The Cedarville Herald, Volume 12, Numbers 1-26

The Cedarville Herald, W. E. BLAIK, VuWi»S*r, CEDARVILLE. OHIO. MAKING ONESELF MISERABLE. AV<irunl of • Certain Kind of Literature W ill Sorely U n it. “Why on earth do you read such book#?” said a sensible man, * few evenings ago, to » woman of highly sensitive and suffering organization, who had juat-been through the thou­ sand pages of Stanley’s “In Darkest Africa.” “Such hooka are simply poiaon to you. You ought never to read * line of them.” “What!” she answered, “do, IN WOMAN'S BEHALF. THE FARMER'S WIFE. What. 8bf Should and Should JfotB* K f petted to Oo—Draw the Line This Side « t overwork,, I have read the occasional effusions of *>Penny -Wise” for some time,w ith a considerable degree of interest,' and she has expressed my own ideas so often that I nuturally concluded th a t she was a very sensible woman. But I hold up my hands in holy horror when she tells the-list of her day's doings, and unless she stops.milking and hoeing in the vegetable garden, I shall use Hie other p a rt of the proverb when I think of her and pronounce her “pound foolish,” No woman who slams and strains the milk and churns and works the butter 'should be obliged to milk the cows also. you think I should be justified in keep­ ing ignorant of the m ^ and degrada; A woman fixa line beyond which tion of millions of ray fellow creatures? j win „,lf „„ „ ntmk in nf «tek- “Yes,” was his answer; I’the more ignor­ ant of such thingspersons like you keep she will not go except in cases of sick- (ness or dire calamity, and the mere anr or mien «wish to “get on” should not be sufficient themselves, the s u r« thek chance of ( e f{£ ^ u being sunnv and helpful influences in <• _ . _~ , ,, . , . _, the world.' The record of these horrors ? 1 ltw “ • ^ f f simply paralyzes yon. It works on J « “ »"> your sympathetic .imagination tail t h e ! ' whole head is sick or the whole heart Is fainh At night you lie down and in the morning you get up in darkest Africa yourself.. Had you spent your time in reading something, beautiful and cheering you would have been j healthier, happier and a hundred times more useful to your husband, your children and to society.” . ' . In the especial case in hand the man was right, and the case stands for thousands of like ones. Overwrought sensibility to the suffering side of life, and the gloomy spell this exerts over the imagination, is on actual disease of the day. Numberless are Ours is mixed farming, and the care of from six to tell cows and of quantities of fruit is mixed with the other work. Of counsel am obliged to keep help in the house (though 1 have kept the household wheel in motion alone when necessity demanded), and neither my girl nor 1 ever think of .milking. There are a great many kinds of out-door work, which I do and enjoy, bu t the men have just as much time after supper as the women, and they will milk and carry the heavy pails to the milk room with half the fatigue that women must endure in the process. With washing And ironing, sweeping and cleaning, gathering frnit and veget- ual demand for sympathy; so make tb t beet of your ailments, and you will find them growing lighter for the putting aside. Of all the pricks in life I think the sharpest and most poisoned are tongue pricks. Wc would not dream of thrusting pins into our family every time* we feel a little vexed or out of aorta, but we wound and sting with reckless cruelty by the tongue a dozen times a day.' Think of it, then, .dear lady, the next time you are tempted to tell a disagreeable occurrence o r to re­ peat a spiteful word, and don’t do it, bu t tr y how a merry account of the first will soften matters, and how you can please by relating how Mrl Hare- yard admired your roses, or Mrs. No- child’s pralse of the baby’s pretty blue eyes just like his father’s.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. ■ LEARN TO WALK AND SPEAK. the people u rn i un u v >uirht tob e ; ables and preparing them for immediate store, baking, milk distressing objects, and who should j wm** and—but why enumerate the take as much pains as the florist with , ceaseless round! Every woman.knows whose constant ahn in life ought to be | ,■ . . , to get away from the contemplation of f ns®or *o t wuiter s liis roses to expand the broadest possl- .what it means to “keep house.” and if ble expanse of clear glass to the rays of the sun. Without sunshine and plenty of it, they can never thrive. Just as some plants can flourish under the densest shade, while others mihlew be­ neath: it, so is it with different organ­ izations. Here lies the perpetual and often cruel mistake that moralists, re­ formers and religious teachers are ex­ posed to. Natures on which too etoto contact with misery produces an over- ' weight of passive torture are constantly goaded on to the