VOL. IV. NO. 24. PORT ROYAL, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1874. . Somewhere. How can I cease to pray for thee ? Somewhere In God's great universe thou art to-day. ^ Can He not reach thee with His tender care ? Can He not hear me when for thee I pray ? What matters it to Him who holds within The hollow of His hand all worlds, all space, That thon art done with earthly pain and sin? Somewhere within His ken thou hast a place! Somewhere thou livest, and hast need of Him; Somewhere thy soul sees higher heights tc , " climb; And somewhere still, there may be valleys dim That thou must pass to reach the hills sub-lime. ? Then all the more, because thou canst not hear Poor, human words of blessing, will I pray. O true, brave heart, God bless thee, wheresoe'er In His greatauiiverse thou art to-day. WHAT A WOMAN DID. . Jessica Dale looked from her seat among the branches of the ancient ash otsvnji nn river side. On a mle buav OVUVU vr** vuv A of planks a man's figure was stretched at fall length, and he was apparently placidly gazing np at the white clouds slowly dissolving in the bine air. The man on the planks soon tarned his head in suoh a way that he probably eanght a glimpse of her white dress among the leaves, for he instantly sprang lightly down from his resting place and walked swiftly across the meadows towards her, vaulting the fences on his way. " I am so very glad to see you, Jessica," he said, fervently, as he helped her over the stile. " For what reason, Bernard ? You seem wonderfully In earnest." " Why, no reason, except the pleasure of being with you." " Not having seen me since nine o'clock last night." "But you are always a fresh and beautiful sight. 1 have been wonder ? '' * ?'it- .11 ing what l coum ao wjt,h mysen uuo afternoon, and behold ! Fate sends me to you." m "I wonder yon are not sun-strnck, lying there on the wharf in this hot, broiling sun." " I don't mind the hot sun. It never hurts me." "And yet, the coldest day last winter, yon worked out of doors all day, building"that ice palace for me." " I enfoy the cold, too. and take the seasons as they come. Heat and cold are alike to me." " I should think, Bernard, you must be as mnoh as six feet high," she said, measuring him with her eye. " Very near the mark ; I am five feet eleven." "Well," said Jessica, stopping underneath the pollard willows, and surveying her companion from head to foot, "here is a young man five feet eleveD, broad shouldered, never sick, who minds neither summer's heat nor winter's cold, nor terrible storms, and yet, who can find nothincr in all this wide - - - " ?- A world to do on mis long isuuuurr unj but lie on a pile of planks, or lounge up and down the river bank with a girl." The young man's brown face flushed crimson. " But what can I do, Jessica?" " Help those sailors down there on the wharf, and perhaps you will put a little energy into them." " And what would be the use of my doing that ?" "Just for tl,e sako of doing some^ thing. Are you going to live this lazy, y useless life all your davs ?" "Yon know very well my uncle wou't help mo to get into any business, or, rather, ho can't, for he never has ready monev." " Help yourself, then." " How oa i I, without money ? I must have a little to start with." " Put yourself in as capital, and use your muscles. They are big and strong enough, I am snre. Such weights as they tell me you balance at the gymnasium?go aud break stones ! You are of no nse to apybody now. Your uncle and aunt don't need you; they have their own children. I have no donbt thev like to have yon with them, and will give yon what yon need, but you should be ashamed to dawdle through life dependent on a rich man's bounty." " I don't feel that it is a dependence. I am one of the family, and we all live happily together, and have everything in the world wo want. And, more than all that, uncle wants you to come and live there too. There is plenty for all, he says. It is a large house, and there are so mauy servants they can't find enough to do, and a great deal coming p in all the time that wonld be wasted if we were not there." " I will never go there with you Ber* nard, never! I would rather die! I wonld rather live in a log cabin, on bread anil milk, than with a husband who would be willing to leadsnch a life as you do. I should be so ashamed of him." The sleepy look went outof Bernard's eyes in a moment, and a bright light flashed into them. " Is that the reason I have thought how nice it would be to < , take her from her home, where she does t so much, to a place where she wo'uld 1 have DOthing to do at all. And her t ladyship does not like it; she gives herself too many airs." i Three miles below the old farm-house t stoon the busy town of Perkinsville. 