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FOIt GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH" $1. 00 a ycarin advancb. VOL. VI. PLYMOUTH, N. CM FHIDAY, MARCH 22, 1895. NO. 37. Koanoko Publishing Co. I LOVED YOU ONCE, And did you think my honrt Could keep its love unchanging, XVenh as the buds that start In spring, nor know estranging? Listen! Tho buds depart; I loved you onoe, but now- I lovo you more than over. 'Tie not the early love; "With day and night it alters, And onward still must move, h Like earth, that never falters Tor storm or star above. I loved you onoe, but now I love you more than ever. With gifts in those glad days, How eagerly I sought you! Youth, shining hope and praise; These were the gifts I brought you, la this world little stays; " I loved you once, but now I love you more than evor. A child with glorious eyes Here In our arms half sleeping So, passion wakeful lies; Then grows to manhood, keeping Its wistful young surprise; I loved you onoe, but now I love you more than ever. When age's pinching air Strips Bummer's rich possession, And leaves the branches bare, My secret in confession Still thus with you I'll share; I loved you once, but now ,1 love you more than ever. George Parsons Lathrop. PAMELA'S WALK. AMELY was alns ter'bul sot in her way," Grandpa Coan often re marked," but ar ter her adwentur with that bar, ehe want nigh bo sot." No one could deny that Pamela was "sot." Indeed, the pretty black- eyed girl rather prided herself on this particular trait of character. She sometimes said, with a toss of hor bead that made every curl in it dance, "them as is sot gen'Jy gets their own shows that Pamela, though living in the woods of Oswego County, was wise in her day and generation. It was early in 1800. Already the settler's ax had made tiny clearings, ,and their log houses stood in the shade of the gigantic pines for whicb that locality was once famous. And two miles from Pamela's house, at the falls pf (he Oswego, the first saw mill clattered noisily. Hero John Good cell had made a clearing of several acres, and built the largest loghouse in the vicinity, one of three rooms. And it had need of such amplitude, lor it sheltered eight roystering boys and 'girls, between whom and the Coan children the greatest affection existed. ) The Indian trail ran ' close . to the brush fence which surrounded Mr. Coan's clearing, thence wound devi atingly among the trees atd termina ted at the river's brink, jCBt above the saw mill. i But it was much oftener pressed by the quick feet of the white children than by tho moccasined feet of tho In dians. One sultry day in August Pamela eat discontentedly on the broad door step. It was overreached by a rude trellis, covered with morning-glory vines, now one blaze of flowers. The busy whirr of her mother's spinning wheel sounded cheerily, inside, and mingled with the voices of her four littlo brothers picking berries on the edge of the woods. .; But above all these sounds tho roar of the falls came with an overwhelm-; fng persuasion to the ears of Pamela, who had been most cruelly disappoint ed that morning. " Her older brother had promised to go with her for a day's visit to Good sell's, whose home by the river offered inducements for pleasure' her own lacked. . ., ' ; But at the last moment they had, gone with their father on an expedi-i tion to the post at Oswego, so Pamela! tat on the doorstep and .pouted reH juging any assistance to her mother' inside or the littlo berry-piokers out side. : ' ' . ' t Suddenly a thought came over her. Why shouldn't ehe go alone f What need was there for the boys to always go with their guns? No one had seen any signs of a bear since the snow went off in the spring. '. Yes ; she would 'go, she was decided. "Mother," she called, "I'm going to Goodsell'f by mysolt, and that's all there is to it!" 'S;ike3 'lire, child I "what are yo thinkin' on?" said Grandpa Coan, who was working in the littlo garden be fore the house. "Goin' through the woods 'lone, 'thout anyone with a gun with ye? Do ye want to be et by b'ars?" "No," said Pamela tartly, "I don't want to be et.and I don't intend to be, neither ; but I'm goin' I'm sot on it, bo there's no nse talkin'. " And Pamela went, the objections of her grandfather and mother being barely heard in her eager haste to bo off. In less than ten minutes after she had reaohed her decision, her pink , sunbonnet was glancing through the trees, as she followed tho trail to tho river. A day of cloudless enjoyment fol lowed, and at 6 o'clock she began to' think of going home. For, although the sun was shining on the river with noonday brightness, the forest-ways were already dimming and thick ahadowB lay across the trail. Pamela, refusing the proffered com panionship of big, bashful Sam Good sell and his gun, with an emphasis that showed she was not dissembling, started homeward. As she walked swiftly along the narrow trail, hex pink sunbonnet hanging by one string from her hand, and