belief that they are selfish and heartless unless they plunge deeper and deeper into its abysses. An Emerson who. feels that the one right thing for him is to take the feundial’s motto; “Haras non numerb uiii sere- nas” (I mark no hours but the sunny ones), is set down by thousands as a kind of Sybarite. There are not dead dogs and eats enough in this world. He ought to atop aud dwell on each of them till he is too heartsick to write any thing to cheer and bless his fellows. »Carlyle, on the contrary, never suffered one of these to escape his eye, though meanwhile the birds were singing, the lambs skipping and the grain fields dancing. I t often made him downright mad tha t Emer­ son would turn to the ligh t when there was so much especially provided to make Inin thoroughly miserable. There are few enough persons in the world to attend to the suhsliine depart-' raent of it. For Heaven’s sake,let them be. economized and “protracted." Do no t send them to darkest Africa, and tell them they will never truly love and serve their raOe till they contract jungle fever there and arc too weak and wretched to hold up their heads and smile. Plenty of alligator natnres^are there to which such, a swamp environ­ ment merely imparts a pleasing stimu­ lus. If the best any one can do is to be a tearose or a heliotrope, then let him she intends to be anything above a household drudge she must confine her­ self to the work which is rightly hers and not permit herself to do that which “ the men and boys can not or will not do.” , “Glad biie isn’t my wife,*’’I hear some shiftless, careless ihusband say. And well he may be; for there are a few branches o f farm labor which I will not do except, under very unusual eir- cumstances,andmilking is one of them. I thoroughly believe that a woman should have time to put on a clean calico dress, if nothing prettier, every afternoon, and by the help of little half sleeves to draw on the arms and an apron winch will covOr the whole skirt, she may do all the work which ought to be. required of her a t that time o f day without ser­ ious disfigurement to her apparel. The little sleeves should be long enough to reach above the elbow, and' the hand­ iest way is to have elastics run through the hem a t the top and bottom to hold them in place. But them In the apron pocket when not in use, and hang the apron in some convenient place in the kitchen or pantry, so that It may be al­ ways a t ’hand when wanted. Lastly, let me urge all women to take thought Of their health. , Better not “get on" so fast than live A helpless invalid, a vic­ tim to the Moloeli Overwork.—Rural New Yorker. ’ * LEFT UNTOLD. Why a Wife Should Not Harden Iter Hus­ band With Kvcry l’ettjr (Tare, In married life there is no greater art than to know just ivhat to tell and what to leave untold. Of course there should be in all things perfect confi­ dence between husband and wife, but this docs not necessarily mean the daily recital of petty annoyances, ailments and ungratified desires. Nothing—this emphatically—discourages a man more open ou t to the sun and fulfill that mis- or takes more completely the life out of These Accomplishments Are ss Essential as Ability to Danceand Sing. I t is one of the vagaries of our orna­ mental training of girls that it usually leaves untouched the simple, necessary, every day matter in order to cultivate what is occasional ‘ and often superflu­ ous. Thus a girl who walks abomin­ ably is taught with greatest care to dance, and another whose speaking voice suggests any thing but the Lorelei is given expensive singinglessons. There is ju st noWa little movement in thc di­ rection of teaching girls to do well the ordinary acts which make up most lives. I t is a tendency which ought to be ,strongly encouraged. The vocal-cul­ ture classes and the Delsarte bystem of (esthetic. gymnastics may not succeed in teaching all women to speak well and to move well, bnt they a t least show a dawning consciousness in the world that these are desirable things to do. I t is true, there is a prejudice against this sort of training. “Let young^ wo­ men be natural and unaffected" is ’still the lament of many who ought long ago to have found ou tth a t “unconscious grace” is nothing but a hoary-headed old humbug, made respectable through poetic patronage. By all means let girls be natural and unaffected, but the best way .to do it is to .train them in such irreproachable habits that they will never feelthe need of affecting any others. The monstrosity of “company manners” is easily analysed. A woman who displays this most objectionable species of deportment does it because she feels that her ordinary behavior is unattractive, so she tries to improve it by whatever impromptu methods occur to her. f t is a mistake, of course. She might as'well try to cover up the fact th a t she was