1 On a hot summer afternoon, two days i after the talk under the pollard willows, 1 a shadow fell across the open doorway ' of the farm-house which shadow was ( immediately followed by the appear- { i ance of Bernard Leyburn. t "Good afternoon, Mr. Darryl," he t said, as he approached the gentleman, i " I want to go to work." Mr. Darryl, knowing Bernard as he f did, was astonished. ? " Any money to invest?" he asked. "Nota cent" J " Then you have not the ghost of a i chanoe. Dozens of young gentlemen j now in town wanting work. Sorry I can't help you, Leyburn," he said, cor- < dially, "but, indeed, every plaoe is full and overflowing." 1 " I do not care particularly for a gentlemanly sitution ; I had no expecta- < tion of that kind. I will do any kind of work, r 1 " Humph ! That is a different thing. What kind, for instance ?" ? "Driving a wagon, porterage, any- 1 thing." t "A company of us have started the 1 lnmViAr hnsiness hicrh ud the river, at f Maple Bend. Got a saw-mill going 1 tolerably lively already, and it will move faster soon. It is going to be a big ? affair, I think. If yon want hard work c there is a chance for you, bat it won't 1 be dainty work. Can you help pile lumber, or take it to the rafts, or cut 1 down a tree, if neoessarv ?" ' "Certainly, I can, and will be glad to doit." y "I don't say but what you may work your way to something better, but that c is the way you will have to begin, j 0 am afraid it won't suit you." 8 "Tea, it will," said Bernard, eagerly. " I wish I could prove to you how 0 anxious I am to go to work." " Do you see that row of flour bar- v rels, ranged out there, ready to be , shipped ?" "Yes, sir." " That sloop has come in sooner than a was expected, but those barrels ought to go on board of her this afternoon, ? and all the hands are busy." s " I'll do it!" said Bernard, smiling. ^ He went out in high spirits and be- 1' gan rolling the barrels up the gang- I plank, eager to show Darryl that he h was not Afraid of work. He was ao- a customed to handling heavy weights d at the gymnasium,- for his amusement, b But, before his present job was half si done, he found out the difference be- a tween work and play. When it was three-quarters done he wished he had P let it alone. When the last barrel was h on the sloop, and Bernard went back to 8, the office, Darryl noticed that the brightness had died out of the eyes, o and the old, sleepy look, had come back d to them. b "That was well done, Leyburn," J said Darryl. " You'll make a splendid h workman. When will you be ready for n up the river ?" b "I have not quite decided to go. I tl must think it over." h "This is Wednesday. I must know p your decision by Saturday." i< " What has come over youug Ley- I burn ?" asked Darryl of Jessica, when I lie paid a visit to the old farm-house d that evening. " Ho came to me to-day ii to ask for work." And then he related, H with a good deal of humor, the adven- y ture of the barrels. It was well they H were out on the porch with no light but P the stars, or he would have seen how g Jessica's eyes were sparkling with tl pleasure. b " I told liira if he would go up to o Maplo Beud he would find plenty of b rough work to do, getting out lumber, ti He was all eagerness, before his tussel a with the hairels, but very cool afterwards. Ho is to decide on Saturday, I but I feel so sure he will not go I shall J say nothing to anybody." " But I will I" thought Jessica. "I b would not encourage him by any hope a of my loving him. But I will give a fi little push?ins1 to start him off. I will tell everybody in town." And she did. That is, she told half a n dozen carefully selected individuals, si and they told all the rest, that Bernard Leyburn was going up to Maple Bend si to learn the lumber business. It was not until Friday that this report ob- d tained general circulation. Thursday V evening, Bernard visited Jessica, but b not a word did he say of either love or h lumber. The next day he was con- v gratulated everywhere, and everybody ^ he met wished him good luck. d " I had half determined not to go," he thought, with vexation. "But ti Darrvl has spread the report about, and I now i'll have to go up and give it a trial. I shall find it a horrible business, n I know." tl Bernard had not returned since first r he went up, now nearly a year ago, and i1 he had not written Jessica a letter, or 11 sent her a message. His uncle's family had told her that he wrote to them in n good spirits, apparently, but