North Carolina Newspapers

-"x : Published nr Roanoke Titolishing 06, - ."FdR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR rRUTH." J W. .FLETCHER AUSBON, Editor. C. V. W. AL'SUCN, uususts Majaoe. A . VOL III- PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY,' SEPTEMBER 18, 189r; N0.19. OB CARKTU. "The good God 'always builds tbo blind bird's . e8tr , 8o runs a Turkish proverb, Sweet and wise. Bow calmly may she fold her wings In rest, Knowing Histouch upon ber shadowed eyes. Thou, who hast known his lovo bo strong and grand. ,;.. !: : . Rest, too, in his right hand. Phold!" ha crleth, "I will bring the blind ;By ways they have not known" assuranco .. sweet , : :. .. c. 0tratghten the crooked path, nfllke life moro -. -kind, . ' Turn darkness Into light before their feet. " Is thy sight darkened, friend f Thy God can see. 1 lt that suffice for thee. , am Deipiew eoui snail lean upon ma st rengtn . Our need, grown great, to greater love shall yield. " And help, though long delayed, shall como ' . mf lanofli ML .,.. .... . . . . "T Walt for Him, doubting not. He knoweth ' Who builds the blind bird's nest. , -. . Florence Foster. THE DEMON AND THE FURY. TUB RACE OF TEBROaVLONff THE BORDER. 1 It is 8 o'clock in the afternoon of an August day and it has been scorching hot along the edge of. the great staked piaina oi xexas ana Mexico. . As my horse drinks his fill of the waters of the Rio Pecos I turn my face to the eastward. It is 200 miles to the foot hills of lit Cooper 20 miles of sandy sngo v brush, and cactus. Never a blade of grass, tree, nor a drop of water. Sand deso lation death. i To the north 150 miles of desolation. f. To he east sand, cactus, sagebrush ieeoair. I XX is a country of dangers of temblo isnffering vain prayers . to heaven of. grim datli, and even hero, within, fright and sceut of the clear, cold waters of the. Pecos I point you out the bones of beasta"' -which died of thirst and exhaustion. "Ah! What's that?" My horse lifts his head hitrh in air and . Utters a snort of alarm.' To the east ' nothing moving. To the north nothing, j w bouwi nownng. io : uie west ; tne god or desolation entering upon a the subject. This supporter was no march of fury. - ' . ' ; - " : - other ."than Senator Stanford,' who said "Bumblel ' Rumble!" - - - v V S that his experience in building the Cen , Itis athunder storm sweeping up from Pacific road was in direct support of the Apache Mountains bora in tho.val- the theory,'-. Much of this rpal was built lava ami vatri naa itul uinl: fnrfli nn n mil 1 l- a! ...UL" .xace which may cover 300 miles. Here-is fehelter at liand. -Not to the grove, my., : XCitet ancftremblinz "Steed, but to this standinc on this site shice -the waters oi 1 f-, - . . , a . 1 i ihtk flivJ Vwulul ' ' Tliara "la tiring In'tlint' blue black cloud wind: iairi, lire, fury,' Waiting! The black cloud has covered , the sun, and it is almost twilight. : A ter- , : rfKta ailAnn tins fllnn tm tlm nrfl A . . ; - ou a uiauBO n tu uuueu w iu ppiuuir hare comes running to my shelter, arid I ; nlfon biHs in the two sessions of the last hear her footsteps while she is yet afar ; Congress, appropriating $9,000 for expelr off. ; A serpent is running to the bank of nients to be conducted under tlie diieo- tho river for shelter; and I hear the' rust-" t;on cf ti,e Department of " Agrioultnre. ung away to my ie iarxuer man x can snake him out. Waiting t The blue black cloud comes up majestically, and tongues of fire are darting and leaping and licking up the gases. BIy horse lies: down - with some thing like a groan, and a scared hare comes running up and nestles under the flap of the saddle. The silence i3. liko a . great weight holding one down?. It is deeper than any sleep. It is next to the stillness of the grave. Another serpent rustles another hare comes running. I hear the heart beats of my horse as if some one were keeping time on a drum. Merciful lieavens I. The whole west, from right to left, blazed up with a fierce light, and next instant the earth reeled and quivered with the -awful shock of .10,000 pieces of aVtillery fired; at once. Tt was the signal for the Fury to'spring tat a thousand demons to scream and shriek for innumerable serpents of fire " to writhe and light up tlie blackness at fitful intervals. : ' Now tho rain falls now the wind is let loose-with e, terrible skrick now the lightning is so constant that the eyes burn, and the thunder claps merge into an awful roar, as did the 800 cannon at' Gettysburg. Crash! , Crash! Crash! j It is the cottonwood trees falling to