the evening breeze, cool from the river, blowing her tangled curls round the flushed cheeks, a smile curved her lips, and she said to the birds, probably, since they were her only companion: "'Sif I wanted that gawk Sam Goodsell to go home' with me! He said my cheeks were just the color of his mother's June roses. I wonder if they be? Guess I'll run down to the spring and sec " A cheery laugh ended her soliloquy. A few rods from the trail a spring bubbled whitely from the ground, then sent a silver thread to the river. "Bear's spring" was the suggestive nameitbore. The kindly sun lent a ray to aid Pamela's inquiry as, holding back her curls vith both hands, she took a long look at the rosy, dii.ipled face that smiled at her from her sylvan mirror. Well suited with the result of her inquiry 6he started to return to the trail. Started then Btood like a little white statue of fear framed in the green black of tho piuo woods. Between her and the trail sat a black bear, his grea arms extended as though to embrace her ! For hourB it seemod to Pamela they faced each other thus. Then she turned and ran away into the deepest woods. The low-hanging branches brushed her head her feet slipped on foe smooth pine neodles. On, on, on ! among the column-like trunks over the bodies pf fallen forest giants, armed clumps of bushe3. Once she fell down down down would she never stop falling?' But the depth of her fall was more m her imagination than reality, for it was only a deep hollow filled with dead leaves and slippery pine needle?, and she was not hurt. Pamela was not running blindly. She intended to strike the trail a half mile above the spring. And soon she camo through a thicket of blackberry bushes, out on the familiar track. And there eat the bear, with his black, hideous face, and red, lolling tongue! Her pink bonnet, to which she bad clung through all, slipped from her fingers, and again she sought safety jn the darkeniug woods. Once she looked over her shoulder to see if the bear was following her, and saw him smelling of her bonnet. Even in her mortal terror, a pang pierced her heart at tb thought of its probable destruction. Exhausted, she sat down under a linden tree. A "screech owl's" startling cry sent her again on her wild flight. A pro truding root threw her to the ground, and she rose with a purple bruise growing dark on her forehead. At last, with a sinking heart and a pre monition of the horror to come, she again eame out on the trail, a half mile from her home. And there, still barring her path, sat the grim monster ! Until now fear had kept her mute, but this time her desperation found vent in a shriek of anguish that echoed through those leafy solitudes with an appalling intensity. The bear, with a snort of fear, plunged fro.ii the trail, into the bushes, and was seou no more. But Pamela did not know her. way was clear. Tha sound of her own voice had startled her as much as t had her enemy, and again she fled this time from herself Too exhausted to ran long, she staggered on, and with bated breath skirted a dark and sullen pool, to whose surface one ray of the setting sun had penetrated, and shone redly, like a malignant eye, and guided more by the wild wood instinct than by any sense of her own, Bhe came to the fence that bounded her father's clearing. The little house lay dark in the shadows, but light shone through the open door, and familiar voices camo like sweetest music to her ears. It was only a minute- after this till she reaohed the opening that served for a gate, and came through the door just as her father and brother?, with guns and lanterns were starting in search of her. A pallid specter ol the Pamela they had last seen, with bruised, fear-distorted face, her dress torn with briers, and stained with swamp mud, her hands scratched and bleeding, she sank into a chair and gasped "the bear ! on the trail I" The maples and the lindens stood bare and brown, and the pines wore snowy wreaths on their heads before Pamela again walked the trail that led to tho Oiwego. The pretty, stubborn girl had almost given her life for her woywardness. Her roses and curls were gone, and in their stead were a white face and close cropped dark head. But that "gawk" faithful Sim Good sell, whispered to her that she was as "w ito and pretty as tnesnowdrops in mo her's flower bed," and this time -was not snubbed for his pains. That winter the Coan and Goodsell boys cut down the trees each side the trail, and made a broad road down which they hauled tho great pino logs to the riyer. And this road, in mem ory of her adventure, they named "Pamela's Walk.' And thus it was called until the pines were all laid low, ttud the forest gave place to grain fields and orchards. -Detroit Free Press. ' A Talk en Shoes. "Severe utility," said the showman, "closely limits the possibilities of va riety in designing our shoe patterns. For ordinary wear it is impossible to return to the ecroll-like atrocities which passed for boots in the courts