that he t said nothing about his bnsiness, and they believed and hoped he was fast y getting cured of his folly, for they un- a derstood that he worked like a common o day-laborer. She sometimes questioned t> Mr. Darryl, but he would merely reply: "Theyoung man is doing pretty fairly," which was certainly not very enthusias- s tic praise. Mr. Darryl had good reason s for his reticence, for he remembered t< how she had spread the report of Bernard's going to Maple Bend through all ti Perkinsville, while the matter was still n undecided, and after he, Darryl, had y told her he should tell no one. n "It's strange," thought Jessica that afternoon for the hundreth time, " that ^ Bernard never writes to me! I am afraid he is not doing well. I wonder v if he was foolish enough to literally be- r lieve that I did not love him, and never a would love him? Or it may bo he has b learned to love work so much he don't care for anything else. A pretty result n of my advice! But, I am not sorry I h aroused him from his lethargy, even if c I never see him more!" + Here the gray eyes filled with tears, s which might perhaps have fallen but ji for a sound that now struck upon her t you would never consent to make me happy, Jessica ! Oh, why did yon not tell me that before ?" " I have not told it now. Yon dragged mo into the discussion, and I was only carrying out your supposition." " I will go to work to-morrow, if you will only promise to love me." " I have spoken for your own good," said .Jessica, "and I have but one thing more to say; never, from this moment, say to me one word of love until you can offer me something of your own. The log cabin is enough, but it must be your own. Mind, I don't say J will listen to you then ; it is probable I will not. But, in the meantime, love must not be named between you and me." " It is clear she does not love me, and she might as well have said so without i insulting me with all that .talk." Such I were Bernard's thoughts after Jessica ' had left him, and he stood idly kicking pebbles into the river. "She has said some pretty stinging things. That is the way she thinks of me, is it ? I would be a fool to give up all I have and work like a common laborer. She is always as busy as a bee herself, and ;ars?the quick tramping of footsteps h rough the long grass and daisies. Eer heart beat fast, bat she would not lurn her head. " I knew I would find jou under the ish-tree." "Bernard." And now the heat! mrned, and she held out both hands. Ee squeezed them in a very uncivilized nanner, that ho must surely have earned in the lumber Tegion. "How you have changed!" she exilaimed. She saw at a glance that the jreat brown eyes wore alive with active bought; that the mouth was firmer, ind the whole bearing of the man, -esolute and manly. " If he has not suoceeded, he has not riven up!" was her mental oomment. ihe made room for him on the bench. " And you, not all! Tou are the same (essica I left! I do believe this is the rej-y dress you wore when I last saw rou!" " How can you be expected to know >ne white dress from another ?" c "It is not your wedding-dress, I r lope, iou are not married, jesBioa r t "No, I am not married," she said lemurely. I "Thank Heaven for that! What ] iave you been doing this long time ?" t " The Bame old round of duties. 1 Jewing and helping mother with the t lousekeeping, and the children with t heir lessons. There is no end to [ woman's work, you know. Onlv, I 1 lon't believe you know anything about t." I " I know you were always as busy as J i bee, and I used to think you must onsequeutly be unhappy, but I have s earned better than that now." i " Indeed ! And pray what have von >een doing that you are ashamed to r rrite to your old friend ?" "JL>id you expect me to write to t ou ?" a " We generally look for common s curtesy from those who pretend to be >ur friends, and neither letter or mes- t age have you sent me." h " I was waiting for 'something of my v wn.' You see I have not forgotten a r ertain conversation under the pollard ' rillows yonder." r Jessica turned away her head. "I a lid not say you were to treat me with t he ordinary politeness of an acquaint- F nee." c " I know. I resolved to see you no 8 lore, to speak to you no more, until 1 8 hould have retrieved my manhood. I ; rent to see Darryl who told me of his ; imber business at Maple Bend, where 11 could get work as a common laboring and. It was rather a staggering offer, nd I took a couple of days to oonsider i. I was at first somewhat inclined to aok out of the scrape, but, at last I nmmoned ud the necessarv fortitude. 