earth. Shriek! Shriek!' Shriek! It is the Do. uiuu iaugiuoiij uie pituu buu upiwuug drogen and oxygen gases is easily; ex even the blades of grass. - Shock! Shookl ; Dloded: and with the most violent results. It is tho fury flinging his fiery ; bolts into Che bosom of the earth, i: And so for an hour. ,,Thent we stand up . to so the glory of the sun again to feast . our eyes on the blue skies ofieaven. The . Demon and the Fury have passed us by and are racing madly to the east.' . . . A Girl f the Period. . , . T)fo4v fieU. the rnmiV nnprn. rmnri'a.Ti ; has a 8 year old daughter to whom he is particularly devoted. Lallah is a bright, wettv rhilii. with dark 'pT-nrpsyjiifo' uvea and an abundance of brown hair that , falls in waves upon her shoulders. ' . w'hrt On day last summer Mr. Bell, had promised to take the child to see Barnum s circus,, started out with her. A sudden shower forced him to abandon the plan The downcast looks of the little one were too much for the tende heart of the fan maker, and he decided to take her to dinner at Delmomco's, After having had tlie supreme pleasure of ordering anything on the Hmrte that : ehe wanted, she heaved a deep sigh and j gazed at her papa with a longing and ; questioning look. - She had forgotten eomethir:g j . "I knew-wliat fine wanted, " says air, Bell, ."but pretending not to notice tne look, I said : 'Well, I suppose you have tad aU you want T . v . . " She felt that she had been treated so well " that she did not know how 'to ask for what she wanted.' - But mustering her resolve she finally4 replied : a ''.-. ."Papa, I've had a lovely time. But as you say when you talk about the Giant's pkying ball, can't I I bunch my hits in the last inning and have soine ice cream. "Chicago Post. ' . - - When it comes to public speaking, per sonal appearance has a good deal to da with it.. .Charles Bradlaugh owed much of his success as an orator to his fine stage Eresence. lie was 6 feet 2. Inches in eight and magnificently proportioned. ' FROM RAINLESS V SKIES- J MAY DESERTS BE MADE TO 'BLOOM BY AID OF EXPLOSIVES I Interesting Agrlcult rl Department Experiments Oxyli) drogen Ilallooun and Strings of Kites Laden -AVtth Nitroglycerine 'Bring Rain From tUe ;. Clouds . ' . " ' The apparently successful experiments in Texas, under charfa of General R. O. ; Dyrenforth, to produ artificial rain by I the use of high explosives, Jiave awak- cnea universauniertaotn v - -. - The history of this curious and impor- tant experiment is known to but few. Smne -roars -ago an vlllinois engineer, ; Edward Powers by name,' published u little book showing that many of the great buttles oiTthe world had been fol lowed by ruin, and arruuur that it micht - be practical to produe. rain by explosions of powder. He estimated, however, tliat the experiment would cost .from $ 20,000 tojf30,00O, and his theory was not taken 'hold oL' Xi"feB:.;v'i ' -' : Benntor - Farwell, however, became much interested. in the theory, and; n bilking with other members of Congress j who had had war experience found that they belioved in the theory. He also found "nnnt.hpr atinnortAr from Rnnt.lipr tvalk of life and a very valuable con-. tribution it was to ith information on 5Cldora, if ever, felL Yet, soon after the WOrk bean in this rainless region, aud tuhinvv Hrtntinir that was n'finefiKarv -tii U 141V V tl Y ilUUUKU IliiQ HiVAIUWluq Vft "1 there was f re- nu. w 1 M"a .i J , x ir: 1 .!:.!. and this 'con- 'Hition p.intimiail until Ithe blaatinflrVndeil omi t,e. road was built, when the rain Consed. t3 - v 't f ;r o i ..: iu i00kiDff ubout for somebody to eon- . d act the experiments, Assistant Secretary Willetts found tha,t General Dyrenforth., ox-Patent Commissioner, had given ;th matter some thought, largely through his acquaintance with Senator Farwell, and he was asked to take charge of the -work. ,! The field was an entirely new one. .4 He began the study of the history of battles with reference to rainfall, then the qut-s- -t:on of explosives. -He soon conceived the idea that if it is concussion that acta V., mn the air to nroluce this r suit it Would be better that the concussiou should be in thebtmtum of air where the rain is to be formed. .How to get it there was the 'question. To send up captive balloons was easy, but to send them up loaded with'dyuamite or nitroglycerine; and take the risk of some of them getting away unexploded was too serious. Besides, Die explosion oZ dynamite 01 nitroglycerine produces too quick and. sharp a sound. ' What he: wanted M as something like thuuder, which will shakf . the' atmosphere. ..He; remembered thai h iiarplaps . of Hhunder in the midst of rain are often followed by a great in crease in the rainfall. . .." - Being himself a graduats of tho school of technology, he was perfectly familiar with the fact that a combination of hy- Xhe bappy thouaht suggested itself to hit' mind that these gases would be needed to cany up the . balloons . which were U. transport the explosives! and the Very' article furnishing the motive : powei might itself be the explosive best fitted f 01 the work. .1 So hexperimentedand ex ploded a few balloons near Washlngtor with the most .astounding results. This matter satisfactorily settled, ho set . .. x;- -S ! TT about the practical preparations. He dinted up Professor Carl E. Myers. th oMstiniruished balloonist, at his New Vork hbme, and, rinding him well posted oiu the production of hydrogen in quantities, directed him to utilize his experience iu balloon construction and Jiyurogen man- f log in aid of the project. Ho then de-" yised . a .machine for the production or oxygen in large quantities in the field. nd finding that it worked perfectly, seut forward a car loaded with the necessary material for "the experiments. The re ...... , suits of the experiments in Texas, in. au arid region; are now well known, The experiment fa hot in any way a "crankisni." Congress directed that it be done, and it is said that 100 ineralers of that body believe in the theory under. lying n. asmhxvih rxxretarv wmwi. who was cureciea to carry it out, mmself a scholarly man, found the best suited men he could for the immediate work, v In conducting' the experiments a line Lof explosives was placed in about the po sition that a lme of battle is arranged, stretching about three miles in, length and a half mile in width. Various kinds of explosives were used. ; On the ground there was a mortar for firing "rick a: rick" powder and dynamite, so that the earth might do its part in conveying the sound and motion from the concussion, and that the smoke, which is supposed by 8ome to have some" bearing, might also, be present. There wore large kites, from 6 to 12 feet high, which were Bent aloft bearing a bunch of explosives at their tails and connected by a fine copper wire with a battery. In order to go the required height" with these thoy; were "driven tandem," attaching the end of as much line as the first one would carr to the second kite and sending both oil up, attaching the second to the third, and so on. This plan was also pursued when necessary in getting balloons with wire attached to the necessary height ' The mortars planted and the kites in the air; the balloons were sent up at a distance of say 1,000 feet apart, and th racket began. . In all three experiments, copious rain fell after the sky bombardment, and," al though scientific men may not consider the question absolutely solved, there is ho doubt that the results" have been so triHint that Congress will provide lib eral . appropriations for ' bisakmg up droughts next year. '., ' ...... FUNKY WAS OF STAHFISH. , Five Individuals In 'One, Wh Live . Together Amiably as a ltnle. " "The attack of a starfish upon an oyxtvr may be likened to an assault by organized conspirators, inasmuch as each of these five fingered animals is composed of five distinct individuals, n said a scientist to a writer. , And he added 0 "Each of the starfish's five arms has its own mind, nervous system, and thoughts, such as they are, and all live nerve sys-' toward him eagerly. He selected one terns simply meet in the center where the ani walked away with her. . The other arms are joined. Thus it may be said brides sat down and told their respective that the mental guidance of this - com- j Roraeos afterward that it was " too ridic plex'creature and the management of its ulous for anything "and that they "never nttairs are lntrusteu to a ooaru 01 nve members, who have communication with each other, but act without the inter mediation of a presiding officer. Now, it it not wonderful - that such - a quintet should be able" to manage its affairs s: well and with such agreement of purpose, in everything? Supposing each of the live'ihdividuals attempted to go where it listed without 'giving any heed to tlio otliers, the animal could not reach a choice bit of food, espied, from afar, with ,' .the eye of one of its meinbers,'nor travel in any direction with a purpose in view, T1..1 ' 11 t i. -... i I... ..1 .. . n im, p s -mT xuct , vrttion.nvhen a starfish is .spying after food it lifts the .ends .of its live arms so tluit the eye beneath each extremity "may get a view of thmgs m tlio neighborliood, and if any object worth going after, is sucker like feet beneath tlio firearms are nn tn rmsh ont torpthir in-tho direction of tlie morsel desired. There is a unity ... 