of Louis Quatorze. Anything modeled on the sandal pattern is qaitc out of tho question except in the girls' acad emies of hygiene. "We have had in fancy footwear re vivals of all the old styles, and public taste has swerved around to the plain est of designs again. The popular shoe uppers are now all of one kind, quarter.?, foxing and tips, and are without any 6ort of ornamental slash ing. I hear of a pedal abomination which has already stationed outposts in the variety theatres. "It is the digited shoe, if I may use the expression. This idea of having a separate compartment for each toe originated, I understand, with a so cial reformer who had read thit man was likely to become web-footed. I can think of nothing more grotesque and frog-like than the spectacle pre sented by the plantation performers seen in the music halls with gloves ou their feet. The style will not thrive in the city. "The introduction of rasset leather shoes in 1871 opened refreshing pos sibilities of variation in footwear. The.fiist pair of these yellow skins was worn at the seashore by an old gentleman whom a manufacturer has tily supplied, using the hitherto use less heads of calf hides for his mater ial. His appearance on the sand at tracted great attention, and various shades of stained leather were soon on the market. ''New York Mail and Express. Capacity of the Brooklyn Bridge. Without interfering with any of its several forms of traffic, there are to be important and extensive alterations and extensions on the New York end of the famous Brooklyn Bridge. The entrance is to be considerably en larged, a new and commodious station is to be built, taking in the site of the old one, and a new arrangement o! tracks will doable the capacity of the. railroad for receiving and discharging passengers. Whfii the onormous amount ot travel over this bridge is taken into consideration, it will ba seen that the took, is one that will tax the resources of the contractors to the utmoft. New York Idirar, , FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. TVI.VIKB FEED OP SHEEP. A few sheep can be kept with little expense in winter on any largo farm, They are dainty feeders so far as re quiring food free from dirt is con cerned,, but provided it is given clean, they will eat as greata variety of food as will a pig. Bean vines, which no other stook will eat except on com pulsion, sheep will eat greedily. Some sheep should be kept on every farm where beans are grown, as in every crop there are some refuse beans that go to waste unless there are sheep to eat them. With a few beans as grain feed daily, sheep may be wintered on straw and cornstalks, without hay, and they will keep in good, thrifty condition. Boston Cultivator. . DEVICE FOB TRIMMING STRAWBERRIES. Adevice for trimming strawberry runners is described by a correspond ent of the Bural New Yorker as fol lows : The machine is made wheelbar row fashion. Break oft the teeth of two old wood saws and grind the edges sharp. Have a long thread on the axle so as to adjust the width of cut as desired. Fasten each saw with two nuts, fill the box with stones so as to press the saws down. This machine will cut and not tear. COOKING WHEAT FOIt UOr.SES. Whether it will pay to cook food for farm stock depends very much upon the kind of food and the cost of cooking. If whole wheat be fed dry to horses, many of the kernels will not be crushed, or at least not finely masticated, and much grain will pass through the unimais undigested. Thin loss may more than pay for cooking the wheat, especially if in order to grind the wheat it is necessary to haul it some distance to the mill, pay a heavy toll for grinding, and then haul it home again over rough or muddy winter roads. Cooking adds much value even to ground grain, because the heat bursts the tough capsule which incloses the staich grains so that their substance is readily soluble and digestible. Soaking the wheat answers a good purpose, but the time it takes will often permit fermentation in summer, and freezing in winter. Both the sour ing and the freezing would be avoided by cooking the wheat in boilingwater, or with 6team piped into tight barrels or tanks. A largo iron kettle may be used, es pecially one that is arranged to dump the food. Large cooking tanks and furnaces are made for this purpose and many who have used them find them profitable to cook all kinds of food for farm stock. A large galvan ized iron boiling tank is sometimes made to fit tho furnaces use 1 for evap orating sorghum and maple sugar, or ier scalding hogs. In all cases the water should bo boiling before put ting in the grain to be cooked. If barely enough water to cook the wheat is put in at first, the cooked wheat moy be rapidiy cooled by adding cold water, otherwise the hot mass may be shoveled about till cooled. Leaks in the tanks or boilers may often bo stopped by simply adding a half bushel of ground feed to the ra tion. It frequently happens that the farmer may find profitable work