6 nd went." H Jessica tbonght of the report she had y urposely spread around him to force \ im to go, but, like a discreet woman, he held her peace. " Hard work it was," continued Ber- 8 ard after a pause, "and dreary and p isagreeablo, helping to get the lumber ^ 3 the rafts, and down to the vessels, 'his labor lasted for three months, and f it had not been for my pjositive deter- J lination that nothing should force me ack to the old life?and for one other i, [ling?I think my endurance would ave given way. At the end of three lonths the business increased so rap- * ily, and so many hands came up, that o was promoted to a partof the business y liked very well?filling out the or- p ers, that caine in pretty fast, by select- (] ag the proper wood, and measuring tl lie lengths, etc. But, I need not tell p ou all that, and how one thing led to a notber uutil now I hold quite an im- c ortant position, with a fair salary, a v ood knowledge of the business, and tl lie prospect of doing better still. And, a esides these, I have the funniest mite ? f a house tliut lopks as if the wind had << lown it together, aud might, at any a ime, blow it apart, and yet it is snug a ud tight for all." tl " You have, indeed, done wonders, j, tern ard. I knew you could do anything tl ou wanted to do." 0J "If I had got nothing from my work ut the consciousness of independence c nd manliness, I would consider myself e ally repaid." tl " Of course you would!" tl "But then you see I got something ti lore than this, and I shall expect e omething worth more than all." a " Oh, you do! A mill of your own, I 2 uppose!" < " No, you little demure witch, you f( on't suppose anything of the kind. Q fnnlil T linvp mmii rlnwn hnrn in nnr t usiest Heason for that ? No, I came to p sok for a jewel without which my life a, rill bo nothing?my Jessica's love. Q Vill you refuse to listen to me now, w arling?" y There was no need for words ; Jessica ? urned her blushing, happy face to n lernard, and he clasped her in his arms, j, " At last!" he said rapturously. " Oh, ly dearest, I have waited long for t< his. If I were not so happy I would t] eproach you for having been so cold K nd cruel to me. But, you love me at p ist!" * E " I will make a confession to you 81 ow, Bernard; I loved you all the e ime." " My darling! And you let me think ou did not care for me. Why did you end mo away without the least glimpse f hope for your love ? Why did you y ell me you despised me ?" y " No, no, Bernard, I never said that!" n " What you did say amounted to the ame thing, and you would not even 11 often it by saying that you would try T o love me." ti c< tit U?AAAMm'ttr WATlM T Viqtta Vl q/1 Y Y UUl OCtUiil'J nviuu A MWfv bat, after you bad won me, you would ot relapse into your old self ? I loved 15 ou, but I wanted you to be worthy of ol ly love." t< "You are mine now, at all events." u ind he held her more tightly. w "But," he said thoughtfully, "what a: rill you do up there in that rough it egion, away from your old friends, y nd you will not have the comforts you y iave now in the old farm-house ?" E " I would a thousand times rather be y :p there than in your uncle's fine y louse. But we have plenty of time to tl onsider all that." tl "Not so much time! I can only 1< tay four days, for we are very busy u ust now ; and we ought, by all means, y o be married the last of the month," a The head war quickly rained from the ihoulder. " Why Bernard! Are you irazv?" "By no means. What in the world s the use of our waiting ? We have mown eaoh other all onr lives, and how lo you suppose I oan take the time to lome philandering down here every reek? In fact, I ought not to he here tow, but I made a confidant of Darryl, md he took compassion on me. At the md of this month he thinks they oan lo without me for a week, and then we nust be married. It is not so bad up here, after all. It is a beautiful connry, and we have a little society. The uperintendent'fc wife, and the wife of he engineer live there in funny little louses, just like mine; and they are >oth ladies. And there are a good many abins dotted here and there in the roods, and the laborers' wives are nice indly women." Jessica laughed. " You will make it out a sort of Paralise, I expeot, if I let you go on. But nay I ask if you had the house built lecause you felt so sure of me ?" " I did not feel at all sure of you, but ' oould not help a little feeling of hope. did not believe you would care so nuoh about the life I led if you did not ove me the least little bit. However, he house was already built. One of he members of the oompany used to ive in it. Everything seems to have lappened just) right for us." "You take too muoh for granted, Mr. Jernard, I have not yet consented to 'our arrangement." " But, you will darling ? Just conider how much you will make me do rhen you get up there ?" 