1 . , . , . m, ,..! of intention among the partners that im-' plies unmistakably a conscious sharing ! of aim and design. The same thing is ! shown by the way many starfishes have of letting themselves drop from; steep rocks and, cliffs, in order to save the trouble of laborious climbing down. . In . such cases before they relinquish tlieii ( hold and drop they let go with three or four arms, holding fast until the last mo ment with the remaining one or two, as if it were to calculate the leap. : "My observations on this subject havo inclined me to think that matters of con certed action with itarfish have , not in frequently to be effected by first "obtain-, ing the assent of an individual ray, that is willing. It is known that these creatures . sometimes divide themselves voluntarily 1 into a three armed and a two armed por tion, which may be regarded as the violent , dissolution of business and domestic rela tions once happy, but grown inharmo nious. ( A starfish will often cast off one of its arms and leave it behind, perhaps . because the member is not found agree able to live with. If a rubber band or a string is fastened around an arm of one of these animals and it can not push tlio, annoyance off with its other arms tho starfish will throw the troublesome ami away, not desiring to retain the compan ionship" of such a cripple.1 Starfish are. . like human beings in many ways. 5 Then . tlie animal which has thus deprived itself of a ray grows a new one in place of tlio Old. . . S ! "As for the arm . tliat is dropped, it ' promptly proceeds to . grow four new arms, thus becoming a whole starfish itself. Being the biggest, it is presuma- f bly for along time-the boss of . the five, which must be gratifying. . A few years ago people who caught starfish in the oyster' beds destroyed them, as they thought, by cutting" them in halves and throwing them overboard, but tlie process '! was not very effective, inasmuch as every one thus treated promptly became two. 7 Snow Staines, . " Boys and girls who make "snow men' may not be awarethat they are artists, but in a humble way they, are, and many 6tories have been told of sculptors who have obtained tlie inspiration of their career from the making of figures in snow. Thorwallseu, the great Danish sculptor, was oae of th'.e. Ho w;w in- suncttveiy an artist in snow oetore no became an artist in clay -and marble. Furthermore, trained sculptors have con descended to make statues in snow. Pietro de Medicis, a great patron of art in Italy, employed Michael Angelo, during a particularly severe winter in northern Italy, to make snow statues, and the sculptor executed these singular commissions with fidelity. . Under the reign of Louis XIII of France, a splendid statue in snow was erected at the crossing of several streets in Paris with verses in neat raised letters upon it which may be translated thus : j Remember, you who pass, the day ' When you, like me, must melt awayj And pray that winter rule the sky, - f For when It thaws, alas! Idle.". , , During the severe winter of 1784, King Louis XVI of France ordered his finance minister to use the public moneys to alleviatr the condition of the poor of L Paris; and in return the Parisians raised to the king a fine statue of snow in one of the most publio places of the city. The pedestal bore some very ordinary and perfunctory verses, somewhat like the following: S":- .. ,; f- ' " . , ?reat Louis, the poor, whom thy bounties pro tect, . ." V;-"' , :. -To thee but a statne of snow may erect; But to thy generous heart It is pleasanter, snro. That the marble should pay for the bread of ; i,-.the poor."-L v- ...r 'i -.. : Six years afterward another very cold winter came, and the people then cared very little for the benefactions of King Louis. ' Snow statues were again the or der of the day, and one of them, a repre sentation of the Goddess of Liberty, was said to have borne this somewhat ironical but prophetic Inscription : . r "This is Liberty f Worship her, for to morrow she. will be gone."- . , " Very Embarrassing. , Several ladies were sitting together on !' the balcony of a Southport hotel the other night when the moon, although full, was somewhat hidden by clouds. A natty little fellow came toward the group and said softly : " Pussy, darling," whereupon nil flip vnnntr kultpn iiiTriTwrl nn And imlitia were so embarrassed in the whole course of their lives. -Sheflleld Telegraph. KDUCATIOKAIm Two young ladies in New York are said to make from $10,000 to $15,000 each a year teaching chess. 