for himself by cookiDg his stock food. Farm, Field and Fireside. farm and garde:: xotes. When a cow is fresh it will be to your advantage to milk three times a day instead of twice. If you hare a bay window on the sunny side of the house you have an ideal spot for flowers. Fowls should not be confined more than is absolutely necessary unless they ire being fattened. Exercise is an important thing. Grain alone is too highly concen trated .. food for horses. They must have some "roughneus with it, such as hay, straw or fodder. If you have common hens, feed them well. You cannot get them to do as well as thoroughbred fowls, but it pays to take good care of tbera. " 6TBAWBEBRX TRIMMER. Whilo the doctors are sottlingis puted questions about tuberculosis, farmers would better give their cows the beat hygienic care and surround ings. A warm, dry cellar, temperature from forty -five to fifty degrees, is best for wintering. A thermometer "is al ways necessary, and good ventilation imperative. Farmers should devote a part of the long winter evenings to reading farm literature. The experiences and ob servations of others may prevent m from making serious mistakes, or mav lead us to improve on our present methods. A lirst-class animal is sure to bring good price, but he who has all first glass stock usually obtains ''the top of the market."' When they all seem tc be of one mold, and that a good one, there are dealers ready to take them as a lot, and at your price. recipes. Sour Cream Sauce Pat together a cup of sugar and a cup and a half, of thick, sour cream. Beat the mixture five or six minutes, then put it into a sauce tureen and grate nutmeg over it. This sauce is specially appropriate for Indian puddings, boiled or baked, and for boiled suet puddings. Potato Balls Small potatoes are very nice cooked in this way : Peel them and boil in salted water : do not let them boil until thev are soft; beat one egg and have ready some fine cracker crumbs ; roll the potato in the egg, and then in the cracker, and fry in butter till a light brown, turning frequently that the color may be uni form. Roxbury Pancakes (for breakfast) One pint of sonr milk, one egg. three cups of rye meal, one of Indian, half a cup of molasses, one small teaspoon fnl of soda and one of salt. Fry like doughnuts. Take a tablespoonful of the mixture, and, holding it low over the fat, scrape it. out with a knife in such a way as to give it a round shape. Stir and shake them about constantly, Beef Sausage Chop one pound of raw beef and one-quarter of a pound of suet separately. Mixthem and add half a teaspoonful of sage, pepper and salt to taste and a few drops of onion juice. Mix thoroughly, make into small cakes and dredge with flour. Put two tablespoon fuls of dripping ia , a frying pan; when hot put in tho cakes, fry quickly on both sides and serve very hot. Deadliest Poison Known. The most deadly poison is that which was discovered by Professor Frazer, of Edinburgh, and known as shophanthidin, an African plant. As little as one thousand millionth part of an ounce of crystallized shophan thidin produces a distinctly injurious effect upon the heart, and a very small quantity is fatal. Another deadly poison is cyanogen gas, the principal ingredient of hydro cyanic or prussic acid. At ordinary temperatures it is i.-imply a gas, but can be condensed by cold and pressure into a thin, colorless liquid and be comes a solid at thirty degrees Fahren heit. The inhalation in its gaseous state of a most minuta quantity would cause instant death. One of the most deadly poisons is arseniuretted hydrogen, which is formed by decomposing an, alloy of arsenic and zino with sulphuric acid. It is a colorless gas, possessing a fetid odor of garlic, and acts as a most deadly poison. Detroit Free Press. A Fund Piled Up by tho Careless. Becently the Assistant Treasurer of the United States at New York City has turned into a Post office Depart ment fund the sum of thirteen hun dred thousand dollars, which has been accumulating in the sub-treasury dur ing the past thirty years from the funds paid to the money order post offices for remittances which have, never been claimed. Old money orders are presented at the Postof5.ce Depart ment almost every day, but the amount I of the unpaid money order fund in- creases constantly, and there is no likelihood that the thirteen hundred thousand dollars will be claimed by its owners. In fact, every year from fifty thousand to one hundred thousand dollars is added to the fund, which represents carelessness or neglect. New York Dispatch. A Curious Carriage. . . ' , An extraordinary horseless carriage, which is not electric, but propelled by . steam, is an innovation in France. , It is built of tubes, which are enoased ia a light framework, therefore, not seen. These tubes form the tank to supply the water direct to the eylin ders, for there is no boiler. The -water is conducted into two little tubes with closed ends, over oil-light-' ed wicks no larger