1 " Tbi? is a consideration, certainlv." f eplied Jessica. 1 "Oh I I know well I.shall have a | j lard task-mistress. Bnt yon will make i , happy home for me as a compen- 1 ation." 3 Perhaps Jessica felt she had beeD ar- t litrary enough. At all events her lover c tad his own way and the wedding day 1 ras fixed to snit him; the bride elect \ efleoting that her simple trousseau r rould not require much time for prepa- c ation. Ruffled dresses and trailing c ilks would be entirely out of plaoe in a he lumber region. They were so hap- t iy, sitting there under the drooping a ranches of the ash, with the silvery 1 ands at their feet, and the river gliding a ;ently by, that they forgot U go up to l he house to tell the wonderfil news to t he family until the dusk of the even- t Qg stole upon them. a i 1 U. 8, Patent Office Report. i The Hon. M. D. Leggett, Commis- j! ioner of the U. 8. Patent Oflce, has ubmitted his annual report for the a ear ending December 31st, 1873, to ' >oth Houses of Oongress, in conplianoe ? nth section 9 of the Patent Ac; of July c >, 1870, which requires that sfficer to r irepare, and present to Congress, a & letailed report of the operations of his ? iffice, in the month of January each n ear, for the preceding twelve-month. a From this document, which is quite r sngthy, and contains mauy valuable k uggestions, we glean the following in- t eresting facts: The number of appli- t ations for letters-patent filed during ft lie year 1873 was 20,414; .number of ? atents granted (inoluding reissues and ' esign-patents), 12,864. It appears " hat, in 1872, 18,246 applications were resented, and 13,590 of them were ? llowed, and patents granted. The inrease in the number of applications is ? erv marked, and so is the decrease in he proportion of patents granted?an ^ bnormal condition of affairs which the !ommissioner explains by stating that a 'the decrease in the number of patents J rises partly from more thorough ex- ? minations, and partly from the fact hat some applications are not be- 0 lg prosecuted to issue, because of he disturbance in manufacturing, aused by financial disturbances." Two hundred and seventy-three ap- ' lications for extension of existing pat- 8 nts were received and decided during ? he j ear, of which 233 were granted? 1U8 addiDg seven years to their lifeime. It also appears that 4,482 patents , rpired during the year; and we . re informed that no less than . ,783 patents, which had been allowed," did not issue (were irfeited, in other words) on account of on-payment of the final fee of $20. [j 'his is the largest number of inrfoited s, stents for many years, and can only be ' ccounted for on the score of the un- jj sual stringency in financial matters , hick, during the latter part of last ear, affected all classes of society, and ( 'as particularly hard upon the working len, to whose ranks the greater part of g lventors belong. There were received 534 applications ) have trade marks registered, and of ? i /-v# it a I n iese 4yz were auowea. ui ine patents , ranted, 12,371 were to citizens of the JTnited States ; 341 to citizens of Great tritain ; 34 to citizens of France; and g 8 to the citizens of other foreign goy- t] rnmonts. o a Beccher's Advice. ^ Henry Ward Beecher gives to the M oung this advice : "Use fiction as * ou would spices in your diet. No n lan takes a quart of cloves, nor ex- ti austs the cruet, at a single meal 'hese things may be used with moderaon to season one's food with, but they " re not to be used alone; and so fictions, ^ c hile they are not to be resorted to ex- jj lusively, may be used with discretion v > season life with. If you find that d sing them brings you back to duty n ith more alacrity, with more cheer, p nd with more aptitude, if you find that a ; makes 7ou better in your relations to fi oar fellow-men, then it does not hart tl oa, and yon are at liberty to nse them, e tut if yon find that using them makes t< on morose; if you find that it gives p on a distaste for work ; if yon find a lat it inclines you to run into a hole b lat you may get away from your fel- e )w-men; if yoa find that it makes you s nkind, disobliging, and selfish?then o on mav be sore that whether it injures f< ny body else or not, it injures yon." fc Bnrned at tlie Stake. Sow the Indiana* Disposed of One of Their Unfortunate Women. It is a matter of history, as every one is aware, that the penal laws of some