ignorant of same foreign tongue by plunging boldly into a con­ versation in i t —Caroline Gray Lingle, in Kate Field’s Washington.. TEMPERANCE NOTES. THE DRUNKARD COBBLER. OF INTEREST TO WOMEN. M bs . E dison , wife of the inventor, la a good musician, and she and her step-children constantly practice to­ gether. A W incinta (Mo.) woman has in­ vented an ingenious and simple device, which will enable a housewife to wash ‘the outside of windows while standing on the inside, with the least possible H ow a CoaHrmsd * » t W as R eform ** b y a Poor GurtnMM. Mary Brunt was a visiting governess in Philadelphia. She -went from house to house givipg lessors*to little children in the rudiments of knowledge/ She was not young, nor beautiful, nor par­ ticularly clever, yet she had hosts *bf loyal friends, ana if any of them had been asked to name a woman whose life was .full, secure and happy, they would probably have named the poor goverpess, Mary Brunt, Let me tell you an incident which! may, perhaps, give a hint of her secret of life to you. ? . She lived in Germantown, a suburb of Philadelphia, and mage, twice each day, the half-hour's journey on the rail­ way which grows so wearisome to most people from repetition. I t never seemed wearisome toMary. Everyday she met with some pleasant adventure. I t might be' only a child to pet, or some old woman who gave her a friendly nod; but these tittle things warmed her heart all day. On the outskirts of the city the train passed near to Hcnnig’s great woolen mills. A little distance beyond there was a block of ’ old dwelling-houses .which had fallen into wretchedness and disrepair,, and were occupied only by the poorest poor. Ragged, dirty, children swarmed about the doors, and women with coarse faces and unkempt hair stared from the windows, the broken panes of which were stuffed w ith old hats and rags. " In bu t one window of the whole block the glass was whole and clean. A curtain of the cheapest'muslin, hilt white, hung before i t This window was in the third story of the back of the house; the train, running on tres­ tles at that point, passed within a few feet of it. Every day Mary watched this window. Whenever the sun shone tlie curtain was lifted so that the light might fall upon a box upon the silL The box was covered with a pane of glass, and Mary fancied that within it were ants or moths, or some other liv­ ing thing. One day the curtain was drawn aside, revealing a bare garret within. In one corner was a straw bed, in another a cobbler’s bench; here a table, there a chair, beyond a grate without a fire. The setting, in short, for dire poverty, but—clean. Another day a man’s face appeared a t th e window as the train rushed by—a haggard bid face, marked by lifelong dissipation. Afterwards Mary often saw the man stooping over’ Ids box or a t work cobbling, bnt always alone. He had neither wife nor child. Probably hundreds of people saw him as the train passed. He was no more to them than a tree or a post. But to Mary he was a human being who needed a friend. One day she left the cars at the nearest station, penetrated the house and climbed to the garreL Out­ side of the door was a pine shingle on which was scrawled in charcoal: “E. Lex. Boots and shoes mended here.” The door stood open. The cobbler was gone, bnt she saw on the floor and _ t - , 1 ,. » >.on tho wall boxes and paper cases filled A sothbu English gentlewoman h a s , with spldPrs_ i ittle dots, aud entered the business arena in a yery . ,&iow4eggwI monsters, unique and unexpected industry, which ^ cnfc ho£ c acd looked over her ffils a long-felt want, nothing more or choosing a conplc of old less than washing. Ilut such washing1 .o .. r -no t of coarse garments and house scientific magazines, she wrapped them up, directed them to E. Lex, and sent linen, but the dainty handkerchiefs, the I th ; m by maJL T]jc ncxt dav she saw sion. Some of the most concentrated Jhim than to he informed of every de- workers in the worst hsunts of mis- Jllnquency of the cook, the house maid, lii '■‘Till W__ I _ * _ w _■ . . . . . . . . .^ cry, as notably Oetavla Hill, in Lon­ don, have emphatically taken this position. To many and many an over­ sensitive nature, anxious to work with her, she lias said: “You are nob fitted fo r this; it is bad for you; It utterly un­ fits you for the real sphere in which yon were meant to live atid he a bless­ ing.” There are purely domestic nab- tho chore boy, of the impertinence of {the milkman, the tardiness of the I butcher. If yoUr good man comes wldstling home some evening don’t let the first word be of the kitchen range’s refusal to burn or of yoursickheadsche, If you want to still the cheeiy whistle on his lips that will do it very cffectu* bn t his heart*will not grow warm' alltr ares, natures purely social or artistic or j er ^w a n l