'The oldest college in North America was founded in 1531 the College of St. Ildefonsb, in the city of Mexico. Tho next oldest is Laval College, Quebec. .. . . The enrollment at the Kansas Agricult ural College reaches 592 this year, showing- an increase of ?3 over last year. Sci- farming is rapidly growing in fa . vor in lvansas, and tne couege at Man hattan is aiding the good work mate rially. . y - . ' Dr. Lorimer meditates starting an en terprise in or near Boston as a rival to hf. Chautauqua movement. It is to be cauea me xempie .miuwhuhu Bible fitndv. literiiture. science, and so- cial and political economy will be in cluded in his system. , ' . -.The Governor of Pennsylvania has ve toed a bill requiring "instruction in physi ical culture, including calisthenics" in all city schools. His objection is that tho city schools are already loaded down with legislative requirements, and that some thing may bo left to the discretion of the regular school authorities. I, -- Teachers in some European countries do not have tho pleasantest experiences. In Spain the payment of salaries is habifr ually in arrears. Altogether 2,500 teach - ers have arrears due them, and it is not surprising that in one place a teacher has taken to selling matches and his wife and children have gone into domestic service. At the Atlanta University 000 colored pupils are being trained this year, not in the higher- branches of education but in English studies, mechanical arts, in house hold industries, and in Christian living. They are being trained, th majority of them, with special reference to services as teachers and missionaries among their own people. Speaking of the cry for "Southern schoolbooks, Tt Cluxttdnooga Times sensibly says: "It is one of the rankest follies of provincialism ever perpetrated. What in the name of so se would consti tute a 'Southern' arithmetical text book? Can algebraphysics, physiology, geome try, and grammar be localized?; Let us have the best, no matter whre or by whom produced. The London Board of Education has appointed six women, at a salary of $400 each, to visit schools. Heretofore lady visitors have been regularly employed, but without remuneration, the position being honorary. Tlie visitors will bo ex pected to put in as many hours' work as the teachers, and to furnish weekly re ports to tlie board, accounting for every hour of service during the session. SchoolJournal. Do not the methods of teaching In our publio schools need to be overhauled? The pupils are crammed with a super ficial knowledge of nearly a score of dif ' ferent studies, without an ability to write a sentence in tho F.uglish language cor rectly. What children need is not to learn so much, but to learn a few things well, and while acquiring such knowl edge t learn ,to think for themselves. f New York Evangtlist.. NO THIRD PARTY NEEDED. Roanoke News. - Thd Roanoke News cannot see the need of a Third Party in North Carolina. The alliance controls the Democratic party s it did in the last campaign. . Alliance men went into the Democratic conventions and because they were Democrats and were in the majority, controlled; those conventions It can do the same next year. They ' have thousands of friends and sympathizers among Democrats who are outside of the order who will heartily co-operate with them in securing the reforms they advo cate. . ' " -:x The organization of a Third Party would deprive the Alliance of every advantage they have gained and still uold In this State, and they would have to begin anew the foundations of the success which could only be attained if attained at all, by years of hard labor performed in face of outside op position aud internal dissensions, frequent disa Sections and the treachery of pretended friends. What, then, eau the Alliance hope for in North Carolina through the Third Party which has not already been secured by means of tLe Democracy ? In the last election they secured a majority of the Con. gressinen, a part of the State government and the Legislature, Next year by pursuing the same tactics they cad nominate and elect all the Congressmen, the entire -State ticket and a large majority of the Legisla ture. That is ad they could hops to do should they join the Third Party and win with it at the polls. There is positively nothing to b gained by abandoning the Democratic party. Its principles are sound and in accord with Alliance