of the Indian tribes snrpass in rigor and severity those of civilized nations, and the penalties inflioted by the breaking of these edicts, which have been handed down for centuries, are of a singnarly crnel and learftfl nature. One of ;he most stringent of these decrees is in -eference to the chastity of their fenales, death being the pnnishment if it any time one is known to have broken he law. Job Vatures, an old mountaineer and trapper, gives a Nevada paper the following particulars of one of these fiendish acts of cruelty lafely perpetrated by a band of Indians near Fish Spring Valley: For two weeks prior to the oocurrenoe )f the events abont to be narrated, the [ndians had been building signal fires )n the elevated portions of the mountains for miles around the surrounding jountry. As it was their regular huntil g season, muoh surprise was mani68ted as the lights appeared night after light, calling the absent portions of the tribe to the general rendezvous. On n?- -* ti..:. a lUeBtlUDlUg BUUIO U1 IUDU UUIUIA71, kUOJ vere, contrary to their usual manner, *eticent on the subjeot, and only redied to questions put to them ooncernng the unusual occurrence that "white nan no sabe." Vatures, however, who speaks the anguage like a native, heard enough to latisfy nimself that a rite was about to >e performed which was of rare occurence, and on questioning a half-breed vho frequently accompanied him on his ranting excursions, he learned that a roung woman, a member of one of the ribes in that oountry, who had abauloned her people a year or so sinoe to ive with a wnite man, had returned, >ringing with her a babe about three nonths old. Here was the same old, ?ld story, so common with us now-alays. After a short spell of happiness md pleasure, he who had brought her o her ruin became tired of his victim rnd abandoned her to her fate. She, ike thousands of others placed in the ame circumstances, sought refuge at ler home and among her people,hoping 0 find a shelter for herself and ohild; rat with the terrible penalty of the law he had broken before her, and with the ndisputable evidence of her guilt in ler arms, we wonder at her hardihood n placing herself in the power of those rhom she must have known would show ler no mercy. Nothing that she could offer in pallition of her offense would be reoeived >y those who only knew that their eared law had been broken. Having ieard that the terrible decree would be arried out on a certain night, the trap?er secreted himself in a position where ie could obtain an unobstructed view 1 all they would do, and he arrived tone too soon, for already the prelimitaries had been arranged, and around stake driven in the ground the warior braves were marching in a circle to he solemn, mournful music being ilayed upon the native instruments of lie band. Prominent among them was be chief, 'who had not as yet taxen an ctive part in the proceedings; and as be solemn cirole passed him, each of be braves would let fly an arrow from is bow at Bome imaginary enemy. After the dance of death was finished, be chief, by a gesture, gave some order 3 a brave iu waiting, and from a cirular tent emerged the women of the ribe, surrounding the victim who was 3 bo sacrificed to offended justice. 7ith the exception of a light covering round her waist, she was utterly deoid of clothing, and seemed unooniouB as to the terrible death awaiting er. Her babe, which was carried by ne of the women, uttered the most pitous cries, trying to attract the attenon of its mother; but she was not aimed to touch her infant, and with a >ok such as only a fond mother can betow she gave one earnest, passionate lance at her offspring, and walked ravely on to meet her death. No time was lost; the " medicine lan " quickly boujd her to the stake; rush and faggots were placed around er so thick as to rendei Lor invisible ) the fiends, who were now rending the ir with their shouts and cries. The yre was lighted, and the flames seemed ossessed of hellish joy as they en wrapt be form of the woman. Thickly the moke curled spitefully around her, yet ot a murmur, not a groan escaped her ps. She appeared a statue, meeting er fate with that wonderful stoicism nd bravery which characterize her ice. The fire, which at first thrust out its ery darts at intervals, was now a sheet f flame, soon burned down, leaving othing but the charred bones of her 'ho, but a few moments since, was a ving human being; and her execuoners, who had, in their untutored linds, satisfied the wrath of the Great pirit, and removed the stigma on the ribe, silently departed from the scene f their horrible act, and separated to gain seek their homes, leaving our 'atcher alone with the dead victim, * ? ? -? naativad r\f V* 1 a 'lie, as soon as u? woo boouicu vi ?..?