you for the information. I t mechanical, w h ich to cut off from the ^ necessary to tell him finally, but class of objects which cheer and inspire waf u m he is snug and slippered before them, ia to doom to misery and barren- the flro pr h u rKten the toast and eggs leim is to iw$-P Such natures ought to be en- ctfurngtd to take their resolute stand ami say: “My first duty to what I am fitted for is to lira in the sun. I hare made a full trial of darkest Africa’s railway accidents, murder eases and the whole catalogue of horrors. They merely distress my mind and under­ mine my health, Now, whether Isaac 1L Sawtelle killed his brother Hiram, o r not, I shall leave to tits court to de­ cide. 1 will not read the evidence— that’s fiat. The same time Spent on Some inspiring or instructive book will make me A happier, wiser and better man, and of more real use to the world, all of which is said in clearest recogni­ tion of the fact that there are others to whom such reading is neoessaty and useful.”—Boston Herald, —Government engineers tasted a thirly-foot east-steel rifle cannon a t fi.mdy Book recently, with results that promise Well for coast defense when enough of these monsters arc in Com­ manding positions. This gun has a tdclve-ineh bore, and with a charge of 2S0po.:ndsof powder threw shells out to sea nearly fifteen miles, as estimated by tho watchers sent in a boat to take note of the range,. you have managed to cook over the par­ lor grate, Don’t entertain him by ac­ counts of the lovely bonnets Mmt. Cha­ peau has imported, and how you long­ ed mid wa* tempted by one perfect love which was fa r beyond your tosses, mid yon felt when Mrs. Riahman how bought H before your very eyes. Such a story to a proud and affectionate man is simple cruelty—nothing else. You may no t am It, bn t your good, hard working husband writhes under your narrative of Mrs. Shoddy’s openly ex­ pressed scorn of your old black silk or your passe bonnet He may strain a point and give up that visit he Had planned to am his mother and present you with a new gown and a French bonnet, but he will not love you any better than if you had worn the old ones’cheerfully and patiently, Menaremuab more observant than women are apt to think them, and John will note and appreciate many little acts aud works you never dreams be sees or hears, You are not strong, and there is never a day th a t you arc entire­ ly free from pain and -waaknes*, but don’t tell of each pang. Sven the most sympathetic and the kindest find them- selves struggling against« growing in- different* when subjected to a psrpet- dclicati* luces, the exquisite lingerie which the average laundress has aU lit­ tle care la handling as she has apprecia­ tion of their value. A well - known English woman phy­ sician workingfor the abolition of child marriages in India, dispels the old il­ lusion so long cherished th a t Indian girls arrive a t maturity a t amuch earlier age than those in cold climates. Her practice in native families has convinced her th a t the most precocious Hindoo girl of 15 is about the equal mentally of an English child of 11, and all state­ ments to the contrary are very mislead­ ing- T he worst physical enemy womanhas ever had hut, been the narrowness of life whkh gave her so Uttie to think of that she hail endless time for worry, tilie gains in physical force with every step toward intellectuality and spiritu*. ality. Nor does she harden her heart toward humanity and despise the home. The whole question of the home, In­ stead of being ignored," ia being treated with scientific care and unsparing de- votioa.—Cliantauquaa, T he Lady Guide Association, of Lon­ don, (Cockspur Htrect) haa issued a re ­ port of its first year's working, from which it appears that 990 parties have engaged lady guides for sight-seeing alone. The am ices of the lady guides are noilimited to taking visitors to see the sights. The guides meet people a r­ riving a t the railway stations, engage rooms a t hotels, undertake artistic fu r­ nishing, and render services of all kinds to people who do not know their way about London, pHorosttAPHr as a profession for women presents no phases to which the most fastidious and conservative can object, A woman in London haa open­ ed a studio where the posing, taking, developing, and finishing of photo­ graphs is done entirely by women. Whether this scheme would succeed in New York o r not i t is no t easy to prophesy. Half the charm o f the process which possesea such a fasdtoatiott to r many women lies in the Subtle flaitety which the man photo­ grapher knows so well how to serve. Among American women amateurs; Misa Alice Longfellow wears the laurel. the cobbler poring over them a t the window. Throughout the winter, E. Lex re ­ ceived by mail eveiy week old books and pamphlets, or clippings interesting to a