principles, and if the men put into office will not act up to them there are plenty Democratic- Alliance men who will, aud it is only necessary to put such men in'offlce. But there is great deal to be lost by the Alliance if it joins the Third Party, and every reasonable Alliance man knows it. fhey will lose the moral support and active assistance of their friends outside the order; they will sufftr from the active opposition of many Democrats who are not friendly to it but who have hitherto been bound to silence and inactiou by the party loyalty. There is another matter lor serious . con sideration. The Third Party may be eon. fronted in North Carolina by the same prob lem which presents itself in Kentucky and Virginia. In Kentucky the Third Party was formally organized and entered the campaign. The result was that a very large proportion of the vote it east at the election was drawn from the Republican party, which hoped by that means to con.' trol it and return to power. ' Tbo BepnblL cans of Virginia have determined" to make no nominatiens but support Alliance candi dates, as the only means by which tbey can again be a factor in politics. They remem ber the success with which they co-operated with the Bead j aster element of the Demo. eratio party, finally swollowlag that element and by its assistance defeating the Demo, cracy. Yet the State debt which the Readjustee wanted to settle still remains unsettled. As it has been in Kentucky and Virginia so it will be here if the Third Party is organized by the Alliance men. The Ro publican party in Noitu Carolina ig dead but it has some shrewd individual members in the State who will if possible use ' the Third Party to hoist themselve into con trol of tho State government. Every white man in north Crrolina from recent experi. ence knows what that means. vErery man ought to know also that when the Republi cans have once been put into " power by means of the Third Party they w ould care nothing for tne reforms demanded by the Alliance, because they hate in this State refused to place Alliance demands iu thei political platform and because the very principles upon which the Republican party is founded have made these Alliance da. mands necessary. - They can no mere advocate A,luuc principles honestly ' than Anglo-Saxons can honestly advocate negro supremacy When Republicans honestly favor tbo Alliance . platform they are no longer Republicans. These are serious times, not only for the Democratic party, bnt for the Alliance also. Just as sure sshc Third Party is launched in North Carolina jut so sure will the Alii, ance lose its prestige and power and become a mere sideshow to the Republican party, Th:s is no highly colored pictrre existing only in imagination, but sober truth made plain by expericuce, and observation of what is going on around us. The Alliance is not a . political erg an na tion . It is secret in its natnre, aud the existauce of stcr-1 political parties is mad unlawful by the Constitution of the State a constitution framed by representatives of tho people and ratified by the ptople them selves at the polls. PENSION iTItATJDS. Wll Star ' Chns. E. Garritee, a pension attorney, of Baltimore, who has now nine indictments pending against him for violating the pen sion laws, was arrested a Uv days ago charged with conspiracy to defraud the Government. With lilm were arrested five other persons, one an .ex UY S. Comads. sloner, one a doctor, tho colored preacher, who officiated, and two I whits women, as parties 'to the conspiracy, which consisted in the marriage of a mulatto girl to an old negro veteran who waggon his death-bed, the old man being so near dead st the time that he was scarcely concions of what was going on. The busiuess was managed by G&rritee, who had gotten a pension of f 15 a month some time before for the old man, and the object was that the girl might come in as his widow for this pension, and an increase which he had been recently allowed with an arrearage amounting to about ' one thousand dollars. The preacher said ha thought the marriage was "rather queer," bat he supposed that as the old fellow had oeen living wiia tns girl for some time ha wanted "to mike her an honest woman before he died." He therefore tied th knot and took his fee without asking any questions. The presumption - is that the doctor was there in his professional capaci-' ty, as he was released without bail, while the others Were held for trial under a fifteen hundred dollar bond. This is one illuatra. tion.of many, at the wav in which the Government is defrauded, hundreds of young woman marrying old soldiers for no other reason in the world than forth pen. sions tbey become entitled to by such marriages, , ..... . - CRUELTY TO ANIUALS, " BY WILD noSE. V mjM.. .l. . " snuniwun dmcvs. Much has been said and written aborrt this crime, but not too much, as on every hand wo yet see it going on, this crime which is one of the most oruel and coward.'