than those of a du plex lamp. These supply steam for the cylinders sufficient to propel a car riage for four persons at the rate of fifteen miles an hour over level; ground, and three or four miles an hour up ordinary road grades. The wheels are fitted with bicycle 6pokes, and have solid rubber tires. A coachman sits in front before a pair of upright' handles not unlike those of a bicycle, with which he steers. The! first cost of these carriages is about $1Q00, bu the kerosene wick is a cheap borso and costs nothing to keep and little to make go. -New York Advertiser, v A Goat Smuggler. Some years ago a tame - long-haired goat formed part of the regular crew of a passenger steamer on service be tween an English port and a Conti nental one. After a time the customs authorities discovered that it wore s false coat, many sizes too large for it. The goat's own hair was clipped very close ; round its body were paoked cigars, lace, etc., and then the false coat wos skillfully put on, and fastened bf hooks and eves. Notes and Quer ies. '', Belgium's New Executioner. Brussels has a new executioner. He was a waiter in a saloon and was dared by his companions into betting that ha would try 'for the place,- He won the bet and the place, which carries with it a salary of some $210 a year. San Francisco Chronicle. ' SERVED IN THE WAR. BUlXET FAILED. Oar Sympathies Always Enlisted in the Infirmities of the Veteran. (From the HeraU Woodstock, Fa.) There is au old soldier in Woodstock, Ya.f who served in the war with Mexico and in tho war of the rebellion. Mr. Levi Mclnturff. He passed through both these wars without a serious wound. The hardships, however, told seriously on him, for when the grip at tacked him four years ago it nearly killed him. Who can look, upon the infirmities of a veteran without a feeling of the deepest sympathy? His townspeople saw him con fined to his house so prostrated with great nervousness that he' could not hold a knife and fork at the table, scarcely abte to walk, too, and as ho attempted it, he often stum- Vl.1 ,-1 ..11 TM A A .1 v.. uiDusuuiai! aucjt saw iuui vnxtwiu Uf uia ' best talent to be had but still be suffered on for four years, and gave up finally In despair. One day, however, he was struck by the ao oount of a cure which had been affected by he use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. He im mediately ordered a box and commenced tak ing them. He says he was greatly relieved within three days' time. The blood found its -way to his fingers, and his hands, which bad been palsied, assumed a natural color, and he was soon enabled to use his knife and fork at the table. He has recovered his strength to such an extent that he is able to chop' wood, shock corn and do bis regular work about his home. He now says he cannot only walk to Woodstock, but can walk across the mountains. He is able to lift up a fifty two pound weight with one hand and says he does not know what Dr. Williams' Pink rills have done for others, but knows that they have done a great work for him. He was in town last Monday, court day, and was loud in his praise of the madlolne that had given him so great relief. He pur chased another hqx and took it home with ' him. . Mr. Mclnturff is willing to make affi davit to these facts.- The proprietors of Dr. Williams Pink mis state that they are not a patent medicine, but a prescription used for many years by an em inent practitioner, who produced the most wonderful results with them, curing all forma of weakness arising from a watery condition of the blood or shattered nerves, two f auUfg) causes of almost every ill to which flesh is heir. The pills are also a spcifio for the treuble peculiar to females, sueh as suppres-' sIods, all forms of weakness, chronic consti pation, bearing down pains, etc., and In the case of men will give speedy relief and effect a permanent cure in all cases 'arising frorq, mental worry, overwork or excesses of what ever nature. They are entirely harmless au j can be given to weak and sickly children, with the greatest good and without the slightest danger. Pink Pills are sold by all dealers, or will be sent postpaid on receipt of price (60c. a box or six boxes for $2.50 thy are never sold in bulk or by the 100 by ad dressing Dr. Williams Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y. . Costa Rica, like N"ratrua, Honduras aat Salvador, will aid Guatemala ia the event oJ war with . Mexico. The Avertte Man who suffers from headaches and biHou0" needs a medicine to keep his stomach And H v- er la good working order. For fucb p,..,yia Ripans Tabules flli tho bill. One tabula T ti ve? relief. , A clean and clear conscience ia t posssssion devoutly to be wished. Ketlce. " I want every man av ! vo .an ia 1La Vt 'l?A Ptntos Joteretea ia t: O'.'iam nd VL ny hftlits to have or of wr i.iiofca fa ti o uu een'. Addr?sh. M. l.Of. .ev, Atl&.-.'.a, s.-., Box 361, nud one v ill lw tutu you I'w , A
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