a disobedient yoath, whom he encountered, "don't yoa hear your father speaking to yon ?" "Oh I y-a-as," replied the youth. "But I don't mind what he says. Mother don't neither, and twist she and I, we've about got the dog so he don't." A wroowjwho had just lost her husband was weeping bitterly for the dear de parted. A friend tried to console her. "No, no," said the fair mourner, "let me have my cry out After that I shan't think anything about it." - A DKTBOIT editor has established a bad preoedent by marrying a girl com positor, She will always know whether it is neoessary for him to stay down at the offioe till 3 o'clock in the morning to "make up the forms." J CLIUS, what part ob de oeremoniea do de ladiea most admire when dey go to de church?" "Well, Pompey, 1 can't tell what dat is. Can you tell ?" "Why, yes, nigga; don't you see, dey observe de him* !" * AM OLD lady thinks that a good many modern "songs" thoroughly deserve to be called "strains." WHY is a hotel ghost like an excise man ?—Because it s an inn spectr•. TOCTHB' COLCKS. "TRY, TBT AGAIN."— It is a true stoiy that lam going to tell you now. It is all about a little boy whose name was William Boss. Having had a present of a pencil, he thought he would make use of it by trying to draw. His first attempt was poor enough. Oqe day, when he had been playing ball with a youg friend, he stopped, and taking out his pencil, began to draw a picture on the wall. j "What do you call that ?" asked his friend. "Why, that is a horse !" re- Elied William : "Can't you see?"—"A orse I is it ?" cried his friend laughing. "Why, I took it for a donkey." .-'You are quite right in laughing at it," said William. "Now, that I look £t it again, I see it is all out of draw ing ; but I will keep at it until I can make a good drawing of a horse." William was not afraid of being laughed at; and ha felt much obliged to those who pointed out any faults in what he did. He was not discouraged by failures. He kept trying till he had used his peicil nearly all up. Still he had not yet made a good drawing of a hdrse. "You will never learn to draw; so you may as well give it up first as last," said his friend to him one day, some six months after their last meeting. "Your horses are all donkeys still." William opened a portfollio, and, taking out some pictures, said, "What do you think of these ?" ».' hero is something like a horse, replied his friend, looking at the drawings. "You will never do any thing like this, Willy." i William smiled, but said nothing; though it was his own drawing that his friend was praising. Well, by bravely keeping at it, Wil liam at last began to make pictures worth looking at. While yet a boy, he sent in a painting to, the Society of Arts, for whioh he received a present of a silver palette. He rose to be Sir William Ross, miniature painter of Queen Victoria. Don't be disoouraged, ifiy young friends, by failing in your first at tempts. Learn to persevere. Keep at it. That's the way. A BABY MONKEY. —He was a little bit of a fellow, about as large as a kitten, and had a tail as long as his mother's but he looked very old in the face. When I first went to see him, the mother monkey was holding him in her arms, but presently he crawled to the floor, then out through the bars and upon my knee. I thought it strange that the mother was not afraid of losing it; but when I moved my hand to stroke it, back went the little monkey, swift as a dart into his mother's arms. Pretty soon he orawled away again, and then I saw that the mother monkey had hold of the tip of his tail with her fingers, and as the little one crawled away from her she let him go as far as she could reach, but never let go of his tail; and when anybody moved to touch him she pulled him back into the cage. She never seemed to relax this hold by day or night till the little fellow was two months old, then she let him go. But her mother instincts were very marked even then. The oage contained a "happy family" of dogs, oats and guinea pigs, sleeping in one box together, so when the little mon key crept out of his mother's arms, she would reaoh down into the box and take up a little puppy, or kitten, or guinea pig, and nurse and fondle it just as though it were her own. She did not seem quite contented" without some sort of a young thing in her motherly arms. AN INDIAN BABY. —How helpless tlie Indian babe, born without shelter, amidst storms and ioe; bat fear nothing for him ; God has placed near him a guardian angel that oan triumph over the severities of nature ; the sen tinel of maternity is by his side, and so long as his mother breathes he is safe. The Bquaw loves her ehild with instinc tive passion, and if she does not mani fest it by lively caresses, her tenderness is not less real, wakeful and constant. No savage mother ever trusted her babe to a hireling nurse, nor put away her own child for that of another. To the cradle, consisting of light wood, and gaily ornamented with the quills of porcupine, and beads, and rattles, the nursling is firmly attached, and oare fully wrapped in furs, and the infant thug swathed, its back to its mother's back, is borne, as the topmost burden, its eyes now cheerfully flashing light, now acoompanying with tears the wait ings which the plaintive melodies of the carrier oan not hush. Or while the squaw toils in the field, she hangs her child, as spring does her blossoms, on the bough of a tree, that it may be ■> rooked by the breezes from the land of souls, and soothed to sleep by the lullaby of the birds. Does the mother die, the nursling—such is Indian com passion—shares her grave. ROBERT'S TAME LIZARD. —Many of our little readers hare never seen a lizard. It is not often found in onr Northern States. My friend Robert passed last winter at Savannah ; and among his other treasures, consisting of a mocking-bird, a pet alligator, and a banana-plant, he had a lizard, to which he gave the name of Spry. , It grew to be so tame, that it would take food from Robert's fingers, and lap water from the hollow of his hand. Lizards are social beings, and are times found in countless numbers, basking in the sun in perlect harmony. When Robert came North in the spring, he gave sway all his treasures, including his tame lizard, to a lady. She has the lizard still in her garden, where it runs into a little chink in the wall when it sees an eaemy approach ing. Robert had a letter, last week, informing him that' Spry was quite well. No TRAIT of character is more valu able than the possession of good temper. Home can never be made happy with* out it. It is like flowers springing up in our pathway, reviving and cheering ua. Kind words and looks are the outward demonstration, patienoe and forbearance are the sentinels within. How many days has the year of ita own ? Three-hundred and twenty-five, because forty are lent.
The Alamance Gleaner (Graham, N.C.)
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Feb. 9, 1875, edition 1
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