. ly man ever committed. The most cruel because it is often the unmerited abuse of a faithful servant, which Derbaoa after lonr years of toil and abuse; has become unable to longer serve them. The most cowardly because it Is always cowardly of the strong ' to oppress the weak and this ' is an attack on that which has no menus of defense no one but a coward ,r a brute . would ' thus persecute the helpless, yet some men seem to think it gives tnem quite a noble appear ance to enrse beat ' and otherwise mifuse their horses and other animals and because . God has Dlaeed them beneath tbem willfallv use the power he has bestowed to persecute the dumb unimals he has given to serve them to satisfy their own brutal hearts. mey maxe tne uvea 01 ineir poor cnmoie dumb slaves an untold misery, they oppress when they ""t-ff--- - ' 1- I have sometimes been disgusted beyond measure to see men who would havo been most indignant if anyone had said their, natures yet contained a remnant of savage' barbarity, beat their horses most unmerco.. roily, swear like maniacs and behave tike . ' well like anything but rational men for some aimple cause Bomettmes, often for . 110 precivable reason, substantially provine " to all beholders that there waS a rather large -remnant of brutality yet abroad in ths land that civilization had yet to distroy. 1 - . unvv? uooiu uivu us wum UJCUHKUvea christian gentlemen boast of cruelty which ' should bring a blush to their cheek,' but I ' have never beard this without a feeling - of thankfulness that all are not thus and also -a feeling of strong disgust for one who could boast of their cruelty to a helpless ereature. One of the silliest things I ever noticed is to hear a driver cursing a horse as l the poor brute understood what was desired of him and cursing him would force him to perform his duty. It is at onec sinful and disgusting, in truth more the act of a luna. tic tbau a rational being. Just think reader' for a moment how utterly useless it is. Do you ever remember having seen ' an oath' pnu a Heavy load or cans a Horse to turn more quiokly ? Have you ever known era. elty or profanity to help anyone anywhere. except on the road to ruin. - - Instead ot curbing animals to benefit r-a.ly debaBe them, though some of my learned readers may contradict the assertion. ' I sju suie that gentle means are the bet with brutes as wuh human and horse that is habitually cursed and misused will become more savage and vicious nntil al. most unmanageable. If I was farmer I would be most careful never to employ any one who curse or misuse one of the farm animaht and 1 think every farmer would do well to use the same care, if they would have their stock in good condition and easily coutroled. ' With tome brutality seems Innate. We see them when children brgin by pnUic? off the wings of flies and showing de&ire- to distroy every helpless thing, when tbey iheuisolves are almost as helpless, Keit they dentroy bird's nests and in f.ict put everything to torture that falls in their power, this is otlen not heeded or pawed by unrebukedby their parents and in con. sequence they grow up to be cruel and un just to every living creature. v They are almost a terror to every one and want t greater fuu than gmng pain to the helplet.;; they are cow aid who dare not attack tho a who can meet them fairly. Some one L,h said thoy Would not get iq the way of one who would kick a dog tor tan, and indeed it would be a wise precaution, for who could expect kindness at the bauds of tue who would misuse one of God's creatures which could cot complain of the cruelty cf mankind? Who would care for the com panionship of one ho saw anythbg laughable in the pain of any creature X - Parents should teach their children from earliest infancy to protect and' not distroy, aud promptly pmnkh them for any cieeUy discoVend. Jfivry ehild should bo Unght that it is its duty to Use every dumb creat ure kindly, for if God has bidden us love aud be kind to each other, we Barely should use with kindofci all he has given life, and we should rnaetuber r. till seeing eye is looking ovtr thsta as ns, and God who sets each fs trrow fall, will never f org V iuc ictisi tn uia cruaiurva.