> afety, departed from the place; bnt nch was the impression left on his lind that he bid farewell to that porion of the country forever. The End.?The great end of prudence i to give cheerfulness to those hours rhich splendor cannot gild, and aclamation cannot exhilarate! those soft itervuls of unbended amusement, in 'hich a man shrinks to his natural imensions, and throws aside the ornalents and disguises which he feels in rivacy to be useless incumbrances, nd to lose all effect wnen tney Decome imiliar. To be happy at home is be ultimate result of all ambition, the nd to which every enterprise and labor ands, and to which every desire rompts the prosecution. It is indeed t home that every man must be known, y those who would make a just estimate ither of his virtue or felicity; for miles and embroidery are alike ooaaional, and the mind is often dressed or show in painted honor and fictitious enevolenoe, In a Granger Lodge. The Grangers are in order now, and the fanny writers are after them. Here is the report of the opening soene in a Grange, that even the Granger himself cannot fail to see some good points ii' On being brought into the ante-room of the lodge (Greengrocer Temple, No. 101), I was told that I had beeD balloted for and accepted. My informant, who was securely masked by what I afterwards learned was a large burdook leaf, perforated with holes for the eyes, tol, as was estimated. In some districts there are 600 to the square mile. The numbet - f Mohammedans is far in excess of popular estimate. They number 20,664,000. Of all who call themselves Hindoos in faith, there are 42,674,000. The Buddkiscs are 85,000 in number, and the Christians 93,000. Of the aboriginals, included in neither of these classes, there are over two million. It is stated that the Mohammedans, with their armies of missionaries, their theory that all faithful are equal before OoJ, and practice of raising any convert at once to full social equality, are becoming so numerous, that by 1900 they will l>e half the population, and ultimately will control the religions destiny of Bengal. Throughout many of the richest districts they aro already nearly or quite one-half of the population, and in some they exceed the Hindoos by twenty | per cent., tne moat aaiouuuiug iuohuv ?. of wholesale conversion in modern history. A Desperate Incendiary. At the recent Meuse assizes, says a Paris correspondent, a man of the name of Jnlien was placed at the bar ; he was nearly sixty years of age, rich, was married twice, and has children by both wives; in I860 he was named mayor of his commnne, and exercised his function for seven years. In the course of 1867 he unjustly accused a neighbor of theft, and the whole village took part against him. Julien determined to avenge himself, and in three years no fewer than eight fires took place in the village, all due to incendiarism, and out of forty-six houses twenty-seven were destroyed. No one doubted the guilt of Julien, but such was the terror which his name inspired that no one oould accuse him. A few months ago the prohoard of the affair and instituted UUl?t _ proceedings. At the trial ninety-two ' witnesses gavi evidence against the 1 prisoner, and it tnrned out that on some ! occasions Jnlien fired his own property (which was insured) so that the flames might extend t o the neighboring houses. ' One poor Jellow was burned out five times. Several of the families wbioh 1 appeared before the court had been ut- ' teny ruined. The prisoner was defend- ' ed by Maitre Laohaud, but was found 1 guilty, and sentenced to hard labor for | " Flesh for fuel" is theVay they head < kerosene fires now. Items of Interest. m Octagonal watohes are fashionable. " Semi-dress " is the masculine gender of " demi-toilet." Waynesboro, Penn., has a haunted distillery. Jnst the place for spirits ! Pittsburgh has 31 bottle, 24 window glass and 25 flint and lime glass factories. Hare no respect for any man who has to feel the publio poise to learn his private doty. It is a wonder what troubles well meaning persons fall into in every-day experience. There are only eight gold watehes in Harrisbnrg, Pa.?aooording to the official tax levy. The National Grange has selected Charleston as the place for the next annual meeting. The vintage of the Australian vineyards is estimated at 500,000 gallons. That of California for 1872 was 4,000,000. In Carthage, 111., boys under the age of 16 are, by a oity ordinance recently passed, prohibited