naturalist. I t was amazing how much information Misa Brunt found on Madam Arachne and her habits. She saw, as she flew past, tha t the cobbler had made a shelf on which his new treasures were carefully placed. One day Misa Brunt, reading the morn­ ing paper, saw that Enos Lex had been ran over, and his leg was broken. Lex, was stated, had been drunk for sev­ eral days, and had fallen on the track. That evening when Maiy had 'fin-, ished her work, she went to the great hospital a t Blockley almshouse and saw Enos Lex. She often had friends in the hospital, so tha t the nurses know her well. There could be no donbi tha t th&cob­ bler had been drunk for several days; nor Indeed that, year ln and year out, he was drunk much o f the time. Mary did not lecture him. She did not even hint a t his iniquity. She talked intelligently to him about his broken leg, and after he grew used to her, about his spiders. Lex was a Scotchman, with all the obstinacy, the honesty, the belief in his own opinions, of his race. He waa a shrewd observer of spiders, and, un­ educated as he was, had written two monographs concerning them which had attracted notice. But he was aim * drunkard, and'—worst of all—was not ashamed of it. One day he followed Mary with his keen gray eyes as rile hade him good­ bye, and motioned her to stop. “Ye’re a varry proper young leddy,” ha said, with the patronizing tone which he always used to her. “Mae doot when I ’m on tho mend ye’ll he tiyin’ to re­ form me. Mind w h a t!say ! Haudyer hand; it’s na nee.” Maty looked him steadily iu the eyes, hu t said nothing. " * the others. My life wad be in a big boose. The devil got me, Miss Brunt, and made me a drunkard. They're dead that cared for me. The hoose has tumbled about my eaxs.' There’s na reason why Enos Lex should na tak’ a’ the comlort oiit o’ whisky that he can get-” - - Mary had no eloquence- . She only shook hands with him heartily and went away. Doctor C-----stopped her a t the door. ’ “You can do nothing with Lex, Miss Brant. He’s an incorrigible sot." “Yes; but he’s clean. Theresa always hope for a man, doctor, who hates d i r f i There was hope, too/ she thought, for* the man who loves any living features, even a hideous spider. Lex was in bed for months,' during which time he" could get no liquor. So much was gained. When he was ready • to leave Blockley, Alary came to him. “There is an opening for a good cob- bier in Germantown." ;she said. “I know of a shop and room which yon can ren t low, and behind which is a lit­ tle garden, a_ fine nursery for spitlers!” 1 His eyes sparkled. “I’ll tak’ it,” he said, briefly. . Mary brought him custom—plenty of i t She procured him admission to the > library and to a free reading-room. Better than all, she sent a professor and a doctor—scientific men—to talk-to him and make him feel that he belonged to their guild. . • “This is my friend,. Mr. Lex,” she said, as -she introduced him to the - doctor, “He can teach you much about , spiders.” ° The Scotchman eyed her keenly os she spoke. There was a whisky”flask in his pocket. It was the first time ’ sinceJenn ie died that a woman had / called him her friend. > After she was gone he took out the flask and broke it. “I l l not disgrace her!” he said. ‘T il mak’ myself fit to meet JCanie, God helping me!” Mary. Brunt died a year ago. There were many strangers crowded into the graveyard who were unknown to her Mends. Women of the tenement- 1 houses, poor Polish mill-men, negroes —no one ever knew what her relations, to these people had been. • Dn the next day a tall, raw-boned old Scotchman, coarsely clothed but bear­ ing himself with certain grave dignity, ciRne alone to the grave and planted a root of heather on it- I t was the best he could do. He stood looking steadily up into the clear sky, and then, nodding gravely to himself, he went away. It was the man she had saved. Why had she been able to save him? Hundreds of Christians, it may be. had looked a t the wretched garret of the bloated drunkard with hopeless pity, bnt Mary saw the white curtain at tho window, % In every ruined life there is the bit of white, if wc have eyes to see it.—Re­ becca Harding Davis,-in United. Pres­ byterian. , LIQUOR IN THE ARCTIC. VUs Spirit* Exchanged (or Valuable for* and S k in . The Pacific Steam Whaling Company has issued peremptory instructions to all the company’s captains not to call a t Honolulu. Once they leave this port the Whalers are to proceed direct to thjj^ whaling cruise, and are to stop a t no point where a stock of liquor could be laid in. The' company, has always been opposed to liquor traffic, but it has been asserted that every whaler that went into the Arctic during the past season was well stocked with rum and whisjty, which they secured a t Hono­ lulu. The liquor is used for trading purposes with the Indians, and i t is said tha t the whalers always fare well by the bargain. An immense quantity was taken to the Arctic last year, but, as the Indians had very little to sell, there was not much market for the rum this time. As the nun could not be got rid of in barter, and as the whalers conld not bring it hack into port, it was handed over to the In­ dian chiefs, who are to act as agents for the captains of whalers and dele the liquor out to the Esquimaux in ex­ change for bear, fox and deer skins. In fact, i t is estimated that when the whalers left the Arctic they left toe thousand gallons of the worst spirit! ever distilled to be disposed of in thk manner.—San Francisco Alta. NEW NOTES AND FACTS. Dfl. B elboth , the great Vienna sur­ geon, says: “The colossal increase of nerve and mind disease in onr day is undoubtedly the result, to a great ex­ tent. of the tobacco and alcohol habit, am” ’he straining of the nervous system caused by these poisons.^"—National W. C. T. U. Bulletin. “Tit* drink difficulty lies a t the root of every thing. Nine-tenths of oar poverty, squalor, vice and crime spring from this poisonous tap-root. Many of our social evils, which overshadow the land like so many upas trees, would dwindle away and die if they were not constantly watered with strong drink.” —Darkest England. I n these daya when total abstinence is becoming more popular, there is a re­ newed effort to introduce alcoholics into cookery. If you put the devil out the door, he flies in a t the window, and if you put him out of the window, he dauccs-down the chimney and sets hi* blue ligiite burning on the cook stove, Caterers Consider many of their most del icate dishes incomplete without the xlcohblfci: they b id e t this smack of The muscles of the grim face worked.! devil in solution lu their “Nse ttse,” he repeated. “When t was their pudding s*«e\ in twenty-four I came till th is country, and laid my plans high. I had my wife M»d bairn. I Wttd he a gretiemuu like sherbet, iu their cakes, their pies, Temperance people u •n the lookout a t rcstaureata, hoick And so-(.ailed higtotoosd dtitmer fable*. T(tE PENNY • s s f t y flsrelse* x n * « view s T rae Jtator A writer on the subje •ervioe o f the country i «le advances the follow perhaps, worthy < The annual report of General hs* provoked j quiry as to the neeessit jmstal rates. The id< tSe different articles th bn the subject as to th< changes that could be i | ally prompted by 11 ' business interests of t theory. We believe ths erally will toke the vie Departmentwas ©stab ( and rapid; $ransmi£sio business ft. personal ni prompt dissemination and tha t UUother und postal, Department sh< to this. The public - the rapid and safe tra ters and news matt< i rates on this,, legitimt matterahall 1>eplaced j urb. consistent with i | nual report o f .the Pc j shows th a t the presc . . rate on letters yielded during the last yeoi that the actual cost of livering such letters fc was bu t 98,000,000, lea of $30,000,000. But t BbbWarin the report s) of there being a pn there was an actual of $5,706,300. uInquir of this deficiency disc i t is due, First. To carrying a t rates largely under vertising matter and character andjmc^rcha every' nature, overh 'ready over-taxed faci to such a n . extent prompt' transmission legitimate mail matt possibility. Second. To the shi) mails of Government and should be forwai channels a t much,low In the face of thu been introduced in C, tablishment of a Pi proposes still lower are now in effect on i th a t has.been largel; reducing a profit of actual loss of $5,708.. that it is no t of as n the average citizen tl transmission,of a pa< dise or other articles through the mails sli; Government pays for tha t the rates of p< pern and personal ai which are the provin all shall be placed w all. The revenue o partmeiit, if prOpei Justifies the red, vW»n- letter postal undojibtcdly the dut; urge upon their Eepr grass to legislate for letters and for the c present reasonable forded the newspap countiy. The surpli Postal Department this purpose, and fm of the facilities for 1 ters and newspaper tension of mail rout country not already ceptable postal cpmi than th a t they shun tip a branch of pul not required by the experience has den hanst the revenues e ities needed for otlu tau t branches of the Cow Cow-birds are si fancy they have o cow’s back oecasi pasture. The fern to be called a cow form dusky gray mdte is a fine-loo *ntire suit of ric hefed and neck of i Cow-birds usually birds tha t are fma »nd if fortunate i *the owners have ‘/-or pleasure the la ’sion of the nest an and then quietly Jk la is not a very ha t there mav be either the bird.-, .: nests fovthrifisclv how. Their eggs white color, plcni with a eold grav-1 Brass. “No, ] words,” tosh, gl nn«hnn “How . “You Isn’t mu had eons in s »erysm her lh a d e o •25 “She