from chewing tobacco. John Carter, a Duluth boy of sixteen, hung himself the other day' because he had a fight with the school teaoher and failed to oonquer him. It was an expressive remark of a practical man regarding the woman of the period reoently: "She don't know enough, sir, to boil water." An old maid in New Jersey has twenty-eight pet rabbits, and with these for pets and a hot briok for oomfort she manages to get along very nicely. The Frenoh military tribunals engaged in trying Communists have thus far given 49,000 decisions, including 23,000 condemnation* and 2,300 acquitatla. F. Sohonman, of Milwaukee, worked hard for four years, did well, and then sent over the seas for his Katrina. When she arrived she died from excessive joy. Dr. Tietxe, of the Imperial Austrian Mining Sohool, sent out by Baron Renter for geological research in Persia, reports the existenoe of extensive coal fields near Gas via. A London physioian, after a laborious collection of the statistics of the trade, oonoludes that the opportunity of constant tippling shortens life an average of three years and a half. # "M. Quad," of ths Detroit Fr? Preaa, has a patent kicker whioh annihilates the man who "drops up" to read the oT?htngfla nwr the iwpy, or ^ bore the editor in any other way. A woman at Yassalboro, Me., recently returned to her husband after a nine years' stay among the Shakers. Her husband invited all the neighbors to celebrate the event and welcome her home. A housekeeper, writing of poor servants, says that if women would study housekeeping as their husbands study law, medicine, and book-keeping, there would be much lees oomplawt of* bad servants. Two thousand dollars is a pretty high price to pay for a single rooster. That is what Mr. Davis of Portland has given Ira Batchelder for a black Spanish cock ?considered the best game bird in the country. The hatred of the Chinese in San Francisco is thus placarded in a cigar store: "No Cninamen employed or Chinese goods sold here. Established sixteen years en the principle of white labor only." A proposed amendment to the New Jersey constitution is that property of ao kind shall be exmpt from taxation, except that of the State, counties, and municipalities, and burying grounds lot held by stook companies. No country upon the face of the aabitable globe, having a railroad svsom in operation, has so carefnllv t ruarded against the possibility of oolisions as the republio of Costa Rica. [t rejoioes in a single locomotive. A Titusville paper says: "A man sailed at one of our stores and vainly assayed to get on either numbers 11, 12 or 13 shoes. The store-keeper ?ugjested that he should put on a thinner >air of stockings and try on tb? box." ? . ii? once neti Certain j.'inianitA??j-.? F ? loned trie legislature of Massachusetts o ordain that all hanging should be lone by clersrymen. '? At a recent exention in Gloucester, Eng., a doctor iffered to operate gratuitously, for the ove of the thing. The National Grange, in session at It. Louis, unanimously adopted a nemorial to the Patrons of Husbandry n the cotton States, arguing for mixed msbandry in the South, instead of extending the energies of the people in aising a single crop. The series of fourteen " extras" ssued by the New York Tribune are indonbtedly the cheapest and best >opular scientific publication in the rorld. The Tribune will send free to my applicant a circular giving the full iontents and details of this remarkable ' Library for One Dollar." A prominent lawyer in St. Olond, Minnesota, carried home a nice young urkev, but he was told by the servant firl that it must be very old, as it had ost all its teeth, whereupon said lawyer was greatly surprised, and replied hat he had not particularly examined he turkey, but had relied wholly upon he butcher, who said it was young. Two children belonging to the oomnune of Rotbenbourg, in the Oanton >f Luoerne, Switzerland, aged ten and hirteen years respectively, recently naltreated another child in so barbar>ns a manner that it lost consciousness, ind finally died. The motive for the ict is said to be jealousy of the wayin which their unfortunate little victim - - -*? -A lad distinguished himseu *< kuwi. The Pennsylvania Agricultural College ia not a profitable institution. Joseph 0. Turner, one of the trustee*, says that when he became a trustee six years ago, the debt of the oollege was about $112,000, and it has been increasing at the rate of $6,000 a year ever sinoe. The yearly inoome from land scrip ia about $30,000, and, the expenses about $36,000. The farmers of the commonwealth take no interest in the oonoern.